Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-08-12
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WHO'S NEWS
THIS WEEK..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
By Lemuel F. Parton


Spiritual Salesman" Aids the Ok
ford Movement.
NEW YORK.-Word keeps drift
1 ' ing into this Office that the Ok
ford movement is gaining mOmen-
tum in the trouble zones of labor,
diplomacy and incipient war and
carnage. The story persists that its
emissaries, having converted pow
erful Chinese, brought about the res
cue of Chang Kai-Shek when he
was kidnapped and prevented civil
war; that their followers now in
clude high officials Of Japan and
that they are working zealously, and
with hopes Of success, to calm the
quarrel between China and Japan.
No verifcation as to specific &C
complishment can be obtained, but
this writer is reliably informed that
they have enlisted powerful political
and business leaders in Europe and
the Orient and that they are con-
centrating on certain dangerous
situations.
Frankly, they are evangels to the
rich and powerful, as they say the
hope of the world lies in inducing
a spiritual change in those who own
and operate it. That possibly may
go into the files Of history as some
thing new.
In the news this week is Rev.
Samuel Moor Shoemaker, who has
been talking over in America as DR..
Frank N. D. Buchanan, founder of
the movement, is busy with the
world organization. In London, he
is prominent in the proceedings of
the convocation of 400 Oxford move
ment leaders in thirty-five countries.
From the conference come stories
of employers and labor leaders
making concessions under the lead
ership of the "Christian revolution
aries" and averting strikes.
DR.. Shoemaker is pastor Of Cal
vary Protestant Episcopal church of
New York. For the last few years
he has been prea ching that the old
evangelism had failed and that a
new dynamic creed was necessary.
He became active in the Oxford
movement in 1882, since then
vigorous expounder of it's faith.
He insists that only by an en-
lightened and aggressive mobiliza-
ton of spiritual forces can civiliza-
ton be saved. He is good looking,
highly urbanized cleric, usually
wearing a modish gray business
suit. He calls himself a spiritual
salesman. This might convey the
erroneous idea that he is an Elmer
Gantry" He is quite the contrary,
never seeking personal publicity,
and building reputation as one Of
the church's leading scholars, with
his authorship of nine books in the
field of religious research and
polemics.
He was born and reared in Balti-
more, attended Princeton univer-
sity, later taking his doctorate in
theology. In his earlier years he
was a teacher and evangelist in
China and it is understood that this
experience has made him particu-
1arly effective in the peace and
regeneration activities in China.
Soviet Liquidator.
IN ONE way, at least, Soviet Rus
L STA is like traditional America.
The postmaster is the patronage
dealer. Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov,
receiving the order of Lenin after
his management of the recent "liq-
uidations," has a three-fold office
which includes control of posts and
telegraphs, the selection of person
mel for important posts and COM
mand of the secret political police.
He is regarded as second only to
Stain in power and the prevailing
conjecture among many observers
is that he may be Stalin's sue.
ceSSOr.
His predecessors in Office were
grim, scowling men. He was elevat.
ed in September, 1886, with national
acclaim as "a man who knows how
to smile" Forty-two years old, he
has been tagged by the correspond
ents as mystery man." just now
unveiled by the newspapers as a
handsome, personable citizen who
looks as if he had just been picking
daisies, rather than doing rush
job of ''iquidating."
He is certified proletarian,
factory worker at fourteen and mil
itary commissioner with various
Bolshevik units in the revolution. In
1929 and 1880 he was vice-commis-
sioner of agriculture, and in 1884
became a member Of the central
committee of the Communist party
and Of the powerful party control
commission.
But, for the most part, he has
worked quietly behind the scenes,
rarely seen, saying little, adroitly
gathering strands of power. His con-
troll of posts and telegraphs dates
from 1928, his other offices having
been added later. He is one of the
party's five secretaries and can
didate for membership in the Po-
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