LAST TIME TONIGHT
PATHE NEWS |
CHARLES “BUCK" JONES |
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“TO A FINISH”, I
A THRILLING WESTERN PLAY |
SUNSHINE COMEDY 1
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AMERICA’S SWEETHEART
IN AN IDEAL ROLE—AND
HER GREATEST PICTURE!
MARY PICKFORD
S presents her special film production cf
“LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY”
Here Is Mary Pickford’a masterpiece — the story
treasured closest to her own heart, a photoplay of
remarkable qualities into which she has devotedly
put every bit of tlie art for which she is famous. An
absolutely perfect Plckford role, so exactly suited to
the winsome ntarV versatile and unrivalled talents
that the wonder of it all is that the world has had to
wait so long to see her in it.
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THURSDAY,
FRIDAY,
SATURDAY
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CONCERT FROM 7:15 TO 7:45
On each night cf the Pickford engageemnt as there will be only
one show each evening. The following musical program will be
rendered by the Oichestra under direction of H. J. Brnsfield,
director:
March—"The Periscope" . Allen
Selection—“Chimes cf Normandy” Planquette
"Song to the Evening1 Star" from Tannhauser Wagner
“Punchinello" . Victor Herbert
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Attractions \
at Theaters j
ATTRACTIONS TONIGHT
COLISEUM—'Lucy Doraine in "Mrs
Dane’s Confession” and Charli
Chaplin in “Shoulder Arms.”
PALACE—Buck Jone3 in "To a Fir
ish.”
COMING ATTRACTIONS
COLISEUM—‘Wallace Rud and Elsi
Ferguson in “Forever."
PALACE—Mary Pickford in "Littl
Lord Fauntelroy.”
BUCK JONES LAST
TIME AT PALACE
The “.planting” of c?alvo3 on th
Circle C ranch, by Bill Terry’s gan?
lias given Terry his long wanted 01
iportunlty to accuse Jim Blake an
Ws pfathar. owners of tho Circle f
of stealing cattle. Terry noetic.ill
owns 'the town of Half Way. To fu:
tlier humiliate Blake he gives order
to clerks in his store that they mu
oot serve Blake. Doris Lane, dnugl
ter of the sheriff, has been promise
to Terry, 'but when she overhear
Terry and his gang plotting to ki
Blake she .begins to d!--trust he
fiancee. Later, after a terrific figi:
with Terry, Blake, exhausted fro:
loss of blood, collapses in front f
Deals’ home. >She hides Blake a
Terry, ‘her father an i his pass
search tha hills far him. Terry, d.
donriimed to marry Doris, forces he
to T’idp With him to his home bui
on a rocky mminlaiin. There, ei
sues another thrJlling encounter a
Blake ibaftlets With Terry and Wq
Gary, his gangman. Bi.uke final!
manages to Wn h.is hard fought figt
and the girl he .loves.
This picture Is a safe bet. Itathe
too much action tor fans with wea
hdarts, but they ought not to ex,pec
too much enjoyment out of a thril
ing Western, anyway.
(Buck Jones .plays the ldad an
the title cif the production is “To
Finish.” It Is on for the last tiro
at the Palace toolght.
DOUBLE BILL AT
COLI8EUM THEATER
(Lucy Doraiine. famous Continent;
onootifonal star, .Is featured in
strong dramatic picture-play, “Mr
Dane's Confession." which .was show
last night at the Coliseum and
on aga.ln tonight. The oponir
rycen'eB. showing the woman accuse
of .murder, tbrought before tile polic
and farced to tell all, are full of tlirl
and .metodiramatiic power—and <tl
rest of the film keeps up the Interei
on a high level.
(Lucy Doraine lis a strtkkngly han
BUBO .woman, but that doesn’t pr
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! vent her from being able to act. Her
i portrayal of the woman ibetrayod is
(full of pathos and heart grip—those
who see 'the picture are forced to
(staffer an I rojoico with her. This
>; cturo of a woman’s downfall—and
i Ultimate rejuvenation—4s powerful,
I appealing stuff—put across expertly,
; Wi.lhout frills.
| Charlie Chaplin is also shown .in
• "Shoulder Arms,’’ which is some com
: i cdy.
“LITTLE LOHD F/\UNTELROY”
'COMING TO PALACE
“ ‘UH.tlo Lord Fauntolroy’ is very
,| admirably filmed," says Alan Dale in
the New York American. “In its way
. jit -is one -of the best pictures I have
”1 seen. Its photography is not only ex
‘ensivelv well (tone, but tho story is
weTl told, and there are fewer com
eosUfons to tho ‘.law brow’ than one
usually Hinds in those revamped ator
:. 5c3 ai)d plays
‘ Then the scones are so fine and
i- the environment lis so true. The an
ft central hall of tho Ea.ri of Daria
court is wondeufPll.v shown and the
v view of .the dining room, with the
Ewl and Cedric dining together in
s state, is most amusing,
t “Miss Bickford was pelluoidiy
i- pretty and dainty.
1 "Claude Gillingw.itor was a capital
a Earl,”
■I “Mary Bickford as ‘Little Lord
r Fauntelroy’—and also, ‘Dearest,’ his
t mother. Can’t you imagine it?”
a queries the reviewer ,in tho Now York
f Times. “You know tho picture and
s you know tho story. Is there any
o thing more to be saiid? As a matter
s- of fact there lis, for the picture is
r liner really tin some respects til an
t yon are likely to anticipate,
i- “This picture is not for those in
s capable of enjoying some of the test
f photography seen on the screen for
y a long timo and some truly excellent
t aching by several members of the
Cast, motaibly Claude Gillingwater as
r tho old Earl of Dorincourt. And
k also by Mise Picklford, especially as
t ‘ Lord Fauntelroy’3 mother.
1- “Tho set Hi mgs are something to de
light the eye also. They are not
d grand end flmposing. They are true
a or at least, seami so to the inexpert
c observer. Some of them are strik
Ingly beautiful, and all of them are
improssivo. They fit Into the part
of the story to which they 'belong.
“Little Lord Faiuntelroy” will be
il at the Palace Theater three nights—
a Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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nlBIG PRODUCTION AT
COLISEUM THREE DAYS
“Forever,” a George Fitr.ma arize
Paramount production, from tho novel
“Polar IbbetSan,” by the famous nov
oWst, Goorge Du Maurier. will be the
e tihroe-day attraction at .the Coliseum
ft Theater beginning Thursday night.
Wallace Raid and Elsie Fergusor
!- are the featured players and others
!- Include Montague Love, Goorge Faw
cc'tt, Dolores CassinelH, l’.ml Me
Atligter, Elliott Dexter, besides many
Dtlior screen favorites.
“Forever” is not a Spirf.lualist play
not a religious play, n.iir la It low
comedy or a roaring melodrama. II
j is a limn an interest production, an
'epic contribution to motion picture
j drama
i The story is a different one from
I the usual. The tale of two lovers
j who find, as the years by by, that
| unite ! happiness is not for them and
! their 'resignation to a dream life is
delightfully told.
There will be only ono showing
each night, starting at 8 o'clock, pro
coded by an orchestra concert start
ing at 7 o’clock.
King Tut-ankh-Amen Is
Furnishing Styles.
, This cape, exhibited at the
Fashion Review of the Designers’
j Association of New York, shows
t iso inclination toward the Egyp
\ tian styles popularized by the dis
| oovory of the tomb of King Tut
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HUGE DAM IS
NOW FINISHED
MODESTO, r,.:., March 21.—Don
[Pedro, tlis world's highest impounded
j dam, located on the Tuolumne River,
ilKive La Grange, will be completed
'this month, according ifo Percy F,
! Jones, engineer of'the Modosto Frri
' gat ion district. Tho dam, which la
owned Jointly by the Modesto-Tur
lock Irrigation districts, cost, togc-th
or with tho power plant, approx!
n.’toiy $5,000,000.
The only construction work re
maining for the dam proper, Engineer
Jones says, is the filling of a hole
near the renter. This hole is about
10 feet docn anti 30 feat wide.
Tire power house h-aa been com
pleted and workmen are engaged at
present in denning up t'he construe
j tion refuse, and are preparing for
! connecting tup die heavy trans-inis
I si on lines which are < >mplcte:l with
in reach of the power house. The
i regular operating crews are bedng or
Iganlzed and two of the large geti
orator limits are befin-g operated con
tlmtously for tests -before connecting
up to the district distribution lines.
A total of 500 men have been era
ployed on the project, tli# ground for
which wa-3 foniii'ally broken June 24.
1921. Tlie diifti’jits a re to have the
benefit of t'he 2S0,000-acre feet ot
stored water which the dam will im
pound for the 1023 crap spason.
The baste of tho dam in the rivet
is 170 feet; 'the dam is 285 feet high
and 1,000 feet long across the crest
which is an arc. The darn was con
st ruded -below the $3,800,000 e.-itimalte
| of the districts engineers and eh pow
I er plant cost $1,200,000.
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Heir to Czar
Is Reported
To Be Alive
WARSAW, March 21.—The Czaro
vitch Alexis IBomanoft. supposed tc
have been executed with the Czar and
Czarina at EDcartarirtburg four years
ago, is now reported 'to have crossed
into Poland With a party of ref us pec
ifront Russia.
Investigation brought out the fad
■that a 19-year old youth bearing a
striking resemblance 'to the formei
Czarevitch bid actually arrived Iasi
week from Russia.
Country folks front all over tht
frontier provinces rushed to see th<
supposed h'rtir a.pparent. The youtt
i is being brought to Warsaw.
The boy denies that he is of Ro
j manoff origin, declaring himself th(
i son of a Russian eolotvel. Since th«
| Czar held the rank rtf colonel ant
atw'ays preferred to be called "col
| onel” by his intimates, and also or
I account of the strong likeness, manj
1 believe if1H»t tihe strange youth li
I actually the Czaivvftch.
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ANV REASONABLY - PRICE1
house or apartment may bo rented—
through an Inexpensive classified md
ivertisement In The Empire. Test th
{matter. The “risk’’ Involved te •
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DELEGATE OPENS CAMPAIGN ON
FISH RESERVATIONS IN SPEECH
TO LAWMAKERS;ATTACK£ BUREAU
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i'lcun citizens which are equally as
Is acred as the habeas corpus, r.iftht
|of tiittel by Jury, or any constKutlonai
■ right. j
He rnfraiined from any direct per
sonal attack on any member of the.
I Bureau of {fisheries, or the Dcpart
|mont of Commerce. Asked by Rap
in'senta.tlve Foster If he 1 hought Sec
: rotary Hoover, Commissioneir O'Mal
ley and Dr. Gilbert, fisheries expert
of Stanford University and on the
Staff eff the Bureau of Fisheries, are
“attempting: to do something' to a,id
Alaska, the Delegate realised that
j he would not express any opinion in
a public meeting, adding "but I will
give it to the gentleman privately.’’
Not to Answer Critics
Referring to recent statements
nade by .Secretary Hoover, Assistant
! Secretary Has ton aind Commissioner
I O'Malley on the Alaskan .fisheries sit
ua'.li'on a.nd tho Delegate's charges
agrfnst tho Department and its Bu
! re an, the Delegate declared it is be
‘ nr '.'.b Jiis dignity to make any reply
i to them and that lie would not do so.
He reviewed his stand on the ques
j t)on as set forth 1n remarks Inserted
11y h'.tn In the (Congressional Record
cn February 28. He reviewed fishing
laws generally, going bark to the
time of the granting of the Magna
Charts 'in England by King John un
i dor clomlpulslon by the barons, whom
! he asserted. were 'models rif upright
ness compared to the “fish barons"
j controlling the Alaskan fishing in
i duatry.
He questioned the authority of the
1 Bureau 'rif Fisheries to give away
I grants to the fisheries and quoted
j from court decisions to substantiate
I ]-Jis reasoning. He reiterated that the
! entire policy under attack by him
| is a scheme of the “fish trust” put
i into effect through intrigue, by un
j f.it'.r tactics. He gatd that the end
I aimed at and achieved is In viola
jti-an of Section 5 (Article 10 of the
1 Federal Constitution. The fisheries
j of the sea are a natural resource and
iavailable for every American to take,
.and there is no exigency of commer
jctail life that justifies the abrogation
, of that right, he asserted.
n.. Cnmmiccinn
‘ I have charged the existence o( a
fish trust and thait lit connived to
alt'tirin that right." he asserted. He
then undercook to prove the exist
ence of a trurit. In this connection
he quitted from a report rtf the Ped
j oral Trade Commission, Issued in
i 1018, to which the existence of a
I combination of salmon canners which
i controlled prices of that product
| w 19 oh argot! The alleged fish trust,
I he said, Is affiliated with the meat
| trust and ftha.t its Control of the
! salmon canning lindustry might sur
pass that of the Big Five in the 'meat
packing industry.
Takes Up Second Charge
i He dealt next With his charge that
the reserve system is the scheme of
the earners .through which tt acquit =d
control of the rod fishing industry.
Ho sand that the allotments were pre
pare) iby the trust and submitted to
the Bureau of Fisheries and that the
zone arrangements were Included in
the scheme. He quoted from what
ha said was a document prepared by
the trust and tent to (the Bureau of
Ftslierics in which Ht was demanded
that ho licenses ibe issued to new
canneries in the reserves until the
supply of fish wa3 sufficient to per
i odt canneries already established
thereto operate without further re
strictions. This, he charged, was not
a request or suggestion, hut a com
mand from the trust to the Bureau
df Flsdfcrica. As long as the pres
ent a.rrangement continues, he added,
as long as the terms are dictated
by the h!g cannons, no new licenses
wfil be issued.
Control Is Established
Taking -tip his charge that the re
'serve system had enabled -the big
canners to eatalbllish a monopoly and
control the red salmon Industry, the
Delegate saiid that under the permits
as originally issued, lor Bristol Bay
two companies, the Alaska Packers'
Association and L.ibby, McNeil &
X,Sbby. were given 60.5 iper cent ol
the fish in that district and 10 small
er companies 50 per cent. An addi
tional permit Issued to one of the
latter, he added, cut the percentage
(to albout 53 or 54 per cent.
In Ghdgnlk Bay, he said, three com
panies, the Alaska Packers' Associa
tion, Northwestern Fisheries Com
panv and the Columbia River Com
pany. were given the exclusive rigid
to fish. An old caaacryman. a Ca-pt
J. P. Nelson, who applied for pec
niilssfon to build a small cannery, wa«
denied it o-n the ground tfiat the flsli
he would take would most likely bt
ffish belonging to the Chignlk Ba>
run and would mean further deple
tion of that district.
In the Kiofimk zone, at Karlul
River, he said independent fisher
men, including two farmer serv’d
men, had been refused permits t<
fish off Karl-uk River on the grown
that they sold fish to a cannery a
Ouzinka, which was in Zone 3. an<
fish might not be taken from th<
river, included t-n Zone 1, Into othe
zones. The right these flsherme:
, exercised in 1922, he added, was thu
denied for 1923.
1 Fishing rights ir. Karluk River ar
I .turned 'over entirely to the Alask
. Packer# Association and the Nortl
. western Fisheries Company, h
s charged. Both Of these companies
, he an id, were the worst offender
| dtrrlne the war In canning and seWn
to the government fish unfit for hu
man consumption. This Is the work
of the Bureau of Fisheries, ho ex
claimed, deopfte the fact that it knew
the record of tho companies- The
closing cif the Karluk fisheries to
the OMin'ka cannery jneans that it
cannot operate at a profit and is u
MsicrlmI cat on in favor of the “dls
loyal Corporations" against men who
entered the service of the company
in defense of rights which they
thought they enjoyed here, he said.
Law of 1906 Abrogated
Continuing this attack on the Bu
reau of Fisheries, Delegate Suther
land charged thait it had abrogated
Ufa Fisheries Act of 1906, setting it
alside in favor of the reserve sys
tem. It gave the Department of Com
merce power to set aside streams
and lakes tor spawning purposes or
| to limit or close fishing when the
.depredations became menacing to fit
i ture supplies. That, he argued, rep
resented the view of Congress. Un
der it, he continued, no man would
assume he was given the power to
give away the fisheries. In so doing
under the"reserve policy, ail the laws
of fisheries were reversed. He quot
ed from tho hearings hold several
months ago at Seattle in connection
wtith the establishment of the South
western Alaska Fisheries Reserve, at
which time he quoted Commissioner
O'Malley ale saying that in the past
; under the law of 1906 hearings were
1 obligatory hut under the new policy
1 none were required ibut that the one
i then in progress had been called in
I order that the Bureau might be fair
I to everyone. This, he characterized,
'as the most arrogant position ever
| talcan by a public official and with
out precedent as an arbitrary .p-osii
| lion.
He called I r. me attention of mem
bers of the Legislature phatogoraphs
distributed by him of heavy logs into
which large spikes had been driven.
.These, he «iid. had ibern placed in
jfjie waters off the mouth of Karluk
Rilver lalst year by the boats of the
big companies to destroy the seines
'of independent fishermen. Ho
charged that 'the representative of
the Bureau of Fisheries there on the
ground had stood by and watched
that kind of work done without any
protest. If it had been the acts of
independent fishermen, lie further
charged, those responsible would have1
been In jail iin -three days on a
charge of sabotage for doing that
for which the l>Jg companies were
approved by tho Bureau of ■Fisheries,
and permitted to do all last summer.
"The Bureau of Fisheries has lived
with tho big packers so long that
It believes the fish belong to them
and must 'be permitted to come to
the streams to be caught," he said.
— Destroy Cheaper Grades
He quoted from a letter written by
Andrew GrOswoid, a merchant in the
I affected district, in which it was
'charged that canneries operated by
certain Ibfg companies destroyed pinks
I taken in their traps and canned only
the reds; that Bureau inspectors
were transported, wined and dined
I aboard the cannery boats and either
overlooked Ithe practices of tihe ram
j parties or lured away on various
i pretexts whine laws and regulations
j were violated.
wo Meal lionrervation
The permits issued by tiie D< part
ment do not Indicate^ any real elfort
to conserve itihe salmon of Western
! Alaska, said tho Delegate. lie quot
ied from certain canneries' pack 11m
jits, all of which he said are Higher
I for 1923 than for the last five-year
average packs.
Mo had ibeen approached, he asid,
by cannery men in -Seattle who asked
| him to lay off the subject and give
tihe -reserve system a year's tryout,
I assuring him if it was unsuccessful
at the end of that time, they would
join him In getting It set aside.
He urged members of the Legisla
ture not to bo misled by this propa
ganda. It is not anyone's intention
ho make this system a temporary
thing but 'It lis designed for per
manency, he declared. Don't be
fooled Into a trial of the suspension
of your natural rights, he continued,
“I ask you as a Legislature to see
that it Is not done” Me disputed
the claims of the Bureau of Fisher
ies that -reserves are adopted as an
expedient, a temporary arrangement
until OongresH. "Now it is not!" he
asserted, adding that the Bureau for
got lit is on record, it wants and
has asked Congress for “absolute
power to -parcel out Alavkan fisher
ies,” he added.
Blocks Legislation
iHe. charged the Department el
Commerce with blocking legislation
to deal with the situation, saying
thait two men, whom he did not name
bad -been able -to keep Congress from
acting on -the White bill, the enact
event Of which a majority Of the
I House Committee favored. Thai
jbHll, he said. Is melrely a re-enact
! ment of section 33 of the Magnr
1! Gharta. Had thait measure beet
II brought 'out on the floor of Con
| gross, he added, it would have passec
! I without a dissenting Vote. He quotec
jfrom a letter from Assistant Secro
'ita-ry Huston -to Congressman Chlnd
1 j bloom on the bill In which the for
’ | mer said the Department wanted an
act that would give -it -power to re
’ j strict all kinds of gear to protec
1 i the runs of fish. In other words, h
• charged, it desired a law that woul
i permit It to proceed Jnst as It is c
• present doing under Presidents
• proclamation. Ho predicted that tb
E *next Congress woifld pass tho kin
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fi—What does it mean?
3—What does that mean?
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FOREVER”
is a Paramount production that is coming to the
Coliseum Theatre.
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Means that this feature will start at 8 o’clock.
There will be only one show each night.
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Means that it will be at the Coliseum Three days. £
THURSDAY-FRIDAY-SATURDAY
“Forever”—The Biggest Theatrical News of the Day. £
Wallace Reid and Elsie Ferguson I
ARE THE STARS I
Remember—there will be an orchestra concert |
from 7 to 8 o’clock—then the big feature preceded =
by a comedy. §
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•cIC 'laiw that the people wart tod. He
referred to the re-adutton introduced
by Senator Oamoron in the upper
House of 'Congress asking for an in
vestigation (if his charges, which, ho
claimed was sidetracked. “They don't,
want to have lit substantiated, though
I could not any more than it is at
■present,” he added.
History, he predicted, would never
record 'that lie as Delegate had soli
cut the heritage of future Alaskans
and he warned the Legislature that
any hesitancy o'ti their part meant
they denied that heritage to future
generations tif Alaska.
Warns Against Newspapers
He warned Alaskans against o lug
■influenced by editorial expressions in
tome Alaskan newspapers. I. this
Connection he referred particularly
t'o a recent editorial in the Kc < hlkan
Chronicle on the Grant Memorial. ]
Qitotliing ‘the concluding sentem a in
tii.it article whiyli read: Bvware
Legislators, Bow are!he said: “That
!s the voice of the Pish Trust and
nothing else, emanating from ■ne U
S. Cbmim.iswfoner’a Court at Ka'clii
kan." Oiher “stimulated or Inspired '
editorials 'were mentioned as such
and he warned his audience against
being mil sled by them, or such a, ap
peared lin “organs."
In closing he referred to letters
telegrams he said he had received
from ‘individuals and organizations,
monitioning the Wratrgell American
Legion Post, the Commerci.il Club of
the same town, and the Kodiak Igloo
of Pioneers.
House Is Crowded
The hall of the House of Repre
sen tat Ives was packed wiilh the crowd
which gieeted the Delegate- Ho was
greeted with applause and inter
rupted on two or three occasions by
burnt* of hand-clapping President
Hunt, of the Senate, presided.
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WOMAN DROWNS IN iUB
NEWARK, Ohio, .March 11.—Mrs.
Rose Melkk, 40 years old, wife of
William Meliek, city fireman, drowned
in a ipeetiliar manner at her home
i here yesterday- She w is seized
, with a dizzy spell when doing wash
ing and plunged headforemost Into
COLISEUM
LAST TIME TONIGHT
Big Double Bill
30 cent*-30 cents
LUCY DORAINE
IN
"IK DANE'S
CONFESSION”
ALSO
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
IN
‘SHOULDER ARMS’
The Chaplin comedy is being” run
1 . by request.
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Hu, wash tub. Shu drowned bwfopo
assistance reached hoi-. Her body
war. found iby lie:- sifter, Mrs. Mamba
Norris.
Loses Life in Flames
Trying to Save Women
AGELK'A, NT. Y„ March 21
Pi ve women and two men were
; burned to death In a fire when the
i County Alma House, womens' quart
ers and administration buildings
were destroyed thla morning. Chas.
Ilanborn lost his life trying to res
cue bod-rldden women.
METHODISTS MAKE APPEAL FOR
GIOANTIC EVANGELISTIC DRIVE
'CHICAGO.' March 21. "The call to!
reipent’ance has never been revoked,”.
says the Board of Bishops of thej
1 Me t!h oft I si -Episcopal Church. In an
appeal for an Intensive evangelistic j
effort on the part of all members of
tfhe church. Issued yesterday by
: the Committee on Conservation and |
Advance through Its corresponding i
.: secretary. Dr. R- J. Wade, Chicago.
"The unsaved multitudes are as j
destitute at tine gospel and a per
! sonal Interest In the atonement of'
: Jesus Christ as the far-off heathen j
•I for whose salvation we give and;
■ pray," says the appeal.
"Shall nrtt 'bishops, superintendents,
i pastors, college presidents, league
- leaders, Sunday school teachers, Iay
t men and -all our loyal members dedt
» cate 'themselves to some definite
I form of soul-twinning endeavor?
t "Shall we not now give ourselves
1 without reserve to an intensive evail
» gfdistlc effort? That will mean that!
I our pulpits shall flame with an
evangelistic passion; tli.it our pear*
shall ■catch the fire. It will mean
that the members of our women’s
missionary societies shall turn their
extraordinary organization talent
and boundless enthusiasm Into the
channels of personal evangelism. It
will mean, that for a season, ad I the
forces of the local churrih shall be
focused upon this ore thing, and be
fired hy this one dominating purpose
and passion.
“Shull we not go in for a prayer
ful. systematic, passionate, unyielding
movement to arouse the church and
the community to u sense of their
spiritual need? Shall we ruxt pray
without ceasing and labor with actual
desperation for the mtghtiest revival
of religion which has ever come to
our church?
“That revival should start tn 90,000
Methodist Episcopal services.
"And It must not cease until its
vitalizing power has been carried
everywhere.”