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DALLAS,^rEXAS, SATURDAY;AUGUST 3,1929 Oldest BusinessInstitution in Te x a s

st Week ofarket Closes

Buyers Ever atops at Opening,ays Secretary.

st week of Dalla^ four-market season bail prac

me to a close on Fridaywho had com e into th ech ase left It to sell an do their own business overend. while Dallas me r. repair theirs in prep athe next w e e k .h no accurate figuresble. Herbert Carpenter,f the Dallas Wholesal e

Assoc iatio n, said late onat the number of visit ing

he market th is year w asfor any first ma rket

had ever come.

t ors numero us, busi nessfor the first week, a cDallas wholesa le deal

he customers were* morehan ever with the merlaced at their disposaLtions for the second we ekson, beginn ing Mond ay,hopefu l tha n they "werest wee k. It is somewh atIn the Dallas market that

week of the four- weeklw ays the best.buyers.will begin throng

arts again Su nday af ter-evening and the w eightk's attendance is expect

ve in time for. tbe sec-tati on of the style sh owark Auditorium. 'Thel follow the same lines onay nigh t that it did las tbut the garments will bend many new styles will

y is expected to be rathery for new business, with

the cit y few. bu t it Iso be a busy day for thechants, as they straightup from the rush of t he

prepa re for the onnext week's busines s.those buyers In the city

re Mrs. E. W. Sprecklesle. Janie Whltakc r of

Christl and Henry Winkler

y Appealuition Case

Planes Soar AboveAs Airways Marker

Formally Dedicated

marker sign. "Lovewith a ^forty-footiles.

pointing toward Love Field.-wh ichwas painted last Saturday by memb e r s - o f the Dallas Exchange Clubon the roof of the Medical DentalBuilding In Oak Cliff, was formally dedicated Friday at 5:20 p. m.

Airplanes flew over the structureid dropped 1.000 toy airs hips

The club's marker committee, cons i s t i n g of W. E. Joor, E. R. C h e c a -borough Jr_ Earl Gofortb and Carey a. Snyder, was in charge of theprogram. Talks, were made by Z.K. Bnnkerhoff and E. P. Bennett:owners of the building; Grady NibloS S t . ^ f f ? " B , " S « To m t h e O a kCliff-Dallas Commercial Association, and others active in aviationin Dallas.

StolenPoisonFatal to One

Squalor and Beauty Stone's Throw Apar t

Awaits Return ofpence Before ItTakes Action.robability that the DallasEducati on'w ill can y outsly" Indicated i ntent ion toupreme' Court ruling ontitutionality of the St ate

h sets the maximum high

ition fee charged nonre s-,dents at $?-S0 a mon thut Friday by schoo l offi-

W_ Spence. vice presi dentoard and its legal counsel.the city and is not e xpec trn until Septembe r. Unturn nothing will be d oneatter. The case whi ch isd to test, the law appe ared

Towne . Young's Fort y-strict Court on Thursdaygranted S tate Sena tor

B. Love a permanen t inrestraini ng the Dalla s

oard from charging more' statutory maximum. ,

ane May Bearter CommissionerOver Lake Dallas

ion has been extended toand City Commis sion ersHenry Toncray or Lone

he city officials to joinseaplane fl ight over Laked Water . Commiss ionerFoul s has tentatively a c invitati on.of the city officials h a v e

plane rides in various

ships, but none has flownplane.ant Toncray. who h as the State Fair programas a.stun t flyer, is us ing

ane now to carry passentakes oft from Lake Dal

he east end of the dam.ant Toncray still owns an

er type airplane h e built, his former home . In

e ship being now stored . inof his mother' s home a s

of histori cal value. Hisship Is a Fairchlid si milarone used by Commander

K- Bird on his North Polehe ship is power ed by aotor.

eague Presidents to Oklahoma City B. Latham, president ofs Advertising League, l eftoma City Friday night onand will attend a c onfe r

the Oklahoma Cities Addu b. a new membe r of

th District In ternationalng Association. Mr. La-

invi te them ta sen d aegation to the tenth disertising annual conventionld In Dallas Sept. 21-24.i l be the Oklahoma :Cltles

ng Club's first meeting asof the Tenth District. J.

— « .. •,..Lefkowitz Edi torOf Jewish Monitor

Other Women PrisonersHI, Tw o in Hospital,

After Dope Jag.Overdosing on narcotic tablets

stolen from a physician's satchelresulted Friday night in death of anegro woman, sent two white women to the hospital and stupefiedother prisoners of the women' sward of the Dallas County JalL

Jail Physician G. A. spiveymissed. a case of several veronaltablets Friday and their theft w astraced to the time he treated awoman prisoner 's eye the previousday*. A stomach pump and antidotes were used in 1 treating thenoison-"l woman, but late Fridaynight she was treated a 'secondtime.

Dr. E G. Lyon of the Eme rgen cyHospital, summoned to the Jail . 'at11 o'clock Friday night, sent Fr ances McFarland and Mary Monicoto Parkland Hospital in a privateambulance after treating them atth6 jalL A negro woman, wh osename was given as Lena May Hickman, had died ' at the hospitalearlier in the night after removalfrom the jaiL

Another woman told Dr. Lyonthe tablets bad been passed.amongthe prisoners, who believed themto be a dope from which theywould derive a "Jag."

Several other women weresprawled about the floor of theJail, apparently under the Influence of the tablets, which frequently are administered as a narcotic,but In carefully gauged qu antities.

Low Water PressureSolved by- Assigning

Areas SprayingTime

Jewish Monitor, Jewishpublished In Fort Worth

^ J V O* " engaged as editorLefkowitx. rabbi or Tern

P 5 P * ' a of .Dallas and presif the Central Conference.-ofn Itabbls, It was

Correction of an impending restriction of their water supplythrough compliance of the citizensof Universi ty' Park -with a requ estof the city to forbear from excessive use Of water during singleperiods of the day was reportedFriday night by City Secretary SaraG. McFaddcn.

The city's water supply, capableof 1.000.000 gallons daily from twopumps, l ias been running about750.000 gallons daily. Mr. McFad-den said. This has been found alit t le short. In view of the dry. hotweather, and because of necessaryrepairs now being made on one ofthe pumping plants....The city, in order to remedy a

short pressure, of which some complaints had been made, asked theresidents to divide time on heavywater usage: those east of TurtleCreek were asked to spray theirgardens betwee n 5 and C p. m. andthose west of Turtle Creek between6 'and 7 p. m. .C ompli ance wi ththis request and th e consequentbalance of strain on the supplyremedied .the situation . on Fridaynight. . Mr. McFadden stated.

No danger of a shortage existed,he said, since the city has an emer-„ency connection with the watersupply of Southern Methodist Un iversity, which would relieve It incase of need. Growth of the city

necessitated a larger watersupply, however, and city officialscontemplate either a. connectionwith the water supply of Dallas or

construction of additional wells andpumping: plants.

Fort Worth ReadoptsCommunity Chest PlanReinstatement of. the. Fort Worth

Community Chest 'has been w elcomed by ,business men anC civicagencies al ike, said .Miss M.Gladys Pittenger, director of.p ub-.. . welfare in ' Fort Worth . In •message to the Dallas CommunityChest Friday.. After three yearswithout a -community ches t. FortWorth called its community fundback into being this week with th eelection of twelve directors and ofA- L. S h u m a n as president. ' .

Expressions of business men rereived by the Dallas chest reflectedtheir dissatisfaction with the threiyear period of competitive drives.

"The community chsst plan wasfar more economical as to themoney expended as well as thetime Of the workers ,"-said R. W.Fender, banker. "It Is a nuisanceto hat e one drive after, another.""was the comment of Amon G. Carter, publisher.

Leon Gross, clothier, advocatedthe return of the community chestbecause, -^t s aves anno yance' andgives-t ime for investigation, whileas it now Is. we.do not nave time,nor do w e Investigate; simpl ya c t i n g o n o u r b e s t j u d s m e n t - "

—There is no system at ail in theindividual plan and U» give r caneasily make e rror la "the amountssubscribed.'* said O. K. Shannon.util i ty president.

Round T a b l e p &Plan Joint J*»cnic

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Group VisitsMill Creek'sUnsightliness

Parking of Sections ofNeglected Overflow

Drain Studied.

Attempt of ThreePrisoners to Flse

Prison Farm Fails

Court Reporters-NameJ. ft McAfee

Elections of the Texas ShorthandReporters ' Association, meeting inthe Dallas County courthouse latheir twenty-fifth annual convention Friday, resulted in the namingof J. R. McAIee of Dallas as president.

Mr. McAtee succeeds Kerr P:Sanders of Fort Worth. ArthurStarr of Corpus Chrisli was namedvice president to succeed Miss EvaDurham of Fort Worth, and A. C.Fridge of San Marcos was electedsecretary to succeed Tom Burgerof San Antonio.

Discussions of legislation affecting the reporters resulted in enactment of resolutions of thanks forthe action of the last LegislatureIn allowing court reporters payment of traveling expenses and inraising their salary schedules.

. To the executive committee wasdelegated the task of setting thtdates and places for the next convention, which it is desired to holdduring the Christmas recess of th ecourts In the State for technicaldiscussions.

Harry P. Lawther. president ofthe Dallas Bar Association, welcomed the fifty visitors to the.co nvention to the city. A reply to thiswelcome was given by J. E. Mc-Glnnlss of Houston, a past president of ' the association.

E. S.. Smith of Washington. D.O, one of the most widely k n o w nreporters In the country, addressedthe• convention on, reporting pr oblems In the.S enate and the House.

Within a stone's throw of theman-made beauty of Exalt park, asseen in the lower photo:!, are thesqualid conditions shown In theupper paneL Both photos weremade Friday afternoon, whilemembers of several civic organizations inspected Mill Creek, one ofthe major improvemen t projectssponsored by the civic groups andthe Kessler Plan Association. Mrs.W. A. Marsh, chairman of the sanitation committee of the Dallasboard of health, sponsored the In-

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Stoneleigh Court SaleConfirmed in Court

Judge James C. Wilson of FortWorth, sit t ing in . United StatesDistri ct Court In Dallas Friday Inplace'of Judge William H. AtwelLsigned an order confirming th esale of Stoneleigh Court. Dallasapartment hotel, for -(210.000.

The Judge allowed S 2 4 . l 8 t . S S asexpenses of the sale, and fixed$17S.S1S.1S as net proceeds from It.

The case was brought in equityby the New York Trust Companyas trustees against the-Effici encyApartment Corporation and others.The property, in one block, was ordered sold for 5210.000, and thesale was effected Jul y'2 ! by Clarence E. Linz as special master.The Stoneleigh Court Corporationis purchaser. ^ ^ ^

Howard County Stan Dies.Special to The Sews.

BIG SPRING. Howard Co., Texas , Aug. 2.—Tom Hutto, 44, a resident of Howard County tor twenty-two years, died in a local hospltt ' .here Friday. He is survived bytwo .daughters and a son, Estelle,Don and Tom Jr .

H-47's CommanderOrdered Reprimanded

LONDON. Aug. 3 (AP I— Lieut.Robert James Gardner, commander of the submarine 11-47 and oneof thre e out of the twent y-six onboard who escaped when,-the vessel sank after collision in the IrishSea last month, was found guiltyof ne gli gen ce. by a "court-martialFriday for not handling his submarine in. such a manner as toavoid the consequences of negligent navigation of submarine L-lI .He was ordered reprimanded.

About a week ago. Lieut. ClaudeStanle y Griffith .Keen of the L-13was ordered severely reprimandedand dismissed from his ship afterhe had been held responsible forthe disaster by a general court-martial .

Week-End ExcursionTo Medicine Park

Medicine Park in the WichitaMountains of Oklahoma will be the

j destination of many Dallas personswho are making reservations for anexcursion over the week-end. Theexcursion provides a schedule viathe Rock Island out of Dallas,leavi ng at 9:15. p. in. Saturd ay,going via Lawton from which point••us service is used for a thi rty-minute trip to the park. Cottagesare available for those who desireto spend a while and the lake affords swimming and fishing andboating.

Nobody Is Certain Just How Old.Wilbur Is, \But He Will Have a Birthday Party Aug. 12

Members of the • Dallas, and FortWorth. Round, Table clubs willmeet In a*Joint barbecue's nd picnicnext Fri day evening;, at Arli ngtonFark.. Arlington," It was announcedat the Dallas dub's m-i-tlr.g Fridaynoon in tin Baker ' Hotel.

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Wilbur, the rbaby" elephant atMarsalis Park Zoo..Is sti l l young.His age is rather problematical, buthe ,can sti l l have birthdays. Andwith each new birthday bis disposition seems to need, more improvement.' . . " _ . " * .

Th e rather, adotcscent pose inthe. photo graph 'was obtained withdifficulty, _ Wilbur seemin g to: resent the parental att i tude and roax-Ina' of his keeper. H. D. (Curley)Pricket L • ."". Being ((il l somewhat smaller

than QueenJe, the mamma, eleph ant

at the xoo, Wilbur most submiteach year, unwillingly,i to the cu stom of, having- a birthday* party._

'The date is approaching 'again.Aug. 12 is celebrated' annually,although Wilbur.w as.bor n In Indiaand Just how that zodiacal figurecould be determined b y ' l b e CountyClerk of his home town hasn'lbeenexplained.— '" ]i -,.

Wilbur seemed' to resent the factlast.-year.'. 'Wh en 'he -was dres sedup in a straw hat and a' pair, of ga y.ly striped, pants, he promptl y torethem u'f. If '

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iFroni J ' to S -p . in . on Monday,Aug:, 12. refreshments . w i l l . b es e r v e i and a program will- be give nf o r - g u e s t s ' a t h i s p a r t y. W h e t h e rto hike-cak e for. him.-i n birthdayparty style, or merely to serve icecream hasn't been decided. Wilbur has shown a tendency to dislikecake o n . p r e v i o u s o c c a s i o n s . . ._

.At. oty rate. 'a feature of ' the-oc-casi onwll l be a donkey riding contest, on the donkeys obtained byMayor Tate ' for Dallas children«rha:visit (fee park,

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.The possibili t ies 'Ter ' beautifyingMill Cre et; one^ of the chief aimsof East. Dallas civic organizations.were, unfolded Frid ay before" agroup, who compared the thincomplished with conditions that arein need of change, not because theyare in their natural state, but because of neglect, according to-Mrs.'W. A. Marsh, chairman of the sanitation committee of the-board ofhealth, who sponsored the inspection trip.

The group of Improvement leaguerepres entative s. Joined by Dr." LaneB. Cooke, city health director , in-spected Exall Park, where MillCreek has been confined by concrete curbs, its banks terraced a ndnative trees permitted to attain fullgrowth. After seeing the healthful conditions prevalent along thatpart of Mill Creek, the group movedhardly 100 yards eastward into theback yards of a cluster of negrobouses, where they saw the conditions which it is the aim of thecivic organizations to change.

Along the unimproved portion ofMill Creek, about fifty feet southeast Of Bryan street and less than100 yards northeast of Rzall Park,is a collecti on of negr o hou sesb u i l t ' o n stilts over the ravinethrough which the creek runs in

rainy seasons, but which during thesummer season becomes a series ofstagnant puddles. One of thehouses straddles the ravine, corners of others Jut out over it.

Creek Trash Damp ./The creek bed is used as a trash

dump, and along its banks arebarnyards, seldom cleaned, andpiles of kindling and debris thathave not been disturbed for years.

"Mill Creek flows throu gh oneof the most densely populated sections of Dallas ," said Mrs. Marsh."Parking of the creek would benefit 53..000 pers ona It is an opensewer furnishing millions of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. It Is adumping ground for fi l th, garbageand dead animals.

Th e small home owners alongthe creek* suffe r lnconvefii ence andloss from its repeated overflows.Unles s Mill Creek Is parked as re commended In the Kesslerp ian. thenegro shacks will follow'fa rtherup the creek, blighting the whitedistricts.

, "One of the filthiest, nastiest andmost insanitary spots on the creekIs with in a few blocks of St. Paul' sHospital and sever al other private clinics and hospitals.

"The parking of Mill Creek willsolve the drainage problem andelimi nate an expen sive "storm sewer,solve the sanitary problem, givingthe sun a chance to do its germkilling and the health Inspectors achance to eradicate all mosquitobreeding. It will check effectivelythe spreading of the negro population into a white district.

City Has Mtaicy."The city now has at Us disposal

J3.5OO.00O drainage bonds and $ 1 . -500.000 park bonds, a total of | 5 . -000.000 bond money for Just ruchPurpose s, as the parki ng of MillCreek."

Dr. Cooke said that while he. washealth director some years agounder the Blaylock administrationhe had recommended the improvement of M i l l ' C r e e k as a health

Besides Mrs. Marsh, members ofthe health board In the insp ectionparty were Miss May F. Smith andG. W. Hillpot Mrs. Walter Barnes,president, and Mrs. W. B. RussellJr. . chairman of the civic committee of the Dallas Woman's Forum,were In the group. The Woman'sForum owns property in the neighborhood o n wh ich it inten ds tobuild a clubhouse.

J. G. Morrow, presiden t of theCollege Hill Improvement League,and Mrs. Morrow: H. L. Brian,chair man, of the' Mill Creek committee of the College Hill League,and Si n Brian and Mrs. F. B. Davis. Mrs. J. Bender. Mrs. L W.Fetzer. Mrs. J. G. Pou. Mrs. DaisySmith, J. C Walvoord Jr. , SolomonEly. Miss Vivian Aunspaugh, W. W.Coats. Mrs. R. E. L Middlngs. Father Augustine Danglmziyr, Mrs.L B. Edmond son. Mrs. C. P. Penc e,Kennedy England and John E Sur-

ratt . secretary of the Kessler PlanAssociation, were others in the inspection party.

Fred McLarty's WifeFiles Divorce Suit

Suit for divorce against Fred B.McLarty. now serving a t hree-yearterm in the Federal peni tentiary atLeavenworth. Kan. in connectionwith the bankruptcy here someyears ago ot the Nash-McLarty Motor Company, has been filed by hiswife. Mrs. Bessie McLarty.

The suit was filed in Judge T. A.Work's Sixty-Eight]) District Court-

Mrs. McLarty's petition asks forcustody of their i :-year-old daughter. Elizabeth, claimins that Mrs.McLarty. who is conducting a private school, is financially able tocare for her.

It states that they were marriedin 1906, and lived together untilDe c 8. 193T. when McLarty leftTexas following the crash of hismotor,company. During that t im^,according to the petition. Mrs. McLarty turned over to him J65.000which she received from the estateot her father. Out of thi s sheclaims to have retained ownershipin their home in Highland Park andan equit y in another block of Dallas proort y. On Feb. 4. 1JI8.Jlrs. McLarty was given control and

management of her property bycourt-

Lieutenant GovernorAddresses Junior Bar

Escape or at-least t h r e e ; p r i s o ners from the Dallas c i t y ' prisonfarm at Whit* Rock was preventedby T- R. Malin. superintendent,when he.surpris ed the men in theact ot removing bricks from thewall with a.mowing machine sickle.

An alarm was sounded, and withthe aid of severaj guards Malln

quieted the prisoners and took theimplement away from the escapingm e n . OneiOf fhe-men Is believedto have carried the sickle to hiscell under his coat.

The three men, serving- thirty,sixty and nlnety-<fciy - s e n t e n c e s .

Banks HandleDonors'Funds

Community Trust Praised by Head of Ameri

can Exchange.

Upon behalf of the newspaperssponsoring the Dallas CommunityTrust. G. B. Dealey has asked the

various banks that have agreed toserve as trustees of fundsqucathed to the Community Trustfor an expression ot opinion as tothe value of the organizat ion.

Among the replies in hand is thefollowing from Kathan Adams,president of the American Ex-charge National Bank:

"Dear Mr. Deale y: I am pleasedto give my hearty commendationto the newly created Dallas Community Tru3t. It Is a splendid stepforward, in my opinion, when, a s inthis case, we apply to the administration ot our charit able andphilanthropic undertakings t hosesame principles of good businessand common sense which we s oreadily recognize as important InOur other financi al affairs:

"In accepting, a trusteeship underthis Community Trust, wo do sounder our regular fiduciary powersgranted us under the terms of theFederal Reserve act. and our service In this capacity will be no different from that rendered in connection with any other trust handled by our trust department. Here,as In the case ot other Dallasbanks, the donor may have'ass urance that the funds represented byhis gift wh ether 15 or $500,will be In the hands of exper t man*agement, surrounded by everyproper safeguard and administeredstrictly, in accordsterms of the trust.

"In addition, the donor. In caseof Indecision as to the benefi ciary,may shift the burden of choice t othe board or governors withsatisfaction that his funds will beplaced to do the most goo d."

Commission to AssessBenefits of Drainage

. J. M. Preston, a E. Whitesideand R. i. Thompson were namedFriday by the City Commiss ion asa board of special commissionersto assess benefits and coststorm sewer work to be doidraina ge distric t No. 1. In the Cadizstreet district .

The work is a part of the pigram starte d oy titreet Comm

It- A. (Gus) Wylle and willout S43.O00. to be divided

among the property owners according to the benefits they recelvThe special commissioners will bepaid $10 a day each.

Formation of drainage districtN o. 1 is the first of the storisewer districts to be created underMr. Wylle's program which Is Intended eventually to divide the cityinto districts with a view to pro-

SkyscraperlsSoldTwiceinBusiness Day

Guardian. Company GelsAlexander Hom e in

First of Deals.Purchase of the Burt Building'

at Ervay' street and Patterson avenue by Tom B. Owen ft Co. fro mWiley Blair and" A. a Atkins , whilhad bought the building earlier ia,Ihe day from the Guardian Building Company, was announced F riday. Th e transaction, involvingmore ;h an $3, 000,000, -was one' ofthe largest In recent months.

The Guardian Building Com«pany. of which Joseph Burt Upresident, first sold the bulldlnS toMr. Blair and Mr. Atkins, the Burtinterests receiving the historicAlexande r home at Rose and Annexavenues . as .part payment. Mr.Oa-en then bought the buildin g.Part: of the consideration in thistransaction was a 113.000-acreranch In-New Mexico, stocked wi thmore than 5,000 .Aberdeen-Anguscattle.

The .eleven-story office buildingwas completed, in 1938. formerMayor R. li Burt being one of thelarger . stockholders. The Alex-,ander home, for tho last ten yearaMr. Blair 's residence, will be'co nverted Into a modern funeral h omeIn the next sixty days. i

J. Shugar of Shugar & Co,handled both transactions.

The duties and obligations of thelawyer to.his profession ard to thepublic were discussed Friday noonby Lieut. Gov. Barry Miller in-anaddress to the Junior Bar Associatio n of Dallas, in the. Sangers'cafe.

Mrs . Jessie Broadfoot gave a series of impersonations- H. A. Sic-Carley and Burr Cameron.were incharge trf the pr ogram.

Ill Winds Take AwayCross Winds, but New

Pointer Now in Camp

The 111 win d whic h took Cra ssWinds to the 'dog r "paradise' haablown good for another canine, a ndnow Ihe -Army Air Corps contingent at Love Field has anothermascot-

Cross Winds was the IIrer-spot«ted pointer dog that was popularwith the army flyers at Love Field.The other-day he. died. A greatwake was held among his humanfriends. Especially great and Sincere was th e sorrow of Mrs. HarryWeddlngton, whoes husband l(commanding officer at Love Field.

Then came Capt. L. E Crawford.He knew about the death of CrossWinds . "Let me take a ship ," saidCaptain Crawford. LieutenantWeddlngton ordered out the ship,and away went the Captain.

About 11 o'clock at night. Captain Crawford set his plane downagain at Love Field, lumped outand went to Lieutenant Wedding-ton's home. When the Wcddlng-tons saw what he brought, theyforgave him tor maki ng euch alate call .

The gift Captain Crawfordbrought »as another pointer, a,

second editio n of Cross Winds ,with the exception that one of theliver spots was absent.

The new dog has been given thename ot his predecessor, and thenew Cross Winds is winning hisway rapidly into the hearts of theflying men.

Ex-Dallas SchoolboyTo Conduct Services

While Minister Awa y

The Rev. E. W. Martin, pastor otthe Oak Lawn C hristian Church ,left Monday with his wife forHuntington, W. Va„ to spend t hemonth of August with Mr. Martin'sparents there. During bis absence,services will be conducted Sundayby Judson Leeman. ministerialstudtnt from Phil lips University.Enid. Ok. Mr. Leeman atten dedHighland Park High School In 192$and later was graduated from Dun-

vidlng a complete drainage system, can High School. Duncan. Ok.

Why Blame the Sheep for Leavingif You Let the Grass Die?

B Y R O B E RT Q C I I X E X .

In all parts of the ITnltedStates, clergymen complainthat the people are losing interest in religion.

Some of them blame mot ionpictures, automobiles, prosperity and the public prints thatfoster a spirit of rebellion and

Others think the church Itself at fault in failing to recognize the need of a ne » religion that will solve the problems of a modern world.

Both are tricked by superfic i a l l o g i c

One says: "People go to themovies instead of attendingchurch; therefore the churchis being killed by the movies."

The other says: Th e peopleare quitt ing the church to runafter new things; thereforethey desire a new religion."

The first ohserves an effectand thinks it a cause; the other would overcome oppositionby Joining 1L

If a man goes to a pool roomat night to escape a wife whomakes home unpleasant. Is Ihepool room killing hi* borne?

It his wife makes home unpleas ant and he goes to a poolroom, does It follow that his

home can be saved by buyinga pool table?

That is absurd logi c If thewife causes the trouble, theobvious solution of the problem Is to correct the faults ofthe wife.

If the people desert thechurch, the obvious explanation is that the churc h nolonger gives them what theywant.

If the church had remainedunchanged. It would be reasonable to suppose that thepeople had deserted it becauseot some .fault In themselves.

But since the church Itselfchanged, and desertion followed. It Is obvious that thechange caused the desertion.

In what particular did thechurch change?

Clergymen quit preachingthe old-time religion and triedto compete with modern entertainments.

Scoff If you will, but the factremains that the common people are soul hungry.

Life does not satisfy them:they must fi l l their hours witha feverish search for entertainment to avoid fears and doubtsthat assail them In quiet sol itude.

Their Inborn capacit y forreligion keeps them foreverhungering for a faith, and ex

planation of things and an as-auracce that men are notadrift in a. Godless world.

They yearn to believe. Theywant something solid underfoot- They wish to be taught.

And they stay away fro mchurch because scientific lectures, di&cu^slons of moralityand admonitions to obey thelaw can cot satisfy their eoulhunger or give them a faith tolive by.

It Is nonsense to say they

will not accept the old religion.The American people will accept anything that Is preachedwith convieticn.

The'truth is they have li t t leopportunity to hear the old-time religion, and the li t t lethey hear Is preached withoutlogic or eloquence or sinceritysufficient to carry conviction.

A salesman can't sell an articl e unless he Is. sold on Ithimsel f And If be offers It with .apologies ., or offers an Imitation or a substitute, he hasonly himself to blame If »•doesn't make a sa le '

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