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Heresy of Christ Is Pointed Out by Omaha Pastor Savior Suffered Death for Unorthodoxy of Views— Op probrium placed on “Her etic*' Unwarranted. “Calvary, or Jesus, In the Hands of the Orthodox," was the subject of Rev. Ralph K. Bailey's serinou Sun day at the First Unitarian church. There is more controversy concerning Jesus of Nazareth*.than concerning any other representative of the hu man race. What he wail and did and said is supremely the disputed is sue of our religious metaphysics and our theology," said Rev. Bailey. "But there is one fact of his life that does not admit of controversy, which is seldom emphasized or even considered. Jesus was in Ills attitude and experience the perfect example of a type of heretic. In the view of the ecclesiastical orthodoxy of his day, he was dangerously different In his views and teachings, and therefore 1 he chief priests and scribes and Pharisees resorted to every per secuting expedient to silence him, and finally, by the employment of the Civil authority, as a means, they put him to a shameful death. Jesus Unorthodox. "Jesus was an independent in the realm of religion.” said Rev. Mr. Bailey, “ ‘Yo have heard that it hath been said, but I say unto you,’ ” he quoted from scripture, "and almost invariably in such cases what Jesus said to them was different from the orthodox position and showed the older doctrine to be false. ‘Ye have heard that it was sa'd, thou shalt love thy neighlKtr and hate thine enemy, but I say unto you, Love your enemies.’ " New Conception of God. Orthodoxy in bus day conceived of God as a hateful tyrant. Christ taught men to pray ‘Our Father.’ Orthodoxy regarded the Sabbath as made for man and not a man for the Sabbath. Orthodoxy concerned- Itself punctiliously with externals. Ortho doxy looked upon those without the pale of ecclesiastical acceptability, as incorrigibly lost. 'The son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.’ ” Rev. Bailey added. “His life was marked by a willingness to proclaim the new way even when to follow in the new way meant to re nounce the old." "These two characteristics of Inde pendence of religious opinion and of willingness to relinquish error In the Jnt<#-est of his conception of vital truth were among the strongest and most frequently expressed elements of Jesus’ life, Rev. Mr. Bailey declared. " Ry every precedent, and every simi lar case, ft life is Christian only ns It shows decided likeness to the life of Jesus, and how can there he such likeness where the life, claiming to he Christian, lacks both or either of these features?" Specifics Non-Christians. "The man whose satisfaction it Is to take his religious opinions from oth ers, because of the popularity of the views or the prestige or ability of the person or persons espousing them, may l>e noble, but Christian he is not." answered Rev. Mr. Bailey. Refines Heretic. "History and biography have given lo the word 'heretic' a meaning that should, I think, stir us so to such ad miration as to cause us to cease re garding the word as being opprobri ous. They are the class to whom, as we appreciate progress and reckon it* causes, we owe the heaviest debt of gratitude. We honor martyrs, but is it not true that, mainly, those mar tyrs have led us on because of their being heretics? We honor the proph ets and leaders of the church, but only those ,-unong whom were heretics are of an Increasing fame and influ enrp In building the kingdom of God," said Rev. Mr. Bailey. Code of Ethics to Save Girls From Flapperism Advocated hy Actress "Candy om-e a week." "No face powder and rouge.” "No low necked evening gowns to he worn before 18." These constitute s part of Mrs. Beatrice Forbes • Robertson Hale's code for young girls, "as a protection Against the wofully Inadequate ex ample set by their elders," she said Mrs. Hale, noted lecturer, actresi hud author, is a niece of ftlr Johnston X'orbea-Robertson, actor. In her new book. "What's Wrong With Our flirls,” she blames the de cline in family life, and the hilarious pace at which fathers and mothers are living, for the epidemic of flapper ism. Any child, she says, Is isiitativc and her habits are merely the result of the things she sees, the magazines she reads and the movies she attends. Mrs. Hale deplores the passing of the country girl. To know / how good a cigarette /y really can bo mady / you must try a-y / LUCkiY STRIKE/ ACIGARETTE/^ Clear thinking! ■normal digestion restored /Dt KINGS PILLS f -Jot constipation ^ Thousands of French Women Prefer American Men as Life Helpmates Pari*, Feb. 25.—UP)—The woman's' weekly. Eve, recently asked its read ers two questions. The first was what occupation they would prefer their husbands to follow, and the oth er. if they were not French, from what nationality they would choose a husband. Nearly 2,000 replies were received on the second question, and in these nearly 14,000 women voted that they would choose an American for their helpmate. France's allies made a poor showing on this question. Italy received only about 2,000 vote*, while England received only 1,800. N'o oth er nation*, aside from the Irnited States, Italy and England, passed the 400 mark. The list closed with Tur key. for whose subjects 18 women voted they had a preference. nO the qestion of the occuption of a husband, the manufacturer led with 0,000 votes. He was followed by the scientist, with 3,000: the banker with 2,000, and the moving picture actor with 1,000. oN other trade or pro fession reached the four-figure mark. The aviator was ninth on the list with 360 ballots, and the pugilist 12th, with 141. No votes were received from women who would have army or navy officers, or state employes as their husbands. Board of Trade Private Company, Brief Declares Attorney for Chicago Corpor ation Files Statement in Suit to Test Futures Trading Act. Washington, Feb. 25. — A reply brief was filed in the supreme court by counsel for the Chicago Board of Trade in the case brought to test the validity of the futures trad ing act, and which will come up for argument next Monday. “Replying to the government's contention that the stockyards and packers control act, recently held constitutional by the court, was broadly similar to the futures trading law. Henry S. Robins declared In the brief that the former futures trading act had been declar ed unconstitutional at the time the stockyards act was upheld and sug gested that the court would, in the present instance, make the “obvious distinction" between the two laws. The only difference between the two future trading acts, he Insisted, is the false reason given in the latter for its enactment. Private Corporation. Amplifying its distinction between the present futures act and the pack ers act, the brief asserts that the latter did not seek to regulate trad ing upon or membership in a com mercial exchange, and that there is no future trading In livestock upon an exchange or elsewhere. The stock yards are a “public” market, in whiich all can resort to trade, the brief stated, while the Chicago Board of Trade Is a private corporation whose charter Imposes upon it "no duty to the public." « The packers act, it asserted, ap plies to a business of which the live stock comes on the hoof to the stock yards, and was Justified "by the ex istence of real, serious and direct enactment upon the Interstate Com merce commission." On the other hand, it continued, the grain futures act was based "upon a mere pretense of a burden, which, if it were a real My. wpuld only incidentally affect that commerce. The packers ftet deals directly with a condition of an Interstate character; the grain futures act attempts to regulate what is wholly intrastate.” Charges Reports Inaccurate. Replying to some assertions regard ing price fluctuations being caused by gambling, the brief claimed that many of the fluctuations complained of had been caused by "inaccurate reports of the Department of Agricul ture respecting crop prospects." Congress as well as the courts lias recognized, the brief asserted, that the great benefits accruing to the grain trade from this vast future trading market could only be realized by the maintenance of an open mar ket. to which all speculators might resort, arid that it was wholly imprac ticable for the exchange "to censor all orders coming from the world at large to its 'pits’ for execution." The only alternatives offered. It was said, was either to permit or wholly prohibit such transactions. U. S. Gets Near East Oil Rights From Turkey (Continued From rag* On* i Chester eoneesslon. which had not been ratified by the Turkish parlia ment, hut which had been made the next order of busineas when I he parliament adjourned. The present Angora government ap provea the concession and ha* re issued it. The British claim to Mosul, I advanced so strenuously by Lord Cor zon at Lausanne, appears to be weak ening and Is expected to evaporate all together. The Ban Remo conference which rewrote the BritishHerman i claims to the Mosul fields, has been scrapped along with many other in ! ternational charters, and the Ktate j department has consistently refused to recognize the validity of the British : concession. The long finest, whic h Admiral Che* ter has made is proof of the Inspira tion furnished him by former T’rosl i dent Roosevelt. I to says lie never i would have thought of it If Colonel Roosevelt had not. suggested it and , that the former president even then j had a farseeing vision of what the ' development of the near east, would mean to American capital. Asia offers the only world field awaiting explotatlon, offering re wards greater than lliose which made Ibigland the i;lrh»ft nation In the world through the development of her colonial empire. Private American enterprise pro poses to go out Into tlic new fields and prospect them without the pro tecting pr esse nee of the flog. Re llsnce. In these adventures, te pl«< ed on the protection which the American Government Is expected to give |ta nationals. if. exemplifies the etrees which Secretary of Stale Hughes has placed upon tho Importance of the open door policy aS applied to alt the world. There is still opposition to the pro , pertIve Invasion of tho near -iaat b> foreign powers but the necessity of getting on well with Uncle Ham Is ■ speeded to lessen It. The Cheater concession. If develop ed, Is peeled to be the first step in a wholesale development of both the near and far eiist hy American "iiterprise and capital in ft manner \ which will open up new market* and give the Culled State* commercial J supremacy. Opposing Forces Reach Compromise on Farm Aid Bills New Proposal Embraces Main Features of Capper, Len root • Anderson a n d Strong Measures, Washington, Feb. ir>.— Tentative agreement was reached by the house banking committee on a rural credits bill which both Chairman McFadden and Representative Wingo of Arkan sas. ranking democrats, said they be lieved would be approved by the vari ous groups in the congressional row which has attended consideration of the schedule. As drawn, but subject to a final vote by the committee, the bill em braces the Capper and Lenroot-Ander son measures, passed by the senate, and the Strong bill, passed by the house. Concessions are understood to have been made all nrourrd in an effort *0 agree on a program v which would command ttie greatest siioport In the house. All three of the mcaures. committee members said, were amend ed to prevent any possible overlap ping and to remove what might be construed as legal obstacles. Stock Han Amended. The bill carries the provision of the I.enroot-Anderson bill creating a sys tem of Intermediate credit banks under supervision of tho farm loan bank system, but amended the section to limit the capital stock of $60,000, 000. As passed by the senate, expan sion to $120,000,000 would have been authorized. The intermediate credit banks, al though under the direction of the farm loan bank directors, would be independent Insofar as their assets, and liabilities are concerned. Their agricultural paper will be eligible for discount at federal reserve banks. Chairman McFadden expressed con fidence that the provision would not be further amended. Bloc leaders Silent. Acceptance by the committee of many provisions of the Lenroot-An derson measure, including the inter mediate credits system, committee members said, would tend to har monize the differences in the house and permit quick pnssnge of the measure on Tuesday, when it is ex pected to be taken up. Farm bloc leaders, however, were silent tonight, preferring to have an opportunity to study the measure hefo-e expressing an opinion on its acceptance. The Capper bill provides for the en couragement of small banks to enter the federal reserve system and for the 1 organization of private rediscount corporations. It was urged by Secre tary Mellon as adequate farm legisla tion for this session of congress Body of Diplomat To Be Buried Monday Philadelphia. Feb. 25.—Charle magne Tow*r, diplomat and financier, who died in the Pennsylvania hospital, will bo bulled Monday. r vires will be held in Holy Trinity Protestan Epis^pal « hurch. He had been In tho hospital since February 9. Today, after apparently rallying from a relapse. Mi. Tower fell Into a Jeep sleep, which ended with hi* death Memt*ers of the fam ily v ere at his bedside. Mr. Tower was in his 75th year. 1 In bad Iwen ambassador to Uussia and Germany and n.lmMer to Austria Hungary. Boil lure 'iiid abroad Mr. j Tower was prominent socially aril wai* noted for the lavishnes* of hi* entertainments. From his father h« Inherited a largo fortune, aecumulnt ed for the most jnrt in the coal fields of Pennsylvania Saginaw Man Convicted of Slaying Daughter. 12 Saginaw, Mich.. t«'eb.\ 2~>. — Walter T. Hubbard, 4", former credit man tiger f„r an oil company, won con victed by a circuit court jury of the murder, December 9, of hi* daughter, Marguerite. J?. I iidit icil fur Bribery. Sacramento, Cal. Feb. 25 George H. Crawford, Henry W Meyer and Waldo W. Curtis, Man Francisco fed oral prohibition officers, were in dicted by a federal grand Jury hers today on charges of bribery. The men are accused of having accepted » $10,000 bribe to release three pi is oners hi flunora county. _ ■ -- /,a«f Survivor of lannms Light Brigade Lighting Valiant Battle for Life London, Ont.. Fob J... Thom** H Shaw, surviving member of the Light Brigade, which made llself immortal with lie charge on a IlmalAn batterv at Halo Klava In 1*04, ('till «a» light ing a. valiant baflle against death In Vlctoiia hospital. But although the 01 year-old cav alryman was clinging teiiHeiniisly to ] life, the docloi s said thut he faces In evitable defeat, Shaw, who was tended by Florence Nightingale afier he had been wound ed in the charge of hie famuli" hr1 redo, settled here 37 years sgo. II Inld hie friends thut, with the death of a comrade In the United States last year, ho became the last survivor of the Hi* Hundred. , a Firm to Launch New York-Chicago Dirigible Service Marshall Field and William WripJoy Among Men Back of Project—Incorporated in Delaware. -New York, Feb. 25.—Marshall Field and William Wrigley of Chicago, Franklin D. Koosevelt, former demo cratic candidate for vice president of the United States: Owen D. Young, vice president of the General Electric company, and other leading business men of the Cnited States are mem bers of a corporation w’hich has defi nitely decided to start a dirigihle uir service between New York City and Chicago, according to former Assist ant Secretary of War Benedict Crow ell, one of the directors of the corpor ation. The decision that an air service patterned after the Zeppelin lines formerly operated with great suc cess in Germany, was practically readied about a year ago, according to Mr. Crowell. The decision to go ahead with the New York City-Chi cago dirigible line was only decided recently. Mr. Crow-ell made only a slight ref erence to the plans for a Zeppelin line to Chicago Saturday night at the din ner of the construction division, an organization of men who served the government during the war in build ing of cantonments. Mr. Crowe]] was asked later to supplement what he had said about the line of dirigibles. Incorporated In Delaware. lie said that the organization which would undertake the development of nightly air service by dirigible between New York city and Chicago was in corporated in Delaware under the name of the American Investigation Corporation. That organization's function was to look into the feasibil ity of the project. Now that it has been decided the undertaking can he made a success, financially and otherwise, the hackers of the project will form another corporation, the General Air Service, which will he the operating corporation. Mr. Crowell said that a thorough investigation of all the possibilities of the air line between New York and Chicago had convinced its back ers that the United State* could go ahead with the development of a line far surpassing the famous Zeppelin service operated with marked success in Germany before the war. I'ossess Big Advantage. The advantage that the Americans w ill possess in the development of dirigibles lie* In the monopoly that America has in helium gas. a non explosive gas which is almost ss light as hydrogen gas. an explosive gas which has wrecked some of the greatest attempts ever made at dirig ible flying. According to Mr. Crowell, German experts in the operation of dirigibles have been brought to this country to investigate the practicability of light er-than air tying between New York , and Chicago. They- spent months, looking into the conditions which ! would lie encountered In sailing «n airship between the two cities. Their Investigation covered the meteorolog foal records of the eastern half of the United States for the past 17 years. Operation Simple. "And at the end of their Inv’estlga- j tion." explained Mr. Crowell, the German engineers declared that 1h» operation of dirigibles between New York City and Chicago would he far simpler than flylnk dirigibles had ever been over a similar route in Ger many.’' One of the nm«t striking disclosures made by Mr. Crowell v as that Ger man fliers would be engaged to man the rigid aircraft. Asked what was the reason. he a.iid "We will US" German crews to start because they are the only ones who know how to operate dirigibles." Mr Crowell said that the backers of the undertaking, following an in vestigation in Germany of dirigibles, had come to the conclusion that the Germans were at leas* f.ve years ahead of all other countries In the development of that type of aircraft According to a new ruling, certain classes of prisoners in France must wear masks, covering the entire face The mask Is to be worn at ail times, except when isolated in the cell. The idea is to prevent visual communica tion by means of lip reading. Removal of Bone Pressing on Brain Restores Sanity Operation Successful!) Per formed on Earl Goodnow. 16. Aimless Wanderer. Since Hurt by Rock. Fur six months Carl Goodnow. 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Goodnow, Mouth Braintree, Mass., has wandered about the country, an itinerant, suf fering from frequent lapses of mem ory and periodical fits of Insanity. Last week at Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs, Dr. Harry D. Kelly operated upon Ills skull, remoevfl a piece of bone, which was pressing upon his brain, and today he is again a sane, normal youth, of more than average intelligence. On h’ebrunry 15 a passing motorist found young Goodnow lying uncon scious on tlie Lincoln highway five miles east of the Bluffs. Ife brought him to Mercy hospital, where it at first was believed lie was suffering , from an epileptic fit. Four days later be became vio lently Insane and was removed to the Mt. Bernard hospital. Before he lost his reason, however. Dr. E L. Hawk' ins had made an' X-ray photograph of his skull. Thursday morning he was carried to the operating room, manacled bj^ strap«. Combined strength of three guards and several nurses was re quired to restrain him until the anesthetic had been administered. Dr. Kelly and his assistant. Dr J. J. Stech. removed a piece of skull about the size of a quarter from the top of Goodnow’* head and lifted out a clot of blood and tissue, which had exerted pressure on hi* brain. Later in the day he recovered from the anesthetic, a normal, sane youth. The entire expression of his face was altered, according to the doctor and hospital attendants, and he conversed with them intelligently in his soft, eastern drawl about his home, par ente and the accident which he suf fered two years ago. lilt on Hpad by Rock. Goodnow s trouble resulted from an injury to his head when he was struck by a large rock while watching a stone crusher In operation. He was confined to a hospital for two or three months, but surgeons did not suspect that his skull had been frac tured. He left his home last September, during a strange spell of restlessness, one of a series which he experienced at frequent intervals after his Injury. Wandering aimlessly about the coun try, he visited New York, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Texas and Arizona. The youth went as far west as California, then begin his return east through Utah, Wyoming and Nebras ka. Wandered to Coast. During his travels lie spent periods , varying from five days to three weeks - In hospitals and sanitariums at San Antonio. Texas; Los Angeles and Berkeley, Cal.; Ogallala and Grand Island. Neb . and other cities. Sur geons In each place gave up his case as hopeless. "I can’t explain my sensation to you when I recovered consciousness after the ope ration," said I he youth yesterday. "I feel as if I have a new head. It’s wonderful to realize that 1 am sane and normal once more "Dr. Kelly is a man I never will forget as long as 1 live.’ He has transformed me Into a human being and he tells me ho will make it pos sible for me to get home and see my mother again. I simply can’t express my gratitude.’’ Vi ife of Noted Baritone Obtains Divorce Decree lleno. Xev., Feb. 25—Ruby Thom as. wife of John Charles Thomas, noted American Iwiritone. obtained « divorce in the district court here late Friday. Cruelty was i harged in the complaint. Mrs. Thomas testified that his treatment caused her to lose weight from 130 pounds to 102 pounds, nt which figure she now Up* tho scales Thomas was temperamental. Mrs Thomas testified, and on one occasion he bit lier until tho blood ran from her shoulder, she said. On nnolhor occasion Thomas did not like the gown sh» wore at the breakfast table and in the presence of a male guest, he is alleged to have torn the gar ment from her body. The <oitp!e were married in Baltimore In 1913. Bakers Cocoa is the ideal drink Jor growing children Not only does its delicious flavor and aroma appeal to the palate but it supplies the bodp with a considerable amount of pure, wholesome and nutritious food. Children, owing to their almost ceaseless activity, frequently require ns large an amount of nourishment as adults, and good cocoa is a Valuable aid in tbc carefully arranged diet. But its quality must be good and no cocoa can quite so well meet the requirements of dietitian, physician, nurse or housekeeper as “ BAKER S (M » • *»' •>» W..I. ...1^ l,p WALTER BAKER & CO. LTD. EtuMuheJ i;So DORCHESTER. M ASSACHUSE ITS ^ Booty* of Choic* Rti lpt$ itnl fnt Youth Sentenced to Life on Charge of Killing Girl Greenville, Oa , Keb. 25.—Will Hen drix, 20, wan convicted of the charge of murder In connection with the kill* ing of Mattie Cox. 18. last November. The jury recommended mercy and he was sentenced to serve a life term. On the witness stand In his own defense. Hendrix accused his father, O. G. Hendrix, of the murder. The father will go on trial on Tuesday, charged with tho same crime, lull Woodard the only eye-witness of the crime, testified the younger Hendrix killed the girl. 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