14 THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, ULTOHKK tiU. 1U2I. Church Officials Arc Lax Declares Evangelist Smith Slioulil Know' Evff)Lody in Their Parishes, lie Trill Them, and Go Out to Hffoue the IVrMiing. MBSSSSffa "There's no ue singing 'Rfcue Ihc Prrikliinu while lining on cushioned (!; you've gut to go where they are perishing if you want to do any mating," Gipy Smith to!i about 3,000 church official liradi of department and cluirr organization! and their families at special meeting fur them Moiid? night at the auditorium "If you want the strangrr within your gate to come to your church you've got to make him feel thai he M welcome and that you are glad he lis come. The whole of the evangelist's lis course Monday night wat directed at - the church omcial. who, he declare'', were lax in their duties to the church, For hia text the sneaker took part of the Book of the Acts, from which he read the description of the first church. Citei Firat Church at Model. "This first church wai an ideal church," he laid. "It wat a praying church, the memhera spoke the word of God with boldness and had all things in common. There were no strifes in the coneresation and when there was need of money those who owned property sold it and laid the proceeds at the leet ot the apostle ' The officials were chosen, not be cause they were wealthy or had high social position, but because they were good men. I hey were praying men, and when they prayed in that church something happened. Is that why vou were chosen as officials? "What happens when you pray?" he asked, "and what's the use of praying unless something happens.' What's the good of mumbling a few petitions like a parrot? Something happens in any church when its members lay everything aside and talk to God face to face. All other things called prayer are mockeries, Sensation Better Than Stagnation. "Some of you would be afraid if something would happen but I'd rather have a sensation in the church than stagnation." The sneaker ureed that the church officials should be an example of goodness wherever they went. "Are you living so your families believe in your religion?" he asked. "You have no right in office unless you are. It is a terrible thing to handle holy things with Ainclean hands," he continued. "What a dif ference there is'in the church when all the officeholders are loyal to God. , Should Know Everybody. . "It is different when the officers go to church twice each Sunday in stead of once and when they , arc praying and looking out after the Jost. Church officials should know "everybody in the church and parish in which they live. They should know them by name so when a stranger came to church or to the parish he could be singled out and welcomed. f They should know the unfortunates in the church that they would be better enabled to help them. A church1 official's duties arc no perfunctory performances but they are real and calling for sin cerity. , . ' . . . -' "When you are after a man's vote you take pains to know hirn. You visit him in his house, kiss his baby, pet his dog and when election- day comes around you do all you can to get him to the polls to vote as you would have him. When you want him to come to church you pull a rope that rings a' bell. Every poor lost man or woman in The city should know that there is a welcome await ing them at your church. -"It isn't that way now. If repent ant sinners woke up in the middle of the night with a decision? in their hearts to live a better life they would '.. not knock on your church t door. They would go 'to the Salvation Army where there is a welcome for them." ' ' ' . - Here there was a great applause. . Urges Atmosphere of Welcome. "You shouldn't applaud that. You , were here long before the Salvation Army and it is a reproach upon your church. "To make the strangers' and un fortunate .know they arc welcome you have to create that atmosphere of welcome in . the church.. You must live the right life. Do you know how to do it J" he asked. Then leaning over the bannister of the platform, the evangelist spoke very confidentially to the officials, "You men will have to cut out Sunday golf and you ' women will., have "to quit Sunday bridge. "There was more applause and somebody in the ministers' section cried out. "How about Sunday mov ies?" . ;., . . "No good man will do anything on the Lord's day that is inconsistent with His teachings. Does that an swer your question?" the evangelist asked. ' - - . .. ... "Yes," was the reply. "Well, the answer Will go farther than you will," was the evangelist's retort ' - . ; "And then," he continued to the officials, "you'll have to quit pulling down the curtains and playing 'jazz' and dancing on.Sefhday. "You must all come back to the first principles. Yours is great work and you must create the at mosphere in the church that will help your ministers do better, work. The officials must - stand for the things that are God's. Put away the things of which God can't aoprove and yield intelligently to God," he urged. Two-Minute Sermons Written Especially for The Be by Gipsy Smith Modern mail it very clever, snd no doubt some of hit achievement would teem supernatural to the primitive people of the pat. There is danger, of course, that in their pride over brilliant inventions or remarkable dis coveries, some peo. tile today should forget the one be hind thee selen itic wonders It would be pos. siUle for an un educated race t' confute an aviator with an -angel. Some educated people, in much the same way, may consider that they have conquered di vine law and freed themselves from dependence on any power ex cept that within themselves. Can't Stay up. Ilut the foundations were not laid by man. lite possibilities lor inventions were all there before man suddenly if stumbled upon something illumined by liod. t Who put the coal, the iron, the copper and all the minerals beneath the earth for man to mine? It was God, making wise provisions for man need. The ainilane can't stay up, but mut come down. There sre limits to all the powers of man. Once in a while in my country one comes upon a road across a private estate which is opcu to the public except on one day each year. On Jist one day the owner bars the way in order that, his ownership will not be torgotten. Puts Chains Across. Once in a while God puts the chain across. Man can harness the forces of na ture; he can hardly be said to mas ter them, but only to work with them. ' He can invent machinery, but he did not invent the materials. With all his cleverness, he can't yet invent anything to heal a broken neart, kiss a tear into a jewel, mend a broken life or take the burden of misery from a guilty sout. I know something that will do that, for all who come unto God thtough Him and His name is Jesus. "Our Religion Is Too Superficial," Says Evangelist Rain Fails to Keep Crowd From Noonday Theater Meeting Presbyterian Pastor Preaches. "We are too superficial in our re ligion and are afraid to pay the price" declared Gipsy Smith in his noon day sermon at the Brandcis theater at noon yesterday. t,Tl . 1 .' H t. ' . 1 1 C - !. i ne ihc in vnriM cans lur mum suffering as we' go along, but after all it is the only life worth while. Until you know the sufferings and have compassion for those in sin and want, you will know nothing of the sufferings of Jesus while he was on earth," the speaker said. "What have you given to Him or the world? Have you suffered with anybody, or have you eased any body's pain? What has your so- called Christian life cost you?" Rev. W. H. Jackson, pastor ot the First United Presbyterian church, delivered the first 10-minute sermon. "Like Paul." he said, "every man bears on his body or his sout the marks of his master. Every man has a master and may you throw off all earthly masters and make Christ your redeemer." The evangelist s sermon was inter spersed with stories of human in terest to illustrate his theme. The attendance was good considering the heavy rain that fell just at noon, pre venting many from attending. The singing was excellent. Women Frame Rules For Handsomest Man Paris. Oct. 25. Having elected what they considered was the hand somest man in trance, j-rench women are now busy framing rules which such a man should observe in married life, as follows: Never dare to give orders to a wife, even for her own good. Never commit the crime of being bore. Never resemble a preacher or schoolmaster. Avoid assassinating the wife with good advice or wise examples taken from his own family. Offer everything before she has asked for the slightest thing. Above all, learn to forgive th1; wife when the husband is mistaken and to approve of her when the hus band is right. Union of Central America With Mexico Is Proposed Mexico Citv. Oct. 25. Wide inter est was stirred here by the reported agitation for the union of the five republics in. the new Central Amer ican federation with Mexico. Mex ican officials were unwilling to dis cuss the matter, but their demeanor left no doubt that they were pleased ith the report. At the national palace it said that President Obregon read the report with interest. But -it was denied that the idea had taken serious form. The report reachtd here m a dis ,tch from Havana, which stated that Rafael Cardenas Jiminez, the new Costa Rican consul in Mexico City, had strongly advocated the union, of Central America and Mexico and had announced his determination to agi- ate for such a union. . Early Briton Ate Human ; Flesh, Writer Declares London, Oct. 25. Small solace for the British is to be found in the lat est book on evolution, by an English man, Dr. Albert Churchward. The prehistoric Briton, he declares, had no objection to eating human flesh, "as proved by the discovery at Braitttree of human skulls split open, to extract the brains, and bones split from end to end to extract the marrow. . ; Item two. by the gloomy scientist, the prediction that one of these days "the huge city of London will be ground to atoms by the weight of ice. Nothing living will then endure: only the remains of ancient skeletons of men and animals will be left for our descendants to discover." Chicagoans Deny Miami Suicide Is Warren Spurgin Discrepancies in Descriptions Cast Considerable -Doubt On Identification Made By Friend of Banker. Chicago, Oct. 25. Proci that is considered positive, came from Mi ami, r la., yesterday that the un known man who committed suicidi in a hotel there Friday was not War ren u bpurgtn, the emblezzling banker, who drecked the Michigan Avenue Trust concern here. The Chamber of Commerce of Miami sent a telegram casting doubt upon the identification made by W. C Bennett, who claims to have been a former friend and associate of Spurgin. The dead man is 5 feet 10!l inches in height, while Spurgin is more than 6 feet tall. Spurgin weighed 260 pounds, while the Miami suicide weighs only 160. Spurgin had raven black hair, while -that of the suicide is auburn. Chicagoans now in Miami and who knew Spurgin, have viewed the body and all are positive it is not that of Spurgin . Mrs. Spurgin and her daughter, Vivian, did not believe the first reports that spurgin had committed suicide. Harding Writes To His Namesake Parents of Babe Receive Let ter Congratulating Child On Name. : Norristown, Pa., Oct. 24. Warren Harding is a good name, wrote the president to a baby named for him. The letter made public today by the child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Hannaway, follows: "My Dear Warren Harding: A friend of yours has just written to let me know you have arrived in I this world within a few days past and have demonstrated an early and appealing discretion by inducing your -parents to give you a good name. I know it is a good name be cause my father and mother gave it to me, and they were the beet peo ple I have known. I hope you will try as hard as I have to do nothing to discredit the name, for I know your father and mother, like my own, would grieve if that should happen; You have arrived here in a mighty interesting time for the world and will have a chance to be a useful citi zen. "Please do your best to live up to all your possibilities in that direc tion. "I wish I could hope to remain as Ions as you may, for this world is going to be an extremely interesting place during the time you are en titled to stay in it. Please give my kindest regards to your mother and father and thank thenj for me for the compliment they have paid me in selecting the name for you. . From your friend, 'WARREN G. HARDING" Girl Marries Man Serving 10 -Years for Auto Theft - Poplar Bluff, Mo., Oct.' 25. Love absolutely laughs at locksmiths, pretty Winnie Mann will tell the world. Paul Gardner ' of Tupelo, Ark., the man she loved, wa sen tenced to i 10 years' imprisonment for automobile theft Sheriff J. R. Hogg granted the plea of Miss Mann and Gardner" was taken nndeY guard before Judge Deem, where he said, "I do." Gardner will reside in Jef ferson City at the "state house," while his wife will go to his home at Tupelo. House Expunges Blanton's Remarks From the Record Washington, Oct. 25. Congress man Blanton of Texas "got in hot water' in the house yesterday over an "extension of remarks" in the Congressional Record. An "extension of remarks" is a speech not delivered but printed iti the record ' without being heard. Blanton's "extension," which con cerned a row in the government printing office, was expunged by the house, 313 to 1. . Blanton opposed expunging it. The context of the "extension" concerned a nonunion printer, who contended conditions in the printing office were made such he could not remain without a union card. Clean white zephyr' articles by rubbing in flour and magnesia, chang ing frequently. ;v Shake and sun. - President Ebert Cannot Form New German Cabinet ttsasssttsssssssfmsf Reason Is That No Politician Will Promise Entente That Reparation Agreement Will Be Fulfilled. . By GEORGE SELDES. Berlin, Oct. 2S.-rreident Kbcrf cannot form a new government. The chief fact, militating against the 'reconstruction qf the cabinet is that no German politician is fool enough to promise either the entente or Germany that the reparation will be fulfilled. Chancellor Wirtn kept promising fulfillment despite the almost universal belief that the thing was impossible, but the loss of upper Silesia upset even Dr. Wirth's hopes. Therefore Germany today is in the position of a man whose head has been chopped xff who yet must keep cne eye on upper sucsia. wuerc something may happen, and the other eye peeled on Bavaria, where the monarchist movement is gaining dailv. Fortunately the Wirtli cabi net, despite its resignation,, has of fered to remain on the job to take care of the emergencies. Faces Complex Crisis. Germany now is facing what is probably its most complex crisis since the establishment ot the republic. Germany's leading troubles, each of which is called unsolvable by one party or the other, may be thus: One. reparations, the stumbling block which caused Dr. Wirth's fall and which lies under the foot of every candidate for the chancellor ship. Two. Upper Silesia, Here the left parties favor acceptance the extremre right demands absolute rejection of the Geneva decision come what may and the central parties are unde cided. May Form Coalition. Stockholders Are Bane of U. S. Railroads Says Ford Vhiigton, Oct. 25. Henry Ford, writing in the official publica tion of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, tells how he would run a big railroad. Mr. Ford's operation of his own road, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, has been the subject of much dis-cutkion. these slocks for the financial protec tion of their families, their children, I'rotection front wlutf From the nrceity of earning their living. Their children would be better if if they had to finance themselves. Proper financing would, of course, be easier on new roads. On the old ones, however, it should he pos sible to retire the parasite, the non- contributing stockholder and get the First of all, he says, he would get ownership into the proper hands, rid of the individual stockholder whom lie considers a parasite: then he. would turn to lighter . rolling stock and finally "tire useless em ploye. especially the lawyers," 1 Finance as it applies to railroads, he says, is a failure; and. the roads spend money uselessly in red tape, particularly in accounting. "Real purposes ot a railroad," he writes, "are to serve the public There is no reason why it should be diverted from that service and set to putting money into the pockets of stockholders who make no contribu tion to the road's actual operation, The public pays these dividends, They are a tax on the people. Make Roads Work. "There is -a possible and practic able system of financing railroads by which those contributing the money will be in positions to add di rectly to the success of the under taking. If the brakeman on a rail road owns stock in it, he has an ad ditional inducement to ' competent service. If the railroad is successful it is due to him and his fellow work men, and they are entitled to the profit. Railroads should not have to go to the banks for money. They can be otherwise financed. The first thing is to make a railroad work. Make it possible for people to use it as much as they want to. Then there will be no tcouble about finances. The trouble is that we start with finance and expect finance to make the road go.' Finance can't do that. Finance is a failure. "If such a course were attempted, 7-hSei' The - ta.,xa uOIY PJogran we could expect a great outcry for the protection of invested capital;-ft would be said that people had bought which has remained the bugbear of the Wirth administration and cost Mathias Erzberger, the leader of the Catholics, his life at the hands of an assassin. - Four. The credits plans which fell by the wayside when Upper Silesia was lost. Both the foreign credits and the 2,000,000,000 marks gold internal credits, which German industry pledged, are doubtful now that Upper Silesia has been lost. It is most likely that three parties will form a coalition, either the pres ent three, which includes the ma jority socialists, or the democrats, Catholics and peoples which would give Germany a bourgeois govern ment without a single socialist cle ment for the first time. Northclif fe On Way to Hongkong British Publisher Reiterates Britain Would Aid U. S. In Jap War. . Manila, P. I., Oct. 25. That war in the. Pacific which would involve the United States, would bring to the side of America not only Great Brit ain itself,) but "the whole family of British nations, was the personal opinion expressed yesterday by Vis count Northcliffe in answer to a di rect Question put by a staff corre spondent of the Mainichi Shimbun of Osaka, Japan, who had been sent here to interview the British pub lisher on far eastern questions. He declared that Great Britain would stand by the United States in Pacific troubles, just as the United States had stood by Great Britain in the world war. He added: "It seems inconceivable that any contin gency might arise to menace seri ously the invisible, but impregnable bonds "binding the English-speaking peoples." . v Viscount Northcliffe, who arrived here for a two days' stay from Aus tralia, left' last night for Hongkong. ' On Earth, Englishman Says London, Oct. 25. "Once the Eng lish race were the best washed race oh earth, but now that honor belongs to the Japanese, said Mr James Crichton-Brown, in an address at Bath to the Sanitary , Inspectors' association. ' . .. Would Llffhltn Slock. "After removing this dividend drain, the second step would be to remove the grr.1t physical burden of the facts about it Slid settling it on the basis of justice. It would keep aii mis (iriau on me books. Cut Out Absurdities. "We don't claim to have 4hi any thing new in railroading yet. We have only taken the old syirm of opera tion and cut off its obvious absurdi ties, liven the old system, brought up to efficiency, would be an mi nimis change. We havs simply cut out the loafing of men, engines and cars. There i no mystery or magic about it. Any one ran do it. If the introduction of plain, everyday good management will create such a change what may we not expect from really new ideas, "I don't like to appear as criticis ing any railroad management for I have never done so. With their stockholders on their backs and their banker bosses who don't know any thing shout railroading what can the railroads-needless wcight of it. they do? They must be liberated rolling stock. A freight train is sev eral times the weight of the load it carries, and a passenger train is 20 times a heavy. The cost of pulling empty trains is needlessly large. "On the Detroit, Toledo and Iron ton, the old styles of engine and car will be displaced by better types. Our patents will euarantce free use of ideas. We will never proceed against anybody (or infringement of our patents. I he third step would be that of expediting the journey of the freight carrier. By speeding un our f rein lit over the preliminary part of its journey on the 1). T. and I. we have shortened the time of its delivery by from seven to 14 days. This means our product gets to the peo ple from seven to 14 days quicker than it used to. It means wc carry on our hooks $30,000,000 less unde livered product than otherwise. .Most railroads have enouuh lawyers working for them to operate them if they were engaged in use ful work. One -of the first things is to dispense with the legal staff. A well-managed road needs less of that sort of service. The lawyers are mostly in the claims department, one of the most wasteful branches of railroad operation. Any small claim acainst a rail road is likely to knock about the claims department for weeks or months, to cost many times as much as it would to pay it. Proper or ganization would lead at the time it is first presented, to establishing from the present svtein. And vou cant da that by giving them $500.. 000,000 to perpetuate the present bad system, either." Richest Man in Germany Is rrenl of Cheating Charge Derlin, Oct. 25. Hugo Stinnes yesterday was found not giulty of (heating the government out of mil lions of marks by not paying the en tente prisoners employed in his coal mines. Instrad the jury said that Herr Stinnes' concern was a bene factor, it having sulfered a 900,000 marks' lcs on account of employing the prisoners. The trial, which lasted two weeks, was hard in the Essen criminal court. Radical papers call the decision a joke. "Walking Tourist" Is Cause of Scare at the U. S. Embassy in Paris Tsris. Oct, 25. Sime the hand grenade wa sent to Amhassailur, llrrriik and as a rult of the com imuiitt outbreaks the nerves of the attaches of the American chancellory have been on edije. Yoterday a man wearing a cap the symbol of the Paris apaches or "tough guys'' and a fhriiig red nctktie swagger rd into the chancellory rarr)ing a big box wrapped in rnnvai. "It i another bomb," thrirkrd Mrs. Murray, who receives callers and lakes cards, and she dahed up stairs to warn the ambassador. A young newspaper rnxirter fled down the stairs and summoned the French policemen and detectives, who were sunning themselves on the sidewalk while protecting the chancellory. Investigation proved that the mvs I tenons man was only John Nico. Ick, a naturalized Pole, who is walk ing around the world. The package contained a big book which he gets people to iK everywhere he goes and lie merely called to ask for Mr. Ili-rrick's signature. 1K NOW LAST TIMES FRIDA." WANDA HAWLE in "HER FACE VALUE" Comedy MONTE BANKS "His Dizzy Day" First Showing in Omaha TONY SARG'S "THE FIRST CIRCUS" Biggest and Newest Novelty in Picture Remember , A small bottle of MENTHO-LAXENE wiUs. homemade sucar svrurj mas a run pint of the very oest ana quickest acting Cough Syrup J CVlCVUX 1 TMt BIST IN VAUDCVIUC M.I. Dally, 2il3 Evwy Nlfhl, SilS JOSIPM f. HOWARD a CO.! 10. 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