RELIGION

In Elmira

Evening. In the tabernacle-tent of he evangelist, every yellow chair and ll the sawdust aisles were filled. Six weeks had he labored for this hour. Half the town (Elmira, N. Y.), as they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made."

Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt chill dawn creep through an open door. A solitary woman came toward him. She was on the graveward side of 50, listless, tear-stained, slummocky. When she began to speak, a little hysterical, the captain woke up. She told of a night spent on her knees before an unopened bed, of wrestling with God, of foreseen tortures of Hell, of crimes she must confess.

Day. None of the crimes confessed had been committed by the terrified woman. The crimes were robberies from the American Express Co. and the U. S. Parcels Post committed by her friends over a period of several years, which had utterly baffled the police. Thirteen men and one woman were arrested as a result of her confessions. Loot* to the value of $5,000 was recovered, gathered into a large room, and inspected by the evangelist before he left Elmira.

The Evangelist. Reverend William A. Sunday is the last of many evangelists whose names have become "household" with the American public.

Whitefield (who nearly converted Benjamin Franklin to Evangelical Christianity), Chalmers, Moody, Drummond, were among the best known men of their times. And ten

*The Loot:

Women's stockings, 56 pairs; bathing suits, 5; gloves, 8 pairs; camera films, 141 packages; men's shirts, 45; overcoats, 5; shirtwaists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun. 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies' shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas, 1; Corona typewriter, 1; electric hair cutter, 1; men's arctics, 1 pair; laced rubber boots, 1 pair; men's shoes, 2 pairs; ties, 1; opera glasses, 1; scarf, 1; wool jacket, 1; kodak film packs, 2; pocket knife, 1; pearl pin, 1; pipes, 2; leather bags, 2 (one with letter "M" and one from which Jetters had been removed); puttees, 1; alarm clocks, 2; cameras, 2.

years ago, Billy Sunday, on a lower intellectual plane, was known wherever U. S. vices flourished. His "clean-ups" of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, followed in quick succession. Every drawing-room de

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He leapt to the rostrum

bated whether he did more harm than good. Every Protestant minister was forced to come out either "for" or "against" him. He was jeered, knocked, caricatured and people went early to get good seats in his tent.

Liberals

The National Federation of Religious Liberals met in Manhattan. Two hundred Unitarians, Universalists, Jews, Ethical Culturists, Hicksite Quakers attended.

Fosdick

Requested by the authorities of the First Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, not to abandon them utterly but to continue to preach there when he could (TIME, Nov. 3), Dr. Fosdick replied by letter:

". . . In considering your new proposal. . . I must insist that a date be set when my relationships with the church, even as casual supply, shall come to an end. For the sake of definiteness, I name the end of March, 1925. . . ."

Meanwhile, an effort is afoot to have the Presbyterian Church at its next General Assembly legalize the position of Dr. Fosdick as permanent special preacher in a Presbyterian pulpit.

EDUCATION

"A Year of Latin"

The organization of U. S. education continues. Last week, masters from 18 Eastern private schools sat down together at the Fessenden School (West Newton, near Boston) and determined that hereafter there should be some uniformity in the admission requirements that all their schools employ. They appointed a committee-Messrs. Osgood of Milton Academy, Christie of St. George's, Fessenden of Fessendento appoint examiners and prepare and distribute papers in entrance subjects common to all the schools.

Entrance to these 18 schools will hereafter be similar to entrance to those colleges which exact the uniform College Board standards of their matriculants. The purpose of the masters was not to change the requirements of any given school, nor to standardize the use of any list of books, but to come to an agreement, as representatives of competing schools, on what, for example, shall constitute "a year of Latin" for entrance to the fifth year before college.

The 18 schools concerned: Andover, Arden, Bancroft, Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Exeter, Fessenden, Groton, Hill, Hotchkiss. Lawrenceville, Loomis Institute, Milton Academy, Pomfret, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's (Concord), Tome Institute.

"Not So!"

Last week, the American Club of Oxford University held a meeting, its first since last spring. It turned out to be a long meeting.

When the minutes were read, the members were surprised to hear embodied in them certain sentiments toward England expressed last May by the Club's president, W. C. Greene, at a dinner attended by some 400 Rhodes Scholars and a scattering of British notables-Viscount Grey, Viscount Milner, Rudyard Kipling. It seemed that Greene had given the impression that, to all Americans attending it, Oxford was a disappointment; that all were cager to be home again; that the Fabian Society (Socialist) was the British ideal most acceptable to Americans; that Ramsay MacDonald was to Americans the ideal British statesman. A heavy-set, earnest young man arose, addressed the chair. Soft-voiced, but serious, this was one Edward Egan, Yale Rhodes Scholar at New College, incidentally the amateur heavyweight boxing champion of all Britain. Egan begged to inform the chair and its occupant that the sentiments thus expressed were not shared by other Americans at Oxford and must not be

Simplified Spelling

In Manhattan, the New York State Teachers' Association approved of usages recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board for gradual adoption in schoolbooks used by the State, reported that the simplified spelling movement had the support of 22 other State Teachers' Associations and of 173 universities, colleges, normal schools, including 19 state universities. Simplisuperfluous fied spellers drop the "ough" from "through," "though," "bought"; the superfluous "ue" from "catalogue," "decalogue," "pedagogue," "monologue."

In California

At Leland Stanford, plans were announced for the establishment of a school of business administration to be laid down along the lines of the famed Harvard school. The report indicated that U. S. Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, Stanford '95, had suggested the new school when in California last winter. Mr. Hoover had pointed his suggestion by showing how 40 Californians, graduated last year by the Harvard school, had all been absorbed by Eastern concerns instead of benefiting business in the West as they might have done had they been trained there.

Deep Briny

There are many kinds of anchorages; but it is safe to say that there is one place where a vessel will never anchor. Some 50 miles from the coast of Japan, the Nipponese manof-war Manchu dropped its sounding lead. The sounding wire rattled from the drum. Ten fathoms of it ran off into the depths, 20 fathoms, 30 fathoms, 100 fathoms. The drum rolled and rolled and rolled-a mile of wire sank into the briny deep. Two miles, three miles, four miles. Still no bottom. Five miles, and the drum still paid out the wire. Down, down, six miles. The wire was not much longer. Still the lead went down. At last, the drum stopped rolling. Nearly six and a quarter miles of wire had been paid out32,644 ft.-the end of the wire; and still the lead dangled clear of the bottom far, far down in the absolute dark of the cold sea; and little fishes, strange little monsters with radiolight spots, wandered around it in the deep.

The lead was at the end of its tether, so it was hauled in. A greater ocean depth than ever before discovered had been found. The greatest ocean depth previously discovered was 32,113 ft.-found by a German vessel off the coast of Minda

Tetraethyl Lead

The Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has a plant at Bayway, N. J. There last week a man suddenly became raving mad. He was taken to a hospital in Manhattan where he soon died. Others became affected. Within a few days, five men, all raving mad and confined in straight-jackets, died. In

all there were 45 men-three shifts of 15 each-working together on the same job. All were placed under medical observation and care. Only ten of them were unaffected. The others all showed symptoms of the disease: headaches, nervousness, insomnia, lowered blood pressure. Such was the toll of the first major onslaught of the newest "occupational disease."

For some time experiments have been going forward in an effort to improve gasoline as an automobile fuel. A motor entirely of glass was constructed to study the explosions in gas engines. It was observed that there was not one

succession. Various lead compo were mixed with gasoline and tested · improve the operation. It was fot that if 1 part of tetraethyl lead wer added to 1,000 parts of gasoline, effect was to retard the explosionsproviding one slower detonation inste of two more rapid ones. This improve ment prevents "knocking" in ordina engines and, to a large degree, the posit of carbon in cylinders. It open the possibility of building a ne and more efficient type of engine to us the new mixture-a type of engir which, using ordinary gasoline, would soon pound itself to pieces.

But lead is a poisonous substance Tetraethyl lead must be handled w circumspection in production and dis tribution. The "Ethyl Gasoline," gasline treated with tetraethyl lead, is far less dangerous, containing only “ahog 1 part in 1,000" of the tetraethyl lead

There are three possible sources of danger in handling the tetraethyl lea and "Ethyl Gasoline":

1) The hazard in the manufacturing and handling of the concentrated tetraethyl lead. This hazard occurs in the manufacturing plant.

2) The possible hazard in handling the Ethyl Gasoline (1 part of tetraethyl lead to 1,000 parts of gasoline). This possible hazard may affect those handling Ethyl Gasoline.

3) The possible hazard due to the exhaust gases from automobiles using Ethyl Gasoline. This possible hazar concerns the entire public.

But the men who died last week were not in contact with the explosion gases of the Ethyl Gasoline, nor with the gasoline itself, but with the 1,000 times more concentrated tetraethyl lead. The had been transferring it into containe to be sent to gasoline stations when it is diluted with the oil. They prob ably breathed the fumes of the poison ous stuff. Apparently the effect of taking the poison in this way is cumulatin and not felt until a considerable dos: possibly a fatal dose, has been receive They may have become careless, and having no immediate unpleasant effec continued their carelessness until the were fatally seized.

A remedy for the poisoning, if it i not in too advanced a stage, is believe to be the use of intravenous injections of hyposulphite of soda, to dissolve the lead out of the tissues of the body. Under this treatment the other me affected appear to be recovering.

The Standard Oil Co. temporarily closed its plant at Bayway. Mean while, thoroughly frightened, heal authorities in parts of New Jersey an New York forbade the sale of Ethy Gasoline, and in some other places sal was voluntarily stopped until it coul be publicly demonstrated that Ethy Gasoline is itself harmless.

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Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past fortnight. They are selected primarily for the information they contain either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME.

Alleged Breach of Faith

TIME

New York, N. Y. Gentlemen:

Teaneck M. E. Church
Teaneck, N. J.
Oct. 24, 1924

On page 1 TIME, Oct. 27, 1924, you refer to Methodism as "that sect." I am aware of the very general meaning of the word "sect," but you cannot be ignorant of the evil connotation of that term. A recent dictionary of recognized authority makes this distinction: "Sect is an opprobrious and denomination an honorable term for the same body.'

rent news.

In soliciting my subscription, you presented TIME to me as an unbiased summary of curIs it too much to hope that the magazine will be conducted as advertised? The use of opprobrious terms to describe a church will not make new friends for your magazine, and it may lose many. It is not keeping faith with your advertising. M. A. WORKMAN.

According to Webster's New International Dictionary, the terms "sect" and "denomination" are synonymous. TIME is partial to "sect" because it contains only four letters.-ED.

present day news in an endeavor to cull the essential facts therefrom.

I refer particularly to the footnote on the first page of the issue of Oct. 20, in which the last line refers to the lack of knowledge of baseball exhibited by President Coolidge. It seems to me that in this case a small spirit has endeavored to be meticulously correct, and has succeeded in casting an undeserved slur upon a man who was not selected for the office of Chief Executive on account of his knowledge of baseball.

I have induced several of my friends to subscribe to TIME.

If there is to be a continuance of such a tone in the paper's comments, I shall certainly not continue to recommend it, and shall feel obliged to ask you to discontinue my subscription at the date of its expiration. JAMES E. BUTTS.

No offense was intended. TIME pointed out that what Mr. Coolidge had described (in a public statement) as a "hit" by Walter Johnson was in reality an "error" by Shortstop Jackson. The editors agree with Subscriber Butts that to select a Chief Executive on account of his knowledge of baseball would be inane.

I take the liberty of calling your attention to a slight improvement which can readily be made that would be of considerable benefit to one who has not the time to read the whole of TIME carefully. In the column entitled "View with Alarm," published on the last page, you make a sketchy little synopsis in which frequently an item catches my eye that I would be glad to turn back to and read, but the references are practically worthless. For instance, in your number of Oct. 20, first item, "A bugle call blown upon a proboscis," page 20. I have not been able to find anything on page 20 referring to this, and even if it is there, it is almost never under a heading that connects up with the synopsis. Take any of the others, "A Colossus with feet of clay," there is no heading on page 10 that intimates that this is the one referred to in this item. In other words, when one sees an item here that attracts them and attempts to turn to it it is necessary to read the whole page to find the item. If this is an adroit plan to compel everybody to read the entire paper, it is not very practicable, as I have long since given up attempting to find the item from this summary. Could you not readily add to the item the heading of the article on the given page to which reference is made?

WALDO NEWCOMER.

On page 18 of Oct. 20 issue of TIME it is noted that you use, in connection with a notice of the Salvation Army's work, pictures of General Bramwell Booth and Commander Evangeline Booth. The General's picture is quite all right but we cannot quite imagine where you get the picture of the Commander. Probaby it is a snapshot. At any rate, it does not do the Commander credit; and it will be a pleasure to send you an approved picture at any time you may need one.

It is quite evident that you wish to deal not only fairly but kindly with the Salvation

I have been an admiring reader of every issue of TIME. and I have felt that on of the most appealing features of the paper is its apparent accuracy-a factor not always present in the daily press.

Accordingly, was much disappointed to see the statement on page 2 of the issue of Oct. 13 that the Searchlight on Congress is a "K. K. K. journal," Having also been a on stant reader of the Searchlight on Congres for many years, I am hopeful that you wi remove this stigma from that interesting a valuable periodical. .

I like the job you fellows are doing, and I am therefore concerned when you stray from the unbiased path. The article on Spar in the issue of the 20th is an editorial, not news. And it is a bum editorial at that

Who let that loose on you? And by wha hocus pocus are you an apologist for royalty at this late date?

Or were you just humorous, and forg to label it for serious reformers like me? ROGER BALDWIN.

The item in question was descriptiv of Vincente Blasco Ibanez's attack of his King. "Alfonso must go!" criel Blasco. In that the item favored reform by constitutional methods as opposed to revolutionary means, it was biased-ai therefore in violation of TIME's trad tional policy of disinterestedness.-Fu