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The Diocesan Convention Hie Episcopal Church Decides; To Give Women Full Repre sentation Georgetown, May 15.?The 120th; . session of the council of the Episco-I pal Church, diocese of South Caro lina, adjourned at noon today in the i old historic Church of Prince George, Winyah, Georgetown. The Et. Rev. W. A. Guerry. bishop 1 of the diocese and presiding officer; of the council, stated that this ses- ? sion was one of the most progressive J in the history of the council. Among j . the forward steps taken was a vote' by a large majority to admit women i representatives from the parishes and > missions to all the future sessions of the council. This calls for a change in the constitution, which will go into effect after ratification next year. It was agreed that the record made by the women in various phases of war work and the prominent position occupied by them in the life of the church, entitle them to this represen- j station. Considering the fact that in some of the parishes women are not j even- entitled to vote in the annual .'? meetings of the congregation, the ac tion of council in extending the fran- i cnfee was a radical and progressive | measure. ! A resolution affecting South Caro- j lina's position with reference to the j whole church, which caused consider-j able debate, was a motion by which ! the council put itself on record as j [ favonag the. principle contained in a j1 eanon to be proposed at the next i v meeting of the general convention,! whereby ministers of the Congrega- j; tional Church, desiring ordination, j might be or gained by the bishojj of j; this churcfcv1 This resolution was . thought to promote the Sause of Church unity, with which the major ity of other churches are now deeply concerned. In memory of the late Rev. William Porcfier DuBose, D. D., S. T. D.. whose name was widely associated with the church in this State, a resolution was ] -passed creating the DuBose memor- j: ial fund and a committee was ap-;i pointed to draft resolutions acknowl- j edging the national contribution I; 'which Dr. DuBose made by his ! theological writings to the Episcopal .] ^Church at home and abroad. * Under the report of the finance committee, as presented by H. P. Du- 5 vail, of Cheraw. ample provision was made for the educational work of the ^ church in this State and province. Provision was also made for an exten- 5 sion of the church's work among the ' mill operatives of the State. The j maintenance of the orphanage at. ) York and the Ladies' Home in Char- 1 leston was secured by an increased ap propriation. The church pension fund committee reported that all the ^ clergy of the diocese are now being - protected under the provisions of the ' church insurance fund. '{ Several campaigns were authorized * to be conducted within the next 12 ; months and committees wore appoint ed to prosecute them. The first of \ . these was the Sewanee million dollar fund for the endowment of the Uni- ? versity of the South. Sewanee, Tern... {' Which is owned by the Southern Epis- j{ copal diocese. Following this, a " movement will be inaugurated to se .enre $50.000 for St. Mary's Girls" School, Raleigh. X. C. $50.000 for permanent improvements of the Church Home and Orphanage at York and $20,000 for the erection of a chapel at Clemson College. The new committee appointed last . year on the country church and ru ral life, submitted its first report, which was felt to be an important development in this phase of the ; church's work. After a thorough . study of the rural conditions, the committee recommended a compre- , hensive survey of all the counties of the State to be conducted as soon as , practicable, beginning with the study of the religious and social conditions in one county of each convocation. In . .view of the fact that the strength of the Episcopal Church is now centered - in the cities and larger communities, ; it was felt that the extension of the Episcopal Church into the country and smaller localities was a decidedly progressive movement. Under the head of elections, the fol lowing wer*? selected to represent the diocese at the meeting of the general | convention to be held next fall at De troit: The Rev. John Kershaw. 1>. 1).. the Rev. A. S. Thomas, the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton. the Rev. K. G. Finlay. -H. P. Duvall. Walter Hazard. John P. j Thomas, Jr.. and R. 1. Manning, j Standing committee of the diocese: j The Rev. John Kershaw. I). D.. the; Rev. A. S. Thomas, the Rev. A. R. Mitchell, the Rev. S. C. Beckwith. the Rev. W. H. K. Pendleton, J. M.j Frierson. H. P. Duvall. R. [. Manning.! J. C. Bissel!. T. W. Bacot. Social ser vice commission: The Rev. G. Cro ' Williams, chairman; commission on missions, the Rev. Walter Mitchell. Chairman: commission on religious education, the Rev. W. II. K. Pendle rn, chairman: commission on the church and rural life, the Rev. E. A. Penick. Jr. The evening sessions were devoted to the two most urgent problems he fore the churc h today, the church and ; the returning soldiers, ami missions. j The first subject was discussed Tues-j day night by the Rev. Robb White.; chaplain of the port of embarkation, j formerly attached to tin- One Hundred; and Eighteenth Field Artfllery. re-j cently returned from overseas. EIe| was followed by Col. II. B. Springs.! Of the Thirtieth Division/1 of George-j town, whose command was a part of the unit that broke the llindenburg line at Bellicourt. France, and by! Chaplain E. A. Penick. Jr.. recently; discharged from Camp Jackson. ft was agreed by these speakers that the war has impressed upon thej men of the army the reality of re ligious things and the confidence thai laymen will hereafter be more deep ly interested in a practical and ser viceable religion. The missionary session or, Wednes day night inaugurated a progressive movement ;n adopting a resolution creatir.0 the position of archdeacon evocations: By a rising vote ? wa: ?determined that the additional dnan cial obligation would be justified b> the expansion of the church's work under this new officer of the diocese. [Before adjournment the appointment of the Rev. E. A. Penick. Jr.-. t<> this position was announced and met with the hearty approval of the delegates present. A resolution, introduced by J. Nel son Frierson of Columbia was unani mously passed calling the attention of the church to its obligation to combat the scourge of venereal dis ease, which, since the withdrawal^ of the government restrictive measures, is threatening the social life of the larger cities. Frank R. Frost of Charleston in a graciously worded resolution express ed the appreciation of the members of the council for the hospitality ex tended to them by the members of Prince George. Winyah Parish, and1 other friends of this church who en- ' tertaineci the delegates this week. Af- j ter a motion to meet next year at the j Church of the Advent, Spartanburg, j the counpil was closed with prayer by j Bishop Guerry. Reduced Cotton Crop South Will Not Duplicate Bum per Records New Orleans. May 16.?Pointing j out that the South never again will \ raise as large a cotton crop as in the I past because of what were termed 1 "successful- efforts towards an acre age reduction," the crop report com mittee of the newly formed American Cotton Association made public its findings at a meeting here today of members. N l>ack of potash, the detrimental ef fect ot" certain . domestic fertilizers, bad weather conditions and pros pects of a heavy toll to be taken by the boll weevil arc the points com mented on by the report, the reduc tion 'in the entire belt being placed at 20.2. ^ Stating that the report was origi- j nally prepared for the Southern Cot ton Association, a temporary organ ization, and that the estimates on acreage reduction were obtained through the work of an "army of agents employed in every State," it is shown that planting has been four weeks lat? throughout the entire belt. The report concludes by saying: 'Tt is the unanimous opinion of ex perts after careful painstaking stud*" and investigation that the cotton beit has seen its maximum crow. The war will affect conditions in the South to a greater extent than in any section of the nation." The following table of reduction percentages by States is contained in j the report: State Acreage Percentage Virginia. 34.000 33.3 ^orth Carolina . .1.287.000 201. Vorth Carolina .'.1.287,000 20.1 Georgia . . . . 4.318.440 20.5 Florida. 126.000 24.5 Mississippi.'. . . 2,774.400 15.0 Louisiana. . . ."-1.194,257 23.1 I Texas . .. ... ..9,528.000 20.0 j Arkansas.2.537.000 20.0 j Tennessee. .? . . . 759.220 1S.0 Missouri. 96.625 37.5 Oklahoma.2.370.000 25.0 California. 155.200 20.0 Arizona. 69.000 25.0 * Alabama.2.753.100 5.0 30.216.197 IS.4 * Increase. (20.2 less Alabama.) Alabama's acreage is an approxi mate estimate showing an increased acreage of 5 per cent. Macon Detectives Arrested Macon, Ga.. May 16.?Macon's en tire detective force of six men. in cluding Chief of Detectives McLendon. is in jail tonight ax a result of in dictments by the Bibb county grand jury, charging them with the mur der of two young men in connection with an alleged "frame up" hold up on the night of April 30. Those indicted and the charges j are: ?* W. O. Swift. L. J. Stevens and L. G. Stripling, murder, two counts each: Chief L. S. McLendon. J. E. Bunch and YV. G. Evans, accessory before the fact, two counts each. Additional indictments of being ac cessories before the fact to attempt to commit robbery were found against Chief McLendon and J. E. Bu neb ln connection with the indictments of members of the detective force an indictment was returned against Em mett Finney on a .charge of attempt to commit robbery. A "no bill" was found against Chief of Poliee Charles L. Bowden. Porto Rico Affairs San Juan. Porto Rico. April 23.? (Correson donee of The Associated Press.?That congress is to take a greater interest in Porto Rica as a re sult of the visit of nineteen repre sentatives who have just returned to the States after spending *t week here, is the impression created here by the representatives themselves and by the statement of Representative Towner. of Iowa, chairman of the Committee on Insular Affairs in the house. th;e? ;i committee tor congress should visit tin- island every two years. The visit just concluded was in n<> way an official one. the representa tives having been invited here as the guests of th? island by the Insular legislature through Resident Com missioner Cordova Davila. Their presence her?- was taken advantage of by representatives .?f all interests of the island to present statements and two days "were given over to public hea rings. Tin- representatives of the Unionist party, the majority party of the is land, urged Porto Rico's independ ence ultimately as the attainment of their ideal but the visitors from Washington were not impressed with th" idea thai separation from the United States represented the real desire of the people of the island. Relief for Czecho-SIovakia Administration of Relief Work in Charge of Lady Murriel, an Englishwoman i ; Parts, April 18 (Correspondence of The Associated Press)?A woman has! been entrusted with the big- task of! organizing and administering relief' work in one of Europe's new states; Czecho-SIovakia. j Lady Muriel Paget, an English-: woman whose devotion to the Czecho-1 ; Slovak cause is well known, arrived j nviy I'rOiu Jt'Cxgue loua.v an.ee .1 j ! months' tour of the new republic, and j outlined to The Associated Press cor- j 'respondent her scheme for the relief j [ of that country. Her plan, which has j I the approval of the Czecho-Slovak au thorities, is to enlist a body of able and willing social workers to train the women of Czecho-SIovakia in so cial welfare work. Her ambition is td interest patriotic Czech women in I America in the welfare of their na tive land. ; "There are roughly five million people in Czecho-SIovakia today who have just enough to keep body and soul together." Lady Muriel said. "Against these, who may be described as the rural population, there are 7. 000.000 who are below the line of bare existence. They are. broadly speaking, the industrial and mining population." "Food, most of* it from America, is now coming into the country through Triest at the rate of about a hundred carloads a day; yet 400,000 people in eastern Slovakia arc starving, and even in the better situated parts the Hour ration is only 3 pounds a head per month." Lady Muriel explaaned how this situation is utilized by the Magyars-j in Hungary to sow discontent among the Slovaks. "Practically all the intelligent classes have left Slovakia. Lady Mur iel continued." and it is during the present crisis and until their own people can be trained to do construc tive and administrative work that the Czechoslovak government and the people have asked me to organize temporary assistance and provide ad vice." Lady Muriel will establish her relief hcaduarters at Pressburg from which eenter the sixteen necessitous Slovak ian districts will be fed. clothed and medically assisted. Austrian Treaty Delayed Paris. May 19.?The impression prevailed in peace conference circles today 'that the peace treaty with Aus tria would not be presented during the current week, the drafting of the doc ument taking longer than was antici pated. I'll Wear A "White R(>se on My Coat To-day (A Memory of Mother) I'll wear a white rose on my coat today, For Mother is dead, you know, And memories that long have been stored away, Come trooping before me once more. They cany me back down the vistas of years. To a memorable night long ago. When the grim monster took her, and left us in tears. While the ingleside fires burned low. . We tenderly folded her lily-white hands. Whose ministering care we had known. While her sweet, saintly spirit had broken earths bands. And winged back its ilight to God's i throne. We knelt by her side, her lone baby boy. Bereft now of Mother's f<>nd love. We i >mised her there come sorrow i or joy, We'd meet her in Heaven above, j The next day we tenderly laid her away. j In her cold, silent place 'heath 111'? j j sod. ! We bade her good-bye. but we'll meet nn-et her some day. In the Pearly White City of God. ' We turned from her graveside all I heart-Sore and worn. ; From Mother, oh. God what a pain! To think we must go <m life's jour ney alone, i And never have Mother again. ! j [ Never t<? feel her dear lips touch ours J in the joy of a fond mother's kiss, j ; Xever the sunshine after the showers O, what misery, what sorrow is this. j The years have flown on. long dreary years. Since that far. fatal night long ago. J [ am sitting to-day with my eyes fill ed with tears. For I'm thinking of Mother yon i know. i i 1 am standing bard by the half-cen-1 tury goal, But I'm Mother's bi.a baby boy still And by the grace of her God that is filling my soul. I'll meet my fond Mother. I will, j j Yes I'ii wear a white rose on my real to-day. And I'll wear one each "Mother's! Day" given. Until after a while I'M hie me away. And spend ??.Mother's Day" with] Mothel in heaven. Where Mother and I through the; ages i<? come. Will hold sweet communion to-. gether. Where we'll join in ami sing tie sweet "Harvest Home". I'orcvcr, yes. forever, and forever. r. - . j Eat American Bread Starvation in Roumania Prevent ed by Red Cross Belgrade. Serbia. April 3.? (Byj Mail)?"All Rumania is eating: flouri from America today. The people, realize where the aid has come from j ami air exceedingly grateful. With-; out American help .starvation cor-j tainly would have become very gener- i ?.?I." These .??!?? tie- words of Lieut.! Colonel l!. Cid eon Wells, American] Red Cross Commissioner to Rumania.?] ubo recently arrived at Belgrade from Bucharest. Colonel Wells said the great 1ml!; j of the Rumanian food supply. in cluding about twenty thousand tons'! of flour monthly, is furnished by the j American Food Administration, it is; sold in wholesale quantities to che government, which attends u> all de tails of transport and distribution. \ Flour trains run continually > from the ports to the interior and have the right-of-way over other transports. ' The supply is being well handled and there is no longer danger of starvation ! except in isolated areas, particularly] in. the Dobrudja region, where local i transport is excessively difficult. Supplementary to the Food Ad ministration program the American Red Cross Commission to Rumania has already developed a nation-wide food and clothing relief program which aims particularly at 'the relief of the destitute, the welfare of or phans, the organization of sewing rooms and the general amelioration ?f conditions. This effort has had the hearty cooperation of the Ru manian government. From King Ferdinand and Queen Marie to the last clerk, the Rumanian people are very grateful, and "to lie an Ameri can is to be honored." The Corn in Ission to Rumnnia I fifty-four members, about evenly di vided between men and women. Lieut. Colonel H. Gideon Wells is commissioner and general director. The com mission is the creation of the Commission to the Balkan Stales which now has headquarters at Rome, .and of which Colonel Henry Anderson of Richmond, Virginia, is! the commissioner-in-ehief. The gen-j oral program of the Balkan Commis sion, already effectively applied in Serbia. Rumania. Greece, Albania and "Uoiitcnegro is one of emergency re lief. The commission to Serbia operates southward from Belgrade and north ward from Saloniki under direction of Lieutenant Colone] Thomas W. p'ar nam of New Haven, Conn. The Commission to Greece is well organized, with headquarters at Ath ens and supplies food, clothing, med-' ical relief and other aid in the part . of Macedonia evacuated by the Bul-j garians during the period when thou sands of refugees were returning to their homes. At this time the medi cal personnel of this commission isi combatting typhus in eastern Mace donia, Anzac Hero Dead Sydney. Australia. April 2.?Major Oliver Hogue. of Sydney, . the man who is generally credited with having first given publicity to the name "Anzac" is dead. He was himself an Anzac. After having come through the Gallipoli campaign and the Pal- ! estine campaign without a scratch, he ? died of influenza in London ear'. ? in j .March. When the war began Major ' Hogue was a newpaper man. being'' on the staff of the Sydney Morning ; Herald. During the Gallipoli campaign Ma- j jor Hoguc wrote for his paper ac-j counts of the ill-starred efforts toj take* Constantinople in which he ap-j rnied the code word "Anzac" (Aus tralian and New Zealand Army Corps) j to the soldier from the South Pa-J cific. - Another Peace Conference | Paris, May 16.?-It is quite prob able 'hat ft;'- Turkish arid Bulgarian peace treaties will !??? negotiated and \ signed in Constantinople, Saloniki or! some other convenient city in the near east, according to Router's Paris; offic*. j Returns to Paris Paris. May 19.?Von Rockdorff- j Rantzau, the bend of the German j peace mission, who [eft for Spa Sat-] urday night returned to Versailles! this morning, accompanied by Ihn ? Landsberg and Herr Gicsberts, two other members of the delegation, who ? had been to Berlin. New Field Gun London. March ?': 1 (Cprrespofidcnet of The Associated E'ress) -A British field gun. which was tested to some extent during the closing stages of th*? war. has now been perfected to such] ;i point that it is said to i>e consider- ! <d the bos! of i's kind in the world, j t P is olaimeo that the new gun will! fire the US 1-2 pound shell used hi thei ordinary quick fire a greater distance I and with more rapidity than has! ever be.-n attained with a held gun before. The range increase ! is s;iid to be more than 3.n0^ ] yards over the old field-gun and the! new weapon can discharge twenty-j eight rounds ;i minute. A little boy of was much interested J in a conversation between his mother j and the older rhildren of the fa-inilj about :i wonderful circus which the*, had attended some years before. After ;i time the little fellow inqnir ed of his mother: "'Why wasn't j there'.' Where was 1 V" His mother replied. 'Oh. you were not here. ??Where w;is IV again the child isked. His mother looked ;:t him. hesital cd a moment, then added. "Oh. you vere in heaven with God and the Angels." ??<;??(.. mother." exclaimed the. in-' iignant youngster, "do you mean to say you left me in heaven r* 11 day] with Cod and the angels while yon] trid the rest of the family went to he circus'."'?Judge. i Ukraine Asks Help _ i With Assistance of Allies Bol shevists Can Be Defeated Headquarters, of the West Ukraine j Army. Chodoroff, March 15 (Corre-! spondence of The Associated Press) ? General Pavlenko, commander of the Wtsi Ukrainian army, suggests that the Entente Allies aid the Ukrainians to light the Bolsheviki and that they also settle the dispute between the Ukraine and Poland over the Lemberg oil fields. ?*Tt would not be hard to defeat Bolshevik invaders of the Ukraine if ; the Allies helped , us to organize our resources and also if the Allies settle the Lemberg oil Held dispute, thus freeing the West Ukrainian army so that "it might join forces with the army of General Crekow in Greater Ukraine.*' said General Pavlenko to the Associated Press correspondent. "I think this would be in the inter est of the Allies. We would thus ? beck the Bolshevik invasion of Eu rope, restore order in the Ukraine which is a rich land and put our people to work growing wheat for Russia and also for Europe." General Pavlenko is in command of the Ukrainian troops which have been fight.irTg the Poles in the vicinity of Lemberg. He is a small wiry Rus sian with eyes deeply set?a courte ous, quiel but eloquent conversation alist. It is evident that he is liked by his staff whieh is housed in a. former school building in Chodoroff. His task of holding together and organiz ing the West Ukrainian army is .an arduous one but apparently does not weigh upon him too heavily. "The Ukrainians were the first peo ple Lo begin lighting Bolshevism." re sumed the genera!. "This was long before the Allies thought of doing so yet such is the irony of cireumsr.-mees '? that the Allies call us Bolsheviki. "The people of Russian Ukraine had for a time a touch of the Bolshevik disease but they now are cured of it as they are essentially small farmers and property owners. I speak of Bolshevism as a disease since it must be regarded in that sense, lilie the influenza. It presents an attractive prpoosition to poor people harassed by a, long war with special hopes for the futu re. "If the Allies visit us in an open minded spirit they will realize that we too are fighting Bolshevism. If they will determine to help in this fight morally and also with medicines and munitions we will be able to re take Greater Ukraine from Moscow which is bent upon holding all the territory that previously was Russian; "I would not advise invasion of Russia' by anybody as conditions will; right themselves when this mental I disease has run its course. There is \ now no danger from Bolshevism in \ West Ukraine (as Eastern Galicia is I now called) as there are relatively! few factory workers. Peasants arc j never Bolshevik. "We have been blamed for the.' bombardment of Lemberg it is true, but we have* no intention of doing j other than destroying the Polish j army's stores and the railway station.. The Poles Were seizing it as a military 1 post and we were-cpinpelled to fire on il but this must 7tot be repeated as we realize that the Poles are using thiH fad as a weapon t-j advertise us as Bolsheviki. "Nev< rt bei ess. it is a ficht to death in which we are engaged. Our - sol diery, ?fter four years of war. are ready again to tight because they are mostly sons of peasants and ordinary people who always have regarded the Poles as aristocratic oppressors. The whole Ukrainian people now is en gaged in a fight to obtain independ-. ence. They may be defeated by the Poles and by the Bolsheviki but they prefer death to submission. "The Russian Ukraine attempted to obtain autonomy first from the Duma Me n from Premier Kerensky but fail ed. Then it asked Lenine .(Premier. Of the Russia?) Soviet government) for permission to become one of the federated states "of Russia; but Le nine rejected the plan. "Now we want separation and com plete independence!. Our efforts to ward this end for the past 18 months have been defeated partly by German occupation and partly by General Skorop?dsky to whom rallied the Russian refugee army officers arid landowners. Now it is the Bolsheviki who are the invaders." After suggesting that the Allies aid the Ukrainians to tight the Bolsheviki. General Pavlenko added: "Whether the Ukraine win gravitate to Rus-1 sian influences again possibly will be. ?determined by what becomes of the Bolshevik government. However, our national spirit and hopes which before the war were uncertain and confused; have been reawakened after hundreds of years and it is possible we may de-> termine ro make ours an independent state and refuse to federate with Rus sia under any conditions since it is quite easy for us to live alone ecb nomicaly. The same suspicion? thac we finally may return to Russia-?also may be entertained about the Poles." Austrian Treaty Nearly Ready Peace Terms Will Probably be Presented Middle of Next Week Paris, May 16.?It is indicated that the peace terms will be ready for presentation to the Austrian del egates by the middle of next week. The council of four yesterday discuss ed the military, naval and aerial' terms of the treaty. Premier Lloyd fSeorge was absent today. The council of four will not meet again before Saturday, and President Wilson, will fake the op portunity to meet a. number of per sons with whom he has appointments. Exchange Credentials St. Germain. May ly.?The ex change of credentials between the representatives of the allied and as sociated powers and the Austrian practice delegates occurred this af ternoon. The session lasted only four minutes. TISDALE SUMTER j Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies 33 W. Liberty St. Phone 482 1 Cleveland-Trlbiine and Pope Ford Tires ; Bicycle? 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