Presbyterians

In Chicago, 1,500 Presbyterians held a National Conference.

P:Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, pleaded for $15,000,000 that preachers might be adequately pensioned. Representing a laymen's committee on the fund, he said that U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon had accepted fiscal stewardship of the fund of the Presbyteries.

P:Dr. Edgar P. Hill of Philadelphia lamented modern modes in U. S. education. Said he: "We are missing the mark. We are on a sort of merry-go-round. We are in motion and there is plenty of excitement and jazz music, but we are getting nowhere."

P:Dr. William C. Covert, General Secretary of the Board of Education, lamented that a rank, reckless individualism was playing havoc with "our younger generation."

P:Dr. Alfred E. Stearns, Headmaster of Phillips Andover Academy (Andover, Mass.) : "If the church is not getting an adequate response to its appeal to youth, something must be wrong with the appeal."

P:Dr. William Jennings Bryan of Miami, a vice-moderator of the General Assembly, urged public attention to a safety campaign.

P:Dr. J. I. Vance of Detroit, President of the Executive Committee of the Board of Foreign Missions, rose up and declared that only five of a group of 150 Bolsheviks deported by the U. S. had received in this country "anything but kicks and cuffs. . . . That is what some of our workers found. These needy lives press us in the crowds, but no virtue goes out from us to them, as it did from Jesus to a timid, suffering woman years ago. . . . How many we have sent away, as we did Trotzky, raging against established government and distrustful of everything Christian, God only knows. But let us end this worse than misuse of the greatest opportunity that comes to you as a Christian citizen--the chance to introduce men and women to Jesus Christ on American soil."