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Baptists to Raise 75 Millions At the Southern Baptist Conveti tion in Atlanta, Georgia, in May, with more than 5,000 Baptists as sembled, it was unanimously decid ed to raise 75 million dollars, for missions, in home and foreign lands: for their more than 130 educational institutions; for their many orphan ages and hospitals; for their aged ministers;' and for the National Memorial Church, dedicated to Roger Williams and Religious Liberty, to be built in Washington A Cam paign Commission was appointed, with Dr George W. Truett, pastor First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, as Chairman, and one member from each of the Southern States. At a meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, early in June, the Commission met and made out plans for raising the 75 million dollars. Dr L. R Scar borough, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft Worth, TexHS, was elected General Director, and his headquarters es tablished at Nashville, Tennessee Five of the Commissioners were ap pointed as Campaign Directors, to whom the details of organization were committed. Mr. J. H. Ander son, of Kooxville, Tennessee, a weathy merchant, was made Chair man These Campaign Directors havo elected the following leaders to co operate with General Director Scar borough in the Campaign: B. C. Hen ing, of North Carolina, Assistant General Director; T. B. Ray, of Vir ginia, Survey Director: H. C. Moore, of Tennessee, Publicity Director; Mrs. W J. Neel, W. M U. Organizer. A General Organizer is yet to be selected. At a meeting composed of nearly 200 representees from every phase of the denomination's. life and work, ia Nashville, Tennessee, July 2nd and 3rd, a complete program and organization for the campaign were effected Each of the Southern States will be organized, with the Bid OFFER For a limited time ONLY We will offer the DEMOCRAT AND lit Both Papers" for FOR ONLY $100 Subscribe Today 0 YEAR State Secretary of Missions as the General Director for that state' He will be aided by a General Organizer and a Publicity Man, and an Ad visorv Campaign Committee, made up of the three persons above named, the Campaign Commissioner from that state, the editor of the Baptist paper, the Secretary and Vice Presi dent of the Women's Work, and the Chairman of the Laymen's organiza tion. It will be the duty of these State Organizers to organize the sub-divisions in each state, called Associations or Districts. Each of these Associations or Districts will have an Organizer and a Publicity Director, and these will organize the churches, with a General Director, preferably the pastor; and an Or ganizer, some select layman; and an Organizer representing the Wom en's Work. All these organizations are to be aided by volunteer work ers, from among men and women. The name of the 'campaign is "Baptist 75 Million Campaign." The time for the big drive will be No vember 30th to December 7th. This will be called "Victory Week," at which time cash and pledges pay able in 5 years are to be raised to the amount of more than 75 million dollars. All the general organiza tions. The Foreign Mission Board at Richmond, Virginia, the Home Mission Board at Atlanta, Georgia, the Educational Board at Birming ham, Alabama, the Old Minister's Relief Board, at Dallas, Texas, the Laymen's Board, at Knoxville, Teu nessee, the Woman's Missionary Union Board, at Baltimore, Mary land, and all the state ogamzations are throwing themselves full length and full strength into the campaign inree million Baptists are to go in and put it over. It is to be the greatest and most meaningful move' ment ever inaugurated by Southern Baptists. Its issues to the cause of Christ are incalculable. This money will help every phase of religious life represented by Baptists through' out the whole world. It is expect ed that every Baptist Church, more than 25 thousand of them, and every Baptist member, more than 3 mil lion, will put themselves in a great fashion into this movement. McAllister Loses The attorney general of Mis souri, Frank W. McAllister, has been defeated in the first round of bis court fight on behalf of spring duck shooters of the state to have the Migratory Bird Treaty Act de clarad unconstitutional Judge Arba S. Van Valkenburgh of the federal court handed down an opinion declaring the law consti tutional and refusing the applica tion of the attorney general to have Ray P. Holland, United States game warden and his deputies re' strained from enforcing the law against sportsmen. me attorney general announced when he filed suit several months ago that he intended to carry the case to the United States Supreme Court, if defeated in the lower courts. He maintained the law is an infringement on the state's po lice powers and is in violation of the. federal constitution. What will be done with all the swinging doors and the ground glass partitions and the rest of the camou flage which a curious civilization bad erected in order to keep the public from seeing a man drinking at a bar? Surely no such protec tion win be necessary from now on for a man in the harmless and pathetic act of downing a bottle of near beer. Still, something usefu may be done with the ground glass partitions. Why not the sugges Hon is not wholly selfish put the ground glass partitions up in front of pawn shops? There will be found customers .who really would appre elate some such kindnesa Tame as a Dry Town j The police department blotter at I Kansas City reveals some interest-1 ing comparisons in the figures jot ted down in the damp- days be fore July 1. and during the arid era since. Arrests for drunkenness now are only one twelfth as great as those recorded before war time prohibi tion became effective. The city's "north end" which formerly abound ed with derelicts, either steering unsteady courses through the streets and by-ways, or had found ered altogether, especially on Sat- rday night, is now becoming a well ordered community. The old haunts dispensing only a weak im itation of beer and only in excep tional cases "hard liquor" seems al most ghost like in their darkened desolation. . Frantic burglar alarms, which formerly reached the desk ser geant's ear at the rate of about half a dozen a night, have been re duced to two last .week. One of these was the result of a super thirsty individual attempting to rob the cache of a provident "wet." Twelfth street, Kansas City's nar row but peacock-like "white way" in the old days, seldom went to bed at all; the new day merging into the old; only a change of cast was necessary to keep the play going. Midnight now finds most of the ight shining, but little else. The few people who are met are those returning from the city's amuse ment and outing parks and most everyone has the air of a person seeking the home place. Free-for-all street fighting and wife beating seems to have gone out of vogue, when liquor made its forced exit. Chief of police Scott Godley believes that petty crime will be reduced nearly half. The effect of prohibition on the city's, great industrial plants is parr ticularly noticeable. Pay-day sprees which usually ran extra in nings of two or three days necessi tated special arrangements in the big packing plants. According to A, McClean, superintendent of the Armour & Co, plant, great num bers of the men regularly failed to show up for work on Mondays. By Tuesdays a lesser number was ab sent and Wednesday most of the men were again on the job. This process was repeated weekly; the men being paid Saturday night. Ibe hrst week of the dry regime found practically a full force on hand Monday . morning. Other packing house beads reported simi lar conditions. even tne taxicao business seems to be undergoing a decided change The former midnight cruises carry ing home happy but incapacitated lares, nave been reduced to a mere fraction, whereas during the day light and early evening has bright ened up considerably. But the motor cars are spinning out along the city's boulevards and through tbe park, instead of honking their way through drab and crowded thoroughfares, and waiting in front of noisy cabarets. Tbe bootlegger has made himself manifest, as is his wont to do in dry communities, but the persons reached iatfeis manner are compar atively small, ' according to tbe police. '. , Ilicit whUkey sells for $8 a quart it is said, while tbe better brands bring as high as $10 When the farmer's wife went "to tbe store" in 1918 she paid 178 per cent more for sheeting than she did in 1914, 176 per cent for brooms, 257 per cent for calico,' 121 percent for dinner plates, . 150 per cent for dishpans, 49 per cent for fruit jars, 94 per cent for kitchen- chairs, 77 per cent for lamps. 210 per cent for muslin, 108 percent for stoves, and 99 per cent more for wooden ' wash tubs . Go to Miss Belle Johnson for high-grade enlargements. x Mr A 1 PIAKS EBB Good business means increased production which in turn means support of the national plans for per manent prosperity. There is not a single legitimate business expan sion or activity that we do not favor, and our reason is patriotic. ' . - Any man who has in mind such activity or ex pansion is heartily urged to come in and consult with us, if we can be of service. I Trade With Germany The blockade against German ports having been formally lifted, it is now the duty of the Allied coun tries to see to it that our late enemy gets a square deal in the markets of the world. During the height of the war any number of organizations were form ed to fight German trade after peace Members pledged themselves not to1 deal with the Prussians for 10 or 20 years; loogshoresmen and sailors agreed not to handle German ship ping, and other plans for stifling Teutonic trade'were discussed. " Little of that sentiment now ex ists, but not a vestige should be al lowed to remain. America and the Allies have put an enormous indemnity upon. Ger many, and if she is to pay it she must be allowed every honorable means for earning money. Beyond tbe restraints placed upon the coun try by the peace terms, no obstacles should be olaced in her way in manufacturing and trading. The world also wants to see demo cratic Germany succeed. A pros oerous Prussia will mean the end of Bolshevism or a Hoheuzjllern restoration. It will mean a first class, oonmilitary industrious nation of 70,000,000 people in the family of nations, doing its bit to supply the needs of the world. Civilization cannot afford to nourish hatred indefinitely Ad vanced man is too interdependent for that We need German potash and German chemicals just as much as Germany needs American wheat and British textiles. Imperial Germany committed e crime against humanity, and Imperi al Germany is being justly punished for it. Democratic Germany, bow ever, is entitled to a chance to re deem itself, and the best way to give ber that chance is to give her a place of equality in tne trade world. A nation that is kept busy is a nation advancing. Republic The arrival of a soldier from Fort Porter. N Y. at the State Hospital at Fulton last week, made a total of twenty insane service men who have been sent to the institution for treatment in the last two or three months. The soldiers received at the hospital are not shell 6hock pa tients but men wno nave gone in sane. The shell shock patients are sent to special hospitals for nerve treatment Payments by tbe War Risk Bureau to soldiers and their dependents amounted to $30,832,728 in June, cnecks being mailed. Pay ments ibis year have amounted to more than $250,000,000. 1 cwro I ft fl f. Missouri Coal Law Missouri's immense and almost inexhaustible coal depostits. stilt totaling 83.855.000,000 tons, which at the average rate of consumption for the last ten years, 4.066,063 tons annually, will last 20,625 more years, received official and there fore highly substantial recognition' from the Fiftieth General Assembly recently adjourned, through a clause in one of tbe general appropriation bills that in the purchase of fuel during the' bienniaLperiod 1919- , 1920. "quality and considered. preference'' Shall be given to coal mined in Missouri," announces ' ad vance information from the 1919 Red Book of the Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics, compiled by A. r. Edmonston. The section was drafted 'particu arly to apply to the State sanatari- ums at Fulton, St. Joseph, Nevada. Farmington, Marshall and Mt. Ver non. Tbe Soldiers' home at Hig ginsville, and St. James; The Fulton School for the Deaf; the St. Louis School for the Blind; the State In dustrial homes for -girls at Chilli- cothe and Tipton; tbe Missouri re formatory at Boooville. and the Missouri State penitentiary at Jef ferson City. but. also, ' indirectly, it applies to the coal used for heating and electric power at the State Capitol building. State University at Columbia, Rolla School of Mines, the normal schools at Warreosburg, Cape Girardeau, Springfield, Kirks ville and Maryville, and the Lin coln Institute at Jefferson City.' Preserve Eggs Now By preserving eggs when plenti ful and at the lowest price of the year, which ,is now, to be used when prices are higher, is household economy, Many persons in Mis souri did this last year and saved nearly twenty-five cents a dozen, the difference between the summer and winter egg prices. There is do great secret in the , method of preserving eggs success fully. Good - fresh eggs, preferably infertile, can be immersed in a so lution of waterglass until wanted for use. and if they have been kept in a cool place will be found suita ble for all cooking purposes. They can be served in some of the same ways as strictly fresh eggs. Tbe lime method of preserving is nearly as satisfactory. Unslaked lime is dissolved in water. When the solution is clear the eggs are put in. . - yit have a large line of tires and and tubes, all standard makes and guaranteed. Monroe Auto Co. .