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EPISCOPAL CHURCH PLANNING
TO EXPAND ITS WORK IN CHINA
Christian Influence Credited With Allaying
Superstition and Arousing Potentially
Wealthy Nation to Opportunities.
The road to wealth is popularly sup- !
posed to lie far distant from the teach
ings of Christianity, but the case of
China is an exception. Christianity
there is in a fair way to turn China j
from one of the most poverty-stricken j
countries of the world into one of the j
richest. Much has been accomplished |
already by the missionaries there and
much more will be accomplished
through the nation-wide campaign of
tee Kpiscop.il Church, which has an ;
extensive program for expanding and
extending its work In China as well ,
n.s in tither foreign fields and right here
ai home.
China is potentially one of the
wealthiest nations of tne world Her
wealth lies practically untouched in
her soil. Great deposits of coal and
iron a. e known to exisi In many places
throughout her vast domains and prac
ti?? 111 v all the other minerals are to be
found ill qui .titles beyond the dreams
uf avarice. But this wealth has gone
lo waste until recent ye .rs and even
now, wi:li the new China awake to
).er opportunities of future wealth, but
lew mines have been operated. t
Influence of Superstition.
The Chinese have lor.g known that j
this untouched wealth existed in the
t-'.il. but their superstitious fear of'What
thev call fengshui prevented them from
digging for it despite their grinding
poverty. The fengshui is one of China s
greatest curscs, economically as well as
mentally. ,
The physical world to the Chinese is
Tiot the dead, inanimate thing it is to
occidentals. The mountains, fields, for
ests and streams are peopled with a
kind of "fairy"?venerable, gray-beard
ed. wrinkled and thoughtful?who mixes
himself in human affairs. Some of then,
are benevolent spirits who plan for hu
man happiness; others are demons that
wander about seeking opportunity to de
ceive and injure mankind. They can
transform themselves into any kind of
shaic the better to gull their human
victims. . . .
The Chinese mind also has conceived
the idea that beyond all these spirits
are certain invisible forces that exer
cise a potent influence on the fortunes
and affairs of men. They can bring
wealth and happiness, or poverty and
sorrow. They can afilict ari entire dis
trict or country with disease or bless it
with prosperity. They can send the
floods that bring death and destruc
tion in their wake or send the gentle
showers that assure abundant crops and
the fulfillment of human needs.
Mystery in Invisible Forces.
These invisible forces are a profound
mystery ; they can't be described be
cause they can't be seen. Their abid
ing place is unknown and they move
by laws that are incomprehensible to
the intellect of man. The Chinese know
them as fengshui, that most potent of
supernatural foices, which has done
more to prevent China's growth and de
velopment than any other one thing, or
even two.
Despite the invisibility and incompre
hensibility of fengshui the Chinese have
reduced fengshui to a Science.
There is a class of men whom we
would call geomancers, who gain a
comfortable living by professing to
understand the principles of this
science of fengshui and applying thetn
to the practical considerations of
everyday lige. They are called in by
the Chinese in many matters where
they need advice and are paid a good
round fee for their services.
Now the primary object of the feng
sh". .s not to bless mankind, but to
Injure. It is & malignant, haughty,
RITCHIE IS ELECTED
BY 1 PLURALITY
Official Returns Show Demo
crat Chosen Governor of
Maryland in Close Race.
CorreepondeDC* of The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md., November 8.?
Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie,
democratic candidate for governor,
has been elected Governor of Mary
land by a plurality of 165. This fig
ure Is based on the official returns
from the twenty-three counties and
the official canvass of Baltimore city s ?
vote, which was completed at 3:45
o'clock this afternoon.
Practically four days have elapsed
since the election, and this afternoon
was the first hour that the result is
absolutely known. Together with Mr.
Ritchie, the democrats have won
Maj E Brooke L*e for controller and
i aleb Magruder for clerk of the court
?.f appeals. Alexander Armstrong,
republican, has defeated Thomas J.
Keating for attorney general. Balti
inore city saved Mr. Ritchie and in- j
fcured his election. Mr Nice, the re- [
publican candidate, carried the coun
ties of the state by a plurality of
3,641. Mr. Ritchie's plurality in Bal
timore city was 1,806.
The republican state central com
mittee announced that it would con
test the election by demanding a re
r count of the state legislature, which
j ?ets in January. The legislature is
controlled by the democrats.
General Assembly Democratic.
Both branches of the general as
sembly wilTbe democratic. The sen
ate will stand: Democrats, 15; re
publicans, 12. rn the house of dele
j'ate1-' the democrats have 57 and the
republicans 4.V The legislature of
l!G8 consisted of 14 democrats and 13
republicans in the senate and of 47
?iejnocrats and 55 republicans in the
house.
Factors Affecting' Voters.
The democrats admit that the heavy
Tote for Nice reflected the resentment
of the people against the national j
democratic administration. Mr. Nice j
condemned both the Wilson adminis
tration as well as the Harrington ad
ministration in Maryland, but bis
l.itr. j attacks upon the affiliation of
l is opponent with the Ke'.iy machine
in Baltimore city proved a boomer
ang1.
Another source of disappointment to
Mr. Nice in the city was the co-opera
tn.n by the Kelly and Mahon demo
( rats, who were hopelessly split in the
mayoralty tight. Mr. Nice also suffered
T'irouch the blockity; by a democratic
? i?v council of Mayor Broening's ap
pointments of republicans, which dis
urtened ? lar>re number of republi
? an workers.
The Alleguny county republican cen
ti.il committee is beiPB assailed by
ir:v republicans of that county for
i.i;iure to get out the full republican
?\-.*.e there f"r Nice.
It h also de< lared that Nice was cut
A1 leg* ny because of resentment
.?.gainst gressinan Kred N. Zihl
t .aii's stand in the Maryland legisla
?;re and in Congress in favor of pro
hibition.
General Results.
In the counties the democrats did
i; ore than the mere statement that
"\*r. Nice won out.idie of Baltimore
uggests They held down the re
T,nHicai> strongholds of western
f.t i! viand and won twelve of the twen
>? three counties?Montgomery, llow
r !. Ani.e Arundel. Baltimore county.
Ifarford. Cecil, Kent. Queen Anne,
.'aroliua. Talbot. Worcester and Wieo
?o Tv 1" ""Mi ??in*-, carried eleven
^laii'cll, Alii.ji.tHj, \\uVa
bad-tempered force that wtli work
ha in human iife unless It is di
verted by something superior to it
tr'o rth r chanr. Is, wh<%re pon it turn'
completely about, its cursing power
vanishes and it stays to bless.
Defensive Methods.
Every great city, every great plain
in China has selected in self-defense
anmp natural object to act as its
guardian against this invisible enem>.
The natural object has greater power
than the fengshui. If the object has
a resemblance to a living form it is
considered to be very powerful. For
??xamplt*. the ilefender (often itself ca.;
d tb- fengshui of the city or plain it
defindsj'of a certain city in China is
a large piece of ground that slopes
from the. suburbs toward the center
of the town in the shape of a great
snail It is regarded as the source ol
all the prosperity and happiness o.
the city. It has the power of gather
inn up all the baneful influences tha
the fengshui misrlit scatter broadcast
over the town and transforming then
into bleanings. No spade may eye
cut into it. Woe to the man with tlv
temerity to build upon it! He would
be ruthlessly murdered by the fr'S'it
ened. indignant people who would be
lieve themselves left exposed to all the
malignancies of the fengshui.
How City Met Disaster.
One citv had a succession of disasters,
famine, floods, pest and drouth, until it
was brought to the very verge of ruin.
Recourse was had to the professors of
gcomancy. who said the trouble was due
to the fact that the city had no fensshu .
(the name being applied to the fengshui i
defender), and suggested that two im
mense towering pagodas be erected, one
in the west end of the town, the other in
the east end. Everybody contributed
toward the expenses, and when the pa
rodas had been built they felt safe. Thej
had the geomancer's word for it that
the evil spirits could no longer harm
them. As a matter of fact, the city ,
afterward became prosperous, and the
| inhabitants aU laid it to the fengshui j
defenders. . - ^ |
The fengshui, however, have a func- ;
Mon more dread and far-reaching in |
onnection with the dead. The Chinese
elieve that their dead have the power
f blessing or cursing their friends and
lescendants still on earth. They can
io either, however, only through the
agencv of the unseen forces or fengshui
that duster about the places where they
!ie buried.
Prevents Development of "Wealth.
Fengshui has prevented the develop
ment of the vast mineral wealth of
China through fear. The Chinese did
not dare to open coal mines for tear
of disturbing the fengshui that lay
beneath and arousing its wjatn to
his utter ruination. The sound of the
pickax would disturb this dragon that
lay beneath, and bo great coal and
iron deposits and veins of precious
metal have laid undisturbed for cen
tury after century.
Before China can be rich she must
first be educated away from this
superstitious belief in fengshui. The
schools, hospitals, colleges and chapels
of the Episcopal Church in China have
long been educating the younger gen
eration of Chinese away from these
devastating beliefs, and through the
nation-wide campaign, which is a
movement of the Episcopal Church to
expand and enlarge all of ,.t.?
activities, more than 13,000.000 will
be spent on Its work in China during
the next three years, the greater part
on its schools. So the nation-wide
campaign will help to make China
wealthy as well as helping to raise
her standards of education, sanitation,
care of the bodily ills of the sick and
of the mental and moral ills of those
given up to false beliefs.
ington. Frederick. Prince Georges,
Charles. St. Marys, Calvert, Carroll,
Somerset and Dorchester.
Several men of ability come to the
senate, among them being Frank W.
Mish of Washington county, Charles R.
DiBharoon of Wieomice and David G.
Mcintosh of Baltimore county, all demo
crats. Among the republicans sent to
the senate is J. Frank Parran of Cal
vert, a brother of former Representative
Thomas Parran. Senator Parran is said
to be an accomplished politician and a
good speaker. He is regarded as a can
didate for Judge Briscoe's place on the
court of appeals at the expiration of
the latter*s term. He is a cousin of
Judge Briscoe.
The house will have a number of men
of unusual ability, including Emory L.
Cobjenz, Frederick county; W. Meade
Holliday. Anne Arundel; Stephen W.
Gambrill. Howard; Col. Millard E. Tyd
ings. Harford; John S. McDaniel, Tal
bot, and Edward F. Burke. Baltimore
county.
Coblenx and Tydings are mentioned
as candidates for the speakership.
President H. T. Grant Says Those
Separated by Death Are Re
united in Heaven.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, November 8.?"Polygamy
is a dead issue In the Mormon Church,
it has been under a drastic ban for
twenty-flve years. Any member of
the church found practicing plural
marriage is at once excommunicated.
What Mormons of today really believe
in Is celestial marriage "
The foregoing wa? offlciat pro
nunciamento today of Heber T
Grant. president of the Mormon
[Church and successor to Joseph
Smith, the "Prophet" Arriving early
I in the day from the east, where he
i has been on church business, the
Mormon leader caught a 10:30 train
for San Francisco, whence he will
sail at once for Honolulu to dedicate
the new Mormon tabernacle there.
I "Mormonlsm," continued President
I Grant, "embraces within itself all
that the world needs today. The
church is growing at the present time
with leaps and bounds. Our total
membership is about 450,000.
"The Mormon Church la intensely alive
to the tiroes," he added, displaying a
Red Cross button In his lapel. "Re
cently we have taken up the Boy Scout
movement and we are planning to make
it an integral part of our organisation?
our church 'machine"?If you will."
When pressed for an explanation of
the Mormon dogma of "celestial mar
riage," the leader replied:
??Jt simply means marriage for time
: and eternity, instead of 'until death do
ua part.' as the ritual of other churches
read*. "Those words always bound to
' me Ilk9 clods falling on a coffin. We
' believe marriage interrupted on earth by
death is simply remimed and continued
j in heaven."
BEDS CLAIM TCHESNIGOV.
City on Denikine's Front Reported
in Bolshevist Hands.
LONDON, November 8.?A bolshevik
! wireless communication from Moscow
i announces the occupation of Tchernigov.
Tchernigov is on Gen. Denlkine's
j front. It la situated on the WwDgni.
I eighty miles ntrth-northeast of Ki?v,
about .Jj mUcs southwest of UivX
The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime.
By Webster.
W. S. ELLIOTT NAMED
REGISTER OF TREASURY
Selected by the President as Suc
cessor to Houston B. Teehee,
Resigned.
WILLIAM I. ELLIOTT.
William 8. Elliott, chief of the
division of securities, United States
treasurer's office, was nominated
yesterday by the President to be
register of the Treasury. He is named
to succeed Houston B. Teehee.
Mr. Elliott, who is forty-two years
old, will have been in the Treasury
Department twenty years next Decem
ber 11. He came from Newton county,
Ga., where he was born. He entered
the Treasury Department service as
a clerk, and worked his way up
through the various grades.
Mr. Klliott was vault clerk for ten
years in the treasurer's office. For
many years he has been engaged on
work concerning the redemption of the
public debt, and this work is very
similar to that done in the treasurer's
office.
Mr. Elliott lives at 3708 Oliver street,
Chevy Chase, D. C. He married Miss
Mat tie Boyd of Newton county, Ga.. in
l'JOO. The couple have seven children.
Mr. Elliott is a member of the
Southern Society and the Chevy Chase
Citlsens' Association.
Spanish Mine Strikers Win.
HUELVA, Spain, Friday, November
7.?The strike of. the miners here,
which occasioned serious rioting, has
been settled. The men obtained their
demands as a result of ne"-o"atioris
undertaken by the government.
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TO DISCUSS PAPER SHORTAGE.
Publishers and Manufacturers to
Meet in New York.
NEW YORK, November 8.?A meet
ing of the American Newspaper Pub
lishers' Association will be held at the
Waldorf-Astoria hero next Wednesday
to take action in connection with the
shortage in the newsprint supply.
The Pulp and Paper Manufac
turers' Association also will meet
here Wednesday and an attempt will
be made to formulate a constructive
plan to better the situation.
Would Fight Alabama Profiteering
MOBILE, Ala., November 8.?United
j States District Attorney Alexander D.
Pitta of the southern district of Ala
\ bama leaves tonight for Montgomery,
i where he will confer with Gov. Kilby
! and the attorney general with regard
! to beginning a campaign in the south
| era end of the state against alleged
profiteering and hoarding.
' PREMIER DEFENDS GREECE.
!
Venizelos Denies Commission's Re
port of Slaughter of Turks.
j PARIS, November 8.?Premier Veni
zelos of Greece appeared before the
: supreme council today and defended
the action of Greece in Smyrna when
it was first occupied by Greek troops.
The defense was based upon points
in the report of the intertilled com
mission. of.which Rear Admiral Mark
L. Bristol, V. S. !??., was a member.
The report was unfavorable to Greeae.
Premier Venizelos charged that the
: commission's information regarding:
the alleged slaughter of Turks in
Smyrna was incorrect. He complain
ed that Greece had not been rep re
sented on the commission when the
1 testimony was taken.
Shah of Persia Goes to Paris.
LONDON, November 8.?The Shah
of Persia left London this afternoon
for Paris.
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Women are Wearing
P-B Two-Tone
Boots
We have had several new effects
in two-tone boots developed that are
meeting with great favor. A popu
lar idea is the use of one color, the
two-tone effect being obtained by
using contrasting leathers.
A boot with a brown calf vamp
has a brown suede top. This is an
especially attractive model, with its
thin welt sole and covered Louis heel.
Another boot has black patent
vamp and black kid top. This is a
ten-inch boot, slender and graceful.
Then there is the boot with black
patent vamp and gray, glazed kid
tops.
P=B Two-Tone Boots for Women,
$12.50 to $17
Other Women's Boots,
$8.50 to $17
The Avenue at Ninth?Daily, 8:30 to 6
UNION UPHOLDING FLAG |
ENROLLS ALL CITIZENS!
Commonwealth Created by Toil- j
ing Mothers and Fathers Declared |
Greatest Labor Body.
To the Editor of The 8tar:
Seven aoore years ago our tolling
: fathers and mothers formed an in- .
;dustiial and civic union which has
stood to this day in prosperity, good i
repute, and in favor with most of the
people. They called it a government ]
?and so framed and launched it that!
it was to be a government or union I
of all and for all and by all the peo- |
pie, ro that there would be no need '
<>f any other union or government to '
promote the happiness and welfare of
our folks throughout the land, for all
if every name and class* and walk in
life were to be represented alike and j
'ieneflted alike?it was and is a com
nonwealth!
It is all very well to form a small
inion here and there to meet some,
pecial and looal emergency, but to
raine and deliberately set up any or
anization (no matter how specious
he name) for the purpose of taking
way from the people the government, j
r to interfere or embarrass them in
he conduct of this greater union, or
<r any part or set of the people to
;tempt or plan to control all the peo
'e and subjugate them to their inter
?sts appears dangerous and alarm
g, and calls for rebuke?prompt' and
mphatic.
And this rebuke should come from
vithin these minor unions themselves.
Thousands and thousands of the mem
bers of various organizations spread
over the land would recoil from any
suggestion of usurpation of the func
tions and free powers and operation
of the national union, who may not
have yet realized that recent tenden
cies have seemed to Indicate some
thing like this, but who need to be
aroused to the danger and folly of it.
Other rivalries- and menaces have
arisen from time to time, but thus far
this great people's Union has been
able to withstand them, and to endure '
to this day In all Its essential in
tegrity and virtue and power, and It
is now for the whole people to say j
again whether they will surrender, in
any part, this dear structure of their!
building, or allow it to be marred and
spoiled by wounds inflicted "In the
house of its friends." Long ago a
great and genuine leader shook the
earth with the declaration: "This
Union cannot stand half slave and'
half free," anil so, now. he might say:
"This Union cannot stand half alien
and half native," or half-class union
and half national union, or half selflsf
or clannish or sectarian groups and
half real unionists of our common
wealth.
Has not the time come, fellow citl
ens and workers, to answer the nag
ging rt-eiegate, "But I'm already a
Union man?I'm a member of the
greatest and best Union on earth?I
I'm an American citiien?a member In !
good standing of this industrial and
civic brotherhood?this time-honored
and heaven preserved common
wealth"?
Its emblem, so full of meaning, ever
flies high and clean and beautiful, be
cause our honest fathers and mothers
strove for It. sacrificed for It. died for
it. and proudly bequeathed it to us to
keep unspotted, untorn, unspoiled, nn
eonquered?preserved throughout the
aires In all Its rich colors and stars,
nor faded nor fooled Into other hue*,
nor smeared with boiling blood till
hideous In crimson.
Hear this bit of story: It was on last
Decoration day that I dismounted from
the car at the McClellan monument,
which was handsomely decorated, and
with our common flag hung magnifi
cently in the center near the top. and
I exclaimed to myself. "Bravo! That's
flna," when a small lad near by an
swered: "Yes, sir. and I helped the
men to put all that up there," and
then 1 said to him: "Good for you, and
1 hope you'll always try to be one to
help to keep it all up there." Bo I pass
this parable on to the people every
where?let's all try to put that flag
up everywhere in our country, and to
ktcp it up and unhurt and unrivaled
as long as the world shall stand.
C. Q. WRIGHT.
Judge Webb to Lire in Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.. November t.?
Judge E. Yates Webb, whose nomina
tion to the federal bench was con
firmed by the Senate this ireek, an
nounces that he will make Charlotte
his official home.
These Ail-Wool Jersey
Sport Suits for
Women?
?should be a part of every woman's wardrobe. The
simplest of all street costumes, the least expensive and
the most serviceable.
Tailored of 100 per cent wool Jersey, these suits
are of a quality far above their prices. This knitted fab
ric is shower-proof and wrinkle-proof. You'll never
have to press it.
The mannish styles have just the right note. That
is the advantage of getting such suits at a distinctly
man's store.
The colors are in harmony with the idea of the suits.
All shades of heather, French blue, forest green,
brown, oxford.
We have long coats of the same materials. Priced
low, in direct contradiction to their values.
Mannish Sport Suits and Coat? for Women are $32.50 to $55
The Avenue at Ninth Daily, 8:39 to 6
Mannish Sport Hats
for Women
We have interesting styles of sport hats, tailored
of black satin velour.
Trim, mannish, dignified. The hat that is being
largely worn with the new tailored sport suits.
The brims of them all are broad and flat, the variety
being in the shapes of the crowns.
Sport Hats are $15
Hm Avenue at Ninth
t
Daily, 1:30 to (