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...Dallas Conference the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, last week exculpated Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia after quizzing him on a charge of gambling in the stock market (TIME, May 26). The scene grew emotional...
Another famed Methodist was less rhetorical. Will Rogers wrote: "You can't save souls and margins...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South last week concluded the first fortnight of its quadrennial conference at Dallas. Some important church work was accomplished ?decision to increase the number of bishops from 13 to 16; decision to abolish "serve him'' and "obey him." from the marriage service; invention of a new sin for ministers ("gross impudence and high unministerial conduct"). But of more immediate interest to the conference was the tussle between Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia and Layman Josephus Daniels...
When this conference opened Mr. Daniels took three firm grips upon Bishop Cannon: 1) his mixing in politics unduly; 2) his administration of the Methodist, South's Board of Temperance and Social Service; 3) his "gambling" on the New York stock exchange...
...Champaign, Ill., woos and wins Daughter; and after Citizen Hubbard has become thoroughly sick of the whole business, the Hubbards head for the homeland. Actress Boland, struggling with French maids and telephones, plagued by a Coca-Cola-guzzling husband, turns in a businesslike, applausible performance. Lost Sheep. If a Methodist minister should unwittingly rent a house which had but recently been evacuated by a procuress and six employes, the situation might contain much potential coarse merriment. Playwright Belford Forrest, having conceived of such a plan, made sure that his preacher was sufficiently naive to suspect nothing for at least three...