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Newspaper
Colville Examiner
Location
Colville, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1920
Page
7
Mrs. Etta Caskill of Ritzville Wash testifies Doan's Kidney Pills give quick relief for back pain and kidney trouble. The ad cites a local effectiveness claim and urges readers to buy Dean's Kidney Pills at 60 cents from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The Interchurch World Movement shifts from long revival meetings to personal outreach in May. From May 16 to 23 Protestant members will engage non churchgoers via house to house visits and personal invitations, with church committees assigning local outreach duties.
The Interchurch World Movement surveys whether absentee landlords aid or hinder communities and whether taxation or credit policy should shift land control to resident workers. Questionnaires across counties probe tenancy rates, owner stakes, fertility effects, living standards, lease fairness, and housing of tenants' families.
The Board of Education of the Disciples of Christ urges action to raise salaries for professors in religious colleges. It presents a statistical square showing cost of living up 87.4 percent since 1916, family budgets up 54.5 percent, while faculty salaries at Disciple Colleges rose only 10.4 percent.
Speakers at the county conference compare North Africa with the Orient and the West. The Interchurch survey notes Africa is awakening and voicing aspirations. The form of Western civilization it adopts hinges on evangelical churches shaping it as Christian or materialistic.
A county conference heard that American tutelage governs 3 141 Philippine islands and 11 000 000 people as the core for Christian democracy in the Pacific. The Interchurch World Movement reports one missionary per 164 666 natives and notes missionaries largely run education for Central African natives, with some government subsidies.
The 30 cooperating Protestant churches run a financial drive from April 26 to May 2 seeking to pledge 336,777,572 dollars. The piece argues the amount is modest if every church member contributes small daily amounts, outlining scenarios for a full church budget, 1918 expenses, and a large potential balance.
County Interchurch conferences April six to sixteen drew large crowds across Inland Empire churches. Explanatory talks on the Interchurch World Movement inspired strong favorable opinion among pastors and laymen from nearly every Protestant church. Leaders hailed cooperation over rivalry and predicted a major revival with united countywide programs.
The Interchurch World Movement surveys in 2968 counties cover religious and community conditions. The U S Department of Agriculture has contracted to buy copies of each county survey.
A village of 1,900 people has 12 Protestant churches and 8 ministers with 1,367 members. In a nearby county of 6,100 people only 4 churches, 1 minister, and 3 percent membership exist. The village spends about three times as much as the county despite fewer residents.
A united church effort announces a plan to revive rural community life through church cooperation. The program aims to strengthen local ties, volunteer work, and shared worship across nearby parishes.
The Interchurch World Movement promotes the community church model to serve religious and social needs in 25 000 resident districts like Washington Park Denver. It urges rural towns to adopt multi use church facilities and joint denominational support to strengthen rural life.
Frank G. Moran of Seattle who led Red Cross drives in Washington becomes director for the Interchurch united financial campaign across three northwestern states. E. C. Knapp of the Inland Empire Sunday School association will head eastern Washington and northern Idaho. A. D. Brewer of the Spokane Y M C A will direct the Spokane campaign.
Interchurch World Movement plans a White Cross Service to bring home comforts to migratory laborers. Studies assess needs of homeless and voteless harvest hands moving from Texas to the north, lumber jacks, railroad workers and others in seasonal work.
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