AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

• ' Australian and n.z. caulk association. DECLAR VTIOX BY .MU FORD. XF\Y YORK, December 10. A message from Detroit .says that Jlr Henry Ford has ai.eouneed that lie would nev"|* eotisider running against President Coolidge for the Presidency on any ticket. “I am satisfied that .90 per cent of the people loci perfectly safe with fhesidenl Gutdidge.” he added, “and I feel, too, licit the country is perfectly sa.fe with him.’’ Air Ford declared that President Coolidge in these months of service, hud ,’i-played many qualities that were j Lasing to his countvymen. A .MEXIC AN DISASTER. YAXCOFVT.iL Dee. 20. It. is reported that the towns <.l Grandcs, Husalms and Opnlo have been razed by an earth(|uako in .Mexico. .Reports were received by President Durazo of Agua Prieta, who was asked to send food and tents to the stricken zone. All three towns are in Sonora. Many were killed and injured. According lo reports, the earthquake occurred on Thursday night. F.S.A, POLITICS. NEW YORK, Dec. 20 A further manifestation of the serious efforts of the “Wets" to alter the Volstead Act appeared when Senator Edge, a New Jersey Republican, introduced two bills which would raise the permissible alcoholic content of beverages from one and a half per cent to three per cent, and would remove restrictions against the issuance of liquor prescriptions by physicians. The Senate has adopted Senator Copeland's resoliil inn to investigate the lake physicians (a.- cabled December Ist). A RELIGIOUS SPLTT. NEW YORK. Dee. 20. The Episcopalian Controversy started on December ]otb, appears to be increasing in intensity, and it is spreading to other denominations. A noted theologian Dr Dickinson Alillcr. a teacher at ihc local Anglican Seminary, Inis resigned, as a protest against a lack of liberalism in the church, while Bishop .Manning, of New York,

• lms issued it pastoral letter, begging tho disputants to refrain from discussion until after the Christinas season. The question of liberalism and fundaliieiialism has also arisen mi the I resbytei'ian Church, while the Baptists and Unitarian ministers are Idling churches and overcrowding them while they debate on such questions as “Resolved that the Bible is the Infallible Word of God !” The newspapers have made open forums of themselves for readers who are taking sides with groat bitterness.