A MODEST BISHOP.

Taihape Daily Times, 1 November 1917, Page 7

A MODEST BISHOP.

ONLY WANTS TO BE USEFUL. BATHURST, Oct. 17. At the Anglican Synod to-day, Dr. Long, (Bishop of Bathurst) officially intimated his intention of going to the front as a fourth-class chaplain, Some of the laymen had expressed the opinion that he should lu*Ve been given a rank more in conformity with his position in the church. He had no regrets in this respect. He would have more opportunity of getting into close association with the men by going as a fourth-class chaplain than' if he ■ accepted some ridiculous military rank. Ho would be junior freffh a military point of view to priests who had served under him in his own parish, to boys he had taught at school, and to his own young, nephew who had recently been promoted to major. Aho Synod concurred with the Bishop’s decision. Several speakers pointed out that he would be the only Aus-tralian-born bishop at the front, and that he was.‘the only bishop in Australia of military age.

ALL AMERICANS TO "WORK. FINE OR IMPRISONMENT FOR SLACKERS. NEW YORK. Every man in America, however, must do some work during the war, That is the effect of an Act passed by tlfe United States Legislature. It is provided that the State will have employment for all persons in good health now out of employment. Failure to do the work assigned to any one by the (State subjects the slacker to a fine or not more than six months, or both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of a court of justice. The first requirement of the law is that all able-bodied male "persons between IS and 50, inclusive not regularly and continually employed, shall register. This includes all loafers, not only the impecunious anu habitual "sons of rest,” tramps, etc., but so all unemployed persons who may never theless bo able to support themselves by reasons of ownership of property or income, and also those supported by others. Failure to register is a misdemeanour, and punished by a fine not exceeding £lO. '