“Display warehouses should be con
solidated, the cost of selling should
be made more nearly in accordance
with the selling costs in other lines."
he said. “Indeed, a bold, courageous
and businesslike attack upon this
problem will do more to reduce the
price of automobiles and thus in
crease their use than any other steps
that could be taken."
"I fe*d that the automobile indus
try today lias greater prospects be
fore it than the steel industry had 20
rears ago,” he concluded.
SAY HEATON MUST
HE VINDICATED
Conference Of Episcopal
Laymen And Clergymen
Back Pastor
NEW YORK. Jan. S.—Outlining: the
first principles in a platform which
will form the basis for modernist ac
tivities in the Protestant Episcopal
church, lending clergymen and lay
men at :i ^ onft ronce today demanded,
in the interest of fairness, complete
vindication of the Rev. Lee vY.
J fen ton of Fort Worth. Tex.. oh
charges of heresy for which he re
tail tlv was ofted but not tried.
While they expressed satisfaction
a' tin unwillingness of the bishops
t<» subject the Rev. Heaton to a trial,
toe modernists branded his “suspend
ed sentence”1 as unjust and urged that
steps be taken to clear his name.
The pm . pit of truth and the core*
latio:* itb religion of the results of
new knowledge from whatever source
derived \\i ro adopted as modernist
principle.- Such questions as the vir
gin birth and bodily resurrection, said
an official statement, were mere de
tails. Th»* modernists pledged them
selves to fight for liberal interpreta
tion of the church creed, and to ex
press their beliefs freely, fearlessly
and constructively.
