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The Nice Turk. Last spring P. E. Bishop Manning of New York and many another bishop became indignant with memories of the "Unspeakable Turk" and his Armenian and Greek massacres. Some $80,000,000 in missionary investments had become futile; Christianity could not be taught in Turkey. They asked Senator Borah to oppose the U. S. signing the Lausanne Treaty with Turkey. He refused (TIME, April 19).

At that time P. E. Bishop Charles Henry Brent of Western New York agreed with them. But last week, after weeks of Turkish observation (in Turkey), he bravely declared that he had reversed his attitude. He had learned that U. S. residents in Turkey want the treaty, that the missionary schools are spreading what the Christian Century calls "untheological Christianity," that no Mohammedan had ever become a Christian proselyte and lived. Religious bickering is futile, to his mind.

Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor not at all.