A plan calling for the union of the Methodist Episcopal Church with the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Protestant Methodist Church was adopted to-day, by a vote of 470 to 83, at the quadrennial general confer. ence of the M. E, Church here.
Three-fourths of the governing bodies of the Methodist Episcopal conference and of the other two denominations must adopt the plan before it is effective, and it fs, therefore, expected to take two or three years before the merger cane' consummated—United Press. private manufacture of arms in the event of war, After 18 months in the War, he said, the Americans had no guns of their own and had to rely on Great Britain and France. Yet America was the greatest manufacturing country in the world, Mr. Lloyd George disagreed with witnesses who said that inventions in future must' depend upon private manufacturers. For instance,.he do-Jclared, tanks, Stokes bombs and Mfills grenades were invented by a committee not composed of manufactur-
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