Bishop Cannon Shames Women for Buying Makeup Instead of Giving Money to Church, Feb. 15, 1925

Bishop Cannon Denounces Modern Women Tendencies. . . They Spend Millions for Paint, Powder and Lipstick Stuff, He Says, While the Needs of the Church Go Begging

Greensboro, Feb. 15—Recalling that women of the country spent $117 last year for “paint, powder and lipstick stuff,” Bishop James Cannon of Richmond, Va., of the Southern Methodist Church, in a talk here today, said that he is “simply disgusted with woemen.” He said he had no apologies to make for the women.

He was talking on the centenary missionary program of the church and the great need of money for missions, comparing that with the past expenditures made by people for other things.

He read the other day that Glora Swanson had got married for the third time and that she announced she had singed a contract for $7,000 a week—in other words, he said, that girl is going to make $365,000 a year.

The baseball world series games played in Washington cost more than $1 million, he estimated, counting the cost of persons getting there, getting in and getting back home.

Football, movies, automobiles running into billions, cigarettes, multiplied by millions—he named these spendings of people, and while not decrying these amusements, he wanted to show that the country has great wealth and that the prosecution of the centenary program, under full steam, would not involve any undue sacrifice on the part of the people.

Pastors and laymen from Guilford, Randolph and Rockingham counties representing 24 charges of the Greensboro district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in special conference at west Market Street Church here this afternoon, pledged themselves to unswerving prosecution of the great centenary programs and other missionary activities projected by the church.

Morning and afternoon sessions were held, Fred N. Tate of High Point, district lay leader, presiding. The feature of the morning service was the sermon by Bishop Cannon, who has charge of the missionary program in Mexico, Cuba and the Congo. His subject was “God’s Challenge to the Church of Our Day.”

The bishop is tremendously interested in the plan to raise $16 million, the amount remaining unpaid on centenary pledges made in southern Methodism in 1918, the original pledges having totaled $36 million.

From the front page of The Concord Times, Feb. 16, 1925

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