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...staffs of the country's smaller news-organs. Where were once splendid potentialities, there is now nothing; the metropolitan papers, with inducements of higher pay for the present and possible fame and high position for the future, have in a sense sucked the life-blood from their journalistic brethren. This is raising the standards of the profession, but doing it in a one-sided fashion. The effect of the Nieman Fellowships will never be glaringly evident, whether good or bad, but there is plenty of room to question its present value to the American press...
...groups was the United Lutheran Church (1,523,022 members), which believes that Lutherans are part of Protestantism as a whole and should not hold aloof from their brethren in the larger faith. The other was the American Lutheran Church (515,935 members), not quite so liberal as the United Lutherans (but not so conservative, for example, as the Missouri Synod, 1,219,935 members, which feels that Lutherans are a closed corporation, should first unite themselves, then mingle with other sects only for the purpose of converting them...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...
...exception to this vast, good-natured conformity was the tiny minority of religiously-minded conscientious objectors. Alert to the implications of the Selective Training and Service Act, as a result of their own experiences in World War I, and of British brethren in World War II, one small group has been meeting weekly in Manhattan since mid-July, to coach their fellows. This week the War Resisters League (over 17,000 strong), headed by hulking, 6 ft. 4 Evan W. Thomas, New York University professor of medicine and brother of the Socialist candidate for President (like his brother, jailed...
...Gramercy Park Hotel. His Beatitude Eshai Mar Shimun, 119th Patriarch of Assyria and head of the Church of the East (which Westerners know as the Nestorian Church), had come to see his 70,000 fellow countrymen in the U. S., do something if possible for his persecuted brethren elsewhere. The Assyrian Christians have had a long record of persecution. They have been a minority in the mountains of Kurdistan and the plains of Syria and Iraq since Mohammedanism's rise...