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Attached to the U. S. Army, with officers' rank, uniform and pay, are 125 chaplains. (The rest of some 1,600 full and part-time chaplains are with the CCC, National Guard, Reserve Corps.) There are no Jewish army chaplains because there are not enough Jews in the peacetime establishment; a church to be represented must claim at least 1% of the army on its rolls. Though most chaplains are Protestant, the single church supplying the most men is the Roman Catholic, with 31 chaplains. Last week for the first time in the 146 years of the chaplaincy...
...spent another $213,832,000 outright for school buildings and repairs up to the end of 1936. The National Youth Administration had 435,000 needy students on its lists, WPA had given work to 42,000 unemployed teachers, there have been 1,500,000 youngsters in the CCC. To NEA, however, this tale of generosity did not atone for the fact that the Association's pet Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, providing Federal school subsidies up to $300,000,000 a year to the States, was sidetracked this year by the President when he sent his economy message to Congress...
...passing the bill for a permanent CCC, Congress recently reduced Director Robert Fechner's salary from...
...Passed (67-to-2) a bill that would make the Civilian Conservation Corps a permanent organization and reduce the annual salary of Director Robert Fechner from $12,000 to $10,000, after voting down the bill passed by the House last fortnight that would extend the CCC for only two more years. Sent it to a Senate-House conference committee...
...convention was Chicago's Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, who restated for the chaplains the arguments they knew well as to why Christians could be obligated to go to war. Chaplain William A. Sessions of Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington, who presides at conventions with...