Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaper reporting and editing are so incredibly easy that most of the staffs are mainly recruited from ex-street car men, unfrocked clergymen, broke brokers, countermen, steer bulldoggers et also. The pay is incredibly poor. Rather than work for a newspaper for $15 per week, it would be better to get a job as a board-boy in Wall Street for $20. You'd go much farther. No matter how well you do your work a publisher will let you go before he'll raise your salary, knowing that some confidence man in tough lines can be picked...
...newspapers, schoolmasters, clergymen. "Our great hope lies in developing what is good. One newspaper is better than many criminal laws. One schoolmaster is better than a legion of bailiffs. One clergy- man is better than an army with banners. These are our guarantees of internal peace and progress...
Concerning Business: "We clergymen are preaching continually upon the worth and necessity of honesty and straightforwardness. Even more effective than sermons may be the sending into the "community of young men well educated, trained in good business methods and, above all, the capacity to think straight, who, as they rise into positions of influence, will lead the next generation to carry out these principles...
...They are novelties," said Dr. John Roach Straton when a CRIMSON reporter asked him to comment on the teachings of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, prominent New York Modernist clergymen. "They appeal to curiosity and to vanity. They tell their congregations that everything is all right. Instead of rebuking sin, they soft-soap. What is the use of a preacher if everything is all right...
...result that they finish with the general impression that everything is all right--let scholars study; let believers believe, but don't have any controversy about anything. Unity is a good thing, but truth is a better thing. Comfort is a good thing, but truth is a better thing, Clergymen must get over the idea that their main relation to individuals is to make them feel comfortable religiously. That is what the conservative religious church member particularly wishes to retain. it is perhaps the first thing he should give...