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...Cyril Forster Garbett, visiting Archbishop of York (TIME, April 17), explained to Washington newspapermen the difference between his title, Primate of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's. Said he: "It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury is Primate of All England. The Archbishop of York is Primate of England-not all England, mind you, just England. . . . Once, in the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury arrived first at a meeting and proceeded to take the head chair. Then the Archbishop of York arrived. Not to be outdone, he sat on the Archbishop of Canterbury...
...vicarage of Portsea was only his basic training in social problems. Soon Vicar Garbett was graduated to be Bishop of Southwark (pronounced Sutherk), the South London section which includes Lambeth, Bermondsey, Battersea, Tooting and Greenwich. Portsea was a British Hell's Kitchen. Southwark was the noxious central inferno. In this massive slum, hundreds of thousands of people lived in "the greatest area of unbroken poverty in Europe...
Expert In Rackets. Again Bishop Garbett resolutely dug in. A bachelor, he struggled with the malnutritive budgets of swarming slum families. He became an expert in the manipulations of loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service...
...Bishop Garbett had earned the right to drink a dish of tea without a ring of Southwark's grime within the cup. He was translated to the country Diocese of Winchester. In influence the Bishop of Winchester is second in the province of Canterbury. He becomes, automatically, Prelate of the Order of the Garter. In his diocese is the big port of Southampton, whose waterside slums, though less imperial than Portsea's, were still imposing...
...Winchester was a rest after Southwark. Sometimes the Bishop would take off a whole afternoon to discuss the problems of visiting vicars or to take tea with a County family. He might even snatch several days to dash off a treatise on What Is Man? At Winchester Bishop Garbett began his hikes about the rural parishes, for which he has become famous. Hiking, for an Anglican bishop, is still something of an episcopal innovation, and has given Dr. Garbett the nickname of "The Hiking Bishop...