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Then Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland resigned from the Federal Council, after admitting that he had been paid by Tsar Hays to lecture on and recommend cinemas. Similar cases followed. Mrs. Jeannette Emmerich, hard working Federal Councilwoman, resigned, admitting that she too had been on the Hays payroll. Meanwhile, The Churchman asserted that Tsar Hays had no influence on cinema producers, pointed out that "block booking" of a producer's products by exhibitors made it impossible for exhibitors to obey anyone's wishes in selecting the pictures shown at their theatres. Tsar Hays threatened to sue The Churchman...
...other half of Dr. Macfarland's radio work was chairmanship of the Committee on Religious Activities of N. B. C.'s potent Advisory Council. Judge Morgan Joseph O'Brien of Manhattan is Catholicism's representative in that committee. Julius Rosenwald, now in Europe, is Judaism's representative. Dr. Macfarland was Protestantism's. Last week Dr. Macfarland and Judge O'Brien were seeking a new Protestant member...
...resignation on Jan. 1 of Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland as general secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America incidentally emptied another major job he filled in U. S. Protestantism ? supervision of Protestant broadcasting Co.'s two chains. Last week the Federal Council half filled the radio job by appointing Dr. John William Langdale, 56, chairman of its radio commission. It is to this commission that Protestant ministers who want to talk over N. B. C.'s national radio hook-up must apply. Dr. Langdale is book editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He lives...
...Federation of Women's Clubs] known and trusted by millions of American women, believe that the National Broadcasting Co. is rendering a public service when it permits young men and women to be told . . . that it is 'healthy' to smoke cigarets. It is impossible to believe that you, Dr. Macfarland [Dr. Charles Stedman Macfarland, General Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when...
There was some regret that after a round 20 years of operation, during which 28 denominations have been supplied with a central means of letting their combined views be known, the Federal Council should not have emphasized its history or have made much of Secretary Dr. Charles Stedman MacFarland whose messages, rolled out in such mimeographic multiplicity, have so often informed the U. S. that the Federal Council favors this and views that with alarm...