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That paragraph, seemingly clear enough, seemed to be the key-paragraph in the social service report presented last week to the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church-a body representing all the Methodists eastward of Third Avenue in New York, on Long Island and in Connecticut as far as New Haven. Without much argument the Conference adopted the report. This seemed to mark the Conference as forthright, courageous. It seemed to demonstrate that the New York East Methodists had thoughtfully examined Capitalism, had totally and finally rejected it and were ready to lead their people on toward...
...years ago a New York East Conference voted a resolution which hesitantly questioned whether Capitalism should be replaced "with something more in conformity with our religion'' (TIME, May 29, 1933). Since then many an individual Methodist and a few conferences have continued to move leftward, without exhibiting anything more substantial than warm, pious discontent. Typical of the viewpoint of "Christian economy" was last week's report which critically covered everything conceivable from sharecroppers and Section 7a to William Randolph Hearst, and only became specific in recommending that pastors study the 90-year-old Rochdale consumers...
When Dancer Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis chose separate ways three years ago, there ended a record partnership which even the fluttering world of the dance thought never to see dissolved. They had married 18 years before, when Ted Shawn had scarcely forsaken his plan to become a Methodist minister. When they separated the famed Denishawn School went out of existence. Now Ruth St. Denis heads a Society for the Spiritual Arts, keeps a ''temple studio" and dances abstractly in churches (TIME, Dec. 31). Ted Shawn sails for England this week with nine muscular young...
...President Hoover let Prohibition slip through his fingers. He was a traitor then and he is a Judas Iscariot now. . . . Why doesn't he do something now?" asked Dr. Clarence True Wilson, plaintive, goateed secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...
...body of a dead game warden, flees, and wanders all night in a driving snowstorm. When he is taken in by a farm woman who catches him stealing the bran mash she has set out for her chickens he falls into a sickness, later works for a harsh Methodist parson whose daughter he marries, and from then on concerns himself with the gradual accumulation of wealth as a small farmer...