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...degree, the requirements of a State Board before he is allowed to practise his profession. A university degree is not itself a license to practise. So in the Protestant ministry, a theological degree after a college degree does not make a man a minister. A minister must be ordained by a church. So long as Protestant denominations are willing to ordain uneducated men to their ministries, the sem- inaries are helpless. The responsibility for the present deplorable situation rests primarily upon churches rather than upon divinity schools...
...ordain,' " read the Chancellor quoting the President, " 'that, from tomorrow until a definitive ruling on the national colors, the black-white-red banner* and the swastika flag [Nazi] are to be hoisted in common. These flags link together the glorious past of the German Reich and the mighty rebirth of the German nation. In common they shall incorporate the power of the State and the internal unity of all the national forces of the German people. Military buildings will fly only the Imperial war flag...
...therefore, I, Oscar Kelly Allen, Governor of the State of Louisiana, do hereby ordain that Saturday, the 4th day of February, 1933 . . . be a holiday throughout the State . . . and I do hereby order that all public business, including schools, banks and other public enterprises be suspended . . . and that the proper ceremonies to commemorate that event be held...
Last week a group of Chicago aldermen decided that there had been too many tag days in their city. They planned a reductio ad absurdum. At one session of the City Council they got their drowsy colleagues to ordain tag days for the following: The Brewers' & Bartenders' Union; Tom, Dick & Harry, unemployed; ex-King Alfonso;* the Chicago White Sox (which has lowest standing in the American League). When the drowsy aldermen discovered how they had been tagged, the ordinances were revoked...
...religious denominations in the U. S., 44 ordain women to the ministry. Perplexed Presbyterians will attempt to decide whether women shall be admitted to their pulpits at a general assembly in April. Typical of their baffled councils thus far was one held last week by the New York Presbytery. The dialog...