Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardly one of our laity realizes the disgraceful truth that our Church, the richest communion in the richest land on earth, pays faithful servants who retire because of age an average pension of $76 per month; that she pays those forced by illness into earlier retirement about $65 per month; that she has the coldhearted callousness to pay the aged widows of deceased clergy the miserable pension of $31 monthly...
...more than average ability, a scholarly man, appointed by his bishop to serve as an examining chaplain ... He retired in poor health at 68 and in a few months died. Our rich, generous and purportedly Christian Church granted his widow a pension of $27.60 per month . . . Our Episcopal Church tells the widow of a priest to live on $6.50 per week ... on less than $1.00 a day. God pity us; for her we need not pray...
...What do these miserable pensions mean? They mean that retired priests . . . must be content with a room or two in a stranger's house; they mean living on bread and margarine and vegetables . . . They mean that to eke out their miserable dole of $76 per month, the wife of three-score years and ten must compete with high-school girls for a job as baby-sitter...
However, if Harvard men really wish to maintain their prestige, they might investigate the nubile lady graduates of Brigham Young U. of Utah, currently setting the pace with 2.45 offspring per graduate reporting. Rating them off their Class of 1924 performance, a Harvard-Brigham Young alliance could conceivably produce 2.10 children, give or take a few percentage points...
There's even some help for the Radcliffe girl. You guessed it: the men at Brigham Young U. love children too--up to 3.47 per...