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...Teach-in for God. Secularization, science, urbanization?all have made it comparatively easy for the modern man to ask where God is, and hard for the man of faith to give a convincing answer, even to himself. It is precisely to this problem???how do men talk of God in the context of a culture that rejects the transcendent, the beyond??that theologians today are turning. In part, this reflects popular demand and pastoral need. "God is the question that interests laymen the most," says David Edwards, editor of the Anglican SCM Press. Last month the University of Colorado...
...untouched remains Porto Rico's basic problem???over-population. On the island live 1,543,913 persons, or 450 to the square mile as compared with 40 in the U. S. (In Barbados it is 1,000 to the square mile.) In one decade the population has increased 18%,. The result is that Porto Rico's resources, natural and economic, are exhausted. Birth Control, seriously agitated in the insular government, is blocked by the dominant Roman Catholic Church. Poverty and hunger are on all sides. A laborer is lucky to make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take...
...Canada. Canada has no central bank, no Montagu Norman, but it has many able financiers. During the past year these have labored on the same problem???reviving the iron and steel industry. Last week, their plans approved, the mechanism of a tremendous reorganization stirred...
...frankly conceded he represented the Rockefeller interests. Last week he was experiencing the sensation of one who approaches a high, perhaps the highest, position in the world's greatest bank. Equitable is especially noted for its large volume of foreign business, frequently advertises: "If you have a trade problem???a surplus to sell abroad or a home market to fill?we invite you to discuss it with...
...Coal Problem???"The cost of coal has become unbearably high. . . . Those responsible for the conditions in this industry should undertake its reform and free it from any charge of profiteering. ... I do not favor Government ownership or operation of coal mines. . . . The supply of coal must be constant. In case of its prospective interruption, the President should have authority to appoint a commission empowered to deal with whatever emergency situation might arise...