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DEDHAM, MASS.--Roger W. Babson, National Moderator of the Congregational Church, in a searing attack on modern religion, tonight branded all denominations, with the exception of the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches, as "country clubs." The noted statistician, who earlier in the day had Ied a revolt of several hundred church leaders and ministers from the state convention here, said the "country club" denominations are "slipping badly" and the "time has come for them to return to the old-fashioned principles upon which they were founded...
...about religion. Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate of 30% for Protestant attendance (men & women). U. S. female churchgoing, high in the East and South, drops in the Midwest, sinks to 26% on the Pacific Coast. According to the survey, U. S. women believe in God (91%). Though most do not attend...
...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
Wallace Wade's Duke teams have been improving ever since (conference champions 1935-1936). His 1936 team was selected, by one statistician at least,* as the best in the U. S. But playing against his archrival, Tennessee's jovial Major Bob Neyland, Coach Wade just missed an undefeated season by a last-minute Tennessee touchdown...
There is something fascinating about statistics, and a Freshman class is a delight to the statistician. And who was the youngest Freshman that registered in Memorial Hall yesterday? William R. Deal of Permont, New Hampshire, aged...