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Fundamentalism. A most elementary and powerful tenet of the Baptist faith insists that, to be received into the fold, an applicant must be completely immersed in holy water. Yet certain churches?most particularly the Park Avenue Baptist Church of Manhattan, pastored by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, attended and largely financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr.?have formed a practice of admitting members from other denominations without immersion, accepting a profession of faith as an equivalent of the ordered cleansing. "Let us read these churches out of the faith," fundamentalists have insisted through their leaders, Dr. John Roach Straton...
...prejudiced. But Walter Lippmann's challenge to the right of majorities can not be avoided so lightly. In the current issue of Harper's, he logically asserts that no virtue rests in 51 percent of the nation from the simple fact of their majority. The denial of the fundamental tenet of democracy by Mr. Lippmann, one time editor of the New Republic, and at present in charge of the New York World's editorial page, is of more than passing importance. His conclusions are not the product of a cynical aloofness but the result of experience in the school...
...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...Liberal Club has a creed, but it wisely says little about it, apart from adopting the name Liberal. Its actions and program speak for it. The principal tenet of this creed is that every honest belief deserves respect and a hearing. There is no official club doctrine on the Mooney case, the open shop or the Irish question. Outside college, Liberal Clubs are fighting organizations but the Student Liberal Club regards the discussion as always open...
...from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering clear of politics...