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...London's tough district of Camberwell last week the new parish hall of St. Giles was ready for rough & tumble political debate. Proudly the vicar, a great believer in upholding the British right of free speech, displayed his invention for cooling off hot hecklers who hurl unparliamentary epithets and at times even paving stones at speakers in St. Giles. The invention is a working fire hydrant installed on the platform with a short length of hose and gleaming brass nozzle convenient to the elbow of the speaker. All windows of the new parish hall are of non-splinterable glass...
Ernest Cudlipp, vicar of a poor chapel belonging to a rich Manhattan parish, was small, middleaged, energetic, untidy, conservative in belief, liberal in practice. He smoked too many cigarets, was always late because he tried to do too much. Celibate by inclination and experience, he had a poor stomach but liked a good glass of wine. He was no Buchmanite. "What adult could accept as real and true that fairy-tale world in which their Dutch baronesses, Master of Fox Hounds and formerly intemperate butlers all walked laughing and prattling, the children of light, and the children...
...until last week did the long, arduous and honorable public career of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier become notable to the rest of the British Empire. Son of an English vicar, Sir Selwyn won intramural fame as a classical scholar at Cambridge, spent four years as a humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week...
...Manhattan from Cleveland last week journeyed four members of the Cardinal's entourage?Monsignor Joseph Francis Smith, prothonotary apostolic and vicar general of the diocese; President Thomas Coughlin of the Morris Plan Bank who was chosen as gentleman-in-waiting; Henry Coakley, 18, son of a prominent Catholic family who was given the privilege of bearing the Cardinal's train; Joseph J. Mulholland, who got the job of ecclesiastical valet by writing a prize-winning essay on "The Influence and Benefit of the Congress to Catholics and non-Catholics of Cleveland." These four marked time for a day while...
...justice, charity, honor, dignity and respect for all rights. It is peace which announces happiness for everybody. Peace is the primary condition for all prosperity, and therefore we shall always pray for peace. All the world sighs for peace, all the world desires peace and for us, the vicar of Christ, for us the common father of all souls, it is our task to procure peace with all means. It is with this marvelous vision in mind that we bless...