June 8, 1939 5c a copy Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. CLERGY NOTES SCHOOLS ARMSTRONG, PAUL C., and SAMUEL N. BAXTER, JR., GEORGE E. CONDIT, JOHN R. DIEHL, WILLIAM H. JEF- FERYS, JR., ROBERT M. MORRIS and K E M P E tt M I CHARLES W. WOOD, JR„ were ordained e deacons by Bishop Taitt of Pennsylvania KENOSHA, WISCONSIN in St. Peter’s Church, Philadelphia, on June 4. Episcopal Boarding and Day School. COSBEY, JAMES, 3RD, and O’PRAY, Preparatory to all colleges. Unusual GEORGE F., were ordained priests by opportunities in Art and Music. Bishop Davis of Western New York in St. Simon’s Church, Buffalo, on May 10. Complete sports program. Junior DIPLOCK, LLEWELLYN O., now canon at School. Accredited. Address: St. Luke’s Cathedral, Portland, Maine, is to be rector of Christ Church, Yonkers, SISTERS OF ST. MARY N. Y., effective Aug. 1. Box W. T. EATON, DAVID T., has resigned as rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, Kemper Hall Kenosha, Wisconsi* Burlington, N. C. FOX, GEORGE A., is in charge of St. Paul’s, CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL Franklin, and Grace Church, Spring Hill, Tenn. New York City FRENCH, HORTON I., formerly rector of A boarding school for the forty boys «6 Christ Church, Lexington, Mo., is in charge the Choir of the Cathedral of Saint John th* of St. Andrew’s, Waterville, and Calvary, Divine. Careful musical training and daily Waseca, Minn. singing at the cathedral services. SnrnSS GRANT, SIDNEY, was ordained deacon by classes mean individual attention and higfe Bishop Washburn of Newark at Grace standards. The School has its own building Church, Newark, on June 4. and playgrounds in the Close. Fee— $300.6$ JARDINE, CLYDE L.; formerly student pas­ per annum. Boys admitted 9 to 11. Voice Episcopal Theological School tor at South Georgia Teachers College, is test and scholarship examination. Addren rector of St. Paul’s, Foley, Ala. j The Precentor, Cathedral Choir School, Cathe- CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS KELLERMANN, JOSEPH L., is in charge j dral Heights, New York City. AffHfoted with Harvard University offers of St. Paul’s, Mufreesboro, and Redeemer, ea-EBsal opportunities in allied fields, such as Shelbyville, Tenn. philosophy, psychology, history, KOCHER, HAROLD E., was ordained priest sociology, etc. by Bishop Sherrill of Massachusetts in St. HOLDERNESS For Catalogue Address the Dean Paul’s Cathedral, Boston, on May 24, and In the White Mountains. College Preparatory is in charge of Trinity Church, Randolph and General Courses. Music and Crafts. Feu and St. John’s, Holbrook, Mass. boys 12-19. All sports including riding. 26$ The Protestant Episcopal (Continued on page 15)__________ acres of woods. New fireproof building. In­ Ideological Seminary in Virginia dividual attention. Home atmosphere. Rev. Edric A. Weld, Rector Fear Catalogue and other information St. John Baptist ! 0c r h gV l ls address the Dean A Boarding and Day School for Girls Box W Plymouth, N. H KEY. WALLACE E. ROLLINS, D.D. In the Country near Morristown Under the care of the Sisters of St. John ■kaatogical Seminary Alexandria, Va. Baptist (Episcopal Church) College Preparatory and General Courses, Music and Art Ample Grounds, Outdoor Life Stu art Sfall Berkeley For catalog address THE SISTER SUPERIOR, Mendham, N. J. Divinity School j An Episcopal girls’ school of fine sM New Haven, Connecticut 1 traditions and high standards in the bean J tiful Valley of Virginia. College prepare. Affiliated with Yale University ST. CATHERINE’S SCHOOL I tory, general courses, and secretarial! Address DEAN W. P. LADD Richmond, Virginia courses. Two years beyond high school 86 Sachem Street An Episcopal Country School for Girls. College , Music, art, expression. Graduates success preparatory course with graduates in leading j ful in college. Well-equipped buildings. Eastern colleges. General course also with 3 New gymnasium, pool. Outdoor life. Ri&- music and art. Attractive buildings. Riding i ing. Founded 1843. Catalog. Ophelia S. T, TRINITY COLLEGE and other outdoor activities all year. Swim­ ] Carr, A.B., Box A, Staunton, Va. Hartford, Conn. ming pool. Catalogue. LOUISA DeB. BACOT BRACKETT, A.B. Offers a general cultural education, with (Mrs. Jeffrey R .), Headmistress BP«sial emphasis on the Classics, Modern languages, English, Economics, History, Phil- The Church Divinity School of the Pacific OM»hy, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics, When Children BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA JMogry and Pre-Medical, or Pre-Engineering. Dean, Henry H. Shires 2457 Ridge Road! Far information apply, The Dean. Need a Laxative In children’s little bilious at­ tacks and common colds, a very The Divinity School FORK UNION important part of Philadelphia, Pa. Full Undergraduate Course of three years, MILITARY ACADEMY the treatment is on the Tutorial System, leading to Degree a t Th.B. seven months Canonical Studies and An Honor Christian School with the highest to keep the three months Clinical Training each year. •endemic rating. Upper School prepares for bowels active. ADDRESS THE DEAN ■■ivarsity or business. ROTC. Every mod­ 4205 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Fa. em equipment. Junior School from six years. Mothers have Kouaemother. Separate building. Catalogue, found pleasant- fc . J. J. Wicker, Fork Union, Virginia. ! SCHOOL OF NURSING tasting Syrup of j General Hospital for Men, Women and Black - Draught i Children provides experience in medical, surgi­ Virginia Episcopal School cal, and obstetric nursing, with affiliated very useful in courses in psychiatric, communicable diseas* Lynchburg, Virginia i and visiting nursing included in three year Prepares boys for colleges and university, such cases. In program. fllpiamdid environment and excellent corps of fact, whenever Class enters in September. ••shew. High standard in scholarship and Apply to Director of Nursing ■tfeletics. Healthy and beautiful location in laxative medicine HOSPITAL OF ST. BARNABAS AND fee mountains of Virginia. is needed, children will not FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN Newark, New Jersey For catalogue apply to object to being given Syrup of Bar. Oscar deWolf Randolph, D.D., Rector Black-Draught, and by its relief > MARGARET HALL Under Sisters of St. Anne of constipation, recovery will be j (Episcopal) St. Faith’s School hastened. Sold at drug stores in Small country boarding and day school to r Secretarial, Art, Music, French, Winter girls, from primary through high school. Sports. Regents Examination. Tuition 5-ounce bottles, price 50 cents. Accredited college preparatory. Modern build­ 568# yr. Protection, Care, Health. ing recently thoroughly renovated includm Also obtainable from the manu­ gymnasium and swimming pool. Campus of six Some scholarships available. facturer— send 50 cents for one acres with ample playground space, hock*y Apply to field, and tennis courts. Riding. Board and W . D R F. ALLEN SISCO, Principal bottle to The Chattanooga Medi­ tuition. Saratoga Spa, N. Y. cine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. For catalog, address: Mother Rachel, O.S.A., Box A, Versailles. Ky. Copyright 2020. Archives of the Episcopal Church / DFMS. Permission required for reuse and publication. E ditor Associate Editore Irving P. Johnson Frank E. W ilson Managing Editor W illiam P. L add W illiam B. Spofforb THE WITNESS George I. H iller Clifford L. Stanley Literary Editor A National Paper of the Episcopal Church Gardiner M. Day A lbert T. Mollegen Vol. XXIII. No. 25. JUNE 8, 1939 Five Cents a Copy THE WITNESS is published weekly from September through June, inclusive, with the exception of the first number of January, and semi» atonthly during July and August, by the Episcopal Church Publishing Company, 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. The subscrip­ tion price is $2.00 a year; in Bundles for sale at the church the paper sells for five cents a copy, we bill quarterly at three cents a copy, ffint^red as Second Class Matter, March 6, 1939, at the Post Office at Chicago, Illinois, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Circulation Office: 6140 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago. Editorial and Advertising Office: 136 Liberty Street, New York City. T h e P r o b l e m o f F r e e d o m B y THOMAS MANN German Refugee and Nobel Prize Winner ATAZISM is the most radical, unrestrained, and the extermination of the foundations of civiliZa­ destructive revolution which the world has tion. The final meaning of its anti-semitism is ever seen, wholly unsuitable to serve as a rampart not the foolish idea of the racial purity of the Ger­ for middle-class conservatism or to be used by it man people but an assault upon Christianity it­ for protective purposes. Indeed the word “ revo­ self. And even when it ridicules democracy, the lution” is actually too honorable to define this phe­ contempt is really aimed at Christianity in which nomenon, for an invasion by the Huns would not democracy is rooted and whose political expres­ be described as a revolution. Revolutions usually sion it is. Freedom, truth, justice, reason, human contain some relationship to the idea of humanity, dignity— what is the source of these ideas which a faith, a will—however confused—to progress are the support and mainstay of our existence and to bring about the improvement of human so­ and without which our spiritual life would crum­ ciety. They have as a rule some passionate rela­ ble? Whence do they come if not from Christian­ tionship to the Absolute and to the idea in the ity which has made them the law of the world? name of which they perpetrate their deeds and A revolution which supplants every one of these misdeeds. Because of this faith, this relationship ideas with the law of force— that is the anti- and passion, and out of respect for them, hu­ Christ. And yet this is the revolution in which manity has always shown a tendency to forgive the European middle-classes have seen for so long revolutionary misdeeds.' It was inclined to over­ a time their bulwark against communism! look them, because of the ultimate good and the Democracy itself was once revolution.