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The Archbishop scents the danger in being too well off.......

By J. W. M. THOMPSON

THE future of.... religion there are no computers or labora-

tory experiments to guide our predictions here.

man must arrive at his own forecast.

Every

I thought the best thing to do would be to talk to the Archbishop of Canterbury and learn what he saw ahead; lying, in wait for us in the future.

So there we were, in his snug study down at Canterbury, Dr Fisher standing with his back to the fire looking more like a benign headmaster than a prophet.

And the first thing he said to me was that he did not believe in worrying overmuch about the future of religion.

Dr Fisher kes to colour his. conversation with nicely chosen quotations, "I think we should titke things as they coine." be said. "You know--Sufficent unts the day is the evil there

'Tired'

Nevertheless, he depart from habli look ahead for me.

agree

and take

to

Would move together.

closer and closer

It was a general trend already. As an example, there was the "rently encouraging" progress of the Anglicans' ronversations with the Methodists.

Then there was the example

uf South Africa; and in- eldentally this one

illus- trated

about the

his point

T+ dividends that adversity can

Pay,

"In the foreseeable future." The mere fact that the South

of true African Government has pot religion will sprend more

he said, "the range Christian

and more harsh in its

of all the

and increase. The world apartheid polley has led to a getting tired of itself with no drawing together principles. His conselously or Christian churches there," he

to suit. unconsciously coming back the need for some klad of religion.

think that applies ne only to Europe and the West, but also to parts of Asia, where there exist Mohamniestanism

Finally--what about the prae- tical problems which plague The Church of England, here and now? The shortage of men, and the shortage of money?

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THE CHINA MAIL,

GULES

Sign in Phas

WARNING

TO AVOID STRIKES FOREMEN MUST NOT USE RUDE WORDS.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1980.

"Ah! Good afternoon, Your Honour, the rest of us can't put our

trust you slept well and won't mind me mentioning that' nuts and bolts in till you've drilled your

little holes."

London Express Service.

DONID DON'S DIARY TAX FORMS

I'M HAPPY TO REPORT:

Y proof

YORKVILLE

New York:

is living

that Gormans and Jews can get along to- gether as long as they are Americans.

down

Yorkville is a substantial slab of Manhattan running 86th Street from Lexington Avenue to the booming, brightly lit, and the New Year decorations still blaze...,lanterns, fairy lights, and Stars of David --hut no swastikas,

I was interested to find that Dr Fisher foresaw the Church's und Buddhism, for example." west financial problems being East River. It is bustling,

inter- solved at some "not very The whole trend of national affairs, as Dr Fisher mote" day. seen it, reflects this. Tu seex Coing the world moving away from the rule of force towards rule of "personal discuss.in with a view to reconellation."

the

In all this in the approach -to the Summit, and all the rest

the

of Dr Fisher discerns working of the Holy Spirit,

More people were 10 church-and more people were paying up substan- lindly towards church expenses. A big new development, he felt, was coming here.

'New ways'

As to men: "We firmly believe

("Altough they don't know it," that Gud calls

men 10

the

he added drily, meaning some ministry, and we must make the nt least nf 12 statesmen best of those who come-peT= involved.)

his by Anding new ways of wing them. There are many ideas about on that."

no

But I would be misrepresem ing the Archbishop 10 suggest that he sees

threatening clouds on the horizon.

We turned from the world scene to the future of religion here in Britain. Did he foresee Britain becoming a mor: Christ- ian country? 1 askerl He shook his head doubtfully.

"I am not sure about that

"I believe we will he gald have a more solid core of con- vinced Christens but that doesn't in the least mean it will be a more Christian country."

There were hostile forces to be reckoned with: and among these Dr Fisher named, by a

1 could

asking not resist whether. since men seemed scarce. Dr Fisher foresaw the day when women would enter the ministry. forecast

I took a L-through York- ville the other day, past the Hoffman Tavern, the Munich Beerhall, the Hamburg Heaven, the Berlin Gardens, where the int-necked Germans and their wives and girls drank steins of German beer and munched Frankfurters, German music Blled the beer-halis and was piped out into the streets,

It was here in the middle 30% that I had watched Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German- He made a bokl| American Bund, scream "Hell and Yorkville had In reply, He sald

liter," was out of the question For theered him and yelled "Out hundred years at least,

with the Jews." No longer, Quite apart from any other There is no Fritz Kuhn. No consideration, he said, it Was Gurun-American Bund No ruled out by one strong arge- trouble at all-at least so far. ment. It would increase - mensely the gap between the Church of England other churches.

and

Home

Whether women can be

or

→

Side by side

The Germans and the Jews

ought to be ordained is there- sit side by side, drinking and fore not worth asking," he said.enting, and they do business to

We could not possibly widen gether, marry each other. They

do not

be to hyphenated Americans. are Americans period.

Why that gap.

like

called

They

⚫ and sort * paradox, the rising

prosperity of the country. 30? Because it can lead

"Ifpwople come to me talk- materialist, elfish, society; one with "I'm All Right in about women's rights I say there are things higher than

they arc dulles, A police sergeant at the Corner Beerhail, at Third for That dispuses of the argument."

10 a greedy

Jack" painter on its banners.

He mode another Biblical rights, and allusion. "How hard it is then that trust in riches enter into the kingdom God...

'Decay'

to

No

swastikas

in Yorkville

DAILEY.

BACALL.

FONDA.

BEDLAM with COCKTAILS

THIS is the period of the big parties-cock- parties, suppor tall parties, theatre parties. The most lavish I attended was given by Irwin Kramor, and restaurateur Blegt Souster.

eligible bachelor, 6

tree.

I rather liked the uncon- Avenue and 86th Street (world's promising way the Archbishop largest best glass of beer-25 banged down that old-fashioned cents), said: "We expected some word "duties,”

me

incidents but nothing's huppen- that ed

We haven't even found

Who was there? Everyons--Dan Bailey,

Ethel Gwan Verdon,

Merman, James Pa Britain's most Hanson, once known

Lauren Bacall, Henry Funda. The practice now at blg Man-

New York's tax) arm

drivers

bava

дл

hattan cocktail parties it - to orchestra sawing and banging away in a corner, compating against the explosion of conversation and clattering of glassss and dishes. The result is bodtam.

Music, even music with monia, may be all But so-called musió 'et cooktail right. parties is disastrous and an Intolerable strain.

election

Every Presidential this was the thread lining picture of Hiller, and there used with revolvers. This to me la I express the strong opinion that

And it occurred to

everything he bad sald about to be dozens. We did find a ple- lunkey,

too the campaign is far long, the future of religion. Rights ture of the old Kaiser, but the

two months, not nine He id: "It is always

ng duties,

guy who owned the shop and New York's 20,000 taxi drivers that

than That is why I believe the slogan.

Archbishops do not know, any picture must have been 00, 20 are among the world's great months, would be more We have never had it so good," is an

more than I do, how the people we let him keep it. Why not?" extremely

their driving, sufficient. Now some Congress- of the future will divide their slogan.

Some synagoguer in New their conversation, their quar- men are echoing the suggestion. allegiance between the two.

York City have been daubed rels with the police, without Under

present rules with the swastika

dangerous

The end of mankind is not mere well-being. It is always

a conquest of some form of evit, or the attainment of seme find of perfection.

"The worst of feeling well-off · Is that you don't bother after

any perfection,"

The Archbishop was very in- sistent

this theme. on

Ho turned to history lo draw a warning

how the future might go. "History," he said,

eltranou

of

Perhaps, if they did, the future of religion would cease to be the great enigma.

-London Express Service).

QUOTE

with the Star of David in "an

menaces

with

the

and some carrying guns on their hips. primary election contests are churches have been stamped Give them guns and they'll be held in the early months of the the Passengers, the year, the conventions nominat- Ing the candidates In mid- summer, the election itself in

eye for an eye" retaliation shooting

but not in Yorkville, About one. pedestrians, the patrolmen. third of a million German

Americans live here. I

ti

been behaving themselves.

There

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a suggestion November, and the inauguration of the now President the follow- happy to report that they have that women walking alone ing January. So almost a whole should carry whistles to sound year is taken out of one's life by There is a denser concentra- the alarm when the mugger or the campaign, tion of Jews in New York than prowler pounces. I don't think

This was all right when the shows that every ngo off-by

children's specialist Dr anywhere else in the world much of this suggestion, either.

continent was sprawling has always been un R. J. Pugh in a Medical Press 2.200,000 in the five boroughs. An American woman's voice is horse

and buggy country, but introduction to an age of decoy, article about children who can-One and a quarter mililon live often shriller than a tin whistle, this is the jet agu and tele-

"Now this of course is looking not get sleep:-

in the borough of Brooklyn.

vision, that British Invention, ahead. Nobody could call this

alonc,

One plan which the council le here to stay. This prolonged I am frequently in Brooklyn has adopted is the banning of and tedious nonsense of an al- modern architecture!) ret, structive between tea and It la Americo's Wigan, though knives for anyone under 21. most year-long campaign in the we have only just got out of the bedilme than turn the pages of much bigger, the buil of music- There have been so many stab- world's busines 1.9 well

be of suicide.

comics and watch every item hall joker, but a lusty, friendly bings, carvings, and, knlings America's, because "But we are emerging out of on the television Programme, place. Brooklyn's record during that none now under 21 in America is holding an election the fight for survival into an og neither their brains nor their this ugly outbreak of anti- allowed to carry a penknife, jee it is preoccupied with itself and when-woll, when we don't bodies are likely to need resting Semitism and anti-Teutonism la pick, beer-can opener, razor not the wide world outside. quite know what to do with nur

blade, switchblade, cleaver riches,

an age of elegance yet (look at TF they do nothing more con-

"Which is the burder test for

Christian? I have no doubt al

good. Very little trouble,

Big crisis

13

when

Remember what happened I expected in a city torn by machete, or broken hottie. The

Suez crisis? and full of during the teenage violence, gang wars, and plan la pathetic

-Anyone who Can America was holding an elec all about that. 1 think to be by Mr Paul Reilly, director pingued by homicide and hit or loopholer,

ther 12-and-run drivers, prove he needs a knife in his lun, and look what happened, sanothered by too much is a fur of the Council of Industrial that the Jown and the Germans line of work or hobby, or needs more real danger than to have Design

would have been at each other's to shave, can carry a knite or a harily enough?"

Then, from considering the AD half the foxtanes that throats. Not so. Mayor Wag- razor. throat of tnaterialbum. Dr have been spent in recent nor should be grateful. Fisher switched to a brighter years on imftallon anliques and aspect of the future; the pro- perlod maka-belleve been used

of the to encourago a reunion

new ideas of pects for

tha separated fragments of the dealan and oratiemanahip,

world would now be looking to Christian Church.

The mayor has enough trou- Without specifying too much us for leadership instead of-ta, ble on his hands. The latest

Half, or dadall, he predicted confidently Boahdinavia,

· the || 'stritgestion before the city ogun- that the different diericaninations, UMMA,

oll to curb the urine ways le le

Lunacy!

Boy Scouts but not Cubs are New Yorkers' bir purrent allowed to carry Sesuit knives., orlais is over the railways, par* Brownies and dirt Guides aro tentarly the muburban linen, permitted whistler, Are we all Two hundred thavanná propia, known's dominatern (um ugly going slightly dafi?

word), ride to and from Now There is much evidence to York ofty every day by four support this theory.

railway systems. Each of the

crippled by taxes and paralysed by costs. They say they are dying and, rather than die by slow glages, they are prepared to commit suicide. Now they are issuing ultimatums. Either they get a 10 p.c. fare increase and chut huge tax rellef or they down.

Whale

The

muters. begun. This cannot continuu. Help or else."

WOULD BAFFLE ANY CAVE-MAN

Now York. Modern man might be mo match in a cluŸibing con- tost with his caro-MRA ancestor, but bo is waill fitted for the pecu- liaritios of his modern environment.

These

are the conclusions reached in 3 report published by the Smith- sonian Institute Washington..

The authors, Dr-Theodore-

Dobzhansky

and

Dr..

George Allen, scoff at all the gloomy predictiona about the survival of the Our over- unfittest in protected modern society.

Bare hands

+

advertisements page "are" appearing in the news-The scientists admit that supera. "An alert for CONL- man has lost some of the

countdown has

und mental

physical qualities needed by the cave-men when they had to face ferocious animals with clubs or even bare hands.

A deluge

Good news for the British and the forthcoming British Trade Fair and Tattoo,

There is a deluge of

erders

But in our modern world, the cave-men would be equally "weak."

already and our British infor-Ile just wouldn't have the

a

mation services have inken the bold step of planting Union Juck stamps and the British Lion on their envelopes with "British alicker.

Exhibition, New York, June 1900."-

Who is responsible for Uhis Probably systems is in the red and going splendid enterprise?

Major Bill Ormerod who, hon- broke.

The railroads lose money on

oured by the Queen, will soon passenger. They are be Sir Berkeley Ormerod.

every

physical agility to dive and into heavy traffic emerge alive on the other side of the street. And he wouldn't have the mental facility to All out ☐ 20th century income-tax form, the re- searchers sald.

-(London Express Service).

"Hello, Dr. Banda! You've almost served your apprenticeship

for becoming Prime Minister