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RELIGIOUS CRISIS:

The biggest religious crisis of our day la fast coming to a head in The following Germany, though it is too early to. judgo the resuit of the reprimand available-administered to Bishop Mueller,

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the Nazl-appointed Primate of the therman Church. by President Hindenburg. The conflict almust amounta to a struggle between Christianity and Paganism and the fact that the aged President has 'thrown his weight into the scale on the side of the orthodox Christ- lans may profoundly Influence the result. Bishop Mueller's object la to convert the Evangelical Church. into an organic part of the Nazi State. Thousands of pastors and parishioners have threatened to quarrel with myself or simply

waliing to ace the tin boxes con- taining Joan Crawford and Con- stance Bennett come out, I pass4-No, the time away by asking myself the Important question: "What is your conception of the ideal film atar?"

leave the Church if the ecclesiast- ical programme is carried out.

FUHRERPRINZIP

The instrument designed to accomplish the subjection of the Evangelical Church was the sect known as the "German Christians."

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TWIN EVILS

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Needless to say, the query al- ways raiseau storm of controversy insido me, and ultimately 1 either

shrug my shoulders in a non-com- mittal way, as though to say to myself: "Really, who cares 7"

However, to-day I am going to dent fully with this subject in this series of bold questions and frank answers.

Qucation Should the Ideal film star in her leisure momenta exhibit herself to the public like royalty or mayors, or should she be kept permanently in a tin box? Answer. She should be kept per.

manently in a tin box, Q.---Why?

The Very Idea!

A BACHELOR'S GUIDE TO

MINDING THE YOUNG

W

TE have noticed with astonishment the ab-

Q.---Wouldn't you mind even if she

were married to an ice-man and solute ignorance of Hong- had the smallest meanest swim-kong bachelors in regard to ming pool in the Boverly Hills?

the care of the young.

To begin at the beginning. It will be noticed in a fresh baby that it is of a pale, prawn-like colour, and is

Q-On many occasions you have

been privileged to read the vari ous methods by which film stars retain their lovely shape. How would you prefer the ideal-fim star to reduce/increase her wolght?

A-1 would prefer her to do it in bald and toothless, exhibiting all the evidences of senility. This Q-Tell me, if you are not too

absolute secrecy.

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busy should the idle flm stars the usual thing, and the min- have photographs of herself in der is not to be alarmed. her private capacity in the news. papers?

AI am indifferent to that, so long as she is not shown waving her handkerchief from a rail way carriage window or sitting on the rails of an incoming liner swinging her legs. Q-On what ground do you object

to such photographs? A.On the ground that enough is as good as a feast, if not better. Q.-Are you of the opinion that the ideal film star should appear in person at her own premieres? A.No.

A-Because absence makes the

heart grow fonder. QShould the Ideal film star ex- press her views by proclamation over the wireless, or in an in-Q-What reason have you for any. terview on (a) the economic situation in Europe; (b) the Einstein theory; (c) the art of Henry James; (d) other sub- jects, without first obtaining the written consent of the public?

the Word of God, an authority imposed from outside, and, with the help of coercion, is Incompatible with the Protestant faith. Spiritual leadership. lika Luther's and Calvin's, came of it--No, Belf and could not be imposed. created, or organised, or embodied in any offlon.

ANTI-CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

At a moment when there are widesprend apprehensions of

As for the "Aryan paragraph," {L- war and when political freedom "blood," or race, and not faith and is being placed in jeopardy by Holy Baptism were made the test of the Christian religion, if the dictatorships, the British Labour Old Testament were rejected. be- Party is joining hands with cause it was "a collection of Jewish other bodies in a great cam-legends," then the very foundations paign aimed at the taking of con- of Christianity would be destroyed. "It would be belter," wrote Karl structive measures for the pre- Barth, "that the Church should be servation of peace and the pro-reduced to the smallest handful or that it should go into the catacomba tection of popular rights. The than that it should conclude even a movement is one likely to attract distant perce with such a doctrine." people of varying political be- The meetings and demonstrations liefs who wish that the world be of the German Christians" and the speeches of their. leaders, spared from the unparalleled especially Bishop Mueller and his supporter, Hossenfelder, were do- disasters that another world war minated by Nazi doctrine and would bring in its train. The tual. The Hitlerite symbol, the peoples of the world stand to-wastika, was made to rank beside nt the Cross of Christ. "No gymbol day, Ng rarely before,

of this world." retorted Pastor the cross-roads of fate. The Voegel, of Luckenwalde in his "65 triumphs of science have opened Theses." "has any right or room by before them the prospect of the side of the Cross all the aymbols of this world are under -wealth,--happiness-and-progress the CrossBarth and Vogel.are. which earlier generations would not alone. They have the support have thought to be a dream. If of other theologians, of thousands of pastors, and of a multitude of they could only work together, parishioners. Their defiance: has not for individual or merely already compelled the German national advantage, but for the Christians to weaken, Hossen-" common good, in a brief span of felder, their chief, had to resign from the Central Church adminis- time they could make this dream tration. The "Aryan-paragraph" come true. War can be ended, was withdrawn. poverty can be abolished, the golden rule of fellowship and co- operation can be made the firm | foundation of the "great com- This was an admission of defeat, munity of mankind." Unhappily, for the Evangelical Church was put under pressure by the Brown Shirts to-day not only the hopes of who occupied many of the churches, progress and happiness to come; and holsted the "Swastika Flag" but the very framework of on the steeples, the church elections civilisation is being undermined. were held under secular pressure (the German Christinna won them Personal and intellectual liberty, only with the help of that pres Parliamentary institutions, there).

On the eve of the elections League of Nations, and the new Hitler himself made a broadcast world law on which the League speech, calling upon parishioners to is founded, are all threatened vote for the "German Christians." with destruction. In many coun- Thus the State, under his leader tries intellectual liberty, the ship and with his participation, not rights of man, are suppressed by only interfered with religion, but torture and persecution as terri. attempted to determine its charne ter. That the spirit of the Re- ble as history has ever known formation should have been vin- Parliamentary institutions, so dicated by men whose only weapons hardly won, are being replaced were their faith and their gift of by the ruthless rule of dictators. words inspired by that faith. in War profiteers are once more at defiance of a despotism (the sub- work spreading panic among the ject of Hindenburg's reprimand) nations in order that their pro-coercion at ita disposal, is an event with all the resources of secular fits may be increased. War pre-of profound significance. parations are being made on a

scale oven greater than before

A DEFEAT

1914, and with weapons for THE PAGAN BACKGROUND more terrible than were then

known. Science at the service

But the crisis has not come to of madness threatens to destroy an end. The "German Christians" humanity itself. Yet when the have a large following and power- facts are faced, there is no real ful patrons. They are not a pure- justification for the doctrino y artificial creation, their faith fa that war is inevitable. The strongly, even fanatically, felt, peoples of the world certainly do even if it is not a religious faith. It is part of the mysticism that not want it. Under courageous animates the Hitlerite movemont, leadership, the moral forces of and in the background are pagan the world would be irresistible. cults that inevitably exercise There is now a supremo oppor- | strong fascination on those who tunity for those nations who uphold the superiority of the cherish high ideals to secure the "Nordic race," and belleve that under the influence of Greece and Romo, and that it must be found again in the worship of Thor and Odin, in the Edda and in the Song of the Niblungs,

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democratic right. But if the opportunity is lost, the results of vacillation or inaction will be too terrible to contemplate.

Q-Why not?

A.-Oh, just because. Q-What are your views on the

ideal film face for the ideal film | star?

Ing that?

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The first thing noticeable about the baby is the yowl. This must be stopped at all costa,

There are various methods, but the grinciple to keep in mind fa at all costs. Watohes are very good: a firm, hold must be kopt on the chain, however, as we have on two occasions lost a perfectly good watch through the child awallowing it.

This manla for swallowing and sucking things may be indulged to an almost unlimited extent. Door-knobs are excellent, though the holding of the baby to the knob is somewhat tiring. This make a

may be overcome by unscrewing the hinges of the door and plac- ing it in an accessible position.

A.-A perfectly splendid reason.

She will, Inevitably, speech. QBut at the conclusion of the performance don't you wish to be thanked personally by your favourite film star for your generous appreciation/silent disapproval of her work? .--No; I just want to go home to bed. And now, for a change, may I ask a question? Q-Why, certainly. What is It?

Will you do me the inestim- able favour of getting to heck out of here?

It should be kept shut. - Q-In your view, should the iden1 film star be (a) a public rocluse living in solitude and medita- tion; (b) a little wife and mollier with adopted children

I had better say here that my of her own; or (c) just a simple, hard-working girl, who isn't ideal film star is, and always has ashamed to tell everybody that been, Mickey Mouse. Farther than she lives only for her Art? that I flatly decline to go. I sim- A.She should be kept in a tingly won't be dragged into these

Theated controversics.

box.

GOODBYE TO ALL THAT

A Psychologist Discusses the Boy Leaving School

Babies of an artistic nature, or of practically any nature, may be left with a tin of boot polish or n bottle of ink or any other medium for an almost indefinite period.

In cases of persistent how.. ling, a belt passed over the top. of the head and buckled sectire- ly under the chin is an infalli. ble remedy. This must be used only in extreme cases.

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In handling, care must be taken that the baby is held in a more or less vertical position, the head being uppermost. The child at times has a tendency to jerk from the holder, and in the case of a

beginner this may lead to disas

trous results. plaster and other first-aid appliances will be found very useful on these oc

ways be kept on hand,

casions, and a supply should al-

Many boys and girls said Good-to be taken into account if mis- Where a baby has to be held bye to schooldays at the end of takes are to be avoided.

for any length of time, extra last term. and parents, ever an To prepare the ground for à dis-

chonges of trousers and other xious about the welfare of their cussion of these matters let us pay

wearing apparel is necessary. children, will have before them the visits, in imagination, to two im- dificult task of deciding into portant persons-the family doctor Nover allow a dog to lick the which of the many possible occu- and the psychologist, ·Let us im- face of a baby, as any number of pations the son or daughter shall agine that a doctor has been in- diseases may be communicated. structed by an insurance company and, in the case of a valuable dog, Every, thoughtful parent desires to report on his physical fitness.this is most serious, and may lead for his offspring health, happiness, What does the doctor do? In the to its loss, or, as best, a falling-

off of condition, and an absence

of lustre in the cost.

On one or two occasions we have found the addition or about one- third of a tumblerful of rum tọ the feeding milk very effective. Only the best O.P. rum may be used, as babies' are very delicata.......

and a sufficiency of this-world's course of an hour-or-so he applies Roods. But none of these desires certain scientific tests, Is likely to be realised if the boy Ha tests the sight, the hearing, becomes a "misit," occupied day the pulse, examines the nose and in and out with work unsuitable throat, applies instruments to the to the particular individual. heart and lungs for the purpose of It is the purpose of this article determining whether the various to state the principles on which a organs react to standard tests in right decision may be based. Then normal or in an abnormal way, choice of an occupation Involves Having obtained all this informa-ly constituted internally. a survey of many factors, includ-tion he is able to report the facts ing the ability of the parents to and to give his recommendation. continue financial aid over b short Just as the physician tests the to have four or five tumblerfuls or a long period.

physical condition, so the phy-himself, when it will be found that an extraordinary number of ways. chologist testa the mental make-up

of amusing the child will suggent of the subject.

themselves.

PHYSICAL FITNESS. The subject's physical fitness, his general level of intelligence, his temporament and predominant interests

are matters that nea

HOME TESTS. He does not test the

(Continued on Pape 3.)

A better way is for the minder

Should the little one inadver- subject'stently eat anything it shouldn't, thoroughly rinse or explo the mouth with phenol, lysol, or any

"Now, take my oldest boy. He's plenty ambitious, but

just can't got inter ested in anything?".

other good disinfectant..

In undressing the baby for the purpose of putting it to bed, bath- ing. etcetera, the beginner wil! And great difficulty in undoing the numerous buttons, tapes, and var ious other fasteninga with which It is lashed.

An efficient art obvious method is to insert a penknife between the skin and the cloth. ing and peel the mass off in one operation..

.

In bathing the child, never fill the bath right up, as it is only in exceptional cases that it will float, A cold shower and a brisk rub down with a stiff towel will have an invigorating and tonic effect,

In conclusion, a little helpful advice to the unwilling minder will not be amlee. Should you have been lured into minding a baby before, and wish to escape second demand, a convincing excuse may be made. Lodge meet- ings and appointments, business or otherwise, are received with euspicion.

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By far the bost is the statement that you feel your dipthorin com-. ing back, and that you seem to be bronking out in funny red spots all over the body.

This may be said in a conversa- tional manner just no the request is about to be sprung. We have used this or something similar for some time now, and it has novér falled yet.