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...them religion has been the most reluctant to admit the wisdom of control. The sacred writings of all religions make specific injunctions for generation, impugn sterility. The barren woman must hang her head; the fertile woman is praised, yet not glorified. Her labour is not pitied. However, the Protestant churches have begun to examine the problem. High prelates of the Church of England have advocated control. The Protestant Episcopal Church, at their San Francisco general conference last June listened to sane expositions (TIME July 4). Their viewpoint is, of course, ethical. They would balance a moral equation-their dogmatic injunctions...
...engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes without saying; Mr. Tomlinson, however, predicts a complete world breakdown as an inevitable result, a breakdown which would leave the United States with no market for its commerce, and hence with a barren and fatal victory...
...publications once chifly with in barren intellectualism have hastened to clamber aboard the bandwagon of Literature for the Many. A mild miracle has taken place, for with incentives quite mercenary the editors have done a literary good turn...
Clarence Walker Barren's Wall Street Journal, less brash in such business & financial matters than the Chicago paper, noted last week: "American banks are finding it profitable to place surplus funds in London, owing to higher level of money rates there, and such transfers of dollars into sterling have been a leading cause of firmness in the sterling rate this week. , Some American funds are also being placed in Germany, to take advantage of higher rates prevailing in Berlin...
Boston University Alvan Tufts Fuller, Governor of Massachusetts LL. D. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor Boston Herald Litt. D. Clarence Walker Barren, publisher, financial periodicals D. Commercial...