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...last week, prospectors were racing into the Lynn Lake area by bush plane. Flyers who circled Lynn Lake saw so many snowshoe tracks on the ground they looked like chicken runs. Around the lake a busy settlement had sprung up. Log cabins and prefabricated houses had been hauled north on sleighs. Tractor trains clanked in from Sherridon carrying hundreds of tons of supplies at a time. (On the return trip they carried back ore for extraction at a pilot plant set up in Sherridon.) There was talk of laying a spur railroad line from Sherridon north to Lynn Lake...
Opportunity to give one's social conscience brisk exercise appears in the call for volunteers issued this week by Phillips Brooks House. Appealing for undergraduates to man local settlement houses, the Social Service Committee paints a picture of worthwhile experience to be gained-and an urgent present need for manpower. Although one-hundred and three Harvardmen trek each week to congested districts in Boston for brief sessions with young people's groups, and unlimited number could be promptly placed; the more children can be brought in from the streets...
Restricted by a lack of funds in many instances, the settlement houses are for the most part unable to hire the bulk of their staff and must depend upon volunteers. Of thirty-five houses in the Greater Boston area, there are twenty-six at the present time with a shortage of personnel and a curtailed program to match. This gap can well be filled in large part by students who can spare two hours weekly...
Declaring that from 24 to 35 Boston settlement houses "which have traditionally relied on University students for a large part of their staffs are now seriously hindered by a lack of personnel," Richard W. Kislik '48, Chairman of the Phillips Brooks House Social Service Committee yesterday announced that the committee has begun a drive to enlist 300 students for settlement house work...
...opposing the settlement, Justice Jackson hit at a far deeper and perhaps more menacing possibility. If the state is forced to aid church schools by diversion of tax moneys, there can be little doubt that the logical implication of state control of ideas creates a monumental danger to free worship. If a contemporary example is necessary after centuries of lessons, the picture of political interference at the University of Texas applied on a smaller scale, and inserted through the seemingly trivial entering wedge of tax rebates ought to be enough to terrify defenders of any linkage between state authority...