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newsgrams by James O. Henry Chairman, History Department, Biola College “to give moral direction to children” is seriously reduced, according to Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, who recently addressed the annual meeting of the Child Study Associa­ tion of America in New York. Dr. Mead declared that the rapid rate of change in modem society had created a situation in which parents could no longer “control the moral training of their children.”' These changes also call for greater support for the young couples who marry early and attempt to bring up chil­ dren under difficult conditions, the anthropologist added. She said that this adult inadequacy was also pres­ ent in schools and churches. She urged that “selective devices by com­ munities” be found to “take over what the individual parent can no longer do — give ethical direction and con­ tent to children’s lives.” Fifty-four church leaders began a discussion recently of the vast prob­ lems of merging six major 'Protestant denominations into one church num­ bering 22,000,000 members. Involved are the Methodist Church, the Prot­ estant Episcopal Church, the United Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ, the Disciples of Christ and the Evangelical Brethren Church. Delegates to the meeting known as “The Consultation on Church Union,” meeting in Oberlin Ohio, decided to admit reporters to general sessions of the three-day con­ ference at Oberlin College. Originally all meetings were to have been closed. Churchmen attending the discussion have no authority to commit their denominations to a merger. Their task is to study areas of agreement and disagreement between the vari­ ous churches. Dr. James I. McCord, president of the Princeton Theologi­ cal Seminary and an outspoken pro­ ponent of Protestant unity, presided as Chairman of the meeting. The gathering was the first in Protestant history in this country in which churchmen representing the major denominations have attempted to form an official listing of problems separat­ ing the churches. Six Churches Study Protestant Merger

U.S. Reds Support Moscow In Break With Peking

The American Communist party has thrown its full support to the Soviet Union in the rapidly-widening Communist conflict between Peking and Moscow. In a 2,300-word declara­ tion, the American party attacks the Chinese party by name as “anti­ society, anti-peace and anti-Marxist.” It charges China with pursuing “dan­ gerous and erroneous” policies which threaten world disaster. The Ameri­ can declaration is the latest in a series in which Communist parties have be­ gun to take sides in the global break now emerging between the move­ ments in Russia and China. This American statement is couched in language more blunt and specific than that of any of the previous state­ ments. It accuses the Chinese of at­ tempting to recruit supporters in the United States. The American party, the declaration says, “cannot be in­ different to the fact that the Chinese Communist party seeks converts for its dangerous policies in our country and that the open promulgation of its policies can only spread confusion and disruption.” The American state­ ment charges that the position of the Chinese “dovetails with that of the most adventurous U.S. imperialists and gives the latter encouragement.” It sharply attacked the concept of Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist leader, that imperialism and the United States are but a “paper tiger.” Spain Readmits Bible Group The British and Foreign Bible So­ ciety, a Protestant group for the dis­ tribution of Scripture texts, has been readmitted to Spain, the government recently announced. The society, which had been operating in this country since 1912, was barred in 1956. Officially it was stated the soci­ ety had accepted a new statute pro­ posed to it by the Spanish Govern­ ment, and approved by the Roman Catholic heirarchy. Ethical Direction In Home Seen Lost With radio and television holding an important place in the American home, the capacity of the parents

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