Ecclesiastical Affairs

P:The Church of England announced that during the past six years an average of 287 men have taken holy orders, whereas there has been average loss from the ranks of the clergy of 700. There are scarcely 1,000 Anglican priests under 35 years of age. Leaders are dismayed.

P:The Russian Church in America (TIME, April 7), by convention vote at Detroit, declared itself independent of the home church, but decided not to join the Protestant Episcopal Church. Metropolitan Platon was endorsed; Kedrovsky was denounced as schismatic.

P:The American Bible Society chose for President a former official of the Central Trust Co., Manhattan, now the Central Union Trust Co., a former President of the N. Y. Philharmonic Society, the Treasurer of Princeton Theological Seminary--Edwin Francis Hyde. He succeeds Churchill H. Cutting.

P:The Holy Father excommunicated Rev. Etesto Buonajuti, Professor of church history at a university in Rome. The Reverend Professor was too "modern."

P:The Holy Father, receiving one Florence Lowden in special audience, said: "I once blessed the name of the Pullman people when I was traveling in Poland as a papal nuncio." Miss Lowden is the eldest daughter of former Governor Lowden and granddaughter of the late Mr. Pullman, all Protestants.