THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1I 3E MICHIGAN DAILY Forward Looking Religion . I T SEEMS 71 rI GWLDi4G IT N( oARD ( D $y T U & I ATKNf ;-A N Y' MA M w Edited and managed by students of the University of Michigan under the authority of the Board in Control of Student Publications. Published every morning except Monday during the University year and Summer Session. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this newspaper. All rights of republication of all other matter herein also reserved. Entered at the Post Office at Ann Arbor, Michigan as second class mail matter. Subscriptions during regular school year by carrier, $4.00; by mail, $4.50. Member, Associated Collegiate Press, 1937-38 REPAESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTIS9IN0 ,Y National AdvertisingService, Inc. College Publishers Representative 420 MADiSON AVE. NEW YoRK, N. Y. CHICAGO BOSTON - LOS ANGELES - SAN FRANCISCO Board of Editors uIANAGING EDITOR .............JOSEPH S. MATTES EDITORIAL DIRECTOR ............TUURE TENANDER CITY EDITOR ...................IRVING SILVERMAN William Spaller Robert Weeks Irvin Lisagor Helen Douglas NIGHT EDITORS:Harold Garn, Joseph Gies, Earl R. Gilman, Horace Gilmore, S. R. Kleiman, Edward Mag- dol, -Albert May1o, Robert Mitchell, Robert Perlman and Roy Sizemore. SPORTS DEPARTMENT: Irvin Lisagor. chairman; Betsy Anderson, Art Baldauf, Bud Benjamin, Stewart Fitch, Roy Heath and Ben Moorstein. WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT: Helen Douglas, chairman, Betty Bonisteel, Ellen Cuthvert, Ruth Frank, Jane B. Holden, Mary Alice MacKenzie, Phyllis Helen Miner, Barbara Paterson, Jenany Petersen, Harriet Pomeroy, Marian Smith, Dorothea Staebler and Virginia Voor- hees. Business Department BUSINESS MANAGER............ERNEST A. JONES CREDIT MANAGER ..................DON WILSHER ADVERTISING MANAGER .... NORMAN' B. STEINBERG WOMEN'S BUSINESS MANAGER ........BETTY DAVY WOMEN'S SERVICE MANAGER ..MARGARET FERRIES Departmental Managers Ed Macal, Accounts Manager; Leonard P. Siegelman, Local Advertising Manager; Philip Buchen, Contracts Manager; William Newnan, Service Manager; Mar- shall Sampson, Publications and Classified Advertis- ing Manager; Richard H. Knowe, NationalAdvertising and Circulation Manager. NIGHT EDITOR: JOSEPH N. FREEDMAN Should We THE PROGRESSIVE ATTITUDE, which many churches and church leaders are beginning to assume in place of the traditional backward-looking conservatism of re- ligious institutions in the past was excellently summed up by the Rt. Rev. Edward L. Parsons, Bishop of California, at the 52nd triennial con- vention of the Presbyterian Church meeting this week. "There is not much chance," Bishop Parsons declared, "of touching the men and women and children fighting for their very bread in the coal mines and cotton fields with the message that God is love.' Urging, "intelligent sympathy and understand- ing" of the problems of today, the Bishop said that while the church has no business espousing any specific economic theory or legislation, it should appraise all social and economic theory in the light of its effect upon the individual. The distinction between appraising and espousing may perhaps appear a somewhat invidious one but few will dispute the desirability of the church, as one of the world's most important social institutions, taking a more active and in- telligent part in the social movements of the day. And today, above all, when a section of the Christian Church is lending its vigorous support to such a savagely anti-Christian movement, both in method and aim, as the Franco rebellion, the note struck by Bishop Parsons is indeed a timely one. h. UNDER tli Quarantine' Japan?. 0 Q UARANTINE" of aggressor na- tions by the "peace-loving" as ad- vocated by President Roosevelt in his Chicago speech Tuesday again poses this irritating ques- tion: Should the United States join (or lead) the world in a crusade against the epidemic of law- lessness and risk bringing the affliction of war upon herself, or should she isolate herself from the contagion and risk the disadvantages of hermitage? It must be recognized that the problem is com- plicated by the emotional, yet justifiable hatred democratic peoples have