Show Great Need of Today Is Return to the Idea of of Human Partnership By DR RALPH Episcopal New York HERE is ia i too much patronage in American life today and too little partnership As our citizenry has been increasingly trans hans transferred erred from the soil to the city we have changed the tempo of ou thinking from the slower processes of the tho seasons to the quick exchanges and ticker tapes of tho the market place The race of competitive com com- competitive competitive life i 1 so swift that we do not try to keep pace with one another The home homeS i strates the fact that parents do too much for their chil chil- children chil- chil children children dren and too lit with with them The present generation of youth is more heavily patronized Ian an ever were its predecessors Somewhere between a 8 bolshevism of adol adolescents anda and a paternalism of parents there ought to bea bea be a partnership in which the experiences of the el ele elders e B arc are blended with ex- ex experiments experiments ex experiments of the thc youngers In philanthropy the old friendly personal helpfulness of our simpler earlier communities is being replaced by organized impersonal charity In religion we have now largely a mere professional propaganda financed by silent spectators We hire ministers to preach our sermons evangelists to recruit our church members and musicians to v voice our religious motives mo mo- motives motives tives while the laity simply sit back and provide the funds Such patron patron- patronage patronage patronage age age can never be an adequate substitute for the partnership methods of the early church |