Show NEWS THIS WEEK 0 ut lemuel F parton parlon V I 1 spiritual salesman aids the ox ford movement NEW YORK vord keeps drift 1 ing into this office that the ox ford movement is gaining momen turn tum in the trouble zones of labor diplomacy and incipient war and carnage the story persists that its emissaries having converted pow erful chinese brought about the res cue of chiang kai shek slick when he was and prevented civil war that their followers now in elude clude high officials of japan and that thwart they are working zealously and with hopes of success to calm the quarrel between china and japan no verification as to specific ac ae can be obtained but this writer is reliably informed that they have enlisted powerful political and business leaders in europe and the orient and that they are con cent rating on certain dangerous situations frankly they are evangels to the rich and powerful as they say the hope of the world lies in inducing a spiritual change in those who own and operate it that possibly may go into the flies files of history as some thing nev new in the news this week is rev samuel moor shoemaker who has been talking over in m america as dr frank N D buchman founder of the movement is busy with the world organization in london he is prominent in the proceedings of the convocation of oxford move ment leaders in thirty five countries from the conference come stories of employers and labor leaders making concessions under the lead enship of the christian revolution anes aries and averting strikes dr shoemaker is pastor of cal vary protestant episcopal church of new york for the last few years he be has been preaching that the old evangelism had failed and that a new dynamic creed was necessary he ile became active in the oxford movement in 1932 since then a vigorous expounder of its faith he insists that only by an en lightened and aggressive mobilize mobil iza tion of spiritual forces can civilize civi liza tion be saved he is a good looking highly urbanized cleric usually wearing a modish gray business suit he calls himself a spiritual salesman this might convey the erroneous idea that he is an elmer gantry he is quite the contrary never seeking personal publicity and building a reputation as one of the church s leading scholars with his authorship of nine books in the field of religious research and polemics he ile was mas born and reared in balti more attended princeton sity later taking his doctorate in theology in his earlier years he was a teacher and evangelist in china and it is understood that this experience has made him lum barly effective in the peace and regene regeneration ration achi activities ties in china soviet liquidator IN TN ONE way at least soviet rus t sia is like traditional america the postmaster is the patronage dealer nikolai ivanovich receiving the order of lenin after his management of the recent 1 laiq has a threefold three fold office which includes control of posts and telegraphs the selection of person nel for import important anti posts and corn com mand of the secret political police he ile is iq regarded as second only to stalin in power and the prevailing conjecture among many observers is that he may be stalin s sue suc cessor his predecessors in office were grim scowling men he was llevat ed in september 1936 with national acclaim as a man who knows how to smile forty two years old he has been tagged by the correspond ants as a mystery man just now unveiled by the newspapers as a handsome personable citizen who looks as if he had just been picking daisies rather than doing a rush job of liquidating he ile is a certified proletarian a factory worker at fourteen and mil gitary commissioner with various bolshevik units in the revolution in 1929 and 1930 he was vice coromis lioner of agriculture and in 1934 became a riender of the central committee of the comman st party and of the powerful party control commission but for the most part he has worked quietly behind the scenes rarely seen saying little adroitly gathering strands of power his con arol of posts and telegraphs dates from 1928 his other offices having been added later he is one of the party s five secretaries and a can didace for membership in the politburo the high peak of power in the party organization 0 consol dated news features service |