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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19941, 30 May 1930, Page 12

Each your sees fewer candidates iu Britain for ordination as clergymen of the Church of England. Tho rate of decrease of clergymen between the years 1921 and 1928 was 600 a year.

Writing in tiio . "National Review," Mr 8...5. Townroe states that more has been done in Britain to jjrovido new houses of good design and to clear away insanitary areas than in any other country in the werld. He justifies, the comparison by describing, the conditions in New York, where "over 2,000,000 people, over a third of the city's population, still live i'u the.tenements erected before the beneficial laws of 1901. The sunlight never reaches many of the lower rooms. The dangers from fire in apartment houses, 15 storeys high, have proved to be appalling. The congestion of population in these sunless quarters surpasses imagination, and there are many instances where there are 3000 and even 4000 persons to the acre living in these multiple dwellings. A. gargantuan committee of 507 members has '- been sitting to consider this and. Other housing evils, and their report shows that American cities are 50 years behind British cities in housing conditions. The same is true of the agricultural parts of the vast Continent, for it is estimated that a large majority of the whole American population still live in wooden huts. Even in the latest housing schemes, supposed to be models to the world, there is a lack of privacy that would be . strongly "resented by the average English artisan. In the latest flats now being built in Chicago, two families are to be placed in each dwelling. They will have separate bedrooms, but they will have to share the same kitchen, ■ parlour, and bathroom!