Religion: Hat for Paris

Round went the hat again to folk who knew it well—to venerable Arthur Curtiss James, to middle-aged John Davison Rockefeller Jr., to venerable Cleveland H. Dodge, to Edward S. Harkness who says little, gives much; to others. Out of the hat came $350,000 and it was forth- with announced that a $500,000 edifice for the American Church would be built on the left bank of the Seine where that river—to be exact, at the Quai d'Orsay—cuts through Paris. The balance is assured because the project has the official approval of the Presbyterian General Assembly....

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