Mental hospitals of the U. S. contain nearly 300,000 inmates; about 75,000 new ones enter yearly. What to do about them and how to prevent their increase were problems discussed last week in Manhattan by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, attended and argued for a form of confessional in Protestant churches as a means of relief. Said he: "The confessional, which Protestantism threw out the door, is coming back through the window, in utterly new forms, to be sure, with new methods and with an entirely new intellectual explanation appropriate...
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