Rockefeller Towers

Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores.

Therefore John Davison Rockefeller Jr., generous donor to the 36-story Broadway Temple now being completed at Broadway and 174th Street, pleaded last week for skyscraper churches which would lift the glory of God as high as the glory of life insurance and stocks & bonds. Said he, at a banquet of Temple-building bankers: "We do not want the business world to look down on churches. . . ."

Meanwhile work was being started to remove the chimes presented by Mr. Rockefeller to his Park Avenue Baptist Church from that church's tower. Residents of the expensive apartment neighborhood complain that chimes disturb their Sabbath sleep.