Clinical Chaplains

A vexatious problem to U. S. Protestant churches and to the U. S. Department of Justice has been prison chaplaincies. Chief reason: the Protestant cloth seems to lose caste when associated with the cell. Last year Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings abandoned a hit-or-miss method by which U. S. penal institutions drew their chaplains from the neighborhood clergy. Into effect last week went a new system evolved with the help of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

Henceforth vacant chaplaincies in Federal prisons will be filled by properly trained men chosen by the Federal Council and the National Council for the Clinical Training of Theological Students. Appointees will have college and seminary training. Last week the first appointee took over his job: Rev. Wayne L. Hunter, Presbyterian, at the U. S. Industrial Reformatory for Men, Chillicothe, Ohio. .

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