National Conference Starts Drive Against Intolerance

An educational campaign directed against intolerance and designed to promote cooperation between Catholic, Jew and Protestant in all fields of American activity, will be launched this fall under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians and with the support of a national advisory committee of outstanding laymen all over the United States, according to an announcement signed by Newton D. Baker, Roger W. Straus and Professor Carlton J. Hayes, co-chairmen of the conference.

The campaign, it was announced, is to reach into every state of the union and is to be marked by community seminars, discussion meetings, radio broadcasts and various educational activities through interested civic organizations, churches and schools.

Mr. Baker stated that in the formation of the advisory council, “we are hopeful that by grouping around the conference the leaders of American life and thought, greater sympathy for an acceptance of its mission will be possible. To that end we are inviting a group of men of affairs throughout the nation to accept membership on a laymen’s advisory committee.”

GENERAL JOHNSON ACCEPTS

Thus far three hundred men from forty-four states have accepted places on the council. One of the first to accept was General Hugh S. Johnson, director of the NRA.

Particular importance in the program this year, according to Mr. Baker, will be given to a series of seminars and discussion meetings, commencing with a seminar in New York City during October and carrying on across the country into more than twenty states. Leading figures in religious, educational and lay activities, representing the three great faiths that make up the conference, will participate.

In connection with this program and for the first time in history, a Catholic priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister will, upon the invitation of the conference, travel across the country together, and join with the regional leaders in discussions in the communities visited.