More than 100,000 Catholic, Jewish and Protestant children in the public schools of New York are being instructed weekly in the faith of their fathers, it was reported last night at a dinner in Town Hall held by Protestant workers on the Interdenominational Committee for Religious Education on Released Time. There are 272 released-time schools in New York, Cleveland Dodge, the committee’s chairman, stated.
The work of restoring religion in education was credited by Mr. Dodge to a group of New York businessmen. They found, he said, the “half of the city’s children were not coming under any religious influence at all.”
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