Eighteen State governors have signed the “American Declaration of Tolerance and Equality” which will be the feature of a nation-wide Independence Day ceremony of the Council Against Intolerance in America, it was announced today. The declaration, initiated by Senator W. Warren Barbour, George Gordon Battle and William Allen White, co-chairmen of the council, is to be adopted at thousands of community meetings.
The governors are Jones, Arizona; McMullen, Delaware; Cone, Florida; Townsend, Indiana; Chandler, Kentucky; Dickinson, Michigan; Carville, Nevada; Miles, New Mexico; Lehman, New York; Hoey, North Carolina; Vanderbilt, Rhode Island; Blood, Utah; Bailey, Arkansas; Olson, California; Ayers, Montana; Carr, Colorado; Maybank, South Carolina; Smith, Wyoming.
Plans for the observance include a radio broadcast linking the New York and San Francisco fairs, with Governor Olson and Grover Whalen participating; reading of the declar ation during intermission periods in New York theaters on July 4, and publication of the text in more than 150 newspapers and magazines and broadcasts over more than 200 radio stations.
Meanwhile, the National Conference of Christians and Jews announced that the American Education Association and the Teachers Union had voted to affiliate with the newly-organized Teachers’ Round Table of the N.C.C.J.
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