All Faiths Join Inbrotherhood Day Festivities

With a view to furthering interfaith harmony and cooperation, religious groups of all faiths in forty-one American states will celebrate Brotherhood Day today.

Set aside as a day expressing interdenominational good will and united determination to work together for the general welfare of the country, Brotherhood Day is being held under the auspices of the National Conference of Jews and Christians, of which Roger W. Straus, Newton D. Baker and Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes are co-chairmen. The purpose of the celebration, according to the Rev. S. Parkes Cadman, chairman of the Observance, is to “stress to the American people the fact that our energy should be turned into the direction of joint constructive efforts among the various faiths, instead of antipathy and suspicion.”

Hundred’s of communities throughout the country will hold civic mass meetings this afternoon, with Protestant, Catholic and Jewish clergy and laymen participating. In many cities an interchange of pulpits between Jewish and Christian ministers will take place, with rabbis preaching sermons on brotherhood in churches and ministers preaching in synagogues.

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In New York City many synagogues and churches are devoting their pulpits to the celebration of the day. Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of the Union Theological Seminary, will speak at Temple Emanu-El this evening and several rabbis will speak tonight as ceremonies to be held at St. Ann’s Church, St. Ann’s avenue at 140th street. The Jewish Fellowship service at the Hotel McAlpin this afternoon will be devoted to Brotherhood Day, with Rabbi I. L. Bril, B. L. Rosenblum, and Rev. Herbert Evans as the speakers.

In Brooklyn a community meeting will be held by the Park Slope Division and at Duryea Presbyterian Church Rabbi Sidney Tedesche of Union Temple will be guest speaker. In the Highland Park section a joint community service will be held in the afternoon with Catholics, Protestants and Jews participating. At Rockville Center, L. I., Rabbi Jacob Radin of Great Neck will speak at the Rockville Centre Congregational Church this morning.

More than 100 teachers in Christian Sunday schools will gather for a tea this afternoon at Temple Israel, 202 West Ninety-first street, where Rabbi Robert Jacobs will lecture on “The Geography of Palestine.” Rabbi William F. Rosenblum will preside.

NATION-WIDE BROADCASTS

Two nation-wide radio hookups will broadcast addresses on Brotherhood Day. At {SPAN}##{/SPAN} p.m. Dr. Victor E. Reichert of Cincinnati will speak on the Columbia Broadcasting System on “Religion in the Present Crisis.” At {SPAN}##{/SPAN}45 p. m. Dr. John H. Finley, associate editor of The New York Times, will speak on Station WEAF and its affiliated stations. Professor Raymond Moley, editor of Today, will speak on “The Ideals of American Democracy” at 2 p. m. over Station WOR. At 10 p. m. a three-cornered discussion by religious papers will be presented over Station WEVD, with James J. Walsh, editor of The Commonweal, Dr. Guy Emory Shipley, editor of The Churchman, and Rabbi J. J. Weinstein, of the editorial board of Opinion, participating. A Christian choir will sing and the program will open with the singing of the Twenty-third Psalm by Cantor Nathan Neltzoff.

The observation of Brotherhood Day has been endorsed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who in a letter to the National Conference of Jews and Christians declared. “This occasion presents an opportunity for concerted thinking on a vital problem of national Welfare; it should help us all in our efforts to rise above ancient and harmful prejudices and ## together as citizens of American democracy.”

CAMDEN SETS ASIDE DAY

Mayor Roy R. Stewart of Camden, N. J., has issued a proclamation setting the day aside in his city for observation of Brotherhood Day, according to an announcement by Dr. Cadman. Governor David Sholtz of Florida has issued a statement commending the day to the attention of the people of his State, it was also announced.

At many of the meetings throughout the county brotherhood declaration cards will be distributed and signed. The cards read as follows:

“God being my father and all men being my brothers, I make this declaration:

“1. I intend to do unto others, of whatever race or creed, as I would have them do to me.

“2. It is my purpose to respect the rights of human beings, and to judge each fellow-man on his individual merits alone.

“3. I will oppose every organized effort to evoke fear or hatred of any religious or racial group.”