Diminishing racial prejudice in the United States was predicted yesterday by Morris Ernst, addressing a symposium at the 27th annual meeting of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Mr. Ernst said that with the growth of leisure time, Americans were becoming less orthodox, less rigid and more amenable to change.
A number of speakers at another panel rejected modern advertising methods as a means of spreading the doctrine of brotherhood. An alternate was suggested by University of Chicago educator Dr. Robert Havighurst, who noted a need for a study of the “genesis of hostility and prejudice, for our social attitudes are largely acquired through contagion.”
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