Cooperation among Catholics, Protestants and Jews to provide religious instruction for public school children, outside of the schools, to combat the wave of lawlessness among young people was advocated by Cardinal Hayes, in an address at the Waldorf-Astoria, Sunday, before the organization of Catholic teachers in the public schools.
Mgr. Lavelle, explaining Cardinal Hayes’ plan in his campaign against crime, said:
“We need all of us, Protestant, Jew and Catholic, to work together. We need most of all to realize the greatness of the evil that is among us and that it can be remedied.
“In some places, mostly outside of our big cities, the public school authorities have seen their way clear to dismiss the schools one hour earlier for each class once a week. If the Court of Appeals makes a favorable decision, this will greatly help because it would simplify the rounding-up of the children.
“If we people can get together and have confidence in each other and stop hating one another, we can accomplish our aim in from one, two or three years at the most.”
The Rev. Walter M. Howlett, secretary for Religious Education of the Greater New York Federation of Churches (Protestant), said that if the Court of Appeals decided favorably, and if Catholics, Protestants and Jews continued to cooperate as in the past, every child in New York City would be receiving systematized religious instruction within the next five years. Matthew A. Delaney, Superintendent of Catholic Sunday Schools in New York, also spoke.
Dr. D. de Sola Pool, rabbi of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, 99 Central Park West, had been invited to speak, but was unable to be present.
BRONX RAISES $85,000 FOR $200,000 U.P.A. QUOTA
Approximately $25,000 was raised at a dinner of the Bronx Division of the United Palestine Appeal tendered to Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, chairman of the New York campaign Sunday night, at the New Terrace Gardens, bringing the grand total raised in the Bronx thus far to $85,000. The Bronx quota is $200,000.
Beside the guest of honor, others who spoke were State Senator Benjamin Antin, Samuel C. Lamport, Judge Albert Cohen, and Bernard Crausman, chairman of the Bronx Division Philip Wattenberg was toastmaster. The committee which arranged the dinner consisted of Dr. H. Projector, chairman, assisted by Louis Rimsky, Mrs. A. Ackerman, Dr. P. Bereane, M. Berksal, Dr. S. W. Boorstein, R. Bernson, I. Cherey, Mrs. S. Judenfreund, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kaplan, Mr. M. Kushner, I. Maltin, S. Margolis, B. Pegalis, A. M. Rabinowitch, Dr. and Mrs. B. Rubenstein and Dr. Solomon Smelin.
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