J.D.B. News Letter

(Special Correspondence)

A Jewish Christian Fellowship Week will be held here from August 8 to 14 on the campus of Racine College. The Midwest Council for Social Discussion, which is sponsoring the conference, declared in its call to the meeting that “the gathering is not merely to further tolerance and good-will but rather mutual enrichment of Jews and Christians, plus team-play in furthering a better social order. Fellowship and discussion are the means to this end.”

This conference will be conducted in a unique manner, which has proven to be usually effective. Instead of the leaders giving formal prepared addresses to be discussed by their audiences. the usual conference method, the conferees themselves set forth the problems and raise the questions that seem to them most vital. Then the authorities on the various subjects will be called upon to set forth what they consider to be the solution of these problems.

The Jewish-Christian Fellowship week will be held in conjunction with the Summer Conference of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which in previous years held their conferences at Olivet and Hillsdale, Michigan.

Among the speakers at the sessions will be Dr. Boris D. Bogen of Cincinnati, executive secretary, International Order of B’nai Brith; Bishop Paul Jones, formerly of Utah. Conference chairman; Rabbi G. Fox. South Shore Temple, Chicago; John A. Lapp. National Catholic Welfare Council; Hardias T. Muzumdar of Bombay, India, author. Gandhi the Apostle: Henry Nelson Wieman. professor, philosophy of religion. Divinity School. University of Chicago; John H. Gray. economist. Interstate Commerce Commission. Washington. D. C.; Samuel Levin. chairman. Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Chicago; William B. Spofford, executive secretary, Church League for Industrial Democracy New York; Jacob Viner, professor of economics, University of Chicago; George L. Collins, former vice-president, Denver Labor College.

Others who will present their views are: Fred A. Moore, executive director, Chicago Forum Council; Abraham Cronbach, professor of social studies, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati; Frank Orman Beck, professor of urban sociology, Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston; Edward N. Schoolman, M.D. psychiatrist. Fellow American Medical Association; C. Walker Hayes, professor of social science, Rockford College; Karl Borders, director Russian Reconstruction Farms; Zona Gale Breese, novelist and playwright.

The Midwest Council for Social Discussion, which is arranging this Jewish-Christian Fellowship week, is the organization that promoted the Church and Synagogue conference held at Olivet, Michigan, two years ago. The purpose of the council is the promotion of better understanding between the various racial, religious and economic groups of society and the furtherance of public intelligence on vital social problems.

The Midwest Council’s method of procedure, in addition to promoting conferences, is to assist urban communities in organizing their forces for the promotion of inter-group goodwill and popular consideration of the major problems of society. The Chicago Forum Council and the Cleveland Adult Educational Conference are two widely known community organizations promoted by the Midwest Council.

John W. Herring. secretary of the National Conference of Jews and Christians initiated the Midwest Council for Social Discussion Mr. Herring is now the representative of the Council on the National Community Foundation. Reverend Joel B. Hayden of Cleveland is the president of the Midwest organization, Fred Atkins Moore of Chicago is secretary and Glenford W. Lawrence is field secretary. The office or the Midwest Council is in the City Club Building, Chicago.

Cecil B. De Mille, produer of the “King of Kings” will join the Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer studies as director, abandoning his work as an independent producer acording to an Associated Press despatch from Los Angeles. The announcement that Mr. De Mille had signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stated that he would leave his own studio within a month.

The film “king of Kings” considered in Hollywood to be Mr. De Mille’s greatest production, called forth wide protest in Jewish cireles as reviving religious prejudice The production, banned in some cities and exhibited only after censorship in some foreign countries, was said to be a financial success.