Clerical and secular leaders here have joined in a movement to establish good will between races and creeds which was inaugurated by the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle. A special good will number was published by the newspaper.
Appeals for harmony and understanding between the diverse groups were made by numbers of Catholic and Protestant clergy.
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch wrote: “I am deeply interested in any movement which looks to the protection of rights of minorities and opposes inhumanities and excesses of any sort….That in our day there has been in the world a demonstration of utter disregard for the human rights of minorities, calls for united action on the part of all who raise their voices to heaven and say ‘Our Father.'”
Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, in a similar appeal, pointed out the need for religious freedom on the campus.
“A state university may not be the partisan of any particular creed,” he said. “Young men and women of all creeds and of no creed must be free to meet and mingle in its halls.”
The Rev. Dr. Howard Agnew Johnston, pastor of the Imanuel Presbyterian Church, wrote in part: “Every follower of Jesus must be eager to counteract the unworthy prejudices that have all too long had place among professing Christians.”
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