A luncheon to further the American Christian Fund for Jewish Relief was given at the Bankers’ Club on Thursday by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America.
More than eighty business men and religious leaders attended the meeting. Haley Fiske presided and introduced Cardinal Hayes. Owen D. Young introduced Dr. Cadman after explaining that the American Christian Fund for Jewish relief sought a “substantial sum” to supplement $25,000,000 being raised by the United Jewish Campaign.
In introducing Dr. Cadman, Mr. Young said the elimination of barriers to racial amity was more important than the removal of barriers to trade. Dr. Cadman discussed the common origin of the Jewish and Christian religions and paid tribute to the contribution made by the Jewish people to the world’s literature in the form of the Bible.
“In making this gesture, our primary object is not financial, but to register unmistakably our opposition to enmity based on race, creed or color,” said Dr. Cadman. “General Pershing has paid tribute to the character of Jewish soldiers who fought in his armies and I am certain that our Admirals would pay similar tribute to the record of our Jewish citizens in the navy.”
“There are no racial frontiers this side of eternity,” said Cardinal Hayes. “On those who would pass the portals of Heaven is placed the condition that they love one another.”
Among those who attended were Horace F. Howland, Stuart M. Crocker, Frederick D. Underwood, Morgan J. O’Brien, James H. Post, R. Fulton Cutting, Bernard H. Ridder, William M. Chadbourne, Martin Dodge, Senator-elect Robert F. Wagner, Mrs. Regina Dreicer, James A. Smith, H. A. Guinzburg, Aaron Naumeburg, Mrs. George H. Hazen, James H. McGraw, Elim A. E. Palmquist, George Gordon Battle, George McDonald, Richard S. Walling, former United States Senator William M. Calder, Charles Wellford Leavitt, Mgr. Donohue and the Rev. Dr. Edward Lawrence Hunt.
Rabbis, ministers and priests and Catholic, Protestant and Jewish laymen, were the guests of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman at a dinner at the Hotel Roosevelt at which there was an informal discussion of the plan of education in good will to be conducted by America’s Good Will Union. A flag which stood at the head of the dinner table had been blessed by Cardinal Hayes at the request of State Senator Frederick W. Kavanaugh of Saratoga, who is an Episcopalian and a thirty-second degree Mason. Senator Kavanaugh’s request was transmitted to Cardinal Hayes by Gustavus A. Rogers, president of the Jewish Center on Eighty-sixth Street, New York City.
Among those who attended the dinner were Father Francis P. Duffy, Rabbi Israel Goldstein, the Rev. Dr. J. Howard Mellish, director of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Brooklyn; the Rev. Eliot White of the Grace Episcopal Church; the Rev. William B. Millar, head of the Federation of Churches of New York, and Rabbi Norman Salit of Far Rockawya, L. I.
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