Women’s Clubs Advocate Bible Teaching in Schools

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

A resolution urging all members of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to attempt to introduce the study of the Bible into the public schools was adopted at the biennial convention of the Federation here.

The resolution was introduced by the Tennessee delegation and urged the teaching of the Bible to combat the spread of atheism among children.

Mrs. Otto Kahn, of New York, and Mrs. Maggie Barry, of College Station, Tex., led the opposition. Mrs. Barry declared that “study of the Bible should have its greatest impetus in the home,” and that children should be thoroughly grounded in it before entering school.

When the resolution was introduced the Tennessee delegation indicated that it wished to use it in an attempt to modify the drastic evolution law of that state which brought about the famous Scopes trial. Sponsors of the resolution pointed out that it was written by a teacher of philosophy and that no mention of evolution was made in it. There was considerable debate on the matter, but only twenty-five delegates voted against adoption.

Armand Emanuel, young San Francisco lawyer and pugilist, who has been hailed as a possible Jewish havyweight champion, won the decision over Mike McTigue, formr light heavyweight champion in a ten round bout before 6.000 spectators at Madison Square Garden, New York, Thursday night.

E. A. Silberstein, Jewish merchant of Duluth, has been appointed to a committee of sixty leading men and women of Duluth to assist Superior, Wisconsin in its plans for entertaining President Coolidge while he spends his vacation on the Brule river located thirty miles from Superior.