Women’s Unit Formed to Aid Goodwill Group

The formation of a Women’s Advisory Council of the National Conference of Jews and Christians was announced yesterday by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, chairman of the Council, from her home at Arlington, Vt. The purpose of the Council, according to Mrs. Fisher, is to “create a body of influential women in America who will promote the ideals of the National Conference of Jews and Christians and thus add strength to the efforts of those who actively work in behalf of a broader tolerance in our social life.”

The Council, when its membership roster is finally completed, is expected to number more than one thousand women of the three faiths represented in the Conference. Acceptances of membership have already been received from several hundred women in communities scattered throughout the country. Members will cooperate in all local efforts to further justice, amity and understanding among Protestants, Catholics and Jews and “all others of our richly diversified American family of citizens.”

WOMEN INFLUENCE CHILDREN

In announcing the purpose of the body, Mrs. Fisher declared: “This period of national crisis summons men and women of all shades of opinion, or all varieties of racial origin to work together as American citizens for the common welfare. But there is a peculiar service which women, more than men citizens, can render to this ideal. Women, as teachers and as mothers—the majority of them are either one or the other or both—influence, whether they will or not, the patterns of children’s minds, more than men do. And the patterns set in children’s minds now determine the patterns of public opinion in a few years.

“We hope that the Women’s ### visory Council, through the ###ho the schools, the women’s clubs and the community, will exert an important influence in the direction not only of banishing group hatreds from our shores but in getting those of various faiths to work together for common American ideals for the greater glory of our country.”