New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-22
Church Bodies
With 10 Million
ToFight Reds
Powerful Alliance. Backed
by u.s. 900, 900 Members,
n Strike at Radicalism:
UseEducationalP Programs
II. S. Officials to Aid
Movements Head Says Man
Power and Wealth Will
Re- Communicated to Win

WASHlNGlONs Mdrch GA pow
.yfn, alliance between a score of
church UNCONVENTIONAL organizations
has been effected to fight the RED"
,snace This cooperative alliance,
xb;eh is said to represent more than
70 ner cent of the membership in all
Protestant organizations in the United
States. has announced it is ready tc
,nena slo.ooo,oOo to cope with radical.
ism and to aid in eradicating Red
doctrines. Broader educational pro-
crsms. through which the alien will
10 induced to accept citizenship in lieu
os his Old World affiliations, are to be
sranced Immediately by the twenty or
more denominations forming the CO.
operative alliance.
To Educate Aliens
The church plan of attacking the
.Red' problem in a practical way is
outlined in an official report made pub
Il, to-day by officials of the Inter
church World Movement. The survey
OF the cooperating churches has re-
suited in definite decision to draw
heavily upon the wealth and man
mower of the organizations to further
the interests of Americanization
Boards OF the various church organ
;za.ions were in COMPLETE agreement
that the RED" menace is due to neg
,ect Of the alien immigrant. The
church program aims to give him bet
Ter opportunity to assimilate American
IDEAS and ideals.
Large relief and mission funds are
10 be drawn upon at once to finance an
educational program among foreign
speaking and illiterate elements in
thickly populated centers. The inter
church survey pointed out as a prime
need the establishment of training
;chools in large numbers for the thor
ough teaching of immigrants and the
inculcaton of American ideals as to
loyalty and citizenship. The inter-
church survey found that mucn of the
so-called anarchist evil is due to the
clingng of immigrants to their Old
World affiliations and prejudices.
Practices under which immigrants
are HeIueU toSttHet az iOleiSu pO1 rs
and are brought to America to be
dumped" in foreign peaking colonies
IS deplored by the Interchurch organi-
cations
The churches sharply criticize GER
tain commercial agencies directing
movements Of foreigners coming to
America. holding them to be RESPONSE
bic partly for the plight of thousands
Ct Notwithstanding residents
Closer government supervision of
departures from foreign ports for
america, through American consulates,
% prevent the entrance of undesirables
5 advocated by the churches.
THE striking degree to which COM
nercial agencies exploit the workers
Tssults in bitterness and an intense
'atcalism among a large section Of
these immigrants" the report says
What could be more Christian than
. substitute for this an organized
n'vsmsnt of kindness for one of in
Justice?
Besides the purely economic prob
ems there is a field of voluntary &C
tivity to be found in meeting the i'm
mediate needs of the situa ton. 1t is
10 be best met through Chri stan kind
ness brought about through personal
contacts. Such activities, it must be
understood, are palliative, rather than
preventive, with respect to the prob
iem as a whole.
Activities of the cooperative church
bodies will not be substituted in
thought or in fact for any of the
deeper-lylng measures which it is the
duty Of enlightened public opinion to
demand, and the state to work out"
Government officials whose work ras
brought them into intimate touch with
the Red" problems to-day strongly in
dorsed the church plan for cooperative
ection TO combat radicalism. 1t was
warmly praised as an effective supple
ment 10 the governments program of
americanization.
Program Warmly Endorsed
Robert Lansing, former Secretary of
state, honorary chairman of the Ma
uonal lnterchurch Committee. which
vii direct the anti radical program;
franklin K. Lane, former Secretary of
he Interior; Secretary of Labor Will
son and A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney
GENERAL, warmly commended the idea
o. wider educational program by the
churches, in conferences with officials
VI the lnterchurch movement.
Practically all the larger Protestant
examinations IN the United States,
'arough their boards of bishops, have
gwen full sanction TO the Americaniza
ION program, now to be made effective.
ne church boards are said to be will
.ag TO divert many million dollars more
man is now authorized for similar
purposes.
denominations having the greatest
s.merical strength in the present
rrO~eriui alliance are the Methodist
iIpiseopa Presbyterian. Baptist,
, n,alne,fan, Reformed and Congrega-
nterchurch officials arranging for
Immediate operation of the Americana
L lion program said the movement will
nav. .aYe the Endorsement of not less than
NN,l.y distinct church denominations in
I'm America, with total mem bership
'"s''is above the $4,000 900 mark