New Britain herald., 1925-06-09
RABBI HADAS HITS
 AT REACT|0NAR|ES
Says People Want Children
 Taught Ancient Concepts
BR0ADSIDE AT BIG6IRY
Religious Hatred Is Bred Because We Don't Take Trouble to Learn What Other Denominations Stand For, He Tells lions Club.

What Other Denominations stand
 For, He Tells Lions Club.
 You will not use torch to light your home, nor ask your stenog- rapher to use pen in writing your letters, but you will demand of your ministers and teachers that they teach your children the concepts of many years ago." said Rabbi Ger shen Hadas. the new Jewish rabbi Of this city, in an address to the mem bers Of the New Britain Lions club at the Burritt hotel today.
 Rabbi Hadas delivered a scathing denunciation of religious intolerance, and inter-sectarian quarrels, re- ferring to the Klan, the anti-evolu- ton legislation, fundamentalism, etc., in the course of his talk.
 He began by saying that the faith of America today is in it's progress. declaring. "We blunder and founder in all sorts of ways, but in some way we have faith that we will get there.
 What part are science and educa- ton playing in the progress of America? You can take a barbarian and dress him up in the clothes of modern civilization and put him in a Rolls Royce automobile, but he is still Zulu. We have men and wom- en today with all the accoutrements of progress, who have the mentality Of three or four thousands of years ago.
 At Atlanta, Georgia, we find tho central point for a party of men and women who are honest and truly pa trlotic, but with no clear idea of what America actually means.
 Must Learn What Others Stand For.
 Tt is because l as a child was not given to understand what Protes- tants and Catholics mean that might have grown up with dislike of both We have not taken the trouble to learn what other groups stand for. and this Is what breeds religious hatred"
 Referring to the present contro- versy between fundamentalism and modernism, he said: If you want progress you must not hamper the minds of the children. Break ups in Protestant and Jewish churches is because of the fact that the leaders in both denominations have not had the courage to go out and teach what they actually know
 No greater lie was ever told than that one which says you cannot change human nature. The child who continually hears of its own min ister and Its own church to the dis engagement of others, will grow up in an atmosphere of religious hatred.
 Taught to Hate Yankees.
 If the cities of America continue to build monuments to generals and fill their text books with war heroes and the need of war. we will come to believe war is a necessity. I was raised in the South and was taught to believe that Yankee was some- thing to be hated.
 Not only ought we try to spread more and more the knowledge of science, but that iSthe only one way to bring about progress. Some people believe that the only way to bring progress is to change the rules of the game. You can't make good baseball players out of poor ones by changing the rules. Prohibition h. ha education.
 "Exhortation does no good. Preachers who shout and howl at their congregations have not brought about a change in the hearts of man even though they have been exhort- ing from the time. of Moses and Isaiah and Jesus.
 "Only the fear Of hell and dam nation will save us. but we have lost our fear of hell and damnation, and as long as we have. the methods of Billy Sunday will not save us"
 Club to Sponsor
 Upon a strong plea made by for mer Mayor George A. Quigley the club voted to sponsor a drive for s2,0o0 for the disabled veterans camp at Mantle and a committee consisting of NJ. W. Bannan (chair- man), Captain Harry Haynes, Mar tin Horwitz, Colonel w. w. Bullen and P, J. Murray was appointed to get into touch with trustees of the camp. Mayor A. NJ, Paonessa, former Mayor George A. Quigley and Robert c. Vance, to arrange details.
 In his plea for the club to take charge of the drive Mir Quigley re- terred frankly to the Near East re- life drive, stating that this affair IS made a social affair and all the "bontcn joins 10 make it success "The Near East raised SS,Ooo or 5000 dollars last year in New Britain and here we have soldier boys dying Of bone disease ana tuberculosis and we have to beg TOT money to send them to camp for a | month" said MT. Quigley. He state in response to question that last year New rBitain's quota was ss.on0 and the city raised only s1,s0o. He said the quota this year has been cut to s2,ooo.
 The two teams which recently conducted a membership drive. one captained by Harry Haynes and the other by Martin Horwitz, have chal- leneed each other to a contest to see which can raise the greatest amount.
 New OfIicers Elected
 The following officers were elect ed. President, Harry c. Hancock; vice-president, John A. AndreWs' treasurer. Leon G. Rose; secretary James F. o'Brien: tail twister, Mar tin Horwitz: lion tanner, Harry
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