The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-10-12
SOCIETY TO MAKE WAR ON BIGOTRY AND TO ADVANCE CIVILIZATION.

permanent organization recently form ed in New York 10 carry on campaign against religious bigotry. The association is made up almost wholly of Protestants, yet it has under taken to educate the country the truth about Catholicism and Jewry. The organization is headed by Ralph Adams Cram, the distinguished architect who conceived the great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Among the members of the Executive Committee are George Gordon Battle, famous New Yorl. lawyer native of North Carolina; Prof. Carlton Hayes of Co., lumbia University; Owen Johnson, famous author; Philip Rates, New York lawyer Maj.-Gen. Rob ert Lee Bullard, United States Army, retired, of Alabama, Prof. David A. McCabe of Princeton University; Archibald F. C. Fiske and U. S. Dis trict Judge M. T. Manton.
 Among the members are Democrats and Re- publicans. The appeal for members made to forward thinking Americans, and that the re- sponse enthusiastic evidenced by the circumstance that $150,O0O was contributed by the members at the first meeting for immediate to defray the cost of starting and carrying forward the work.
 Others among the members of the organiza- tion Maurice sherman, editor of the Hart ford Courant, one of the leading Republican papers of New England William H. Todd, At lantic and Pacific shipbuilder; Dr. John H. Gibbon. famous Philadelphia surgeon a native of North Carolina; pr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University; Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York Times; Dr. Henry Van Dyke minister, educator author and diplomat pr. Raymond F. Fosdck, famous pastor of the Rockefeller Baptist Church of New York; Norman Hapgood, editor, diplomat and writer; Dr. Thomas s. Baker, educator and author, head of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews, late head of Prohibition enforcement who gave it up as an impossible task; Dr. John Holladay Latane, educator and author Dean of the College Faculty of Johns Hopkins native of Virginia and son of an Episcopal Bishop; Nicholas F. Brady, President of the New York Edison Company and half dozen other electric and public service corporations. director of the National City Bank the United States Rubber Company. the Anaconda Copper Company and ifty oher corporations Julian Harris editor of the Columbus. Ga, Enquirer-Sun; pr. William Mentzel Forrest, professor of Biblical literature and lecturer that subject in several universities and the Virginia high schools member of the Disciples of Christ Church. Dr. Frederick B. Rob- lnson, educator, author and lecturer editor of several publications educaton assistant edi- tor of the London Journal Of Education editor for the College of the City New York Pres byterian; Haley Fske President of the Metro politan Life Insurance Company and director and trustee of many banks and other corporations and colleges and other institutions; Charles H. Sabin President of the Guaranty Trust Company and score of banks and large corporations; William F Sands, famous international lawyer and diplomat ana associated with dozen big corporations engaged in foreign trade. and many others
 This is list of names containing only one Catholic and not Jew, that insures long and ef- fective life to the war on bigotry in the United States It is one of the products of the Pres- dental campaign that cannot fail to do great things for tolerance and civilization in America
 Narrow minded bigots who have in the name or Proestantism, injected religious strife into the National life by attempting to prescribe Catholics from the full privileges of citizenship and who in some places have included Jews in the proscrip- tions, have made it the duty of Protestants to take up the work these leading Americans, whose patriotism has been touched. have undertaken It is pleasant to know that it is a duty that will not be shirked