Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-18
CHURCHES TO HOLD
], JOBLESS FARLEY
catholic, Protestant and
+, Jewish Representatives to
Meet Here Two Days.

!, Organized church interests of Amer
tcs have completed plans for a jointly
sponsored national conference here next
week Ito focus the conscience of the
Nation on permanent preventives of
unemployment.
Social welfare organizations repre-
genting national groupings of the Catho-
(. dc, Protestant and Jewish churches of
the country have arranged a two-day
meeting, January rs and 81, at the
Hamilton Hotel. of noted economists,
philosophers clergymen and public
officials for discussion of the cause and
{ cure of unemployment
The symposium is under auspices of
the social action department, National
justice commission, Central Conference
of American Rabbis. and the social serV~
ice commission, Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America.
List of Speakers.
The list of speakers, announced last
night, includes Senator Robert F. Wag-
ner of New York, John E. Edgerton,
president of the National Association
mons, University of Wisconsin; Fred
Hoehler, director of public welfare
Cincinnati, Ohio; Leifur Magnusson,
director of the local branch of the
International Labor Office: William T.
Foster Of the Pollak Foundation for
Economic Research in Massachusetts,;
John P. Frey, secretary of the metal
trades department, American Fedora
ton of Labor; George Soule, editor of
the New Republic DR.. A. E. Suffern
of the Federal Council of Churches;
Darwin j. Meserole, president of the
National Unemployment League; Edward
z. Hunt of the Department of Com
merce; Edwin S. Smith Of Boston,
Mass, and others.
The meeting will conclude with a
dinner for discussion of moral and
ethical Implications of the unemploy-
ment problem, with DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president of George Washing
ton University, presiding. Three speakers
will represent each of the three faiths
sponsoring the forum. They are Rev.
DR.. Harry F. Ward, professor of social
New York City, whose topic will be
1.-The Profit Motive:" Rev Dr. John A. |
Ryan, director of the department of
social action of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, who will speak on
1.-THE Demands of Justice" and Rabbi |
Edward L. Israel, chairman of the |
social justice commission of the Central |
Conference of American Rabbis, who |
will discuss Unemployment and the |
Social Conscience"
Topics On Opening Day.
The sessions the opening day will |
consider Sterilization" with Prof. |
David A. McCabe of Princeton Univer-
sity and Prof Jacob H. Hollander of |
Johns Hopkins University leading the |
discussions. The morning session OF the |
second day will be devoted to "Unem- |
ployment Insurance" with Prof |
Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins |
University In the chair. Public Works |
and Constitution will be the topic in |
the afternoon of the closing day, with |
Edward Heating, editor of Labor, as |
presiding oficer.
The Sponsoring Committee for the |
conference is headed by James Myers, |
industrial secretary of the social service |
commission, Federal Council Of |
Churches; Rabbi Israel, who also is |
head of the Har Sinai Congregation in |
Baltimore, and Rev. r. A. MCGOWAN, |
assistant director of the social action
department, National Catholic Welfare
Conference.
The general public is invited to at
tend all services of the conference.