Evening star., 1932-02-14
SEMINAR TO HEAR
NOTED CLERGyMEN
Plans Announced for Meeting
to Promote Religious Lib
erty Principle.

men, q Protestant, Catholic and .
Jew, will address the first National
Conference of Jews and Christians to
convene here March 7 for the purpose
of promoting religious liberty and
mutual understanding among all faiths.
The Capital speakers are the Right
Rev. James E. Freeman, Episcopal
Bishop OF Washington: the Rev. DR..
Francis J. Haas, director Of the Ma
| tional Catholic School Of Social Serv-
ice and Rabbi Abram Simon of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation.
| Bishop Freeman will speak on MY
Haas on 1.-The Values Of Community
Cooperation" and Rabbi Simon on
THE Significance Of the Intergroup
Movement Their talks, coming on
the first day of the three-day seminar,
will be broadcast over q Nationwide
radio chain from Ais to Sis o'clock
on the afternoon Of March Z.
President Is Invited.
President Hoover has been invited by
the nationally known sponsors Of the
seminar to open the conference at the
Willard Hotel. Newton D, Baker, for
mer Secretary Of War and a candidate
for the Democratic nomination to the
presidency. will deliver the closing ad-
dress over coast-to-coast radio net
work.
The conference, the first event Of
such wide scope ever held in the
United States, Is the outgrowth Of q
series OF smaller seminars which proved
SO successful that the National Con-
| nf laura ond Chr{ef 10 rn,;5ad
to push still further in efforts to COM
bat inter-religious distrust and antago-
nism. The main purpose of the Spon-
soring Committee, which was organized
in 1928 has been stated by former
Secretary Baker, one of the three Co
chairmen, as follows:
THE National Conference of Jews
and Christians associates a number OF
thoughtful and earnest, people in an
effort to analyze and ally the prepudices
which exist between Protestants, Cath
olics and Jews. The conference seeks
to moderate and finally to eliminate a
system Of prejudices which We have in
part inherited and which disflgureS and
distorts our business, social and poll
tical relations"
Prominent Backers
LIE lQoG VI dUf1ocIS VI
the National Conference carries the
names of many outstanding American
leaders, including former Gov. Alfred
E. Smith of New York, Owen D. Young
Nicholas Murray Butler, Jane Addams
John H. Finley, associate editor of the
New York Times; Clark Howell editor
Of the Atlanta Constitution; Mrs. John
D. Rockefeller, jr.; Secretary Of the
Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Henry Nor
benthan, Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes, Chief Justice Benjamin N
Cardozo Of the New York Court OF
Appeals. Rev. Harry Emerson, Fosdick,
Rev. DR.. s. Parkes Cadman, Daniel G
Roper, member Of the District Board
of Education, and scores of others
whose names are notable in business
politics. letters, journalism, law anG
education.
Mrs. Robert Whitney Imbrie OF
Washington is chairman OF the Com
mittee ON Arrangements for the semi
mar. Members Of her committee are
Miss Hettie Anderson, Mrs. Jennie Ber-
liner. Eugene Clark, James Cobb, Rosa
F. Downing, Maurice D. Rosenberg and
william Franklin Sands.
Details Of Program.
Opening at 1870 pm. March 7. at
up first a discussion of Situations in
American Communities, under the
Craftsmanship of C. E. Silcox of the In
stitute of Social and Religious Re
search, Toronto, Canada. Following
this general discussion Of basic prob.
lens, the seminar will divide into rounG
table groups to consider the work to bt
done In both public and church schools
preparatory schools and colleges, a
well as the effect of journalism on inter.
group attitudes and the specific task:
Of younger clergy"
Major problems and issues emerging
from the afternoon round tables viii
be laid before unique U-table genera
session that evening, at which the fol
lowing well known religious leaders viii
speak: Bishop Francis j. Mcdonnell
president of the Federal Council o.
Churches; Rev. Dr. John A. Ryan, Ma
tional Catholic welfare Council, ant
Rabbi Louis Mann Of Chicago.
Other round table conferences will b
held the second day, with discussion
Of the part Of the press in the move
ment for improving inter-group rela
tions scheduled for the final day.
Co-chairmen with Mr.. Baker IN
Roger W. Straus Of the American He
brew Congregation and Prof. Carlton
H. Hayes of Columbia University