The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-15
RELIGIONS ILLS
ARE TRACED TO
SECT JEALOUSY
Inter- aith News Service
Termed Step to End
Prejudice.
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WASHINGTON, May -"One
Of the crying needs Of religion to-
day Is an inter-faith news service
that will acquaint members Of each
group OF the spirit and purpose.
plans and achievement OF other
groups" Robert A. Ashworth, editor
OF the n. C. J. c. News Service, de-
clared here in an address before the
Editorial Council Of the Religious
Press.
Such an intor-faith news serv-
ice Mr.. AshWorth declared, "coulc
interpret and disseminate news Of
adventures in understanding among
the three faiths-the Catholic, Prot
estsnt and Jewish.
Acquaintance First Step
Something better than armed
neutrality surely Is possible in the
relations Of group to group. The
most fertile breeder OF prejudice is
ignorance and this, it is in our
power to dissipate. Acquaintance is
the first step toward friendship.
Thoughtful religious people are
more apprecistive than once they
were OF the virtues and values that
are conserved and propagated by re-
ligious bodies other than those TO
which they belong.
The old spiritual isolations in
which some of us we're brought up
are no longer tolerable. The leal
ousies. suspicious and competitions
that characterized the religious life
of this continent a generation ago
are already frowned upon by the jul
dicious and will soon be discarded
even by the most backward.
The stream of individual and
group conviction will still, it is to
be hoped, run deep and swift, but
without lessening or loOsening OF
conviction there will grow desire
to understand those with whom we
differ and to do them justice and to
create a community of sympathy,
generosity and good will. The ma
tional conference believes that
Americans can destroy the Ku-Klux
Khan kind of spirit, and outmode
forever religious prosecutions in
their own country.
Notes Editorial Change
ct is such an agency as an inter
faith news service which we are
seeking TO create and to develop.
It's possibilities are without limit.
Its influence is directly in accord
with the purpose of the national
conference TO foster amity and CO.
operation.
A distinguished Catholic layman
lately said to the writer, Eight
Catholic papers come to my desk.
I notice that they use much of the
COPY you furnish but 1 note partic-
ularly that since you started your
News Service the tone OF the edi-
torials in these papers has distinctly
changed and has become more
kindly and less critical when they
deal with non-Catholic themes"
Nothing. in our eyes. could furnish
better justification for the attempt
we are making.
The Religious Question Box,
which we syndicate weekly and to
which more than fifty daily news
papers now subscribe. including
some OF the principal papers of the
country, includes generally three
questions and answers in each issue,
dealing respectively with the three
faiths. Questions are sent to us by
readers of the papers and they come
from all parts of the country. Such
questions as are not suitable for
Public reply we answer by person.
al letter, getting authentic informa-
ton, where necessary. from Cath
ole priest or a Jewish rabbi. These
questions in their range, and often
in their urgency. and sometimes in
the delicacy of the issues they raise
with respect to personal conduct, are
a revelation of the depth of inter-
est of newspaper readers in religion
and the ISOLATION it offers to prac-
ffcal rroblemS Z"