The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-10
By ERICH BRANDES

WASHlNGlON, Mdy lo.- Wiio was Gods grandfather"
 That question, recently asked. by six-year r-old Frank Jones of Roch- ester, N. Y, stumped the Americana Institute of Washington, D. o., which has answered more than 250,- GOO inquiries on every conceivable subject during the past ten years.
 The consensus was that God, be- ing the beginning of all things, existed before anybody or anything and will continue forever, that be- ing a spirit to a person, He could have had no grandfather, but is himself the father of US all.
 Mary Pickford representing the motion picture industry on the in- stitutes advisory board expressed her opinion as follows:
 "A child, to my way of thinking should not be taught that God is personal in a corporeal way-but rather that He is an all-loving, all- pervading spirit, filling all space and ever present.
 Difficult for child to grasp, seedless to say; but one might use the radio as concrete illustration, explaining how the air waves carry the human voice around the world in split second. Well, God is a greater, infinite air wave-l1as no beginning and no end-always has been and always will be. And since He always has been. He could not have father nor a grandfather
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 Charles A. McMahon, editor of Catholic Action, after consulting with clerical members of the staff, submitted the following answer as representing the Catholic concep- tion.
 God never had a grandfather or father because God is the begin ming of all things. There was never a time when there was no God. God always was. He is the Father of all of us. From the day that he made Adam and Eve, who were the first man and woman, we have had fath- CTS and grandfathers and great grandfathers, but God existed be- fore Adam and Eve and no one ever existed before God"
 The Protestant point of view is expressed by Dr. Henry Barraclough, Presbyterian church official, in his reply: shf''s''f
 My dear little son, I have taught you that God is our Father, and that in many ways He means to us all just what I mean to you as your earthly father; and I hope that I am as good to you as God is good to us all But there are many ways in which God our heav- enly Father is not like me. We can not see Him, as you can see me. yet He is just as real; we cannot feel Him, as you can feel me, yet we know He is at work in the world doing the things which I cannot do One of the ways in which we think of God is that He made every thing, and that He was before every- thing. He could not be God if there was somebody or something before Him"
 Morris Margulies, as secretary of the Zionist organization. is well qualified to speak for the Jews and replied as follows:
 The question put by six-year- old boy is liable indeed to place one in quandry, in view of the impossibility of entering with the child into a basic study of the con- ception of God. Of course. if we could explain to the child the fun damentals of spiritual form, as diff ferentiated from the physical, it would not be difficult to impress { upon him the inconceivable con- nection of paternalism with Deity I According to the editors of the institute, which answers thousands of questions in its service to own