Evening star., 1940-01-17
Mrs. Roosevelt Points
To Spiritual Values
1ranscending Power
Human Relations Institute
Delegates to Conclude
Session Tonight

Delegates to the Atlantic Coast
States Institute of Human Relations.
sponsored by the National Confer
ence of Christians and Jews, were
rejecting today upon Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt's declaration that q
recognition of spiritual values tram
scending physical power In the
world could start anywhere with
people who showed a desire to face
the problems of the world and deal
with them justly and understand
. ingly."
Following morning session today
devoted to round-table discussions,
DR.. Daniel A. Polling, president of
the World Christian Endeavor, was
to deliver luncheon address in the
Willard Hotel on The American
Dream" after which informal groups
were to form again.
The institute proceedings will be
concluded tonight with a banquet at
7:30 dedicated to a discussion of
Cultural Diversity and National
Unity" Dr. Frank P. Graham,
chairman of the gathering, will pre-
side, and the discussion leader will
be DR.. Eduard c. Lindeman of the
New York School of Social Work.
A group of leaders in religion, edu-
cation. business and labor will form
an assisting panel.
Must Outweigh Physical Power.
Opening an open-forum discus
sion last night, Mrs. Roosevelt de-
clared that to achieve real peace in
the world there must be some
thing set above that power, physical
power, We have counted on so much
in the past We've got to
have something that makes us judge
by different Standards"
The essence of success in arrang-
Ing just peace and preserving
= friendly relations among nations is
trust among the peoples of the world,
Mrs. Roosevelt said. She declared
disarmament conferences have failed
because back home. none of the
nations really meant that their rep
resentatives should succeed"
Mrs. Roosevelt said she saw hope
IN youth. however, remarking at an
other point in her talk. Youth of
today is more willing to place
spiritual things ahead of material
things and to do it themselves in
stead of talking about it, than when
I was young"
Responding to question as to why
there are wars when the peoples
want peace, Mrs. Roosevelt said, Il
don't know that we can say that the
peoples didn't want war. We like to
say that You have the leaders
that you choose or you tolerate"
Listen to Pocketbooks."
People listen first to their pocket
books. was her reply to query con-
corning the continuance of profit
making in wartime in nations which
preach peace. The answer is in the
people and what they are willing to
pay for
Mrs. Roosevelt stated she believed
incidents such as the blowing up
of the Maine before the Spanish
American War would be far less
likely to lead to involvement in a
conflict today.
The necessity of awaking mill
tant devotion to spiritual ideals also
was emphasized by the other panel
members, DR.. John L. Mcmahon,
president of the Catholic Association
for International Peace; Mrs. Alex
. ander Wolf, vice president of the
National Council of Jewish Women,
and Dr. Frank Kingdom, president
of the University of Newark, N j.,
who led the discussion.
DR.. Graham introduced Mrs.
Roosevelt
The Right Rev. Msgr John A.
Ryan director of the department of
social action of the National Catho-
lie Welfare Conference, earlier in
the day criticized the newspaper,
Social Justice. published by Father
Charles E. Coughlin, as full of
hatred"
Commented DR.. Ryan on the
paper issued by the Detroit, Mich,
priest: There is paper published
called Social Justice, but it is full
of hatred, misery and Indictment
to injustice"
The institute had occupied itself
with round-table considerations of
. religious education. work of the con-
ference in education and American
social and economic objectives.