The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-03
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 How many of the ten million pre-war Jews will be left in Europe after the war, it is almost impos- sible to estimate, says the Inter- national Committee on the Chris tian Approach to the Jews How ever, the Committee says, it can be safely estimated that at least, half of the Jews in Europe will be in Russia. The Christian missions to Jews will find after the war, one of their greatest concerns to be that of facing the problems of anti-Semitism and of Jewish re- mobilization, and they must be prepared to follow the Jews, and possibly to abandon the old estab- lished centerS.
 With the recent publication parts of the Gospel in the Walama dia- lect of Ethiopia, in Yipounon and Yisangou for the tribes of Gaboon, French Equatorial Africa, and in Gunwinggu for the natives of nor thern Australia, some part of the Scriptures has been published in 1,062 different tongues, according to the American Bible Society. The number of languages in which there is the whole Bible is 184 the New Testament is in 233 additional lan- guages; at least one complete book of the Bible in 557; and parts of the Bible in 88 additional lan- guageS.
 Building a Better World" is the theme of a two-day forum to be held at Christ Methodist Church, New York, September 20 and 21 It will be international in scope, non-secretarian and non-political in nature, with Dr. Ralph w. Sock man, pastor of the church, presid- ing. Among the speakers to par ticipate are: Mary Mcleod Bet hume, president of the National Council of Negro Women; Senator Harold H. Burton, Ohio; Sir Gerald Campbell, special assistant to the British Ambassador; Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president, National Con- ference of Christian and Jews, Inc; pr. J. Anthony DeHass of Harvard University; Dr. John c, Ferguson advisor to the Chinese Government; Katherine F. Lenroot chief, Children's Bureau; Grover Patterson, editor, Toledo Blade; Judge Joseph M. Proskauser, presi- dent, American Jewish Committee Dr. Homer P. Rainey, president University of Texas; Gov. Sumner Sewall of Maine.
 Under the superintendency o1 Sherwood Hall, M D., formerly g medical missionary of the Meth odist Church in Korea, and now in India in similar capacity, the Union Mission Tuberculosis Sani- torium in Madar, Rajputana, is coming into a place of leadership in the fighting of this disease which seems to be taking increased toll of Indian life pr. Hall an- nounces two recent gifts made by grateful Indian patients who have been healed by the treatments al this Sanitorium. One is gift ot 1,500 rupees (about $500 for new cottage unit; the other a gift ot 5000 rupees ($1,65O for the gen. eral purposes of the institution. Ii was Dr. Hall who IS years ago introduced into Korea the use ot Christmas seals to secure funds to fight tuberculosis. In 1941 he in- troduced the seals into India, and today eight sanitoria (practically all there are in the country) are cooperating in selling the seals.
 "The Christian Church must voice the demand for basic mini mum in terms of food, fuel, shelter clothing, education, ct cetera, as an expression of moral right, as well as an expression of the ethical ideal of Jesus that man is of in- finite worth," in the opinion of Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York Such a minimum will call for the employment of large per- centage of our workers and will recognize that true wealth lies in what is produced. It will see that fr1lI ernplOvuent in China whicI,