The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-11-01
Religious Emphasis Weeks Set
 Interfoith Groups
 Sponsor Movement
 Opening Nov. 18

New York, N. Y. Nov. IA time of national religious emphasis will be observed from November Is to De- cember 2, 1945. Sponsored by inter- faith groups through the United Church Canvass national planning committee here. the emphasis stress es the value of religion to the indi- vidual and the community.
 Moral as well as financial support will be sought for all churches and Synagogues.
 Postwar programs, current eX- pense budgets, and missionary en- terprises will be explained. Churches are asked to make their canvaSseS during this period.
 Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric, heads a large Sponsors Committee of prominent laymen and religious leaders.
 Participating in the United Church Canvass emphasis are the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Unitarian Association, Southern Baptist Convention. Synagogue Council of America, United Brethren Disciples of Christ, Reformed Church in America, Evangelical and Reformed, Presbyterian Church U. s. A, Church of the Brethren, the Methodist Church, Augustana Luth- eran Synod, African Methodist EpiS- copal, Congregational Chris tian, Northern Baptist Convention, United Presbyterian, Evangelical, h c Church Committee on Overseas Re- lief and Reconstruction. and the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The promotion al executive of these church bodies constitute the Planning Committee of the United Church Canvass of which the Rev. Dr. A. D. Stauffach- CT is chairman.
 For Peace Also
 Hundreds of churches and syna- gogues have indicated that they will join the Fall canvass. Others are enlisting almost daily.
 The value of religion to the indi- Vidual, the community and the world will be presented over the radio, in newspapers, on the movie screen. Special promotional leaflets, post CTS, ads have been prepared. In some states and cities proclamations will be made concerning the period of religious emphasis.
 A feature of the Fall campaign will be a four-color poster created by Ed Ward, of White Plains, N. Y, entitled For Peace AS Well AS War It depicts young man looking with confidence into the future as he holds firmly in his two hands a Bible.
 The Planning Committee is distri- putting free to churches which may care to use them two leaflets, IT WORKS, method folder, and A GREAT IDEA, which is of pro- motional nature.
 Not Something New
 The idea of simultaneous com munity church canvass is not new. Many cities such as Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Newton Center, Mass, have had them for decade or more. The new element is the na- tlOnal cOOrQlndClOn..
 No funds are raised by the na- tional organization. Local commun- ity committees will conduct joint educational and promotional cam- paigns. This is followed by all the participating churches and syna- gogues making their financial cam paigns on the same day. The whole procedure takes place within the period of November 18 to December ?.
 This united arrangement has proven very successful. Not only is much more money raised for each church, but the spirit of cooperation, brotherhood and tolerance has been increased. Begun on the national level as a wartime necessity, the United Church Canvass will be con- tinued as a means to call commun- ity attention to the services which religion is rendering to the postwar world.
 "Together-Power For Peace" has been chosen as the slogan for the Fall campaign. Emphasis will be placed upon the churches as builders of democracy and peace. The word, together" indicates a practical CO., operation, rather than any theolog- ical or organizational unity. Being an interfaith movement it stresses the power of example when people, who worship the same God, work