Evening star., 1947-02-16
Leaders Of ) Faiths
Will Help Observe
Brotherhood Week

Leaders of the Protestant, Catho-
lie and Jewish faiths will address
meetings in the District today
through next Sunday as American
Brotherhood Week is observed
throughout the Nation.
The meetings, emphasizing appre-
citation and understanding Of people
of other faiths, will be held in con-
junction with the National drive to
raise $4,000, 900 and the local cam
paign to raise $25, 900, Alfred A. Nc
Garraghy, District campaign chair
man, announced yesterday.
The drive. sponsored by the Ma
tional Conference OF Christians and
Jews aims to raise funds to pro-
mote inter-faith cooperation and
to mobilize public opinion against
inter-group hostility.
herhood-Pattern for Peace
is the theme of the campaign. Msgr.
Hugh l.. McMenamin of Denver
suggested in 1882 to DR.. Everett r.
CInchy, president Of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews,
that a Brotherhood Week be held
annually. For the last IA years the
observance has been set for the
week which includes the anniver-
sary of Washington's birthday.
Winant Chairman of Drive.
President Truman is honorary
chairman of the drive. General
chairman is John G. Winant, former
Ambassador to Great Britain. Mr..
McGarraghy is in charge of the
local drive with Representative
Hays, Democrat, of Arkansas, serv-
ing as general chairman.
Funds from the drive will be
used to sponsor scientific research,
to analyze national differences, to
aid church parishes, universities
and schools and community groups
in spreading brotherhood knowledge,
to prepare materials for use by
civic, labor and social organizations
in aiding practical applications OF
the theme and to equip conference
Offices in different cities with the
facilities to aid these purposes.
Pastors of three faiths will ad-
dress an intercultural forum at $3.50
pm. Tuesday at Greenbelt Center
School. The speakers will be the
Rev. Leo J. Fealy of the Catholic
Church Of the Holy Redeemer, Rab-
bi Morris A. Sandhaus of the Green
belt Community Center, and the
Rev. Eric T. Braund, Greenbelt
Community Church. DR.. Walter
Hager, president of Wilson Teachers
College, will preside.
A Brotherhood Week Youth Con-
ference program at the Interior De.
partment Auditorium, Eighteenth
and c streets NV, will be feature
of the Wednesday meetings. Speak
ers on the program will be Coleman
Jennings, civic leader; Leo A. Riv.
er, Washington attorney, and DR.
Milton I. Baldinger, professor o1
law at National University.
Question Period to Follow.
A question period with Kenneth
Jones of American University serv.
ing as moderator, will follow the
talks. Harry j. Kirk, co-chairmar
of the Washington Round Table o1
Christians and Jews, will introduce
the speakers. Co-chairmen of the
program are Anthony J. Delpopolo
Marcus Brown and Cody Pfanstiehl
Father Gerard Mcguire Of st
PauIs College; DR.. Eli Cooper, di.
rector of Community Relations
Anti-Defamation League OF B'na
Birth, and DR.. E. G. Latch, pastor
of Metropolitan Memorial Meth
odist Church, will address the stu
dent body of Deal Junior High
School at 9 am. Wednesday.
Speakers including DR.. Ernest
Grifhth, director of Legislative Ref.
erence Service, Library of Congress
DR.. John M. Cooper of Catholic
University, and DR.. Julius Schneider
director of the National Institute O.
Social Relations, will participate II
forum at 1890 pm. Wednesday a
Wilson Teachers College. DR.. Hager
college president, will preside.
Other Speakers Listed.
Army Chaplain John r. Strevis
will address the Jewish War Vet
Grams, Post 351, at 3147 Sixteenth
street NV. at 8:l5 pm. Wednesday
: DR.. C. w. Lowry. pastor of AL
Saints Episcopal Church, will speal
at the Chevy Chase Junior College
at 1920 pm. Friday.
Kenneth S. Jones, assistant pastor
of Metropolitan Memorial Methodist
Church, will address the Riverdalt
Elementary Schol at 1:So pm. Fri
day at the school.
DR.. Cooper of B'nai Birth viii
speak at the Chevy Chase Presby-
terian Church on "The Tenets oi
Judaism" at 7:3o pm. next Sunday