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Show The Cache American. rnjre Two Cache Countv. Utah Christians and Jews Join Hands in Good Fellowship During 'Brotherhood Week' Observances, Feb. 2026 Meetings Bein'' Organized in 3,000 Communities. Inter-Cul- t out wuv tarnation anting the ueek of athmglnni birthday II llrolh . erhood week, mil ba boomed by abort nan to the four rornert of tho glob by the office of nor inform lion, ft read i in Jmrt:) of The annual observance Brotherhood week I a time both of reminder and dedication. It reminds ns of the basic religion faith from which democracy baa grown that all men are children of one Father and brother la the human family. It dedicates n to the practice af understanding and Justice through which free dom and equality flourish la human society. "While we are engaged In a mighty struggle te preserve our free institutions and to extend the boundarir of liberty In the earth, it la good for na to pledge renewed drvolion to the fundamentals upon which this nation has been built. Brotherhood must prevail. Our inescapable choice is brotherhood or chaos. On land and aea and In the air, the aons of the United State fight aa one though they come from every racial and cultural atraln and though they worship at different altars. They are brother In arms now; soon, pray God, they shall be brothers In peace. We on the home front must are that history shall not repeat itself In postwar hatred and intolrranre. It is for us to make the homeland more nearly a land of brotherhood, worthy of the victory our gallant sons and daughters shall surely win. 11 1 alike liber ty of conscience and lmmunltiei of citizenship. It la now no more that toleration spoken of, as if it was by the lndul fence of one class of people, that an other enjoyed the exercise of their Inherent natural rights. For happily the Government 'of the United Slates, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under Its proteetion should demean themselves as good citizens. In giving it on all occasions their effectual support. So wrote George Washington, as first Frcsident of our republic, whose 'first principle Is "that all men are The letter was adcreated equal dressed to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R. I. to A phrase from this letter, bigotry no sanction. has been seized upon as a fitting motto for the National Conference of Christians and 'Jews, an organization dedicated to the destruction of religious intolerance and racial prejudice. The conference sponsors the annual Brotherhood Week" activities, a program of events designed to promote good fellowship and understanding among people differing In cult or race. The last week of February, the 20th to Educational plans for observing the 27th, was chosen for Brotherhood week, because Washingtons birth- Brotherhood week in the public and day, the 22nd, Is included In this high schools were prepared by the Duluth Intcrcultural committee of period. Pageants and musical programs Duluth, Minn. These cover a variare being rehearsed and roundtables ety of novel events all aiming at and forums arranged in some 3,000 cultivating an appreciation of the American communities this year. importance of tolerance and underChurches, synagogues, army camps, standing of the other fellow. Robnaval stations, schools, fraternal ert Ruhlman, who drew the prizeand trade organizations are all plan- winning poster for Brotherhood week ning to observe this time of special soon to be displayed in schools, settlement houses, USO centers and friendliness. The Round Tables. community groups is a high school for Brotherhood student in Cleveland, Ohio. Headquarters Education In Tolerance. week is the central office of the conOf course, getting along amicably ference in New York city. Dr. Robert Ashworth, director of the with people who are slightly different cannot be taught in a single week Week, operates through 15 regional offices, which are permanently of the year. The conference realorganized units of the conference. izes that their job must go on every Local groups, called Round Tables, week, every day. A spirit of tolerawork under the direction of the re- tion toward religious and cultural gional leaders. There are now 249 differences should be developed in Round Tables, composed of influenchildhood, the conference realizes. tial citizens of several religions and One of the most Important committees of the conference is the Comraces. Last year these men who believe mission on Educational Organizathat they are their "brothers keep- tions, which is composed of 28 promers were instrumental in having inent religious and public educators. tolerance programs presented in 250 The commission is concerned with colleges, 2,800 parochial and public (1) the elimination of biased mateschools, 8,968 churches of all denom- rials from public and religious eduinations, 1,889 womens groups and cation materials, (2) the production 1,333 professional and service clubs of positive materials to promote unof one kind or another. derstanding and good will and (3) The 60 overseas directors of the the training of writers, clergymen, to USO also are now busily engaged educators and administrators make effective the materials and planning various events for Brotherhood week for the armed forces programs completed. Much has been accomplished in a abroad. Its chief of operations in the United States, Ray Johns, in his concrete way. For instance, 40 mamemo to the directors of the 2,300 jor Protestant educational and misUSO units in this country, accomsionary boards have adopted for use at all age levels during the coming panying his program for BrotherNo subject is year a series of books and study hood week, said: manuals entitled, "The Church and closer to the heart of the world-wid- e crisis which now engulfs our civili- Americas Peoples. They treat zation. realistically the problems of group relations in the nation and the world. World We Want to Live In. Three thousand five hundred CathDuring the last 12 months committees of priests, rabbis and ministers olic parochial schools are using the have brought their message of new "Faith and Freedom Readers brotherhood to some 400 camp cen- of the Commission on American ters with an estimated attendance Citizenship established by the Cathof over two million. The World olic hierarchy. The commission inWe Want to Live In, a film made cludes Protestants and Jews as well for the conference, has been shown as Catholics on its boards. The more than 3,000 times. A documenReaders include many sections detary film detailing the various good voted to understanding and respect will activities of this organization of among religious and racial groups. Christians and Jews now is being During Brotherhood week last made by The March of Time. The year, a number of Catholic bishops camp program is growing all the time; in the words of the president ' . A of the conference, Rev. Everett R. ' '' Clinchy, it is the most important new contribution of the National Conference. Urging service men and women, and all others, to attend their churches or synagogues, the National Conference believes that while we fight for religious liberty, it is our duty to help our churches and synagogues by our attendance and support. We must make religion increasingly vital in our lives and In the nation. Many of the major denomination religious authorities, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish community leaders, use the material prepared by the Conference on Clergymen of three faiths, Rev. Brotherhood week. Some 2,500,000 William Ryan, Rabbi Samuel Thurpieces of its literature have been giv- man, and Rev. Sidney Sweet, (front en to chaplains for use and distri- to rear) get acquainted with soldiers bution. at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. 1 ! President1 Proclamation On 'Brotherhood Week '1rtuJml Rootetell'a Whit asked all their priests to cooperate with the conference program. Many of the major Protestant denominational leaders took a similar position with their clergy and educators. Cooperation by Jewish leaders was most generous. The Methodist Conference on a Just and Durable Peace at Delaware, Ohio, called on all church leaders to work with the conference in Its program. The major denominational religious education authorities are constantly using materials furnished by the conference. These mstcrials Include study units for young people and adults covering periods of several weeks discussion as well ts single articles. The conference has tided and extended Die services of the Bureau for Intercultursl Education to public Crochet Work Ikig of Mercerized Cotton Compromise Forecast in Debate on CCC Extension Labor to Use Organized Strength to Fight Increased Prices; Administration Is Counting on That Support. By BAUKIIAGE 'a t'leui Anal) at end Commentator WNU Service, Union Trust Building, last war. It rose steadily, 128 per cent However, there is a catch In Washington, D, C. A few weeks ago, an earnest and those figures. In the last war, the agreeable young man cam to my farmera dollar rose only 13 cents efftea from the American Farm Bu- In purchasing power. Today, the reau federation. His name Is Ben farmers income has risen 72 per Kilgore. He la a Kentucky Farm cent in terms of purchasing power. bureau man, a former farm paper editor who has just been put in Preliminary Report Just what is ahead? On or before charge of the bureau publicity here In Washington, probably as a result February 17, debate will begin on of some remarks without any bark the bill extending the life of the Comon them which Chester Davis, for- modity Credit corporation containing provision. mer war food administrator and an Meanwhile, the farm bloc adherpresident of the Federal Reserve Bank of Si Louis, made at the re- ents and supporter will probably carry on a pretty good publicity plan cent bureau convention. Davis did not say that the bureau for their side and some of the consumer groups will be heard from. and some other farm organization were Interfering with the war effort Labor will ahout the loudest and and trying to be hoggish by fighting most effectively. But that Is simply for higher food prices but he did say because it is a large and a group. It is a strange that the people of the country were beginning to talk that way about thing, but America, which has organizations of almost every kind and farmers. And he told the organize tion members that If they weren't description formed largely for Inas black as they were painted, they creasing the Income of its members, had better begin telling the people has very few organizations formed for the purpose of decreasing their of the country so. And so the bureau went out for expense. Consumers, as such, are some new blood. Kilgore H not not organized. There are, of course, Back home In Brooklyn, N. Y., on new to the bureau farm but he is a few cooperatives but they are furlough, Scrgt. Howard Cantor re- new to has He served hardly more than local affairs and Washington. laxes with a big cigar. A Flying in subHe comparatively speaking, small and knows his Kentucky. Fortresi gunner, he is credited with weak. This is due to the cheerful and can about write ject it ahooting down nine Zeros in the I couldnt say whether he has American theory that if you havent South Tacific area. The medals he to your exwears are the Distinguished Flying brightened the grim picture which got enough money to pay out and get penses, you go ought Cross, Silver Star, Air Medal, and Mr. Davis painted to the bureau tome more money. he has had time but his hardly the Oak Leaf Cluster. Hundreds of In any case, labor (although orthousands of Jewish yonng men are presence is evidence of dynamics ganized which are primarily to get more pay) this of In the armed forces. energizing chip serving the farm bloc or one might put it ia going to use its organized strength school systems. This bureau devel the other way, for the Farm Bureau to fight higher prices and the adops and distributes educational mafederation is really the tail that wags ministration is at present counting terials on intergroup relations and the dog when it cornea to getting on enough support from the labor works with educational bodies and congressional action. lobby itself, the results of the proregional and local school adminis And soon action will begin, for the subsidy publicity on the general pubtrators in teaching human relations grace extended to the lic, to sustain a presidential veto of Commodity as an integral part of the curricula Credit corporation expires February any measure banning subsidies. There is no sign of enough votes to in American education. 17 and then the fight over the subsiprevent the passage of the bill, but After noting that the National Con dies begins in earnest enough are expected to sustain the ference of Christians and Jews held veto. So that legislative process will The Federation Line f its first meeting at Columbia uni to be gone through with unless have What the of in the 1928, President Clinchy publicity plans versity said: The National conference was farm organizations are, I do not the farm bloc feels it has an accuestablished in accord with a cardinal know, but this is the line as Kil- rate measure of the administration's strength, as revealed by various test gore expressed it to me: principle in American .history: reso that it can compromise spect for the dignities and rights of The American Farm Bureau fed- votes, without going through the veto procconferof The the groups. people eration is not opposing consumer ence believed that this country could subsidies in order to break down ess. Either way, some kind of a not suffer hate breeders any more price control and obtain higher farm compromise will undoubtedly be than they could afford to tolerate prices. The present general farm reached. But the way is a weary one. the carriers of contagious diseases. price level Is high enough. All we Our organization was established adask is for a few sensible price Preview of on the conviction that irrational anjustments on specific commodities tagonisms and hatreds are part of . . . Such small and specific adjustInvasion Tactics a vicious chain of which one link is ments are far more practical and With invasion in the offing I detied to another. This nation, comwholesome than a billion or more cided I wanted a preview. A little posed of a plural number of relidollars out of the federal treasury difficult to arrange, I admit. I know, gious, racial and nationality groups, to help pay the consumers grocery however, that you could see a full must, for the security and well being bill and to regiment and socialize dress rehearsal at the amphibious of each group, learn to face differthe farmers of this nation. base at Fort Pierce, Fla. That ences realistically. The members of institution has been cloaked in the The War Food administration, each group must so act that the with carrying out the war darkest secrecy until recently. Just charged members of every other group have farm program, has no publicity plan. before the base celebrated its anniparity or opportunity to enjoy life, As a matter of fact the office of versary I was allowed to look behind liberty and the pursuit of happiAdministrator Jones is about the the scenes. ness. No details can be reported of this quietest place in Washington as far Brotherhood or Chaos. as the public goes. Its work is car- revolutionary development in AmerDr. Ashworth said emphasis now ried on without press agenting right ican military history that started is being placed on the community now. fresh from zero. cooperation of common citizens of For almost a full week I watched One reason why we dont hear our one land, the important thing to much from the war food adminisand, in some cases, worked with remember being the intrinsic worth trator right now is because the food the men who make "amphibious acof the individual, and, in President situation is pretty good. Of course, tion possible those who go over Roosevelts words, after the peace it there is wrangling about prices but the transport side into the landing Brotherhood or that Isnt in his will be either department The craft and up the beach, and the other Chaos. last week in January he announced men who see that they get there, According to Dr. Ashworth, it was his support prices which cant be from scouts and raiders who slip in a Catholic priest who originally sugcarried out unless the three billion at night, crawling through the wash gested the organization of Brotherdollar agency that keeps floors of a strange beach to throttle the hood week, back in 1932. He wrote under farm prices, the Commodity sentries and clear the way for the to the National Conference of ChrisCredit corporation, is continued. others, to the last of the reserves. tians and Jews that brotherhood was Jones made it I have never met a finer type of plain that the 1944 something all faiths wanted, someentirely on con- man, soldier or marine, and they depended program thing of which there was too little gressional action. In reply to a are all there army, navy, coast in the world, something of which s, he said it could be carried guard, and the engineers, the question, there could never be too much. He out without subsidies. the medicos, scouts, raiders suggested that a special period be There isnt any question that con- and the other specialists. Cooperadesignated each year by the Nationwill favor the support plan. tion is the key to the greatest gress al conference, that Catholics, ProtThats accepted as essential in war- achievement in amphibious action estants and Jews be invited to con- time and sometimes welcomed at army and navy working together as sider together practical ways toward other times. The reasoning is that one. It is a navy operation right up attaining it. a munition maker to to the tide water mark, where the ask dont you This idea took fire. The first nasign a contract to deliver machine army takes command, but a closetional observance of Brotherhood guns without telling him what the ly interwoven texture, as much a week took place in April, 1934. Presiwill be. In order to carry out single unit as a fighting division of price dent Roosevelt proclaimed the event the farm program, you have to de- land troops or a navy task force. publicly as he has done every year mand certain things of the farmer I talked with their leaders, tough, for the last 11 years. From the first in order to the thing yovt want quiet young men, who have learned get the conference sought out the co- Hence the by doing they know what it is to guaranteed price. operation of civic bodies. Parent But subsidies are a horse of a land on a strange shore in Africa or colTeachers associations, schools, different color. Support prices pro- Sicily or the Pacific. They are a leges, churches and synagogues. Dr. tect the producer. Subsidies protect great lot the scouts and raiders Ashworth said: This year, like preWithout them, the (our commandos) some big, some the consumer. ceding ones, a number of govercrack. little, some college athletes, some ceilings price nors and mayors have issued formal income has risen 118 per from farm and factory, but all hard, Farm proclamations endorsing its aims cent in dollars since 1939 when the wiry, certain, and anxious for more and purposes. war in Europe began. During the action. anti-subsid- y sea-bee- Traveling Speakers Carry Message of Brotherhood to Camps The National Conference of ChrisWhat kind of men? he goes on. est Alert and listening, they even tians and Jews is carrying its mesObviously, not the kind of men to anticipate the speakers. With every sage into the military camps, ma- whom one hands platitudes. salient point there comes applause. rine and naval bases. They do listen with mild interest Everything is all right! The Sea-beThe visit to the Seabee training to the introductory statements. At can do, but these speakers center at Camp Peary, near Wi- least this show with a priest, rabbi "can do also. A waiting staff lliamsburg, Va., is typical of the ex- and Protestant clergyman is a little car is there with engine running. periences of the traveling speakers. different And then Father Cardinal We have 10 minutes to reach the More than 3,000 of the keen, hard, begins. He knows what to say, and place where the next program is construction battalion men poured says it; says it in a language they scheduled and it is three miles into the camp theater, reports the can understand. Dr. Speers follows. across camp. Twenty times in three "When Rabbi Rosenblum closes days we were to do this, and in so conference man who accompanied there has been no lagging of inter the three clergymen on their tours. doing, speak to 48,000 men. es Twenty-seve- n Wood is growing in our forests at barter stores have the rate of about 11,000,000,000 cubic beer opened in Berlin, the British feet per year or about 21,500 cubic radio says, in reporting that the Wood is being Berlin chamber of commerce had feet per minute. taken from the forests at the rate of decided to make all wares subject about 13,000.000,000 cubic feet per to barter. fear, of which 2,000,000,000 cubic Texas farm woodlands have an feet is lost due to fire, insects, and disease. If these destroyers could excellent record in fire prevention with less than 1 per cent burned anb controlled, present wood growth should almost balance wood use. nually for the past several years. 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