North Cache News | 1944-02-25 | Page 2 | Traveling Speakers Carry Message of Brotherhood to Camps

Traveling Speakers Carry Message of Brotherhood to Camps The National Conference of Christians Chris-tians and Jews is carrying its message mes-sage into the military camps, marine ma-rine and naval bases. The visit to the Seabee training center at Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Wil-liamsburg, Va., is typical of the experiences ex-periences of the traveling speakers. More than 3,000 of the keen, hard, construction battalion men poured into the camp theater, reports the conference man who accompanied the three clergymen on their tours. I "What kind of men?" he goes on. "Obviously, not the kind of men to whom one hands platitudes. "They do listen with mild interest to the introductory statements. At least this show with a priest, rabbi and Protestant clergyman is a little different. And then Father Cardinal begins. He knows what to say, and says it; says it in a language they can understand. Dr. Speers follows. "When Rabbi Rosenblum closes there has been no lagging of inter est. Alert and listening, they even anticipate the speakers. With every salient point there comes applause. Everything is all right! The "Sea-bees" "Sea-bees" can do, but these speakers "can do" also. A waiting staff car is there with engine running. We have 10 minutes to reach the place where the next program is scheduled and it is three miles across camp. Twenty times in three days we were to do this, and in so doing, speak to 48,000 men.