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Show i WAR BEGUN ON STAGE ! AND MOVIES WHICH j RIDICULE PREACHERS WASBTINQTON, -Ian. 4 The public nioruls board of the ' Hfethoaial Bpiscopal chtirqh announced today that it would inau-j j pirate a campaign to -stop the Dpntemptuoua treatment of the 1 Protestant ministry by some cartoonifltg, writers and actors." n the stage ..ml in motion pictures," the board's announce-j tnent said, "th' Protestanl minister is seldom represented excepl ; as an effeminate t"M,l. The mefinber? of the Protestant churches i are exoiied to be liberal, to take humor as Humor antl be slow to 1 wrath. Hut the members of the Roman Catholic church do not ' tolerate such treatment of their priesthood which i ; always repre-I repre-I gented i the stage and elsewhere ni a mosl favorable way f-nd whose religion i treated with consideration. The Catholics are to be commended The time has Come also when Protestants should loot tolfrate any other than courteous treatment oC their religion and ministry. " The boanl added that the- matter was being called to the atten-tion atten-tion of ministers of all denominations and their congregations, with a request thai "um violations of ordiniry coxirtesy" b reported I to the board, which would make them public. |