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Baker Gets Medal for Promoting
Good-H ill Between Races
fems of Human Relations, and (2) to
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In the presence of more than 200
representatives of many faiths from
various points in the country gathered
at a dinner concluding the Seminar
on Human Relations Between Protest
ants, Catholics, and Jews, held at the
Hotel McAlpin, Newton D. Baker, for
mer Secretary of War, was presented
recently with the American Hebrew
Medal for the Promotion of Better
Understanding Between Christian and
Jew in America. Mr. Baker was the
guest of honor and principal speaker at
the dinner. Rabbi Isaac Landman, ed
itor of the American Hebrew, pre
sented the medal, which is the first
award of its kind and will from now on
be presented each year to the Ameri
can who has done the most to pro
mote amity between the three major
faiths in this country.
The Seminar began its sessions in
the morning and lasted all day. It was
held under the auspices of the Na
tional Conference of Jews and Chris
tians and its purpose was to “acquire
a better understanding, more intelli
gent appreciation and friendlier co
operation of cultural groups living cre
atively in a democracy”.
The first morning session, at which
Felix M. Warburg presided, heard ad
dresses on the problems of religious
prejudices and their elimination by
Chancellor Elmer E. Brown of New
York University, Dr. Ralph W. Sock-
man, president of the New York Fed
eration of Churches, and Mrs. Estelle
M. Sternberger, executive secretary of
the National Council of Jewish Women.
See Departure From Ideals
The second morning session was de
voted to a round-table discussion of
the particular “sore spots” which de
veloped as a result of religious preju
dices. The discussion was preceded by
an introductory talk by Professor Wil
liam H. Kilpatrick of Columbia Uni
versity, who presided. What may he
termed the worst “sore spot’ was in
dicated by one of the speakers to be
“a departure from the original Ameri
can ideals”, as voiced in the Declara
tion of Independence, that all men
were born free and equal and that
church separated from the State made
religion the private affair of the in i-
viduals. A man is thus considered a
good man, irrespective of his religious
beliefs, if he abides by the laws of
the land. . ...
The two afternoon sessions were
voted (1) to addresses on the Prob-
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a round-table on Specific Problems.
James M. Speers presided at the first
session, which was addressed by Dr.
John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the
Community Church, and by Professor
Reinhold Niebuhr of the Union Theo
logical Seminary. The second session
was addressed by Harry A. Overstreet
of the College of the City of New
York, and many representatives of the
various groups.
The final session was again devoted
to a round-table discussion and the
various topics touched upon during the
day were thrashed out, many speakers
laying before the audience quit**
frankly and openly the reasons for
intolerance and prejudice and possible
solutions for eliminating them. Dr
Kilpatrick, who presided at this scs-
ion, also summed up the discussions
}f the day at the dinner.
1 he audience as well as the speakers
represented a colorful picture of reli
gious as well as racial representatives.
• iierc were Catholic priests, Protcsv
'»nt pastors, rabbis, and several rep
resentatives of Negro groups and also
i.tv and professional persons of all oc
cupations and officers and leaders of
educational groups.
Landman hestnu's Medal
Tn presenting the medal, Rabbi Land
man said, among other things : "I be
stow this on you, Newton D. Baker,
as a symbol. Tt is in recognition of
your pre-eminent services in breaking
down harriers of bigotry and in build
ing bridges of better understanding,
fear of each other will cease, preju
dices vanish, and hatred will he up
rooted. Men who understand each
other cannot hate each other.”
Tn accepting the award. Mr. Baker
pointed out the danger of indulging
in prejudices which imperil the success
of democratic government. “Democ
racy as a form of political organization
can only succeed in an educated peo
ple. T have long believed that the
more religion a man had of his own
kind, the more tolerance he would have
for people who had other kinds. The
world needs more religion, not less,
but it needs less religious controversy,
not more.”
General John F. O’Ryan presided at
the dinner. The other speakers in
cluded Roger W. Straus, Michael Wil
liams, and former Supreme Court Jus
tice Joseph Proskauer.
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