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"Our Country Is One Home in Which the Interests of Each
Member Are Bound Up With the Happiness of All"

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other than our own are beyon '
our jurisdiction. Yet in our in-
ner individual lives we can never
be indifferent, and we assert for
ourselves complete freedom to
embrace, to profess and to ob-
serve the principles for which our
flag has for so long been the
lofty symbol.
Our national determination to
keep free of foreign wars and
foreign entanglements cannot pre-
vent us from feeling deep con-
cern when ideals and principles
that we have cherished are chal-
lenged.
We have sought by every legiti-
Mate means to exert our moral in-
fluence against repression, against
intolerance and against autoc-
racy and in favor of freedom of
expression, equality before the
law, religious tolerance and popu-
lar rules.

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Less Bickering and Back-Biting, More Co-Operation
Characterized Protestant, Catholic, Jewish
Relationships, Says Dr, Clinchy

Mindful of the signal part taken
by the Jewish people of America in
upholding the traditions and aims
of our country, it gives me special
pleasure to extend cordial greetings
to all those of Jewish faith on this
Rosh Hashonah. I trust that'the new
year will bring to our fellow Jewish
citizens great prosperity and hap-
piness.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

to preach that the masses of the world at large, popular opinion
people who constitute the nations is at war with a power-seeking
which are dominated by the twin minority.
In this world of our, in other
spirits of autocracy and aggres-
sion are out of sympathy with lands, there are some people who,
in
times past, have lived and
their rulers, that they are allow-
ed no opportunity to express fought for freedom and seem to
have
grown too weary to carry on
themselves, that they would
change things if they could. That, the fight. They have sold their
heritage
of freedom for the illus-
unfortunately, is not so clear. It
might be true that the masses of sion of a living. They have
the people in those nations would yielded their democracy. I be-
Autocracy Endangers Peace
lieve in my heart that only our
It is idle for us or for others charge the policies of their gov-
ernments if they could be allow- success can stir their ancient
ed full freedom, full access to hope. They begin to know that
processes of democratic govern- here in America we are waging
ment as we understand them. But a great war. It is not only a
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lacking it, they follow blindly and and economic demoralization. It
fervently the lead of those who is a war for the survival of de-
from
mocracy. We are fighting to
seek autocratic power.
The evidence before us clearly gave a great and precious form
proves that autocracy in world of government for ourselves and
affairs endangers peace and that for the world.
Revival of Religion
such threats do not spring from
those nations devoted to the dem-
In the conflict of policies and
ocratic ideal. If this be true in of political systems which the
world affairs, it should have the world today witnesses the United
greatest weight in the determin- States has held forth for its own
INCORPORATED
ation of domestic policies. With- guidance and for the guidance
in democratic nations the chief of other nations, if they will ac-
concern of the people is to pre- cept it, this great torch of !lib-
vent
the continuation or the rise erty of human thought, liberty of
IN THE FISHER BUILDING
of autocratic institutions that be- human conscience. We will never
get slavery and aggression abroad. lower it. We will never permit,
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The Year in Human Relations

President Roosevelt's
Rosh Hashonah Message

By FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article by the President of the United States
on the occasion of Rosh Hashonah is a compilation of excerpts
from several of his addresses, statements and messages dur-
ing the period 1934.36. The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate
has obtained special permissio n from the President fo r the
use of these utterances in the form presented herewith.

It is one of the fundamental
principles of true Americanism
that all religions are entitled to
equal respect. Freedom for
every man to worship God ac-
cording to the mandates of his
conscience implies the political,
social and intellectual freedom
which is the very foundation of
our national life.
In the United States we regard
it as axiomatic that every person
shall enjoy the free exercise of
his religion according to the dic-
tates of his conscience. Our flag
for a century and a half has been
the symbol of the principles of
liberty of conscience, of religions
freedom and equality before the
law; and these concepts are deep-
ly ingrained in our national char-
acter. It is true that other na-
tions may, as they do, enforce
contrary rules of conscience and
conduct. It is true that policies
that may be pursued under flags

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By EVERETT R. CLINCHY
Director, The National Conference of Jews and Christians

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grow dim. Rather through every
means legitimately within our
power and our office will we seek
to increase that light, that its
rays may extend the further;
that its glory may be seen even
from afar. Every vindication of
the sanctity of these rights at
home, every prayer that other
nations may accept them, is an
indication pf how virile, how liv-
ing they are in the hearts of
every true American.
No greater thing could come
to our land today than a revival
of the spirit of religiou—a re-
vival that would seep through
the homes of the nation and stir
the hearts of men and women
of all faiths to a reassertion of
belief in God and their dedica-
tion to His will for themselves
and for their world. I doubt
if there is any problem—social,
political or economic—that would
not melt away before the fire
of such a spiritual reawakening.
It is well to remember that
this America of ours is the pro-
duct of no single race or creed
or class. Men and women—your
fathers and mine—came here
from the far corners of the earth
with beliefs that widely varied.
And yet each in his own way laid
his own special gift upon our na-
tional altar to enrich our nation-
al life. From the gift that each
has given all have gained.
Ever since the beginning of
our republic we have welcomed
many men and women of ability
and character from other coun-
tries, who have found their use-
fulness cut off by conditions
which are alien to the American
system.
This is no time to make capi-
tal out of religious disagreement,
however honest. It is a time, ra-
ther,, to make capital out of re-
ligious understanding. We who
have faith cannot afford to fall
out among ourselves. The very
state of the world Is a summons
to us to stand together. For, as
I see it, the chief religious issue
is not between our religious be-
liefs. It is between belief and
unbelief.
It is not your specific faith or
mine that is being called into
question, but all faiths. Religion
in wide areas of the earth is be-
ing confronted with irreligion;
our faiths are being challenged.
It is because of that threat that
you and I must reach across the
lines between our creeds, clasp
hands and make common cause.
To do that will do credit to the
best of our religious traditions.
It will do credit, also, to the
best in our American tradition.
The spiritual resources of Our
forebears haye brought us a long
way toward the goal which was
set before the nation at its
founding as a nation.
Yet I do not look upon these
United States as a finished prod-
uct. We are still in the making.
The vision of the early days still
requires the same qualities of
faith in God and man for its
fulfillment.
I like to think of our country
as one home in which the inter-
ests of each member are bound
up with the happiness of all. We
ought to know by now that the
welfare of your family or mine
cannot be bought at the sacri-
fice of our neighbor's family;
that our well-being depends, in
the long run, upon the well-being
of our neighbors.

Coed Neighbor Idea
The Good Neighbor Idea—as

The past year has furnished
abundant testimony to the progress
of the movement for wholesome re-
lations among Roman Catholics,
Jews and Protestants in America.
Surveying the scene, one finds
there was less bickering and back-
biting and more cooperation. Child
patterns in inter-faith relation.
ships are giving way to the mature
attitudes of more civilized folk-
ways, despite vital differences and
conflicts of ideas.
• One sees, for example, a change
in the Sunday School lessons being
used this year. Congregational,
Methodist, Presbyterian and Epis-
copalian° textbooks in religious
schools are noticeably different.
Twenty-five years ago Catholics
and Jews were ignored or else
mentioned simply to contract the
allegedly superior poeition of Pro-
testant churches. Not so, now.
Fair play Is taught. Appreciation
of Judaism and Jews is part of the
cirriculum. At the time American
Jewish religious schools are con-
scientiously striving to inculcate
appreciative ideas about contem-
porary Christianity and Christ-
tians, in substitute for distorted
mental stereotypes of goyim, Im-
ported from Europe,
The current practices in many
public schools give further evi-
dence that Americans are coming
of age in human relationships.
Numerous high schools are pre-
senting at assembly period the con-
tribution of worldwide cultures to
American life, and Jews, Catholics
and Protestants play a part in that
scenario. Again, the instances are
multiplying wherein a priest, a
rabbi and a minister appear to-
gether on high school platforms.
This custom accomplishes three
objects. First, it leaves an indel-
ible picture in children's minds of
believers of three faiths standing
together as American comrades.
Second, it affords opportunities to
clear up many misconceptions
about the three groups. One day
a few months ago in Des Moines,
Iowa, it developed that in practi-
cally every classroom during the
period following such an assembly
presentation the teachers and pu-
pils fell into informal discussion of
some idea or other aroused by this
truly American program at con-
vocation. Third, it provokes a fine
type of patriotism, a patriotism we
mean that prompts citizens of all
parties, interests, occupations and
faiths to mobilize for common
tasks.
Neither in the church schools nor
in the public schools is this de-
velopment eloppily sentimental.
While it is designed to rid young-
sters of socially inherited anti-
pathies, it teaches them to expect
friendly clashes of ideas and tradi-
tions. It attempts to bring peace in
Christian and Jewish relations, but
promises battle against foes com-
mon to Catholics, Jews and Pro-
testants alike. The past year has
witnessed significant gains in that
direction.

Williamstown Results

Further, during the year, con-
siderable adult learning in human
relations was achieved. Much of
the progress emerged directly or
indirectly from the Williamstown
Institute of Human Relations in
1935. Williamstown crystalized
much that friends of the National
Conference of Jews and Christians
had been thinking. It expressed in
more orderly fashion a great deal
of what we had been saying. It
focused and re-directed much that
we had been doing. By way of
summary let us note some major
outcomes from Williamstown:
1. Publication in 1936 of "The
American Way," a small, interest-
ing, readable book which presents
the best that is being thought and
done in the field of inter-cultural
relations in the United States to-
day, together with what we can
learn from what is going on in
other parts of the world. It is full
of suggestions for local communi-
ties Interested in promoting whole-
some relations among the religious
and racial groups that make up
our commonwealth. It has carried
the message of the Williamstown
Institute across the country.
2. Brotherhood Day (the week-
end nearest Washington's birth-
day) was observed far more widely
this year and more variously than
in either of the two previous years
since it was. Initiated. By services
in church and synagogue, public
meetings of a community nature,
radio addresses, sometimes in se-
ries extending over several weeks
appropriate dramatic presentation
and by other methods which local
ingenuity and initiative has de-
vised, a notable piece of popular
education has been done. The ad-
dress of President Roosevelt over
a nationwide hookup on Brother.
hood, with Gen. Charles G. Dawes,
Protestant, Michael Francis Doyle,
Catholic, and Dr. Cyrus Adle'r,
Jew, carried the principle of co.
operation for common social aims
and for common religious emphases
into every city and hamlet of the
land.
3. In several communities the
program of Williamstown in its
essence was reproduced in what
was denominated • "Williamstown
in Miniature." Leaders of the three
faiths presented the salient issues
presented at Williamstown in ses-

we are trying to practice it in in-
ternational relationships — needs
to be put into practice in our
community relationships. When
it is we may discover that the
road to understanding and fellow-
ship is also the road to spiritual
awakening. At our neighbor's
fireside we may find new fuel for
the fires of faith at our own
hearthside.
I should like to see associations
of good neighbors in every town
and city and in every rural com-
munity of our land. Such asso-
ciations of sincere citizens, like-
minded as to the underlying
principles and ideals, would reach
across the lines of creed or of
economic status. It would bring
together men and women of all
stations to share their problems
and their hopes and to discover
ways of mutual and neighborly
helpfulness.
Here, perhaps, is a way to pool
our spiritual resources; to find
common ground on which all of
us of 'all faiths can stand; and
thence move forward as men and
women concerned for the things
of the spirit.
It is at all times desirable, and
especially so in times of wide- the tenets of our American politi-
spread rersOsktment, to keep un- cal faith, particularly the vital

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sions confined to a single day and
the addresses and discussions were
found to be most profitable. This
is a technique that should be wide-
ly used and is adaptable to condi-
tions in every part of the country.
It suggests a fine project for the
coming fall and winter.

Goodwill Pilgrimage

4. The 1936 nationwide pilgrim-
age by a priest, minister and rab-
bis (note the plural, for the priest
and minister went on for • two
months, but five rabbis were worn
out before the circle was com-
pleted!). This pileTimage traveled
over 10,000 miles spreading the
message of amity between the var-
ious faiths. The team conducted
hundreds of meetings, in some
cases in towns where many in the

audiences had never seen a rabbi
or priest before. Numerous radio
addresses were broadcast, making
the message available to thousands
not reached by the public meet-
ings. Packed auditoriums listened
to the speakers.
5. New Round Tables were or-
ganized. "Clearing houses" of Jews
and Christians were formed in a
number of cities throughout the
country. A permanent Round Table
was organized in Chicago under
the chairmanship of Gen. Charles
G. Dawes, which has been doing
effective work in carrying the
National Conference message
throughout the mid-west. A Round
Table was also organized recently
in Philadelphia. On the Coast, the
University Religious Conference of
Los Angeles affiliated with the
National Conference. New Round
Tables were organized in smaller
cities in various sections of the
country.
It should be added that the
numerous communities represented
at Williamstown arranged teams
for appearances in all sections of
the country. 1935 brought out a

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