• 31 YEARS OF SERVICE TO DETROIT JEWRY

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

Section Two

VOL. 48, NO. 39

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1946

10c a Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year

;TEAMWORK CAN WIN THE PEACE

By REV. JOSEPII Q. MAYNE
Vice-President of National Coun-
cil of Christians and Jews
Teamwork won the war. In the
Army, the Navy, and the Air
Force, men of every religious
faith, every national background,
and every color of skin worked

t/Warn

111A X DI Li

together loyally and with great
devotion to win, a victory for free-
dom and democracy.
The stories of Meyer Levin and
Colin Kelly, of the four chaplains
— Fox and Poling, Washington
and Goode—have become classics.
They are but symbolic of the sac-
rifices made by the men of our
Armed Forces In this struggle to
preserve civilization.
The problem which faces Amer-

ice now is to preserve the spirit
of cooperation which prevailed in
the armed services in order that
we may unitedly overcome the
difficult problems of the postwar
world.
These include the building at a
secure peace, the overcoming of
tensions between race groups, the
establishment of an equitable re-
lationship between capital and la-
bor, and many other urgent prob-
lems which demand the best ef-
forts of all men of good will.
Our job, in brief, is to win the
peace. No group can do it single-
handed and mark this — a peace
is at least ten times as hard to
win as a war. The United States
has won many wars. It has yet
to win the peace.
Our difficulty arises from the
fact that when the fighting
ceases, men and women sink back
into lethargy. They are unwilling
to continue the sacrifice of time,
energy and financial resources
which made possible a victory in
the military struggle.

MUST REDOUBLE EFFORTS
But if peace is to be made per-
manent and if we are not to wit-
ness even more ghastly and de-
structive slaughters of helpless
people in this atomic era, Catho-
lics, Jews and Protestants must
continue and redouble their ef-
forts.
The National Conference of
Christians and Jews, through its
Round Tables all over America,
has performed a signal service
during war time. Of the nine mil-
lion men and Women in uniform,

eight million witnessed the pro-
grams presented by minister,
priest and rabbi or distinguished
laythen of the three faiths in the
army camps, naval and air bases.
One chaplain remarked after a
Nationril Conference program at
a naval base, "The morale of the
men and their spirit of coopera-
tion immediately rises after hav-
ing witnessed one of these pro-
grams."
It is the responsibility of the
National Conference and of the
many organizations who work
with it to make a similar contrib-
ution to peacetime America. Good
will teams should be presented in
every school, church, synagogue,
service club, labor union and sim-
ilar organizations throughout the
land that all of our citizens may
become aware of our basic unity
as Americans without regard to
race, creed or color. Only a united
America can lead the way for the
United Nations.
Vigorous efforts must be put
forth to prevent the growth of
postwar hate movements which
begin by attacking one group or
another but end by attacking all
minorities and, eventually, the
idea of American democracy it-
self. For organized hate is like a
forest fire—it never stays within
bounds.

IVAYNE UNIVERSITY ACTIVE
The National Conference, follow-
ing its policy of working through
recognized agencies, is using the
channel of the American Council
on Education, the parent body of

the 900 educational organizations
in America.
Experimental programs are be-
ing carried on through the school
systems of Cleveland, Pittsburgh,
Milwaukee and many other cities.
An important phase of this work
is the project with teacher educa-
tion colleges directed by Dr.
Lloyd Allen Cook, of Wayne Uni-
versity.
Last year the National Confer-
ence inaugurated the project with
nine teacher colleges including
Wayne Uniiversity, West Virginia
State, Albany State and Trenton
State Teachers College. During
1946-1917 the project will be en-
larged to include 15 colleges and
it is hoped eventually that the
spirit of intergroup understand-
ing and cooperation fostered by
this project will permeate all of
the schools of teacher education
in America.
The project at Wayne University
was so successful that Dr. Cook
moved his headquarters from
Ohio State University to Wayne
and is devoting half of his time
on ' the faculty of the university
and half to the teacher education
project of the National Confer-
ence.

This and many other projects in
the field of intergroup under-
standing and cooperation are be-
ing fostered by the conference
and many others are being plan-
ned. However, it is absolutely
necessary that the energies, tal-
ents and skills of all men and
women of good will be marshalled

to the task if America is to be
free from the cancer of hate and
a healthful relationship built up
with the rest orlhe world which
shall prevent the recurring curse
of war.
Anti-SCmitism was the gasoline
which Hitler poured upon the
flames of a discontented Europd.
Group hate, whether it be anti-
Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-
Protestantism, or any of the
other manifestations of hostility,
can be disastrous to the future
welfare of our nation.

MOVEMENT IS SPREADING
It is heartening to discover that
the movement founded here in
1928 by Chief Justice Charles
Evans Hughes and others is
spreading to other parts of the
world. We now have a Canadian
Conference of Christians and
Jews, a South African Conference
of 'Christians and Jews, similar
organizations in New Zealand and
Australia, and the great British
Council of Christians and Jews
founded by the late Cardinal
Hinsley, Archbishop of Westmin-
ster; William Temple, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbtiry; and Chief
Rabbi Hertz, of Great Britain.
Even in former enemy countries
the idea is taking hold and we
have received reports in recent
days of Conferences of Christians
and Jews being organized in
Frankfort, Germany, and Buda-
pest, Hungary. Surely this is one
of the hopeful signs of our times.
During the past summer at Ox-
ford University in England was

A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE

from

former Governor

MURRAY D. VAN WAGONER

In spite of the hysterical waves of prejudice, which from
time to time rise up, the good common sense of the Ameri-
can people can be trusted to go forward with that fine
spiritual friendship and brotherhood which know no sec-
tarian lines and certainly no religious or racial ones.

11,

Those who have given any thought at all to the principles
upon which our nation is founded, cannot but be consc-
ious of the spiritual liberty and fairness to all, which they

were intended to maintain.

I am very glad to present my greetings to the Jewish
people of Michigan in the hope that it may bring every citi-
zen peace, happiness and prosperity during the coming year.

FORMER GOVERNOR MURRAY D. VAN WAGONER

