Emblems

Last week in the U. S., Catholics, Protestants and Jews, for a variety of religious and political reasons, sported a variety of religious and political buttons:

> The National Conference of Christians & Jews began distributing 10,000,000 "Badges of Tolerance" (see cut). The buttons are issued on a card bearing the thought:

Beneath the torch of Liberty

We pledge as one, although we're three

To keep from our Democracy

Intolerance and bigotry.

> The Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)--they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England--all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters MRA.

> U. S. Zionists campaigned to get 1,000,000 Jews to buy Shekalim at 50-c- each, entitling them to vote in world Zionist elections. Symbol of Jewish solidarity, a Shekel (see cut) shows a reproduction of an ancient Hebrew coin. In Poland, where Jews are poor, a Shekel costs only a few cents. In the last Zionist voting year, 1937, only 217,214 U. S. Jews bought Shekalim.

> Followers of Rev. Charles Edward Coughlin picketed radio stations which decline to sell time to the radio priest; sat in a Manhattan courtroom where a Jew was arraigned for interfering with the sale of Social Justice in the subway; heckled a Jew who charged, at a legislative hearing in Boston, that Father Coughlin uses Nazi propaganda material. Militant Coughlinites wear three kinds of buttons: one showing their leader's picture, the others the cross of the "Christian Front." The latter organization was founded by the Paulist Fathers, who disowned it when it became anti-Semitic.*

*A Manhattan organization called "the Committee for Christian Action" has compiled "Christian Indexes," now in circulation, which list "Christian" merchants in various neighborhoods. Reads one Index: "Christ Himself sponsored this little leaflet for your protection." Upon non-Christian shops, anti-Semitic stickers appear: BY BUYING HERE YOU HELP THE COMMUNISM (see cut). (Turned upside down, the head on the sticker resembles a plug-ugly "Red" in a Russian cap.)

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