Understander

From California to Manhattan last week traveled a bald, smooth-faced prelate, potent in the Roman Catholic Church, to be handed a handsome bronze medal by a Jewish editor. He was Most Rt. Rev. Edward Joseph Hanna, 71, Archbishop of San Francisco, chairman of the administrative committee of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. Commissioner of Immigration in California since 1913. His State and city know him as an able, civic-minded man. His church knows him as a priest who, once suspected of modernism, may be the next U. S. cardinal. Less well known is the work which won him, month ago, the second annual medal of The American Hebrew for the Promotion of Better Understanding Between Christian and Jew in America. Sponsored by the Hebrew's editor, Rabbi Isaac Landman, last year's medal was awarded to Newton Diehl Baker, Protestant chairman of the National Conference of Jews & Christians. When the judges-who include Jane Addams, Professor John Dewey. Bishop William Thomas Manning, Otto Hermann Kahn, Mayor James John Walker-met this year, they chose Archbishop Hanna because: he sponsored the Berkeley Seminar which meets once a month in California for goodwill between Christian & Jew; "because he personally addressed audiences gathered for the purpose of promoting better understanding;" because his work has been "a major influence in its progress throughout the country in 1931."

Mr. Baker was unable to attend last year's banquet which celebrated the first award and the sist birthday of The American Hebrew. But he attended last week, hailed Archbishop Hanna as "a warrior in the fight against prejudice," hoped that acclaim would "give him the satisfaction which ought to come to even so great and good a man from the admiration and affection of his friends."

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