Best Understander

Newton Diehl Baker's corporation law practice prevented his traveling from Cleveland to Manhattan last week. Some important Jews were sorry he was so busy. They wanted to give him a medal, awarded as The American Hebrew Medal for the Promotion of Better Understanding Between Christian and Jew in America. That magazine under the editorship of Rabbi Isaac Landman, 50, has been the hard-working backer of the movement. Last year when The American Hebrew celebrated its soth anniversary Editor Landman had Sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser design a medal depicting two stalwart brothers surmounting a rocky peak hand in hand. Then Editor Landman persuaded 58 men and women, most of them non-Jews,* to select the Best Understander. They chose Mr. Baker because:

His writings on the subject have influenced others; he persuaded the Yale Institute of Human Relations to deal with the problem; "at great personal sacrifice," he is Protestant chairman of the National Conference of Jews & Christians; he is president of Cleveland's Religious (Protestant, Catholic, Jewish) Education Asso ciation.

Because Mr. Baker could not receive his medal in Manhattan last week, he will get it Dec. 9, six days after his 59th birthday.

* Among them: Charles Evans Hughes. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, William Allen White.

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