Religion: Darrow Forums

Lawyer Clarence Darrow, professional agnostic, has appeared in some 30 forums on religion throughout the U. S. this year, all of them under the management of his old friend George G. Whitehead of Columbus, Ohio, a former lyceum promoter. Lawyer Darrow's standard theses are Tolerance, Good Will, Better Understanding. Dr. Bruce S. Wright, Christian Century's Buffalo correspondent, was one of Lawyer Darrow's opponents in Buffalo and Erie, Pa. In last fortnight's Christian Century he described the workings of the Darrow forums as follows: Promoter Whitehead, himself a good Methodist. goes to...

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