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The Southern Israelite politan work. But the day is now here when we must give our heed to the rural communities and the small towns. Wider opportunities and the desire to partake in all the various avenues of existence will gradually break up the coagulation of Jews in the industrial capitals. Judaism will soon have to make one of its most vital adjustments—to prove that it is a religion for the single Jewish family on the farm and the handful of Jewish families in the village as well as for the Ghetto masses. If .Judaism cannot meet this test, its sky-scraping Temples in Cosmopolis will not save it. alpha omega fraternity CHAPTER INSTALLED On March 23rd at the Henry GTrady Hotel, formal installation was made of a local Chapter of the Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity recently organized here at the Atlanta Southern Dental College. Dr. Harry Blitzstein of Atlantic City, N. J., past Supreme Chancelor, conducted the installation ceremonies. The charter members are; Dr. Irving H. Goldstein, Atlanta, Ga.; Messrs. Bernard Agoos, Thomaston, Ga.; Edward Blitzstein, Atlantic City, X. J.; Sol Cohen, Savannah, Ga.; Ben Hyman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Herbert Lev- ington, Savannah, Ga.; Sydney Wein stein, Birmingham, Ala. Following the installation, dinner was served in the Green Room at the Henry Grady for the members of the Fraternity and their guests. Dr. I. H. Goldstein acted as toast master for the evening and introduced the various speakers among whom [were Dr. Alfred Enlow and Dr. W. E. Coleman, members of the Faculty and Dr. B. Wildauer, one of Atlanta’s prominent dentists. The Dental Fraternities welcoming Alpha Omega in their midst were rep resented as follows: Psi Omega, C. W. Sanders; Delta Sigma Delta, W. J. jWyrick; Xi Psi Phi, M. L. Llewellyn. The local Chapter will be known as [Alpha Delta and is the twenty fifth [Chapter of Alpha Omega to be estab lished. A. F. OF L. ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON PALESTINE I New Orleans (J. T. A.)—A resolu tion expressing the sympathy of the American Federation of Labor for the tnited Hebrew* Trades of New York In the assistance they are rendering p> the Central Federation of Jewish porkers in Palestine, the Histadruth, fas adopted by the forty-eighth an nual convention of the American Fed eration here yesterday. The resolution was introduced by lelegate A. J. Shipliakoff of the Unit ed Leather Workers’ International L’nion, and read: “Whereas, the Jew*- ph workers in Palestine are organized F. a Central Federation known as the Histadruth and whereas, this central r dy, while participating in the work |f building a Jewish homeland in Pal- F tlne > is protecting the workers Igainst exploitation by their employ- F 3, and whereas, through their pio- i^er work they have succeeded in busing the standard of living not on- ¥ of their own members but of the lrabi an workers as well, therefore, Be it resolved, that the forty- Pghth annual convention of the fmerican Federation of Labor ex presses its sympathy to the United p* brew Trades of New York in the PETER J. WALTER, NEW YORK ARTIST, EMBRACES JUDAISM Was Married to Jewish Woman for 17 Years; Children Reared in Jewish Faith New York (J. T. A.)—Peter J. Wal ter, New York painter, a Roman Cath olic, embraced Judaism last week, it was learned. Mr. Walter, who is 38 years old, was born in Cologne, Ger many, in a German Catholic family. He was admitted to the Jewish faith with the consent of Rabbi M. S. Mar- golies, dean of the Orthodox Rabbi nate in the United States. I)r. Julius Bloom of 955 Walton Avenue, the Bronx, officiated. The convert was named Abraham ben Abraham, in ac cordance with Jewish practice. Although married to a Jewish wo man for the past seventeen years, Abraham ben Abraham Walter will have to re-marry her three months after his entry into the Jewish faith. Mr. and Mrs. Walter have two chil dren, a girl 14 and a boy of 10. They have been reared in the Jewish faith. None of their friends in New York knew that Mr. Walter was not a Jew. It w*as related that when Mr. Walter was a young man, he was on a visit to Warsaw with his father, a promi nent Cologne physician. It was then that he met and fell in love with the daughter of a Warsaw Jewish mer chant. Soon after they married and left for the United States. “In spirit I have been a Jew for the past 17 years,” Mr. Walter stat ed. “I embraced Judaism out of con viction.” TEMPLE BROTHERHOODS CONVENTION Washington, D. C.,—“The Voice of the Jewish Laity” will be the theme of the symposium at the third bien nial convention of the National Fed eration of Temple Brotherhoods here Sunday and Monday, April 7th and 8th. The symposium on “The Voice of the Jewish Laity” is to be based on the religious survey recently complet ed by the Federation and said to be an outstanding contribution to this phase of research. The findings were published several months ago and drew wide comment in pulpit and press. Mr. Ludwig Vogelstein, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Federa tion’s parent body, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Mrs. Maurice Steinfield, President of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, will deliver addresses of greetings at the opening meeting called for Sunday, April 7th, at 10:30 A. M. Mr. Leon Pretzfelder, Wash ington, D. C., will deliver the address of welcome and Mr. Leonard S. Levin, first Vice-President of the Brother hoods’ Federation, of Pittsburgh, Pa., will respond. Monday, April 8th, will be featured by President Hoover’s address at noon at the White House and by an experi ence meeting at 9:00 A. M. Mr. Charles P. Kramer, Chairman of the National Conference of Temple Brotherhoods, New York, N. Y., will preside. General discussion on all Brother hood activities will follow. assistance they are rendering to the Central Federation of Jewish Workers in Palestine.” Page 23 ♦ i I 4 t The Macon Telegraph | MACON. 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