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The Southern Israelite
In The Limelight
NELSON RUTTENBERG, Deputy
Police Commissioner of New York,
and active in general Jewish and Zion-
ffairs, has been named chief of
the newly established Crime Preven
tion Bureau.
ment that modern civilization is a mis
fortune for the individual. Dr. Freud
points out that repression of natural
instincts which is incidental to civili
zation is responsible for much unhap
piness.
CARL HENTSCHEL, inventor of a
process for the printing of colored
newspaper illustrations, died in Lon-
t the age of 66. Mr. Hentschel
was born at Lodz, Russia, but received
his education in England.
MAURICE MOSKOWITZ, famous
Anglo-Jewish actor, and favorite on
the Last Side of New York a genera-
ago in Yiddish audiences, receiv
ed a warm reception and ovation at
his debut in Broadway at his first ap
pearance in the leading role of “Josef
a drama based on Lion
Feuehtwanger’s book, “Power.”
CONGRESSMAN BENJAMIN
GOLDER of Philadelphia, was mar
ried to Miss Peggy L. Mastbaum,
daughter of the late Jules Mastbaum,
moving picture magnate and philan
thropist. Among the notables present
was Mayor James J. Walker, an old
friend of the Mastbaum family.
LOUIS Z. ROSENFELD, an ap
prentice in the Chicago School of
Printing, has been awarded the socie
ty’s annual medal for the best essay
on Benjamin Franklin by young men
n the printing trade, announced John
Oswald, president of the International
Benjamin Franklin Society.
OSCAR STRAUSS, whose operetta
“The Chocolate Soldier” is being re
vived in the United States, arrived in
New York from where he will go to
Los Angeles to write operettas for the
movies.
LEHMAN BROTHERS and Lazard
Freres are the sponsors of General
American Investors Company, Inc.,
an investment trust which recently
was admitted to listing on the New
Yirk Stock Exchange.
MRS. ROSE HERTZ, wife of Chief
Rabbi Joseph D. Hertz, died recently
n London. She was prominent in Jew-
b affairs and the Vice-President of
Women’s International Zionist
Organization.
THE MARCHIONESS OF READ-
• s ^> w *fe of the former Viceroy of
lia, died in London. The Marchi-
>s was formerly Alice Edith Cohen,
lighter of a London merchant, who
rried Rufus Daniel Isaacs forty-
bree years ago. Lady Reading was
Oame of the Grand Cross of the
’ider of the British Empire and was
•corated with the Imperial Order of
t 'ie C rown of India.
JAMES de ROTHSCHILD, a son
Baron Edmond de Rothschild, of
’us, has been chosen honorary presi-
of Tarbuth, an organization re-
y founded in London for the fur-
uering of Hebraic culture.
DR - SIGMUND FREUD’S new
<r whose subject is the inconveni-
e civilization, contains the state-
DARIO RAPPAPORT, well-known
Vienna Jewish painter, who is now in
South America, is drawing a portrait
of the Chilean President, whose guest
he has been for the past few weeks.
After finishing the President’s por
trait he will also do a portrait of the
President’s wife.
DR. ALFRED ADLER, a university
professor in New York, was honored
on his sixtieth birthday when the In
ternational Association of Individual
Psychology held a meeting in Vienna
which was addressed by eminent
scientists who praised Adler’s contri
butions to the science of psychology.
RABBI WM. S. FRIEDMAN has
completed forty years of service in the
pulpit of the Temple Emanuel in Den
ver, Colorado, where concurrently with
his activities on behalf of Jewish caus
es, he has been zealous in non-Jewish
circles in promoting the cause of good
will and mutual understanding be
tween races and creed. Two years after
his arrival in Denver, Dr. Friedman
started the movement which culmi
nated in the establishment of the Na
tional Jewish Hospital for Consump
tives, the first institution in America
for the free treatment of sufferers
from tuberculosis on a national, non
sectarian scale.
SOLOMON M. STROOCK, of New
York, has been chosen President of
the Board of Directors of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, a post formerly
held by the late Louis Marshall.
JULIUS ROSENWALD has estab
lished a fellowship for Negroes at the
University of Chicago, which will be
maintained by an endow'ment fund cre
ated by Mr. Rosenwald and added to
the estate of the late Conrad Hubert.
BARON EDMONI) DE ROTHS
CHILD of Paris, known for his Bene
factions to Palestine, has donated a
plot of ground in Palestine, worth
$10,000, to the Women’s League for
Palestine for the building of an agri
cultural training school. This League
is an organization in New York of
women interested in Palestine.
ADOLP S. OCHS, publisher of the
New York Times, presented two large
Menorahs to the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine. In his address on the in
stallation of the Menorahs, Bishop
Wm. Manning pointed out that this
was the first time that a Christian
cathedral was using seven-branched
candelabra of Jewish tradition.
LEO FRIEDLANDER of New York
has, together with James Fraser, been
chosen by the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission to model four fig
ures symbolizing war and peace which
are to adorn the Lincoln Memorial
Terminus of the Bridge.
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PROF. ALBERT EINSTEIN has be
come one of the international presi
dents of the Universal Conference for
International Peace through Religion
held in New York.
OTTO H. KAHN has been revealed
as the anonymous annual Harmon don
or which has been awarded for the
past three years to the Negro “who
made an outstanding contribution in
fine arts.”
NATHAN STRAUS, who has just
celebrated his eighty-second birthday,
expressed the hope that the London
Naval Conference would be successful.
In his views on the Palestine situation
he declared his conviction that Great
Britain will fulfill her promise to the
.lews, and expressed the desire that he
wants peace for Palestine, but not a
peace imposed by pogroms.
JANESCA, a Rumanian, is sueing
the London Evening Standard for libel
on the grounds that a news item in
that paper called him a Polish Jew.
Janesca declares that he is friendly to
the Jews, but that he wishes it under
stood that he is not a Jew.
MAJOR DANIEL IIOPKIN, Labor
Member of Parliament, who has been
on a lecture tour in America, announc
ed at a luncheon tendered him by the
Zionist Organization of America that
Lord Passfield is soon to resign from
his post in the British Colonial Office
and will be succeeded by Mernon
Hartshorn of South Wales, Mr. Hart
shorn is known for his friendly atti
tude toward the Jews.
PALESTINE—A number of inter
esting stone and clay objects dating
from King Herod’s time have been
found by laborers who were digging
in the vicinity of the Hebrew Univer
sity on Mount Scopus.
JEWISH HOMES for one or two
children in refined family. Reason
able compensation and opportunity to
serve. Telephone Superintendent He
brew Orphans Home.
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Rich’* volume of daily sales is CONSIST
ENTLY higher, year by year, than that of any
other department store in the entire southeast
and southwest!
A business of this caliber does not come by
accident—but is founded and fostered on eco
nomic principles directed solely in the inter
ests of the public it serves.
Since 1867 Rich’s has maintained its
pledged leadership
In Lowest Prices
In Style and Quality
In Liberal Credits
In Pleasant Adjustments
RICH'S—A SOUTHERN INSTITUTION FOR 62 YEARS