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The Southern Israelite
THE MUNICIPAL LIGHT PLANT
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.
Furnishes Current to Operate Conveniences
FOR ALL THE
HOUSE
Hrs.
Lights. 100 Watt . 10
Vacuum Cleaners • 6 Vi
Fans 17
Heaters PA
FOR BEI) ROOMS
Curling Irons
Hair Driers •
Heating Pads
Hrs.
40
2
14*A
FOR KITCHEN
Ranges
Water Heaters
Refrigerators
The
City
Sells
Current
Only
ALL
MERCHANDISE
IS
SOLD
BY
DEALERS
FOR DINING
ROOMS
Toasters . •
Perculators ■
Waffle Irons
Eggettes .
Hot Plates
Hrs.
2
2%
PA
PA
1%
FOR LAUNDRY
Hrs.
Irons 1%
Washing Machine . 4
The figures opposite the names above indicate the approximate
number of hours the appliances may be operated for 7 c. the rate
for the first 35 Kilowatts.
Ranges, Water Heaters, Refrigerators vary so in type and size that
the cost of operation must be figured for each, according to size
and make used.
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In The Limelight
HENRYK GRASBERG, the pro
prietor of a large steam mill in War
saw, Poland, and a member of the
Executive of the .Jewish Merchants
Union, was awarded the Golden Serv
ice Cross by President Moscieki of
Poland for assistance rendered the
city’s population in supplying pro
visions. This is the first case in which
an individual was accorded this hon
or for such services.
LOUIS RASMINSKY, 22, graduate
of the University of Toronto, has been
appointed a member of the Economic
Section of the secretariat of the
League of Nations as a result of his
attaining first place in a competitive
examination in which 300 candidates
from all parts of the world partici
pated. Mr. Rasminsky received num
erous scholarships while in the uni
versity, and was awarded a fellow
ship at the London School of Econom
ics, where he is studying at the pres
ent.
DR. STEPHEN S. WISE was pre
sented with a gift of $75,000 on the
occasion of a dinner in honor of his
fifty-sixth birthday for the work of
the Jewish Institute of Religion, of
which he is the President and Found
er, Dr. Wise, in responding to the
presentations, alluded to the eight
years of pioneering work which had
fallen to his lot and that of his com
rades, in the founding and mainten
ance of a school for the training of
ministers which should be free from
partisanship, and leave its faculty and
students alike free to learn and to
teach.
Family of the late Jacob and Rosa
Stern, wealthy San Francisco music-
lovers, have set aside a fund of $100,-
000 to provide an income for ten years
for Ernest Bloch, noted composer of
Jewish music and other works, after
which period the income will be used
by the University of California for
the founding of a chair in music and
for musical scholarships. It is the
desire of the Stern family that dur
ing that period Mr. Bloch be free from
routine work so that he may devote
his time and energies to creative
work. Mr. Bloch’s symphony “Amer
ica" won the Musical America prize
in 1928.
DR. JULIAN MORGENSTERN,
president of the Hebrew Union Col
lege, will be editor of the Bible de
partment and Professor Jacob Lau-
terbach will edit the Rabbinic’s de
partment of the new Jewish Ency
clopedia, it was announced by Rabbi
Isaac Landman, editor of the new en
cyclopedia.
JACOB BINDER, prominent Bos
ton artist, was declared the winner of
the co-operative art show held in Bos
ton at the Jordon Marsh Company’s
store in connection with Boston Art
Week. Mr. Binder won $250 for his
painting, “The Scribe,” painted in
1925, depicting a rabbi writing on a
parchment scroll passages from the
Old Testament. Mr. Binder was a
disciple of John Singer Sargent.
ADOLPH OCHS, publisher of the
New York Times, passed his 72 n<1
birthday on March 12th. The pre vi
ous day he spoke by radio to R* ar
Admiral Richard E. Byrd at Dune
din, New Zealand, who congratulated
him on his birthday, which occurred
on March 11th in that country. Mr
Ochs has been financing Byrd’s Ant-
artic expedition.
FREDERICK BROWN, real estate
operator and philanthropist of New
York, has been awarded the medal for
the promotion of industrial peace by
the American Arbitration Society, the
medal was presented by Felix M
Warburg “in recognition of his dis
tinguished service in promo 4 ing good
will in business relations." The two
others who have been thus honored
before are Charles M. Schwab and
Harry Guggenheim, now Ambassador
to Cuba.
MRS. FELIX M. WARBURG urg
es non-Zionist women of America to
join the Zionists in the task of de
veloping a Jewish homeland in Pales
tine. Praising the work of Hadas-
sah, the Women’s Zionist Organira
tion of America, which conducts the
largest health agency in Palestine,
she expressed the hope that non-Zon-
ist women will co-operate in its en
deavors.
DR. DAVID L. WORTSMAN has
been named chairman of the Dallas
f'city welfare board, and Mrs. Joseph
' Utay, president of the Texas Council
of Jewish Women, was named a mem
ber of the board.
ALBERT KAHN, internationally
known Jewish architect, received first
prize in the commercial class in the
annual honor awards made by the De
troit chapter of the American Insti
tute of Architects for his design of
the Fisher Building.
JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRAXDEIS
was one of the three Supreme Court
Justices who were praised by Senat< r
Arthur Capper of Kansas in a na
tionally broadcast radio address in
which he urged that “there should be
some more members of the Court with
their viewpoint,” referring to Bran
deis, Holmes and Stone.
PROF. FRED T. KELLY, an lri?b
Catholic, is the only instructor i>
Hebrew at the University of
consin, it has been revealed.
IMMANUEL KANT NEUMARK.
15 year old son of the late Dr. Da'is
Neumark, outstanding Jewish phib^ 0
pher, who was Professor of Philoso
phy at the Hebrew Union College in
Cincinnati, achieved the highest n
telligence Quotient in a phycho ogi
cal test given the entire Freshman
class of the College of the Citj o
New York. Young Neumark s
is 201, whereas the average f :
class is 154.
ALBERT JACOBS, 21, Je '™ h
aviator, was killed in Benton r '
Mich., when he lost control of h - a
chine at an altitude of 1,000 fee>~
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