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Page 14 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. Mention this Ad when inquiring PHONE 6115 FOR THE New York Laundry INCORPORATED Florida's Famous Suit Soap Laundry Family Washing By The Pound FORSYTH AND LIBERTY STREETS »IackNoiiville Florida 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>~ (Continued on Page 1