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Baruch Proposes "Supreme
Court for Business ’
Boston, Mass. — Bernard M. Baruch,
Chairman of the War Industries Board
under President Wilson, has proposed the
establishment of a “Supreme Court of
Business,” whose purpose it would be to
restrain overproduction without govern
mental interference. This would prevent
such periods of depression as the country
is now experiencing, he said in the course
of an address to the Boston Chamber of
Commerce. It is believed that Barauch’s
proposal may lead to concrete action on
the part of America's business leaders.
Jewish Girls Resign From
Masonic Group in Protest
Against Christian Symbols
Los Angeles, Calif.—The enforced use
of certain Christian symbols in the ritual
of Bethel Lodge No. 10, Jobs’ Daughters,
an organization affiliated with the Ma
sonic order and one hundred percent Jew
ish in membership has caused the resigna
tion of Cecelia Mark, University of Cali
fornia student as Queen and a large num
ber of the 200 members.
For the last five and a half years a
special dispensation had been granted to
the Bethel No. 10 to make changes in the
ritual which would not offend the reli
gious feelings of its members. Within the
last six months threats had been made
upon the Bethel by the Grand Guardian
of the state of California to revoke its
charter unless it returned to the use of
the Christian symbols.
Fhirteen Jews Get Yale
Scholarships
New Haven, Conn. — Of 179 fellow
ships and scholarships awarded by the
Graduate School of Yale University for
next year 13 are assigned to Jewish
students for research study abroad and
for continued work in the Graduate
School.
Bronx Teachers to Sponsor
Course In Yiddish
New York.—The latest addition to the
growing number of Yiddish courses is the
one to be offered as part of its series
of lectures by the Bronx Borough-Wide
Association of Public and High School
Teachers. It has decided to give a course
in \ iddish literature in the curriculum
for its members.
Would Appeal to
League If Britain Does
Not Heed D
Cincinnati.—Watchful waitii : and
demand on the British government to re
store to 3,300 Jewish laborers th, j r r ' ■
to immigrate to Palestine was
Rabbi James G. Heller, chairman of the
Administrative Committee of th Zionist
Organization of America at a protest
mass meeting held under the au pices <.<
the Bureau of Jewish Educate :
Rabbi Heller declared “’let us 1 patient
and if the British government i •
pay heed to our demands then i. t us
to the League of Nations and plead to
the people of the world for our cause.”
Approve Plan for Texas
Colony In Palestine
Dallas (JTA).—An indor sement of
the plan to establish a Texas colony
in Palestine at a cost of $100,000 was
given at the annual convention of
Texas Zionists. Louis A. Free, oi
Houston, was named president; Dr.
Raphael Gold, Dallas, honorary presi
dent; Mrs. Max Goot, San \nt m
president of the Texas Hadassah, am!
Miss Sarah Ginsberg, San \ntoni>
president of Junior Hadassah.
Chicago Jewish Institute
Players Win Dramatic Cup
Chicago (JTA).—For the first tinn
in its history, the Institute Players
Guild of the Jewish People Institut
won the coveted Edith Rockefeller
McCormick Cup in the Greater Chi
cago Drama League Contest with the
play, “The Tenth Man,” by Elma Ehr
lich Lovinger, which it presented for
the contest. The largest single award
of the contest also went to the Insti
tute Players’ Guild when Ralph School
man took the first prize for diction of
fered by Mr. Mortimer Singer, head
of the Orpheum Circuit.
“The Tenth Man” was staged by
Charles Freeman, director of the In
stitute Players’ Guild, who was pre
sented with the cup. The verdict >•
the judges was unanimous and tlu
presentation of the cup to Mr. Free
man was the signal for wild applau>e
on the part of the audience.
Charges N. Y. Education
Board With Bias
New York, N. Y. (WNS).—The mem
bers of the examining board of the
New York City Board of Education
were charged with anti-Jewish preju
dice by Maurice E. Biederman in a
speech before the Judea Democratic
Club of Brooklyn. He declared that
Jewish candidates for teachers’licenses,
even if they pass their written exami
nations well, most often are declared
ineligible on their oral tests. He urged
the Jews of Brooklyn to band together
politically in order to end such dis
crimination.
B'nai B’rith City Library
Dedicated In Jerusalem
Cincinnati.—A cablegram to Alfred M.
Cohen, international president of B’nai
B’rith, announced the dedication of the
B’nai B’rith City Library at Jerusalem
and voiced the appreciation of the people
of that city for the B’nai B’rith support
which had made the library possible.
50,000 Jews Protest
Against Britain
New York, N. Y.-(WNS)-i« one of
the most impressive parades ever i
the Jews of New York 50,000 inen .
women gathered at Madison Square
to march down a two and a ha
course to Rutgers Square. The P
was the protest of New York J
against the suspension of Jewi'o ■
gration into Palestine. The si H Kl
the starting of the parade v ‘ ...
Stephen S. Wise, who declared it « •
ter for England to have denied u- y
outset than to have granted our
and now to have betrayed us. • i '
pension of the immigration py ■ *
purely political interests, at ter t.
granted by the High Commissioner
suspension of the Mandate.
Many Jews Join Al Smi
War On New York Slums
New York.—In an effort to wn y
the slums in New York City. a Fj.
of prominent citizens am.
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