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The Southern Israelite
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SAM A. LEWISOHN, a son of the
noted New York Jewish philanthropist,
Adolph Lewisohn, and a director in many
investment and mining companies, has
been appointed by Governor Roosevelt of
New York as chairman of the legisla
tive committee which is to make an in
vestigation of prison administration. Mr.
Lewisohn is also a director of the Hebrew
Sheltering Guardian Society, president
of the American Association for Labor
Legislation, a member of the executive
council of the National Committee on
Prisons and Prison I^abor and the author
of two hooks on industrial problems.
ERNEST BLOCH, noted composer of
Jewish music, lately famed for his prize
winning symphony, “America,” at the
insistence of Cantor Reuben R. Rinder of
Temple Emanu-El of San Francisco, is
to turn his creative art to composing the
music for a Jewish sabbath morning
service. So seriously has the noted writer
of music taken up his latest assignment
that he has begun to study Hebrew.
In The Limelight
NATHAN SNELLENBERG, mil
lionaire Jewish philanthropist and depart
ment store owner of Philadelphia, who
died recently, left an estate of $3,772,357
in principal and §25,400 in income.
ARCHIL SELWYN, JR., an assistant
director at the Selwyn Studio in Los
Angeles and the son of the New York
state producer, died recently at Los Ange
les from a fractured skull which he re
ceived in an automobile accident. Mr.
Selwyn had been in L>s Angeles only six
months.
The cost of the service must
necessarily be paid out of the
revenue; every unnecessary
burden placed upon the utility
must, of necessity, be paid for
by the customer, and to that
extent affects the quantity and
quality of the service and the
rate that must be charged.
P. S. ARKWRIGHT,
President
Household
Electricity
now costs 17.1%
less than in 1928
I N ALL the territory served
by Georgia Power Company,
the average cost of residential
electric service has been reduced
from 7.16 cents per kilowatt
hour in 1928 to 5.91 cents in
1929. This is a reduction of 17.1
per cent in one year.
These figures include all charges,
service charges as well as the
cost of the electric power itself.
If residential service during 1929
had been billed at the same rate
as it was in 1928, the citizens of
Georgia served by this Company
would have paid during 1929 a
total of $600,000 more than they
actually did pay.
Electric service is the one
item in the family budget
which costs less than it did
before the World War. And
the service is better, as well
as cheaper. It is more de
pendable, of higher quality
and available to many
thousands in the small
towns and on the farms
who a few years ago were
cut off from this modern
advantage.
Such reductions are the result of
constant effort toward finding
ways to produce and distribute
electricity more economically.
They are the product of millions
poured into new equipment,
new methods, greater efficiency
throughout the system.
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SIR PHILIP SASSOON, well
known financier of London am’ , .. C
of Parliament, will accompany tl
of Wales if the latter visits th
States in the fall, as is expe./t
Philip Sassoon is a member of ,, ne 0 ,
the most prominent British Jew
ikes, and was Parliamentary :
under Lloyd George after the war l) ur '
ing the war he was the private ,<rr- far ,
of Field Marshal Haig.
LOUIS WALDMAN, a Bn-,
torney born in Russia 38 year> ago, was
nominated by the Socialist party ,,f'\ cvl
York for Governor at the annual con
vention of the party held in Schenectady.
N. Y. Mr. Waldman was first elected
to the New York Legislature on the
Socialist ticket in 191/, and was re
elected in 1919, but was ousted with four
other Socialists during the 1920 reaction
ary wave.
LEO FEIST, America’s foremost puh
lisher of popular music, w ho died recently,
left a sum of $100,(XM) to be used as an
endowment for the “Leo Feist Charities
Trust”. The money is to be “devoted to
the welfare of humanity” and may be
utilized for the benefit of either indi
viduals or institutions, as the executor-
may determine.
RAQUEL M ELLER, internationally
famous singer and actress and Spain’s
foremost Jewess, has been awarded the
Order of Alfonso XII by King Alfonso
in recognition of her services in bringing
fame to Spain. Miss Meller is the first
actress to he thus ordered.
JUDGE JULIAN W. MACK, Hono
rary Chairman of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America, and Dr. Stephen S
Wise, Chairman of the American Zionist
Committee on Political Affairs, were
delegated as extraordinary representatiyt -
of the Zionist Organization of America,
to attend the meetings of the Administra
tive Committee of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine and to the Zionist Genera!
Council, both of which will be held in
Berlin during the last week of August
MARK SCHWEID, a well-known
Jewish actor, took over the former
Schildkraut Theatre, in the Bronx. Mr
Schvveid was a member of the Jewish
Art Theatre during the period of its ex
istence, and is also the author of several
volumes of prose and poetry. He '
planning to open the theatre during tl
coming Jewish holidays, and expects r
produce a number of original \iddi>i
plays.
MORDECAI IWRI. a leader of the
Left Poale Zion, Zionist labor party in
Warsaw, was shot and killed recently )
an unknown person who as yet has no
been found. The murderer before s oo
ing Iwri also robbed him. Iwri. who
a member of the municipal counc'l
Chelm, recently returned from 1 ales i
MEYER BLOOMFIELD, pninmen*
New York lawyer and vocational eXF :
is recommended to succeed Se ’
Labor Davis upon the latter s resign,
tion of his cabinet post, by ‘ v s 1 r
Babson, financial statistician ai ^ •
omist. Mr. Babson points oul tha
Bloomfield has a unique pr -
counselor on employment sta
lems to various corporations, a
has devoted his lifetime to a
tion of industrial stability 1
terms of their human as well a
meanings.
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