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The Southern Israelite Page 10 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. Georgia POWER fl.3: COMPANY CITIZEN WHEREVER W E SERVE 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. (Continued on Page