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Page 8 The Southern Israelite Atlanta To Have New Country Club Of interest to a large number of At- lantians is the announcement of the for mation of the new Mayfair Country Club, by a charter group of sixty prominent business and professional men of this city. Town headquarters for the organization are the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, and until completion of the Country Club project, club rooms are to be located there. While no definite site has as yet been selected, it is believed that the new club will be located in North Fulton County. The plans call for a suitable club build ing, an eighteen hole golf course, swim ming pool, tennis and handball courts, and other facilities for outdoor recreation. The club will make its debut as one of Atlanta’s outstanding social organizations, with a dinner dance at its town quarters, the Atlanta Biltmore, on Tuesday eve To Remind You That— Campbell Coal Company handles not only the high est grade of coal and coke —but— Handsome Electric Lighting Fixtures, Builders’ Hardware of Modern Type. Prac tically Everything that Goes into Build ing a home. Ja. 5000 240 Marietta St. ning, December 16th, where plans have been made to make this one of the most brilliant affairs of the season. Unusual and novel entertainment has been arranged under the direction of Mr. Jack M. Stein, as chairman of the enter tainment committee. The following were elected officers of the new Mayfair Country Club: A. L. Feldman, President; Chas. M. Newman, Vice-President; M. Stephen Schiffer, Secretary, and Herman Gross, Treasurer. Dr. Leo Joachim Frachtenberg, anthro pologist and communal worker, and con nected here in Atlanta with the United Palestine Appeal, died recently at the age of 47 in Waterloo, Iowa. A native of Bukovina, he was educated in Rumania and Galicia, and after coming to America, in 1904, studied at Cornell and Columbia universities. He served on various Jewish and general sociological bodies, among them the New York Educational Alliance, the New Jersey Commission on Crime and Dependency, the United States Im migration Commission, and the Jewish Welfare Board. For a time he was the supervisor ,of the United States Army Service clubs, holding the rank of Lieu tenant-Colonel. At the time of his death he was a director of the Allied Jewish Campaign. Newton D. Baker, Cleveland attor ney and Secretary of War in the cabi net of President Wilson, was awarded the first medal to be offered annually by the American Hebrew “for the pro motion of better understandings be tween Christian and Jew in America. The award was made because "he has formulated in writing the philosophy of the program for better understand ing between Christian and Jew in America.” Southern Notes Anrnvd Wyle Miss Rhoda Kauffman, State wel fare worker, and Armand Wyle, Super intendent of the Hebrew Orphans Home in Atlanta, were among the prominent social workers from the South attending the White House Con ference on Child Welfare, held recently in Washington, D. C. Both repre sentatives were invited to attend the series of meetings at the White House because of their keen appreciation and thorough knowledge of the subjects discussed, and because of their effec tive and commendable work performed in their respective capacities. Mr. Gabriel Cohen, an outstanding At- lantian and active in the communal wel fare of the community, died recently at the age of 68. He had been active in the performance of his various endea/ors until the very day of his death, being stricken suddenly while at work. He is survived by his wife ,his sons, Abe, Dave, Kasper, and Isadore; and his daughters, Mrs. Charles Rosenberg, and Mrs. Jake Faeman. The tenth anniversary of the reopening of the Jewish Alliance of Savannah, will be celebrated Sunday night with an appro priate program on which Mayor Gordon Saussy appears as principal speaker. The celebration will continue through the week and include such additional features as a lecture by Norman Thomas, candidate for President in 1928, on “Wanted—A New Social Philosophy,’’ to be given Monday night, December 1; a Woman’s Club meeting and Kid party on Thursday night; anniversary' dance on Wednesday night; concluding with an Athletic Night, presenting drills, exhibitions, games, on Thursday night. A band of artists, comprising the Jew ish Opera Company, of New York, are appearing here in Atlanta in a series of Hebrew operas. They were brought to Atlanta by the local Jewish Educational Alliance for the purpose of education of the Jewish youth in the traditional He braic songs of olden days. While con ducting their performances in Atlanta, the artists will be presented in two operatic broadcasts to be heard over radio station WSB, one at 12:30 o’clock Sunday after noon and their second Monday night at 8 o’clock, their appearance being an event of considerable novelty and of widespread interest. 1 he Sunday School of the Jewish Edu cational Alliance has resumed its regular classes. These are in charge of competent qualified teachers. The curriculum con sists of a study of the Bible, , history, customs and cerenv • knowledge of current event younger children, there is story arts and crafts. The school supervision of the Doctor of tivities and is co-educational, every Sunday morning at 1() interesting assemblies are P school program. The Jewish ! celebrated in a most fitting m , r | further particulars apply at the n ,, the Alliance. The Alliance Girl Scouts will },,,] ( j ( camp reunion and Girl Scout rally Thur day afternoon, October 30th, at 3 J() the members of Girls’ Scout To, ,, s m ,, mg at the Alliance and those wh, ha-,, been at camp will hold a rousing ect together and reunion. An appropriate program has been prepared. On Thursday evening, October 30th. Troop 8, of the Alliance Girl Scouts will give a party with plenty of Hallow- e en spirit, and will have as their guest, the Alliance Boy Scout Troop 27. In connection with the Girl Scout Week, the Alliance Troops will visit Egleston Memorial Hospital, and also tin Federal Penitentiary, and will participate in the tree planting on Saturday at Gimp Civitania. All of the troops have resumed their regular meetings and are looking forward to very interesting and enjoyable pr grams. A fourth Girl Scout Troop is in the process of organization. Those inter ested may secure further information from the Girls’ Worker at the Alliance A lecture by Rabbi Harry H. Epstein on “Evolution and Religion" and a con cert by Enrico Leide, Harry Robkin and Fannie Segal Goldstein, a trio of At lanta’s leading musicians, will formally start the winter lecture series of tlu Young People’s Forum Sunday afterivon The program will be presented in the Ahavath Achim Synag at Washing ton Street and Woodward Avenue at 3 p.m., with Berry Rittenbaum, chairman of the governing board of the forum, pre siding. The trio of ’cello, violin ana piano will open the program with a con cert featuring classical numbers. The combination musical and lecture- programs will be presented on alternate Sundays during the winter months by the young people’s organization, which ha> mapped out a comprehensive program study devoted to problems of niodern Judaism. Following the synagogue’s spiritual leader in the series of lectures will Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta ton stitution, who will deliver a lecture ' * December 14; Rabbi A. Bengis, < t b*r- mingham, who will speak on January . a debate by four members of the on January 18; a lecture by Rabb: Kosen. of Savannah, on February 15 ; a sium by Sol Golden and Ike Atlanta attorneys, on March 1. ‘ \ lecture by Dr. David Beth-Lahm . cipal of the United Hebrew Atlanta, on March 15. A daughter was born to Rabbi . r Joel S. Goffen, of Troy, New ^ } cently. The child was nan. - Natana. Mrs. Geffen was forme. Sylvia N. Mintz, of Brooklyn. ^ The grandparents are Rabbi Tobias Geffen. (Continued on Page 14