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The Southern Israelite Page 11 NATIONAL NEWS w York City—Various methods are pursued by the Sections of the nal Council of Jewish Women in •jeving problems arising from the ■.employment situation. In St. Louis, Jewish Scholarship Foundation of Council Section, of which Mrs. Ben Jacobs is president, has this year Mributed thirty scholarships to boys .I girls, who are thus enabled to con iine their education without hardships . their families. In Oklahoma City, the Council Section, of which Mrs. lien Hirschland is president, enrolled ictnbers of its Section for cooperation with the plans of the City’s Committee r the relief of unemployment. The ‘ittsburgh Section, of which Mrs. Leo Halt is president, has been urging amities to give part time employment u their households to young girls. The National Council of Jewish Women is represented on President Hoover’s Emergency Committee for Employment, through its national Chairman of Vocational Guidance and Employment, Mrs. Francis 1). Poliak. * * * Albuquerque, N. M.—The title of •'Great Relative” has been bestowed upon Albert Einstein by the Hopi Indians of Arizona. The news of the Junior conferred upon the scientist be came known when he arrived here on his way from Winslow, Arizona, where lie had made a brief stop. The title was evolved by the Indian chieftain when it was explained to him that Ein- tcin is most famous for his theory of relativity. * * * New York, N. Y.—There are 5,000 lews in the army, navy and marine forces of the United States, according to a report made by Dr. Cyrus Adler at the annual meeting ox the National Council of the Jewish Welfare Board, held here at the Y. M. H. A. building. He added that about 1,000 men of Jew- i'h faith were in disabled veterans’ hospitals of the country. In his message as president Judge Irving Lehman of the New York Court "f Appeals said that the Jewish Wel fare Board is now co-operating with -’54 constituent organizations. During the past two years Felix M. Warburg contributed $150,000 to the work of the Board, Mortimer L. Schiff $100,000, Henry Kaufman of Pittsburg $200,000, and $175,000 was received from the estate of Conrad Hubert. A deficit of $55,000 ended the year’s work. * * * Albany, N. Y.—A delegation of Orthodox Jewish leaders, from New '"rk City and other communities, ap peared before the Legislative Codes "imnittee to urge the passage of a icasure which would legalize Sunday trading by Jews. It was pointed out 1 the committee that Sabbath-observ- ,n K Jews were being made to suffer n their business because of the ban on >undav business. “Those who have pposed measures of this nature in the :t> t seem to think that we are trying undermine and destroy their Sunday. ’>at is not the case,” asserted Rabbi vrnard Drachman, President of the wish Sabbath Alliance, who added ut he wanted a bill enacted in order help preserve Jewish orthodoxy. * * * cinnati, Ohio—B'nai B’rith Wider ' e campaigns for from $1,000 to '*0 are under way in many Texas ■ and towns as the result of an ization visit of Isidor Kadis, nal field director of the Wider Scope Committee. Mr. Kadis spent all of February and the first part of March in Texas. He addressed B’nai B’rith and Jewish community groups at B’nai B’rith lodge meetings. Wider Scope luncheons, meetings of the Coun cil of Jewish Women, and from the pulpits of leading rabbis, in Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, Hous ton, Waco and Ft. Worth. Mr. Kadis instituted a two-year cam paign for $10,(KX) in Dallas, with Sol Dreyfuss as chairman, and Louis Brom berg as treasurer. A fourth of this sum was raised during Mr. Kadis’ visit, after he addressed a large audience in Rabbi David Lefkowitz’s temple on the importance of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundations. * * * New York, N. Y.—A gloomy picture of Jewish conditions in Europe was presented to a meeting of t lie executive commitftee of the American Jewish Congress by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of tlie committee. Economic discrimination and physical brutality in Rumania, oppressive legislation in Poland, social isolation in Germany, in tellectual anti-Semitism in Soviet Rus sia, minority oppression in Lithuania were described by Dr. Tenenbaum, who declared that “economic anti-Semitism, now rampant throughout Central Europe, is a far more destructive wea pon than mere anti-Jewish agitation, and has thrown millions of Jews on the Drink of disaster and mass starvation." Referring to Soviet Russia, Dr. Tenen baum said that the government is un able to prevent anti-Semitic outbreaks in factories, agricultural settlements and in the army. He reported that under King Carol Jewish conditions in Rumania had improved l>ut that much still has to be done “to satisfy a modest conception of justice.” * * * Los Angeles, Calif.—Mordecai Mcn- dal Dolitzky, well-known Yiddish novel ist and publicist, who helped to found the Yiddish press in America, died here at the age of 75. Born at Bialostok, Russia, Dolitzky became identified with Hebrew literature at the age of 19, and contributed to the leading Hebrew journals for many years. Coming to the United States in 1892 he found no place for his Hebrew writings, and he began to concentrate on Yiddish, writ ing numerous novels of Jewish life. * * * Chicago, III.—A sum totaling $130,000 is left to various Chicago charitable and educational institutions by the will of Harry Hart, late partner of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, clothing manufac turers. An estate of $5,000,000 was be queathed to relatives. * * * Washington, D. C.—The Jenkins bill to cut immigration into the United States by 90 per cent, which had pre viously been passed with an overwhelm ing majority in # the House, died in the Senate, when it* suffered the fate of a number of other important bills as a result of the filibuster of Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, who failed to get action on a pet oil measure. * * * Greenville, S. C.—Almost three score Jewish grocers and restaurateurs were brought before a local court to answer charges of keeping their establishments open on Sunday. Arrested under old blue-law acts, half of them were fined $25.00 and the rest given suspended sentences. St. Louis.—No political anti-Semit ism, as it is known in Europe, exists in American universities. It only crops out in privately endowed universities, and it is directed against Jews who arouse prejudice not only in Christian, DR. JUDAH LEIB MAGNES the Chancellor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who is coming to America for a short visit to his native land. Dr. Magnes, stormy petrel of Jewish life, whose outspoken demand for an Arah-Jewish understanding in Palestine at all costs aroused much criticism in Zionist quarters a year or so ago, is coming here in the interests of the Hebrew University. Will he reopen the controversy regarding Arab Jewish relations while he is here? This is the question that agitates official Zionist head quarters. Or will he keep aloof from all poli tical controversies? but in the better and more refined Jewish circles as well, according to Judge William S. Evans, of New York, National President of the Zcta Beta Tau. Judge Evans spoke at the thirty- second annual convention of this Jew ish fraternity being held at the Hotel Jefferson here. “Anti-Semitism is no obstacle in the way of the advancement of Jewish stu dents, and Jews are in a position to knock its head down wherever it ap pears,” declared Judge Evans. “Jewish fraternities have done much to eradi cate anti-Semitism by showing Chris tians something of the Jew to admire and respect.” Increased social service and a greater devotion to Jewish student congrega tions was urged by Alfred Levy. Al bert Horwitz and William Friedberg also urged more Jewish cultural ac tivities by the Zeta Beta Tau. Reporting on the activities of this fraternity during the past year, Judge Evans stated that a Julius Kahn Me morial Fund has been established at the University of California as a loan fund to aid junior and senior students. Con tributions have also been made to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a subscription toward the establishment of a scholarship there in the name of the fraternity, and a plan to raise schol arship funds for needy students at the Hebrew University is being considered. The Louis Marshall Cup for greatest interest in Jewish affairs has been awarded to Alpha Omicron Chapter at the University of Arizona, and the Julius Kahn Cup for the best indi vidual has been given to Frederick W. Sington, all-American football player at the University of Alabama. * + * Philadelphia—Gold jewelry and coins of the Byzantine Empire, as well as arti cles of bronze, glass and terra cotta from the Roman period have been exca vated at Beisan with the renewal of archaeological work here by the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Museum’s Palestine expedition, according to a rejiort received bv Horace H. F. Jayne, director of the museum. • In addition to finding these objects, all of which belong to about the Sixth Cen tury, A. 1)., the expedition also made a wholly unexpected discovery of impor tance when it unearthed a building, be lieved to be either a chapel or villa of Byzantine origin, whose rooms still re tained much of their original mosaic pav ing The Palestine expedition is directed this year by Gerald M. Fitz-Gerald who served for several years as Acting Di rector of Antiquities in Jerusalem. “Since beginning its work at Beisan this season the expedition has concen trated its efforts chiefly on the excava tion of a cemetery and we have succeeded in excavating about thirty tombs there thus far,” Mr. Fitz-Gerald writes in his report. “Nearly all of them,” he con tinues, “have proved to be of Roman or Byzantine date but one tomb we dis covered was of a different type, namely a ledge of rock on which lay five of the pottery sarcophagi of the ‘slipper’ type with lids representing human heads, which have been associated with the Philistine or other Egyptian mercenaries of about the 12th century B. C. “The principal finds in the Roman and Byzantine tombs consist of lamps, glass vases and small objects of bronze. An extremely graceful terra cotta figurine is a noteworthy find and of the same material is the figure of a cock. Some gold earrings and a large number of Canadian beads were among other objects unearthed. “A wholly unexpected discovery was made on the summit of the cemetery slope when a stone gateway over three metres wide was uncovered leading into a room paved with a mosaic floor. On the threshold the mosaic bears a Greek inscription, obviously of the Byzantine period. Beyond the inscription part of a pattern has been uncovered, including figures of birds in square panels, ap parently arranged round an octagonal figure.” WHY I AM A JEW (Continued from Page 7) ways been annoyed by the undignified assimilationist cravings and strivings which I have observed in so many of my friends. 1 hrough the establishment of a Jew ish Commonwealth in Palestine the Jewish people will again be in a posi tion to bring its creative abilities into full play without hindrance. Through the Jewish University and similar in stitutions the Jewish people will not only help forward its own national renaissance but will enrich its moral culture and knowledge, and will once again, as it was centuries ago, be guided into better ways of life than .hose which are inevitably imposed on it in present conditions.