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NATIONAL AND FOREIGN NOTES
v York City.—The seventh class
f \ Training School for Jewish So-
ri l , r k, comes from all parts of the
l n , States. More than thirty uni-
ver> , ?s and a like number of differ-
ies will be represented in the
f f- graduate students comprising
t ht■ ' wo classes of first and second
indents. The Training School
of the three largest graduate
of social work in the country.
\Va hington, D. C.—Among the
chain n of the committees which
have been appointed by President
Honvci to prepare for the national
conference on home building and home
ownership to be held early in Decem
ber, ire Alfred K. Stern, of Chicago,
who heads the Committee on Large-
Scab- Operations, and Bernard J.
Newman, of Philadelphia, who is to
prepare the data on Legislation and
Administration.
Plainfield, N. J.—Emerging the vic
tor from among 99 starters, Mrs.
Norman S. Goldberger, of Norwood,
N. J., won this year's women’s state
golf championship of New Jersey.
New York City.—Professor Alex
ander Marx, Librarian of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, has announced
the acquisition of five volumes which
were in the private collection of the
late Czar Nicholas II. The books deal
with Jewish life in Russia.
New York City.—S : nce the last
Federal census in 1920, the Jewish
population of New York City has in
creased 232,012, according to statis
tics compiled by Dr. Walter Laidlaw,
executive secretary of the Cities Cen
sus Committee. The Jews in Greater
New York now number 1,875,521.
Chicago, Ill.—A new version of the
Hihle is to be published by the Uni-
vorsity of Chicago soon. All the an-
c:< nt Greek and Hebrew manuscripts
avo been consulted anew in order
mblish the Old and New Testa-
in “modern style’’. But the
ars who were engaged in the
h»t:on of the Hebrew are Chris-
including Prof. J. M. Powis
. of Chicago; F*rof. Alexander
of McGill, and Prof. Theo-
leek, of Toronto. The new
will read like any other book;
be printed straight across the
and not in double columns; it
nave modern phrasing, both in
and poetry.
l ' m Springs, Ga.—If Governor
hlin D. Roosevelt of New York
ecovered from his attack of in-
f paralysis and is able to pur
ls normal duties as a public fig-
is due in large measure to
Joseph, a New York Jewish
eer , the Governor admitted dur-
is brief rest here. Joseph came
ln 1924 and discovered the heal-
alities of the springs as a cure
s own paralysis. Ultimately
' b heard about the spot, came
and began to develop it to its
* s * z £ as a real therapeutic
ition.
Paris.—The establishment of a
fund to aid destitute Jewish artists
who are stranded in Paris was
announced in the Haint, Yiddish news
paper, which also carried an appeal
by Sholom Asch, famous Yiddish nov
elist, urging the Jewish community to
support the fund. Asch points out that
although the Jews of France have
been but slightly affected by the eco
nomic depression, in contrast with the
Jews everywhere else in the world,
they have contributed little to the
maintenance of their less fortunate
brethren. Referring to America as an
example, Asch declared that despite
the crisis there, the Jews have con
tinued to give generously to philan
thropies. Ludwig Lewisohn was the
first to make a large gift to the fund
for artists.
Paris.—Moses Gurewitch, Russian
financial expert, has been appointed
Soviet Trade Commissar to Paris.
Before the Revolution, Gurewitch was
a physician.
MEIER STEINBRINK, former Re
publican chairman of Brooklyn, and
noted Jewish leader, was nominated
for a place on the Supreme Court
bench by the judicial conventions of
the Republicans and Democrats under
a bi-partisan plan for distributing
twelve new posts. Nomination is tan
tamount to election. Edward Laz-
ansky, presiding justice of the Appel
late Division, whose term is now end
ing, was renominated for another 14
year period.
GENERAL SIR JOHN MONASH,
one of the outstanding figures in the
World War, and the first Jew to reach
high position in the British army,
died recently in Melbourne, Australia,
at the age of 66. Born in Melbourne
in 1865, he took his degree in engin
eering, and became widely known for
his work in many engineering pro
jects. His fame in this field earned
him the presidency of the Victoria In
stitute of Engineers. When the Wo Id
War starter he was named Austra’ian
Chief Censor. He rapidly advanced
to Brigade Commander in the Aus
tralian Imperial Force, then to Ma
jor General, and finally General. He
was decorated numerous times for
valor displayed in the war.
DR. ALFRED N. GOLDSMITH, a
vice-president of the Radio Corpora
tion of America, was elected president
of the Society of Motion Picture En
gineers at its annual convention.
DR. LUBA ROBIN GOLDSMITH,
of Pittsburgh, national chairman of
the United States Public Health Serv
ice Advisory Committee, and author
of various books on social economics,
died recently at the Mayo hospital.
JO DAVIDSON, famous American-
Jewish sculptor, is now engaged in
making a bust of Mahatma Gandhi,
which was commissioned by the In
dian leader’s British friends.
Vienna.—Arthur Schnitzler’s in
junction to his executors that his
funeral be conducted along lines
of utmost simplicity was strictly ad
hered to, as he was buried in the
Jewish cemetery here. The only cere
monial touch was the chanting by the
cantor of the El Mole Rachamim, tra
ditional Hebrew prayer for the dead,
and the recitation of the Kaddish.
Some of the outstanding figures in
the world of art, literature and sci
ence accompanied the funeral cortege.
Government officials were also rep
resented; and the flag on the state-
owned Burgtheater was at half-mast
on the day of the funeral.
Prague, Czechoslovakia.—In the
presence of the leading figures in
psychoanalysis and notable in civic
life, the house in Pribor, Moravia,
where Sigmund Freud was born, was
marked with a tablet describing the
achievements of the founder of psy
choanalysis. Freud, himself, was too
ill to appear and was represented by
his son and daughter.
ADOLPH LEWISOHN, patron of
the arts and philanthropist, celebrated
his eighty-second birthday the other
day. On the eighteenth floor of No. 61
Broadway, where his elaborate offices
are located, he cheerfully received the
reporters and commented optimisti
cally on the economic future of this
country. When asked what had
brought him the greatest pleasure in
his long life with its broad range of
business, art and philanthropy, he re
plied: “To do service and exercise
kindness to other people.” Mr. Lewi
sohn looks the picture of health and
comes to his of * ice three days each
week to transact his still voluminous
business.
RUTH LIGHT, the young Ameri-
can-Jewish artist, sailed for a year’s
stay in Pa.estine where she has been
invited by a number of workers set
tlements to study the life of the Jew
ish pioneers there. Ruth Light intends
to paint her impressions of the Jew
ish Homeland as well as a senes of
po. trait studies of the leading spirits
among the pioneers.
Miss Ruth Light had a most aus
picious debut in the New York art
world recently on the occasion of an
exhibition by the Montross Gallery of
a series of her paintings entitled
“East Side Studies.”
The critical reviews were unani
mous in their praise of these works.
Miss Light is a member of the “Eretz”
Art Circle.
WALTER LIPPMAN, former edi
tor of the defunct New York World,
was awarded the annual prize offered
by the Yale Review for the best ar
ticle on a public question, according
to an announcement by Governor Wil
bur Cross, editor of the Review, in
which Mr. Lippmann’s prize-winning
article appeared. The award carries
a value of $2,000.00.
AMONG the five directors who pro
duced the outstanding pictures of the
1930-31 season are Lewis Milestone,
with “The Front Page”; Joseph von
Sternberg, with “Morocco”, and Nor
man Taurog, with “Skippy”, accord
ing to the announcement of annual
awards for finest achievement in mo
tion pictures by the Academy of Mo
tion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Pnris.—Albert Einstein, militant
pacifist, who last year urged the for
mation of anti-war societies, has now
appealed to all scientists to join in
the movement against war. In a mes
sage to the International Conference
of the Opponents of War, Einstein
wrote: “I appeal to my fellow scien
tists not to engage in researches in
tended for war purposes, because we
must face a militarism more powerful
and destructive thsn the militarism
which caused the World War.
Jerusalem.—At a reception tendered
to him at Jaffa, on the eve of his de
parture from the country, High
Commissioner Sir John Chancellor
declared to his Arab audiences that
the proposal for a legislative Coun
cil would shortly be put into effect,
and urged the Arabs to accept it.
Berlin.—The statue to Lazarus
Zamenhoff, the Jewish founder of
Esperanto, recently erected by Ger
man adherents of Esperanto at Bad
Reinerz was badly mutilated by anti-
Semitic vandals, who covered the me
morial with anti-Jewish legends.
London.—Declaring that the Man
dates over Palestine and Iraq cost
Great Britain more than $15,000,000
since the World War, the Daily Mail
calls upon the new National Cab'net
to give up the Mandate for these
countries,
Warsaw.—Because of a consider
able decline in circulat on and adver
tising revenue due to the economic
depression, two local Yiddish dailies
are planning to establish Paris edi
tions in order to supplement their
income.
Warsaw. — Seven soup kitchens
have been opened by the Warsaw
Municipal Kitchen to provide for ap
proximately 100,000 Jews, who have
indicated that they are without em
ployment and without means of sup
port.
New York, N. Y.—Hereafter Jewish
religious services will become part of
the sustaining program of the Colum
bia Broadcasting System, together
with services of the Protestants and
Catholics, according to an announce
ment by William S. Paley, president
of the System. “The Church of the
Air” began its services recently with
an address by Rabbi Jonah B. Wise.
It is expected that a majority of the
Jewish programs will be held at 2:30
on Sunday afternoons for a half-hour
period. “The Church of the Air” is
designed to abolish the commercial
character of religious broadcasting.
IN THE LIMELIGHT