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T H E SOUTHERN ISRAELITE £_ \V. Gottenstrater, C.P.A. resident Manager Telephone WAlnut 4072 TOUCHE, NIVEN & CO. Public Accountants ! 004 CANDLER BLDG. ATLANTA, GA. Food Sales Co., Inc. MERCHANDISE BROKERS REPRESENTING Sun-Sweet Prunes llurfif Tomato Juice L. W N. Terminal Building ATLANTA I AIN-LOGAN CO. PRODUCE 5 Produce Row, S. W. ATLANTA SOUTHERN ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO, HI MARIETTA ST., N. W. ATLANTA •I L. McCORD W. P. McCORD McCord Bros. PRODUCE 4 Produce Row, S. W. WA. 2034 ATLANTA THE SAGE OF WASHINGTON (Continued from Page 12) Zionist movement. During this period he traveled twice to Europe, went to Palestine and lived much more the life of a man of action than that of a man of the study. With the unbend ing determination of a pioneer he tried to steer the Jewish National movement in the direction which he thought would bring, salvation. He led relentlessly, demanded from his associates the maximum of sacrifice, did not tolerate interference and, like every true leader, could not stand the procrastination of democratic institu tions. When the conflict between him and the Zionist Organization reached a climax, when his dictatorial methods were challenged, he retired to his ivory castle and again became the man of the study. He retained his genuine interest in Palestine, devoting much of his time to it to this day and con tinuing to dispense his generous finan cial and spiritual aid. He has, how ever, definitely and finally thrown off all responsibilities for the leadership of the Zionist movement. That he was able to cut his official duties with Zionism, that he remained obdurant to all pleas during the last decade to return to the leadership, is regarded by some as evidence of his strong, unyielding will-power and by others as distinct proof of his cau tious outlook on life. Had Brandeis at one time resigned his exalted judi cial position and boldly taken the lead ership of the Zionist movement, he would have gone down in history as another Herzl. That he visualized the Jewish National movement on a large modern state-building scope, there can be little doubt. That as a negotiator with British and American politicians he stamped himself as a tremendously effective statesman nobody will deny. That Brandeis is entitled to credit for the obtaining of the Balfour Declara tion as much as Weizmann and Soko- low, historians will have to acknowl edge. But that at the psychological moment, he failed is equally beyond discussion. My personal impression—it is mere ly deductive—is that Brandeis was deformed by American political life, that he was haunted by the idee fixe to keep a “hole-proof” record. Thus he repressed, at the critical periods of his life, his inborn revolutionary inclinations. He permitted himself to become an academic liberal, afraid to be thrown on the radical heap. His liberalism remained, to all intents and effects, strictly within the framework of academic discussion. At the cross roads of his Jewish leadership, he decided to become an interested and helpful spectator, instead of risking his career. The title of “silent leader,” which some consider a crown and oth ers a mere label for caution, was the result of this same fear of errors and misinterpretations. Brandeis rep resents the very antithesis of a Ste phen S. Wise. Wise and IVrandeis present the same contrast as a Cool- idge and a Borah; only, Brandeis’ in tellectual equipment is far superior to that of a Coolidge, Borah or even Wise. Were one to be brutally logical one would assert that what Brandeis actually lacks is moral courage. But this deduction collapses in the light of the life of Louis Dembitz Brandeis. Brandeis is a selfless char acter whose great joy in life is self- sacrifice. Brandeis in his youth did fight the most powerful organized eco nomic forces in this country. As As sociate Justice, his ethical, liberal out look never compromised with any exi gencies. He stands today as a great American whose liberalism is respect ed by those very same people who but fifteen years ago feared and fought him. That is perhaps his tragedy. But while never a reformer, Brandeis has held fast to his principles. An austere, clean, spotless life is his. Perhaps a hundred years hence, law students will discover that he was the precursor of liberal America. No body today can say whether his self- abnegation and withdrawal from seething life is the height of self-sac rifice or a lack of vitality. On his seventy-fifth birthday, Amer ica bows before him as the comrade- in-arms of Justice Holmes, the Sage of Washington, the great solitary hermit of American public life who represents the most unbending deter mination— theretic determination for a liberal interpretation of the Consti tution of the United States. And American Jewry rejoices that a Jew has become the symbol of true Ameri canism. CopyriKht 1931 by S. A. 1*. 8. S O V T HERN NOTE S (Continued from Page 7) The Federation of Jewish Women s Organizations is sponsoring a bridge Wednesday afternoon, December 16, at the Henry Grady Hotel at two- thirty o’clock. The proceeds will be used for redecorating the auditorium of the Jewish Educational Alliance, one of the social centers of Atlanta. Represented by nine Jewish women s organizations, the Federation has been successful in doing co-operative work during its existence. The following are the organizations and presidents who compose the Fed eration’s board Nessar Israel Sister hood, Mrs. Denion Rosseau, presi dent; Council of Jewish Women, Mrs. Armand Wyle, president; Ahavath Achime Sisterhood, Mrs. D. N. Meyers, president; Senior Hadassah, Mrs. Hy man Jacobs, president; Junior Hadas sah, Miss Lee Rittenbaum, president; Shearith Israel Sisterhood, Mrs. L. Frankel, president; Temple Sister hood, Mrs. Leo Strauss, president; Anshi Sfard Sisterhood, Mrs. M. J. Muldawer, president; Hebrew Or phans Aid Society, Mrs. Edgar Lieb- erman, president. Officers of the Federation are Mrs. J. E. Sommerfield, chairman; Mrs. D. N. Meyers, co-chairman; Miss Lee Rittenbaum, secretary and treasurer. SERVICE TRAHSFER CO. J. E. BRYANT 135 Marietta. N. W. JA. 3379 ATLANTA, GA. MOHONEY « MANRY TAILORS Atlanta Georgia NORTHWESTERN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. LUTHER E. ALLEN General Agent )K HEALEY BUILDING ATLANTA, GA. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell, & Co. ACCOUNTANTS MARVIN F. 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