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NATIONAL events of INTEREST
U,1 nod, Calif.—The Rothschilds,
r - nous Jewish dynasty in modern
hjstor> will furnish the subject for a
rilm in 'hich George Arliss, English star,
A sympathetic treatment of the
r j se ot ie House of Rothschild will pro
vide A r 1 i
j, is expected.
with one of his finest roles,
\ t xv York, N. Y.—The officers of the
/eta beta Tau fraternity have decided
cannot select "the foremost Jew
0 f 1931 ' so that the Richard Gottheil
medal nnually awarded to the Jew who
has cl-.ue most for his people during the
cear will not be conferred on anyone this
NC ar Ihe Z. B. T. declared that the
KntflMi Jewish editors who had voted
could n i agree on the man who was most
deserving of the honor.
New York, N. Y.—‘‘Of Thee I Sing,”
stn>atii nal musical comedy which sati
rize' national politics, has the distinction
of being the first musical comedy to win
ihe Pulitzer prize as the best play of the
\ear. The authors of the libretto and
music are George S. Kaufman, Morris
Rvskind and Ira Gershwin, all Jews, the
latter a brother of George Gershwin.
Baltimore, Nld.—By an overwhelming
majority, Baltimore, has repealed old
Sunday "blue law” ordinance which for
bade theatre performances and sports on
Mindav. The passage of the new ordi
nance will be a boon to many orthodox
Jews in the city who, though observing
Saturday as their Sabbath, have been
forced to keep their shops closed on Sun
day, too.
Cincinnati, O.—A Christian lawyer,
K' hcrt A. l aft, son of the late President,
will defend the right of the Jews of Cin
cinnati to have a mikveh, Jewish ritual
bath, in the residential section of Avon
dale. He will be opposed in the argu
ment before the Zoning Board by a Jew-
i'h lawyer, Murray Seasongood, former
Ma\oi of the city. The proposed build-
in ' (, f the'tnikveh has been a source of
‘‘tter contention for many months be-
ween the orthodox and reform Jewish
dements. Ihe latter insist that a ritual
ith house will spoil adjacent land values.
Ihe Zoning Board felt that a bath house
' a commercial enterprise, but the
thodox rabbis assert that it
ffligious institution.
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' ^ <>rk, N. Y.—Three of the leading
n the Russian Government arrived
** If re men to represent their country
international oil conference here.
“ en are Philip Rabinovich, leading
f the Soviet Commissariat for
Irade; Constantin Riaboval,
°f the Russian State Export
i‘>n; and Raphael Friedman,
'he Russian Oil Products Com-
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N. Y. (WNS).—Six books
are represented on the list of
notable books of 1931,” selected
American Library Association,
nmes are: "Law and Literature,”
iamin N. Cardozo; "Reason and
by Morris Raphael Cohen: “The
porary and His Soul,” by Irwin
Jean Jacques Rousseau,” by
w Josephson; “Living My Life,”
a Goldman; and “Read Bread,”
Jr ice Hindus.
''pgton, D. C.—Almost half of the
Nng in the United States regard
as their mother tongue, accord-
atistics made public by the Fed-
n *us commissioner. 1,808,239 Jews
census takers that they speak
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\ tddish almost exclusively the bulk of
these Jews is concentrated in New York
with 656,466.
Chicago, Ill.—How the King of Siam
paid honor to her husband after his
death was told here by Mrs. Matilde
Schapiro upon her return from Bangkok,
Siam, where her husband died after serv
ing for almost two years as medical ad
viser to the government. A state funeral
was accorded to him. Forty-five bags,
each containing a goldpiece, was placed
in the gold coffin, in accordance with the
Buddhist ritual. The King attended the
funeral, which was concluded with a brief
Jewish ritual.
New York, N. Y.—Carl Sherman, for
mer Attorney-General of New York, was
elected president of the New York Zionist
Region at its annual meeting. He suc
ceeds Louis Lipsky, who declined to ac
cept the post of honorable president but
welcomed the title of vice-president,
which he shares with nine others includ
ing United States Attorney fur New York
George Z. Medalie, Jacob Fishman, Dr.
S. Margoshes, Nelson Ruttenberg and
others.
New Nork, N. Y.—An advance cele
bration of the tercentennary of the birth
of Baruch Spinoza was held at a confer
ence at the Roerich Museum, attended by
IN the limelight
MORRIS L. ERNST, New York City
lawyer, has been appointed by Governor
Roosevelt as a member of the new ad
visory board of the State Banking De
partment.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO’S repute
for consistent liberalism was demon
strated in the first important decision he
had handed down since he was ap
pointed to the United States Supreme
Court bench, when he wrote the majority
opinion voiding the action of the Iexas
State Democratic Executive Committee in
denying negroes the right to vote in the
Democratic primaries. The decision,
which was adopted 5 to 4, with Brandcis
concurring, is regarded as of major im
portance in the fight of negroes to make
the fourteenth amendment valid.
BORIS KOGAN, one of the foremost
patrons of art in Russia, who was the
head of a large art publishing hoOse be
fore the Revolution, died here suddenly.
He was in his sixties. He visited the
United States several years ago to in
terest Jews of wealth in an art expedition
to Palestine, which never materialized.
He was one of the founders of the Mos
cow Academy of Arts and Science.
MAX RASKIN has been elected City
Attorney of Milwaukee on the Socialist
ticket. He is only 29, and is believed to
be the youngest official of the kind in
the nation. He is the first Jew to hold the
pest in Milwaukee.
PHILIP C. JOSLIN was appointed by
Governor Norman S. Case as a member
of the Rhode Island Superior Court.
Josltn is active in the Providence Jewish
community organizations.
JOSEPH FREEDLANDER, New York
architect was raised to the rank of
academician in the National Academy of
Design, at the annual elections.
( A RUS L. SULZBERGER, Jewish
communal leader, died in New York at
the age of 74, after a brief illness. He
took an active interest in Jewish educa
tional and philanthropic activities, serv
ing for many years as president of the
United Hebrew Charities. He was one
of the founders of the American Hebrew,
was chairman of the Bureau of Jewish
Social Research, and was affiliated as an
officer with the American Jewish Com
mittee, New York Jewish Federation,
Joint Distribution Committee, and was
president of the Jewish Agricultural Aid
Society. He helped to secure a large part
of the funds for the publication of the
Jewish Encyclopedia. In the early part
of the century he was a prominent figure
in Democratic politics.
MRS. SIDONIE GRUENBERG, of
New York, has been awarded the 1932
gold medal for her work in stimulating
parent interest in child welfare. She is a
director of the Child Study Association
and prominent in other organizations de
voted to child welfare.
LOUISE WATERMAN WISE, noted
for her work in child welfare, and more
often identified as the wife of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, is achieving public fame
in her own right with an exhibition of
twenty paintings now on view at an art
gallery.
MAX WALD, pianist won second
prize and $2,500 in the National Broad
casting Company's original symphonic
works contest, H. M. Aylesworth, Presi
dent of the N. B. C., announced. Mr.
Wald, who was born at Litchfield, III.,
won with a composition entitled “ The
Dancer Head.”
SELMA HAUTZICK, of New York,
was awarded a traveling scholarship
amounting to $1,800, and under the term'*
of the will of the late Joseph Pulitzer,
publisher, will be able to go to Europe
for a year to study the European press.
She is a graduate of the Columbia School
of Journalism.
JOSEPH MORPURGO has been con
ferred the Cross of the Crown, high
est order within the power of the
Italian Kingdom, to bestow, by King
Emanuel for his work in connection with
the Italian Security League.
HARRY B. HAINES, publisher of The
Patterson Evening News, has been elected
chairman of the New Jersey Publishers’
Association.
more than one thousand students from
colleges throughout the East and Middle
\N Richard McKeon, Professor of
Philosophy at Columbia; Morris Raphael
( ohen, Professor of Philosophy at the
College of the City of New York, and I)r.
I rede rick B. Robinson, president of the
( itv ( ollege, were among those who paid
tribute to Spinoza s influence on contem
porary thought. 1 he conference planned
for adequate ceremonies to commemorate
the birth of the Dutch-Jewish philosopher
in November.
State College, Pa.—Selected on the box
ing squad of 34 men who will represent
the National Collegiate Athletic Associa
tion at the Olympic games at Los An
geles this summer, are Albert Wort-
hiemer, Syracuse, in the 126-pound class;
Robert Goldstein, Virginia, 135-pound
class; and Sam Zemurray, Tulane, 175-
pound class.
New \ ork, N. Y.—With financiers and
economists equally vague atomt how to
end the business depression, Paul Gour-
rich, member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeh Sc
l o., thinks we might do worse than go
back to the old Jewish laws, to remedy
the present situation. In a speech before
economists here, Mr. Gourrich described
the need of dealing with debts before
prosperity can be restored. "Receiver
ships and defaults, even if partial, are
always costly,” he declared. "They de
stroy faith, which is the base of our
civilization. According to the old Jewish
law, every seven years debts were can
celled. In the 5,000 years since the for
mulation of the Mosaic laws, we have not
learned how to conduct our business in
any wiser way that our elders, and,
whether by deflation or default, we may
have to do something along the same
lines.”
New York, N. Y—Fellowships award
ing a total of $60,000 have been an
nounced by the American Council of
Learned Societies, which sponsors re
search work in the humanities. Among
the scholars thus honored are Jacob Ham
mer, of Hunter College; Raphael Levy,
Professor of Foreign Languages, Univer
sity of Baltimore; Laurine Mack, of Wel
lesley College; Nathaniel J. Reich and
Solomon Skoss, of Dropsie College and
Melville Jacobs, of the University of
Washington.
New York, N. Y.—That only “secret
diplomacy” can be effective in dealing
with Jewish problems was the declaration
made by Marvin Lowenthal, writer, at
a dinner sponsored by the Menorah
Journal, at which Maurice Samuel,
Horace M. Kallen and Israel M. I*hur-
man were the other speakers. Attacking
the methods used by the American Jew
ish Congress in dealing with Jewish af
fairs abroad, Lowenthal condemned “bass-
drutn and bally (mod Judaism." He stated
that only through subtle and private dip
lomacy could Jewish conditions be ameli
orated. I*he mass meetings, vigorous
public protests and similar methods could
only harm the Jews in the countries af
fected, he said.
Chicago, III.—Felix NL Warburg, in
ternational financier, philanthropist, and
former head of the Jewish Agency,
startled a distinguished audience at a
dinner in his honor, when he introduced
himself as “a Palestine farmer” and told
with pride of the orange groves he owns
in Palestine and of the oranges which he
regards as superior to those grown in
Florida and California.” The proceeds
of the dinner, at $100 per reservation,
went to the American Palestine Cam
paign.