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SOUTHERN NOTES Activities thruout the South . hlanta Hie Atlanta Chapter of Senior Hadas- 3 h sponsored a Victory Luncheon at the Ifwch Progressive Club recently, with %;th Mrs. Sam Sugarman heading the iiicheon committee. This affair marked the closing of the membership drive con- : tried by chapters of the organization throughout the nation. \ few of the new members made dur ing the campaign are Mesdaines M. Reis- man. C. H. Weinstein, Louis Samet, Sophie Newy, S. M. Moscor, I. V. Kessler, Jack Silver, A. Kessler, Sidney Srochi, Kate Seigel, Max Silverman, A. Speigel- tnan. Arthur Hillman, I. J. Freidland. Marry Dwoskin, Jack Isenberg, Louis Cohen, and Mrs. Eugene Diamond. l'he principal speaker of the occasion wa* the Regional President, Mrs. J. J. Heilman, who spoke on “l'he Privilege of Being a Hadassah Member.” ▼ Installation of officers marked the initial 193 3 meeting of Gate City Lodge No. 144, f the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith held at the Standard Club. Frank A. Constancy is President. Other "fborrs installed were: Herman Heyman, Dr. Dtuis C. Rouglin and Edward M. Kahn, Vice-Presidents; Samuel E. Levy, Treasurer; Joseph M. Brown, Secretary, and A. L. Feldman, the retiring President, Monitor. L. J. Levitas directed the in stallation ceremonies. Trustees for 1933 are Dr. Joseph Yatnpolskv, Chairman; Max M. Cuba, Joseph Goldberg, A. L. Myers, J. P. Trnnenbaum, Adolph W. Vajda and Jack I). Wrinkle. l'he President's committees are as fol lows : Mrmbrrship—Herman Heyman, Chair man; L. J. Levitas, Co-chairman; Milton Klein, J. L. Tennenbaum, J. N. Reisman, Mendel Romm, Morris Manning, J. L. Goldberg, Jack Lichtenstein, David Ajouelo and Henry Hein. Program and Entertainment—Edward M. Kahn, Chairman; Dr. I. H. Goldstein, Vice-chairman; Max M. Cuba, J. H. Wil- ensky, J. p. Tenenbaurn, Joe Glazer and ( harles W. Bergman. Luncheon—J. P. Tenenbaurn, Chair man; Sam E. Levy, Vice-chairman; Max M. Cuba, Edward M. Kahn and J* ** Lichtenstein. A nti-Def amation—Dr. L. C. Rouglin, t hairman; Juliarn V. Boehm, Vice-chair- man I Rabbi H. H. Epstein, Arthur Hey man and Simon I. Mendel. Communal Activities—Dr. J. Yam- P" Ay, Chairman; Armand Wyle, Vice- < hairman; Alfred E. Garber, Milton L. Keiler, Sam H. Hirsch, Abner Lichten stein and Dr. Geo Chait. llrhrrv.' Orphans' Homes—Jos. A. ''chlesinger, Chairman; Sam J. Epstein, Vice-chairman, and Sol O. Klotz. Initiation—Nathan Saltzman, Chair- man; J. S. Brail, Vice-chairman; L. J. e'itas and I. Heiman. **• 7 A (Junior B. B.)—H. A. Alex ander, Chairman; Adolph W. Vajda, •“-chairman; I. Kunianskv, David Ger- 'ho n and Jos. B. Wolfe. Publicity Leon Kletzky, Ch airman, a< k D. Weinkie, Vice-chairman; Joe ernath, Dave Speilberger and Oscar Gershon. Conservation—Hyman S. Jacobs, Chair man, Harry Abelson, Vice-chairman; pn Loewus, Berry Rittenbaum, Jack ' ' tinkle, A. L. Feldman and Victor u - Franco. I he B nai B rith, now celebrating its ninetieth year as a world-wide Jewish fraternity, has a membership of more than 50,000 and is active in twenty-eight countries. Its motives vary in many im portant branches of Jewish life, such as maintaining the Hebrew Orphans' Home, Atlanta, Ga.; Home fo the Aged and Infirm, at Yonkers, N. Y.; National Jew ish Hospital for Consumptives, at Denver, Colo.; Jewish Orphans’ Home, at Cleve land, Ohio; B’nai B’rith Orphanage and Home for Friendless Children, at Erie, Pa.; Toun Infirmary, in New Orleans, La.; Leon N. Levi Memorial Hospital, at Hot Springs, Ark.; and the Jewish Wid ows’ and Orphans’ Home, at New Or leans, La. Its newest activities are the Hillel Foundations at various universities, and the organizing of the A. Z. A., the Junior Order of B’nai B’rith for Jewish young men. ▼ The semi-annual meeting of the Jewish Progressive Club was held on Pryor Street, in Atlanta, with a very large gath ering of members attending the banquet given for that occasion. In the report of various committees it was learned that the Club is in excellent financial shape, even though revenues were considerably lower than the previous six-month fiscal period and much credit was given the finance committee. Club members demon strated their satisfaction in the past ad ministration by reelecting each officer for another term, as follows: Mr. Joe (iold- berg, President; Mr. Chas. W. Bergman, Vice-President; Mr. Joseph I^oewus, Treasurer, and Mr. Max M. Mendel, Secretary. ▼ Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt, world re nowned tenor, sang to large and enthu siastic audience at Ahavath Achim Syna gogue. He wa.< assisted by Harry Rob- kin, violinist, and Ben Polier, pianist, playing the accompaniments. It was an inspiring performance and Cantor Rosen blatt's arrangement of “Kol Nidre” re ceived a great ovation from the audience. ▼ Mr. Joe Weinman, of Atlanta, Georgia, was awarded a C. P. A. degree from the State of Georgia, having passed the certified public accountant’s examination of the State on his first attempt. Mr. Weinman is one of the few Jewish ac countants in the State to obtain this de gree. He is an honor graduate of the '32 class of Geoigia Tech. He was an honor roll student for four years and was awarded the Scholarship Gold "T’ in recognition of his brilliant record. ▼ Mr. Nathan Mazier, of Atlanta, Ga., was elected President of the Atlanta Saving Stores and the Quality Service Stoies of Atlanta, at the recent meet ing of the Board of Directors. Mr. Mazier, as one of the members of these groups of stores, is well qualified to fill the position as head of one of the most successful and progressive grocery groups in the South. It is interesting to note that of the two hundred and forty members of these groups ninety per cent are com prised of Jewish merchants, who have es tablished themselves in their communi ties, not only as leaders in Jewish activi ties, but as successful merchants. The new President is a member of the Shearith Israel Synagogue and an ardent worker towards the improvement of the individ ual merchant who goes to make up this successful group. t HE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE * SIMON SELIG Simon S. Selig was named president of the Atlanta Standard Club at the annual business meeting held on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Herbert J. Haas was elected vice-president; Emil Dittler, secretary; L. B. Lillienthal, treasurer, and L. F. Stone, financial secretary, l'he following directors were elected: Lawrence Fox, Leon Frohsin, Adolph Adler, Alex Rosen- feld, Frank Ferst, Donald Oberdorfer, Ben J. Massell and William B. Schwartz. ▼ Mr. Edgar J. Strouss was elected Presi dent of the Atlanta Alumni Association of Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity at the recent an nual meeting of the organization. Among other officers elected are Mr. Randolph Cummings, Vice-President; Irving L. Goldman, Treasurer, and Julian F. Jose- love, Secretary. It was announced that Maurice Jacobs, of Philadelphia, Execu tive Secretary of the fraternity, will be the honor guest of the association at a dinner to be held February 13th at the Standard Club. ▼ Dr. Charles Pergler, lecturer on juris prudence, constitutional and public law and comparative government at the Na tional University Law School in Wash ington, I). C., will be the speaker of the Council of Jewish Women at a luncheon meeting Tuesday, February 7, at 12:30 o'clock at the Standard Club on Ponce de Leon Avenue. Dr. Pergler, a native of Bohemia, was educated in the public schools of Chicago and completed his higher education at universities here and abroad. He has been active in international relations, having taken parr in the movement for freeing the oppressed people under the rule of Austria-Hungary during the World War and having been diplomatic representative for Czecho-Slovakia at va rious times and a member of parliament in that country. ▼ Augusta, Ga. The Mrs. Nathan Straus Unit of the Augusta Junior Order of Hadassah has carried on a very successful membership drive. Among other activities several en joyable affairs have been given, the latest being a Bohemian Party, also several card parties. There has been quite an attendance at the meetings of those inter ested in the activities of the cultural group, at which many interesting books, current events and humorous articles are presented and discussed. Miss Anna Averbuck, Cultural Chairman, is in charge. At the last meeting it was decided that Junior Hadassah take active part in Georgia's Bicentennial Celebration, which will take place on February 12th. This will be in the form of a pageant parti cipated in by various Jewish organiza tions of Augusta. Sylvia Tananbaum, Rose Cohen and Miriam Grablow will be official delegates at the Regional Convention to be held in Savannah on February 12 and II. V Chattanooga, Tenn. l'he Emanon Social Club celebrates soon its second anniversary. This group composed only of male members has car ried on a very successful series of af fairs during the past year and is plan ning an elaborate program for the com ing spring months. Officials of this or ganization are: Abe Wise, President; Louis Brandman, Vice-President; Abe Brandman, Secretary; Louis Brickman, Treasurer, and Abe Pearlman, Sergeant- at-Arms. ▼ Athens, Ga. For the first time in the history of Con gregation Children of Israel of Athens a Youth Service was held, conducted by students of the University of Georgia, l'he main address of the evening, “What Jewish Youth lliinks About Religion,” was delivered by Fred Solomon, a Senior in the College of Law. l'he program was as follows: Invocation by Joseph Schrei- ber, of Brunswick, Ga.; Reading of the Ritual by Coleman Lopatin, of New Haven, Connecticut; Violin Solo by Wil liam I.ongwather, of Savannah, Ga.; Ad dress, "What Jewish Youth Thinks About Religion,” by Fred Solomon, Ft. Valley, Georgia; Adoration and Kaddish by Rabbi Abraham Shusterman; Benediction by Harry Steine, Warrenton, Ga. ▼ Yearbook of the Central Cen tral Conference of American Rabbis The 42nd volume of the Yearbook of the General Conference of American Rabbis has just appeared from the Kings port Press. It contains the proceedings of the convention of the Conference held in Cincinnati in November, and {Jie papers presented at that convention. Of par ticular interest was the report of the Commission on Social Justice containing a survey of conditions and outlining the policy of the Conference on the social problems of our day. l'he President’s message was rich with suggestions touching on the vital issues of our time and an interesting debate re sulted from its recommendations concern ing a Jewish World Congress. In honor of the Bi-centennary of the birth of George Washington, a paper was pre sented by Rabbi David Lefkowitz on The American Principle of the Separation of Church and State. In honor of the cen- tennary of the publication of Zunz’s mas terpiece, "Die Gottesdienstliche Vortraege der Juden,” Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger presented a paper on 'Pie Beginnings of Modern Jewish Scholarship. A paper by Rabbi Mordecei M. Kaplan of the Jew ish Theological Seminary, and a discus sion by Rabbi Sidney E. Goldstein cen tered around Judge Horace Stern’s Plan for the Reorganization of Jewish Com munal Life. Rabbi Julius Gordon pre sented a paper on Personal Piety in Modern Jewish Life, and Rabbi Zevi Diesendruck presented a study on The Ideal Social Order in Jewish Ethical Thinking. Rabbi Jacob Z. Lauterbach read a paper on the Naming of Children in Jewish Folklore. The papers have been reprinted and can be secured from the Editor, Rabbi Isaac E. Marcuson, Macon, Ga. (Please turn to page IS) [•7]