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Soul srn NO ES + + + omtinmed from page 14) , \ \ ttkowsky, President of the Cam- u r w Benevolent Association for n ven years; Rabbi Samuel Shill- n y.. I con Schlosburg, President of ('; Jen Men’s Club; Mr. W. M. \lriai r. Adjutant of the local unit , ,hf \rnerican Legion, at whose hall f() , rntion meetings were held. The K , tcr h Is expressed appreciation of a ireP |. %ket of flowers which had been , i, v Mayor R. M. Kennedy, who was nablr to attend the luncheon. Miss Wolfr il*o presented the following state ^r, Mrs. Leon Schlosburg, Camden, President; Miss Edythe Loryea, St. Mat- f l lcw% First Vice-President; Mrs. D. A. t „hen. Darlington, Second Vice-Presi dent: Miss Rosalie Block, Camden, Cor- rr«pon<ling Secretary; Mrs. Samuel Shill- rt „ n , Sumter, Recording Secretary; Mrs. -]• jr Jarrott, Florence, Treasurer. Mrs. Henr* Harnett, of Sumter, read an inter ring paper on the place and duties of ihr Jewish woman in her community. Mrv Julian Hennig, of Columbia, in her excellent address on “The Responsibility „f the Jewish Woman in This Time of Trial and Tribulation,” spoke inspiringly of thr need for leadership and courage during present times of financial up heaval and foreign distress. The Dora Witcover Cup, given in mem- on of the late Mrs. Witcover, of Dar lington, was won by the Sumter and Dar lington organizations for perfect scoring of honor points. Permanent possession of the cup goes to the Sumter Sisterhood a* winner of the coveted prize for the third successive year. Presidents of the Parlington and Sumter Sisterhoods are Mrv I). A. Cohen and Mrs. George Kra- krr, respectively. The assembly elected the following of- hrrrv President, Miss F.dythe I-oryea, St. Matthews; First Vice-President, Mr*. D. A. Cohen, Darlington; Second Vice- President, Mrs. S. C. Brown, Charles ton; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Sol Kohn. Columbia; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Samuel Shillman, Sumter; Treas urer. Mrs. T. E. Jarrott, Florence. .Ithens, Ga. I nder the direction of Rabbi Abraham s hu»terman an unique Mothers’ Day ser vice was held at the synagogue in Ath ens. This was conducted entirely by 'oung women, most of whom are students °l the Cniversity of Georgia. The pro gram for the occasion was as follows: Invocation—Irene Feldman, Charleston, ^Hith Carolina. Reading of the Ritual—Rita Slotin, Sa vannah, Ga.; Anna Michael, Athens, Ga. SpeciaI Selection—Charlotte Stein, At- lanta, Ga. \iolm Solo—Esther Haskin, Macon, Ga. Address—Helen Geffen, Atlanta, Ga. Floral Prayer—Mildred Wilensky, Sa- 'anmh, Ga. •Adoration—Ida Mogul, Atlanta, Ga. (! -mg Prayer—Dorothy Fine, Savan- nah, ,a. ' *rs at this service were Annette Ocilla; Lena Whiteman, Atlanta; *•>' * Kirschman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; -l*ie Dornblatt, Athens. Mrs. Abraham -man sang a solo. F ier in the season a service was con- ur entirely by young men who took e>r theme “What Jewish Youth . s About Religion?” These two ser- are the first to be conducted by t students of the University of ia. Greensboro, N. C. The Atlanta Chapter of the B’nai B'rith was highly honored by the election of two of its members to the executive body of District No. 5 at the convention recently held at Greensboro. N. C. Hy man Jacobs, past president, was elected Second Vice-President, and L. J. Levitas, also a past president, was appointed a member of the General Committee of the State of Georgia. Other newly elected officers were Leon Banov, Charleston, S. C\, President; E. L. Levy, Richmond, Va., Secretary; William A. Good hart, Baltimore, Md., Treasurer; Abe Shcfferman, Washington, D. C., First Vice-President. Official delegation from the Gate City Lodge attending the large gathering was A. L. Feldman, L. J. Levitas, Hyman Ja cobs, Joe Loewus, Frank A. Constangy, Joseph E. Brown and Harry A. Alex ander. Gainesville, Fla. A religious Symposium, in which one representative from each of the three faiths, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish, participated, was held on the campus of the University of Florida on Tuesday, May 16, under the direction of the Y. M. C. A. of Gainesville, Florida. Burnett Roth, of Orlando, Florida, spoke as a representative of the Jewish faith. Following addresses by the three representatives, a round-table discussion including a question and answer period was held. Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, a national Jewish social organization, competing with twenty other social fraternities, was recently awarded a trophy for having the greatest percentage of its membership present at V'. M. C. A. discussion meet ings. The Jewish student body of the University of Florida is approximately two hundred out of the total enrollment of 2,600 students. Nashville, Tenn. In an effort to spread good will and to establish social connections between young men of the various Southern cities, the Shin Aleph Frat., of Nashville and the Emanon Club, of Chattanooga, held a meeting Sunday, May 14, at the Y. M. H. A. of Nashville to elect officer* and to draw up a constitution for the newly organized Federation of Jewish Men’s Social Clubs, one meeting being previously held in Chattanooga. At this meeting, the following officer* were elected: Mahlon Ritt, Shin Aleph, President; Nathan Cohen, Shin Aleph, Vice-President; Abe Siskin, Emanon, Cor responding Secretary; Sol Cohen, Shin Aleph, Recording Secretary; Mose Sachs, Emanon, Treasurer. With a view to expanding to other Southern cities, a special committee was appointed to carry out this work. Only one club will be chosen from each city. Other standing committees were appointed to carry on the necessary work of the Federation. The first annual convention of the Fed eration will be held in Chattanooga on September 3-4. Obituaries • Miss Celia Jacobs, of Augusta, Ga., passed away recently. Although born in Columbia, S. C., she spent the greater part of her life in Augusta. She was connected with The Southern Israelite since its organization in Augusta seven years ago. Miss Jacobs was buried in Augusta beside her parents. • Solomon Boorstein, 65, widely known Atlanta furniture dealer, died suddenly at his home on Washington Street. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Mert Gerzog, New York; two sisters, Mrs. B. Noon, Chicago, and Mrs. S. Alper, of Los Angeles, and four grand children. Rabbi Harry H. Epstein offi ciated at the funeral service. • Samuel J. Cohen, prominent Atlanta business man, passed away recently. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. B. Cheriton and Miss Gertrude Cohen; and two sons, Messrs. Bernard and Gil bert. Rabbi Harry H. Epstein officiated at the funeral services and interment was at Greenwood Cemetery. • Mr. Ben Miller, of Atlanta, died re cently. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, with Rabbi Epstein officiating at the services. • Mr. Morris Socoloff, widely known Atlantan, passed away. Rabbi Harry H. Epstein officiated. Interment was at Greenwood Cemetery, with Fulton Lodge No. 216, F. St A. M., in charge of serv ices at the grave. Cincinnati, Ohio I)r. Julian Morgenstern, President of the Hebrew Union College, ordained the following twelve young men as Rabbis at the Commencement Exercises in the College Chapel on Saturday, May 27: Arverne, L. I.: David J. Seligson. Brooklyn, N. Y.: David I. Cedarbaum, Norman Gerstenfeld, Sidney M. I.efko- witz. Chicago, III.: Norhert I.. Rosenthal. Cincinnati, Ohio: Alexander S. Kline, Moses Cyrus Weiler. Detroit, Mich.: I,ouis Joseph C’ashdan. Minneapolis, Minn.: 'Theodore H. (Jor don. Petersburg, Va.: David H. Wice. Pittsburgh, Pa.: Milton I.. Grafman. Toronto, Can.: Perry E. Nuaabaum. Rev. Dr. Harry W. Ettelson, Memphis, Tenn., will deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon. Dr. Ettelson is, himself, an alumnus of the College, class of 1904. The Invocation will be pronounced by Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber, Chicago, of thr class of 1886, and the Benediction by Rev. Dr. Samuel Sale, St. I^iuis, Mo. Dr. Morgenstern will confer honorary degrees and distribute the annual prizes and awards. There will be several mu sical selections by soloists and the Hebrew Union College Choir under the direction of Mr*. Ruth S. Greenfield. LOOKING AT THE PAST (Continued from page 7) a fault, isn’t it? Intermarriage was the only thing Miss Penina never could for give. Otherwise she was quick in sym pathy. We told her all our secrets. Her blessing was a thing we prized. I still can feel her hand on my head.” There were stories of many suitors, and of one other love, her love for her brother, so great that at his death she had a sense of sin, which she wove into a hymn her congregation still sings. The genesis of my return to Charles ton is, in itself, rather a yarn. My first romance took place there many years ago and it hit me hard, because my earliest childhood, though San Franciscan, was largely spent in listening to great legends of the South, of my parents there, stories so magnificent that I was bound to feel a degenerate descendant until I encom passed them and the only way to do that for me was by writing. I suppose the job scared me, so I sneaked up on it from behind. That might be a subconscious explanation of why, being of Spanish-Jewish origin, my first two books, “Bird of God; the Ro mance of El Greco”; and “Woman Under Glass,” deal with Inquisitorial Spain. If so, they were not too much preparation. ’The writing of this more personal nar rative took me at times beyond the boun daries of exhaustion and despair. The South has been described romantic ally without us; and we, too, we South ern Jews, have been romantically de scribed. There still lives Rachel Lyons Heustis, tui Belle Jmive of Timrod’t poem. And there was Rebecca Gratz, of Phila delphia. praised by Washington Irving to Sir Walter Scott, who used her name and character for the Rebecca in “Ivan- hoe.” Realism does not detract from the picture. The American Rebecca com bines with the beautiful miniature por trait of her, the history of how she founded the first Jewish Sabbath Schools, when, as there were no books, she and her teachers patiently blocked out the word “Saviour" from the Protestant school texts. 'This anecdote helps toward the defini tion of a race which millions of words have defined inadequately. The Jewish people have refused, and therefore are refused, vicarious redemption, though there is no way of avoiding vicarious blame. “Jewish” usually brings thoughts of Central or Eastern Europe. Yet there it the Spanish group. “Ah, yes,” the usual answer runs, “but they are so few they hardly count.” And yet, we are. One of the strangest demonstrations the repub lic has brought about in Spain is, that aftrr centuries of Inquisition, after Ex pulsion and prohibition, even in Spain, we are. 'The people “Storm Beach” portrays were, as I am, Amertcan-Jewish. The hyphenated word infers ghetto, or at least recent European background, and foreign accent. So universally is this true that many think it snobbishness on my part, rather than ignorance, not to speak German. People ask me what I am. American. “Yes, but what?” American is all I can say unless I go back so far it is foolish. And Jewish, that complex word It need not involve religion on other than historical grounds, and there lies the great difference be tween Moses and St. Paul. St. Paul’s Messiah called for faith, while Moses* (Jod defined himself by the incontrovert ible, I AM. In that sense, at least, in his image we are made. So, we are. What of it? It took the entire novel of "Storm Beach” to show in terms of human passion just what it means. A* Jew* we feel older than other people. We have a longer memory of disillusion, and the old American stock I believe is older than other Jews. We were freed from peddling longer ago. We were longer ago freed from religious fear. South Carolina in 1669 gave us full legal toleration, and we took it, and for centuries there we have not had for eign accents. We have had leaders in all profession (in my family lawyers, sol diers, judges, artists), we have had American culture, and we have lost much of that sweeping energy which character izes the typical Jew. We are older than- he in disillusion because we have lived longer on the wavering line that sepa rates us from others. Let us cross it with accomplishment, and each must cross alone. Let us cross it with marriage, and we disappear. What of it? Just the fact that we have not disappeared and such people as the heroine of “Storm Beach” were willing to sacrifice their lives for it. Now if, instead of a portrait. I’ve spoken of things that went into a book, forgive me. The book came out of my self, and at the moment of this writing, when I have just finished reading proofs, I would rather be known from its pages than anything I can relate. TH SOUTHERN ISRAELITE [17}