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Courts & Co. Hurt Building, Atluntu Phone WA. 9110 Members New York Stock Exchange Associate Members New York Curb Exchange U. S. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES MUNICIPAL BONDS CORPORATE BONDS AND STOCKS COMMODITIES EnrvMlntvn1 A#/r # S<>rrin> SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES BURRUS & WEBBER CAFETERIA 222-224 SIXTH AVENUE, NORTH SERVING HOURS BREAKFAST—8:30 A. M. to 9 A. M. LUNCH—II A. M. to 2:15 P. M. DINNER—5 P. M. to 8 P. M. NASHVILLE, TENN. iiHiiiimmimmiMi.imimiHimiiiiiimimiMimiiiiiiiimiiiiiii J. T. KNIGHT & SON, Inc. COLUMBUS. CEORCIA * SCRAP IRON -X SCRAP METALS RELAYING RAILS Write or Wire Our Office Before Selling At i ■ Ship Elm SOUTHEASTERN EXPRESS "Tk. Smmlk't Ofm Exprmxt Compmmx” AND RECEIVE SUPERIOR EXPRESS SERVICE ASK ABOUT OUR NEW REDUCED RATES SOUTHERN NOTES ylctivities Throughout the South The Atlanta A. Z. A. Chapter, Junior Order of the B'nai B’rith, received mes- sages of congratulations from A. Z. A. Chapters of all parts of this country and Canada upon its winning second place in best all-round chapter contest for the past year. This honor was in competition with over 160 Chapters which compose the or der. To be eligible for consideration at all for this honor a Chapter must have met each of the following qualifications: Its program must include some cultural, religious, social service, athletic and so cial activities. It must observe locally International A. Z. A. Day, International A. Z. A. Sabbath and A. Z. A. Parents’ Day. It must have entrants in the essay contest sponsored by the Advisory Coun cil. It must have met all financial ob ligations. Besides being qualified in all of these qualifications the Atlanta Chapter spon sored the 1933 Southern District Con clave last March 3-5, at which it won the debating and basketball tournament. The Chapter placed second in the orator ical contest in this conclave. Ihe local Chapter has just returned from an inner-chapter visit to Charles ton, S. C., where it spent several en joyable days. At present there is a dele gation of five local members at the In ternational A. Z. A. convention in Omaha, Nebraska. Another announcement of im portance received from the convention was the election of Arthur Gottesman, Atlanta member, to the office of Grand Treasurer of the order. 'The Atlanta Chapter has been estab lished only three years and is looking forward to another successful year. Of ficers of the Atlanta Chapter are Edwin Gavron, president; Irwin Krick, vice- president; Moses Abelsky, secretary; Ar thur Gottesman, assistant secretary; Na than Smith, treasurer; Simon Wender, chaplain; Bernard Mandel, sergeant-at- arms; Morris Seigel, assistant sergeant- at-arms; and Seymore Cohen, reporter. ▼ At a special board meeting of the At lanta Unit, Junior lladassah, held re cently at the Ansley Hotel, the newly- elected president, Miss Lillian Reisman, announced the following chairmen of standing committees: Jewish National Fund, Miss Dorothy Davis; Membership, Miss Jennie Shamos; Publicity, Miss Rose Cohn; Program, Miss Bess I.utskv; Cultural, Miss Ozna Tontak; Athletic, Miss Annie Cohen; Ways and Means, Miss Lillian Esserman; Young Judea, Miss Lilly Berchenko; Senior-Junior Re lations, Miss Bessie Geffen; Happy Day Fund, Miss Ida Mae Goldstein; Tele phone, Miss Sarah Gershon. ’The newly-elected officers for the com ing year are as follows: President, Miss Lillian Reisman; First Vice-President, Miss Bess Lutsky; Second Vice-Presi dent, Miss Jennie Shamos; 'Treasurer, M iss Rose Cherkos; Recording Secretary, Miss Lillie Berchenko; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Lillie Bajda; Assistant Corresponding Secretary, Miss Rosalie Hirsch; Financial Secretary, Miss Helen Balser; Editor Alarm Clock, Miss Lottie Goncher. The board members are as follows: Miss Annie Cohen, Miss Bessie Geffen, Miss Annette Geffen, Miss Dora Klotz, Miss Ozna Tontak, Miss Minnie Klein, Miss Gladys Shurman, Miss Gertrude Wald, Miss Rose Schreiber, Miss Bertha Fisher, Miss Helen Self, Miss Sarah Ger shon, and Miss Dora Gordon. Plans were discussed for activities for the coming vear. It was announced that Miss Lillian LILLIAN REISMAN President Atlanta Unit Junior Haiitmah Reisman, the official delegate, will attend the National Convention, which will lx held in Chicago, August 27th, 28th and 29th. Miss Gladys Shurman, Miss Polly Gershon, Miss Sarah Gershon will attend also as delegates from the Atlanta Tnit. Junior lladassah. ▼ Rabbi Joseph Karesh, former Grand Aleph Godol of A.Z.A., will deliver a public address in Atlanta on August 13th his appearance being sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter of A.Z.A. The subject of his speech will be, ‘‘Israel’s Greatest Enemy.” Only twenty-four years of age, Rabbi Karesh is one of the most accomplished young leaders in America. He has a bachelor of arts degree from the Uni versity of San Francisco and from the University of Minnesota. He was elected Grand Aleph Godol of A.Z.A. at Pitts burgh for the 1929-1930 term. He pre sided over the International Convention at Oakland in 1930 and remained in San Francisco, Cal., where from 1930 to 193- he served as assistant rabbi of Congre gation Shearith Israel. From 1932-1933 he served as rabbi of Congregation Bikur Cholitn, in San Jose, Cal., and has been re elected for the coming year. Rabbi Karr*- is also a member of the San Francisco Lodge of B’nai B’rith. As a speaker, Rabbi Karesh holds a remarkable record. The Democratic Party in South Carolina in 1928 made him a member of their National Speak er’s Bureau and sent him to campaign in the middle west as the youngest speaker on the bureau. He also won the Interna tional Oratorical Contest of A.Z.A- > n 1929 at Memphis, Tenn. Rabbi Karesh is the son of Rabbi and Mrs. David Karesh, of Columbia. > ,ut ^ Carolina. ▼ Charles W. Bergman was ele-ted president of the Jewish Progressive ' u *' at their regular semi-annual meet ng- Other officers elected to serve with M f - Bergman were Sol R. Yudelson. ' l ' f * president; Joseph M. Loewus, trea>u ft- Max Mendel, secretary. (Please turn to page 16) [12] * THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE