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ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1935.
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ATLANTA CONVENTION
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AN EDITORIAL
MARCH 10th AND 11th
Delegates and Visiting B’nai
B’rithers Will be Guests
of Local Chapter
Plans for the 59th District
Grand Lodge No. 5 B’nai B’rith
convention to be held in Atlanta
on March 10 and 11 are nearing
completion, according to H.S. Ja
cobs, General chairman of the;
Convention committee, and an of- ,
ficial of the District Grand Lodge, i
Representatives from 21 lodges in
Florida, North Carolina. South
Carolina, Maryland, Virginia,
Washington, D. C., and Georgia,
numbering about 100 delegates
and several hundred members,
will head towards the Gate City
of the South on Saturday, March
9. and will remain over to climax
the meet by an elaborate banquet
and dance to be held at the Stan
dard Club on Monday evening of
the 11th.
While here the delegates and
visiting B’nai B’rithers will be the
guests of the local chapter, the
Gate City Lodge, No. 144, of which
Edward M. Kahn is the president.
The Atlanta chapter is planning
for a big time arranging every
minute of the convention to be
taken up with something “doing”
during the two-day stay here. The
official headquarters will be at
ihe Ansley hotel, located in the
central part of the city. The open
ing sessions will start promptly
at 10 a. m.
The officers and members of
IIYMAN S..JACOBS
Second Vice-President of District
No. 5, B’nai B’rith, and a member
of the Gate City Lodge No. 144,
who is the General Chairman of the
Convention which meets in Atlanta
on March 10th and 11th.
NATIONS ENGAGING
IN PERSECUTION
BARRED^ BY BILL
A Bill Directing the Secretary of
State Not to Enter Into Any
Reciprocal Trade Agreements
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—A
bill directing the Secretary of
State not to enter into any recip-
road trade agreements or under
standings with any nation en-
he District Grand Lodge. No. 5.: , n ous 01 . raclal per _
xecutwe committee are Dr. Leon ^ calendar of the
Banov, Charleston, S. C., presi-1
dent; A. Shefferman, Washington,
D. C., first vice-president; Hyman 1
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee. The author of the measure
t , ... . „ is Senator Warren K. Barbour,
, ™t,of New Jersey. If the bill is pass-
ed it would prevent the United
WHY THE JEWISH WAR
VETERANS IN ATLANTA
There is supreme irony in the recent announcemejit
that the Atlanta Post of the Jewish War Veterans will be
installed February 21 on the eve of Washington's Birth
day. That day, sacred to all Americans, has been selected
to mark the beginning in Atlanta of a movement which,
from the time of its birth in New York City, has been
thoroughly un-American. George Washington gave to
America the simple idea of Americanism that made it a
great nation. On the day commemorating him, a group of
Jewish ex-soldiers chose to divorce themselves from that
ideal.
There is no joy in pointing out error and fallacious
reasoning where our heroes are concerned; it is, at .the
best, a painful duty. But it is better that the finger of dis
approval be leveled at them now by fellow Jews than
later by a non-Jewish world.
The Jewish War Veterans came into the limelight in
New York City after the terrorism in Germany. Extended
to other cities of America, the Jewish War Veterans will
arouse suspicion and distrust. Non-Jews will not under
stand. There is no distinction made between soldiers of
Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish faith. Why then an organi
zation of Jewish War Veterans?
In this day of Storm Troops and shirt fetish, such a
movement has a dark, menacing significance.
For War Veterans there is the American Legion who
welcome any and all faiths. The Jewish War Veterans,
however, are gradually severing themselves from this
mother-body to form a special group of their own. Why?
The American Legion has not forced them out. It is their
own gesture—and a damning one. Thus, on the grounds
of patriotism, there is no excuse for their organizing.
Nor is there an excuse for them as an organization in
Atlanta on the grounds of fighting the German oppression
of Jews. This can and is being done by Jewish organiza
tions to which the Veterans have denied' themselves or
neglected in their desire to create a distinct group of their
own. If the Jews in Germany can breathe more freely to
day, it is because of the systematic orderliness that charac
terized the methods of the. established Jewish agencies.
So why should exist an organization that can only
create an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust? Atlanta
and Southern Jewry prefers to think highly of those Jews
who proved themselves staunch Americans by their service
in the Wars. They will not permit misunderstanding that
no doubt will result from their activities in Atlanta whose
Jewish community is not in need of any organization of
Jewish war veterans.
CHARLESTON JUDGE
GIVEN POSITION
IN WASHINGTON
JUDGE FROMBERG PLANS TO
TAKE OVER NEW DUTIES
IN WASHINGTON
ELECTED IN 1929
New Special Assistant to Attorney
General Born in Augusta
May 27, 1890
president; William Goodhart, Bal
imore, Md., treasurer; Edwin L.
Levy, Richmond, Va., secretary;
H. A. Alexander, Atlanta, Ga.,
Constitution Grand Lodge Repre-
entative; Sidney Stern, Greens
boro, N. C., committeeman from
North Carolina; L. J. Levitas, At
lanta, Ga., committeeman from
Georgia; David Davis, Jackson
ville, Fla., committeeman from
Florida; and
Charleston, S. C., committeeman |
from South Carolina.
On Sunday evening a public
meeting will be held at the new
beautiful Temple, at which time j
Dr. Abraham Leon Sachar, of H-
States from making any new com
mercial treaties with such coun
tries as Germany and Mexico. In
a statement accompanying the in
troduction of his bill Senator
Barbour said: “A growing wave
of religious and racial persecu
tion repugnant to the American
sense of justice and common de-
t . __ . | cency in the affairs of men is
Joseph Fromberg, 1 making itself manifest in many
parts of the world. While it is
not the duty of the United States
of America to meddle in the in-
Pinchot Says Persons
Close To Roosevelt
In Favor Fascism
New York (WNS)—Persons
within President Roosevelt’s Inti
mate circle of advisers would
transfer the New Deal into a Fa
scist dictatorship if they had their
way, Amos Pinchot, veteran lib
eral and brother of former Gov
ernor Gifford Pinchot, charged in
a speech before the forum of the
Motion Picture Club. “I imply no
criticism of President Roosevelt,”
he said, “but I think we should
take with a grain of salt, some
ternational affairs of other na-, suspicion and some criticism those
tions, and to dictate what their ^ p fche New advise rs who
moral and religious standards prQpel America farther on
should be, the situation has as- road toward Fascism and a
I rtr\ mirlo O CPGTTP fl-TlQ IS SO , . .
ject, will deliver the main address
linois, the director of all the Hillel
menacing in its threat to the hard
of the convention. It will be re-
- ailed that Dr. Sachar spoke in
Atlanta several weeks ago and it
nas been the expressed desire of
nany to hear this forceful speak-
er again, after hearing the com
ments of his address to a large
audience of Atlantians on Jan
uary 28.
Other well known speakers, such
as Rabbi David Marx, Dr. Leon
Banov, president of the District,
A - M. Michael, of Athens, Ga.,
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, Atlanta,
Jerusalem (WNS —Palcor Agen-
and many o^he^wLT address the cy>— Declaring that it knows of no
audience at one or more of the constructive purpose served in
several sessions on the program. ! estine by the Tel Hai Fund, *
Prominent leaders in B’nai B’rith is a fund-raising f/ ort ^
circles and state and national, visionist-Ziomsts, the Exetm
:; gures are expected to attend also, the Jewish Agency or
1 Continued on page two) I (Continued on pag
won liberties of mankind that it __ ,. , ci-.j.-f.
has become a direct concern to Medical Students
the people .of every land whose To Be Barred rrom
pillars rest upon the premise that French Citizenship
all men are created equal and that
they are and should be endowed paris (WNS)—Foreign medical
with the inalienable right to wor- studen ts studying in French univer-
ship God as they see fit.” sities wid no t be allowed to become
” French citizens, and thus will be
Jewish Agency Denounces prevented from practicing medicine
D * • „: e f Tpl Hai Fund in this country, the minister of
Revisionist lel^Hai justlce assured a delegation of
nationalist students who called on
him to register their protests. At
the same time the parliamentary
commission of the Chamber of
Deputies is considering a bill to
restrict the rights to practice of
Fascist Organ Warns
of Increase In Jewish
Population; Palestine
Rome (WNS)—Although Premier
Mussolini is on record as being
sympathetic with Zionist aspira
tions in Palestine, Regimo Fascista,
the Fascist Party’s leading organ,
voices concern at -the rapid increase
in the Jewish population of Pales
tine. The paper points out that if
the increase continues at its pres
ent tempo for a decade the Jews
will become a majority in Pales
tine and, therefore, warns Italian
statesmen to keep an eye on the
development of a new factor in the
Near East.
Charleston, S. C. —Joseph
Fromberg, one of the South’s out
standing jurists, has been select
ed to the post of special assistant
to the United States attorney gen
eral. A recorder of the police court
for the past three years, Judge
Fromberg plans to take over his
new duties in Washington some
time during March, 1935.
Judge Fromberg is widely known
in law circles and has been prom
inently identified with the South
Carolina bar since he was admit
ted to practice in that state in
1910, at which time the legisla
ture of South Carolina passed a
special resolution to admit him
to the bar. This was necessitated
because of his extreme youth; he
was then only 19.
The new special assistant to
the attorney generas was horn
in Augusta, Ga., May 27, 1890.
He received most of his grammar
and high school education in Sum
ter and attended school also at
Augusta for a time. He Is a
graduate of the Universtly of
South Carolina, class of 1910,
where he obtained his LL. B. de
gree. In July, 1911, he was ad
mitted to practice In the U. S.
district court of South Carolina.
In November, 1929, he was ad
mitted to practice in the U. S.
supreme court.
Judge Fromberg weis elected in
1929, at Atlanta, as president of
District Grand Lodge No. 5, B’nai
B’rith, having jurisdiction of
lodges in the territory from Mary
land south to and including Flor
ida, and was reelected to the same
office at Baltimore, Md., in 1930.
His wide range of activities in
fraternal work has consumed con
siderable time and effort of Judge
Fromberg. He is a member of a
Masonic lodge, the Scottish Rite
Masons, the Shrine, the Knights
of Pythias, the Elks and the Hi
bernian society of Charleston.
A. F. of L. Declares
War On Fascism
Brazil’s Immigration
Quota Law In Effect;
Blow To Refugee Plan
Two Per Cent Annually Limit On
Immigration from Any Country
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—
After hearing charges that Italian
Fascist agents were at work in
trade unions whose membership
is of Italian origin, the American
Federation of Labor, through its
president, William Green, issued
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (WNS)—
With the coming into effect of
Brazil’s new immigration quota,
limiting the number of immigrants
annually from any country to two
per cent of the number from that
country in Brazil in 1920, a major
and almost insuperable obstacle has
been created to any plan for the
settlement of large numbers of
a statement branding Fascism as
equally menacing and dangerous German Jewish refugees In Brazil,
to the maintenance of democracy it -i, estimated that the new law
and democratic institutions as
Communism and called upon its
officers and members actively to
oppose Fascism wherever it is
proposed in local organizations
even those foreign students who are just as they would oppose Com-
already French citizens. munism.
will limit Jewish immigration to
about 1,000 annually because the
number of immigrants from Ger
many, Russia, Poland and Ruma
nia, the principal sources of Jew
ish immigration to South America,
was unusually small in 1920.