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Friday, September 11, 1936
Jewry To Celebrate Lifting of
Ban Against Goodwill Exponent
Israelite
Page Three
Roger
Williams, Banned for
300 Years, To Be Honored
By B’nai B’rith
Cincinnati, Ohio.—The first Jew
ish celebration of the official lift-
; n£ r of the 300 year old ban against
Roger Williams will be held by
B'Xai B’rith in Philadelphia on
October 25th. The Supreme Lodge
0 f the Order is sponsoring the
event, and the Philadelphia Council
0 f B’nai B’rith Lodges is the com
mittee in charge. Two thousand
perso ns are expected to attend.
In 1936 Roger Williams was ban
ished from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony because of his militant and
vigorous battle in behalf of relig-
i0US liberty. The ban was recently
lifted by the modern state of
Massachusetts after remaining on
the books for 300 years.
Roger Williams was a Baptist,
and present day Baptists have
Seen commemorating this year his
fight for religious liberty. B’nai
B'rith’s celebration will be the first
by a Jewish organization.
The ceremonies will take place
at the foot of the Statue of Relig
ious Liberty, which was presented
to Philadelphia by B’nai B’rith on
behalf of American Jewry in 1876,
the centennial year of the Constitu
tion of the United States. The
wp!1 known Statue was executed at
that time by Sir Moses Ezekiel,
famous Jewish sculptor, who was a
member of B’nai B’rith.
FAMOUS STATUE
DIXIE’S
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FUR SHOP
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19 th Annual
Summer Fur Sale
HENRY SOBELSON, PROP.
Christians Begin
Palestine Support
New York (WNS)—A national
movement to mobilize Christian
support in the United States for
the right of the Jews to establish
a national home in Palestine got
under way here with the opening
of national headquarters for the
Pro-Palestine Federation of Amer-
i at the Hotel Pennsylvania.
Prof. Franklyn Hudgings, secre
tary of the Federation, said that
e “fear that Great Britain may
momentarily yield to Arab pres
sure and halt Jewish immigration
into the Holy Land” was back, of
the movement. A huge demonstra
tion will be held some time in Sep
tember at Madison Square Garden.
Plans for the rally were laid
September.
League Urges Renewed Fight
Against Terror of Broivn Network
Statue of Religious Liberty Pre
sented to Philadelphia in 1976 by
B’nai B’rith.
Hon. Alfred M. Cohen, President
of the Order, will speak on behalf
of Jews, and Catholics and Protest
ants will be represented by promi
nent members of those faiths. The
presiding officer of the day will be
an outstanding leader of Philadel
phia Jewry. B’nai B’rith’s District
No. 3 has already endorsed the
project, as have many Philadelphia
Jewish leaders.
Part of the program will be
broadcast over a radio hookup, and
will be in the nature of a goodwill
demonstration by Catholics, Prot
estants, and Jews.
B’nai B’rith lodges from many
surrounding cities and many other
Jewish and Christian organizations
will be represented at the affair.
Aids Schools
Saloniki (WNS) — Assurance
that the government of Premier
Metaxas will not adopt the anti-
Semitic tactics of the German
Fascist is seen in the fact that the
government has increased its sub
sidies to Jewish schools and relief
agencies and has granted permis
sion for the use of Hebrew in the
Jewish schools.
Harvard Hears Plea
For Non-Racial Truth
Cambridge, Mass. (WNS)—
Humanity, threatened by the
“encroachments of the totalitar
ian state” with the “worst form
of slavery, mental slavery,” can
protect itself only by “a power
ful revival of the medieval feel
ing for the universal, non-na
tional and non-racial character
of truth,” it was declared by
Professor Etienne Gilson, world-
famous French authority on
medieval thought, in an address
at the Harvard tercentenary
exercises. “Our only hope," he
said, “is in a widely spread re
vival of the Greek and medieval
principle, that truth, morality,
social justice and beauty are
necessary and universal in their
own right.”
Fifth District B’nai
B’rith Reports Growth
Asheville, N. C.—A membership
of 2,200 was reported at a gather
ing here of members of the 6th
District, B’nai B’rith, including of
ficers, members of the general com-
General Discount Corp. mittee, and members of various
nr* lodges, on Sunday, August 16th. It
To Declare Dividends was revea i ed that membership has
increased to a large extent during
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MYRTLE LANGSTON, Director
Merit Awards Given
Music Club Students
First honor certificates covering
a period of nine months study of
the pianoforte were awarded Mor
ton Brown and Gloria Needham by
Arina Mae Farmer Nimick, Direc
tor of the Orpheus Music Club.
Other certificates of merit for
marked improvement in the vari
ous phases of piano studies were
awarded Charlotte Brewer, Pearl
Feldman, Blanche Loewinsohn, An
nette Lefkoff, Anita Mazier, Beat
rice Piassick, Sylvia Piassick, Shir
ley Shulman, Edith Yudelson, Shir
ley Tenenbaum, Edith Shartar,
Catherine Scott and Elizabeth
Spiker.
Declaration of the regular quar
terly dividend of 87%c per share
on the 7% Cumulative Preferred
Stock payable on September 30 to
stock of record on September 20
was announced today by the man
agement of General Discount Corp
oration of Atlanta. This is the
ninth consecutive quarterly divi
dend on the preferred stock, divi
dends having been maintained
without interruption since organi
zation of the company.
In making the dividend an
nouncement, E. F. Howington,
President, stated that a consistent
increase in the demand for financ
ing the purchases of new and used
automobiles has been recorded since
1934 and that contrary to the us
ual summer period of dullness, the
months of July and August were
the best in the history of the com
pany, indicating a continuation of
the improving trend of conditions
in the Atlanta trade area. ■
“Total volume of automobile
notes purchased or discounted since
July 1 has increased over 25% and
the prospects are that the fall
months will bring a further consid
erable increase in installment pur
chases," Mr. Howington said. It
was stated that the company was
now carrying forward a substantial
program of expansion.
Financial Support of Ameri
can Terrorist Groups Traced
To Third Reich
the past year.
Atlantians attending were Ed
ward M. Kahn and Hyman S.
Jacobs.
Spartanburg, S. C.—Fifty new
members were initiated into the
B’nai B’rith lodge here on Sunday,
August 23rd.
Joseph Kartus conducted the in
itiation, and Alvin Kartus and Hy
man S, Jacobs installed officers of
the lodge.
New York.—-Dissemination of
anti-Semitic propaganda in the
United States has cost the Nazis
over thirty million dollars, it is
charged by the Non-Sectarian Anti-
Nazi League to Champion Human
Rights in the High Holiday boycott
proclamation issued here.
In addition to direct financial
support of terrorist groups in this
country, the brown network of the
Nazi Ministry of Propaganda has
spread throughout Europe, the
bulletin further declares. In Poland,
as a result of Nazi instigation, re
actionary forces are carrying on
an anti-Semitic wave of terror that
places the 3,500,000 Polish Jews in
a desperate plight. Similar danger
confronts the Jewries of Roumania,
Austria and Hungary.
The proclamation, which is being
posted in synagogues throughout
the United States during the High
Holidays, sounds a note of warning
to American Jewry.
“If they allow Hitler to go un
challenged," it reads, “if they do
not fight his agents and propa
ganda in the United States, if they
do not join hands with all the
liberal forces that are fighting to
destroy the Hitler regime, then
there is every likelihood that the
Nazi reaction will sweep the world
and with the victory of Nazism will
come the doom of American Jewry.
“Now is not the time to cry out
‘Peace on my Soul.’ Do not for one
moment imagine that when human
rights are abolished and the Jew
ish people in Europe are destroyed,
that the American Jews can be
safe. There can be no greater fal
lacy.
“On these Holy Days let us re
dedicate ourselves to the cause of
righteousness. Human rights,
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