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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1956 c q qQ > ^ 0. 44
Rome B'nai B'rith Lodge
Renamed for Max Meyerhardt
Reprinted from The Rome Tribune
Israel Issues Domin, in. Plans
For International Police Force
ROME — The Rome B’nai
B’rith Lodge has changed its
name to honor the memory of a
man who was active in Rome
culture, education, Jewish and
Masonic activties between 1875
and 1923.
The Jewish Men’s fraternal
and service organization was re
named t h e Max Meyerhardt
B’nai B’rith Lodge at a dinner
October 28 at the General For
rest Hotel.
Speakers at the dinner includ
ed: Judge J. Wilson Parker, Fair-
burn, past grand master of
Georgia Masons, Judge James
Maddox, Rome, former Floyd
Superior Court Judge: and Dew
ey Wollstein, Rome, another past
grand master of Masons.
Dr. Murray Stein is president
of the B’nai B’rith. Dan Lease, a
state vice president, presided.
Mr. Meyerhardt helped organ
ize the first B’nai B’rith in Rome
in the early 1920’s. It disbanded
some years later and was re
organized several years ago.
Mr. Meyerhardt who died in
1923 was a native of Prussia and
came to the United States at the
age of 4. He came to Rome dur
ing his childhood. He became em
ployed in the clerk of superior
court’s office during his youth
and later entered the law office
of Capt. C. Rowell. Studying un
der Capt. Rowell, he was admit
ted to the bar in 1877. Mr. Mey
erhardt afterwards became as
sociated with Judge A. R. Wright
and Seaborn Wright in the .firm
of Wright, Meyerhardt and
Wright and served as judge of
Brandeis U.
Pledges of
The story of Brandeis Univer
sity is magic. It was told again
in Atlanta recently and a small
group of men and women who
could see a vision of its service to
America promised to contribute
approximately $140,000 during the
next five years to help its de
velopment.
The largest amount secured to
date at any single function for
Brandeis University in Atlanta,
the sum was pledged at a dinner
of friends of this new Jewish-
sponsored institution of higher
learning following a dynamic
plea by Lawrence Wien, a New
York member of its board.
Mr. Wien pointed out that
proper sponsorship of the five
y£ar unit plan would obviate the
expense of similar dinners every
year, as well as ease the demands
on Brandeis officials and friends
to appear at such functions on pro
tracted one-night stands through
out the country. It could also re
lieve them to concentrate on
areas of fund-raising and edu
cational development as yet un
tapped.
The Centennial Fund, in honor
of the Supreme Court justice af
ter whom the university is nam
ed, has been created to obviate
the annual fund drives, Mr. Wein
said.
Topping the pledges in Atlanta
is a promise of $50,000 during
the next five years in honor of
the late Frank Gar son, himself
a Brandeis fellow and an ardent
worker for the university.
Dan Garson, a son, made the
announcement, in behalf of the
family stating the funds would
come from the Garson Founda
tion. He said final details had
not been completed but negotia-
Floyd City Court from 1886 to
1890.
Mr. Meyerhardt was a found
er of the Rome public school
system in 1882 and served as
secretary of the Board of Educa
tion until 1909.
He also helped establish Car
negie Library in 1910 and served
as president of its board of trus
tees until his death.
Another institution he helped
found was the Masonic Home in
Macon. Mr. Meyerhardt was
grand master of Georgia Masons
from 1900 to 1907, he was wor
shipful master of the Cherokee
Lodge, Rome, from 1885 until his
death, and of the 7th District
Masonic Convention from 1898
until his death.
He also helped organize the
Jewish Sunday School in Rome
and was a member of the Writers
Club here and widely known as
an orator.
Alexander Lowenthal, promi
nent Pittsburgh businessman and
a dynamic speaker for many hu
manitarian causes, will accomp
any Mrs .Eleanor Roosevelt on
her trip to Atlanta arid will join
her as a speaker at the forthcom
ing dinner for State of Israel
Bonds, Thursday, November 15,
at the Progressive Club, it was
tions so far with Dr. Abram
Sachar, Brandeis president, indi
cated that a wing in the Social
science Building under construc-
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
(JTA) — Plans for the formation
of the United Nations interna
tional police force ‘‘to secure and
supervise” the end of hostilities
between Israel and Egypt pro
gressed rapidly here today but
two big questions dominated the
atmosphere here.
These questions were: 1. Will
Israel withdraw its military forc
es from the Sinai Peninsula and
Gaza and go back to the old ar
mistice demarcation lines? 2. If
Israel refuses to withdraw its
troops behind the old armistice
lines, will the UN command take
military action against Israel’s
forces?
Pressure in the direction of
forcing Israel’s troop withdrawal
was seen in a Franco-British an
nouncement that the British and
French troops in the Suez area
have ordered a cease-fire but
announced by Dr.* Irving H.
mittee.
Long identified with Israel
causes, Mr. Lowenthal was one
of the American Jewish leaders
who participated in the econom
ic conference in Jerusalem in
1953 called by Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion at which plans
were outlined for the interna
tion will be dedicated as a me
morial to the late philanthropist.
Ben Massell and his wife an-
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want assurance from the UN that
the new international force will
be competent to “secure and su
pervise the attainment of the ob
jectives” spelled out in one of
(he important resolutions adopted
last night. That resolution spoke
specifically of a cease-fire —
which has already been attained
—and of Israel’s troop withdraw
al.
Plans for the UN’s police force
were placed before the United
Nations today by Secretary Gen
eral Dag Hammarskjold, prepar
ing the groundwork for efforts to
obtain answers to the two im
portant questions facing the As
sembly.
Mr. Hammarskjold announced
that seven countries have so far
offered to contribute troops to
the UN command. These are:
Canada, Colombia, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Pakistan and
Goldstein, chairman of the
Eleanor Roosevelt Dinner Com-
tional flotation of the Develop
ment Issue of State of Israel
Bonds. He has subsequently sub
ordinated his many other in
terests and has toured the United
States from coast to coast many
times to bring to American au
diences, the story of Israel’s pro
gress. •
A graduate of Yale University
and an outstanding citizen of
Pittsburgh, Mr. Lowenthal has
served on the Board of Directors
of many of »that. city’s social
agencies and the Pittsburgh
United Jewish Fund. He is a
member of the National Execu
tive Committee of the State of
Israel Bond Organization and is
its National Chairman of Cash
Sales. ,
Finland. Maj. Gen. E. L. Burns,
until now chief of the UN Truce
Supervision Organization in Pal
estine, has already been appoint
ed to head the UN command. He
is understood to have asked for
a force of between 7,000 and
10,000 men. Nowhere near that
number seems to have been of
fered by the seven countries who
have volunteered to participate
so far.
Mr. Hammarskjold made an ef
fort in his report to the Assemb
ly to define the jurisdiction of
the new UN command. However,
in some of the more important
instances, his vague diplomatic
language lent itself to contradict
ory interpretations.
Mr. Hammarskjold did make
one point clear. The UN command
cannot be stationed upon or op
erated in “the territory of the
given country without the consent
of the government of that coun
try.” That was one of the im
portant points of clarification re
quested from the Assembly sev
eral nights ago by Ambassador
Abba Eban of Israel. Mr. Ham
marskjold declared in his report
that the UN commands’ functions
“can be assumed to cover an area
extending roughly from the Suez
Canal to the armistice demarca-
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Israel Ready for
Talks With Egypt
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — Israel early Sunday ac
cepted the special General As
sembly’s resolution calling for a
cease-fire in its armed conflict
with Egypt. The acceptance, how
ever, was based on a condition
that the Cairo Government give
the United Nations a similar as
surance.
Evacuation Cuts
Short Atlantan*8
Visit in Israel
Leon Eplan of Atlanta is head
ed back home after having to
bring a visit to Israel to a pre
mature close because of the hos
tilities there.
He was among the 1500 Ameri
cans evacuated on the General
Patch first to the Isle of Crete
and later taken to Naples.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Eplan, Leon was in Israel on the
last lap of a study and travel trip
in Europe and Israel, lasting more
than a year.
A few days, before the crisis
activities broke out in Isfael, he
had spent several days with two
former Atlantans, Herschel Elkin
and sister, both of whom live in
different Kibbutzim but in the
same general area. The spot is
five miles from the Lebanese bor
der.
Major American Jewish Groups
Appeal to U. S. to Favor Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sixteen major Ameri
can Jewish organizations issued a joint statement
appealing to the United States Government to
take into consideration the fact that the Egyptian
ruler Col. Nasser has demonstrated “implacable
hostility” to the Western democracies while Israel
has demonstrated basic identity with the free
world.
The statement, adopted at the conclusion of a
two-day emergency meeting on the developments
in the Middle East, read in part: “We regret the
bloodshed and loss of life in the Middle East and
are in accord with our government’s expressed de
sire for a just and lasting peace in that region.
However, such a peace cannot be achieved without
a bold and statesmanlike appraisal of the issues
behind the conflict. The time for a fresh appraisal
is^now. The disclosures and developments before
the Security Concil have placed in focus the fun
damental issue. The conflict in the Middle East is
not simply between Egypt and Israel, but between
democracy and an expansionist dictatorship, be
tween the free world and Nasserism backed by
Moscow.
“Over a long period, the Egyptian Govern
ment has systematically sought to terrorize the
people of Israel. It has sent trained fedayeen
into Israel to derail trains, to mine roads, to am
bush innocent travelers. The ‘commandos’ have
come like thieves in the night and have murdered
citizens on their farms and in their homes. These
continuous acts of horror and violence have been
accompanied by Egypt’s announced intention to
annihilate Israel.
“Events have demonstrated Nasser’s implac
able hostility to the Western democracies. Events
have also demonstrated the basic identity of in
terest of Israel and the free world. It is in our
own national interest to recognize this truth and
to act upon it.
“We therefore call upon our government to
shape its policies an^l chart its course in the light
of these facts and this challenge. We pray that
the traditional moral stature of our country may
be sustained in this solemn hour. We pray for the
restoration of peace in the Middle East and for
the freedom and security of Israel and* all other
peoples in that part of the world.”
The joint statement was signed by the follow
ing presidents: Dr. Philip M. Bernsteiri, American
Zionist Committee for Public Affairs; Joseph Bre-
slaw, American Trade Union Council for Labor
Israel; William Carmen, Jewish War Veterans of
the U. S.; Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, Union of
American Hebrew Congregations; Moses I. Feuer-
stein, Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America; Dr. Miriam Freund, Hadassah; Dr. Is
rael Goldstein, American Jewish Congress; Mrs.
Rose L. Halprin, Jewish Agency; Adolph Held,
Jewish Labor Committee; Rabbi Max Kirshblu,
Mizrachi Organization of America; Charles Ro-
sengarten, United Synagogue of America; Louis
Segal, Labor Zionist Organization of America,
and Bernard H. Trager, National Community Re
lations Advisory Council.
Atlanta Rolls Out Welcome Mat
Nov. 15 for Former First Lady
Centennial Fund Draws
$140,000 in Atlanta