(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Tribute to the late Adolf Kraus, for twenty years president of the Independent Order B’nai Birth, was paid by Alfred M. Cohen, president of the Order, in a statement issued to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
‘Adolf Kraus, for twenty years president of the Independent Order B’nai Brith, was a remarkable man. He came to the United States as a lad without means, without family prestige and without a great deal of schooling. From humblest employment he passed into mercantile life, all the while preparing himself to ultimately enter the legal profession. His progress as a lawyer, in one of the largest cities in the United States, was thenomenal. He became a foremost leader of the Chicago bar, with an exceptionally lucrative practice.
“At an enormous monetary sacrifice he responded to a call on him to become Corporation Counsel of his city. For many years he was president of the Board of Education in Chicago. In other capacities he served his adopted country and city, always honorably and ably. One starts to think how much Chicago would have lost if through restricted immigration, Adolf Kraus had been denied admission to the United States.
“His service during twenty years incumbency as president of the B’nai Brith was of incalculable benefit to Jewry the world over,” Mr. Cohen continued. “He brought to the office a keen and ripened intellect, boundless love for his fellow men and broad sympathy for the oppressed among his people.
“He yielded his personal comfort that he might serve. Long the victim of a consuming illness, he carried on in spite of it and maintained to the very and unflagging interest in the welfare of his coreligionists wherever they might be.
“A great and good man has gone to his reward. God touched this eyelids and he went to sleep. God’s will be done.”
MIZRACHI PLANS DRIVE FOR MEMBERSHIP
The month of December has been fixed by the Mizrachi Organization of America for a membership drive. The rabbis of synagogues have been requested by Gedalia Bublick, president of the Mizrachi Organization, to devote one of their sermons during the month to urging membership in the Mizrachi. The drive will be inaugurated at a banquet of the One Thousand Mizrachi League at the Broad way Central Hotel, Wednesday, December 5.
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