American Orientalists Close Sessions in Phila

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The American Oriental Society closed its three day sessions here last night. The principal feature of the closing day discussions was the paper read by Dr. Nathaniel Reich, well known Egyptologist of Dropsie College.

Some very interesting facts concerning modern civilization’s debt to ancient Egypt were disclosed.

According to Dr. Reich, real estate deals, booms, foreclosures, mortgages and promissory notes, were in existence in Egypt as far back as 400 B.C. In that same period the double contract system for the sale of property was inaugurated. Discussing the double contract system Dr. Reich declared:

“The contracts were known as a document of payment and a document of renunciation. The document of payment starts out with the consent of the seller of the property to the sale while the latter begins with the renunciation of all claims to the property on the part of the former owner.

“The reason for the drawing of the two contracts probably can be traced to the institution of registry of landed property. The transactions were facilitated by methods of bookkeeping and the filing of mortgages, promissory notes and other contracts. Thus when an official looked up in the registry the name he at once knew all about the person without the need of studying the documents themselves,” Dr. Reich stated.

DR. MAX KAHN, DISCOVERER OF INTARVIN, DIES SUDDENLY

Dr. Max Kahn, discoverer of intarvin as a remedy for diabetes and director of laboratories for Beth Israel Hospital, where he was chief of the department of metabolism, died unexpectedly of heart disease on Friday in his offices at the hospital. He was thirty-nine years old.

Announcement of his discovery of intarvin was made on August 1, 1923 More than fifty of the city’s leading physicians and chemists attended the lecture at Beth Israel Hospital, at which Dr. Kahn reported the fruits of his experiment work, both in the hospital and at Columbia University, where he was associate in biological chemistry.

While medical authorities disputed the value of the discovery, which followed close upon the discovery of insulin, intarvin was accepted by the American Medical Association.

Dr. Kahn was born in Russia in 1887. He came to this country at an early age and obtained his M.D. at Cornell University and his Ph.D. at Columbia. He was the author of a “History of Medicine” and other scientific books and reports. His literary interests, however, led him to write in addition, treatises on Maimonides, Moliere and Shakespeare.

He was a member of numerous medical and scientific societies and was chief of the metabolism department at the United Israel-Zion Hospital in Brooklyn, as well as at the Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Kahn is survived by his wife, two children and four brothers.

Funeral services were held on Sunday.

The Board of Directors of Beth Israel Hospital, of which Joseph H. Cohen is President and Julius Schwartz Secretary and the hospital’s medical board, of which Dr. Joseph Barsky is President and L. J. Frank Acting Secretary, yesterday passed resolutions eulogizing Dr. Kahn.

Leaders of Young Judea clubs from many cities will attend the National Leadership Conference, which will open Saturday evening April 10th, with a Jewish Youth Evening at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism.

Members of every Jewish youth group a New York have been invited to attend the Jewish Youth Evening. A meeting of the Executive Committee of National Young Judaea will be held on Sunday. A discussion of Young Judaea Leadership problems will occupy the conference. The sessions will be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania.

The annual convention of the Deha Psi Sorority, a New York state sorority, opened its three day sessions Friday at the Town House Hotel, New York City. Fifty delegates are attending the convention.

JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES

The Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress issued a call to all Jewish communities throughout the country to prepare for the election of new delegates to the American Jewish Congress. The elections are scheduled to take place on May 29th to May 31st. A Session of the Congress will take place next October.

Delegates will be elected at Conventions of representatives from all local Jewish organizations specifically called for this purpose in the Jewish communities.

Every city in the United States which has a Jewish community has been allotted at least one delegate. The following cities have been given more than one Delegate: Baltimore, 5; Buffalo, 5; Chelsea, 2; Chicago, 20; Cincinnati, 4; Cleveland, 7; Detroit, 6; Boston, 8; Hartford, 2; Los Angeles, 3; Milwaukee, 2; New Haven, 2; Newark, 7; Philadelphia, 20; Pittsburgh, 5; Providence, 2; Rochester, 2; San Francisco, 2; St. Louis, 3; and Washington, 3.

The City of New York has been divided into 15 districts and will elect a total of 100 Delegates.

The present Congress Delegates have held office since 1923 and their term will expire when the next Congress session is convened in October.

Dr. Samuel Perlman, newly elected dean of the Hebrew Seminary, Roxbury, Mass., arrived from Paris.

Dr. Samuel Rothenberg was elected president of the United Jewish Social Agencies of Cincinnati, Ohio. He succeeds William J. Shroder, who retired after having served three terms. Other officers elected were: Charles Stix, vice president; Maurice J. Freiberg, treasurer of the Sinking Fund, and Lewis D. Marks, treasurer.

Annual reports presented by retiring President Shroder and Superintendent Hyman Kaplan described new activities instituted. Establishment of a Bureau of Jewish Education, to provide religious training for Jewish youths, was recommended by Shroder.

The Jewish Foster Home on Price Hill care for 263 children, and had supervision over 21 children in private family boarding houses during the year. Superintendent Kaplan reported. The medical dispensary service in its various clinics treated 1,437 patients, and made 10,726 visits: the hospital service social service department cared for 814 persons, and the Convalescent Home for 219. The Robert Krohn Livingston Memorial Camp provided summer vacations for 257 boys and girls.

It was reported that incurables were being handled jointly by the Orthodox Jewish Home and the Home for Jewish Aged and Infirm. The relief department of the Agencies cared for 171 families at a cost of $37,791.

The Alpha Epsilon Phi, Jewish girls sorority a Northwestern University, was fifth on the sorority scholarship list for the first semester of the school year, according to statistics just issued by the collegiate authorities. The organization has received special recognition because it has risen from sixteenth place, where it had been reported for the second semester of the last school year.