Brotherhood to Form Student Chapters

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Student chapters of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods will be organized at universities and colleges, it was decided by the Brotherhoods Executive Board.

Such an organization as the student-chapter would afford youths “the opportunity to make contacts with our membership in neighboring cities while in college, and elsewhere throughout the country when leaving school,” the Committee on Student Activities said. “It would serve to link the young man to the Temple at the completion of his college life.

“Such a method would be a reversal of the usual system where national groups develop from student bodies and their alumni. Here we would go from without the campus to within.”

The investigation conducted by the Brotherhood’s Committee on Religious Propaganda has been completed, the committee announced. “To question a man on his religious beliefs touches on an exceedingly personal subject,” the Committee said. “With this in mind we can justly feel that to have obtained the co-operation of 1,250 men or 7 per cent. of our total membership, is no mean accomplishment.” The results of the survey are to be revealed within the next few weeks.

The Committee on Youth Membership plans to add 5,000 to the Brotherhood roster within the next year.

Gustave D. Golding, president of Washington Boulevard Temple Brotherhood, was elected to the Executive Board to succeed the late Herman Selz, Chicago.

N. Y. ELECTION DISPELS MYTH OF JEWISH VOTE

Election results in New York State completely dispelled the myth of a Jewish vote is the comment of the New York “Jewish Tribune.”

“The voting, taken by and large, definitely punctured the myth of a Jewish vote,” the paper writes. “Attorney General Ottinger commanded much staunch support among many Jewish voters as among non-Jewish voters, but the same may be said of Franklin Rossevelt, many of whose chief lieutenants were Jewish and who apparently was not forgotten by many of the Jewish rank and file.

“The comparatively small margin separating Roosevelt and Ottinger plainly showed that if Jewry had voted en bloc for Ottinger, this margin would have been wiped out, and the Attorney General would have been elected.”

Attorney General Albert Ottinger, Republican candidate for Governor and H. Edmund Machold, Chairman of the Republican State Committee, will wait until after the official canvasses in the various counties of the State next Tuesday before deciding whether or not to concede the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Democratic candidate, who has more than 25,000 plurality on the face of the unofficial returns.

Announcement to this effect was made by Mr. Machold after a conference with Mr. Ottinger and the Republican leaders of the five counties in New York City.

It also was learned definitely that there would be no application for a recount, if the canvass should show that Mr. Roosevelt had been elected on the face of the returns and that there would be no attempt to hold up the issuance of a certificate of election to him.