Buffalo Jews Launch Campaign for Nonsectarian Hospital

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Pledges totaling $325,914.50 were subscribed in two hours here last night at an enthusiastic gathering of the Jews of this city, opening the week’s drive for $642,884.50, in the campaign of the Jewish Hospital Association of Buffalo, funds of which will be used to erect a five-story hospital building, with 100 beds.

While the hospital will be non-sectarian in character, it will be conducted in accordance with Jewish Dietary laws. A site has been purchased of sufficient acreage to permit expansion.

The largest individual subscription, was that of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac S. Given, who donated $50,000. Rabbi Joseph L. Fink, Rabbi M. M. Eichler and Arthur Victor. chairman of the drive, were among the speakers at the meeting. Frederick Ullman is president of the Hospital Association. The campaign slogan is “Give While You Live.”

BREVITIES

Henry Landau of the Young People’s League of the United Synagogues of America was elected President of the newly formed American Federation of Youth on Sunday after a discussion of youth’s problems Saturday, at the Community Church, New York City.

Delegates from eleven organizations were present and agreed with the object expressed by the constitution, “to unite groups of young men and women in order to interest them in local, national and international problems, to quicken response to the needs of humanity, to secure an expression of opinion of youth on its problems, to develop in youth a sense of responsibility to a share in life’s problems, and to instil a spirit of fellowship and tolerance to all youth of whatever race, spirit, creed, social condition or political affiliation.”

Other officers elected were Jenkin R. Hockert of the Metropolitan Federation of Unitarian Young People, Ellis Charbourne of the League of Youth of the Community Church, and Miss Enid Thorpe of St. Phillip’s Parish, Harlem, Vice President: Miss Beatrice Price of the Fellowship of Youth for Peace. Recording Secretary: Miss Lee Brammall of the Jack and Jill Club. Corresponding Secretary, and Edward Perry of St. Phillip’s Parish, Harlem, Treasurer.

Funeral services for Max Reiss. philanthorpist, who died Friday, were held Sunday at Temple Shaari Zedek.

Mr. Reiss had been President of Temple Shaari Zedek for twenty-four years. He was 69 years old, He was a trustee of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, a director of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, and interested in many other Jewish philanthropies.

Presbyterians in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island gave $1,592,336 to charities during 1925, an average of $42 a member. They gave to the support of their own churches $1,530,010, an average of $40 a member, according to the annual report of the Presbytery of New York, sent by the Rev. Dr. Harlan G. Mendenball. Stated Clerk of the presbytery, to the Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia. Stated Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church.

Five churches have been built in the United States every day for the last twenty-five years, according to statistics compiled by Dr. Henry K. Carroll, religious statistician, made public by “The Christian Herald.”

“In the quarter century ending with 1925 the number of church edifices has increased from 190,805 to 235,961, a net gain of 46,159, which is at the rate of 1,816 every year,” says Dr. Carroll.