Cleveland Plans Lessing-mendelssohn Fete

The first contribution toward a fund to be raised in Cleveland by the Lessing-Mendelssohn Bi-centennial Commission for the erection of a bust of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, champion for the cause of human tolerance and freedom, has come from the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Lodge, Independent Order B’rith Abraham.

Unvcaling of the bust will be the feature of a Lessing-Mendelssohn celebration in Rockefeller Parkway early in June.

The bust will be placed in a newly created unit of the Poet’s Corner, to be known as the German Poet’s Garden. This Garden will be north of the Hebrew Garden in which a bronze bas relief of Moses Mendelssohn was placed by the Gan Ivri Women’s League in 1927.

The commission voted at a meeting in the office of Manager Hopkins. Jan. 18, to name a committee to raise funds for the erection of a bust of Lessing and to plan the celebration in June honoring both Lessing, the non-Jew, and his friend and co-worker for the cause of human tolerance, Moses Mendelssohn. Lessing’s birth occurred on Jan. 22, 1729 and Moses Mendelssohn was born on Sept. 6 in the same year.

It is estimated that the Lessing bust project will entail an expenditure of about $3,000. It is the plan of the commission to reproduce a bust of the poet that is now in Leipzig.

The City Council by unanimous vote adopted a resolution endorsing the plan of conducting a Lessing-Mendelssohn civic celebration in a city park in June.

Rabbi Myron W. Jacobs of Troy, N. Y., addressed the Troy Conference of Methodist Ministers at their monthly meeting on Monday. This is the first time in the history of the conference that a Rabbi was invited to deliver an address before that body. Rabbi Jacobs’ subject was “The Supreme Task of Christianity.”