Felix M. Warburg, with a donation of $75,000, was the largest contributor on Wednesday in the tenth anniversary $4,720,000 campaign of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies. Mr. Warburg is Chairman of the Federation Board. Other contributions included $25,000 by S. A. Straus, $10,000 by Samuel J Bloomingdale, $4,000 by Reuben Arkush and $4,000 by Reuben Arkush and $4,000 by Frederick Strauss.
Frederick Brown, General Chairman of the campaign, announced that an analysis of new amounts showed that an analysis of new amounts showed that 202 contributors gave a total of $264,479. This same group, before the present effort contributed $130,847.50.
Mr. Warburg declared in a statement that the “federation, being for all, should be supported by all.” He said the federation was making rapid headway in its program of democratizing its support. There are 30,000 members enrolled today, he said, as against 13,000 when the federation was formed
George M. Seamen, a paper manufacturer of Chicago and a non-Jew, announced his personal subscription of $1,000 at the dinner of publishers and allied groups who were the guests of Paul Block at the Hotel Ambassador. The speakers were Mr. Block, Solomon Lowenstein. Executive Director of the Federation; Charles Weinstock and Sol M. Stroock, President of the Federation.
BREVITIES
Mayor Walker thanked Adolph Lewisohn for the free chamber music concerts which are being given every Wednesday night at Hunter College, New York.
“I came here tonight to thank Mr. Lewisohn on behalf of the entire city for the wonderful thing he is doing in providing these concerts,” said Mayor Walker. “This crowed hall is evidence that everybody in New York is not preoccupied with business to the exclusion of everything else, but that the city does appreciate the arts when given opportunity to enjoy them. We ought to have more.”
An explanation of why the New York Board of Superintendents refused to promote Abraham Lefkowitz was submitted by that board to the Board of Education.
Dr. Lefkowitz is one of the three teachers in the city school system whom the Board of Superintendents has refused to promote on grounds of alleged radicalism. It was in behalf of these teachers that the Citizens’ Committee of One Hundred on Intellectual Freedom for Teachers was organized and recently held a public protest meeting.
Associate Superintendent Edward Mandel, who drew up the report, conceded that Mr. Lefkowitz “is master of the technique of teaching-he knows how to present his subject and arouse and hold the interest of his pupils. No doubt he has a thorough knowledge of his subject matter. But that is not enough. Technique and knowledge are no substitutes for the spiritual enrichment and inoculation of American ideals, which are the primary aims in teaching history and civics.”
Mr. Mandel then enumerates “some of the most objectionable of the intemperate utterances attributed to Mr. Lefkowitz.” He charged that in an address at Cooper Union on Dec. 4, 1919, under the auspices of Friends of the Freedom of India, Mr. Lefkowitz used words to arouse “class hatreds and class consciousness,”
Twenty-two Jewish boys were named among the seventy-one students at the Crane Technical High School, who were awarded gold pins for their scholarship for the second semester last year. Of these six, Jewish boys have received pins before for their scholarships.
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