A “Harmony Program” for the peace makers of the country was announced by the World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches. The Harmony Committee of the World Alliance, held at the Chicago Beach Hotel, adopted a program which is now being recommended to all the peace organizations in the country as a basis for future work.
The program urges the “outlawry of war”-making war a crime under international law-as the unifying purpose and dominating motive of all peace groups. It favors membership of the United States in the Permanent Court of International Justice “under satisfactory conditions,” but recommends that America “be prepared through education and organization” to take a larger part in international cooperation. It urges the Government of the United States to participate in the extension of arbitration agreements and allied forms of peaceful settlements among European countries. It recognizes the League of Nations as the only existing world organization furnishing “a pacific substitute for the war system,” and expresses the opinion that the United States should study ways and means by which it can cooperate more effectively in the activities of the League.
It advocates taking “practical steps” to reduce armaments. It opposes “any tendencies which put undue emphasis on militarism in education,” particularly compulsory military training in public schools and colleges, except those institutions established specifically for military education.
BREVITIES
Premier Mussolini and Henry P. Fletcher, the American Ambassador, will be among the witnesses at the civil marriage in Rome on Thursday of Miss Lillian Weinman, a New York girl, and Attilio Teruzzi, Fascist Deputy and Under Secretary of State in the Department of the Interior. Miss Weinman, daughter of Isaac Weinman, is a singer known on the stage as Lillian Lorma. Her engagement to Signor Teruzzi was announced in March.
Among the other witnesses at the marriage. which is considered one of the great politicosocial events of the season, will be Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Interior, and Signor Giuriati, Minister of Public Works. Signor Cremonesi, Governor of Rome, will perform the ceremony.
Later there will be a religious marriage in the Church of Santa Maria Degli. Among the witnesses for the groom at this ceremony will be General Vascari, in whose command Teruzzi fought in the World War.
Besides the parents of the bride, sixty New York friends have come to Rome especially for the wedding.
Michael Gusikoff, descendant of Michael Joseph Gusikoff, whose musical ability once delighted Mendelssohn, has been engaged as concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Gusikoff’s ancestor, Michael Joseph, is remembers in musical circles as the inventor of the xylophone, and the strohfiedel, which preceded the xylophone, an instrument which he took up after poor health caused him to give up the flute, his original instrument.
A three-day national convention of the K. A. P., formerly known as the Independent Klan of America, ended with the re-election of President Samuel Bemenderfer of Muncie, Ind.
Resolutions calling for teaching the Bible in the public schools and enforcement of immigration laws were adopted.
At the commencement exercises of Hunter College, degrees were awarded to 351 graduates, 191 of whom were Jewish.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
The Arnual Convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America will be held at the Scarboro Hotel, Long Brunch, N. J. More than seventy-five rabbis are expected to attend.
Professor Louis Ginzberg will address the first session of the Convention. Governor Moore of New Jersey and Dr. Chaim Tchernowitz will also speak.
“The Value of the Center to the Synagogue” will be a subject for discussion. Dr. Israel Herbert Levinthal of the Brooklyn Jewish Center will read a paper on the subject, and Rabbi Louis Schwefel and Rabbi Alexander Basel will read the discussion. Rabbi Samuel M. Cohen, the Executive Director of the United Synagogue, will read a paper on the “Synagogue and Palestine.” The discussion on this paper will be led by Rabbi Philip R. Alstat of New York.
The possibility of establishing a system of Adult Jewish Education in America will be discussed by Rabbi Louis Levitzky of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the discussion on the subject will be led by Rabbi Alter F. Landerman of Brooklyn, N. Y.
On Friday morning, July 2, an Executive session will be held which will be devoted to the discussion of the relation of the Seminary. The United Synagogue and the Rabbinical Assembly to one another. The principal paper on the subject will be read by Doctor Norman Salit of Far Rockaway, L. I. The discussion will be led by Doctor Louis Epstein of Brookline, Mass.
The winners of the Senior Essay Contest held under the auspices of the Extension Department of the Central Jewish Institute, 125 East 85th Street, New York, were announced at the closing exercises held on Wednesday evening.
The first prize was awarded to Sadie Weinstein for her essay on “Establishment of a Jewish University in the United States” ; the second prize to Rose ?ky, the third prize to Bebe Ketzis. Rabi? man Salit delivered the principle address.
A memorial to the late Rabbi and Mrs.Phillip Klein, who died within twenty-tour hours of each other last February will be included in the new synagogue being erected by the Congregation Ohab Zedek, of which Rabbi Klein was rabbi for 35 years. The memorial is to be erected by the Sisterhood, of which Mrs. Klein was the honorary president, and is to be called the “Julie Hirsch Klein Memorial Room.”
Announcement was also made yesterday by Louis Friedman. acting president of the Congregation. of the formal acceptance by Dr. Samuel Vigoda, of the position of Cantor of the Congregation, made vacant through the recent resignation of Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt.
The Lawn-Manor Community Center building, of Chicago. III., erected and equipped at a cost of $85,000, was formally dedicated yesterday.
The building, a two-story structure, is built of red brick trimmed with cut Bedford stone, and a green tile roof. The building has seven stained glass windows.
Henry A. Stine is president of the Lawn-Manor Community Center.
Among the speakers were Prof. S. A. Hoffman, head of the Hoffman preparatory school, Chicago: Dr. G. G. Fox of the South Shore temple, and Dr. P.Jacobs of Gary, Ind.
The first floor of the building is divided into rooms for religious services, class rooms for Sabbath school, library and meeting rooms. Provision has been made for meeting places for boy and girl scout troops and other organizations. The entire first floor and stairs are finished in terrazo marble and the trim throughout the building is walnut.
The second floor is devoted to an auditorium which seats about 600. It has a stage and assembly hall.
The graduation and commencement exercises of the citizenship classes of the League for American Citizenship will be held on Tuesday evening. June 22nd, at the downtown branch at 123 Second Avenue, New York.
Men and women of all nationalities will receive awards and diplomas for having completed a year’s course in citizenship training.
The diplomas will be presented by the chairman of the evening, the Hon. Thomas W. Churchill, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Mr. Nathaniel Phillips, President of the League, will address the graduates.
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