(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
Representative Meyer Jacobstein, Democrat, New York, yesterday introduced a bill postponing for one year the application of the national origin provision of the immigration law which would apportion immigration on the basis of the national origin or race of every citizen.
“A new kind of cross-word puzzle is plaguing the members of the House and the Senate,” said Mr. Jacobstein. “I seriously doubt if there are two dozen members of Congress who understand and could intelligently explain how the quotas are arrived at in applying the national origin provision of the Immigration act of 1924.
“Many people are skeptical as to the accuracy and reliability of the statistical data on which the quotas would be apportioned. This being the case, the President should be given another twelve months to decide the question one way or the other.”
BREVITIES
Chevra Shass Anshe Ligmion of Syracuse, N.Y., will be permitted to sell its synagogue. Restrictions placed in a deed 12 years ago were stricken out by a decision by Justice Edgcomb, so the property will not revert to Mr. and Mrs. Harris Barrinson if the building is abandoned as a house of worship.
Barrinson was one of the leaders of the congregation when the synagogue property was acquired.
Chief among the restrictions were: That the property would revert to Mr. and Mrs. Barrinson if services were discontinued and the building was abandoned as a synagogue; and that the building must be owned perpetually by a religious corporation.
It is expected the property will be sold and a new synagogue erected in a section where many members of the congregation have removed.
The will of Moritz Walter, carpet manufacturer, who died May 26, 1926, filed on Monday, disposed of an estate of $1,552,523.
In his will Mr. Walter left $5,000 each to a Catholic, Protestant and Jewish orphanasylum in New York and made similar provision for such institutions in San Francisco. The executors distributed the bequests in New York to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Bethlehem Orphan Asylum, Fort Wadsworth, S. I., and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum.
The Ku Klux Klan was charged with forcing the exclusion of three Jewish children from the Teaneck, N. J. Public School. Morris Spindell, a lawyer, who is representing the children, announced he would appeal to the Commissioner of Education at Trenton in making the charge.
The pupils are Elsie Liebman, eleven years old; Evelyn Coppel, nine years old, and Seymour Powlamar, eight years old. All live at a boarding house conducted by Mrs. Joseph Wahrhaftig. The Teaneck Board of Education announced at the time it dismissed the children that their parents lived in New York and that Mrs. Wahrhaftig had failed to pay a $50 a year tuition fee for them.
Mr. Spindell declared that the Klan was behind the dismissal and that John H. Ranger, clerk of the local board, did not deny the charge.
“I told him there were fifteen other baby farms in Teaneck with children whose parents lived in New York. No demand was made for their tuition fee,” said Mr. Spindell. “This tuition fee has been in effect only since last October.”
SYMPOSIUM ON RABBIS’ PROBLEMS TO BE PUBLISHED
The publication of a volume on “Problems of the Jewish Ministry,” has just been announced by Rabbi Israel Goldstein, president of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers. The publication is a symposium on the practical problems of the Jewish Ministry representing the views of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Rabbis.
More than forty Rabbis have contributed to the volume, including Samuel M. Cohen, Simon R. Cohen, Louis Finkelstein, Israel Goldfarb, Israel Goldstein, Sidney E. Goldstein, Jacob B. Grossman, Rudoiph Grossman, Maurice H. Harris, Jacob Kohn, Nathan Krass, Alter F. Landesman, Isaac Landman, S. J. Levinson, Israel H. Levinthal, Harry S. Lewis, Alexander Lyons, Norman Salit, Samuel Schulman, Elias L. Solomon, Nathan Stern, Benjamin A. Tintner, Harry Weiss; also Mesdames Alexander Kohut, Moses Hyamson, and D. de Sola Pool, who discussed the subject of “The Wife of the Rabbi.”
The Publication Committee comprises Barnett A. Elzas, D.de Sola Pool and Clifton H. Levy, chairman.
The topics which are discussed include: (1) The Sermon, (2) Pastoral Duties, (3) The Religious School, (4) The Child and the Synagogue, (5) The Synagogue Center, (6) Administrative Duties, (7) The Rabbi as Scholar and Teacher, (8) The Community-at-large, (9) The Problem of Chaplaincy, (10) The Wife of the Rabbi.
Nurses of the Henry Street Settlement, New York City, made 400,000 visits and administered to 56,230 patients during 1926, an increase in visits of 10,246 and in patients of 7,110.
A charge of $1.15 a visit was made to those who could afford it, but much of the service was given free of charge. Among those visited in 1927, 67 per cent were either foreign born or had foreign born parents.
The visiting nurse service maintains thirteen prenatal clinics, five preschool clinics, three cradle classes and eight mothers’ clubs.
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