A movement to improve the quality of government, municipal, state, and national, by inducing the citizens to perform the duties of citizenship was launched by a score of well-known Pittsburghers at a meeting held in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association when A. Leo Weil. Sr., one of Pittsburgh’s leading Jews and prominent barrister of this city, was named president. Weil held the same position in the old Voters’ League of Pittsburgh, whose purpose was quite similar to this new organization.
A “Committee of Education on Citizenship” has been organized to start its work in the local schools, settlements, and other agencies having to do with the training of youth.
Included in the preliminary officers already chosen are also Dr. Samuel H. Goldenson, spiritual leader of the Temple Rodef Shalom, and Marcus Aaron, president of the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education.
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