Nathan Straus was feted Monday on board the steamer Homeric on the occasion of his seventy-ninth birthday, an Associated Press dispatch from the steamer reports. After receiving tributes from various speakers on his “humanitarian, non-sectarian welfare work,” Mr. Straus responded with praise for the Rockefellers, father and son, saying that they do more good for humanity than any one else.
“There’s not 1 per cent difference between a good Jew and a good Christian,” Mr. Straus said.
Mr. Straus is on his way to Palestine. Accompanying him are Miss Melrose Day, an expert on blood transfusion, and Miss Elizabeth K. Grierson, prominent in pasteurization work.
RABBI MAURICE HARRIS INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Dr. Maurice H. Harris, Rabbi of Temple Israel, No. 202 West Ninety-first Street, New York, was injured when he was knocked down by a taxi at One Hundred and Second Street and Columbus Avenue. He is in Lenox Hill Hospital with a broken leg. The driver of the taxi is not known.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
The directors of the United Jewish Charities of Hariford, Conn., will invite all Jewish welfare agencies and organizations in the city to meet with their executive committee to formulate plans for the creation of a central clearing house for all Jewish welfare work.
According to Miss Minnie Edelschick, super-intendent of the United Jewish Charities, the various organizations will continue to function independently, but each unit will know what the others are doing and will profit by cooperation from the other organizations.
A cite for a synagogue in Martinsville, Va., was purchased and a drive for funds to erect a synagogue has been launched. A committee, headed by A. Globeman, is conducting the drive.
BREVITIES
Out of the 5,009 high school students in Chicago who received diplomas at the midsemester graduation exercises, 1,212 are Jewish.
Governor Moore has renamed Abraham Jelin of New Brunswick, N. J., State Highway Commissioner for another term. The State Senate ratified the appointment. Mr. Jelin is well known in the Jewish communal life of New Brunswick.
The New Jersey Normal School for Jewish Teachers. the only institution of its kind in the state, is making efforts to obtain the consent of school authorities of the state to grant degrees to its graduates. A committee comprised of Rabbi Solomon Foster, Dr. Leon Mones. Jacob L. Newman and Jacob Fischel, has been appointed to take the necessary steps.
A group of paintings of Palestine by Saul Raskin are on exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art as part of an International Water Color Exhibit.
The group consists of fourteen water colors depicting street scenes and views of Jerusalem.
“Rinaldo and Armida,” by Anthony Van Dyck, was bought by Jacob Epstein, of Baltimore, Md., for $250,000. A British group was raising a fund somewhat smaller than Mr. Epstein’s offer of $250,000 to buy the picture. The British group wanted the picture to hang in the British National Gallery.
The picture will hang in the Baltimore Museum temporarily.
Mr. Epstein is prominent in civic and philanthropic movements in his city. It was reported that his investments in art alone are worth more than $1,000,000.
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