Springfield, Ill. Raises $50,000 for United Jewish Campaign

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Springfield celebrated the Purim festival this year by going over the top with its quota in the United Jewish Campaign.

At the children’s festival held at the Temple this afternoon the final sum was raised in five minutes and Springfield is sending $50,000 “Shalachmones,” Purim gift, to the suffering Jews overseas.

The sum of $50,000 is three times as large as any sum ever raised in Springfield, III. for any Jewish purpose.

BREVITIES

Reforms in naturalization procedure are urgently needed, according to the report made Sunday night by Nathaniel Phillips, President of the League for American Citizenship, to the Board of Directors and Governors at their quarterly meeting.

Mr. Phillips complains of ” frightful conditions confronting those seeking naturalization.”

Louis Setlen was selected by Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Baltimore, Md. on the board of five trustees to manage the municipal pension fund.

The board will have charge of a fund amounting eventually to $30,000,000, including appropriations by the city and contributions of employes.

Hyman Wolbarsht, clothing manufacturer and philanthropist of Baltimore, Md., died at the age of 72.

Mr. Wolbarsht was one of the organizers of the Talmud Torah Society in Baltimore 35 years ago, and had also taken a prominent part in other Jewish movements in this city. He also was one of the founders of the Beth Tfiloh Congregation.

The Einstein theory of relativity is not valid under a strict mathematical analysis, according to a statement made by Charles Lane Poor, Professor of Celestial Mechanios at Columbia University, before the American Mathematical Society at its two hundred and forty-seventh meeting held in the School of Business at Columbia.

After attacking the mathematics of the theory, Professor Poor citicrized Einstein for his errors in logic, saying that he would have to prove the laws of logic false in order to make his theory hold. Einstein had taken Newton’s law of gravitation as one of the premises of his theory, the Columbia mathematician declared.

Relativity, he said, concludes that the law of gravitation as set forth by Newton was erroneous, but Einstein premised his theory on the assumption that the law as stated was true.

Two papers were presented by Professor Poor at the opening of the morning session. One was entitled “A Direct Determination of the Relativity Formula for the ‘Line Element’ ,” and the other was a ” Note on the Relativity Formula for Orbital Motion.”

Mathematicians from the leading universities of the country attended the meeting.

Saluting the American flag as an outward display of patriotism is merely a form of ” idol worship,” which is forbidden by the Bible, the Jehovites, a non-Jewish religious cult in Denver, Col., declared in announcing that they would appeal from a recent ruling to the State Board of Education requiring pupils to salute the flag.

The congregation Anshe Emes of Chicago, III., purchased the buildings and grounds of the Temple Sholom. Rabbi Philip A. Langh is rabbi of the congregation and Jacob Lasker is president. The cost was $315,000.