Baltimore Charities Launch Campaign

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

The campaign of the Associated Jewish Charities will open tonight with a banquet at the Lyric.

The quota has been set at $590,000, representing the minimum amount needed to care adequately for the activities of the Associated Jewish Charities and its 18 constituent organizations next year, Sidney Lansburgh, president of the charities, explained.

About 18,000 prospect cards have been prepared and 700 workers have been enrolled.

Rabbi William Rosenau, of the Eutaw Place Temple, will pronounce the invocation at the banquet. Mr. Lansburgh will start the speaking program and will be followed by Harry Greenstein, executive director of the charities association and Jacob Blaustein, who will make the formal appeal.

The name of Louis Bamberger, a Newark, N. J., merchant, formerly of Baltimore, has been added to the list of benefactor members of the new Municipal Museum of Art of Baltimore. Mr. Bamberger, forwarding his check for $5,000, becomes the fourth of such members.

Mr. Bamberger explained he was prompted to this action by his interest in Baltimore’s new museum. He is one of the leading supporters of the museum in Newark. He also forwarded a check for $1,000 for a fellow-membership for his sister. Mrs. Felix Fuld, of Newark, and $500 for a patron membership for another sister, Miss C. Lavinia Bamberger, of Baltimore.

The journey which lasted forty years when Moses led the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land can be made now in two hours and twenty minutes. With the new air service of the Imperial Airways. American tourists taking the Mediterranean cruise on the White Star liner “Homeric,” under charter to Thomas Cook & Son, will have the opportunity of flying in twelve-seater airplanes from Cairo to Jerusalem, crossing the Suez Canal, the Sinai Desert and the mountains of Judea. Thence they may pass over Trans. jordania and 600 miles across the Syrian Desert to Bagdad.