Hailing the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis as one “who enriched not only the Supreme Court but also the Government by his way of life,” Lowell C. Pinkerton, United States Consul General in Palestine yesterday eulogized the noted jurist in an address delivered at memorial services in the En Ha’ Shophet (Judge’s Well) colony whose tower was draped in mourning black.
The meeting which was opened by Jossua Leibner, formerly of New York City who now resides in the En Ha’Shophet colony, heard addresses by Henrietta Szold, Bernard Joseph, Julius Simon, Isaac Ben-Zvi, and others. Miss Szold declared that Brandeis’ death closed an epoch in Zionism but that by his work he had cleared the way for new vistas. Mr. Simon said Brandeis was “a synthesis of Herzl’s political conception and Achad Hasm’s principle that quality was more important than quantity.”
Mr. Leibner concluded the addresses with the pledge that En Ha’Shophet would proudly uphold the lofty principles of Brandeis and continue the work along the lines he had outlined. A hymn sung by a quartet chosen from among the members of the colony’s choir concluded the simple services.
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