Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-19
B'NAI BIRTH FINISH WORK
O!ose Grand Lodge Convention with Ban
quet at Metropolitan Club
OEs MONIES GETS NEXT MEETING
Secures IL After Spirited Contest with
Milwaukee-Omahsns Given Places
on Several Principal
Committees.

- bahQutl at tne metropolitan CLUB last
night closed the thirty-ffth annual conven.
ton OF district grand lodge No. 6. Indepen-
dent Order B'nal Birth. The last OF the
business had been transacted and final ad.
journment taken at AIS In the afternoon,
making the convention OF but two days
duration.
Des Moines got the next meeting from
Milwaukee after spirited contest involv.
ing forty-ive minutes OF oratory by the
advocates OF the two places. The new
finance committee announced yesterday
afternoon includes NJ. Guettel, NJ Riese and
II. Solomon, all Of Chicago where the head
quarters of the district is located. The
new committee on intellectual advancement
comprises Israel Cowen, Chicago; Jacob
Ely, Grand Rapids; Charles l.. Aarons,
Milwaukee,; Arnold Wolf, Chicago; W. s.
Newberger, Chicago; B. Ginsberg. Detroit,
II. Riegelman, Des Moines, and NJ. l..
Sugarman, Omaha.
State deputies for the year are: Illinois,
A. ]. Newberger, Chicago; Michigan, M. II.
Wise, Detroit Minnesota, Jonas Wen,
Minneapolis; Iowa, o. Hickman, Council
Bluffs; Nebraska, C.. Brandels, Omaha.
For Immigrant DistrIbutiOn.
In the closing hour of the session Harry
A Lipsky, manager of the industrial re-
moval office at Chicago, made an earnest
and loudly applauded appeal for co-opera-
ton in the work he represents, which work
is that of diverting Jewish immigration
from the congested parts of New York
and other cities into the small towns OF
the nation and clearing out the ghettos.
The Industrial Removal society is prac-
tically an outgrowth or continuation of
the Roumanian committee, born at the
time of the massacres and very Success
ful in its labors Mr.. Lipslky stated that
there are $4,000 people in one square mile
of New York City. but that the Removal
society expects to take out G,000 CT them
this year and to continue the work until
all are cleared. His closing remark to the
convention was: I'VE must break up
these ghettos in New York, Philadelphia
and wherever else they may exist, and so
divert our immigration that never again
will such disease-breeding and inmOral-
ity-fostering congestions exist
Having elected it's officers at the Sun
day session, the convention yesterday
morning turned it's attention to incidental
matters and adopted a resolution which
pledges the members of the order to give
financial and other support to the recently
outraged Jews of Russia and empowers
the general committee to mem orallze the
government at Washington II 1t sees fit.
The resolution was drafted Uy HIccjal
committee appointed yesterday ard headed
by Judge Philip Stein of Chicago. It reads:
We have heard with feelings of mex
pressible horror of the rendish outrages
lately committed upon our co-religionists
in and around kishenif, Russia, ana stand
aghast at the thought that such atrocities,
worthy OF savages devoid Of all civiliza tion,
could have been perpetrated in the opening
years OF the twentieth century. Our hearts
go out in sympathy to our stricken breth-
rem and We stand ready at any and all
times to render them Whatever assistance,
financial or otherwise, their necessities may
demand. and to take such action In the
premises so far as this may be possible. as
3 wililead TO the absolute prevention of any
repetition of the outrages in question. We
general committee be authorized to issue
cuniary help and that II be left to their
Judgment and discretion to memorialize,
II they see fit the government at Washing
and to take sucn other and further steps as
in their opinion the emergency may now or
hereinafter require.
Personnel of General Committee.
The general committee upon which IL
thus made 10 devolve responsibility for
future action includes Judge Stein, A. B.
seelenfreund, both of Chicago, g. Living
ston OF Bloomington and William Tausig.
other committees and trustees named
yesterday were: Endowment trustees,
H. Hirsch, d. Adler and II. Swimmer. all
Of whom are already serving in such
capacity; Cleveland Orphan asylum
trustees. A. Loeb. g. Heavenrich. L. H.
Heller and s. Woolner; Denver Asylum for
Consumptives trustee, Israel Cowen. The
intellectual advancement committee is yet
TO be named
At yesterdays meeting there was