The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-04
GOVERNOR LAYS
 CORNER STONE
LEO N. LEVI HOSPITAL CERE MoNlAL IS MOST IMPOSING
 AFFAIR OF SUNDAY.
Visitrs Are Entertained at Arlington at Banquet Spread to Guests.

The cornerstone laying if the Leo N. Levi Memorial hospital in this city Sunday afternoon was most imposing ceremonial, in keeping with the progress that has been made by the B'Nai Brith in the establishment of this sanitarium which is to be of nation wide service to the afflicted.
 The out of town guests were met by a large local reception committee and escorted to the Arlington, where @ luncheon was served. at'which Gus Strauss presided as toastmaster. and where about l50 guests were seated.
 Within tho corner stone were plac- ed copies Of the Sentinel Record. the Arkansas Gazette, the New Era. a copy of the rroc edngs of the Grand Lodge B'Nai Brith, photographs of the recent fire in Hot Springs. a his tory of the Leo \. Levi hospital com- mittee work. drawings Of the build ing, and d cpoy of the speech made by Governor Hays at the ceremonial
 Addresses were made after the ln-. vocation by Rabbi Louis Witt of Lit le Rock by Charles J. Hasse, of Mem phis, Governor George W. Hays. Emil Nathan of St Louis Mayor McClcn- don of Hot Springs. w. w. Waters, president of the Arkansas State Fair Association, and Dan Daniels of Lit tie Rock, after which Rabbi Rhine of this city pronounced the beneIic- ton
 Governor Hays prefaced his se. marks Gy saying he had been very busy man for the past two weeks and asked permission to read his speech from the manuscript. He was atten- lively listened to and said:
 T am glad to be with you to test- fly both as a personal tribute and as your governor to the high standing of the Jewish citizens of our great state
 In every capacity of citizenship, in war and in peace, they have gl- ways Loyalty and ably responded 70 the call of Arkansas The state is richer for their presence in it ana their participation in all it's activities In business, in the learned professors, in private life or in the public move ments of the times, their influence is markedly felt, and usually for the cause of peace and uplilt and high er morality
 As law abiding citizens their rdc- ord is and always has been deserved ly high. As teacher, preacher. law yer, doctor or business man, their }l- resistible energy and ambition bring them reputably to the front in every community in which they have the sphere of their activity In political life their influence has been effec lively demonstrated and the state and our country have been well and pa triotically served, not only in Che high class and honorable course of its Jewish public servants, but by the and devoted loyalty of it's Je wish private citizens.
 The prophetic foresieht of the founders of our country in throwing Wide open the portals of this glor jous land of liberty aud opportunity to all the oppressed and weary laden of the earth, and removing every ban of fayoritism aud prejudice, making this the home of free speech, Of in- diyidual and religious liberty, has been amply justified by the honorable record Of the Jewish people who have made this their home and country.
 In return for the right hand Cfl Fellowship that we have gladly ex tended 10 them, they have richly giy- en us all the full fruits of their bril- 1 liant intellisence, their unceasiag ! energy their cordial friendlinass and their splendid patriotism.
 Tn the bright sunlight of this laud | of opportunity, Gods chosen people |