The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-17
B'NAI BIRTH
ADDS MEMBERS
TO ITS LISTS
AT ENTERTAINMENT FEATURED
BY MUSIC AND EXCELLENT ADJ
DRESSES QUITE A NUMBER JOIN
THE BROTHERHOOD.

the city quite a number were added to
the roll Of the Pensacola Lodge. No.
21s, Independent Order of B'nai Birth.
The occasion was B'nai Birth day
and the interesting program included
two excellent addresses by Mobile
members Of the order. Leon Schwarz,
president of the district grand lodge
No. q, and Herbert u. Feibelman, the
latter talking upon new homage for an
old ideal, were the speakers.
Rabbi L Brav made the invocation,
following the rendition Of an orches-
trail number by Max Heinberg, Miss
Lillian Jacoby, Miss Goldine Jacoby
| and Miss Ethel Friedman.
Songs were given by Miss Sadie
eastman. Miss Belle Berlin and Miss
Alice Wagenheim. Harry Wagenheim
was to have sung but was i'll.
MIR. Feibelman's Address.
Mr.. Feibelman spoke as follows:
MY Friends: I am deeply grateful
for the honor and pleasure Of adj
dressing you tonight, especially when
speaking under the guiding wing Of the
Independent Order of Bnai Birth, an
organization Of practical Judaism, ex-
ercised In the field Of benevolence and
enlightenment.
vision-that Of enlightenment-that I
speak tonight, calling to your earnest
attention that the social, the political,
and the educational life in compare
lively recent years has undergone a
change strikingly and made progress
speedily and surely enough to merit
our wonder, study, and observation.
II is worth noting that every depart
ment Of existence has changed, and
we believe for the better. Yet, through
| 1t all, be it politics, education, or So
ciety, we discern clearly the growth of
| a demand for truth, a determination
for the reality of things. 1t has been
ages since Jehovah first commanded
His children not to bear false witness,
but the ninth commandment appears
anew today, as vital, as potent as
when Sinai revealed the light Of truth.
1t is refreshment to faltering faith in
the higher destiny of the world-thls
new homage for the old ideal.
Luckily, society was first to fall be-
fore the majesty of the old ideal. It
has been a gradual victory, but no less
certain and decisive. Men did not
learn the true relationship between
God and man, even the brotherhood Of
man itself, until society yielded to de-
mocracy. Through the dark ages low
ly man struggled for recognition.
Blindly he bore the burden of society:
he was the foundation of the institu-
tons of the earth. The fairness of
| Just God finally commended itself, and
| we find the French revolution bloody,
yet helpful agent in this new worship
for the old ideal. The false barriers
between the aristocracy and the COM
freV aS1tnH nv a
Sans Culottes. To men there appeared
the potency of hath not one God Gre
ated us? Hath not one God made us
alp" England, Germany, and other
enlightened powers are fast bending to
the worlds tendency to establish on
earth a kingdom of truth.
Publicity Dear Virtue.
TN the United States, the recent
presidential campaign was a sweeping
political embodiment Of prayer for
truth. The people were not content
with personalities: facts were all-con-
vincing.\ Out on the speakers platform
the campaign was fought and fought
fiercely. Never was publicity dearer
virtue The campaign omens well for
different kind OF politics, politics OF
a new school.
The campaign was but indicative of
new spirit pervading all our public
institutions. Now too long has the
cloak of darkness hidden the activities
Of public Office. While the mass Of
people have stood in the shadows, IN
intelligent Of what their representa-
tives were doing with the public treas
ures, almost the God-gtven franchise
of life and happiness has been pilfered.
The craftiness of the irresponsible poll
oil ~ Nd
He played into the hands of the no less
irresponsible businesses and corporaT
tions. Labor's feeble cry was drowned
in the Laughter of the hilarious ban
queters at the public outlay. But He
who gave the doctrine Of truth exposed
the jewellers: the new forms of gov
eminent now stand as monuments to
truth. It was new worship for the old
IDEAL that inspired commission govern
ment In many of our cities. The I'M
healthy connections between so-called
big business and politics have stirred
the statesman's mind, and for the sake
of truth, the government bids fair to
step in and control the great institu-
tons OF commerce. The requirement
OF the publication of campaign expen-
ditures is but the wailing for the light
OF publicity. I call to your attention
even the many recent congressional
investigations. instituted mainly with
the view of directing the public eye to
conditions venal and disastrous. Pub
lie sentiment is shaped by the hands of
publicity: truth begets justice. The
square deal between capital and labor.
both, is obtainable through ripe ap-
probation and Interpretation Of the
sustaining cause of the workingman as
well as his employer. Congress has
provided commission to get the facts.
"All this activity and exercise of a
new governmental policy is what Pres
ident-elect Wilson had in mind when
he declared that the old order
changeth.' In the new day he sees yet
higher tasks resting upon the people