Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-31
MRS. H|LLMAN IS
HONORED BY
B MAJ B R|TH /
Order Plans Campaign to Swell
Her $4,000 Gift to Home.
Initiation Tonight.

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lanta to be present at the ceremony.
The work Of Mrs Hilman. it was
decided, will be the basis of extensive
operations along the same line.
1t is proposed to solicit subscrip-
tons from prominent Jews through
out the United States, until enough
money has been raised to give the
home an endowment that will provide
a perpetual maintenance fund and
prevent shortages such as have oc-
CURED during the last year.
HiIIman Gift Foundation.
Mrs. Hillman's gift is considered a
| good foundation of the fund, and, in
| spired by her example, members Of
the order are confident that the work
| will be completed within the next
year, when the convention meets
again.
While the work of raising the
money will be done for the most part
| by members of the B'nai Birth, Jews
all over the South will aid, and the
campaign will be under the general
| direction of Joseph Hirsch of Atlanta,
! who was elected chairman Of the
| board of directors Of the institution,
| to take the place of Simon Wolf, OF
! Washington.
Mr.. Wolf was made honorary pres
| ident of the home. Mr. Hirsch will be
aided by the other officers who were
| elected Monday-Solomon We'll, If
J Goldsboro, y. c., first vice president;
! V. II. Kriegshaber, of Atlanta, second
vice president, and Max Cohen, Of
| Washington, secretary and treasurer.
Worked Hard for Home.
! Mrs. Hillmans donation of $4,000
to the orphanage came as a surprise
to most of the members Of the order
who gathered at the home for the Gel
ebration Monday night
1t was known that she had been
| interested in the home for some time,
and that she had been working hard
| for its success, but it was not known
| that her interest would result in a
substantial donation a gift that prom
ises to lift the burden under which Su-
perintendent Som and his associates
have labored, and enable them to de-
! vote their time to the children under
their care. without financial worry.
Mrs Hillman announced her gift at
the close Of her address, which was
one of the features of the celebration
! She reviewed the history and the work
of the home, and was optimistic con-
| cerring its future.
THE home must be placed upon
/ safe foundation" she said, so that
the stigma of failure on our part shall
not be added to the tragedy of death
and poverty and helplessness.
Gifts Testify to Esteeme.
The maintenance Of the home has
not always been equal to the need.
often has the usefulness of the home
! been curtailed by a dearth of funds,
and often has the existence of the
I home been endangered. This last year
! there was a deficit Of $4,000, which
| the income of the home could moi
! provide for"
Mrs Hillman was presented with
| handsome silver tea set, suitably en-
graved, the gift of the board of di-
rectors, Al a token of their apprecia-
ton of her work.
Mrs. Hillman was not alone The re-
cipient of a gift by the directors.
| Generous individual subscriptions,
prompted by their esteem of various
! officers, resulted in the presentation
/ Of a silver candelabra to Simon Wolf,
/ the retiring president Rabbi r. N.
| Calisch, Of Richmond. made the adj
dress
Then George Solomon, of Savannah,
/ in behalf of his fellow directors, pre-
| scented Joseph Hirsch with a silver
platte; and Max Cohen. of Washing
| Ton, secretary anu lltdHui tI VI lAlt
order. was surprised pleasantly with
silver set, accompanied by a pres
entation speech by Milton Hirsch, Of
| Chicago.
R. A. Som Is Commended.
Mr.. Wolf made the presentation
| speech conveying Mrs. Hillman's gift,
and all the recipients acknowledged
the tribute paid them in feeling re-
sponses.
Mr.. Cohen, in his report, referred 10
! the admirable condition of the affairs
| Of the home as a fine testimony to the
efficiency and devotion of r. A. Som,
/ the superintendent.
He is conducting the education OF
| these children along the line of the
J ideal" said Mr., Cohen, and referred
to Mr. Sonns enterprise as chairman
of the bureau of collections and infor-
nation in gathering the impressive
total Of $56,00O for that bureau in
| District No. 5.
The celebration of the twenty fifth
anniversary Of the home was elab-
crate, the exercises being witnessed
! by a crowd that filed the hall of the
home The children took part in the
exercises one of the features being a
pantomime staged by Mrs. R. A. Som,
| Miss Sylvia Spritz and Mrs. ]. Green
| field.