Evening star., 1915-03-02
Owes Liberality to Capital.


declared the California member. ito
he liberal toward Washington.
realize there are many who believe
that the population here should sup
port Washington, but to put on the
taxpayers the burden of maintaining
The Capital as it should be maintained
would be to saddle such burden upon
them as would make many hump
backed from carrying it. The burden
would be entirely too heavy.
Conditions in Washington differ
from those in other cities. There are
$4,000 or 10000 government clerks here
who do not claim to be residents of
the capital. If that number should be
carried out in the proportion of five
10 the family it would show that the
government clerks account for about
100000 of the city's population. Con-
gress should always remember this
fact"
Representative Kahn said that the
trouble with Congress is that it is try
ing to regulate every member of the
human race by man-made laws. If an
individual member of the human family
of Congress will be sure to introduce
a bill to regulate the subject for every
man, woman and child in the country,
and this can't be done, declared the
speaker
we are off our bearings" he con-
tinued. What we need is to get back
TO individual character building. Every
church and school in the country
should become a teacher of character"
Are Jewish Americans.
In referring to the work of the B'nai
Birth, Representative Kahn drew a
distinction between the American Jew
and the Jewish American. The Jewish
nationality was destroyed long ago, and
today the Jew is of the nation where
he makes his home. In America he is
Jewish American and not American
Jew, asserte|' Mr.. Kahn.
One other member of Congress, Rep
resentative Henry NJ. Goldfogle of New
York. addressed the more than 200 rep
resentatiyeS of the lodge who attended
the banquet. Mr.. Goldfogle pointed
out that the most difficult feature of
the immigration problem is that of the
proper distribution of the aliens who
come to this country. He urged the
B'nai Birth to take an active part in
assisting aliens to find work in the
rural districts where there is a demand
for their labor.
Others who spoke were District Com
missioner Louis Brownlow, DR.. George
Solomon of Savannah, Ga, secretary OF
grand lodge of district No. 5; Harold
S. Bloomberg of Richmond, Va, vice
president of district grand lodge No. 5
T. S. Goldsmith of Washington and
Julius Peyser, who officiated as toast
master.
.... Predicts Jewish Nation.
Commissioner BrownIow. described a
visit which he made to Palestine, declar-
ing that what he saw there had made him
a Zionist The Commissioner predicted
that one of the results Of the European
war would be the establishment of a Jew
ish nation in Palestine
Dr. Solomon spoke in eulogistic terms
of the work that Argo lodge Is doing.
Both DIR. Solomon and Representative
Goldfogle paid tributes to the services
which had been rendered the order and
the Jew in this country by Simon Wolf.
who Was to have been one of the speakers
al the banquet, but was prevented by
illness from attending.
l. 5. Goldsmith, in the makeup OF an
Italian count, delivered humorous
monologue. Toastmaster Peyser: IN
opening the proceedings. gave brie1
account of the development of Argo
Lodge and expressed the hope that il
would become the largest and most
active lodge in the order.
The dinner was the third annual
"Ret-together'' event the lodge has held
and was arranged by committee OF
which A C. Mayer was chairman The
other members were Joseph Stras-
burger. Isaac Cans. Rev. Abram Simon
Pretzfelder.
While the dinner was in progress A
Brandt was called TO tne speakers
table by the POSTMASTER and presented
with q gold medal, the gift of the
lodge for his services In bringing il
new members. More than 100 mem
bers recently have been added to the
lodges roster through Mr.. Brandt's
efforts.
Musical numbers were contributed by
Or. Rudolph Bloom at the piano and
Edward EvartS and Max Cohen in
violin solos. Mr.. Pelzman led several
choruses.
Guests Of Evening.
Those present were Commissioner
Brownlow, Representative julius Kahn
Representative Henry NJ Goldfogle
DIR. Rosenthal. Atlanta, Ga: Mr. II
Bloomberg. Richmond. Va; DR.. George
Solomon. Dr. Simons. Judge Pugh
Judge Mullowny, Judge Strasburger
A Adler, B. Adler. F. Brylawski, H
Bermaii. A. Brandt, NJ. Bretzfelder
Louis Bush. Edgar Behrend. N, S
Cohen. Louis Cohn, Mr.. Cusack. L.
Cohen, Harry Coleman, Lewis Coleman
s. /. Cohen. Levi David, Charles W
barr, DIR. S. Daneman, j. De Young
Nose Eisenmann. a be Eisenmann. w
Freese. DIR. Feldelwitch, Isador Freund
Sol Friedman. Frank Foer, Phil Fried