The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
HEXTER OF DALLAS CHOSEN PRESIDENT
 OF b'NA| BIRTH
Organization Contemplates w Om an Membership. Texas Gets Next An
 nual Meeting-StrOng
 Committees Named

After the election of officers and the selection of the 1921 convention city, the forty-seventh annual convention of District rand Lodge, No T, l. o. B. B., came to close yesterday.
 The following officers were named: Grand president, Victor H. Hexter of Dallas, Tex; first vice president, A. $. Fryer of Shreveport. La.; second vice president, s. J. Westheimer of Hous- ton, Tex; treasurer, Archibald Marx of New Orleans and secretary, Myron M. Goldman of New Orleans.
 All of these officers were reelected to the office they now hold eX-~pt the president and the second vice pres ident. The choice of all was unanl- nous except that of second vice presi- dent, where there was keen competi- ton between s. J. Westheimer or Houston, Gus Etrauss of Hot springs and George Fox of Fort Worth. On the election of s. J. Westheimer, the elec- ton was made unanimous. Dallas, Tex. was unanimously se- lccted as the 1921 convention city after it's competitors, Montgomery, Ala, Memphis, Tenn, and Alexandria, La, withdrew in its favor. Memphis put up a strong fight for the convention, but relinquished the claim to Dallas until 1922, when the new Old Folks Home should be erected in Memphis and could be visited by the delegates STANDING COMMITTEES 1 The following report of the nomina- |! ton committee for members Of stand- | ing committees was made and adopted: l Civic Rights, Abraham Brill Shreve- pert; Isadore Isaac Aronson, Selma; Theo D. Asher Little Rock, L. J. Low 1 enthal, Nashville; Joseph Kahn, Aus tin; Sol Levy, Pensacola; Eldon Lag arus, New Orleans, and Charles B. Katz, Tulsa.
 1 Board of Endowment Trustees--C. F. Moritz. Montgomery; Herman Veil and Jake Trautman, New Orleans, l Jewish Widows and Orphans Home --Lazar Levy, J. H. Bodenheimer, El- | kin Moses Samuel Well, H. J. Self i ferth, Sig Kohlman, Myron M. Gold 1 man and Sam Blum, New Orleans.
 Touro Infirmary-E. M Mansburg | G. L. Lazarus, w. L. Levy, Herman Well
 r. II. Guttman, Myron N. Kolhman Scott E. Der, New Orleans
 Denver Hospital-David Sternberger
 Dallas.
 Court of Appeals-Nathan Cohn Nashville; s. c. Eldridge, San Antonio y K Hrsch, Vicksburg; B. Salsburg Helena, Ark. Judge David B. Samuels Shreveport, La; D. c. Angleman, Okla homa City, Okla; Len Lishcoff. Pensa-
 cola, Fla, and L. A. Abronson, Bir'
 mingham.
 l Other business to come before the | convention at it's closing session wal the report of the resolutions commit
 tee who offered a resolution that the
 Jews of B'Nai B'Rith re-affirm anC pledge anew their loyalty to the United States of America and its constitution
 Tkis resolution was passed unani
 mously by rising vote.
 second resolution that the Grant
 Lodge of District No. ' declare itsel1
 for the abandonment of secracy in tho | BNai B'Rith was withdrawn after dis
 cussion. Another resolution providing
 that women be admitted to full mem
 bership to the lodges of B'Nai B'Ritf
 was also withdrawn from lack of tim'
 to discuss the question.
 1 At the close of the business, tn, delegates were given an automo bill
 ride through the residential section o the city. This ride had to be substi tl,ted for the proposed trip througl the steel plant at Ensley on account 0 wet weather. Returning from thi ride, the visitors were taken to th' homes of the local members of tn
 B'Nai BRith as their guests for din Iner.
 | The final gathering of the conven tion was cultural advancement service at Temple Emanu-El Rabbi Georg, Fox of Houston, Tex, spoke on thi 1 subject and Lucien L. Solomon of Sal
 Francisco delivered the oration.
 CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT | Cro1 l.ot II, nf a, by Rabbi I. Isaacson. Rabbi George Fo' l of Fort Worth, Tex, chairman of tn | cultural advancement committee eX plained the meaning of the meeting. | Cultural advancement, explained Rabb | Fox. was formerly the delivering of es says by the talented young men an'
 women one day during the year know | as Cultural Advancement Day. Thi practice had been modified until at tn present time all these essays give wa. 1 to one man who delivers a speech. H Introduced as the speaker of the evenins ILucius' L. Solomon, of San Francisco lvice president of the Constitutions Grand Lodge, I. o. B. B.
 MT. Solomon took for his subject tn
 position of the Jews in the world today turing this period of reconstruction I"We as Jews are divided into three dis tinct groups each pulling in differen ways he said First, we have tha group which believes that the re-estab Ilishment of the Jews in Palestine is tn only solution of the Jewish problem il the world and members of this grouI Hook forward to seeing the Jews in thei old home.
 ''The second division. one of the larges of the three stands for the establishment iof communities in each country, havin; 1 group rights and the privilege of exer cising their social and religious GUS toms.
 WANDERING OF JEWS
 "The third party believes that in tn l scattering and the wandering of tn Jews over the face of the earth, .;
 prophecy is being fulfilled. These fee that 1t is useless to strive for any othe thing, but are satisfied with their pres
 ent positions.
 we are now facing a period of recon lstruction. Has the war cloud which ha so recently lifted placed the Christian IJew and Mohammedan an equa basis? Or has step been accomplishe' l in this direction? If so, all the bloc , was not shed in vain.
 .'The peace conference will not brin' I about universal peace until laws ar passed giving an equal protection 10 ev cry class and race in the world. This i the only basis upon which lastn neace may he made. The peace confer ence has not settled the problem of rh Jew.
 How can the peace conference setti If when we do not know what our prob f1~. t.o no wa want to settle in PaleS