The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
B'NAI BIRTH IN BIRMINGHAM FOR
 ANNUAL MEETING
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sia and that in this country among the undesirables who were deported were some Jews.
 '"The Jews in America are conserva- tive, law-abiding. We are not radicals; we are not communists or socialists. but on the contrary we fear and dread their doctrine and philosophy We know thai socialism has not been and never will be workable; that it lacks the incentive for personal effort and sacrifice and in- itiative; that it is not adaptable to people of unequal mental. physical and moral capacity; that its vices are greater than the faults charged against our pres- ent social order; that our present system. which has brought mankind from his primitive state to his present-day civiiza- tion, with the humblest citizen having at his service advantages, luxuries and convenences, social and personal, that ancient kings could not command, should not be lightly discarded and a new i'm practical fad adopted
 AGAINST RADICALS By evolution, steady and sure, with the people prepared by education for each step, and not by precipitate revolution, can mankind hope to make effective pro- gress.
 The Jews of America are against the radicals the bolshevists, the communists dIlQ IU6 SOCldllSlS. w t IediiZS tnt Si blessings enjoyed in America under our great representative democracy. We real-
 ze that the basis of our government is our written constitution with it's pro- visions guaranteeing the right to prf- vate property and the right of contract. The socialists, the communists, the an- archists and the bolshevists deny these great principles of the constitution of the United States; they would destroy them; fhau xuof116 them We look those who would assail these fundamen- tals of our American institution, these bases of our society. as enemies to ous country, and those who would class us among them our slanderers and de- famers. And here and now from this rostrum, as the spokesman of this great order, I wish to say we are for the con stitution of the United States; that we are for it's time-proved contract, the right of civil liberty. We oppose those who would lay the hand of dissertation upon these great principles. We denounce as our slanderers those who would class us as radicals or socialists.
 "The war is over. The period of recon struction is upon us. What can We do to further it? Stand against the destruc- tionists and the radicals; oppose the bol- shevists and the communists; rebuke those who seek to undermine the confidence of the people in our government oppose direct action, en- courage free discussion: stand for the constitution of the United States and it's traditional tenets of the right of private property, the right of private contract. the right of individual liberty; seek to remedy any defects in society by calm. studious evolution and not by impetuous. destructive revolution; refuse to tear down unless we are prepared to rebuild wiser and better.
 'sThe war is over. The period of re- construction is upon us. What can we do to further 1t? Be better, hner, worthler Americans"
 PRESENTATION MADE
 At the close of President Oberdorfers s message. he was presented with silver platter on the behalf of the Birmingham lodges "We are presenting this silver platter" said Sam Ullman, 'as token of the appreciation and admiration which we have for you and of the way you carried out the duties assigned you"
 A motion picture was shown of the orphans home, which is maintained Ill New Orleans by the B'Nai B'Rith foi Jewish orphans.
 Memorial exercises were read by sev- eral of the rabbis who are attending the convention for the fifty members of the fraternity who died during the year. The exercises were indicative of the ,ra- ternalism which is the spirit of B'Nai B Rith.
 Following the business session an in for nal dance was given in the ballroom of the Tutwier Hotel The dance was the first of a series of entertainments for the visitors planned by the local lodges.
 Business sessions will be held today al 9:30 a. m. and p. m. Entertainment features will be a luncheon for the ladies at the Tutwiler Hotel. followed by the atre partv and later in the evening a reception and dance at the Phoenix Club for the delegateS.