Intermountain Jewish news., 1926-11-04
FEW KHAN CANDIDATES SURVIVE IN COLORADO ELECTION
Council of Jewish Women Will
Send 1000 Delegates to Washington

One thousand women will gather at
Washington, d. c., on Sunday. No
vember 14th, when Mrs. William d.
Sporborg of Port Chester, N. Y, will
open the Eleventh Triennial Conven-
tion of the National Council of jew
ish Women. Significant achievements
will be reviewed and broader plans
formulated for the future, in keeping
with this organizations progressive
spirit.
Three years have passed since Rose
Brenner of Brooklyn, N. Y, had been
reelected president of the National
Council of Jewish Women at the
Tenth Triennial in St. Louis. Dur
ing that period the Councils member
ship was, increased by 5000 and over
100000 in special gifts added to the
National treasury. At the Washing
ton TrieRnial, special tribute will be
paid to Rose Brenner, the sixth presi-
dent Of the Council, who had been
summoped to her eternal rest during
the past year.
Rose Brenner's Six Years
The six years of Rose Brenner's
presidency were marked by the great
est expansion in the history of the
Council. Its paid membership of 2s,-
900 women in 1920, had grown to
$4,000 in 1926. This annual income of
the National Council and its Sections
was $150,00O in the period of 1917
1920. During the triennial period
just ending, 1928 926, the annual in
come of the National Council and its
Sections has risen TO $45O,00O. Ap-
proximately 81 $50. 900 has been ex-
pended by the National and its local
units in the United States and Can
ada. The number of Sections has
grown from $50 in 1920 to 230 in
1926.
Aside from the growth in numbers
and income, the five and one-half
years of Rose Brenner's presidency
witnessed the development of the in
ternational Case Work of the Coun-
ellis Department of Immigrant. Aid.
under the direction of Mrs. Samuel ].
Rosensohn and Miss Florina Lasker
of New York City; the expansion of
Special committee for Work among
Jewish Women on the Farms into the
present Department of Farm and
Rural Work under the leadership of
Mrs. Henry j. Sporborg of Albany,
N. Y. Mrs. Leo H. Herr of New York
City, and Mrs. Elmer L. Eckhouse of
Newark, N. ]. These years beheld
the Council embark upon those two
significant and memorable enterprises,
the Reconstruction Units Service to
Europe and the World Conference of
Jewish Women called by the National
Council to meet in Vienna, both un-
dertakings have been directed by Mrs.
Alexander Kohut of New York City.
Council Expansion
| They furthermore marked the as
sociation of the Council with the work
Of the Jewish refugees in Cuba, under
the supervision of the Councils depart
ment Of immigrant aid the founding of
THE Jewish Woman" the Council
quarterly, the publication of THE In
migrant the monthly bulletin of the
department of immigrant aid; the is
suance of several publications of Jew
ish interest during the incumbency of
Mrs. Felix A. Levy of Chicago, as
chairman of the committee on religion
the extension of the councils influence
into Australia through the activities Of
Mrs. Israel Cowen Of Chicago, Mrs.
Nathaniel r. Harris Of Bradford, Pa.
and the office of the executive secrc-
tary; the promotion of local associa-
tiuns of Jewish Womens organizations
under the successive chnirmanships of
Mrs. Herbert L. Ottenheimer of Louis
Vile and Mrs. Siegmund Herzog of
| Cleveland; the cooperation of the Ma
tional Council in the establishment of
the conference committee of National
Jewish Women's organizations.
Legislation
During Rose Brenner's leadership,
the Council entered upon program of
legislative activity that included its
association, as participating organi-
zation, with the Women's Joint Con
gressional committee at Washington.
d. c., with Mrs. Alexander Wolf of
that city as its first Representatives
The Council assumed another important
place in national and international af-
, fairs when it united with eight Other