Evening star., 1926-11-17
MRS.FR|END NAMED
BY JEWISH WOMEN
Unopposed for National Pres
ident of Council, Holding
Convention Here.

Mrs. Joseph Friend of New Orleans
active worker in the National Councl
Of Jewish Women for the past 8
years. was placed in nomination 10
national president Of the organization
at todays session Of the Eleventh
Triennial Convention, being held a
the Washington Hotel. Since Mrs
Friends nomination was without op
position, her election tomorrow wa
assured.
The ticket Of other national officer
presented by Mrs. Irwin V. Barth
chairman Of the committee on nomina
tions. was reported as follows: Mrs
Alvin Bauman Of st. Louis, first vic
president; Mrs. Alexander Wolf o
Washington. second vice president
Mrs. Edwin Zugsmith, Pittsburgh
third vice president: Mrs. David Green
wald, Milwaukee. Wis. treasurer, ant
Mrs I. X. E. Trager Of Boston, record
ing secretary.
Nine persons were placed in nom1
nation for the board Of directors. Ou
Of which five are to be elected. Thes
were: Mrs. Ignace Refs. Chicago
Mrs. Leon Stern, Terre Haute. Ind
Mrs. Charles Long, Wilkes.Barre, Pa
Mrs. Maurice Goldman. Houston. Tex
Mrs. George Goldsmith. Los Angeles
Mrs. James Ginns. Wilmington. Del
Mrs. A. s. kohler. Savannah. Ga
Mrs. Leonard Schloss. Washington
and Mrs. S. S. Gisman, Cincinnati.
Mrs. Friend Pioneer.
or the newly nominated officer
Mrs. Bauman is now national treas
urer and Mrs. Wolf has been name'
to succeed herself as second vic
president. Mrs. Wolf is chairman
of the Washington section and ha
been long prominent in Jewish affair
in the Capital.
Mrs. Friend, who will head tn
organization during the next trien
nial period, was national treasure
II years ago and is one of tn
pioneer clubwomen Of New Orlea ms
denomination as national presiden
was declined by Mrs. William d
Sporborg.
This mornings session was de
voted to business matters, includin,
reports on the committee on svrve
and resolutions. by Mrs. Herbert F
Ottenheimer of Louisville and Mrs
Daniel Myers of Albany, n. Y, re
spectively.
Banquet Is BrlltJant.
The banquet last night was a bri
liant function. Fully LOO wOmer
crowding the nall to capacity. CAV
an ovation to Senator William +
Rorah Of Idaho. the only masculin
guest present. and met with symps
thetic applause an impassioned az
peal by the foreign relations commit
tee chairman for policy OF interna
tional Justice toward China in tn
interest of world peace.
Mrs. Alexander Wolf Of this city
chairman Of the Washington sector
was toastmaster, and Mrs. l-eonar
r. Schloss gave the blessing. In
brief address Mrs. William ID. Spol
borg. national president Of the organ
zation, comphmented the local sectlo
for the way "it puts things over.
and referring to the aims Of the Ns
tional Council declared 1t has IL
ewes on the next generation"
Assigned the general topic OF pea &c
Senator Rorah dealt directly with tn
turmoil in China. which he declare
furnishes the acid test for the WOrl
neace program. Describing China
present plight as "a situation that vii
touch the sense of justice and tn
good faith of nations" Senator Boral
warned that if a policy of force
adonted in the face of the national
istic movement spreading through
China. disaster will come to tn
Orient.
Urges China for Chinese.
The destiny of China. he said
surges between two ma jor conditions
the ruthless exploitation of her 400
other nations and the arising spirit o
nationalism among her people. "Chin
for the Chinese has come to he tn
battle cry of that vast, seething SCI
Of humanity" he warned. 1T is pal
tjcularlv the cry of the young an
coming generation.
1--WE may write and sign treatie
and devise schemes for world peace
but a lthese things may disappear II
a night if there is buried beneath YOU
structure of peace the inexplicabl
urge of people to live their own live
in their own way.
"The nation which, under the Gil
cumstanc now existing. invokes tn
brutal policy of force in China. will b
the deliberate assassin of justice II
the Orient for decades and decades
1t will dedicate that land to years o
hloodshed and misery and in the EN-
1t would settle nothing-force neve
does. We must recognize and dea
with them as great nation. W.
must deal with them. in so far as w
deal with them as nation. upo1
terms of equality. We must deal witt
them in absolute justice to their owl
rights"
Sees Nations Future.
In invoking this plea for justic
Senator Borah declared. There Is n,
people who respond more wholeheart
edly to such a policy as the Chinese
Il am one who believes" he added
that with a fair and just treatment
with rights accorded to her to whicl
every nation is entitled, with a clean
unmista kab BILE policy on the part of for
eign nations: of help instead of ex
ploitation. China can take her plac
among the strong and prosperous ma
tions.
LAS Nation we have respecte,
those things which a nation mos
cherishes, For this policy we are nov
in certain quarters being subjected t
ridicule We are told our polio.
means failure, that force must be &C
cepted as the basic principle Of a sue
cessful Oriental policy.
China may furnish the acid test o
whether tho world has been converte
to Justice as basis Of internationa
dealing or whether it proposes to re
tain the barbarous creed Of force"
SLAYER'S BODY FOUND.