Evening star., 1939-10-11
Neutrality
Revision
Urged
Banquet Ends
Meeting of
Jewish Women

banquet held jointly with District
No. 8 of the Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods at the Mayhower Hotel.
The program last night was the
first meeting of the sisterhood con-
vention, which again met this morn
ing for a business session at the
Washington Hotel, followed by a
luncheon address on The Temper
of the Times" by DR.. Elmer L. Kay
ser.
The councils stand in favor of
neutrality revision, including re-en-
actment of the cash-and-carry
clause and other features of the ad-
ministration's program was based on
the belief that the lack of a well
defined neutrality policy has, in the
past, been responsible for involving
the United States in foreign wars"
and that it is the definite" desire of
the citizens of this country to avoid
involvement in such wars.
Neutral Zone Approved.
Approval of the policy of creating
an extensive neutral zone surround
ing the Americas was expressed in
another resolution, which also ap-
proved the State Departments at
titude" in implementing the friend
ly neighbor policy" in the Western
Hemisphere.
The conference further urged that
Congress place manufacture of and
trade in arms, ammunition and i'm
plements of war under Government
control, and in the belief that
much of the intrigue, propaganda
and sabotage which preceded our
entrance into the World War was
conducted as specious relief activ-
ity," urged that persons engaged in
collection of funds for the rlief of
belligerents be required to register
with the Department of State and
give accountings of receipts and
disbursements.
Mrs. Lawrence Koenigsberger was
chairman of resolutions.
Officers Installed.
Officers who were installed at the
afternoon session included a WASH
ington woman, Mrs. Harry Roller,
who served as convention chairman
and who was elected first vice presi-
dent. Mrs. Sam Tobias of High
Point. N. c., was made second vice
president; Mrs. S. E. Ullman, Rich
mond, Va, corresponding secretary,
and Mrs. B. Legum, Annapolis, Sec
retary- treasurer. Mrs. Leonard B.
Schloss conducted the installation.
An address by Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld and presentation of an
operetta were features of the BAN
quet last night, over which Mrs.
Mark Langburgh presided.
The operetta, "Counciliana," was
written by Mrs. Jacob Dashew and
Mrs. Gustav Leibowitz; directed by
Mrs. Anna Green Sachs, and pro-
duced by the Baltimore section of
the council
Rabbi Gerstenfeld, whose subject
was, "Is Woman the Civilizer," drew
from Biblical sources and other lit
erature to point out various types
OF women, concluding with the
thought that it is not so much a
question of "the hand that rocks the
cradle rules the world" but how that
hand rocks the cradle, what it does
with the child in the cradle and
what kind of world 1t prepares the
child for.
Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr., was
among the guests at the speakers
table.
The program yesterday afternoon
included talks by Harry Greenstein,
executive director of the Associated
Jewish Charities of Baltimore and
reorganizer of national refugee serv-
ice, and Earl Goodwin, local radio
commentator.
Mr.. Greenstein, who asserted that
the refugees in America include a
substantial number of non-Jewish
refugees who have been compelled
to flee Germany because of perse-
cution and intolerance, pointed out
that organizations such as the
American Friends Society, the Cath
olic Refugee Committee and the
American Christian Refugee Com
mittee are doing active work. The
National Council of Jewish Women
is contributing valuable service to
the Jewish refugees, he added.
Mr.. Goodwin discussed the pro,
posed neutrality revision and de-
clared indications are the arms en-
bargO will be lifted. He was dollbt.
full, he said, that any peace in Eu-
rope which might be arranged now
could be more than an "armistice."