Dr. Kaplan to Speak
On Palestine Haven
For Jews
Program Will Be Held '
At Community Center
t Tomorrow Night
Palestine as a haven for Jews
will be discussed by Dr. Louis L.
Kaplan, executive director of the
Board of Jewish Education, Balti
more, at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the
Jewish Community Center. The sec
ond of a series of cultural meet
ings of the Washington Zionist
District, an open forum, will be
held at the conclusion of the talk.
Dr. John R. Fitzpatrick, dean of
the Columbia University Law School,
will open a new series of institutes
Wednesday night at the center.
He will discuss the value of a
formal education.
Sponsored by the Educational
Committee, other speakers in the
Wednesday night series are: Rabbi
Norman Gerstenfeld, associate rabbi
of the Washington Hebrew Con
gregation, and Rabbi Paul Rich
man, director of cultural activities
of the B’nai B’rith.
Hirshman Is Chairman.
Simon Hirshman, chairman of the
Educational Committee, will preside
as chairman of the institute at
which Dr. Fitzpatrick will speak and
will lead the discussion to follow.
Another feature of the Jewish
Center, the Town Hall of the Air
discussion group, next Thursday
night will discuss the subject, “How
Should the Democracies Deal With
the Dictatorships?” Among the ra
dio speakers to be heard will be
Linda Littlejohn, prominent advo
cate of women’s rights, and Quin
cy Howe, author of “England Ex
pects Every American to Do His
Duty.”
The second of the center’s monthly
national forum programs will be
presented December 18, with Isa
Kremer, monologigt and interpreter
of folk songs, as the attraction.
Camera Club Competition.
The Camera Club of the center is
sponsoring a city-wide competition
open to all amateur photographers.
Entries will be accepted in three
classes:
Portrait and human interest, pic
torial, landscape and unusual trick
photographs and interior or exterior
snapshots of the Jewish Center
Building.
Prizes include photographic equip
ment and a membership in the cen
ter. Among the judges will be
Hyman Greenberg. Arthur Ellis, Dr.
S. S. Jaffa and Paul Segal.
All photographs must be sub
mitted. at the Jewish Center before
January 4.
The Center Guild, an organization
devoted to providing social and rec
reational activities for members, will
hold & “tacky party” in the Little
auditorium of the center next Sat
urday night. An old-fashioned
square dance, a broom dance and
other country games are on the pro
gram of entertainment.
Dr. BriUs Will Speak
On Social Unrest
Opening a weekly forum at
Georgetown University Tuesday eve
ning, Dr. Geotz A. Briefs, professor
of labor economics in the graduate
school, will speak on “Social Un
rest in the Western World.”
Sponsored by the graduate school
for alumni of the university, the
Georegtown Forum will be con
ducted on Tuesday evenings at 8
o'clock in the Copley Lounge, which
can accommodate about 250 per
sons. Dr. Briefs is in charge of the
program, which is to be devoted
to discussions of labor and eco
nomics.
The next speaker in the forum on
December 13 will be Dr. J. W. Stone
borough of the Department of La
bor. His subject will be “Labor
and Democracy.” There will be a
recess during the Christmas holi
days.
Dr. Briefs conducted a similar
forum at the Catholic University be
fore joining the Georgetown fac
ulty. He had a long and distin
guished career as a professor of
economics in various German uni
versities, particularly at Wuerzburg,
Freiburg and the University of Ber
lin. From 1915-6 he served as the
economic expert of the German
ministry of interior.
Shortly before coming to this
country Dr. Briefs served as direc
tor of the Institute of Industrial Re
lations and was a member of the
Unemployment Insurance Commis
sion of the German labor of minis
try. He has written extensively in
connection with his official and
university career.
Soule, Sir George Paish
To Talk at Town Hall
Sir George Paish, British econo
mist, and George Soule, author and
editor, will stage a joint discussion
of the economic causes of war at
the Town Hall program in the
Bhoreham Hotel tonight.
Mr. Paish was for a number of
years governor of the London School
of Economics. He was also editor
of the Statist. In 1914-16 he was
adviser to the chancellor of the
exchequer and the British treasury
on financial and economic prob
lems. Among his most important
writings are “The Road to Pros
perity" and “World Economic Sui
cide.”
Mr. Soule is an editor of the New
Republic. He is also chairman of
the board of the National Bureau
of Economic Research and a trustee
of the National Economic and So
cial Planning Association.
Dr. Paul van Zeeland, former
Prime Minister of Belgium, will be
Town Hall s principal speaker next
Sunday. His subject will be “Can
International Disorganization Be
Remedied?”
Lecture on Africa
Illustrations of primitive settle
ments, wild life and the natural
beauty of South Africa will be
' shown by Miss Helen Lyon of the
Washington Christian . Endeavor
Union when she lectures Thursday
at 8 p.m. in the Covenant-First
Presbyterian Church.
Miss Lyon, who attended the
World Christian Endeavor Conven
tion at -Sydney, Australia, during
the summer and returned by way of
South Africa, will discuss “The Lure
or African Horizons.”
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