The Brooklyn Jewish Hospital will not be renamed the Nathan S. Jonas Hospital, as voted by the Board of Directors, because Mr. Jonas, founder of the hospital, has refused to permit the board to do so.
In a letter to Joseph J. Baker, president of the hospital, Mr. Jonas gave his reasons for declining the honor, stating the interests of the hospital could best be served by retaining the present name.
“For twenty-five years the hospital has made an enviable reputation and prospered under its original name, which has been a matter of pride to the Jewish community, and in my opinion, a name which has become synonymous in the public mind with human and efficient service should be continued,” Mr. Jonas declared.
The board has agreed to rescind the previous resolution to change the name of the hospital.
HIAS TO HAVE ANNUAL MEETING ON MARCH 18
The nineteenth annual meeting of the Hebrew Shelterning and Immigrant Aid Society of America, will be held on March 18, at Cooper Union, New York City.
Senator James E. Watson from Indiana, who recently introduced a bill in the Senate which, if passed, would bring about a reunion of the families now separated because of the present immigration act, will be one of the speakers. Abraham Herman, president of Hias, will submit a report on the work accomplished by the organization during the past year and on the plans for the future.
CORRECTION
The Jewish Daily Bulletin regrets exceedingly that an error crept into the despatch in Tuesday’s issue from Berlin, dated February 20, concerning the defense by the Prussian Academy of Arts against the anti-Semitic attacks on Franz Werfel. One sentence in the last paragraph was garbled. It should have read:
“If a poet were to be held responsible for every word uttered by his characters and if every opinion expressed by his characters were to be Identified as the opinion of the author, then Shakespeare would have been considered a criminal and Schiller, the creator of Franz Moor (Die Rauber). Secretary Wurm (Intrigue and Love) would not himself have deserved the Schiller prize. Nor could the prize have been given to Goethe who chose Mephistopheles as his medium and the name of a national poet would have been denied to Heinrich von Kleist because one of his characters exclaims: ‘What is Germany to me!'”
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