3 THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Thirty - one Candidates Admit- ted to B'Nai B'Rith Lodge Noted Visitors Present at Impressive Initation Ceremonies Thirty-one aspirants to member- ship in the order of B'Nai B'Rith realized their ambitions last Mon- day evening, when Pisgah Lodge held its annual initiation ceremonies at the auditorium of the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue. Mr. Benjamin Samuels of Chicago, President of the District No. 2, and Dr. Rudolph I. Coffee, Director of the Social Service Department of the Order, conducted the initiation and spoke at the open meeting which followed. Mr. Samuels told of the great achievements of the Order in the past, and of the work which it aimed to do in the future. Dr. Coffee described the social service activities of the Order, and advised the newly admitted members to take an active part in it. "The three great movements which the Order of B'Nai IrRith is advancing," said I)r. Coffee, "are the Free Loan Association Move- ment, the Big Brother 'Movement, and the Prisoners' Welfare Move- ment. The Free Loan 'Movement aims at the establishment of Free Loan Societies where the poor and needy among us may borrow money without having to pay any interest on it. Such associations are being successfully conducted in many of our large cities, and last year loaned out over a million dollars. The Rural Credit Bill, which only recently passed Congress, is an out- growth of the Free Loan Associa- tion idea. "The Big Brother :Movement, which is another of those under- taken by the B'Nai WRith, has within it untold possibilities for good. Briefly, it means that every man who is a member of the Order shall pick out some poor waif, some youth who is straying from the straight path and interest himself in the latter—get him a position if necessary, advise him on the prob- lems which he has to face, in short —to be his big brother. 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