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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

10

The Jewish Woman

PROGRESS OF FOOD CONSER-
VATION PROPAGANDA.

THREE JEWISH GIRLS BECOME
LAWYERS IN BOSTON.

The board of bar examiners for
The Food Conservation Department.
Massachusetts has issued a list of
at Washington, was the scene, last week.
of a number of conferences of large names of those who have passed the
examinations for attorneys, and will
fraternal orders, such as the Elks and
be admitted to the bar on September
the Junior Order of United American
7.
The youngest of the three Jew-
Mechanics ; of denominational bodies,
like the Methodists, and of commer- esses who have been admitted to the
bar is Miss Rebecca Thurman, daugh-
cial organizations, like the Association
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Thurman
of Traveling Salesmen.
of 15 York Street, Dorchester. Ex-
National organizations are constantly
treme youthfulness in this case seems
sending committees to Washington,
to go hand in hand with high achieve-
who are empowered to p ► idge to the
ment.
Administration the support of their re-
She was graduated from the Dor-
spective bodies. Returning, they enter
chester high school, where she had
on active propaganda, they hold meet-
an enviable record, not only in her
ings, distribute pledge cards to he filled
regular school work, but also as con-
Out, and to show how Mr. Hoover's
certmeister of the school orchestra
recommendations as to food conserva-
and
as winner of the first prize in the
tion have been carried out, and they
oratorical contest. She then pur-
arrange for lecturers on food preserv-
sued a post-graduate course, fitting
ing, food values, food substitutes, etc.,
herself for efficiency expertness in
etc. Many of these lecturers will be
the department of Liberal Arts at the
trained at a series of summer courses
Boston University.
to be given at Washington by experts.
However, heeding the persistent
The first of these courses will start
call of the law, Miss Thurman enroll-
about August 21, will extend over a
ed in the class of 1917 of the Boston
period of four days, and will be free
University Law School. Here her
to all who wish to attend. Rabbis and
talents shone beyond' comparison and
laymen from as far off as Texas and
she immediately took her place in the
Minnesota are volunteering to forfeit
front rank of legal acumen and erudi-
part of their vacation for the course
tion. Indeed, her teachers as well as
of instruction, willing to travel the long her colleagues recognized in her not
'distance in order to become food con-
only a good and conscientious stu-
servation propagandists and assist our
dent, but also a deep and original
country to the fullest extent in their
thinker.
power. A plan is being perfected by
Ina class of over a hundred, Miss
which a number of those taking the Thurman ranked first, and captured
course will he entertained in Washing- the much coveted Ordronaux prize—
ton by co-religionists.
the first time this prize was awarded
' The propaganda among the Jewish
to a woman. This prize is given to
people is carried on at the Bureau of
the student who in the opinion of the
Food Conservation, 1000 Vermont ave-
dean has shown the greatest ability
nue, Washington, and is under the di-
in class and court rooms during the
rection of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Kraus-
three years.
kopf, of Philadelphia. This bureau was
Finally, the most significant fact
.instituted by delegates from all the large
about this young jurist is that she
religious and fraternal organizations at carries her honors and achievements
a conference held at Washington about
with a charming modesty. Miss Thur-
the middle of July, at the call of Mr.
man has a fascinating personality.
She means to launch her bark out
Hoover. Many of the most representa-
into the very depths of legal practice.
tive of these bodies have already ap-
She is a niece of Rabbi Samuel Thur-
pointed special committees to conduct
man of St. Louis.
inspirational appeals among their re-
Miss Ethyl F. Levy of 59 Crawford
spective members. These special co ► -
street, Roxbury, was graduated' from
mittees appoint local committees in each
the Sommerville high school in 1912,
branch of their organizations, and the
where she ranked at the head of her
president of each unit or local branch
class. In 1913 she graduated from
has been written to from Washington,
Fisher's Business College and entered
so that the work is being conducted in
Boston University in 1914, where she
intensive fashion. The B'nai Brith, the
was put in the honor class. She at-
Central Conference of American Rabbis,
tended the New England Conserva-
the American Union of Roumanian
tory of Music for a number of years,
Jews, the Independent Order of Free
where
she studied vocal and piano.
Sons of ISrael and the Independent Or-
She is also an accomplished elocu-
der of Brith Sholom have been among
tionist.
the first to start such intensive work, in
Mrs. Bertha P. Hochberg, the third
accordance with Mr. Hoover's program
graduate,
has been assisting a promi-
of helping our country toward winning
nent
woman
lawyer of Boston, and
the war, since it is conceded that vic-
the announcement that she had pass-
tory must conic to the side that has the
ed the *bar examinations has brought
greatest reserve of food.
her offers from several firms. Mrs.
The large summer hotels all over the
Hochbert went to Boston from Odes-
country have cordially offered their au-
sa, Russia, fifteen years ago. She was
ditoriums for lectures and have prom-
graduated from the Portia School of
ised to distribute literature, while wom-
Law.
en at the resorts are enthusiastically
helping by organizing the women of fice about Sept. 1 and serve for three
their neighborhood into classes and years.
demonstration groups.

Mr. Louis Oppenstein, of Kansas City,
has been appointed by Governor Gard-
ner a member of the Election Board for
Kansas City. Mr. Oppenstein will re-
sign his office as president of the Board
of Public Works to take up his new of-

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