Foreign Language Press Service

Prior to his election, Judge Harry Fisher, in a letter addressed to the editor of this paper, pledged himself to come to the aid of the Jewish orphans in Ukrainia, by organizing a conference, in Chicago, with the object of bringing relief to the unfortunate little ones in the land of pogroms.

In this country it is taken pretty much for granted that the South American nations have much to learn from us, and it seldom occurs to Americans that perhaps our southern neighbors could teach this great republic a few things. We have in mind a recent dispatch from Rio De Janeiro, in which i

To our people! The united sokoldom of America will hold its first slet (mass meet and exhibition) in Chicago, August 25 to August 30, 1921. This slet, just as all the sokol slets which were held in our old country, shall manifest the sokol idea and invigorate the American Czechs. Th

The Turnquist Construction Company has contracted for the brickwork, and the firm Olson & Johnson for the carpentry work, on a two-story building which is to be erected at 8005 South Sangamon Street at an estimated cost of $20,000. Architect E. Erickson has delivered the drawings.

A schoolteacher who received her education in Sweden, and who is now teaching in an American institution, will conduct a school for Swedish-American children during the summer. Boys and girls between the ages of six and thirteen may attend, and instruction will be given in the Swedish languag

The Jewish Orphans of Chicago will have a treat tomorrow. The United Photoplay Company has decided to show the children of the Marks Nathan Home and of the Home for Jewish Orphans, a new, as yet unreleased movie - The Film of Hate.

Frideborg A. Anderson and a number of co-owners sold the property on the north side of Wilson Avenue, just west of Hazel Avenue, to Anna B. Phelps for $68,000. Fred Larson bought the sixty-family apartment building at 3751-67 Grand Boulevard from Henry W. Austin for $220,000.

The Yiddish Opera Society meets every Thursday evening, in the National Social Institute, 3322 Douglas Blvd. We invite all Jewish singers. Only good musicians with good voices and talent should apply.

The Kiev Relief Society of Chicago decided on July 5, 1921, to send $1,000 for their townspeople in Kiev who are stranded in Roumania at present. The money will be sent through the local office of the Ukrainian Alliance, through Dr. Joseph Krimsky, the President of the National Ukra

The regular monthly meeting of the Sbor Ceskeho Narodniho Hrbitova (Bohemian National Cemetery Association) was called to order by the chairman, Mr. John Pecha, at 8 P. M. sharp. Mr. V. Filip then read the minutes of the previous meeting which were approved without correction. The reading of

Roseland, Pullman, and Kensington all border on Lake Calumet. The Governor of the State of Illinois, Hon. Len Small, has signed the law which will make Lake Calumet, a world port. Mr. Benton Kleeman is the sponsor of this law, which, with the help of Speaker Dahlberg, after years of struggle,

This we read in an advertisement of one of the largest film studios in America. All to the movies, so the cat take the most comfortable chair in the house. Thousands upon thousands spend a couple of hours daily in the movies. The film art is pretty, the making and showing of films is very pro

Another example of the difficulty which literary people have in waking up into the age of science is the attitude of Frank Harris and H. L. Mencken toward the works of Professor Thorstein Veblen. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the two or three original and indispensable additi

We have made for our friends and sympathizers gold brick certificates at $10 each there are receipts to shareholders of home which we are beginning to build. The home will take care of 500 children, among them 200 war orphans.

The battle of the reactionary forces of Halsted Street (the Courier) and of the self-crowned synagogue politicians against the Shochet's Union was discussed yesterday at the meeting of the United Hebrew Trades....and it was decided unanimously to support the schochets and to resist morally an

The shochets of Chicago, who are organized in a union under the United Hebrew Trades, decided at its meeting to maintain their union despite the threats of the reactionary forces of the city. The question was discussed at yesterday's union meeting and it was decided not to waver eve

N. T. Nielsen will build a two-story brick house 4139-43 Long Avenue at an estimated cost of $10,000. G. E. Pearson is the architect. Architect A. G. Lund has delivered the drawings for a one-story brick building to be erected at 5953 South Whipple Street at an estimated cost of $6,

Joseph and Maria C. Sandahl bought the thirty-family apartment building at 5042-50 Glenwood Avenue from Martin Grosby for $140,000. Arthur Berg sold the apartment building at 6646-54 Kenwood Avenue to George R. Richter for $105,000. The block bounded by 46th Court, 47th Av

Rabbi S. H. Glick has been appointed supervisor of Kosher slaughtering at the Armour plant in Chicago. He has named as his associates Rabbi Ephraim Epstein and Rabbi I. Cardon. Rabbi Glick is at the head of Tephereth Zion Congregation on N. Lincoln street.

Dr. S. M. Melamed; editor of the Courier, has been elected chairman of the Chicago Zionist Central Committee, representing all Zionist organizations in Chicago. I. H. Lichterman was chosen secretary and B. M. Antonoff, treasurer.