The B'nai B'rith magazine · 1927-06-01 · 9 (6.1927) · p. Seite 377

In the Public Eye Dr. Milton J. Rosenau Dr. Milton J. Rosenau ""TO Dr. Milton J. Rosenau has been entrusted the vital task of preserving the health of a nation. As an authority on hygiene and sanitation, he is among the experts appointed last month by the non-partisan Jewish Agency to make a scientific survey of various phases of conditions in Palestine. Dr. Rosenau has devoted his vast education and training to public health. He was born in Philadelphia fifty-eight years ago and was educated in the public schools of that city. He received his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania and took post-graduate work in Paris, Berlin and Vienna. He has been director of the Antitoxin and Vaccine Laboratory of the Massachusetts State Department of Health, commanding officer of the Public Health Service and director of the Hygienic Laboratory at Washington. During the war he held the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy. At present he is professor of preventive medicine and hygiene at Harvard Medical School. Ben Selling /^\N HIS seventy-fifth birthday which ^occurred last month, Ben Selling, of Portland, Ore., observed the event b y contributing $27,000 to various Jewish and secular causes. This was typical of Mr. Selling's whole life. In lean days and in prosperity he has given more than his share to help his fellow-men. And, too, he has been successful in getting others to give. He has been president of the Federated Jewish Societies, president of the First Hebrew Benevolent Association, director of the National Jewish Consumptives Hos- Ben Selling pital, director of the Jewish relief campaign in Portland, chairman of American relief and a leader in B'nai B'rith work. These are but a few of the activities for which he has found time while occupied with numerous business interests. His humanitarianism is equalled by his civic devotion. It is said of Ben Selling that he broke the back of the financial panic in Portland in 1907. During the war he put his city over the top in the Liberty Loan drive by buying $400,000 worth of bonds and reselling them at cost on the installment plan. Many honors have come to Mr. Selling. While serving as president of the Oregon State Senate, he was required, on one occasion, to act in the capacity of governor of the State. In 1915 he was a candidate for the United States Senate. Morris D. Waldman AT THE age of twenty-eight, Morris ■**-D. Waldman, the newly-elected president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, was at the head of the largest welfare agency in the world, the United Hebrew Charities of New York. He entered the field of Jewish philanthropy in 1900, and in that Morris D. Waldman year completed a study of family desertion which resulted in the enactment of legislation in the State of New York making child abandonment a felony. This work attracted the attention of Jacob H. Schiff and Israel Zangwill who placed him in charge of a movement which they started in 1907 to divert Jewish immigration to territories west of the Mississippi. Then came his appointment to the directorship of the New York Charities. He has been director, in turn, of the Boston Jewish Charities, the War Orphans and Medico-Sanitary Departments of the Joint Distribution Committee in Eastern Europe, and the Brooklyn Jewish Charities. Since 1924, Mr. Waldman has been the executive head of the United Jewish Charities of Detroit. Dr. Jacob G. Lipman P)R. JACOB G. LIPMAN, the noted agricultural scientist, is to be a Joseph to his people. As one of the nonpartisan committee of experts appointed last month by the Jewish Agency, he will go to Palestine to advise Dr. Jacob G. Lipman the people how they might fill their storehouses with the fruits of the soil. His recommendations will also determine the purposes to which the future expenditures of American Jewry in Palestine will be applied. Dr. Lipman is the dean of the Department of Agriculture of Rutgers College. His research in soil chemistry has been one of the greatest contributions to the development of the science of farming. Agricultural societies of many lands claim him as a member. This year he served as the presiding officer of the First International Congress of Soil Science in Washington. Gabriel Davidson T T WAS twenty years ago last month * that Gabriel Davidson identified himself with the Jewish Agricultural Society. During the past ten years he has been its manager. The results of Mr. Davidson's labors may be seen in the happiness of hundreds of American Jewish families who, in ever-increasing numbers, have turned to farming for a livelihood. The Jewish _, farmer is a unique personality. The human element plays an important part in his success, or failure. He must be spiritually adjusted to the land, and no force can hold him on the farm unless he is contented. Mr. Davidson's gift is in his ability to sense who among applicants for farm work are emotionally suited for agricultural life and to orientate those who already are on farms to their surroundings. Gabriel Davidson 377