WHAT A.Z.A. HEARS TO AMERICAN JIMISH YOUTH SAN BEBER 1930 As 170 gather for our coventh International convention, I bid you welcomo. I ask that DO pause a momont to review the achiovoments and the purposes of A. 2. A. Organized May S, 1924, ve have grown rapidly until nor there are 130 chapters to be found throughout the United States and Canada. A. 2. A. also to give the Jowish youth of American an under- standing of Jowich history and Judition; to develop in him a synpathetic appreciation and lovo of his religion and his people; and to inspiro him with a dosiro to help and to serve his people and humanity. Law well A. 2. A. has succooded in carrying out its purposes can best bo accortained by actual contact with the boys the constitute its membership. Just to have watched the boys at one of their conventions or tournaments would convinco evon the most skoptical that there is something about the vory atnosphore surrounding A. z. A. that Inspires the bay and attaches him more closely to his people. Soo how well it is equipped to do its work. In the first placo it roots on a foundation that is psychologically sound. It takos the boy at the impressionable stage and places him in company with other boys of the some age. It does not make the mistake of trying to mix boys of widely varying agos. #oither does It nix boys and girls in the samo group : Each chapter has on advisory board made w of senior B'nai B'rith non who serve in a purely advicory capacity. Thus, the boy is furnished with guidance and councel.