54 B'NAI B'RITH THIRTEENTH CONVENTION. vidual Lodges are continually urged to see that our immi- and development of grant coreligionists are not only taught enough about our ally and physically American institutions to permit them to pass the citizen- afiliations: the stamstation ship examination, but what is of even greater importance, educational of imbuing them with the spirit of America, so that they manna and may fully realize and understand the privilege and respon- consist of deduction sibility of living in the United States and being a part Jenish interest. of its citizenry. Americanization work is conducted in of three some places by our lodges alone and elsewhere under the attration / joint auspices of the lodge and other organizations sim- Sected course agents ilarly disposed. them continue # of Aleph Zadick Aleph. willing During the closing hours of the last session of the Con- than the stitution Grand Lodge a resolution was adopted vesting him in the Executive Committee power to create and establish of - shanne of she 1 junior organizations and to prescribe rules and regula- tions for their government. Prior to the adoption of this admin the with resolution a fraternity of Jewish boys had been formed under the name of the Aleph Zadik Aleph, which had developed into thirteen chapters in as many cities in Districts Nos. 2, 6 and 7. At the first meeting loss of the Executive Committee following the Atlantic City Convention a resolution was passed adopting the A. Z. A. as the official junior auxiliary of the of B'nai B'rith and the President of the Order was directed to appoint an A. Z. A. commission to prepare rituals, constitution and by-laws. The A. Z. A. from that moment has forged ahead until it now numbers one hun- dred and twenty-seven chapters with a membership of well nigh three thousand and over five hundred alumni. The chapters are composed of youths between the ages of sixteen with for the A and twenty-one who are banded together by a ritual of growne Brail great beauty, and their work is in line with the promotion