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Volume II — Number 2
CX^LUMIIUS, (
LARGE SUM IS RAISED FOR THE N. Y. SEMINARY
$50,000 Raised in Half an Hour
By New York Jews at
Hotel Astor Meeting
CAMPAIGN ON IN
COUNTRY FOR $100,000
(Special to Ohio' Jewish Chronicle)
NEW YORK, May 28.—Infty thou¬ sand dollars was pledged in half an hour for tlic Jewish Theological Scini- iiary of America by New York Jews at 4 meeting held at Hotel Astor recently.
The national campaign committee, consisting of about l-'iO rabbis, all over thc United States and Canada, beaded by Mr. Louis Marsliall, as honorary chairinan, is now engaged iu raising the sum of !islOO,000 in annual subscriptions' for thc seminary. The campaign is be¬ ing conducted by the administrative com¬ mittee, with Dr. Cyrus Adler as honor¬ ary chairman, Dr. Israel H. Lcvinthal, chairman. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, sec¬ retary, and Rabbi Jacob Bosniak, for¬ merly of D:dlas, Texas, in charge of the campaign.
Committees arc being organized throughout the United States and Can¬ ada for thc purpose of raising funds for the seminary. The work, in New York was officially started with a con¬ ference which was held at Hotel Astor
The following • statement was issued by the organization:
"At, the call of Mr. Louis Marshall and Dr. Cyrus Adler, there gathered at the Hotel Astor about one hundred of the most prominent representatives of Jewish congregations of New York, Thc problem that had brought, them to¬ gether was that of maintaining the Jew¬ ish Theological Seminary • of America. a college tor rabbis, which is situated at 531 West' 123rd street. New York. Ad¬ dresses were delivered by Dr. Adler, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Strook and Rabbi Drob. All of the speakers emphasized the importance of thc seminary to Amer¬ ican Je\Vry./
Deportation of Ukrainian Refu¬ gees Stayed
WARSAW (J. T.' A.)—The Polish Govcrnmciil has temporarily witlidrawn the order for the immediate deportation of .IOO Jewish refugees from the Uk¬ raine who had been jireviously ordered to the Russian frontier, their terms to remain in Kovno having expired after numerous  renewals.
The order st.nying their deportation is understood to have been issued in view of thc possibility tliat tlic American con¬ sul ni;iy reissue visas.
Ford's Anti-Semitic Drive Dealt With In Hearst's Magazine
Motley  Trio   of  Persecutors  of
Amterican Citizens is
Described
N. HAPdOOD DENOUNCES BRASOL, CZARIST AGITATOR
The seminary has thus far graduated
(Spec!.-!! to Ohio Jewish Chronicle)
NEW YORK.—"Tsarist reactionaries, the Ku Klux Klan, and Ford have been a motley trio in persecution of American citizens. The Ku Klu.\ Klan worked alone but Henry Ford worked with thc Russian reactionaries. Such an accusaT tion is serious. It will be supported with abundant documents."    '''
This assertion coupled with tlic state¬ ment that "Ford does not understand these things" and that "outside of busi¬ ness, where he is a genius, his mind is that of a child," serves as the opening passage of the first series of articles on the Ford anti-Semitic outbreak, that is to be published by Hearst's International Magazine. '
Tbe first. article appears in the June issue of the mag.izine. The series is entitled, "The Inside Story of Henry Ford's Jcw-M.inia." An e.xplan.itory title is  as  follows:
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Sam and his father never could ngrt That was as it should be. They b longed to two different worlds, Tlji older Mr, Horwitz, Sam's father, had come to America from somewhere nesir Pavortda when be was well on in middle life and continued living .strictly Ac¬ cording to thc Slmlchan Aruch. Sam was three years old when he was lirought over to New York, and grew up ou the streets around East Broad¬ way. And so thc gulf between Sam and his father, in thc matter of rc!igioi<s views and observations, will be easily guessed   though nol so easily measured.
The elder Mr. Horwitz was vvisc. Xin knew what nol to expect of a boy groWi up in the wilds of New York. He slint his eyes to most things. But there w^s one item in the Slmlchan Aruch dearfir than all else to thc heart of Sanvs fatlier. That was the Sabbath. What¬ ever else Sam might or might not oy- serve, he ,sliould keep the Sabbath. hol[v.
Long before Sam had come to ttoe years of understanding, his father h.id amassed a large forluno as an opcratar in real estate. It was during that peri.ifd long ago when men grew rich ovc|r- night. And Sam's father was a cautio|is gambler—he knew when to stop. \ic kept his gains and made them groW in more stable investmeiils. One M these was a cloak jobbing' business, of in   due   time  became   tlie
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American   Liberty
"This Series is a strike for American- Liberty.    Wc  expose  mercilessly,  with
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niore thaii 140 rabbis, is maiiitaiii*. ^\      . ,       , ™,     ^   ..     i- »     1
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teachers* institute, which .supplies tn"""""""lL'°''   % ers fdr the Jewish r?r '  '
iligious schobls"6l the-country, and has developed a library, which in the words of Mr. Strook, is 'larger than any other collection of Jew¬ ish books in any one building anywhere in thc world.' Hitherto the seminary has been maintained from the income of an endowment fund, and its deficits had been covered by a small group "of men. It was considered proper that the large Jewish Community should now take up this task. Thc Rabbinical Assembly which is composed o''f graduates of the seminary, has undertaken to raise $100,- 000 in annual contributions for the seminary. One-half of that sum -must be raised in New York.
"The gentlemen present at thc meet¬ ing responded with remarkable enthu siasm. Temple Anschc Hcsed declared its willingness to contribute !IS,TM per year to thc cause of the seminary. Mr Hertz, for the Washington Heights con¬ gregation demanded that their quota be placed at $5,000. Temple .B'nai Jesh urun, through Mr. Sleekier, who repre¬ sented them, auriounced the establish¬ ment of a scholarship of $500 annually and pledged themselves to raise $5,000 more in annual contributiQns.   -
"The Society for the Advancement ot Judaisni, through its president, Mr. Siminons, declared its intention of rais¬ ing ,$5,000. Dr. Norman Salit of congre¬ gation Adath Israel of the Bronx, an¬ nounced that thc Bronx' congregation ' had united and would contribute $10,- 000 per year in annual contributions. Congregation B'nai Israel of .Washing¬ ton Heights pledged itself to give $2,000 annually to the seminary. The Brook¬ lyn Jcwisli Center, whose rabbi. Dr. Lcvinthal, is chairman of the campaign committee, pledged itself to contribute $4,000.'
"Temple PeLich Tikvah of Brooklyn pledged itself to exceed its quota of $1,500, aiid congregation B'nai Israel of Brooklyn pledged itsel to raise $1,000. The surprise of the evening was when Mr. Schneider of Congregation Beth Elohim arose to announce that he felt (Continued on Page Pour.)
AN ERROR CORRECTED
Inadvertently in last week's issue the names of Messrs. J. C. Goodman, Abe Weinfeld and I. B. Jashenofiky were omitted in the story of the B'nai B'rith convention at  Indionapolis.
The Chronicle keenly regrets this error and trusts that it* readers will not hesitate to in¬ form it in the future when such mistakes occur.
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Norman' Hapgood is the author of the series of articles written for thc Hearst publication. Thc first article deals largely with-thc activities of Lieu¬ tenant Boris Brasol, fornier Czarist and Black Hundred Worker. It also deals with C. C. Daniels, a New York attor¬ ney and brother of former Secretary of the Navy Joscphus Daniels. According to Mr. Hapgood, Daniels headed an or¬ ganiaztion for collecting anti-Jewish gossip for Henry For.d.
In an interview published by the New York Times since the appearance of the Hearst article, Mr. Daniels de-- clared that he-was. merely retained as an attorney to pass upon the Dearborn In¬ dependent articles for tho purpose of determining whether any libelous mat¬ ter was contained therein.
Brasol's Activities
On the subject of the activities of Brasol and Daniels, Editor Hapgood says in part: ¦ "Democracies can be as despotic ai monarchies. The preservation of frcedQin means active intelligence ,and active will. When there begiii attempts to stir fires leading to oppression, they must be extinguished in their early stages.,
"In all tbe history of persecutions originally based on religious differences, that have come down 'through the cen¬ turies, there is no more appalling in¬ stance of superstition and perjured testi¬ mony than the Beilis case, it is oiie of bitterest ironies of history' that ohe of the men who was a member of the de¬ partment of the Russian Government that helped execute the Tsar'-s despotic hatred on an innocent Jew in Russia should have been one of the leaders in the attempt to start the same persecu¬ tion in the United States. _ It is still more bitter irony that in this land of liberty, the wealth of the richest man in the world shotdd have been found fight¬ ing for the same purpose as this minor detective of the Tsar. That this rich man's motives arc good does not make the tragedy less. Monarchs have been flattered into vanity and cruelty before this.
Facsimile  Reproduction
"If you will look at page 18 you will see a facsimile reproduction ot a letter from Brasol. This letter was writteii to another Russian, who is also in the United States, endeavoring to help build up Ford's machine. His name is Gen¬ eral Spiridovitch. He has been 1 in 'De¬ troit. He was an honored guesf at thc Ford plant. Hc marveled at the^ won¬ ders of the institution and then told the Ford editors all about the Jew prob- (Continued an Page Four.)
which   Sam
active head, But of course, the re^l power remained in the hands of t):i,f old man, and so he was well in a po¬ sition to enforce the observance.of t|i<i Siibbalh, in  business, at least.
But   the   old   man' lived   to  be  o enough for Sam to grow bold and clj^-J fiaut,   Sam had developed a big businepA and  he acknowledged no master, kept open shop on the S-abbath.  Tha were  scenes  and arguments, but Sd had his way.   So there was nothing Ie to the old man but.to wash his hani ^ clean of it.   He withdrew every penti*. of his money and kept a tight hold (jifj it.   /For the rest, he s/it in the
ycar< or more, and I wish you would, but—you know, men must die, some- limes. "What'll you do then?" How will you get hack your money?"
"I'll haunt you, Sammy," thc old man replied, good iiaturcdiy. "I'll haunt you every night of your life and give you 110 pe,ice, so your nioney will do you no good. But I have uo fear you'll break the Sabbath then. Sadie will sec to that."
"Sadie? Up, that's good!" And Sam laughed   immoderately.
Sadie was a dark-haired girl of 10, tlie child of a distant relative that had died penniless. Mr. Horwitz had tiikcn the girl into the house, aud now for the past 12 nionlhs she had been running the lioine for him aud Sam. Slie had cmlcarcd lierself to both father and son, hut nobody, dreamt of a match between her and Sam. And-Sam himself least "f all. lie dreamt of marrying money, big money. Hc liked Sadie, aud often took her about with him to shows and other pleasure'grounds, imt there Was never any love or love-making. For one |lhiiig, Sadie was not' at all his stamp. Jwlie was deeply and sincerely religi¬ ous.
.\iid so Sam laughed long and loud at thc idea of Sadie keeping him straight in the observance of the Sabbath.
The old man said nothing more tbat day. Several weeks later he began cautiously: '
"I wouldn't- be against it, if you wanted to marry Sadie."
"Why, dad," Smn replied, "don't you want mc to rtiake a good match?" , "Good matchi-good match—of course that's what I want for you, and Sadie •would be a good match. What's the use 'of more money — more money? you will have enough of your own. Sadie is -a good girl; and that's what I call a good .snatch,"
• "But- there are. plenty of good girls with money."
X'-;^'|i^t«/. how,-should I knovv i;, old Mr. iK'..'.:.;.:';..-.'-—¦ir...y  ...UI.   .' -JjJy'f.-IlLJ.^.-l
Turks . to    Reoccupy    Palestine, "Post" Hears
LONDON (J. C. H.)—A letter by Muslafah Kemal, head of the Angora (iovcrniuent, predicting that thc Turks will reoccupy Palcsliiie, is quoted in lhe "Morning Post."
Thc "Post" fails to recall a previous Slatement of Ferid Bey, tlie Paris rep¬ resentative of the Young Turks, who had asserted that his government had renounced all claims to Palestine.
Kusworm Eulogizes Jewish Mothers at B'nai B'rith Meeting
Impressive Services are Held in
Honor of Jewish Mothers
of America
CONGRESS LEADERS URGE U.S. JEWS TO BURY DI^ERENCES
Want   Recent   War   and   Peace Gains for Truth and Jus¬ tice Kept
CALL JEWS TO UNITE
FOR PALESTINE HOME
PRAISES GREAT WORK
OF THE B'NAI B'RITH
The part which the Jewish mother has played in the grand d.rama of our| r.T,ce's history was eloquently described by Sid¬ ney Kusworm, Past President of Dis¬ trict No. 2, I. O. B. B,, at a spccL-il open meeting- of Zion Lo,(lge No. C)2 held at tlie Woodmen's Hall Monday evening. May  29th. '¦
• The unusually large audience- which, attended tliis special meeting listened, with rapt attention to the beautiful) eulogy' delivered by Mr. Kusworm.
Important Place
Throughout his address the speaker emphasized the important place' which mothers bave always filled in the lives of  men.
Hc pointed out that even when all the   world   seein?   to   have   conspired
(Special lo Ohio Jewish Chronicle) PHILADELPHIA.-JewLsh leaders gathered iu Philadelphia al what was termed the first perinanent Jewish con¬ gress to urge unification for the purpose of establishing a Jewish national bouic- laiid   in   Palctinc.
Among the prominent speakers at the Sunday session .in the Forrest theater were Nalium Sokolow, chairman of the I executive Committee of the World Zion¬ ist Organization and the representative of Ji;wisb iulerests at the Versailles Peace Conference; Samuel Uutermyer, Nathan Straus, Judge Lewis D. Gibbs and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York; Judge William M. Levis of Philadelphia and Lieut, ¦Vl.-idimir Jabot¬ insky, founder of thc Jewish Legion.
Sokolow Strikes Keynote
The keynote of the congress was struck by 'Mr. Sokolow at thc evening session when he said:
".Above all, we do not want to estab¬ lish a s'tate within a st.'ite; to do so would be to defeat thc fundamental as- pirijlions of the Jewish people. If that were our aim, ,we would have a stale within a state in practically every nation of the world.
"What we are fighting for is not so much a politicil nation as a cultural and historical one. But this must be brought about by political means. To ray mind the whole Jewish question is political" and,cannot be solved by a sm<ill group
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friend.   Mother,  s^till'remains  true  aud I of  philanthropists,  however  well-mcan-
ready   to  do  all   within   her  power   to  im? and influential."
Speaks of Mandate
guide and help him.
Too Prone to Forget
"In this day and generation," ex¬ claimed the speaker, "the young people are too prone .to forget thc honor and
Mr. Unlerniyer, who was electecl porary chairman of the coiivcr"' in part; . ; ,
"To say.that an Amcric
his  beloved  Shulchan Aruch.
But after a time Sam found he could not well get along without the old man's cash, and so he had to come to hini and promise to be good for the future.
"1 will lend you thc money, all you need of it, and more," the old Mr. Horwitz said, "but I will collect it on thc spot thc moment 1 see you break the Sabbath again."
"All right,, dad," Sam replied, light heartedly. , :
Sam really never could see that he was doing anything wrong in keeping his business going on the_ Sabbath. He bad no understanding of that sort of abstract thing. Neither had he any un¬ derstanding of his father. The father and the S;»bbath looked to,him an over¬ grown child with a hobby,
shoulder. "I thought it was t^ custom among you young pcc^ile to ""iqak to the girl first and fall in love sofnet'imes. Bul you wouldn't object to Saclie if she h<id money, woufd you?"
''Oh, th;it would be different. I could get along with her, although she is fioom."
There was nothing more spoken on the subject.
Then before long the old man took to his bed  and  died.
Sam kept the; Shiva. He sincerely' mourned his father. Hc refused to talk business with thc family lawyer till the week of mourning was over.
But even then Sam was "not in any hurry to sep the lawyer, He knew himself all tbere was to know. He knew that there was a full quarter of a million dollars to the dead man's credit.
ife, do" not consider your, home toward which thcy have been'ior mother Ot 5*f-datc; do not look at her | centuries straining their eyes, whero with that'attitude; hcr love for you is! they will be safe from the bolts and contiiiuQU.',ly abiding in the innermost j shafts of hate, bigotry and persecution, recesses iif her heart; your welfare and and where they in.iy enjoy the same haiipiiicsS is the supreme thought in her  liberties , and   opportunities   with   which
But money is power, and the old man   and he Icnew where it was, too.   Why
should   he  worry?'    He  was   the  only child. '
Neither did the lawyer come to him but' in.stead the lawyer sent for Sadie, and he read to her the dead man's will, in wtiich- every penny he possessed was bequeathed to her.
Sadie gasped.   She was overwhelmed.
"Why," she said, "I didii'l kno\Y the 'old dear was such a mighty millionaire."
"Well," the lawyer answered, "it looks (Continued on page C)
had the money, and Sam needed him So Sam yielded; he kept his business shut on the Sabbath. He did more that sometimes. He put iu an appearance in shule. It was just to please thc old mun, though that was not in his con¬ tract. But Sam loved his old father in a way.
"But, dad," Sam playfully remarked one day, "what'll you do when—when, you are gone—you know, of course, 1 want you fo dive for the next hundred
mind. The fifth commandment, 'Honor tbey fatbtir and thy mother,' epitomizes all the rest of them; for if a man re¬ spects and honors his father and mother, hc will break none of the other commandments. He will not steal, he will not hear false witness, he will not take the Lord's name in vain, he will not  covet,  he  will  not kill.
H Highly Proper
"It is good and highly proper that this Lodge has set aside a day upon which to do honor to her to whom we owe so much," declared Mr. Kusworm. "The greatest men of all times have de¬ clared that to a great extent all that they accomplished and the heights which they readied were due in large measure to the inspiration of,Mother's Love. Our
we are blessed, is a form of psychology that it has been difficult foir most of us to 'understand. . - ,
"In a few weeks the struggle will be over; thc mandate will be an accom¬ plished fact. Then our real responsibil¬ ity will begin.
"The pride and reputation ol Jewry thc world over are at stake. We have had our differences while the problem was a debiitable one; now that it is settled'let us forget those differences and, stand shoulder to shoulder for the re- detnption of. our promises."
Nathan Straus Speaks
Nathan Straus opened the congress with a short speech in which he said: , "So long as the spirit of intolerance still  exisLs  in   certain   backward   coun-
greatcst and most' beloved president,} tries, so long as Jews arc persecuted for Araham Lincoln, declared in his first! their religion and made the scapegoats Iiuugural Address, 'All that I am or j of every misfortune, .so long as there are hope to he, I owe to my Angel Mother.' | economic boycotts against Jews, so long "We may IooJj upon the B'nai B'rith | as Jpws are massacred in certain coun- as a Mother too, my friends," asserted 1 tries, we American Jews must,have a Mr.   Kusworm,  "for   she   fondles   and central  representative-and authoritative
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rears the orphan, she looks after the sick, .sympathizes with, and helps the fallen and unfortunate. In addition to this' the B'nai B'rith Order protects against all assaults the fair iiameof Ju¬ daism. 1 need not at this time point out the meritorious vvork done by the Or¬ der's .Anti-Defamation League; it is well known to all of you.
"The splendidly conducted institu¬ tions founded' and maintained, by our great international fraternal Order have brought glory to the Jewish people of .America.
Fine Work Accomplished "Just think of the fine work accom¬ plished during the' last fifty years by the Cleveland Jewish Orphans' Home. There have been' reared several of America's leading rabbis. There have also been reared men who now occupy high positions in the professions and also in the field of commerce and in¬ dustry."
Mr. Kusworm then mentioned other institutions founded and maintainetl largely by the B'nai B'rith: The Na¬ tional Jewish Home for Consumptives, Denver, Colo.; the Leo N. "Levi Me¬ morial Hospital, -at Hot Springs, Ark.; the B'nai B'rith Orphans' Home at Erie, Pa,; the Home for the Aged, at Cleve¬ land; the Atlanta Hebrew Sheltering Home for Jewish Children,;and other exemplary institutions in America and (Continued on Page Four.)
body that should speak and act for our people wherever our voice and our acts can serve to halt the hand of injustice and sto)) pillage and massacre.
"Out of tbe World war for peace and justice there came to the Jews the reali¬ zation of tbeir dre^iir of 20 centurjes. The Balfour declaration in favor of a national Jewish home in Palestine; then the San Remo decision of the Allied Su¬ preme Council confirming the Balfour declaration and embodying it in the Treaty of Sevres; Presidetit Wilson's enthusiastic endorsement of that declar¬ ation ; President Harding's statement em- pressing his sympathy for and interest in the Zionists' aims and ideals; Senator Lodge's resolution, adopted unanimously (Continued on page 4)
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Miss Celia Neustadt of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle has in¬ terviewed Vera Gordon for our readers. She is preparing an interetting account of her ad¬ venture with the noted movie idol.
The story will appear in next week's issue of the Chronicle. Don't fail to read it. It is bound to interest you and afford you pleasure.
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