Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-12-15

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Vnt   99   Kn   K1    catered as secona-tjiaaa Matte vol. ^^ no. 51      Postofflce   Columbus.. Ohio.
COIiVMBVS, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1044
D«vot«d  to  Amarkan and  J*w||h   Iduli
Strictly Confidential
Tldhlts   From   Everywhere By Phlncns J. Blron   .
JDC Needs $46,577,000 For Relief And Rescue In 1945
liI^EN HERE ...
te No. 1 Ea.st 65th Street, New York City,  Is one of the  most popular recreational centers for soldiers and sailors on leave . . It gives them a c-lub atmosphere plu.s dormitory accommodations . . .  But the    mo.st    important thing that I East O.'ith is accom¬ plishing Is this: It Is helping to destroy anti-Semitism ... The place Is run by volunteer duec- tor Mrs. Ely Jacques Kahn and 3,000    Junior    hostes.ses    in the basemem of Temple Emanu-El, with     the  help  of  the Jewish Welfare Board ... Its non-sec¬ tarian character, plus the won derful spirit of the girls who are acting  as  hostesses  there  does a lot to puncture the anti-Jewish prejudices that some of the boys bring there. . . Now they're say¬ ing that the Shakespearean play Paul Muni is planning to appear In on Broadway this season is "The Merchant of Venice" . . . If true, this would be unfortun¬ ate Indeed  ...  No acting tri umph  can  compensate  for  the revival   of   Shylock   at   a   time when anti-Semitism is being fos¬ tered for service after the war. . YOU SHOULD KNOW . . . fe The   rumors   that  Governor Thomas    E.    Dewey    is to re¬ place the Rev. Everett Clinchy, who is a paid official, as presi¬ dent of the National Conference of Christians and Jews cannot be verified, but we have It on good    authority  that they  are more than rumors . . . The Rev. Mr.  Clinchy  would,  it  Is  said, remain     on  as  thfe   executive chairman, and Dewey would be¬ come the head of the Confer¬ ence ^- without pay of course . . . The school agreement un¬ der  which  Jewish  children  re¬ siding In Outremont (Montreal) are being educated In Protestant schools may be terminated on June 30, 3945.     This would con¬ front  the    Outremont    Jewish community with the problem of 'establlshirig     Jewish     schools, since In the Province of Quebec all public education  is divided into  Catholic    and    Protestant panels,  and  the  Jews  have  so far been a part of the Protestant division. . . WAR ECHOES ... (S Watch out for a new "book. "Axis .Rule in Occupied Europe', bjWSaphaei Lemkin . . . Publi.sh- eirby the Carnegie Endowment for International. Peace, this  is perhaps   the    most    important document to reach the public at this time with  authentic  infor¬ mation on what the "new order" has done to Europe ... if you speak  GeJ3»a«-'wlth   a   correct acceatfEetter skip this — but on ¦Broadway   they're   now   saying that  Hitler's  days  are  getting (Continued on Page 8)
SHE WILL ADDRESS THE
HADASSAH   DONOR
DINNER SUNDAY
NEW YORK (JPS)—"A mini mum of $<lfi.57O,0O0 has been a.sked of the Joint Distribution Committee to provide for Jewish need In Europe In ini.'j". Joseph C. Hyman. Executive Vlcu Chairman of the J. D. C, told more than 2,000 men and wo men who met af the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the .1. D. ( at the Hotel Commodore in New York City on Sunday. Decem ber 10, to consider the Immed late and post-war heeds of Euro i pean Jews.   ' '
"The .r. D, C. allocated .$20,400 in 1944', said Mr. Hyman. "It is a conservative estimate that if a million and a half Jews .sui Vive in noPrRussian Europe, at least a million will need help in one form or another".
A message from President Roosevelt read in part "Through three decades your committee has been the con¬ stant and unfailing source "f help and hope to the victims of persecution and disaster. Your great humanitarian activities have been especially markeil throughout these tragic and try¬ ing war years. Through you our American citizens of the Jewish faith have been able to extend tangible proof of their sympathy for their suffering brethren".
Captain Guy' de Rothschild, who serves with General pierre Koenlg, military governor ot Paris, paid tribute to the J. ,D.
C. for supplying funds for the maintenance of thousands of French Jews while they were hiding from the Nazis.
Cables from Europe, North Africa and Latin America paid similar homage to the J. D. C.
The speakers included Paul Baerwald,  Chairman  of  the  J.
D. C; Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, and Alexander Kahn, J. D. C, Vlce- Chairmen. Isaac H. Levy, as Vice-chairman of the J. D. C, presided.
SENAH WMITTE SHELVES PALESTiNE^ RESOLUTION ON STAH DEPT. ORDERS
Anti-Semitism Foe Of Democracy
Additional Gifts To Schanfarber Memorial
B'NAI B'RITH GROUPS WAR BOND SALES REACH $542,000
Mrs Bernard FeltUnger, dhalrman of B'nal_ B'rith Wo¬ men, and David Cheses, chair¬ man of the B'nal B'rith Men's Lodge, are reporting this week the sum of $642,000 in the sale of War Bonds. The goal sought is $600,000.
Mrs. Feitlinger's committee includes Mesdames: I. M. Har¬ ris, Harry Getz, Louis Zucker- nrnn, David Cheses, L L. Gold¬ berg, Dave Goodman, Joseph Schecter, Gernerd M. Cohen, Reuben Abramson, Irving Co¬ hen and Milton Leeman.
NEW YORK (WNS)—Anti- Semitism continues to flourish only through the "fear of de- anocTacy" by a few articulate men, Sen. Thomas (D-Utah) .said at the 16th annual dinner of Yeshive College at the Astor Hotel.
"AntlSemllism used to be a secret weapon of fascism'', he said, "but It Is a secret weapon no more. Nor Is it to be won¬ dered that Jew baiting, on a highly organized scale, mani¬ fests Itself even in democratic countries.
"Those who foment race hat¬ red or minority hatred of any sort are either the stooges or the sponsors of efforts to re¬ place democracy with a fascist vray of life. Wherever anti- Semitism continues to tlourlsli, it is because there are a few men, articulate men, who fear democracy, fear the loss of pow¬ er to themaelves if the 'common man' really becomes free".
Sen. Thomas said that the Nazi weapon of anti-Semitism has left "a heritage 'of hate'' among countless children and young people whom the Nazis did not kill or kidnap (or slave latior.
Mrs. JMoses P. Kpstcin
Mrs. Mo.ses P. Epstein. Na¬ tional President of Hada.ssah, will he^ the speaker for the Kith Annual Donor Dinner this Sun day. -Dec. 17. ();.'tO o'clock, at the Deshlcr Walllck Hotel. Her subject will be "The Time Is Now".
Mrs. Epstein is admirably equipped hy long years of ex¬ perience, training and education for the responsible Job of di¬ recting the largest women's Zionist organization'Of- A-mer- lea. An especially gifted speak¬ er, a keen analyst of current Jewish problems, Mrs. Epstein is possessed of natural elo¬ quence and a quick wit i^ihich is among the most engaging of her qualities. She has utilized her extensive travels on behalf of Hadassah. Stimulated by the growing Interest In Zionism in America during her girlhood, she early proffered her services in behalf of Palestine. That service has been undeviatlng for nearly two decades.
Speaking of one of Hadassah's greatest problems, Mrs. Epstein says: "The future of Youth Ali¬ yah is indissolubly tied up with what is happening in Europe. We know that in France, in the BalkanSy/ in Italy, perhaps in Polnnd/lhere are young Jewish children who have lived in their few short years a lifetime of horror and tragedy. Witiiout parent.':, guardians or shelter, they have been forced to fend for themselves. Under such conditions physical survival is a mlrrle. iVill it be possible to   gather   these   children   and
Newest contrilaUlons to tiie Edwin J. Schanfarber Memorial Fund, as announced by .Iiilius W.   Steinhauser,   treasurer,  are:
.ferry Orodln. Mrs. M. E. Taussig, in memoi-y of fjeut. Ar¬ thur Simon and Mrs. William Rubin; Lorain Lodge No. 8HI!, B'nai Brith: Gerda Baruch, Lew Dorman.     Bernard     Feitlinger.
$50,000   WAR   BONDS   ARE Pl'BCHASED   THROUGH
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MEMORIAL
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health? The Youth Aliyah move ment has proved tliat we have such therapeutic powers. Pal¬ estine stand.s ready with open arms.
Hadassah Officers
Officers and Board members of the Columbus Chapter of Ha¬ dassah are as follows:
Honorary President, Mrs. Wil¬ liam A. Hersch; President, Mrs. Samuel Horowitz; 1st Vice Pres., Mrs. Albert Schlff; 2nd Vlce¬ Pres., Mrs.. Moe Hlrsch; 3rd Vice-Prea., Miss Rose Javis; Cor¬ responding Secy., Mrs. Samuel Luper; Fmancial Secy., Mrs. Aladar Zl^ser; Recording Sec'y., Mrs. Herbert Linick; Treasurer, Mrs. pave Bosenfeid; Auditor, Mrs! Slg Omsteln.
Honorary Board Members in¬ clude Mesdames, B. '«r.-Abram- Bon, A. Danzlger, B. Feitlinger, J. Krakowitz, Blma Ehrilich Levinger,. H. Lleyerman, Alma Beed, Abe Seff, Juatbi SUlman, Roy J. Stone, Jack 'Wplm^n.
WASHINGTON (JPS)—The Jewish Commonwealth resolu¬ tion was deferred by the Senate to Foreign Relations Committee, on direct advice of the Department of State following testimony before the Committee by Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinitis who, .several days ago chastised the British on their policy in Greece.and Italy. Before the Senate Committee's action Zionist leaders visited the State Department In an apparent la.st minute attempt to prevent tleferment of the resolution, proposed by Sena¬ tors Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, New York, and Robert A; Taft, Republican, Ohio. The leaders calling on the State Department were Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Dr. Abba Hlllel Silver, co chair¬ men of the American Zionist Emergency Council, and Dr. Israel Goldstein, President of the Zionist Organization of America.
The .lowi'sh Commonwealth resolution was deferred earlier this year on "military grounds", but Secretary of War Henry L. Stimpson withdrew his object- lon.^ in a public statement sev¬ eral weeks ago.
The State Department indi¬ cated that Its objecllons this time loo were temporary. Its statement  readS;
"The department lias the ut¬ most sympath.y for the persecu¬ ted .lewish people of Europe and has been assisting them through active support of the work of Ihe W'ai' Refugee Board In every possible way. . "The department considers, however, that the pas.sage of the resolution at the present time would be unwise from the stand¬ point of the general internation¬ al situation and has so inform¬ ed the Committee on Foreign Relations".
The position of the State De¬ partment was far more dubious than the statement Indicates. Washington correspondent Paul Ward, In his dispatch to the Baltimore Sun, reported that Secretary Stettinius "told the Committee that Mr. Roosevelt now wants action on the reso¬ lution deferred . . . Instantly one Democratic member propos¬ ed that the President be asked to record his request to that ef¬ fect, in another open letter to Senator Wagner. The proposal was not acted, upon. President Roosevelt's statement favoring a Jewish Commonwealth was contained In a letter to Senator Wagner for submission to the conference of the Zioplst Or¬ ganization of America held in Atlantic City, N. J., several days before the election campaign closed. Mr. Ward led off his dis¬ patch on the latest deferment of the Palestine resolution with the  statemenfc:
"A 15)44 'campaign pledge of l)Oth the Democratic and Repub¬ lican pai-ties went into the dis card here today as President Roosevelt persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Cancel a resolution advocating u n r e s t r Icted immigration of Jews into Palestine". Mr. Ward stated that "whether the admin istratlon based its opinions on fear' of another Anglo-Ameri can rift, at this time, or had adopted the traditional British position, fear of inciting revo lution in the Middle ISast Mos lem public, could not be ascer taiped".
The most sensational develop ment wtaa an off-the-record ac tion by a State pepartnient pub lie relations man. After issuing the Department's statement on deferment, the public rela'tlons man, "off the record" and be¬ cause he believed "it would be helpful to an understanding of the situation" if it were g,lven "wide circulation", called tp the attention of assembied repoi't- ers a statement issued by the 'ContiQued on-Page 8)
Julius W. steinhauser, treasurer of the Edwin J, Schanfarber Memorial Fund, annoanccs t li e punfiase through Lazarus Victory Corner, $50,000 face value United States Treasury "P" Bonds, at a cost of $37,000. The purchase was credited to Zion Lodge, B'nal B'rjth which has set u goal of .$0(M),- 000 In the (till Wur Loan Canlpalgn.
The funds Invested arc from the Schanfarber Me¬ morial Fund.
David A. Pelros. Max Tolpen, Lieut and Mrs. Irving R. Lack ritz, In memory of Lieut. Arthur Simon; Capt. and Mrs. E. D. En, gelman. Tacoma, Wa.fh.: Daniel H. Siegei, Carroll, 0.; Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Rosenberg. Cam bridge, 0.; Joseph F. Cohen. Chaplain Nathan Zellzer, (Char¬ leston, S. C; Karla Gerstner, Ruth Schwartz, Harold and Al ice Faust, in memory of J. ller-
brlng them home, to help them I man;    Mlddletown    Lodge    No.
regain   physical   and     spiritual j 804, B'nai  B'rith; John  Thall.
Harry Maybruck, L. WoUner, Zanesviile; B'nai B'rith Lodge No. I39D, Findlay, O.; Bnal B'rith Lodge No. 840, ' Ports¬ mouth, O.; Lieut. Robert C. Cop- Ian, Alameda, Calif.; Alpha Ep- sllon Phi, R. H. O, Chapter; Sig¬ ma Delta Tu, Gamma Chapter; Zeta Beta Tau.
Goal of the campaign is $100,- 000 and the memorial la to take the foFm-Qf a new homo for the B'naf^B'rltH\Ohio SfSie Univer¬ sity chapter of Hiilel Founda¬ tion.
On the.Board of Directors,are Harry Becliman, Jerome Fisher, David ,Goldsni}th, Max Horkin, A.   jAMb/on',-i.'5H*y   P.   Kanter,
mii^SilBft^iJtW''^^'^' Louis Hbbins, WUMfflf^JeWff, Harry Topolosky, Sam''Valcov, J. L. Waisman,,, Sam Waascsstrom, Ben. Yenlcin, |Svm. Wasserstrom end Mtss Pearl Gordon.
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