Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-11-24

              i^.ti'-
-'-.*,
¦   l-tim, iA"* T*-"^'
Central Ohio's Onh
Jewish Newspaper Reaching Every Home
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER foE. THE JEWISH HOME
Denoted to Jlmerlcan
and
Jewish Ideals
-.ijj
Volume IV--N0. I
COLUMBUS, OHIO, N|>VlSMnERz4, 1922
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
INVISIBLE POWER OF KU KLVX SAID TO RULE LOUISIANA-WASHINGTON PAPER'S STORY OF APPEAL TO PRI^. HARDING
1   laMt 1 ¦II—||M iiW  W—
MURDERS AND OTHER OUTRAGES AGAINST CITIZENS
Mystery    Which    Envelops^   the
Whole Institution of Invisible
Governinent Most Baffling
SIMILAR CONDITIONS
IN OTHER COMMUNITIES
I".
WASHINGTON, Nov, 19, — The Washington Post's Baton Rouge dis¬ patch today to the effect that Louisiana is under the rule of the Ku Klux Klan and that Governor John M, Parker, ac¬ companied by the Attorney General of the State, is on his way to 'Washington to ask President Harding to take over the administration of the law in Louisi¬ ana, as. the State Government is unable „to function, was sent by George Roth- well Brown, a staff correspondent of The Post.   ¦
Text of the Dispatch-
The text of Mr. Brown's dispatch is copyrighted, but is sent -to The Ohio Jewish Chronicle with the permission of r/w Post.   It reads:
BATON ROUGE, LA., Nov. 18.— The Ku Klux Klan has reached out boldly for civil power over oflicers of law and justice over an immense ter¬ ritory arid has virtually reduced the sovereign State of Louisiana to the vas¬ salage of the invisible empire.
The machinery of State government has almost ceased to function as the unseen power of the mysterious secret society exerts its force in_ the oflices of State and local authorities and in the very courts of law.
Governor John M. Parker has gone to 'Washington to lay the whole situ¬ ation before President Harding, to in¬ form the l''ederal authorities that State law has virtually come to a stop in Louisiana in the face of the mysterious PQwer  of   the   Klan,   and   to  ask   tlie
"the adrainj^ratiort'of mo^^'^ 8ian^,j^^jffi 'certain specified
Iiad as those in this State now prevail. Certain counties in Texas are reported through confidential "grapevine" chan¬ nels to be in the grip of the invisible empire, which has reared itself above tlie constitutional law of the State and dictates tlie administration of justice behind an impenetrable veil of mystery and intimidation.
Governor Parker will appeal to the Federal Government to go into the State of Louisiana and take over the administration of governinent in the face of the complete paralysis of the local government, under an impelling constitutional mandate, which will leave the Federal Government no al^ ternative -tut to act 'with promptness and vigor if the facts to be disclosed at the ¦Washington conference on Monday justify that drastic course.
That these facts will lead to the pro¬ tection of the State Government in Louisiana , by the Federal authorities is a widely entertained opinion here in Louisiana, where the conditions which the Governor will lay bare are as yet merely the subject of whispered confidences  among  trusted   friends.
Orders Silently Carried Out
The power of the "invisible' empire" has settled! like a shadow upon the Statfei atid men scarcely dare to breathe what little they know of the inner secrets of the great secret society whose unuttered orders are silently (Concluded on page 7.)
Congressman Siegel and Columbia Pres. Assail the Ku Klux
Klansmen Should be Driven From Public Office, Says Congress¬ man at Unveiling
-r^^
i^*-
The Soul of Wo^an in the Bible
By CLIFTON ttARBY LEVY
¦Whether the American Ambassador to England was only "spoofing" or in deadly-earnest in his recent speech, in which he asserted that the Bible denied a soul to woman, really docs not make a great difTcreiice. He has stirred the press of tbe world to protest, and indi¬ rectly is serving an excellent purpose by making the people think about the question. There have been cynics, not in the Bible, who denied a soul to wom¬ an, but the Bible can not truthfully be charged with this crime. It would be a crime indeed for the sacred books so to have misrepresented the powers of one-half of the human race, and the Hebrew was by no means so foolish, even- if he did originate in the Orient, where women were not very highly con¬ sidered in ancient times.
The fact is that the Bible, even in the ancient tradition of the Creation, states that when no "help meet for him" was found for Acfam, that woinan was created, thus giving him the fitting help-meet, and if man had a soul, his match has also to be possessed of thi^ valuable element.
OSes, led tlie song and dance of tri- 'inph after the crossing of the Red B<a, and it was hardly possible for a |oman, without a soul, to have sung so femarkable a poem aS is found in Ex- idus, XV, if soul means to us all of the ^finer and more .spiritual powers of the huitiaii person, expressing itself in words and deeds,
'-¦.But, Mr. Harvey is greatly concerned '¦«_^out the ten commandincnts, and jVilds that because a man is forbidden |0 covet bis neighbor's wife, and a iwbnian is not forbidden to covet her 'jg,ciglibor's husband, therefore women were not subject to this or the other i-ommandments. Of course, he could lihot be cxpcpted to know that the Ten jrommandmcnts as we now have them ire expansions of the original com- 'jiiandments, which were simple, brief, ^nd merely forbade or commended cer- !,tain acts. Originally the commandment [;yvas!j(i"Thou shalt not covet," and only in later ages was the expansion added, |»liiioBt as a commentary. This is most -evident in the rfourth Commandment, which originally read:   "Remember the
"WAR NOT ENDED UNTIL HATE IS REMOVED"
late:-
-•'-K'.
w
y'
i'i^^''jC^«fPrecedent in Fifty Years
Dm Governor's conference ivith the
--P^.sid<int"-'',on' Monday -Cvill disclose'^, fo,
0^ country One of the most jj'inazi"^
'¦'and - ,liumiliating   catastrophe^^';- Ui' j|
'whole   history   of. Americati;"- g<|^^
flient.' Not sinee'*recortstr»iction[ tffties,
, at least,' has any Govea^t of- a State
laid bare to the n!||lpn''fhe fact that a
-secret power in th'at State has usurped
the    functions^   of    goverilment    and
brought the-administration of the laws
to ^toil.'
*The Governor of Louisiana .today is virtually helpless in the face of the power of the most gigantic secret or¬ ganization which has' ever reared, its head in America,
Great Secrecy Preserved
Not only has it become impossible for the State authorities to cope with the unseen power of the pew Ku Klux Klan,  reared  upon  the  ashes of that
. institution born of a highly emotion¬ alized chivalry which saved white su¬ premacy throughout the South in the. "carpet" bag" days which followed the close of the Civil 'War, but it is almost
' impossible to detect the presence of the
vast invisible empire which apparently
covers Louisiana „ and has extended its
way to adjacent States, where there is
(Concluded on page 7.)
NEW YORK,—Deprecaticin.'of Jiate, .wliicU his/Jaudi'^ii$;c tonceive'd^''^&;be di-
at ,^,., lii memory l^ilMipiJ^hd 'died in the ^^#iW^«:4yw>Institutional Syn- ''*"*^^%^'West 116th Street. D.r,-But- K^^ai3Sif't«'d that the war was not over labile hates were present in t'he world, an,d strongly urged that they' be re¬ moved from men's hearts.
Congressman Isaac Siegel mentioned the Ku Klux Klan by name and asserted that the boys who fought for democracy owe it to themselves and to their coun¬ try that Klansmen be driven out of public office as quickly as possible.
"This country," said Congressman Siegel, "will not tolerate for a moment the secret, invisible organization that calli itself the Ku Klux Klan and is afraid of the light of day. The Amer¬ ican people will not tolerate it for a moment when they realize its insidious- ness. No one who is directly or indi¬ rectly connected with such an organiza¬ tion has any place in this land.
Respect for Law
"The boys who came back, and who are now honoring the memories of those who have fallen, owe it to them¬ selves and to this country that the driving of these men out of public oflice is done as quickly as possible, because only in this way can we make certain that the stability of our form of govern- {Conclud'ed on page 7.)
TEN JEWS ELECTED IN BRITISH HOUSE
V	
Violent Campaign Was Waged by Daily Express, Daily Mail and
Other Papers Against Arthur Henderson Because of His
Statement Favoring Britain's Remaining in Palestine
The Hebrews believed in the human f Sabjiath day to keep it holy,"   In Ex soul as something spiritual; and H man jjtodus  (xx)   the  reason   for  observance
is jreferred to tbe creation in six days, while in Deuteronomy (v) the reason i,» given because "thou was a servant in tlie land of Egypt," Besides, under wiental conditions when a woman was jtnarried, she saw no man other than K^r' husband and brothers, while the nian s%w many women; and there is another' reason lying in the general statement of man as representing hu- -i^an kind. For both of these reasons suggestion that a woman was not
had it, woman had it quite as well, The'^J word for soul in the Hebrew was Nefesh, which in some connections had to be translated "Self," proving that thB Hebrew recognized the soul as the' real seat of the personality, the same idea held by thinking men and women today,
Rachel anld Miriam
In the story of the death of Rachel, we read: "And it came-to pass, as hei soul was in departing — for she died that she called his name Ben-oni" (GenJ, XXXV, 1). Thus the idea of .-the depar¬ ture of the soul from the body at death/ was a common belief among the He-' brews and women were deemed pos-J sessed of souls, just as well as 'men. f
The part played by women in thi History of Israel is by no means ai insignifica'nt one.   Miriam, the'sister oj
Louisiana Governor Comes To Washington to See What Can Be Done With the Ku Klux
Mentions Disappearance of Several Men — Consults Harding Mon¬ day—Governor and President Have Been Communicating on Klan—Invisible Power Growing—Ku Klux  Becoming  a Factor in State Government—Acts of Lawlessness Set Forth—^Wants Outlaws Run Down
DENIED AID FROM GOVERNMENT GOV. PARKER
RETURNS TO FIGHT KU KLUX TO FINISH
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20,-Gover¬ nor John M, Parker and Attorney Gen¬ eral A, V, Coco,- of Louisiana, today laid) before President Harding, Attor¬ ney General Daughcrty and William J. Burns, chief of the Bureau of Inves¬ tigation of tbe Department of Justice, an array of facts concerning the Ku Klux Klan terrorism in their State.
While Governor Parker was emphatic in asserting that 'the officers of the State Administration w'ere capable^ of handling the Ku Klux situation as far as Louisiana was concerned anyl that there was no intention of appealing to the Federal Government to assume any jurisdiction over the enrorcement of law in the State, it was made clear by him that his'problem in seeking to end. Klan terrorism was complicated by' the help that the maskedi organization was re¬ ceiving in Louisiana from other States,
"We will be able to rid Louisiana of this vicious development the more quickly,"   said   Governor' Parker   in   a
wSject to, the Ten Commandments is .^liitg-'as absurd as other arguments a,d- vdnCQ^P|y,,^lhis cynical gentleman. ^'-.Hp'tpfet'inds to be a great reader of 'giei''.Biblte-^d to know all about it, so le'tri!u(gt^ JifiVe read the'book of. Judges |ti4-vJiiiiQ# of   the   inspirational   *fork
Hundreds Attend Annual B'nai BVith Day Celebration
Alfred A. Benesch of Cleveland
Denounces the Action of
Harvard
BEQUEATHS ONE MILLION IN WILL
e sister o|   ,.;-    [(Chicluded ati patfM
Jewish and Non-Jewish Charities
to Benefit by Desire Expressed
Before Demise
WAS TEN YRS. PRESIDENT PHILA. JEWISH CHARITIES
LONDON (J. T. A,).—Ten Jews were elected to the House of Commong: Sir Philip' Sassoon, Sir Walter De- frece, Major Brunei Cohen, son-in-law of Sir Stuart Samuel Lionel de Roth¬ schild, Samuel Samuel and Sir Harry S. Samuel were the conservative members elected. Sir Alfred Mond, Sir Arthur Levy Lever, E. A. Straus, Lloydgeorg- eans, and Sir Percy A. Harris, liberal.
Up to the present counting, the Con¬ servatives are leading with a big ma¬ jority. Among the pro-Zionist dele¬ gates,, who were elected are Colonel Jo¬ siah Wedgwood-and Ramsay MacDon- ald. Honorable Edwin Montague, anti- Zionist, Winston Churchill and Arthur Henderson, leader of the Labor Party, were defeated. A. violent campaign was waged against Henderson by the Daily Express, ¦ the Daily Mail and other papers because of a statement he had
given to the Jewish Correspondence Bu¬ reau favoring Britain's remaining^ in Palestine.
AN ERROR CORRECTED
Inadvertently, in last week's issue of Ihe Chronicle the name of Mrs. Al H. Harmon was omitted in the story of the Temple's Sisteihood Affair in which Mrs. Harmon rendered a splendid service as "Intro¬ ducer" in the famous "Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra."
The Chronicle keenly regrets this error and trusts that its readers will not l^esitatjB to in¬ form us in the future when Auch mistakes occur.
Philadelphia, — The five brothers of the late-Jacob Gimbel, who was head of the Gimbel corporation operating stores in Philadelphia, New York and Mil¬ waukee, have arranged to givt away more than one million dollars which would have come to them as residual y legatees under the terms of their brotli- er's will.- This money will go to chari¬ ties, Jewish and non-Jewish, and to nieces and nephews of Mr. Gimbel, so that his brothers may carry out what they believe to have been his desires expressed  shortly  before  his  death.
The brothers are' Isaac and Louis Gimbel, of the New York store, and Charles, Daniel and- Ellis A. Gimbel, all executors of Mr. Gimbel's will. They announced the'change in carrying out the will on Tuesday in 'a brief statement which was amplified' later by Mr, Ellis A. Gimbel. The will is' to be filed for probate in a few days,
Mr. Gimbel's will was made in 1!)0B, fourteen years ago. At that time he stipulated that about |100,00O shbuld go to charity, and this amount has been increased to $^50,000, which will be equally divided between Jewish and other charitable institutions, Mr, Gim¬ bel, who was a bachelor, had been all his life interested in charitable work and. for ten years was president of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia. ^
Large Sum for Care of Children
But his' devotion to charitable enter¬ prises of his own people did not blind
*fORDA PRESIDENCY" PIPP'S LEADING EDITORIAL
"Ford and I WiU Be in Position to Fix Jews and Others in Couple Years," Says Liebold -
UNDERESTIMATING HIS STRENGTH "REAL DANGER"
DETROIT.—"Ford and the Presi¬ dency" is the title of the -leading edi¬ torial of Pipp's Weekly of Nov, 11. Declaring that millions are being .spent by the Ford Motor Company for Ford car advertising, but with the advent of the Ford Presidential campaign Ford's face .and Ford's signature are intro¬ duced with expressions of Ford as a benefactor of mankind sprinkled in very often. Editor Pipp ^tates that Henry Ford, talking very recently to a publicity man,  said r
"That's right, build up that Santa Claus reputation of, mine all you can. That helps,"
The editorial continues as follows: "E. G. Liebold, who generally repre¬ sents Henry Ford's real feelings, was talking about the same time. -The con¬ versation involved the Jews generally, and what Liebold referred)to as 'that federal bunch,' especially in Detroit.
"Fix Them and Others"
" 'Mr, Ford and I will be in a position in a couple of years to fix them and some others we wan to fix," said Lie- bold.
" 'What do you mean V, he was asked,
"'Mr.  Ford is getting 100 letters a day demanding that he run for Presi dent,' said Liebold,
"There you have both ends of the Ford campaign for the Presidency."
Editor  Pipp says  further that while
Ford maintains at his own expense a
iiim to the needs of other institutions,' news  bureau   in  New  York,  it  seems
and as lie was very fond of children and a supporter all his life of organisa¬ tions which cared for children, he ex¬ pressed the wish before his death tbat a larger sum than he had allotted should be devoted to their aid-. So his brothers are planning to distribute a large por¬ tion of the inoney among orphan asy¬ lums and ctiildren's societies, A large amount will also go to hospitals.
A gift which was not thentioned in the will will be turned over to the Gim¬ bel  Brothers' Foundation,  a  fund es¬ tablished  for  the benefit of  eniployes (Concluded on page 7.)
letter to the Washington Post, "if we can have the help of other States and the Federal Government. We can deal effectively with our local situation if it can be cut off from the support and - encouragement it is receiving from the outside,".
These sentences explain the primary reason for the visit of Governor Parker and Attorney General Coco to Wash¬ ington, The occasion of the governor's letter to the Washington Post was to correct statements made in that news¬ paper Sunday in a dispatch from Baton Rouge, sent by a staff correspondent. It was saidi in" the dispatch, among other things, that Governor Parker was on his way to Washington to ask Presi¬ dent Harding to have the Federal Gov¬ ernment take over the 'administration of law in Louisiana because the State Gov¬ ernment was unable to function on ac¬ count of Klan terror and the sym- -pathetic attitude toward the Klan of certain local oflicials.
Klan Outrages Established       '
Governor Parker was indignant^ em¬ phatic in declaring that this' statement was false. All the information obtained today as to the object of< his visit bears out his denial.
What is cigar, however, 'is 'that the Klan is defying the law in certain sec¬ tions.of the State, that respectable citi-
GREATER INTESKIST
I. O. B..9i£i1fi»fetRK'EXPECT!
f^aij]
f^^.^JUk\^\,^l^,\^    SkM„   |jk <»vv.uhAAi^. ^    .^(T-- ¦'-• ^   ';
_ jftm.'Hb'cing brought to,,.,..-' '"'-it*/;^'/''?
^'
Wv-f^tj '§'(*!^".aiKP^tiat;: co-o'^eration' betwft'eii'    , .^^ %'iS^"    ''   ' "jsmeii^,"ia    Lowisjana    and'   thtir^jf^i^^?^' ;£U  partners  iiy ^ther' States y,^??^-"'"
'^tf»'5?'^^
himancr^'spSi-if—iinUl llie spUtofJndek- «njip5re' ,ijiria)twaiana-.td^cii, anexteni,
n'eSi', moderh'tewHahd mercifillness will "i^* ^^e adminj^trafioti^qf ,law and o^der-^
be .'tuffused ovcrJKc' l>eiteripa,r( of this ''»s   -become   Megljgibl&  -'itv   Louisiana
ghbe.   Stand y6''ds.^il^g»tefJnouwiient Parishes where the Klan is most .active.
For an hour and a-half'the Govei-nor
and Attorney General Coco -'w^re in coiii-
.ference at the White House 'inyth, Ptesf-
nt     Harding.      Attorney  -''©enerat-
to Israel, the ancient-fOv^^jS^ho^ ffody is "bent and partly brohm>,ii>i^^'-Vie^ stress , of •'.age-long persecn,'itOjf/i-W 'whose soul is still aglow Vfiid, aflam<f^ with prophetic idealism and whoifi heart is still athirst with righteous¬ ness ancl justice even as in the days of Isaiah and Omous.
The seventy-five years of activity of the B'nai B'rith Order in the realm of philanthropy, enlightenment and civil liberty will indeed stand as a monument for the many generations to come.
B'nai B'rith has established institu¬ tions of the noblest character all over the civilized world'. It made possible the opening of the Qeveland Orphan -Asylum, which it controls andi to which it applies liberal funds for maintenance. The high standing of the Cleveland Or¬ phan Asyluin.~is a tribute to the efii- ciency of B'nai B'rith administration. Social service workers of the highest authority have expressed unqualified approval of its management and have ranked it among the very best insti¬ tutions of its^kind. Other orphan asy- (Concluded on page 5.)
•'ij^jjgberty joined them there, pfeiiiur.to 'goqtig tA the White House, GQv^nor Parker and''-Attomey General, Coco liad , an hour's scl^dn with Chief Burns of the Bureau of Investigation, supposedly to obtain the help of some of his de¬ tectives to run down iCu Klux ,^criminals in other States who are-cooperating with leaders of the Klan in LoifiKana.
No Federal Action Needed
After the -White House conference Attorney General Daugherty made this statement in.behalf of President Hard¬ ing:
"It appears that the State of Louisi¬ ana will be fully able to take care of the situation. There is nothing at this time for the Federal Government to do except to give asstfrance to State authorities that whenever Federal. in¬ terests arc involved the Federal authori¬ ties are ready 'to extend full co-opera¬ tion.
(Concluded on page 7.)
V
GOVERNOR PARKER CONDEMNS KU KLUX
"There Is Not a Placfe in Louisiana Where We Cannot See Jew and
Christian, Protestant and Catholic, Working Side by Side to
Build Up this State^" He Declares
In an address recently delivered be¬ fore the Lions' Club in New Orleans, Hon, John M. Parker, Governor of Louisiana, pledged himself to suppress the Ku Klux Klan in his State. He said  in part:
almost useless for "a great number of the papers fall for his statements" with¬ out news bureau aid. Editor Pipp also declares that "there are 0,000 Ford agents and a total of nearly 20,000 Ford salesmen, scattered in nearly every city and village pf the country, men who are expected to do their part in furthcrr ing the political aspirations of their boss,"
"The real danger," declares Mr. Pipp in conclusion, "is in underestimating the Ford strength. The biggest polit¬ ical fight of a half century is on right now,"
RABBI JACOB TARSHISH
TO ADDRESS MENORAH
Make no appointment for to¬ morrow afternoon.
The Menorah will hold its regular meeting this Sunday, November 26th, at 2i4S p. m. at the Ohio Union Buildingi Rabbi Jacob Tarshish of Tern- - pie B'nai Israel will be the speaker of the afternoon, h^ subject to be "Jewish Contribu¬ tions to Religion." A splendid musical program has been ar¬ ranged for the occasion.
Everyone is invited to attend.
"We have our fraternal organizations in America. But though they are secret organizations, their members are known, their works are in the open light of day. They are allied to various reli¬ gions, too. The' Jews have their B'nai B'rith. Tbe Catholics have their Knights of Columbus. All of them have a - perfect right to meet where and when they please. Their member¬ ship is known.   We can see their faces.
"But when we have in Louisiana an outside organization to control this state, politically, seeking to be pros¬ ecutor, judge, jury and executioner in one, seeking 'to take the place of tho constituted law, then I tell you that it is incumbent on your executive, if he's a man, to stamp that organization out for all time.
"This' America of ours is founded on respect for the law. On the re¬ spect for order. This- nation of ours is founded on certain ideals that were hundreds of years in the building and today, in a world filled with turmoil (Continued on page 6)
¦' s,vi.--j,',-!::-.-..•¦.«
^'pI
¦  ESP