Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1945-08-17

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COLU.MBUS, OHIO, FKIDAY, AUGUST  17,    1945
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits   Prom   Everywhere By Phineas J. Biron
International Loan To Rebuild Palestine Urged At World Meet
ATOM SMASHERS . . .
)!!5 While the newspapers men¬ tion the names of four Jewish scientists — Prof .1. Robert Op¬ penhelmer, Prot. Rudolf Peierls, Dr.    Franz Eugene Simon and Dr. Lise Meltner '— in connec¬ tion with the atomic bomb, they overlook the fact that Prof. Al¬ bert Einstein was the creator of the  theory  that made  the  dis¬ covery possible ... As a matter of fact, we  happened  to  know that Einstein was an active con¬ sultant during the period of ex¬ perimentation ... ATTENTION, JUSTICE DEPT. (a The anti-Semitic "Protestant War,Veterans of the United Sta¬ tes,    Inc.,"  have    had    their treasury replenished from Some mysterious source . . . Edward .Tames Smythe, executive chair¬ man of the group, is advertising for "organizers in every hamlet,, towTi, city and state In the Union to organize local posts" . . . Mr. Smythe announces, In a mailed bulletin,     that  "we   will   tight these     dirty,    stinking  Com¬ munists — the American Veter¬ ans Committee, a Jew-Commun- l.st Sidney Hlilman controlled or¬ ganization  —   in  the streets  if necessary   ... Protestant clergymen  should  disaviJw-.Ma', Smythe's   organization   and   in- : slst that the Attorney General investigate Its headquarters, lo¬ cated at 12n-A Connecticut Ave¬ nue, Washington, D. C: FATHEH ltILEY'8 PAHIPHI.ET . . . PS The   Tablet,   the   weekly   pa¬ per of   the    Brooklyn   dolcese, which made Itself nationally in iamoiis for its defense ot Fath-j er   Coughlin   and   his   Christian Frontiers,  devoted  considerable space  to  your  columnist  three weeks ago ... It took violent ex. ception to our attack on Father Arthur     .1.    Riley's    pamphlet "Anti-Semitism",      which    was published in St. Paul under the imprimatur of Archbishop Most Reverend Richard J. Gushing . We maintained that the pamph¬ let Is anti-Semitic . . . The Tab¬ let, among other things, publish¬ ed a letter "by Mr. David Gold¬ stein of Bostoh" . . . Mr. Gold¬ stein had sent this same letter to   the   €<lltors   of   the   "Jewish weeklies" as he calls our Anglo- Jfewlsh    Press . . . The Tablet, strangely enough, omits to men¬ tion that "Mr. Goldstein" is none other  than   Dr.   Goldstein,   em¬ ploye   of   the   "Catholic   Cam¬ paigners for Christ" and Amer¬ ica's most notorious convert and missionary . . .
In his letter Goldstein advises our editors to eliminate our col¬ umn and contends that we have committed a great wrong, be¬ cause Father Riley's pamphlet is "a fair, frank, learned, dis¬ criminating, friendly presenta tion of the topic". . .
We (luote from Father Riley's "friendly" booklet "the position .of the Catholic Church with re- gard to the Jews h^s been and still Is that the Jewish religion, (Continued on Page 8)
l,O,\'D0N (WNS)_A resolu¬ tion petitioning the United Na¬ tions for an international loan to be used in the rebuilding of Palestine was submitted here this week to the World Zionist Conference by its political com¬ mittee.
The resolution also provided that, in view of the fact that Germany had confiscated and stolen billions of dollars of Jew¬ ish property, the United Nations allocat.5 part ot the reparations to be Imposed on Germany tor settling a million Jews In Pal¬ estine.
At the same time the resolu¬ tion urged that Palestine be Im-
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27(h  BOOK  PUBLISHED BY IiOCAIj rabbi
Mankind Faces Fateful Decision, Says Gen. Sarnoff
:J1,280 MEMBERS OF B'NAI B'RITH AND YOUTH AFFILIATES IN ARMED FORCES; 491 KILIJiD OR MISSING AND 466 DECORATED
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Rabbl Leopold Greenwald spiritual leader of the' Beth Ja¬ cob Congregation, has just pub¬ lished his 27th book "Thousand Years of Jewish History in Hun gary", according to an announce¬ ment this week. The book is written In Yiddish and is the first of the Rabbi's many works to he written in the spoken Yid¬ dish language today.
Rabhl Greenwald had devoted much time and effort to publish this latest book in order to re¬ veal to world Jewry historic facts of a country not so well known to the general public. The Rabbl dwells at length on both the Orthodox and Reform elements in Hungary, as well as the great. Jewish assimilation problem in that Balkan country In Southeastern Europe. • This book gives the history of the .tews in Hungary tor the past 1,000 years.
It is interesting to note that Rabbi Greenwald had already authored 18 books In Hebrew dealing with various phases of Jewish history in Hungary. HI, latest book, however is the most complete, with all material ob¬ tained from archives, diaries, old documents and khllah books, especially from the government archives In Buda. The book sells at $250.
NEW YORK (WNS)—Briga¬ dier General David Sarnoff, the humble boy trom the East Side of New York, who was a pioneer la the development of radio in America, and rose to the Presi¬ dency ot the Radio Corporation ot America believes that the world is at the turning of the ways and must make up its mind whether science is to be used for destructive or constructive pur¬ poses. In an article released thLs week, Mr. Sarnoff says:
"As final victory in this sec¬ ond World War approaches, man, kind finds itself at a fork in in the road ot Time, where one route leads to peace and the other to a third world war—to life or death. Which shall it be? Man must make a choice.
"Innovations in the domain of science have piled up so fast and so dramatically under the Im¬ petus of the present war that the public, and even some leaders, have not yet fully grasped their implications for the future of our nation and of mankind.
"What will man do with these astounding facilities that science is creating? Will he use them tor beneficent purposes? Will he use ..them to make the workl a better and happier place, and to provide abundance every¬ where so that those who now lack the basic requirements tor comfortable living may secure them? Or will man prepare to ii.se these agencies for aggres¬ sion and destruction? No one knows. Yet no more important question faces the world.
"Since man first roamed the earth Nature has challenged him to compete with her in sup¬ plying the basic necessities of lite. Across the centuries he has met the challenge to only a small degree. When through science mart creates an ever- increasing abundance ot food, clothing and .shelter he will have gained new triumphs over fa¬ mine, poverty and disease. He will reduce the causes of war and diminish the areas of con¬ flict. Prosperous nations, as General Eisenhower has observ¬ ed, are not war hungry, but a hungry nation will seek war in desperation.
"Therefore as I see it, our great hope for world peace can best be advanced by achieving freedom trom want, through man's ingenuity iri atomic en¬ ergy, electronics, chemistry, phy¬ sics and the other science. All around us Nature inspires and offers the perfect model for science to emulate and duplicate, whether it be an artificial potato or a kernel of wheat, oil or cot¬ ton. Already by ingeniously producing artificial fibres man no longer is dependant upon the silkworm or the rubber tree; also he has plastics for wood and vitamins condensed Into tab¬ lets. He has produced and har nessed electricity, which as lightning defied him to put elect¬ rons to work. He has created artificial gas and now the sun
WA.SHINCTO.V, I). C.:_Of the 31.280 members of B'nai B'rith and its youth afiiliates — the B'nai n'rlth Youth Organization and the B'nai B'rith Hillel Joun- dations — serving In the jTrmed forces, 491 were killed or are missing in action and 466 have been decorated for heroism, Henry Monsky, president of B'nai B'rith, the nation's oldest and largest national Jewish .ser¬ vice organization, announced to¬ day in making public a statisti¬ cal report of B'nai B'rith's rec¬ ord of wai- service since Pearl Harbor. B'nai B'rith has a mem¬ bersliip of 225.00(1 men, women and young people.
The report revealed that as part fif its national war service program, B'nai B'rith equipped or furnished 1,1!)5 recreational facilities for Ihe armed forces at ,1!I4 Army, Navy and Marine Corps instaliatiims and hospitals in '15 states, Alaska, the District of Columbia and Canada, serv¬ ed (i.io fighting ships of the Navy and Merchant Marine ves¬ sels with recreational and niusl- cal e(iuipment, 'books antl games and provided I'ccreationa] facili¬ ties for 20 Army and Navy hos¬ pital .shii)s.
Other highlights of Mr.  Mon-
sky's review of B'nai B'rith w&r service included.
72,000 blood donors recruited for the Red Cro.ss; $900,000 con¬ tributed to the Red Cross and other United Nations war relief agencies; 225 portable organs shipped to Navy and Marine Units throughout the world; 67 pieces of mobile equipment con¬ tributed to the Red Cross; $610,- 000,000 on war Iwnds sold; 114 Torph Scrolls provided tor use ' in Jewish religious services at Army and Navy chapels; 1,000,- 000 service, comfort and birth¬ day gift Ixjxes and packages pro¬ vided for men and women in uniform in the United States and Canada; .1,000,000 men and women in uniform in Canada and the United States enter¬ tained at parties, dances, picnics, .shov\-s, holiday programs and other foi-ms of hospitality; 5,000- 000 sifrgical dressings and 400,- 000 sewn and knitted garments turned out b.v Red Crrras produc. tion units ot B'nai B'rith Women and B'nai IVrlth Girls; 26,000,000 pounds of scrap metal, rubber and old paper collected by U'nal llritli salvage units; 150,000 men in uniforni acconimodated at B'nai B'rith servicemen's hotels and dormitorios.
ATOMIC RESEARGH.HASTENING PEACE. OWES MUCH TO ITS JEWISH DISCOVERERS
NEW YORK (WNS)—Jewish scientl.sts played a notewortliy part in the atomic research lead¬ ing to the discovery of the at omic Ixmib. It should be said however, that the Jewish scient- i.-its were at work with the thought that this atomic research would be used to advance man's happiness in peace. It was Hit¬ ler who first thought of turning it to destruction and the Allied governments, as Pregjjient Tru¬ man said in his address to the nation, had no alternative but to press forward to the same endi. Happily, the Allies sue ceeded — owing much of their success to Jewish scientists who had been driven out of Germany. The Scandinavian Jewish scient¬ ist, Dr. Niels Bohr, as well as a number of American Jews also helped.
Leading the iist of Jewish con tributors to atomic research is Dr. Lise Meltner, a Jewish wo¬ man physicist, who was born in Vienna In 1870 and who slhce 1022 was a lecturer In Berlin University.    In 1933, when  the
Nazis came to power in Ger¬ many, she was dismissed from the University on racial gi'ounds, but continued for some time her research for a method of releas¬ ing atomic energy at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, Just about the time when she completed her dLscovery, she was exiletl from Germany as a Jewess, She took her secret along with her denying it to the Nazis. '
Second on the list is Dr. Otto Robert Frisch, also born in Vienna, who was dismissed as a Jew trom the Hamburg Univer¬ sity in 10,')3.     After Dr. Meltner
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dally dares him to bottle its tre¬ mendous heat for use at will. With that revolutionary accom¬ plishment it would not be neces sary to dig tor nature's black diamond—coal. I am sure that raw materials of endless variet¬ ies, from ores to paper, from clothing to food, will emerge from the test tube, and from out of the air Itself."
A. A. JR. SISTERHOOD ALL DAY  OUTING  SUNDAY
Tomorrow (August 19th) tho A. A. Jr. Sisterhood is lidding nn AU-Day Outing at floldborg's Fami for Service¬ men, Veterans and tliolr Bud¬ dies. . Plans for tho day In¬ clude, swimming, dancing card gnmes, basobali and a picnic lunch prepared by tho members oi tho organization. All guests aro asked to bp at the A. A. Ingtituto, 1021 Bryden Rd., at 12 noon, from which place transportation has been arranged.
For further Information please call Miss Bstlior Zlson- ivlno, Social I'roiecl Chali'- nmu, EV. 3533.