Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-12-22

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Volume IvY-No.  5
COLUMBUS, OHIO, DECJ-MBER 22,  1922
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I DON'T HATE JEWS, SAYS FORD, BUT THEY CAUSE WAR
The Flivver King Grants News¬ paper Interview.in the City of Boston
SAYS THE AUTOMOBILE
WILL SOLVE PROBLEMS
DEPT OF LANGUAGES FIRST TO BE OPENED IN JERUSALEM. UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, MASS,— "I curry favor with no man," snapped Henry Kord, the automobile king, in answer to my ques¬ tion as he let his chair, which had been tilted back against the wall, in his apart¬ ment at the Sopley Plaza, fall forward with an abrupt jerk, - •
"But when I do say that. I have no hatred in my heart for the Jew, I mean it, .In fact, 1 do not blame the' Jew money-lenders for bunking human¬ ity just as long as humanity lets him get away with it. As a matter of fact, I admire the Jews because, when things get stuck,, he is the only one who seems to have the power to start it up again and pull it over," Tilting back the chair again, he resumed more quietly, "However, that does not wipe out the fact that the Jew, who is a victim of a false money system, is the very founda¬ tion of the world's greatest curse today —war,
"He is the cause of all the abnor¬ mality in ,our daily life because he is the money maniac. One cannot blame him as long as he is able to play his . game. Our money system is all wrong, and the Jew, who is the money specialist, is its greatest victim. There is the fact. "No, I have no hatred for the Jew, and those Jews who play the hardest at the money gam? are very much in the minority." .
As he paused. and stroked his  iron gray liair, I said:
J/The' tnoney system—how would you change that?"^ He came back quickly.
Says Jews Create War
"I believe the whole world would benefit tremendously if all the interest on money were abolished." It was a startling statement, and I attempted to follow- it tip, whereupon the Detroit -.J-ia-.o"if<.ihV.,t;ir-'l-:^'-u;M-':'.t.-<UiB: ;ffl1>J-.>t" ;-is quickly as he had broached it, by. an¬ swering:
"I cannot go into that further at this time because I am now writing some¬ thing on'that subject out in Detroit,
"To get back to the Jew again," he continued voluntarily, "the only' reason that the Jew money-lender doesn't take the pocketbook of the cveryman is be¬ cause   fhe' cveryman    won't   let   him. -  Through  education the - cveryman  will some day refuse t6 let the Jew bunk him   with  this   institution   called   war, because it is these same money-lenders ¦ who create War toflay.   War is purely a financial   institution,     I   learned   that through my peace ship expedition.   That expedition was a college of experience." "Where does  patriotism fit here?" I asked.
"Patriotism," he . retorted, "is, as Johnson said, 'a- last refuge for. the scoundrel.' It is worked up by these money-lenders who are playing their money game. Poverty, misery and the ' slaughtering of the "flower of young manhood means nothing to them as long as their money games go on success¬ fully." The chair had come forward again and his thin hand w&s jerking back and forth.
"And the mob, true to its emotion," he went on, "swallows the stuff, hook, ' line and sinker, whereupon bands play and even mothers in the hysteria of it all place their own offspring upon the altar of murder, just as the ignorant mothers of years ago fed their babies to the flaming bowels of the god Mo¬ loch,"
"And how near aro wc to the end of it alt?" he was asked,
"We will have more wars," he an¬ swered, "but we are nearer the end than rtiost people think,"
Motor as an Educatqr
"You spoke of education as the rem¬ edy,   Jtist what kind?"
"Do you know," he replied, "the au¬ tomobile has contributed a great p^rt. It has opened - new roads. It allows people to mix as never before. It is the mixing of people that will pn some far day turn the trick. This idea that money is all there is to business is all wrong. The present system of business is simply an inheritance handed down through the ages. Doing something for humanity through business shoiild be th? dominating feature. This idea is the warp and woof' of my Detroit in¬ dustry,"
JERUSALEM (J. t. A.)— Lectures of the Philological Department of the Hebrew University here, to. be opened ' around Passover, include Pro¬ fessor Louis Ginzbergr of tho Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, and Professor H^nry Malter and Max L. Margulies of ¦ Dropsie College, Philadelphia. The language department is the first of the faculties to be opened and noted Jewish scholars from Europe invited to Jerusalem include Prof. Tobler of Berlin, Prof. Kraus of Vienna^ Rabbis Tcherno-witz and Chajes of Vienna, and Prof. Jahuda of Spain.
Jewish Flag Day Will Be Celebrated Here Tomorrow, Sun. 24tli
Money Being Raised For the Re¬ demption of Land in Pales¬ tine
VOLUNTEERS TO REPORT AT TALMUD TORAH BLDG.
of the
"THE POST" APOLOGIZES FOR CALLING JEWS COUNTRY'S "ENEMIES"
IN every land, in 4very home, in every heart, this is the ^ad time when Good Cheer and Brotherlvl Love are the key¬ notes. I ^
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JEWISH cIrONICLL
LONDON (J. C. B. by Mail) The "Moriiing Post" publishes •n editorial on the subject of the Labor Party, in the course of which it says: "We said the other day that the Labor Party are pro-German, i pro-Jewish, pro-Bolshevist, pro-every en¬ emy-of their country. In hurry of daily journalism," in pro¬ ceeds, "and the thick of a po¬ litical conflict, we may be for- giveli if we sometimes use words in haste which we repent of later. We apologize frankly, and fully to our Jewish friends for these words, which linked —or seemed to . link—-our Je-w¬ ish fellow-subjects with the enemies of our country."
BEGIN CAMPAIGN FOR COLLECTION OF RELIEF PLEDGES
Five Millions Needed for Russia
Alone — Conditions Elsewhere
Are Improving
Jfiwish Flag, -Day, which comes but once a year, during the feast of Cha- nukah, will this year be celebrated to¬ morrow, Sunday, Dec. 24th, when the Jewish young men and women of this city, who have the Zionist cause at heart, will report for duty at the Tal~ mud Torah building, 658 E. Rich Street, at 9 o'clock a. m, sharp. Columbus Zion¬ ists ,are making great preparations to make this Flag Day a success,'
The Jewish National Fund work is familiar to every Jew, yet, to many of our brethren who have remained at a clistance from Jewish movements and activities of the last decade, it might I .i;-.i—m—«¦—«i- well be in place to proclaim again' the principles bi the Jewish National .Fund..
For Land Redemption
This fund is national in its scope, be¬ cause from every coriier and-nook of this globe, where there is a Jew, con¬ tributions are sent in for land redemp¬ tion. Every inch, of ground redeemed with that money remains the inalienable property of the Jewish pepplc.
The Jewish National Fund has served to real.iEc two great ideals, the Jewish dream of centuries to restore Palestine and the universal hope of freeing -mother earth' from private ownership. Land redeemed by the national fund is given free to those who live on the soil and till it, but never deeded to an in¬ dividual.
Judaism without Palestine can not survive, and every Jew should partici¬ pate in this flag day and prove himself a descendUnt of the Maccabcahs.
Among those vvho are interested in making Flag Day a success are Abe Seff, Joseph Solove, Isadore Mellman, Leon Seff, Dave Bronstein, Robert Mell¬ man; Edith Nachmanovitz, Rose Finkel¬ stein, Charles Friedman', and many other members-of the various Zionist organ¬ izations who are cooperating. Among them' arc the Zionist District, Kol Zion Society, and the Sinai Club, who have' issued special cards calling for the co¬ operation of their members.
Last year's Flag Day was a tremen¬ dous success. Will the people of Co¬ lumbus do less for Zionism this year? Tliis is ithe .(picRtion Zionists are asking at this time. ^
"Do not fail to do yourbit. Remem¬ ber Sunday morning, December 24, at 9 o'clock, ih the Talmud Torah building.
Extends the mpst cordial Greetings of the Season to |s r€|>ders,its advertisers, and all its well-wish4rs.
On the threshli''jld|of the New Year it asks for them tli^ l>|st that life can offer.
'Moin Junior Auxiliary'^ Is Slogan of Local Council Jewisli Juniors
Mrs. Isaac Halperin of SL Louis
and Rabbi Tarshish Address
Meeting Sunday
FRANKEL COMMISSION
STIRS ALL TO ACTION
MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN
NOW IN FULL SWING
mere SmWmo Oil Christmail
Being the Story of a Quest for Chanukah Atmosphjere By BERNARD G. RICHARDS
(Those who have read Mr. Richard's delightful book, "The Discourses of Mr. Keidansky," will "welcome this charming sketch from his pen. Mr. Richards'lias not written much of - late, being en¬ grossed in public work, and particularly in his duties as executive secretary of the American Jeivish Congress.—Edi¬ tor's Note,)
The Jewish community of Vilna has heen granted the right to impose a tax on kosher meat for the purpose of rais¬ ing funds for -the payment of the sal¬ aries of rabbis.
POLISH STUDENTS
ATTACK JEWISH DAILY
WARSAW (J. T. A.), —One hundred and twenty students, armed with wooden rods, at¬ tacked the oliices of the Jew¬ ish daily, "Nasz Kurier," in¬ tending to beat up the editor of the publication because of his editorial criticizing the "numeirus clausus." The editor escaped by the back door.
The students then attacked a meeting of Jewish assimilated students, called for the. purpose of protesting against the "nu- raerus clausus." The - meeting was dispersed.
The Jewish deputies, Fabs'tein and Hartglass, succeeded in getting police intervention.
"Like many another well-known East Side Jew," said my friend, "1 live in a suburb far from the city limits. After a number of years of hoping, striving and the reading of real estate adverstise- ments we finally freed ourselves from within the close confinement of brick and mortar which constitutes a Bronx apartment. At last we were to have real outdoors around us and to see a real sky over our he.ids. But what was best of all, the children were no longer to be re¬ stricted to a' crowded and dangerous sidewalk for play, would have a yard of their own with open fields nearby the house ,and all the benefits of the open country,
"We  secured  a  mortgage  and there was  a real nice  little house and  fine garden attached thereto.   Here it was at last —the 'Little House on the Hill' of our early dreams.   No more noise and congestion, no more numerous and un¬ assorted   neighbors   within   the   same dwelling  place,  no  more  subterranean Nickelman in-the guise of a janitor to lord it over us.    I was a janitor my¬ self.    And the newly-acqUlred skill in running the hot-water plant was a source of pride if not of new self-importance. Of course, there were some drawbacks and the most serious  one of  all  was that the' railroad company in arranging the schedule of trains did not consider the opening and closing time of meetings that ar^ held on the East Side,    But there   were   enough   compensations  to make up for these and on the whole I rejoiced  in having joined the large and imposing raiiks of the commuters, "For a Jew who was born in Rus¬ sia, was partly Germanized on his way to America, had become a good Amer¬ ican patriot and still claimed spiritual allegiance to Judea, it was but meet that I should settle in Slierwin ¦ Park which is almost Yonkers and pretty near Mt, Vernon and yet is not a part of either of  these  cities.    It a  sort of Alsace- Lorraine of Westchester County.   Yon¬ kers claims our-ta:tes and-Mt. Vernon
asks for our trade; we know all about Mt. Vernon politics but have to vote ih Yonkers. In short, we live on the out¬ skirts of one city, near the edge of an-' other and the little historic Bronx River runs right through our suburban exist¬ ence and cuts us up in two.
"Biit I suppose we cannot have every¬ thing. While we reveled in fresh air, while we were much better off phys¬ ically, we \vere not so well looked after spiritually. We had plenty of fresh air, Goyishe fresh air, but no Jewish atmos- phe^re.
"The Jewish meetings and entertain¬ ments  and  soi::ial  circles on the  East Side were too far a^vay and,,of course, they were beyond the reach of the chil¬ dren.   In those early days we had not yet discovered nor established relations with the nearby cities which surrounded us and the lack of Jewish influence for the children began to be felt as a serious problem.   This lack we felt all the more keenly at the time of the Christian holi¬ days when for.a number of weeks the children would hear so much from their non-Jewish  play-fellows  about  Christ-' rnas expectations and observances. More boisterous and aggressive than elsewhere and freed  from the Goyishe Gohis of living among Jews in the city, the non- Jewish children flaunted their Christmas gifts and games and stories with greater intensity.    We had.always found that the best way of counteracting the reli¬ gious  influences. of Christmas was  to observe   Chanukah   prroperly   and   to make it' the  means  of   furnishing the children with all that they crave in the way of cheerful spirit and enjoyment. But-here, so far a\yay from New York, we' could not take them to the Chanukah entertainments nor supply them the men¬ tal stimulus that was lacking,-
"It was our first winter in the coun¬ try. Christmas was approaching and every diay the children came to us re¬ peating suggestions and remarks per¬ taining to the gift-giving festival which they had heard from their Gentile play- tnates. Every day we observed the ef¬ fect of alien religio'us influences. As in former times we did everything to strengthen their own religious beliefs by Jewish instruction, by stories of the old and anticipations of the new Israel, But the tide of alien influences now seemed stronger than ever. We knew tbat if the children were hearing so (Continued on page 7,)
That the ambitious program of the Council of Jewish Juniors to be carried out this year will be an overwhelming success, is now assured by the officers of the organization and its sponsor, Mrs. Celia Kahn Rosenthal.
For the past year, the Columbus Sec¬ tion Council of Jewish Jiiniors,, have, succeeded in carrying out the three-fold aim of the organization; that of charity, self-improvement and social work. It is the aim of the Junior Council to be¬ come an integral part of the Columbus Jewish community and it has therefore taken upon itself to revive a greater spirit of activity among the younger element of this city during the coming yearl
"Finest in America" "To make our Junior Auxiliary the finest in America," was made the slogan of the local Auxiliary of Jewish Juniors at a meeting held. Sunday afternoon, December 17th, at the Schonthal Com¬ munity House,
,^ Mrs. Isaac Halperin of St. Louis, Mo., National Chairman of Jewish Junior Auxiliaries, and one of the organizers of the local section, was the speaker of the afternoon, Mrs, Halperin was in¬ troduced by 'Ben Ratner, president of the Auxiliary.
Mrs. Halperin covered thoroughly the work that has been done, that" is being done, and all that may yet "be done; by the Jewish Junior Auxiliaries in the field of social, religious, community, literary and dramatic work. All those present were inspired to start injmer diately in making the Auxiliary an asset to the community and to the National Organization.
Rabbi Tarshish of Temple B'nai Israel gave a brief address and offered his services at all times in helping to make the local Auxiliary not only a representative one but "the finest in America; and nothing can prevent us when we have the proper spirit and put forth our best efforts," he declared.
The membership campaign, with Henry Harmon and Dorothy Wolf, chairmen, respectively, of the Boys' and Girls' Membership Teams, was success¬ fully launched and a great many local young folks have become members of the organization during the past week. All young men -and women, be they students' or no, arc urged to join the Auxiliary and,to take an active part in the work. The dues is but one dollar per year, payable to Marcus Wolf, 1-141 Madison Avenue.
NEW YORK—Stirred by the report of the Frankel Commission which went abroad last summer oh behalf of the American Jewish Relief Committee, a campaign is to begin immediately for the collection of the pledges still outstand¬ ing from the National Appeal for Jew¬ ish War Sufferers made last winter and spring. This action was the spontaneous decision arrived at during a dinner given last Thursday night, at the Hotel Penn¬ sylvania by Louis Marshall and Felix M. Warburg to receive the reports of the commission.
David A. Brown,- profoundly moved by what he had seen in the Ukraine, pledged himself to continue his efforts until the last dollar had been collected, and the other members of the commis¬ sion, including Dr. Lee K. Frankel, Dr. Milton Rosenau, David M. Bressler, Morris Wolf and Sjimuel A. Goldsmith, have placed themselves at his disposal. Others who answered the call to re¬ newed action were James A. Becker, -Mrs. Irma May Cantor, Herbert H. Leh¬ man, Louis Marshall, Julius Rosenwald, Jacob Billikopf and Felix M. Warburg.
Dr. Bogen to Return
Dr. Boris Bogen, who returned to this country shortly over a fortnight ago to see his family, announced that he was going back almost immediately to the Ukraine to work side by side with Dr. Jojeph A. Rosen in an effort to save the Jews of that country from destruc¬ tion and to help them back to self-sup¬ port,' The dinner, which was attended by about seventy-five persons repre¬ senting the American. Jewish -Relief Committee, the Central and the People's Relief Committees, was made the occa¬ sion also of a presentation to Colonel William R. Grove, head of the jToint AmeHcan Relief Administration and Joint Distribution Committee Relief Unit in the Ukraine, in appreciation of his humanitarian effort. Colonel Grove was so moved by this presentation that he was hardly able to acknowledge the gift, which was presented to him by Lewis Strauss, acting chairman of the Russian Committee of the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee. ¦
UNIVERSITY OF
VIENNA REOPENS
VIENNA (J. T. A.).—The Uni- versity of Vienna, which had been closed owing to the 4i*or- ders started by German Na¬ tional students, who demanded the introduction of the per cent norm against Jewish .students, has been reopened. But the picketing , of posts prevented Jewish students from entering the Technical and Commercial Universities of Vianna.
Two American Jewish stu¬ dents, who tried to gain admis¬ sion, were beaten up by Ger¬ man iNlationalist students and - were placed under police pro¬ tection.
Marshall's Congratulations
Mr. Warburg, wtio presided over the dinner, presented Mr, Marshall as the first speaker, Mr, Marshall congrat¬ ulated American Jewry on having suc¬ ceeded in securing .the services of a commission which .was in'every way ad¬ mirable, and acknowledged the fine con¬ tribution that had been made to' the cause by the 'Metropolitan Life Insur¬ ance Company by releasing Dr. Frankel - for service on the commission. The commission, said Mr. Marshall, had gone out fully prepared for the work that was expected of it, and had de¬ voted itself to its task with the greatest energy. It had covered an enormous territory. It saw conditions with the' trained eyes of experienced rnen, ,and also with eyes of sympathy. «They were tactful and diplomatic.
. The report, he said,- was an illuminat¬ ing picture ,of European Jewish condi¬ tions. ' The comrhission not only saw, but reported without exaggeration. It gives praise where.due, but does not flatter. , ,
"They have satisfied us that we have saved hundreds of thousands of lives," said Mr. Marshall, "and that we have brought  hope  to  millibns  who   would . otherwise have been doomed to despair.   . They have shown us that the work we have' done is good, but that there re¬ mains, much more to be done, btit; that this is dependent upon the collection of the unpaid pledges, made in good faith, and easily collectible.   But these pledges must be collected at once and as much more new money.obtained as possible." In presenting the report of the com¬ mission. Dr. Frankel, who was the next speaker, took occasion to say that it did not  include cultural activities, because the  Joint  Distribution  Committee had appointed Dr. Judah L. Magnas a special commissioner to study that phase of its activities.
David A, Brown told the gathering that he had shed enough tears in the last four months to last him a life¬ time. He had believed that he had passed the emotional stage, but the suf¬ fering he came into contact with had moved him to distraction. "And I did not see the worst," he went on. "Yet I feel that Dante's description of the In¬ ferno is mild compared to what I saw in the Ukraine,"
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