Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-11-10

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Vohiiiic III^—No. 12
COLUMBUS, OHIO, NOVEMBER lo, 1922 ,
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy ioc
CRITICS GOT THEIR INFORMATION IN HOTELXOBBIES
Declared Dr. Nathan Krass Who
Had   Visited   War   Stricken
Coiintries of Europe
ASKS CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR OUR UNFORTUNATES
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NEW YORK. —The so-called rich Jews of 'Vienna, .against whom the fin- get of scorn has been pointed in many quarters, for their alleged failure to help their unfortunate brethren, are not rich at all, says Dr. Nathan Krass, who vis¬ ited Eiiropcan countries last Summer..
"It would be humorous if it were not so sad," said Dr. Krass, "to contem¬ plate the plight of these men. On the face of things thcy are wealthy, very wealthy. Yes, thcy have fine homes, elegantly furnished; they have art gal¬ leries ; they wear good clothes, and all that sort of thing. But the krone is falling so rapidly down that bottoml6ss pit in which all Continental money is falling that any day they may be wiped out. Any day thcy too may have to be on the bread-line.
"Nevertheless they are doing their duty, on the main, and as far as they are,able in view of the circumstances. Under the leadership of Gemeindesrath Julius Neuman, one of the foremost Jews of 'Vienna, many of them are rais¬ ing funds locally for orphan care. Herr Neuman, a cultured, charming^ public- spirited man, made a fine contribution to the fund, and so did many others, though when they did they were facing bankruptcy. I was very glad to co¬ operate with them in a small way.
Very   Easy   to  Criticize
"It's very easy to criticize the sp-called rich Jews of Europe if you sit around in the lobbies of palatial hotels and give ear to every malicious, anti-semitic re- 'mark about 'profiteers' and 'exploiters' and men with hearts of stone. That's how so many Jews who have come back from Europe loudly protesting that the Jews over there don't need our help got their information. It's a great pity that those critic? of European Jews didn't take the trouble to go into the centers of
B'NAI B'RITH DAY TO
BE CELEBRATED NEXT
MONDAY, NOV. ZOTH
Next Monday evening, Nov. 13th, there will be no meeting of Zion Lodge No. 62, 1. O. B. B. Biit on the Monday follow¬ ing, Nov. 20th, a most elaborate program is being prepared, for the annual celebration of B'nai B'rith Day, an event which Co¬ luinbus Jewry will long remem¬ ber. Prominent' speakers . and entertainers of unusual ability will be had for this occasion
Complete details of. B'nai B'rith Day celebration will ap¬ pear in the forthcoming issue of  the "Chronicle."
REMEMBER TO SET ASIDE
NOV.   20TH    FOR    OPEN
B'NAI B'RITH DAY
MEETING
Dr. McConnell Renounces Basic Christian Faith
Episcopal Clergyman, 50 Years in Service, Writes Book, Deny¬ ing Divinity of Qurist
50 YRS., HE SAYS, IS LONG ,    ENOUGH CONSIDERATION
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need is. They would have seen enough to make their hearts sick, to bave made them eager to help. They would have seen hunger and disease, they would have seen wretchedness and " despair. Thy would have heard American Jewry spoken of in terms of gratitude' and loye. They would have seen martyrdom. They might not have had such a pleas¬ ant time of it, but they would not have come back here saying Europe doesn't need our help."
Didn't Sit Around
Dr. Krass didn't sit around. He went ahd saw. In Vienna he saw a great hall in which university professors, peda¬ gogues, writers, men and women of th6 small bourgeoise were seated around long tables and dining as guests of the Joint Distribution Committee He dined with them and heard their expressions of gratitude to the Jews of America.
In Carlsbad he was the guest of the municipality, but he accepted nothing except the honor. The rest he paid for as if he were an ordinary tourist. ''It wasn't to me, as an individual, that this honor was shown," he says. "Through nie, because I have done a little for s^ififering Europe, Carlsbad sought to ex- (Concludcd on page 7.)
(Associated "Press)
NEW YORK. —The Rev. Dr. Sam¬ uel Davis McConnell, once rector of Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn, and for half a century a widely known clergy¬ man of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in a book just-published, renounces the faith upon which Christian churches are founded, dismisses as incredible the miracles recounted in the New Testa¬ ment and denies the divinity of Christ.
The cover of the hook bears the fol¬ lowing :
"I have been for fifty years a minister in a. church. I entered the ministry with enthusiasm, believing as I did that the church ^was the one organization in the world of divine institution, that it owed •its origin to 'Jesus Christ and.that He was the unique Son of  God.    I have
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that none of these things are true."
"Paganism   in   the   Church"
The church. Dr. McConnell believes, has in it much more of paganism than of the life of Christ, and he asserts that many, if not most, of the ceremonies of the church are far older than .Christ, some of them springing, he says, from the time of primitive man.
The known facts of the life of Jesus Christ, Dr. McConnell says in a chapter entitled "Jesus of the Gospels," would fill less than a' column of newspaper space, and he says that far less is known of Him than- of several other person¬ ages of the time.
His   Brief  Explanation
Dr. McConnell's explanation of his book is brief.
"So far I have been silent," he says. "I wapted to be sure before speaking. Fifty years is surely long enough for consideration. Now I openly avow my convictions-and leave it to the church to do with me as it sees,fit. But I confess I do so with the hope that, after I have said "all I have to say, the church may decide that I, and such as I, have a place in its ministry."
Dr. McConnell is now living in retire¬ ment near Easton, Md.
Upward of two hundred Jewish com munity centers throughout the Unitettj States are making elaborate arranged ments for the celebration of Armistid§ Day, on. Saturday evening, Noyembef 11, or the following Sunday, according to a standard program arranged at the executive offices of the Jewish Welfare Hoard.
At many of these celebrations the pro¬ gram will include the participation of war veterans and "gold star mothers" who gave up their sons on the altar of American patriotism. Rolls of honor, bearing the names of members of the center or of the Jewish community who made the supreme sacrifice will be dis¬ played or be made part of the printed program.
The standard program prepared for this occasion by the ,Jewish Welfare ^ Board takes cognizance of the fact that Ihe holiday is also the first anniversary of the hurial at Arlington, the national cemetery, of the Unknown Soldier. It includes, among other features, the ad¬ dress of President Harding - on that solemn and historic occasion, during the course of which he said of the nameless hero whose sacred ashes were interred in the American pantheon:
"He might have come from any one of the millions of American homes. Some mother gave him in her love and tenderness and with him her. most cher¬ ished hopes. He may have been a na¬ tive or an adopted son; that matters lit¬ tle, because they glorified the same loy¬ alty, they sacrificed alike. We do not know his station in life, because from every station came the patriotic re¬ sponse of the five million. The service (lag marked mansion and cottage alike and  riches  were common to all homes
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be program   includes  also  a   Bible
^.(liiig, Micah, Chapter IV, verses' 1. to
fjticluslvc, singing of patriotic songs, a
tltc to the flag by the audience, pa-
ioti':- addresses  and  appropri.-itc cxcr-
Wscs.   It (.;ivcs the text of the address
r^livcred  by  General   Pershing  at  the
¦|urial of the Unknown Soldier and an
idre>,s by Dr. Cyrus Adler, chairman
f the Committee on Army and  Navy
pivitici of the Jewish Welfare Board
the same occasion.
"^'rhj., standard program  will  in many
taiuH's be utilized by other than Jew-
^ orRanizations and other public and
ivate organizations which plan fo ob-
vc Armistice Day,
lln addition to  the  striking  features eady   noted   the    Welfare    Board's rtdard  program  includes  also   selec- 'Jis of the best prose and poetry in- ited by America's participation in the orld war, tbc inspiring scenes at Ar- gton in honor of The Unknown and 0' selections   in   the   same   spirit   by iters of earlier days. The total number of Jews in the serv- fi|e during the war is estimatel at from ^OjOno to 225,000, or four per cent of ^(^ armed forces of the United States, fjbe proportion of the Jews in this coun¬ try, bting but three percent of the total Population.   40,000 Jewish soldiers and '' ilors, or 20 per cent of the entire con- gcnt, were volunteers.    Citations for lor were awarded to 1100 Jews, 723 the American command, 287 by the 'eiich, 33 by thq British and 48 by other allied commands.   Of the 78 Congres- ional  Medals   of  Honor,  three   were "i&yarded to Jews.   150 Jewish soldiers '.^' -/ . (.Concluded an page 7.)
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MR. SIDNEY KUSWORM OF DAYTON TO ADDRESS 6. S. U. MENORAH SUNDAY
The next regular mpeting of the Q. S. U. Menorah Society will take 'place Sunday, Nov. 12th, at 2:45, at the Ohio Union Bldg.. This meeting will be a very important one and it is hoped that all members as well as non-members will be sure to- attend.
Mr. Sidney Kusworm, an orator of national prominence, , will be the 'speaker (or the occasion. . Mr. Emerson Gill and Mr. Ted Thall will be re¬ sponsible for the musical '^ro- : gram.
You are all  welcome.
REMEMBER  SUNDAY,  NOV.
12, 2:45 P. M. AT THE OHIO
UNION
Over Two Thousand Attend Dedication of Hebrew School
Louis Marshall's Letter on Edu¬ cation to Stimulate Work in Columbus
H500 RECEIVED FOR
SCHOOL DURING THE DAY
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WHY THE JEWS SUCCEED
THEY VALUE EDUCATION, THEY GET IT, AND THEY USE IT
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright, 1922, by Star Company. Republished from the "Today" column in the New York American.
New York's leading Jews—rabbis and laymen—pledged their aid to the great¬ est movement ever undertaken to bring Jews back to Judaism at a dinner given recently by Mr. Adolph S. Ochs at the Metropolis Club. They organized them¬ selves into a committee under Mr. .Ochs' leadership, 'to arrange for the fiftieth anniversary convention of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in New York City, J.anuary 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 2,ith, 1923, at .which the move¬ ment for Jewish education will be launched. This committee will include the beads of every synagogue in Ndw York City, reform or orthodoz, affiliated or not afiiliated -with the Union.
In addresses that voiced the Jew's pride-ii\Jbi8IIpeople, a group of notable
EVERY KU KLUX TO BE DRIVEN FROM STATEJF KANSAS
Governor Allen Annoimcesl State
Will Act Immediately to Stem
Their Activities
GREATEST CURSE TO
ANY CIVILIZED PEOPLE
SEMINARY HONORS SCHIFF'S MEMORY
Tablet Unveilefi at Opening of Jewish Theological School—Dr. Cyrus
Adler, Rabbi Max Drob Officiate—Members of the Schiff
Family Attend.Exercises
NEW YORK. —The memory of Jacob H. Schiff, who was perhaps the largest benefactor of the Jewish Theo¬ logical Seminary, was honored by the instructors, alumni and students of the institlition .at the opening assembly of the seminary Sunday night. ¦ A tablet in his memory,, which-has heen placed by the graduate rabbis at the entrance, was  unveiled. .
In accepting the bronze, memorial. Dr. Cyrus Adler, acting president of the school, revealed another instance of the late philarithropist's modesty.
About 25 years ago, said Dr. Adler, Mr. Schiff decided that the seminary required'a suitable building. The site ,was f6und at 531 West One Hundred and Twenty-third street. When the architect's plans were broufifht to him for consideration, Mr. Schiff found that provision vvas made for the placing of % tablet in the structure with the in¬ scription, "This building was erected for.the Jewish Theological Seminary bjr Jacob..H,:,Schiff.'* Without a mo¬ ment's hesitation, said Pr. Adler, the
philanthropist took his pen and struck out his name, saying he did not wish it to be mentioned.
When the building was completed, the officers asked if he would allow a portrait to be made and hung in the seminary, hall. "Duriilg my lifetime," Dr. Adler quoted tlie benefactor as saying, ''I do not wish to have any memorials of this sort."
Rabbi Drob's Tribute
Rabbi Max Drob unvejled the memo¬ rial.       ¦
"To the world," he said, ''Mr. Schiff stands pre-eminent as a philanthropist —^one who responded willingly and gladly to the cry bf charities. But to us, the alumni of this institution, he was the patron of Hebrew literature, the Maecenas who helped Jewish scholarship. It was Jacob H. Schiff that made possible the erection of the seminary; that made possible the trans¬ lation of the Bible; that endowed this institution with his money and greatly enlarged our library; that erected the iConcludled on page 7.)
When the third-star appeared in the evening, and the shofar was blown, the Jews ended the celebration of their New Year No. 5C83, according to the Jewish calendar.
For live thousand six hundred and eighty-two years the Jews have lasted as.a working, united, intelligiint, civiliz¬ ing force on this earth. And long be¬ fore thelrj calendar began, thousands of years.before calendars or recorded his¬ tory existed, the Jews were at work carrying their share of the earth's bur¬ den.
They have endured and overcome bru¬ tality, superstition, persecution .and the vile hatred thiit envies success, and the worse hatreds based on religious intol¬ erance.
They have seen nations that drove them out, like Spain and Portugal; go down. They have seen nations that wel¬ comed them, like Holland, England and America, rise up.
They have seen their mother city, Jerusalem, returned to her own people. And they begin their year, five thousand six hundred and eighty-three, more pow¬ erful in the'world, more useful to the world, than ever.
Whence come the power of the Jews, their endurance, vitality, and efficiency? Look for the answer in their history, in Talmudic writings, riot to the ignorant lying of Jew haters.        •    .     '
The Jewish mind, sees, thinks and works clearly.    .       ' .
The story of Jewish success, hs. main¬ spring, is found in the maxims of. Ga¬ maliel, Shammai and Hillel. ' When iron was created the trees be¬ gan to tremble. The iron ask?d, "Why do you tremble? If none of ypur wood will join me, I shall remain harmless."
It is the wooden handle of the steel axe that cuts down' the trees. Avoid evil and you are safe.
."Adversity is the true school of the mind."
Much wisdom is in that Talmudic saying.
The hiistory of the Jews proves its
truth.    Their enemies have forced suc¬ cess upon them.
Young ladies and old might write on their tablets this piece of Jewish wis¬ dom:
"Cold water, morning and evening, is better than all the cosmetics."
After the Great Alexander died, all the earth's nations created myths about him. He Was shown flying in the clouds, traveling in the ocean's depths.
This is the Talmudic story. Turned awa^ from heaven, Alexander took with him a small piece of a skull. It out- w'eighed in the balance great piles pf gold and silver. But when a little dirt was scattered over it, it weighed noth¬ ing.   ~
Here is the explanaiton:
"Great king, this fragment of bone is the part in which the human eye is en¬ closed, and, although in its extent lim¬ ited, it is nevertheless unlimited in its desires; the more it has the more it wants; neither gold nor silver nor any earthly possession is. able to satiate its wishes. But, being once in the grave and covered with earth, there it finds a limit for all its eager desires."
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Krass, Judge Irving Lehman, Daniel Frohman, Judge Jtjlius Mayer, Mor¬ timer L. Schiff, Philip J. Goodhart, Meier Steinbrink and Mr. Ochs, de¬ clared that the remedy for all the ills that obsess modern Judaism, of which anti-Semitism is agreed to be the fore¬ most, is more Judaism.
, For Jewish Education
Mr. Ochs declared:
"It is time that we instilled into our children the feeling that to be-a Jew is not an impediment. The Jew who stands up for his Judaism, proud of his faith, invariably has the respect and ad¬ miration of his fellow citizens of every creed."
That the Jewish youth is, itself, seek¬ ing and craving for spiritual leadership was emphasized by Judge Irving Leh¬ man, who is head of the Y. M. H. A.¬ Jewish Welfare Board movement. "The young Jew needs the message of Ju¬ daism," he declared. "He is groping for spiritual leadership, and not finding it, is drifting away from his faith, re¬ ciprocating the indifference with which his own aspirations have been met." Judge Lehman declared that the ortho¬ dox youth as well as the young man and woman of reform Jewish parentage (Concluded on page 7.)
KANSAS CITV. —"It has intro-- duced in Kansas the. greatest curse that can come to any civilized people—the curse that arises out of the unrestrained passions of men governed by religious intolerance arid racial hatred."
\yith this declaration regarding the in¬ fluence of the Ku Klux Klan in present day affairs in the State of Kansas, Gov¬ ernor Henry J Allen announced at a giithcring at the Jefferson Theater in Coffeyville recently that he has in¬ structed Richard J. Hopkins, Attorney General of this State, to institute imme¬ diate action, to expel every official of the Klan from Kansas,
Excitement was intense at the meeting, which was the largest in the history of the community. Just as he Governor was denouncing the Klan as a secret or¬ der operating without first obeying the laws by seeking a Charter through" the Secretary of State, as other fraternal and social organizations have ^ done, fifty persons in the theater arose and walked out Of the hall.
Pausing in his speech, the Governor hurled at them the warning that if they were members ,of the Klan they had better be on their way as the Attorney General would soon be on their trail.
To  Bring Action
"I am here to tell you -very frankly that I have directed the Attorney Gen¬ eral to bring an action against the offi¬ cials of the Klan to expel them from the State," said' the Governor in his speech.
"We confront in Kansas an astonish¬ ing development of prejudice, racial and religious. • '
"It is seeking to establish the un- American idea that we can improve the conditions in the State by turning the rights of government over to a masked organization  w.bi^ arrogates to r itself
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"It has set up th'e incredible pt^ilosophy that we require religious instruction from masked men whose characters and capacities are concealed by disguise.
"In the South and in the Far West it has committed many crimes upon the. individual,, and only recently has in¬ vaded this State, which was builded strongly upon respect for law and' or¬ der, and has given us the shocking ex¬ hibition at Liberal, Kan., of taking the mayor of the town by violence, carry¬ ing him to a secluded place and whip¬ ping him because he -refused to allow this masked society to hold a meeting in his hall.
"I* has introduced in Kansas the greatest curse that can come to any civilized people—the curse that arises otit of the unrestrained passions of men governed by religious intolerance and racial hatred.
"It brings chaos and hatred and menace to every law-abiding citizen who may fall victim to the private quarrels and animosities of men who hide their identity behind a mask.
"If we deliberately allow this organi¬ zation to take the law into its own hands then we break down all the safeguards of sotiety."
TO CONSIDER PALESTINE OBUanONS
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Prime Minister Declares Britain Cannot Consider Merely \^at Pays to Do;  Many Papers Demand Immediate With¬ drawal From Palestine
LONDON   (J.   T.   A.).—Using  the  what will pay us to do.   We must con-
Stupid prejudice, some of it in pre¬ tentious little private schools, some in pretentious big Harvard College, would discriminate against the Jews,and cheat them of education.
Too late for that/ The Jews know education's value and will have' it. private schools, to find Jews: LOOK Whether you enter public schools or AT THE HEAD OF THE CLASS! .
In the days of Tiberius the Jews went through their period of false and ne¬ glected education. They wasted time wrangling over "the law." Their chil¬ dren's minds were stupefied as are the minds of Mohammedan children today, with foolish repetition of meaningless formulas.   A Talmudic maxim says:
"Jeruslaem was destroyed because the instruction of the young was neglected,"
Jews,   Itkei   others,   seek   for   fame,
money, honor.   But before all they put
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statement of Prime Minister Bonar Law as .the text for editorial leaders and statements by men prominently identi¬ fied with the present onslaught on Zion¬ ism, a section'of the London press to¬ day urges the immediate withdrawal of British from Palestine.
Speaking at Leeds. Saturday the Prime Minister had declared that. he was being bombarded with requests to state whether the new government would leave Mesopotamia and Pales¬ tine.' "Apparently," he . said, "Asquith Says he would leave these countries. This is because Asquith has complete confidence that whatever haippens at this election, he will not form a-new government. I have confidence that the government of which I am the head will continue after the election. How, then, could I give a pledge like that? All I can say is this: I shall examine the matter vpry carefully. We cannot with our record as a nation consider merely
sider to what extent we are bound by obligations."
Angry because Bonar Law did not promise to clear out of Mesopotamia and Palestine,, the Weekly Despatch predicts that the present goyernmcnt . will have a very short life. Lord Isling¬ ton, who was responsible for the ad¬ verse Palestine vote in the House of Lords, has an article in the same paper, urging immediate evacuation because of the mandatory system is too costly. Es¬ mond Harmsworth, brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, declares he declined an offer to take the under-Secretary- ship in the Ministry of Education be¬ cause the government would give ttb promise to withdraw from Mesopotamia and Palestine.    >
Writing in \xXe Sunday Express, Lord Beaverbrook, another brother of the late Lord Northcliffe, asserts that the ma>st Urgent issue at the moment is to evac¬ uate Mesopotamia and Palcistine, 'liatf and baggage,",and that at once.