Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-11-17

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Voiuinc III—-No. T3
COLUMBUS, OHIO. I^WEMBER  17,  1922
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CHICAGO OPENS WAR ON KUKLUX ORGANIZATION
B a n k eC s   and   Business   Men
Known to Be Members are
Being Boycotted
NAMES MADE PUBLIC JURORS BARRED BY JUDGE
CHICAGO. — To be a. member of the Ku Klux Klan in,Illinois, and par¬ ticularly in Chic<igo, these, days is to in¬ vite social o.stracism and business' dis¬ aster. The fact is slowly but surely be¬ ing driven into the minds of the 50,000 or so iticinbcrs of the .secret organiza¬ tion in atid around this city.
The opposition to the Ku Klux Is well organized, persistent and unrelenting. In a city in which the foreign born prc- domiiialcs, in wfilcli the ncc;ro population alone Is In excess pf 110,000, In which the members of the Roman Catholic Church number approximately 1,200,000 and the Jews ri.'i.OOO or more, it is not surprising that there is deep-rooted dis¬ like of the Ku Klux Klan and the prin¬ ciples for which it stands. The foreign- born, the,Catholic, the Jew and the ne¬ gro constitute a powerful fo,e to the Ku Klux Klan and are a unit in oppo¬ sition to it.
As a consequence Chicago Is witness¬ ing some curious happcnfiigs. One Judge refuses.to permit members of the Klan to serve as jurors In his court, business men known to be members of the or¬ ganization are being boycotted, and one of the big 'banks is losing business be¬ cause some of its directors and oflicials are .suspected of affiliation with the Klan.
So powerful is the wave of resentment that within the last few weeks the Presi¬ dent of- another bank, one of Chicago's larger financial institutions, was forced to resign when his name was listed as a member of the Klan by a periodical which is the official organ of the anti- Klan org<inization. This . publication bears the name of "Tolerarice," and is the official mouthpiece of the .American Unity League, founded in Chicago last Summer to coipbat tlic Klan ' and its theories.
•,  Klan.  Membership   Published
 In  a-rec<int  issue'"Tdleraric;e.V liegan
the publication of lists of names of prominent Chicagoans affiliated with the Klan, and it announces that the names of additional members in Chicago, and officials in other cities, will be tnade publia In subsequent issues. This has caused considerable alarm in the rank? of the local Klansmen.
In explanation of its action Tolerance says:
"The American Unity League believes the public is entitled to know the names of the men who have taken the oath of allegiance to the 'Invisible Wizard.'
"Many of them are using every effort to persecute their fellow-Americans who happen to be of the Jewish race, the ne¬ gro race, the Catholic faith or foreign tongue. Why any 100 per cent Ameri¬ can .organization shduld wish to keep its membership secret and why true pa- .triots should exert every effort to keep their affiliation with such an organiza- fion secret is a question that can have but one answer."
According to officials of the Amet-ican Unity League, that organization is in possession of virtually all the names of the 50,000 klansmen in Chicago, and con- templates carrying out its announced (Concluded on page 7.)
RISE  IN  BRITISH
EXPORTS TO PALESTINE
LONDON (j. t. A.) —Not¬ withstanding a year Of eco¬ nomic depression . and political upheavals throughout the East, British exports to Palestine will this year show a consider¬ able increase over those of the previous year. It is 'Expected thftt the exports to Palestine will amount to : over 1,250,000 pounds by tho end of 1922, as against 845,000 pounds in 1921.
Law Works Hardship On Immigrant Women Says Council Leader
Present Practice Concerning In¬ coming Alien Wives Will Have to be Altered
SEPARATION OF WIFE
FROM CITIZEN HUSBAND
Zion Lodge I.O.B.B. to Celebrate B'nm B'rith Day Monday Evening, Nov. 20
Alfred A. Benesch of Cleveland Will Address Mass Meeting to be Held at the Woodman Hall-^ Other Prominent Speakers, on   the  Program—^I^usical Program of .
¦ Special Merit Also Arranged
NOT ONLY THE GENERAL MEMBERSHIP BUT THE
GENERAL PUBLIC AS WELL INVITED TO ATTEND
700% BEN B'RITH ON B'. B'. PROGRAM
PMOTO OV OflKf if
DWIN ,
'Schanfarber
/NEW YOKK.—In the October issue of The Immigrant, the monthly bulletin of the National Department of Immi¬ grant Aid, Council of Jewish Women, thci;e appears a very tliorough discus¬ sion of the recent citizenship legislation affecting alien women or women mar¬ ried to foreign citizens. The dangers and difficulties of this legislation Icnoivii as the Cable Act, arc thus analyzed by .Miss Cecilia Ra/ovsky, the Department's Secretary: ¦   ¦
"On September 2i, 1.022, there was enacted into the laws of the United States, to take effect iintnedlately, a bill of far-reaching importance to women the world over. By this law, known as the Cable Act, generally speaking, the right of any woman to become a naturalized citizen o'f the United States may not be denied or abridged because of her sex or because .she is a married woman.
,  Foreign Born Critical Position
"When the news was flashed over the. world that "America by this legislation had'-thus, Officially conceded^that every woman is an independent human being' there was great rejoicing in many quar¬ ters. The pen with which Presidetit Harding affixed his signature to the bill was presented by him to Mrs. Maude Wood Park, who led the club women pf Amenica in urging the passage of this measure. We, too, are in whole-hearted syirtpatby with a uioveinent of this kind and we congratulate the women of America on the successful struggle they waged to acliiove their end. Neverthe¬ less, vve must face the grave and in¬ dubitable truth that while the American women gain by the passage of the Cable Act, the forclgn-born women find them¬ selves in a peculiarly unfortunate and unliappy position as a result of the clause which deprives them of the priv¬ ilege of assuming their husband's cit¬ izenship.     '
The Alien Wife
"Let Us take, for example, the present iinniigration laws which confer upon'the foreign iporti wife of a naturalized cit- zen the rights of citizenship upon her arrival at Ellis Island. Up to the pres¬ ent time if it were found that the. alien wife of a naturalized'citizen'was suffer¬ ing from some curable disease she would not be detained but would be admitted to the United States. Or she might be* treated at the immigration station hospital, if necessary, without •charge. Now she' will be regarded as an alien, and many of the privileges heretofore granted her will be revoked.
"That the present practice concerning incoming alien wives of naturalized cit¬ izens will have to be altered to conform to this new law, we have no doubt.
"Then, too, there is the horrible dan¬ ger of deportation which may face the alien wife of a naturalized citizen for the first five years of her residence in this colintry, unless she can secure, in the interim, her naturalization certificate. Should ,the,woman, through accident or at child birth, be takeii tea public hos- phal because the citizen husband is un¬ able to pay for her treatinciit in a pri¬ vate institution, is she to be reported as an alien ,who has become a public charge? And, if she is ordered de¬ ported, can any one view with com¬ placency, thq terrible effect of separation of wife from citizen husband, and mother from children who are also cit¬ izens? It is easy to meef this objection with the query, 'Why should ijot this alien woman have beciinie ah American citizen,?' But the practical'dtfTiculties of such a step during the first few busy years of the wife and mother's stay in the new country are familiar to all who have done work with foreignTborn wc^ln- cn.   It is doubtful whethfer the framers
From every sbui'ce i.-S heard totnnien- dation and> praise for the inagiiificent achievements of the Indcpciutcnt Order of U'nal IJ'rIth In America and inter¬ nationally.
Appealing tci the .American Jews to¬ day, more, than' any one other phase of Its program, arc tlie anti-dcfaniation activities carried on by the f. O. B. B. Keepilig down to a niininium the causes of prejudice against Jews in America by a systematic educational canlpaigri has required the time and effort of some of our most proiniiiciit Jews, and
Ai.Fi(i:i) .\.  BenescIi their  work has been  fruitful  to an al¬
most   miraculous   degree.    Maintaining
orphanages, homes  for the widow and
hospitals  for the sick are a  few other
phases of the noble work carried on by
the order,    i
Columbus  has always  rccognize.d  thb:
valuable work of the I. O. B. B. - Th'eL
local  lodge has always uphelid, its". fairy]?!        - i -ui
u-   -    e-^i^A ¦¦'iJ' ^--fi ''f**?', !»SS«!ii>!T''/ t everyone come as early as possible share of the Tjurddn.    The local oflTieersr,-w-^- .,,   , ,    ....     ,'        s
,. .     „ ,    'as  no  one  will  be  admitted  after  the
are making an energetic effort to make , ,    .,., .„ ,
program has cominenccd.    lliere will be
iiitiTcsting Mass Meetings ever held In this citv. Mondriy evening, Nov. 20. at S'ioM'.tlc, at the Woodinan Hall, Main St., near Third.
' Il will be the eclcbratlon of H'lial It'rith [);ij, an annual event, the pttiv pose of wliieh is to stimulate and arouse greater interest in the great work of the I. O. R. \i. For this occasion the local lodge has arranged an elabomlc proRram ineludiiig readings, musical, r^^^nl!)ers and addresses by Ibcal men of proiiiitieiice. Mr Alfred A. Rencsch of Cleveland, 2n(l Viee-Prc>i(Ient of Dis¬ trict flrand Lodge No. 2, and former director of Public Service of Cleveland under Newton B.iker, will be the chief speaker of the evening.        f
.'The following program .will be given : Qpciiing Prayer. .Rabbi Jacob Tarshish Address of Welcome... .A. B. Weinfeld
Vical Solo lielty  Haker Horton
Mrs. Horton at the Piano. Humorous Reading.. .Goldie Silverman
Vocal Solo Jean Paullin
Mrs. Paullin at tlie Piano. .
Duet Ruth Dick and. Jean Paullin
VJical Solo ; Ruth Dick
ifrs. Dick—Accompanist. Irtfrotluction of Alfred A. Benesch of
'iClevcland Edwin  J.  Schanfarber
/j.ddress—"The   Jews' and   Our   Col-
¦flcges" AI fred   A.   Benesch
Qlosinj? Pravcr Rabbi I. Werni
r
Owing ^to   the   great   Importance   at-
.fp^iied. to the observance of B'nai B'rith
[ay this year, a very large'assembly- is
iccted, and  it is therefore requested
ASK AMERICAN AID TO
UNEARTH ClTv. OF DAVID
JERUSALEM (J. T; A.)—The
aid is il^vited of Governments . that are members of the League of Nations as well as of Archae¬ ological societies in the United States engaged in excavations in Palestine, in the task of lay¬ ing bare the site of the City of David in Jerusalem. The invi¬ tation has been extended by the Government of Palestine.
Brilliant Affair of Temple Sisterhood Crowned With Success
Over 500 Attend the First Annual
Supper and Entertainment
Sunday Evening
LOUIS MARSHALL REPORTS DECLINE OF ANTI-SEMITISM
Situation of Jews Improving, is
President's Report to Amer.
Jewish Committee
BOOTLEGGING "RABBIS" DENOUNCED AT MEETING
the Columbus lodge one of the .stroggeSi
no admission charge.
in the district and are extending a cor¬ dial invitation to the entire Jewish' Re^nember—Monday Evening, Nov. community of Colun,ibus and vicinity'ZOth — at 8 O'clock — Woodman Hali to attend one of the  largest,and most' — Main Near Third.
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Americanizing Our Universities
By JAMES G. HELLER (Rabbi, Plum Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Part of the aftermath o£ the war has been the intensification and .spread of the malady of anti-Semitism. 'The ills i engendered in the various body-politics I are nowhere more perceptible than in the attitude of the natipns toward the Jew, Nor have we in Anierica come out unscathed. Though comparatively our land is a healthy man among invalids,— there are danger-signals for him wh'i can see.
The newspapers and Jewish periodi¬ cals have been full of the Jewish ques¬ tion at Harvard. In informal meeting a number of Jewish students were asked whether they would agree to the limita¬ tion of the Jews in the college to some definite percentage. The faculty took rash action, and then rescinded it in fa¬ vor of an impartial investigation. The President of the University has practi¬ cally committed himself to the idea of restriction,—say, to a percentile of "I'V*. A new questionnaire has been issued to applicants for admission, requiring in¬ formation as to their "race and color," "what change, it any, has been made since birth in your oWn name or that of your . father," their birthplace, interests, etc. And liO.amount of assertion that all this is fpr statistics only, will alliiy the suspicion that it is tobe used for purposes of discrimination.
A Disturbing Manifestation
It is natural that many of our Jevyish protagonists should have hurled tliein- selves into the fray, and leaped hot- headedly to the combat. It is natural, because, considered ' maturely, this pro¬ posal at Harvjird is the most disturbing manifestation of anti-Semitism in Amer¬ ica up to date. That a university which prides itself upon its fine quality of ihib- llc service, which ^stands for the noblest traditions,—that a President who is a iiian of fine feeling, a liberal, and a democrat, should seriously meditate, siich a step,-.-is surely a phenomenon that merits attention. And yet we shall gain of this law took into consideration these j nothing, by intemperate accusation, by fearful but possible consequences." flinging   epithets.    Rather   weigh   the
meaning   of   this, situation   cilmly   and judiciously.
The causes of the action are plain enough. Harvard has not withheld its reasons. The percentage of Jcwisli stu¬ dents has been growing rapidly, es¬ pecially those from the East Side of Roston,—men-who do not reside on the university campus, nor Sake part in the student-activities; men who do not miii- gle with the student-body In ' general; whose moral standards are lower, Wc are told, than the average; who threaten to disrupt the collOge by. the storm of prejudice they arouse, and to tlrive non- Jewish as well as Jewish parents, who.se sons are most desirable, to send them elsewhere. Says the President: "The best way to prevent anti-Semitism from growing at 'H.arvard is to keep tlie num¬ ber of Jews within bounds.-" .And .so the argument runs.
Treason to America
•At first glance, even admitting all this to be true, though it is probably far from true, where is the validity of the argument? The foregoing is testimony to .one of two things: ei.ther to a spirit of intoleraucein the non-Jewish stiident- bpdy, or tp inadequate entraiice-require- nieiits as to character,, etC; It may be that our cptivictions are too iinich set, but my own reaction was and Is to any proposal of restrictioii on the basis of race and creed: it is treason to America. The fifteen amendment of the Constitu- tlpu pf the United States: "The right pf citizens pf the U. S. tp vpte shall not be denied pr abridged by the U. S. or by any state, on accpuiit of race, colpr, or previous conditipn pf servitude," applies in principle tP Harvard, tpp, since it Is in .fact a public institiitipni rendering a public service. I wish I-had time tP ap ply especially that last phrase: "previpus cpiiditipn of servitude." We all know fhe historic conditipn^ put pf which if grew. But, think for a nipment,-whether these ambitipus and vigorous sons pf Israel may not be frowned upon just be- (Concluded on page 8.)
FUTURE AFFAIRS NOW
LOOKED FORWARD TO
One of the mo.st brilliant socl:ll and artistic affairs ever lield In the city of Columbus took place at the Bryden Road Temple. Sunday eveninu;, November 12th.' Members of the Temple, their .wives and frieiul.s, and a representative student body of the O. S. U., all num¬ bering over five hundred people, were present.
'riic.. occasion Was the -.firsl of this \ear'.s. suppers and entertainments given under the auspices of the Temple Sister¬ hood, and was one of those affairs where not a discordant note marred the har¬ mony of the whole, and when every mo¬ ment was o'ne of thorough enjoyment. Among those most conspicupus' In the audience were Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, spiritual'leader pf Temple B'nai Israel', and Ted Lewis, headliner.at the Hart¬ man, Theatre the past week, bpth pf whom entered Into the spirit pf the evening In a most enthusiastic manner.
The "Kitchei^ Cabinet Orchestra"
The "Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra" made its debut that evening, and judging by the elicitation of encore after cncpre on the part of the enthusiastic audien'ce, the Cincinnati, Boston and .Detroit' Sym^ phony Orchestras had -better '-Ipok-'to their laurels when once this, our own orchestra, gains national reputation. Cpnippsed pf abput thirty members of the SiEjtcrhopd, most pf whom, until iipw, were "great unknpwns" in so far as music is cpncerned, the "Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra" wpn its place in the heart pf everyone present because of the unusual feeling and dramatic inter¬ pretation of the selections played.
Mr.s. Nathan Gumble proved herself so great an orchestra leader that we fear tlie future will find her taking honors from Sousa and Gabrllowitch. Those music lovers among the audience, who are, by the way, "real critics," felt that a great deal of credit for the success of this orchestra was due to Mrs, 1. A. Rosenthal, the perfect "Tubby Essing¬ ton" Drum Major, whose "mop" left a "clean" impression pn the minds of the audience that she, and no other, could execute that part in such an ex¬ cellent manner.
Those who were fortunate enou.gh to have enjoyed this entertainment, are now looking forward with keen anticipa¬ tion to the forthcoming affairs of the Temple Sisterhood.
The program was as follows:
Part I
Sweet Evalina  The Chorus
Duet — Rpbin   Adair   	
..Mrs. Sam Fpx, Mrs. Gcp. Gppdman (Concluded on page 7.)
NEW YORK.—Anti-Semitism Is np Ipngcr a fprce which, Jews have to fear, except in .Central and East European countries where reactionary elements, and particularly the remnants pf the Monarchist ' parties in Germany, are makuig hatred of the 'Jews a hand¬ maiden of their political schemes, was the reassuring report of Louis Mar¬ shall. President of the .\nicricail Jewish Committee, to over sixty Jewish leaders frpin all parts of the country assembled Iu the sixteenth annual meeting of the Committee Sunday morning at Hotel .•\stnr.. Mr. , Marshall declared aiiti- Semitispi still exists In Latvia, Ppland and Hungary and th.-jt these together with .Austria and _ "to a lesser extent," Rouinania, arc not endeavpriiig "to' honor the letter and the spirit" of the political principles covered under "Mi¬ nority Rights." .'\side from .this, neither in Europe nor in the United States is feeling against the Jew being cultivated by any except a few irresponsible bigots to whom the .American people will pay no attention. The nptprious work 'of Henry Foi'd in the Dearborn Independ¬ ent has djminlshed until it appears now In thp form of a comparatively Ilttle- circulatcd pamphlet.
Turn For Better
The report pointed out that the eco¬ nomic life of the Jew was taking a dis¬ tinct turn for the better in Europe and that the new economic polidy of the Russian Communists had, letd to an im- prpvement in the cpnditipn pf the Jews.
Mr. Marshall tdpk occasion to ppint a finger of warning at perpetratprs pf an insidipus evil npw almost two years old, in referring to an .abusejews have per¬ mitted 'tP grow up in their midst which, he asserted, wilf breed more anti-Semit¬ ism than "twenty Henry Fprds" unless it is stopped now. He referred to the -scandal-' caused—by—(ake—rabbist-^ieatiflg^- in "bootleg" ivine under the pretext of furnishing- it for sacramental purposes. Mr. Marshall said that Professor Louis I Ginsberg of the Jewish Theological Seminary had made a deep study of the I usi' of wine In the Jewish ritual and had come to the conclusion that the fer¬ mented wine was entirely pernilssiblc.
I Food Parcel Swindlers
I Mr. John L. Bernstein, of the HI.AS. and Mr. Isidore Htrslifield, of the Joint Distribution Committee, brought the at¬ tention of the delegates to another evil which h.is grown up during the last eighteen months, .viz., the witlespredd business of accepting undeliveiable food and clothing packages for delivery in Russia and the Ukraine. "These sharpers, often renting a small office, and combining in one person the Pres¬ ident, Treasurer and Secretary of their fly-by-night business, flood the Yiddish newspapers with display advertising and have already managed to collect hun¬ dreds of thousands of dollars from their victims for sendin.g packages to Russia, at from ^0 (o ¦jil-"> per package, plus in¬ surance, .while the parcels are rotting by the thousands in Reval and other ports, absolutely undeliverable," Mr. Hersh- field said. "They know that the J. D. C, .\.' R. -A. and Idgescom, all re¬ sponsible and influential agencies, re¬ fuse' to accept these packages."' Mr. Bernstein advised his fellow delegates ' (Concluded on page 7.)
LOCAL RABBIS TO OFFICIATE AT
B'NAI B'RITH DA Y CELEBRA TION,
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