Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-07-07

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COLUMBUS, OtUO, JULY 7, 1922
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WALTHERRATHENAU IS VICTIM OF MONARCHIST IRE
Slaiin   by   Thugs   in   Service  of
Royalist and Anti-Semitic
Organization
HAD PREDICTED HIS
OWN FATE RECENTLY
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle) BERLIN.—Dissolution of all reac¬ tionary, militaristic and monarchistic organizations which still infest Germany and menace thc life of the republic,, is now demanded of thc German admin¬ istration by the Majority Socialists, In¬ dependent Socialists and many trade unions as the result of the brutal mur¬ der of "Walther Rathenau, German For- 'cign Minister, as he was leaving his home in Grunewald Saturday.
Two hired thugs in the service of a monarchist society fired thc shots that ended a career of service, in thc interests - of German democracy that was recog¬ nized in eyery part of the world as the most constructive and healing agency that new Germany had brought forth.
Make* Prediction
Rathenau predicted some months ago that the same dark monarchistic and ' anti-Semitic forces that had struck down Licbknecht, Luxembourg, Eisner and Erzbergcr would ultimately cause his own 'death at the hands of hired assassins.
This prophecy was openly scoffed at by anti-Semitic publications as a manir festation of Jewisli nervousness.
The, .part that anti-Semitic forces played in the assassination is plainly shown by the threats that appeared in these same publications prior to the murdcK It was stated that Rathenau "shall $nd as did Erzberger" and it was > > by no means uncommon to hear sung in the streets "Shoot Walther Rathenau, the Jew pig I" This was interspersed ivith oaths too vile for publication.
It' was in the midst of such -happen¬ ings   that   the   reactionary   and   antf Semitic   faction  in   the   Reichstag  de- p'«iM)><tonded'
ministration for assigning so many Jews to places in the German delegation at Genoa. The reply was that capability alone, and not religion, or race, had been the determining test.
ASKS TO BRING BODIES OF RELIEF HEROES HERE
RIGA,—(J. C. B.)—Permission to bring to New York the bodies of Pro¬ fessor Israel Friedlander and Bernard Cantor, the Jewish relief workers from America who were found murdered in the tJkrainc, Russia, on July 5, 1920, has been asked by Soviet authorities, by Dr. Borris Bogen, fcpresenting thc Joint Distribution Committee and the American Relief Administration. If permission to ship the bodies to thc United States cannot be obtained. Dr. Bogen proposes asking the Soviet au¬ thorities to allow the erection of proper memorials over their graves. He is understood also to have requested the authorities to permit the families of thc murdered men to visit the grayes in thc Ukrainian town.
Dr. Bogen came upon thc graves while visiting the town of Harmoliniez. Find¬ ing the graves in a neglected condition, he caused temporary gravestones to be erected, the unveiling taking place in thc presence of the entire Jewish population of the town.
Particulars Now Known of Disastrous Flood in the City of Dwinsk
Town Is Cut 0£F From Rest of
World — American Relief
Hastens Its Assistance
H. J. HYMAN HURRIES
TO SCENE OF DISASTER
took   clothing,   shoes   and ' underwear, lacuon   an   xno   r.e.i;..s«s   uc- ^^  arrived'in  Dvinsk  on  April  llth. t.^-.ejq.laa^wttu.fcoiu.,J^e;.^
hotel, we met many men, women and children in rags. The children looked terribly emiiciated, as if they had gone hungry, not merely ¦'days, but many weeks. Dr. Jaffe and Dr. Hcllman who accompanied me on this relief-trip, as they had accompanied me a year ago to the- same town, could hardly recog¬ nize thc place.
Host of Aclmirers
Rathenau's leadership in the handling of Germany's affairs within the past months had won him a host of admirers ' in the most liiieral German circles and in France and England and America. ¦ On the other hand, every move he di¬ rected was assailed by monarchists in Germany and it is openly charged that a vicious attack directed against him by Dr. Karl Helfferich, former German Finance Minister, heralded the storm that signalized the final and supreme effort of his foes.
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JEWS OF THIS COUNTRY PLEDGE ONE MILLION
TO HARNESS JORDAN
NEW YORK--Nearly $1,000,- 000 has already been guaranteed by Jews in this Country for use in harnesaing^^the waters of the Jordan river to supply electric ' power for- light, railways, irri¬ gation, industrial and other pur¬ poses in Palestine, according, to a statement made by the Palestine Development Coun¬ cil, 31 Union Square.
The' Palestine Development Council's campaign for the sale of trust- certificates for the Rutenberg plan for the crea¬ tion of • hydro-electric power in Palestine, was formally launched on Wednesday, June 21, at a conference held a't.'the Hotel Pennsylvania at yrhich Judge Julian W. Mack, chair¬ man of the council, presided.
Addresses were delivered by the chairman, Dr. L.C. Loewen¬ stein, Mr. Pinhas Rutenberg, Justice Louis D. Brandeis, honorable chairman of the coun¬ cil, and Rabbi A. H. Silver, chairman of the central com¬ mittee of the Palestine De¬ velopment Leagues, and Mr. Harry Fischel, one of the di¬ rectors of the Palestine Co.> ' operative Compikny.
Tho principal subscripHons announced werei Palestine < Co¬ operative Connpjginy, $125,000; Justice Louis D. Brandeis, $25,- OOOt Solomon RoMnblooni, $S0;- OOOi Louis Horowitas, $25,000; Julius ^Simou, New York City, $l(MI0Ot Solomon Ulmer, Cleve¬ land, $S,000.
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle) NEW YORK.—Brief cables reporting a disastrous flood in Dvinsk, ruining hundreds of Jewish families have been amplified in a detailed report by H. I. Hyman, J. D. C, .representative ¦ in Lat¬ via, who proceeded to the scene of the disaster from Kovno as he heard what had happened.  1
"We took with us a transport of cocoa,, tea, .flour, sugar- and other food supplies," Mr. Hyman writes.   "We also
What Is Americanization?
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE .
The new emphasis on Americanization is not only explicable but from every point of view desirable in the interest of our common country. Perhaps the finest implication in the use of the term is that immigration to America and Americanization are not identical. In other words, that Americanization is not the step of physical admission but a process of spiritual advent—that a man does not become an American solely by being admitted at the gateway of America to residence within ouf borders.
If Americanization be a spiritual process rather than a physical act, then is it also true that Americanization and American nativity are not intcfchange-' able 'terms? A man may have been born in America and dwell here all his days and still not be American, whereas a man may be ready for America and ready to become a part of America and to make Americanism the best part of his own life cve'h before he touches- our shoresk
- The tisc of.the term Americanization is significant from another point of view. I have never heard the term Briticization or Gallicization or Latiniza- tion or Slavonization. Why? Because though a man may' through residence and adoption of citizenship become a citizen of thc British Empire or a .citi¬ zen of the FVcnch Republic or a subject of the Italian Kingdom or a resident of one of the several Slavonic coiintries, he cannot become a part of the race which in Italian and French and Slavic countries is virtually identical with the nation.
A man becomes a Briton, a Britisher by will and through adoption, but he Cannot become, an Englishman in. any way save through the process-of birth. This does not hold true in Atnerica. While Anglo-Saxonism is the very heart of America and Anglo-Saxondom tinadc the largest and most precious contribu-i tion to American life, a man is iiot'less an American.- ^because he is .not. an Anglp^saxTOn. Our Repubhd is not Only a federation of states but a confederacy of races.   A man may become an Amer-
Whole Town Inundated
The-whole town was inundated. The houses that protruded above the water were in ruins, and the people who had managed to escape looked so dejected, as if they had given up hope of ever extricating themselves from their desperate plight. Their eyes seemed lifeless, and, .they seemed more dead than- alive.
- "One section of Dvinsk, known as ^ayok, in which there had lived 400 farnjilies, 200 of them Jewish, was com¬ pletely inundated and its inhabitants almost absolutely without shelter. Some found shelter in houses having upp^r stories, but in most cases the flood reached to thc second floors, and most of the inhabitants were huddled on the roofs and calling frantically for help. "On the other side of the Dvina, the town' of Griva was cut off from all communication with the rest of the world. There the houses were carried away by the flood and many of- its resi¬ dents were drowned.
Hesitate to Leave
"In Noyok the flood began at 11 o'clock on Friday night. The Jewish families hesitated to leave their homes. One family of six'was drowned before the danger was realized and the police warned everybody to flee. Even then many persons refused to seek safety until the very last minute.
"The flood might have bceii averted if steps had been taken to break up the ice-floes which jammed the river, but the people have < become terribly apathetic due to their suffering during the war.
"We held a meeting with the local committee and worked out a program for relieving the disitressof the flood victims. It was decided to spend 20,000 Lettish rubles for flour, 30,000 Lettish rubles for potatoes, and 60,000 Lettisti rubles for fire-wood to dry out the water-logged' houses; the other neces sities to be purchased out of a fund raised among the wealthier members of the community. Naturally, the money furnished for relief purposes was far below the atitUal need; nevertheless it helped to mitigate the situation to a certain fextenL
Make Tour' of Hnuses
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ican  irrespective  of   race  or   faith  or toiigue.
The first truth to be borne in mind witl| rcipcct to Americanization is thaf thc (foreigner must not be viewed nor designated as a problem. 'No human beinjg enjoys being looked upon as a prpfclem.
1^0 foreigner can be Americanized or ,^ helped to attain Americanization through being dubbed a foreigner. Thc firaj^stcp to be taken into helping thc for^iigner to become; an American is to ^rfiat him as a man. It is hard cnoiigh to be a stranger anywhere. Let us 'Ifot make tbe burden of the stranger tooChard.
t1^ would have America cither shut foreigners out or take them in — not leaifc them .dangling in Spirit at our doors, physically admitted to but ex¬ cluded spiritually from the life of our Republic.
If. wc would Amcricanizd the for¬ eigner, wc must remember that he must be met not with condescension but with confidence, not in the spirit of patron¬ age or even paternalism, but of trust and' fratcrnalism. Do not let us imagine that' Americanization can be achieved through slumming. The foreigner is not necessarily an inferior or unworthy per son. J A foreigner may," it is ¦ true, be without a command of English and still, though hc speak only some foreign tongue, not be by reason of this an in¬ ferior, person.
There are certain methods'or instru- raetttalities of Americanization which must < be utilized and magtlified -'- thc school, the press, the pulpit, the theatre. The school must be kept free from every political entanglement and every sectarian bias. , The press must not be aa instrument in the hands of power but'a mcdiuqi of free and untrammeled communication between all groups and classes in the Republic. Thc pulpit of lewery; faith, like the press, must keep jits:elf^frce from the domination of any ,ci®|'an4 serve as a spiritual, symbol of "ttiydiiilVT&f ti-re Republic, TJieiheatr^ ought to be taken out of hands that "are
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NATURALIZATION BILL
IS PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON.—(J. C. B.)—The bill opening to all alien married women thc naturalization rights enjoyed by male immigrants was passed in thc house by a vote of 200 to 9.
The bill sponsored by Rcpresentafive Cable closely resembles that of John- son-Shortridge, one of its features being that women immigrants may not become citizens except upon marrying, citizens, but arc required to make separate appli¬ cation for citizenship in their own rights. Women will not be required to wajj five full years, citizenship being granted within one year of the declara¬ tion of intention, thc bill provides.
The Cable bill which has just been considered by the House Committee on Immigration has not been endorsed by thc Council of Jewish Women, as re¬ cently reported, Mrs. Harry Sternberger, executive secretary, stated. The Council has also withheld its endorsement of the Johnson-Shortridgc bill which contain many features similar to thosc of the Cable bill.
New York Home for Jewisli Blind Doing Wonderful Work
splendid Humanitarian Work Be¬ gun Eight Years Ago by Mrs. Edward I. Wilson
B. LEVY PRESENTS
EIGHT LOTS TO HOME
ZIONISTS URGE MANDATE APPROVAL AT COJfVENTION
Appeal   to   British   Government
Adopted at Opening Session
of Convention
RESOLUTION URGES
IMMEDIATE ACTION
LOUIS STERN, PROMINENT JEWISH MERCHANT OF N. Y. DIES SUDDENLY
NEW- YORK —Louis Stern, presiclent. bf the Stern Brothers, died, suddetily. on. Wednesday of ia^t week in" Paris., Mf. Stel:n,.ar- ri-yed. m-Paris.-, Qn-;June-H, ha-vvig sailed from New York City aboard the Homeric. He went abroad to re'feain his health. On May 8 he underwent a maj'or operation in Mt. Sinai Hospital, but the nature of the operation was not disclosed.
Born in Germany
Louis Stern was born in Ger¬ many on February'22, 1847, the son of M. A. and Sophia Stern. When the family emigrated to America, the father went to Albany to continue his trade as jeweler and watchmaker. The elder Stern took his sons, Isaac and Bernard and Benjamin, as apprentices, but sent Louis to Petersburg, W. Va., where the latter learned the rudiments of merchandising in the small store of an ivncle.
After his brothers ^ had be¬ come journeymen watchmakers and Louis had served his apprenticeship in the store of his uncle, he pro¬ posed to his brothers that they open a dry goods store in New York. The i'^esult was a partnership be¬ tween Isaac and Louis, who opened a small store 'on Sixth avenue at Twenty-second street, in March, 1867, under the name of Stern Brothers. From that the business developed to its present large pro¬ portions.
Held  Many Directorateji
Mr. Stern was a director of the Bank of New Amsterdam, Madi¬ son Safe Deposit Company of New York, New Amsterdam Safe De¬ posit Company of New. York, Mutual Life Insurance Comixiny, and president of the Library Square Realty Company.
He was chairman of the Nev^ I i,ca in the fall.
York Commissiofi to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; ex- president of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum and a member of the .Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural His¬ tory,. Aldine Association, American Geographical Society, Albany So¬ ciety and also a member of the Lotus and Patria clubs.
In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley a Commission¬ er' to the Paris Exposition. In recognition of distinguished serv¬ ices performed in that capacity, the French Republic conferred upon him the decoration of a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
...   Will be Buried in U. S.
,The body will be brought .back to tli^ United States in September for burial in the family vault. In the meantime it will repose in the vault of the American Church in Paris in the Rue Georges Cinq..
The death of Mr. Stern, due primarily to heart disease, was en¬ tirely unexpected by members, of hi;S family, according to his son-in- laW, Baron Leo de Graflfenrcid, who tdok charge of arrangements in Paris. Baron de GrafFenreid sug¬ gested that the heart action of Mr. Stem must have been weakened a great deal more by his recent opera¬ tion in New York city than was ex¬ pected at the time. I Baron de'Graffenreid, his wife, formerly Miss Irma Stern, and their children were awaiting the ar¬ rival of Mr. Stern, whom they, had not seen for two years^ at the home of the Baron, Chateau Landshut, near Paris. A happy reunion had been planned, according to the Baron, who said that he and his wife and Miss Beatrice Stern, who went abroad with her father, would accompany the body back to Amer-
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle) NEW YORK.—That the youthful residents of the New York Home for Jewish Blind at Yonkers, N. Y„ are doing splendid work was evidenced at a lawn fete given by them last week when some of their number gave a play, and an orchestra composed of the students, provided the music.
The work of assisting the Jewish blind was begun eight years ago by Mrs. Edward I. Wilson, of New York City. She developed a field which has not only supported thc home in Old Jerome ^Stenue,- Yonfeersj- ^jiit h%s • giY.ej* tsmploy- nient to many blind girls. 'In"tbe'ofRee she conducts at 200 West Seventy-sec¬ ond Street, pencils are polished and packed by a group of blind girls. Other work, such as filing, is carried oil by crippled girls,- so that the entire work is done by those 'Who are handicapped.. These pencils are sold to support thei' home and the guild has obtained a large patronage. The. blind pencil workers are paid'a living wage.
Yonkers Home Opened
Three years ago the Yonkers Home was opened. At first it was , only a vacation center for blind girls,- but the Guild, seeing the necessity for a home where these children could be properly developed physically and mentally, de- cide.d to open a residence for them. In July, 1921, tbe first blind child was ad¬ mitted. In February, 1922, there were thirteen children. . Now there are twenty-six. Mrs. Rose Z. Moschcowitz, superintendent of the Yonkers Home, acts as a mother to them.
The children of school age attend the public school and take their 'places in clashes with the children vih^ can see. Since the opening one boy has been graduated from grammar school and now stands at the head of his class in high school. The boy is crippled, also, and is training to become a lawyer. This year one of the girls will begin her high school work. After school hours these children are taught piano, violin, orchestra and chorus work. They also ar£ taught basketry, knitting, sewing and weaving. On the grounds is a gym nasium. For the children too young to attend public school the Guild has a kindergarten class at home.
Caring for Blind Babies
Besides tbis the Guild is caring for blind babies, providing nurses, who pre pare them for the kindergarten.
In three years this home Jias grown from one cottage to three, and last year the vacation camp was opened. Here during the summer montlis many blind girls enjoy camp fires, picnics and other outdoor pleasures.
Besides the children, fifteen aged women now are being cared for in thie cottage provided for them at the Yon¬ kers Home,
Announcement was made that Ephraim B. Levy, jpresident of the. New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, had presented eight city lots in Yonkers to the home for the blind. These lots adjoin the property on which .the Guild's home is situated, at old Jerome Avenue and Fairfield Street. i
in giving the property, Mr. Levy an¬ nounced !t was his ititehtion to erect a new building ia addition to the present
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(Special, to Ohio Jewish Chronicle.)
PHILADELPHIA.—(J. T. A.)— Thc 25th annual convention of the American Zionist Organization was opened here Sunday under the chairman¬ ship of Mr. Louis. Lipsky, with '271 delegates of 114 towns in 32 states, at¬ tending.
The convention received a message from President Harding in which, after expressing regret at his inability be¬ cause, of official duties to accept the in¬ vitation to address the convention, he says:
"A long-time interest, both sentimental and practical, in thc Zionist movement, causes me to wish that I might .^meet the members of the organizadpo aad express the concern which I feel fii.b^;,-. half of their great movement."
The President's letter was received with great enthusiasm, {he assembly ris¬ ing and singing "America" and the ^ "Hatikvah." Greetings were also read from Nathan Straus and Dr. Chaim' Weizmann.   .
Resolution Passed
The chief event of the first day's ses¬ sions was the passage of resbfnttoo ad- ' dressed to the British governmeat' Tfi«; resolution was introduced by Ab. G6W--'.' berg, seconded by Morris  Rottenlierft, and supported by Bernard G. RiclisiV^S' on behalf of the American- Jewish Con¬ gress.    The resolution'cites the impres- - sion   of   the   Balfour   Declaration   on Jewry, the promise'reiterated by Allen¬ by, confirmed by the San Remo Deci¬ sion, causing Jews-to embark on hea-vy financial obligfations, ten thousand Jews entering Palestine and a hundred thou- - sand contributing to its upbuilding.  The resolution   continues,   that   the   Jews J waited patiently for the ratification. of -, the'!Srandafe,";the.delay leading to iin-.-"
isteVpfopaganda resulting rri'Btoodshea and culminating in the vote of the House of Lords. This, states the reso¬ lution, gives, rise to the fear that the British government is faltering in its solemn undertaking. The resolution, therefore, urges the British government to take immediate steps for the final registration at the forthcoming nieet- • ing of the League of Nations. The resolution was unanimously adopted.
Sokolow's Stirring Speech
,   Mr.   Nahum   Sokolow,  in  a stirring (Continued onpage 6)
JOINT L O. B. B. PICNIC TO BE GREATEST EVENT OF THE, SEASON
That the joint picnic of the three I. O. B. B. Lodges, Colum¬ bus, Dayton and Springfield, on July 16th at Tecumseh Park, will bci the greatest event o( ,the season is now evident. Ac¬ cording to the statement made by Julius Zechhauser .who has just returned from a joint 'con¬ ference of the general commit¬ tee on arrangements, a most interesting and elaborate pro¬ gram has been arranged for, the general outline of which is published elsewhere in this issue of the Chronicle.
A very large representation is not only .expected from all - Ben B'riths and their families ' but .their friends too are cor¬ dially invited to participate in this splendid and exemplary as well as joyous celebration. The committee on arrangements has requested that all those who have machines and have room for additional passengers, should please co>operate with the committee by advising them aqcordingly, thru their ques¬ tionnaire which appears else- - where in this issue and which also they have mailed; to every Ben B'rith in Columbus, Spring-i field and Dayton. Those:who will not be accommodated by automobiles will be given free. transportation on the . Ohio Electric Railway.
The final details and all other information regarding this af¬ fair will be published in next week's jissue of the Ohio Jewr ish Chronicle.
REMEMBER — SUNDAY— JULY i«TH—JOINT I, O. B. B. PICNIC—AT TECUMSEH PARK.
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