Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-06-09

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Volume JI—Kinnber 3
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OCHS ENTERTAINS PROMINENT N. Y. JEWS AT DINNER
Preparations Being Made to Wel¬ come Coming Convention of U. A. H. C.
'TO BE A JEW IS NO IMPEDIMENT," SAYS OCHS
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle).
NEW YORK.—Mr. Adolph S. Oclis, publisher of the Nezo Vorlt Times, en¬ tertained at dinner at the Metropolis Club/ on May 'li, a company of men to organi/^c tbc committee which will ar¬ range for thc Golden Jubilee of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega¬ tions, to be celebrated in New York City, January 22 to 25, 1923. Mr. Och's guest included a numtidr of the most prominent citizens of the Jewish fa'itb -in the greater city. ^
Prime emphasis was laid by - the speakers on Judaism. The religious ideal and none other, it was made clear, is the force tliat saved and preserved the Jew and explains his prekcncc in the v/orUI today. As Mr, Louis. Marshall phrased it, "The important contribution of "the Jew to civilization is not in the Hclcls of scholarship, science, banking, merchandising, art or thc theatei', but religion."
Mr. Oclis, explaining the purpose of his invitation, said: "To be a Jew is no iinpcdimont. To stand up and be counted a Jew wins the respect and ad¬ miration of all those whose respect ancl adnviration is worth while."
Mr. Daniel P. ,IIays, vi^ho is chairman of thc New York E.xecutivc Conimittee of the Union of Atnerican Hebrew Con- gfregations, informed the gathering con¬ cerning thc purposes of this organiza¬ tion. It was founded fifty year-S' aq;o by thc late Dr. Isaac M. VVise of Cincin¬ nati. Its purpose is to unite the Jews as .• religionists. ¦ It has stood' for Judaisni as the ideal of the Jew since its foundation. It now co^iprises 241 Congrtgations, reprcseiUing every section of the United States. It- also: has in it's - membership b'l!) womeiVs societies attached to syna-
TOWN NEAR WILNA
DESTROYED BY FIRE
WARSAW, (J. C. B.)—Thc town of Glubokic, near Wilna, was swept by flame's which wiped out four streets, raz¬ ing over three Iiundrcd houses to the ground, Wilna reports say. The Jewish inhabitants arc thc principal sulfcrcrs, several hundred being made homeless. Thc victims include three children and one old man whose charred bodies were found in thc ruins. The damage is said to be enormous.
Successful Outcome Is Now Predicted For Tool Campaign
Official of Local Branch of Peo- ' pie's Relief DescHbes Dire Situation of Jews
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
IS GOAL OF COMMITTEE
l^ppdM'"flie Hebrevv tJnion College, which educates Rabbis for .'\nierican Jewish pulpitsj and conducts an exten¬ sive synagogiie and religious school ex¬ tension work.'
.\inong. the other speakers were Jus¬ tice Irving Lehman, Jud.ge Julius .M. Mayer, Samuel Untermyer, Mortimer L. Schiff, Dr. Nathan Kraus, Philip J. Goodhart, Hon. Meiei' Steinbrink. Daniel Frobanii and Morris Gest. Among the telegrams received from those who were out of town were messages from Bernard M. UarucH and David Belasco,
Upon motion of Mr. Schiff, seconded by Mr. Goodhart, tjie company of gentle¬ men present constituted themselves an executive committee, with power to add to'tlieir number, to arrange for the con¬ vention next January. • Those present: "
Julius Ochs Adler, Ben .\ltheinier, Hernwn .\pplc, William B. Ast, Julius Bendhcim, Maier Berliner, Charles E. Bloch, Dr. Joseph Blum, Edwin W. Brand. David M. Bressler, Rabbi Si-- mon R. Cohen, Edward R. Cohii, Dr. George B. David, J. Clarence' Davies. 'Rabbi Aaron, Eiseman, Jacob W. Endel, Dr. Hyman G. Enelow.
Myron S. Falk. Mortimer J. Fox, Ben C. Franck, Lucian Frank, Joseph Fried, Rabbi Ephraim Frish, Oscar Gans, Rab'- bi Josepli I. Garfinkle, Morris Gest, J. M. Gidding, David E. Goldfarb, Henry M. Goldfogle Philip J. Goodhart, Max Gratner, G. Greenburgh, Rabbi Louis D. Gross, Dr. Rudolph Grossman.
Samuel Hamburger, Dr.' Maurice H. Harris, Daniel P. Hays, Sydney H. Harman, Gabriel Hess, Louis J. Horo¬ witz, Isidor II. Kempner, Max J. Kohler, Waldemar Kops, Samuel Kramer, Dr. Nathan Krass, Samuel Kubie, S. C. Lamport, Rabbi Isaac Landman, Judge Irving Lehman, Judge David Leven¬ tritt, Joseph M. Levine, Isador Lewis, Adolph Lewisohn, Philip II. Lustig, Rabbi Alexander Lyons.
Morris A. Magner, Louis Marshall, Aaron Marcus, Rabbi Benjamin W. Mayer, Judge Julius M. Mayer, Dr. Martin Meyer, Nathan J. Miller, Sam¬ uel M- Newburger, Rabbi Louis I. New¬ man, Adolph S. Ochs, Eugene H. Paul, Rabbi J. A. Pollak,' William C. Popper, L. A, Kropp, Emanuel Reiclie, Rabbi Irving, E. Reiburn, Frank J. Reynolds Saul E. Rogers, William Rosenbaum.
Mortini(Cr L, Schiff, Dr. Samuel Schul¬ man, Max Schwartz, Rabbi Maxwell Silver, Dr. Joseph Silverman, William I. Spiegelberg, Roger W. Straus. Manny Strauss, Max Strauss, Hon. Meier Stein brink, Rabbi Nathan Stern, Leopold Stern, Max D. Steuer, Arthur H. Sulz berger, Cyrus L, Sulzberger, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish, Dr. B. A. Tintner, Henry M. Toch, Samuel Untermyer, Ludwig Vogelstein, Jesse H. Wasser¬ man, Edmund Waterman, Leopold Weil, Louis Wiley, William J. Wollman.
Since thc oiitbrcik of the great world war until this day the Jews in Russia have been living under thc most deplor¬ able conditions.
Armies, one after another, have de scended   upon   every  Jewish  town   and hamlet and have left their blood-traces upon the bodies of the Jewish masses.
Then came the pogroms, the most horrible in human history, in ' which hundreds of thousands of Jews lost th'eir lives.
Economic Existence
In addition to these tragic happenings the economic existence of the' Jews in Russia has. been completely destroyed. Important as it is to furnish the Jews in Russia with immediate relief, it is just as important that an opportunity be given them to earn tbeir own liveli hood.
It is important that in Russia at thc present time there are great opportuiii ties for a considerable nuntbcr of Jews to obtain soil from thc government, also to es'tablish certain' industries and build vocational schools for the Jewish Sil'^wliero/they tfe'^'i^.^Wfiito obtain
Henry Ford^s Jew-Mania
By NORMAN HAPGOOD
(Courtesy Hcarst'Iittcriiatioiial Magazine)   '
My purpose, as editor of Hearst'S International, in bringing to light the truth about Henry Ford's pcrsccutiori.ojr the Jews, was to destroy whatever conl. fidence in Ford's fantastic crusade rifight have found lodgment anywhere. I al¬ ways believe tbat a complete and idoc^| nicntcd setting out of the facts is a bctf ter refutation of error than any amount of argument. It is not the Jews alOttft whom \yc arc defending in this scrips cjf documented exposures. It is also th^ .spirit of free and liberal thinking—tb.? spirit of progress-—the spirit of hiimar^'- ity. ,•,- 'i
Jews, particularly, have reason.-w know that crusades against them h'avb always been combined with crUsadc| against liberalism. Thcy kiiow alrSad'y what will be emphasized throughout- thfjr series, that in the history of the .'old vvorld thc reactionary elements have al¬ ways used religious prejudice to'heljl tbcin stamp out the encroachment of liberalism. They have done it, time an'J again in Russia, where they were.ableifO make the ignorant peasant believe' a)ji'- thing they wanted to, where they 'a3>- pealed to his religious superstitio.fi -tp stir up.his antipathies against,'Jcw's.>?fitJ many, many cases, of which th'e'byt known, of course, is the famous Beflj^
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Always the Scapegoat';' -'l'".^'^
The same kind of story is fouild^^ Genrrany, Austria, and Roufiiania, Jaiid ili France a, Jew was selectcd'''a'^Y''l* victim of forgeries, in the D'reyfusij'.as,fei| for the same reason that the -Jews -htiV^ always been found the best- scapegsjafsj when the reactionaries wanted tO;Si^|!!i;tiii tute passion and traditional''reB'^fjiJiS truth  and  reason.      •   -        J''' xl-
It is-truly astounding that t}ie'^'aln^|S^ method' could be worked .in this 'i0i try in the twentieth century.   Oni|dwi
vclop without interruption is insepar¬ able from thc very soul of deinocracy, which means thc invitation to all ele¬ ments to contribute thoir best to the niaking of thc future. Persecution of thc Jews, such as Mr. Ford Undertook, is inseparable from reaction, which al¬ ways seeks some method of arousing ignorant passion, in order that it there¬ by may divert the issue. It knows that it can handle the populace, and prevent real progress, if it can once set fur|ous passions in motion. It knows that if we can be left calm, generous, guided by brotherly sympathy and common-under¬ standing, reaction is doomed and liberal progress is assured.
That is why anti-Semitisni' and anti- liberalism are one and the same thing, and that is why this scries of articles had its birth.
Tsarist reactionaries, the Ku .Klux Klan, and Ford have been a motley trio in persecution of American citizens. The Ku Klux Klan worked alone but Henry Ford worked vvith the Russian reactionaries.
Such an accusation is serious. It will he supported with abundant documents.
Ford docs not understand these things. Outside of business, where he is a ge¬ nius. Iris mind is that of a child. When we have told the story, we shall, it is to be hoped, have done the service of mak¬ ing less likely another outbreak of this European reactionary trick. ' Democracies caii be as despotic as monarchies. The preservation of free¬ dom means active intelligence and ac¬ tive will. Wheil there begins attempts fo stir fires leading to oppression, they must be extinguished in tlieir early stages.
In all the history of persecutions originally based,on religious differences, that have come down through the ccn-
EL.SABAH PROPOSES
PAN-ARABIC COUNCIL
JERUSALEM, (J. T. A.)—A Pan- Arabic council for Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, Hedjaz and Yemen is pro¬ posed by the^ El-Sabah, organ of the Palestine Arab delegation. This propo¬ sal docs not contemplate the inclusion in thc Council of the whole Arab race, lim¬ iting itself to thc Middle East. A con¬ dition of the formation of such a Coun¬ cil, says thc El-Sabah, is its absiolutc aloofness from any European influence
Tifereth Israel Cong. To Hold Zlst Annual Picnicy Sunday, June 18
Splendid^ Program is Announced,
Including Many Amusements
and Games
LARGE ORCHESTRA
TO FURNISH MUSIC
SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS MEET IN PROVIDENCE
Vital' Questions to be Discussed
at National Conference on
June 18th
UNUSUAL PROGRAM
HAS BEEN PREPARED
a practical' education. However, they are lacking thc most Caserttial thing — tools, and that is something they can¬ not provide for themselves.
One Million Dollars
The People's Relief Committee there¬ fore has decided to commence a cam¬ paign to raise one million dollars for which it will buy tools to be forwarded to thc Jevvish colonists and-other or¬ ganized bodies in Russia. '
After all the liorrors oue brother's in Russia have lived through for the last eight years, let us show them that if we cannot bring to life .again the hundreds of thousands tbat have ,been murdcrfcd, >ve, nevertheless, feel our sacred obli¬ gations to' thoie that have escaped with their lives, and that we not only feel it our duty to furnish them with some¬ thing to cat, but also with such means that vvill make them independent in their economic life. Let us show them that we realize the deep moral responsibility that rests upon us, and that their cry for help has not fallen upon deaf ears.
We are therefore calling upon every Jew in Coluitibus to do all he can to make the campaign a complete sutcess.
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suppose that in the United ,!jtatc3ft^ivffl&turies, there is.no more appalling in- from the religious passion)!'gi'^^srSi^^4(jInstance of superstition and perjiircd testi-
been impossible ito make any" prf^S^ss with such a crusade as Ford carried ^un
LANCASTER COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN
ORGANIZED
Nevertheless, he did get publicity ,'ror his stories, in spite of the fact that they were the mere tag ends of the European forgeries and libels.
I believe the Jews to have been, sec¬ ond only to the Greek, the greatest con¬ tributors to the growth of European culture. , Nevertheless, in spite of my admiration of the race and my desire to have it free in this country to develop its fullest possibilities, I may s.iy that my rrtotive in undertaking the complete exposure of Mr. Ford was even more my ardent belief in liberalism than it was ihy ardent belief in tbe v<iluable role that the Jews have played, and are destined to'- play. ''
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Liberalism
The two things, • however, cannot be separated.   Freedom to the Jews to dc-
:.1the.B.eilis..case.   It is one .of
bitterest ironies of" history that one of tbe men who was a member of the de¬ partment of the Russian Government ithat helped execute the Tsar's despotic hatred on an innocent Jew in Russia should have been one of the leaders in the attempt to start the same persecution in the United States. It is still more bitter irony that in this land of liberty, the wealth of the richest man in the w<?rld should have been found fighting for the. same purpose as this minor de¬ tective of the Tsar. That this rich man's motives are good does ' not make the tragedy less. Monarchs haye been flat¬ tered into vanity and cruelty before this.
Brasol's Boast Boris  Brasol' wrote a letter  to  an¬ other Russian, who is also in the United States,   endeavoring  to   help  build   up (Continued on Page Four.)
Tifereth Israel Congregation has made definite arrangements to hold its twenty- first annual picnic at Valentine's Coun¬ try Club, East Broad 'street, on Sunday, June 18tli. Those who attended the pic¬ nic last year will recall what a wonder¬ ful time they enjoyed and it is planned to make ihis picnic a bigger and better one than last year.
Anipng the various amusements, in¬ cluding contests such as foot races, tug- of-war, baseball, fat man's race, three- legged race and other attractions, the committee in charge plans to give a free performance of some kind during the ilftcrnoon upon the stage The picnic will be entirely free.
No Admission Charge
No' charge will be made for any ad¬ mission or transportation and it is planned to arrange with the Ohio Motor Bus Company for 'a bus to take those who have no machines direct to the pic¬ nic grounds without cost.    '
Automobiles will be supplied ,for all of the children and anyone else who wishes to go, which will leave the Tem¬ ple at McAllister and Parsons avenue at nine o'clftckjh -the morning.-'
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(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle.) PROVIDENCE, June C —Hundreds of Jewish social workers and laymen in¬ terested in Jewish communal work will gather from all parts of the United States in this city to attend the annual conference of Jewish Social Service, June 18 to 21, inclusive.
A program of unusual interest, em¬ bracing all phases of Jewish philan¬ thropic activity, here and abroad, has been prepared, and will be presented by leaders in each Held.
Smaller Community
Special emphasis has been lai'd on the importance of the work being done in the smaller Jewish communities, and two sessions of the conference will be given Over to a discussion of this vvork. Samuel Schaefer, superintendent of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Omaha, has been invited to speak at eaeh of these sessions. On Monday, June 19, he will tell of the developmicnts in local Jewish social work during thc past year, and on Tuesday, June 20, he will discuss the subject of a standardized budget for small communities. The presidential address to be delivered,by Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, head of the New York City Federation, will deal with "The Status of' Federation with Special Reference to the Smaller Com¬ munities."
Billikopf's P^per
Of 'particular interest to many com¬ munities throughout the country vvill be the paper by Jacob Billikopf, of Phila¬ delphia, on the subject "Shall Jewish community organizations join Commu¬ nity Chests?" The place of Jewish edu¬ cation" in a general community program
will have three sectional nleetings of the X:£:i^<>><ifni.n 'jl.""-,•¦'i:* -¦-..^rf-"-* '-.1-' rw^ iV:...
Ample facilities will be provided to see that everyone gets home in the evening. It is also planned to have a large or¬ chestra and to provide dancing. A spe¬ cial invitation is extended to all Jews in .the community to come out and atte'nd this picnic and have a general good old- fashioned timfe.
Further announcements will be made in thc next issue of the Chronicle oif the various final arrangements so as to make this one of the greatest picnics ever given' in this city.
JEWISH TABERNACLE TO BE BUILT AT PIQUA, OHIO
Half the  Sum  Required  the Gift  of
L. M. Flesh in Memory of His
Father
YOUNG JEWESS IS HIGHEST SALARIED
MOTION PICTURE ACTRESS IN AMERICA
Mrs. L. Loewenstein's report of the past year's vVork of the Council of Jew¬ ish Women, which was published in the CiiitONi'cLK a few weeks ago, was the source of inspiration for a grotip of womt'n at Lancaster, Ohio, who felt that their city could, although on a smaller scale, do something worth while in the field which the National Council of Jevvish Wonien covers. As a result Mrs. Loewenstein and Mrs. Jerome Kohn, past and present presidents of the local Council, were extended an in¬ vitation to come to Lancaster and help ill the organization of a Section there.
On Thursday, May 25th, Mrs. Loew¬ ensten and Airs. K^ohii went to Lancas¬ ter and the Council was organized at a well represented meeting. Officers were elected and Mrs. Loewenstein took charge of the installation. Following are the olficers; Mrs. Rothbard, presi¬ dent; Mrs.. Leo Kessel, vice president; Mrs. Long, secretary, and Mrs. Schles¬ singer, treasurer.
JEWISH COMMISSARIAT ESTABLISHED IN MINSK
. RIGA.—(J. C. B.)—Apnauncement is made of the re-establishnient in Minsk of the Jewish Commissariat of White Russia which has been recently abol¬ ished. The newly opened Bureau will be in change of the Communist Lewin.
A woman who has gained distinction for herself artd her sex as tlie highest salaried motion picture writer in thc country, surely "is doing things." The brilliant Mrs. Clara Beranger, who adapted for the screen with such geniifs the story of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Miss Lulu Bett," left for California recently to assist the pro¬ ducer, Mr. William de Mille, in the editing of a new picture, "Nice People," and be present during the ^ photographing of, "Clar.ence," which she adapted from the play by Booth Tarkington, writes Hannah Stein in the Jewish Tribune in an article on "Women Who Do Things." I believe her own original story, "Notoriety," will be produced during her visit. '
Mrs. Beranger's own story is stranger than fiction. When she at¬ tended Goucher College in Baltimore, where she received a general education, there.did not seem to be the need for any special training to help her earn a living, for said living was already adequately provided by her family. But later, after she had promised to "love, honor, and obey," she found it necessary to help her husband, for sud¬ den reverses sent them from wealth to poverty, so she wrote her first scenario wihich she sold for twenty-five dollars. Her earnings today are in figures with which my imagination is not sufficiently able to cope; but she gives so much pleasure to theatregoers for it.
I know that she has not risen by influence, ,for the simple reason that no influence could stretch so far as to reach the thousands of box offices of the picture theatres in the country. It is just her unusual skill and personality which she injects in hpr original stories and those which she interprets for the screen. Mrs. Beranger herself has the bearing of a great lady; and to see her, one could understand the, rumors' of her great social success in England on her trip for the Para¬ mount last summer.
One look at the simple, costly luxury of her studio with its rare antiques, and I realized this costly simplicity in itself was not the re¬ sult, but the expression of Mrs. 'Jieranger's work on the screen —the
(Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle)
A Jewish tab"ernacle will' be ouilt in Piqua, Ohio, this summer, the edifice to cost $20,000 and be located in one of the best residential sections of the city, immediately opposite the First Presby¬ terian church edifice, which is one of the most imposing structures in the city.
Rabbi Samuel Meyerbcrg, of Dayton, who conducts services at the local tab¬ ernacle, in making the announcement of the intention to build at the services on Sunday evening, said that in all Ameri¬ can Israel there is no congregation as small as the Piqua group of Hebrews, which has ever built a syngogue.
Half of the sum of $20,000, which will go into the structure, is a don"ation by L. M. Flesh as a memorial to his father, the late Henry Flesh, who was well known throughout Ohio as a banker, having for over fifty years served as cashier and president of the Citizens' National Bank. Henry Flesh held an important position in the bank¬ ing and manufacturing activities of the city throughout a long and eventful ca¬ reer.
L. M. Flesh, the son, is president of the Citizens' aud the Savings banks and head of the Atlas Underwear Com¬ pany, one of the city's largest plants which has branches in Richmond, In¬ diana, and Urbana, Ohio. He was identified with the textile division of' the Council of National Defense dur¬ ing the war and is prominently identi¬ fied with textile manufacturing organ izations with a wide acquaintanceship in state .itid national banking circles.
disthat ji^y Dr. Alexander Dushkin, of Nev'l' .I'ork, Louis H. Levin, of Balti¬ more, and other authorities.
Dr. Michael M. Davis, of New York, editor of the Health Section 'of the "Survey," the national social work magazine, will give details of a pro¬ gram of -health education among Jews. Dr. Doris D. Bogen will narrate the . lessons for disaster relief found in the work of the Joint Distributioii Commit¬ tee, of which he has been European di¬ rector for five years.
Other Subjects ^
Other subjects to be discussed will in¬ clude the Jewish Settlement movement, methods of Jewish child care, training for Jewish social workers, prevention of the establishment of needless Jewish agencies, and budgeting national insti¬ tutions.
The Association of Jewish Community Center Secretaries will meet at the same time as the Conference of Jevvish Social Service. The National Conference of Social Work, a non-sectarian organiza-^ tion, will meet in Providence for one week beginning June 21. This confer¬ ence usually brings from 4,000 to 5,000 social workers to its annual meeting.
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MONTHLY  MEETING OF .   LOCAL HADASSAH ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 11
The regular monthly nieeting of the Columbus Chapter of the National Ha¬ dassah organization will be held Sun¬ day, June 11, 2.-30 P. M., at the Schon¬ thal Comtnunity Home.
It is very urgent that all members be present to make arrangements for the lawn ,fete to be given Tuesday, June 20th, for the benefit of the Hadassah Medical Unit. Election of officers will also take place.
Mesdames J. Solove, L. J. Self, A. Seff, and N. Savage will act as host¬ esses.
VIENNA, (J. C. B,)—A large tract of ground has been purchased by the Jewish Sports Club, the dedication tak¬ ing place on Sunday last, accompanied by impressive exercises. The ground and improvements cost thirty million kronen, it is stated.
BUILDING FUND OF THE
TALMUD TORAH GROWING
As a result of the publicity appearing in thc Ohio Jewish Chronicle during the last few weeks, many people have sent in contributions to the Building Fund of the Columbus 1''alniud Torah.
All further contributions should be mailed to N. Danziger, treasurer, 971 W. Broad Street.
At a recent meeting of the School Board of the Columbus Public Schools the work of the Columbus Talmud Torah was highly praised. The Messrs. L. Danziger, N. Finkelstein and M. Schatzberg secured the promise of the School Board to co-operate with thein in furnishing the new Talmud Torah Building.
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