Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1946-09-13

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Vol. 24f No. 37
COIiVMBtrS, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940
OtvOTSd  to  Ainsrican And Jtwiih  Idtsli.
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By Phlneas J. Biion
Famous Cartoon In Nationwide Tour Of Hospitals
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COOD WORK....
Tha People's 'Voice, New York's foremost Negro newsi- pajier Is carrying on a splendid campaign to counteract anti- Semitic propaganda among Ne¬ groes We read Uie other day in a column "One God — One People" a wonderful jileoe on "Who Cruciffed Jesus Christ?" The writer completely demol¬ ished the myth that "The Jelvs" were guilty and gave an ac¬ curate picture of the divided Jewish community in the days of Pilate, ruler of nome..Non- . Negro papers should reprint that column every year around Easter and Christmas time.. RECOMMENDED....
"The Jewish Community ot Winnipeg," a statistical study by Louis Rosenberg, director. Research Bureau, Canadian Jew¬ ish Congress, is the most com¬ prehensive booklet on a Jewish community ever tq come to our
attention We. do recommend
it to our social workers in this country. .It will teach them , how to analyze, evaluate and dissect the development of Jew¬ ish comhiunai life IN MEMORIAM Isaac Landman should not lie
Allan Tarshish, vice-chairman ot Post War Service Council for Ohio, B'nai B'rith District No. 2, announced today that the "Sad Sack" famous cartoon char¬ acter of w&r days, is making a Coast-to-Coast tour of veterans and military liospitals, sponsor¬ ed by B'nai B'rith, America's oldest and largest Jewish ser¬ vice  organization.
He has come to life as the "Singing Sad Sack" in the per¬ son of Former Lieut. Marvin Joel Betnun of Salt Lake City, who left Washngton July 25 on his swing across tlie Continent to entertain hospitalized veter¬ ans and GI's with h's accordian original songs and piano numb¬ ers. Ho expects to visit some 100 Veterans Hospitals, many of the Army and Navy Hospit¬ als on his 6-month tour. He is travehng in an attractively re¬ modeled army Jeep, which rode out tiie historic Battle ot the Bulge with the First Army.
An criginal songbook, "Sad Sack Sings" written by Lieut. Betnun and Illustrated with the famous cartoons created by Ex- Sgt. George Baker, by permis¬ sion of the Yank magazine and the cartoon ssmdicate, has l>een
ANNOUNCBMENTl
The arrangements commit¬ tee ot the Colnmbus Zionist. Organization wishes to an¬ noimce that due to clt-cnm- stances beyond their control, the banqnet schedoled for this Sunday^ Sept. 15th, at which officers and board members of the local district were to be Installed, has been cancelled.
TRUMAN MESSAGE I.AVDS "JBWISH BDUCA-nON MONTH"
Editor Of Jewish Encyclopedia Dies
NEW YORK (W.VS)—Dr. Isa¬ ac Landman, 65, president-elect of the Synagogue Council of America, editor-ln-chlef bf the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia and rabbi ot the Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y., died here this week ot a heart attack.  .
A leader in the movement tor inter-faith amity, he was in 1919 representative ot the Union of American Hebrew Congrega¬ tions and the Central Confer¬ ence of American Rabbis at the Paris peace conference, where he urqed inclusion in the League of Nations covenant guarantees for religious liberty.
Dr. Landman was tiom in Su-
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NEW YORK (WNS)—A mes¬ sage from President Truman in¬ dorsing the observance of Jew¬ ish Education Month was made public by Mark Eisner, presi¬ dent ot the American Associa¬ tion for Jewish Education.
"If we are to a'V'oid embitter- ment, intolerance, discord and ¦war," President Truman said in part, "it we are to preserve and advance the blessings of democracy, if we are to spread recognition ot the oneness ot God and the brotherhood of man, we must bring up our children in accordance with our profound religious and spiritual Ideas."
500,000 En Route To Palestine Says Rabbi Wise
1022 session, ot ^the Foreign Af. teii^,Committee.)61"the ^ouse of "Representd^vfs, .tte "was^a versatile, courageous rabbi who Ins^ted on his Independence There were times when he not only defied liis o'wn trustees but stood up against ttie most powerful Jewish organizational leadership And we know ot at least one incident when he stormed into the sanctum sanc¬ torum of a very very yrelX Icnowii Christian clergyman in Brooklyn. .He told the gentle¬ man that his good-will pro¬ nouncements were phony and that unless lie would call off his associates of the Christian Front, he. Landman, would ex¬ pose him.. Yes, Rabbi Land¬ man knew how to fight.. WEtil/ DONE....
Reuben Salzman, General Secretary of "the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order has jiist return¬ er trom a ten-week visit to Europe. .Five of those ten weeks Mr. Salzman spent in Poland. .Mr. Salzman had a two-' hour interview with ignaci Wzosh, head of the commis¬ sariat tor Jewish Affairs ..Mr. ¦Wzosli outlined a broad plan fltrengfthenlng the Jewish po¬ sition in Poland..Salzman dis¬ tributed 22,340,000 Zlotys ih the name of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order to help in the rebuilding of Jewish life in Po¬ land. .That's a constructive Job, Mr, Salzman .. ONE TOO MANY....
Mrs. Cecile Reiss reports that her son, Robert, nine years old was lieaten up, throivn into thorn bushes and held prison¬ er by older boys tor severtd hours. .The reason; When asked hy tJils gang whetlier he was 'Catholic he answei'ed: "No, I am a Jew". .Such incidents are reported to us trom many dis¬ tricts in Greater New York— The police usually quality these cases as belonging to the "Ju¬ venile Delinquency" heading Actually these incidents are clearly anti-Semitio. .The ReIss .ease is Just another example., 'it la one too many..,.
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tempted by^ a national civilian organization in the post-war per- od, has tieen arranged in'col¬ laboration, with Washington of¬ ficials of the Veterans Admin¬ istration, which has issued com¬ plete inatructlons to Itecreation- al Officers at ail the veterans hospitals and hpmes, while the Red Cross has cooperated in planning visits to the Army and Navy hospitals. Press releases and ipcai itineraries, together with attractive bulletin posters, are being sent to the liospitals by the Veterans Administration. tilent, Betnun As an enteralnment and spec¬ ial services officer at the Gamp Upton Convalescent Hospital in New York, Lieut. Betnun was luiown as the "Army Pied Pip¬ er". He iiecame so popular wlOi overseas combat troups, who enjoyed expressing their army gripes in these original 'ISad Sacit" parodies, that B'nai B'rith arranged for this novel hospital tour as soon as Lieiit. Betnun went on terminal leave I'ecently. The. army Jeep, patated blue- gray with red wheels and grill, and' a life-size cutout ot the "Sad Sack" mounted on the root, was donated by Gotham Lodge of B'nai B'rith in New York City.
The Coast'to-Coast tour is !»- ing directed by the National Post-War Service—AmericanlEm Commission of B'nai S/'rith of which Henry Monsky of Omaha, president of the order, and Sid¬ ney G. Kusworm of Dayton, O., treasurer of B'nai B'rith, are chairmen, and the newly creaied National Veterans' Advisory Committee, of which Lieut Col. EUlott A. Nlles of Boston is chairman.
Lieut. Betnun is a gradiiate dt the University ot U'tah, wliere He also received his master's degree. He was stiydylng for his doctorute in social service, ad- mlnisti-ation at t)i<e University of Chicago, -when he entered the army, and he plans to complete, tils stttdies at the University of' Califpriila as soon as he finishes (Continued on'Page Bight)
1926 to 1931 deVoied' air his time to the development of that Journal and to the planning of the ten-volume Universal Jew¬ ish Encycloi>edia, whch he nur tured to  completion  in 1943.
Dr. Landman leaves a widow, the former Beatrice Eschner; two sons, Amos and Davis; a daughter, Mrs. Pierre Palmer, Jr.; a brother the Rev; Solomon Landman; a sister, Mrs. James Matthews; and a granddaughter.
College Students Contributed $40,000 To U. J. A. Drive
SEND IN YOUR NE'W YEAR GREETINGS
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Call the Chronicle offlcj now AD, 2954 and have one of these appropriate greet¬ ings Inserted.
Zionist Region To Meet Here
NEW YORK (WNS)-Universi- ty students throughout the coun¬ try have contributed more than $40,000 to dat^ toward the un¬ precedented $100,000,000 goal ot the United Jewish Appeal tor Refugees, Overseas Needs and- Palestine, it waa reported here by the UJA central office.
Of the 30 coiieges, unlversii- ties and other institutions of liighe'r leandng represented in the student drive for the relief, rehabilitation and resettlement of Europe's 1,400,000 homeless and destitute Jewish survivors IS are in the country fit large, with 12 schools in GreSter New York.
Outside New York City, the majority of campus drives on behalf of the United Jewish Ap¬ peal we're held under the aus¬ pices of the ~ National Hillel Foundation, student cultural so¬ ciety of B'nai B'rith, which set the pace tor the university drives with a J1946 pledge of $50,000 toward the nationwide $100,000,000 goal. Opening of the fall semester next month Is ex¬ pected to see a sharp rise in the total -of stildent contributions.
A luncheon meeting of the Executive Committee of the Ohio Valley Zionist Region is scheduled for this Sunday, Sept. 15, 1. p. M., at the Fort Hayes Hotel.
Reports will be made at this meeting by Daniel Harrison, Executive Secretary of the 'Reg¬ ion; Jerry Cantor, Huntington, West Virginia, Treasurer; Shooi- em Ettlnger, ot IndJanapoiis, on Membership; Fred Yenkin, of Columbus, on Jewish National Fund; Woolfe W. Marcus, Day¬ ton, Expansion Fund.
The current World Zionist po¬ litical situation 'will also be dis¬ cussed.
Representatives of 17 districts in the Ohio Valley Zlomst Reg. ion are expected to be present.
Jacob H. Gilbert pf South Bend, Indiana, is President of the Region.
Members of tlie Coiumbus Zionbt District are welcome to attend.
NEW YORK (WNS)—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who returned here from Paris where he at¬ tended the Jewish Agency ex¬ ecutive conferences, told a press conference that "there are a half million homeless Jews in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe who are en route to Palestine."
At the same time Dr. Wise asserted that the Jewish Agency might reconsider the question of attending the London con¬ ference on Palestine If tlie es¬ tablishment of a Jewish state in Palestine is made the topic of discussions. The Agency, he stated, would attend only "on terms consistent with decency and self-respect, "adding that" few, if any, self-respecting Jew¬ ish individuals in this country or any other will accept the British invitation to the con¬ ference it the Jewish Agency does not attend.'
Asked whether the Jewish Agency had put forward a par¬ tition plan ot its own, Dr. 'Wise answered in the negative, de¬ claring that "the Jewish Agency might come under the necessity of considering, at the insistence of the British Mandatory Pow¬ er, a partition plan that would reestablish Jewish stateluxid in a liveable Jewish Palestine in an adequate arei." On the ques- ton pt.the reported resijtnation
ed to accept the resignation and that he hoped that Dr Silver woud "reconsider and witlidraw his resignation.' At the same time he disclosed tiiat the Agen¬ cy held its meeting in Paris because it was feared that if Da'vdd Ben Gurion, chainnan ot the Agency executive, striped on British soil he would liave been arrested .
Show yoar appredatioo to (he Cltronfrle'*' 24 rears of lojral jinn devoted wr- 3 vice . to CotnmliM Jewish Commnnlfr kjr fmylnR jromr Babscrtptton now.
WON'T YOU HELP O. S. C. STUDENTS WITH ROOMS?
Stndents att<)ndtng Ohio State University are urgently In need of rlioms in any part of the city. Many of tliem will not be able to go to the onl- iversity U they are nnable to find iioasiug.
. If yon Iiave an extra room that yon cotdd rent to a stu¬ dent please call tiie HlUel Foundation at UN. 4457.
T. I. MEN'S OliUB OPENS WITH GIN RUMMY TOUBNBY SEPT.  19
'the T. I. Mei^-xCiub o^ens Its 1946-47 season next Thurs¬ day, Set>t, 19, at < 830 p. m- in the Social Hall of the Tlfereth Icrsel Temple. The program of the evening will be a giant gin rummy tournament, tn which all members of the Men's Club ' (Continued ion Page 8)
B'nai B'rith Will Open Season's Activities Sept. 23
B'nai B'rith Zion lodge an noonces its new year Monday, Sept. 23 at'8 p. m., at the Broad Street Temple with a record at¬ tendance expected to hear the meeting's Seatured guest speak er, O. John Rogge, spiecial assis •ant to the U. S. Attorney Gen¬ eral.
The lodge will oi>en the seas¬ on with a sigmtlcant topic to be presented by Mr. Rogge, who will discuss, treason and sedi¬ tion in the United States as practiced by some of the nation's home-grown fascists. In his talk, ¦Mr. Rogge is expected to include activities of American fascism reconverts, the tlireat to demdc- rRcy and "The Berlin Blue- prinU".
In ills government work, Mr. Itogge drew, considerable re- noun as the prosecutor in ttie trial ot the 29 alleged sedltion¬ ists. In April, 1946 he led a mis¬ sion to Germany to investigate associations of Nazis tb fascist groups Mln America. I^ls subse¬ quent discoveries comprised the bulk.of a 20,000 word report on seditious actlvitlies in this coun- u-y.
Born on an Illinois farm, Rog- ge won the respect of his fel¬ low lawyers after he broke the late, Huey- Long machine hy cunvictng its chiefs on "mall fraud" thdlctmentb when It be- caniie apparent that theb' In¬ volvement yrlOi Loulslatw oil (Continued on Page Eight)
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