Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1923-02-23

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER J"0r4 THE JEWISH HOME
Volume V — No. I
COLUMl'.UH. onto. Fjv.-CfTARY 23, 1923
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HERBERT SAMUEL
OPPOSED TO BLUE SAT. IN PALESTINE
Expresses   His   Sympathy   with Movement for Sabbath Observance
MORAL INFLUENCE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN FINES
TWENTY-FIVE ARE
BURNED TQ death
JERUSALEM (J. T. A^.-r-TliCre will be 110 "blue Saturday" law in the Holy Land, Herbert Samuel, Higli Com¬ missioner for. Palestine, in which the first Sabbath edict was, promulgated, told a delegation of Jews «who called upon him arid fdcd a protest in Biblical fashion against the "profanation of the Sabbath."
AddrcSsnig the High Commissioner as the Nehemiah of modern time, the dele¬ gation, couching their plea in Scriptural phraseology, asked "that he summon the notables of Jndah to inquire from them why they profape the Sabbath in pub¬ lic?" Nelicmiah invoked such a coun¬ cil, they pointed out, when he saw "the pedple treading the wine presses on the Sabbath.!'
Sabbath   Desecration
As Nehemiah "appointed guardians to prevent people from entering within the walls on Sabbath and commanded the Levites to purify and keep the gates on the Sabbath," so do we, continued the spokesman of the delegation, "ask that iou give validity to the observance of the Sabbath"
Jewish communal and public institu¬ tions as well as private individuals were guilty of Sabbath desecration, the Jew¬ ish delegation told the High Commis¬ sioner.
Sir Herbert expressed his sympathy with the movement for Sabbath observ¬ ance, but declared that public opinion and moral influence would do more to bring about real observance of the Sat¬ urday as the day of rest than would the passage of laws which, he declared, "were difficult of enforcement." The High Commissioner declared that he personally as well as his family were setting an example of Sabbath observ¬ ance.
Present  Petition
itic, (jpj«;gaTion, wnjciL^w^s. coiniioseci of Rabbi Abramovitz, Rabbi Nissin Eliasher and two laymen, presented a petition signed by four thousand ortho¬ dox Jews, asking that steps against Sab¬ bath desecration be taken.
"I have listened with great' interest and much sympathy to the general views you have expressed this morning," re¬ plied the High Commissioner. "On broad grounds, I attach the greatest value to the institution of a Day of Rest; the principle is one of the matters in which modern civilization owes very much to the Mosaic Code. The day of rest is of the greatest value to intel¬ lectual efficiency, and it is a boon to labor throughout the world. And here in Palestine it is right that each of the communities should observe with loyalty (Concluded on page 6.)
NEW YORK (J. C 11.)—Twenty-two iniianc men and three attendants were biirucd to death when (ire swept the Manhattan State Hospital building on Ward's Island where l,80fr insane Iiaticnts were confined. The great loss of life is attributed to the inadequate fire fighting facilities of the itjland. The insane patients who met death wdre of the most violent type in the institution, and three attendants in attempting to lead the mad'men, further crazed by the fire, to safety, lost their lives. The victims included Solon Applebaum, Wm^ Brown, Nathan Cohen, Frank From-r berg, Harry Queller, Frank S,chaub and Richard Wolf.   . :
Hadassah to Give Benefit Linen Shower Sunday
Hospitals in Palestine and Nurses'
Training Schools Are
Supported
"America has furitishcd io the 'A'nilil the character of WashUiftUm. /hid if our American, iiislitulioiti had done nothing else, that alone would have en¬ titled them to the respect of mankind." —Daniel Webster.
February is a dislinguislicd nloiith in the American, calendar. On the 12th and on the 22nd dajt- of the month the two;grcatest men in our hliTtory, Wash¬ ington and Lincoln, were born, The former made this land possible and made a whole people freellien, and the latter freed an enslaved people from the yoke oit a people which itSclf suffered slavery. Both these great men labored for ficedom; both prcpatdd our coun¬ try as a haven for downtrodden huniaii- ity.
fo'; till most part iiicii and women \s-l\onf i)t'f!cciuion in foreign lands had silij i)II( •( (o seek the freedom and op- poi iitiitv of a country not enthralled hy.ihe otibservience and submission that niUM ,1 royal court. They were a clfhs fl haidy pioneers who braved the Jat'^C" of the deep and the difficulties of|*lic forost to establish homes and chhrclu', in accordance with their con- BCii 'tec:. <      ', *
BENJAMIN WERNE TO AD¬ DRESS MENORAH SUNDAY
Rabbi Benjamin Werne of this city will address the Menorah Society at the reg> ular meetinir to be held this Sunday, Feb. 25th, at 2:45 p. m. at the Ohio Union Building.
The subject of Rabbi Werne's talk will be the "Life and Work of Maimonides." An en¬ tertainment will conclude the program of the afternoon. You are invited to come and bring your friends.
SPLENDID WORK DESERVES SUPPORT OF EVERY JEW
Plans for the ^rd annual linen shower of the Columbus Ch"apter of Hadassah have been completed, and the arrange¬ ments committee announces that an ex¬ cellent entertainment has been pre¬ pared. Besides several dance numbers to be given by the pupils of Miss "Marie Sands, an unusual musical program and social have been arranged. Following the showeV, Mrs. H. Kaplan, of Cleve¬ land, will address the guests on "The Afms and Accomplishments of the Ha¬ dassah."
Mrs. Kaplan, who is a well known speaker, is a member of the national ex¬ ecutive committee of Hadassah. Before the outbreak of the war, she and her husband visited Palestine. While there Mr. Kaplan was instrumental in organ¬ izing the "American Iron & Foundry Works of Palestine." It has been Mrs. Kaplan's privilege to watch the growth of Hadassah from a small group of women to a national organization with chapters in every state of the country.
_ Di:..Aiihjjr Rupuin, the mojit_eraIt]ient'. authority on the colonization of Pales¬ tine, speaking of the Hadassah, says: "Of the many agencies engaged in the sanitation and hospital work of Pales¬ tine, none has distinguished itself as has the Hadassah Medical Unit. It is due to the Unit that health conditions in Pal¬ estine are so good."
The American Organization of Ha¬ dassah lias established hospitals in the principal cities of Palestine and or¬ ganized first-aid stations in the smaller towns and villages. At these stations medical aid and supplies are dispensed gratis to all inhabitants of the country, regardless of religion. All medical work is under the direction of the Hadassah Medical Unit, the personnel of which numbers more than 100, The upkeep of the Unit and the success of its work de¬ pends upon the Hadassah chapters all over the country. The local chapter supports a pupil nurse in the Hadassah Nurses' Training School and con¬ tributes J-100 towards the school, an¬ nually. The linen sliowers which are held annually are given for the benefit of the Hadassah hospitals in Palestine, and all donations and contributions re¬ ceived are sent to the Medical Unit.
The work of Hadassah is priceless; it has been praised by men such as Rabbi Stephen Wise and Justice Louis D. Brandeis, and is supported by the ven¬ erable Jewish leader, Mr. Nathan Strauss.
The linen shower of the local chapter will be held Sunday, Feb. 25, 2:00 p m., at the Schonthal Home. A cordial in¬ vitation is extended to all.
ROUMANIABARS
NUMERUS CLAUSUS
LONDON (J. T, A.)—The draft of the new "emancipation" clauses' of the Roumanian Constitution will not con¬ tain the proposed "nunicrus clausus", providing for the limitation of Jewish students at the universities.. This in- forniatioii has been conveyed to the Board of Jewish Deputies at their meet¬ ing here. The Roumanian Government is acting with due vigor against the anti-Jewish disorders', the Bojird, also heard. Action has been taken by the Board towards the threatened expulsion of the Russian-Jewish refugees from Poland and Roumania.
On Thursday of this Week the birth of the first President of the United States and the father of this country, was widely observed. So much is writ¬ ten of him and so much is related con¬ cerning him that even to speak of him is almost trite. All true Americans honor his memory and revere him for the great contributions he made to Americanism at the beginning- of thd new republic.
However, the Jews find a special bit of interest in hiin at this time. When Washington had been elected - to the presidency, the Jews joined' their fel¬ low citizens in showering laurels upon their hero and chief executive.      ',   '
The early settlers ,in this land were
('•'- ifie same: morale force were built tfu* 111.Ml aii<l women of the Jewish faith wll. looked wistfully toward the New Wiiflii where they hoped at last to, find a hoii.o where they might dwell with¬ out'-ftar of molestation, and devote their str«ni-'tii and their skill toward the de- veW])!"i'nt of the commonwealth with^ wi il'f cvcr-haunting fear of banish- nkt't ;iiul pillage. The same hopes that filM i\w liearts of the early settlers of the' ( iiristian faith with courage attd pa'ticiici- tliriilcd. the Jewis]i_soul with foUtinidc and endurance; And although thi! ' iiis of Israel were not as nurnerous !is f'u'ir Christian brothers in jlhe cirly settliT.UMit of this laiid, they were sec¬ ond, m none in the whole-hearted serv¬ ice, l!'Cv rendered and in the, self-sacri¬ ficing- ilevotion with which they accepted thtir duties in the trying days of the Afilericaii colonies. •
It \v,is mainly through the knowledge aiiu the labor and the generosity of a few '^pruiish Jews that America was dis- GoVprcd. Columbus had, studied the asdrcnomical works of Abraham ibn Eira who was influential in giving direc- ticJ,n to the ideas of the great discoverer; tilt instrument which Columbus used on' his; voyage was "Jacob's staff," a sea qUadt-ant; the iiivention of another Jew, Lclvi rten Gerson. Aliraham Zacuto in¬ vented ail instrument for determining latitude by using the altitude of the poLir, .sticr, which instrument with astumnmical tables was in the naval pnieiil of Columbus. While Jehuda (lues, known as the "Map Jew," ffiruishcd flic maps on the voyage. 1 ii-ftoiig the men that accompanied Co- (Coittinned on fageT)
United Synagogue of America Holds 10th Annual Convention
Campaign for $500,000 Fund for
United Synagogue, Seminary
and Rdbbinical Assembly
"MODERN ORTHODOXY TAKES STOCK OF ITSELF"
THE IMMIGRATION REPORT ASSAILED BY MINORITY
Say   it   is   Plain   Discrimination
Against Immigration from
Nearly All Europe
U. S. NEEDS SUFFICIENT AMOUNT UNSKILLED LABOR
EW BRITISH kNNOUNCElEF , PALES. EXPECTED
Nahum   Sokolow   Forecasts   No
Change in Present Policy of
Palestine
MAIN DIFFICULTIES WITH ADMINISTRATION OVER
WARSAW (J. T. A.).—The British Government will shortly issue a new pronouncement' concerning its policy, in Palestine, Nahum Sokolow told the J. X A. here. While unwilling to forecast its possible contents, Mr. Sokolow is of opinion that it will probably contain little that is different from that expressed by the Duke of Devonshire in his recent statement to the Arabs, that no change may be looked for. Mr. Sokolow ex¬ pects the Government will announce it has no intention to alter its preslint policy, nor depart from the principles embodied in the British -Maiidate, but that it will continue to fulfill the objects laid down in the White Paper. While unable to say what the attitude of Par¬ liament will be, 'Mr. Sokolow says he is | cotivinced the anti-Palestine agitation, due to the election fever, was never deeprooted and has now subsided,
Sokolow Replies
The rumored unification of Transjor- dania and Syria under Emir .Abdullah, Mr. Sokolow dismissed as "fantastic."< "The British hold the mandate for Transjordania,   the   French   for   Syria.
PITTSBURGH, PA. —Almost -100 delegates aiid visitors were in attendance at the Fort Pitt Hotel, in Pittsburgh, when the Tenth Annual Convention of the Union Syhagogue of America and its Women's League was called to order, Sunday morning, February 11th.
It was an important gathering in more than one sense. " It marked the com¬ pletion of a decade of constructive Jew- ishness ¦ in the spirit of its sainted founder, the late Professor Solomon Shechter. The sessions were decorous yet earliest, interesting yet lively. The general tone'of the convention was con¬ structive, not critical; energetic, not ag¬ gressive; militant, not ,quarrelsome; definite, yet not domineering nor doc¬ trinal. Throughout there was the jiote of earnestness and sincerity. One could clearly sec that modern orthodoxy was seriously taking stock of itself. Woman was assuming her rightful place in the synagogue, the young men and young womeri were coming into their own in shouldering responsibility as well as winning privileges.' It was realized that the period of trial and experimentation I was ending and that a_g^eriod oi even greater achievement was beginning. Whenever it was necessary for the con¬ vention to take a stand it-did so fear¬ lessly, yet not .rabidly. In the question of wine for religious purposes', although the conventioii reaffirmed its belief that non-fermented Wine fulfilled the re-1 ([uiremeiits of the Jewish law, it dis¬ couraged any action {hat would deprive those who conscientiously believed in the i need for fermented wine of what they I thought their ^Judaism demanded of jthem. .No less clear-cut was the stand I taken in support of Zionist work.
•  !    One could feel that American Jewry
WASHINGTON (J. T.: A.). —The was learning the secret and the value records of heroism of Jewish soldiers in oi organization. • There is good reason the American army as well as those of to believe that, duruig the next decade others who fought under the American  the strengtH'of the United Synagogue
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HEROISM OF JEWS LAUDEDvIN REPOI 0^ CONGRESSMEN
Eight Veterans from Eastern Eu¬ rope Specifically Mentioned in R^>ort
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS AWARDED THEM!
flag who hail from eastern European countries were cited in the Minority Re¬ port of the House Immigration Commit¬ tee in belialf of more liberal immigra¬ tion laws.
Eight v,eteraiis : hailing from eastern I Europe are specifically mentioned in <he j report.   They are John N. Bilitzki,. Isiac j Rabinowitz,   Epifahio   Affatato,   Daiitiel Moskowitz, Alizy Nagowski, L9hiiie J. Moscow and Antony Sclafoni.
The  full report,  which  it is learned
will be made public soon, quoting from
an article  in  Collier'i Weekly, goes  to
i some detail in the records of these men.
Distinguished   Service  Cross
I "Each of these men," says the article, j"was awarded the Distinguished Service ! Cross. Twenty thousand men \yho fought in the same division to^ which they belonged all acquitted themselves with honor in the face of danger. A thousand men of the division were' sin-
Jimihll  OICI'IIVNM  OF I'lllJ  IIOI.Y  I.ANU — ,\  II.\I> \h.SAII  IN-sTITl'TION
COMPLETE DETAILS
FOR FINANCING THE
RUTENBERG PLAN
JERUSALEM—(J. T. A.)—The Jewish Engineer and Zionist, Rutenberg:, father of tlie plan for the utilization oii
the water power in Palestine is expected here this week. Plans for the financing of his scheme, it is. understood, have been completed, a contribution of a million pounds toward its materializa¬ tion having been made by Baron Roths- cliikl,
For purpo.ses of unification it would belK^^'* ""* to appear in the divisional cita- nece:.sary for Transjordania to become |''""s for feats of heroism performed in French or for Syria, British. Both are,*''^* campaign. But these eight were hardly possible. I ranked even higher than all these.  They
"Speculation "over the unification of I ^ere of the handful who won the Dis- Tr-uisjordania and Palestine which was <"i!?i"shed Service Cross-a decoration lumored during the Lausanne Confer¬ ence, .should bf tioated with caution. The Conference had not touched on Pal¬ estine and the .'\r.ib Delegation, while dt Lausanne, was not received by any important   politicians,"
.\s  to  the Zionist  Organization,  Mr. Sokolow declared it stands by the man¬ date which places Transjordania, "to a certain extent" under Sir Herbert Sam-iva Hol.  'Mr. Sokolow expects no change in  Ik this direction.
Passing to the dem^nds of tlio Zionist Organization and the complaints of the "Vaad Leumi," Mr. Sokolow expressed his regret that the representatives had not been successful so far. Dissatisfied with the outcome of. these negotiations,
and the progress of its work will, ad^ vahce by leaps aitd bounds, strengthen loyalty to the Torah and rear in this land a Jewish community and a JeVvish life that will lie worthy, of some of the most glorious chapters in Jewish history.
Seek $500,000
A nation-wide drive, for $500,000, to support the United Synagogue and the Jewish Theological Seminary was' started at the, second day's session of the United Synagogue convention. Dele¬ gates present pledged to give $25,000. • The United Synagogue of America went oil record as supporting the. pro¬ posal for a World Jewish Congress .to aid in the upbuilding of Palestine.
Dr. Elias L. Soloman of New York was re-elected ^'resident, and the fol¬ lowing new: members were named on the Executive Committee: .Maurice L.Ay- ner, Pittsburgh; Abraham Cbhn, Scran- ton,; Joseph Boch, New York; Henry (Continued on page G)
WASHINQTON (J. T. A.). —The type of immigrant who hazards his life, plumbing the depths of the earth to dfs, coal, who lays the subways and stretches put the railroad tracks -t- he who in grime and sweat swelters at the hot furnaces of the mammoth steel mills and who sits with bent back plying his needle and thread—all of these are dis¬ criminated ' against hS the., new 1890 clause in the House Immigration Bill.
This was the charge made by Con¬ gressman Isaac Siegel, Adolpli J. Sa- bath and Robert S. Maloney.of the Irii- liiigration Committee iii; their minority report made public today. . .
The 18f)0 clause would substitute the year 1800 as a basis iot the immigra¬ tion quota instead of 1910 as at present.
"Plain Discrimination"
"It is a plain discriminafion," says the report, "against the immigration from Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Italy, Norvtfay, Poland and Roumania, It is too apparent that it is intended not to reduce immigration from Great Brit¬ ain and Germany, but to completely stop almost all immigration from all other countries."
"It cannot be denied," continues the report, "that most of the hard, common and manual work performed in the United States has been done during the past thirty or forty years by the immi¬ grants coming from those countries des¬ ignated as southern and southeastern Europe. Such work for the p?.st cen¬ tury has always been performed by the then coming immigrants. -'
The substitution of the two per cent quota instead of the p'resent three per cent quota, is also vigorously- attacked in the minority report. The .three per cent quota, it points out, was "tempora¬ rily enacted for the sole purpose of safe¬ guarding the United State against an an¬ ticipated influx of immigrants after the vvai"V" "tJiuvA/ u.U- i:'iii\.ttii«iii.''.tS5^ uit-iSsJBY;' ure, it was shown that niaSiy of the' fears which were expressed were un¬ founded, in fact, several of the coun¬ tries have not even made full use of their quotas."
Immigrants Leaving
The number of immifirants leaving the country is quite considerable, the report points out, the actual excess of people coming in over those leaving being only small. "The three per cent quota law would have permitted the coming of over 335,000 immigrants, but approxi¬ mately, in the last year, only ;!09,554 arrived."
"We feel that the adoption of the 1890 Census is unjustifiable not only for the reason that it is discriminatory, but be¬ cause it will prevent the admission of from 60,000 to 75,000 laborers, who will shortly be greatly needed. "We are not ¦    (^ConcUided on page G.)
ZIOM LODGE No. 62 L O. B. B.
to HOLD INITIATION MON-
DAY EVENING, FEB. 26
E^ery member of ,Zion Lodge No. Ciz I. O. B. B. is requested to be present at the initiation of a large' class of candidates into the B'nai B'rith order on Mon¬ day evening, Feb. 26th, Wood¬ man Hall, at 8:15 sharp.
The new committees will be announced at this meeting' A smoker and, social hour is also scheduled for the evening.
Remember, • Monday evening, Feb. 26, Woodman Hall, 8:15 p. m.    Members only.
awarded only  for  'extraordinary hero- i.sm in action.' "
Referring to the .Jew.isli men, the [re¬ port  says, one  "left  shelter,  went   for¬ ward  under   intense  machine  gun  fire, anil carried a wounded oflficer to a place ofl safety.    In  accomplislung  this  inis- s'Oii he was severely wounded."    "An¬ other of these Jewish lads, when the ad ice of  his battalion was  checked by ivy machhie gun fire, weiit  forward, well   two fit m
Rahhi Mayerberg Tendered
A Testimonial Dinner
DAYTON, ().—• On Monday evening, February  19, Congregation K, K. B'nai Yesburun of Dayton, Ohio, gave a Tes¬ timonial Dinner for their beloved leader. Rabbi  Samuel   S.  Mayerberg,  and  his dear wife.   As Mr. F. J. .Ach, the Presi¬ dent of the congregation, who presided as Toastmaster, said, this affair was pos¬ sibly the largest of its kind ever held by other, soldiers,  under  heavy Dayton Jewry.   About two hundred and ,.they drove the gunners  from two  fifty enthusiastic Jews participated. This chine gun nests into a dug-out near token of esteem to Rabbi and Mrs. May- which they captured, together with erberg was; the .outcome of the inspira- rty-fivef prTsri'mers,    including    three tion received by the delegates, who at- oiiicers.   .Another Jew of the group ex- tended  the  meeting  of  the  Union  of hiiited  exceptional  bravery  by  leaving American    Hebrew    Congregations    iii the Zionists are continuing to press their ', sl|lter and going out into an open field New York.' claims both in London and Jerusalem,; ulder heavy machine gun and shell fire     After hearing the wonderful speeches
(Concluded on page C.)
I t(B rescue
wounded  soldiers."
made by various members of the Board
and the sincerity with which they spoke, it so inspired those present that they pledged themselves within their own hearts not only to support the Rabbi in all his undertakings and to attend the divine services every week, so as to be a source of inspiration to him, but also to rededicate and reconsecrate them; selves to the faith of their forefathers. Rabbi 'Mayerberg, whose heart was pul¬ sating with appreciation, gave a beauti¬ ful  address.
Members ihowed in a material way their enthusiasm by voluntarily doubling their dues. • •
This meeting,will stand forth as one of the bright lights on the pages of the history of Congregation K. K. B'nai Yeshurun of Dayton, Ohio.
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