Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1923-08-10

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JEWS THRUOUT COUNTRY MOURN PRES. HARDING
Straus, Marshall, London, Bloom,
Hillquit  Pay Tributes to
Fallen Chief
MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY SENT TO MRS. HARDING
NEW YORK (J. T. A.).—Jews of all factions, -reform and orthodox, and of all political affiliations joined iu ex¬ pressing deep sorrow today at tlic death of   President   Harding.
Jews, it was recalled, have special rea¬ sons to remember the President be¬ cause of his approval and signature of the Lodge Resolution approving the establishment of the Jewish Nati0n.1l Home.
President Harding's thoughtful act in sending on the occasion of last Rosh Ha-Shannah a special greeting to Jews is also still fresh in the memory of Anierican Jewry.
0<car Straus Pays Tribute.
Harding liad many of the character¬ istics of McKinley, Oscar Straus de-. clared when informed of the President's death.' "He had a kind and lovable dis¬ position and served his country with utmost devotion."
Louis Marshall Speaks.
Speaking for the Jews of- America, Louis Marshall, Chairman of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Relief Committee, in a statement given out by Harry H. Rosen- felt, national director of the committee,, said:
"No element. in our citizenship has been more stunned and overwhelmed with grief because of the untimely pass¬ ing of President Harding than the Jews of America, who have a double reason for remembering his good works and his kindly deeds. Not only was he ab¬ solutely fair in his estimate and treat ment of the Jewish citizenship every¬ where, but when it came to the Jews having to go to the rescue of less for¬ tunate members of their race in Russia and Poland, victims of post-war condi¬ tions, the great heart and mighty hand - of Warren G. Harding was extended
AS A SPEAKER, FORD MAKES A GOOD "FLIVVER," SAYS C. S. MONITOR
BOSTON, MASS. (J. T. A.)—Honry Kord ill the event he oilicially enters tile race for picsiilciicy will make no cam¬ paign .speeches, if a writer in the "Cliris- tian Science Monitor" is to be believed.
The only speech ever made by the De¬ troit auto manufacturer proved a "llivvcr," says a writer in the "Monitor."
"The warden of Sing Sing Prison, New York," it is said, "asked him to address the prisoners at a inceting. Mr, Ford demurred, but blushingly con¬ sented to take the rostrum embarrassed. All he could muster up courage to say was somcthiilg like this: 'How arc you, jjoys? I am glad to see so many of you here'."
David Brown Appeals for the Collection of Unpaid Pledges
Reviews  Methods  of Collecting . Unpaid Pledges Throughout the Country
INSISTS THAT EVERY MAN OF HONOR WILL PAY UP
IS PAN-JEWRY REMJ.Y POSSIBLE
•    AND NECESSARY?
Yes, Says Dr. Blanlc, A European Jewish Worker; Desirable, But Not Essential, Says Bernard G. Richards, American Jewish Congress Spokesman.
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[Note. — Dr. Reuben Blank is well kii^wn as a Kussiaii-Jcwish worker who has continued his activities througlioutJ^Jic duration of the war and fol¬ lowing the Russian Revolution. In Kiiglartcj-niid France, where he has bccir living for the last few years, he is one of Ithc foremost workers for Jewish rights. He edited the Jewish Tribune in Paris,' where it i^; printed in Russian and French. His views of the urgency \i an .-ill-embracing Congress of Anierican Jew.s are here set forth and parallel with tlicm Mr. Richards' com¬ ment on these views, which the Qiiio Jewish Wihonicm; has obtained. — Ennou.]
]^!^ BERNARD G. RICHARDS.
Dij-; I Blank's oiiinions on  the role of
The Jewish and non-Jewish press throughout the country have been car¬ rying on their front pages a story of suit brought by the leaders in the New York Campaign for Jewish War Relief in a pledge publicly made for $500,000. The facts as presented to the court show that this man made his pledge and dur¬ ing the course of one year had not paid anything on it, although he was well able to do so. The court held that the pledge was binding and gave judgment to the New York Campaign Committee for the full amount, plus the costs in the case. Since this story was broad¬ casted, an epidemic of similar suits have been started throughout the country, both Jewish and'non-Jewish.
Method of Collecting.
No doubt, there is a great difference of opinion as to this method of collect¬ ing funds raised in the name of suffer¬ ing humanity. My personal opinion is that any method that collects fund; of
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By DR. REUBEN BLANK.
The situation of Eastern Jewry is critical in the real sense of the word. The enemies of Jewry arc now very much stronger than at any time previ¬ ously, having the masses on their side, and the support of the governing classes. In most of these countries pop¬ ulated by Jews, they play -an extremely important role, which, together with their temporary power, they are eager and prompt to" exploit and thus cause the utmost injury to the Jews.
The Jew is the object of a real cam¬ paign in Poland, Roumania and Lithu¬ ania. Though it be true that this takes the form of bloodshed but occasionally, yet the silent pogroms never cease. It is a bloodless.and formless war — and a permanent one — thajt is being waged, but with the identical destructive and dreadful results occasioned by, formal, active  combat.
At every step, in every sphere, diffi¬ culties and prohibitions are created which arrest every movement of the Jewish spirit, sapping the strength utterly. In the economic life, b'oycot- ting is prevalent; on. the spiritual plane, restrictions'; in the political life, ac^al blockade. Thus begins an era of -Jew¬ ish emancipation in Eastern Europe; it provokes bitter, offensive feeling, but historically it seems to be inevitable. Emancipation underwent the same de¬ velopment in western Europe, where the rising of anti-Semitism and persecutions
jsation which all Jews promptly backed, and as a result tens of thousands were cured of disease and gradually assisted back to a state of normalcy in which they could sustain themselves, and get back upon the path where contentment and happiness could he found.
This is no way in which the humani¬ tarian interest of the departed Presi¬ dent in this great work, could be esti¬ mated or appraised, so far aS' its effect in saving human lives and relieving hu¬ man suffering might be concerned. Suffice it to say that even as the people of the United States, Jew and Gentile, all creeds and shades of belief, bow their heads in profound grief nov/ at the passing of this great man, there are corresponding thousands on the other side of the ocean, includ¬ ing poor little children, wan women and grim old men, whose tears of regret at the announcement of the President's death will best attest their understand ing of his great heart and generous hand, which they take to represent the heart and hand of the most mighty and glorious Republic on earth. In Warren G. Harding, the Jews of America had a friend whose genuine sympathies were their boon and mainstay both in their citizenship here and their struggle to help their race abroad. From the day I had my first interview with him, I have said, and I say now, he was a rare type of sincere' human being, and his memory will ever be revered by the Jews wherever they may be on this earth."
"This is a tremendous shock," de¬ clared Meyer London, former Socialist Congressman. "It is a personal shock for I knew him well. President Hard¬ ing endeared himself to all who knew him, whatever the political differences have been. Politics arc now forgotten in the love all factions had for him as a man."
"Regardless of all party," Morris Hill¬ quit declared, "all men join in the na¬ tional mourning for President Hard¬ ing."
"He was a man of big heart," de¬ clared Congressman Sol Bloom. "I am greatly shocked."
President Harding's last utterance to the Jews was made on August 21, 1922, when he addressed New Year Greet¬ ings to the Jews of America:
"The commemoration this year of Rosh Ha-Shannah, the New Year day of the Jewish people, will mark the end of a year peculiarly notable in Jewish annals. It has seemed the definite assurance to the Jewish people that their long aspiration for, re-establishment of Jewish national- {Continued on page 6)
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