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Volume IV —No. 13
CUI.UMI'.US. OHIO, I'Ef.HUARY i.6, 1923
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RESIGNS FROM CLUB
WHEN PROPOSAL IS MADE TO BAR JEWS
R.  R. Fogel Charges  Members
of New York Canadian
Club With Bias
PRESIDENT OLIVER
REPLIES PROMPTLY
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NEW YORK.—Tlie cliargc that the Cauadiati Chib of New York is. "de-. termincd to exclude Jew.s" is contained ill a letter of r9signation written to the clith on Saturday and made public by feube R. Fogel of R. R. Fogcl'& Co., manufacturinji jewelers, 173 Broadway. The charge is denied by the president •of the Canadian Club, Albert Oliver, head of Albert Oliver & Son, dealers in fircproofing, 717 East One Hundredth and Fortieth street.
Mr. I'-ofeel's letter of resignation, ad¬ dressed to the Canadian Club, Hotel Belmont, was as  follows:
"I received your, notice to attend meeting on Friday evening, Jan. '2C, re¬ questing a, large attendance, as matters of importance would be discus.sed.
"You "may imagine my surprise when the chairman of the membership com¬ mittee stated that he desired to hear the views of members as to the admission of Jews and that he would vote against any Jew' applying for membership.
"Ybur president then stated tiiat the hearty applause which greeted this state¬ ment indicated the determination of your club to txclude Jews, and this fact should ,be considered as a closed incident.
"I wish to call your attention to Arti¬ cle 3 of your constitution, as follows: 'The'club shall at all times be non-poli¬ tical and non-sectarian, and anything of a religious or political nature .shall be excluded from its discussions.'
"I have always felt proud of your club and its members, and t have never heard until last evening, the leas^ indi¬ cation of anything but the most intelli- geijt, intellectual and 'broad-minded ;-•::::;j^:-^.a'l au,,\l g.jhj(.5,t-;...I..di'il not know that prejudice or mental lim¬ itation as to creed or race existed indi¬ vidually or collectively. I had always received courteous, friendly and digni¬ fied, attentions from your officers and members, and I had been led to believe that I was always welcome by the kindly greetings extended to ine.
"In view' of the fact that you care¬ fully adhered ..to your constitutioh and by-laws on ail other matters, and in compliance with the determined stand taken by your oificers and many of your members, I hereby tender my resigna- tiori.". • .¦'¦¦' ¦¦¦:":,', .  .'¦:'. '.
President Replies: Promptly,
The following reply to Mr. Fpgel was sent by President. Oliver immediately upon receipt of the letter of resigna¬ tion:
"Yours of January .27 was. given me by the inanagc;r; In this letter yo« refer to the. discussion of a few nights since, a discussion which I am quite frank in saying should not have occurred.
"in your letter you state my reference to the hearty applause following the re¬ marks of one of'our members. Do you ' not think it good .policy to always make it a little easier for the other party? I had referred to the; excellent members we have in men of your race and to the excellence of your ancient race. I thought I was manifesting a spirit of tolerance and conciliation and my re¬ marks vyere intended to do all of. that. I did.not say that the applause indicated the determination of the club to exclucje men of your race. I did say it was sig¬ nificant. I might have trutlifully added ,'that I.'was sorry, of the indication,
"Now y(S||jand I have many things to meet and overcome in this world; let's not be too thin skinned, and, if agree¬ able to you, be good enough to ask for the return of y6ur letter, and jqst let's hold up our heads and not care a damn about what the .other fellows think as long as we act fair toward each other."
"Foolish Member's Talk"
At his home in Mamaroneck, Mr. Oli¬ ver said;
"I wrote Mr. Fogel a letter imme¬ diately rather correcting two or three things quite out of gear in his letter. I think he acted rather hastily. I wish he had spoken of my remarks more fully. Tliere was no formal action taken by the ciub. There were only 37 members presT ent at the meeting last Friday night and they did not have the power to speak for the entire 1,400. The proposal to • bar Jewish applicants was. the most ab¬ surd thing in the world. Fogel was per¬ fectly right in feeling as he did, I would have felt that way, too. But it was just the result of. a foolish mem-i ber's talk."       ¦'
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20,658 JEWISH AR.
RIVALS IN PALESTINE
LONDON (Jv T. A.)—Since the ¦promulgation of the ordinance regulat¬ ing the immigration into Palestine in accor^dancc with the economic needs of the country, 20,(158 Jews entered Pales¬ tine under the auspices of the Zionist Organization and otherwise, says, an official announcement by thp Colonial Office. The ordinance was promulgated September, 1920.
Jews entering Palestine in 1922 num¬ bered 7,844, divided as follows: 3,285 men, 2,446 women and 2,113 children. In December of 1922 there were 014 Jewish, immigrants.
King's Order to Suppress Violence Results in Arrests
Union of Roumanian Jews Issues
a Proclamation tio Party
Leaders
"TO DISSECT JEWISH
CORPSES EXCLUSIVELY'
Is Motherhood lacompatible With Fmdom?
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
This freedom" is a fascinating and Miii'l sw  children,; as does the unhappy
BUCHAREST, (J, T. A.). —The King has directed the authorities to sup¬ press tlie actions of the anti-Semitic student' body, following the receipt of petitions presented to him by Jewish leaders, and a stormy debate in the Senate. The Council of Ministers, ac-. cordingly, has, caused the arrest of 14 ringleaders including the Chairmen of student' societies of the philosophic and legal departments. "Covantual," a rabid students' publication, has l)ccn sup¬ pressed.
Discussion of the Jewish questions was continued in the Chamber Tllesday, Deputies Stern, Lupu and Machalacl^ demanding actual protection for the Jewish citizens, declaring the Govern¬ ment's "phrases" had failed to restore the Jews' sense'of security. A number of 'Depljties, among them such as are known to be tnore or less liberal, de¬ fending the disturbances on the ground that ^naff, of, ^'thc '|)1amt?,,';ri;sted'Vith j^th^' Jews^who, they aneged,'"overrun the uni¬ versities, thus provoking the nativists.
The Union of Roumanian Jews has issued a proclamation to the leaders of different parties, threatening to with¬ draw from the parties unless tlieir i leaders joined in the protest against the attacks on the Jews. 'The party leaders are also called upon to join in the peti¬ tion to the King and to the ecclesiastical authorities to-calm the Christian popur lation. ¦
Asked to Explain Attacks on Jews Senator' Sanielvici.has submittefl a number of questions to the Government with .reference to' the recent wave of anti-JeVvish violence sweeping over the country. TheSeiiator'.s questions were directed primarily to the. Ministers of Interior and Public Instruction.    •,
The. first question to be put was, whether the Gbvernrnenthad any knowl¬ edge that "excesses" had taken place throughput the country; if so why- no steps were taken looking to their pre¬ vention. The Senator asked also why the'police did nothing.'to defend the Jewish students and what.measures the Government was taking against these disturbances lasting several months and still continuing.. The Gbvernment has not yet replied. .
A .meeting to protest the frequent at¬ tacks on J'cws called for February 4 was prohibited by the local authorities. The Jews niet in»the Great "Synagogue, where it. was decided to petition the King for an audiciice in order to bring to his attention the complaints against the violence. . Simultaneously Jewish organizations are addressing a memo¬ randum to Parliament.
No abatement bf the anti-Semitic students' activities is to be noticed. New and mbre sweepinif demands have been presented by tliem asking not only for the rigid enforcement of the per¬ centage' norm, and that Jewish students dissect Jewish corpses exclusively, biit also for the' introduction of restrictions in the naturalization law, as far as Jews are concerned, and prohibiting the set¬ tlement of foreign Jews on Roumanian soil.
in some respects powerful novel. Though Written in the vernacular of propaganda, it is hardly lo be com¬ mended as counsel or doctrine. It is a graphic sketch of one zvoman and he)-' home rather than an adequate por¬ trayal of womankind. As an argument— and it is all argument—it is essentially unfair as far as a novel can be unfair. The wholesale horrors of the story<'s ending arc quite umvorlhy of Ihe au¬ thor's reputation; they read like a lurid poli'-e-eourt report. It is ai untrue to life as it is fal.ie to art. — Editor's NoTi;.
Insofar as "This Freedom" is a pro¬ test against the woman who misuses her freedom, one assents to it without rc" serve. No message could be more im¬ portant than that which would inake-' clear to women, whether young or mid¬ dle-aged  or  past-middle-agc, the poor,
ff'i'lict who figures in "This Freedom." ti'H, ,iftcr all, this were a most unusual ¦>'Jl tKi-cplional case, and it is not well, A tl.living the writer of "This Freedom" to,;i il'iscly, to make the mistake.of pay- in'g loo much attention to the excep- fWi.iI and too little attention to the. unr cjcditioiial and normally circumstanced
1 .im prepared to defend the perhap.v not uliolly novel thesis that children are C)VL -mothered and under-fathered,— thnt iticc the rise pf the industrial era 5H)iI iiioro especially the parasitism that JiS;, cvonti'd therelrom, the mother has ^C^ii suffered to be "all" to a child and tfrat notliing has been asked from and '(fi^ri'i'ore nothing or little more than ;{iolliing given to children by. fathers. It li s. query whether some of the evils of i^e !u)inc life of our day and genera- *J.'\ii;—its   softnesses,   flabbinesses,   its
sad way in which they are using or fail-, & ei'v.itions,—are not due in part to the • -.- .^   ._    .,      r      1        ., _. ^.^. 1       i'rft-oi-dominant influence of the mother
'^ti(l tlie negligible influence of tlie typi- :fal "middle-class" father. S''fjlie   home   of   the   leisured   and   the «''c1i-to-do in our time is the home of even luridly that cigarette-smoking aneRpne ]),irciit  and  it  rests   upon   the  as-
- —.-:.. 1  .— _r ,:...• ,. ^-•',^jij^ipiinn that all help and leading can
and must come from one parent,
ing to use the freedom that has been won ' for tllem rather than by them. ; A play on the stage of' New York' some years ago, entitled "Nice People,'*- pointed   out   graphically   and   perhaps
a certain loose type of living are not to. be   regarded   by   women   as   freedom'^
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highest  gains, — that   freedom  is  to te^lllid  that  nothing  in  the  way  of   real cherished as nothing more tliaii an'at^'. mospherc in which a' woman may waljsif
with self-respect and know that it li«,'^| ;^{ite  to   the   under-fathered   home   re¬ minds me that frequently in the course
JEWS URGE PROTEC¬ TION AGAINST POGROMS
LONDON:—(J. T, A.) Reports ar¬ riving here from Munich crtnvey the alarm felt there in connection with AdolphHittler's preparations to review Saturday 200,000 armed Bavarian Fas¬ cists The danger of massacres of Jews is plainly depicted in these reports, urg¬ ing Jews abroad to intervene in! an ef¬ fort to avert a pogrom wave. , Liberal German newspapers confirm fhe prediction of a general uprising en¬ gineered by Hittler and his National Sb- cialist .followers, to establish the dicta- ture of the Fascist! by Saturday.
Claims Henry Ford Had Dealings With Czarist Officers
Ford Sought Business vtrith Kol- chak and Deniken says News¬ paper Correspondent
DON ISAAC LEVINE SENDS REPORT FROM BERLIN
iitnlncss and  inspiration  can  be ex- W^^tcd fvom the other.    And the reter-
wtthiii her to make her life largely aric
richly serviceable. To regard Ihe-smpkljl^f^'-'hiy reading of Hutchinson's book I ing of an unlimited number of 'ciga'r^Sya^ tempted to interrupt the whining ettos daily as a high token of freedo_ra''ic4f'-Harry Occleve with the query, In- for womankind is  at  once a  travb^S-?^ ffead of railing at your children's moth-
Si.u.i'bc a father to them?
upon and the tragedy of the great striigs^j Hess home, why not try in any event gle for the liberation of woman, • •  ^,.5^u,!'bc b
It may be that some married worii'ait, ,'< IF): is true that the necessity for'.leav- or women tnight so misunderstand tlX.&l'Hi'"^ thg home or for iremaining outside or»ij5rtunifies,and their ,oHjgati'<ii'^ ;^^^'_^^,''^tf<^^^^ h,(i<t>?-,^.<;..ia»",-ii!!\the Jnnt!.i,f'^,,is der   freedom   as   utterlj'   to   neglect   a*      .        (Continued on page C.)
CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES to NATHAN STRAUS
Greetings Flood "Grand Old Man
of American Jewry" on His
Seventy-Fifth Birthday
WORK HARD, MARRY
EARLY, ADVISES STRAUS
STORRS DESCRIBES REHABILITATION OF JERUSALEM
Is Guest at  Informal Luncheon
at India House in New
York City
AN ART THEATRE S PLANNED BY KAHN AND GEST
To  Encourage and Develop American and Foreign Opera, ' Drama and Music
BROWN FILES PETITION FOR MAYOR OF DETROIT
DETROIT: (J. C. B.) David A. Brawn> former director of the $14,000,000 relief campaign for Jewish war sufferers, was first to .file petitions for Mayor, of Detrpit. Mr. Brown; sub¬ mitted 1Z,3S0 signatures. Un¬ der the lnw, a candidate for'the Detroit Mayoralty must submit at least .6,800 names..
NEW YORK, (J. C. B.). —Governor I Ronald Storrs of Jerusalem was the I gue-st at an informal luncheon todaj at India House, at which he described plans for the general rehabilitation of the Holy .City, in the carrying out of v/hich he stated that he hoped to enlist the cooperation of all the racial and religious elements represented in Jeru¬ salem's cosmopolitan population.
The luncheon was given by the New York and National -Officers of the Eng¬ lish-Speaking Union of the U. S., those present including members of the local committee and the national Board of Directors with a number of men and women especially, interested in the ob¬ jects of Governor Stprr's visit to Amer¬ ica. DK John. H. Finley, Chairman of the. New York Chapter of the,Union, presided.     .
Technical Education
.Governor Storrs emphasized the im¬ portance of technical education as in his judgijneiit one of . the test rneans of promoting initiative and the habit of industry among the people of Jerusalem. These and other activities iio,w under way or in view, he said, are conducted under the auspices of tlie Pro-Jerusalem Society, wliicli is "strictly and exclu¬ sively undenominational and gives em¬ ployment-to Christians, Moslems; ajul Jews, bf both j sexes, without any dis¬ tinction whatever of race or creed." These plans were outlined to him by President Harding in a conference at the White House last Wednesday.
The guests at the Speakers' table, in¬ cluded Capt.. Gloster Armstrong, British Consul General at New York, and Mrs. Armstrong; Edward Gray, British Con¬ sul General at Boston, and Mrs. Gray; Hon. John V. Davis, formerly American Ambassador to Great Britain, and Presi¬ dent of the ' English-Speaking Union; Hon. George W. Wickersham, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Union, and Chas.. C. Goodrich, its Secretary. Treasurer, were: ^
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NEW YORK. 7^ Announcement of a theatre sooii to be, built in New 'York which will be far more thdn the Prdi- nary tlicatre in that it- will be. devoted to encouraging American opera, drama and music, al> well as to introducing here such foreigii artistic productions as for one reason or another might not appeal to the ordinary producer, was made' by Otto H. Kahn.
The .tlieatre will be built by Morris Gest. -:¦'.-
Mr. Gest says he hopes to have the building completed in time for opening iiext November and that, it Will be es¬ tablished somewhere between ' 42nd St: and;57th St., as near Times Square as' possible. As to'the rest, iii M^- GeSt's (i>vii words:
"There \vill not be a streak of gilt or a'bit of plush in the whole playhoi.ise, not a trace pf pomp or luxury in the furnishings, although the stage' will be gorgeous or bare, as the production re- fiuires.
"We need money to try out and to develop talent.. We need money to pro¬ duce failures,, of which there will be a lot, and we can't afford to waste, any on the building or the decoration. It will be as close to a barn as we can make
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Mr. Kahn made the following state¬ ment:
"Mr. Gest is looking for a site on which to erect a theatre of his own. It is part of his plan that the hospitality of that theatre shall be extended to the best in foreign dramatic art, for it is right, and truly serviceable to Aiificrican art that our artists and public should have the opportunity of becoming, ac- <iuainted with the best that foreign art has to offer. But thp main purpose is to serve American art.
"Gest's theatre is to be a place where young America shall particularly  have
NEW YORK. —"It is learned that Ford has been trying for the last three years to do business in' Russia, first ncgbtiating with Kolchak and later with Deniken. ' These early efforts led to Ford'.-i' connection with Czairist officers and is declared to be responsible for his anti-Semitic campaign."
This stalenient from Isaac Don Levine, staff correspondent of the Hearst papers, who is now in Berlin, closes a report from that city ;declaring that Henry Ford has finally obtained a concession in Southern Russia from the Soviet Government.
The report published on the first page of the New York American, brought a positive and sweeping denial from Edsel Ford that such a concession has been obtained.
Article Quite Definite
Mr. Lcvine's article is quite definite. He states without qualification that ac¬ cording to the alleged agreement, Ford is,, to,^ &uDJ)li'w.Russ)*- Jm>nediat8ly,..,'!ry,U]j
2,000 tractors valued at $4,000,01)0 and that the first shipment is alreajdy on the high seas. Mr. Levine declares further that Ford is to receive in return cotton and : other ra\v: .materials which his agents will convert into money in west¬ ern'Europe and that, thus, "Henry Ford becomes the first large American capi¬ talist to grant extensive credits to the Soviets." ,  .. '   . . ,
. It is his dosing assertion,.namely, that; Ford has been trying to do business in' Russia for the last three years and tliat his agents first negotiated with Kolchak and later, with Deniken, which has aroused the greatest interest.,
Mr. Levine says that these early ef¬ forts led to Ford's conncctiouv with' Czari.st officers arid "is declared to be responsible -for - his anti-Serriitic : cam¬ paign."
,Ford is reviving that campaign in his '¦international" organ, the Dearborn In¬ dependent, and in connection with Mr. Lcvine's. assertion it should be noted that in 192rLucien Wolf of London, in a work exposing the source of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," had something to say ¦ about Deniken and Kolchak after tracing the literary his¬ tory of that royalist propaganda docu¬ ment which was touted by Ford's editor, Cameron, a Canadian born writer bf Detroit, who was selected by Ford to direct the Ford anti-Semitic "enter¬ prise."     ,,¦
.The aim of the "Protocols" is to prove that republics; and the doctrines of" human equality, liberty, fraternity and ai free press were .devised by Jews in order to destroy monarchical govern¬ ments and secure Jewish world domi¬ nation. The royalist imagery back of this argument is self-evident.
.,Mr. Wolf's work,, published by the, MacmiUah Company, ' deals . .with the ".Protocols," under title, "The Myth of tne Jewish Menace in World Affairs."- It contains this reference to a recent
phase  of   the   political   history  of   the
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. —Cablc- granis came from many parts of Europe and telegrams came by hundreds from different parts of the country congratu¬ lating Nathan Straus on his seventy- fith birthday. Re.solutions reviewing his charitable work in many fields, came from' many organizations by mail and telegraph.
President Harding sent his congratu¬ lations and best, wishes to the philan¬ thropist, and scores of other noted men and women joined in it.
"Mr. Straus's public service and pri¬ vate and public philanthropies have de¬ served much of his fellow-citizens," the President wrote, "and I hope tliat'he may live many more years of similar usefulness."
In a brief interview Mr. Straus said that he had received more happiness in. giving away money for the benefit of human beings than from anything else. Because he had b.ccn giving away money faster in the last ten years than ever before, he .said that today he felt ten' y?ars younger than he did ten year^ ago. Pressed for a recipe for success, he  said:
"Work hard and, above all, get inar- ried at an early age."
Serenade by Negroes
. Mr. Straus had a big day's literarj- work ahead of him reading the moun¬ tain oi letters and telegrams piled on- desks and chair at his suite at the Breakers, and he was interrupted in the beginning by the serenade of a negro choir which stationed itself in the hall¬ way outside bf his suite and; sang hymns,
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Straus. He was staggered When word ¦was brought to him that this pious group of singers could not sing "Dixie" because they knew nothing but anthems, carols and hymns, -
The work of Mr. Straus in saving the lives of thousands of children by caus¬ ing the pasteurizing of milk and giving away free .milk was commemorated in resolutions from, many New York or¬ ganizations. Practically every Jewish or'ganizatipn in the country sent felicita¬ tions, Scores of letters came from pri¬ vate faniilies which have held the name of -Nathan Straus in veneration. Many letters, were, from children and from children's ¦ organizations. One affection¬ ate message was from Simon Rothschild of YonkerSi 9,5 years old, whose sons played with Mr. Straus years ago in Georgia. Another was from Simon Wolf, the aged- Jewish leader, living in Washington, D. C.
Note From Grateful Mother
Some of those who sent telegrams or letters of congratulations were former Secretaries of the State, William J. Bryan and Robert Lansing, Govel-nor Alfred E. Smith; Adolpli S. Ochs, Louis lilar.shall, Frank A. Munsey, Arthur Brisbaine, W. .R. Hearst, Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brancleis, General Nel¬ son A.Miles, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Au¬ gust Heckscher, Dewitt Seliginan, Rabbi H. G. Endow, Ronald Starrs, Civil Gov¬ ernor of Jerusalem; Mrs. Joseph Fels, Feli?c.Fuld, Albert D. Lasker, Julius Rosenwald, David.A. Brown, of Detroit, Herinan Bernstein, Louis Wolf and Jacol) Ginsberg. ,
A woman in New York wrote: "You saved the lives of my babies. They are now grown, but I have not forgotten. May, God hless and keep you." An¬ other letter was signed:, "One of Your Pasteitrized  Babies."
Over aiid beyond the pleasure which Mr, r Straus - derived   from   the   spon-
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its innings —not'only American drama- Among the others present tists, actors, scenic artists and so forth, .   : • ' but  American  singers  and-composers,
, Israd Abrahams, Bernard Flex- not of course in rivalry to grand opera,- ner, E. Mi Friedman, Otto H; Kahn, but supplementary thereto. And young Solomon Loweristein, S. A. Lewisohn, America will make good; for talent is Hon. Henry Morgenthau, Felix M. War- ' latent here, throughout this vast coun- "Surg, Paul M. Warburg, Louis Wiley .try, a profusion of talent, awaiting only and Dr. Stephen S. Wise. | guidance and adequate opportunity." '
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