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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^OR THE JEWISH HOME
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Volume VI — No. 30
COLUMBUS, OIIIO, PECEMBER 14, 1923
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PRES. COOLIDGE FAVORS FURTHER IMMIG. RESTRICTION
Merchants    and    Manufacturers
Demand Greater Leniency in
Admission of Immigrants
LA60R-FARMERS WANT COMPLETE PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON, (J. T. A.). —The proposed appeal by Chairman Johnson of the House Immigration Committee further restricting immigration to two per cent, of the nationals of any coun¬ try resident in the United States in 1890 was not formally introduced because of the failure of Congress to organize.
A canvass made by the Congressional Digest, an organ claiming to be neither ofTicial nor controlled by any party, in¬ terest, class, or sect, in its November issue rtveals "the President is sympa¬ thetic with that in Congress which' will oppose any lessening of the present re¬ strictions on immigration and, it is un¬ derstood, will be willing to see further restrictions imposed."
The Chamber of Commerce is quoted by the Congressional Digest as believing in restriction of immigration and in the principle of selection as "a controlling factor in immigration legislation.
"Because of lack of flexibility, the present Immigration Law is not adapt¬ able to changing conditions. The Chamber therefpre advocates, that, to the present three per cent quota, there should be aidded an additional tvvo per cent quota solely upon a selective basis, to provide a flexibility without affecting our social standards. This two per cent is a maximum, only such part (if any) of which should be used as is necessary to meet the recognized ccotiottiic and social needs of the nation." ~''''*'''V'
The National Association of Manu¬ facturers is opposed equally to unre- trictcd immigration and to its complete prohibition under the guise of restric¬ tion. It favors a constructive policy of selective immigration through which, by ' ; , flexible    administrative   machinery    a
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gration to the demonstrated economic needs^of the United States or its cur¬ tailment and restriction in the presence of satisfied needs.
The American Farm Bureau Federa¬ tion urges selective immigration as at present but the passports should be vised at the ports of embarkation and the quota should be based upon the number of foreign-born in this country as reported in 1890 instead of 1910. This wodid lessen materially the num¬ ber of immigrants that would come in but should tend to open the doors to a better class.
The National Grange asks for the enactment if an immigration restriction law based on the principles that immi¬ gration privilege should be granted only to persons who declare their intention of becoming American citizens.
The American Federation of Labor, in a statement by Samuel Gompers, President, November 19, 1923, demand¬ ed "an immigration law that will pro¬ tect the wage earners of this country as well as the people."
No opinion from the American Le¬ gion upon immigration is quoted, but the Veterans of Foreign Wars are for the enactment of strict naturalization and immigration laws.
The   Chamber  of   Commerce   iu   a
, statement by Julius Barnes, President,
restates its opinion upon immigration in
the forthcoming number of the Nation's
Bi^siness:
"It is clear that for both economic - and social reasons America believes that it can, no longer throw wide its doors to all who have the means to cross the frontier. A policy of control and re¬ striction is clearly one which the na¬ tional judgment approves. But from the standpoint of traditional sentiment welcoming the worthy and ambitious seeking a new and wider opportunity, and from the standpoint of a balanced and healthy economic life, there should be frankly established a policy of selec¬ tion.
"A policy of selection which took due notice of individual health, and charac¬ ter and took into consideration well- informed conviction of the changing present needs of various types of Amer¬ ican industry, and fitted the permitted entrance of vvorkers to the needs of undermanned industries, would be both intelligent and fair. It would be na¬ tional team work to set up such revision of our immigration control as would establish this function of Government as an intelligent aid to the needs of industry, as well as a protection of our citizenship."
In the December American Federa- tionist just issued, Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation
CHANGE IN DATES FOR
COUNCIL MEETINGS
Because of the approaching holidays a cliangre haijl to be made in the dates of both the regular and board meetings of the Columbus Section, Council of Jewish Women. The regular meeting will be held on Wed¬ nesday, January 2nd, at two o'clock, in the vestry rooms of tho Bryden Road Temple. An unusual program has been planned for that afternoon, the occasion being the birthday celebration of tho local section. For full particulars 'watch the forthcoming, issues of the Chronicle.
The board meeting will be held on Thursday, DecembeiT 27th, at 9:30 a. m., at the Schonthal Community House.
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Judaism and,Christijaiiity—Some
Thoughts oii a Vital Question
By AARON M.fNEUSTADT
Mrs. I. Born Asks Jews Not to Send Christmas Greetings
Denounces    in    No    Uncertain
Terms Those Who Ape Their
Christian Neighbors
ASKS JEWS TO
SEND UNIONGRAMS
(Condemnation should be made of the habit some Jew's have formed of sending Christmas cards both to their Jewish and non-Jewish friends. The National Federation of Temple Sister¬ hoods has just sent out a letter to their members urging them not to follow this habit. If they must send greetings to their non-jjewish friends, they should do so on the New Year.)—The Editor.
An appeal is made to Jewisli women not to send Christinas cards to their friends, Jewish and non-Jewish. This plea is made by Mrs. Isaac Born, of Indianapolis, chairman of the National Committee of 'Uniongrams oJ-thc..JNa- 'ihlMf ¦'¦-Piaeratron' "^of'^'fei'iiple- '"'Si^i^t^' hoods, who in a letter to sisterhood members throughout the country, con¬ demns this practice. If greetings must be sent,' she suggests utilization of the secular New Year for such an occasion for Gentiles and the Jewish New Year for our coreligionists.
Her letter.follows:
"Would you send a Christian prayer book to your Jevvish friends as a Christmas gift? Would you send a' Jewish praj'er book to your non-Jewish friends as a Christtnas gift? 1 feel .sure that every Jewish woman who is asked this question would answer em¬ phatically in the negative. And yet how many Jewish women do you know who send Christmas cards of greeting, some of whom have them specially de¬ signed with their names engraved on them, to their non-Jewish friends, and worse still, to their Jewish friends.
"To ape our Christian neighbors on an occasion which is fraught with re¬ ligious significance for them and which means absolutely nothing to us, seems inexcusable. Will you not call this matter to the attention of your mem¬ bers and ask your Kabbi to say a few words on this subject if he will. If you wish to send cards to your Gentile friends, why not wait'until the secular New Year?
"And to your Jewish friends, the people of your own faith, send Union- grams, a real Jewish message for the New Year. Accomplish the double pur¬ pose of sending a good wish to a friend and doing your bit for the Hebrew Unioii College Scholarship Fund."
of Labor, makes a characteristic de¬ mand for further restriction of immi¬ gration, setting forth the official atti¬ tude of the Federation. "One of the foremost questions" his article states, "that must come before the new Con¬ gress and that must be settled with dis¬ patch is the question of immigration. The present law expires on June 30 and to throw wide open the ports of entry to untold myriads of immigrants be¬ cause of the absence of law is unthink¬ able. Only the few most thoughtless and greedy.want that. The great body of intelligent employers at least join' with labor in the demand for stringent restriction of immigration.
"The proposal that there be some method of selection of immigration be¬ fore they leave foreign shores is con¬ structive and would find labor's sup¬ port, if ways can be found by which foreign governments will agree to the setting up of the necessary machinery. Such a plan would do away with much needless suffering and inconvenience. It would be in the direction of wisdom and humanity."
Dr.  Wise Joins  Committee for Russian Children Relief
/ belong to tlte Great Churcli 'fvhich holds tlte world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods ivith light and love the germs of good in :very soul.
— RoiJiiiiT G. Ingersoll.
In a sermon which the writer heard several weeks ago in one of the leading Jewi.sh pulpits of the land, the scholarly rabbi expatiated on Ihe Jewi.sh contributions to Christia.iity and the general relation be¬ tween these two great religions. He .paid a glowing tribute to the meek and lowly Nazarene who expounded the doctrines of brotherly love and social righteousness in the synagc'gites and streets of ancient Judea, twenty centuries ago. He deplored the fact that the masses of our people are unfamiliar with the life art! teachings of the Prophet who is today worshipped by hundreds of H.^illions of people throughout the world. Asserting his abiding conyic'Jon — which he said was arrived at after m,«ch patient research a|di<l investigation — that Jesus was an historical Jewish figure and thatihj was the inspiration for the most tremendous religiotis movement in history, he expressed surprise that we Jews are so slow in doiiig him h6;ior and reverence.
The Time iff as Come
. "The time has come," he declared, "when every intelligent Jew should be informed in re the histomof Christianity, its first apostles, its principles, and its significance i'ftjfthe past and its message to the world today." .;j'
"Of course," he continued, "I 'q^not agree with the conventional viewpoint of my Christian colleaguea|with regard to the many miracles connected with the birth and lifea^vities of the'Man of Nazareth; but I do possess a deep feeling of reSpiect, yea, reverence for that great exemplar of meekness, philanthropyf.'benevolence, and brotherly love. r * M= Personally I,believe that.Jfcsus did not look upon himself as a divine personage, nor as a person''|3orn'through the influence of the Holy Ghost, nor as the only begotte^. son of God. A careful perusal of the New Testament shows tliat^ncrefexred to himself fifty-three times as the son of Man and otily,three or four times as the son of
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Such Views Mate -^revalerit Today
No doubt a good-many of our .-i-eaders-will say that such, words should not emanate from a rabbi in Isi'aelj'.ih'fact .<Jtir-Orthodox breth¬ ren will denounce such views in nd untJettflm t^rffliS:',:i^j^,he, wr^teryhqweyer,
NEW YORK, (J. T. A.). —Dr. Stephen S. Wise has been elected a member of the Executive Committee of the Anicritan Committee for Relief of Russian Children which, for two years, and until rcceiitly in cooperation with the Nansen Relief Mission, has been do¬ ing non-sectarian and non-political re¬ lief work among Russian children. The American Committee is now working through the Union Internationale de Secours aux Enfants, of Geneva, un¬ der the auspices of the International Red Cross. It maintains feeding sta¬ tions and one hospital for children only in the Ukraine, where over half of the children cared for arc Jewish. Israel Zangwill and Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans arc among the recent contrib¬ utors to the work of the American Committee.
Reports Delivered Last
Week Before Local C. J, W.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT
(.Concluded  from   last  week')
If you want to live in the kind of a
town Like the kind of a town you like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike. For you'll only find that you're left be^
hind For there's nothing really new. It's a knock at your group, when.you
knock you're town, For it isn't your town It's you.
Very interesting papers were read by Mrs. Felix Levy, Chairman of Religion, who asked us all to develop the spiritual side of our natures and said the best method of attaining this end is to form the habit of attending religious services regularly. Also by Mrs. Henry Spor- borg, who reported the great develop¬ ment of the Council's Farm Wprk pro¬ gram. This sub-committee, through its progress and recognition by the officials at Washington has become a department the same as Immigrant Aid. The pur¬ pose of the Farm and Rural Work is to extend to the women living on the farms and in the rural districts a hand of fellowship. To cooperate with them in improving living, and social condi¬ tions and to create and promote such educational and recreational advantages for the farm women as are enjoyed by their urban sisters.
Miss Gertrude Feibclman, Chairman of .Peace, spoke feelingly of women's work of making war on war. As Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt said: "It took a long time for women to interest the world i nsuilrage, but it came. It may take seventy-five years before the world begins to think peace, but it will come. Begin to work now.
The Council is reaching out abroad and the work of Mrs. Kohut and Mrs. ^Harris, telling of the Vienna conference and the reconstruction, work abroad was most interesting.
Mrs. Piza, Chairman of the Blind, and her committee have in preparation a prayer book for the Jewish blind to be published in Braille.
There are a few chairmen whose work has not been mentioned in this report, such as Junior Council, Social Welfare, Deaf, Education, Public Health, Immigrant Aid, Americaniza¬ tion, Religtous Schools, etc. These re¬ ports—all of the utmost importance— are to ibe published and will soon be
available   to   all   who   are   interested Every committee has functioned well.
The constitution was revised and many changes were made. The name is now National Council of Jewish Women. The fiscal year ends April aOth instead of September 30th. The number of delegates from sections was increased, dealing with those sections who have more than one thousand mem¬ bers.
Your delegates have returned to you probably not as inspired or thrilled as they had hoped to be, but impressed with the ahility of our Jewish women, and of the greatness of the organiza¬ tion with whidh -we arc affiliated. I thank you for having sent me. It was indeed a never-to-'be-forgotten exper¬ ience. I regret many more of you could not have been there. I trust I shall be able to use the information and knowledge that I gained at this meeting for the greatest good of our Council. Remember, our section must be a living prayer for the better day, a better world, a better Jcwishness. Our purpose in the large is to seek out and use the beauty that lies in Jewishness and in womanhood and to bind every Jewish woman into one magnificent Mother Guild, the queen craft of Race Building. Respectfulfy submitted,
Adele j. Kohn, President.
REPORT OF MRS. LAZARUS
Madam President and Ladies:—
I distinctly remember .the enthusiastic reports brought back from the last Triennial held in Denver in. 1820. I must say that, thanks to these reports, I expected perhaps more from the Triennial than I at first received, but be¬ fore the meeting was over I received all of the thrills and excitement of elec¬ tion, of splendid reports from the Na¬ tional Chairmen, and inspiration for work in our own Section, derived prin¬ cipally from Small round table discus¬ sions, and from contact and conversa¬ tion' with the real big women who are carrying out the work of the Council throughout the country.
Mrs. Kohn will tell you of the high lights brought out at the meeting and Mrs. Jaros will speak on what we heard at the evening gatherings in the various Temples.,
I would like to remind you all again, as I was reminded and particularly im¬ pressed by what our own dollar does (CoHtinutd o» Page 4.)
National C. J. W. hsues a Study of Jewish Prayer
This Is the Second Book of Its
Kind Published by the Council
of Jewish Women
COUNCIL WORK EVOKES UNIVERSAL APPROVAL
NEW YORK. —A very interesting book, containing a Course of Study on Jevvish Prayer, has just been published by the National Council of Jewish Women. This book represents the sec¬ ond publication issued through its Com¬ mittee on Religion, of which Mrs. Felix A. Levy of Chfcago, served as National Chairman for the past six years.
It contains eight lectures, in addition to a very interesting introduction by Prof. I. Elbogcn of Berlin, who is re¬ garded as one of the greatest authori¬ ties on the Jewish liturgy, in the course of which he writes :   .
"For a century now, our own chief, itask has been the regeneration of our owii service, by steering the way- be- itVveeti tradition and innovatidn, accepted
a measure of success. .Our work, how-' ever, is far from done. May the pres¬ ent booklet acquaint all who read it with the history and purpose of our prayers and our prayerbook, so that an enlightened public may bring to our modern problems in this field, not only spirituality, but knowledge and devo¬ tion."
The book includes a very complete outline, of the eight lectures that fol¬ low. The first lecture on "The History of Jewish Prayer," is by Doctor Abra¬ ham Cronbach of the Hebrew Union College. Dr. Cronbach prefaces his lecture with this appreciative tribute to the Council, in preparing this study of prayer:
"No speaker in this series of studies in prayer should open his remarks with¬ out a word of commendation of the Council of Jewish Women upon this worthy and sacred project. A breath of hope comes to the sympathetic ob¬ server of Jewish life. Perhaps we arc really beginning to lift our heads from the dust. Perhaps an end has come to the contentment with ' which we have taken our prayerlessness and our un- fainiliarity with the great things in Judaism. Perhaps we are at the first tiny budding of some new life and new beauty among us."
The second lecture on. "The Psychol¬ ogy of Prayer," is contributed by Pro¬ fessor Edwin S. Ames of- the Univer¬ sity of Chicago, whose special field is the psychology of religion. "The The¬ ology of the Prayerbook" is- discussed by Rabbi Felix A. Levy of Chicago. "The Jewish Prayerbook," writes Rabbi Levy, "whether it reflects the views of Reform or Orthodoxy, Rabbinism' or Karaism, is the Jew's text-book, of his religion. Whatever he believed and whatever he longed for was crystallized into expression therein. Its doctrines are its deepest thoughts, and Jewish theology and philosophy and ethics are discoverable in hymn, poem and suppli¬ cation."
A very clear idea of "The Structure of the Prayerbook" is presented by Rabbi Samuel S. Cohen of tre Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Leon Fram of Chicago contributed the lecture on "Sabbath and Holy Day Prayers," and Rabbi 5. Felix Mendelsohn the lecture on "Personal and Communal Prayers." The seventh lecture deals with "Poetry and Prayer," and was prepared by Rabbi Philip A. Langh.
One of the most attractive lectures in this book was contributed by a Council member, Mrs. Joseph Hevesli of the Chicago Section. Her lecture is devoted to "Woman and Prayer." Dr. Kauf man Kohler, president emeritus of the Hebrew Union College, writes two prayers for Council meetings, an open¬ ing prayer and a closing prayer.
DR. WEIZMANN EXPLAINS HIS MODERATE POLICY
"Extremely    Easy   to   Be   Ex¬ treme," Zionist Leader De¬ clares, Replying to Zangwill
ZIONIST LEADER LAUDED AT PRIVATE DINNER
NEW YORK, (J. T. A.). —Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, took an early opportunity last night to explain the moderate policy the Zionist leader¬ ship is pursuing with regard to Great Britain.
Although Mr. Zangwill was not men¬ tioned by name the guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boris Grabelsky, where a dinner to Dr. Weizmann was ten¬ dered, all understood the Zionist leader had the noted English Jewi.sh* author in mind.
It is possible to demand of Great Britain that she do more to advance the Zionist cause than is at present the case, Dr. Weizmann said. Dr. Weiz¬ mann hinted that Zionist extremism would yield the Zionists no more than Arab extremism has yielded the Arabs. It was not a question so much of mak¬ ing certain demands but of the chances under the present circumstances of hav¬ ing them met. It is far easier, he said, to make a single dramatic gesture than with patience and restraint to prepare for the forward movement. Dr. Weiz¬ mann made it clear that the time was not propitious for spectacular play on the part of the Zionists. He was.con- ' vinced, he said, that it was the present moderate policy which resulted in the clean bill of health for the Zionist' movement by the Cabinet Committee whicli sat in judgment recently over it. This Cabinet Committee, Dr. Weiz¬ mann revealed, was driven to the con¬ clusion that the Zionist cause had jus¬ tice on its side, ,'     ,     -.
-Dr. Weizmann .indicated" tha.t this Committee was in the main hostile to-.
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Dr. Weizmann made use of an epi¬ gram saying it was difficult to be mod¬ erate but extremely easy to be extreme.
With regard to the misgivings voiced earlier in the evening by Reuben Brai¬ nin, the Hebrew publicist, as to the de¬ sirability of coopting prominent non- Zionist Jews into the Agency, Dr. Weiz¬ mann declared, "that not an iota of Zionist principle was being bartered awky and that the persons who might now be ready to aid the Jewish cause in Palestine had had a change of heart."
Dr. Arthur Ruppin spoke wittingly of Dr. Weizmann's enduring youth fulness, energy and activity. He deplored rather that the Zionist leader had lost some of, his humor with which he had been ac¬ customed to view the problems and tra¬ vails of life.
Those at the dinner included, besides Mr. and Mrs. Grabelsky, the hosts. Dr. Tchernowitz (Rav Zair), Prof. Richard Gottheil, Ruben Brainin, Rev. Z. H. Masliansky, Herman Conheim, Judge Henry Danenbamn, Louis Lipsky, Mor¬ ris Rothenberg, Abe Goldberg, Bernard G. Richards, Secretary of the American Jewish Congress, Bernard A. Rosen¬ blatt, William Edlin of the Day, Ged- alia Bublick of the Jewish Daily News, Jacob Fishman and Bernard Shelvin of the Jewish Morning Journal, J. Mari- noff of the Big Stick, Jacob Bernstein of Das Yiddische Folk, Meyer Weisgal of the New Palestine, Jacob Landau and Gershon Agronsky of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mr. Gunnison, edi¬ tor of the Brooklyn Eagle, Sophie Irene' Loeb of the World, and Miriam Elias of the Moscow Habimah.
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CONG. CELLER'S MOVE
STIRS GERMAN PRESS
BERLIN, (J. T. A.). —The Gennan press has been profoundly stirred by the recent statement of Congressman Emanttel Celler of New York that lie was staying liis hand from introducing a resolution in Congress appropriating $25,000,000 for the relief of the German people because of the persecution of Jews of Germany.
Still unaware apparently that the Jewish Congressman has, following up¬ on this warning, introduced Jhe resolu¬ tion, the Democratic newspapers were quick to draw the moral that the Na¬ tionalist agitation is costly to the entire German people.
The outspoken anti-Semitic news¬ papers have suppressed the report, while the Bavarian Kurier of Munich, the or¬ gan of Bishop Faulhabcr, declares su<;h methods on the part of Americs^n Jews cannot liarm tihe anti-S'emitic movement, but on the contrary strengthen it.
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