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Volume VI — No. 35
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 18, 1924
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Brown, Back From Palestine WUl Tour U. S. For Seminaiy
Tour WiU Include Most of thc
Cities of Middle West, Pacific
Coast and the South
TOUR TO BEGIN EARLY
PART OF FEBRUARY
NEW YORK.—David A. Brown, who returned to America on the Ma¬ jestic last Thursday from a tour of Italy, Egypt and Palestine, will shortly make a transcontinental tour to speed up thc completion of the million-dollar en¬ dowment fund for the Jewish T'heo- logical Seminary of America. Although he had intended to remain abroad until April, reports concerning the progress of the campaign caused his decision to return to America two months earlier and give the time to this cause, which he regards as being of the greatest im¬ portance to the' welfare of the Jews of this. country.
This tour which, it is expected, will begin ^during the early part of February, will include ' most of the cities of the Middle West, the Pacific Coast and the South.
Mr. Brown, who, at the very outset of the campaign, became its general counsel and advisor, and planned In broad outline thc methods pursued in tlie effort to raise a sufficient fund "to keep alive on the altars of Israel in America the holy fires of our faith," has been in constant touch with the' cam¬ paign, during the entire period of his stay abroad. Frequent cables have,been exchanged between him and campaign headquarters and 'just before leaving Palestine he addressed a personal letter to Several thousand Jews throughout the United States, leaders in their respective communities,' calling upon them to make every effort on behalf of a movement involving the entire future of Jtidaism in this country.
Arriving in New York on Thursday
morning, he was at the headquarters of
the   Seminary   capipaign    within   two
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THE CHRONICLE TO PUBLISH
HONOR ROLL OP DONORS
TO DENVER DRIVE
The Chronicle begs to an¬ nounce that it will publish in next week's issue an honor roll consisting of the donors and their donations to the local drive for $10,000 on behalf of the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver, Colorado,
E. J. Schanfarber, Chairnifin of the National Drive, has an¬ nounced that Toledo has al¬ ready exceeded its quota of $9,000, having raised over $11,000. Springfield, Mo., was the first city in the country to exceed its quota. It raised $500 more than its quota of $1,000.
Weizmann Returns to New York City For Important Conferences
Zionist  Chief  Was  the  Central Figure at Conventions in Chi¬ cago and in Toronto, Canada
The Jews Who Graced the South
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
(Specially Written for The Ohio Jp.wrsH Chronicle)
STRESSES JEWISH AGENCY AND THE KEREN HAYESOD
NEW YORK.—After meeting the re¬ form leaders of Jewry- in Cincinnati and delivering addresses in' connection with the conyention of the Mid-Western Zionist region in Chicago and thc con- vcinion of thc Xanadian Zionist Fed¬ eration in Toronto, Dr. Chaim Weiz¬ mann has returned to New York for a brief stay prior to continuing and com¬ pleting his Mid-Western tour. It is un¬ derstood that his stay in New York has been made necessary in connection with the principal purpose" of Dr. Weizmann's present visit to the United States, namely the establishment of the Amer¬ ican branch of the Jewish Agency for 'Palestine.
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In thc early days of the American Re¬ public thc South contained some of thc most promising Jews in the western world. They were largely of thc Sephardic community — Jews' whose an¬ cestors lived in Spain and Portugal be-" fore thc days of the Inquisition and numbered among them some of thc notable figures in post-Biblical Jewish history. ' No more brilliant chapter may be found in Jew'ish history than that which records the religious, spiritual and intellectual heights won by the Spanish Jews before the days of Ferdi¬ nand and ' Isabella. The Inquisition shattered thc political and intellectual grandeur of the Spanish Jews, but it only sharpened their religious ardor. Thousands of them suffered the torture^ which the religious fanaticism of--fif¬ teenth century Spain devised. Others fled to less turbulent countries. I'-In 1492 the Jews were expelled from S^ain and went in every direction — to/' Holland and later to England; to France and Italy; to the Central European coun¬ tries; to Northern Africa and the Levant; to South America. In due course of time the descendants of thc 'Sephardic Jews found themselves pros¬ perous and i)ublic-spirited citizens of the American colonies — principally the Southern colonies.
History docs not know of more poignant sufferers than the Jews who, in the year when. Columbus under Span¬ ish and, as recent investigators have shown, Jewish patronage opened up the new world, were expelled from the Iberian Peninsula. Cut off from the main body of the Jewish people in Cen' tral and Eastern Europe, the S$3ttti^ Jews developed a self-consciousness aiRl' an aloofness from non-Scphardic Jews that have been marked since they camj: in contact with them in England and in America. At first the Sephardic com' munities  in America  maititained th<;>r
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otily for a while. The Southern com- il\unities, more so than those of the Korth, soon began to tear away from tlteir ancient moorings. They whose ro'ading of Hebrew was the purest, whose religious ceremonials were ornate Avfd redolent of past glories under the Moorish dispensation in Spain, whose dignity and delicacy of social bearing arose from a sense of ancestral martyr¬ dom, fell prey to a dissolving process tKat in less than two hundred years has I<it but a. memory of their glorious past. Disdaining marital alliances with Jews deriving from other than Spanish and Portuguese ancestry, these Jews found ce in a narrow social life bereft of h suggestion or, as has been hap- iim in ever-increasing numbers in rs, in intermarriage with non- Ji^ii"'- B&irers of names that sound like iiik'sic tayews who recall with pride tiM'poets',! philosophers, statesmen and i^stt 6f;.sc|cnce in whom Spanish Jewry ajja«a(l^„'h^hen it enjoyed the freedom aijd opportuSiHy accorded by the liberal Moorish kings;,^hcir disappear.ince gives rise to great sadness. Were it not that they recalled .f^uner glories jind,^ later oppression, theyVould notffis^/f|e^, able to withstand fflts^ cdnseqtienccs''of dangerous wanderings. And yet in the Course of a, century and a half these Jews, of" Sephardic extraction are di- 13ting their blood with that of their iioH'-Jewish neighbors. I In 1800 Charleston, South Carolina, contained the 'largest Jewish center in America.. But-Charleston'was not des¬ tined td be thc'c'enter of American Jew¬ ish ..lif^r-iior was it to be one of the j^reat communities that now dot the At¬ lantic Coast. Charleston could not re¬ main at the' head of American Jewish rbtinfflunities. for any length of time. .For,'"a while, however, the South held fie flower- of Jewish intelligence. Rich- .,'t,!>ond, Ciiarleston, Savannah, in Jewish
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REVEREND McDOWELL PLEADS CHRISTIAN AS¬ SYRIANS BE ADMITTED
WASHINGTON, (J. T. A.)—Rev¬ erend McDowell, a former missionary in Mesopotamia, came before the House Immigration Committee yesterday to plead the cause of tile two hundred thou¬ sand Christian Assyrians, whom he de¬ clared, have been cruelly persecuted by the Mohammedans. He urged that these surviving Assyrians be taken out of the prohibited class of Asiatics, and that a special quota be instituted to permit all those Christian Assyrians who desire to enter this country.
McDowell was interrupted by Con¬ gressman Free of California, a member of the Committee, who remarked that he had lived among these Assyrians but preferred to live among 'rats, and he did pot care if they were all exterminated, they should never be admitted to the United   States.
Montreal Star Attacks Immigration Policy of CanadianGovernment
Asks Why No Steps Taken, Since
Armisticev to Encourage and
Provide for Immigration
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ness that have accumulated on his desk in Detroit during his absence. The de¬ tails of his. itinerary will be announced later. '"'  -
"While the campaign'committee has done a splendid piece of work, and, if conducted for any other cause £ould be scribed as a genuine successV.^1 am greatly disappointed that the contribu¬ tions are still about $175,000 shol^t of the amount we set out-to raise," ^aid
Mr. Brown when he announced his p\)l^ jj^ Weizmann and pledging them to in-
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for a traiucontincntal tour. "I believV that the entire amount cati be raised in short order now. The spade-work has been done, the sentiment created, and all that it needs now is for some one to go out and cash in on what has already been done. I don't know that I can ac¬ complish that, but I am willing to make the effort in the fullest confidence that the Jews of America will be back of me and help me to bring this all-important movement to a speedy and triumphant finish. At any rate, - it cannot be per¬ mitted to drag on, because if once the impression is created that the campaign is not succeeding, the Jews of this coun¬ try will be severely criticized for their lack of interest in the finer, the spiritual aspects of life."
ORTHODOX AND SAfiBAtH violators fight BAT¬ TLE ON WARSAW STREETS
WARSAW, (J. T. A.).-.Hundreds of Orthodox youths clashed with Radi¬ cal youths Saturday when the latter tried to sell the Volksseitung, the Bun- dist organ, on the streets. ¦ The fighting was confined to the Nalewki and Grzy- bowska Sts.
The street fighting continue4 until there were injured on both sides -and after the police made prisoners of some of the opposing factions.' The Ortho' dox youths included a number of young cheder boys.
The Volksseitung is the only Jewish newspaper to be printed and offered for sale on the Sabbath. There have been protests for some time and recently the paper complained that Jewish workmen were- obliged to rescue the newspaper carriers from the hands of Orthodox Jews who resorted to physical violence in their attempt to stop the desecration of the Sabbath.
Are You?
The National Jewish Hos¬ pital for Consiunptives at Denver needs $250,000 for a New Infirmairy Bmlding.
Are you going to do your part?
in which he dealt with the present situ¬ ation of the movement and in which he laid special emphasis on the neces¬ sity for the cooperation of all sections of American Jewry through the Agency, ate reported to have produced a deep impression not only in Zionist circles but in all other Jewish quarters as well. At both conventions resolutions were adopted expressing the confidence of the Zionist bodies in the leadership of
t^sified efforts for strengthening the movemement and especially the Keren Hayes.od.
The conclusion of Dr. Weizmann's Mid-Western tour will take him, in ac¬ cordance wilh->his--present-schedule, to Detroit on January 20th, Qeveland on January 27th, and St. Louis bn January 29th. In all of these cities, Kerl^ H^e^ sod campaigns are in full swit!g;>-and Dr. Weizmann's presence is counted upon to bring them to a climax.
POLAND'S NEW FOREIGN MINISTER PROTESTS BAVARIAN EXPULSIONS
WARSAW, (J. T. A.). —Further intervention in behalf of the Polish Jews who have been ordered expelled from Bavaria has been promised by Foreign Hiinister Bertoni to Jewish deputies who submitted reports alleging the deporta¬ tion of Jews had not stopped.
The Minister's attention was especially drawn to the expulsions of Jews from Nurenburg. ' ,
M. Bertoni declared he would cable the Polish consul at Munich to ener¬ getically intervene with Dictator Von Kahr pf Bavaria.
M. Bertoni is following thc line of action 6f his predecessor Roman Dmow¬ ski, who some time ago notified the Bavarian authorities that Bavarians would be deported from Poland unless citizens of the Jewish faith were al¬ lowed to remain in Bavaria unmolested.
Actions Conunittee to Consider Soloweitchik's Resignation
LONDON, (J. T, A.). —The political situation of the Zionist movement, in view of the possible change in the British Government as well as the internal con¬ dition of the movement arising from Dr. Soloweitchik's .resignation from the Executive, will be considered at a meet¬ ing of the leaders liere on January 3rd.
A meeting has been called by the Executive and to it had been invited the Praesidium of the Actions Committee and one representaitive of each of the groups.
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King Hussein Will Soon Be Proclaimed Caliph, Says Report
The    London    "Times"    Warns Great Britain Against Interfer¬ ing With the Caliphate
PROCLAMATION "A TACT¬ LESS STEP," SAYS "TIMES"
JERUSALEM, (J. T. A.)—The Arab press in Transjordania has issued a call for the proclamation of King Hussein of Hcdjas as Caliph.
King Hussein is expected to arrive to¬ morrow (Saturday) in Amman, Great preparations have been made for his re¬ ception. A torchlight procession will meet him, carrying flags which hail Hus¬ sein as liberator of the Arab race. King Hussein will be accompanied by his For-', eign Minister, Fuad cl Khatib Bey; Ma¬ jor John Philby, the British adviser to' Transjordania; his son, Emir Abdullah, ruler of Transjordania, and a number • of leading Transjordanian sheikhs.
King Hussein has pardoned the Trans¬ jordanian rebels now imprisoned in Hcdjas, while .Emir Abdullah has granted amnesty to the whole Adwan tribe, which had engaged in warfare against Transjordania.
The reports about the purpose of the Conference in Amman are stiH conflict¬ ing. While according to one version the object of the conference is the discus¬ sion    of    the    proposed    Anglo-Arab Treaty, according to other reports the setting up of a federated Arab State to include Mesopotamia, Hcdjas, Transjor-, dania and Palestine is the aim of the conference.    The conference is consid- lered but a preliminary conference to the ?an-Arab Congress to be held at the' &S&>^ this month in Jeddah.   There is much^cxcitement throughout the Arab world ¦^ver   the   pending   conferences. The Arab press expects as a result of* these conferences a closer knitting of Arab interests, and a greater considera¬ tion of the demands of the Arab nation.
KOled in Cliongrad Bomb Outrage
Chongrad in Turmoil—Severely .Wounded Include Many Prom¬ inent Jewish Residents
ALL PERSONS IMPLICATED HAVE BEEN ARRESTED
BUDAPEST, (J. T. A.)—All per¬ sons concerned in the bomb outrage at Chongrad several days ago, resulting in the death of three persons and the in¬ jury of scores of others, have been ar¬ rested, states an official report.
The report discloses the bomb was thrown by a 24-year-old farmer named Sinko and that the organizer of the 'anti-Se'mitrc''conspiracy was Acting First Lieutenant Piroskau. Amon'^ Piroskau's accomplices from the ranks of the awakening Magyars were -^ubak, a teacher; Kastell, an engineer, and two farmers, Sagi and Eorgo; the merchant, Piroskau, and Boellotenyi, without occu¬ pation.
A large store of explosives and cartridges has been found, the police an¬ nounce, t
According to,an official report, one Jewish victim died instantly, and an¬ other died several days later as a result of the wounds. The seriously injured include Dr. Hermann Fuchs, a lawyer; his son and two daughters; a young Jew named Tobias, whose right arm was blown off; two daughters of Dr. Gross, also an advocate; the pharmacist, Krizon, and two women physicians, Drs. '\fida and Stefania Feher.
The town and state of Chongrad are in turmoil, reports' the special investi¬ gator of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, who arrived on the'scene. His investi¬ gation discloses that there were 250 guests at the charity ball arranged by the Jewish Women's Society at the Hotel Koenig-von-Ungarn. Everything was going smoothly at the dance until suddenly at the stroke of midnight dur¬ ing the opening of the quadrille a hand grenade came flying through the win¬ dow. The ballroom was torn up and the hotel practically collapsed.
Groups of persons were found lying in pools of blood when the panic sub¬ sided somfewhat. Fortunately there were four uninjured women doctors who were able to render first aid. Impera¬ tive operations could not be performed because there was no hospital in Chon¬ grad.
The victims of the explosion include several non-Jews, among them a mem¬ ber of the orchestra, Farkas, and a ser¬ vant girl named Julie Nagyanes, who was attending the ball with her employ¬ ers.
Society of 0. S. U.
Editor   Discusses   the   Relation and Similarity Between Juda¬ ism and Christianity
MAKES PLEA FOR A MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
The Menorah Society of Ohio State University held a most interesting and worth-while meeting last Sunday after¬ noon, January 14, at the Ohio Union Building.
The chief feature of the afternoon was an address by Aaron M. Neustadt, editor of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle oh "Judaism aiid'''Christiani^,-nVith- Special Reference to the Attitude of Liberal Jews Towards Jesus of Nazal- reth." /
Mr. Neus|adt expatiated on the Jew¬ ish contributions to Christianity and the general relation between these two great religions:',He paid a glowing tribute to t^meek and lowly Nazarene.who ex¬ pounded the doctrines of brotherly love ahd Social righteousness in the syna- gps^es and streets of ahtcient Judea, twenty centuries ago. He deplored the fact that the masses of our people are unfamiliar with the life and teachings of the Prophet who is today worshipped by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world.
Asserting his abiding conviction— which he said was arrived at after miich patient research and investigation—that Jesus was an historical Jewish figure and that he was the inspiration for the most tremendous religious movement in history, he expressed surprise that we Jews are so slow in doing him honor and reverence.
The Time Has Come
"The time has come," he. declared, "when every intelligent Jew should be informed in re the history of Ctiristian- ity, its first apostles, its principles, and its significance in the past and its mes¬ sage to th world today."
"Of course," lie continued, "I cannot agree with the conventional viewpoint of my orthodox Christian friends with regard to the many miracles connected with the birth and life activities of the Man of Nazareth; but I do possess a deep feeling of respect, yea, reverence for that great' exemplar of meekness, philanthropy, benevolence, and brotherly love.     * Personally I believe that Jesus did not look upon himself as a divine personage, nor as a person born through the influence of the Holy Ghost, {Concluded on page 4)
MONTREAL (J. T. A.)—The Mon¬ treal Star, the raWrinftuential.,newspa- pcr in the Dominion of Canada, in an editorial which appeared last week, at¬ tacked the policy of the Canadian^'gov- ^ ernment toward immigration. ^,
The editorial asks why no steps have been taken in the five years following the Armistice to "ehcourage and provide for immigration. During this time am¬ ple needs have arisen warranting an ac¬ tive and aggressive campaign to procure recruits from the files of the millions emigrating from Europe who would prove a valuable asset in exploiting the resources of . Canada which are being- neglected because of the dearth in popu- . . ^.,,-,,.., lation.   Without .the immigrant, Canada|^*^Jff_'"^^^'^__eo»tOji«--p
can make no forward strides. '- Tiie-iditoria! accuses the govomment of giving blatant promises which it had no intention of keeping to the loyal Canadians who have been patiently waiting for the days of expansion and growth which would come with influx of immigration. In despair of improve¬ ment millions of Canadians' have emi¬ grated from Canada disgusted.
If the people of Canada will sanction the plans and policies adopted by the last two cabinets, Canada will be but a deserted way station ignored by the mil¬ lions, of European immigrants who are attracted by the open doors of other more far-seeing countries.
In conclusion the Star asks, "I^-^ours to be forever a country blessed iby na ture and cursed by„pj»li.tiqans?5'
LONDON, tJ'/nP?
The London flished--today declares the proclamation of JKiftEf "Hus¬ sein  as Caliph  a  tactless   step. ,¦ i 3C|w riMe's "denia'n(Is;"nr"th"(r"reportrT6"^^^^S:," rect, that the  British  Government in¬ struct Sir Herbert Samuel and his Sec-' retary, M.  Clayton, not to proceed to thc    Conference    of,. Amman.     Great Britain must not create the impression •that it wants to interfere in the question of the Calijlihatc.    Great Britain would make a serious mistake should it inter¬ fere   in   the   selection   of   the   Caliph, which if a purely Moslem affair, the paper says.
Th/ Times, expresses the opinion that i^e''feal purpose of the conference is un- |,clear, huX it believes that King Hussein's visit to Amman is of a purely personal nature, in order to meet his son.
THIRTY-YEAR-OLD
GERMAN DOCUMENTS ^INDICATE DREYFUS
BERLIN, (J. T. A.).—The com¬ plete innocence of the French Jewish army captain Alfred Dreyfus is estab¬ lished in state documents just made pub¬ lic by German diplomatic authorities.
Count Muenster, the then German Ambassador to Paris had reported to his Government at Berlin that the embassy and military attache Schwartzkoppen were convinced the accusations against Dreyfus, who was not known by the au¬ thorities, were unfounded, the papers unearthed from the archives where they lay hidden for thirty years, now reveal.
Surprise is expressed in various circles that Germany had been silent all these years, particularly at the time when the publication of these papers might have favorably affected the famous Dreyfus case.
ZANGWILL ACCUSES KU KLUX
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ORGANIZE PARTY
JERUSALEM, (J. T. A.)—A new Arab party has been, formed here which calls itself the Peasants' Party. The aims of this party are of a non-poUticat and purely economic nature. The party desires to strengthen the position of the Arab farmer. The leaders of this party are not allied, and some of them are even antagonistic to the Executive of the. Arab Congress.
CHICAGO (J. T. A.) —Israel Zang¬ will, English writer, said last night he had been threatened with death by the Ku Klux Klan, and challenges the Klan to debate with him on the organization's ^ht to existence.
Mr.. Zangwill said the question to be debated, if his challenge is accepted, will be "Is the Ku Klux Klan Fundamentally Right or Wrong and Should it be Per¬ petuated or Wiped Out?" He will take the negative side of the first part of the proposition and the positive side of the last part, he said. He offered to debate with Charles G. Palmer, grand dragon of Illinois, Captain J. K. Skipwith of Louisiana, or H. W. Evans, head of the organization.
The death threat he said he received read: "Keep your tongue in your mouth or we will assassinate you.'*
L. Yassenoff and B. Wolman Head Zion Lodge for Coming Year
On Monday evening, January 14, at Woodmen's Hall, the following were elected officers of Zion Lodge, No. 63, I. O. B. B. for the coming year: Leo Vassenoff, President; Bert Wolman, Vice President; Paul Karger, Secretary; I. B. Jashenosky, Treasurer; Dr. Sam¬ uel D. Edelman, Warden; Walter Katz, Guardian.
The meeting was one of the most in¬ teresting ever held by the lodge.
The following were chosen as dele¬ gates'to the forthcoming district grand lodge convention: I. B. Jashenosky, Ju¬ lius Zcckhauser, Dr. Louis Kahn, Jack Myers, E. J. Schanfarber, Harry Kohn and Joseph C. Goodman.
Mr. E. J. Schanfarber was chosen del¬ egate to the Constitutional Grand Lodge Convention.
BUDAPEST, (J. T. A.) —The latest reports of the fatalities resulting from the bomb outrage at Chongrad s<ky that a third person has died. The first and immediate casualty was a young girl. Those who died of wounds are Alexan- d.er Wolf, a Budapest official, and Dr. Krizon, a local pharmacist.
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