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Volume VI — No. 41
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FI':BRUy\Ry 29, 1924
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Albert Johnson Is Angry at Opposition to His Immigra^n Bill
Says   Jews   Will   Regret   Their
Action — Secretary Hughes
Predicts Difficulty With
Foreign  Nation  if
Bill is Passed
REPORT OF THE MI¬ NORITY IS FILED
WASHINGTON, (J. T. A.)—"If the Jewish people combine to defeat the immigration bill as reported by the committee, their children will regret it," •was the emphatic statement made by Cpngrcs.smn Albert Johnson, chairman of the Immigration Committee of tlie house of representatives.
The statement was made in reply to "an inquiry by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent, who asked Mr. | Johnson for his view of the reported hesitation on the part of the house Re¬ publican leaders regardiijg the adoption of the Johnson bill. 4 Congressman Johnson added that those who are being so much influenced by the fear of the immigrant vote in New York state, to the extent that the New York Republican delegation were opposiiiff his bill, would discover that the rest of the country would also have _ something to say about immigration, apd this would be in favor of his bill, irrespective of alien influence in New York.
Much excitement and no little amount of anger were displayed by Congress¬ man Johnson throughout the conversa¬ tion. He seehied much agitated and , aroused over the reported parliamentary opposition to his bill, an opposition which he had not at all expected in the beginning.' Mr. Johnson flatly refused to. make any further statement or to explain his remarks, except to declare positively, that he intended to proceed with his bill regardless of tile reported opposition.
Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes has  again   taken  occasion to  urge  his opinion  against the Johnson  Immigra- 'tion bill.    The secretary of state, in a ^_ letter ,to. C-ongres-sman Johnson,^-chajr-. man of the Hou-sc'-lrnmrgration  Com¬ mittee,  expressed  the  opinion   that the immigration bill as proposed would in¬ volve us in difficulties with several'for- •  eign nations.
With regard to the provision that the immigration quotas shall be based on the census of 1800, Mr. Hughes points out that in certain instances this would exclude all citizens of some foreign countries, since no 1890 census figures are available for them. He recommends also that special provision be made for nations created as an outgrowth of the , World War; that separate quotas he given the Irish Free State and other self-governing British dominions, and provisions be made for the subjects of British and other colonial possessions in South America and the West Indies.
Congressmen   Sabath   and   Dickstein filed their minority report on the John- {Concludcd on page 4)
''Jews in Journalism" To Be Discussed at Menorah Mtg. Mar. 2
Menorah   Dance   Will   Take Place at Hennick's on Satur¬ day  Evening, March 8th
With the Menorah dance but a week away, member* of the executive council and of the various committee! are bend¬ ing all their effort* to complete plans for one of the best dances ever given by the organization.
The dance is to be held at Hennick's ballroom* on the campus, Saturday evening, Mch. 8, from 9 to 12 o'clock. Tickets are being sold at $1 per couple.
The deadline on ticket sales closed Thursday. -Those in charge of tickets reported a rapid sale.
Features are being planned for the evening, in addition to dancing to the music of an ex¬ cellent orchestra.
The last regular meeting of the present quarter will bo held tomorrow afternoon at the Ohio Union, with several stu¬ dents discussing the promi¬ nence of Jews in the profes¬ sion of journalism.
Jews to Invest Five Million a Year in Palestine
Take Steps to Unite Factions in
Zionist Movement and Form
Corporation to Raise Funds
To Develop Industry
$5,000,000 ANNUALLY FOR PALESTINIAN INDUSTRIES
NEW YORK. —Steps intended to unite all Jewish factions in the Zionist movement and to create a Corporation in America to provide funds for invest¬ ments in Palestine were taken at the Hotel Astor, New York, Sunday, by prominent Jewish leaders. The confer- once was called by Lewis Marshall, pres¬ ident of the American Jewish Commit
Law School For   ^ Hebrew University Highly Endorsed
By President Coolidge and Chief
Justice Taft — Committee of
Lawyers Organizes for the
Establishment   of   Law
School at Jerusalem
PLANS FOR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING UNDER WAY
(Troni 'our New York Correspondent) ' N1':W YORK—President Calvin C'oolidKc and Chiff Justice William How aid Taft have written letters of I approval and encouragement to a group of .'\nicrican. Jewish lawyers who have organized fortlie purpose of establish¬ ing tile Department of Jurisprudence and Social Science of the Hebrew Ltni-
tce; Dr. Cyrus Adler of Philadclphia;%c,v,ity „f Jerusalem of which the first acting president of the Jewish Thcologi-j.,„,iiti,iioi, i, planned to be a modern cal Seminary; Judge Horace Stern, l^w School. • The movement among the Philadelphia, and Colonel Herbert Leh-.' lawjeri is modeled along the lines which man, New York banker. j ha\e bcni successfully followed by the
After Dr. Qiaim Weizmann, president, American Jewish Physicians Committee of the World Zionist Organization, hadl„[- which Dr. Nathan Ratnoff of New exhorted the Jews of America to take i York Is the president and which has al- advantage of the provision of the Brit-'j'ieady Ijouglit a large tract of land on ish mandate Over Palestine for the crea-)ti,e M;r„|„t ^f ohVes where the building
RABBI I. WERNE JOINS EDITORIAL   STAFF OF' THE   OHIO JEWISH CHRONICLE
Dr. Margolin Sees Dangers in Plans For Jewish State
Crimea Is Not The Proper Place
for Such Experiments Declares
Former Chairman of Jewish
Territorial Organization in
Russia
"IT IS A FOOLISH
UTOPIA," HE SAYS
WELL-KNOWN   JEW
NAMED ON BOARD
BY  GOV.  DONAHEY
tion of a "Jewish nation<il home," dif' ferences of opinion arose as to how far the conference should go in urging Zion¬ ists and non-Zionists to co-operate.
Dr. Weizmann Feels Hurt
A resolution had been proposed ap
of a Medical College is now being con¬ structed and is scheduled to open next June
The President, in his letter, addressed to Max Levy of New York, .Secretary 'of the I..awycrs'  Committee, speaks  of
estine as a centre of progress." Chief Justice Taft expresses the hope that the proposed School of Law will "con- triiMite to the peace of the" world."
The  Hebrew  University,  whose  cor¬ nerstone was laid during the war on the
The Ohio Jewish Chronicle begs to announce that Rabbi Isaac, Werne of the Agudath Achim Synagog has joined it* editorial Staff and will from time to time contribute edi¬ torials and' articles on Jewish history, philosophy, and cog¬ nate subjects.
Or. Werne needs no introduc¬ tion to the Jews of Central Ohio. His high standing as a scholar of broad erudition in the (ields of secular as well as of Jewish lore, has been recog¬ nized by leading rabbis and educators in every section of the .United States. The local Jewish community is indeed fortunate to have in itAtmidst a man of his calibre.
.The publishers of the Chron¬ icle are highly grateful for the fine attitude of cooperation which the rabbi manifested in proffering his services to this publication. We are certain that his association with us will enhance the influence of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
Jewish Students to Be Encouraged to Enter Rabbinate
A Campaign Among Jewish Stu¬ dents in American Colleges is Projected   by   the   Place¬ ment Conunittee of the Jewish   Theollpgrical Seminary
CAREER OF RABBI OPENS VISTAS OF GREAT USE- FULNESS TO WORLD
— Bauhiach Photo.
Joseph  C. Goodman
The news of the recent appointment by Governor Donahey of Joseph C. Goodman of this city as member of the board of trustees of the Ohio State y\rcha:ological and Historical Society, was indeed highly welcomed by all Co- lunibus citizens who know him.
Mr. Goodman, formerly of the firm Goodman Bros., prominent High St. jewelers, has been active for years in every civic movement and fully deserved the high honor bestowed upon him by the Governor.
He was named to complete tlie term of the late Frank L. Packard. The term ends February 18, 1927,
NEW YORK, (J. T, A.)—Dr. Arnold Margolin, former Justice of the Su¬ preme Court of Appeals in Ukraine, and fQrmcr. Qlwi.ir.m^ti'jOf-..tIje Jewjsli >.Terrji- toi'ial Organization in Rils'sia a-nd Ukraine, when asked for his opinion on the proposed plan of Abraham Bra- gin for the estaWisibment of a Jewish state in Southern Ukraine and Crimea, which plan is seemingly favored by the Soviet Government, made the following statement;
"Crime and the Ukrainian ports of Odessa, Chersqn and Nikolaiever, are just outlets to the Black Sea and have been for manj' centuries the subject of rivalries between Russia and Poland. There arc even some Polish imperialists who dream of the possibility of a great Poland from the Baltic to the Black Sea. T have personally seen in Paris in ]!)in a map showing this megalo Pol¬ ish dream.
"On the other hand. Great Russia with its 80,000.000 population has never ceased her efforts to possess the Black Sea, going to the extent, in furthering this aim, of oppressing the Ukrainian nation movement for the last few cen¬ turies and crushing the ambition of 10,000,000 Ukrainians to be masters of their native land.
"These rivalries will naturally con¬ tinue, and it is difficult to understanM how t'-'e Soviet Govcrnmcrt ard Mr. Abraham Bragin, the author of the proicct, do not realize how dangerous such a plan is, and that it wou'd arouse the national protest of an overwhelm- intf majority of the ponulation o' this territory. In Ukraine 70% are Ukrai¬ nians, and in Crimea 80% are Tartars and Ukrainians.)
"It may be that the Bolsheviki who ,Tre persecuting the Zionist nfcranUt- rions wish to show their symnithv wi'h the idea of a Jewish state and the fon- rentration of Jewish masses in one p'af'e bv givinb them the above-mentioned ter ritories. It is. however a fooli'-h Utonia, like many of the Bolshevik proiects,
"Even in the case of Palesti-ie wf^cre 'he nresert nomilatinp is relative'v much smaller than in Crimea or Ukraine, Zionists, and non-Zionists who are pro- Palestine, do not proclaim that thev in¬ tend an immediate roncentrat'on in Pal¬ estine of sH-'h numbers of T'»ws as to form a majority of the Pa'eitinian pop¬ ulation. That can come onlv hv detrrees, and bv a natural immiTation during many decades. Even the B-iKour Dec'a- ration provides for t''e enua'itv of the Arabs,- Christians afd T"ws in Palestine and ro* for an artificial influx of Jews into Palestine.
"The dream of establishlnT a Jewish state in Ukraine and CrimPi is not a new dream. T* is but a repetition of the nrnieot to build a Jewish state in White Russia.,
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proving of the creation of a Jewish i-t'ie movement as "one which cannot but agency, as provided by the mandate^ an4raPI»;n' to "ic public imagination" and in suggesting that.'non-Zionists be repre-'-'i'i^ with the movement "to restore Pal sented on the agency so that the latter body would be non-paiiisan. It was exl-; plained that the work of the agency wag being carried on by the World Zionjst Organization, which was to be relieved of the 'responsibility.
Dr. Led K. Frankel, vice-president of!historic Mount of Olives by Dr. Chaim the Metropolitan Insurance Company) |i'Wcizniann, is one of the important proj- objected to the resolution. He proposed i ccts included in the constructive pro- a substitute, which was adopted, author-, gram for the rebuilding of Palestine as izing Mr. Marshall to appoint a com- the Jewish National Homeland pro-' mittee to investigate and report to n, motcd by the Keren Hayesod. Several future conference. Dr. Weizmann de-' departments of the University are al- clared in a speech that he was "hurt" j ready functioning, including the Agri- by the attitude of Dr. Ftankel. -|, cultural. Microbiological  and  Chemical
The , creation, of the, Jewish  Agen^^fnstitutes, which constitute the beginnitig rough which "the wbrk of buildingaVj^'t^e-'Corieee of "Science."" i"ne'*fii it
Secretary Davis Assails Foreign Language Press
Charges Misrepresentation of His
Policies on Immigration "In a
Cowardly    Fashion"    and
Declares Restriction is
Absolutely Necessary
TO MAINTAIN HIGH
WAGES AND A HIGH STANDARD OF LIVING
J.ewish nation in Palestine could be car¬ ried on Dr. Weizmann said, "would ful¬ fill the prophecy of the Jewish sage that Palestine will unite the Jewish people of the world." He asserted that at present only 100,000 Jews were in Palestine, but with immigration, sanitation, education and new industries, it could well be the home of 2 000,000. i He said the estab¬ lishment of a Jewish nation did not con template   depopulating  the   rest   of  the \ Palestine last summer by three fnembers
Cofleee building of the College of Medicine is now under construction and will be ready for occupancy by June.
Jubt as the College of Law is being backed "by a group of American Jewish lawyers, the Medical College is the result of the work of .'Vmerican physicians un¬ der the leadership of Dr. Nathan Rat¬ noff, head of the Jewish Maternity Hos¬ pital of New York.   Following a trip to
world of Jev^rs or to make Jews less loyal Jo the countries in which they lived.
To  Raise $5,00<i,000 a  Year
Dr. Frankel asserted he had no de¬ sire to "hurt" Dr. Weizmann, but wanted the conference to take such action as would be approved by Jews of all fac¬ tions throughout the country.
Mr. Marshall was authorized to ap¬ point a committee to organize a corpora¬ tion for promoting investments in Pal¬ estine after Dr. Arthur Ruppin, eco¬ nomic expert for the World Zionist Or- {ConcUtded on page 4)
Rabbi Benjamin Werne Scores Advocates of Johnson Immig. Bill
Points Out Wonderful Achieve¬ ments of Immigrants From Southern and Eastern Europe
The Johnson Immigration Bill was discussed at. length by Rabbi Benjamin Werne of tl'e Tifereth Israel Congre- gaMon at the open meeting of Zion Lodge, No. (32, I. O. B. B., at Wood¬ men's Hall, Morday evening, Febru¬ ary 25.
The rabbi presented both sides of the question i'l a most illuminating man¬ ner. He pointed out the fallacious ar- ¦juments^ o' the exponen'.s of "100% .\mericani=m" and also the fictitious ¦lai-" o" '''c Nordi•'^, emphasizing the "rcat contributions made by immigrants from southern and eastern Europe to the progress of the United S atcs. He •ited t'le achievements of a number of ¦nimi'i;ra"*s'a'ron; 'hem Dr. C'latles P Stpinnietz,"an immiiir.int from Germany, md Mi'hael V'upi". f'c famous Coluni- 1)i'i Univer''i*v professor who hails from Serbia,
Ppi'larinnf thnj at the root of all the anti-immigration propaganda now being nropaeated wis t''e renrehersih'e feel¬ ing pf hate and selfishness, he delivered a s'lii"!'"" rehnke to the many self-styled cultured Americans who advocated the Johnson ImmiTrration Bill,   The rabbi's
of the committee of physicians, eight acres of land on the Mount of Olives were purchased by the Committee at a cost of $50,000 as the site of the College on which a group of buildings including a hospital is being erected. Dr. S. S. Goldwater, head of Mt, Sinai Hospital and a former Health Commissioner of New York, a noted authority on hospital construction, is going to Palestine this summer to superiptend the erection of the hospital building.
Through the Agricultural Institute of the University, the Keren Hayesod has established a number of agricultural ex¬ periment stations throughout Palestine, which have already achieved valuable results toward promoting agriculture in the Holy Land, through the rotation of crops, etc.
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NEXT MEETING OF COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH
The next meeting of the Co¬ lumbus Section, Council of Jewish Women, will be held Tuesday, March 4th, at 2 o'clock, at the Bryden Road Temple.
Molnar's play, "The Swan," \ will be presented by a number of the members.
Due to the fact that there are so few meetings to be held be¬ fore the close ' of the year, all members are urged to be pres¬ ent so as to complete this year's splendid record.
address made a profound impression upon all those present and stimulati'd nnich thought on this all-absorbing fiuestion. It is hoped that the Lodge will in the near future again extend the rabbi an invitation to address an open meeting on some other vital prob¬ lem.
The Membership Committee of the Lodge reported some progress. Brother Leo Yassenoff, President, urged every member to assist in the' drive for a larger membership.
WASHINGTON.—(J.. T. A.)— Charging misrepresentation of" his poli¬ cies in the matter of immigrationyiind alien, registration, Secretary of Labor jTvtneis. T,', Davis last night assailed'the Foreign Language Press of America.
Secretary Davis who made the attack during the course of an address at the banquet which concluded the 49th con¬ vention of District Grand Lodge 'No. 5, Independent Order B'nai B'rith, made the statement that he was attacked in a "cowardly fashion" after leaving the New York ;meeting of the Foreign Language Press Association several weeks ago. Secretary Davis '.said that the man who maligned him did not have the courage to criticize him to his face regarding his personal attitude towards immigration.
"How can anyone charge me with prejudice against the emriiigrant'?", he asked. "I am one myself." The Sec¬ retary of Labor declared that he is m agreement with Congressman Sabath, who was also a speaker at the banquet, that there should be no discrimination as be¬ tween racial groups in immigration leg¬ islation and that he did not subscribe to the theory of Nordic snpcriority, but, he added, restriction is absolutely neces¬ sary in order to maintain high wages and a high standard of living.
"This is not intended to harass the immigrant," he said, referring to tflie alien registration plan. It is only in¬ tended to make of the immigrant a good .'\nierican citizen, to teach him to read and write."
Secretary Davis said that he had been charged with Czarism and -Prus- sianism and in refutation of these charges he offered the fact that his an¬ cestors had been among those wlio forced King John to sign the Magna Charta. "I am also accused of being an anti- Semite," said Mr. Davis. "Why I never even knew the definition of that word until recently. I bear no grudge against any living humah being."
Secretary Davis devoted a special por¬ tion of this speech to a dramatic de¬ nouncement of Jewish lawyers who had secured through the courts the admis¬ sion of excess (luota aliens in November. He charged these lawyers as being guilty of bad faith in turning the liberal view which they had prevailed upon him to adopt as their weapon against him. It was notable that not once throughout his speech did Davis specifically reveal the kind of immigration law he advo¬ cated. The generality of his statemenis- was particularly marked because Con-' grc&sman Sabath who preceded Secre- ( tary Davis practically accused him of a full measure or responsibility for the Johnson bill, which Davis denied.
Chancellor Henry Hurwitz of the In¬ tercollegiate Menorah Association was the convention essayist and spoke on the B'nai B'rith and the Jewish stu¬ dents.
N'EW YORK. — A campaign among Jewish students in American colleges and universities to persuade them to make the pulpit their career is projected by the Placement Committee of the Jewish Theological Seminary of .\mer- ica, according to an announcement is¬ sued   yesterday.
This campaign was agreed upon at a meeting of the Placement Committee of which Dr. Cyrus .'\dler, acting president of the Seminary, is chairman. Those who participated in the conference were Dr. I./ouis M, Epstein of Boston, Rabbi Max Drob of New York, president and ' vice-president of the Rabbinical Assem¬ bly, Rabbi Elias L. Solomon, president of the United Synago^'ues of America. Rabbi Samuel X. Cohen, executive di¬ rector of that organization. Rabbi Max D. Klein of Philadelphia, and Rabbi Louis Schwefel of Bayonne, New Jer¬ sey.
"Our task is to persuade young men of an even higher caliber, intellectually and culturally, than the very fine type of present graduates and students of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, to enter the Rabbinate. The problem in the conservative synagogues of this country comes from the pews. The membership of the synagogue is being re-enforced by younger men and women, mainly native-born and largely themselves graduates of colleges and universities who have absorbed all that is finest of American culture and who demand that their spiritual leaders shall , be their intellectual superiors, and that the religious teachers of their children shall be the ^ superior of the average •American school teacher. *' "They   arp   prepared   to   remunerate"''
with the intellectual and spiritual quali¬ fications they demand they shall possess. We have requests for this type of Rabbi from fi!) Jewish communities. -All in¬ sist on superior qualifications, and all are prepared to pay very high salaries. It is a relatively simple matter for the Seminary to fill the vacant pulpits, but it- is not so simple to fill them with the kind of men the communities are now beginning to require. 'For Jewish young men, the career of Rabbi opens vistas of great usefulness and emolument as¬ suring more than a fair degree of com¬ fort, and we plan to call this fact to the attention of Jewi.sh students in all .American seats of learning in the hope that we will succeed in awakening a response from the kind of men the Jew¬ ish pulpits are seeking.
The campaign will start as 'soon as funds will be made available for it by the endowment fund committee of the Seminary which, under the direction of Rabbi Max Drob, has raised $fl00",000 toward the million-dollar endowment it is seeking.
RABBI PELKOWITZ TO
SPEAK ON SABBATH
Rabbi E. Pelkowitz will speak at the services at the Beth Jacob Congregation Saturday tnorning on "The Holy Shekel." This is a very interesting theme and those attending will enjoy a rare treat.
NEW    ORLEANS    PLEDGES $10,000  FOR  JEWISH   IN¬ STITUTE OF RELIGION
NEW YORK. —Nearly $10,000 was pledged 1>y citizens of New Orleans for the Jewish In¬ stitute of Religion, of which Dr. Stephen S. Wise is act¬ ing president, during his re¬ cent visit to that city. A luncheon in his honor was ar- rangiid' by Rabbis Max Heller, Emil W. Leipziger, Mendel Sil¬ ver and David Fichman, which was participated in by many of the leading Jews of the com¬ munity. The warmest interest was displayed in the growth and development of the Insti¬ tute. The signiiicant feature of the luncheon, it was pointed out, was that it was given by graduates of the HebrW Union College who recognixed that there is not and need be no rivalry between the two insti¬ tutions both of which seek only to servo American Israel.
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