Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-04-25

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IFOR THE JEWISH HOME
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Volume VI — No. 49
COLUMBUS, OHIO. APKIL 25, 1924
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Hfrase and Senate Approve Immig. Bill By Great Majority
Only     Ministers,     Professional
Men, Artists, Diplomats and
Students to Be Admitted
THE KU KLUX KLAN
SUPPORTS NEW PLAN
HADASSAH MEETING SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT TALMUD TORAH
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Measure Reduces Influx of Cath' olios and  Jews and Boosts . Immigration or Protestants
WASHINGTON.—The Johnson Im¬ migration Bill ha.s passed the House of Representatives by a vote of more than four to one. Going to the Senate, it was approved by the extraordinai'y rec¬ ord vote of 70 to'2. Thc Senate also adopted the Reed clause, admitting only ministers, professional men, artists, dip¬ lomats and students and their wives and children  from Japan,
Both the House and thc Senate abso¬ lutely refu.<;ed to validate the "gentle¬ men's agreement" between this country and Japan, which Would put the Jap¬ anese on the same immigration basis as other foreigners.
'President Coolidge is confronted with the most difficult problem of his admin¬ istration. If he signs the bill he must repudiate his Secretary of State, who insisted that Japan's sensibilities must be respected and urged that tiie "gentle¬ men's agreement" was being strictly ob¬ served and therefore no excuse existed for the disturbing enactment.
If the President vetoes the bill, which it is felt is his inclination, he will lose the votes of the wliole Pacific Coast, where Japanese exclusion is akin to a religion. '   .
It is felt in all diplomatic circles that- the Senate has, in the words of Senator Reed of .Pennsylvania, decided upon thc "waste of twenty years of excellent diplomacy" upon the throwing away of ,,»viT.w*«ij"£fta!l,..re!.at.iP0s^,,or^a.,.l9rgs,.Ka«.ve£. them, that followed the prompt and friendly action of America after the Japanese earthquake.''
"And what for?" is being asked throughout Washington. This much is known. The Senate decided upon the concrete, tactless prevention of Jap¬ anese immigration, not because they didn't want Japanese in this country—r the "gentlemen's agreement" took care ¦ of that beautifully — but to assert "the greatest fundamental sovereign rights," in thc words of Senator Lodge.
Yet the Japanese Ambassador, Han- ihara,' never challenged those rights; he has, in fact, expressly admitted the right of the United States to control immigration. He had merely in a friendly fashion argued that the long¬ standing and successful gentlemen's agreement should be continued and even extended, that' Congress should not, to exclude 240 Japanese . a year, put thc brand of racial inferiority upon his proud people. <
With this' well understood by the inner circle of diplomats, there is a notable sum of sotto voce going on be¬ hind closed doors. There leaks out, however, a rumble to thc effect that this week's work of Congress was the result of the "basest passion of a mere mob." A second rumble, louder than the first, carries the grave import that by this week's work we not only an¬ tagonize Japan, but the whole of Asia.
And those who listen closely, hear the suspicion that the Japanese phase to immigration is nothing but a screen, behind which Congress' fight for a Nordic United States progresses with¬ out interference. It is covertly thought that the protagonists of the Johnson Inmiigration Bill are drawing attention away from its real issue, which will be passed without notice in the general scutTle, by antagonizing the Japanese. They have very cleverly calculated on the disturbance that Japanese exclusion would create, it is thought.
These theories seem to be borne out' , by  the  fact  that  no  mention  is  being
made of Immigration from Russia, ' Roumania, Italy, and numerous other ^countries whose immigration to the United States has already been checked in thc Japanese confusion without no¬ tice. Another fact which seems to sub¬ stantiate the theories is the fact that nothing' else intelligently explains thc action of the ,Scnate in voting> for the Japanese exclusion. It is thought to be uncalled for, needless, senseless, use¬ less and dangerous. But considering that it is only agitated as a subterfuge for the quiet passage of the more im¬ portant phases of the bill, those w;hich touch countries whose immigration is really an important problem, then the action takes on thc light of a brilliant, however unscrupulous stra'tagcm.
The next meeting of the Cc^lumtms Qiapter of Hadassah will take place this Sunday afternoon, April 27, at 2:30, at the Talinud Torah Building on East Rich Street.
Nomination and election of officers for the coming year's activities will be the chief business of this meeting. Several important questions will be dis¬ cussed.
Every Hadassah member is urged to be present.
Rehearsals I.O.B.B.
Minstrel Show Presage
Tremendous Success
The Great Problem of the ''Hopeless Consumptive" Is Now Solved By
NationalJewish Hospital at Denver
The Annual Meeting of Trustees_of Famous Denver Institution Is
Told of Miraculous Woirk ¦—Ex-Patient Narrates Story of
How His Life Was Saved by New Method of Treatment
Used by the NationtdJevrish Hospital
WORK OF HOSPITAL'S RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
IS ALREADY KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
Principals  in  Cast  Possess  Re-.
markable Talent and Their
Versatility Is Absolutely
Extraordinary
K. OF C. HALL HA& BEEN
RENTED FOR AFFAIR
Beginning May IZ Zion Lodge,
I. O. B. B., No. 62, Will Meet
at Realtors'' HaU, No. 130
East State Street
From present indications the B'nai B'rith Minstrel Show to be presented on Tuesday evening. May 0, at the Knights of Columbus Halt on State and Sixth Streets, will b,e one of the biggest hits ever put over by Zion Lodge I. O. B. B. No. C2.
Mr. S. W. Riley, who is coaching the show, is very optimistic. He feels that the community will accord thc perform¬ ance a most^ cheerful ovation. Every member of the cast is saturated with en¬ thusiasm and pep and consequently the rehearsals are more than  worth-while.
The many fine special features making up the program for the show will be presented in such a manner that even the most critical observers will be pleased. President Leo Yassenoff, who has been untiring in his efforts to Stim- ulate^intcrest -in > B'nai ^B'rith-'-work- in this city, urges all Ben B'rjtHs to make no other engagements for the evening of May <J. He assures every member of Zion Lodge that a most enjoyable treat is in store for him,
It has been just annoimced that thc K. of C. Hall has been engaged for the affair in order to accommodate the fam' ilies and friends of all Ben Briths Tickets are now being printed and the committee on arrangements will distri bute them among the members.
Mr. Yassenoff also wishes to an¬ nounce that plans are under way for the annual celebration of Mothers' Day which will take place early in May at thc Bryden Road Temple." A well-known orator from out of town will deliver an address and a splendid program con¬ sisting of the best local talent will be given. Further particulars regarding the Minstrel show as well as the Mothers' Day Celebration will be published in thc next issue of the Chronicle.
Members of Zion Lodge aro hereby informed that Monday night, April 28, will be the last time that the Lodge meets at Woodmen's Hall. All future meet¬ ings will take place at thc Realtors' Hall, 130 East State Street.
"There are no more hopeless con- .sumptives," Dr. William S. Friedman, vice president of thc iNational Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, of Denver, Colorado, told the officers and trustees of the Institution at their twenty-fifth' annual meeting in Chicago, April 15. "Patients in the most advanced stages of this dreadful disease are now ibeing restored to health through the complete Immobilization Treatment now being adrtiinistercd at the National Jewish Hospital  for Consumptives."
News of the rapid strides being made in the treatment of tubercular patients at the iNational Jewish Hospital, which was thc first free National Institution for the care of Tuberculosis in the coun¬ try, was [received most enthusiastically hy thc delegates at the meeting, as were also the reports made by Harry H. Lapi- dus of Omaha, and E. J. Schanfarber of Columbus, Ohio, outlining the progress now being made in. thc campaign for a $.'{50,000.00 Infirmary building for the Hospital.
This fund is'being raised by members of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith in Districts Nos. 2 and ft. Mr. Schan¬ farber is Ithe chairman in District No. 2, and Mr. Lapidus is directing the cam¬ paign in District ifjo. 6.
Actual evidences of the beneficent re¬ sults of the complete immobilization treatment were given 150 delegates and Chicagoans at the dinner following the meeting. Here a young man of Chicago who returned last Saturday froni a' 15 months' stay at the National Jewish Hos.^ pital told how he had gone to Denver suffering from tuberculosis and with lall< hope of his recovery abandoned. H^ told how he liad taken the complete im-l
Ackley to Conduct Real Estate Column In Jewish Chronicle
W. F. Ackley, Manager of Ackley & Co., 208 James Theatre Building, real estate brokers, will commence conduct¬ ing a "Real Estate Column" for the Ohio Jewish Chronicle, beginning May 2.
Mr. Ackley, who is an authority in his chosen field of service, has been Icnown for many years by the Jews of Colum¬ bus. He has rendered exceptionally fine service in the buying and selling of resi¬ dential and investment properties. There are eight enterprising and progressive men in Mr, Ackley's organization who are intimately familiar with local real estate values. Moreover, these gentle¬ men take a personal interest in every client of the firm. Watch page 8 for this new feature. It will prove very in¬ teresting to those who wish to keep in¬ formed on real estate values in Colum¬ bus.
VIENNA (J. T. A.)—American Jews are urged to withdraw their sup- Iiort from Siegfried Wagner, the son of Richard Wagner, Siegfried Wagner was recently in the United States where he conducted several musical works.
Prominent Jewish leaders here are giving warning to the American Jews that the money earned by Wagner in the United States, is spent, as has been proven, in supporting the anti-Semitic Nationalist Party in Munich.
their despair .to rush the. erection of 'his new building so that we can give •hem thc bcneCas of this wonderful fork. I know, and all of us know, that llie l(i states in districts Nos. 2 and G of fhe I. 0. B. B. are goilig over,the top in this great Ufe saving campaign." ¦Tlic necessity of this new infirmary Idilding was 1)rought forcefully to thc fleeting time after time during the' ses- tion in the reports of W. B. Woolner, of. •J'eoria, 111., President of the Hospital, :nd If. Fleshcr, chairman of the Finance tjomniittee. Prominent authorities in tie treatment of tuberculosis endorsed the project enthusiastically as prdviding facilities for the hospital to extend the complete Immobilization cure to tuber¬ culosis patients tlirough 'the infirmary luilding.
. Judge Adolf Kraus, President of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith praised the work of the 'National Jewish Hospital m treating patients regardless (¦i race or religious belief, as one of the Jt'iost important contributions to spread¬ ing good will between Jew jind Gentile in the country. "It ought to be more generally kjiown, both by Jews and non- -Jews, that the National Jewish Hospi¬ tal has now, and has always had, ap¬ proximately 20 per cent of its patients who are not Jewish. This is really a ,\vonderful thing."
• "Then, too, the work of the research (department of the Hospital, where ex¬ perts .ire constantly at work to find a cu/e for tuberculosis, is already known limong scientific men the world over. What aii achievement for the Jews, if a 'c ire is.; found at this Jewish Hospital for'a disease' that assails one million peo- jJe .evtit'yvyear, and to the 'ravages of
COUNCIL TO HOLD LAST MEETING OF THE YEAR
The Columbus Section Council of Jewish Women will hold the last meet¬ ing of the year on Tuesday, May Cth, at two o'clock in the vestry rooms of the Bryden Road Temple. .     .
Election of officers will take-place and there will 'be a novel manner of presenting the. annual reports of the various committee chairmen and offi¬ cers, A social hour has been planned and refreshments will be served.
AH meinbers are urged to be at thc Temple promptly at two o'clock.
Jewish Education for Children of Jewish Farmers Is Planned
First Hebrew Schools for Farm
Children Are Opened in'New
York and Connecticut
States
JEWISH FARMERS
WELCOME MOVEMENT
Rieform Jews of the U.S. Plan $50p00 Budget
Fund to Be Utilized by Union of American  Hebrew   Congrega¬ tions for  thc» Advancement of Jewish Religion and Culture' in Ainerica
IMPORTANT GATHERING WAS HELD IN CHICAGO
NEW VORK. — A movement is afoot all over the country to secure Jewish education for the growing generation of American Israel. This movement em¬ braced, until now, only city children. But what about the number of Jewish children   growing   up   on   the   farms?
The Jewish Agricultural Society, 801 East 14th Street, New York City, has given this problem considera'blc attention and has taken thc first steps tovtrards the solution of the same. Those attempting t6 bring Jewish education to the homes I f™™ Joseph Schonthal of Columbus, O, of Jewish farmers face a difficult task.     The meeting was one of the most mo
Ben Selling of Portland, Oregon, Gives $50,000 to Hebrew Union College   Library  Fund;  Jo¬ seph Schonthal of Colum¬ bus, Ohio, Gives $5,000
CHICAGO. — Nearly ont-half million dollars will be expended by the Reform Jews of this country during the next .welve months for the advancement of Jewish religion and culture among their co-religionists in America.
A budget of expenditures totaling .$450,000 will be utilized for this en¬ deavor, it was announced at a special council of thc Union of American He¬ brew Congregations which brought 300 prominent Jews from all parts of the United States to the Congress Hotel to consider plans for, financing the work of the organization. This sum will be con¬ tributed (by Reform congregations throughout the country and by special gifts of individuals who are interested in the work of the Union.
In addition, $')'jfi(iO will be expended for the purchase of books, manuscripts and ceremonial art objects for thc library of the Hebrew Union College which to¬ day constitutes one of thc most important and complete Jewish libraries in the world. Ben Selling qf Portland, Ore., was annpunced as the contributor of $50,000 to the library fund and $5,000
mobilization cure for ,six months.,   HeljJvhich/XC^OOft fieople succumb each year,"
stood before his audience Tuesday night;]'!i'"l\^f^'^f J'*?"^"'-
the-|>iotuiC'.t'i liectlili, {ulloC'eH6rity^<tmf- i/iti\:^-'SUiVi.ri-\jm
ambition, back at work again, self-sup-Iof the meeting were the fact that 43!)7
porting and   with   unbounded  ambition 1 patients had been treated in the 25 years
for the future.   His story, told simply Iof the hospital's existence, that 77 per
and from the heart, breathing in every'cent of the patients treated came to the
word undying thanks for the marvelous care give him at the National Jewish Hospital was the signal for repeated pledges on the part-of all the Chicago people at the dinner to assure ,the $00,- 000.00 needed from Illinois to provide the Infirmary Building.
"The National Jewish Hospital now has facilities for treating only three pa¬ tients at a time with this new cure, whose marvelous results you have seen in the young man," said Dr. Friedman. "There are 114 patients, men, women and chil¬ dren, from all parts of the country, now on our waiting list, who are begginc; and  imploring us  from  the depths of
Hospital in the advanced stages of the disease, and 80 per cent of all patients had been restored to independence and strength. With its motto "None may pay who enter, and none -who enter may pay," the Hospital is caring for men, women and children, giving physical, mental and spiritual attention. Absolute Kosher is observed at the Hospital. ' • Whole-souled tribute was paid to Mrs. S. Pisko, executive secretary of the Hospital, who for the past twenty-five years since the Hospital was opened, has been devoting her energies and efforts tirelessly in behalf of the humanitarian work.
having as their adversary the distance between one Jewish farm and the other. In the olden times a Jewish farmer engaged a private instructor for his chil¬ dren. But with the existing economic conditions of farmers in general, and of Jewish  farmers  in particular, the' eh-
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impossibility.'   '  -'¦ •-¦'¦¦-^ ¦¦•     f ' \~.:'-,....
The Jewish Agricultural Society has solved the problem by the introduction of group schools. Three of such schools have been opened: two in New York and one in Connecticut.
Each group school accommodates from sixty to scvety children who come from within a convenient radius. Each of these group schools is visited by a teacher every few days, who instructs them in Jewish history, Hebrew, and the rites and customs of the Jewish re¬ ligion. Instruction is given in English according to the program of the United Synagogues.
Jewish farmers have given a very warm welcome to this new activity and have expressed their gratitude for this mosti necessary spiritual aid given their children.
Apologetic Lovers of Zion
By ISSER W. MUSKAT (Student in College of Law, Ohio State University)
"And thou shalt say unto him: I Profess this day tmto the Lord thy God, that I am going tmto the land which thc Lord has s7i'orn lo our Fathers to give to us"—Deuteronomy XXVI, 3-
All our ills and troubles, our afflictions and tribulations subsequent to the Exo¬ dus of onr, forefathers from Egypt, are sometimes ascribed to the infusion, al that time within the fold, of the Erev Rav — that mixed ethnic multitude of "black sheep", as they were, which not only contaminated the ethnogenic purity of Jacob's flock, but whicli, because of imperfect assimilation has ever since perturbed and agitated what might other¬ wise have been a homogeneity of thought and action within.
Swarming the fringes of Jewish life, they have not served as some chimcr- ically maintain, in some imaginary role of interracial buffers or shock absorbers but invariably as human reflectors of the worst traits and qualities inherent in Jew and Gentile alike.
Again, whh the inception of the Ilas- kalah movement — that somewhat tardy agitation fpr secular Jewish enlighten¬ ment which was in line with the Uenais- sance and which gained such great impe¬ tus during the last half of the 18th cen¬ tury, we see a re-appearance of the same spurious strain, the same Erev Rav — somewhat metamorphizcd to be sure, yet nevertheless identical in its disintegrat¬ ing effects upon Jewish life and soli¬ darity.
Along with the birth of "Die Bewe-
gung des Aufkliirungs", we see emanat¬ ing from the innermost recesses of Jewish life and faith, certain schools of thought, which in their zeal and rivalry to expedite Moses Mendelssohn's noble aim of an embellished Judaism set in a modern frame of an enlightened world, soon lost their leader's path and in their wild frenzy and aberrant vision degen¬ erated into mere apologists.
Unlike Mendelssohn, who calmly sought to regenerate the Judaism he loved and devoutedly observed by syn¬ thesizing with it the select cultural values which the Renaissance had created; his less stable contemporaries, swayed by the ultra-radical spirit of the times, undertook the very opposite method to achieve what they believed the same result; by a radical mutilation of the sacred picture itself in order to facilitate its setting within the environ¬ mental frame.
Thus their excessive craving for modernity, formality and respectability soon evoked the tenacious resistance of the entrenched fortresses of Judaism in Russia — led by Elijah Gaon of Wilna — and in the ensuing struggle, the hereto¬ fore united House of Israel was divided against itself.
The tragedy of Jewish Ufe during the last 150 years bears witness to the ig¬ nominious success which accompanied these Jewish actors, playing the role of apologetics, a role heretofore monopo¬ lized by Christian polemists.
"Weltanschauung" and "weltansicht" were but mere clamorous pretexts. On (Concluded on page 4)
mentous gatherings ever held by the Union, which was established fifty-one years ago by the late fRabbi Isaac M. Wise, who founded Reform Judaism in this country. It met to consider a per¬ manent method of raising funds. Dis¬ cussion centered abottt a plan for a 10
meet the Unions budget. This was'lirst propbsed by Joseph Friend of Far Rock- away at the Golden Jubilee Convention of the Union, held last year in New York, and was submitted by question¬ naire to the congregations affiliated with thc Union during the year. It consti¬ tuted a radical departure in fund raising for religious philanthropic organizations and it was offered as a substitute for campaigns and other sporadic fund rais¬ ing methods.
Throughout the afternoon and even¬ ing sessions delegates battled over this plan and before the close of the ses¬ sions voted against it by a vote of 119 for and 01 against, three-fourths vote being required for adoption, since this was to be an amendment to the constitu¬ tion. In place of the assessment plan a (Conclttded on page 5.)
N.F.T.S. Executive Board
Meets in Cincinnati
Members of the National Executive Board of the National Feder¬ ation of Temple Sisterhoods in front of the Administration Building of the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, reading left to right, front row: Mrs. Sallie Kubie Glauber, New York, Third Vice Pres.; Mrs. Louis Abramson, Shrcveport, La.; Mrs. Ferdinand Dilsheimer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Joseph Stolz, Chicago, III.; Mrs. Jos Wiesen- feld, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. J. Walter Freiberg, Cincinnati, O., President; Mrs. Abram Simon, Washihgton, D. C, Honorary President; Mrs. Charles Freund, Toledo, O. Second rov: Mrs. Nathan J. Miller, New York; Mrs. Henry Oppenheimer, Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Adolph Rosenberg, Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. Henry Bauer, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. Leon Goodman, Louisville, Ky., Fourth Vice President; Mrs. Nathan Gumble, Columbus, O.; Mrs. Myer Kirsh, Richmond, Va.; Mrs. Lizzie- Drey, St. Louis, Mo. Third row: Mrs. H. H. Mayer, Kansas Qty, Mo.; Miss Edna Goldsmith, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Samuel H. Cohn, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Maurice Steinfeld, St. Louis, Mo., First Vice Presi¬ dent; Mrs. Chas. Cohn, Nashville, Tenn.; Miss Hclene Heinsheimer, Cincinnati, O.. Field Secretary; Mrs. Miriam W. Dreifus. Cincinnati. O., Assistant Executive Secretary; Mrs. Morris Newfield, Birmingham Ala. Fourth row: Mrs. Sol Weil, Goldsboro, N. C; Mrs. Harry blebman, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. Isaac Born, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs Herman Jung. Milwaukee. Wis.; Mrs. Henry Nathan, Buffalo, N. Y..* Mrs. Alfred Baker, Erie, Pa. ,