Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-08-15

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Debated io American
and
Jewish Ideals
c VII —No. ,13
COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGU.ST i
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Earl of Beaconsfield Died a Jew, Claims Anonymous Author
In New Work on Nineteenth Cen¬ tury  Leaders, Writer Asserts That Conversion of Famous English Premier Was a Mere Formality
OISRAELI FOUGHT
ALWAYS FOR RIGHTS OF JEWS EVERYWHERE
NEW YORK. —TlKil Benjamin Dis- mcli, England's great premier, died ; Jew and riot a convert to Christianity, a; maintained by many hioRraphers, is the assertion contained in "Unccnsored Recollections," an anonymous book tbat has just made its appearance. The book, in a pithy and intimate style, deals with great figures of thc past century in Eng| land and in the metropolitan centers of the United States.
This is how the author tells of his last meeting with the Earl of Beacons- field:
"Disraeli looked very tired; I can't say old, for he aUvays .looked very old; but he was certainly ill and weak. He asked about Paris and then he said, 'Well,, now, I must go, I'm very tired. Bonne nuit et dormez bicnl' He pro¬ nounced French vilely, but in these last words to me there was no chance of great mispronunciation. So I replied, 'Thank you, my Lord. Good night Good night!' and uncovered as he turned away. I watched him slowly go up to the street ih which he died, Cur- zon street — and never saw him again — indeed, he died'within a month, died a Jew, I am told, and as o deathbed he 'held the hand of his solici¬ tor and friend. Rose, he murmured to himself; 'There is—one God—of Israeli' Personally, I don't think there are many really converted Jews."
The new work is written in the style of "An Englishman in Paris." It is published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadel¬ phia and London.
The usual claim made by those who closely studied the life of the great :, .VJBrJtJshVitatcafmAn' h^B. been thif while te the last he remained racially loyal his forebears, a iHebrew proud of his lineage and stock, his baptism and en¬ rollment as a member of the Church of England, which took place in 1807 when he was a lad of thirteen, had not been a mere formality, as the same cere¬ mony 'had been with Heinrich Heine and Other Jews of the early nineteenth cen¬ tury who accepted Baptism because of the disabilities which a Jew in Europi at that period encountered at every footstep.
Disraeli maintained his friendship with the Rothschild family throughout his life. It was with the aid of the . Rothschilds that he perfected the Suez Canal stock transaction. "I like to li to the old tunes," Disraeli said on one s he sat at table in the Roths- {Conclttded on page 5)
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO OUR READERS
In
:, the
Ohio Jewish Chronicle will augurate a new feature column. The column, to be called "Mar¬ ginalia," will be conducted by Milton L. Farber, student at Ohio State University, and will comprise skits, short critical reviews of current events, and comment on various aspects of Jewish life. Tho column will also contain essays, poems, and similar material contributed by various other writers.
Mr. Farber is a member of the younger school of writers and his column will bo devoted to a free expression of opinion. Mr. Forber has contributed to the Smart Set magazine, Scribner's, Ohio Jewish Chron¬ icle, and thc literary page of thc Columbus Sunday Dispatch. He is president of "Scribblers," Ohio State University literary society, and Associate Editor of the "Candle," the University literary magazine.
It is hoped that'the new fea¬ ture column will add to the in> tereat of the paper and stimu¬ late some of our talented young folks ta renewed literary en¬ deavors.
Vfill Break Away From Democratic |
Party If Davis WiU Not Denounce
Klan, Declares Samuel Untermeyer
a Admiration for Senator La Fbllettc and Expects Same Attitude from President Coolidge
B.C. Vladeck Tells of the Serious Plight pf Stranded Emigrants
Returned Member of Hias Com¬ mission  Declares That  11,000 Are in Dire Distress in Va¬ rious Ports and Cities of Europe
BACK TO LAND MOVE GROWING, HE POINTS
OUT IN INTERVIEW
Eleven    thousand
Founder of Union Co. Was 61 Years of Age
Last Wednesday
1. M. LEVY
Mr. Levy celebrated his 61st birthday anniversary last Wednesday, Augpst 13, by entertaining in a grand fashion foi his 350 employees. His hosts of friends, Jews 33 well as non-Jews, marked the occasion by expressing their admiration and respect for him as a man and as an exponent of modern business methods,
The Chronicle joins the rest of the community in extending sincerest wishes to Mr. Levy for many more happy birthdays.
NEW YORK. - Jewish emigrants, cH!!ai^enf^ii?:39tArtJ port^ and cities of Europe, dependent entirely for their subsistence on the help which they may receive from their rela¬ tives in the United States, according to Mr. B. C. Vladeck, Manager of the "Jewish Daily Forward" and member of the 'Hias delegation, who has just re¬ turned from Europe, in an exclusive in¬ terview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Six thousand of this number possess Russian passports an'd have already cured American visas. They are located ih the ports of Southampton, Marseilles, Havre, Cherbourg, Bremen, Hamburg, Libau, Riga and Constantinople, and in the cities of Warsaw, Kishineflf, Galatz and "Bucharest.
The investigation made by the Hias delegation, Mr. Vladeck stated, revealed
most pitiful situation among the fugees stranded in Roumania, Latvia and Poland. They lack food and shelter and are cjrcssed in rags. Their entire existence depends on the help of their relatives in America, but they receive very little from either their relatives 01 the relief organizdlions. A large num¬ ber of the emigrants are housed by the' iteamship companies which undertook to bring them to the United States.
The governments of the various coun¬ tries where the Jewish emigrants are stranded have given assurances that they
ill not deport them, pending their di parture for the United States, Argentir and Canada, steps for which are being taken.
Particular consideration has been shown by the government of France, which as agreed to allow the skilled workers among the refugees to be ab¬ sorbed into the industriiiil fabric of the country. Special efforts are being made relieve the situation in Roumania by dispatching groups of refugees to Ar¬ gentina and Canada.
Vladeck observed the interesting fact that out of 800 refugees stranded in Southampton, faced with the alternatives of waiting indefinitely for permission to go to the United States, or proceeding immediately to Palestine, only 2-1 chose the latter.
Mr. Vladcck, who spent a short time in Poland, reports that there is a severe economic depression in that country due in part to the introduction of the new money system which supplanted the valueless paper currency for a high cur¬ rency on a gold basis. In consequence the country is experiencing a to a lack of cash and credit.
The Jews have been most affected by
this condition,   In the cities of Bialystok
and  Lodz,  the centers  of   the  textile
industry, things are at an utter standstill
(Concluded on page 6.)
.Special to Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
NEW YORK. — If John W. Davis, Democratic nominee for President, fails to announce himself against the Ku Klux Klan, I shall feel impellid lo lircak away from my life-long allegiance my party, for I should then regard 1 a.s unworthy to be a leader of a groat party, declared Samuel Untermyer. ill an exclusive statement issued today to the Jewish Toicgraphic Agency in con-' nection with the symposium.of opinion gathered by thc Agency concerning the •Tittitudc of American Jewry toward; thc K. K. K.
"The symposium of opinion you have gathered," stated Mr. Samuel Unter¬ myer, "on the important question of the policy to be followed by the Jews ill comliating the activities of the despic¬ able, l^iwless, un-American Ku Klux or¬ ganization is most interesting and in¬ structive. It is, of course, gratifying to me to find such well-nigh unanimous support in the position I have consist¬ ently taken as to the way in which' "wc should deal with, this excrescence upon- the body politic pf American life, as f felt sure there would be—after ma¬ ture consideration.
"Policy for the Jews"
"The question is not one of feeling/^ about which there can be no difference of opinion among the decent citizenship. if this country, but purely one of policy; for the Jews. It is easier to plunge thinkingly into a fight than to restraiff oneself, especially where the provoca- is so overwhelming and -well- irresistible, but it is not always the' part of wisdom.
"This is not our figKt. It is the fight^ of the Protestant churches, and of the! tens of millions of patriotic, law-abid-;?^ ing clergymen and citizens of the Pxo- testant faith, whose love for'their country and.Jts cherished.¦ institutioj Itoilt/not.iefciiijfjitifiik.i'i^^^
vliil-t  those  institutions are  being un
clcrnniiotl and llouttd.
If ynu will examine the record- of IMiiilu- iittci ances —wherever and "Kvor tlic opportunity has presented ¦li--\i)ii will liiul that few men have n iiioic outspoken in their denuncia- 1 of (he Klan. Bul I have alway.s nclicrl the :iltack from the point of ¦i\ of ail American citizen rather than Ml lliat  of thc Jew —that being not
only tlu> mo.st p.itriotic, just and legiti- mosl  (jxpedienl  and  ef-
Will Conduct Feature Column in Ohio
Jewish Chronicle
feci ive.
'I regret, for thc sake of the Jewish
be. lo which 1 have throughout my life devoted my best energies, that my tills crucial question has been niiiiiiKlei .stood and misrcprcbcntcd. And '.lis ucrtwithslanding my frequent public :xpiessions of contempt for arid denun- :i:iti()n of the miscreants who are seek- iig to poison the wells of American life anci to spread bigotry and hatred "where only the gospel of love, unity, toler¬ ance and understanding should be preached.
"When Dr. Wise, whom I esteem highly as a public-spirited citizen, an outstanding teacher in our faith and a priceless asset to thc Jewish people, gave expression to his point of view of my attitude,! conferred before penning my reply with my friend and partner, Mr. Louis !Marshall, found him in full agree-
Mit wilh me and upon the wisdom of the policy to' be adopted as outlined in iny letter to the .American Jewish Con-
, 'The pretext offered for these mis¬ representations concerning my attitude j upon the Klan was my support of the pre-Corivention nomination campaign of ijr. McAdoo, who has been my life-long friend and whom I know to be about as riiuch of a sympathizer as-I am with t^is odious hooded order that .has dared t|)' ^yar its vetioi^ous head in our politi-
The Romance of the Yiddish Press
By MAXIMILIAN HURWITZ
52nd Annual Meet of theU.A.H.C.to Take Place In January
Two Thousand Rabbis and Jewish Lay  Leaders Will Confer on Matters Relative to the Ad¬ vancement of Judaism
ST. LOUIS IS TO BE
THE MEETING PLACE
¦NEW YORK. —Preparations are now under way for the fifty-second an¬ nual convention of the Union of Ameri¬ can Hebrew Cogregations, which will be held in St. Louis early in January. This convention- will bring to St. Louis about two thousand rabbis and Jewish lay   leaders   from   all   parts   of   the
relative to the advancement of Judaism in America. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations consists of 273 congregations throughout tWe country, having a total membership of 43,047,
(Editor's Note:—The present article I tells the romantic story of the first hun¬ dred years of the Yiddish press with a wealth of detail not to be found else¬ where in EngUsh . It also throws many interesting sidelights on Jewish life in pre-war Russia, and toward the end raises the question whether the Ameri¬ can Yiddish press will survive in of the virtual 'Stoppage of Jewish ir gration.' Mr. Maximilian Hurwitz, formerly associate editor of the Jewish Tribune.)
iThe recent centenary celebration of the Yiddish press serves to call atten¬ tion to the remarkable story of its prog¬ ress from humble beginnings in Poland to its present position of power and prosperity in Ainerica. It is a fascinat¬ ing story, as seemingly incredibly as everything else about Jewish life—and
Imagine a language that is still with¬ out a literature (its greatest writers yet unborn), that is indeed little more than a patois despised by the articulate elpments of the people speaking it; imagine a people the vast majority of whom are too poor and too far re¬ moved from the main currents of mod- life to feel the need of a periodical press of its own; imagine further autocratic government that frowns upon all foreign-language papers, and a pub- 'lisher whose aggregate capital would cc Jto get out a single issue of the Toonerville Times; imagine such
state of affairs, and you would, even if you did not 'share Mr. Munsey's notion of a newspaper, consider it hopeless to publish one in such a language, this was precisely the situation that confronted Anton Eisenbaum when, to¬ ward the end of 1823, he launched in Warsaw the first Yiddish paper in th( Russian JEmpire, the "Vistula Observer" No Inkling of Future
Eisenbaum himself, apparently, had no inkling of the future that awaited the Yiddish press, for, as a matter of fact, he did not publish his paper in Yiddish at all, but in Polish and in Cerman, the latter printed in Hebrew characters. (Here we must note that as early as 1686 a group of Polish-Jews ii sterdam founded a semi-weekly which was likewise published in 'German printed in Hebrew"* characters, so that,
as Nahoum Sokolow recently pointed out, the centenary of the Yiddish press should have been celebrated more than a century ago). And certainly he would have shaken his head incredulously had anyone told him that his meager paper, which confined itself merely to official government news, was destined to mark the beginning of a powerful Yiddish press that would profoundly affect the yiews and aspirations of the Jewish peo¬ ple^ that .would help develop the des¬ pised patois into an instrument of many stops fit to serve as the medium of a great literature, and that would attain its greatest influence and affluence in far-away America, where at that there were scarcely a handful of persons who could read Yiddish 1
The "Vistula Observer" died in its second year, and for nearly forty years had no successor, and then, too, not Yiddish, but in 'Hebrew. To understand the reason why- one must know the state of Russian Jewry at t! That state has been admirably described by David Druck in an interesting little book (in Yiddish) on the history of the Yiddish press in Russia; for,, although he writes of the closing days of the nine¬ teenth century, the picture he draws is even more true of the early part of that century.   We quote:
"   INotwithstanding' the many disa¬ bilities and persecutions which the Jews endure under Alexander III, no change took place in Jewish life. The Jewish world still resembled an idyl. It was cut off from the rest of the world. Even though a certain part of the Jewish intelligentsia attempted to disturb this peaceful state, their efforts had no great effect upon the people. In the cities and towns where Jews lived in compact masses, more interest was taken weather forecasts of the almanac than in all the political, social and cultural revolutions roundabout. Those who were versed in polhics and in the lives of kings would gather in the synagogue of an evening and tell fantastic stories about the 'English woman' (i.e.. Queen Victoria), the Turk, and 'how Plevna was captured'. The common people, who knew nothing about such high- falutin' matters, could tell breathless tales about *   * robbers, ghosts, and (Concluded on page 4)
Other Org's, to Meet Also^
The National Federation of ' Temple Sisterhoods and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, organizations affiliated with the Union, will also hold biennial meetings at the same time and will report on the progress made by both these organizations during the last two years. The National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods was organized at the Golden Jubilee convention of the Union in iNew York City two years ago, and- this conference will be the first to be held by its members.
Special significance is attached to the Union convention this year, for here
;e of twenty-five headed by Pavid A. Brown of Detroit and ap¬ pointed at a recent special council of the Union at Chicago will present a re¬ port calling for a new plan of raising funds to finance the work of the Union]
A Certain Percentage of Income
¦.At the special council of the Union Chicago, it was proposed that each congregation which is a member of the organization be taxed a certain percen¬ tage of its income. Following a vigorous debate the proposal was turned o a committee to devise a new pi; raising fund.s and to initiate such ures as may tend to revise the activities and enlarge the scope of the Union'-s work.
The Union of American Hebrew Con¬ gregations supports the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati, an institution for the training of rabbis; conducts syna¬ gogue and school extension work in small cities, rural communities, metro¬ politan centers, and at summer resorts; carries on special religious and welfare work among students at universities and colleges; publishes ' religious literature, tracts and sermons for congregations without rabbis; carries on national prop¬ aganda for holiday observance, and takes active interest in the defending of civil and religious rights of Jews in this country.
Mexico Is Open For Jewish Emigrants, Says New Mexican Pres.
Negotiations    Are    Being    Con¬ ducted  Between  the  Mexican Government   and   American Jewish Organizations
SUM OF $2,000,000 NEEDED
TO START MOVEMENT
NEW YORK, — The Government of Mexico is prepared to welcome most warmly thc emigration of Jews from Easlern Iiurf)pc to cni?acre there both in • agricultural as well as industrial pur¬ suits; the negotiations with several Ame'rlcan Jewish organizations with this purpose in vievv' are already being con¬ ducted; the Government of Mexico is .dy to grant tracts of land for Jewish colonization, declared General Elias Calles, Laborite Presi- den-elect of Mexico, in an interview granted today to the representative of thc Jewish Telegraphic Agency here.
"1 am very warmly interested in the situation of the thousands of Jewish emigrants stranded in Europe and I have already been in conference with several American Jewish organizations who seek to solve the problem of the refugees. "1 have assured",- General Callcs stated, "the representatives of the American Jewish Congress, and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that if thej' could secure a measure of financial support from American Jewry, I would be prepared lo ask my government upon my return from my vacation in Europe, to grant a large tract of arable land for Jewish settlement. I will also ask for thc remission of all land taxes, for a reduction of railroad fares, and for thc granting of other facilities for the settlers. In my capacity of Prime Min- of Alexico two years ago I urged iny government to grant the remission fees lo such Jews in the Ukraine, Latvia, and Poland who wished td pro- . cecd to Mexico. I am ready to take similar action now.
'Mexico is  now  passing  through  a period of agrarian reforms.   The policy of.,my^g;overnnient will be to~\yelcQine^alL _, ews" wiio  wish  to  cftirie  to   settle  in " Jlexico and to accord them protection and help.    The only condition for emi¬ grants io Mexico is that they obey thc laws   of   the   country,"   the   president staled.    "The Mexican Consuls abroad : already  instructed  lo issue  freely as to Jewish emigrants.    Of course, •order to insure  the  success  of the Jewish  settlement  in  Mexico it should be   carried   out    on    a    well-prepared scheme.    Thc first  line of  action that suggests itself would be the agricultural settlement.    In this respect I could tell (Concluded on page 5)
Celebrated His 70th Birth-
'  day Anniversary
Yesterday
Jean Goldsky, Jewish Journalist, Released from Prison in France
PARIS.-Jean Go Id sky. Jewish journalist who was imprisoned for seven years on the charge that he conducting anarchist propaganda France during the war, was released by the Herriot government. A revision of the trial is tp follow.
JOSEPH SCHONTHAL
,Mr. Schonthal, Ohio's most beloved Jewish philanthropist, celebrated his 70th birthday anniversary yesterday, August t Charlevoix, Michigan, surrounded by all his ciiildren and grandchildren, received congratulations from friends in every section of the United States and also from foreign countries
all testifying to his boundless love for his fellowmen.
It is trite to say that the staff of the Chronice numbers itself among the hundreds of organizations which have signalized Mr. Schonthal's hirthday by a special messenger to him. We have previous numerous occasions ex¬ pressed our debt of gratitude to him not only for his 'encouragement of our en¬ terprise in Columbus but also for his constant readuiess to cooperate with every other project of a nieritorious na¬ ture her« ^nd elsewhere.