Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-09-12

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Volume VII—I
COLUMBUS,  OHIO,  SEPTJilMniai  12,  1924
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The Keren Hayesod Announces Biggest Campaign Plans Yet
Campaigns to Be Carried on in Forty    States—Greatly    In¬ creased  Response  Is  Ex¬ pected in Jewish Com- ' munities Through¬ out U. S.
FIVE OHIO CITIES TO
BE VISITED ALSO
NEW YORK.—The Keren Hayesod this year will extend its activities the United States to the highest peak yet attained since its organization three years ago as the principal financial in¬ strument for'thc rebuilding of the Jew¬ ish Homeland. Campaigns will he car- (ried on in forty states, according to plan.s just announced hy National Keren Hayesod, headquarters here, and judg¬ ing by thc increased response made to the Fund each year since its establish¬ ment, the 1921-25 campaigns should sec a new high figure reached in the year' total.
Campaigns,     according    to     present Ulans,  will  be  held   in    the   following ities:
Alabama—Birmingham, Mobile, Mont¬ gomery and smaller cities; Georgia— Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Marietta and Savannah; Florida—Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Pensacola; Mississippi—Clarksdale; North Caro¬ lina—Asheville, Kinston, Ifaleigh, Golds¬ boro. Burlington, Gastonia and Wil¬ mington ; Louisiana—Shreveport and Baton    Rouge;    Oklahoma—Oklahoma
. City and Tulsa; California—Sacra¬ mento and Oakland; Oregon—Port¬ land and Salem; Washington—Spokane and Tacoma; Missouri—Kansas City. St. Joseph and St. Louis.
Nebraska—Omaha, Lincoln, Free- mont and Columbus; Kansas—Atchison, Leavenworth, Topeka and Wichita; Colorado—Denver, Edgewater, Colorado
' Springs, Aurora; Utah—Salt Lake City. Arkansas—Van Buren, Little Rock, Hot
¦ hotdtr \ cities; ' Michigan—Flint,    Mt Rabbi   Weil   of Clemons,    Bay    City,    Michigan    City, Iron River, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Sagi¬ naw,   Albion,   Escanaba;   Iowa—Sioux City,   Iowa   City,   Des   Jloines,   Cedar Rapids,   Council   Bluffs   and   smaller cities;    .Indiana — Indianapolis,,   ] Wayne, South Bend, Terre Haute nois—Springfield,    Moline,    Waukegan, Peoria.
New York — MonticcUo, Liberty, Woodridge, Mountaindale, Fcrndale, Luzon, Ellenville, South Fallsburg, Glen Wild, Tannersville, Hunter, Cat- skill, Fleishmanns, Amsterdam, Auburn, Binghamton. Elmira, Geneva, Massena, Olean, Oswego, Rome, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Albany, Schenectady and Troy; Connecticut—Soutli Nor- walk. South Winchester, Ellington. Bristol, Winsted, Willimantic, Putnam, Coldiester Wallingford and Stamford; Maine—Portland; New Hampshire- all Jewish communities; Vennont— Burlington and other Jewish communi¬ ties; Massachusetts—Boston, Fall River, New Bedford, Brockston. Taunton, Fitchburg, Framingham, Lowell, Law¬ rence, Chelsea and Lyim; Maryl.-ind- Baltimore, Annapolis, Hagerstown and
¦' Cumberland.
Nortli Carolina—all Jewish commu¬ nities; Pcnnsyivania—Eric, Hazelton, Harrisburg, Bethlehem, Berwick, Ches¬ ter, Frackville, Lock Haven, Mahoney tity, Minersville, Mt Carmel, Morris- town, Phonesville, Pottstown, Pottsville.
. Shamokin, Sunbury, Tamaqua, Pitts¬ burgh and cities in Pittsburgli region; West Virginia—statewide campaign; North Dakota—Ashley. Beulah, Bis¬ marck, Fargo and Forbes; South Da¬ kota-Aberdeen, Roscoe ?nd Bowdle; Wyoming—Qieyenne; Montana—Glen- dive and Helena; Ohio—Dayton, Colum¬ blis, East Liverpool, Akron, Canton; Kentucky—Louisville; Wisconsin— Mil¬ waukee, ¦ Green Bay; New Jersey— Camden, Trenton, Bridgton, Burlingtoi Elmer. Millville, Vineland. Wildwood, Newark, Elizabeth, the Oranges and Paterson.
SPECIAL  ANNOUNCEMENT TO CHRONICLE READERS
The Chronicle's special New Year iSBUC promises to be one of the finest souvenir editions ever put out by an American Jewish weekly. It will be, pifl^- lishcd in magazine form on ex¬ ceptionally Tine paper and will be composed of articles, stories, and poems from thc best minds in American Jewry. Several local contributors will also be represented. Every paid-up subscriber will receive this is¬ sue on Monday, Septemlicr 29. Those who are delinquent arc urged to send their remittances to the Chronicle office at once.
Wife of Late Professor Sctiechter
Passes Awayin New York Hospital
One of America's Leading Jewish ^yonlen Succumbs to Operation
jn Mt. Sinai Hoipital — Exlrfcord:nary Honors Are ShoWn to
Wife of the Late Prof. Schechtcr—Louis Marshall, FeUx
M. Warburg, and Other Leailjra of New York Jewry
Attend Furteral
Jewish World Relief Federation Favored By Carlsbad Conf.
Executive of Fifteen and Central
Council of Seventy Are Elected
by the Conference
DECIDES TO SEND SPECIAL DELEGATION TO AMERICA
Red Cross Representative Urges
Continuance of Jewish Relief
Work in Ukraine
CARLSBAD.—(J. T. A.)—The Jew¬ ish   World    Relief   Conference   which
close last week, adopted resolution proclaiming, on behalf of eighty-seven organizations' representa¬ tives who participated in the conference, the idea of creating a Jewish World Relief Federation with a Jewish World Relief Fund. The Conference elected an excutive committee of fifteen and central council "of seventy.
Those elected to the Executive Com¬ mittee are Dr, Leo* Motzkin, Messrs. Enfroykin, SHosberg, Latzki, Tcmkin, Dr. CJ^jcs, Mr.^ Jochelman,.,Tk "n,' "nHfi'vilta ~ f;r6irTi!islcrJ«y
Kolmer, representing the Agudath Israel, Dr. Oscar Cohn, Alfred Berger, Mme. Anita Mueller, and Mr. Friedland, representing the Ha 'Chaleutz.
The Executive Committee quested to make negotiations with the various Jewish communities, federations and social relief organizations with a view to their joining the Federation and
Carlsbad, (J. T. A.)—An urgent de¬ mand not to discontinue thc relief work among the Jewish populatior the Ukraine was heard by the Jei World Relief Conference when the r sage of Mr. Dessoua, representative of the Red Cross in the Ukraine was read at the conference. A message of simi¬ lar content was also recejved from Dr. Tridijof Nansen, famous Norwegian explorer and relief worker in Russia behalf of the League of Nations.
Disquieting    information    concerning
le situation in which niany thousands of Jewish children find themselves in the Ukraine was related by Dr. Adler, representative of the Jewish , World Relief Conference at Odessa. The misery prevalent in the Ukranian Chil¬ dren's Homes is limitless, he stated.
In the course of discussion, the im¬ migration question was taken up. Dr Tiomkin and former minister of Jew¬ ish Affairs in the Ukraine. Mr. Bert¬ hold Latzki submitted their reports. They ask that an end be put to" the chaotic manner in which the Jewish immigrants aid is being given. They demanded that a unification of ,this work be brought about Mr. Latski particularly emphasized thc need ol starting an immediate, vigorous cam¬ paign to save from despair and de¬ struction the thousands of Jewish ref¬ ugees stranded in various European ports.
Dr. Jochelman, representing the Fed¬ eration- of Jews  in  England,  reported (Concluded oil page 4)
RESTRICTIONS FOR TOUR¬ ISTS IN PALESTINE
' JERUSALEM, (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)—Much discussion was aroused here in Jewish circles over the question of the difliculties being made for certain classes of tourists who wish to remain in the country. Until recently, touriits who remained in the country after three months were usually given permission to settle permanently. The Hebrew Weekly paper "Hator", published an editorial in which the government policy with this regard is strongly attacked.
EXCELSIOR CLUB MEMBERS
First Big Stag and Smoker at
Southern- Hotel
CERISE ROOM
Tuesday, September 16tb. 1924 8 P. M. sharp. Be on time and without fail. It's going   to   be  a   knockout. We are going to give   you   a program of our future enter¬ tainments which will be some¬ thing to look forward to. Mitchell G. Koen. Secretary.
NEW YORK.—Mrs. Mathilde Roth Schechter, widow of the late Profcssdr Schechter, distinguished Jewish  scholar
id president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and one of thc leading Jew- women of this country, succumbed an operation last week in Mt. Sinai Hospital. Mrs. Schechter was in ill heattli for several years, and her deatn after an operation for gallstones. Funeral srevices for Mrs. Schechter held at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. This is thc first time that a woman was buried from a synagogue. Thc room in which funeral vcre held was the one occupiea by her husband when he taught and presided over the Seminary work.
The services were brief, and Rabb^ Louis Finkelstein of the Seminary faculty, read two short Psalms, ana Rabbi Elias L. Solomon, president of the' United Synagogn^e of America de-
rercd the eulogy and recited the El Mole Rachamim.
High Honor
The honor accorded Mrs. Schechter of being buried from a synagog recognition of her devotion people. In accordance with orthodox Jewish law, only the most learned and distinguished members of the nity may be buried from a synagogue. Few men have been so honored by the Seminary.
During Professor Schechter's life and following his death, Mrs. Schechter played an important role in thc move- for the preservation of tradi'; tional Judaism ih this country. Among her many activities toward this end the founding of thc Women's League of ' the United Synagogue of AttfctjSii, and the founding.j^i.^ieLjSiit«
and social life of Jewish students at Columbia University aijd for the stu¬ dents at the Jewish Theological Sem¬ inary of America, of which her late hus¬ band was the head from 1902 until his death on Dec. 19th, 1915.
Women's League Formed
Although    the    United - Synagogue, which  was   founded  by Dr.  Schechter 1912  was    functioning   successfully, Mrs. Schechtcr realized the necessity of bringing  women  together  in  a  similar organization.     In   1918   the   Women's League was formed.   Its purposes were publish textbooks on Jewish subjects, study the problem of religious train- 5 for adolescents, to seek the estab¬ lishment    of    restaurants    where    the Mosaic dietary laws would be observed, 'guide  the cultural activities  of Jewish women in religious and educa¬ tional institutions.    Mrs. Schechter was
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eliitcd its first President The Stu¬ dents' House at 105 West 117th Street ha<' been the salhcring place for col- lejjc and .seminary students since its oDcriing. It is also provided with sloping quarters, for oiit-of-town stu- ' :ni5.
Atrs. Schechtcr was considered a bril- liJJit and hospitable hostess' and her I(i8 Riverside Drive was fre- qitiTntly thc gathering place of scholars anil literary men and women. Because of,her keen knowledge of world af- hcr Jewish literary lenrning, her ready wit and affability, inflations to the Schechter home w regarded as a high privilege.
Interested In Music
Schechtcr ¦ was    interested nlusic, especially for religious  servi and formed a society for the cultivation ijf'more beautiful and inspiring music 'ui):the synagogue.    She  was, also  in- tcifestcd   in   many  philanthropic   move- ttihnts and aided struggling art students aii<l musicians.   In England, where she iarried Dr. Schechter in 1887, she de¬ livered lectures on  the history of art born in  Breslau, Germany, sistty-five years ago.   When she married Dr, Schechtcr in  1887 he was Reader Rabbinics at Cambridge University. Tliey came  to  this   country   ih    1902, 'fei  Professor   Schechtcr  was  called > fill the place of Dr. Sabato Morais s President of th'e Jewish Theological •Seninary.   After Professor Schechter's dei'ilj,-she busied herself  delving into
HOLIDAY     SERVICES     FOR
STUDENTS    WILL     BE
HELD AT THE ELKS
HALL
Non-Members as Well as Stu¬ dents Are Cordially Invited to  Attend  Services.
Thc special holiday services for students will be held this ycnr at the Elks' Lodge Hall. 256 East Broad St.
Dr. Julian Morgcnstern, Pres¬ ident of thc Hebrew Union Col¬ lege will ofGciatc at these serv¬ ices which will be held as fol¬ lows: (1) Services For Thc New Year—September 28th at 8:00 P. M. and Monday, September 29th at 9:30 A. M. (2) Services For The Day of Atonement— Tuesday. October 7th at 8:00 P. M. and Wednesday, October Sth. at 10 A. M.
All non-members as well as students are cordially invited.
The Students' Committee
of Temple Israel.
Dr. Joseph Rosen Reports On Russian- Jewish Situation
Director of Jewish Colonization
Work Says Agriculture Is
Only Salvation
DEARTH OF EMPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA HARD ON JEWS
Editor Suggests Louis MarshaU Personally Investigate Condi¬ tion of Russian Jews
, NEW YORK, (J. T. A.)—"The of- .fv«!f^-,ana manuscripts for publication {^^ of the Russian government to grant •thfe memories of her husband. j i^^d in the Ukraine, Crimea, and White
Russia must be taken up to the full¬ est extent ^f ..the purpose of settling
Chairman of the Executive Committee Felix M. Warburg, a director; Sol M. Stroock, William Fischman and Rabbi Max Drob, chairman of the Million Dollar Endowment Campaign; also di¬ rectors and Rabbis Charles I. Hoffman, Jacob Kohn, Louis M. Epstein, Abra¬ ham Burstein, Mordecai M. Kaplan, Jacob Bosniak, Max Arzt, Moses Bar- oway, Nathan Blechman, Jacob I. Men¬ delsohn, Louis M. Lcvitskj', Norman -Salit Leon Spitz, Professors Israel Davidson, Louis Ginsberg, Jacob Hos- cliander and Moses Hyamson, and a large delegation from the Women's League, which Mrs. Schechter founded in 1918.
Mrs. Schechtcr is survived by a son and two daughters, Frank Schechter, Mrs. Ruth Alexander of Cape Town, South Africa, and Mrs. Amy Kweit, who is now abroad. Interment was in ^[ount Hebroii Cemetery.
Dr^ Nachman Syrkin, Famous Jewish Zionist,
Socialist Leader and Publicist, Passes
Away In Mt Sinai Hospital, New^ York
'Hear, O Israel, tbe Lord Our God. The Lord Is One," Was His Last Ex¬ pression—Dr. Syrkin Enjoyed an International Reputation and Had Many Followers in Various Countries—^Is Eulogized' . By Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Other Leaders of Jewish Community.
NEW YORK, (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)—Dr. Nachman Syrkin, Jewish publicist and founder of the Zionist- Socialist Movement known under the name of "Poalei 2ion". died Saturday in the Mt Sinai Hospital at the age of fifty-six, after a short illness. He suf¬ fered from Diabetes.
The funeral took place Sui morning with the participation of a large number of his followers. Funeral eulogies were delivered by Dr. Stcphei S'.' Wise, William Edlin, Editor of "The Day", Mr. Max Pine, Dr. Chaim Chernowitz, Mr. Morris Rflthenberg ahd Dr. A, Cbrolnick.
Dr. Syrkin was bom in Mohilev, Rus¬ sia. He arrived in the United States in the year 1908, where he established the Zionist-Socialist Party, "Poalei Zion" of which he was the most noted theoretician in the United States. He was a frequent contributor to many Jew¬ ish newspapers in Yiddish, English and Hebrew-
Dr. Syrkin enjoyed an inteniational reputation and had many followers in various countries. An interesting epi¬ sode in^the life of Dr. Syrkin was the conflict he had with the late Zionist leader. Dr. Max Nordau, during the Oth Zionist World Congress which took place in Hamburg, the year 1010.
Dr. Nordau, as Oiairman of thc Con¬ gress, despatched a message of greet¬ ings to the Kaiser. As a Socialist, Dr. Syrkin protested violently against the Zionist Congress paying tribute to ifonarch. When Dr. Jordan in reply stated that Dr. Syrian was a "political adventurer", Dr. Syrkin slapped Nor- dau's face, causing great excitement and commotion at the Congress.
During the last few months of the late Zionist-Socialist leader, he dominated by a religious mood. On his sick bed, he repeatedly stated that the greatest achievement of the Jfewish people was the imparting to the world, the idea of the Unity of God. It reported from the sick room that a few minutes before he passed away, he said his prayers according to the Orthodox Jewish ritual and died with the expression, "Hear, O Israel, The ImtA Our God, The Lord is One.*
ARABS ATTACK TWO JEWS; ONE KILLED, ONE WOUNDED
JERUSALEM, (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)—Two Yemenite Jews, Shevach and Oseri, were attacked near Jaffa by two Arabs last night
Shevach was killed and Oseri seri¬ ously wounded.
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the Jiont ^'Distribution-Reconstruction Work in Russia, before sailing again for Russia on the SS. Olympic, several days ago.
'With every family that settles on farm, the crowded conditions in the ins are alleviated and the opportu¬ nity for. finding work is increased for those who remain. We cannot imagine here," staated Dr. Rosen, "what a great was brought on thc Jews and Soviet Russia by the spread of ployment Young, healthy men wander about irt search of something to do, annot find it and resign themselves to n aimless life and starvation. In a illage with a population of 300 or 400 Jewish families, only ten have a def- of livelihood. If they are traders, they have 'nothing to sell, if they have no ma¬ terial or tools with which to work. 'Why don't Jews go into' factories,' one would ask. The reason is simple. In¬ dustry in Soviet Russia has been re¬ duced and those factories which are functioning employ their old workers amongst whom there ^seldom are Jews, because Jews were not previously rep- •isentcd  in   factory  work to a  larger
"It must be understood that a peo¬ ple, 90 per cent of whom are traders, is doomed to destruction in present- day Russia. The movement of the Russian Jews to settle on the land is not an idealistic movement may imagine, but it is a pressing ne¬ cessity. In this respect credit has be given to the Ort Society which has helped the first 600 Jewish families to settle on the land. The regional officers of thc Ort in Kiev and Charkoff did much to better conditions of the old existing colonics. Much benefit is also to be expected from the trade schools for the Jewish youth maintained by this society. To characterize the situation, it will suffice to quote a resolution which was adopted at recent Jewish (Concluded on page 4)
Dr. Stephen S. Wise Protests Against Defense Test Day
Explains His Attitude in Letter
Addressed to Major General
R.  L.  Bullard of the
U. S. A.
DECLARES HE WILL HAVE NO PART IN
THIS CELEBRATION
NEW     YORK.—(J.    T.     A.)—Dr. Stephen  S. Wise was asked by Major General R. L. Bullard of the U. S. A. urge  the  rabbis  of  the  synagogues of New York to hold in their temples Scpteml)cr    12th   ipatriotic    services sympathy  with  thc purpose of the ' proposed   Defense   Test   Day.     In   his letter.   Major   General    Bullard   stated that Cardiital Hayes and Bishop Man¬ ning of New York have consented to do so.
Refusing to issue this call, I>r. Stephen S. Wise addressed a leqgthy letter to Major General Bullard, in which he declares, his opposition to the holding of the  Defense Test Day.
"I regret, dear General Bullard," said Dr. Wise, "that I cannot accede to ¦ your suggestion. Apart from the strictly congregational policy of -the synagogue, which denies to any rabbi thc prerogative of command or even of request to fellow rabbis and sister congregations to his own, I find my¬ self under the necessity of register¬ ing my protest as an American against thc program and purposes of Defense Test Day. As an American and a re¬ ligionist, I can and will have no part in Defense Test Day, the institution of which I hold to be a moral catastro¬ phe to the entire world as well as to country. To marshal our strength in the way that is proposed on and for September 12th, in the sight of a shat- ^teraj^aj^d^^ ungrgjajced. jvorid,.is.-tyran%-^_j^, --
oyfgJg'V^""* the strength .ot a, giant, r'^ ""
Mobilization Day, which the War De¬ partment yielding to unwithstandable, wide pressure, deemed it ex- t to cancel or in some degree to qualify. For Mobilization Day is a recrudescence of what from tlie Amer¬ ican point of view is an alien and ab¬ horrent institution. Mobilization Day is, would be, a revival of some of the worst and most tragic phases of that old-world militarist regime, for which I pray there may never really be place tolerance in our land. I am pre¬ pared to assume, however, that nothing
• wor.sc than a Defense Test Day giving my personal approval or sanction thereto, I object to it in itself, and, again, because of the implications to which it is bound to give rise at home , and abroad. In itself it is bad, because it casts doubt on and would test the patriotism of our citizenship, which, it is
much to say, was thoroughly and satisfactorily tested in the years 1917 and 1918.
there is something graver t Mobilization or Defense Test Day is bound to lead the mind of the nation to the fields of war rather than to move it to consider the ways which lead to peace. Whether or not we have willed and deserved it we have a most eminent rather than merely ipicuous place in the sight of the nations. September 13 appears to rae, many "of my honored comrades in Christian pulpits, to be a most lament¬ able gesture, tokening to the world that, despite half-hearted governmental ad¬ herence to some agencies of peace, if duly limited and aimed, America thinks thc thoughts of war rather than peace. I believe that it is not true or will cease to be true only if September 12 and similar devices make it so."
Demand Abolition  of Tithe as Method of Taxation
JERUSALEM. (Jewish Telegraph Agency)—The tithe, the Biblical form of taxation practiced in Palestine for many centuries by the Turkish Gov¬ ernment a method of taxation accord¬ ing to which one tenth of the crops ii taken by the government in. kind, be abolished and instead a modern system of taxation in cash introduced.
This demand was submitted by thc Executive of the Palestine Arabs in a memorandum to the Palestinian Gov. ernment
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ATTENTION, LOCAL
SOCIETIES—SYNAGOGS
Every local society and tem¬ ple is invited to send in articles regarding their past year's ac¬ tivities and their plana for the future for publication in the Chronicle's Special New Year Edition which will appear Mon¬ day. September 29. Prominent place will be given to every worthy organization.
All manuscripts and cuts must be In by Thursday morn¬ ing, September 25, in order to receive attention.' Any material chiming in later will positively be omitted.