Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1926-06-04

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Volume IX ^~ No: 23
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUNE 4,  1926
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Dr. Samuel Mayerberg Heads District No. 2 OfTbeLO.B.B.
Dayton Rabbi Heads District No. 2,
I. 0. B. B.
Local Delegates at Kansas City
Convention of B'nai B'rith Are
Inspired by Proceedings
ALFRED COHEN'S^ ADDRESS
¦ STIRS BIG GATHERING
Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, of Day¬ ton, "was elected president of District No. ^S, I. O. B. B. at the convention held in Kansas City this week. The rabbi has been an active worker in B'nai .E'ritlt circles for a number of years. In , Dayton he , is one of. the outstanding public men, serving on important com¬ missions and , in various organizations. He has rendered valuable service in proiiioting good vfill lietween. Christians 1 aild Jews and also in promulgating' ad¬ vanced ideas in social service/;
One of the main, topics discussed at the conclave was the work heing carried on iby the B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda¬ tions at the University of'Wisconsin, the University of'^-Illinoigi, and .'Ohio State University.
Work in CollegeB
'*\Ve must continue this splendid work
among bur, college ¦students,"  declared
Mr. Cohen.    "In the three universities
where we have established Foundations
\. we, shall render; a. real service to our
. ancestral   faith.    The •¦ religious,  educia-,
tional, and social work,which Hillel is
doing must-be advanced in every way.
.We expect t6 open up Fouudations in
. every , important college' and university'
¦ in the land. ^ The B'Nai, B'rith should consider it a.privilege to foster and pro¬ mote this exemplary, work.**
It Was.reported at the ocinverition that European conditions arc gradually im¬ proving, especially since the iamiching of; the ¦ big $15,000,000 drive for • foreign relief. .In Russia the Jew isnow pcr- .mitted to own aiid cultivate land. He is iio longer subjected to. discrimination and persecution.
Situation in Polatid
¦ .In P<3tland the situation" is; somewhat different.   The country beiiig in a state . of chaos, everyone is suffering front in; justice of one sort, or another.   The re¬ lief agencies',. backed by the y. D. "C, :   are doing everything within their power \ to aneyiate matters, and it is hoped that by next year the Jewish situation abroad
¦ will have, another aspect.   . ,
The B'nai B'rith ,(s aUoVassisting the rehabilitation work in Palestine.. Within two years, the one hundred fnodcl homes
' to be'biiilt at Garden Otyj. Palestine, wiir be rpadyfoi* occupancy. The or- gahiza;tioh   is   vitally   interested^ in   the
. hbme-bui|ding projects.and all other con¬ structive .measures  in  the  Holy  Land.
.,The anriiial report of the president of the District Grand Lodge, Judge A. B. Frey ojE gt. Louis, will be published in the next ;issue of. The Chronicle, to¬ gether .with other pertinent hews of the
. conventibp.
Betier Understanding Work
Another interesting; matter discussed at the Kansas City meet of the:I. O. B,
. E. is the; "Better Understanding" work going on,IhroughoMt the U. S.   Alfrdd
¦\- M. Cqheni international president of the
' I, O. B. B. told how Jewish rabbis and Christian; clergymen were'wprklng, to¬ gether for the purpose of. bringing aboutj a better; understanding between Jews and Christians.
. : , He also dwelt on the past accomplish¬ ments' ancl future plans of the Aleph Zadek Aleph, the junior auxiliary of the order, which Is striving to inculcate -into pur young boys: the principles ¦ of Americanism and Judaism.
Tragedy Leading To Shblom Schwartzbard's Act In Shooting Petliira Is Described; Was Melancholy Because of Pogrom Recollections
Paris Newspaper Cofttft Suspicion on Schwartzbard's Act, Charging He wins ''Zionist Instrument"; Schwartzbard's Father, Uncle and 50 Other Relatives Weri Killed in Pietlura's Pogroms; ^     His  Cousins  Are Now  Living in  New  York  State; Sch-wartzbaird Was Authof of Three Yiddiish Books
Latest Additions to CoIumbuK Jewish Fund
Large Crowd Attends Confirmation Service at The Community House
For  the- First /Kme  In  Its  History
.. Exercises Are Held Withiii Walls
of Community House
Ofiicers Make Arrange¬ ments For Ivreeyoh i Picnic June 13
Mrs, J. Weisberg, president of the Ivreeyoh Society, will be assisted by the officers and members of the organiza¬ tion in the big picnic to be held Sun¬ day, June 13th, at Heimandale Grove.
This picnic will be an all-day affair for Which a splendid program of games and etiter tain ment is heing planned by the Amusement committee. Prizes will be awarded winners in the various games to be enjoyed by both young and old.
One p( the most popular orchestras in'ColMiilbus has been en^'agedr to fur¬ nish the dance music for the day.
Refreshments, of all; kinds,, complete lunches and drinks will be served , at the picn.ic so those who do' not wish to bother picking baskets need have no worry.
Remember the date, June 13th, at Hcimandale Grovel
¦For the first time in tbe historyo^ the Hermine Schonthal Community House there was held last' Sunday morning the first Confirmation Service in the "Houge of God" dedicated by Mr. Joseph Schonthal. ^^ The serviee marked the confirmation. of eleven girls in the class of lf>2|[I who received diplomas for their years of Religious' School work at the Community House.
"The" reason for. this change," Mr. Joseph Schonthal stated, "is that here¬ tofore the S.chonthal Hpjuse was inter¬ ested in doing the work, of God. . But now iwe, want to, h^in to make it a' ¦House of, God.'' This,year's Confirma¬ tion Class, Service marked this happy dedication.. .,.,,, :..,".,... ,. ; . "I had, long .'hoped for this event,'' declared Mr. Schonthal "and was; indeed happy to. have had the honor of witness¬ ing this bea'Utiful service and .seeing, the- Torah of Israel placed within the por-| tals of the Community. House for the children." . '     .
The service/ which, was exceptionally well attended, w^^; fittingly symbolic of the. Harvest Festival of Shabuoth: Rabbi Jacob Tarshish,, spiritual leader, of the Bryden Road Teriiple, conducted the Confirmation 'Service which he^n at- 9:30 a. m. and accepted the Torah which was placed within the newly-made ark. "Daddy.".S.chonthal also appeared on the program in a .brief -dedication of. the Torah. ; Elngraved bibles and diplomas were presented to each eonfirmand and the reception by the-parents was held in the afternppn-
The last issue of the Community House paper, edited by the Journalism Class,- under the instruction, of Morris A. Skop,..made, its appearance as a Dedicatory Issue to the Class of 1920, A special Confirmation greeting entitled "Realization" by Miss Rose Sugarman was ihclndedj as well as the "Class Prophecy" and "Class Will" written by. Harry I. Lbsin, "Dqddy, Schonthal," following the taking of the class picture before the Ark, treated' the clasg, the clioir, Jiliss Rose Sugarman,'Mr. Ernest Starfc,'Mr.; Morris A. Skop to a dinner at the Columbus Athletic , Club. The complete Confirmation, service prqgram follows:
; Order of Service Prayer Book, pp. 206-^19, Rabbi and Congregation.,
. Processional ~ "Pohip   and   Circum¬ stance,"   Elgar.     Miss   Ruth   Eleanor Stern. Opening Prayer, Rose Hilletlson. Prayer ©ook, pp. 242-249, Rabbi' and Congregation,
Presentation- of  Jbrah,   Samuel  N. Summer, Jr. Acceptance of Torah, Rabbi, Reading   from   Torah   in   Hebrew, Sylvia Cohen. The Ten' Commandments, The Class. Haphtarah Reading, p. 260, Rabbi- Hymn No. 199^"Happy Who in Early Youtli," The School and Choir.
Meaning of the Ten Commandments, Bessie Reva Cowan. Mother, Evesther Pier.    "¦ Our Parents, Sophia Losin, Flower Offering, Rosalyn Levin. Violin 'SoIo~-"Berceuse," F.  Renard. Miss Ruth Eleanor Stern, Mr. Gustavus Basch, accompamst- The Bible, Dorothea Davis, Hymii   No.   201—"Father,   See   Thy Suppliant   Children,"   The  School   and Choir.
The Torah is Returned to the Ark, pp. 270-271, Rabbi and Qioir.
Quartet Solo—"The Lord is Mindfyl of His Own," Mendelssohn.
PARIS.—Autbcntic information con¬ cerning the lifc' story of Sholorii Schwartzbard, who shot Petlura, was obtained by the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, here. .
It appears that Schwartzbard ¦vi^aS born in a Ukrainian town. He latci" etnigrated to France where; he kept a. small watchmaker's,shop in Paris. At the beginning of the, war he volunteered for the French army where he received the Croix, de Guerre. After the .Bol¬ shevik revolution he went to Russia where he joined the Red Army and bc-r came a cranmander of a regiment which fought against the pogrom bands of Petlura and Denikin. Witnessing many pogroms he swore vengeance againfit Petlura. Due to his dissatisfaction, with the Communist regime he returned to France where he became active in the French and Jewish labor raoyement.- He was formerly "president of the , Jewish Ex-Service Men of France and had in¬ tended to go to Palestine to become a land worker.
¦ Schwartzbard was the author of three books of poetry and; prose in Yiddish. One volume consists of Yiddish ;poems, called "Tranmen tin Wirklichkeit," arir^ other volume, "Milchomc Bilder," con¬ tains descriptions bf hts ivar experiences from   1914-1916 at the  Spmrac and
motive otlier than that of avenging the death of his relatives in the Ukraine, was Voicei;! this Inorning by the "Nou- vcau Sieclc" which defends Petlura^
Referring to the book of Dr. Arnold Margolin on the pogroms of the Ukraine, the . newspaper charges that Schwartzbarci was "a Zionist instru¬ ment" and states that "the hands of the Bolsheviks desired to hinder; 'Pcthira from going to Warsaw to join his friend, Pilsvidski, agamst the Soviet government.": ¦ -
', Police- investigation, however,' estab¬ lished the fact that Schwartzbard acted only On his own behalf'and that .he had no acconipliccs.
Dr. Goldstein, a .Russian- Jewish at¬ torney who was formerly president of a commisBion to investigate the :antir Jewish pogroms in the ,Ukraine, in an Interview with the representative of the Paris Jewish daily newspaper "Pariser Hajnt,'^ dedlared that "Jewish history knows of no pogroms like those of Pet¬ liira." ," ¦   .        ''¦_'-'.¦¦'¦¦       ' ¦ •
Philip and George Morrison (whose original name was Schwartzbard),'cous¬ ins of Sho;lom Schwartzbard, described the story of the Schwartzbard family, and the tragedy -which led Sholotn Schwartzbard to kill  IPctlura.    In  the
The fbllawing are the latest subscrip¬ tions to the.Cohimbus Jewish,Fund:
Gift and Memorial Scholarship
Fund,   National   Council   of
.  Jewish    Women,    Columbus
Section ,. ,¦.;....:.,,;.    sj^aOOOO
L. Ncwpafl^'.........:....'...."     50 (It)
Stanley B. Schwartz..........       W OO
L. Zapolan ......... ........ ,   7500
More, names will, appear in our next issue. Columhus Jewry, can. well be pi:oud of the way it responded to this great call. David A. Brcvvn and other eminent Jews have expressed their, ad¬ miration of the spirit in which the lead¬ ers-of'this community cooperated with him in lijs herculean task.
Goodman Reports That Central Ohio Has Gone
Way Over the Top
Regional Chairman Thanks AH Those
Who Cp-pperated With Him in ^
Order to j^ut Big Drive Across
In This Region
diary,:"Furi TiefenObgrund*'. where he     .. ¦ . ,     - ,    ,     ,.,    . .    „ .,
describes, his experiences inthe TOraine   ^dttorml^ offices   oj^ the ^7_^_wish   Daily from,l(U7 to 1919. ;";¦: He was also a contributor to the.Yid-
dish weekly paper, in New York, "Die Freie Arbeiter Stimme" where he pub¬ lished his impressions ojE the. war and pogrom period under the riom de plume; ¦¦Baal Chalomoth". (the dreamer},   :
PARIS.'—^^Sholoni: Schwartzbard, was extraordinarily calm under the''investi¬ gation of the French police authorities,- In reply to the questions put to him by the officials he. declared: "I wanted to kill Petlura.; I, have killed him. I aih satisfied that I killed bim and I am confidently awaiting justice," ¦ ¦ Mrs. ,Anna. Schwart?bard, when ex- arhined by the police today, declared that before the assasinatibii, her husband, senti her a message explaining that he was going to do his duty and is assum-- ing sole, responsibility for.his action.
"For a long-time my husband was melancholy, and'nervous.. L never knew the cause of it, but looking.back, I 're¬ member that his depressed mood, dated from the time; that'Petlura started to publish ; his Ukrainian weekly Tryzat (Trident) in Paris, M'y husband al¬ ways ,Tead this periodical and became terribly excited and moody. On Tues¬ day ; morning he .refused' to eat break¬ fast. When I asked him whether he was ill he replied 'No but my. nerves are gone.' He then went out ¦ and ,the next I heard was of the assassination," she declared.
Mrs. Schwartzbard further stated that while .she remained in .Petrograd, .Schwartzlmrd went with a regiment of the Red Army to the Ukraine. He l^tw joined tlie Jewish Self-Defense Corps in the Ukraine., "We returned to France from Russia in 1920. The. pogroms haunted him since then. He never spoke of anything else except the pogroms, He wrote continually about the pogroms. He was about to publish a book'onthe pogroins in the Ukraine. Several ex¬ cerpts from- the book. appeared recently in, the "Petit Parisien."
PARIS.—The suspicion that Schwartz¬ bard's action in killing Petlura  bad a
Forward'* in,New York Philip Morrison declared: "The blood of his father and my father, of i^cores of bur cousins who were killed in the pogroms, the blood of all Jewifeh martyrs, drove him to this act.of revenge on'Petlura," ; The origin of thie Schwartzbard fam- 'jly' \Vafi Balta';'goverhmerit of Podoi; Their grandfather,' Moses Schwartz¬ bard, was a prominent citizen of his community. 'He .had: fourteen cliildren, among. them Isaac, the father of Sho¬ lom., Up^to 1905 Sholom lived in. Balta where he Was arrested for participation in the socialist movement and s'enteiiced to exile in Siberia. Ori the road he escaped. He was married in 1913. His mother died' before and to. his father, who teniained in the Ukraine, he was deeply devoted, sending him money con^ tinually and dedicating many Yiddish poems to him; During the Petlura pogroms; .his father, Isaac Schwartz¬ bard, and his uncle, Israel, the father of Philip Morrison were killed. In April. 191D,: Sholom notified Philip Morrison that: their fathers had been killed in a pogrom in OloskpJT,' .government of ¦Podol, "together with 102 other Jews.
"Describing all the details bf this hor¬ rible pogrom, Sholom tried to, console ; me and asked me not to think of re¬ venge,. 'The entire world is bathing in blood,' he wrote, 'The whole world has gone mad, - Your . fatlier died for the Saiictiiication of the Name. ' (Kiddush Ha'sheih)., .You must take it as it comes. Yon should not think,of re¬ venge'," Philip Morrisbii .quoted his cousin's letter, weeping bitterly.
"In all his letters to me he always urged me not to think of revenge. I asked him several Unies why he con-- tinned to warn me against revenge tp iwhich he replied with the Hebrew phrase ; 'D'mei Avi iltzaku , Li' ^('My' father's blood is calling to me-*)"
The cousin bf Sholom Schwartzbard gave the names of their relatives who were killed in the pogrgms; .They in¬ clude fifty persons of the families of Gaher and Batenski of Balta,. Roseufeld and Belis of Krivoje Osero, Tokman and Miller of Sabron, ,
Under the: masterful guidance , and supervision of, Edward J. Goodman, iCentral Ohio's drive for Foreign Relief has gone over the lop with a bang. ¦ : The communities of this rejgion (ex¬ cluding Columbus) have so far raised $137,301.00 whjch is $22,000 more-than; their quota- Mr.. Goodman is .highly gratified with the results of his labors and takes this means,of thanking heart¬ ily the various chairmen who lended him their cooperation in this splendid caiise. He wants especially ;tb express -his gratitude to Sylvan H, Blum of Bel¬ laire, Simon; Fishel oi Lima, Justin Alt- schur of Springfield,,.Milton, Stern, of Dayton, Louis Weber of Zanesville, L. Freuridlicli (?f Mansfield^ Henry Strelitz of Marion, Mr.-Schoenberg of Newark, and Meyer Louis of Piqiia,    ¦
From present indications the Central Ohio Re^on (excluding Columbus) will sooti reach the ^150,000.00: mark. Co¬ lumbus' proper is alpttiiig :$55,OQ'0.00 of its:;Chest Fund for Foreign Relief;
Following is ah' incomplete report on the work done in this region:
Bellefbntaine, $400^ Benaire,-'$3,000; Cambridge, $300; Qiillicothe, $2,249; eircleville,- ; $450.; Columbua, $65,000; Coshocton, $800; Day tori,, $42,250; Dela¬ ware, §575; Glouster; no report; Lan-; caster, .^(560;; Lima, ^,000; Marietta, ^47.50; Mansfield-Galion, $2,360; Mar¬ ion, .$1,140; Mt. Vernon,.$390; rNewark, $•2,305; Piqua, $^1,721; Springfield, $7,- 882; 2anesville,;$3,9o0.    Total. $137,301.
The following communities have not yet made complete returns: Marietta, Mt. Vernon, Zanesville, Lima, Dayton, Lancaster, 'Bellaire, Glouster, no report. It is hoped that within, the next feW days these communities will finish their work, so that a complete statement on thieir ¦ behalf can be rnade in the CHitopcrcLEr
A Chain of Jewish Hospitals For Holy Land Being Planned
Hadassah-    and    the    American Physicians' Committee  Com¬ bine to Raise $1,000,000
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WILL BE FIRST
NEW YORK. —A Joint Hospital Committee composed of , representatives of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist .Or¬ ganization of Amcr'ica and the Ameri¬ can Physiciaris* Committee^ has just -, been; organized for the purpose-of in¬ itiating a movement to raise One Mit- lJon.-DoIlara^frjani-.Amcrican-.Jewry for : the erection bf a series of hospital build¬ ings iri Palestine, according to announce¬ ment rnade .yesterday hy ¦ Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, chairman of the joint commit-, lee; A, quiet, intensive effort isheing planned, and groups are being organized in various cities throughout the country, to e'ooperate in this endeavor.
The plan for the bbspitalization of Palcstiilc includes, first, the establish¬ ment of a medical department in con¬ nection with the Hebrew University on Mt. Scoplis. This pi'oject will serve as the cornerstone, of .the hospital program of the Joint,Hospital committee. Orig¬ inally, project vvas the aim! of the American Physicians* Committee, which was organized in 1921 with the aid of Dr. Ghaim, Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization! Through its-aid, two institutions, the Bio-Chem¬ ical' and the Micro-Biological Labora¬ tories at the Hebrew, University in Jeru¬ salem, are now being developed. It has also provided the University with a sub¬ stantial medical library .which already consists of ten thousand volumes, and it is ribw' cooperating with Hadassah to build the University X-Ray Laboratory. The, university medical building when completed .will seryc as- the medical centre for all,of:Palestine and the Near
¦East."   ¦;,' ;. .-. ¦-¦¦'¦
'Hadassah. is already- supporting a riiedical program in the Holy Land. It maintains „.the .Hadassah ,:,Med.ical Unit and, is practicallythe only agency for the health development of the Jewish coriimunitJes in the.Holy Land. , Begin¬ ning-with an, o.bstetrical-service, it has now grown into an organization which is carrying bn activity throuShoul the entire land. It supports four hospitals with a bed capacity of 332. These in¬ stitutions are located in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Safed, In addition, it (Continued on page 4)
Campaign Chairman Who Won't *'Sit
In the Chair"
Takes to tho Field niMl Gets Jteal ' 'Results for Overseas .Che-si
ANNUAL FLOWER SALE FOR JEWISH NATIONAL FUND SUNDAY, JUNE 6
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The Jewish National Fund Committee pf Columbus met last -week at the.home of its chairman, Rabbi Dr. I, ,Werne, when arrangements -were completed for tlte annual flower sale to-be conducted on Sunday, June 0, 1926.
Mr. Abe'Seff was chosen chairman for the day. The committee extends a cordial invitation to all' Jewish young men and wom^n to, volunteer their serv¬ ices for at least part of that day. Vol¬ unteers will be stationed,on down-town street corners as well as make a house to hou^e solicitation.
AU those interested in helping make the flower sale a success are requested to reiKirt at the headquEirters in the He¬ brew School, 558 E. Rich St, on Sun¬ day, June 6, at 9 a< m.
Don't Fait to Attend Jewish Mothers' Alli¬ ance Picnic Tomorrow
The committeea In charge are planning a day's program which will delight all who attend the big picnic to be sponaoTccl by; the Jewish Mothers* Alliance on Sunday, June 6th, at Htiman- dale Grove.     •
There will be free auto service to and from the car line for those ^ho will not use machines.
Refreshments of all binds will be served on the grounds and games have been planned for yoiing and old.
DonH miss this affair Sunday. June 6th, at Heiinan^ale tiruve.
Z. B. T. Fraternity Expects To Win Intramural Cup
Again This Year
; The Zeta Bet^ Tau fratermty is again leading alt the fraternities at Ohio State University in, the race for the partici- .pation cup, the most distis^ished and most valued cup of the intramural de¬ partment.
This cup which stands two feet high, was won by the, Zeta Bets last year, and may be seen in the living room of the chapter house.
In the second attempt for ihe frater¬ nity to retain the cup for another year, it has thus, far won the Fraternity Championship in playground ball, by defeating, the powerful Psi Oraeg^ ball players 7 to 3;. three league champion¬ ships; one in baseball, one in bowling and the other in horseshoes.
A total of thirty-eight cups, ranking with any other organization in number, have already been won by the proud Zeta Bets since the year 1911 when Nu Chapter was formed.
Morris Bornstein to Be Toastmaster at
Herzlia Jubilee
Morfls Bqrnstein will act as toast- master of the evening at the jubilee party to be given hy the Herzlia Zion Club Sunday evening, June (>th, at seveur thirty o'clock at the Agudath Achim Synagogue;
Prominent speakers will address those present and a splendid musical program will follow.'
AU members are urged to be present. For further inforn\ation call 1. Brier or Harry 'Bloom,
Albert H. litel3Cruian
ALIj over .Eastern Pennsylvania Albert H. Ltebcrmaii la carry¬ ing the story of the great £!uropcan Jewish tragedy, driven by the forro, with wWch this Btory has vene- trated his own aoul. One of tho Wererest "realtors" In PhUadelphta, tie hoa literally abandoned all ot hU personal Interests to devote hlniHulf exclusively to rousing the Jcwiah communttles for which he has as¬ sumed the . responslblUty as zonu- chalrman of the United Jewish Campaign.
Day and night he la at his srlf- appolnted desk, conferring with lo- cftV leaders, addressing maae meet- Ingv, campaign dinners and Inspir¬ ing workurH and getting results.
The results ho is eettiug aro "over top" results, Kvery tov^n U** hoa visited hua pasa<.^d Us quo'u. un.: oBsunied a largt?r. one, anil b" I'liv assured ^Matlonal Chairman Ui-)*!* that he la deierniUied to rQiitt^)..>>b that record throughout lils' entln; territory.
'•Albert Xileberman'B work, and the results he is producing." siuld National Chairman Brown, "dL-inoa-. strate. what 1 have always eonicml- ed. Wherever wo have Stati; a<nl local chairmen who are blK t-nau^b to fort^et their (lorsonul ufYuirH (or a while, th» response )s womlei'fUL II -wti had tlfty LletiL'ru.aoa ia th4 n«ld> wu would raiue  S&o.aAo.OOii.'
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