Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1927-10-21

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Vol. X —No. 42
COLUMBUS. OHIO, OCTOHKR 21, nj2y
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Urges Ford to Start     I Commission for Study Of Anti-Jewish Libels
Stephen   Wise'  Declares   That Christendom Owes It To The Jew to Prevent Resurrec¬ tion of Infamous Lihel
SUGGESTION IS CRITICIZED BY THE YIDDISH "DAY"
NEW YORK —A suRgcstion to Ilcnry VoM that, as a result of the withdrawal of his anti-Scniitic charRes, he make it possible for a comiiii.ssion to conduct a scholarly study of the' literature of anti- JewiSh libclh so that these libels may never be usnrrectcd. was made by Dr. Stephen S Wise lu a .sermon delivered al tht Frc Syimp[(igue. This sermon uas the first ]mhlic statement of the American Jewish Congress on Ford's recantation
"Would it not add something of repa¬ ration to his rctractiuii," Dr. Wise de¬ clared in his sermon, "if he were to make it possible for a commission to make a scholarly study, if necessary over a term of 3 car;,, of sucli anti-Jewish material as ihe "Pxotocols of* the Elders of Zioji,' which could he adc(|uately doc¬ umented and nevermore resurrected. A fully documented study of the i rise and development of anti-Semitism is owing from Christendom to the Jew. \^hy should it be left to a Dr. Bloch to an¬ swer Professor Rohling in Vienna, or an Edward Lasker to answer Treitschkc
DON'T  FAIL  TO  HEAR MRS. JOSEPH FRIEND TOMORROW AFTER¬ NOON AT 1:15 P. M.
Every Jewess in the city of Columbus is most cordially in¬ vited to hear Mrs. Joseph Friend of New Orleans, La., national president of the C. J. W. at the Bryden Road Temple, Sunday, October 23rd, at 1:15 o'clock,
Mr^. I^'riehd has a national reputation as a leader and worker of many humanitarian causes. She hns done especially fine work amon? the Jewish women of the United States. She is a forceful speaker as well as a brilliant writer and is fa- miliar with every phase of Jew¬ ish life in the United States, and in foreign countries.
Mrs. Friend ia enroute to Day¬ ton to attend the State Confer¬ ence of Council of Jewish Women. She will be accompa¬ nied by the Columbus delegates and alternates.
Visitors will be most welcome at the State Conference accord¬ ing to Mrs. Edwin J. Schan¬ farber, chairman for publicity of the local C. J. W.
in Berlin? To make this possible is an opportunity of reparation, llic use where¬ of would indeed be Henry Ford's dis¬ tinction.
"SpeakiiiK years ago of 'Henry Ford's Challenge and a Jew's Reply,' this pul¬ pit said, even as it says today: 'God pity and forgive Henry Ford; God . . . keep America true to the American hope of good-will atul brotherhuod among men'.
"What shall be the attitude of Jews with respect to their defamers and op¬ pressors, and, in the case of Henry Ford, publication was and is an act of def¬ amation as It is ofttimes of the direst forms of ojiprcssion. I have an abhor¬ rence of these Jewish politicians, in and out of the pulpit, who are forever, mak¬ ing capital, chiefly for themselves, out bi every petty and obscure anti-Jewish incident, whether it be the stupid jest of a tire-commissioner or the chance ges¬ ture of the exclusiouvof some Jew from a school or club or hotel. On the other hand, I have still a deeper abhorrence of those of my fellow-Jews, whose attitude to all insult und hurt to the Jew is sheer nihilisin. not the quietism of high for¬ bearance but the acquiescence of base in¬ difference," Dr. Wise said.
"From the beginning, I believed and declared that Mr. Fofd was not only sadly misguided but wantonly misled. Some of my fellow-Jfews chose to be silent on various grounds, adequate to themselves, such as: 'Why advertise him?' 'One only spreads his libels.' The beat thing is to ignore him'. In the meantime, the 'Protocols of the Elders of 2ion' were going round the world, and anti-Semitism getting moral com¬ fort and probably material help from Mr. Ford and the propaganda machinery associated with his name.
"Then one brave soul arose, and he
put Henry Ford to the test.   I do not
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Benjamin Winter Adds Another Chapter To His Real Estate History
Immigrant Jewish Youth of Twenty-Five Years Ago For¬ mulates Plans Destined to Revolutionize Real Estate Business Through Public Financing
Bli^HlNl) the short crisp annonnce- nicnts ^ppcariiip!' in tlic finaiicidt Dagcs of the metropolitan newspa¬ pers arc often thrilling romances of busi¬ ness, of empires and empire-building. Hut Wall .Street is not romantic. It deals in facts and figures; its romances it leaves to more poetic minds.
riic fifianclal pages gave forth an-^ other important announcement this week, an .innounccmcnt of wide significance but cast, as usual, in the same cold phraseology as of yore '^Benjamin Winter," they stated. "Enters Wall Street to Finance Large New York Real Estate Holdings." Romance? Wall Street is not interested, has no time for romance 1 But behind that simple state¬ ment Is a story of dramatic content sur-; passed by few that the Street has ever given forth.
The tale of tlie penniless Jewish youth from Lodz, Poland, who came to Amer¬ ica twenty-six years ago, started to work as a paintei' of East Eide tene¬ ments at a dolLir a day and at the age o£ 4fi, has reached the topmost heights of fame and fortune throngh his out¬ standing achievements as a real ' estate operator, has often been told. It need not be repeated. It serves merely as the background for his latest business tri¬ umph in a career, which, typical though it is of America, has been hailed through¬ out the world.
When Benjamin Winter successfully carried through the spectacular opera¬ tions that blazed the trail in the con¬ version of Fifth Avenue's Millionaire Row to an exclusive retail section through the purchase of historic Van derhilt and Astor mansions, persons said he had reached the pinnacle of his ac¬ complishments. What else was there for h"m to do? The quiet real estate^ genius answered these queries by starting to work on the biggest idea of Ws career. For months he developed his plans quietly and cautiously before they became pub¬ lic this week. Now for the first time in its history real estate enters a new phase in its tremendous development, linanced throngh Wall Stareet as other great public utilities have always been financed in the past
In amplifying hii< first announcement that he is forming a company to take over hjs present extensive holdings giv¬ ing the small investor an opportunity to share in the tremendous transactions tha' hi consummateb, Mr. Winter stated tliat he has been convinced for some time that file linancing of real estate today is obsolete  and   the   time  has  arrived   for
new methods based upon  the ni-iKnitudc of  prt'^cnl day  real est.itc operations.
"Wh> sliould not tlic investing public have ihc same relationship to the real estate business as to other large enter¬ prises, such as the railroads and public utilities?" Mr. Winter st.itcd "I, for otie, am ctiiivinced that present-day efii- cicncy demands a complete reiersal nf current financial practices in this exten¬ sive  field.
"During the past ten years, I, together with my immediate associates, have Iiandlfd an aggregate volume of fcal estate Inisinesi totalling more than f400,- flflfl,OflO This has been financed with our personal capital as well as with such help as we could obtain at our bank;.. We have been successful but our profits would have been much larger had we not been restricted to our personal re¬ sources.
"Economic necessity is, moreover, pro¬ ducing larger and larger buildings all the time The situation lias now reached a point where individual capital can no longer carry the load of building needs But through the plan I have evolved public ownership in large real estate enterprises will become no less common than in the case of the larger corpora¬ tions of the country."
And so the immigrant Jewish youth of twenty, who faced his new homeland twenty-six years ago with high hopes and courage and with but two nickels in his pocket, writes another brilliant chapter in the history of real estate, which has al¬ ready cau.scd wide comment and which, because of its sound economics, seems destined to revolutionize the entire real estate  business.
Mr. Winter, in concluding the inter¬ view, also disclosed than an important factor in crystallizing his thoughts on this new idea in real estate, were the large number of his friends who con¬ stantly came to him eager to invest small sums in his real estate transac¬ tions, "These friends were mostly poor, old friends of my early days, who would bring me their life savings, rang¬ ing in amounts^ from a few hundre<I dol¬ lars up I wanted to help them, of course, but the magnitude of my opera¬ tions prevented it. for I could not use such small amounts ...This situation fur¬ ther brcught home to me the desirability of organizing the real estate business on a basis similar to other great public utilities, so that persons of small metins could share in big real estate transac¬ tions, a field of investment now closed to them."
Rabhi Aaronsohn Will Address ihe Hillel Foundation
at Hennick's Hall, Sunday Morning—Spoke at
The Bryden Road Temple Friday Evening
The famous blind Rabbi of Cincinnati, will address the student congregation of the Hillel of O. S. U., Wednesday even¬ ing at Hennick's Hall at 11 o'clock. Every Jewish student on the campus of Ohio State University is urged to comb and hear Rabbi Aaronsohn. He has a rehl^ virile message for all,
Rabbi Michtfel Aaronsohn, national iietd representative of^the Union of American. Hebrew Congregation?, is known through¬ out the length and breadth of America as well   as   in   foreign   lands      Although
blinded in the world war in which he fig¬ ured as a unique hero. Rabbi Aaronsohn has continued his work in the vineyard of the Lord He has spoken before religious grotips, social clubs, and fraternities in every state in the Union. He is a gradu¬ ate of the University of Cincinnati as well as the Hebrew^ Uniort College from which he graduated with distinction in June, lfl3:J.
Rabbi Aaronsohn addressed the congre- gatioli of the Bryden Road Temple Fri¬ day evening, October 21st, on the work of the U. A, H. C
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IMPORTANT MHteTING OF SENIOR Y. M, H. A. ON  "" SUNDAY.)OCTOBER 23
Officers of the Senfor Y. M. H. A, at Schonthal have laid filans for a reorgan¬ ization of the club /n order to p'ace it on a more sound/and firm foundation
To this end aAneeting of a selected group of twenty If the most representa¬ tive young men in Columbus Jewry iias been called for jSunday, October 33, at 3 P, M. Thisl organization ha^ long been the most ouLstandlng faction at the Schonthal and thiy again are determineJ not only to make *he Sen'or Y. M. H, A. bigger and better jihan ever, but at^o tn form a backgrourwi for greater-achieve¬ ments in the fine work carried on at the Home. \
The officers, with the aid of Mr. Louis Ladennaii, Hdrcctor of Boys* Ac¬ tivities, have alreaoly made preparations for a most actlveland interesting pro¬ gram  in  all  lines 1 of  the  field.    This
program will be presented for the mem¬ bers approved at the opening meeting Sunday.
(Editor's Note—The Senior Y. M. H. A. has always been a credit to Columbus. Wc know that they are capable of great things; so uat.h their steam!)
IVREEYOH RUMMAGE SALE
ON THE WEEK OF
THE 24TH
The Ivreeyoh Rummage Sale wi" he held the week of the 24th, for the benefit of the Columbus Hebrew School. Every¬ one is asked to get together discarded rummage, including furniture and call Mrs. B. E. Tushbant, Franklin 5886; Mrs. Samuel Brief, Walnut 0544, or Mrs. J. Solove, Walnut OM, an'd same will be called for. The defihiie date and place for the sale will be announced In the fortlicoming issue of the Chronicle.
IS   TIIE   FIRST   PRESIDENT
OF TIIE BROTHERHOOD OP
TIIE  EAST BROAD STREET
TBMFLE
Constructive Relief Conference of the United Jewish Campaign and the Joint Distribution Committee Opens in Chicago Saturday Night
Progress of The Great Campaign Under David A. Brown's Lead¬ ership Will Be Reviewed At The Conference—Elaborate Arrangements Have Been Made af The Standard Club For The 400 Delegates—Multifarious Activities of the J. D. C. Will Be Reviewed—Address of Dr. Joseph A. Rosen Is Being Looked Forward to
REPORTS OF STATE CHAIRMEN THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES WILL BE ONE OF
THE FEATURES OF THE CONFERENCE
AARON  M. XEUSTADT
At a meeting held last week Mr. Neu¬ stadt, editor of the Ohio Jewish Chroii- ilIo, was unanimously elected President of the newlj-formed rirotherhood of the Tifereth Israel Congregation. Louis Schlezinger, HTti) Seymour Avenue, was elected Secretary-treasurer of the or¬ gan 1/at ion.
The purpose of the Brotherhood is (1) to fos'er the spirit of good will and harmony amqiig the male members of the Congregation, (:i) to disseminate the principles and tenets of our time-honored faith, (;J) to promote every movement dedicated to the public weal and. last but not least, to advance the interests of the East Broad Street Temple.
President Neustadt announces that the first regular meeting of the Brotherhood will take place Wednesday evening, Oc¬ tober 26th at 8 o'clock sharp. Every member is urged to be present.
His Sudden Death Was a
Shock lo His Many
Friends
CHICAtiQ —Elaborate preparations lire iiping .nirulc by the leaders of the Loinoniintj and (he officers of the Stand¬ ard ( hib for approMiiiatcIy (0(t delegates who are expected here, to participate in the Constructive Relief Conference of the United Jewish Campaign and Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee which opens here Saturday night and will continue all day Sunday Advices from national head- fiitutcrs of the campaign iu New York Cit\. are that every part of the country v^ ill be represented by men and women who have been most actively identified w ith the efTort, launched in September, t:ir». under the leadership of David A. Brown, for the constructive as well as amcliorati\ e relief of suffering Europe Jewrv
Oct. '22 and 2'.i, the conference dates, have been designated "Days of Dedica¬ tion" 111 a message to the rank and file of the United Jewish Campaign by Mr. Brown, and Mr. Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee.
"Only those who have scien with their own eyes can understand the chaos that existed In Jewish life in the days after the war," they say in this message.
"The story of suffering—the story of death—the story of the tragedy of our people—has been told over and over again; but no one, no inatter what powers of imagination he may have, can possibly visuali,ie the depths to which our people had fallen.
"It is out of this chaos and out of this tragedy  of  life that  we have  been  at-
GEORGE GOODMAN
The .death of George Goodman, aged 58, proprietor of the Goodman Furniture Si Carpet Store, 3K» S. High Street, on Friday morning, October Hth, was a grievous shock to his many friends as well as to his relatives. Mr. Goodman was stricken while riding in an Oak and Long Street car at Oak and Parsons Avenue, and died of hemorrhages while being removed to the hospital in an am¬ bulance.
Mr. Goodnian was a lifelong resident of Columbus and possessed a wide aC' quatntance among all classes of people. Among his affiliations were the follow¬ ing ; The Bryden Road Temple, the In¬ dependent Order of B'nai B'rith, The Progress Club, and the Winding Hollow Country Club. Funeral services took place at the Schoedinger Chapel on Hast State Street, Sunday morning, October Kith, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish officiating. Interment was made at Greenlawn Cem¬ etery.
Mr, Goodman is survived by the fol¬ lowing: His wife, Mrs. Beulah Good¬ man; three brothers, A. J. Goodman of Cleveland, and Max J. and Leon J. Good¬ man of Columbus, and three sisters, Miss Clara GoodMtan of Columbus; Mrs. A. Eberstadt of Atlantic City, and Mrs. Russell Joseph of Columbus.
BIG I. O. B. B. MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE MON¬ DAY EVENING, OCT. 24th
The next big meeting of Zion Lodge No. 62, I. O. B. B. will be held at Realtors Hall. 144 East State street, Monday eve¬ ning, October 24th, at 8 o'clock.
Besides important business matters which will be transact¬ ed, a big public initiation will take place to which prominent Christian folk of this commu¬ nity as well as all Columbus Jewry wil be most cordially in¬ vited.
Following are the men who will be initiated on October 24th: Ernest Tausig, Martin Marx, Louis A. Gertner, Abe ScfT, Maurice Hcppa, Nat Bres- tin, Jacob Worley, Dr. Joaeph A. Ziskind, Rubin J. Blumberg, Karry Rubin, Chas. Rubin, Ja¬ cob Wiseberg, Louis Schlansky, Abe Schottenstein^ and Jacob Caller.
man, vice chairman of the J. D. C. and chairman of its Reconstructive Com¬ mittee, Paul Baerwald, treasurer of the J. D. C   and Dn\ id A   Brown
Or Josejih A Rosen, the "miracle man," as he has been named, will re¬ port on the enormous progress of the Russian-Jewish agricultural work, spon¬ sored by the J. D. C, whereby thou¬ sands of Jews have become successful farmers, and will outline his plans for the expansion of this great human-re¬ construction task whereby townsmen, city dwellers, men and women who faced economic and physical destruction have been rehabilitated, made over into bread- winning tillers of the soil, with the as¬ surance of economic itahllity depending only on their own efforts.
His reports wilt be supplemented by the observations of Mr, Warburg who toured the colonies last spring and by James H> Becker, of Chicago, who ac¬ companied Mr. Warburg. Additional information concerning the progress of the colonies will be given at the con¬ ference by the famous travelogue-lec¬ turer E M. Newman, said to be the first man to bring out from Russia uncensored pictures of every phase of the life in that country. Taken by Mr. Newman for his own use in the lectures that he is booked to deliver in every part of the country this winter, he has been per¬ suaded to show the pictures he took in the colonies and to give a brief talk on his impressions from actual contact with the colonists.
Dr Morris Waldman, president of the National Conference of. Jewish Social Workers who went to Poland recently as the personal representative of National Chan-man Brown to make a study of the (Continued on page 4)
.tempting to bring and partially succeed¬ ing in bringing the Jews of those coun¬ tries,
"And this has been made possible by the funds given so generously by the Jews of America and Canada through the United Jewish Campaign and dis¬ tributed through the offices of the Joint Distribution committee.
"The Constructive Relief Conference, we believe, will be another great gather¬ ing of the fine-spirited, service- render¬ ing, unselfish Jewish men and women of America,
"Wc, of the United Jewish Campaign and the Joint Distribution Committee, be¬ lieve it the duty of every Jewrish man and woman who can do so, to set aside October 22nd and 2;(rd and dedicate these days to the great cause for which all of us have labored so long."
A feature of the conference will be reports by state cl^irmen and treasurers on the status of the campaign in the division of the United States and Canada for which they are responsible, and steps will be taken to accelerate the speed of local effort for subscriptions in order that the goal of $25,000,000 already in sight shall speedily be reached, and also to stimulate the collections of sums al¬ ready pledged.
Complete reports on the work of the J. D. C, and the funds entrusted to its stewardship for the amelioration of Jew¬ ish economic conditions in Europe, and to enable the thousands of Jews who are the victims of these conditions to attain to self support, will be made by Mr, Warburg, by Herbert H. Leh-
OHIO STATE CONFERENCE OF C. J. W. WILL BE A NOTABLE GATHERING
The Ohio State Conference of the C J W. which will be held at Dayton, October 23, 24 and 25, bids fair to be (ne of the most important and aus¬ picious gatherings of Jewish women in the history of this state
Mrs. Siinon Lazarus, 172 Columbia Ave., and Mrs. Jerome Kohn, 1806 Oak Street, are state officers of the Council.
The six delegates lo the Conference from the Columbus Section of the Na¬ tional Council oi Jewish Women are as follows: Mrs. Lawrence Lowcnstein, Mrs. Arthur Isaac, Mrs. I. A. Rosen¬ thal, Mrs. Al Harmon, Mrs. Hiram Cohen and Mrs. E. J. Schanfarber. Mrs. M. L. Yuster, Mrs. E. J. Gordon, Mrs. Harry Zeiger, Mrs'. B. E. Tushbant, Mrs. C. N. Byer, Mrs. Sol Goldsmith and Mrs. Frank Glick are the alternates.
Visitors will be 'mo.st welcome at the State Conference.
Braad St. Temple Broth¬ erhood Will Meet Wed. Evening, Oct. 26
The first regular meeting of the Brotherhood of the Eaat Broad Street Temple will take place Wednesday eve¬ ning, October 2Gth, at 8 o'clock sharp. At this time directors will be elected for the coming year and plans will be dis¬ cussed for the future activities of the Brotherhood. It is hoped that every male member of the Tifereth Israel Congrega¬ tion will turn out for this meeting and thereby help the new organization start out with a bang
On Thursday evening, October 00th, the following officers of the Temple for the coping year were officially installed: Leon Nason, president; M. L. Bayer, vice president; Justin L. Sillman record¬ ing secretary; Sot Roth financial secre¬ tary; and J, K. Bornstein treasurer. Tfie trustees installed last Thursday are aa follows: Will Welber, Louis Levin, Max S. Bogatin, and J. L. Feiner.
Mr. A. M. Neustadt was unanimously elected president of the Brotherhood. Louis Schlezinger, 859 Seymour Ave., was elected secretary-treasurer.
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