Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1927-08-12

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Vol. X—No. 32
COLUMHUS, OHIO, (AUqUST 12, 1927
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Rouses New Engknd For tlie B'nai B'rilh Wider  Scope  Fund
Hon.   Maurice  Bloch,  Head  of
"Mother District," Leads
Distinguished Speaking
Squad
Eshcol Lodge No. 55, L 0. B. B. 0{ Dayton, Ohio Will
Sponsor'Jewish Community Picnic at Eagles'
Park, Sunday, August Hth, 1927
HARTMAN AND DR. BOGEN
ARE   HIS   ASSISTANTS
CINCINNATI—An early' start to arouse New England for participation in the campaiBii to be waged this Fall by the "mother district" to raise its quota of $750,000 for the B'nai B'rith Wider Scope CominiMcc's Fund of $2,000,000 was made during the last week of July under the leadership of Asseinl)lym,iii Maurice Bloch, President of District No. 1, who is the leader of the Democratic minority in the lower house of the New York State Legislature. Accompanied by Cliarlcs Hartman of New York, member of the executive Committee of the Order, Executive Secretary Dr. Boris D. Bogcn. and District Secretary Max Levy, As¬ semblyman Bloch "invaded" Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine, bringiilg the message of the Wider Scope Fund to several thousand loyal B'nai B'rith and to New England Jewry generally, at a series of unique summer resort meetings arranged by the lodges in his honor.
Theory Disproved
Attempted as an experiment, the New England tour strikingly disproved the theory that it is impossible to organize large rallies for Jewish communal pur- _ poses during the summer, Despite the fact that the meetings were held during one of this summer's hottest weeks, the crowds were 'so large as to pleasantly as¬ tonish the speaking squad, and the inter¬ est and enthusiasm were hotter than the temperature.
The first meeting which was held dur¬ ing the afternoon of July 34th, at a con¬ veniently located resort, was u^ider the joint auspices of the B'nai B'rith lodges of New London, Norwich, Willimantic and Middletown, Conn., and was attended by nearly 1000 members and their friends. Assemblyman Bloch's eloquence stirred (he gathering as he outlined the exten sive prograni of Jewish work undertaken by the Wider Scope Committee, and call¬ ed upon the Jews of Connecticut to aid the endeavor of the B'nai B'rith to as¬ sure the future of Judiasm in this country.
"The B'nai B'rith represents no party, no faction, no 'ism' in Jewry," he de¬ clared. "It is what its name implies, an organization of osns of Mother Israel, an organization of those who have will¬ ingly assumed, as their responsibility, the covenant between the God of Isreal and Abraham, to be a blessing into the world. Such an organization could not be true to its name unless it warmly welcomed and strongly fostered every forward- looking movement for the good of Jewry, and because the B'nai B'rith is true to the outlook on Jewish life it is the com¬ mon meeting ground for all Jews with¬ out geographical, religious or political difference. It is this that puts it in the best position to serve Jewry, because it has no dogma to defend, except that all Israel are brethren, each responsible t'o and for one another, no propaganda to press, except the propaganda of a,better understanding of Jews by themselves and by the world at large and no 'ism' to advance, except the all-embracing 'ism' of Judaism."
A Moving Plea
The address of Charles Hartman, "nestor" of District No. 1, who has heen identified with the B'nai B'rhh for most of his life, though framed less seriously, was a moving plea by a veteran to the younger generation to '^arry on" the Jewisli work begun by the Order nearly three-quarters of a century ago, and to stand squarely behind the efforts of the Wider-Scope Committee. Dr. Bogen outlined the achievements of the Wider Scope Committee, stressing especially its successful establishment of Hillel Foun¬ dations at American universities to afford Jewish stu^lents opportunities to establish contact with Jewish life and gain the knowledge that will equip them for Jewish c6mmunal activity and leadership in the future. He stressed also the ac- complisliments :of   the Anti-Defamation
¦ League in stemming the  tide of anti-
. Semitic propaganda' in the American periodical press and on the stage, and ¦its program for a "better undcrst<inding' campaign.
The arrangements of the local commit- tees headed by Nestor Dreyfus of New London, Conn., were ideal for the occa¬ sion.
Even More Enthusiastic
The next gathering, held on the after¬ noon of Wednesday, July 37th, at North Atlleboro,   Mass.,   was   even   more en-
¦ thusiastic. This meeting was participated in by the lodges of New Bedford, Fall Kiver,' Taunton atid Brockton, Mass., and of Providence, Woonsocket, Pawtucfcet and Newiiort, Khode Island.   During the
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On Siindriy, August 14II1, i()27, Eslicol Lodge, No. 55. I. O. B. B., i.s giving a party—in the form of a Jewish Communily picnic—at Ragle's Park It is expected lliat tliib will he one of the higgest Jevvish gather¬ ings that Dayton has ever had.
The committee in charge is firmly convinced that with the proper co-operation of Eshcol Lo<lge mcmhers and Ben B'riths of other neigh- Iioring towns a great success will crown its efforts.
Samuel Fahrer is chairman of this committee. lie announces that vaudeville numbers and a band concert vvill be presented. There vvill also be dancing during the afternoon and evening to the tune of Don Healy's Georgians Orchestra from Island Park. There will be plenty of refreshinents, races, and prizes for the, children; and, most im¬ portant of all, a Chrysler Sedan will be given away free to the party possessing the lucky number on his admission ticket.
A cordial invitation has been extended by President Harry Posasky, of Eshcol Lodge, to every Jewish family in Central Ohio, regardless of synagogal or club affiliations, to attend this affair; and he hopes that many of them vvill avail themselves of this splendid opportunity to enjoy this event and to. become better acquainted with each other.
Remember the timb and place — tomorrow (Sunday) August 14th, at Eagle's Park, Dayton, Ohio.
HIS 65TII BIRTHDAY ANNI- VERSAY TAKES PLAGE ON FRIDAY AUG. 12TH
Rapid Progress Being Made in $1,000,000.00 Building Fund Drive
Leaders   Are  Very  Optimistic
Regarding the Outcome of
Campaign in District
No. 2.
CLEVELAND,—Rapid progress is be¬ ing made in the organization of States and communities throughout District No. 2, Independent order B'nai B'rith, for the million dollar new Building Fund for the Jewish Orphan Home at Cleveland, according to members of the campaign Executive Committee.
Those in charge of the campaigii are Fred Lazarus, Jr., Columbus, president of the Home; Louis J. Borinstein, Indian¬ apolis; Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Day¬ ton; Philip Schier, Kansas City, and Ed¬ ward J. Schanfarber, Columbus. Cam¬ paign headquarters are in Columbus.
Leaders in Cincinnati and Dayton al¬ ready have assured the campaign com¬ mittee that drives will be held in their respective communities in September. Cincinnati has accepted a quota of $100,- 000 and Dayton's quota will be $36,000. Akron, with a quota of $25,000, is pre¬ paring for a campaign in September, with Louis Loeb as honarary chairman, and Maurice Saslow as chairman.
Neighboring communities will conduct their campaigns simultaneously with the larger cities, the general campaign com¬ mittee has been informed.
Hamilton will have a quota of $3,500; Middlet'own, $2,000; and Piqua, $2500.
The Dayton city committee has as its members Joseph Thai, Sidney Kusworm, Harry Lehman and Rabbi Samuel Mayer-, berg. In Cincinnati, Herbert Bloch is chairman of the campaign and Julius W. Freiberg, A. Edgar Aub and William J. Shroder are associate chairmen. .
Donald Wise is heading up the organ¬ ization as  chairman  for   Lima,  with  a
quota ot $6,000. The campaign will be conducted early in the Fall. Canton, with a quota of $li),000, is under the leadership of Harry Nusbaum, prominent attorney and graduate of the Home.
Springfield, whh a quota of $5,000, has selected as members of its campaign ex¬ ecutive committee Max Kleeman, Justin Altschul, Sam Jaffa, S. P. Eosenfield, and Charles Altschul. Assurances have been given the general campaign committee that'a campaign will be conducted in Can¬ ton and Springfield at an early fall date. Henry Strelitz is directing the campaign in Marion.
Ohio with a quota of $700,00(1 will be the first of the states in District "No. 2,
1. O. B. B., to get its campaigns under w,iy, and the summer months are being devoted by the general committee to the perfection of organization and the estab¬ lishment of early campaign dates in these communities. Zanesville, with a quota of $5,000, has already completed its cam¬ paign under leadership of Louis Weber.
Other states included in District No.
2, 1. O. B. B ,.are Indian^, with a quota of $125,000; Kentucky with a quota of $50,000: Missouri and Kansas with a total quota of $125,000; and Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming with a to'tal quota of $25,000.
Anticipating the formal launching of th^ Orphan Home Campaign this fall, Columbus, Youngstown and Toledo, Ohio, and Indianapolis included the Home in recent money-raising efforts.
Columbus, with a quota of $00,000, went successfully over the top, as did Toledo, with a - quota of $40,000, and Youngstown with a quota of $25,000.
Indianapolis will raise $75,000 for the Home ia annual efforts of its recently or¬ ganized Jewish Community Chest. Its first year's campaign was concluded re¬ cently.
Zanesville, with a quota of $5000j al¬ ready has completed its campaign under leadership of Louis Weber.
Formal Dedication of Schonthal Summer Camp
And Celebration of Mr. Schonthal's 73rd Birthday Will Take Place Toihorrow Afternoon at 3 O'CIock
The Camp Committee Has Arranged a Unique Program For The Occasitin.—Prominent Sliealters Will Address The Gather¬ ing.—Well-Known Artists Will Sing and Play.—Leading Jews ot City Will Be Present, Also Noted Public Officials
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago,
Amqng the many eminent Chicago Jews wljo have shed luster upon the Jewish name Julius Rosenwald, mer¬ chant prince and philanthropist ^par excels leiice, stands out pre-eminently. His many benefactions and public-spirited deeds— begun at a very early period in his life- have enshrined him in the hearts of count¬ less thousands and have brought upon him the blessings of a grateful Humanity. He is universally famed as the friend of down-trodden masses; his kindness and generosity to the American Negro has never been surpassed.
May he continue his good work for many years to come and thereby continue to merit the praise and respect of his fellow-men.
'I'he (late of the formal dedication of the Schonthal Suitimer Camp and the celebration ofMr. Joseph Schonthal's 73rd birthday anniversary has lieen definitely set for Sunday afternoon. August 14th, at 3 o'clock, .-tt the camp near' Magnetic Springs. The Camp Committee has sent out invitations to every local Jew and Jewess interested iti the Camp as well as to piominent non-Jews vvho arc friends of "Pop" -Schonthal.
A unique program has been arranged for the occasion. Prominent speakers -.vill address the gathering, not only on the salient and con¬ structively wholesome influence of the Camp but on the life and achieve¬ ments of its founder and guiding spirit. It is expected that "a large group of representative Jevvs will turn out for the affair anti participate in the festivities. One of the features of the program will be the musical numbers by well-known artists ofthe Buckeye Capital.
The Camp Committee in charge of the joint celebration is composed of the following: Leon J. Goodman, Chairman; A'. B. Weinfeld, Vice Chairman; Pose Sugarman, Secretary; Mark D. Feinknopf, Treasurer; Allen Gundershcjmer, Edwin J. Schanfarber, Leo Yassenoff, Alfred J. Kobacker. Max Rieser, Arthur W. Cohen, Max Stearn, Ed. Hyman, Frank A. Glick, Sol M. Levy, Mrs. Frank Basch, and Edgar B. Isaac.
Remember the time and place^tomorrow (Sunday) Aug. 14, 1927, at the Camp.
Converted Jew Arouses Indignation By Anti- Semitic Lecture in Berlin
"Berliner   Tageblatt"   Severely
Criticizes Prof. Lubarsch's
Behavior
BERLIN—(J. T. A.)—Much.indigna- tion was aroused by the anti-Semitic re- n.ai-ks which Professor Lubarsch, direc¬ tor of the Pathological Institute here, made during a lecture
Professor Lubarsch, who is a converted Jew, made these remarks while demon¬ strating certain organs of Ivan Kutisljer who died in prison on July 12 and whose body was turned over to the Institute for study. Professor Lubarsch referred to the fact that Kutiskcr had been an East European Jew and made insulting re¬ marks with regard to East European Jews in general, to the merriment of the students.
The "Berliner Tageblatt" criticises the professor, declaring that Lubarsch him¬ self is descended from Jews and therefore probably indulges in tirades against the Jews, thinking thus to conceal his 'origin. The paper further draws attention to the fact that Kutiskcr did not die a convicted man but was awaiting the result of his appeal.
Ivan Baruch Kutisker, who was sen¬ tenced to five years imprisonment on charges of credit fraud in transactions with the Prussian State Bank, died the
Jewbh Orphan Home Must Vacate This Site .
In Cleveland's "Roaring Third Precinct"
Not Later Than January 1, 1929
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IN accordance with the agree¬ ment reached with the City of Cleveland in connection with the Bale of the property, the Jewish Orphan Home must vacate its present site in the notorious "Boaring Third" not later than January 1, 1920. ,
It ia therefore proposed to rush to completion by that time the new Home, for which a campaign for $1,000,000 is now being waged in District No. 2,1. 0. B. B.
The new Home will be located on a 31-acre plot in University and
Quaker   Heights,   attractive urba of Cleveland.    '
The above picture shows tht traffic congestioot with its menace to lives, directly in front of the present Home.
day before the judgment on his appeal was to bave been given. The charges against Kutisker, a Latvian Jew, were, like those against the-Barmat brothers, part of the anti-Semitic campaign con¬ ducted by the German Nationalists who sought in this way to compromise the Prussian Government and bring about the return to power of the anti-Semitic party who would then proceed to the ex¬ pulsion of all foreign Jews.
When the B;irmat investigation was concluded recently, it was stated that the charges had been invented by the German Nationalists for the purpose of anti-Jew¬ ish propaganda.
Hundreds Attend Funeral Of Mrs. Solomon Katz
Wife   of   Well-Known   Local
Grocer Passed Away Last
Saturday Following an
' Operation
Several hundred people turned out last Monday afternoon for* the funeral of Mrs. Solomon Katz, aged 46, of 9C0 E. Livingston Avenue, who passed away last Saturday, August Cth, following an operation. In big eulogy of Mrs. Katz Rabbi Werne extolled her beautiful character and the splendid way in which she reared her children. The deceased had lived in Columbus for twenty-seven years. She was the wife of Solomon Katz, well-known local grocer. Besides her husband she is survived by het children, Herman, Abe, Ben, aud Nor¬ man. Interment was made in the ceme¬ tery of tbe Agudath Achim Congregation under the direction of the O'Shaughnessy Company.
P. S.—Mr. Katz and his children take this nieans of thanking all their friends for their kindness during Mrs, Katz* illness and for their sympathy following her demise.
Beckman,,783 Ann Street, and its Treas¬ urer, Mr. B. Rosen, 773 Ann Street. A band Will lead the procession from these homes to the synagogue on Donaldson Street. At 4 p. m. the Torah will be brought into the House of God and the "Sium" will begin.
At 8 p m a banquet will take place in the vestry rooms of the synagogue. Mr. C. H. Furman will preside and prominent rabbis and orators will speak. Vocal selections will also be rendered.
President Morris Beim and his' co¬ workers on the arrangements committee take this means of extending a most cor¬ dial invitation to all of Columbus Jewry to witness and participate in the big celebration.
Remember the time and the place—To¬ morrow (Sunday) afternoon and even¬ ing at the Beth Jacob congregation.
Abe Schustermann Dies
After Long Illness
Had Lived in ColumbqS Most of
His   Life.—Funeral   Took
Place Tuesday Afternoon
After a long illness which was prob¬ ably due to his experiences in the World War,   Abraham  Schu&tcrman, aged 38,
T. I. Sisterhood Will Sponsor Barn Dance At Friddle Barn, August 16
Elaborate preparations are being made by the officers of the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood for the big annual Barn Dance which will take place at the Friddle Barn, on, the Sunbury Pike, Tuesday evening, August 16th. A splen¬ did orchestra has been engaged for the occasion.
The Sisterhood extends a most cor¬ dial invitation lo all Chronicle readers to attend this affair Clothe yourselves in gingham dresses and overalls and drive out to the Friddle Barn where a great time is in store for you.
Those that were at our dance last year need not be coaxed. Remember the time and place — the Friddle Barn, .Tuesday evening, August ICth.      .
hrael's Torah Will Be Honored Tomorrow At Beth Jacob Cong.
GALA CELEBRATION WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW AFTER¬ NOON AND EVENING.— EVERYONE  IS COR¬ DIALLY INVITED
One of God's greatest gifts to Israel will be honored tomorrow when the local Volyhner Society formally pre¬ sents to the Beth Jacob congregation a new Sefer Torah. The festivities will commence at 2 o'clock at the homes of the president of the  Society,   Mr.   H.
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proprietor of the Robins' Clothes Shop, 71-73 West Broad Street, dealers in men's furnishings, died at his home, 389 Morrison Avenue, Monday morning, August Bth. The in^mediate cause of his death was attributed to heart disease.
Mr. Schusterman lived most of his life in Columbus, with the exception of five years spent in business at Dayton, Ohio.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Sadye Schusterman; a brother, Mr. Morris Schusterman of Dayton, Ohio; and five sisters, Mrs, Mary Palestrant, Mrs. Jennie Sillman, and Mrs. Sara Robins of. Columbus; and Miss Lena Schusterman and Mrs. Faye Potasky of Dayton.
Funeral services took place Wednesday morning at the Schoedinger Co. Chapel with Rabbi Jacob Tarshish 'officiating. Interment was made at the Greenlawn cemetery.
VANDALS DESTUOY TORAHS
IN PALESTINE SYNAGOGUE
JERUSALEM. (J. T. A.) The colon¬ ists of the Chassidic. settlement, Nach- lath Jacob, were greatly worried today when they discovered that several Scrolls of the Law had beeft torn, Pieces of the torn Torahs were foiind scattered about the synagogue.
A thorough investigation showed that several Torahs and many Hebrew books had disappeared.