Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1929-06-14

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOVlE
Vol. XII —No. 23
Confirmation Exercises At Broad St. Temple On Sunday Morning
Eleven Boys and Girls will Take
Part in Beautiful Ceremonies
Tomorrow
ENTIRE   COMMUNITY   IS MOST CORDIALLY IN¬ VITED
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUNE 14, 1929
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy loc
Eleven pupils of thc East Broad St. Temple Religious School will he offi¬ cially confirmed tomorrow (Sunday) morning at 10 a. ni. in the main audi¬ torium of thc Tifereth Israel Congrega¬ tion at 1354 East Broad St.
A heautiful program has hecn ar¬ ranged by Rabbi Solomon Rivlin and an invitation has been extended to the gen¬ eral public as well as to all members of the congregation to attend the im¬ pressive and inspiring exercises. The confirmands are as follows: Kate Davis, 063 E. Fulton St.; Morns
¦'Kohn, with merit, 1185 Bryden Road; Lillian Levin, with honor, 2205 Bryden Rd.; Phyllis Helen Levinson, with honor, 108 S. Cassingham Rd.; Alexander New- house, 1358 Eastwood Ave.; Eleanor Rosenthal, 049 E. Mound St.; Mildred Roth, 1084 Franklin Ave.; Ruth Schreib Roth, 1084 Franklin Avenue; Ruth Schreiber. 599 Wilson Ave.; Saralyn Schiff, Cambridge Arms Apts., East Broad St.; Bessie E. Stone, 028 Oak- wood Ave,; Wolfe Zapolan, with merit, 1113 Franklin Ave. In making thc announcement concern-
' ing thc exercises, President I. H. Schlez¬ inger urged everyone to be sure and arrive early, especially so if they want the choice seats. Thc ceremonies will commence promptly dt 10 a. m. and in order to be sure of seats it would be advisable to come as early as possible. "We have extended an invitation to the entire community," declared Mr. Schlezinger, "and I want to make it clearly understood that the ceremonies will be open to all regardless of syna¬ gogal afKliation. Come and spend an in¬ spirational hour."
Confirmation, as has often been pointed out in these columns, is the solemn -form of initiation of thc Jewish youth into their ancestral faith. At first only boys were confirmed, on the Sabbath of their Bar Mitzvah. Girls were confirmed for the first time in Ber-
¦ lin, Germany, in 1817. The rite met at first with violent opposition, being an innovation. In 1831 Rabbi Samuel Eg- gers, one of the most prominent rabbis of his time and a man of unquestioned orthodoxy, began to confirm boys and girls regularly on Shcvuoth at the Syn¬ agogue of Brunswick, Germany.
Conservative as well as Reform Juda¬ ism in this country accepted his innova¬ tion because this festival is peculiarly adapted for this rite.
IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWISH    SOCIAL    SERVICE
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman Quits His Law Practice In Cincinnati
Will Now Devote All His Time
to His OiScial Duties in
the State House
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman an¬ nounced his decision Saturday of with¬ drawing from private law practice to devote his full time to his official duties. His statement said:
"After several months' experience as attorney general and upon full reflection I have determined to withdraw entirely from thc private practice of law. This step is taken with deep regret. It is not easy to break off thc representation of a clientele established in 20 years of prac-. tice, more than that, the association with congenial partners. I feel, however, that all of my time is required for my new duties as attorney general. My former partners will continue together at the same location.
"Although quitting my law practice I remain a Cinciiinatian. My children will continue in school in Cincinnati, and our home, to which I expect to return for week-ends will be continued there. My interest in the community life of Cincinnati will go on as heretofore and I shall continue in such activities as president of the Republican Club and dean of the Young Men's Christian Asbo ciation law school."
DR.   BORIS   D.   BOGEN
ATLANTIC CITY.—Dr, Boris D. Bogen of Cincinnati, national director of the Independent Order of B'liai BVith, was elected president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service at the Breakers Hotel at the final session of a three-day educational and business meeting attended by 600 social workers and members of boards of trustees of philanthropic and commimal agencies from various parts of thc country.
The election of Dr. Bogen comes .^t the height of a lifetime of to public causes for the last forty years. Begin¬ ning in his early manhood as a member of the teachinc: staff of the Educational Alliance, famous New York settlement in the old Jewish Ghetto. Dr. Bogeti was successively a teacher at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, the Hebrew Tech¬ nical Institute and principal of the Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School. He then was named executive director of the Cincinnati Federation of Jewish Chari ties, then field secretary of 'the National Conference of Jewish Social Service, and during the war .and some time thereafter was general director of the Joint Dis tribution Comniittee in Europe. On his retL.rn to America he became executive director of the Los Angeles Federation of Jewish Charities aud for the last three years has been at the head of the work of the B'nai B'rith hi this country.
Voliner Society To Present Maurice Schwartz at Ly¬ ceum on Tuesday June 25th
Famous Yiddish Actor of New
York City Will Appear Here
With An All-Star Cast
District No. 2,1. 0. B. B. Exceeds $400,000.09
Quota For The Work Of The B'nai
B'rith Wider S^pe Committee
Big Annual Conclave of Order Was Held at Akron During Past Week—^President Isidore Fcibleman Gave a Comprehensive Report of His Stewardship ^nd Dealt With the Various Institutions and Activities Supported hy thc Dis¬ trict—I. O. B. B. to Hohor International Pres¬ ident Alfred M. Cohen on His 70th Birthday Anniversary
CONVENTION  ACCEPTEi5~THE  INVITATION  OF  THE
LOUISVILLE LODGE TO HOLD ITS NEXT
SESSION IN THAT CITY
TOLEDO, O.—Mrs. Joseph Feerer, Sam Gerson, M. H. Truehaft, Morris H. Lempert and Oscar Smith were elected to the board of trustees of the Jewish Fed¬ eration of Toledo at the annual meeting in the Progress club. They will serve three years.
Reports of the year's work given by the president, secretary, treasurerj boaM of Kovernors,; executive commitfee and director of tlie Federation revealed tliat the group hds nearly doubled its activi¬ ties.
The Voliner Society of Columbus is proud to announce that on June 25, 1929, at the Lyceum Theatre under their aus¬ pices Mr. Edwin A. Relkin will present Mr. Maurice Schwartz, the famous Yid¬ dish actor from the Jewish Art Theatre of New York Cily with his entire com¬ pany.
Anyone familiar with the Yiddish stage need not be told who Maurice Schwartz is and what reputation he has achieved in the last ten years. He is considered by capable critics an actor of remarkable power and talent, one who knows life in all its phases and possesses the happy faculty of being able to depict and por¬ tray it on the stage.
The company will present "Tevia Der Milchicker" with Mr. Scliwartz in the leading role, a characterization for which he has become fanious both here and abroad.
The Voliner Society cordially invites Colunibus Jewry to he present at this excellent show, and with the isnique rep¬ utation of Mr. Maurice Schwartz, the Society fully expects that it will have a' record-breaking attendance on Tues- <iay evening, June 25th, at the Lyceum Theatre.
To insure thc best seats for this per¬ formance, the committee advifecs Chron¬ icle readers to reserve seats at once by calling Mr. Jerome Solove, MAin 0204, or H. Beckman, WAlnut 9376.
Watch the columns of the Ohio Jew¬ ish Chronicle for further announce¬ ments.
AKRON, O.—Thc annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. 2, Inde¬ pendent Order B'nai B'rith with a mem¬ bership of 12,710, represented by over 200 delegates from the States of Colo¬ rado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Indiana, ICansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio, was called to order hy the president, Isidore Feibleman of Indianapolis, Ind., at the Portage Hotel here. The invoca¬ tion was delivered by Rabbi David Alexander of Akron. Addresses of wel¬ come were made on behalf of the city by Finance Director Gallagher, and on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce by President William A, Boesche, on be¬ half of Akron Lodge No. 719 by N. M. Greenbcrger, president, and by M. M. Saslaw, chairman of the convention com¬ mittee. The response to these addres-ses was made by Samuel L Sievers, first vice- president of thc District Grand Lodge.
Institutions and ActivUies
In his- message thc president gave a comprehensive report of his stewardship and dealt with th c various institutions and activities supported by the District.
Speaking on the matter of the Jewish Agency, he said, "I cannot,refrain from rejoicing in the formation of the Jew¬ ish Agency uniting Zionists and non- Zionists for the upbuilding of our an¬ cestral home land. Time was when men¬ tion of Palestine was taboo in lodge or grand lodge. But todayi Wider Scope funds are Roing to help improve hous¬ ing conditions in Eretz Israel and for the School ^or Teachers and the Library in Jerusalem. Slowly but surely are we approaching  unity in  Israel."
Referring tn the buildina of the ucv. Jewish Orphan Home, the President said, "Under the blazing sun of last July ypur officers witnessed the laying of the cornerstone of the new cottage plan orphan home of the B'nai B'rith in the outskirts of Cleveland."
With reference to the Hillel Founda¬ tion, he expressed the hope that the dav will come when these will ^he found in all colleges and universities attended hy a large number of Jewish studentii. The address of the president was received with prolonged applause.
Standing Committees* Reports
Reports of the various standing com¬ mittees were presented at the afternoon session. For the Advisory Comniittee, Louis J. Bornstein of Indianapolis re¬ ported, the report on the President's Committee was by Samuel L Sievers, of St. Louis, the District Wider Scope com¬ niittee by Emil Mayer, in which the fact was brought out that the District had exceeded its quota of over $400,000, the National Home for Children at Denver by Arthur F. Friedman of Denver. Both he and Mrs. J. Lorber made an appeal to the convention for support to enable to take care of the children of tubercular parents. A banquet was given to the delegates Sunday night in the ball room of the Hotel Portage.
NEUSTADT RETURNS HOME
Mr. Aaron M. Neustadt, 1559 Gran¬ ville St., editor of The Ohio Jewish Chronicle, has returned from Indianapo lis, where he addressed a memorial meet¬ ing in honor of his father, the late Rahbi Isaac E, Neustadt, who served the Jew¬ ish community of that city from 11302 to 1913.
O. S. U. HONORS COLUM¬ BUS JEWISH YOUTH
President Alfred M. Cohen extended ijreetinKs The convention passed a reso¬ lution Hi honor of President Cohen's coming 70th birthday and suggested that farioub lodges conduct membership cam- Vaigns and that the classes 'to be initiated be named in his honor. The convention xteiuled a vote of thanks to its presi¬ dent, Isidore Feibleman.
William Ornstein of Cincinnati, O-, and Sin;. Strauss of Denver, Colo., stated that thib convention marks the 50th one that tbey have attended.
The delegates and their guests were tendered a banquet at the Portage Ho¬ tel by the Akron Lodge. Grace was said by Rabbi William Stern of South Bend. tnd. A program was given by children from the Jewish Orphan Home of Cleve¬ land and by the quartet of the Hillcl Found-Uion of Ohio State University. The chatrnian of the banquet was Rabbi David Alexander President Isidore Fcibk'iii.m extended greetings, Rabbi Barnett R Brickner of Cleveland, O., spoke (in thc theme, "America and Ju¬ daism Arrive at Age," telling the mem¬ bers of the Order that he conveived it to be a sacred task of the B'nai B'rith to further thc program of adult Jewish cducaliun.
A Question
"Wliat do we need in American Jew¬ ish lite today?" 'Rabbi Brickner de¬ clared ''We need a greater emphasis upon adult -Jewish education. The B'nai B'ritli has done fine work in going into the tiiuverbities and organizing Hillel Foundations and Junior B'nai B'rith lodges. But I feel that our Order s^jfild HOW) engage in bringing thc mes¬ sage of Judaism to our membership. I think it is possible for the B'nai B'rith to estdhlish correspondence courses in Jewish^ education and go into the publica¬ tion of^courses of study. We need an enlightened self-conscious Jewish laity," he declared.
ABE GERTNER
As page in the Ohio House of Kepre- scutatives aud later as stenographer Jn the press Rallery, Abe Gertner picked UP some first hand knowledge of politics, meanwhile studying diligently in political science at Ohio State University. Tues- daj when he received hjs diploma at the University'.^ commencement he also received thc degree of Bachelor of Arts with high distinction in Political Sci¬ ence He is the only student in the en¬ tire school to be so honored.
Gertner this year was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholarship so¬ ciety, and he also is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science society, and Phi Alpha Theta, honorarj history society. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Gertner, 814 S. Ohio Avenue, He has been very active Jn various Jewish circles and organizations, and possesses a wide acquaintance among all classes of people. - Keep the good work up, uid boy, you're doing fine.
Dr. Boris D. Bogen Chosen Head of Social Service Conference
The U. S. Cannot Survive On
Tradition Alone, Is View of
Dr. Herbert Adolphus
Miller
BODY  SENDS  ITS  CONDO¬ LENCES TO JULIUS KOSENWALD
AKRON, ,0.—A report on the Leo N. Levi Hospital was presented at tlie second day's session of the, 77th annual con¬ vention ot District Grand Lodge No. 2 at thc Hotel Portage here. A. B. Frey of St. Louis, who made the report, said that during the past year 58S patients were treated in. the hospital and 2,027 in the clinic. The outstanding achieve¬ ment ot the year was the completion and opening on Dec. 15th, 1928 of thc new Charles Steinberg Clinic building. Plans are now being drawn for the erection of the solarium, the gift of Mr. and Mrs I. Oppenheim of Scranton, Pa.
David E. Harlem of Denver spoke of the work being done by the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives. In his report on the Cleveland Jewish Or¬ phan Home Max E. Meisel stated that the new building would be opened on July 13th and that in each cottage it would be possible to take care of frotn 25 to 30 children. He also stated that the campaign in District Grand Lodge No. 2 for the raising of funds for these new buildings had been completed. Tlie buildings an dequlpment will entail an expenditure of $1,4150,000.
_ Ueligloua and Secular Press
Sidney G. Kusworm, member of the executive board of the Order, slated tliat the B'nai B'rith had made use of the religious and secular jjress for tolerance and understanding; that 07 lectures were delivered to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions Clubs, etc. Requests' tor Hillel Founda¬ tions were received from the Universities of Texas, Alabama and Kansas.
¦ AKRON, O. — The seventy-seventh annual convention of District Grand Lod^e No. 2 of the Independent Order B'nai B'rith concluded its sessions yes¬ terday at the Portage Hotel here with the election of the following officers: President. Samuel I. Sievers of St. Louis; First Vice-President, Leonard H- Freiberg, Cinciiniati: Second Vice-Presi¬ dent, Sinion J. Heller, Denver; Secre¬ tary, Leonard H. Freiberg, Cincinnati; Treasurer, William Ornstein, Cincinnati. Elect Delegates
Delegates designated to the Constitu- tiuii Grand Lodge to be held at Cincin¬ nati, lOSO, were Alfred M. Cohen, Cin- clunati, O.; Louis Grossman, Louis¬ ville, Ky.; Alfred E. Benesch, Max E. Meisel, Cleveland, O.; Emil Mayer, Harry Simon, Carl M. Vetsburg, A. F. I'rey, Joseph Stampfer, Julius E. Leh¬ man, St. Louis, Mo.; Sidney G. Kus¬ worm, Dayton, O.; Isidore Feibleman, Louis J. Bortnstein. Indianapolis; E. J. Shanfarber, Columbus; Samuel Hassen- busch, St. Joseph, Mo.; Morris Abelcs, Leavenworth, Kans.; Arthur F. Fried- m-in and David E. Harlem, Denver: Lou M. Frank, Harry Levison, Toledo; Ben M. Achtenberg, Phil Schier, Kansas City, Mo.; J. J. Friedland, Youngstown, O.; Leopold Sanders, Pueblo, Cole; Henry D. Fuerst, Akron, O.; Dr. Wm. Feder, Gary, Ind.
Rabbi Meyer's Report
A report on national and international questions was presented by Rabbi Myron M. Meyer of St. Joseph, Mo. He re¬ ferred favorably to tho non-Zionistic conference and requested that the district contimie to give its support for the up-building of Palestine. He also spoke of the national conference of the United Jewish Campaign, and of the World Congress of Jewish Women in Hamburg. The convention accepted the invitation of the Louisville Lodge lo bold its next session in that city.
Washington, Pa., Orator Is
Winner of Young Judea
Oratorical Contest
Fifteen   Year  Old   Youth   Will Represent Four-State Dis¬ trict in Big National Contest
-Speaking on "The Hope of Israel," Benjamin ^lilton Kagan, .lo-ycar-old Washington, Pa., boy, won the Young Judea Regional Oratorical Contest last Sunday night in tlie East Broad Street -Temple.
Miss Pearl Abrahams, 18, of Cincin¬ nati won honorable mention by taking second place with her speech on "Re¬ birth of a Land and a People."
Kagan, by winning the regional con¬ test, will be sent to Philadelphia next week to compete in the semi-finals there. Winner of the national contest will re¬ ceive a floOO trip to Palestine.
Miss Cecil Pacht of Youngstown and Simon Polasky of Cincinnati, also were contestants Sunday.
The presiding chairman was Rabbi Solomon Rivlin. The judges were Dr. B. W. Abramson, Morris Lopper and Rabbi Isaac ^erne. Abraham Gertner is regional secretary.
Territory represented by the contest¬ ants includes Ohio, Kentucky and. Mich¬ igan and the western portion of Pennsyl¬ vania.
ABOUT THE SEMINARY
BRITH SHOLOM OPENS CON¬ VENTION IN ATLANTIC CITY
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—With an
attendance of more than five hundred persons, of whom 223 are delegates rep¬ resenting 143 lodges, the Independent Or¬ der Brith Sholom formally' opened its twenty-foiwth annual convention at the Garden Theatre here Sunday afternoon. Since the full number of delegates des¬ ignated to' this convention is 327, an ad¬ ditional number are. expected here Mon¬ day and Tuesday, Martin O. Levy, grand secretary, announced.
Several local Jews who are interested in assisting the Jewish Theological Sem¬ inary in a pecuniary way have asked the editor of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle to say a few words regarding the history, thc program, and the achievements of this famous institution of learning in New York City. Mr. Neustadt has gladly complied with the wishes of these gentle¬ men, especially so since he is a devout adherent of Historical Judaism and be¬ lieves that the Seminary has rendered yeoman service to American Jewry. On page 4 Chronicle readers will find an article entitled "Let Us Get Behind the Jewish Theological Seminary." Kindly read it and then decide what your duty and procedure in this matter should be.
JEWISH LEADERS ON N. Y. STATE  PENSION  BOARD
. ALBANY, N. Y.—Mrs. Sydney Borg, prominent in Jewish charities in New York City, and State Senator Samuel H- Hofstadter, were two of the nine appointees of Governor Roosevelt to sit on an Old Age Pensions Commission. The others are State Senators Seabury C. Mastick, Cornelius N. Bliss, As¬ semblyman Frank Bernhardt, John T. Train, and Thomas F. Farrell, a leader in national  Catholic charities.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Dr. Boris D. Bogen, of Cincinnati, executive di¬ rector of the Independent Order B'nai B'rhh, was elected president of the National Conference of Jewish Social Service at thc final session of its three- day meeting held at the Breakers Hotel here.
The election of Dr. Bogen comes at the height of a life-time of service to public causes for the last forty years. Bcguining in his early manhood as a member of the teaching staff of the Edu¬ cational Alliance, Dr. Bogcn was suc¬ cessively a teacher at the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, the Hebrew Tech¬ nical Institute and principal of the Baron dc Hirsch Agricultural School. He then was named executive director of the Cin¬ cinnati Federation of Jewish Charities, then field secretary of the National Con¬ ference of Jewish Social Service, and during the war and some time thereafter was general director of thc Joint Distri¬ bution Comniittee in Europe. On his return to America he became executive director of the Los Angeles Federation of Jewish Charities and for three years , has been at the head of the I. O. B. B. work in the U. S.
Other OlHcers Elected
Ferdinand S. Bach of St. Louis was elected treasurer and George W. Rabinoff of New York, was named secretary. Harry L. Glucksman, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Board; Mrs. Alice I. Liveright of Philadelphia and Judge A. K. Cohen of Boston were elected vice-presidents. Maurice J. Karpf of j New York, director of the Training I Schaol for Jewish Social Work; Philip L. Semati, director of the Jewish People's Institute of Chicago and Alexander M- Dushkin, director of Jewish education of Chicago, were elected as members of the executive committee for three-year terms and Benjamin Glassherg of Milwaukee was named for two years.
At its closing session the conference passed a resolution approving the move¬ ment to establish old-age pensions and old age insurance systems by legislative enactment by the various states. It also was decided to appoint a committee to study means for the care and treatment of transients, many of whom, it was reported, pass from agency to -agency without checking up on the part of social workers who might return these men to their families in many cases and 'save young vagrants from a "life on the road."
The conference sent a message of con¬ dolence to Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago, on the recent death of his wife, who * throughout her life-time was interested in welfare work, taking an. especially active part in tlie Girl Scout movement. A memorial resolution also was .passed as tribute to the late L. Edward Lashman of New Orleans.
Cultural Elements Dr. Herbert Adolphus Miller of Co¬ lumbus, of the faculty of Ohio State University, in the principal address of the closing educational session of the con¬ ference, spoke on Cultural Elements in American Jewish Life anti their Value to American Democracy. Dr. Miller maintained th^t racial groups cannot survive on tradition alone and declared that while social values must be con¬ served as long as there is value in them, "next steps" must be taken before ulti¬ mate values are attempted.
"It is better for a group to persist in diverse and crooked paths than pas¬ sively to fall in step with any other group which seems to be going in the accepted direction," said Dr. Miller.
A departure in conference procedure was taken when tlie final session closed without a formal adjournment. Some' of the delegates remained over for the sessions of the National Association of Jewish Community Center Secretaries, whose first sessions were held jointly with the general social work meetings. Other delegates will continue to San Francisco where the conference will re¬ sume its sessions June 2G, with Far West¬ ern delegates as the speakers of the pro¬ gram. The Jewish workers are afifdiated with thevNational Conference of Social Work and the additional session in the West was arranged to give them a chance to attend the San Francisco uieetinK.
CINCINNATI, O. — An $l8,im anonymous gift from Cleveland, ,Ohio, heads the latest contributions to .the He¬ brew Union College Endowment Fund wluch now total t;(,»73.3i!G.