Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1930-08-15

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Vol. XIII—No. 33
COLUMHUS,, OHIO, AUGUST 15, 7930
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Scanning the Horizon By
DAVID SCHWARTZ
The Gag Depression
Talk about the economic depression. That isn't the worst of it. Once upon a time, we were able to do this dcpartincut with two pipesful of tobacco. Today, generally four pipesful have been smoked before we, have done our  stint.
A dearth of material, due to the fact that "all is t6o quiet on the Potomac." New York these days is a vacuum. If Nature abliors one, then certainly Nature is wasting no love on little old Gotham.
And thc lament is not only mine. The other day, 'tis said, Columnist Mark Hcl- linger met an old time friend.
"How are youi*" asked Mark.
"Well, things are bad. My wife just died. My mother is ill. My business is in the hands of a receiver and my oldest son has turned Bolshevik I"
"Ych?" said Mark. "But let's get down to serious things. Do you know any gag?"
That's  how  desperate  New  York now for columnist material. No Piit Today
Entering the Zionist oflices the other day, we queried: "Have you any dirt itoday?"
"Yes", replied De Haas, "we have no dirt today. But I'm going on a vaca¬ tion, and I'll bring you back some sand, which may do just as well".
Morris Waldman Says Anti-Jewish Out¬ breaks in Roumania Could Easily Have Been Avoided
Declares That Government Should Have Suppressed Students'
Organizations; Social Worker Says King Carol Is Greatly
Distressed By The Recent Events; Calls Attention To
The Fact That Hundreds Are Virtually Starving
, The Irate Customer
But always accomodating, Mr. De Haas told this one, which he assures us is the story of an actual incident which he witnessed this week.
*'Tht oilier day I went into a store on '12iid Street to buy a pair of shoes. Just as I was being attended to, a pompous little individual walked in, took the next chair aud iu a rasping voice said to the salcbman who hurried up to him: 'I want an identical pair of shoes and be quick about it'
"'Preposterous', exclaimed the cus¬ tomer. '1 buy my shoes here, and I want the same'.
"Sorry sir, but I can't give you an identical pair." (The little man turned to me. 'Did you ever hear of a thing like that. Here I. patronize this store for years and this dumbell without even looking over his stock says he cannot give mc an identical pair'.
"The salesman intervened. *It really is impusbiblu to duplicate that pair'.
"The customer jumped from his scat". 'That's enough.   I'll write to the firm.*.
"*As you please', replied the salesman, 'but I can't duplicate the pair you are wearing,'
"The customer straightened himself up and in icy tones asked 'and why not?'
" 'Because you are wearing one dark brown shoe and one black shoe and we don't carry pairs of mixed shoes'.
"The pompous little man crumbled, and rushed from the store."
GENEVA—(J. T. A.)—Thc press reports on the auti-Jewtsh disturbances in Roumania have not hccti exaggerated or distorted declared Morris Waldman, secretary of. the American Jewish Com¬ mittee, iu an interview here with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, on hi.q ar¬ rival from Roumania where he made a first hand investigation into the Jewish situation.
Mr. Waldman said he was convinced that the anti-Jewish outbreaks "which seriously impair Roumania's prestige and credit, would not have occurred had it not been for thc government's support of the students' organizations and the so-called ^patriotic qongresses aiAI the government's reluctance to suppress il¬ legal anti-Semitic propaganda out of a mistaken emphasis upon liberty of the press and assembly."
Pointing out that the attacks on thc Jews are unquestionably instigated by anti-Semitic agitators who found thc peasantry, though normally friendly to their Jewish neighbors, fertile soil" fpr thcir propaganda because of the agrarian depression, Mr, Waldman charged that tiic ministry of the interior, which con¬ trols the police, and the ministry of cults and education, which controls the stu¬ dents, teachers and prie.'it.s, were espe¬ cially responsible.
Mr. Waldman stated that King _Carol is greatly distressed by the recfint events and that the government's latest meas¬ ures which have restored order indicate that the government has filially realized that the numerous anti-Jewish manifes-
One by Wattenberg
Philip Wattenberg doesn't believe you can always place implicit trust in all the neWest discoveries. They must be taken, says this Jewish Will Rogers with just a little bit of skepticism.
A friend of Wattenberg was sorely troubled, Wattenberg relates, in the regions of the stomach.
He con.sulted one specialist after* an¬ other. Finally, he visited Dr. X who had his stomach pumped. X-rayed, and half a dozen other things done.
"The first thing you will have to do*, said thc doctor, "is to have all your teeth extracted."
"All right, doctor," replied the patient, "here they are", and he took from his mouth a beautiful set of false teeth.
tations during thc past year which it professed to regard as sporadic and trifling and harmless were rapidly gen¬ erating  wide-spread anarchy.
He cited Borscha as a "tragic testi¬ mony of the danger of propaganda of hate among the normally kindly disposed peasantry who terrorized the entire Jew- i.sh population of Bukowina, Transylva¬ nia and Bessarabia for months." De¬ spite the local government officials' first report that the Borscha fire was an acci¬ dent, Mr. Waldman found overwhelm¬ ing evidence proving that it was care¬ fully planned incendiarism.
Though four weeks have elapsed since thc (ire, no relief has been offered the Borscha Jews except $2,500 originally granted by the government and a few hundred dollars raised by the Transyl- sylvanian Jewish emergency committee, Mr. Waldman said, and this is in the face of the fact that damage totalling $300,000 rcsidtcd and trade and industry suspended.
Nd steps have been taken to provide shelter for the homeless Jews or td re¬ build the burnt. area, Mr. Waldman charged. "Hundreds are virtually starv¬ ing and many are living in cellars of the ruined houses under conditions beggar¬ ing description," he continued. "Unless steps are taken immediately I fear tbat pestilence wiU not only affect the Jewish as well as the Christian population of Borscha but it will spread elsewhere. The situation warrants the imperative action of the Roumanian Gbvemment and the Red Cross," Mr. Waldman con¬ cluded.
BERNHARDT AND MENKEN PICKED IN "50 BEST ACT¬ ORS AND ACTRESSES"
NEW YORK—Two Jewesses, Sarah, Bernhardt and Ada Isaacs Menken, are included in a list of the "Fifty best act¬ ors" that ever lived which has been pre¬ pared by David Belasco, veteran Ameri¬ can-Jewish producer, playwright and di¬ rector, and which is published in Tues¬ day's issue of the New York "Evening Post."
Sandi Bernhardt was born in 1814 of Dutcli-Jcwish i>aremnBe and died in lff2IJ. She wa.s received into thc Roman Catholic Church at .the request of her father. Her early years were spent at a coiiveut in Versailles, France.
.^da Isaacs Menken was born in 18.15 at Milntburg, La., of Gentile parentage and died in 1808 in Paris, France. At the age of 21 she married Alexander Isaacs Menken and publicly embraced Judaism. She had great success as an actress both in this country and abroad, and just before her death in Europe she attracted considerable attention among English and French men of letters, in¬ cluding Dickens, Reade, Swinburne, the elder Diimas, Gauthier and Hugo. She published two books of poetry, one of whicli was dedicated, "by permission" to Dickens.
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A Special Notice to All Local Orjg^anizations
Zionist    Delegation   Sailing Today for Berlin Con¬ ference
New Elngland Jewish Pioneers Redis¬ covered as Boston Marks Ter¬ centenary of Settlement
By Sibyl Soroker
EDITOR'S NOTE:~The tercente- narS} celebration of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which coincides with the 3T$ih anniversary of the iirrival of ttie first Jeivs to what is now tfie United States, is giving the Jews of New Eng¬ land a hug neglected opportunity to fa¬ miliarise themselves with : the contribu¬ tions of the Jews to Neiv England*s prog¬ ress. Living in a section of the country 2vhosc code of Hfe is based on the Mo¬ saic Law the Jems of New England have from the begvming been an intportanl element in the growth of this great sec¬ tion of the country. .
Puture pf tlie New Palestine
Rumors are abundant as to the future of thc New Palestine. One rumor has it that Israel Goldberg (Rufus Learsi) has heen offered the post of editorship and has turnecl it down,
It will be recalled that Goldberg sev¬ eral years ago, at that time heading the Publicity Department of the Zionist Or¬ ganization, was one of the leaders in the opposition to the administration. He was severely criticized at the time for saying on the floor of the convention that many of the salaries paid in the Zionist Or¬ ganization' including his own were exces¬ sive.
And we would perhaps be disposed to he critical of such a statement coming from any one but Israel Goldberg, but anyone knowing the absolute integrity of the man, would scarcely question his sin¬ cerity.
Goldberg is today making a far greater income than in the days when he was iu the employ of the Zionist Organization. He is one of the few office-holders who can actually earn more out of the or¬ ganization than in it.
But the question of the editorship is not the only one that is being debated. There is the question of policy. Shall the New Palestine continue as of yore, a more ^ or less scholastic periodical or shall it he geared to a more popular ap peal.
Maybe you can help out the Zionist Organization in their decision of this matter.
Fox
and  Rockefeller
At last, there is a rift in the cloudy horizons of William Fox. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. is building in the heart of New York "Rfridio City" to cost, in the neighborhood of one hundred and twenty millions. Rockefeller haa ac¬ quired all the necessary land but a single tract owned by Fox, which happens to be so situated, as to make impossible the realization of Radio City tinless it is acquired. Fox, it is said, paid a quarter of a million for the site.
The Rockefeller agents have sounded out Fox, but he is maintaining a foxy (Continued on page 4)
The year 1930 marks the 300th anni¬ versary of the founding of Massachu¬ setts Bay Colony and the settlement of the city of Boston. With appropriate ceremony,  befitting  the  occasion,   State
d city officials, religious, racial, arid nationalistic groups, political parties, and business interests—^Jews, Christians, Greeks, Irish, Russians, alike—are en¬ tering into the spirit of how best to ex¬ press what their ancestors "did for .America." At this time of patriotic fer- cor it seems proper to indulge in the pleasures of group memories, to taste the pride of group achievements, to fan the flame of group hopes and ideals, pro¬ vided the facts are true that support the claims, and the aims arc high that pul¬ sate through the consciousness of these groups.
Befitting the occasion, then, the Jews of New England, and of Boston partic¬ ularly, have risen to the opportunity of establishing, securely, permanently, and definitely, their, contrib^ition to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where the histoi-y of the United States had its start, and to the growth and development of the city where they enjoy religious liberty to the fullest ex¬ tent.
Conscious of the feeling of exaltation at having survived many centuries of economic struggle and unparalleled pros¬ perity, of social temptations and of re¬ ligious discomforts; grateful at having achieved normal adjustment in a city and State which it helped to build; retaining unto themselves, during all this period, those traditional traits which have throughout history ennobled the Jewish soul, and enabled the Jew to enrich the world—the Jews of Massachusetts feel that they have great cause for rejoicing. Thc Jew is not in America by favor or grace. He has earned his citizenship by living and fighting for it. Jews par¬ ticipated in. the discovery of America. Our ancestors had the vision to furnish the money which enabled Columbus to
Haddassah Issues an Appeal
for New Members for
Z,0,A.
Article    Asks    The    Hadassah
Women To Bring More Men
To The Zionist Cause In
America
undertake his journey. While there had been stray Jewish settlers in the earliest settlements of. this continent, the first group of Jewish families migrated here thirty-four years after the Mayflow^ with its band of Pilgrim Fathers landed al Plymouth. It was in 1655, exactly 275 years ago, that twenty-five Jews sailed into the Harbor of New York, then known as New Amsterdam. Two luindred and seventy-five years later, we have grown to the largest Jewry in the world, at present constituting 4,500,000 persons. Of this number, 250,000 are in the State of Massachusetts alone, and about  150,000  in Greater  Boston.
Although the settlement of Boston dates from 1630, with the exception of a few transient merchants engaged the West India trade, of Judah Monis, who was an instructor at Harvard Col' lege In 1723, and of Moses Michael Hays, who was Grand Master of the Massachusetts Lodge of Masons from 1788 to 1792, we find no mention of other outstanding Jewish residents in the city's records until the year I&IO.
Before any Jew set foot on the soil ol North America, however, the soul oi the Jewish people was -already here. Al- tlwugh it camiot be said that tlie Jews as such took part in the very founding of this essentially Puritan settlement, it was the inspiration of the Jewish Bible which led'these pioneers to the.sc shores, and it was that same Jewish literary guidance which determined the course oi tlieir lives as individuals, and thc policy of the Commonwealth which they built up.
For those settlers in Boston and in Massachusetts generally were devout and devoted readers of the Jewish scripture;;. The Jewish Bible provided them with their models and their ideals. They spoke of themselves as Christian Israel, redeemed from the Fharoah, James I, es¬ caped from the Egypt of England, across the Red Sea of the Atlantic Ocean, to the Promised Land of America. They consciously and deliberately gave to themselves and their children Old Tes¬ tament names. They introduced into the city of Boston from the beginning what they conceived to be Ihe spirit of the Hebrew scriptures. They looked upon Moses as their lawgiver, and in the or¬ ganization of their city and colony, and ill the administration of their courts, they definitely adapted and adopted the Mosaic code as their standard.
If such facts as these are not enough to prove that the spirit of Hebrew teach¬ ing as interpreted by the Puritans per¬ meated the foundation and organization (Continued on Page   4)
NEW YORJC—Declaring that only a tremendously increased number of Zion¬ ists can bring about an increase in the political strength of the Zionist program in Palestine Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, issues an appeal for new niembers for the Zionist Organization of America in the V^di.'V; editorial cf the current issue of >t?ic Hadassah periodical, out today.
"Everyone is aware that this is a crit¬ ical moment in Zionist affairs," the edi¬ torial states. "Investigations that grew out of last year's riots in Palestine are still Jn progress and no definite political chau8;es affecting Palestine, have been made. At this very time, when political action is necessary, a large membership in the Zionist Organization is essential to impress the Mandatory Power and the rest of the world with the'intensity and profundity of. the Jewish desire for Palestine."
The article asks the Hadassah women to bring men to the Zionist causp. In its senior and junior divisions Hadassah has 50,000 members, who are also members of the Zionist Organization of America, comprising the majority of American Zionists. Hadassah requests each" of its members to make herself responsible for one new member in the Zionist Organi¬ zation.
"To strengthen the coalition regime of the Zionist Organization, to njake Zionism here a telling force and an in¬ fluence in Zionist affairs the world over, the. Zionist Organization of America must have a vastly increased member¬ ship," the statement says. "No amount of ability, prestige and strategy in lead¬ ership, can go far without a huge army of enrolled backers^ There are 4,500,000 Jews in America, among whom for years has been carried on extensive and con¬ tinuous propaganda for Zionism. It is inconceivable that there exist today Jews ignorant of the aims and ideals of Zion¬ ism and of the general aspect of life aud Zionist accomplishments in Palestine. Without loss of time, the most thorough attempt must be made to plumb the sources of Jewish life in America in the interests of Zionism, _ to crystallize the latent enthusiasm of men who bear measure. of sympathy for Zionism and to arouse interest among those still in¬ different.
"This is the real need of the hour— thousands of new members in the Zion¬ ist Organization of America, thousands of new well-wishers and workers to add their strength to the upbuilding of Pales¬ tine."
AW local organizations de- 5 siring publicity in our big i special New Year Number j which will be issued on i Tuesday, September 23rd, 1 are hereby requested to { mail in reports of their ac- j tivities at once. |
It is the policy of the Ohio ) Jewish Chrpnicle to include J in its Rosh-Hashonah num- \ ber resumes of the work i accomplished during the I past year by every Temple, f Synagogue, and Society in ] Columbus and central Ohio. We want to give as much space as possible to these ^ affairs. Please cooperate t with us. c
If convenient, ail material { should be mailed in by Sep- I tember 5th. Please give \ this notice your immediate l attention and thereby facil- ^ itate the work of our Edi¬ torial Department. — The = Editor, llie Ohio Jewish ( Chronicle. |
To Elect Special Commission
to Deal With Proposals
Contained in Report
LONDON—(J. T. A.)—Special com-' missions will be elected at the forth¬ coming session of the administrative committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine in order to consider the pro¬ posals contained in the reports to be submitted to the meeting by Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Chaim Weizmann apd Dr. Arthur Ruppiri.
The agenda for the meeting, which opens in Berlin August 29, which is made public today, states that Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the administrative committee, will open the, meeting with the chairman's address. He will be fol¬ lowed by, Dr.. Chaim Weizmann^ pregi-r dent of the Jewish Agency,. and by Dr. Arthur Ruppin who will render a report on Palestine.
The second session willbe devoted to election of, committees, discussions on political affairs, the budget of the Jew¬ ish Agency, economic aflfairs and prob¬ lems of organization. M. M. Ushishkin will report on the Jewish National Fund, and Oscar Wasserman, chairman of the Board of Directors, will report on thc Keren Hayesod. Dr. Werner' Senator, treasurer of the Jewish Agericy, will present the budget for the coming year.
The meeting will conclude its sesssions the following Tuesday after adopting the resolutions to be submitted by the com¬ mittee on resolutions.
Problems Now Confronting The
Movement Were Discussed At
Big   Farewell   Meeting
Zion   Lodges's   Annual
Picnic Will Take Place
on Sunday^ August
31st
Jn  Hadassah Luncheon At Deshler Hotel Sunday
In order to insure the suc¬ cess of this year's picnic of Zion Lodge No. 62, B'nai B'rith, the entertainment committee has arranged for games of all hinds and con¬ tests of all descriptions. One of the best orchestras in the state of Ohio will fur¬ nish the music for the danc¬ ing. Liirge delegations from out of the city are expected at this festive gathering. Are you getting ready for this great event? Be sure to reserve Sunday, August 31st, for this big annual out door celebration, at Oak Park, on Sunbury Pike. Come out early and stay as long as you like.
EZRAS NOSHIM MEETING
The executive board of the Central Tri- State Regional of Junior Hadassah will hold a luncheon meeting Sunday at the Iteahler-Wallick Hotel. Miss Minnie Hirschfield of Cincinnati is president of the {Regional.
Members of the board of thc local unit are plaiming a buffet supper in honor of the visitors Sunday evening at the Deshler-Wallick.
The regular meeting of the Ezras No¬ shim will take place Monday evening at i o'clock at the Agudath Achim Congre¬ gation.   Refreshments will be served.
APPOINTED PUBLICITY CHAIR MAN FOU HADASSAH
Miss Dorothy Finkelstein of Columbus has been appointed assistant national pub¬ licity chairman and contributing editor of the Junior Hadassah supplement to the Hadassah News Letter, it was aimouneed by tlie New York Junior Hadassah oflice this week.
NEW YORK—J. T. A.~The dele- gates of the Zionist OrE*"ization of America to the meeting of the Greater Actions Committee of thc World Zion¬ ist Organization in Berlin, August 24, and the Administrative Committee of thc Jewish Agency August 29, are sail¬ ing totlay (Aug, 7) without Dr. Stephen S. Wise who found himself unable to take the trip. Judge Julian Wj Mack and Louis I^ipsky will depart on the Ma¬ jestic. Jacob Fishman is sailing on thc Milwaukee. The other delegates arc judge William M. Lewis, Philadelphia; Elihu D. Stone, Boston; Abraham Gold¬ berg, Dr. A. Coralnik, and Morris Ro¬ thenberg of New York.
A farewell meeting was held for the delegation Wednesday eveijing. at thc Hotel Pennsylvania by the Zionist Or¬ ganization, at which Robert Szold, cliair¬ man of the Zionist Administration, pre¬ sided. More than a thousand ¦were present. *
Although the meeting was scheduled as one for, discussion at which the. mem¬ bership of the organization could inform the delegation as to its views, the pro¬ gram was restricted to speeches by Robert Szold, Judge Mack, Dr. Wise, Mr. Lipsky, Dr. Coralnik and Mr. Gold¬ berg.
The four problems demanding atten¬ tion at the Berlin meetings, Mr, Lipsky declared, are the means of "establishing cordial cooperation between the resident Arabs and the Jews in Palestine without surrender and concession of our vital principles"; the question of whether or not Great Britain should retain the man¬ date; the future of the Jewish Agency and the miearis of making it a vital force in the upbuilding of Palestine, and how to maintain the integrity and autonomy of the Zionist. Organization, improvinR and increasing activities.
Discussing British policy, Mr. Lipsky declared, "by a process of adverse ad¬ ministrative^^ decisions, intiniidated by Arab threats, fearful of its own position in India, building up an array of con¬ trived pretensions to rights claimed on behalf of Arabs, the Mandatory Gov¬ ernment now seems to be definitely com¬ mitted to a limitation of Jewish rights, affecting the very heart of the Jewish national endeavor. The Mantatory Gov¬ ernment is moving in the direction of the curtailment of the right of Jews to set-' tie in Palestne and of their right to ac¬ quire land through purchase.
"In effect, the present Labor Govern¬ ment, in spite of its declared intention to observe the letter and the. spirit of the Mandate, had passed by gradual stages to the acceptance of what is virtually the annulment of the terms of the Man¬ date."
A somewhat different view was of¬ fered by Judge Mack who affirmed that "we hope soon to see our expectations realized without any change in the Man¬ datory power."
He declared that his part in the coin¬ ing deliberations would be "to listen and to learn instead of to preach or lo in¬ struct." .
He also emphasized the need of co¬ operation with the Arab population "without abatement of our aims or ideals" and the. necessity of Jews in .^merica continuing to support "with men and with money as well as through contributions of thought and of good will" the Jews of Palestine.
Congratulating the nweting on thc reconciliation of the different groups within the American Zionist movemenl and ,:the assumption of leadership by Brandeis, Mack and Szold, Dr. Wise declared, "The united front means very much more than the reconciliation of different personalities. Our united front means that there shall be no further whittling away of the Mandate; that as a people we shall not stake all upon thc opinion, well or ill-advised, of an expert individual or an inept Commission, No expert is far-seeing enough to prescribe or limit the measure of Jewish hope and Jewish potency."
Speaking of the Berlin meetings, Br. Wise said, "Whoever is to represent us at the Berlin meetings of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency meetings go there not with an American point of view but with a Zionist point of view. We are not to dominate because we possess the funds; neither must we be ignored ideo¬ logically aa if we had nothing but funds to contribute. It is not to he assumed that men cannot think and lead as Zion¬ ists because they reveal powers of think¬ ing and leading outside of Zionism."
Renewed   activity   on   the   part   of
American Zionists was called for by Mr.
Szold who stressed the nwd of strength-
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