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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Vol. XV—No. 15
COLUMHUS, Ohio, ackii, 10, 1931
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BytheWay By David Schwartz
East and Weat
Just after we had l)ccii lamenting that whereas out west where men are men, Jews are elected governors; in Ihe east, a Jew can scarcely rise higher than a judgesliit>—well, the situation has altered.
Right now, not less than three Jews are being mentioned for the New York ffov- ernorship: Lieutenant Governor Lehman, U.. S. District Attorney Medallie and Max Steuer. Lehman and Steuer are Democrats, while Medallie is Republican. ¦ What will happen of course no one may know. It seems iiossiblc that if the Demo¬ crats name a Jew, the Republicans may counter hy naming a, Jew—and then again they may not. And then again, there are ritmors that Medallie does tiot even aspire to the Republican nomination for tlie Rovernoship, but would like a Federal judgesJiip.
The father of Medallie, I)y the way, was the editor in pre-Soviet days of the Hamalitz, a Hebrew periodical, published in: St. Petersburg, well known throughout the world of Jewry.
Chess—Not Pyorrhea
An international chess masters tourna¬ ment will be held in New York soon and those who will compete are Capablanca, Horowitz, Lasker, Marshall, Ka.'ilidan, Steiner and Turnover. I don't know about Turnover, but Horow,iti!, Lasker, Kashdan awl Steiner arc Jews. Thus at least four out of seven of the masters are Jews.
Chess has really been the Jewish sport through the ages. Even the rabbis es¬ teemed it, sonic of thein' prescribing it as . a cure for melancholia. There have been rabbis, of course, who have felt that it was a great time waster. And Moses 'Men- delshon became the fast friend of Less¬ ing over the chess board. Mendclshon made one of the, best ob.'iervations abotit chess that has ever been made, "Fur spiel ist es zu ernst, and fur ernst ist zu fiel spiel". '^For a game, it is too serious, and for a .serious thing, it is too much of a game". And that truly is the paradox of chess.
A Versatile Chess Maestro
The most interesting of the Jewish chess players that America ever produced was the late Isaac L. Rice. There was a ¦versatile, personality for you. He was- the founder of the Forum magazine, the lirst man to manufacture electric auto¬ mobiles-, a great lawyer and railroad magnate, and many other things besides.
He had a room "hewn almost out of rock underneath his -home where he played chess. The subterranean room was fo_r the purpose of making it noise proof. Rice was the inventor of the Rice Gambit in chess, and a gambit, if you don't know chess, is a strategic maneuver by which at the.sacrifice of a piec« you gain ad¬ vantage of position.
Adding to Unemployment
Recently, so my informer tells rae, Harry Hershfield met Irving^ Strous just back from Florida.
"What did you do down there?" queried Hershficld.
. "Well, among other things, I rescued four people from drowning," retorted Strous,,
"But why, vvith all. this unemploy- ment?" came back Hershfield.'
Lowell, the Statistician . 4 have told quite a number of anec¬ dotes in this column,, but the best anecdote of the year has hot appeared here and I must quote it,from Geoage Britt's and Heywood iBroun's "Christmas Only."
"President Lowell announced al^out eight years ago that Harvard W(as giv¬ ing serious consideration to the question of limiting the number of Jews in the University. Dr. Lowell made the state¬ ment that it was necessary to restrict Jewish enrollment^ because he found that the moral influtnce of students from this group was open to,question. As a proof, he cited that out of all the thefts oii books 'from the Widener Library, those which had been traced to definite culprits showed that the Jews were 100 per cent guilty. The statement was checked and found to . be absolutely true^ One'hundred per cent consisted of just one man. No other case of theft has been traced." ¦ . This and That
Herman J. Manikewicz, big man of the- Paramount Organization, was at one time assistant editor of an English-Jew¬ ish publication... Noel Meadow-Sends me the news that Lee Posner discovered the colored dancing genius who invented the Lindy Hop while having his sll9es blacked
....So what? Editor Isaac Rosengar-
ten asks me to call attention to the fact that Jewish Forum is to celebrate its bar mitzvah with a great juicy number.... Meyer Levin, who authored Yehuda, is staging some very intriguing marionette plays.
Judge Lewis Tells One
Judge. William M. Lewis of Philadel¬ phia told the story the other night at the meeting of the Jewish Consumptive Re¬ lief dinner. .A, gentlenian was up before his court on the complaint of his wife.
"Your honor,'' said wife, "this man, my husband, wants to be married one week and divorced the nest. 1 can't live with such a felIow._ He's against marriage."
"i ain't against marriage," shouted out the husband.   "I'm up against it."
That,  of  course,  reminds  us.   Judge
Lewis, of the old gag about the defendant
who got up in court and said:   "I deny
the allegations and defy the alligator."
A Shocking Pun
Professor Barnct Cohen of Johns Hop¬ kins says the New York American has found a method by which he can extract electric current from disease germs. Some day. maybe, we'll light our houses by , simply tacking on some wires to the diph- j theria ward of the hospital. j
That is, a person wilh germs in him is simply full of electricity. Th;it's why, perhaps, we say we are shocked when our friends arc ill. It's a terrible pun, but it helps to fill a column in an indolent day.
(Copyright. lOill, by J. T. A.)
Campaign For Palestine Pio^
neers To Commence Here
(Tomorrow) Sunday
Bi^ Mass Meeting to Be Held
at  the Beth  Jacob
Congregation
The local cinn[)aign for the Histad¬ ruth, the Federation of Jewish Labor an<l pioneers in Palestine, will comnience in Columhus this Sunday evening, .A.inil 12th, at 8 :yO with a large mass niceting to be held iat tlie Beth Jacob Congregation on Donaldson Street, which Mr. T. Ham¬ lin, prominent speaker of New York, and local Jewish leaders will address.
r, HAMLIN
Dr. B. W. Abramson, who has recently returned from an extended tour of Europe, will also address the gathering on his observations of Histadruth achieve: ments,        ,
The Histadruth, for whom this drive is conducted, is an organization.of over 30,000 men, and wonien pioneers who are building up the National Homeland in Palestine. The Histadruth is in the first place a great Colonizing Agency. It looks after the immigrant until he finds employment. It trains the Chalutz in new trades, stimulates and utilizes his in¬ itiative, and makes him a member of a commonwealth in which all work is per¬ formed in a spirit of mutual self-respect and comradeship,
The progress achieved' by the Jewish Pioneers on the land reads like a miracle. Men and women, removed from the soil for centuries, have transformed barren malaria-infested wastes into fruitful land, and have become efficient farmers able to rebuild a country and to serve as guides and teachers to newcomers.
The Histadruth supervises 59 agricul¬ tural settlements, where over 4j000 men and woinen are engaged in all branches of agriculture. About 8,000 Jewish workers are employed on privately owned farms and orange plantations, diie largely to the efforts of the Histadruth^ The Histadruth has organized and aided in the establishment of 42 co-operatives, such as carpentry, plumbing, tailorijig, printing,, transportation, smithing, stone- quarrying, etc. The Histadruth also maintains a Workers' I^ank and Loan Association with branches throughout the country. The Bank extends credit to all industrial co-opcrativea and institu¬ tions.
The Histadruth is also greatly inter¬ ested in the health of the workers. Its Sick Fund, known as the Kupath Cholim. gives medical aid to 35,000 persons. The educational department of the Histadruth in Palestine carries on extensive activ¬ ities. It has established night courses for the adults and offers stich subjects as History, Hebrew, Science and Eco¬ nomics. It provides lecture courses, con^ certs, theater performances and technical training for the pioneers. It operates a central library with 00 branches through¬ out the country. It publishes a daily newspaper and a number of magazines. It maintains juvenile technical schools, kindergartens, elementary schools.
The Histadruth is greatly interested in
improving the   conditions   of   the Arab
masses.   It wants to elevate them to its
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Dn A. E- Avey To Address
0. S. U. Avukah Sunday
Afternoon
Dr. A, E. Avey, professor of philoso¬ phy at Ohio State University, wilt speak before the Avukah organization on Sun¬ day afternoon, April 12th, at 3 p, m. at the Hillel Foundation, 96 East 18th Ave¬ nue. The subject of his talk is, "Zion¬ ism, and The Universal Appeal In Juda¬ ism."
The si>eaker will ^ttempt to treat the subject from a philosophical and histor¬ ical view. Since this is one of the Jew¬ ish anti-Zionist's main arguments, it will be interesting to hear how ^ philosopher views this supposedly contradiction. The organization takes this means of inviting all tliose interested to attend.
Four Generations In Same B'nai BVith
Lodge During Nearly Three-
Quarters Of Century
Seated, left to right: Otto J. Gutfrcund, son-in-laW; Louis S. Freund. son; the father, Simon Freund; and Altiort B. Freund, son. Standins, from left to risM: Bert Stompfer, grand- aon-in-law; Chorles J. Freund, sonj Ralph A. Mange, grandson; Walter Freund, son; and Edgar Littmann, son-in-law.
. CINCINNATI, OHIO:—The Freund family, of St. Ijjuis, has. had four gen¬ erations as members of Missouri Lodge No. _l^i,. B'nai B'rith, during nearly the last 75 years, and today three generations are .still afiiliated with the same lodge,
A mass meeting of Missouri Lodge was held in St. Louis last week to pay homage to this remarkable family, and especially.to honor Simon Freund on his sixtieth anniversary of membership in B'nai BVith. The hall was packed to overflowing with members of the St. Louis Jewish communify, all the male members of the Freund family were pres¬ ent, and the entire lodge joined in con¬ gratulating and felicitating, this "grand old man" of the Order, who is now 84 years old, but hale and hearty,
Simon . Fre"nd's father, who ¦ died in I872i was likewise a member of Missouri Lodse, and induced his son to join at an early age. Simon Freund continued that tradition by encouraging each male mem¬ ber of his family to join B'nai B'rith. He had   ten "children,   four   sons   and   six
daughters, of whom all arc living today except one daughter.
It is lint surprising, therefore, to find all four of Mr. Freund's sons members of Missouri Ixidge. The four sons, and their length of membership, are as fol- loivs: Louis S., ilO years; Alhert B. and Cliarles J-, "i-'i years each, and Walter L., 2:^ years. But the iiltercst of this vener¬ able Ben B'rith has been extended even .(urtlier. , His two sons-in-law are like¬ wise memljers of Missouri Lod?e: Otto J, Giitfrcuiid, a member for 30 years, arid rCdgar Littman, a. member for 25 years.
Moreover, this unusual family chain in¬ cludes a grandson and grandson-in-law who belon-? to Missouri Lodge. Bert Stampfer, the husband of Siirlon Freund's granddaughter,.has been a member for 16 years and Is now assistant monitor. Ralph A. Mange, Simon Freund's grandson, was initiated at the T.'ith anniversary celebra¬ tion of Missouri Lodge in November, 1930. In addition to the immediate Freund family, live cousins are members of the same lodge. , .
WILL ENTERTAIN AT B'NAI B'RITH SMOKER MON¬ DAY EVENING
These three entertainers, Ben Bloom. Nathan Coopersmith and Sam Feinstein, will cnterlaiii those who attend the B'nai B'rith stag smoker next Monday night at the New Virginia Hotel, cor. 3rd and Gay Sts. They have been seen often In past niusical productions of the Y, M. H. A. and at South High School. Miss Kathryn Hail will accompany them at thc^piano.
Feinstein acts as straight man for the team known as Bloom and Coopersmith. They will offer an original song preseiit;i- tion, which includes a comical act, mak¬ ing it up as they go along, and other forms of amusement that will make thuse who attend believe that "them tliar good ole vaudiville days am back again."
Matters of utmost importance to every niember of Zion Lodge will be taken up at this meeting Monday night. Don't fail to attend.
Jn Council Benefit Bridge To Be Held Tuesday Evening
Miss Edyth Tanenbaum, 1811 Franklin -A.venue, chairman [ of Ways and Means of the Junior Council, is in charge of the annual benefit bridge to be lield at the Peshler Wallick Ionian Room on Wednes¬ day evening, April 15th, at 8 p, m. Res¬ ervations can still be made by calling Miss
Tannenbaum, FAirfax 2275, or her co- chairman. Miss elen Leftwich, EVergreen 5823.
There will be- table prizes and door 'prizes.
De sure and reserve Tuesday evening, April 15th. A nominal charge, of SOc is the admission, for this evening's enter¬ tainment.
Henry Gumble To Address
Agudath Achim Brother- ,
hood Next Thursday
The next regular meeting of the Agu¬ dath .Achim Brotherhood will be held Thursday evening, April 16th, at 8 o'clock. The gucst speaker'for the eve¬ ning will be Attorney Henry Gumble. The snbject of his address will be,- "Problems of Today."
Cantor Ansel Freedman will render several  appropriate  vocal, selections.
Refreshments ivill be served.
A cordial invitation is extended to all Brbthcrhodd members,, their wives, and s\yeethcarts.
VIOLINIST   TO   REPRE¬ SENT BEXLEY HIGH SCHOOL
JEW CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF
BOSTON CALVERT ROUND
TABLE
BOSTON,—The vital importance ot a |)iiblic spirit of religious and racial tol¬ erance as a factor in the attainment and preservation of the ideal American de¬ mocracy was stressed here this week by a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew at the second annual dinner of the Calvert Kound Table. This organization wag forint'd two years ago by a group of pub¬ lic-spirited citizens of various religious faitli.'i to combat the serious menace of bigotry and intolerance.
Tlie principal speakers were Jeremiah E. Bnrkc, superintendent of schools, rep¬ resenting the Catholics, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise of New York, and George R. Nut¬ ter, president of the Boston Bar Asso¬ ciation, representing the Protestants. Carl Dreyfus, a Jew, was elected president to succeed the outgoing chief executive, a Catholic.
Prominent Indianapolis Rabbi
To Address Brotherhood
Sunday Evening
The F-ast Broad Street Temple Broth¬ erhood has made extensive preparations for their big meeting .S.unday evening, at which time Rabbi Milton Steinberg of In¬ dianapolis will address the congregation membership and'thcir friends.
Rabbi Steinberg comes here from In¬ dianapolis where he is.the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El, one of the fore¬ most Conservative congregations in the middlewest. For his subject the rabbi ha-i chosen "Factors of Jewish Survival," a most timely discussion of problems con¬ fronting American Judaism today.
A luncheon will-be served at 7 o'clock and the Rabbi's address is scheduled for eight. Ben Z. Neustadt will introduce the speaker of the evening.
The following letter has been addressed to the membership of the East Broad St. Temple, by I. H. Schlezinger. president of the congregation. Dear Member:
In unity and cooperation there is strength all the time, particularly in' times of economic depression' such as these. This is true in business. It is true, even more so, in a congregation.
For years you and others worked and gave your money to biiild our beautiful Temple. You and others gave your money to make of the congregation one of the leading congregations in the city. Due to the depression, we have had to curtail expense in oi-der to go on with our work and pay off otir debts. With everyone enthusiastic and loyal, it will not take- long before- wc will be able lo enjoy again the services of a Rabbi, a Cantor, and a Choir.
Now. more than ever, we must continue to be loyal to bur congregation and to work together. Let us keep what we have created and be proud of it.
We call upon you as an interested aiid loyal member to signify your loyalty by your presence and the presence of your family to a special LOYALTY SERV¬ ICE on Friday, April 10th at 8:00 P. M., and to a LOYALTY DINNER Sunday, April 12th at 6:00 P. M. given by cour¬ tesy of our Brotherhood.
With  fond hopes of seeing you and your family both at the service and the dinner Sunday evening, we are, Respectfiilly yours, CoN(;RE<iATroN Tifereth Israel. I. H, Schlezinger, President.
MiHu Lillian Levin
Lillian Levin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Levin. 2Mi't llrjden Road, is leavinia' Saturday, April llth, to represent the Bexley High School in tlie National High School Orchestra at Des Moines, la. .After a week of intensive training under Joseph Maddy, director of the or¬ chestra, a concert will be given Friday, April I7th. with Dr. Vcrbugghen of the MinneaiJolis Symphony as guest con¬ ductor.
Lillian i.s the only representative of Columbus. She is a niember of the Co¬ lumbus Symphony Orchestra, the Satur¬ day Junior Music Club and the McDow¬ ell Club Juniors. Lillian expects to re¬ turn home about April 20th.
Delta Omega Iota Sorority
Sponsor Benefit Dance At
Valley Dale Tuesday
A benefit dance under the auspices of the Delta Omega Iota Sorority will be IieUl on Tuesday evening, April 14th, at Valley Dale, on Sunl)ury Pike, from 9 until 1 o'clock. The dance music will be furnished by the popular Beasley-Smith {irchcstra. Several song dance acts will be presented.
Tickets are selling at $2.00 per couple, and can be procured from any member ol the sorority, or.at the Een Ratner Co,, fil' East Gay Street.
Miss Ksther Markuson is chairman of this affair. She is being assisted by Miss kosalyn Levin and Miss Anne Golden¬ berg.
Reserve Tuesday evening, April 14th, for this grand event. By going to this affair you will be contributing to several worthy Jewish institutions. Don't fail to be there.
Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood Meeting Next Tuesday
The regular meeting of the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood will be held on Tues¬ day, April Hth, in the vestry rooms of the Bryden Road Temple. The program in charge of Mrs. Allen Gundersheimer, will present Mrs. William Gumble in original radio monologues, and Mrs. Melville D, Frank will render piano solos.
On Thursday evening, April 16th, at 6 o'clock, the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood' is sponsoring a Pa rent-Teacher dinner, which will lie held In the vesfry rooms of the Bryden Road Temple.
Ueservations are in charge of Mrs. I. A, Rosenthal, EV. 3327.
Make your reservations at once. The charge is 50 cents per person.
Great   Change   Has   Taken
Place  At Bellefaire, The
Jewish Orphan's Home
Dr.  A.  B,  Grossmsin  Reports Great Improvement in Chil¬ dren in New Home
CLEVELAND, 0.~lf Qiarlcs Dick¬ ens, who painted .such an unforgetable word picture of orphan life in Oliver Twist, would come to town, he would find that not only have child caring in-: stitutions undergone a radical change, bnt that the children in these institutions have changed aL^io.
This was evident in the report pre¬ sented this week by Dr. A. B. Grossman, physician in charge of Bellefaire, the Jewish Orphans Home, at Fairmount and Bel voir Road, an agency of the Jewish Welfare Federation, to Samuel Gross, chairinan of the local board.
The reiiort is the first made since the children were moved a little.more than a >car ago from the brick buildings at Wooflland Avenue and East 5-ith Street to the model cottage type home.
"Ten years ago about 20 per cent, of the children in the Jewish Orphahs' Home showed evidence of malnutrition, that is they were seven per cent or more under-; weight," Gross explained today.
"This " year   Dr.   Grossman's   report. shows that the number has been reduced ¦ to but six per cent of the total number of children under care.
"A survey in an eastern city reported as high as 40 per cent of the total num¬ ber of children in a certain district of wealthy homes as being malnourished. A survey in a certain public school shows that 18 per cent of the total number of children are undernourished."
"Bellefaire shows a most encouraging. condition as to the nutrition of its chil- dreUi" Dr. Grossman's report reads. "One of the reasons is that great care is taken in the selection' of foods. The diet represents a well-balanced ration, proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
"It is rare to find a child at Belle¬ faire who refuses food, or, in other words has an obstinate lack of appetite, a condition common in a great many private homes. I believe that the psycho-' logical factor enters here," Dr. Grossman explains in his report,
"The cottages at Bellefaire are ar¬ ranged in such a way that children are grouped six and eight at a table; No other attention is paid to any one child while eating and it seems that the child creates its appetite while watching other children  eat.    ¦
"Besides the nutritional gain, I believe the growth factor in the new home to be equally good;" Dr. Grossman points , out. "The children have, made greater increases in growth during the past' year. Their rate of growth has been far better than compared with those during the past, five years.
"This  can  be  accounted  for  by   in¬ creased athletic activities and by living more in the outdoors where they receive plenty of sunshine and pure fresh air," . Dr. Grossman explains.
"Finally, the health of these children has been, far better during their stay in this new home than, in any other perii>4, in the history of the home,
"^Contagion during the past year was a. negligible factor. This is partly due to the preventative medicine and partly perhaps to the regular living. Every child is protected against diphtheria by serum inoculations followed by the Schick test and vaccination. against smallpox. Because of our modern hos¬ pital facilities and equipment we arc able to use stricter quarantine and iso¬ lation methods," Dr. Grossman con¬ cluded.
TUNE    IN    ON    RABBI
JACOB   TARSHISH
TOMORROW
The 21st of a series of radio sermons will be broad¬ cast from the Bryden Road Temple tomorrow (Sunday) at 11 a. m.
The theme of the rabbi's address will be "Knute K. Rockne—^May He Rest in Peace,"
The radio addresses of Rabbi Tarshish have evoked responses from all over the state; even folk from neigh¬ boring states have sent in letters expressing their ap¬ preciation. The officers of the Temple want to make it clearly understood that the Sunday services are inter¬ denominational in character and are open to the general public.