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COLUMBUS, OHIO^ FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918.
COMMUNITY HONORS
DEPARTING SELECTS
In Inspiring Farewell Reception, Columbus Jewry Pays Tribute to
Jewish Draftees
The Jewish community of Co¬ lumbus met on Tuesday evening at Memorial Hall to do honor to the Jewish boys who are leaving with the next draft quota during the next week. A representative audience of Columbus Jewish citizens, orthodox and reform, gathered on that occasion to unite in the spirit of God-send to the boys of the faith who are embarking on the "great advent¬ ure."
The evening's program was opened Avith the singing of "Am-
ing their home fires in order to oedicate their lives to the love und defence of their country; in order to consecrate their lives to Ihee, that humanity may wor¬ ship Thee, long-suffering, merci- lui, just peace-loving, and truth- loving God, and to dethrone the Satans and demons who in their ghastliness are seated upon a throne whose props are villainy, treachery, cruelty and barbarity, and who ''would dominate the world and be a constant menace to the peace and happiness of mankind, who would spread •hatred, blood, fire, and sword
that the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union had contributed .$150,000 to the re¬ lief fund. , A contribution of $20,000 from the Workmen's Circle also was announced.
D. Gara told delegates how Cleveland raised $11,000,000 for the Victory Chest.' Dr. Boris Bogen, who recently returned from Europe related the hard¬ ships Jews are suffering in war- stricken lands.
In Warsaw, he said 64,000 Jewish children are prevented from attending school because of the lack of food and clothing. Abraham Raisin, Scholan Asch, and Rabbi A. H. Silver also spoke.
No. 13
Annual Su iday School Picnic
The annul 1 Sunday School pic- nid will be hold this year, the second Sum ay in July.
FINNNISH JEWS
NOT EMANCIPATED
erica" by the entire assembly.
The opening prayer was given j among the children of men. by Rabbi David M. Shohet. \    Thou, Oh God, knowest
"All-powerful and all-merciful God, again we approach Thee . with humble heart to invoke Thy blessings upon this gathering, who in behalf of the entire com¬ munity have gathered here to say a parting word of courage and cheer to bid farewell and God-speed to those now rea.dy to luave their peaceful pursuits and occupations of life; to those leav-
IMPORTANT MEETING
OF ZION LODGE
the purity of our hearts and the cleanliness of our motives. That we were not preempted to enter this conflict by selfish reasons, or J evil intentions. We have enter¬ ed solely in the name and cause of honor, justice, peace, and truth. Of these truths we are now convinced more than ever before.
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Monday  Evening,. June  24th- Discussion    of    "Shall    Zion • Lodge Have Its Own Home?" Large Class Initiation.
JEWS OF BAGDAD
SLAUGHTERED
Turks and Germans Accused of Outrages in Mesopotamia— British Army Sees Mutilated Bodies Floating in Tigris River.
sufferings of the Armenians, Arabs, Jews and Greeks will then be found to" fill one of the most horrible pages in history.
HADASSAH LAWN PARTY
The brutal maltreatment of the Jews in Palestine under the Turkish regime is known to all the world, but little has hitherto -been heard of the.outCQg^LPXac- ticed in Mesopotamia.
A correspondent who accom¬ panied the British Army into Mesopotamia   reports , that all the Jews of Bagdad were order¬ ed to hand in their gold and silver   money   and   they were given notes in exchange., These notes were already depreciated and this sudden flooding of the market  with  additional  paper created chaos.   Inevitably with the paper currency so debased as this, the whole credit system collapsed and trading became al¬ most, impossible.    The Turkish government became annoyed at . this and sharply rebuked the lo¬ cal officials.   The latter resolved to T^emove this stigma on their efficiency by very typical means. They summoned a number of rich Jews tb the Court of the Perfect of Police one night and accused them ofitraffiking in the notes^ which was construisd as a deliberate attempt to impair the credit of the Turkish govern¬ ment.   The Jews were tortured, murdered,, and their bodies were thrown into the Tigris.    Some of their multilated bodies after¬ wards floated ashore.   All this was discovered when the British entered Bagdad.
In the case of the persecutions at Aivali, says the correspond¬ ent, it was found beyond all doubt that these had been direct¬ ly instigated and organized by the Germans. The Turks even , owned to this. There is little doubt that these atrocities on the Jews are indirectly the work of the same hand. Doubtless their suggestions find a ready wel¬ come at Constantinople. A Ger¬ man General is in supreme com¬ mand at Aleppe and his consent would have to be gained. There is nothing that the Germans would dislike more than that Palestine should become the of¬ ficial home of Jewry, and that it " should become so through Brit¬ ish large-heartedness made pos¬ sible by British victories. Some time in the future when the full history of Turkish cruelty will become known, he concludes the
Tuesday Evening, July 2nd
COME ONE, COME ALL!
Where?    .    *
To the lawn party to be held Tuesday evening, July 2 on the lawn adjoining the Agudath Achim. Synagogue corner .Wash¬ ington- Avenue and Donaldson Street. This lawn party will be given by the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah and the proceeds will be used in extending and promoting Hadassah work.
Zion Lodge. I/-Os O. B. will hold an impOTtant meeting on Monday evening in its new quarters at the Southern Hotel. The meeting will be marked by an important discussion as to whether Zion Lodge sh6uld have its own home. This matter has been talked of considerably, and formal discussion of this topic will be held at the meeting. Class Initiation
A class initiation will be a feature of the Monday evening meeting.
TEMPLE TIFERETH ISRAEL
Patriotic Service—Roll of Honor —Ladies' Lawn Fete—An¬ nual'Picnic: -
Patriotic Services .and the dedication of a service flag will take place Sunday, June 30th at 2:30. The Tifereth Israel Alumni Association of the Red Committees on arrangements! Cross unit in uniform, the Sun-
and refreshments are busily eui- gaged at the present time in the effort of making this law party a great success. The members of the "^Hadassah have voluntarily contributed prizes, cakes and other refreshments to be raffled and sold at this parly. It is ex¬ pected by those in charge that all the money received from the sal^ of tickets will be clear pirofit. For this reason it is hoped that a large number of tickets will be sold, as buying a ten, cent ticket will mean that one hundred per cent of that ten cents is added to the fund for Hadassah work.
Already there has -been a ready and willing response in the way of selling tickets, but in order that something really sub¬ stantial may be done for our destitute and sick brethren in Palestine, the number of tickets sold by now, will have to be, multiplied many tinies more.
The Hadassah extends a cord¬ ial invitation to the general pub¬ lic to attend this party, and tak¬ ing advantage of this invitation, will mean both a good tipie to all those in attendance and a great help to our' brethren. It is, therefore, urged—Come ye, one and all.
FIVE RELIEF WORKERS FOR EUROPE
Five representative Jews ,of the United States will be sent in the near future to the war reg¬ ions of Europe to take personal charge of relief work among the stricken co-religionists.
This decision was reached at the Jewish People's Relief Con¬ vention meeting in Cleveland last weeik.
One hundred and eight dele¬ gates from aU parts of the coun¬ try have attended the cottven- tion.    One delegate announced
day. and daily schools will attend in a bbdy. • The service flag will be presented by the Ladies' Aux¬ iliary of the 'Temple. The pro gram has been arranged as fol¬ lows ;
1. ' Entrance of the Different Organizations.
2. Song — Star    Spangled Banner.-Alumni (31 voices)
3. Address	
 Mayor (jeorge J. Karb
4. Declaration   of  Independ¬ ence  Eleanor Reed
5. Prayer   For   Welfare   of Country Rabbi Shohet
6. Lincoln's  Gettysburg  Ad¬ dress  Emilie Goldstein
7. President Wilson's Decla¬ ration of War	
 Evelyn Friedenberg
8. Address   "The . Army   at
Home" ...:	
Mr. Edwin J. Schanfarber
9. Song—Over There..Alumni (Helen Roth at the Piano)
10. Dedication   of   Service Flag Rabbi Shohet
11. Song—^"Marsellaise"	
 Alumni
12. Song—"America"	
  Entire Assembly
Temple Tifereth Israel's Roll of Honor
Martin Breftder, Frank Bayer, Samuel Boyer, Theodore Gold¬ stein, Harry Office, Lawrence Office, David Pastor, Louis Pol¬ ster, Oliver Roth, Samuel Was- serstrom, Abraham Weinfeld, Sigmund Welber, Herman Waif, Samuel Herman, and Benjamin Fuerst.
It is requested that Rabbi Shohet be notified before the flag is purchased which will. be on Wednesday, if omission has been made of any name. ' .    Lawn Fete
The annual lawn fete will be given this year by the liadies of the Temple on Sunday evening, June 30th.
Rejoicing, of the emancipation of the Jews in Finland is still somewhat (premature.   The Fin¬ ish Diet passed a bill a month ago   grantihg  emancipation  to the   Jew.   'Now,   however,   the Ministry refuses to ratify the bill, and tlrerefore it is not yet law, and may not be enacted for a long tinle,. if at all.    Affairs have changed in Finland since the bill was passed, and under the new  conditions  the  demo¬ cratic spirit is weakening rather than growing 'stronger.   When the bill was passed the Bolshe¬ viki in Russia were strong and the   influence   of   their revolu¬ tionary doctrine must have been felt in the north.  Since then the Red Guard has attacked Finland, and Germany-came 'to its aid. The Finnish White guard has by now, defeated the Bolsheviki and there is rumor of a monorchy being. established in its place. That;a nation as progressive po¬ litically as the Finns were can think in this modern day of set¬ ting up a monarchy is in, itself a disheartening fact, but it is still sadder for us, if it means a set¬ ting back of the clock as far as rights o:^ the Jews are concerned. There seems to be no peace for the Jews in Russia.    Now that the Bolsheviki have at least become more friendly to them, a  new  element has  arisen to plague   them.   The   Bolsheviki started vnth an. indifference to Jewish .suffering at the hands of the Russian mobs, and at last has come to pass resolutions and to alppoint a- commission to edu cate the Russian masses against continuation of such atrocities. Now,  however,  thC' anarchists ate engineering riots against the Jews.   In Vitebsk the anarchists started a movement to exclude the Jews from all government offices and from all government institutions.   To accomplish this result they carefully planned a riot,   which  was   to break out simulatneously all over the city of Vitebsk.   The riots, however, were suppressed by the Bolshe¬ viki Red Guard. The first report of the Red Guard being used for such a purpose.    Seven of the anarchist   rioters   were   killed, and twenty of them were wound ed.   The Moscow soviet then ap¬ pointed a commission to educate the Russian masses against con • tinning its , pograms.   The Bol¬ sheviki have at last awakened to the need of law and order, and may perhaps develop thi power to carry it out.
forth many a tale of woe, some real, others fancied.
As, for instance, a young Jew¬ ish lad came to me asking me to intercede in his behalf with his Company Commander that he should be given a couple of days or so leave of absence' so that he might go to Baltimore and get married. This request was prev¬ iously refused.
"I asked the Lieutenant what objection he had," he went on to say, "to my marrying the girl," and the Lieutenant said: "She isn't good looking enough."' 'You see I had her to the dance at the camp." Here I ask6d him: "How many years have you been keeping company with this girl?" "Years!" he exclaimed. "Why, I have known her two long weeks and know all about her." , -
The fact is that various sinis¬ ter designs by profligate girls on men in uniform have been un¬ earthed and brought to light by government investigators, and it is such simple, unsophisticated boys such as he that get "roped in." But these calls for personal advice and guidance are made less frequent as the work of the Welfare Board becomes more or¬ ganized and as able leaders, men who know youth, are stationed at the various camps.
Such a leader and friend of the boys we have at this camp iri Mr. Schamberg of Philadel¬ phia, an idomitable tireless worker, a man who understands boys and is in the game for the love of it; a leader who co-ordi¬ nated the various factions in Washington doing Welfare Work into a solid, compact or¬ ganization that is looking out for the needs of all soldiers, and not for a lucky few.
No more do we have, soldiers overstaying their leave and corn- day, morning sick with indiges- ing iri tired and exhausted Men¬ tion and dissatisfied with life. This was all remedifed by dis¬ couraging invitations to private homes and substituting general entertainments. ¦
On Saturday nights the boys come to the Y. M. H. A. and "sign up." For ¦ twenty-five cents they get a night's lodging in a clean comfortable bed. As a rule, there is dancing and en¬ tertainment by local talent dur¬ ing the evening. The program, then, is services Sunday morn¬ ing in one of the several Temp¬ les. The most frequented Temp¬ les by the,boys in Khaki is the one at th? corner of, Eighth and I Streets, where Rabbi Simon officiates. Then comes a dinner at the Y. M. H. A., or at the Town Club, where Mrs. Lyons is often hostess, the idol of all the boys.
Truly a woman of rare tact and intelligence, who, though young in years, really understands boys and in this lies the secret of her popularity.
A social in the Temple vestry in the afternoon, attending in¬ structive and entertaining lec- On arrival at this camp, litures, or as is often the case, tried as in previous stations to! kind benevolent ladies of Wash- acquaint myself with the Jewish' ington come down with their
IMPORTANT ZIONIST CONVENTION
Great Zionist Meet In Pittsburgh, Beginning Sunday, June 23rd
The twenty-first convention of the Zionist Organization of America which will open in Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Hall, Pittsburg, on June 23d, for deliberations lasting until the following Thursday evening, will be the greatest Zionist gathering presided ever assembled in America.
The purpose of this conven¬ tion is to outline plans for the development of the national Jew¬ ish homeland in Palestine, made possible by the British, French, Italian and Greek declarations in favor of the project.
The Zionists have the official declarations of the European Al¬ lies on which to base the solid foundations of the homeland which they hope will one day be established in Palestine. Im^ portant preliminary steps, in¬ cluding the establishment in Jerusalenf of an administrative commission, authorized by Great Britain have already beeri taken. .The greatest interest will de- velope on Monday and Tuesday evenings, June 24th( and 25th, when the delegates, representing the different Zionist groups within the movement wijl gather in joint conference to discuss the vital questions concerning Pales¬ tine.
The Monday evening session, will be opened by an address by Dr. Stephen' S. Wise, chairman of the Provisional Zionist Com¬ mittee. Mr. Jacob de Haas, Sec¬ retary of the same committee, will present the Palestine pro¬ gram as a whole. Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Administrator of U. S. War-Labor Activities, will present a paper on the Political and Legal Fundations of the Jewish-State; Dr. N. I. Stone, Federal Statistician, will discuss the Economic Foundations of the Jewish State.
The Tuesday evening session will continue thie discussion of the Palestine program. Mrs. Joseph Fels, the single-tax lea¬ der, will deat with the land, nat¬ ural resources and public utili¬ ties ; Mr. Bernard A. Rosenblatt, of New York, will present a plan for land value taxation and Jew¬ ish labor in Palestine. Education will be handled fr.om the secular and ;religious. aspects. D r. Shmarya Levine will discuss the Hebrew University, which is to
be located on the Mt. of Olives, and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, leader of. the "Mizrachi" the orthodox wing of the Zionist organization will present the question of re¬ ligious education. The opening session will be over   by   Dr.   Harry Friedenwald, President of the Federation of American Zionists at which Judge Julian W. Mack, ' of  the   United   States   Circuit Court of Appeals will present a resolution    defining   the    pro- American and pro-Ally loyalty of the Zionists, which will be seconded   by   Dr.   Stephen   S. Wise.   On- Sunday evening there will be a mass meeting at which the speakers, will employ- only the classic Hebrew language, the language of the Bible, and the language of modern and future Palestine.   Reuben Brainin will preside and Dr. Shmarya Levin and Dr. Ben Zion Mossinsohn vill be the orators.
Included in Monday morning's program, which provides for group sessions, will bfe the sub- convention of Hadassah, the Wo¬ men's Zionist Organization, which has just dispatched a med¬ ical unit of 43 physicians, nurses sanitarians, social Workers and administrators to " Palestine; a conference on the Jewish Legion, which will be led by Major Broo- man-White, of the British-Cana¬ dian Recruiting Mission, and a conference, on the new plan of organization- for the movement in America.
Tuesday's sessions will deal with reports of the management of the various Zionist periodic¬ als, and of the department heads, particularly the departments of' organization and propaganda. The National Fund' Bureau will report at this session. Hadas¬ sah will conclude its.sub-conven¬ tion ori Wednesday when the budget and new constitution will be adopted. This will be follow¬ ed by nomination and election of officers. On Wednesday evening there will be a great demonstra- at the Syrian Mosque, addressed by all the leading Zionist .orators. On Thursday, after the ari- nouncement of the result of the election, the convention will ad¬ journ to make way for the ses¬ sions of the Provisional Zionist Committee. '
JEWISH SOLDIER ~ PRAISES WORKERS
Communication From Meigs
Camp
boys in my command, and with those of othpr organizations. In this camp, it being a quarter¬ master's replacement camp, the percentage of the enlisted men of our faith is even greater than in the Medical Department or the Sanitary Corps.
It seems that with Medical Of¬ ficers the men learn to place their confidence more quickly than with officers of any other branch of the service. They will often address the Medical Corps Lieutenants, Captains or even Majors, as "Doc" and with them they seem to feel perfectly at home. Besides telling of their various bodily ills, they often make the doctor their personal I friend and advisor,  and pour
touring cars and take out groups of boys for a spin out in the country.
So to sum up the benefits de¬ rived from the systematized entertainment versus the home entertainment are:
First, a gi-eater number of men enjoy themselves on their week-end passes to town. True enough, the "personal contact element" is lost, but this is counterbalanced by the fact that more remain true to their "sweethearts back home." Sec¬ ondly, they reach canip in due tipie and don't have to mal^e any lame excuses and get reprimand¬ ed for it. Thirdly, they are not overfed during thieir Sunday's stay in town, and therefore con¬
serve the supply of Epsom Salts in the Camp Infantry. Fourthly they are full of "pep"' Monday morning and feel like working and drilling, and become sold¬ iers in the true sense of the word, •
Respectfully yours, ISRAEL E. RUDMAN, First Lieutenant, M. R. G.
Assistant Camp Surgeon. Office of the Surgeon, Camp Meigs, Washington, D. C.
WORLD LABOR ASKED TO CONDEMN POGROMS
Jewish Labor Council of Great Britain Accuses German and Austrian Censors of Conceal¬ ing Massacres in Occupied Territory.
National Labor Council is in pos¬ session of facts concerning ex¬ cesses in many towns in the ter- ¦ ritory   now   occupied   by   the Austro-German armies.
ZIONIST OFFICE IN
BERLIN RAIDED
All Official Doduments Seized by Police—Zionists in Vienna and Warsaw Arrested.   .
, The executive committee of the Jewish National Labor Coun¬ cil of Great Britain has issued an appeal to labor parties and leaders all over the world asking them to help in putting an end to the anti-Jewish massacres in Poland and Galicia, by publicly condemning them. THe resolu- toin asserts that the censors of Austria and Germany have been at great pains to 'suppress the news of many pogroms which have occured recently in Poland and Galicia. "Nevertheless, the
The offices of the German Zion¬ ist Federation in Berlin have been raided by the police, who spent fourteen hours in micros- , copic investigation of all letters and documents, according to in¬ formation received by the Pro¬ visional Zionist Committee. Two days later some of the confiscat¬ ed papers were returned. The cause for this raid is unknown, but it is believed to be due to a strong suspicion that German Zionists sympathize with the Al¬ lies since the British Declaration in favor of a Jewish Homieland in Palestine.
Raids were also made on pro¬ minent Zionists in Vienna, Lem¬ berg and Warsaw, Their homes were ransacked and all of their papers seized. In Vienna and in Warsaw a number of prominent Zionists were thrown into prison.
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