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COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918
No. 3
FRENCH JEWS ARE
DOING THEIR BIT
The Jevvs of' France are do¬ ing their bit for their country and the French nation is proud of them,. according to Marcol Knocht, general delegate of the French . Naiiorial , Committee. Who is touring the United States and addressing Organiza¬ tions on "The Effort of Prance arid Her Allies." The French nation was deeply tpuched, he says, when a. declaration of sympathy signed by Rabbi Stephen.S. Wise; Dr. Alexander Lyons, Prof. Richard Gottheil and other prominent American Jews, was sent before Ameri¬ ca's entrance into war.
Although the Jewish populia- tion of France is only about 80,000, the Jewish people are playing a prominent part in all war activities, he says. The Jews of Alsace-Lorraine have been exceedingly loyal tb France and many of them left that coun¬ try at the outbreak of the war to enlist in the French army.
"The heroism of-Capt. See, Lieut. Enos, Capt. Bloch, son of the Grand Rabbi of Nancy who has just come from the front to America to aid in training your soldiers, has been highly commended by the French nation," continued M. Knecht.
"The proof of the great spirit of sacrifice of the Young Jews is given iU' a recently issued book called 'Los Divorsos Fam- . ilioS Spirituelles de La Frante,' by Maurice Barres, a prominent French academician, who some • years ago was a bitter anti- Semite.
"He describes the heroic death of young Lieut. Roth- stein in 1916, a Zionist, who had received a cross of the Legion of Honor. Lieut. Robert Hertz, professor of philosophy at the College of Douay, son of a Ger¬ man Jew/ proved his love to his adopted country by being killed in 1915 in Lorraine.
"In the Vosges, where the American troops are now sta- ¦ tiohed, near the small city of saint Die, one Sabbath morning the ambulance corps of 14 units was bombarded by German ar¬ tillery. Many were wounded; I one Catholic .just about to die ' begged for a crucifix, he asked it of Rabbi Bloch, Jewish chap¬ lain. Dr. Bloch brought him one and two minutes after the Rabbi wa^ killed by,a bursting shell. He died in the arms of a CathoKc chaplain, who had just arrived. Only three months ago. Dr. Rueff, Rabbi pf Verdun who volunteered in the French army even though he was fifty-four years old, was killed by a German shell when he was helping the wounded.
,It is a.Jew, M. Klotz, who is the financial minister of France, it is a jew, M. Ogaaze, deputy from Paris who is the right hand man of Premier Chemen- ceau.' 'Another Jew, M. Aliame, of the Chamber of Deputies, is a member of the Cabinet. Jews in the Parliament are doing wonderful work. Then there is Joseph Reinach, of Le Figaro; a staunch supporter of the Gov¬ ernment; Deputy Picart, where the Ameirican, troops arc quar¬ tered; M. Bokanowski, member of the Parliamerit, who was ^^- cently awarded le croix do guerre for his bravery on board a French transport which returning from Salonica was 'torpedoed.
JEWISH BOYS TO HAVE
CLUBHOUSE AT CAMP
Jewish bOys at Camp Sher- rrian soon Will have the benefits of a Jewish welfare building.,
Dr. Leon Goldrich, New York field secretary of the Jewish welfare board, Said in an adr dress in Temple Israel last Tues¬ day night that he had ; placed plans for the Camp Sherman building in the hands of Rabbi Joseph S. Kornfeld and it will be erected in the next month.
In the last six months Dr. Goldrich has visited 25 canton¬ ments east of the Mississippi and in Texas, living with the Jewish boys. The thing the boys wish above aU else that is not provided them is Jewish prayer books, he said. A million dol¬ lars raised for the benefit of the Jews in camP by the Welfare League is being spent rapidly he said and Another $1,000,000 will be asked soon. '   The   speaker   explained   how
THE WORKS AND AIMS OF
THE JEWISH WELFARE BOARD
60,000 Men In the Army and Navy Being Looked After
The ¦ works and aims of the Jewish Welfare Board—U. S. Army and Navy in aiding the 60,000 Jewish men in service, .vas told by Chester Jacob Tel¬ ler, Executive Director of the xJoard, at the thirty-first annual meeting of the Jewish Publica¬ tion Society, of America, held recently at Philadelphia. Like ,he Y. M. C. A. and K. of C, the Welfare Board is striving to jatisfy the soldier's needs, to jomfort and enhearten them and to care for their religious wants.
Mr. Teller .stated that the War Department had bidden the Jewish Welfare Board to "min¬ ster to your 60,000 Jewish men
English is taught by competentji in the light of their Jewish tra- soldiers   and   how   badly   it is^ ditions and as heirs to your com-
needed in certain camps. Boys have been sent to the guard¬ house for disobeying orders, Jie said, because they were not familiar enough with the Eng¬ lish language. In , some - camps the commanding officer has or¬ dered an hour taken from drill each day for the study of ele¬ mentary English.
The Jewish welfare board in¬ tends to do for Jewish boys in camp what the Y. M. C. A. does for Protestants and the Kmghts of Columbus for Catholics. There are 61,000 Jews in the cantonments—15,000 are in one camp in New York. There are 3000' at Kelly aviation field at San Antonio, Tex.
NEW FRATERNITY
Columbus has a new Jewish frat^nit;^ of high" school boys. The Phi Beta S5gma is to be a' social fraternity for the purpose of bringing the young people to¬ gether. , ¦     .     *
Meetings have been held at the homes of the boys iri al¬ phabetical order but they have applied for.rooriis in the Her- mi b n e SchonthaJ Memorial. Members are: ¦
Sampson Rosenfield, presi¬ dent; Abram Weiler, vice presi¬ dent; Eugene Block, secretary; Albert Kornfield, treasurer; Jo¬ seph Topper, sargeant-at-arms; Elnjier Steinhauser, Meyer Mit- nitsky, Louis Basch, Irvin My¬ ers, Marcus Wolf, Harry Gitlin. - Pledges-are: Arthur Taylor, Lewis Caplan, Nathan Bernstein
The chairmen* of the. com¬ mittees are as follows: Enter- tainmerit, Meyer Mitnitsky; Decoration, Albert Kornfield; Literary, Louis Basch; Printing, Harry Gitlin; Finance, Albert Kornfeld; Affairs, Albert Korn¬ feld; Sick, Elmer Steinhauser; Membership, Abram Weiler.
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In opening his-address, Mr. Teller praised the Publication Society, saying that since early boyhood > he had been taught to regard it as the embodiment of the intellect and spirit of the Jewish Community of America. He continued in part:
"The Publication Society has been largely instrumental in making out of the millions of American Jews a community of American Jews. It has helped to give a soul to the collective life. It was but fitting, there¬ fore, that it should play its dis¬ tinctive role „in the latest enter¬ prise of our American Jewry— this war enterprise—this work of welfare that we are perform¬ ing for the Jewish men in the Army and Navy."
religious message is particularly poignant   at   the   embarkation camps where the air is serious and tense and iriany are the men Who seek out the camp Rabbi when   the   day   of   departure comes for the land overseas, to ask that a Jewish blessing be^ spoken over their heads. In this the Welfare Board has a solemn duty, the duty of mobilizing the entire Rabinats of the country to meet the religious needs of the vast camp convocations. Thanks to the good offices of our Com¬ mittee on Chaplains under the leadership of Dr. Cyrus Adler, the U. S. Government has ap¬ pointed Jewish chaplains in sev¬ eral of the larger camps, while civilian Rabbis in growing num¬ bers are daily affiliating with the work, some taking up their residence in the camp as reg¬ ularly appointed field represen¬ tatives, others rendering temp¬ orary service of a month or two, while still others, representing a larger proportion of the entire Rabbinical body, are more or less reglar visitors in the eighty- seven camps and naval stations where Jewish services is being performed.
"Besides this service of re¬ ligion, there is yet another Jew¬ ish niatter with which the Board must especially concern itself— one that springs not so much out of pur sense of God's fatherhood as from our instinct of Israel's brotherhood. It is a crisis which our men are passing, and as in every crisis of life, blood' calls unto   blood, brother unto
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JEWISH LOYALTY
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now hotter thaV. ever before what America means. The Pre¬ sident has made that clear for all time. 'Self-determination of peoples' is'his undying phrase- not only self-government, but free self-realization for every man. In giving full expression to our best selves^as Jews, We are not only better Jews, we be¬ come better Americans.
"What are the distinctive sentiments of the Jewish gfoUp with regard to the fighting men it has given to the nation? First, obviously, is the religious senti¬ ment. No one will deny that in matters religious we have a dis¬ tinctive character. In war this distinctiveness assumes new meanings. The soldier—parti¬ cularly the new made soldier— wants the solace of religion as he wants his food and raiment. He. wants to pray his traditional prayers and sing his traditional melodies.    This craving of the
UKRAINE RADA CHECKS
PROGROMS
service that come to our repre¬ sentatives seem almost un¬ limited.
"Hospital, bases, guard house cases, real ,or. fancied injustice, business, matters, insurance and pay allotment, questions, the writing and transmission of let¬ ters,-questions of ethics ot con¬ science, military matters, family troubles, loneliness, dejection— not a phase or. element, in the whole range of hiiman difficulty and distress that is not brought before the welfare workers ever day and every hour. Fre¬ quently a soldier desires noth¬ ing more than an extended hand or word of cheer.
"A^ a recent meeting of of¬ ficers of the Jewish Chatauqua Society aind of the Jewish. Wel¬ fare Board plans were formulat¬ ed for circuit lectures' under our auspices. Relations of a friend¬ ly character have been develop¬ ed with the Independent Order
of B'nai Brith, whose com¬ munity work at a number of points adjacent to the camps, has been of inestimable service to the men on leave.
"One by one every Community is affiliating with the Welfare Board as a local branch. Today fifty cities or towns have their branches, among the first of which was the Philadelphia branch. The work of our many branches is a very inspiring thing to contemplate.
"There are communities today in which the whole of life has -been revolutionized for the sold¬ ier's sake.   Thousands of fam¬ ilies are giving daily of , their affections, their time and their means for  the  soldiers'  good. These Jewish homes are true welfare ^stations and no accoiint of our spiritual assets Would be complete withput reference to them.   "Three months ago our organized   branches   numbered twenty.  Today, there are fifty. This rapid extension of our in- ^uence is due almost exclusively to the efforts of our chairman. Colonel Harry Cutler and to our field secretary, Dr. Leon Gold- rich.
"The corps of workers in the camps is rapidly growing. Three months ago they .numbered forty., They were our pioneers. Today there are one hundred, and by mid-summer we shall have two hundred.
"Like the Red Cross> the Fos- dick Commission, the Y. ,M. C. A., the,K. of C. and all the other associations which have sprung from the people of this Republic iri'these lwMve"mbrithS. pastj Tfie Jewish Welfare Board is a heal¬ ing agency. It heals the bodies of our boys, it heals their spirits. It rationalizes the new life for them as well as,that may be done. It attempts to make life normal, good and wholesome, to satisfy their needs, whatever they may be, to soothe, to com¬ fort and enhearten them, to in¬ terpret as far as we are able the high tasks that the war has made ours.
"God grant that when the day of redemption has truly "come and the world will have been de¬ livered from the plagues o.f in¬ humanity, in all its forms, we shall find that in truth we have passed from darkness to day¬ light, from bondage to freedom. It is in the hopes 6t the Great Community of tomorrow that we labor. May God bless the work of our hand ahd our hearts — that we labor not in vain.
INDUSTRIAL WORK FOR
Y. M. AND Y. W. H. A.'S
"Our hearts swell with pride as we count the number of stars on the service flags suspended within our synagogues," said the Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf of Philadelphia, last Sunday morning in his lecture on "The Loyalty of the Jew." He said the destiny of the American Jew is bound up with that of the United Stixtes.
"One English paper tells of eight of one Jewish family, of 17 sons and grandsons of an¬ other Jewish family, of seven sons of a Jewish mother, having volunteered their service to their country," Dr. Krauskopf said. "Another of the papers of Eng¬ land enumerates .more than 300 Jewish commissioned officers— four colonels, 17 majors, 59 cap tains,. 131 lieutenants, and, in addition, two coihmodores and a goodly number of other officers in the navy.
"A French paper enumerates more than 250 Jewish officers who laid down their lives in the dpfense of theiri. country, the last words of somte of them hav¬ ing been expressions of regret that they had only one life to offer.
"The papers of Russia, chary as they were prior to the revolu¬ tion in saying things favorable to Jews, found their patriotism so remarkable that they could not keep -from singing its praises. They speak of more than 300,000 Jews serving in the Russian army."
DR.
WISE COMPARES WILSON WITH LINCOLN
New York.—Abraham Lin¬ coln and 'Woodrow Wilson were paralled in comparison by the
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preaching to the Free Syna¬ gogue, in Carnegia Hall. He talked on "Lincoln the Legend and the Man Wilson," saying:, ¦
".Lincoln moved cautiously; so does Wilson. Lincoln took the long view; so does Wilson. Lin¬ coln lifted war to a. higher level; so does Wilson. Lincoln won the war and ended slavery; Wilson will win the war and end war."
Dr. Wise declared it is the manifest duty of every Ameri¬ can to. stand back bf the Presi¬ dent, and concluded:
"Let us give our loyalty, our whole-hearted, • our great-heart¬ ed support to Woodrow Wilson, American and man."
Jew   of.  Shanghai   Will   Build Hospital in Jerusalem
also appropriated funds, for the relief of the Jews suffering from the riots.
The quick action of the Rada The   recurring   anti-Jewish | military authorities prevented a riots in many towns and villages -serious pogrom in Kiev. Hordes
in southern Russia aroused the leaders bf the Ukraine Rada to action. A comniission, which the Rada sent to the town of Skvir, where an anti-Jewish riot receritly occurred, plaq'ed under arrest all the officials of the town as well as the leaders of militia. The investigation showed that the municipal authorities knew of the preparations for the po¬ grom and took no steps to pre¬ vent it and that some of the town riiilitia actually partic¬ ipated in the riots.   The Rada
of Bolsheviki adherents orgariiz'- ed a pogrom on the Jews there, but the Ukraine troops Soon "learned of this and came in full fOrce into the Jewish quarters and dispersed the crowds. • Riots against Jews come up daily in every part of Russia.- These are ostensibly made as revenge on the Jews who are re¬ puted to have food and clothing stOTed up, in theif shops. Most of these result in loss of life and destruction of much Jewish pro¬ perty.
ZETA BETA TAU BOYS
IN THE SERVICE
BIBLES FOR JEWISH
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
Mr. E. S. Kadoorie, a leading merchant of, Shanghai and an active Zionist is pret)ared to build a hospital in Jerusalem at a minimum cost of $50,000. Mr. Kadoorie, who has made this offer to the English Zionist Fed¬ eration binds himself to in¬ crease this amount if it is not sufficient to cover the cost of thc) proposed institution.
Mr. Charles C. SiJ^mons has been elected a member of the board of directors of the Detroit Board of Commerce for the com¬ ing year. He is the third Jewish citizen of the city to bo thus honored, the other two members of the same official body being Fred M. Butzel and David A. Brown.
The Jewish World, the Phila¬
delphia (Pa.) Yiddish paper, now appears twice daily—morn¬ ing and afternoon. This is the first Yiddish newspaper to have both a morning and evening edi¬ tion.
The latest addition to the In dependent Order B'nai B'rith, is South Bend Lodge No. 24, insti¬ tuted at. South Bend, Ind., last month.
Lieutenant Leon Yassenoff, Waco, Texas
Sol Yassenoff, 13th Aerial Squad, France.
Stanley D. Koch, Hoffman's Island, New YorkJ
Arnold Deutch, Reserve Of- ficei-s Training Camp, Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Harvey Weiss, Base Hospital Corp, Camp Sherman.
L. Morrey Greenstein, Eng¬ ineer, Camp Funston, Ariz.
Ned Gross, Camp Sherman.
Benjamin Shiffman, Machine Gun Co., Camp Sheridan, Mont¬ gomery, Ala.
Ralph Gross, Camp Sherman.
Lieutenant Sam Cohen in a Base Hospital at Covingtpn, Ky.
Sergeant-Ma j or  A Bergman, Signal Corps, Head¬ quarters Division, Camp Sheri¬ dan, Ala.  ,
Arnold Shapiro, Medical Corp Base Hospital, Camp Sherman.
Mortimer Freedman, Ord¬ nance Dept., Camp Sherman.
Henry Grenberger and Ralph Levinson, Ordnance Dept., De¬ troit, Mich.
Lieut. Irving Kline, Camp Meade, Md.
Dewey Brumburgh, Some¬ where in France. /
Joseph Blum, Headquarters Co, Battalion 14, Camp Green- leaf, Fort Oglethrope.
Herman Felsman and Lieut. Samuel Edelman in list of local boys.
The Jewish Publication Sp- ciety of America, whose head¬ quarters are in Philadelphia, has just issued, for Jewish soldiers and sailors in the service of the United States, a handy volume entitled, "Readings From the Holy Scriptures."
It consists of 276 pages and
The Council of Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associa¬ tions, with headquarters in New York city, has just sent out the following attached communica¬ tion to 108 of its coristituent or¬ ganizations, located in .or near industrial centers: To the Constituent Associations of the  Council   of  Young Men's Hebrew and Kindred Associations: A problem which is becoming of increasing   importance   and which must be met by the asso¬ ciation, whenever it is a com- munal force or is the community center, is the problem of the large  number' of  non-resident workers being called to certain localities through the establish¬ ment of new plants working on war contracts.
This work which must be done for the non-resident iem- ploye in such plants, is parti¬ cularly work for the assodiation. The following is merely a sug¬ gestive outline for a method of approach to this work. Of course the association must, in the first place, determine through in¬ vestigation whether there are any such plants in its locality, and whether it has the facilities or the workei^s to undertake the work of all..
1. A, serious problem which has ariseri in many localities is the problem of ^housing. That problem will remain with us to a considerable extent, in spite of the housing legislation of .Con¬ gress. Your association should, therefore, list, with particular reference to the non-resident Jewish worker, all the housing facilities in the community. It should ,alaa jnakft-a_list resident Jewish workers of kos¬ her restaurants and of syna¬ gogues and temples.
2. These lists must be kept, preferably through a card index systom, up to date, and must, be available for use whenever necessary.
3. Workingmen in the war plants should be invited to the association. While it is impos¬ sible in this work, as in the sold¬ ier welfare work, to discrimin¬ ate, it is nevertheless essential that the problem of the Jewish worker be met adequately.
4. With the consent of per¬ sons in charge, it may be pos-. sible for the association to post notices in factories, yards, etc., giving in some detail notices of the association's activities.
5. Should the posting of such notices he not permitted, and even if they are permitted, it would be advisable to print an¬ nouncements of the association's .- work, activities and message of welcome to the industrial work¬ ers, on small slip;«> which might be inserted in the pay envelopes..
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Bernai?d contains   considerable   portions such as the newspapers, hand-
Plans under way for several weeks have culminated in the formation of the ten leading Jewish communal organizations in Syracuse, N. Y., under the title of "Federation for the Sup¬ port of Jewish Philanthropic So¬ cieties of Syracuse,"
After several years of ener¬ getic work on the Council Board in Alexandria, Qanada, Mr. George Simon has been unanim¬ ously chosen as Alexandria's mayor.
from nearly every book of the Bible, each selection being com¬ plete in itself.
The next used is that of the new translation of the Bible is¬ sued by the society. The book measures 3x5 inches, is bound in flexible cloth, printed on Bible paper, weighs less than two ounces, and will admirably meet the requirements of Jews in the service.
These Bibles are being dis¬ tributed by the society free of charge through the Jewish Board for Welfare Work. The Jewish Publication Society of America will be glad to supply this volume to any Jew in the service.
The society has also issued and distributed 40,000 copies of the Abridged Prayer Book with¬ out charge .to Jewish soldiers and sailors. It is expected that about 120,000 copies of these books, 60,000 of each, will be re¬ quired to meet the present de¬ mand.
bills, etc., would, pf course, be appropriate and necessary.
7. Non - resident workers should be invited to mass enter¬ tainments and community func¬ tions of the association.
8. They should be invited particularly to religious serv¬ ices.
9. The association should of¬ fer to factory, mill and yard executives nearby the facilities of the association at specified' times for the purposes of teach¬ ing Americanization and teach¬ ing English to foreigners, parti¬ cularly for teaching these sub¬ jects to Jef^ish workers,
10. A director and a com¬ mittee should be appointed to handle this work, and some one definitely made responsible for it, should the work be under¬ taken at all. The appointment of such a director is essenti^U.
11. This work may take i;b& place of the peace time Anierl- canization work of your amo' elation.    .
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