Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1918-06-07

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRtDAY, JUNE 7, 1918.
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REPORT OF B'MIgRlTH CONVENTION
Of Disirict No. 2 at Akron, Ohio
The sixty-Sixth annual con¬ vention of District No. 2, held in Akron, O.,, was marked by signi¬ ficant and important develop¬ ments. About 150 delegates from the seven states compris¬ ing the district attended.
Rabbi David Lefkowitz of Dayton, delivered the invocation at the opening of the convention, pver which President of the Dis¬ trict, Loiiis J. Borinstein of In¬ dianapolis presided. Addresses by Adolf Kraus, president pf the,,order, and Col. Harry Cut¬ ler, chairman of the Jewish Army and Navy Welfare Board were featyres of the first day.
"The Jews have not forgotten- what America has done for them," declared Colonel Cutler in his address. "Jews here are determined to a record of patrio- - tism and service. Thousands of Jewish boys who came here from Russia to escape military service which was a degradation are ready'now to fight to con¬ serve democracy for hundreds of millions of people the world over for generations to come.
"They know that this is not a war for exploitation or aggrand- , izement but one to advance the ideals and traditions of this country. Thousands of them would have gone to the new Russi^ to save it from the revo¬ lutionists if this country had said the word.*
• The discussion of the welfare situation resulted in the ar¬ rangement that the B'nai B'rith would entirely merge its activi¬ ties with the Welfare Board, but "wolild-continue the - B'-nai-B'rith club houses as heretofore,, in con¬ nection of course with the. Na¬ tional Board.
The work of the General Com¬ mittee was outlined, the reports of the secretary and treasurer showing however, some lack of co-operation from some of the local lodges.
Mr. E. J. Schanfarber, presi¬ dent of the Columbus Lodge, and chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions was re¬ elected to the General Commit¬ tee, as a tribute to his energetic and effective work of the past year.
. One , of the most interesting features of the sessions thus far was an address delivered by Oscar Leoinard, of St. Louis, chairman of the committee on social service, in which he re- counted the efforts of the com¬ mittee to restore to a life of use¬ fulness inmates of pfenal and other like institutions. His ad¬ dress was ordered incorporated in the proceedings.
Rabbi Joseph Leiser, in charge of the Jewish welfare work at Camp Sherman and in Chilli¬ cothe, O., related the work con¬ ducted under his supervision.
Reports of the following com*- mittees we're read and adopted: Education league,' industrial removal and employment, social service, intellectual advancer ment, national and international questions, benevolent institu¬ tions, welfare of order, law, mileage, secretary's and treas¬ urer's report, necrology. ' Mr. Schanfarber spoke on "Social Service" and so highly eulogizing Mr. I. B. Jasheriow- sky of this city, that the mention of his name brought forth storms of applause.
The reports of the secretary and treasurer were followed by the report of the superintendent of Orphan Asylum. At the re¬ quest of the secretary of the or- ,; phan asylum an invitatipn wks extended to the membership of the district to attend the cere¬ monies of its 50th anniversary on July 14 in Cleveland. , , On motion of E.mil Mayer,
Max E. Meisel was nominated trustee of the Jewish Orphan Asylum. Nominations were closed and he was delegated by acclartiation to serve in that cap¬ acity for five years ensuing.
Districts 2 and 6, under whose immediate s u p e r v is i o n the Cleveland Orphan Asylum is maintained, expect to build an¬ other and larger institution. The ground has ibeen purchased and .?73,000 is available, and work will be begun soon.
Memorial services were held Monday in memory of deceased lodge brothers, Leon Bloch and Marx Liebschultz, both past pre¬ sidents of the lodge.
The suggestion that Women's Auxiliary Societies and Junior Organizations be formed was voted down.
"B'nai B'rith Day in all com¬ munities was suggested by the Committee on Intellectual Ad¬ vancement, who maintained that a more general observance of this day would be of great value.
The election of officers result¬ ed as follows: Joseph Selligman, Louisville, president; Sidney G. Kusworm, Dayton, 1st vice-pre¬ sident, Alfred A. Benesch, Cleveland, 2d vice-president; Victor Abraham, Cincinnati, secretary; William Ornstein, Cincinnati, ti'easurer. Mr. Sel¬ ligman succeeds Louis J. Borin¬ stein of Indianapolis as pres¬ ident, Mr. Kusworm succeeds Mr. Selligman as 1st vice-presi¬ dent and Mr. Benesch succeeds Mr. Kusworm as 2d vice-presi¬ dent, Mr. Abraham and Mr. Ornstein were re-elected
in Akron last week will be heard. Smoker and Initiation ,Iunc 24th
The following meeting as scheduled for June 24th will be a. smoker, and will be featured by the initiation of several new members.
GERMANS ABANDON PALESTINE COLONY
EMPLOYMENT   OF   PRISON¬ ERS SUGGESTED
Sarona,/ Most Successful "Temp¬ lar" Settelement in Holy Land Sold at Sacrific to Zionists—- Action Taken as Recognition of British Permanent Hold on Palestine.
Adolph Lewisohn, who is Pre¬ sident of the National Commit¬ tee qn Prisons and Prison Liabor in a, letter to the New York "Times" suggests that the time is ripe for the employment of the inmates of our prisons and reformatories in connection with the war. Man power could therefoi*e be increased in not only using* the services of the prisoners, but a large number of keepers, guards and attend¬ ants could be released for war service, and much valuable,space! used for hospital and other pur¬ poses during the war. ' Mr. Lewisohn, in pointing out the difficulties of such a plan, says that it does not propose the indiscriminate placing of all the prisoners in the army and navy, but that it is to be decided u,pon careful investigation" by compet¬ ent boards which prisoners it would be safe to thus withdraw from prisons and put into gov-- ernment service. ' '
The sale by the "Templar" colonists of Sai'ona, one of the largest German, settlements in Palestine, and which lies be¬ tween Jaffa and Petach TikWah, of all their land and improve¬ ments to the Zionists at: a price far below its actual value, is ac¬ cepted in virell-infqlrmed quarters as an indication thq,t these col¬ onists from the "Vaterland" realize that the English conquest is to be permanent. But, even j though there be no political sig¬ nificance in this sale, it never- I theless, is a source of great satis¬ faction to the Jewish colonists.
JEWISH
DEFENSE ROUTED
CORPS
The Jewish Self-Defense Corps at Kishineff wds suppress¬ ed recently and seventy-three of its members, includihg their leader, M. Weinshelbaum were arrested. M. Margolius, the Jewish member .of the City The' Council was also imprisoned. At
following were elected rhembei^s of the general committee: Louis J. Borinstein, Indianapo¬ lis; Lou M, Frank, Toledo; Harry J. Levi, Cincinnati; Ed¬ win J. Schanfarber, Columbus; Judge Samuel Rosenfeld, St. Louis; Adolph Biccard, Indiana¬ polis; Henry D. Fuerst, Akron.,,
The general committee and of¬ ficers of .the District Grand Lodge will meet in Cleveland on July 14, fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Orphan Asylum in this city. The matter of contributions to the Jewish War Relief. Fund will be taken up.
The next convention of the district will be held in Louis¬ ville, Ky.
ICishirieff,' Tiraspol, Soroki "and Bieltzi, Jews are frequently as¬ saulted in the streets. Many non-Jews who were mistaken for Jews also had sad exper¬ iences in the streets, and on.re¬ sisting' the attacks they were compelled to prove at the police
pledge of $10,000 for the,New¬ ark fund. The State quota will be $400,000, double the 1917 quota, and of this sum Newark will be called on for $100,000. Representatives of all sections of the State pledged that doufele an^. criple the amount raised last year would be' raised this year,
Dr. Bogen told of his exper¬ iences abroad. "Of 60.000 child¬ ren in Warsaw," he said, "only 20,000 can go to school. The others have no. clothes and are too weak to walk. The children there don't cry any more, they don't laugh or play. They have lost the ability to eat." Mr. Bil¬ likopf said the National Com¬ mittee already had $4,000,000 in pledges from, 'forty-five eb'm- munities. • The national fund this year will be $15,000,000 for war relief, and $2,000,000 for work in camps and cantonments'.
Ambassador Morganthau said that the quota for New York city for the last campaign had been set" at $4,000,000,  but a
PASHA AGAIN "EVACUATING" JEWS
Refugees Driven From Pillar to Post and Succumbing to Typus '   ¦ and Starvation.
to whom Sarona has been a.for- ^
midable obstacle in the develop- Pointer made a mistake and the
AMITY CLUB TO GIVE LAWN ,   FETE
Proceeds  to  be  Given  Toward Jewish War Work.
ment  of  the  environments  of Jaffa.
This colony was the particular pride of German colonizing am¬ bition in Palestine, and for the Jewish colonists a serious hind- erance in the development of hteir plans. The "Templars" are regarded as a simple-minded people, moved to settlement in Palestine from sincere religious motives, but. the fact that their colonies have always been estab¬ lished in close contiguity to Jew¬ ish colonies, and generally in locations adroitly chosen- to hinder the expansion of Jewish undertakings.',has long ago brought them under suspicion of being the unwitting tools of the Imperial Governmefit in' ia"plan to thwart the Zionists. The "Templars" are good farmers, and .in the .early stages of the Jewish settlement, their super-
stationery of the committee read $5,000,000.
"Knowing Jacob Schiff's ob¬ jection to waste, Mr. Billikopf asKed him what should be done about the matter." Mr. Morgen¬ thau said. "Mr. Schiff looked at the mistake, shrugged his shoulders, and said: "Well, I guess we had better raise $5,- 000,000 and make good.' "
UNITED
SYNAGOGUE VENTION
CON-
New York.—The Sixth An¬ nual Convention of the United Synagog will be held at the Jew¬ ish Theological Seminary on Sunday morning, June 16, and will continue sessions-"tbrou^ Monday.
Over twenty-five new congre¬ gations have joined the organ¬ ization during the past year.-
Djemal Pasha, the Turkish Military Governor of Palestine, is again making "military neces¬ sity" the pretext for persecut¬ ing the Je-ws in that part of the Holy Land not yet conquered by the British Army. The Pro¬ visional Zionist Committee has received a cable from Lemberg, Gaiicia, which reports the ar¬ rival there of Daniel Auster, formerly a teacher at the Jewish High School in Haifa, who was deported by the Turks to Damas¬ cus. According to Auster, I)je- mal has expelled all the Jews from the colonies and towns near the battle front. Among the victims of his new,persecutions, are 1500 Jews who were pre¬ viously driven from Jaffa to Kfar Saba. Regardless of the fact that about 400 of them are victims of typhlis, and that large numbers are dying daily.
he has deported them, including the sick, 50 miles further inland. They are now located at Kfar- Djemal, Hedera, and Turkerem. This latest expulsion occurred just before the arrival at Kfar Saba of a Sanitary Commission sent froni Jaffa by the Local Jewish Relief Committee to combat the' epidemic of typhus. Auster believes that Djemal Pasha .timed this expulsion to prevent the refugees at Kfar Saba from obtaining relief frPm the epidemic which is destroy¬ ing them. He reppi^ts that" the epidemic is raging also in Safed, where there are at present over 500 Jewish orphans. The fear of further evacuations by order of Djemal Pasha hangs like a black cloud over the 3000 re¬ fugees who were driven from Jaffa to Galilee, although in that section, health and food condi¬ tions are not bad.
SOCIAL SERVICE IN HARNESS
By Oscar Leonard, Chairman Soeiar Service Committee, District
No. 2,1, O. B. B.—Address Delivered at 66th Annual
Convention, Akron, Ohio.
iority, compared to the inexper-1     The most important achieve- ience of the Jews, was marked. | ment .of the United Synagog has
But, in the past few years, and
To Lecture in Camps
The Amity Club has planned a brilliant lawn fete, t'^ be given on the lawn at Washington and Donaldson Streets, on Monday evening. June 10th. The ladies have spared no pains in making- this affair indeed enjoyable, and inasmuch as the proceeds will be turned over to Jewish war work, it is anticipated that it will be weU attended.
Arrangements have been made to hold the fete pn the .following evening, should Monday evening be rainy.  .
stations that they were not Jews.} especially after the sons of the
 :    ¦ ! original   colonists ' began   their
JEWISH   CHAUTAUQUA ^«^«dus   from   the   orient, the VAD   iniQ status   was   reversed,   and the
rUa   lyio "Templars" have latterly been
compelled to have recourse to the scientific skill of the Jew¬ ish farmers.
Several times during the past ten years, the Jews have been at¬ tempted to buy up Sarona, but heretofore their overtures were rejected. The sale, at this time, and at a price much below what has been offered several times in the past, is held to be significant of the early sale of the other "Templar" colonies, namely "Wilhelma' 'and "Bir Salem," both in the neighborhood of Jaffa, with a-tjoint area of 13,538 dunam; -and Bethlehem and Um el Amed, near Nazareth, with a joint area of 1500 dunam.
I. O. B. B. MEETING
June 10th at Hotel Southern- Smoker and Initiation for
, June 24th. ,
, The next regular meeting pf the local lodge I. 0. B. B., will be held on Monday evening, June 10, in the new meeting place, the Cerise Room of the Southern HoteL The flag de¬ dication originally planned for this meeting has been postponed, but there will be a patriotic demonstration. Reports of the delegates to the 66.th annual convention of the district, held
Philadelphia—The J e w i s h Chatauqua Society .announces its work for the summer of 1918 in the University Summer Schools. For nine consective years the society has been send¬ ing instructors and lecturers to present courses on Jewish his¬ tory, thus reaching thousands of persons and • giving them a clearer. and a more accurate knowledge concerning the Jew¬ ish people. The woi'k this year is as follows: . ,
Rutgers College—Dr. Abram Simon of Washington, D. C, two lectures on, 1,, Biblical Idea of Education; 2, Education at the Time of Jesus.
University of Michigan—Rab¬ bi Wolsey of Cleveland, 3 lect- The Hon. Henry Morgenthau, ures on "The Jew in English Lit- former Ambassador to Turkey,, erature" as represented by 1, was the gqest of honor last Sun- Christopher Marlowe, William day  afternopn   at  a   luncheon
NEW   JERSEY   WILL   GIVE .5400,000 FOR WAR RELIEF
been the formation of the Jew ish Woman's League, an organ¬ ization that will help educate the Jewish woman to. her religion and to strengthen the home as a factor for promoting Judaism.
JEWISH   BLIND   PATRIOTIC HOLD RALLY
New York—A patriotic meet-' ing was held Sunday of ' last week under the auspices of the Hebrew Association for the Blind to raise a fund of $25,000 to carry on its work and be pre¬ pared, to care for blind Jewish soldiers returning from France. The meeting was the first to be held in America, where blind persons, unable to take part in war work, gathered to express their loyalty to their countiy.
"EXTRAVAGANCE DOES NOT  MAKE  PROSPERITY- SAVE IN WAR TIME"— ROSENWALD
Shakespeare,and Richard Cum¬ berland ; 2, Walter Scott ami Charles Dickens; 8. Benjamin Disraeli, Robert Browning and George Eliot.
Syracuse University-——Ilab- bi David Lefkowitz of Dayton, O., 3 lectures on, 1, the Liter¬ ature of the Maccabean Period; 2, the Literary Expression of the Oral Tradition in the Mish- na; 3, the Legalism and Ethics of the Talmud, j
University of Virginia—Rab¬ bi Louis Witt of Little Rock, Ark., Aspects oif Judaism—The¬ ological and Modern. :
University, of Nebraska— Rabbi Samuel S; Qohan of Chi¬ cago, 111,, 3 lectures on "Master Builders of Ancient Israel":; 1, ^      (Continued on Page 5.)
given in Newark, N. J., to 150 prominent Jews fI'om all parts of New Jersey, to create interest "in the 1918 campaign for funds for relief of Jews in tl\e war- stricken cpuntries of Europe. Mr. Morgenthau, Dr. Boris Bo¬ gen, of the Jpint Distribution Committee of the Jewish War Relief Funds; Jacob Billikppf, Executive. Chairman of the American Jewish Relief Fund, and Rabbi Nathan Krass, of New York, were the chief speak¬ ers. '  ', ^ ¦ ,:'    ¦      .  :   '.
No contributions were asked, but Sigmiiiid Eisner, of Red Bank, announced he would give $10,000 if other Jews of Mon¬ mouth county would give $90- ,000. Mr. Felix Fuld announced he had received an anonymous
Washington—Mr. Julius Ro¬ senwald has issued a message to the American nation, especially to the young men, advising them against buying of unnecessary things.   He said, in part:
*I think this limitation of con¬ sumption is the niost important thing for us at the present time. We can't buy bonds with what we spend; we can only buy them with what we save. The i uture of this country, and of any coun7 try, depends upon what we can save, upon how thrifty the pep¬ ple are.
"The man who accumulates is a good citizen. He is not the type of man who drifts from ,p.ace to place. When a man has $5u0 saved up he can hold up his head, he is part of the commun¬ ity! The idea thai extravag¬ ance Tii^kes prosperity, is all >vrong, I never have believed in it.",'¦
The greatest job in social ser¬ vice which interests us all at this time is to win the war which will make this world a safe place in which to live. It is a stupend¬ ous piece of service in which men and women, are willing t6 pay the last measure of devotion that future generations may see the fulfillment,of the dreams of the prophets. , When one reads the words of our President, .who, likp a seer sends forth^ message after rnessage' from Washington^ one has a feeling as if the He¬ brew prophets speak again to,a world which languishes for.their message. This war is 'of particu¬ lar interest to us Jews because it is for,the ideals of our prp- .phets that the truly civilized part of humanity is fighting. Making the world safe.for dem¬ ocracy, wiping war forever from this earth, hailing the new day, these are some of the better known ideals enunciated by Pre¬ sident Wilson. They are ideals enunciated by Hebrew prophets and translated into modern terms by the man who sees the dawn of a new order.
.Engaged as we are in this im¬ portant venture, it appears rather futile at times to devote ourselves to the sort of service to whichour Social Service Com¬ mittee is committed. When thousands fall on the" battlefield of Europe we are told that it is no time to try to save a wreck here or there. Yet because mon give their lives by the hundred thousand, human life becomes more precious and personal ser¬ vice acquires a new meaning. It is for this reason that we did not dare slack up our work. Further¬ more, Europe has found that with the withdrawal of -millions of men from civil life, a new problem bf juvenile delinqu^cy was brought about. The xacheVs were away. Homes were broken. It is the experience everywhere that the vast majority of all de¬ linquency cases handled by the juvenile courts come from broken homes.
The increasing cost pf living, with its attendant malnutrition, the sudden changes of little towns into large industrial cent¬ ers, the danger of overcrowding, of letting down of the bars, of large masses of men taken from their iisufil home influences, have made necessary wider and newer fprms of social service. The B'nai B'rith has seen its duty and has engaged in welfare work fpr our Jewish soldiers. At first it appeared as if your Soc¬ ial   Service  Committee   would
have to help in this work. The chairman of the committee was ordered to Chicago to confer with the office of the Order, and certain plans were made. Sub¬ sequently as you know the work was merged with the Welfare Board.
Your Social Service Commit¬ tee devoted itself to its usual work and attempted some newer activities. Our lodges ¦ were urg^d^ to -create .so_cial^_seryice- committees where there were none before. Attempts were made *o strengthen the existing committees. Where possible emphasis was ]aid on work with boys so as to prevent a possible increase in jovenile delinquency. In Colorado, for instance, through Denver Lodge No. 171, Big iSrother work is carried on. Boy Scout work, social settle¬ ment activities, and similar constructive and preventive measures are ciarried on. The boys who have gotten into trouble are visited regularly in the state industrial school, help¬ ing the boys feel that they have friends ready to assist them in their efforts' at leading better lives. In Toledo, the Big Broth¬ ers in addition to the usual work of furnishing recx-eation to the boys, went into moi*e fundamen¬ tal work. ' Finding that street venoing makes for deli,nquency, there as everywhere else, they Interested a number of civic or¬ ganizations in an ordinance reg¬ ulating street vending for child¬ ren. After a bitter fight to have the ordinance passed, they un¬ fortunately failed. They are de¬ termined however, not to rest until an ordinance to this effect, is enacted in their city. Let me urge other social service com¬ mittees of our lodges to follow the example set by Toledo.
In St. Louis our two B'nai B'rith lodges in co-operation with the Jewish Educational Al¬ liance conduct gymnasium clubs for boys and also look after the Big Brother Work. We have lost a number of our best big broth¬ ers by enlistment and draft. Let me say that most of them enlist¬ ed voluntarily and are now of¬ ficers in the American Army.
Similar work is being done by our lodges all oyer the district, even though many have been too' modest to send their reports to. our office when we requested the same. We do wish all lodges would report their work.
The problem  of Jewish   in¬ mates   in   State   Eleemosynary and Penal Institutions has oc- (Continued on Page 6.)