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Volume XVII—No. 38
C0LUMBUS,01iId, SKPTEMBKR 21,1934
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Tid-Bits From       Everywhere
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The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkoth Begins Sunday.
The Jewish World
Tlie aliRiiniciit on the VVorkl Jewish Congress issue hcreaboutg foreshadows a bitter hattic.. .Amont; those missing from the American Jewish Congress side of tiic fray will be B. C. Vladeck's labor group...New York is once more bu^^ziiig vvilli rumors about a projected new Aiiglo-Jcwisb publication, to be launched by one who, tliough rccogiiized as a wiz¬ ard ill the iiulilicatioii game, will he a new¬ comer ill the Anglo-Jewish field.. .What¬ ever became of that great Fall Confer- ciice which the Zioniats were to call for the purpose of taking up the Palestine inmiigration difticulties? . . •. Preparations for that assembly should be in full swing by this time...For the United Jewish Appeal's "Night of Stars," held at the Yankee Stadium this week, George M. Cohan—whose name is "as Irish as can be"—wrote a special song named after ,tlic event...City Engineer A. B. Hor¬ witz of Duluth, i.Vho as secretary of the City Planning Commission deserves a large part of the credit for making his home town a "model city," hopes to be able to do the same some day for the cities of the Homeland.. .Cleveland's new city architect, Sigmond Braverman, is not only tbe treasurer of his Zionist Dis¬ trict, but also the husband of the former Libby Levin, \vho is a member of the Brickner Brain Trust... . To be Remembered
Nominate<l for the Forgct-Me-Not Club: Rahbi Stephen S. Wise, for the utter silence which enveloped his recent journey out to the New Jersey coast, where he conducted funeral services for the Jewish victims o( the Morro Castle disaster,
_ Brain Thrusts DoWn in Washington some people are all hct Up. at the discovery that Young Henry Morgenthau is the actual director of the Federal budget today, the successor to former Budget Director Douglas be¬ ing more or less of a figurehead.. .FDR, wc, understand, calls tbat Harvard Law . School professor Felix Farley, in apprer ciation of the Frankfurter gift for getting Brain Trust posts for Frankfurter pro¬ teges... Free advice is ofiEered the B. T. by Chairman Jesse Adler of the Execu¬ tive Committee of the National Shoe Re¬ tailers' Association, who is considerably disturbed by the government plan to man¬ ufacture shoes for the unenipldydrtiit of the hides of cattle slaughtered because of the drought...Mr. Adlcr protests that the hides are no good at all, and that it AV ould be a much better idea for the gov¬ ernnicnt to buy discontinued lines of foot¬ gear at a low price from the Shoe Re¬ tailers' Association.
Back to the Nazis Thanks to Dr. Edward N. CaHsdi of ¦ Richmond, Va., for the anecdote in which a fortune teller informs Hitler that while the day of his death will not be any one of the numerous holidays on the Jewish calendar it will be a Yom Tov none the less...Nazi teeth are gnashing ,because it's impossible to get around the fact that Helena Mayer is Germany's champion fencer, and therefore can't be kept ofjf the German Olympic team, ..Now some¬ body has "discovered*' that Hindenburg wasn't bf pure Aryan ancestry on either the maternal,or paternal side...So what? .. .German Jewish refugees in New York will soon he able to get recreation, shelter and food at Congress House, established by the Women's Association of the American Jewish Congress in a building ; placed at its disposal by the Jewish In stitnte of Religion...
Yarns of Hank Hank Greenberg, the Jewisli baseball sensation who is regarded as the princi¬ pal reason why Detroit will win the American League pennant this year, was called on recently by a delegation repre- sentmg the Detroit Jewish community, which invited him to be the guest of honor at a testimonial dinner at which St was planned to present him with a purse . prognosticated to contain no less than fif¬ teen hundred berries.. .Believe.it or not, Hank refused tbe invitation, explaining that as this is his first year in the big league it woukl be advisable for his a<l- mirers to wait and see whether he really turns out to he a great ball player before they make any such demonstrative geS' tures.., On Rosh Hashanah, incidentally, Hank took time off from shu! to play for his team, hitting two home runs that won the game for the Tigers.. .And now whenever a Detroit batter strikes out the fans loudly advise him to go to shul So He Wanders On You may remember that we told you of Howard S. Cullman's refusal to book tbat "Wandering Jew" film for the Roxy Theatre, of which he is the receiver... (Continued on page 2)
Doom of Gerinan Jewry Nearer
The Jewish festival of Sukkoth or Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated this year from Sunday night, September 'i;j, at sundown, to Monday night, Oc¬ tober 1, at the same time. This festival lasts eight days and is celebrated by all Jews throughout the world.
It was celebrated by the Jews when they lived in Palestine and were an agri¬ cultural people. It marked the close of the harvest and the beginning of the plowing-and the rainy season. It was a festival of rejoicing and merry-making when the servant was etiual to the mas¬ ter and all united in praising and thank¬ ing God for His bountiful gifts.
The Bible commanded that on this fes¬ tival all the people should make a pil¬ grimage to the Tcinplc at Jerusalem, and there, after ofTering their sacrifices, should dwell in booths or tabernacles, temporarily erected of wood and bcautir- fully decorated with fruits and flowers to remind them both of the harvest sea¬ son and how their ancestors had dwelt in booths in the wilderness. Many Jews still observe the latter custom today. In some, synagogues too a modernized form of the. harvest festival is celebrated.
Some also celebrate a supplementary festival on the ninth day, called Rejoic¬ ing of the Law^ because tbe annual cycle of the reading of the law has been com¬ pleted and. on that day the sacred scrolls of the Law of Moses are rolled back to the beginning of Genesis and the Law is begun to be read anew. In many syna¬ gogues the , scrolls are taken from the Holy Ark in which tbey are kept and carried about in solemn procession.
By Rabbi F. M. Isserman
This Famous  Cantor Will
Again Be Heard Here at
Agudath Achim Sept.
30 and Oct. 1
A report by Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isser¬ man, Si. Louis, of his first hand obscrva- lions in Europe during the summer of ^931 ffJ submitted to Ihe officers of ihe United Jeivi-ih Appeal zvliich is seeking $3,000,000 from American Jcivry lo aid its stricken coreligionists of Germany, Rabbi L^serman's report is based on his oim'rvalions in Avisterdam, Brussels, Paris, Geneva, Vienna and the Saar^ zvhcre he spoke io large numbers of refugees and conferred ztHlh Jezvish lead' ers.—Editor.
On my return from one month in Nazi Germany last year, I expressed the opin¬ ion that the' future of the Jews, there seemed hopeless, and that they were liv¬ ing under a sentence of death. Today, after a trip which, took mc to Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, tlie Saar, France and Austria, whose purpose was to know better the Jewish situation in Europe and in Germany, and after conferring with hundreds of Jewish leaders, government officials, journalists. League of Nations' representatives, I have come to the con¬ clusion that' the sentence of death is nearer execution.
Hitler has not receded from his anti- Semitic stand. Not one anti-Jewish re¬ striction has been lifted, not one anti Semitic law has been repealed.
In the campaign conducted to give Hit¬ ler his new title, Jews were attacked, and the latter, himself, in an address to .re¬ gain the Saar, blamed Germany's inter¬ national status on a wicked little band, the Jews. What does this seem to indi¬ cate' but that the Jew will be made the scapegoat for the Nazis' failure, and their last act, while in power, may-be a Jewish St. Bartholomew's night; thcvCry con- templation of which makes one shudder. No Picture Adequate There is no one picture that adequately fits the condition of all of Germany's Jews. What is true, of Berlin, where there are foreign journalists and diplo¬ mats, may npt be true of Nuremberg. What h true of Prussia may not be true of the Palatinate. The severity with which anti-Jewish measures, which spell economic death, were and are enforced, depends entirely on the calibre of the Nazi leader in the district. , From some Jews wc get rosy reports, and from oth¬ ers tragic.    While  Berlin Jewish mcr-
CANTOR PINCHIK
By a streak of good fortune the Agu¬ dath Achim Synagogue has succeeded in engaging Cantor P. Pinchik and his New York choir to officiate at its Shmini Atz6res services Sunday evening, Sep¬ tember 30, and Monday morning, Oc¬ tober I.
That these will be epoch-making serv¬ ices goes without saying, affording, aa tliey do. Cantor Pinchik an opportunity to display his great singing talent and flaming interpretation of the soul-consum¬ ing "tfilos" of the "machzor" and prayer book. To hear Pinchik invoke the bless-, ings of "Geshem," the chanting of the "Hallel" hymns, and his awe-inspiring memorial services is a privilege to be held in the highest esteem.
A .number of Columbus people who travelled to Detroit to hear Cantor Pinchik Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip¬ pur report that never,have they experi¬ enced such heart throbbing sensations, when this world-famous cantor trans¬ ported them on his magic carpet iiito a wprld of song and piety undreamed of before.
Ivreeyoh Announces Dates
Board niembers will meet Wednesday evening, Sept. 2Cth, at 7:30 o'clock at the Columbus Hebrew School. ^ l^iiture meetings will be held the last Wednesday of the moyth in the afternoon at the Deshler-Wallick  Hotel,
The first regular meeting of the sea¬ son is scheduled for Oct. 3rd at the Deshler. They will sponsor a card party on Wednesday, Oct. 17.th,. at. tlW'Desh¬ ler. Novemher 'Itb is the date set for the animal Supper. A rummage sale will take place some time in November,
Ezras Noshim Supper Dec. 16
Tlie Ezras Noshim Society wish to announce that they will bold their annua! slipper on Sunday, December lOth, at the Agudath Achim Congregation. Mrs, M. Schccter and Mrs. M. Eiseman have been appointed chairmen for this afifair.
chants reported unusually fine business due to frenzied purchasing in anticipation of inllation, and of a shortage of raw ma¬ terials, merchants in other cities were be¬ ing driven out of their businesses. While some Jewish physicians claimed an in¬ creased clientele because of growing hos¬ tility to Hitler, in other communities Jews were shot. But what avail slight economic improvement for a fewl I heard of no Jews being reinstated in their okl positions, and of no unemployed Jews being given any work. But even then, the insecurity remains, the terror and the suspense of what the next day may bring makes life utterly impossible. Tn Holland I met a former German Jewish manufacturer now eking out a bare liv¬ ing as a salesman, happy and relieved be¬ cause he Could live unafraid, and his wife no longer had to become hysterical whenever the doorbell rang.
A Former Millionaire
In Paris I met'a former Gernian mil lionairc who left more than a million gold marks in Germany, struggling to support himself and his little family. I saw his small apartment and the pictures'of his former mansion. I saw the modernistic furniture brought from Germany, ton large for his present quarters. But found him happy and relieved. He will never go back to Germany. He was compelled by Nazi leaders to post copies of Der Sturmcr, which attacked bim, in his factory. He could get no service in restaurants nor take his children to the park. The pupils in school wiped the bench after his daughter had sat on it. He could not go back. A wounded war- veteran, lie is through forever with the land he loved and for which he was.pre¬ pared to die. He  Will  Never  Return  to Germany
Not all refugees are as fortunate as he, and had some resources. Most of them had to flee in the middle of the night, without passports, without ¦ farewells, without means. One social worker in curred the enmity pf the local Nazi chief¬ tain rbecause, over his head in Berlin;" she won a decision that Jews were entitled to unemployment relief. Berlin or no Ber¬ lin, he was going to allow, no Jews to get relief. He ignored the decision and began to harass her. At 3:00 a. m. po¬ lice came to get her passport and thus {Continued on    page 2)
De Slolays Will IniHate 16 Into Chapter Next Thursday
Sixteen young men will complete their initiation into Hirsch Kobacker Qiapter DeMolay this coming Thursday at Schonthal Home when they receive their second and concluding degree as put on l>y officers of the chapter.
During the brief period of two years that tbis chapter has been in existence it has to date, doubled its inembcrship with prospects for anpther large class never better. It is apparent that Columbus Jewry has awakened to the realization that a Jewish chapter of DeMolay is a real asset to the community teaching vir¬ tues that will, bring the young man hap¬ piness, love and prosperity,
A DeMolay is a member of an inter¬ national order corresponding to Masonry; and sponsored by tbat body. Wherever a DeMolay might go in the whole world he would he welcome. A DeMolay %vho has passed through the officers line has possessed himiieU of such a fund of use¬ ful information that the prpblems of everyday life arc to him an open book.
Hirsch Kobacker Chapter DeMolay is one of the few all Jewisli chapters in the U. S., and every DeMolay in the country knoWs that there is a Jewish chapter located here.
The following young men are to be congratulated upon aftiliatihg themselves with an order of sucli worth as DeMo¬ lay:
Louis Ackerman, Murry Barnett, Jerome Frecdman, Leon Freedman, San¬ ford Finkelstein, Russell Gordon, Paul Hirsch, Donald Levinstein, Julius Mar¬ gulis, Nonnan Mathless, Ernie Michael- son, Jack Palestrant, Harry Papier, Ber¬ nard Rubin, I.-eonard Task, Colnian Thall.
ing musical hour which will include the following talented jairtists:, Evelyn Levin, violinist; Mr. Sam Fine, vocalist; and Miss Regina Herkenrpder, vocalist. Miss Alma Bprneman well known Co¬ lumbus violinist will present two of her pupils in a very novel violin recital.
Greetings from the Senior Sisterhood of the Temple will be extended by Mrs. John Katz, Senior representative, and Mrs. Hernian Katz, president.
The following committees are eooperal,T ing in the arrangements for the affair which will be open to all Jewish girls from the age of seventeen and up: Mem¬ bership—Marion Gilbert, Martha Frei¬ reich, Co-chairman; Dorothy Rappaport, Rose Hiileson, Ida Cunix, Eleanor Ros^ eiithal, Annabelle Berman; Refreshment —Sara Polster, May Rosen, Co-chair¬ man; Martha Freireich. Selma Brandt. Mildred Polster, Helen Seidenherg, Jessie Weisblatt, Janet Wasserstrom, Lillian Freireich.
This tea will open the season's activi ties of the organization and the first regular meeting will be held on Tuesday evening, Oct. Dth, at the Deshler Hotel.
Miss Selma Brandt, president, will pre¬ side.
World Jewry Urged to Fight
Poland's Repudiation of
Minority Treaty
GENEVA (WNS)—A call to world Jewry to speak out against Poland's dec¬ laration repudiating all obligations un¬ der the minority treaty until all other countries bind thciiLsclvcs by similar obli¬ gations was sounded here by Dr. Nahnm Goldniann, chairman of the Cummittec of Jewish Delegations and of the executive cominittee of the World Jcwisli Congress in a .statement protesting the Polisd an¬ nouncement.
The statement points out that although the present Polish government has acted to suppress anti-Semitic violence and has announced equality ot rights as its guid¬ ing principle, "whatever may be the de¬ cision taken upon the Polisli proposal on generalization of the minorities sysj^cin by the League of Nations, it is obvious that Jewry must defend the maintenance in undiminished strength of minority rights as now stipulated in treaties." Dr. Goklmann further said that all Jewish organizations consider the ' benefits re¬ ceived under the minorities treaties as a major advance toward achieviiig a uni¬ versal protection system. Referring to the German situation, Goldmann empha¬ sized that recent events had demonstrated the necessity for strengthening and en¬ larging this system.
WARSAW (WNS)—A number of Jewish organizations participated in the nation-wide patriotic , demonstrations ar¬ ranged by nationalist and anti-Semitic groups in celebration of Poland's abro¬ gation of the minority treaty. The Jew¬ ish groups were not very large but they are the same organizations that support the present Polish government.
The Jewish press here is careful not to alarm the Jewish population, ,As a matter of fact most of the Jewish papers take pains to reassure their readers and point out that Poland's repudiation of the minority treaty is no danger for the Jews, under the present regime and the present . constitution. The only pessi inistic note sounded by the Jewish.press is that Poland's example may be followed by ¦ other countries which lead to worsening of the Jewish position.
Des|)ite the optimistic tenor of Jewish press comment there are rumors here that the next move of the Polish anti' Semites will be a drive to replace the present constitutions with its liberal guar¬ antees by a more reactionary document under which the Jews would be at the riicrcy of every Jew-baiter, The Gazeta Warszawska, organ of the anti-Semitic National Democrats, is already urging the repeal of the clauses in the present constitutions guaranteeing minority rights.
Plain Talk ON BEING A RUSSIAN JEW
By Al Segal
200 Invitations Issued for T. I.
Jr. Sisterhood Musical
and Tea Sunday
Two hundred invitations have been is¬ sued for the. Musicale and Tea to he given by the Board members and officers of tbe Junior Sisterhood of the East Broad Street Temple. The affair will be held on Sunday afternoon, (tomor¬ row) at 3 p. m. at the Temple,
Miss Mildred Polster, entertainment chairman, has arranged a very interest-
'^Vaad Harabonim" of Ohio
and Indiana to Meet in
Columbus Oct. 14
On Sunday, October Mth, the Vaad Harabonim of Obio and Indiana will convene in Columbus, according to a re¬ port made by Rabbi Leopold Greenwald, chairman of the board of the Rabbinical Association of Ohio and Indiana. Ejcecu- tive members of the association and prom inent rabbis of Ohio Congregations wil! participate in the program arranged for that meeting. The convention will open at 0 a. ni. Sunday morning. In the eve¬ ning a mass meeting wiU be held at the Beth Jacob Congregation, The principal speaker for the evening's meeting will be Rabbi Silver, Chief Rabbi of Cin¬ cinnati, and President of the Vaad Hara¬ bonim.
All organizations will please keep open the evening of Sunday, October Hth, 50 that Columbus Jewry may attend the in¬ teresting mass meeting under the auspices of the Rabbinical Association.
Watch the Chronicle for further an¬ nouncements. ,
Hadassah to Hold First Meet¬ ing of Season Next Wed¬ nesday at Neil House
Senior Hadassah will hpld its first meeting of the season Wednesday, Sept. 27tb, at 2 p. m., at the Neil House! Mrs. B. W. Abramson, President, will preside at the business meeting.
Mrs. Louis Nachman, chairman of pro¬ grams, will introduce Dr. Sopliie Rogers, Professor of Psychology at 0. S. U., as guest speaker of the afternoon. Hcr. subject will be, "Where Psychology and Medicine Meet".     '
Dr. Rogers spent six months in Vienna studying, and along with her work at tbe University she is practicing and specializing in Pediatrics. Her subject will be most interesting and educational, and tlierefore very worthwhile for every member to be present at this meeting,
Mrs. Marcus Burnstine, chairman of Religion, will offer the opening prayer, and Mrs, Solomon Rivlin will reapl Cur¬ rent Events,
INFANTS' HOME OF OHIO
In memory of Hanua Rice Goodman contributions were received, from the Steinfeld family, Mr. Edw. J. Goodman, Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Goldsmith, Mr and Mrs, Morris Mitchell, and Mr. and Mrs, Louis .'\. Feibel; in memory of Hattie ¦ Schwartz Lehman from Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Levin, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Was¬ serman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Freiden¬ berg, Mrs, Chas. Freidenberg, Mr, and Mrs. Max R. Stern, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Nobil, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hersko- witz, Mr, and Mrs. Max Rieser.
Contributions were also received in niemory of Norman Henline from Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S, Goldsmith; in mem¬ ory of Isaac Kleeman of Toledo from Mr. and Mrs. Jacob S. Goldsmith; and from Mrs. Alex Schonthal of Spring¬ field in niemory of Alex Schonthal,
The officers and board wish to thank the above donors for their kind contribu¬ tions.
Visitors arc always welcome at the Home on Sunday afternoons.
Tlic news magazine Time contained the following letter in its issue of Sept. 10:
"Sirs: Yesterday my attention was drawn to the following extract (Time, Aug, 27) : Last December J. David Stern, an ardent New Dealer, bought the New York Evening Post and in Febru¬ ary hired Dr. Gruening as editor,.,For all their enthusiasm for social reform, Stern of Russian Jewish extraction and Gruening of German Jewish extraction, were unable to see eye to eye...Would you be surprised to learn. that David Stern is not of Russian, extraction but of the same as Dr. Gruening, although further  removed?..,
"On his maternal" side he is a nephew of the late Simon Muht, one of the lead¬ ing and outstanding citizens of the 1890's, a philanthropist wliosc name continues to live. The family is a noted one in the town of Schocnhausen, Bavaria, where is ¦ their ancestral home, built in 1730, and lived in ever since by tbeni. At thia time there is still one of the family bear¬ ing the name living, there...
'On David Stern's father's side, I might add, there is yet finer stock.. .His uncle, Edward Stem, founded the Ed¬ ward Stern Printing Co., a well-known publishing house of this city. And the most important fact, his father, David Stern, a cultured gentleman, served in the Civil War.
"Now possibly you can understand why I discredit Time...
(Mrs,)   Gertrude   Weil   Hershfield, . Germantown, Pa." *' *'¦. I
The lady was so quick to save Mr. Stern from being a Russian Jew without considering tliat Mr. Stern might have enjoyed being one; for he would have been in very good company.
Among the Russian Jews Mr, Stern might have found all that is left of the saver of Jewish life in America. ..the Jewish dream and the Jewish song and the Jewish  sigh.
Mr. Stern woiild hayc rejoiced among Jews who felt Jewish even before Hitler came, in whom being a Jew. was never a pain but a noble role in a great drama. It" would have pleasured him to be of people .who cherish a spiritual -inheri¬ tance and for whom Judaism is an old song in their hearts. He would have been among dreamers and singers and scholars, an aristocratic company in whose exclu¬ sive hands Jewish prosp and poetry and knowledge; are nurtured.
But scarcely was Mr, Stern made a Russian Jew than the lady snatched him away,
Mr. .Stern (himself, a liberal) would have stood ariiong flaming young Mes¬ siahs who carry banners for social jus-, tice and joyously submit their heads to be bashed by the police. He would have been kinsman of sewing, machine oper¬ ators whose eyes burn with prophetic vi¬ sion and of bearded old men. who sit the live-long day in the study hall of the synagogue making no end of knowing Torah,
As a Russian Jew, Mr. Stern would have been the proud brother of men who came here with no more than vestiges of existence and made a good life. They were pathetic peddlers, stoned by boys . on the streets.. ."Jews!. Jews!". .;and whose travail contained all the bitterness of pilgrim fathers and whose success em- .. braced all that the American ideal re¬ quires.
They made good homes, brought up good children. Education was a dazzling goal which niu-st be attained even by grinding sacrifice; and the graduation of a child from the university was a spiritual triumph of parents.
Mr. Stern, doubtless, would have de¬ lighted to be of this heroic people and probably is not grateful to the lady who pulled liim so quickly out of the Russiaiv Jewish ICehillah. H
Certainly, Mr. Stern would have ap¬ preciated to be pf the ardent company that has kept Judaism warm in the United States. When they came Iiere they brought nothing hut the garments on their backs and the inherited flame in their hearts. Even before they had as¬ surance of dwellings for themselves, they made a place for God; and by the flame of their hearts they Ughted the perpetual lamp of the synagogue.
This light they have replenished in all the years and they have been faithful to the instruction..."Teach it unto tliy chil¬ dren"... and their Jewish education is a matter of the daily life.
Whatever poetry is in Mr, Stern would have rejoiced in the exquisite -privilege of'being associated with people who, 2,001) (Continued oh ftage 3)