Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1934-06-22

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume Xyii~No. 25
COLUMBUS, OHIO,  June  22,   1934
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Tid-Bits        From       Everywhere ny PHINEAS J. nmoN
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"Governor Lelnnan: 'Silent Dyna¬ mite/ " is the title of an article scheduled for puhltcation in the August issue oi the American Mercury...The article is iuU ot dynamite...The punch line of the attack on Lehman is to the effect that the Lehman Corporation owns large blocks of stock in German indu.stry, namely in the Dutch and American subsidiaries of Glaiizstoff. ..The two authors of this tirade (yes, they are both Jewish) point to the Vereinigtc Glanzstofif Fabrikeh, A. G.,' as the largest rayon concern in modern Germany. ..Rayon factories are convertible, on a day's notice, into dyna¬ mite factories.. .The two authors, obvi¬ ously, do not take Governor Lehman's resignation from the Lehman Corpora- lion at the time of his election very seri¬ ously. . .In any case, this article Will raise the first serious Lehman controversy... Until now he has been left more or less alone by political writers, since the elec¬ tion campaign...A conspiracy of silence envelopes the strange case o£ the Jewish Colonial Trust, which, as you may re¬ member, was taken over by the Anglo- Palestine Company some time. ago... No New York Yiddish paper published the faiits in connection with the scandalous conduct of a number o£ directors of the Jewish. Colonial Trust who speculated -"¦ with money "loaned" from the Jewish Colonial funds to the extent of more than one million dollars...It is an open secret that these directors ruined the Colonial Trust, yet no Jewish newspaper cor¬ respondent dispatched, a line about it to his newspaper., .Why?...
Diplomacy .
President Roosevelt ha."; offered a silver loving cup as the prize of a unique con¬ test between William C. Bullitt, Ameri¬ can Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and V. M. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of Peoples* Commissars (Premier of the USSR)...If Bullitt will know more Russian than Molotov EiiglisH by June, 1033, he will get the cup... Our friend Litvinoff will judge the contest, and no diplomacy can prevent him from making a< clean-cut decision..:.Walter Wincheli won the contest for a title for Lyon's gossip column in the New York .Evening Post...He christened it "The Lyons Den",..No association of ideas, but Sid¬ ney J. Weinberg will not be on the Stock Market Board appointed by President Roosevelt...John Wexley, the radical playwright of "They Shall Not Die," is now in Hollywood taking orders from' the Him magnates as to what scripts the great American public wants...No, no, no, Hollywood is not considering the. filming of the Scottsboro play..."They Shall Not Die" makes us think of the Arlosoroff trial at .Tel Aviv...A good solution to the terrible situation would be to have Stavsky escape and flee to an unknown spot in Europe... Then he would be safe and keep out of trouble, and would not become a heroic symbol for Palestinian Revisionism...jfoe Brai¬ nin, rabid foe of Revisionism, and Elias Ginsburg, President of the American Re¬ visionists, are pals from the day when they served in the Jewish Legion in Palestine...
Don't Sue Us That was very tactless oh the part of Nathan Straus, Jr., when during an in¬ formal luncheon tendered by James G. McDonald to Jewish editors, he told Jacob Fishman of the Jewish Morning Journal to curtail his speech... Straus : has a tendency to'snub his contemporaries, although his approach seems very demo¬ cratic... Barney Ross, the double cham pion, is in vaudeville now, making more
, than $5000 per week; and some people don't think much of boxing...William I. Sirovich, one of our own Congressmen, is adding to the burlesque atmosphere of
' the Washington legislative production... He intends to lead aichorus of Congress¬ men (on the day of the dispersion of the Congress) in a popular song composed by him...Whatamanl...Morit^ Kahn, of the Albert Kahns. the Detroit architects, is very much interested in the settlement of Gerinan Jewish refugees in the USSR, and so is Harry Elmer Barnes, the his- torian and author...Jules L. Butensky, the sculptor who at one time was the pet of Jacob Schiff, has just returned from a long stay in Palestine ...His statue called Universal Peace is stilt adorning the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but no¬ body seems to care...Max Brod, the young German Jewish author, just cele¬ brated his fiftieth anniversary, but is still a young man ?n" looks and ideas..."Be¬ yond Woman,'\Maurice Samuel's great novel which wilPi^e thrown to the beasts of the book reviewing guild this fall, does some very frank dissecting, althoi^h (Contimted on page 2)
Welfare   Federation   Elects
Officers and Directors at
Annual Meeting
The following officers and directors were elected at the annual meeting of the Jcwisli Welfare Federation: Presi¬ dent, E. J. Schanfarber; Vice President, Allen Gunderslieimer; Treasurer, Joseph Basch; Secretary, Miss Rose Sugarman, Directors are Mrs. A. Goldberg, Mr, E. J. Goodman, Mr. L. J. Goodman, Mrs. II. Bloch, Mr. Justin Silhnan, Mrs. H. Lieverman, Mrs. Joseph Basch, Mrs, L, Loewenstcin, Mr. A. J. Kobacker, Rabbi S. M. Gup, Mr. William Gumble, Mr. Harry Gilbert, Mrs. A. H. Harmon, Mr, Joseph Solove, Dr. Louis Mark, Mr, Robert Schiff, Mr. Fred Lazarus, Jr., Mrs. Max H. Rieser, Mr. Harry Zeiger, Mr, Millard Kominz, Mr. Arthur Isaac and Mr. J. W. Steinhauser.
Mr. Samuel Goldhamer of the Cleve¬ land Federation was the speaker of the evening and .delivered an excellent talk on federation trends of today. His com¬ plete address appears in this week's issue of the Chronicle.
Miss Rose Sugarman, executive di¬ rector of the organization, reported that during the year 1933, B18 individuals had received care and service from this or¬ ganization, 369 receiving relief. Of the total mimber served, 347 vvere children; 486 received dental care. For the first five months of 1934 the number of indi¬ viduals receiving service and relief in¬ creased to 590, Of this number 328 were children; 252 received dental service dur¬ ing this period. Mrs. Samuel Meisner, chairman, of the clothing committee, se¬ cured innumerable articles of clothing for these families.
The following officers and directors were elected for the Schonthal Commu¬ nity House: President, Dr. E. J. Gor¬ don; Vice-Pres., Max Harmon; Treas., Joseph' Basch, and Secy., Miss Rose Sugarman. The directors are Mr. J. C. Goodman, Mrs. Samuel Meisner, Mrs. E. J. Gordon, Mr. Samuel Weinfeld, Mrs. Edwin Kraus, Mr. E. J. Schanfarber, Mrs. W. A. Hersch, Mrs. C. K. Stiefel, Mr. Samuel Luchs, Dr. Ralph Jaffee, Mrs. M. Hirschsprung, Mr. Max H. Rieser, M.rs. Isaac Wolf, Mr. J. W. Steinhauser, Mr. Harry Ratner and Mr- Mark D, Feinknopf.
The Schonthal Community Center re¬ ported 1,060 individuals in the activities, 90% of whom are boys and girls, at¬ tended the various clubs and, classes dur¬ ing the year 1933. 50% were enrolled in the educational department, and 509^ in the recreational department. The ag¬ gregate attendance for the year was 31,479.    During the first five months of
"GIBLETS AND GRAVY"
An Address Delivered by S. Goldhamer of Cleveland at Annual Federation Meeting, Monday, June 18, 1934
1934 the membership had increased to 1,083 individuals with a total aggregate attendance of 28,416.
The Council of Jewish Women, with Mrs. A. H. Harmon, Chairman of the Library   Committee,   donated   over   1 books to the Center Library which has a membership of 125 regular readers.
Mr. E. J. Schanfarber and Dr. E. J. Gordon, presidents of these organizations, gave brief outlines of the work achieved by the- agencies. Mr. Joseph Basch sub¬ mitted financial reports.
The Jewish Welfare Federation takes this opportunity, of thanking all who have assisted so materially in making their wide scope of work the: success it has been and is particularly grateful to the coiitributors to the Community Fund of Columbus who have made this work possible.
Community Invited to Annual Ezras Noshim Picnic Sun¬ day at Olentangy
The annual Ezras Noshim Society picnic will take place next Sunday; June 24th, at Olentangy Park, This annual outing is not only for the members and their families, but for the entire community.
The picnic will officially start at 1:30 p. m. Pack the picnic basket, and bring the children and the entire family, and enjoy among the many attractions of Olentangy Park, the games and contests to be staged by the Society. Beautiful prizes.wil] be given away at 8:30 p. m. to the lucky ones present. At that time also,.the exact date of the brooch raffle will be announced.
Tickets are still available from mem* bers of this Society, and if you have not as yet procured tickets for this big event, do so now. By cooperating with this Society, you will help them in a small way to contribute to their many charit¬ able families.
Remember the date, Sunday, June 24th, at Olentangy Park.
Mrs. S. M. Erlen is chairman for this outing and is being assisted by Mrs. I. Culler and Mrs, I. Luper.
When I accepted your kind invitation to conic to Cohimbus for your meeting, I confess that I was in somewhat .of a ([uandary to know what I might discuss with you out of our experiences in Cleve¬ land, that would be unique or interesting. There is certainly nothing in our scheme of social service that is unlike your own work here. Your executive here is as experienced and competent as any we have. The problems that confront us are the same that give you your con¬ cerns. And the very attitudes of mind that Influence our thinking and out of which many of these problems grow, arc probably no different.
Miss Sugarman had suggested that I talk on tbe future outlook in social work generally, and more specifically of the questions that concern us as Jews. That, I am afraid, might call for more of an academic background than I possess. My entry into this field some twenty-eight years ago was quite accidental and with¬ out special preparation. And like our friend, Will Rogers, allJ know is what I have learned by observation.
If that observation lias taught me any one thing above all else, it is that human nature is an immutable thing; we are so constituted that our thinking follows cer¬ tain well-defined grooves and paths of least resistance. We love our prejudices. We do not want them disturbed even though they lead us into fallacious and entirely unwarranted conclusions and ac¬ tions.
If it is at all important, therefore, that I have a subject, I might rather entitle my remarks "Giblets and Gravy" be¬ cause we arc. so much like a certain col¬ ored fellow a friend told me about some years ago. This big black boy staggered into the corner drug store groaning ter¬ ribly.
"Doc," he said to the druggist, "Ah feels powahful bad. Ah's got a terrible belly-ache.
"What .have you. been eating?'' asked the druggist.
"Well, Ah Loves giblets and gravy, an' last night Ah ate a big bowl full; an' Doc, Ah is sick."
.So Doc fixed up a prescription and gave it to him and told him to go home and take tt and he'd be all right.
As the colored fellow was leaving, he turned back from the door with pain lyritten all over his face„ "Doc," he asked, "Ah you shuah this medicine will help me? Ya see. Ah really don' know ef it was the giblets or was it the gravy that made me sick."
And that just about describes our state of mind and the, chaos of our thinking^ For ten years after the war, we gave full sway to the age-old selfishness and greed. We goi'ged ourselves with the giblets and gravy of a pseudo prosperity. We thought we had finally discovered the art of living without work. We had learned how to translate a one dollar investment into a five dollar speculation, and unstlntingly we spent the dollar of tomorrow, assured by some new theories of economics that that dollar would be earned. Today we are financially sick and nientally confused. We know that we have an economic belly-ache but we are naively spending our time trying to figure, out "ef it was the giblets or.was it the gravy that made us so sick."
In 1931 and 1922, we were suffering from one of the intermediate depressions; it did not last long enough to result in any widespread unempjoyment or suffer¬ ing among the working classes^it was purely a business man's panic, with a short sharp deiflation of inventories. A few of the more thoughtful business leaders of the country took time off to analyze the causes of the business re¬ lapse. Among' them Wjas a nationally known figure in the retail drygoods field, and he was asked "What is the greatest obstacle in your judgment, -to successful merchandising?" His terse reply was, "Merchandising on Opinions instead of on Facts."
The DepresslfHiB
If we take for example, the business
depressions which have occurred with at
most absolute regularity throughout the
history oE this country's industrial. ex-
Icss and less man-power and an cver^ shrinking buying potentiality of the con¬ suming masses. An investment in ma¬ chinery Is .nn investment in production; an investment in labor is an investment in distribution. Business and industrial leaders overlooked the fact that each was forced to seek its new business In the other's field of enterprise. None seemed at all conscious of the fact that through their big advertising agencies, their high- powered sales departments and finally through installment selling, they were pumping artificial stimulants into an ex¬ hausted buying capacity. Nobody wanted to recognize that unbridaled expansion and wild speculation were unwarranted by. the conditions of steadily growing permanent unemploymetit in this country, Nor did anyone cii're. to take a lesson [ from the history of England's industrial development, which put' that country on the dole; or what economic factors forced Germany to precipitate a world war. Not at all. We just went ahead milking the old industrial cow for all she would yield, never paying much attention to the need 6f green pastures and some careful grooming, to keep, that flow of milk going. We were just merchandising on opinions instead of.on facts.
Prohibition
How much fundamental thinking was ever applied to the problem of the liquor tralBc in, this country? Did the advo¬ cates pf absolute prohibition even pause fifteen years .igo, to calculate the conse¬ quences of an attempt to change the life¬ long social habits of a people, by legis¬ lative enactment? I grant you that many social and ecortomic inal-adjustments grew out of the unregulated sale of liquor—that many a pay envelope that ^^ent over the bar should have bought food and clothing instead for the family. But   insurance. companies   have   proved
First of Series of Sisterhood
Luncheons to be Held
Friday, June 29
Next Friday, June 29th, the Winding Hollow Country Club will be the setting for the opening of a scries of luncheons to be sponsored by the Ways an<l Means Committee of the Rose E. Lazarus Sis¬ terhood, of which Mrs, Samuel Meisner is chairman.
Card games, Keno, Bridge and Majong will follow the luncheon, tickets for which will be fifty cents. Table or sin¬ gle reservations may be made with'Mrs. H. H. Cohen or Mrs. Chas. Cahen. Those who have no means of transpor¬ tation are asked to call the Temple and Miss Roth will take care of them. Res¬ ervations may also be made at the Tem¬ ple,
Don't delay. Call one of the above named and be sure to be among those to enjoy a lovely afternoon.
Camp Schonthal at Magnetic Springs Opens Sunday
Over eighty girls are enrolled for the girls' season of four weeks at Camp Schonthal opening , Sunday (tomorrow) at Magnetic Springs, Ohio. Miss Beatrice T. Martus of New York City, who has been the director of Camp Schonthal fpr the past four years, is again director of the camp's activities,
Miss Rose D. Stetelman; a graduate of Ohio State University, who has been a counselor at the Camp for the past seven years is again appointed counselor of Special Activities. Miss Lee Gellman, graduate I'lurse of the Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati,, has been appointed camp nurse for the girls season. Miss Sara Bomberg, graduate of Ohio State Uni¬ versity, and. director of Student Activi¬ ties of the Hillel Foundation of Colum¬ bus, wilL direct the dramatic activities, assisted by Miss Leona Siegel,of Fargo, North Dakota; Miss Siegel is a graduate of the North Dakota State College. Miss Thelma Palestrant, who conducts sev¬ eral dancing studios, will be in charge oi the dancing classes.
Miss Mary Kidd, a certified Red Cross
that it is good business to educate people Life Saver Examiner, graduate of Ohio
to guard themselves against sickness and disease; and we have done and are doing much by publicity and propaganda, to stem the ravages of tuberculosis and, other diseases. Wouldn't the same pur¬ pose and energy and money that were poured into Anti-Saloon League activi¬ ties, and into the enactment finally of absolute prohibition legislation, have ac¬ complished far hiore good if directed to teaching people the harm to health and morals of excessive drinking; or to th& regulation and improvement of the con¬ ditions of the corner saloon. Remember that the saloon, good or bad, was still the poor man's club. Under proper regu¬ lation, it might have been made the neigh¬ borhood recreation center ijot only foe the workingman but for his family as well. Selfishness and greed fi^st created the liquor problem; then unthinking prejudice and blind zeal drove us into the farce of prohibition..
Immigration
The immigration question affords us another fine example of our fallacious thinking on social and economic prob¬ lems. Every succeeding business col¬ lapse, that has been prolonged enough to result in widespread unemployment, has heard the cry raised against the evils of iinrestricted immigration. We used to think that that could, happen only in this country, but we have had the sad lesson of its occurrence abroad within the past two years again. We try to make the imniigrant the scape-goat in seeking the causes of economic upheaval. And the specious reasoning goes about like this: "Don't the immigrants come into this coun¬ try poor ?" "Don't hey represent a surplus supply of labor to compete unfairly with the American workingman and his living standards?" "Aren't they the major Cause of the great demand upon our charitable agencies ?" Such arguments have ap¬ peared genuine and valid only because we never took the trouble to ascertain the facts about this immigration. We never stopped.to ponder over the matter at all. To realise, for example, that even if some of these immigrants didn't bring us money, they did bring a wealth of ap¬ preciation and an aspiration for the finer things of life, for which they were ready and willing to labor; to recognise that it was the labor and sweat of these immi-
State University, who has had several years of camp counselor experience, will be director of swimming. Miss Ruth Fos¬ ter of Cincinnati, who has been a counselor at camp for the past four years, will assist in the swimming activities and water .sports. Miss Lois Sternberg, of Cincin¬ nati University, a counselor for four years, and Miss Rose Sanders of the University of Cincinnati, wjio is serving for the second year, will direct athletic activities and assist in editing the Gamp newspaper. Miss Helen Geffen, gradu¬ ate of the University of Georgia,.will_as- sist "in the nature lore and pioneering program. Miss Ruth Siegel, counselor for. two years at Camp Livingston, will assist in the athletic program.
Miss Sally Sigel, graduate of- Western Reserve University of Cleveland, teacher of public school and religious school for ten years,, counselor at Camp Wise, Camp Baker and Burr Oaks Camp, who has beeii at Schonthal Camp for three years, will direct the handcraft activities, as¬ sisted by Miss Helen J. Samuels, grad¬ uate of University of ^ Cincinnati, teacher for four years. Miss Estelle Weiner, of the' University of Pittsburgh, will re¬ turn to Camp Schonthal to serve for her second year in charge of Camp office. Miss Ann T. Goldberg, of Ohio State University, is the Camp registration clerk at the city office, o55 East Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Rose Sugar- man, executive director of, the .Jewish Welfare Federation is business manager of the Camp.
The boys season at Camp Schonthal opens its five week session on July 22nd.
Hear, Mussolini Advised Hit¬ ler to Abandon Anti- Jewish Policy
Von   Papen's   Critical   Address
Reveals Growing Split in
Nazi Ranks
VIENNA (WNS)—Leading Austrian papers devote considerable attention to publication of rumors from Italy that Premier Mussolini, during his conference at Venice with Chancellor Hitler, warned the Nazi leader to abandon his anti- Semitic policy. Word from Venice indi¬ cates that among the subjects discussed hy the two dictators was the Jewish ques¬ tion. In this connection Mussolini is un¬ derstood to have pointed out to Hitler that persecution of the Jews is harmful to Germany" and that if the Reich's eco¬ nomic situation is to be improved Ger¬ many must be.freed of racial hatreds.
BERLIN (WNS)—Germany Jewry and other elements of the Third Reich's population that have no cause to love the Nazi regime are immensely encour¬ aged by the sensational speech of Vice- Chaiicellor Franz von Papen in which he openly attacked certain aspects of Hitler's policy and defended the right to criti¬ cize measures of the government. Von Papen's critical address is the first public onslaught on the Nazi regime to come from a high government spokesman.
In some quarters here his words are Interpreted as signs of a growing ^lit in the Nazi cabinet, with the radicals and conservatives fighting for control. All newspapers received orders frdm Propa¬ ganda Minister Goebbels to suppress the speech of Von Papen. Further evidence of a factional clash is seeti in the state¬ ment by Gfinerail Hermann Goering, premier of Prussia, before the Prussian State Council, that discontent is grow¬ ing in the Reich. The brunt of Von Papen's attack fell on Nazi persecution of religion and on government curbs of the press. He also assailed the Nazi's effort to dominate ail phases of human ¦life.
Von Papen's amazing outburst coin¬ cided with reports that the German am¬ bassadors to Russia, the United States and England were resigning because of dissatisfaction with Nazi tactics;, Simul¬ taneously it became known that President von Hindenburg is displeased with events at home and is preparing to exercise his powers, which have long been held in abeyance.
LONDON (WNS)—Premier Herman Goering of Prussia is planning a fake attempt on the life of Chancellor Hitler which will fae laid at the door of the Jews, the London Daily Herald learns from authoritative quarters. The scheme is to have a shot fired in the air at one of Hitler's public appearances. With tiiis as an excuse the Nazis will launch a new wave of terror against the Jews, charg¬ ing them with trying to assassinate Hit¬ ler. Behind this plot is a well-laid scheme to distract the attention of the German people from the increasingly difficult eco¬ nomic situation.
pansion of the last hundred years,  we grants that industry wanted in the early
find illustrated constantly that natural inclination to be guided by our opinions and prejudices rather than by fact and scientific analysis. We are ruled by self- interest largely and each one of us is an economist according to his own lights. During all of this industrial development, with the steady introduction of labor- saving machinery and devices, industry n6ver stopped to consider that it was producing more and more things, with
pioneering days of its development; to learn by actual study of the facts that these immigrant families lived in this country an average of nine years before they dropped to the ^onomic level that made them applicants for relief. And more amazing than all is the fact that we emerged from an era of the greatest busi¬ ness activity the country has known, in 1929, into a period of the worst business (Continued on page 2)
Many   Attractions   at   Free Loan Society Picnic July 1
The Ladies' Free Loan Society will hold their annual picnic on Sunday, July 1st, at Olentangy Park. You need not be told of the many attractions at the park in which your family and friends can be entertained. The Society will also provide various games and contests in which both young and old may partici¬ pate. Beautiful prizes will be given away.
Procure your tickets from any of the members of this Society, and reserve Sunday, July 1st, where the members of the Ladies' Free Loan Society will be happy to greet you.
Mrs. F. Eizman, 524 E. Fulton street, is chairman  in charge of the arrange¬ ments for this event, Lancaster Annual Picnic July 1
The B'nai Israel Sisterhood of Lan¬ caster, Ohio, will hold their annual picnic on Sunday, July 1st, at Mathias Grove on route 31. A cordial invitation is ex tended to all Chronicle readers to Join the Sisterhood members and their fam* j ilies at this annual outing.
Hachnasath   Orchim   Society Announces Important Meet¬ ing  Monday  Evening
There will be an important meetmg of the Ladies' Hachnasath Orchim Society at the Beth Jacob Synagogue on Mon¬ day evening, 8:00 p. m.
Mrs. I. Losin entertained at her home on Monday evening for the board mem¬ bers of this organization. Mrs. Losin and Mrs. B.'Piatt were co-chairmen of the successful picnic sponsored by this group. Mrs. William Cohen, President, wishes to . take this opportunity to thank all the members and the Columbus community for contributing so materially to the suc¬ cess of this undertaking, the proceeds of which are to be used for the Jewish Shelter House which takes care of home¬ less men and women.
Mr. C. H. Furman, Mr. William Coheii arid Mr, Nathan Cohen, are cooperating with the Society in making the necessary repairs on the new headquarters of the Jewish Shelter Home. A special vote of thanks was given them for this service.
Remember the next meeting—^Monday, June 25tli, at 8:00 p. m. at the Beth Jacob Synagogue.
EZRAS NOSHIM MEETING
The Ezras Noshim Society will hold its next regular meeting on Wetlnesday evening, June 27th, at 7 p. m. in the Agudath Achim synagogue, Washington and Donaldson. Inventory on tho tickets sold for the annual picnic which is to be an event of June 24th, will be made at this time, and it is therefore important that all members be in attendance.
Following the t^usmess meeting, Mrs, S. Levy, 838 S. 18th Street, will enter¬ tain the members with refreshments in honor of the B^r Mitzvah of her son.
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