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Voltitne XVll^No. ii8
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Strictly Confidential
By FHINEAS J. BIRON
One-Eleven
Although the ORT-JD^ deal'.was btiginr quite a few months ago, Zion¬ ists will say that' it was a strategic move to get more money from a coin¬ niunity chest .for the JDC...This he- catist llie ORT money from the com¬ munity chests, will g6 automatically to the JDC...One of the outstanding Zionislts explains privately that .the parity issue between the UFA and the JDC is,no issue at all...Every Jewisii community must retain* its freedom to decide where it wants its money to go and if thc JDC has tnore influence tti. some community chests it is. only logical that it should try to get as much as it can, is the way this Zionist ptiHJ it...This will .not, however, , prevent the Zionists from continuing their cry for parity... Incidentally many people are very curious to know who will be Morris Rpthenberg's , successor as prexy of the Zionist Organization...It is gen¬ erally knovirn that M; R. pledged him- ¦. self at the last Atlantic City.conven¬ tion not tp be a candidate in 19'i6... The New York Zionist Club, headed fay M. Maldwin Fertig, will, issue in the near future a bulletin which will carry a number bf.articles that will expose the deterioration of.the pres¬ ent American Zionist administration in ian unprecedentedly strong man¬ ner.. .The strpngest candidate for- the Zionist ..presidency is .Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, who might be persuaded to take a sabbatical,year, wc understand, to devote biinself to the rebuilding' of the Zionist house...
Personalia
There are Some United States Senators who, when.invited to address Jewish gatherings or banquets, xhlarge staggcriiig sums for expenses.. .Some times they actually have heavy ex¬ penses because they are accompanied by members of their family and a retinue of publicity men and brain- triisters...One of these days we might publish a list of such "amateur' speakers...Lena Goldsmith, who is given credit for having collaborated with Edwin Piscator in the new dra¬ matic version of Dreiser's ''American Tragedy," now being presented by the Group Theatre in New. York, was none other than tlie late wife.of Al¬ iens Goldsmith, who is now on the faculty of the University in Exile... People are wondering what is happen¬ ing to the relief campaign sponsored by the Federation ol Polish Jews m Anierica.l.It start<|d off with a bang and now seems to have flopped... Maurice David, author of "Who Was Columbusi*" tells us that in Japan the swastika is used as the emblem of houses of prostitution... In other words, the German national enjoys great popularity in the' land of the Mikado... David won at literary prize of quite a substantial sum from the Spanish :Academy of Literature for his book on Colunibug, but hasn't got the fare to go to Spain to collect... E. J. Chayfitz is one of the crack agents (G-men to you) of the De¬ partment of Justice...The Israel Day Nursery in New York is running a benefit at Slinsky's burlesque theatre ...Dr. Joseph Rosen, head of the Agro-Joint work in Russia, has re¬ turned to Moscow just as quietly as he arrived in this country a couple of weeks ago,. ..David Lipsky, son of Louis Lipsky, the Zionist, is now in the motion picttire game...He has established headquarters in the Title Guarantee Building of St. Ixiuis, and is waiting for orders to flow in for the feature film, "The Land of Prom¬ ise", which be is handling...
Family Album
Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger, execu¬ tive director of World Peaceways, is receiving mazel toys on the birth of her second grandson, Donald Keith Holzman...Funny-man Milton Berle has called off his marriage to please his mama.. .Herbert Fleishhackeri Jr., son of the San Francisco banker, is introducing his friends to his bride, the former Countj Lawton Filer Wurmbrand...Dorman Israel, who has been appointed chief engineer of the Emerson Radio and Television Corporation of New York Ctty, is a brother of Rabbi Edward Israel oi Baltimore..-And speaking oi rela¬ tives, Uabbi Morris Lazaron of Bal¬ timore, and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, are brptheri-in-law, (CoHtittued Oii page 5)
Roper Lauds Non^Sectarian of Denver Jewish Hospital
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)— Paying tribute to the National Jewish llospital df Denver for permitting no racial or religious discrimination in caritig ¦ for- its tubercular patients, Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper, in an. address at thc 3(Jth an¬ nual meeting of the hospital adminis¬ tration declared that America was free from racial aiul'religious intoler¬ ance. "The very" foundations of American growth and progress were laid by, the contributions pt all races; all religions and all classes," .Secre¬ tary Roper said. ¦;_ Lauding the motto of the National Jewish' Hospital— "none may enter who can pay, none' inay pay who enter," Secretary Roper said this represented "an ennobling philosophy of  hnmanitarian  service."
Other speakers included Dr. William Friedman, founder and. president ^of the hospital;'Dr. William Rosenau of Baltimore; Representative Lawrence Lewis of Colorado; Alfred Benesch. of Cleveland; E. J. Schanfarber'of Columbus; Senator Royal S, Copeland of New York and A. M. Krensky of Chicago: Dr. Charles J. Kaufman, medical director of tlie hospital, re¬ ported that the institution is now car¬ ing'for 635 patients from 37 states and that since the hospital,was opened it had cared for 20,001) patients, 70% of whom had been discharged, as defi¬ nitely improved. J. L. Wolff, chair¬ man of the budget Committee, recom¬ mended a budget of .$325,000 for 1936, which was adopted.
Louis D/ Beaumont of New Yoirk was elected honorary. president and Dr. .William 'Friedman of Denver, president.^ Vice-presidents named were Paul Felix, Warburg of New York. Alfred Triefus of Denver, Her. man Wile of Buffalo, Harmon S. Augusto of New York, Edwin J, Schanfarber of Columbus, and Al¬ fred A. B'enesch of Cleveland. Mrs, S. Pisko was reelected spf-retary, Ben Althcimcr of New YorK, treas- urcr, Isidor Sobeloff, director for New York, Samuel Schaefer, national supervisor, pr. Charles J. Kaufman, medical director, and Dr. F. J. Corper, director of research.
Rabbi Jonah B.Wise, Carl J. Austrian To Speak On Joint DistributijDn Com¬ mittee's National Passover Bjroadcast
Program Goes on Air, Mon., Apr. 6, Betweejn 5 and 5:30 P. M, Via WEAF Network of National Broadcasting Co.
NEW YORK, April I.—A one-half 'lOur program, celebrating the Pass¬ over, Holiday will be 'broadcast na¬ tionally over the .WEAF network of the National Broadcasting' Company, Mpnday, April 6, under the auspices pf the American Joint Distribution Committee, whose $3,500,000 campaign in behalf of Jews overseas is now under way.
Speakers on !the program, arranged by the J.D.C's Cultural Committee, which will .take place between 5 and r>:30 p. m. will be Dr. Jonah B. Wise, rabbi df the Central Synagogue in New York City, who is co-chairman of the. Natibnal Campaign, Carl J.. Austrian, New. York attorney, who, is chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee's New York City campaign for Ji;500,000, and 'Rabbi: Herbert S. Goldstein, honorary president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congre¬ gations.
Passover,and "seder" night musical
APPEALS TO BE MADE
BY JUBILEE SPEAKERS
DURING PASSOVER
Harry Schwartz
Harry Schwartz, executive director of the Cotumbus Hebrew School, has authorized the^Speakers Committee of the second annual United Jubilee to make special announcements and ap< peals,for cooperation in all synagogues and temples during the Passover Holi¬ days. The Presidents and Rabbis of air congregations are urged tQ give Jubilee representatives an opportunity to speak to their congregations for a few niinutes on the subject of this year's , United Jubilee, which takea place at Memorial Hall, Tuesday, April 21. Mr. Schwartz feels certain that with the splendid spirit of co¬ operation 80 far displayed, this mam¬ moth affair, held annually for thiS benefit of The Cblumbus' Hebrew School, will be a tremendous success.
HILLEL LOAN FUND EN¬ RICHED BY $130.00
The Hillel Loan Fund, of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the Ohio State University, received recently a donatioh of $130.00 from the Clam¬ bake Sponsors, of which Max H. Rieser is Chairman and Leoi} J. Good- ihan is Treasurer.
arrangcnients will b^ nirnic by Cantor Elias Zaludowski of Now York City and Herbert Fronnrty former Meister- schuler of the Academy of Tokunst in Munich. The fditr.tiiiesMnns, ti"a- ditional to PassoverKwill be asked by Miss Erna Jung, diiiRtitcr of Kabbi Leo Jung of the Jewish Center of New York City.
The program on April li, will mark the third Passover broadcast over thc National Broadcasting Company's facilities to^ be sponsored by the Cul¬ tural Committee of the American Jevv¬ ish Joint Distribution Committee, ;Diir- injr 1035. this cultural committee dis¬ bursed -$100,000 of Joint Distribution Cdmmittee funds td further Hebrew education and rellRious training among Jewish youth^ of Central and Eastern Europe aiid in Palestine. During the past 15 years, more than !i!4,000,000 was. expendetl by this or¬ ganization for Jewish ; Cultiiral pur¬ poses.
B'nai B'rith Announces Big Meeting for April 27th
Zion Lodge- No. 62, B'nai B'rith, will not have their regular first meet¬ ing iri April due to the Passover holi¬ days. However, preparations are now being made for one of the:outstanding B'nai B'ritb meetings of the year for April, 27tli. This date has been se¬ lected as "the" special meeting for the President of District No. 3 of B'nai B'rith, our own Justin L. Sillman.
'For. this occasion the entire Jewish community ^is invited to attend. As usual, the meeting will be held at the Brdad St. Temple.
Richman Leaves $300,000 to Many Charities
CLEVELAND (WN.S)—Bequests totalling $300,000 to ^educational,.phil¬ anthropic, civic and rebgious organi¬ zations in various pafts of the country were specified in ,th^ will of the late Charles L. Richmaij, head, of Rich- man Brothers Company Among the beneficiaries of his ^l.WO.ODl) estate are the Denver National Jewish Hos¬ pital, Tuskegec Normal School for Negroes, St. John's Lutheran Church, Saginaw, Michigan; Jewish Consump¬ tive .Relief rSbciety, National Farm School and the American Foundation fPr the Blind.
Jewish Swordsmen Score if^
Collegiate Fencing
Tournament
NEW YORfC (WNS) — With Theodore Gold leading the way as winner of'the individual epee title and Norman Lewis taking the class B foils title, New York University j scored ail easy victory in the Inter- ciillcgiate J*"eiicing Association's 43d ] annual .tournament. N. Y. U. won HVj out oi DO bouts to take the cham¬ pionship for the tliird time in fourj years,. Paid- Mass, winner of the; class C.epee title, and Max Frank, Paul Korschner and William. Wolf, who scored heavily in the saber events, helped pile up the wins that; gave N.'.Y. U. the championship. Na¬ than Lubdell of City College, Albert Wiener of Harvai;d and- Stanley Sarnoff of Princeton placed among the first five in.the epee event. Jewish high scorers in the foils event were ^ Sidney Kaplan of City College; sec¬ ond in ;tbe^class^,B; Philip Lilienthal, second in the class A and Edward Menaiker of Columbia, fifth in thc class C.
PHILADELPHIA (WNS) - Meyer Bloom, giant center of the Tcmpie, University five, and M. Du? bin, left forward, tallied II points ih their teahi's 37-30 victory oyer Ni¬ agara University in the final of Dis-' tricts 1 and 2 collegiate Olympic basketball elimim^tion series. By beat¬ ing Niagara the Temple team earned the right to compete in the final series to select the American Olympic bas ketball entry.
Ludwig  Lewisohn Picks 10 Greatest Living Jews
WINDSOB. ONT. (WNS)— The ten greatest living Jews, theflrst four of whom rank as geniuHca of the first order, have been named by Dr. Ludwig Lewihohn, diHtinguished author and leader of Jewish thought in Amorica, ns thc following: Al¬ bert KinHtein, physicist; Sig^ mund Freud, . pHychologist; Ilcnri Bergson, philosopher; Martin Buber, religious philos* opher; Chaim Weizmann^ chem¬ ist iind Zionist leader; Bernard Zondek, gynecologist; Shalom Asch, Yiddish author; Stephen S. Wise, religious'leadcr; Louis D. Rrnhdcis, Justice of thc U. S. Supreme Court; and Arnold Schocnbcrg, composer*
Plan Census of Jewish
Social Workers in
America
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.
fWNS)-~Izzy R.ichter of Pennsyl¬ vania State College, ;took third place in the heavyweight class of the annual boxing, tourney of the National Collegiate Athletic, Association."
WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS HAGGADAH
llluminoted page of ihe Darm- of the  entire  manuscript,   which \ ttiry is now on exhibition at R. H «tadt Haggadah.   A reproduction dates baclc to the fourteenthcen- jMacy and Co., New York.
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NEW YORK , (WNS)—Jewish youth's present status in America, its possibilities of - adjustment to condi- < tions in the transitional stage, its "fu¬ ture . Eind its various methods of at¬ tempt at solution of. the problems be¬ setting it will take a prominent place among the dclibcratiphs of Jewish social workers this year when the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the National Conference of Jewish Serv¬ ice takes place in .Atlantic City from May.3(> to June 3. .Announcement of the decision to devote a substantial share of the Conference's annual meet¬ ing program to a discussion'of "Jew-, ish youth in America" was made'here by Harry L. 'Glucksman, president ot. the Conference, following . the;'quar¬ terly meeting of the,Conference execu¬ tive committee. ¦¦ .        '¦
The executive committee , of the Conference approved, plans for coii- \ vening the annual meeting at Atlantic City from May 30 to June 3, accepted a report lixii^g the Hotel ¦ Chelsea at the shore resort as\,the Conference headquarters-for the annual.meeting, decided to conduct a census of Jew-; ish social workers throughout the country, and adopted a report of the program committee which gave' cout sideration to the youth problenV.^ The executive committee also decided tipqn publication of a fortnightly news bul¬ letin, entitled ¦ "Jewish Coriiference." This new publication, Supplementing the already existing Jewish Social Service Quarterly which is issued four times a year, will,-according to Mr. Glucksman, "reflect the contin¬ uing, progressive character of the Conference as a body whose work is going oh all through the year."
The census is to be conducted by a special committee, headed by Dr. Maurice J. Taylor, bf Pittsburgh. It will be the first census of the kind ever undertaken in this country, and will indicate the number of social workers in the Jewish field, their ed¬ ucational background, and professional qualifications^
Anglo-Jewish Press Cred¬ ited With Merger of ORT and JDC Campaigns
', NEW   YORK   (\VNS}—Confirm¬ ing last week's scoop by the  Seven ¦ Arts Feature Syndicate on the con¬ summation of a merger of the indi¬ vidual campaign efforts of the Amer¬ ican ORT and the Joint Distribution  ¦ Committee, David A, Brown, national chairinan of the ORT campaign, in a statement td tlie' Seven Arts Feature Syndicate'declared that aft€|-. scverar , , weeks of negotiations  representatives ;of the ORT and the JDC have finally I agreed on » formula for merging thc two cahipajgns and credited the Anglo-   , Jewish and the Yiddish press for havr ing had the vision to see clearly, in the early stages of the ORT canipaign   " that it should be merged into the cam-   " paign of the,JDC. ',
Mr. Brown told the Seven Arts that 'credit is due the Anglo-Jewish and , Yiddish press for having rendered a distinctive service to the Jews of this country by siiggesting, ^through arti¬ cles, and editorials, the merging of the $3,500,000 campaign of tlie JDC and the $a00,000 Campaign of the Amer¬ ican GRT.   This attitude of the press was'- reflected, iri the. general attitude of-Jewish '.leaders   throughout   the country   that   I   contact»5d   and. who though sympathetic- to tfie, American ORT campaign and to ORT effprt as conducted   in   Eastern   and   Central . Europe, urged that if. it is hurtianly. possible; the campaigns of these two great Ofganizations be joined."'     .   , . •In    his    statement    Mr.    Brown stressisd  the  economy  of  effort,  the savings that would follow in the, elim¬ ination' of an extra campaign; and the fact that the joining, or merging of ,'the campaigns- is in complete harmony with the social philosophyof the Jews of this country especially where tliere : is no conflict of ideology for money- raisiiig  purposes.  !-He   congratulated the officers of both organizations ^nd , especially the JDC. for assuming an extra finantHalrburdcn and -the-extra> work of conducting the campaign for thcORT'and expressed the hope that Jewish leaders throughout the coun¬ try, who are about to conduct .cam¬ paigns, will see to it that the JDG does, not suffer the Io3s of any moneys which would have been, allocated to the §500,000 CRT cami>aign.   He also suggested.thjat to the,allocations froni vario.us .communities    which    would ; have been made to the JDC thfere he added  an extra  amount which  will represent that, which would have been allocated to the ORT campiaign.
CJ.W, to Hear Book Re¬ view al Meeting Tuesday
Mrs. DeiMw-Head will be the guest speaker at the next regular meeting of the Columbus Section National Council of Jewish Women Wednes¬ day afternoon at two o'clock at the Bryden Rd. Temple.
Mrs, Head is very well known in Columbus for her splendid book re¬ views and lectures, and has spoken to a large number of organizations. She has selected for her review one of the most outstanding new books of fiction "Vein of Iron" by Ellen Glasgow,
Mrs. Harry Goldberg will conduct a short business meeting prior to the book review.
Jews win Bridge Titles
NEW YORK (WNS)—The East- West world bridge Olympic cham¬ pionship for ISKVS was won by Dr, Paul Stern and Dr, Paul Kaltenegger of Vienna, it was announced here by tliu National Bridge Association in making public the results of its worlds wide comiKtition, S. Rivlin of Car- dirt, Wales, playing with Captain W. H. Ricardo of the. same city, tied for the Norlh-SoHth world title with R. E. Horner and Alfred Harris of Ottawa, Canada.
B'nai    B'rith    Contributes $3,500 to Flood Relief Fund
CINCINKATI—A gift of $V<Wt to the Red Cross for Hood.relief has been announced by Alfred M. Cohen, President of B'nai n'ritli. The money appropri,'ited from the Order's Emer¬ gency Relief Fund will go for direct, relief of flood.victims in the Midwest and l£astcrn.pait of thc United States.
B'nai B'ritli Emergency Relief Fund has been often used in the past for the direct relief of victims of po¬ groms, earthquakes, fires and floods.     ,
As Citizens and as Jews, Do Your buty—Register Now!
In keeping with the spirit of Pass¬ over "Feast ot Liberation", the Ohio Jewish Chronicle cannot help but urge ujion: every Jewish resident of Co¬ ltimbus and Franklin county, who is qualified to vote, but has not yet registered, that he is not a truly free roan or woman unless he has fulfilled the rights of suffrage which he pos¬ sesses, and which ih fairness and de¬ cency he should exercise.
In championing the cause of decent citizenship, the Chronicle feels that we owe it to ourselves as citizens and as Jews, to register immediately. The deadline for unregistered voters or others who have moved since the last election, in order to vote for the May Vi primary, is Monday, April 13. Persons becoming of age on or before the November election are eligible to register and vote at the primary.
Another point stressed by William Donahue, clerk of thc Board of Elec¬ tions, is that electors who have failed to cast ballots in the last Iwo elec¬ tions, or have changed (heir names by marriage, divorce qr probate court action, must register again.
Do your duly—register—do it now I