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VOL. 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918.
No. 17
JEWISH WELFARE WORK
EXTENDING VERY RAPIDLY
Commission for Europe—Call for Volunteers for Summer Vaca¬ tion  Period—Religious   Commission   Inspection   of Chaplain Training* School
Colonel Harry Cutler, Chair¬ man of the Jewish Welfare Board, has just announced the departure to Europe of a com¬ mission of three; composed of Congressman Isaac Siegel, Rab¬ bi Jacob Kohn and Rabbi H, G. Enelow and an Administrative Secretary, John Goldhaar, who will establi.sh headquarters abroad. Its mission will be to determine how the Jewish Wel¬ fare Board in co-operation with other welfare agencies on the other side, can best serve the men of Jewish faith who are now with the American Expe¬ ditionary Forces. The commis¬ sion will remain on the other side for some time, visiting the various allied battle fronts, training camps and rest billets, and will send reports of its ob¬ servations and recommenda¬ tions to the National Headquart¬ ers at 149 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Colonel Cutler also announced the appointment of several Jewish Chaplains, who are leaving for overseas duty.
The  Jewish  Welfare   Board has been in communication with .. prominent Rabbis and laymen abroad.'   Plans  of work  have ., been    discussed    with    Major Michael   Adler   and   Major   L. Lipson, Chaplains in the Brit¬ ish Army; Chaplains Leon Som- mer   and   Israel  Levy,   of  the French Army; and Chaplain El- kan' Voorsanger, of the Amer¬ ican Forces, all of whom in co¬ operation with the Jewish Wel¬ fare Board are now serving our troops abroad,.
The  Jewish  Welfare  Board, officially recognized on. the same basis as the Y, M. C, A, and K. of C„ has issued a call for 100 men for overseas work.    These workers are now being selected from a large number of appli¬ cants,- men already in service, '' and. will soon follow the Com¬ mission to the other side, where '   they   will   be   sent  to   billets, trenches, hospitals and even into "No Man's Land," following the „ dag..
With nearly 200 trained work¬ ers in the field, the numerous
huts erected in the large camps, the Jewish Welfare Board has been taking care of the 75,000 Jewish soldiers in the camps throughout the country. Re¬ ligious services, entertainment, classes in English, American history and Civics are among the many features of the Jewish Welfare Board's work.
Volunteers Needed for Summer Vacation
, Colonel Cutler has issued a call for volunteers to give at least six weeks of their summer vacations to the work of the Board in the camps and canton¬ ments. This appeal is directed particularly to school teachers and others who are unemployed during the summer.
The Welfare Board announced recently that it would send 100 men to France to work among the Jewish soldiers there.- Since the first quota of these men will be recruited from the workers who are 'now engaged in camps anid naval trairling stations in this country, men will be needed in short order to fill the vacan¬ cies, temporarily at ,any rate. Men of good education axid broad sympathies can be used advan^^ tageously for the varied work of the Board among the camps. The Jewish Welfare Board, which has over 150 workers in camps throughout the country, has been officiially recognized on the same basis as the Y. M, C. A. and K. of C. • Its headquarters are at 149 Fifth avenue.
Colonel Cutler Visits  Chaplain Training School
Colonel Cutler has juSt com pleted an inspection of Camp Zachary Taylor,-Camp Sherman and the Chaplain Training School, as a member of the Com¬ mittee of Six, representing the principal religious denomina¬ tions, and appointed by Secre¬ tary of War Baker. The other members of the Committee are Rev, John J, Burke, Rev. Wm. Adams Brown, Dr. John R. Mott, General Secretary of the International Y. M, C. A,, James de Wolf Perry and Robert E, Speer,
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SUGGESTS FINANCIAL BOARD TO
PRESERVE PEACE
Rome—David Ltibin of Sacra¬ mento, Cal,, American represen¬ tative jn the International Insti¬ tute of Agriculture at Rome, has issued a statement, saying that a proposal for the creation of "an international reserve board" on the lines of the American Federal Reserve Board has been sent to President Wilson and the heads of the other allied nations,
"The creation of such a board," said Mr, Luban, "would mean the setting up of an organ¬ ization which would serve as an international policeman to pre¬ serve financial peace within the borders of the allied countries. The details of the plan have been sent to President Wilson and the leading statesmen and financiers of the allied nations,
'The Federal Reserve Board of the United States was the out¬ come of the Federal Reserve act, which was intended to pi'eserve the financial stability of America and prevent the perturbation of commerce. It has hitherto served its purpose, but it is in- sufiicient for the future, A credit system has been compared to a 'house of cards,' which is a won¬ derful structure as long as it is intact, but liable to'collapse if struck a sharp blow. The pur¬ pose of an international reserve board would be to protect the credit system from blows.
"One of the chief advantages
it would afford would be to pro¬ vide means for the rational handling of the closely inter¬ linked; far-reaching* problems relative to the war bounds of the allies; Its international charac¬ ter >vould tend to concentrate the best financial minds in the world to the solution of the difficulties of any individual country ,thus safeguarding the entire credit structure.
THE   COMMUNITY   SING
The next Community yfeing V/iW ¦ be held on Sunday^after- noon^ July 21, at Ohio Field, Ohio State University.
The last Community Sing, held last Sunday had an attend¬ ance of 10,000 loyal, patriotic Columbus citizens. Ten thou¬ sand patriots joined in song and joined in spirit as the outward indication of their Americanisfti and patriotic devotion.
The effect of the Community Sing is far greater than is gen¬ erally realized, and the spirit of the Community Sing goes far deeper than some suspect.
The- barracks band was there, and some five hundred soldiers. Surely these soldiers felt heart¬ ened and encouraged by the wonderf til spectacle of ten thou¬ sand voices lifted in songs of patriotism, and in old love songs. The morale of our entire army can . be kept higher through the power of song.
Aside from this spiritual ef¬ fect upon the common welfare is the general effect upon our¬ selves. We go out into ah open space, surrounded by trees, flow¬ ers and shrubbery, works of God and of nature, we lift our voices to the skies' with a freedom never before experienced. And while we are doing this, uniion- sciously we arebreathing deeply taking the best physical exercise. Our eyes brighten, we feel alert. We, enjoy an hour and a half of sunshine, wholesome fresh air and the sweetness of song.
How many Jewish people were at the last Community Sing? We have many of our boys in the Army doing their bit, and are we to stay home and hold our¬ selves, aloof., from the-, com¬ munity?
Join in the Community Sing. Let us join next Sunday at Ohio Field at Ohio State University. There will be seats for all.   Do your siiare.   Don't be a slacker. And when you are there, let out your voice and SING. Chairmen of Committees for the Community Sing Cecil Fanning, Music. C. R. Martin, Program, Max Rieser, Meeting Places, Decorations, Ushers;   -
Willis  G,  Roland,   Advisory Committee. Joseph Goodman, Publicity, Alice Speaks, Organization. Benjamin    Seligman,    Secre¬ tary   War   Camp   Community Service, FOsdick Commission. Leaders- Carl Hoenig, Alfred Barring- ton, Samuel Richard Gaives, R, W, Roberts,
REPORTS DIRE NEED OF RUSSIAN JEWS
D. C. Representative Tells'of Woeful Conditions.
"At the end of the,war.com¬ merce will again flow in its usual channels. The duty on im¬ ports will be.paid in gold, with a consequent depreciation paper money, which, coupled with its constant fluctuations, is sui'e to cause widespread panics and crises unless effectively con¬ trolled.
"It is, therefore, necessary to create an institution on broader lines, namely, an international reserve board formed by the al¬ lied nations, acting as an inter¬ national clearing house, regulat¬ ing the ebb and flow of gold, sup¬ ervising factors, determining in¬ terest and exchange rates, and performing, on international lines, the functions of the Fed¬ eral Reserve Board, It would be competent to do whatever is necessary toward the end in vi^w, including the issuance of international gold notes guaran¬ teed by the securities of the allies, which notes would be legal tender at face value for gold payments in allied countries."
MORE JEWISH REFUGEES LEAVE JAPAN FOR AMERlt;A
The Hebrew Sheltering and
Immigrant Aid Society of Am¬ erica, 229 E. Broadway, New York, received cables from Sam¬ uel Mason, its representative in Yohohama, through Robert Lan¬ sing, Secretary of State sayiiig of that over 150 additional Jewish war refugees, chiefly women and children, destined to heads of families in this country have left Yokohama for San Fran¬ cisco and Vancouver. The San Francisco Branch of the organ¬ ization will meet the immigrants on arrival there and representa¬ tives of the Seattle Branch will meet the refugees who arrive at Vancouver. They will be sent to relatives to whom they are de¬ stined throughout the United States.
About 200 refugees remain at the Home of the Society in Yo¬ kohama. An effort is being made to locate the heads of the fam¬ ilies to whom they are going. There is a slow but steady stream of refugees arrivinig .from Russia by way of Siberia and Japan and about 2,000 have reached this country since the first of the year.
An advance report of the ob¬ servations on his tour through the occupied districts in Poland has been received from the Netherlands Branch of the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds-for Jewish War Sufferers, from Dr. Albert Van Raalte, special representative of the Committee, who was sent to investigate the distribution of relief funds in the occupied dis¬ tricts.
Dr. Van Raalte, a noted Hol¬ lander, visited ,Kovno, Wilna, Grodno, Bialystok and Warsaw. The Jewish population is vir¬ tually entirely dependent upon American contributions, the suf¬ fering and want are terrific, and Dr. Van Raalte finds that it will be necessary for' American Jewry to contribute for years to come, even after the conclusion of peace, to the relief of the suf¬ ferers. "Improvement in condi¬ tions," he declares, "cannot be expected yntil sometimes after the" conclusion of peace." Dr, Van Raalte in his report says in part:
"The greatest want I found in Wilna and Bialystok. It was as¬ sured from all sides' by the mili¬ tary, authorities, as well as by the various members of the re¬ spective local committees, that nearly the whole of the popu¬ lation of these places is in need of assistance. In Bialvstok it is approximated to reach 70 per cent and in Wilna from 80 to 100 per cent.-
¦ "Improvemenjt-i in ^conditions cannot; be expected until.some time after the conclusion of peace, when trade and traffic will become normal. ' But even then, the distress will only be diminished if the Jews adapt themselves to the new condi¬ tions.
"In any case, regular relief, at least for another few years will be absolutely necessary, and the American Jews will have to ful¬ fill a sacred duty in continuing to collect large funds for the Velief of the'Eastern Europe Jews, if they do not wish to allow'\ the great 'masses to perish and; in that way that portion of the Jewish, people representing the conditions.
"To one of the questions p up by your Committee, viz.\ 'What happened when thfe' American Relief money did not ai'rive?' I received from vari¬ ous sources, the followiiig reply, that is characteristic of the pre vailing cohditions: 'More people did than otherwise!'
" 'The Yeshivoh," so indispen able to Jewish culture, are in a very unsatisfactory state. Most of the pupils are wholly desti¬ tute and insufficient attention is paid to-the relief of these,insti¬ tutions, and likewise to that of the rabbis (many of whom have taken refuge, here.) I have called the attention of the Central Committee at Wilna to this fact, and requested them to instruct the respective local committees accordingly.
"To fight the spotted typhus epidemic, principally prevailing in the large towns, the popula¬ tion should be ' supplied, above all, with linen; America or Hol¬ land should, therefore, do their utmost to send as quickly as ever possible, underlinen- sheets, and pillow cases to Warsaw and Wilna.
"If there be complaints now and again against the acts of the committee, still there never has been any real complaint as to the financial administration. On the contrary, people are con¬ vinced that all relief money has been solely distributed among those in need of it.
"There is still food to be had, but clothing and bdots cannot be bought any longer by the great masses. Thus the distress manifests itself chiefly outward¬ ly, in the rags that thousands of people are clad in, and also in the tatters which they use as footwear. In this connection, the poverty has increased enor¬ mously and that is why I would strongly plead for a good supply of clothing and boots.
"It is quite certain, too, that the bookkeeping in Warsaw, un¬ der the personal supervision of Dr. Nathanson, is very exact, though I had too little' time to go into this. The distress is very great in Warsaw with its large .Tewish, population. Above all, tho health of the Jewish popula¬ tion, and especially of the chil¬ dren is most saddening; for in¬ stance, 40 per cent of the chil¬ dren in a "Home" I visited, are consumptive. The physicians re¬ gard this as a result of the lack of footwear and if your commit¬ tee were to send some wagons of children's wooden shoes, it would be doing very useful work.
"Mutato' mutandis (more or less), everything I have reported you about Ober-Ost (occupied districts) applies to the state of affairs' ip Poland. Food is dis- .tributed at a low prices but in too small quantities for the maintenance of life, and the "free" victuals are terribly dear (the most of them are only to be obtained by way of the so-called "clandestine trade.")
"In Loz the misery is increas¬ ing every day now that the fac¬ tories have closed down owing to lack of raw materials, requisi¬ tion of machines, etc.i whereby the great mass of working peo¬ ple Jhaye lost_.their_m,eans of ex¬ istence! Fortunately, the com¬ mittee in Lodz—which is very representative — regularly re- ceiveds more money than earlier, so that the distress can now be relieved to some extent."
THE JEWS AND THE WAR
Address Delivered by Rabbi Louis Grossman at Central Confer¬ ence of American Rabbis i
FINNISH JEWS EXPELLED FROM HOMELAND
Expulsion Said to Be Influenced by Germany
Stockholm,—All Jews must leave Finland before September 30th, according to an order of the Finnish Government, All communities have been instruct¬ ed to deny fOod to Jews after that date, according to reports reaching the Jewish press bu¬ reau here. -The Finnish Jews have issued an appeal to the world fpr assistance. It is re¬ ported the order is^issued at the direction of Germany.
This conference is the organ¬ ized   expression   of  American Judaisrfl.   It is not merely an association of men who have a specific interest,  wholly exclu¬ sive and professional, and who come together to protect,  en¬ large and secure it.   It is an or¬ ganization which represents the central and vital facts of the Jewish life in all the communi¬ ties of this country.   It is signi¬ ficant to the Jewish people as much as to the Rabbis, for the subjects on which it deliberates coxne out of the heart of the con¬ gregational life and the conclu¬ sions at which it arrives direct the united Rabbinate to definite policy and action and constitute a moral influence of. first magni¬ tude for united Americarl Israel. We meet in the lurid light of a world-storm.   Perhaps this.is' not graphic enough to describe the fact.,  For the storm is not remote and we are not mere ob¬ servers of it.    And it is, not merely   spectral   but   veritable truth.   We are in the midst of the conflict and we have staked upon its issue all we have and all we are and all we aspire to be.    As citizens we iare com¬ mitted, forever, to the cause and the motive of this war.    Life must be democratized.- It must be freed from every sinster. in¬ fluence and must be moral in the most encompassing sense.   This is our demand as Americans and as .Jews.   Our religion as well as our citizenship demand it and ,we find, in a surprise that is almost anticipation, that, even in,.the tragic hardships of'war, tragiic for the refinements of our eth¬ ical , faith, Judaism and Amer¬ icanism are identical, as ih times of peace so now in these ordeals of blood.
We Jews have stood through eventful centuries for the worth of man and for the equity be¬ tween man and man, and we have given to the world the first and the most signal truth as to the organization of human life under law and order.   We may
dare claim, as a historic fact and a characterization of ourselves today, that Judaism is demo¬ cracy gone into every phase of human life.. The pathos of our story and life is not so much that we have been denied moral freedom and moral equality, as that, in the face of- the denial and rejection we have still clung to our faith that democratiza¬ tion would ultimately come to, us and to the world. Call this ideal political and you have modernized it, call it Jewish and you have given it an historical setting, call it a mission and you have sublimated it into a relig¬ ion, ca!ll it American and you have fertilized its new and ir- resistable possibilities, lifted it to moral power and opened up for it a nirrevocable destiny.
It is not surprising, therefore' that the Jews of this country have responded to the call of this war in loyalty; with readi¬ ness and with an avidity, which was the njore intense since it was bred into our very tissues by age-long idealism. Our Am¬ ericanism has been surcharged, as it were, with the moral long¬ ings we had cherished through the ages. Our political fealties fused with our historically trained pieties. Jews were de¬ mocrats long before America was discovered and before the Constitution was framed and when Jev/s came to the United States they brought with them riot only, the pioneer spirit of enterprise but also the tried aiid tested piety of democracy^ Polit¬ ical erriahcipation and' tiie re¬ spect for the Rights of Man fus¬ ed in the warmth of our hu- manness and humanity.
It is invidious to single out for praise the services which Jews are rendering to our country in these hours of awakened , gen¬ eral citizenship and manhood. We feel the satisfaction not for boast but for reassurance. The Jews of the United States are doing their duty with Splendid (Continued oil Page 6.)
The Finnish Senate, it is said, will grant naturalization to onlv a few Jews, especially those who\fought in the ranks of the WhitV Guards,
cipline and judicious courage. He continued by his own Wish to serve with the French Es- cadrille during the present' bat¬ tle, before passing into the Am¬ erican aviation service, ,He was killed in an aerial combat while directing distant artillery fire."
DIVINITY STUDENTS
ARE NOT SLACKERS
Cincinnati.—Many of the stu-^ dents of the Hebrew Union Col¬ lege have responded to the ^fa- tion's call. Among those who enlisted I'ecently are: Robert Lee Straus, Jacob R, Marcus, TIFeAeTH ISRAEL SUNDAY Michael    Aaronsohn,    Sol,  .A.
SCHOOL PICNIC
The Siinday School of Tem¬ ple TifeWli Israel will hold their annt^al picnic on Sunday, July 21st al Glenmary Park. All those desiring to attend will please be at^the Temple at 9 A. M,, where transportatiola will be
provided for all.
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BLUMENTHAI^, AVIATOR,
CITED FOR BRAVERY
Paris.—Posthu^ious citation of Arthur Blumerii.hal, a mem¬ ber of the Lafayette, Escadrille, and formerly one of the best- known football Rlayers at Princeton University,\ who was killed on June 1, appears in the OflUcial Journal.   It rea\ls:;
. "Arthur Blumenthal, *^n Am¬ erican pilot of the firsty yank, volunteered for the foreig^n Le¬ gion in order to serve inVtheh aviation service of France.'\ He made himself remarked f\om the beginning by his spirit, Ais-
Fineberg, Fred S. Rypins, I.,ouis
E. Grafman, Mayer Lipman, Carl N. Herman and Melville J. Herskpvitz.
Students who have enlisted for Welfare Work in the camps are: Arthur S. Kling, Bernard Heller, So\. Landman, Jacob H. Skirboll, Alvin S.' Luchs, Irving
F. Reichert, Henry J. Berko- witz,' Bernard J, Stern, William Sternseher, Harvey E, Wessel, William Schwartz and Samuel J, Keiser,
Cleveland  Hebrew   School   and Institute.
Rabbi Joel Blau of Rochester eulogized Rabbi Margblies in English, speaking especially of his Zionistic activities.
"The Jews of Cleveland owe a debt to Rabb Margolies," said Rabbi Blau', "and they can re¬ pay him most fittingly by, srengthening the school which he founded here, rearing it as a noble monument to his name."
Rabbi S. Silver of .Chicago de¬ livered the principal address in Jewish, and the exercises closed with rendition of two Hebrew melodies of lament, by children of the Hebrew School''^ and In¬ stitute, '   .
CLEVELAND HONORS MEMORY   OF   LATE
RABBI  MARGOLIES
LEHMAN BBROTHERS'
HEAD IS DEAD AT 66
Elberon, N! J,—Meyer H. Lehman, retired head of the firm of Lehman Brothers,, bank¬ ers and cotton brokers of 16 William St., New York, died at the home of his cousin, Arthur Lehman, here recently from heart disease in his sixty-sixth year. Mr. Lehman had been ill for several months. He was the last of the brothers who founded the Lehman firm. ,^ He was a di¬ rector of Mount Sinai Hospital,
Mr, Lehman was born in Montgomery, Ala., and went to
New  York  about forty  year^ ago, when he retired from active
Over  fifteen  hundred  people paid tribute to Dr, Samuel Mar¬ golies, in memorial services last] Sunday morning in Cleveland,     work.   He was a member of the
Every inch of space in the New, York Coffee Exchange and building was taken and, many the New York Cotton Exchange, could not gain admission to the and had been active for many
exercises, which were under the joint auspices of the Margolies Memorial   Committee   and   the
years in Jewish charities. Mr. Lehman was unmarried anu is survived by two sisters.
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