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1 HE. COLUMBUS JEWISH GHRONIGLE
A WEEKLY DEVOTED TO THE.INTERESTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE OF, COLUMBUS AND VICINITY
VOL,!
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1918.
No. 25
SERVICE IS FUNCTION OF WELFARE WORKERS
MLLE.
W. B. Workers Come From Varied Spheres of Activity '      in Civilian Life.
VERY DEMOCRATIC GROUI
STERN   NOW SWISS PROFESSOR
One of Four Jewesses Holding Learned Cliairs in Euro¬ pean Uhiversitiies.
ENROLLMENT CAMPAIGN RESUMED BY ZIONISTS
Every Jew Should  Aid Movcf-
ment   Declares   Judge
Juliiin Mack.
Combining many that are all summed word service—the w e 1 f are worker, whether he wears the uniform of the Jewish Welfare Board, Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus, or any of the other war work agencies, is part of a ,group that is as democratic as the army itself.
The welfare worker comes from varied spheres of activity, sacrificing personal advantage to patriotic service. Twenty- nine per cent of the Jewish Wel¬ fare Board field workers were earning $2100 a year and over before entering Jewish Welfare work. The highest allowance given to a Jewish Welfare Board worker is $2000'a year. Sixty- three per cent of the men' in service, however, receive be- tweeri $1100 to $1500 and twenty-five per cent between $1600 and $2000.
More tha^n twenty-five differ¬ ent professional and business ac¬ tivities are represented by the workers of the Jewish Welfare Board.   The school teaching pro¬ fession gave 13.2 per cent of the men in the service.   Twelve per cent of the men were managers of different trades.   Next on the list comes the legal profession, which gave 10.7 per cent.  Con¬ trary to supposition, only 6.3 per cent of the men were profes¬ sional social workers, ,and only 1.9 per cent rabbis.    Five per cent were journalists and 3.3 per (Jent accountants. , Of the  group  sixty-one  per cent are native > born Am'ericans .   and 35.9 naturalized with 3.1 per cent declarants.   Of the natural¬ ized American citizens twenty- seven per cent .are Russian born and twelve   per   cent   of other foreign countries.
Thirty per cent are married and seventy per dent single. ¦ The ages of the .men range from fifty-seven down—with 63.5 per cent between twenty- one an,d thirty-one and thirty per cent above, thirty-one". Less than six per cent are under • twenty-one.
The roster of welfare workers includes representatives of twenty-two states. New York, leads with nearly fifty-seven per cent of the men. Thirty-seven per cent of the Jewish Welfare Board men have had college or professional training.
Listed according to religious home training it was found that 32.2 per cient of the men are af¬ filiated with reformed Judaism and ,33;9 per cent each with Oithodox and conservative. . ^Sixty-six per cent; rjsad He- . brew and fifty^four read Yid¬ dish. Nearly eighty per cent of the men speak Yiddish, and twenty-four per cent have been leaders of religious schools.
These facts and figures prove that for the big task of bringing aid and cheer to the boys in the service, men of all stations have come forth gladly and are giving thie best of expedience and devo¬ tion that life has given them.
Geneva.—Mile.  S.  St^rn,  of Libau, a Jewess, has been ap¬ pointed professor at the Univer¬ sity of Geneva.   There, are now four Jewesses who are profeS- Isors  in European  uhiyersities, functions namely. Dr. Tupiarkin in Berne* up in the'Dr. Lydia Rabinowitch  in the Bacteriological Institute in Ber¬ lin, and Dr. Hirsch grand daugh* ter of the famous leader of Neo- Orthodoxy, Dr. Samson Raphael Hirsch; in Berlin.
Enroll Jews of America to Work for the Establishmont of Na¬ tional Homeland.
TO  SEEK  150,000  MEMBERS
CONTRIBUTES $1000
Julius   Rosenwald   has   con tributed $1,000 to the World's Mitchel   Memorial   Fund.     He calls the career of the late John Purroy Mitchel, who was killed in an aeroplane flight, the high est ideal of American  citizen ship.
President  Mack  Declares That Approval of Zionism by the Pokers Makes It Duty of I  Jewry to Aid Move¬ ment.
to provide the basis of strength f01'the Jewish land.*'
¦ The campaign is expected to reach its climax on November 3, when.all over the United States the Zionists' wil|l celebrate the first anniversary, of the signing by Rt. Hon. Arthulr James Bat- four* British Mini^tor of For¬ eign Affairs, of "the Jewish Magna Charta," the British De¬ claration favoring the establish- Hpmeland in Palestine and pledging the best efforts of the British Governmetit toward the
realization of this project.
JERUSALEM RECEIVES NEW WATER SUPPLY
British  Engineers Install  Ade¬ quate Supply for .Population of Holy City.
MILES OF PIPE  ARE  LAID
Health   of  Population   Will   Be
Much Bettered by the New
Improvement.
BEQUEST OF 2000 MARKS
Mr. ' Erich Rothenberg o f Bleicherode, ah assessor, who fell 11^' the field, has bequeathed the Jewish National Fund 2,000 marks.
TO LOOK AFTER ALL NEEDY DEPENDENTS
Jewish Welfare Board Orgahiz- , ing New York City Block   .. by Block.   .,
Now that the  Liberty Loan drive is over, the Zionist organ¬ ization of America has resumed its campaign to mobolize the ma¬ terial and  moral  forces  of all Jewry for the settlement of Pal¬ estine and the establishment in that country of a national home¬ land for the Jewish peoplej in ac¬ cordance with the consent for the realization   of  this   project given by Great Britain, France and Italy, and the approval of the plan by President Wilson in his recent letter to Rabbi Step¬ hen S. Wise, expressing satis¬ faction with the progress of the Zionist  movement  in  this and allied lands.   Over two hundred registration boards hav3 already been established in every Jewish cornmunity from coast to coast, and under the direction of these boards an intensive effort will be made during the next month to secure a minimum of 150,000 members of   the   organization, although the officers of the move¬ ment expect that the total regis¬ tration will be far in excess of this figure.   During the Liberty
SIAM   ENDORSES  JEWISH HOMELAND PLAN
The Zionist Organization of America has received the text of a statement issued by the Sia¬ mese government Expressing its approval of the plan to establish in Palestine a National Home¬ land for the Jewish people.- The statement was issued to Mr. E. S. Kadoorie, one of the leading bankers of China and President of the Shanghai Zionist Associa¬ tion, by H. R. H. Prince Deva- wongse Varopakar, Siamese Minister for Foreign Affairs, It reads as follows:    '
Foreign Office, . - Bangkok, Aug. 22, 1918.
(By W. T. Ma.ssey) It is doubtful whether the population of any city within the zones of war has profited so much at the hands of the con- quei-br as th^tt of Jerusalem. In a little more than half a year a wonderous change has been ef¬ fected in the condition of the! people.
One of the biggest' blots upon the Turkish' government of the city was the total failure to pro¬ vide an adequate water supply. What they could not, or would not, do in their rule of 400 years his Majesty's Royal Engineers accomplished in a little more than two months. The pictures¬ que water-carrier is passing into the limbo of forgotten things. The germs that infested his leathern water bags .will no I longer endanger the lives of the
powerful pumping plant erected, but water was'being delivered to the people of Jerusalem on June 18. There has not been a stop¬ page or a hitch.
A medical authority tells me the health of the community i.s wonderfully good, and there is no   suspicion   of   cholefa,   out¬ breaks of which were frequent under the Turkish regime. Gov¬ ernment hospitals arc establish¬ ed in all large centers, and fre¬ quent medical treatment is giyen to the indigent. Many thousands of natives in thepast few months have come forward of their own free will to be vaccinted. Typhus and relapsing fever, both lice- born   diseases,   used   to   claim many victims, but the figures are- falling very rapidly due largely no doubt to the full use to which disinfecting plants are put in all areas in occupied territory. In Jerusalem an infants' wel-
PROF. S. B. FREEHOF TO BE ARMY CHAPLAIN
Mcmbei; of Hebrew Union Facul¬ ty Departs for Camp Taylor Training School.
MANY ALUMNIIN SERVICE
College Has Splendid Record for Patriotic and Devoted Serv¬ ice to Nation;
The departure of Professoi: Solomon B. Freehof of the facul¬ ty of the Hebrew Union College f 0 r the Chaplain Training School at Camp Taylor, Ken¬ tucky, adds another star to the service flag of the college. Re¬ sponding generously to the call of the Jewish-Welfare Board for his services, the Board of Gov¬ ernors of the Hebrew Union Col¬ lege granted Professor Freehof
fare bureau has been instituted i leave of absence for the duration where mothers are seen before | of the war at his full salary. Pro- and after childbirth, infants' j fessor Freehof will complete his clinics are being established, a j course, of training at the Chap- bddy of health visitors is in pro-' lain School in five weeks, and cess of formation, and a'kitchen'then will sail for France for' is about to be opened to provide service at the front with the food for babies and the poor, rank of First Lieutenant. Pro- The nurses are mainly local sub-'fessor Freehof is a graduate of jects,   who have   to undergo
a the College of the class of 191?.
NO ONE TO  BE  LEFT OUT
Drafted Men Can Rest Assured
That .Those Left at Home
Will Not Suffer.
Dear Sir:—
I beg to acknowledge the re-j citizens, and the deadly perils ceipt of the letter of the Shang- i which lurk in cistern water have hai Zionist Association' of July I been to a large extent removed. ' 12, 1918,' with reference to the. For its water Jerusalem used establishment of Palestine as a to rely mainly upon the winter •national home   fpr   the Jewish rainfall to fill its cisterns. Prac-
people. In reply, I have the honor to state that the Royal Siamese government expreisses jits accord with the sympathetic X,6an campaign the Zionists sus-! position taken by Its Allies with pended their activities and plac- \ reference to the establishment
The Jewish Welfare Board is organizing New York city block by block to care for the depend¬ ents of its men in uniform.
When the drafted man marches away, the folks that are left behind require some looking after. The Home Service Divi¬ sion of the Red Cross, the War Camp Community Service, Y. M. C A. and Y. W. C. A., and other Welfare agencies have cared for those cases that have been brought to their notice. The New York City Branch of the Jewish Welfare Board, of which, former
ed themselves at the service, of the government.
In issuing the call for this campaign, Judge Julian M.'Mack of the United Staters Circuit Court of Appeals, and President of the Zionist' organization of America, says:      *   '
"President Wilson's greeting to the Jewish people should arouse all American Jewry to participation in the Zionist movement, in the progress of which he has found so much satisfaction and in the great re¬ constructive work in Palestine which he is watching with deep and sincere interest.
"By the promulgation of the British Declaration and the lib-
of Palestine aS a national home for the Jewish people and, in co¬ operation with the Allied Pow¬ ers, will use its best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly un- defrstood that nothing will  be
thorough training and there is no one here who does not confi¬ dently predict a rapid fall in the infant mortality rate.
The spadework was all done
With him at the Chaplain Training School at Camp Taylor are Rabbis Israel Bettan, '12, Harry W. Ettelson, '04, James G.  Heller,  '16, Abi^am Hirsch-
tically every house has its under¬ ground reservoir. But many had fallen into disrepair, and most of-them required thorough cleaning. 'To supplement the cistern supply the Mosque of Omar reservoir halved with Bethlehem the water which flow¬ ed from near Solomon's Pool down an aqueduct constructed by Roman engineers .under He¬ rod before Christ, was born. This was not nearly suflfiicient,
by the medical staff of- the Oc-1 berg, '98 and Morris S; Lazaron, cupied Enemy Territory Admin-' '14. Abroad they will join their is1;ration. Some voluntary soc-1 fellow-alumni of the college, who ieties are now assisting, and the' are already serving as chaplains, enthusiasm of the American Red Rabbi Elkan C. Voorsander, '14, Cross units, which have recently Jacob H. Krohngold, '16^ Lee J. arrived with an admirable equip- Levinger,^ '14, and Benjamin ment, will enable all to carry on Freidman, '17. Rabbi Israel J. a great and beheficient work.       Sarasohn is likewise serving' as
HEALTH CONDITIONS IN LIBERATED PALESTINE
done that may prejudice the civillnor was it so constant a supply or religious- rights of existing!as that provided by our Army non-Jewish communities in Pal-; engineersi • They went farther estine.. 'afleld.    They found a group of
I am, very truly yours, \ springheads   in   an   absolutely
(Signed) DEVAWONGSE., clean gathering ground on the
^ Mr. Kadoorie has been de-; hills yielding some 14,000 gal- scribed as.the Schiff of Shang-j Ions an hour, and this water, hai.   He invariably heads every which was running to waste, is
Ambassador Abram I. Elkus is ish Military Forces,-Zionism has
movement   undertaken   in tjiat
section of the   world,  for   the
ibenefit of Jews and is an.active
(factor in all huriianitarian.'un-
eration of Palestine.by the Brit-; dertakings regardless of race or
A recent number of the "Pal estitie News" states that the, British authorities, during the past few months have been pay¬ ing , great attention to the im¬ provement of health and sani¬ tary conditions in the occupied district, with very gratifying re¬ sults. Numerous hospitals and dispiensaries have been establish¬
ed in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jaf- lifted to the top of a hill, fiH)mifa^    Q^za,    Hebron   and   other
WAR SUFFERERS AIDED
The money which was recent ly received in Poland from Am erica for distribution among the suffering Jews has reached 1,- 200,060 marks.    It was trans¬ mitted to  Poland through the medium of the Jewish Commit tee (in Holland.
chairman, has a plan that- will make. sure that no one is left out,
.Using the local draft board as the unit of organization, the Jewish Welfare Board plans to form committees on each block. The committees, will be chiefly composed of men ,in deferred classification, upon whom will fall the burden of caring for the families pf those who are induct¬ ed into the service,
"The block committee will as¬ certain from the di'aft board the names and addresses of all men subject to call. As.far. as pos^. sible a.n effort will be made to determine the home conditions, and the need for future assist¬ ance.
The, Jewish Welfare Board through its personal service and information service bureaus at National Headquarters, 149 5th Avenue, New York City, and through lo.Qal branches, has al¬ ready taken care of a large num¬ ber of dependent families. This number includes those left desti-
become a program of action. In ordej' to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the British and Allied Governmants for the restoration of Palestine and the settlement of the land by the Jews the paramount duty of Jewry is to organize its forces. Every   Jew   inteirested   in   the
creedf Together with Mr. N. E. B. Ezra, Hon. Secretary of the Shanghai Zionist Society, he is" actively engaged in the cam¬ paign to secure official endorse¬ ments of the Zionist program by the governments of China and Japaii, and tlu'ro is every reason to believ'i that this campaign will be crowned with success, future of his own people must be Judge Charles S, Lobinger, made to realize that it is his bbli- judge of the United States Court
gation and responsibility, to share the burden of the whole people according to his ability.
"The work: we have undertaken* is stupendous in its implications and in its responsibilities. We have set out to restore a scatter¬ ed people with little collective experience to a land long neg¬ lected where- we must create the free conditions of a highly civil¬ ized life. In that life we shall have room only for the best there Is in the Jew in the light of the progressive ideals that animate the progressive peoples of the world. And we shall draw for our idealism both upon the treasure hous^ of the Jewish tute because their government'People, from their prophets and
allotments have failed to arrive, others improvished by illriess or
law-givers   and   upon   the   ex perience of the fj:ee and liberty
other unexlpected contingencies, j loving people in order that the and shop-owning families whose new center to be created shall be soui-ce of inconiie failed because worthy of our glorious past. To the head of the business was call- accomplish pur objects we must ed away, j organize every element of JeWry
for China at.Shangbai has been in close co-operation with Mr, Kadoorie and Mr, Ezra in this r'.ampaigp' so far as his official capacity permits;
which' it flows by gravity, through a long pipe line into Jerusalem. Supplies run direct to the hospitals, and at stand- pipes all over the city, the in- habiants take as much as they desire. The water consumption of the people has become ten times what it was last year.'
The scheme does not stop at putting up standpipes for those who will fetch the water. The water level of the cisterns is low, ana as they are getting emptied, the authorities arrange for re¬ filling theni on the one condition
places. Health bureaus have been instituted in all these places where records are kept of births, deaths and infectious diseases, and where'advice is given on all matters ' relating to hygiene. Many places have been provided with a regular supply of pure water, • and everywhere the streets are swept and kept clean. As a result of alj these meas¬ ures there has been a,marked im¬ provement in health conditions in Southern. Palestine as. com¬ pared with a year ago. There are now no epidemics, and only
that.they.are first thoroughlyjigjji^te^ ^.j^ggg   of   typhus,   etc
cleaned out and put in order. A1 householder has merely to apply to the Military Governor for water, and a sanitary officer in¬ spects the cistern, orders it to be [Cleaned and sees that it is done, the department of public health grants a certificate that the cist¬ ern is clean, and the engineers run a pipe to it and it is filled, no matter what its capacity may be. Two cisterns were recently re¬ plenished with betvveen 60,000 and 70,000 gallons of water from the hills.
The installation of the supply was a triumph f01: the Royal En¬ gineers. A preliminary investi- ...$2.00 (In Advance) I gation and survey of the ground .:.$1.00 (In Advance)' was made on February 14, and a
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scheme was submitted foijr days latere' Owing to the shortage of transport and abnormally bad weather, worfe could not be com¬ menced till April 12. Many miles of pip(^ line had to be laid aiid a
which may be regarded as relitis of the old regime. It was feared that owing to the discontinuance of vaccination there would be great outbreaks of smallpoxi but from the time of the British oc¬ cupation up to the end of June, only 30 cases had occurred. Places which were affected with cholera last year are still under strict observation, but so far there has been no case among the civil population. The only infectious disease that is at all prevalent is malaria, to combat which energetic measures are be¬ ing taken. The death irate even in Jaffa and JerusalemJs lower than in most European cities.
New York.-^There are about 14,000 boys in training at, the
bhaplain in the United States Army at Camp Pike, Ark, In addition Rabbi H. G. Enelow, '98 of the Temple Emanuel, New York City is now in France as a special emissary doing relig¬ ious work for Jewish Welfare Board. Quite a number of alum¬ ni of the college have tendered their applications to the U. S. Government through the Jewish Welfare Board, and wjll un¬ doubtedly receive, appointment as chaplains in the near future. Among them are Rabbis Nathan Baraseh, '18, Raphael P. Golden- stein, '16, Julius Leibert, '16, Emil W. .Leipziger, 00, Joseph Ranch, 05, Harry R. Richmond, '17 (at present serving as a sol¬ dier in the U. S. Army), Jerome Rosen^ '17, Leonard J. Rothstein, '04, and George Solomon, '95.
¦ Furthermore a considerable number of alumni of the College have devoted all their time for periods varying from 2 months to one year, to welfar.e work for Jewish soldiers in the camps under the auspices of the Jewish Welfare Board and the B'nai B'rith. Among these are Rab-' bis Morris Cahan, '03, Solompn Foster, '02, George Fox, '08, Charles J. Freund, '00, Ephraim Frisch, '04, Abraham G. Holtz- berg, '16, Jacob H. Kaplan, '02, Louis J. Kopald, '09, Isaac Land¬ man, '06, Horace J. Wolfe, '09. The following alumni are per¬ manently engaged in Welfare Work, Rabbis David Fichman, '13, Jacob Turner, '18, Felix S. Mendelsohn, '17, Maxwell Sil¬ ver, '16.
In addition to these, Rabbi Abram Simon, 94 of Washington is a Red Cross official in France for the duration of the war. He holds the rank of Major. Rabbi Martin A. Meyer, '01 of San Francisco is also a Red Cross representative in France. Rabbi Solomon CLowenstein, '01 of New York City, is a meniber of the Cpmmis8ioi;i to iAvestigate.
Pelham Bay Naval Training; war.conditions in Palestine^ Rab- Station near the city. Of tltelbi Abba HiUel Silver, '15, hag number, about 2,000 are Jewish! just returned from an impoytant boys. I       ' (Continued on page 6)