Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-04-23

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Volume XVII—No. 174
COLUMBUS, OHIO, APRIL 23, 1937
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Bjr PHINEAS J. BIRON
MANN CALLS ON INTELLECTUALS TO WAR ON ANTI-SEMITISM, CITING FATE OF GERMANY
High Seas Uispatchcs
Thc   rumpus   over   the   disclosure that   Magda   Foutangcs,   a   I'reiicli woman, was Mussolini's inamorata for a time, reminds us that before Ii Duce got married and when li'e was still a Socialist, his lady love was Angelica Dalabauoff,  a   Russian  Jewess,  who heliied him eclit a Socialist paper, , , , King  Carol's eagerness to rid RoU¬ mania of the anli-Semitic Iron Guard .is due less to opposition tl. Jew-bait¬ ing than to a desire to advance his own Fascist youtli movement, which is   called   Strajeri, , . . Already   the Strajen is organized in schools and universities, . . , London   is   buzzing with   a   story   that   Oliver   Hoare, financier    brother    of    Sir    Samuel Hoare, first lord of the admiralty, had a secret powwow with Hitler recently, . . . The recall of Dr. Hans Luther as German  envoy  to  Washington  may have been due, in part at least, to the discovery that his only close personal friend   is   Herr   Koerner,  a  Jewish arcliitect in Essen. . . , Koerner, who built the  Essen .synagogue  and  the Ford factory in that city on the recom¬ mendation   of   Luther,   directed   the education of Luther's daughter when Frau Luther dietl. , . . The theory of Aryan supremacy suffered a healthy rebuff when the only German to win a prize at an international chorus con¬ test in Zurich was Dr. Erich Katz of Freiburg. . , , Katz won fourth prize in competition with 60 composers from 10   lands, , , . That   Mos«s   was   thc world's greatest military strategist is ,the   conclusion   of   Davorin   Zunko- witsch,   an  officer in   the   Yugoslav army, who has written a whole trea¬ tise on the military aspects of the Jewish    Exodus    from    Egypt . . , Helene Eisner, nee Naschauer, Theo¬ dor Herzl's sister-in-law, has died in Vienna. ... A depression has hit the market for Hitler's autobiography in Stockholm, , . , The Swedish edition of "Mein Kampf," wliich once sold for 7,,'> kronen, can now be had for 2.B kronen, with few takers. . . . Communally Speaking Unity   in   the    anti-Nazi   boycott movement is a lot closer than many people think. , . . The office staff of thc   United' Palestine   Appeal   head¬ quarters is organizing a union, , , . It will be an A. F. of L. afSliate. . . . The work of the National Coordinate ing  Committee  for  Aid to German Refugees has grown so fast that the National Council of Jewish Women, with which jt shared offices, has had to  move   to   new  quarters ,at , 1818 Broadway . . , The prize for the best boner of the month must go to the copywriter who authored that  four- page insert for Packard cars in the April issue of the B'nai B'rith Maga¬ zine, , . . The special color supple¬ ment was entitled, "This is the story of a B'nai B'rith member who made a lifelong dream come true," , , , But on page three there is a picture of a man driving a Packard and he's ad¬ dressed   as   "Mr,   Ryan." . . . Jewish charities and sponsors of benefit din¬ ners who use the names of Jewish judges as bait for all sorts of. func¬ tions will be out of luck ston.... The New York City Bar Association has gone  on  record as  condemning  the practice of judges lending their names for such purposes. . . . Dr; Joachim Prinz, Berlin's leading rabbi, who is now visiting in New York, will prob¬ ably remain for good. ... A past na¬ tional commander-in-chief of the Jew¬ ish War Veterans is being boomed for a magistrate's job in New York. . . . It's a Fact Los Angeleans ought to have a look at Room 323 of the Chamber of Com¬ merce Building: . .. That's the puh- I lishing office of the Christian Free Press, a new Jew-baiting rag which is preaching what is tatitamount to ad¬ vocacy of pogroms, . . , The sheet re¬ veals that the Militant Christian Pa¬ triots are raising an Edmondson de- ferse fund to finance the cost of de¬ fending   the   notorious   anti-Semitic pamphleteer.,,Film Producer Walter Wanger is said to have given assur: anccs that anti-Zionist parts of Vin¬ cent  Shccan's book, "Personal   Ap¬ pearance,'^ will be omitted from the screen version, . , , Anti-Nazis work¬ ing in German munitions factories are' getting in some good licks  for the Spanish Loyalists, ; . . They're filling shells with sawdust instead of powder and jarnming wads of papers between the firing pin and percussion cap of shells destined for the rebels, . , .The anti-Nazi   iioycott   of   Germanrmade films is so potent that all distributors
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NEW YORK (WNS) ^ The tra^jic plight of the inlellecttials, sci¬ entists, authors and philosophers in Germany today is due to their failure to denounce anti-Senntism when they still had time, Thomas Maim, exiled German atulwir, declared in an ad¬ dress from the pulpit of the Free Synagogue. Branding anti-Scmitism as "mere bawling," and "the appur¬ tenance and watchword of all obscure chaotic mass-humanity and prescm day mass mysticism mixed with much bestilacity," Mann charged the intel- Icctuiils, scientists and authors in Ger¬ many had "dishonored themselves" and "deserved nothing belter than thc wretched role which they now play
under the.lash of thc rabble," because they had failed to denounce this "clamor of the rabble." After de¬ scribing anti-Semitism ai thc scape¬ goat of an epoch, One of "the evils and obnoxious reactions to suffering of this time, among thc sorry palli¬ atives in which this epoch indulges for its own relief, for a mad explanation of its very wants and fears," Mann called upon thc spiritually-minded to fight anti-Semitism. "We men of Christian, of Aryan or simply non-Jewish blood," he said, "ought not to leave the fight to thc Jews alone. Thoughtful men ought to resist the urge of an eixjch to find, boraeonc guilty of its suffer¬ ings."
HILLEL TO ENTERTAIN
B'NAI B'RITH OPEN
MEETING MONDAY
On next Monday evening, April 26, Zion Lodge will entertain its niembcrs and their friends with an unusually at¬ tractive prograni, to be presented bv the B'nai BVith HiUel Foundation of the Ohio State University. Each year on the O. S. U. campus a "Stunt Night" is sponsored by the university. This affair is madCi up of many varie¬ ties of entertainment, furnished by each fraternity, sorority ahd campus organization. This year the Hillel Foundation entry was adjudged the best performer.
Mr. Ed. Sobel, of Cincinnati, who was the winner in the competition, will be present on Monday night and give thc prize-winning offering. The pro¬ gram will also feature Jack Moyer and his violin. Mr. Moyer hails from Lorain, Ohio, and is known as the "Rubinolf of the Ohio State Univer¬ sity." In addition, there will be many other amusing acts to insure a most pleasant evening to all present.
Also on the program will be a short debate between two members of the Foundation on a most timely subject, "Resolved, that the average Jew over¬ emphasizes anti-Semitism to his detri ment." The negative will be taken by Mr. Sol II. Auerbach, of Akron, C, while the affirmative will be main¬ tained by Miss Cliarlotte Fingerhut, of Cleveland.
As. a final feature of the evening, a shMit address will be delivered by Mr. Robert Jaffee, president of thc Hillel Student Council. A brief business meeting will precede the program.
Launch Natioh-Wide Study of Tuberculosis Antonf^ Jews
NEW YORK (WNS) -Seek¬ ing improved aild more effective care of tuberculosis suilcrers, a joint study committee iicaded by Ira IL Youiiker of New Yorlf, and Dr. philip Hillko- witz, of Denver, has undertaken the first comprehensive survey of thc sub¬ ject of tuberculosis among Jews in thc United States.' Thc technical head of thc survey will be Dr. Philip Klein, of NciV York. Rcprebcnla- tivEs of both thc Council of Jewish' Federations and Welfare Funds- antl of the Council of Jewish National Agencies which includes the national Jewish tuberculC^-iis institutions in Denver and I^os Angeles, make up thc membership o 1 the Jont commttce, mittee.
Communities    Invited    To
Testimonial   Dinner   To
Rabbi Greenwald
The entire membership of the Beth Jacob Congregation is looking for¬ ward to Sunday evening, May 2nd, when it will honor their beloved, and respected spiritual leader, Rabbi L. Greenwald. . In recognition of his twelve years of devoted service to their cause,_ the sponsors are inviting the Jewish comtnunities of Columbub and surrounding towns to this testi¬ monial. Outstanding rabbis from out of town and other, Jewish leaders have already accepted the invitation to be present.
Morris Beim, chairman of the com¬ mittee on arraiigepients for this af¬ fair, announces that an excellent pro¬ gram is being arranged for this oc¬ casion, complete details of which are to be announced hi next week's issue of The Chronicle. In the meantime he urges all members and their friends to obtain tickets, nominal charge be¬ ing 50 cents, from Mr. M.'Weinstock, 8i)5 S. Eighteenth St
Tickets  Selling   Fast  for
Jubilee Show Event at
Hartman May 9
Beautiful Valley Dale, this city's most cosmopolitan night spot, will en¬ joy its greatest Jewish deluge in years the night of May 9. On that partic¬ ular eve, the participants in the Third Annual United Jubilee will take ad¬ vantage of Kir. Peppc's most kind in¬ vitation and swing high and low at the Sunbury Road establishment at no other expense than the original price of their tickets to "Yiddle With His Fiddle." This wonderful accomplish¬ ment is thc work of the committee in charge, which now has co-chairmen, in addition to Bud Moser, in the persons of Robert L. Mellman. and Plarry Maybruck.
Mr. Maybruck will be remembered for his splendid efforts in the past in behalf of thc Columbus Hebrew School. Last year Mr. Maybruck was chairman of the jubilee and was the treasurer and one of the founders of the first great jubilee. Mr. Mellman is a past president of thc school, dur¬ ing whose administration the institU' tion enjoyed a most successful year.-
So much has already heen written and said about '^YiddJe With His Fid-^ die," the United Jubilee's novel enter¬ prise for this year, that it is the first all-Yiddish full-length musical talkie; that piquant Mollie Picon is the star; that this will be a premiere showing outside of four of the world's me¬ tropolises; that, as in the past, the net proceeds go 100 per cent to the Colum¬ bus Hebrew School, and that there is a matinee performance at 3:30 and a gala evening showing at 8:00.
The fact that there are English titles for those whose Yiddish ib not of tlie best, bears repeating, although, as has been emphasized, the portrayals are 'so wel] delineated that a child can understand ^abily and follow thc ac¬ tion.
Ticlcets, of course, are availablf from the ticket committees of practi¬ cally every local Jewish organization. So that last minute arrangements will not be necessary, obtain your tickets now and, at the same time, show your interest in this worthy cause.
Next week we plan to present a synopsis of "Yiddle With His Fiddle." Follow the story from the pages of The Chronicle on to the silver screen at the Hartman Theater, May 9. It's a story in which everyone can play an important role.
NAZIS  SUPPRESS  ALL B'NAI   B'RITH  LODGES
BERLIN (WNS)—Hitting back at renewed anti-Nazi protests abroad by swift retaliation against tlie Jews in Germany, the Nazi secicl police sup¬ pressed the B'nai B'rith throughout Germany in a series of raids on all its lodges. Announcement of the ban on the fraternal and social order came after nearly 20O B'nai B'rith officials, including the presidents of all lodges and other of its leaders, had been re¬ leased after 24 hours of grilling. The B'nai B'rith officials, including Chief Rabbi Leo Baeck,)head of the Reich Representation of German Jews- and president of thc German Grand Lodge of thc order, were arrested without warning in similltaneous midnight raids on their homes. All property and documents of the B'nai B'rith have been confiscated.
In the absence *>f any official ex¬ planation for the 'ban on the B'nai B'rith, it was generally believed that thc surprising action was related to anti-Nazi activities abroad. All of those arrested were qite^ioned about the organization's relations with Jew- j.sh organizations feibroad.,.^ The feeling in Jewish circles here is that the sup¬ pression of the B'nai B'rith is but the latest in'a series of steps to in¬ tensify the anti-Jewish persecution. Ail Jewish classes in Hebrew and modern languages have also been for¬ bidden-
Habbi Zelizer Will End Sea¬ son's Lectures April 30
Seek $2,660,000 Fund to
Fight Anti-Jewish Trade
Boycott in Poland
W A R S A W'tWN S) — I'anic- stricken by the rapid growth of the anti-Jewish boycott m llic retad field, Jewiah business men irom all p,>rt5 oi Poland held an emergency conference at whicii they decided to seek a fund of i4,000,0l)(t zlotjs (,il2,000,<i00) to combat the boycott. The fund would be used to provide credit to Jewish shopkeepers and to furnish them with other help in meeting the eompctitian
Untermyer Scores B'nai B'rith
President; Urges Organization to
Support Boycott
of the iitjw chain of shops oi>ened by cowardice the Society for the Support oi Polish Property, a new movement which 13 seeking the complete elimination of Jews from retail trade. Hall di thc proposed fund would be raised by a voluntary tax of 200 zlotys on each of the 'J5,00l} Jewisii storekeepers who have thus far escaped thc effects of thc boycott. The other half is ex¬ pected to be obtained from Jews in other countries.
Tlie conference listened td detailed reports of the plc!<eting of Jewish shops and the publication of thc nanies of all non-Jews patronizing such es¬ tablishment h. The most serious threat to thc Jews ill retail trade, it was pointed out, arc the stores opened by the new socictj. Subsidised by cer¬ tain banks and with the tacit support of thc government, the society has published a list of all non-Jowish business establishments in Ihe larger cities. In Warsaw the li*!! is broken down into sections, street by .street, and thousands of circulars have been distributed urging the public to buy only from non-Jewi. In many in¬ stances these new stores are owne<l by the wives of government officials.
NEW YORK—Following the ck- pulsion of the B'nai B'rith and the confiscation of its property by thc Na^i government yesterday, Samuel Untermyer, president of the Non- Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, in an open letter to Judge I. M. Golden of San Francisco, California, declared to¬ day that organization's fate 'in Ger¬ many  was  the  inevitable reward of
Noted    Jewish   Leader
Will Speak Here
Monday Eve.
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer will speak at tlic Broad St. Temple Friday, April ao, at 8 p. m., du the theme, "Count¬ ing Our Days." Cantor Eugene Got¬ tesman will officiate at the services. This will mark the last of .Rabbi Zel¬ izer's sermons for this season, with the exception of Shavuoth and Con¬ firmation, which will take place Sun¬ day, May 23. at 10 a. in. Special ef¬ fort will be made to assure, a large at¬ tendance. Refreshments will be served by the sisterhood. All are invited to attend.
Services at the Broad St; Tem¬ ple will be held every Friday eve¬ ning at 8 o'clock and every Saturday mbrnipg at 0,o'clock throughout tht summer. •
Stag   Affair   Planned   By Temple   Brotherhood
Tuesday evening, May 4th, will be a red letter day on the calendar ot events of the Bryden Road Temple Brotherhood. For on this occasion this organization, headed by Sig Weisskerz for the second term, will wind up one of the most successful seasons in the history of the brother¬ hood. It will be a stag affair, begin¬ ning with a dinner at 6:30 p..ni,, to be followed^by many, entertaining fea¬ tures being arranged for this event. Thc entire second floor oi Hotel Fort Hayes has been reserved for the big celebration.     ' ,
According to the committee on ar¬ rangements headed by Robert Schiff, Robert Weiler and Ben Neustadt, thia, alTair will be free to all members of the brotherhood and their friends. They assure all those whp will at¬ tend a most enjoyable evening; one that few will want to leave before two or three a. m. As an added at¬ traction, Ted Lewis and his entertain¬ ers will be there and will play an im¬ portant part of the evening's-program.
Make no other plans for Tuesday evening, May 4. An. attendance of over 200 is anticipated. Reservations must reach the office of the Temple secretary not later than Saturday, May L ¦¦
Jewish Fraternity Breaks Scholarship Record
LEXINGTON, VA. (W N S)-- Breaking its own record of last year, the Phi Epsilon Pi Chapter at Wash¬ ington and Lee University set a new campus record for scholarship with an average of 82,865. _ This figure placed the Jewish-iratcrnity first among the 19 national fraternities on the campus. Phi Epsilon Pi has been first in this respect for It of the 17 years it has been represented at Washington and Lee.
Demand Ouster of Pro-Nazi Teacher from Phila. School
PHILADELPHIA (WNS) —Removal of Dr. Bessie R. Burchett from the faculty of the West Phila¬ delphia High School is demanded by Philadelphia Post No. 77 of the Jew¬ ish War Veterans in resolutions for¬ warded to Mayor S. Davis Wilson, the chairman of the board of educa¬ tion and Governor George H, Earle. Dr. Burchett is charged with having been the principal Speaker at a Nazi meeting on April Bth, when she made a speech attacking the Philadelphia teaching system and took part in cere¬ monies that included Nazi salutes and singing pf  Nazi songs.
Taking Mr Alfred M. Cohen, presi dent of the American B'nai B'rith to task for liis refusal to support any active movement against thc Nazis, Mr Untermyer, who has been a mem¬ ber of the B'nai B'rith for more than fifty years, said
"The B'nai B'rith has heen uncere¬ moniously outlawed and kicked out of Germany and its propertv has been confiscated.
"It was because of tlie foolish, short-sighted prtlicy whicii Mr. Cohen persisted in pursuing, of propitiating and working with these inhuman brutes tliat the organization was led into deserting its principles and its Jewish brethren in all parts of the world and into refusing to participate in thc boycott in this country. In common with millions of human be¬ ings from all parts of tlie world, in¬ cluding Jews, organized labor. Cath¬ olics and others, I, a fifty-odd year memher of the organization, deeply re¬ sented the truckling of B'nai B'rith which has now been repaid with the poetic justice that is the inevitable reward of cowardice."
Saying that thc wholesale confisca¬
tion of the vast properties of thc labor unions, Ma<;onic orders and others, has been known for a long time, Mr." Untermyer said people continued "to hope against hope that because of the good it was doing in all parts of the world, the B'nai B'rith would escape the fat(^ of so many eleemosynary in¬ stitutions."
"The tragic part of thc whole busi¬ ness," lie continued, "is that the atti¬ tude of the president, Mr. Cohen, has from the beginning run counter to the overwhelming wishes atid sentiments of thc organization's entire member¬ ship. Your president did not dare sub¬ mit thc question of the boycott to the memhers who have lo,ng been practi¬ cally unanimous in its favor and arc practicing it ' in defiance of his wishes."
Urging Judge Golden ta use his in¬ fluence in behalf of the boycott, Mr, Untermyer said* "Now that the cruel, long-expected blow has fallen, I am writing to ask that you invoke your great influence in the organization to bring about an official resolution ap¬ proving the boycott."
At the Anti-Nazi League it was said that the action of the Nazi secret po¬ lice in destroying the German B'nai B'rith was ^lart of the new and mOre extensive anti-Jewish program of the Hitlerites. While the membership support has been numerically strong, official support by the B'nai B'rith of the league's boycott against all Ger¬ man goods and services would add several million more active supporters to the anti-Nazi cause.
Mrs.   Roosevelt   to  Beconte
Member of Daughters
Of Jacob
NEW YORK <W N S) " Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of President Roosevelt,, will become an honorary member of the Home of the Daugh¬ ters of Jacob and receive a gold medal at a luncheon to be held in her honor in connection with the home's cam¬ paign to enlarge its present quarters in the Bronx.
Figures   Reveal   Shrinking Jewish Birthrate In Reich
the middle of 1933 to 145,000 at the end of 193fi. Comparable figures for Breslau are 20,000 and 17,000; for Cologne, lo.flOO and 14,000; for Frankf urt-am-Main, 26,000 andSl.OOO; for Hamburg. 17,000 and 15,000, and for Leipzig, 11,000 aud 9,500.
BERLIN (WNS)—Thc shrink-' ing birth rate among German Jewry is revealed in the fact that tliere were 1,703 babies born to Jews in 1035 as compared with 3,100 in 1033. The de¬ crease in Jewish births was 19 per cent as comjiarcd with an increase of 39 per cent for the Protestants .and 27.3 per cent for Catholics in 19Jo. Population figures for the six cities with 10,000 or more Jews also show a decline despite the fact that losses through emigration have been made up through additions by emigrants irom the small towii^ and villages. Berlin Jewry dropped from.102,000 in
IS U. S. Colleges Accept
Bid To Nazi Celebration;
11 Reject Invite
B EE LI N ("WNS) — Eighteen American colleges' and universities have accepted invitations to be repre¬ sented at the bicentenary celcbfation of Goettingen University, while only U have refused invitations, according to Prof. Friedrich H. J. Neumann, rector. Acceptances have come from the University of Pennsylvania, Ohio State University. Univ'ersity of* Ala¬ bama, Haverford College, Idaho Uni¬ versity and Wittenberg College, while Harvard, Yale, Missouri, Kansas- and -.Syracuse have indicated their intention of sending representatives. Refusals have come from Dartmouth* Virginia, Carnegie Institute of Tech¬ nology. New Hampshire, Vermont, City College, McGill University in Montreal and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
HEBREW SCHOOL TO GRADUATE 13 SUNDAY EVENING
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RABBI WOLF I *il I>
Rabbi Mordecai president of the local M zation, announces that Zionist mass meeting v- the, Agudath Achim Syi day   evening,   April   2 i
o'clock.    The yucst sp Rabbi Wolf Gold, outst leader  and  president  of  the  World Mizrachi orgaiiization.'
Rabbi Gold is a member of the World Zionist Actions Committee and a resident of Palestine. He is a Jew¬ ish orator of the first order and in view of the present political situation in Palestine, his address will no doubt be bf great interest to all interested in the upbuilding bi Palestine.
Short messages of greeting willbe given by Rabbi M. Hirschsprung and Rabbi.Leopold Greenwald.
JUST A REMINDER
TfaU U tha Chrottlcl«*» 19th ytitkr of continued seirice to Cohunhna Jewry. Plea«a pay your Bobicr^ tion now.
Craduates aittlng, left to rlffht, front row: David Gr«enbers, Janla Schottenstein, Ruth Berliner, Helaii Cohen, Pau11n« Gelhiian, L«on t-landler. Standing, left to right, aecund row: Gilbert Zisenwine, Herfnan WelsbBrs,. Irviny Tppolosky, David Haiidkr, Irving Gold, bphraim Goodman, with two members of faculty, M.' Gold, on left, and A. Mctchnick, on right, standing. Standing fn back row: Mrs. 3. Rosen, member of focultyj L. J. Seff, vice president; A.. Goldberg, president; Siinaii Handler, treasurer; Rabbi M. Hirschsprung, chairman of Board of Education. On account of not being in town wlien graduates were phologrnphed, Julia RobiJiB, one of the graduates, doca not appear In tho picture.
A N, event of prime importance to ¦^.the Jewisii community of the city will take place Sunday evening, April 25th,, at 6 o'clock, at the Agudath Achim Social Hall, when thirteen boys and girls will receive their diplor mas as graduates of the Columbus Hebrew School , In addition to a banquet sponsored by the Ivreeyoh Society, the ladies' auxiliary of thc, schobl, the following program has been arranged}
Exercises by graduates, consisting of Hebrew, and English recitations, declamations and songs.
Presentjatioii of <liplomas by Rabbi Mordecai Hirschsprung, chairman of thc Board of Education of the school.
Awarding of pins to graduates by Mrs. H. Silberstein, president of the lyreeyoh Society.
Greetings by Mr. .^, Goldbcr'g, president of the school, and by Rabbis L. Greenwald, S, Gup, H. Kaplan and N. Zelizer,
Guest speaker of the evening. Rabbi Wolf Gpld, of Palestine, president of the World Mizrachi organization.
¦ Vocal selections by Cantor P. H. , Gellman,
¦Mr. Robert L. Mellman will,be the chairman of thc. evening's program. The diplomas- which thc thirteen grad¬ uates will receive on April 2^th are testimonials that they have accom- ,plished the elementary course of the Columbus Hebrew School, consisting bf the five books of Moses and the first prophets, also that the recipients have a good knowledge of Jewish history, Hebrew literature and gram¬ mar.
The Ivreeyoh dinner charge wil Ibe GO cents per plate Instead of GO cents &s, previously aniiounced in the invita-^ tions sent out to the public.' '   ,