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1H tl^CGLUMBUS JEWISH CHRONICLE
A WEEKLY DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE OF COLUMBUS AND VICINITY
VOL. 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1,3, 1918.     TEBETH 10, .jGTO.
No. 32
AMERICAN JEWISH RELIEF COMMITTEE
REPORTS OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED
DURING THE YEAR
Report of Meeting of American .lewish Relief Committee Held
Saturday Night, November 30, at Temple Emanuel,
New York City.
Mr. Louis Marshall, Chairman, Presiding.
The following members were! present: Louis , Marshall, Abe Rothstein, Rabbi M. Z. Mar- golies, Judge Edward Lazansky, David M. Bressler, Cyrus L. Sulz¬ berger, Max Senior, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Dr. Lee K. Lam¬ port, Mrs. Janet Harris.
A report of the work accom¬ plished during the year wjis pre¬ sented verbally by Mr. Henry H. Rosenfelt, assistant' director, who outlined the various cam¬ paigns held throughout the coun¬ try. The report showed that more than $7,500,000 was sub¬ scribed to the 1918 fund with many important .cities yet to be heard from. The total expense of administration for the ten months ending October 30th amounted to $37,642.00,
On motion of Mr. Cyrus L
Mr. Lee J. Loventhal, Nash¬ ville, Term.
Mr. Lionel Weil, Goldsboro, N.C.
Mr. David Snellenburg,' Wil¬ mington, Del.
Dr. George Fox, Fort Worth, Texas.
Mr. Charles ¦ Eiseman, Cleve¬ land, Ohio.
Mr. Sigmund Eisner, Red Bank, N. J.
On motion of Mr. Samuel C. Lamport, and tiuly''-seconded, it was decided that a committee be appointed  to  confer  with  the
fore you in due course.
I only mention'it now as an impression which the casual traveler receives. I should like to say a' word or two about the relations with tho existing popu¬ lation. I heard with the great¬ est pleasure what was said by the chairman and other speakers \ as to the desirability of cultivat-' ing the most friendly relations with the Mussulman population.
A JEWISH NURSE
IN PALESTINE':
of the latter four years were the underlying cause.
If. you coukl have witnessed —¦  jthe joy with which we were re-
Rachel Malin,  Member of The;ceived by the population of the American  Zionist  Mcdicalj cities and the Colonies, through
Unit, Tells About the Fight 'Against Cholera in Galilee.
Here is a little human interest document that somehow gives the needed psj^chological touch It was a good omen, surely, that;to the various reports that have the British troops on entering] been received about the work of Damascus were received by the t^e American Zionist Medical Arabs   with   unmistakable   en- unit in Palestine.
thusiasm.   The Arab loves the
Turk no more than you and I do,
and he knows the Turk.   There
is an Arab anecdote which ssiys
that   when   Allah   created   the
Turk the ass said to him, "Oh,
Allah, why, having created me,
hast   thou    also   created   the
Turk?" and to him Allah replied,
"Verily, I did it in order that the
excellence of thine intelligence
might be made manifest." These Central Jewish Relief Committee I people^   you  ^j,i  ^^^^^  ^ju  ^e
and the People's Jewish Relief iqujte amenable, if treated with
Committee and the Joint Distri bution Committee, to see if it is feasible to consolidate all or-< ganizations   and   report   later.
Sulzberger and duly seconded, jThe chairman appointed the fol- the following we're unanimously lowing committee: Louis Mar- elected as members of the Exec- shaU, chairman, Judge Otto A. utive Committee: Rosalsky,    Max    Senior,    Abe
Mr. Eugene M. Baer, Wheel-Rothstein. ing, W. Va. i    On motion of Mr. Cyrus L.
Dr. David Marx, Atlanta, Ga.' Sulzberger, and duly seconded,.it
was unanimously decided , that the family of Rabbi Moses Gries receivJj fitting resolutions on his death.^--^
On motion of Dr. Lee K. Fran¬ kel the meeting adjourned.
Dr.    Sol.    Kory,    Vicksburg, Miss.
Mr. Maurice Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Jacob Berman, Portland, Maine.
"ON BOTH SHIES OF THE JORDAN"
(Sometime ago a Jewish mag¬ azine in the United States pub¬ lished an article from Viscount James Bryce from which the in¬ terference was widely drawn in his opinion. Palestine was much to small for. purposes of a na¬ tional Jewish homeland. It also bore the color of opposition to Zionism. Therefore, the speech he delivered at the reception to Dr. Chiaim Weitzman, in London, on October 28, is of more than usual interest.)
I find' myself highly honored and at the same time rather em barrassed, for the boast of the New Judea is an extraordinarily large subject. I aiii not a prophet nor the son of a prophet, and it would take a prophef to say what the New Judea would be, and I see so many aspects in which it might be considered
oppress or to massacre those who do not belong to his creed. There is one point I vvould like to* refer to, and that is in rela¬ tion to the boundaries of Pales¬ tine. Those of you who have traveled in the country know that you cannot separate East¬ ern from Western Palestine. Palestine is Palestine on both sides of the Jordon. "Gilead is mine, Nanasseh is mine, Moab is my washpot, over Edom will .1 cast out my shoe." Gilead and Bashan, the land of Vz, and the Heine, railway junction ol Darra, of which you have lately heard so much talk, and the place where Job  was  visited by  his  three
fairness and justice and, if their existing- rights are respected. The same applies, to the people who inhabit the northeast, and all will benefit by the opening up of the trade routes and the con¬ struction of railroads and high roads which will enable the products .of the interior to be brought down to the sea,
Now, just one word about the intellectual   future   of   Judea, which in some ways is the most interesting of all.   This world is too   poor   in literary  ,artistic, scientific and philosophical types and we look to you, when you have   gained   your   permanent home in Palestine—we look to you, under the stimulus of that success, and under the influence of   those   wonderful   traditions which for thirty or forty cen¬ turies  y,ou  have   inherited,  to give us a new intellectual life, a new experience in the fields of art and science and literature. Think of the illustrious men who belong to your race, and who have added so much to the in¬ tellectual wealth and power of the last three centuries.   I will begin with so great a name as Spinoza, and for poets, Heinrich For artists I will name Joseph Israels, one of the fore¬ most artists of the last genera¬ tion; and the same remark ap¬ plies to science as represented by
It is an ex¬ tract from a letter written to some of her friends by Rachel Malin, one of the nur(jes attached to the Unit.
. As soon as Galilee was liberat¬ ed and 'we began to discuss the idea of sending several physi¬ cians and nurses to help the population, which has suffered so much at the hands of the Turks, the Unit determined that only volunteers shall go, because since there were so many epide¬ mics raging in Galilee, the di¬ rectors of the unit were unwill-
which we passed, and when they saw us and our lied Mogen Do- vid. It is impossible to describe it all the radiant faces and the national fire thai was visible in all Jewish eyes, old and young. The radiant faces expressed wonder and joy. Is this a real¬ ity? If it is, may nothing mar it!
POLES AHEMPT TO DISCREDIT POGROM REPORTS
Zionist Organization of America Receives Warning That Poles Are
Setting Stage to Ihipress Visiting Journalists That
Massacre Stories Are Gross Exaggerations.
The Zionist Organization of, cil of Vienna, and by the' news- America has received a warning'papers of the country fiom va- from the Zionist Bureau ofjrious sources state that the Vienna, that the Poles are en-} whole    Jewish     quarter    was
gaged in an attempt to make it appear to the world that the re¬ ports of pogroms in Poland and Galicia are gross exaggerations. The warning, which was cabled via Copenhagen, is as follows:
"Journalist Jefirue Daily Mail On invitation Poles, visited scenes of pogroms led by,Poles. His harmless description owing to Polish deceptive maneuvers. A dispensary where medicines! War correspondents of foreign are distributed without charge to I press  again^  Polish  deceiving
ZIONIST UNIT BUSY
IN JERUSALEM
ing to impose this duty Upon anyone who might be afraid of consequences.
the poor has been established in Jerusalem' by the American Zion¬ ist Medical Unit. Stations have been established in several parts of the city where cards, entitling them to the service of the dispen¬ sary, are distributed after proper investigation. ' In an account of the opening of the Medical Unit .hospital in Jerusalem, published in a recent issue of the "Palestine News"
I put up my name at once, and, the number of beds is given as
now I am in Tiberias, where there is a Cholera epidemic and I am the leader of the nurses, who are in the hastily construct-- ed hospital during the day and some of them during the night.
100, instead of 90 as heretofore reported.
The Unit has inaugurated a system of sanitary inspection'for the meat and provision shops in Jerusalem and is training a num-
But have no fear. The American i ber of native young. men who medical forces—first the Red {will become the nucleus of a Cross and then we—have sur-! sanitary inspection corps. Deal- vived all of these epidemics and ers   in    foodstuffs    are   being
the city has been freed from this epidemic. That this should be possible, measures were taken in order to destroy the cause of the plague. We did not have to hunt very long to find the, source of the trouble because tiie suffering
friends that is all Palestine, and ithe Mendeleefs, two great men if you .travel north of that, it is!of science. Gathering t1)gether still one country. Geographi-your intellectual forces, and giv- cally and economically there is ing them forth under the stimu- no 'dividing region as far north lus of your new dwelling-place as the .range of Anti-Lebanon among your ancient traditions
taught the importance of keep¬ ing their wares well covered as a protection against flies.
attempts on inspection tours (The name of the Daily, Mail cor¬ respondent has seemingly been mispelled by the cable.operator.)
That the stage has already been set for this scheme is the opinion of the Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America which calls at¬ tention ' to the following para¬ graph which appears in an As¬ sociated Press reporjt dated Lem¬ berg, Galicia, Deceniber 2:
The beautiful city was threat¬ ened with destruction many times, but escaped with the burning,of one wing of the Diet Building and the blowing up of the postoffice and a few dozen of houses. Only a few persons were killed, though many were wounded, most of them being civilians.
The .reports received by the Zionist Organization of America from the Jewish National Coun
ALLIANCE ISRAELITE UNIVERSELLE  GRADUATES GREET PROFESSOR LEVI
burned and 1100 Jews killed. On December 2nd the Zionist Or¬ ganization of America received and gave out to the press a re¬ port from Max Reiner, a promi¬ nent Lemberg editor, cbrroborat- ing all the previous reports of the horror of the Lemberg mas¬ sacre.
On November 29th, Mr. Louis Marshall, president of the Amer¬ ican   Jewish   Committee,   and' Judge Julian Mack, president of the    Zionist    Organization    of America, issued a statement re¬ plying to the American repre¬ sentatives   of   the   Polish   Na-. tional Committee and of the Po¬ lish National Department, whd had denounced the  reports of' these massacres as groundless and who declared that they had made a joint demand for the ap¬ pointment of an interallied and American commission to be sent into Poland, to investigate exist¬ ing conditions and. thus set at rest' the allegations that Jewish pogroms had been carried out there.     In     their     statement, Messrs.    Mack    and    Marshall J9ined in the demand for such an investigation of the reports of the   pogroms   which   they   de¬ clared had come to them from authoritative and  unprejudiced reports in Copenhagen, Amster¬ dam, London and the Hague.
ISRAEL'S TRUE MISSION
By Rabbi Jacob Klein
that perhaps I had better begin
by saying that the part of New
Judea I do not propose to touch,mon.   All that region must form; ^ake a fresh and further in-
upon is the political Judea.    I part   of   Palestine beyond the tellectual   reputation   for   your
will not even venture so near to I Jordan—and   I   hope   you   will people, and to add new glories
the frontiers of politics as our press upon those with whom the, to those already won.
friend, M. Sokolow, has done, butj settlemenr'may lie that these|    We wish that so great a man
I cannot refrain from expressing regions are all part of Palestine, as Dr. Herzl could have lived to
David Solomon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Saul Solomon, 658 Par¬ sons Avenue with the 166th In¬ fantry, Rainbow Division, who was wounded during the fighting at Chateau Thierry has arrived at Camp Sherman and will be
the pleasure and gratification in the assurance of the goodwill and honest purpose that would animata Great Britain if it came to be concerned in the settle
You have the desert to the East and the desert to the South, and you have the great sea to the West, but see to ,it that you get the' proper boundaries in the ment   to   Which reference has North.
been made. You can trust to us, | If time permitted, I could talk I think, with the example of to you for an hour or Aore about Egypt before us, to do our very the material development of best if any similar function Palestine—about the question of should shall to us in regard to irrigation, about the water reser- Palestine. You know how many voire to be constructed in the sympathizers you have in our Upper Jordan Valley, about the ranks, men who have watched water power to be gained from with interest and admiration those reservoirs, and the heights your works and organizations of Judea into the foot hills and from the day Dr. Herzl began his j so into the sea, and about the campaign down to the present | possibility of reclaiming hun- moment, and who rejoice with dreds of thousands of acres of you in the success that has been land for the re-settiement of ag- attained. I feel I must say just ricultural life when all this is one word about the political as- accomplished, but these matters pect. The one outstanding fact (I must reserve for some future —the one fact over which the occasion. I really do not know, whole civilized world has cause ^ however, that it is necessary for to rejoice—is the final end of me to say anything at all under
and the snowy heights of Her-j you yfj\\\ be able, I feel sure, to'stationed there at the Base Hos¬ pital. Solomon had both legs shattered by high explosives while carrying an important message fom the Italian head¬ quarters during the Chateau Thierry fighting. "There's no place like Ohio," he said, and he will surely appreciate his home again. Private Solomon praises the work of the Jewish Welfare Board, over there. Private Sol- omo was only 17 years old when he enlisted two years ago.    He
see this day, and we earnestly hope that the aspirations which you now cherish, may, ip the near f utur'e, be turned into reali¬ ties, and that the new Judea may I'enew the glories of the old, free from the oppressions which have hitherto ruled it, and start¬ ing on a career not only of ma¬ terial prosperity, but of intel¬ lectual and moral advancement.
the rule of the unspeakable Turk Let us hope that he has gone
this head, for I have no doubt that all I could say, and more,
never to return, and that never | has   been   ascertained by ypur again will he have any power to Commission and will be laid be
Professoj' Sylvain Levi, who accompanied the Zionist Admin¬ istrative Commission to Pales¬ tine, and who is now in America was the guest ,of honor at a re¬ ception at the Educational Al¬ liance, New York City, on Nov- (gmber 24th, by graduates of the Alliance Israelite Universelle.
There were about five hun¬ dred persons present, arid ad¬ dresses- were made by Ex-Am¬ bassador Elkus, Professor Rich¬ ard Gottheil, Mme. Gottheil, Mr. Ittamar Ben Avi, Mr. Nissim Be- har, and the guest of honor. During the course of the cere¬ monies the following resolution was adopted unanimously: • "We, the former pupils of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, now residing in New York City, and assembled in meeting on Novemberi 24, 1918, do hereby request Professor Sylvain Levi that he act aS oiir interpreter to the Central Committee of the Al¬ liance
I never could agree with Sir Walter Releigh's assertion that "life is a tragedy." To look upon life as such is akin to the denial
many happenings, is of no bene¬ ficial import, whatsoever, either to himself or to others, unless those events bring with them—
of any and everything that is, or are caused and produced by—
noble, pur'e and above all, real in life.. Goette in his Faust and Salomon with his "Vanity of Vanities," in Ecclesiastes, have no doubt denied every reality in
RABBI JACOB KLEI'N
life after draining the cup of life's pleasures to the dregs, thus barring all hope for future hap¬ piness. It would remind one of a woman in quest of a certain article who, after searching in
vain in one of the huge modern Israelite Universelle -of eporiums, will, with a.sigh of
Paris, in transmitting its testi¬ mony of appreciation for its splendid service to us, and that he shall also make clear to the Alliance Israelite Universelle our conception of the work which it
.,     , ,._     ought to do in the future.   We
was over the top many timesi    "     ... .•    ,    ,   ,l   •    • i.
,, u u   J c I.4.-    ! request him particularly to insist
and has seen much hard fighting -i. i.u x-i.  i? ,l        j
J ,   ,»    i      ,.      upon it that its future education- and half of active    , ,      . ,
al program   be   m   accordance
in his year service.
SURRENDERS LEADERSHIP TO ZIONISTS
Dr.
Alfred Stern, President of the Vienna Jewish Council, Recog¬ nizes the Zionist Majority.
Dr. Alfred Stern, President of the Jewish Community of Vien- ma, has resigned his office in favor of the Zionists. According to a special cable received by the Jewish Morning Journal, Dr. Stern states in his letter of resignation, that the Zionists and Jewish nationalists compose the majority of the Vienna Com¬ munity, and they are therefore
community administration. This is necessary, he says, in order that unity shall prevail in the community, acting possible only if the representatives of the ma¬ jority are placed at the head of Jewish affairs.  *   ,'
Dr. Stern was until recently an adherent of the assimilation¬ ist school. Lately, however, he joined the Zionist movement and: expressed   deep   regret for his
program oe m with the Jewish, national idea, that Hebrew be taught in the schools of the Alliance Israelite Universelle to a greater" extent than has been done in the past."
THOUSAND JEWS DEAD
RESULT OF OUTBREAK
entitled to have control of the long and bitter opposition.
Stockholm, Dec. 6.:—Nine hun¬ dred and fifty-six victims of the anti-Jewish outbreak in Lem¬ berg, Galicia, have been buried so far, according to the news¬ paper Nowy Dziennik of Cracow as quoted by the Jewish press bureau here. Many bodies are yet lying in the ruins of burned dwellings, it is added.
disappointment, leave the palace of industry totally bereft of all confidence she had hitherto cherished for that vast business establishment. This world is like a department store, in which the affairsth—e business of life —are going on with a remark¬ able velocity of time. There is ample provision and variety of material for each person to con- str^ct his individual life in ac¬ cordance with his own taste and
the sincerity of a certain pur¬ pose. Hawthorne says: "Insin¬ cerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments—all that concerns him unreal; so, that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic entertain¬ ment.
Like the great ocean, life con¬ sists of units with the mere dif¬ ference that the events which constitute the units of life are not as uniform in shape, color or volume as are the units—rthe drops of water—which form the mighty waters.
Life i sa journey on which the pleasures are not derived from the number of miles traveled,- but from the multiplicity and variety of scenery on which the soul pastures. Some travel but a short distance yet irieet with more events—life's units—and of greater variety than others whose voyage on life's highway is a much longer one. There is no human being whose happen¬ ings in life are of uniform mold^ A life, consisting of such units exclusively> would indeed be but a monotonous tragedy— tiresome even for idiots. " * * * a journey on we go Thro' many a scene of joy and woe." Israel stands in bold contrast
conception of life. It is noly.the! with all peoples both in length imprudent, the one who has,.not|of life's journey and in the vari- the understanding of life's real | colored and many-shaped units, purpose, who,   groping  in  the jarael, despite the innumerable
tragedies of his life, does not
dark, tries and tastes each and-
everything, I'egardless of the in¬ congruity with his temperament, ability, endurance and capacity of enjoyment, declares life a tragedy. Disgusted with-jhim- self and his vainless strivings he arrives at the conclusion that life is not worth living. To him naught is real. Why? Because he is insincere, and man's life, though  consisting of  ever  so
loook upon his entire life as a^-^ tragedy.   When he thinks of all those whose sufferings have been , far less but who have fallen in the strife, he says: "I am not as these, for I ean suffer and be strong."    Israel cherishes life. To him life is real because of his noble   purpose   and   aim-r—the . double mission of "Lishmoa Lil- (Continued on page 3)