Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1937-08-27

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Volume XVII—No. 192
COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 27, 1937
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10*
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J.
BIRON
Scotching Scoops That "sensational scoop" in the Yid¬ dish press about secret negotiations between the non-Zionist American group and Arab representatives is not a betrayal Dn the part of the non- Zionists, but a betrayal of confidence On thc part df the so-called scoopsters ...There were conversations between several Arab leaders and non-Zionist gentlemen on the subject of a peaceful relationship between the two races in PalcstiiiCi..These conversations were private talks, a mutual sounding-oul which might have led to a concrete proposal.. .The premature publicity destroyed those peaceful prospects... There is, however, ab ironical climax to the Zionist cries of horror at these negotiations...Just when Dr. Weiz¬ mann threw up his hands indignantly about these "separate and unauthorized negotiations", something happened... Thc London Jewish Chronicle pub¬ lished a "pecrct document" written, by none other than Dr. Weizmann, telling in detail of the Zionist leader's con¬ versations with Ormsby-Gorc a few weeks before the Zionist Congress convened,.,In that document Weiz¬ mann accepts partition provided a few boundary lines of the Jewish State be changed.,. For the Zionist president to accept partition in a conversation with the British Colonial Minister before Ihc Congress had expressed itself on thc subject was anything but straight politics...Weizmann's face must be red now whenever he speaki about the "Arab negotiations in New York"... We Crash Hollywood Hollywood is picking up Shake¬ speare for the screen, as you know... So in one of the musical comedy films, in which Jack Benny has a good time picking artists and models, you will see a poster which reads: "Biron Swim Suits—You Know It> a Biron' '..How does this come to Shake¬ speare, you'll ask us...Just look up "Love's Labor Lost," where Lord Biron of Navarre is one of the main characters...Here are some of the things the Bard says about Lord Biron <<who of course was one of our an¬ cestors |)., ."Biron, the merry, mad-cap lord: Not'a word with him but jest",.."What will Biron say when that he shall hear...How will he scorn! How will he spend his witl How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!"...His girl iriend tells him "The world's large tongue proclaims you for a man i-cplcte with mocks." and the "pert Biron" says of himself: "Like a demigod here sit I in the sky, and wretched fools* secrets heedfully o'er-eye"...But, to return to Holly¬ wood, what burns us up is that neither Shakespeare, nor we get any royalties for the use of the name we two have made famous..,
Hall of Religion The rabbinate, which bitterly op¬ poses calendar reform, is' heartily in favor of any refonn that will prevent Kosh Hashanah from coming during thc Labor Day weekend, as it docs this year, ..Because of thc early High Holy Days there'll be thousands of empty pews in Urban synagogues, while the Jewish summer resorts will do a rushing business ...Isadore Worth of Camden, N. 'J., former As¬ sistant U. S. District Attorney, is be¬ ing groomed for a senior vice-com- mander^hip of the Jewish War Vet¬ erans... Some of the most cockeyed reporting in years was contributed by thc genera] news agencies in their stories on the Zionist Congress...But the prize boner came from the United Press, which reported that the op¬ ponents of partition had organized themselves into the New Zionist Or¬ ganization. . .That's the ^Revisionist outfit, which took this name two years ago...Jewish deaf mutes in New York attend a weekly service at Tem¬ ple Emanu-EI...The'deaf worship¬ ers pay no attention to the rabbi, but keep their eyes glued on Mrs. Tanya Nash, a rabbi's widow, who translates the sermon into the sign language.. Another myth has been smashed by the king of garlic dealers, who re¬ ports that Jews, not Italians, use the most garlic in their cooking... About People The least enviable foreign cor¬ respondent jobs at the.moment are be¬ ing held down by Robert Berkow, United Press manager in Shanghai, : and Morris J. Harris, who lias a sim-. ilar job with the Associated Press... Sam Stoller, who made the 1936 {ConHnued on page H}
Mandates Commission Upholds Parti¬ tion in Principle But Opposes Creation of Jewish and Arab States at This Time
GENEVA (WNS)—Approval in principle of thc proposed partition of Palestine as a solution of the Arab- Jewish problem but opposition to the establishment of independent Arab and Jewish states at this time are voiced in the report of the League of Na¬ tions Mandates Commission to the Council of the League, according to thc official summary of its report. The Mandates Commission objects to in¬ dependent states because it holds neither Jews nor Arabs are ready for self-government and advocates a pe¬ riod of apprenticeship under a system of autonomy for each race with com¬ plete power to regulate immigration whilQ Britain retains control of de¬ fense, foreign affairs and customs. As an alternative the Commission sug¬ gests a separate British ragiidate for Arabs and Jews. It approves of a sep¬ arate British mandate for thc holy places in Palestine and criticises the Palestine administratioh's vacillating policy which it holds responsible for some of the trouble. On the other hand it agrees that thc present man¬ date is unworkable.
The text of the summary of the re¬ port fallows:
"In its concluFions on the 1630 disturbances the commission fully rec¬ ognizes the difficulties in preventing disturbances of this nature, but it is not convinced it would not have been possible to adopt more decisive mea¬ sures at an early date with a view to putting down armed resistance. The 1036 disturbances reveal a state of great political tension, due to the un¬ derlying causes to which reference was made in a preliminary opinion given elsewhere at the Council's request. These causes were largely responsible fnr the great difficulty experienced in putting down the disturbances and for thei continuance of conditions of po¬ litical instability.
"In its preliminary-opinion on Pales¬ tine's future the commission, after briefly outlining the date, recommen¬ dations and statement of policy by the mandatory power on which it was asked to advise the Council, summar¬ izes the advantages, disadvantages and the various solutions proposed.
"Thc commission considered it nec¬ essary first to give an opinion to the Council on the maintenance of the existing mandate. Aftel* noting the mandate's obligations had not appeared irreconcilable, thc commission states that the inevitable antagonism between the two races' aspirations was further accentuated and exasperated by cir¬ cumstances which could not have been foreseen twenty years ago. Increasing anti-Semitism on the one hand, and growing Arab national feeling on the other, combined to increase thc dif¬ ficulties in maintaining a balance in ap¬ plying the mandate. At the same time a certain fluctuation in policy by the mandatory power tended to en- coiirage the belief gn the part of Arabs that violence could stop Jewish immi¬ gration. Moreover the present man¬ date became almost unworkable, the commission considers, when it was publicly declared to be so by the Royal Commission and the mandatory gov¬ ernment itself.' The commission, there¬ fore, considers it is worth continuing the examination of the advantages and drawbacks of a new territorial solu¬ tion.'
"As regards the proposal to with¬ draw the holy places from the d,oniina- tion of Arabs and Jews and place them under a special regime the com-
mi<;sio!\ thinks such a step could not but be to thc advantage of general peace, provided this regime is based on the present mandate's Article 28.
"If the partition scheme ahould be applied thc commission thinks its suc¬ cess would depend more on its effects on the relations between the Arabs and Jews than on thc territorial solu¬ tion adopted. Any delimitation of new frontiers with whatever wisdom and justice they may be fixed will come in conflict with the same contradictory aspirations and will involve individual suffering, but thc commission thinks it should also be remembered that the Arabs' and Jews' collective sufferings arc not comparable, since vast spaces in the Near East are open to thc for¬ mer, whereas the world is increasinglj being closed to settlement by the latter.
"While declaring itself favorable in principle to the examinatibn of the so¬ lution involving the partition of Pales¬ tine the commission docs not thereby endorse the idea of the immediate cre¬ ation of two new indepei\dent States. Such States could hardly meet at the outset the requirements for ter¬ mination of the mandatory regime laid down by the commission and approved by the Council in 1931 relating to settled government, maintenance of territorial integrity, public peace, equal and regular justice to all, adequate financial resourceSj etc. The commis¬ sion therefore considers the prolonga¬ tion of the period of political appren¬ ticeship constituted by the mandate to be absolutely essential both to the new Arab State and the new Jewish State. This apprenticeship might be carried on, thc commission thinks, in one or two forms. Firstly, provisional *can- (Conttnucd on paE^ 2)
Temple Services for High HoUdays Are Announced
Services for the New Year willSe o.bserved at the Bryden Road Temple on Sunday night, September 5, be¬ ginning at 8:00 p. m., and on Monday morning, September G, at 10:(10 a. m. Rabbi Samuel M. Gup will speak at both of these services. Plans have been completed to take care of large congregations on both of these oc¬ casions.
Special Holy Day music is being prepared under the guidance of the new choir leader. Miss Gertrude Schneider. Two changes have taken place in the quartette. These include Mr. Sam Goldman, tenor, and Mrs. Siegfried Bach, contralto. 1
Owing to the fact that no seats are reserved, all being free, it is expected that, as usual, thc congregation will be in their scats previous to the open¬ ing of thc services. Arrangements are being made to issue cards of admis¬ sion for thc evening service to the members and their immediate families, excluding young men who are beyond majority age. Strict enforcement of this rule will be observed.
During the past summer, consider¬ able repair work has been doqe to the organ. It was completely dissembled, new felts and tubing installed, and re¬ built.
The Sabbath School will open on Sunday morning, SfipL 19, at 9:45 a. m. All children between kindergarten and confirmation ages (5 and 15 years) will be enrolled at that time. Thc High School department, which includes post-Confirmation groups, will open on Sunday morning, October 3rd.
Hillel Foundation Head To
Attend Big Eastern
Conference
Rabbi Harry Kaplan, director of the B'Viai B'rith Hillcl Foundation at Ohio State University, left Monday evening for thc east where he will be one of the leaders of the round table dis¬ cussions at thc Institute of Human Relations, Williamstown, Mass., Au¬ gust 29-Scptember 3.
The institute is under thc auspices of thc National Conference of Jews and Christians, JJCewton D. Baker, Cleveland, is thei general chairman and thc theme for ^c six-day program is "Public Opinion} il! a Democracy." Leads to Talk
Thc various agencies by which pub¬ lic opinion is shaped—the press, thc motion picture, the rarlio—will be con¬ sidered, with leading men and women in these fields as Speakers.
Round table discussions will be held daily from 12 m, .to 1 p. m. One of these groups will study "The College Campus," and it i^ this section which will have Rabbi Kaplan for one of its leaders..
Other group discu'^sions will be on "The Religious Press," "Adult Edu¬ cation," "Women's prganizations" and ""the Agencies of Public Opinion Look at Themselves."
Editor Jii Charge
Rev. John LaFargc, associate editor of America, Catholic review of the week, will be the leader of the round table on thc religious press. Hc will open the forum with a discussion Monday, August 30, on "Ways of Ex. tending the Influence of thc Religious Press."
At subsequent sessions Dr. Alex¬ ander Brin, editor of the Boston Jew- sh Advocate, and Dr. Guy K. Shiplet, editor of The Churchman, Protestant Episcopal publication, will speak.
Rahbi Kaplan ^tt:nded the first Williamstown Institble two years ago.
NAZIS INSTITUTE GHET¬ TO IN BERLIN PARKS
BERLIN (WNS)—Ghettoization, Nazism's solution for the Jewish problem in Germany, was introduced to Berlin for thc first time when of¬ ficials of the Prenzlauerberg district installed 100 new benches in a public park and inscribed 92 of them wilh thc words "Jews prohibited" and thc remaining eight with the inscription reser\cd for Jews". Der Angriflf, mouthpiece of Propaganda Minister Goebbels, indicated that similar steps will be taken elsewhere.
Meanwhile thc anti-Jewish drive continued in other spheres with Min¬ ister of the Interior Frick forbidding any but Jews to patronize Jewish- owned bookshops and decreeing a ban on thc abandonment of Jewish names by Jews but specifically recommend¬ ing such changes in thc case of Aryans or persons with only a small percent-
JEWISH AGENCY COUNCIL CLOSES
Adopt Resolution Authorizing Round Table Parley With Arabs and Negotiations With England on Jewish State
BERLIN (WNS) ^ The daily good deed implicit in member¬ ship in thc Boy Scouts can best be aciiicved by waging war on the Jews who "are the devils of the world," Julius Streicher told 400 Hungarian SCouts who 'are visiting Gennany.
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age of Jewish blood. Prick also for¬ bade the works of Jewish authors to be printed in Gothic letters because they Were invented by an Aryan, Bishop Ulsilas, and warned Jewish bookshops that they are not per¬ mitted to carry books by any but Jew¬ ish or  foreign authors.
Four Berlin Jews charged with cir¬ culating copies of the letter Thomas Maun wrote to the dean of Bonn Uni¬ versity in reply to an announcement that Bonn's honorary degree to him had been rescinded, were sentenced to terms of imprisonment from five to nine months.
. NEW YORK (WNS)—Debarred from emigrating because most coun¬ tries refuse to admit stateless per¬ sons, 250 stateless Jewish families in Germany, most of whom came to Ger¬ many after the Russian Revolution, are in a desperate plight, according to report received by thc Joint Dis¬ tribution .Committee. Prevented by international law from expelling them, the Nazi regime is seeking to force a 'general exodus of the stateless Jews by denying them the right to work and imposing special difficulties upon them when they seek relief and .education for their children. Their relief or¬ ganization, the Association of Rus¬ sian Jews in Germany, and its suc¬ cessor, the Beth-Jakob, have both been dissolved by the Nazis.
Columbus  Hebrew  School To Open Next Monday
At a recent meeting held at the Co¬ lumbus Hebrew School, the board of directors designated Monday, Aug. 30th as the opening date for the fall semester. Classes will begin at 3:30 p. m. and continue until 8:00 p. m. Registration for a beginners class will also commence and coiitinue for the entire week.
Mr, Leon J. Seff, President of the school, appeals to all parents io en¬ courage their children to attend Hebrew School classes. The school will be open to all children who are willing to take advantage of the op- liortunity of acquiring a fine Hebrewr education, . The Hebrew School board of educar tion is composed qf A. W. Robins, chairman, Rabbi L. Greenwald, Rabbi M. Hirschsprung, Rabbi N. Zelizer, Bert Wolniau and A. Seff.
German Group Boycotts Ger¬ many  Day  as  Protest Against Swastika
ST. LOUIS (WNS)~As a pro¬ test against the proposed display of the swastika in St. Louis' German Day celebration, the German Liberty League, "an American group inter¬ ested in German cultural affars, but opposed to the injection of any for¬ eign politics," will boycott the celebra¬ tion. Spokesmen for the Liberty Union called the swastika "a symbol of religious, racial and class an¬ tagonism."
Levi Heads Odd Fellows
- BUFFALO. N, Y. (WNS)—Jacob Levi, of Rochester, former deputy grand master, was elected grand mas¬ ter of the Grand Lodge of the In¬ dependent Order of Odd Fellows, it was announced here after 'the results of the June election were made public..
Cantor P. Gcllraan
At no other time of the year does the Jew stand in greater awe and re¬ spect in the synagogue than on the High Holidays, and it is but natural that he should try to have his place of worship pleasant and comfortable, and surround it with a spiritual at¬ mosphere that \\ill lend glory to the name ui Israel. Bearing this in mind, the president and officers of the Agudalh Acliim congregation are leaving nothing undone to make the approaching Jiolidajs most enjoyable for the worshippers.
In addition to the rabbi who graces the pulpit with his most inspiring ser¬ mons thruout the year, no other con¬ gregation ill thc city can boast of a cantor of the ability of Mr. P. Gell¬ man. Cantor Gellman left an unfor¬ gettable impression on all those who had the privilege of hearing him con¬ duct services at the Agudath Acliim Synagogue for tbe past few years. There is no doubt that he will excel his previous efforts on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur this year.'
Cantor Gellinan has a tenor voice of unusual appealing quality. It is large enough to fill every riopfc and cbrher of tliie spacious synagogue, having at the same time a velvety smoothness which enables him to sing right into the hearts of, the listeners. Cantor Gellman will conduct special Slichos services at the Ai^udath Achim Syna¬ gogue at midniglit Saturday (tonight), as well as Rosh Hashonah services on Sept. Sth, Olh and 7th, and Vom Kip¬ pur services on Sept 14th. and 15th.
Tickets for the liolidays can be pro- (Continued on page 2)
Jewish War Vets of U. S. Plan
Patriotic Hall of Fame
at World Fair
NEW YORK (WNS)—A photo¬ graphic hall of fame of 150 of the greatest Jewish patriots of American history from 1789 to 1939 is being planned by the- Jewish War Veterans of the United States as the high¬ light of its proposed exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair. All Jewish survivors of the wars of the United States will be asked to serve as members of a jury to select the 150 patriots from a panel of several hundred names, according to an an¬ nouncement by Martin Horowitz, Michael Weinstein and Louis Free¬ man, national co-chairmen of the com¬ mittee arranging for the organiza¬ tion's 41st annual convention to be held in Asbury Park, N. J., from September 23d to 2fith.
Beth   Jacob   Cong.   Now
. Ready for the High
Holidays
. Through the splendid cooperation of the Sisterhood, the Beth Jacob Syna¬ gogue has this year been completely redecorated. The arrangement com¬ mittee urges members and others who wish to pray at the Beth Jacob on the High Holidays to make their reserva¬ tions between the hours of 7 and 0:30 on any evening of this coming week.
At midnight this evening (Satur¬ day) (^itor Newmark will officiate at the Slichas services to which the public is cordially-invited.
Rabbi L. Greenwald will deliver his sermons on both days of Roah Hashonah and Yom Kippur, the themes to be announced in next week's issue of the Chronicle.
ZURICH (WNS)—With the adop-, tion of a compromise resolution dc-1 signed to placate Zionists and non- Zionists by approving tlie' Zionist demand for negotiations with Great Britain on thc creation of a Jewish state in Palestine and also the non-, Zionist demand for a round-table con¬ ference with the Arabs looking to a peaceful Arab - Jewisii understanding in an undivided Palestine, the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine concluded its stormiest meeting since its creation in 1929. Aimed at placat¬ ing thc American nou-2ionists, who had vigorously opposed a Jewish state, and at satisfying the Zionists who bad insisted on carrying out the Zionist Congress' mandate iof entering nego¬ tiations for a Jewish state, the resolu¬ tion in effect authorized negotiations for both ends. With this difficulty eliminated, the Council also reached agreement on the other thorny issue dividing Zionists and non-Zionists— parity for thc non-Zionists in the Agency Executive—by giving Ihe non- Zionists five instead of three members on thc ten-man executive, and naming six non-Zionists to the political com¬ mittee of six chosen by the Zionist Congress to negotiate with Great Britain.
The text of the resolution reads as follows:
1. "The fifth session of thc council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine takes note of the political resolution adopted by the twentieth Zionist Con¬ gress and expresses its agreement with its main conclusion.
2. "The council rejects the asser¬ tion of the Palestine Royal Commis sion that the Palestine mandate has proven unworkable. The council' di rects the executive to resist any infringenlent of the rights of the Jew¬ ish people internationally guaranteed by the Balfour Declaration and the mandate. The council condemns the 'lialiative proposals' put forward by the Royal Commission as a poHcj' for implementing the mandate, which in¬ volve an arbitrary curtailment of Jew¬ ish immigration, abandonment of the principle of economic absorptive ca¬ pacity as a basis for immigration policy and severe limitations on Jewish land settlement.
3. "The Council expresses its strong¬ est opposition to His Majesty's Gov¬ ernment's decision to fix a political high le\el for Jewisii immigration in all categories for the next eight months, which it regards as a viola, tion of Jewish immigration rights and undertakings repeatedly given in this regard by His Majesty's Government and confirmed by the League of Na¬ tions.
4. "The council reaffirms the decla¬ ration of its previous session express¬ ing readiness to reach a peaceful set¬ tlement with the Arabs of Palestine based on a free development of both the Jewish and Arab peoples and mu¬ tual recognition of their respective rights. It directs the executive to per¬ severe in its effort to this end and with this object in view to request His Majesty's Government to convene conference of Jews and Arabs of Palestine with a view to exploring the possibilities of making a peaceftil settlement between Jews and Arabs in and for an undivided Palestine on the basis of the Balfour Declaration and thc mandate.
5. "While regarding the partition scheme put forward by the Royal Commission aa inacceptable, the Coun¬ cil empovyers the executive to enter negotiations with a view to ascertain¬ ing the precise terms of His Majesty's Government for the proposed estab¬ lishment of a Jewish State. In such negotiations the executive shall not commit cither itself or the Jewish Agency, but in the event of the emer¬ gence of a definite scheme for the establishment of a Jewish State, such a scheme shall be brought before a special session of the council for con¬ sideration and decision."
The new Jewish Agency Executive consists of the following: ZIONISTS —prof. Selig Brodesky, Eleazar Kap¬ lan, Fisliel Rotenstrcich, Isaac-Griien- baum, Rabbi J. L. Fishman, Moshe Shertok and David Beii Gurion; NON-ZIONISTS —Dr. Maurice J. Karpf, Dr, Werner Senator, Dr. Maurice Hexter, Dr. Arthur Ruppin and XIrs. Edward Jacobs, the latter being the new members, although they are members of die Zionist organi¬ zation. Menahem Ussishkin,, president of the Jewish-National Fund, and Dr. Nahum Goldman, Agency representa¬
tive at Geneva, were made ex-officio members of thc Executive. In accord¬ ance wilh thc usual custom of electing thc president of the World Zionist Or¬ ganization to head the Jewish Agency, Dr. Chaim Wcizirtann was.- re-elected president. Louis Lipsky and Dr. Karpf wei% selected as thc Agency's representatives iu thc United States, with Mr. Li|)sky being accorded mem¬ bership in the Executive. Lord Mel- chett and Morris- Rothenberg were re¬ elected chairman and co-chairman, re¬ spectively, of the Agency Council.
To the polilical commission which will negotiate with Great Britain the .Agency named as non-Zionist members Felix M. Warburg, Lord Reading, Lionel Cohen of Loudon, Sir Osmond d'Avigdor (joldsmid of London, Prof. Herbert Speyer of Belgium and Ne¬ ville Laski of London. The Zionist members, elected by the Zionist con¬ gress, are Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Prof, Lewis 'Namier of Manchester, Harry Sacher of London, Rabbi Meier Ber¬ lin, Mizrachi leader. Prof. Felix Frankfurter and Leonard. Stem, ex- officio member,
Polish   Jewish   Relief   Drive
Turned Down hy Wealthy
English   Jews
LONDON (WNS)—The unwill-- ingness of England's wealthy Jews to contribute to a special fund for the relief of Polish Jewry has forced rhe Board of Deputies of British Jews to abandon plans ior a Polish Jewish relief drive. The well-to-do Jews are reported to have argued that they cannot do anything for Polish Jewry at this time because they are still raising funds for German Jewry. To meet this situation the Federation of Jewish Relief Associations of Eng¬ land has issued its own appeal for thc Polisli Jews but this plea has not re¬ ceived tJie support of the Board of Deputies. As a condition of its sup¬ port the Board had insisted that the Federation turn over all money it raises to the Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee but the Federation insisted on distributing the funds in its own way.
To Conduct  High Holiday,
Services at the Broad
Street Temple
Cantor Gottesman
The ofticers of the Broad St. Temple wish to announce that all arrange¬ ments have been made for thc services to be conducted in the beautiful synagogue on the High Holidays, with Rabbi Nathan Zelizer and Cantor Eu¬ gene (jottesman officiating.
Those who have listened to Cantor Gottesnian's beautiful lyrie tenor voice have been inspired hy his excellent rendition of traditional prayers which characterize the High Holiday spirit. Columbus worshippers are urged now to avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing Cantor Gottesman during the holidays.
Rabbi Nathan Zelizer, who always chooses timely and intei^estuig subjects for, his sermons, will announce bis themes for (he JJifih Holidays in the next issue of the Chronicle.
Slichos Services will be condficted by Cantor Gottesman Saturday (to- nightj at midnight. The public is cordially inyited.
Mr. Sol Rotli, Secretary, will be in the temple tonight as well As every day and every evening of next week to accommodate all who wish to wor* ship at the Broad St. Temple during the High Holidays. Non-members are urged to make arrangement^ at their earlieat Convenience as the seating capacity is limited. Admission this year will be by ticket only.
LAST CALL! A few more days and no more New Year's Ch'eetings will be accepted.  Don't Delay—Call ADams 2954 at once!