Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1918-11-01

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VOL, 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1918.
No. 26
VAST RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT ANNOUNCED
Joint    Distribution    Committee Plans to Raise Huge Sum for  Rebuilding  War Districts. '
TO APPEAL TO WORLD
Felix   M.   Warburg  Announces
Plan Providing for Rehab-
ilation  of War-Torn
Sections.
tors   essential   to   the' Jewish faith.
9. The return to the United States of American citizens,.ex¬ iled through the wiar in enemy and neutral countries, reuniting them tb their families.
"America .has learned through the Liberty Loan the value of loans and how these can be made to accomplish what cannot be ac¬ complished   by   contributions," said Mr. Warburg. "There is no doubt that a large part of the money required to carry out the program for Jewish reconstruc¬ tion  will  be  obtained  through loans which will jrepay not only the original principal advanced, but dividends of gratitude of the Jewish people and the boon to the, individual conscience which comes from noble deeds: The op¬ portunity will be given to enable as large a number as possible to become self-supporting, and in this way the principal will be -amply secured, for, onc^ this purpose is accomplished, it will be possible to arrange for repay¬ ment of the sums advanced, "European Jewry, the Jewry
RABBI URGES MORE WORK ON THE FARMS
Rev.   Df.   Joseph   Kraanskopf
Makes  Stirring  Appeal  at
National  Farm  School
Exercises.
OTHER NOTED MEN SPEAK
Pennsylvania railroad. Samuel T. Bodine, president of the United States Gas Improvement Company, was prevented from attending by press of govern¬ ment business, and David Wer¬ ner Amram of t|i'e'University of Pennsylvania, because of illness in his family.
21st   Annual   Succoth   Harvest
Celebration   Is   Held   at
Doylestown School.
DR.   M.   COLLINS   ENLISTS FOR ARMY SElRViCE
IN CHARGE OF UNITED STATES RECLAMATION
Helps Government Save  Thou¬ sands of Dollars in Conser- 'vation Department.
LEVY VETERAN FIGHTER
A reconstruction program in volving the creation of a fund of $1,000,000,000 for the rehabili¬ tation arid upbuilding of Jewry in war-torn sections of the world has been announcel by the Joint Distribution Committee of the American Funds for Jewish War Sufferers
"Members of the Joint Distri¬ bution Committee, desiring to anticipate the tremendous need and the magnificent opportunity for service presented by the re¬ construction problems of Jewry, have for many.months been con¬ sidering the practical steps to be j in Russia, Poland, Palestine, has taken once it should be possible ever' been a people that has to enter upon the task, the im- struggled hard to obtain a mea
mensity of .which staggers the imagination."
This announcement by Chair¬ man Felix M. Warburg of the Joint Distribution Committee .accompanied a statement show-
gre, livelihood—a poor people. Added to the hardships and toil of ordinary existence they have been compelled to suffer the de¬ privations, want, and misery of four years of war, in inany in-
ing the general outlines of the stances being forced to evacuate
undertaking.
The money will be obtained through contributions and through loans from non-Jewish as well as" Jewish sources. It is claimed that it is the largest hu¬ manitarian project ever under¬ taken by individvial effort, and the appeal will go forth to the entire world.
Commissions arp to be sent to Palestine, Russia,. iElumania,Bi|l.- garia, Serbia, Poland arid other dountries. These commissions will include experts^ in social service, education and business. It is estimated that fully a ¦ quarter of the 9,000,000 to 12,- 000,000 Jews- outside of the United States are homeless and .' destitute. In many cases stricken communities will, be advanced funds that will enable thpm to become self-supporting and busi¬ ness institutions will be re¬ established. To effect this loans without interest will be made.
The--Qutline   of  the  general program is as follows:
1, Immediate and temporary assistance necessary to pave the way for permanent reconstruc¬ tion, viz.: the .supplying food,- clothing, shelter and.medical at¬ tention.
. 2. Scientific study upon the .ground of the various forms re¬ construction shall take, accord¬ ing to the needs of the several populations.
3. Employment of labor, through the planning and carry¬ ing out of projects by which workers may be most advantag- • eously arid economically made self-supporting and the public welfare furthest advanced.
4.1 Repatriation of refugees and the re-establishment of the family and home.
5. Supplying of raw mater¬ ials needed for the industrial life of the community.
6(   Vocational and technical schools for the training of the ,' young.
7. Gemiluth Chasodim—the extension of free loansi—loans without interest—to the deserv¬ ing, for the purpose of engaging in useful business and occupa¬ tions.
8. Provision for the spiritual and moral welfare, through as¬ sistance ^o the Rabbis, Yeshhi-
' voth (Jewish .'Theological Uni¬ versity), Talmud Torahs (Relig¬ ious Schools) and other relig¬ ious and higher educational fac-
their homes and be deprived of air their possessions. Hundreds of thousands have died, and of the millions remaining a very large percentage, probably ,50 per cent, -will have to be assisted in the reconstruction of their lives and fortunes. Upon Amer¬ ican Jewry falls both the burden and the privilege of leading the way in this work, that has for it^. sole. object-..the-preservation of the Jewish people, jtri'd this work the Joint Distribution Committee, representing every section of American Jewry, has taken upon itself to perform.
."The Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee plans to call to its aid every element of Jewry, both here and abroad to assist, and opportunity will be provided for all to have a part in this great effort.
"There is available in Amer¬ ican Jewry every factor neces¬ sary to the Successful carrying out of this project. Experience, brains, the will to do, and'the wherewithal are not lacking. The Joint Distribution Committee will seek to enroll in the under¬ taking not only the thousands who have contributed in the past to the war relief funds, but in fact every Jewish man and wo¬ man smd child in America"   -
The announcement is also made that numerous conferences have been held and that budgets
Philadelphia —• Speaking to more than 500 Philadelphians at the 21st annual Succoth harvest pilgrimage to the National Farm School, near Doylestown, How¬ ard Heinz, federal food admin¬ istrator for Pennsylvania, said: "Germany's condition, and that of all Europe, as related to the food supply, is the worst in five years. Germany will reap only one-third the expected crop from the Ukraine; less than a normal crop from Russia. Ger¬ many hoped this year to import not less than 400,000,000 tons of foodstuffs—instead she is facing starvation for ¦ practically noth¬ ing will in rjeality be imported, because her methods have driven to starvation conditioi;is every conquered country,-
"Germany's greatest crime lies in the millions of people she has starved to death And, as the German people look out of their windows at this time, there must and will be an a^wf ul reflex which is bound ultimately to bring them'to their senses. It is the determination of America that, from those same windows, the German people shall soon see the allied troops coming to their rescue, for that is what the final allied victory will really mean to the people of Germany,"
After outlining the splendid contribution, to- the' general food supply through the big crops at the Farm School this year, and intimating his belief that food prices have not yet reached their high point, Rev .Dr. Krauskopf said:
"After the war there will be a feverish resumption of all in¬ dustrial and commercial activi¬ ties There will be a desperate attempt to begin life anew un¬ der pre-war conditions, but the human toll that war will have exacted will have been so great that the old pre-war demand will not exist. After several years of continuing economic prosperity, stagnation will foUoyv, This will be especially so in Europe. Hun¬ dreds of thousands, finding their means of livelihood cut off, will rush to these shores. There will, perhaps, be many thousands of times as^many mouths to feed as there will be hands to raise it. The suffering, the discontent,' that will, follow^ will find their outlet in food riots   It is an axi-
Superintendcnt .of Consumptive
Hospital Awaiting Call to
Go Ajbroad.
Went   Through   Spanish   War
Having Enlisted When But
14 Years Old.
Dr. Moses Cdllins, who for a number of years was the super¬ intendent of the-'National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, at Denver, has enlisted in the army and is now in New York City awaiting a call to go abroad. Mrs. Collins and their two child¬ ren will remann in Louisville, where she hasi relatives, until Mr. Collins returns after the end of the war.       (
portant proportions, and will soon be in smooth running order and turning Out riiany thousands of garments daily., Besides the tailor s&dp, there is a large shoe repair shop, hat renovating shopivtent and canvas shop, cot shop,^lacbsmith shop, and in fact shops are operated by this department to repair and reno¬ vate any and everything used in the service. ,     '
Besides the repair shops, this department handles all the scrap material of every description that accumulates in the camp and disposes of same to the best advantage of tho goverhment. Many thousands of dollai;s are being and will be saved by thes? departments at all the different camps and much material and clothing and shoes that were formerly thrown aside as unfit for further use are now reclaim ed and used again.
WELFARE BOARD PLANS TO EXTEND rrS WORK
itctivitics to Be Carried Into Big Industrial War Work . .;  '"':     Plants.''
SHIP-YARDS   INCLUDED
WELL KNOWN AMERICAN VIOLINIST LIEUTENANT
Receives Commission in France After. Attending Officers Traininj; School, .
David Horstein, the well- known American violinist, has just been made a lieutenant" in Fi'ance. Lieutenant Hochstein, after having served with the cannon platoon in the front line, was put into the officers' train¬ ing school, from which he has just emerged as a cohiinissioned officer.
Capt. S. E. Levy of Demopo- lis, Ala., assumed command of the Co'nservation and Reclama¬ tion Department at Cajnp Bowie (Fort Worth, Texas), on Aug¬ ust 1,1918. He had only been in charge of this department a month, but wrought v6ry many changes in that short lapse of time, which will greatly facili¬ tate the workings of this import¬ ant branch' of the service, and already the repair shops are turning out more work than ever before.
Captain   Levy   was' born   ini _;^   •
Newborn, Ala., in 1882.   He isjinfluenza Epidemic Claims Life
of Mrs. Rose Lowenthal,
Many Thousands of Jews Em¬ ployed in War Work to Re¬ ceive Board's Attention.
secy to congressman Mccormick is dead
JEWISH JOURNALIST, DEAD
The Rev. Philip Elte, .chief editor of the Nieuw Israielitisch Weekblad, of Amsterdam (one of the oldest' Jewish newspapers published,on the-continent), has died in that.city at the age of 74. He was a Scholar, and author of considerable renown in Holland,
ORGANIZE JEWISH BANK
Ae second Je-vlrish bank is be¬ ing organized in Jaffe. That city, as it is well known, already has one bank, that being the Anglo-Palestine Company, a branch of the Jewish' Colonial bank of London.
a well-known Southerner and when this country and Germany i broke diplomatic relations and decided to fight it,out he tender¬ ed his services to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. He was immediately accepted, and later went to the officers' training school at Camp Logan, H. Root, where he wa,s commissioned a captain, and was transferred to (Jamp MacArthur, Waco Texas. When the government decided to create a new department, then known as the Reclamation De¬ partment, Captain Levy was called on to take bharge of the new venture.., Ife holds the dis¬ tinction of having, organized the first Conservation' and Reclama¬ tion Division in the United States service, and made such a success at Waco that he waa call¬ ed to Washington last February to confer with the Quartermas¬ ter reclamation officials with re¬ gard to the plans for such work in all the camps.
Captain, Levy was but 14 years of age when this country and Spain were at war, hut even at that age joined the army and served one enlistment.   '
This   department   at .Camp Bowie is rapidly assuming im-
of Chicago,
. , Mrs. Rose Lowenthal, of Chi¬ cago, 111., secretary to Congress¬ man Medill McCormack, died last week of Spanish influenza. Mrs. Lowenthal had been identi¬ fied with Illinois politics since the Republican - Progressive movement was inaugurated. In 1912 she became private secre¬ tary to Edwin W. Sims. Since then^she has been the personal secretary of' the present candi¬ date for United States Senator.
HOW TO AVOID INFLUENZA
for the starting of work are be-1 omatic truth that a shortage of ing prepared. Three commis-', food means hunger; that hunger sions have already been organ-j.n^eans social unrest; that social ized.   Dr. Solomon Lowenstein, i unrest means riots.   Hunger is
MR. LOUIS MARSHALL CONDUCTS SERVICES
NqvcI Situation of Lay Prtacher
Occupying Pulpit Enjoyed
at Temple Emanu-El.
Mr, Marshall Typifies New Kind
of Synagog President That
Is, Nqw Rising.
superintendent of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, has completed an inspection of Palestine as a representative of the commis¬ sion; Miss H. Goldman, daugh¬ ter of Dr Julius Goldman of New York will visit Saloniki, Serbia, Rumania and Bulgaria; Dr. Boris Bogen will leave for Vad- ivostok as the- Committee's rep¬ resentative.
MONEY LEFT TO INSTITU¬ TIONS
The will of Frank Russek who died when the United States transport Minnetonka was sunk, has been filed at iJew York. The Montefiore Home and New York University are each left $5,000 and several other institutions are left bequests of $1,500 and $1,000 each.
as great a menace as the Hun.
"For this almost ine-vitable menace, the remedy lies in the development of (agriculture to that degree of efficiency which will cause the earth to produce its maximum of food prod'uets. We must begin now, at once, to develop a generation of food producers.
"The Natiqnal Farm School is the real training camp for hun¬ ger fighters. A woman's depart¬ ment is needed at Farm School, where women may be taught the modern agriculture; a mechari ic's hall is needed, in which we can teach the farmer to be a me¬ chanic ; this school has possibili¬ ties in the pireparation of agri¬ cultural leaders to go to Pales¬ tine,"
Other speakers at the pilgrim¬ age were Mrs. E. T."]^toteBbury and Samuel Rea, presidents of the
Talte one-iialf (V^) teaspoon of Bicarbonate of Soda (Squibbs) in glass of cool water on arising in morning.
Wash nose o\ib night and morning 'with mild salt cool water—not over %.teaspoon m a glass of water, and add, if handy, not over four (4) drops of Angorine. Dickson Pharmacal Co., 129 East 59th Street, New York, and St. Louis, Mo.
Take on retiring one capsule of the fpllowing prescription:
Acetphenetidine    .' '. .....2.0
Aspirin 5.0
Salol    " ..!"V.O
Caffein citrate  ', 0.5 '
M Ft. in Capsules .No. icXIV
.—Prescriptiort by Dr. S.J. Nilson, 32 West 94th St., New York City. This is also a good grippe and cold remedy, taken in doses of one capsule two or three times a day.
Note—As soon as symptoms appear, take, one capsule after each meal and on going to bed, for one or two weeks, until all symptoms disappear.
Reduce dose one-half or more according to age and conditions for children.
Take a dose of castor oil at start of symptoms.
Drink plenty of pure (not cold) water one hour before or two hours after meals. In three or four of the glasses of water put one-half teaspoonfu] of bicarbonate of soda and the juice of half an orange (or lemon) if preferred.
Breathe pure air.
Eat plain food sparingly.
(By the SurgcOn General of the U, S. Army)
1. Avoid needless crowding—influenza is a crowd disease.
2. Smother your coughs and sneezes-^Ihers do not want the gtsrms which you would throw out. '•
3. Your nose,  not  your  mouth, was  made to breathe  through—get the habit.
4. Kemember the three C's—a clean mouth, clean okin, und clean clothes.
5. Try to keep cool when you walk and warm when you ride and sleep.
6. Open the windows—always at home at night; at the office when prac¬ ticable.
7. Food will win the war if you give i chewing your food well.
8. Your fate may bo in your own hands—wash your hands before eating.
9. Don't let the waste products of digestion accumulate—drink a glass or two of water on getting up.
10. Don't use ^ napkin, towel, spoon, fork, glass or cup which has been used by another person and not washed.   >
11. Avoid tight clothes, tight shoes, tight gloves; seek to make nature your ally, not your prisoner.
12. When the air is pure breathy all of it you can—breathe deeply.
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SYMPTOMS—Chills, headache, temperature, lassitude, aching of the joints and nerves. >-' ' . .. ; ;
Louis Marshall is asssuredly making a record for himself as president of Temple Emanu-El, New York.City. On Yom Kip¬ pur this year he substituted for Rabbi H. C. Enelow, of this con¬ gregation, by reading a portion of the service and delivering a lecture to the- worshippers. Rab- biEnelow is absent on war work in France, and Mr. Marshall suc¬ cessfully filled the breach thus produced. We did not hear his lecture, but from all accounts, it was a worthy effort. Thus Mr, Marshall's action throws a new light on the functions of pres¬ idents of our synagogs. The pres¬ ident \yho is simply content with guiding the executive and finan¬ cial work of the corporation is no longer acceptable'as a synag- ogal official.   For, with the rise
At the October meeting of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board, several demands for important exten¬ sions, of the work of the Board were discussed and voted on.
A report was received from a 'committee which has been con¬ ducting an extensive investiga¬ tion, in co-operation with the Y. ' M, C. A, authorities, with a viev^ to extending the 'welfare field of the board into the big industrial war work plants. It was voted to begin this work at the big shipbuilding yard at Hog Island and Bristol," Pa. There are sev¬ eral thousand Jews at these plants. Field workers of the J, W. B. will take up their tasks there immediately.'
It was also decided to take up welfare work among the thou¬ sands of women who ' have thronged to Washington from all parts of the country. Mr, I. E, Goldwasser, who, as chairman of a committee, has been investi¬ gating the Washington field, re¬ ported that it was impossible to rent a suitable house for a wo¬ man's welfare center at the capi¬ tal, but that a commodious resid¬ ence could be purchased at Scott Circle. ¦ It was decided to pur¬ chase this house if immediate oc¬ cupancy could be had.   ¦
Plans were laid for an exten¬ sion of work among the Stu¬ dents' Army Training Corps, in New York city. There are;three of these corps in the city; at the City College, New York Univer¬ sity and Columbia, ¦with an ag¬ gregate attendance of about 6,000 young men. At the City College 80 per cent df the train¬ ing corps students are Jews, at New York University, 50 per cen,t, and at Columbia, 25 per cent. ..        -
Rabbi David de Sola Pool, chairman of the special Commit¬ tee for Student Army Training Corp work, reported that the needs of the boys were argely re¬ ligious and' intellectual, and there was also a steady jieed for home hospitality. At the City College, where a large percent¬ age of the Jewish boys come from Orthodox families, the question of Kosher food is a seri¬ ous one. The military authori¬ ties at the college are giving en¬ couragement to the committee in
its plans t oassure Kosher meals
for the boys.
The Irst annual meeting of the
Jewish Welfare Board will be
of an educated and intelligent
l^ity,   we   find   the   presidents ^^Id in New York, November 2
a chance—help by choosing and
, At first sign of fever, sneezing or cold, go to bed, and ke^p warm. The chief danger is that neglect of simt>Ie prcautions may lead tb pneumonia or lunfe ti>ouble. overexertion should be strictly avoided in order that there may be no depressive after effects.
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more and more absorbing much of the entire work of the rabbis to spiritualize their congrega¬ tions. It may well be that some of us object to this aggrandize¬ ment of powers, maintaining that the rabbi shoud be su¬ preme in their own spheres and the presidents equally in theirs. Yet, when we recall the fact that Judaism knows of no sacerdotal class, properly so called, objec¬ tion against the action of an ef¬ ficient layman in exercising pre¬ rogative usually associated with the holders of the rabbinical of¬ fice, must vanish. ^ And where the layman is able to deliver neat addresses and to display a con siderable fund of knowledge of mattery Jewish, he supplements the work of the rabbi. The two may thus co-operate for the greater vitality of Judaism with¬ in their own congregation,— Hebrew Standard,'
and 3. In connection' with the meeting, exercises will be held j formally opening the commod¬ ious hut built by the Board at Seward Park, New York city, as a center for visiting soldiers and sailors.
YOUNG VIRGINIAN JEW IS
VICTIM OF EPIDEMIC
William A. Graff* aged thirty- one years, a young attorney of Newport News, Va., was one of the victims of the prevailing epi¬ demic. Mr, Graff was a very popular young man. He was very active in Jewish communal affairs, was at the head of the Newport News branch of the Jewish Welfare Association; atid did much to make the thousands of Jewish soldiers, who embark¬ ed at this port for France, feel at home.