Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-04-07

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'Volumo 18.   No. 10.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FUIDAY, APRIL 7, 1939
HeTOted to American and Jewish Idonls
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From IUvcrywhorn By PHINEAS J. BIKON
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FKONT-UNE NEWS
T. H. Tetens, an Aryan Ger¬ man refugee now in this coun¬ try, is a one-man anti-Nazi movement . . . Tetens is a jour¬ nalist who unquestionably quali¬ fies as the finest political prog- Jiostician we have ever come across . . . I-Io has foretold every Hitler move at least six months In advance . . . We were right—• Pope Pius is going to clamp down on Father Coughlin . . . And Charlie Chaplin will play the dictatorial housepalnter on the screen some time in 1940 af¬ ter all ... A physiology profes¬ sor at a famous Eastern univer¬ sity is trying to raise 51,200,000 to he used for a physiological study of anti-Semitism . . . Half this fund is to be raised among Jews, and halt among Christians ... It our suggestion In this coa ¦nection is worth anything, we humbly submit that the research staff should Include a half dozen expert psychoanalysts, Aryans preferred, to study tho inside workings of anti-Semitic minds . . . The $300,000 drive that Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic honor fraternity, will open next week is for the establishment of a de¬ fense fund for democracy and in¬ tellectual freedom, and deserves the support ot every member. Tout particularly of Jewish mem¬ bers—on the excellent principle
Karolyi Resigns In Opposition To Anti- Jewish BUI
BUDAPEST (WNS) J- Count Julius Karolyl, former Prime Minister, has resigned as presi¬ dent of the upper house of the Hungarian Parliament because ot his opposition to the govern¬ ment's anti-Jewish legislation, according to reports in political quarters here. His resignation is said to have been actuated by Count Paul 'Teleki's statement to a committee of tlie.upper house that the government would accept no amendments to its proposed anti-Semitic legis¬ lation already ¦ passed by the lower house. The bill limits the number of Jews in the ptofes- sions and will throw an esti¬ mated 60,000 out bl work. New anti-Jewish 'measures are sched¬ uled'to debate by Joint Commis¬ sions of the Upper House this week.    • .
Court Councillor Samuel Stern was re-elected for the tenth year at the annual meeting bl tho Pest Jewish Community, at which time it solemnly reaffirm¬ ed its protest against tho "denial ot national honor, human rights and Hungarian sentiments to Hungaiy Jewry." Tho victims ot the projected law, they fur¬ ther declared, wero prepared to sacrifice their blood and life to the Fatherland.
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of the U. S. Labor Department,
reveals that Hitler counts relief
clients and concentration camp
labor among the employed, and
that some millions  ot  German
ivorkers have tailed to register
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j British throne by 1942, the big
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on its way bade to that hungry maw, we have a better under¬ standing    of    the    "Pins    and >' Needles"  skit  entitled  "Britan¬
nia Waives tho Rules" . . . Mor- lie Ryskind says that if Hitler is dead and a double is batting '_ for  him,   the  double  is  worse
- than   the   dead   ono . . . Fritz
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ing the New York night clubs these days, trying to cash in on the notoriety they got from that big Madison Square Garden meeting in February . . . But ail they get are kisses . . . Henry Ford, we hear, spent !v20,000 on replacing a German Hilo ma¬ chine in his Worid'a Fair ex¬ hibit with an Ameriean Bliss ditto . .. Now If he'll only spend 20 cents on postage for a little parcel in which he will return his Nazi decoration to the Maniac-ot-lhe-IIour . . . Inciden¬ tally, it's quite appropriate that the stretch of land near Nyack, Just bought by Fritz Kulin's. little frands, is situated close to the Rockland County Insane Asylum ... A new maternity
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TEL AVIV ,(WNS) — "If I were asked in this dark hour whether we would exchange places with any other nation, I would say: 'Never! Am Israel Chai (the people of Israel lives)!" declared Dr. Chaim Weizmann as he replied to ad-
Eddie Cantor Calls B'nai B'rith Greatest Jewish Organization
WASHINGTON, D. ' C—Hail¬ ing B'nai B'rilh as "the greatest Jewish organization in tho world," Eddie Cantor this week called on all adult Jews to Join the 9G-year-old organization "for their own and their families' protection."
In 'a letter to Marvin S. Plant, chairman of the membership committee ot Menorah Lodge, Baltimore, Mr. Cantor said:
"With what is happening abroad and, more important, what is happening here, all adult .lews should for their own and their families' protection join B'nai B'rith, the greatest .lewish organization in the world."
Mr. Cantor, like many other Jewish artists, writers,,and pro¬ ducers in filmland, has long been Identified with B'nai B'rith. He is now a member of Los Angeles 'Lodge Number 487, having transferred liis meitiber- shlp from New York Lodge Number J some years ago when he took iip permanent residence in California.
Mr. Cantor's accolade to B'nal B'rith is the latest Indication that B'nai B'rith has captured movieland. Several weeks ago a new lodge was organized in Beverly Hills with 647 charter members the biggest lodge ever organized in B'nai B'rith's 96 years. Virtually every member is Identified with the film busi¬ ness. Sam Briskln, Executive Vice-President ot RKO, is presi¬ dent of the lodge. Carmel Myers, former screen star, is president of the Women's Auxiliai-y. Among the notable members of the Lodge are Jack Benny, Jack Warner, Norman Taurog, the Four Marx Brothers, the Ritz Brothers, Sam Jaffe, Pandro Berman, Maxle Rosenbloom, Sol Lesser, Walter Woolfe King, Louis IC. Sidney, Leon Schles¬ inger, Parkyakarkus and Nat Levine,
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Jacob W. Mack ot Cincinnati, prominent in civic and Jewisli enterprise has been appointed National Chairman of the Union of Ameriean Hobrev/ Congrega¬ tions' Layman's Tour of the United States and Canada, ac¬ cording to an announcement made at Cincinnati headquarters of the Union.
The Tour will open with a meeting in San F'ranclsco, Fri¬ day evening, April , when Dr. Samuel II. Golden.son of New York and Judge Harry Holzer of Los Angeles wlU speak on ways of increasing personal Ser¬ vice to Democracy and Judaism.
Mr. Mack who has sei-ved on the Board ot Governors of the Hebrew Union College, is Vice- President of the Executive Board ot tlie Union and Vice- Chairman ot the Board of Man¬ agers ot the Union Department of Synagogue and School Exten¬ sion.
The Layman's Tour, April 5-May 24 is the first step in the Union's 10 year program of greater personal Service Democracy and JudaLsm.
Counter Campaign Of Truth Suggested By Quaker Group
PHILADELPHIA (WNS) — Denouncing "a deliberate, under¬ hand campaign of vilification against' Jews" in Philadelphja which "has progressed to the ex¬ tent that attaclcs have been made on property held by Jew¬ ish residents in Philadelphia," Mrs. Ruth Veriarider Foley, co- chairman ot tho committee, read a report to the annual meetings ot two local Quaker groups, in which it was stated that tho anti-Semitic campaign is being "promoted by the .distribution of scurrilous leaflets and hand¬ bills handed out in subways and
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An Appeal From Nat'l. Conference Of Jews and Christians
The' growing concern of thoughtful citizens with the necessity of preserving demo¬ cratic principles and with com¬ bating symptoms of prejudice and intolerance is one ot the most hopeful indications that the traditional American prin¬ ciples of liberty and tolerance will be safe-guarded against the subversive forces that are at- teiiipting to foist totalitarian ideologies upon this country. On every side, also, is being. ex¬ pressed the conviction that the maintenance of democratic in¬ stitutions is bound up with the invigoration ot religious faith, with its emphasis upon the sovereignty of God and inherent worth of the individual.
There is an increasing need tor Americans who love liberty and do not want to see this country disfigured by the re Hgious and racial hatreds which have torn other lands, to ihobilize with their fellows wiio are attempting to defend our historic freedoms.
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dresses of welcome on ills re¬ turn to Eretz Israil on the ove of Passover.
And later, following this same theme in his remarks to Jour¬ nalists present, David bon Gurion indicated his beliet in the Jewish State in Palestine in our time. Faith and hope in the future of Eretz Israel formed the keynote of addresses as Tel Aviv's official welcome to the returning President of the Jew¬ ish Agency assumed a gala and exhilarating aspect.
Dr. Weizmann, accompanied by Mr. Ben Gurion, Mrs. Blanche Dugdale and Berl Katznelson, arrived at Tel Aviv Port on the liner Artagnan. iZionist flags bedecked the suiilit quays as thousands ot laborers interrupt¬ ed their work at the Port In order to acclaim the motor launch that brought the Jewish' leaders .ind the niece ot the late Lord Balfour ¦ ashore. Awaiting them on the quayside were mem¬ hers of the Jewish Agency and Vaad I..oumi Executives and a joint delegation of the Yishuv. Ellahu Berligne, Dr. Abraham Katznelson, Moses Smilanslty, Israel   Rokach,   David   Reittcz,
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"Qur horror at injustices to Joseph Sprinzak and hundreds Jews in Europe must not stop of others were among tliose with  fighting  anti-Semitism  at ¦-   ¦¦
home. Increasingly Important aa that Is," the report said. "It must force us to look at America and Quakerdom and see also the beam in our own eye. We must not stop until our contemporaiy membership is freed of tlie evil of racial discrimination as ex¬ pressed in our schools, our hos¬ pitals, our business enterprises." "A counter campaign of truth" was suggested to the Race Relations Committee by, Albert P. Martin, of tho Ameri¬ can Friends Service Committee.
Racial and Ecligious Discrimination Scored In Report
PAMBRIDGE (WNS) — "No graver retleotion could bo cast on the academic profession than that any of its members should be willing to compromise time- honored educational and schol¬ arly standards by racial or re¬ hgious discrimination," was the keynote of a report by a Har¬ vard special committee on per¬ sonnel to President James D. Conant.
Recommending that."libera-i tion ot its students from racial and religious prejudice" should be part of the university's edu¬ cational function; the report said:
"The comrhlttee is intormed that certain members ot \he (Harvard) faculty object to the appointment of Jews to the tutorial staff in the belief that they are unacceptable to unfler- graduates. The, extent of this undergraduate attitude can easily be exaggerated—in a num¬ ber of departments Jewish tutors have met with conspicuous success. In any case, it is the Committee's view tliat the uni¬ versity should regard as a part ot its educational function the liberation ot its students from racial or rehgious prejudice. To this end it is essential that ap¬ pointments to the teaching staffs be made solely on grounds ot professional qualifications for the position in question.
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Says Nazi Mrocities Understated Rattier' ~'. Than Exaggerated
NEW YORK (WNS)— Stating that "discu.ssion of the liquida¬ tion of .rows is virtually taboo in friendly German circles today," Roy W. Howard, presi¬ dent and editor of the New York World-Telegram, in the fifth of a series of arlieles ivi'it- ten after visits to key countries in Europe, reports that the frightfulness and terrorism" of Nazi anti-Jewish atrocities" have been "understated rather than exaggerated."
Professional Nazis have closed their minds to reason, justice and human considera¬ tion. Argument is futile. To the average, normal German the subject is distasteful."
"Many," said Mr. Howard, "will tell you the situation need¬ ed correction because the .Tew was crowding the German out of the professions and forcefully substituting his own culture and philosophy for that of the Ger¬ mans. But very few even at¬ tempt a defense of the frightful¬ ness and terrorism, which have been understated rather than exaggerated. "This is true even as to some persons who are high in the Nazi party, though there is little evidence tliat any of these men made a serious at¬ tempt to moderate tho purge;"
COLUMBIA  UNIVERBITl'   TO AID   STUDENT,BEFUGERS
NEW YORK (WNS) — The sum of $3,943 has already been collected at Columbia College, the Law School and Barnard College In Columbia University's drive tor funds to enable stu¬ dent retugees to continue tholr education here. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of the. University, has pledged that the' sum collected from students and members of the faculty would be increased by an equal amount trom "friends of the Univer¬ sity."
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