Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1938-06-24

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, JUNE 24, ,1938
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Evcrywliero By I'lIINlSAS J. BIRON
You can definitely count Dr. Ste¬ phen S. .'Wiso out of tho Zionist preaidential race ... No. matter how much pressure may be brought to bear, he will definitely refuse to .bo'renomlnated. . . The next pres- .ident o£ the Z. O. A. -will bo Eabbi Israel Goldatcin, you can make up your mind to tliat .'. . And Dr. Goldateih's successor, as president of the Jewish National Fund will ba Louis-P. Kocker . . . Edgar J. 'Kaufman, the Pittsburgh depart¬ ment store tycoon who brought about the raeciting between the Big Four of nationni Jewish organiza¬ tions—which probably will lead to that much talked-of Jewiah unity —is a candidate of election as a delegate to the American Jewiah-] Congreaa . . . He's quite a sports¬ man, going in iet riding, breeding and racing horses ... He ar¬ ranged that meeting through a scries of identical telegrams sent to Jowish leaders in various koy communities, who in turn brought pressure to bear on the notional organizations . . .,Have you seen that new 24-page photo publica¬ tion headlined ."Will there Be A Jewisli Crisis in America?" . . . The name of the periodical is Can-
¦ did Features, and its first';issue is devoted entirely to pictures of Jews, Jewish persecution, anti- Semitiam, etc., with the underly-
' ing theme being what will happen if it happens here . . . The four young fellows who are running the publication are all non-Jews and in a publisher's noto declared "we ¦ ^ aro not employed, either directly or indirectly, by Jewa" . . . YOU SHOULD KNOW
Now that the New York Hospit¬ al is removing those pre-Hitler swastikas from ita chimney ttho Czechoslovaks -who live nearby will.] begin to patronize the hospital . , Hitherto they havo heen.terrified at the sight of the Nazi emblems 1 and have refused to go near the ' hoapital . *. . A poll of American j<_'-^'-"-' iivemen; by the Ladies Homei Joiir- nal reveals that forty per cent dis¬ like Germany more than any other country . . . The dailies missed a big story when they fell down on the news of the licking a gang of Nazis got in Newark aftor one of their meetings , . . Becauae so many members of the' crews of German liners have been involved in the spy probe, buaineas on the Nazis ships has taken a .terrific nosedive . . . Germany has with¬ drawn from the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair... A writer in Nash¬ ville is doing a complete history of the Klu Klux Klan ... One of tho big broadcasting chains turned down the following idea, of Alex¬ ander Woollcott for a swell non¬ commercial radio show . . He wanted to present musical ahpwa authored and largely played by non-Aryans, with no pay or royal¬ ties for any one concerned . . . Tho actors and authors and com posers were willing to give their work for nothing in consideration of what was planned to be tbe clos¬ ing -line of the broadcast. . . After the ahow the announcer woa sup- poaed to say a few words to the effect that the program could not have been preaented in Germany, on account of the non-Aryaniam of tho authors and cast . . .Don't, by tho way, think that only Jewa are the targeta of attacka by scurril¬ ous literature . . . During the re¬ cent Republican Senatorial pri- . mary in South Da|<ota Congress¬ man Fred H. Hildeb'randt was the victim of a campaign in which his Catholifism was the principal fac¬ tor .. . ' N.'VZI BUSINESS
New York's Jewiah.owned Edi¬ son Hotel is scheduled to bo tho 'scene of a big'powwow of the lead¬ ing Jew-baiters on June 28th . . . Among thoso expected to meet there aro Fritz Kuhn, William Dudley Pelley, Jumes True, George . Dietrich and - Adrian . Arcand of Canada . , , Which reminds us that both the La Follette Civil Lib¬ erties Committeo and tho Dies Committeo an Un-American Acti¬ vitiea will griU Pelley under oath .... The Dies Committee,' inci- , dentally, will find that most of tha documents it intended to sub¬ poena from the Nazis have been shipped to Mexico for safekeeping .... How coirio that Uncle Sam's
¦ ngents probing the Nani spy ning have overlooked one Guenther Orgel, a resident of Staten Island 1 .... At a big meeting of import¬ ant Southern business lenders held in  Houaton,   Texas,  not  so  long
< ago plans were laid to exploit ^nti- (Contiuucd en page 0
Reish Eieiiiptsf sreip Jews liwiiig kmi Itm iegis trali@ii d Properlf
BEELIN.(WNS) — Yielding to protests ,iby tho United States, Great Britaiit and France, the nilniatry of economy issued a de^ creo specifically exempting for¬ eign Jews resident abroad from the Goering decree providing for the registry of all Jewish-owned prop¬ erty in Germany. The' .new decree overruled that phaso of tho Goer¬ ing order ' which had demanded registration .reports of all .Tews having property in Germany irre¬ spective of their residence. Under the new decree foreign Jews muat register.property in Germany: only if Ihey live in Germany. The de¬ cree also gives German Jews resi¬ dent abroad until July 31 to regis¬ ter .their property and until October 31 for those living outside: of Europe. Jewa ,in'Germany'.must still register by June 30th, The effect of the'new decree is to com¬ pel American, British and other foreign Jews, wbo live iii Germany or Austria to register their, prop¬ erty.
Meanwhile, it was learned that tho renewed anti-Jewish terror was aimed at ridding Germany of as many Jews as possible. Hun¬ dreds of those arrested last 'week wero promptly released upon sign¬ ing an undertaking to leave the Beich at once. Jewish, merchants who agree to close their stores or sell out at onco were alao given their freedom, thus indicating that orgnnized smearing of Jewish shops with anti-Semitic and boy¬ cott slogans was designed to con- ¦vinco the Jews that they had no chance of making a living. Re¬ moval of the huge red-lettered signs was under way as Jews la¬ bored ¦ to efface tho offensive slogans. Fairly-well established re¬ ports stated that' during the period of mob violence two aynago- gaes were, attacked. The windows of tbe Oranienburgerstrasse Syna- l^ogue were smashed and ita walls defaced ¦while 'windows ¦ we^e broken in the "Adas Israel Syiiage- gno and in the Orthodox Eabbini¬ cal Seminai*y.
New measures against Jowa in¬ cluded a ban on food Sales to them in a number of Berlin suburbs, an- order expelling Jews from all stock exchanges and a decree for¬ bidding Jewiah-o'wnod or directed hospitals to take patients -whose hospitalization would be-paid out of the government insurance fund. These measurea were announced coincidentnily with rumors that Hitler waa meeting with his cab¬ inet to discuss new and more sweeping anti-Jeyrish regulations. It ia not believed, however, that they will be announced before tbe Nazi party congress at Nuremberg in September.
*   *   # Push "Legal" War Oil Jews
BEELIISr (WNS)—An imme¬ diate end of violence against Jewa in the campaign to sjpeed up the Aryanization of Jcwiah businesa and thua further, stimulate Jewish emigration.'was ordered by high Ni\zi authorities, according to in¬ formation obtained from reliable sources.' The order has. gone out that the boycotting of Jewish shops and the labeling of Jewish establishments must be carried out within "orderly and legal chan¬ nels." Nazi, party spokesmen ad¬ mitted that the -violence had got¬ ten out of hand but denied that any disciplinary action was planned against thoso responsible "be¬ cause of the difficulty of estab¬ lishing who committed the acts." the SE(me timo the highest Nazi party quarters-let it become known that the steady elimination of Jews from business' and the roufid- up of Jews would .continue. Aa the paint-slinging campaign petered out it waa replaced by the picket¬ ing of Jewis^ shops as men in civilian clothes posted themselves in front .of .Tewish establishmenta to warn customers away. Mean¬ while, the Nazi press broke ita silence on the disturbances, the ¦Voelkischer Beobachter defending them as an "act. of self-,dcfen3o by the people against Jews 'Who are swamping Berlin,, especiapy from Austria.
A. I. A. Annual Camp Convention Opens
ESTES PAEK, COLOEADO— Delegates from more than two hundred cities of the United States and Canada began converging on Estes Park' for the annual Camp Convention of A. Z, A., Junior B'nni B'rith, scheduled to be held June 24th to July Ist,
This is the most widely repre¬ sented, annual gathering of Jewish youth in\ America, and it has been estimated that the 400 youthful delegates will have traveled a million miles to„ discuss problems common to Jewish youth.
This year's convention will be presided over by twenty-year old Stanley Eabinowitz, of Des Moines, la., president of the organization ¦who, despite his age, holds one of the most importaiit youth posts in the Jowish world.
The most, important matter to ho brought before the Supreme Advisory Council of'A- Z, A., this year will be the proposed removal of its' home office from Omaha, Nebraska, where the order 'was founded, to Washington,-, D. C, where it will be houaed along with headquarters of.the B'nai B'rith.
,Al its recent convention,, the B'nai B'rith asked the A. Z. A, Supreme Advisoiry Council to con^ sider this move and a full discus¬ sion of it will be held at the con, vention. Attending the Supreme Advisory Council sessions will be prominent B'nni B'rith representa¬ tives from every section of the country, Maurice Bisgyer, secre¬ tary of tho Supreme Lodge of^ P'uai B'rith will 'attend theae ses¬ sions for the! firat time.       ,^-.
because of the growing popular¬ ity.of A. Z. A. Camp Conventions, reservations were given in the or¬ der received and the firat 400 to have made th^ni will be received at the camp, which is already fully re- aerved. Delegates are already ar- I'lvlng atthe camp site.
Columbua Delegatea
The Columbus chapter instruct¬ ed its delegate by an overwhelm¬ ing votejto preaent the following resolution to the forthcoming A. Z. A, couv.entiou:—
"Be it resolved that A. Z. A. asaeinbled here in its 14th Nat'l convention,, support the 'American Jewisli Pengreas in its attempt to present » iinlted front in defense
France Dedicates Monument To Jews Who Died In War
Devoted to American
and
Jewish Ideals
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Elected Ohio Dept. Commander of J. W, V.
of Jewish rights. We further pe¬ tition B'nai B'rith ,to render.every effort to cooperate vrith the Amer¬ ican Jewiah Congreaa and are in hearty aupport of auch splendid geatures as the Pittsburgh Confer¬ ence of Juiie 20th   	
Tho official delegate to the A. Z.,A. Nat'l' Convention is-. Harold Kotoaky, who 'will be adviaed by Harry Goldstein and Ted Finkel¬ stein of the advisory board of lo¬ cal A. Z. A. .Other members at¬ tending the Annual 8-Day A. Z A. Camp from Columbus are Arthur Cohen, Sam Feinberg, James Hilli- son, .Harold Margulls and Sam Stregevsjcy.
PAEIS (WNS)—The memory of tho 8,200 Jews who laid down their lives fighting, for Prance during the World War '.and the thousands of others itt American nnd British ai?raies 'who were killed in Prance was honored at Douau- mont, near Verdun, with the dedica¬ tion by the French Govemment of a .monument to tho Jewish ivar dead. Tho dedication ceremony was presided over by- Minister of Marine Cesar Canipinchi and'-was attended by representatives of the. American, British, Belgian, Czecho¬ slovak, Polish, Italian and Yugo¬ slavian Governments, tha Ameri¬ can and British Legions and tha Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergy of France, The monument was dedicated as part of 'the exercises featuring tho 22nd,;anni- yorsary of the Ba'ttla of Verdun.
In his address Campinchi at¬ tacked Nazi anti-Semitism, aaying'| that France would defend freedom' for all races. "We," ho .declared, "are not among those \yho drive out or condemn 'men beca'uae their ancestors were born beyond our frontiers. Wo do not believe in accursed, contemptible, or in¬ ferior peoples, but in a free, digni¬ fied, respected humanity. This ideal for which Jewa of France, England and the United States feel here, among so man^ of their com¬ patriots, remains ours. We must not despair, becauae bistory is patient, and the day ivill come when we shall see this ideal ob- aerved throughout tha world." Campinchi cited figures' showing that 32,000 Jews from France and Algeria Served in tho ITrench armies and that 6,500 were kille'd. There were also 12,000 Jews from other countrie_s in the Fi^ench For-.' eign Legion, of whom '2,000 laid down their lives. The monument to the Jewish -war dead, which ig cloae by tho Catholic war nionuj ment and stands in the abadpw of^ the great French memorial toyt'4{ is a "'ivSill-like' structure' intom to represent tho Wailing Wall 'oj' Jerusalem, and has reproductions of the two tablets of tho Ten Com¬ mandments in the center. Guard¬ ianship of the monument was ac¬ cepted by Mgr. Marie Andre Char¬ les Ginisty, Bishop of Verdun, who is president of the Verdun Mem¬ orial. Captain John Sterling of the U. S, embassy repreaented tha United State? while the French Jewish community .was represented by Senator Louis Dreyfus, Baron Eobert de Eothachild,'Grand Eabbi J. J. Sachs, former chajilain of thc Sixth Arniy Corps, and General Andre Weiller, president of the Jewish War Veterans of France.
New Parley Planned to Create Coordinated Agency By Big Four
PITTSBUEGH (W N S)—An-, other conference of representatives of tha American Jewish Congress, Jewiah Labor Committee, Ameri¬ can Jewish Committee and - B'nai Brith to give immediate effect ¦ to the proposal for coordinating into a single united agency their activi¬ ties concerned with safeguarding Jewish rights, is being.planned by tho Pittsburgh grpup that brought about the June 13th meeting which drafted the proposal that haa now been ratified by all four groupa. Official announcement of the rat¬ ification was made here by Edgar J. Kaufman, head of . the local committee,.who brought about.the June 13th meeting, and to. whom word of the approval was tcle- gi'atihei} by the four groups in¬ volved. All ratifications were either unanimous or by overwhelming j majorities of the executive bodies of tho four organizations. The .Con¬ gress, Jewisji Labor Comraitteo and American Jewiah Committee rati¬ fied on June 17 and the B'nai Brith, which polled its executive committee by telegraph, ratified the next, day. With 100''/o ratifica¬ tion a fact, the first point in the agi'eement, the calling off of the American Jewiah Congress' refer¬ endum, goes into effect.
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Synagogue Should Not Be Silent On Social Justice Problems
J. D. C. Raised $2,125,000
To Date, Of Its $5,100,000
Quota For 1938
' NEW YOEkTwNS)—The Joint Diatribution Committee's 1038 cam¬ paign has already raised ?2,125,000, mora than ?1,000,000 in cash, or 41 percent of the quota of $5,;00,- (jOfl, it waa announced by Eabbi Jonah.B. Wise, national cnmpaign chairmanV- Eleven hundred com- munitiea throughout the United States, and Canada contributed to- .ward the amount raised in^ the Spring phaae of the drive' more than 60 of them, oversubacribing their local quotaa. It waa also an¬ nounced that in many communitiea contributiona wci-e received from Christians and ' Christian groups. The total raiaed in the Spring phase of the campaign ia expected to .reach $2,600,000 by July 1. .The fall phase of the drive gets under way late ih August when such major. Jewiah communities aa Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Montreal, Toronto, Eochester and Denver will h61d campaigns.
Formal Opening Of New
Bath House Set For
Sunday At 10 a. m.
The formal opening of the ,new and moat modern Bath Heuse (Mikvah),. located at 960 E. Livington Ave., will take place this Sunday morning, June, 20, at 10 o'clock. Eabbis Leopold Green-wuld and Mordecai Hirschsprung will be the principal'speakers, Mr. C. H. Furraon, general cliairman, and Mrs. Juc(ib Schottenstein, preaident of the Taliaras Hamishpocha So¬ ciety, take this opportunity of in¬ viting the entiro Jewisli coranainity of Coluinbus and sui'i'ounding cities to'attend the opening ceremonies.
Public inspection will be held from U a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday.
Joseph Dulsky, past commander, of Capitol Post 122 of the Jewish War Veterans, -was unanimously elected* Ohio Department Com¬ mander of the J. W. V. at the final sessions pi;-the Ohio Department convention .held laat Saturday and Sundny in Columbus. Ho succeeds A, I. Hausman, of Cleveland. Dul¬ sky is a past commander of Navy Marino Post of American Legion and (lisp a past chef de gare of Columbus 40 and.S.of the Ameri¬ can Legion. Ho has be.en active in veteran affairs for many years and is looked upon as a guide and counselor on disability and hos¬ pitalization by hundreds of war 'veterarts.
other officers elected at tho convention, all without oppoaition '"were: Wm. Melyln, Cleveland, vice- commander; ,Max ,Gordo:s,: Akron, junior yice-commander; , Stanley Schwartz, Columbus, judge advo¬ cate; nnd Dr. J; Kosenfeld, Youngs¬ town, surgeon,
Eesolutions adopted at the con¬ vention include tho presentation of a petition to 'Governor Davey ask¬ ing for a probe- of Nazi, Fascist, 'nd Communist activities in Objo; "fRequest,of the atpte,legislature Si'fiiake Flag Bay a legal Jtoliday; ommending the preaident of the S^j S. for his plan and suggestion to-aid distrcsaed people in finding refugo and shelter in the U. S.j approval' of Secretary Ickes' re- fusal:to sell helium to Germany.
Among the state officers of the Ladies Auxiliary elected were: Mrs. Hilda 'Lessure, local auxiliary president, as atate chaplain; and Mrs. Clara Mellman, trustee; Miss Zelda Dulsky, musician.
At the banquet program held Sunday evening with .more than three hundred present Han'y Schaffer, national commander of J. W* v., made a strong plea for an agg5.essive Democracy program. Edgar Burinan, of Now Yorlc, na¬ tional vice commander, urged stronger efforts on the German boycott ' progi-,im and laadore Woirth, national, vice, commander from New Jersey, made a vigor¬ ous stand on foreign "isms".
other speakers wore Jamca SiAi-, state commander of American Le¬ gion; James, Hurd, Ohio Comman¬ der of Eainbow Division Veterans; 'Mrs. Malviria ' Freeman, national preaident pf Ladies Auxiliary of J. W. 'V-; Mayor Myron B. Gessa- man; Dr. Overton Mennet, of Los Angelea, ..national commander' of G. A. E. and .A. Levine, of Ohio Welfare Dept., representing the gpvernor of; Ohio.
.During the afternoon a picture was taken in front ot tho Civil War soldier monument on, the statehpttse grounds, with Harry Schaffer, -national, commander of J-. W. v., presenting a basket of beautiful .flowers tb national com¬ mander Mennet of the G. A. E.
The general comment of all dele¬ gates aiid guests . ijt the . Ohio J. W. V. convention waa thi^t this waa the finest state convention ever held >" O'l'"- . Plana are now being made for a large delegation 'to . attend tho national, convention in Detroit in September.
Qeneral Johnson Reveals
Attacks On Him For Stating
Je>te Didn't K1|I Jesus
NEW YOEK (WNS)—An asser¬ tion in pne pf his recent pyndicated columns that "Jeaua was lulled, not by tho Jewish people who adored Him, but by a Konian executioner at the auggeation. of the current palace lirain trust," haa drawn a barrage of attacks and criticism. General Hugh S. Johnaon revealed ill another^ column in which he re¬ peated the atatement and declared "there is in tliem nothing to. alter or retract."
ATLANTIC CItY (WNS)—De¬ claring that "social ideals aro the very warp and wopf of Judaism" and that"it should bo unthinkable that of all the, religipus prganiza- tions which are vocal on aocial re¬ construction, social security, social justice,* tho synagogue should bo silent," Dr.- David L'cfkowitz, Sr., of Dallas, Texas, told the 49 th an¬ nual meeting of the Central Cen- fercnco of American Eabbis that tlio synagogue must tako a definite stand on contemporary aoci,il prob¬ lems' arid that if "if it fails in its primo function it has. abdicated and deserves to bo the fifth wheel,in Jowish . communal life." Speaking on "The Primacy of the Synagogue —How It Can Bo Eeestablisbcd," Di:. Leflcowitz, ina ;5ymposium on tho synagogue and its place in Jewish, life and -its contemporary poaitipni asserted that the primacy of: the synagogue may yet bS re¬ trieved "if thoae who are .of the synagogue, whether Orthodox, ,Conservativo or Eeform, will rise above our adariitted religious dif¬ ferences toward a unipn of the aynagoguc's religious forces." '
Ho also urged that tho syna¬ gogues, through the Synagogue Council, should demand of the B'nai B'rith, the Jewish Cpngi'ess and the American Jewish Commit¬ tee that they join with the Coun¬ cil in a ^unified front "before: tho world, a;fourfold front from which the characteriatic religious organi¬ zation of the Jew shall not;'para- doxically be absent." Dr. Lefkow¬ itz also deplored the fact that many ,rabbis are "not receiving de¬ cent salaries.and that no prpvisipn is made for them in time of sick¬ ness or pld age. He urged that spmething be done speedily "to change matters in pulpit placing," recommending that promotions go "to those who by their record de¬ serve advancement," and the'stam¬ pede of applications be ended and that pulpit-plaping take into ac- cpnnt .the needi of a congregation and 'tlien- supply it with -a-^abb whose qualities are known to fit the situation.
The former president of the Con ference also urged hia colleagues to "demand"-^'that the¦:Conference
be recognized as at least equal with those other, groupa that speak for American Israel" and proposed that "a wholehearted pi-ocess of Publicity among our own congre- gatioha of the statements and de¬ cisions of the. Conference :should be, developed by the different com¬ mittees of tho - Conference," with "every Jewiah newspaper, every Jewish .opinion-forming agency" supplied "with official digests of Conference activities and studies and pronouncements." Dr. Lefko¬ witz said that the two ways of reestabliahing tha synagogue's pri¬ macy are by making.it "worthy and capable pf accepting the responai- bilities that go with primacy, e synagogue which, supplies .the needs of our people in the social and religious spheres, throiigh a lofty spiritual service arid, an cn- liglitened, free arid capable rabbin ate, and by ii vigorous insistence that the synagogue has the'right of repl'oseriting the Jewish people, haa tho right of directive influence and leadership aa of bid.''
Rabbi Bernard. J. Bamberger, of Albany, N. Y., in a paper on "Tho History, of the Synagogue.and Its Service 'to-the Jew," aaid that "with reference to the past, some¬ thing very definite is meant by tho 'primacy of the synagogue.' Phys¬ ically and spiritually, the syna¬ gogue was-the center pf an inclu¬ sive, well-knit,' autenpiripus and re¬ ligiously hompgenoua community." The synagogue may assume pr macy in contemporary .Jewish life, ho declared, "but if ii does, the form and character of auch' pri macy will he very different from what it was in the time past." *, * * National Organization
ATLANTIC CITY (WNS)—Or¬ ganization of a national federation of tho Jewish youth belonging to the 300 youth clubs affiliated with congrei;jations belonging to the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and ,the convening of a nationni convention of such clubs in. conjunction with the meeting of tho 36th Pouncll of the Union's executive committee. The ctecutivo coniraitlee also approved the formation of a federation et Rufprm temples in Metrppolitan New Ypi-k ioact as the representa¬ tive of Eeform Judaiam in that area iu all matters affecting re¬ ligipus, moral and conununal life.
Profoundly: disturbed by the ad¬ vance pfanii-.Scmitism thrpugliout the world: and .'^purred on by tho dosiro to establish democratic unity in the dofenso of Jewish rights, Amencan Jewry, under the auspices of thc American Jewish Congrc.'i,^, goes to tho polls thia week-end for the second time in its history, to rcgisfei- its views ia support of a new and nation-wide effort to bring about collective se¬ curity of tho Jewiah people. Begin¬ ning this Saturday evening, June 2.5th, and continuing throughout tho.day Sunday and Mondiiy, June 2Cth and 27th, hundreds of thoua- anda of Jews are, expected to go ,to tho polls to,elect 400 delegates to a Session of the American. Jowish Congress the function of which will bo todeviseia prpgram which Will prctect the rights, lives, prop¬ erty and future of Jows now jeop¬ ardized in so many sections of the world. The elections this week-end are .'the culmination of tt three mouth campaign to acquaint the Jewish community pfthis courtti'y with the rapid advance of anti- Semitiarii which has. already jeop¬ ardized the lives and the. future of 5,000,000 Je%vs in EaatBm and Central Europe, and which ia marching onward.
In 31S cities tjiroughont the United States, registration of Am¬ erican Jews for participation in this week-end's vote has been tak¬ ing place. It is expected-that the week-end's vote will be tho great¬ est popular demonstration of the desire of the Jewish masses in thia country to be identified with the defense of the rights of Jews. In 1917, when the first American Jewish Congress was established, 336,000 votes were caat by direct popular vote,. similar to the vote which will be taldng placo this week-end. It'is expected, however, that there.will.be a considerablb in- creaae io tho number of Jews who go to th'o polls on June 25th, 26th
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¦ The delegates to be eleoted this week-end havo been nominated by special conventions ..called for this purpose throughout the country, in which all Jewish organizations ¦were invited to participate. While the question scheduled to bo sub¬ mitted to a referendum vote of the Jews of America, which calls for the. establishment of one all-inclu¬ sive agency for tha ' defense of Jewiah rights, will be withdrawn, in view of the agreement reached in advance of the elections by the American' Jewiah Congress,' the] Ameriean Jewish Committee,; the Jewish Labor Committee, and the B'nai B'rith, voters afc the polls will elect delegates whose, immediate task.ivill be to devise a program for the: defense pf Jewish rights, representative'of thp.vieivpoint of the masses pf American Jewry, fpr the. consideration and joint action cf the new single bedy to be. set up as a result of the Pittsburgh con¬ ference.
Tho Session whichia to be aum- moned early in tho fall of the delegates elected- this w-eek-end, will formulate its viewa. after a full consulation of tho leaders of European Jewry i-epreaenting the communities most. profoundly' af¬ fected by the advance of anti- Seriiitisro: For tho .first time in the history of American :Je>vry, there will be held on American apil a conference of representatives of European Jewish communities, summoned at the invitation of the American Jewish Congress, which will tako plaee imriiediately in advance of the Sessipn pf the American Jewish Congreas. Euro¬ pean leadei's will be called upon to accurately describe the needs of Jewish life and to recommend the action to be taken by American Jewry, as tho largest and moat representative community in the world, to rehabilitate and render secure Jewjah life and existence abroad, This conference will take form of a meeting of the Adminis¬ trative  Committeo  of the' World
.TeWish.' Congress.
In addition to tlio largo com- mimity of Jews ^rinaffiliated with organizations, there stand behind tho. elections tho; membership' arid leadership of the following: Jewish national. organizations of ' thia country. Theso include: Federation of Polish Jews, Hapoel Haroizrachi, Independent Order Brith AlttShara, Order Brith Sholom, Jewish Na¬ tional Worker's Alliance, Mizrachi Organization, Order Spus of Zion, Pioneer Women's Organizatipri, Ppale Zion-Zeiro Ziori, Progressive Order of ths West, Union of Or¬ thodox Jewish Congregations of Americaj United Eonmanian Jews of America, Union of Orthodox Rabbia, Women's Division of the-' American Jewish Congress, Youth Division of tho' American Jevdsh Gongi'css, and the Zionist Organi¬ zation of America.
While Hadasaah pfficially ia not repreaented in the ' elections' throughout tha United States, ik membership' and chapters have been active in bringing heme to the Jewish community the neceaaity of democratic . deferise of Jewish rights. This is. equally trua of the Jewish'War Vetei:an3 :of the United States and, to soma degree, of the membership'of tha B'nai B'rith.
The registration of'Voters for participation in tho elections reached a new high, .and popular interest in the elections was dem¬ onstrated by the tremendous out¬ pouring of attendance at the mass Tallied and the open ait meetings held throughout tho United Statea during the past week. In New York City, as; elaewhera throughout tha cbunti-y, tha election canipaign was officially concluded with a tre- menduoua mass rally held last night. Tho New Yorfc rally was conducted at Carnegie HaU and was addressed by Dr. Stephen S. ¦ Wise, Louis .Lipsky, M. Mnldwin Fertig, 'and other distinguished speakers. Thousands wera'turned' away, unable to gain admisaion to -tlie ..'mestJng,.,place,. j;,r,..^,.w„^_^....,' American , Jewry ""goes to~^o"' pplls this -Week-end tvatched ivith sympathetic interest hy Americans pf all faiths, and witii hppa pf suc¬ cor by tha representatives ef the Jewish communities of Europe. The attitude pf Christian 'America is reflected in tho statements of support received from 202 : out¬ standing clerical and lay leaders, 142 members of the United States Congreaa, and 18 governors. From Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Lat> via, Belgium, France, Esthonia, Jugoslavia, Algeria and Palestine hava come messages to the Ameri¬ can Jewiah Congress expressing the hope that the "uplifted voice of tho American Jewiah Congress, clothed with the prestige of demo- . crjitic elections, will arouse the in¬ ternational conscience which, may finally mobilize all'proper means for ending the persecution of tha Jews-"
In Columbus, elections for dale- gates to the American Jewish Con¬ gress will ba held at the Agudatli Achim Synagogue this Saturday evening, (to-night) all day Sunday, Juno 20 and'on Monday evening, June 27.
to promote the aim of tho 33 Ee¬ form .congregations and their 50,. 000 members in that area and to serve as the fund-raising agency of tho Union in Metrppolitan Kew York. Metropolitan New.jYork waa defined aa. New York City, Weat- chester County and Kaaaau Cou-iity on Long Island. Creation of a pub¬ lic agency for the distribution .of information about Jewa and Juda¬ ism was also approved. A budget of ?203,82t for the fiscal year l'J38-8i) waa approved. -Last yeai- tho Union spent |101,8B3.
An Appreciation
Editor ' "
Ohio Jewjah Chronicla Columbus, 0.'
Dear-Sir:—
In behalf of the Ohio Department of Jewish War Veterans, I want to. expreas our sincei-e appreciation for tho fine spirit of cooperation rendered by the Ohio Jewish Chron¬ icle. Tjie Convention issue created an overwhelming comment by the out pf town delegates and visitors on tha fino publicity of our splen¬ did newapaper here. Thia' issuo of the Chronicle will be uaed as an exaraplo for other cities where state cpnv*ntiona take place.
As the commander of Capital Post 122 of J, W. V. I am voicing tho unanimous expression of all friends: of J'. :W. V. on tha fine publicity given , our , programs since the inception 'of thO'Mpcal post. Ypur newspaper has played a tremendpus influence in educat¬ ing the public on tho value, kima and (Pui'ppses of the Jewiah Way Vetei'ana. Again let me aay, thftt we are deeply appreciative of you? fine suppert.
Youra  most  cordially, ALLAN TAESHISH Commander of Capitol Post 182 '     Jewish War Veterans
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