Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1939-03-03

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Volnnic 18.   No. 11.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, PBIDAY, MARCH 3, IMO
I>evot«d to American and Jowlsh Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Every whore By PHINEAS J. BIHON
Coughlin Scored As Hational Menace By Educators
NATZO HOT STUFF
Now is the time to remind you of our favorite astrologer's pre¬ diction tliat it will be in Marcli that the fate of Europe will be decided . . . Everything depends upon how the democracies stand up to Hitler this month . . .If Britain and France show them¬ selves willing to fight for their principles the Nazis will have to hack down, for the German Gen¬ eral staff won't permit the suicidal war which would re¬ sult . . . The Army knows that the ersatz materials of which Adolf is so proud won't stand up under the strain of warfare "We're all for Hitler's new Idea of taking back to Germany such workers as don't like it in this country, and hope he'll soon have all our local Nutzls . . Those who have already left— only a couple o£ dozen so far, -unfortunately—apparently know -what lies ahead of them, for ¦ «ven before sailing they were afraid to open their mouths in the presence of reporters ... So many American holders of de¬ faulted dollar bonds of German corporations have sued, won their cases and collected (as the •companies have assets in this •country) that some of these cor¬ porations are now offering to resume small' interest payments •, m an endea-^^or to forestall fur- ^.fM.,4hfs«..isnits.' ,..«--•¦.i.--' ™,r.—,-„..^,
Tip to Adolt, Hitler: Carl Schui'z, after whom one of the Berlin groups with the aim of Introducing Nazism into the IJ. S. is named, was forced to leave Germany in 1S48 because of his efforts in behalf of democ^ racy . . . One of his lifelong friends, incidentally, was a Dr. Abraham Jacobi ... It wasn't for asking German students In the U. S. to act as spies that Georg Rettig was dismissed as director of the American branch of the Berlin studerit exchange system .. , If- was for being heavy-handed enough to be found out.. .Keep your weather eye on Governoi: Julius Heil of Wisconsin . . . Anyone who will stress in a public speech that lie is particularly happy to be addressing a Christian audience, and express the hope that this country will soon have what he calls a "Christian government," sounds bad to us , . . We expect him to start a "Hei! Heil" move¬ ment any day now . . . Father Coughlin is preparing a blast against prominent newspaper scribes who have criticized him . . . He's going to point out that they don't belong to the Catholic faith. WE'RE TELLING YOU
Henry ,C. Wolfgang, one of the founders of the German Bund, has been convicted of forgery . . . Which, reminds us of the old adage about birds of a feather . . . For instance, Fritz Julius Kuhn, fuehrer of the Bund, ia suspected of being the same Fritz Julius Kuhn who was Im¬ prisoned here during the World War for espionage . . . Aside to Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Ambassa¬ dor to Germany, now in this country; Why don't you open up Instead of behaving as if you had to go back to Germany? . ... A subterfuge that would destroy the efficacy of the anti-Nazi boycott will come before the U.S. Customs Court in April ... An importing firin has discovered that it's cheaper to import Pas-
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DETROIT (WNS) — Charging Father Charles B. Coughlin with "vending lies and misinforma¬ tion" and declaring that his radio addresses provided "an almost perfect example of the propaganda technique by which Hitler rose, to power in Ger¬ many," the Rev. Leon M. Birk¬ head, founder and director of the Friends of Democracy, urg- the Catholic church to excom¬ municate Coughlin as one of the world's worst trouble-mak¬ ers. Speaking before members of the Progressive Education As^ sociation meeting in Detroit Rev. Birkhead told his listeners that CoughUn ivas America's leading "anti - democratic propagandist and a national menace" whose preachings should be repudiated in public school classrooms. Dr. Clyde H. Miller, secretary of the Institute for Propaganda Anal¬ ysis, agreed that Father Cough¬ lin was the outstanding force threatening to divide the Ameri¬ can people and prepare the way for dictatorship. The members signed a "manifesto of educa¬ tors" calling for teachers of the nation to combat the threat of Fascism to academic freedom,, scientific truth and democracy.
FIELD   SECRET ABY   TO
ADDRESS I/OCAL  C.J.W.
NEXT  TUESDAY
Celebration Simday
Tells, Stpry ol Esther
The story of Esther will bring new hope to Jews throughout the world on Purim, the Feast of Lots, which this year falls on March 5.
'The legend of .the Persian girl who at the risk of her life ap¬ proached a King to acquaint him with the plight of her people, has a message for this day of renewed persecution of the Jews.
According to the story, which is read from a Scroll in the Syna¬ gogue on : Purim, a Persian despot Ahasucrus, was under the influence of a courtier, named Haman. Because Haman had p difference with an individual Jew, he sought to persuade his master to destroy all the Jewish people. Secretly. Haman was plotting to seize the throne for himself.
Mordecai, a pious Jew, tried to tell the King of Haman'a plots, The King's ear was not open to Mordecai.
Esther, the daughter of Mor- decai'a uncle, was selected for the King's harem. She resolved to carry the message of the plot against the King and her people to the ruler.
When the plot was revealed, Haman received the punishment that he had planned, for the Jews. Mordecai was given a place of honor in the Court.
This deliverance from the forces of intrigue and injustice is the keynote of the Purim festival. Throughout the ages it has brought a message of cour¬ age to upholders of Jewish tra¬ dition.
In addition the holiday coniing in the mbnth of Adar at the close of the winter season "is a harbinger of spring, It is cele¬ brated by carnivals, feasts, games and plays.
Miss   Dora   Tannenbanm
Miss Dora Tannenbaum, field secretary of the National Coun¬ cil of Jewish Women, will ad¬ dress the Columbus section of the Council at their regular monthly meeting which will be held next Tuesday, at 2 p. : at the Bryden Rd. Temple. A social hour and tea will follow her talk.
Miss Tannenbaum has had a long professional career in so¬ cial work since her graduation from Columbia University. She h4s been associated with such outstanding Jewish organiza¬ tions as the Hebrew Sheltering and ' Guardian , society of New Yorlt,. th& irene'Saufman Settle- m^tit of Pittsburgh, the Jevvish Community Center, Jersey Oity, and the Jewish Social Service Bureau of Chicago. ,
Her Jewish background com¬ prises of special" work at the well known Teachers' Institute of J^ew York and a four years residence in Palestine. She has also traveled widely through Europe, the Near East, and South American countries, where she has studied conditions of the Jewish population there.
Immediately after her return to the U.S., Miss, Tannenbaum became the field representative for the Women's Division of the Joint Distribution Committee in Brooklyn, She'joined the staff of the National Council of Jew¬ ish Women in the summer of 1937. Her work will take her throughout the Uhited States making field stiidie.s and ap¬ pearances ^before Council- sec¬ tions with whom she will dis¬ cuss national programs and com¬ munity activities.
During her visit in the city Miss Tannenbaum Will meet with the Council board Tuesday morn¬ ing.   ,
New YORK (WNS)—Percy W. Bridgman, one of the world's highest rahking scientists, and professor of Mathematics and Natural Histoiy at Harvard, University, announced that his laboratory will be closed to visitors from totalitarian states and th^t he lylU hot show his apparatus or discuss his experiments with them. A "manifesto" in the current issue of "Scierice" out¬ lines his protest which says in part: "Many scientists must have heen profoundly disturbed by the revelations of recent events as to what the implications of the totalitarian jphllosophy ot thfe state really are. Thdre would seem not to be room on the same planet for totalitarian states and states in which the freedom of the in¬ dividual is recognized. Perhaps the only hope in the present situa¬ tion is to make th6 citizens of the totalitarian states realize as vividly and as speedily as possible how the philosophy of their states impresses and affects the rest ot the world."     ''
PRINCETON (WNS) — ^Vhile
Seek to Overcome Matzo-Baldng Ban in ISeich'
JEWISH INFANTS' HOME
The Board and kiddies bl the Jewish Infants' Home of Ohio are deeply grateful for a dona¬ tion of juvenile furniture from Mrs. Meyer Ginsburg.
PARIS (WNS)—Reports from Germany reaching here indicate tliat the making of matzoh for the Passover holidays has been prohibited and that the importa¬ tion of matzoh from'America will be banned. Jewish organiza¬ tions here received an appeal from,Vienna atatiJig that local autliorities, in,' ev^rs part bf Austria, had prohibited bakiiig of matzoh and urging Jewls*h or¬ ganizations • abroad to send in matzoh lest Austrian Jewry go without it for the first time in its history next April. In Ger¬ many proper, not a single bakery is permitted to operate thus making it impossible to bake matzoh for the first time since Hitler's regime came to power. Jewish organizations in Paris lost no time in attempting to find means of providing Reich Jewry with unleavened bread with the expectation that Jew¬ ish organizations in the United States, and elsewhere will help in providing funds since Reich Jews,are not permitted to spend foreign currency. Parallel with the matzoh problem, Reich Jewry is facing a meat problem for Passover since kosher slaugh¬ ter is prohibited.
Alex Schoenbaum Presented With A.Z. A. Trophy
Alex Schoenbaum, left tackle on last year's Ohio State grid squad, was presented with scroll and solid-gold football by the local chapter of A. Z. A. in collaboration with the Ohio Jewish Chronicle and the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, last Sunday at Schonthal Center, Alex was selected on the Jew¬ isli All-Amerlcan football team for 1038. Advisor Dave Gold¬ smith, serving as toastmaster, made the presentation of both the scroll and medal.
A dance and floor show con¬ cluded the evening's program which was witnessed by at least
LEAGUE OP NATION'S EXTiUNDS AID TO SUDETEN REFUGEES
GENEVA (WNS) — Extention to Sudeten refugees of protection of the Provisional Agreement of July 4, 1936, and the Interna¬ tional Convention of February 10,1938, was made by the League of Nations m accordance with a decision of the Council at its January session. Secretary-Gen¬ eral Joseph C. Avenol circulated League members with a memor¬ andum of Sir Herbert Emerson, High Commissioner for Refu¬ gees, regarding extension ot the agreements. Following receipt of replies. Sir Herbert will draft a report for the September ses¬ sion ot the Assembly.
DEPOR'C REFUGEES
¦VIENNA (WNS) — A group of forty Jews, who had taken refuge in Hungary and had been compelled to return by Hun¬ garian authorities, reached the frontier and were sent to con- sixty out-of-towners wlio attend-1 centration camps. Similar groups ed the Columbus basketball con- have been trickling back in re- efave. (-cent days, totaling about 100.
Professor Bridgman's ban was received with mixed feelings at Harvard, it received the full sup¬ port'of Dr. Christian Gauss, dean of the college ot Princeton Uni¬ versity, who upheld the right of American scientists to ban citi¬ zens of the dictator nations from their laboratories.
CAMBRIDGE (WNS) — Dr. George Sarton, historian ot science at Harvard, supported the ban and disclosed at Cam¬ bridge that "for some mOnthp" he had been doing . the samia . i thlnfe. Professor W, B, HocWng, f;
•of, the  ¦p'hiiomina]^'i!Kpmra»i^^Si'f^;ii^4iw^i ft m»aii,'iStvbie.itWe baa be-       •' ¦ dause it "has attacked a real ' problem, one side of which Js particularly menacing as it re¬ gards Japan."
Cornell Head Speaks
BUFFALO (WNS)—The tend¬ ency of political leaders to fol¬ low instead of to lead constitutes a real threat to American democ¬ racy in the opinion of President Day of Cornell University speak¬ ing at the University of Buffalo. "No government dominated by pressure groups and propaganda is likely to serve the purposes of common justice and public well- being, and no democracy is likely to live durably that is hot bless¬ ed with a wise, fearless and un¬ selfishly devoted public leader¬ ship," said President Day. He believes that in the expansion programs of dictators there is a real threat to America and that counter-propaganda is essential in combatting totalitarian actlvl- ity here.
Dr. Dodds Plonds
PRINCETON (WNS) — "The chief obligation of college in¬ struction in the social studies is the development ot the capacity and the will for peaceful change, the proving that democracy is the only form of government specifically designed to assure that such change will be without violence and will follow pfderly processes," Dr. Harold W- Dodds, president of Princeton Univer¬ sity, addressing 400 students at the annual midwinter meeting of the Princeton National Alum¬ ni Association.
Thomas Manu
NEW YORK (WNS) — Dr. Thomas Mann, exiled German writer and lecturer, sti-essed the importance of keeping freedom alive by a miUtant democracy. This challenge to the American people was expressed because "today democracy is shamelessly exploited by those vfho call it a forerunner ot Communism," ac¬ cording to Dr. Mann, who de¬ clared that the fight against Jews  by  dictator  slates   is  an
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