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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER POF, THE JEWISH HOME
yohinid XVII—No. 236
COLUMHUS, OIIJO, JULY'l, 19,38
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Stnctiy ConKidlentia!
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Tho Gormana wero thero in full jjorco nt tho LouiB-Schmclinjj fight ,„..Thoy felt sure that tlieir Max vroidd vrin....Had not lho Fuehrer oonij a telCRram to Schmeling atl- drceaing hira as tho new world's champion 7... .Adolf surely   know
¦what ho 'was doing Next to ua
sat a group of Nn7.is -who had <omo from Germany oapcclaliy for tho fight....'When Schmeling hit Louia—tlio only hlow ho landed, a otrnifrht right to tho jaw—thoy jumped up and applauded. ."Wo Diust help our man," they said in fGlorman "and givo him our sup¬ port",,,,., .'Wo'll novor forgot the ficono when Schmeling was declared hcatcn.,,.There was a Nazi girl in tho group... .Sho stared through hor field glaB.TC3 at tho motionless body of her Max, and tlio oxpres- bton on her faco hespolto a hope¬ less hope that it was all just a barrihlo rightmoro.i.,Her com¬ panion was a husky, confident, typ¬ ically German exocutivo.. .Before tho fight he had heen loudly talk¬ ing about' "die Judqn und die Niggers".... Afterwards he ant like a man -who has suddenly heen electrocuted.. j ,It couldn't havo happened .... Schmeling was an Aryan, and Louis only ti "dumb nigger".,,.And then, as it do'wn- «d upon these'Nazis th^t it was true, that it actually had happened here—^when.they.he^ird ttic shrieks of joy from tho Louis,supporters alt around thcm^then all of tho Nazis collnpaed on their seats And these proud Mordipa suddenly wero transformed into li^menting ' mortals, and jn lunlaon they cried out: "Unaer MaxI ynser Moxl Die
- Juden haben Ihn vcrgiftet' (the Jews poisoned him) !"*.'..
FOREIGN MATTER
,ThB Archiv fifer Biologio  und
Bassengeaellachaft,  ap   iiitport^nt
Nazi' journal,   recently   had   nn
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' Irotti tho point o:E -racial aolcctign
and-BOcial hygiene",.,,Tho  idea
' 'being to pick non-Aryan 'targeta,
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.  Liechtenstein ond tho Republic of
Haiti are making chunks of dough
- at littlo op no cost hy selling pass¬ ports to European political refu-
' sees at 'anywhere up' to $1,509 per..*,Strange to say, the tiny European Eepublic of Andorra has refused to dip into this gravy.,',. ITricnds of Count It, N, Condcn- hove-ICaiergi, half-Japaneae )iead of iho Pan-Kurops movement and th6 author of an important work on anti-Sbmitism,' are worried aboui him, as nelth'o'r he nor his Jewiah wife, -tlid formor actress Ida B611and, havo. been heard from since   the   Hitler   occupation   of
Austria Many   missing   mein
hers of the niisafqn Whito Guard colony in Paris arc rcptjrtcd to havo turned up in Germany ns ¦' guards and ovcraccrs in Nazi con¬ centration ' camps ,'., lyiiich re¬ minds us that one of^ Europe's keenest foreign correspondents haa informed his intimates that hack ¦ of tho new Nazi terror in Ger¬ many ia Hitler's fear of a rising tido of dlasatiefaction with his regime in Gormany,.. ,Tf you read tho reports of tho Berlin outrages earjfuUy you got' «' hint of this through the brief references to^rc- eistanco against tho anti-Jewish excesses on tho< part of apme' Ger¬ man Aryans,.., ¦ . , NAZI NOTES
Keep your eyes peeled fop aome explosive rcvc^atiopa linking n number of Americans to tho Nani spy ring,...It's moio than a coin¬ cidence that every Nazi camp nnd every branch of tlio German- American Bund, are li>cutcd un¬ comfortably near, a United States array ba3e,-flyl"ng field, aviation factory or navy yard,,,.Did you Bee where tho Jersey Journal, publfshed in Hague's Jersey City, branded Uncle Sam's charges sgainst tho Nwl spies as some¬ thing that "sounds fantastic" and Bough* to pooh-pooh the whole basiaeas?,...If you read a report that a New Tfopfc h«wycr by tho name of Cohen acted us counsel for ths Germnn-Amorican League, a HAiil outfit, you ought to know thati Cohen is employed by the law Klria oi; Iteeves, Tloii, Gilley and ^satty, which haa buuii counac] to the League since beforo it tell tmder Nmi 6woy,.,.riUl you got axclted over the ad in thu piililic notices column of the New Yoik Times leading "0. K. tllUer"?..,. Iii was put in by agienti of the (Continued on f)it(/e S}
HERLIN (WNS)—.Tcwkii en¬ slavement a*, tho imnds of Nazi taakmasLora loomed as a dread possibilily for Gorman Jewry when Field Marahall Goering iaaucd a new und awccpini^ decree introduc¬ ing universal short-loriii labor cun- loriptlon for all cilizcna and Ger¬ man '*Rtate momhcrH" rcgaidlesa of race, creed, sex or preaent occupa¬ tion. Effective July Isl, the decree specifically nppliCs not only to Keich citizens hut to "state mem¬ bera," which meana Jowa. In view of Propognnda Miniater Goebbela' announcement of impending meaa- urea to ellmlnatp all Jews from Berlin and other big cities, .Tewiah leaders here feared that Jewa will he forced into involuntary labor of tho hardeafc and in^st; menial aort as their nnccalora werein Egypt when they madQ brick*? for the pyramids of iPharoahj
Legal measures to rid Germany of Jews arc being drafted. Propa¬ ganda Minister Joseph Goebbels told a cheering crowd of 1'20,0U0 assembled in tho Olympic Stadium for the annual summer solstice ex¬ ercises, While disapproving of the anti-Jewiah mob violence, he prom¬ ised "wa will SCO to il that legal measures aro taken so that soon Jcv/B will have gone altogether. ¦\Vo vrill mako a law that will see to it that .Tews disappear from Berlin very soon." In disowning mob action against Jew.s, Goebbels declared "I am for solving this problem by means of legal regula¬ tions iasued by the party arid state not by action 'in the street," and added that' while he had a full understanding of the fact that tho Berlin fcopulation is. taking meaa- ures'for its defonae "I do not ap¬ prove of the method."
Continuing in the same vein, Goebbels paid "v;e have completed a revolullon^bu't now we find that tbe Jews today feel themacivca bet¬ ter off nnd spread themselves even more than they dared before. Is il not cnougli to d,rive a blufh of anger into our faces when we real¬ ize that 3,000 Jev-ra have como to Berlin during tho 'last four months? What do they ¦\\ant hero? What will wc auy to thc fact that Jews are again loitering around the cafes ns if there had not heen nny revolution. When wp dpfcnd
If itlcr Himself Ordered
Anti-Jewish    Gxccsses
LONDON (WNS) — Hitler himself ordered the nnti-Jcwish oxccsscs of the past fortnight in order to revenge liimself on the holplcaa ,Tews for his failure in, Czcchoalovnkia, the well-inform¬ ed Mancheater Guardian report¬ ed on the basis of reliable in¬ formation.
At the aario timo hp "invited" critics of Nazi anti-Scmiti^n toi take'tho Jews, "Wo Will willingly give them to their friends in Lon¬ don and Paris," he'paid, "and morc- .<iv8V-.wo ..TEJll dellvCT theoX;>at £ho frontier. Let the Jews "take French leave 'and "go to -London, where, thoae who praiae them may pack them in cotton, but let them leave J13 in peijcc," While repudiating un¬ authorised anti-.Tewiah' measures, he "aaid '"it is a good thing we now Imow what concerns are Jew¬ iah. Juat let the, Jews clean their stores—^now we know where their businesses arc. Wc will sec to it that -legal measures are taken so that poon Jews will have gone al¬ together,^ Aa far -as those remain¬ ing aro concerned, let them re¬ member lo keep out of the public view, I They aro beginning to be a nuisance. If the foreign press in¬ vokes our human feeling, why, we will bc glad to present th'e Jews to thom. If pcople«say, .'why thc Jev;B aren't doing anything', I say they provoke us by their very presence. What do wc care about foveigh   countries   anyway 1   The
ourselves against this provocative atliUide' of international Jewry other countries begin to agitate aguinat ua. I knov,r that hy saying this I merely intensify the bad reputation I enjoy in the foreign press. But that is not the issue so long aa I serve my country."
Meanwhile, sporadic incidents of painting' of Jewiah shops with of¬ fensive slogans continued. It was reported that a gong of young Nazis invaded the Jewish manual training school in the Pankow dis¬ trict of Berlin and after smashing windows nnd furniture forc6d some of the students to amear neigh¬ boring Jcwiah stores with anti- Semitic signs. From the Buchen- wald concentration camp, where most of the thousands of JeWs ar- reslcdi in recent roundupa have bccn-bent, it was learned tliat -Dr, Max Leopold had •I>e<l, Beliable reports, infifcated that one. of .the imminent anti-Jewiah measures would he the forced sale of all Jowish-owned properties after tlie completion of, the ju'operty regis- tration. Proceeds of ihc sale would bo converted into a property jiool "which would bec'omo available ,to the. government for financing its four-year plan., Jewish , property- owners would be paid off in now" bonds carrying a low rate of in¬ terest. .     '
• Large' numbers of American Jews, resident h^rc have already registered their property in ac¬ cordance w.ith thc Goering decree. Acting on advice .of. counsel thoy have aecompanicd their reports with affidavits declaring that tbey register under protest since as American citizens- they are pro¬ tected by the German-American treaty of commerce and "friend¬ ship, 'she dccre'p as'recently amend¬ ed oicpijiipta only foieiglj Jews who
Eyes 01 World Jewry Turn To Refugee Aid Conference
EVIAN-LES-UAINS (WNS)— Tho oyes of world Jewry nnd of all oiheri seeking a solution for the critical problem of racial and political icfugccs from the author¬ itarian lands of Europo turned to¬ ward this famous French roaori; town oil the southern ahoie of Lako Geneva across the - border from Switzerland aa tho reprcaentntives of 32 nations gathered iiere for tho opening on July Cth of the in- ter-governinental conference or aid to' refugees wiiich was con¬ vened on tiio invitation of Presi¬ dent liooacvelt. Key^^ligurca nt tho confci'cnce will bc Myron C. Taylor, official American delegate, and Jamca G. McDonald, formor League of Nations High Co'mmissioner for German Eefugeca, who ia chairman of tho American adviaory commit¬ tee. England is represented" by Earl Wlnterton, former under¬ secretary -for India, and Charlea M. Palairct, former minister to Sweden. > Senator Henri Berenfcer, former ambassador to tho United Statea, ia the official French apokcaman. The other coun¬ triea repreaented by accredited del¬ egates aro Holland, Switzerland) Denmark, Norway, Sweden, - Cana-i da, Australia, South Africa, Bel¬ gium, Argentine, Brazil, Chilc> Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, 'Ven-j ezula, Ecuador and the six repub¬ lics of tentral America. Italy; alone of the nations ihvited by President liooacvelt refused to participate. >'
Present as ohs'ervera and repre- aentativca of tho persecuted Jews in Central and Eaatern Europe who arc looking hopefully to the con¬ ference fop relief are officials of a score of Jewish and non-Jewish relief organizations, all of whom have prepared detailed memoranda, for submisaion to   thc   delegates.
The major proposals being urged
Abramaon Elected Delegate to A. J. C.
Of tho 1700 reglateiod, moro than fiOO members ot the local ,Tewiah community voted in thu na¬ tion-wide American .Icwiah Con¬ greaa poll hero over last week-end nnd eleet^d Dr, B, W. Abrnmaon, 139 S. Granl-av,, ai tlieir delcgiite to the Congreaa, to bo hold iu New York City cnily in September. Uuvcn Groenbcig, 890 S. 22iid-3l, was choaen altoi-natp.
On Sept. a in Now York the ad- miniatrativo committco of the World JcwJ'ih Congreaa, repreaent- ing Jowa of 32 countries, will meet prior to the extraordinary session of the American Jewish Oongrcaa. The decisions of the first meeting will bo submitted for guidance to tho "World Jewish Congress.-
Tbo referendum to havo been voted upon over the past week-end was not submitted upon an agree¬ ment mado nt the Pittsburgh con¬ ference held Juno 20 by thc fol- lov/ing four -organizations who voted to co-ordinate forces on nucations relating to safeguarding' tho equal righta of Jews: American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith, the Jowish Labor Committee, and American Jewish Congreaa.
Seminary Urged to Set Fund-Raising Chests ToAidUPAandJDC
world sliould leave us alone; \t'o I Iivo abroad but Jews resident here are not harming anybody." 1 must register their property..
NKW YORK (WNS)—Testify ing under "oath" for tho first time regarding the alma of the German- American Bund, Fritz Kulm, ita na. tional leader, told a stale legi.s!a- tive comhiittco inquiring into Nazi activities that "all the Je'ws are enemies of the'United States," tlmt "60 of the -American public officials shown in Who's Who are .Jews,"  that  the -Bund  aims  "to
build an Aryan , movement under
upon the conference by the infer^" 'H swastika ttf liberate America
-¦"'"' 1-^Bring jifca-fi™™ .^'i''  Jews," that tho Bund
EnglETid, to5-4v4!(: j5^.;(i^ot.co=Eitlcr-"tha-Jev/ .a's''-ilrt
Ameriean" or- "aa  a man," that
ested groups-are; 1—^Bring v^es^ .atire, to--bcar upon tlie curbs on Jewish immigratibn to. Palestine; 2—negotiate with Germany io allow Je\va and other emigrants to take aome of their capital with them; 3—aponaor an international loan for financing aettlement of refugees; 4—^Find 'means of prevailing upon certain countries to facilitate.immigration without -changing existing immi¬ gration quotaa^and regulations; 5 —allow refugees to settle perman¬ ently and work in the countries where they now reside.
An unconfirmed report report current among the early arrivals for the conference stated that the United States would propoae tliat the conference regard aa refugees not only thoae who have already left Geiman!^ and Austria but all who want to leave and that plana be made accordingly. Tho Ameri¬ can suggestion, it is saidi would in¬ clude "all eventual refugees who for political or religious reaaona would wish or be obliged to leave the Eeich."
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ATLANTIC, CITY (WNS)—A study of tho growing anti-Semitic Attitude in the Negro preaa and among a large segment of the Negro people was urged upon thc ^I n 10 r-Hiicial Commission in a icaolution .idopted by the Central Conference of American Ilabbia. Acting upon tlie report of thc So¬ cial Juatice Commission presented by Rabbi Jlarnett B. Brickner ot Cleveland,'the Conference deplored tho failuio of Congress to paaa ihe Federal anti-lynching bdl, "ivaf- firmod its previous''st'and in favor of it, jOxpresbed sympathy to the Negrpcs in. their fight for equal rights which "is intimately bound up with tjio fight for equal righta for all groups and for democracy itaelf," called attention to "the proverbial fiiendship of our people for tho coloitid race," emphasized that Jews "have no dchiro to ex¬ ploit or hati) ony other people" but "seek rather to'work with all who aro racially oppressed for the ending of rueial antagonism," ex- prcsHud "paui" that u "lai'gt segniant of Negro press and poopU havo pfiniiitted Ihemselvea to lie viclinii,;ed by the propagaiuU of vicious uiiti-Hejiiites whose only purpose is to dctlccl the Negro from his real ('au.se l,y the jiiUo- ductutu of Ittrlrti untugouiaiu," and urged lho loter-Rncial Corami.^i>ion to utuJy th,i [iKibleni "with a view
to finding a remedy for it.''^
Other resolutions condemned "the siipprcs.sion of thc traditional American rights of free aaaembly and free, speech in Jersey City" and other parts of the country; commended the .Congressional in¬ quiry inio subversive propaganda; reaffirmed tho "right of the rahbi to voice his considered opinion on social fjueatious" and called upon congl'ogationa "lo reapec^' tho right of the rabbi in exercising what seems to him to be hia moral duty"; approved the appointment of a committee of five to come to the aid of the Conference'a mem¬ bera who may "by reason of their cburagcoua espousal of ethical or icligious principle" hnvo come into difficultiea in their congicgu- tions; called for a thorough Fed¬ eral study of the unemployment problom, maintenance- of tbe prea¬ ent piogram of work relief and a Federal program of vocational re¬ training; urged acceptance of col¬ lective bargaining principles upon capital and labor, a renewal of peace ettoits between llie A. F. «t L, aiKl Ihe C. .1, O.; attacked eco¬ nomic clibcrimiuatiou Iiy Jews again:,t .li-tts und numeious clau-iua policlea againsl Jewiah students iu universities.
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Secy. Hu!! Assails Race Hatred Abroad
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE (WNS)—A thinly veiled rehuluj to thc racial intolerance prevalent: in European lands was made by Sec¬ retary of .State HullMn an address at exercises here making the SOOtii anniversary of the landing of the lirst Swedca and Finns at Dela¬ ware. Aildressing an audience that included Crown Princess Louise of Sweden and lier son, Prince Bertil, Hull said "at a time when preju¬ dice, hatred and violence are Uli-^ happily still all too prevalent and when the resources of civiU-jsation give such pgwer to these evil in¬ fluences as to threaten the very destruction of civill'^allon itaelf, thc world needs men Aud nations devoted tp the principles of tolor- anco,-fiieiulship and justice."
Paying tribute to Sweden ami Finland for their tolerance and peace-loving Berv"ices, Secretaiy of State Hull declared the woi'lil "needs men and nations able to meet their most difficult problems with calin- iica;», reasonableness and cohimon aenae—men and nations btrong enough lo command re¬ spect for their own legitimate rights and ttspiratiuns—< tolcmnt, aelf-restiained, juat und wise enough to reapuet tlie legjtiiimlo lights and aspirations of othera." The aabuinliled diplomats und other notables sa'-v in the remarks of thc Secietary of State pointed rcfer- encea to Nazism and to Hitler and iUutiolini,
as a man, 'Jews are Je\vg first before they are Americans," and that the Hit¬ ler salute "is the coming salute for tho wholo United Stales." In the eourae of a five-hour slay pn tho witneaa atand ICuhn alao aaid that tho Democratic snd Republi¬ can parties nre controlled by the Rothachilds through Kuhn, Loeb & Company and the Warburg that J. P, Morgan and Thomas Lament havo Jewish blood, that tho anti- Nazi boycott was dictated to Sam¬ uel Untcrmyer by Moacov,', and that JewB are the master minds behind the Communist leaders in Ainerica.
Under grilling by -Senator John J. McNabee, chairman of the committee, Kuhn aaid the Bund has Oi branches, 22 summer camps, four newspapers and a bdsineaa men's league. Ilo testified that he geta no salary as head of the Bund but receives .$.3,0Q0 a year aa liead of the German-American Buai- ncaamen's League, which was or¬ ganized to combat the anti-Nazi boycott. He also identified a pic¬ ture of himaelf and Hitler taken 1036 on a visit to Gormany, charged that Germans are being purged" from their jobs in this country only because thoy are Germans and claimed that "we do net srty anything against the Jews."
Jaraca Wheelcr-Hil], 33-yeai'-old secretary of the Bund, who spoke with a heavy German accent although he claimed to have-been born in San Francisco of an Eng¬ lish father and Russian mother, both of whom wwe killed during tho Russian revolution, told thc probers the organisation had no connection with Germany, that he would resign his job "if there was any dictation from Germany" and that in tho event of a war between Germany and tho United States he would fight for the latter even to the extent of defending American Jowa. Wheeler-Hill alao testified that the organization tias 26 branches in New York State and that niemberahip dues are 5 cents a month. After aasei'ting that tho Build sought to uphold the Bill of Right.-! und tho Coiibtitution, the Nazi leader insisted that tho al¬ leged Jiolicy was conaisteut with thc Bund's program uf Aiyanism and niiti-Souiitisiii. Grilled on llie Bund's propaganda linking Jews to Cominuniain, Wlieoler-Hill adiuittcd that the lop Icudeia of the Com¬ munist Parly aro non-Jews and conceded that nevertheless the Bund emphaiii'ses llial Commuiiiot is synoiiymoui with Jew. Aakcil (Continued on page i)
TANNEllSVILLB, N. Y. (WNS) Organization by the Jewiah The¬ ological Seminary of America of local synagogue fund-^rnlsing cheat.'! from among tho congregations served by ita own graduates for tho purpoao of rai'^ing supplemental funds for such overseas agencies a'! the United Palestino Appeal and the Joint Distribution ComraittCL' and to bring pressure on local federations for more generous ap¬ propriations to Jewiah education, waa recommended by Babbi Ben Zion Bokaer in a report of tho sem¬ inary committee, laid before the [ISfch convention of tbe Rabbinical Assembly of America. The repoit urged that tho seminary aa well oa other institutions of Jev/ish re¬ ligious education "re-define their function aa being not merely schools dedicated to academic re- aearch but as inatitutions charged with practical leadership in Jew¬ ish life."
To thia end the report propoaed that tlie Seminary establish an in¬ formation aervice to make available to Jew and non-Jew alike any in¬ formation desired nbout Jewish life; publiah a series of popular tracla on specific problems in the history, sociology and religion of Jewish life; sponsor periodic con¬ ferences by Seminary leaders in local eommiRiitica; and publiah a magazine on a .popular yet high cultural level ",that will present an intelligent statement of Juda¬ ism in its broadest sense." Ee- porling fortho committeo on Pal¬ eatine, Ilabbi Abraham M. Heller suggested that the Zionist Organi¬ zation of Amorica amend its con¬ stitution to permit group mem¬ bership with proscribed responsi¬ bilities and privileges by syna¬ gogue congregations. Dr. Robert Gofflis, in reporting for the social justice commisaion, urged all niem- bers of the Aasembly to set aside ono designated Sabbath for the dis- cus5)0n'-of-"5omo-iiuesti6m' of social significance from the standpoint of Judaiam,, ,
The committee on' Jewiah law, through Ilabbi JuUus Greenstone, reported that it had decided not to proceed for the present with the work of implementing the resolu¬ tion adopted at a foi'mer convention regarding Dr, Louis Epstein's pro¬ poaed solution of tlie Agunah (de¬ serted wifc)\ problem because of oppoaition within the committee and the refusal of Prof, Louis Ginzberg to expreas a definite opinion on-tho propo.aaI. Referring to specific questions presented to it, the committee reported inabil¬ ity to arrive at a concensus of opinion on ivhether a Jew who married a Gentile niay be per¬ mitted io retain his membership in a, Jewish congregation; decided that it waa not pcrmiaaable to disinter a body in order to bury it in another cemetery in a recently acquired family plot unleaa such •plot had already been in existence and contained bodie^ of membera of the family at the time of death. Tbe committee nlao reported that "certain large principles in Jewiah law , , . cry for revision" but atated that it had not the right to deal with them lightly.
In his presidential ^ meaaage; Kabbi Simon Greenberg of Phila¬ delphia, referred to the lecent unity pact of the four major national Jeivish organizations and declared that ''no group can be truly representative of the Ameri¬ can Jewiah community which does not include within it representa¬ tives of the organized rcligioua lite of our people." He aaid. hia po- bition in thia matter was not to inject a diacordant noto but to check "tho dangerous tendency to (Continued^on page .J)  •
V/orkers Aro .Rallying to the Support of Local
Leaders In Their Effort to Reach Goal hj July
15th; Dire Needs of Important Jowish Jii.'
stitutious Are Outlined by Chairmen;
Past Record of Columbus Jewry
Must Bo Upheld
Columbus Jewry last Tueaday night, at tbe Winding Hollow Country Club, again demonstrated ita willingncaa to uphold its out¬ standing reputation in all move¬ ments dedicated to public veal and that it is fully alive to ita great responsibilities to Jewish life both at homo and abroad. Everyone of some 125 who wero present at the dinner which launched thia year's United Jewiah Fund Campaign for $52,600 were atirred by tho mea aagca of E, J. Schanfarber nnd Simon Lazarus, At lho concluaion of tho meeting, whieh waa con- apieious by the abaence of out of town speakers and shirp and im¬ perative orders, total subscrip¬ tions revealed substantial increasea over past years,
Dcacribing ihe map of Europe as an immcnao panorama of Jewish mi'^ery and suffering, Mr, Schan¬ farber aaid;
"Our meeting here testifies to our realization of a aituation whose seriousness and tragedy cannot be overstated, I suppose there is not a^ man in this room who has not read within the past fcv/ months of tho frightful destruction visited upon the Jewish communities in "Vienna and other parts of Austria, Those people whose homea were destroyed, whose shops were loot¬ ed and-wrecked, who are being driven in large numbersLto suicido must bo helped to withstand thc storm that ia straining at tho roots of Jewish lifo everywhere in Europe,  .
"Ours is the burden and oura is the privilege of seeing to it that oup brethren are- not pemnitted to go- down in-ialaocy'End'-in-de&Baip to destruction.
Through Thc United Jewiah Fund we can help rebuild tho shat- 'lercd existence of Jews in Ger¬ many, in Austria, in Poland, in Rumania, in every land where the existence of Jewish life is threat¬ ened. We can give food and medi¬ cines to the victims of aggression in Austria, we cun help the refugeea of Germany and Austria who are wandering in the streets of foreign cities. Wo can feed Jewish children who without our aid will,go foodless,"
Another important fact reveal¬ ed by Mr, Schanfarber waa the vicious anti-semitic propaganda which during tho past year has spread throughout thc United States and which has already as¬ sumed serious proportions.
"Tho most vicious lies, calcu¬ lated to present a most cruelly dia- torted portrait of tho Jcwiah people aa a whole are being cir- (iulated by unacrupulous charlatans and demagoguea. It ia their pur- poae \o follow the Hitler pattern, depriving Jews of the aacred rights guaranteed to all American citizens   under   our   constitution-
ultimately lo destroy the American d 0 m o c racy, capitalizing upon hatred, which they nro trying to engender against the Jewish citi¬ zenry of tho United Statea," Soh,in- farbop stated.
"Aa Americans and aa Jews, wo must' uphold 'these Jcwiah institu¬ tions and agencies which labor to' preserve equal economic, civic, political and religloui rights for all individuals and groups, no that American democracy shall not perish," ho concluded,
Simon Lazarus said it was hcart> ening to study tho reporta from every section of the country which reveal community after comiunn« ' ¦ ity ovcraubacribing their quotas for similar campaigns.
This year's campaign, which is scheduled to continue through July 15, will raiao funds for over thirty local, national, and inter'' national. organizations contribu¬ ting to tho well-being of Jewry tho world over.
Wednesday noon a largo group of workers assembled at tho Southern Hotel whero prospeot cards were distributed. The campaign is now, in full swing with every hope.that Columbus will respond fully' in Ibis moat worthy effort as it has done in former years.
'    Cry Should Bo Heeded The men  at  the  helm  of  ther United Jewiah Fund of Columbus, aro firmly eenvinccd that ths cry, of a' suffering   Jew   should   bs heeded no matter where he lives or 1 to what group ho belongs. Every, local Jew should act accordingly. This is no tima to <Iivide on ques¬ tions of Zionism or 'anU-Zionisni, Orthodosy -or Keform ;¦' fop-'thfi' 'Wi^ - faro of thd whole Hbnse of Israel - is at stake.
If Jews and Judaism are to be preserved, wo must all act in - unison and harmony whch con¬ fronted by onr foes. Our enemies today may be found in every sec¬ tion of the civilized 'world. They wo,uld reliah seeing ua humiliated and destroyed. For years it bus been their aim and purpose to bring ahout our diasolutlon and' diaintfgration. Unless wo stand up for our own rights v/hercver thoy are infringed apon and battlo for all tho things we hold dear, these enemies of ours may prove successful, We dare not remain, indifferent at thig hour which is a turning point ii? nur hiatory.
Tho Ohio Jewish Chroniclo ap¬ peals to every a'elf-rcspecting Jew of thia community to join with this humanitarian effort of tho United Jewish Fund, In view of increased necda, it aaks everyone to givo liberally of hia time, his energy, his interest and of his generosity. Give in the name of Jewiah unity hero in Columbua, here in America. Givo in tho name of Jemali sympathy    and    solidarity    with '
These defamcra of a people aim | your follow Jows over there.
iliingury    Acts    To    Enforce
Jewish NuincriLs Clausus
Law
BUDAPEST (WNS)—All com- meiciul and uiduatrial eatabllah- nienta iu Hungary wero ordered to submit a liat of Jewish and non- Jewish employes Lefoie July 3Jst in a government action designed to speed up enforcement of the recent- l\f enacted law leatrieting to 20% tlie proportion of Jewish gmployea iu trade, iiiduatry, professions and, cultuie. After July 31 the goveiu- iiioJit v^ill fix the date un wltich Jewiah einployea iu excess of 'iii^ uie to be dismiat^ed. At tho same time the government decreed tlmt childien of mi.'ted luai ridges born after July 1, 1939 will ba regarded ab Jewa.
WASHINGTON, D, C. (WNS)— Replying to representations made by the United Statea on May 9th with regard to the status of prop¬ erly owned in Gerinaiiy by Ameri¬ can Jews under the Goering decree of April ?6th governing the regis¬ tration of property of Jev/s, the German Govemment Informed, tho United States that American Jows permanently dcniicilcd abroad will bo exempt from the provision of tho decree unless they are former Gorman nationals who emigrated for political reasons since 1933, This qualification obliged all Jewish refugees in this country to register whatever property they still own in the Reich on thc some basis as German Jews and other foieign Jews resident in Gerniany. In mulLing public a sunpnary of the German note, tho State Depart¬ ment declined to ceinment but in¬ dicated efforts wero being made to obtain further clarification. The status of Gerinun-Jewiah refugees ill Ibis country under tho iiroperty regibtrutiou decree is (,>uiup)ie.itcd by viituo of the fact that few of thom have had timo yet to be- come .Anvoiieun citizens binra five yiara of rcsid.'nce ia required for citueiibhip and the flr^t ol the lefugees didn't atrivu until March
1983. Thus only a handful are as yet eligible for citizenship and therefore tlia attitude of the State Department toward their righto is in doubt.
Laslcer Qlft Aids Removal ' Of 10   Refugee   Children
NEW YORK (WNS)—A pledge of .^3,G00 to Hadassah's youth ali¬ yah campaign from Albert D. Las¬ ker, Chicago advertising executive ond former chairman of thc U. S. Shipping Board, was announced here, Mr, Leaker's contribution will make poaaiblo the transfer of 10 refugee childtcn to Paleatine.
Is Awarded Prize
In American Histoiy
.loseph S, Levinger, iion ef Ilabbi and Mrs. Lee J, jucvinger of thia city, Ims juat been infonnej that he waa awarded the prize for the beat examination In -AmerlCiin history written by a high ncltsd Senior of Franklin county, glv«n annually hy thc Colonial Dawsa of -\inerlca, Joseph, who r<ceiv«ii scholarbhips from both llnrvariS und University of Chicj^") ^H^ ^' gin hla freshtnitn year at ths let¬ ter institution in ^eptemtser.
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