Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1918-10-04

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THE CULdMBUS JEWISH
.A WEEKLY DEVOTED TO THE IN'TERESTS OF JEWISH PEOPLE OF COLUMBUS AND VICINITY
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VOL. 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1«H
No. 22
WELFARE BOARD'S BUILDING AT CAMP SHERMAN ALMOST COMPLETED
Plan to Dedicate New Building Early in October With Impressiivc
Sctvices at Whith Many Officials From Throughout the
State Will Be PresenL
STRUCTURE WILL CONTAIN MANY PLEASING FEATURES
Is Another Link in the Chain of Recreational Centers Which
Bind Together the Camp and Strengthen the Morale
of the Soldiers.
' It will certainly be gratifying news to the people of Ohio to learn that the recreational head¬ quarters which the Jewish Wel¬ fare Board is constructing at Camp Sherman is near ing com¬ pletion. , After many iannoying delays the erection of this es¬ sential ad j unct to welfare activi¬ ties in camp, was started and it is confidently expected that some time during the first part of Oc¬ tober the building will be dedi¬ cated. All construction at can¬ tonments is speeded and a" month's time is all a contractor requires to deliver a building over to its owners. Unless un¬ foreseen obstructions and post¬ ponements interfere, the Jewish Welfare Building will be ready for occupancy before the close of the month.
This building will form another link in the chain of re¬ creational centers which binds the camp together. It will be another agency towards upbuild¬ ing and strengthening the mor¬ ale of the soldiers and while the
board, trihimed with oak and all woodwork stained in ddll Fle¬ mish.
T^he main auditorium is- fur¬ nished with a huge iire place on the south end with engle nooks, drop  tables for writing, class
elusion of Yom Kippui', meals were served the soldiers in the B'nai B'rith Club arid in the Jewish Welfare,headquarters in Campi The provisions for the meal for the rhen in camp was contributed in part by vai'iouS branches of the Jewish Welfare Board in this state who very generously supply the "feed" to use the parlance of camp, for special occasions as Avell as the Sabbath evening luncheon which is served Friay evening and has become a marked feature of the JewLsh Welfare activity in camp. During' the absence of Mr, S. Skirbal, who officiated during the holidays at Quihcy, Illinois, th,e activity of the can\p was in
GIFT OF $50,000 FOR ZIONIST CAUSE
ROSENWALD WRITES TO  , FATHER OF SOLDIER
Moyed   by   Pres.  Wilson's   En¬ dorsement, Sigmuhd Eisner Makes   Contribution. .
ANONYMOUS dlFT OF $12,.'>00
2.500 Shares of Jewish Crtlonial
Trust Stock Turned Over to
the Zionist Organization.
rooms  and.   aci-oss  the   ehUire, , ,. ^,r     ^   ^       -,   v
front facing west, ah eight-foot i^^!^?^«^:^^^-5ii^^^f^ piazza   will   be erected      Rest
rooms' for men and. women, drinking fountain, counter for the welfare worker and store¬ room closets have also been added. A telephone booth will be installed and "sufficient window and electric lighting to meet the needs of the soldiers when at leisure during day time or eve¬ nings. The buildirtg will be heated by Stoves after the fash¬ ion of all recreational buildings] and barracks in camp.
This Jewish Welfare building will be painted white, the official color of the Board, in contrast to the green of the Y. M. C. A. and the brown of the K. of C. build¬ ings.
Elaborate    preparations    are
dam; whose copscieritious devo-i tion to his manifold duties has made him very beloved by the Jewish soldiers. During the same period he was assisted by Rabbi Joseph Leiser, the Jewish
Sigmund Eisner, a New York manufacturer and social worker, has made a contribution of $50,- 000 to the Zionist organization of America, in recognition of President Wilson's endorsement of the movement. Mr. Eisner, whose home is in Red Bank, N. J., where ,^he recently conducted a drive for the Jewish Welfare Board in which he succeeded in enlisting Catholic priests, Prot¬ estant clergymen and all the leading . citizens   of   Monmouth
That big men always have time for the little kindly things of life is evidenced by the follow- jng letter sent to Adolph Pike of Chicago, by Julius Rosenwald from France written in Mr. Ro¬ sen wald's own handwriting.
"pear Mr. Pike:
At —-—-T-a d'ay\pv two ago I met your son-^had Vtalk with him and told him I would write you and tell you how very Well he looks.^ He is a good soldier and very happy in his work. "Yours truly) "JULIUS ROSENWALD."
building  is   erected  under  the \ now being made for the dedica-
auspices of the Jewish .Welfare Board and will be ir\anaged by the representatives of that or¬ ganization, its ministries and advantages will be open to all soldiers at Camp Sherman. "All weleome"'"will be the most-con- spicious motto in the new build¬ ing.
No location iri camp is more desirable for the establishment of a welfare building than the site obtained by the committee of the Jewish Welfare Board. When complete,this new build-
Welfare Board representative of | ^^""ty «*' ''^" denominations and
faiths, ,in announcmg this gift,, wrote to Hon. Julian W. Mack,
WALTER E. MYERS RETURNS WITH MESSAGE FROM JEWISH PALESTINE
Americanized Immigrant Jews Are Needed to Develop National
.Tewish Homeland, Says Former Member of^Te^vish
Commission in Palestine.
RELATIONS   WITH   ARABS   aIrE   SATISFACTORY
Great Deeds Expected From Jewish Legion—Weizmann Doing
Excellent Work—Anzacs Like County and May
Settle There.
VIENNA JEWS PROTEST AGAINST PEltSECUTION
More Than Four Hundred Aus¬ trian Communities Also De¬ nounce   Organized   At¬ tacks On Them.
the B'nai B'rith Club in Chilli¬ cothe.
it is estimated that there were fully 200 Jewish soldiers in camp and town attending services. The number of Jewish' soldiers in camp has been estimated at 800. Within a mpnth the number will pass the 1,000 mark. Aiding the welfare workers in all their en¬ deavors are the various commit- tees of the Chillicothe Branch of the Jewish Welfare Board of which Mr. S. Segal is president,. Mr. Segal is also chairman of building committee. Other mem¬ bers of the branch are Jesse Frad, Richard Schachne, E. L. Bergman, Joe Feldman, A. Berg- \ man and their wives.
Information has been received from Austria showing the exist¬ ence there and in West Germany
tion exercises the exact date of which has not been set. As in¬ timated this will be held during the first part of October. For this event, which will be of inter¬ est to the Jewish people of this and adjoining'states, thrTepire- sentative rabbis of the state, or¬ thodox and reform and military authorities of camp and  state PLAN DRIVE FOR HALF
planned to include in these exer-'   MILLION NEW MEMBERS
cises representatives of all the
i President of the Zionist organ-
I ization: i
"My dear Judge Mack: i of a well-developed agitation to
"In grateful recognition ofP^'o^oke the Christian popula- President Wilson's beautiful ti<'n against their fellow country- New Year greeting to the Jew-i'"en of the Jewish faith, which ish people, in which he expresses' ^^^^ grown to such a dangerous the satisfaction he has felt in' stage as to call for a public pro- the progres.s,of the Zionist move-1 test by the Council of the Jewish ment, I shall be happy to. add! Community of Vienna, to which five per cent to all subscriptions i "^o^'^ than 400 communities in for any and all of the work of i Austria have signified their ap- the Palestine Restoration Fund Proval. This, protest, as given during the current fiscal'year up out by the Zionist headquarters to the sum of one million dollars. | at 44 East Thirty-third street,
declared that these anti-Semitic
_ Don't tell the other fellow to buy Bonds, do it yourself.
done their full share in bearing the burdens of the war and on
"The Zionist Organization of America should enlist in its member.ship all American Jews and' should receive their heart¬ iest support in the great work in whiqh it is engaged. I siiicii^ely 1 hope. that, you will  soon have
I raised the first million dollars of *«»¦«- ^^re groundless. Dr. the Fund, to which I shall then Straucher, according to the Zion- add $50,000.
The first to bring official mes¬ sages from Jewish Palestine to the Jews of America is Walter E. Meyers, who was attached to the, Zionist Administrative Cpm- mission, as financial adviser of Dr. Chaim \yetizman. Mf. Mey¬ ers, who is a graduate of Yale University and of Harvard- Law School, is a brother of Eugene Meyers, Jr., member of the War Finance Corporation, a Zionist member of the Council of Na¬ tional Defence, Director of the Montefiore Hospital and of the Public Bank of New York City. Until he joined the commission he was one of America's "dollar a year" men, and was in France, doing war work when his serv¬ ices were commandeered by Dr. Weitzman, just as the commis¬ sion was departing for Palestine.
Mr. Meyers was in Palestine for ten weeks, and made a close
ance of this event. It clearly in¬ dicated to the non-Jewish popu¬ lation the bond that has been established between the Zionists and the British, Government. It .served the purpose of allaying the fear that had been stimulat¬ ed in some Arab circles that the British declaration meant rioth-; irig short of turning the land over to the Jews without regard to the rights-of the rest of the, population.
"The population has borne up wonderfully well, in spite of war conditions," says Mr, Meyers. "That is,.all except the popula¬ tion of Jerusalem, which has been reduced from between seventy and seventy-five thou¬ sand to twenty-five thousand. In the colonies, the morale is won¬ derful. The colonists are look¬ ing forward to the future hope- ^ fully.   Cut oflf from the Europ-
and sociological conditions of the land. In his opinion the great need for the upbuilding pf the Jewish National Homeland is American-Jewish man-power. He has in mind, as the desired human material to meet this de- attaicks were most unjust be-i ^^nd for man-power, the Amer- cause.the Jews of Austria had; ij.ani.^gd immigrant Jew, espec-
study of the political, economic! ean markets, the orange growers
ially those who have come here from' Russia,  Roumania, Aus
branches of the Jewish Welfare Board in' this state and in neigh¬
ing will be the one structure in i boring states camp that can be seen from all parts of the encampment, and when one remembers that Camp Sherman expands over an acre¬ age three miles in length, this fortuitous situation of the wel¬ fare building is a marked fea¬ ture of its approachableness, particularly to visitors who will frequent it, in the course of en¬ suing months.
For the convenience of those visitors -who will come to Camp Sherman it may be added that the Jewish Welfare Building is located in Section D', ajoining the camp postoffice on the south and the Red, Cross building on the north. In close proximity, are the Camp Library, the Lib¬ erty Theatre, the main Y, M. C.
Jewish , Relief   Committee   Has
Extensive Plans About
Perfected.
It was unfortunate that the new building was not completed to accommodate the Jewish sol¬ diers for the high holidays. But the services for these auspicious events were held iri camp and town both in accordance with the orthodox ritual and the re¬ form. The majprity of Jewish soldiers who had been in camp for some time were able to, ob¬ tain leave of absence in accord¬ ance with instructions of the War Department which permit¬ ted Jewish soldiers leave of ab¬ sence in every case where such a leave did not conflict with mili¬ tary requirements. The influx of a number of, new draftees who were immediately placed in qua¬ rantine, as required by military
A. and the main K. of C. build- \ regulations, prevented these new
mgs. Likewise within walking distance are the large group of community buildings with their large dormitories for the accom¬ modation of visitors, to which is now being added the new lodge built by the Benevolent and ?ro- , tective Order of Elks, to be turnr eti over to thie Community House management for the entertain¬ ment and comfort of visiting mothers, fathers, sisters, wives, _„^jsweethearts and relatives of the soldiers in camp
arrivals from returning to their homes and celebrating the high holidays with their families.
Every provision; however, was made for these' men under these circuriistances. Services ' on both Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were held in Chillicothe and camp. Mr.^ I. Schefrine' of Cincinnati alternated with Rab' bi Joseph Leiser in conducting services in tpwn and camp. Camp services were held in the wi^g
"Sincerely yours, "SIGMUND EISNER." Another member of the organ¬ ization, who does not wish his name disclosed, similarly moved by the President's letter to the Zionists, has made a cohtribu- tion of $12,500, turning over to the organization 2500 shares of stock in the Jewish Colonial Trust, which is the financial instrument of the Zionist Organ-
The Jewish Peonle's Relief Committee closes now its third year- of relfef  activity among the poorer elements of Amer¬ ican Jewry.  When the Commit¬ tee first organized its originators never dreamed that they would} succeed in raising the amount of i ization in Palestine.   , money that the  People's have i    In addition to the membership succeeded in raising up to this j enrollment campaign yn which it date.
The report given by the Ad¬ ministration Committee to their convention held in the city of Cleveland was ficcepted by their representatives with great en¬ thusiasm and the new Admin¬ istration Committee has outlined',
the further ground 'that alhthe | ^i;;- and ""fiave "absorbed^'Amer- charges brought by the agita-li^aR   methods' and   principles
without the loss of their Jewish idealism. "Palestine needs just such men of affairs as these," says Mr. Meyers, "who will go into the land with their ability and their money, and having the Jewish national purpose in mind while doing so, will make invest¬ ments, launch commercial enter¬ prises, develope industries and afford means of en^ployment to the population. The Jewish population of the country and the British authorities are agreed that, this' is Palestine's
ist reports, was supported . by non-Jewish deputies in the Aus¬ trian Lower House, concerning the inquiiy regarding the sup¬ pression by the censorship of an account in "The Judische Zeit¬ ung," of July 19, of a serious anti-Jewish outbreak in Jares- lav, Galicia. ' Dr. Straucher '.is quoted as follows:
"We venture to ask whether Your Excellency is aware that the censorship proceeds in the most arbitrary and irrational fashion, withholding harmless passages, the prohibition of which does much more .injury to [the public interest than Svould their publication. .The article in question is an account of anti- Jewish excess which, in spite of
is engaged," the Zionist Organ ization of America, is preparing to raise $3,000,000 during the current fiscal year. Of this sum $2,600,000 will be devoted to re¬ constructive work in. Palestine, j aH measures of the Austrian This work includes financing the j (iensorship are known every- operation of the Weizmann Com- where in Austria, and abroad mission which was sent to Pal- also. , The procedure of the At-
ing this year
The work carried on by this Committee is mostly through and in co-operation with labor and benevolent organizations. The relations between' the Peo¬ ple's Relief arid the other War Relief organizations is a har¬ monious one.
They are now planning to con¬ duct an pxtensiye campaign for a half miliion members of the People's Committee, each mem¬ ber to pay $3.00 or upwards, the of the Y". M. C. A. No, 72 an'd in time for the membership drive ''Accordingtoplans the Jewish i Detention   Camp,   also   in   the has not yet been decided upon,
several plans to increase the ac , ,^^,j.^.-
tivity of the People's Relief dur-'^stine with the .sanction, of the torney General creates the im- inir thm vPiiv ' British Government, to make a pression that the Austruin au-
survey for the future permanent thorities by. suppressing this development of the land in bar- news desire to show its approval monious relationship with the of or to screen these incidents- neighbors and allies interests; a course eminently calculated to
have carved out a new market in Syria, which is a great asset for the future. Last season's crops, except almonds, were way above the average and commanded market prices two and three times above nornial. In Jerusa¬ lem, one of the factors is reduc¬ ing the population, aside from e.xpiilsions and emmigi-ations, is malnutrition. . This is, in r^ality,_ "a'lbcal problem. It is not due to poverty, but to inability to bring food supplies into the city. This condition, however, will be rem¬ edied by the double-track rjail- road which the British army has built all the way from Egypt to Jaffa. Another thing that is go¬ ing to. improve conditions in Jerusalem is the watet* works which the army has constructed, primarily to supply, its' own heeds, but ultimately to bring fresh water from the mountain tops, into every house. This will do more than anything else I can think of to combat the typhoid
prime need if it is to develop,, and other epidemics prevailing along the lines laid down by the in the Holy City. Zionist organization in conson-      "You  can  get some idea of ance with the Briti-sh Declara- what sort of country Palestine tion.    Later,  and especially  if \ really    is,"   said    Mr.    Meyer,
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the support of all schools in Pal¬ estine using Hebrew as a med-
in.iure seriously the reputation of, the Austrian state for just
ium of instructiott; the restora- j dealing towards all its sujbjects." tion of the Jewi^ colonies to
Welfare Building will consist, when complete of two parts; a main auditorium, 25x60, with an additional wing,' 25x25, Over this additional wing are sleeping quarters for the wel¬ fare workers, provided with in¬ dividual bedrooms, which though very smalli will serve-their 'puV; pose, Eiach bedroom is supplied with a clothes closet. A private shower and a kosher kitchen for visiting orthodox rabbis is also contained in these quarters. All bedrooms are finished in beaver
B'nai   B'rith   Club Rooms   in but in aU probabilities the month Chillicothe and the Elks Hall, of December will be slMected. Orthodox services in the B'nai;    The People's Relief Commit-
B'rith Club branch of the Jewish the i Welfare Board were conducted by Max Shayeson, of Cincinnati, assisted by Max Segal, of Chilli¬¬ cothe. Orthodox services in camp were led by Private ^..e- yine, son of Rabbi Levine, of Cincinnati.
For the accommodation of those men unable, to leave town, meals were provided on Rosh Hahonah arid also at the conr
tee is also considering plans for constructive work after the war is over. They, have alrejidy ap-, pointed a special committee to conduct the study of conditions among the Jews in the warring countries and to prepare a brief of their findings.
Did you know that the GoV' ernment is selling Fouth Liberty Loan Bonds?
pre-war conditions; the repat¬ riation of refugees; the mainten¬ ance of the American Zionist Medical Unit; the construction; of the Hebrew University; fin¬ ancing, through the Jewish Col¬ onial Trust, constructive work, making loans to farmers and to business 'men; organizing an engineering unit for work of actual reconstruction and sup¬ porting the Palestine Bureau which acts in advisory capacity I to farmers, merchants and work- ingmen, employs agricultural expejrts and carries on construc¬ tive relief work. The rijmaining $400,000 will be used for the American operations of the or¬ ganization,       '
ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE
CEPiTRAL POWERS
Buy Liberty Bonds and help defeat the Huns.
Mr. Houston Stewart Cham¬ berlain, the renegade English¬ man and German author, has,re¬ ceived from the Kaiser a letter of thanks and approval for his leaflet entitled "The Will of Vic¬ tory," in which he describes the qualities of the British and the Jews as those of "low and repul¬ sive shppkeepers.'.' In the bud¬ get debate in the Austrian Reichrat on July 16th the Christ¬ ian Socialist deputy, Jerzebeck, said that the rumors against the Imperial House were spread by people who spoke "a Yiddish jar- [gon of German," and appealed to the Emperor to preserve Christ lap people from the gyip of the i Jews who ruled the country."
thei'e is to be a mass-emigration from Russia and Poland, there will be great need for men of special. training, Experts in various branches, including teachers. For cultural reasons, it will be desirable that these teachers shall be proficient in English and French as well as Hebrew."
Mr.'Meyers left Palestine on June 10th, just after Dr. Weitz¬ man had returned from Akaba, where he and Major Ormsby- Gore, the liaison member of the Commission had participated; in a ' very satisfactory interview with Fiesol, the son of the King: of the Hedjaz, with whom they discussed Great Britain's pro¬ ject^ of a Near-East Entente, composed of the Jews, the Arabs and the Armenians. In con¬ nection with the negotiations with the Arabs, Mr. Meyers said that one of the most signi- ficent features qf the Commis¬ sion's arrival in Palestine was the reception tendered to it by Gen, Storrs, the Military Gov¬ ernor of Jerusalem at which Dr. Weitzman gave such a lucid and satisfying explanation of the Zionist aims, that the Grand Mufti, Musa Kasin Pasha, de¬ clared to him: "We—the Jejws and the Arabs—must love each other like brothers." Mr. Mey¬ ers says that it is impossible to exaggerate the.poHtical import-
"When I tell you that a number of Arizacs from Australia told me that they intended to settle in Palestine permanently when the fighting is over, because they said, Palestine is a finer country than Australia. And talking of fighting reminds me that the Jewish young men of Palestine are clamoring to be accepted ,as volunteers in the British Army.' Over 800 had already enlisted when I left, and the girls were organizing to render whatever co-operation they could, either as nurses, or as typists or clerks —anything at all, so that they, too, could have a hand in the liberation of their native land.
"Will you oblige me and the entire Jewish population of Pal¬ estine," asked Mr. Meyer, "by permitting this public acknowlr edgement to be made of the great debt of gratitude,which is due to Count de Ballobar, the rep¬ resentative of the Spanish gov¬ ernment at Jerusalem. Count de Ballobar who took over the American interests in the Holy City when the war broke out, has proved to be one of the greatest friends that the Jews have in Palestine, tie stood iby them splendi.dly ^during the trying days when the British Army be¬ gan battei-ing at the gates of Jerusalem, and if it had not been, for him, manyof the men who (Continued on page 4)
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