Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-03-17

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Volume 18.   No. 13.
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FBIDAY, MABCH 11, 1039
DoToted to Amorleftn -   and JeMsh Moals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Evoryivhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON
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NAZI HOT STUFF
With all the talk about the growing strength of the uhder- sround anti-Nazi movement in ^ho Reich We want to relay to you the rumor that reaches us from Dublin, to the effect that the anti-Nazi revolt in Germany 3s scheduled to flare forth befdre the end of 1939 .. . Some people bite off more than they can chow; and others bite off more than they can feed . . . The lat ler is the case with Herr Hitler, ior whom food supply for Aus¬ trians and Sudeten Germaiis is becoming a serious problem It is to whet the aippetite of the German people for South Ajneri-
¦ can territory that the Nazis have opened a permanent exhibition showing the natural resources and products of that continent ,. . And did you notice Goebbels' speech at the opening of the Leipzig Trade Fair, where Club¬ foot No. 1 told his enthusiastic audience that the Nazis would be able to run the U. S. much better than the present administra¬ tion? Tragic situations are de- -veloping in anti-Nazi Aryan families who only recently man¬ aged to get out of the Roich . . The oldsters find themselves in -violent conflict with their teen¬ age children, who after six years
¦ of Nazi education refuse to be¬ lieve that Hitler is anything less liiah divinity.
There   is   hope   that   Great Britain will not curtail Jewish Immigration   to   Palestine   too drastically, because the Polish and Roumanian governments are pleading with Mr. Chamberlain to keep   the   gates   open   if he ¦wants to' prevent anti-Jewish ex¬ cesses in their countries ... Is it because  lie  knows  how  to move   pawns   on   the   poUtical board tliat Chamberlain is the president of th6 Warwickshire, England, Chess Association? He ¦doesn't know how to play chess, but his friends insist that he'll be the one to give the Nazis their final check-mating . . .Of course Nazi influence in Czecho¬ slovakia had nothing to do with that order for the removal of Thomas Masaryk's portrait from tiie New York Czech Consulate . . . The full story of that mys¬ terious Nazi airplane with Ger¬ man officers aboard which was wrecked in a French zone closed to foreign air traffic won't be told till the present European mess is straightened out—if by that time there are any surviv¬ ors left to tell the tale ... The Nazis,   feeling    that    General Franco has  all  the   guns  and -ammunition  he  needs  by this time, are now smuggling them to the  Nazi   "cells"   in   South American  countries,  hidden  in bales  of  innocent-looking  mer¬ chandise . . . That's why a slight fire in the hold of a German ship ¦so often causes a serious explo- bion nowadays. HEBE WE HEAR
Washington circles feel certain that the mysterious SOS call some weeks ago from a ship that never was located came from a British vessel accidental¬ ly torpedoed by Nazis practising ¦off the Canary Islands, where they have submarine bases now ... To tho.se pro-Fascist social¬ ites wlio damn Rocsevelt and who recently forced the cancel¬ lation of an anti-Nazi lecture at Palm Beach we would like "¦
Eight-hundred organizations are working to undermine deniocracy In the United Statea, using anti-semitism and anti- cathollcisin as their entering wedges, declared Look , today. Reproducing the front pages of some of the publications issued by these- groutis. Look' stated that this type of propaganda was getting Into the hands, of an estimated eighth of the popula¬ tion.
"Two German agencies, World- Service and Fichte-Bund pro¬ vide American fascists with propaganda. Among the head¬ lines reproduced are: "Roose¬ velt's Jewish Ancesti^r," "We Should Stop the Slander, that Jesus of Nazareth Was A Jew," "Dorothy Thompson ' L e v y ShouldWatch Her Step,'' "Cath¬ olic . Influence Dominates Gov¬ ernment Action at Washington."
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TO BROAtoCAST FOB UNITED  JEWISH APPBAI,
Ten-Year Cainpaign To SeiVc ludaigm And Bemocracy
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Prof. Albert Einstein
,Tune In Tonight at 7 p.m.
The Jewish community of Co¬ lumbus and surrounding towns is asked to tune in on .WCOL radio station Saturday (tonight) at 7 p. m., when Rabbi Hiilel Silver, of Cleveland, will speak on "A Spiritual Background to American -Jewry."
This is the third of a series of radio broadcasts of the "Mes¬ sage ot Israel" hour oarHed over the stations affiliated with the National Broadcasting Co., and is devoted to discussions by National Chairmen of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas needs on American Jewry's responsibility in the present emergency for Jews abroad.
Listeners are urged to write the local radio station com¬ mending it for its cooperation in this worthy effort.
NEW YORK (WNS)— The ex¬ penditure of SlO,aDO,000 in tho next ten years on a cBinpaiEn of rollffioViS.    edticatlon, v.-a.=!  'an- nouriced here af a dinner givaii in honor of Robert P. Goldman, president of the Union of Ameri¬ can Hebrew Congregations, and Ralph W. Mack, chairman of the Board    of   Governors   of    the Hebrev/ Union College, both of Cincinnati. This program is de¬ signed   as   a   service   to   both Judaism  and  democracy  in  a long range   service   of   Reform Judaism   to   correlate   Jewish teachings with American democ¬ racy and liberalism. "We are en¬ gaged," said Mr. Goldman, "in a ten-year campaign of spirit¬ ual education." Mr. Mack i said that "partly as a result of the persecutions in Central Europe, the center ot Jewish culture and scholarship  ia   passing  unmis¬ takably to the United States.' One   of   the   projects   of   the Hebrew Union College was to establish   a   veritable   "Jewish College of Exile In Cincinnati," explained Mr. Mack. The college, he added,  stands  for  "the  de¬ velopment and growth of a posi¬ tive  and  distinctive  American Judaism."
Profcs.sor Albert Einstein, re¬ cent elected Honorary Chaii-- mnn of the United Jewisli Ap¬ peal for Itnfugcrs and Overseas I Needs, will sprain over a nutlon- Tvide lnoolv-up oS tho Colf&mbia BroaSfSSting Syslcm on. Sues- fioy oveidng,' Slarch Sl, ut'iOjiSi p. m. in belialf of the nnpre- cedentcd niationwiile cai.ipalgn which combines the fund-raising efforts of the Joint Bistribution Committee, tlio United P<ilcstine Appeal aud the National Co- ordinntlng Conunittee Fund, Inc.
The title ot Profcsbor Ein¬ stein's radio address which will bo broadcast from Ids home lii Princeton, N. J. Is "Humanity on Trial."
Senators Urge Doors Of Palestine Be Kept Open To Immigration
Ould Welfare Branch Of Hadassah To Launch Annual Drive
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Newcomers To Perform For Temple Sisterhood
On next Tuesday evening, March .21, at 8 o'clock, in thej vestiy room of the Bryden Rd.! Temple, the Rose E. Lazarus Sisterhood Tvill depart from its regular routine of afternoon ses¬ sions by holding a meeting which will be open to their hus¬ bands, adult sons an<! daughters.
A very unique and entertain¬ ing program, under the direc¬ tion of Mrs. Alien Gundersheim¬ er, will present a large group Of new-comers from foreign coun¬ tries who have recently made their home in our community. A social hour will follow with an infoi-mai dance climaxing the evening's entertainment.
This will be a most opportune time to extend a hand of wel¬ come to the strangers in our
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The Child Welfare branch of Hadassah supplies school lunch¬ eons and teaches food values in 37 schools a,nd 68 kindergartens. It also maintains 25 infant wel¬ fare centers throughout Pales¬ tine. There are 55,774 school children under Hadassah's care who are examined regularly all through their school years by Hadassah doctors and nurses, There are also moire than.25,000 mothers and babies registered in these centers for medical care and training, in personal and so¬ cial hygiene. Follow up care by district nurses required 70,000 visits to homes during the past year. Largely through the Hadassah program ot safeguard¬ ing hciilth, the Jewish infant mortality, has been reduced from 137 per 1000 iri 1919 to 57.2 per 1000 in 1938. During the same period the Moslem and Christian Infant mortality rates wer.e cor- responlngly reduced. Indicating the effecta, and influence ot Hadassah's rion-sectarlan system of child care.
This year being one of great stress throughout the Jewish world, it is of vital importance that we malce every effort to eoh- trihute to the utmost, especially since our quota has been In¬ creased considerably. We must (Cuntiuued on I'tttfo G)
WASHINGTON (WNS) — Re¬ viewing/America's relation to the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and subsequent United States endorsement of it in the Lodge-Fish resolution of 1922, seventeen Senatoi:s emphasized "that the American Government Is not unrelated to the modern history ot Pales¬ tine." Quoting article 7 of our treaty or convention with Great Britain in 1924 with reference to the British Mandate over P'ales- tihe: "Nothing contained in the present convention, shall be af¬ fected by any modification which may be made in the terms of the Mandate, as recited above, un¬ less such modification shall have been assented to by the United States." American Zion¬ ist' of flclals said, that "disturb¬ ing" reports that Great Britain is "seriously considering" the establishment of an independent Arab State giving the Jewish population a permanent minor- ity status," prompted the Sena¬ tors to emphasize their concern that the policy of Palestine be unchanged. The following Sen¬ ators signed the statement: Sen¬ ators King, O'Mahoney, Shep- pard, Smathers, Guftey, Logan, Minton, Davis, Lewis, Walsh, Neely Burke, Murray, Barbour, Nye, Wagner and Mead.
NEW YORK (WNS) —Great Britain will never be able to create an indeperident Palestine state without the consent and cooperation of the Jews in Pales¬ tine, and she cannot get this co¬ operation or consent it the'Jews are to be reduced to the status of a permanent minority in such a state, according to Dr. Step¬ hen S. Wise, who returned last week from the London Confer¬ ence on Palestine. "Britain's at¬ titude on the Palestine situation was due to the presence "in the shadow" of Hitler, TVEussolini, and the Mufti. But if the halt- million Jews now living in Pales¬ tine say 'No, we will not cooper¬ ate in the making of'an inde¬ pendent in Palestine State,' there will be no independent Pales¬ tine state.".
Rabbl    Wise   reiterated   the thought that government comes only  from the consent  of the governed when he drew a paral¬ lel  between the  present  situa¬ tion and that   existing   in   the American colonies 160 years ago when   Britain   enacted   stamp, laws to tax tho colonial pif;'^' eors. These laws, he Bald, covi«v, jLot ba   entorcud,   JivcauacjlhR ~ coKhfflts did ilot v/ant thom en¬ forced,  and   the  Independence of America   resulted.  "I   thinlc England understands this situa¬ tion," he declared, but he added that Great Britain's position was a most difficult   one   with   the shadow of -war   hovering   con¬ stantly over the land. "I may not like what his Majesty's Govern¬ ment may .decide to do with Pal¬ estine, yet at the same time I cannot forget that tomorrow— or the next day—-England, as the -world's  great  democracy,  may be called, upon to stand In the trenches as the defender ot all that is democratic in the world. (Conllnniia on Pose 3)
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
The Women's Institute ot Hadassah will close its season with a book review and tea Wednesday, March 22nd, at 2 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Morris Siegel, 1045 Bryden Rd., at which time Mra. Depew Head will review "What is Happening on Broadway."
Mrs. Depew is one of the best reviewers in the State of OhiO; and those in Hadas?ah who heard her last year are eagerly looking forward to hearing her again. All those Who registered in the course are urged to at¬ tend this final meeting, which will be a rare treat.
10 Weekly Broadcasts To Begin Over WCOL Monday livening
Inauguration ot a new series ot 10 weekly broadcasts, Colum¬ bus' own Town-HaU Meeting, will begin next Monday, March 20, over station WCOL (1240 k.) from 9 to 10 p. m. when the sub¬ ject "What is the Meaning of Un-American" will be discussed in open forum by three local speakers.
Robert M. Wilkin, former jus¬ tice of the Ohio Supreme Court, John Williams, secretary of the Communist party in Ohio, and Ernest A. Grablel of the Frank¬ lin County Council of the Ameri¬ can Legion, will be the speakers for the first broadcast which will originate from the Central YMCA. Admission may be ob¬ tained on request at either sta¬ tion WCOL or the YMCA.
Listeners are urged to send iri their comment to the station. The progiam is non-profit and non-commereial and if it receives sufficient support It will be con¬ tinued beyond the ten-week period in the interest ot free speech and thought. All subjects will be of a controversial nature and will be announced at later dates.