Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1940-08-23

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SfW/ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish ConununitY^A\K
Vol. 10   No. 35
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1940
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Strictly Gonfidential
Tidbits From Etverywhere By PHINBAS J. BIRON
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
.Old Reliable Postal, who used to be our confrere in the Seven Arts and now is B'nai B'rith's public relations wizard, writes Us as foUows . . . "It's hot and I'm pn my vacation ... I should be resting and forgetting all about your existence . . . But I feel that you and your readers— especially your readers—need a break at least once a year. So here is my present to you and them—a guest column . . . And mind you, I haven't once mentioned the B'nai B'rlth . . . That's chivalry" ... So here goes Bernard Postal's column . .. POUTICAIi PIECES
Congressman Sweeney (Demo¬ crat), who }a suing certain news¬ papers which published the Washington Merry-Go-Rotmd's allegations that he made antl- Seinitlc remarks In WasMngton, Is being opposed in the coming election by George PiUersdorf, Cleveland Jewish attorney . . . Sweeney now represents a dis¬ trict that covers a large part of Cleveland . . . Sam Piatt of Reiio, Nevada, Is the Republi¬ can nominee for "United States Senator, running agalhst Sena tor Key Plttman . .. Piatt twice lost an election for the same
ftlce I^Jess than SO votes , . ,
.' . . Sara W^lss o£ McKtSesport, Pa, expects to be elected to Con gress on the Democratic tick¬ et.., '     OTBRSBAS BBPOBID
In Smyrna, Turkey, the Jews .are    excited .because    of the ; growth of a rumor that the Mes- ^ j slah Is 6n the way . . . The re- ci^nt'earthquakes, the sufferings of Jews in Europe ahd the Sab- batal Zvl tradition  hi Smyrna are responsible for the tremen¬ dous wave of mystical feeling theire ...   But Realpolltlker are afraid that It's Hitler who la coming ... A letter sent from Ruynanla to a Jew In Lodz, In Nazi-occupied Poland, has been , returned to the sender vrith the envelope stamped: "Reason for noni-dellvery—addressee   resides In ghetto." . . . Htmgary's Ary- ¦an laws have created a knotty legal problem because of a ceiv ;¦ talti Aildreas Faragl . . .Faragl, who  is  a  lawyer,  is  of  pure Aryan  stock,  but   some  years p ago became a convert to Juda-
• Ism . . . Under the law "anyone who regards himself as a Jew Is to be treated as a Jew for the purposes   ot   this law".     But r       Faragl Insists he's an Aryan Ijy [ race and a Jew by religion . . .
Legal authorities claim he has : a right to practice because the ;7^—law says a Jew "is one whose ancestoi-s are    not    of    Aryan •stock" • . . If Faragl's claim is V upheld he'll be the first Jewish
"; Aryan     The war is giving the
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Africa a break ... So many of the leaders of the Zionist Youth Movement have Joined the army that women have been appoint¬ ed to Important executive posts s which     they    never    before
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THIS AND THAT
One of the best-known Jewish .weeklies In the country is on the verge of changing hands ... A schoolboy In Portland, Me., whose family was for the I)aat several years being sup¬ ported in part by a Jewish :^ (CwtUiM *a r«» •>
Committee Fonned To Allocate U.J. A. Funds
NEW YORK (WNS)—The ap¬ pointment of a Distribution Committee to allocate funds raised Ijy the United Jewish Ap¬ peal for Refugees and Overseas Needs to the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Pales¬ tine Appeal and the National Refugee -Service, Its three con¬ stituent agencies, was announ¬ ced by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, na¬ tional chairmen.
The Distribution Committee, which is composed ot two repre¬ sentatives each of the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee and the Uni¬ ted Palestine Appeal and three representatives of welfare fund communities appointed by the Council of Jewish Federation^ and Welfare Funds, subject tn the approval of the J. D. C. and U. P. A., win distribute all fumi. raised by the United Jewish Aiv peal beyond the sum of $11,250 000 which was divided among the three agencies as advance to enable them to carry on theli programs in the first months of the current year.
The meiiibership of the Distil butlon Committee follows James H. Becker of Chicago and Dr. Solomon Lowensteln Of New York, In behalf of the Joint Distribution     Committee:     Dr
a Hillel SUVer am) Dr. Stc S. -WlHefJ in)3)«iaat'of-t'i-w d- Palestine Apj^lat, ^aiid Hariris Ferlsteln of Chicago, David M. Watchmaker of :Sbs ton and Heniy Wineman ot De¬ troit In behalf of the welfSire fund communities. Elisha M Friedman of New York was named research dlrectoB fbr the Distribution Committee.
In announcing the establish¬ ment of the Distribution Com¬ mittee, Rabbi Silver and'Rabbl Wise said: "The principle of scientific allocation ot funds was introduced by the United Jewish Appeal In 1939 when, through an Allocations Commit¬ tee, It undertook to survey the needs of various phases of the Jewish situation without deter¬ mining at the beginning of the year the full amount that would be distributed to the par¬ ticipating agencies. This prin¬ ciple is being continued atid perfected in the year 1940. The Distribution Committee c o n- stitutes an assurance to the, contributors to the United Jewish Appeal that their funds will be utilized throughout 1940 In specific relationship to thbse causes and opportumties which offer the most produc¬ tive results.from the funds that can be provided."
REVBAIj   HITLER'S   NAZI SWASTIKA 18 OF PURE SEMI-nC ORIGIN
JERUSALEM (WNS)—Even the swastika filched by Hit¬ ler from historic records has been proved to be of pure Se¬ mitic origin. The excavations completed on June 7th at Tell el Jerlebeh (Napoleon's Hill), between Tel Aviv and Petach Tlkvah, has brought to light a wealth of material which Pro¬ fessor Eleazar Sukenik of the Hebrew University will now study at his Department of Archaeology. His field expe¬ dition had conducted the "dig" on this ancient site. A broken earthenware jug ot the Bronze Age 1,400 B. C. E. had a swas¬ tika engraved on the handle.
X. O. A. HEAD CALLS FOR
WIDE  PAR-nciPATION  IN
SHEKEL  CAMPAIGN
Wfllkie Scores Nazi Treatment Of Jews In His Nomination Acceptance Speech
WENDELL WILLKIE
TBMPLE SISTEBHOOD TO CBLBBBATB VACATION DAY NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON
A large turnout Is anticipated for the Rose E. Lazarus Sister¬ hood annual Vacation Day which win be held Tuesday afternoon, August 27, from 2:30 to 5 o'clock,
There will be entertainment for all at this big event which Is to be held In the gardens of the home of Mrs. Allen Gunder¬ shelmer, 42 Park Dr., president of the Sisterhood. Bingo win be a feature of this get-tp-gether With attractive prizes for the wlnnere. Tea, which wiJl be served from 4 to 5 P. M., WU1| climax the afternoon's .program
Keep Tuesday afternoon open ' for this gala occasion.
B. I. Kantmann
NBW YORK (WNS)—A caU to Zionists and Jews in Aiher ica to participate in the Shekel Campaign, which is ^belng con¬ ducted this year during the months of August and Septem¬ ber, was issued by Edmund I. Kaufmann, president of the Zionist Organization of Amer¬ ica.
Mr. Kaufmann pointed out that at this time the Shekel is a sym¬ bol of Jewish unity and achieve¬ ment and gives the opportunity to every Jew to Identify him¬ self with the rebuilding ot the Homeland and to express his solidarity with the defenders of our positions in Palestine.
NAZIS BAR ALSATIAN JEWS FROM RETURNING T6 THBIR HOMES
GENEVA (WN S) — Nazi authorities opened the frontier of Alsace to permit Alsatian refugees now In Switzerland to return to their homes and Jobs. Jews, however, were not per¬ mitted to return.
The number of refugees has been small because of reports here of typhoid, smallpox and infectious cattle diseases in the Nazi-occupied territory. Alsa¬ tian munitions factories are op¬ erating day and night shifts, but matiy other factories have shut down as a result ot a shortage ot raw materials.
Unemployed Alsatians receive regular mqals at Nazi Army canteens in exchange for three days' work each week in labor gaiigs clearing up war damages. Those regularly employed in labor gangs receive one mark a day, which amounts to a little more than 40 cents.
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Says Italians In U.S. Suffer At Hands Of Jews	
LONDON (WNS)—Lamenting the "persecution" ot Italians in the United States, the influent¬ ial newspaper, Corriere della Sera, charged that "the psycho¬ sis of the nfOi 'coiumi bias ctfn- queited eV6h AmMfe.') It Is gross propaganda—the Jewish element at work "
In a leading- editorial, the paper said: "Onjustlfied meas¬ ures are being taken against Italians and Germans. An Ital¬ ian grocer is reported to have said that there is no one to pro¬ tect his countrymen in America b e c a use Roosevelt in his speeches against the fifth col¬ umn sows hatred, and their poUtlcal representatives, begin¬ ning with La Guardia, have all betrayed them.
"The hardest hit by these ex¬ plosions of jingoism are peace¬ ful immigrants who, even If they have been 20 or 30 years in America, have never manag¬ ed to string together more than 300 words of the Yankee Idiom. Millions of Italians, Germans and Spaniards now find them¬ selves in this situation.
"A campaign ot hatred is be¬ ing fomented against them by the Jews, and encouraged by the American Government. Thousands of poor laborers are refused relief. Our country¬ men in America are li-vlng through hours of bitter anguish."
The anti-Semitic paper. Re¬ gime Fascista, complained that the United States was forcing "aU our brothers to be finger¬ printed as if they were deUn- quents." "This," the paper said, "is because the press and radio, rigidly controlled by the Jewish banks, hammer dally the most unlikely fables Into the rather spongy and elemen¬ tary brains ot the Americans."
BROTHERHOOD BOARD TO MEET TUESDAY
Albert Harris, president of the Bryden Read Temple Broth¬ erhood, has called a meeting of the members of the Board for next Tuesday evening, Aug. 27, at the Temple Vestry. As Im¬ portant matters regarding this year's program-of activities ate to be brought up for discussion, all members are urged to attend and be there promptly at ISO
BLWOOD, Ind. (WNS)—The Nazi treatment of Jews was condemned as "barbarous and worse than medieval," by Wen¬ dell L. Willkle, Republican stan¬ dard bearer, in a speech form¬ ally accepting the Republican nomination for the Presidency before a vast throng of 150,000 persons.
Disclosing that his own grand¬ parents were once victims ot European persecution, Mr. Willkle declared that "I have fought from boyhood against all these restrictions, discrimin¬ ations, and tyranny. And I am still fighting."
"I have more reason than most of you," Mr. Willkle said, "to feel strongly about this be¬ cause the United States gave to my family their first chance for a free life. The ancestors of both my father and my mother, Uke the ancestors ot millions of Americans, lived In Central Europe.
"They were humble people- not members of the ruling or the wealthy classes. Their oppor¬ tunities were restricted by dis¬ criminatory laws and class dis-- tinctions. One was exiled be¬ cause of his religion; another was persecuted because he be lleved in the principles ot the French Revolution; and still another was Jailed for Insisting on the rlgUtt) ot.free speech.
G''S?^«*ft^^ 'fers' of the democratta revolu-' tlons In that country, and when the revolutions failed they fi^d to the United States. How familiar that   sounds
"Today, also, people are being oppressed in Europe. The story of the barbarous" and worse than medieval persecu¬ tion of the Jews—a race that has done so much to Improve the culture of these countries and our own—is the most tragic in human history.
"Today there are millions ot refugees who desire sanctuary and opportunity in America, Just as in my grandparents'' time. The protection bf bur own labor and agriculture pre¬ vents us from admitting more than a few ot them. But their misery and their suffering make us resolve to preserve our coun¬ try as a land free of hate and bitterness, ot racial and class distinction. I pledge you that kind of America."
In closing his address, the Republican nominee declared: 'We must know that the truth can only be reached by the ex¬ pression of our tree opinions, without tear and without rancor. We must acknowledge that all are equal before God and before the law.
"And we must learn to abhor those disruptive pressures, whether reUglous orpoUtlcal or economic, that the enemies ot Uberty employ."
COMMUNITIES IN NAZI HANDS TO SEND BELIEF COMMITTEE TO V. S:
GENEVA (WNS)—According to an unconfirmed report receiv¬ ed here, representatives of the Jewish communities of BerUn, Vienna and Prague are plan¬ ning to send a delegation to Nazi officials in Berlin for per¬ mission to send a committee to the United States to raise fimds for the relief of those communi¬ ties. The report said that the Jewish, leaders discussed eml- Igratlon possibilities
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