Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1940-11-29

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Serving Columbus and Ceniial Ohio Jewish Ck)inmunity \\7AR
VOL-IO, No. 40
COIitTMBUB, OHIO, FBIDAl', NOVEMBER 20, 1040
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Bverywhero By.PHINBAS J. BIRON
WAR ECHOES
American correspondents in Beriin don't like to attend the Goebbols gab-fests, even though extra food ration cards are is¬ sued to all present at the press confensnces . , . One reporter, however, goes every time—on the theory that any extra food he eats means so much loss for the German army..-. In Germany, comments a -wag after reading about the new edict legalizing dog meat for human consump¬ tion, it's now'a case of dog eat '.dog .... Sign reported on the marquee of a bombed London movie house: "Smash Hit Great
I Gigantic Goering" ... And from liOndqn too comes tho stoiy of the old Jewish woman ¦*fho, al¬ ter, spending the night in an
T al^^lid shelter, finally went out
to look for her home in the
White-chapel district . . , As she
'Walked through streets strewn
' wi^ the 'wreckage of Nazi-blast-
i ed tenements she ¦was seen to
' ahakc her head slowly from side to side . , . "Al-dl-al," she mut¬ tered to herself, "It's just like In Egypt" ...
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"BUtif^reek" ,is what- Broad-
'',way calls Italy's experlencer In Bellas ..-r .'Mussdlini. it Seems,
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Explosion Sinks Crowded Refugee Ship In Haifa
HAIFA (\VNS)—The Pales- ttae Jewish community mobil¬ ized its resdurces to aid the vic¬ tims of the mysterious blast which rocked and capsized the steamship Batria In Haifa har¬ bor, with 1,771 European Jew¬ ish refugees aboard, hurling the ill-fated men, women and chil¬ dren Into the harbor.
Most of those on board the ship, refugees from Nazi-Influen¬ ced countries, who had been shunted from port to port since Bst October, managed to swim ashore but an official communi¬ que said that "spme fatalities" were feared
The explosion caused the lli- 885 ton vessel to keel over and slowly settle to the harbor bot¬ tom. A few hours after the blast only a small part of the superstructure was visible a- bove the water -'
The number of casualties was held down by the speedy rescue work ot British troops and po¬ lice, aided by Palestine's mari¬ time, patrol and planes The blast victims were fIrac brought to the Haifa breakwater and then transferred to shore. -   \
Shortly- after tho disaster the Jewish National iCounciP (Vaad , r.-*' ,x,tctontuniea/m Irago «)^   • ,'
Davotei to Afflulean ¦nd Jewish Idesls
WILirfePBAK HERE NEXT
THCR8DAV EVENING AT
SCHONTlIAIi CENJ^ER
Solomon Rlvlin
The many local friends of Solomon Rlvlin, one time Rabbi of the Broad St Temple, will have the opportunity of renew¬ ing acqualntance<shlp on next Thursday, Dec. 5th, 830 P M, at the Scho'ithal Center, when he is the guest speaker at the season's opening meeting of the Columbua Zionist District.
The national movement, un¬ der the vigorous leadership 'of th'e new. President, Eldmund I.
Community Council To Hold Quarterly Meeting Tuesday _
The Columbua Jewish Cora munlty Council will hold Its regular'quarterly meeting Tues day, Dec 3rd, at 7 30 p m, at the Schonthal Center
At Its last meeting, the CoUn cU adopted a resolution author¬ izing a survey of Jewish educa tlon by a competent educator upon whose findings, a program Kautmann, has recently launch-1 might be worked out, to raise edv-an aggressive and effective! the,standards and improve the program for the year." Babbl] facilities of this important actlv. BlvUn, n^VF Executive Director Ity in this -community. Pur- Of-uiB'Oniario' isioidst,Region.I suant to this resolution/Dt. Lee
Pierre van Paassen Address Will Highlight Hadassah Donor Dinner Sunday Evening
About a thousand men and women in the Columbus Jewish Community and surrounding towns are expected at this year's 12th Annual Donor Dinner being held this Sun¬ day evening, Dec ist, at the Southern Hotel It is one affair at which every .Jewish organization is represented and where an elaborate program which includes an outstan'd- mg speaker is presented This year the local Hadassah chapter has been fortunate m having as its guest speaHer Pierre van Paassen, author of "Days of our Years" and famous foreign porrespondent -The dinner will get under way promptly at 6 30 P M
Life Story of van Paassen Born In the tiny Dutch town of Gorcum In a stone house built by his forebears in 1644,' Mr van Paassen attributes his love of life In all of Its varied aspects and his love of learning to hU Uncle Kecs, a landscape painter who had spent his youth In the art'academies of Paris In 1914, Just before the out
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p^^?^f^pdiaOT*0mVe5i''e«pee«^K?!4 ^^-,}-i*|!6,Jatt«drselto fool'the Ore'eks, ?YL'!jffwhb(.li»y*ted the-beast "sortie i"'/'three'^ousand years ago . :; . ,'f" ' During ,the   last > world   war ^iSiV-^-   "sauerkraut"   became   "Uberty cabbage"—and this thne thff ex- V clamatlon   '"Gesundheltl",   with 'which' one   greets a sneeze, is ,''g»ladtlally giving way to "God 'Bless Amerlcal" .~. . The beauti- burwife ot   Nazi ^Ambassador ' Hans Thomson is a most-Juzzled 'womari> these days . . . Here's _-     ,,     her Fuehrer doing  everything If' . •     he can to improve the world for is, " "    the   Aryans—and an exclusive ' Aryan hunt club accldentally-on> .   purpose forgot ,to ii^vlte her to Its biggest affair this year      "^ POT-FOCBRI
~, Note to Lucius Beehe, glamor- bfsy reporter, who Inslsts-het saw only a dozen beards on'Manhat¬ tan streets Ih the years before die 'refugees streamed in:   Did " you ever go down to Dejancey >> Street, the moat iferfect field ot \ all for the gaine of beaver? . . , Rene Kraus, Austrian biograph¬ er of Winston Churohill, is leav¬ ing-these shores'for   England, - where he tetpects to •write a book on the RAF . ... In/case you want to- know   whatever happened to the   autographed Mussolini photo that movie mo¬ gul 'Walter Wangor used to prize '„ in other days, it's Aow hanging in an unoccupied of(icei with its face to the wall . ,1 .\t  you're ' ^ wintering at one of the popular Florida resorts,' look   out for Axis Fif(h Columners, who are expected to   be   quite   active there . . . And Uncle Sam tells us that one of the Fifth Colimin's •   pet disguises Is etlU the guise ot refugees from Nazism ... So many   South   American   news papers are controlled by Nazis interests that U. S. advertisers In thoso papers have adopted the plan ot dobig some private, de¬ tective work to discover wheth¬ er such control  exists^ before they place their contracu for space ... -   -
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B'nai B'rith Women And Council To Act As Hostesses
Dr. Wm. B. Diillln
Dr'WUUam B Ballls, expert In the field of Far Eastern Re¬ lations, win address the Titer eth Israel Men's Club at' its next meeting Thuj-sday, Dec. 5, at 800 P M., In the Social Hall of the Temple. He Is a new Member of the political science faculty of, Ohio gtafe University. ¦ ,Dr. Ballls, a native ot Port¬ land, Oregon, received his A. B. -degree at Stanford Univer¬ sity hi 1020. In 1932-33 he was a fellow dt Chicago University and associated with the,.poUtl- .cal sciences staff there until 1937. In 1038 he,was awarded a fel¬ lowship by the Rockefeller Foundation
- Dr. iBalUs has devoted his time to the study of the Far East, having traveled through Korea, China and Manchut^ He haa'mastered Russian and the oriental lan^ages. ,In his classes here the students use Fav''East«m newspapers as pal¬ mary eburees of material. 'Two ot his students recently, won substantial cash  prizes in the
'v^ l^tlat^ meeting:) 4l0£@r^ for the coming year Wlirbe elect ed and supporters of ^ho var^ ious candidates are'-now lining up votes for their favorites Re¬ freshments will be served' All are welcome.
The B'nal B'rith ^ Auxiliary and., the Council of Jewish Wo¬ men will serve as hostesses on Monday and Friday of next week respectively at thd 'S71' Shop with members of the. two organizations In charge of sales,
Mrs William Calllf has been named as chairman of B'nal B'rith day while Mrs E. J Gor¬ don and ^rs. Jack Resler will he In charge on Council day.
Menders 1 of the two orE^nl- zatlons are asked''to visit the shop on''their respective days to view the beautiful holiday displays of handcraft and baked |!oodS. Orders for • Chanukah which falls on Dec. 25, will be given special attention.
Also scheduled as hostesses for the early part of December are the,Jewish War Veteran's auxiliary on' Dec 0, TJie. Ezras Noshim Society, Dec. 16, and Hadassah. Dec. 20. Watch the Chronicle tor your organization day and' help the '571' Shop grow.
riA.t,a! *ecent'"il«^tlBg o'f^ihe. commltteo^ oir Jewish education Mir. Albert Schiff, Its chairman, stressed the* Importance of Jew¬ ish education as the backbone of a well-balariced community council- program., Mr. Schlff's stetement on the subject pre¬ sents the problem so concisely and yet adequately that the Publicity Committee of the Council felt that It should be published In full; ^
"The primary objccuves ot » Com- jnunlty Council are threefoW ..SoclM rervlM. Dubllc relaUona on* dctense SS duration. The tatter Is, .ta my opinion, Jiut o« Important moro so, tmin the other two
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social sc'rvlue and public relations are )0 -the Ilnal anolisfe only a Jnwnj ™ an. end, while education Is an end in
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^jiwlsli teachings and culture are tho reasons for our existence Thi are all-embracing ana give out content and meaning. .,","„'"-„--,. In Jewish communof acUvltlcs and not be aware ot the Jewish philosophy ol IIW. mal(c»j>ur uctMUe* more or ins meaning!^ It >s Pi"."™i«S true now. when our right to exist Is challenged and it Is oecessonr Mr us to take over and. carry on the cultural work In Which the declining Jewish communlUcs ot Europe are no longer in n position to engage and on whose actlvlUes wc leaned so heav¬ ily In tho past „, j Tho Educational Program of i Commiuilty Council logically ahoulo iSK^l&eirvwlU. the general pro¬ motion In the community ot JewlU) knowledge and culture, embracing aU SudoiS opinion wlUvin the commun¬ ity. Orthodox, Censervatlve or Re- tamti and also^vtth every Phase ot Mucatlon. whether rellglQus, nitlon- al or cultural: andthould Include not only child educaUon but youth and aSult as well. Anythlnit that tends to* broaden the perspecUw of Jews and acquaint them with a knowltdga
nationwide China Essay /Con¬ test. , Dr. Ballls Is the author of "The Legal Position of War; Changes, In Practice and Theory from Plato to Vattel.''
The Men's Club Is indeed for¬ tunate In obtaining Dr;.Ball^i as the speaker, for' the' coming meeting. His- suhl^t next Thursday v'H ''e "'^e Struggle for Power in tha Pacific." Re- freshmenta wjll he seryed tol- lewlncf the meeting.'
ot themselves and their rolauonj the outside world should bo part 01 the EducaUonal Program ol a Jewish Community CouncU.   . ...   _      „ ,
It U no! tl* aim of the Council to try to force any paitlcular point ox view on any group hi the ctrmmuij- ity but each group should enioy nul autonomy and it should be the pri¬ mary concern ot the CooncU to assist, (Inandally or (rtherwise, all elucaUon- al InsUtutlons and cultMral group; within the community; to extend and Improve their progiami and taclll- Ucs Uk the common go^ Ot the coni-i munlty aa a whole ,     ^ ..     »
Sunday schools CongTegaUonal School* and Hebrew Schools, whether taught In English, Yiddish or He* brew, all strive .for the same goal and ar« ot valua^ln promoting Jew¬ ish education." >
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Pierre van Paassen break of the World War, the 'iran Paassens came to Canada and young Pierre entered Vic¬ toria College in Toronto After one year and a brief experience as a missionary among a col¬ ony of Ruthenlans in Canada's Northwest, he Jolpcd the Can¬ adian'-Army In France He-Was*" wounded in action and decorat¬ ed several times for bravery during the TVar.
Enters Journalism
When the'Armistice was sign¬ ed, ho came back to CahWa and entered the profession of Joui- nallsm quite by accident The Civil Be Establishment Com¬ mission, whose-duty ^ It was to find civilian employment, Mor discharged soldiers, handed him a list of the trades and profes¬ sions In which vocational train¬ ing was being offered «-He shut his eyes pnd let his finger rijn down the list When he open¬ ed them he .found that he had pointed out the word "journal- Ism".
Subsequently he found a posi¬ tion on the'Toronto Star   aiid launched a career that has tak¬ en him over most of the world - and, placed his name in the gal¬ axy of world famous "star re¬ porters" ¦•   His Interview with Captain Dreyfus, trying to (tet him interested In the Sacco and 'Vanzetti cAse,  his  account  of the Pojie'a visit to No Man's . Land during the World War,' his encounter with Al Hameen , el Husselnl, the Mufti of JeTu; < salem—all these and many more ' have become Journalistic class--.
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I World gave,hlm his first foreign
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