Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1941-09-19

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^isw/ Serving Colmnbus and Cenb-al Ohio Jewish Community \Jf\i^
Vol. 20, No. as
COliCMBCS, OHIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER IB, t04t
l>ero(«4 to Ameriaui and Jewish Idemls
II
Strictly Ginfidential
Tidbits Prom Everywhere By PHINEAB J. BIRON
A SCOOP
This is Ercv Rosh Hashanah 5711 ... In the search for ma¬ terial of our New Year's column. we stumbled onto a most inter¬ esting document . . It .seems that a few years ago the Bureau of .Jewish Education announced a prize of a thousand dollars for the best essay on Ihe subject "The JewLsh Question at the World Peace Conference" Only .school children up to the age of twelve were eligible to compete . . Now we've been fortunate enough to get hold of what seems to have heen the prize-winning e.s.say . . We had quite -some difficulty in deciph¬ ering the handwriting and be¬ sides, the manu.script was in anything but good condition . . . But we finally made out Ihe document to read as follows THE JEWISH QUESTION AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE B.V Moishe Ernes
The war ended quite sudden¬ ly •. . Herr Hitler simply forgot to wake up one day . . . When the doctors diagnosed his case they agreed that somebody liad lodged a bulJet in his left tem¬ ple .. . There was much rejoic¬ ing everywhere .. .Marshal Goer¬ ing immediately made an an ¦ nouneement    that  the  German
&• people wanted peace—any peace fe*-i-t. And Mr Churchill replied the veiy same day that **' the German people would have peace, a good peace provided Marshal Gofering and Co. would relinquish their posts, the Nazi party would be dissolved, and so on . . And a little later the British placed at the disposal of the Nazi leaders a twenty-thous¬ and-ton steamer In whieh Goer¬ ing, Goebbels, Himmler, etc., em¬ barked . . . Destination: Mada gasear . . . Those of the German people who felt like following them were promised free trans¬ portation by the revived Bern¬ stein Line . . . But, strange though it may seem, out of all the masses that had "stood uni¬ ted behind Hitler" not one per¬ son answered the call . . . Only one young man—his name was Cohen, and his father had died in a concentration camp — registered for the trip He
iipplied for the Job of warden of ihe Madagascar. Nazi lirown 1 louse . .    .
The world peace conference look place at Washington Throughout the sessions the at¬ mosphere was one of great ex¬ altation . . . after the other the representatives of the Nazis' vic¬ tim-nations got up and, with due ceremony, received the restora¬ tion of their autonomous status as fre^ nation.s . . . Finally, after Ihe delegate of Luxembourg had taken his Iww, the chairman knocked on the table with his gavel and cried: "Has .-my nation been forgotten?" . . . For a mo¬ ment there was a solemn sil¬ ence . . . And the chairman knocked with his gavel once more and, in un auctioneer's voice, prociaimetl: "This is the last chamX' for any national rep¬ resentative to stand up and let himself be heard" , . Still no¬ body answered ... So then the chairman relaxed, smiled, and complacently asked permission to read a telegram . . "I have here," he said, "a telegram from the  Jewish   Peace    Committee
U. J. A. High Holiday Broadcast Will Be Presented Sunday
The .siuintion of .Tows in many parts of rhf world will be dis- cii.'^.so<i hy Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary Chnirman of the Uni¬ tod Jewish Appeal, during the Rosli Hashanah radio broadcast which will he heard over the Coiumhin Flroadca.'^tinfi' System on Sunday afternoon. Septem¬ ber 21.st. during the period from 2:X) to n:00 P. M. (E. D. S. T.) The High Holiday broadcast will he presented under the auspices of the United .lewish Appeal for Refugees, overseas Needs and Palestine, of which the consti¬ tuent agencies arc the Joint Distribution Committee, Um'ted Palestine Appeal and National Refugee Service.
In hi.s review of world devel¬ opments and their relationship to Jewish life. Dr. Wise will also deal with the prospects of the New Year. Ritual music of the Rosh Hashanah service will he pre.sented by the Choir of the Central Syriagogue under the direction of Lazar Weiner. Can tor Fretlerick Lechner will serve as the soloist during the High Holiday  broadcast.
The New Year Radio program will be heard over Station WABC In New York and affiliat¬ ed stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System through out. the country.
Name Suceesi^r To Michael Sharlitt At Orphan Home
CLEVELAND,    O.  —   Daniel
Llchtenberg, since March. 1940 assistant superln,tendent o f Bellefaire, the Jewish Orphan home at Cleveland, has been named acting superintendent of the pioneer child care Institu tion, succeeding Michael Sharlitt, according to announcement by Fred Lazarus, Jr., of Columbus, president of the Bellefalre Board of Trustees.
Entire Nation Voices Protest Against Lindbergh Attack on Jews
Celebration Of New Year Will Begin Sunday Evening
This Sunday evening. Sept 21, .Jews (hrniighout the world will hegin the cciebration of Rosh Ha-shono. the Jewish New Year Thi.s- religious- festival marks the beginning of the yoar 02 in the Jewish calendar and will bo oKserved wi(h solemn services for one day in the Re¬ form Synagogue and for two days by the Orthodox and Con¬ servative.
In ancient times the festival was identifed with the begin¬ ning of the agricultural and economic year in Palestine. With the destruction of the Tempio in .feru.salem. the dl.s- persion of t he people and the disappearance of the agricnltur- aJ element In ./ewi.sh life, new customs were developed in re¬ gard to worship, and new mean¬ ing was given to the several holidays. By rabbinical Inter¬ pretation the New Year became the commemoration of the begin¬ ning of creation and a day of judgment upon which all people pass in reyieiv.before their Crea- tor.--''' ¦"-iltsr; message ;;Btr^sse5;';'tt»e need - of /serious meSltatibnirof self-searching and of penitence with which the day has become associated.
The prayers of the day are filled with this thought as the sound of the Shofar (ram's horn) rails for remembrance of God's laws and one's obligations to his fellow men.
Rosh Ha-shono Is a day on which family ties are strength¬ ened and friendships are renew¬ ed. Encompassing the idea.s cf divine justice and Imman re¬ sponsibility, the day begins "The Ten Days of Penitence," which culminate with Yom Kippur. the
Hoover Hopes For Jewish Deliverance
Mr.   Sharlitt.     under     whose) Day    of    Atonement.      During direction the present model cot- this  period,  Jews  are  urged to
tage plan was developed in su burban Shaker Heights, resign¬ ed September 13th ufter nine¬ teen years as head of the Home. He has not annoi!::ced hia fu¬ ture plans.
Mr. Llchtenberg, a native of New York City, was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 193i> and from tho New York School of Social Work in W.i8 after which he pursued further graduate studies at New York   University
Having served as a councillor at the New York Hebrew Or¬ phan Home for several years and as a caseworker with the Foster Home Bureau of the New York Association for Jew ish Children for more than two years, Mr. Llchtenberg came to Cleveland with a background of Institutional and foster home work at two of the c-ountry's out standing child care agencies.
One hundred and fifty mem¬ bers of the liellefaire alumni honored Mr. Sliarlilt at a testi¬ monial dinner at Hotel Cleve¬ land on Saturday, September 13. as evidence of their appreciation
reflect on  the  past  year,  to re pent    for   their   sinfulnes>.   and
NKW VORK (.IPSl--An expres¬ sion of hope for the doliveranco in tho coming yoar of the Jew¬ ish people who have suffered "unspenkablo wrongs" was voic¬ ed by former i'resident Hoover in a .lowish New Vear message issued through the Independent Jewish Press Service here. His expression of (ho American spirit, written as Lindbergh was speaking and as Senator Nye was occupying the Washington stage, was seen as an indirect rebuke lo both.
The former President asked that his greetings to the Jews of America be convoyed as fol¬ lows:
"Tho people of the Jewish faith are passing one of the most terrible years of all their thousands of history. They may rejoice that here in Amer¬ ica there is freedom of worship ami a citizenry of other faiths who hold to freedom of worship and tolerance to all. I believe and pray that those oi the Jew ish failh who are suffering un¬ speakable wrongs in other lands will gain deliverance. .
SCBOTJOUR DETAlNBD'^^   ^ AT £IIXIS ISIiANiy AFTER ffAVEMAU TRIP
NEW YORK (JPS)'-Because his wife Is sick, Zalman Schne- our. great Hebrew poet and Yid¬ dish novelist, has been detained at Ellis Island. The ship on which he arrived, the N'lvemar, crossed the Atlantic Ocean after a voyage of a month under the greatest possible privations, said Schneour.
to resolve for nobler conduct in the   coming year.
Services at the various local congregations are being an¬ nounced on page 2 in this w^eek's Chronicle.
AMERICANISM COMMISSION VOTES NATIONAL OBSERVANCE OF BILL OF RIGHTS
WASHINGTON, ». C—A na
tional celebration of the sesqui- centennial of the iiiii of Higlit.i sometime duiing the month of December, together wilh loiral observances of the anniversary in the more than 500 communi¬ ties where B'nai B'rith is repre¬ sented, were authorized at lh(; annual meeting of the national B'nai li'rith Americanism Coin- mission. A special program foi the use of Il'nal li'rith ioil^'erf and auxiliaries is to be prepar¬ ed in connection with the Bill of Rights anniversary.
Attending the meeting were Sidney G. Kusworm, Dayton, Ohio, chairman; Henry lHonsky, B'nal B'rith president; A. C. Horn, New Yorlt City, Disirict 1
Ohio   is   one   of   the   sixteen mid-western    stales    served  by
            Bellefaire.      Mr.  Fred  Lazarus,
which feels that it is entitled to.'jr ia president of the Board of be   heard   as   representing   the] Trustees, and  Mr. E. J. Schan- (Continued on Pw« 8) farber is a trustee.
Charies Rosenhaum, Denver, of his contribution lo the Home.} District 2; Abram Orlow, Phila¬ delphia, District 3; Harry K. Wolff, San Francisco, District "4; Elry Stone, Miami, Fla., District 5;   Archie  H.  Cohen,     Chicago,
District 6;  Louie  Myers,  Tulsa, Okla,,  District 7; and    Maurice
Bi.sgyer. B'nai B'rith .secretary; and Mrs. Abram Orlow, Ameri¬ canism chairman of the Women's .Supreme Council of B'nai B'rilh
Mr. Moasljy, Mr. Ku.sworm and Mr Horn were named a committee io plan the national B'nai B'rith celebration of the iiiOth anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
The Americanism Commission provided for:
1)—Continued cooperation of li'nai li'rith with the Immigra¬ tion and Naluralization Bureau of liie Department of Justice, especially in connection with the new citizenship education pro¬ gram; (21—Sponsorship by B'nai B'l-ith lodges of essay contests on Americanism open to ail stu¬ dents in high schools and col¬ leges, wilh prizes to be in the form of defense bonds
Mr. Rosenhaum and Mr Or¬ low were named a committee 10
WASHINGTON (.II'S) — A might.v wave of protest voicing America's tradilional abhor- renre of racial Intolerance swept across the country as newspaper eflitor.'^. public figures, clergy¬ men, businessmen and repre¬ sentatives of the common peo¬ ple joined in vigorous condem¬ nation of Charles A. Lindbergh's Des Moines speech attacking Ihe .lews as war agitators.
Lindbergh's att.ack on the .Tews h,-is given rise lo such a torren- lial deluge of criticism that iso¬ lationist ranks are being split and leaders of anil-war senti¬ ment are dissociating them¬ selves from the flier's anti-Semi¬ tic speech.
Wendell Wlllkie, Thomas E. Dewey, Alfred E. Smith, George Cordon Battle, Lewis W. Doug¬ las, Dorothy Thompson, Francis E. MoMahon, Vice-President of the Catholic Association of In¬ ternational Peace, Norman Thomas and scores of civic lead¬ ers throughout the country as¬ sailed Ihe un-American charac¬ ter of Lindbergh's remarks. In addition, the foremost news¬ papers throughout the country look the isolationist flier to task and severely scored his unwar ranted assault upon the Jewish people       "The   Hearst   press,
Udrtlst miD*IS^t«r4aturet( front- ^.j^f^ page articles and editorials |^i^    "' which  Lindbergh % speecii was characterized as unpatriotic.
"This sounds exactly Uke things that Hitler said In the early days of his regime, follow¬ ed by the brutal and incredible treatment of German-Jewish citizens which Mr. Lindbergh himself condemns," said the Hearst newspapers in an edi¬ torial entitled "An Un-Ameri¬ can Address,"
It is admitted here by sober analysts of public opinion that Charles Lindbergh is taking ad¬ vantage of dormant anti-Jewish feeling thai has been inflamed by elements opposed to Ameri¬ ca's ai<l to Great Britain and her allies.
The possibility that the Amer¬ ica First Committee might lose some of ils own supporters as a result of the ex-Colonel's charge that Jews, with the Brit¬ ish and the Adminislration. were fomenting the war spirit was .seen in the statement issued by Norman Thomas, violent isola¬ tionist, on behalf of the Social¬ ist Party.
"Many groups and elements in this country are attempting to drive us into war," Mr. Thomas said. "This issue cuts across all racial lines. No one race is responsible. The So¬ cialist party has many Jews in its ranks and these take their stand wilh the party against American involvement. No race or people can be made the scapegoat for this crime."
Prof. Reinhold Niebuhr, teach¬ ing Christian ethics al Unon Theological Seminary, sent a wire to 20 leading America First¬ ers, most of them former liber¬ als, to repudiate Lindbergh's re¬ marks and cleanse their ranks of "those who would Incite to racial and religious strife In this country."
In New York the Loyal Amer¬ icans of German Descent, head¬ ed by the son of United States
draft   a   uniform     Americanism
program lo be used in all B'nal j Senator Rohert F. Wagner, sent
B'rith Districts. ' (ConUnued on Page 8)