Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1941-01-17

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MfflDRONICLE
Sf\V;^^^'"""g Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Coinmunity~^/\\^
Vol. iW, No. 4
COI,UMBC8, OHIO, FRIDAY, JANUARY J7, IMl
Oaaatad to AmerlcMi •ad Jewlfb rd«at»
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Everywhere By PnCTNBAS J. BIBON
Jews To Be Driven From Homes To Make Room For Germans
DUTCH TREATMENT
Informed opinion hereabouts has it that before long the Brit ish will invade Holland, where the natives will Join them in driving out the Nazi occupy ing forces . . . How strong the anti-Nazi sentiment is In Hoi land can be seen from the foi lowing incident, reported by Pierre Lazareff, French editor now columnlng In the New York DaUy Mirror . . . The Jews of |i- one Dutch community, it seems
were charged with having har¬ bored British fliers, and were assessed a 50,000 guilder fine, payable within six hours The fine was paid on time, by wealthy Christian Nether- . landers who handed the money
|t to  the    local    rabbi—while  in
five Protestant churches in Am¬ sterdam protests were openly uttered ... It was in Amster¬ dam, too, that a bookshop own- r^ er   reeentiy   was   forced to re¬
move Queen Wllheimina's pic¬ ture from his window display and substitute the picture of Badolf and a display of "Mein Kampf" Perforce the book¬
seller followed orders—but be¬ side Hitler's book he placed a copy of a volume by the famous swimming teacher M. A. Braun, entitled "How to swim" The reference, of couise, being to j^.    (Hitleifs Inability to get .across
'home'^ to (he''RelQh are being urged toi do so as quickly as pos¬ sible by the Gennan travel agencies, which foresee that soon all routes will be cut off ¦ I (the only one open now is via II I Japan and Russia) ... To ali of 11 1 which we fervently say Amen |\ I . Prom Yorkville, Manhattan's
n I / Nazi center, come reports of a BidewaU( inscription reading "God Blitz America" . . .A lesson m how to talk back to Nutis was recently provided by a Scandinavian Consul in a Latin American city . . . The Consul has been very active in an anti- Nazi sense, talcing every oppor¬ tunity of blasting his country's conquerors, with the result that a local Nazi representative fin¬ ally called on him and told him to lay off . . . "Your relatives back home will suffer for your deeds," threatened the Nazi menace . . . "They're our hos tages, and we'll take full advan¬ tage of our powerful position." ^ . Whereupon the Scandinav Ian retorted: "You're wrong— you're the one who is the hos¬ tage ... If anything should happen to any of my family, I wUI kill you" . . . IlEPUGEEI RHPOBT
One of the most touching bits of repartee is credited to an eminent French Jewish author who now makes his home In the United States . . . "I've been here oniy a short lime," he re¬ marked to a friend, "and I al¬ ready feel at home" . . . "Why not?" asked the friend ... "A man of your Uterary gifts would feel at home anywhere" . . . The author shook his head sadly, and repUed: "Not In France today" . . . Refugees, too, are the families of Gory. Goering and Gabby Goebbels, who feel¬ ing that Vienna is safer from RAF. bombs than Berlin, re- .»,cent^ moved to the former Austrian capital . . . But they'¬ ve already moved out again, as the reception they got was a (ConUnued pn Page 8}
IiISBON (WNS)—Panic spread among the Jewish population ot Fragile as the Nazi administra¬ tion formulated plans to drive the entire or a large pari of the Jewish population o^ the former Czech capital out of the cily in order lo make room for Ger¬ man."! made homeless by British air attacks, It was learned here.
Nazi leaders have decided to transfer the population of cer. tain heavily-bombed dlsricts In Germany to Prague. The In¬ flux of Germans to the former capital has created an acute hou.sing shortage, with Nazi of¬ ficials seeking to find ihe so¬ lution In the eviction of Prague's Jews.
By official decree, Jews leav¬ ing their homes must sell or rent them to Germans. They have been forbidden to rent them to non-Jewish Czechs. Meanwhile, Nazi district lead¬ ers have been instructed lo In¬ crease pressure on the Jews in order to hasten their departure from the city.
A secondary reason for the Nazi desire to have Germans predom(pate In Prague Is to In sure solid Nazi sentiment. Anti Nazi feeling has l)een reported rising in Prague since the be ginning of the war.
Herman A. Berca
J. N. F. Month Will Be Observed By Hadassah Next Tuesday
Veterans WiU' Hold
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Capitol Post No. 122, Jewish War Veterans of the U. S. and the Ladies AuxiUary will hold a Joint Inslallation Banquet this Sunday, Jan. 19, at 6;00 p. m., at the Fort Hayes Hotel. Morris N. Lessure will be installed as Commander of the Post.
Mr. Lessure Is active in Veter-
Elcctlon of Herman A. Bercu, of Cleveland, as president of Ihc Alumni Association of Bellefaire, the Cleveland Jewish Orphan Home was announced loday
Mr. Bercu. pre.sident of the Brlarwood Corporation, of Cleve¬ land, succeeds I. S. Anoff. presi dent of the Albert Pick Co., of Chicago, who headed Ihe Assoc¬ iation for tiie past two years, and who has been a member of the Bellefalre Board of Trus¬ tees for the past ten years.
As president and founder of the Cleveland Chapter of the Alumni Association, Mr Bercu has worked closely with his pre¬ decessor r.dp^wj'! the'cjiiist';! two 5e9re'lir'm^«azlSi«frcoat»ft'9:tB Milwaukee'H^d St/'Lovis. He has visited graduates in various cities throughout the country acting as a good will emissary and enlisting the support of the graduates for the care of the children enrolled at the instllu- tion today.
Using the same energy that they employed in reaching the top in their own business firms, both these mei^ have enrolled the active Interest and support of many of their fellow grad¬ uates, Increasing the member¬ ship roster materially. Aside from the friendly social con¬ tacts which the Association en genders among its members, Its annual    contribution    tp Belle.
Jewish National Fund Month will be observed by the Colum¬ bus Chapter of Hada.ssah at a regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 2.00 P. M.. at the Bryden Road Temple.
The program ha.s heen ar¬ ranged by Mr.s. Gilbert Siegel, Chairman ot J. N. F.. and her co-Chalrman, Mrs. Harry Peck. An interesting film ha.s been procured from the New York of¬ fice and will be shown through the courtesy of Dr. and Mrs. Don Shusterman. Mrs. Moe Hlrsch will give the opening prayer. In celebration of Pa]-, esllne Arbor Day, "Chamlsha Oser B'Shvat", truit.s and nuts win decorate the hall and will be served following the meeting
faire now averages approxi¬ mately 55,000 00 a year ' Plans are under way tor the 1941 fund raislngj effort In all' th&.'T&spteri^i'aiid^fot^itbe JiStgL annual Homecdii|iing celebranop In July. The Association main- ialns a scholarship and voca tional loan fund, is active in the guidance of young graduates and helps them to find a place in the communily when they leave Bellefalre.
As president of the Alumni Association, Mr. Bercu will serve as Alumni Representative on the Board of Trustees of Bellefalre, which will hold its regular quarterly meeling on Sunday morning, January 19th.
Mr. Edwin J. Schanfarber and Mr. Fred Lazarus of Columbus represent this community on the Board of Trustees ot Belle faire.
Morris ttessure
an circles, being a member of Southway Post No. 144 and Voiture No. 15, 40 et S of the American Legion. He is also Senior Vice Commander of the Department of Ohio, Jewish War Velerans and is associated wilh the State Highway Deparlment
Mrs. Sam Goldman, who will be installed as President of the Auxiliary, ia Junior Vice Pres¬ ident of the Department of Ohio, Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary, a member of Southway AuxiUary of the American Legion and suc¬ ceeds herself for a second term as President.
Out-of-town guests will In- (OflatlnMd am Pass S>
To The Subscribers OfThe United Jewish Fund Of Columbus, Ohio
This announcement is for the purpose o{ advising all of the subscribers to the United Jewish Fund of Columbus, Ohio, that the decision of the United Jewish Appeal not to conduct a unified national campaign for the year 1041 in behalf of the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service, Inc., will not in any wise affect the fund-raising proce¬ dure and usual campaign of the United Jewish Fund of Columbus.
Each of these agencies, the value of whose service is well recognized by all of our subscribers, will receive separate allocations from the United Jewish Fund of Columbus on a basis to be determined by the Allocations Committee, instead of receiving a joint alloca¬ tion through the United Jewish Appeal, as has been done during the past two years.
President United Jewish Fnnd of Columbiu, Ohio
Commitfee Reports Anti-Jewish Agitation In United States At New Low
NEW YORK (WN.S)—Anti-Jewish agitation in the United States preceptibly declined and "struck a new low of disrepute during the past year," the executive commit¬ tee of the American Jewish Committee reported at the group's .35th annual meeting, held at the Hotel Aster.
"Even al Its height." the re¬ port said, "thi.s agitation never succeeded In making serious in- reads on American public opin¬ ion but always remained an underworld movement, disap¬ proved and condemned by all decent Americans. There wa.s a preceptible falling oft of Inter¬ est among those sections ot the population which had formerly listened to the moulhings or read the scribblings of mischief- making, rabble-rousers and misguided  fahatlcs."
The report noted that in the recent national elections, the few candidats for office ' who were as.sociated in one way or another with ami-Jewl.sh activi¬ ties, were defeated at Ihe polls by the American people as a whole.
.Sol M. Stroock was elected president of the Commlltee. which was established in 1906 for the protection of the civil and religious rights of Jews throughout the world. Mr. Stroock, fourth president of the Commitlee, succeeds the late Br. Cjnrus Adler, who was presi¬ dent from 102!) until his death last year
The   Committee   elected the '|qlla\ylqg, officers. .Chief Jw^tlco' •
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r^ illkns,' honoriii:;^^ vlo pl:«sldents, CTarl'dT. Austrian a^ Lesslng J. JtoscnWald, vlce-pr^ idents; ' Samuel' L. Leldesdorf, treasurer; and-Louis E. Klrsteln, chalnnan of the board. Elect Officers The foUowlng were elected to the executive committee: David Sulzberger, Harold K. Guinz- burg and Walter N. Rothschild, ail of New York, and Milton W. King, of Washington, D. C. Re¬ elected to the executive com¬ mittee were: George Z. Medalie, Frederick M. Warburg, Samuel D. Leldesdorf, Solomon Lowen- stein and William Weiss, all of New York; Fred M. Butzel, De¬ troll; James Davis, Chicago; LouLs E. Klrsteln, Boston; and Fred Lazarus, Jr, of Columbus, Ohio.
Reviewing the tragic plight of Jews In various parts of the world brought about by the presenl conflict, the report sta¬ led that the outside world "though dismayed, was not sur¬ prised, by the Imposition upon the peoples of Ihe conquered lands of Nazi Ideas and practices which they profoundly abhor¬ red, beginning wilh the attack upon the Jewish populations." "Except for Rumania, in which the Jews have always been a pawn In the game of foreign and domestic politics," the re¬ port continued, "all the coun¬ tries concerned regarded the adoption of the Nazi way of life as a measure laken unwUi- Ingly in the hope of appeasing the aggressor."
"Not even excepting Rumania were these measures desired or approved by the populations as a whole. Certainly not In Italy did the senseless adoption of anti-Semitism as a government policy meet with the approval of the populace who could not see why the smaU number of Jews, who had been an Integral part of the nation since its in¬ ception had suddenly become, I (OwUnued fttim Pase S)
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