Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1941-06-13

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Vol. 20, No. 2.5
COhUMBUS, OHIO,  FRIDAY, .IUNE   1.1,   IMl
Davotod to Amerlean •nd JewUh IdemU
Strictly Confidential
Tidblt« From Bverywher* By PHINKAS J. BIRON
Jeivry^s Greatest Campaign Of Aidi and Saerifiee To Begin Tliursday
INSIDE STUFF
One  of the  reasons  why   the late Kaiser Wilheim  refused  to the very last to return lo Ger¬ many was his  fear that  if Hit ler should ever want to get rid of him the Nazi chieftain would classify him as a non-Aryan . . . This not oniy because Queen Vic¬ toria   of   England,   his     grand¬ mother,     proudly     claimed   de¬ scent from the Biblical King Da¬ vid,  but  also  because  her  con¬ sort.  Prince Albert,  was  reput¬ ed to be the son of a .lew, and not of his  nominal   father,  the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha . . . Somehow   we're   not   reassured by  that   British   threat  that   if Hitler comes Into Iraq the Eng¬ lish    will    destroy    the  Mosul- Haifa oil pipeline and that the necessary    repairs    would take two years . . . We hope that the Germans and their allies In Iraq won't  be  too  convinced  of the ease which such damage can be done and of the difficulty  that repairs will involve ... If you "Want the Idw-down on France's Laval  watch   out  for  the  new book  soon   to  be   published   on that gent by Henri Torres, the famed    French lawyer who Is now a  refugee In  this country . . . Via the trans-Atlantic grape¬ vine   we  hear   that   while   the Nazi treatment of Jews in occu¬ pied France is nothing to write home about, it is better than the T treatment TefugeeSJews-itet .In many   sections   of iitiioccupied France . . . And,   returning to the ex-Kaiser, we wonder wheth¬ er Wllhelm's non-Aryanlsm, as explained above, may not event ually    affect    the   standing  of George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda    chief  in  America, among his Naztl brethren .  . . Viereck, you  surely  remember, has often boasted that It was the Kaiser who was really his fath
Women's Division Organizes For Intensive Drive
The Women's Division is go¬ ing places thi.<4 year in raising United .lewish Campaign Funds if present indications point tor
Junior Group Being Mobilized For Its Part In Campaign
In line with the national trend toward greater participation of youlh in .lewish communal af¬ fairs, some UK) Columbusites are
Ohio Valley Zionist Region In Annual Convention June 14-15
YOU SHOULD KNOW
Dorothy   Thompson's   call   to action   for   the   preservation   of democracy Is  meeting with  an amazing response, as Is her pro¬ posal to form a Ring ot    Free¬ dom . . . The first of a series of meetings   to   be   sponsored   by Miss Thompson's group through¬ out the nation  will take place in  New  York  next week  .  .  . Inside-dopesters insist that New York's   Governor   Lehman   will run tor a fifth term next year if   the   country   still   faces   the present emergency situation That  "there  but for the grace of God" feeling must ct)me over movie  director  William  Wyler whenever he sees a Hitler-refu¬ gee ... A career as an Alsatian department store proprietor was indicated for Wyler until, when he was a youth in his late teens, a distant relative, one Carl La- emmle, persuaded him to come to America and enter the movie industry  .  .  .  Rudolf Hess  has dropped  out  of  the  news,  but he still turns up occasionally in a new quip . . . Thus one Broad¬ wayite has suggested that what Hess went to Scotland for was not   to   save   humanity,   as   his farewell note to the Nazis stat¬ ed,  but  to  see  what  humanity looks like . . . THIS AND THAT
We hope that nothing comes of the idea, now in circulation, to send an American Jewish delegation to London on a fly Ing visit, for the purpose of cheering up British Jewry . . British Jewry shouldn't be sing- (ConUnued on Page 8)
Mrs. Alfred J. Kobacker
rectly, ,„: Under ,the- able-lead^j'- siiii* ¦ of MrSi''Alfred J, 'Kbback- er, the Division has organized as though it were one unit. The women have volunteered to see the Campaign through to the end and are making plans for an intensive canvass. The goal set for the Division is a high one, but the women are prepared to show their huS' bands a thing or two when it comes to raising money for wor¬ thy causes.
Mrs. Kobacker heading the Division as chairman, needs no Introduction to Cohimbus Jew ry. As leader ot the Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund last year, she demonstrat-
Leon S. Friedman
being- enlisted in the junior di¬ vision of; the .1941 United Jew¬ ish FiiHd idampaign. .'Sppnsbr- ed by the Columbus' Jewish Youth Council of which group Asher Moser is president, the members of the campaign's junior division will solicit con¬ tributions tor the annual com¬ munity-wide fund-raising pro¬ ject trom the Jewish youth of the city.
It is being announced this week that Leon S. Friedman will again head the Junior di¬ vision as chairman for this year's campaign. He will be assisted by Dorothy Krakoff and Asher Moser as vice chair¬ men. .It will be remembered that under Mr. Friedman's lead
ed her abilities as an executive,  prship last year a most success as an understanding person and  f^i  f^nji  raising effort was ac
as  a  capable organizer. Un
der her direction, that group look on new stature as a real social service organization. Her hard and diligent work made everyone realize her tine quali¬ ties. Mrs. Kobacker is show¬ ing her metal once again and her untiring energies in organ¬ izing the work for the Women's Division, once more point to another triumph in her achieve¬ ments for the 1941 fund raising effort.
In a statement this week Mrs. Kobacker stated that the largest possible number of women is being mobilized tor solicitation work in connection with the 1041 United Jewish Fund Campaign.
•¦We expect that some 200 women again will consecrate themselves to the holy task ot saving lives. Jewish women realize that millions ot Jews de¬ pend upon our help for their daily bread. Jewish women real
complished
On Monday, June 23, the Junior Division will hold a city- wld ¦ rally for all the Jewish youth of Columbus at the East Broad St. Temple. Plans are being made for a number ot prominent members of the com¬ munity to speak at that meet¬ ing so as to enlighten the group on the present emergency and of their responsibilities in the forthcoming campaign
The first important Junior Division solicitors' meeting is to be held at Schonthal Center next Wednesday evening, June 18th, at 7:30 P. M. Robert W Schlff, Jack Rainer and David Goldsmith will be heard at that time. All solicitors of last year's campaign, in addition to any interested new workers, are urged to attend.
The   1940  campaign     marked the second opportunity for par-
ize that a majority ot the suffer-  jicipation by the Jr. Division in ers   from   hunger,   Paln,   Pestil- ^,f^^ ^f „^^ ,„„.
ence, are women and children, <
ot our own kin. With energy and grim determination, our women will carry through the job of reaching all their prospects and bring the message ot rescuing human lives", Mrs Kobacker (ConUnued on Page 4)
munlty. Last year over 750 young men and women contrib¬ uted cheerfully and generously to the Junior Division, an un¬ usual record which, it la hoped, may be surpassed this year.
Columbus Jewry's greatest campaign of all-out aid and sacrifice will be launched with a dinner meeting at tho Winding Hollow Country Club, Thursday evening, June I!), in behalf of Ihc Uniled .lewish   Fund.
To meet the unprecedented needs of the most critical hour in world history, the meeting will set off a record drive for a sum which must exceed last year's effort by a considerable margin. Over i>0 agencies are the benefic¬ iaries of this fund.
 'I'liosc    altPTidlng    the   dinner
mcoiing will receive a first hand account of the foreign situation. Among those who .-ire to l>o hoarrl will be E. J. Schanfarber. president of the local t'nitefl .lewish Fund since its organization l.'i years ago; ItnlK'rl Schiff, mil geiieral chair¬ man and Simon Lazaru.s, Treas¬ urer of the Fund,
rrcp.'irations for the cam¬ paign which have been going on for the past four weeks have liecn virtually completed, with only final flotaii.q remaining be¬ fore Thursday. An army of scverai, hurtdred campaign workers have heen enrolled to voitmleer their time and effort during the 21 days of the cam¬ paign, and has held all of its preliminary meetings to plan the solicitation.
Every Jewish resident of the community will be asked to in¬ crease his contribution over what he gave last year, to help achieve the additional Increase. Every worker wiil be making his request witli thsutnowledfi
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depends the lives "if fellow Jews; Major beneficiaries ol the campaign will be the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal, and the Na¬ tional Refugee Service. These agencies last year helped 30,000 Jews escape from Europe, fed a million Jews in Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, and other c-ountrles of Europe to keep them from starvliig, help¬ ed tho r),50,000 Jews of Palestine maintain the Briitish lifeline there, and aided the 42,000 refu¬ gees who entered the United Stales in  1940.
Among olher important agen¬ cies which depend upon the cami)algn are the organizations which are combatting anti-Sem¬ itism in the United States, na¬ tional Jewish hospitals, orphan homes, and the organizations serving Jewish youth such-as the Hillel Foundations, in lead¬ ing universities throughout the country.
The campaign is being direct¬ ed by Roberl W, Schlff as gen¬ eral chairman and Arthur Gold¬ berg, Leonard Kohn, Max Le¬ vine Herbert Levy, Albert Schiff E. F. Schlezinger and Robert Weiler as vice chairmen. The organization chairman Is I. W Garek with Mrs. Alfred J. Kobacker again heading the Women's Division and Jack Rat¬ ner is 'senior advisor of the Junior Division.
The message of the campaign Is to be carried to every Jew¬ ish organization by Ihe speak¬ ers' Bureau, headed by I. M. Harris and the complete news¬ paper publicity program by Ben Neusiadt, managing editor of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
The Men's Campaign Com¬ mittee for the 1941 effort in¬ cludes S. .M. Levy as honorary member and the following army of workers;—
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Featured by talks hy Gov. M M. N'eely of West Virginia. Fd mund 1. Kauffman. president nf tlie Zionist Organization of Am erica, and Rabhl .lames C. iiol lor. of Cin( innali, the Ohio Val ley Zloni.st Region will hnld its annual convention at Charles ton, W. Va., .Saturday and Sun day. Jtme M and 15.
Activities will open with an 'oneg shabhal' Saturday wilh Habbi Irving A. Weingarl. of Fort Wayne, as chairman. Par- ticipanls will be Meyer Gallln, of Indianapolis, Rabbi Maurice Parzen of South Bend, N. Halevi of Columbus, and Rabbi A. R. Frero of Lexington, Ky.
The Sunday morning sessions will be occupied with reports of ail the districts in the Region,, reiioiWS ¦^bri ybtith"'-attlvitlBffeand reports bn Jewish Natibrial Fund projects.
At luncheon Sunday, Dr. Az- rlel Elsenberg, of Cleveland, will lead a panel discussion on "How Can Zionism in America Become a Mass Movement". Discussants will be Rabbi Frederic A. Dop- peit, of Fort Wayne, M. Chanis of Columbus, Ohio and Leo Jacobson of Dayton, Ohio.
Foiiowing the business .ses¬ sion Sunday afternoon, during which new officers will be elect¬ ed, the banquet climaxing the convention wiil be held. Sena, tor Jacob Weiss of Indianapolis wiil be toaslmasler, and speak- ers hesides Gov. Neely, Mr. Kauffman and Rabbi Heller, will be Daniel FrLsch and Rabbi Samuel Cooper, of Charleston. Dancing will follow the banquet. All sessions except the 'oneg shabbal' wiii be at the Daniel lioone Hotel.
UNVEILING  SERVICES FOR   ABRAHAM   <;«LDBERG THIS SUNDAY AT 11:S0 A. M.
The unveiling ser\'ices for the late Abraham Goldberg, for many years a leading figure in the local Jewish community will take place this Sunday morning, June l.'i, at 11:30 o'clock, in the new Agudall Achim cemetery.
Rabbi Mordecai  Hirschsprung will officiate with Cantor P. H Gellman chanting the "El  Mole Flachmlm".      The    entire   com¬ munily is welcome to attend. Dedication  Dale Set Due to circumstances  beyond control    of     the   commlltee   in charge  of   the  Dedication    Pro¬ gram  for  the Goldberg Memor iai  Fountain lo be held at the new Agudath Achlm Cemetery the date has been postponed to Sunday, June 29, at 1 P. M.
Further details of this impor¬ tant event will be announced In forthcoming issues ot the Chronicle.
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