Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1941-08-01

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Vol. 20, No. 32
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST I, 1041
O«vote4 to American •ad lewish Ideals
Strictly Confidential
TIdbttJi Prom Everywhere By PHINKAS ,1. BIRON
Nazis Seize Control Of Jewish Community Funds In Germany
YOU  SHOULD  KNOW
The     bro.id.sidc     which     the' Friend,"; of  ncmorra(;.v  have  i,s- Rued under    the    title    "Henry Ford    Mu.st    Choose" i.t; a most convincing pict-c of lilernlurp However,  it  comes a   little  late . . . While there is no donht that anti-Semites in this country and eleswhere   are   bandying   ahout Henry Ford's name as their pat¬ ron saint, and that  W. ,1. Cam eion,   his   close   associate,   is   i notorious   prejvidire-mongeT Fords'    apology    lo  i.'^tii.-; Mar shall years ago still stan<Is as ; retraction    which,  if duplicated today, would have just as littie effect as  it  had originally  .  . Don't he surprised   if 'Wa.^hing ton   soon   issues   a   hlacltlisl   of| Swiss corporations Ihat actually are German-controlled  and  that are doing big business  for the fighters against democracy  , . We have It from an unimpcuh- ahie source, by the way, that a member of the Nazi High Com¬ mand     bears    the    reminiscent name of General Stulpnagel JEWISH NEWS
Those who expect the Zionist convention, scheduled for Cin¬ cinnati in September, to bring a hot tug-of-war contest between various groups, will be dlsap pointed . . . It's true that there is no unity in the leadership . . , But,. unless a pre-convention , agrement is;made concerning a'
|S''iest-*Jurt' i^lectlbns y'r'; ^ D^^ sonie important researcfh work in New Yorlc for the American Jewish Congress is the son of the late Haham Dr, Moses Gas tor of London, who was one of the outstanding Jewish scholars of the century . . . That speech which Pierre van Paassen re¬ cently delivered in Manhattan in the interests of a Jewish army has been reprinted in ex tense in the Congressional Rec¬ ord . , . Tbe Revisionist group which is training Jewish pilots for Palestine in this country to¬ day finds itself in a most un¬ fortunate position . . . The pilots are doing well and about to be graduated with honors—hut there are no fund.s avaiiijble for ^the buying of planes . . . Two Reform rabbis less than a hun¬ dred miles away from New York are making plans, we are told, for tbe publication of a New Engiisb-,lewisb m:iga- zine . . REFUCEE REPORT
The new State Department regulations. In effect since July 1st, have virtually stopped the possibility of salvaging Jewish refugees stuck in Spain, France, Portugal and Nazi-occupied ter¬ ritories , . . With the German ad¬ vance into Russia the number of Jews trapped by Hitler is in¬ creasing daily . . . Unless our Jewish leadership concentrates on the prolilem of bow to res¬ cue tho,se who still can be saved, 1941 will i)rove the l)iackest year in Jewish history . . . Refu¬ gee Magda (lilenui l.uix'sc-ii and her friend, former King Carol of Roumania, are under the i-on slant watch of Culian police in the Havana refuge, l)eeause of threatening letters tbey have received . . . THIS AND THAT Georgie Price, wlio retired from the entertainment field a num¬ ber of years ago to become a financier, still can fioid an aud ience with his songs, according to the testimony ot those who (Di^tlnued on Page B)
VKH- VORK (WNSl ^ The Nazi Gestapo has seized control of ;dl ,lewish c-^mmtinity funiis in Germany, according to a sec¬ ret report received bere hy the American Friends of German Freedom. The report provides a graphic description of .Jewish life in Germany today.
"The situation of the Jews has become much worse during the last few weeks," the rei)ort smuggled out of Hamburg, sta ted. "Heretofore the Jewisb communities had heen essential ly independent in the matter of their financing, raising and ad¬ ministering the funds for iheir organizations, except for the general reguiations and the fact that they bad to make strict ac¬ counting to the Gestapo. This was partit-ularly true of tho Jewish community of Hamburg, which has aiwa.vs had more money than most of the other communities, and whose repre¬ sentative dealt with the Ham¬ burg Gestapo in matters per¬ taining to the Jewi,sh commun¬ ity.
"The Hamburg GesUipo, in spite of the fact that they are 100 per cent Nazis, have often been prone, in dealing with the Jewish representative, to put mutual Hamburg interests be¬ fore 'instructions from Berlin,' However, the financial indepen¬ dence of the Jewish communi-
United Jewish Fund Aiming For Victory Finish Friday
sent to Berlin, and all local ex. penditures are controlled by the Berlin center.
"This has meant tremendous reductions in the money avail¬ able for the activities of the Hamburg community. Por ex ample, tbe Jewish school in Hamburg which still has more than '100 students, had to let almost half its teachers go, and the salaries of all the other em¬ ployees of Jewish organizations supported by tho community were radically cut. F.mploy- ment liy one of the .lewish organiztttions is ()racticaily the oniy opportunity for a decent life of a .iew in Germany, 'i'he .salary of Ihe rabbi was cut to li marks a month; he had heen paying 2(K) marks a month for his apartment.
"in most iiarts of Germany Jewish families have been forc¬ ed out of their iiomes. but this
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Secret Anti-Nazi Organization In Belgium Aids Jews
.STOCKHOl,.M rU'N'Sl- A new iindergronnd anti-Nazi organi¬ zation in Helgiiini, known as the White Guards, has been estab¬ lished to aid .lews iind other vi<-1ims of Nazi oppression In that occupied country, it was re- lial)iy reported here
Rlnre ils in(ei)tion the anti- Nazi orgtinlzatlon has fed Ihc families of man.v .lews sent to foncentrtition c-amps by the Nazi-occupying authorities, in (-llided in the movement arc many influentiai ileigians who are in ii position to effect the release from prison of persons convicted nf petty politlca crimes.
The new organization differs from other anti-Nazi groups in that it participates in no saito- tage Jiets against the Nazi re¬ gime but devotes itself primar¬ ily to aiding victims of Nazi! hatred, Nazi Gestapo agents! are combing the country in a desperate attempt to locate the leaders of the White Guards Biijce the organization is grow-
alKparts'o^'E'iropeVlnditiate'iliat tile British-spontored' "v"-{or-| Victory campaign has fired the imagination of millions of per¬ sons under the Nazi yoke. The letter "v" haa been painted on biiitjoards, posters, the walls of buildings and sidewalks in every counti'y dominated by tbe Nazis. One report said that "v" iiad appeared on the wails of the ghettos of Nazl-oe<-ii|}led Poland.
FRENCH  CENSl'S ,\IAKES KVEKVONE  ANSWER  AK TO JKWISHNKHK
VICHV (WNSl —in a census to 1)0 conditited next month throoghoul unocciii>ied France, every Frenchman will have to answer two (piestions with ,lew¬ ish significance One is: "Are you of Jewish raie". The sec¬ ond Is: "Are you i-^reni-li of .lew lsh race."
< IIAIRMAN OF  It'NAI
H'RITH   VOCATIONAL
SKRVUK   ItlREAC
Alfred
MARSHALL ANSWERS NOCK'S ARTICLE ON ANTI-SEMITISM IN UNITED STATES
NEW YORK (WNS)—Albert| Jay Nock, discussing the antl- Semltlc problem in America in articles which appeared in the ,lune and July issues of the At- lanik- Monthly, stated that the .lew is essentially an 'Oriental' ;ind is ineomprehensil)le for the most part lo the •Ot-eidental' American.
Mr Nock iiredieioii that un less a "modus Vivendi" could be eslahllshed lietween the Amerl c-an Jew and his fellow citizens the tlnlled States would soon see the introduction of the Nazi Nuremburg articles.
in the August issue of the Atlantic Monthly, James Mar¬ shall, president of the New York Board of Education, replying to Mr, Nock's articles, condemned the 'oriental' thesis as "an es¬ cape to Juvenile mysticism."
Mr. Marshall .said: "Tbe Jews lived over a thousand years in Germany, but to Mr. Nock, tbey remain Oriental, One would have thought that in view ot tbe Oriental origin of tbe German triiies, under tbe Noc-k formula the -lewish i)e(tple and the Ger man iieotiie would have worked things out! belter."
Mr. Marshall stres.sed that "the greal problem of <ieinocracy is to find the dis(-ipli'nes of di'- moerary, and I believe that fore- rilost among these dlseipilnes Is the reiognlllon that (leopies thrive from variety and die In a monoilthie society." He added: "We know now that we can conquer .starvation and epldem les: we know now that the ways of democrary can work. It la the patterns of a human behavior I that must be our next conquest
WAKHlNtJTON,      D.     C—Ap
pointment of Alfred A. Renesch, Cleveland educator, civic leader and attorney, as the firsl na¬ tional chairman of tbe newly created administrative commit tee of the B'nal B'rith Vocation al Service Bureau, was announc ^iJM^MtMiy^:^  Henry
WtK'^''fTfie =h^^!^miS^ will govern the group vocational program    sponsored    by    B'nai B'rith.     Max F. Baer is direttor of the Bureau.
One of tbe outstanding citi-zens of Cleveland, where he was horn in 18711, Mr. lienesch has lieen a memlier of Iho Ohio bar since inilO. Ho served on the Cleve¬ land city coLunil In 1012 and 10i:i and in lilll was appointed dire(-tor of inihlii safety. First eiectod tu the ('level.'Uld hoard of F.diuatioii 111 lojc. he has lieen consi^tenl ly reelected. Since lo:i;{ he hii-' iieen iiresident of the lioard. From l!i:i.''> to 10:10 he \\as a meinlioi- of Ihe Cover nor's ctihinel a.- dirct lor of rom- merce  for Oliio j
A member of irnai H'rilh sinie liio:i. and a pa~l iHesident ofi Cleveland Lodge. .Mr lienesch was presidoiit of iiistriet Grand l.odKi- \n 2 from lOJi lo lO'i."!. l-'or many years he has hoen a iiieinlier of the .N'ationat M'nai li'rith Hlllol i''oundation Com¬ mission. A iioani memlier of Ihe Cleveland .lowish Orphan iiome for 2(> years, ho is now its treasurer. lie i> also vioe- lirosident of tho National .lowish Hospital.
As a result of last week's workers' rally at the Bryden Road Temple, the United .low¬ ish Fund office reports this weelc that only five percent of the 10-11 goal i.s yet lo he raised In the Men's, Women's and .lunior divisions. With oniy a few hundred prospects to be seen diirlni,' tho next len days, fund loaders are determined to hend evory effort tn swell the total well fiver Jast year after tho final  reliims are in.
The Campaign Chairman Rob- on Schiff announced that it would be possible to exceed the 101(1 figure by tbe desired mar¬ gin provided the remaining firospeet carxis arc signed and delivered to the Fund office, located at i.'iO E. Broad St., by tho end cif next week.
In discussing the progress of the lampaign so far, Mr. Schiff expressed a high degree of optimism indicating that the drive would be closed by the coming Friday. He assumed I this altitude upon the theory ! that never before during the years which the fund had been In existence, had there been so complete a communal Interest in the drive.
The campaign, Mr, Schiff said, has been marked by a tremen¬ dous blncerity on ih^ part o£ the workers who hnve gltren unstint¬ edly ol "themselv?? pjjj^ttjf''"
N.   R.  S.   IM..\< KS   I.'iO   RABBIS IN   SMALL   (•0,M,«l'MTIKH
NEW YORK (WNSl—Morel than 1,'JO refugee rabbis have lieeo placed through the United States by tho National Commil lee on Itofvigoe Service, acctird- ing lo a statement by Albert Abrahamson, executive tllrecl- tor of the NitS Mostly Ihe rab- iiis have gone to small i-ommuni- ties, where there iiad never been a ralilil before—places too rural anri loo small to Interest Amerioantrained-m e II — and where the people welcomed the opportunity to hold seiTlces and have their children taught ;by;- able religious leaders.
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Ulrnar in; OM^r '.tOh heUOSneveTT^ the terrible conditions yxlstlng in world Jewry today Out- standing too has heeaja wiiling-- ness to give, from Sui)(aay School children to widows, and persons have responded in some instan¬ ces with a desire to give that exceeded their ability to give.
"Campaign workers have been greatly encouraged in their work by voluntary contribu¬ tions, coming from sources that were as surprising as they were pleasant. Columbus, as a com¬ munity, has shown that It is alive to the urgency of the need and has responded in its cus¬ tomary generous and openheart- ed manner," Mr. Schiff conclud¬ ed.
According to I. W. Garek, the dependiible organization chair- rfian for the drive, stated the torrid iv.ive for Ihe past several weeks liad handicapped the wnrkors in their effort to con tact prosiieits with the result Ihat thoro were a considerable number of unworked cards Many individual workers ex pressed their desire for addi tional time to make the need ed calls, in acceding to tbe re tjuest, Mr, Garek said, "Unwork eii cards are like an open flank in an army that is engaged In an imixirlant action. We can leave no open flank exposed so that our enemies — destitution, ill ness, poverty, discouragement, and hopelessness can gain way in our failure to provide a modi¬ cum of care to our unfortunate (Continued on Page 4)
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