Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-09-18

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Vol. 21, No. ,18
COl/l^MBUS, OHIO,  FRIDAY,  SKPTKMBKR   18,   ID42
Devoted    to    American «nd    Jewlvh    l<1c).i«
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits Prom Everywhere By  Phlneas ,1. Blron
I. W. Garek Pleas For Unity At Denver B'nai B'rith Meeting
YOU 8H0m.,D KNOW
tal One of the most Impre.sslve dinners in tht history of New York will be the testimonial din¬ ner tendered to Albert Einstein by the .lewish Council of the Russian War Relief, in October. . . . That exotic-looking young lady who i.s very much in evi¬ dence in the Washington House of the .lewish Army Committee Is Evelyn Zeiger, one of the most recent additions to the public re¬ lations .slaff of the Committee . . Some time ago, reports Leonard Lyons, a government agency ask¬ ed William Gropper to make a series of paintings for a book about the Nazi-destroyed Czech town of Lidice . . . Which Grop¬ per did with his usual vigor So the agency rejected his work —on the ground that the Ameri can public Is not yet ready for such brutal representation of the Nazis . . .
MILITARY INTELIjIOBNCB Ba British .soldiers In the Middle East have become the mezuzah dealers' best coistomers . . . Not only do the non-Jewish boys wear the mezuzahs around their necks as good luck charms, but they send them home to be put on the family doorposts as a "protection" against air raids . . . Bernard A. Bergman, one-time crack publicity man for import¬ ant Jewish organizations and -'personaUtieSi.and fop- the .last few years ah executive editor of the Philadelphia Record, is now, at the age of 49, A Captain In the Air Force ... Jo Mielzlner, fam¬ ed as one of Broadway's fore¬ most scenic designers, Is now Captain Joe Mielzlner of the Army Air Corps, stationed at Mitchell Field . . . Lawrence Helfgott is a Sergeant in the Glider Division of the Marine Corps . . . Being superior in rank to Tyrone Power of Hollywood, he gives orders to the handsome movie star . . . All of which makes Lawrence's brother, Mar¬ tin very happy . . Martin him¬ self is the office boy at Ihe New York headquarters of the Com¬ mittee for a .lewish Army . . . Did you know that Camp Dix, N. J., has a Hebrew-speaking club, the members of which are officers stationed at the camp? READERS' GUIDE ta Rabbl Bernard Heller's book "The Odyssey of a Faith", pub¬ lished by Harpers this summer, Is in the best-selling class . . . And Maurice Samuel's book on Sholem Alelchem, which Knopf is bringing out this winter, will become a classic, we predict The September Issue of '"The Protestant'! has an editorial by Joseph Brainin which takes Westbrook Pegler to task for copying William Dudley Pelley's parodies on Eleanor Roosevelt's column "My Day" . . . "Host¬ ages," a novel telling of events in Prague under Nazi rule, will be coming out before long . . . Its author Is Stefan Heym, who, as a refugee from the Nazi ter¬ ror, knows only too well where¬ of he speaks. If you want to know what George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart think of each other, get their newly publish¬ ed "Six Plays by Kaufman and Hart" . . . The volume contains an article by Kaufman on Hart and another by Hart on Kauf¬ man . . .
STAGE AND SCREEN Kb The  forthcoming film  about Sam Dreben, the "Fighting Jew" iContlnued on Page Eight)
DENVER,   COLO.,    Sept.   8—
Lashing out at those Jews "Who Are Ashamed of Their Heritage," I. W. Garek opened the new .sea¬ son for Denver Lodge of B'nai B'rith on- Tuesday night, with a resounding challenge to intensi¬ fied efforts In winning the war. "Democracy is Jewish," declar¬ ed the energetic president of Dis¬ trict Grand Lodge No- 2, "and the American way ot life is the Jewish way ot lite. We are fight¬ ing tor the same Ideals that were laid down by our priests and Ijrophets centuries ago — sanct¬ ity ot the home, dignity ot tbe individual, freedom ot the hu¬ man mind.
"We have nothing ot which we need be ashamed," Mr. Garek said. "We are descended trom kings and cjueens, priests and prophets of Israel; royal blood flows in our veins. We must work and tight — make any sacrifice neces.sary to make the Jew fit for survival In the post¬ war world."
Elo(|uentIy the speaker de¬ scribed how the world has plac¬ ed the Jewish people on a vast Noah's Ark, "without a rudder," and sent it oul on stormy and uncharted waters.
"The trouble with this Ark", Mr. Gareki said, " is the fact that It has three decks and there seems to be no way to make pas sase-between them. Separated on these three decks are the Orthodox, Conservative and Re¬ form Jews.
"My plea is for unity. My hope is that when the United Nations have won their final triumph there will be no room for bickering among us. My prayer is that we shall deserve the fruits of victory and know how to live in peace."
Mr. Garek delivered his inspir ing address as a feature of his official visit to the Denver Lodge from his home in Colum¬ bus, Ohio. He was introduced by Isaac Meilman, president jaf the Denver Lodge and formerly a fellow townsman of hfs in Columbus.
Mr. Garek's schedule visitation ot B'nai B'rlth lodges to date has been as follows:
Sept. I, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sept. 2, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Sept. 3, Las Vegas, New Mexico; Sept. 4, Trinidad, Colo¬ rado; Sept. 5, Pueblo, Colo.; Sept. 6 and 7th, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Sept. 8, Denver, Colo.; Sept. S), Cheyenne, Wyoming; Sept. 10, 11, 12, In Denver for New Year Holidays; Sept. 14 Hutchinson, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas; Sept. 15, Topeka, Kas.; Sept. IB, Leavenworth, Kan.; Sept. 17, Sedalla, Mo.; Sept. 18 St. Joseph, Mo.; Sept. 19, 20, 21 Kansas City, Kansas, Yom Kip¬ pur Holiday.
.lEWISH COMMUNITY
COUNCIL TO  HOLD
QUARTERLY  MEETING
Tlip regular quarterly meet¬ ing of (he local Jewish Com¬ mnnity Council will bo held on Thursday, Scpfember 24, at the Schonthal Center. This meeting will bp for nil dele¬ gates. Important matters of civic interest are to be discuss¬ ed.
All representatives of Co¬ lumbus organizations arc urg¬ ed to he present.
Lodge Sees Third Commonwealth On Ruins Of Third Reich
WASHINGTON l.IPSI — The postwar period will witness tho proclamation hy a' free world of the third Jewish Commonwealth on the r\nns of the third Hitler Reich, it was predicted by Uni ted States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts in a message issued for the New Year.
"I have a vision." he said, "ot a new and better worifl, a world ot love and not hatred, a world ot freetiom and not slaver>'. a world ot equality, regardless ot race, color or creed. In this co¬ operation world of the future, the Jewish people will constitute an equal and integral pan of all mankind. A new departiu-e from the modem Egyptian alav- eiy, will take place, and the Jew- im national ©gnlty. WflTbe re¬ stored by the reconstltutlon of Palestine as the historic Jewish National Home."
FRENCH REFUSE TO YIELD THOUSANDS OF JEWISH CHILDREN FOR DEPORTATION
PUBLIC INVITED TO HEAR
HIM AT T. I. MEN'S CLUB
MEETING THURSDAY
President Asked To Remove Anti-Semites From Army And Navy
NEW YORK (JPS)—President Roosevelt h,'is been asked, to¬ gether with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, to re¬ move from Army and Navy posi¬ tions a list ot people charged with having "co-operated with pro-Axis organizations." most of them notorious for anli-Somitic activities.
The protest agninst these per¬ sons was made by the Friends of Democracy, which has been conducting an aggressive cam¬ paign against tho Patterson-Mc- Cormick newspapers. Those listed included Clarence Oakes, a Commander of Naval Intelli gence at Chicago, who wrote for Gerald Winrod, John Cassidy, Christian P>onter, who once stood trial for conspiracy to over throw the government, who is now in the armed forces, Felix McWhirter of Indiana, a district .security officer at Ihe Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Bernard T. D'Arcy, lawyer for Father Coughlln, now a Lieuten¬ ant in the Engineers Procure¬ ment Division of the Army, Ed¬ win M. Hadley, chairman of a War Department Civilian Com¬ mittee passing on Chicago appli¬ cations for commissions in the ground forces ot the Air Corps, who headed the anti-Semitic Paul Revere movement, and George E. Deatherage, former commander of the Knights of the White Camelia.
BOMBARDIER LEVIN TALKS TO MOTHER FOR ROSH HASHANAH
NEW YORK (JPS)—"It was a wonderful Rosh Hashanah gift said Mrs. Samuel Levin In com mentlng on the broadcast from Australia of her son. Sergeant Meyer Levin, who described the bombing of the 30,000-ton Japan¬ ese battleship Haruna of the Philippines last December. Le¬ vin, Brooklyn's Jewish war hero, was the bombardier in the plane piloted by Captain Colin P Kelly
Paul R. Gingher
Paul R. Gingher, well-known local attorney and chairman, FYanklin County Office, Civilian Defense, will be the speaker ot the first open meeting ot the season, next Thur.sday evening, Sept. a-lth, at the East Broad Street Temple- As Ihe subject to be discussed hy Mr. Gingher Is of timely importance to every Jewish man and woman in our community in the present civil¬ ian defen.se program, an Invlta tion is extended to the public to attend.
Al H. Lewln, president of the organization, urges all members of the Tifereth Israel Brother¬ hood, their wives and friends to be in the Temple social hall promptly at 8:30 p. m. Refresh¬ ments win be served at the con¬ clusion of the evening's program.
Let's Get Behind Scrap Campaign!
•*The time has foiiio for for rvcry mun, woman and child In civilian life to buck¬ le down Ui the job of wln- In^ the war. Th« liv<'« of oun soldiers, sailors and ina- rinCH on the foreign fronts depend uimn our all-out effort, in fact, may depend upon the few puundN of scrap that you and I pick up and turn over In thlH campuif;n."
—Paul  K. (Jlnghei-
As Jews we have every¬ thing at Miike in Ihe present world BlrugBle. We dare not shirk our responsibil¬ ity in doing all we can for lh« war effort. Give tbe local scrap campaign your whole-hearted   cooperation.
¦ I^iVI>Oi\ iJVS^) ~ Inspiring the people of France with their first large-scale impetus to defy and resist the domination of (heir country hy Nazi terror, the deportation of Jews has met with vigorous opposition of Frenchmen, who have refused to turn over thousands of Jew¬ ish children whom they have sheltered in their homes after their parents were exiled east¬ ward. Evidence multiplied on every hand, among policemen who refused to carry out orders and were ancstod. among clergymen who used their pul¬ pits to denounce the deporta¬ tions as harharic, among ordin¬ ary citizens who clashed open¬ ly with those assigned to exe¬ cute Laval's promise of tens of thousands of .lews to the Nazis, that lhc ferment of hate against the oppressor was heginning to simmer.
ChurchcK Open Doors The Fi-cn<'h clergy supported the position of ihose who are said to have given refuge (o H.OOO .lewish children, whose parents were deported. Many chiH-ches have opened their doors to give sanctuary in which .lews may hide. Furthermore, the Kishops of FVance are re¬ ported lo have issued a threat of excommunication against any Frenchman who buys property and household goods of Jews de¬ ported trom Prance.
The Londdn Times reports^-, that clashes pcdu;i:diaily.^ in t.y:*. ons and other French 'cities, be¬ tween Frenchmen hiding Jews and police, who want to enter to search their homes. De Gaulle headquarters reported that 15 French policemen had been executed hy the Nazis and that y 400 others were arrested because they refused to .stiize and share in deporting the Jews. The op¬ position among the regular po¬ lice is said to be so strong that the Laval government has ap¬ pointed special police for the purpose. The De Gaullists also stale that many prominent Frenchmen, notably Catholics, were arrested because of their militant protests against the persecution of Jews in I->ance- Vichy's own radio station has announced that the government has ordered the internment of all Jew.s who escaped from occu¬ pied into the unoccupied France (o avoid deportation. The in¬ ternment is to be completed by October Ist.
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NOTED CANTOR WILL BE HEARD HERE NEXT WEEK-END
It is an estahlished fact that no other i)eople have found the solace und comfort in their prayer books that the Jew found in his. And the reason for il is that no other pray ers possess that depth, majestic grandeur and poetic beauty as Interpret¬ ed by the cantor.
During the exist¬ ence of the Temple the Levltes glorified the Creator by chants Pinchik ing the prayers, a iContlnued on Page Eight)
Sr. Hadassah Will Hold Opening Meet Next Tuesday, at 2 P. M.
The opening meeting of the Columhus Chapter of Senior Ha¬ dassah will t)e held next Tues¬ day. Sept. 22nd, at 2 P. M., at the Rryden Rd. Temple. The Colum¬ bus chapter will have as their guest speaker, Mrs. Erma Erlich of Kew Gardens, Long Island, who at this time Is making a tour of the Central States Re¬ gion.
Mrs. Oscar Berman will give the opening prayer and Miss Leah Smuckler will be guest so¬ loist for the afternoon, accomp¬ anied by Mrs. Max Ziskind, who will also render several piano selections. The meeting will he followed by a tea with Mrs. Louis Ruben in charge and the hoard members acting as host¬ esses for the afternoon.
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