Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1942-05-15

              ^iBronicle
^j\\y/   Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community
Vol 21, No. 20
rOIA'MBl'S, OHIO, FRinAY, MAV I.';, IIMZ
Devoted     to     American and    Jewish    Ideals
Strictly Confidential
TliIbllA From Evorywiiere By  Phlnrns ,1.  Rlron
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NEWS   FOR   VOr
fe Tho reports of Bernard M Baruch's III health are ronsid erahly exagReratcd . . . When asked ,-ibout 11, he recenlly .said: "There's nothing wrong with my heart that the fall of Hitler and Company wouldn't cure" One of Nazlland's greatest com¬ edians, relates Harry Hershfield, is in the cooler for telling an audience "Sure, ninety-eight percent of Ihe German people love Hitler — but's fu,nTiy how I keep running into the other two percent all, the time" . . . Meyer Davis, whose orchestra.^ have for years been featured hy the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sul phur Springs, where the Axis diplomals are interned, was ask ed to supply only a single or¬ ganist this season ... So the musician who entoriains the anti-Semitic "guesis" is one Na than Portnoff . . . When you see an anti-Nazi film called "This is the Enemy," waich it atten lively ... It was originally a Nazi propagtinda film, which the 11. S. Navy seized on a Nazi warship bound for South Amer¬ ica — and with the new narra¬ tive supplied here it makes ex¬ cellent anti-Nazi stuff . . . Was that a Freudian slip on the part of a New York Herald-Tribune hi;'., '''.typist; or llnotyplst which caused 1 \-|j "*ljeim.*Sen(Jerson to be quoted as -'¦'"--'---^Uc, should'ilMame
J. W.V. Natl Commander' To Be Guest of Honor Here Next Friday
Benjamin Kaufman, national commander of Jewish War V(?t erans. Congres.^ional Metial of Honor Holder, will he the guest of honor In Columbns next h>!- day, IVIay 22nd. and Suti.rday. May 23rd. it wa.s announccl this week ijy .Sam Meilman. commander of the local post of Jewish War Veterans.
Coimnander Kaufman wiil be here in behalf of the national campaign being piomotetl bj- the J. W, V. lo raise $180.n(X) for Ihe purcha.^ie of six pursuit planes to be presenleti to the United States- Governmenl. A check for $.30,000 was recently presented to the Honorable Sor- retary of Treasury. Henry Mor¬ genthau. .Ir.. for the piirchaKe of one pursuit plane. This gift is tile first in a series of six to be presented by tho Ihousands of .1, W. V. members in the Uni¬ ted States.
Columbus (|uoIa for ibis piir- |X)se is $2,000. A large commit¬ tee headed by .loe Dulsky, is al¬ ready in aciion. Those who arc serving on the subscription com¬ mittee are: Morris Lessure, Stan¬ ley Schwariz, Harry Goidlwrg, Sam Meilman, David Pastor, Al¬ lan Tarshish, Joe Topoioskj-, Tobfas Polster, Frank V. Bayer, Sam Lichtenstein, Nathan Ben. der, Julius gpeisman, Wm. Schwartz, Dr. D. S, Halken, Ben Gjqssman,j|Abe.;;Bonovrttz,i. gi
COrNCIL SPEAKER MAY 28
actually said, of cotirse, -was "the Germans and the Japs," and the Tribune was quick to make cor¬ rection and apology. . . . BOOK STUFF
Kb That Bible which the Com¬ mittee for a Jewish Army pre¬ sented to I^ierre van Paassen is the first Hebrew Bible to have been published in this country.. It was one of the choicest items In Dr. A. S. W. Rosentiach's col¬ lection . . . Now we hear that Wendell L. Wiilkie will have an article in the Saturday Evening I*ost in answer to Milton May¬ or's "Case Against the Jews" . . With all due respect (o Mr. Wiil¬ kie, it seems to us a bit startling for him to have lieeji chosen to write on a subject of which he neces.sarily knows so liltie .\ man like Maurice Samuel should bti\-e been Riven Ihe op. portuniiy lo demolish the Post's amateur exports on tho -lewisti (iuestion . . . hlsl nut is Sanuiei's translation of Sluiloni .\s(h's "Children of .Abraham. " ;i oolloo- tion of short stories . , , 'I'hoy show Asch at his host, lioaling with ovoiydav .lowish i\ pos , . . Ail of whicii roniiiuis us liiat Samuel Is planning In in'ing out a iiook on Shnloni .-Moichein. with e.voerpis fi-inn iho urilings of that iinmunal .lowish litimor- ist . .- . Tho oponinj^ oli;tptor in Associated IMos.s corrospondonl Roy Porter's fiirlhcoinin,!,' iMiok, "IJncensorod i-'raiioo'. is sumo- thing you'll loall.v olljciy . . . It's very iiriof — !o.-.s tliiin a page long — and we'd I('\'o to (lutue it for you . . . I!ui siiioo this is a famii5' paper we'll rofr.un. and you'll Just have lo wait nil the book is published, which won't be for (iiiite some tinio . . . THIS AND THAT (la If refugees of your ao()uainI- ance suddenly liegin lo spoak English with a porfec-t accent, don't be too surpriseti . . . The National Refugee Service now (Continued on Page Four)
Friday, May 22nd, in honor bf the natlonai commander, are now being arranged. Among the honored guests for this evept will be: Allen Gunder¬ sheimer, E. J. Schanfarber, Dr. E. J. Gordon, Robert Schiff and Floyd Ilartpence, state comman¬ der of American Legion. Harry Goldberg is chairman of special guests committee. On Friday, May 22nd, at the evening ser¬ vices at the East Broad St. Temple, National Commander. Ben Kaufman will he the guest speaker and on Saturday morn¬ ing he wiil address Ihe Agu¬ dalh   Achim   Synagogue.
On Saturday, May 2.1. he will speak over one of the local radio stations. Anyone in Columbus who desires to contribute for the punsuit plane fimd is asked lo communicate with .loe Dulsky or any member of the commit¬ tee.
The Jewish War Veterans is the first veterans orgtiiiization lo have presentoci an outright gift for the puioha.se of pursuit pianos, in presenting a check for $:iO.()00 to the Secretary of Treasury, National Commander Kaufman .slated: ".Man.v of us are fighting side by aide with our sons today. We know their greatest need is for planes. Many battles lost thus far would hii\'o been won had there been a<le<iuate tiir power. 1 present Ihls gift to purcha.se the first of lhe.se planes in the hope that it might inspire other organiza¬ tions to follow the example of the  Jewish   War  Veleran.s."
Secretary Morgenthau expregs- e<i his appreciation of the pat¬ riotic spirit evidenced by mem¬ iiers of the Jewish War Veterans and assurtHl Commander Kauf¬ man that proper steps will be taken to apply the funds for this purpose.
—Buy Wur Stamiis
Mrs. Arthur  Brln
Arrangements are being made for the ohservanco of Council Sabbath this coming Friday eve¬ ning. May 22nd. al the Hiytien Road Tempie. The services, which will begin at 8 o'clock, will have as guest speaker. Mrs. Arthur Brin of .Minneapolis. .Minn., a past National president of the Council of .lowisb Women and a member of ihe Ntitional Committee, of ihe (^'onforenoe of Jews and Christians. She coming to Columbus next week as the principal speaker for the First National As.sembly meet ing of the Women's Society of Christian Service of the Metho¬ dist Church.
t-jls hoped that a large section
hear an Inlpbrtaiit message by one ot America's outstanding Jewish   personalities.
Hadassah Final Meeting And Installation May 19
The finai meeting and installa tion luncheon of the Columbtif Cluapter of Hatiassah will he held next Tuesda,y, May 19, at 12:,'10 P. M., at the Fort Haye Hotel.
On ¦ the program will be musical parotiy. "If You Want To Know Who We Are," direct ed by Mrs. Max Ziskind, with a cast of the officers a.id Ixiard members   of   the   organization
Mr.s. N'alhan Zelizer will give Ihe opening prtiyer. A report of tlie recent Regional Confer enco is to lie given iiy Mrs. .lack Wolman. Mrs. Elma Ehrlich l.e\'ingor will give a brief port ni the war activities of tho Hadassah Chapters in Canada, as she ^.aw thom on hor recent tour of Ihat country.
The following nowly-oloctod officers anti hoard montli*'rs will be installed by Rabbi .Nathan Zelizer: Honoi'ar>' President, Mrs. W. .-\. Hersch: 'Honorary Btiard Member, Elma E. l,e\'ing- er: I'resident. Mrs. Jack Wol¬ man: First Vioe-l^res., .Mrs, Sam Wassei Strom; Second Vice-1'ros.. Mrs. .Albert Schiff: l^ecording Secretaiy. to be elected; Finaii- ciaf Set relary. .Mrs. 1.. 1.. I'raver. Direoiors: Mrs. Sam (j'oldman. Mrs. Roy .1. Stone. Mrs, Williain Wasserstrom, Mrs. Bernard Feitlinger. Mrs. Tobias Polster Mrs. Herman Paiiet, Mrs. Moo Hirsch, Mrs. Sidney Wasser¬ strom, Mrs. Sanford 'I'lmen and Mrs. Lee Sobel.
Reservations should be made with Mrs. Jack Wolman, EV. 1553, or Mrs. Moe Hirsch, EV. 5679.
DR. WEIZMANN PREDICTS 3,000,000 JEWS UPROOTED AFTER WABi FATE UP TO ALLIES
NEW YORK I W.\Sl —I'lslitnalinK Ihat there will be at least ;!,(1(1(1.(1(10 .lews among Ihe len million 'uprooted peo¬ ple" who will ((in.stiliite a niifjnitory population after the war. Dr. Chaim Weizmann. president of the World Zionist organization and of (he .lewish Agency for Palestine, pic¬ tured Pale.stine as the .sole solution to the post-war Euro¬ pean problem, at the opening .session of the three-day Extra¬ ordinary Zioni.-;! Conference held at the Biltmore Hotel.
To Hold war Emergency „f "^l"" J''?'-" '-"f ""'"''<'• ("¦='
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ClChhlOn   Ul   ^..niedgO p,„p„   f^^^i     American    Zionist
On Mav 1^tli   17tli groups  and   100  Zionist  leaders
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cluding a number from Nazl- oooupicfi counlries. Held under the auspices of the American Emorgenry Committee for Zion¬ ist Affairs. Ihe three-day con¬ clave, addres.sed by Zionism's most distinguishetl spokesmen, was called in place of the World Zionist Congre.ss.
"A calm, statistical estimate has lieon made of the chances of physical .survival of the vast mtiss of f'juropean .lowry," Dr. Weizmann saiti. "It is estimat¬ ed Ihal 2.') percent of central European Jewry will be physi¬ cally dostroyod. (lold.blooded mtirdor. star\'ation, systematic ovor-oxploilation will account for this proportion, and who can lell in these ghastly times, whether their tot is not the more merciful one. Thus Jewry will contribute the great¬ est  number, of passive easual-
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are takeii as a mattffl' bi* cbtirs^/'
Predicting an allied victory, Dr. Weizmann warned, however, that "on thai day the victors will bo confronted with a task compared wilh which even the winning of the war will seem trifling. And there is grave danger Ihat the failure to realize this setpience of events will en¬ danger the peace and render .sacrifices meaningless."
The world Zionist leader de¬ clared that at the end of the conlliot between nine and ten million people ~ Poles, Czechs, Jugo-Slavs and Jews — will be uprooted and constitute a float¬ ing population. F'or the float¬ ing populations of tho vtirious cotintries there will bo — and 1 tlo not underestimate tho gravity of Iheir plight — a cotnfjarativc- ly simple process or roabsorp- lioii.    .
"For iho :i,000,IK10 Jews who will lie .stateless and liomeless," Dr Woiziiianii i-iintiiiuod. "the l:i.sk Hill l)o infinitoly moro dif- flculi. For wo must iiotir in mind ihai ovoii such .lowries as h.ivo not lioo.n googiaphicaily (lisplnced, will have iioon econ¬ omically disltxlgod; and thoy will oniorge as a great, unadjusted mass of millions whose past ties wilh their surroundings have 1)0011 deliberately and systema¬ tically destroyed."
A.s.seriing that "large-scale migration to the New World, in the iieriod following this war, cannot reasonably be anticipated, for large-scale immigration, is a fouture mily of expanding economies," Dr. Weizmann said; "I'hero remains, as the sole tried and tesleii mass reconstruction measure, the ali.sorptlon of the larger part of this floating Jew¬ ish popuialiun into the expand¬ ing Jewish Homeland in Pales¬ tine."
Huys I'. H., Kngland, Rns.sia Concerned
Dr.     Weizmann     emphasized (Conlinued on Page Two)
CHICAGO (JPS)—Five hiin- tired tlelegates. representing eighty-five communities in thirty slates throughout America will meet here on May ifith and i7th to formulate plans as lo how tho America,n .lewish community can best bol)) the war effort of Ihe Cniled Slates and tho Cni led Nations and, at the same lime, to plan for the rehabilita¬ tion of life for .lews at the enti of the war as fiarl nf the now world order.
Both American stalosmcn and reiM'0son1*iI»ves of the United .N.'iiions will altonfl the sessions, called by the American .lewish Ctuigress. and will Join in the doliiierations and in the propos¬ als for logical solutions.
It is expected that a four- point program will develop as a result of the convention.     The
fort ot the United States and the United Nations; (2) the strengthening o f democracy against the Inner a.s-sault by Axis propagandists in this coun¬ try: (3) plans for postwar re¬ construction for Jews: (-1) ways and means by which the claims of .lews for the restoration of thoir rights may be presented :ii  a  I'eace Conference.
Among the participant.s will bo Sir Norman Angell, Noiicl prize winner: Dr. Malcolm Mao- l.oan. Chairman of the Presi¬ dent's Commiltee on F'air F^m- ployment Practice; Jonathan Daniels, Assistant Director in charge of Civilian  mobilization.
.A series of radio broadcasts htive been arranged hefore and during the sessions. Dr. Steph¬ en S. Wise, President of Iho A.IC. Louis Lipsky, Chairman of its Govtrnijig Cotincii and Dr. .Nahum (inlilmann, Chairman of tho .Adminisiralive Commilloo nf the World .lewisli Congress, wiil  he heard nil llio alrwavos.
Annual Stag Of Temple Brotherhood Set For Tuesday
All arrangomoius have boon coinplotod fnr iho annual I'ro>- idenl's Slag, llio one liig ovoni nf tho season fnr ilio Bi-,\(ioii ltd. Tonipio Broiborhnod. which is to take place iioxi Tuesday evening. May 10, in the giaiid ballroom of tho Fort Hayes Ho¬ tel. Tho affair will climax one of tbe mosl successful .sea.sons in   Ihe  organizations   history.
The slag dinner, which is free to all paid-up memiiers of tho Brotherhood, will begin prompt¬ ly at 7 o'clock. A nominal charge will lie made for guests or non-memlier.s desiring lo al¬ lend.
According to Dr. S. D. Edel (Continued on Page Two)
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