Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-08-25

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
Devoted to American
and  ¦ '       , ' Jewish Ideals
Volume III — Number i
.COLUMBUS, OHIO, AUGLf.ST 25,  1922
Per Year $3.06; Per Copy toe.
HURRAH METHOD BARRED IN N.Y. CHARITIES DRIVE
Street Campaigns and Theatrical Benefits Not Wanted, Says - Chairman Erstein
$l,,dOO,000 NEEDED TO
COMPLETE YEAR'S WORK
,., ', ' (•Spe(:ial to Ohio Jewish Chronicio.) New YORK.—Street campaigns and ¦ theatrical benefits, which have been utilized in almost every drive for funds, will not be allowed by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in its appeal in thc fall for '?1,000,000, according fo an announcenicnt made by Moiso L. Er¬ stein,* chairman of fhe round-up com¬ mittee.
"The Federation must have an ad- ' ditional million dollars with which to maintain its 01 alfiliatod organizations during the remaiiiing months of 1022," said Mr. Erstein. "But no matter how great fhe need, this campaign will see no street solicitation or he marked by ,,-;;';'.;, i'Vi any theatrical benefits. The plan of the financial committee of this charit.ablc organization, which annually expends about $7,000,000, is to build in a more solid manner than is possible through thc ordinary methods of raising funds,
200,000 Persons Benefited
There arc each year 2OO,O0O persons. Gentiles as well as Jews, who are de¬ pendent upon our hospitals, homes and social service groups. In the interest of these 200,000, which number docs not include the thousands who received minor services from us, we cannot run our financing machine upon haphazard methods of support. Instead, we seek and get pledges of annual subscriptions which automatically renew themselves each year.
"We have a certain racial pride which makes us determined that we shall care for our own needy. In IG-")-") Peter Stuyvesant e.»cacted from the first Jewish immigrants to ^fanhaftan a promise that' they would take care of thoix .o,>yn .people..in.airoe...of stress, s-',. .... He insisted upon this promise before he permitted these early immigrants to }l«^!=s!{i(SiP*t4tt«s,'AW6whsve-*taUcn care-of ourselves and shall continue to do so.
(Continued on pagi 8.)
BIALIK'S   TRIBUTE   TO
DAVID FRISCHMAN
BERLIN^ The funeral of David Frischman, the noted . Hebrew critic ahd litterateur, Was attended by a large num¬ ber of his colleagues, friends- and admirers. The procession was one of the most impressive Berlin has witnessed s i n c e Rathenau's funeral.
Speakers at the bier included I^achman Bialik, the^ H'obre-w poet laureate, who declared that Friscliiaian was thc greatest of Jewish authors because he was tho most bumble; he was thc High-Priest of Hebrew belles- lettres. Mr. Gergelson spoke on behalf of the Jewish writers of Poland; Victor Jacobson, as a representative of the Zionist Organization; and S. Ben-Zion (M. Gutman)'as a representa¬ tive of the Jewish writers of Palestine.
National Council of Jews of Palestine Makes Eloquent
Plea for Arcih-Jewish Unity
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Calls Upon Arabs to Cooperate in jkebuilding Holy Land — Out¬ lines Benefits Introduced into the Country by Jewish Setttlers— Voices Plea for iCalmness and Emphatically Denies False¬ hoods Which Have Been Cij^tulated   in   Re   Jewish ,V Ambitions aid Plwis
POINTS OUT GREAT HARM BEING
WROUGHT  BY  ANTl-JEW  AGITATORS
Lithuanian Jewish Autonomy Obtained With America's Aid
American Jewish Congress Lead¬ ers Demanded Pledge Be Kept
CONGRESSMEN HELPED
GET MINORITY RIGHTS
Keren Hayesod Head Invites Non-Zionists To Share Leadership
Declares Central Administration
Should Be Removed to
Palestine
POINTS WITH PRIDE TO
RECORD OF PAST YEAR
(Special to Ohio Jevvish Chronicle.) NEW YORK-—Declaring that the ratification of the Palestine Mandate should have the effect of- wiping out. the distinction between Zionists and non-Zjonists, and that the Palestine Foundation ' Fund was the instrument which both could employ for the re¬ building of Palestine, Peter J. Schweit¬ zer, Chairman of the National Admin¬ istration' of the Keren Hayesod in America, before .sailni,? on the Maure- tania this morning, announced that the doors of the Keren Hayesod were wide open to all Jews, and that all who had the cause of Palestine at heart were welcome to come in and share the priv¬ ileged responsibility of labor and leader¬ ship.' Mr. Schweitzer was very em¬ phatic in his opinion that the head¬ quarters and- central administration of the Keren Hayesod .should be removed to Palestine from London where they are now located.' He maintained that this step was particularly advisable- in view of the final ratifitation of the Mandate.
Record of Patt Year
"The Keren Hayesod in America," he said, "is justified in pointing with pride to its record of the past year. Established as it was at a time of heated controversy of which it was the ob¬ jective, it had to surmount enormous difficul,ties and obstacles. Some of these difficulties .were due to the fact that it was a new institution in Jewish life in America and that it had to organize itself almost overnight. It encountered obstacles in the attitude of unreasoning animosity and carping criticism which was assumed by some who shotild have been its §taunchest friends. It is grati- ¦ fying. to note that, some of the latter have already become its friends, and that more w>H Join the ranks as time , goes bn and the Kereji Hayesod demon¬ strates its power and efl^cieiicy. After , a year of unremitting effort, the difficul¬ ties and obslacles. were overcome, and {CoHtinued on page 6.)
NKW YORK.—Credit for the vie tory which the . Jews of Lithuania have ¦ scored in- obtaining "national autonomy" under the nek 'Lithuanian constitution is in large measure due to the efforts of the Jews of. America, who have watched over the 'interests of their brethren on the other'side.
For a time there was danger of" thc clause guaranteeing minority rights, which arc so vital .to the wellbeing of the Jews in .Lithuania,- being omitted from. the constitution, despite^tKeT'facf that representatives ¦ ot* the .Lithuanian ••8<5v^1wiwrU-"1iatf-ffi1^%e'1^oifh''s'e?^'o'- the Committee of Jewish Delegations at Paris in December, 101 f). that such rights would be granted to the Jews.
Demand of Congress
Last January, acting upon advice re¬ ceived from abroad that Jewish rights are in danger of being overlooked in the new constitution, 'the American Jewish Congress took steps to exert moral pressure upon the Lithuanian government that .the latter keep ifs promise. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, at pres¬ ent chairman of the congress executive, took the matter' up with fhe representa¬ tives of the Lithuanian governnient as well as with officials of the American government.
The American Jewish Congress, backed by the Jewish press, thereafter called upon thcAmerican Jews-to rally to the support of theii Lithuanian brethren. Wlieu the Lithuanian Jews Held their congress last February, the .American Jewish Con.gress cabled a de¬ mand in thc iiaUie of the many affiliate'd Jewish central and national organiza¬ tions that the Lithuanian governnient keep ifs promise and grant the Jews within   its  borders  local   autonomy.
Help of Congressmen
Leaders of the American Jevvish Con¬ gress took thc matter up with Congress¬ man Chandler of New York and Con¬ gressman Sabbath of Chicago, the lattter having introduced in Congress a resolu¬ tion providing for the recognition of Lithuania, and asked that Lithuania be held to her promise with respect tto Jew¬ ish rights before she is given recogni- .tion by thc United States.
The recent session of the .American Jevvish Congress at Philadelphia adopt¬ ed a resolution which undoubtedly had great bearing upon the final decision fo incorporate the minority clause in the constitution. The resolution read as follows:
"Resolved, That the Ainerican Jevv¬ ish Congress has noted with deep sor¬ row that the Lithuanian government has up to this time failed to carry out the terms of the solemn agreement made by its representatives with the Commit¬ tee of Jewish "Delegations in Paris, De¬ cember, 1919.
"The American Jewish Congress most earnestly trusts that Lithuania will no.t mark its re-entry into national existence by failing to keep the plighted troth of its government and people to.its faithful and loyal Jewish citizens an<l theref<)re fail to achieve that recognition at the hands of ottr government which America will and must rightfully with¬ hold tinl^ss a,nd tintij, Lithuania shall ih spirit and substance haye fulfilled her covenant with Jier Jewish citizens."
JERUSALEM —Thc Waad Leumi, the National Council of the Jews of Palestine, in an eloquent plea sent to all Arabic newspapers in Palestine and other countries, calls upon thc kindred brethren of the Jevvs to share in the common ambition of rebuilding the wasted portioijs of the Holy Land and work vvith the Jews for the restoration of Palestine's honor and glory.
The appeal is dated Jerusalem, July 12. Outlining the benefits introduced into the country by the Jewish settlers, th'e statcmeht denies numerous false¬ hoods that were circulated among thc Ar.-ibs by -anti-Jewish agitators -and mischief-makers. The National Council particularly makes emphatic answer-to thc false rumor that the Jews plahned to put the Zionist flag over the Mosque of Omar.
Addressed to the "Arab nation ]in Palestine and thc Greater Orient," .the appeal  follows: ¦*   "
Fount of New Life
"The Hebrew nation, after 'its years of wandering in diverse lands, has com¬ menced, during this latest epoch, to rc- ti^rn in vast numbers to its ancient motherland, a land held sacred by all nations; It has come back with whole¬ hearted sincerity and loving friendliness to this blessed country to toil in it, to cherish it and to revivify it. It has in¬ vested both strength and energy, made sacrifices, fructified the earth by execs sivc toil and in many parts even con.
of licw lifo, as your own eyes have wit- n(!'-ied,
,"Wc have come with fervid aim to W^'jk in consort with you for the up- buiJiliiig of fhe country, dear to us b0f'li; to work with you in perfect cor- dialUj and accord as lovi'ng brothers who have been parted ahd drawn to¬ gether again. Wc have suffered much in Tjliaf world, whence vve have returned, vvfifikt among nations who failed to un- der^t.uul us and the spirit animating our coilrtuLt, Here, in the birthplace of the" Seijiitcs, nearest to us in stock and lanjruagc, we hoped vve might find a coijlmon tongue and kindred spirit and be,enabled to comprehend-and appre- ciatp cadi pthcr, and thus progress hand in .^and towards the future upbuilding of ,the Holy Land.
'-,     Introduce Great AVealth
!'you have been aware that, for the past '10 years, thejevvish nation has in¬ troduced into the country a great wealth, which has served as a source of em¬ ployment and livelihood to thousands of thew\rabic race. Thp 40'colonies and the) other .settlements we have estab- lishjid in Judaea, Samaria, Lower and Upter Galilee and in the Plain of Israel; the new towns such as Tel-Aviv, anciitlic new suburbs on the outskirts of Haifa and Jerusalem—have added much to the life and movement of the country andl have given means of livelihood to lafae numbers of its inhabitants. You "^^".fogniz'ant of, see and feel, the fact
EINSTEIN ADVISED TO
REMAIN  IN  HIDING
BERLIN —Friends of Pro¬ fessor Albert Einstein insist upon his remaining abroad, where he is understood to be hiding from the "Deutsche Na- tionale" plotters by whom he has been blacklisted, together with a,number of other loading German Jews.
The fear of Professor Ein- . stein's friends is justified in the opinion of the Berliner , Tage- blatt,' whose editor, Theodore Wolf is included in the mon¬ archists' blacklist. "Professor Einstein's continued conceal¬ ment is advisable," the Tagc- blatt declares, "because the as¬ sailants of Maxim Harden and Mathew Erzbergcr have not been apprehended. Professor Einstein's enforced absence is a blot on the German name and honor."
Sir Herbert Samuel Explains Situation In the Holy Land
Says Approval of Mandate VVill Make No Differencie in Pres¬ ent Administration
ISSUES STATEMENT AT AD¬ VISORY COUNCIL MEETING
JERUSALEM, Aug.  20.—(J.  T. A.,
RUSSIAN CROPS WILL NOT HELP JEWS OFUKRAINE
Saya  Dr.  Joseph   Rosen  of  the
American J. D. C—Rural
Peasants Only Will
Benefit
®" PER CEN-FoF JEWS IN DIRE NEED OF CLOtHES
(Special to-Ohio Jewish Chronicle.) ODESSA, RUSSFA.Wews of Amer¬ ica who have coiitribiitod to the work of thc Amerieaii Jewish Joint Distribu¬ tion Comiiiitttoc in this country are warned by Dr. Joseph Rosen, their rep- resciitaftive here, .igainst acceptiti,g the favorable crop reports from' certain sec¬ tors of Russia as an assurance that their task has ended.
. In a statement today Dr.'Rosen de¬ clared that even if enough grain were harvested to provide bread for every person in Russia, the suffering among the Jews would be acute for some time to come. '
Peasants   to   Benefit    '
^ "It must be remembered." he said, "that the peasants in rural districts will have the grain. It will improve their condition without question, but what Of the great majority of the Jewish popula¬ tion? These people live in the cities and more congested towns and are with¬ out funds with which to buy bread when it becomes available.
".And the scarcity of food is but an in¬ cidental  consideration.    There  is great need for clothing and shoes.   Ninety per . cent of the Jewish population is in rags.
verled the veritable desert into a fount '^ \] •-   (Cnntinned on page 7)
! What's ihe MatterWith Our Young People?
By DR. STEPHEN S. WISE
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Our youth are not going to the dogs, | come and vvith all the daring of youth's but it is not well with them.   "The Na-' instinctive attractiveness.
The manners of our time are revealed in a thousand ways, though vve name but two-:rmusic, debased and debauched into jazz, and dancing plus all the brazenness of its vulgarity.
•Vulgarization
Vulgarization is the matter with our young people—that vulgarization that grows out of contentlessness of life and results among other things in manner- lessncss. Vulgarization is just a cheap¬ ening of life—that cheapening which the so-called best sets are neither too expensive nor too icxclusive to shut out.
Vulgarization comes to pass when to young people all is given and nothing asked, when youth, ready in spirit to become burden-bearing, is left untasked, unburdened and unchallenged.
tional Anthem" may have been an ex¬ aggerated portrayal of our time and yet it seems to me to have been utterly true to truth as a picture of the way in which one may drag down another and (fthers —the awful effect of environmental con¬ tacts.
Nor is war to be held responsible any longer, as it too long has been, for all our social ailments. There are some residuary effects of the war, but' war may no longer be charged with for all that we are and .do.
Eagerly Imitative
What ever indictment may be drawn of young people holds true of all or most young people—that is to say of young peopl,e in all classes, the poor and thc rich alike. For the ill-to-do are eagerly imitative of the well-to-do and luxury is corrosive in all economic strata, even when men cannot afford luxury from the economic point of view.
Special   Correspo.idei.ce).-Sir   HerWrt At this time of the'yepr scanty clotWng
Samuel,   High   Commissioner   of   Pal-          ..... ¦- »
estine, in a statement issued at the meeting of thc advisory council, made thc following declaration explaining the situation of Palestine:
"I have returned tto Palestine to find that the confirmation of the Palestine Mandate by the League of -Nations is giving rise to a remarkable .series of false rumors, which have been spread among the people. It has once more been asserted that the Moslem posses¬ sion of the Mosque Al-^Aqua and the Harara. Esh-Sharif js. threatened,,,and representatives have been sent to Mecca to defend Moslem rights. It is not necessary to go to so much trouble to repel an attack vvhich no one has made or vvill make. The Moslem possession of the Haram Esh-Sharif is absolutely guaranteed, not only by the declarations of thc British Government, but by Article 13 of the mandate itself. The mandate, so far from threatening, is an additional protection, (f such vvere needed, of the existing rights- of each community  to  its  holy places.
False   Rumors
"It is rumored also that on the pas¬ sage of the mandate, the British !flags over the governorates vvill be replaced by Zionis.t flags; the government of the country Will be transferred to the Zion¬ ist Organization,' and thirty thousand Jews will immediately enter the country to occupy it. I am not so much sur¬ prised    that ' mischief-makers     should
means comfort rather than hardship, but Russian winters are severe and unless such supplies are provided our people will not survive."
Destruction   of  Homes
Dr. Rosen reminds Americans of the almost total destruction of the homes of Jevvish residents of the Ukraine. They have no places to live other than entirely inadequate homes, and there is no busi¬ ness or trade by which they can earn enough money to feed and clothe them¬ selves, he says.
¦"'A'feftHei-'qiffcSfimf W 'gfelPXIol^^cr' IS the homes caring for orphaned Jewish (Continued on page.'J)
Religious Hatred The Real Cause Of Anti-Semitism
Asserts Dr.  L. W. Zwisohn In
Last Week's Issue of th^e
Hebrew Standard
I Aimlessness
What is the matter with our young
people?   The answer might be given in
the words—that aimlessness | which  re-
, suits   from   the   mad   quest   of   things Unhappily,  the  good  and  the  better ,^j,j^^ .^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^.j,^ j,^^ ^^^^^j ^^^
are not as easily and fluently pervasive, ^.^j^^j^^  ^^  ,.^g_  j^^^;,^^  ^^^  ^^^^^^   ^^^
as the evil and the lower tends to pre-i^,^^,^ ^^1,^^^, j^^ ^^,^.,, j^jj^^^ ^^j j,,^
vail unless checked and challenged.     .  | substitution    of    pleasure-hunting     for
Mother and Grandmother
Our business is not with the flapper, who is getting too much attention, but with her mother and grandmother vvho are getting too little. For the most part, we shall find that nothing is the matter vvith our young people that is not true of us. The flapper is little more than the attractive scapegoat of a rather unattractive age.
Youth today merely exaggerates or seems to exaggerate prevailing tenden¬ cies and fashions, its exaggeration be¬ ing little more than the accents of youth. It quite undaringly reproduces where it seems most bravely to initiate. This is the more true because youth is imitative. It does not innovate; it does not initiate.
More Noticeable
Our young people are niore noticeable anil interesting than are we. What in the rest of u? were judged silly or im¬ becile becomes in the terms or at the hands of youth arrestive. daring and more or less attractive.- Our youth are only a little .more pronouncedly and pleasantly that which we fain would be if we dared. They are the quintescence of our'age with its disguises thrown away and its repressions all'but over¬
high joy. Youth too much- divides its life between thc drifting of aimlessness and the velocity of the pursuit of goals not worth while. Our day is charac¬ terized by speed without aim, and ve¬ locity without a goal, that utter aim¬ lessness which comes of no worthwhile goal. Life is neither real nor earnest. Intensity i^nd exciteiuent arc a poor substitute for earnestness, as poor as glitter and show in the place: of reality, and drifting in the place of aim.
,   No Religious Restraints
One of the fundamental causes of the vulgarization of life is the throwing off of religious restraints vvith nothing to take their place ¦ and, no moral inspira¬ tions at hand to guide and correct and reinforce, which inspirations still ob¬ tain in the life of older folks reared under religious sanctions. The vulgari¬ zation of life comes to pass because, cut loose from religious moorings, there is insufficient reinforcement for the better in education and, its institutions. Edu¬ cation and college are little worth while if they, do not avail to touch the issues of life to something, better' and finer. Few yqung men and women are truly educated by college if Matthew Ar- (Concluded on page 8.)'
ri.-S5-JSi|-::s-.K-!te-»s»^'«»wsS~s:s,
Spread fantastic stories of this character as, I am that any sane human being should believe them. Yet, I am assured that so credulous are sections of the population of this country that there are many individuals who really be¬ lieve that events such as these will happen.
"The approval of the mandate vvill make no difference whatever in the present administration of the country, or in thc laws relating to immigration. It will, however, be followed by the en¬ actment of a constitution vvhich will pro\ idc for the establishment of a legis¬ lative assembly containing a majority of members freely elected by the people. The drawing up of the list of voters will begin as soon as thc constitution is promulgated, and when that is com¬ pleted— it must necessarily take some time — the election will take place.
Special   Committee
"It is proposed that one^half of the elected members of the assembly shall constitute a' special committee to co¬ operate with the government' in super¬ vising the administration of the lavvs relating to immigration. In this con¬ nection, I would mention that the further restrictions upon immigration vvhich were applied some time ago, owing to a considerable amount of unemployment existing in the country, are now having their full effect. In the month of June the total humber of immigrants into Palestine was only 474, of whom over 300 were women and children; Immi¬ gration being regulated in proportion to economic capacity of the country tq absorb additional population if, as niay be hoped and expected, the prosperity of the country .iniireases and its indus¬ tries develop, immigration will be in¬ creased in proportion, but if this should (Continued on'page 7)
TAKES EXCEPTION TO DR. WATSON'S ASSERTIONS
(By Dr. L. W. Zwisohn.) The physician to cure a disease must first make a correct diagnosis. , The uni¬ versal law pf cause and effect must be applied. When cause -is removed the ef¬ fect is gone. To illustrate. A .patient having fever, .headache, vomiting, pain, etc., to be cured of these symptoms we must find- the cause that produces it. As there are many causes which will produce the same symptoms, the scien¬ tific physician will make the right diag¬ nosis by exclusion.
For instance, when the symptoms dis¬ appear, after giving a physic, the phy¬ sician knows the trouble was simply in¬ digestion. If the symptoms, continue after the physic is given he must look for the cause to some blood disease, to a contagious disease, etc., etc. The doctor is watching developments, the patient is kept under observation. Knowing certain diseases take a certain length of time to develop, for instance, typhoid fever, so many days, scarlet- fever 'so many days, meningitis, a certain period, etc., etc. So when the stage of incuba¬ tion is reached and the certain disease did not develop the physician excludes it until the real disease shows up.
Proper   Treatment
When the diagnosis is made theh the -proper treatment is instituted. But the scientific physician will nbt try to cure the symptoms, - because if the cause is not removed the symptoms will reap¬ pear, and not alone that the symptoms come back, by not removing the cause of the disease it will also kill the patient. These are scientific facts; no arguments cah change them. The same holds good regarding the. Jewish problem, if there is a Jewish problem. Let i^s analyze the Rev. Robert Watson's article in your isstie of August 4 about the Jewish question.
Did he make the right diagnosis; and if he: did make the Correct diagnosis does he apply the right remedy? The reverend doctor makes the diagnosis that hatred to the Jew is due to race (Concluded on page %.)
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