Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1943-03-05

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S[\\/^ Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community m\IK
Vol. 22, No. 10
COLUMBUS, OHIO, PBIDAY, MARCH 5, 1043
DflTotod to Aniertoan and J«wlih Ideal*
50,000 Demand Action To Save European Jews
Strictly Confidential
Tidbits-Prom Everywhere By Phlneas J. BIron
Rabbi Goldstein In "Message Of Israel" Radio Program
vou SHOUIiD KNOW . . .
)^ Father   Cpughlin   will   be heard   over   the   air  again   ere long— . , . Arrangements have heen completed for him to make a weekly broadcast to be carried by 165 stations, located mostly In Mexico and South America And,   strange   though   it   may seem, Coughlln's hierarchic su¬ periors  are  said  to  view  with great    favor  this venture  into "good neighborly" activity Silliest  suggestion we've heard in a long time proposes that af¬ ter the war all Nazis be com¬ pelled to wear sleevebands bear¬ ing the letter N— in analogy to the J the Nazis make Jews wear throughout occupied Europe . . . Since when are we supposed to adopt  Hitler's  methods against any one, even His followers? . . . Dr. Preston Bradley, the Chicago clergyman   who   Is   unquestion¬ ably   thp   most   popular   radio broadcaster in the Mid-western area has come out in no uncer tain terms against the hush-hush policy of a certain type of Jew-' ish leadership- ... In a recent broadcast he warned his large audience   that   Hitlerism   may /;ome  to  prevail  even  without " Hitler vinless domestic Fascism is fought openly ; . . GRAPEVINE TENDRILS . . . Us Germany's   black   market, through  which well-to-do Nazis can  buy  all   the  luxuries—and even necessities—that are denied the rest of Europe's people, is strictly a family affair, the op¬ erators of that black market be¬ ing Nazi soldiers who have man¬ aged to bring home loot from the occupied countries . . . Could it be possible that the J- H. Carp whom the Gestapo just appoint ed chieftain of all cultural activi¬ ties in the Netherlands is identi¬ cal   with   the" famous   Spinoza .scholar —  who,  we believe,  is non-Aryan? ... UKADKR'S GUIDE . . . Es Reviewers will  have a  hard timo   classifying   Maurice   Sam¬ uel's new iMok, "The World of Sholom Alelchem" . . . it's neith¬ er ;inlhology nor liiography, but a  mosl Individualistic    volume, written   with   typical   Samueles- (lue brilliance, revealing a world htretofoi'e    unknown to practi¬ cally all Anit'i-fcan readers . . . We hope ex-Amhas.sador Joseph E. Davles doesn't mind our point¬ ing out a minor error  we just caught in his "Mission to Mos¬ cow",   which   we   have   just   re¬ read   in   the   new   104H   Pocket Book edition , . . We herewith inform    Mr.    Davies  that Mrs. Maxim  Ijltvlnov  is not  the sis¬ ter of his old friend Sir Sidney Low of Lomlon, but the niece of the late editor and historian . . . Jewish historians of the future will  appreciate the work being done by Saul Hayes, director of the  Canadian Jewish  Congress, who is keeping a complete file on the 10,000 Canadian Jews in the    armed    services    of  their country and of others of the Uni¬ ted Nations . . . Hayes' records Include not merely the names, ranks,   etc.,   of   those   fighting Jews,    but    also    photographs, clippings, letters and other docu¬ ments wherever these are avail¬ able ...
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Commencing this Saturday evening, March 6th, 1943 from B:30 to 7:00 o'clock, E. W. T., and every Saturday during this month, "The Message of Israel" will have as its guest speaker Rabbi Israel Goldstein of Con¬ gregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York, N. Y. The sermon topic will be:
March n, A Message To and From Your Sons; March 13, Building Tomorrow Today; March 30, Re^gion and the Post¬ war World; March 27, The Fu¬ ture of the Jewish People.
RabbL Goldstein, president of the Jewish National Fund of America and the Synagogue Council of America, and Co. Chairman of tfie United Jewish Appeal, the United Palestine Ap¬ peal and Vice-President of the Zionist Organization of Amer¬ ica wiil he the main speaker here on Tuesday evening, March 23, at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel.
The affair will climax a suc¬ cessful membership campaign of the Columbils Zionist District when over 150 new members are to be inducted as the Albert Sghiff Class.
Unity Hinges On March 7th Meeting
NEW YORK (JPS)—Whether an American Jewish Assembly wiil be held, as scheduled, with the participation of all, or the majority of, the national Jewish organizations will be determined here on Sunday, March 7th at a meeting of the Exetmtive Com- mittee entrusted wilh the plan ning of the Assembly, first auth. orized at the Pittsburgh confer etice called by B'hai B'rith..
It is believed that a majority ot the important Jewish bodies have already-endorsed the hold¬ ing of such an Assehibly in June or July. It is known, however, that certain forces in the Amer¬ ican JewLsh Committee, oppos¬ ed to any kind of public gatfier- ings of Jewish representatives, have been trying to discourage several of the organizations from lending their support. Some al¬ ready committed are understood to be under a barrage to hold aloof. The March 7th meeting is expected to determine-wheth¬ er unity in American Jewry will be realized.
NEW YORK (WNS)—An 11-point. resolution calling upon the United States and other United Nations to take immediate action to rescue as many as possible of the 5,000,- 000 Jews facing certain death in Nazi-occupied Europe was adopted at a "Stop Hitler Now" protest demonstration which drew more than 50,000 Christians and Jews to Madi¬ son Square Garden here.
More than 21,000 persons crowded into evei'y inch of space in the Garden and an equal number stood in the street outside throughout the meeting — one of the largest demonstrations ever held in New York. Loudspeakers and amplifiers brought the speeches to the throngs in the streets. Thousands of others had to be turned away by the police.
ARMY AND NAVY GROUP TaMBET T^HCBHDAY
The Columbus Army and Na-vy General Committee will mSet next Thursday. March 11, at 8 P. M., at the Schonthal Center, It.was announced this week by Harry  Goldberg,  chairman.
All members of committee and others interested in this work are urged to attend.
NEW  BOOK  DEDICTBD TO TWO LOCAI> WOMEN
Among recent publications ot Bloch Publishing Co. appears a book by two former Columbus refildent.s-, Elma Ehrllch and Lee J. Levlnger. "Folk and Faith" is intended as a text book for Con¬ firmation c'Uisses in the relig¬ ious schools, it is dedicated to t»'o well-known Cokimbus wo men, Ethel and Rose Schiff.
Dr. Stephen Wise Asks U. S. To Open Gates To Jews
Tl'NE l.N TONIGHT!
Tunc in on Ht.Klon WHKC at (>:!.'> tonlglTt and dedicate a bond to tliflt loved one scrv- hig our country. 	
DETROIT (JPS)—In a forth¬ right declaration to the United States and Great Britain, .speak¬ ing at Casa Temple here. Dr. Stephen S. Wise urged the two nations to save Jewry from ex¬ termination by relaxing their barriers to immigration and pay¬ ing the expenses ot refugees in neutral countries.
With the vigor which has long been characteristic of his utier- ances, "I do not believe my country is so poor in spirit as to deny refuge to such handtuls as may escape the Hitler horde and come to our shores", he said in a radio broadcast.
ilo asked thai wc |iermit the entiy of a.s many immlgranu a.s wish to come in and exhorted Great Drllain lo let down the bars tu furil«M- large scale Jew¬ ish immigration Inlo i*ale.stine. "Foi- a modest .suni^vc could save llHiusa'nds oL-trtnnan lives", he said in uskmg suppin-i for i-efiigecs who may escape to neu¬ tral  coLuilrles.    \
Zion Lodge, B'nal B'rith Blood Donor Volunteer Honor Roll is increasing each day. Those who have already become blood donors during Ihe past two weeks Include the following:
Rabbl Harry, KiipInn
Abe A, Wolman
Allan Tarshish •Ben Tolpon •Justin Sillman
Sidney L. Katz
Frank Kauffman
John Braun
Nathan C. Cohen
Jack Relchgott
Leo Kessel
David IIbitIs
Sidney V^oU
Robert  O Mailman
Frank V. Bayer
B. B, BLOOD DONOR GMIGimRGES AHEAD
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Fred Venl^in
Twice
We do not have Ihe complete list, but It we have overlooked anyone in Zion Lodge, who has already joined the Honor Roll, plea.se call Allan Tarshish, at AD. fil05 or Justin Sillman, MA. 6020, who are co-chairmen ot B'nai B'rith Blood Donor Cam¬ paign. We will add names each week to the above list.
Readers of the Chronicle will note the attractive appeal for Blood Plasma on page five of this issue. The page was made possible by the Columbus Pipe & Equipment Co., of which firm Harry Silbersteln is president and Max Slll)crstein is vice- president.
The adopted resolution, which was forwarded to President Roosevelt, urged the United Na¬ tions' to negotiate throtlgh neu¬ tral countries with Nazi-domin¬ ated lands for the release of Jew¬ ish victims of the Hitler terror and their evacuation to coun¬ tries ot refuge to be named by the Allied nations.
The demonstration demanded also that the Unl'ed States re¬ lax Its immigration Irfws to per¬ mit additional Jewish refugees to find sanctuary on our shores, and called upon England to open the doors of Palestine to the thousands ot persecuted Jews clamoring for admission.
One of the highpoinis of the demonstration was the recital by the entire audience of "Kaddish" for the estimated 2,000,000 Jews who have been butchered hy Hit¬ ler's troops since their rampage across Europe. Many in the huge crowd were crying openly during the memorial prayer.
Included among the speakers or those who sent messages to the meeting were Dr. Chaim Weizmann, preesident of the Jewish Agency for Palestine; Dr. Stephen IS. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress: Governor Thomas E. Dewey ot New York: Mayor La Guardia of New York City; William Green, president of the American r'>d- cratlon of Labor; James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer ot the C. 1. O.; Bishop Henry St. Oeorge Tuckeci presiding Bishop ot Ihe Episcopal Church In America; Dr. Henry A. Atkln.son, general secretary ot the Church, iieace I'nion, and many olhor.s.
Supreme Court William 0. Douglas ami Senator Itobcrt K. Wagner addros.sed Ihe meeting hy Itadlo fn|7n Washington. Sir \VillUmi He\crtdgc>/iulh<)r of the i-ulchi-atcd llcvci'ulge I'lan, hroadcasi an address to Ihe moet¬ ing li.v Iransallanllc- short-wave radio troni London. . The meeting, whk-h received messages ti'iim outstanding pulit- kal and church leailcrs frum all o\-cr Ihe ilcinocratk- wtirld. was spon.sured by the ..Xmerlran Jew¬ ish Congress, the ('. I. O. and A. F. 1... the Church I'cacc lnion and Ihe Free Woild A.s.sociiillDii, \Vi-i/inaini Speaks The tenoi' of Ihc meeling was sol by Dr, Weizniann. who de¬ plored the tact that the Allies have thus far failed to lake-c'on- crete aclion lo stop Hitler in hks plan lo ,slaugh!er the Jewish population ^f Europe.
"That a meetmg to protest the massatre of a people should have to be held Is In itself the bitter¬ est of commentaries of our time. When the historian of the-fu¬ ture assembles the black record of our days, he will find two things, unbelievable:' first, the crime itself; second, the reaction of the world to that crime.
"He will be puzzled". Dr. Welz- malm continued, "by the apathy of the civilized world, in the face
ot this Inmmense, systematic earnage ot human beings whose sole guilt was membership in tbo people who gave the com¬ mandments of the moral law to mankind. He will be unable to understand why the conscience of the world has to be prodded, why sympathies had to be stir- rctl.
"Ahov^alt, he wiil not be able to undei-stand why the, free na¬ tions. In arms against a resur¬ gent, organised barbarism, re¬ quired appeals to give sanctuary lo tbe first and chlet victims of that barbarism."
Bevprldffc Statement In his special hroadcast to the meeting Lord Beverldge said: "To win the war and leave the problem ot .lewry unsettled tor the future will be to tall in one of the Objects of victory. The issue raised by the latest prose¬ cution of the Jews is a test of the capacity of the United Nations as a grand alliance to make up their minds upon the problem for whose ^solution the alli¬ ance exists, and in hopes of whose solulion it tights". Archbishop of lanterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury said in a message: "1 trust that our two nations may unite in of¬ fering all possible aid and place of refuge tor .lews now threaten¬ ed with massacre and so do what wc can to mitigate the most ap¬ palling horror in recorded his¬ tory,"
Cliicf Rabbi Hcrfi The message from Chief Ra_bbi .lo.seph 11. Hertz of England said: "It is appalling lo think that whole uf inid-Eufopean Jcwiy stands un brink uf annihilation and that millions of Jewish men, wuincn' and children have al¬ ready been slaughtere<l with fiendish cruelties which baffle bcllct, but cciually appalling Is the fart thai ibo.sc who proclaim the l-"our Fi-cedums have so tar done vcrv little i.i secure oven the frecdum to live tor C,000,(IOO (it their Jewish fellow men by i-ciidiiicss ill rt'si-iu' those who mighi sllll e.s(-aiie Nazi torture and liulcbi-ry,'
I'rayiT For I'ai-ilinal Hlnsley The auilience uf 21,000 stood In sIluiu Iirayer iur thv speedy re- cuvcrv of Cardinal Hlnsley, Caihu'lic Archlii.shnp of Westmin- Kier, who Is .seriously ill. Sev¬ eral (lays hetore-the meeting the Cardinal  sent   Ibis  message:
"Jews and Christians are our tellowmen and brethren. If Christian mercy finds no place In the Nazi breast, then the les¬ son of stern retribution must be given in such wise that'never again will these hideous wrongs be possible". Te'xt Ol'AMptid Rcsbhitlon The foliowlngi'is the text''<)} th)6' ll'tpoJni' resolution ' lyHiiSi
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