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N^Hrgif'sT^/t'ittSir'''^""^'""- SIW/^ Serving Coluinbus and Central Ohio Jewish Conununily \V/A\1 Vol. 22 No .10 Entered as Second-Class Matter. ' jPoatoiIica Columbm,. Ohio. COI.1UMBU8, OHIO. FniDAY, JULY 28, 1»44 Devoted lo American and Jevlih Ideal* Strictly Confidential Tidbits From Everywhere By Phlneas J. Biron RESCUE EFFORTS . ¦,. Bl If the remaining 400,000 ,Iew.s of Hungary will he saved — and that Is, ,stui a big que.?- tlon mark — Chaim Weizmann ¦will have had a hand in It, we're told . . . The Zionist leader had a heart-to-heart talk with An¬ thony Rden and Winston Chnrchlil, and finally .succeed¬ ed In getting things moving . . . We're reliably informed that .Stalin exercised • tremendous preK,'!ure on the Hungarian gov¬ ernment . . . The International Red Cross, which negotiated with Admiral Nicholas Horthy. Regent of Hungary, had the backing of London, Washington and Mo-scow ... In his talk wilh Weizmann Eden is reported to have .said: ",Stalin',s word goes furthest in Budapest — because his military power is so close to the .scene" ... P. ,S.: .Stalin said the word . . . BEHIND THE SCENE . , . Ra The Democratic National Convention is In se.ss|on at Chi¬ cago as we write this column . . It will belong to yesterday when you will read these lines . . . nut we're telling you now that if the Democratic platform will Include a strong resolution on Palestine this will be due to the untiring efforts of Dr .Step Jien S. Wise, Dr. Israel Gold¬ stein, ,,ludge Louis Levinthal and Herman Schulman . . . These four leaders attended and adjtlrcs.sed a meeting of the Resolution Committee of the Democratic Convention . . . It's too bad, though, that these lead¬ ers did not u.se the opportun¬ ity lo include in their pleadings a (K-mand for action against tho mounting wave of anti-Semitism In__this country . . . Leaders of the World .lewish Congre.ss met off the record at a confab in Moston al)out two weeks ago . . . Matters concerning the salva¬ tion of .lews e.scaping from Nazi pi;rsccullon were discussed . . From Boston, too, comes reports of a new sport devised by the Anti-Semitic hoodlums in that area . . . Whenever they spot a Jewish-looking patron eating in a re.staurant they go .up to his or her table and throw lighted cigars or cigarettes' into the diner's food . . . They fin'd spec¬ ial ddiight in grinding out cig¬ arettes in dishes of Ice cream '. . ZIONEWS , . , fe The annual convention of the Zionist Oranization of Amer¬ ica, scheduled for October, may he held at Atlantic City Instead of New York, which has been announced as the meeting place .... Peter Bergson, head of the "Hebrew Committee of National Liberation", delivered his "first major address" in Town Hall, N'ew York, la,st week . . . Admis- .sjon prices were charged, anfl the place was crowded with an audience that applauded Berg- son's criticism of Dr. Weizmann, Dr. Wise and Jewish leadership In America , . . Bergson's speech was broadcast over a local radio station, and it created a deep Impression . . . We're telling you this not because we like the Bergson group, but because It must be admitted that the Pal¬ estinian hoys carried It off once more both organizationally and technically . . . THIS AND THAT ,'. . nn Don't miss Howard Fast's message to American youth, in the current Issue of Harper's (Continued on page 8) NEW HILLEL BUILDING WILL BE Ea J, SCHANFARBER MEMORIAL $100,000 To Be Sought In Nation-widefDrive Says Caliiojic Church Could Stop Boston Anti-Semitism BOSTON (JPS)—"The Roman Catholic Church Is not In the least responsible fnr the anti- Semitic outbreaks in Boston", but "It coidd do more than any other single agency or inslitu tion to stop them, if It would", it is .stated by Wallace Stegner, novelist, writing in The Atlantic Monthly on the results of a survey he made here. "The large body of the Chris¬ tian F'ront is made up of the dregs of the Irish community", he says, anil "the long history of isolation and discrimination In Boston has built Into the Irish-American mind such a sensitlvene.ss to critlci.sm, and so automatic an impulse to de¬ fend anything Irish and any¬ thing Catholic, that the vast ma¬ jority of respectable Irish-Amer¬ ican citizens find themselves used as a shield by the breeders of hate ami disunity . . ." Speaking of tolerance and goodwill movements in Boston, organized in an effort to stem and extirpate AntiSemltism, he observes: "Yet In those move¬ ments the Catholic Chlirch In Boston has nol come strongly forward. With ull its enormous pr'(>stlge and power, it has chos¬ en to speak little anfl late. Among Catholics there is a widespreafl feeling that if the Church fights antl Semilism it lays Itself open to the charge of having fostered it before". Tlie Avriler says thai "though one can unflerstand why that atti¬ tude |)erslsts, one cannot agree with any part of it". In a flirect appeal to the Catholic Church of Boston, he says: "For the sake of rellglt)us peace in the city of Bf)ston, ftir tho sake nf the Amerkran.ci-eofi of diversity without flisunlty, il la high time Catholicism in Rfjs- ton made very clear that It Is not In sympathy with the prop¬ hets of dlssenslf)n". FIRST AMEBIC AN JEWISH CO.M.MITTEE CHAPTER ORCANIZED PHILADELPHIA (JPS) — The first cfimmunlty chapter In the 3H-year history of the Amer¬ ican .lewish Cf)mmlttee was f>r- ganlzetl here with over one hunflred charter members In a campaign to create chapters throughfiut tho United States, In accfirtianco with the changed by¬ laws of the organization. Judge Charles Klein nf Piiilatieiphla heads Iho Philailelphla chapter. Judo Joseph M. Prtiskauer, president of the American .lew- jsh Committoe. saifl that tho "chapters will imploment (m a Ifical level tho prtigram antl oli- jocllvos fif the Cfimmittee". IH liOCAL CHAIRMAN Ol' ZIONIST u,i,nio PROGRAMS JDC Allots $10,459,472 For First Half Of Year Teachers Taught To Teach Tolerance NEW YORK (JPS)—An In- tercuUural' Education Work¬ shop showing educators how to approach race problems and teach race tolerance in the cla.ss- room, is in session at Teachers College of Columbia University. The Education Work,shop, Joint¬ ly sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and by the Bureau of In¬ tercultural Education, Is attend¬ ed by specially chosen teach¬ ers from Detroit, Chicago, Kan¬ sas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York and other communi- ties where fllscrlmination against minorities has flared up. The Bureau Is conducting similar workshop sessions at Harvard Ufllversity, and has just completed a session at the University of California. The approach to race toler¬ ance, outlined by Dr. William H. Kllpatrlck, chairman of the Bureau and professor emeritus of education at Columbia, Is to build up respect for different nationality or race groups, SIflMcy L. Kill/. Tho Columbus Zionisi Dis¬ trict is sponsfiring a rarlifi pro¬ gram en tit lefi "Pnloslhio Sitoaks", Tills series of radif) transcrlplif)iis will he lieard ftvcr .station WHKC every Sun-, flay afternoon at 2:30 P. M., l>e- ginning August 20th. "I'.ilcstinc Speaks" is a series ftf shows, and features the most outstanding stars of Radio, Screen ami Stage that can lio.s- slhly he obtained. These pro¬ grams, are first class entertain¬ ment for all types and classes of llslenet;s, regardless of race or creefl. Sf)pe of the stars anfl stf)ries of "PalPNtlnp Speaks" are as follows: JuHKIih Hrhllitkruut, the flis- tlngulshetl star fif "Llllom'' and the "Cherry Oi'churd*. In the true stfiry of how a battalion of Jewish solfiiers held the British flank, ami made pf)sslble the British break- through at El Ala¬ mein. Joseph Cotten, of "Shadow uf a Doubt" and "Cillzen Kane", appears as Peter Ruttenberg, the Edison of Palestine, In a story of how one' man harness¬ ed the waters of the Jordan to Irrigate Palestine. C.ene Kelly, of "Cover Girl" and "ChrlMtnioH Holiday", stars In the story pf how a shipload of homeless Jewish refugees, (Continued on Page Five) A campaign to perpctuaic the idealism of the late Ed¬ win J, Schanfarber, Columbus attorney and Jewish leader, by raising funds for (he erection of a new home for the Hii¬ lel Foundation at Ohio State University, is npw under way. The sum of .lilOO.OOO is being sought. The fund will be known as the Edwin J, Schanfarber Memorial Fund, and the proposed structure, to be built at the earliest possible date, will bear the Schanfarber name. Decision to make the memf)r- iai a Hiilel project was reachcfl by the local committoe because of Efl Schanfarhor's long and fleSp interest in all B'nai B'rilh activities and his especial de¬ sire to SOO tho scope uf Hlllel work broadonof). He Is f(ii<i(ed as having .said: ¦•Hlllel can do more tu hulkl up Jewish (lig- nity aiifi .self-respect than any other muvomont launched in America." The Ohio Slate L'nioersily chapter of Hiilel is one of some 1 10 Ificatfd on the campuses of America's univorsilies and col- logos. Despite its restrlctofi facilities, the local group, tjmier the leadership of Rabbi Harry Kaplan, is i-f.-cfignizefl as doing an oxco|)tlonal job, 'I'ho fuufl-i'aisjng aciivities will lio national in sco|)e. In addition tu the Columiius offtirt, an appeal is lieing organized by Distrifl (Jranti l.oflge iS'fi. 2, B'nal H'rlth. while Rtlnuinfl I. Kauffman, Washington, D. (,'., Is iu charge of solicitation froin persfinni frioiuls of Ed Schan farber in various parts of the country. .¦\ meeting of Columbus stili- citors wili lio holfl Tuesflay nighl at the Soulhern Hotel, witll Allen Ciunflersheimer, chairman of tho Funtl-Ralslng Cfiinmlltee. . in charge. Other memhers of the local committee arc: Simon Lazarus, chairman; .Julius Steinhauser. treasurer of tlio Memorial F'und; Leo Yassen¬ off, chairman uf lhe Bulltllng Committee: Herbert Byer, chair¬ man .fit the Publicity Cfimmit- tee; Dr. S. D. Eflelman, I. W. (iarek, Harry Cllbert, L. J. C.Ofiflman antl Edwarfl Schlez¬ lnger. Local heafliiuartors of (he Memorial Funtl have been estab- ll.shed in Room :)02, 150 East Broad St., with I^eah Rtisenfeld as secretary. A. J. Cranoff, president Dis¬ trict No. 2, B'nal B'rith, has appfilnted the following com¬ mittee for the Memorial Fund; ¦ Lfiuis Bfirinstein, chairman; I,. W. Garek, vice chairman; Alfred A. Benesch, Milton J. Anfenger, Emil Mayer, Sidney G. Kus¬ worm, Charles Rosenbaum, A. B. Frey, Justin Sillman, Nathan Goldbert, Joseph Cohen and Leonard H. Freiberg. NEW VORK (.1 PS) — The Amorlcan .lowi.sh, Jfilnt Dlsiribu¬ lion Cfimmilte's allocations tor re.scue, rollof antl rehabilitation were $I()..|.')!I.-I72 during tho first numths of l.'MI as comparotl Willi its budget ffir all of i:h:i whif:h camo hi .?;i(l.ir):i.(),'i2. it was annnuncod hei'o. Over .seventy per c-nfiif .1, I). C.'s total ex¬ penditures went into the work of rescue Itfim anfl relief in the war-tfirn areas. .1. 11, C.'s prtigram of rescue grows sleailily, Tho past half year has seen oxpansitm of lis work through co-operating Inter¬ national agoiH'ics gtA'i^nuni^nl ih'partments antl lioiuvls. Itical i-omniiltoes, ami through .1. D, ("s, own staff .lows in ticcupietl ctiunlr-ios contlnuo to roceive .1, D, C. tisslstunce through an ar¬ rangement made before Iho out- break of war. untier which cu- fiperating t.'onimltteos Imrrtiw loctilly in .1- D, C.'s name ftir repayment after tho war. .-\il- illlifinal altl to .lews in occupietl territtn-y is supplied in the form of fOfKl antl cltithing- packages whicii are flistrlliutetl via neu¬ tral ttiuntrios ami intornatloiial agencies. Tho overseas staff of tho J. D, C. ntiw has iX'iJfesenlativos in Lontlon. Llsbfin, Mathitl. Bar¬ celona, Algiers, Tangier, Barl. Istanbul, Jerusalem, Teheran, Buenos Aires antl Monlevltleti. One ,1. D. C. ropresenlatlve re mains interned in Shanghai. NAZIS .MAY BE RIGHT AKGENXIN.VS DICTATOR SAVH MONTEVIDEO (JPS) — Col¬ onel Juan D. Peron, Argentine Vice-President, strong man fif Its fascist regime, replying to charges that he Is organizing lab¬ or ami capital along totalitarian lines, declared, "if the Nazis think along,these lines, then the Nazis must be right". NOT A SINGLE JEW Sl'RVIVBD IN PINSK "through an understanding of the culturBl contributions which each group has brought to America". LONDON (JPS)—Not a single Jewish survivor was found in Plnsk liy the liberating i Red iirmy, the' Moscow rddio reported as heard h e r e- It Is not known how many may have escaped the Nazi dragnet and joined the guerrillas, nor the approximate number of evacuees. B'NAI B'KITH BOND SALES TOTAL $»l3,000,!>;it< WASHINGTON (JPS) — The total bond sales by B'nal B'rith In all war loans has, reached $315,980,938 with bond sales in the Fifth War Loan amounting to $72,2-15,000 by July I9th.
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Full Text | N^Hrgif'sT^/t'ittSir'''^""^'""- SIW/^ Serving Coluinbus and Central Ohio Jewish Conununily \V/A\1 Vol. 22 No .10 Entered as Second-Class Matter. ' jPoatoiIica Columbm,. Ohio. COI.1UMBU8, OHIO. FniDAY, JULY 28, 1»44 Devoted lo American and Jevlih Ideal* Strictly Confidential Tidbits From Everywhere By Phlneas J. Biron RESCUE EFFORTS . ¦,. Bl If the remaining 400,000 ,Iew.s of Hungary will he saved — and that Is, ,stui a big que.?- tlon mark — Chaim Weizmann ¦will have had a hand in It, we're told . . . The Zionist leader had a heart-to-heart talk with An¬ thony Rden and Winston Chnrchlil, and finally .succeed¬ ed In getting things moving . . . We're reliably informed that .Stalin exercised • tremendous preK,'!ure on the Hungarian gov¬ ernment . . . The International Red Cross, which negotiated with Admiral Nicholas Horthy. Regent of Hungary, had the backing of London, Washington and Mo-scow ... In his talk wilh Weizmann Eden is reported to have .said: ",Stalin',s word goes furthest in Budapest — because his military power is so close to the .scene" ... P. ,S.: .Stalin said the word . . . BEHIND THE SCENE . , . Ra The Democratic National Convention is In se.ss|on at Chi¬ cago as we write this column . . It will belong to yesterday when you will read these lines . . . nut we're telling you now that if the Democratic platform will Include a strong resolution on Palestine this will be due to the untiring efforts of Dr .Step Jien S. Wise, Dr. Israel Gold¬ stein, ,,ludge Louis Levinthal and Herman Schulman . . . These four leaders attended and adjtlrcs.sed a meeting of the Resolution Committee of the Democratic Convention . . . It's too bad, though, that these lead¬ ers did not u.se the opportun¬ ity lo include in their pleadings a (K-mand for action against tho mounting wave of anti-Semitism In__this country . . . Leaders of the World .lewish Congre.ss met off the record at a confab in Moston al)out two weeks ago . . . Matters concerning the salva¬ tion of .lews e.scaping from Nazi pi;rsccullon were discussed . . From Boston, too, comes reports of a new sport devised by the Anti-Semitic hoodlums in that area . . . Whenever they spot a Jewish-looking patron eating in a re.staurant they go .up to his or her table and throw lighted cigars or cigarettes' into the diner's food . . . They fin'd spec¬ ial ddiight in grinding out cig¬ arettes in dishes of Ice cream '. . ZIONEWS , . , fe The annual convention of the Zionist Oranization of Amer¬ ica, scheduled for October, may he held at Atlantic City Instead of New York, which has been announced as the meeting place .... Peter Bergson, head of the "Hebrew Committee of National Liberation", delivered his "first major address" in Town Hall, N'ew York, la,st week . . . Admis- .sjon prices were charged, anfl the place was crowded with an audience that applauded Berg- son's criticism of Dr. Weizmann, Dr. Wise and Jewish leadership In America , . . Bergson's speech was broadcast over a local radio station, and it created a deep Impression . . . We're telling you this not because we like the Bergson group, but because It must be admitted that the Pal¬ estinian hoys carried It off once more both organizationally and technically . . . THIS AND THAT ,'. . nn Don't miss Howard Fast's message to American youth, in the current Issue of Harper's (Continued on page 8) NEW HILLEL BUILDING WILL BE Ea J, SCHANFARBER MEMORIAL $100,000 To Be Sought In Nation-widefDrive Says Caliiojic Church Could Stop Boston Anti-Semitism BOSTON (JPS)—"The Roman Catholic Church Is not In the least responsible fnr the anti- Semitic outbreaks in Boston", but "It coidd do more than any other single agency or inslitu tion to stop them, if It would", it is .stated by Wallace Stegner, novelist, writing in The Atlantic Monthly on the results of a survey he made here. "The large body of the Chris¬ tian F'ront is made up of the dregs of the Irish community", he says, anil "the long history of isolation and discrimination In Boston has built Into the Irish-American mind such a sensitlvene.ss to critlci.sm, and so automatic an impulse to de¬ fend anything Irish and any¬ thing Catholic, that the vast ma¬ jority of respectable Irish-Amer¬ ican citizens find themselves used as a shield by the breeders of hate ami disunity . . ." Speaking of tolerance and goodwill movements in Boston, organized in an effort to stem and extirpate AntiSemltism, he observes: "Yet In those move¬ ments the Catholic Chlirch In Boston has nol come strongly forward. With ull its enormous pr'(>stlge and power, it has chos¬ en to speak little anfl late. Among Catholics there is a widespreafl feeling that if the Church fights antl Semilism it lays Itself open to the charge of having fostered it before". Tlie Avriler says thai "though one can unflerstand why that atti¬ tude |)erslsts, one cannot agree with any part of it". In a flirect appeal to the Catholic Church of Boston, he says: "For the sake of rellglt)us peace in the city of Bf)ston, ftir tho sake nf the Amerkran.ci-eofi of diversity without flisunlty, il la high time Catholicism in Rfjs- ton made very clear that It Is not In sympathy with the prop¬ hets of dlssenslf)n". FIRST AMEBIC AN JEWISH CO.M.MITTEE CHAPTER ORCANIZED PHILADELPHIA (JPS) — The first cfimmunlty chapter In the 3H-year history of the Amer¬ ican .lewish Cf)mmlttee was f>r- ganlzetl here with over one hunflred charter members In a campaign to create chapters throughfiut tho United States, In accfirtianco with the changed by¬ laws of the organization. Judge Charles Klein nf Piiilatieiphla heads Iho Philailelphla chapter. Judo Joseph M. Prtiskauer, president of the American .lew- jsh Committoe. saifl that tho "chapters will imploment (m a Ifical level tho prtigram antl oli- jocllvos fif the Cfimmittee". IH liOCAL CHAIRMAN Ol' ZIONIST u,i,nio PROGRAMS JDC Allots $10,459,472 For First Half Of Year Teachers Taught To Teach Tolerance NEW YORK (JPS)—An In- tercuUural' Education Work¬ shop showing educators how to approach race problems and teach race tolerance in the cla.ss- room, is in session at Teachers College of Columbia University. The Education Work,shop, Joint¬ ly sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews and by the Bureau of In¬ tercultural Education, Is attend¬ ed by specially chosen teach¬ ers from Detroit, Chicago, Kan¬ sas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York and other communi- ties where fllscrlmination against minorities has flared up. The Bureau Is conducting similar workshop sessions at Harvard Ufllversity, and has just completed a session at the University of California. The approach to race toler¬ ance, outlined by Dr. William H. Kllpatrlck, chairman of the Bureau and professor emeritus of education at Columbia, Is to build up respect for different nationality or race groups, SIflMcy L. Kill/. Tho Columbus Zionisi Dis¬ trict is sponsfiring a rarlifi pro¬ gram en tit lefi "Pnloslhio Sitoaks", Tills series of radif) transcrlplif)iis will he lieard ftvcr .station WHKC every Sun-, flay afternoon at 2:30 P. M., l>e- ginning August 20th. "I'.ilcstinc Speaks" is a series ftf shows, and features the most outstanding stars of Radio, Screen ami Stage that can lio.s- slhly he obtained. These pro¬ grams, are first class entertain¬ ment for all types and classes of llslenet;s, regardless of race or creefl. Sf)pe of the stars anfl stf)ries of "PalPNtlnp Speaks" are as follows: JuHKIih Hrhllitkruut, the flis- tlngulshetl star fif "Llllom'' and the "Cherry Oi'churd*. In the true stfiry of how a battalion of Jewish solfiiers held the British flank, ami made pf)sslble the British break- through at El Ala¬ mein. Joseph Cotten, of "Shadow uf a Doubt" and "Cillzen Kane", appears as Peter Ruttenberg, the Edison of Palestine, In a story of how one' man harness¬ ed the waters of the Jordan to Irrigate Palestine. C.ene Kelly, of "Cover Girl" and "ChrlMtnioH Holiday", stars In the story pf how a shipload of homeless Jewish refugees, (Continued on Page Five) A campaign to perpctuaic the idealism of the late Ed¬ win J, Schanfarber, Columbus attorney and Jewish leader, by raising funds for (he erection of a new home for the Hii¬ lel Foundation at Ohio State University, is npw under way. The sum of .lilOO.OOO is being sought. The fund will be known as the Edwin J, Schanfarber Memorial Fund, and the proposed structure, to be built at the earliest possible date, will bear the Schanfarber name. Decision to make the memf)r- iai a Hiilel project was reachcfl by the local committoe because of Efl Schanfarhor's long and fleSp interest in all B'nai B'rilh activities and his especial de¬ sire to SOO tho scope uf Hlllel work broadonof). He Is f(ii;it< WASHINGTON (JPS) — The total bond sales by B'nal B'rith In all war loans has, reached $315,980,938 with bond sales in the Fifth War Loan amounting to $72,2-15,000 by July I9th. |
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