Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-10-27

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COLUMBUS, OHlOijOC'JTJBER 27, 1922
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SITUATION OF JEWS IN POLAND VERY MUCH IMPROVED
Irma May Cantor Gives Graphic Description of Jewish Con¬ ditions in Europe
PRAISES GREAT WORK
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NEW YORJi. —Jewish PoKind is be¬ ginning to prosper, due to the efforts of the Joint Distribution Qiinmittee, coupled with the determination of the people themselves to rise out of the .ihyss of wretchedness'into which they \Verc hurled by the war, writes Ir'ma May Cantor, who is in Europe on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee's rhild-care department.   Mrs. Caritor is a
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native of Poland, and came to this coun¬ try originally in 1!)20, after her fiancee. Rabbi Berncfrd Cantor, whose brother she later married, was killed, together with Dr. Israel Friedlander, hy Ukrain¬ ian bandits while on a mission of relief. "The country is blooming in compari¬ son to the situation when I left two years ago.    The  economic and  social
ASSAILS PASSION PLAY
New York Rabbi Holds That Its
Performance Grave injustice
to Jewiah Race
CHICAGO.—Dr. Stepheb S. Wise, New York rabbi, speak¬ ing here before a congregation of Jews, assailed the Passion Play of Oberammergau as an enemy, which inflames religloui and racial prejudices against the Jews.
Rabbr Wise said he''witnessed the revival of the Passion Play after its suspension during the war.
"The Passion Play was first presented by the people of that little German village in 1623— Almost three centuries ago," he said. "At that time the Jews of Europe were being widely per> secuted. They were pariahs— social outcasts.
"The play I'eflects the an¬ tipathy for the Jew that was so .flagrant at that time, and I hold that its performance is a grave injustice to the Jewish i^ace and only fans the flames of racial and religious preju¬ dice."
Harvard Not the First, "But Merely Frankest In Attempt To Limit Number of Jews
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Asserts Writer in "The Nation'7 Who Points Out That Many
Colkgea Have Taken Similar Measin'^s by Appointing
Local Alimmi Committees Which Meet and Pass
.Upon Candidates Frbm Their Cities, a
Method Obviously Open to Abuse
"AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD, TO CLASS ITSELF
WITH THE MOST BAC|tCWARD," SAYS WM. T. HAM
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Harvard is not the first American university to attempt to limit the pro¬ portion of Jews in its midst. It i^ merely the frankest. Other colleges have gone far further without admit¬ ting it. The Harvard faculty passed a   measure  permitting   more   elasticity
iVvar a flood of Jews poured out of Rus- .^ia and Poland into the United States. They had not the same' cultural back¬ ground as the German Jewish immi¬ gration; they came from the ghettos of the Pale; the tradition of pefsecu- ¦tipn   and   discrimination,   even   of   po
Generous Response Expected at Infants' Donation Day Event
Benefit Dance and Minstrel Show
to be Giv^n at the Community
House Sunday Afternoon
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ON MOUNT OF OLIVES
Physicians Return from Found¬ ing Part of Hebrew Uiuver- sity in Jerusalem
>IEW YORK. —Three New York physicians, acting in behalf of the Amer¬ ican Jewish Physicians' Committee, have established a Medical College in Jerusa¬ lem as part of ,the Hebrew University there. The physicians returned last week from a month's stay in Palestine
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have lost their fathers and mothers? The Jewish Infants' Home of this city with its up-to-date equipment, its beau tiiul modern building and its skillful management beckons to you tomorrow, Sunday, Oct. 29th, on its annual Dona¬ tion Day, to contribute generously to wards the maintenance of the children in the home. Whether your contribution will consist of groceries, foods of all kinds, new clothing or cash, it will all help to retain the high standards of the physical, mental development of the children there. The response of the last year's Donation Day was most grat¬ ifying, and it is therefore hoped that the response of tomorrow's affair will be as generous, if not more so.
To Extend Usefulness
"We hope to arouse in the Coumbus Jewish Community," said 'Miss Lupton, Superintendent of the Home, "the con¬ sciousness which may result in the gathering of a suffioiently l^rge amount of groceries and other supplies to make it possible for our Home to develop and extend its sphere of useful¬ ness into the lives of these children who
considering   candidates   for   admi^f^oms,   ran   red   in   their  veins.     We
sion on other grounds than those flf^ character and of scholarship. Tlie faculty did not at first realize that this meant discrimination against the Jew;' when it did, it rescinded the action taken.
Yet the honorable action of the Har¬ vard faculty does not solve the prob¬ lem of the Jew in American colleges The incident merely calls attention tO the tendency in American universities to establish an academic Pale. Co¬ lumbia University has in the past two years reduced the percentage of Jew| in her incoming classes from 40 per cent to 22; New York University ia reported to have effected an even rnore stringent reduction; and other univer^' sities have adopted or are considering similar niethods. It is a matter which college presidents have discussed among themselves, and which has been whis¬ pered about at faculty meetings. It was hi'?h time to haul it out into the lime¬ light, - ^ ''' "In All  Frankness"
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¦let them heap up in our dingiest tene. |nehts and tolerated exploitation of .ihcm in our darkest sweatshops. Their t'wn efforts, their readiness to toil 'night and day, have brought, them a little of this world's goods and thcy are now Sending their son^ to college. With all their hunt for money they have re¬ tained an extraordinary respect' for learning. A larger proportion of Jews go to college than of any other race in America. They are, accordingly, flood¬ ing the universities in the cities where they have congregated. The college of the city of New York has become an overwhelmingly Jewish college — more .than 90 per cent of its students arc Jews. Columbia's Jewish percentage crept steadily'upward until, in 1919, the fresh¬ man class enteringithe college was more than 40 per cent Jewish. The Wharton .School of Commerce, the largest depart¬ ment of the University.bf Pennsylvania, has 27 per'cent Jews, and the medical school \i reported to have even more. At j^arvard the "pfercentage, which tfen years ago" "was. Between 5 and 10, ^as
Signor Preziozi Says Jews
a Serious Danger to
Italian Public Life
ROME (J. C. B.) —Signor Preziozi, one of the leading anti-Jewish journalists in Italy publishes an article in his peri¬ odical, "La Vita Italiana" alleg¬ ing that the Jews have packed the Italian Governnient services. According to a table of statis¬ tics which he, gives, there are 64 Jews in the Parliament (Chamber and Senate), 2S in the Privy Council, 54 in the Ministry of Fqreign Affaires, 11 in the Ministry for the Col¬ onies, 317 in the Ministry for the Interior, 308 in the Ministry for Justice, 470 in the Ministry for Finance, 267 in the Ministry for War, 117 in the Ministry for Trade, and 532 in the Ministry for Posts and Telegraphs, mak¬ ing a total of 3,259 Jews.
Signor Preziozi contends that this is in flagrant disproportion to the number of Jews in the country, and forms .a serious danger to the Italian public life.
PRESIDENF OF PENN. UNIVERSITYAHACKS HARVARD POLICIES
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COLLEGES MUST NOT BE PLACE FOR ARISTOCRATS
Anti-Defamation Quota Zion Lodge 1.0. B. B. Goes Over the Top
Full Quota Assigned to the Local
B'nai BVith Lodge is Met
in Due Time
ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD MONDAY EVENING
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SEE DANGER TO PALESTINE JEWS IF BRITAIN RETIRES
London Papers Discuss Probable
Palestine Policy of Bonar
Law Government
"GO BEFORE THE FIGHT STARTS," PRESS INSISTS
LONDON (J. T. A.) — The probable, jiolicy to be adopted by the new Gov¬ ernment with reference tO the British Mandate in Palestine is being discussed with considerable vigor in London's leading newspapers.
The Daily Express 'lays down ' four essentials for the conservative policy, the first of which is to end the "foreign adventures," conservatism being pledged to clear out of Constantinople, Mesopo¬ tamia and Palestine.
Lord Burnham's Daily Telearaph, which has not as yet announced its stand
0. S. U. MENORAH SOCIETY TO BEGIN ACTIVITIES OCT. 29
"tVheit trouble comes upon our fcllow- Jews, it is not right for a man to close his eyes, to their sufferings. Let him raher say: 'Since tny people are in troul)le, I will help to lighten their bur¬ den iff sorrows.  •I-will not hide myself
PHILADELPHIA, PA.,—"No Amer¬ ican institution, unless private and re¬ stricted, has the right to adopt a method of .lelecting candidates that in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of the American citizens as guar¬ anteed by the Constitution of the United States. To do this is un-American in policy, and there is imperative need at this time to preserve the American char¬ acter of our institutions and to send forth the graduates better and loyal Americans if possible than when they, entered."'
Opposition to the racial discrimination policy favored by'President Lowell of Harvard was thus expressed by Dr., Josiah H. Penniman, acting provost of' the University of Pennsylvania in an ad¬ dress delivered at the formal opening of the academic session of the institu¬ tion. While Dr. Penniman mentioi^ed no names, it is believed his statement is a direct answer to Lowell's assertion) and to a recent address by Dr. Ernest M. Hopkins, president of Dartmouth.
Increases Human Knowledge
"If a college of university, and more especially a university is really worthy of the name," he said, "it exists to pre¬ serve, to disseminate and to increase human knowledge. All else is incidental, though important, and its student body must consist of those through whom and by whom it can best perform thosi three functions.
"When we are obliged to turn away applicants because we cannot provide for them it is necessary to adopt' so|ne method of selecting the entering class, Various methods have been proposed, for accomplishing this .-task. - •To-.-the.*
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First Meeting of the Season to
Be Addressed by Rabbi James
G. Heller, Cincinnati, O.
TOPIC: "AMERICANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY"
Abov«i   Dr. Nathan RatnolT, Chairman.   Be- , low (left to right):    Dr. David J. Kalbkl and Dr. Samuel J. Kopetzky.
where they purchased a site on the .Mount of Olives.
Plans for the erecting the first set of permanent buildings have been com¬ pleted. Actual work will begin as soon as the rainy season is over. Already a building has been rented as temporary quarters for a school for research in tropical diseases.
The physicians who carried on the negotiations were Doctors Nathan Rat¬ noff, David J. Kaliski and Samuel J. Kopetzky. The Jewish Physicians' Com¬ mittee, in co-operating with the Palestine Foundation Fund (Keren Hayesod) raised |300,000 among the medical pro¬ fession in the United States to establish the tiiedical school.
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The faculties of law, engineering and
education  of   the   Hebrew  University
will be provided in the same manner.
All  instruction in the medical branch
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have been brought to us due to unfor- on the question of Mr. Lloyd George's
return, thinks that in foreign relations no sensational developments can be an¬ ticipated, but the exercise of greater caution in the administration of these affairs is necessary.'
"Unless Britain alters its policy, the position there will soon be similar to that of Turkey," declares the Daily Mail. "It will be a question of fighting or clearing out," it flays. "Inasmuch is there is nothing worth fighting for, Britain should go before the fighting starts."
"Yet," declares the Mail, "owing to the action" of Great Britain, America and France, thousands of Jews have settled in Palestine and it is questionable whether their lives are worth a few days' purchase if the British troops should be withdrawn."
As to Bonar Law himself, he is con¬ sidered in Zionist circles as a "neutral." That he is not unfriendly to the Pales¬ tine policy, is shown by the fact that he abstained from voting during the divi¬ sion on the Joynson-Hicks resolution in the House of Commons. The Express, however, feels that Mr. Law is known to be anxious for economy, and was never conspicuously associated with the "Coali¬ tion's follies in Mesopotamia and Pales¬ tine." ^'
tunate circumstances 'over which they have no control.
"The support and co-operation of phil- anthropically inclined citizens have made this Home possible. Nowhere will ex¬ penditure of energy and grocery con¬ tributions be likely to yield more happy returns than here where these little homeless creatures arc enabled to enjoy the influences that develop health of body and cleanliness of mind and sweet¬ ness of heart.
"'He that hath a bountiful eye Shall be blessed; for he givcth of his bread to the poor.'"
Dance and Minstrel Show
The directors of the Infants' Home will make 'their headquarters at the Home, 557 E. Rich St., between the Iiours of 2 and 5 and will receive all contributions at that time. During the same period Miss Rose Sugarman will conduct one of her celebrated afternoon social dances at the Community House on Rich St., with an additional feature in the form of a minstrel show which is under supervibion of Mr. Leo Yas¬ senoff, well known in the B'nai B'rith circles of this city for his unusual ability along these lines. There will be real good music and everything that goes with it in making the afternoon an en¬ joyable one,' The entire ' proceeds of this affair will go to the Infants' Home.
Your presence that afternoon will therefore mean much' enjoyment for yourself, and at the same time a great help in the cause of the homeless kid¬ dies.
The King of Italy has conferred a royal order upon Mr. Charles Wein- berper of New Orleans in recognition of his kindly interest in the cause of the poor and needy Italians in Louisiana. Mr. Weinberger is a prominent Mason and active in all Jewish movements.
With a deep sense of pride and pleas¬ ure the officers of the Ohio State Uni¬ versity Menorah Society extend to'the members of the O. S. U. chapter and to the Junior Jewry organizations of this city a hearty welcome upon the opening of the 1922-23 season. In doing so, however, we entertain an ideal which, we hope, will, and must, be realized. The Menorah organization is going to serve a definite purpose, i, e., the growth of the moral, spiritual, and edu¬ cational welfare of our young men and women. In other words, Jewish knowl¬ edge and learning will be the predomi¬ nating factor in this great University society for Jewish advancement.
At present there are too many of our young people who manifest a general disinterest in other than recreational, activities, which, at best, are but means to an end.
As a merchant takes inventory of his wares annually to ascertain his losses or gains, ,so the individual must take in¬ ventory of his profits, not from the dol¬ lar and cent viewpoint, but from, the mental, physical -and moral standpoint. Now, at the threshhold of this O. S. U. New Year, is the time to begin and be¬ gin right. I-ct each one of us find our¬ selves. Weigh ourselves in the balance and learn whether we are in on the debit or credit side of life. Join the national movement of "Join Junior Jewry" which at present is in full swing throughout the U. S. A-, by having every student at the Ohio State University become an active, participating member of the Menorah Society.
The first open meeting of the Menorah will be one of unusual importance and will be held at the Ohio Union Building at 3 P. M., Sunday, Oct. 29. It is ex¬ pected that a goodly number of local people,, as well as students of.the Uni¬ versity, will turn out for this meeting.
Rabbi James G. Heeller of the B'nai Yeshurin Temple, Cincinnati, O., who has been very active in Jewish public work, will addrelss tlie assembly on the subject bf "The Americanization of the University" making special reference to (Concluded on page 4.)
bus .Jewry in the War Relief Cain- paigns, Children's Hospital and other worthy causes will stand forth as a unique and historic fact in the annals of Jewish philanthropy and. will also establish in the minds of our fellow non-Jews that the Jew has never closed his eyes to the sufferings of his brethren nor of his non-Jewish neighbors as well.
And the fact that the very same body of men afiiliated with the greatest of Jewish organizations, the Independent Order B'nai B'rith, again, responded liberally, this time to the cause of com¬ bating anti-semitism in this country, is of sufficient assurance to us that "the Jew will always hold his own ground." Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan and their mongrel, hybrid-non-descript kind will eventually iiass to their decline, for the cruel gospel of hate and misunder¬ standing which such agencies have spon¬ sored in free America, is today being counteracted by the far-reaching vision of the I. O. B. B. and its anti-defama¬ tion league which upholds the banner cjl Judaism above the smirking bigotry of our enemies.
With the light as our battle cry, benevolence, brotherly love and harmony as our platform, we are stilling the an¬ cient hatreds of which our race has been the victim and arc touching the hearts of all mankind with a fine idealism and a variety of culture such as the world has never witnessed and of which B'nai B'rith lodges everywhere are becoming the recognized centers.
Enthusiastic Meeting Held
At a most enthusiastic meeting held Monday evening, Oct. 23rd, at the Woodman Hall there came forth the announcement from Mr. E. J. Schan¬ farber, chairman of the local Anti- Defamation drive, that the quota for Zion Lodge had been reached with ap¬ proximately over $5.00 per capita. In appreciation of this accomplishment, Mr. Schanfarber said, "Without the co- (Concluded on page 4.)
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ACCLAIM GOWHEIL ON 60TH BIRTHDAY
Coliunbia   Professor  Called  Or¬ nament to Country at Din¬ ner in His Honor
DEPUTIES ENDORSE WOLFE'S SOVIET PROTEST
LONDON (J. C. B.)—The cor respondence which Lucien Wolfe, repre senting the Joint Foreign Committee, ad¬ dressed to the London representatives of the Soviet Government protesting against the reported suppression of Jewish teaching in Russia, was en¬ dorsed at the meeting of the Board of Jewish Deputies today.
Regarding the activities of the Evan¬ gelists which are becoming, increasingly widespread, the Board decided not to commence an anti-conversion activity at present.
NEW YORK.—Colleagues and other friends of Professor Richard Gottheil, head of the Oriental department of Co¬ lumbia University, gathered at Delmon- ico's at a dinner in honor of his sixtieth birthday and of his 35 years of service to the university. Tributes to the work of Dr. Gottheil at Columbia'and to his work in the cause of Zionism were paid by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Dr. Talcott Williams, Oscar S. Straus, Professor James C. Egbert, a fellow member of the class of '81 at Columbia, and Justice Samuel Greenbaum. Dr. Nicholas Mur¬ ray Butler, president of Columbia Uni¬ versity, was toastmaster.
Dr. Gottheil Speaks
Jn response to the greetings of his friends, Dr. Gottheil $poke of his ar¬ rival here in 1873 from England and of attending the Fifty-seventh school,, where he was a pupil of Justice Green¬ baum. He dwelt especially on his life at Columbia and said that when a posi¬ tion with the university was offered to him hef^made but one request and that was thkt he would not be asked to take classe|)on Saturday morning.
"At no single moment have I ever been called upon to do anything which might have been opposed to my consci¬ ence as a citizen and as a member of the Jewish race," he declared earnestly. "I know that reports go about the city from the evil minded to quote another effect, but I make this statement with a fiill sense of what I am saying."
Speakers Pay Tribute
Several of the speakers paid a tribute to Dr, Gustav Gottheil, father of Pro¬ fessor Gottheil, and said they were more like comrades than like parent and son.
Dr. Butler spoke highly of Professor Gottheil's scholarship and said that In the twentieth century it was not easy to be a scholar as the temptations and ma¬ terial rewards were in other directions. He said the guest of honor was "an or¬ nament to Columbia University, the City of New York and the intellectual life of the ynited States and the world."
'Dr. Wise said Dr. Gottheil announced himself a Zionist 24 years ago, when it was not a little thing, for a person hold¬ ing an academic position so to align himself. He praised ¦ Professor Gottheil (Concluded on pag( 4.)
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