Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1922-12-08

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ^OK THE JEWISH HOME
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Jewish Ideals
Volume IV — No, 3
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PETER SCHWEITZER'S DEATH GREAT LOSS TO NATIONAL HOME
Was   Largest   Individual   Donor
to tho Cause of Jewish
National Home
PLACED KEREN HAYESOD ON SOUND BUSINESS BASIS
NKW YORK,—Peter J, Schweitzer of 270 West End Avenue, chairman of the Keren Hayesod and leader in Arilcr- ican Zionism, died early Monday morn¬ ing, Nov, 27, of appendicitis. He is survived by Mrs. Schweit/er and five children.
The funeral was held Tuesday morn¬ ing from his residence. The cortege halted at the national headquarters of the Zionist Organization of'^America, at .V» Fifth Avenue, where New York Jews were assembled to pay tribute to one.of the greatest leaders of the Zionist move¬ ment in the world. Among the honor¬ ary pall-bearers were Samuel Unter¬ myer, Judge Julian ,W, Mack, Rabbi Stephen S. 'Wise and Louis Lipsky,
Zionist offices throughout the co'untry were closed Tuesday in Schweitzer's honor.
The death of Peter J. Schweitzer is perhaps the greatest loss to American ' Zionism since .the movement's incep¬ tion. Always a Zionist worker and contl-ibutor to the cause Mr. Schweitzer was not as well known as other leaders, Ijut, has in his time done a service to Palestine that will be of everlasting benefit to the cause of Jewish national rejuvenation,
Mr. Schweitzer was elected treasurer of the Zionist Organization of America at the Chicago convention in 1919, but it was not until the annual gathering held in Cleveland two years later that he rose to international prominence.
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Mr.  Schweitzer  was  in   Palestine  at the   time   the   Wefzmann   commission came   to   this   country,   and   when   the break in the ranks of American" Zion¬ ism   came   he   cabled   to   leaders   here that he opposed any let-up in the work ' for : Palestine   rqcoustructiotij   and   in- j-'^istcd. oil itriinedi^te .actjon, ji<fr 'fiie^ re- , 'building o{ the' Jewish "J^TaUohal home •   land.
At the Cleveland convention, Mr. Schweitzer arose as one of the ac-^ cusers of the old' guard in Zionism for their neglect to accomplish the b'vi tasks in crucial hours. On that mem¬ orable Sunday evening, in June, 1921, when the Brandeis-Mack adminLstratipn went down to defeat, Mr, Schweitzer pleaded for immediate .work for the re¬ construction of Palestine, and when the storm was over he was one of the seven chosen to lead Zionism in Amer-
Mr. Schweitzer soon 'gave up his activity in the Zionist Organization to devote his entire energies to the cause of the Palestine Foundation Fund, the Keren Hayesod. An administrative head of the fund, it may be said with¬ out exaggeration that-Peter J. Schweit¬ zer made the Keren Hayesod in Amer¬ ica what.it is today,
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Upon his election as head of the ad- ininistrative work of the Keren Haye¬ sod, Mr, Schwpitzer placed the work of
DR. CRONBACH TO ADDRESS O, S. U. MENORAH SOCIETY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 3:00
SpcnkinK of progress, tho O. S. U, Mcnqr.-ili Society is rapid¬ ly gaining he.adwny in its work. The members are all striving with one goal in view — an or¬ ganization that will outrank that of any other University in the Middle 'West. To succeed wo must have eyery Jewish student a paid up member. Help us to realize our ambitions.
Dr. Cronbach of Cincinnati will address the Menorah to¬ morrow, Sunday, 3 P. M., at the Ohio Union. His subject will be. "Jewish Contribution ;to Reason." There will also be a musical entertainment. BE SURE TO ATTEND-ALL WELCOME
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"JEW A CREATIVE INFLUENCE IN MUSIC" PRESENTED
Council of Jewsh Women Issuea
First of Its Publications on
Jewish Music
COUNCILS EVERYWHERE TO DISCUSS NEW BOOKLET
Louis Lipsky, Zionist Leader Will Speak In Coluinbus Thursday
Will  Tell   Local  Jewry  of  Re-
markable Progress Made, in
Palestine Upbuilding
LARGE OPEN MEETING AT AGUDATH ACHIM CONG.
Mr. Louis Lipsky, Chairman of the Nati(7nal Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America, will address a great rally of Zionists and Jews interested in Palestine, on Thurs¬ day evening, Dec. it, at Agudath Achim Synagogue, which is being arranged under the auspices of the local Zionist' District.
Great interest is attached to the 'visit of Mr. Lipsky by the Zionists of this city as they expect to learn from Mr.- Lipsky of the measures that are now to be takep for the purpose of rebuild¬ ing Palestine as the National Home of the Jewish people.
• Americans and .American Jews will be particularly interested in the realization of this great ideal since the Congress of tbe, Uiiited. States has unanimoiisl
NEW   YORK   CITY.—The, Coun;i of Jewish Women, through its National Committee on Religion, of  which Mr.t.' Felix A. Levy of Chicago, is chairman has just issued the first of its publica-;' tions on Jewish Music,    This course oft. eight  illustrated  lectures  was  prepared
by  Mr;-«fSainuel S, Cohon of Chicago,
It. "fi il comprehensive and inicrestin.j {' presentation of this subject, and the ex¬ amples are very appropriately selected The ''local Sections of the Council!] throughout the country have arranged for Study Circles devoted to the discus¬ sion of this booklet and the presentation of its illustrated lectures;
Analysis   of   Jewish   Music
WELFARE OARD MAKES BIG GAINS IS REPORT
fTwenty-Six    Organizations    Ate Spending $700,000 Annually, .Justice Lehman Tells Con¬ vention a
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ADD MILLIONS IN BLDGS. '-    KU KLUX TALK BARRED
I ^'KW YORK,—Ihe biennial conven- lioh iif ilie Jewish Welfare Board was -jjcjd Ik-i-c .Monday, Dec, 1, at the Youii'^ ¦¦5^?"'\ "'^'^'¦'^^^'• •"^''sociation,- Lexington ^jtiiiic and Ninety-second Street, It •brouglit,together approximately ^2-') dcl- 'efitiitts-
"ligfttts- representing Jewish' -centres, Vouuir Men's Hebrew Associations and "Sl'iVilir organizations affiliated with the I'Jcwi'^li Welfare Board, Sessions were held (lui-in.!4 the morning and afternoon jtprt'd a dinner closed the convention in Ute. evening.
><jJustice Irving Lehman, President of ..jth& Jewi.sh Welfare Board, in hi"; ^n- Isiual '.iddress, described the rapid strides made by the Jewish  Centre movement
foliowin^^and, told of the vast
Organization's   Growth
Seven communities have buildin; , , . ,'""*'*=J' °"€funds aggregating $1,2-50,000. Twenty- of the realms of ar in which the Jev/tj^ constituent societies report a real has m.ide considerable contribution, andi^j^j^ ^^^^^ „f j,,^;^ b„i,ji„g^ „f ^,_. in which many generations of devotecl^oo,flOO. These twenty.six organizations Jews have labored to create, preserv6^Igp^,,,, ,,^„„j '3,^,,, hundred' thousand ^nd're-create the melodies that expresi^J! ,„„^„ 3„„y^„y j^^ aJ/vities. Although the -soul, of the Jew in prayer and 3t| f^omplete statistics arenot available, said' '^ ^^" '^'Justice Lehman, the seven largest con-
Preservation and Cultivation • .-t stitiicnt societies, comprising the Jewish "We   strain   our   eyes   into   the   farj'.People's  Institute  of   Chicago,   Educa- reaches   of  the  dim  past,  seeking  tli^' tional Alliance of New York, the Y. M, (Concluded on page 7.) 'eU' ':'f;- .<¦ (Concluded on page 1.)
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Mrs.    Cohon    makes   the analysis of Jewish Music: '{/flich organizations.
"If we meet Jewish music with any l-'In his report of the work of the six misgiving,   it  is   because  the   world   htj ^tcii  months  since  the   merger  of   the which the Jew lives has been so full of' ijfcwish Welfare Board and the National superstitions against' him, that he him-*,'^Council of the Y, M. H, A. and kindred self has often come to believe many of'^associations   became   effective,   Justice the prejudices of his neighbors.    ThuJ'i¦Lehniaii   said   that   ten   Jewish'  centre we find Jews — and many of them Jewa'i .buildings  had  been  added  by  purch^s of standing.— who repeat the accusation^ and that three others in Newark, Phi'a of our enemies that the Jew has con-i; ^^ilphia and Perth Amboy, representing tributed nothing to art,   Jews, too, carina-value of .f 2,000,000, were now in proc dream; and their hearts and "brains andiKss of construction hands and lips have given expression to;' those dreams.   Contrary to the ,popularj belief of Jew and Gentile
LAST MEETING BEFORE ELECTION FOR LOCAL
B'NAI B'RITH LOdGE
The next regular meeting of Zion Lodge No.' 62, I. O. B. B„ will be held Mondhy evening, Dec. nth, 8:00 o'clock, at tho Woodman Hall, Main,St. ncair Third. Final - nominations of officers and delegates to the District Grand Lodge Conven¬ tion, to bo held in Denver, will lake place. j9
As a true son of the Cove-f nant, we ask. every member of the B'nai B'rith to be presen|f' at this meeting and choose ^cari; didates who will bring honoi* and credit to the local B'nai B'rith organization. Other mat- tors of. great importance will also be taken up at this meet¬ ing.
REMEMBER — MONDAY ¦ EVENING —8:00 O'CLOCK — WOODMAN HALL        '
NEW YORK JEWS TO CELEBRATE RAISING OF FIFTY_MILLIONS
Plans Announced for Commemo*
ration of Eighth Anniversary
of J. D. C.
WILL BE TESTIMONIAL
FOR FELIX M. WARBURG
Union's Slogan Is "To Bring Jews Back to Judaism"
Two   Thousand   Delegates   WiU
Attend Convention of Union
of A. H.C. in New York
WILL CELEBRATE THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY
IN THE POLISH ELECTIONS
Fusion of Most Jewish Parties Affected, Despite Internal Dissension,
Finally Leads to Amalgamation with Other Minoi;ities and
Unexpected Success at the Polk
By BEN ALMONI
(Special Warsaw Correspondent of the J. T. A.)
W.A.RSAWi—After four years of ex¬ istence the first Polish Parliament (Con- .stituent Assembly) carried into eflfect an election ordinance under which the elections to the first regular Sejm and Senate are now taking place. The elec¬ tion ordinance as such is liberal and democratic in its provisions. The elec¬ tions are general, direct, secret and pro¬ portional. But the reactionaries who composed the majority of the Constit¬ uent Sejm hit upon a scheme by wh'ch, despite the democratic nature of the election   ordinance,   the   advantages   rc-
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or more deputies. If a Party obtains no deputies at all in the constituencies, all its votes should be added together, and deputies returned according to the niiniber of votes obtained.
The framer.s of the election ordinance however,  decided that votes are to  be
NEW YORK.--TW0 thousand Jewish men and women will meet in New York in January in a movement to bring the Jews back to Judaism. The convention will mark the fiftieth anniver§ary of the Union of American Hebrew Congrega¬ tions.
The union maintains a college at Cincinnati for the ordination oi rabbis, a Synagogue extension department which brings opportunity for worship to Jews at farms, summer resorts, col¬ leges, hosjfitals and other places where congregations are' inaccessible, and a jiublication department which issues a monthly bulletin for adults and. a mag- ......^..far "'children,, and' .tracts/ for' disr
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Delegates from  All Over U. S.
^The delegates vvill come from all parts of the United States. The ses¬ sions will include a dinner at the Hotel .Astor, with government officials and noted -American Jews as speakers; re¬ ligious services at all temples and syn- ago'^ues and mass meetings at Carnegie Hall and 'at the .Academy of Music in Brooklyn. .At this convention, which will end the first half century since the Unioii of A,merican Hebtew Congrega¬ tions was founded by the late Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the problem of the pres¬ ervation of Judaism through the young
put   on   the   special   list   only  in   cases,        ,      <¦ ., •    r • l     ,     ,    j-
where the Party had returned deputies{P<='',»'^ °^ ^^'' f^'*'^ '"'^^^^ ^^^ l^^."?'"
Failing
in  at  least  six  constituencies
that, the votes cast  for  the particular
Party are not tb be counted at all.
Situation Critical
This   decision   made   the   situation   a critical   one   for  the   Minorities,     The
factor  and  a program   for the  nation¬ wide education of Jews will be adopted
Jewish  Religious' Schools
In order to determine the scope of the work Necessary, the union made a survey   of   Jewish   religious   schools   in
White Russians and the Ukrainians, fori the Harlem district of New York City, example,'  have  no chance  of returning I the population of which is :>Q per cent
Icpnties in six constituencies., At most, hey may do so in one or two constit-
Bencies,   This meant that all other votes ast for them would be lost.   The same
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applies to the Jews, who are scattered 11"" New York City as a whole, 2o per
Jewish, It was found that of '47,98'< Jewish children' of school age in the district, only fl,C03, or ".30 per cent, at¬ tend any kind of Jewish religious school
'ill over the country. Even if all the 'Jewish Parties were to unite, it would je impossible for them to elect deputies Fji six constituencies, which would mean lat a large number of Jewish votes [vould be entirely lost.
Under   such   circumstances   the   Na-
ional Minorities ,in  Poland  felt.them-
elves compelled to unite and  form an
lection bloc, • There  is: no  fear about
"fhe bloc as a whole failing to gain the
necessary six constituencies,
On the day that the Sejm finally adopted the election ordinance, a meet¬ ing was held at the Club of the Jewish Deputies in the Sejm Building, and an agreement was signed for the establish¬ ment of an election' bloc between the Minority peoples in Poland, whose mem¬ bers approximate about 30 per cent of the total population of the country. The bloc comprised the Germans, Russians, White Russians, Ukrainians and Jews, At later meetings of the,bloc, it was discovered (hat the best organized par¬ ties were those of the Jews, "^he Jew¬ ish representatives were in a position to show, figures in hand, what large num¬ bers of Jewish voters were organized in the various Jewish organizations. The'rest of the Minorities, with the exception of the Germans, were unable to give definite figures and everything in their case has had to be left to con¬ jecture. The Polish Chauvinist Press (Concluded on page 7.)
NEW YORK.—Prcliniinary plan's for codinicnioratiir.; the-eight anniversary of the organization of the Joint Distribti- tion Committee, of which Felix M. Warbur.iJT is chairman, and the raising by popular subscription' of the ^-'jOtOOO,- 0(1(1 fund which has ll4^a'"aisbursed by the committee since 19t.I foi> the relief of Jew.^ in all parts of "the world af¬ fected by the great war, were'announced Wednesday,
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tent of a- population of 27."),000 Jewish chilcjren attend Jewish schools. The leaders of the union concluded that if American Jewish children are to be edu¬ cated as they should be, an extensive program for the establishment of reli¬ gious schools is necessary.
Among thoiie wh6 are aiding the com¬ mittee in arranging for this convention are Chairman Daniel P. Hays, Ben Alt¬ heimer, David M. Bressler, Manny Strauss, Henry Morgenthau, , Ludwig ¦Vogelstein, Philip J. Goodhart, Nathan J, Miller, Mortimer L, Schiff, Louis Marshall, Julius M. Mayer, Irving Leh¬ man, David Leventritt, Meier Steiq- briiik and Roger W. Straus, X
K. K. K. CONFER
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YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, Dec, 4.—A joint nietting of the Independent Order B'nai IVrith and the Ku Klux Klan, to be held within a week,, to "devise iion- sectarian religious services to be used in the public schools" is demanded by the Klan after a meeting here.
The demand was made by KingiKlea- gle Everett Dixon of the Youngstown district to a local reporter who had been called td the Klan's headquarters and after he had sworn to secrecy as to whom he had seen there and what had taken place during his visit,. -
Fkli.x M, Warburg.
The celebration, which the success of the greatest charjtable effort in the his¬ tory of a'people "noted for their charity, \vill take tlie form of a testimonial din¬ ner to Mr, Warburg "and his associates, who, have directed th^ affairs of the Joint Distribution Com'jmittee, and which will be limited to oOO.'jiersons, men and \yomcn,-who are to be chosen for the honor of alten'dance by selection.
- Select  Schiff's  Birthday    .
The-"mo,vement for a popular.obscrv- ^CBj!;wfinhir--ctfinpfetn^ ojf-^'brJd^wideL,,|)lniaiLtIiro^y"-upo^^   the,' part of American Jewry was origmafe'd ' among the rank aiid file of "New York Jews   who   have   determined   to   show their  appreciation  of  the  work = of  the leaders  who  have given  unstintedly of their time and labors to the cause.
The date selected is Jan. 10 marking the seventy-sixth birthday anniversary of the late Jacob H. Schiff, who, dur¬ ing his lifetime, was not only the leader of New York Jewry philanthropy, but, as treasurer of the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross, and in many other non-sectarian movenjents, endeared himself to the entire public,
Europeans  to Attend
.Among those who will attend the din¬ ner many will represent natives of every country in Europe to which the funds of the Joint Distribution Conimittee - have gone, as well as every section of the Greater City, together with many guests from other cities who have ex¬ pressed the desire to pay tribute to Mr. Warburg, Louis Marshall and others who, since the inception of the work eight years ago, have not only contrib¬ uted to it liberally in money but have made -it their chief thought and concern at a tremendoiis personal sacrifice.
It is furthermore expected that at the dinner the plans for the future activ¬ ities of the committee in aiding in the rehabilitation of the Jews of Europe and Palestine, will be announced, a task which, it is admitted, involves contin¬ ued effort and continued contributions by the Jews of the United States over a long period of years.
To Inter-est All Jews
Steps by which this work will be made to enlist the interest and sup¬ port not only of the rich .ind influen¬ tial, but of practicaly all Jews, men, women and children, in the United States, will be put forward.
The anniversary celebration is being arranged by a committee of one hun¬ dred, of which Dr. Ferdinand Sonne- born of L, Sonnebom & Sons, 114 Fifth Avenue, where,the headquarters of the committee will be located, is tem¬ porary chairman. Among the members of the organization committee are many prominent men successful in profes¬ sional and industrial fields in this coun¬ try, who 'have originally come from the afflicted lands.
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The Catskill (N. Y.) Hebrew Asso¬ ciation has purchased a plot on which td erect a community center, which will in¬ clude a synagogue, a Hebrew school and club rooms for various activities. Build- uig will be begun immediately.
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