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Vohiiiic VI — No. 18
COLUMBUS, oHuywmvrmnmR 21, 1923
FORMER CZAR AID EXPLAINS POGROMS ON ARRIVAL HERE
Will Begid. Activities of Promot¬ ing Royalist Course in America
SAYS NICHOLAS
OPPOSED POGROMS
NEW YORK.—Starting of a new tnonaVchistic. newspaper and the forma¬ tion of groups in various parts of the United States which will aid in restor¬ ing Czardom to Russia arc the admitted purposes of "the presence in this coun¬ try of Vladimir Ismailoff, former legal advisor to the late Czar.
Ismailoff arrived at Ellis Island Sat¬ urday,    Sept.    1,    with    l-'iO    Russian
Britiah Chief Rabbi Says
Rusaian Monarchiata Plot
Maaaacre of Jews of Ruaaia
LONDON, Sept. 7 (J. T. A.)— "The earth is still reeling like a drunken^ man," declared British ^.ChicT Rabbi Hertz in his Rosh Hashonah message to the Jews of Britain.
"Nearly five years have passed
since the  close of the most dev-   ,
irifig of wars.    The earth  is
still rcclipg^like a drunken man. THjii^tiTiabitants thereof are bereft of /easoii by the poison gas of 'racial antagonism in a world that was nearly destroyed by hate, and is seeking to save itself by hate, '' and Israel is the greatest sufferer in these distracted days. The forces' of reaction and race hatred everything have joined hands in the unholy work of reviling and slandering the Jew. We are back- once more in 't])e Dark Ages. New Jewi-sh massacres and on an un¬ precedented scale are openly advocated and systematically planned. t
"The Russian monarchists de¬ clare that in the event of their re¬ gaining power they will slaughter every Jewish man, woman and child in that land. Western Jews do'not sufficiently realize the in- ", ii't'fiii'itS"'- 'da"nger- that'"" h(!!veTs ovW""^ four million of our brethren in' Russia."
refugees, mostly former members of Count Wrangel's army, who had fled to Constantinople after' the victory of the Bolshevists. The Wrangel army was one of the aggregations that aided in inciting pogrom during its expeditions near the Russian boundary.
Ismailoff, described by the Nevf York Times as a "tall, distinguished looking man with silver white hair and beard,' had an apologetic word to oflFer about the old pogroms of Czarist Russia.' The Times' comment in this connection fol lows;
"Regarding pogroms which have oc¬ curred in Russia, IsinailofT declared that they had been caused chiefly through irritation on the part of the intellectual classes. The. late Czar was greatly wor ried, he continued, about the pogroms
• and tried to prevent them and they often talked over the subject together, The Czar was much opposed to pogroms, he added, and had tried to do away  with   the cause by promoting a
' spijTjit of tolerance through the Csar Bell, published at Sebastopol."
IsmailolT, who was editor of the pub lication named, was not questioned as to the stand of the Czarist organ dur¬ ing the Mendel Beilis blood ritual libel, initiated by Czarist officials, or as to the legal advice given the Czar by Boris Brasol, another Russian Czarist refugee now in this country, who believes in the circulation of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a work which charges that democracy was -devised by Jews for the purpose of obtaining Jewish world domination. Brasol contributed an article on Russia to Henry Ford's anti-Semitic publication, the Dearborn Independent.
Ismailoljf expects to get funds for re¬ establishing his monarchist organ' from wealthy Russians who have been' ad¬ mitted to the United States., He will find many former associates here. But recently General Loukomsky and family, formerly prominent Czarist aids, arid workers for the Wrangel cause, were admitted. Robert T. Tod, former commissioner of immigration at Ellis Island, spoke in their behalf and ex¬ erted himself in every way to obtain their entry. A group of Russianinon- archists, was awaiting the general at the pier to welcome him.
Loukomsky, who was formerly active , in the Czarist cause, stated fo reporters fhat he had come to America "to begin all over again."
Ismailoff,   the  latest  Czarist  arrival,
said that he recently visited Denmark tp
see  the mother of the late Czar,  the
Dowager Empress Marie, sister of the
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TEMPLE SISTERHOOD TO CELEBRATE SUCCOTH MONDAY EVENING
On Monday evening, September 21, following the services at the Bryden Koad Temple, the Religious Committee of the Sisterhood will give an affair in celebration of  Succoth.
Booths will be erected in the Temple and the Kiddush service performed. I^-or the purpose of introducing the new members of the Temple an informal re¬ ception will be held. An orchestra has been engaged .to furnish music for dancing in the vestry ro6nis. Refresh¬ ments will be .served.
A cordial invitation is extended all members and their families to attend services and the Succoth celebration on Monday evening,, at eight o'clock.
Mrs. L Wolf; chairman of the Re¬ ligious Committee, will be assisted by the Mesdames, M. Wallach, S. Levin, W. Kurzon, B. Goldman, J. Robins, ,M. Kyser, Simon Bornheim, J. Schullet, Harry Zeiger, J. Lufti Leo Katz, C. K. Stiefel, Louis Hyman, S. Loeb and Max Jacobs.
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Germany ^sy Creating a
New J^ismarck
By S. ii^^tftSCHKAH
(Special to Ohit;.^'Jewish Chronicle)
' Germany is busy making preparatio^ijLsccutcd  the Roman  Catholics   in  Ger- for the celebration of the twcnty-fif^i many.    In   France,    too,    there   were
anniversary of Bismarck's death. It ^ to be a day of national mourning anjJ of national pride. The whole of Geti| many will do honor to her great statei' man and hero. Professors and perity; ticians, authors and intellectuals Srjt! going about from town to town, frorfi village   to   village,   telling   the   peopl^.?
Roman Catholics. In Rome there was a'pope to whom the German Catholics were subject. Such things could not be permitted.
Bismarck was ready 'always to wage war for Germany. For her he vvould fight not only the pope in Rome, but God in heaven Hiiti-self.
Canadian Gov't Opens Its Doors to Sdectedl[mmigrants
Only Skilled and Unskilled Labor
From Britain Eligible Under
New Policy
HIGH CLASS IMMIGRANTS TO BE WELCOMED
OTTAWA (J. T. A.)—A .statement of the immigration policy has been is¬ sued by Hon. J. A. Robb, Minister of the department. "With the certainty of a bountiful harvest, which in Western Canada exceeds that of any previous year, and the prospects of better times returning,. not' only for farming, but also for other industries," says the statement, "plans are being laid -for next season in the' expectation that im¬ migration in Canada will show a marked increase."
' While there are some would-be im¬ migrants into Canada .which ^ arc, not .smtfed^^jtr t}3,ft,'6ojhirtinn oW.itlg t6 pbjSi ical, moral or industrial unfitness, says the statement, or .because they belong to races that cannot be assimilated with¬ out social or economic loss to Canada, there are at. the same time in Great Britain and Continental Europe tens of thousands of skilled and unskilled workers (not agriculturists) who would be an asset to Canada if steady em¬ ployment could be found, for them.
An adequate immigration policy, it is pointed out, must recognize that while Canada requires increased population, quality rather than quantity must count; that British immigration must hold first place in the program; and that the se¬ lection of Canada's new settlers must have due regard to physical, industrial and financial fitness and the Dominion's power of  absorption.
The greatest need is for those able and willing to settle on the land and assist in agricultural development. While capital is essential to immediate land settlements, its absence will not close the road to prosperity' to those strong .of hand and stout of heart, de¬ termined to succeed.
"The open door policy will prevail for those classes likely to succeed and for whom there is demand," the statement continues. "In the interest of the im¬ migrant and of Canada, determination of fitness will, as far as possible, take place before the immigrant leaves his own country. ... As the British Isles alone cannot furnish a sufficient quota of the agricultural classes, ef¬ forts will be made to encourage im¬ migration from certain areas of the con¬ tinent of Europe and from the United States."
UNVEILING TOMBSTONE FOR MAX TOPPER TO
BE HELD SUNDAY
Mrs. Ma.\ Topper and family will hold services next Sunday afternoon, September '£\, at two o'clock at the Greenlawn ceinetery, for the unveiling of the tombstone for Mr. Max Topper. Rabbi Jacob Tarshish of Temple Israel will officiate.
SIR ALFgED MOND COM-    . ING FOR KEREN HAYESOD
NEW YORK (J. T. A.)—Announce¬ ment is made by the Keren Hayesod that Sir Alfred Mond, M, P. is sailing for New York, Septetnbef 15, where he will speak at a number of public fu^nc- tions in the interests of the Palestine Foundation Fund.
It is understood that arrangements are under wJ»y for a large public recep¬ tion in New York to Sir Alfred under the auspices of the Keren Hayesod.
about their Bismarck, how he lived anUj^ .'| |,at is the Bismarck which the Ger- what he achieved for their countj^man people created for itself before Scores of books are being publishe]( the war. That was the Bismarck who about Bismarck —memoirs and lettcr|, was the idol, the hero, the legendary biographies • and interpretations. TWi God of Germany, her lawmaker, her newspapers are full of articles aboifi creator. And suddenly, this Bismarck him. It is comprehensible that ,|^ i,a., disappeared. A ^ew Bismarck has should be so, especially under presen^i,| ari.sen. Germans .speak now of a Bis- day conditions in Germany. Germaii^^^f marck of whom you have nfevcr heard is living through a period of humiliarj before. An old man always going about tion. The enemy is at her gates. Thl^j.-lad in white, an Oriental sage, quiet enemy is powerful against her. TWfij j]. his manner, vyalking day and night Ruhr is occupied by the French. - Ge^; thiough the streets and the market- mans are fleeing from the occupied ter^l places of Germany, teaching his people ritdry. Exhausted by nine , years Wj pitj; and compassion. He was not a war, demoralized by their terrible dc?^ man of war, this Bismarck, but a feat, the German people no longer po^|| preacher of peace and good will. The sess the discipline which sucha situatioijjold chancellor, you are told taught the requires. There are internal disputes,! warlike Germanic race that its salvation there are party conflicts, there are. rlv4|:'} lay not in the shedding of blood, but ries between the different states. Po»r,J i„ forgiving its enemy. Archives have erty is blunting every higher fcelifl|s^ been searched, documents have been dis- cven the feeling of patriotism, of to>|^.j covered, letters are shown which were for the Fatherland.: There is an. org^;, written by Bismarck, speeches are re- of blackntail, of forgery, .of conspira<:^^|,)riiitcd which were delivered by Bis- Plots are being hatched to separate Baj^ marck, all to ptove his humaneness, his varia from the Republic; Schlageter,'»" love of mankind. You are told that dare-devil who did-riot hesitate to risW'during the Franco-German war of 1870, his life in. the Ruhr, carrying on a| Bismarck would not permit the Germati active campaign against the'French h^j military to occupy Paris, the heart of been betrayed by his own comrades,. li^' France. You are told that Bismarck two' fellow-officers, for a sum whic| was gentle and considerate to tlie fallen amounts to about 'five dollars. T^ Emperor of the French, Napoleon III. whole German people has-been knocked Bismarck wpuld not allow,Germany to senseless.    ' ' ,,^,^ jubilate over her., victory .lest  it  pain
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LOCAL COUNCIL TOi. SPONSOR MOTHERS? AND DAUGHTERS' LUNCHEON
In celebration of Council Day, Fri¬ day, September iiH, a Mothers' and Daughters' Luncheon will be given on that day at 12:30 P. M. in the Ball¬ room of the Deshler Hotel by'the Co¬ lumbus Section, Council of Jewish Women. This afTair is to take the place of the first nieeting of tlic Council this year which was to have taken place on October- 2.
Due to the fact that until now the daughters have had little Opportunity to become acquainted -with Council activities, a special invitation is ex¬ tended them to attend this lupchcon as special articles have been arrailged for their interest. "
Tlie program will include-ijirlse short talks: "The Girl of Ycsterdav." by Mrs. Paul Feinknopf; "Tile Girl of"Today," by Mrs. Marcus Burnstine; and "The Girl of Tomorrow," by M'SS-;Iola Zeck¬ hauser. Miss Helen Wolf \\-i\\ rentier a piano solo. ^ i., ¦'
Local B'nai B'riflii Lodge to Resiime Activities for Year
What   Coostructive   Work   Aro
You Dpinig For Lodge? Every
Member Should Put to
Himself
Bismarck anniversary  ih order to Ve-^nd -Occupation or foreign territory
call a nobler period, to inaugurate a Bismarck cult, to comfort by its means the people, to raise the fallen spirits of the nation. "Do not .despair, German nation," we can imagine them saying. "Once before you .have fallen low. You were disrupted, scattered piecemeal, and there came a man — Bismarck, was his name— and he. joined your broken parts together. He united you, he strengthened your spirit and fashioned out of you a giant who for years held the world in his hands."
One could understand it, if it were so.
But this Bismarck cult is not quite so simple as one would think. If you listen carefully to the things which are being said about Bismarck, you will dis¬ cover that a tremendous change has come over the spirit of the German people. It is no longer the German people of 1014. , This talk is of an entirely new Bismarck, one whom the world has never known before. It is said that nations create their gods, and their heroes in thpir own image. This new Bismarck which Germany is cre¬ ating now is the surest evidence that there is a new Germany today, or at least a renewed Germany.
Bismarck has been much more for Germany than a grfeat man, much more than a masterful minister, or a supreme diplomatist. He has been more even than Luther and Goethe, those two sacred spirits of the German people. Bismarck has been a legendary figure, a heroic myth. The Iron Chancellor is as much a legend in Germany as, say, the Flying Dutchman. During a whole generation, a tremendous legend has been weaving around him. There is'not a German home in which his portrait is not displayed. You see him in front of your eyes, a cold relentless man wrought of iron and steel. There was nothing of flesh and blood about him. He spared no man. Mercy was some¬ thing he could' not understand. He neiver hesitated at bloodshed. He was the man with the niaijed fist, with the hammer of'Thor in his hand-, and on his mighty anvil he ground,the' foreigii nations to dust and his own he ham¬ mered into a mighty force. He com-: manded'his people-to count only upon their own strength, Also he taught them never to forgive. Only slaves forgive, he said, He told the German people that they had been chosen to be Lord of the world, to dofninate other nations, to ride over the' universe. He was the personification of "Deutsehland Ueber Alles." "Destroy I Sweep the enemy from your path I" He evert said that Germany miist have het* own God, a German God. "Thou shalt not bow down to strange gods. Thou shalt have no gods in common with other nations.''
That is' why Bisinarck ruthlessly per-
consistently warned his people against the policy of colonial expansion. Ger¬ man interests in Africa or China, he foretold, would lead to war. Bis¬ marck's policy was European, universal, not nationalistic.
That is why he was always quarrel¬ ing with the Kaiser, the man who is now in exile in the little' village of Doom in Holland.
Bismarck is being represented as the great humanitarian. He was against the German Catholics only because he saw in Catholicism the iniquities of the Inquisition.
And the things we are being told about Bismarck's private life. Tolstoi over again!
Even a bulwark of German reaction like Dr. Helflferich, the close ally of General LudendorfiF and Admiral Tir- pitz, speaking recently of Bismarck, said that a time would come when all the nations of the earth w.ould make a shrine at the grave of the great chan¬ cellor. Pilgrims would bring wreaths to place upon it in memory of the great humanist. Tliat is the way in which the Germans today are speaking about Bismarck. And they mean it. In their private conversations among themselves, they speak exactly in-the same way. It is not merely a pose adopted to throw dust in the-eyes of the world.
Is it true that Bisinarck was what is now being claimed for him? Was he actually the humanist and not the Iron Chancellpr he has been represented to be? It matters very little. Both views are probably correct. It is even more probable tlmt both are incorrect. Legendary figures created out of the soul of a people are not photographs of the people they are supposed to repre¬ sent. They are the embodiment of the nation. The German people has changed. The Bismarck which was the embodiment of the German people of the; pre-war days, is no longer the em- bp<liment of the'German people of to¬ day. Germany, for decades the symbol of the soldier, is today perhaps the ino.st peace-lpying nation in the world. It may be true that Germany's crushing defeat in the Great War is responsible for this new love of peace, that it is a case of making a virtue ,of necessity, But the facts of the matter remain.
There, is still plenty of tajk in Ger¬ many about the sword and the rifle. Yet in the same way as one never mentions a rope in the house of a hanged man, the average German stops his ears to any talk of war. "No more war!"' is fiot merely the cry of the German So¬ cialists. The Svliole German ' nation today is prepared to submit to almost any indignity rather than 'go to war. Th^ German people have suffered much. It is re-estimating its values and chang-
MONSTER MEETING 't&
PLANNED FOR O^TTOBER
Vacation days for the B'ltai B'rith lodge- are'rapidly approaching an end. The members of this order have merged upon a New Year that promises to be a year marked with same of the greatest activity in the annals of the lodge.
The B'nai B'ritli Lodge is; an order of sacrifice upon the part of its mem¬ bers rather than one of gaiii and every man who accepts the ritual/should pre¬ pare to do everything possible toward its construction and in order to do this he mu^t be honest with -. hiinself and ^^ememqteJin pcrfot;mi».^|ji]d
The members have no doubt stored up a great deal of energy during these months of inactivity and are anxiously awaiting the first big meeting in Oc¬ tober. Men who have relied upon the Lpdge meetings as a rendezvous to greet their old friends are counting the days.
Last Monday evening, Sept. 17, a regular meeting of Zion Lodge was held at the Woodman Hall at which time Pres. J. Zeckhau.ser discussed plans for greater activity during the coming winter months. , Dr. Louis Harris formerly of this city was rein- ducted into active membership in the local lodge. $2.5.00 was voted by the lodge for Japanese Relief on a motion by Mr. Alfred Kobacker. Mr. Morris Supran announced at the meeting that he will immediately resume his duties as unpaid dues collector for Zion Lodge with the aid of the Jewish Chronicle, publicity department.
URGES UNITED SUPPORT FOR JEWiSHJDUCATION
Advises Calling of Conference to
Organize All Elements of
American Jewry
KEEN INTEREST DISPLAYED BY SOCIAL WORKERS
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DINNER FOR INMATES BY COUNCIL JEWISH WOMEN
In accordance with the custom of the past nuniber of years, the Columbus Section, Council of Jewish Women, again gladdened the hearts of the Jewish inmates (38) of the Ohio State penitentiary with a dinner last Thurs¬ day afternoon at four o'clock. The Re¬ ligious Committee; headed by "Mrs. Harry  Freidenberg,  was  in  charge.
The dinner followed the Yom Kippur services held for the prisoners, at which Jack Meyers  ofliciated.
Assisting Mrs. Freidenberg were: the Me.s.dames Jerome Kohn, Nathan Her- skowitz, Harry Zeiger and A. J. Har¬ ris.
HADASSAH NOTES
.\ meeting of the Columbus Chapter of Hadassah was held Monday evening, Sept. 17 at the Hebrew School. ;
Mrs. Kesselman of Tel Aviv ad¬ dressed the meeting on the work of the Hadassah in Palestine. Those present were greatly impressed with the work done in the cities and the Chaluzim camps.
A rummagie sale will be held sometime in October and all those who have ariy- thing that they would like to donate for this sale kindly call Citizen 19551, aS soon as possible.. Bundles will be called
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ing them — even the legend of the Iron Chancellor. He has been.- re-created in the image of his people, and he has be¬ come an ancient prophet preaching the sword turned into the ploughshare. A new Bismarck has arisen  in Germany.
In certain impatient circles, it has be¬ come almost axiomatic that the gen¬ erality of American Jewry suffers from "laissez faire"—that it is indifferent re¬ garding matters of general Jewish fm- port. But, the contrary has been most gratifyingly demonstrated with regard to that proposal that, if and when the need for raising funds to relieve our war-stricken brethren finally ceases, the vast organization reaching into '1200 communities and built up by the Amer¬ ican Jewish and other relief committees be not "scrapped," but rcmobilized for the purpose of obtaining support for national Jewish philanthropies, educa¬ tional and religious agencies in a man¬ ner worthy of the great wgrk done by them,  individually and collectively.
It was not contemplated by the pro¬ posal contained in my recent paper, en¬ titled : "Shall the Great Foreign Relief- Machine Be Scrapped?" that alt ef' forts to raise funds for war-relief be abandoned. This must be continued as long as the need exists. Nor was it contemplated that the American Jewish Relief Committee, as such, should as¬ sume the new work suggested. The proposal, it ought to be said for the benefit of those who may not have read it, is that as the need for raising for¬ eign relief is abating, the great army of men and women who gave themselves so freely to this cause, and who are eager to .continue their splendid public activity, should be remobilized for the solution of the pressing philanthropic, educational and religious problems of American Jewry. ,
That social workers should display a keen interest in this proposal was to be expected; also puWicists, journalists and rabbis. But an equally keen inter- !,est .has been displaj'ed by the men and, . women of the regional, state, and local   ,
has been given to those "who led^hem,'"" devolved the actual burden of raising, since 1915, the .$60,000,000 which Amer¬ ican Jewry has contributed for war- relief. It is they, more than any other class, who are most eager that this re¬ markable activity' which has had the effect, on the one hand, of breaking down class-barriers, and, on the other, of giving each of the participants a broader view and a clearer under¬ standing of Jewish responsibilities, shall not cease.
When the need for war-relief has passed, they say, they will be glad if something will be found whereby will be continued the opportunities which the need for foreign relief gave them. And they have very definite ideas of the form which this new activity shall take. The chairman of a committee in a small community wrote:
"In five years we haven't had a single poor family in our midst. At the same time, the amounts sub¬ scribed' h«re for national institu¬ tions are ludicrous in proportion to our means. Fifty dollars is the top figure. This is a joke when you consider that we have a dozen peo¬ ple here, each worth over a half a million. These same people,'if they lived in Baltimore, Chicago or in Philadelphia, would have t6 be aniong the substantial givers. But in out last war-relief campaign we raised $1-5,000 as against a quota of $12,000. The A. J. R. C. has - taught us how to give. If the work stops now, we will stop giving — and thftt would be a real social ca¬ lamity. .1 am glad you propose that the machinery built up .by the A. J. R. C. should be utilized for other beneficent purposes. We must not ~ be permitted to sink into 'desuetude.' I am positive that an appeal for Jewish education, though more dif¬ ficult to put over at the beginning, would, in the end, arouse a finer response, if aggressively and per¬ sistently presented, as we presented the plight of the anaemic, under¬ nourished children pf the Ukraine. Bttt the main point is that we must have something to do which will lift us out of ourselves and sustain our interest in the great Jnvish problems, especially now that re¬ lief campaigns are over,"
This letter is quoted rather fully be¬ cause it is typical of one. class of re¬ sponse—the response of the rank and file, who, it might have been supposed, were."fed up" on money raising cam¬ paigns.
On the whole, the reaction 6f the American Jewish weeklies has been de¬ cidedly favorable. The Yiddish press, (Continued on page 4.)   '
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