Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1929-09-13

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Vol. Xll---Nu. 30
COLUA'lJ3US, OHIO, SE-PTKiMBIlR i
3, 1929
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"Millions Will Be Needed for
Palestine  Reliel,"  Says
Chairman Brown
Calls Uixin the Jews of Europe
.ind the Antipofl(*s to Raise
Funds Also
BANKS IN NEW YORK ARE
O^KN FOR CONTRI-
RUTIONS
XFAV YORIC—Millions of dollars will be needed to repair the havoc in the cities and towns of Palestine, and in the Jcivish colonies, caused by the Arab up¬ risings, declared David A. Brown, Chair¬ man of the Palestine Fmergency Fund, in an appeal to the Jews of America to hasten their contributions.
At the same time he pent cables to his numcrou.s accjualiitanccs and correspond¬ ents in .'Xiistralia, New Zealand, South Africa, Shanghai, China; Bombay and Benares, India; in Poland, Russia and Roumania, c;dHng uiwn them to take im¬ mediate slcps to secure funds for Pal¬ estine relief.
"The advices that arc coming, to me daily from Palestine convince me thai fine as has been the response that has already been made to the appeal, we arc only at the very threshold bf our effort.
"The devastation wrought by the frenzied Arabs, the desolation and suf¬ fering that they have inflicted has vir¬ tually ruined every Jew in Palestine.
"The proclamation issued by Sir John Chancellor, British High Commissioner in Palestine, in which he denounces 'the atrocious acts committed by bodies of ruthless and blood thirsty evil-doers, of savage murders perpetrated upon de¬ fenseless member'; of the Jewish popula¬ tion, accompanied by act.s of unspeakable savagery, of the burning of farms and houses iu town and country, and of loot¬ ing and destruction of property' is the best proof that at no time since the first reiwrts arrix'cd in this country of what is transpiring in" Palestine has there been any attempt to exaggerate the situation. It is impossible to exaggerate it. Sir John Chancellor's proclamation serves to emphasize the appeal that \ve are mak¬ ing for the innocent victims of these atrocities, and to point out the need for even greater sacrifice and prompter ac¬ tion by the Jtws of the whole world.
"In the short time that has elapsed .since ive made our first appeal to the Jews of America, every posbiblc means of communication to reach individual Jc\vs all over the United States of Amer¬ ica and Canada has been, employed, with the result that today 400 Jewish commu¬ nities have been organized for relief ac¬ tion, and actual cash lo the extent of over $200,000 has been received. Thou- ' sands of dollars arc cn route to us by mail, and more thousands will be in our hands before the end of this week. I anticipate that wc will have at least $500,000 before many more days will have elapsed.
"But that will not he enough, I hes¬ itate to place any estimate at what will (Continued on page 4)
After the Massacre
iMauricc Samuel, American Novelist and Zionist Leader, Describes Situation in Holy City
JiiRUSALEM.—The Palestine inci¬ dents cry lo heaven against the indif¬ ference on anti-Jewish malevolcnte of the Palestine adtninlstration.
For days preceding ihc big attack the Jewish press and representatives had warned the government and the public of the impending disaster arid implored the government lo prepare. I will bring with me heavy documentary evidence to. this effect.
Scattered attacks, on'the Jews were everywhere taking place. Al.so, there was fierce unrest ainong the-Arabs. On Friday inorning, though, it was no High Moslem Holiday, thousands of Arabs, armed willi swords, daggers, clubs and firearms, poured into Jerusalem, the po¬ lice not making the feeblest effort to examine any of them. When tlic last moment came and the vast mob of Arabs poured after praytjr through the Jaffa Gate, the British police had pre¬ pared   infiuitely   sm.-illcr   protection   than
Over   300  Attended   B'nai
B'rith Dance and Jubilee
Last Monday Evening
Membership Drive, Zion Lodge^
No. 62, I. O. B. B., Is Now
in Full Swing
Over 300 men and women turned out for the B'nai B'rith dance and Jubilee last Monday evening, at the Progress Club on Parsons Avenue. This affUir usherc<I in the fall season of Zion Lodge. Every one present had a most enjoyable time and the oflicers of the Lodge were gratiftcd with the success of the affair in every respect. President Louis Ro.sen- thal takes this means of thanking every one who assisted him in making the ar¬ rangements and in carrying out all the plans. He desires especially to thank Mrs. Tillie Rosenthal, 105? Bryden Road, chairman of the ladies committee which cooperated with the ofTicers of the Lodge in putting the aflfair over.
According to Ben Z. Neustadt, gen¬ eral chairman of the membership drive, new applications are being received daily. It is his fonid hope that by October 19th, 1920, when Alfred M. Cohen, interna¬ tional president of the B'nai B'rith reaches his 70th birthday, at least 75 new members will be secured. In every com¬ munity in the United States, drives are now in progress, with the avowed pur¬ pose of presenting as a birthday gift to Mr. Cohen a large class of new mem¬ bers- In line with this national move¬ ment Zion Lodge, No. C3, L O. B. B., is now busily engaged in rounding up all eligible inen in this city. Cooperating with Mr. Neustadt, general chairman of the drivf;, are the following: Pr. Sam¬ uel D. Kdelman, A. B. Weinfeld, Harry Schwartz, Jack Wolstein, Robert L. Mellman, Abe A. Wolmaii, Justin L. Sillman, and Lpuis Rosenthal,
that which was assembled two days be¬ fore against the peaceful Jewish funeral when twenty odd Jewb were wouudc<l.
On this occasion the police stood by passive, while the slaughter began and only at a certain point made an effort to disperse the mob. In the Georgian Jewish section the rnassacre lasted a full two hours against men, women and chil¬ dren before the police interfered. When the Jews had organized self-defense they behavMl heroically as in Ycmiii Moshe where they threvv back the vast, mur¬ derous mob, the police arriving later.
The Jerusalem Jews universally ^ praise tile Oxford  students* courageous help.
The ainazing fact is that though Hebron is a known center of anti-Jewish violence, where there are only Jews of the old school and the Yeshiva who were quite incapable of self-dcfcnse, the government abandoned 'them to the local Arabs with the results now known.   .
Acts of unparalleled treachery by the Arab governor of Hebron before and after the massacre are now confirnled. He dibarmed the Arab police when the mohs began gathering and restored their arms when the massacrO was over.' Wlien the surviving Jews w-anted to telephone Jerusalem, he refused permission, and when they wanted to telegraph he in¬ sisted they use only one formula "Hebron all right."
Amazing stories are told of the pas¬ sive heroism of Jews and the Yeshivan bochurim of Hebron who covered each other with their bodies in their last agonies.
The Palestine administration, having suspended the newspapers, issued bulle¬ tins which are incredibly impudent in their inisre[>rcscnjtation. For example, it places the list of Jewish and Arab dead of Jerusalem and Hebron under one rubric to cover the nature of the maS' sacre in Hebron. Also, reporting from Haifa, it says: "A clash took place be¬ tween Jews and Arabs and the British
dispersed them," as though both were equally guilty. This misrepresentation illustrates the continuous policy of tlie administration in placing the Jews and Arabs in juxtaposition with itself as the indiff'ercnt spectator.
. Throughout the country, as in Jeru¬ salem, it is clear that if" the Jews had iclicd on go\crnment protection, a mas¬ sacre unparalleled in ils dimensions would liave taken place.
In Tcl Aviv where I was an eye wit¬ ness this was obviously so. But here tlie Jews were half way prepared, though wretchedly hampered by the govern¬ ment's restriction of the self-defense. The result was that in Tel Aviv the Arabs were thrown back and even most of our losses were due to the heroic but unnec¬ essary and premature effort of the young Jews to rescue Jewish isolated workers in a factory in the Arab district.
In Safed as in Hebron, there were no "self-defense type" Jews. Therefore the administration was doubly guilty again for the massacre which took place with¬ out Arab casualties several days after the riots in other parts of the country, 'lliere, as elsewhere, help arrived much too late.
In many parts of the country the Jew¬ ish self defense recalled the early Amer¬ ican pioneers surrounded by howling redskins.
In -Hulda 27 Jews resisted for eight hours the terrific assault of one_ thou¬ sand Arabs creeping up through the Herzl forest. One Jew, Ephraim Chishik, whose sfister was killed vrith Trunipeldor at Tel Ha, was ,killed. The British help arrived after eight hours, though buildings and the flames of the thrashing floor were visible at Tcl Aviv, Rechoboth and certainly at Naanch which was the British station. When the Jews were relieved they counted forty to fifty Arab dead in the vicinity.
Another heroic defense occurred .it Hartuv where 125 men, women an-'I children in, one house withstood the Arab mobs for several hours until the arrival of the British. In Hartuv there was Judah Eppel of Vihia who fled Po¬ land in disgust of the Polish government eight years before because of its failure to protect Jewish lives, only to face this in Palestine.
Ilartuv and Hulda were almost burned to the ground. ,
Details of the defense at Bath Alpha are unknown, but remember this: Beth Alpha faces the desert and the Bedouins are different human material than the Palestine Arabs,
An amazing universal phettomenon is the fact that the Arabs have nowhere attacked such iwsitions where the Jews were known to be strong but those iso¬ lated points and cities wher« the govern ment had half crippled our self-defense or we had none at all- This is signif¬ icant for the future situation. Many in' cidents are also reported when Arabs re¬ fused to participate in the murders while Arabs of Hebron and else\vhere were wounded in defense of Jews.
It should be added tliat provocative letters were sent out from Jerusalem by the Grand Mufti calling upon the Arabs to come to Jerusalem on Friday, August 23, though this was no High Holiday, Arabs likewise report having received letters from Sammy, the son of Musa Kazim- Pqsha, the president of the anti- Zionist Arab Executive, inciting them to "go to Jerusalem and attack the Jews." Jewish Palestine is in helpless rage against the administration and its mis¬ representations of the situation. It should be noted that there 'is no hatred against the Arabs.
Shortly after his return to the coun¬ try, the High Commissioner issued a declaration in which one can see the con¬ tradicting, mendacious utterances of the Palestine administration concerning the riots'during his absence.
Palestine Jews consider their lives'and property unsafe unless drastic changes in the personnel and in the spirit of the administration are brought about.
How Mr. Hirsch Kobacker Celebrated   His   70th Birthday Anniversary
Beloved Septuagenarian  Makes a Gift of ,?700 to the Co¬ lumbus Hebrew School
Whcri .\{r. II, Kotacker was told aboui ,1 celcbriilioii of liis scveiuicth . Ihdiiy lie was more tliaii surprised. Of cojirst, he knew liq had a birlhd,->y, bcT cause every person has one. He also knew that his w.is souicliinc in Septein- But what aboiil it?. And why the
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Hirech Kobacker
Noted American Statesmen Give Their
Unequivocal Support to President
Hoover^s Stand on Palestine
Situation
Fifteen Governors, Members of the United States Senate and House, Express Concern Over Anti-Jewish Massacres in Holy Land Which Have Shocked Mankind Throughout the World; Strong Stand Must Be Taken that Atrocities Must Be Stopped and American Citizens Given Full Protec¬ tion; Express Hope Britain Will Take Adequate Measures to Insure Peaceful Development for  Jewish   Homeland;   England  As World's Agent Must Fulfdl Ob¬ ligations    Under    Mandate
REPARATION FOR LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY AND
EFFECTIVE MEASURES FOR THE FUTURE DEMANDED;
SECRETARY OF WAR AND SECRETARY OF LABOR
COMMENT;  OUTBREAKS MAY DRAW NEW
SYMPATHY FOR JEWISH STRUGGLE
Style Show and Card Party at Broad jStreet Temple
Hello there! What's tho news? Noth¬ ing except that I just bought my tickets for the big style show and card party. Whose p.arty? What I Haven't you hjcard? No I haven't. Well, the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood is having a card party, Tuesday night, and one of Columbus' leading department stores is putting on a style show in connection with tlie card party. You'll see everything from shoes to hairpins andi even the latest in kid¬ dies' fashions. You like >to play cards too, so bring the boy friend and prepare yourself for a good time.
The time is Tuesday, September 17th,
at 8 P, M.™and the place is the East Broad Street Temple. So long!  We'll see you there.
RIVLIN AND SCHANFARBER
SERVE ON LOCAL
COMMITTEE
Rabbi Solomoii Rivlin of the East Broad Street Tenipje and Edwin J. Schanfarber, attorney, have accepted membership on the national committee of the, Palestine Emergency Fund, which was organized to raise money for the relief of the Jewish victims of the Arab massacres in the Holy Land.
The executive coinmittee is sending 1^50,000 a day to Palestine five days in the week.
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celebration? In his evincing modesty he could not comprehend why that or any other day of his life should be distin¬ guished as to honor it with a special celebration, "A fellow," he thought (and maybe he even argued so) "ought to go about his daily business and not think of such triflings."
And Mr. H. Kobacker probably would have spent that day in accordance with the usual rotitine, including also a visit to the Hebrew school, visiting all the classes, listening to ,thc recitations of the children and sometimes engaging in a Hebrew conversation with them.
But his family and his friends could not share his view. They simply felt that a gentleman like Mr. H. Kobacker who has been leading a morally whole¬ some and spotless life, has raised such a splendid family which follows in his footsteps, has achieved material and so¬ cial success, and has always been an out¬ standing figure in the community—that such a person deserves to be shown the honor and respect of his admirers, and that the best occasion for it would be the celebration of his seventieth birth¬ day.
The rest of it would have been very easy. The greatest difficulty of the mat¬ ter was to obtain the consent of Mr. H, Kobacker. Of course he wouldn't con¬ sent to any pompous celebration; he simply couldn't see the reason of it. He also refused to accept any material gifts; he couldn't see the need of it. The most he would consent to was A simple gathering or something of that kind con¬ sisting of his immediate family and—
Yes. and the faculty of the Hebrew school, „
The family was not satisfied. They felt that that alone would not be enough; thaC something else had to be done to express their love and admiration to their revered husband and father. What should -it be?
A happy thought came to the mind of Mr. H. Kobacker's youngest daughter, Alice.
"I have it'"jshe exclaimed beamingly. *T know what will please father best."
The eyes of the entire family were now turned upon Miss Alice Kobacker. "Let us make a contribution to the Hebrew school in honor of father's birth¬ day. I am sure father will be most pleased with it."
When they all turned their eyes on Mr. H. Kobacker, they knew that the question of the celebration of his Seven¬ tieth birthday was satisfactorily solved. His radiant face and his smiling eyes bore sufficient proof to the fact.
And so Saturday evening, September 7, 1020, Mr. H. Kobacker was sitting in the center of a small group consisting of his immediate family and the faculty of the Hebrew school, listening with great joy to the Hebrew songs sung by the faculty. '
¦ ' Yes, a few more friends, who some¬ how have learned about the occasion, came in to offer their hearty felicita¬ tions. They were: Mr. and Mrs. A- Goldberg, Mr. and.Mrs. J. Solove, and Rabbi L. Greenwald.
At that occasion it' was announced that a contribution of $700 is made to the Hebrew school of Columbus in honor of Mr. H. Kobaker's seventieth birth¬ day, one hundred dollars for each decade of a tiseful and prosi>erous life.
That was how Mr. H. Kobacker cele¬ brated his seventieth birthday.
XEW YORK—Unequivocal support for the stand taken by President Hoover in his statement on the Palestine anti- Jewish inabsacres perpetrated by the Moslem Arabs, in which the hope was expressed that the Jewish National Home will emerge with greater &Irength from the present tragedy, was given by many leading American statesmen, re- g.irdless of party affiliation, religious leaders and educators in statements made by them to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as the result of an inquiry di¬ rected by this Jewish news gathering and distributing agency.
. Governors of 15 stites in the Union, ¦J3 mcinbers of the United States Senate and 72 members of the House of Rep¬ resentatives, expressed approval of Pres¬ ident Hoover's message to the Zionist Organization of * America and uttered strong words of condemnation for the attacks on the Jewish population of Palestine. ,
Adequate Protection The duty of Great Britain to accord adequate protection for the population of Palestine and the hope that the British government will take proper measures to Secure such protection and to carry out, in accordance with the spirit and the letter of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine, the obligations it has undertaken in behalf of the civilized world to aid in the establishment of the Jewish National Home when it accepted the Mandate over the Holy Land from the League of Nations. Though the ma¬ jority of those who have replied to the inquiry evinced full confidence in the British government that it will cope with the situation adequately and will carry out its obligations under the Mandate, many members of the United States Con¬ gress expressed their readiness to ini¬ tiate and'.to support constitutional action by the Congress of the United States to restore peace to the Holy Lrind and to safeguard the country's free and unham¬ pered development through the efforts of
pioneering Jdws who proceed there in pursuance of the Balfour Declaration to reclaim and rebuild the land.
Indignation was the pre\alent note in the responses of the American st.ttesmen at the barbarities and horrible massacres committed on the Jewish [Kipulation and in particular against those American Jewish students who fell as victims of the Hebron massacre The protection of American citizens in Palestine under all circumstances was insisted upon ns an undoubted duty of the government of the United State?.
Sympathy with the aims of (he Jewish movement which seeks to rebuild Pales¬ tine as a Jewish National Home and praise for the Jewish pioneers, coupled with appreciation of the Jewish contribu¬ tion io the development of America's in¬ dustry and commerce and along other fields of endeavor, was likewise mani¬ fested in the statements. Sympathy for the families of the victhns and words of encouragement for the future progress of the Palestine work were expressed.
Greatly Interested
Many members of the United States Congress expressed the view that the American nation is greatly interested in ,the present Palestine situation and sliould the situation call for it, a strong stand should be taken by the United States government in cooperation with the gov¬ ernment of Great Britain.
Adequate reparation fur the losses of life and property sustained, .•sufficient pre¬ cautionary measures to prevent the re¬ currence of similar events were insisted upon as an indubitable condition for the settlement of the present situation in Palestine.   "
Among the governors who responded are Governor Dan Moody of Texas, Governor R. C. Dillan of New Mexico, Governor Bibb Graven of Alabama, Gov¬ ernor Grant G. Allen of Massachusetts, Governor Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, (Continued nn page G)
World Jewry Mourns  The
Passing of Louis Marshall
In Switzerland
Was  American  Jewry's  Out¬ standing Layman and Communal Leader
NEW YORK, Sept. IL—Lonis Mar¬ shall, 72, widely known attorney, long an international figure in peace move¬ ments and one of the nation's outstanding Jewish phildiithropists, died today at Zurich, Switzerland, his law officcb Here announced.
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He was educated .'it Columbia Uni¬ versity and held an honorary L. H. D. degree conferred in 1020 by Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati.
Marshall was chairman of the board of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, founder of the Jewish Pro¬ tectory and Aid Society .ind president of the committee of the Jewish delegations at the peace conference which resulted ill trcities with Poland, Rumania, Jugo¬ slavia, 'Czecho-Slovakia and other na¬ tions, guaranteeing equal rights to all racial, religious and Ungnistic minorities.
In addition, ht has btcn a trustee of Syracuse University bince 1010 and pres¬ ident of the New York State College of Forestry 20 years.
defense counsel in the celebrated Leo Frank Atlanta murder trial, as one of the defense attorneys in the impeach¬ ment trial of Governor William Sukcr and as chairman of the American Jew¬ ish Relief Committee which, with kin¬ dred organizations, raised more than $05,000,000 for the relief of Jewi^i war sufferers.
He had undergcmti two operations for a pancreatic abscess and his life was de-
SUPT. OF URYDEN  RD.
TEMPLE RELIGIOUS
SCHOOL ISSUES
STATEMENT
Mr. Leo Ya=:sciii">ff, superintend¬ ent of  the Bryden Road Temple religious school, issued the follow¬ ing statement this week: DtW Member'
Oic'mf}   to   thr   iatctu'Ss  of   the Wujh floly days thiv year tte an'^ f/oiug to open our l-ieiujiotis school on Sunday niornlno, S\'pt. J.5/A at
Wc would at'precuite very much if you intend to .tvml your child to our school, thai vo't have him or her present positively this cotniu;} Sunday viarning.
Early and p»ompt registration ti'ill help us matet tally to yet yo- ing. Ez'ery child ivhu intends to couw uiiisl .re<!i\ter>
Thanking ynu for you'f coopera¬ tion  I ben '" remain.
Very sincerely,youes, ISiO YASSIL^IOFE. Superintendent,