Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1930-08-08

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Vol. XIII —No. 32
c6lUMBUS, OHIO, AUGUST 8, 1930
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Scanning the Horison
By
DAVID SCHWARTZ
Landman   Urges   Establish¬ ment of an Authoritative Body for Jews
A New Movement |
Down deep in us has always been the ambition to lead some great cause. Wc have always envied F. P. A., columnist of thc New York World, for his rare fortune in being able to lead at once two' great causes—tlic movement for visible house signs and the movement to put an end to dry sweeping.
At last, we have found the cause. It is really a simple idea, as all great ideas are. Wc call it moonlight saving time. ^ You have heard of daylight saving time of course. Well, this is just the opposite.
Moonlight Saving Time If you are a student, a brain worker, or belong to any of the.professions, my movement   may   prove   your   salvation. Let me explain it.
Daylight saving time is intended to give you the full benefit of the summer sunshine. Now, that is all very well if you happen to be one of those fortunate enough to be able to play during thc summer. But suppose >'ou have to work, as so many of us do. The one thing you want to avoid then is the hot summer sunshine. Now even in the hottest pe¬ riods of summer, there is a bit of a respite after midnight If you are an architect and want to make that drawing, a.lawyer and want to draw that brief, an artist and want to paint that picture, or a writer, the thing to do in summer is to do your sleeping during thc day and after a little breakfast at midnight, by the light of the silvery moon, get busy. The Case of fed Harris This is not, purely theory, I may point to my friend, the famous theatrical pro¬ ducer, Jed Harris.
Four years ago, Harris took his meals at the Automat. That is the kind of a restaurant, where you drop three nickels in a slot, and a door opens and reveals a plate of beef stew.
He was in the employ at the time of a^ Jewish charity organization, but was dismissed and after that, he stopped vis¬ iting the three slots and used to put in two nickels and a Swiss cheese sandwich would come forth.
Today, Harris counts his fortune above the million mark. He finds it difficult to locate a restaurant expensive enough to eat in. And Harris himself admits that he docs his hest work between midnight and four o'clock in the morning.
Tbat Second Wind ^ Not only does working in the moon¬ light period spare you. from the., summer heat, but it has always jheen my conten¬ tion that that is the time when one is at the peak of his energy.
True enough after a day's work, we are all supposed to be tired, but  any good psychologist will tell you that af¬ ter the initial fatigue there sets in wtuit is known more popularly as "the second wind."   In other words, new reserves of energy become available.    And if  you are a brain worker, these new reserves are far superior to the ordinary supply. The Revised Teralon      . J, Qf couse, am familiar with the ar¬ guments against it.   Old Ben Franklin, you rcnicmlMr, argued: "Early to bed and early to.rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." But really that's not true.    A con¬ temporary Jewish wit was far more cor¬ rect when.he wrote: "Early to bed and early to rise And you'll never meet arty of the promi- , nent guys."
I  The prominent "guys"- always stay up late and generally sleep late. The Wilna GaoR The Gaon of  Wilna, you remember the traditional  stories, always had  his candle burning to the wee end of the liight, and by its light he did his study¬ ing.    And today, besides Jed Harris, I have myself come on Maurice Schwartz, Jewish Art theatre star, working away . quite .casually at two in the morning. There is another advantage to mid-, night toils, which I have not yet enume¬ rated, namdy; at  that hour, you  are never disturbed by any one interrupting you to try to sell you a vacuum sweeper. And we ourself, spend at least five min¬ utes every day, declinhig to buy vacuum sweepers.
The Pronunciation Was Dlffleidt Have just been visiting that new 92nd St. Y. M. H. A. which cost close to three millions and, which I believe is the most thoroughly equipped Jewish "Y" in the country.
' The new building expects to take care of approximately six thousand young m»i. I could tell you a lot of otlier things about the building, but as usual, I am interested tn the utuniportant things. I have always believed in stressing the unimportant things. I think they are the important things. I think it is more worth while to know what a man cats, how he plays or how long Ite sleeps than what his views on the tariff are. His views on the tariff are generally wrong anyway. So why get concerned about them?
And so, I was not so much interested as to what Mcmflership Secretary Moses Bcckerman told me about the building as a littie story, he recounted of the days when he was making his way through cc^lc^e.
He had obtained a position in an ocu¬ list's store One day, he Was helping the optometrist test some customer's eyes.
^Read the first line," said the doctor to fhe customer, pointing to a line which icadHZFXPBO. The customer was silent The doctor switched cn a stronger and stronger lens. But the custfuner contiimed his silence. "Do you mean you can't see that I" finally cxdauned the oculist exasperated *'0, I can see thc letters alright, but I can't fH-onounce the word."
Tiro YoiilMti] Chuaidetts
3 Organizations Now Function to Answer the Requirements of Jewish Life in the U. S.
SUGGESTION IS BEING WEL¬ COMED BY JEWS JEVERY- WHERE
Charges of Unfairness Against Jews in Medical Colleges of U. S. Are Unti^iie, National Investigation Proves
Commission Declares That Jews Should Themselves Curtail the
Number of Young Men Entering Medicine—Question Is Now
Being Discussed by Rabbis and Communal Leaders
Throughout the Land
My private, sleuths inform me that up (Coadmied <hi VNCt 4>   v
NEW YORK—In an editorial printed in the current issue of The American Hebrew, Rabbi Isaac Landman, the editor, asks the Jews of America if thc time has not yet come "to build an or¬ ganization which at all' times can speak and act with responsibility and authority for thc Jews of America." Such an or¬ ganization, writes Rabbi Landman, should be constituted by the membership of thc three American organizations that now function independently in thc religious, protective and philanthropic phases of Jewish life.
Dr. Landman names the Synagogue Council of America, which represents 3,000 organizations of the Reform, Con¬ servative and Orthodox wings in Juda¬ ism; the American Jewish Committee which, for two decades, has labored stalwartly and effectively in behalf of all Jews in foreign lands who still suffer under political and economic disabilities because they are Jews; the Joint Dis¬ tribution Committee which, the writer states, has collected and expended flOO,- 000,000 for war relief and reconstruc¬ tion abroad and is the agency par ex¬ cellence for collecting and distributing funds by American Jews in times of emergency or calamity that may be vis¬ ited on Jews anywhere in the world.
"American Jewish life," says Rabbi Landman, "divides itself into three as¬ pects. First and foremost is our religi¬ ous idealism and as[Hrations, as these concern us in our own country. Second is the continued American Jewish inter< est in our brethren throughout the world where they still suffer from political and economic disabilities because they are Jews. Third is the occasional call that may come to American Jews-for monetary relief in times of calamity or emergracy.
Three organizations now function to answer the requirements of these three phases of Jewish life in America. Each organization is representative, fully com¬ petent and thoroughly established. All three speak with authority when a ques¬ tion arises that falls within their own spheres* There are other organizations, of course, which presume to speak for the Jews of America. These are the groups that create havoc when the voice of American' Israel should be heard clearly and authoritatively. The sug¬ gestion here offered will, it is hoped, either absorb or eliminate these organi¬ zations in the course of time.
'For the religious aspect, thc Syna- igogue Council of America is representa¬ tive of all shades of doctrine and opin¬ ion. Too little importance has hereto¬ fore been attached to thc Council. The three lay organizations and. the three Rabbinical associations of national scope, speaking for Reform, Conservatism and Orthodoxy and comprising about 3,000 congregations, arc afliliated with the Council. This 15 unique in Jewish his¬ tory. At no time heretofore have the sects in Israel been so united through their representatives to voice sentiments and ideals common to all of them.
"For Jews abroad suffering from polit¬ ical and economic disabilities, the Ameri¬ can Jewish Committee has labored stal¬ wartly and effectively for two decades. The men who sit on this Committee are in every sepse leaders in thc Jewish life of the community they reivesent. Like the Synagogue Council, the Cammittee works without fanfare and publicity. Its word in behalf of our persecuted breth¬ ren in fordgn lands is received vvith due attention by the governments to which it speaks, and its record of accomplishment is already American Jewish history.
'For relief in Jewish emergencies and in time of calamity, the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee has been and is the agency par exceUe$ice. In this Commit¬ tee, and for the purp(»e of Jewish work of love, arc united American Jews of every shade bf theological opinion, capi¬ talists and laborers, women and even children.
"The thought naturally follows that Ihe Synagogue Council of America, the American . Jewish Committee and Ihe Joint Distribution Committee unite to form one organization for the sake of permanent cenlralizalioii of the Jewish Voice of America. Such an Wgamza- tion is to be neither a Sanhedrin to pass on Jewisii religious law and praclic^, nor a Kehillah to govern Ihe separate Jewish ccmmunitics in our country, nor a super- body to impi^e itself on Ihe indlvi&iallMd groups that are organized for whatever objective. It can and ought to become die authorized and responsible spokes¬ man for united Israel in America."
NEW YORK—That charges of un¬ fairness against Jewish students in medi¬ cal colleges are unwarranted; that pres¬ ent restrictions safeguard the welfare of medicine, the public and Jewish doctors; and that Jews should themselves curtail thc number of young men entering medi¬ cine, are ihc conclusions arrived at as the result of a national investigation icon- ductc<1 under the auspices of thc Na¬ tional Conference of Jews and Chris¬ tians by Dr. A. J. Rongy, an eminent Jewish physician of this city.
Hon. Newton D. Baker, Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes and Roger W. Straus arc co-chairmen of the executive board of the National Conference of Jews and Christians.
Revelations of the investigation (which was undertaken by the National Confer¬ ence as the result of an article by the Rev. Frank Gavin in "The Living Church" of April 12, 1030, charging dis¬ crimination against Jewish medical stu¬ dents) appear in this week's "Jewish Tribune."
Dr. Rongy made a nation-wide poll among American and. Canadian medical colleges covering 1K5-Ifl29, and also cir¬ culated a set of questions among fifty chapters of a large medical fraternity.. On the ipass of data received he tabU" lated statistics embracing 15,262 students of whom 3,232 were Jews.   "The Jewish
A Special Notice to All Local Organizations
population of the country aggregates 3j-^ per cent of the total; Jews are rep¬ resented l>y six times their ratio percent¬ ages among the medical student body," said Dr. Rongy. "One of every three Jewish .students who apply is admitted to a medical college, but if all were admit¬ ted the Jewish ratio would swell to more than 4-) per cent.o£ the total student body.
 what would happen if a racial group
forming 3"^ per cent of our. national population were permitted to supply 43 per cent of our new doctors?....Since thc Jewish physician's clientele is almost entirely Jewish....an economic problem would arise of severe, competition condu¬ cive to a lowering of ethical standards." That Jews, heing urban, would prac¬ tice in cities where medicine is' already an overcrowded profession, vvhile rural districts, which need more practitioners, have a largely non-Jewish population! is the rear basis of the seeming discrimina¬ tion, according to Tufts College, Mass., the -University of West Virginia, the University of Alabama, the Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn., and many others. The fact that preference is given to students of rural districts, and that among the latter Jews are as welcome as non-Jews is uniformly stressed by the colleges. The study revealed, however, that not all medical schools arc free from religious and- racial discrimination in the admission of students.
AH local organizations de- Biring publicity in our big special New Year Number which will be issued on Tuesday, September 23rd» are hereby requested to mail in reports of their ac¬ tivities at once.
It is the policy of the Ohio \ Jewish Chronicle to include  « in its Rosh-Hashonah num¬ ber resumes of the work accomplished   during   the past year by every Temple, Synagogue, and Society in Golumbus and central Ohio. We want to give as much space as possible to these  . affairs.    Please   cooperate I with us.
If convenient, all material should be mailed in by Sep¬ tember 5th. Please give this notice your immediate attention and thereby facil¬ itate the work of our Edi- = torial Department. — The ( Editor, The Ohio Jewish \ Chronicle.
Judge Mack and Dr. Wise
Will Represent Z. 0. A. at
Agency Meeting
Both Men Will Soon Sail for Eu¬ rope   to   Attend    Important Gathering of Notf^bles
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Jews of Argentine Are Faced
With Same Sitnation as
U« S. 50 Years Ago
New  B'nai  B'rith  Lodge  WiU
Soon   Be  Established  in
Buenos Aires
Come and Attend Zanesville
Jewry's Basket Picnic and
General Good Tiine
Affair   WUl   Take   Place   At
Smith's Grove On The West
Pike Beyond Hopewell
August 10th
The annual tmsket picnic of the Jew-^^ ish community of Zanesville and vicinity will be held Sunday, August 10th, at Smith's Grove on the West Pike, be¬ yond Hopewell.
This affair is looked forward to every year by the Jewish people of Zanesville and surrounding towns, large delegations coming from Cambridge, Coshocton, Lan¬ caster, Woodsfield, Glouster, and Colum¬ bus. ' A good time is always in prospect. The Soft Ball Game between the married men and the single men will start at W a. m. There will be races and games for the men, women and children and prizes will be given for all ccmtests.
Novelty toys will be ^ven free to the kiddies, while there will be both contract and auction bridge for the ladies.
Smith's Grove which is an ideal spot for this affair is located on the West Pike 10 miles from Zanesville towards Columbus on the Licking and Muskingum County lines. It is one quarter of a mile from the road in a beautiful secluded spot with all the facilities for an ideal picnic.
Every Jewish family in Zanesville and surrounding towns is extended a cordial invitation to be present by the cammittee of which Mr. Sam Cornell is chairman.
Lawn Fete At The Agudath
Achim Grounds Monday
Evening
The entire community is most cordially invited to the lawn fete given by all the Mizrachi societies of Columbus on the grounds of the Agudath Actum Congre¬ gation on Monday evening, August llth. Tickets are setting at the nominal price of 10c. Come and enjoy yourselves and at the same time help a most worthy cause!
Are Yoa Getting Ready (or
the Greatest Event of
the Season?
zion Lodge's Annual Picnic Will
Take Place on Sunday, August
aist, at Oak Park
You cannot afford to be .absent from this affair in which young and old, male and female will participate.
The committee on arrangements is leaving no stone unturned in order to guarantee the success of the great an¬ nual event. In speaking about the an¬ nual picnic President Justin L. Sillman was, very enthusiastic and pointed oiit that games of all lands and contests of p-\\ descriptions have been arranged for.
Every member of Zion Lodge is hereby urged to reserve Sunday, August 31st, for the "Red Letter Event" of the season. For further particulars, see forthcomng issues of the Ohio Jewish Chronicle.
10,000 Jews Attend Tisha
B'Ab Services at Wailing
WaU
Arc you getting ready for the great¬ est event of the seasmi, the event that has been heralded and talked about throughout the Jewish community for the past four weeks, the event that al¬ ways attracts hundreds of people from all over central Ohio?
We mean Zion Lodge's annual picnic which will be held on Sunday, August 31st, at Oak Park, on Sunbury Pike.
One of the'best orchestras has been engaged to funu'sh the music for Ihc dancing, and a wonderful program has been arranged for the entertainment and delectation o£ the guests.
JERUSALEM—Ten thousand Jews wended their way to the Wailing WaU after sundown Saturday evening despite the oppressive heat and the stringent prohibitions which the government had set down for ,the services. Owing to the ban on candles aiid the removal of the customary lamps which the Jews were wont to use during their services at the Wall the reader intoning the Lamenta¬ tions of Jeremiah resorted to the use of a tiny flickering oil lamp set on a readr ing table while the crowds either squat¬ ted on the bare stones or stood around the reader straining to hear his chant which was more difhcult to follow be¬ cause of the darkness.
Orthodox worshippers, stockinged but without shoes, and hundreds of yomhful visitors, some of whom customarily hat- less had converted their handkerchiefs into the headgear which is arbitrary, stood patiently throughout the Tisha B'Ab ceremony. British constables, who regulated the movement to and from the Wall of the worsliippers, stated that ten thousand had visited the Wall during the services, and added that the crowd, de¬ spite its oppressive density, was the quietest that ever visited the shrine.
In the Old City the Jewish quarter was cni'doped in jdarkness, the shops remained closed and all cafes and cinemas shut down to mark the first anniversary of the riots which occurred last summer.
Members of Ihe large crowd which thr<mged to the Waling Wall did not tarry lon^ because of the pressure of those behind who also wished to ixtrtic ipate in the services The procession to the Wall continued until after midnight. Arabs were not permitted to use the main lane leading to Ihe Wall in order lo leave it free for the worshippers.
TEL AVIV—As an cxpreafsion of the national mourning on the day which marked both the opening of the riots last summer and Tisha B'Ab, this all-Jewish city, which liad recently been 'supplied with electric street lamps by the Ruten- berg Power Company, remainded shroud¬ ed in darkness Saturday evening while all amusement places and other shops were were closed.
CINCINNATI, OHIO — "We are faced in Argentine with the same situa¬ tion as-in the United States some fifty years ago, a real melting pot of nu¬ merous Jewish nationalities which are being" converted into pseudo-Latins but still retaining good sentiments and good-, will toward Judaism."
Thus wrote J. B. Eddis, president of the B'nai B'rith Argentine Lodge, in a letter to Hon. Alfred M. Cohen, interna¬ tional president of B'nai B'rith, telling him of the installation on Sunday, July 27th, of this new lodge in Buenos Aires, the first in Argentine. •
Mr. Eddis sees in the establishment of the B'nai B*r;ith lodge in his country an opportunity to "awaken the younger gen¬ eration of his fellow Jews to a sense of duty to their own race."
Charitable. in the extreme," he says of them, "they keep largely as yet to their own classes. The division of birth, education, culture and profession makes* the task of bringing them together and of eliminating the national and social differences a very difficult one.
"Nevertheless, we are willing to work and achieve the purpose and aims of the B'nai B'rith and we are confident that we will conquer thc difficulties which confront us as well as bring together the Children of Israel without classes or distinction."
Thc work of preparation for the in¬ stallation of this new lodge was facili¬ tated by Gustav Gottschalk, past presi¬ dent of the B'nai B'rith lodge in Stutt¬ gart, Germany, while ori a visit with his children who are settled in Buenos Aires, Before leaving Germany, he was com¬ missioned by the Grand Lodge of Ger¬ many to form the Argentine lodge.
THE  PRESENT  SITUATION
OF ZIONIST MOVEMENT
WAS DISCUSSED
NEW YORK—Judge Julian W. Mack, honorary chairman of the Zionist Organ¬ ization of America, and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the American Zionist Committee on Political Affairs, were yes¬ terday delegated as extraordinary repre¬ sentatives of thc Zionist Organization of America, to the meetings of the Admin¬ istrative Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and to the Zionist General Council, both of which will be held in Berlin during the last week of August.
The announcement of these appoint¬ ments was made yesterday, July 30, at the Zionist headquarters, following the sessions of the recently constituted Ad¬ ministrative Committee of the Zionist Or¬ ganization of America, and of thc Com¬ mittee on Political Affairs and on thc Jewish Agency. The Administrative Committee-held its session at thc home of Judge Mack, Fiftii Avenue Hotel, un¬ der the chairmanship of Mrs. Robert Szold, while the Committee on Political Affairs and Jewish Agency met at the Zionist headquarters, under the chair¬ manship, of Dr. Wise. The situation of the Zionist movement at home and abroad was subjected to a thorough dis¬ cussion, and plans for strengthening of the movement in the United States, fol¬ lowing the union of forces created at the recent Cleveland convention, were for¬ mulated, to be put into operation soon. Seven committees, into whose service many prominent American Zionists were drafted, were, appointed.
It was stated at Zionist headquarters that the Administrative and Political Committees had under consideration re¬ ports from abroad concerning important
Lancaster Jewish Picnic
Takes Place On Sunday,
August 10th
The Israel B'nai B'rith Sisterhood of Lancaster takes this means of announc¬ ing that on Sunday, August 10th, thc Sisterhood is giving a picnic at Weidcr's Grove, Logan Pike, west of Crystal Springs. A cordial invitation is ex¬ tended lo Columbus Jewry. Remember the date—Sunday, August 10th. , Every¬ body is welcome. A royal good time is awaiting you among the members of the Lancaster Jewish Community.
SEMAN NAMED TO WHITE
HOUSE CONFERENCE ON
CHILD HEALTH
CHICAGO—Philip L. Seman, general director of the Jewish People's Institute of Chicago and newly elected president of the national organization ol Jewish Social Workers, just has received an in¬ vitation from Dr. Lyman Wilbur, sec¬ retary of the interior, who is chairman of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, lo become a mem¬ ber of the committee.
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ATTENTION,   MEMBERS OF THE ROSE E. LAZ¬ ARUS SISTERHOOD
Join us in our vacation day celebration on Thursday, Au¬ gust I4tli, in the lovely garden of Mrs. Isaac Wolf, I44r Madison Avenue. Refresh¬ ments will be served from 3 to S-   All members are welcome.
Zionist issues, which occupy the attention of the British government and of influ¬ ential Jewish circles throughout the world.
The appointment of Judge Mack and Dr. Wise as extraordinary representa¬ tives to the two European conferences on -Palestine was the result of the recent reorganization of the Zionist Organiza¬ tion of America. Judge Mack and Dr. Wise will soon sail for Europe. The American Zionist delegation to the two conferences will include Louis Lipsky, Abraham Goldberg, Hon. Elihu D, Stone, Dr. A. Coralnik, Morri? Rothen¬ berg, and Jacob Fishman.
The Administrative Committee also discussed at length ways and means of strengthening the fund-raising activities on behalf of Palestine, namely the forth¬ coming drives in many parts of the country of the Allied Jewish Campaign, in which.the Zionists work shoulder tO' shoulder with the Joint Distribution Committee, and of the Jewish National Fund, Methods of assisting the orderly development of Palestine in coming years were discussed*
RICHARD SUTRO, N. Y. JEW¬ ISH FINANaER, DIES AT 66
PORT CHESTER, N. Y.—Richard Sutro, prominent New York Jewish fi¬ nancier,,for thirty-three years seiuor partner of Sutro Bros. & Co., died here yesterday (August 3) at the age of CC after an illness lasting five months. He is survived by a wife and two daughters,
Mr. Sutro was interested in railroad financing and fifteen years ago he aided in the reorganization of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad, of which he was a director and member of the executive committee fit the time of his death. He was also interested in the production, of copper and petroleum alKl was a director of many public service corporations.
Mr. Sutro was bom in New York and was educated at the College of the City of New York. In 1889 he inarried Ella Hunt of New York.
NOTES FROM THE JEWISH INFANTS' HOME OF OHIO
Mr. E. J. Goodman gave the children a treat. Mrs. S. Loeb donated napkins. Mrs. L Wolf entertained the children with a party in honor of the birth of her grandson.
A very generous memorial in memory 1 of Mr. Albert Levi was received from Mr. and Mrs. Lester K. Allman ot Wor¬ cester, Mass.
Again the Jewish Infants' Home of Ohio has made a new stride owing to the generous and heart interest of Mrs. S. M. Levy, »2» E. Broad Street, in the Home.
Mrs. Levy has been a director of the Home since its incifuency and has always been active in its welfare.
The children enjoy the fire drills each week, and this is another step iil develop¬ ing their self reliance.
Congratulations and many happy re¬ turns to Mr. Levy,