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COLtJMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918,   KISLEV 25, 5679.
No. 30
CARDINAL GIBBONS ENDORSES ZIONISM
His Eminence, Cardinal Gib bons, of Baltimore, has author¬ ized the publication by the Zion¬ ist Organization of America of a statement by him, approving the project to establish in Pales-! tine a national homeland for the Jewish people. The statement, which is dated November 19th, is as follows:    . '
h "It is with pleasure that I learn of the approval accorded by His Holiness, Benedict XV, to the plan of providing a Home¬ land in Palestine to the members of the Jewish race. I am sure that there are many who would feel happy to return to that land so rich with the sacred tradi-- tions of the past, and which is at the same time the home of the fathers.
Very faithfully yours,
J. CARD..GIBBONS, Archbishop of Baltimore." The approval of this plan by His Holiness, Benedict XV, re¬ ferred to by Cardinal "Gibbons was given in person by the Pope to Mr.   Nahum   Sokolow, Am- bassador-at-Large of the Inter¬ national   Zionist   Organization. Mr, Sokolow in an audience at the Vatican explained in detail the objetts of the Zionist move¬ ment, and His Holiness several times reiterted his through ac¬ cord with its aims, and stated that although he had received a report from the Papal Secretary .  of State; he welcomed the op¬ portunity or receiving fuller de¬ tails from a representative of ¦   the Zionists.   The Pope declar¬ ed that he saw no obstacle wliat- soever from the point of view of catholic religious interests.   He was  concerned  only  with  the holy places.    Mr. Sokolow as sured the Pope that the Jews would   most   carefully   respect Christian   religious   properties and .Christian sentiments. , His Holiness.stated that he receiped' these assurances with the fullest confidence,, and   expressed   his best wishes for the realization.of the Zionist program.   He ended the audience by repeating • sev¬ eral times':  "We will be good neighbors."
The Zionist Orvanization of America has also received a statement, from Mgr. M. J. La- velle of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
. Mgr. Lavelle, writes; "The idea of racial self-determination is in the air. The rescue of the Holy Land from the awful Turk¬ ish power is a blessing not only to Palestine, but to the whole world. .Naturally, many Jews turn with loving eyes to the land of their forefathers. Every¬ one will sympathize with their sentiments and wish them sue-; cess in their aspirations." „.
AMERICAN CONQUERS MOSQUITO PLAGUE IN JERUSALEM
ANTIPEFAMATION
LEAGUE
Interesting Correspondence!
Louis Cantor, Sanitarium of the American Zionist Unit, Rids Holy City of Epidemic- Breeding Pest.
THE "KAISER" AND HERZEL
Jerusalem has been freed from the mosquito pest through the efforts of an American Sarii-
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tarian, Louis Cantor, who. is a niember of the American Zionist Medical Unit, which is now oper¬ ating in Palestine. The city is now. practically rid of these car¬ riers of typhoid and malaria. The Zionist.Organization of Am¬ erica has received an official re¬ port regarding Mr. Cantor's suc¬ cessful campaign against the mosquito pest during the course of which 1350 cisterps wei'e petrolized and put in sanitary condition.
Mr. Cantor, who comes from Rochester, New York, was con¬ nected with the Goethal Commis¬ sion at'the Panama Canal, where he had ample opportunity to study climatology and hydrology with special relation to tropical countries, and before leaving for Palestine, was attached to the Navy Department of the United States, which relaesed him for service in the American Zionist Medical Unit.
ZION FLAG DAY
The fifth annual Zion Flag Day will take place Chanukah Sunday, December 1st. On'that [day Zionists all-over- thexoun' try will "tag" for the benefit of the fund. This fund buys land in Palestine to be held as the permanent and inalienable prb- perty of the Jewish nation. The land of the .Jewish National Fund can never be sold to arty one; it is only rented or. leased to Jews who wish to till the soil.
The National Fund aims at the eventual ownership of as large a portion of the soil of Palestine as possible by the' whole Jewish people to be freely used by any Jew who will wish to settle on the land and till, it. It establishes model colonies.for Jewish workmen who have no capital of their own. In these colonies, farming is done accord¬ ing to a scientifically elaborated [co-operative system.
It dlso establishes model farms for offering instruction in vari¬ ous kinds of agriculture.
In this \yay, the National Fund is becoming an important •factor, first, in the. nationaliza¬ tion of the soil and secondly, in creating the possibilities fov settling in Palestine on a large scale Jews without capital.
October 30, 1918. Hon. Joseph Daniels, Secretary of the Navy,' Washington, D. C.
Honorable Sir: We beg leave to call your attention to the fol¬ lowing:
On the application blank for enrollment in the United States Naval Reserve Force, appear a number of questions with direc¬ tions how to answer, such as "wi-ite yes or no," "which one," etc.
Under the line on which .the applicant is required to name his religion, is printed the following direction: "Catholic or Protes¬ tant."
We know of several instances in Chicago where the applicant answered that question: "Jew¬ ish," but the recruiting officer, imbued with the military spirit to strictly obey instructions, re¬ fused to write the answer as given by the applicant but calm¬ ly stated, "I will record you. as Protestant," and so did.
We are not complaining of the action of the recruiting officer. He was simply following what he understood to be instructions. It had to be either Catholic or Protestant, and as no doubt simi¬ lar blanks were sent to every District in the country, it may be assumed that what happened in this district happened in others.
We are confident that as large a percentage of Jewish young men enlisted jn. the Navy, as that of any other creed, yet the rec¬ ord, und^r those circumstances may show comparativfely few, which fact we wpuld have cause to regret, as thereby the most just government on earth would be' unintentionally furnishing evidence to be used by' anti- semitic agitators. We therefore, respectfully petition that the record as to religion of the mem¬ bers of the Naval Reserve Force be not published. If, however, it be deemed essential to pre¬ serve the record of each man's relgion or non-religious belief, then may be be permitted to sug¬ gest that a new inquiry be made with proper instructions. We are most respectfully,
The following story of the Kaiser meeting H§rzel in Pales¬ tine is describted by an eye wit ness of thai^ meeting. The "Kaiser" was insincere and hy¬ pocritical.
In the year 1898, two years
o'clock in the morning, several hundred persons   stood  on the street near Mikveh Israel, lead¬ ing to Jaffa.   A Triumphal Arch, decorated with Turkish and Ger- pian flags, lined up on both sides of the street were the pupils of Mikveh Israel ,the Director and Faculty, all in holiday attire. The German Emperp.r was expected, ism seemed very near its realiza-[ Suddenly a carriage is seen in tion.    And  indeed  therfe   were,the distance coming from Jaffa, good reasons for that aSsumpT It   stops   and   four   gentlemen tion.   The first Zionist Congress, alight.. ' Who are they ? Do they at Basle in 1897 had been, truly,'belong to the suite of the Em- a great success; the second—the, peror ?   But we soon recognized following year, a still  greater
FAMOUS JEWISH MERCHANT
AND CIVIL WAR VETERAN DEAD
after Theodor6 Herzl began his wonderful career as the leader bf Jewish National hopes, Zion-
success. All the efforts of Ger¬ man Protest-Rabbis, joined by the opponents of Zionism in England, France and America, proved of no avail. The Zionist Congress would not meet, the enemies of the National re-birth of the Jewish, People boasted. Two had already been held. The movement grew apace and soon was the most, potent force in Jewish life.
The movement Herzel created was political.   This famous slo¬ gan,    "Charity    is    bankrupt" sounded the keynote of modern Zionism.   The   new   Palestime was to have the sanction of the world powers, and with that end in view Herzl conducted ener¬ getic  political  propaganda' ahd diplomatic negotiations. Herzl in his   "Judenstaat"   (The Jewish State), did not speak of Pales¬ tine.    He espoused the idea of the ancient Jewish Homeland be¬ coming again the new Jewish Homeland when he became con¬ vinced |that Jews for a national regeneration .-vwuld turn to no othe'r land than Palestine.   The situation in the Orient was cer¬ tainly   difficult.   Sultan   Abdul Hamid, one of the wiliest and most astute of modern poten¬ tates, played a very clever game, Herzl treated with Him, but the conditions laid down by the Sul¬ tan were such that they could not be accepted by Herzl.
In 1898 the Zionist leader made, is celebrated Palestinean journey. Prior td~ going to Ertz Yisroel, Herzl wished to see Abdul Hamid. Through the in¬ strumentality of Arminius Vam bery, the world renowned trav eler, himself a Jew, an audience [was arranged between the Sul- i tan and- Herzll    In fact, it was
The Anti-Defamation League,' Vambery who personally intro (Signed)
OHIO WAR SAVINGS COM¬ MITTEE
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Official   announcement , from
the United States Treasury De-
^X partment in Washington shows
the  cash sale  of War Savings
Stamps in Ohio for October was
$9,763,167 or $1.85 per capita.
Next in order of sale, as re-
; ported from Washington, is New
:York City and state—two dis-
1 tricts--^$7,780,465, or 71   cents
per capita; Pennsylvania-^both
districts—.$5,997,009,    or    70
I cents per capita; Texas, $5,264,-
;678, or $1.18 per capita.    No
Tother state, excepting Illinois,
:sold as much as $3,000,000 in
War   Sayings   Stamps  for the
imonth. .   ,     ¦
;    Total  sale   of War   Savings
I Stamps in Ohio to November 1,
¦as   officially   reported ,by   the
[.Treasury Department, was $76,-
J!493,578j in current qash valuie.
[For N6w York,  the total was
$69,863,748,  arfd   Pennsylyainia
Don't do tomorrow what you can do today—Buy War Savings Stamps NOW.
$67,795,578.
A survey of the entire state made by the Ohio War Savings Committee shows there are more than 3,700,000 people who own one or more War Savings Stamp. "With little stimulation on the part of the local committee, this vast army of investors is now absorbing these unrivalled gov¬ ernmental securities at 'the rate of about $1,000,000 each week," the state committee says. . In Ohio there are several mil¬ lion dollars in unredeemed Wa: Savings Stamp pledges,, due in December. Reiflemption of these, together with the. normal, pur¬ chase by Ohio people "seeking the best place to invest their sur¬ plus savings," leads the state committee to believe the sale bf War Sayings Stamps :^or the r*- mai,nder  of the year  will tie
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Edith Deutsch Lashma.n,
Acting Secretary. The following was the answer Navy Department ¦Washington^ IsTovember 9th, 1918. Mrs. Edith Deutsch Lashman, Acting Secretary, Anti-Defamation League, 1228 Tribupe Bldg., Chicago, 111,
Madam: The department has received your letter of October 30, 1918, regarding the records of the Navy Department with regard to the religious affilia¬ tions of the personnel.
The Department appreciates your viewpoint with regard to
duced Herzl to Abdul Hamid., In the latter part of October 1898
Herzl was in Constantinople and was received by the Sultan.
The same year Wilhelm II con¬ ceived his "grande voyage" to the East. For many, many years thei-e had been German colonies
Dr. Herzl and his associates. * * * The arrival of Herzl sur-, pris,ed us exceedingly; and we could not understand it. It ap¬ peared to us unthinkable that Herzl should have come' in this heat, in order to see the German Emperor pass by.
"It is already past 10 o'clock. The sun burns fiercely. Impa¬ tiently the arrival of Wilhelm II is looked forward to. Suddenly a group, of riders is seen rushing along, followed by a second and a third group.
"Another minute the calva- cade comes to a halt before the Triumphal Arch at Mikveh Is¬ rael. The .children began to sing. All eyes sought Kaiser Wilhelm. ¦ "I glanced at Herzl. I sensed that something of great moment \^as about to happen. . Suddenly one of the riders left.the front and directed his horse to Herzl. " 'Good day. Doctor,' we heard a strong voice exclaim loudly. It was Kaiser Wilhelm. Smiling he extended his hand to him. • 'It is a hot day.   How do you do ?'
"Dr. Herzl, the hat in his left hand, the right hand in that of the German Emperor, answered in a clear voice, Tl^f^nks, Ma¬ jesty.'
"The Kaiser greeted the as¬ sembly and turned once moi'e to Herzl. 'We will see one another in Jerusalem.'"
On November 2, Herzl and the' other. leaders of the Zionist Movement' were received by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
What was said t^ere has never been made public; But shortly after, when Herzl returned home, he made the statement, "We are near the realization of our aims."
Insincere ,and Hypocritical Herzl is dead and speak; the aKiser, of course, won't speak. Reviewing what has since transpired, one must come to the conclusion that Wil¬ helm II was as insincere arid hy¬ pocritical as Herzl was earnest and true. What the Kaiser wanted in return for his support of Zionism can only be surmised.
New York-^ After an illness ofi
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more   than   a   month,   Captain Joseph B.  Greenhut,  merchanf; and Civil War veteran, died of heart disease in his home at 325 West End avenue. The Captain's career, from the time he roamed the streets of Mobile looking for work to the final liquidition of the Greehhut Company, of which he was preSiden, in the ^spring of this year, had been full of ad¬ venture in all its phases.   He en¬ listed in the Civil War as a pri¬ vate, and by the end of the war had risen to the brevet rank of colonel.   He   was   wounded   at Fort Donelson,  and barely es¬ caped having his arm amputated as a result.
> On February 28, 1843, a son was born to Benedict and Mina Greenhut in Bishop-Purnitz, Austria and 9 years later they brought him to Chicago, 111., where for three years he attend¬ ed the public schools. The desire to make his fortune took him from the classroom and he made
culties at Chattanooga, and was in the actions at Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain in the celebrated "Battle Above the Clouds." He was also in the cam¬ paign of East Tennessee to ex¬ tricate General Butnside, who was surrounded at Knoxville by Longstreet.
The military record of Cap¬ tain Greenhut led to the granting of the brevet rank of Colonel when he resigned from the army in April 1864, but he retained the title of Captain which he had earned by hard fighting, pre¬ ferring it to his brevet rank.
Just before retirement as Sec¬ retary of War, Henry L. Stim- son, at the instance of General Edward S. Solomon, had the General Staff look through all original records of the Depart¬ ment to ascertain just what Gap- tain Greenhut's achievements had been. As a-result, the staff recommended that the Secretary send to the Captain a letter of thanks for his most valuable ser-
his way to Mobile, ,where he ar-'vices. The oflScial letter of the rived with only 25 cents in his | War Department, prized by Cap- pocket.   After   several   days tain Greenhut's family, is as- fol-
passed in walking the streets, a tinsmith engaged him as a solder heater. The boy quickly mas¬ tered the tinsmith's trade, and when he' left the South to enlist in the Union Army he had l^id the ' foundation of experience which was later to carry him to success.
Greenhut was the second man in Chicago to oft'er his services when President Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers. He joined Company A of the Twelfth Illinois Infantry as a private and was promoted to ser¬ geant after three months' serv¬ ice.   He  was wounded at Fort
lows:
Mr. Joseph B. Greenhut, for¬ merly Captain, Eighty-second Regiment, Illinois' Infantry: .
Dear Sir—The attent|ion of the War Department having been brought lately to the dis¬ tinguished service rendered by you to your country on the sec¬ ond day of the battle of Gettys¬ burg (July 2, 1863), wherein, you were specially selected by your commanding officer,. Lieut- Col. Edward S. Solomon, to lead a body of fifty picked'volunteers to dislodge Conferedate sharp¬ shooters from the shelter of a. certain house aboiit 100 yards in
Donelson when it unconditionally front of the Union line and from
in Palestine and the Kaiser, with, Whatever it was, Herzl could not
his dream of world domination, was very eager to strengthen and expend German influence' in the Ei^st. He proclaimed him¬ self the friend and protector of Abdul Hamid who was most heartily execrated by the whole civilized world because of his un¬ speakable ciftuelty. It was nat¬ ural, therefore, that Herzl should turn for support to the Kaiser  since nothing could be
the possibility that many Jewish
boys   may   have   entered   the [done in  Palestine without the Naval Service and were not re¬ corded as such in view of the
agree to it. The Kaiser, who was called the "phrewdest salesman of Europe" sought only tp drive a sharp bargain. The misery of millions of unhappy human be¬ ings concerned little the man who "had one ambition in life— the forcing of his will upon the world.
surrendered to General Grant in his first great victory of 1862. He was temporarily incapacitat¬ ed for service by his- wound, but after a time he re-entered the army as Captain of Company K, Eighty-second Illinois Infantry, in which he passed nearly all the remainder  of  the  war,   taking part in some of the most im¬ portant engagements.   He wag present   at   Fredericksburg, cannot j Chancellorsville, and at the three memorable days at Gettysburg. After the last battle he served as Captain, Adjutant-General,' and Chief of Staff of the Third Bri¬ gade, • Third    Division,     (Carl Schurtz's),    of    the    Eleventh Army Corps.
After    Gettysburg,    Captain Greenhut went South with his brigade to help extricate Gen eral Rosencrans fi*om his diffi-
JEWISH  PALESTINE
IN PEACE TERMS
A PRISONER OF THE JEWISH LEGION
sanction of the absolute ruler of the Turkish  Empire.   Wilhelm application blank which men are' visited Palestine in 1898,   Herzl required to fill out. I had visited the Jewish colonies
However, with regard to pub- Rechoboth and Vadi-Chanin. He lishing the records, the Depart-'then returned to Jaffa, On the ment wishes to inform you that first day of November, 1898, many requests have been re- there occurred that which set all ceived for information as to the Jewish hearts agloom. composition of the personal with] An eye witness describes the regard'to religious affiliations, meeting, but the Department has consis-[    "November   1,    1898~-At   9
tently declined to furnish ariy -   -——^ , -.._-^—_._____:_—_
such irtformation. No such sta- tnent considers it undesirable to tistics have been compiled, and allow statistics to enter into its this   information . could be ob-itecords.,
The American Jewish Legion¬ aires, who participated in the final campaign of General Alien- by in Palestine captured a prisoner whom they brought to Jerusalem headed by a band of music. He was Joseph Rivlin, a soldier in the Turkish Army, a former teacher of Jlebrew in Jerusalem, a journalist and a cousin of one of the legionaires.
tained only after an examination of hundreds of thousands of records.   Moreover, the Depart-
Very truly yours, " (Signed)     Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy.
When Germany, Austro-Hun- gary and Turkey accepted the fourteen points enunciated by President Wilson as the guiding principles for a just and enudr- ing peace, they accepted, also, the principle of a Jewish Pales¬ tine. This is the assertion made in the current number of "Pales¬ tine," the organ of the British Palestine Committee, which is composed of many English statesmen and leaders of public opinion—all of them non-Jews— and through which they have been making propaganda for Zionism. "Palestine" says: "It is now the policy of all the bel¬ ligerents that Palestine is to be the national home of the Jexvish Arioh, the Rumanian minister | people, and that it is to be a again issued a "statement" thai;;Jewish   Palestine.   This   policy
one-half of the Rumanian Jews have been .emancipated and the other half will' soon get their rights.   There is no tru^h in hip', accepted
statement. [terpis.
was laid down by the Allies and
accepted by Germany; Austro-
Hungary and Turkey when they
President    WilsoTi's
which they were picking off gun¬ ners and officers on said line, that you did execute the move¬ ment with such great skill and bravery under heavy fire of the enemy, culminating in a.bayonet charge led by yourself and' in^ such a manner that the houses were carried and the enemy driven therefrom.
I therefore take great pleasure in expressing to you the thanks of the War Department of the United States for the gallantry displayed by you, as set forth above, contributing thereby to the final success of this memor¬ able battle.
. Very respectfully, • HENRY L. STIMSON,
Secretary of War. When the battlefield at Gettys¬ burg was made a national park in 1892, Mr. Greenhut was made a Commissionei- from the State of Illinois for the erection of monuments for that State, and when the fiftieth anniversary of the battle was celebrated, he was one of the commissioners in charge.
After the Svar Captain Green¬ hut settled in Peoria, 111., where he passed thirty years of his life. He organized several distilling companies, one of which was de¬ stroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871 and another of which failed in 1877. Later he became Pres¬ ident of the Great Western Dis¬ tillery Company, at that time the largest in the world. He found¬ ed the Glucose Company of Am¬ erica, which later became the Corn Products Company.
Captain Greenhut was known best in this city for his associa¬ tion with the Siegel-Cooper store and later with the J, B. Greenhut Company at Eighteenth Street and Sixth Avenue. The original store began business on Septem¬ ber 12," 1896, and the opening was something of a sensation. It
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