Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-12-15

              U!\\/r  Serving Coltunbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community vjA\K
Vol. 18   No. .W
COIiUSIBUS, OHIO, FEIDAlf, DKCGMBEI! l!"., 1»S9
Devoted to American and Jewish Ideals
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Strictly Confidential
Tidbits From Everywhere By PHINEAS ,T. DIRON
SAYS COMMUNISM NO ANSWER TO ANTI- SEMITISM
WABGAGS
Punchline we can't lielp passing on: "The Third Reich will stand for a tliousand years, says Hit¬ ler .. . Well', if it can stand for i^Iitler it can stand for anything" . . . The Three Stooges are re¬ ported to be planning ii picture, to be titled "Apes   of   "Wrath," which tvill take off Hitler, Goer¬ ing and Goebbels . . . Germany's foremost aviation society is still called the Lilienthai Gesellschatt fuer  Luftfahrtfoerderung,    and no less a personage than General Kesselring only    last    summer cited Otto Lilienthai as one of the heroes of aviation together with such simon-pure "Aryans" as Baron von Richthoten ., . It's an open secret   that   if Hitler were to resign today in favor of Goering tlie British government •would Imrnediately malce peace with the   Nazis,    letting   them keep Danzig    and    the    Polish Corridor . . . Did you know that before Hitler made the' swastika unpopular,  that  ancient    good- luck   .symbol   was   used on the military  airplanes  of  Finland' Don't be sui prised  if steel bed spiings    are   verboten    ir Na/iland bcfoie long        . Get man I'aido fans eager   to   find ways and means of hstcning in on shoit-wave bioadcasts  from Amciica   Inave  discoveied   that - ^Ufh «pi)!igs  rankc  pfffpot   an tennae for their icceiving sets It'., not permitted to por¬ tray Hitler in a serious play in Tjondon nowadays, but It's per fectly all light with the authoii ties to    show   him as a comic figure Latest ^Mseciack to
come out of Italy, as reported liy W L White in tho Kew York Post, suggests "Now that Sig nor Ilitlei has allied Geimany with the Soviets, perhaps he \wll give Europe peace by mariying and bettUng down to a quiet domestic life with some nice girl from a good Jewish family" . .. In Italy, White adds, the enforcement of the autl-Jewlsh laws introduced last year is conspicuous by Its ab¬ sence .,. . Blanca Holmes, Holly¬ wood's favorite astrologer, pre¬ dicts, among other things, that Hitler is good for another year and a half, and that he may die liy drinking poison slipped him by a girl. . . You'll be abie to test her accuracy next Novem¬ ber, another of her prophecies 1:eing that President Roosevelt will run for a third, term and be elected. . . VOU SHOULD KNOW
-The Zionists "are burning up because, of the recent radio speech in which Rabbi Morris Lazaron warned American Jews to have nothing to do with the forthcoming visit of Dr. Chaim "Weizmann ... The Baltimore rabbi said that the Jews of this country cannot afford to get mix¬ ed up with the political ramifica¬ tions of political ZlonLsm at this time. . .Did you know that there is a Hebrew Braille Alphabet, created for the use of those blind people who can read only Yiddish or Hebrew? . : . It was the Jewish Braille Review which formulated it and brought about its official adoption in 1936 . . .- Too bad Frederick Lonsdale's play "Foreigner" is doomed to have only a brief, career on Broadway . . . It's unciuestion- ably the strongest indictment of anti-Semitism ever seen on the American stage. . .
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HAKTFOBD (WNS)—A warn¬ ing to members of the Connecti¬ cut Valley. Association for Jew¬ ish College Students, against turning to the ideologies, parti¬ cularly communism, for the ans¬ wer to antl-Selnitism, was is¬ sued here by Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer, of Temple ; Emanu-El, New York, speaking here before a conference of the Association Asserting that Judaism was one of the foundations of democracy. Rabbi Glazer declared that: "In helping to preserve democracy you are helping to preserve Judaism."
Rabbi Glazer stressed„the fact that Democracy is based on the truth that each individual "must be regarded as a sacred entity" and that this implied "economic as well as true political demo-, cracy". He held that democ¬ racy is one of three, "resources" which students had to aid them in facing modern problems, others being education and re¬ ligion. Rabbi Glazer prophe¬ sied that a single lyorid govern¬ ment was coming "if there are to be human beings and funda¬ mental  institulions "
JEWISH  WAR  VETERANS
To INSTALL OFFICERS
SUNDAY EVENING
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FASCIST VAN MOSDALL SEEKS PROFIT THROUGH "AIDING" JEWISH REFUGEES
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DAVID PASTOR
Incoming Commander
Ot Capitol Post'122 J. W. V.
piNAL plans vyere completed
WILL     ADDRESS     LOCAL
.lEWRV ON THURSDAY
DEC. 28th
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Rabbi David Polish
Rabbi David Polish, Director of the B'nai B'rith Hiilel Foundation at Cornell Univer¬ sity and Spiritual leader ot Tem¬ ple Beth-El at Ithaca, New York, will address a mass meet¬ ing at the Schonthal Center: on Thursday evening, Dec. 28th. Although the meeting is being arranged under the joint spon¬ sorship of the Jewish Yoitth groups of the city, the tnessage to be delivered by Rabbi Polish will be of equal interest to adults. ¦   ¦    ,
Bernard Kaplan, of the local A. Z. A. Chapter, is chairman of a committee making arrange ments for the meeting. Further details will he given in next week's Clironicle.
PARCELS TO GERMANY SEIZED BY NAZIS
NEW YORK (WNSj-,-Refu- gees arriving here said that food packages sent from America to Jews in the Reich are being seiz¬ ed by the Nazis and "donated" to the Nazi Winter Relief Or¬ ganization. It is believed that German authorities deliver the parcels, get the receipts, and then force the recipients to give them up.
this week by Capitol Post 122 of the Jewish War Vetei-ans for the annual installation ban¬ quet which will take place this Sunday, Dec 17lh, at fi p m, at the Deshler Hotel The com¬ mittee on dirangements is head¬ ed by Sam Lichtenstein and A J Bpnowiti lb in chaige oE ie=;er- vations foi the banquet The special event of the evening's aflair \.ill be the presence of Edgar i\\ Burman naiiorial com' mandei of the Jewish Wai Vct- eians of New York City
Distinguished guests who have been invited include May¬ or elect Floyd Gieen, State Com¬ mander ot Ameucan I cgion, ' Mud" Gardner George Waid, the new safety duettoi of Co himbus, r. I Sclianfarber, Ben Segal seventh distiict Ameu¬ can Legion Commander, Dr Wayne Broehm, county com- mandei of American Legion, Wm Bobier, state commander of the J. W. V. from Cleveland, John Vorys, congressman from this district; Tom Herbert, at¬ torney general of Ohid, Lieut- Governor Paul-Herbert of Ohio and Morris Stone, national vice- commander of the J. W. "V. from St  Louis.
The Ladies Auxiliary \ylll also hold their installation of officers at the same time, with Miss Sharei Rein, past state pre.si- dent ot the J. \V. "V. Ladies Aux¬ iliary,, of Cleveland; in charge of the installation.
Special entertainment has been arranged for by Sam Lich¬ tenstein, outgoing post comman¬ der.   ' :
The newly elected officers of Capitol Post are;—
David Pastor, commander; Morris Lessure, senior vice- comniander; Barney Dorman, junior vice-commander; Frartft Bayer, judge-advocate; Dr. Les¬ ter Seligson, post' surgeon; Na¬ than Bender, chaplain; Joseph Topolosky, Allan Tarshish and Joseph Dulsky,. trustees; Sam Mellman was appointed adjut¬ ant tor the fourth consecutive year., ¦   ',
Other appointees are:—
Lewis Stine, officer of day; Tobias Polstcfr, patriotic officer; Sam Lichtenstein, Liason ofticei-; Jos, Topolosky, Herman Cohen, Jack Kreske and Julius Speis- man, color hearers; Sol Rising, bugler; Joe Dulsky, - historian; Jess Beards, guard; and Sam Goldman, sentinel.
Allan Tarshish, past ijost com¬ mander, will act as toastmaster
NEW YORK   (WNS)—George "Van No.sdall, corpulent chief of the fascist Crusaders .for Ameri¬ canism,  Inc.,  working  in close cooperation  with  Kuhn's    Ger¬ man-American    Bund,    is    not averse   to   m a k i n g   m o n e y through selling books under the excuse  of  aiding .'German   and Jewish   refugees,   according   to "The   Hour",   a   news-letter  is¬ sued by the Anierican Council Against Nazi, Propaganda. "Tile Hour" , states it has at its dis¬ posal   a   catalogue,   advertising a book and manuscript auction in New York fpr December 3, and 7, the cover of Which was later i-eprinted with alterations, among other changes postponing the sale until December 12, 13 and 14.    The original unaltered cover reads: "Unrestricted Pub¬ lic Auction.'   A Magnificent Col¬ lection of    Hare    Books—First Editions —Autographs -—Manu¬ scripts.     By order of Louis H. Bloch and S. H. Braunstone, at¬ torneys. New; York City. Ameri; can Committee for Christian Re¬ fugees   and   Jewish   Retugees Committee, New York City, Will Benefit in the Proceeds    fiom thib Sale"      The sale was bot to take place at Steinway Hall, Ul We=;t .'STlh Sticet, undei the management of tho New Yoik Book and Auction Company of the same address
Nowhere in the catalogue could a nenlion'ot Var- N<!s- dall's name be found, but that Van Nosdall n the man behind the sale has been established by "The IIoui" as well as by seveial anti "^azi and anti fascist organi zations of New Yoik More¬ over, Van Nosdall ib lohably reported to have said to a close cncle  ot  his  Bundstei   friends
that he will give,the Bund the sum of $500 out of the proceeds of this sale. He remarked that Jews are book-lovers and book- buyers and that he will get Jew¬ ish money in this way tor his and the Bund's needs.
Committees Non-Existcnf According to "The Hour", the two organizations to aid refu¬ gees, mentioned in the catalogue, are non-existent. There is the American Committee for Chris¬ tian German Refugees at 287 Fourth Avenue, New York City, of which Mr. James M. Speera is chairman and Dr. Thomas Mann honorary chairriian, and which is often represented by the executive secretary of its depart¬ ment of education, iDr. Ernest W. Meyer. But neither this Committee nor any ot its offi¬ cers is in any way connected with the sale organized by the fascist Van Nosdall. In fact, the names of the bona-fide Com¬ mittee and that of Van Nosdall'.=i creation are not entirely identi¬ cal, tor the fascist left out the word "German" in the title of his non-existent Committee. The two attoii^eys, whobc names adoin Van Nosdall's catalogue, repiesenl no organization Jew¬ ish or Chribtian, but serve their own personal Interests.
When repuntcd, the catalogue omitted the names of the attor¬ neys and of the two fictitious -^oromittqes, but ennu^.^lio^^ buyei s have received the w ~'-™ dl unaltered issue who ma,y want to come to the sa) under the notion that at leasj part of their money would help re¬ fugees Neither ot the two editions mentioned the name of Van NosddU and his fascist affil¬ iations
Present Immigranl Inf lux intu U. S. A.
NEW YORK (WNS)—Results of a study of the refugee situa¬ tion in this country, contained in the current issue of "Social Work Today", serve to dispiite a widespread impression that European unrest has brought a flood of immigrants to the Unit¬ ed States.
Prepared by leading Protes¬ tant, Catholic and Jewish groups, the report urges the maintenance ot the traditional American policy ot hospitality to the immigrant, pointing out that from 1931 to 1939, 457,675 immigrants entered the United States. This was the smallest number coming to this country since the decade 1831 to 1840, when nearly 600,000 arrived here.
An editorial signed by three membei'S of the advisory editor¬ ial cbmmlttee, consisting of the Rev. Dr. John P. Boland, chair¬ man ot the State Labor Rela¬ tions Board; Dr. Eduard C. Lindeman ot the New York School ot Social Work; and Harry G. Lurle, director of the Council ot Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, declared that the North American Con¬ tinent in three centuries had "peopled itself with those seek¬ ing a new life tree from nation- (Contlnued  on  l*«Be  5)
Report 4$3Er®iig!il To Palestine Since Oiiikeak Of War
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NEW YORK WNS)—Since the outbreak of the war, the Youth Aliyah (immigration) movement has been able to remove 207 Jew¬ ish children holding certificates for entrance into Palestine dir¬ ectly from Germany to Italy where they Were permitted to embark for the Holy Land, ac¬ cording to a report issued by Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
One hundred and thirty-nine German children and adole.scents sailed from Trieste, Italy early this month and are expected to arrive shortly in either Tel Aviv or Haifa, Mrs. David B. Greenberg, of New Rochelle, N. Y., national immigration chairman -of Hadassah, said. Two previous groups which left Germany after hostilities began have already been settled in their new homes.
.Of a total ot 493 young people brought to the Holy Land since the war began, 226 came from Holland, Belgium, England and France where they had been given temporary refuge pend¬ ing the completion ot definite arrangements for their re-immi¬ gration. Nearly "700 certificates will be distributed among re¬ fugee boys and girls from lOuro- pean countries. Including Po¬ land, before April, Mrs. Green¬ berg said.
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