Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1940-09-06

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Vol. 19   No. 30
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Strictly Confidential
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NATION MOURNS PASSING OF LILLIAN WALD
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Did you see the Interview which Wendell WlUkie ga-^/e to the Jewish Morning Journal,' and in which he promised to open the gates of the United States to all refugees If he Is elected? . . . Why wasn't that statement released to the gen-1 .eral press? . . . Have you been listening to Leslie Howard's Monday evening short-wave broad-wave broadcasts f rom| England, - dramatizing historic occasions  when   things   looked
_, bad for the Britons but they came out on top none the less? ... It you've been wondering why David Ben Gurion, Pales-] tine labor leader, is coming to this country soon, the reason Is merely this: The only way he can return   from   England to
» Palestine is   via   the   Unltedj
States and the Pacific . . . Next
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' boat in mid-ocean, and the Iwat were to burst into flames and sink, who would be saved? The answer, you'Should know, is: the people of Europe ...
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NEW YORK (WNS)—Lead¬ ers In all walks of life joined In mourning the passing of Lillian D. Wald, pioneer social worker and founder of the Henry Street Settlement, who died at her home In Westport, Corm., last Sunday night after a long Illness. The world-famous so¬ cial worker was 73 years old.
New York's famed East Side was plunged Into mourning as tributes and messages of condol¬ ence poured into the Henry Street Settlement house from all parts ot the world. Miss Wald, who devoted her life to Improving the plight of the poor, was known and admired by presidents and kings.
Born in Cincinnati to wealthy arid socially prominent iGSerman- Jewlsh parents, Miss Wald gave up a comfortable life to fight for medical attention for the poor, recreation centers for East Side children, and elimination of New York's slums and sweat¬ shops-
Her decision to devote her life to helping the poor was reached in a gloomy tenement where a desperately sick woman had just had a hemorrhage. The East Side was then a far ciy from what It is today. The city^a general death rate was more   than   twloo   what   it
CouncU Against Intolerance Issues Map
llffRff. ROOSEVELT approves and preienta the first copy ot Ihe map Ul —"Amerio^A Nation of One People front Hany Coontrles"—to Dean Wllliun C Clarke, Chairman ol the Mayor's Committee tor the Public Scliools of CUcago.
Germany And Italy StirUp Arabs Against Britain
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er, quite frequently spoke out in'-an anti-Semitic manner We've just discovered'that he has recently closed collabora ted with Colonel Lindbergh on the latter's amazing addresses . . . Don't miss the" September issue.'ofThe Protestant Digest .. . It wiUcarry an article 1^ Sc R/'Herbert, on Father Cough¬ lin, that's more revealing tl;ian anything else we've ever read on the subject . . . The scholar¬ ly "History of the Jews" by the Hlllel: Foundations' Dr. Abram L.' Sachar has just come out in a new edition that brings It up to date through the fall of France .. JBWISH NEWS
The Agudath Harabontm of! America is tiding to work out plans for the briiiging over to this country of two hundred rabbinical students at Lithuan¬ ian yeshivas> which have now closed their doora . .-. If the' iplana- are realized the students will be distributed among var-| fous American yeshivas, the Ner Israel Rabblnlcaf College of Baltimore already havlng| ; accepted fifty of them . . . The B'nai B'rith, which was thai first national Jewish organiza¬ tion to move its headquarters to Washington — an example which the Zionist Orgsinization of America; la now about, to rfoi- low—Is seriously considering! the removal of its national of¬ fice to New York; the city the! ZOA is leaving . . ¦ Rabbf Isldor Breslau, the newly appointed Secretary of the ZOA, will have four titles that he can append^ to his signature . . . They are: Assistant to the President, Exe¬ cutive Director, Secretary, ai^d Director of the Political Bureau . . . Serious consideration Is.bi^ 'Ing given to the plan o^salvag-l ing the entire exhibit now be ing shown in tlie Palestine Pavilion at the N?w York York World's Pair; ancl setting
%e Bast ^mH^MSMfW form was merely a theory. Im¬ migrants pouring In from Europe by the hundreds of thousands found the "promised land" a place of cruel hardships. Sick Immigrants, afraid to en¬ ter the public hospitals which then had a reputation for bad treatment and high c^eath rates, were without medical or nurs¬ ing care in their horribly over¬ crowded tenement apartments.
Miss Wald started her career, which has made her world fam¬ ous and brought her the friend¬ ship of millions, more than 40 years ago in a top-floor tene¬ ment apartment at 27 Jeffer¬ son. Street. In 1895, friends made it possible for her to move her ever-expaftdlng activities to 265 Henry Street, where she re¬ mained until her retirement brought about by her illness.
Her care qt the sick and needy, regardless of race or re¬ ligion, brought her world-wide fame attained by very few so-1 clal workers. On her 70thJ birthday, March 10, 1937,-she^ was honored at a public gather¬ ing in New York at which con¬ gratulatory messages were read from President -Roosevelt, Gov¬ ernor Lehman arid others, and Mayor LaGuardIa announced that the distinguished service certificate of the city of New York had been awarded to hef,
In 1912, slie received «»o gold medal of the National Instltutel of Social Saienties,' and later th«' Rotary Club's medaVlu recogni¬ tion of life-long service as so-j clologlst, organlzei: and pubUc-1 Ist," and the Better Times Med¬ al for distinguished social set- vice.
the New York HeVald ttttime from Cairo.
"As the wai' clouds thickened In the -. spring of 1939," Mr. "Barnes wrote, "propaganda from Berlin was Intensified. British 'atrocities' In Palestine were painted in lurid colors in regular radio broadcasts In Arabic from ^he German capi¬ tal. Here In the Arab world was a field in which the Ger¬ mans could play the antl-Jew¬ lsh theme with effect-"
"As foir paid agents from the Axis camp;" the correspondent said, "there are probably many of them engaged In spreading unrest among the Arabs. There are various suggestions as to the identity ot the Arab who may have been picked by the ^Germans to lead the fifth col¬ umn."
The writer held that the Nazis would concentrate their efforts "on bringing into line Ha] Amln Effendl Al Hussein, the exiled mufti for Jerusalem, who directed a three-year Arab revolt in Palestine."
"VleWs are widely current," he said, "that at least some Ger¬ man and Italian money was In¬ volved in the revolt in Pales¬ tine. It is believed that this money was contributed to Arab clubs and other organizations. There Is no definite confirma¬ tion dllpetslsteiit.reports that the.tiiutti or one of his princi¬ pal iietitenants was personally In direct contact with the Ger¬ mans during the period of the Palestine uprising."
Relief Work Carried On With U. J. A. Funds In Peak of War
BIG stAg acaMDVtiEB BY B'NAI B'RITH MONDAY BVBNINO
j-A big: stag party next Mon¬ day evening; Sept, 0th, at the Broad St. Tempi?; will open the fall' prograin of the local;B'nai B'rith.:todge:.   It; wilVbe-the
first getto-gether of .the season where business .and pleasure win : ]3e combined to give all B'nai B'rith men of this com¬ munity an evening of real en¬ joyment. The program for the year , and other.. important business' of;, the lodge will be brought rupi for ^discussion to be followed'with a social hour and .refreshments;' ¦- : As .usual,-the affair will get ijnder way promptly at 8 o'clock.
Schoolroom walls all over America will soon be displaying
map, entitled "America—A Nation ..of One People from Many Countries," published by The Council Against Intoler¬ ance in America. Distribution begins thls' week. From pre¬ view copies sent out this sum¬ mer 7,000 requests have been re¬ ceived by the Council before official distribution has begun These requests have come from teachers, superintendents, girls' and boys' camps, church organl-
quests^Hw^SSe^ia such varied sources as Bikers Island Penitentiary and pros pective students at Yale Univer¬ sity who want to use If to dec¬ orate'their rooms
The map shows In broad out¬ line where Americans live, what they do, where they come from and what their religion Is. Sug¬ gestions for use In the classroom accompany the map which Is 35 inches by 54 inches, printed on heavy paper In four colors. If can be used alone or as visual aid to the Council's Manual for junior and senior high school teachers, "An American Ans¬ wer to Intolerance."
Thirty-five Nationalities
Thirty-five nationalities are shown, where they came from in Europe and Asia, ^here they settled In the United States and In wnat Industry or agricultur¬ al work, moat members of each group entered after arriving. An American Indian, promln ently displayed, carries the cap¬ tion, "With the exception ot the Indian all Americans or their forefathers came from otherj countries."
While leading Americans in industry, the arts, science and literature are listed In one com¬ er of the map, emphasis is plac¬ ed on the contributions made by the railroad builder, the truck farmer, the garment worker, the coal miner and ail the other workers who have helped build America. And because the map Is lntended| principally for school children, the symbols for the various In¬ dustries are depicted in amusing and entertaining forms. A live¬ ly fish swims the rapids to show the salmon Industry; S fclquant pig stands among the tall com In the Middle West; a spirited horse gallops through the ranch country and so. on from, border to border and coast to coast'
NEW YORK (WNS)—Funds provided by American Jewry through the United Jewish Ap¬ peal enabled the Joint Distri¬ bution Committee . to carry on urgent emergency relief activi¬ ties at the peak of the European conflict during the period from May 10th to August 10th, when a total of $910,000 was spent to aid Jews in areas of suffering in Europe, according to a report by Morris C. Troper, chairman ^ of the European Council ot the Joint   Distribution   Committee.
A financial clearance agree¬ ment which the Joint Distribu¬ tion Committee has with the German Government made pos¬ sible tl^e expenditure of this large sum ormoney even though no American dollars were sent Into Germany or German-occu¬ pied territories.
The Joint Distribution Com¬ mittee, which together with th? United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service Is represented In the nationwide drive of the United Jewish Ap- , peal, has continued its rescue activities on a substantial scale ever since the outbreak of war, Mr. Troper declared.
Mr. Troper, who was direct¬ ing relief operations from Paris during, the' Nazi invasion  last - itdeaux
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' His'report disclosed that refu¬ gee and relief committees were reconstituted 1 n unoccupied France, Belgium arid Holland and that assistance was belrig provided to Jews in distress in these countries with the aid of the Joint Distribution Commit¬ tee. Expressing surprise at the (OonUnued on Page 4)
Community Council Will Meet Tuesday At Ft Hayes Hotel
Matters of vital Importance' to the community at Jarge are. on the agenda for the regular quarterly meeting of the Jew¬ ish Community Council of Co¬ lumbus to be held at the Fort. Hayes Hotel next Tuesday eve¬ ning, Sept. 10, at 8 o'clock.
Since the last meeting of the Council, held in Msqt, its Execu-   ^ tlve Committee has held regular monthly    meetings   at   which time a number   of   Important matters   were   considered and ' acted upon.     However, under the   Constitution,   all   actioris taken by the Comnfiltte^ must be approved by the Council in order  to  bind  the  constituent : organizations.
Since the reslgiiation of Na¬ than Mayer several months ago, Sig Welsskerz has been.servlnjg
Secretary of the organiza- ' tion. The Council wHI also con¬ sider the selection of a tempor-'*;' ary Secretary to serve until / such time as It becomes feasible - to engage the services of a full; time Executive Director.
Reports are expected Tues-A day evening froni the following; uujiuci oi.u vuoo. w^-™.. 'committees: Calendar, Mrs. Mar; To give an example of th ItlriRosenthal, Chairman; Jew. many people that make up th llsh EducaUon, Albert ScWff, country, the map shows thirty I Chairman; and Public Reiatipnsj,,
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