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L Entered as second-class mail • matter 'on Janvaiy 27th, 1921, at lostoffice at Omaha, Nebraska,.-tinder;.the Act of March 3, 1S79.

Pastor Condemns Anti-Semitism —Calls It Treason to America.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1921.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $1.50. THE FEAST OF WEEKS OR SHABUOTH

What Awakened My Jewish Consciousness

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Baltimore.— Attacks . of Henry ft* S,f i r r TOWHI The Feast of Weeks or Shabuoih Ford and others on Jews were decried will be observed this year in the as a form of treason here last Sunsynagogs on Sunday, June 12th, and day evening at the First Methodist in more orthodox congregations the Episcopal Church, by the'. Rev. Dr. By Prof. Albert Einstein following day also, June loth. 1 Figures Given Out by Govern- William E. Morgan;.; tfte pastor, in Chairman Lapidiag- of Campaign Originally Shabuoth was an agri- But Open Hearing is Asl«e4 to. ment in Regard to Restric- a sermon on "Race Prejudice: Why Asks Workers and Donors to cultural festival in which the gather- Give Accused Captain Chance to Re-establish Ris Honor • (Copyrighted) does Anti-Semitism Exist?" •. tions of Aliens; Jews "Put It Over the Top". ing of the spring wheat was used as (Jewish Correspondence Bureau.) "Monstrously cruel has been the Mostly Affected. an occasion for special services of Special to "TEE .7KWISK' PEKSS." Eighteen thousand dollars more is thanksgiving. A Jater tradition astreatment of the Jew- in- the pa&t," As I see it, anti-Semitism in AmerNew York, June S.—A motion foi needed to make the Jewish Welfare sociates this day with, the. revelation ' Washington.—(J. C. B. Service.) Dr. Morgan said, "but suspicion and ica has until recently assumed only discharge of bail in the case of CapFederation drive for §50,000 a grand Immigration officials began to-day fear ~can only; bred trouble in'the -a certain harmless, social character, of God at Mt. Sinai when the law tain Robert Eosenbluth, held on & enforcement of the Immigration Bill present. As .a Christian- and an whereas in Germany, the anti-Jewish was revealed unto Moses. By this success. charge of murdering Major Alexander restricting entry of aliens to 3 per American, I raise my-voice against feeling in society is far more "noticeIn order to do this, Chairman revelation Israel was summoned from P. Cronkhite,- on the strength of a Harry Lapidus of the drive called among tbe^ nations of the earth to cent, of the nationals of their anti-Semitism in- any- form. We able and far more important." I am a meeting of all -workers Tuesday become the: messenger of that law confession by Boland PotMer, orderly country in the United States at ^ the may: not like ; their manners, their of the opinion that in" their "relations night. . At this meeting the workers of humanity and Trader tbe inspira- to Major Cronkhits when the latter time of the" 1910 census. Only' 20 methods, their j materialism, their to the Gentile world, Jews in Gerwere assigned cards containing the tion of this election, to stay tne was killed, was mads in the Federal per cent, of the total quota of any ideals as we see them,- but we can-many should be continually. mindful names of those who have not yetfloods of sin and corruption that District Court here by Jonah J. Goldgiven country can enter each month. not be followers of Christ and as of the fact that they. constitute a contributed for the support of the threaten to sweep over the earth. As stein, counsel for Eosenbluth, in view separate race. They must draw the . Figures made public to-day show patriotic Americans encourage antiFederation. a result of his example of righteous- of the publication of a retraction of necessary and inevitable consequences that from Armenia 122 immigrants Semitism, which is a dangerous form "Pay once and that's All," is theness, the Jew hopes that zeal for thethe confession by Pothier. of this undeniable truism and permit will be permitted to arrive during of treason to America." working slogan" of the drive. "Once service of God, which is to do justly Notice of his intention to mate the the month of June and 1;5S8 for the He said that prejudice against .the it to influence them in their social you contribute to the Federation, you and to love mercy,'may become the life and in their cultural contribumotion was sent .by Mr. Goldstein to fiscal year beginning July ' 1st. : Jews had existed continuously in all do not have to contribute to any striving of ail mankind. tions. They should exercise a certain' Attorney General Harry M. Daugher• From Turkey, including the the countries of < the world. other Jewish charity or philanthropic restraint, and not be so anxious to | The Eeform Synagog stresses this ty last Saturday. After defining "tti«? Smyrna: district, fifty may enter "America has been comparatively force a social assimilation which their' institution in Omaha," said Chairman I historical feature of the Feast o: grounds on which a motion for the during the remainder of this month free from this, prejudice," Dr. Morgan neighbors 'are not inclined to accept Lapidus. "There will be no more Weeks as a service o_ f "dedfcatki of ^charge of bail, and hence from u v —, and 653 for the fiscal year. The continued,, "and yet it hes persisted readily nor to encourage. , tickets and no more balls. Pay once the Jew to tbe covenant imposed by r e s t ? w a s t o b c askefI > M r quota for Palestine for June is four also in this country. One reason is and that's alL" ' his Jewish ancestry on him, to be theasked the attorney general to grant and for the fiscal year fifty-six; for the: Jew's seeming superiority in Has Produced Results A list of those _vrho have con- teacher and exemplar of the law of a two-hoar open hearing at which Syria sixty-nine for-June and 905financial matters. But no Jew is Anti-Semitism In Germany has,' on j tributed to tne Federation for the love unto humanity. Captain Rosenbluth might opporfor the fiscal year; for other Asiatic equal to ah American Yankee in the other hand, produced results i year will be printed in The Jewish By means of this symbolization and \ tunity to present fully his side of the countries six for June and seventy- trade. The Jew's'financial success which the Jews should warmly wel-j Press as soon "as the drive ends. idealization of the Shabuoth. festival I case and to have Ms client cleared of eight for the fiscal year. is due to • the. fact that the works comei. I believe that the ^existence of Persons who' have not been ap- Congregations have utilized it as theall charges. Many will t e kept- from joining harder and longer, and not to in- Judaism in Germany is attributable proached by the volunteer workers Confirmation Day wherein the yo-ang In Ms letter Mr. Goldstein said: herent financial superority." almost wholly to the pressure of anti- that the "East-European Jews who are requested to make their con- men and women pledge themselves "Despite your direct orders to the their families in this- country. Semitism. In the past, religion has sought in Germany a haven of refuge tributions at the Jewish Welfare anew to continue the covenant of contrary, these 'confession sf—we beQuoting Jewish Tribune. inhibited a complete assimilation of from the hell of pogrom and persecu- office, third fioor, Lyric building. their fathers and to exemplify in lieve "vnthotrt the retraction—and other in regard to the law the Jewish. Jews with their surroundings. But as tion in Ukrainia and Russia, be extheir lives and conduct the spirit of papers were turned over to the proseTribune of New York said: their prosperity and culture grows, pelled immediately or interned. To justice and humanity to which they cuting attorney of Pierce county, base these rather unusual demands, No one in whose heart the so also do religious forms and tradihave been called by reason of their Washington, vho publicly stated that all manner of excuses are concoctect American tradition is deeply rooted tions dispappear. Anti-Semitism then Jewish birth. the ^evidence1 was such that he would •will consider it a law of the country; remains as tljg. only -differentiating There is the scarcity of dwellings, the not even go before a grand jury atifl he must • see in it a law which factor between Jews arid the rest of lack of food and the economic crisis in general. And manufactories of ask for return of indictment against destroys the sublime fundamentals Eepadiation of Administration of the community and It alone causes Captain Rosenbluth therewith." of our country; he must see in it Officers by 'Annual Convention the difference in their social life. public sentiment exaggerate these a Fordism instead of Americanism. B'nai B'rith Lodge of Omaha Without this differentiation there conditions in order to play • on the Results in Resignations. Scaring to Be Had, Refusing shelter to those who escape Pledges to Furnish Enough would come a complete amalgamation unfavorable attitude of . the populaThe reasons for which the open tion. The East-European Jews are to our shores from religious prosecu Cleveland,' June 8.—-Repudiation of "with their surroundings*. . Money to Save Lives of jj hearing is asked include thp used cs a scapegoat, and upon them the administration of the officers of tion, to those who strive to escape • Poor Wa]fs. I have myself experienced just this is heaped the blame for the present i of counsel for Captain Eosenbluth. and ( the clutch, of their murderers is unthing. Till a few years ago my entire breakdown of economic life in Ger- the'American Zionist orgaMssiioa by j Ms client to complete the record m American and inhuman.V ... ..'..' the 24th -annual', convention early Twenty-five tattered and torn, .life was spent in Switzerland where" many; in fact for the ..entire after^ cast, BOW, to establish the iane* Surely the mantle of some Europ- emaciated oijhans, ". in war-tora nothing occurred to influence my Jew- math of the. ivar. Political dema- yesterday resulted in the resignation 'disprove th® ish sentiments.;. In geaeral,.!_ was gogies .hLxk -exploited- "J£MS --"public. of Judge : Julian. W. Mack of Chicago ean anti-Semite .--must have fallen Europe, who now <Eave and "sue' other saScers of fhsT organhardly conscious ;bf my Jewish origin sentiment and when a particular , patiently, py, gi Upon" the shoulders -of some of our death," by Presimg directly from agents of th h they. wfllJKe flJK relieved from their because I was not made conscious of party is rushed into office on theization and S5 of tbe 50 rae'tnbers of law-makers.-With-this new law~~pur when dent Kraus, partment of justice concerning Rosen* both houses say ini so Tnany words suffering by the final call,- will soon it by others. But as soon, as I settled wave of this sentiment, the danger bluth's character of service during hte to Soviet Russia, Ukrainia, Poland be made happy and shown; that life in Berlin everything changed. There, to the homeless 'Jews is critically the national 'executive committee und Adolph Kraus, president of the enlistment, and to disclose to atits secretary. ' Peter J. Schweitzer, I saw immediately the /distress and and other Jew-baiting Countries; is again" worth living, by' the Omaha augmented. Independent Order of the B'nai torney general methods of procedure treasurer; of the organization, was mental want of the.ydunger Jewish lodge of the Independent .Order of "You wielders of the sword, murder-' Wrote Against Expulsion the only incumbent to retain his B'ritii, during the past week, an- which mfiy be avoided in future c4set» 7 " " ; •';' generation. I began to note that at ers of Jews, do .with the unoffensive B'nai B'rith. • ' nounced the appointment of Henry In a formal statement, after the moposition. - ' ray university, the atmosphere of The Omaha lodge at, the recent At one such juncture not so long and defenceless Jews as your hearts The resignations were announced Monsky to the administrative council tion in the Federal Court, Captain desire, we cannot assist you in your grand lodge convention of the B'nai anti-Semitism interfered with the ago when it was learned on good early this"' morning 'at the close of a of the B'nai B'rith. Eosenbluth said it was a sad comholy mission but we promise you not B'rith, held in Des Moines, pledged studies of the Jewish student and authority that the German governThe council is the working unit of mentary or$ the department of justice long night session by Judge Mack likewise with his economic existence, itself to take care of twenty-five orment was seriously considering the to save the victims from your bloody to such an extent that he found ex- expulsion of all Eastern Jews, I pen- after the' convention had voted, 15S the national executive committee and fox* a newspaper reporter to develop hands." This word-picture is drawn phans. The cost for each is $100. The grand lodge pledged itself to treme difficulty in maintaining him- ned an article for the '"Berliner Tage- to 71, to disapprove the president's meets from four to five times a year, the facts in the case which the aeaccurately; it represents the, true Chicago. A position o n ) p a r t m e n t «C0I,ki n o t o r w o l i W n o t » blatt" in which I indicated the cruelty annual report. Besides Judge Mack, image of \ this anti-American^ law. take care of .2,500 orphans and this self at college. this council is next in importance toj a t h e r i n Wo m o n t h s , Eeferrmg to Zionist • officials who relinThis is particularly true of • those and folly of such action, particularly American We cannot help calling a spade a number was divided-amongst the that of the President of tne interfearing, C apquished their offices are: . fte g t for a Q Jews who came from Eastern Europe if it were aimed against the students spade, we cannot find any other units of the grand-lodge.' • national order. The board acts as a Brandeis Quits Post. attending universities.' The delegates of the Omaha lodge since the armistice. Though, as far tain Eosenbluth predicted that "transuitable name* for it. The legislaJustice Louis D. Brandeis of Wash- "cabinet" to the president of the scending revelations" would be made. tion at this time creates the darkest were among the first to. respond to as I know, there is not a considerable I solicited and obtained the assist- ington, honorary president; Babbi order. of some of my Jewish and Genspot upon the horizon of American the/appeal made by'Former President number of them in Germany, public ance Mr. Monsky was elected president Me said: r Stephen S. Wise of New York, hone Mi Mannheimer and Secretary A. B. "I resoh ed at the beginning of this opinion has created a problem of j *^colleagues and together we orhistory, it darkens the luminous orary vice president; Harry Frieden- of Grand Lodge No. 6 at the B'nai their presence which has become an ganized special free courses for thewald of Baltimore, and Nathan B'rith annual convention held in Des proceeding, and am determined at thp principles of our great country. It Seelenfreund of the "Hundreds of our kin are slowly unending subject of discussion. Meet- Jewish students. The activities of our present time, that the only way to is law, of course, and the American Straus, New York, vica presidents; Moines recently. That placed him prevent my growing1 bitter tiirongh the dying because of lack of food and small group were assisted by the ings, conferences and the press deal people must uphold it, yet it is Jacob de Haas, secretary of. tne automatically on the executive com(Continued on page 2) •un-American, it is based not upon necessary clothing and shelter," said with it continually, often demanding Palestine department, and Reuben mittee of the international order for terrible injustice done me, is to tnxn this piTcate wrong Into a public tha principles of our fair minded Mr. Seelenfreund. "The reports we bis term of office. Horchow, assistant treasurer. received ars almost unbelievable. good." country: it is a strange sacrifice have ; Mr. Monsky passed through the President Harding Declares . Other executive committee memConvention of Jewish ConsumpWe all know how families were torn before the God of American free- apart; many were MHed and maimed bers "who resigned include Bernard chairs of the Omaha lodge and at . Captain Eoaenfclutli wss confident of tive Relief Society. Interest in Zionist Movement. receiving .full exoneration. He and dom. and homes plundered and destroyed. Washington, (J. C. B. Service).— Boston, Mass., (J. C. B. Service).— Flexner, New York; Felix Frank- one time was its president. Ms cotmse] believe that the retraction furter, Cambridge, Mass.; Nathan D. Tho President signed the Bill We now have a wonderful opportun- At a luncheon arranged by the Zionist The Jewish Consumptive Relief Soby Pothier was- occasioned by their What could he d o ? . Would it not ity to carry out the.cardinal prin- Organization of this city the' follow- ciety of Denver held its seventeenth Kaplan, Chicago; I. Irving Lipsitca, demand that - Potbier repeat fee JEWS HONOR ROGER ing; letter communicated to its sec- annual convention in Boston on June San Francisco; -Emanue! N. Mohl, ! havs been passed over his head? ciples of our order." charges in his confession in the presWILLIAMS. Jerusalem, Palestine; I. Eude, Denretary was read: 4th, jjth and 6th. All constituent We .will not be far from the truth ence of Captain Eosenbluth. White House, organizations elected delegates. It is ver; William Sauber, Green Bay, •Washington, (J. C. B. Service).— if we surmise that the President The Theta Bets Tsu fraternity, comPothier asserts that his lying conWis., and JonasEosenSeld, Dallas: June 1st, 1921 stated that this was the largest conaffixed his signature to it not be In contrast to the stormy demonposed of college men of the Jewish j fessior, was wrung from him through, Mr. Alexander Wolf, \sention in the history of the organcause he considered that law jdst strations which have takenplace • refaith, placed today s wreath at the j "third degree" treatment administered ization. Zionist Committee. V but wisdom dictated to'him the be peatedly since the opening of the base of the statue of Roger Williams j by officers of the department of JnsDear Sir:—I have " already 'com- The Society was organized in 1904 convention. Sunday afternoon during corning of a' cheerful loser and to i-Statuary Hall in. the Capitol' in j tice. An investigation has been orThe Mount of Holiness", will be municated to you my reget that it is continue at peace with the two by some consumptives, who' realized many heated arguments - there was commemoration of the fact that he , dared by the department.. houses.' His signature-;we consider Rabbi Frederick Cohn's-. subject at impossible for me to.be present at the the importance of providing proper extreme- quiet when the vote was" was the first to preach the doctrine o ..... • ,ltt : ; luncheon in honor of Dr. Chaim Weiz- treatment for sufferers. Since then announced. . a wice act of statesmanship. Y Temple Israel Friday! night.' . . of religious liberty on the American) |' E I N S T E I N ' S F A R E W E L L the Immigration Bill became law, This wa.s the theme of his first mann, head of the Zionist Commission it has handled about 4,000 cases and hemisphere. STATEMENT every good, citizen must submit to sermon delivered'/as a Rabbi twenty- to the United States, but I want to its splendid achievements have been WOMEN TO MEET " Representatives of the fraternity, add an expression of my most friendly recognized by the Jews throughout the it. However the American peopl five years ago. , York, (J, C. B. Service).—Prof. An important meeting of' the wo--which numbers about S,000 members, A I New Rabbi Cohn has been a resident of interest in and for the Zionist move- country. Starting with a few hundred must learn to- select real American; bert had charge of the exercises. Ad-i Einstein, who left fot England ment. It is impossible for one whomembers and an income of several men of the Talmud Torah will be to represent them in the future;" i Omaha for fifteen years. Th rsda : m a d e the held at -...„ 2:30 p. . „„ m.'Tuesday _ , _ in ™. the dresses were delivered by. Eepresen' 3 ' folIowmK te»r has studied at all the services of the thousand dollars it has developed into must become wiser in its selection.' weiI Arabs in Transjordania Revolt Y. M. H. A. rooms in the Lyric tative Welter B/Stiness of Rhode | statem«nt to the American Hebrew people to avoid the faith that an institution with a membership of eo e: Against Hedjas Prince. they will one day be restored to their 100,000 and a yearly budget of over building. At this meeting the women Island, representing the community in! I* *SPI am heartily grateful to that part ASSEMBLY OF "LEAGUE" TO Jerusalem. _ ( J . T ; Agency.) It is historic national home and th'ere enter will celebrate the '• third anniversary which. Eoger Williams Mred; Kep-J DEAL WITH NATURALIZATION. reported that. the inhabitants of on a new-and yet greater phase of a quarter of a million. The sanitorium of the women's organization. There resentative Theodore E. Burton of | o f t h e J e w i s h ^ e o P l e w1l!Ch , at Denver occupying close to 100 acres ' Paris, (J: T. Agensy).—The As Transjbrdania have risen in- revolt their contribution to the advance of has a capacity of 200 patients. In will be prominent' speakers on theOhio, and Representative Julius Kshn! America, and to the Atr.ericaai |»t*lic, program. -. • seinbly of the League of - Nations against their newly-appointed ruler, humanity. ' •". '...•• - of California. The Rev. Abraham! its scientists and oflidale, who sll here addition to curing consumptives the convenes in Geneva on. June; 16th^- the Emir Abdullah, third-son of the Please assure those who will be Society maintains the Eude Con- All members are urged to attend. Simon, President cf the Board o ! p T C B ffie E ^ warn recephnn. I It is announced that the Committee Hedjas Sheriff. ; The insurgents de- gathered at the luncheon to-day of rayvalescent Home for those who are not I Education of" the District, of Colum- htxe been deeply touched r\v tne "AGUDxVTH ' ISRAEL" RABBIS bia," delivered the invocation. of Jewish Delegations has received feated the Emir's,forces in a pitched continued concern for the V cause in strong enough to return to work. interest and sympathy which 1 have PROTEST AND JOIN permission to present its argumen battle, killing 130 of his men. Accord- which you are zealously laboring. „ found, here for the ../idea of ing to the dispatch; the rebels wish The convention opened with a on the question of the naturalization p Palestine as the Homeland of Most sincerely yours, to be governed by the British Adminreception Saturday evening, June 4th. Warsaw, ( J . T. Agency).—Three PEOTEST DICTATORSHIP OF BH Jewish law for Finland and Danzig." people, and for the ; Warren Gemaliel Harding. istration iri Palestine under Sir HerOn Sunday three sessions were held in well-known Polish Uabbis hare resignBOGEN AND LANBESCCh TCent of a Hebrew University in Jerubert. Samuel. . .^ Letters were also read from Vice- Ford Hall devoted to the presentation ed from t h e "Agudatb. Israel", as \lenna, (J. T. Agency).—The Zion-S salem, which I found not only GERMAN ;PAPER CURRENCY Presiflent Coolidge and the British o| ; the reports of last years work in protest against the resolutions adopted ist representatives,' the National | Jews, bnt also' among" non-Jews, S | J HIAS DENIES REPORT OF UTILIZED TO SPREAD Ambassador Auklarid Geddes. tie morning; a mass meeting in theby. its last conference in Vienna and Council, and the East-Galician Dels-! would like to add that the respert, ANTI-SEMITISM. UQUIDATIQN OF ACTIVITIES. a brilliant address by Dr.afternoon at "which Eabbi Saul Silber have joined t i e MizracM, Orthodox gation have announced their with- j eppreciatiom I always felt for Warsaw, (J. T. Agency). — A Weizmann and an appeal by Dr.. of Chicago spoke, and* a banquet ZIoaist party. drawal frosn the newly-created Vienna ican scientists has-been greatly inDanzig, (J. T. Agency).—A considerable qUteitity of German pape cable to this bureau from Warsaw Schmarya Levin, §20,000 in cash were in the evening. The last business "Joint" CJomsaittee, refusing to assume j creased ns a-result of my personal' currency in circulation, here canie states that the HIAS 'bureau there collected for the Keren Hayesod. Mr. sessions took place on Monday, June Warsaw, (J. Agency).—Dr..'' rcsponsib-'l;ty for the sudden liquiria-i contact with many of thnm. I have an imprint which reads, "Germans? has denied that it intends liquidating Berliner of Washington donated ?10,- 6th. Dr. Philip Hillkowitz and Dr.Bogen of the Araerican Join1 Diz- jj tics, of "Joint'" activities under the seen a sympathetic dealing' with free yourselves from the yoke of th its money transfer and telegraphing 000 towards the building of a Hebrew C. D. Spicak and the other national tribution. Coramitlee crrived here i dictatorship of Dr. Bcgen and Mr.theory of relativity and « Jews." agencies. • ' _ . . ' University in Jerusalem. officers were re-elected. detached scientific interest in %," rcsterday* Landesco.

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