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BOY-PAGE MISTER FORD Washington, D. C— ( j . T. A.) President Harding '. announced, the appointit of Lewis Einstein as new United States Amador to Czechoslovakia. Einstein was formerly ! ! Omaha Goal Practically Reached ster to Costa Rica and eg held several appoint-. Through Day's Work by Members of Local importance to iff< speariof and Committee. Latin-Amer. countries. He is a C A M P A I G N SUCCESSFUL graduate of Columbia University and is known as a THROUGHOUT COUNTRY gifted diplomat, author and Omaha Jews have responded geneditor. .
Yom Kippur Appeals For iereii Hayesod Bring Fine Results
FROM THEfROZEN NORTH (SPECIAL T^V'THE JEWISH PRESS".)
Dr. Victor Levine, OProfessor at Creighton -University, sends this very interesting letter from Labrador, where he went in June with a party of scientists to study health conditions among the! Eskimos, for the Association of Arctic Explorers for Research Problems. Rigolet, where the letter was written, is approximately 1,500 miles north and east of New York Qity. "Where the,keen wan'peaks, in frigid pride unbending, Jut up against the/abysmal blue of night, When the red aurora/,at-the world's wild ending Opens in heaven its.-awful fan of light, A part of all the inviolate peace around Mm,- • • • Calm amid mighty quietudes did he rest, The fierce cold for a .manacle that bound .inn. The arctic stars to. sparkle on his crest.
erously to the appeals of the Keren from the campaigns made in the various synagogues on Yom Kippur indicate that the full quota of §25,000 will be subscribed without a doubt. $13,500 were subscribed in six synagogues where the appeals were mads. This sum, together with the $8,500 which had been sec^ired before' the start of the drive, practically assures its success. Pledges: secured at the synagogues were as follows: 19 and Burt 4 $5,350 18 and Chicago..! .... 4,500 24 and Nichola... .-_ 1,200 B'nai Sholem . ~ 1,125 .25 and Seward .... 1.10Q 11 and Center 250
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$13,525 Speaking last night to the Jewish Press, Kabbi Morris Taxon, chairman of the local Keren Hayesod Committee said, "We are most heartily satisfied with the response on the part of our people. They realized the necessity, for the money and they. gave to their fullest power. We have a sufficient number of people who did notpledge in the synagogues, and whom •we will call on, to make up up our remaining $3,000."
LOUIS SOMMER DESCRIBES PITIFUL CONDITIONS. Mr. Louis Sommer, well known resident of Omaha, who recently returned from a two months trip' through Europe, Tuesday evening at the Yom Kippur Eve services at the Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Synnagogue, told of the conditions that now exist in Europe. Sommer left Omaha on July 12 to visit his parents and relatives in Humene, Czecho-Slovakia, whom he had not seen for 22 years. Mr. Sommer, with tears in his eyes, told of the many troubles the- people, especially the Jews, were forced to go through in order .that they may live. "At every little station can be seen barefoot children begging for a bite to eat," said Mr. Sommer. jtown Half-Ruined. On arriving in Humene, formerly a town of 5,000 but now half in ruins, Sommer found that his parents and family had survived many of the troubles that were forced on the Jews. "Three times my parents and their family fled from.' the village,"
Cites Two Notable Examples. "Every- congregation gave generously, in funds and in workers," said Dr. said Sooner. Humene was the A. Greenberg, secretary of the com- central battlefield of the Slovaks and mittee. "Every congregation respond- the Bolsheviks^. Sommer-* told how ed nobly. Two of them, however, the Slovaks cm • the;; day that they stantl <Bit^a.&'ov& alt'otiiers, and I be- -had- gained their independence as.; 3 lieve we. can point, to • .them ydthout • .free..republic went from village to slight to .the others. One.is the little Tillage* persecuting' the Jews. Sommer' also visited his brother, congregation that meets at 25th and Seward"-which is composed almost Morris, who formerly lived in Omaha, entirely, of tradesmen, small merchants but who went to Europe in 1910 and and peddlers, This congregation who was not able to come back to this country, because of the worldpledged $1100. war.According to Sommer, his the Congregation "The other is B'nai Sholemj which, although it had brother Morris is attempting to come just last week pledged $5500 for a back to this country*. synagogue in Omaha, still pledged aver $1,100 to the Kefen Hayesod." Speakers at the various synagogues included Rabbis Morris Taxon, Herman Cohen* E. Levinson and E. Fleishman; Henry Monsky, Louis Sommer, L. Kneeter* I. Goldstein, J. Shukert UKRAINIAN REFUGEES MUST GO and Harry Lapidus. Among the Warsaw. (J. P. A.) An order has workers at the places of worship who been issued.by the Polish government aided so materially in the success of the drive Were, J. J. Friedman, N. W. to expel all alien Jews who have had Naken, A. Monsky, Sol Cohen, Dr. P. special permission from the authoriSher, Ben Handler, Frank Dee, J. ties to remain in Warsaw. '. Feldman, Dr. A. Greenberg Harry A* The New York office of the Jewish Wolf, Wm;~ Grodinsky, Sam Beber, J. Press Association has been informed Maisel, Jac6b Malashock, Harry Mala- by Mr. Noah Prilutzky that he reshock, B; feraude, Mrs. S. Robinson, ceived a cable from Warsaw to the Mrs. J. Mffler, A. Cohn, Mr. and Mrs. same effect. The cable addressed to A. Horwitz, B. Hirsch, S. Nichols, S. Mr. Prilutzky states that all UkrainAltshuler, E. Block, M. Minken, I. ian Jewish refugees at present in Poland must abandon their homes and Wintroub and A. Wolf son. move into small towns in the interior. The refugees will not be allowed to Reports compiled by the Jewish remain in the district of Warsaw or Correspondence Bureau indicate that in any of the border towns of Poland. the appeal throughout the synagogues Permission has been granted them to of the country has netted unexpected- settle in such centers where there is ly high sums, and the total is estimat- no industry, no trade, and where the ed to be between four hundred thou- scarcity of homes would make thensand and a half milion dollars. presence a physical impossibility. In one hundred synagogues in New About 42,000 Jews will be affected by York $120,000 was pledged one the two this new move on the part of the days of Rosh Hashonah. At Averne, authorities. , L. I., $10,000 was pledged. One synaThe Central Committee of Ukraingogue in Pittsburgh reports a total of ian refugees in Warsaw has leased a §10,000, and others are expected to do number- of houses in Woloinin and a as well. Cleveland with $65,000, Can- few houses in Kovel, in all of which ton with $13,000, Akron $22,000, and 2,000 Jews can be accommodated. The New Orleans $11,000 are among the committee can do nothing. for the larger-cities reported by tha agency. other 42,000 homeless unfortunates being without funds. ' • " • • .
42,000 Jews Ordered Expelled From Poland
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"•• New York. (J. P. A.) Ground was broken yesterday for the new Beth Israel Hospital which is to be erected at a cost of $3,000,000. The new; hospital will be non-sectarian, and will acconiddate 500 patients. When completed the hospital will be, one of the largest and most commodious of its kind in existence. The hospital will have ten large operating rooms and an entire floor will be put aside for laboratory and research work. There will !j>& special accomodation for the orthodox Jew
MAX SCHULMAN, PRESIDENT OF CHICAGO BANK Chicago. (J. T. Agency.) Max Schulman, a leader in Zionist affairs here, has been elected president, of the Community State Bank of Chicago. Mr. 'Schulman has indicated that this new post will not interfere with his Zionist work which he intends to continue with undiminished energy.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,1921
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Here silence, like a monarch, reigned immensely, The quintescence of cold was here, no less, > ; - Each utter as before God spake intensely And visible things 3,eapt out from nothingness; A land wherewith no "living sign was blendedr ; A white monotony of; weird devise, " ' One towering boreal ikpor, chaste and splendid, " : : One monstrous immobility of ice."
Rigolet, Labrador, Sept S, J921. Warmest greetings from the'coldest north! \- I am still alive and carrying on, and have already made away with six hundred miles of the Labrador coast. There are fields of iceyto the left, to the right, in front of aqad behind you here. The first impassion that you get of the northland'ds;.that it is bleak and barren, but onyjcloser observation you find that, it is instructively and delightfully interest ing and full of life—Eskimos, Eskimo dogs, foxes, seals, whales, polar bears, etc. " Hardships there are many, ^but in the glamour of new experiences physical sufferings lose their> keen edge. My most trying times are,not with the biting winds or witS/'vthe cutting colds, but with the fobcL. I have already been introduced }t» the gustatory delights of dog meat; bear meat and whale meat, frozen or cooked. And I have already^ consumed niany a piece ofr hard, "frozen, luscious seal fafc.«. I t takes the; eonr-age of a Spartan to make a savory meal out" of combinations such as these. And I believe it takes a hero ta finish up a meal with a pound of frozen seal fat, hard as a rock, by way of dessert. So well, do 1 stand these new. delicacies that I am beginning to think that my stomach is .made''', of brick, lined with cast iron. But then, you have to eat a whale of a lot (and a lot of whale) to keep yourself warm. • . -_-<•. I am living in a cold, bleak^but nevertheless deliriously interesting world. The interest waxes stronger the further north I go.' It is getting a little "chilly" up here. ^Bift.M don't mind as I am already dressed in Eskimo style-r-skin boots, - snow shoes, sealskin gloves and full' dress that: is so very popular with polar society. If you had a*chance -to see me now you would see a chap bred in the warm atmosphere of college halls miraculously transformed'-into a free lance of an Eskimo. I am bringing as much of my outfit as I possibly !can back to Omaha. = • ' ' • The Eskimos are a very interesting lot—very sociable, very hospitable. They like the "Kabluna""(white
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man) very much, and" do not differ from us markedly. The only difference I find is in the lack of the veneer of civilization. They are a healthy lot, and very happy looking. It is a wonder, indeed, how well they get'along physically, morally and socially in an environment that offers so little. • Our ship stops at every settlement, which is made up of whites, halfbreeds and pure Eskimos. I have had dinner ashore quite often. I wish you could see our ship. It is built for Arctic 'waters. It carries an icebreaking device, and is very narrow to enable it to pass in and through the "polar tramps"—the big and little ice-bergs, so much dreaded by the mariner. To write you about the equipment of the boat and of its interesting crew, and of the many, many things of more than considerable interest would mean a young, plump volume. So I will reserve this literature until I get back to the "every-dayness" of civilization. . We encotmtej^^an^. ice-berg almost every, cfayv .TheyTare- of aJbluisltbr greenish hue, and present a beautiful example of God's almightiness. Perhaps' I can no better present to you their gorgeous majesty and" the wonders of this- frozen land, than through the quotation, with which I have opened this letter. ' Excuse the shortness of this letter—I could write much of the crowdings of years of trial and experience into a few short weeks. But I have much to do, and must soon be packing my "komatick" (sled) and getting my dogs in readiness, and then I shall be howling "Mo-o-sh (hurry up) at my dogs. Ill close by saying "Regards to Omaha" and "Auck-shin-ei" (goodbye). , It is" the unwritten law of the north that a passing vessel must offer assistance or take mail. I am able to send this note because of the presence of a boat belonging to the Hudson Bay Company that is proceeding southward. It will I hope be turned over to the post-office, at the first port of call. Sincerely yours, VICTOR E. LEVINE.
AMERICAN RELIEF ACTIVITIES OF THE LEADERS GO INTO JOINT DISTRIBUTION. FAMINE DISTRICTS COMMITTEE ABROAD New York. (J. P. A.) Cabled- information received by the local office of the Joint Distribution Committee states that Dr. Joseph Rosen,- the committee's special representative who will join the American Relief administration workers in Soviet'Russia, left London for Riga. Dr. De Sola Pool cabled from Jerusalem that Dr. Feitlowitch, the discoverer of the black Jews, who spent some time in Abyssinia in behalf of the J. D. C , returned to Palestine -and will soon make public, the results of his investigations there. ' ' A number of the executive members of the J. D. C. in Europe have left for Lithuania and Latvia in order to personally acquaint themselves with relief conditions there, says a -Vienna cable. Another Vienna cable confirms the report that the Rumanian authorities insist that the Ukrainian refugees be removed from their present-settlements in Bessarabia to the interior of Old Rumania.
Riga. (J. P. A.) Col. William N. Haskell, director of the work being done in Russia by the American Relief administration, accompanied by Professor Kitchensen and Dr. Golder, are leaving for Santara for a personal investigation of conditions there, according to a Moscow dispatch received here.
JEWISH COLONISTS IN RUSSIA TO BE AIDED
Berlin. (J. P. A.) The local office of the O. R. T. (Jewish Welfare Committee of Russia) is organizing a special relief transport for the starving Jewish colonists in South Russia. Provisions and winter clothing are the chief items being sent. At the same time the O. R. T. has appealed to Jewish colonists in the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentine for seed and machinery which the colonists will urgently need next season. New York. (J. P. A.) Madam Alma Gluck, the noted operatic soprano, .returned recently from a trip to Europe where she spent some tijjie. The singer was met at the pier by Efraim Zimbalist, her husband, who The Vilna administration is about stated that about the end of the year to, expel 10,000 aliens from the city. they would tour the Pacific coast.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50.
MORE INTERNATIONALISM? London, (J. P. A.) Provisions of the will of the noted British financier and philanthropist. Sir Ernest Cassel, just made public, show that he left an estate of over six million pounds. Heroic Stand Taken by Harassed Among others mentioned in Menacing Letter Against Intci national Organization is Rased | Jews in Newly Acquired the will areMortimer SchifE, on Claim of 100% AmerPolish Provinces. Paul Wsa'burg and Felix icanism. Warburg who are to receive fflREATENED WITH HEAVY valuable gifts from the GRAND GOBLIN WRITER PUNISHMENTS testator's art coEection. POOR YIDDISH.
Jews ofGalicia,
Resist Polish Census
Lemberg, "Oct. 10. J. P. A.)—The Jevrs of Zufovna, Busk, Komarno and many-other smaller towns in Eastern Galicia have almost unanimously decided not to take any part in £he census now being ; made throughout the Polish provinces by fee authorities. These Jewish communities have taken this step as a result of the manner in which the authorities insist that Jews should register themselves as Poles and give as their mother tongue. Polish instead of Yiddish or Hebrew. In some of these towns the resistance of the Jews amounts almost to a complete boycott on the census enumerators. The local authorities are greatly excited over their attitude and threatened them with heavy punishments. Orders From Warsaw. It is stated in spme quarters that the local authorities^ in trying to force the Jews to deny their nationality are not- acting on their own initiative but are carrying out secret orders received from Warsaw. It will be remembered that Eastern Galicia has been, given to the Poles for 25 years as mandatory territory. The anxiety of the Poles to register as many as possible in the name of their own people can therefore by readily understood.
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London. (J. C. B.) The. c&se .of Dr. Oscar Levy, well known English translator of .Nietsche, who lost his German citizenship through prolonged residence in England, and is now to be deported from England as an alien, has created much interest here. George Bernard Shaw and H. C. Wells have consented to act as members of a delegation which is to wait on Lloyd George and request the premier to permit the scholar to remain in the country. Dr. Levy is now a citizen of no country and is not able to proceed anywhere because no consul will vise his passport. The Morning Post urges British Jews to use their influence in favor of the "man without a country," while Hans Herzl, son of the great Zionist leader, Theodor Herzl, suggests in a letter to the Jewish Chronicle that Dr. Levy be sent as the representative of the Zionist organization to the League of Nations. Beatrice, the ten-year-old daughter of Dr. Levy, who was born in England, will be permitted to remain here, though her father must be deported. She has written to the home secretary, however, stating that she will follow her father into exile. Dr. Lev? resided in England from 1894 until. the outbreak of the war, when he returned to Germany, staying there, however," only two months. During the war he lived in Switzerlsjid where he * engaged in international Red Cross work. His excellent work there secured him permission to return to England, through the influence of the British Foreign Office. ' His deportation has been brought about through the Home Office, acting under the Alien Restriction Act". Foreign dispatches state that Dr. Levy was deported without trial, and without means of appeal.
Philadelphia -Y."M. H. A. Building to Give Employment to F i ^ Hundred Men Philadelphia. (J. T. A.) The Campaign ' Committee of the Philadelphia Y. M. H. A. which intends raising a fund of $750,000 between October 25 and November 5 for the purpose of •erecting a new Y. H. H. A.. building announces through Jerome H. Loucheim that continuous employment will be given to 500 men for at least 4 months If the campaign is successful
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New York, Get 11. (J. G JR.) TV Cleveland office of the Keren Hays?* has received a threatening lettex- fnva the Ku Klux Elan, commanding Bureau to cease its activities unless if is ready to accept the cons The report is taken from the "Ciev« land Jewish World" which prints full text of the Elan's letter, as f«X lows: "As 160 per cent American beg to inform you that you m% close yonr office* in this city * in the country. We give you dsys in which to cease your tions. If you fail to do so, we act without pity. We believe tHiM§ you will carry out these before if is too late. Onr organirarf tion means business. It hss a clea record. We are opposed to cc tion with foreign lands."
Yom Kippur services at Temple Israel were made doubly impressive through the sense of bereavement that was felt by every member of the congregation in the sudden death Tuesday of Mrs. David Gross, 2968 Poppleton Ave. The kindly spirit that had pervaded all of Mrs. Gross' activities in the Temple since its organization, still made its presence deeply felt throughout the Kol Nidra service and the beautiful Memorial Service of the following day. Mrs. Gross came to Omaha fiftythree years ago and made her home here. The letter, here translated from One of First Confirmants. As Addie Gladstone, she was a Yiddish, is signed "Ku Klux graduate of the first class of the Cen- Grand Goblin, J. W. S." It is tral High School. Last year when the in ungramatical language and poortjj Alumni Association of the Temple Is- typed. The letter has been forward? rael Sunday school, was formed, Mrs. to Cleveland City Police Officials am Gross, as a member of the first con- an investigation will be made. firmation class of Temple Israel and as a teacher of the Sunday school for a number of years, gave her reminiscences. She was STJ active member of the sisterhood of Temple Israel, and last year was recording secretary of the Council of Jewish Women. She LAY ' CORNERSTONE FOR NEW] was also a member of the Omaha TE:.;PLE. Women's Club, being active in the departmeiit of public' spe&kingv . I Detroit, Mich.—Congregation Beth* She -is survived by her htssband, I El, of Detroit, Mich., laid the cornwwho is now visiting his relatives in I stone of it* new Temple at Wood-i Htrngsrj-,"fey-a tteagfeter, -InBa-Or»ss.l three brothers, Victor, A. H-, and Max day afternoon, Oct. 4th. The prmGladstone, ,snd three .sisters, the cip&l '^siildresB was delivered by D-. Misses Rose and Eva Gladstone and, Samuet/^Goldensohn, of P'itlsbm-K Mrs. FsTinie Simon, all residents of The BeltiVEFs. nevr Temple IF to 1 Omaha. one :«f.: .the finest in the city. A | Funeral services will be held from pleasant'incident of the occasion y$ Temple Israel, at 2:00 o'clock, Sunday the receipt of a letter from President j afternoon. Harding, which read as follows:.. White House, Washington. Emigration from Poland Stop- My dear Rabbi Franklin: ped — Quota Exceeded Having the most pleasant recoltec*^ by 35,000. tion of my meeting with you at th«l New York, Oct. 5. (J. P. A.) The time of the Central Conference at\ Brooklyn Daily Eagle yesterday pub- American Rabbis last spring, I tiro.I lish sd the following copyrighted dis- writing this note to congratulate. yOB.j patch'from Warsaw: and your congregation on the oce««-j "America's open imigration sion of the cornerstone laying of ii door yesterday was officially annew house of worship of Tempk j nounced that in view of the fact Beth-El. that more than 60,000 American The occasion seems? to tse an s; vises already have'been placed on propriate one for a recognition <<] Polish passports, while the new the great contribution of our JewSs American immigration law allows population to the advancement < the entry of only 25,000 Poles up our common country. The Jew in I to June SO, 1922, no vises would America has not only been a pa**-] be given. Minor children of ticularly. industrious and useful citiAmerican citizens and domestic zen, but has demonstrated an wv»j servants of Americans visiting swerving national loyalty and p&~ in Poland are the only persons tiiotism. The race has given WP & j to whom vises can be given. The fine example of the broad charity Poles are accepting the ruling and generous tolerance that mufit h& stoically, but the Jewish people the invariable aim of our people. have filled 90 per cent of the Comprising as our citizenship- do«&, Polish quota are most indignant representatives Of so many races snei over the rule, announcing that creeds, it is obvious thai only by the they intend to appeal to American exercise of such an attitude can. vt; senators and also plan to visit hope to establish a truly national Canada and South America." " conception of citizenship anS itfe duties. DR. ABLER TO HEAD t Very sincerely, SEMINARY AGAIN Warren G. Harding, New York. (J. C. B.) Dr. Cyrus From a congi'egation of : Adler of Philadelphia who, after the to which Babbi Franklin came 2f-. death of Dr. Solomon Schechter, accepted the office of president of the years ago, Temple Beth-El today Jewish Theological Seminary tempo- ranks fourth in point of r f rarily, has again consented to act as among the Jewish congregations ftf head of the institution for the com- America, numbering approximately ing year. Dr. Adler will retain his 1,000 families. The religious school position at the Dropsie College in ot the Temple has an enrollment of Philadelphia and will visit New York over 1,000 children. The new Temple, which will co*2t regularly to attend to his duties at a .quarter million dollars, will tw* the Seminary. built of Indiana Limestone in classic style. The main auditoiium will eesx. LOUIS WILEY IN 2,200 people, and two smaller auditoriums have been provided. 4 LEGION OF HONOR New York. (S. C. B.) It i» Rabbi Frsnklin occupied the pulpit learned here that Louis Wilqy. of Temple Israel in Omaha gome business manager of the "New twenty years ago. He will visit i« York Times," has been appoint- ! Omaha on November lSth and l&tfe ?d "Chevalier of the French Leas guest of Temple Israel during tbg gion of Honor" for distinguishcelebration of its fiftieth anniversary, ed service rendered to France Dr| Wm. Eosenau of Baltimore, *wS during the World War. I>r. Abram Simon, botii former here, will »bo attpna.
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