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second-class mail matter on January 27th, 1921, at t Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 187*0.

Vast Audience Lai s Needs for Jewish Palestine Told by Jabotinsky and Patterson Distinguished Men Plead for Wholehearted Support of Americans in Work of •] Palestine Foundation Fund

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RESTRICTION THAT RESTRICTS.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1922 | |

New York. (J. P. A.) Mrs. Isaac Gitlin, with her two children who arrived at Ellis-Island was refused admittance on the ground that she came from Polnd and that, the Polish "quota was filled for this month. The present Mrs. Gitlin-was, back in 1906 Helen Koppel, an enthusiastic welfare worker among immigrants; in this country. Mrs. Gitlin took out first citizenship papers here in 1906. She entered the Clara D. Hirsch Home and was graduated with honor. Then she went into the immigration service of the Young Women's Hebrew Association, In 1911, her mother, a widow, died in Poland and she hurried back to Europe to take care of a brother and two. sisters. She became Mrs. Gitlin and was ready to return to America when the war started. Representative Nathan D. Perlman will take up the Mrs. Gitlin's case with Secretary of. Labor Davis.

Ford Reported Ready to Drop Attacks on Jews

ENDORSEMENTS "Dear Mr. Brown:— "I have heard with interest of the efforts being made by your Committee to raise a fund for the relief of Jews in Middle and Eastern Europe. The need is great, and I hope that every success may attend yonr ff-

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50.

Challenge to American Jewry Carried in Story of Chicago's Record-Breaking Relief Appeal

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Last of Defamitory Articles I Yours sincerely, '-.*;. Will Be Issued This ; (Signed) Arthur James Balfour.'* Week. ] Great Britain's Pelegate to the

CLAIMS HAS ONLY WILL FOR JEWS.

Chicago Jewry, Inspired by Julius Rosenwald, Raises $ 1,810,000 to Succor Stricken Brethren in Eastern Europe

"Dear Mr. Brown i—* •• "In' every movement for helpiig 2,000 WORKERS PUT DRIVE ^ e suffering men: of all creeds afid Henry Ford is preparing to OVER WITH RALLY TO SLOGAN J i h fellow fll iti hhajre stop his attacks upon the Jews, races, our Jewish citizens "SUPPOSE YOU WERE STARVING" This information was brought vfed with, all other American's in saeto Omaha by A . B. Seeien- rMce and service. I am sore that tfaej "Yisgadal, V'Yiskadash, Shme Rabo:" _ freund, secretaiy of t h e inter- appeal nowf made for the Jews One Million, Eight Hundred and Ten Thousand Dollars! "Magnified and Glorifiedl>eHis Great Name:" national grand lodge of the .be respenrfed to not.only by men That is what Chicago has done. I t is a sum that will B'nai B'rith, who addressed the women of their, own race, but by go down in Jewish history. It was in Chicago that the AmerWith these solemn, words- penetrating the hearts and annual B'nai :B'rith day meeting Americans, whose hearts *i*e -touched ican Jewish Relief Committee's nations-wide appeal for $14,000,reverberating through the souls of his two thousandrauditorSi of t h e Council Bluffs lodge with pity for suffering peoples. I 000 for the stricken Jewry of Europe .had its birth. It was Vladimir Jabotinsky ended his talk at the Brafideis Theatre last Chicago that has shown the country how that appeal should Sincerely yours, night. And two thousand souls felt a closer kinship to "the Sunday. (Signed) Josepnus Daniels."* be answered. millions of harassed> tortured'and weary Jews of Eastern and Simultanously with Mr. SeelenChicago started out to di> its share. It would raise $750,000. Former Secretary of the Central Europe than they had probably ever felt before. freund's announcement a copyrighted No more could well be expected of it. If the Jews throughout For Jabotinsky, the artist, had painted a picture of Jewish article by Allen L. Benson wasr being the country did as niuch the entire $14,000,000 would be sublife, of its hopes and despairs, of its triumphs and disasters, of flashed country-wide by the Internascribed. But Chicago is blest with men of larger vision. It has its unswerving loyalty, of its undying faith;—and a history of tional News Service to the effect that been stirred to its depths by the soul-harrowing and hearttwo thousand years Was revealed; Henry Ford has Slaid aside all type j rending facts presented by men who had seen with their OTTO on hand containing anti-Jewish mat-j Pleading for help for the Jews, eyes and heard with their own ears the suffering and the destituter "to turn to/ofiier things." I Who through one tragedy after an- but for others, holding fast to the tion., the pitiful cries for succor and the lamentation because that According So Mr. Benson, the other had held fast to the hope of hope of the future, toiling and dying : succor was slow in coming. Dearborn Independent will carry no I the future, Lieutenant Jabotinsky for the sake of the children, as the Palestine Development Council "SUPPOSE YOU WERE STARVING?" anti-Jewish articfes beginning with' Gets Additional Financial disclosed the relation of American Jew has always done. Century after That was the question asked in the Jan. 21 issue* The issue of Jan. American Jewish Committee, Support. Jews to the problems of their fellow century the Jew has refused to enter 14 is to contain a>long article entitled Jewish Congress Organization, Chicago, and in answering it the sum It showed that it meant it when at Jews across the Atlantic Combining-, into that haven of- physical-safety, Hias" and I. O. B. A. Form? of three-quarters of a million seemed the very, first meeting of the cajmhis explanation of the Keren Hayesod over the gate of which is emblazoned TO E S T A B L I S H CREDIT "An Address to gentiles on the Jew- i ish Problem." %^ i J°tat Committee. ; paltry. "Well make i t a millionr paign committee a quarter of a milBANK IN HOLY LAND. with a stirring appeal for support that, ominous word "Conversion". But 'Well make it a million and a naif!" lion was added to the tentative of war relief campaigns, he character- now the Chalutzim are opening an8 such were the responses and Chicago quota of $750,000 that had been fixed ized the funds raised for these causes other gate which will lead to safety New York, Jan. 9. (J. P. A.) Be- cor^noSenTfer ^ates "tat WILL P R ESBNT CLAIMS was better than its word. xtpon after due consideration of the as- the steam roller smoothing the for our children* -They are- fighting fore leaving for Palestine to establish S ^ t S ^ ^ u f S c^BEFORE SENATE flEARIN^ Chicago's accomplishment is now fact that times were hard and that 8 i n WS l Ied toilsome road that the Jews of the war of the future, as our fore- a Credit Bank there, Sol Bosenbloom, f r T ^ 3 v ' * *^ .Si Washington. (J. T. A.) Represeihistory, but not all of that history Chicago had felt the force of the Palestine- arid Central Europe must fathers fought for us".Treasurer of the Palestine Develop- the J e w i s k p e ^ to co-operate ^ f t ^ . , , th« leading Jewish orgafcextraordinary financial and economic travel. Jabotansky explained the budget, of ment Council and noted Pittsburgh to^-ia a pfaa-^. change the money i z a t i o n s ^ p r e p a r i 4 to om>ose% can be read in the che^k-books of depression more fully than had any the contributors. Much of i t is Palestine Needs' Sweat And Gold, the Keren Hayesod, drawing sparkling: banker, was given a dinner by The basis. restrictive alien legislation proposed graven on the hearts of those who other great city in the country. pictures of Palestinian life and Development Council at the Hotel "The Keren Hayesod", he said "is Mr. Benson'quotes Henry Ford as by Congressman Johnson and others. worked and those who gave. The It showed again that it meant it not a contribution; ix is a voluntary Palestinian needs, most effective of Astor last night. A large gathering saying: .,,/ Representatives of the Americ real story would tell of pleasures when Jacob M. Loeb, commandeered tax. The "Mauser" that the' Kereff "Which, was the description-of the of—tipted "New York Zionists were "I have nothing against the Jews. Jewish Committee, the Organizati|n sacrificed, of luxuries foregone, of to act as chairman of the appeal, Hayesod wants every, Jew to impose annual pjaj^jng^of:-. the bayren. hill- present* Supreme Court Justice W. I would not Ihaacm them nor do I for the American Jewish Congrei sad pi seif-for- moved his desk into headquarters -<w-i i Vif"Rf*li!- vein Kfive Jewry., ,.The sides outside of! Jerflsalem, By Jewish Mack presided. In his address Justice. .want xua'yb<>d^*|else .to hann them. and announced calmly that a million Independent Order B'; .Chaly^zim,' the pioneers, in Palestine •pupils of all; age? ;on^thfr fift«entfcda^r was not enough—it should.be a mil"toid others* 3ia\se**25j' £ fl to-day have proven themselves, and, of Shevat. ""Hifinaii hearts and built up with a Jewish homeland it here with us, and all of us must Kve .v-., "THEfVODLESS lion and a half or nothing. committee, which ha? appointed did' prove themselves long ago, for throbbing lives are behind every item must 'be build up in an orderly' and together with good will toward each a smaller sub-committee to cooperate That was on 'November 29. Mr. BANQUET." the "sixty Jewish colonies, implanted in the Keren Hayesood budget", he business like way. Unless business ° t h e i U ^ ^f^ f o ^ J e w s ^ n d with representatives of other groups Loeb did not stop to listen to the After Chairman Loeb had ush,-,, + _ f Li in ^ defeating A^^X^ *I.. JZ^ZA can_ be conducted there, there can everybody else. I believe the matter interested and 'supported under the most- ad- declared. • man who said it couldn't be done. the proposed verse circumstances far .overbalance laeut. Jabotmskyfe address was un- be no future to the land. It iswe have printed about the Jews will restrictive legislation, it waft author- ered his 600 guests into the crepe- Instead, Mr. Loeb went right ahead draped banquet ball he said: the public work of the -European tirige^-with- anjr -traces of jrolitical necessary that agriculture,- industry do the; Jews* themselves good as WPH itatively learned. jK Yo« came here expecting to with his plans. He had some of the powers; in the Holy Land before the. ZibnismV- but dwelt-solely .upon the and commerce be conducted in as everybody else, . It was only for Mr. Louis Marshall, representing dine, plentifully, luxuriously. Sud- ablest minds of Chicago to help him. Palestine as it is in other-lands and this reason that I .printed it." war, a work that was carried on, by the American-Jewish Committee; Dr. denly, unexpectedly, and perhaps Julius Bosenwald was the honorary that Palestine can in that way mainthem under the most favorable con-, Stephen S. Wise, the Organization for for the first time, you have been HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE tain a self-sustaining and self- . Marks, Active Comditions. (Continued on page 2) the American Jewish Congress; a disappointed. In place of plenty ADDRESSES. respecting people." representative of the "Hias," and "Sweat and gold arc the essential "It is an everlasting disgrace to munal Worker, Passes possibly one or two others will prob- you find nothing. In place of Among those who spoke .were also needs'*of Palestine, just as Palestine so-called Christian countries that luxury you find bareness. In place Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Miss Ruth Away Wednesday ably appear at the Senate Hearings, :>f is the essential need'- of millions: of more. Jews have been massacred, the symbols «f joy you find it is believed. Jews. The Jew must own the soil just because they are Jews, in the Franklin, niece of Sir Herbert Samuel those of grief. Perhaps you are of, Palestine, and he must purchase last five years, than England lost Julius Simon, Harry Fischel, Louis Omaha's charitable and' religious vexed and indignant as well as Members of Theatrical Profession it inch by inch. The eyes of the soldiers during the war,, and we S. Posner, Captain Alexander'Aaron- organizations lost, a staunch worker At a meeting of the Omaha He- disappointed. sohn, Sol Rosenbloom and Nathan in the death Wednesday morning of brew Club Sunday a committee conWill Pay Tribute To Chalutzim are hungry for the soil, lost nearly a million men." "Well, theq, think of your Straus. Mr, J. Marks, 3156 Lincoba fflvd. sisting of Nathan Bernstein, J. J . brothers and sisters in SoutheastTragedian. as the eyes of Europe's orphans are Col. Patterson. Subscriptions to the Palestine Mr. Marks resided in Omaha forFriedman, Ben Handler, D. Morgenhungry for bread. A green Palestine, ern Europe. Some of them, too, "Jews are undergoing a MacNew York (J. P. A.) The whole a Palestine "With hillsides that are cabbean struggle daily. Every day Development Council were announced. forty years, haying come here at the sterri and J. L. Wolf eon was appoint- have expected to eat, not so plenHarry Fischel pledged $100,000 and age of 14. He took an active and a ed to take steps to centralise the ex- tifully or luxuriously as you, but world of the stage in IVew York will planted and valleys that are sown; is a-Ghanukah for us." gave $25,000 cash. Justice .Brandeis lifelong interest in Jewish affairs and isting public sentiment against the •will .be a Jewish Palestine. The still to eat. Suddenly as you, un- unite to do honor to Jacob P. Adler, ,*•'' Lieut. Jabotinsky. pledged $25,000. Sol ' Rosenbloom was one of the organizers of the Rus- bill. Chalutzim are there, 120,000 of them prepared as you, rudely as you, the well-known Jewish tragedian, in "A Jewish homeland may give with, hundreds of thousands ~ more the world a new message of hu- gave §50,000 and pledged $200,000 sian Synagogue and ot the 24 St. The committee 'plans to work with they have been disappointed. For celebration of the fiftieth, year of - ready and yearning to go, but. they manity. We may yet see a Coun- more in the course of ten years.' A Synagogue. At the time of his death representatives of all national groups them, too, the symbols of glad- his professional career. On the propledge of $60,000 from Mrs. Mary he was a member of the: Board of Di- in the city, accordingtoJ. J. Fried- ness have been replaced bjr those gram of a benefit performance as a need your help." -i cil of Peace sitting in Jerusalem, Fels was announced. A total of arectors of the Jewish Welfare Feder- man, chairman of the committee. •'Chalutzim are real colonists", he so that the! Law may , go forth, of sorrow. For you the disappoint- tribute to him at the Manhattan quarter million-dollars--'Was' pledged, ation, of the B'nai B'rith, the Modem ment is temporary and passing; Opera House next Sunday afternoon said, "building not for- themselves once more, from Zioh." and it was announced, that an • ad Woodmen of America and of th% Odd- four children, Harry and Louis Marks, for them, permanent and lasting. are nearly every man and woman of j Colt Patterson. ditional quarter million would be fellows. Mrs. Samuel Vorzimer and Mrs. Mose You have been denied one meal. eminence in the theatrical profession, "It's Jttst a sheer piece of luck secured before July 1. He is survived by his widow* andYousem. They have gone for days and days including John Drew, Eichard Bonnet, that the Jews in America are in without food. For you this hour Lionel Atwill, Ben Ami, Louis Mann, •America, and not in the hell of of fasting- may mean better health Barney Bernard, Boris Tomaohevsky, Central Europe." : . —at most an hour's discomfort. Cantor Rosenblatt, Belle Baker, Tessa Lieut. Jabotinsky.: IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL FEDERATION MEMBERS th CONTINUE TO WORK WITH For them there has been depriva- Kosta, Al Jolson and Mrs. Leslie 'The better Jew you are tbe.betBRITAIN IN SUPPORT OF tion and want, nakedness and dis- Carter. Monday, January 16, will be the last day on which payments to the Jewish Welter American you are." MANDATE. ease, famine and death. UnderMen of distinction included in. the fare Federation for the year 1921, may be made. Three thousand dollars still outstand: Col. Patterson.. nourished mothers, anemic fathers General Committee are the Rev. Dr. ing must be paid by that date to insure publication of the subscribers name in the annual -"Private initiative and/* .private London, ;(J.C.B.) In the absence and rickety children stalk through Stephen S, Wise, Otto Kahn, Justice rejport book of the Federation. • of Dr. Weizmann in Berlin, his force will be the ultimate builders Europe for lack of sustenance. So Otto Eosalsky, Adolph Lewisohn, Dr. Irepresentative was received today by of Palestine, and the sacrifice and The Federation Boardi at its meeting Sunday, determined to publish in the report you have been assembled here in Leo Borgen and Joseph Barondess. Premier Briand of France; who • is the endurance of the pioneer will book the amounts pledged by every member as well as the payments made on the pledge this way that you might be made The theatrical managers who have ; ..'". .; ;.:*. r * ' .• during 1921. /here in' connection with the Near win out/' to feel, in some small measure, united in this tribute to Mr. Adler's Xieut. Jabotinsky. East Conference. Premier Briand v what this must mean to them." genius, ami who are ttaking a more Members of the Womien's Organizations of the Federation, the Jewish Women's Wel"The more I saw of my Jewish denied the rumors which gained circuor less active part in the preparafare Organizatioji, th&Jjunior Welfa^ the Deborah Society and the Daughlation recently, that France had in- soldiers, the more I realized that tions, including David Belasco, who ters of Israel Aid Society, are also urged to pay their dues to these organizations before tended to request that she be entrust- hatred of the Jew was founded getting service, of devotion and in other days made repeated but unJanuary 16th. . ed with the Mandate for Palestine. upon ignorance of his qualities." persistence, of faith and love, of successful efforts to draw Mr. Adler France intends to respect the San Col. Patterson. hope and discouragement, but finally to the English-speaking stage, are: Remo Decision and to 'continue to of triumph. Abraham L. L'rlanger, Morris Gest, sympathize with the Zionist cause, the upbuilding of Palestine as a homefollowing committee was elected with dinner which was held at the Harris $750,000 First Quota. Sam H. Harris, Abraham Levy, EdPremier assured Dr. Weizmann's rep- land for the persecuted Jews- of Omaha Speaker Addreses instructions to begin immediately Emery tea rooms, proceeding the gar and Archie Selwyn, Lee and J. J . Annual Meeting of Des Chicago meant everything it said resentative. Central and Eastern Europe. meeting, at which officers and re- with the work of collecting funds last September, -when it pledged the Shubert, Arthur Hopkins, William Moines Federation As an earnest of the goodwill ex- Patterson Strikes' Spiritual Note. presentatives on the board of direc- here: Mrs. Cora Wolf, chairman; Harris, Jr., E. F. Albee, Martin Beck, isting between France and Britain, Striking the same high spiritual Des Moines. "Jewish psychology, Jew- tors for the affiliated institutions of Mesdames W. Holsman, M. S. Miller, national chairman, David A. Brown William J. Fox and Marcus Lowe. that it would back him to the limit. the Premier pointed to the excellent note Col. J . H . Patterson, at the ish law and Jewish tradition all com- the organization were elected. L. Paul Schaye, Louis > Goldsmith, Jay relations between General Gouraud, luncheon at the Chamber of Com-bine to make a distinctive Jewish Oransky was re-elected president for Singer, R. Kulakofsky, T. Wolfson, High Commissioner for Syria, and merce and at the theater last night, philanthropy necessary", Henry Jlon- the year 1922, with J. H. Brody, H. Rosenfeld, A. Browar, L. Simon, Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commis- urged the rebuilding of Palestine in sky, of Omaha, told members of the secretary. RENEWAL BLANK H. Rachman, Sol Degen, Max Somsioner for Palestine. France will sup- fulfillment of Biblical prophecies. United Jewish Philanthropies of Des Jewish Press Publishing Co., mer. Every Jew in the city is asked Moines, at the annual meeting of the port the Palestine Mandate which Col. Patterson endeared himself organization here Monday night. Local Sisterhood Appeals for to contribute. 482 Brandeis Theatre Bldg., Omaha, Kebr. provides for the establishment of a warmly to his Jewish auditors Dormitory Funds. Gentlemen:— Mrs. Wolf urgently requests that Jewish national home, the Premier through his earnestness and sincerity. Quoting Rabbi Akiba, Mr. Monsky At the meeting of the Sisterhood Enclosed is check for $2.50 to renew my subscription to "THE declared that the wealthy carried at Temple Israel on Monday after- all contributions be sent to her at further declared. Modest and sedate, this famous with their possessions that added reJEWISH PRESS" for one year from date of present expiration. 109 S. S6th St. as soon as possible. noon, $1,029.00 was decided upon as As to the Jewish question, M. traveler and soldier, gave the The annual meeting of the Federasponsibility of sharing them with the Briand emphasized the part France reasons for his deep friendship for the quota for Omaha in the drive Name - ~—-. t poor and the unfortunate, and that which the Federation of Temple Sis- tion of Temple Sisterhoods will be took in the negotiations for the recog- the Jewish people. held in Minneapolis on January 19, the existence of poverty was connition of minority rights, and de- "It was your boys who fought with terhoods of the United States has Address t clared that France was always toler- me at Gallipoli and in Palestine", he tradiction of the conception of a just started for a $250,000 dormitory, to and the Omaha Sisterhood is desirand righteous providence. ant towards its Jewish' citizens, both house rabinnical students at the He- ous of raising its full quota before More than 250 people attended the brew Union College in Cincinnati. The that date. at home and in her colonies. (Continued on page 2)

PATTERSON URGES JEWS TO FORGET DIFFERENCES AND UNITE FOR COMMON CAUSE

Raise Quarter Million Dollars for Palestine at New York Meeting

Jewish Organizations: to Oppose Restrictive Immigrant Legislatiffli

Jacob Adler, Eminent Actor, to be Honored by Colleagues

franee Loyal to Jewish Homeland, Briand Says

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