VOL. n.—No. 6
• -as second-class mall matter on January 27th. 1921. at ' tO ?e^ at Omaha, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1819.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY &, 1922
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In Prizes Offered Four More States 5wing Into Action in Jewish Center l$250by This : Paper in to Hold Open I Subscription Contest National Appeal for Europe's Suffering; _ House Sunday 600 Leaders Pledge to Raise $7, Public Invited to Inspect Recreation Rooms on Third Floor of Lyric Building
HOUSE EVERY NIGHT THEREAFTER," SAYS CHAIRMAN OF, BOARD. The welcome sign is out at the Jewish Community Center, and every Jew in the city is invited to attend the reception and open-house on Sunday afternoon and evening of this week. The Board of Directors of the Jewish. Community Center announced today, through W. L. Holzman, chairm a ^ that everything was-in readiness to receive the members of the community. "All the new furniture and fittings are in place, all remodeling has been completed, and we want everybody who can to come on Sunday and see what' comforts and facilities we have provided for them. "We want the boys to see the gym, the girls to see our special girls' rest loom, and the grown up folks to inspect the parlor. "We want members of the various organizations to see our lodge and club rooms, and those who are inclined towards reading and study to enjoy our library. •We are planning our official openhpuse day for Sunday," continued Mr. Holzman, "but we expect to keep open house every day, and every evening. We want people to get into the habit of dropping into the Center for rest and recreation any time they are down town, and in addition we plan a series of entertainments and lectures f or the grown-ups."^ ^ through ~*Tne ish. Press" a cordial invitation to every member of the community to be with us-Sunday, from 2 to 5 in the afternoon, and from 8 to 10 in the evening," concluded Mr. Holzman. Other members of the Board appointed by Morris Levy, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, are Harry A. Wolf, Harry H. Lapidus, Henry Monsky, Leo Eosenthal, Isidor Ziegler, and Mesdames W. L. Holzman, K. Kulakofsky and H. A. Wolf, •with Mr. Levy and Dr. Philip Sher, president and vice-president respectively of the Federation, members exofficio. Leo Eosenthal and the Mesdames Holzman, Kulakofsky and Wolf are members of the house committee for the year 1922.
Council of Jewish Women Seeks Clothing and Toys MAKES CITY-WIDE APPEAL TO BELIEVE DISTRESS OF IMMIGRANTS ON ELLIS ;, ISLAND.
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*f Have you clothes which you no longer use ? Send them to the iminigrants on Ellis Island. Have you tojys which, your children have discarded? Send them to the children on Ellis Island." This is the appeal which the Council of Jewish Women is making throughout all the cities of the country, in co-operation with its department of Immigrant Aid. A statement issued by the national executive office of the Council states that there is a great need for winter clothug among the immigrants who are detained on the island. Mrs. Frederick Cohn, president of the local section of the council, today issued an appeal to all women <;f Or*-1-- to help the national ouniii in this very hum—u' ~ian work. "We ask for those tfc'ngs only which yo i yourselves .nnot use, for clothing that *>as beco-.ie outgrown and for toys with--Whir*" your chiU'-^n no longer play. All bundles should be sent to the Jewish Comm ity Center before January 25, and they will be forwarded imiredi tely to New York."
Girls of Omaha and surrounding cities will have an opportunity, of earning vacation money through the big subscription contest to be conducted by "The Jewish Press" beginning January 25th. " Four prizes, totalling $250, are hereby offered by "The Jewish Press" to the girls who are victorious in the contest.. The prizes are $100,$75, $50 and $25 respectively;. The rules of the contest are simple. Any girl, or group of girls may enter. Renewals, as well as new subscriptions, will be counted in the-total. The contest will begin, on January 25th and Will end- at midnight on February. 15th. The subscriptions lists of "The Jewish Press" will be turned over to all contestants at the start of the contest. "The Jewish Press" has many subscribers in Council Bluffs, Lincoln, Sioux City and Des Moines, and girls in these cities are also eligible to enter. Entry blanks for the contest will be found on page 2 of this issue. Contestants must fill out this blank to qualify in the contest. Gut busy today, girls! Enroll in the contest, and earn some handy vacation money.
Arthur J. Balfour Reaffirms Faith in Jewish Palestine Author famous Zio ^ l a at British- Em Washington. STAND NOW WHERE STOOD IN 1917," HE DECLARES. Washington, January 12.—Arthur James Balfour, head of the British elegation to the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, declared last night at the reception to the Zionist Organization of America, tendered at the British Embassy, that his belief in the success of the Zionist ideal was undijninished, and that the sentiments in favor of a Jewish Palestine were now the same as in November 1917, when he pronounced his now famous Declaration, pledging the support of the British Government to the upbuilding of the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine. "I stand now where I stood then," exclaimed Mr. Balfour in referring to his original promise of the British Government to facilitate tke establishment o! -the Jewish National Home. : , The reception was attended T>y over sixty representatives, Zionists from all parts of the conntry who cariie to pay tribute-to the British diplomat who was the first to proclaim the principle of the recreation df the Jewish Palestine.
British Chief Rabbi Denounces Silence on the Ukrainian Pogroms
One Hundred arid seventy-six cities in; New York, New_ Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island accept Chicago's Challenge at most successful conference so far held. "JIMMY" BECKER'S HARROWING REPORT OF CONPITIONS ABROAD, GAINED FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, INSTILLS SPIRIT OF INTENSE SACRIFICE INTO MEETING Six hundred delegates, representing one hundred and seventy-six cities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, have pledged themselves last Sunday tot raise one half of the $14,000,000 relief fund of the Joint Distribution Committee. . : ., In a telegram to "The Jewish Press," David A. Brown, national director-of the appeal, calls this New York zone conference the most successful so far held. By a. rising vote the delegates pledged themselves to accept Chicago's challenge, and to give of themselves and their means until the full amount of the q\jota has been raised. In accepting Chicago's challenge the delegates pledged themselves to exceed their quota by at least 20 per cent. Julius Rosenwald received a splendid ovation from the delegates, according to Mr. Brown, the cheering and applauding for this prince of philanthropists lasting over ten minutes. New York City's campaign for five million dollars will start on February 19. Of the many splendid addresses made at the meeting that of Lieut.
coming. I wish that I could talk to you, not in a large meeting, but in groups of two or thfee, where I could tell you intimately atane of the things that I have actually seen, and some of the things thai I lia've felt. We are asked often wfiy it is that we need so much money at this stage, and I wonder how; many of you realize that there arc today in East-
was receiving- supposedly the best food that it was.possible to obtain. What do you think that those poor people received if that is the food that I got? ' On three occasions (and nauseating as that fact is- to me I am ging to relate it to you just the same) I was served with rat," and I was elad to get it and."as you are talking here
I Here is one who speaks* from the abyss. Feeble her voice, faint and languishing, choked with sobs; yet powerful, comseQIng. For through this one speak thjpee Jumdred and fifty thousand V
Listen, then, to the life-story of Elka Tervitz: "In the village Opalin, 22 kilometers of .Lubomil in Wolhynia, the calamity befell us on the 22nd day of Ab in 1920. At nine o'clock in the morning the murderers, the Balachovtsi, came in and demanded money ojf my parents, who gave them away all their money. Then they proceeded to take my father to the slaughter. So my brother, 26 years old, interferred and said: 'Kill me and let my father; live.' And they replied that this cannot be, but they will slaughter us all. My family consisted of six persons—father, mother, one brother 26 vears old, one sister 19 years old, ai$ot|ier sister 9 years old, and I was then 13 years. They brought us to that accursed place and they started with my brother. Twice they hit him with a sabre upon his head. He stood yet upon his feet. Then they fired a revolver shot upon him. They then took my father. They hit him -wi&ra sabre upon his head, and he fell instantly. Then t3jey< cut my mother's throat, as they do in a slaughter-house. Then they took my sister, beat her with the sabre and, fired revolver shots at her. Then they shot my little • sister. They struck me with a sabre over my shoulder; they picked my shoulders with their bayonets and fired a shot. Then the murderers rode over our bodies. There is yet a cut on my head made by a horeshoe. But, most unfortunately for me, I remained alive, lying among the dead from Friday until Sunday. Then our Jews came ^frbm Lubomil and brought me to that town. There was no physi; " cian in Lubomil, so they took me to Moziev. There I lay for several months in the hospital. Then they sent me to the district hospital- at Kowel. Here I remained for two more months. Then" I Was told that they cannot cure me here, but that I must have Warsaw professors. • "From me, the unfortunate orphan, who has no one to "appeal to, but the well-known American Committee. "ELKA YERVITZ. • • "P. S.—The house and belongings that remained after their / plunder the Balachovtsi burned, and I am penniless and naked."
Trotzky Ex-Communicated by Jews at Father's Request "Jimmy" Becker was most responsi- ern Europe some three hundred thou- there are; hundreds of thousands. of
REFUGEES RELEASED FROM ' INTERNMENT CAMPS
Berlin. (J. T. A.) Leon Ti»t2ky, Soviet Minister of War, has Been eX^ communicated -by the Jewish Community of Ekaterinoslav, his birthplace, at the instance of his aged father, Moses Bronstein, because lid is "an enemy of Judaism and a curse to humanity." . Assembled at the synagogue were all the devout Jews of the plafef, the father formally requesting thai tliS Ecclesiastical leaders place a ban upon his wayward son! The ban of the Soviet leader was accompanied by all the rites attending such grim occasions ,the horn being blown, and the .entire Congregation rising and denouncing. the accused. The aged mother, terrified by the blowing of the rain's horn,^ faitjted jand was revived with great difficulty, jthe accounts
Bucharest. (J. T. A.) Upon the completion of the investigation con-' ducted by representatives of the various ministries into the conditions of Jewish emigrants interned at emigration camps, the release of all refugees Has been ordered, none remaining at the »wosient moment.
Berlin. (J. P. A.) The local Jewish Kehilla at its last, session rtsolved that metal tablets bearing thte names of the Jewish soldiers who fell duri.ig the world war be placed in the synagogues situated in the sections where the men had previously resided.
ble for the enthusiasm and.the success of the conference. Jas. -H. Beck6r, son of a Chicago •millionaire, and still a mere youth, being Just 25 years of age, spent two years in" Poland and the Ukraine for the Joint Distribution Committee and the~ American Relief Administration. ' He gives a picture of conditions gleaned from his actual experiences in the horror regions. Lieut. Becker said in part: Several weeks ago Mr. H. G. Wells, in one of his articles, stated that more people would die this year than in any year during the. war. "Anyone who knows the situation in Eastern Europe realizes that that is only sad reality and not exaggeration." x I dislike very much to talk during times of campaign or at these conferences, because people seem to get the idea that one must exaggerate during theefe times, and I will assure you that it is an impossibility to exaggerate. If I could only convey to yotl 'conditions just one-tenth as bad as they actually are in Eastern Europe) I would be more than glad because I realize that if I could do this, all the money that we needed' and that we" need now would be forth-
sand Jewish war and pogrom orphans.- Of these, we hope eventually to have between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand at the most, only one-third, on the boooks of our committee, and that means these children have nothing between them and starvation except what we can provide for them. What Starvation Really Means. And when I say STARVATION, I don't use your language. I don't mean Hunger, and I don't mean Privation, and I don't mean Want, but I mean STARVATION!!! You have all come from a comfortable Sunday morning breakfast. I wonder how many of you would have felt as if some great hardship had been inflicted on you if you had been forced to eat a piece of horse meat. Do you know that sometimes for a week,— of ten-times for two weeks, and on one occasion for three weeks I had two meals a day coonsisting of one slice of horse meat. No bread, no batter, no potatoes, no vegetables —nothing but horse meat. I was with Mr. Hoover's organization and with the Joint Distribution Committee, with an American organization. I
Leading Young Business Man and Communal Worker Passes Away ^Wednesday. LOSS MOURNED BY THOUSANDS WHOM HE BEFRIENDED. The deep sense of loss which this c o m m u n i t y experienced yesterday in the news of the sudden death of Edward Simon is growing more poignant hourly. Stricken at. the fullness of manhood's powers, 'at the age of 35. Ed Simon leaves behind him a record* of communal and
Orphans Adopted at Rate of One a Minute by I. O.B.B. Members Pledges of $600 Follow Impassioned Relief Appeal by Harry Lapidus.
One Who Speaks From the Abyss thousand times as many cry out to the world for help.
LONDON, Jan. 11.—At the . cond annual conference of the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, the Very Rev. Joseph H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire; called attention to the "astonishing fact in the moral history of contemporary humanity that one of the blackest pages in the annals of man has just closed, and yet the world knows next to nothing of the unspeakable horrors and infinite crimes perpetrated against the Jewish people." Dr. Hertz declared that 1,000,000 human beings had been butchered and that for three ;ears 3,000,000 persons in the Ukraine had been made to ''pass through the horrors of hell," and that hardly a word of these facts had appeared in-the newspapers. The voice of the Jewish community, Dr. Hertz continued, had not been raised as it should have been, and it was humiliating to find the apathy and callousness with which certain secti:ns of Jewry had faced this disaster.
Active Career of Edward Simon Halted by Death
people who would give anything in the world to. receive a piece of horse meat. T » _ . .. Children Who Had Luxuries. Ladies, and gentlemen, I am not appealing for children who are children of lazy pepplf, ,who _are in tieir present condition through "no fa«lt of their own, -I. am appealing for children of people who occupy in their communities just the same positions that you ladies and gentlemen occupy in this and other communities. I am speaking for children who have had of ten not only the necessities of life but the luxuries of life and who over night have.found themselves in this terrible situation. and I.believe that it ought to be the privilege, not only the duty, of every right thinking person to. come to their assistance. . You ask again, "How can we use so much money?" Have you stopped to realjie that there are, outside of the present Russians, some 500,000 Jewish refugees? Do you lenoow.what it means on six hours, - or twelve hours notice, or never more . than twenty-four liours notice to be told (Continued on page 2)
EDWARD SIMON. CHAS. SHIMMEL, NEW MEMphilanthropic activities rarely BER, STARTS BALL I equalled by one so' ; ybu^jf. -RtJLLING. ! Thoughts of what this man It *ook jus£l'6jninutes to adopl 'might have" done tot "tHe of Europe's Jewish orphans at the further benefit of those Ifesft meeting of the B'nai B'rith lodge here fortunate than he, had he been Sunday afternoon. Sixty members of spared .to live his full three the order, many of whom had just score years and ten, but deepen been initiated, pledged $1600 to ap- the tragedy of his early deathi ply on the $2,500 quota of the lodge Friends and acquaintances without in the task undeitaken by the I. O. number mourn his loss. Countless B. B. of caring for 1,000 orphans widows and orphans whom he beduring the coming year. friended in the course of his active political and communal life, are A Complete Surprice. mourners today, unaware of their The pledging of this money came grief, for th'e' influence of his deeds as a complete surprise to officers of radiated into spheres far distance the lodge. The occasion was the an- from himself. * nual B'nai B'rith day of the lodge, at Fought for Mother's Pensions. which 57 new members were initiated. Appeals of whatever kind were to His most distinctive contribution tii have had no place on the program. the welfare of the people of thid The meeting was to have been given state, was his successful fight fot over entirely to the business of the the passage of the Mothers' Pension Law, while a member of the State lodge. Legislature during 1913-15. During However, in explaining to the new this term, too, he sponsored the members the philanthropic work of Women's Suffrage bill, and was a the international order of B'nai B'rith, Harry Lapidus, active worker (Continued on page 2) in the order, drew a vivid and compelling picture of the life of Jews in Central Europe, and urged his auditors to pledge liberally, to the coming relief appeal. Hardly had the applause subsided, before Chas. Shimmel, newly-initiated member, started CITY LAWYERS ASK IT BE SUPthe storm of pledges with the cry, PRESSED THERE. . "Why wait until we're asked? Let's ("The Clilcagro Tribune.") give now!", and made a substantial A document filed in' the Circuit pledge. Checks and cash totalling $500 were given to Harry Malashock, court by attorneys for the city of treasurer of the orphans fund, before Chicago, charges that Parley W* Johnson, local circulator of the Dearthe conclusion of the meeting. born Independent, has conspired With Henry Pord/E. J. Liebold, and W. THREE DEATHS concerned in the publicaIN COMMUNITY WITHIN I.tionCameron, of the magazine to engage in ONE WEEK propaganda against' the Jews which Three deaths occured within the "will prove disastrous" not only to community from last Thursday to this Wednesday. Harry Lincoln, Mrs. the Jews,-but to all citizens of the Jacob Spiesberger and Ed Simon United States.; The document, written by First passed away within the week. Assistant Corporation Counsel James Harry Lincoln, 83, son of Mr. and W. Breen, is ah answer to the bill for Mrs. H. Lincoln, 719 S. 35th Ave., s permanent injunction filed by John* died Sunday, following a brief illson to restrain Chief Fitzmorris from ness. Burial was held Tuesday. Mrs. Minnie Spiesberger, forty, prohibiting by police order the sale wife of Jacob Spiesberger, died Wed- of the magazine in Chicago. Must Not Generate Hatreds nesday evening, following an operation. Burial will be held from the "This propaganda will affect disasresidence, 5114 Underwood Ave., at trously and prejudiciously all citizens and residents of the United States 10:30 Friday morning. who enjoy civil liberty and who only Kovno, Dec 2.—(J. T. A.) A Jew- enjoy such liberties as long- as a spirit ish student of mathematics here has of toleration and mutual amity among; become insane following months of the people continues and rannot posclose study of Prof. Einstein's Theory sibly endue if religions hatreds, race, and group antagoism arc generated, of Relativity. become rife and assume the forms of The young student applied himself to this science by day and nig-ht un- public manifestations and demonstratil he finally realized he was unable tions," the document states. • to grasp the intricacies of the theory. A temporary injunction against the This is said by specialists to have city, obtained by attorneys for Johnson is now in foree. caused him to lose bis mind.
Ford's Weekly Menace to Chicago, Court is Told
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