- I t is the little things
The ^greatest -satis-
that separate • us from. s u c c e s s — n o t the big: ones.
VOt;iL—No. 28
faction in life is to do good work.—Hubbard.
Entered ma •aeood-duc- a*r-matter on •Taniwry 27th. 1821, at portofflc* at Omaha, Nebraric*. cadcr the Act ot March 8. 1879.
Committee to Raise Money Immediately for New Building Fifty-Thousand Dollars Pledged at Banquet for Morris Levy. MORRIS LEVY P L E D G E S $50,000 TO BUILD NEW COMMUNITY CENTER •Plans and preparations are being made to raise One Hundred'Thousand Dollars immediately to fill the remainder • of the fund for the new Jewish Community Center building. The executive committee of the organization' reports that the money will be raised immediately. Following the presentation of the pledge of Morris Levy for $50,000 for a new Community Center building, friends of Mr. Levy who attended the banquet given in his hon'or, prior to his going to Europe, ^raised an additional $50,000. . The announcement of the munificent gift, by many times over the largest single contribution ever made by a Jewish resident of this city, came as a complete surprise. It swept the gathering from, its feet. Men who had given the best that is in'them to the development of Jewish philantropy and social work in Omaha could hardly realize that the goal for which they had striven so long had been almost realized. Every man present pledged himself to labor unceasingly to secure the additional. $150,000, upon which the donation of Mr. Levy is contingent. Complete lists of donors and amounts will be published in next weeks issue of "The Jewish Press."
Prominent to Study Jewish Relief Commiwdon to Carry Out Plan for
^intelligent Help Districts. New York.—(Headed by Dr. Lee K: Frankel, third vice-president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, a commission of leading Jewish business men, scientists, bankers and social workers, left for Europe, Tuesday, on the Berangaria to study Jewish conditions in the war-stricken countries. The ''other members of the commission, appomted by Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Relief committee, are David A. Brown, of Detroit, who was national chairman of the recent war-reMef campaign, which raised $17,,000,000; Dr. Milton J. Rosenau, professor of preventive medicine at Harvard, David M. Bressler, ch&"r<v.an of the New Yotk city campaign that raised over $4,000,000;- Mr. Morris Wolf, prominent Philadelphia attorney, and Herbert H. Lehman, New York banker, chairman of the reconstruction committee of the joint distribution committee, who is already in Paris. The commission which was established at the "Victory Conference" of the American Jewish Belief committee at Detroit on April 9, will study at first hand the further need for palliative relief amon^ the 300,000 orphans and 400,000 refugees, and to -what extent the $50,000,000 . raised prior to the lart camiir.igii has started the Jews of Europe on the road to, rehabilitation, reconstruction .- ntl selfsupport. Reports from the joint distributing committee workers in-Europe indicate decided improvement in many sections of Europe, particularly Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Rumania, but ,bh the other hand there is extreme suiTering and a great need for palliative relief among 4,000,000 Jews in the Ukraine and Soviet Russia.
EASTERN PEOPLES PROTEST EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
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ONLY ADULTS'lHAY * . STUDY HEBREW Riga. (J. T. A.) Teaching of Hebrew will be permitted by the Jewish Commissariat in Prussian, provided no pupil under 18 is .admitted to the classes, semi-official Moscow advices state. , A campaign among Jewish workers soliciting donations for the Bed Army has been launched by the Jewish S e c tions, the avowed object of, the campaign being to "create a better feeling towards Jews," it is 'declared. Confirmation of reported conflicts between Bed Army soldiers and small Jewish traders is contained in a recent issue of the Communist "Emess."
Omaha Hebrew Club to Bold Celebration Sunday July Second Club Organized in Omaha Thirty Tears Ago Will Celebrate at a Public Picnic
LARGE PROGRAM ALREADY ARRANGED FOR THIS OCCASION. Plans for the public basket picnic, given by the Omaha Hebrey club, in celebration of its - thirtieth anniversary, are well under way, according to the committees in charge of the affair. The picnic will be held Sunday, July 2, at the Peony Park, Seventyeighth and West Dodge road. The committee reports that persons going to the park should leave the street car at Forty-ninth and.Dodge streets and will then be taken to the picnic grounds in busses. Busses will be there the entire day. The feature affair of the day's celebration will be the. popular girls' voting contest, with the prize being a *ound-trp to'eitherEstes Park, Colo., or Chicago. The girls who have entered in the conte*t to date are the Misses Anna Blank, Reva Gilingky "of Council Bluffs, Bertha Berger^Mamii Adler and Rose Fine. The committee reports that.anotfigr prize^will be given to the person that sells .the most tickets for admission to the picnic with the. minimum'being 200 tickets. The winner in tills contest will be awarded .a round-trip ticket to California. During the afternoon, a large musical program will be given. The evening will be spent inrdancing.with prizes to be given to the beBt lady and'gentleman dancer. The Omaha Hebrew club was organized thirty years ago with but twenty? five members and now has a membership roll of over six hundred. The club provides death and sick benefits for its members, and prior to the organizing of the Jewish Welfare Federation it handled many of the charity cases.
Joint Committee Gives S 8 M 0 0 for Latvia How the Jewish population of Latvia, which before the war totalled approximately 157,500, has been reduced by over one-third-is revested in: reports from the. Joint Distribution Committee's representatives in that country, on the basis of which that body has just allocated an additional sum of $80,000 further to stimulate the splendid efforts which-are being made by the survivors' return to a self-sustaining basis. The Jews of Latvia were among the first in all Europe upon whom the war visited its horrors. Hardly had the first great- German offensive against' Russia been launched, when by Czaristic ukase they were expelled from the three provinces of Lifland, Courland and LetgaUen,* which; were directly in the path of the devastating legions led by Hindenberg and Mackensen. -•••-. '; Previous expenditures by the Joint Distribution Committee for relief and reconstruction in Latvia have amounted, to 16,000,000 Lettish rubles. Of this sum 3,000,000 rubles, were paid over to various loan organizations; 2,700,000 rubles went for immediate relief, 1,700,000 rubles - for orphancare. Other large sums were spent for medical aid and sanitation. Of the $90,000 just allocated, $60,000 will go to the credit-loan organization of Latvia and $20,000 for the trade schools in Dwinsk and Riga.
Rome. (J. T .A.) Delegates; to the "Oriental Congress" representing a number of Eastern races, holding their sessions in camera, protested against the-occupation of territories in any form by any of the European powers. The protest is understood to be directed against Great Britain and France to whom territories of the former Turkish Empire have been entrusted under Mandates, although no special reference was made to either Palestine or Syria. The Congress on the whole attractT h e Jewish Press" Is~ the Comed little1 attention, doe probably- to the munity paper. , -, . , fqct that its sessions were executive.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22;:19?2.
The Inside Story of Henry Ford's Jew Mania
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50. JEWS HAVE OWN SCHOOLS IN WILNA
Move Made to Cut Immigration Quota by Third of Total
Wilna. (J. T. A.) Enrollment of Jewish pupils in the elementary, second and university classes in the Wilna district totalled 5,700, in March, the total attendance in all schools and Congress Committee Receives colleges numbering 23,919. ON THE TRAIL OF THE SLEUTHS. Proposal to Reduce Number There are 4,030 pupils in 32 Jewish From 3 to 2 Per Cent. By NORMAN HAPGOOD. elementary schools, 1,027 in five Jew(Reprinted by special permission from Hearst's International.) ish gymnasia, 393 among the 696 stu- S I E G E L TO LEAD FIGHT dents in the two Russian gymnasia, AGAINST NEW MEASURE besides 250 students in one Jewish professional school. Washington.—<J. C. B.) A big surLast month we told some of the men proceeded to tell me a fact. I do was lapping up refuse from e* Others in attendance in the Wflna prise in the form of a totally unex- most important facts about Ford's per- not suppose he -realized that it was where, using any tale by any crank, v secution of the Jews. We showed now scale "news." He has not a newspa- writing letters b y invitation to any schools are Poles, White Russians, pected and dangerous move against immigration was sprung when at the closely connected it was with* the per- per mi^j|< I hsfe. So when I heard half-wit who happened to breV. into Lithuanians and Russians. meeting of the House immigration •* secution of the Jews carried on in this statement, the new s centers in the papers with, an antirjewish speech. committee it was proposed by anti- * this country by those Russians who my brain began to jump. But the elaborate organization was immigrationist members to reduce are attempting to get a Romanoff undreamed of~by.me, until the proof Paid Agents. ^rom 3 to 2 per cent the number <*f • v back on the throne. We described in was put into my hands. "I have seen," said Mr. A., "the immigrants, admissible according to a general way how the Ford investiTo the philosophic mind, the whole nationality, .under the present immi- Jgators functioned like a 'detective documentary proof that Boris Brasol evil was dramatized when the name of has received money from Henry Ford." gration law recently extended to June agency, they being headed by a broth"What!" I exclaimed. "Are you Ford and" the name of Brasol were 30, 1921. . I er of Josephus Daniels. -The workbrought together. But for the public, Former Des Moines Boy Made Perilings of that organization are more quite sure of that?^ If adopted, this would mean that *" No need for any of us to explain for the untrained mind, the investigas ous Rescue in Glacier Park. fully told in the present article. over 115,000 immigrants would be cut V what that short, statement meant po- tors were * a' godsend. It dramatized i off from admission. In other -words, Since knowing I was to tell an in- litically, although I was the only one the tale. KEPT AWARD A SECRET FROM one-third ofHhe total of approximate- ; side story of Mr. Ford's doings against who fully knew what it meant journalLast month we stopped after makRELATIVES AND FRIENDS. ly 350,000 admissible und»r the pres- * the Jews, a number of persons have istically. ing you acquainted with Mr. Daniels, ent quota scheme during the entire •? asked how I got the material. Politically it meant that history was Des Moines, la.—Herbert Friedlich, year would be barred. It is an easy question ,and I have no repeating itself. • As Brasol was chief head of the group, and brother of Josephus. This month it becomes our former Des Moines boy, son of the late This move was in the form of a .; secrets. in this country of the expatriate Rus- duty to introduce the pseudo-detect- A. Friedlich and nephew of L Friedproposed amendement to be embodied : The time is late December, 1921. sians trying to pat the Romanoffs ives, by their, code numbers, and show lich, has recently been awarded the in the ship subsidy bill now under dis- ; The scene opens in a private dining- back on the throne, it meant that you something of wh^t they thought Carnegie hero medal for unusual cussion by the immigration committee room in a New York club. In the Ford's persecution had, with the logic they were accomplishing. bravery, according to -word which has in connection with the provisions . room are four persons, eating to- of events, Joined with that crusade, just reached relatives here. therein contained that 50 per. cent oif ^ gether. Hired Detectives. centuries old, that the despots of EuThe act for which Friedlich was all immigrants should be carried on One is a distinguished American rope stirred up repeatedly, in order to The affair was operated in New recognized was the rescue of a young American ships. novelist, traveler, and commentator. inflame, for their own purposes, the York at 20 Broad treet, presumably The reason advanced by the advoOne is a Russian, let us call him ignorant religious passions of the dark in the very citadel of international man from a 700-foot cliff upon which he was hanging, exhausted and terri- cates of cutting the percentage from Mr. M., who occupied one of the high- masses. Jewish bankers, and the chief wag Mr. fied, in Glacier National park. It re3 to 2 per cent was that if Congreas • est positions in the Russian governJournalistically, it meant much. C. C. Daniels, an excellent Southern quired more than two hours for the passed the American ship proviso, the . ment, under Prince Lyov, that fol- "Well," I said, "if Ford money has gentleman, but about Jews quite awry Des Moines boy to reach the perilous American steamship companies would ; lowed the overthrow of the Tsar. found its way to* Brasol, I think we in the head. So much, secrecy was con- spot where he could make the rescue. use their influence in Congress to seThe third, whom we may call Mr. shall give Mr. Ford something to nidered necessary," that a set of secret It took the same time to land the help- cure more liberal laws and otherwise ]' A., was at the head of the Constitu- think about. Perhaps w« shall edu- numbers existed in Mr. Daniels' office, less young man upon safe ground. endeavor to stimulate freer immigra- • tional Government at Omsk, until he cate him." designating different individuals. Here Friedlich, who is extremely modest, tion. If, however," the percentage > was overthrown by the militarists and - The Russians,, of course, did not is the list: told no one of his act. Eye witnesses were cut, it would discourage the com- | aristocrats who had appointed Kolknow what I meant, in terms x>f jourreported it to the Carnegie officials. panies from making such attempts. chak dictator; those who enlisted the 120 X C. C. Daniels.^ nalism, but they understood in terms Neither did Herbert tell friends or The real purpose is plain, however: •; support of our government, and .Other 121 X E. 6. Liebold. of human History! Having seen and relatives. And, although the medal Immigration opponents are merely : governments, for that would-be dic122 X -W..J. Cameron. suffered from the dark methods of was presented to him some time ago, utilizing this argument as a pretext tator; 123X F, Hunter Creech. the Tsar, they understood. Natives h e * Warned of "it taipugh for striking a serious blow against > ; 124X Charles "Tf}e fourth is myself,. acting as Well, I started to get that simple an announcement of the aw&rdiafede even the present restrictive law in 125X Wanda Kazfu document, i f I coflfeL. I wanted, merefrom the headquarters of the Carnegie •order to hurt still farther - the'- pro50 D • Braaae'Mf EBiugnHp The conversation naturally enough ly, the receipt for an amount, howfund. spective immigrant. It is understood falll on Henry Ford and his latest ever small that once belonged to Henry 51 D Henry?- J. Q'NiiH. •'rlfriedliohispent most of his boyhood .that Chairman Johnson is a leading vagary. ~. 52 D Henry*. A. Forster. "Ford and came to belong to Boris Brahere. He was graduated from West advocate of the proposed reduction. , 53.D ,John S.,Wise., Jr. "What is the matter with him?" sol. I cared not if it was only a dollar. High school, and went from here to Congressman Siegel, member of j 54 D "C. H. Martin. asks one of the Russians. But I wanted the proof. Harvard law school, where he was an committee, who was present" at the », 55 D P. E. TuthflL I undertake to reply. "He is a great honor student. Began Investigation. meeting, stated that the situation is I 101 A A. M..Jungmta. manufacturer," I explain; "probably, He is now practicing law in Chi- serious and that a strong effort would | I startedan investigation in the 102 A Sam.Smith; the greatest manufacturer who ever probably be made to carry through | 102 AB Operative -under Sam Smith. cago. lived. But he is not only ignorant of town where, according to Mr. A., the the proposed reduction. When an- | 103 A Dr. -Houghton. the world and of history, he is proud documentary proof existed. Then riouncement of this proposal was J 104 A Prof. A. L.. IJrothingham. of this ignorance. He is boastful of there happened what often happens in made, Representative Siegel declared it. Having been a great money-maker, serious investigations. We go after 105 A Henry A- Wise Wood. he and others interested in a just he has been flattered and spoiled un- one thing and we find a nest of other 25 H Albert Baffinof. treatment of immigration would fight S til he has decided he can understand things. 26 H J. F. Lannigan. the move to the last ditch. Further J everything without knowing anything. 27 H Miss Shugroe. I started after my little piece of 28 H Miss-Murray. "Joint" and American Jewish Com- discussing the situation, Mr. Siegel J "This vanity makes it easy to *pull writing that would make the connecstated that the move was the greatest '« mittee to Be Asked to Aid 2» H Miss' De Bogory. his leg,' as we say in choice American. tion between Ford's anti-Semitic ragsurprise to him personally, as he ) Project. ing and the Tsarist anti-Semitic rag30 H . L. C Burton. • One Jewess pulled his aforesaid leg thought that the recent extention of for a large sum, on a moonshine er- ing, and I ran into a whole picture— Presumably a few friends of the rand, and this feat is supposed to have a tale that was farce in its form, Chicago.—(J. T. A.) An organiza- the 3 per cent quota law for two ",• Ford Course in .general were unwittragic in its deeper meaning. helped his mind give way on the Jewtion to be known as the Mexican Jew- years had ended the immigration fight Jj tingly "numbered7? by the chief invesish issue. It was his first persecuish Colonization Association has been in Congress, at least until the next I People who heard that I wanted intigators so that they could be referred j tion complex. He is, at heart, all formation on the subject brought me launched here following the publica- session. right, and if he had had any educa- things I had not dreamed of. All I to with secrecy like- real professional tion of President Obregon's letter to tion he would not have fallen into a had to do was to distinguish between detectives. Not' every person on this Paul W. Rothenberg, offering facilipersecution /mania, that all over; Eq- the genuine -and the forgeries, and I list was a Jew-baiting would-be de- ties for the settlement of east Euro- RUTENBERG SCHEME EXCITES ENGLAND. rope is always associated with reac- had had some experience in handling tective. .Indeed the very putting of pean Jews in Mexico. some of them' ori_ the list at all ife as London. (J. C.B.) Pinhas Rutention." such material without being fooled. The new association it is learned farcial as the Whole Ford Crusade. berg, author, of the Palestine electrifi' Such was the way the facts about "Always," said Mr. M. • « For example, Professor FrotMngham. will be a closed corporation, without cation and irrigation scheme, now in organization of investigators came "Always," said Mr. A. stock, and is to be incorporated under New York to raise the capital required Then one of these Russian states- into my hands. I knew Ford's paper (Continued in; next week's issue.) the laws of the State of Illinois. for his project, is attracting wide noLeading in this movement are tice here, the press devoting columns Judge Joseph Shulman, Paul Rothento descriptions of. the project, his perZIONIST RESOLUTION LOCAL ARTIST TO DIRECT MAZOTH DISTRIBUTED INDISberg and Assistant District Attorney sonality, and biography. UP BY JUNE 10 CRIMINATELY. Y CLASS. Rittman. A group of five Chicago Following the /'Daily Mail's" attack Washington. (Ji C. B.) Following ., Members of the YM and YWHA Riga. (J. T. A.) Ma^zoth and other Jews, including Philip Ginsburg, pubPassover foods arriving in the towns are fortunate in securing the services the meeting ;of the House Rules Com- lisher of the "Jewish Courier," will on Rutenberg, the "Daily News," libof Kiev, Zhitomir and Borditschew of Mr. Irving Benolken to act as mittee, ehainniur Campbell informed leave for Mexico within a week. They eral, has published a leading article after passover were given over *"for director of the newly organized art your correspondent that it would be will be accompanied by agricultural, defending his .right to purchase goods Mr. impossible to- suspend the 'rule's to geological and industrial experts. Af- anywhere if the prices are lower than distribution from the general kitchens, class of the Association. non-Jews as well as Jews sharing in Bemolken has established an enviable permit the. Ham|ltbn:Fish resolution ter looking over the ground, it is in England. The campaign against the bounty. Originally destined by a reputation among the younger artists to come up, for a vote in the House planned to complete the arrangements Rutenberg, it says, is conducted by a Jewish Relief Committee inJParis for in this section of the country, and is either this/weei or,'next, the program with the Mexican government. Jew- few sensational newspapers, but has distribution among Jews exclusively, especially skilled in the use of oils. of legisjation_belrig too crowded to ish organizations, notably the Joint no foundation in fact. The paper furthe French Red Cross which forward- Following his graduation from permit any-disarrangement. Repre- Distribution. Committee and Ameri- ther declares that the contract with *° *« can Jewish Committee, it is said, will Germa nfijms provided for the pured the shipment decided after consult- Central-High School, he attended the sentative'£]|SiQjjl^i;tap^^ thoroughly.familiar with the favoraation with Dr. Nansen's representa- Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts be asked to lend their aid to the chase of 9,000 pounds worth of machinery and the explanation made on tive and Jewish relief workers, on the in Philadelphia for three years. This ble to the ffionjst Resolution, saying, Association. behalf of Rutenberg in the "Times" "I will.takj'«are'of it at the very spot, that discrimination in food dis- is the oldest established art school The Association's mission to Mex- makes an altogether satisfactory imearliest opportunity.'", tribution is "inadmissible" under any in America. ico, it is understood, will be conducted pression. ;:T It is learned from' other sources circumstances." " Mr. Benolken's work with his class by Senator Schlaimer of Arizona, a Several interpellations are expected that it is practically certain that the during the summer will consist of resolution .will comeup not later than friend of President Obregon's. in Parliament shortly, concerning the nature sketching in Omaha's beauti- June 10. Many well known Chicago Jews are terms tinder which the concessions has HARDING WELCOMES ,- • — evincing great interest in the project, been granted to Rutenberg. Meanful parks and in the surrounding BALTHAZAR woods. persons close to the initiators say, time, financiaers and business men COMMONS TO DEBATE Washington." (J. Cv B.)^Bishop Julius Rosenwald, millionaire philan- are evincing an unusual interest in the v .' PALESTINE MANDATE Peciderius Balthazar, clerical resident thropist, is believed to be interested project. London. . ( J . / C . B . ) . Sir Herbert of the Reform Church of Hungary, "JOINT" DECREASES but awaiting the outcome of the procalled on President Harding, convey. ITS ORPHAN AID Samuel's statement before members ceedings at Mexico City. FEWER JEWS ADMITTED ing the respects of the Hungarians Wilna. (J. P. A.) Herr Kleppisch, of both House* of Parliament, letting Fifteen thousand dollars for initial TO CANADA to the! Chief Extcutive. representative of the American forth in detail] the present position in expenses of the mission will be raised, . Toronto. (J. T. A.) Of the 11,585 Bishop Balthazar, it will be recalled, "Joint," has arrived here and demand- Palestine, although cordially rebeived, it is expected, at the meeting of the immigrants entering Canada through had considerable difficulty in obtain- ed that the local orphans' committee has not met criticism of. Zionism, in ing a passport, the Budapest authori- decrease its expenditures. The com- the opinion of the Daily Mail, one of newly-formed Mexican : Jewish Colo- Qujtbec during the last few weeks, ties having attempted to prevent his mittee has since held several sittings Lord Northcliffe's papers. Thi Daily nization Association on Thursday eve- only 263 were Jews, figures just published show. » This number represents visit to the United States because of and, forced to obey orders, has ceased Mail hears that i t . i s intended to ask ning. his repeated defense of the Jews and the usual doles to about twenty or- for a debafe in the Hous^ on .the terms a great decrease compared with the denunciations of the Awakening Mag- phans. Henceforth this committee of the _Mand_§te and the Zionist sitRenew your subscription to T h e same period last year, when 1,165 yars. Jews were admitted. ._>—— will give aid only to 150 orphans. uation. Press"
Here is the secohd article in a series that tells the dramatic and comic story of a rich man's phobia and by which we hope to do something to establish the principles of American freedom.
Herbert Friedlich Awarded Carnegie MedalforHeroism
Chicago Jews Act on Obregon's Offer