February 26, 1925

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Snobbery is -the pride of those.who are not sure of their position. — Berton Braley.

VOL. IV—No. 12

I never make tHe mistake of arguing with p e o p l e for whose opinion I hare no respect.—-Gibbon.

Entered aa second « ^ ^'ill-matter oa Jannary 27th. 1821. at postoIHee at Omaha, £ . ska. under the Act of March S. IK79.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1925

_..iBNMENT OFFERS HELP TO STRANDED Home Secretary o! FRENCH; JEWISH REFUGEES Annual Meeting o! Jewish Community Center England Will Not Wednesday Evening, March 11, Brandeis Grill Admit Immigrants On account of the large attendance expected at the animal meeting; and the tremendous

Only 600 Are in Question, Yet He Remains Irreconciliable. ISSUE LEADS TO DEBATE HOUSE

Paris. (J. T. A.) The French Government will lend, its assistance to the Committee for ihe Belief of Jewish Intellectuals, according to a communication addressed by the French Ministry for Public Works to Baron Alfred Guenzbourg, the president of the Committee. The Ministry has offered to place at the disposal of the Committee several buildings for the purpose of opening shops where the women can* obtain work: The Ministry stated that many positions for stranded Jewish physicians are opened in French Congo.

interest being shown by the 1100 subscribers and members of the Jewish Community Center, arrangements have been made to hold the annual meeting at the Brandeis Grill instead of the present Jewish Community Center quarters. Every subscriber and every man and woman should make it their business to attend this meeting which is of extraordinary importance to each and every Jew in Omaha. Election of a x Trustees and twelve Board Directors Trill be held at this meeting. The officers for the ensuing term wfll be selected by the newly elected trustees. The following letter was sent to all subscribers:

SUBSRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2,50 JEWISH ARTISAN SCHOOL IN BEEST-LITQWSK J. D. C FOUNDATION BURNED DOWN Warsaw. (J. T. A.) The Jewish Artisan School, a two-story building erected by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, was totally destroyed by fire. The school, which was the pride of the Jewish communities in that region, had 120 pupils, the majority of whom were orphans. All that was saved was the tools. The loss is estimated at $25,000. The cause of the fire is not known. However, a sensation was caused by the fact that immediately after the fire broke out, Baleslaw Gerelinski, & Polish machinist, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor.

^ Pupils of ity Talmud-Tarah City Sunday School Children to Present " The Dream of Purim" WILL BE HELD AT BRANIrEIS THEATER MARCH 15

'The Dream of Purim," st playlet London. (J. T. A.)—The question in English, will be presented by the of the refugees stranded in English In accordance with Article VI of l i e Articles of Incorporation, hereinafter «juoted, City Sundr-y school pupils Sunday ports "was raised durig the lengthy we are presenting herewith the names of six nominees as follows: evening, March 15, at the Brandeis debate in the House of CommonB, in HENRY MONSKY, WILLIAM HOLZMAN and HARRY H. LAPIDUS, theater. Two other plays will be givconnection /with the motion of Major (now serving, and •whose terms expire); • •••";• en by the members of the City TalYerborgh, Conservative M. P^ to cohHARRY MALASHOCK, JOE L. WOLF and J. J. SLOSBURG, mud Torsi. There will be more than tinne the regulations giving full auone hundred cMldren acting th« parts (now members of the Board of Directors). v : thority to the Home Secretary to exthat made history interesting during ercise control. over the immigration Notice is hereby given that at this meeting, there will be elected twelve (12) direcBureau Gives Statistics of Emigration the reigm of Queen Esther and her o± aliens into Great Britain. tors, to fill vacancies, caused by expiration of terms, in the Board of Directors. * Fond of $50,000 Used by Elaasmen io and Immigration for Last uncle, Mordecai. ARTICLE VL—-"MANNER OP ELECTION. The Board of Trustees shall, thirty Daring the debate Ehys Dayies, asSpread Propaganda in Canada Because of the large number of Six Months. days in advance of the-said annual meeting, mail to the membership, the names of sistant home secretary in the Labor chfldren taking part and the expected those nominated by the Board of Election, arid the name of any 'Building Fund Member* Toronto," (J. T. A.) Applications cabinet, raised the question of the im- Washington. ( J . T . A.) Of a total attendance of the members of the shall be added to the list of nominees, if at least fifteen days prior to the said annual for a charter to form two fraternal migrants stranded in Southampton of 28,098 immigrants to the United community, it was necessary to obtain meeting, petition for such members* nomination by the holders of ten percent of'the organizations to be known as "The an<J urged that it should be made im- States during the. month of Decemthe Brandeis theater. total outstanding voting units, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board. The Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku possible in future for steamship com- ber, 1924,1,151 were Jewish. For the full list of nominees so constituted shall be presented to the entire number of voting Klux Klan cf the Dominion of Can- The plays will be presented in Yidpanies to exploit the immigrants, "put. period July to December, 1924, of a units represented by his certificate, for each of three nominees. Those receiving a ada," and "Canadian Knights of the dish, English and Hebrew. Special ting them into ports where they re- total of 147i737, 4,975 were Jewish. majority of voting units cast shall be elected. The certificate shall represent as many Midnight Sun of the Dominion of music will be used for this occasion. stxanded. There were 12 Jewish emigrants durvoting units as the amount contributed and evidenced thereby, is divisable by $25.00." Canada," were made by J. R. Code, The production is in charge of Mr. E. Sir Joynson-Hicks, home secretary, ing December and 167 dnring the pea local barrister on behalf of two Bloeh, principal of the Talmud Torah, in *ep.y to this remark, stated that riod of July to December. The total We urge that all those who have made any other arrangements for the evening of March applicants, C. Raymond Lawranson, and Mr, H, Wohl, The production before he or Mr. Ehys Davies assum- emigration for ^December was-14,288 11 to please change their plans and attend this meeting. engineer, and Carlton B. McGowan, has been approved by Kabbi Charlop ed office there "were -already 900 and for July to December 57,631, acWILLIAM L. HOLZMAN, President. and members of the Board of Educaan operator. alienr stranded in Southampton be- cording to figures'published by the tion of the City Talmud Torah. HARRY H. LAPIDUS, Secretary. According to a report published cause they -were prevented from en- bureau^ of immigration, United States "The boys and girls taking part in here, Honorable Lincoln Goldy, Secretering America. Some have, in the Department of' Labor. the different plays are rehearsing tary of the Interior of the provincial meantime, proceeded to America and "-Six; hundred and-eighty-seven of a Y TO ELECT OFFICERS government, refused to grant a char- daily and are anxious to present to about 600 still remain. "Under no total of 13,024 debarred from entry to Members of the Y. M. and Y.. W. ter to the Eu Klux Klan and it is the members of the community sometircomstances Trill I allow these ftn- "the United States were Jewish. One H. A. will hold: their joint meeting likely that the city registry will also thing of their 'own," something that migrants to become absorbed in our hundred and fifty-<four of the 4,448 Monday evening' at the Jewish Comwill take the audience back to the refuse. population. .The shipping company is deported were Jewish. _••••:" munity Center. Election of officers Proceeds to Go Toward Adopting Antimes of Queen Esther and King ARCIt was stated, however, that the responsible for cringing them here Th? to]£al increase of the Jewish Chosen to Represent California i n for the ensuing yeaT will take place. evarus," said Rabbi Charlop. other Palestine Orphan. Husband's Place. Ku KJux Klan activities in Canada and must keep them at its expense? population ia.4ieVOnitedStates durAccording to rumors now being cirhave grown in recent months to such Tickets for this production are on the home secretary stated. ing the six months ending December The Omaha Unit of the Junior Ha- proportions that & fund of $50,000 is sale now and can be purchased from San Francisco.—Mrs. Florence Prag culated, this' meeting will be one of Major Yerburgh, moving his resolu- 31, 1924, was 5,835, being the number Kahn has been elected to the. congress the most interesting ever held by the dassah wfll hold a spring dance Sun- in posstssion of the Klansaaen for the members of the City Talmud Torah tiop;-made-charges against the im- of immigrants and -non-immigrant en- to represent California in the seat left Y. Every member of the Y is asked day evening, March 29, at the Fon- purpose of carrying' on their propa- or the Sunday school. Announcements migrant population in Great Britain, trants over'the.'rnozpber who left the vacant, by the death of her husband, to attend this meeting. tenelle Hotel. nds in Canada. In several places of reserved seats Bale will eoon be " stating-- that tms cut .of., vary. «»rsty- country. ; The proceeds will go towards Julius Kahn. ..... ..,:„ . -•..--_-.-- . ' . . . • • . -.. meetings have been called, at which made and 'will appear in the next 5 tdght aliens is a;: convicted xzimrnal, ing a second orphan in Paiesfins; The applicatioii Kanks reading-as folkws issue -of Thm Jewish Press, • •., California's newest xongresswoman •which is a percentage two and onechapter sends ?H0 to Palestine -each •were- -distributed: "Believing in the is the second that has represented the V third higher than the proportion year for the maintenance of their principles announced below, and wishstate, the first being Mrs. May Nolen, among the Test of the population. first orphan. who was chosen to succeed her husing to affiliate myself with real The Auflebung Club and Jewish *L6rd Bothschfld, who recently apband, who died before his term was Culture League wfll jointly present "We must raise money in order to Patriots of like faith and convictions, give shelter and food to another child I hereby request full information repeared with the Jewish delegation be- During the month of March Rabbi ended. fore the home secretary, stated that Frederick Cohn win speak before a Mrs. Kahn ran as an independent, the play "Broken Hearts" at the left homeless from the War," said garding the Patriotic Order -whose Plans are being completed for the the Jewish community has the inter- number of organizations. On Wednes- as did all the candidates at the special Swedish Auditorium Sunday evening, Miss Betty Fine, president of the lo- fundamental principles are named twenty-eighth anniversary dance to be cal chapter. est-of ihe country at heart and 1 make day evening, March 4, he will address election. Normally she will concede March'l. "Broken Hearts" is a four act A number of prominent Omahans below and also request an interview. given by the Omaha Hebrew Camp this motion in the interests of the the Omaha Men's School Teachers' allegiance to. lie Bepubliean party. "Protestantism, White Supremacy, of the Modern Woodmen of America drama -taking place in New York and wfll be patrons and patronesses at the country," Major Yerbtirgh stated. Clnb at the Elks Club on /"Broken Her husband was nominated at the shows Jewish life in America. Gentile Economic Freedom, Just on Sunday evening, March £2, at the dance. John Scurr, Socialist member from Uaws" and on Monday evening, last election by both Republicans and Mr. Joe Morgenstern, dramatic di- Miss Ann Greenberg is chairman Laws and Liberty, Pure Patriotism, Some Hotel ballroom. Stepney, introduced an amendment March 9, he win talk to the Profes- Democrats. He :was 8 member of Separation of Church, and State, that the regulations concerning the sional Men's Club at the Fontenelle every congress since the Fifty-fifth, rector of the Jewish Culture League, of the ticket selling committee. She Freedom of Speech and Press, Re- "We will duly celebrate our anniersary at this dance by nove lenterand Mr. Ben Martin, of the Auflebung is being assisted by the Misses Beulah ' entry of aliens to Great Britain be Hotel on /The Mind in the Making." except the Fifty-eighth. strictive and Selective Immigration, tainment," said Mr. John Feldman, Club, will take leads in the play. Mittleman, Ida Greenberg, Toby Steinhumanized in accordance with Bri^sb Mrs. Kahn is a •woman of motherly Others to appear in the play will be Law and Order, Higher Moral Stan- who is a member of the committee in traditions. "The East End Jews have PROF. M. ZELOFSKY appearance, a good housekeeper, her the Misses Freeda Rosenblum, Sarah berg and Rose Fine. dard in Our Public Schools, Frtedom charge of the dance. brought new industries into the counfriends say, and, while she is known Taub, Edith Lewis, Mary Katz, ElizTO SPEAK HERE from Mob Violence." try and have greatly benefited the SATURDAY EVENING to the civic and club life of San Fran- abeth Kate, Eva Auerbach, Doris PROFESSOR CUZA Reports from Montreal state that country. They are as good citizens as RESPONSIBLE FOR ANTIcisco, her primary interests have lain Martin, and Messrs. Nathan Woolfa branch of the Ku Klux Klan is be- HEBREW TECHNICUM AT any Englishman, Scotchman, IrishSEMITIC DISTURBANCES ing established in that city, but it On Saturday evening, March 1, Pro- more with her home and family than son, Max Baumer, and L. Taub. HAIFA OPENED WITH man or Welshman," he stated. Jassay. (J. T. A.). Professor Cusa, •wfll work as an American organizaf essor M. Zelof sky, of New York City, in endeavors of a civic or public naIMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES the father of the anti-Semitic movewill lecture at the, Labor Lyceum at ture. Haifa, (J. T. A.) With impressive Harry Snell, Laborite, contended not interfering -with Canadian FORMER OMAHAN DIED IN ment in Roumania and president of tion, ceremonies, in which Sir Alfred Mond, that the alien questicnfls exaggerated Twenty-second. and .Clark streets on affairs. PALESTINE JANUARY 25 the Christian Students' Organization, Dr. Arthur Euppin, M. M. UssishMn, and does not grealy affect unemploy- "A Mother's Care to Her Children." WARSAW JEW MURDERED Mr. A. Woolfson, of Tel Aviv, Palis responsible for the anti-Semitic disProfessor Zelof sky. is coming here Mr. Dizengof, Mayor of Tel Aviv; ment and has no • direct bearing on LUDENDOEFF RESIGNS BECAUSE HE WORKED estine, recently of Omaha, died Jan- turbances which have occurred at the Governor Pymes and others particiihe employment situation in the coun- under the auspices of the Ladies' LaLEADERSHIP OF ANTION CATHOLIC HOLIDAY uary 25, at Tel Aviv. Mr. Woolfson, University of Jassay. This was the pated, the Hebrew Technieum opened bry. "Many of the immigrants have bor Lyceum club. The public is inSEMITIC PARTY, WILL BE Warsaw. (J. T. A.) Candlemas together with his wife and daughter, decision eached by the disciplinary Sed from despotic governments. Re- vited to attend. SUCCEEDED BY HITLER here February 9. Day, the feast of the Purification of Toby, left Omaha on July 25. commission which has been investimember that Englishmen live in other Berlin, (J. T. A.)—General Luden- Messages were received from Sir the Blessed Virgin, the first Catholic Besides his -wife and daughter, gating the anti-Jewish disturbances dorff, German war lord and leader of Herbert Samuel, Sir Gilbert Clayton, ANTI-ALIEN FEELINGS " foreign countries." Church Holiday which was legally unToby, Mr. Woolfson is survived by a of Jassy University in its reports just the anti-Semitic National Socialistic I Governor Storrs, the American ColRISE IN LONDON PRESS Sir Joynson-Hicks, during the deobserved in Poland, in accordance son, L. Woolfson, who was at Ms concluded. . London, (J. T. Al)—Last night's bate, stated that his concern,was the Party in the post-war period, declared lege in Beirut, I>r. Chaim Weizmann, with an order issued by the president welfare of the country and not the debate in the House of Commons on of the Polish Republic, proved to%e bedside when he died, and by seven The report of the commission also today officially that he resigned as Col. Kisch, Achad Ha'atn, the Jewish daughters, Mrs. D. Fankel, of Omaha; states that it was, as found, due to leader of the party in order that N-'-'mal *> -ual in Poland and other aliens. Years ago he was pround that the alien restrictions in Great a fatal day for Polish Jewry. Mrs. W. Solomonow, of Nashville, Professor Cuza's iicitement of the Britain, found echo in the London England was a place of refuge for Aaron Schischuszczupok, a Jewish Nebr., Mrs. S. Meyerson, Mrs. I. Fo- students that the Jassy Chief-of-Po- peace -within the party ranks might organizations. press today.;—— the politically persecuted, but now, be maintained. In the address delivered at the worker in a slaughter house, was when there are a million unemployed : The Evening News published an murdered in Harifrm fashion because nai-ow, and Mrs. H. Fried, of Council lice, M. Manicu, was murdered by one opening, Sir Alfred Mond expressed Adolph Hitler, Ludendorffs ashe cannot permit immigration "I can- editorial strongly attacking the im- he worked on the Catholic holiday. Bluffs; Mrs. B. J. Gershon, of Schuy- of the st. Vits because he took steps sociate in the Bavarian Revolution, is surprise that the Technieum had not not deport those who are already here. migrant population, stating that the Attacks on a large scale occurred in ler, Nebr.; and Mrs. M. Levitt, of to suppr •- the disturbances. gaining a great number of followers received subsidies from the Palestine Professor Cuza has sent a memo- in the party. That would be cruel. But I am ready immigrants "do not flee from political ihe city of Lodz, where the following Lithuania, Europe. 1 Government. randum to the Commission, in which to repeat my phrase, 'Give the coun- oppression, but seek a fatter living in were wounded: Bresler Harmitz, a GERMAN ANTI-SEMITIC he alleges that its report is dictated try the benefit of the doubt, not the this country a t the expense of our storekeeper; Israel Neuman, Moritz PROPAGANDA CAUSES by personal hostility and political anialiens.' I am not ashamed of what countrymen../Right of.asylum," the Greenbaum, Mendel Friedman, Isaac PROSELYTE MOVEMENT I have said or what I have done," the paper says, "cannot be granted while WroblewsH, Jacob Horowitz, Abra- Berlin. (J. T. A.) The extremely mus on the part of the professors of the Left Wing on account of his Naone million are --unemployed. This home secretary stated. ham Wisniewski, Ocher Weizmann, strong anti-Semitic propaganda of tionalist p '-jotic activity. He admits would be a lunatic asylum." At the end of the debate, which Eaeine, Wis. (J. T. A.) The local into the lake to help with the rescue The debate in the House "of Com- Mrs. Guterman, a pregnant woman; hatred and prejudice developed that he is che President of the Chris- press carries a tragic story in which work. lasted until midnight, John Scurr Menachem Kirschenbaum and Abraagainst the Jewish population in postwithdrew his amendment and the mo- mons gave occasion to the "_ anti-ham- Glotchewski, who lost an eye. war Germany by , the defeated war tian Students' Organization, but Eabbi Mflton Ellis of Beth Hillel Tem- Just as Rabbi Ellis was about to claims that it is not a public body - tion of Yerburgh was passed without Semitic Morning Post to also publish UEBRALS GAIN lords, resulted in a proselyting move- over which the authorities have any ple, Kenosha, figures prominently- leave the scene, satisfied that he bad a bitter attack in an editorial against a vote. ment among German youths, accord- right. He admits also that he has Hearing cries from the foot of a done Ms share in the rescue work, a the East End Jewish population, stating to figures published" by the Min- lectured to the students not only on street which ends at the shore line, boy remarked that there was still aning that "whatever internationalism POLISH ECONOMIC CRISIS other boy missing, and the boy pointisterial Director, Herr Mueller. the subject of political economy, but the Eabbi rushed to the scene, arriv- ed to a spot about seventy feet from is in theory, the East End demonUnknown Omahan Buried CAUSES FURTHER FAILURES According to Herr Mueller's figJ. Wise, age about 60, who died strates it in practice." ing in time to see two boys in the shore, where his missing companion, IN TEXTILE BUSINESS ures, great numbers of Christian also on Nationalist question^. last week, was buried Sunday at the Warsaw, (J. T. A.)—The political young men and women, including sciwater struggling for their lives, grap- Vincent Myer, age eight, had disapB'nai Israel Cemetery under auspices CANADIAN RABBI TO crisis in the country has resulted in ons of old German families of nobil- START PROCEEDINGS pling with ice floes from which it peared. In another moment the R&b~ of the Jewish Welfare federation. VISIT SOUTH AFRICA FOB more business failures, mainly affect- ity, have embraced Judaism in recent AGAINST GERAN PROFESSOR was evident they had fallen. The bi, who was a member of the former Wise was unknown to Omahans. The ; JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ing Jewish business establishments. FOR ANTI-SEMITISM Rabbi threw off" his oveTcoat and University cf Cincinnati championship years as a counteraction to the antionly attendants at the funeral were Montreal, (Jewish Daily Bulletin.) Warsaw business circles were overBerlin. (J. T. A.) Disciplinary pro- jumped from ice cake to ice cake un- swimming teats, was back &gains officers of the Welfare Federation. —Rabbi Yehuda1 L. Zlotnickj director whelmed today at the bankruptcy^ of Semitic propaganda. ready to dive for the missing boy. ceedings were started by the Prussian The only information obtained is that of the Jewish'. National Fund in eight of the largest textile -firms on JAFFA CHAMBER OF He pulled the boy up out of the Minister of Education against Dr. til he reached one on which Frank he is, an optidon, travelling in and Canada, is leaving shortly for an ex- Gensis Street, the center of the Polish COMMERCE PUBLISHES FreDierr V. . Freytagh-Loringhaven, Budat, seven years old, of Eadne, was water, but his pulse had stopped. out of the Omaha for the past twelve tended tour throughout South Africa capital's textile wholesale houses. The HEBREW BILLETTN professor at the University of Bres- clinging. He pulled the boy out of Feeling that there might be a chanc« years, and that he was born in Hun- in behalf of the Jewish National Fund. failure of these firms caused many Jaffa. (J. T. A.) The first ;ssue lau, to remove his immunity to court the water onto the floes, applied arti- to resuscitate the boy, Rabbi Ellis adgary. He formerly stopped at the It was stated, that -the Jewish com- smaller •firms to suspend payments. of the bulletin of the Jaffa Cha. ifecr proceedings. ficial respiration methods and brought ministered artificial respiration for « Chatham Hotel. Anyone knowing munities in that country have, promisGensia Street is famous all over of Commerce made its appearance. The cause for this action was the the boy back to consciousness. time without getting any responw anything of this man is asked to ed the sum of £10,00 if Rabbi Zlot- Eastern Europe as the center of the The bulletin is published in Hebrew number of public statements and arfrom the numb body. The Kacrn* In the meantime the crowd that communicate with the Jewish Welfare nick, who. is a noted speaker, will textile business and is exclusively! and contains valuable information on ticles published in Hie leading anticoast guard, which then arrived, had gathered increased, but still there Federation. make the tour. Jewish. . |the activities of the Semitic papersJby -the professor. •was no one who would venture «ut worked on the boy without success. ,

Jewish Immigration es For I.S

Ontario Go?emiieif Refuses

Local Junior Hadassab to Give Dance larch 29

Mrs. Julius Kahn, First Jewish] Woman Elected To Congress

RabE Frederict Coaii To Address local dubs

"Broten Searfi ^ Te l e 1 2 m Sunday 87 Two Local

Dance To Be Held lards It

Rabbi Plunges Twice Into Ice Cold Water to Rescue Two Boys


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