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Entered as second-class mail nuT> -4r*t January 27, 1921. at oocloffice ot Omaha. Nebraska, un* ^iSX Act of March 3. 1870.
PLAN FOR JEWS 4GENCY ACCEFf BY WORLD ZIONI"m
Jew Made Honorary Winnebago Chieftain
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3,1928
VOL. VII.~No.29
The Doom of AVanishing People
Pastor Risks Life To Save Drowning Jew
Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.—(J. T. A.) Klausenburg, Roumania.—(J. T. A.) V**? Solomon Levitan, State Treasurer A German Protestant pastor saved of Wisconsin, became the first Jewish Palestinian Tourist Tells of Sights Seen Among Samaritans; Relates Tale of a Jew from drowning in the river, is Winnebago chief in history at a tribal an incident which has attracted wide Marriage of Chalutzah to Samaritan; Describes ceremony here. attention throughout Transylvania. The pastor, Tlieodor Hermann, Youth Appointed by Senator Joint Palestine Survey Commis- Mr. Levitan's new name is Tchayv Sacrifice of Pascal Lamb Howell After Successful * Ska-Kah, which, translated into Engjumped into the water when he noticed sion Program Adopted With Tests lish, means White Deer. About 300 that a Jewish horse driver, Goldstein, Few Changes Indians attended the ceremony. was drowning. Goldstein was saved Mr. Levitan wore; the magnificent SAMARITANS BELIEVE SELVES MORE JEWISH THAN JEWS by the pastor, but the horse was MAKES VERY HIGH MARKS WEIZMANN UPHELD headdress of Chief White Wings, to drowned. The pastor made a collecAnnouncement was made this week .whom at the conclusion of the ceretion among' his Christian friends and 'By M. UNGER .siers of five and six years, partake Berlin.—(J. T. A.)—The Jewish mony he expressed gratitude for the Rending as it is to watch tile dy-j by United States Senator R. B. Howing gasps of a doomed man, it is ten I , -'•-•'.'•', , . lin the holy ceremony. Each child raised the sum necessary to replace ell of Nebraska of the appointment movement for the upbuilding of Pal- honor bestowed on him. the lost horse to the poor Jewish thousand times more torturesome to thread his xog, and knelt ^ Player, j ^ ^ ^ a ^ xa/m of estine as a Jewish National Home, of Earl Lapidus, son of Mr. and S m e forty Sjparitns con Some Samaritns were thus condriver. blazing alonto the look upon the death struggle of a gregated- when the, arrival of the -which, has assumed considerable signiMrs. Harry H. Lapidus of Omaha, to whole people. The last moments of High Priest gave the signal for the tar. The flames lit up an expanse ficance as practical upbuilding work the United States Naval Academy at of pellucid, blue sky so that in the a man's life are filled with pain,' but congregational praying. after the issuance of the Balfour DeAnnapolis, Maryland. distance it seemed to be awaiting it is nothing compared with the pain claration and the formation of the Palof the passing of, a whole people All knelt, and stretch out jtheir the daughter of Jeptha - or another estine Mandate by the League of Nawhich sees other folk growing and hands in spme Egyptian form of wor- human sacrifice. . lions following the dose of the World developing at the very moment when ship. Their chanting is almost iden- When the first half of the ceremoWar, has turned a corner on the road tical with that of the Arabs. Toe to enlisting the cooperation of all Potatoes Found to Be Better it passes into history as one of the young Samaritans are grouped around ny was completed, the tourists scattered to seek acquaintances among Culture Mediums Than vanished Traces.^ Jews, Zionists and non-Zionists, in the the altar, casting in young twigs, the Samaritans. The second half Physical and Spiritual RegeneraGuinea Pigs effort to rebuild the country of JewOne gets this impression in look- coaxing the fire to a brilliant blaze of the Seder did not begin until tion Enabled By Life On ries' origin. ing back upon the history of the so the cauldrons, of water may boil twelve o'clock, in order to give the NEW METHOD ECONOMICAL Farms It is in this light that Zionists and Samaritans of Shechem, to whose ex- more quickly. The lambs are led in. j lambs time to roast well. I too, went Denver, Colo.—The Denver Post re- istence only one hundred and seventy - non-Zionists in Europe view the deThe Head Shochet examines them all, to find some Samaritan acquaintan- ANTI-SEMITISM REDUCED cision adopted by the General Council cently published the following account survivors now bear witness.' It was to make sure they: are perfect, and ces from Jaffe. of the Zionist World Organization to of a new method of detecting tuber- perhaps a "historic oversight" that indeed, two are ruled out, so that Tribute to American Jews for the accept the recommendations - of the culosis, which has been evolved by the Titus failed to send them into exile only seven are deemed worthy of the They are seven brothers, sons of part played by them in the rebuildJoint Palestine Survey Commission in Kesearch Department of the National together with the Jews (although Pascal sacrifice. . ,The area around the Samaritan scribe, who inscribes ing of the physical as well as the which American, British and German Jewish Hospital at Denver. The story they suffered amply at the hands of the altar is carpeted with green books and Torahs. The father is a economic life of Russian Jews, was herewith .reprinted by special per- Vespesian;)- Perhaps, had they been canaille, who truly hates Jews and non-Zionists and Zionists cooperated is grass. The little lambs are unmind- particularly religious Jews. But he paid by the People's Commissar of mission. for the formulation of the five-year scattered across the seas and in all ful of what is about to transpire. lives in peace with the Chalutzim Health, M. Semasko, in an interview Guinea pigs will give way to potaprogram of Palestine work with a transmitted by Miss Betsy Ross, be a They rush to nibble at the grass, lands, they too, today would minimum budget of one million pounds toes as a medium for the diagnosis of world people. For unknown reasons spring back frightened by the blaz- who are not very religious, he has American journalist, to the national sterling annually. The recommenda- tubercolosis as a result of a new meth-^ however, they remained in Palestine, ing fire, nestle close to the High been told. Evidently he considered headquarters of the United Jewish tions "which were drafted with a view od of detecting bacilli recently perfect- ltd see their numbers gradually Priest who is praying with such the writer too, to be a Chalutz and Campaign and released by Mr. David of serving "as a guidance for the en- ed by the laboratory of the National dwindling over a period of two thou- deep reverence. They know him well. received him in friendly fashion. Nev- A. Brown, the National Chairman, larged Jewish Agency" were the Jewish Hospital here. The new meth- sand years, until they are today a Has he not himself tended them for ertheless he delights in discussions on reads as follows: "Jewish colonizacenter of stormy discussions during od was outlined and announced as ef- folk of one hundred and seventy- a full half year on the mountain religious topics, loves to point out tion in Russia is stamping out the the sessions of the Zionist -General fective in a paper read before the representatives. They live in the sides of the Samaritans' habitat? But to me how we have been led astray nervous and other diseases that were Earl Council which lasted here all week. American Medical Association at its Arab city Shechem, and are heard now he has no time for them. He by the Jewish Kings and Prophets, chronic among Jews and is infusing recent meeting in Minneapolis by Dr. and how we have departed from the The acceptance or the rejection of H. In making the announcement, SenaJ. Corper, Director of Kesearch at of but once a year, Passover Eve, must be done with his praying first. true Jewish essence. To Mm the new blood into the settlers which these recommendations was considered the Hospital laboratory. tor Hewell expressed his pleasure ™ will undoubtedly affect the Jews as when they offer up the Pascal lamb Gradually the sun dissolves into! story of King Solomon and his thouas essential in the decision as to making the appointment because of a nation. Centuries of .miserable flame between the mountain peaks, sand wives is as fresh as if it ocThe new use of potatoes as a culture as a sacrifice. whether the enlarged Jewish Agency, the splendid showing- that Earl Lapiexistence in overcrowded ghettoes including Zionists and non-Zionists, medium for the detection of tubercu- The writer was among the hun- Immediately the lambs are caught, cured yesterday. In general, history, under fear and oppression have left dus had made in the preliminary exand contemplated in Article 4 of the losis germs will obviate to a great ex- dreds of tourists and visitors who led to the altar, and one by one for the Samaritans, has not advanced. their traces in the physical and aminations required before acceptance Palestine Mandate, is to be consum- tent the using of guinea pigs, rabbits, attended the cermony. The sun had offered as a sacrifice, to the accom- The" personages of the Bible are so psychic-make-up of the Russian Jews. for the. Naval Academy. The first mated in accordance with an agree- dogs or other live animals in this already set when, after a two-hour paniment of exotic, frenzied' shout- vivid and alive to the Samaritans Now for the first time in their his- of these, examinations was a competi••••- \ > -.- climb, -we reached fhe^top; _of Mount ing that . the -higiiest~psaks-| that'they "could'"moIS you 8" like-" tory the Russian Jews are sapping tive one taken br » ]nrge group '>•' meirfc* concluded between Dr. "<2iaim-j phase of research work,Two methods of detecting the presGefizim where their Temples were of ecstasy and continues for a long ness. This is, particularly true of Weizmann, • president of the World ence of tubercle Tjadlli have been used set up. In "a few moments all astime. After that the praying begins Pinchas, the son of Eliezer, who was physical "strength from the soil," sun-i young men in the state. The « Zionist Organization, and Mr. Louis by scientists, Dr. Corper points out. light and fresh air and we now see | tremely satisfactory marks made Marshall, president of the American One consisted in the use of a stain sembled in one spot facing the East. anew. The faces of the young chil- the son of Aaron the High Priest, or the vital human forces within them this text rendered the young' pchol»v Jewish Committee, representing Amer- smear, which employs the microscopic From the Temples issued forth Sa- dren are smeared with the blood of Joseph, or the other sons of Jacob. renewed and regenerated. The trans- elegible for an appointment should 1'f maritans, tall and slender, prayer the lambs. When night decends, the His effection for the Chalutzim formation is amazing. Happiness and pass the entrance examination n* ican non-Zionists. examination of the sputum of a tuber- rugs slung over their arms. Each lambs are ready for roasting. Young(Continued on page 2) The recommendations formulated at culous suspect. The second was the freedom are erasing the lines of quired at the Annapolis i the recent London conference by Felix injection of tuberculosis germs into suffering from the faces of the aged Here again he came through wiU;i JEWISH SERVICES ARE M. "Warburg and Dr. Lee K. Frankel the bodies of guinea pigs. The formcolonists who find themselves on the flying colors, wiping away the I«; representing the non-Zionists in the er method has been found to be crude HELD ON OCEAN LINER soil after a lifetime of weary buffet- barriers standing- between him »J«i United States; Lord Melchett (Sir Al- and inaccurate and productive of reing about. The new generation that the desired selection as a member '>.' Services were held on board the fred Mond) of London and Oscar Was- sults only when many thousands of moulds itself in the Jewish colonies the Naval Academy. S. S. Berengaria recently by Rabbi sermann, director of the Deutsche bacilli are present in every cubic centiwill suffer no more from rheumatism, Two physical examinations, one *>. Edward Calish, of Richmond, Va. In Bank of Berlin, with suggestions for meter of tuberculous fluid. the Great Lakes Naval. Training report sent by Rabbi Calish to Resolution of Lack of Confidence tuberculosis and other diseases caused School at Chicago, and a final insp?>slight, modifications, were accepted by Commander of Russian Ship by ghetto life. The guinea pig has long been used the Zionist General Council by a maThat Saved Italia Crew Mem- the Department of Synagogue and In Harry Sacher Is Cause Another interview by Miss Eoss tion at Annapolis, were also pn.=s?<' as a medium for the detection of tuSchool Extension of the Union of jority of 41 against 4 votes. bers Sends Message of Crisis with a prominent Soviet official re- without difficulty. bercle bacilli, because of the extraordAmerican Hebrew Congregations he The climax came late'Friday after- inary sensitivity of the animal to this Earl Lapidus was officially states that there were 100 present FEW OPPOSE DRAFT MOVE veals another phase of the aid given into the Naval Academy on Tuesday. noon following a prolonged dead-lock germ. Now, however, it has "been IS NOTED SCIENTIST Russian Jews by their American coat the services, and that pamphlets during which the resignation of the definitely proved that the use of a After four years of training hfirf*. Berlin.—(J. T. A.)—The resignation religionists. Weizmann Executive was ctnsidered slice of ordinary potato in a culture The first personal message to come prepared by the Department were he will receive an officer's comniUvThe American Jews leading the . as imminent. At the plenary session tube, when properly treated, will dis- from the Russian icebreaker "Kras- distributed among the congregants. of the Weizmann Executive and the agricultural colonization movement, sion in the United Statse Navy. Diirof the General Council which, was en- play a sensitivity just as great as, and bin." which rescued the Arctic ex- Rabbi Calish is planning to con- almost unanimous decision to draft in Russia are helping to stamp out ing the period of intensive trainiri};. grossed in discussion of organization sometimes greater than the animaL plorer Nobile and the members of the duct services also on board the S. S. him were the two dramatic events anti-Semitism in that country, ac- young Lapidus expects to specials?-*Leviathan on his return to America. which occurred during the week-end questions, the Political Commission apin engineering as much ns possible. The new method, devised in the re- ill-fated dirigible "Italia", was radioat the sessions of the General Council cording to Peter Smidovitch, Vicepeared in the hall declaring that it is search laboratory of the National Jew- graphed directly from the Arctic The future naval officer? successful of the World Zionist Organization, fol- President of the Soviet Union. • ready to report the resolution ou the ish Hospital by Dr. Corper and Dr. relief ship to the Publishers of The attempt to enter the Naval Acadpmy "American Jewish contributions io-wing the adoption by the Council of Jewish Agency. Forty-eight mem- Nao Uyei, research chemist, has the American Hebrew Magazine in. New came as a pleasant announcement to its resolution; concerning the report of help the government to keep the his many friends but did not surbers of the Council were in attend- added advantage of practicability. York on July 26. It came from peace, for then the peasants do not the Jewish Agency Commission. ance. Kurt Blumenfeld of Berlin, The use of guinea pigs has been both Professor Rudolph Samoilovich, the prise them because they were German Zionist leader, read the text inconvenient and expensive. The cost Jewish mining engineer and explorer, For almost twenty-four hours the accuse the Soviet Government of of the '-excellent quality of: his At the Hadassah picnic, which takes granting special privileges to the of the resolution. Minority reports of buying, housing, feeding and caring who is in command of the "Krassin" place at Elmwood Park on Wednesday, Zionist movement was without an ExJews. The tremendous energy and at Omaha Central High School •were also submitted. ecutive and the leaders of the various for the guinea pigs is now eliminated. rescuers. August 8, for the benefit of the enthusiasm of the Jews is overcom- where he . graduated, and his "fiu A resolution expressing lack of conIt is pointed out by Dr. Corper that Bernard Edelhertz, Publisher of Emergency Fund, especial attention factions, assembled at the Berlin meet- ing all hardships. They are being at the University of-Nebraska fidence in the Weizmann Executive an ordinary "potato will furnish enough The American Hebrew Magazine, will be given to the children. Games, ing of the General Council, feverishly handicapped only by the lack of he attended last year. and asking the General Council to re-1 material for a dozen culture tubes, and wirelessed Dr. Samoilovich as foll- races and other features •will predom- sought a solution to the latest crisis means. Financial help from America ject the recommendations of the Joint is equivalent to the use of twenty ows: "The American Hebrew is deep- inate and prizes given to each winning which had resulted in the self-elimina- secures the success of the colonies Camp Morris I^evy tion of Dr. Weizmann from the leaderPalestine Survey Commission, intro- guinea pigs. Considering the cost of ly moved by, and hereby hails -the child. and helps the government to solve duced by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum of upkeep of the animals, the new potato relief exploits of the "Krassin" as Races and prizes are scheduled for ship. Close On August 6 Warsaw and Dr. Soloveitschik in be- method is about 150 times as econom- a supremely inspiring act of that the ladies also. Ice cream will be dis- At two o'clock Monday morning the the difficulties among the nationalities. Jewish colonization is destrovhalf of the radical Zionists, was de- ical as the guinea pig method. : good-will among peoples which this tributed free, and as an appropriate matter appeared to be settled by an ing the artificial differences between T h e b o v s a t G a m P M o v T i s T ' r v ' feated by an overwhelming majority. The perfection of the new method magazine has espoused editorially accompaniment, delicious home made almost unanimous vote of the General the nationalities and maldng pog- \&re f a c i n £ t h e ! r l a s t w e e k a t The representatives of the labor party came after three years of effort at the cake, provided by the committee, will Council to request the entire-Zionist roms a memory of a discarded s u m m e r vacation place. The « Poale Zion abstained from voting," laboratory of the Hospital. During since the War." be on sale. Executive, including Harry Sacher, regime" On Thursday morning, Mr. Edelf ^ ^ close Monday, August, 6. This resolution received only the four that time thousands of experiments The committee in charge are plan- British attorney who is a member of hertz received the following reply Reports from the large crowd votes of the two radical Zionists and were made in an effort to improve the ning' a good time for everyone and the Jerusalem Executive and around Sunday %-isitors show that the from Samoilovich on the "Krassin" two Zionist Bevisionists. Stain method, to test the efficiency of want each member to feel that for the whom the crisis centered, to remain in FORMER OMAHAN ACTIVE work and enthusiasm with whi.-l: which is lying at Svalbard: "I am the guinea pig method, and finally to donation of one dollar, that each is office. IN DES MOINES I. O. B. R the Camp started still prevail. assure the most perfect technic for tEe happy to receive your kind gratula- expected to give toward the Emerg1 The combined forces of the LaborJEWS BID'ADIEU new method. The potato method, tion. The work of Krassin is a ency Fund, both pleasure and priv- ites and the Orthodox Zionists, 22 Joseph A. Blum, former Omahan, Of those . boys who have or a ", attending the Camp, those intemtint. TO LORD PLUMER which is expected to prove revolution- human duty." 7 ileges will be derived. strong, were unable to form an Execu- is one of the \ ery active members to complete a full four vceek. gtv. Samoilovich was one of the few ary, has the further advantage of proThe following committee will be on of the Des Moines Lodge of the Jerusalem (J. T. A.) — Farewell ducing results in the smallest possible Jews who, nnder the Czaristic hand to greet the picnicers: Mrs. A. tive of their own, although they were I. O. B. B. He has been three times are Max Garelick, Adolph offered the opportunity to do so. VariLouis Kulburg, arid Harry wishes of the Jewish population of time, thus making the treatment more regime, received an education in the Romm, Mrs. O. C. Goldner, Mrs. Harry president of that organization, a Gymnasia and the University of St. Trustin, Mrs. Robert Bleicher, Mrs. J. ous lists of a proposed Executive for trustee for the Leo N. Levi Memorial The rest of the boys signed up fn'Palestine were expressed "to Lord certain and effective. London and Jerusalem were under conPlumer, retiring High Commissioner The evolving of the new process of! Petersburg. He was one of the stu- B. Robinson, Mrs. E. Weinberg, Mrs. sideration, but the leaders of ^he op- Hospital, and has for many years shorter terms, something that mosi by a delegation consisting of Colonel detection is merely one step in the dent rebels who fought - against Max Goldberg, Mrs. Julius Stein, Mrs. positional factions finally declared represented his organization as & of them are sorely regretting, Collman Yudelson won the lovinjr Frederick H. Kish, Eabbis A. J. Kook progress toward the ultimate 'goal of Czaristic tyranny. In 1908 he was Max Lerner, Mrs. A. S. Rubnitz, and that "Because of lack of time" they J delegate at the District Grand Lodge cup last week for being the hi*s< and Jacob Meif, David Yellin and the National Jewish Hospital Research j arrested as a revolutionary and Mrs. J. J. Friedman. were unable to assume the responsi- conventions. all-round camper, Max Garelick u-nd Dr. J. Thon. Department, the finding of a cure for: banished to Archangel. From there Sandwiches, pop, and watermelon bility for the conduct of Zionist affairs Mr. Blum was reared in Nebraska Ernie Ross each won a sweat, shir; he was sent to Piniege, a. remote will also be on sale. The delegation presented the re- tuberculosis. by the formations of their own Execu- City and lived for several years in on being voted the most popular anf.. The Research Department of-the! section of northern Russia, where he tiring High Commissioner with an Mrs. J. J. Friedman is chairman and tive." Omaha. He was vice-president of the best athlete respectively. A fc-^rr album of Palestine pictures, wishing Hospital has, in the eight years it has j devoted his mathematical bent to the Mrs. A. S. Rubnitz is treasurer of the the Nebraska I. O. B. B. twenty- shirt was the prize won by ]W«* him bon voyage in behalf of the /been in operation, come to be known, j pursuit of metallurgy, mining and Emergency Fund. five years ago. Marcus for being- the most <-ourt»«»s Zionist .Executive,', the Palestine Rab- in the world of science, as one of the j polar discoveries. After the revoluDuring the six months ending in Sam Kovitz was designated as <hthe Vaad Leumi, the Na- foremost laboratories of its kind tion in 1917 he returned to Bussia, Jerusalem.—(J. A.)—The de- April of this year, the Central Library o n e havin 5 Odessa.—(J. T. A.)—Yiddish as a i S t h e b e s t P u l q u e of Urf the world. It is the only such departr connected with the Vaad Hatarbuth. tional Council of Palestine Jews. but instead of devoting himself to mand for creating in Palestine a repLord Plumer expressed his satis- ment to be maintained by a private the new politics created by the re- resentative government, calling into (Cultural Department of the Pales- language to be used by the Soviets in j week's campers. faction with his three years of work agency anywhere. " The Hospital it- volution, he buckled down to the existence a Palestine parliament, may tine Federation o f Labor) received the Odessa district was added by a Li Palestine ?j?d his joy at the fact self is the oldest national free tuber- constructive work of rebuilding have the support of various Arab over 1900 'Volumes,. about half of resolution adopted i?y -the 'Central Ex- It's useless to advise people to accept old age gracefully. -were collected in various places. ecutive Committee that peace prevails in the country,- J culosis hospital in the United States. Bussia through science. leaders.
NEW TUBERCULOSIS
AMERICANS FOR HELP GIVEN TO RUSSIAN JEWS
AT JEWISH HOSPITAL
JEWISH IfADER SAYS ARCTIC RESCUE WORK WAS A HUMAN DUTY
RESIGNATION OF CHA1M WEIZMANN
HADASSAH BENEFIT PICNIC NEXT WWEEK