February 6, 1931

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OMAHA NEBRASKA^FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1931

JAMES W i WISE HERE ControV TOS TUESDAY

JEWISH AGENCY Mrs, Sanger CAMPAIGN NOW for' BEING LAUNCHED

France Bars Jobs to Late Immigrants Paris.—(J. T. A.)—No immigrant who entered France since July 1930 will be allowed employment, according t o an official government order.

VOL. IX.—No. 2

Recommend to Move City Talmud Torahs 4-si to Community Center

"The s health, the father's prolong the honeymoon so as t o adearning '. and the standard of just themselves t o each other. t < * *™7!* * * £ ! * ^ JO maintain a r e the To substantiate her arguments Mrs. Fifth of Lecture Under An- ™*™ Drive to Be Known as The life they ship on many Jews who will have to main spices of Community controlling the .birth Sanger had a barrage of statistics a t American Palestine emigrate elsewhere if they a r e deForum rate," accri-' t o Mrs. Margaret her command. She gave special emCampaign prived of the opportunity of making Sanger, ch£^-; . - of birth control, phasis t o the high maternal morality a living. James Waterman Wise, son of the The first independent campaign of who eloquen .'„ -d a capacity aud- rate in this country, which is 20,000 Jewish institutions here have alfamous Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, will - the Jewish Agency in America g o t ience a t the Ji"-;*,;- Community Center per year, ready taken steps to do what they can -under way a t a meeting offiveI n n -auditorium W^tmescfay evening. This Mrs. Sanger claimed that the in-speak in the Jewish Community Cen- to ease the severity of the new ordindred delegates from all parts of the was the fourth of the series of lect- tellectual class was using birth con- ter, Tuesday evening-, February 10, ance but there is little chance that United States on Sunday a t New ures sponsored by the Community troL and because of this their lives taking a s his subject, "Is Modern they will be able to do much because Dr. Samuel Gerson, executive direcActive steps toward the strengthenYork. - The quota of $2,500,000 was Forum under the auspices of the Jew- are happier and their children are Youth Irreligious?" the economic situation here is grad- tor of the Jewish Community Center, ing and=.rein3tegrating of Jewish eduMilton Abrahams wBl introduce the ually getting worse and unemploy- has been honored by being named as set during the all-day conference a s ish Community Center and the Coun- more cultured, educated, and bettercation in Omaha were taken by t h e the objective of an immediate drive cil of Jewish Women. equipped for the world. Unfortu- speaker. ment is increasing. one of the five constituting the nom- newly-created board of Jewish EduMr. Wise h a s lectured a t Columbia for funds, to be known as t h e Ameri"I claim that birth control is the nately, she said, these constitute only For some months now there has inating committee which will select cation a t their,- first meeting held University in the Department of Semcan Palestine Campaign. conducted by solution to our population problem one-fifth of our population. been a growing demand for immigra- the officers for the 1932 National Monday evening a t the J . C C. This the Jewish Agency for Palestine. This aiid to many of our social evils," Mrs. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. 1 itics. He also spent six months in tion and the other familiar anti-alien Conference of Jewish Social Service. is one of the six major departments sum was said to be the minimum bud- Sanger emphatically declared. "Birth Herbert Arnstein, president ox theEurope in 1927 making a study of measures. The annual conference will be held of the recently-formed consolidated European youth movements which get necessary to save the work in Pal- control," she defined, "is conscious Council of Jewish Women, this year in Minneapolis, starting on Jewish Community Center and Welwas afterwards- published in a series estine from collapse. control of the birth rate by means June 13. Omaha's rapid rise in na- fare Federation, and is headed by of articles in t h e Century Magazine. Dr. Cyrus Adler, presiding a t thewhich prevent conception of human tional Jewish social service circles is Harry Lapidus. Among his books--are, "Liberalizing conference, allayed the fears of those life.™ By preventing, she maintained, shown by Garson's appointment coupThe board decided on the following liberal J u "The Future of of the delegates who felt that the one is not destroying or interfering led with the fact that one of the main measures: « Israel", and Are Like That," "psychology-.•;of defeastism" brought with life, a s life has not yet been speakers for the conference will be They ireconttnended to the Talmud recently pub] under the pengiven inception. j on by the White Paper on Palestine Henry Monsky. Torah and t h e Jewish Community name of. Anal Essays and rewould prove an impediment t o the The three ways of controlling birth Other members of the nominating Center that-fhe Talmud Torah now views by Mr. have appeared success of the fund-raising campaign. rate which she pointed out were con-' committee are: Dr. Solomon Lowen- located a t 21st and Burt streets and from time t o ti in The Forum, The tinence, sterilization, and chemical stein, executive director of the New its Dundee branch be moved to the Rothenberg Named Chairman New Palestine, and mechanical means of contracep- Omaha to Be Represented in New York York Jewish Philanthropies; GerSeeks Enormous Reduction on - Morris Rothenberg, appointed chair- tion. It is around the last of the The Christian ,ete. trude A. Glick, head of the Jewish Basket Ball, Oratory, Jewish Quota They TJoled-that-the school hours be man of the campaign, declared that three that the real battle of birth The Wise lectere is the fifth in Family Welfare Society of Baltimore; one and one-half hours per class. Countries Debate the quota could be reached by July 1. control is being waged. the series arranged by the Commun| Harry L. Glucksman, director of the They were of the unanimous o p - The honorary chairman of the cam"No one method of birth control is Th e district tournament for the A. i t ^ Forunv s p o i l e d by the Center Washington.—(J. T. A.) — An en- Jewish Welfare Board of New York inion that the purpose of the Talmud paign, selected by the committee on suitable for everyone," she stated. " I t 2 . A. in oratory, debate, and basket- and the CounalAof Jewish Women. ormous cut in the Jewish immigra- City, and Dr. John Slawson, head of Torah should be in accordance with nominations are: Felix M. Warburg, is as individual as fitting eye-glasses. be held a t Lincoln under the The last event yn& be a lecture by tion quota will result from the new the Jewish Welfare Federation of the highest standards of the best Talresigned chairman of the Administra- That is why we have clinics which Rabbi Isaac Tj»mttmm of New York, immigration . bill, which has already Detroit. mud Torahs in t h e country and should tive committee of the Jewish Agency; give individual instructions in this reeditor of the American Hebrew, on been endorsed by the House ImmigraPhilip L. Seman is present presi- be improved t o rank .among the leadDr. .Cyrus Adler, chairman of the pro- gard." Tuesday evening; March 10. " A r etion : Committee and which reduces all dent of the national organization. ers. •• " • ' . " - •• „ visional committee of t h e American '-..'• We Passing Through a Religious Rev- j present immigration by ninety per Seven Conditions They voted t o recommend t o t h e members of the Jewish Agency; Dr. «lutibn?" will be Landmarks subject.' cent. Mrs. Sanger had this t o say about City Talmud Torah that they invite Stephen S. Wise; and Judge Julian The quota from Poland, which has the following seven groups of condithe South Omaha Talmud Torah t o .-"Mack, honorary chairman of the Zionhitherto been 6,524, will be reduced I join in with them a t the Center. tions: ist Organization of America. to 652. The quota from Russia, which No one couple should have children They further decided that these has hitherto been 2,784, will be reDr. Frankel I s Treasurer if either parent has a transmittable recommendations and changes Bhoold duced t o 278. The quotas from LithThat individual should be take place a s soon a s possible, and The chairmen of the campaign are: disease. uania, Latvia and Ron mania have all not later than May 1, 1931. Morris Rothenberg, Rabbi Abba Hfflel sterilized. \ been reduced t o a basic minimum No one having some, temporary diThe board also decided to send Silver of Cleveland, Nathan HStraus, quota of one hundred from each counJr., and James Marshall. The-treas- sease as tuberculosis, e t c , should have New York.—(J. T. A.)—Following these decisions to t h e different or' urer of the campaign is Dr. Lee JL children until cured. . ' . " " . . the examples previously set by the ganizations concerned and that com'. Prague.—(J. T. A.)—Tie" Jewish . .Parents who are apparently normal Frankel. " V lu population of Czeeho-Slovakia i s now1( mig™*3011 to the United States is Jewish communities in the Dominion mittees be appointed to meet with of Canada, by t h e Jewry of South them to discuss the proposed changes. The report of the committee on but have abnormal children should re400,000, according t o figures of na- ( from these countries. 1 In reporting the bul, the majority Speakers will also be assigned to Africa and Czechoslovakia, a number quotas was. adopted, by the delegates. frain from having more children. tionalities in the* national census of bring these jnatters to the attention of American ^JewiEh communities and * 'Among *~£fie*!a&signed quotas to I be The spacing of children - ^ there last to finance, """~"rais«cL in the^-campaign, groups • nav* 354,342 or 26 per cent of t h e total d e n t * s message to the ^reseat session within a five-year ^period, the' "purthgt of fl f 000,t00"for the city of New children for the sake of the mpther. i of The board, which represents the Adolescents who marry should 'repopulation. ' Congress, which recommended the chase of an appropriate number of synagogues, Talmud Torahs, and the frain Ifrom having children until" the dunams of land which will, through The increase in the Jewish' popula-, wife lias reached the age4of 23 and tion was a little more than 11 per- on a more limited and selective basis the Jewish National Fund, become J. C. C. is composed of the following: ! flexible t o flje needs of the country anc and be held as the perpetual property Harry Lapidus, chairman; A. Cohn; the- husband- the age of 25 in order cent. Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Harry Dworto allow full physical and mental deLast February when plans for t h e ' m accordance with the present unem- of the Jewish people. Abe Novicoff, General Chairman. velopment. The communities and groups thus sky, Rabbi N. Feldtnan, Samuel Ger,_ , , _ . . , .. T . . _ . ^ census werebeing made the statistical' Payment situation. . Economic—no couple should brmg auspices of the Lincoln. Chapter No. c o t m c i l o f the government announced1 Representative Samuel Dickstein, participating in the plan may have son, Abe .Goldstein, Rabbi David children into the world.unless they 3 this week-end, February 6, 7, and 8. that it would recognize the Jewish na- J e w i s h member of the House Irnmi- the privilege of linking their names Goldstein; Dr. M."t. Gordon, J . Harry l e a n properly maintain, educate and. Abe Novicoff is general chairman j tionaUty, nationally to be identical -8»t«m Committee, has brought in a or the names of the states in which Kulakofsky, Sam Ravitz, Dr. P. Sher, ••••-— ' of - arrangements. Other committee minority report. Mrs. Herman Jahr, who has direct- support• them. they are located, or the names of out- Harry Weirier, Harry Wolf, N . S. with the language spoken. standing personalities whom they Yaffe. ed the dramatic work a t the Com-J^ Married couples -should exercise heads are H. Hyman. Goodbinder. j This meant that only those Jews chairman of publicity; Elton Gold-' wish to honor, with the historic Palmunity Center for the past five years birth control for a t least two years who spoke Yiddish or Hebrew would estine sites and localities which will J e w i s h n a t j o n a l i t y will sponsor" a Children's theater tiiis' after marriage. They should thus berg, chairman of finance; Jack ^ l i g t e d of 1 chairman of arrangements be included in the reclaimed areas. ^ ^ y e a r a t t h e J . e e ". : : |.>...'..'.. - . . '— ^ o f J e w s They plan to entertain a crowd of Washington, D. C, Baltimore, PittsShe will teach>chHdreh's-classes in' fFWTFR flBfHFSTRA Hungarian Bohemi&n o r burgh, Providence, Hartford, New 'dramatic work, and will give a _.& -„—•». _ . . _ . « » . ov f5 ^ .. .• , ! would be. classified a s of the German, Mrs. L. Neveloff was chosen presi- Haven,' Detroit and a number -of performance in the spring. "Not only T O H J I Y OVER RADIO ^ chapters partacipatmgare from B o h e m i a n ^ nationalHungarian dent of the Bikur Cholim Society for smaller communities, which recently 'will she teach class work, but she will ^____ •"": Kansas City, Mo.,.Kansas City, Kan-j ^ . . the ensuing term a t the election «f acted as hosts to Menachem Ussishsas, S t Jossph Topeka, Sioux Cily j also give private lessons t o a limited The Jewish Community. Center as S t Jossph Topeka Sioux Cily j A feature of the next Congregarttests «„ t h e part of officers of the organization a t which kin, world president of the Jewish Des Momes, CouncU Bluffs » a number of children. \ -. J Symphony orchestra, under t h e directional supper to be served by t h e over 200 members were present. Mrs. Jahr is now the only one in tion of Frank Mach, will "be initiated I permitting the Jews.to declare them- • Other officers chosen are Mrs. S. National Fund, who is now in this Ladies' Auxiliary of the Conservative The h e a d q n v t e n for. the tourney Omaha who studied under Yzette'-into the mysteries of radio broadj e w i s n nationaUty while Fish, vice-president; Mrs. L. Morgan, country, were the first to endorse the Synagogue to be held on Monday, of ^ ^ l Guilbert. » . ^ I casting when they will play for the b e M t t e i f a t o l n H o t e l ^ A m o o g i ^ . , . . y ^ ^ „ « requlr.d to treasurer; Mrs. S. Zernoyski, Tecord- plan and to assume definite financial February '©, a t 6 p. in., a t the J. C. C, Any children or mothers interested first tinie over radio station WOW on the '.. interesting.:. features will.- be a register their nationality according, to ing secretary; Mrs. L. Rothstein, fi- obligations in its behalf. will be a discussion on "What Modmay meet Mrs. Jahr a t t h e Commun'-; Saturday, February 7, from 6 p . ' m . luncheon, a sight-seeing tour, a thea- their mother tongue. ern Jews 1 Believe," led by Mrs. J . nancial secretary; Mrs. L. Mendesohn, ter party, dance and banquet. .Troity Center on Monday afternoon a t t o 6:30." . Harry Kulakofsky and Dr. M. Mar* corresponding secretary. Those, composing the orchestra are: phies, medals and other. awards will golin. 4 p. m. The Board of Directors include Iz Bender, clarinet; Herman Blumen- be presented and the .winners will be Mrs. B. A. Simon and her co-chairThe Center officials have just been Mesdames J . Goldberg, J . Finkle, M. thaL saxophone; Myron Cohen, vio- eligible t o . compete. in - the finals a t man, Mrs. Abner Kaiman, will be asadvised that E . M. Segal, Athletic Katzman, M. Wolf son, L. Abrams, H . lin; Dora Dolgoff, piano; Iibby Dol- St. Louis in March.-.-,-..- Classes and private lessons in piano sisted by the following committee: Azorin, H. Neissman, H. Alberts, M. ! goff, violin; Lilly Epstein, violin; ... Housing and dating are being pro- Director a t the J . C C , h a s been are t o be offered a t the J . C. C. un- Mesdames William Alberts, I. BerkoS. Barson, I . Levin, A. 1 vided for all visitors. Leo Beck's or- -honored by the' National A.- A.- U. Gluckman, ' Harold Finkel, drums; Barney Guss, der the direction of Mrs. Mary Adele witz, Sam Beber, Sam Kaplan, M. Seiner. violin; Charles Guss, violin; Julius chestra -has been secured for -the The president has asked Mr. Segal to Redfield. All interested may regis- Lerner, Charles Levinson, E. A. MeyThe next meeting of ihe organizadance. serve on'the National Handball comter a t the Center, beginning today. er, M. Margolin, A. Theodore, Julius M. Kurtzman, 51, a resident of Hornstein, cornet; Richard Hoberman, tion will be held next Monday. mittee. The system of music taught by Stein, and Mose Yousem. Omaha for the past 30 years, passed cornet; Dan Hurley, flute; Ina JacobMrs. Redfield is t h s combination of The committee has urged all memaway last Thursday. Burial, took sen; violin; Lorraine King, violin; Hythe most-valuable ideas from reading bers to attend and to bring their - place, on Friday a t the Golden Hill mie -Kaplan, violin; Rose Lazarus, new methods "used i n conservatories. children and friends, as they promise - cemetery, Rabbi' Frederick Cohn "of- violin; Lillian Levy, saxophone j^Florof music, a s the,American Conserva- a very fine meal a t 60 cents for - ficiating. Mr. Kurtzman was .a .mem- .ence Levy, clarinet; Harriett Lewis, ewYork.—Steps'are" being-taken tory, the Chicago. Musical College, adults and SOc for children. violin; Pearl" Marcus, cornet; : Nell to organize a National Federation of. ber of the Omaha Hebrew Club. Seymour School of Musical EducaThose who cannot attend the supHe i s survived" by Bis widow, Min- Marks, violin; " Keith - Peltz, saxo^ Jewish.. Women's.,' Organizations enper are invited t o be present a t the nie; a son, Fred;' a daughter, Sarah; phone; -Milton Saylon, violin; Solomon ?*&&jn.'religious, cultural and philJerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The report Palestine, which is.largely imported tion, and Columbia College. two brothers, Isadore and Charles of Susman, clarinet; Henry Swartz, sax- anthropic work, it. wasannounced b y ' <jf the ^\ Commission in the from these two countries, amounts to •- Mrs. - Redfield completed a normal program, which begins at 7:30. course i n methods a t the Aeolian - '.Los Angeles', and two sisters^ Mrs." M. ophone; Jennie Weinstein, clarinet; Mrs. David E . Goldfarb, president of' United States on prohibition h a s over 500,000 litres in a'year. Reservations may be made with White of Omaha, and Mrs. J . Slabo Jacob Weisman, violin; Isadore White the Federation of Jewish Women's Or- j ^yokejj the general comment here In view of the fact that Palestine is 'School of Musical Research, and was Mrs. B. A. Simon, Glendale 1028; violin; Ruth White, violin. of Los Angeles. .... ganizations of Greater New York af ( t h a t p a l e s t i n e ° ^ Q ,a l l i t s troubles, an important cultivator of grapes for accepted a s a piano teacher in theMrs. Abner Kaiman, Glendale 2488; its 11th annual convention which was, a p p e a r s t o D e fortunate in that it has wine-making, wine-drinking liere is New York public schools. She spe- or Mrs. William Alberts, Harney cializes in children courses. 3428. . ."held at New York last week. This! no ; l i q u o r p r o blem although wine and popular. • . She will instruct in Rote teaching, announcement was made . b y ' Mrs. t spirits are cheap and easy of access harmonizing melodies, ear training, Goldfarb in her presidential address I - ^ the country boasts of having the! rhythm and creative dancing. Each in which she stated that a luncheon': s e c o n d i a r g e s t wine • " cellars the] m lesson will last one hour, and classes was held earlier in the week attended i wwoorrjj((jj>> j will.be limited to ten pupils. b i ih F d j Every department of the establish- by representatives of Jewish Federa-j Alcoholic drinks are consumed by Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—When the A specialty night in which all the tions from various.parts of the coun-. i Christians and Jews alike, Mos emS) King David Hotel opened i t s doors ment is an innovation for Jernsalem. clubs of the Senior Council of t h e recently, the people of Jerusalem, who. From the - mechanical appliances in try, culminating in, the appointment... b u t always in moderation and hence J. C. C. will compete is the entertainof a committee which .was to consider, drunkenness is comparatively, unwent there opened their eyes to one the kitchens, bakeries and the "refriment offered a t the Center Thursday Warsaw.—(J. T. A.)—Called known in the Holy Land. Saloons as of the few of Jerusalem's man-made j geration plant to the hardwood floors, the formation of a national body. evening, February 12. upon to rule upon the legality of Paris.—(J. T. A . ) — T h e Alliance they existed in the United States bethere is something which sets the "wonders. many unusual requests, the WarPrizes will hz awarded to the most Israelite Universelle spent ?300,000 fore the enactment of the Eighteenth A lucky stroke in the selection of building apart from all others here. saw rabbinate today rendered an for Jewish welfare purposes in Rus- effective entertainment and stunts. Amendment are practically non-existthe site, a gem of architecture and a opinion in a case as out of the or- sia, Poland, Roumania and Palestine Leo Brown is chairman of the affair, ent here. model in design and plan, the hotel dinary a s any. A Jewish girl in the decade 1920—1930,. according to which the public is invited. . Dr. Victor E . Leviney captain in " The local wine-shops are one-room whose fiance now lives in Ameri- to a report made public here. sets a new standard for mechanical equipment, quiet, dignity and exquisGovernor Floyd Olson of Minnesota the Medical Department, Chemical affairs with" wide open doors. Little ca called upon the rabbinate to inWarsaw.—The various Jewish probCf this sum $100,000 was allocated ite taste. . has appointed Edward Pearlove state Warfare Service, has satisfactorily drinking, however, is done on the quire if a marriage with her sweet- to promote Jewish cultural activities lems in Poland will be solved gradIt Cost $1,250,000 comptroller and chairman of the de- completed the required examinations premises. heart by cable would be in accord in the form of subventions to rabbis ually. Premier Walery Slawek assured In a hotel of nearly 200 rooms, partment of administration and fi- and practical tssts provided for in I t i s curious that all attempts to with rabbinical law. and Jewish learned societies in Rus- Henry Rosmarin and Dr. Joshua guiding hands saw to i t that in the nance, one of the three highest ap- army regulations, and has been pro- establish breweries have so far proved The rabbinate ruled, as was exsia, the provision of matzoth and Thon, president and vice-president reunsuccessful, although Palestine barrooms, _no two of which a r e . alike, pointive offices in the state "govern- moted t o the rank of major. pected, that such a marriage medical aid to Russian Jews and the spectively of the Jewish parliamentHe will receive ' his majority as ley is being exported to England and there should not be anywhere a clash- ment. would not be legaL [ support of Russian refugees in Bes- ary club in tiie course of a significant Germany, for brewing purposes. ing color, nor a "bizarre or inapproMr. Pearlove is a brother-in-law to soon as a vacancy occurs in his s dis sarabia and Poland. and friendly conference. The annual consumption of beer in vision. priate note. ~ Mrs. J . J . Friedman of this city.

National Honor Bestowed Upon Samuel Gerson

DISTRICT A. Z. A. TOURNEY TO BE HELD AT LINCOLN

Jewish Educational / Board Seeks Action

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