Dedicated to the Ideals of Judaism
In the Interests of the Jewish People
Kutfit-u nit Swunrt-iVosj" ftlull Matter oil January 27. 11C1. at rnsiolllre nt Oinnha. Ket.rnsUa niiiler the Art of March 3. 1879
QMAHA, NEBRASKA^ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933
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Center RELIEF LOAD OF to Ope LOCAL FEDERATION NEARLY TREBLED
Plans are bejH sentation of
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THE FUTURE OF
VOL. IX—No. 46
Olympic Protest Seemingly in Vain
CAMPAIGN
Berlin (J. T. A.)—Of practically Cabbage no avail have been protests by the ers Guild at t h Amateur ''Athletic Union of the UniCenter the latt{ ted States and the American OlymEconomic Conditions Cause an early part of ^ pic Committee against discrimina- Chosen 1934 General Chairman Added Burden Since tions against Jewish athletes in Ger- of Drive at Executive MeetThe Guild a c t _ ^ ~^jX the Center man sporting circles. A resolution of this season ares'1ina'er' the direction 1931 ing Wednesday the former group which threatened of "Mrs." Herman Jahr. (Reprinted From Scribner's) withdrawal of American participaThe date for tryouts will be anThe relief load shouldered by. the j tion in the 1936 Olympiad scheduled lecal Jewish Federation has trebled nounced as soon as the script is reIn this article Stuart Chase pre- j row of the American consumer—al- and in that of many students in to be held in Berlin, unless the dis-j Annual Federation Meeting Set •"•-•••: since 1931, according to figures dis- ceived. sents some outstanding rviews which I ways -provided the mass production whom I place great confidence, that criminations cease, w h i c h evoked ] Harry Silverman, well - known for closed by Jacob S. Pearlstein, execumerit the attention of every indivi- system continues to function a t all. depression was not of the order of from the German officials a pledge tive director, in a report to the dual, whether he be in business or The maintenance of a given civil- earlier depressions—which simply op- to desist, in addition to other moves \ his activities in communal affairs, will ] be £3neral chairman of the 1934 caroexecutive committee of the - Jewish whether he be a wage-earner. The ization depends On an equilibrium. erated to bring in line a relatively intended to prove tolerance of Reich I paign of the Jewish Philanthropies. Community Center and Welfare .Fedproblems dealt with here strikes at There must be a working balance be- modest debt structure with a rapidly sports bodies, have failed to accom- I He was chosen at a meeting of the eration Wednesday evening. the very fundamentals of our eco-tween man and .natures-climate, na- rising production growth curve — plish their purpose. i executne committee of the Jewish, In November, 1933, for example, nomic future, and will be of. interest tural resources, the man-land Tatio— but a new kind of depression altoA new order was issued by "the the Federation ; handled 121- cases a s to all.—The Editor. and between institutions,' classes, gether. Equilibrium Was definitely compared with 42 in November^ 1931. power groups,' within the community. upset, and American civilization was new Reich Cabinet Minister Colonel This is exclusive : of tiie children* The consumer, as every American Individual satisfaction - may not "befaced with the problem of finding a Ernst Roehm, commander-in-chief of cases and transients. It also does not knows, is a little, respectable, su- high, but i t must be over the line; different basis for social and econ- the storm troops, charging all meminclude the case work service to : the Open Meeting Sunday Afternoon burban clerk, with glasses, an um- high enough to insure reasonable sta- omic stability. We can never, I con- bers of sports associations to wear brella, a lot of packages, and a wor- bility. When it drops below the line, fidently believe, revive the old basis special badges now -worn by storm Old Peoples Home. to Be Followed by Banried expression. At the risk of de- equilibrium is lost and the' social —unless mass production, labor-sav- troopers. The order holds regardless The report revealed that the ing . devices, energy installations, in- whether the athletes or sportsmen stroying a time-honored national fig- structure put in Jeopardy. quet in Evening transient problem has reached- stagure I submit that the picture is all In the economy of scarcity—low- vention, research, the whole para- are troopers or net. Jewish members gering proportions. In January the of the sport groups are of course Federation took care of 39 transiRabbi Theodore N. Lewis of Mount wrong. The consumer is not a man energy cultures -primarily devoted to phernalia of abundance, are scrapped forbidden to wear the badges. and we retreat, in panic and in terbut a woman—women buy at least agriculture and f handicrafts—equients, in February, 5 1 ; March,'75; Sinai Temple, Sioux City; la., will April, 120; May, 176; June, 139; July, be the principal speaker in the local three quarters of all goods for ulti- librium, once established, tends to ror, to the stabilities of genuine, 198; August, 195; September, 14i;; celebration of eighth International A. mate consumption—and, far from persist for relatively- long historical physical scarcity. The formula of capitalism has run October, 73; November, 85. The Z. A. Day Sunday, December 17. The being puny, she is an Amazon, tow- periods. Having come to' terms with ering, portentous, blocking the whole nature and the food supply,, men are transients cost the Federation close day's program is- being sponsored lout. Even while we mechanically reeconomic horizon of the years before loth to upset the balance, even if to §1,500 a year. jointly by the Mother chapter No. 'peat this conclusion, most of us still us. » . standards of living are low, and theunconsciously deny i t Our eyes, In addition, for the first nine 1, and Sam Beber chapter No. 100. She stands thus in my mind des- surplus above subsistence passed on round with wish fulfillment, look months of this year "the 'Federation On this day the members of the pite the miserable role she has fre-to landowner, noble or priest. All the across a waste of bankruptcies, foretook care of 53 patients requiring quently played in the past. Totally world lived in the-economy of scar- closures, impounded bank balances, hospitalization, giving a total of 94U unorganized, she has time and again city up to a generation or two ago-— passed dividends, lost jobs, privahospital days. paid scandalously high; prices for America being no exception, save for tions, and heart aches to a corner A large number of those requiring sleazy goods and services. Shrewd ad- the fact that her surplus was notwhich surely must be rounded. Eag- Only Small Minority Dissent at relief from the Federation are vicvertisers have shamelessly exploited transferred by use and wont to a erly we read, and eagerly editors Stueben Society "Gertims of' the depression, being either HAKKY SILYEEMA1? her conscious and unconscious hopes time-honored ruling class. The sur-supply, any scrap of evidence which unemployed or receiving an inademan Day" and fears, promising her beauty by plus was shared, to a large degree, points to a return of prosperity. We 1934 Philanthropies Chairman quate income. the jar, health by the bottle, sex ap-and when passed on, went to land- brighten as we hear that the WidCommunity Center and Welfare FedNor is every, case one of relief. peal by the vial, superiority to her lords, • speculators, and financiers • by get Company of Sauk Center has New York (J. T. A.)—Attacking Some call for relief, others for servneighbors by the yard, well-being for anything but an orderly, traditional taken on. ten more. men. If on the the' anti-German boycott, the New eration Wednesday evening at the ice. An incidental service case may her children by the pound . . . at process. Throughout the * American same day the Atlantic Company of | York City government, the part Center. The Philanthropies drive is held in require considerable research and- efgood, round prices per jar, bottle, life of scarcity- -say from 1620 toNew" York has dismissed 1,000 we do played by tha United States in the fort. Included in this category are vial, yard, and pound. She has lived 1870—equilibrium -was maintained; not hear, of it, and we do not want World War, and the V e r s a i l l e s the spring of each year. At the conthe finding of relatives, alleviating in a vast, impersonal, highly special- satisfaction, while not general,' was to hear it. Yet until last March the Treaty, the Steuben Society in its clusion of the 1932 campaign it WM decided to name the next general the pressure of house payments, ized economic world, where vendibil-j sufficient to keep the economic sys- real news behind the printed news German Day celebration acclaimed chairman months in advance so that budgeting, straightening out domesity has completely overshadowed tern functioning, and steadily to in- iof the depression was of this char- Hitler and Nazi policies in an en- the details of the campaign would be tic difficulties, etc. thusiastic celebration " a t Madison serriceability; where all face-to-face crease the surplus. acter. But the astounding vogue of well organized when the drive got In recent- months the Federation relationship between buyer and seler About five or six decades ago, (technocracy bears witness to what Square Garden b e f o r e a packed under way. This was so successful has availed itself of federal relief, has been lost. She has not, save for the growth of the ^technical arts and millions of Americans felt down deep. house of more than 20,000 persons. that the executive committee decided co-operating with the Joint Emera* few local services, like that of the the utilization of new forms - of en- They knew in their bones that the A number of Jewish people at- to continue the policy. gency Board which co-ordinates the village dressmaker or cobbler, the ergy in coal, oiL and natural gas, formula was done for; that capital- tending the meeting were manDr. Abe Greenberg was chairman ot entire relief work in the city. slightest idea who makes the pro- began to write finis on the economy ism, was no longer capable of fur- handled and driven from the "hall the successful campaign for funds Henry Monsky and Iryin Stalmaaducts she buys, or what sort of per- 1 of* scarcity, ---•*— and, - - * •••— ' j over, their, protestations cf having for -•*-the; •*•---•-•-=— first time nishing sufficient economic security ter represent' the" Federation on the sons they are; .while" the ."maker in in" history, •usher in an.^economy of to keep the social structure function- | come to the "affair as a gesture of held last spring, when over §,308 contributors pledged after a "thorough turn will probably 7ivyer "lay•-eyes abundance. A wit i i t s observed that ing- .1 ••. Joint Emergency Board, and Jacob good will. ,.••'•'"' canvass. — tm" her, aitd she £ becomes simply a scarcity connotes-p%dssure of .^populaS. Pearlstien represents the JTederaAmong those ousted froffi the celeThe distribution of income is such, Twenty-nine "agencies •--• local, nasales ticket for posting to his journal, tion on the food' supply; abundance under capitalism, that absentee own- bration were It. o b e r t Kosenbaum, . tion on the Joint Advisory'Committional and international — bencfittefi tee of Executives of Relief Agen- Rabbi Theodore N. Lewis of Sioux and thus to ledger and profit-and-loss —pressure of food supply on popula- ers cannot possibly spend all the president cf the Federation of GerCity, la. account. Under handicraft conditions tion. (My whole thesis in respect to rent, interest, royalties, and profits man Jewish Societies, and Dr. Fritz from the funds raised. cies, including the county. The family, welfare department is fraternity (boys from 1G to 21, with the face-to-face relationship pre- the consumer is implicit in this quip.) they receive. Squander as they may, Schlesinger, a prominent member of Annual Meeting Date. administered by the Family Welfare chapters throughout the . United vailed- The producer had to be care- Droughts and pestilences spell crisis jmost of the income to capitalists German Jewish social circles in New At Wednesday's meetinp of the Committee of which Mrs. Harry A. States and Canada) rededicate them- ful of his reputation for workman- in scarcity! glutted warehouses spell must be reinvested. When one insur- York. Both assert that they were • executive committee, the date for Wolf is chairman. Included on tne selves to the Junior B'Nai B'rith ship and fair value. But under mod- crisis in abundance. ance company, or one savings bank, holding their peace when members j the annual meeting of the Jewish ern conditions, as Vehlen says: "One With the coming of a high energy takes the savings of a great number of the Steuben Society pointed them | Community Center and Welfare committee are: \. program which " is devoted to the Federation Tras set for Tuesday Mrs. L. Neveleff, Miss Blanche mental, moral and physical upbuild- can with an easier conscience and civilization, changes in transporta- of poorer people, the same principle out to the police and demanded their 1 manufacturing, construction applies. Opportunities for profitable ejection. eTening, January SO. Fnll anZimman, Mrs. J. J. Greenberg , Mrs. ing of its members—the strengthen- with less a sense of meanness take tion, nouncement Trill be made in next Philip Sher, Rabbi Frederick Cohn, ing of their Jewish affiliations—the advantage of the necessities of peo- work, merchandising, banking prac- reinvestment, therefore, must be con- When Gustav W. M. Wieboldt, week's press. R&bbi David A. Goldstein, Rabbi Uri abatement of the pernicious influ- ple whom one knows only as an indis- tice (but not theory) were to be ob-stant and expanding, for capitalism chairman, opened the program, exserved, but equilibrium persisted. demands a compound interest return plaining that a challenge had been Miller, Dr. Morris Margolin, Dr. H. ences • of bigotry and race prejudice criminate aggregate of consumers." Another feature o£ the meeting was As I write, it appears that the While it was apparent that a finan- on its savings. This is readily proved issued by "those who call themselves Hirschmann, Dr. J. Weinberg, Dr. A.—and the stimulation of interest in t h e Greenberg, Dr. Max Fleishman, and humanitarian, educational and philan- consumer is faced with an excep- cial and price system, developed in by the growth of the debt structure 100 per cent Americans," he was jt h e presentation of the relief report o£ tionally precarious situation. Her the economy of scarcity, was having in the United States. The curve of j roundly booed from various parts of j Federation by Jacob S. Pearlstien, Messrs. Sam Ravitz, Harry Silver- thropic endeavors. well-wishers tremble for her; -she considerable difficulty in adapting its growth for fifty years has been I the Garden. i executive director. This report revealman, Irvin Stalmaster, Henry MonRabbi Lewis will speak at the open trembles for herself; the Consumer's itself to conditions of actual or po- a compound interest curve. By 1930 When German Ambassador Dr. !e d t h a t since 1931 the relief load oC Bky, Louis Sommer and William meeting to be held in the lodge Advisory Board of the NRA is one tential physical abundance, by and the conpounding facter was 8.2 per Hans Luther arose to speak, the j the Federation had trebled. HoLzman. rooms of the Jewish Community Cen- big tremble. Anti-trust laws are held large the adaptation was made. cent. It is obvious that to fulfill audience accorded him a tremendous jr_^ ' ~ ^ The case work is done by Miss ter Sunday afternoon starting at 3 in abeyance under the new dispensaBy 1930, however, the limits of this cardinal requirement of the cap-Nazi ovation. "Heil" resounded i \ r \ Rose Cohen under the close super- o'clock. Included on the program tion, thus tending to deprive her of adaptation seemed to have been italistic formula, markets must ex- throughout the lar^e main hall of X U vision of Mr. Pearlstien. will be reports on A. Z. A. activi- whatever benefits free competition reached. The financial formula pand at an equal rate. During the the Garden, as Luther stood at the The federation budget is met by ties; dance numbers by pupils of has afforded her in the past. Trade founded on scarcity had stretched as nineteenth century and well into the rostrum and rendered the Nazi sathe Community Chest. the Cora Quick School of Dancing; association control of prices, quotas, far as its tensile strength permitted, twentieth, markets did so expand, lute. The tuixiult had scarcely died selections by pupils of Harry Bravir- and markets makes for greater possi- in an attempt to confine and control with the population of the world down, when a woman fifty feet from off. Dr. Leon E. Fellman, advisor bilities of monopoly and quasi- mon- the brute pressures of technological doubling in something over a cen- the rostrum screamed. "Down with of the Mother chapter, will be chair- opoly than the nation has hitherto abundance. It snapped, and the Great tury. The field for profitable invest- Hitler, down with Hitler!" The cry T h e educational committee of the man. The general public is invited. known. Meanwhile the Administra- Depression followed. In my opinion, ment was wide and lush. was taken up in all parts of the j Jewish Community Center, which has At this time a class of fifteen new tion is deliberately fostering higher of the Community Forum scThe formula does not allow the Garden, as the surprised audience ] rcharge ies members will be given the first de- prices, assuring us that thsy are nedistribution of goods on the basis i countered with "Heil Hitler." The j » -^11 hold a special meeting this gree, initiation. Stanley F. Levin, cessary, inevitable, and to be-expectof human need; it knows nothing police rushed to various parts of the | noon, December 15, at the Hill. advisor of A. Z. A. 1, will install ed. What is to prevent, the tremblers of serviceability, only vendibility. To Garden and escorted shouting men j At. this meeting plans will be mads cry, unconscionable profiteering in a Dr. A. A. Steinberg was unani- them. secure goods for consumption a fi- | and women from their seats, out of j for the lecture by Norman Thomas, situation with monopoly encouraged mously chosen president of the OmaIn the evening a banquet will be nancial token must first be present- the hall. The band s t r u c k up to be held at the Center Monday ha Hebrew Club at the election held given for members of the two chap- and higher price levels blessed? ed. The presence of that consumer's j "Deutschlana Euber Alles," and the evening, January 8. The outlook seems dark indeed. It last Sunday afternoon. j The subject for the address by Mr. token is chiefly dependent on wages audience joined in singing it. ters, alumni, and B'nai B'rith memThree heils were called for Hit- Thomas and other details of the lecThe other officers named: B. Felt- bers. Rabbi Uri Miller-will be guest may well be that in the next few and salaries. Wages and salaries are dependent partly on opportunities to ler. They were given with the ut- ture will be decided upon at this man, a member for more than 30 speaker. Addresses will be given by months the consumer will be put uptime. years, vice-president; Sol• Rosenberg, Sam Beber, founder of A. Z. A. andon one of the toughest spots of her The Study Group of the Conserva- make, the goods, and partly on op- most enthusiasm. At the conclusion cf the Luther William Grodinsky-, chairman of the secretary, re-elected for the thirty- president of the Supreme Advisory whole tough career. Despite the earn- tive Synagogue is planning a week- portunities to extend the apparatus ninth consecutive term; John Feld- Council, and Philip M. Klutznick, for- est solicitations of the Administra- end institute of Jewish history on —factories, steel mills, power houses speech, another woman was dragged educational committee, expressed his man, treasurer; Ben Kazlowsky, mer executive secretary of the A. tion, the- decent co-operation of many January 26, 27 and 28 at the Jew-—whereby consumers' goods are pro-from her ^eat bawling, '""Down with pleasure at the capacity attendance duced. The formula demands a capi- Hitler," and many other dissenters wluch attended the opening lecture Louis Morgan and Jack D. Gaven- Z. A. William Wolfe, junior member business men, the very considerable ish Community Center. man, board of trustees; Irvin C. of the Supreme Advisory Council, amount of ' protective competition "Dr. A. L. Sachar, national head tal goods sector of continuous invest- followed her as the band again i of the series by Dorothy Thompson, which still remains, and the screams ment as a flywheel for the whole pro- struck np to drown out all protest. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, in private life. Levin, Daniel Schwartz and Hyman will be toastmaster. Those wishing of the Blue Eagle, she may find her- of the HiUel Foundation, will conHowever, those Germans who dis- Since Thomas, socialist candidate Shrier, executive board members. ? to reserve plates for the banquet may self paying unprecedentedly onerous duct the institute. He will give three cess. For it is only by employing milSunday's election was the clnb's call the J . C. C. formal lectures and lead three round- lions to make new plants, machines, sented formed a small minority of for president in 1932, is extremely prices for unprecedentedly shoddy table discussions. power dams, railroads, that consum- the audience. popular and recognized as one of eighty-sixth election. The committee in charge of the goods. ers receive a sufficient wage and salthe great liberal thinkers in America,, Dr. Sachar is well known to Omaopen program and banquet includes I confess, however, - that I find it ary total to take the goods off the another record attendance is expected Harry Weinberg, Louis J. Riklin, difficult to view this situation—if it ha audiences, having spoken here shelves. Madam Consumer's purchasJanuary 8. several times. Those who have heard Louis Canar and Iz Mittleman. comes—as more than a passing ing power is all tied up with the capThe Forum tickets this year conAleph Zadik Aleph was founded in phase. We shall all suffer while it him know him to be one of the ital-goods sector, which is all tied sist of five tickets, interchangeable,, most eloquent speakers on the AmeriMay, 1924, at Omaha, by Sam Be-lasts, but four lean years have inup with profitable investment, which and all five good for the same leccan lecture platform. He is the auber, as a medium for organizing ured us to suffering. What concerns is all tied up with headlong expanThe second annual Chanukah dance | ture, if desired. The five sell for A. Rice, of London and. Poland, Jewish youth in model fraternal me is the long-range point of view. thor of "A History of the Jews," sion. of the Ladies' Vaad Auxiliary wili|?S. Single admissions are ?1. secretary of the world Poale Zion groups devoted to building Jewish I have reason to believe that irresis- which has run through several ediWhen expansion reaches the physi- take place this Sunday evening atj The other numbers on the Forurn who is in this country for a speaking character. In 1925 the fraternity was tible pressures have been long a t tions. In his lectures he speaks with tuor, will be in Omaha today and adopted by B'nai Brith. Since then work behind the scenes and are nowauthority and always fascinates his cal limits of mathematical compound- the Paxton Hotel ballroom, starting i program are: Bishop McConnell, ing, as it seems to have done in 1930, a t © p. m. Austin Bevans and an j Wednesday evening, February 14; Saturday, December 15 and: 16, as it has been featured as one of the bursting stormily into the open, audiences. the guest of the Jewish National major projects of the wider scope of which will make the consumer dpm-; "This institute," stated Rabbi Da- the opportunity for profitable invest- eleven - piece orchestra will furnish j Oswald Garrison Villard, Wednesday Workers Alliance ^and the Pioneer B'nai Brith. inant .in the years—if not in the vid A. Goldstein, "will enable Omaha ment disappears, capitalists large the music Special entertainment will i evening, March 14, and Maurice Samuel, Wednesday evening, April Women. ^ months—immediately before us. SheJewry to receive the great gifts in and small sterilize their savings- "by also be held. hoarding their funds in the banks, For those preferring cards there n is being forced into an entirely new Jewish historical information which Mr. Rice will ..be the principal role. Mass production, as Edward A. Dr. Sachar has to offer. It will be which, find difficulty in reinvesting will be card tables on the mezzanine speaker at a Chanukah celebration Esperanto Potjt Dies them; workers are no longer emby these.two organizations a t t h e J . Warsaw.—Felix Zamenhof, a poet Filene has pointed out, means noth- the most enjoyable and the most in- ployed in the capital-goods sector*— As this is the major project on i M u s t C. C. Saturday evening. The public who wrote in Esperanto, died here ing unless it means production for structive event of the year for Omaat least their number drops alarm- the Auxiliary program, the public is ! Berlin.—German Jews will be comthe masses. The country is committed ha Jewry." , is invited. at the age of 65. ingly—leaving them without wages urged to attend. pelled to move oat of the larger This evening, Mr. Rice will be a He was a brother of Lazarus Lud- to this technique. I t is the American The admission charge for the and salaries. Total purchasing power especially Mrs. A. Milder is chairman of ar- cities, it was indicated by governguest a t the services of the Con-wig Zamenhof, inventor of the lan-way of life, as- well a s its pride and whole series will be $1. is no longer adequate to clear the rangements, Mrs. William Milder and | mental authorities in announcing the servative Synagogue. He- ;• will, - lead guage, and son of Markus Zamenhof, joy. It cannot function without a vast Miss Grace Dansky, president of shelves of consumers' goods -save at Mrs. N. H. Greenberg are co-chair- (establishment of a special ccmmis: an open"; forum on the; world Jew- a professor of; German at the Vet-body of consumers able and eager to the Study Group, is-in-charge of arruinously low prices. This spreads men of the program committee, and | sioa by the Reich Ministry of the Inish situation as he has seen it in erinary Institute of the University receive its mammoth output In this rangements. Miss Zelda Saferstem Mrs. Sol Lagman is chairman of jterior for the deponulation of the obvious fact lies the bright tomor- ia in charge of the ticket sale. his' Europeans travels. • j in Warsaw. (Continued on Page 2) tickets. i German cities.
By STUART CHASE
RABBI LEWIS TO SPEAK AT A L A . DAY CEEBRA10N
GERMANS IN NEW YORK CELEBRATION ACCLAIM HITLER
Lecture by Thomas At Meeting Today
DR. A. A. STEINBERG
NAMFn PRFSinFNT OF
OMAHA HEBREW CLUB
SECRETARY OF POALE ZION GUEST HERE
INSTITUTEON JEWISH HISTORY BY DR. SACHAR
Auxiliary Chanukah Dance This Sunday