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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1921;
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'•"THE/JEWS1"ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF THEIR OWN." We'Jews. have.heard this sentiment often from non-Jews:, so-often that we have come to think that this represents ourj chief-virtue-in: their-eyes. We have grown proud of our name for doing- splendid Jewish social service, and rightfully so. _ Do we. wan-ant the name? Have we earned it? As individuals, yes. .For hone of us, be our circumstances ever soj poor, .will turn away empty-handed those who "ask for aid and All Jewish • Organizations in succor. As communities do we warrant the name? Has the! Join in One Drive; Jewish community of Omaha won it? Is our great body of) No More • Money Appeals ., 12,000 Jews deserving of it? . 1 At the regular. meeting of the racing since the arrival ,in this counto Be Made This Year '-i - .Consider these facts. Of approximately 2,500 Jewish fami-t Omaha Zionist Organization Tues- try on April 2nd last of Dr. Charm day evening,, Mr.- N, Kneeter. was Weizmann, president of the World j Again Ask President to Veto lies in Omaha only 625 contributed to the Jewish Welfare Fed-i Place::; Fontenelle Hotel Ball appointed as delegate to attend the Zionist Organization,, has become so Immigration Bill, Claimed eration in 1920. Only 450 men and women were sustaining When you contribute in this members of the Y. M. & Y. W. H. A. last year; the rest werei drive, Room; Time: 8:00 P. M.; National N i l C t i i o be. teld ; in acute that Judge Mack and tho.se Convention .you contribute to all Jewish to Be Aimed at the Jewseemingly ;not sufficiently interested in the welfare of their j philanthropic May 15-H-N6 -Collections. who stand with him, will go before Cleveland in June. charitable, orish Immigrant. children to help support that institution. The Cleveland Orphan; ganizations inandOmaha, including Thirty-three new members were the convention, the date of which has All "Omaha Jewry is invited to taken into the organization at the been advanced by four months, with a •Individuals and Jewish organ- Home expended over $8,000 in caring- for the Omaha, orphans} Y. M.'H. A., Jewish Welfare Fedizations of Omaha and the -rest of in the Home during-" 1920, and received from Omaha less than! eration- and others. attend the mammoth B'nai Brith Tuesday evening meeting, and $50 demand for a vote of confidence. meeting to be held a 8:00 p. m. Sun- was granted to the Junior Judea Dr. Weizmann, who at one time the state have sent telegrams, to one-sixth of that sum." So the roll-callof institutions and, organ-! No more tickets—no more balls. iay, May 15, in the Fontenelle hotel C l u b . during the course of the-negotations President Harding, appealing to him izations goes—each one continually handicapped in its work! Give once and that's all. • ••, • oall room. over this question is reported to have to veto the immigration bill, the same because "of' lack""of"funds, each facing a--deficit annually, each! The B'nai Brith lodges of Council New York, May-11.—The main issue been ready to sign the agreement cov- as , was done by Wilson when struggling ag-ainst- overwhelming odds to do the maximum good I The. drive for ?50,000 for with the. limited means at its disposal. Bluffs, Lincoln, and Sioux City also before the next annual convention of ering the points insisted upon by president. . "'complete federation" of all Are Omaha Jews "different than those of other cities? Hunhave been invited to attend the the Zionist Organization of America, Judge Mack, finally took the stand Telegrams of protest, as follows, Omaha Jewish philanthropic dreds of communities throughout the country are doing Jewish scheduled for Cleveland, June 5, will on April 20th that the Zionist Organ- have been sent by every synagogue meeting. and charitable ..organisations ill social service'that is the outstanding element in the general comAn excellent program has been be whether the majority faction < of ization of America, as a subordinate and lodge in'Omaha: Omaha was launched at a meetmunity life. There, is a valid fact in the statement "The man arranged... There will be' two speak- the" National Executive-of that body, body, is bound by the resolutions President Warren G. Harding, who can't give "to charity should receive charity." For giving ing of volunteer workers Tuesled by the president, Judge Julian W. adopted at the World Conference of" ers of national prominence. They are: Washington, D. C to charity, means' not only giving in the sense of donating, but day, night in the Jewish Welfare Mack, are to be sustained in the de- the movement, held in London last Mr. Gustavus Loevinger, promIn behalf of our starving and giving in the'sense'of'giving up, of sacrificing, of knowing that- Federation and Y. M. H. A club mand that in collecting money in this summer, which did not include the inent attorney of St. Paul, Minn., persecuted brethren in Europe • through the loss of some personal pleasure one has helped those, rooms, • " country for the Palestine Foundation safeguards now demanded. .Judge "who is vice-president of District we earnestly beg that you veto The campaign for funds will to whom pleasure comes at rarest intervals. Yet the man who Fund adequate" safeguards shall be Mack's reply, in effect, is that the No. 6 of the B'nai Brith. the Immigration BilL This bill last three days—Monday,, Tuesrefuses to give seldom says "I can't afford to". That would be set np similar to those set up for London conference, resolutions speciis contrary . to American tradiMadam S. Pisko, executive a reason. '..The refusal usually comes in the form of -an excuse.' day and Wednesday. No contrithe safeguarding of trust funds or the fically provided that the details of the tions and practices and would, secretary of the National Jew"I send money to my relatives abroad." "I like to s^e the persons' butions will be taken until funds of. American municipalities. fund should be arranged in co-operaif passed, prevent the uniting ish Hospital of Denver, Colo., to whom my money goes." "I don't believe in organized charity." j Monday morning. Judge Mack and his followers take tion with the federations, and that the of families of American citizens and national vice-president of stipulations set up by his group are And most vicious.-of all "If Mr. Smith'only gives $25, I shouldn't; The city has been divided into the stand that a budget must be set and residents separated by the the Council.of Jewish Women of not in contradiction of the London give more than $1.00." • districts. Each district fs in up for Palestine work and that all exAmerica.. Madam • Pisko recently > penditures for the upbuilding of the resolutions: In addition, he contends war. It- woald result in untold There may be a reason for not giving,, but there can be charge of a' "captain''. Each made a tour of the United States suffering to the war victims no "excuse. The future of every individual-is linked inseparably- *'ca.ptaln'? will have a team of future Jewish homeland must be in that he is carrying out the mandate in behalf of the Council of across the spss who look to this with the future of - th-e; city in which he lives, and'a community,"lieutenants". Har:y accordance -with this budget which; is of the last -convention of the Zionist Jewish Women. She is very .•country asfrtlrar only salvation. Organization of Americain Buffalo can move "forward" only if there is a conscious will, and effort be ."general" off the drive. to be met monthly,, and that, the active in all Jewish. national World Zionist. Organization shall last November, which unanimously The bill limits the admission of on the part of "the individuals comprising tfcs comrnuritj- to _ make' vill be assisted by the fiaffairs and has addressed many re romr-'Upp r*,* the Fedpublish, monthly^ a statement setting voted for. the separation of invest- aliens to three per cent of the num- it move forward. Social welfare rneens s* miOi to a clt? a^national conventions. ' jndustrial and commercial welfare. * V>Ticre tr?~e i*. TJO vision chairman. forth receipts and", expenditures un- ment and donation funds for' Pales- ber of r,<
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/ The committee in charge feel elated; der thisv budge^ They: propose, far ; ~" in obtamlhg two speakersbi" such" thery^that contributions ' i r o m ^ S ^Palestine Inundation Fund for purposes importance for this mass- meeting. not .covered by the fixed Palestine To. Have Moving Pictures budget shall be made in such amounts During the evening Madam Pisko as shall from time to .time be detershow moving pictures of the mined by the president of the World National Jewish Hospital which owns Zionist Organization and the president a farm of seventy acres—eight square of the Zionist Organization of ,: blocks—upon which are located the American latest designed buildings which hous8 The controversy which has been persons afflicted with tuberculosis. The hospital is one of the greatest THE "ARBPITER-BING" monuments to American Jewry. CONVENTION IN BOSTON Besides Mr. Loevinger and Madam Boston. (J. C'. B. Sei-vice,) The '21st Pisko Henry Monsky will speak. His annual convention of the Jewish • subject will deal with Jewish welfare Workingmen's Circle ><Arbeiter-Ring) work in Omaha. There will be sev- opened here on May 1' arid continued eral musical selections also. throughout the week. Delegates repHarry Lapidus will preside." resenting 84,000 members, organized The committee has announced that in various : branches throughout the no collections or subscriptions of any country, participated in heated dekind will be solicited or accepted at bates which revolved largely around questions of 'the * fraternal 1 features the meeting. A class of more than 100- new of - the Federation. Addresses were Members will be initiated by Omaha delivered by.Abe-Cahari; editor of the Lodge, "No. 354 at 3:00 p. m. Sun- New York "Forward," Vladimir day at Crounse hall, Sixteenth street. Medes, Max Pine and x>ther well and Capital avenue. This meeting is known Socialists. .' The t Convention for members only. Visiting B'nai was informed that,the Circle had conBrith. members are .invited to attend tributed ?50^)00 to the War Sufferers I fund, during the last year and had this meeting, also. I maintained the splendid, sanitarium for its sick and convalescent. It was RELIEF AGENT
tine, 'without the- coznniing'ly either;-'and' provided1 for' "tfie'eiteSisnment of adequate safeguards- which would guarantee' to' contributors the application of their gifts to', certain specific- undertakings. In his refusal to enter into the proposed agreement Dr. Weizmann has the support of 14 of the 51 members of the National Executive, and a large 'number of the Zionist rank and file.'
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The* .financial condition, of the Jewish philanthropies of, the'Federation rooms, Lyric buildon. Omaha is - a serious indictment against the Jews of Qniahs.' ing>. Every person vi&hinp to Opposing the measure and speak- We choose to say that this condition is due to lack of education part in the drive is invited ic »t ing earnestly against the passage of in philanthropic Tteeds on the-,part of our people rather to m-,the.meeting. .Instruction? and csrds the bill, were Senator James A. Reed, herent "selfishness.. The Federation drive, for $50,000 on next^-ili be given out to the vorkrrs at of Missouri, Democrat, and Senator Monday,.Tuesday arid Wednesday will give. Omaha Jewry an; this time. . ...... i ' Many More-Problems to Soto. Hiram W. Johnson, of California, opportunity to redeem themselves. Sixteen-separate and distinct philanthropic activities are; «<If tlfe m o n e v i s n o t raisef-.. p a H o £ Republican, who sought to have provi„, ,._ sions to «xempt Irem the three per embraced in this community chest Its success will niean then A pf ^ p._,___. cent limitation those emigrating to success. " ?50,000 divided between them will mean that each of, C B r t a i l e d „ ^m m BRITISH PREMIER escape religious or political persecu- them can continue its work without fear of forced suspension., c a u q e cf ' t h e l a _ ANSWERS tion. It wiU mean that the Jewish community is m back of them,; m i g r a n t s a r r M n s 1I3 u m a J %m These were contained in the bill as believing: in them and their work, standing by them. $50,000 u . o r k London. (J. T. Agency.) Without Federation- ha. lieen indirectly "referring to the '.'Morning it was passed by the House, but raised next week will mean that there is a vital forceful Jewufc j c i e a s e d twf) _ foM more proble: Post" Premier Lloyd George speaking were stricken out by the Senate community spirit'and consciousness in1 Omaha, without w l u c nI. ^ ^under ^ r i w i Hthe < m e "complete fn . in the House of Commons regarding Immigration Committee •when it no City can progress. The slogan is "Give Once To All". Complete Federation off &cco?ding to .president Germany's debts to the Allies, ac- amended the House bill and sub-, t h g r e wffl fce o n l y o n e clrire knowledged the criticism niade by stituted the original Senate measure. all Jewish social service in Omaha will put our philanthropy on, L the highest" possible plane, and rid the community for all time . dorf — fh& ve^ ^ •& no Ther; that publ ication and. refuted the Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of charge that he was being led by Jew- California, Republican/ sought to of charity balls,-raffles, advertising, and ail the other wasteful_ mo - re dl8rit j:. ball - ti c kct . B eiimp. ish financiers. The government, the have this provision reinserted by measures of raising money that have been resorted to m the past.> "Give once &n& thatV all _ premier said, has been accused of be- offering an amendment from the "Give Once'To All" will really, mean t h a t •willbe the motto of 41ie drive. . No Jew in Omaha can wish to have it said of Omaha Jews ing entirely influenced ^by Jewish floor, but was defeated, 60 to 15. that they do not-take care of their own. Nor can he afford to If the driT© is e. success, financiers. There are men ,• in this The bill is effective for fourteen country who are invariably making months, beginning fifteen days aft- have it "'said of ••himself. /For the true measure-of. a m a n s value j f r o r a . p r € s e n t indications if; such assertions.- They are the.type er.: enactment,'namely, on May 18th, to the community is'not'what he is in the community, bat wjaat (bej t l i e dream and hope of will come true. At- the recent of men who sing Jewish -hymns on thus providing for the admission of he does for the community. And what he does for the comannual meeting1 of the Federation* Sunday and the rest of the week proimmigrants now in transit. This munity he does directly for himself. pagate pogroms upon the Jews. As Every :Jew iff Omaha must help to put the Federation| j | r . -Levy bid-only one legislation will work great hardwas this: • . a* matter ~ of fact, the memorandum ship to a number of unfortunate, Drive over. ' regarding our financial settlements "Complete-.federation hy innocent people, who have been HONORED MRS. "IHAYME ERASNE with Germany."was made up by "four RABBI KOPALD year is my hope, v It is vr.y &m« driven from their homes by perse. LEAVES FILMLAM) biiion to h&v® • ull cSiudtafele SAILS FOR Fi'JnSl.\- - "-ided to enlarge the sanitarium, and bankers, two of whom are English- cution, and is in violation of Amer- : Buffalo, N, Y.} "May; II.- —. Rabbi
to .construct-.a-; special ,Workingsmen yircle building In" New'York city. \-i. in ;•' Much of the deliberations of the convention concerne'd, itself with a for i similar fraternal'; organization-." of workingmen called the Independent ;'r".i PubWorkingmen's Circle and it was del i e C o m mi'.': T ". '. •:•'.-. "/" f'^7^ Jo make every-effort to amalgafounded hsro ??-• '• I:' thousands c£ pr./uj.n c." food and mate the two bodies, . .
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JEWS THREATENED V •:, : .;;;•-.;.-;:-.>:•; | N : S I B E R I A London. (J. T. Agency.) A dispatch received here states that the Russian Baron Ungers on capfairirig the town of Urga in Siberia-issued a proclamation assuring all foreigners their safety with the exception' of" Jews and Bolsheviks who would be killed wholesale and outright.
AMERICA NOT c - • .ON MANDATES London. (J. T. Agency.) In the course of a statement-made in the House of Commons, yesterday the Honorable Arthur J. Balfour declared that the permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations is already fully constituted. All of the greater powers with the exception of America are represented on the Commission and include the following countries: France, Sweden. Portugal England, Holland, Belgium, Italy
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New York, May 11.—Work on the The Social Service Section of the new building of the Hebrew Shelters Jewish Women's Welfare Organing and Immigrant Aid "Society of ization-have been holding a unique America, the former Astor Library, at .exhibition this week at the Table 425-437 Lafayette street, is jiow en- Supply, where they are showing tering upon its last stages and within various articles made under their a short time the headquarters of the direction by the children in the public society, which are now at 229-231 schools. East Broadway, will be removed to Needlework of all kinds made Lafayette, street. '~ by children, some of whom are as The: "new home, as befits an institu- young as seven years, is being showntion of so national importance as the On Saturday at the Omaha AthHebrew Sheltering and Immigrant letic Club a luncheon will be given Aid Society of America, is replete to which all the -workers* teachers with the latest improvement and the of this recreational work in the most up-to-date equipment. schools, officers and directors of the Jewish Women's Welfare OrganANTI-SEMITISM IN LATVIA ization and interested members, Ere being urged to attend. INCREASING. At this time annual reports will Paris. (J. T. Agency.) Advices received here from Riga indicate that be read and the work will be disanti-Semitism in Latvia has consider- cussed and plans for next year made, Mrs. M. Langfeld, who is the superably increased more recently and is particularly noticable among' govern- intendent of this work, hopes that ment officials who mate no effort to this work will be carried on in many veil their attitude. Recently the gov- more schools this coming year and ernment has issued an order with- is anxious to have ladies for the drawing all passports from Jews %vho teaching of the various previously resided in .Latvia on the especially in milinery, which will basis of the Russian law enacted in be a new subject taught in the
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cr^anlsataions- aniied 4ttu1er tbs* Los Aageles, May ' 11...— Mrs. Mayine Krasne, winner of The Omaha head of the Daily News B-usiness Woman's te Popularity contest, after enjoying £ .-. Every Jew in Omaha, K aid ths volunteet -wotkere by whirlwind' series of entertainment in and meeting- famous stars of the ing-the pledge cards .ifrimr order to- save' them another trip Metro studios, left today, accompanied by her sister, Miss Belle Horwich, time. . Let's all 'put ©ar f>. for San Francisco'. Mrs. Krasne and Miss Horwielb to the ; wb.ee! posed before a battery cf motion j drive one grand. picture cameras with Metro players | • Following art the sssignmenU B'NAI BEITHLEADES HERE Monday. Tuesday, accoinimniecL by j cspteins and. workers by districts; Mr. S. A.'.Lewis of New York &d-,a special Metro representative, they 1—North of - IJUC« dressed the.Council-Bluffs.B'nai Brith visited points of . interest In the BISTBICT J. J. .Greehberg." Csptain; B'sn-y lodge at their .regular meeting -Wed- Hollywood film colony. nesday, .evening.-, Mr. _ Lewis is a 35ISTE.ICT 2—Ea«t-of 24th, prominent B'nai Brith worker, having -TURKISH JEWS CONFER and Grace Streets. Herman' Atwrbseh, Cnptaia J. H. organized .'a,,--chapter • at Tampico, London. (J. T. Agency.) Eepresen-j kolsfcy, Hsrrj- KubensfceJa. Mexico. , - - . . . • tatives of Turkisb. Sevrry are reported Si., of. The Council Bluffs chapter voted to to he in conference in a dispatch re-j I,ake «nd Parser Streets. Barrts, attend in vbody. the B!nai Brith cele- ceived here from Constantinopel. Thei bration to be held here Suaday. meeting is the annual convention of] Arnold liccvtir, 1. B. Kimman. Turkish organized Jewry and <!eals j nntl i"V A. mainly with local problems. It was.j DR.' GRODINSKY. LOCATES HERE. opened last Sunday by the chief.rabbi' i ' i O i f t r * * * —c.'Jr(£> > 'l<C«w1t;E and Dr. .Manuel Grodiasky, 'vrho has of Turkey. "~ • • j Krs.twwn MFH. Ptsvin I cili>v, *
Eopald of Beth Zion -was- nominated by the Eotary.Cbah.of Buffalo for the directorate'of that organization. With a membership of almost six hundred, the rabbi, through' a -popular vote, became • one • of the _ fourteen nominees for office of which iseven are elected. Due to the pressure 'of -many duties, the rabbi had to decline the nomination. • • '- • ' : '."• '• .
recently returned 'to . Omaha after doing special '.wcirk -at Mount Sinai Hospital' /at 1 :New York City, has opened ./.offices .'at 508- Brandels Theatre Building. Dr. Grodinsky. vho is the son of Eabbi cw! Mrc. H. Grodinski", is a graduate of Cer.trr.1 High School and Creation
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LARGE LAND PURCHASE IN PALESTINE. 'London. "(J.-T. Agency.) A report from the Hajruc FtaicE that the Jewish National Fund has just purchased a strip of 60,000 dunam of land in the fruitful Valley of Jezreel, from 'the Arab, Effeudi Sursak.
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