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It isn't calling y o u r neighbors names that settles a question.

Entered as second-class mail matter on January 27th, 1921.. at ' poBtofflce,-;-'•• Omnha, Nebraska, - nndcr. the Act ot' March 3, 187».

Entire Community to Welcome Sokolow and His Noted Associates

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921

CHARITY

BROWN'S DAY OFF

THE JEWISH TRAGEDY IN EUROPE

From the big Philadelphia zone zone meeting December 18, David A. Brown, -chairman of the §14,000,000 WHY $14,000,000 ARE NEEDED ' -< appeal of the American Jewish Re: lief Committee, jumped on a night • •'•/'••:'/.:. - . / . ' " ' ' . * By J A C O B B I L L I K O P F \ ;- • train for the West, and the next day Delegates From Eleven States,! Tribute to Leaders in Jewry Will he was back at his old job of selling be Paid by Omahans ne&t in U. S. and Canada, to Meet. newspapers on the streets of Detroit. 1=5] Month. * Here May 29 and 30. Whatever phase of the' great Jew- gen. relates should be .known to every call it,, and this. "Huehner Krankheit" Once every year, just before the holi"NO COLLECTIONS AT ish tragedy of Eastern Europe one Jew because it illustrates the point I is claiming its;victims in the scores day season, prominent citizens of FIRST B'NAI • B'RITH CONVENTION IN OMAHA IN ' MEETINGS" SLOGAN OF momentarily regards as the most ag- am trying to make. He tells of a of thousands among,the Jewish war Detroit who once were newsboys give a day to selling papers at their old TWENTY YEARS. onizing, others' press' upon your group of Jewish children whom he orphans of Europe. ; • LOCAL COMMITTEE thought with equal poignancy. In saw" at play. They were playing i a Ninety-five thousand of Jewish stands, and the proceeds of their sales The fifty-fourth annual convention,! .Omaha.is expected to turn out en other words, the tragedy is as.multi- new game. There were two "sides" children, out of a" total of 200,000, in are devoted to providing holiday cheer masse to welcome Nahum Sokolow, form as the "galuth." Yet, it' seems of players. One "side" represented the Ukraine: alone, are : doomed to for the poor kiddies of Detroit. James of District No. 6, 1. O. B. B. will be] Vladimir Jabotinsky, -Prof. Otto Warto me that, when all of the great deal Jews, the other' "side" represented death during this winter. And I am Brady, vice president of the Ameri- held iff* Omaha next May. This announcement was made by burg and Col. J. H. Paterson when that can be said has been uttered re- "pogromchiks," and the game was for wondering; whether the fate of these can State Bank of Detroit, is chairthey arrive on ..January 1 1 . ... garding all of the phases of the trag- the "pogromchiks" to assault the Jews 95,000 will not some" day be envied man of the "Old Newsboys Goodfel- Henry Monsky, President of the Dis^ Aside from their'official connection edy, there is one that" stands out .in and for the Jews to save themselves. by those who survive. At arfy rate, low Fund" as it is called, and in his trict, on his return from a meeting I with the Keren Hayesod, which makes boldest, starkest relief. It was in my native town of Wilna, nothing more appalling has ever con- letter summoning Mr. Brown to the of the District Grand Lodge in Chi-j their stay here of deep interest to That is "the tragedy, of the chil- which I revisted the summer before fronted the Jews in all of their long, iield day, he enclosed a check. for cago this week. This will be the first j thousands, of Palestinian sympathizers, dren," the tragedy of 300,000 Jewish last as a commissioner of the Joint Dis- terrible history. This one phase of S100, for the American Jewish Relief time in twenty years that the con~j vention has come to Omaha. the Jewish members of the delegation children orphaned in consequence of tribution Committee, that the tragedy the situation "alone, should be suffi- Committee. occupy a position in world Jewry that the war. One contemplates this trag- of the' children was brought 'to me. cient to make the Jews of America • This was Mr. Brown's first day off District No. 6 is the largest in the I commands the respect and .admiration edy with special horror, even if he is With a noted correspondent of the eager to help, even to the point of since he assumed the chairmanship order in point of membership, and | of all ' Jews. Col. Paterson, a not: a sentimentalist.. He contem- New York World, I was returning to sacrifice. Perhaps ; they will be able of the campaign, at the beginning of comprises the states of Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, WisconChristian Zionist, has held high miliplates it in its present agony of hun- the hotel after a meeting of the relief to visualize the extent of the "chil- October. : sin, North and South Dakota, Illinois, | tary positions upder, the British govger and cold to which' these waifs are committee. From a dark alley we dren's tragedy" when I tell you that and the Canadian provinces of Mani* j ernment. . exposed; he 'shudders with horror heard a dismal, heart-rending sound, there are about 10,000 children in all toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Realizing the honor which will be when he realizes that death will claim the sound of the children wailing. We of the Jewish orphans of the United The 1922 convention 'will be Iield | conf erredTon Omaha through the visit these babes in terrible numbers; but, penetrated the alley, but it was some States combined., But these 10,000 on May 29 and 30.- It is estimated of these' distinguished guests, the he contemplates this tragedy also in time before we could locate the source American Jewish orphans are in asythat over one hundred delegates wiil of this wailing. ;And then we found local Keren Hayesod committee, a t terms of the future. -And, for those lums, in" institutions where they are attend, who will bsing with them an whose invitation they are coming, who would peer into the future, there two children, a brother and a sister. fed, clothed, sheltered, protected, eduequal number of visitors. took steps Tuesday night t o make is a terrifying picture of the genera- They told us between sobs that cated snd give an-opportunity to beGeneral sessions of the conventioB seemed chronic that their father had their, stay here, an event of comtion of Jews that may result from the come useful me. and women. There munity-wide significance. present- tragedy of the children. For been killed in a; pogrom and their are in Europe" thirty times the num- The J. D. C. and Other Large are open to the public, and the community is always invited to attend Neighboring Communities Invited. these children, most of whom have mother had disappeared. They ' had ber of Jewish :orphans that we have them. Organizations Co-operate in All elements of the city will be seen their brothers and sisters and not eaten for many days, and that in this country, .but the orphans of » The local committee on arrangeBig Enterprise. Qsked to join in receiving the visitors, State-wide Appeals to be Made parents slain before their very eyes; they, had no place to sleep. We roused Europe sleep iri the' fields and in the ments for the convention will bo to Raise Quota in and in making the program of their most of whom have lived through the the family on whose doorstep we forests, they eat roots and grass, and $14,000,000 Drive. two-day, stay here one of interest and hells of war and pogrom, are • not found these, waifs, and persuaded their last rags' :are dropping away I N.S T I T U TION TO START selected at ,-£he meeting oi Omaha Lodge tonight. feppeal to every Jew in Omaha. Neighonly unsheltered, unfed, unclothed, them to give the children shelter over their bodies. ; Surely, American BUSINESS WITH $500,000 COMMUNITIES IN but they are without feeling, without night. : The next morning we took from boring communities will be invited to MANY Jewry will come'to their rescue! IOWA ALREADY participate also. any conception of right and wrong. these orphans to the Wilna Orphan New York. (J. 'C. B.) A credit unJewish' Pride Asserts Itself. ORGANIZED Uneducated, except alas, in that bru- Asylum, three mean little buildings ion and co-operative bank with a A committee of five, consisting of Beyond any doubt, the Jews of tality which is characteristic of post- in which there were 286 children. working capital of 1QO,000 pounds to Harry Lapidus, A. Cohn, I. GoldAmerica have dorte much, very much Jews of Nebraska and Iowa'are bellum Europe, without any ethical Stein, L. Kneeter and Henry Monsky, since 1917, for the relief of their Eu- begin operations in Palestine by the Blinking; Blinking, Hideously 'all set" to answer the appeal of or moral concepts, "beggars, gamins Was- appointed Tuesday to select an ropean brethren. The colossal sum of first of the year, is being organized RABBI JAMES G. HELLER SUCBlinking. Europe's J e v s for help. ?300,000. will and worse, • the residue' of that vast by four leading Jewish organizations arrangements and • reception commitbe raised in these two states for the horde of orphans may grow up with And there we saw another phase of $47,000,000 has been raised since the of America and Europ^e, according to CEEDS HIM IN B'NAI' tee of fifteen men and women, repfirst relief confeVence was held in fourteen, million dollar fund of the hatred in their hearts for all man- the tragedy. We saw hundreds of YESHURUN PULPIT. an announcement issued yesterday. resenting every "element . of, Jewish New Yqrfc .city.. No one: will.ever be American Jewish Relief Committee. kind. children sitting in the courtyard of " ' " • ' •' These organizations are the Reconlife in Omaha, on whom will devolve The campaign in both states-will " It -is this from which they must be the hospital, rythmically, hideously able to compute how. great was. the struction Committee (Col. Herbert H. Rev. Dr. Louis Grossman, for manv the task of arranging a. program and number of Jews "who were "save' d from begin' officially on January 15, and savedyBven as inuch as they must be blinking- their" eyes. At first we years rabbi of- Congregation B'nai Lehmaft,.chairman), of the Joint Disreception befitting the honored posi_will close twor-weeks Jater.' \ : - ~ saved from hunger, from told, from thought that this was some new pas-death by .this, remarkable . munifi- tribution Committee (Felix M. War- Yeshurun, of Cincinnati, O,, has re• " t i b n ^ "Held Pby the guests. cence. But—and this brings me to signed from his ministry owing to ill Bernard B. Burg, of ChicarjS state death. It is because I fear th~e future : time, but we learne/1 that these chilWill Give $5,000 For Palestine. „ . the second phase of the problem. The burg, chairman), the Palestine De- health. At a meeting of the bo?mi dren had been afflicted with a peorganizer for. Iowa has been busy for even more than the presentj so far A feature of the program will be Jews of Europe are not, they never velopment Council (U. S. Supreme of directors of the congregation last the past two weeks"and reports, that •as these children are "concerned, that culiar ailment due to malnutrition and - a mammoth public meeting a t the were ^chnorrers.. To them the soup- Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, hon- week it was resolved that the resignapractically all of. the larger com- I regard this phase of the Jewish even starvation, which caused them to orary chairman; Judge Julian W. Municipal Auditorium on January 11'. munities are r e a d y to begin 'their lose control of their eyelids during kitchen and-the'bread-line are as irktion of Dr. Louis Grossman-as rabbi No funds will be solicited at this campaigns a t once. Des Moines, problem of Europe as the most im- the hours of dayligLt and compelled some, are as humiliating as it would Mack, chairman), the Palestine Econo- of Congregation B'nai Yeshurun te perative for solution. • • ' . ' : . ' ; • mic Council of London (Sir Alfred meeting, nor a t any time during the Davenport, Sioux City and Council them to blink, blink, blink until the be to you and to me. While the great Mond, Minister of Health, British Cab- accepted from and after December 4, stay of the delegation here. darkness came and with it a partial emergency was on, while it was inet, chairman), and the Jewish Col- 1921, and that from and after that Bluffs are. among the cities that have . A New Game for Children. The Keren Hayesod committee has been organized.. The local committee I have seen some .of this tragedy cessation of that hideous blinking. merely a desperate .struggle to avoid onization Association of Paris (ICA— date he shall be rabbi emeritus of the pledged itself t o collect at least $5,000 for Council Bluffs includes O. Hoch- with my own eyes, and I know where- This is one of the plagues which the death from starvation and the Jews 1 congregation—that he be entirely and on the pledges made last Yom Kip-man, chairman, B . Gilinsky, Vice- of I speak. That remarkable young Joint Distribution Committee medical of Europe accepted the bread-line and D. Avigdol Goldsmith, Esq., London fully relieved of any and all duties pur for -resentation to Prof. Soko- chairman, Julius Rosenfeld, treasurer, man, James Becker, of Chicago, has unit is grappling with. As I trav- the soup-kitchen, on the principle that representative). and services; and further, that, in low on h j arrival here. This money and A. Aginsky, secretary., Officers seen it in other phases. Dr. Bogen eled through Galicia and Congress "needs must when the devil drives." $150,000 Capital Stock. appreciation of his many years of will but immediately forwarded t o of the state committee are Jacob L. has seen it, and so have Dr. Frank Poland I saw thousands of children But, now, when hunger has been loyal service to the cause of Judaism Under the preliminary agreement, Palestine, for use in reconstruction Sheuerman, Des Moines, chairman; Rosenblatt and Judge Harry Fisher of blinking in that hideous manner. assuaged somewhat; the old Jewish which has already been arranged, the and to his congregation, the board work there. Twenty-five committees :; Davidson, Sioux City, E. P . Ad- Chicago. One incident which Dr. Bo- "Huehner Krankheit," the Germans bank is to have capital stock of at of trustees, he authorized to pay him (Continued on page 2) have been organized to eollect this ler, Davenport, and H. Smulekoff, least 30,000 pounds to be subscribed $10,000 forVhe year 1922; and farmoney before January 5. edar Rapids, vice-chairmen; M. by the Palestine Co-operative Com- ther, that it recommends to futurenumber of 1 eading Yiddish playMandelbaum, Des Moines, treasurer; pany, the first business corporation boards that proper and ample proviwrights, novelists and poets, and also GOVERNMENT NOT and Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer, Des established by the Palestine Develop- sion be made in accordance with the writers of the daily Yiddish and HeTO AUTHORIZE VISES Moines, secretary. • i ment Council, whose treasurer is Sol spirit hereof. brew press, who regard Mr. Sokolo\v PER CABLE Louis I. Kaufman, of New York, Rosenbloom of Pittsburgh, and by the Rabbi James G. Heller, who had as the dean of the profession as •well Washington. (J. P. A.) The State has been named state organizer for FAMOUS WRITERS ENTERTAIN as their guide and leader. A. B. SEELENFREUND, CHICAGO, Palestine Economic Council; 70,000 been serving as Dr. Grossman's asHEAD OF KEREN HAYESOD Department announced that hereafter Nebraska. Mr. Kaufman will leave TO SPEAK-AT OPEN pounds is to be loaned to the bank sistant and who was formerly assistA number of prominent journalists COMMISSION. it will not send any cables to consuls Monday for a tour of the state, visMEETING. by the Reconstruction Committee of ant to Rev. Dr. Joseph Krauskopf at. invited to the luncheon could not atauthorizing the granting of vises to iting every Jewish community and the Joint Distribution Committee and the Keneseth Israel Temple, Philatend but sent their greetings. Among ; New York. —- About seventy-five aliens desiring to come here. It was getting everything in readiness* for The annual B'nai B'rith day celethe Jewish Colonization Association delphia, was promoted to rabbi and them were Herman Bernstein, Bruce formerly the practice, of the depart- the start of the campaign. He has journalists, including some of the Bliven, Donn Byrne, Frank I. Cobb, bration of the Council Bluffs lodge for a long period of years at a nomi- placed in charge of the active work ment to authorize vises by cable when been in touch with local chairmen of most prominent writers of the Jew- Irvin Cobb, Herbert Croly, Hamlin of the B'nai-B'ritb will be held Sun- nal interest. of the congregation. the necessary expenses were paid by the various communities, and has ish and English press, were present Garland, Norman Hapgood, William day, January 8, at Eagle's hall. The Equal Representation. relatives here. Hereafter such au- been assured of the heartiest co- at a luncheon, at the Hotel Breevort, Hard, Hamilton Holt, George A. Ko- entire day will be filled with affairs OMAHAN WINS" ; New York, which was tendered in Each of the four organizations is thorization will be sent by mail only, operation of every Jew throughout for the B'nai B'rith. HIGHEST SCHOLARSHIP honor of Nahum Sokolow; head of the hut, Isaac F. Marcassan, Albert Jay In the' afternoon, a class initation to have equal representation on the the State Department declaring that the state. AT HARVARD . . . Zionist Delegation visiting this coun- Nock, George Paks-Ochs, Henry L. the sending of cables gave an advantwill be held for the members only. Board of Directors of the proposed Stoddard, Samuel Strauss, Mark Sultry and well known Hebrew journalist. bank; it was stated. An organization age to persons who were in a position Sol A. Rosenblatt of Omaha won This luncheon was arranged by the livan, H. E. Swope, Augustus Thomas, In the evening-there will be an open meeting will be held in London or the highest scholarship award at SOVIET WANTS EMBASSY to pay the cable expenses. meeting for' the entire public, when Louis Untermeyer/Samuel UntermeyIN HOLY LAND pnblishers of the Jewish press. -The Harvard university, according to a er, H. J. Wright and S. L. Mencken. the newly elected officers will be in- Paris : within a few days. Constantinople. (J. T. A.) The So- Jewish Morning Journal, the Day, the The Palestine Ccf-operative Comnews dispatch from the east. JEWS AS VICTIMS OF stalled., at ' which Henry Monsky, viet Government intends to^ establish Jewish Daily, the Zeit, and the pany will be represented at this meetHe is the son of Mr. and' Mrs. president of'this district, will preside. PETLURA INSURRECTION consular offices at the more important Hadoar. The gathering included London. (J. P. A.) Sir Alfred Lemberg. (J. T. A.) Ukrainian points in Asia Minor and the Medi- such prominent writers as Arthur Mond, minister of public works and Folowing the installation a program ing by Major James de Rothschild, Morris Rosenblatt, 401 South Thirtywho visited America about a year ago eighth street. . refugees airiving here state that durBrisbane, Adolph S. Ochs, Simeon chairman of the Zionist economic will be given during which Mr. Seelen- in order to organise in this country terranean sea-ports, including PalesThe young Omahan also has won ing the Petlurist insurrection, 38 JewStrunsky, S. S. McClure, Lester Mar- council, will have the title Lord con- f reund will make the principal address a branch of the Palestine Economic distinction on the. college debating tine, the Soviet ambassador told a ish villages were partially destroyed, kel and Heywood Broun. ferred upon him at the commence- of the evening. . Dancing will follow Council; the J. D. C. by James N. Ros- team. many killed, and a great number of representative, of "Pravda," the offithe program, • Included in the gathering were a ment of the coming year. enberg, Esq., chairman of the Eurocial Bolshevik organ. Only 21 last Sunday, Rosenblatt houses ransacked. pean Executive Council, and Morris is a senior in the arts college and is L. Ernst. carrying his first year of law at the 1 The purpose of the bank, according same time. He completed four years' to the plan drafted by Mr. Rosenberg, work in three. He is u. graduate ofis "to enter Palestine as a stimulator Central High, edited the High School of thrift and purveyor of capital and Register arid led the local school decredit. bating team. Our solicitors-are out in These-are-bui a few of the "Enclosed is.my. renewal. I ' the: field. . They will call many notes we have received will look forward with as much on you, for your renewal, from • our . subscribers. "The pleasure to receive "The Jewish this* week. Save your time -Jewish" Press", keeps them in RENEWAL' BLANK • Press" in 1922 as I did in 1921." and theirs, -Mail in your touch with all the events in 'M. Monheit, 1512 Harney'St. Jewish Press Publishing Co., renewal today.. Jewish life, locally-and through- • out the entire world. They do ' 482 Brandeis Theatre Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. "Your paper is very fine. I not want to,miss a single issue am glad to renev/ my subscripGentlemen:— of the paper. tion for 1922." Enclosed is check for $2.5© io renew my subscription to "THE Mrs. A. Gilinsky, JEWISH PRESS" for one year from date of present expiration. Can you, as a Jew who wants 725 Mynster St., Council Bluffs. to keep abreast with the times, as a Jew, who .wants to be in"You are publishing a good Name •formed of the happenings in paper. Enclosed is_ $2.50 to reJewry the world over, afford to new my subscription for the be without "The Jewish Press"? coming year*" I Address Think it over. Emil Ganz, 2960 Harris St. -* «£'uesday evening • five, hundred ,*§ % workers engaged in raising in % ~ £o two million dollars for relief . i 'ople of their race'in-Europe assei _ .:;• to .enjoy a banquet for which they had paid $8.50 a plate, as a means of boosting the campaign. Arrived at' the banquet hall, they were confronted with a picture that enabled them more clearly to visualize the conditions they are laboring to assuage. - -. - • They found wooden tables, bare of food or other decorations. - There were no electric lights, only, candles. They did not e a t Their .chairman, Jacob Loeb, explained that they had met to dine but would not do so because the cost would be sufficient to constitute a crime, in the face of the starvation 'in' Europe. . The fund was thus enriched by $4,250. .- . . : : That's charity.' To deny oneself in giving to others is to faiow satisfaction. .To gorge Avhile raising-money with which to buy soup for the starving is to create a satire on the spirit that inspires real charity.

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