Promises will get you friends, but nonperformance will t u r n them into enemies. Benj.
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Let a man contend to the uttermost for his life's prize, be it what it wiJL Browning.
Entered as second-class mail-matter on January-27th. 1921. at postofflce at Omaha. Nebnika." under the Act of Karen 8, 1878.
B'nai B n t P i d g e s Of Omaha And Council Bluffs Prepare To Make Convention Great Success
,OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1922
ZIONISTS AND ARABS TO MEET IN GENOA.
Social Workers to Discuss Important Jewish Questions
SAMUEL" SEEKS UNDERSTANDING WITH ARABS.
PUBLIC RECEPTION ON MAY 28, MEMORIAL SOWICES AND BANQUET ON^MAY 30, UNDER AUSPICES QF LODGES, WILL BE OUTSTANDING EVENTS OF FOUR-DAY P R O G R A N t /
Cash Must Positively Be Secured At Once If Community's Social Service Work Is To Be Cotmued
ONE HUNDRED WORKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD RESPOND TO EMERGENCY CALL TO SAVE CITY'S LARGEST ORGANIZATION
Jewish Soldiers to Hold National Conference Hay 2 0
Julius Rosenfeld Elected New Head of Chamber of Commerce
Mexkan Government Invites Isunigraiits to Settle There
SPECIAL CONVENTION -NOTICES
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Jewish Soldiers Keep the Services
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Federation Facing Desperate Financial Crisis, Must Have Eighteen Thousand Dollars
London. (J. C. B.) Sir Herbert Genoa. (J. C. B.) Representatives Samuel, British High Commissioner of the Palestinian Arabs and of the for Palestine, will seek a readjustZionist Organization are expected to ment of relations with the Arabs in seek an opportunity to put their respective claims before the conference National Conference of Jewish Palestine soon after his arrival in or one of its commissions if and when Social Service to Meet in London, it is • learned. The urgency of dealing' with the Arabs is more the question of the British Mandate Providence, June 18. pressing now than before, in view of for Palestine should come up. Moussa Kazim Pasha of Jerusalem, head L O C A L EXECUTIVE WILL the fighting between Mohammedan and the French in Syria and of the Arab Delegation, is accompaS P E A K ON OMAHA'S Arabs Transjordania. nied by his secretary. Dr. Welzmann, PROGRESS DURING the Zionist leader, is expected in a Dr. Ch. Weizmann, President of the TSAR. few days. He will be accompanied by World Zionist Organization, has gone Mr. Leo Motzkin of the Committee of Hundreds of Jewish social workers to Florence to meet .the High ComJewish Delegations, who hopes the and laymen interested in Jewish com- missioner, who arrives there from Conference will take up the question munal work wBl gather from all Egypt to-day. The Zionist leader wfll of Jewish emigration. parts of the U*ited States in Provi- probably^remain a few days to confer dence, R. L, to attend the annual with Sir Herbert Samuel regarding conference of Jewish Social Service, the Paleestine situation. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS CASH IS NEEDED June 18 to 21, inclusive. BY THE FEDERATION BEFORE MONDAY NIGHT. A program; of unusual interest, emThis message will be taken to every subscriber of the Fedbracing all phases of Jewish philaniration and to every Jew in Omaha in a three-day intensive drive thropic activity, Jiere and abroad has for funds for local Jewish social service work, which started this been prepared,;andtrill be presented morning. And so desperate is the present financial condition of by leaders in each field. the Federation that unless this message is heeded by the people AB elements of Omaha and Council Bluffs are co-operating Will Meet in Philadelphia' at Call of Special emrnars -has been laid on >f Omaha, and unless every resident of the city does his full duty tomake tiieicbnyentionof District No. 6, I. O.; B. B., which will the United Jewish Veterans. the importance ©f the work being sy the Federation, the Federation will have to suspend all of be held in Omaha, May 28th to 31st, inclusive," the biggest comdone in the smaller Jewish communi- A Member of the' Chamber of Com- ts activities. merce for Ten Years and Served TO TAKE UP MATTER OF OR-ties, and two sessions of the confermunal and social event of the year for both communities. Never before, in the entire history of the Federation, in all as a Member of the ExecuGANIZATION. . ence will- be given over to a discusFrom all sides offers of assistance have come to the comits years of caring for the hundreds of needy and deserving: tive Board During the sion of this work. Samuel Schaefer, mittee in charge to guarantee that delegates and visitors to the widows and children of this city, in all its work for the YM and Past Year. convention will leave enthused with the spirit of cordiality and New York. (J. C. B.) A confer- superintendent of the Jewish Welfare YWHA, for the Wise Hospital, for the City Talmud Torah and ence of representatives of demobi- Federation of Omaha, has been ingood will that pervades the two cities. the Talmud Torah on the South Side, for the Old Peoples Home, Jewish soldiers, including Pales- vited to speak at each of these ses- FIRST JEWISH MAN TO HOLD lor the Cleveland Orphan Home, for the Consumptives' Hospital*, No labor is being spared to make the four days of the con- lized SUCH OFFICE IN THIS CITY. legionaires, has. been summoned sions. On Monday, June 19, he will n Denver, in all its social service and immigrant aid work, was vention replete with activity, not only for the delegates, and the tine to be held in Philadelphia m May tell of the developments in local Jewthe Federation in such desperate straits as it is now. members of the two lodges, but for both communities as welL 20th and 21st, simultaneously with ish social work during the past year, Council Bluffs, la.—Julius RosenMeetings, services and social functions are all being planned for the American Jewish Congress. ONLY THE IMMEDIATE CASH' CONTRIBUTIONS OF on Tuesday, June 20, he will dis- feld, head of .the Continental Furniparticipation by every Jewish citizen of Omaha and Council With the return to this country, and TS SUBSCRIBERS AND THE ENROLLMENT AT ONCE OP cuss the subject of a standardized ture store and prominent member of BluffsEVERY JEW IN OMAHA AS A SUBSCRIBER CAN SAVE more than two years ago, of the first budget for small communities. The Further details of the four-day between the hours of 8 .and 11:30. demobilized Jewish soldiers, a gen- presidential address to be delivered THE FEDERATION. —«, 10.00 program were completed at a meeting There will be dancing and refresh- eral feeling arose that a Jewish,ex- by Dr. Solomon; Lfcwenstein. liead of At the regular meeting of the Mrs. S. Fish....^ A. Mitchell moo of the convention executive committee ments, and the entire eigth floor of soldiers' legion was needed t© perpet- the- New York <£ty Federation, will ^deration Board Sunday the report Jt. Greenberjr -.— 10. W> Max L. Fanger: the hotel will be available to ac- uate all that was best in the spirit deal with "ThesStatus of Federation yesterday. The complete of Samuel Schaefer, superintendent, 3. 10.00 Li. Stem Harry Robinson gram provides for hospitality to the commodate the immense gathering. awakened the members to the crisis moo which had moved the Jewish soldier with Special Reference to the Smaller Mrs. *Belle A. Pollack 10.00 convention and to the communities of confronting the Federation. Sol Rosenberg ^ Council Luncheon on Monday. during the war. This feeling, con- Communities." , A. Iitpsey...-: io.«» tDmaha and* Council Bluffs, by the On Monday morning the first ses- fined at first to those of the Jewish Mr. Schaefer repotted as follows: Harry Segal 10.00 Of particular interest to many A. J Walk IG.Oft B'nai ' B'rith lodges in these two sion of the^convention will be held. soldiers who had served in specific O. Woolfson ft.OO communities'", throughout the country fc.00 "For the first tine in 12 cities, by the Women's Auxiliary" of While the delegates are in attendance Jewish units, spread gradually to the Morris Klein 6.00 will be the pager by Jacob. Billikopf, months we start a new month Jacob Herman..... 6.00 the B'nai B'rith, the Council of at the Monday afternoon session the larger number that had served under 5.00 B. Skurnick of Philadelpbia^n flie subject "Shall with a deficit. On April 30, 5.00 .. Klirs Jewish-Women of Omaha, the Jewish Omaha Council of • Jewish Women the American flag, and in time a Jewish <Jomimuflty Organizations Join 5.0 TJ. Adrene 1922, we . faced an actual cadi Women's Welfare Organization, the will be hostesses to the visiting wo- number of preliminary attempts, were Community Chests?" The place of Goodmuu deficit of $800, and unpaid bill* Jo«. Sisterhood of Temple Israel, and themen.' A one o'clock,luncheon, follow- made and failed..-It, took/,time"JTor Jewish -education in a general cbmamonntmg rto $508. Council of Jewish Women of Council ed by a business^ i ^ meeting of the *Our normal -expenditures' for tional meetings ot the ^Conference M»r .jtnd June will average Be given z£ the Blackstone. This tion of an organization. voted to it, and will be discussed by $4200 each, a total of $8400. •will- be - the • annual - meeting of the : Dr. Alexander DushMn, of New York, We must pay our affiliated inWill Organize. Council, at which -reports of the Louis H. Levin, of Baltimore, and stitutions their semi-annual apprevious year's activities will be .'The^ arrival in this country, of Vla- other authorities. propriations in June. This will dimir-Jabotinsky, the founder, pf the given, and officers for the ensuing cost $4300. We need $4000 for year elected. Every member of the Jewish. Legion, served. to bring the •Health Program to be Discussed. Chancellor States Mexico Is Willing BANQUET AND LUNCHEON the month of July. These figDr. Michael M. Davis, of New Council i s expected to attend and to soldiers and legionaires closer toto Pay Travelling Expenses -RESERVATIONS.ures, together with our deficit bring her friends. . Every women retfier. Shortly after" his arrival Mr. York, editor of the Health Section of Settlers. on May 1st, make it absolutely interested in B'nai B'rith or Council Jabotinsky addressed a mass meeting at the "Survey," the national social The committees in charge of imperative that we collect $18,of Jewish ex-soldiers in New York, work magazine, will give details of work is also invited. the banquet on Tuesday, May 30, OFFICIAL REPORT ISSUED 000 at once. We cannot do and a temporary committee was ima program of health education among the local lodge of the B'nai B'rith, and* of the luncheons during the On Monday evening the delegates FROM CHANCELLOR'S business without funds. convention days, "ntake the folto the Convention will be the guests mediately formed to take up the mat- Jews. Dr. Boris D. Bogen will nar- was elected president of the ChamDEPARTMENT. T h i s Board is today confrontrate the lessons for disaster relief ber of Commerce at an election held lowing announcements relative of Ak-Sar-Ben at the first den show ter of organization. ed with tw* problems. One is The committee in New York mean- f o u n d i n the work of the Joint Dis- Saturday night to reservations: of the season. _The. women visitors New York (J. C. B.)—Official com to collect $13,000 still doe from while busied itself with plans for will be entertained on this evening tribution Committee, of which he has Mr. Rosenfeld, who has been a Accommodations at the banquet firmation of the report that the Mexiold subscribers for the first half by the Women's Auxiliary of the further activities and with the publi- been European director for five years. member of" the Chamber of Com on Tuesday, May 30, are limited. can Government desires to extend of this year. The other is to Omaha lodge at an Orpheum party cation of "Der Yiddischer Soldat," Other subjects to be discussed will merce for about ten years has also Harry Malashock, chairman of every facility to immigrants* who will collect $5000 from new members followed by dinner at the Athletic the instrument of the organization of include The Jewish Settlement move- been on the executive board of the the Banquet Committee, urges all settle as colonists and agricultural and in increases from old memClub. They wiU be joined at the Jewish soldiers and legionaires which ment, methods of Jewish child care, Chamber. Mr. Rosenfeld is the first who wish to be assured places to laborers is contained in a communicaClub by the men at the conclusion has evoked considerable interest in training for Jewish social workers, Jewish man in' Council Blttffs to be- bers, and to get the cash into make reservations immediately. tion from the Chancellor's Departthe office without further delay." Jewish circles. of the den show. prevention of the establishment of come the president • of the Chamber B'nai B'rith members are espement to the Jewish Telegraphic The conference is being called by needless Jewish agencies, and budget- of Commerce. Following this report, a special Agency, the English translation of cially urged not to wait to receive (Continued on page 2) a provisional committee of the Uniting national institutions. Mr. Rosenfeld is an active member meeting of the Board and all Fed-which follows: formal announcement of the baned Jewish Veterans and Legionaires, The Association of Jewish Com- of the B'nai B'rith and a member eration workers was called for last quet, as there has been an un"The Secretaria de Fomento composed of Gershon Agronsky, Jo- munity Center Secretaries will meet of the Temple Israel cf Omaha. Mem- night, and was attended by over 100 avoidable delay in making indiforms the persons interested in seseph Brainin, Samuel Cohen, Elias at the same time as the Conference bers of the organization will enter persons. Following brief talks by vidual announcement. Reservacuring: the exemptions conceded to Ginsburg (Ben-Ir), Alex. Gold, A. of Jewish Social Service. The Na-tain at a banquet' this evening fo: president tions are $2.50 each, and are now Morris Levy, Harry foreign immigrants by the Act of the Kretschmar-Israeli, Arie. Levinson, tional- Conference of Social Work, a the newly elected officers. being received by Harry MalaLapidus, chairman of the finance President of the Republic of January; Report of the Jewish Welfare Board Judah Ruble, Maurice SamueL non-sectarian organization, will meet shock, 1514 Dodge street. Checks committee, and Harry Monsky, every 2, last, that they are to follow the States that Jewish Soldiers EvIn Providence for one week beginning must accompany all reservations. person present rose and volunteered course herein stated:— DEATH PENALTY FOR erywhere Observed the June 21. This conference usually Reservations for the Council of to do everything possible to rescue LOCAL JEWISH "Make an application indicating th« GRAFTERS. Holidays. brings from 4,000 to 5,000 social Jewish.Women luncheon on Monthe Federation. GIRL WIN point -through which they will enter Moscow. (J. P. A.) An unique workers to. its annual' meeting. day, May 29, should be made by Today one hundred workers were SHORTHAND CONTEST the Republic and that of destination, trial took place last week before the Reports already received by the mail through-Mrs. Ed. Trailer, St. in all parts of the city collecting so that the. respective orders for pasMiss Stella Horwlch, daughter of Revolutionary Tribunal for Criminal Jewish Welfare Board indicate that Regis *pts^ I-fore May 26. Price LOCAL BOY GRADUATES subscriptions and securing new mem- sage by the respective Railroad cam Mrs. IL Horwich, and senior at the Causes. Four-Jewish merchants, Droz over 1,500 men in the U. S. Military per plate, $1.00. SCHOOL LONG LIST nin, Sr., Droznin, Jr., Meknanz am bers. On Monday night another be issued; this should be accomand Naval Service and disabled vet- South High School, won first p'.ace in OF ACTIVITIES Friedman, were tried on • the chargi special meeting of the Board will be panied by a Certificate from the ConMrs. Harry Z. Rosenfeld, 105 the State Shorthand contest held at erans- partook .of the Sedarim and N. 40th SU, is now receiving resE. Oscar Weinstein, son of Mr. and of briberyj having given over 600 mil held, at which reports will be made, sul or Consular Agent in their place Passover hospitality arranged for by Lincoln, Neb., last Friday. Miss Horervations for the Sisterhood Mrs. H. B. Weinstein, will complete ilon rubels' gratuities to governmen and every worker guarantees a 100 of residence, testifying to the charac.;x wich averaged one hundred words per the representatives and community luncheon on Tuesday, May 30. committees of the Board. minute. Seven contestants were en- his course at the Kemper Military employees^in order to secure the gov jer cent report. ter of the petitioner and confirming Mrs. Rosenfeld may be reached School at Boonville, Mo., Mondiy, ernment c&ntract for army supplies. tered, each representing a district. that- he is going to the interior of If every Federation subscriber Among the Sedarim carried out by phone at Harney 2031, and Miss Horwich won the district hon- May 29. the Republic in order to establish Droznin; Sr., was acquitted of th and every Jew in Omaha will were -those held at Cristobal, Canal should be called before May 27. Weinstein has served as assistant ors in this district last ApriL Miss himself in an agricultural colony. charge. Moms" Drozniri, Jr., his son realize the work the Federation Zone, at which 145 men were present, Price is $1.00. When the immigrant has reached his at Tientsin in China; at Manila in Horwich is the assistant business editor of the Kemper News during the and Melman were sentenced to be is doing and what terrible reReservations for the luncheon of the Philippine Islands"/ inJ Honolulu manager of the "Tooter," the school past two years. He has also taken an shot, which" sentence was immediate! sults would follow if the Fed- destination he will ask for the active part in school athletics, being a carried out. : Friedman, who merel the Jewish Women's Welfare Orin the Hawaiian Islands and Fort-au- magazine. eration closed its doors, the re- voucher of ibis arrival and the exmember of the football, track andbas- acted in. capacity of a Broker, was sen ganization, on Wednesday, May penses that have been entailed, in Prince, Haiti. ports will be 100 per cent each. ketball teams. He was the composer tenced to three years' imprisonment RABBIS GO ON^ STRIKE. 31, may be made by calling Harfreight and duties, applying again to The Jewish men in the Army of The following new members have the Secretaria, so that the. awv ney 7332 before May 27- Price Kovno (J. P. A.) — The rabbi of and director of the musical comedy Occupation were not forgotten on presented at the school at its •umiverjoined the Federation since last re&ponding orders can be given to for luncheon i s $1.00; cards 50c Rossoyn, and his associates -declared this occasion. On the evening of sary last January. He is also a mem- KATTOWITZvCOMMUNITY Wednesday: extra. Prizes will be offered at have the amounts he may have paid April 12th a Seder was held at Cob- a strike. They refuse to render any ber of the school band. LEAVES "GERMAN UNION SEW FEDKKATION MEMBERS each table. out for duties reimbursed through lenz, Germany, was graced by judgment upon the many religious FROM MAY 11. Berlin. -{J.CvB:) Announcement the Ofincina de Hacienda nearest to questions incident to small.and pious Mrs. Anna Weinberg... —% 30.00 the presence of the Senior Chaplain 23.00 his residence, and 50 per cent of has been jnide of flie withdrawal of Mrs. Clara KoBerrater. On Sunday afternoon a three hour of the American Forces in Germany Jewish community, do • not celebrate TYPHUS EPIDEMIC RAGES IN L. Lirf . . aw auto tour of Omaha and Council and local Jewish dignitaries. Over the wedding ceremony, and abstain PROVINCE OF HOMEL RIGA the Jewish community of Kattowitz M. L. Cohen 2500 the freight on his baggage and G. Gatombick 20.00 cattle." Bluffs will be made by t i e delegates .100 Jewish men in the Service .with generally from performing any funcRiga. ( j . P. A.) The typhus «!P»- from the union o f German ^ehilloth, 3. Palk 20.00 Fellman and visitors and their hosts of both their families were present as the tion related to their religious posi- demic in Homel is raging with in- on the ground'that Upper Silesia is Harry ...___ 15.00 M. Turner 13.00 now under Polish^ rule. A. WoolfBon tion. Their demands' are pur^y creased violence and fury,—smallpox guest* of the Board. •communities. 15.00 Moscow. (J. P. A.) A commissibh Potash 12,00 A tendency to'sever all affiliations M. A total of approximately 20,000 economic They demand an increase being extremely prevalent. This new In the evening Omaha Lodge No. S. Sugarman 10.00 has been designated to investigate th% B. Stock . 10.00 354 and Council Bluffs Lodge No lbs. of Matzoth, 14;000 Passover in their salary as they, can not satis- outbreak of the disease has been defi- •with Jewish" organizations in Ger- 3. Wilinsky history of the Jewish Workers' Move10.00 688 I. O. B. B., will be hosts to the greeting cards and 3^500 Haggadahs fy their needs with the present salary. nitely traced to the immigrant refu- many are becoming manifest in other 3. Knlakofsky.. 10.00 ment. The members of the commisHarry Frnnkel 10.00 circles in Poland. The B'nai B'rith gees from t^e Ukrainian province, £ 2 communities of Omaha and Council were distributed by the Board. EvMax Gnmat , 10.00 sion, Aster, Froomkin, Rafess, Breg10.00 Bluffs and to the convention delegates ery effort was made to give each LEMBERG IS ONE THIRD JEWISH per cent of the disease being among lodges of Warsaw and Lodz are con10.00 man and Agursky, will meet in«the templating ti&e'fbrjnation of separate Lemberg (J. P. A.) — The last them. and visitors, at a reception at the Jewish man in the Army and Navy 10.00 10.00 near future to frame and to publish a and at Veterans' hospitals .the oplodges whidb," together with those national census gave Lemberg about Blackstone that will truly demonThe mortability rate has reached as J clear declaration of its «im and |urstrate the hospitality of the two portunity to commemorate this im 220,000 inhabitants of which .77;0fl0 high a figure as 70 per cent, and there in Upper Silesia, will constitute a new OrderTff "tlKrB'nai B'rith. or one third, &re of Jewish descent. is no sign of relief in sight. cities. The reception will be held portant festival occasion. • — •Mlnken.
Women's Auxiliary, Council Of Jewish ~Women Of Omalia And Council Bluffs; Jewish Women's Welfare Organization And Temple Israel Sisterhood "To Give Community Luncheons And Entertainments
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SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, 52.50.