X A false friend, like a shadow,- •- attends only• while the sun shines. > Where "Papa" Goes "Mama" Goes Whenever you see Rube Buxkenroad, Abe Brodkey, Haylrin clad in basketball -suits and throwing balls at little round hoops in the gymnasium of the Jewish Community Center, it's safe to say that Mrs. Brown, Mrs. .Burkenroad, Mrs. Haykin and Mrs. Brodkey are not a great distance away. . Never, since attending the basketball games at the' center, have I seen any of the above mention husbands without their wives. And no staunch* er backers could any team want then these four -wives. They may not be so very large, but you should hear them yell. Last Wednesday the married men were playing basketball on the same " team. ATI were fighting hard to bring their team, the Brodkey Construction company/to victory. On the side lines fighting for the team, morally, as hard as the men could were their _ wives. It was some game. And they wonl
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Jewish , Farm in U. S. Shows ConsideraUe Progress Farm Loan Department Offers HelpteJSeedy
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50 VOL. VL—No. 8'
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, TKUBSE&Y,FEBRUARY 10,1927
PRIZE OFFERED FOR PURIM ORATION An- anonymous offer of a Five Dollar Priza for the best original oration on the subject of "Purim" is announced. All members of the Jewish Community Center are eligible. The oration! may : be on the. following subjects: /Hainan's in History", " T h e Significance of Purim", 'Esther's Heroism" crsd "Mordo cai's, Old and New", The judges are^to be •announced soon. The winning oration will be given at the Purim Celebration to be held, a t the Center in March. Further details may be obtained at the office.
Slier fdwtary Hies Bill Intended to Legalize Status of Irregularly Entered
APPRECIATION The board of managers of the Jewish Community Center takes this opportunity of expressing their appreciation for the geneTous amount of time and services rendered by the' ladies of the Center in managing and serving a t the J. C. C. Restaurant.
Nomination and .Election of ..Officers Will Be ' Be Held for the Coining Year ' .
Washington, D. C. (J. T. A.)—The Holaday. bill providing i o r the voluntary registration of aliens was considered, by the House Immigration "The annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation will be New York (J. T. A.)—The progCommittee yesterday and discussed held:. Sunday evening at the Jewish"- Community Center. 'The ress of the Jewish farm movement in at length. No decision was reached H a s Taken V Active Part ia Zeta meeting will begin promptly at 8:30 and-all members of. the Fedthe United States -was described in SAM J. LEON, Attorney by the committee. ; Bets Tan Affairs eration axe urged to attend. An excellent program has bee ar"Something should be done about the twenty-seventh annual report of Congressman Holaday pointed out ranged for this meeting. ••••." the growing tendency of certain firms the Jewish Agricultural Society by that bis bin aims Bolely to legalize Nathan E. Jacobs, of Bosell-Jacobs, At the annual meeting Sunday evening, nominatioii and in this city to turn down Jewish boys Gabriel Davidson, general manager. the permanent status of aliens 'who Inc, advertising" agency, was -elected election of officers for the ensuing year will be. held. , and girls who seek employment with entered America . irregularly and to regional director of the Midwestern The Society, through its Farm :: • ' ' • * * On the program for the annual them. I have found in my experience, Loan Department, has granted 8,360 a certain date. The aliens would ac- division of the Zeta Beta Tau fratmeeting will be the reading of'the reand have had a number of complaints loans, aggregating §5,310,215.00 since complish this, he said, by registering, ezjjltYf BCCOrding to word received port of the superintendent, Samuel that this condition does exist. And 1900. Last year" loans were made to whereby they could also become Gerson, and address,, and musical the strange part of the matter is that 454 individual farmers located in 18 American citizens. Ee declared that numbers. . • • •. 1 these firms receive a great amount of states. The financial service extended none ' of .these aliens in; the United Widely Enown as Humorous and Tliis 'meeting for the Federation patronage from the race they abso- by the Society is based on business States can become American, citizens S h i t t y Speaker '. : First Game Will Start at Seven mark the'twenty-second year of 1 lutely refuse to have associated with principles, though loans are made on and those against whom the statute O'clock ice to this community. The Federathe company force. of limitations has not run out can also marginal securities, and their repayJohn F. Poucher will be the printion has grown yearly and is now con"I heard from a certain Technical ment is spread over a long period cipal speaker at the first Temple be deported. The Jewish Press basketball team j siderecl as one of the best maintained High school teacher that they have a of years. Israel Brotherhood supper to be'given , .Congressman Sabalh opposed the won its sixth game Tuesday, evening v Federations in the country. bill,' declaring that it is in reality hard time to place the Jewish boys The Society's Farm Labor Depart- Tuesday evening at the Temple. Mr. when it defeated the Italian Club "We urge all members and their and girls in certain downtown' busi- ment placed 588 men as farm work- Poucher'is widely known as a humor- intended, and will prepare the way team. The Press team suffered its friends to attend this meeting", said for a compulsory registration bill for ness places upon their graduation ers. Farm employment was obtained ous and whitty speaker and is well first defeat in seven games last Sun- Dr. Philip Sher. all immigrants, even though it is true from school, as is the custom. by the Society for' 15,510 Jewish received by his audiences. day evening-" at the hands of the that the provisions of the Holaday *'I don't believe in a boycott or any- young men since 1908. Last year it "In securing Mr. Poucher as' the Omaha Printing Company team. bill in its present form are harmless thing like that, but I do believe that placed 588 'men. principal speaker of the evening, I Sunday evening the Press team ,and have a good purpose in view, something should be done about this During the past nine years 9,213 believe that the entire gathering will which must certainly provided for. will play the fast Union Pacific team condition and would like very much Jewish men and women desiring to 1 agree that he is.a man.worth while at the Jewish Community Center to hear anyone who has experienced buy farms, applied to. the' Society's! hearing", caid Sam J. Leon,~chair- Congressman Sabata stated. there is gym. As a preliminary to this game urgent need of a billjte enable the The enthusiasm srroused by ths any such discrimination or is other- Farm Settlement Department for ad-j man of the evening. Mr. Poucher, will the B'nai Ami five will play the First operetta, "Princess Crysanthemum" naturalization and.Legalisation of wise interested through H. H. R. of vice and guidance. Farms were found- talk .on "The Enigma".. M. E. Church team of the Y. M. C. A. jw a s greater than its sponsors expect those who entered the coxsnay irthis column." According to Dr. Friedman, presi- regularly, and -who are- desirable for 848 families of whom 398 received league. ,e<L Over one hundred young men ami oans to help finance their purchase. dent of the Temple Brotherhoo'd, a residents of the country. However, all The first game will be called at 7 | WOimni tried out for pints. Rehearsals It established the farm settlement at supper will be held once each month idea,-of registration should ba «HmWant Your Views o'clock, 'thus-enabling the games to be j are.being held regularly on Mondsv, Mr. Leon has told me of a condition, Toms"Kirer, New Jersey. Recently a and that a program will be presented j S S d fronjthe bill. played before the annual Federation Tuesdays'and Wednesdays. Mrs. Sam which I found hard to belieye Teally new'Jewish farming centre was estab- at these gatherings. meeting. Tuesday evening the Press j Beber is in charge of the rehearsal*, existed in~tbis-*ity. ~I- itouas intefi- lished in -Fstxningdale, • -New -Jersey. • vSik - -be thp Agricultural experts form the SoJacobs City. ested as he is td heaT from anyr- t team, a team now leading the Indusj second offering «f th* Dramstirafter certain changes have been made. comes a member of ^the Kational who has met up with this problem, ciety's Extension Department visited .trial Leagse at the Y. M. a A. Council and/wilt-be-given the • latter The committee will meet to take-up Supreme Council of the fraternity." • on Thursday, evening, .the Press team and would be pleased to receive com- 1,718 Jewish farmers during "1926. part of April. • • the bill again next week. During the period of 1920—1926 This is the first time a Xebraskan will journey to Avoca, Iowa, to play munications regarding the subject. The .first ' undertaking of th? these experts visited 10,801 farmers has been honored with a national The first open meeting of the B'nai the Avoca team. This team has de- Dramatic Council will be' a Pmw. n 44 countries and 12 states. They B'rith lodge will be held Thursday o^ce in Zeta Beta Tau. Jeated some of the fastest teams in i program to be given the early psrt jr. He May be Small but— held 962 meetings, demonstrations, evening, February 17, at the Jewish 'The new regional director will be the Missouri' Valley. March, in which children will Arthur Adler, just thirteen, holds in charge of the annual Eeginonal field days and extension schools. I n | Community Center. According to the part. the distinction oj being X1" youngest convention to b e i e l d in Chicago, player, in the Jettish Community Cen- to 10,326 farmers who sought in- committee in charge of this meeting, Mrs. Mas PromMn, general chair- April 15, IS and 17. Several members a selected,group of speakers will ter league. man of the dance and bazaar which j o f dividual consultation at the Society's Omaha Graduate Club of Zeta of When Johnnie Rosenblatt was put central office! This department has address the gathering. is being sponsored by the Deborah J B e t a T a u a n d ^ Alpha Tetha chapThe principal speaker of the eveout of the game Wednesday, the Tuily also given scholarships to the sons S i M 6 iis greatly tl encouraged; d ter st ^ Society, Mar.6, University of Nebraska Samael Werthehner, South Side team was left with but four players. and daughters to Jewish farmers; ning will be Harry B. Fleharty, wide- by the reports of the members of her will attend. u awcuu. ^ , 4 . * ,-•„ i commission man, was elected president The New York Yiddish travelling "There's the player we want," said 295 such scholarships were granted ly known orator. Louis Iipp will various committees. Numerous hand Mr. Jacobs is a graduate of was the.j of the Wise Memorial « _ ^ . o hospital - u . ^ ^ i at „<- +the v^ show company will present '*Et-if Art Swartz, as he put little Art Adler for courses held at .the State Agricul- deliver an oration and Hyman Shrier made articles are being constantly] University of Missouri, where he will give a dramatic reading. There in the game. Sunday. tural Colleges in 12 states. The deturned in. Mrs. Julius Stein is in initiated into, the Zeta — Arthur, who is the sc- of Mr. and partment also maintains a Service will also be musical numbers on this charge of the program and Mrs. I. N. P. Fell, president for more thar 10 ter Tuesday evening, February 1Kfraternity, being president of his Mrs. Morris Adler, plays guard on his Bureau for the purchase of supplies program. Kulakofsky is in charge of the bazaar. chapter and later president of the years. Mr. Fell in turn was elected This show has made a hit in the BSFI This meeting is open to the public grade school team. treasurer to succeed Mr. Wertheimer. and is still "playing in a number <-*f and materials. The department conAt the game Wednesday he was all ducted an agricultural night school, and B'nai B'rith members are urged has been engaged for this affair and Omaha Graduate Club. He is now Isador Ziegler was elected vice presi- eastern theaters. president" of the Omega of Z. B. T. dent and Mrs. Herman Auerbach, secfight to the fullest extent of his four" gave a. correspondence course and to bring their friends. ' The lead • is ably taken by Resits. we are certain that nothing further Building Association, . which is in retary. . feet and some odd inches. . . . . | Yagar and supported by a well W'published' the JEWISH FARMER, .need be said about it for all who have charge of the plans to build a $60,000 j " ^ " ; * anced cast.. There is much. "Mrnnt., the only Yiddish agricultural magaelected a r e H a r r y A. danced to the strains of this wellBIG GYMNASIUM ' fraternity house at the University of I zine in the world. I t also published Israel Rbsenthal, Mrs. Ruben drama and music in "Evil Men." This-. Typical Conversation known orchestra before kntfw what DEMONSTRATION COMING Kulakofsky and Harry Lapidus. company will only show at one perto expect on Mareh 6," said Mrs. Missouri. The other day I happen' * to be sit- agricultural text books, the report The hospital has been undergoing' formance Tuesday evening. Ticket*, Fromkin. ting in the office of the Community states. Mr. Ed. Burdick, Physical Director many alterations and within. two. can be" purchased -at any center. The green light lit on the In 192S the Society's Sanitation De- of the Jewish Community Center, anweeks will be redecorated and xe. switchboard, signifying that someone partment inspected 789 farms in Jew- nounces the coming of the First Grand THE A-CHI-BA DANCE •forriishecl and "have new plumbing inish.-farming -districts in New York, wanted to vjet in touch with the center^ Demonstration of the work done in "The A-Chi-Ba Fraternity a" newly stalled, ' • " " ' • Connecticut and Massachusetts. "Hello," .said Mr. AT**""the -Gymnasinm by the various clas- organized association of the yoang FRATERNITY DANCE The Society 'also made loans for. ses. "Hello, youisfelf,"" came over the prominent Jewish Men of Ornate and! M r s - J - Lintsanan, ZM1 California wires, "I want to speak to -my hiL' the erection of synagogues and comPlans, 'for 'the. Phi'Delta The date is Wednesday, February Council Bluffs have rented the Kelpine Street, has received word, that .she 1 been elected munity houses and has promoted and 23rd and the program promises to be Dancing Academy 25th and Farnam has "Phil,-who?" h b l t d a member b r -off the J ^ ^ . D 4 N C E i Founder's Day dance to be held supported rural religious education. full of thrills. Admission will be free Street for the ; purpose of running National Council of the Jewish Na"My PhiL" day evening, February 20, at tbr. The Society cooperates with the Na- to J. C. C. members. . Only those their annual frat dance on Sunday tional Fund of America. • Well, what's his last name?" Blackstone Hotel, are being The Junior Hadassah is sponsoring tional Council of> Jewish Women and holding membership cards will be ad- February 13th. Mr. I. White presiThis council consists of 100 mem"Oh, Phil Suchandsosky." I the fY".I)aiice at the Jewish Com- pleted by the committee in with the. United Synagogue of mitted. "Just a moment, please." dent of the Fraternity advises- that no bers throughout the country ana" the munity -Center Saturday, February 19, The Jaffy-Fieranan orchestra (Space, donating the well know America in advancing the social and The Girls' Classes and Boys' Classes expense has been spared to make this members, are. to act as representatives 1927.. Total proceeds will be contri- been. engaged for this alTaii". religious phases of rural life. know elapse of time). will participate in the program which dance one you will surely want to at- of the Jewish National Fund Bureau u t e d - *° ^ e J - C. G. Equipment fund pledges who will be on the The Jewish farm population,in the will consist of Games, Volley Ball, tend. Besides offering you some real ia their . respective regions. The \ k "Hello, No Phil isn" here." ' "Y" dances are always peppy, but of -eTjtertsksment are; Messrs.. MorpUnited States has grown from barely Basketball "and Tumbling. "* The girls "Well where is he?" 4aBeej=j||Lembjrs_jire_rejuested to keep has left hot" Ing' an, , Abrahams, a thousand in 1900 to an estimated will also give a Specialty Dance. "Didn't you see him." to the Sensational Syncopation of the -. touch aifair thTbeit population of" over 75,000 in 1927.' The, color scheme of maroon jM»i "No, mam." ' College Boy's Highland Gardens Trav- j transpire in their -own community. Save the.date now! One .million acres are being farmed gold will be carried - out on the y«veling Orchestra in a welcome .atmos-j The annual meeting of the council "All Tight. Send him home when by Jews and the real estate and pergrams and decorations, Favors '*H£ phere and in a hall uniquely decorated ' will be called <on the eve of the ^ - i ' T ^ T ' PUBLISH FIGURES yori see him." >e in -the-auditorium. sonal property value of their holdbe presented .to the lady guests, Tl> itfor the event, Eemember this Frat nual conference during the early part •< ON JEWISH IMMIGRANT. "Now -who's Phil Suchandsosky V ings are over. ?100,000,ODO. , Reports from the ticket selling com- affair is in charge of Louis J,4*j&, POPULATION IN FRANCE Dance on Sunday Evening February"• of May, at which all problems conasked Arthur, as he wiped the persencoura^ir" and every general Percy S. Strauss is. President of the ng the work will be diseased; ^ 13th at the Uelpine Dancing Academy \ earning discussed piration from his under-worked brow. Society, Lewis lu Strauss,' Vice-Presirecommendations wiD be' form- Haoassah member is co-operafang to th and Farnam Street. j Paris (J. T. A.)—Figures on the 25th dent, Francis F. Rosenbaum, Treasurdance over PALESTINE EXPERTS A Last Word Watci this paper for the further' ulated and prepared for submission P™* eimmigrant Jewish population in er and Beuben Arkush, Secretary. 1 is expected. , "TO STUDY MANNA-ON France were compiled by the news- announcement of the Jewish Social to the conference. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor. - SINAI Club "Get Acquainted Dance" nextj 'Mrs. Iintsroan is'active in the local paper, "L'univers Israelite". But suppose her husband objects! According to these figures, -which Sunday. Valuable prizes are to-be-National Fond "work, KerenjHayesod," R E F U G E E S I N C H I N A Jerusalem .(J. T. B E T E L O P J E W I S H COM- .. do not include Paris, Marseilles lias given away. Zionist work and Hadassah. JEWISH POPULATION IN 1 MUNAL A C n V H T E S to make a scientific investigati&B the largest immigrant Jewish populaEAST PRUSSIA DECREASING the origin -and .substance -of . tion, numbering 1300 - families who MINORITIES FORM JOINT RECEIVES HIGH HONORS The February meeting of the local live in a compact settlement. The imShanghai, China {J. T . 'A.)—-Organ- manna, which the Bible records KoeiugsbuTg, East Prussia (J. T. CLUB IN POLISH TOWN j —*•—• : • • j P a u l Grossman, sen of Mr. and. ized 'Jewish communal life in China, as food for -the Israelite in the A.)—A marked decrease in the Jew- Zionist District will be held Tuesday migrants came from Turkey, Greece, ••':.• '.. evening, February" %£,• at the Jewish •• Syria, Honmania, Palestine, and UusWarsaw, (J.T.A.}—A joint Peoples' Mrs.' I. Grossman, S03S Myrtle Ave., where t h e communities consist l a t - will be .made soon, ish population of East Prussia A proup of experts of the sia. Bordeaux has a Jewish popula- Club of the national minorities w a s is the only Jewish student a t Central ely of recent refugees from Eussia. recorded in the figures of the official Community Center. Plans will be made .for the joint' tion of 100 families, half of whom established in the city of Nowogrodek. High School who received five A ' E . , is gaining strength. tural Experisncnt Station census taken in 1925, made- public Hadassah-Zionist meeting to be held are Sephardic, Iille has 1000 Jewish A Eehillali was formed in Mukden in Palestine by the Kionist Sepresentatif es of t h e Polish, "White Paul is a Junior a t school and is but here. 5 According to. the census, the Jew- next month to celebrate the fifteenth families, Valendenne has 300 Jewish Russia an ! Jewish populations and of fifteen years of sge. Paul has always recently, Mr. Chsvsky was elected fcion, will proceed to thn Sinai ish population in the province de- anniversary of the National Hadas- families, Rouen 300, Nancy 400, and the Moslems have joined the club. At had an A record, he is cot only on president. Notwithstanding the dif-jsala for-the purpose cf the first meeting the club decided to honorary pupil but is also an ac-j Scult situation due to the strife in this study. I t . i s expected -thai t*>^ creased ,10.7^.^ The decline in th sah. A national known orator will be Metz 500. The Jewish immigrants are mainly send a message to Josef PilsudsM as complished violinist, being a member j the country, Jewish coiamucal actlv-jwnrk of the experts will begin .to Jewish populatibri has been going on brought to Omaha to address -this gathering. • - 'artisans, traders and-laborers.I of the -Iit&e Symphony Orchestrat » ities are I the .summer. the friend of the minorities. for-tbe years.
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