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VOL. \'I._No. 48
OMAHA, NBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927
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Minkin Made Head Of Palestinians Have Silver'WeddingaMilestone RABBI PREDI CHILD PROBLEMS Omaha Hebrew Club Their Thanksgiving in Their Notable Career TROlpFSRElf DBCUSSEDBY SOWT LEADERS IN WORK
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Ben Minldn was elected president of the Omaha Hebrew club at the anCommunity to Honor Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lapidms at nual meeting of the club in the Jewish ! . " Anniversary Dinner. Community C nter Sunday afternoon. The other officers are: Mark Long, Dr. Cohn Gives History of First Children Encouraged To "Obey On December 14,1902, a poor young obliged to keep the power turned on vice president; Sol Rosenberg, secre- Jewish and British Engineers to Get Concession If Guarantees ". Soviet Decade. man married a slip of a 16-year-old several hours longer than usual and tary; John Feldman, treasurer, and That Impulse", Judge Are Giver.. girl at 6 'clock in the evening and to keep the snow plow working all Kennedy Says three trustees, M. Polonsky, A. Kaplan w "Most rDramatic Phenomenon." th kd u t a 6 o'clock ' l k th est night ' - all " •• - — on lines. The one car stood j and A. Rishards. then worked unta the nest Government to Share Profit. DELINQUENCY STUDIED in front of the bride's door, and at the morning taking his wedding guests Trotzky is in temporary eclipse, A drive for one hundred new memconclusion of the festivities, took each home on a-private street car. but he -will emerge into the limelight bers is being conducted. Jack Riklin, London.—(J. T. A.I—The eonce? Progress which has been made in again and foster the introduction of John Feldman, and G. B. Shapiro are sion to exploit the salts of the Deac the treatment of: juvenile delinquents more democracy into the soviet syscaptains. sea has in principle been granted to was pointed out by Judge -Howard tem, Rabbi Frederick Cohn of TemNovomeyski, Jewish engineer, and Kennedy in his discussion- of problems ple Israel predicted in his talk on of the young delinquent at a meeting Tulloch, British engineer, provided Soviet Eufisia before 70 women, of the social service course in the Jewthey will furnish satisfactory finanmembers of the Current Topics class Frances Wyatt Van Gundy, .ish Community Center Monday evencial guarantees, was the statement of the Council of Jewish Women, at " • i. Soprano, Will Sing: • ing. . ; ••'•.-•••• -. • made in the House of Commons tothe Jewish Community Center TuesJucjge, Kennedy told how offending day by Major Ormsby Gore, underMiss Ida Lustgarten, talented local day morning. , Jewish. pianist,' jwjll., be featured in a children had once been .brought into secretary for the colonies. Rabbi Cohn declared that Trotzky, concert a t the Jewish Community Cen- criminal .court handcuffed and... tried Mrs. Nate Mantel, Retiring Netgotiations are still proceeding, is not the bloody criminal. he'.' has ter Tuesday evening, December 13, at under regular criminal court- proceed"the secretary stated. He. is unable President, Made Honorary been painted by vicious propaganda, 8:15, the second recital in the Centers ings. He reiterated the statement to say now what provisions the conHead. made by Miss; Lena E. Ward of the but a highly educated expert on poli- lecture and concert series. cession will include, but no proposal tical science, a patriot and idealist to Miss Lustgarten's • work is known Girls' Training school in Geneva, that is included for the British governMrs. A. Greenberg was elected rank with Washington and Lincoln. throughout the state, especially sir.ee children are; delinquent not because president of the Women's Welfare ment to obtain a controlling interest This year is. being observed as the she carried efT high honors last year they want to be bad, but because they organization at the annual meeting j by a purchase of shares in the contenth anniversary of the soviet re- in • the • music department of the Uni- are • never' taught. ;to . b e , good. : He held in the JeTrish Community Cen- cessionaire company. praised the work of Miss Ward and gime in Kussia, Rabbi Cohn pointed versity of Nebraska.. Whatever the salts may be worth, ter Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. GreenHer leading number in this concert declared that if. the boys' school at out. Major Ormsby Gore declared, the berg is the youngest person ever to Kearney haJ a-person of Miss Ward's "The soviet government which peo* will be Liszt's Concerto in E Fiat have held this office. She succeeded process of extricating the salts and type in charge,- fewer boys would pie said would not last ten days, has Mrs. Nate Mantel, who was made marketing is experimental end is still graduate into the penitentiary. • Harry H. Lapidus Ilrs. Harry H. Lapidus lasted ten years," he said. "It is the of a speculative nature, It is there* honorary president. "The prevailing philosophy nowamost picturesque and dramatic phefore inadvisable to ask the British On December 14, 1927, this man and ] family home, on whatever line they The year's officers are: Mrs. days seems to be 'Obey that impulse,'" nomenon in the world today and in taxpayer to invest money in the enhis wife will celebrate their silver; happened to live. he said. "That gets the children into Harry Rachman, vice president; Mrs. all history. It is the first nationwide wedding and prominent men and wo- j When alJ the guests were deposited Dolly Elgntter, secretary; Mrs. Wil-terprise at its present stage. The trouble. socailistic experiment. It is the most Miss Jeanette McDonald, dean of men, not only of Omaha, but of the; at their respective doorsteps, young liam Holzman, financial secretary; government will see that the constable government in Europe despite girls of the Technical high school, de- state and the midwest, will come to do j Mr. and M:-s. Lapidus went out into Miss Blanche Zimman, recording sec- cession will only be a leasehold and terrific opposition from within and scribed the need of -onnecting the them honor. j the-cold sray. dawn to take their rgtary, and Mrs. Charles Levinscn. not a concession for all time, he dewithont. This opposition was the clared. work of home and school, so that the This is not a Horatio Alger story, honeymoon—a street car ride from' treasurer cause of the Eed Terror, which, terThe question of the Dead sea conschool can do its work in the full So far as we icncfw it has never been 1244, South Thirteenth street to 2115 Dr. Victor Leviue cf Creighton rible as it was, was no worse than knowledge of home conditions. cession was raised in the House of printed in Jie American magazine But \ Cuming street, their new home. jtfedical school, lectured on "Nutri-1 the French Revolution. "Our education is becoming child- it is the true story of Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Lapidus was Miss Minnie Kool- tion with Special Reference to Chil-| Lords by Sir John Islington, who is "Many vicious pieces of propacentered instead of knowledge-center- H a r r y H . Lapidus, whose silver wed-) e r , d a u g h t e r of Mrs. Lena Kooler. S h e [ d r e n # w H e d e s c r i b e d t h e t w o t r p e s anxious thst a British company seed," she said. dang will be celebrated-by a dinner at..! j w a s • r n a r r ? 3 j y h e n she w a s less t h a n ; o f m a h r a t r i t i o n ; i n t e r n a ] a n d e x t e r . j cure the contract to exploit the salts ganda were made to fight the soviet Problems of Juvenile Delinquency reception in t h e Jewish Community j 17 years old, having been Mr. Lapidus' | ^ M a l n u t r i t i o n e x i s t s &mmg rich of the Dead sea, the government pargovernment. One example is the were outlined from the psychiatric side Center Wednesday evening,-December j sweetheart f o r three years. It w a s a ' , ,., , ., - , > • „ . ticipating: as in the Anglo-Persian statement made irj the United States ; ,«. , j - , • • • ' * • -til ' • : • • ' - \'-u- , T r a n d po<> r a l i k e , h e s a i d , a n d i t i s n o t company, to protect the British inby Dr.. Thomas,L. Houlton of the ~ 4 14, planned by a group- of • Their j romance T into which she srev from> , . , , , , that Russian women wese nationalx-»_,>_ •'-•• ' , v , J ->.. i always accompanied by the usual ex- terests and also to avoid a contiCreightpix^djspensaTyviWho advocated I r i f i s a s . . -___ • :,_ -..••...... j c h u a h o o d ; . " L i * • -cr • j~eT Tip out of. whole cloth. Woman is more, recreation and supervised play : f*^ 1 -•*5™s*^-=gU« f o » f i J a n nental potash monopoly, Major Oetihighly regarded in Russia. She has as a psychiatric aid. Judge L." B. Day, " Mr.Lapidus remembSrellirweddingi'^ManFOmrhans'Ttt^^ ade ^ a t e diet-, .for children and an- eral Simon Lcvat, speaking for the judge of the Omaha juvenile court, day for many reasons. In the first! mony, which was conducted b y Rabbi: svrered equal suffrage." place, one naturally remembers one's i E. Fleishman. Amohjr the ' guests i I^stions from the audience. government replied that the conce.=urged co-operation of agencies workMlss Lil an Marriage Law Sensible. wedding day. In the second place,! were Mr. and Mrs. A. Wolf, Mr. and! ^ Margolin, case worker sion has been granted only in prining with children. Miss Lena E. Ward of the Rabbi Cohn declared the marriage there occurred on that day the heavii -Mrs. A. Levine, who were the groom's ] Je^-ish Welfare Federation, ciple, that nothing- had been signed descrbed ithe treatment of girls at and divorce laws of Russia,to be very est snow fall in the history of Omaha.'attendants, Miss Molly Wolf, now; discussed transportation problems as or sealed. Geneva. " ' ' sensible. Marriage by civil -ceremony The group which is seeking to obBetween six and seven feet of snow; Mrs. J. S. Slate of Des Moines, "who jt}iey "relate to the .relief of stranded "You cannot shut up a gill in an inIda Lustgarten is alone recognized, and divorce is covered the ground. Mr. Lapidus j ^-as flower girl, Mr. and Mrs. J. Adler,! persons. tain the concession rrrast, according stitution for two or three years and easily obtained at the behest of either Major, in,which-^therorchestral .parts. worked all day shoveling snow from I Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Kulakofsky, Mr. to the provisions, work independent1 remove every temptation comznoi to party. This law is not abused, ac- will be played on a second piano "by the walks in front of the bride's home; a n d Mrs. M. Kulakofsky, Mr. Joe Kzr ly of other syndicate? or companies life, and then expect her to go out and cording to Rabbi Cohn. and trying t i push a horse and wagon' o f California, Mr. Harry Kulakofsky,! Mr. CeciltBarrynia^i. The Palestine and Transjotdanian resist temptation," she said. "ThereFrances Wyatt VanGuridy,' soloist fore the life in.the institution must be through the drifts in order to bring; Mr. and Mrs. G. Eerg, Mr. Mike'Walg-overnment must share in the profit. The rabbi described the present Russian system as oriental in aspect for years at Temple Israel, is known as near the normal community life as extra chairs to the house for the wed-! lace, now of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. A. The government is fully aware of the ding guests. . | Monsky, Mrs. Louis Moskowitz, nee and predicted that a "United States for her beautiful, rich and sympathetic it is possible to make it." strategic importance of the deposit, Mr. Lapidus was an employe of the, Tiby Gilbert, cousin cf Mr. Lapidas, J Not ail girls with ambitions to take but the value of the Dead sea potash of Asia will grow up about Russia, soprano voice. She will be accom-'. The crowd which attended Monday a United States of Europe about the panied by Mrs. Karl Robert Werndorff. evening's lecture left standing room street car company. That's why he i Mr. Katstes, Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz, i their entrance on the stage, are is not yet fully established. The govBesides the concerto, Miss Lnst- only for late comers. The next meet- took his wedding guests home in aj Louis Kulalrofaky, Jos Wolf and Sam| obliged to stand like the Little Match ernment is-watching- the political and League of Nations, and the three private street car. In these days there ' Wolf. Girl outside the manag-ers door for economic aspect of the matter, he garten will play a Chopin group, in- ing will be held Monday night in the were great unions, including the United no owl cars and no street cari I,lr. Lapidus'large place of business, months at a time. States of America, will be well on cluding the C Minor Nocturne, the E Center auditorium, where 200 more transportation was provided after mid- J the Omaha Fixture and Supply comMiss Betty Furth. 19,' daughter of declared. their way toward the social goal of "Minor waltz, and the Butterfly Etude. persons may be accommodated. night. Mr. Lapidus, evidentaily as' pany, stands on a spot where he used j Mr. and Mrs. Carl Furth, SS10 Davenhumanity, the promised land where In a group of modern compositions, gobd at getting what he wanted then 1 to go to school. While the Dodge j port street, went to Chicago this fall, there .will flow "the milk of plente- she will include "Staccato Caprice," as he is now, got the street car com- school, which stood where the present > on December 1 signed a contract with ous nourishment and the honey of by Cecil Barryman. Her final number pany to give him a car in which to police headquarters are, was being j the Harris-Ackerman circuit of legiti; will be Liszt's "La Campanella." content." take his guests home after the wed- torn down, rooms in a building at mate playhouses, and on December S, Mrs. Van Gundy will sing Handel's' took her entrance into the theater ding. In order to do this, they were 1 (Continued on Pcge 2.) Rabbi Cohn prefaced his talk with On December IS a drive will be invocation, "Radamisto," and a song Plans for the Junior Hadassah world, in "Larry Lehman in Greenwich a thorough history of the Revolution- from "Die Tote Stadt," besides two opened for the Penny Luncheon benefit bridge, to be given in the Village." ary movement in Russia and an groups of songs. Jewish Community Center Sunday. Miss Furth's contract is for a year, Fund of Hadassah, the Women's analysis of the present political sysThe program, was arranged for the^ December 11, at 2:30 p. m., have during which the play expects to tour t Zionist Orpanization of America. ' tern. .He does not believe in the Jewish Community Center by the been completed. the country after an extended run in | Money for this purpose has been represent dictatorship of' the proleta- Schmoller and Mueller Piano company.' Mis& Rose Fine, president, and her Chicago. She was graduated fromj ceived almost exclusively from chil* riet,"but a form of evolutionary soCentral high school in 1926, and at-j dren and it is particularly fitting committee are planning an affair cialism which will give justice to all. "The result of the thrift habit is which is expected to be one of the ,• — — — I tended Grace Hickox school of drama-1 that the cominp: holiday seusoti Rabbi Cohn.has been asked to re- not properly appreciated. I consider- most successful activities of the orLondon.—(J. T. A.)—The release of Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the tic art in Chicago last year. After. should again find a generous VPpeat his talk before the Omaha Wo- it to be the greatest element, in a ganization. Various forms of enter- Oscar Slater who served eighteen Journal cf the American Medical as- having received her training, she re- j sponse from the little ones. man's success."—Marshall Field.man's club on January 9. tainment, dainty refreshments and years of a life sentence for the murder sociation, will be the gnest of the turned to Omaha and opened a studio This year Hadassah hopes to raise beautiful bridge prizes have been of- Miss Marion Gikhnst, an aged, D o u g I a s County Medical association I in her home, which she maintained* at least ?l£,000 for this work. Colpromised. Tickets may be obtained Glasgow women, in December, 1908 is I & t a ] u n c h e o n * t o b , #xen i n h l s ] u n t i l s h e w e n t to Chicago in the fall.} lections are made among: the pupils; soon, according to an an- , ~ . -.nj.ii/-n i. i from any Junior Hadassah member expected of religious schools. Children give r . , . — , . . , „ . .honor December 19 at the Chamber or from Miss Florence Leurs, who is personally from their own little vr1 1i nouncement made in Paliament by Bir, in charge of ticket selling. penny-banks, while larger sums are John Gilmour, Secretary of State for| , frequently griven by parents in the s sak: Door "prizes have been donated by Scotland. • P name of a child or* its birthday, «n Swartz Jewelry Co., the Nebraska Slater's trial caused widespread in- At the dinner hour he will be etiMr. Charles I. Cooper of St. Louis, j the occasion of Bar Mitavah, or on Trunk and Bag company, and others. terest both in Great Britain and Amer- j tertained by Alpha Chi chapter of (1) Informs you of all matters of Jews and Juda-Mo., regional director of the United [ any joyous occasion. In this manner, ica. He was arrested in New York as j the Phi Delta Epsilon fraternity at • ism. . Palestine Funds Appeal, was in \not only is money for this imporhe stepped off the Lusitania. He; the Fontenelle. Thirty-two persons II • (2) Keeps you in touch with your temples and waived extradition and returned toj^rfu attend. Dr. Victor Levine will Omaha for several days this week to, tant vrork raised, hot at the safne .'.-: synagogues, your lodges and charities, and Glasgow voluntarily for trial. He w a s ; b e toastmaster. A number of medi- organize workers for the Zionist j time the children in America tire j work here. i brought into zeal and personal touch The Council "Bluffs Agudas Achim convicted largely on the evidence of, c a l journalists will be present. all other organizations, communal and A group of Zionist workers met | through the children of Palestine association will give their annual three "identifying" witnesses, one ajj social. , t with a movement ful' of the deepest at noon Wednesday to discuss the j of 15. dance next Tuesday evening,' Deeem- girl The Sacco-Vanzetti case in Massa- f£ebre\V C o n g r e g a t i o n s r| inspiration for them. (3) Tells you about all important news concerning work to be done for 1.92S. Announcej chusetts caused renewed interest in ber 13, at the Eagle Hall, at 23^ ment will be made soon of the comj Slater's case. The girl witness who Chanukah week will become identiJews and Jewish affairs in America' and North Main street. Council Bluffs^ now is a woman of 34, swore in an plete program for next year. fied in the minds of Jewish boys arid la. The committee are arranging to Europe. > " Local work in the interest of the >, girls with Penny Luncheons, for it have this dance the * most. successful affidavit recently that she had never (4) Presents to you articles and stories.unobtainis is during the celebration of this ever staged, and especially meant to identify Slater • positively, j Union of American Hebrew Congre- g e a j s J±±d JJ-J II affair "" is able in other publications. happy festival that Hadassah forurge all the younger set , of the but had been influenced by the prose- j gations has been highly successful, cutor. ' . 1 according to Rabbi Frederick Connmally opens its drive for the Penny Omaha and Council Bluffs Jewry to (5) Champions every good Jewish cause and-deSlater was convicted in 1909 and j The xjuota of Sl^OO has been raised,! ~~ ! Luncheons Fund. Mrs. A. Homm is ,make their plans now to attend this - - " fends Jewish rights throughout the world.. sentenced to be hanged, but public and it is probable that the sum will! B o x e s Jecorated with Christmas; chairman of the local committee. II dance next Tuesday. Music will b? opinion became so strongly - aroused j the §2,0C0 mark. Contributions I • S e a l s a r e b e i n ^ displayed in the win-j furnished by the famous Marias Im- over the case, with many doubting he! p a s s tfl] being received. o w s oof f Goldstein-Chapman's, Thomp-! ' ddows Goldstein-Chanman's. ThomnThe Jewish Press is Your Paper. It cannot do its are s CHANUKAH CONCERT. perial orchestra. Admission is SI I son-Belden and Company, Thomas | had been proved guilty, that his sentwork without you. It is wholly dependent upon your per couple. Everyone is invited to ence was commuted to life imprison- Eabbi Michael. Aaronson, traveling j" Kilpatrick and Company, and the ; A Chanukah concert; will be ,gii?en support. attend. } under the direction of Cantor ment two days before he was to be in lha interest of this work, stopped j Brandeis Store. in Omaha Wednesday on his way to ] Members of the Omaha Junior i Schwartzkir. at the - synagogtte, executed. Eighteenth and Chicago s ENTERTAINMENT PLANNED. Frequent attempts have been made Sioux City, where he will speak FriLeague decorated the boxes to showj |I p. m., Sunday, December "The Sunday School of Temple Is- to obtain Slater's release, but hereto- day evening. He was. accompanied how useful the 1927 penny health, seal j A selected symphony or rael will give a Chanukah entertain.- fore" they have been fruitless. Sir by his sister, 31iss Dora Aaronson. is for beautifying Christmas boxes. fl Ii ment in. the Temple at 2:30" p. ml on Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a book coii-j was national chaplain of the Dis- The Christmas Seal asks very little {assist the-singers The ppblic^s ini demning bis imprisonment. abled Veterans of the World"War. | of anyone, bwt it asks it of everyone, i vited and admission is ft December 18. Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The Ninth of December, the anniversary of the conquest of Jerusalem by .Lord Allenby, will.be celebrated in Palestine as Thanksgiving .day. v- In a proclamation, issued . by High Commissioner Lord Plumer, the day. was declared a public holiday.
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