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VOL, VI.—No. 49
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15,1927
Art Institute Shows Court to Determine :~ UGHTSWttL BANQUET HONORS Paternity, of "Gypsy" Mrs. Beber's Work POGROM FOIL SEND.CHANUKAH ACCUSES ROUMANIA MR. LAPIDUS, WIFE, CONGRESS MESSAGE FORTH OF ANtl-SEMITISM ON SILVER WEDDING Programs and Concerts to Usher Religions -Leaders Reach Conclusion-After Survey. in Joyous Season. * CELEBRATES DEDICATION.
"DANGER TO PEACE."
One by one, in the "windows of many -Jewish homes in Omaha, Chanukah candles will cast their beams "over a naughty world," as the Feast of Lights opens on December 18. (ThnriT'k*'*', which begins at sundown Sunday, i-"and, continues for eight days,.will be observed-by the Jewry of-Omaha. The festival commemorates the successful straggle which; the Maeabbes waged against .QCETmiiii-K^T^ and-was instituted by the early rabbis to be celebrated annually as an occasion of great joy. . The .Chanukah lights, now lit every evening during the eight Mays, are. reminiscent of the rededication of the Temple as well as the legend concerning the small cruse of oil found unpolluted, sufficient only for one day, but which lasted for eight days. The lights are placed in the windows or in some other conspicuous place where they may be seen from the, outside. This is a symbol of freedom.
New York.—(J. T. A.)—The reports of anti-Jewish excesses in Roumania, the continuous anti-Semitic propaganda and the' discriminations against the Jewish population in the questions of citizenship and the maintenance of schools, frequently reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and often denied by the Roumanian government and its ambassadors abroad, were confirmed in the report of the American Committee on the Rights of Religious Minorities made public yesterday. The complete report of the" findings is now being prepared :for the consideration of the entire committee. Definite action will be taken when the members have studied the report in full. A survey of the conditions in Roumania, with a view to determining the status of the national minorities in that country and the veracity of the reports of the disabilities and persecutions, from which they suffer, was made by a special deputation of the committee which spentsix weeks in Roumania, both the Old Kingdom and the-annexed territories. The committee, made, a comprehensive study, interviewed'representatives of the government,: political and religious leaders and carried • on. an independent investigation among all classes of the population. In addition to establishing the fact of an unusual anti-semitic propaganda tolerated , by the government, the" committee -ThOTgedtiat-otliey religious minorities, such'as thet Protestants, the Roman Catholicsi in theBanat, the Hungarian^ speaking Lutherans and the Baptists, are discriminated against in grafting .of state subsidies and in the-distribution of land in accordance with>the agrarian law. Repression. The committee urges that the repression of the rigEts of' minorities in Roumania is a: serious 'danger to | the peace of Europe", and expresses; its hope that "what i s .now only a temporary party "move may become an accepted and' sanctioned governmental policv." ~;..~--. • The .report is particularlyfrank in its appeal to the •Roumanian State Church to "purge itself of all anti-
Indulging in games, merriment and joy;have become customary in celebration of this festivaKjCbanukah has become the festival of light and increasing brightness, the antidote to despair; It is a festival of the young and a consecration of Jewish manhood.. ;...... , ,..„„.,"„_ V The season wiH be celebrated with appropriate services and with many cgncerte ^and^-^entertfifnTrents. A t the ^.ewiEh^CbianTtenity,' Center, a-.series of entertainments .^iil be presented. The* Menorah, will be lighted In the lobby of • the - Center every evening. The Center will-be joined in the celebration by "the Omaha chapter of the A. Z. A., in celebration of national A. Z. A. day, on December 18. Eobert Lappen, Des Moines, president of the? district lodge, I. O. B. B., wOl be "the speaker. The program will include two one-act plays by the Little theater group. The A. Z. A. Chanukah ritual will be presented. On Sunday afternoon, December 25, the Center Sunday school will bring their Chanukah festivities to a close with a program consisting of a one-act play, songs and recitations. Winners of the essay contest in each class will read their essays on "What Chanukah Means to M£." On the same evening,, two basketball games will be played in the Center gymnasium and a special Chanukah dance will be. given by the Psi Mu club. The Sunday school of Temple Israel will give its Chanukah' entertainment -in tiie Temple-at 2:30 p . m. on December 18. , "Pictures Out of the Past" will be presented by a cast including Harriet Rosenfeld, Helen Beeson, Frances Kort, Jack Lovell, Rosalie Alberts and Stuart Ganz,. under the direction f Miss Madeline Cohn. Mis' Rosaline Cohn has coached the /oices. Menorah lights will be lighted by eight kindergarten children. Henrietta Meyer will give the invocation. A Chanukah concert win be presented' by Beth Hamedrosh Hogodel, December 25, under the direction of Cantor Kahanowitch. Miss Fanny Fish and Miss Sarah .Fish will assist. Cantor Schwartzkin will present his concert at the synagogue, Eighteenth arid Chicago streets, December 18.
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PENNY I M ^ TO BE SOLICITED
The campaign ior the Penny luncheon fund of the. Hadassah is. held, each year at Chanukah time. The local committee runder the chairr manship of Mrs, A. "Romm is appealing to the Jewish' ^Sunday school children to contribute money' to this work. Collections ' _ will ; be made Sunday, Dec. 18. Five years ago ;the Palestine school luncheons committee ^was organized for the purpose"' of-; collecting funds to supply hot'. luncheons- to undernourished children in one school in Jerusalem. A'year later,-Hadassah decided to include school luncheons in its elaborate.: system; of social health work. It became the task of the Hadassah chapters in America to collect money'for this work. Today a hot noon luncheon is being served to hundreds of poor, undernourished children. £ach child pays something for-his lunch', be it only one cent, so that the luncheons do not become-, a ^pauperizing element. To many of these children the school luncheon is the only! nourishing meal of the; day. . St. Paul, Minn—(J. T. A.)— Harry Bongard of St. Paul, private in. the Jewish Legion during the RABBI COIN'S TOPICS. world war,_ has been denied citizen- Rabbi Frederick Cohn's lecture topic ship by- Judge John W. Boener in for the Friday evening service-at Temthe Ramsey district court, ' because ple Israel will be "If I Were to live the court held that a "gett" (religi- My Life Over Again." On Saturday, ous divorce) obtained from his wife he will speak on "The Favorite." in Poland was r not legal in MinneHis next current topics talk for the sota. Bongard- has remarried since Council of Jewish Women will be givhe obtained'-his religious -divorce as en next Tuesday on the subject* "Mushas * his wife. " The' court held "that solini and Fascism." under the United States law Bongard is - not legally divorced and "life without" a purpose is like hence is Jivine in search without an object."
Religious Divorce Not Recognized by Court
Moscow.—(J. T. A.)—Nine experts will be called today in" the Kiev court when an unusual- case to determine the paternity of a • child claimed by a Jew arid* a gypsy will come up. • : '• • Mr. Jerusalimski, a resident of Kiev, whose 4 % -year-old son was stolen a year ago, was advised that7 the boy had been found in a gypsy camp. The father went to the camp where, he claims, he recognized the boy as his son. Martiukov, a gypsy, insists, however, that the boy is his son. The child, although it has no definite gypsy appearance, speaks only the gypsy language. This is no proof, however, -Jerusalimski claims, since the boy could have forgotten Yiddish and Russian during his year's stay in. the gypsy camp.
DR. SAGE STATES fUAPITV DPADI EM
FOR PHYSICIANS Doctor Is the Goat of Medical Social Service, He Says. DR. SCHULTE, SPEAKER. Many patients receiving free medical aid in dispensaries and' hospitals could afford to pay their bills and are simply cheating tire physician out of his fee, Dr. Earl C. Sage, secretary of the. Douglas County Medical association, charged in his paper read Monday evening' during the social service course ' at the Jewish Community Center.tj Dr. Sage called attention to statistics "which he had assembled, show-ing that the 500 Omaha physicians and hospitals contributed $476,769.42 in- free service during 1926, a sum exceeding the total funds collected by the "Community Chest. "The* doctor is the. goat of the city health p'rogram," he declared. "Everybody is paid for his charity work except the doctor, whose per .capita chariter service in Omaha is §640 a year." ' • / John Hall, director of the Omaha Community Chest, • answered this charge by saying that "every right thinking citizen gives much of his time and. effort to some community work, and the physician's position is not peculiar to him." Mr. Hall also stressed the necessity of checking up on charity patients to make sure that they are not able to pay for necessary " medical aid. " Dr. H. von W. Sehulte, dean of Creighton Medical college, who read a paper on Jhe city health program, offered, at the conclusion of Dr. Sage's talk, to take any patient out of the Creighton dispensary ior a physician to treat privately in return for the sum which the patient could afford -to pay. Dr. Schulte, speaking on the city health program, expressed the opinion that citizens "should be instructed in the standards of city health before being allowed to vote. Miss Florence McCabe, • superintendent of the Visiting Nurse association, stressed the duty of- the visiting nurse to do social as well as medical work among her patients, and pointed out the trend toward a gradual transfer of nursing care to public agencies. Modern hospital service will be discussed at the next meeting of: the course Monday, December 19. Speakers will be Dr. J. J: Keegan, dean of the University of Nebraska Medical school; Miss Rose Schaub, social worker for the Creighton dispensary; Dr, Olga Stastny, and Miss Beatrice Hodge, University of Nebraska hospital.
City, State and Nation Send Congratulations and Praise GIFTS ANNOUNCED Wednesday evening, the bread of service which Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lapidus have for 25 years cast upon the waters came back to them. . Community workers, business men, professional men, * statesmen, — and many of the plain people to whom Harry Lapidus has always been a friend, came to do-them honor. One by one the speakers praised them and held them up to the community as an example of cqurageous citizenship and happy companionship. Besides the three hundred who sat with them at a dinner at the Jewish Community Center, besides the many who came at the dose of the dinner to bring their good wishes, besides the hundreds whose telegrams and letters brought their greetings, as each speaker Itold of the' many private philanthropies which Mr. Lapidus has engaged in without' expectation of glory, these unknown beneficiaries of his seemed also to be guests. Their quiet blessings hovered over the assembly. Governor Adam McMullen was among those who paid tribute to the married life of Mr. and Mrs. Lapidus. . "This is a type of marriage which must be maintained if our civilization is to be maintained," he' said. "In my friendship with Mr. Lapidus, I have known the pleasure of association with a real citizen. He is a man that I am proud to know." Ballard Dunn, editor-in-chief of the Omaha Bee-News, pointed out that the glad acceptance of responsibility had -been the keynote of their lives and work, and cdntraste&>iheir~ attitude widi that of the Kansas pair who have just entered a companionate marriage "wanting to have the fun without the responsibility." Mrs. S. Pisko, executive secretary of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver, brought the tribute from the board of the hospital in whose interest Mr. Lapidus has done so much. Tribute was paid Mr. and Mrs. Lapidus by Harry A. Wolf, toastmaster of the evening, William Holzman, Rabbi Rabinowitz of Sioux City, Sam Beber, Henry Monsky, and A. B. Shotwell. In the presentation of the gift of silveT from a group of his friends, and anotHer gift of slver from the A. Z. A., Henry Monsky declared that Mr. Lapidus' public service knows no limitations and that his q^iet personal service to the many who come to him even exceed in magnitude his public work. In expressing his gratitude for these tributes, Mr. Lapidus announced gifts totalling $500 to Jewish institutions, as follows, $50 to the Talmud Torah, 550 to Temple Israel Sunday school, $100 to Wise Memorial hospital, $100 to the National Jewish hospital, $100 to the Jewish Free loan society, and $100 to the Jewish Community Center. Rabbi Frederick Cohn gave the invocation. Music was supplied by Gilbert Jaffe and the Jewish Center string quartet. Young dancers were Sara Miriam Blank, Jean Leibowitz, and Beverly Greenberg.
NUMERUS CLAUSES VICTIMS TO HAVE SPECIAL SCHOOL
Prague.—(J. T. A.)—A university for the Jewish students who are the victims of discrimination, through the operation of numerus clausus, laws or practices in East and South European countries, may soon be established in Czechoslovakia, according to a sensational report published today by the Czech newspaper, "Rowoj." The report states that negotiations to this effect have been started with the Czechoslovakian government by an unnamed American philanthropist. The university is to serve in particular the uumerus clausus victims in the Mr. Samuel Gerson, director of the countries neigboring Czechoslovakia. Jewish Community Center and . the CLASS DEMONSTRATION. Jewish Welfare Federation, was electMiss Ethel Greenberg, women's ed vice-president of the Omaha Social Workers' club at. the annual meeting physical director at the Jewish' Community Center, has also a children's held Wednesday evening. During the last year Mr. Gerson has gymnasium class' at the Y. W. C. A. been a member of the executive com- This class will give -a demonstration mittee of the club. It is an organiza- of work at 2 p. m. Saturday, De-r tion of the professional social-workers cember 17, followed by a party for of Omaha. the children.
GERSON CHOSEN VICE PRESIDENT
Two water colors by Mrs. Meyer Beber are among the pictures by Nebraska artists which are being ; exhibited this month at the Art Institute, Aquila Court. Mrs. Beber's contributions to the exhibition. this year are both still life. studies. Mrs. Beber is a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute, and has exhibited many pictures, including oils, water colors, and pen and ink drawings.
MANY 0
Infantry Called Out to Restore Order After Roumanian Students FIVE.KILLED AND SEVENTY INJURED
Vienna.—(J. T. A-)—The return of the Roumanian students from their anti-semitic congress in Oradeamare, following: the anti-Jewish and anti-Hugarian pogrom perpetrated by them there, was accompanied by a series of severe anti-Jewish excesses along the route, reports received here from the border state. Five persons were killed by the pogromists in Oradeamare and seventy were injured. One of the five victims was a Jewish child of 6. The child was knifed when it was unable to^reply in Medical Fraternity of Creighton Roumanian to questions asked by the pogromists, Alarming Excesses, Will Hear Famed Editor.
DR. FISHBEIN TO BE ENTERTAINED BY DELTA EPSILON
The special train which earned the anti-semitic students stopped at all stations where the Jew-baitors left the train to attack every Jew ftnd Hungarian who was to be found in the vicinity. The victims were tor» banquet at the F-ontenelle hotel in A Challenge to Those Who Pro- tured with cudgels. In numy capes knives were used and frequently honor of Dr. Morris Fishbein on its fess Good-Will. shots were fired. Old ilews were anniversary,- Monday evening, Demaltreated, their beards being" torn cember 19.. • . "STIR UP PUBLIC OPINION." out. The excesses of the Dr. Fishbein will come from Chianti-semitic students assumed ai&rmcago as the guest of the Douglas New York—Dr. Israel Goldstein, ing proportions at Jassy, where the County Medical association. At noon he will be honored with a luncheon rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshu-j train stopped. Jewish and Hungarian run, New York, has called upon lib- j passengers who were found on the at the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Fishbein is an orator who is eral Christians to protest against! train were thrown out of the win ~ not only a leader in the field of the showing of "The King of JKings" dows. The riots in \Marmarosy, fiy.imedical journalism, but prominent in as evidence that their good-will to- get assumed such magnitude that the the medical .profession as well. He ward Jews, often expressed, is • authorities were compelled to take ! measures to protect the Jewsh popuis not only ediotr of the Journal of genuine. "Here is an opportunity for Ifb-i lation. A compare of infantry was the American Medical association, eral Christians to give some evi-j called out to restore order. Severe the most popular medical journal in dence of their oft-expressed good-j anti-Jewish riots were also perpethe world, but is also editor of the vriU toward their fellow citizens of I trated by the students »t••--•OattsenHygeia, and ' several other journals - j . the Jewish, faith,", he -Sard. .".What bur,g. There, twenty-four of the popublished, by the- A. M.- A. . He 1 is the use of all the good-will con-! gromists were arrested. They will the author of several popular books and -•"f 1 ferences and resolutions, if, when; be tried by a military court, it on medical subjects a real challenge ' presents itself,! stated. which have appeared in various penothing is done by the majority! Strict censorehip was riodicals. He is a graduate member of the group to defend the object of its! by the authorities, forbidding pubPhi D. E. chapter at .Rush Medical avowed good will against ill will ? j lication in the Roumanian press of college, Chicago, and has been very Here is a challenge to all the good- any report concerning; the active in the affairs of the national will proponents, to carry their prin'Charges fraternity, serving on the executive ciple into practice. Let them plead New York—(J. T. A.) Prof. V, N. with Mr. Cecil de Mille, their fellow board as well as consulting editor of 8 leader of the Peasant*' the Phi Delta.Epsilon News, a quar- Christian and fellow American, let' Madgearu, art r them point out how unChristian it is P J . created a, sensation in Routerly.. The national fraternity enparliament Thursday, by to fan the dying embers of hatreii manian joys a membership of over 4,000 and how unAmerican it is to introthe government hml alumni throughout the United States, duce an element of disunion and of! deliberately provoked imti-semitle has 42 active chapters, all of which riots in v h are located in class A-l medical cleavage; and if they are powerless) a n d m a n « * two men were killed ^ ' injured to divert public schools, and ten graduate clubs lo- to influence him directly, let them| stir n-n -nuWAr (mininn. s ^ l t thtm \ attention from the political crisis, att P cated in the various medical centers stir up public opinion, and let them ^ g i Associated Pre.?E dispatch from Buvisit public condemnation upon of the United States. charest declares. offender." Forty-five invitations have been isProf. Madgearu said that a month sued. Among who will attend are: ago the government gave S,OOO,0O0 the active members—Drs. Philip" lei to the university students to SlipSher, Nathan Dansky, A. A. Steinport the anti-semitic movement. berg. A. A. Greenberg, Victor E. LeAnother reason, he charged, that vine, and Maynard M. Greenberg, the government provoked' the present Samuel Z. Faier, David Gross, Ben Mr. Eobert Lappen, president of racial agitation in Transylvania Slutzky, H. Melvin Badman and Morris Brodkeyj also Von W. District Grand Lodge No. 6, Independ- to furnish an excuse for the creatkm Schulte, Father Sellmeyer, Pan Hel- ent Order of B'nai L'tith, consisting of of a new force of 10,000 gendarmes lenic advisor, of Creighton, officers of eight midwestern states, will be the in that territory. He asked the govthe Douglas • County Medical associa- principal speaker at an open. meeting' ernment why it had taken no precaution and faculty heads at Creighton which will be held en December 18 at tions to prevent anti-semitic the Jewish Community Center audi- rsges in the face of. the fact .that Medical college. torium in conjunction with the national Dr., William Fildertnan had , warned celebration of A. Z. A. day. Mr. Lap- the government that the indents pen is a Dts Moines attorney. were preparing1 for such disorders. A testimonial banquet in honor of the president of the district will be Vienna—(J. A.)—Several hunheld in the dining room of the Jewish dred of the Roumanian students who . The first day of Chanukah, Dec. Community Center Sunday evening, j returned from the anti-semitic con18, has been designated as Maeca- Invitatioas have been issued to mem- gress at Oradeamare were arrested bean Day by the Jewish National bers of the chapter and members of by the Roumanian authorities upon their arrival in Bucharest, a report Fund of America, and on that day, the local B'nai B'rith lodge. The day's activities will start with receded here declares. volunteer workers throughout the The arrest was effected by a country will sell the small blue and a basket ball game between the local A. Z. A. chapter's team snd an out- detachment of soldiers who surround* white buttons of the fund. of-town five in the afternoon. This ed the arriving' students. Machine For this occasion, Dr. Joseph , . , . x ,,' T • . e-ame will be held in the Center gym guns were used to effect the arrest. TT . and there will Kiimsky, Fund, president of thean Jewish, .„ ,be no admission , - - ehsrg-e. i_ An official statement issued in National has given inter- *>«""= Similar meetings are being held in Bucharest declares that the leader* view on the work of the fund. "More than a million Jews in 65 cities throughout the United of the riots will be tried hr a courtAmerica have contributed to the States. The A. 1. A. is the official martial. Junior B'nai B'rith. The government also announced national fund in America, a startling that indemnity will be paid to the figure as compared to the several famiiiee of the victims of the Oradeahundred thousand • contributing to JEWISH LABOR GROUPE other funds in the Zionist moveFORM JOINT PARTY mare disturbances. ment. The national fund has no Censorship. Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The amal-j political doctrines to which one need Bucharest.—(J\ T. A.}—An tt* gamation of two influential Jewish subscribe. It is purely and simply j tempt to minimize the anti-Jewiih an agency for the redemption of labor groups in Palestine, the Hapoel and anti-Hungarian riots was made Palestine land as the inalienable Hazair and the Achduth Ha'avodah, by the Roumanian news agency, is being viewed here as a victory of property of the Jewish people." which issued a report stating thttt the moderate groups who are desirous Local workers for the fund will onl ? make a canvas of Jewish families of adopting a policy similar to that of II J "insignificant incidents tWsk jj placa l i Oradeamare Od k d by b Sunday. Mrs. L Kuilakofsky is chair- the British Labor party. in provoked The, amalgamation of these these two two II Hungarian communists. General Mt»s* man of the work. groups is a direct result of their com- j'eni restored order, having the futt mon stand at the last Zionist congress j w-operation. of the Jewish populaVictory belongs to him who has ia Basle, when the labor representa- i tion, which provided lodging ^jr *be the most perseverance.—Napoleon tives were excluded from participation? gnests .and delegates to the students' Bonaparte* in the Zionist executive. . J congress,
GOLDSTEIN CALLS BANQUET PLANNED. UPON CHRISTIANS Alpha CM chapter of Phi Delta Epsilon, national medical, fraternity TO VOICE PROTESTS of Creighton university, will give a
A. L A . PROGRAM PLANNED
NATIONAL FUND TO SELL TAGS
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