In tlw Interests of Tlie Jewish Community
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JOSEPH BARATZ tO SPEAK HERE M T THURSD
Palestine Censusto Be Taken This Spring
Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—The first census of Palestine's population since V L^% 522 will be taken in the spring of ^ — vs year. The proposed census is of >:treme importance because conclusIs Prominent Palestine \s may be drawn from it as regards Leader on Tour in • "*> effects of Jewish immigration United States ' * investment.is understood that the governJoseph Baratz, a member of -th&:;; t is considering the Jewish AgenPalestine Labor, delegation which ia>,^| visiting this country with the pur-^vj '?.proposal that an unofficial adcommittee of Jews and Arabs pose of acquainting the Jewish combe appointed to ensure the populamunities with the remarkable achievements . and aspirations of the tion's confidence in the results.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA^IfRn)AY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931
VOL. IX.—No. 5
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89,«00 JEWISH FARMERS DOING WELL IN COUNTRY
h -.-, WHte Yepr Views to Ghancellqr-PraJLses Jewish Achievements! The Jewish Jerusalem.—(J. TvA.)—The Jewish Press
agricultural work i n . Palestine was warmly praised by .High, Commissioner Chancellor a t the first meeting of the recently appointed government agricultural council, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency understands. Although the proceedings were private, i t . is learned that the coun- • c:l worked the field of its proposed inquiry and appointed sub-committees on most of which the Jewish members constitute a majority.
JACOB DE BAAS IS TO BE GUEST SPEAKER AT MASS MEETING TUESDAY EVENING
Those readers of the Jewish Press >who" hive : a creative urge self-expression on topics of 31st Annual Report Indicates for" Jewish interest a r e invited to nse Healthy Condition Dethe columns o f the paper as the spite Depression means of expressing their views. The Jewish Press will be happy The Jewish f •.rmers in t h e United to run any article on a Jewish subStates are holding their own, alject of interest, 'and is anxious to though they are feeling the effects have the JewTy 'of "the city write of t h e ' present severe economic detheir opinions. Jacob de Haas, internationally fapression. Thus reports Gabriel DavidIn order to start this innovation, mous Zionist, will address an Omaha son, general manager of the Jewish the Jewish Pre£s suggests as a mass meeting of Zionists and nonJewish pioneers in Palestine, will be Agricultural Society, in the thirtypossible subject-Jor our readers to Zionists at the Jewish Community a guest in Omaha on Thursday and first , annual report just issued. Few write on for t h ^ ensuing issue as -Center auditorium Tuesday evening. Friday, March 5 and 6. On Thursday Jewish farmers live in these areas "Has Anti-Semitism Helped P r e M .F. Levenson, president of the local evening a t the J . C. C. he will deliver which have suffered from the serve the Jew." t Zionist district, will bs chairman of drought or in those regions where These of you men or women who Captain Bruce "Old BiH" Bairnthe meeting, which will begin a t 8 farm commodities suffered the sharphave .a "hankeanjag** for writing, sather, famous author, has been subp. m. The meeting is open to t h e j est decline. send your letteifc to the editor so stituted for Rabbi Land man as the public. ! Thirty-one years ago when the that it reaches t i e office by Tuesconcluding speaker on the lecture A luncheon is being tendered de Jewish Agricultural Society first bz- day. We will welcome your concourse given by the Community Haas on Tuesday noon a t the Paxton gan to function in the United States tributions. - -1 Indignant at Explanation by Forum, sponsored jointly by the J . Hotel. Mrs. Abe Silverman is in there were only 216 Jewish farm ^ ^ ^ _ ^ ^ _ MacDonald of White C. C and the' Council of Jewish! charge of arrangements, and all those families in the United States. ToPaper . Women. :' ; wishing to make reservations for the day there is a Jewish farm popula- P f i r i n i luncheon a r e requested, to call her a t The leeture will be held a t the CenJerusalem ( J . T. A-)^-A threat t o tion of over 80,000. The area under Atlantic 3970. De Haas " will also ter on Tuesday evening, March 10. boycott Jewish". products in retalia- Jewish operation approximates one speak at the luncheon. "Old Bill" is the author of "The Bettion for t h e government's recognition million acres. Every state in the De Haas is a t present touring this Union has its quota of Jewish tillers ^ festival ^f, Purim, commemorter Ole," which was presented m all r of the right of t h e Jewish Agency Jacob de Haas section of the country to arouse inthe larger European Capitols and enating the deliverance of the Jews to employ Jewish labor exclusively of the soiL Jewish farmers, Mr. terest in Jewish Agency campaign." from the plot of Hainan, will be ush- joyed a most successful run in New on its undertakings was made by Davidson- states, "are becoming more However, since in Omaha the funds ered in by special services a t the York. Mouzza Kazim Pasha, chairman of and more an integral part of the Conservative Synagogue starting a t ' 6 for Palestine are taken care of by the Those in charge of the lecture the Arab .• Executive, when he and American farm population." Jewish Philanthropies, no collection! p. m. Monday evening, at the J. C. C. course state that his lecture will be The report gives a comprehensive other Arab leaders waited upon High or donations will be asked for at t h e The Megillab will be read in Eng- rollicking with humor and that he is Commissioner Chancellor to protest account of the work and progress lish by Irwin W^zelman and Jerome coming to Omaha loaded with enough mass meeting Tuesday. against Premier MacDonald's letter ol the various departments and Gordon. After | the services the funny stories to keep the city chuckPowerful Personality last week to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, branch offices through which t h e SoMac Baldrige, Omaha's newly-electLadies'. Auxiliary* will serve a typical ling for weeks. He will draw caricaChairman of the organization comciety operates. The Society's farm it became known. ed congressman, will be the principal Purim meal, featured by special tures to illustrate his lecture. mittee of the American Zionists. loan department granted during the Mouzza Kazim declared that he Joseph Baratz Admission will be by season ticket. speaker at the March meeting of thei Omaha's guest is a power in world Purim delicacies.:; was obliged- to propose an Arab last fiscal year 10,353 farm loans For all others the price is one dollar. local lodge of the B'nai Brith, to bej Zionist circles. He knows practically Following the.-supper a Purim proan address in which he will paint a boycott against the Jews everywhere j aggregating 56,555,000 to - Jewish held at the Jewish Community Cangram will be presented, consisting of all of Europe west of the Danube and life picture of Chalutzim life in the in retaliation for their boycott of farmers in forty states. The Soter on Thursday evening, March 5. Purim pougs and a symposium and _ ^ _ , . has traveled extensively throughout Holy Land. No collections or solici- Arabs." ciety's farm employment department discussion on ' ^ o w > Meet Anti- UT. C>OllIl t O His subject will be, "The Inside of a Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Trans-Jortation of funds will be made at his has secured farm employment for Semitism." The Speakers are Harry Political Campaign." CREATES NEW POLICY dania and the Sinai Peninsula. His lecture. 7 Baldridge, who is a prominent at- globe trotting includes a good deal of The delegation charged that the 17,060 Jewish young men since its Silverman, Dr. M. I. Gordon and Mrs. Baiatz - is a prominent Palestine Premier's letter contradicts the en- establishment. torney, will return from Washington, M.: F . Levenson.^ Dr. A. Greenberg The next Junior Forum meeting where he is a t present, on March 3 Canada and nearly all of the United leader, a member of the World Zion- tire White Paper of October, creates will preside. j Established Farm Settlements has been arranged for Monday, March in time to address the B'nai Brith. States. He has the tare faculty of ist actions ^committee and; is one of a new policy, ignores Arab political combining the gifts of a reconteur During the past thirteen years— the founders of the first pioneer co- rights, concentrates the civil and the post-war period—^13,735 Jewish ^ n , with w»ui Eabbi xwauux Frederick x- « u ™ Conn « » « • «of • • Besides being a versatile speaker, he with the practices of a careful r e Temple Israel as the speaker of t h e is . „well-known « • , _ _ _ .as. » operative settlements established in a «b.r star -FnMhall football search student. economic status in favor of the Jew- men and women desiring to buy evening. 1905". He is considered an expert of player at Yale and later as coach of ish National Home exclusively arid farms applied to the Society's' farm De Haas was born in England in Jewish colonization in Palestine. Dr. Cohn will review the prize win- Creighton university. 1872, but came to this country in approves of Jewish labor's claim for settlement department for advice j ning novel, "This Pure Young Man" Mr. Baratz has been commissioned a share in public works. 1902 at the request of the immemorand guidance. Farms were found{ and will lead the discussion on the ^ * ^ a 1 e s t r o e ^ b o r Federation to able Zionist leader, Thsodor Hersl. Protesting against what they term- for 1189 families, of whom 54* x e - j b o o k . . ' • - ; • • • • . • ' • „ : ••.. ••---. carry on negotiations with represenH e was the first English-born Jew to xeiwsd-Joans-te btip inanet. ifceir Th* Jnaaor^fflran i s 8ponaored_by 3 ^ " * l b i r f3£ associate definitely with H e r d «nd polleyi"the statement of t h e Arab purchase. the Henrietta Szold d u b , and t h e "Milichige" dishes for the Jewish and-l«arHamentaTy leader? of the leaders to the* High Commissioner start the mass movement that -ted to Community Center will be obtained Mother Chapter of the Aleph Zadik Britisn" labor party about a revision is alleged to have charged that while his acceptance as leader. He was also through the efforts of the Jewish Aleph. of the British Palestine policy as ex- the White Paper laid down the thesis the first to approach and win Louis These discussions and lectures are Women's Welfare Organization, who pressed in the White Paper. The new that there were no lands a~ailable D. Brandeis to the Zionist cause. will turn their entire proceeds of their open to the public. statement issued by prime minister and no room for additional immiHe won early fame as a journalist, Children in Costume in March being annual card party over for that purMacDonald, which creates favorable grants, the government now intereditor of the London Jewish Headed by "Queen conditions for the establishment of a prets t i n White Paper to allow land World, editor of the Maccabean, and A treat is in store for all basket- pose. Esther" The card party, which will take the Jewish homeland in Palestine, is transfers and a heterogeneous immi- ball enthusiasts on Sunday, March 1, later editor of the Boston Jewish partly a result of the friendly atti- gration to come in. The interpreta- at the Jewish Community Center, place of the regular March meeting Advocate, besides being connected A gala Purim carnival will be held tude of the high officials of the Brit- tion of the White Paper disables when the Mother Chapter of A. Z. A. of. the. organization, will be held at with the Daily Chronicle, Daily News, The Daughters of Zion sent an- by the Sunday School March 1, from Pall Mall Gazette, London, and Die ish government to the aims of Jewish t meets the Des Moines chapter in a the Center on Tuesday, March 3, at other payment of $400 to the Jewish j 2:30 to 6:00. The auditorium of the Welt, Vienna. labor in Palestine and their institu- Arab-Jewish cooperation, the delc_ -- basketball game at the J . C C . gym 2 p. m. National Fund on Tuesday, making a j Center ' will be the scene of this carni tion also asserted. A prize will be given a t each table tions. '•.-•'• at 3 p. m. St. Louis Conference total of one thousand dollars which j val, which will be staged in an elaAPPEAL TO ALL MOSLEMS and refreshments will be served. AdThe Chapter No. 1 team vanquished As an author he won recognition the local organization has raised for borate fashion. ; Jerusalem. — An appeal t o the the Des Moines boys in the finals of mission will be fifty cents. Mesdames Arabs of Syria and Iraq to join the District Tournament a t Lincoln A. Greenberg, Jack Alberts and B. A. its Palestine water project during the 1 There will be twelve booths each with his many essays, stories and past year. elaborately decorated to fit t h e oc- articles on Jewish problems. those of Palestine in a boycott early this month. I t marked the first Simon are in charge. De Haas will come here from ths Last year the Daughters of Zion casion. Each booth will be presided Last Sunday at the Washington tea against the Jews until the "imminent time that Des Moines has been beaten Jewish peril is finally abolished" was in A. Z. A. competition in three years. and dance given by the Psi Mu and undertook to build a $5,000 water over by a Sunday school instructor, conference of the mid-Western and supply by installments for a Pales- At these booth different carnival con- Southwestern regional conferences to issued by t h e Arab Executive in a Des Moines will bring such stars as sponsored by t h e Women's Welfare tinian colony and have thus far been' cessions will be seen. One booth wil' be held in St. Louis February 28 and proclamation calling on the Arab Lazarus, Azarks and Markman to Federation, the members of the group March 1. Morris Rcthenberg of New Moslem world to unite and rely compete with the local stars who are served sandwiches, cookies, candy and highly successful in meeting their ob-i sell "hot dogs," so as to lend a real York, chairman of the American P a l carnival air t o the auditorium. ligation. solely on itself. led Dy Captain Goldberg. Franklin, tea. estine campaign, will also speak The children will be in costume and Five Jews Among Those Prom- The Arab Executive's statement Turner, Rosen, Grossman and Babich. for the most original and novel cos- there. inent Representatives of accuses Premier MacDonald of inA gala dance will be held in the A large Omaha delegation will attuma a prize will be awarded. The This Country creasing Jewish rights: and breaking evening in honor of the Des' Moines judges for this event are Miss Ruth tend the conference, which will be atsolemn promises to the Arabs. The and Omaha players, to which the pubPollack, Mrs. J . J. Greenberg, Mrs. tended by delegates from thirteen Washington. — (J. T. A.) — Five Prime Minister's letter to Dr. Chaim lic is invited. An outstanding orM. Margolin and Mrs. D. Goldstein. states. Jews were among the 212 prominent Weizmann interpreting t h e White chestra has been arranged for the afAt a special assembly of the Sunday Americans who have been appointed Paper 6f October 1930 "finally man- fair. The sum of $35,470,020, or 25 per- Florence Guggenheim Foundation, School, Sunday morning, a Queen by the United States Government to ifests that there can no longer be The committee in charge of arcent of t h e total of $142,082,670 $1,500,000; Conrad Hubert, by will Esther and a Mordecai will be chosen represent it in various conferences and any expectations of justice from the mestings held under the auspices of British government," the proclama- rangements are Oscar Mayerowich, given by individuals and philanthropic to seven philanthropies, $8,750,000; by popular vote and the selection will tickets; Leo Marks, dance; Martin foundations in gifts of $1,000,000 or Ralph Jonas, for merger of New be kept secret until the Grand March Samuel Gerson, director of the J the League of Nations, according t o tion says, adding that "MacDonald Falk, arrangements, and Saul M. more during the year 1930 in t h e York and Brooklyn Federations of which will be led by the "queen" and C. C. and Welfare Federation, was a list compiled by Prof. Ellery C. has abolished the last Temnant of Graetz, publicity. Stowell, director of the American United States came from Jews, ac- Jewish Charity, $1,000,000; Mrs. Jules "Mordecai." All children in costume toastmaster at the twenty-third anArab confidence." nual student banquet of the Y. M University Graduate School's Cumucording to figures just made public Mastbaum, for Rodin Museum in will take part in the Grand March. MAY RESIGN C A. held last Monday. Over 200 Philadelphia, $2,000,000; Harry H. A novel carnival program h a s been lative Digest of International Law ENTERING PALESTINE The third and__fomth_ largest gifts = w«re iiresent'at'oiebar.quctra^wt Meyer, 1>y win t o momenore HospiJerusalem.—If leading Arabs here arranged, Including a xumumig *ct. and Relations. Jerusalem.—(J. T. A.)—During De-] were from Maurice Talk and t h e late Metcalfe was the other The five Jews are Abram I. Elkus, have their way, the Arab Executive cember, 1930, 238 Jews, 158 Christians Conrad Hubert who gave $10,000,000 taL Pittsburgh, and Mt. Sinai Ho- staged by Mr. E . M. Segal of the Mayor speaker. spital, New York, $2,470^20; Julius health department; Master William former United States minister t o Tur- the Moslem Supreme Council and the and 22 Moslems entered Palestine, ac- and $8,750,000 respectively. "Omaha Goes Ahead," an article key; Louis Domeratzky, E . A. Gold- senior Arab officers in the Palestine cording to figures just made public The list of Jewish donors of a Rosenwald, three gifts, $2,550,000, Sogolow in imitating of Eddie Cantor, and Master Melvin Newman, son of written by Mr. Gerson, will appear and Morris SchinasL by will for government, including Arab judges, In t h e same month 43, Jews, 30 Chrisenweiser, Henry Chalmers and Gilmillion or more is as follows: Max :pital in Constantinople, $1,000,000. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Newman, a clever in the March issue of the Jewish Sowill resign as a protest against tians and 19 Moslems left the coun- Adler, for planetarium in Chicago, bert Hirsch. trap drum artist. cial Service Quarterly, the official orMr. Elkus was the expert appointed Premier MacDonald's letter last week try. Of the 20 immigrants who came $1,000,000; Louis Bamberger and gan of the National Conference of To close the carnival there will be to Dr. Chaim Weizmann in which in with a capital of $5,000 or more, by the League of Nations with the Mrs. Felix Fuld, to establish Institute prizes, stunts, a skit, and "Hament- Jewish Social Service. This is the approval of President Harding to set- the "misunderstanding and miscon- 18 were Jews, one w a s a Christian for Advanced Study in Newark. $5,achen" for the children. The chair- third article by Gerson to appear in tle the Aland Islands dispute. Dom- ceptions" of the White Paper o and one a Moslem, while of the 138 000,000; Max Epstein, a r t museum to man of the carnival is Mr. Louis Lapp. the magazine. October. are cleared up, t h e Arab coming to take positions 87 were eratzky, who is chief of the regional University of Chicago, .$1,000,000; A delegation of boys from the Psi information bureau of foreign and paper, Al Hayat, declared. Jews, 38 Christians and 11 Moslems. Maurice Falk, for Pittsburgh charPASSES AWAY Washington.—(J. T. A.)—A total domestic commerce of the United itable foundation, $10,000,000; Daniel of 5,991 alien Jews were admitted to Mu fraternity under Lapp's direction Mrs. Bertha Sacks, 53, residing a t States department of commerce, was Guggenheim, by will to Daniel and the United States for the six months will help with the decorations. 4805 South 22nd, passed away Sunone of the American experts and adending December 3 1 , 1930, according! day morning. visers at the International Economic to figures made public by the bureau) She is survived by six children, Conference in May, 1927.;; tO of immigration of the United States Fannie, Louis, Max, Rose, Paul, and Chalmers, chief of the division of department of labor. Of this number Charlotte. Burial was at 3 o'clock on foreign tariff in the bureau of foreign "The Jazz Singer," made famous Sunday afternoon at the Beth Hamc4,026 were immigrant aliens and 1,leadership," Dr. Weizmann declared, London ( J . T. A.) — Dr. Chaim and domestic commerce of the deA dance orchestra to be known as 965 were non-immigrant aliens. In by Al Jolson, will be presented on the drosh Hagodol cemetery, partment of commerce, was an expert Weizmann does not intend to be a adding that "all my endeavors have the official band of the Center is now the same six months 1,151 alien Jews stage by the Center Players Guild a t Mrs. Sacks had been a resident of at the conference on simplification of candidate to succeed himself as pres- been to leave the situation in good being organized under the direction left the United States, 992 being non- the Center auditorium on the evening South Omaha for the past twentyshape." ident of the World Zionist Organizacustoms formalities in October, 1923, h d immigrants and 159 imgrants. The of March 22. The Sam Beber Chap- four years. His administration has been sub- of Bernard White. White has had and Mr. Hirsch, a former official of tion at the forthcoming 17th World conducting, previous experience in increase of the alien Jewish popula- ter No. 100 of the A. Z. A. is sponthe Tariff Commission, was also an Zionist' Congress and h e has de- jected t o considerable criticism, soring the production, which is un- UNIVERSITY STUDENT DIES naving led the Central High orchestion in this period was 4,840. expert at this conference. Mr. Gold- finitely decided to give up his Zionist chiefly on t h e part of t h e Zionist tra. For the six months ending Decem- der the special direction of Mrs. H. Bernard Polsky, senior at the Unienweiser, who is director of the di- leadership, he told the London Jewish Revisionists and the Radical Zionists. versity of Nebraska, died last ThursJewish musicians of practically all ber 30, 1930, 229 Jews were refused Jahr. vision of research and statistics of Times on the eve of his departure He i s going t o Palestine for his day a t the age of 22, according to The play is one of intense drama, admittance and 75 were deported annual visit to his mother and to instruments are still needed, and anythe Federal Reserve Board, was a for Palestine. the story of a Jewish blues singer word received here. He was a memwhile for the fiscal year ending June, one interested is requested to be "Just a s it is impossible to bring obtain first nand information on the government expert a t the meeting of who returns to sing Kol Nidre a t the ber of the Lincoln chapter of Zetl 1930, 275 were debarred and 164 depresent at a rehearsal at the J. C Q. situation there preliminary t o his experts on banking statistics held in the East and t h e West together so <Jeath of his cantor father. Beta Tau. . • • •; \ ported. Paris in April, 1928. i t is impossible for me to retain the forthcoming trip t o the United States. Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m.
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Banquet Will Be Given in His Honor
Humorous "Bill" to Be Speaker Before Forum
MMTHREATEN BOYCOTTING OF JEWS1PROTEST
LOCAL E"NAI BR1TH MEETING THURSDAY
at Junior Forum
ORGANIZATION WILL
PURIM CARNIVAL
SUNDAY SCHOOL
A. Z. A. SPONSORING GAME, DANCE SUNDAY
Daughters of Zion Carry Out Project
ACTED FOR US. AT LEAGUE OF NATIONS PARLEY
U.S. Jews Give Stupendous Sum in Philanthropic Qifts
Article by Gerson Boost to Omaha
D.S. JEWISH ALIEN POPULATION LARGER
Weizmann Refuses to Again Orchestra Run for Zionist PresidencyDance Being Organized