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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1933
Roumanian Prosecutor Acts Against Boycott
Vol. IX—No. 39
No Jewish Attorney in 47 German Cities
Czernowitz, Roumania, (J.T.A.) — he legality of the Jewish "boycott fc?V gainst German goods is to be. conST'\',ted by the public prosecutor here. „ „ :— . _ . . \'"'-'" \>rder was issued to place under p Generous Response in Tickel- , - ^ Dr. Bruno Markus, Jewish on -the charge that he Selling Campaign for Lee•journalist, printed leaflets calling on the public ture Program to refrain from patronizing a GerThe success of the forthcoming Omaha Community Chest campaign The generous response by the non- man film now on exhibition in a will be greatly benefitted by an enthusiastic rally at the mass meeting Jewish public to the ticket sale. of,f local m o y i e the Community Forum program gives Sunday afternoon, October 29. j Court action is also to be instiadded proof of the prestige the series tuted against Deputy Max Diamond This mass meeting for the community-at-large is being sponsored by has gained in Omaha, William Gro- and Dr. Markus Kremer who, are the Community Chest at the City auditorium starting at 2 p. m. Every dinsky, chairman, states in announc- members of the Jewish boycott comagency of the Chest—including our own—will have an exposition booth, ing that the ticket-selling campaign mittee. . •will be continued with greater intendemonstrating its functions and activities. sity. . As president of the Jewish Community Center and Welfare I'ederaThe Forum is sponsored by the tion, I strongly urge everyone to attend the exposition, which promises to educational committee of the Jewbe interesting, instructive and entertaining. ish Community Center and Welfare Federation. Annually, it brings to Being present in large numbers w p lend inspiration to the deep huOmaha outstanding personalities to manities which move us in a time of such dire need,-and will help infuse deliver- lectures on topics of vital imothers with the spirit of generous contribution toward the alleviation of portance. Each lecture is followed the stark misery and sunken despair <£;- our needy fellow-citizens. by an open forum. "This year's series: Elaborate Program Being ArLM L. HOLZMLAN, Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair ranged for Annual OutPresided Jewish Community Center Lewis)—Monday evening, December standing Affair . tujjri Welfare Federation. 4th. Norman Thomas—Monday evening, Reservations are now being made January 8. for the twelfth annual Father and -Bishop Francis J. McConnell — Son banquet which will be held in Wednesday evening, February 14. the auditorium of the Jewish ComOswald Garrison Villard — Wed- munity- Center Sunday, November 12, nesday evening, March 14. at 6 p. m. One of the largest crowds Maurice Samuel—Wednesday eve- ever attending this annual event is ning, April 11. expected by Dr. Philip Sher, chair•A season's ticket admitting to five man of the Father and Son banquet lectures is three dollars. Individual committee. tickets are one dollar each. The. banquet is being given this Mr. Grodinsky is stressing the year under the joint auspices of the fact that as many tickets as possi- Social Service Committee of the ble must be sold before the series Jewish Community Center and Welactually begins. He urges that every- fare Federation and the B'nai B'rith. one buy his ticket now. The Jewish Women's Welfare OrganAll those who bought lecture tick- ization will as usual prepare and sn-. ets last year are allowed a refund of pervise the dinner. fifty cents upon purchasing this The toastmaster this year-will be year's ticket, due to the cancellation Rabbi Uri Miller, rabbi of the Vaad of the talk by Warden Lewis E. Ha'Ihr, the association of orthodox By Oswald Garrison Villard Lawes last year because of illness. synagogues. Speaker for the fathers This interesting article about two severer the attacks upon him, the to apply ethics, pure and unabridged, Anyone wishing additional infor- will be J. J. Greenberg, president of mation about the tickets or series is the Conservative Synagogue. The re- outstanding Jewish, personalities now calmer he became. I am happy to to every problem of life, to create a asked to call the Jewish Community sponse on behalf of the sons will be departed and the issues for which think that he rounded out Ms last religion of duty and of the brotherCenter. . . given by Irvin Sherman, son of Mr. their lives stood is reprinted from political campaign |jrith a record- hood of man, which should flourish and Mrs. David Sherman. The invo- The Nation." It is from the famed breaking vote of nearly 250,000— without the myths, the miracles, the cation will be given by Rabbi Fred- pen of Oswald Garrison Villard.— he got 150,000 when the patrioteers, rituals, the dogmas, and the idoland especially the recreant Sons and worship of the established religions. erick Conn of Temple Israel, the Editor. Daughters of the Revolution, were Naturally the movement was atbenediction by Rabbi Nathan Feldroan.of the Adass Yeshuren syna- I mourn the loss of Morris Hill- denouncing this pacifist revolution- tacked, but it grew steadily. .Not by gogue. Rabbi David Wice, associate quit,, lawyer, author, and Socialist ist because he could visualize a bet- any means as it should have. It set rabbi of Temple Israel, will "deliver leader, whose death at sixty-four ter and nobler America than they. standards too high for most people, took place-onrthBfiighthof; .October. T have, read the tiflia^es to him in who -wish, if they, go to* ^church at the main, address. newspapers," notably all, to have their panoplied bishops Dr. Sher promises entertainment He' was much" too young to die. In- the conservative New York Times, with a great and caVdinals, their chants, their inof the same high standard which has deed, as - I get older I more and the deal of sardonic amusement. That their genuflections. It was, of Berlin, (J.T.A.)—A further'order' brought so many * congratulations to more recognize the wisdom of that cowardly and compromising sheet, cense, not an atheistic movement; against boycotting Jews has been is- the Father and Son Banquet com- passage in Bernard Shaw's "Methu- owned by a fellow-Jew, would have course, on the contrary, it recognized the selah" in which he points out that mittees of previous years. The ensued, this time by the Ministries of gladly seen him torn limb from Jimb presence of a divine force. It was, men pass from the scene at three £conomics and Labor. The joint or- tertainment committee for this year's in 1917. and is, a movement to establish a rader prohibits: . '. , banquet is composed of J. M. Mala- score and ten, or even later, just Still another great American Jew tional view of life, especially in its shock, chairman; Eugene Blazer and when they have really learned some1. The compilation of blacklists. thing, when they possess great stores passed from the scene last April, relation to the unknown. One reason 2. Eefusal to accept Jewish adver- Ahner" Kaiman. it did not grow faster, I supThe Father and Son Banquet Com- of knowledge and have profited by and I take this belated opportunity why tisements. pose, was that it lacked warmth, and to put on record my high regard for long experience. If we could prolong 3. Refusal to register Jewish firms mittee is composed of the following: perhaps emotion, in its Sunday deFelix Adler for his achievements. He human life to the century mark it Dr. Philip Sher, chairman; Isadore in official directories. be that we should advance too was born abroad—Hillquist came votional services. Yftt there have been 4. The intimidation of people pat- Abramson, Mrs. J. Arnstein, Max might faster, provided, however, that in- from Latvia. He too was of the race times when I have sat in Felix AdBarish, Eugene Blazer, Mrs. F. J. ronizing Jewish shops. creased age would not make for ul- which, in Germany, is once more ler's audience and been more deeply 5. Posting pickets on Jewish prem- Alberts, Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Rab- tra-conservatism. Morris Hillquit ma- being crucified. Though educated and stirred by him than by any other bi David Goldstein, Rabbi Uri Milises. tured early and he had still a great cultured, both were the immigrants preacher that I ever listened to. ler, Rabbi David Wice, Rabbi Nathan 6. The display of leaflets and pladeal to give us and much to teach that p r o s p e r o u s and aristocratic It was a source of deep regret to cards calling for a boycott of Jews. Feldman, Mrs. Abe Greenberg, Ab- us. From my first contact with him Americans and our stupid labor lead- me that I had to break my ties with ner Kaiman, Mrs. L. Neveleff, Mrs. 7. Photographing customers enterers say should be rigidly excluded the Ethical Culture Society when the I was deeply impressed by ing Jewish shops or the publishing Irvin Levin, Mrs. J. M. Malashock, man-like quality in him whicha Istateschar- from the United States. Well, I do war came and it refused to take any of such photographs, displaying Miss Blanche Zimman, Mrs. B. A. acterized as European. It pleased not happen to recall a single memthem in pillories with names and ad- Simon, Mrs. Dave Sherman, J. M him, not because he—or I— was ber of the Sons of the American Rev- position on that greatest tragedy of Malashock, Philip Klutznick, Jacob mankind. It was explained to me by dresses. olution who has made any such con- some of the members that to do so The order emphasizes again that S. Pearlstien, Wm. L. Holzman, Ber- snobbishly inclined toward Europeans tribution to the ethical and moral would disrupt the society. I objected European methods, but because Jewish firms be given a chance to! nard Rosenthal, and Miss Selma Lot- and men in public life in England and on development of the United States as that that was the very argument exist, otherwise, Christian employees | man. the Continent usually stand on a Felix Adler made. He was a pro- made by all the churches, which and workers will suffer through the "If you plan to attend, make your broader basis, with a greater under- found philosopher, a man with a were turning their backs upon the reservations either when you are resulting unemployment. standing of the rest of the world, splendid mind, which busied itself Prince of Peace and amending a cerAlthough the Nazi party as such called by the telephone committee or than do our public men. One felt in from beginning to end with the tre- tain Commandment to read: "Thou has not issued any instructions clip the reservations blank below this Hillquit a breadth of vision, an abil- mendous problems of human rela- Shalt Kill." My objection met with article and send it to the Jewish against the boycott of Jews, neverity to study our problems not from tionships, and always from the point few approvals. In the face of the theless the order points out that it Community Center," Dr. Sher urges the valley but from the hilltop, and of view of pure ethics. He had with- greatest ethical disaster of modern is in the interests of the country to Reservations will be closed as soon one felt that he did not express himin him the making of a stoic. One times, the Ethical Culture Society reas three hundred are made. In no abstain from the boycott. felt of him that he could have drunk self without careful consideration. I On the other hand, the municipal- case will reservations be made after alwcys had the feeling when I met the hemlock with the equanimity of mained silent. I thought it ought to speak out, and if necessary perish, in Thursday noon, November 9. ity, of Arschwang, unanimously rehim that I vras going to learn some- Socrates, and could have sat in judg- protest at the crucifixion of mansolved that Jewish peddlers and cat- Dr. Philip Sher, chairman thing from him and I was never ment on his own children with com- kind. Had its leaders spoken out, I tle dealers be prohibited from enter- Father and Son Banquet Committee. disappointed. plete impartiality. In a sense his believe that the movement would be ing or trading in the town and that Jewish Community Center. mind like a superbly oper- far, far sti-onger today than it is, As to his role in his party, I must ating functioned plates at the 12th official signs to this effect be dis- Please reserve machine. There were no miss- just as I think that the Quakers, leave that to_ others to appraise, for Annual Father and Son Banquet to played outside the town. ing spark plugs here, no grit in the - The German industrial press ad- be held at the Jewish Community I have never been a member of his gears, no backfiring. He went weak in numbers as they are, are visee the introduction of the Aryan Center, Sunday, November 12, 1933. party and therefore know little or straight to the nub, and he never dis- stronger because of their policy durnothing of what went on at its coun- cussed an issue or a problem until ing the war than they would otherprinciple, urging that only Aryans Enclosed please find wise have been. I would have had cils. But I can well understand that be. appointed as the representatives plates at 65c per plate. had viewed it from every angle. Felix Adler and his fellow-leaders his idealism made him hold rigidly he of German firms in Palestine and Name —; One felt in him the strength which to orthodox Marxism and look with comes from quiet meditation, from imitate Wendell Phillips in his dethat no Jews be given such appoint- Address _. suspicion upon those who sought to the ability to divest himself not only mand that if he died before emanciments. Tel. No. . dilute the genuine brand of socialism of considerations of creature com- pation of the American Negro it and to adjust party policy to exist- fort and of the flesh, but of any in- should be recorded on his tombstone ing conditions. However much the fluences which might hamper a calm that he refused to remain loyal to a party may have been split along this and detached survey of the problem. church that was silent in the presence of a nation's sin, and that he line, it was extremely fortunate to have a man like Morris Hffiquit to Perhaps it was because of this ri- was "recreant to a country which fall back upon. His two campaigns gid control of his emotions that those was a magnificent conspiracy against When an unsuspecting reporter hoped would fit the myriad of dolls for the mayoralty were dignified, ex- who did not know him -well thought justice." But my feeling on this matnonchalantly 'strolled into the Jewish surrounding them. And stranger tremely able, and altogether states- him cold and lifeless, lacking in feel- ter never for a moment affected my manlike. He knew the city, knew ing. They felt that his face was a tremendous admiration for Felix AdCommunity Center the other day, he yet, some of them did fit. came face to face with such an array The needle wielders were Ann what it needed, and he neither com- mask, and so it was in that it hid ler. Nor does it prevent me now of dolls that he thought he had en- Weiner, May Tucker, Zelda Safer- promised nor trimmed. Particularly on the public stage the profound from stating my honest belief that tered the wrong portals and almost stein, Selma Lotman and Ida Berco- was this true of him in his war-time emotions in those depths of his spiri- few men have made such contribucampaign for Mayor. We were still tual nature which far too few had tions to the ethical welfare of the about-faced out- of the building. vici. States as did he; few men But reportorial curiosity won out, The secret of the "doll house" was at war; the ruthless spirit which the privilege of plumbing. None the Unitedmore generously and completeand lo and behold, the dolls belonged soon out—they will be part of the characterized all our authorities from less, he brought comfort and con- have ly served their adopted country. Woodrow Wilson down was rampant. solation to innumerable people. The there. clever booth of the Jewish Commun Police cars were driven into any members of his Ethical Culture con- And still there are multitudes There were dolls clad in gingham, ity Center and Welfare Federation crowd of people, however legal and gregation turned to him as the great among us who woul i put up the bars dolls in silk, satin, and probably cal- part of the exhibit of the Omaha if Mayor Mitchel did not rock of their salvation. They ap- against any future Morris Hillquits ico rags. There were dolls immod- Community Chest to bp fcdd at th lawabiding, like their point of view or attitude. pealed to him first of all when some .and Felix Adlers. They forget that estly unclad, dolls in long dresses, m City auditorium Sunday, October 29 It made no difference to him, or to cruel stroke of fortune put them on the greatest leader of mankind was short dresses, in short, dolls of all starting at 2 p. m. our otLer rulers, that the Constitu- the rack, made them question the a Jew who was bom in a stable. I kinds. There is no admission charge and was ground under foot by them. justice of life a-I every belief that never hear people saying that we But the strongest sight of all was the public is invited. If you want to tion But nothing deterred or frightened they held. ought to shut out these ignorant, illan erstwhile clerical staff suddenly Morris Hillquit. His slogan was, "I At twenty-four years of age, in bred South Europeans and Jews, and transformed into a sewing circle. meet the cute dolls in person—mean will not kOL" He was quite willing 1876, he founded ^he Ethical Culture These ambitious seamstresses were ing celluloid dolls—don't miss the ex to face arrest and prosecution. The movement in America,-a movement (Continued on Page Four) adioitly making dresses that they hibit Sunday.
FATHER AND SON BANQUETATJ.C.C. ON NOVEMBER 12
ISSUES AND MEN
Two Americans ~* MiUxtuit and Adler
NAZIS TIGHTEN ORDER AGAINST
•-•• JEWISH BOYCOTT
Dolls to Brighten J.C. C. Booth at Community Chest Exhibition
Berlin, (J.T.A.)—Not a single Jewish lawyer is left in 47 German cities, data published by the German authorities revealed. The figures which summarized the ousting of Jewish lawyers in different states showed that the state of Thuringia especially goes on record as having gone further than any other German state in ousting Jewish lawyers. Recently the German press boasted that the city of Marburg was completely "Judenrein" (free of Jews) despite the promise of the Minister of Economics that there would be no more dismissals of Jews.
COMMUNITY CHEST EXPOSITION TO BE HELD THIS SUNDAY Jewish Groups Active in City Campaign to Raise $603,136
The community at large is preparing for a concerted, determined campaign for £603,136 to finance the welfare and relief needs of Omaha for the coming year, when the eleventh annual Community Chest campaign swings into action next Tuesday. Preliminary to the opening of the drive a free rally and social work exposition will be held in the city auditorium next Sunday, October 29. The doors will open at 1:30 p. m., with the progTam starting at 2 p. m. The public is invited and urged to attend. Represented at the exposition, the Jewish Community Center and WelAdvertisement for Boycott Re- fare Federation •will have a booth depicting the major activities of the jected By Metropolitan Center and Federation. Jacob S. Press Pearlstien, executive director, is in charge. New York.—As a protest against The Jewish Community Center and the refusal of the metropolitan press Welfare is a constituent to print an advertisement offered agency ofFederation the Community Chest, and them by Samuel Untermyer, president of the American League for the the J. C. C. and famfty welfare budDefense of Jewish Rights, The Na- gets are set by the Chest. tion, noted liberal weekly, published | Women's Tea. the rejected advertisement, deeming This afternoon, October 27, at 2 it, "a matter of such public inter- p. m. there will be a meeting and est, that we here give space to Mr. tea for the women workers in SecUntermyer's suppressed advertise- tion E, of which Mrs. David Feder ment" is chairman, at the Jewish ComMr. Untermyer's rejected adver- munity Center. A feature will be the presentation tisement was an answer to a full page advertisement in the New York of a skit by the Omaha Community morning newspapers, including the Playhouse. Those in the cast include: Yiddish dailies, in which Percy S. Miss Virginia Crofoot, Mrs. Bernard Straus, president of R. H. Macy and Szold, and Mrs. A. H. Richardson. Rabbi David A. Goldstein will adCompany, states the position of his firm on the boycott of German goods. dress the group. Mrs. Myles Standhead of the women's division, In introducing the full text of Mr. ish, Mrs. Reuben Kulakofsky, one of Untermyer's reply as well as a por- and the five on the executive tion of the correspondence contained board of women women's divison, will in the Macy advertisement, the Na- give short the talks. tion declares: This division's list of Jewish wo"The boycott against the Nazis men workers in the drive, published which has grown spontaneously in in the Jewish Press recently, is very. many parts of the world attracted large. All are invited to attend the unprecedented public notice in New tea and meeting this afternoon. York City recently when R. H. Macy Active in Work. and Company, the city's largest department store, decided to state its On the board of; directors - of ."lite position in a full page advertise- Omaha Community Chest are Henry ment published on October 2 in the Monsky and William L. Holzman. New York daily press. This adver- Mr. Monsky is a past president of tisement was apparently the result the Chest, having served two terms. of many criticisms of Macy's policy Mr. Holzman is now second vice-presof buying in Nazi Germany, and of ident. Included on the Chest Initial Gifts the consequent withdrawal of patronage by customers. The episode takes committee ai-e Harry Zimman, Abe on its special interest because of the Goldstein, William Holzman, Henry rejection by the leading New York Monsky, Henry Rosenthal, H. A. morning papers of an advertisement Wolf and J. Harry Kulakofsky. offered in answer by Samuel Unter- Jacob S. Pearlstien is head of the myer, as president of the American radio division, handling radio pubLeague for the Defense of Jewish licity for the campaign. Jack W. Rights, to statements contained inj Marer is major of one of the divisions of workers. Included among the Macy's advertisement." In the Macy advertisement Mr. naptains are Irvin Stalmaster and Straus answered several of the let- Ed Kraus. Among the lieutenants in ters he had received objecting to the the army of workers are Sam Beber, sale of German goods. The presi- Ben Civin, Harry Cohen, David dent of Mac3r's declared that as a Greenberg, Philip Klutznick, William loyal Jew, he resented the treatment Stalmaster. of the Jews in Germany, but deSunday's Mass Meeting. clared that in order to help the The Right Reverend Charles H. German Jews, Macy's in buyfng Ger- LeBlond of S t Joseph, Mo., will be man goods was buying them, wher- the principal speaker at the rally at ever possible, only from Jewish man- the city auditorium Sunday afterufacturers, and that to boycott such noon. The invocation will be delivfirms would merely make their plight ered by the Rev. Charles Durden, worse. pastor of the First Baptist church, In his reply, entitled "An Open and the benediction by Rabbi FredLetter in Reply to the Advertise- erick Cohn. Chairman of the meetment of R. H. Macy and Company," ing will be E. S. Waterbury, presiaddressed to Mr. Straus, Mr. Unter- dent of the Ad Sell League, under myer taking up the points raised by whose auspices the meeting will be Mr. Straus, accused Mr. Straus of held. Dr. Frank G. Smith, pastor not having been frank with his an- of the First Congregational Church, onymous customer, declared that Mr. will present Bishop LeBlond. A colorful feature Sunday will he Straus had no right to speak for the department stores in the United "Omaha, the Melting Pot," a livingStates and accused Macy's of having tableaux, showing 150 persons in nabought "blocked marks" and of us- tional costumes, with Boy Scouts, ing them to purchase goods in Ger- Girl Scouts and Campfire girls in the foreground. many.
"NATION" PRINTS ADVERTISEMENT OFUNTERMYER
Free Bureau for Citizenship and 'Naturalization Problems Are you perplexed with naturalization problems? Have you neglected to take out your first papers towards obtaining citizenship? A citizenship bureau free of charge has been established at the Jewish Community Center to be at your service in working out any naturalization or citizenship question you may have and to directly aid you in obtaining your necessary papers. Mrs. Jack Kaufman, who for many years was associated with the United States Naturalization Bureau and is an expert in this field, has volunteered her services. Arrangements have been made for her to be at the Jewish Community Center every Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 p. m. to meet with those seeking advice or help in connection with their citizenship problems. If a sufficient number apply, the
J C. C. is prepared to form a citizenship class. Those interested are asked to telephone their names tn the Jewish Community Center. This is but one feature of ths work being done by the Citizenship Bureau, which is under the guidance of the Citizenship Committee of the Social Service group. A systematic, determined campaign is to be waged among non-citizens to take out first papers and to become citizens. The committee in charge includes Dr. Philip Sher, chairman; Rabbi Frederick Cohn, Milton Abrahams, Harry Haykin, Rabbi Uri Miller, Rabbi David A. Goldstein, Edward Shafton, Hyman Shrier, Joe Stern, Donald Brodkey, Harry B. Cohen arid Jacob S. Pearlstien. All work of the citizenship committee and bureau is without charge.