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OMAHA,- NEBSJ r ~vA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1937

PREPARE TO OBSERVE . " ANNIVERSARY. OF' . CONSTITUTION

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Hardly^had we recovered from Feurlicht's anouncing., through t ;^-r: A derrkorial Ejeeting was held Plans are • now under way for the columns of the Forum that Saturday night at the Rone Hotei \Ji observance of the Sesqiii-Cententhe Jews have a martyr-complex for.the late Edward FileEe, famed nial of the American Constitution and evoke• their own sufferings I • 1 •— - Boston merchant. Tribute • was | on February 7 under the auspices Picketing asd Tioleace | when there comes Mr. John Courr Ittamer Ben Avi to Speak at of the Round Table of Jewish Hoted • Gersiaa Esbbi to Dis- paid to the-*ounfier of the credit! Ca"ssss Shops t s I •'•"I f -C~ J ' f C nos and proclaims- in: an Epistle • - - cuss Future of Ears. Banquet on Januaioa Eioveiaent in America by .j Close I to the Jews In . the December • • ' pean «Tewry uary 12 meaibers of • the Nebraska organ| A speaker is to be brought here number of the Atlantic Monthly to deliver the principal address.. Tv'arsaw (WNS)—Terror a r c ' . -what do you suppose? That Dr. Joachim Prins, who is to : Omaha Sss fifty-two credit- -unThe Thirty-fifth anniversary of The meeting will be open to the , V ' the Jews' should incarnate Christ the Jewish National Fund is be- public. speak here on January 4, aas ions, ths direct result of Filece's fear cf economic ruin are rapidly ; in" life! Unbelievable as it may ng celebrated by the local counaroused wide comment wherever activities. Lee A..Borders of Ouia- spreading through Polish Jewry j seem this Jew, .whom I have al- cil, who -will bring the' observance he has lectured since coining to ha- is E,' director of the . national as a result cf the intensirication I ways taken* for a man of. sense to • a. dose on' January 12 when . 0 It..',: . America. . association, snd. is • managing • di- cf the militant anti-Jewish boy-1 cott campaign during the "month I and talent, declares like. .any Ittarmar ben' Avl, Palestinean After- hearing hiia Rabbi Ste- rector or ths Neerask,;, league. ' of Polonization" launched "by the j Fundamentalist or, any; seventh- writer, speaks at the anniversary phen iWise remarked that "D~. . Congress.of Polish Traders to ef-; rate theologian who has . never banquet. Prinz is not only a great aad das- , •' ' feet the complete elimination of | heard of Herford. and Moore or sic master of German, his native ?• K The Omaha group of the J. N. Jews from all branches of trade ' tongue, but has already become anybody: or anything, "Jhat; "the F. has been In-existence for seven I and industry. i a master of English. A slight history -of the- Jew3" d'jtring the years and- attempts to coordinate C i Tise boycott is being carried ; foreignism lends charm to the past -nineteen centuries has in- the work of all groups interested through mass picketing o£ 1 r oat deed been a deflection from their in the Jewish. National Fund. The Asks That Foreign Ideologies beauty of hi3 utterance and the • Jewish scops in tfcs major towns j power of his voice. He will be spiritual destiny". . . the.leaders local council is made up of repHot Be Allowed to " crro Z'~ k — ' i • »"T» j and cities and the use of violence j a great figure in America as he of Jewry must'come out with- a tesentativ.es from Hadassah, JunCreate Disputes -CiO" 1 c l ""r- i - - r ' was in Germany." j by anti-Semitic hoodlums. In ; complete avowal.of .thelultimate ior Hadassah, Mizrachi, Women's - r "• * i r; f ' applications of Jewish teaching Mizrachi, Pioneer Women, Goldie Dr. Prinz came to the United Has If© rear cf Asti-Seraitis i Warsaw, Radomsk, Kinsk and ; rt . - Cr* .— r -" r ' c r ^ New York (WNS)—A plea to j Csestochowa long picket lines j prliich - found its.; expression in Myerson Club, Jewish National American citizens not to permit States in August. In Berlin be -.cr Dictatorship j have been thrown around Jewish \ Christ." ; .-'-.:' r-; -, •> c t c J - • Workers Alliance, the B'nai "divided- opinions regarding situ- occupied the principal pulpit -of shops. ' j the city and it is told-that-cis ations in other lands" to "create The silliness - of; Mr,. Cournos's B'rith, Omaha Hebrew Club, the In many cities ths picketing I contention that any kind of con- Temple, all synagogues, and al cleavage between religious groups popularity and ability were so New York' (JTA) — Justice in our nation" lest '-'philosophies great that it was almost_ impos- Irving Lehman, addressing a Con- j £has led to violence which t a s ] version on the part; of -the Jews synagogue -auxiliaries. i iorced" hundreds of Jewish stores I to any •• interpretation of L ChristFunds are raised in Omaha by dominant in totalitarian states sible to. obtain, a seat in t i e sysa- stitjitioa commemoration meeting E r; i ~ E." ,. i T , i • -> ianity .would, even touch the ques- means of the National Fund ...... disrupt the cordial relation- gogue,. the largest in Germany, of the K-ew York Society of the ] -|o close. Protests to local ojfi- ; tion, of anti-Semitism has been Boxes, Golden Book, Junior Gold- ships which now exist among because of the huge crowds that J e w ish Theological • Seminary, I cials and the ministry • ol com- j I inerce have proved unavailing. In too ihoroughly and too brutally en Book, and Tree donations. Protestants, Catholics and Jews in came on Friday evenings. said he feared no movement for ! As the spokesman of German dictatorship- and growth ot .anti- i some instances the pickets are be- : disproved in too-: many times and Over 550 national fund boxes are America" wan made by President - c ; -r' ~ ; ing fed by field kitchens. j Roosevelt In a statement released Jewry he was the first to answer Semitism. ' ia this country, beplaces to merit contradiction. Th distributed throughout the city The whole country is flooded j thing-that seems to me-to.be sin- and; are emptied twice a year by by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, direc- the charges of the Hitlerites, sad cause-of the influence of religion, ister and worthy of :oux attention the committee under the. chair- tor of the National Conference of It was because ot these attacks which he held to be in "irrecon- with millions of leaflets calling ] Jews and Christians. The presion the populace to join se ber-I is the fact that man like Dr. Henof Mrs. Jack Kaufman. dent's statement, given in connec- that he was forced to leave the cilable c a n d i with the totali'cott. A free delivery system Reich. He made his American y. Goddard Leach, edit ir of th I. Morgenstem and Judah Wolf- tion with the 10th anniversary tarian state. , i been orgsnized in many towns /{ Fo.-um and Mr. • Ellery Sedgwick son are In charge of donations to celebration of the conference ot debut on Yom Kipper when ha "There is irreconcilable ! _.j, _ j.^^^.- v v 0 ^ - r - •!-.=, spoke on behalf of the United )£ editor of the Atlantic accept ar- the Golden Book/ and Mrs. J. which Mr. Roosevelt is honorary conflict between religious groups! ^ boyc-^"' ^o"de"""'r " " "the : _ „ , v Palestine Appeal. - licles in this subject of a kin Ricblin and Mrs. Max Goldstein chairman, called upon citizens to l In Omaha Dr. Prins will speak | ^ ^ ^ J ? % % ^ \ critical" Eiteation an 'emergenc: which, on any other subject t take - care of donations for the advance democratic principles in ^ o n \ ^s ^ ^ . ^ a i i e ^ ! ^ier_e a ce oJ all organi-the whole world, they woul Sefer Ha-Yeled, the Children's the United States and declared on "Has European Jewry a Tu- j upon the _stupid ture." He speaks : here ander-the ' .-..• -mferjonty --.- - . - . : s^n-Cua *.u^. *.BV,ISR m e i i.bers ol promptly refuse — .articles by Book. . - ; T - I - "' ' . cf to a , p a r l i E m e E that "in this nation we proclaim auspices of the Center Fcrura. I racial ^ men who are • completely- out ot Trees are planted on various the equal rights of all religious ic race, tegao tfeeor ffleet ^ touch with the subject they write occasions by the J. N. F. After groups whether of the majority or Tickets for the lecture may bs ! campaign for ths rcthless ester- j IT about, men whose opinions are the first of the year all tree do- of minorities, and find our unity obtained at the Center "or from j min'atic'n , -~c- of t i e Jews ia Germany j less" tijan worthleB3, men whom •nations by Omahans will go to in- a common citizenship." any member of the committee. Tf, • and lo! a prince of the Catholic ; those who know would not and the Harry Lapidus Forest which Church, Cardinal Faalhabsr, is j The text of the president's .could not for a moment take ser- is being planted in memory of the 4 his great - JBercaoa Vudeataum, j ; statement reads as follows: "~f iously. . • late Omaha Jewish leader. Chrislcath'EEi, tnd Gsrniantliuta*, \ Up to ID 20 the Keren Hayesod . "This country is thoroughly From Mr. Cournos*-article it is challenge ia t i e name ot Christ-!. committed to the principle of civil perfectly: eyiclent" that he- is sim- took care of all -work in Palestine and religious liberty. Instead- of laaity the "power ol' the State and With a-record crevfi aEEin In ply ignorant. Completely and Only fifteen per cent of the money deploring the variety of racial called' iipoa Ciristiaas to' uphold niany-sidedly ignorant. He ev- collected-at that time went for strains , and spiritual traditions tbe -prcpistio.ideals" of love, Ji « ^ ! attendance t i e 1c idently: lives in utter alienation •land. Since the organization of which are an .'inherent- part of car Ss& holiness which &re ths 3'EEI B'riib repeated • tlss cccees from- Jewish.: life. -He evidently the. l£ereii;',,KaycmeUi ..eighty, per. : -we" •"'•welcome 't&eai '"iter zr : cWntrot'ta'S~ctpiiaflona ' goes for knows no -JewCexcept' ihc&e tianity End to reject the pagan token ot the freedom that we; enave as ignorant as, himself. Then land acquisition while twenty per joy and believe that the common ideals.asserted fcy leaders of the First prise cf Si5 T-erf" \o i-?&,? why- does" he presume to apeak cent ia donated to reforestation life is enriched" by what each of movement, 'tkougii long ago aban- old Florence Freak's . who Esr-.c: for us? He is careful"—•and"thls? projects, irrigation, land draining these ; groups contributes. In* this doned ' by the " savEgs ' Germanic and danced. Florence is a pi'-Pil ct Eritton School of Dane13 iu: itself suspicious"— never to "and well digging. tribes. _The. pastors of Protestant }t h e A »: nation we proclaim the equal Stanler Epstein, lire say "we" or "our people" or "my All land resources of the Jew- rights of all religious groups Branch 173 of tho "Workmen's churches "have" shown for the same ! ' n year old accordionist and acrcbapeople." He feigns' to himself ish National Fund have now been whether of the majority.or of mi- Circle of Omaha will celebrate its jcoarage'as the Catholic priests. that he surveys the Jewish peo- exhausted, having been divided norities, and find our unity in a thirtieth anniversary on Saturday j "I am often asked whether 1 tic cancer, vr&s awarded second ple objectively, from some higher into colonies. At present the common citizenship. Freedom of night," December 25, at S:SO with 'fear in this country a movement prize of ten. dollars; Third prize vantage-point. His vantage-point- Jewish;National Fund is raising speech, of the press and of as- a concert - for'members' and their! for'a dictatorship and the growth went to Robert Lev:*, dancer. *_^ r "orr" is ignorance soaked "with alien five "million dollars to acquire a sembly are 'guaranteed to all t>y families. An anniversary banquet i of anti-Semitism which csnally Billy Bieyers, state director ol prejudices of the most "'vulgar tract of land in" northern Galilee. the Bill of Rights. will bs held on Sunday evening, I accompanies £-«ich movements.- the Federal Music Project, made -kind. I am- sorry to : see him December 26, at 6:SO p. m. "Jewish National Fund Land has over-optimistic, but a personable master ol ceremon! Perhaps I ar "This American doctrine is where he is —- sorry not :for our also been. used for t h e Hebrew f The Workmen's Circle Dramaj I have EG Each fears, EEd the rea| ies. Hymen Shrier anfi Sr. Leoa 'sake'but-tor his own. . University, Bezalel School of Arts challenged or • denied in \ other tic club will present a one-act j son why I have EO suci fears is Fellman were chairntes. ei the parts of the world today. \ l t is Of nearly everything he says and Crafts, Rdthschild-Hadassah my earnest hope that divided play and a group, of songs at.the because I believe that American j It is precisely the contrary that University hospital, the power opinions regarding.situations in concert. A musical program will idealism, American traditions ana j lor the contest. is true. Jewry Is not more divid- stations, and a number of smaller other lands than ours will not also be presented Sunday evening American independence will sot j tolerate the destruction of ed Internally than'ever; never schools and institutions. • create cleavage between religious at the banquet. A speaker is being.sent here liberties. The influence oi reHg-1 H e a r P c r t ^ g ^ e s e since the sorcalled emancipation J. _ p ,,;, groups in our nation. Philosohas Jewry been beneath all exter- Name Judges'for. phies dominant in totalitarian from New -York by 'the natioaal ion in America is great. even Marancos Want to among those who rarely attend nal differences so profoundly at states must not be allowed to dis- office. Many guests and representa- church." one, nor so consciously : a people, rupt the cordial relationships A. Z. A. Contest one people. It i3 tragic and scanwhich now exist among Protes- tives from- the chapters in Sioux Omaha, Nebr. — Ludwig Lew- tants, Catholics and Jews in City, Des Molnes and Lincoln will Jalous for any Jew to be so igSalcniki (^"NS)—The Jews of , aorant of Jewish life as.to say: isohn, Lewis Browne and Ben America. We believe in democ- be guests at "the . banquet. All this city where Sabbatai Zri. the j "Today Israel is faced with spir- Aronin will serve as judge3 of racy, a happy combination of members of the Workmen's Circle r e a c l l ' , f a l s e sessi =-H of the leth ceriturr : itual, If" not physical extinction." the 1038 natioaal A. Z. A. En- freedom and responsibility. Our have been invited to attend. ^ ^ ^ _ _ ' began his amasing career, are Essay Contest, Sam Beber, " e ^ Q O ™ *"l *«»*'»«»»'"• ' • «" Let us for the. moment' confine Both affairs will take place at (JTA) The Xevr i E-^°S ever a report in the local ; c«. _York ^ f *t Aionh V.*.M*A I P ^ . Mathers fought for it and left it to ourselves to America where both president of Aleph Zadik Aleph, the Labor. Lyceum, 22cd and York Times declares editorially Jewish press that ssvcr&l thenMr. Cournos and.I live.: Well',:in Junior Order of B'nai B'rith an- U3 as our heritage. We are de- Clark street. termined to maintain it and to that the campaign of Nazi lead- sand Portuguese Marennos vrho ' the past three years and a half nounced today. demonstrate in America the posers . to destroy Christianity is ! returned to the Jewisi 'old under . I have visited over -100 Jewish The subject of this year's com"creating a ssfknxs breach in ths | the inflence ol the ProO.lErar.no ' communities i n : t h e United petition i3 "Underlying Causes of sibility of a community in which OKLAHOMAN-LEAVES Reich" and the Nazi program of i committee ol London end AmsterStates; I have visited many of Modern Anti-Semitism," and A. men of diverse racial origins and HEBREW U. religious convictions can live topaganization is "endangering the j dsE, have abandoned Judaism - : s , """ e r them — Chicago, Cleveland, St. Z. A. members, to whom the comi and set up a new Christian-JewESTATE gether in mutual respect, friendunity of the state. Loula, e t c .etc. a number of petition is limited, have until ship and co-operation in all those As proof, the editorial quotes !i s t l s e c t c a S e r t f c s leadersh ip of March 1st to malce their entries. times; many of the leading, rabmatters . that make for human New York' {JTA)—The He- the Pastoral letter or Count Koa- j G o 1 - C&rlos Devcro, -."bora they Ludwig Lewisphn is known happiness and national well-be•bla and leading. laymen are. I brew university will receive ap- rad von Preysicg, of the Catholic iE r e acclaiming as the messian. *im~-proud and happy to say, dear wherever literature Is read as ing. proximately $35,000 under the diocese of Berlin, warning that | According to the report, the ind close friends of mine;-1 have the author of The Island Within, "The perpetuation of these will of Adolf Lowiager, realtor, "it ia a-fatal mistake to suppose | 3ie=i^erE cf the new sect are cn:oma ia contact with the massea Up-Stream, The Last Days of that-the nation's welfare can be j d e r t f c e in"tsence of a Fascist >f our peaple, too; I "sedulously Shylock and Mid Channel. Of democratic principles demand, as of Lawtoa, Okla., who died Dethey deserve, our devotion and cember 5 at the age of 83, it was promoted 'by,-ths destruction cf I Weblogy which has been read the Yiddish press;- I have him, the Saturday Keview of Litattended - Zionist Conventions, erature Bald, 'He belongs of .right sacrifice. We must not hold them announced by Samuel B. Finsel, | Ghrietianity" and th-a memoir of slb'e for widespread ag'tatio-s in 3'nai B'rith Conventions, J . N . F. to the most distinguished circle too cheaply at a time when they director-'of-the American Friends | the. Protestant chaplains of ths Portugal, linking Jews with ComReiehswehr' cantioning . that "a munism. It is "claimed that Colongatherings, meetings innumer- of contemporary novelists in seem to be receding in some quar- of the Hebrew university. ters where they were Once valued. • -Mr.. Lowinger's will, dated Defuture war will find the Gensas el Dsvarc, a leafier Vn. rs.scist AmerieaJ* tble at Jewish Centers, Y'sietc; Rather they must be intelligently cember 11, 1386, provides that nation in the; midst of ths bitter- j circles, lEcnche-5 E new i have occnpled pulpits, both Lewis.Browne is already wetiConservative • and Reformed, • In known to A. Z. A.; members Who] fostered and bravely advanced I his • entire. estate be taraed over ness . brought about "by t i g cos-: Cleans of fresir.g 'tbe rcia c.ontE.ct vritb. part of the land and I am attended the Pacific Palisades welcome the effort of the Nation- for.the use of the'Hebrew univer- flict between ChriEtianity and Na- i * sity except for 12,000 al Conference of Jews and Christioaal Eocialisirs." ' " . to bear. witness that even convention several years ago lere In this upon the whole un- where that - author conducted a tians, to increase in local com-! to the Jewish community ol bis ipiritual: society wKere Ignorance forum which still remains, as an nmnities the number o£ i t s ; native town of Papa, Hnssary, — ~ s at' a premium among men of A.. Z. JL. highlight of all times. Round Tables of leading citizens i ill" raqe3 and persuasions '-^-that Mr. Browne is the author of How of all faiths "who by mutual con-; .nb to iven here the spiritual life of l s - Odd of God, Stranger Than Fic- saltation and planning may deal•' •ael is stronger, • deeper, more • as- tion, That Man. Heine and a host with occasions of distrust or mis• Gl-sns Falls, N. T. <VTJCS' . j understanding and pave the way more valiant- than- it ha3 of other veil-known and Th* J.ewish Santa Claas c£ i to co-operation." 'officers o f ' . t h a . O m a h a H e - [.northern' c o u n t r i e s e : i been s.nd that','-it-all-'who standing hest-sellers. b r e w Club TS-,11 b2 i - r L i ' l d c : <•"--„ i 2c-,"^.n. .: i " •The third judge, Ben Aronin, salt themselves Christians aver11 JACOB SYNAGOGUE': Suiiday, Jann".~y 2. T r n — •«-*—r- , T „. f.-~ — - - iged-tip morally arid.spiritually also well-known to A. 7n A. memts 'well, as hiBh, as those who "bers as "Uncle Ben*.of the Hollis•ELECTS NEW BFFICERSl :all themselves Jews,'- the world ter Camp Convention in which - ' Kabbi Miltci A. ;rc-;:c.a —»1 Tould wear, a differjent face and be -participated,•- is beloved as a The B'nai Jacob. S v, dilferent aspect. - I t is not: we lecturer and educator. His poems held a meeting and "supper at the! be-main spea.::c-, a-d Kct^^n S. Hr; Cournos, whoneed Christ.-It and ; stories have appeared widely home of I. -Blacker_ last Sunday.ji. Yaffe, iastallls^ c-^.c. n s the Germans and the Poles and in ; metropolitan: journals and Mrs.: B. Shafton -was chairmaa of'j . Mr. I. llorr^ 1 -1 mti-Semitea everywhere. And magazines,... while Moor's Gold j supper arrangements and was as- •president.of 1=3 l i - - c - C.-b. ;v,henl in:, the face of-.this Christ- and The Lost Tribe are among j sisted hy Mrs.. I. Blacker and mdom youTEay that we"//"need bisJ best known books. "His plays Mrs. F. Jacob. vhrist'and not thsy,-you playdnto have been acclaimed by the most New officerf are:' B. Sbsfton. lie hand of -every anti-Semite severe-critics.-'•-'-. •-- president; .A. Hirsch, vice-presi- ' Vienna ( J T . 1 ) — . . tnfi of., every-progromchik••in-.the" dent;-I. Swartz, treasurer. Wcis- I.RueSieger von E*cl: irorld. Did you know that? Did The Jews of Austria formulat- en elected are: Mrs. P . Jacob, | ; E S ? Austrian *wc-> Uat not dawn-upon-you? .. _ - '..'.- ed a; legend that they were des-,.-president, and Mrs... J. Abram- i^iaarrtea- : Iast —c- r '.-vThe thoroughly ignorant. Jew cendants of a • s d a ' ol •"Abraham. I son, :Tice-pres5dent. .Nors Gregor, c, .'of. ,eourss, 1ignorant in every ' $15.25 "was collected for t i e : -This was to relieve them .of any ... • (Continued .oa ; p'age-.S.) .k- . responsibility.'for thd. Crucifixion.'' Kational Funfl.' "-,.".•'. '•'• -.'" isU' descent.

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