January 10, 1941 by Jewish Press

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SEEK NAT BUDGETIi) ORGANIZATION {Competitive Appeals to Be Avoided by Group New. York (WNS) — A propo. pAl for the establishment by the Council of Jewish Federations Mid Welfare Funds of a national Advisory budgeting s e r v i c e to *'»Void the friction and chaos of competitive appeals" is now un,4er consideration by leaders of federations, and welfare f u n d s throughout the country following the decision of the major national and overseas agencies to conduct separate campaigns in 1041. The proposal has been put forward by Sidney Hollander of Baltimore, president of the Council, in a* letter to presidents of the 202 member agencies of t h e Council in the United States and Canada and. will be one of the major questions to be acted on •when" the Council's General Assembly meets In Atlanta on February 1, 2 and 3. . , 1 Relating the events which led up to the decision of the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Refugee Service not to renew their Joint fund-raising ar(Continued on JPage 9.)

Talmud Torah to Benefit From Annual Affair

The annual Council Bluffs Talmud Torah dance will he held Sunday evening, January 20, nt the Eagles Hall in thy Bluffs. Music will be played l>y Freddie ISbener'g band. For those who do not care to dance, various games, Including bingo, will be played. There will also bo refreshment booths. • ' ' Mra. L. H. Cohen Is general • chairman of the dtfnce. The Men's committees are headed by Sam ^ • Sacks, Sam Gross;, and Sam Meyerson. Assisting will be: Ben Kubby, Sam Rosenthal, A. B. Bear, Charles Saltzman, Ben Gershun, Simon Steinberg, Nathan Nogs, Louis Bernstein, and Harry Kuhby; Max Harris is in charge - of all decorations. ' t,, Committees Mrs. I. Sternhlll and Mrs. Ben Kubby are in chargo of the draw', ing. Managing the booths will be .. Mesdames A. Gllinsky," Sam Mey. erson, Ben Gershunl and J. ' Scharf. Mrs. Sam Gross is in . charge of the bingo game. Refreshment booths will bo under the direction of Mesdames Sam Sacks, A. B. - Bear, and J. Rosen. Assisting with the ticket sale are: Mesdames Saul Suvalsky, Harry Cohen, Etta Yudelson, Sam ' Hoffman, Nathan Nogg, Richard ' • Gordon, Sam Meyerson, and Q. ' Castle. '

David Pinski, famous Yiddish -playwright, author, and poet, will a d d r e s s the Jewish National Workers Alliance, Poale JZlon, will address tliVJeWish'* National Workers Alliance, Poale Zio'n, on Tuesday, January-14, at 8 p. m. at the Jewish community Center." Mr. Pinski,'who is-president of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, will read some of his latest work. Refreshments are to be served. Tho public Is invited.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1O, 1041

Round Table Bulletin

Play Try-Outs

As an added feature, "The Jewish Press" will each month print the Round Table Bulletin, the official news-organ of the local Round Talkie of Jewish Youth. The first bulletin may be found this week on page 5. All members of the Round Table are receiving this issue of "The Jewish Press."

Try-outs will be held Sunday, January 12, at 1 o'clock at the Jewish Community Center for the Center Players. For their next presentation, the Center Players have chosen Button Vane's famous play, "Outward Bound," generally considered one of the outstanding of modern dramas. Besides those desiring to take part in the play itself, the Players would like persons interested in other phases of the theater to come to try-outs.

DEINABD WILL SPEAK HERE Minneapolis L a w y e r to Address Annual Meeting Amos Spencer Deinard of Min« neapolls, president of the West Central Region of the Jewish Welfare Federation, will be principal speaker at the annual meeting of tho Jewish Federation on Tuesday evening, January 21, at the Jewish Community Center. . This annual community-wide event will hear reports of the various chairmen and will elect officers for the coming year. Mr. Delnard, a native of Terre Haute, Indiana ,1s a leading lawyer of Minneapolis and has been active in Jewish communal circles. He is a graduate of!the University of Minnesota and the Harvard University Law school. He is president and chairman of tho budget and\ distribution committee of tho Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service, a member of tho plan and scope committee of the Joint Distribution Committee, director of the Jewish Family Welfare Association of Minneapolis, and president of the Minneapolis district of the Zionist Organization of America. He is also a member of various legal societies, .the Minnesota Statistical Society, the Minnesota Historical Society, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Foreign Policy Association, and Phi Beta Kappa.

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For the first time in its history the Jewish Community Center will be the scene of the Midwest A. A. U. Senior Men's Swimming and Diving meet this coming Sunday, January 12, Outstanding swimmers f r o m Nebraska, S o u t h Dakota and Iowa. The University of Nebraska has signified its intention of sending its team to compete. Entries for the meet close today. Preliminary competition will be held at 10 o'clock Sunday morning and the finals at 3:30. Awards H o w a r d Shinrock, J. C. C. swimming instructor, and L e e Grossman, Center physical director, are in charge of the meet. Representatives of other institutions in the region will serve as officers. ' Ralph Leke, physical director of the local "Y," will be starter. * Official A. A. U. medals will be awarded the first three winners in each event. Feature of the meet will be the fancying diving competition.

Will' Represent Jews for Religious Emphasis Week

Rabbi David A. Goldstein will continue his series of book evenings on Tuesday, January 14, when lie reviews Ernest Hemingways much-discussed novel, of the Spanish Civil war, "For Whom the Bell Tolls." This book has been substituted for "The Beloved Returns" which was scheduled for review.

Rabbi David. II. Wice will be Jewish representative at Religious Emphasis Week which is to he observed at tho University of Colorado at B o u l d e r , btarting January 10. With a Protestant and Catholic speaker he will address the InterChurch Student Council on ,the evening of January 19. The next morning ho will appear at a University Convocation to participate In a discussion of' "Faith In Time of War." This will be followed by a panel for faculty and students at luncheon. On Tuesday, January 21, he will address the ministers of the community and the faculty on "The University, the Church, and the Student." On January 22, he will h o l d personal interviews with student: (Continued on Page 12.)

The plight of the American politician was discussed from a philosophical point of view by T. V. Smith, professor of „ philosophy at tho University of Chicago and until this session a member of the United S t a t e s Congress, who spoke Monday evening at the Center ''Forum. " - -Relating some of his oyrn*, experiences as both politician and philosopher, ,Prof. Smith blamed uncompromising 'idealists' f o r much of the unhappiness in this world, "people whose ideals are so high they suffer" a sense of guilt because they are unable to live up to those Weals.'.' - - \ . . * Blarney •'Good" People As' examples,, he cjted Lenin, 'Jwho would wreck' a . world-to gain an -ideal," and Hitler, ."the social misfit." Rather than cherishing tfieir. ideals for their own personal development, these men have-attempted - to-impose them on th'e world with the resulting chaos. ' ; I • •-.--, In defending the politician, he

blamed "good" people who bring issues before a .legislative body only after they have become insolyablo and have ceased to be political issues but 'moral' one3. It then becomes the task of the politician to reconcile opposing points of view'which have taken .refuge in self-Jighteousness and as a result, neither side is satisfied. : ' To preface his lecture, Prof. Smith related a whispering campaign that . was to have been utilized to discredit him in his first attempt,to win public office. This, he Contended, was the only unfair manifestation- he ever felt in a campaign In which he was -involved.-.-- "Some politicians are smart/.'-he-said In discussing their tactics, ."but.that is excusable." . -Mrs. Ben.Silver,HIS regional ad:visdr^of in© University of Chicago, was chairman of tho,evening, f .'" Next speaker on the Forum will be! Maurice Samuels,, noted .author, •who* will: appear here" on February 4.

Hemingway Novel To Be Reviewed by Rabbi Goldstein

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ADED BY HARRY COHEN Omahan Named National President of Fraternity Harry II. Cohen, Omaha, was elected national president of Sigma Alpha Mil fraternity last week at the national convention of tho organization held in Washington, D.

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Greenberg to Speak Thursday in Yiddish

Hayim CJreenberg, Zionist lead' er and editor of "The Jewish Frontier," will speak at the Jewish Community Center on Thursday evening, January 16, on "Th« War and the Jewish Problem." His talk will be in Yiddish. There will bo no admission charge. A native of the Russian province of Bessarabia, he became a Zionist while still a boy, and In Odessa, where he later moved, he moved in the circle of Bialik, UBsishkln, and other Zionist leaders. During tho first world war, lie was one of the editors of Russi' outstanding Jewish weekly, "Rasswlet." Following the March Revolution, he settled In Charkow as instructor of Medieval Jewish literature and the Greek Drama at tho University of Charkow. When tho , Bolsheviks seized power, ho was arrested because of his participation in Zionist and Hebrew Culture. In 1920 he left Soviet Union and settled in Berlin as editor of "Haolom." He has resided in the United States since 1924. He was editor of "Farm Folk" and tho Ylddlsher Kemfer." Since "1934 he has edited the "Jewish Frontier.' Dr. Greenberg is a member of the Zionist Actions Committee.

STAGE NIGHT TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Final plans were completed for the annual Round Table night to bo held Wednesday, January 15 at the Jewish Community Center. Ten clubs affiliated wfth the Round Table have indicated that they will participate and according to Harry Goodbfnder, chairman of this year's affair, the show will-bo one of the best. All clubs have been urged to submit original plays and Bkits. First place winner will receive $7.GO; second, $5; and third, $2. Entries will be judged on (1) choice of play; (2) degree of preparation.; (3) interpretation; (4$ originality, and (5) group cooperation. All plays will ho limited to ten minutes. The committee in charge headed by Harry Goodbinder, includes .Florence Tatelman, Al Oruch, Warner Froh'man, Eileen Zevitz, and Bertha Wine.

HEBREW GLUB WILL INSTALL OFFICERS Installation of officers of thcOmaha Hebrew club for the ensuing term will take place Suuday, at 3:30 p. m.; at tho Jewish Community Center. Arrangements are being made to secure Henry Monsky to address the-meeting. • N. S. YafXe will install the officers. Included In the musical program" will be a group of songs by Cantor E. Seltz, accompanied by his daughter Shirley.

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Wednesday night more than G5 members and alumni of the Nebraska chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu paid special honor to Cohen, at a testimonial banquet, given in Omaha. The banquet, held at the Paxton hotel, was attended by alumni from all parts of the state. Active undergraduate members of the fraternity came to the affair In a bus specially chartered for thd occasion. One of the thirteen founders of the Nebraska chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu, Harry B. Cohen, served as chapter treasurer and president in his undergraduate days, and aa regional advisor, member of the supreme advisory body, "the Octagon," and national vice president before his present election to the national presidency; Cohen will-assume the leadership of the fraternity July 1. Pre(Contlnucd on Page 4.)

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Recently Refused Ex* emption from Vichy Law

Vichy (WNH) — Prof. Henri Bergson, world famous philosopher, and winner of tho Nobel Prize for literature in 1027, who figured prominently in the news '.recently, when-he rejected an offer from the French government at Vichy to exempt him from tho anti-Jewish law, died in Paris nt tho age of HI, it was announced here. •' . In compliance with Nazi regulations, Prof. Bergson left -his sick bed a few weeks ago and, dresscsd in dressing gown and sllppe'rs and leaning1 upon his valet, stood i.a lhitrto register as a Jew. Refusing all offers of privileged treatment, he resigned from his vpst • at the College of France, to wh'ioli he was appointed in 1900. Despite the f a c t that Prof. Bergson was Jewish and never made any ' attempt to hide _hig Jewishness, Jacques Chevalier, secretary of state for education, sent a telegram of condolence to Mae. Bergson in which he referred to the Jewish philosopher as "a forerunner and an artisan o£4he French renaiscence." ' Prof. Bergson's popularity was at its peak shortly before the firpt World War. At that time, It was (Continued on Page 10.) < -

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