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CITY TALMUD TORAH TO CONDUCT free loan Fund Is AUXILIARY Sunday 3s Day Of Bi NEXT OPEN' MEETING TO ASK FOR FUNDS Concert For Benefit Oi Given Big Send-Off War Sufferers; Attend By B'riai Brith Here
The regular, open, monthly meetThe City Talmud Torah board will ing of the B'hai. B'rith' will be held soon launch, a drive for members, it "'hursday evening,. March' 31, under ( was announced today. the direction of the Women's AuxilFollowing is the. committee which iary. The Intellectual Advancement will have charge of the drive: Dr. Committee of the. Auxiliary announce Omaha Hebrew Club Also Goes they have prepared an interesting Sophie Braslau to Sing in After- I. Dansky, chairman; Rabbi- Morris noon; Dance and Basketball Taxon,. Mrs. Levey, Mr. and Mrs. ' , • /on Record Favoring Cam- program. •.'-.. : Game to Follow.' B. A. Simon, N. Steinberg, and N. S. The meeting will, be "held in the •'., paign; Many Contribute; ; formerly.'known .as "Cooper's ; Drive Still On; Help! / jrooniB Everything, is set for t i e Sophie Dancing Academy- on, the'third .floor "The needs ©f the Talmud Torah Braslau concert and dance at the of the Lyric Building.- .The public has-increased with its growth,"-said Auditorium Sunday afternoon and •' . '. 1.1 » : • • SEND TODAY 1 ' is invited. N.-S. YaSe, president of the.Talmud evening under, the auspices of-the ; . Yonr check can chase pmaha Hebrew Club for the benefit Torah. "The number of pupils now *' Snffering away. receiving Hebrew and religious educaof the Jewish war sufferers. v Conscience s a y s , i •• At 2:00 p. m." Sunday' the com- tion iri the Talmud Torah is very " "Send a check today!" mand "Let's Go!" will start a pro- large. Many of them cannot afford gram which will extend late into the to pay tuition. • Money is • needed. The Omaha lodge of the B'nai Everyone should do their share in Omaha Boy to Face Yale at Cam- night. Brith a t its last meeting voted providing "funds for the maintenance bridge, Mass., March 18, in DisFollowing the • Sophie Braslau v to contribute $500 toward the tTf this institution." . cussion Over "Open Shop" concert, the Thorpeian Athletic club Free Loan fund. ll play •" a," basketball game:-'with .The Omaha Hebrew Club went Special to "THE JEWISH < PRESS." an all-star team from Sioux City.* on record last Sunday in favor Cambridge, Mass., March 16.—Sol After the basketball game there of the Free Loan fund and a Rosenblatt of Omaha, son of Mr. and will be dancing until the wee hours committee was appointed to Mrs. Morris M. Rosenblatt, a junior of the morning. confer -with the committee of the student at Harvard College, will be on The ticket to the concert will be Omaha Professor, who —as in ExpediFree Loan fund in order to the debating team which will face the the admission ticket for the baskettion headed for North Pole ascertain how much is wanted Yale star debaters here March 18, the Elected Fellow. ball game and dance. There will be from the Hebrew club. most important debate of the school only one price of admission. . year. . ; • .: • ' . Many small contributions were Dr. Victor E. Levine, well known Refreshments will be sold, the The question is: Resolved that emreceived durisg the past week. Zionist worker here, a member of the proceeds to go toward the :war ployers of '^bor should discontinue the B'nai Brith and the" Jewish Welfare sufferers' fund. policy of the "open shop." Federation, has been elected a.fellow These are the "high spots" durWill Sing I Yiddish Songs, , Harvard has the negative of the of • the "American association for the ing , the past week in the drive of question and will argue that the policy Miss; Braslau will sing several Advancement of Science. the Free Loan committee for a fund of the "open shop"'should be con- Yiddish songs besides aN good; proDr. Levine is-on the staff of the of $15,000. • tinned. The speeches of Rosenblatt gram of English''songs.'- Among the Creighton Medicial College. The total amount received up-to- and his collegues will be printed and : date is ?4,200. The committee expects distributed nationally by the National Yiddish songs will ! be "Yahrzeft" He was one of a scientific expedition and "Eli Eli"!, . started off for the north pole, some to attain its goal before April 1. Manufacturers asr-ociation and the Many are planning parties at nine years ago. The party started National Chamber of Commerce, it the concert. Blocks of seats have b,een from Alaska and; reached the fartherDemand is Great. "The demand for loans is still wa3 reported hejre. purchased by-Harry Lapidus, Henry most trading post; in which vicinity In order to be well versed on both' Monsky, Harry Wolf, Ben Lustgarten, they spent some time in polar region great" said Dr. Philip Sher, chair' man of the Free Loan committee. sides of the question the Harvard Sam Babior, N. Resnick, John Feld- research. "During the past week Carl Katie- debaters have held several conferences man, L. Kneeter, J. Robinson, Julius The Omaha professor plans to spend man, secretary of the Free Loan with Samuel Gompers, the inter- Waxenberg, Morris Finkle, A.Balker, six weeks in the far north this sumcommittee received several applica- nationally known labor leader, and N. S. Yaffe, J. J. Friedman and E. mer. ;With. other professors from tions from persons ,for money in officers of the National Manufacturers Meyers. Johns Hopkins; he plans to make an • * order to bring their families to this association. At the meeting of the Omaha expedition by way of Labrador, Baffin On the same night that Rosenblatt Hebrew Club, a sale of tickets .was bay .and'thence iiorth. country. It is our duty to help them. They will pay the loans bixk t o the and the Harvard team meet Yale, an- conducted by Harry Lapidus. Nearly fond in monthly installments. The other Harvard team wi}l argue against 51,000 was. netted. H v A. Wc-if. LOCAL HABASSAH CLUBS money wjlV Tre reloaned and_.so J on. the "open-shop? in- a debate-^witfe bought $25 one dollar tickets > ;Bnd TO HELP ORPHANS AND ' ~r "When a man makes a contribution Princeton. then gave them back to the lodge NURSES IN PALESTINE to the Free Loan fund he makes a to be auctioned. Others ; acted Sol. Rosenblatt's .parents reside at perpetual contribution for it is similiarly. Five $1.00 tickets offered 401 South Thirty-Eighth avenue, here. Omaha-members of the Hadassah constantly in use." by Mr. Lapidus sold for $8.00—$3.00 He began to debate when a freshman and the Junior Hadassah are plan* The B'nai Brith by making the conabove pan' in high schorl and while ;. student at ning to adopt several orphans in tribution, bears out its motto of benJudging from present indications Central high school, he won many Palestine and to maintain several evolence and brotherly love. a crowded auditorium will greet Miss debatinghomrs. During his first two pupil nurses there. Harry Lapidus, Harry Wolf and years at Harvard he won several lov- Braslau, . .Although the Junior Hadassah N. S. Yaflee explained the purposes ing cups in debates. organization here was only recently of the Free Loan at the Omaha YOUNG MEN TO Hebrew Club Sunday. FORM JUNIOR WELFARE organized, much work has been done THIEVES UNLIKE JEWS help the orphans in the Holy I/and.. "It is a question of keeping pride FEDERATION to Members SO HE FORBIDS FILM of both Hadassah organand honor among our poor," said Mr. The Young Men's Junior Welfare London, (Jewish T e 1 e_g r a p h i c izations here will celebrate "PalesLapidus. "Alms receiving kills pride Federation will be organized, Wednesand honor. A loan would keep this Agency.)—We are informed from day, March 23, at the Lyric theater tine Health Day",, March 24, the spark of pride and honor burning in Berlin that the entire Jewish .com- building. All boys between the ages ninth anniversary of the founding of the national organization of the soul of the recipient until he is munity has been roused to a pitch of 18 and 23 are invited. Hadassah. On this day all over the again back on his feet. It is the of indignation by the act" of a local Boys clubs of the' city will be country contributions will be known official named Bulcke who prohibited greatest of all causes in Omaha." represented at the opening- meeting. 'as "Shalach Monos". You should do your bit. It is your the exhibition of a film. In stating duty as a Jew and a^s a citizen. his reason for his prohibition, the AMERIGAN CONSUL Nine years ago on Purim, HadasDon't wait until the Free Loan com- official said that the experience of sah was born out of the resolve to WITHHOLDING VISAS bring healing to Palestine. Before mittee calls on you. Beat them to it, criminologists has shown that pickWarsaw, (Jewish T e l e g r a p h i c pockets never appear in the guise of and mail your contribution to Carl Hadassah's first year was out two Agenc^f)—The^ greatest difficulty is C. ICatleman, secretary of the Free gentlemen. In this particular picture, pioneer nurses from America were experienced in obtaining a vise from Loan fund, 748 Omaha; National Bank however, pickpockets- who play an established in a little nurses' settlethe American Consulate, the restricbuilding, or W^L- Holzman, treasurer, important part in the action instead ment in Jerusalem, the school chilof resembling as they) naturally tions now being such that even those dren's eyes were being cured of Nebraska Clothing Co. proceeding .to their nearest kin have Following are all the contributions should the lowest type of a Galician difficulty in getting the Consulate's trachoma, and a midwives service Jew, they are made to 'appear in was in operation. Suspecting a misup to date: ' official sanction to proceed to the the role of gentlemen. sionary trap, Jerusalem eyed the V Morris Levy '. $1000 United States. « "nurses warily. atv first, but soon took Wm. L. Holzman _..„.... 500 Rothschild Goes to,Palestine; them to its heart as "Hadassahs'L Omaha Lodge L O. B. B. 500 PEOPLES RELIEF ASK FOR WiU Meet .Winston Churchill In 1918, the original Hadassah * Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Wolf 300 VOLUNTEER WORKERS London, (Jewish T e l e g r a p h i c service was absorbed by the AmerM. Kulakofsky ......„.„_... 200 Volunteer workers are wanted at Agency.)—Major James .M. de Roth- the ' headquarters of the People's ican Zionist Medical Unit, which was ". .. • Mr. & Mrs. R. Kulakof sky 200 schild, son of the noted Paris philan- Relief Committee at 814 North Six- organized and fitted out by HadasHenry Monsky _. 200 thropist and one.: of the leading teenth street, according to M. Selicow, sah in. America in answer to ah S. C. Katleman .....":.. 100 ' sportsmen in England and France, chairman of the drive here. > O. S. cry that typhus and cholera '. Dr. Philip Sher ... i..- 100 David Sher .... 100 - • left for Palestine. '.It'is;understood - The workers are needed to collect was threatening Palestine. that while there he will confer with and to pack clothing, which will be ., The Medical Unit has set up laboH. Kulakofsky 100 Winston Churchill, the Colonial Sec- sent to the poor Jews of war-stricken ratories and; clinics and maintained L. Kulakofsky . ..... 100 retary. ""Major Rothschild just re- Europe. hospitals, with maternity and chil• Harry Malasnock 100 turned from a trip to the^ United dren's wards. The children's eyes Ladies' Aux. L O. B. B. 100 Clothing is still being collected. States and Canada. A. B. Alpirn _. 100 Persons wishing to contribute clothes, and teeth are getting systematic care, J. Slosberg, Jr. . 100 shoes, underwear, food, soap, towels, and hospital beds receive the pitiful from pogrom-cursed Harry Wilinsky.. 100 SAYS JEWRY MUST ORGANIZE. cotton and medicaments are : asked to immigrants Eastern Europe. 7 M. Golderiberg ..„. 100 " Warsaw, (J. T.' Agency.) - - Ad- call any of.the following numbers: J. B. Robinson '. ... 50 Palestine refuses to call this Amerdressing a conference; of Jewish reHamey 1606 Webster 0289 J. H; Green „... 20 ican health service anything but presentatives and recently arrived Harney 6118 Webster 6059 X. T. C, by Estelle "Hadassah", though the half-million workers of the Hebrew Sheltering & Webster 2734 , Webster 1076 Lapidus — : 60 dollar annual budget is tnet by the Immigrant Aid Society of America, Jacob 'Masel, one* of the Society's TROTZKI MADE DICTATOR ^Zionist Organization of America, of $4200 directors,' stated that the time has londori. (J. T. Agency.) According which Hadassah is part, with the come for Polish Jewry to organize to a Helsingfors dispatch, the Council co-operation of the Joint Distribution ATKISSON SELLING OUT. for the assistance of its own of the ! 'eoples Commissaries has ap- Committee. •The Atkisson Shoe Store, 161 emigrants. Mr. Masel suggested pointed Leon Trotzki as military dicFor the present Hadassah assists Farnam street, in the Omaha Na that in each Jewish community tator. A wire dispatch from Moscow the Medical Unit by furnishing tional building, is holding a big sell- emigration bureaus should be esta- reports that the leaders of the up- through the Palestine Supplies Deing-out sale. The sale^will last for blished to help the passing traveler. rising are Pel.-ichenvo, Captain Burt- partment, linens and hospital supseveral, days. Deputy Greenbaum called .upon the zef and Swetchenko. The local press plies to the hospitals and clinics The first day of the sale today HIAS to take the initiative in the however, suggests that behind the operated by the Unit and by making creation of a world organization to entire movement of insurrection is the itself entirely responsible for the brought hundreds to the stove. Following the selling- out sale thi assist' and regulate Jewish emigra- anti-Bolshevist leader Alexander Ke^ 130,000 budget of the training school store will be taken over by Max tion. Mr. Masel's suggestion was rensky who is reported to(have left for nurses founded in Jerusalem by Paris for Revs) * adopted by the conference. Grounse and Harry - Snitovsky. the Medical Unit.
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THE LIVES OF, ONE-HUNDRED PERSONS IN FAMINESWEPT CHINA 'OR IN WAR-WRECKED EUROPE COULD BE SAVED WITH MONEY, PAID" BY. OMAHA FINE ARTS SOCIETY TO ENGLISH ANTI-SEMITE WRITER. He told them he "was one of those Gilbert K. Chesterton, lecturer and anti-Semite writer, "came, saw, and ^famous Englishmen who cannot lecconquered" in Omaha Monday and ture^—End do." At the end of his hour the majority, left with 1,000 of Omaha's hardearned dollars for & lecture which of'his audience agreed with him. was termed by prominent Omaha ' Said MisB-Kate A. - McHugh, former principal of the Omaha High men and -women as a "fizzle". •-* ... Is Chesterton a "boob" or a "nut" school artd president of the drama * were expressions BEed by many fol- league: "I am greatly disappointed, I-exlowing the supposed-to-be brilliant pected to hear a scintillating1 lecture, $1,000 lecture. The English" writer, whose book but there wasn't even a sparklet" *Txn going, to write him a letter <m "The New Jerusalem", says the same things about the Jews that and ask him what he was talking 11 * f Henry Ford has been publishing In about," said Miss Grace Sorenson.j •» * * Ms "Dearborn Independent", failed editor of Every Child's magaaroe. to impress, his "Fine Arts Society" . . Rabbi Louis J. Eopald Thinks He'g s Boob. Mrs. Hallecfc Rose was incensed. Rabbi Louis J. Kopald of Temple audience at tha Fonienelle hotel It was the "I think he's a fir^t-class 'boob', and Beth Zion, Buffallo, N. Y., will oc- Monday afternoon; largest crowd that ever heard s I think Chesterton thinks we are, cupy the-" pulpit of Rabbi Frederick too, for Estening to his piffle for a Cohn at Temple Israel Friday night. • lecturer ra -Omaha. whole hour,'11 she remarked. *'I welHis subject will.be "Is It Hard to i>e" $1,000 Would Save 100 Lives. come more such English lecturers of a Jew?" . * --... ;_ Anyhow he is on his way to Eng- his kind. By contrast we will more Rabbi Kopald, who is a former land now with 1,000 good dollars, and quickly learn to respect American Omaha man,' is on a lecture tourOmaha will be ?1,000 poorer. . culture," she announced emphatically. through the west. And I. W. Carpenter, head of the " "Bis lecture was an insult to my He^wfil remain in Omaha Fridayl "Chiaese Relief drive said that the intelligence," said Mrs. Geo. Prinz, and Saturday. :• • • / lives of 100 persons in famine- active in the Fine-Arts society. stricken China could be saved with "He's s, grot!" commented Earl $1,000. Gannett. The Omaha Dally Bee writer at the . "I thirik III take the lecture platlecture was greatlv disappointed with form 'myself; I'd make a great hit Chesterton's attempt to be interesting. s&ving' nothing &n4 would make a Well Known Lincoln Resident Passed The result was The Bee made s lot of mones*," said Mrs. J*. N. Paul Away Sunday, March 13. survey. And here is the story as of St. Paul, ex-president of the it appeared in Tuesday morning's Nebraska Federation of Women's Special to "THE JEWISH TRESS." issue of the Bee on page one, under clubs. - ' f Lincoln, March 16.—Isaac Friend, the headline: "Chesterton "Boob" or "The mountain labored'and brought 83, one of the oldest Jews in Nebras- "Nut"?; Omaha Opinion is Divided:" forth a mouse," commented Miss ka, died here Sunday, March 13. Gilbert K. Chesterton, celebrated Unda Hameron cryptically. Mr. Friend was born in France and English writer, reputed to be brilcams to Nebraska^ abeut .""fifty; rests lisnt, gave his '$l>006Mtm-it«Qr- teefcor« fi'jranago." * " ' ••"•".•'' ''-'• '' '""\ • . on "The Ignorance of the Educated'' -Hiss'-BelTe Ryan, assistant superHe is the last survivor off; the before ,the . biggest audience the intendent , of schools, was frankly founders of the • Temple B'nai Fontehelle. ballroom even held, yes- amused at the whole procedure. Jeshurum. "/ "" "At least he's honest," she said. terday afternoon. • ' Burial-took place from the Temple, In his opening sentence, the pon- "He warned us he couldn't lecture. Tuesday, March 15.^ derous Englishman took the vast Now i think it's a compliment to Mr. Friend % is survived by two audience into his confidence. be ignorant." daughters, Mrs: '"We'ssel: and Mrs. Aach, both residents of Lincoln.
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New York, March 16. —John D. Rockefeller, Jr., today told the Men's Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church how to- select a wife. He said: '. \ \ . • -" .' "In entering into marriage men should be careful about the differences of race, religion, even nationlity. Different ideals . might net", assimilate readily and dissension must follow. There should be a prayerful consideration of rll the elements that enter into the marriage relations before any man binds himself for life. "Too ma y_ young"men.and women look upon marriage as a tnere adventure, to last for a day or two. They •are attracted by physical charms and blindly enter into a ' : clationship intended to last a lifetime-without having learned whether or not their common ,, -attributes (would' render suc1companionship possible: "~ "In too many cases the results are disaster, scandal and breaking up of t h e
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President Warren G. Hsrding, right through, banking connections. Eugene Meyer, Jr., well known from the start, has turned a deaf New York banker, who was recently ear to the wailings of Henry Ford, attacked by Ford in an article in flivver manufacturer, who is the arch the "Dearborn Independent", has been anti-sernite of America. nominated Asy President Harding to r Not that President Harding is be director-geiieral oi! the .war finance deaf. But he is paying no attention corporation for a term of four years. to what Ford is saying about the The nomination has been ratified by •• Jews, trying to control the world! the senate.
$250,000 IN RELIEF HERBERT, HOOVER SUPPLIES SHIPPED TO PRAISES WORK OF RUSSIAN JEWRY JEWS IN DRIVE1 The renisrkable response of the New York, (Jewish Telegraphic Agency.)—Clothing, medicines &nd Jews of America to the appeal of foodstuffs valued at §250,000 were the European Relief -Council to save shipped on board the "Rypon" to the Etsrving children of Eastern and Reval, Esthonia, for distribution Central • Europe, • has led Herbert among the war and pogrom-ridden Hoover, as chairman of the Council, communities of White Russia and to write Louis Marshall, chairman of the American Jewish Belief ComUkrainia. The "Rypon" consignment is the mittee, praising the whole-hearted fifth to be sent from this country and generous spirit ' oi co-operation by Dr. D. H. Dubrowsky, American of American Jewry both in contributrepresentative of the Jewish division ing to the fund and in worMng for ft. of the People's Commissariat for. In the letter, a sincere expression Nationalities. Funds for the ship-' of admiration from one of the > ment "were contributed by organ- [ world's leading figures for the extra* izations throughout the . country,! ordinary efforts'- put forward by through the People's Belief Com- American Jews in this' great nonmittee and the Federation. of sectarian campaign, ' Mr. Hoover Ukrainian Jewish organizations. pledges his fullest co-operation to The items included $75,000 -worth'all future relief" work that the.Amerof fiour; clothing, $60,000; medics- ican Jewish Relief Committee will ments, ?25,0&0; soap and disinfect- undertake. Coming just at the time ants, $5,000; condensed milk, $5,000; when the Committee is preparing for shoes, $12,000; machinery, $12,500; its 3^21 appear- of $14,000,000 the hosiery, $8,000; and cloth, $15,000. 'efter css-addefi significance in this sweeping indorsement from the present' Secretary of Commerce. WELFARE ORGANIZATION'S T h e 3ettcr is o n e ENTERTAINMENT, SUCCESS °'f t T i e Steatest The dance and entertainment given tributes ever paid to % the work of under the joint auspices of the Jew- American Jewry. \ ish Women's Welfare Organization! ; • • and the .Junior Welfare Organization' JEWISH WOMEN DESIEE AID. at the Blackstone hotel, March 9th,! Warsaw. (J. T. Agency.) The local 't was a "grand success, according to Jewish Women's organization addresMrs. E. Kulakofsky, president of the sed a request to the administration women's welfare organization. ' of the Joint Distribution Committee Both the dance Jiall and card that a special hospital be established rooms were crowded. Similar affairs to care for *the large number of Jewwill be given within the near future, ish women who have been mistereate'i The proceeds were given to the Free 1 by the followers of General BalakhoLoan F u n i | witel? -- **
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