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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, AERIL 10, 1924

HEBREW PBEE LOAN SOCIETY OPENS NEW- - , BRANCH IN-BROOKLYN

for National Hospital Campaign Begins Immediately to Raise Omaha's Quota of $15,000 Towards This Xew Building. Nebraska's Quota is $20,000. Jewish men, women, and children, are begging the people of this community to help them—help them gain a foothold'in life, So that they may be good members of a community. Men, who are anxious to make a livelihood for their dear ones; women who can longer bear the burdens of motherhood and little -children, boys and girls, who cannot play with their little dolls and playmates, because they are afflicted with the terrible disease of the white plague. There are. more than a hundred of these people, all clamoring to get permission to enter the National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver. Picture their haggard faces, their shrunken limbs, their deep-set eyes glowing with fever, their withered'hands stretched out in an impassioned appeal to the National Hospital to admit them, and to alleviate their suffering, suffering

Omaha is especially interested in the National Hospital. In a conversathis campaign for the building of the tion with this woman she told me this infirmary building which Trill house story: an additional one hundred patients. Her husband had been killed in Omaha has had more than eighty paa pogrom in a little tewn in Polond. tients in the- National Hospital. ToHer two oldest boys served in the day Omaha has eleven patients in the Russian Army and were both killed. hospital or" more than any other city She anil three children emigrated to in this district -with the exception of this -tMmtry. The two older-ones Chicago. •.' are working -and are earning about I t costs the National Hospital about $20.00 a week each. The youngest $15,000 per year to take caTe of Omachild, on account of being exposed ha's .patients, and.they have been redoting the War through all kinds ceiving $1,500 per year. Omaha o"wes of weather without a roof over its it to the'National Hospital to repay head or shelter, or without proper it- in part for -what it-has done for clothing for approximately "two the men,' -women and children. years, when their family was. driven The campaign to raise Omaha's out of their home from their little quota of $1S",000 '-wall begin -immeditown-where they had practically exately. .„ Nebraska's quota is §20,000. isted in the prairie, sometimes eating Harry A. -Wolf is" state chairman; the b-"ts of trees and .sometimes Henry Monsky, Estate vice chairman; not eating at all,* and. after going Joe L. Wolf, state treasurer; Harry through all this agony, torture and Malashock, city chairman, and Irvin pain, this little child has contracted Stalmaster, city vice chairman. The that disease. The mother did not members of the entire committee -will realize that until after she had been be published in next week's issue of in this country approximately a The Jewish Press. year, being under the impression at "This campaign is the most imall times that the reason for the portant of all," said H?-rry H. Lapipuniness of the child was because dus,' chairman of the district camof the suffering, but after being paign. The money must be raised here a year the child commenced to immediately. During my recent trip have terrific fevers and complained in one of the cities near Omaha, I was constantly of pain in the lungs, and told of a woman who had recently when this child was taken to a doccome to th.'3 country "rom Europe tor he pronounced it tuberculosis. that she had a little boy who was The mother immediately made" apaffected with this terrible white plication to the National Jewish plague disease. The mother begged Hospital for admittance, also to .me to come to her home and talk "to other institutions, but it is now four her and also see what was possible to months and so far it has been imbe done to get her boy admitted iiv possible to admit this child on account of the inadequate facilities. This mother, in talking to me, said: TO PRESENT SEPHIR AT SYNAGOGUE "Don't you think I have suffered enough by giving up my husband The public is invited to attend the to "be murdered in a pogrom, by presentation of a Sephir Torah to the sacrificing my two oldest children B'nai Israel Synagogue, Eighteenth in the war, and here is my poor and Chicago streets, Sunday afterlittle baby who contracted all of noon at S .o'clock by Mr. Philip Goldthis terrible sickness through no berg, 1143 North Eighteenth street. fault of its own but just because it Rabbi J. M. Charlop will speak and happens to have Jewish blood in its the guests present will be entertained veins; and here I am pleading to from 3 o'clock to 12 o'clock in the you prosperous and wealthy"Amerevening. ican Jews that can afford to ride in limousines, that "can afford to buy POLISH ANTI-SEMITES expensive, furs, that can afford to EENEW BOYCOTT PKOPAhave jewels and diamonds, but canGANDA BEFORE EASTER not prrvide a place for my baby Warsaw. (J. T. A.) With the Easboy fo get at least some relief.' ter holidays approaching, the Polish Think of *he appeal of this mother. anti-Semites have renewed their old There are many more such mothers, boycott propaganda, under the slogan, many more such -vrildren, who are de•'Trade with your own." They hope thereby to hurt the business of the pending upon their healthy friends to Jewish merchants, whose busiest sear help them get admitted to the National Hospital so that they may fight son is at Easter time. Thousands of leaflets have been cir- this dreadful disease. culated by the boycott organization, Bozwoj, all over Poland. In Kieice. JEWISH INSTITUTE OF REthe Rozwoj issued such an inflammaLIGION ENLARGES FACULTY tory circular against the Jews .that the New York. (J. T. A.) Dr. Stephen police found it necessary to confis- S. Wise, acting president of the Jewcate it because it agitated one part ish Institute of Religion, Sixty-eighth of the population against theother. street • and * Central Parw West, has announced that the faculty of that CHICAGO TJNTVERSITY institution would be shortly joined by UNDERTAKES NEW. - . Dr. David.Yellin, head of the TeachTRANSLATION OF BIBLE ers' Institute of Jerusalem, who would Chicago. (J. T. A.) The University give courses.in. Hebrew and on the ) , Chlei A Of Chi Chicago lias undertaken a new Bible, and by Dr. Henry Slonimsky, American .translation of the Bible. formerly of the Hebrew TJnion Col-The translation will be made from lege of Cincinnati, who will occupy the1 original Hebrew by a 'group of the Chair of Ethics and the Philoso•'j>Tftffi!:"'OT5 from the university, -under phy of Religion. •• ' W editorship of Dr. I. IL Powys. Dr. Yellin, who is a;. Hebrew and ...Smith, Professor of Hebrew "Lan- Rabbinic scholar- of high distinction, '- -.gua&o. - and Literature at the TJniver- will serve -as a visiting member of : the Institute during. 1924-25. -•-, r-. ¥*

New York. (J. T, A.) A new-branch office-of the Hebrew-Free Loan-Society, Inc., has been opened at 1804 Eighty-sixth street, Bath- Beach, Brooklyn, for the convenience of people residing in Coney Island, • Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge and Boro Park. Money is loaned, irrespective of nationality, religion or race, to those who wish to avail themselves of a loan up to, §500-, without charge of interest or expense -whatsoever; • \ . • • -The Society has bees in existence .for over 32 years .and has-loaned more than $15,000,000 to about 500,000 people. • -- •• • '

Leo Rosefrthal was nominated a s : city commissioner. That's just the beginning: of the real battle. It's only the half-way mark on the road to victory. Hard WO^J, persistency; energy ' systematically and sincerely expended resulted in the nomination of Mr. .Rosentha.1 „ Harder and more- diligent work; a closer and more perfect organization, and- greater sacrifices on the part of his friends will be needed to.bring victory and place him. in the city hall. : The same organisation will be maintained, but will be developed so that it covers • the city like a netr The campaign headquarters will be kept open until after the election. Starting Monday the daily luncheon conferences "will be resumed. The evidences of confidence now being shown Leo Rosenthal by his frietfds; the labor now being. expended in his behalf by those who desire to see him as a city commissioner are only rewards, in .a small •way, for past services well' done in the. most important field of aH— •I. ~.Z~ social service. LEO ROSENTHAL He has shown his worth! Those who seek his election are not doing so because his name is Leo Bosenthal, but because they feel he has the qualifications "and the ability; the character and the stability to make him a good and Teliable public servant. Every Jewish man and woman should make: every effort from now until election night to help elect Leo RosenthsL Volunteer your services to the orjpaniza±io.n. committee and be one of those who will have the satisfied feeling oL having aided in a gqofl Job well done in selecting a man, well-fitted to be a member of our city commission. - ^': . . Mr. .I&,%3sq$tuiL3ia^ to thank all of those who aided him in securing the "nomination. He is exceedingly grateful and appeals to every member of the organization to "stand by his gun";until the battle is over. . • '. _ • . .• . : > .

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BESSARABIAN RABBI - '• TAKES:STAND IN FA.YGS OF -SOUMANIABucharest. : (J. T. A.) lEabibi Zirelson, the lead of the Kishneff Jewish -Community, has taken astand in favor of Koiisaania, in the matter of Bessarabia. He held a public meeting several days ago at which resolutions were passed asking for the retention of Bessarabia by Soumatda. There is great indignation among the Jewish population at this partisansMp of the RabbL It "is generally considered that the attitude of the • Jews of Bessaragia, in the present conflict between Russia and Eoutaania, should be a strictly neutral one, and tlie action of Rabbi Sirelson is considered a breach of this neotrality.

Famous Editor Thinks World Will' Recognize Jewish; Idealism. M A N K I N D IN NEED MANY-HUED CULTURE,

New York.—^Norman .Hapjrood, editor of Hearst's International Mag-? azine, in ©n address delivered at one of the metetings held' in connection with the New York drive for the 'Ke-r. ren Hayesod, declared that anti-« Semitism tkfoughout the world will be lessened by the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. "Anti-Semitism is a relic of bar-* .barism that, has come down to us from earlier centuries in which wars were fought about religion snd ia Large Class of Candidates Initiated which the story of Christianity was Work of First Free National Tubertold in narrow and foolish terms, Into Membership. culosis Institution'to Be DisMr. Eapgood said in urging that cussed in Chicago. . RABBI GARRY J. AUGUST OF Christians should be equally interested witb. Jews in the Zionist moveST. JOE, 510, SPEAKER. $350,000 INFIRMARY BUILDING ment. "That barbarism has not endFOR HOSPITAL TO BE More than one thousand people at- ed yet ,bttt we are progressing. The BUILT BY B'NAI BUTCH tended the thirty-second annual cele- Palestine ideal includes a great Hebration of the Omaha Hebrew club brew university. It includes the Chicago, 111., April 10, 1924.—fadlast Sunday evening at the Municipal emphasis -and' purification of the highing Jews from all parts of the "counest Jewish ideals, those ideals from Auditorium. try will meet in Chicago on April 15, which sprang not only the Jewish re?"No matter what the label is, we to attend the twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of the National Jewish Hosare Jews,*' said Kabbi Garry J, Au- ttgion but the religion -of Jesas. pital for Consumptives of. Denver, **This untangling of the ideals that gust, of St. Joseph., Mo., who was the Colorado. these strong people have held and deprincipal speaker of the evening. "We The Omahans who will-attend'this veloped for 6,000 years from smaller have gathered here because we are" convention are: Harry H. Lapidus, Henry Monsky and Harry Malashock, Jews; therefore we are Jews and we questions and perhaps from * conflictThis year's meeting will' mark .the must pledge. ourselves to be good ing. tendencies such as are shown la twenty-fifth' anniversary of the openAmerican Jews and to serve our com- any people, will diminish Christian ing of the Hospital, which -during-its prejudice all over the world. It will munities." qusrter-<:entuTy of existence "has per; formed unparalleled service for the •.". "We' isust •eflucate" 'ourselves as felses have an excellent -effect ""ion"^«rw* people of America in the treatment Jews," said Rabbi August. "We must ish psychology, because it will tend and- study of tuberculosis.' teach ourselves what our religion is, to fix. tHe pride of the Jews oa their Consisting originally of but one so as the younger generations will spiritual tradition and spiritual conbuilding, erected under the leadership tribution rather than ori any material continue to be good Jews." of Rev. Dr. Wm. S. Friedman, by the Jews of Denver, and with a capacity Kabbi August repeatedly drevr ap- accomplishments, and that is what of but 60 patients, the Hospital today plause from the large audience which the world most needs now. comprises 12 units and -has facilities y is •» y ™ JJ. k SS«y- r 'Those who argue that the Palesassembled for this occasion. Aiepk Zdi &sgh Ckpier for caring for 185 patients. The open- I . W. WS I . W. O. iL H0KIS Rabbi J. M. Charlop, a newly elect- tine movement will increase antiing of the first building-was spon-j • ' Installatilffl of Offic Initiates Six ;Jtew Hembeis. ed member of the Omaha Hebrew club, Semitic feeling seem to roe without sored by the Independent Order of " »"»WIMUttB VI• UUIi B'nai B'rith, which has ever since been The y M > a n d T> ..W ; , H > A > The Omaha Chapter No. 1 of the \ m a d e t h e ™sp™™ *OT the large class knowledge of popular psychology. There are temporary local difficulties _ _ _ s stalled the newly elected officers at Aleph Zadii AlepTi organisation ini- !o f . * h e n e w l * e l e c t e d ^ m b e r s . but it is clear that in the long run an have' assistedinthe development and \ their regular meeting Monday even- tiated six -candidate's..at.its last reg- with gpeat pleasure that I have the growth of the Hospital, the major • jXig> April 7, at the Jewish Communit*/ idealistic-emphasis of this land can occasion to be a member of the Omaha ular meeting, Sunday, April 6, at the support of this Iife-saving;work comes C e n t e r Hebrew club," said Ra1*1-" Charlop. "I aSFect the world attitude only for from individual Jewish philanthropyJewish Community Center. good. " There is no chance to get tich Those installed -were Mr, Dave The pioneer institution in national The' six, young men initiated were know the "work that the Omaha He- In Palestine. 'What it accomplishes Freeman, president; Miss Kate Goldbrew club is doing, and I am •well free care of tuberculosis patients, the Messrs. Fred Kurtzman, Stanley LeNational Jewish Hospital for" Con- stein, vice president; Jtfiss Merele vine, William Gherkefsky, of Lincoln, pleased with it. The Omaha Hebrew must be 'in the domain of the spirit.™ sumptives is at once a'haven of refuge yriedel, secretary; Miss Lillian SchifMr. Hapgood declared that through David Beber, Isadora Mewitz and Abe ciufo is the representative organizatioii -F/yr t l l 6 sICJ£ S l i d ST1 -SUWQXUIJSC 321OTH1" j . . « , -ur Y TX~ a homeland of their own the Jews in the community." •mo +• "fr» +Ti** TiTiil'iTfcf'TiTfYTlV fl"F tflfi Tprrg x c * j <toaiatf«xil{< i»Cfc*xcw«Ai.jr;j m i . w u c i i c c " Freidman. Teti .candidates are exwould give virtue and .strength to The membership contest prizes were of America. Although a" strictly Jew- 1 man, treasurer; Mr. Leon Gross re- peeted to be admitted at the next iniish Institution, supported by Jews and ' porter; Messrs. Marcus .Krasne and ation that will, be held in -several] won • Philip Gorelick and John Feld- world democracy and lielp to defend operated strictly according to Jewish Barney Theodore, sergeant-at-arms; man. Messrs. Irvin Stalmaster, Fred tsitiotghoTSTxldrtueandeiWigttrens' 2 2 dietary .laws, the Hospital is non-sec- j ^ H Kneeter, athletic director; weeks. . The club's first spring dance will White and Sam E. Haver were in it from its 'greatest danger—standtanan m its service. * , ' . • • , , , ,. In the twenty-five years of its ex- j Mr. Albert Finkel, assistant athletic be given Sunday evening, April-27, at charge of the initiation. Fannie Fish ardized -materialism. "My enthusigave a violin number, accompanied by asm, for Zionism has not "been sepaistence the National Jewish Hospital director; and Mr. Israel Goodman, the Rome Hotel .Ballroom. has cared for more than" 5,000 patients m e m ^ o f t jj e executive committee. Miss Evelyn 'Yore. Max Fromtdn, rable from my theory of democracy,** of all classes and all ages, without. A s h a m - f o n o w e d. of the Omaha Hebrew club, he said. "If one thinks of -a demr regard to race or creed. Not only _, _ = ,, . . , KEREN HAYESOD .TO MEET P«sided as chairman of. this celebra- ocratic future as a reduction of «U has it accomplished wonderful work| Mr. Dave Freeman, ithenewly electMr. A. I." Kulakofsky, chairman of civilization. to ' one standard, such in the treatment of those cases, but ed president of the organization, anby taking these poor ..-patients from nounced that a musical program is the local Keren'Hayesod, is calling a standardization would leave me withtheir old environment aand u ccaring a m g ifor m b e i n a r r £ I 1 gfoe d t o b e given during Ka- meeting for- Tuesday evening, April BENEFIT BALL. out any ardor for the picture of futhem with the best facilities known to ° , * __„. lo,4 at the Jewish Community Center. For the benefit of the Jewish San- ture civilisation. I like to think of medicine, it has prevented the spread • tional Music Week. The program will Business of importance will be transitarium, to be built in Palestine, the democracy' as a setting of the peoof the disease to those persons with be given Monday evening, May 4, at acted. •-••'; " • ••-.-• Jewish - National • Workers* Alliance is ples of.the world free to follow out whom these 5,000 men, women and the Jewish Community Center. All giving1 a Masquerade Ball Sunday their aptitudes, their traditions, their children came in daily contact before t h C T o r g a n i 2 a tions are invited to atDIASPORA JEWRY KNOWS their admission to the Hospital. By evening, 'April'IS, at the Swiedislx Au- ideals. Instead of being all alike, I ; thus arresting the spread of tubercuUTTLE OF PALESTINE, • ditorium. Novel entertainment anS Bhmild like to see them as different The Y will hold its, regular semilosis, countless numbers have been -...' SAYS; HEBREW POET Desdune's Orchestra will "be featured as the flowers in a garden. The Jews, saved from suffering and possible monthly dance this Saturday evening •••Jerusalejth. (J.'T. A.) "The Jews in for the evening's entertainment. death. perhaps on account of their original at the Jewish Community Center. In addition to its work for the pathe Diaspora know very little of the charateristics, perhaps largely on sc« tients, the Hospital is maintaining a TURKISH~GOVERNMENT charms, possibilities ; and opportuni- 600 JEWISH FAMILIES -SUF| count of their history, have developed Research. Department, thoroughly ties which Talestine holds for -them," "- FES FSOM VISTULA FLOODS j very highly those attributes which INTRODUCES NUMERUS modern and completely equipped, said Chairh Nachxnan Bialik in an CLAUSUS MEASURE Warsaw. <J. T. A.) Now titst the I caused them originally to produce "where experts in tuberculosis"*" are making rapid advances in their-work Constantinople. (J. T. A.) .The Na- interview • with . the: Palestine Tele- floods from the Vistula have subsid- those conceptions of religion atld of finding a permanent cure for the tionalist spirit introduced in Turkish graphic Agency. "In fact," he con- ed, it has become possible to estimorality which have been accepted by life by the Kernel Pasha Government tinued, "the propaganda carried on mate the damage done by them. Six the European world as the highest." perThasTan"international reputation! is finding expression in a new meas- by the Zionist Organization with re- hundred Jewish families in Prague, among radical men. - • ure proposed in the National Assem- gard to Palestine is entirely- insuffi- oa the right hszik of the Vistula, have KIGKTS OF AMERICANS IN The most important topic fordfe- H y a t Angora. The new bill aims to cient. The :propaganda of the Zion- lost most of their possessions and LEBANON ASH SYEIA TO ist opposition' is very harmful, and suffered great hardship. BE PROTESTED BT TKEATY This calamity of nature did not faii; Washington. (J. T. A.) A treaty Building for the Hospital, the cam- Turkish town to 10 ^er cent of the should be stopped.". paign for which is 'now being con- population. Asked as to his impressions of the to provide the Polish police with an with France, providing equal rights ducted by members of Districts No. 2 Another law introduced by the Gov- country, Bialik. said that Tel-Aviv is opportunity io display their racial for American nationals and interests and 6, Independent Order of "B'nai ernment is intended to prohibit the a charming city- and that his belief discrimination. Although voluntary B'rith. ' • 1B Syria and Lebanon, territory under The new Infirmary Building- will I foreign-speaking elements living in in £he: great future of Erez Israel citizens' committees were organized Lespae mandate to France, has bfeeti rroidde facilities for 100 additional Turkey from forming separate na- had been strengthened. for the purpose of aiding the flood concluded and will he signed in Paris 4 patients and will reduce the long wait- tional or religious communes. The temporary Hebrew center cre- victims, the police found it necessary by Ambassador Herric and the French ing list of men, women and children These proposed r measures have ated iss- the. last few years in Berlin, io ina!:e raids on thesireets, to gather pleiupoteniiarr. whD are daily imploring for admitis now,": Bialik" continued, "dying on up stray passers-by and compel them tance to the Hospital, only to be de- caused a great deal of exci Difficulty arose over the position of nied this hope of fife because the*pres-' among the foreigners in Turkey, account of the general chaos prevail- to perform the Hardest part of Hie the Standard Oil Company's ent buildings are filled- to capacity. among whom are the French, Ger- ing in .central Europe. All the He- cleaning v.p work. All th.e captured in Palestine, according to a At the same time, the Infirmary Building will permit the Medical Be-;, mans, Greeks, English and Americans. brew publishing- houses are being "volunteers" were Jews, wiibost dis- of Secretary Hughespartment, under the direction' o? piu It is not lojown as yet whether the transferred -, to • Palestine. The pub- tinction as to age or sex. Many J i * Samuel Swezey, the superintendent, to measures will also affect the Jevrs lishing nouses of 'Dvir' and *Moriah' isli citizens were mistreated in the YETA MO KEWS - - J extend what is known as.the,Com- who Tiave up till now been considered have united for the purpose «£ carry- process of being enlisted. The YcU Mo Club will h&vs la|«eplete Immobilization treatment to TurMsb. citizens. There are in Tur- ing on the work- of publishing HeThis matter has been brought to ball practice Sunday looming.,- <4t * many more patients than is now pos- , brew books oa a large scale. A spekey,at the -present .tin: the -attention of the Sejm \>y ais in- recent.party held by the club sible. " * - "- " | Jetrs; • 200,000 are. in Constantinople, cial department for Arab literature ] terpellation by the JeisMi Deputies, •«eere ,«.-warded to the ClttfeV J The Brotherhood W Temple Israel 50,00 in Smyrna, 10,000 in Adriano- has been created, - and tne head of and an hrrestigatioa lias been -re- liall yJajjers. . Sev*»n msmfeers ef thfe will meet Wednesday evening,-April ple, 5,000 in Bodosta, and the Test are that department will -be a ^veJl known j qnested into ti*edisciin^ii»Etoiy actions club were the^'OM Black -J[««W*' hi 16,, at the "Temple. . . . i scatteredfcaxQCgkoatJ i e ss^Ii - *--*• .Orientalist., and ^Arabic schsdar. "-"_^«. j of the Warsaw'poliar

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