Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1936 — Page 2

The Jewish Post • A Journal for Indiana Jewry Published every Friday by The Spokesman Company, 423 Citizens Bldg., Louisville, Ky. Subscription rate, $1.00 a year. For advertising rates apply at office. Entered as second class matter October 17, 1935, at the post office at Louisville, Ky, under the a-.t of March 3, 1879. Editorial office, 2101 East Washington Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Telephone CH 4385. Changes of address should be sent direct to the Circulation De partment. The Jewish Post, Box 503, Louisville, Ky. Unless received two weeks in advance, The Jewish Post cannot assume responsibility for issues missed. Please include old address. Friday, May 22, 1936

HEBREW CALENDAR 5696-1936 Rosk Chodesh SI van May 22 1st Day Shabueth May 27 •Rosh Chodesh Tammuz... June 21 Rosh Hashonah September 17 Yom Kippur September 26 •Rosh Chodesh also observed previous day.

The Editor’s Chair Writing from national headquarters of Aleph Zadik Aleph, Junior Order of B’nai B’rith, an official of that enterprising organization says: ‘ A large number of AngloJewish newspapers is regularly delivered to this office and I must say that although your publication is somewhat dwarfed in size by most of the other publications, it certainly looms up as one of the very best. I think your little pa, per has a lot of personality and reflects a great deal of original and creative thinking.” Detroit Jewish Chronicle, please note. * * • Readers of this paper who wrote to P. O. Box 1092, Arcade Annex, i,os Angeles, Cal., for the antiSemitic pamphlet, “How to Destroy the Jews,’’ can charge up their expenditure to profit ana loss, since there is not and never was, such a pamphlet. The pamphlet affair, which was climaxed by a petition for a senatorial investigation. originated in the innocent hoax of an ambition would-be novelist to secure funds to finance the printing of a novel. As it was learned by a staff member of the California Jewish Voice, Los Angeles Anglo-J e w i s h publication, who made an investigation, the penurious writer thought of the hoax as a quick way of raising money to launch his artistic career. A to, tal of 2,600 cards were sent out to a strictly-Jewish mailing list. The dimes came in, but so did the complaints; and so did, we understand, letters from Anti-Semites who wrote in that they were interested in a good, workable plan for the destruction of the Jews. If I could tell you how these cut-throat friends of the Jewish people are being taken care of, you would, if you have not already done so, immediately join B'nai B’rith, but then one of the cardinal principles of the functioning branch of the order which is doing this piece of work is no publicity, so you’ll just have to take this chair’s word for it. * * * Xext week the results of our poll on the American Jewish Congress’ World Jewish Congress. And a big black smudge of dirt on the new white linen suit of those readers w ho !• "ed to vote.

Jewish Vacation Fund Organized

The child—your boy or girl—of you who read this paper will, through your past good fortune, hard work and diligence, spend some part of his vacation in the open. He will run and walk over green fields, swim in a cool, clear lake, play hard at baseball, tennis, and other sports, and sleep under welcome blankets through a soothing and invigorating night. Your neighbor’s child, who lives possibly on the other side of town, because his father was not as diligent and hard working and not favored by the Gods, or because his father and, perhaps his mother, too, is not living, will swelter in a sticky home and torrid streets, lie uneasily in a strength-sapping bed, and become accustomed to the choking heat he knows as summer. Now, if you are grateful for whatever it was that enabled you to remove your child from such an environment, and if you are the kind of a man whom your friends and acquaintances call in simple terms, “a good man,’’ you will feel the urge to help out those children less fortunate than yours. Not only the heat-ridden child who pants in a blistering noonday sun, but others here and abroad, Jew and non Jew, whose plight has elicited your sympathy. Just now, however, this problem of summer vacations is quite important to your child, and more important to the wistful boy or girl who watches his schoolmates gloat, as children do, over his trip to the Catskills, or the Adirondacks, or the Blue Ridge Mountains, or the Rockies, or the Michigan lakes. If your boy, God bless him, worries and vexes and irritates you until you consent to send him to the camp which Arnold Stem, or Janies Levy, attended last summer, think how important this camp busines must be to him or her who watches this beneficient part of life pass by. And the par-

adoxical but perpetual aspect of the entire situation is that the child who needs camp most, is denied it; wdiile he who sleeps in large, airy rooms in homes usually in the cooler, suburban parts of the city and who could, with very little effect on his health, forego camp, is able to go to the best camp. Yet Jewish people throughout the United States have striven as they alw r ays do to enable the underprivileged child to spend at least a week in camp. In New York the Jewish Vacation Soci. ety operates with a minimum of expense to help hundreds of children spend at least part of the summer away from the city streets. In Louisville, Ky., and in many other communities, the B'nai B’rith through a Fresh Air Fund, devotes a portion of its energy to raising money to help the children of their community. You readers, who, taking this editorial to heart, may wish to contribute to one of these funds, may forward checks to this paper, designating if you so desire, the city whose children you wish to help. You may send as small a sum as you care to, but send something. This paper will print a list of the contributions from week to week. If the certain community you choose has no established camp organization, arrangements will be made to expend your contribution in that city through the nearest rabbi or Community Center. This paper prides itself on the close association it has built up with its readers. We feel that you readers will be happy to make whatever con tribution you think is within your means so that this paper’s Camp Fund may become an annual event and may be the means of giving a few days' enjoyment to a child in a position which you are thankful your own boy or girl has escaped.

Givers Should Not Use Split Drive Alibi

In the stand of this paper against the split of the 2 year-old United Jewish Appeal into the two drives now in progress nationally, of the Joint Distribution Committee and the United Palestine Appeal, it has been said that the success of the drives, has in part been undermined. If the fight of this paper for a united campaign in 1937 has resulted in the withdrawal of contributions by any of its readers, it is guilty of a grievous wrongdoing. Upon the success of both drives rest not only the well-being of Jews throughout the world, but in too many cases, the difference between life and death, between starvation and hunger. For many Jews in Poland death by their own hand, w r ere it not disgraceful and against the dictates of their religion, would be preferable to a continuation of their present state. To be accurate, many Jews have already resorted to this surcease from worldly pains. And even those courageous enough to face a hopeless world can endure so much, can see their children waste away only so long, and can see their loved ones

die of starvation and improper medical attention for just such and such a time. If any readers refuse to donate to either of the campaigns, they do not deserve the name Jew. The only definite result of a split drive is a doubling of expenditures and overhead and the possible confusion among contributors, but the result of a lowered income from the drives means deprivation, death and starvation. It is because of its desire to force a rapprochement next year, that this paper has been so vigorous in its denunciation of the split drives. But there are many evils worse than a split drive, and an unsuccessful drive is the greatest among these. Readers of this paper, because of their knowledge of world Jewish affairs, should be in a much more beneficient mood towards drives than most Jews. It is hoped they will not use the alibi of a split drive to either curtail or withdraw their fi nancial support from either the United Palestine Appeal or the drive of the Joint Distribution Com. mittee. '

Rabbi Assails Jewish Congress Spiritual Leader of Boston Temple Terms World Jewish Congress Fantastic Sees Danger to Jews in Foolish Plan

By RABBI B. D. COHON An issue has been raised in the American Jewish community which requires close and clear consideration. As responsible Jewish men and women, we ought to understand the issue involved and make known our own positions. The proposed World Jewish Congress aims to create a permanent political parliament that shall speak for all the Jews of the world: it is the aim of its proponents to make it an instrument of political action internationally in behalf of the Jews of the world, of whatever country. Such a project is wild and fantastic. It is fraught with danger, if any one takes it seriously. It will jeopardize whatever security the Jewish people have, it will confuse and bewilder those friendly to the Jews, it will play into the hands of the vicious anti-Semites by giving them a perfect instrument to use against Jewry, it will create nothing but strife in every Jewish community. No wonder the leading Jewish organizations of the United States and Europe have flatly rejected it; no wonder the mature and responsible Jewish spokesmen have repudiated it. The whole scheme is too fantastic to be consul ered seriously. There will be no World Jewish Congress in August, as anticipated by the backers of the movement. There will probably be a

meeting of some kind, attended by a handful of* self-appointed delegates, or appointed by a number of organizations here and there. But a congress representing world Jewry adequately and faiily at this time is preposterous. The tragedy oi it Is that the few noisy individuals assembled will storm every news agency of the world in the name of world Jewry. We must resist this foolish, muddled plan. We must not have anything to do with it. We must not permit any organization to which we belong to be drawn into it. The American Jewish Committee has issued a statement which every Jew ought to read and ponder and take to heart: “The committee believes that, animated by their love of country and their devotion to the highest conception of patriotism, American Jews will recognize the menace to their status inherent in the proposed World Congress and will declare their opposition to it. A firm and unequivocal refusal to have any part In such a movement, either directly or indirectly, may persuade those who are promoting it to with, draw from a proposed course of action which can achieve no helpful results, but which is freighted with embarrassment and even disaster to Jews everywhere."’

Led Jewish Legion LONDON (JTA) — How Field Marshal Viscount Edmund H. H. Allen by, warrior and British statesman, who died suddenly at his home last week at the age of seventy-five, led the British Expeditionary forces in the Palestine campaign of 1917 that broke the Turkish resistance is being re-, called by Jewish legionnaires all over the world. Jewish soldiers remember him as the leader of the Jewish Legion —the first organized Jewish force since the dispersion. On many occasions Lord Allenby paid tribute to his Jewish battalions. At a dinner in New York in 1928 he said; “I had the honor of commanding several Jewish battalions and I also had, before these Jewish battalions were raised, many Jewish soldiers under my command. Judas Maccabaeus could not have fought better than they did. Their courage and patriotism to the cause for which they fought was distinguished. T h e y realized it was not only the cause of Judaism but of humanity.’’ Many streets have been named after the soldier-statesman in the Holy Land, including Allenby Square in the center of the allJewish city of Tel Aviv. When Lord Allenby was appointed in 1917 to command the British forces in Palestine, he was little known. He had been educated at Haileyburg and at the Royal Military College at Sand hurst. He had seen service in Bechuanland, Zululand, South Africa. and had successively commanded the cavalry, the Fifth Army Corps and the Third Army in the early stages of the World War. He later recalled that after Ms campaign in Palestine, when he arrived in Jerusalem, Dr. Welzmann presented to him for the Jewish community a jewelled casket containing the Torah. It was the greatest honor, he said, ever conferred on him and he referred to it as the true emblem of unity of the cause for which the Allies had fought. At the opening of the Hebrew University, Lord Allenby gave his recollections of Palestine, saying in 1918 he had been given a tea on a sandhill at Tel Aviv, and in 1925 he returned to find a great thoroughfare, Allenby Street, in the place of a sand dune. Recalling that he had presided at the laying of the foundation stone for the university in 1918. Lord Allenby observed that it was an experience given to very few to see a work begun in war consummated in peace. "It is nearly eight years, he said, “since a swirling eddy in the strong tide of war threw me onto the coast of Egypt, and I found myself in command of the army destined for Palestine. I had no experience of the East, but the task in view was one which had been unsuccessfully attempted by many armies; the goal, however, was one which has throughout the ages been most alluring—Jerusalem—and there was not a man in my force who was unwilling to risk all In the enterprise. We broke the lines and wo won Jerusalem." “In those days,’’ he continued, “I knew little or nothing of Zionism, and if I thought of it at all regarded it as a phantasm and a theory. But I soon came into close touch with it. Dr. Weizmann came out not long after the surrender of the Holy City and did me the honor of staying with me for a time at my headquarters. His visit was a revelation to me of faith in a cause and never had I seen such (Continued on Page 3)