The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin • Page 1

Office and Plant 366 Milwaukee Street Telephone Broadway 5392 JL. AWe eMy Pap Milwaukee, wis, December 19, 1924 Vol. 13 No. 2 Entered as second-class matter Jan. 20, 1S22, at the postoffice at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Per Year $3.00 for ilhe JewisM5Me Familiar Community Landmark Soon to Pass To Conduct Drive Here for Isaac El' chanan Seminary JEWS TRANSFORM PALESTINE DESERT TO FERTILE FIELDS Mt. Sinai Hospital Drive Extended, Success So Far Endowment Fund Reaches $125,000. Membership Drive Produces over $12,000 Annual Income Severe Weather Slows Up Workers Herman Gardner Tops Givers with $12,500 Final figures from all workers on the Mt. Sinai Hospital Endowment and Membership drive will show the drive to have been a success beyond the original expectations of the officers of the hospital. Severe midwinter weather, the inappropriateness of the season, and lack of sufficient time to organize the campaign intensely, contributed to make it practically impossible for the workers to secure the full quota of 1500 new members in the space of four working days.

While the drive closed officially on Friday noon, the workers have all pledged a continuance of their efforts for a few more days. The team headed by Albert T. Friedmann, which is soliciting major memberships from the larger institutions and individuals in the city, will continue its work until January 15. This team is pledged to raise no less than $10,000 in annual memberships. This sum alone is equivalent to the income from an endowment fund of $200,000.

Reports up to the Friday meeting showed the Endowment Fund to have gone over the $125,000 mark. An increase of membership of over 500. Temple B'ne Jeshurun at Tenth and Cedar Streets The Board of Directors of B'ne Jeshurun congregation has tentatively accepted an offer from the County Board for the sale of the temple structure at Tenth and Cedar streets, the site of which is required for the new County Court House, which will be the first unit of public buildings to be erected in the proposed Civic Center. The' agreed price is said to be $100,000.00. Full authority for the sale of the building will be requested by the Board of Directors at a special meeting of all members of the congregation, to be held next month.

The terms of the County Board offer provide for vacation of the property by January 1, 1926, or as soon thereafter as wrecking operations begin for the construction of the court The present B'ne Jeshurun temple was built in 1886, in the administration of President Simon Kahn and the spiritual leadership of Rabbi Emanuel Gerechter. It was enlarged and reconstructed in 1906, when the congregation celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. It is probable that the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the congregation will be celebrated in the proposed new edifice, plans for which will have to be made immediately upon consummation of the sale of -the old building. B'ne Jeshurun is the oldest congregation in Milwaukee, having been organized in 1856 by the consolidation of the then existing congregations Emanu-El and Ahavath Emunah. Three years later Congregation Anshe Emmeth was absorbed and B'ne Jeshurun was the only Jewish congregation in Milwaukee until 1869, when the present Congregation Emanu-El was organized.

-A 4 Is 0 IFI. UNTERMYER HITS LEAGUE OF NATIONS PALESTINE REPORT Calls Statement of Mandates Commission "Absolutely Groundless" DECLARE CHALUZIM UNFIT FOR MANUAL WORK New York Samuel Untermyer, president of the Palestine Foundation Fund, gave out a statement Monday taking issue with a recent expression of the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations in its report on Palestine. The part to which Mr. Untermyer particularly objected was the statement to the effect that the recent Jewish emigrants to Palestine were not prepared by training or family tradition for the manual and agricultural work necessary in the present state of the country. In answer Mr.

Untermyer said in part: "If this statement be in "some sense f.rue, the confidence and approval of the American people and of the world at large has been misplaced. If it is true, the 70,000 American Jews who in the past three years have given over $6,000,000 to the Palestine Foundation Fund have given their money for a vain and hopeless cause. If that is a fair statement, the Palestine Foundation Fund should cease all further solicitation and liquidate its affairs. "That statement, however, is absolutely groundless. The truth is exactly the reverse, and it is a source of gratification to all friends of Jewish effort in Palestine that the statement was categorically denied by Mr.

Austen Chamberlain, the head of the British representatives, at one of the sessions of the Council of the Quotes In his statement, Mr. Untermyer quoted Mr. Chamberlain and Professor Elwood Mead, United States Commissioner of Reclamation, who testified to agricultural progress being made in Palestine. He also mentioned favorable reports from observers returning from Palestine, among them Jews and non-Jews, including Ramsay Mac-Donald, Felix M. Warburg, Nathan Straus, Oscar Straus, Dr.

Joseph Silverman, Dr. Joseph Kornfeld, ex-Minister to Persia; Professor Graham Wallis and Sir Alfred Mond. His statement continues: "The matter in which this commission has characterized the Jewish immigrants in Palestine cannot but arouse widespread astonishment and raise questions as to the reasons that led this body to make such utterly ungrounded assertions. Is. it possible that this commission" yielded to influences that are hostile to the Jewish reclamation of Palestine or were they really misled Fortunately, the clear and vigorous denial of Austen Chamberlain and, what is even more important, the indisputable facts themselves will furnish all fair-minded people the necessary reassur- I A drive for the Isaac Elchanan Theological seminary, of New York, has been organized in Milwaukee by Rabbi Leon Album, of Philadelphia, representing the National Drive organization.

One million dollars is sought in the nation for the construction of new buildings for the seminary in New York. The Milwaukee Drive committee consists of M. D. Holzman, chairman; L. Greenblatt, treasurer; H.

Schlomo-vitz, I. J. Rosenberg, Isaac Barnett, S. Padway, Philip Suran, J. Meyer, Louis Fisher, Max Sverdlin, H.

Ra-binowitz and Max Pollack. Rabbi Album will deliver several addresses before various Milwaukee Jewish organizations explaining the nature of the seminary and the purpose of the drive. A detailed story of the Isaac Elchanan seminary will be found on page seven of this issue of the Chronicle. JEWISH STAGE FOLK GIYE $200,000 FOR POOR IN NEW YORK Present Large Check to Felix M. Warburg to Use as He Sees Fit STARS AND MAGNATES OF THEATER PRESENT New York A check for $200,000 to be distributed to charity as his judgment dictates was handed to Felix M.

Warburg, banker and philanthropist, at a testimonial dinner Sunday night in the Ritz-Carlton tendered him by members of the theatrical profession. The gift, representing donations by 563 actors, actresses and producers, was presented by Abraham L. Er-langer as the surprise of the dinner. Leading those who contributed was E. F.

Albee, who, absent through illness, forwarded a donation of $5,000. The dinner was arranged by a committee ot theatrical" and motion picture leaders of which Adolph Zukor was chairman. Despite efforts to limit the diners to 400 close to 600 were in the grand ballroom of the hotel to do honor to Mr. Warburg's philanthropies. He was the first president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies and last night's gift will be distributed through that organization.

Eddie Cantor Toastmaster. Eddie Cantor, the comedian, was toastmaster and the speakers were Charles M. Schwab, Max D. Steuer, Mr. Erlanger and Julius Tannen.

Cantor and Tannen, it was disclosed, were once wards of two institutions now included in the Federation list Tannen's product of Suprise Lake Camp, and Cantor of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. A letter from President Coolidge was read by Mr. Zukor. It was as follows: "We are coming to see more and more that the problem of aiding those less fortunate is one which not only appeals to the best impulses but is a worthy thought and study of those that have attained eminence in other lines of activity. "I am very glad to extend my greetings to the gathering in honor of Mr.

Warburg, for I know he has given freely of his time and resources to philanthropic objects, and to co-ordinate and make effective those already existing. To have gone far in this field is a distinction of which any man may be proud." There was organized at the dinner the Theatrical Division of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, a permanent committee' which is to transmit the theatrical world's share of aiding those who are less fortunate. Officers of the committee to be chosen later. those at. the dinner were Lee Shubert, Morris.

Gest, Sam Harris, William Fox, Daniel Frohman and Jesse Lasky. A musical program i provided by- the committee included Elvira defvHdalgo of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Pres. Coolidge Favors Greater Latitude in Admittance of Relatives Washington, D. (J.

T. In his message to Congress, President Coolidge touching upon the question of immigration, stated "I should like to see the administrative features of this law rendered a little more humane for the purpose of permitting those already here a greater latitude securing admission of members of their own families. But I believe this law in principle is necessary and sound and destined to increase greatly the public welfare. We must maintain our own economic position, we must defend our own national integrity." Maurice Samuel Thrills Crowd With Story of Work of Chaluzim AYS JEWS SHOW WORLD THEY CAN BE BUILDERS The dramatic story of a desert vaste transformed into a country of roductive fertility by the faith and of men and women with a pass-onate desire to be free and independ-nt spiritually and economically, was raphically and eloquently told to an udience of over 800 at Temple Wednesday evening by laurice Samuel, famous writer, who Bcently returned from an extensive ur in Palestine. For one hour and forty minutes he oke, feelingly, fervently, about the onders that have been created by le chalutzim, the Jewish pioneers, rcent immigrants from Russia and aland, the Ukraine, Roumania and her countries that have oppressed Jewish people.

The audience thrilled and enraptured by tale of accomplishment unfolded the brilliant young speaker who with technique of the word rinter and the vision of the poet, Jewish colonies, the fertile fields, modern schools, the cities that ive sprung like magic from the des-t sands, and more important than lese, the remarkable spirit of self-icrifice with which the young men nd women are proving to the world iat the Jew is capable of building ight from the soil a civilization hich he can rightfully call his own. Hopeless Status in Europe "To understand fully what is going in Palestine," said Mr. Samuel, 'one must appreciate the utuation of the Jew in Eastern Durope since the world war. American Jewry, despite the fact that it sent in veritable gulf streams of human sympathy over $65,000,000 to (CoifinK tn CHAS. ROSENTHAL, CIVIL WAR VETERAN, DIES AT 76 Milwaukee Jew Had an Adventurous Career Was in the California Gold Rush Charles Rosenthal, a veteran of the Civil War, and a -resident of Milwaukee for thirty-seven years, died Monday, Dec.

15, of apoplexy and was buried Wednesday afternoon in Greenwood cemetery, Rabbi Samuel Hirshberg conducting the services. Mr. Rosenthal would have been 76 years old on Dec. 25. He came from a line of soldiers.

His uncle was a high officer in the old Prussian army, an unusual distinction for a Jew. His father was a soldier under Napoleon in the invasion of Russia. On the retreat back to France he fell ill near Posen, where he wTas nursed back to health and where he settled, and vvhere Mr. Rosenthal was born. Mr.

Rosenthal came to this country when a young boy. Possessed of in adventurous spirit, he soon went California in one of the gold rushes, by sea by way of Panama, in San Francisco he enlisted in the 'Jnion forces as a member of Company Eighth California Volun-seers, serving under Gen. Halleck, argely in the campaign against the ndians, who had been stirred up to -evolt by Confederate emissaries. In he meantime Mr. Rosenthal's brother had enlisted from Alabama in the Confederate army, serving under stonewall Jackson in the Virginia ampaign.

Was Friend of "Buffalo Bill." After the war Mr. Rosenthal re-urned to the home of his brother ut soon went west again. He spent ome time in mining, and was in City, when the Comstock ode was discovered. Later he ranched tear Beatrice, and became a riend of Col. W.

F. Cody, "Buffalo 3ill." At one time he was in he government party which early surveyed Yellowstone Park. At another time he made a trip from Leavenworth, to Salt Lake City in an emigrant train. He was married at Milwaukee in 1885. The military tradition continued in his family.

One of his sons, Louis E. Rosenthal, was killed in battle while fighting with the revolutionary forces in Nicaragua in 1910. Another son, Henry A. Rosenthal, was in France with the American forces during the World War, serving in the Argonne campaign. Mr.

Rosenthal is survived by his widow, Mrs. Flora Rosenthal, two sons, Attorney Aaron B. Rosenthal and Henry A. Rosenthal, and a daughter, Mrs. Abraham Zimmerman, all of Milwaukee.

List of Donors to Mt. Sinai Hospital Endowment Fund Mrs. Herman Gardner $12,500 Mr. and Mrs. L.

Heilbronner. 5,000 Albert T. Friedmann 5,000 Mr. and Mrs. E.

D. Adler 5,000 Mr. and Mrs. Nat Stone 5,000 Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Herzfeld 5,000 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greenblatt. 5,000 Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Greenwald. 5,000 Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Freschl 5,000 Mr.

and Mrs. S. D. Adler 5,000 Ben Zimmerman 2,500 Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Landauer. 2,500 Michels Family Dan $500 Oscar 500 Carrie 500 Emanuel 500 R. Gumz Co 500 2,500 Mr. and Mrs. A.

L. Saltzstein. 2,000 Mr. and Mrs. Dave Karger and Max Karger 2,000 Mr.

and Mrs. E. Bienenstock. 1,500 Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley Stone 1,500 Mr. and Mrs. George Patek 1,500 Jos. Landauer 1,500 Mr. and Mrs.

S. Dorsen 1,000 Mr. and Mrs. C. Reichenbaum.

1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heller 1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Max Freschl 1,000 Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Daneman. 1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Oster.

1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Strelitz. 1,000 Mr. and Mrs.

Morris Miller. 1,000 Mrs. Carl Freschl. 1,000 Mr. and Mrs.

Edwin S. Mack. 1,000 Mrs. A. W.

1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Cohen. 1,000 Wm. B.

1,000 Henry S. Hartman. 1,000 A. J. Friedlander.

1,000 Mrs. B. M. Weil, Sr. 1,000 Mrs.

Victor Waldheim 1,000 Mr. and Mrs. Jack Grauman. 1,000 Mr. and Mrs.

Oscar Bracjiman. 1,000 Louis Greenbaum 1,000 A Friend 1,000 Miscellaneous gifts 587 Rabbi Charles S. Levi 500 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Polacheck 500 Mr.

and Mrs. Leo Ullman 500 Mr. and Mrs. A. P.

Rosenberg. 500 Mr. and Mrs. J. L.

Bitker 500 Mr. and Mrs. I. Goldman 500 Henry Eckstein 500 Mr. and Mrs.

Charles 500 Gus Fried 500 Ben'amin Poss 500 Ludwig Elsas 500 Miss Sarah Becker 500 Armin Rosenberg 500 Ted Friedlander 500 Mr. ahd Mrs. Hugo 500 Sig. Brachman 500 Nat Cohen 500 Albert Newald 500 Herman Jung 500 Ed. Jung 500 I.

Benesch 500 Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stern 500 Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rosenberg.

500 Mr. and Mrs. Leo Abraham. 500 Jos. Breslauer Estate 500 E.

Mandel 500 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Reel. Jules Kanders 500 500 500 H. A.

and S. W. Goldsmith. M. Laskiri 500 Hans Herzl is Tool of Catholic Missionaries in London London, (J.

T. Hans Herzl, new convert to Catholicism, is being used as a tool by the Catholic missionaries here, according to the Catholic Herald. The paper says, "Hans Herzl's conversion is helping the Catholic conversion work in Whitechapel." The Catholic Guild of Israel is holding large missionary mass meetings where Hans Herzl's article, published in the Catholic press recently, in which he gives the history of his conversion is read to the audience. Hans is now contributing articles to the Catholic ance and will give to the Jews of America the guarantees and en-; couragement to continue their labors for one of the greatest causes of civilization that the history of mankind records." At the outset of his statement Mr. Untermyer referred to the adoption two years ago by Congress of a resolution which declared that "the United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." "That resolution," his statement said, "expressed the sentiments of America.

Has that approval been misplaced or is it already justified by the efforts and achievements of the Jews in Palestine during the brief period in which the opportunity to rehabilitate tKe land has been open to them?" with an annual membership income of pver $6,000 was indicated as the re sult of the general membership drive headed by Max Breslauer and Mrs. Louis Heilbronner. Greenblatt Pleased "I am well satisfied with the result of the drive so far," said Henry Greenblatt, general chairman. "Considering the speed with which this drive was organized, the holiday season, the fact that many business men could not give their time as workers, and the severity of the weather during the drive itself, this effort is truly remarkable. There are a great num hereof persons who de- (Continued on page 8) PROF.

DAVID NEUMARK HEBREW SCHOLAR, DIES Was Professor of Philosophy at Hebrew Union College Since 1907 Cincinnati, Dec. 16, (J. T. Dr. David Neumark, professor of philosophy at the Hebrew Union College, died last night at the age of 58.

Death occurred as a result of acute appendicitis aggravated by diabetes. Prof. Neumark is survived by his wife, two daughters, Selina and Martha, and a young son, Immanuel Kant. Dr. David Neumark was born in Szczerec, Galicia, in 1856.

He studied at the Institute fuer die Wissen-schaft des Judentums, Berlin. Among his teachers were Steinthal, Lazarus, Naybaum and Cassel. He received his Ph. D. in 1896 at the University of Berlin and was appointed successor to Prof.

Moses Steinschneider at the Veitel Heine in Berlin. He was editor of the Otzar Hayehaduth and was for a time rabbi of Rakonitz. He contributed numerous articles to all the important Hebrew periodicals, particularly to the Ha'shiloah. He was author of a very elaborate work in German, "Geschichte der Juedischen Philosophie im Mittelalter," the first volume of which appeared in 1907 and the second in 1912. A third volume is now in press.

A Hebrew translation of the first volume appeared in 1922 and a second volume is in press. Dr. Neumark was the author of a work in Hebrew, "Tolodoth Ha'ikrim which was published in Odessa in 1912. A second volume appeared during the war but only a few copies reached America. His "Problems of Free Will in the Philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer" was published in 1896 and was translated by him into Hebrew.

He is the author of an essay on Creskas and Spinoza, published in 1909, in both English and Hebrew, as well as the author of a work on the Philosophy of Yehudah Halevi. He was editor and founder of the Journal of Jewish Lore, a quarterly periodical, and was one of the editors of the annual published by the Hebrew Union College. He was a contributor to numerous scientific periodicals in Hebrew and German. In the last issue of Hatorem, published' by Reuben Brainen, he began a series of articles on the philosophy of Herman Cohen. Prof.

Neumark joined' the faculty of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1907, where he occupied the chair of Jewish. Philosophy. Many distinguished rabbis of America were among his pupils. SAPIRO WILL SUE FORD FOR ATTACK ON MARKET PLAN Says, Auto King's Purpose Is to Bar the Jews from Agriculture WILL VINDICATE FARM CO-OP. IDEA IN COURT Detroit, Mich.

Suit against Ford's "Dearborn Independent" will be brought in the Michigan courts to make the paper prove its assertion that "Jewish bankers" have entered into a "conspiracy" to control the agricultural industry, was the announcement made by Aaron Sapiro, famous head of a number of farmers' cooperative marketing organizations, in an address delivered before the Men's club of Temple Beth El last Tuesday. "We are going to make the Dearborn Independent prove in the courts of Michigan that the co-operative marketing movement represents a conspiracy of the so-called international Jewish bankers to control the industry of agriculture in the United States," said Mr. Sapiro. "Suit will be filed shortly by one of the eminent lawyers of Detroit and one of the greatest authorities on American agricultural problems will reveal the fact that the author of the Dearborn Independent series of articles alleging a Jewish conspiracy against the true interests of the farmers was warned thkt his charges were a mass of lies and scurrilities. "We will show that Henry Ford's attacks on the part that I have taken in promoting co-operating marketing among the farmers of this country mean but one thing that Ford and his hirelings are bent upon eliminating the Jew from agriculture.

But little do these men realize that the efforts exerted by those who would apply to agriculture the sound methods which obtain in modern business will result in placing -agriculture on a basis of prosperity and pi ml ity, without which it is" doomed. And these malicious individuals do not know, or do not wish to know, that it was men like the late David Lubm, a California Jew, laid the foundation for a new and significant era in American farming "It is the social benefits," he said, "that have come to the farmer as a result of co-operative that explain the soundness of the move-) ment. It is these benefits that appeal to me, and no other. It does not re-I quire a mind of unusual imagination to see the national good that may flow from contented, educated, creative agricultural communities, enjoying their proper share of the economic goods in which this country abounds. And yet the paid hirelings of Henry Ford, who, in the automobile industry is the outstanding exponent of the merchandising theory underlying the co-operative marketing movement, strain at every pal-, pable misrepresentation in order to discredit the most significant effort undertaken by American farmers, merely because a Jew happens to be actively indemtified with it.".