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ADDRESS ON BIRTH
CONTROL FORBIDDEN

street (near Broadway), on the sub-
ject, 'The Need of Birth Control in
America,' Sunday morning, April 22,
at 11:15 o'clock.
"Note—'ire rabbi of the Tremont
Temple alone is responsible for this
arrangement."
Mr. Mork made the following ex-
planation of the action of the trus-
tees:
"The reason for our refusing the
use of the forum to Mrs. Sanger was
simply because we object to the au-
ditorium of the synagogue being used
for birth control propaganda, and
that is, I think, a sufficient reason.
Dr. Mischkind has resigned from Tre-
mont 'temple and his resignation has
been accepted. It was handed in at
an informal meeting of the trustees.
Nine of the 15 trustees were present
a nd their action has been approved
by the absent members. The mat-
ter will come up at the formal meet-
ing on Tuesday. 'this synagogue is
without a rabbi and we will engage
a new one. The board of trustees has
the power to engage rabbis and we
are going to engage one. Dr. Misch-
kind has been here two years next
September. Ile came from Wheel-
ing, W. Va., and succeeded Dr. Ma-
sins Ranson.
"About two months ago Dr. Misch-
kind invited Dr. Oscar Haywood, Ku
Klux Klan speaker, to occupy the
pulpit, and as soon as I heard about
it 1 refused to allow Dr. Haywood to
speak. I told Dr. Mischkind at that
time that he must submit the names
of speakers he proposed to the trus-
tees. Ile did not do this. Ile got
out his notices of the Sanger meeting
without my knowledge. These no-
tices arrived yesterday morning. As
soon as I learned of them I told him
that Mrs. Sanger could not speak in
the temple. Our forum is made up
mostly of boys and girls 14 and 15
years old and so there was need to
stop the affair at once. For this rea-
son I did not wait for the meeting
of trustees."

"SOLDIERS OF

An Interview

HUMANITY" '

With Ben Altheimer.

By A. H. FROMENSON

Achayem," and they will be
s, to
rally around an institution Of of
which conies life and health far ■h■ qi.
sands of their suffering fells ,Ineri,
and out of which may come, t.., ,f
it
be God's will, one of the great , •-• .sn-
tributions that the Jews hat. , tor
nimbi for the weal of all mai I. r,t .
believe it was Benjamin Dis c , .,,ho
said: 'Public health is the foie dian
on which repose the homilies. • the
people and the power of the lot„ • • s

Going through the files of a Jew- ver, and other diseases, and even dia-
ish weekly 1 came across an article betes, according to a statement made
entitled "The Sian Whu Democrat- recently by Dr. Simon Ileum's of the
ized Charity." It seas written three Rockefeller Institute. Tuberculosis,
and Macaroons
years ago and it was a study of Ben scourge (if the ages, has made its way
also our famous
Altheimer who had then arrived at through ninny centuries from the very
Tortes
NEW YORK—Itabbi Louis A.
beginnings of time almost to the pres-
three score and ten.
Mischkind of Tremont 'temple, Grand
■ .--
REMNANT OF KOLTCHAK
Somehow I had not read that article ant day, as mysterious and as deadly
Concourse and One Hundred Eight-
ARMY EXHAUSTS QUOTA
it was published. But I as it was when it first afflicted prim-
the
time
at
ieth street, handed his resignation to
read it now with keen interest because eval man. It is responsible for hun-
,
the board of trustees. His action
dreds of thousands of deaths annual-
SY A S II I N GTON.-1.1. r I , •
I
had
known
this
man
for
a
rather
e woo unexpected and marked the cli-
9138 Twelfth St., near Clairmont
Empire 5391
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long period of years, and have had ly, it counts its victims in the millions The augmentation .of the 1: • in
max of a difference of opinion bes
and it causes to the United States quota by the recent ruling of
the
privilege
of
quarreling
with
him
La-
himself and the trustees as to
it.w.,...........w........v.m.womwo........v4w.v. ve tween
and yet calling him friend. Ile may alone an eV onomic IOSS of millions of bor Department, adding the 11, ,ro-
the propriety of having Mrs. Mar-
have forgotten it—it is all of fifteen dollars. One person in every hundred bin quota to it, will nut brio.' r e ad
garet Sanger, birth control advocate,
years ago, at least,—but I still re- is sick with tuberculosis. One percent Russian and Ukrainian refo.
I o
address the community open forum
m•mber how I pounded his desk in his of the entire population of this coun- these shores. President Hard • •• .1...
of the temple. The rabbi's choice of
try approximately one million people cited to permit the tra lisport a: • t o
office,
then
in
St.
Louis,
and
how
he
speakers has been a subject of dis-
pounded his desk in return. A queer are unable to work because of it, and the United States of the 5on
, - soul
cussion among the trustees for some
quarrel that: we were both in agree- are a total economic loss. Of the 150,- refugees who recently land; d
he
time, and two months ago he was
1)00 who die of it in this country every Philippines after a stormy nn'. .
ment
as
to
the
underlying
principle
of
warned by Seymour Mork, president
a•guing R1101.1t: we year, more than America lost in the their own ships from Vladiv....•
the
thing
we
were
of the board of trustees, that there-
Plans to bring the refugee, '
disagreed as to details. And when it World War, the greatest number are
after he must submit to the board the
3711 Woodward Avenue
was all over, he said floe of those kind- taken away during the period of high- country on an army transpcc:
names of those selected as forum
est
usefulness—between
the
ages
of
IS
ly things that are as much his nature
multped out at the coat:rent', „
speakers.
as breathing, and we laughed and and
President, Secretary Week- od
,re d
In engaging Mrs. Sanger Rabbi
"There is no cure for tuberculosis. John Barton Payne, chairman
parted the same friends we were be-
the
Mischkind, it was said, did not take
fore our rather acrimonious debate It is the aim of the Research work to American Red Cross.
the board into his confidence, and
find
a
cure.
At
the
risk
of
boring
you,
and as we have been ever since.
The Red Cross will have chs
of
the fact that Mrs. Sanger was to
I could not help thinking, as I read I will tell you what you surely know— relief measures for the Ho ..os
talk in the temple on birth control
the article that inspired this revollec- it is today a generally well known fact upon their arrival in this to:
The Queen of the Jewish Stage
only became known when the rabbi
lion, about the irresistible charm of —that almost every human is infected Admission will be possible
sent out a printed announcement to
this man, who somehow, in his person- with the germs that cause the disease. immigration law,• inasmuch a, Ole
that effect. The announcement came
ality blends the Hebraic sage and the If these germs are allowed to develop Russian quota nes not been e
as a surprise to the
• trustees and some
cultured gentleman of the Occident, the results are serious; but under ed for theyear ending June lc
of the congregation. Mr. Mork, with-
who is a rare product of that finer proper conditions they will not devel-
Secretary Weeks said the ref .,
out waiting to call a meeting of the
assimilation which is stalwartly Am- op. Experience and research have who arc remnants of a band ci
board, acted under powers delegated
erican and equally stalwartly Jewish: found the proper conditions: Right to the Soviet regime, would non:,
to him by his office and told the rabbi
who springing from the very heart of living fresh air, and light, good and sirable citizens. Most of th, is. he
Will appear with Mme. Paskeviteh, Betty Frank, M. Skolnik, Mme.
that under no consideration should
what has been dubbed "German Jew- simple nourishing food, rest and sleep said, are skilled workers, prof.•. •al
Skolnik, Mme. Groper, I. Lipinsky, L. Rosenstein, D. Reitz and others
the forum be used for birth control
ish" and a leader in Reform Jewry, and cleanliness, especially to properly or technical men. Arranges., . to
In Joseph Rumshinsky's Latest Operetta
propaganda. The doors of Tremont
yet keenly comprehends and sym- feed and build up our young children bring them to this country ha,
Temple, he said, were permanently
pathizes with the traditions, aspira- to make their resistant to the infec- virtually completed and the w., r1, ;till
cloned to Mrs. Sanger. Dr. Mischkind
tions and psychology of the Orthodox tion.
be undertaken immediately.
refused to give up his intention to
Jew, including Zionism.
W sssss man's Test.
have Mrs. Sanger speak and appealed
Father of "Flag Day."
"Sanitariums and hospitals like the Michigan Health Exposition to
to Dr. J. Max Weis of the Free Syna-
Who, that knows anything at all National succeed in many' cases in ar-
Be Held Here June 7 to 16.
gogue. Dr. Weis •gave himpermis-
about Jewish things in this country, resting the disease for the individaul•
sion to use the synagogue.
doesn't know that Ben Altheimer is but that does not mean that no cure I
The next shock the trustees re-
"Live
a little longer" This
the
father of "Bundle Day" which has will ever be found for it. Just as s
ceived and the one which precipitated
Arthur Guiterman in The Conning the
grown from a chance meeting with a these other diseases 1 named a while l an of finis h' ichigan Ilealt h
the resignation of the rabbi was this Tower writes of Ku Kluks:
Rion
which
will
be
held
ill
man who was "down and out" on the ago, were finally leashed and muzzled
printed announcement mailed on post
streets of St. Louis into a national in- and stayed in their careers of destruc- (N•n June 7 to 16 inclusii..
Kowards who kover their faces,
cards:
Motors Building in I
stitution—international, in fact, be- tion, so may tuberculosis some day be General
Tickets, 50c, 75c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00
a uspices of the Wayne
'The rabbi of Tremont Temple an-
Kaitiffs who skulk in their shrouds, cause they recently had a "Bundle
conquered. The world moves. The
nounces that, owing to the refusal of Kankers—the kountry's disgraces;
cal
Society.
The officials of t,
Day" even in Smyrna. And who good work is going on. I read but a
For sale at Small's Drug Store, Hastings and Ilendrie Sta.; Cooper's
Kravens—kourageous in krowds;
the board of trustees to permit the
doesn't know that this same man is few days ago in a German paper that ciety, who besides its mends , '
Drug Store, Westminster and Goodwin Aves.; Plotkin's Book Store,
are
most
deeply
interested in nisi ss
holding of the forum this Sunday Killers where action defends them,
father of the religious and popular Professor Wasserman, a brilliant
Hastings and Winder; Kahn Brothers' Restaurant, 3530 Hastings,
Kurs who will bite if they can,
morning at the Trement Temple, Mrs.
observance of "Flag 1/ay," another scientist, had recently added to his a success of the exposition ari• 11r.
and at the Box Office on the day of the performance.
Margaret Sanger will speak in the Kut-throats when darkness befriends national institution, widely observed great achievements in research work, Wm. M. Donald, president and lir. R.
them-
Washington Heights Free Synagogue,
annually now by Presidential procla- a tuberculosis test, the effect of which A. C. Wollenberg, Chief of the Psis
Kaps in the air for the Klan!
502 West One hundred Sixty-third
mation.
had proven of great importance in the lie Health Committee of the Sot
The Michigan Health
• I
1 could run off a long catechism of treatment of the disease. Let us hope
"who doesn't know?' if I was aiming that a cure will be found. I will not will mark an epoch in the ad
to remind my readers of the many say it will be found by our Research ment of general knowledge o
philanthropies to which Ben Altheim- Department," Mr. Altheimer went on health matters. It will be 1,,,
er is devoted. It was of him that the after he had brooded over the subject as a popular exhibit when
late William Marion Reedy, one of for a moment, the while I could read citizen may learn for him-,
America's most scintillating journal- in his eyes the formulation of a hope. things which promote health,
ists wrote in 1912. "An institution "No, I won't say that. But this 1 will and happiness of the people. I
is the lengthened shadow of a man. say—that when the cure is found its is no more comprehensive
The man who suggested, originated discovery will have been greatly aided bringing before the people
and energized the local relief work and hastened by the work of the me gross in disease prevention, .•
during this year's severe blizzard, of science, who, in the little laboratory eral methods of hygiene and
uniting the people of St, Louis re- which is a part of our hospital, have proved methods of keeping I ,
The progress in niellicinc,
gardless of race and religion in com- been devoting their splendid ability to
mon effort—throws a shadow and will solving the mystery of tuberculosis. nursing, pharmacy, denth-tit . .
thin,
safety, the care of the
persist when for him the suns shall Rut wouldn't it be a glorious thing if,
rise and set no more." In that cate- indeed, the solution of this mystery social service are represent,
Exposition.
chism I would mention that he has that has baffled the medical scientists
Three hours devoted to II.
rein treasurer of the National Jew- of the agese, should be arrived at in
ish Hospital for Consumptives at Den- the National Jewish Hospital fur of exhibits of more than
state
and national organizat,.
ver for twenty four years and his ser- Consumptives. What a glorious con-
with
H-
vices and devotion to the cause are tribution by the Jews to Humanity." provide the average citizen
era!
education
in how go\ emu, II .111d
part of the history of the National
I swing back to the subject-matter
af
organization
provide
for
the
of the interview.
Hospital.
It was while looking up some data
"And what is it that one National community health and at th•
about that institution that I came Jewish Hospital wants?" I asked him. time how the individual in his isdy
"An endowment fund," he replied. :yid family life may escape dist...,
across the article whose title I have
"Why, I was given to understand
quoted, and it was about that insti-
A state may be annihilated.
tution, dearer to him than any other that you were in the midst of a mem-
!hey
of his innumerable philanthropic in- bership campaign, that you are seek- not a nation; witness the Jews
were
once both a state and a tkokb!
terests, that I went in to see him at ing thousands of new contributors.
his office in the heart of New York's How does that coincide with the idea The Jewish state has been destrcycd,
financial center where he keeps in of an endowment fund—which is but the nation still lives.-- 11,,nds
close touch with his equally numerous usually provided by a few persons of Ibsen.
financial interests, despite the fact wealth?" I demanded.
One seldom meets a man who lases
"Yet it is an endowment fund that
that he is a retired hanker. For to
him the institution is not merely a we seek," he insistent. "A dens:retie his fellow artist.—The Talmud .
hospital fur the cure of such consump- endwoment fund. We do not only seek
tives as may chance to he admitted financial help front a few rich people .
there, but it is a missionary teaching The National Jewish Hospital Was
A. D. HILLMAN
the gospel of right living, of sanita- created by the democracy of American
Real Estate Exchange Specialtst
tion, of light and of fresh air, a war- Jewry, It is maintained by the de-
I esehan, .1./0 you ha" .
rior giving battle to one of man's mo•racy of American Jewry. I feel
nd doot
n x not for hat
confident that we are going to get it.
most insidious and deadly enemies.
ou e,e n..t end do went.
The Jews of America cannot fail to
The "de-Ghettoises."
Cash for Land Contracts and
recognize
the
great
merit
of
this
in-
In his mind it is the "de-Ghettoizer"
Mortgages.
of the Jews in America; that is, by its stitution which has succeeded in re-
213 Hammond Bldg. Main 476:1
propaganda it has taught thousands turning to their former occupations
of Jews that the way to health and a large number of the 4,200 patients
usefulness is out of the congested it has treated since 1900, improved the
tenement sections into the broad coun- condition of 3,077, made 1,123 incur-
tryside. A large percentage of those able comfortable, and which has be-
who have come under the influence of come one of the greatest warriors
the National Hospital have been made against tuberculosis. 1 am sure that
MUNICIPAL
fit to live, he told me while we were the plans put into operation by Mr.
discussing some of its work in detail. Manny Strauss, leader of many suc-
BONDS
Ile spoke in glowing terms of th e cessful campaigns, will bring about
present management of Nathan the desired results. But above all, I
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Dauby, the president, a worthy suc- am sure that the Jews of America are
431 Griswold St.
cessor of Samuel Grabfelder, of Ber- alive to the truism: that the greatest
thold Fleshes of the local board of asset of a community is the good
Hotrod
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health
of
its
citizens,
and
conscious
managers and his associates, of the
members of the executive committee of our age-old slogan "Kol Yisroel
and all the good men and women, who
by their interest and generosity have
made the National Hospital a veri -
table monument to the philanthropic
spirit of the American Jews.
From the President's Desk—Talk No. 136.
As we talked we were frequently in-
terrupted by callers and telephone. Ile
responded to everything with the dash
and decision of a man of forty, his
mind working with remarkable celer-
We have developed a tremendous demand in a neighborhood
ity, and then, without the loss of a
word, he would take up the thread of
outside of the high rent district.
our talk.
If you are going to write about
The world has made a path to our door.
those who made this, greatwork pos-
sible, I hope you will find it possible
Someone has said that a pessimist
Lovers of beautiful homes who desire to buy good furniture at
to include Mrs. Seraphini Pisko, in-
is the one who sees only the hole
deed you must include her, because
most moderate prices should become familiar with our methods and
—an optimist, one who sees the
much of the institution's present
doughnut.
greatness is due to her untiring ef-
offerings.
forts in its behalf," he said. "I saw
The pessimist thinks the dough-
an interview with her by Mrs. Punkin
in some of the Jewish weeklies the
nut is solely for the purpose of
other day. It was extremely well
making holes. The optimist be-
done, but it doesn't begin to tell half
lieves the hole is necessary to the
the story. She took hold of the in-
making of a perfect doughnut.
stitution when it was struggling for
recognition and assistance and going
One is the theory of failure—the other the
about this broad land of ours for
theory of success. The optimist, seeing the
years and years, arousing the con-
science of America Jewry to rally to
big things in business, goes after them—and
its support. She is a great woman,
gets them. The pessimist, seeing nothing,
Mrs. Pisko, and in my estimation she
gets nothing.
ranks with the best who have done
service to their fellowmen."
To which school do you belong?
All of which I set down here gladly
NEAP WOOM&A
as a well deserved tribute to one who
has served her people nobly.
I asked Mr, Altheimer to tell me
something about the research depart-
ment (he being a member of the Lay
Research committee) what it is ex-
actly that is being attempted there.
Curing Tuberculosis.
Ile thought for a moment. "It would
be absurd for me to attempt to be
technical," he finally began. "I would
not be understood—begging your par-
don—in the first place, and in the sec-
ond place I couldn't lie technical if I
would. But this is how I'd like to put
it: during the course of the centuries
men of medical science have discover-
Griswold and Lafayette.
ed the causes, the means to prevent
70 Years of Success
and also to cure diseases which once
upon a time took their human toll in

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