Vrritorr 1%1'601 Colfp4v r5 GIAS. JOSEPH- - /nom rl RDA ici,r, PAGE FIV The Jews in the Ukraine By ISAAC OCHBERG (Copyright, 1923, by Jewish Telegraphic Agency.) eesasoisT--- (Presented in the early pert of the stripped from you. The government , year, thin resume of conditions by is doing all it can to stop this ban- By Ch.. H. Joseph.) (Coont•rlight, 1921. the representative in the Ukraine of ditism, but it is helpless against it. y fh I - t e chi Almost anything can be put over in these United States of America. the Jewish W orld Relief Conference, I have foundin man o ; don't believe the citizenship of Shelby, Mont., would have contributed has lost but little of its timeliness. dress' homes large numbers of chil- $200,000 if the rest of the nation were starving. But for • prize fight Mr. Ochberg is prominent as a social dren lying naked on their beds in the That's the neculiar twist in the mental worker of South Africa.—Editor.) middle of the day because they have three banks have been wrecked. 414..?CrAP no clothes in which to go out. The ..nd moral machinery of some communities. Is it any wonder that almost When the Soviet government an- clothes are worn by the children in CLIFFORD of IVO 00 0%1 81) l't 1413 to 14-17 any boob can receive a big straw vote for the nomination for President flounced its new economic policy turn and it is necessary for one let the United States? (NEP), all of us abroad thought that to wait until the others have been in it would bring about an improvement the street before they can dress Are you going to vote for a delegate to the American Jewish Congress? in the condition of the Jewish popu- themselves and go out. It was a very lotion. Trading, which would to a important event, therefore, when I had surprised. You about it? Well well, I am a word You never heard certain extent be permitted, would received the clothing transport sent better write to Bernard Richards slid to the other promoters of the Ameri- Jewish Congress. I am sure they will be surprised that such a men give better opportunities for the out to me by the London Federation .. Jews in the country to obtain their of Ukrainian Jews. As soon as the mentous event should he unknown to any Jew in the United States. livlihood. Unfortunately, I have news was spread abroad that the • seen during my last visit to Russia clothes had arrived, I was simply Brave heroes! Decorate them with the D. S. C. They set • fiery cross that the facts are the reverse of what overwhelmed with requests and peti- near retreat for women and children at Stirling, N. P., and almost burnt we thought. I was astounded to see trans from committees, communal or- the Jewish musses in the provinces 'ganizations, widows and students. it. That's Ku Kluxism in this country. -- of Kiev, Nikolaiev and Charkov in a Among the many appeals I received terrible plight even now. They are was one from a rabbi of Kmitrowki. Lord Alfred Douglas used to edit a rotten sheet called Plain English. The magazine made a business of attacking the Jews. It is now defunct starving, they walk around wrapped His whole family had perished in a and where it should have always been, in the garbage pail. One can imagine in rags, they have lost all hope that pogrom, together with all the Jewish the type of man this lord is. And so we are not surprised that from such things will ever be better. population of the town. Ile, too, had The only hope that the Jews in been shot through the stomach. Ile come the charge that "Earl of Balfour wrote a false bulletin a mind should about the Battle of Jutland so an international gang of Jewish speculators Russia possess today is a food parcel. ' showed me that he possessed nothing stock exchanges when prices broke." They wait for days fur a food parcel more in the world than the shirt he clean up in New York and other could to arrive from abroad to save them was wearing. 'this sort of thing is on a par with the kind of imbecilic trash that has been A second petition I had was from If any one wants further information from death. If it were not for the published on this aide of the water. who obtained material for food parcels it is impossible to say a student, a married man, who had ca ncerning this distinguished titled muck-raker his paper from gutter sweepings, he is the son of the Marquis of Queensbury. how many more tens of thousands of to support his mother, who was a Jews would have perished in Russia widow, and her three other children. • ■ ••• ■ • — — and the Ukraine. In the middle of ' His father had been killed in the po- The reason he was in court last week was due to an action for libel 1922 the rate of mortality among the groins. At night he acted as a watch- of writing Jews in the Ukraine as a recut of man to guard the shops against Ile brought against the London Morning Post, which accused him Lord Alfred Douglas has been hunger and disease was appalling. thieves. For that he received 100,- "vile and insulting articles about the Jews!' remarkable biog• The number of dead in the old Jewish 000,000 roubles a month (about in court before, oh, dear, yes. I picked up Frank Harris' and therein I found plenty about cemetery of Odessa rose last year $2.50). Besides that he gave three r•phy of Oscar Wilde the other evening BUY NOW AND SAVE! Lord Douglas, who was Wilde's chum and who, according to Harris, helped from 7,721 to 20,380. In Cherootlessons daily, for which he got 3,000,- out Oscar Wilde in disgrace, and he himself was considered (according to more than half the Jewish population 000 doubles. Naturally, he could not the same authority) a questionable character. This is the gentleman (7) died out. It is only due to the work by any stretch of the imagination who today has the brazen assurance to villify the Jews, and the unmitigated of the foreign relief institutions that manage to clothe himself and his tam- nerve to sue a decent newspaper for libeling him. It's • joke! I would some stop has been put to this ter- ily. For 12 hours every night he had suggest to the London Morning Post that it publish those chapters of Harris' rible rate of mortality. The help ' to stand in the street in the frost, and hook dealing with Douglas, and refresh the English reading public regard- which these institutions are giving, for three hours during the day he was ing this rotter. As for making him ashamed, that would be impossible. on a much smaller scale now, is the , engaged at his lessons. The remain_ onlything that is keeping the Jews ing nine hours he had free for study A fur coat or cape may be bought dur- alive in Russia. and sleep. And yet he is an excel- Norman Hapgood in the current International says that he received • ing this sale at a price no greater than one But this help cannot bring any lent student with a good academic that club circular from • member of the Yale Club asking the members of radical solution of the problem of the future before him. ordinarily pays for a good cloth coat. their opinion of the desirability of continuing hie use of the tune "Die It was to these applicants whose Jews in Russia. The food parcel Styles are entirely different, smarter and Wacht em Rhein" as the musical setting for "Bright College Days." The which saves a starving family from case was similar to theirs that I dis- more beautiful. The list printed below will member who sent the circular writes to Hapgood: death cannot restore the position of tribute(' the clothing sent out by the give you some idea of the wonderfully low the Jews in the Ukraine. The only London Federation of Ukrainian "Harvard aims to exclude the Jews. Jews are Jews. Yale aims thing which could improve the post- Jews. prices. to exclude music. Music is German. Princeton, to hold her prestige, • • • tion there and reconstruct the ecoL will now be forced to exclude painting. Painting, in its origins and Hudson Seal Coats, 48 inch Vi- The general organizations like the nomic life of the Jewish population days of greatness, was largely Roman Catholic. Fordham will ex- is the establishment of credit co-oper- American Relief Administration, Dr. , atca Squirrel Collar, Cuffs.. clude sculpture. Sculpture is concerned with the human form. It ations for artisans, small traders and Nansen's International Committee often reveals nudity, It is a pagan art, and its practitioners have merchants, to enable them to buy and the Ukrainian Red Cross have been free thinkers and even atheists. Rodin and Epstein are la- Gray Squirrel Coats, 47 inch materials and tools. The new eco- opened a number of kitchens, but of mentably modern examples. nomic policy in Russia gives us an late their work is being reduced be- very dark clear skins "Science has already been excluded from the best Baptist insti- opportunity to raise these loan funds. cause of the lack of funds. tutions. A beginning has already been made. The Jewish relief organizations "American culture must be kept pure. Science, the arts and the Mole Capes, 50 inch; crushed Almost in every town in the Ukraine are divided in their work. The Joint Jews assail that purity." small credit co-operatives are being Distribution Committee supports the collars, wide sweep established under the control of Jew- 'institutions of the Idgeskom with con- And here is another item from the same International. Gorky tells of ish communal workers. It is our duty siderable funds. There k talk, by Beaver Coats, 47 inch; dark meeting ■ Tula priest who assured him that although the son of • Jewish to support these co-operatives in or- the way, in the Ukraine of a number God and • Jewish mother, Christ was not a Jew. "It is impossible he should der to put a stop tothe begging sys- of constructive activities which the (Canadian) skins be a Jew," the priest said. "Why," inquired Gorky? The priest shrugged tent and to place our work on a more !Joint Distribution Committee is solid foundation. It is not necessary :about to undertake. Recently the his shoulders, "That is just the mystery." Raccoon Coats, 47 inch; Is the type of mind that makes for to have a great deal of money to help . Joint Distribution Committee dis- Do you know that this priest bring themselves to believe • a family to regain its position. Five trihuted coals among the poorer Jew- matched dark skins fanaticism? There are Christians who cannot who will not believe, that Jesus, their Savior, was • Jew. How can they pounds, which is in Russia at the ish populaiton. The relief work of make devils of all of Jesus' brethren and of Jesus, the Jew, make a God? present rate of exchange about 1,- the Joint Distribution Committee, as Opossum Coats, 46 inch; first la It is inconsistent with all logic and incompatible with any religious teach 000,000 roubles, could make a Jew- is well known, is not exclusively on I have behalf of the Jewish population. But ing worth of the name. So, like the ostrich who sticks his head in the sand ish family self-supporting. quality skins who are Jew-hater, think that by forget - seen, while I was in Russia, that two unfortunately, the Russian peasants to hide his body, many Christians ting to think that Jesus was • Jew, he wasn't. Yes, we have no Christian 5 or three pounds given to is Jewish do not know this. There is even a Jap Mink Coats, 47 inch; family which was reduced to begging legend in circulation among the peas- today; they are all Jews. 289 in the streets have enabled it to re- ants that the gold which has been trimmed; extra quality establish itself and become self-sup- confiscated front Russian churches Why should Jews work about establishing a Jewish university when they porting, has been sent over to America and Eastern Mink Coats, 48 inch; $a98 seem to be getting one ready-made? The College of the City of New York At the name time I want to empha- that this gold is being used by the is being so largely attended by Jews that the name "Smith" or "Brown" is beautifully matched skins.. size that relief to individuals in the Jews in America for sending food as rare as C•doza. The New York Herald became very much interested ' form of food and clothing most not parcels to the Jews in the Ukraine. in this phenomenon, so it sent one of its statistical sharks to look into this under any circumstances be stopped The Jewish World Relief Confer- speed and all queer business. The investigator came back, running at top at present. The stoppage of relief ence has opened a number of kiteh- out of breath and stammering the information that it wm as difficult to : even for one day means the loss of ens for orphans. It is also helping Ancient find • Christian in the C. C. N. Y. as it was to had a member of the $49.50 to $ 98 Coney . ex- a large number of the Jewish popu- the local institutions and the intel- Order of Hiberni•ns •t an Orangemen's picnic. He may not have said lation. - If the Jewish population in lectuals. Recently the Jewish World $59.50 to $135 Caracul actly that, but that's what he meant. 'the Ukraine is to remain alive it must Relief Confeienee sent a special com- Caracul and Squirrel .$125 to $389.50 • •••••■ have its food every day until the mission to the Ukraine, of which I, $375 to $398.00 Squirrel Year by year the proportion of Gentile students decreases until now in co-operatives will be working and too, was a member. The commission scanning the freshmen roster, one finds 12 Cohens and one Smith. That will have sufficient means at their brought with it a large relief con- holds true of only the Cohens who spell their name with •n "e." I sup- disposal to restore the ruins of Rus- signment of food and medicaments We Welcome all who are interested in pose there must be regular Cohn., too, and maybe a couple of Cohans- sian and Ukrainian Jewry. It must which were distributed in the districts furs to see the exceptional values prepared little better chance to get long, be realized that there are in Russia of Odessa and Kiev. On my recom- •nd one or two Callon.. Browns have • for this event. today large numbers of the intellec- mendation, the Jewish World Relief because there are only eight Levys to one Brown; and the Jones have just six R•binowitzes tual classes who have no means of Conference is now extending its work Frond a Sedei—Fur Department—Fifth Poor. a little better break than the Browns, because we find only Murphy. are bravely keeping up with the Goldstein., the earning a livelihood and are entirely in the Ukraine, to one Jones; the ratio being one to six. And the Kellys refuse to be outdone by the Murphy., dependent on the food parcels. These' The London Federation of Uk- for there is one Murphy to six Greenberg.. And so on all through the col. intellectuals, who will one day be rainian Jews has also opened hitch- lege. The Herald wonders why the Christian boys of New York do not the leaders of Russian Jewry, must' ens in the Ukraine and has estab- eagerly welcomed. now he supported by all the means lisped a number of committees which take advantage of the opportunity the Jewish boys so a t our di sp osa I . Then en there ere are a . ere e rece v i ng the e food oo( cons gnments i that $31,480 had been appropriated Much Interest Manifested in CORRECTION large number of widows and pogrom sent by the Federation for distribu- for the work in Chicago and ;7,000 Fascinating Dances of The chairman of the Farm-Labor convention in Chicago, upon receiving orphans. The widows would work, tion I among the necessitous Jewish for the work in New York. The op- Mr. Shawn. from Idaho • list of 16,000 names asking that Ford's name be considered au matter how hard the work, to keep population. I have visited a number posite was meant. An appropriation In a preceding issue of this paper, by the convention, looked over the face. of the delegates and remarked: their children alive. But there is of these committees and I must say of $7,000 was made for the work In an article, dealing with the appropri- of being endorsed by this convention "Henry Ford has just as much chance nothing for them to do. There are that the system of their relief work If one is to judge at all from the ations made by the Union of Amen- Chicago and $31,480 for the work as he has of being elected mayor of Jerusalem." no openings of any kind. So you find is an excellent one, but unfortunate- very interesting reports being re- can Hebrew Congregations for the in New York. them in the streets selling matches ly their work is in some places be ceived from Ted Shawn of his trip ensuing year, contained a misstate- in the or newspapers. hampered by the authorities. If through Spain and Africa, there will ment. The mistake was made in the GARRICK THEATER I am reading with great interest Herbert H. Asquith'. articles I would ELLly that the beg Jewish these'committees had a free hand t the War." It will pay you to be quite the same difficulty in obtain- information furnished by the union Saturday E ven i ng Post o n the "Genesis of ss • conversation he had elements in Russia, the intellectuals, suable them to do their W irk they ing seats next season for the Ruth office and the correction is herewith follow th em . I n th e current instalment he discusses "Six Cylinder Love," a farce taken Chamberlain's book had just are living on the streets on whatever would be able to act on a much larger St. Denis-Ted Shawn and Denisha•n offered. with the former kaiser in London. Houston from a story by( William Anthony Century." You will recall happens to come to hand. Therefore, scale. Till now a great deal has It Dancers' Vrogram that there was last bee n p u bli s hed, "F ou ndations of the Nineteenth The appropriations for the chap- McGuire, and one of the happiest ye- everybody in addition to our constructive work, done by,these committees despite all year for those who forgot to make that Chamberlain was one of the outstanding anti-Semites, and laincy and schools in Chicago and the hicles to visit Detroit l i i a , sp eason, will breathed fresher air after this renegade Englishman went over body and we must go on with the ordinary re- the .difficulties, to alleviate the dim- their reservations early. ra schools in New York were reversed. be the offering of the B stelle Co- i s ing Ch am b er l a in's book, in lief work of sending our food par- tress among the Jewish population. Much interest is centered in the breeches to Germany. So the kaiser was pra The article contained the statement 1 pany at the Garrick xt week. The Ens fundsIia receive a heailrl.worikf many new anfascinating a Jew, and that the Ger- eels,. principally for the relief of the foin ances d i ti f which Chamberlain maintained that Jesus was not say that in the Jewish intellectuals. very stm which Mr. Shawn will incorporate in mans are the real chosen people. And Asquith goes on to officer in'. Haw many orphans are there to- they had larger sumsioofmoneg yat his programs, and the wonderful cos- 3.. e en oyer . e ti on he told him that not a single commissioned Jew. And he probably referred to this with pride. Asquith' day in Russia? It is impossible to their disposal the amount ut good tumes, shawls, combs, castanets and his army was a say. There are no definite figures on they i could d as i . would much ,t. . bet t he uu ho garlienpaeo7ii. so forth which he is importing for very cleverly retorted that the Jews had their compensations, amongst other enniin t ioWith v regard the the larger part of the German press. the subject. But we count themum them. A complete set of costumes things having capt red and controlled u of Jews sin kaiser, one grows more and more convinced that hundreds of thousands. Large are being made by a tailor in Seville The more one reads of the gov_ can only say that Judaism is being who makes the clothes for the various hers of them are living in the he is an under-cover ■ nti•Semite of the worst type. ernment institutions, supported by wiped out there. Although the Jew- Quadro Flamenco troupes. It was in .-....-.-- Idgeskom. But masses of them ish communities are now legalized Seville, where the guitar is supposed , an nitelligent reader of new s- are left to their own resources. You and have a right to exist, they are ore who is apparently • ' A lady in Baltimore, to tinkle in a tinklier way than else- item in Newport Daily Pres., Newport News, Va., will find them wandering about the not permitted to take any part in papers, s an ' inhere, that he saw the home of Fi- Christiaized Jew, who is ■ leader in streets, barefooted, begging cultural and educational affairs. The garo., the celebrated barber and hair r i n uk e d ;rhe referring toaRreovs. A. C. Fellman, a came■ac in the relief or-Chedariin are closed. Jewish children cutter, now deceased. The' ex-home th e "Christian Hebrew Society." He was advertised to "preach" Churc1 . ta on i ' in Russia have a have no Jewish education at all The of Figaro is now Figaro's Bar. Ile "nn Williamsburg Methodist Church on the subject "The Jew and the li " ' g ' 1d Ukp i school which is being attended succeeded in corralling, in 'Barcelona, f Ukraine kitchens e in i the But what's this? "Mr. Fellman was brought up in Jerusalem in the o o hns to only ■ at but the kitchens is the Communist scho o l. o r feed h orphans, Hebrew customs, and educated in the Old Test•ment!" Whet• blow Spain, one Perfecto l'erez, who is a Zionism! But that is not all "He is said to be • forceful sneaker and to , are few in number, and besides, they The open . door for emigration teacher and not a brand of cigar, and m1 • c hristian. tnl.1 " What .object? .. s urlais a I sit • OU Id b c a tremendous can only Five the orphans one me re relief' for the who, incidentally, teaches most of the po sssss a wide knowledge of his subject ; a day. They cannot still their bun- Jews in the Ukraine, but how and prominent Spanish vaudeville dancers If he understood Judaism, he wouldn't be masquerading ger. But it is all we can do to save where to? iced Jew, whatever that enemas. how to dance their native dances, and r • . - them from actual death from starve-' • Mr. Shawn promises more interesting lion. We must increase the number I numbers for their very picturesque the reader who sent me the following clipping, Fr the benefit of of these kitchens, we must spread BABY DAY NURSERY and lively .Spanish group. would say that the fact that this gentleman reside. in Brooklyn indicates out—a network of them- CONCERT AUGUST 8 Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and the "profession," the "profession" being a group of pro. silent that he belongs to throughout the whole of the Ukraine. their dancers are considered by many other, gravi• fessional Hebrew Christians. These gentry, for some reason or Acting on the instructions of the of Churches, or Announcement is made by the He- to be leaders in the art of classical , toted to Brooklyn, whether because it is known as the City wish orphanage in Cape Town, I brew Day Nursery of 545 East Can- dancing. They. have departed, from more of Hebrew .1, because it has the fined cemetery in the country. We hear that emanates from conducted negotiations with the So- field avenue that the building is now the rather old a'nd more or less tire- n Christians in Brooklyn, and there is more weird no riot government to permit me to take open for permanent residence of chil- Some piouretting and 'toe dancing, borough than from even Dearborn. Mich. But let us display Christian , that ■ living. , a certain number or orphans back dren of the ages ranging from 3 which no many dancers of the old Even • Hebrew soul with • Christian veneer must make charity. with one to South Africa. The gov- months to 4 years, as well as in the school affect and ,,which is passe to No Sale Is Complete Until the Customer And the softest snap in the country is becoming • "Hebrew Christian." The , ernment categorically refused. The nursery, where mothers may leave the dance lover and dance student. becomes impatient with is the gullibility of the Christian only thing one Is Satisfied. Soviet government does not wish to their children while they are at work. The Denishawn Dancers are an- church, !allow any children to leave Russia. Another dance and concert will be nounced on the course of the De- —•-......---- . Communism is being implanted into given by the nursery on Aug. 8 at troit 'Concert Direction with Claudio . •nti•Semite. in England the younger generation and the goy- the Elkin Hotel, Mt. Clemens. An Muzio, Syrena Van Gordon, Charles' While Lloyd George was Prime Minister, the to make him uncomfortable with their criticism of the unusual num. ernment hopes that the rising genera- interesting program has been ar- Marshall, Beniamino Gigli, Rosa tried Jew. lions will carry on and spread its ranged. The hotel as well'es the mu- Raise, Giacomo Rimini, Friederich her of Jews that George had honored. One of his secretaries was a But the mastiffdidn't pay any attention to the curs that were snapping at Communist teachings. This is the sic is contributed free by Mr. Elkin. Schorr and Bronsilaw Huberman. n soternatinoally syndicated point of view from which the ques- Iloyd Geor • with ■ Open An Extended Account at h' ce . of the orphans is at present be- ' article in which he does justice to the Jew. Most of our readers have pro - lion ng, regarded by the government. Oakman Window Shade Works ROTHSCHILD'S SON MARRIED ably reed this article. If you haven't, get hold of it. But I want to quote i --,-- just the two opening paragraphs. They scourge the anti-Semite ahe was They are not thinking of the fact PARIS. — (J. T. A.) — James de The Oakman Window Shade that meanwhile large numbers of rist i an source. ml before from such ■ high Ch Worjo, 12242 Oakman boulevard, Rothschild, 'son of Baron Henri, was them are dying of starvation. __....--,......--•— There is also an alarming lack of have built up an excellent business married Tuesday at the Temple on "Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper, there is none clothing in Russia.The population as expert cleaners and manufactur- Rue de la Victoria to Nine. Maude, It has no basis in reason—it is not and largely the Jewish population is en of window and lace shades, cu r- daughter of Andre Dupont, former so stupid as the anti-Semitic. aspires to no ideal—it is just one of those dank walking about in rags. It is impos- tain rods, drapery polls, etc. by rigid chief engineer of the French navy. rooted In faith—it ss of racial atred. . the mora n e i grow Bible to describe how essential it is adherence to their motto 'of quick Chief Rabbi Isaac Levi officiated. and unwholesome weeds that . from the t ere b -, may M. Rothschild spent several months to send large quantities of clothes to service and good work. They guar- "How utterly devoid of reason fact that it is almost' confined to nations who worship the Jewish the Ukraine. It is dangerous to go , antee all work and their prices are in the United States, begining April about in the streets at night wearing extremely reasonable. 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