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SALT LAKE: Phone Wasatch 845-W DENVER: Phone Main 26356 VOL. XI WOMEN PIONEERS DO MEN'S LABOR IN NEW JEWISH COLONIES Housewives Gamely Facing Russian Prairie Rigors (Editor's Note: This article Is written hy S Koldowsky, o representative of the Jotut Distribntion Committee who recent Iy toured the Jewish colonies, against the hackgronnd of the Hfe whieh these ploneers lived, not 86 long ago, in the towns and villages which they have forsaken in order to begin life over again as farmers. Mr Koldowsky was head of the “Landsman schaften” Bureaun of the Joint Disteibation committes for severnl years. The notes he took while' un his recent tour, showing what has beeome of whole Jewish com munitios and the present whereabouts of individnals and families, are available (o such “Landsmanschaften™ as will com mhnieate with i ut the office of the United Jewish Cawmipaign, 512 Pershilng Sqare Bullding, New Yok City). New York ~What s the attitude of the Jewish woman who with her hns band, her children and sl her honses hold goods treks ont on the Russinn praivie to begin a new life? How does she measure up to the new demands on Lier energy and her patience, on her hougawifely, helpmate qualities” How does she adapt herself to the new en vironment, how does she “hit it off™ | with the other women with whom she comes into constant contact in the har racks, in the tent, in the community | Kitehen and in the community dinlog room? ‘ These are questions for which l} songht adequate replies doring a recent | visit to the Jewish colonies which have heen enabled to o establish lhn-nm-l\"‘rxl snecessfully throuzh the aid of the Joint Distribution Committee, Just before 1 starvted out to see the colonies, T spoke about this to a friend with a keen sense of humor; a man who always sees the funny side of 1ife, He vowed that he had seen a lot of women out there, who had come equip ped with flimsy summer dresses and had brought with lhyu; WArrors, ronge pots, lip-sticks and pianos, and were living the lives of “grand dames.” And though T scofed at him, still there Irked inoomy mind the fear that it wonld take a long time for Jewish women to adjust themselves to the new conditions, 10U a life that permits of no compromises: either one is fit for the life and adapts hersellf quickly, ur! she is amfit. and that means disaster for her and her whole family, She is the very fonndation stone on which the new structure must rest, l Well, T did see women in inmnacunlate white—but: on Sabbuth Eve, after “enndle-blessing,” when they had finish ed their tasks in the fields and in the Touse. T did see women in white dresses and white shoes working in the fields, becanse those are the cheapest and most practical. And in some places I saw long mir rors, and in one place even a pinno bhut 1 these were not brought out fo the praivie for pleasure’s sake, for frI\'uh»u.xl nse, They were bhrovght out shuply because their owners econld not m»lll them when they left the towns, Could not even give them away heeanuse who ever took them would have to pay the Government a possession tax. Now tha (Continued on Page 2) e ——— TO ORGANIZE 270 NEW BROTHERHOODS Engage Executive Secretary to Launch Wider Program Pittsburgh, Pa. The Executive Board of the National Federation qf Temple Brotherhoods met hiere, Major Ttoger W, Straus, president of the or munization, outlined a program of ac tivity for the current year and an nounced that the organizavion aimed to organize 270 Brotherboods during the carrent year. In order o lnunch thi= work fmmediately an Executive Director will he engaged, whose ex penses have been underwritten by the Executive Board, The present membership of the Nua tional Federation of Temple Brother hoods is 84 individual organizations with a total membership of fifteen thousand. It is the plan of the organ ization to have a Brotherhood in every city where there is a congregation, or at least a group of Jewish young men. Affilinted with the Union of American Hehrew Congregations are 278 congre. gations, and efforts are going to be lllllih‘ at once to have every congrega tion organize a Brotherhood and under. take Brotherhood activity, THE INTERMOUNTAIN Jewish News A Weekly Newspaper Dedicated To The Serl)tEeT)f Evé?y Jewish Home In The Rocky Mountain States Jewish Leaders Laud President Coolidge’s Tolerance Plea SundayTo Be Gala Day At Nat’l Jewish Hospital Laying Cornerstone of B. B. Infirmary Sunday at 2:30 Followed by Banquet at Hospital at 6:30 ALL MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Sunday, October 18th, and Monday, October 19th, will be red-detter days in the history of the National Jewish Hospital and of the community of Den ver, On Sunday, afternoon at 2:30 the cornerstone for the Boai B'rith In tirmary Building of the National Jew ish Hospital will be laid. This will be followed by o banquet at G:3O at the Hospitad in honor of visiting delegates, Ou Monday, October 19th, the annual mecting of the Hospital Assoclation will be Leld at the National Jewlsh Hos pital beginning at 9:30 and lns:lng‘ through the day. Jewish leaders from all parts of the country are coming te Denver to par ticipate in these ceremonies, Promi nent among them are Willlam B, Wool ner of Peorin, 111, president of (hol Nutional Jewish Hospital; Herman Wile, Buffalo, New York, one of lho‘ viee-presidents of the hospital; Alfred A. Benesch of Cleveland past president ! of Distriet No.o 2, Independent l)r(lorl B'nai B'rith and member of the exe cutive committee of the hospital ; Fl J. Schanfarber, Columbus and Harry H. Lupidus, Omaha, general chairmen vespectively of Distriets No. 2 and No. G, 1. O, 88, in the campaign for the Infirmary Building fuad. Other lead ers include Judge A, B, Frey of St Louis, president Distriet No. 2,1. O. B. B: Daniel Alexander, Salt Lake City, president District No. 4,1. O. B B.: Sam .I. Leon, Omaha jpresident Distriet No. 6,1. O, B, B.: Sidhey G, Kusworm, Dayton aond Henry Monsky, Omaha, members u( the executive, com mittee of the International = Grand Ladge, 1. O B, B, Ay Al meetings of the celebration are open to the general publie, including the cornevstone laying exercises, the bapguet and the annual meeting on Monday, Reservations for the banguet at $2.00 per place will be received at the Hospital office up to and Im-lmlingl Saturday morning. The complete pro gram for both Sunday afternoon and evening follows @ Program for Cornerstone Laying Sunday, October 18th, 2:30 P, M. Rev. Dr. William 8. Friedman, Presiding Music—*“America” One Verse Sung hy Chitdren of the Hofheimer, Preven « torium, Invocation= Rabbi Isadore Lsaacson, - Hioux City, Towa, Addresss-Rev. Dr. William 8., Fried " man, Founder and First Vice-Presi } dent National Jewish Hospital. Address—Willinm B, Woolner, Presi l dent NOJLHL ‘ ' Music ‘ ! In speaking of the work ‘of the ' Brotherhoods, Mr. Straus said:! 1 “1 eammot vefrain from calling atten tion to a few of the' specific activities in-nrrlwl on by some of our clubs, for instance, one Brotherhood has helped 'ml\q- the problem of religious school Fedueation in its community by provid ing quarters for a religious school, and lpnw-mln: Biblieal history in ‘moving | pictures; another Brotherhood rented | a hall and conducted religious services Nlannu the Holy Days; another Broth |('l‘||<m<| did social serviee work of a high order by providing religious gerv ices in penal and correctional institu tions, us well as by visiting the Jewish ‘iumnln.\' at regular intervals, and “in gonernl being helpfal totthiems another Men's Club has been doing good work among the Jewish students of the near by university, and providing for them an opportunity hitherto wanting, to keep un their Jewlsh religions interest. “Loan funds have been established for Jewish students working their way | t1 rough college, student labor bureaus | aad chapels are under way and a con | scientious, thoroughgoing effort is be -lin: made to bring the Jewish student ’h.u-k to Judaisi. Big Brother work is in many cities a phase of Brotherhood | work, us is social serviee program for ',Jv\\'isll inmates of public Institutions.” The next meeting of the Executive ll!o:ml will be held on March 14 in Bal timore, DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1925 Address—Honorable Clarence J. Mor ley, Governor of Colorado. Address—E. I. Schanfarber, Columbus Campaign Chairman District No, 2, 1. O. B. B, i.\chlrmw Father Willinm O'Ryan, St. - Leo's Cathedral, ] Musie Address—Dr. Philip Hilkowitz, Presi dent Jewish Consumptive Relief So clety, . Address—Harry H. Lapidus, Omaha, Campaign Chairman District No. 6, IG B B Address — Honorable Benjamin ¥, Stapleton Mayor of Denver. Music Address—Herman Wile, Buffalo, Vies President National Jewish Hospital Laying of Cornerstone—E, J, Schanfar bher and Harry H. Lapidus, Benediction—Rev. Dr. Loren Edwards Trinity Methodist Episcopal Chureh. Musie—“Star-Spangled Banner' Program For Banquet Sunday, October 18th, G:3O I, M. Invoeation—Rev, Dr. W, 8, Friedman Introduction of Toastmaster—By Wil linm B. Weolner, President N. J. H. Toastmaster— Kidney G, Kusworm, Dayton, Member Exceentive Commit tee 1. O. B, B. Address—Judge A, B. Frey, St. Louis, President D, G. 1. No. 2, I. 0. B. B, Address—Daniel Alexander, Salt Lake City, President D, G. L. No. 4. Address-——Honorable Ben B, Lindsey, Dertver. Address—Rabbi E. €. H. Kauvar., Den ver, Songs—Children of Hofheimer Preven torium. Address—Dr. Robert Levy, Denver, Chairman Medical Advisory Board N.JLH Address—Sam J, Leon, Omaha, Presi dent D.G. L. No. 6, 1.0. B, B (Continued on Page 2) “I HAVE FOUND MYSELF”’~LEWISOHN After a Long Pilgrimage Through the Countries of Europe, the Great American-Jewish Homme de Lettre Writes His Reaction to World-Jewry In the near future, Boni and Live right avill publish a book called “Israel,” written by Ludwig Lewisohn, author of “Upstream” and one of the world's foremost literary figures. . . . “The book tells the story of how an entire people, a small and scattered one, but still a people, 18 preparing to dedicate itself consciously to the service of reason and peace,” is how Lewisohn sums up the content and purpose of his forthcoming volume. - “Israel” will ereate a greater stir ‘fhan did “Upstream,” for Ludwig Lewisohn, the clearest Jewish thinker of our day, and a writer whose power and sympdthy are admitted by Jew and non-Jéw alike has written, in a profoundly wmoving and beautiful prose, aa éatimate an dan analysis, @ defense and an indictment that mast shake Jewry to a reawakening and re valuation of itself s no other book of our time has done . This article, which iz part of “Iarael,” and has been relcased to the Jewish News, appears in print for the first time.—THE EDITOR. By LUDWIG LEWISOHN We are a people. This is the potent fact which cur Ameriean assimilation ist is tempted to deny. And his denial is often quite sincere. For the content of his consciousness {s completely Western, completely American. Buf there is that consciousness itself ; there are the Instincts with which one grasps the world of appearances. That con- Is:-lnuunosn, those instincts are shaped 'in each human being by the experience lof nis kind, his people The subeon lsvlvus‘:u-ss of our assimilationist has not forgotten exile and terror, the knife, the fagot, the long days in the house of study, the exclusion of th menacing external world, the isolation the Messianic hope Like any Boche French Jew Apvointed Governor of Morceeo Paris (). T. A)—M. Steeg, French Minister of Justice, was appointed residenat general of Mo roeco, according to an announce. ment of Prime Minister Painleve, M. Steeg is one of the three Jews who are members of the present Erench eabinet, RETURN OF BRANDEIS TO ZIONIST MOVEMENT BROACHED BY REICH ) PR — ] j Washington (1, T. A Dr, me‘ NReleh was recelved by Justice Louis D, Brandeis. It was understood that Dr, Reich broached the possibility of Jus tice Brandeis’ return to active particl pation in the Zionist movement, Al theugh Justice Brandeis has not com mitted himself, it was stated that he manifested mueh interest in the varl ons Zionist subjects under disenssion ————— | Sir Herbert Samuel Will Become Viceroy of India, Report States London (J. T. A Sir Ilm'|wrt| Samuel, former High Commissioner of Palestine, will probably be appeinted Viceroy of India, aceording to o |'~'|ml't} in the “Evening News.™ | The paper states that Sir Herbert | Samuel will be tranpsferred from his | present post as chairman of the Royal | Commission for Inquiry into the l'n:||l Situation to an important oflice in the Orient, indicating that the most hn-l portant post s o Viceroy of Indin, which will probably he vflonnt’ =oon, German City Refuses Nite for Heine Monument Berlin (). 1. Ay~ Nadesherg is an other German city which has refused to house u monument to Heinrvich Heine, The city government voted down a proposal to allow o site for the monu ment, (in the DPolish Gheito of today he is precocicus, intellectually passionate, in capable of moral compromise —ulmost scoundrel or almost saint—given to dreams and schemes of world better ment, choked with inhibitions, anx jeties, uncertainties. .. . He assimi lated? Has he ever really envisaged the members of his football team at col lege? Has he ever grasped that happy. pagun ease, that at-homeness in Zion, that uninhibited straightness of in stinetive activities, that blithe and nat ural aceeptance of this gaudy, brave, foolish, maddening, lovable world of flivvers and flirting and entting classes, of rooting and loyalty and play? Why was he active in scientific or literary clubs, madly ambitions intellectually, earnest ahout world-reform? And if he took the last step, if he himself played foothall, was it not an antlel patory gesture against the reproach of Jewlsh physical sloth? He ecannot shake off the impress of the experience of seventy generations, Seventy generations! It him once re flect on the racial and national experi ence of the father: of the captain of “is foothall team, then on that of his own fathers and ou the relations of the two. The point is too simple to be labored. It is assimilation that would be the miracle, the break in the eternal chain of casuality. . . . Our assimila tionist may never think a Jewish | thought or read a Jewish book, In the | essential character of all his passlons as well as of all his actions he remains |a Jew. ... The groundwork of Jew | {lsh character is his: the terrible post | exilic experience is his: he remains a | strange mixture of passionate prophet ‘| and beaten cur, leader and outcast. If | he has forgotten the ecall to ‘“restore *| the preserved of Israel,” he throws him , | gelf into the business of giving “a light | to the Gentiles” He is liberal, re Delegates Gather For Tri-State Convention Distinguished National Leaders of B’nai B'rith Arrive in Denver From District 2, 4 and 6. DENVER LODGE ANNOUNCES DETAILS OF PROGRAM ' Denver, Colo-—Members of Dnn\'o-r’ Lodge, 1. O, B, B, have completed their plans for what promises to be the mest interesting guthering of B'nal Irith leaders in the loeal history of the Order, In addition to the Tri- State Convention, which brings to this city the past presidents and officers uf! all the lodges in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, Denver will entertain distingnished leaders of the Grand Lodge as well as the officers of Dis tricts 2, 4 and 6. The visitors, here | primarily to participate in the laying| of the cornerstone for the pew in firmary building, will at the same time hold impeortant sessions of the executive | committees of the District Grand | Lodgeh, Salt Lake Lodge will be ro[»l resented by David Alexander who was clected president of District No. 4 n(l the last Distriet Grand l.mlm-‘nw(-l lng In San Francisco, The members of Denver Lodge, 171, will have the opportunity to meet the distinguished guests at a monster meeting to be held Menday night, Octo ber 19, in the Wight Building, 1423 Champa street. This meeting will wind up two busy days, beginning with the opening of the Tri-State Convention, Sunday morning at 10 a. m,, in the reg ular lodge rooms at Odd Fellows' Hall, when Judge A, B. Frey, president of District Grand Lodge No. 2, will de. liver the main address. Mr. Percy S. Morris, president of the Tri-State Convention, has announced the detailed program of events for the two days as follows: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 10 A, M.—Odd Fellows’ Hall, 1543 Champa Tri-State Convention, opening session. (The general publie is Invited to this session,) Judge A, B .Frey of St Lonis, President of District Grand former, practitioner or patron of the arts; he makes discoveries in medicine or, as a lawyer, pleads the causes of those for whom none will plead. 1f he does none of these things he is a sordid scoundrel. But the sordid scoundrels are a minority. The average decent Jew in business, in the professions, in Journalism or the arts sustains a per ceptible relation to the prophets of his people. , . . 4 Despite himself, then, the assimila tionist is a Jew by character and by national experience. Nor must it he forgotten, though he himself tries engerly to forget it, that Qn_n neture of the national experience has undergone no essential but only aceidentaf ¢change. I venture the assertion. that .there is today in the entire Aryan world no ree ognizable Jew who in his cbildhood, in street or school, has not_heen taunted with lis Jewishness, made by some slight, gesture, word, -to feel excluded and inferior and has not thus recelved a spiritual wound that is incurable, Incurable by himself, incurable by his fellows, incurable by Gentile friend ship, Kindness, respect, co-operation, love. An inner censor may try to force that moment of childhood into forget fulness, Its imprint remains. From it arises the compensatory eagerness for suceess; from it are born artists, reformers, flnanciers; from it arise the fervor of poets, the generosity of philanthropists, the prodigality of the vulgar, the mercilessness of the usurer ——all those imperious and exorbitant extremes (o which for both good and ill. the Jew is prone . Since he cannot be an equal, it is his will to become superior (o the mass of men. Onmly ir resistible brute violence can make a slave of him. Nor is that childhood moment and its consequences the only unchanged | (Continued on Page 2) ] Lodge No. 2, will deliver the main ad | dress. Arthur Friedman of Denver, member of the Executive Committee of the Constitutional Grand Lodge, will report on the proceedings of the .\!lun-i tie City meeting of the Grand Laxdge 12:30 P. M.—National Jewish Hospital i Ceremonies attendant upon the lny ing of the cornerstone of the infirmary tl-ullnliuz. financed through the «~mvru‘ }ul‘ Distriets 2, 4 and 6, I O. B. B l (Colorado boulevard, corner Colfay avenue, ) {6:30 P. M.—National Jewish Hospital ! Banquet to visiting B'nai B'rith offi [m-r: and delegates, | } MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 ' 10 A. M.—Odd Fellows’ Hall | 1 Tri-State Convention, sacond session. Address will be by Leonard A, Frei l burg, Cincinnati, Vice-President of Dis- | trict Grand Lodge No, 2. Address by | Rabbi M. Bergman of Pueblo Lodge;' short talks by distinguished leaders of | the Order. | 2:15 P. M.—Orpheumn Theatre Vandeville entertainment for visiting delegates. 8 P. M. Wight Building, 1433 Champa Monster special meeting by Denver Lodge, 171, In honor of visiting B'nal B'rith Address by Sidney G. Kus worm, Dayton, Ohio, member of Execu tive ‘Committee of Constitutional Grand Lodge. Short talks by promi nent Grand Lodge officers. Vaudeville entertalnment aad refreshments. S s OTTO ROTHSTOCK, CON FESSED MURDERER OF BETTAUER, WILL BE AC QUITTED IN VIENNA. Explains His Motive Was Racial Hatred (Jewlsh Telegraphic Agency) Vienna—-Otto Rothstoek, 22 year old dental student, accused of shooting to death Hugo Bettauer, Austrian writer and correspondent for American news papers, as a result of race hatred, stood today before a jury in the court of Vienna, endeavoring to explain his act of murder by religious motives, During the testimony Rothstock de clared that “Jesus, the son of God, came down to this earth to fight the sons of Satan, and I was born to continue this fight. My shot was intended to enuse the awakening of the German nation to a brutal and determined fight.” When the presiding judge asked the aeensed, “what religion justifies mur der?” Rothstoek replied: “I had the authorization of God Himself,” causing the judge to angrity reply, “it is un true! The first Commandment of every veligion is ‘Do not kill',” Rothstock, during cross-examination, admitted that be had left the Haken kreuzler organization of Vienna before committing the murder in order not to implicate the organization, Vienna—The acquittal of Otto llmh-. stock is assured. During the trinl the accused played the role of an hlvullslh-l nationalist and subnormal person. He | will probably be committed to a m~|'\'|~t cure institution, despite the fact that | experts of the University of \'h'nnn: testified to his sanity and rvspmmlh.l ility. A Communal Directory of the Inter-Mountain Region THE JEWISH NEWS is undertaking the task of meeting the widely felt need for an authoriative directory of all the communal activities of Jewry in the Rocky Mountain States. It will list the officers and administrative bodies of Jewish organizations devoted to community service—Charity Organi zation, B'nai Brith Lodges, Hospitals, Recreational Centres, Culturals Groups, Synagogs and Temples, etc. The secretaries of Jewish organizations in Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are asked to cooperate in this undertaking by forwarding to the office of the Jewish News, 1950 Curtis street, Denver, at the earliest possible date, the necessary information to be embodied in this survey. Formerly Issued as the Denver Jewish News Congratulations Pour in on the White House from Lib eral Leaders Throughout | the Land 'REGARDED AS SIGNIFICANT IN | REPUBLICAN STRATEGY New York (J. T. A.)—The address Lof Presiflent Coolldge before the Amer lenn Legion convention in Omaha, Neb, Lin which he attacked religions bigotry and racial hatred in Amerien, making an impressive plea for the upholding Lof the true Ameriean principles of free dom and tolerance, made a profound 1|ll|pr|-m‘iul| upon leaders of the Ameri- Lenn Jewish community. T'he speech was commented upon not only by the press, but by prominent ||.~mln-|',< of the community “The Omaha speech of Presldent [ Coolidge is in every way admirable,” | Louis Marshall, president of the Amer- Hiean Jewlsh Committee, declared in-an interview with the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Ageney, “It Hisin line with what he has said on sev eral oceasions as, for instance, in the lqw«-h which he delivered to the Holy Name Society in Washingten about a ‘_\'onr tgo and the address which he de :IIn-rml at the time the cornerstone of | the Jewish Center was laid in Wash- Iimnnn . It s a great contribution to the canse of tbdleration and will un doubtedly have a beneffeial influence upon the minds of the American people.” Dr. Steplhen 8. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, made the following statement to the repre sentative of the Jewish Telegraphic Ageney “In common with all Americans’who clierish the prineiples of freedom and tolerance I welcome the utterance of the President on behalf of a new and larger tolerance in American life. This ntterance will mean little, if anything, unless it be translated into the mood and attested by the acts of the govern ment, “I know of no dire need in American life, than the cultivation of the spirit of understanding which, as a result of the war and post-war hysteria, has all but passed ont of Awmerican life. Nor dicism is the latest of the phenomenon of intolerance and fanaticism. From any Ameriean worthy of the name this spirit of intolerance and bigotry must be rooted ont. May the President’s message reach the heart of the Ameri can people and gide the conduct of those who share our governmental policies.” The Repubican Party’s position on the Ku Klux Klan and race hatreds for the 1926 elections, ignored iu the Presi dential campuign, was defined by President Coolidge in his Omaha speech, nccording te advisers accom panying him. A despaieh from t)» President’s train to the New York Times states: Hix plea for tolerance and the elim fnation of racial and religious auimos itfes in Ameriean life, judged by tha messages of congratulation received by ‘lht- President while returning to Wash: ington on his special train, has struck 0 responsive note among ihe millions affected by the antagenistic attitude of certain groups engaged In fomenting strife. . This plea, the dominant note In his speech before the American Legion, lln-m'n-ln-ll those, who, like himself, are lnmmm-nl to stirring np differences ‘\\'hl(-h make for dissension among the American people These issues ap l|n-un-‘l in the Presidential campaign Llast year and were emphasized by [.luhu W. Davis, hiz Democratic oppo- | (Continued on Page 2) R e P S i NO. 42