Texas Jewish Herald (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 27, 1937 Page: 1 of 6
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The Oldest Jewish Newspaper Published In the Southwest--Thirty-first Year
TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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- Thirty-first Year
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to^the Jews of Texas, Their Interests ,ant> In Judaism
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HOUSTON, TEXAS. THURSDAY, MAY 27. 1937
No. S
Council of Jewish Women In Co-operation
With Jewish Community Council Plans
Extensive Program at Settlement House
This is the fourth of a series,
of articles, written by C. £.
Dunnen.1? am, dealing with or-
ganizations in Houston playing
a p/otninent part in the lives
of tie people in the Jewish
Community of Metropolitan
Houston. Articles dealing with
other organizations will appear
in •the. Herald from time to
time—Editor.
The ‘T&ippy House," a project
of the Council of Jewish Women
\ of which Mrs. Ike Simon is
president, located at 608 White
Street, is a haven of good cheer,
. education and recreation lor
those children of parents who
must spend the biggest part of
their time in working for the
necessity* of life to feed and
rear thhir families.
, This project was started in
, 19U On the initiative of Mrs.
i Max H. Nathan, who at that time
. was president of the local chap-
, ter of the Council of Jewish
Women. It Was through the un-
■ttring efforts of the cheerful la-
bor knd active support of Mrs.
Nathan that this project was foe-
' 8rd maintained.
'“This la not a hobby but a life's
work ,in a humanitarian cause
*■ that a, work and urge that the
Council Hou.* be a permanent
insti^irtioii,'* .said Mrs. Nathan..
There wArds were uttered ip
AB28 aha ‘today Mrs Nathan
shh iabore every day for thi&
•• well worth while project.
• i In fact tuq gpuncil House is a
settlement fi'nu-^tad
\
neighborhood.
' Because the need lor whole-
some contact between girls and
boys was so evident in this par-
Ike L. Freed Named
As President Of
Temple Beth Israel
vice-p-es
undlich.
Ike L. Freed was elected pres-
ident of the congregation at the
annual meeting of Temple Beth
Israel last week. Other officers
are Tabias Sekowitz, first vice-
president; I. Friedlanct r second
president; Dr. Thomas Fre-
secretary, and Max Na-
than, treasurer
•Trustees elected to the board
for three-year terms included J.
K. Butler, business manager of
The Chronicle; M. M. Gordon and
Abe Weingarten. Mr. Friedland-
er’s place on the board was filled
with the election of Sam I. Mil-
ler. and Mrs. W. W. Munzosheim-
er was elected to represent the
sisterhood on the board.
This affair was the annual
supper meeting of the members
cf Congregation Beth Israel and
was the celebration of the 80th
anniversary of the congregation
and the 37th of their senior rab-
bi. Dr. Henry Bafnston. The oc-
casion marked the beginning of
Kabbi Robert Kahn’s second year
in the rabbinate as the junior
rabbi of the congregation.
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• WHAT is 4 SETTLEMENT **
l house?.
"The term 'settlement* as used
by neighborhood workers goes
back to 1884 where it was first
started by a group of University
students living together in Toy-
hbe Hail, East London. Settle-
ments have continued in Europe
and America as centers in cer-
tain city neighborhoods, to meet
the needs'of the population of
that area, attempting through a
program of healthful recreation,
worthwhile social and cultural
activities to develop resources
for a fuller and happier life for
people of the district A true .__________
settlement house is uon-sectarwto gSSjSF-i-* th«ir^n
and is open to all groups in the
I *'
MBS. MAX H. NATHAN
Organiser and Chairman
Council House Activities
Vicular area, because it was neces-
sary to counteract certain harm-
ful influences to a group of Jew-
ish children, and because it
seemed advisable to further the
fduca'fo" »nd provide wholesome
recreation for .-.tut . adults, the
Council [House was lpvated in Its
CHU.naeN’^ ACTIVITIES
> ou will find children of
pre-school age, girls and boys of
all ages, men and women par-
ticipating in the program carried
on at the Council House, with a
different schedule for each day
throughout the year.
“Here you will find children
of pre-school age in a kinder-
garten class in the morning. In
the afternoon older girls are
taught to sew, to crochet, and do
other types of handwork Classes
in cooking, personal hygiene,
singing, music appreciation, dra-
matics, dancing, story telling and
millinery are carried on. The
WHAT CARDINAL
MUNDEUN SAID
Chicago (WNS)—The long
silence of the Catholic hier-
archy in this country with re-
gard to Nazi persecution of
their cc-religionists was brok-
en with a vigorous denuncia-
tion of the Nazi regime by
George Cardinal Mundelein,
Catholic Archbishop of the
Chicago diocese, in a slashing
address to 500 priests at the
quarterly diocesan confer-
ence. Speaking of the trials
of Catholic priests on alleged
charges of immorality, the
Cardinal said these trials were
“a fight to take the children
away from us. If we show no
interest in this matter now, if
we shrug our shoulders and
mutter, ‘well, maybe there is
some truth in it,* or, ‘it is not
our fight’, if we don’t back up
the Holy Father when we
have a chance, well, when our
turn comes we, too, will be
fighting alone."
He charged that Germany
had submitted “in fear and
servitude to an alien, an Aus-
trian paper-hanger, and a poor
one at that,” and to "a few
associates like Goebbeis and
Goering, who dictate every
move of .the people’s lives,"
branded the Nazis' war on the
Catholics as worse than the
anti-German propaganda dur-
ing the World War and as-
serted that Germany, “through
its crooked minister of propa-
ganda" is giving out “stories
of wholesale immorality in
religious institutions in com-
parison to which the wartime
propaganda is almost bedtime
pack. ?* r ‘
Local ORT Drive
Started This Week
The local "Committee for the
ORT, tinder the chairmanship of
Mi. Irving Alexander, started a
local drive this week to raise
fluids for this institution.
The ORT is a constructive
Italian Jews DetnL ^ "o Denounce
Zionism For Fascia >r Lose Citizenship
Premier Benito Mussolini’s
newspaper demanded Monday
that Italian Jews publicly de-
clare themselves enemies of "m-
rei national Hebrewism” or re-
nounce their Italian citizenship
and residence.
“We do not admit that our He-
brews can have the mentality of
their co-religionists who were
and are the inspiration of the
Spanish horrors, of the French
disorientation, of the Soviet in-
ferno,” Orest* Gregorio wrote in
tne newspaper, the Milan Popola
D’ltaha.
“The Hebrews of Italy face a
dilemma which up to now they
have ignored — perhaps trans-
ported by a religious impulse or
by a vision which did not cling
to reality—a precise and inevit-
able dilemma,” Gregorio wrote.
"Either they must publicly de-
clare themselves enemies—we
mean enemies—of international.
Masonic, subversive and, above
all, anti-Fascist Hebrewism and
give to their manifestations a
cnaracter simply and sincerely
religious or renounce their Ital-
ian citizenship and residence."
The newspaper specifically
condemned Italian Jewry's sup-
Cities Prepare For
Palestine Flower
Day June 6th
Scores of communities in all
parts of the country are now
making extensive preparations
lor the observance of IHdestir.e
rir-Sl* *Vr 4-•*■!*«,« *he **»■*
of June 5th and 8th -u response
to a call issued by the JeJwisb
National Fund. Flower Day,
which will this year be observed
for the 24th time, is the annual
Jewish National Fund occasion
tor mustering public support and
securing popular contributions to
the cause of Palestine Land Re-
demption through the public sale
at “Palestine Flowers."
“Palestine is Eretz Israel to the
extent that Its soil is the' Land
of Israel'’ will bn ft* slogan of
port of Zionism add its pretests
.'gainst the German Nazi race
principles.
Opposition to Nazi ideas, the
paper held, are irreconcilable
with the friendship that mads
us to Germany and which has
objectives far mure vast aad
fundamental than thr JestiMt
question."
Zionism, it charged, is design-
ed to set up another state, under
British control, "ia definite oft-
position to the Mediterranean
spirit of Italy." Also, it con-
tended. no faithful Iatitaa sub-
ject could indorse a A
“hostile” to Arabs and M
after Mussolini» declared
of friendship.
Fishman To Head
Retail Merchants
Joe S. Fishman of Byrd’s lac.,
was elected president of the Re-
tail Merchants aasoci alien at
Houston st the annua.. meeting
Tuesday night on the Rios hotel
root. He succeeds R. B. Letk-
enger, who held the position for
three years.
W. E. Hamilton was named
president emeritus and other xt-
fleers elected were K. B, Syfeor,
vice president; C. W. Hurley. sec-
retary-1 r assurer.
Elected to the board «f direct-
ors were Mr. T L.
McC'eruy R Don Herod. H £
(Jewett, R. M Cteaafcerife. J. «
\ Ralph Rupley, A. J.
activities and also have their ovhn
football and basketball teams
which are part of the City
League. A Boy and also a Girl
Scout troop are flourishing with
recant addition of a Brownie or-
ganization.
“Swimming and hiking parties
and picnics are features of the
summer activities. An Amerir
can:ration class and a iuperviead
study hour for high school stu-
dents ia part of the regular pro-
gram. Here, too. a branch of the
Houston Public Library' is locat-
ed. where many books were
loaned during the past year. A
toy-lending library is a recent
.nnovation.
ADULT ACTIVITIES
“High school students who have
no opportunities for wholesome
recreation in their homes find It
in the Council House every eve-
king except Friday and Sunday.
Young men and women working,
who have had few educational
advantages, participate in read-
ing and discussion groups, club
meetings, dramatics, dancing, ed-
ucational lectures, programs
planned and executed by them-
selves, and also enjoy indoor and
outdoor games.
“A moving picture once a
month, an annual May Fete, a
circus, and a carnival are means
of entertaining hundreds of peo-
ple in and around the neighbor-
hood.
DO YOU KNOW?
That the Council House em-
ploys only one regular headwork-
(Continued on page Two)
and agricultural training and ex-
perience for Jewish men and
women in Eastern and Centra!
Europe- thr ough trade schools etrs, Order Sens of
r dust i d and farming co-operti- Mizrachf groups, F
fives. ^ , Zaire Zion branches
The ORT itself was organized
in 1880 as a European proejet but
in 1921 branched out as an or-
ganization in the United States
and Canada. It is not a charity
organization but acts as a guid-
ing agency in those parts of Eu-
rope where a trebling field is
most needed.
Tne local committee consists of
Irving Alexander, general chair,
man; Leon Meyer, co-chairman;
Irvin Waldman, secretary-treas-
urer; Alfred Barnston, Dr- Henry
Barnston. W. B. Bell, Rabbi Na-
than Colish, Ben Epstein, P. O.
fleet, Ike Freed. Rabbi Robert
Kahn, Robert Kaplan, A. B
Lewis, Mrs. Max H. Nathan, Mrs.
Sam G. Raphael, Joe Robin o-
witz, Maurice Schwartz, Moses
Schwartz. Rabbi Sanders Tofield
and Joe Weingarter..
Some of the prominent mem-
bers of the national organization
are: Senator Robeit Wagner, Paul
Felix Warburg, Alfred E. Cohen,
Governor Herbert Lehman, Dr.
Cyrus Adler and Lord Marley.
agency which provides industrial the flower Day corps of volun-
teers which has been recruited
from among Ute membership of
Zionist Districts, Hadassah chap-
of Zion camps,
Poale Zion—
and a score
of national youth organizations.
Students of Hebrew Schools in
the la: ger cities will play a
prominent part in the observance
of Palestine Flower Day
“Significant it is that the fron-
tiers of the Jc -<«li part c< Pal-
estine (reported to b# proposed
by the British Royal Com .ission)
tally with the limit, of the land
areas at present in Jewish poses-
sion in Palest me. Thu fact is ol
revealing .importance for Zion-
ists to remember on the occasion
of JJg.F. F’ower Day Whatever
the recommendations ct the Brit-
ish Royal •Commission will be. it
is urgent that our land p'-sesfion'
in Eretz Israel be increased' as
speedily as possible. Only thus
can we safeguard the territorial
integr.ty of the Jewish Home-
land.* declared the call issued by
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of
the Jewish National Fund
Similarly runs the argument in
the Flower Day manifestoes to
their memberships by the leaaers
of the Zionist Organization of
America, the Mizrachi—Orthodox
Zionist Organization, Poale Zion
—Zeire Zion, Hadassah—the Wo-
men’s Zionist Organization, Or-
der Sons of Zion, Pioneer Wo-
men s Organization* and a score
of national youth organizations.
Father of Dr.
Louis Spivak Dies
As we go to press, word has
been received that Mr. A. Spivak,
father of Dr. Louie Spivak of
this city, passed away at his
home is Philadelphia.
B’nai B’rith HIM
Directors To Meet
Cincinnati. Ohio.—Tha Direct-
ors of B’nai B'rtth’i tints HUM
Foundations will bold a natmal
conference at Martinsville, 1st,
on June 2-2 to discus.* all pbaaaa
of Jtwisfa student problems Al-
fred M. Cohen, president of B*na:
B’rith, presafe, and km ted
guests 4Mf! be Dr. La* J. Lev m-
ger, director of the HUM He-
aagrch Bureau, and Kdwnrd *■
Grusd, managing edito at tha
B'nai B’nth Magazn*.
Ail eleven directors wtE be
present, from the follow tag urn-
versifier Illinois, Wisconsin. Otate
State, Miahigan, California. Cor-
nell Texas. Northwestern, Ala-
bama. Penn State, and North
Carolina. Di A. L. Sachar HB-
noiz director, is National Direct-
or of the Hiliel FoundaUars.
Rabbi Ephra.ru Fisbaff, Penn
State HUM director, will rtieni
“Psychiatric and Personal Bar
vice”; Rabbi Morris Keitaer. Ala
hama “Self-Govurnment At a
1 our.asuoa*; Rabbi Martin Waite.
North western, “HUlel’s Semsas
to the Jewish Community"; Rab-
bi Max Merritt, California, "The
Development of a Social Baiwfea
Outlook"; Dr. Levinger Veo*
'i(.n; . Guiouicr ins roiiilsHre*;
Rabbi Maurice PekariXy, CarreU.
“Barnes HaL Expeoreem Mid Ns
Implications’'; Rabbi Max Ka-
dushin. Wisconsin. The Migra-
tory Student and His kaunih
Don"; Rabbi Abrafr. Goodman.
Texas, “Sali->xpraariicn ia a
Foundation Dr. Sachar. “Stimu-
lating Interest m Jewiah CM
turni Values"; Radbt Harry Kap-
luf Ohio
Caaipos
Bernard Heller.
Foundation and
Social Probiama"; Rabbi 1
Let*er. North Carolina,
SnfAh’ niriKid on a
Rabbi Martia Portajr.
iirvctoi at Illinois ‘InV
Jewish Students in tha
ot the Wield and Tlteir
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