PiEniETROrt; /:WISH AILONICII
1■ 11•111Mr.
liA44V kk Irtm=i 511.1t
TIFE , ETROITEWISti
34.I.Mtkiltii011Ue"
:
RON 1CL- E cal suffering which a prisoner must inevitably endure,
Mi.bittatord Weekly by The Jets-Isis Chronicle Public in Co., log.
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
MAURICE M. SAFIR.
....
..Freakiest
Secrete ry and Treasurer
Managing Editor
Ad. ... i . ing Manager
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, MIL et the
Mich.. under the Art of March 3, 187
'osteffiee at Detroit,
1.
General Offices and Publication luilding
525 Woodward Avenue
Telephone' Cadillac 1040
Cable A ldresst Chronicle
London Office:
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England.
Subscription, in Advance
..$3.00 Per Year
To Insure publication, all correspondence and new. matter must reach this
°Mee by Tuesday evening of each week. When molting
tiling notices,
kindly use one side of the paper only
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invite. correvpondence on ihrec .t. of interest to
the Jewish people, but disclaims re.poneihility for an indo regiment of the 'dews
expressed by the welters.
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portions-Deut. 1618-21:9.
Prophetical portions-Is. 51-12-52:13.
August 17, 1928
Ellul 1, 5688
...
01.fp fiT,
especially when innocent.
, -
Oscar Slater's vindication is a tribute to British
justice in which he placed so much faith. Mr. Slater
repeated again and again that the reason he returned
to Scotland to stand trial on a charge to which he
pleaded not guilty is because he was confident that an
English court would judge''him fairly. But Slater suf-
fered at the trial because he was born a Jew in Ger-
many, and his counsel felt at that time that he should
not even be placed on the witness stand for fear that
the jury would be prejudiced against him by his ap-
pearance and accent.
But the wrong that was committed nineteen years
ago was finally repaired last month as a result of the
indefatigable efforts and the fine spirit of a number of
non-Jews who became convinced of Slater's innocence,
These men, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the head,
by succeeding in establishing his innocence, helped to
justify Slater's faith in British justice.
1
= GIAS. JOSEPH-.=
I notice where our pugnacious co-religionist, Mr.
Charles A. Levine, punched a Mr. Gwynne (a Vanderbilt
relative) in the jaw because the Vanderbilt relative pub-
lishes a Parisian paper that has been poking fun, with a
dash of acid, at Mr. Levine. Some day Mr. Levine may
achieve his ambition to be the world's greatest flyer, but
as a good-will ambassador he. is in a slag a flop. Sonic
of his troubles have been of his own making, and some
have occurred in spite of his best efforts to avoid them.
But, all in all, if I had the choosing, I would not select
Charles A. Levine as the type of Jew to advance the
cause of the Jew.
I picked this out of the book of Lord Asquith's mem-
oirs, which should be of interest to Zionist and non-Zion-
ist alike:
The High Holy Days Synagogue Problem.
With the approach of the High Hol y Days we are
again faced by the serious problem that is yearly
created with the establishment of m ishroom myna-
gogues which spring up over night in many instances
to serve the interests only of enterpris ing individuals
who seek their personal gains. In thi :kly populated
Jewish sections movements are already on foot to con-
vert theaters and dance halls into hou, ies of worship,
and many of the synagogues which fu lotion through-
out the year are expressing anxiety °v.. the fact that
many, in chosing a place of worship, con ware the price
of seats and turn to the dance hall or the theater to
effect a saving.
It is undoubtedly futile to atempt to discourage the
practice of building three-day-a-year iynagogues for
private or semi-private benefits. But no opportunity
ought really be permitted to go unutiliz ed in condemn-
ing a practice which strikes at the ve ry root of the
existence of the synagogue. For if the house of wor-
ship is to serve an important purpose i n the commun-
ity, it must not be hampered in the rai dng of the pig-
gest revenue at its command which con 0s from the sale
of seats for the High Holy Days.
Which suggests a solution. If the sy 'nagogues were
to strive to enlist on their membership rolls the masses
of the people, and if they were all to o f (far free seating
privileges to members for the Holy I) lys, thus elimi-
nating the necessity of placing seats o sale for Rosh
llashonah and Yom Kippur, the prat .ice of building
temporary synagogues would natural ly be stopped.
Many synagogues have already adopt( tl this practice,
and there is hope that it will spread a nd thus help to
eliminate the danger threatened to th ?. synagogue by
the three-day-a-year congregation.
Perhaps the enlisting into synagog ue membership
of greater numbers of )ews might al so serve to de-
crease the number of three-day-a-yea r Jews and in-
crease the all-year-round wortiliippers.
Socialism and Zionism.
There is nothing new or revolution iary in the ore-
ation of the Pro-Palestine Committee by the Amster-
dam International. In England, the Un ited States, Bel-
glum and other lands', Socialist leader ; have on many
occasions since the war expressed then
them in favor
of the movement for the upbuilding
Palestine as a
home for Jews.
.9~
Thus, in England, Ramsay MacDon aid, former La-
bor Prime Minister, has not only given verbal indorse-
ment of the Zionist movement, but he has also visited
in Palestine, and his descriptions of t le work accom-
plished there by Jews are among th e Zionist epics.
Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood, Commit der James Mon-
tague Kenworthy, Arthur Henderson, Philip Snowden
and many others among the British lab bor leaders have
establish
of a Jew-
time and again advocated the establish
ish center in their historic homelani I. Two of the
leaders mentioned, Colonel Wedgwood and Command-
er Kenworthy, traveled to the United States as propa-
gandists for the United Palestine App al, and Colonel
Wedgwood's book on Palestine, "The Seventh Domin-
ion," has attracted wide attention.
= M V t M M aZ
IflYthis country, the Zionist move n nent boasted of
the friendship of the great Socialist lea der, the late Eu-
gene V. Debs. Emile Vandervelde o f ' Belgium, upon
his return from a recent visit to the Je wish Homeland,
has stormed Socialist gatherings in mt iny parts of Eu-
rope in favor of a Jewish Palestine. Paul Loebe. So-
cialist president of the German Role hstag, has been
very outspoken in favor of Jewish nati oval aspirations,
and other non-Jewish labor leaders in ether lands have
similarly expressed themselves. The ipposition to the
movement for the"creation of a Pro-P 2 ilestine Commit-
to be
tee on the part of Jewish Socialists is art therefore
of these Jews
interpreted merely as a desire on the p i
to be a "holier than thou" group within Socialism.
M. Vandervelde, in propagating th 0 creation of the
committee, at the meeting of the Socia l ist International .
at Brussels, to co-operate in the movem ent for a Jewish
Palestine, quoted in the original Ileb •evi' the Biblical
prophecy "And they shall not be rent loved any more
from their sod." Thia.iquotation, by a Ion-Jew, is more
significant than appears on the face of it. In Palestine
Jews are returning to productive and p 'actical pursuits.
They are literally and figuratively retu rning to the soil,
and M. Vandervelde was an eye witnes s to the determi-
nation of the Jewish settlers "not to ie removed any
more" from it.
The action of the Socialists at Brus h tels gives, there-
fore, added cause for joy at the ever I : icreased friend-
ships that are being gained for Palestin
Slater's Compensatio n
.
After serving a prison sentence of ,18 years for a
murder he did not commit, Oscar Slat er has accepted
the British government's offer of $30 000 for wrong-
ful conviction. This, of course, does not compensate
him from the stigma placed on his n ame during the
past score of years, nor can it repay hi m for the physi-
Dr. Rubinow's Appointment.
Dr. Isaac Max Rubinow will, beginning with the
first week in September, be the virtual head of the ad-
ministrative forces of both the Zionist Organizations
of America and the United Palestine Appeal, and his
appointment helps tc dispel to a certain degree the
disappointments that followed the turbukitt months of
strife in American Zionism.
The appointnient of Dr. Rubinow to the newly cre-
ated post of executive director of the Z. 0. A. and the
U. P. A. must be interpreted as more than a gesture on
the part of the newly-elected Administrative Commit-
tee of the Zionist Organization. For years the Zionist
movement was directed by inexperienced doctrinaires.
Propagandists turned statesmen, and a group of paid
workers began to feel as if the sacred work of Pales-
tine's upbuilding was their own inalienable right, to
the exclusion of all other elements in Jewry.
The failure of the inexperienced elements in Zion-
ism was strongly in evidence during the lean years that
followed the period of seven fat years. Very sincere
and honest and idealistic on the whole, the men who
directed the destinies of American Zionism were, nev-
ertheless, unsuited for their particular jobs. The per-
iod for practical work in Zion also demanded direction
by men of practical and tried ability. Even Mr. Louis
Lipsky, to whose idealism and devotion the entire Jew-
ish world offered praise, was admitted by his own
friends to be unsuited fOr the duties that involved the
responsibility of guiding the financial and administra-
tive works of the movement for Palestine reconstruc-
tion.
The new Administrative Committee of the Zionist
Organization is therefore to be congratulated on its
choice of Dr. Rubinow, because it seems to point to a
sincere desire on its part to put an end to politics and
to turn to constructive efforts. Dr. Rubinow's experi-
ence of many years as an administrator, his four years
of residence in Palestine as head of the Hadassah Med-
ical Unit, his training in social welfare work were
among his activities which won for him the respect of
the American Jewish community and which should
now gain renewed confidence for Zionism.
Shortly before the announcement was made of Dr.
Rubinow's appointment, the Reflex carried a letter
from him in which the new Zionist Executive Director
took exception to criticisms of lladassah by that maga-
zine in an editorial entitled, "Lovely Hadassah," and.
incidentally replied to the ridicule by the Reflex of
so-called Zionist philanthropy. Said DT. Rubinow :
Why this horror of the word (philanthropy)? If you
will insist that the only motive of work for Zionism and
for I'alestine must be not "pity and compassion, but the
will to power," you will immediately destroy all the threads
that tie up the Zionistically-minded Jew from the rest of
the world Jewry. I challenge you to point to a single
responsible leader of the Zionist movement who would be
willing to subscribe to that.
'
I have just received from Herbert Samuel a
memorandum headed "The Future of Ptlestine."
Ile goes on to argue, at considerable length, and
with some vehemence, in favor of the British
annexation of Palestine, a country the size of
Wales, much of it barren mountains and part of it
waterless. He thinks we might plant in this very
promising territory about three or four million
European Jews, and that this would have a good
effect upon those who are left behind. It reads
almost like a new edition of "Tanered
raeli's book) brought up to date. I confess I am
not attracted by this proposed addition tojhe re-
sponsibilities, but it is a curious illustration of
Dizzy's favorite maxim that "race is everything"
to find this almost lyrical outburst proceeding
from the well-ordered and methodical brain of
II. S.
Of course the proposal was later carried out by
Balfour.
Christian love and charity. In a letter to Time, a
gentleman by the name of Jenner, identified with the
Christ Church Rectory at Dunville, l'a., expresses him-
self in these Christian terms:
.
The Episcopalians just can's get away from that
Jew-Turk-infidel complex. It's about time they began to
catch some of the spirit of religion and (lid away with
the old idea of lumping all of us who disagree with them
and bundling us off to Hell. I wish that all publisher.:
of Jewish newspapers would get a copy of the Modern
View of July 27, and look at the "Political Section." It
is the most dignified approach to the matter of political
advertising that I have ever seen. There is no objection
to any newspaper carrying political advertising. But the
way some of them read and some are printed, they are
extremely offensive to man and an abomination in the
eyes of the Lord. Mr. Rosenthal of the Modern View
is to be commended for his good taste.
Score one for Dr. Melamed, editor of the Reflex.
Last April he scored the Russian government for plan-
ning to send Jews to open a new farming territory in
Siberia. Dr. NIelamed pointed out at that time that if
it was any good the Soviet government would have turned
it over to the Russian peasant. He also doubted the
sincerity of the Soviet plans to colonize the Jews in the
Ukraine and Crimea. Ile said that thus far the Jews
have been doing all the spending, while the Soviet has
been looking on and applauding. Ile cautioned us that
the reason the Siberian project was launched was to divert
the Jews from the best agricultural settlements of South-
ern Russia (to be favored for the peasant). I am feading
a report of a member of the Moscow correspondent of the
Jewish Daily Bulletin.
Ile says that the faults with the Bira-Bidzhan project
are glaring. The principal objection, and it reveals an
appalling condition, is that there is almost no goOd dry
land suitable for agriculture. There is only enough good
soil for 25,000 families, and the trouble is that goodly
portion of this land has already been occupied by Rus-
sians. The official investigator who prepared the way
for this on-to-Siberia movement, Professor Bruck, failed
to mention in his survey that the district has a very large
portion of swamp land that must be dried before it is
fit for agriculture, and he failed to mention that the
region is full of mosquitoes. It looks to us, in the tart
gunge of the small boy, that the Jews of Russia have been
"gYped." It is now regarded as "unfortunate," and in
the meantime money was being contributed to the South-
ern Russia project, by the Comzet, must now be used to
try to straighten out the "bad lands" of Siberia. But
what I would like to know is: "Why did the Soviet gov-
ernment insist on opening a new Jewish territory it
Siberia just when the Jews of the world were bending
their utmost efforts to make the Southern Russia farm
settlement a success?
There is enough food for thought to be found in this
jesting allusion in the New Republic to the difference
between the Republican and Democratic managers, to
pass it along to my readers:
With many other people who have worked honestly for
Jewish Palestine, who have contributed, may I say, not
only by word but by deed, I regret the conflict or the con-
flicts which have so unnecessarily acquired a significance
It is true when you call the roll of the new
Democratic managements - Raskob, Proskauer,
Lehman, Olvany, Moskowitz-it has a horrid,
rasping sound to Anglo-Saxon ears, and is by no
means soothing to the savage breasts of the old-
line Democrats of the South. None the less, they
step lively-these Raskobs and Moskowitzes-and
they do not trample and jostle each other in the
humble-puppy fashion which has become more or
less chronic with the Works, Moses, Aliens and the
rest of the Nordic managers of the Hoover ma-
chine.
they do not deserve. In my concern for Zionist policies, I
naturally tend to ascribe a great deal more importance to
what is going on in Palestine than what is going on at
Zionist meetings outside.
The one conclusion that is to be drawn from this
quotation is that the Zionist Organization has found
the right man for the right job at the right time, in
view of the agreements on the Jewish Agency reached
between the Zionists and the non-Zionists.
The important question that now presents itself
is how the opposition to the present administration
will react to the conditions and demands of the hour.
Will opposition leaders respond with resignations, or
will they join in the work for Palestine without bitter-
ness, and by eliminating a fight over personalities?
"Their Mischief Returns Upon Their Own Heads."
The extent of the meanness which the violent anti-
Semitism of European Jew-haters is capable of assum-
ing is illustrated in the tragedy that occurred at Wait-
zen, on the banks of the Danube, where a group of
Christians permitted a non-Jewish 14-year-old boy to
drown because they thought he was Jewish.
Acording to the story, as cabled to the Jewish Tel-
egraphic Agency, a Jewish vacationist who was walk-
ing on the shore, called the attention of Christian bath-
ers to the drowning boy, but because the alarm was
sounded by a Jets' it was taken for granted that the
boy, too, was Jewish, and with a shout, "Let the Jew
drown, there will be one less," the death of the Chris-
tian boy was sanctioned.
This is a typical example of the dangers against
which warning is sounded by psalmist : hath hal-
lowed out a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch
which he hath wrought. His mischief will return upon
his own head, and upon his own skull will his violence
come down." (Ps. 7. 16). But in this instance it is even
worse. They are the fathers who have eaten forbidden
fruit, but the teeth set on edge were the teeth of the
children. At Waitzen, in Austria, a Christian boy paid
with his life for the sins of his elders.
• •
.
....
..........................
Your bitterly partisan and malicious misrep-
resentations of the Prayer Book Question in Eng-
land and of the Anglo-Catholic party, have quite
decided me in not having anything more to do with
a paper that is so one-sided . Opposition does
not worry us; we are used to that but slander
does, so good-by to Time and its alliance with
the Jews, Turks, infidels and heretics who claim
the right to dictate to the Catholic Church in Eng-
land as to the ways of approaching and worshiping
God.
.
Now I wonder if you get the significance of the
reference to the "Nordic managers." You have heard, I
dare say, a good deal about the wet issue in this cam-
paign; and the religious issue, of course; and the Tam-
many issue, too. But do you know that there is the issue
of the Democrats vs. the high hats? Yes, you will find
the Olvanys and the Moskowitzes in the Democratic
wagon, but you won't find the Cahots and the Lodges,
if you understand what I mean. It is the Nordic issue
that is also involved in this campaign. It is the Ku-
Klux-100 Per Cent-Protestant-American issue iojected
into the fight. It sticks out all over. it's too bid', isn't
it, that we cannot have a presidential campaign con-
ducted along political lines.
Here is a question I am going to put to the Christian
Scientist Church. and I would appreciate an answer for
publication in this column, which reaches more Jews in
the United States than any other medium. The state-
ment is made, in which I concur, that a Jew or Jewess
who joins the Christian Science Church, automatically
severs his or her connection with J11(17118E1. Now, i do
not say that a Jew divorces himself from his communal
life when he joins the church, but I do say that in
affiliating with the Science movement he becomes a mem-
ber of a Christian sect and therefore ceases, religiously
speaking, to be a Jew. This position is denied by Jews
and Jewesses who insist that they have not given up
their faith. Therefore, it might be illuminating to hear
what the Science Church has to say on this subject, and
its understanding of the situation. I shall be glad to
give the reply all the space required.
I am sorry to see Governor Smith arranging a debate
with that ballyhoo minister, the Rev. John Roach Straton.
When Smith suggested that he answer Straton in his own
church and before his own congregation, which was per-
fectly proper and sensible, because Straton had attacked
the governor there, I wasn't a bit surprised that the
reverend gentleman came back with the suggestion that
the debate be held in a bigger place. If he had his way
he would hire the Yankee stadium, or if that wasn't big
enough, he would get Tex Rickard to lease a prize fight
arena capable of holding a couple of hundred thousand
persons. 1 confess that I don't like 'clergymen of the
Straton type, who have played the spot-light on them-
selves, and who represent the narrowest in the religious
lift of the nation.
A AA
v'tn,‘".e
t•
AAA ............
,
Strolling Along Piccadilly
Music, Beer and Jews in Strange Jumble of London
Job-Seekers.
New. Letter from London
By EMANUEL ARONSBERG
People who are best qualified to
judge will tell you that London is
a city which "grows upon' one,
slowly, but inevitably. Unprepos-
sessing- at first sight, partict.iarly
if the weather happens to be nasty,
as it often is, this vast human bee-
hive will reward the observant
stranger after the lapse of a few
weeks, or months, as the case may
be, with a variety of aspects and
moods truly infinite. Every turn
will then reveal sights and scenes
of most unexpected charm and
quaintness, historically, architec-
turally, and in many other respects.
That--there- is a great deal of
truth in this, I had occasion the
other day to convince myself, as I
came upon a sight I had never sus-
pected to be found in London; in
any caseAL had never heard of it.
Strolling in the vicinity of Picca-
dilly Circus, I found myself for
the first time in my life in Archer
street. It is a very short street,
but whatever there is of it was
fillet) with men carrying all kinds
of musical instruments, talking in
small groups and walking leisurely
up and down as if waiting for
something. Too many for an or-
chestra, I thought, as I felt my
curiosity excited. I then decided
to find out,
They Were Jews, Most of Them.
Approaching a group of three,
towards the end of the street, I in-
quired what all these musicians
were doing there.
"Looking for engagements," re-
plied the one with the violin.
"Yes, and sure to find none," tho
'cellist said sourly, to which the
man with the flute merely grinned,
"Those Jews are going to take
all the jobs," the 'cellist explained,
seeing my puzzled expression.
"What Jews?"
"These, here, there, every-
where!" he said, pointing with a
sweeping gesture at the crowd. I
looked closely. Yes, indeed, they
were Jews, most of them, scores,
perhaps hundreds, it was ObViolls
to me. 1 felt profoundly interested.
Now, there are at least two ways
of dealing with a person who tells
you that he has no use for Jews;
you may either turn your back
upon such a man and walk away
without further parleying, or else
-if you are not taken fur a Jew,
as in this particular instance-you
may find out more about his anti-
Semitic grudge by inviting hint to
cross the street with you to that
public house fur - a drink. I
adopted the latter course and my
was ;met-pled with ala-
crity.
They Unburdened Their Souls.
After the second round of
drinks, tongues having acquired
the requisite pliability, my musi-
dans were ready to unburden their
weary souls. The fiddler had
played in America and he spoke
with genuine regret of the flesh-
pots of New York, After earning
160-$70 a week in New York,
naturally the London wages, less
than half that amount, seemed pal-
try, especially to a man who had
been able to work only about three
months last year. The 'cellist,
however, thought this "plenty,"
for he had been able to work not
more than 23 days out of 365 last
year, he assured me.
"No chance against the Jews,
sir," he explained. The violinist
nodded assent. The flute was si-
lent and thoughtful.
"Still," remarked the fiddler
after a while, "still, it is only fair
to say those Jews are born with a
fid1111, ( 1 . .' 1,lle,
exclaimed the
'cellist angrily. Gulping his beer,
he continued bitterly:
"It is money they are born with,
you should say! It is the money
that gets them their engagements,
and none of their talent! Talent
-bosh!"
"I don't quite understand this,"
I said.
,Ay
it is easy enough! A
'knicker' to the fellow up that
way," he replied, pointing across
the street to where the musicians'
union had its headquarters, "and
the engagement goes to the Jew."
Partiality for "Knickers."
I had not been long enough in
London to know the meaning of a
"knicker." The 'cellist enlight-
ened me; it means a pound sterling
in some jargon or other. There
followed a few expletives ad-
dressed to the people at union
headquarters because of their al-
leged partiality for "knickers"
and then there were some nasty
words said, of course), about those
Jews who were said to possess
these "knickers" to purchase job...
I listened in silence, merely ma -
ding now and then, to encourat,e
the copious flow of language from
the 'cellist. He went on to con -
plain that at the orchestral en I
of the profession, likewise), there
were the Jews robbing an honest
English 'cellist of till opportunity
fur earning his living. This, be-
cause the conductors were mostly
Jewish, not to mention the fact
that most of the theaters and play-
houses of all kinds were in Jewish
hands, he said.
At this point the flute excused
himself and departed. The 'cellist
was at his third glass-port this
tintie1 instead of beer. The effects
seented to tell the more quickly
since, as he assured us, he had had
nothing to eat that day, and it was
now close to 3 in the afternoon. A
very decent excuse and valid rea-
son for getting drunk as quickly
as he did, I thought. But the vio-
linist whispered to me:
"Drinks like a fish and cannot
hold any position."
A great, bright light began to
dawn upon me. Drink, was that
it? lim, I see now why he played
only 23 days last year .... I ,can
understand why a conductor
should not be eager to spoil his
performances by keeping a 'cel-
list who is chronicially under the
weather and getting his notes
tangled. Of course, I kept these
reflections strictly to myself, for
the time being.
Jewish Patrons in Majority.
Our fiddler seemed an entirely
different kind of man. Apparent-
ly willing to work hard, of a very
pleasant, clean-•ut appearance,
with strong artistic features, quite
intelligent and widely traveled, he
finally volunteered the opinion
that, perhaps, it was not really
altogether the fault of the Jews if
he found it hard to obtain employ-
ment in London. Ile admitted
that the overwhelmingly Jewish
orchestras of New York never pre-
vented hint from finding engage-
ments,
"I reckon they are not all as
bad as some of us would make
them," he spoke slowly and
thoughtfully. "This is a hard
world, and they In not always
have a fair deal from us, either."
"If I had my own way," growled
the 'cellist, "I would order all
these damned Jews to pack up and
get out of the country,"
"Yes, and close half of our
theaters and lust three-fourths of
our audiences," the violinist re-
marked with a smile. The °thew
man glared at him, but said noth-
ing. The violinist was fair enough
to admit that the Jews formed
very often the overwhelming ma-
jority of the audience at goo.I
musical performances and did nut
exactly relish the idea of being
left entirely without Jews in Eng-
land.
A few minutes later the flute
burst into the place with a nappy
smile; he had just found an en-
gagement, while the other two had
been enjoying themselves over
their gratuitous beer and port and
complaining about the Jews mak-
ing it impossible to earn their liv-
ing. I saw my opportunity at
once: rising to go, I drew the at-
tention of the two men to the
fact that the third had just found
work, contrary to their own stor-
ies, and I hinted rather plainly
that they might have found work,
too, if they had not been so fond
of their beer.
"You talk like a Jew!" the 'cel-
list snapped anngrily.
"Well, I happen to be one," I ad-
mitted cheerfully.
The 'cellist looked nonplussed,
while the fiddler burst out laugh-
ing as the humor of the situation
dawned upon him.
IC ,, P0right. 1929, J. T. A.)
PASTOR RISKS LIFE,
SAVES DROWNING JEW
KLAUSENBURG, Rumania. -
(.1. T. A.)-A German Protestant
pastor saved it Jew front drown-
ing in the river. This incident has
attracted wide attention through-
out Transylvania.
The pastor, Theodor Hermann,
jumped into the water when he
noticed that a Jewish horse driver,
Goldstein, was drowning. Goldstein
was saved by the pastor, but the
horse was drowned. The pastor
made a collection among his Chris-
tian friends and raised the sum
necessary to replace the lost horse
to the poor Jewish driver.
THE RABBI KNOWS
CASK HIM
A Sheaf of Sheilas
By RABBI LEON FRAM
D.•ector of Religious Edwat.on, Temple Beth El.
(Readers of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are invited to submit
questions for Rabbi Fram to an-
swer. Address Rabbi Leon Fran,,
Temple Beth El, Detroit.)
1. How many Jews are there in
Mexico?
2. How many Jews are there in
Mexico City?
3. When did Jews first enter
Mexico?
4. What evidence have we of
the presence of Jews in Mexico in
the sixteenth century? •
5. What famous Mexican fam-
ily is believed to be of Marrano-
Jewish descent?
6. Is President Calles of Jewish
descent?
7. Is Aaron Saenz a Jew?
8. What is the chief occupation
of the Jews in Mexico?
9. When did the bulk of Mex-
ico's Jewish population arrive?
10. F)iom what parts of the
world did they come?
11. Into what two classes are
they divided?
12. Why do Sephardic Jews re-
fuse to unite themselves with Ash-
kenazie Jews?
13. What is the chief occupa-
tion of the Sephardic Jews?
14. What is the chief Jewish
philanthropy in Mexico City?
15. By whom is this immigra-
tion social service supported?
16. Why do the Jews of Mexico
support their own philanthropies?
17. Why is there no rabbi in
Mexico City?
18. How does the Jewish com-
munity get along without a rabbi?
19. In what other city besides
Mexico City have Jews settled?
20. What Detroit Jews have
recently gone on semi-official mis-
sions to Mexico?
,,zCOMMI
(Turn
to Last Page.)