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Two steps were taken during the past

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week to honor the name of the departed

Entered as Second-rises matter March t, 11111, at the Post-
under the Act of March t, 1819.
Mlles. at Detroit.

leader, Louis Marshall. At London, the

mid,

General Offices and Publication Building
525 Woodward Avenue

Jewish Agency decided to perpetuate his

memory by the building of a colony, to be

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known as "Marshallia." In this country,

14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England

Julius Rosenwald, noted philanthropist,

London Office.

$3.00 Per Year

created a $500,000 endowment at the

To insure publicetion,all correspondence and news metier
most reach this office by Tuesday evening of cull week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the payer only.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee correspondence or sub.
terest to the Jewish people, but disclel1/111 respo
feet. or'
en indoreenient of the views expressed by 'he writers
bility

achievements of Mr. Marshall. Through

Subscription, in Advance

Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 29:9-31-30.
Prophetical portion—Is. 61:10-63:9; or 55:6-56:8.

September 27, 1929

Ellul 22, 5689

Both honors symbolize the majors

"Marshallia" Mr. Marshall's memory will

be honored for what has been termed the

crowning achievement of his glorious ca-

reer—the unity of all Israel in the Jewish

Agency. The memorial fund at the Jewish

A Disappointing Campaign.

Theological Seminary will serve to remind

With only $40,000 collected locally for

American Jewry of the great contributions

the Palestine Emergency Relief Fund, af-

ter three weeks of campaigning, it is diffi-

Mr. Marshall has made in the advance-
ment of the best that is Jewish. It must

cult to describe the results as anything

be remembered that Mr. Marshall, who

other than disappointing. In time of na-

has been classed among the Reform, and

tional calamity it was to have been ex-

who has been attacked by the so-called

pected that the response to an appeal for

masses as one who has thereby diminished

funds for the relief of the sufferers in

his right to Jewish leadership, has through-

Palestine, as well as for the reconstruction

out his life made valuable contributions to

of the destroyed settlements, would be

this Conservative School, and has for many

spontaneous and generous in the extreme.

years served as chairman of its board of di-

To claim success for the Detroit collection

rectors. lie was a great Jew without a

would be to make a sad situation ridicul-

particular classification, and his contribu-

ous.

tions to Jewry are shared by all elements.

Mr. David A. Brown, as national chair-

These two are appropriate memorials

man, announces in connection with the

for the late Mr. Marshall. While it is cer-

countrywide appeal for funds that a mini-

tain that world Jewry will not stop with

mum of $5,000,000 will be needed for the

these, and that many more tributes will be

Emergency Fund, and that at least $750,-

marked in his honor, his own life work is

000 of this sum will be needed to recon-

his best memorial. The marks of honor,

struct the damage done at Hebron alone.

however, should serve to remind other

In proportion to the national quota, this

leaders in Jewry that their people knows

city should raise more than $100,000, and

how to appreciate the deeds of the worthy.

from present indications the possibility of

Israel's prophets are not without honor.

reaching such a goal is nil.

To the credit of the poorer elements in

the community let it be said that their re-

sponse in the present emergency was a

noble one. For the first time perhaps in

any local campaign, small donations rang-

ing in sums from $5 to $25 form the bulk

of contributions to this fund. It is the

wealthier element that has failed in this

drive. It is the larger donor who failed to

appreciate the importance of the drive and

to display his liberality.

Hershfield Tells Jews to Be Natural.

Harry Hershfield, noted Cartoonist who

created the comic strip "Abe Kabible,"

in

an interesting article on the English page

of a recent issue of the Yiddish Daily Day,

reviews the Jewishness of the Jews on

Broadway, and tells the story of Burt Kal-

mar, the song publisher, who named his

son "Burt Kalmar, Jr." When Hershfield

told him: "Don't you know that it is

against Talmudic law to have a son named

It is not yet too late to make good the

after a living father?" Kalmar replied:

local failure. The wealthier Jews in De-

"In this case it's perfectly all right. It's
not my name either."

troit have it within their power to raise
Detroit's contribution within sight of our
rightful quota. Certainly this is still a very
generous community, and our wealthy
surely do not desire to lie classed among
the heartless and indifferent.

The Test of Friendship.

The situation in Palestine offered an op-
portunity for the Jew to test the friendship
of the non-Jewish world. The Zionist it
offered a chance to test the loyalty of those
who claimed to nourish a love for Zion,

In England, the non-Jewish apathy and
antipathy to both the Jewish claims to
Palestine and to Jewish suffering was the
most deplorable thing in the entire situa-
tion. In this country the press, genorally
speaking, was fair and in most cases
friendly. We had occasion previously to
point to the nobility of the stand taken by
two local papers as opposed to the dis-
graceful alliance with the bigoted elements
on the part of a third.

But unlike the fine co-operation lent the
Jewish people by the Hearst newspapers,
their leading editorial writer, Mr. Arthur
Brisbane, has adopted such a vacillating
policy and has on several occasions re-
ferred to the happenings in Palestine in a
tone so sneering, even though veiled, that
he is certainly not to be listed among those
who offered the Jew comfort in the present
tragedy. Here is a typical paragraph
from one of his columns last week :

News from Jerusalem that will doubtless
catne indignation and moss meetings tells of
the arrest of 44 Jews of llaifa, held without
bail, accused of premeditated murder of Arabs,
during the recent Arab-Jewish riots.

The veiled sneer at "indignation and
mass meetings," at a time when the Jewish
people are suffering tragedy, is suggestive
of bar-room3 humor, which does Mr. Bris-
bane little credit.

The manner in which Zionists were
tested is indicated in the statement of Dr.
Stephen S. Wise and in the action of the
revisionist Zionists. The latter disregard•
ed the fact that a time of tragedy calls for
united Jewish effort and resolved to ask
for Dr. Chaim Weizmann's resignation.
But Dr. Wise once again demonstrated the
nobility of his idealism when he locked
arms with those he opposed in priciple in
order to strive more effectively to gain
honorable recognition of Jewish rights.

Many things have been tested by the
present situation, but the happiest result
Is that we have learned to know our true

friends.

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Hershfield's comment is that "this sym-
bolizes Broadway," where the habitues
"not only act for a public, but they act
among themselves." Expressing the belief
that the Broadway Jew thinks he is too
smart for God, Hershfield writes an inter-
esting summary to his views on the Broad-
way Jew as he sees him:

... It doesn't matter what you are so long as
you ore it honestly. If we are Jews—and let
us give thanks that as Jews we are still alive—
then let us be Jews. I would rather have the
respect of Jews than all the glory heaped on
me by a world not of our faith, for I feel that
the more I am "tolerated" in a non-Jewish
world the less I care for it.

As I grow older, I feel more and more the
need for religious and spiritual guidance. I
feel more strongly the urge of Jewish blood,
the consciousness of the need for being a Jew.
We who mingle most with the Gentile realize
most the needs of the Jew. I clearly perceive
that the Jew must make a right-about-face or
become racially negligible. If we are to gain
the respect of the world, let on stand out,
overt and unashamed. Let us not wait and be
reminded by people that we are Jews. By that
time it is too late.

Hershfield is such an excellent portray-
al of Jewish acting as Jews on and off
Broadway, that his advice to Jews to be
themselves,is applicable to all our people,
not necessarily the professionals on Broad-
way. Jewish imitativeness of the non-Jew
not only loses for our people the respect of
the Gentiles, but causes us to lose our indi-
viduality. If only our people would learn
the lesson that is taught by the story told by
Mr. Hershfield about the Jewish student at
Harvard who endured with fortitude the
cruelty of his classmates who ridiculed and
goaded him, constantly reminding him of
his blood and religion. At a smoker his sto-
icism finally crumbled and, halting the mer-
rymaking, he attracted the attention of the
gathering by his declaration: "Boys, I'm
sorry I was born a Jew. I would much
rather have been one by choice." He was
thereafter treated with the utmost respect.

There is much to be learned from Hersh-
field's warning against the Jew's selling
his virtues for a mess of pottage. If only
more of our people could begin to see that
the respect of the world will be gained only
when we are Jews by choice, our spiritual
problem would be solved. But too many
Jew's insist on imitating. Therefore they
feel all the more the sting of ridicule and
prejudice from the non-Jewish world
which can be made to respect naturalness,
originality and individuality, but not mock-

ery.

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I

AM in receipt of a very interesting letter from a
lady living in Dorchester, Mass. I like her frank-
ness, although she calls me names. But that's a
mere detail. Let's see what she has to say:

To Say that the tragic events in
Palestine shocked the conscience of
the world is no exaggeration.
That it should be possible, in a
country for which Great Britain
has accepted the Mandate and for
which she is responsible to the
League of Nations for its safety
and good government for an ap-
parently organized Arab rising to
occur, accompanied by disgraceful
scenes of murder, rape, loot and
arson, is a blot to British prestige
the fact of which nothing would
be gained by denying.
Fortunately the postion can be
retrieved and I believe that the
present British government in
London means to retrieve it.

Dear Mr. Joseph:
As a constant reader of your "Random
Thoughts" and one who would consider The
Jewish Advocate (of Boston) incomplete with-
out them, I am taking the liberty of telling
you how you impress me.
To me you are a puzzle. You impress me as
trying to be loyal to your people, and yet you
almost always write as if you were afraid that
Gentile eyes were going to see your articles
and no you begin to pussy-foot. In other
words, you are afraid of treading on Gentile
toes. Mr. Joseph, why be the sort of a Jew
that all Jews are accused of being?. We are
accused of being dishonest, unreliable, traiitors,
and cowards.
You, I am sure, are not the first two. I
cannot in truth call you a traitor but I am
almost forced to call you a coward.
Forgive me if my'words are hard and hurt,
but our people need champions, not critics. Of
these see have plenty. Leave your criticisms to
the Gentiles, they are quite willing.
It is men like you who could help our poor
unfortunate people so much and yet fall by
the wayside.
Mr. Joseph, use your pen as a weapon against
the enemy, not against your own.

Policy of Officials.

During the 10 years in which I
have been a member of Parlia-
ment, and before, I have kept
closely in touch with the situation
in Palestine and also with Jew-
ish and Moslems opinion. I am
conviced that one of the causes
of the rising in Palestine was a
belief on the part of the Moalem
religious and political leaders, both
often the same people, that be -
cause the government in England
was Socialist and because it had
not an independent Parliamentary
majority, that it could be bullied
and blackmailed by a show of
force. This belief will be proved
a bad mistake. It is perfectly
true that the Labor party is op-
posed to war and the unnecessary
use of force. But at the same
time, even our most advanced ex-
ponents of disarmament have al-
ways recognized the right of self-
defense and also the duty of pre-
serving order. I shall be pro-
foundly disappointed with my own
party if we allow our policy to
be deflected by a hair's breadth by
all the violence and threats of Mos-
lems in Palestine and Arabia, and
the agitators who are encouraging
them in Egypt, India, Turkey and
elsewhere. Also I believe that the
Labor government will not only
restore order, but will punish the
guilty, make a recurrence of such
disgraceful happenings impossible
and that we shall press forward
with the policy of the Balfour
Declaration, not only in the letter
but in the spirit. For it must
now surely be clear that the at-
tempt to placate the fanatical ele-
ment of the inhabitants of Pales-
tine was a mistake. For nearly 10
years now the policy of certain
of the officials responsible for ad-
ministration in Palestine has been
to mollify the Arabs. The Mos-
lems were allowed to disturb the
status quo at the Wailing Wall by
new structures; by new means of
transit, in a way the Turks them-
selves would never have tolerated.
Under the terms of the Mandate
it was laid down that the former
Crowns Lands and waste lands
should he made available for Zion-
ist colonization. Because, for ex-
ample the Boizan Lands had been
temporarily occupied by Bedouin
squatters we allowed ourselves to
be bluffed by Moslem agitators
into allowing these squatters to
remain on land to which they were
nut entitled and which they had
not the means to cultivate or to
pay the dues upon. When it came
to the employment of workmen on
public works only a small fraction
of Jews have been employed and
Arabs had been given the prefer-
ence. Taxation has been adjusted
so that the lightest burden Was
borne by the Arab majority and
the heaviest burden by the Jewish
minority. The Jews are not al-
lowed to be armed and few have
been recruited for the police force;
while that the Arabs were pos-
sessed of arms has been notorious
for years. Worse still, notorious
Arab agitators found guilty of in-
citement to riot, and murder in
the past have been pardoned and
appointed to high administrative
or ecclesiastical positions.And
this was done with the best
• inten-
tion no doubt the idea being to
mollify and win over the Arabs
by kindness. It has had precisely
the oppsite effect. It has en-
couraged them to believe that the
British government was weak, was
not whole-heartedly in favor of the
Balfour Declaration and that we
were afraid of the Moslems and
of Moslem opinion.

FIRST of all, dear lady, your words may be hard
but I am not hurt. However, let us consider the
position you assume. It requires much more cour-
age on the part of a Jewish writer to criticize his
own people than it does to criticize his neighbors.
While it is perfectly true that we have enough
critics from the outside it is equally true that WE
DO NOT HAVE ENOUGII CRITICISM FROM TIIE
INSIDE. We Jews have a habit of defending every
Jewish issue and every Jew regardless of whether
such a defense is justified. It seems to me that it
is far better to consider an issue on its merits,
praise where praise is due, censure where censure
is due. If we have members of our group who are
guilty of overt acts that bring them and the Jewish
name in disrepute, it is our duty to criticize them,
which we have done and intend to do. I am glad to
say that I try to express my honest opinion on what-
ever subject I set out to discuss in this column.
This time some Gentile head may get whacked and
tomorrow some co-religionist may receive the same
treatment. Catholics have protested that I am un-
fair to them. Protestants write in to say that I
favor the Catholics and am all the time denouncing
the Protestants. And like yourself, there are many
Jews who say that I cater too much to the Christians
and criticize the Jew too severely. I have been
doing this. job for a long time and I know from
experience that the best way to conduct a column
is not to attempt to please anybody, for if you do
you will please nobody. My purpose is not to please
but present my own opinions on matters of Jewish
interest. We do have cowards among us but they
are cowardly in maintaining silence when they
should raise their voices in protest against acts of
Jews that make it harder for the Jew to find a place
in the world.

Must Facilitate Horne.

It is time that other policy was
attempted. Without doing any in-
justice to the Arab population we
should now really facilitate the re-
establishment of the Jewish na-
tional home. Instead of hamper-
ing and limiting immigration the
entry of Jewish Colonists, under
proper safeguards, should be en-
couraged. Undoubtedly a Jewish
militia should he organized and
enrolled under British officers,
controlled by the government and
adequately armed. In the whole
of the middle east we have only
one sure section of the population
who are our friends and these are
.Jews. Events have proven
t that
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e elementary rig
t SI se f-
defense may he required again and
this must no more he denied to the
Jewish settlers in Palestine than
it is to the British Colonists in
Kenya.
Above all, a very searching and
independent inquiry should be, and
I believe will be, conducted into
the responsibilities for the revolt.
is no use making scapegoats of a
few
ew Arab villagers or Bedouins and
allowing the really guilty, medi-
ally those in high places, to escape
scot free. We must either govern in
l'alestine or throw up the Man-
date altogether, and as we shall
not do the latter we have no choice
but to (•• the termer with firmness
and justice.
I am glad that an Independent
commission of inquiry has been net
up. It is to be composed of four
gentlemen on whose judgment we
can rely. They must be armed
with the fullest powers and the
widest terms (4 reference to probe
matters really to the bottom and
See exactly where the blame lies;
and they most he given the full
support of the home government
If p rertain British officials, even
highly placed, are proved to have

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HAVE been asked towhm American Jewry will
look for future leadership now that Louis Mar-
shall has passed on. It is rather a difficult question to
answer but since at best it is a matter of guesswork
one man's guess is about as good as the next one's.
So I am inclined to name Felix Warburg. Of later
years Mr. Warburg seems to have broadened his
interest, Jewishly speaking. For some time he was
intimately identified with the "Y" movement, and,
of course, still is. But he has been in the public
eye more as a philanthropist than as a leader of the
type of Mr. Marshall. But not so long ago I was
interested in reading an address of his to a group
of Society folk in New York. Ile was pleading for
Palestine and he took occasion to refer to the waste-
ful lives that most people lead instead of occupying
themselves with worth-while issues in Jewry. I
don't know, but I have a feeling that Felix War-
burg sooner or later will be one of the most power-
ful figures in American Jewish life. And I believe
that he will begin to take a more active interest in
the advancement of Jewish education. He has the
mind, the heart, the inclination, the time and the
means, so what more is needed? If anybody differs
with me and can suggest some one better, I shall be
glad to listen.

YOU' certainly have to go to the East Side New
York to discover the different kinds of Jews
there are in the world. Recently the Jewish Daily
Freiheit, an organ of the Communist party, was
placed "on trial" by a group of Jews because the
newspaper attacked the Jews in the recent Arab up-
risinfi. The position taken by this distinguished (?)
sheet was that the Arabs were fighting British im-
perialism and that the Jews by resisting, were
standing in the way of a "world revolution." One
can always trust the Reds to become overheated;
they run true to their color. There is just as much
chance of a world revolution because a group of
disgruntled Arabs resent the fact that the Jews have
been given the "break" in Palestine, as there are
of the editors of the Jewish Daily Freiheit will be-
come honorary member of the Knights of Colum-
bus.

H

ER E'S an inquiry that comes from Baltimore
that might give sonic of our readers something
to think about:

Dear Mr. Joseph:
Isn't it rather odd that a Jew under a Jewish
employer encounters the greatest difficulty in
obtaining leave for a Jewish holiday, while on
the other hand a Jew under a Gentile employer
more readily obtains leave from work on a holy
day?

That's a statement, but do facts bear out the
truth of the statement? I don't believe it. From
experience and observation I am confident that in
the largest majority of cases Jewish employers are
willing to permit their Jewish employes to attend
services on the high holidays. It is true of course
that in many cases they are "docked" a day's salary
or two days,' as the case may be. There are depart-
ment stores controlled by Jews who will not allow
Jewish employes to observe the New Year or the
Day of Atonement without paying for it. This
seems to me to be pushing profits to the Nth degree.
Undoubtedly there are instances of an abuse where
Jewish employes take two days to celebrate New
Year, not from religious scruples but because they
want a luxurious loaf. And it has been known that
they get paid by the firm they work for, for the holi-
day and THEN GO TO WORK FOR SOMEBODY
ELSE ON TIIE HOLIDAY AND TIIUS INCREASE
THEIR INCOME. But such cases are not many
and it does seem to me that any Jewish organiza-
tion should ENCOURAGE their Jewish workers to
observe the high holidays. After all, we do owe
something to ourselves as JEWS.

SINCE the death of Louis Marshall someone asked
me why this distinguished Jew was never selected
for the annual award of the Zeta Beta Tau Frater-
nity which takes the form of a medal given to the
Jew or Gentile who is deemed to have contributed
most to Jewish welfare. It seems unfair that the
committee that has the responsibility of making the
selection each year, or the fraternity that offers the
award, should be placed in a misunderstood position.
So I think that the truth should be known. Louis
Marshall was chosen once, but for reasons best
known to himself, he did not desire to avail himself
of the honor. Therefore, another ballot was taken
by the 11 Jewish editors, of whom I was one, and
another was chosen. It stands to reason that 11
men deeply versed In Jewish affairs and in a posi-
tion to appreciate Mr. Marshall's extraordinary con-
tributions to Jewish life would be the first to recog-
nize his just due.

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MIRROR

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By Hale!, The Observer

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so soon are we to have a
N OT
Jewish ambassador, in spite of

SOMEBODY at the White Hous
understands the significance of
the fact that President Hoover has Jewish numbers in the United
They evidently do, for
States.
appointed harry F. Guggenheim
to be our American representative last week this person called our
attention
to a unique monument
in Cuba. Without any desire to
question the wisdom of the presi- erected by Negroes to show their
own
population,
wealth, professioa
dent's appointment, it is likely to
be held up in the Senate until the ale, homes, banks, etc. The slues
proposed senatorial inquiry into Lion we were asked in passing was
Cuban constitutional and political "How would the accomplishment. ,
affairs has been either wished of the Jews compare with their
through to an end or else definitely numbers? Only four millions, but.
put aside as unnecessary and un- oh, niy !"
What would be your answer to
desirable. This is no reflection on
such an inquiry? We were face , :
Mr. Guggenheim.
with
the following figures in
When Mr. Guggenheim's nomi-
nation came up before the Foreign scribed on a monument erected by
colored
citizens:
Relations Committee of the Senate
NEGRO PROGRESS
the other day objections to the im-
mediate consideration of it were Population
11,000,000
raised by several committee mem- Wealth
$2,500,000,00a
bers, who took the view that be- Home owners
700,0on
fore confirming a new ambassador Farm owners
232,000
to Cuba the Senate should inform Value of farms
$700,000,000
itself AS to the existing policy of Business enter-
the United States government
prise
70,000
toward the Cuban situation. That Banks
may take a week or a year.
Banks capital
$6,500,000
President lloover meant well but An n u a l business
done in banks
$100,000,000
Lindbergh's friend "Ilarry" will
48,000
not settle down in Havana for Teachers
Churches
51,0tio
quite awhile, it seems.
Does I.indbergh know that Gug- Value of property $100,000,00u
Make
your
own
guess
at
Jewish
genheim is a Jew? Does Hoover?
We were asked these questions the statistics to compare with this of-
other day by one who had a right fering by Negroes. You may send
to ask us, but we couldn't give a them to Hillel if you have any
perfect answer because we had to particular comments to make
admit that Guggenheim has not Change churches to synagogues;
been interested in Jewish affairs, property to "prupitty;" busine,
and can hardly be recognized as enterprises to "factories"; and add
such. In other words, the first Jew the following: Talmud Torah',
to be appointed as ambassador homes for the aged, hospitals,
since the war is not much of a newspapers; and a few dozen other
Jew. As to his ability, we leave items.
that to President Hoover.

WELL, it seems that the Jewish
members of Congress will not
have to say their Rosh Ilashonah
and Yam Kppur prayers in Wash-
ington after all. Until recently it
looked as if the House would really
he called into session before the
Jewish New Year, thus com p elling
the presence of the Jewish Nlinyon
in the capital. However, a week
ago William Tyler Page, the clerk
in the House, notified the members
that "sessions in the early part of
October would be just perfunc-
tory; the real fireworks won't go
off until after the Jewish holiday
season."
Do you know what is meant by
"perfunctory" sessions? In Yids
dish we would have to say that
House of Representatives meets
"ally Montig and Donnershtig."
Literally, a handful gathers every
Monday and Thursday morning,
and says hello iond good-by, thus
fulfilling the rule that "Congress
is in session," for they have not
not skipped three days without
meeting.
You may be sure that they don't
read the Safer Tora and don't say
the "lancer V'hoo Rachum."
Oh, yes, what's a synagogue
dedication down here without a
senator? A new little house of
worship was dedicated last week.
In any ordinary city they would be
tickled to get the mayor or the
sheriff; in Washington we are
never satisfied unless one of the
leading members of the. United
States Senate is there to deliver
an oration. Seattle, Boston, De-
troit and New Orleans have writ-
ten us they would thank their
stars if they could get a second-
hand congressman to grace their
occasions.
That is the reward for living in
the capitol of the United States.
One of them, anyway.

"IS THERE not a duty devolving
upon you as Secretary of Stat. ,
to present to the British govern-
ment, without the intervention of
private counsel, the claims of the
relatives of American citizens mur-
dered in Palestine?"
Secretary Stimson is still figura-
tively scratching his head, worricd
by this persistent and recurring
question. l'articularly when ana-
logous precedents are quoted
which seem to guide him along the
suggested path, the secretary feel ,
an urge to do something definite
about this case. The precedent
mentioned:
"In the case of the lynching and
murder of 11 Italian subject by
mob violence, in the city of Nei,
Orleans, on the morning, of March
14, 1891. It is recalled that oi
that occasion Chief of Police Ile:,
nessy had been killed in cold
blood, as a result of the machina-
tions of a secret society called the
Mafia. I'ublic feeling ran high,
and the citizenry of New Orlean'
stormed the parish prison and did
away with the 11 prisoners. The
then Italian minister at Washing-
ton, under instructions from the
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
not only denounced the acts of the
mob, but requested immediate and
energetic measures for the protec-
tion of Italians in New Orleans,
and further demanded from the
then Secretary of State Blaine,
money damages for the relative ,
of the victims of the massacre."
What will Uncle Sam do?
This matter must be settled in a
few (lays and you will probably
read the decision in the daily press,
as it is of great significance.
Now will you admit that inter-
national affairs are complicated in-
deed? If you have any anibition ,
for a cabinet position some day,.
fight shy of the portfolio of state.

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Books and fillthors

Higher Biblical Criticism.

UNRAVELING TIIE BOOK OF
BOOKS. By Rabbi Ernest R.
Trattner. Published by Charles
Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth ave-
nue, New York ($2.75).
Rabbi Trattner's volume Is in-
tended to show how Biblical puz-
zles were solved and various an-
cient documents unravelled. The
volume opens with the story of
Spinoza's discoveries about "con-
tradictions" in the Bible. The au-
thor quotes others, Jews and non-
Jews, on the question of modern
scientific investigation of the He-
brew Scriptures, and in reality
enters into a discussion of higher
criticism.
In this respect Rabbi Trattner
is a quarter of a century behind
times. It was fully 25 years ago
that higher criticism was in vogue,

and to enter the field now, even
though rabbis in the Talmud has
many centuries ago resorted t:
Biblical criticism, is somewha
minimizing of a task which is is
many respects commendable.

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Another Great Novel by Sar-

ah Gertrude Millin.

TIIE FIDDLER. By Sarah Ger-
trude Millin. Published by Hor-
ace Liveright, 61 West Forty-
eighth street, New York ($2.501
It is given to few novelists to
be able so masterfully to develop
an interesting episode in the life of
two people into a great romance.
This is exactly what Mrs. Sarah
Gertrude Millin has done in "Th.
Fiddler." Only three major
characters appear, Francis, his
wife Jennie, and Matthew, the
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We Observe That--

The Grand Mufti complains that the Jews in Palestine
have taught the Arabians a higher standard of living—
hence the massacres. Well let's starve them a while.

President Iloover issued a thorough lashing to an anti-peace propa-
gandist last week. Thank goodness for a fighting Quaker in the White
House.

The marriage rate in Turkey is decreasing rapidly.
Well what did they do with all their surplus wives after the
harems were abolished?

Most people in giving vent to their religious prejudices believe that
they are exercising their religious practices.

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Dr. Melammed stated that there was never a nation .4;
born without bloodshed, yet a Pan-European idea was
launched by diplomats over a lunch table. And then again
maybe some of them ate with their knives.

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The United States and Soviet Russia need not fear this Pan-Euro-
pean nation. Didn't one of the diplomats at the luncheon say without
mincing any words, that it was not aimed at them?

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