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Readings of Torah on First Day of Rosh Hashonah.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21; Num. 28:1-6.
Prophetical portions—I. Sam. 1:1-2:10.
Read . ng of Torah on Second Day of Rosh
Hashonah.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 22; Num. 29:1-6.
Prophetical portions—Jer. 31 :2-20.
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Readings of Torah on Fast of Gads:Bah, Monday,
Oct. 7.
Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portions—Ls. 55:6-56:8.

Spiritually the American Jewish com-
munity is yet in the making. The days
when we drew upon European leadership
for teachers and leaders are over. We
must fall back upon our own resources.
Economically we are blessed. Spiritually
we should now be in search for similar
blessing. Let the search begin now, if
5690 is to be a great and good year in
Jewish history.

Let all Jews strive for unity and peace,
and spiritual power, and it will have a good
and happy year.

The editor adds a personal Rosh Ha-
shonah greeting to the readers who formed
The Chronicle family during the past year.

The Grand Mufti Speaks Untruths.

In a letter to Pierre Van Paassen, spe-
October 4, 1929
Ellul 29, 5689 cial correspondent of the New York World
and the Jewish Daily Bulletin, the Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, who is charged with
Jewry's Responsibilities in 5690.
responsibility for the Moslem outrages in
Jewry's responsibilities on the advent Palestine, attributes to Lord Melchett and
of the year 5690 are greatly increased.
Professor Albert Einstein statements pur-
As the resume of the past year, published porting to show that Jews aimed at captur-
ing the Mosque area. Ile attributes to
elsewhere in this issue, reveals, 5689 was
Melchett these words: "I will consecrate
one of the saddest periods in our history.
the remainder of my life to the rebuilding
It witnessed the revival in many lands of the Jewish Temple." To Einstein he
of the ritual murder lies. It is to the sad ascribes these words: "Palestine without
Temple is to the Jews like a body with-
To credit of the past year that this medieval the
out a head."
libel should have gained believers in this
country.
Lord Melchett has made answer and
rightfully attacks the Grand Mufti for
The past year saw serious anti-Jewish spreading unscrupulous propaganda. This,
riots in Poland, Hungary, Lithuania and the Lord states in his reply, "is to be ex-
Germany. It failed to bring brotherhood pected from the man who was condemned
and good-will among men, regardless of to seven years imprisonment by a British
tribunal for endeavoring to stir up racial
race or creed.
strife in Palestine and who misused the
In spite of these occurrences, however, amnesty extended to him to go on repeating
the past year for a time promised to be his tactics of the past." Lord Melchett
epoch-making for Israel because of the said :
creation of unity in our own ranks. Then
C
I frequently stated I would consecrate such
came calamity.
strength and force as remained during my life

It is needless to review the events of

to rebuilding Eretz Israel and the development
of Palestine, which in as much to the interest

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The traditional greetings from non-Jews
as well as Jewish to the Jewish community,
published in this special holiday issue, re-
veal much.

They point to the varied interest of Jew-
ish leaders, although a place of priority
is this year given to the Palestine events.
They point to the friendship of the chief
executives of this city and state, of the
members of Congress from Michigan and
His Excellency, the President, Mr. Herbert
Hoover.

Mr. Hoover's message is written in the
traditional style of the President's appre-
ciation of Jewish qualities. The other
non-Jewish greetings are written in similar
spirit. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
even goes a step further by advocating na-
tional honors for the financier of the Amer-
ican Revolution, Haym Salomon, in the
form of a monument to be erected in his
memory.

By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM

I'rofiat Duran or Ephodacus
Hebrew grammarian and wit
flourished during the Fourteenth
Century. He was forcibly mad
a convert to Christianity, which he
finally renounced and with his
friend David Bonet, also an en-
forced convert, decided to flee to
Palestine. On the eve of their
departure he received a letter front
his friend, informing him that he
had determined to remain true to
his new faith, of the truth of which
he was unalterably convinced by
the Neophyte I'aul Burgos. In-
censed over such perfidy, Profiat
wrote a satyric brochure, which
apparently sounds like a panegyric
on Christianity, commending Bonet
on his decision and praising him
for it; it really turns cut to be a
rare piece of satyre. Its Hebrew
title is "Al T'hi Ka-Aboteka (Be
not like your fathers)", which in
popular parlance assumed the cor-
rupt pronounciation, of Alteca
Boteca.

Greetings from Maestro Profiat to David
Bonet:

Thou hest reached • decision and chosen

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:t net thy heart in pursuit of
that goal,

of which Paid tie Burgos has so aptly
ClInvinced thee
And enlarged thee in thy faith.
And in that faith thou eem
sest content
And ht
u f ound solace •ml surreaxe.
So do not nwerve from the divine path,
And be not like unto thy Fathers;
Altera Botec•l

Too long
I,
thou had endured the acorn
of men,

Too long hath the finger of mocking
derieion

Been pointed at thy vain endeavors.
Bled thy loins, even gird them with
youthful etrength;
Cast off the burden of thine ancstors.
e
There IA no me
or breath in them,
they
lived their daye;
Thou breathe4t ; in thee eourseth the fire
of life;

new found faith rekindles dead
hopes

And ease thet gladdeneth human hearts.
he not like unto thy Fathers-
Altera iloteca!

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Comfort. peace and joy await thee
amongst men,

contumely shall no longer cant it, dart,
Thy past in now effaced and dishonored
At•Ilei ng lamely through the narrow

Ilan "been
been weshed clean of its erimnon
stein.
For the
wale', of Pardee which cleanse,
h•ve purge
Thy hl 001i of tit'
s vile racial polluton:

That we may have a great leadership
deserving to carry on the tasks ennobled
by the efforts of the late Mr. Marshall, it
is of prime importance that we also train
a thinking constituency, out of which should
arise an able and devoted leadership.
Rosh Hashonah certainly offers a happy
There is no need in American Jewish life
opportunity for the kind of symposium
greater than this, that we train able spokes- which is included in this issue of The De-
men for our people and that such leaders troit Jewish Chronicle.

But we should not and will not
falter, and we must press on
forward on the d:fficult march
towards our final goal. Daring
courage, resolute action, un-
daunted spirit, unrestrained en-
ergy were ever the most powerful
motives of Israel's history; yea,
the very pulsation pressing the
pure heart-blood into the arteries
of Jewish life. Indeed, to be the
standard bearers of the Torah and
to live up to its tenets, Israel had
to be equipped with that high cour-
age, with that tenacity and bold
resoluteness which is undeterred
in danger.
And the same requi-
sites are applicable to the acquisi-
tion of the Promised Land. Our
sages have foretold us long ago

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SO HERE'S wishing the big Random Thoughts

Maestro Profiat Duran

and students whose minds were en-
gaged in the study of the Torah,
and whose only ambition was intel-
lectual and idealistic preferment.
We are stunned by reports of
homes plundered and burned, de-
vastation of flourishing agricul-
tural centers and other acts of
vandalism. Thousands have been
made homeless, without food,
clothing or shelter. It is a ter-
rible night! "Watchman, what of
the night" that has eclipsed the
glowing sunshine of noonday? Oh,
thou dying year 5689 thou hast
surely proven thyself to be a
creature of both day and night and
"neither day nor night."

WASHINGTON JEWISH

Charles
ff. Joseph

Satirical Epistle by

the past weeks, and again to refer to the
of the Arab population as that of the Jews.
A new was riseth, oblivious to hie sires
From my very earliest connections with Pales-
unfortunate happenings in Palestine. It
Oldielooe to all the ties that bind •
hoo.•ndfold.
tine matters, I always stressed the necessity of
will avail us nothing again to lament the
Si,
to
y Father,:
friendly co-operation between the two branches
Altera Itotera!
death of the great leader, Louis Marshall.
of the Semitic race—the Jews and Arabs. I
When the nebulous fringe of time will
bring
The events of the past year demand that
think it is most disastrous that certain unscru-
A haze to thine eye, • Butter to thy
pulous agitators should for their own personal
hea
heart.
we instead plan for the future.
reasons, which are well known, continually
A regret which unrevealed lies hidden
In the depths of thy yearning soul;
interfere
with
what
could
be
a
most
fruitful
In 5690 Jewry must carry on the work
Then
David Bonet, thou shalt hear
and friendly working together.
Faintly tinklinir bells of vanished yorse
ears
begun in 5689. During the coming year
Tolling from the pit of abysmal rem
voiceleen, tonguelene, fiery rode
This speaks for itself in emphasizing the Calling.
we must concentrate on the building of an
That burn therneelves Into eternity;
desire of the Jewish people to retain Altera !literal
able leadership to succeed the great man
Thu" speaks thy friend, Maeetro Prof-
friendship with the Arabs and to build in int Duren.
who has honored a quarter of a century of Palestine a settlement to the benefit of all
Jewish history and who is now no longer inhabitants, and not with the intention of
0
with us.
dispossessing anyone.
Neither the uprising in Palestine nor the
The manner in which the Grand Mufti
death of Mr. Marshall must be permitted and his ilk will distort facts will be gleaned
to disrupt the unity of Israel. The great from the correct statement of Professor
achievement of Mr. Marshall, in associa- Einstein which is now so unscrupulously
By RABBI A. M. ASHINSKY
tion with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who falsified by the Arab leader. The great
formed the Jewish Agency, must be re- scientist, molested by newspapermen at the
"There shall bnor
tie
tained as a lasting symbol of Jewish ideal- time his new Field Theory was announced, uini n either d ay e one ni ght particular
.
eve
time t here Nhell he
ism and unity. To strengthen this unity instead issued a statement on the question
Zechariah XIV.
This metaphor can be aptly ap
should be Jewry's prime task in the new of Jewish effort in Palestine. This state-
plied to the year 5689, which ha
year.
ment, which was quoted by us editorially Just drawn to a close. Insofar a.
it affects Israel the year presentee
The destruction of Jewish property by on Feb. 8, reads:
a confusing complex. Day and
Moslem marauders in Palestine makes the
night,
good and evil, the golden
Jewry is like an animal which was beheaded
reconstruction of the Jewish Homeland the
rays of aluminous national hope
2,000 years ago. Jerusalem, with its Temple,
and
the
horrifying shadows of a
leading task for Jewry. Palestine's up-
was its head. It was God's miracle that it
people's shattered expectations—
remained alive for no long a period without a
building challenges the conscience of
are to be found interlocked in its
head.
chronology. How vague and varied
Jewry, and the manner in which Jewish
The second miracle occurred when the body,
are thy events, 0 departed year!
grown formless, several scores of years ago
public opinion has been aroused by recent
For a while we behold the radiant
decided that it must have a head, and has
events seems to point to a great national
sun of the Jewish homeland shed.
already formed in Palestine a little head. How-
ding luster upon her scattered chil-
effort for Eretz Israel,
ever, this head is still too small, too thin and
dren to all corners of the globe;
weak for such a huge body.
they are all jubilant and enrap-
Economically ruined European Jewry
See to it that it grows into full-sited head
tured with excessive joy. The mo-
as befits the body.
must not be forgotten. Poverty-stricken
mentous Zionist Congress in Zu-
rich; the glorious accomplish-
Israel is threatened with spiritual poverty
Nowhere, in the statements of Einstein, ment of the extended Jewish
by virtue of its inability to support its re- Melchett or any of the other leaders in Agency as its sequel;
a
ligious and educational institutions, and Zionism has it ever been said that Jews strong and enthusiastic Jewry united,
filled
more fortunate American Jews must con- had designs on the Temple area, now Mos- with fervent resoluteness for its
rehabilitation and regeneration in
tinue to come to the aid of their people lem property. All that was asked for was the land of Israel! Yes, "A new
overseas.
light was caused to shine upon
great economic effort, which has already Zion."
We emerged from the long,
In this country Jewry's first responsibil- benefited the Arab as much as the Jew. gloomy Goluth-night to the bril-
liancy of a bright day.
ity is to its educational institutions. This Falsehoods of the typelf iead by the Grand
Then all of a sudden, as a thun-
is not the time to repeat the importance Mufti harm his people as much as ours, and derbolt
from the clear skies, there
of Jewish education. Suffice it to em- a wise Arabic nation surely will not toler- is thick darkness. "And it becom-
cth night, wherein all the beasts
phasize that whatever indifference has ate such unscrupulousness much longer.
of the forest do creep forth and
existed in Jewish ranks to Jewish matters
the lions roar after their prey."
We are horrified by the gruesome
and causes was directly attributable to ig-
The Traditional New Year Greetings. butcheries of innocent teachers
norance.

A well-informed American Israel, which
now, by virtue of being first in numbers
and in economic prosperity, is the recog-
nized leader of world Jewry, will bring
great honor to our people. An uninformed
and ignorant American Jewry will not only
fail to build but will be destructive of ev-
erything that is good in Jewish idealism.
This year must bring an improvement
in Jewish leadership. We have suffered
from a lack of constructive and able leader-
ship. The making of good leaders must
have its beginning in a strengthened and
increased effort for Jewish education, in
order that such leaders may be trained to
be worthy of the spiritual heritage that is

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family a Happy New Year! Speaking from a
strictly Jewish standpoint the Jews living in the
United States shouldn't have much trouble in experi-
encing happiness during the year 5690. Oh, we
mayn't join this or that club, but who cares? We
can't join everything anyhow. I don't care if the
Shriners never ask me to be one of them, nor the
Rotarians. And I wouldn't walk across the street
to be a member of the Westchester-Biltmore Coun-
try Club in New York State. And if the Keystone
Athletic Club of Pittsburgh, Pa., were to send me
a life membership free of charge, I would return it
to them with thanks for I place too high a value on
my time to spend any of it there. So I could go
all along the line and grin at those folk who try to
assume a superiority complex which fits them about
as well as a Hallowe'en costume would Mr. Coolidge.
The Jews of Europe pay a much higher price for
being Jews than we do in this country.

THAI' nation-wide good-will fraternity move-
ment should become a reality it will make a fine
New Year's gift for the Gentile as well as the Jew.
It seems the idea was born in Baltimore the other
(lay when Protestants, and Jews, and Catholics,
marched shoulder to shoulder in the little 200th
birthday party of the city. Time was when a Jew
had pretty hard sledding in Baltimore and it took
a great many years of effort and a lot of hard work
on the part of some liberal Christians to give him
his rights as a citizen. Maryland was rather intoler-
ant, but it's getting over it rather bravely. So just
to show the world that intolerance is rapidly going
onto the scrap head in the city of terrapin, the Jew-
ish, Protestant and Catholic 1 , raternal orders joined
hands and paraded. Then to clinch it the sugges-
tion was made and adopted that a permanent non-
sectarian brotherhood be formed, not alone in Balti-
more but throughout the country. Well, here's
hoping! And a happy New Year to you all, my dear
Catholic and l'rotestant friends!

LOTS

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of stories are coming to light about the late
Louis Marshall and this article which I came
across the other evening in the New Yorker inter-
ested me so much that I ant passing it along to those
readers who may not have seen the sophisticated
Gotham magazine:

Louis Marshall never lived like the million-
aire he was. Ile wore his clothes until they
were shiny and baggy; he would wear a hat for
as long as three years. He never owned an
automobile. He always rode to work on the
Third avenue "L" and came home on the Lex-
ington avenue subway, usually hanging to a
strap and reading the baseball scores. No one
can remember his ever having attended a
game but he was always up on the league
standings. Ile was raised in poverty and ab-
horred extravagance, which he considered one
of the vices of the day. Ile was noted as a phi-
lanthropist but he would save stamped, ad-
dressed envelopes received from business con-
cerns, scratch out the addresses, and use them
in his personal correspondence.

In his office, Marshall worked in his shirt-
sleeves. All the drawers of his desk were kept
open so they could serve as racks for his law
books. No clerk ever helped him with his
briefs. Ile looked up everything himself and
months afterward could name the pages on
which he had found certain citations. His
memory was trained by his mother, who made
hint, as a child, read chapters of books to her
and then recite as much as he could recall. In
college he was held a genius in memory tests.
It was this that enabled him to finish law
school in half the allotted time.
Ile had a
vast law library in his home and often worked
in it all night.
So devoutly did the noted lawyer revere the
Constitution that he regarded anyone who
broke an amendment, including the Eighteenth,
as practically guilty of treason. A die-hard
Republican, he would defend anyone of any
party if it were on constitutional grounds.
Thus he was one of the first to come to the de-
fense of the Socialists ousted from the New
York Assembly. Ile had no use for Socialists,
but he did for their constitutional rights. Ile
defended the Civil Liberties Union. Often he
took eases without a fee, and once he said he
would be willing to pay for the privilege.
Marshall had a secret leaning toward poetry
and wrote many sonnets. A few of these were
published anonymously. Ile occasionally wrote
humorous sketches in dialect and read them
to friends. Ile read books in half a dozen lan-
guages. Ile was an authority on trees and
wildflowers. Usually kind, even jovial, his pro-
fanity was matchless when aroused. He some-
times even startled banquets and luncheons with
purple phrases. Once he caused a furore at a
dinner given to the Rumanian Minister of Fi-
nance, here to arrange a loan, by denouncing
Rumania as a country which didn't deserve a
loan until it became civilized. The loan wasn't
made.

AN INTERESTING item appeared in the New
York World which was reprinted from a special
cable sent to the Jewish Daily Forward from Tel
Aviv. Not many of my readers read either the
Evening World or the Forward no this will be news
to them.

Sheik Abou Kishek, of Petach, was an invet-
erate foe of the Jews a decade ago, and the
moving spirit in the outbreaks in 1921, he him-
self leading the attack on Petach Tikvah. He
was ruler over 2,000 Bedouins, the possessor
of vast tracts of land, and his influence ex-
tended over scores of sheiks and villages as far
as Shehem. Ile was defeated, however, on
the battlefield of Petach Tikvah and sentenced
to six years' imprisonment and to pay an in-
demnity of $10,000.
After he had served two years, however, he
was released due to the intercession of the
Jews, anti when he emerged from prison he
concluded an eternal peace with the Jews
whereupon the Jews gave a feast in his honor
and presented to him $2,500. In the present
outbreak he remained loyal to his oath despite
the efforts of the Grand Mufti, and refused to
join the movement against the Jews.
A few days ago he chose a wife for his
younger brother and invited the Jews of neigh-
boring colonies to the wedding. In deference
to them, he refrained from inviting any of the
effendi, of the Arab towns, as these are re-
garded as the prime movers in the recent dis-
turbances.

RABBI STEPHEN WISE said in Paris the eve of

his departure for the United States that Dr.
Weizmann should come to this country as he had
reason to know that doubts and misgivings obtain
in American Jewry concerning the future of the
Zionst movement. And he says further that what
attitude American Jewry will take on the re-settle-
ment of Palestine by the Jews will depend largely
on the outcome of an all-American Jewish Confer-
ence with Dr. Weizmann present. This is quite
true. The uprising of the Arabs has in a large
measure unsettled the opinions of many Jews re-
garding the possibility of ever establishing a home-
land in Palestine that will enable the Jew to realize
the fullness of life he craves. Dr. Wise speaks the
truth when he says that the British government
must co-operate to the maximum of its ability. To
crush the present uprising without providing a plan
to prevent • recurrence of the tragedy is merely
evading, not meeting, the issue. Unless there can
be some guarantee of peace and security to the
Jews living in Palestine it will have a most dis-
couraging effect upon the entire movement.
I will
say this, that in the past I have been inclined to
think that Dr. Wise was wrong in his aggressive
demands upon the British government to live up to
the demands of the mandate. But today the whole
world realizes that he was right and it was because
through indifference or neglect on the part of the
British that the present acute situation has devel-
o pad .

MAMA/454149.

By Hillel, The Observer

FIFTY-THREE years ago, on
June 15, 1876, a young Gentile
lad accompanied his father into the
newest Jewish house of worship of
the day in the capital. A few days
ago the lad died, now an old man,
of course.

We refer to Ulysses S. Grant,
Jr., who, as a boy, sat next to his
father in the first bench of the new

Orthodox synagogue on the (lay
of its dedication in 1876. Presi-

dent Grant was evidently im-

press•d with the day's ritual, for
he wrote a special item about it in
his diaries.

The Ulysses S. Grant, Ill, who
is now an important official in
Washington, is a nephew of the de-
ceased Jr., and a grandson of the
late president. The building which
was then dedicated as a synagogue
is still standing at Sixth, corner G
street, though it has long been out-
grown by the congregation which
made use of it in those days.

will Rose Rosenberg say
W HAT
to George Akerson when they

meet for the first time in the
While (louse?

Ramsay MacDonald arrived on
these shores? Rost. Rosenberg is
the English premier's private sec-
retary, occupying the same posi-
tion as George Akerson does with
President Hoover. The little Jew-
ish lady, now famous, will be able
to handle the situation fully, we
understand from those who know
her at the British embassy.

She was described by one mem-
ber of the staff who only recently
returned front a visit to England
as "alive but not presumptuous;
sensible but not conceited." Well,
let us see for ourselves.

STEPIIEN WISE had a (lay in the
capital last week and it surely
was his day. On almost a mo-
ment's notice he was able to ar-
range for interviews with the lead-
ing senators on Capitol Hill, the
secretary of state, the British am-
bassador and the president him-
self.

Rabbi Wise's name was magic
wherever uttered. It proved to be
the open sesame to a number of
other important portals whose mas-
ters might be helpful in the Pales-
tine situation. And they undoubt-
edly were.

At the Republican National
Committee headquarters Dr. Wise
shocked someone when he scrib-
bled a little note using his left
hand. We heard the gentleman
whisper to his companion, "Ah,
Leftie Louis." Few people know
that the noted orator is sinister
though perhaps some misunder-
standing or jealous enemies have
applied that characterization to
him in another sense,

IT WAS somewhat embarrassing
to take a walk with Dr. Wise.
His easily recognized face and big
frame attracted attention to him
along Connecticut avenue, and on
all sides we could hear hushed com-
ments: "Oh, there is Rabbi Wise."
"Gee, that looks like Stephen
Wise," etc.

And you needn't think that only
unimportant and unknown persons
recognized him. Ex-Secretary
Hughes on his first day in America
happened to be promenading along
the same evening and most gra-
ciously and gracefully doffed his
heavy derby and shouted cheerily,

"Good morning to you, Dr. Wise.
It's great to be famous, or ma}
be it isn't.

It was interesting to hear Dr.
Wise's reflections and comments
as we passed such a structure as
the British embassy, the former
home of Justice Brandeis, the
State Department, the D. A. R.
building, and Roosevelt's tempos-
ary White (louse. Too bad a
newspaperman cannot write every-
thing he hears,

Someone remarked that there is
a great resemblance between the
bishop of Washington and the
powerful Jewish pulpiteer; where-
upon we learned that they call
each other by their first names,
besides others which we dare not
publish.

Wise and Freeman have been
friends since their young manhood
and perhaps they have really
grown to be like each other. Both
are large of frame, powerful of
voice, profuse of gestures and
both exceedingly successful in
radio preaching. And besides,
both of them have popularly be-
come beatified into "St. Stephen"
and "St. James."

By the way, Stephen has his own
"Jim"—James Waterman Wise.
You should have seen the older
%Vise guffaw and applaud when we
repeated to him one of the epi-
grams coined by Jimmy in his re-
cent platform with Senator King.
Speaking of the administration in
Palestine the younger Wise shout-
ed: "We are tired of Lukewarm
politics."

When Stephen heard the phrase,
he clapped his hands and mid,
"Great! Good for Jimmy!"

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SECRETARY WILBUR of the
Stale Department won't get a
chance to forget when Yom Kip-
pur takes place this year for he
has already received a letter of re-
gret for an absence which will be
caused by the Jewish Holy Day.

It happened that the first meet-
ing this fall of the Federal Com-
mission on Education is scheduled
for Monday, the 14th of October
and, of course, the only Jewish
member on that commission will be
unable to attend—Mr. Maurice
Bisgyer of Washington.

Now if the National Jewish Re-
ligious bodies were real efficient
and kept departments and institu-
tions informed of Jewish holidays,
this conflict might not have hap•
pened. Secretary Wilbur probably
would have been happy to schedule
the meeting for another day if he
had known about the Jewish sacred
occasion.

WE OWE It to you and we give
-it to you, particularly because
we forgot to do no last year and
the year before.

Hind the Observer wishes all
his readers and friends a very
happy New Year and trusts that
the coming 12 months will prove a
burden of satisfaction to all causes
in which we are collectively inter-
ested.

A happy New Year to you all.

A Review by Philip Slomovitz

LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: A Biographical Sketch. By Jacob De
Haas. Published by Bloch Publishing Co., 31 West Thirty-
first street, New York ($3.00).

Hon. Louis 0. Brandeis, Justice
of the United States Supreme
Court, as is Jacob De Haas. Jus-
tice Brendeis, for many years
known as "the people's attorney,"
gained his nation wide popularity
bpon his assumption of leadership
in the Zionist movement, and it
may rightfully be said that the
most interesting years in his ca-
reer were those in which he direct-
ed the destinies of American Zion-
ism. De Haas, as secretary of the
American Zionist Organization un-
der Brandeis, and as the man who
claims glory for having attracted
this eminent Jurist to the Pales-
tine movement, stands out as the

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IN HEAVEN St. James and St.
Stephen may be intimate enough
to call each other by their first
names or they may not, but "Jim"
and "Steve" are the cognomina
used for each other by Dr. Stephen
S. Wise and Bishop James E. Free-
man of Washington. Believe it
or not.

Brandeis Emerges Faultless in
Biography by Jacob de Haas

Perhaps no other man is as well
qualified to write a biography of

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one person nearest to Brandeis and
best informed about him.
De Haas's biographical sketch
of Brandeis, following immediately
after his publication of the biog-
raphy of Dr. Theodor Ilerzl, is
interesting in the light of present
Zionist happenings, and especially
in view of the author's comparison
of the two leaders. The De Haas
biography is in large measure a
defense of the principles advocated
by Justice Brandeis prior to the
ill-fated Cleveland convention in
1921 which terminated his leader-
ship of the American movement.
It at the same time presents the
Supreme Court Justice as one who
to this day retains faith in Zion-

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We Observe That---

The Grand Mufti has a red beard. It is now crimson with
the blood of innocent Jewish men, women and children.

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A writer in the Scribe says that the decay of Jewish family life is
responsible for jazz. Isn't that putting the cart
before the horse?

George Bernard Shaw says the less clothes, the less sex
appeal, which leaves the sexophile in quite a quandary.

Clemenceau talking to reporters says he is an atheist. then tells the
interviewers to "get to hell out of here." That's the sort of atheist
who gives up heaven to retain hell.

A Rev. Blackshear of a P. E. Church in Brooklyn ordered
the negro worshippers out of his congregation. He has an
appropriate name for one who wishes to separate the black
sheep from the white.

Professor Steinach has discovered an element in a frog's brain which
injected into the human mental deficient, cures the ailment. In other
words, he is putting some real hops into the human

brain.

Henry Ford Goes Back to First School—Headline. Now
he will be able to prove or disprove that. "history is the
bunk."

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