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Reading of the Torah rot', " Shmini Atureth, Sat-
urday, Oct. 26.
Pentateuchal portions--Deut. 14:22-16:4; Num.
29:35-30:1.
Prophetical portions—I Kings 8:54-86.
The book of Koheleth is read.
Reading of the Torah for Simchath Torah, Sunday,
Oct. 27.
Pentateuchal portions—Deut. 33:1-34:12; Gen.
1:1.2:3; Num. 29:35-30:1.
Prophetical portion—Joshua 1.
October 25, 1929
Tishri 21, 5690
Give to the Community Fund.
The fact that most of our local Jewish
social agencies are dependent for their ex-
istence upon the Detroit Community Fund
is reason enough why every Jew should re-
spond to the appeal for the charity institu-
tions with a contribution within his means,
The Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
troit, being an important factor in the pres-
ent campaign, through the Community
Fund as well as through its own commit-
tees, appeals to the local Jewish commun-
ity to live up honorably to its duties and
communal obligations as represented in the
present drive. But the Jewish Welfare
Federation this year asks for an increased
budget, and thereby increases Jewry's ob-
ligations to the fund. An increased Jewish
budget calls for an increased Jewish con-
tribution.
Proof of the magnitude of Jewish obli-
gations will be found in the following table
of budgetary requests from the Commun-
ity Fund by the Jewish agencies from the
fund's 1930 goal of $3,650,000.
Fresh Air Society
$ 17,667
Ilebrew Free Loan Association.........
7,162
Jewish Centers Association
40,809
Jewish Child Care Council
46,253
Jewish Social Service Bureau
61,129
North End Clinic
80,490
United Jewish Charities
29,285
Young Women's Hebrew Association 23,4:19
Total
$308,234
But there is also the communal obliga-
tion. Detroit Jews are obligated to support
the fund as citizens, regardless of their re-
ligious and racial grouping. Let every Jew,
therefore, subscribe in full measure to this
fund, thus honoring a communal obligation
and making possible the uninterrupted
activities of our Jewish social agencies.
of the injustice of the proposed inclusion
of a "blank day" in the calendar, and when
the change is made it should at least re-
frain from desecrating the holiness of the
fixity of the Sabbath.
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Isolation During
Days of Terror
News Letter from Jerusalem.
The Harvard Brawl.
It is easy to excuse the assault on Jewish
students on the Harvard campus by an initi-
ate during the Hasty Pudding Club's cere-
mony on the ground of drunkenness. There
is no doubt that excessive drinking by stu-
dents at universities has created an evil
problem. Nevertheless, in the case of the
Harvard brawl last week, it serves to give
us an idea of feeling toward us among the
student youth.
Evidently the inbred hatred of Jews is
stronger than all sermons on good-will. At
Cambridge, Mass., the young initiate who
made a spectacle of himself acted on orders
from higher-ups, we are told. Which
makes the situation serious enough. But
if his actions were a result of his being in-
ebriated, then it is all the worse. Because
in his state of drunkenness he must have re-
vealed his true feelings and has spoken out
h is nourished sentiments.
here is a gigantic task for universities:
To strive to uproot prejudice and race hat-
red from the hearts of American students,
The Social Club and the Community.
Among the revelations (luring the recent
appeals for the Palestine Emergency Relief
Fund was the ready, voluntary and unsolic-
ited response from the social clubs and
youth organizations. For the first time Jew-
ish boys' and girls' organizations, whose
Jewishness in most cases was limited to the
fact that the memberships happened to be
all-Jewish, offered to participate in a Jew-
ish cause.
Disregarding for the time being the rea-
sons, and ignoring the fact that the response
was elicited in an emergency situation, the
outstanding feature of the campaign was
that these clubs did contribute funds from
their treasuries, or undertook to sponsor
fund-raising functions for the fund. These
organizations, at which reproaches were
hitherto pointed for their lack of interest
in Jewish matters, now, by their acts in an
emergency, also seem to say to the commun-
ity that they are capable of doing much
good and that they ought to be reckoned
with.
ROY KU
One of the saddest features o
the gigantic disaster through which
we have just passed is our dreadfu
isolation during the entire period
of the pogroms and later. It is
useless, of course, to speak of the
Arabs. They were so intoxicated
with hatred of the Jews that there
could be no question of finding
among them definite groups or cir-
cles which would place themselves
in opposition to the massacres. In
this respect we are worse off here
than in Czarist Russia. There the
progressive press and the Inlelli-
gentzia would constantly condemn
the violence directed against the
Jews. There could be found
Christian jurists who would defend
the Jews in their trials against the
pogrom makers. Here in the land
of Israel, all Arabian lawyers, doc-
tors, druggists immediately allied
themselves with the Arabian
Executive and joined its demon-
strations against the government,
and against the Jews, and in favor
of the murderers of Hebron and
Tzfas. It is interesting to note
that the Christian Arabs did not to
any extent take part in the mas-
sacres, especially in Jerusalem, but
immediately after the pogroms
they joined the ranks of the Muss
sulman Arabs and are now collect-
inc money for the "suffering" Ara-
bian families, and carry on a boy-
cott propaganda with provocation
in the Arabian press. They are
more educated than their Moham-
medan brothers, and play, there-
fore, a leading role. So it is that
all the Arabs, even those that are
in opposition to the Grand Mufti
and the Arabian Executive, have
joined forces against us in the mo-
ment of struggle.
But what, we ask, was the role
played by the Europeans who dwell
in the land? Why did they not
take a stand against the hooligans?
We have here Englishmen, Ameri-
cans, Germans, Italians, etc. Not
one of these groups came to our
aid during the massacres, nor came
to express condolence after the
massacre. And yet these groups
own in Palestine many convents,
schools, hospitals and other insti-
tutions who work in the name of
religion, culture, philanthropy. Do
these institutions not house the
best individuals that the above-
mentioned nationalities can send
to the Holy Land? And yet, where
were these "best people" at the
time when Jewish blood was being
shed in the streets, and where are
they now?
Other Christians Were Silent.
This is a time for inventory in Jewish
Further, we have here other
matters, and as we re-evaluate Jewish val- Christian neighbors: Armenians,
Greeks, Abyssinians. They, too,
ues, movements and causes, it is well that
suddenly became silent. The na-
we also give thought to the social clubs and tional-religious groups are so well
to the boys' and girls' groups, whether they organized they comprise regularly
constituted communities with pa-
are plain clubs or Greek letter sororities and triarchs and priests, with various
fraternities. The latter particularly have institutions. For years we have
been reproached, not only for their indif- been living together with them in
peaceful and friendly relations.
ference to Jewish matters and for the un- And yet, not one of them consid-
Retaining the Fixity of the Sabbath. Jewishness of their activities, but as well ered it necessary to help us or to
George Eastman, aged multi-millionaire for their Jewishly foreign spirit as express- express their sympathy in the days
of our great misfortune.
kodak manufacturer of Rochester, N. Y., ed in their names. But the critics them-
Moreover, there exist in Pales-
in a lengthy report on the question of the selves perhaps are subject to rebuke, and tine international organizations,
reform of the calendar, submitted to the with them the community's leaders, for not such as Masonic lodges, and orders
with Americans and Englishmen at
Secretary of State, who in turn is submit- having attempted to remedy an unsatisfact- their head, scout and sport associa-
ting it to the League of Nations for inter- ory situation ; for not having sought the co- tions. Not one of them made a
move in our direction at the time
national action, wants the world to know
operation of the clubs in Jewish matters.
of terror. In the contrary the
that big business is anxious for the change
Surely, it is reasonable to believe that Arabian members of the organiza-
proposed. Pointing to the "grave defects Jews who were roused by emergency con- tion openly placed themselves in
the ranks of the pogrom defenders
in the present calendar," and to the suc-
ditions may also be awakened to Jewish
and agitators.
cessful experiments by many business con- needs in normal times. It is reasonable to
The few cases which proved to
exceptions are all the more ap-
cerns with a simplified calendar of 13
believe that the Jewish social clubs may be be
preciated by us. They glitter all
months of 28 (lays each, Mr. Eastman's made a power for great good in the com- the more like lonely stars upon a
committee proposes that an extra month be munity, and every effort should be made to
dark night. The few Arabian
added to the present twelve, that each retain their interest in Jewish affirs, now householders who saved their
neighbors in Hebron; the Arabian
month have twenty-eight days, and that an so sorrowfully aroused by the happenings workers in Jerusalem who protect-
ed
their Jewish comrades who are
extra "blank" day be inserted to complete in Palestine. Unfortunately these groups
engaged with them in building
the cycle.
are neglected and the activities of the youth
Rocktufeller's museum. The Eng-
ird
lish officials who were mobilized
And here is where the rub comes in, and
is misdirected.
during the first few days and
why those who are concerned over the sanc-
On the club page of this issue will be among. them Mr. Best, who paid
10
tity of the Sabbath (lay oppose these pro- found proof for our statement that the
with his life; the glorious Oxford
student who showed so much cour-
posals. Because the insertion of a "blank"
youth has been neglected in its Jewish
age in protecting outlying Jewish
day would make the Sabbath day a wan- training. It will be noted from the reports
settlements; the Christian mission-
dering one on the calendar, occurring one of these clubs that at a time when the Jews
ary Ratisbon school in Jerusalem
which
hid in its building scores of
year on Fridays, another on Thursdays, the
are observing Simchath Torah, the Festi- Jewish families; the few Christian
third on Wednesdays. For the observant val of Rejoicing in the Law, our youth, ladies who have recently collected
Jew, who would never submit to a change t hrough their clubs, are instead celebrating money and clothing for the Jewish
refugees. These humanitarians of
in his day of rest, the adoption of the pro- 1 lallowe'en. Very few of these groups have all nations we shall never forget.
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posed new calendar would mean not only deemed it important, if Hallowe'en must
spiritual tragedy, but because of the uni- be observed by them, at least to postpone
Abbreviated History
versal practice, if adopted, he would be t he celebration until after the Jewish holi-
threatened with the greatest economic Ca- c days. The fact that many of these groups A SIIORT HISTORY OF THE.
lamitics. It is important, therefore, that meet under Jewish auspices, at the Jewish
JEWS, by E. E. Kellett, pub-
lished by Lincoln MacVeagh,
Jewish organizations,—and there is unity C enter and at the Y. W. 11. A. clubhouse,
The Dial Press, 152 West 13th
on the question among Reform, Orthodox s hifts responsibility from the youth to the
Street, New York, $3.50.
and Conservative Jews,—that all Jewry e Iders who are charged with the duty to
In the preface to this volume
the author states that "it aims at
present its grievance to the international s upervise their activities.
giving a rational account of the
court that is to act on the question, asking
Our youth is not unwilling to learn, but development of one of the most
that the Jews' right to free worship should o ur elders seem to have failed to instruct remarkable nations the world has
known." He then proceeds to
not Lc disturbed by such changes in the t hem Jewishly. Through their clubs they give a history of the Jews in 270
calendar, and that the fixity of the Sab- s hould now be approached for a Jewish
pages which include a select glos-
sary, a short bibliography and
bath he guaranteed with whatever changes p urpose,
chronicle table. and 78 pages of
may be effected.
These groups should be informed of the which are devoted to an introduc-
It has been suggested that Jewish op- n eed for American Jewish co-operation in tion aimed at an explanation of the
Old Testament conception of his-
position to the proposed change in the cal- t he work for Palestine's reconstruction,— tory, to an explanation of Yah-
endar should not be altogether negative, a task from which the Jewish people can weh, a preliminary sketch of Is-
raelitish history, etc.
but that a positive front be presented. A n
ever deviate. They should be befriended
When it is taken into consider-
careful study made of the calendar shows in local tasks, particularly those affecting ation also that this volume aims
at
including everything down to
that it is possible to change it into a thir-
he approaching campaign for a Jewish the Roman period in our history,
"leen-month cycle and retain the present C enter which is to serve as a home for most in order that there may be a con-
necting link in E. F.. Kellett's
position for the Sabbath by eliminating the 0 f them. They should be encouraged to
story with Christianity, the reader
proposed "blank" day and inserting instead st udy Jewish life and history, to join edu- realizes
inadequate such a
a "blank week" overy seven years and an c ational groups and to enroll in adult study history is how
for Jews, no matter how
additional "blank week" every twenty- g coups being formed by the Hebrew well written this volume is, or how
well the author has suc :etded in
eighth year. There must be some other sc hoots,
abbreviating facts.
The author has indeed written
ways out of a situation which would call
Our young people, either individually or
well and has certainly succeeded
for the violation of the holiest feelings not th rough their social clubs, should become
in making remarkable abbrevia-
only of the Jewish people, but also of the a power in the community, offering encour- tions. But that is not satisfying.
the historical sense of "one of the
Seventh-day Adventists and Seventh-day
a gement to the elders that they will some
moat remarkable nations the world
Baptists, as welLas many Christians of other d ay honorably replace them in the admini- has known." It will satisfy those
denominations. Whatever the solution, st ration of Jewish affairs. But these elders who search for higher criticism,
and as a supplementary work it
the League of Nations committee that is to m ust take the lead in encouraging such an
is interesting. But for ordinary
deal with this question must be informed in terest on the part of the youth.
students this volume is quite a bit
too short.
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WASHINGTON JEWISH
MIRROR
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SEE where Col. Lehman, the lieutenant-governor
of New York, has stated his approvals of any
measure for a pension for the needy aged. It
seems cruel that society has failed to recognize its
obligations to the aged. While science has helped to
increase the span of years, nothing has been done
to make possible the comfort of the aged. In fact
the tendency of this machine and business age is to
reduce the age limit, thus depriving increasing num-
bers of men in their sixties of the opportunity to
earn a living. There's something topsy-turvy about
this whole business and it looks as if there is a
moral obligation resting upon society to consider
welfare measures for the aged.
By Hillel, The Observer
/IIAT effect will the investiga-
tion of lobbies have upon
Jewish affairs in the legislative
halls of the capitol?
None of you can realize how im-
portant this question is unless you
are in Washington and sense a lit-
tle of the earnestness with -.shish
the lobby question is being at-
tacked by the senatorial inquisi-
tors. It looks today as if the ex-
plosion as a result of this inquiry
may blast to pieces years of effort
on the part of certain organiza-
tions. Fortunately, however, Jew-
ish organizations have never been
deeply intrenched as "lobbyists."
At least, there has been no secret
wire pulling for any Jewish pur-
poses in the halls of Congress. The
word "secret" makes a great dif-
ference, because every senator
realizes that legitimate and open
activity in behalf of certain causes
will always he necessary.
I WAS asked if Col. Noble Judah, who has just
retired as ambassador to Cuba, is a Jew. I
searched all reference books at my disposal but
could find nothing to throw any light on the subject.
So I broadcasted the query through this column
and have received the answer from a reader living
in Chicago. Ile says that "his grandfather knew
the grandparents of Col. Judah, who lived at that
time in southern Indiana, and they were pious
Portuguese Jews. But the son (father of Col.
Judah), now dead, did not take any interest in
Jewish communal life in Chicago, but he and his
family attended Protestant churches. The writer
also informs me that Col. Noble Judah is not in
any way affiliated with Jewish life or with any Jew-
kb congregation. The Judahs have always been
representative citizens, taking a leading interest in
Chicago civic matters. But in these circumstances
I think that I would be obliged to answer my corre-
spondent by saying that Colonel Noble Judah is a
Jew merely by birth.
Whenever there was imminent a
series cut in the immigration
quota, the corridors of the House
and Senate office building were
tilled with lobbyists on both sides
of the question, the Daughters of
American Revolution, the Patriotic
Sons of America, the Junior Order
of American Mechanics, the Suns
of Revolution, etc., clamored loud
and long. for "exclusion of aliens!"
Similarly loud and long were the
appeals and vociferous demands of
the American Jewish Congress, the
American Jewish Committee and
various national Jewish bodies.
Who is a Jewish lobbyist? Ste-
phen Wise is one; Cyrus Adler is
one; Louis Marshall was one of
the very frequent lobbyists. But
efforts such as these will not be
seriously affected by the investiga-
tion.
The same may be said of active
Zionists who labored long and
earnestly for the passage of the
Palestine resolution. They worked
not behind closed doors, but in the
open.
There are, in addition, a few
sincere Zionists in Washington
who are always trying to create
good will among the members of
the House and the Senate no that
in important moments these legis-
lators will understand the sig,nifi-
dance of Zionism and lend a hand
if necessary. This, too, cannot be
classed with objectionable lobby-
ing that is being hammered at"ix
the Senate committee room.
THERE'S
a mighty interesting article in The
Nation, written by an English Jew named Wil-
liam Zukerman. 10 is a journalist of reputation
and what he says of Palestine is worth reading and
considering. ' He isn't very polite either and when
he has something to say he says it without fear of
offending anybody. Here is what he says about the
Wailing Wall:
That the Wailing Wall should have become
the center of controversy in l'alestine is one of
the greatest ironies of fate. Modern Jews are,
as a people, probably the most advanced in
religious thought, and are less than any other
people in the world dominated by church dog-
mas. Zionism, it is true, has somewhat re-
vived old religious dogmas by giving them a
new nationalistic luster, but even at that, most
of the young Zionist pioneers going out to
Palestine are Socialists and freethinkers, and
do not care a hang about a few old stones in
a dirty Arab alley in Jerusalem. Even the
Orthodox rabbis are not pleased with the at-
tempt at the deification of the Wall. They
rightly contend that this is but another form
of idolatry, which the Jewish religion has op-
posed for centuries, and is strictly prohibited
by sacred laws. In fact, the entire contro-
versy smacks so much of medievalism that no
section of Jewish society except some fanatics
from Eastern Galicia, living in an atmosphere
of the fifteenth century, or some equally
fanatic militant Zionist revisionists takes it
seriously. Yet this legend of a Jewish most
holy Place obscures the entire l'alestine situa-
tion, distorts the Jewish side of the question,
and is very likely to bring much mischief in
the future.
B UT
more startling is his opinion on the subject
of a Jewish homeland. He insists that one of
the myths that have led to the present trouble is
the belief in a Jewish National Home and he as-
serts that "if the latest tragedy in l'alestine ac-
complishes nothing else it ought at least to prick
the bubble of this illusion. he charges that the
have received less consideration in what they
thought to be a homeland than in other parts of the
world. For example, whatever free crown land has
been distributed by the British to the Arabs. The
Jews have not received a foot of free land for colo-
nization purposes. They have had to pay dearly for
every acre they are cultivating. Ile says that even
if Palestne was not to be a Jewish national home-
land the Palestine Jews were entitled to one-fifth
of the free land, but they received nothing. Ile
charges that Jewish immigration into Palestine is
more restricted than into the United States under
quota. The system of unequal taxation forces the
J ews to pay practically all the taxes of the country.
Although the Jews are the heaviest taxpayers they
are in addition called upon to support largely their
own schools, hospitals and clinics. Mr. Zukerman
says that the supercilious, snobbish and even down-
right anti-Semitic treatment which the Jewish popu-
lation receives from the British officials of the l'al-
estine administration is worse than if they were
members of some East African colony.
S O
SENATOR IIARRY B. IIAWES is
the latest recruit to the case of
senatorial lecturers to Jewish bod-
ies. Hawes is from Missouri,
where he gets more opportunity
to mingle with Jewish people than
in the capital and to speak at im-
portant synagogues and Jewish
communal functions.
In Washington he delivered his
first address before one of our in-
stitutions last week when he ap-
peared before a temple men's club
and spoke on the political aspects
of the difficulties in l'alestine. His
address resolved itself into a plea
for tolerance and indicated that he
had openly and bitterly fought the
Ku Klux Klan mainly because it
was an intolerant and narro•-
minded organization of bigots.
WITIIOUT a doubt the two best
known correspondents in
Washington are Jews—Fred Wile
and David Lawrence. Rabbi Ste-
phen Wise takes some pride in re-
membering and pointing out that it
was he who performed the wed-
ding of David Lawrence in the
days when their mutual intimate
friend Woodrow Wilson occupied
Mr. Zukerman sums up in this fashion:
To assume, then, that the special privileges
which the Jews received because of the na-
tional home led to the catastrophe in Palestine
is to make the greatest error in the evaluation
of this sorry business. All evidence on hand
now shows that this was not a spontaneous out-
burst of the Arab people, but a well-organized
plot carefully planned by Arab politicians and
by the reactionary supreme moslem council,
who used a glittering, meaningless political
myth, as they used a similar religious pretext,
to incite a fanatical Eastern populace against
the introduction of Western civilization in gen-
eral and against British rule in particular. The
Palestine administration with its supercilious-
ness and ill-disguised anti-Jewish attitude has
unwittingly played into the hands of these plot-
ters with their naive blabber about a Jewish
state, a Jewish majority, and other phrases de-
duced from the Balfour Declaration. In gen-
eral the Zionist policy of identifying Zionism
with the imperial British interests and of
relying almost exclusively upon British troops
for protection has been a great mistake. Im-
perial interests are very fickle, and in the
twentieth century new colonization enterprises
are not conducted with the aid of garrisons.
Nor is it at all necessary for the Jews in Pal-
estine to have recourse to force, British or any
other. Their movement is one of peace so
obviously in the interest of the native popula-
tion that it can well afford to appeal to the
Arab people even above the heads of their
reactionary leaders. The Arab population in
Palestine has admittedly gained much from
Jewish immigration into Palestine, The Jews
have not taken away Arab land. They have
colonized desert country at their own expense;
they have built colonies and cities; they have
drained marshes, introduced sanitation, built
roads, started to electrify the country; have
begun industry, and established hospitals,
clinics, and schools of learning open to all. All
this has had a directly beneficial effect on the
health, culture, and standard of living of the
Arabs. Arab mortality has gone down; the
Arab birth-rate has gone up. Palestine has
progressed more in the last 10 years since the
war, as a result of Jewish immigration, than
for centuries before. With a record of this
kind why should the Jews not have turned to
the Arabs for an alliance instead of antagoniz-
ing them for the sake of meaningless, glitter-
ing myths which yield nothing to themselves,
prejudice the minds of many people against
them as against lackeys of imperialism, dis-
please even those whose policy they seem to
serve, and convert a highly constructive, hu-
manitarian movement into one of politics and
religious prejudices? The obvious lesson of the
tragedy is that not only the Palestine admin-
istration, but Zionism too needs to revise its
policy to a considerable extent if catastrophics
of this nature are to be avoided in the future.
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41-
the White House. Recently Mt
Lawrence's father, a delightful lit
tie Jewish gentleman from Hu
falo, spent some time in the cap
tat and was amazed to see such
splendid Jewish institutions as th
Community Center, Home for th
Aged, synagogues, temples, fostt-t
homes—"in the capital of th
United States!"
Wile and Lawrence are on tht
radio every time that Presiden
Hoover broadcasts from Washing
ton and every time that some im.
portant function takes place with
a strictly political aspect to it.
Some believe that Mr. Hoover
could hardly get along without
Dave and Fred at his microphonic
side. By the way, "Dave" and
"Fred" are their names as far as
Herbert Hoover is concerned.
Lawrence and Wile are nut only
heard on the radio but are read
in newspapers front Portland te
Portland.
Many an important
man, however, has never thought
that either of them may be a mem-
ber of our Jewish people. Wile - -
father, a banker, was the "actims-
rabbi" of Laporte, Ind., in the
olden days.
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CENE: A busy street corner,
half-way up town where a lit-
tle Orthodox synagogue is located.
+is
Time: Sunday noon, the second
4
day of Succoth.
A crowd of Jewish worshippers -s
are just coming out after the holi-
day services and after partaking
of refreshments in the Succah
which is attached to the syna-
gogue. Suddenly a battery of mo-
torcycles approaches, followed byss
a big limousine.
The auto is
easily recognized as a White House
car. The old Jews and Jewesses
coming out of the Succah look
carefully and notice that President
:3:
and Mrs. Hoover are sitting in the
is'`
limousine.
What's this? The car is stop-
sts
ping-in front of the shool? Is the
11-
president coming to see the Suc-
Se+
cab?
es
These thoughts flash quickly
ts
through the minds of many of the
pious Jews. Before they know it,
hoss-ever, the motorcycles are
ts
again sounding their sirens and
44. ,"
the splendid Lincoln with tag No.
100 is speeding away from the
is
synagogue.
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It was only a traffic jam that
made the presidential car stop be-
fore the Succah on the way home
from the little Quaker church only
one square away.
"Well, what would it hurt the
president if he really would stn. a
Succah?" muses a descendant of
Abraham.
IF HENRY FORD had not repent-
ed and withdrawn his anti-Jew-
ish attacks President Hoover would
not have accepted the invitation to
speak in Dearborn, where he ap-
peared this week,
Such is the justifiable specula-
tion which is based on the fact that
Dearborn is intimately associated
with the Dearborn Independent,
which was the mouthpiece of
Henry Ford's American tunti.Senti-
tism, and "the menace of the
Jews."
A president must keep all condi-
tions, facts and circumstances in
mind when he opens his mouth.
Undoubtedly President Hoover
would have been unable to join in
the tribute paid to Thomas Edison
if it had been staged at Dearborn
in the days of F'ord's attacks on
our Jewish people.
It doesn't pay to be an enemy
of the Jews, dues it?
"B'HABTAHOTH SHAV"
From the Hebrew After Malik
By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
Believe not in visions and trust not in dreams,
look not to yon star, which deceives;
How faithless its lustre, how coldly it gleams—
It is but a thief among thieves.
The star of my youth, it betrayed me and sank—
A shadow of hope at ray door;
Its tremulous ray which I eagerly drank
In nebulous haze on me bore.
With eyes that were crafty and cunning as gold
It promised me world upon world;
And then dispossessed me of all that I hold,
My dreams into chaos it hurled.
My star yon, on high relentless and cold
Cast shadows of doubt at my gate;
I lost all my hope for reward which you hold,
0 star, you have robbed me of faith.
Believe not in visions and trust not in dreams,
Look not to yon star • which deceives;
How faithless its lustre, how coldly it gleams—
It is but a thief among thieves.
We Observe That---
Rosenwald offers $10,000 as a prize for an essay on the
"Future of American Judaism." We know a few American
Jews whose future would be assured with that sum of
money.
The U. S. Court of Appeals, Philadelphia, holds it is not illegal to
buy liquor. Now if some court will express an opinion that it is not
difficult or expensive, that would make it unanimous.
Emir Abdullah wants to unite all the Moslems in one
nation. That's something like putting all the Arabs to sleep
in one Bedouin.
The following item needs no comment: Rev. Wm. L. Stidger, Meth-
odist, Boston, said: "The next institution to be investigated ought to
be the D. A. R. A lot of old ladies who sit at home basking in the
unearned increment of dead ancestors, satisfying their sense of self
importance by sending forth the stupid propaganda of war and allow-
ing William B. Shearer to use their organization as a cat's paw to rake
the coals out of the fire."
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