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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. I :1-22 :24.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 4:1-37.
November 22, 1929
Cheahvan 19, 5690
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Jewish Committee's New Chairman.
The American Jewish Committee, by
electing Dr. Cyrus Adler as its chairman to
succeed the hat' 1.0111,1 INiarshall, has placed
upon him a responsibility hardly compar-
able to any other in American Jewish life.
The chairmanship of the American Jewkh
Committee has been accepted, thanks to
the tradition established by Mr. Marshall,
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as equivalent to leadership over American
Jewry. The duties involved in such a posi-
tion, the obligations to the Jewish people
4 k, not only in this country but throughout the
world, place a heavy burden on the man
who is henceforth to wear the mantle of
Louis Marshall.
Dr. Adler, by virtue of his position as
president of the Jewish . Theological Semi-
nary and of Dropsie College, as one who
for a number of years was one of Mr. Mar-
shall's right hand men, should prove a
worthy successor to the great leader whose
death recently shocked world Jewry.
The Radio Hour Over WWJ.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is pleased
to have been able to act as intermediary
between Radio Station WWJ of the Detroit
News and the Jewish Committee on Reli-
gious Radio Programs in the arrangement
agreed upon whereby Detroit Jews will be
able to listen in on the first half of the Jew-
:" ish radio hour, from 3 to 3:30 every Sun-
day afternoon. Due to the broadcasting by
Station WWJ of the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra programs on Sunday afternoons,
this station finds it impossible to present
the entire Jewish radio hour. Through its
director, Mr. Robert Kelly, this station has,
however, displayed a sincere desire - to be
of service to its Jewish listeners, and we
▪
take this means of giving the credit that is
due to Station WWJ and to Mr. Kelly.
T1 t The presentation of this Jewish hour is
a real service to Detroit Jewry. Unlike
the commercialized Jewish hours, this
period presents the best in Jewish music,
and the participants are leading American-
k,
Jewish artists. Conducted as this hour is
on non-partisan principles, under the joint
auspices of Orthodox, Conservative and Re-
form leaders, entirely devoid of commer-
cialism, having as its sole purpose the
presentation of a Jewish hour of music and
the dissemination of Jewish ideals, it should
prove of great benefit to Jew and non-Jew
alike. By placing this hour on its program,
WWJ adds worth to its selections and
serves L be community,
Stabbed in the Back!
JERUSALEM., Nov. 12.—Dr. R. Tycho, Pal-
estine's best known Jewish eye specialist, was
stabbed in the back this morning on entering
his clinic.
Stabbed in the back!
From Palestine echoes this expression of
gratitude on the part of certain Arabs for
the contribution Jews made to the general
good of the community. Through Jewish
effort life was brought to what was less
than a quarter of a century ago a desert.
Rich Arabs were made richer, and the poor
were taught to appreciate a higher stand-
ard of living. And how did they respond?
By stabbinglews in the back!
The name of Dr. Tydho has become
known throughout the world as that of one
of the greatest occulists in the world. This
great man came to Palestine to devote him-
;la
self to humanitarian causes. Ile never took
part in politics, but his interests were chief-
ly professional. During his 21 years' resi-
dence in Jerusalem he saved hundreds of
Arabs from blindness, and thousands who
suffered from trachoma were helped by his
skill. And what was the Arab way of show-
ing appreciation for his efforts in behalf of
Moslems, Christians and Jews alike?
He was stabbed in the back!
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It is high time that British officials began
to realize that unless they adopt firm
methods of administration in Palestine,
they, too, are not safe from such attacks.
Instead they continue to tolerate murders
committed almost daily front ambush in the
Holy Land, and their indifference is equiv-
alent to stabjting the Jew in the back politi-
cally and mor .ally.
The position of the Jew in Palestine is
from two ends. On one side
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the Arabs stab us in the back physically.
On t he other we are similarly stabbed by
the failure of certain British officials to re-
spect elementary rights of Jews as human
beings and to honor pledges made to our
people by their government.
To both these elements Jews throughout
the world now declare:
Qu it stabbing us in the back!
Jews Must Unite on Palestine.
The charge that is now being made
against Jewish leaders that they fail to co-
operate in solving the problems arising
from the Palestine troubles is serious and
extremely regrettable. NA only do many
leaders appear to disagree on Zionist prin-
ciples, but even OD the question of practi-
Ca I reconstruction work there appears to
be a breach in Jewish ranks.
Thus. the %%tad Leurni, which is the Pal-
is National Council, and the
Jewish
Zionist Executive disagree over the charac-
ter of the reconstruction work. The form-
er, through its chairman, Pincus Buten-
berg, insists on the establishment of one
central financial institution in the country
to secure the economic safety of the Jew-
ish population, and the Zionists disagree
with this plan. Several weeks ago, in-
efficient handling of the relief work on the
part of the Zionist Executive resulted in its
being taken over by the Vaad Leumi, Com-
menting on this lack of unity in Jewish
ranks the New York Times correspondent
stated:
Unfortunately the Zionist leaders SOCHI MI -
ably to cope with the situation and are flounder-
ing about without finding a practical solution
of the problems. During the whole period of
the present Zionist administration the leaders
have failed to realize that Palestine is not a
new country and that there is • existing popu-
lation of more than 000,000 Arabs to contend
with.
The Zionists have overlooked the fact
that co-operation with these natives is most
essential and have made no efforts to reach
understanding with them.
This is dangerous business, The Jewish
people cannot afford, in an hour of crisis,
to become a house divided against itself.
What is needed is not only the unity of all
elements, but the reallignment of hitherto
warring factions under the banner of Zion.
This is the time for the Brandeis-Mack
group to join forces with the present lead-
ers and again to place their resources and
influences at the disposal of the builders of
Zion. This is the time for the Jewish
Agency to show its mettle. This is an
hour in which men like Rabbi Israel Mat-
tuck in London and Rabbi William II. F'ine-
shriber in Philadelphia should cease inter-
fering with Jewish progress in Palestine
with sermons which are proving menacing
to Jewish rights. This is a time for unity
in Israel, and no element can be rightfully
excused from participation in a worldwide
effort to encourage the reconstruction of
Jewish life in Zion.
Helping the Jew Observe His Holidays.
The decision of the Newark, N. J., board
of education that teachers in Newark
schools may hereafter absent themselves
from classes any live religious holidays in
each year with the loss of it substitute
teachers' pay, which is•equivalent to half
their regular pay, only solves what was
hitherto a pressing problem for Jewish
teachers. This decision was made after a
two years effort to secure it ruling so that
Jewish teachers would not lose their pay
when they were absent on Rosh Hashonah
and Yom Kippur.
The Newark decision is important in
more than the monetary sense. It lends
recognition to the right of Jewish observ-
ance. Year in and year out we hear a rep-
etition of the problem of Jewish holiday
observance by teachers and pupils. Per-
haps a similar ruling here would put an
end to what is equivalent to religious per-
secution in some schools when Jewish 'stu-
dents are absent from classes,/
The right to take off five religious hol-
idays and the application of this to all
teachers should settle the question without
prejudice or partiality to any faith," says
Superintendent of Schools Logan of New-
ark.
We agree.
The Paying of Maaser.
Newspapers throughout the country
featured prominently the wish expressed
in the will of the late Nellie A. DifTender-
fer of Rochester, N. Y., that her (laughter,
in disposing of her estate of $10,000,
should observe the command in Malachi
III:10, which declares: "Bring ye all the
tithes into the store-house, that there may
be provision in my house.... "
As a matter of fact this non-Jewess has
merely reverted to an ancient Jewish prac-
tice which calls for the payment of Maaser,
the tithe, from all income, to the state and
to charity. The will of the late Louis Mar-
shall provided that one-tenth, or maaser,
of his estate be distributed among a num-
ber of named public institutions and char-
ities. When the Keren Ilayesod, or Pales-
tine Foundation Fund, was first inaugura-
ted, the intention was to ask every Jew to
pay Maaser for Palestine's reconstruction.
On nttmerous other occasions in recent
years efforts were made to reintroduce this
ancient custom.
The will of the Rochester non-Jewess
serves as proof that the Biblical injunction
of Maaser is still paid, by Jew and non-Jew,
even if only in isolated instances.
For torturing Saul Solomon at Bucharest
in an effort to get a confession of what later
proved to be a false charge against hint.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Milozi
and Police Lieutenant Panova were sus-
pended from the Bucharest police force.
Methods of the inquisition don't work so
well in our "enlightened" twentieth cen-
tury, do they, friend coppers of Bucharest?
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Excellent Books
For the Youth
New Works Feature Juvenile
Literature; Children's Book
Week Being Ob
d.
The observance this week o
Children's Book Week is marked
by the publication of a number 0
excellent works for the Jewish
youth.
Edmond Fleg's "The Boy
Prophet" and "Why I an a Jew"
are by far the finest productions
of the present year, both making
excellent reading for both young
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and old.
IN'ext in importance comes Jo.
seph Gaer's "How the Great Re-
ligions Began." Mr. Goer, it will
be remembered, earlier in the year
problem] The Burning Bush." an
excellent collection of Bible stor-
ies which was published by the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations. But his present work,
"How the Great Itcligions Began,"
oublished by Robert M. McBride &
(70., 7 West Sixteenth street, New
York 1$1), is by far his best.
Mr. Gaer's Fine Work.
Mr. Gaer is well known to young
Jewish readers for his short stories
in the Young Judaean, Young
Israel and other publications. Ile
has built for himself a large fol-
lowing which is certain to be in•
creased with the publication of his
monumental "How the Great Re-
ligions Began."
Mr. Goer opens this volume with
an introductory chapter, "In the
Beginning," in which he points to
varying beliefs on the age of the
universe. Some believe it to be
:00(9 years old (at the time of the
publication of his work), Mr. Goer
tells his young readers, others dif-
fer. In India, for instance, the re-
ligious leaders believe that the
I,ord Adinath appeared on earth
100.000,000,000,000 (one hundred
trillion) palyas ago, a palya, so
men in India say, being the length
of time it would take a little bird
to empty a well a mile square, full
of hairs, if it carried away one
hair every hundred years.
Man Asks Questions.
In this vein he continues to de-
scribe how the world is composed
of all sorts of creatures, among
whom one, MAN, asks many ques-
tions, and out Of his questions
arose the development of the
earth's religions.
Thus he sets out to describe the
religions of India: Buddhism,
Jainism, Hindustan, the land of
many gods; the religions of China
and Japan: Confucianism, Taoism,
Shintoistn; the advance of one
god: Zoroastrianism, Judaism,
Christianity, Mohammedanism and
the Reformation. Each is pictured
simply, for the child to understand,
but at the same time also for the
adult to enjoy.
In his story of Judaism he gives
briefly the history of the Jewish
people, of the statement by Abra-
ham that "Idols must not be wor-
shipped," and out of it ruse
the Hebrew belief. Because the
story of the Jewish religion is so
much the story of the Jewish gov-
ernment, Mr. Goer states, the re-
ligion of the Jews never became a
universal religion. "For Judaism
was only concerned with the Jews
whose homeland, they believed and
still believe, is Palestine, and who
feel that Jerusalem is the Holy
City of God."
Mr. Gaer's book is a beautiful
story of the rise of the world's
l•aligions. It will do young as well
as old much good to read it.
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BIBLE STORIES ENRICH
JUVENILE LITERATURE
The ni , st pr,..iii• need in Jew-
ish talte In in this country is for
a juvenile Jewish literature. We
must supply our buys and girls
with reading matter of the type
that will hest present to them the
Jewish religious and historic back-
ground. The story of the Jew is
little known to the young Ameri-
can Jew himself for this particu-
lar reason—that he has not been
supplied, in his childhood, with
the type of literature which fasci-
nates the young, holds them spell-
bound and wins them over to caus-
es and ideals.
But there is already in existence
the beginning for such a literature,
and the outstanding creator of :a
juvenile Jewish literature, especial-
ly the children's glory, is Mrs. El-
mo Ehrlich Levinger. In "Play-
mates in Egypt," "Jewish Holyday
Stories," "Stories from the Rab-
bis," and other volumes, and in
contributions to the Young Judo-
ean and Young Israel Magazines,
Mrs. Levinger has given us the
best we have in Jewish reading
matter for the young in English.
Now comes another valuable ad-
dition to this literature from the
pen of Mrs. Levinger. The Jew-
ish Publication Society (Philadel-
phia) has just published her "won-
der Tales of Billie Da ys," a collec-
tion of short stories based .tn rab-
binic legends and retold for chil-
dren. Mrs. Levinger based these
stories on that storehouse of Jew-
ish legends, Prof. Louis Ginzberg's
"The Legends of the Jews." In
six stories Mrs. Levinger has fas-
cinatingly pictured six Bible he-
roes—Abraham, Joseph. Moses,
David, Solomon and Elijah. By
rewriting old Talmudic legends
about these heroes, Mrs. Levinger
has given us a fascinating volume
which should prove a proud pos-
session for every Jewish child. So
interestingly written are these
stories, however, and they are at
the same time so informative, that
they should prove also of great
interest and value to adults as
well.
There is great need for this type
of literature, and the Jewish Pub-
lication Society of America is to
be congratulated IT the publica-
tion of this new volume by Mrs.
Levinger.
Books for Children
"Carmelia Commands." by Wal-
ter S. Ball, published by Harper &
Brothers, 49 F:ast 33rd street, N.
Y., ($21, won the "02,0110 Harper
American Girl Prize Contest" for
the best book of fh.tion for girls. It
is a great story of a 11-year-old
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Charles H. Joseph
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WASHINGTON JEWISH
MIRROR
ISN'T very often that I feel like smiling at Ile-
brew-missionaries. Now I want to set ni)-elf
right with these pious gentlemen. They have an
idea that I am opposed to missionaries as such. I
am not. Missionaries, I presume, have their place
in life. Although I ani frank to admit that, gener-
ally speaking, there is so much cleaning 'to be done
in their own backyards that they might get that
job done before they go out to clean up their
neighbors'. But speaking specifically of Jews who
sty k to convert their brethren to Christianity I
simply lack faith in them. I have a suspicion that
they realize the complete futility of such a business,
just as I have, and therefore I just can't think of
them in the same tray that I to Christian mission-
aries to the heathen. Somehow or other the Jew
trying to get his brother Jew to become a Christian
rubs me the wrong way. Not that I fear his influ-
ence for I am sure he has little or none. But it
his annoying meddlesomeness that bothers me.
DR.
MAN HUNTERBERG of London has just sent
me a copy of his book, "a esus, the Crucified
Jew," publ i shed by Bloch. With the hook he sends
me a clipping taken from a journal called the "Lu-
theran," which seems to le. a paper devoted to Ile-
brew-missionary effort. Dr. Hunterberg suggests
that 1 would he interested in a criticism appearing
in The Lutheran of his address given in a parish
house of a Christian church, Somehow or other he
set ms to have annoyed one of our devout Jewish-
Christians who went there to hear him. I am
brutal enough to admit that his annoyances pleases
. .D10; it' fact, I delight in :t. Ile probably heard some
truths that •
got under his skin. Let's read a little
of what he hasto say. One can appreciate how
difficult it is for hint to keep his "Christian" love
for has fellowman functioning while trying to re-
lieve his feelings!
Here are co me of his grievances.
On a recent night we attended a lecture
given in th•parish house Of one of Our
Christian churches in this city. The lecturer
was a Dr. Hunterberg, a Jew from London.
The subject announced was: "Jesus from a
Jewish View We have heard of the
gentleman before and we were half curi-
ous and half interested to hear him. The doc-
tor is purported to (111(11' all the way from Lon-
don for the express purpose of bringing about
a more friendly relation and a better under-
standing between Jews and Christians. A truly
laudable purpose! To that end he is seeking
for opportunities to lecture in Christian
churches, evidently in order to lecture Chris-
tians on their right attitude to the Jews. We
do not wholly deny that some Christians need
a little more light on the subject. We went to
the lecture on the invitation of the pastor of
the church and we - can fully vouch for the best
of motives on the part of the church, though
we deem it our duty to warn against any and
all such presentations.
The parish hall was tilled with people, about
three-fourths of the audience were Jews. The
London doctor started out with an introduc-
tion in which he made it very clear that he was
a real Jew and in no possible manner connected
wit) those awful people known as converted
Jews, or what is infinitely 'nurse, missionaries.
The Jews in the audience were delighted with
those poisoned arrows that he aimed straight
at those apostates. The doctor was clever
enough to hurl the complimentary term "apos-
tate" in the Hebrew form, "nwshumed," clearly
understood by his Jewish audience.
But let us analyze the lecturer's view of
Jesus. Who was Jesus? A good rabbi. What
about some of the other claims made of him?
They were nut made. • Those parts of the New
Testament are not genuine, but later addi-
tions. What can we do to keep on the best
terms with the Jew? Strike twit of the New
Testament all references to Jesus that may
say t hat he was anything but a good rabbi.
But if you do insist on believing the other
claims about him, go on believing to your
heart's content, but let the Jews alone? Why
let the Jews attune? Because it is an insult to
the Jew to be told that he ne eds to be con-
verted. It is impossible for a good Jew to
ti Peve anything more about Christ than that
he was a good rabbi. When a Jew says that he
was converted, he was converted for money.
When a converted Jew is a missionary he is
in for what he gets out of it.
At last, the Cat is out of the bag! The doc-
tor is not h re to bring about a more friendly
relation between Jews and Christians. If that
was his purpose the night we heard him, he
failed miserably. Every Christian in the audi-
ence, if the lecturer was at all understood,
could not but be outraged by the impudent
remarks, ridicule and insults hurled against the
Christian religion. Of county., on the face of it,
the recipient of the slime of sarcasm were the
converted Jews and the missionaries, but one
had to he dull indeed not to see behind it the
veiled insults at the Christian religion that
dares to presume to be able to convert such a
superior creature as is the Jew. On the other
hand, every Jew in the audience, after thor-
oughly enjoying the cynical references to
Christians and their efforts to convert others,
went home more convinced than ever that he is
far superior creature to the Christians, that
the Christian never treated hint right and that
the religion the Christian is professing is but
a stolen child from Judaism but so utterly
corrupted that it is impossible for a Jew to
look at it with anything but contempt. If such
feelings will bring about better relations be-
tween Jews and Christians we are greatly mis-
taken. The fact is that the real mission of the
doctor is to disgust Christians with any and all
efforts to Christianize the Jews. It is a cun-
ning effort to get Christians to donate their
buildings and even support the lecturer in
order that he may tell them to go on about
their business and convert themselves and let
the Jews severely alone, because they have a
much better religion than Christianity.
other day I was reading an article in the
T HE
American Mercury entitled "Publicists of the
Ghostly Faculty," dealing with advertising special-
ists in the religious domain. The writer said that
the discussion of current events in sermons is
practiced widely by the advertising clergy. . . .
"Even .lewish rabbis have fallen for it, though to
date they have played relatively low on general pub-
licity-seeking, leaving it to the Jewish benevolent
societies to grab all the available free space in the
papers with their never-ending money-raising cam-
paigns." That last statement interested me most,
"their never-ending money-raising campaigns."
DOES seem that we Jews are pretty much lop-
I T sided
on the subject of money-raising campaigns,
so much so that those even our neighbors, recog.
nun, Our weakness. For it is a weakness. We have
a philanthropic complex. We are the world's
greatest schnorrers and like it! There isn't any-
thing within reason that we won't collect money
for. In fact, most of the leisure of some of us is
devoted exclusively to this business of raising funds.
In fart we find the same intriguing, fascinating in-
terest in it that women found in knitting socks fur
the soldiers during the war. And when we are not
doing it we find time hanging on our hands. We
become restless. And just when we are becoming
bored, Jewishly speaking, suddenly a "drive" is on
for something and all our ennui vanishes and once
more We are enthusiastic workers gathering in the
shekels. Generals, admiral, captains, lieutenants,
corporals and top sergeants, to say nothing of the
few privates who are in the field preparing for the
giant offensive. Well, what of it? , Isn't it a fine
thing to raise money for good causes? Of course it
is! Rut it d 4.5 seem as if Jewry has gone to an
extreme in this as it all too frequently does in many
other things.
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By llillel, The Observer
S OMEll OW we passed over a
Very
important item that should have
been in the Jewish Mirror of
Washington about a month ago. It
concerns the words and action of a
certain rabbi in the Capital City,
and certainly should recorded in
this column.
Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel caught
the eye of the Associated l'ress and
other telegraphic news agencies
when he spoke on Yom Kippur last.
Following is the item written by E.
Milton Altfeld, author of the Sen-
tinel, a popular page of nnument
in various Jewish periodicals. Two
weeks ago Mr. Altfelt had this to
say, concerning this J cW kit item of
Waslyngton news:
"Few Mat rances from AID•liCall
Walla tel
in recent days
have created such a furor as (lid
the stirring word: of Rabbi Louis
.1. Schwefel of Washington last Kid
Nidn. via. In addition to the oc-
casion being the most solenm hour
in the Jewish devotional, it
marked the rabbi's farewell Kul
Nidre sermon to the membership
Of the Adore Israel, the Capital
City's to Orthodox congrega-
tion. Rabbi Schwefel, disclaiming
any feeling of bitterness toward
those members of the congrega-
tion with whom he has sharply dif-
fered in the past, asserted in un-
mistakable language that the Or-
thodox synagogue must become
more liberal if it is to survive in
A merica.
"Some time ago I had occasion
to discuss the future of the young
American Jew and cognate sub-
jects with the learned rabbi, who
personally knows more influential
Americans on Capitol Ilill than
any other Washington Jew. And
many of them, as I had occasion to
learn recently, call him by his first
name. They like him for his charm
and admire him for his erudition.
It is letting no secret out of the
bag when I say that several of the
former and present cabinet lacers
—and even the president's office—
have had occasion to consult hint
concerning prominent Jewish per-
sonalities and Jewish q uestions,
As I started to say, I have
known fur some time that Rabbi
Schwefel's views regarding the
necessity of introducing liberal
tendency in Orthodoxy. An in-
tense and loyal Jew, proud of his
ancient heritage, he believes that
the "apathy and indifference of
hundreds of thousands of An•ri-
can-Jewish boys and girls are due
to the strangeness and quaintness
of the Orthodox service and an
ancient, unprogressive ritual.
"The rabbi cannot reconcile the
fact that men and women, children
and parents, are divided like sheep
and goats in the synagogue. Many
of the young folks recite their
prayers in Hebrew without under-
standing their nwaning, he says,
thereby giving purely lip service to
what should be a solemn under-
standing and appreciation of the
holy words.
"Whether one agrees with the
fighting rabbi or not, one cannot
question his sincerity. Facing his
congregation on Kul Nidre and
telling them ideas that are in sharp
conflict with their inherited Ortho-
dox religious views takes rare
courage. And Dr. Schwefel has
plenty fighting spirit in his make-
up."
WE HAVE been thinking, far
quite a while of telling you of
some important Jewish incidents
of an earlier day in Washington.
Among such would come the story
told by United States Circuit Court
Justice Ilugh I.. Bond. It concerns
the famous Rabbi Dr. Benjamin
Szold and his dealings with Presi-
dent Lincoln. Dr. Szold, whose
hundredth birthday anniversary
has just been celebrated, was then
rabbi in Baltimore.
One Friday morning timing th
Civil War, Dr. Szold received
letter front a Jew, sent from G e n
Nleade's headquarters tun th
Rappahannock River, begging hit
to come at once to camp, befor
his, the mom Jew's execution Co
desertion from the army, DI
Szold started immediately •o
Washington to make it personal at
real to President Lincoln. Ili.
only credential was a copy of th
Ohl Testament in English, take
because he knew how devote
"Honest Ohl Abe" was to Mi .
Writ.
He curate upon the Cabinet hold-
ing an important session, but
knowing he had no time to waste,
he at once sent in his Bible,
Opened at the place with his card
on which were only a few word.
directing attention to the marked
lines in Deuteronomy xx, It, read.
Mg as follows: "What man is the n
that is fearful and faint hearted;
let him go and return to his house.
lest his brethren's hearts fail."
In a very few moments Pres:.
dent Lincoln (Tall' (rut from the
Cabinet meeting holding the Bildt ,
in his hand and laughing heartily
at the reference to what seemed
the business of his visitor, it was
so apt. Dr. Szold made a sirot,
plea for clemency to the deserter
for the: sake of his family but
foiled because Mr. Lincoln would
not interfere with his generals and
Meade was already complaining of
his clemency.
WASHINGTON has not yet got ,
ten over Senator Moses's ref-
erence to the western senators a ,
"the sons of wild jackasses." We
cannot resist the temptation to
quote Senator Ileffiin on this par-
ticular matter. The southerner
wise-cracked in the Senate the
other day about Moses's remark,
saying: "Don't forget what
Isaiah said: 'The ox knoweth his
owner and the ass his master's
cries "
Which proves that even the devil
can quote Scripture for his aten
purpose.
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H
ERE is one national conue.ttee
on which it is not necessary to
have actual Jewish representation!
Secretary Wilbur has appointed
an advisory committee on national
"illiteracy." No such creature
exists among our Jewish people
either in this country or anywhere
else. Thank God for that.
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HE great English statesman an I
author, Edmond Burke. was in-
voked the other day in Congress,
when Representative Sol Bloom
referred to the Britisher's opinion
on what a member of Parliament
ought to be fur his own district.
"'Your representative owes you,
not his industry only, but his judg-
ment; and he betrays, instead of
serving you, if he sacrifices it to
your opinion."
T
Sol Bloom himself had this to
say when he introduced a special
resolution together with a bill for
legalizing 12 per cent wine and 3
per cent beer under the Eighteenth
Amendment.
"When secrecy is the only means
by which the truth can be revealed,
I favor it for that particular pur-
pose.•
"No one who is upon it footing
of personal acquaintance with any
member of senators and represen-
tatives," continued the New York-
er, "can be ignorant of the fact
that many of them, perhaps a ma-
jority, vote diametrically (he oppo-
site of their own convictions, Ti
i
order to conform to what they con-
ceive to be the convictions of their
constituents, whenever a liquid
measure is before them for ac-
tion."
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
President Hoover accepted the honorary presidency of the Oscar S.
Straus Memorial Association which will supervise the erection of a
memorial in 'Washington, D. C., in honor of the Jewish statesman,
scholar and humanitarian.
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Prof. Ludwig Stein of Berlin, well-known philosopher, sociologist,
writer and politician, was the object of tributes paid him by all news-
papers in the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
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Lieutenant-Governor Il•rbert II.
Lehman of New York State was
elected on the board of directors of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored I'muple, succeeding to the place made vacant
by the death of Louis Marshall. Prof. Felix Frankfurter was chosen
on the legal committee of the association.
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•
Dr. I. M. Ruhinow has taken up his new duties as international secre•
tarp of the Independent Order of B'nai Brith at Cincinnati.
Hon. Alfred M. Cohen, chairman of the board of governors of the
Hebrew Union College, wan
elected an honorary member of the college
student body.
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•
David M. I.itwin of Newark, Joseph Greenberg of Jersey City, Ben-
jamin SteM of Passaic, and Joseph Altman of Atlantic City were re-
elected to the New Jersey legislature. Philip Lindeman of Newark
was re-elected to the Essex County Board of Freeholders.
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It
Bernard Postal was appointed news editor of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency by Jacob Landau, the J. T. A.'s managing director.
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Rabbi Maurice Harris of Temple Israel, New York, was honored on
hi seventieth birthday last week.
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Dr. Albert Einstein was one of five upon whom honorary causu
degrees were conferred by the. Sorb.m
ne University at Paris.
Associate City Judge Myron Lewis of Utica has been re-elected for
another term.
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Sir John Monash, distinguished Australian Jewish leader and com-
mander of the Australian forces in Paris, has been promoted to the
rank of general. This elevation marks the first time that the rank of
general has appeared in the Australian army list.
.1%
Aaron Brenner, the New York Jewish furrier, who hen been kid-
naped and held for high ransom by bandits in China, was released.
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Rabbi S. R. Shillman of the Ochs Memorial Temple, Chattanooga.
has informed the Mizpah congregation that he would not be a candidate
for reappointment to his present post when his term expires in 1931.
The Abyssinian government has bestowed a decoration of an officer
of the "Order of the Ethiopian Star" upon Dr. Jaques Faitlovitch, the
international explorer and executive director of the work among the
Falashas in Abyssinia, conducted under the auspices of the American
Pro-Falasha Committee
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