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Sabbath Readings of the Troah.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 41:1.44:7.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 3:16-4:1.
Readings of the Torah for Fast of Tebet,
Friday, Jan. 10.
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14:34:1-10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-60:0.
January 3, 1930
Tebeth 3, 5690
The Path to the Jewish Agency.
The announcement of the closing of the
United Jewish Campaign and the silence in
the ranks of the United Palestine Appeal
points to the beginning of new era—the
entrance upon the scene of the Jewish
Agency.
Since the death of Louis Marshall, and
its unfortunate counterpart in tragedy and
time—the occurrences in Palestine, Jews
have been heard to speak skeptically of
possible unity in Jewish ranks. So short
a time after the great historic meetings in
Zurich, Jews began to doubt and to scoff.
But the leaders, outstanding among whom
was Felix M. Warburg, continued untir-
ingly with their efforts for the perfection
and the sealing of the pact of unity.
The Palestinian situation is now becom-
ing clarified, out of the mist which en-
veloped Jewry as a result of the riots is
now emerging a strong settlement, and sur-
rounding it are friendly Arab villages
whose inhabitants welcome the Jewish set-
tlers. There can be no doubt but that the
Jews have triumphed in the outbreaks. The
Arab leaders who instigated some of their
illiterate followers, with their falsehoods
that Jews aimed at attacking the Mosque
of Omar, have failed in the long run. When
the Jewish Agency begins to function, in
the very near future, it will be backing up
the most beautiful ideal in Jewish history.
Coupling its efforts for Palestine with
continued backing of the movement for the
settlement of Jews on the soil in Russia and
other lands, the Jewish Agency is today
the symbol of true Jewish unity. Scoffers
at this ideal should not be encouraged. On
the contrary, faith in the ideal will lead to
perfection and to better days for Israel.
The Insult of Illiteracy.
In his radio address over the Jewish
Hour on the communal responsibility of
Jewish education, Jonah J. Goldstein made
comparison between the national disgrace
of illiteracy in a land like the United States,
and the disgrace of illiteracy among Jews.
It was a daring appellation for the fail-
ure on the part of some Jews to offer a Jew-
ish education to their children. It was the
first time we had heard it, and we must ad-
mit that it was the best term for the crime.
Mr. Goldstein is right. If it is a disgrace
for a democracy like ours to tolerate illiter-
acy, then it is a disgrace for the civilization
that is Judaism to tolerate ignorance in our
ranks.
It would not be such a bad idea to adopt
a new method of attack upon those who are
guilty of such disgrace, and to let them
know the attitude of the people toward
those in their ranks who tolerate illiteracy
in Judaism. Let our motto be : illiteracy in
Jewish ranks is a disgrace to our people.
Dignifying Anti.Semitism.
Replying to Deputy Theodor Fischer
who charged in the Rumanian Parliament
that professors stood by while anti-Semites
beat their Jewish fellow-students, Minister
of Justice Gregore Junian made an inter-
esting statement. He condemned of course,
in the name of his government, the brutal
incidents at Jassy University, but he added
that anti-Semitic activity, insofar as it is
confined to a conflict of ideas, enjoys lib-
erty of assembly and of the press similar to
other movements.
What does this statement mean? No
matter how it may be modified and inter-
preted, by so defining liberty of thought
and the press Minister Junian has dignified
anti-Semitism and placed it on a plane with
political thought. Minister Junian has ig-
nored the fact that anti-Semitism is not a
political movement calling for difference
of opinion and a conflict of ideas. Jews as
well as their anti-Semitic aggressors claim
memberships in all parties in all countries,
and anti-Semites do not differ from Jews
in political or economic thought.
Minister Junian has dignified anti-Semi-
tic action by placing it on an equal footing
with po'itical parties in his land, ignoring
the fact that anti-Semites are breeders of
race ha.fed. It will be interesting to learn
whether enlightened public opinion in Ru-
mania 01 tolerate the lending of state dig-
nity to iarbarity.
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Asking Children to Compromise.
Charles H. Joseph, whose "Random
Thoughts" column is our weekly neighbor
to our right, missed his mark last week
when he denied that use of Christmas trees
by Jews compromises the conscience of the
Jew. Ile spoke of stripping the Christmas
tree of its significance—a suggestion that
may arouse the anger and disgust of Chris-
tians for whom it symbolizes an important
function in their religion—and forgot at
the same time that when Jews put up
Christmas trees they do not go half way.
They, like the Christians whom they imi-
tate, use the holly and the mistletoe, and if
they fail to place the Star of Bethlehem in
their windows upon their conversion to the
use of the tree, their children will. Further-
more, if it is possible for a Jew to strip a
Christian symbol of its religious signifi-
cance and adopt it for his own use, why not
forget the religious signilicance.of the cruci-
fix and use that as a watch charm because
it is beautiful? Certainly the difference is
not so great insofar as religious sentiment is
involved in the symbols compared.
We take exception to friend Joseph's
paragraph on the use of the Christmas tree
particularly because he addressed an an-
swer to a question that came "from a Sab-
bath School group in Detroit." This is not
the way to speak to children when you pro-
fess to encourage and strengthen their faith
in their own people's beliefs. It is only
necessary to compromise with them once,
and all else will be lost. During the Christ-
nuts and Chanukah period it is the Tree in
religious observance, and if we permit
compromise and competition on the ground
of outward beauty and social considera-
tion, we commit a wrong toward our youth.
Friend Joseph had the opportunity of a life-
time to explain the significance of a great
Jewish triumph that is celebrated by
Chanukah. Instead he forgot the Menorah
but saw no compromise in aping the relig-
ion of the majority. Does not such a
method of approach to our youth suggest
their estrangement from their own and fos-
ter dislike of their own religion and kins-
men instead of good will among all peo-
ples and religions? No friend Joseph,
yours was not the way to teach Jewish chil-
dren.
The Voice of Bigotry.
From Vilna comes the report that the lib-
eral Kurjer Wilenski has published protests
against the circulation of a pamphlet in
which is sounded the voice of bigotry which
agitates the ritual murder lie. The Kurjer
Wilenski takes issue with the sentiments of
the Middle Ages in calling upon the gov-
ernment to take action against such crimi-
nal propaganda in which, unfortunately,
some anti-Semitic priests are playing an ac-
tive part.
Coming as this report does from Vilna,
it serves to remind Jews of the ritual mur-
der case in that city in the opening year of
the present century. The victim of that lie,
the barber David Blondes, still lives in Vil-
na in dire want. In March, 1900, he was
accused by a Polish servant girl in his em-
ploy of having tried to get blood from her
to be used for his Passover Matzoth. A
crowd of Christians was quick enough to
give Blondes a severe beating, the anti-Sem-
itic press launched an attack on Blondes in
particular and the Jews in general, and
when the case came before the lower court,
Blondes was given a four-months sentence.
Gruzenberg, the noted Jewish lawyer, in
order to prevent the sentence being con-
strued as a corroboration of the ritual mur-
der lie, appealed to the Senate, and a re-
trial resulted in Blondes being freed on
February 1, 1902. lie is today a living ex-
ample of the hideousness of bigotry which
continues to lift its hoary head in these
times of supposed progress and enlighten-
ment.
Mendel Beiliss, another prominent vic-
tim of one of the most notorious ritual mur-
der cases in modern times, who is reported
seriously ill in New York, is another living
symbol of a maligned Jewry pointing a
finger of accusation and disgust at bigoted
Christians who continue to keep their minds
poisoned with such hideous lies.
Industrial Segregation,
Here is a Jewish Telegraphic Agency
cable from Soviet Russia which suggests
sad commentaries on Communist rule:
MOSCOW, Dec. I4.—(J. T. A.)—Three
large factories where only Jewish young men
will be employed are to be established by the
Ort in the Ukraine, it was learned here today.
The first factory will be at Kharkov, which will
specialize in the manufacturing of toys, and
employ 400. Another will be a textile factory
at Komarovka, where 225 will be employed,
and a third is to be a lumber factory at Letit-
chev, where 300 will be employed.
Those who have been following the news
reports from Soviet Russia will readily sur-
mise that the action taken by the Ort in
establishing factories for Jewish workers
only is a result of the severe anti-Semitism
among the Communists. Had the Soviets
practiced what they preached, they would
have afforded to their Jewish citizens op-
portunities equal to those of the non-Jews.
Instead, Jews have been hounded worse
than under the Czars. As a result, Jewish
leaders have been driven to industrial seg-
regation in order to train and care for
young Jewish workers.
The question now arises as to which rule
is worse for Jews, that of the Czars or the
Soviets.
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L.ta.
Scanning the
Horizon
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
HOT THOUGH COLD
The new calendar year opens
with American Jewry presenting
perhaps the most interesting pic-
ture in years. Interesting is a bit
too velvety a Ichrase, but why
should one disturb the gentle read-
er during the festive New Year
season. The collapse of the stock
exchange seems to be symbolic. A
like debacle in Israel. The death
of Marshall, the Arab disturbances,
the Magnes statement, and a score
of other things that any close ob.
server could enumerate have creat-
ed a condition of uncertainty
which, as far as this observer has
been privileged to see, has never
or hardly ever, as Gilbert and Sul-
livan would say, been paralleled.
Day unto day, to parody the
psalmist, bringeth forth rumor and
night unto night showeth forth
speculation and gossip. Never be-
fore so much whispering on the
Jewish rialto of New York. Did
you hear that the skids have been
placed under this noted leader?
Did you hear that this chieftain
has become persona non grata with
the powers that be?
Ah, brethren, it is a fertile field
—this New York of today—for the
writer who would care to dip his
Corolla in vitriol, But as far as
ourself is concerned, let it be said
that this column is dedicated to
spread sweetness and light and to
aid you in keeping that schoolgirl
complexion.
But what did that poet say, there
are "hot nights in Montana." I tell
you there are hot days in New
York now, though the wintry
breezes blow!
NOT JOLSON'S HOME
But why open the New Year
with a Jeremiad. Let us be con-
structive. And verily, some of our
ingenious Jewish brethren are very
constructive. You have heard the
story of the meat dealer who
placed a kosher sign over a big
ham in his window. I am remind-
ed of that by a recent sign which
I saw displayed in New York, as
follows:
"Get Your X-anuka Gifts Here"
And this kosher ham business re-
minds nor of a story that Al Jolson
used to tell. "Down in old Virgin-
ny," said Al, "is an old-fashioned
home, and in the yard hangs a
great big ham, and in the house is
a gray, old-fashioned mother.
That's not my mother's home."
LOVE YOUR ENEMY
Christian theologians have long
gloried in "love your enemy" as
being the last word in ethical per-
fection. It appears, however, that
Jewish girls are the only ones
practicing the beautiful ideal.
From the week's news, I gather
that a Miss Ginsberg has taken for
better or for worse one of the
royal princes of Egypt—a country
which at one time, it will be re-
called, had an excellent record for
oppressing Jews, and now we learn
that Ilarriet Straus has wed a
cousin of the lute Czar of all the
Russians.
Not only are we Jews loving our
enemy, we are actually marrying
him, and getting up into high so-
ciety, to boot.
After all, this business of mar-
rying the enemy has ancient Jew-
ish precedents. If I recall my Jew-
ish history correctly, old King Solo-
mon had the habit of marrying the
daughters of foreign kings, whom
he desired to conciliate. Solomon
found that one foreign father-in-
law was the equivalent to two bat-
tleships as far as preserving peace
is concerned. We commend the
idea to the about-to-convene naval
reduction conference in London.
BROTHER JONAH SPEAKS
Jonah Goldstein, whom David N.
Mossessohn has aptly described as
"the only Jew who chews tobacco
that I know of," is never without
his witticism. The latest one deals
with a Jewish judge of New York
who happens to live in a certain
Long Island community.
One day, some real estate men
came to the judge and sought to
sell him a home in New Jersey.
They pointed out the virtues of
the home they had for sale, they
argued with all the force of high
pressured salesmanship.
"But why," interposed the
judge, "do you real estate men of
Long Island want to sell me a home
in New Jersey?"
"Well, you see, judge," they re-
plied, "the only way we can sell
anybody else a home in Long Is-
land is to first sell you a home in
New Jersey."
CLARA, HENRY AND MOLLY
My private detective informs
me that Will Ilayes, czar of movie-
dom, has issued an ukase that
}lorry Richman and Clara Bow
must now go through with the mar-
riage ceremony or leave the field
of the cinema.
No more marriage announce-
ments for purely publicity pur-
poses will be tolerated, })ayes de-
clares.
It is odd to what extremes even
qualified people wilt go for a little
front page notice.
I recall among my first days in
New York while employed for a
certain news agency, that I was
visited by some relatives of Molly
Picon, the versatile Yiddish star.
There had been a report, cabled
from abroad, that Molly was killed
in a wreck.
With appropriate sadness, I
showed the cable to the uncle, tell-
ing of the passing of Molly.
"That's fine," he said. Being a
little dense by nature, and not at
that time wise to the wiles of the
press agent, it was fully five mM-
utes before I realized that the en-
tire cable was a frameup to get
Molly some publicity.
Today, Miss Picon does not have
to get killed to get publicity; but
that first death must have helped a
little.
DID YOU KNOW—
That there is a rumor about
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Charles H. Joseph
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I
HAPPENED to read a letter the other day writ-
ten by one of the finest bravest spirits in the
Christian world concerning Dr. Judah Magnes. And
I wish that I could have the privilege of printing
that letter. It contained a stinging rebuke to those
who, consumed by their own narrow, selfish inter-
ests, "bay like wolves on his track." It was a mag-
nificent tribute to the idealist; in face he compared
Magnes with Jeremiah. And he paid even higher
tribute to the courage displayed by Magnes in taking
his stand at a time when the situation was charged
with electricity. Maybe the writer may give me
permission to present what I consider to be an
exalted communiciation. I haven't seen so much
lately in the press about Palestine, which is prob-
ably a good thing. When conditions were critical in
Wall street the newspapers took the stock market
off the front page. It might be a good idea for the
press of the country for the time being to take
Palestine off and to keep it off the first page, at
least, until the parties interested have a fair oppor-
tunity to compose their differences. As for Dr.
Magncs, he was, he is, and he always will be a
dreamer. When I use that term I do not mean it
in the sense of an irresponsible visionary. I mean
it in the sense of being an idealist whose attitude
toward life is such as to put him thousands of years
in advance of society at large.
SOME
one writes me that Palliere, the Catholic
who became a Jew, has "changed so often that it
becomes a question of whether he knows what he
believes." It is true that famous convert has
changed his religion frequently. At least so I have
been informed. But that doesn't mean that he
doesn't know his own mind, as Jny correspondent
suggests. Ile may make still further changes until
he finally arrives at what he considers to be the
truth. Many others have changed their ideas on
religion. I happen to know one of the most liberal,
progressive, college presidents in this country, a
man whose name is almost a household word, who
was reared as an Orthodox Christian, a Funda-
mentalist. When he left home he became associ-
ated with Billy Sunday and traveled about the coun-
try with him assisting in revival meetings. Then,
as he told me, he "woke up." His Fundamentalism
dropped from him just like a mould, and left hint
a Progressive, and an advanced Modernist. He
may still go further in the direction of liberal
thought and who knows that some day he might be-
lieve like Dr. henry Elmer Barnes. Palliere may
not remain a member of the house of Israel, but he
at least has been enjoying. a post-graduate course
in religion.
R
ELIGION isn't an issue in public life in this coun-
try. Oh, my, no! Church and state are free,
ah, my, yes! But I note what a hullabaloo the ap-
pointment of Frank Hurley as secretary of war has
created in certain quarters. At first the statement
was made that here was an opportunity for the
president to "square Fmself" because of his fail-
ure to appoint William Donovan, who is a Catholic,
to a place in his cabinet. It was said that Ilurley
being a Catholic would make a most desirable ap-
pointment. Hurley was appointed. And now we
have quite a merry discussion. But the interest-
ing part of it all is that while it is admitted that
Secretary Ilurley's parents were Roman Catholics
he refuses to admit or to deny that he is a Catholic.
So all the rest of the country is deciding it for
him. But it all goes to show to what extent there is
religious intolerance in this country.
I
SEE by the papers that Alexander P. Moore is
being considered for ambassador to Poland. Mr.
Moore was formerly envoy to Spain and is at
present representing this country in Peru. I would
like to see him in Poland. If he is, I am sure that
he would be a sympathetic factor in helping the
Jews establish a more favorable status. I have
known him for almost 25 years and know that he is
a man of the most liberal ideas and is always ready
to render his fellows a service anywhere at any
time. His closest friends have been Jews and dur-
ing his tenure of newspaper ownership, he enjoyed
the most intimate business relationship with our co-
religionists. But aside from all business consid-
erations "Alec" Moore as most of us call him, has
a definite feeling for the man who isn't getting a
square deal. And all his life he used his news-
paper to fight for equal opportunity anti equal rights
for everybody, white or black, Jew or Christian. I
am sure that once he gets to Poland Mr. Moore
will do much to help create a more favorable atti-
tude toward the Jew in official quarters.
I
AM VERY glad indeed that the East Side Wel-
fare Center in New York City is going to honor
the memory of Sophie Irene Loeb by establishing a
Sophie Irene Loeb Settlement House on the East
Side. Miss Loeb consecrated her life to public
service, not the least of which was in the direction
of child welfare. She founded the Child Welfare
Board of the City of New York. Miss Loeb
came to the East Side 17 years ago and all through
the years she aided every movement toward milk-
ing that district a better one to live in. Her last
work was to improve housing conditions and to build
new homes. The leader of the civic life of the city
from the mayor down respected and appreciated
the humane service this woman was rendering in
behalf of the "other half" that the late Jacob Riis
so dramatically describes in his book, "how the
Other Half Lives." Miss Loeb was a rare per-
sonality with imagination and soul. The most beau-
tiful tribute paid to her memory was that of a thou-
sand East Side children who bowed their heads in
silent tribute to her who had done so much for
them.
THE following editorial in the New York Times
concerning the Jews in Soviet Russia is of gen-
eral interest to all Jews and we feel that no few in
various parts of the country, outside of New York
City, read the Times editorials, that including it in
this column will be well worth the space it occupies.
Open hostilities between the Soviet govern-
ment and the Orthodox church belong to the
past, though religion remains officially an "opi-
ate for the people," anti-religious propaganda is
active and profession of atheism is a require-
ment for membership in the Russian Communist
party. The frequency with which priests figure
among those executed for counter-revolution-
ary activities can be explained on other grounds
than religious. With respect to the Jewish
faith, the charges formulated by the American
Jewish Congress strongly suggests a consistent
and conscious policy of repression on the part
of the Soviet government. It is not always
direct government intervention. The imprison-
ment of Zionists is official procedure. But other
acts complained of, such as the conversion of
synagogues into clubs and grain warehouses
and the "hounding" of rabbis and scholars are,
no doubt the proceedings of various Commu-
nist Jewish organizations, for which, officially,
the government has no responsibility. It is the
same duality that is asserted in the case of
propaganda abroad between the Soviet govern-
ment and the Third International—a distinc-
tion which no one takes seriously.
Religious repression bears down with pe-
culiar force upon Jews in Soviet Russia becalm
it serves to aggravate an exceptionally unhappy
economic condition. This is, of course, the
result of the proletarian nature of the Soviet
state. A very large percentage of the Jewish
population before the Bolshevist revolution
belonged to the small-trader and master-crafts-
man class. Under the Soviet law these non-
proletarians, along with ministers of religion
of all creeds and employers of labor, are "de-
classed." They are not only denied the right
of suffrage, but also the benefits of unemploy-
ment and other insurance and of health and
education service. When a Jewish school is
closed down on religious or other ground it
means the leas of all educational opportunities
for the children of the "bourgeois." Inci-
dentally, they are bourgeois living, for the
great majority, on the edge of destitution.
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By IMO, The Observer
cabinet members are some-
E VEN
times put in an embarrassing
position by a newspaper story.
Secretary James J. Davis found
last week that his interest in the
Loyal Order of the Moose was capi-
talized by some individual or some
newspaperman to the extent of
saying that Mr. Davis "fixed some-
thing up because he was a Moose."
The story concerns two Jewish
children, Hannah Smolik, 14 years
old, and her brother, Zalmen, 8,
who arrived in New York front
China last Sunday. The aunt of
these children was rather talkative
when a reporter went to see her in
Brooklyn—but public officials
officials know that many people are
talkative.
Hannah's father, a Russian refu-
gee, died in Harbin. Her mother,
a Polish-Jewish woman, applied for
admission to the United States Mil-
der the Polish quota, but died be-
fore her name was reached. That
was two years ago, and ever since
then the Brooklyn Ginsburgs have
been trying to get permission for
Hannah and her brother to come to
the United States.
The task was a difficult one, for
both children had been born in
Manchuria and were regarded by
immigration officials as natives of
that country and placed in the Chi-
nese quota, which is only 100 a
year, and might bar them for
years. Hannah and Zalmen were
permitted at last to start on the
long trip from Harbin solely be-
cause their uncle and James J.
Davis, secretary of labor, both are
members of the Loyal Order of
Mouse—or so Mrs. Ginsburg be-
lieves.
"Mr. Davis, the secretary of
labor," she explains, "is one of my
husband's lodge brothers — they
both are :gooses. So, of course,
Mr. Davis fixed it up for us. I
don't know how he did it, but you
can see the children are here. It
was a miracle."
Any way that is how Mrs. Jacob
Ginsburg of Brooklyn t;i131ttck-it all
happened. Fact is, Mr. vis has
a certain amount of. ower and
latitude in such scatters, and he
has used it in behalf of others be-
sides Mouses.
new Rumanian minister,
T HE
Carol Davila, is not losing any
time in trying to defend his native
country's good name--at least in
the eyes of American Jews.
M. Carol made a special trip to
New York last week to call can the
president of the American Jewish
Committee to assure him that con-
ditions in Romano are not as bad
as the newspapers and brivate re-
ports seem to indicate. The Jew.
ish "technical counsellor" of the
Rumanian legation in America—
Mr. Jacob Rosenthal—accompanied
the minister on his visit to Dr.
Adler and assisted his compatriot
in trying to create a good impres-
sion on President Adler.
The previous Rumanian repre-
sentative, M. Cretziano, found it
necessary to do this many times
during his service in the United
States capitol, for riots, disorders
and outrages were a common oc-
currence in the last administration.
Dr. Adler may weary of such visits
if they occur too often. We hope
Rumania will settle down soon.
As a matter of fact, a patriot
speaking in the Rumanian Parlia-
ment the other clay declared "that
it would be wise for Rumania to
suppress these riots quickly be-
cause they were creating a bad im-
pression in America."
That is a good reason, too, i
ordinary fairness and humanitari-
anism cannot control the action of
citizens of the buy king's realm.
N EXT
year, on Armistice Day,
the official message of "The
Seven" will be written and read
by a Jewish representative. Every
year there is an official national
ceremony, lasting 15 minutes, in
which the seven welfare organiza-
tions of the World War participate
to pay tribute. to our war dead Icy
gathering in Arlington Cemetery
at the tomb of the Unknown Sol-
dier. Next year will be the first
opportunity for a Jew to deliver
the address at this auspicious case.
The Rev. John Burke, represent.
ing the Catholic War Council, was
the official speaker this year. One
paragraph from his Armistice Day
address is very beautifully put:
"Ours is a representative voice.
Civic sacrifice and labor of our
united people were given through
what ('resident Wilson called 'ac-
cepted instrumentalities through
which the men in the ranks are to
be assisted in many essential mat-
ters of recreation and morale';
namely, the Young Men's Christian
Association, the Young Women's
Christian Association, the National
Catholic War Council, the Jewish
Welfare Board, the War Camp
Community Service, the American
Library Association and the Sal-
vation Army,"
RELIEVE it or not—we know of
one old and pious Jew in
Washington who expressed some
pride in a certain "Christmas pres-
ent." At first blush it may sound
shocking, but perhaps you can put
yourself in his place and feel that
you would not be such a disloyal
Jew under the circumstances.
This old Jew is the father of a
young girl who is one of the ste-
nographers at the White House.
Since Christmas Day he has been
beaming with pride and showing
off to his neighbors and friends
the Christmas gift which President
Hoover sent his daughter. He tells
you in his half-Yiddish-English,
The president's automobile
stopped in front of the house and
a messenger brought in this beau-
tiful poinsetta flower and this pic-
ture of the White House with Mr.
Hoover's own signature on it. Isn't
that nice of the 'resident?"
there will be new com-
S OON
plaints about Jewish attempts
to "control." This time it is the
air that they are :rying to control.
someone may say.
One of the leading figures in the
National Broadcasting chain is a
Jew; a very powerful personage in
the Columbia Broadcasting system
is a Jew; and now it seems a new
nation-wide broadcasting chain is
about to be hunched—end of
course, a Jew is prominent even in
its initial stage.
The other (la) Representative
William I. Sirovitch made a special
plea before the Federal Radio
Commission to allocate more power
to station WGBS in New York
City. It was understood that the
purpose of this change was to make
it possible for the station to be-
come the key for a very powerful
broadcasting network which would
cover the country, in competition
with the National and Columbia
chains.
shall see what we shall see.
But don't worry about Jewish con-
trol of the air.
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JEWS IN THE NEWS
By BERNARD POSTAL
Congressman Sol Bloom will
start the new year off right if he
gets the place on the ways and
means committee of the House of
Representatives made vacant by
the resignation of Congressman
Carew, who has been appointed to
the Supreme Court of New York.
Bloom is being considered for the
position by the Democratic slating
committee and he has the backing
of the Tammany delegation. The
ways and means committee ranks
among the three most powerful
committees of the lower house of
Congress and it would be a real
distinction for Congressman Bloom
to get the place. If he does he
will be the second Jew so honored
in recent years. Congressman
Bacharach of New York has been
a member for several years.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann's ephemeral
reputation as a "silent man" has
been broken. Since the commis-
sion hearing started the president
of the World Zionist Organization
saw fit to say nothing. His silence
was beginning to arouse consider-
able comment and speculation
when, without warning, he broke
onto the front page with a long
speech at the Anglo-Palestine Club
and now he is on his way to the
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, chancellor of the Hebrew University, has
issued an order forbidding the students to publish anything before the
secretariat of the Jerusalem University sees it.
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Chief Rabbi Abraham Kook of Palestine has cabled the English
Zionist Federation welcoming their meeting for strengthening Hebrew
culture and urging them to demand security for life and property, the
fiulfillment of Jewish rights in Palestine, to protest against murders and
lootings and to strengthen the Jewish spirit.
Vera Yakolevka of Moscow, who comes from a well-known Jewish
family, was appointed People's Commissar of Finance by the Soviet
Union Central Executive Committee. The 44-year-old Jewess thus
becomes the first woman member of the Soviet cabinet.
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The generosity of Ludwig Vogelstein, chairman of the executive
board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, has made pos-
sible the publication of the third volume of "The History of the Jew-
ish Philosophy of the Middle Ages," by Dr. David Neumark, late pro-
fessor of philosophy at the llebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
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Horace Liveright has announced that he will publish the English
translations of all Sholom Asch's novels. Rumor in literary circles has
it that Mr. Liveright is grooming Asch for the Nobel prize.
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Nat. J. Ferber, the youthful author of "New York," has received a
contract from his publisher for a similar book on Europe.
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Isaac Goldberg, whose recent book on Gilbert & Sullivan has been
praised to the skies by every important critic, including such diacrimi-
noting music-critics as Philip Hale of Boston, and Ernest Newman of
England, is now working upon a jazz-biography of George Gershwin.
Samuel D. Schmalhausen, that well-known American psycho-analyst,
has the honor of having his latest book, "Our Changing Human Nature,"
praised by such famous men as Ilavefock Ellis, John B. Watson, Fritz
Wittels and Harry Elmer Barnes.
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