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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 47:28-50:26.
Prophetical portion—I Kings 2:1-12.

January 17, 1930

Tebeth 17, 5690

A Credit to the Marshall Name.

5

Have you read the address of James Mar-
shall, oldest son of the late Louis Marshall,
delivered at the annual meeting of the Jew-
ish Education Association of New York and
published in last week's issue of The Chron-
icle?
If you haven't, be sure that you dig up
your copy of the paper and acquaint your-
self with the truly learned statement of a
rising leader. We urge the reading of his
address not so much for its contents but as
an indication of what may be expected of
the son of the great departed leader.
James Marshall revealed in his address

a knowledge and understanding of Jewish
life, problems and history. On a previous
occasion, upon his return from Palestine,
he showed a similar deep insight into the
problem of the Jewish homeland. Put the
two instances together, take into consider-
ation his great heritage from his father, and
watch James Marshall. We expect him to
rise to great heights in American Jewish
leadership.

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istence, as the fund of all the Jewish peo-
ple, participated in by all parties, to the
elimination of partisan politics that are
said to threaten it at the conference to be
held this Sunday, there will be destroyed
that tradition which made the fund stand
out as the finest creation of Zionism.
Mr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the
Jewish National Fund of America, has for
many years been at the helm of the United
Palestine Appeal and has played a lead-
ing role in the affairs of the Zionist Organ-
ization of America. Ile is acquainted with
the politics in the organization and is with-
out doubt one of the best informed men in
America on Zionism. His experience should
make him the best defender of the ideals
which will assure continued independence
for the Jewish National Fund from parti-
sanship, Mr. Neumann will have an oppor-
tunity to display at the conference on Sun-
- day whether he desires to battle for the
retention of such independence from poli-
tics, or whether he intends to have the Jew-
ish National Fund follow the path that has
doomed the United Palestine Appeal,
In the meantime friends and workers for
the Jewish National Fund should be vigi-
lant and alert against the dangers that are
said to threaten their beloved fund. Let
the politicians keep their hands off this in-
stitution in Zionism. The National Fund
has gotten along without paid workers un-
til now. It is in position to continue as a
movement of and by volunteers, at the same
time avoiding large drives which would in-
terfere with the planned efforts of the Jew-
ish Agency.

A Practical Proposal.

The proposal made by Mr. H.

H. Prenz-
lauer, secretary of the Department of Pub-
lic Welfare of Detroit, through the columns
of last week's issue of The Chronicle, that
the Sharrey Zedek structure on Willis and
Brush streets be purchased by those inter-
ested in a Jewish hospital here to serve as
The Yeshivah College Must Be Saved.
the foundation for such at health center,
When the Yeshivah College first opened deserves serious consideration, Mr. Prenz-
in New York last year as the only recog-
lauer's suggestion may not meet with ap-
nized Orthodox Jewish college in the Unit-
proval, but it contains many features merit-
ed States, Jews throughout the country ing investigatiOn.
were jubilant over the triumph of Ortho-
Mr. Prenzlauer's proposal is interesting
doxy in its invasion of the realm of higher and important because it exploded the idea
education. Friends of the Isaac Elchanan
that large sums are needed for the building
Theological Seminary, as an auxiliary of of a hospital. It is interesting also for the
which the college was organized, are now
suggestion it contains that a Jewish hospi-
panic-stricken over the danger of the col-
tal be built within the so-called hospital
lege being compelled to close, due to lack center,' where the Shaarey Zedek building
of funds. The board of the college is now is located.
appealing to the Jews of this country for
Having been responsible for many years
a $250,000 emergency membership fund
for major activities in connection with the
to save the institution.
construction of hospials and other public
Painful as it is to add another "emerg- buildings for the City of Detroit and Wayne
ency" fund to the legion of appeals that County, Mr. Prenzlauer's opinions carry
is being made to our people, the disgrace with them the weight of an authority. When
of forcing the closing of the Yeshivah Col- he states, therefore, that the Shaarey Zed-
lege doors would be too damaging to our ek synagogue building can be remodeled
pride as Jews for such a moral bankruptcy into a hospital, his suggestions should re-
to be permitted. Orthodox Jews are obli- ceive the consideration of the community's
gated in this emergency situation to save an leaders who want a hospital.
institution the existence of which will do
Perhaps two movements could be bene-
much more for the perpetuation of tradi- fited by favorably considering Mr. Prenz-
tional Judaism than anything else. If Or- lacer's proposal: the building of a hospital
thodoxy is truly proud of its college, it will and the speeding of the construction of a
save it.
new Shaarey Zedek, made possible with
funds derived from the sale of the old
building.
Is the National Fund in Danger?

The only Zionist agency to retain its

identity and to be independent of the new-
ly-formed Jewish agency is the Jewish Na-
tional Fund. This is as it should be because
the National Fund, which was the first
fund-gathering agency to be organized for
Palestine, has the specific job to redeem
the soil of Eretz Israel as the inalienable
property of the entire Jewish people with
the pennies and nickels and dimes of the
masses. As such it has earned the affect-
ion of the masses and has become a sort of
impartial meeting point for all elements in
Zionism. The Jewish National Fund is, in
fact, the only branch in Zionism which does
not arouse internal strife. By assuring it
its independence, the Jewish Agency has
made possible the retention of the finest
sentiments and traditions in Zionism.
Unfortunately, however, as a result of
rumored strife between Zionist and non-
Zionist leaders over points at issue in the
Jewish Agency, it is reported that the men
who made Zionist political history in the
past decade, as leaders in the Zionist Or-
ganization of America and the United Pal-
estine Appeal. are now aiming to establish
a position of political security for them-
selves in the Jewish National Fund, in the
event they are eliminated from power by
the Jewish Agency, as it appears that they
will be. Rumor has it, on fairly good
grounds, that the National Executive Com-
mittee of the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, in deciding to meet in Philadelphia at
the same time that the Jewish National
Fund conference is to take place this Sun-
day, had in view the express purpose of
gaining a political footing in the Jewish
National Fund.
We issue warning to all friends of the
Jewish National Fund, and particularly to
those workers who have unselfishly de-
voted themselves for the past quarters of
a century to the tasks of redeeming the
soil of Palestine as the property of the en-
tire Jewish people. to exert every effort
against any move that would destroy the
identity and individuality of this fund. Un-
less the Jewish National Fund retains the
characteristics which have marked it dur-
ing the past twenty-seven years of its ex-

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Uprooting Judaism in Russia.

News from Soviet Russia continues to re-
veal the sad state of Judaism and the dan-
gers threatening Jewish existence at the
hands of the Communists, particularly the
Yevsektzia, the Jewish Communist section.
One day's cables received from Moscow
through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
tell the following:
The Jewish doctors I. Iserson and David
Baranov were sentenced to three months
imprisonment for circumcising a Jewish
child in the Petrozavodsk municipal hospi-
tal. In spite of their pleas that they per-
formed the operation for eugenic and
not religious reasons, their act was brand-
ed as "a barbaric rite" interfering with the
government order for separation of church
and state.
The Jewish Museum of the Ethnograph-
ical History Society founded by Sh. Ansky,
and the Ope, the Society for Spreading Cul-
ture Among the Jews, which has been in
existence for more than 70 years, were liq-
uidated by the Soviet on the ground that
they have been conducting work ideologi-
cally foreign to the Russian Communist
state. The Jewish Communists, who were
as usual in such oppressive instances re-
sponsible for this liquidation, are planning
a "Jewish Marxist Society" to take over the
management of the two organizations.
Of the more than 1,400 synagogues in
the Ukraine in 1914, only 894 remained at
the end of 1929. There are now 646 less
synagogues in Russia than there were be-
fore the revolution. Many of the extinct
houses of worship have now been convert-
ed into workers clubhouses and some have
been remodelled into dwellings for work-
ers.
Thus, in many mays, Jewish right to wor-
ship and imbibe their own culture is inter-
fered with, and at the helm of the group
that persecutes are Jews whose actions are
tolerated by the Soviet. Yet there are men
in this country who minimize the dangers
threatening Jewish extinction in Russia.
Nothing should be left undone to bring re-
lief to economically, physically and moral-
ly oppressed Russian Jewry.

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Scanning the
Horizon

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

THE BUSY VLADIMIR

Where do they get the time?
Here is Vladimir Jabotinaky, the
enfant terrible of the Zionist
movement. Ile is, I believe, the
manager of an insurance company
in• Palestine. Besides, he is the
leader of the militant Zionists, and
that is a job in itself. Also he is
the editor of a journal, published
in Paris. And lectures constantly.
Now, my private sleuths inform
me that Horace I.iveright will soon
publish a book entitled: "Judge
and Fool," written by Altalena.
And Altalena, is you must know,
is Vladimir Jabotinsky,
—s —

THE ODD ENDINGS

One of the favorite diversions of
this department is philosophizing
on the perversity or "cussedness"
of nature, as revealed in the ten-
dency of things to turn out just
as you planned them—not! I have
another case to report this week.
and it comes to me from David
Freedman, author of "Mendel,
Inc.," in which Alexander Carr,
who shone in Potash and Perl-
mutter, in starring.
Writes Freedman: "In my brief
career as a writer I've learned to
be surprised at nothing. In my
own case, I've turned out to be
exactly what I was not intended
for. As a child, I won all the spell-
ing contests and excelled in gram-
mar, so that now I write dialect
stories with misspelled words and
broken English. In early years I
avoided every form of physical
training, and am now 5 feet 9,
eligible for the police force, a fair
boxer and good bowler. Having re-
solved never to marry, I am now
the father of three sons. I resolved
further to become an actor, and lo
and behold, I am a writer."
— —

ANENT ALEXANDER CARR

And by the way, Alexander
Carr, of Potash and Perlmutter
fame, who, as I have said, is play-
ing the stellar role in "Mendel,
Inc." recently filed a petition in
bankruptcy, giving his assets as
something under $1,000.
Where Carr made his mistake
was in playing the part of Mr. Pot-
ash. Had he really lived the part,
he would probably be the head of
a successful cloak and suit busi-
ness by now.

AN OLD HOTEL

There are sermons in stones and
running brooks, it has been pointed
out. To which we add, there is
romance in restaurants and hotels.
If you happen to be a very
Orthodox rabbi, for instance, the
chances are that when you come
to New York you will stop at the
Broadway Central Hotel. The
hotel is today owned by the Mani-
schewitzes, matzoth makers, and
its eating facilities are 100 per
cent kosher. Which explains why
it is the favorite hostelry of the
ultra-Orthodox.
But go back a couple of dec-
ades, and the Broadway Central
Hotel was one of the leading inns
of the big city. It was there, by
the way, that the noted Jim Fisk
was murdered.

HOW HE BECAME TROTZKY

Incidentally Leon Trotzky, then
known as Bronstein, is said to have
stopped there in the days prior to
the war. And thereby hangs a
tale. In charge of the kosher
meals there was Herman Trotzky,
and it is said that while the future
Communist leader had many trefa
ideas, he liked Trotsky's kosher
food.
Well, anyway, when news of the
Russian revolution broke, Leon
Bronstein left for Russia. En
route, he was stopped at Halifax
by the British, who inquired his
name. Fearful that if he gave his
correct name he would not be per-
mitted to go, he gave the name of
his favorite restauranteur and it
has been Leon Trotzky since.

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A LITTLE BOY OF 50

They are telling a good one
about a recent trip that Arch Sel-
wyn, noted Jewish theatrical pro-
ducer, made to London recently to
sign up the Griffiths.
These Griffiths are a father and
son, the pater being 71 years old
the son aged 50.
Selwyn offered them a big sum
if they would come to America.
The father demurred. lie was
afraid of crossing the ocean, he
said.
"Look here," Selwyn cried.
"What the devil is the matter with
you? I'm offering you more money
than you've ever heard of before.
I think you're very foolish, darn
it."
By way of parenthesis, let me
say that Mr. Selwyn used instead
of "darn" a slightly harsher term,
the third letter of which is "m."
The old man Griffiths was in a
fury. "See here, Mr. Selwyn, I
won't have you using such lan-
guage in front of my boy!"

HIP, HIP, SAID THE TAILOR
We Jews have a rather excel-

lent record in the pugilistic pro-
fessions, but, as far as I know, we
have never yet produced the cham-
pion heavyweight of the world.
But if we haven't let not cur spir-
its droop, for,,we have at least
produced the tailor to his pugilis-
tic excellency, the right honorable
Jack Dempsey.
If you haven't met him yet,
meet brother Arthur Cohen,
Jack's own tailor.
Dempsey, it appears, had been
going to tailors for years, and
never got any satisfaction until
somebody recommended Arthur
Cohen.
When Jack came in, Arthur gave
Dempsey • once-over which would
have done credit to the Life Ex-
tension Institute.
And hip, hip. hooray, he found
the cause of Jack's trouble. It
was due to Dempsey's right hip.
And the discovery was largely due
to the fact that Cohen had fre-
quently seen Dempsey in action.
Ile had noted that Dempsey was

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JEWS IN THE NEWS

Ow At
Charles If. Joseph

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SEE that

By BERNARD POSTAL

Political oracles say that once a
politician, even of the first magni-
tude, has retired, only a miracle
or a national crisis can bring him
back again into the political lime-
light. Some men have conic back,
however, without either a miracle
or a national crisis. The latest
addition to this group of come-
backs is Simon Guggenheim,
United States senator from Colo-
rado from 1907 to 1013. This
week the moribund Republican
party in New York State appoint-
ed a committee to revivify the G.
0. I'. and one of the committee
was Simon Guggenheim. As a
politician, even he will admit he
was just another senator. Poster-
ity will not know him as 0 politi-
cian. His fame will rather be as a
business man and commercial pio-
neer. With his brothers he was
among the early entrepreneurs to
realize the value of Alaska and the
economic value of our northern
empire is no little due to his ef-
forts. Ile did the same thing for
American investments in Mexico
and South America, while his sil-
ver mines in Colorado are well
known. Guggenheim was known
as the "silver king" at a time when
the American industrial world was
neatly subdivided into "oil king,"
"sugar king," "wheat king" and
"railroad king." Today the name
of Guggenheim is better known
in connection with aviation.

Rook

Rosenberg was given some
recognition by the king of England. Exactly the
kind of ribbon she received I am not certain of at
this moment. But I am sure that she earned it.
Some pi ruinsare merely "reflected glory" boys
or girls. They reflect sonic of the shining great-
ness of the great. But Rosie is different. This Jew-
ish girl, private secretary to Premier Ramsay Mac-
Donald, indicated by her common sena•, competence
and general all-round ability, when she was in this
country, that she was a secretary plus. Her career
should be an inspiration to the thousands of other
Rosh, Rosenbergs in the world.
And they might
keep in mind that a Jewish name was no bar to
advancement. So they don't have to change it to
Ross or Rowe. Well, she is in England and this is
America, I hear you say. I promise you that if all
the Jewish women in this country who are holding
important public positions could be unearthed
you'd be surprised at the list. Speaking of Rosie
Rosenberg, have we forgotten our own Mrs, henry
Moskowitz?

N

OT how much money you leave to charity but
how well it is left is important. Conrad Hubert,
who left six millions to be disposed of for the good
of society was fortunate that three such men as ex-
Governor Smith, former President Coolidge and
Julius Rosenwald distributed the fund. They them-
selves have a marvelous "social sense." Their own
experience with public welfare and the contacts
they have with the greatest social experts in the
country made their selection an ideal one. So
when one reads the list of causes chosen to be the
recipients of the benefactions of the "flashlight"
magnate one is impressed with the sound judgment
displayed. $250,000 was given to the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of America, $250,000 to the Jew-
ish Mental Health Society, $175,000 to the Young
Men's Hebrew Association of New York, $100,000
to the Henry Street Settlement in New York, $200,-
000 to the Beth Israel Ilospital Association in New
York.

If the city of Minsk had a pub-
licity man in New York it could
not have gotten more or better
publicity than it did during the
past week as the result of two in-
cidents involving native sons of
Minsk. In the first place the White
Russian metropolis broke into
print in connection with the dis-
tribution of Conrad Ilubert's (nee
Chaim Hurowitz) $6,000,000 es-
tate. Hubert, born in Minsk, came
here young and made a fortune
through his invention of the flash-
light. The second Minsker to get
a place in the headlines was the
comparatively youthful David Sar-
nett% who was named president of
the Radio Corporation of America.
Sarnoff's career reads like the typi-
cal Horatio Alger story. At 15 he
was a messenger boy and later
hearing the call of the sea became
a wireless operator on ocean-going
vessels. When radio came into the
field of entertainment and com-
munications Sarnoff was already

A

READER living in Chatfield, Minn., writes to
me enclosing a leaflet which was distributed
from house to house in that small community urg-
ing Jews to come to the Jesus. I imagine in a vil-
loge of 1,500 souls there would be probably a dozen
Jews. My correspondent expresses surprise that a
missionary campaign should be undertaken where
there are so few Jews. Well, dear reader, you
know that a Jewish soul saved to Christianity is
worth a great deal. Oh, my, yes! I recall that it
was figured out that on one occasion it costs some-
thing like FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for
every Jewish convert to Christianity. I pointed out
at the time that such a vast sum could be employed
by the Christian church for something worth-while;
maybe bringing Christian delinquents back to the
Christian fold. But it seems that Ilebrew-Christian
missionaries have to live just like other folk. And
then there is quite a thrill in gaining a convert
from the ancient people of Israel. However, I
imagine that in the case of Chatfield, Minn., some
enterprising person "sold a bill" to some guileless
church organization in order to peddle missionary
tracts to Jews where there are no Jews. Just an
opportunity to make a little easy money. After
reading the tract enclosed I fancy that unless the
Jews of Chatfield are infants they are not likely to
be influenced by such propaganda.

Some men seek the headlines
and some men are sought out by
the headlines. Of the latter is
Colonel Michael Friedsam, presi-
dent of B. Altman & Co., mer-
chants par excellence, civic worker
of a national repute and a philan-
thropist with vision. Ile seldom
talks for publication as such but in
his capacity as president of the
Fifth Avenue Association, the
watchdogs of America's famous
shopping center, he has just made
a statement which is so different

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By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

If you would have history re-

performed, romance lived, the
life of a genius re-enacted by a
master actor, see George Arliss re-
vive the character of Benjamin
Disraeli, Jewish prime minister of
England.

The Warner Brothers' talking
picture, "Disraeli," was at the
State last week. It remains there
for this week, and unless the
charge is true that only slush and
sex appeal will draw crowds, this
great talkie should remain in De-
troit at least another month,
. • •

will he occupied with Jewish preachers and the
synagogues will hear sermons from Christian clergy-
men. But it's good work, and I hope the movement
spreads. This time it is Mrs. Coffee, the unusually
clever helpmate of Rabbi Rudolph Coffee of Oak-
land, Cal., who has been honored by being the first
Jewess to occupy a Christian pulpit in that state.
Mrs. Coffee spoke in the Universalist Church, tak-
ing for her subject "Were I a Christian." That's
what I call a subject! It offered a splendid setting
for a "truth party," and it seems that Mrs. Coffee
took complete advantage of the opportunity. Among
other things she told her hearers that if Christians
accepted Jesus as seriously as they pretended to,
then his teachings on week days would be as effica-
cious as they are extolled to be on Sundays. At
any rate these face-to-face discussions are much
more satisfactory than if they are held through a
third medium, such as newspaper articles. I am
glad that Mrs. Coffee found time, too, to remind
her congregation that if Christians hate Jesus,
born a Jew, lived a Jew and (lied with Hebrew on
lips.
•
AM IN receipt of an enclosure from the Jewish
Advocate of Boston containing a letter written to
that paper by one of its readers, George J. Berg-
num. It deals with my comments on Dr. Magnes'
attitude toward the Palestine situation. The follow-
ing is an excerpt.

The Disraeli part is not new to
George Arliss. For years this
great actor portrayed the role of
the English statesman on the stage,
and his appearance in the talkies is
merely a change in field of acting.
In the case of his Disraeli role
Mr. Arliss is more than an actor.
Ile is today perhaps the best in-
formed man on the life story of
Disraeli. He reveals it in his act-
ing, in the manner in which he tilts
his hat, in his chuckle, his walk,
his flirtations. Ile makes Disraeli
live again as a result of many
years' study of every available
work on the man.
•
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There are some deviations from
historical facts as we know them
in the "Disraeli" talkie. Poetic
license was resorted to in the le-
gend of the purchase of the Suez
Canal. The manner in which Dis-
raeli forces the Bank of England
to help him in the purchase is exag-
gerated in the film. But all these
incidents merely help Arliss to
portray the true Disraeli as history
speaks of him.
•
• •

I

I have read with interest your unconditional
espousal in your column, "Random Thoughts,"
of the ideas suggested by Dr. Mag-nes' speech
delivered at the Ilebrew University in Pales-
tine, and the implications to be drawn lead me
to ask the following questions:

It is Disraeli the Jew who is the
hero of the Warner talkie. The
very first lines spoken by an agi-
tates in Hyde Park in 1774 attack
the prime minister as a Jew. In
political and social circles we hear
the Jew Disraeli ridiculed and
maligned. And when Disraeli fails
to get financial aid from the Bank

What is it that Dr. Magnes asks that has not
already been put into practice by the official
representatives of the Jewish people? What
acts have they omitted to perform which call
forth a denunciation in the name of culture
and humanity? Is it a cultural center that is
the bone of contention? Then, I ask, what
other example in the history of the world can
you point to that has, within a decade, estab-
lished school systems, published an exception.
ally large number of books, magazines and
newspapers, and founded a university for the
inculcating of scientific knowledge, as well as
a familiarity with more academic subjects,
such an the humanities and psychology? I ask
you, what other people have in so short a
time laid so firm a foundation for a cultural
center?

of England for his Suez Canal

scheme, he declares that if he
can't get the money from Pharaoh
he will go to Moses. Ile goes to
the banker Ilugh Meyers.
It will be remembered that it
was the House of Rothschild that
saved the Suez Canal for England
by providing Disraeli with the
necessary funds to purchase the
controlling shares. The noble fig-
ure of Meyers the banker serves
in this film anonymously to pay
tribute to the Rothschild act.
•
.

There is nothing in the entire
Disraeli film to show that the
noted statesman was baptized by
his father at 13. Disraeli does not
deny his origin. In fact, without
proclaiming it, there is some pride
in his declaration that what
l'haraoh cannot Moses will do.
• •
•

In one of his great literary
works, Disraeli declared that "the
youth of a nation are the masters
of posterity." The encouragement
he gives to Charles Deeford in this
film is a masterful portrayal of his
interest in the young. Arliss adds
to his glory as an actor in the
simple but beautiful and master-
ful way in which he encourages
Charles to try again to win the love
of pretty Lady Clarissa, after she
had rejected the youthful aspirant.
Anthony Bushnell and Joan Ben-
nett ably portray these two roles.
There is also that fine historic
love affair between Mary Ann Dis-
raeli (Lady Beaconsfield) and her
"Dizzy." Mrs. Arliss is the able
portrayer of the role of Mary Ann,
and she contributes not a little
towards uniting "Dizzy's" love for
his wife with his great political
career and making the two an indi-
visible entity in the great states-
man's career.
Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Travers,
Ivan Simpson as Meyers, and David
Torrence as Lord Probert are the
other able actors in the play. Arliss
plus his able assisting cast makes
"Disraeli" stand out as one of the
very greatest pictures in filmdom.

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THE BOOK CASE

Comments on Jewish Authors and their Books.

By DAVID EWEN

Emil 'Ludwig and Lewis Mumford contributed penetrating essays to-
that valuable anthology, "Whither Mankind," recently published by
I.ongmans, Green & Co. And speaking of Lewis Mumford, his next
book, "Arts in America Since 1870," is the result of
a series of lectures
he recently delivered at Dartmouth.

The learned chancellor of the Ilebrew Uni-
versity says, in effect, that bayonets should play
no part in the development of such a cultural
center, Let me ask you this question: If the
entering of 100,000 Jews into Palestine in the
past 10 years has been by the way of bayonets,
why have we not heard something of it before
1929?

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Warner Brothers Talkie Pictures the Genius of Bea-
consfield's Statesmanship, and George Arliss
Makes Great Job of Role as Disraeli.

comes another goodwill message from Cali-
H ERE
fornia. If this keeps up the Christian churches

to say on this subject later.

A lawyer who is not a politician
statesman or reformer is goner
ally unknown outside of the lega
and judicial circles. Not so, how
ever, Max D. Steuer. In many
ways Steuer is a politician. Ile i.
said to be an important factor it
local Democratic circles. But as
for openly taking political sides
the cagey Steuer knows better.
When and if some enterprising
writer delves into the important
criminal and divorce cases in New
York during the last decade he will
be surprised to find that his book
will perhaps become a biography
of Max D. Steuer. The diminutive
attorney is the sort of man who
relishes unpopular cases. He has
a way of winning them and win-
ning them conclusively. His as-
sumption of the defense of Magis-
trate Vitale, which got Steuer
into the headlines after an absence
of some time, is a case in point. It
may be that he will not disentangle
the magistrate from his present
difficulties but if anyone can get
Vitale out of his mess Steuer is
the man.

Arliss Portrays a Great Disraeli

IN THE same mail that brought the letter from
Chatfield came a leaflet issued by the Williams-
burg Mission to the Jews, Brooklyn, N. Y., It is
called the "Shepherd of Israel." And the leading
article, printed in English (the remainder is in Yid-
dish), asks "Why Do You Hate a Jewish Chris-
tian?" I don't hate them. I just don't have con-
fidence in them. So many of them have become
converts because of social, business or political
reasons. And the one or two that I have met per-
sonally who have "gone Christian" were fanatics.
I don't say all, but I say those that I have known
personally. I can't bring myself to believe that
most Jews who become converted can normally
"swallow" Orthodox-Christian theology with its
miracles, the Virgin birth, the resurrection, Jesus
as the only son of God, and all the rest that even
liberal Christians do not believe. They are either
hypocrites or fanatics..

In reply I would say that something is being
read into Dr. Magnes statement that surely
any intelligent person knows isn't there. What
is meant by establishing ourselves at the point
of the bayonet is that the force of Great Brit-
ain is necessary to maintain the present posi-
tion of the Jew in Palestine. Does anyone
think for a moment that without the prestige
and power of England that the Jews could
get anywhere with their program? Not unless
we have taken leave of our senses. What
Magnet pleads for is that we should reconstruct
our Palestine aims no as to eliminate all the
political phases and limit the program to cul-
tural development. However, I shall have more

known as one of the pioneers. II
earliest achievement was to brine,
together phonograph manufa•tur
era with those of radio equipmen
with the resulting combination of
radio and phonograph in one cab
inet. It was he who fostered the
establishment of high power broad
casting stations in the leadint,
cities of the country. Sarnoff, too
was the flaying spirit behind the
Radio Corporation's acquisition o
control of the Keith-Orpheus
amusement enterprises. In his 20
years as executive he has carries
into effect the policies of the di
rectors of his company with neat
ness and dispatch. Now as presi
dent he is in a position to have
others carry his policies into effect

•
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•
Emil Ludwig is vacationing in Palestine, after which he hopes to
write a book about the Promised Land.

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Fannie Hurst's novel, "Five and Ten," has been sold to the movies.
As has been Stefan Zweig's remarkable novel, "Sergeant Grischa."

•
•
•
Waldo Frank, who has been lecturing in Argentine under the
aus-
pices of the Argentine government, has been unanimously elected an
honorary member of the Sociedad Ilebraica Argentina (Hebrew -Society
of Argentine). This society has but one other
honorary member and he,
too, is a Jew. Ile is Albert Einstein, the celebrated scientist, who
was

elected in 1925.

•
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•
Isaac Goldberg's latest book, "The Art of Living" (Stratford Pub-
lishers), is shortly forthcoming,
•
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•
Gilberg Seldes, the well-known Jewish critic of the cinema
and
drama, has produced his first novel, "The Wings of
the Eagle" (Little,
Brown). He still remains a fine critic.

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(Copyright • 1910. J. T. A. )

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