i1ELLTROIT ___AL_ 1 /t RONIGl. 1*,1,L:=&&_ 0 ' 2 EVerttorlikwisli oi RON !clip Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle ?WWII./ G. Inc Entered as Second-elart matter March 8, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit. Mich., under the Act of March 3. 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle London Office 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England Subscription, in Advance , $3.00 Per Year To Insure publication.all correspondence and n ews matter use reach this office by Tuesday evening of eac h week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only. The Detroit Jewi..11 Chronicle Invitee correspondence on sub- ject•of interest to the Jewish people. but disclaims re•ponsi- batty for an indorsement of the views expressed by be writers Sabbath Reading. of the Torah. Pentateuehal portion—Ex. 1 :1-16:1. Prophetical portion—is. 27:6-27:13; 29:22-23. Rosh Chodesh Readings of the Torah, Thursday, Jan. 30., Num. 28:1-15. January 24, 1930 Tebeth 24, 5690 David A. Brown's Gigantic Effort. The gigantic effort to aid war-stricken European Jewry, through the United Jew- ish Campaign, has written into the pages of American Jewish history the story of one of the most dynamic individuals and of one of the country's greatest campaigners. As the U. J. C. closes, to be replaced in the gathering of relief funds by other institu- tions, possibly under the Jewish Agency, millions of Jews speak words of praise for David A. Brown, our distinguished fellow- townsman, thanks to whom the United Jew- ish Campaign made history in humanitar- ian effort. Mr. Brown's generalship in the relief movements of the Joint Distribution Com- mittee has mobilized for him millions of friends and an army of workers which is to this day the largest force of volun- teer workers in any Jewish cause in the world. On the one hand Mr. Brown earned the gratitude of poverty-stricken and op- pressed Jews overseas; on the other, he has won the admiration of his fellow-workers in this country. The finest tribute possible goes to Mr, Brown—the respect and grat- titude of his fellow-workers. • Laudable Immigrant Aid Work. The renewal of the agreement between the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Jewish Colonization Association and the United Jewish Emigration Committee of Europe (Hiss, Ica and Emigdirect) de- serves to be greeted with the approval of all Jews. The• excellence of the work previously accomplished by these three agencies and the readiness with which they have aided stranded immigrants, makes their combined efforts stand out among the most important sponsored by world Jewry, An English writer has recently referred to the constant cycle of Jewish migration as "the moving staircase." Compelled by circumstances to wander about, our peo- ple in Eastern Europe continue to be faced by problems and conditions which would place them in a helpless situation indeed, had it not been for the aid of agencies like the Bias, the Ica and the Emigdirect. The opening of the new immigration centers in South American countries, and the spread of Jews to such remote sections as Mexico, Peru, Cuba, Venezuela, China, etc., call for the sort of guidance and pro- tection which the new three-year agree- ment between the three leading immigrant 4 agencies guarantees. As instances in proof of the worthiness of the service made pos- sible by this triple alliance we quote the yj following three points in the renewed .14y agreement : 1$71. 7 ) 7 ' 74 7 A •'61:( • . The functions of the United Organization in the countries of emigration will include the following: a—Information to emigrants concerning con- ditions in the countries of immigration both as to industry and agriculture. b—Protection of emigrants, intervention in their behalf, and legal advice and aid c--Language study and training in trades for Hie emigrants. The budget of $600.000 for the three years effort is comparatively small, and the importance of the work undertaken should guarantee its subscription. The Decline of the Yiddish Press. Dr. Samuel Margoshes, editor of the Yid- dish Daily Day of New York, in an address before the Jewish Center Forum, predicted that the Yiddish press in this country can- not survive. In proof of the decline of Yid- dish, and consequently the Yiddish press, the Zionist Organization of America has stopped the publication of its Yiddish week- ly, Dos Yiddishe Folk. It may be argued that the Z. 0. A. acted in the interests of economy, now that its fund-raising activi- ties are to be curtailed, but the fact that the New Palestine continues to function un- hampered is evidence in favor of English replacing Yiddish as the reading medium of American Jews. Dr. Margoshes' prediction, coming from one of the leading Yiddish editors in Amer- ica, should make the YiddishisLs sit up and take notice. For many years now leading Yiddish dailies and journals introduced English pages and sections in order to at- tract the English reader. The closing of America's doors to immigration has helped to sound the death-knell for Yiddish. The Anglo-Jewish press, including some sixty publications of the type of The Detroit Jew- ish Chronicle, has now assumed the con- trolling journalistic position among the Jews of this country. Blame Little Old New York. American Jewish communities distantly removed from New York City are suffering from the fact that practically every move- ment of importance is centered in the me- tropolis. As a result, leading figures in Jewry are settled in New York, and those who are not strive to that end. An interesting example ill proof of this contention is the call made to Dr. Louis I. Newman of San Francisco to minister to Congregation Rodeph Sholom in New York. Dr. Newman has contributed much to- wards a revival of Jewish interests on the Pacific coast. During the five years of his service as rabbi of the San Francisco con- gregation he has been a contributing factor in every Jewish movement. Now New York calls him away, and the communities on the western coast will suffer from it. Are we to blame the rabbi? No, blame little old New York. But whoever and whatever you blame, many Jewish com- munities suffer because of the magnet of the metropolis which attracts our leaders in whom it inspires ambition. The Dispute of Our Boys and Girls. The dispute between our boys and girls, over alleged existing prejudice towards the Jewish girls on the part of our boys, aired through the columns of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, started off well and at first prom- ised to help solve what is without a doubt a serious problem for both sexes. But some of the correspondents threaten either to spoil the discussion or to force it entirely to come to an end because they are moving toward the wrong tangent. It was never intended to have discussion create an ap- peal for the sensual, or to air opinions on what is beautiful and what is not; or on what in the opinion of our correspondents represents human intelligence. Some of the correspondents go a step too far when they brand the Jewish girls as unintelligent and as physically unattractive, They for- get, in discussing intelligence, that the com- parative measures of wisdom do not vary so much among sexes of different peoples, and to brand the stamp of , unintelligence upon the women of thcji own people is to condemn themselves. Those of our Jewish boys who make full use of their "chutzpah" to write in criti- cism of the intelligence of the Jewish girls either do not know or forget that there were prophetesses in Israel, and that some of the leaders in womanhood today are Jewesses who are of great credit to their people. Jewish women have made great contributions to mankind. They continue to do so. And not only Jews, but human- ity at large honors them for it. Boys who question the intelligence of the women of their own race deserve to be pitied. If Jewish boys really prefer the society of non-Jewesses, as the charge of the cor- respondent who started the discussion would have us believe, the discussion now carried on is not to be laughed at. The airing out of serious minded views on the subject may bring us to solution. Perhaps, after all, the parents of our Jewish girls are too eager to display anxiety to marry them off. Perhaps, too, as two of the contribu- tors to the discussion suggest, the lack of social center facilities for Jews are respon- sible. If, as we stated in opening up this discussion, a serious tone is retained in the expression of views on this subject, much may be learned by our boys and girls as well as their parents. One of our correspondents suggests an- other possible angle for this discussion. He calls the editor to task and says: "I wonder if you, like most other adults of education, are regarding so intensely your high aims in Zionism, Palestinianism, Judaism, or what-have-you, that in the complacence of this stare you fail to see the chasms at your feet." We haven't seen any "chasms" at our feet, a phrase we fail to understand, and we are nqt very fearful of Jewish de- struction even if more Jewish boys than we suspect really prefer to associate with Gen- tile girls, thus threatening us with inter- marriage, with the possibility of forsaking their people, even with the danger of their becoming the enemies of their own race. But our critic unconsciously suggests a possible reason for differences between the boys and girls. Perhaps they lack a com- mon background and common understand- ing, as well as a common meeting place in a modern Jewish Center? Perhaps the in- terests of the boys and girls involved are such that they fail to attract? The discus- sion after all raises a problem on Jewish grounds; they are Jews who are involved. Why not believe, therefore, that if our young people were to interest themselves in Jewish movements, as they should. they would have a common intellectual meeting ground which would bring them together? But our young men and young women rid- icule "the high aims in Zionism, Palestin- ianism, Judaism or what-have-you" (note the importance of the last named cause), and then wonder at the spiritual disturb- ances that divide the ranks of young Jew- ry! Let our young people well consider the last named point in the discussion. Per- haps this. plus the need for a Jewish Cen- ter. suggests the solution to the entire prob- lem. m'tgggmtag,kmtg,tzzmtuttigz.m.z: Scanning the Horizon Charles ff.Joseph . W only place for a Jew seeking diplomatic ap- By DAV D SCHWARTZ 0 WHAT'S IN A NAME? I first read the story some eight or ten years a go in Mr. Mencken's "The America n Language." It ha, been told man y times since. You recall it—the story of the Jew who changed tis name from Kelly to Murphy. "Why are you making this sec- and change?" he was asked. "Well, you see, when tell the people now that my name is Kelly, they as me what it was hi- fore, and I ha ve to answer Cohen. But if I becom 3 Murphy, when they ask Inc what it was before, I'll simply say Ke Ily." NAMED A FTER HOLIDAY I ant remin led of this story by a little conve y sation recently with Harry Schneid erne of the Amen- can Jewish lommittee, who re- called some a t quaintance who had changed his n ame from Cohen to Priest. Veril r, in nothing are we Jews no inge lions as in surgical operations on our nomenclature. You know the one they tell about the Jewish I id who was named Richard. How did it get to be Richard? mamma was i i t derrogated. was like this," replied mamma. "AI It son was born on Pesach, no he was Pesachdik, and the last syllable, is short for Richard, as yo a know." Quod erat demonstrandu m. IT'S ALL RIGHT, BUT- I think there is some observa- tion in the Talmud to the effect that the redeeming virtue of the Jews in Egypt, which led the God of Israel to release them from their bondage was their adherence to the names of their ancestors. In general, I am in thorough sympathy with the underlying idea of the Talmulists in this regard. However, in the matter of chang ing Cohen to Priest, will I be guilty of treason if I confess a sneaking sympathy with the alterations? My reasons are purely prag- matic. Its no fun at all, if you happen to be looking up some Cohen in the New York telephone directors, to plough your way through 18 columns or so of Co- hens beforey find just the right shade of Cohen you want. And I presume the same diffi- culty holds in all of the large cities—Chicago, Philadelphia, De- troit, Cleveland and the like. In the smaller towns, of course, one ought to be able to "Cohen" to his heart's content. A PICTUR I :SQUE CONVERT The coming of Aimee Palliere to this country r wives interest in the whole busines s of converts to Jo- deism. I am, of course, not using the word bu siness here in any commercial a t nse. To me one of the most intrigu- ing converts t o Judaism will always be the late ado Isaacs Menken. There was a t interesting woman for you! W th everybody doing biographies, s miebody ought to do a book on her in the current fashion. Here was a great actor, and not such a bad writer, but above all a marvelous personality, who set such men as Bret Ilarte, Mark Twain and Dumas raving about her. here was a woman, who can point to love affairs with prize pugilists and prize literateurs. She left her Jewish husband, Alexan- der Menken, who was responsible for her conversion to Judaism, but Ada Isaacs Menken never left Judaism. She never could erase the influence of the Hebrew proph- ets from her flaming soul. On Yom Kippur, many Jews horn to the faith might forget, but not Ada Menken. The theater in which she played was always dark when the solemn notes of Kol Nidre were being intoned in the synagogue. FANNIE MUST BE IMAGINING I don't believe it myself but Fannie Brice tells it. She was watching. out at Hollywood, the making of a picture dealing with the Civil War. The Jewish movie Stagnate eyed the man who was to portray Gen- eral Grant. "But," said the director, "we were looking for a man who looked like General Grant, and he is the nearest resemblance we could find." "He can't la 'ear no beards on my lot," said the magnate, "and what is more, even Napoleon couldn't." ---'e- AN OPT( )115TIC EDITOR Victor Wa loon, editor of the New York A wrican, who is Jew- ish under his name, .is out on a great and no tie adventure. It is nothing less t an to separate news- papermen fro n John Barleycorn— at least in no far as his paper is concerned. On a bul l etin board of the American, Mr . Watson has placed a note, appe ling to the staff to lay off the bitter water for the sake of their wives, their children, their future, etc., etc. Not only that, but he offers free medical treatment for those who find the divorcing of ohn Barleycorn difIl- cult. Now, that's what we call an opti- mistic editor. Within the walls of Sing Sing there is confi ned one who at one time was fan tow throughout the east au a ne •spaperman. He is Charles Chapi n—one-time city edi- for of the Ne v York World. Being city editor of a paper like the World is omething of a nerve- wrack nc job. Working in a boiler factory is qui to calm in compari- "on. Imagin • holding down this job. and the losing all of your fortune in W all street and having a beautiful b ut very extravagant wife, w'-o Is sinking you further and further i , debt. This was t he siltation facing Chapin. It t irned Chapin into an irresponsible nervous wreck. and one day he k i lied his wife. (Turn to Next Page) pointment was Turkey. Then Rabbi Kornfeld of Columbus, Ohio, broke the spell by an appointment to Persia. That wasn't so bad, because after all it was an Oriental post and our government probably felt that the rabbi would got along fine w:th his new neighbors. After that there were a couple of scat- tered South American posts, I think Louis Kauf- mann of Pennsylvania received one of them. I heard a lot about Jews who were going to be ap- pointed to Italy, Germany, and a few other impor- tant places because t knew that it couldn't and wouldn't be and it isn't. However, I hear that the Boston banker, A. C. Ratshesky has been nominated as minister to Czechoslovakia by President Hoover. That promises to be an interesting mission because no one ever knows what's going to happen in such a country. I think that Thomas Masaryk did more to make it a place on the map than any other indi- vidual. By the way, I forgot to mention (Larry Guggenheim, who is now in Cuba. For a time it seemed that he might have a high hurdle to clear in getting his appointment confirmed but he came through with flying colors. What was to be expect- ed, being a flyer. I have heard of Mr. Ratshesky for many years and if reputation means anything he's likely to do a mighty good job in the Balkans. A JEWISH young woman in Pittsburgh, Miss Sophia Levin, has been presented with a gold medal by the National Red Cross organization in Washington, in recognition of 14 years of service in the American Red Cross. It was Miss Levin who originated the annual Red Cross roll call in Pitts- burgh and which later on was adopted throughout the entire country. In fact, this young woman was called to Washington to place it in practical opera- tion. Red Cross officials were eager to pay high tribute to the remarkable work done by Miss Levin in Red Cross work during and after the war. I have known Sophie Levin for many years and she is a woman of unusual executive ability and a natural leader. She has been instrumental in conducting a great many campaigns to raise funds for com- munal welfare purposes. The medal awarded Miss Levin bears four service stripes and is said to be the only one awarded in Pittsburgh. I AM IN receipt of the following letter from Jacob Bernstein, of Providence, R. I., who hastens to correct the impression that Rabbi Cup of that city was the first and only rabbi to occupy a Methodist pulpit in the state. He wants the world of Jewry to know that New England isn't behind in "good- will" relations between Jew and Gentile. Ile men- tions that Rabbi Harry Levy of Boston was the pioneer in the good-will movement. I am glad to hear that. I knew Rabbi levy when he was a youngster in Wheeling, W. Va. And from what I hear he has created a commanding position for him- self and his congregation in Boston. But there is another, belonging to the younger generation, and a former Pittsburgher, no Mr. Bernstein informs me, has occupied the pulpit in nearly every Prot- estant church in Rhode Island. His name is Morton Goldberg. He is now located in Fall River, Mass. I am always glad to find space to note these practi- cal evidences of the good-will that exists between our own clergymen and those of other faiths, par- ticularly in smaller cities, where the influence of an exchange of pulpits is of a great deal of practical value. IN JUSTICE to those of the Zionist group who be- lieve as doe the writer of the letter just received from Philadel hia I must find space for its publica- tion. He say. (1) Dr. 11 agnes was appointed at the head of the Hebrew University to bound the institu- tion to observe neutrality concerning political tendencies. The speech of Dr. Magnes infringes on such neutrality and as head of the univer- sity may involve it in party disputes, thus en- dangering its development. (2) If Dr. Magnes were not at the head of the university his statement might have passed unnoticed. (31 The danger lay in the wide publicity it received and accepted by those who do not clearly understand the Zionist movement. (4) He wronged the Zionists by making it appear that they were animated by ill will toward Arab interests. Space prevents full publication of the letter but the writer mentions that the Zionists endeavor to gain the good-will of the Arab but that has been made more difficult by Magnes' statement: he fur- ther thinks that Magnes' statement was inoppor- tune, and finally he thinks the Zionists have been most tolerant in nat asking for Dr. Magnes' resig- nation, and says that better men are available, notably Einstein and Bergson. I WOULD like to know what Einstein would do as the head of a Ilebrew university that is to be one of the inspirational sources for Judaism and Jewish culture. Einstein is merely a Jew racially if we may use such a term. Ile doesn't believe in Juda- ism, he doesn't believe in a God such as most Jews do. If we are to have a university to teach science Einstein might do. But then I always be- lieved that the Hebrew University hail a different purpose in mind. Without for a moment consider- ing the issues in question I differ with my corre- spondent to the extent that if he traveled the world over he'd have a hard the finding any Jew to fill the place of Dr. Judah Is Magnes as chancellor of the Ilebrew University. • OR the past two weeks I have been looking at a book that was sent - to me by Cie publisher, L. Si. Stein, of Chicago. It's really one of the most beautiful books that has come into my possession in a long white. The title puzzled me, "Thirty-five Saints and Emil Armon." I felt like asking, "who in the devil are the saints?" and in heaven's name who is "Emil Armin?" But these questions are satisfactorily answered by J. Z. Jacobson, the writer of this monograph on one of the most unusual "modernists" in Chicago's art colony. And permit me to interrupt myself long enough to say that J. Z. Jacobson can write! And Mr. Stein can print! And Mr. Armin can paint! Really, "threw of a kind." I can understand how these three men find themselves united in one book. Kindred souls if I know souls. Well. I want to gay no much about Armin's unusual art and Jacobson's unusual writing and Stein's printing that I am tongue-tied and pen- tied. But it looks as if the purpose of the mono- graph was to spot-light Emil Armin and this Jewish artist deserves it. I suppose the term "modernist" belongs to "Arty" conversation, but to me Emil Armin is just HIMSELF when he paints and sculps. I imagine he is not much concerned with what the world names the type of work he produces—"mod- ernists" will probably do for want of nothing more expressive. F THIS immigrant Jewish boy had what the late El- bert Hubbard would call the "urge." Mr. Jacob- son elaborates this so beaut•fully: All of us seek something in life though many of us know not what. It beats around Ifs like an angry sea and much of the time even the best and wisest and strongest of us are con- tent if happily we may find an island of safety and peace. But the storm is not only on the outside. Inside us. too, is fermentation. Inside of some of us there is an urge, a call, a driving force which is uuplacable, a commanding voice se•ich must be obeyed. Out upon the uncharted seas of the spirit it sets the chmen few a-sailing, into the crackling heat of the battles of tie in- tellect it forces them to go. 1:1 JEWS IN THE NEWS 1'4,1 ti ; ELL, we're moving along. Time was when the THE WID /V/ OF HOUDINI lAyki%ettztly& By BERNARD POSTAL Only those who carefully and owitz, who is an interpreter in a regularly follow Jewish news New York Court, is suing to break events and those Jews who live in his brother's will on the ground New England knew much about that the provisions setting aside Abraham C. Ratshesky of Boston the vast sum for philanthropies are until he was appointed American vague and indefinite. In the mean- minister to Czecho-Slovakia by time Mr. Horowitz, heir to a mil- President Hoover. Headlines are lion has bought only one new thing, not new to hint, but they are a nov- a $35 coat, but he still wears his elty to him when they appear in old one. He does not plan to give papers all over the country. Mr. up his job which he feels keeps Ratshesky is a native Bostonian, him in touch with people who need known as a civic worker, philan- help. thropist, politician and banker. It would be hard to determine in Victor Rosewater, once of Oma- which capacity he has been more ha, but now of Philadelphia is an- successful. He has been success- other example of the man who fully state senator, delegate to Re- reaches the heights and then for publican national conventions, some unexplainable reason starts chairman of the state department on the downward trail and is for- of welfare, manager of the Boston ... gotten. This man who was once Public Safety committee during national chairman of the Republi- the World War, an active relief can party, who was once the brains worker, president of Boston Fed- of the Omaha Bee, one of the most eration of Charities and of the influential papers in America, this Jewish charities. In short the new man who is an authority on eco- minister to Czecho-Slovakia has nomics and political science is sel- had on active and varied career dom heard from. This week, how- and as the Boston Transcript said, ever, he got into the news from "Boston's loss is Czecho-Slovakia's Winter ('ark, Florida, where he gain." headed a round table conference on the "Formation of Public Opin- ion," at the annual session of the The average American news- Institute of Statesmanship spon- paper pays comparatively little at- sored by Rollins College. Mr. Rose- tention to what most Socialists water is one of the best known au- say at any other time than on and thorities on conversation and in before election day. Hence it is many fields he is known as a spec- real news when Jacob Ponken, a ialist. Yet this quondam power in national leader of the Socialist Republican political circles is of- party and president of the Ameri- ten forgotten. can Ort gets into the headlines. Mr. I'anken last week suggested that Police Commissioner Whalen of New York should be tried for neglect of duty in connection with certain incidents growing out of the sensational Vitale case. While nothing came of the suggestion the publicity it got was significant. Mr. l'anken who as judge, was one of the few Socialists elected to office in New York, was supported by most of the New York dailies for re-election in 1928. Although he lost, the people of his district and of New York appreciate his mer- its. .nudge I'anken the Socialist is no more prominent than Jacob Panken the Socialist. The late Conrad Hubert, one Horowitz, the millionaire inventor of the flashlight who left $6,000,- 000 to be divided among various philanthropists gut into the head- lines only after his death. His brother Joseph Horowich, to whom he left a million dollars, is appar- ently unwilling to wait until after death for his share of the head- lines. It is reported that 51r. Hors Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York, a representative from an East Fide district, is among the first Jews to get into the limelight with a declaration concerning prohibition. With the Congress in an uproar about the prohibition on the tenth anniver- sary of the liquor ban, Congress- man Sirovich offered a resolution calling for an investigation of dry administration in New York where he says the law is openly flouted. Now Dr. Sirovich is no dry. Nor is he a fanatical wet. With the headlines screaming his demand for a resolution the estimable East Side Congressman, who has long been prominent in civic work in New York, is a public figure of more than local importance. Before he went to Congress in 1926 Dr. Sir- ovich was already an important citizen by virtue of his years of service on the school hoard, on the child welfare board, as superin- tendent of the People's Hospital, as a labor arbitrator and as a physi- cian. (CoPerieht, 1930, J. T. A. ) "IF THE JEW WILLS IT" The Palestine Situation Finds the Jews Unwisely Di- vided; "Every Jew a Statesman;" The Need for Unity and the Hope of the Jewish Agency. By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ General Jan Christian Smutz has spoken some very encouraging words to the JC• who hopes to see Palestine Jewishly re- built. Others have spoken before him. The Earl of Balfour, Lloyd George, Wedgewood, Kenworthy, others have been consistent in their approval and support of Jew- ish aspirations. What do these endorsements and encouragements mean? Of course, they help to revive the courage, the patience, the love of the Jew for his people's cradle- land. But in a practical sense, ex- cept insofar as these men help se- cure a policy of firmness on the part of their government in carry- ing out the obligations to the Jew, they mean nothing. In the long run there is only one thing that matters, and that is: the will of the Jew. • • • Three decades ago Dr. Theodor Herz!, father of modern political Zionism, addressing himself to the Jewish people, with regard to the great hope for which they prayed these 20 centuries, said: "If you will it, it shall be no dream* But Jews, except in time of crisis, in periods of oppression and suffering, have been too busy to present a concerted front and to express a united will for a re- deemed homeland in Palestine. The masses are Inc, concerned with their poverty nod with their daily needs; the classes are too en- grossed in their business. And the theater and the cards and the par- loon formalities have claimed deep er interests than the making of his tory and the opening of a perma nent haven of refuge for Jews who want to live somewhere as Jews. • • Whatever has been planted in Palestine by Jews in the past score of years is now so deeply imbedded that it may never again be removed from there. But had the Jewish people willed it, the wont "may" would be eliminated in this state- ment. The land could have been redeemed, and not necessarily at exorbitant prices; the Wailing Wall would never be the problem it is had a united Jewish will aided the late Sir Moses Montefiore in the purchase of adjacent sites; isolated Jewish centers in Palestine would not be subjects of attacks by Arabs because the Jewish popula- tion in the land could be three times the present numbers—had the Jew willed it! It is not yet too late to arouse the Jew to his obligations, perhaps even to create in the Jew's mind a will to live and create Jewishly. First, however, it is important that the atmosphere be cleared, that the bewilderment and confusion which followed the recent crisis be dis- persed. • • . There is too much pessimism in the ranks of American Jewry. In Palestine the joy of Jewish living and of Jewish creativeness con- tinues unabated—as if the attacks had never taken place. Hope was never stifled in Palestine, and the (Turn to Next Page) it IN THE PUBLIC EYE 11 Magistrate Jacob Cohen, after 20 years of servic on the bench in Toronto, is retiring. His two decades of service entitled him to an annual pension of $2,000. Magistrate Cohen came here from Poland at the age of 21. • • • Rabbi Abram Simon of Washington, D. C., hat just been apointed by the District Supreme Court to fill the vacancy on the District school hoard created by the recent resignation of Isaac Cans. This will be Rabbi Simon's third period of service on the school board. lie was first appointed in 1919 and in July, 1920, was named president. In July, 1923, he resigned. • • • Julius Glaser of St. Louis Was elected president of the Jewish Fed eration Board at the annual meeting of that organization. Other offi- cers chosen were Snyder Shoenberg, first vice-president; Morton J. May, second vice-president; Sam Hamburg, Jr., third vice-president; Bernard Creenefelder, secretary, and Alvin D. Goldman, treasurer. Sh. Abelman, president of the Memel Jewish '" community, died there Jan. 16. His death, which was sudden, was attributed to excitement and worry over the ever-worse economic situation of the Jewish popu- lation, especially the treatment by the police as emphasized by the recent blood-letting incident. • • • a The executive committee of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith in annual session in Cincinnati, voted to suggest the name of Salmon D. Levinson of Chicago for the Nobel Peace. Prize in view of his work in behalf of the outlawry of war. • • • Deputy Hartglas of Warsaw, Jewish member of the Poll& Parlia- ment, resigned as a member of the Polish Zionist Central Co anttee. you have a revealing-flash of the spirit of Congressman Benjamin Golder of Cincinnati was married Jan. 16 one of t's• "chosen few," the irresnonsible, indi- to Miss Peggy L. Mastbaum, daughter of the late Jules E. Mastbaum, vidualistic. idealistic genius Emil Armin, suf- moving picture magnate and philanthroplst. More than 1.500 people fered and struggled to escape the clutches of the attended a reception that followed the ceremony performed by Rabbi A. "conventions" in order to be free to express HIM- • A. Neuman of Congregation Mikve Israel. SELF. THERE ter 4?;