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Sabbath Shkolim and Rod, Chodegh Reading. of
the Torah.
Pentateuchal portions--Ex. 211-21:18; 30 :11-
1C; Num. 28;9.15.
Prophetical portion-11 Kings 12:1-17.
Shvat 30, 5690
February 28, 1930
Russia's Inquisitors and Marranos.
In his reply to Dr. Julian Morgenstern,
on the Reform leader's amazing statement
that the solution for the Jewish question in
Russia must lie with Reform, Mr. Bernard
Richards, executive secretary of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress, declared that "the
terrible plight of the Jews in Russia sug-
gests the Spanish Inquisition more closely
than any other somber historic era."
The tragedy of this wretched business of
the religious repressions in Russia is that it
is not only an Inquisition, but that it has its
Jewish as well as non-Jewish Inquisitors;
its marranos and sufferers. They are the
Jewish Communists who are responsible
for the suppression of Hebrew, Zionism
and the Jewish religion. Jews in the thou-
sands are martyrs in the name of their
faith. And Jews also are the mockers.
Congratulations, Dr. Franklin!
The Detroit Jewish ('hronicle joins the
host of friends of Dr. Leo M. Franklin,
Rabbi of Temple Beth El, in greeting hint
on his sixtieth birthday next Wednesday,
March 5.
It is not Temple Beth El alone that takes
notice of this important day in the life of
one of Detroit's outstanding citizens. For
more than thirty years, since his coming to
Detroit. Rabbi Franklin has interested him-
self in every important social and religious
movement in Detroit. Gentile as well as
Jew knows hint as a man motivated by the
highest principles in his devotion to causes
involving the betterment of all groups, irre-
spective of their religious or national affilia-
tions.
As the founder of the Good-Will move-
ment between Jew and Christian in Detroit,
Dr. Franklin's forthcoming natal day will
without doubt call forth an interest in the
ranks of the non-Jew equal to that in the
Jewish camp. Catholic will honor him for
the sincere fight he put up against the vic-
ious school amendment eight years ago.
Protestant will honor him for his sincerity
and for his tolerant spirit which knows no
religious prejudices.
And Jews will rejoice that Dr. Franklin
is as vigorous on his sixtieth birthday as on
the day he first came to Detroit. The De-
troit Jewish Chronicle is happy to be among
the thousands who wish him continued
health and happiness on this occasion.
We have. for instance, the story about
the Jewish women of Kapulie who declared
in a resolution adopted at a meeting some
time ago that "we resign from the cere-
mony of candle blessing and we donate our
candlesticks for Soviet industrial upbuild-
ing." We let our readers judge this story
on its face value because we never know
whether this is Soviet propaganda, and we
are not told how many women signed the
quoted resolution. It reminds us of the
story told about the Jews in Galicia who
replied, as a matter of profit, to a call from
missionaries to accept Christianity at so
much per head. It so happened that they
had to wait for the ceremony to take place,
and as it was nearing evening, one of the
men, assuring himself that there were more
than ten in the room, said: "While we
wait, le's daven Mincha. We have a min-
yan." As a matter of protection against
Soyiet Inquisitors, some women in Kapulie
may have acted as reported, but we have
no fear about Jewish hearts failing in loyal-
ty to their people.
On the other hand, we are told in a J.
T. A. cable that Mira Goldberg, an aged
Jewess in the village of Smolevitch, in the
province of Pinsk, was given a five months'
jail sentence for teaching Jewish children
their Hebrew prayers. Although it was
established that the woman was illiterate,
and that she taught the children the pray-
ers from memory, she was convicted on the
testimony of ten pupils who maintained
that she conducted a cheder.
k.1
Then we have the stories about Rabbi
Moishe Gelman of Janovitch, in the Vitebsk
province, who, after twenty-four years in
the rabbinate, announced: "I don't believe
any longer in God and have nothing more
to do with religion:" and about Nachman
Hirshom, Dobrush shochet. who turned
horse driver and announced his change of
vocation with this notice: "Not desiring
to be considered as being a part of the
klei-koddesh (rabbis, teachers, mohels and
slaughterers) I hereby announce that
instead of being a shochet I become from
now on a horse driver."
With such instances of martyrdom, mar-
ranoism and mockery, and with the news
that hundreds of synagogues are being
closed by the Soviet and turned into club-
houses, museums and workers' clubs, the
spiritual oppression of Russian Jewry is
becoming even worse than its economic
plight. Unless the massed pressure of
Christians as well as Jews throughout the
world will help bring about a change in
conditions, it is difficult to tell in what
tragedies the lives of the three millions of
Jews in Russia will end.
Enemies Within.
At a bishops' conference in Vienna,
Archbishop Szmercsanzi charged that the
Hungarian government is spreading anti-
Semitism through Jewish newspapermen.
The Archbishop showed that converted
and non-converted Jews were chiefly re-
sponsible for the venom in the anti-Semitic
government papers Nemzeti Ejsag (Na-
tional News) and Uj Nemzedek (New Gen-
eration), and stated that the staffs of these
papers are manned by more Jews than non-
Jew's,
Which is nothing to be wondered at. We
have always suffered more from enemies
within our ranks than from those without.
Look at the Yevsektzia in Russia. Com-
pare them with the "holier than thou" as-
similators in every land. That is why we
pray so earnestly to be protected from our
own friends. We always knew how to take
care against our enemies.
A. Z. A.'s Forthcoming Tournament
Aleph Zadik Aleph, junior B'nai B'rith,
will convene in Detroit in March to demon-
strate its activities. The Jewish young men
who are organized under the auspices of
the I. 0. B. B., in their sixth annual tourna-
ment here, will compete in debating, ora-
tory and athletics, and the occasion will be
a signal for nationwide interest. Because
A. Z. A. is today one of the leading youth
movements in the country. It vies with the
Hillel Foundation in importance of B'nai
B'rith's interests in the youth and its plat-
form lays claim upon the encouragement
and support of all Jews, irrespective of
their affiliations.
The Jewish youth of today is so estranged
in interest and devotion from matters Jew-
ish, and the activities of the Jewish young
men and women are so remote from those
affecting, their people, that the tournament
of A. Z. A. in Detroit should be a signal to
the community at large to make amends
for its failures of the past to encourage the
youth Jewishly. If Jewry is to be saved
humiliation ill the future from an unin-
formed constituentcy, it must prepare the
youth for the morrow.
Perhaps a deeper interest in the activi-
ties of the youth on the part of their elders
will also serve to better the program in
youth efforts. It is not enough that A. Z.
A. should meet to compete for honors in
oratory, debating and basketball. It is im-
portant that A. Z. A. should know the story
of the Jewish people, the background of
their people's struggles to create traditions,
to entertain hopes and ideals, to live as
determinedly as it has. Unless A. Z. A. is
so informed it will hardly accomplish the
desired purpose. But without the encour-
agement of its elders, it really cannot be
expected to do more than it has.
A Publisher of Jewish Classics
Horace Liveright of New York looms on
the literary horizon as the leading publish-
er of Jewish classics. His announcement
of publications for the spring of 1930 is a
revelation of what a storehouse of treas-
ures of particular interest to the Jew is to
come front the presses of Mr. Liveright.
Mr. Liveright is to publish in April Na-
than A usubel's translation of Sholom Asch's
"The Mother." He has already published
Vladimir Jabotinsky's "Judge and Fool,"
which is the Zionist leader's version of the
story of Samson and Delilah. E. L. Grant
Watson's "A Prophet and His God," which
is another biography of Moses, was among
the fine publications by Mr. Liveright last
month. The appearance also this month,
thanks to this publisher, of "The Sacred
Fire, the Story of Sex in Religion," by B.
Z. Goldberg of the editorial staff of the
Yiddish Daily Day of New York ; "Orpheus.
A History" of Religions," by Dr. Salomon
Reinach; "Jews Without Money" by Mi-
chael Gold; "Shattering Health Supersti-
tions" byDr. Morris Fishbein, and two
works promised for next month—Lester
and Hyman Cohen's "Aaron Traum" and
Samuel Ornitz's "Call Me Ishmael"—
speak not only for a publisher who is mak-
ing possible the publication of valuable
Jewish works, but for a man also who is an
encourager of able young writers.
Add to the volumes announced by Mr.
Liveright for the first quarter of this year
the very valuable works by Jews and for
Jews which he published last year. and his
efforts become all the more valuable. To
his credit last year were many truly great
works. among which may be mentioned Ja-
cob Wassermann's "The Maurizius Case:"
Rodion Markovits' "Siberian Garrison:"
"Christian and Jew," edited by Dr. Lands-
man.
Not because Mr. Liveright happens to
be a Jew. but because he is one of the out-
standing publishers in the world today, we
record the credit that is justly due him.
Scanning the
Horizon
By DAVID SCHWAR1Z
WHEN SICK CALL DR. WISE
Raising the entire annuls bud-
get of the American Jewiste Con-
gress, the other night in a period
of a few minutes, St•phet. Wise
Islet t h e story of a member of his
congregation, whose. little gel had
sigalloWell a quarter.
They called a physician, who
toiled and sweated but coulert get
the quarter out.
Filially, someone sugested, "get
Rabbi Wise, he Call get money out
of anybody."
And sure enough it worked, said
the Free Synagogue head.
ONE ON MOSES
But the best story of the evening
told by 1/r. Howard, a Chris-
tian Minister, who looks a great
deal the Father Abraham may
have looked.
The story concerns a Mtn who
coming to an art gallery gazed in
admiration at a painting of Stases.
The man searched out the artist.
"I want you to paint a picture of
my dad."
"Alright, when can I see him?"
"You can't see him—he's dead,"
said the man.
"Oh, I see—well have you any
photographs I might use as a ba-
sis?" queried the artist.
No."
"Well, how can I paint a picture
of hint then?"
"Well," replied the man. "how
did you paint Moses?"
"Welk alright, I'll see what I
can do," continued the artist, quick-
ly making some impressions of the
son and working on the theory that
there must be some similarity in
appearance between father and
son.
Some time after, the man was
informed the picture of his father
was ready.'
Ile came to the studio. The cu•-
tain was drawn aside, and he stood
gazing at the portrait of his dad.
"Yes, that's dad," he sighed, "but
how he' has improved!"
was
A NEW FIGURE LOOMS
Meanwhile, keep your eye on the
man who gave the first $10,000
check at that Congress dinner. llis
name is Harvey Lee, and hitherto
he has been an unknown figure in
Jewish life. He may spring a feu
surprises.
RCN still in his thirties and is
perhaps as big a man as the-re is,
in his particular field, that sf bus-
iness education. Ile owns some-
thing like 20 or 25 business schools.
Now his mind is becoming geared
in a philanthropic direction. He
has a most interesting personal
story—served in the regular army,
tramped around the world—s•lf-
educated, author of text bezel a, You
get the idea, there is a good story
here.
IN A LINE OR TWO
Dr. Max Kraus, president of the
Hakorth athletic team, never wears
hat or coat.
Harry Hershfield, of Abe Ka-
Weide fame, can sing almost as
good as he can cartoon.
The life of the late Meyer Lon-
•lon has been told in a new book,
authored by Harry Ramat under
the title of "An East Side Epic."
Rabbi I. L. Bin is now publish-
ing a new Jewish weekly, the Jew-
ish Outlook.
The contract for Alfred Liens
forthcoming work, "The Economic
views of Mr. Justice Brandeis" re-
serves all film rights. What's the
idea?
Charles Levine is reported to be
secretly preparing for a New York
to Moscow flight, to take off in
May.
Irving Caesar was paid hand-
somely by the telegraph company
for writing rhyme telegrams to he
sent on Valentine IMy.
The Jewish division of the New
York Public Library has a rare
document (Iced written in Russia
DM years ago, transfer, ing half
of the reward due, to a certain rab-
bi in the world to mime to his de-
voted wife.
ROBERT MARSHALL ON LUM-
BERJACKS
Robert Marshall, the forestry
son of the late Louis Mao-hall has
been making some very interesting
studies of the western lumberjacks.
In "Serial Forces," he tells all
about it. "I have undertaken a
quantative study designed to chron-
icle certain of the more outstand-
ing social peculiarities of the north-
western lumberjack."
"A close analysis of the conver-
sation of 400 lumberjacks," says
Marshall, "discloses that 23 per-
cent were off color stories. 11 per-
cent personal adventures in which
the narrator is the hero, eight per-
cent stories concerning the out-
rages of capita4k, six per cent on
prohibition. boeTtl$gging and the
like and a scattered few percent
for various other subjects."
Mr. Marshall clocked the adjec-
tives, and found that an average
of 135 unmentionable words were
spoken every quarter of an hour.
"In the imhihation of sew," Mr.
Marshall found "the average aud-
itory range to the nearest even
unit Was nine feet."
We wonder how much difference
would be found if sometsdy made
a similar study of other callings.
besides the lumberjack--salesmen
doctors, lawyers. Somebody ought
to do it. Now for instance, can
you hear editors, when they par-
take of sour
A HUGHES STORY
The appointment of Sir. Hughes
as Chief Justice recalls an incident
some years hack when Hughes at-
tended some affair at which the
late Dr. Nehemiah Sleaessohn.
founder of the Jewish Tribune, was
present. At the conclusion, the
two walked out arm in arm, and it
is said. that some people did not
know who was who, AO close was
their physical resemblance.
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PASSING MY WINDOW
Charles ff. Joseph
SO THE oldest Jewish newspaper in the United
States, the American Israelite, published in Cin-
cinnate, has finally passed out of the hands of the-
Isaac M. Wise family. I don't think the younger
generation knows much of the Israelite but their
parents and grand-parents and great-grand-parents
all knew the American Israelite., the official organ
of Reform Jewry in this country. It must be
seventy-five years since it started and what a repu-
tation it has enjoyed all these , years! I don't know
of any institution or agency, meaning Jewish, of
course, that so definitely emphasized the American-
ization of the Jew as did the American Israelite in
its earlier (lays. We see that Issas M. Wise, the
founder of Reform Judaism, cut away from his old
world moorings even in the name he adopted for
his paper, The American Israelites Wise believed
that in this country we should accommodate our
lives to our •nviornment. Ile felt that the futurs
of the Jew in the United States would be more
securely safeguarded if we turned our backs on
COMP of our old world customs, eliminated much
of the ancient ceremonialism of rigid orthodoxy and
paid a little more attention to the spirit rather than
to the letter of our religion. I think that he dal
a wonderful thing. There are many Reform Jews
in this country who wouldn't even be Jews had it
not been for the vision of Issue M. Wise in recogniz-
ing the need for a liberal interpretation of Judaism.
BUT
I swung a little away from my subject. Isaac
M. Wise was succeeded by his son, Leo, in the
publishing of the American Israelite,
Leo Wise
celebrated his 80th birthday recently. Ile retired
and his brother, Rabbi Jonah %Vise. of New York,
became the editor and publisher, but now it has
been sold to three Segal brothers of Cincinnati,
newspaper men, who, I am sure, will introduce , a
more aggressive policy in the conduct of Israelite.
1 used to know another member of the Wise fam-
ily, Ur, Julius Wise, who was a physician, living in
Chicago. Ile was also a writer of considerable
ability; in fact, in my opinion he was the best para-
grapher that has ever appeared in the Jewish press.
Ile wrote under the name of "Nickerdown," and
I ant sure that many of my older readers will re-
call that famous column. Ile was the. most sar-
castic us well fir the most fearless paragrapher I
ever read. If Wise turned his attention to you he
would impale you on the sharp point of his pen
until you cried for mercy. There, used to be an-
other witty and sarcastic writer named .1. P. Solo-
mon, of the Hebrew Standard, New York, no longer
published. Solomon's great delight Was to make
the life of a Reform Rabbi miserable. Ile himself
was Orthodox and he loved to call attention to the
shortcoming of the Reform leathern. Ile wielded
a trenchant pen and one had to be very callous to
read something about himself written by Salomon,
or for that matter, Nickerdown, without getting red
behind the ears. I can testify to that from person•
at experience, because I used to go into a rough-
and-tumble tight with both of them occasionally.
But we were friends for all that and 1 have never
failed to mourn the passing of these brave spirits.
They were fearless and if you didn't like what they
wrote why you just didn't have to read them, that
was all.
A
READER living in Virginia wants to know the
name of the leading Rabbi in the American-
Je•ish pulpit. That takes more courage than I pos.
secs. The writer herself suggests Rabbi Silver as
the one entitled to that distinction. Even with such
a hint I refuse to commit myself. However I am
willing to go on record that in my opinion the
pulpit does not measure up to
the standard of twenty years ago. I am allowing
for the fact that I am ItIder and that twenty peters
ago there was some element of hero worship in my
attitude toward Rabbis, that is some Rabbis. I sin-
cerely believe that in the days I refer to we had
more outstanding Rabbis that we have today. In
fact, there were half 'a dozen that could not be
matched in any pulpit, Jewish or non-Jewish. Now
I to not want my readers to think that we have no
rabbis who can measure up to Hirsch, Levy, Kraus-
kopf, Ilarrison, Gries and all the others of that
school. We do have. We have Stephen Wise, and
Abba Silver, and Samuel Goldenson, and Leo Frank.
lin, just to mention a few. But nevertheless, I
don't believe that the general standard of rabbini-
cal leadership in Reform Jewry is as high as in the.
earlier (lays.
I NOTICE where they are going to get together in
Washington on March 8 to plan for the six mil-
lion dollar Allied Jewish Campaign. The money
is to be divided between the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and the Jewish Agency. In other words,
Palestine and Europe, It looks to me as if a very
intensive, high powered educational campaign will
be required to sell the idea of the need of several
millions of dollars for Palestine. I am sure that
Mr. Warburg and others associated with him apprec-
iate fully that in the present circumstance's there'
is likely to he some resistance displayed toward
substantial contributions for Palestine. Perhaps I
am all mistaken and the Jewish public is so con-
vinced of the sound judgement of our leaders that
if they merely announce that two or three millions
are needed for this or that cause it will be forth-
coming. Personally I believe that in view of the
confusion in the public mind over the situation in
Palestine since the Arab uprising that a very defi-
nate statement will be required. But I hasten to add
that I am not taking this position because of any
opposition on my part to the idea of allocating a
portion of the fund to Palestine as I have always
felt that Jews wherever they are should be helm'.
But the public should know why three and a half
millions are to be given to the Russian program and
two and a half millions to the Palestine program.
I AM beginning to believe that the Soviet govern-
meat hasn't any more brains or statemanship
than the old Czarist crowd. One thing the Czars
and their advisors tried to to and that was to make
Russia one of the most hated and despised coun-
tries on the face of the globe. if there was one way
to gain additional hatred and arouse protests one
could depend upon it that the Romanoffs would find
that way. Russia used to he called "Darkest Russia,"
because of the medieval brutalities practiced there,
and naturally the Jews were the worst victims. It
looks very much as if the Communists intended to
tie the Czar's record for stupidity. If they want
to discourage religious teachings it's up to them.
But when they threaten with execution a group of
Rabbis because they were guilty of the. "awful
crime of soliciting aid for religious purposes then
as the Englishman gays, that is ,"a bit thick." Sta-
lin places such acts in the category of counter revo-
lutionary activities which certainly requires a re-
markable imagination to thus interpret them. It
seems to me that if Russia is not to become the
private country of a small group but to belong to
the people that the people should he given oppor-
tunity to express their minds freely on subjects
fundamental to their lives,
I HEARD Yehudi Menuhin play on his violin the
other night. One doesn't have to know any-
thing about music to appreciate such a genius. One
is convinced the moment he sees this amazing prod-
igy that he has been reared sensibly. Ile is just a
good-looking, healthy youngster of 13 years. com-
pletely lacking in what we loosely term tempera-
ment. He has a winning, boyish smile that makes
you go up on the platform and tousle that blonde
hair of his. Yehudi is the son of Palestinian Jew-
ish parents, and I was forced to smile inwardly when
I read on the program that he was "Anglo-Saxon
in appearance." I wondered why that was neces-
sary. Ile is a Jewish boy and looks Jewish, the
program makers evidently not realizing that there
are a great many Russian-Jewish blondes. How-
e,er, if it gives them any satisfaction in trying to
make a Nordic out of Yehudi's appearance they
are welcome to it.
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By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
iliailitat's NOTE— Pierre V. Pans-
sen
internationally known news-
um journalist and write who is
paper n.
II regular member of the stall of the
New York Evening World. Mr. Van
Pisaisen wes sent to Palestine as a spe•
corre.pon(lent of the Jewish Telera-
tihie Agency MU1.II after the riots and
hi„ incisive di(patcheg were of great
value in infornang Jewish public through-
oot the world.)
A Frenchman on Palestine.
One of the most distinguished
members of metropolitan journa-
lism in Paris, who joined the inter-
national army of newspaper re-
pesters that rushed to Palestine
upon receipt of the tragic news at
the end of August last year, is NI.
Albert ',cadres, representative of
the Petit Parisien,a journal with
a daily circulation of nearly two
millions. M. Londres had complet-
ed a tour of the cycle New York,
London, Berlin, Warsaw, Buchar-
erst, Sloserow, Palestin• as far back
as January 1925, and he had com-
pletes] his book of impressions on
Jewish life in the various countries,
when a friend burst open the door
of his study one evening, holding
a newspaper aloft and shouting:
"They are killing your Jews in
Palestine!" "I bounded out of my
inkwell," writes NI. Lond•es, "and
snatched the paper from his hands..
Ile was right....They were killing
my Jews and they were killing'
them even months in advance of
schedule." I think this sentence
contains a revealing glimpse of
the author's manner of approach
to the complexing scene of Pales-
tinian events last summer. Yet it
should not be. thought for a min-
ute that M. Londres contented bin/-
se-If with anything like, a cursory
or superficial investigation elf the
tremblers. Having spent several
days in his company (luring that
tumultuous period, I can testify to
the conscientious research that he
engaged in 1111,1 that what is some-
times contained iu one short para-
graph often involved hours, yes
even days of strenuous work.
Ainang the things that strikes
we with particular force is
his account if the Hebron
massacre. SI. Londics does not
mince words of the subject of
mutilations, a particular subject
which he', in company of this writer
and an eminent German surgeon
investigated most minutely. There
are several interviews with promi-
nent Palestinian Arabs in the book
which are startling in the frank-
fleas with which this Frenchman
approached the most ticklish ques-
tions. For instance, seeing the
:nape:. of .lerusalem back after an
absence, of several months, Si. Lon-
dres says to him; "Well, you have
had your price—in blood!" The
book is written in a rapidly mov-
ing style and will, no doubt, be
translated into English sortly. It
constitutes an independent testi-
mony on the Jewish work of regen-
eration in Palestine that will have
some weight. In Paris, the Lon-
dres articles when they appeared
on the front page of the Petit Par-
isian, created a profound impress-
ion, and in spite , of certain erron-
eous conceptions and naivities,
which I regard merely as spots on
the sun, it is a work of merit.
Knowing M. Londres' mode of pro-
cedure. which consists in carefully
shunning "canned" interpretations,
1
and confining himself to persona
investigation, I predict that he
will he widely read in America, foe
Si. Londies tells an absorbing story
in the "realist" French journalistie
manner, that is to say without al-
lowing himself to be sidetracks
into philosophical speculations, Th,
conclusion he reached on Britain's
share in the responsibility of the
outbreaks will provoke wide criti
cism, for he plainly states that ths
pogrom could not have taken plies
if Britain had appeared in Aral
eyes us withdrawing her proteetiot
and sponsorship from the. Milbank
Home in the course of construction
Dreyfus' Prophecy Fulfilled.
When Captain Alfred Dreyfus
had been rehabilitated in his civic
rights and restored to his position
in the army, after the collapse of
that diabolical plot to fasten upan
him, the Alsatian Jew, the guilt
of betraying one of France's most
important artillery secrets to Ger-
many, a friend, I think it was Solo-
mon Rerinach, asked hint if he was
completely satisfied. Dreyfus re-
plied: "The full truth in this mu-
dill a !fair will not be known until
30 years later." This was in 1858
when the passions aroused by the
most phenomenal treason trial af-
ter holding Europe on the brink of
disaster and the French Republic
menaced by the spectre of civil war,
showed the first faint indication of
reeling off The thirty years have
passed. Dreyfus' prophecy has been
fulfilled. A distinguished Berlin
lawyer, Herr Bruno Weil, has been
delving into the archives of the
Wilhelnestrasm• for several years.
Among the things he' discovered in
the diplomatic dossiers of the per-
iod relating to the time when the
":Affairs" was agitating public
opinion throughout the entire world
is a letter from Prince. Von Bulow,
the. then chancellor of the empire..
Von Bulow, wine gained at favor-
able reputation, even in allied man-
tries, for his moderate views, its
apposed to those of the sabre-ratt-
ling Ivan-Germans and Junkers, is
revealed in a disappointing per-
spective by that letter. Ile wrote
to the German ambassador in Paris
that "upon diligent inquiry (we
know what this means in thorough-
ness when a German says "diligent
intluirY"I I em convinced that we
had no relations whatever with
Captain Dreyfus at any time." This
of course, is old news now, but at
the time of the "Affairs" publica-
tion of this letter would have
caused a sensation in Paris. But
Von Bulow goes further. He coun-
sels the ambassador to do nothing
that might undeceive Frenchmen
MI the subject of Dreyfus' guilt.
For the good of the fatherland, he
wrote, it will be better to let the
case drag on For it will aid in
spreading the conviction, bath in
France and abroad, that the
French army is putrid with cor-
militant. "Prolongation of the Drey.
fus scandal will more than any-
thing else undermine the. moral of
the. French army, and that is our
aim," he wrote. Contrast with this
statement Zulu's words: "If France
must tear out her own entrails in
this process, it will be better than
that justice should suffer!"
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(Copyright, 1930, J. T. A.)
JEWS IN THE NEWS
By BERNARD POSTAL
If James Shushan, son of the
ate lamented Louis Marshall were
he type of man who could be satis-
fied with having been mentioned
he' would have felt flattered at see-
ing his name in the headlines as a
possible successor of Charles E.
Hughes, Jr., as solicitor-general of
the United States, of the highest
judicial posts in the land. But
James Shushan, a worthy son of a
noble father, is not a mere Aim.
seeker. Already James Slarshall
has given evidence that may well
become the successor of his father
whose death left such a yawning
vacancy in the ranks of American
Jewish leadership. Here and there
the younger Marshall has been
honored with pasts left empty and
his ge neral attitude towards J•w-
ish problems have all revealed a
personality that with time will in-
evitably become one of the real
leaders of American Jewry.
Wherever there is an exposition
on the grand scale there one is
certain to find Sal Bloom, the musi-
cal Congressman from New York's
West side. Long before he entered
politics Bloom wan well known
in the theatrical bsuiness. His re-
cent appointment as associate di-
rector of the celebration in 1532 to
commemorate the two hundredth
anniversary of the birth of George
Washington is but the most recent
of a number of such important as-
signments. When he was only 2
he was named to superintend the
construction of the Midway Plaice
once at the Columbia Exposition
at Chicago in 1893 Exposition
here and there claimed his alien
tions for the next ten or fiftee
years after which he went into th
retail music business and then
overnight was catapaulted into pal
itics when a Democratic congress
man died before he could take hi.
seat and Bloom was chosen in hi,
place.
The eminent Viennese psycholo
met, Dr. Alfred Adler, started ot
his sixty-first year not ton auspic
iously. Dr. Adler who is now it
this country as a visiting lecturer
of Columbia University, had been
conducting a psychological clinic at
the Medical Center, but the fact
that Dr. Adler's system of psycho-
logy places comparatively little em-
phasis on the part that sex plays
in human affairs, while a psycho-
analytical school fathered by Sig-
mund Freud gives sex the para-
mount role in influencing behavior,
hies created a conflict between the
followers of the two scientists. It
was this conflict between two such
eminent personalities that made
Dr. Adler's sixtieth birthday a
none too auspicious occasion, but
he at least had the satisfaction it
was, of getting on to the front
pages of every New York news-
paper,
(Copyright. 1530.J. T. A
VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS
EMIL IXDWIG: "The special impression made by the latest out
rage is the best proof of the Jews' moral right to Palestine. Far it wa
not because a small community, under the protection of the I.eague
Nations, had been set upon that the world was stirred; but rathe
because this people, having fled from the dangers of persecution
and
attack, having gone hack after a millennial dispersion
to the land of its
origin and looking forward at last to a tranquil existence, was sue'
denly assailed and butchered even here on this poor stretch of land
where it had sought peace."
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FELIX M. WARBURG: "Once the security of life and property
in Palestine are assured, investors
are sure to he forthcoming who will
put their capital into the industries of the country, not in a spirit of
charity, but as a solid business enterprise based on their faith in a
mighty people and a fruitful land."
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DR. JOSEPH H. HERTZ, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain: "I have no
doubt that the spokesmen of the churches will before long be joined by
the great leaders of opinion outside the churches in
the protest again/It
religious persecution in Russia, because this spiritual tragedy consti-
tutes not merely a Christian question or a Jewish question—it is
a
human question. What
is trampled under foot in Russia today is con-
scious religious liberty and everything that is most divine in the
human spirit."
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DR. ALBERT.F.INSTEIN: "Mankind is now approaching an era in
which peace treaties will not only he recorded
on paper, but will aim,
become inscribed in the hearts of men."
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