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Entered as Second-class matter March 3. 1916. at the Posits
office at Detroit. Mich., under the Act of March I. I379.

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525 Woodward Avenue

Thomas Masaryk—Friend of Man.

The eightieth birthday of Thomas Mas-
aryk on March 7 is being made a topic of
interest throughout the world. To the Jew
it is a signal to pay honor to one who is a
true friend of man and therefore knew how,
all his life, to be fair to our people.
As defender of Leopold Hilsner in the
infamous ritual murder case in Bohemia ;
as friend of the Zionist cause; as sympa-
thizer with the minority elements; as great
president of the Czechoslovakian Republic,
where the Jew is given a square deal,
Masaryk will always be remembered by
Jews.
We greet Masaryk the friend of our peo-
ple. the friend of man.

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I'M ALMOST tempted to turn over Random
Thoughts in this issue to Col. Samuel Harden
Church, president of the Carnegie Institute of
Landon Office
l'ittsburgh, whose suggestion for a liberal party
EXCUSE
ME
A
MINUTE!
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
It was not many months Udd- to fight all the forces of religious bigotry in this
country has created a nation-wide discussion. The
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
at a little affair at Sea Gate- the
reason I mention the colonel in connection with this
fashionable part of Coney Island. • column is that for years I have made the same at-
To Immre publication, allcorrespondence and news matter
I really shouldn't say "affair"—
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
tacks, along exactly the same lines, but because I
When marling notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
just a gathering of about four or
am a Jew such a position is held to be unbecoming
five at the home of a young mon,
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Inviteecorreapondence on sub-
by those who believe that God created the United
who was an actor sometimes-- States as an exclusive possession of the Protestant
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but dinelaimo reeponal.
when he could get work—and at
Willy for an indorsement of the views expressed by 'he writers
church. I am going to interest my readers who
other times he helped his father fix
have followed Random Thoughts through the years
Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
roofs.
with the statement of the position of DM per cent
°ff)
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 25:1-27:19.
Ile was a young man in his mid-
Protestant, white, Ku Klux Klan, Lord's Day Alli-
Prophetical portion—I Samuel 15:2-34.
dle 20's. All of a sudden he arose.
ance, advocate, one Mr. 'I'. J. Gillespie, a wealthy
Fast of Esther Readings of the Torah, Thursday,
"Excuse me a minute," he said.
Pittsburgher, but who represents in the highest
March 13.
"I've got to write a play."
degree the type of individual who is making possible
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14:34:1-10.
I smiled—so did several others.
the formation of just such a liberal party. It has
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.
"Funny fellow," I said. "Ile's been my pleasure to answer men of the Gillespie
Purim Readings of the Torah, Friday, March 14.
going to write a play in a minute."
The
Situation
in
Russia.
type who have dedicated themselves to the task of
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 17:8-16.
"Yes," they chirped—"he's that
stardardizing public thought in this country just as
way. Ile keeps on writing plays, Mr. Ford has standardized Ford cars. The matter
The
conflicting
reports
emanating
from
Adar
7,
5690
March 7, 1930
but nobody ever sees them but
is of such importance and because Col. Church has
Russia and about the situation there are himself."
assumed the task of answering Mr. Gollespie I feel
—•—
enough to confuse and daze anybody. First
that we should devote most of the column to an
Good Purim!
ROOFER TURNS PLOYRIGHT.
issue that has far reaching effect on every Jew in
there is broadcast for the consumption of
But now he has clicked—and
It has been charged by those who choose Jewish readers a statement purporting to how! Yes, it's John Wexley—of this country. And for that matter, on every other
person who resents the introduction of the godless
I to pen these lines—author
Klan in a civilized country.
to dislike us that the Jewish people lacks be signed by the rabbis of Minsk publicly whom
of "The Last Mile," which appears
a sense of humor. Purim comes to refute denying that there are religious persecu- to be the outstanding hit of the NOW let us hear from the Hundred Per Cent
New York season. Already sold
this charge. In the home, in the synagogue, tions in Russia. "We don't understand how out three months in advance, with
American, T. J. Gillespie:
it is possible in the name of religion to issue an offer from Hollywood of $100,-
on the streets in thickly populated Jewish
Colonel Church proposes to re-write our
000
for
the
film
rights.
an appeal which may lead to serious blood-
national history anti to prove that this country
Wexley is a nephew of Maurice
communities, the joy that radiates on this shed and to try to present this criminal ac-
is not now, and never was, "The Land of the
Schwartz of Jewish Art Theater
Free," nor, I presume, "The Home of the
holiday brings out in fine relief the healthy tion against religion as a fight for religion," fame, and now and then he has
Brave." The Pilgrim fathers, according to
parts with his uncle. Not
humor that has helped to make life easier this statement tells us. But on the (lay fol- played
his statement, were a tyrannical and despotic
so many years ago he was hoboing
crowd who did not know what liberty was,
lowing
its
publication
we
were
warned
by
over the country and claims the
for a people which has battled against all
though "they came with a noble purpose to
Mr. Bernard G. Richards, executive secre- championship for sleeping in town
establish a home for themselves and their de-
odds.
jails. In his tramping, for want of
scendants, which would be entirely free from
tary of the American Jewish Congress, that money to stop at hotels, he lodged
religious persecution, etc.," they'proved them-
The jovial spirit which dominates the the authenticity of the denial was made by at police stations—in no less than
selves bigots tend tyrants.
Purim festival speaks for the confidence in the Minsk rabbis is to be questioned. Mr. 65 towns and villages. His real
And we, in our stupidity, imagined we were
the Jewish heart that the people cannot Richards pointed to discrepancies in the al- name, by the way, is Jacob Wes-
enjoying civil and religious liberty, until Col.
Church
endeavored to remove our ignorance
disappear as others before us have van- leged denial and said that a similar state-
and show us what oppressed and downtrodden
ORIGIN OF "BRITISH"
ished from the face of the earth. Since the ment issued in 1928 by thirty rabbis of Mos-
people
we
are. When he succeeds we will never
There have been two books re-
again be able to lift our voices in the old song,
first Purim we have had many Purims, with cow was later disclosed to have been signed cently issued dealing with the life
"My
Country,
'tin of thee, Sweet Land of Lib-
of King George and from them I
its Hamm and its Mordecais, and in every under duress.
erty, of thee I sing," and probably Col. Church
gather :hat while the whole world
case we have survived the enemies who
will
favor
us
with
an amended history for the
The enigmatic position of the Jewish calls the Prince of Wales by the
instruction of our boys and girls in the prin-
plotted our annihilation.
Edward, he is just plain
leaders helps to confuse the issues. Thus, name
ciples
of
true
liberty.
David to his royal pa and ma.
That is why Purim signals for unlimited in London, Haham Dr. Moses Gaster
But not content with rewriting history, he
Some day, then, we shall have
proposes, by the organization of a new party,
King David on the throne of
joy to reign in the heart and home of the warned that "we Jews have learned not to
to wipe out the Republican and Democratic
Britain. And then, I dare say,
Jew; for carnivals to celebrate the festival believe all stories circulated. The infamous that gcoup of Englishmen who
parties. I wonder if he wit also take in the
Socialists?
and for humor to be king of the day. Next blood libel made us victims of foul con- have always maintained that the
English are the lost Ten Tribes,
Ile proposes to destroy the Anti-Saloon
Friday, when we again celebrate Purim, cocted stories. Those responsible for public will urge more strongly their be-
League, the Lord's Day Alliance, the Ku Klux
the Jew will laugh at those who scheme opinion should take great heed of what liefs. One of their arguments, I
Klan, to reform or destroy (I hardly know
understand, is based on the very
which) the churches—at least to allow them
for Jewish unhappiness in Germany and they say. I warn our people to be careful word
"British." They say it comes
no voice as to the morals of the nation as ex-
Ilungary and Rumania and Poland and and to remember that there are five million from the Hebrew words "Brith
pressed in its laws, to wipe out the Eighteenth
Amendment, reverse the numerous decisions of
Russia. Because from one community to Jews in Russia." But in New York Dr. Ste- Ish"—that is, a man of the Cove-
nant.
the Supreme Court on this question, and, in
another there will echo the greeting of Jew phen S. Wise is one of the central figures
short, to return to the time of the judges when
PENN ON THE INDIANS
to Jew:
"every man did that which was right in his
in the organization that is sponsoring a
But if I were disposed to accept
own eyes."
nationwide protest against Russian perse- any theory of the Ten Tribes other
Good Purim! Let joy be unconfined!
In spite of the dictum of Col. Church anti
cution of religions. And his viewpoint is than they were assimilated with
his associates, the friends of prohibition and
neighbors and no were lost, I
law observance will still claim and continue to
expressed in this statement: "We are not their
would rather lean to the claims
enjoy the right of opposition to lawlessness and
The Anti-Alien Drive.
answerable for, nor have we any alliance made for the American Indians.
crime, the Anti-Saloon league will still "do
If you want to read something
with,
the
viewpoints
of
anti-Soviet
capital-
business at the old stand," the Lord's Day All-
The action that was taken by the Detroit
interesting along these lines, go to
once will continue to insist that the edict front
City Council last week to remove from all km and imperialism, whether these be Brit- your library and dig up some of
Sinai, "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it
the writings of William Penn, the
ish
or
American
or
Italian.
We
are
answer-
holy" is still binding; the churches will firmly
city positions all non-citizens is not as im-
Quaker founder of the state of
and positively proclaim that "Righteousness
able
and
we
accept
the
responsibility
for
portant in itself as it is in the influence it
Pennsylvania.
exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
Penn believed that the Red Men
people" anti will urge upon our Congress, our
threatens to have on the labor situation uttering, in the name of religion and in the were
Hebraic in origin. He point-
Legislatures, our courts and our executives
name of humanity, our solemn protest
generally.
ed out that the Indian tribes were
(national, state and local) observance of the
against the savage attempts of the Soviet in the habit of offering as a sacri-
moral and religious principles and policies
It may be difficult to argue against the government to destroy the ancient and fice their first fruits, that in their
which have made us the foremost nation of the
councils it was the elders who de-
, 4d
earth.
insistence of those who claim that men and noble faith of the Jews in Russia."
cided, in true Scriptural fashion—
women holding city and government posi-
The trouble is that we have been the they also believed in a Great Spirit •
OW, dear reader, you will begin to appreciate
tions should be a part of that city and gov- victims of so many "foul concocted stories" but worshipped many other things
that when I have suggested over a period of
as subordinate gods, and did not
ernment as citizens. It is wrong, of course, that wherever we turn we are between the Hebrew prophet exclaim— years that if certain intolerant church groups had
the power they would revive the Blue Laws in its
to discriminate against taxpayers even Devil Bigotry and Deep Sea Hatred. The "How many ore thy gods, 0 Is- most extreme phases; that I was not painting a
Moreover, Penn thought visionary picture. They would prevent us they art.
though they are unnaturalized; and it is trouble is that because of the things we rael."
that the Indian tongue had simi-
to right now) from drinking tea and coffee,
all the more wrong summarily to discharge have been forced to suffer we always hail larities to the Hebrew, and Penn tring
using tobacco in tiny form, regulate the way women
from their positions hundreds of men with- as a Messiah whoever comes to comfort us. knew Hebrew. he thought, too, should wear their clothes anti their hair, eliminate
that their facial features bore
as the W. C. T. U. are now endeavoring to do) the
out giving them an opportunity to secure Thus we are confused; and in our confu- much in common with the Jews.
use of aspirin, prevent any one but a Protestant
other means of earning a livelihood. But sion we either protest or rejoice; and it is
from
holding public office, do away with all theatri-
IMPRESSED BY JERUSALEM
cal productions (with possibly the exception of the
if there is some justice in the demand that quite certain that when we protest there
If you avant to know who will he
Passion Play), prevent screen productions as an off-
the real Jews of tomorrow, don't
Sj aliens become naturalized if they are to must be reason for it.
spring of the Devil, anti on Sunday smile at your
visit your so-called ghettoes— peril! These are only a few of the restraints they
hold on to city jobs, the precedent that is
Confusion may continue to rule the day don't search out those who have would impose if they could and that's why eternal
M established by their discharge strikes at the in the Russian situation, with Soviet sympa- been steeped and saturated in a vigilance is the price of liberty anti why it is essen-
r very root of American principles of justice. thizers attempting to inject the political Jewish atmosphere. At least, tial that every forward-looking: man and woman,
that's my theory. Instead, visit
Jew, Protestant and Catholic, should unite behind
It will be recalled that (luring and after and economic issues in this religious war. the homes of those, perhaps whom men like Col. Church and Pierre Du Pont to fight
you hove felt were a bit alienated
these forces of bigotry anti intolerance. Excuse
the war there was talk in industrial circles But the .pew's of the world should be very fram flte Jewish idea.
t.
me, I hadn't intended to write a word but I just
Recently a young girl, ;laughter
of hiring only citizens. As a result of war careful in their concern over the safety
can't restrain myself when I come into contact
a Jewish multi-millionaire, was with such minds as that of Gillespie.
4, 0 hysteria a wave of hatred against the alien and well-being of their millions of co-relig- of
married. Her husband is a mem-
cz•
4.: poisoned America's mind, and the existence ionists living under the Soviets.
ber of the biggest banking firms
NOW turn the column over to Col. Church and
in America. On their honeymoon,
of every non-citizen was threatened by an
select these paragraphs from his reply to Gillespie,
of course, they went abroad. And
impending economic boycott. That storm
it may interest you to know that who, by the way, is a friend of his:
Anti-Semitism Increasing.
it was not Paris—not the Riviera
blew over, but it pointed to the coming of
Gillespie refers to the statement made in
—not Munich or any other Euro-
my New York speech concerning Colonial his-
an evil day. The first sign of the arrival of
Adding to the grief that is aroused in peon city that interested them. In-
tory,
wherein I said that the Puritans had fled
that evil day was the action of the Detroit Jewish ranks by the reports of oppressions stead, it was Jerusalem that made
from England in order to escape from the per-
deepest impression.
secution
of Archbishop Laud, who was trying
2- City Council last week in ordering that all
in Russia is the news of the recent pogrom the After
all, why shouldn't I name
to make them conform to his system of "public.
non-citizens be discharged from their city in ill-fated Kishineff, and the increased an- her? It was Ilelen Lehn.an But-
morals," but had immediately upon their arrival
jobs. Such action, especially in a day of ti-Semitic feeling in practically every part tenweiser, daughter of Arthur
in this country established their own system of
Lehman and niece of the lieuten-
"public morals," requiring every man to con-
economic depression, threatens to serve as of Europe. On every front Jews are being ant-governor
of New York.
form to it on pain of being whippet(' or impris-
a signal to all industries to emulate the boycotted. Socially and religiously. polit-
And incidentally, she has just
oned, and proclaiming that all Quakers, Catho-
appointed by Mayor Walker
example set by the city fathers of a great ically and industrially, Jews are hounded been
lics and Jews should be first whipped and then
as the successor of Sophie Irene
hanged; and that this punishment would have
American community like Detroit. This is into an unpleasant existence.
Loeb in the Child Welfare depart-
been meted out to Herbert Hoover and Alfred
ment.
not a mere guess, but is the echo of private
E. Smith, anti also, I might add, to Julius
We have, for instance, a report from Ber-
Rosenwald, if they had arrived in this country
talk and public expression by many oti- lin of the manner in which Jews are being
PRAY OR SWIM?
in the Seventeenth century. Ile reproaches me
A
lady
very
prominewly
con-
zees. Just watch the "Letter Box" columns boycotted. Newspaper propaganda. pos-
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for making these statements, and intimates that,
nected with one of the major Jew-
of our dailies, and you find blunt and cruel ters and even signs carried by sandwiehmen ish women's organizations tells
they are not true. But every schoolboy knows
that they are true.
demonstrations against the alien and in carry stories of hate, of which the follow- about it herself. Recently, she
was in Palestine.
Gillespie eloquently declares himself a sup-
favor of taking from him the right of work- ing proclamation, broadcast at Augsburg,
"Are you a member of the syna-
porter of the Lord's Day Alliance and quotes,
gogue?"
this
lady,
whose
parents
the
low of Moses "to keep the Sabbath holy."
6f!? mg for an honest living.
is a sample:
were native)] of America, was
That Sabbath, however, was Saturday and not
Should
such
a
calamity
materialize,
with
asked
by
a
Palestinian.
Sunday,
and there is not a word in the Bible
,,
"Certainly," she replied.
about Sunday except the statement that the
Buying from Jews is very wrong;
the alien boycotted by industry, it will be
swim?"
"Do
you
pray
or
do
you
disciples
broke bread on that day. Besides,
The Jew would hang us for a song.
the saddest day for true Americanism.
when Jesus was pursuing his ministry upon the
came back the Palestinian.
Buy from the German, give him a chance,
Which
question
does
seem
to
earth
and
the
Lord's Day Alliance arrested him
Already one of the holiest principles upon
And leave the money in German hands.
have some relativity in these days.
for preparing his meal on Saturday, he rebuked
which this country was founded, recogniz-
when the synagogue is but one
them with the statement that "the Sabbath was
made for man and not man for the Sabbath."
ing the right to free asylum in this land for
Other posters in various parts of Ger. unit of the synagogue or temple
liberal men are going to strive for the adop-
all oppressed peoples, has been destroyed. many tell the German hundred-percenters center.
tion of the teaching of Jesus on this subject
OUR OWN LITTLE PEPY'S
The super-patriots are not satisfied. They that those who buy from Jews are enemies
against the continuance of the blue laws which
DIARY
Jesus condemned.
are determined not to rest until they have of their people; that they will be cheated
Up betimes anti to the city, run-
The issue is clear. As a loyal churchman I
marked every alien, fingerprinted him like by "Jews who killed Christ two thousand ning into Jacob de Haas, who told
stand with Mr. Gillespie in the right and duty
me that he had heard the funniest
a criminal and labeled and segregated him years ago and now try to do big business yet.
of ministers of every faith to preach and pro-
a man, it appears, being to see
mote righteousness before their congregation.,
as if he were a danger to humanity. They at Christmas time."
him who proposed to translate the
in their Sunday schools, and in the homes of
Talmud into Yiddish. The man
are not satisfied. They even want to rob
their
people. I believe with him that righteous-
President Hindenburg of Germany and
that just as Mendelsohn
ness exalteth a nation. But when Gillespie
the immigrant of his elementary human the heads of other European governments averring,
by translating the Bible into a
maintains
the right of any body of ministers
right to work for a livelihood. That must have pledged full protection to their Jew- modern language took the Jews out
to force the enactment of their theory of
of the ghetto, the Yiddish scribe
be prevented. Every fair-minded Ameri-
"public
morals"
into the law of this land, he
ish citizens. But when hate is being en- by the Yiddish translation pro-
is promoting an alliance between church and
can must strive against outrageous curtail-
to lead t"em back behind the
graved in the hearth of Europe's masses, it posed
state
through
the
back door when the Consti-
wall. . . . And then to see Dr.
ment of human rights for the sake of pre-
tution explicitly prohibits him from such an
only serves to increase our anxiety over the Bloch of the New York Public
alliance through the front door. The liberal
serving the human spirit in American
future of European Jewry.
party will stop him from doing that.
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(EDITOR'S NOTE— Pierre Van Pass-
is lin internationally k now news-
paper man. journalist •ntl write who is
• regular member of the ,tag of the
New York Evening World. Mr. Van
1'a
satin sent to Paleatine sa a spe-
al correspondent of the Jewish Telegra-
hic Agency itoon •fter the riots anti
his incisive distutto he+ were of great
value in informing Jewish public through-
out the world.)

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One if the most curious experi-
ences I had in Palestine last Octo-
ber occurred one day at about 3
o'clock in the afternoon, when I
had just returned to my hotel after
attending a court session in He-
bron. That they I found a delega-
tion of five Jews waiting on not.
Their spokesman was a man of
about 411, who wore one of those
fuzzy contrivances of rabbit-skin
on his head which the Jews of Je-
rusalem have imported front the
snow-wept cillages of Galicia and
Russia, and which always seemed
to me the height of folly in Pales-
tine on a hot clay. Still one forgot
all about the man's ludicrous head-
piece when one looked at his face.
It was like a piece of finely carved
ivory, of even, light yellow 'color,
with a coal-black beard and two
burning dark eyes. There was
something majestic in that face
anti at the time I thought that my
visitor might have served as the
model for Michael Angelo for his
picture of the high-priest on the
wall of the Sistina. I was even

more astonished, though, about the
errand upon which the five Jews
had conic than over their appear-
ance. Urged upon their errand by
an apparently exaggerated rumor
of my doings in Palestine, they be-
gan by asking me whether it was
true that I was trying to help the
Jews of Jerusalem. I told them I
hoped to do all in my !tower to
bring un end to the misery and
suffering that I had witnessed.
Well, that was just what they
didn't want me to do. The Jews,
they said, must find no relief, but
must go on suffering, for upon
that suffering depended the coming
of the Messiah. "How is that?"
I asked. "Well," said the spokes-
man, "we have it prophecy in our
book that there will come a (lay
when there will be a tumult in a
southern city. Jewish blood will
be shed, and three holy rabbis will
be killed. After that a little time
will elapse, and during this time
the Jews must go on suffering as
never before. Then will come an
earthquake, and finally when the
measure of Jewish suffering is full,
Messiah will make Himself known.
Now Hebron," he continued, "is a
city of the south, and three rabbis
are among the dead." Did I not
see the point? If Jewish suffering
ceased, this would delay the com-
ing of the Promised one? And
reversely, by doing anything to

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. JEWS IN THE NEWS

By BERNARD POSTAL

To people who know anything
about rare books the name Rosen-
bach is magical and it was no sur-
prise to them when Dr. Abraham
S. Wolf Rosenbach of Philadelphia,
America's must eminent biblio_
phile, celebrated Washington's
Birthday by calmly announcing
that he had purchased from the
Royal Institute of Great Britain
20,000 documents and letters con-
stituting a virtual day-by-day rec-
ord of the British army's struggle
against the American colonists.
The value of this collection in dol-
lars and cents cannot be meas-
ured and to historians and scholars
it is invaluable. Some of the
rarest and most precious literary
gems in the world are now or have
at some time in the last 25 years
been in Dr. Rosenbach's possession.
hnbued with the book-collector's
passion in his youth and imbibing
the book atmosphere of his
book-shop, Dr. Rosenbach
has been on the hunt for rare
books since he was 11. Millions
of dollars' worth of literary treas-
ures have been unearthed by him
and he has said millions more will
yet be uncovered. Dr. Rosenhach
considers book-collecting the most
exhilarating sport of all next to
love. In addition to being a col-
lector he is a walking encyclo-
pedia of dates, quotations and de-
scriptions of rare pamphlets and
manuscripts.

If we didn't know better we
might think that Salmon 0. Levin-
son of Chicago was a publicity
hound for he gets into the public
prints often. The father of the
Kellogg Peace Pact and one of
the outstanding advocates of world
peace by treaty and the man who
more frequently than any other
has been mentioned as the most
likely recipient of the Nobel Peace
Prize for 1929, is again in the
headlines. This time he is voted
one of the 12 living men and wo-
men who are considered the most
effective public influence. for inter-
national co-operation and world
peace. Levinson was one of five
Americans selected, the others be-
ing Herbert Hoover. Jane Addams,
Frank Kellogg and Elihu Root.
Levinson was seventh in the list
of votes, those below him being
Romain Rolland, Jan Smuts and
Enrich Marie Ilemarque.

In the death of Sophie Levin,
the lied Cross movement has lost
one of its most indefatigable work-
er); and tireless leaders. Few
Americans have not at some time
or other contributed to the annual
Red Cross roll call. It was this
plan of fund-raising that was de-
veloped by Sophie Levin, who was

to Pittsburgh's social welfare wh
Lillian Wald is to New York ant
Jane Addams to Chicago. In the
passing of the founder of the
Mothers' Pension League of Alle
gheny county the mothers of
Pittsburgh are deprived of their
must active champion. Once the
secretary of the late Dr. Leonard
Levy of Temple Rodef Shalom,
she drifted into Red Cross work
during the Belgian relief cam-
paign. Later she directed the
work of raising funds for the Ger-
man war sufferers and the victims
of the :Mississippi flood. Her
years of effort along welfare lines
culminated shortly before her
death when the National Red Cross
presented her with a medal which
she accepted 011 what was to he
her death bed.

George Jean Nathan, who for
years has figured in this country
together with :Mencken as one of
the twin "had boys" in American]
literature and journalism, has left
the Mercury. In the March issue
of that well-known green-covered
magazine of Babbitt-baiters, Na-
than's usual "Clinical Notes" and
theatrical reviews do not appear,
nor does "George Jean Nathan,
contributing editor," appear any
more on the "Table of Contents"
page, where we find for the first
time the name of "Charles AngofT,
assistant editor" (also a Jew).
There is no editorial announcement
or explanation of the reason for
Mr. Nathan's severance of the fa-
mous partnership with Mencken,
which began with the old "Smart
Set" and continued when Alfred
Knopf decided to give the two "en-
fants terribles" a new medium for
the expression of their iconoclastic.
ideas in the American Mercury.
One explanation may lie in the
fact that Nathan is spending a
good part of his time nowadays in
Paris, and is thus unable to
"cover" the New York theatrical
season. It is rumored, however,
that Nathan has for years been dis-
satisfied with Mencken's absorbed
interest in the "zoological garden
of American politics," as displayed
on the pages of the Mercury, that
he lamented the fact that the 'Mer-
cury devoted so little space to
belles-lettres and so much to the
"boobotsie," and that he once face-
tiously introduced Mencken to a
friend as "the coming mayor of
Baltimore," As a matter of fact
Nathan resigned several years ago
as co-editor of the Mercury and be-
came merely its contributing edi-
tor. And now literature and jour-
nalism have parted company com-
pletely.

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(Copyright. than. J. T. A.)

To a Spiritual Leader

By MILTON M. ALEXANDER

A little more than II yearn •ito. upon the
ncea•ion of Dr. Leo M.
Franklin's twentieth anniyerady as raid,' of Tenn.', of El. the fol-
lowing tribute from the pen of Milton M Ale.nder appeared
in the col-
umn* of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
It in

titling that it he reprinted
at this time, Dr. Franklin having during the past week celebrated hi+
sixtieth birthday. Mr. Alexander, tribute follow,

You've labored well; and every year
Bears tribute to a fine career;
With modest heart, with Strength and Will
You've labored Virtue to instill,
And every soul with Justice fill.

A Leader deigning to defy
The public clamor, hue and cry ;
Who by example set each day
Reguides the steps of those who stray,
And shows to men the better way.

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A Preacher of convincing art,
Your words of hope from heart to heart
Have made and remade earnest men;
Provided Hope and Trust again
When Doubt has obscured Acumen.

A Writer from whose virile pen
Flow thoughts that move the minds of men;
A Scholar, Friend, and Worker true—
We're better all, because of you,
You've served your God, and Mankind, too,

January, 1919.

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