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Two Serious Jolts.
TIEEVETROIK/E111M1 RON ICIE
For a time Jews began to hope that bet-
ter days are ahead for their people in East-
ern Europe and in Palestine. The repeated
assurances of the governments in lands
where Jews suffered hardships and oppres-
sions that our people would be protected
from anti-Semitic outbursts, for a time al-
layed the fear that is ever in our hearts for
the safety of our kith and kin. The veiled
declarations of British officials that the
mandate for Palestine would be honored to
the letter of the law and that the Balfour
Declaration would be the guiding spirit of
the rebuilding of Palestine for a time
strengthened our faith in British justice.
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Sabbath Readings of this Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 25:1.27:34.
Prophetical portion— . ter. 16:19-17:14.
Rosh Chodesh Sloan portion of the Torah,
Wednesday, May 28—Num. 28:1-16.
May 23, 1930
But in the past week two serious jolts
have shaken our confidence in the back-
ward rulers of Eastern Europe on the one
hand and in the would-be liberality and
friendship of Great Britain on the other.
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In Unity There Is Victory.
Reports of anti-Semitic outbreaks in Ru-
mania have brought grief to Jews in this
country, particularly since the efforts of
many years to assure the safety of our peo-
ple in that backward land seem to have
been futile. Both in Rumania and in lands
outside of Rumania, Jewish leaders have
been making gestures of friendship and
have exerted every effort at their command
to insure that violence against a defense-
less people should cease. And suddenly
the so-called enlightened element of Ru-
mania, with Professor Alexander Cuza at
the head, has again resorted to pogroms
and massacres to express its hatred to our
people. And as the danger grows, the gov-
ernment continues inactive and silent, ex-
cept in instances of Jewish self-defence
which is instantly punished.
And from the Colonial Office of the great
British Empire also comes a jolt, adding the
worst insult of all to the many injuries suf-
fered in the past few months in Palestine.
Immigration of Jews to Palestine is stopped
by this order, and the most important need
in all our efforts for the upbuilding of the
Jewish National Home—the settlement of
more pioneers on the soil—is checked in a
manner which, if the order should be per-
mitted to remain in force, will spell death
for our aspirations in Zion. Nothing more
damaging could have been ruled by British
colonial officials, and nothing could have
weakened Jewish faith in Britain as has
this unfriendly act.
The safety of our people in Rumania ap-
pears, if we are to judge by that govern-
ment's inaction, to be seriously threatened.
And our aspirations in Eretz Israel are suf-
fering a setback through the failure of the
British government to honor the obligations
made in the Balfour Declaration and in
numerous other documents. Unless jus-
tice is non-existent, Rumania and Britain
must at once put a stop to physical pogrom
on the one hand and the spiritual one on
the other.
A happy Detroit Jewish community is
reaping the fruits of victory.
The greatest triumph in the history of
Jewish campaigns marks the efforts of hun-
dreds of volunteers in the Allied Jewish
Campaign, which just closed with the orig-
inal quota of $305,000 oversubscribed.
Now a united Jewish community knows
that in unity there is victory.
The men and women who forgot every
other obligation to devote themselves to
the cause of this campaign; who for once
erased from their minds group differences;
who made unity possible, without regard to
Orthodox, Conservative or Reform affilia-
tions—to this army of workers goes the
credit for a job honorably executed.
The leaders in the campaign, with Mr.
Henry Wineman at the helm, have earned
the community's gratitude. By imparting
to their workers the enthusiasm and confi-
dence with which they entered the cam-
paign; by devoting themselves unselfishly
to the cause they undertook to lead, and
by their liberal contributions they made
possible a difficult undertaking, in spite
of apparent prejudices and the economic
depression,
Dr. John Slawson, as the director of the
drive, naturally comes in for much de-
served praise for the able manner in which
he steered his campaign machinery in the
right direction.
If the prime lesson of this campaign, the
lesson that in unity there is victory, is not
too soon forgotten, the benefits from the
successful drive just closed will not be just
monetary, but will reflect the most vital
need in Jewry today: unity of purpose, a
common obligation to the needs of our peo-
ple everywhere, religious, educational, phi-
lanthropic, national, and above all, good
will of Jew to Jew.
Let the community remember the lesson
taught by the triumph in the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign:
In unity there is strength!
Steed Replies to Mencken,
Nahum Sokolow's Seventieth Birthday.
His name is plain Nahum Sokolow. No
title is affixed to it. He has earned no col-
lege degrees. He has never held any pro-
fessorships in universities. But the name
Nahum Sokolow suggests a superiority to
titles because it spells such great versatil-
ity in scholarship, learning and leadership.
Mr. Sokolow, whose seventieth birthday
is now being honored by Jews throughout
the world, is an historian of note. His
"History of Zionism" is a monumental con-
tribution to Jewish literature. Ile is a phil-
osopher of the first rank. Ile is a linguist
who has at his command several languages,
in each of which he writes and lectures
fluently.
But it is as Zionist leader that his name
will be perpetuated in the annals of his-
tory. Not only as organizer and propa-
gandist among his own people, but as well
in the capitols of the leading nations of the
world he has clone great service to his peo-
ple's cause. He is a familiar figure in Eu-
ropean government circles, and at Wash-
ington, too, he has befriended American
leaders whose aid he enrolled for the Zion.
ist cause.
It is a joy to greet Nahum Sokolow on
his seventieth birthday.
An Un-Jewish Act.
Jj
Sonia Mason, 19-year-old Communist.
was faced in a Milwaukee court by her
pious father, Bilba Magarchack, synagogue
beadle. In addition to drawing condem-
nation from the district attorney for her
radicalism she is reported to have been dis-
owned by her father who is quoted as hav-
ing said: "She is no longer my daughter. I
had a daughter named Haia but she is Son-
ia Mason."
We have heard before of Orthodox Jew-
ish parents observing the traditional seven-
day mourning period over children who in-
termarried because they considered inter-
marriage tantamount to divorcement from
life as Jews. but we have never heard of
parents disowning their offspring because
of their political views, or because of
change in names.
The report about the Milwaukee beadle
would sound like a tragedy if it were not
for the joke contained in it that Bilba Mag-
archack "in reply to a question from the
district attorney admitted he was also a
rabbi."
Mr. H. L. Mencken continues to come in
for a lot of criticism for his attitude toward
Jews and Judaism in his latest book.
It is interesting to note the reaction of a
non-Jew to the advice by Mr. Mencken that
Jews assimilate. Wickham Steed, noted
British journalist, upon his arrival in this
country to address the convention of Ameri-
can newspaper editors in Washington, said,
regarding Mr. Mencken's labelling the Jews
as fin'
unpleasant race": "How many Jews
has Mr. Mencken met? One must first get
to know Jews in the mass before issuing
such a verdict." And on the question of
assimilation he expressed this view:
I don't agree with him at all. Individual
Jews may assimilate, but not the Jewish Peo-
ple as a whole. I think it best for the world
that Israel should maintain its individuality,
and for that reason I have been for a long
time in favor of a spiritual center in Palestine
where Jews should have full freedom for such
Ilevelopment.
But while non-Jews as well as Jews con-
tinue to argue assimilation, intermarriage,
conversions and other things that would
lead to the disappearance of the Jewish
People from the face of the earth, Father
'rime must be smiling up his sleeve. For 70
generations the nations of the world have
speculated over the possibility of Israel's
death. But the Jew, whether or not he is
faithful enough to proclaim with the Psalm-
ist. "I shall not die but live to declare the
works of the Lord," nevertheless persists
in surviving the other nations of the earth.
Mr. Mencken, together with the other ad-
vocates and prophets of death for Israel,
is only wasting his breath and ink.
Annual Hebrew Week.
Observance of the annual Hebrew Week
now in progress here should be of mater-
ial aid not only in propagating the cause
of Hebrew learning but of Jewish educa-
tion generally. Through the education-
al meetings, literature, musical programs
and other methods of propaganda, this
Hebrew Week ought to prove an impor-
tant means of disseminating information
on the necessity for the revival of Hebrew
and of general Jewish knowledge by Jews.
Interest aroused in the past by the observ-
ance of this week has made its celebration
traditional, and it is to be hoped that much
good will come from the continuation of
this practice.
Scanning the
Horizon
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
JOKES FROM PRISON
The first notional Jewish Joke
olympiad is now nearing its close.
Only one more week to win that set
of books. The last minute dark
horse often gains the blue ribbon.
So send your story in—though the
hour be late. The wide scope of the
contest was proven this week by
the receipt of two entries from the
Massachusetts State Prison.
The name of the contributor is
Frank Stevens. In a note inclosing
the jokes, he writes:
"The appended name, Frank
Stevens not my own) in a "gift"
of the Commonwealth. I am Jew-
ish."
Well, Frank, we hope you'll be
out soon, and we are turning over
your jokes to the judges.
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IF IT'S ALL THE SAME
Dudley Sicher, president of the
Federation for the Support of Jew-
ish Philanthropies tells a pleasant
nifty.
It seems that the mother of lit-
tle Mortimer was expecting what
Mr. ‘S'inchell would call a "blessed
event." '
One day, the mother turned to
her little son, and thinking of the
anticipated event, whispered to her
little son, that he might soon have
a little sister.
"Mother," said Morty, "if it does
not cause you much more pain, I'd
rather have a little pony instead."
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SACRAMENTAL GIN
From Thelma Lillian Davis, in-
triguing scribe, comes this one. A
dusky gentleman from Dixie en-
tered a Jewish sacramental wine
shop.
"What kind of wine would you
like?" asked the proprietor,
"Well, if it's all the same to you,"
he replied, "I'll take some gin."
ABOUT OUR JUDGES
We want to soy something here
about one of the judges of the na-
tional joke contest. The trio who
will decide the award, as we have
announced before, consists of Dr.
Joshua Bloch, chief of the Jewish
Division of the New York Public
Library, Jacob De Haas, author
and lecturer, and Jacob Leicht-
man, new York hanker and philan-
thropist. But we want to say a
word just now about the last—
well, because firstly, he deserves
it, and secondly, because a signifi-
cant event in his career took place
only a few days ago.
BUILDS BIGGEST BANK
Some 15 years ago, a young im-
migrant came unnoticed into the
United States as millions of others
had come before. He went through
the usual processes, living on the
East Side, participating in the so-
cial life of the Jewish settlements,
debating this and that, going to
lectures and the like.
He joined a banking firm. Some-
thing like 10 years ago, he left that
position, a young man in his twen-
ties, and organized an industrial
bank.
Last week, as you may have no-
ticed by the papers, ex-Governor
Smith, Felix M. Warburg and nu-
merous other notables came to wit-
ness the opening of the new offices
of this hank, which is today the
second largest of its kind in the
country—and with branches all
over the city of New York.
within 10 years from nothing to
this signal position. The man who
did all this is, Jacob Leichtman,
one of the aforementioned judges.
Notable success has an unfortu-
nate tendency of ruining many
people, but Leichtmantoday is the
same attractive, sympathetic and
approlichnhle person that he was
the day when as a youth he gazed
for the first timewith wonder in
his eyes at the skyline of New
York and walked about the side-
walks of New York, dreaming the
dreams which are now coming
true.
IN A LINE OR TWO
!lorry Hershfield is collaborat
ing with Joseph Rumshinsky, com-
poser, on an operetta.
Thyra Samter Winslow, author-
CRS, and offspring of a nottal rab-
binic family, bought a bicycle last
week for exercise and 15 minutes
later was in the hospital as the re-
sult of an accident.
George Gershwin, classical jazz-
es, firmly believes that if a school
teacher had not once mocked at
one of his drawings, he would have
been a successful painter today.
Gerald Warburg, son of the noted
hanker, does not like business. He
is a cellist by profession.
David Bloom, student at the Co-
lumbia School of Journalism, sup-
ports himself by working as a
messenger boy for the Western
Union.
HE COULD WIELD BATON
Dr. Schmarya Levin tells one
that is not had. An American
millionaire had a friend, who was
not overly endowed with brains.
One day, this friend learned that
the millionaire had a private or-
chestra.
"I would like very much to play
in tht orchestra," said the dumb
fri end.
"But I never knew you could
play an instrument," retorted the
millionaire.
"I can't play any instrument,"
replied the friend, "but I noticed
one fellow in the orchestra, who
does nothig but raise a stick up
and down and forwards and nide-
wards—I could do that."
MR. DE HAAS WRITES
This department is in receipt of
the following letter from Jacob de-
Haas:
"I see in the last mantle of your
column that you refer to a dis-
cussion about Hamilton being a
Jew. I have been very interested
in that problem for the last two
yea rs.
"I think it can be proven that
he was a son of a Jewess and had
a Jewish education, whenever
someone is willing to put up the
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By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
WASN'T much. Perhaps most of us would
I T have
passed it by without comment. But a Jew-
ish fraternity at the University of Pittsburgh, the
Sigma Alpha Mu, presented a loving cup to a Jew-
ish Sabbath school in Western Pennsylvania having
the best record for all-around excellence during the
year. To me that was significant. I could easily
understand that a group of college fellows or a
fraternity would present a medal or a cup for
almost anything else except to a Sabbath school. A
whole lot of showier things are displayed in the
newspapers all over the world while something like
this, which is intrinsically worth much more to
Judaism and to Jewish life, goes unnoticed. That's
the reason I'm spot-lighting it. I believe those Jew-
ish boys at the Pitt deserve that it should be recog-
nized.
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OL LEVITAN, state treasurer of Wisconsin,
either has an uncanny instinct for doting the
right thing, or he carries a rabbit's foot. Some 18
hanks have failed in Wisconsin but the state had
no money, or practically none, in any of the banks,
thus adding to the glory of the state treasurer. The
statement is made in a paper which reached me
that Mr. I.evitan, just because he is a Jew, uses
extraordinary care and judgment in the handling of
the state's funds; in fact, he thinks more of the
state money than of his own. Because he does
recognize that an extra obligation rests upon a Jew
who is a public official. Ile believes that if through
any unfortunate circumstances the funds of Wis-
consin, any part of them, should be lost through
carelessness or lack of judgment that it would not
only reflect upon him but on every Jew. That's
straight thinking.
WHILE we are on the subject I want to call the
attention of the reader to a weakness we Jews
have. If one of our people is seeking a public office
and we know him ever so slightly we endorse hint.
He asks us to write a letter to the governor or to
the mayor or to whoever happens to have the ap-
pointing power. Whether he is the right man or
the best man never bothers us very much. We
don't think the way Sol Levitan does. Only when
it is too late then we complain that a Jew occupying
an office of public trust was a bad official and that
all other Jews are blamed because of one. Well
that's your fault and my fault. We want to be
"good fellows' when "it doesn't cost anything." It
may not cost you anything but the Jewish people
as a whole may pay a big price for just such lack
of judgment on our part. The Jews stand by and
watch so many stupid things being done by Jews,
especially those mixed up with politics, that one
sometimes gets out of patience. In the develop-
ment of Jewish life in this country along the right
lines. we are still in our infancy. Sometimes I be-
come no discouraged over the blindness of our
leaders, and of the so-called representative Jew's
in every large Jewish community to those elements
in the Jewish population, and to those acts of Jews
that degrade us, that I feel like calling it a day.
THERE
is a little paper called "Dawn" published
in the interest of the Christian missionary effort
to the Jews. Some time ago Reuben Brainin, the
well-known Jewish author, wrote an article "I Seek
Him." He was seeking for a superman: one who
would bring the millenium appreciably nearer. Per-
sonally, I don't believe that any personality can do
for us with a wave of the hand what it will require
millions of years of painful struggle to accomplish.
It always seemed to me that God doesn't work that
stay. We can only make progress through effort.
however, I didn't start out to discuss this. I
merely wanted to indicate how the Christian mis-
sionary can twist things to suit himself. Here is
what it says of Mr. Brainin and his article:
Reuben Brainin is one of our oldest and
foremost Zionist leaders. He is now an old
man, but appears youthful and hopeful in his
search for "the prophetic, the guiding., the re-
deeming Jewish personality." As a journalist
Mr. Brainin reveals in this article, which ap-
peared some time ago In the Yiddish daily, Der
Tag, the longing, not only of his own heart,
but also of the hearts of many of our people.
The only personality that answers to Mr.
Brainin's description is that of Jesus of Naz-
areth. We commend this consideration to our
readers.
The London Morning Post cor-
respondent who recently visited
Palestine reports that gun-smug-
gling is on the increase. He sees
in this an indication that further
trouble must be expected, "prob-
ably in June." Where are all these
guns corning from? And who is
doing the smuggling? In the first
place Lord Allenby's army, it
should be recalled, brought huge
stores or rifles and ammunition to
the Near East. Then Colonel Law-
rence had an allowance from the
War Office of £50,000 sterling a
day, some say £100,000, Thin fund
was used to teach the Arabs and
the Bedus the arts of civilization,
which consisted at times in blowing
up railway tracks, destroying de-
pits and cutting the throats of
Britain's enemies. The Arab is like
a little boy in this respect that he
likes to carry a gu n , two guns if
possible. One he may have obtained
from the money Colonel Lawrence
gave hits, and the other he acquired
front the piles of guns which Gen-
eral Allenby's quartermasters left
accomodatingly behind in the des-
ert. In addition he ricked up a re-
volver or net of daggers thrown
away by the retreating Turks, and
so he is fitted out. What ever else
he has in the line of hardware or
cutlery is safely stored away for
lust such a time as this when his
brethren in Palestine think they
may need them for a new Saint
Bartholomew.
Now the British border police on
the Jordan is hopelessly inadequate.
There are gaps, miles in width,
through which smugglers pass up
and down unmolested. The Trans-
Jordan Arabs who are the secret
guardians of the old Allenby stores
and the hoarders of Turkish arma-
ment loot are simply disposing of
surplus stock. There is peace now
between Ibn Sam( and Feisal, so
where else can they go with their
wares? Palestine is the answer.
Then there is gun smuggling on the
coast, north of Ilaifa. This I know
of personal experience. An Arab
merchant of Haifa imported 5,000
rifles in October. They came from
Italy. They were landed under
the noses of the British Tommies,
police, marines, air force and gen-
darmerie. Everybody in Ilaifa
knew the guns store coming,. Ev-
erybody knew they had arrived. I
saw the entire stock one evening.
The Arab merchant was inviting
some friends to see his imports.
"Against whom are these rifles to
be used?" I asked, "Well, he re-
plied, "I am selling to the highest
bidder. If the Jews will pay more
than the Arabs, they can have them
all." The Jews didn't buy.
DREYFUS AFFAIR REVIVES
Behar. There are any number of Jews prominent
in this country today who would never have been
here had it not been for this very same Behar.
But the present generation not knowing much of the
past think they are the only ones who have ever
done anything for Jewish welfare. Nissim Behar is
a remarkable character and is intimately known to
all the "insiders" in American Jewry. I received a
letter fromhimthe other (lay. Ile says that he is
only 83 years old but if
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thinks he's a grand
"old man" he will take them for a hike to Yonkers,
New York. I walked with him once and I'll back
him against any man in the sixties. He says he
eats only one meal a day and he attributes perma-
nent youth to the fact that he eats slowly, and that
he is always cheerful, and exercises. Ile is a
vegetarian and I, too, am inclined to believe that
meat is one of the enemies of longevity. I don't
know whether my readers are interested in the
older generation, but I am. Especially is this true
when an older man has contributed so much to
Jewish life as in the case of Mr. Behar.
and scream as wildly as 30 years
ago.
"Dreyfus the Traitor,'
"Dreyfus the Jew." Leon Daude
and Charles Staurras think they
have found a new peg to hang a
anti-Jewish movement on. Ito
the French public remains cool and
indifferent. The pamphlets hast-
ily written and printed by the Ac-
tion Francaise clique, with such
titles as "Proof of Dreyfus' Guilt"
and "Dreyfus who Escaped Pun.
ishment" are remaining unsold. At
Clemenceau's funeral a fellow in
front of me said to his companion:
"Tiens, there's Dreyfus!" "Which
Dreyfus?" asked the other. "The
banker?" "No, the captain!" came
back the first. "Ah you mean the
fellow who wanted to force the
army to go to mass!" The young-
er generation knows not Dreyfus.
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But the Hungarians, the 100 per.
centers, the awakening Magyars
do not easily forget that the leaders
of the Ilungarian Revolution were
practically all Jews, Bela Kuhn,
the president of the Hungarian
Soviet government was a Jew, and
so were the leading commissars:
Tibor Samuely, Joseph Pogany and
Bela Bordy, and the president of
the Revolutionary Tribunal, Eu•
gene Lazio. They have been re-
minding the Jewish community of
Hungary constantly of these facts.
Their reminders took the form of
pogronts and revenge raids on sev-
eral occasions. When brute nation-
alism broke loose, it (lid not differ-
entiate. It acted as if all the Jews
were responsible for the Bela Kuhn
episode. And so the protest about
the existence of a mild and bene•o-
lent situation in Hungary holds nn
ground. The Bolshevik Revolution,
to the contrary, has definitely been
instrumental in enabling anti-Sem-
itism to catch a hold in Hungary.
On the other hand, the Jews of
Hungary, who are turning to the
baptismal fonts of the church, will
find no sanctuary in their new re-
ligious affiliation. For the bap-
tismal certificate has seldom spared
the Jews from violence when pas -
sions brokeloose.
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A Rabbi Writes Lyrics on
Love.
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very creditable work. There i
only one translation from the oris-
inal Hebrew ("The Love of Hell'
from Immanuel of Rome). All the
other poems are original and non-
theological. A sample of the au-
thor's humor is the following:
UNPASTORAL
LYRICS.
A. Itur•
stein. illoch Publishing Co.. 31 West
Thirty.first street. Sew York (II s0).
Rabbi Abraham Burstein is an
exception among theologians. In
his leisure moments he has writ-
ten many love and humorous ly-
rics, for magazines and humorous
columns, like F. P. A.'s and Ted
Robinson's. Many of these lyrics
have appeared under the pseudo-
nym "Cleric." Now a number of
these lyrics are compiled ina vol-
umn under the title "Unpastoral
Lyrics," published by Bloch.
This colection is, on the whole, a
AM SURE the Nordics will applaud William Bo-
litho for his suggestion that Chicago is so unleav-
ened in quality and so lacking in personality because
it is not garnished with a sufficiently large Jewish
population, or "Washington lacks a certain vibrancy
and colorfulness that only a representative Jewish
community can produce. I found this very lack of
mellowness and maturity in Washington affects in
the same way most of the others who come from
large cities which were given their character by the
Jews. The foreign diplomats admitted that Wash-
ington drives them crazy, with unseasoned atmos-
phere and thin air." Mr. Bolitho in the same inter-
view says that he is amazed to find how well off the
Jews are in this country, and they don't know it. I
think they do, Mr. Bolitho. Of course, they do
complain, and sometimes justly and sometimes un-
justly, as we all do. But the Jew in return for the
opportunity given to him has made, as Mr. Bolitho
suggests, a definite cultural contribution to the life
of the nation.
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THE JEWS
JEWS OF HUNGARY
Under the heading: "The Jews
of Budapest are dying out," the
Vienne Neue Freie Prease prints
a grave warning from the Chief
Rabbi of Hungary, Dr. Simon Ile
vesi, in which that gentleman cites
facts and figures which show that
an increasing number of Hungar•
ion Jew's are seeking baptism and
turning to the Roman Catholic
Church. Dr. Ilevesi refers to this
phenomenon as "a wave of Jewish
self-destruction." In addition to
baptism, many Jews in that coun-
try are losing contact with their
brethren through mixed marriages.
The Jewish birth-rate is also fall-
ing off, Some European Jewish
writers angrily protest against this
decline of Jewish race-vitality and
endurance. They point out that
there is at present no such inex-
orable pressure being brought to
bear upon the Hungarian Jewry as
that which was suffered by other
Jewries in other times. With the
exception of a few so-called hood-
lum outbreaks, the convenient sub-
terfuge with which East European
governments describe anti-Semitic
excesses, Hungarian Jewry is not
so badly off, if we are to credit
these protesting falters. Why then
this "defaillance?" they ask. It
seems to be forgotten already that
Hungary, less than a dozen years
ago, went through a period of un-
heaval and disillusion following the
war that came close turning what-
ever remained of that part of the
dual empire into a shamble.
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My mother learned In Boston town
From cult ure's rivulets to soft:
And so. on v clear epeech to frown.
She says, emphatically, "Ilahlr
At this my dad. Chicago-born.
Hos made it e'er his point to ch•IT:
And often. but to show hi. ncorn.
/le tells me, quite distinctly, - Had: -
And AO I stand between two fires—
You wonder how I stand the raft!
NA way is my mother'. anti mg etre'R
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For I pronounce it h•hf and he!
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Prof. Albert A. Michelson of Chicago has proven to be not only
Jack-of-all-trades, but also master of them all. Fresh upon the new ,
that he has been honored by the London Physical Society for 1930 for
his notable scientific contributions, comes the news that lie is the com-
poser of a musical composition which he has named "Grandpa',
Lullaby."
AM in receipt of an anonymous letter criticizing
I certain
gifts that have been made of late to non-
Jewish institutions. These gifts have been of such
generous proportions that the writer thinks the Jew.
ish donors have discriminated against their own
people. I cannot wholly agree. But I am convinced
of this. That our wealthy Jews should keep in mind
that unless they help their own people no one else
will. I challenge the Jews of this country to show
me where non-Jews have, with possibly two or
three exceptions, ever contributed anything worth-
while to Jewish institutions. The Jews say to me,
"Why should they?" And 1 answer, "They
shouldn't"—but, and this is very important, but
IF THE JEWS INSIST ON GIVING TIlE BULK
OF THEIR FORTUNES TO GENTILE CAUSES
AND INSTITUTIONS then where is money going to
come from for the Jewish public enterprises? I
nay thin backed by years of observation, that the
Jew must take care of his own; if he doesn't, no
one else will. I believe that our people should do
their full share toward civic enterprises, that they
should consider our institutions of learning, they
should contribute generously to such institutions
as hospitals, etc. But remember, we Jews have
told the world that we take care of our own: that
we do not need their help. And the world has
taken us at our word. So 1 say to the Jewish
philanthropists, do your full duty to your own peo-
ple first: they need you.
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GUN.RUNNING IN PALESTINE
All at once the Dreyfus affair
flares up again in Paris. Maitre
Henri Torres, the lawyer who de-
fended Chaim Schwartzbard, has
translated a German play based
upon the trial, conviction and sub-
sequent rehabilitation of the Jew-
ish artillery captain and wants to
produce it in France. Dreyfus
does not appear in the play at all,
only his defender Labori and Zola
and Clemenceau and Scheurer-
Kerstner and l'iquart. But Mait-
re Torres had figured without the
sleeping lions of the Action Fran-
caise, and the anti-Semitic league.
They are up in arms. They howl
recall the comments 1 made not so
y OU long probably
ago in thin column concerning Nissim
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From hie vantage post in Paris l'ierre
Van Puvven • one of the outstanding
newspeper correepondents in the world
and deity contributor to the column
"Through My Window" in the new York
Evening World. comments in his own
inimitable way on Jewish events and
personalities of Europe in his incisive
column "Passing My Window."
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Julius Rosenwald, chairman of the board of directors of Sears, Roe-
buck & Co., Chicago, and world-famous philanthropist, was presented
with a valuable vase as the gift of the German people in recognition of
the aid he extended to German war widows and orphans and for his
many endowments to German cultural projects. Hugo F. Simon : Ger-
man consul-general here, made the presentation at a luncheon in the
Chicago Union
porcelain
works. League Club, The vase was made in the German state
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Miss Bessie Krentzman of Milton, Fla., has been issued
a
Cross
certificate for proof-reading Braille literature. Through the Red
Braille
committee of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, Miss
Krentzman became interested in proofreading. She has been doinc
volunteer work for the Sisterhoods ever since they started a Braille
library of Jewish books.
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The 17-year-old daughter of poor Jewish parents living on the
lower East Side of New York has the distinction of being the youngest
ever
stein, to a make an operatic debut in New York. She is Rebecca Wein-
high school student, whose operatic debut in the Longacre
Theater on Sunday evening, sponsored by
her teacher, Nicola D'Amiro•
brought forth cheers and a
her enthusiastic listeners. veritable avalanche of floral offerings from
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Aroused by the conditions revealed in the recent grand jury inves-
tigations of municipal graft and corruption, independent voters of
Atlanta have organised the "1930 Club," of which Julius Boehm, a
prominent insurance manand social worker, was elected president.
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