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Sabha*, Resdinys of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 26:1-29:8.
Prophetical puttion—ls. 60.
September 12,1930
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The Election of Henry Behrendt.
Because Jews have come to look upon
the chances of any of their people for of-
fice in Wayne County as the height of im-
possibility, the nomination, which is tanta-
mount to election, of Henry Behrendt as
sheriff is an event of great importance.
With Judge Harry B. Keidan as the only
other Jew to have been successful in con-
tests for office in Wayne County, Mr. Beh-
rendt's triumph is all the more marked be-
cause Judge Keidan was an incumbent
when he was a candidate, and Mr. Behrendt
was called upon to defeat an incumbent.
Mr. Behrendt's record in public office
was an excellent recommendation to the
voters. A devoted public servant and an
able police officer for close to s generation,
Mr. Behrendt has earned the respect of the
community. His election is a deserved
tribute. We are confident that as sheriff
of Wayne County he will reflect credit on
the Jewish people.
You have our hearty congratulations,
Mr. Behrendt.
The Kashruth Scandals.
It is to the discredit of the Jewish people
that there should be public scandals over
the question of Kashruth, the observance
of the dietary laws. The airing of Kash-
ruth questions in public, non-Jewish tribun-
als in New York is a sample of the disgust-
ing business that accompanies efforts of
loyal observers on the one hand and those
who seek to capitalize on religion on the
other. Similarly shameful evidences that
not everything is always right come to us
from time to time from other cities. At
Union Pier, Mich., to quote another in-
stance, a rabbi who opposed the unioniza-
tion of kosher butchers was severely st-
acked, and had to be rushed to a Michigan
City, Ind., hospital for treatment.
In view of the existence of so-called
kosher food bills in many states in the
Union, the feuds reported from time to
time prove at least one thing: that honest
observance of the dietary laws depends
wholly upon the Jews, and that if observers
were determined that religious rules should
be observed by butchers, shochtim and
others involved they could easily accom-
plish their purpose, their buying power be-
ing the most powerful weapon.
The Michigan State Legislature in May,
1927, adopted a measure known as "House
Bill No. 359, File No. 226, aimed at pro-
tecting the consumer of kosher meats. We
quote the adopted measure:
A bill to provide a penalty for fraudulently
selling or offering for sale meats and meat
products as "kosher."
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any per-
son with intent to misrepresent or defraud to
tell, offer for sale, or expose for sale as
"kosher" any meat or meat preparation which
is not such in fact. The word "kosher" as
herein used shall mean in conformity with
Orthodox Jewish religious requirements.
Sec. 2. No person operating any kosher
meat market or kosher delicatessen store shall
sell or offer for sale, or keep for sale in the
regular course of his business any non-kosher
meat or meat products unless he shall together
with his window sign or other sign, display a
sign at least four inches in height, the words
"Non-kosher meat sold here."
Sec. 3. Any person who shall violate any
provision of this act shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor and shall be punished for each
offense by a fine of not to exceed five hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed four
months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Other states have similar laws, but who
will say that they are observed?
Following up our argument, we main-
tain that neither this nor any other measure
will protect the kosher meat consumer un-
less such consumer is interested enough to
know the rules and regulations involved
and to be ready to hack up the efforts of
rabbis and laymen who are sincerely de-
voted to the cause of kashruth observance.
Otherwise such laws are of no value. The
feuds in many cities in the country prove
it. They are a challenge to the Jew to
realize that religious laws are not observed
under the weight of a police officer's night
stick. On the contrary, when religious
observance requires the state's defense, its
sanctity is weakened. True observance
must be fortified by determination on the
part of observers that such sanctity should
not be abused. Let every city's needs lie
governed by a Vsad Hakashruth, a board
organized to guard the rules of Kashruth,
and let such boards be manned by the
rabbis and the sincerest laymen in the com-
munity, and a co-operative community will
find that it is Vssible for it to dictate relig-
ious honesty wilhout the aid of the state,
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Again—Wohin?
To A. Beszkind, the governor of Car-
patho-Russia, which was formerly a part
of Hungary and is now a part of Czecho-
Slovakia, it attributed a statement that the
solution to the economic difficulties of the
Jews of his province will come through emi-
gration to other lands. The newspaper
Kelet Ujsag, published in the Czecho-Slo-
vakian town of Ushorod, quotes M. Besz-
kind as saying that he "views with real
anxiety the critical situation of the Jews in
Carpatho-Russia because the rate of Jew-
ish increase is comparatively high while the
opportunities for earning a living are de-
creasing. The Jews arc being deprived of
their opportunity to earn their daily bread
because the non-Jewish inhabitants are cre-
ating their own trading organizations.
There is no way out except for a part of
the Jews to emigrate to other countries."
This is an old story applied to a new
country. It is all we hear now : that the
solution for the Jew is to emigrate. We
have had this solution offered the Jews of
Poland and Rumania. It has been suggest-
ed to the Jews of Russia. But we are yet
to hear of a big-hearted and human pro-
posal, offering to Jews who must emigrate
an avenue of entrance to other lands. In-
stead it seems to work the other way. For
every land which the Jew is suggested to
leave as a means of solving his economic
problem, another land closes its doors to
Jewish immigration, Everywhere the Jew
is told to leave; not even Palestine is open
for unrestricted Jewish settlement,
The news from Carpatho-Russia contains
an even sadder commentary, stating that
the economic difficulties are aggravated by
lack of citizenship for the Jews in that
province, most of whom are war refugees
who came there in 1915 and who have been
deprived of citizenship as a result of the
World War's map-shifting.
Thus the Jewish wanderer's cry reverb-
erates:
"Wohin?"
The Internationalism of Anti-Semitism.
Gleaning the news of the day we find
an interoting variety of anti-Semitic activ-
ity throughout the world. The world's
leading powers are not exempt from the
stigma of hatred against the Jew, and the
tactics of their bigots, although they vary
in method, are alike in their venomous dis-
play of
Thus, in Germany, a strong wave of
anti-Semitism is manifested on the eve of
the general elections, and Dr. Bruno Weil,
vice-president of the Central Association of
German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, can-
didate for the Reichstag on the ticket of
the newly-organized Constitutional Party,
compares the present wave of hatred with
that of the '80s of the last century.
In Austria, Jews were compelled to leave
summer resorts on account of a virulent
display of prejudice. This exodus from the
resorts is reported to have been accom-
plished in some sections by minor disturb-
ances, and in Poellau, the Styrian health
resort, anti-Semitic songs echoed and the
work of rowdies was visible, There is one
consolation in the Austrian episodes: the
summer resort proprietors are marking a
retreat from their former policies of hound-
ing the Jewish patrons because they find
themselves the biggest losers from the
propaganda and handiwork of the anti-
Semites. It is now believed that as a re-
sult of a boycott instituted by Jews against
those who would close their doors to them,
resort proprietors who followed the bid-
ding of Jew-haters may soon make an
about-face and extend a cordial invitation
for the patronage of those who were until
now excluded.
There is a contrasting spirit on this con-
tinent. In Banff, Canada, the newly-elected
premier, the lion. H. It. Bennett, told an
interviewer: "When we hear how other
countries are torn by anti-Semitic revolts
and anti-Jewish strife, we, in Canada, can-
not understand it. We do not know what
anti-Jewish feeling means. This is a coun-
try where people of all races, 'Jews and
Gentiles, Greeks and Barbarians, bond and
free,' are working together to develop our
common country. We have no time to waste
on internecine strife." This is an interest-
ing statement, to say the least about it, and
Jews will be thankful to Canada's new
premier for his noble sentiments.
In spite of the nobility of exceptions of
the type just quoted, even such good
friends as Premier Bennett will admit that
hatred is not so easily removed from the
hearts of men. Even on this free continent
bigotry has embedded itself in human
minds and hearts. Like love, hatred is an
international force. And wherever there
are Jews one will find evidences of anti-
Semitic hatred.
The Jewish Legionnaires who fought
with the British for the redemption of Pal-
estine are about to conduct a drive for the
settlement of 250 families of their comrades
in the Land of Israel. It is the duty of the
Jewish people to colonize the Legionnaires
on the soil for which many in their ranks
shed their blood and many more risked
their lives.
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Scanning the
Horizon
By DAVID
a.
It's all in the point of view, as
a recent dinner of a certain Jew-
ishorganization demonstrated.
The speaker had dilated for
half an hour. As he concluded
one of those present remarked:
"Ile's all right, but he doesn't put
enough fire in his speech."
"You mean," said the second,
"that he didn't put enough of his
speech in the fire."
MR. SHAW MAKES A REQUEST
It is really a little cruel on Ar-
thur Caesar, for personally I don't
think his physiognomy is at all un-
pleasing, and even if it were, the
talents of the author of "Napo-
leon's Barber" are of such a na-
ture as to more than compensate
for mere superficial handsomeness.
Anyway, thy story goes that fol-
lowing his great success, Caesar
decided to visit Bernard Shaw.
And he did. And no what was?
as Milt Gross would say? Well,
this was:
The great Irish wit took a look
at Caesar and said: "Would you
mild runn'ng around the garden
for a couple of hours, so I can get
used to your face?"
WHEN NEW YORK HAD A JEW-
ISH POLICE CHIEF
We Jews are noikinrr proareso.
We even turn out pretty good po-
licemen these days. There are no
less than 300 bluecoats of the Jew-
ish persuasion on the New York
police force.
But it is not generally known
that New York once actually had
police commissioner—a Jewish
Grover Whalen. And from all ap-
pearances, he was the real article.
It appears that he made it so hot
for the criminal element that that
wicked group hailed the day when
he put off the toga of his office.
The Jewish police commissioner,
who held office in 1840, was Jacob
Hays, a member of the Jewish
family of Revolutionary days,
from which the Solis-Cohens of
Philad phis, Daniel P. Hays and
other the aristocrats of Ameri-
ca
ewry are descendants. I am
indebted to Dr. Bloch of the New
York Public Library for a little
rhyme, current in the days of
Chief Hays, which gives some idea
of the impression he made.
OLD HAYS! OLD HAYS!
Here it is:
Old Ilays, Old Hays, that name of
fear,
Rogues tremble at the sound.
From north to south, from east to
west
His fame extends around.
Pickpockets, thieves and gamblers
all
Pursue their wicked ways,
Nor God nor Satan do they fear,
But oh, they do Old Hays.
An incidentally, a painting of
Commissioner Hays hangs in the
office of Mayor Walker.
CONGRATULATIONS TO AN-
OTHER MR. SCHWARTZ
I see by the papers that up
Wyoming way, Harry W. Schwartz
has received the Democratic mind.
nation for United States senator.
Having the last name of Schwartz,
the candidate must be a capital
one. It appears, however, that
this Schwartz is a bigger boy than
I am—in fact, he's not a Jew at
all. I'm sorry. It's time we had
a Jew in the United States Senate.
Back in the days prior to the
Civil War, we had Benjamin of
Louisiana and Yulee of Florida in
the upper house. And after the
war, we have had a few men like
Rayner of Maryland. But now
that our numbers have so vastly
increased, we seem to be unable to
get as much as one Jew in the
Senate. By the law of averages,
we should have about four Jews
in the Senate. And yet we have
nary a one. Is there something
wrong with us?
Of course, I would naturally be
disposed to favor any man by t' , e
name of Schwartz, but even if his
name were Cohen, or Goldbere, I
would still say aye. And I do this,
not because I am clannish and
would support a Jew merely be-
cause he is a co-religionist, but be-
cause it seems to me that there
must be something wrong some-
where, when four million people of
any stork one.twenty-fifth of the
population of the United States
haven's as much as one man in our
leading legislative body.
IT'S LIKE CASH
I
can't recall the source, but at
any rate the story goes that re-
cently a Bronx merchant was ap-
proached by a jobbing salesman.
"I can't buy the goods." said
thr merchant, "unless you give me
four months' time to pay the bill."
"Oh, that's all right," replied
the jobber's representative. "Now.
adays, four months' time is like
cash."
A MAN WITH AN IDEA
Nevertheless, there are some
people even making money in these
trying times. There is Isaac J.
Sherman, for instance. Maybe
you've never heard of him, but
with little money to begin with, he
now does business in millions. Ile
just had an idea. And ideas are
wonderful things sometimes.
Sherman's idea was very sim-
ple. He knows that a great many
of the big corporations will do
business with Soviet Russia only
on a cash basis. But Sherman
believed that there were many peo-
ple of means who had faith in So-
viet I. 0. U's. Ile put two and two
together.
Let us say the U. S. Steel sells
Russia $5,000,000 of its products.
The Soviet gives a note for the
money. But U. S. Steel won't ac-
cept that note. Sherman takes that
note to people with money. Thee
accept it. Of course, they as well
as Sherman are well paid by the
American corporation for assum-
ing the responsibility. And yet
the responsibility in the last anal-
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I READ somewhere the other day where the teach-
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ers in the Religious School of a New York syna-
gogue had not been paid for a long time because
of lack of funds. It was suggested that the mem-
bers of the board discount a note for the compara-
tively small sum required when one of the number,
a Wiry wealthy men, refused with the statement:
"let them starve." The writer responsible for the
telling of the incident says that he knows whereof
he speaks because he knows the man. Sometimes, I
wonder what connection there is between synagogue
or church attendance and religion. I have known
officers of congregations who would worship forms
and ceremonise but who were irreligious. I shall
be challenged by some readers who will insist that
because one man isn't any good I shouldn't con-
demn everybody. Right. But there are so many
affiliated with congregations who are a disgrace to
their religion that one is inclined to be pessimistic.
When one hears of ncidents such as we quote it's
enough to make rabbis despair.
I
GET some queer letters from Chicago. Some
day I'll have to go out there and look that town
over. It's where they teach the Young Idea how
to shoot, The mail brought me another freak
communication from Chicago the other day that at
first I was going to throw it away but on second
reading there seemed to be a humorous "bit" or
two that I thought might interest my readers. The
writer names his contributions "Goat Grabbers in
Chicago," presumably these things get his goat or
somebody else's goat. Under "Reform Jews" he
writes: "Not counted as Jews—of course, it's all
tight to take their money!" Now, here's one on
t'e other side: "Zionists can't understand that
their fanatical Zionism will make more stringent
immigration laws. A political Zionist is an alien
and a traitor to the U. S. A."
It's interesting to know the large number of folk
who will invest time and thought in writing strange
letters. It's almost unbelievable the character of
communications that reach me. There is a re-
ligious-fanatic living in Richmond, Ky., who sends
me every few weeks Biblical quotations which have
been specially printed, in the hope that it will
influence me toward a more favorable consideration
of Christianity.
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HE wisdom of Julius Rosenwald in specifying
that his gifts shall be used for the good of the
present generation, and for those needs that we
know of is every once in a while justified by the
revealing of a fund left generations ago for pur-
poses which are no longer present. The latest one
that is brought to our attention is a trust fund
which was left a great many years ago by a mayor
of St. Louis, "to help gold seekers on their trek
across the plains in the event of their meeting mis-
fortune." This fund has grown to a million dol-
lars. But there are no more covered wagons,
except those we see in the movies. So now the
heirs are suing for the money. A newspaper com-
menting on this says: "Julius Rosenwald contends
that good will will not die with this generation, and
sees no reason why men today should seek to pro-
vide for generations yet unborn, and whose needs
no one living today can imagine."
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OME time ago we had occasion to comment on a
statement made by John E. Edgerton, president
of the National Manufacturers' Association, to the
effect that "We (meaning his own textile mills)
have made it almost impossible for anyone but a
Christian to get the job." But seems that I over-
looked something even more enlightening and
enobling. A marked copy of the Nation comes to
me quoting another gem of Mr. Edgerton's. He is
talking to the conference of the Methodist Federa-
tion of Social Service:
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There is too much talk (says Mr. Edgerton)
about labor's rights, a living wage, social jus-
tice and the like. It is a bad thing to set aside
Labor Day because it creates class feeling and
impedes the true spirit of brotherhood and so
contrary to the teachings of Jesus.
In Mr. Edgerton's factory the Nation says the
employees get their money on Saturday night "in
what they piously call their 'pray' envelopes." It
seems to me that there are a lot of other jobs a
man of Mr. Edgerton's type could fill more suc-
cessfully than that of president of the National
Manufacturers' Association,
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JELL, well, well. At last! After warding off
Zionist attacks for 25 years I find none other
than Weizmann himself talking my language!
Listen to him, you extreme Zionists! "We cannot
drive the Arabs out of Palestine. Two nations must
exist in Palestine." Also read this: "While we
have spoken sharply to the government England
also has had to deal with the Moslem world in
India." Ard what to you think of this! "The aim
of Zionism is not a Jewish suite but the creation of
the material foundation for an autonomous and
productive Jewish unit. Why should we debate
about a Jewish state or a national home? Let us
better draw on a program for the colonization of
40,000 families in Palestine within the next 10
years." Now, unless Dr. Weizmann is using weasel
words where one sucks the meaning from the other,
I maintain that he has struck the keynote of a very
much modified Zionist program.
what the Commonweal, the foremost of
H ERE'S
all Catholic weeklies, has to say editorially on
the subject fo Palestine:
The month just concluded was the anniver-
sary of the riots and massacres in Palestine. A
hasty mental review of what has been done in
the interval to pacify and normalize that dis-
puted land does not carry much encourage-
ment. Though the Jews of the world have
united with characteristic generosity in raising
an emergency relief fund, the differences of
opinion within their body as to the scope and
feasibility of Zionism have been sharpened.
Meanwhile, several commissions have con-
ducted lengthy investigations into the causes
of the controversy between Arabs and Jews,
and have failed, despite their varied and com-
plex findings, known and conjectured to re-
move the impasse, or to change the pattern of
fact in the mind of the informed observer.
There is, in Palestine, a clash not only of re-
ligion but of economic philosophies, and the
bitterness on each side is aggravated by a genu-
ine sense of injustice. The majority. retain-
ing for the most part the primitive simplicity
and uninstructed conservatism of a pastoral
and nomadic people, claim the right of a ma-
jority to keep their land and civilization un-
changed. They resent correspondingly not
merely the defiant "artificial" nationalism of
some of the extreme Zionists, but the whole
idea behind the, Balfour Declaration, of ensur-
ing prerogatives and protection to a progres-
sive, irdustrialized minority. The Jews for
their part, point to the labors, the talents and
the vast sums which, thus encouraged, they
have expended.
Thst is an admirable summing up of the entire
situation from an outside source.
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Q.9.
German Jewry and the German
Election
By DR. BRUNO WEIL
EDITOR'S NOTE:—The German gen•
ecal election which take. place Septem-
ber 11 I, fraught with the greaten[
n iflcance for the fate of the Germ. Re-
public, and e ven
more go for German
Jewry. The lac k of orien t•t ion in wide
electoral erelee makes it likely that the
fanatic ant
i-Semit
i National Socialists
ic
w ill
in many 'wait in the Reichstag
and may, together with the other Right
pa rt iei control the next Gernmn uovern•
nt. What all this means for German
Jewry is discussed in great detail by Dr.
Weil. • Reichktag candidate of the n
Constitutional Party : tier-president of
the Central Association of German Cit.
im-ns of the Jewish Faith and the man
who revealed the German side of the
Dreyfus ,Hair.
f.
only one-third of the population
The Center has of yore had a car
lain constituency of Jewish voters
particularly in the Rhineland am
to an extent in Silesia. However,
it is obvious that it cannot be the
political home of the great major
ity og German Jews, due to its
outspoken Catholic political organ-
ization. As a result of this Ger.
man Jews, except such as those who
vote for the Labor Parties due to
so-called class consciousness, hav e
since their emancipation found
their political representation most-
ly in the civil, liberal and demo-
cratic parties.
The Reichstag elections of 1930
The Young German Order,
are marked by an anti-Semitism
that has become unusually tierce.
When after the Revolution of
The interest of the Jews in the out-
1918 the parties changed their hith•
come of these elections must there-
fore be considerably greater than erto existing names. the old Na-
tional
Liberal became the German
ordinarily. In a certain respect the
l'eople's Party and the former Lib-
present anti-Semitic period may be
eral
Party
became the Democratic
considered parallel to the situa-
tion prevailing in the 80's, though Party. Precisely in the latter
many
outstanding
Jews, such as
it seems that this time a consider-
Walther Itathemiu, Preuss, (the
ably larger part of the German
author
of
the
present
German Con-
people is affected by it. The lost
war and the very stringent eco- stitution), Theodor Wulff, Georg
nomic situation precisely in recent Bernhard and the late Ludwig
Haas, have since its formation
times are the underlying causes of
modern anti-Semitism that are ex- played leading parts. This party
has
during the last few years de-
ploited partly by sentiment and
partly by reason. The reasons that clined considerably. It was in dan-
ger
of
being crushed between the
are given for it depart from those
of the 80's as they do altogether purely economic parties such as
from those of pre-war times. At the Social Democrats, the Commu-
that time anti-Semitism sought to nists, the Economic l'arty and the
justify itself on ethical, moral and parties of the Right directed along
even religious grounds, but today agricultural lines, on the one hand,
it is directed along an ethical and and the Confessional l'arty of the
racial line. In this realm there un- Center on the other hand. For this
fortunately exist at the present reason the leaders of the Democrats
time very mystical and romantic decided upon the diss 'lotion of this
ideas that are utterly devoid of any party and formed a new party, the
scientific foundation. In particu- German Constitutional l'arty, in
lar the National Socialist Doctrine, conjunction with the People's Na-
which represents the most danger- tional Union, a number of youth-
ous opponent of German Jewry, ful People's Party-ites and Chris-
seeks to divide Germany so to speak tian Unionists. This formation at
racially and to prove the superior- first caused considerable apprehen-
ity of the Nordic race no called by sion among the Jews of Germany,
them. This race is not identical particularly because the most im-
either to the Aryan or to the Ger- portant part of this new party af-
manic races and rather by this ter the Democrats consisted of the
most modern doctrine, which is rep. People's National Union, which in
resented in particular by the anti- the main is in personal union with
Semitic race-researcher Dr. Gun- the Young German Order, in the
ther appointed to the Thuringia by-laws of which there is a pro-
University by the National So- vision that only German-blooded
cialist Minister Frick, also the in- or Aryan people shall be admitted
habitants of Germany, disregard- into it. This Young German or-
ing the Jews entirely, are classified der, as is the case with the major-
into at least five different blood ity of federative organizations of
strains, of which only a small part this kind in Germany, springs di-
rectly from anti-Semitism, but it
is reckoned among the Nordic
race, which is supposed to be the has developed along another line
than
that, for example, of the Na-
very highest and superior to all
other races. It is natural that the tional Socialists. The Young Ger-
idea of belonging to a community man Order has also gradually come
racially superior flatters the in- to recognize the Republic as the
stinct of the great mass, and the form of the State and its symbol.
indisputable increase in the ranks Likewise its leaders assert that it
it no wentirely free from anti-
of the National Socialists can to a
Semitic prejudices. However, it
very great extent be ascribed to the
must be observed that the new
delusion of their race doctrine.
State
or Constitutional Party has
Up to now the liberal and demo-
cratic elements of German citizen. been formed not with the Young
German
Order but rather with the
ry have kept entirely aloof from
People's National Union which has
such manner of thought, these ele-
sprung
from
it.
ments having found their parlia-
As was explained to me, in a
mentary representation in the Ger-
man People's Party, in the case of lengthy conversation held by Mr.
Mahraun, the grand master of this
the former, and in the Democratic
l'arty, in the case of the latter, and order, who at the some time is the
the same applies as regards the extra-parliamentary chairman of
Center and both Labor Parties, the new Constitutional Party, the
namely the Social Democrats and number of adherents to his union
the Communists. Unfortunately, is at present just as large as the
however, the German People's number of registered members of
l'arty has during recent times de- the National Socialist Labor Party.
Mr. Mahraun has set forth in an
parted to a very great way from
its liberal tradition, by getting in- article the position taken in his
to the same ministry in Thuringia program with respect to the appre-
with the State-hating National So- hensions mainfested repeatedly in
cialist Minister Frick, against Jewish quarters concerning the
whom the Reich Government has anti-Semitism of his order. There
conducted a successful fight be- he also gave expression to his de-
fore the Supreme Court of the nial of anti-Semitism.
Reich, particularly on account of
Mr. Mahraun, to whom I set all
his anti-Semitic prayers of hate. this forth thoroughly, makes per.
The People's Party has also been sonally an excellent, frank and hon.
ready to make the some experi- est impression, and he is a man
ment of a common government with who is ready to recognize the dif.
the National Socialists, and the ficulties of the questions raised by
project has been frustrated only anti-Semitism. However, what in
by the resistance of the Democrats my opinion must be decisive for
and the People's National Union. the Jewish voters is the fact that
he in an absolutely candid way em-
Labor and Catholic Parties.
The labor parties with respect to phasizes the great danger that
religious matters are either very threatens the German people by
radical, as the case with the Com- the radicalism of the National So-
monists, or else rather indifferent, cialists, and that he is willing to
as in the case of the Social Demo. be a decided and worthy fighter
crats, and the existing represents- against this party. It would be
fives of Jewish descent in both par- wrong, in my opinion, were the
ties are wont to call themselves German Jews to withdraw their
either undenominationals or dis- support of the Constitutional Par-
sidents, they manifesting interest ty in advance. There would then
in general in the specific question hardly remain for Jewish citizens
of the control or combatting of an- a political home altogether, and
ti-Semitism only so for as their the switch over to the Social Demo-
general Party principles are con- erotic l'arty is something that is
cerned but not an it affects the impossible for many of them.
particular claims of German Jewry. Therefore the attempt should be
h e n, w
a at (least i to t work
0 . o n rakl tgry
etth ew r i to h n
The Center is an out-and-out made
Catholic l'arty, which has always all people of good will, in order to
felt itself as such and which in the impart first of all knowledge and
matter of program and practice has understanding of German Jews al-
represented the spirit of tolerance together. I am convinced person-
and always will represent it in view ally that they are ready to drop all
in the fact that the Catholics in prejudices if they are shown that
Germany are in the minority and
number among its constituency
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Dr. Leo Wolman, member of the experts' commission which was
sent to Palestine prior to formation of the Jewish Agency, and econo-
mist for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, has been
appointed by President Hoover to his Unemployment Statistical Com-
mission. The commission is scheduled to meet in Washington, Oct. 6.
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David ltkin associated with the Ilabimah Theatrical Troupe in Mos-
cow and with it on its American tour, who has been located in Chicago
for the past two years, has been appointed dramatic director of DePaul
University, a Catholic University in Chicago.
Paul Block, owner of a chain of newspapers in five states, has added
another link to his chain with purchase of the Toledo Times. He
already owns the Toledo Blade. Other papers of which Mr. Block is
the publisher are the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Newark Star-Eagle,
the Duluth Herald, the Memphis News-Scimitar and the Lancaster (Pa.)
News Era,
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The photographing in natural colors of the relic. found, together
with the body of Salomon August Andree, Swedish balloon explorer,
whose death with two companions on White Island, Spitzbergen, in
1897 in an attempt to fly across the North Pole has just been revealed,
has been entrusted to the Jewish professor of the University of Vienna,
M. Stern. Professor Stern is on his way to Tromsoe, Norway, to meet
the ship carrying the bodies of the explorers.
Eddie Cantor's new book, "Between the Acts," is rumored a com-
plete wash-out.
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