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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 29:9-31-30.
Prophetical portion—Is. 61;10-63.
Readings of Torah on First Day of Rosh H••honah,
Tuesday, Sept. 23.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21; Nuts.
Prophetical portions—I. Sam. 1:1-2:10.
Reading of Torah on Second Day of Rosh
Hashonah, Wednesday, Sept. 24.
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 22; Num. 29:1-6.
Prophetical portion—Jet. 31:2-20,
September 19, 1930
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A Happy New Year!
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rael's existence, no Jew dare rest in peace.
The new year will be a happy one only if
the means will be found to liberate the
trapped masses of our people from the
dungeons in which they are now caged,
A Major Problem: Education.
Perhaps the most encouraging evidence
that Israel's vitality can not be exhausted
by pogroms, oppressions and economic de-
pressions is that our teachers and laymen
of learning are ignoring the tragedies of the
past years and are inaugurating the New
Year 5691 with the traditional liebrew Ed-
ucation Month. It is equivalent to a chal-
lenge to anything that may stand in the way
of learning, and the men who are striving
to uphold the holy tradition of scholarship
and Torah thereby defy whatever else may
threaten to undermine the existence of the
Jewish people.
The time is within the memory of most of
us when the Lamden, the scholar, was the
ideal type of Jew. The average father
wanted him for his son-in-law. Social
standing in the community was measured
by the amount of the individual's knowl-
edge. Even business partnerships were in
many cases based on the amount of learn-
ing possessed by both parties. There was
no more terrible opprobrium than to be
called an Am lla-Aretz, an ignoramus.
And today? Who will deny that the Am
Ila-Aretz rules? Who will challenge the
statement that man's intelligence is now
measured by the size of the pocketbook?
It is a painful thing to admit, yet it is a fact:
The dreaded Am Ha-Aretz is threatening
to replace the esteemed Lamden,
Hebrew Education Month steps in to
save Jewry from this deplorable situation.
It calls upon Jews to educate the youth, to
send the boys anti girls to the Talmud Tor-
ahs so that they may be trained to become
Lamdanim instead of Am Ha-Aratzim. If
Education Month does nothing else it
should at least open the eyes of our people
to the deplorable conditions that rule Jew-
ish life, And every year Education Month
should mark the renewal of an unending
campaign for the enrollment of as many
boys and girls as possible in the United He-
brew Schools so that as few as possible be
stamped with the stigma Am Ila-Aretz,
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Scanning the
Horizon
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
lienjamin Franklin as a youth in
Boston once shocked his parents
by suggesting that time could be
saved if, instead of saying grace
before each dish of sauerkraut, his
father would simply recite the
prayer before the whole barrel.
It occurs to me that something
of the same idea could be applied
to other fields. There is this matter
of reading newspapers. Far be it
from me as a veteran of the fourth
estate to say ought in disparage-
ment of newspapers. Indeed, what
I um going to suggest is simply
an extension of something that has
already taken place, in homeo-
pathic form, in the making of news-
papers.
If you live In any of the big
cities, nowadays, you do not of
course wait until Monday morning
to get your Monday newspaper.
You buy it on Sunday evening.
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Charles H. Joseph
A on statements purported to have been made by
Mr. J. E. Edgerton, president of the National Asso-
ciation of Manufacturers and himself head of one
of the large textile mills in the South. My atten-
tion was directed to this one in particular: "We
have made it almost impossible for any one but a
Christian to get a job." In commenting on this I
was careful to explain that inasmuch as there is a
double meaning gto this, Mr. Edgerton may not have
had in mind "Christian" in its narrower sectarian
sense, but rather using the word with its broader
implication such as "Christian charity" or "Chris-
tian citizenship," which is common usage by many
churchmen who include in such classifications non-
Jews. In view of the outstanding position Mr. Ed-
gerton occupies I felt that such an attitude if inter-
preted in its limited meaning was proper subject
for criticism. A clipping bureau sent Mr. Edgerton
copies of this comment from the Jewish Ledger,
Rochester, N. Y., and the Jewish Times of Balti-
more, which explains why his letter is addressed to
the editors of those two papers rather than to me.
All the space used for Mr. Edgerton's communica-
tion in this issue is justified and I ask the reader to
peruse it carefully and make his own comments, as
I shall not review any of his statements at this time:
I have received through the clipping service
employed by me, identical clippings from the
Aug. 8th issue of the Jewish Times and the
Jewish Ledger. These clippings quote from the
July 21 issue of Time, which magazine had in
turn quoted from the socialist organ, The Na-
tion, what it represented to be sonic of the
things I said in my address before the Metho-
dist Federation for Social Service in session
at Evanston, Ill., on June 17.
The caption of the article in Time was
"Prayer in Industry." The article in The Na-
tion, from which it quoted, was entitled "Work
and Pray." Many papers have editorialized on
what I seas reported to have said on that oc-
casion. Certainly I haven't the time nor dis-
position to write to all of the papers which
have misrepresented me, for I can see no good
that could be thereby accomplished. For as a
rule publications which either intentionally or
unintentionally misquote or otherwise do in-
justices, are not prone to publish corrections
of their wrong-doing, and if they do, they pub-
lish them inconspicuously. That is one of the
ways in which the public has to suffer from
the freedom of the press in order not to sacri-
fice a great principle. I have therefore recon-
ciled myself to the paying of my individual
part of the price for the maintenance of this
sacred principle of freedom.
I am taking occasion to write only to the
two papers above addressed, because they rep-
resent a different religious faith from that to
which I hold, and I ant unwilling to have them
remain under a misimpression of what I actu-
ally said, and to which they take exception. At
least half of what The Nation quoted me as
saying I (lid not say at all. The other half
was so distorted and presented as to pervert
entirely my meaning, and wholly misrepre-
sented the spirit in which I spoke. What good
was hoped to be accomplished by such exercise
of the freedom of the press I cannot imagine.
Apparently the only purpose was to excite the
passions of hate and prejudice and intolerance
among the ignorant, and those of their various
constituents who did not have access to the
truth. I should say, however, that Time was
fair enough tie publish sonic of the things I
said, which helped to explain others. But most
of the papers which found profitable use to
themselves for some of the things which they
merely hoped that I said, published only those
parts of my address which could be most easily
distorted for their purposes.
I absolutely did not say in my address that
"I am proud to say that the morning prayer
exercise in my factory has had the finest eco-
nomic effect," nor "that we have made it
almost impossible for anyone but a Christian to
get a job," I was trying to impress my audi-
ence with the fact that religion in industry is
practicable and desirable, not only as a force
for the preservation of harmonious, brotherly
relations between employers and employees,
but that it could be applied without violence
to economic law. I went at length into a de-
scription of our chapel exercises, which we
inaugurated many years ago. I told of how
eagerly the employees received the suggestion,
and how they thought the years had themselves
maintained these exercises, and which had
helped so much to generate an atmosphere of
freindship, loyalty, good cheer and happiness
in our plant, I did take occasion to say inci-
dentally that one of the effects was an in-
creased production, which I have always held
would result from harmonious relations. I
explained very thoroughly that our plant is
located in a community that is 100 per cent
Anglo-Saxon in its blood. It is largely an
agricultural community, and every employee
of our mills, except two or three, is a native of
the community. We have never made any
drafts for labor upon any other community
because our supply of native labor is sufficient.
There is not a labor union within 30 miles of
our plant, and if there is a union member in
the entire community I do not know who he
is. So far as we know we have never had an
application for work from any member of
a
labor union, nor have our employees ever indi-
cated a desire for n labor union. Our rela-
tions have always been peaceful and happy,
and a spirit of friedship prevails throughout.
We are all of one religious faith, and that is
the Christian faith. There is only one Jew in
our community, and he is a highly respected
merchant. We have never had any opportunity
to discriminate between Jews and Gentiles, or
even between labor unions and others. We use
the term "Christians" in its broadest sense, as
a rule, referring most particularly to the prin-
ciples of conduct embodied in and practiced
by Jesus Christ as recorded in the Scriptures.
I further explained that about 60 per cent
of our employees were active Christians, and
that they were always intensely anxious to have
every employee become a Christian, so as to
keep the atmosphere of our plant clear of
inharmony. I stated that on this account it
was very uncomfortable for anyone except a
Christian to hold a job in our plant.
Now any 12-year-old child of normal mind
could have and would have understood, not
only what I said, but what I meant. One of the
reasons that most people of average intelli-
gence in our country condemns socialism is
that such organs as The Nation is capable of
seeing through only one eye, and that one is
partially blinded by the cataract of cynicism.
Socialism uses the
medium of religion for its
propaganda purposes, and then stabs it when-
ever it can do so.
The very Christ whom I worship was a Jew,
and that fact alone would be quite sufficient to
sustain my interest in the race, and my desire
to be fair in all of my judgments of and atti-
tudes toward them. Having been a hard
worker all my life, there is no class on earth
in whose welfare I am more interested than
those who toil. Then for some editor of a
paper, or other person who probably does not
know the meaning of real work, to take ad-
vantage of the freedom of the press for the
purpose of cynical misrepresentation of me as
did the writer of that article in The Nation
stirs my contempt beyond human impression.
I am sorry that the Times and the Ledger
fell victims to such an influence, and accepted
without verification the statements from The
Nation as quoted in Time. Because I am
sorry that you did so I have thus written you
the truth for whatever it may be worth.
Very truly yours,
.;•
By JEAN JAFFE
EDITOR'S NOTE: Rdsh liashonah, Part
of the - terrible days" mill devoted to
solemnity and meditation, are rot the same
time to the Jew sidnilic•nt of new life
mid hopefulness. It hi the tweasion for
remembering our great men, •nd It is the
oceagion for taking account of ourselves.
When the cooled sun begins to
shed a softened light turning the
vivid greed into a pale yellow;
when the sharp, resounding throb
of the living is hushed into quies-
cent mood; when nature is bidding,
the elements to help it prepare for
a prolonged rest and slumber,
conies Rosh Ilas'nonah, the Jewish
New Year.
It is the fall of the year; it pre-
sages cloudy skies and long nights;
it brings meditation and sombre-
ness; it breeds reflection and
thought. How different these
premises are from those surround-
ing the New Year of other peoples.
Theirs conies with the brisk sea-
son of the year and is ushered in
by blatant fanfare and joviality.
How interesting it is that whereas
the universal greeting for the oc-
casion is the glib, euphonious
phrase "A Happy New Year," the
Jewish greeting is "L'Shono Tovo
Tikosevu" (May You He Inscribed
in the Book of Life for a Good
Year), a most portentious and
weighty message.
For Rosh Hashonah, while it is
part of the "Yomim Nerom"
(Terrible Days) period, while it
marks the beginning of the revival
season among the Jews and while
it is known as the greatest national
occasion, it also bears signal sig-
nificance to the individual Jew.
For it is the time of "Cheshboh
Ilanefesh," the searching of the
soul, the reviewing of the past,
and what is still of equal import,
the striking of a moral balance.
Rosh Hashonah is the day on which
is
the Jew takes account of himself
and submits it to his Creator.
Spirit of Rosh Hashonah.
The entire spirit of Rosh Ila-
shonah is permeated with solem-
nity and reverence. Whether we
find ourselves in an old ghetto in
Lithuania or amidst the renowned
life forces in the Holy Land:
whether we roam the streets of
the East Side, or visit the sumptu-
ous Temple Emanuel, the orninou,
sound of the Shofar Iram's horn)
will reach is and send through our
being a poignant feeling of strong,
indissoluble bonds with our peo-
ple, and communion with the great
spirits that forever linger in our
national life and memory, as well
as our own past events. Thus the
first (lay of Rosh Ilashonah is
known as "Yom Trush"--when the
Shofar strikes the signal for every
Jew to make a record of what he
has done and what he has failed to
do in the past year, and present it
to his Creator. The second day,
which originated in post-Biblical
times, is known as Yom Hazziko.
ron, Memorial Day, wherein w e
pay homage to our great forbears.
As a matter of fact a very large
portion of the prayers on both
Rosh Hashonah dwell on the mar-
tyrs and martyrdom the Jews have
known throughout their history.
Even the scriptural lesson for the
occasion is furnished by the chap-
ter of Abraham and Isaac, with
emphasis on the Patriarch's piety
and martyrdom.
Yet in spite of the fact that
Rosh Hashonah is designated as
the "Day of Judgment" and evokes
in the Jew all the austerity in his
being, it is interesting that this
very day, or these very days, for
there are really two, are in the .--
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Brandeis and Holmes Compared
Owen Wister, in His "Roosevelt," Says An Impassable
Gulf Exists Between Them, and Points to Differ.
ing Ideals of the Supreme Court Justices,
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
An impassable gulf exists b•-
ween the fundamental processes
of Supreme Court Justices Holmes
and Brandeis.
This is the view of Owen Wis-
ter, expressed in his story of his
friendship with Roosevelt. It is
an incidental part of his book and
We select it from his "Roosevelt,
the Story of a Friendship (1880-
19191" (published by the Mac-
millan Co., $4), because of the in-
terest that it must have for the
average Jewish reader.
Mr. Wister's story is a great
tribute to a devoted friendship,
and out of it emerges a giant and
noble Roosevelt. The late presi-
dent is portrayed by a sincere ad-
mirer and defender. He emerges
from Mr. Wister's volume as one
of the greatest and ablest figures
in modern history.
Brandeis and Holmes.
Mr. Wister takes his readers on
many intimate rendezvouz with
President Roosevelt, and very nat-
urally introduces them to his cir-
cle of friends at the White House.
Among the friends of Roosevelt
described in this volume is Justice
Holmes, and a considerable por-
tion of the Holmes description con-
sista of an exceedingly interesting
contrast with Justice Brandeis,
who, by concurring with the aged
justice in many opinions, has be-
come a party to the famous ex-
pression: "Brandeis and Holmes
dissent." We quote from Mr.
Wister:
"Because Mr. Justice Holmes
and Mr. Justice Brandeis some-
times take the same view in a
given case, the lay intelligence has
supposed them to be of one kind;
you will hear them classed to-
gether not infrequently. This su-
perficial blunder may be likened to
finding an identity between Shake.
speare and the Old Testament, be-
cause Shylock hails Portia as 'A
Daniel come to judgment.' I doubt
if any gulf exists more impassable
than the one which divides the
fundamental processes of a Holmes
from those of a Brandeis—'East is
East and West is West, and never
the twain shall meet.' Holmes de-
scends from the English common
law, evolved by the genius of a
people who have built themselves
the greatest nation in a thousand
years; Brandeis, from a noble and
ancient race which has radiated
sublimity in several forms across
the centuries, but has failed in all
centuries to make a stable nation
of itself. Liberty defined and as-
sured by law is a principle as alien
to the psychology of that race a
it is native with Ilolmes and hi
ancestors. His mission is the tai
and to declare what it is; never to
assert or to further any humani-
tarian bent. The law is a rule for
him to observe, not a tool to carry
out hispreferences; and those
who try to label him radical miss
hint as wholly as if they tried t , t
label
him conservative.
Ile its
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wi in the impersonal circle which
should surround every member of
the Supreme Court who intends to
keep it what it was created to
be . . . ."
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Brandeis' Humanitarianism
Mr. Wister thenproceeds to
speak of Brandeis' humanitarian-
ism as above the impersonal:
"To know his opinions is to
know that Mr. Justice Brandeis
would never have laid down a doc-
trine so impersonal, because he
does not sit immovably within the
impersonal cycle: humanitarian
aspects of a case, individual hard-
ships, push him out of it."
This reviewer is not disputing;
he is merely quoting Wister. Nev-
ertheless he offers an observation:
If this is true of Brandeis, how
does Wister explain Brandeis' re-
fusal to go outside the law for
Sacco and Vanzetti? Also, how
does he explain the consistent dis-
sensions of Holmes and Brandeis,
if there is such an impassable dif-
ference between them? But we
defer possible discussion of this
for a future date:
Mr. Wister devotes a number of
pages to a comparison of Holmes
and Brandeis rulings to prove his
point. Speaking of a ruling in a
coal mining case, he states that for
Brandeis
"constitutional rights
must be left in the air if some-
body's house is in danger of being
undermined." Speaking of their
differences Mr. Wister also says:
"That there are no short cut,
to anything except perdition, i5
legal concept beyond an Oriental
mind, when humanitarian consul-
erations, such aa a hardship done
to a poor man by a rich company.
tempt it to alleviate on individual
at the expense of a principle...."
Are we to accept this as a slur
on Brandeis, whorn Wister earlier
referred to as coming "from a
noble and ancient race which has
radiated sublimity. . .."?
Regardless how we interpret
Winter's portrayal of Brandeis, it
is nevertheless an exceedingly in-
teresting portion of a very fine
tribute to Roosevelt, the great
American. We do not hesitate in
commending it highly•
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By MAURICE MYERS
Not Love alone, but Justice, too,
Rounds up Life's perfect plan.
"Love Mercy, aye, but Justice do!"
Is God's demand of man.
The Shofar cries grim verities—
Oh, feeble pipes of Pan!
For feeble folk yon pulling strains
That on the perfumed air
Engage the ear of love-lorn swains,
The hearts of maidens fair.
The Shofar's shriek to men doth speak,
And stern is its fanfare.
Still stern as when, in ancient day,
It rang from Sinai's height;
And still its admonitions say
To every Israelite:
"Hear and be warned! But never scorned
The heart that is contrite!"
—London Jewish Chronicle
(Signed) J. E. EDGERTON.
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Rosh Hashonah - The Season of
Sorrow and Solace
BOUT a month ago I had occasion to comment
Aseres Yeme Teshuva, the Ten Days of
Repentance, is the designation given the
MARSHALL AND MACK
I remember some years ago
first ten days in the month of Tishri. They
working on a Cincinnati paper. I
are Yomim Neroim, the most solemn days
was sent by that veteran journal-
of the Jewish year. During this period, the
ist, Ike l'itchell, then managing
editor of the Commercial-Tribune,
Jewish people everywhere prays to God for
to cover the organization meeting
another grant of life, that tribulations be
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee in Cincinnati. If it wasn't
removed from our midst and that peace and
that, it was something like that.
contentment rule our (lays. In our daily
Anyway, Louis Marshall and Judge
prayer during this period, will be repeated
Julian Mack were to be the prin-
cipal speakers. My paper would
the plea:
be on the street about 10 p. m., in
"Remember us unto life, 0 King, who
other words, before the meeting
delighted in life, and inscribe us in the Book
was over. And yet we wanted a
full story of the meeting. Ordi-
of Life, for thine own sake, 0 Living God."
narily, speakers release some ad-
This sacred period of the year, also, has
vance copy of their addresses, but
in this case neither had any.
always served as a season for stock-taking
I asked Mr. Marshall if he could
of our spiritual efforts and achievements.
tell me what he was going to say.
This is a period of reckoning and of learn-
"Well," he replied, "you heard me
at lunch today. You won't go
ing the extent of our spiritual values and
wrong if you keep to the same gen-
shortcomings. These are days which mark
eral track." Well, that wasn't so
bad.
the renewal of our efforts for the improve-
I put the same question to Judge
ment and betterment of Jewish life every-
Mack. "I haven't the least idea of
where and for the advancement of Jewish
what I am going to say," he re-
plied.
cultural values. More than that, this is a
"Well, Judge," we said, "I ant
time for repetition of the Jew's determina-
going to make a speech for you."
"Go ahead," he replied, "I have
tion to prosper in spite of the setbacks of
had worse things happen tee me."
the past year. It is a time to hurl defiance
And so at 10 o'clock that night
at the discouraging events of the year that
the people coming out of the thea-
ter
where the mass meeting tyllt
is closing, and to welcome the new year
held, read the speeches, which
with greater hope for happier days.
Simeon Dubnow's Seventieth Birthday neither of the speakers made. And
In this spirit we greet our readers with
The celebration on September 2-1 of the were they any the worse for it?
our good wishes for the New Year 5691. seventieth birthday of the Jewish historian, I doubt it.
In the words of the poet:
Simeon Dubnow, should be an occasion for
WHEN IT DIDN'T WORK
"Peace to the house of Israel!
Sometimes, of course, writing the
worldwide Jewish felicitations to this great
news in advance of the meeting
May joy within it ever dwell!
son of our people. Next to Ileinrich doesn't work. I remember once hold-
May sorrow on the opening year,
Graetz, modern times will without doubt ing down the telegraph desk on
Forgetting its accustomed tear,
point to Mr. Dubnow as the greatest Jew- one paper. It was the night of
Speaker Joe Cannon's birthday.
With smiles again fond kindred meet,
ish historian, and some will rank hint above Cannon then was in the eighties,
With hopes revived and festal greet!"
I believe.
Graetz.
\Veil, to get on with the story,
We are especially indebted to Mr. Dub- that
night a wire came over the
No Armistice for the Jew.
now for his "History of the Jews in Rus- Associated Press line about 7
As the Jew meditates on the things that sia and Poland." This great work reveals o'clock, an hour before the meet-
was actually held, describing
have happened to his people during the not only a fine analytical mind, but one full ing
in great detail the dinner to Cr/TI-
past year, he must come to the conclusion of knowledge and understanding of Jew- MM. Speaker Cannon was quoted
that conditions, which have taken such a ish problems and conditions. If it were for among other things as saying that
he didn't know- what it felt like
bad turn during and since the war, have this work alone, the Jewish people would to
be old, that he himself felt like
not only not improved, but have become for all time be indebted to him. Let alone a two-year-old baby on a frosty
morning, etc., etc.
more aggravated and more discouraging. his periodical contributions and his post-
We immediately edited the copy,
For the smaller nations the end of the war biblical Jewish history.
marked it Box, Page 1, and sent
spelt national freedom, a chalice for eco-
It is a joy to add our felicitations to the it down the chute.
two hours later the A.
nomic improvement, the opening of wider legion of greetings that will surely pour in P. About
came with another wire: "Hold
cultural avenues. But for the Jew there upon Mr. Dubnow,
Cannon story; Cannon unable to
be present on account of illness."
is no armistice.
Evidently he hadn't felt like a
Leopold Zunz has well described the
two-pa:a-old baby on a frosty
Good-Will Out of the Ringside
morning.
tragedy of his people when he wrote in
How are we to attain good will? The
"Leiden der Juden:"
A LITTLE EXPLANATION
answer, if a New York Times editorial com-
"If there be an ascending scale of suf- ment is to be accepted as solution, lies in
Why am I telling all this? Be-
fering, Israel reached its highest degree. equalizing the numbers of the Jews and cause, brethren and sistren, he-
this is Rosh Hashonah —
If the duration of afflictions, and the pa- the Gentiles. Discussing the good-natured cause
New Year — and I want to see if
tience with which they are borne. confer acceptance by the Bronx audience of the we can't begin the new year by ex-
nobility upon man, the Jews may vie with results of the Jimmy McLarnin-AI Singer tending the same idea. For all of
its deficiencies, it has, in common
the aristocracy of any country. If a bout, the Times comments under the head- with
Franklin's suggestion, much
to commend it.
literature which owns a few classical trag- ing "The Ringside Melting Pot:"
Sig
Why, if it is all right to get out
edies is deemed rich. what place should be
"One test of the literature of an age is the Monday morning newspaper
assigned to a tragedy which extends over the accuracy with which it reflects the con- Sunday night, can't we get out
fifteen centuries, and which has been both temporary mood anti tints. On that basis all the news of the forthcoming
on New Year's day.
composed and enacted by the heroes them- many public events in New York City have year
I think we won't go far wrong,
selves?"
if we do. Now, I am going to tell
proved
that
"Attic's
Irish
Rose"
was
a
faith-
Y
Even in the process of ascension to this ful picture of a certain phase of midtown you what is going to happen in
the Jewish world during the corn-
highest degree of suffering, there seems to life here. What did not happen at the Yan- ing year. I don't say it will be
be no armistice for the Jew. The post-war kee Stadium when Jimmy McLarnin complete. But it will be as com-
as the early morning edition
period has made a bad situation worse. Be- knocked out Al Singer bore out much of plete
issued the night before called the
fore the war, there were several avenues the message of Miss Nichol's drama.
"hull (log." Well, why can't we
get out a New- Year's "hull dog."
of escape for persecuted Jews. Today, the
"According to a long catalogue of vaude-
Jewish groups, oppressed politically and ville jokes and burlesque skits, there should FORECASTING THE NEW YEAR
Eddie Cantor will tell a story.
economically, are caged in the countries in have been riots at the Yankee Stadium.
Allied Jewish Campaign
which they reside, with very little hope of For McLarnin is of the Irish stock ; and the will The
appeal for funds.
escape. A writer in the Nation has rightly lightweight champion is the idol of the
Philip Wattenberg will have
described the Jews as "a nation trapped." Bronx and east side. Certain racial boasts coffee 365 (lays nut of the 365
nights at the Cafe Royal.
Judging by what is happening to Jews preceded the encounter, and there was
The Federation of Polish Jews
in the countries of Eastern Europe, and in sporadic fighting between groups of black- will ask for money.
The Federation of Lithuanian
the Orient, the gigantic efforts made dur- haired and red-haired small boys. But the Jews
will appeal for funds.
ing and after the war by relief agencies adults in the crowd, according to eyewit-
Three hundred and eighty-seven
stories
will appear describing great
have turned out to be palliative measures, nesses, were notable for lack of bitterness,
Jews.
and all talk of honorable reconstruction has for failing to hurl derogatory racial taunts
The Federation of Rumanian
been a dream. The more fortunate groups at one another, and for the sharp humor Jews will
e ask frd
ew
Education Associa-
in Jewry, residing in Western Europe and with which they met the satire that crack-
tion will announce that only two
on this continent, continue to be burdened led about the ringside.
million two hundred thousand of
with most pressing problems affecting our
"There really seems to be a good deal in our boys are receiving a Jewish
people, and these problems threaten to eon• the solemn conclusions of anthropologists, education.
The Jewish Education Associa-
tinue for a long time to demand our aid in based on New York City observation, that tion will appeal for funds.
A
professor with a weak chin and
their solution.
the Irish and the Jews, when their numbers needing
a little pin money will
The new year thus opens with Jewish are fairly matched, dwell together in an write an article in a magazine de-
responsibility undiminished. The economic amity which suggests fundamental respect scribing the immigrant
an men-
e an two
eighty-seven
crisis that has stricken American Jewry and great enjoyment by the one race of the ace
and a half Jews will get excited.
must not be permitted to harden the hearts humorous powers of the other."
The Cantors' Verein will appeal
for funds.
Ao of our people to our kin overseas. Our ob-
Excesses will occur at Yum-yum
ligation is too great, and the danger is too
an d Boo-boo and the -American
Of
the
sum
of
$1,050,000
contributed
by
if8
je
pressing for us to forget our duties as American Jews to the Jewish Agency for
wish Committee and the Amma-
1,2
aa n Jewish Congress will issue
Jews. So long as there are groups of Jews work in Palestine, the sum of $725,000 in- tit atements.
x•ho are driven from pillar to post and are eluded loans and the contribution of Felix
II
American Jewish Congress
ui The
appeal for funds.
nowhere welcomed; so long as starvation M. Warburg. That speaks well for one
Veterans of the Jewish Legion
and oppression continues to threaten Is- American Jew—Felix M. Warburg.
stiiseti'se'se
b'e Ugyettyetam i,r ,::
-Eq, •
--PfferSgnillk
4 .