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August 7, 1931

Ab 24, 5691

The Plight of the Synagogues.

[BY-THE-WAY
Tidbit

At no time in the history of the Jewish
community in America have synagogues
suffered the plight they do at this time. For
the first time in their history, many syna-
gogues, as a result of having had mortgages
foreclosed on them, are now paying rents
By a decree published April 2. the Minis-
to banks. This condition is true today in
ter of Justice and Fine Arts has authorized
many of the larger cities.
Dr. Marin Levi Buonaiuti, born in Venice on
The question must now be asked by con.
July 28, 1867, resident in Rome, to relinquish
the name of Levi, which betrays his origin, and
gregational leaders as to how best to be
only to make use of that of Buonainti, the said
able to solve the newly created problem.
doctor being desirous of converting to the
Every year, at about this time, on the eve
Christian faith.
Take notice, therefore, that any person de-
of the High Holy Days, the synagogue
siring to raise opposition to the above notice
question props up as a result of the forma-
must do no within four months from the pub-
lication of this notice.
' tion of "mushroom synagogues" for the
personal gains of individuals. This year the
We doubt whether anyone objected to
problem is much more acute thanks to the the above application. On the contrary, it
depression.
must have met with a "boruch shepotrani,"
What has, of course, aggravated the pro- just as every attempt at conversion must
blem is the undignified and regrettable sys- meet with a "good riddance" from Jews
tem of selling seats for the High Holy Days willing to get rid of the undesirables in our
only, thus not only helping to create three- ranks. So that except for our reserving the
day-a-year Jews but also discouraging the right to object to the kind of practices
affiliation of the average Jew with a syna- which besmirch the Jewish name when an
gogue. In such affiliation lies a possible individual attempts to change his own, we
solution to the problem. Membership in have little if anything to worry about when
a synagogue, instead of the problematical this name-changing game is abused.
collection of an uncertain fee for a seat dur-
ing holiday services, is the only way of as-
suring security for a synagogue, and the
Will the "Korobka" Be Revived?
sooner the average Jew is thus enrolled by
A report from Los Angeles points to the
his congregation, the sooner the synagogue
possibility of the rivival of the "korobka,"
problem will approach solution.
the traditional tax on meat, for the pur-
pose of creating a communal fund for the
George Bernard Shaw on Intermarriage upkeep of the Talmud Torahs which were
recently compelled to close in that city. The
George Bernard Shaw, in an interview Los Angeles proposal is to institute a one-
with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency corres- cent-per-pound tax on meat, according to
pondent in Moscow, expressed the con- Dr. George J. Saylin, president of the Los
viction that intermarriages will utimately Angeles Jewish Educational Institute, who
end distinctions between Jew and Chris- with other leaders appealed to the Ortho-
tion.
dox leaders to permit such a tax, thereby
Without entering into useless discussion making the new kosher law an asset and
of this age-worn problem of intermarriage, creating a fund for the Talmud Torahs.
we merely remind the adherents to the
Because many other communities have,
view proclaimed by the famed G. B. S. to from time to time, spoken of reviving the
the one important element entering in the old "korobka" custom, the propagation of
argument: that of human nature which will the idea in Los Angeles will no doubt serve
not change and which continues to have to arouse country-wide discussion. In view
its prejudices and hatreds.
of this proposal, the reference to "korobka"
To our aid comes the statement made in made recently, in a sermon nn "Judaism for
the past week by Dr. Adelaide T. Case, Sale", by Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Con-
professor of education at Columbia Uni- gregation Anshe Emet of Chicago, is of
versity, pointing out that religious prejudice particular interest at this time. Rabbi Gold-
and ignorance exist to an almost unbelieve- man, in his denunciation of the irresponsi-
able degree among children. Dr. Case based bility and corruption that rules in the Jew-
her reactions on the results of an examina- ish community had this to say:
tion of 1,000 children who were asked to
Chicago Jews are traditionally minded. They
"write freely on what you know about Jews
not only strive for the preservation of existing
customs, their heart bleeds even for those that
and the Jewish religion, Protestants and the
have long fallen into desuetude. Thus a few
Protestant religion, Catholics and the Cath-
"Orthodox" spokesmen have been sparing
olic religion." And here is what Dr. Case
neither words nor meetings to revive the noble
institution of korobka. Korobka is a meat tax
said among other things:

How can there be any religious tolerance and
true understanding when youngsters of 9 and
10 have such bitter and intolerant ideas of the
other religions? Not only do we find a
marked misunderstanding between Jew and
Christian but between Catholic and Protestant
children as well.
As long as we have a school system that
allows such false ideas to be formed early in
the life of the child we can plainly see that
something is lacking in our educational system.
Too often these ignorance,' and prejudices are
carried throughout the adult life. It's a dis-
grace to allow these intolerant prejudices to
develop and grow.

So long as bigotry thus rules, how can
we possibly hope for peace and tranquility
in intermarried home life? And so long as
human nature is so unchangeable, having
retained its prejudices for thousands of
years, how safe are we in entertaining the
hope that the millenium will come with the
intermarriage of Jew and Christian? Re-
gardless of the advisability of intermar-
riage, we believe it to remain an impossibil-
ity in practical applications because of the
peculiarity of the species which refuses to
change its spots and its prejudices.
'so
The regrettable portion of Mr. Shaw's
statement to the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency is the one in which he undertook
to discuss the Jew's "superiority complex",
winding up with the statement that "the
world has long made peace with the Jews
but the Jews won't make peace with the
world." Coming from such an intelluctual
giant. one is given the impression that it is
the humorist and satirist who spoke and not
the man who desires to see facts. At a time
when the entire world, not excluding the
United States and Great Britain, is hurling
insult upon insult and adding injury to all
insults in dealing with the Jewish people,
it is a source of heartfelt regret that Mr.
Shaw should be the man to speak such
nonsense.

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"Name Racketeering."

"Name racketeering" is the title with
which was branded the attempt of a young
attorney to change his name to one to cor-
and io
N e zi Iti o efs.Jew-
respond with that possessed by a jurist al-
ready in office, and thus to capitalize on a
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
well-sounding and popularly known title (.
and appellation.
SHAW ON THE JEWS
Well said and well labelled, is our only
Mr. Shaw tells the interviewer
of
the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
comment on this condemnation, particu-
frankly that the trouble with
larly when the gentlemen who apply for very
the Jew is not that he has an in-
changes in their names not only express de- feriority complex, but that he has
sires to give up their so-called foreign and a superiority complex. Mr. Shaw
that he understands the mal-
un-American sounding names, but also their adds
ady very well, for he is an Irish-
first names. It is one thing to want to re- man, and the Irish are even more
linquish the name that ends with "witch" arrogantly racial than the Jew.
Like most of the things G. B. S.
and "sky". It is another—perhaps sugges- says, this is all right as a shocker,
tive of a lack of loyalty to his own group— but you can't simplify the Jewish
quite so facilely.
when one desires to give up the name of problem
If it is the Jews who have the
Abraham or Jacob, etc.
superiority complex how will Mr.
This nomenclature game, in the course Shaw explain Mr. Ilouston Cham-
berlain's exaltation of the Teu-
of which Jews are so often chief actors, is tonic
genius above all others—his
not a new one. Turning back the pages of making even of Jesus into a Teu-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, we find, to ton to prove his point? How will
he explain the whole Nordic school
quote one instance, the following announce- of superiority preachers?
ment from the official Gazette of the King-
And Mr. Shaw himself is not
a victim of the inferoirity
dom of Italy, in Rome, as it appeared in the exactly
complex. By his own admission,
columns of our issue of May 20, 1921:
the late Mr. Shakespeare was just

and was at one time used by the Jewish kahal
to good advantage. But it lent itself to exploi-
tation and abuse. Jewish historians, to men-
tion but Levanda, have pointed out that it was
this korobka which was often responsible for
undernourishment and stunted development
among the Jewish poor. The greatest Yiddish-
Hebrew writer of Eastern Europe, Mendele
Mocher Sepharim, risked his life with a satire:
"Die Taxe Oder die Bantle Stodt Basle Tovos"
(The Meat Tax or the Gang of the City Bene-
factors). As a matter of fact upon the ap-
pearance of this book the author was compelled
to leave the city in which he lived at the time.
In Chicago, where kosher meat is already more
expensive than perhaps anywhere in the coun-
try, some communal benefactors seek to revive
the institution of the korobka. There is, in-
deed, no limit to some people's loyalty to the
Jewish minhag.

"Korobka" at one time had its advan-
tages and served a great purpose in many
Jewish communities. It now has many dis-
advantages which should be guarded
against wherever attempts may be made to
institute it anew. The ideal practice for
Jews would be the much preferred method
of self-taxation for important Jewish
causes, and for the elimination of a tax-
ation system like the "korobka" which
might Open the way for graft and abuse.
But wherever plans are schemed for the re-
vival of this old custom, extreme care
should be exercised against such possible
abuse.

New Trouble in Palestine.

From the garbled news reports it is too
early to pass judgement on the dangers
that are brewing in Palestine as a result of
the renewed Arab agitation.
Past experience convinces, however, that
if the Palestine administration will apply a
firm hand, order will be maintained. This
has been promised, an if the promise is ad-
hered to all will be well.

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a little rack writer in comparison
to him. And yet as far as I know,
despite this superiority complex,
there is no movement to keep Mr.
Shaw out of country clubs or to
deny him admission to Harvard
University.

A JEWISH T RADER HORN

I have just discovered a Jewish
Trader horn—discovered him at
my elbow, so to speak. Ile is a
colleague at the office of the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency. A news-
paper man by profession—every
once in a while he throws his pen-
cils out of the window and hies
away to distant parts to become
metamorphosed into another be-
ing.
Ile was a farmer for about a
year. Ile was in social work for
some time. With the Jewish I.e-
gion in Palestine for the war pe-
riod. But most interesting of all
to me was his three years' trading
among the natives of the South
African interior.
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CLUBS AND PACKS
The majority of the traders in
South Africa, he tells me, are
Jews. We Jews, too, it appears.
are imperialists of a sort. Was it
Kipling who wrote about "civiliz-
ing them with a club"? Well, at
at any rate, that is largely the
modern way of bringing civiliza-
tion to the primitives. Instead of
the club, we Jews use the peddler's
pack.
I have been urging my friend
to reduce his experiences to writ-
ing. Ile has a mint of material.

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JUSTICE NATHAN SWEEDLER of Brooklyn, N.
Y., in addition to his legal work at one time pub-
lished a Jewish weekly, and I was numbered
among the regular contributors. I can't think of
the name of the paper but it went the way of many
other weeklies—to oblivion. But I always recalled
the friendly relationship that existed between Mr.
Sweedling and myself, although we never met.
And the other day I was glad to hear from him
indirectly through a radio address delivered over
station WFOX by Frank G. Holmes of the "Good-
will Court." Mr. Holmes told us that the Good-
will Court was established by Judge Sweedler, and
it is such an interesting story that I am sorry not
to have the space to tell it in full. I believe it
would be an inspiration to others to follow the
example set by him and establish such courts the
country over.

I must tell you this much at least. Justice
B UT
Sweedler was prompted to his humanitarian pro-

ject for these reasons. Humbler litigants—especially
foreign-born—become confused and inarticulate in
the unaccustomed court surroundings. Often the
words they would speak die on a frightened tongue
Or they are barred by the laws of evidence. Jus-
tice is impersonal and quite unfeeling. So these be.
wildered litigants would leave the court disap
pointed, believing that if he could only have told
his story in his own way to the judge his case
might have resulted differently. . . .. It was also
recognized that a great many cases of a minor
character could be settled without expense of liti-
gation. All that was needed in most cases was
advice and the good offices of an arbitrating body
that would deal sympathetically with the parties
interested.

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ALL HAVE NICKNAMES

There are no better readers of
character than the African blacks,
my informant says. Tfter they
have marked you mentally as to
patience, they watch you for hon-
esty. for dependability, for keep-
ing your word. And after they
have summed up your character
quotient, they give you a name on
the basis of that appraisal.
I asked my newspaper friend
what his nickname was. lie rather
blushed and hesitantly admitted
"the square man."
And if you know this Jewish
Trailer Horn you will agree that
this was a pretty good appraisal.

MOSES AND JEFFERSON
You remember that scene in
Cimmaron by Edna Ferber in
which there appears a "Haying"
dame, who is always going around
telling everybody that she is a
descendant of one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
She tells it to a Jewish store-
keeper, and he replies: "Well. an
ancestor of mine, by the name of
Moses, wrote the Ten Command-
ments."

HAVE YOU A LITTLE

ANCESTOR?

I am reminded of this by a let-
ter I have just received from the
mid-west, in which the writer tells
of some of the ancestor problems
of !hc Irt ally.
A matron of one of the first
Jewish families of the town of
C— felt that her home would
not be complete unless she had an
antique looking ancestor peering
down from the wall. She rum-
maged through her mother-in-law's
photographs and found the picture
of grandpop, Joseph. But there
was the Jewish nose, and the skull
can. That wouldn't look good for
a First Family.
But ingenuity found a way. She
took the picture down to the art
store, and had the artist remove
the skull can and Nordicise the
proposcis. But after it was all
done, it didn't look quite natural.
She decided to leave the photo-
graph down at the art dealers.
Along came another Jewish ma-
tron, also searching for an ances-
tor. The art dealer showed her
the rejected photograph. Yes that

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Italy Hails Dr. Eisenstadt as
Second Cesare Lombroso

ROME.—(J. T. A.—Where Ce-
sare Lombroso, Italy's famous
criminologist and alienist, left off,
Dr. Jacob Eisenstadt, once a pen-
niless Polish Jew, but now granted
Italian citizenship by a special
Royal decree because of his impor-
tant scientific contrioutions, car-
ries on. The struggling young
scientist who came to Naples a
decade ago grientiless, poverty-
stricen and with no resources but
his exceptional abilities, is now be-
ing hailed as one of modern Italy's
greatest scientists.

His 10 years of study, research,
and experimentation in psychiatry
and criminology, the fields in
which Professor Lombroso earned
a world-wide fame, have now won
for Dr. Eisenstadt an appointment
as professor of psychiatry at the
University of Naples. In this pose
he succeeds his late teacher and
friend, Prof. Leonardo Bianci,
head of the university's depart-
ment of psychiatry.
Dr. Eisenstadt, who is only 33
was born in Mezricz, Poland, the
son of Orthodox paarents. When
the Russian army evacuated Po-
land in 1915 he fled to Russia.
There he studied at the Moscow
high school and Moscow Univer-
sity. On the outbreak of the Rus-
sian revolution he was obliged to
drop his studies. After many
hardships he reached Vienna and
eventually Naples.

in the poorer districts of Brooklyn has come this

During his student days at the
University of Naples, he often
knew hunger and privation. His
rare talents interested Professior
Bianci, who rendered him moral
and material aid. Later Professor
Bianci appointed him as his assist-
ant and he was fully launched on
his successful scientific career,
which has now been climaxed by
his appointment to Professor

humanitarian agency which helps them straighten
out their difficulties without cost and with justice
tempered with mercy.

Bianci's position and a royal de-
cree granting him Italian citizen.
ship.

IT MIGIIT perhaps be of interest to other Jew-

NAZI BLOOD LIBEL
CHARGES AGAINST
JEWRY CONTINUED

S O THE Goodwill Court was created and three

judges preside, a Catholic, a Protestant and a
Jew. Often one of the judges is a woman. Many
of the judge, have been rabbis, priests and minis-

ters, but business men, newspaper men, lawyers,

professors and public officials have also served as
well and wisely. And so into the lives of many

ish communities to learn that the Federation of
Jewish Philanthropie s . or Pittsburgh, Pa., has de-
cided to join forces with the Welfare Fund of l'itta-
burgh, which collects for many non-sectarian insti-
tutions, and with the Emergency Relief Fund,
which functions for the relief of the unemployed.
These three agencies will launch a joint campaign
in November (the Federation to get funds for its
1932 budget). The advantages are that it will
bring about a closer relationship and a better un-
derstanding between Jew and Gentile working to-
gether for common humanitarian purposes, that it
will reduce the cost of a campaign to the individual
organization and that in view of the great need for
widespread appeals for general relief that a separate
campaign would likely be submerged.

YOUR CHARACTER QUOTIENT

One of the roost interesting as-
pects of the South African native
is the test which he puts the white
man through, when he first comes
among them. Talk about your
modern intelligence tests! The
universities have a lot to learn
from the African duskies.
When the trader first comes
among them, I am told, he is exas-
perated to the point of despera-
tion by the natives. They will do
aanything to rile you—to irritate
you—to make you lose your tem-
per.
Some of the traders will swear
and shout—cursing their black
ways. But happy the man who re-
mains calm and placid. His for-
tune is made. For the natives are
simply testing you. They want to
know what sort you are. And
they esteem above all other quali-
ties—patience. If they find you
are patient, the word is soon
spread. There will be no more
ordeals for you.

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IM E, the sprightly American news magazine,
publishes a brief but racy biography of Lewis
Selzniek, the creator of the Selznick dynasty in the
moving picture industry. A son, David, married
Irene Mayer, daughter of another movie magnate,
Louis Mayer, of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But the
interesting part of Time's story was the message
that ' Lew" Selznick sent to the Czar of Russia
after he abdicated: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF:
WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF
YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME.
CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN
PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . .
SELZNICK. That must have given him great sat-
isfaction. I knew Selznick not in his salad days
but in his herring days when he owned a small
jewelry store in Pittsburgh. his rise in the movie
industry was nothing short of a great adventure.
If he happens to see this I send him a handshake
across the miles.

I NOTICE where "Dave" Stern's Philadelphia Rec-

ord has been sued by Bishop Cannon for libel.
Which reminds me that David Stern is one of the
youngest and most successful publishers in the
country. He owns the Camden (N. J.) Courier
and Post as well as the Philadelphia Record, an
outstanding morning and Sunday daily. He is a
business-publisher plus. There are not many Jew-
ish publishers In the country but the few are suc-
cessful and publish outstandingly good newspapers.

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HERE are sonic men who may be able to rest on
their laurels but I can't find them in the news-
paper game. Last week on one of the hottest days
that New York can lay claim to in many years I
happened in on three of the great men in the news-
paper field. The first man I called on was Thomas
White, the general manager of all the Hearst pub-
lications, and he was in his coatless attire, working
like a Trojan, apparently having never heard of
summer estates and cooling breezes. A few hours
later I met Roy Howard, of the Scripps-Howard
papers, and he was sweltering in his office working
harder than any of his employees. And just before
dusk I called on l'aul Block and he had just found
time at 5:30 to eat a sandwich. Success is hard to
achieve and yet harder to maintain. Young men
who dream of loafing after they have made their
"pile" should remember that the most successful
men in the world work hard all their lives. With
great responsibilities come endless tasks. And it
might be interesting to note in passing that these
men are no longer working for MONEY; in two
instances at least there is money to spare. Ambi-
tion, the desire to achieve, the natural desire to
work constructively, the urge to be of value in life,
the thought of contributing something worth while
to sum total of human progress, all these things
play a great part in harnessing men to their tasks.

is an American not an American? When
W HEN
he speaks Yiddish? or reads it? When he

speaks or reads Italian or French or ENGLISH?
country is he likely to be MORE of an American
because he SPEAKS English? That seems to be
the attitude of some folk who apparently misinter-
pret the spirit of America. In the grgeatest crises
which have faced this country from the days of
the Revolution men who were not able to speak
English fluently have shown themselves to be fore-
most patriots and Americans BETTER than most
of the so-called and self-advertised 100 per centers.
I am prompted to make this statement by the clip-
ping that lies before me. It is taken from the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Bulletin:
Another bill was laid on Governor Pinchot's
desk amending the city charter of Pittsburgh
by requiring all its official business, including
city ordinances, etc., to be published in a Yid-
dish newspaper. This would have cost the
municipality at least $100,000 per annum. The
measure was such an un-American thing that it
received scant consideration by the governor
in a brief veto.
It was probably • RIDICULOUS thing: an UN-
JUSTIFIED thing, and certainly an UNNECESS-
ARY thing, but that it is an UN-AMERICAN thing
is something that I do not believe.

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(Continued from l'age One.)
became the financial giant of Ger-
many and now gives away his
wealth to save the bank he created
and the honor and good name of
Germany's finances by sacrificing
himself. This man is Jacob Gold-
schmidt, managing director and
founder of the Darmstaedter and
National Bank which suspended
payments on July 13.
'the newspapers briefly state that
$8,750,000 worth of shares of the
bank have been ceded gratis "by
person closely connected with this
bank." They have been purchased
by a syndicate of Reich industrial-
ists for $10,750,000 and this sum
is being advanced to the govern-
ment to enable the reopening of
the banks.
Of the $8,750,000 worth of
shares the majority were owned by
Goldschmidt. In order to make
good this fabulous loss Goldschmidt
is selling everything he can do
without. He is cutting down his
living expenses to a rigorous min-
imum. At the age of 48 Gold-
schmidt is starting all over again.
The "wizard banker of Germany,"
as Goldschmidt is known, is de-
termined to build up anew the
great concern which he created
seven years ago and which has now
tottered on the brink of destruction
because the confidence of German's
foreign creditors has been shaken
by the aggressive extravagance of
the Nationalists who are the bitter-
est foes of the Jewish bankers.
Goldschmidt, the son of a Han-
overian merchant, started his fi-
nancial career as an office boy in
the II. Oppenheimer Bank in Han-
over. Together with Herr Oppen-
heimer, Goldschmidt came to Ber-
lin in 1907 where his rise was sen-
sational. It was he who success-
fully reorganized the National
Bank and merged it with the Dorm-
staedter Bank.

The new institution soon became
one of the leading banks in the
country. In the post-war period
of inflation it was Goldschmidt','
organizing genius that saved many
leading industrial firms from ruin.
In recognition of these services
Heidelberg University conferred
on honorary degree upon him in
1327.
Goldschmidt's philanthropic ac-
tivities have also been manifold. He
save liberally without regard to
race or creed. He has been espe-
cially interested in the Auerbach
Orphanage and has contributed
generously to Jewish homes fur the
aged in Brandenburg and elsewhere.
His gifts made possible the new
Encyclopedia Judaica.

Last Nazi Pillar Falls.

The last Nazi pillar in any of the
German provincial governments
fell when M. Franzen, minis-
ter of education of Brunswick, re-
signed. Franzen was one of the
two Ilitlerites who had been minis-
ters, the other being Dr. Wilhelm
Frick, the notorious minister of the
interior and education in Thuringia
who was recently ousted.
During the time that Franzen
was minister, Brunswick became a
hotbed of anti-Semitism. Only ■
month ago the province enacted a
stringent law forbidding the prac-
tice of schechita. By the passage
of this law, which became effective
July 1, Brunswick joined Bavaria
as the only two German states in
which schechita is illegal.
Last November the Brunswick
government, at the behest of the
Ilitlerite leaders, raided the meat
factory that supplied the depart-
ment stores of the Jewish-owned
firms of Tietz, Karstadt and
Schocken and 20,000 tons of meat
were confiscated. This was said to
be part of the Nazi government's
program of benefitting the small
traders at the expense of the larger
concerns.

During the sensational anti-Jew-
ish riots in Berlin last October
simultaneously with the opening of

Even before these honors came
to him, Dr. Eisenstadt was a scien-
tist of repute. His recent book
on the influence of rational educa-
tion on abnormal and criminal
types is regarded here and abroad
as a work of exceptional impor-
tance. His last six years have
been devoted almost exclusively to
preparations and experiments in
connection with this opus. Assist.
ed by a subsidy from the Univer-
sity of Naples he traveled abroad
and spent a full year in Leningrad
at the clinic of the famous Profes-
sor Bektierev, with whom he car-
ried on extensive research into the
characteristics of the brain cell,
on the possibilities of thought
transmsission and on hypnotism.

Professor Eisenstadt has ad-
vanced the theory that the human
brain creates electro-magnetic
rays which can be transmitted and
received by other human beings,
and even by animals. His recent
experiments in this direction,
which have aroused tremendous in-
terest in scientific circles every-
where, are believed to substantiate
this theory.

Of particular interest to the
Italian scientific world are Dr.
Eisenstadt's experiments on so-
called "born criminals." Ile has
endeavored to demonstrate that
even "born criminials" who have
inherited criminal traits from their
parents can, through a specially-
devised system of education, ac-
quired new traits, be freed of their
criminal instincts and become use-
ful members of society.

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By experimenting with 2,736
criminals and abnormal types in
the insane asylums and prisons of
Naples, he believes he has proved
the correctness of his theory. In
92.2 per cent of his cases he has
achieved cures and converted these
abnormal and degenerate types
into useful citizens.

the new Reichstag in which the
Nazis have 107 seats, Franzen was
the center of a perjury charge.
Among the 108 Nazis who were
arrested after the outbreak was one
M. Guth. Franzen sought to have
Guth released on the plea that he
was a member of parliament and
hence immune from arrest. The
police, however, quickly establish-
ed that Franzen's explanation was
untrue and he later admitted he
had lied.

Nazis Injure 3 Jewish Students.

Three Jewish students from the
Univesrity of Cologne were seri-
ously injured Monday outside the
Cologne courthouse when they
were attacked by a band of 20 Nazi
students. The Ilitlerites attacked
the Jewish students because the
latter had appeared in court as
witnesses against Baldur von
Schirrach, Nazi leader. Before the
police arrived the assailants of the
Jewish students had disappeared.
For writing in the Nazi organ,
Ilessische Volkswacht, that "Je-
hovah is not God but a business
man," the paper's editor, Wolf-
gang Bergeman, was sentenced to
two months in prison on charges
of blasphemy. He was also sen-
tenced to pay the costs of the trial.
Bergeman, who had been tried and
found guilty on a similar charge
before, pleaded that he had not
written the article.

After hearing expert witnesses
testify regarding the importance
of the Talmud and the Shulchan
Aruch in the Jewish religion in
connection with other passages
in the Nazi organ's article contain-
ing abuse of the Jewish religion,
the court ruled that although the
Talmud and the Shulchan Aruch
are not divine they form part of
the Jewish ritual and their public
insult and abuse is equivalent to
insulting the Jewish religion as a
whole.

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Gothold Weil has been invited to
the University of Franfort-am-
Main to occupy the chair of Semi-
tics.
Professor Veil, who is 49, is
noted Orientalist. Born in Berlin,
he entered the Prussian govern-
ment library service in that city in
1906 and in 1918 was appointed
director of the Oriental department.
In 1912 he became associated with
the University of Berlin, and in
1920 was named honorary profes-
sor there and instructor in post-
Biblical Jewish history and litera-
ture.
Ile is the author of many books
on the grammar and literature of
the Oriental languages. Professor
Weil is a member of the curatorium
of the Academy of Jewish Siences
and of its philological commission,
as well as of the Academic Coun-
cil of the Hebrew University at
Jerusalem.

Donate Library to Museum.

Professor Franz Boas long as-
sociation with German scientific in-
stitutions culminated with the an-
nouncement that he had donated
his famous scientific library to the
Ethnological Museum which is be-
ing built in Hamburg. Professor
Boas, who is professor of anthro-
pology at Columbia University, is
president of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Sci-
ence, the most important scientific
organization in the United States.
A member of all the leading sci-
entific institutions of the world, Dr.
Boa, has been especially honored
by German scientific organizations.
He is a honorary member of the
Senckenbergische Gesellachaft of
u , the Geographical So-
ciety of Goteborg, the Geographi-
cal Society of Hamburg, an honor-
ary fellow of the German Anthro-
pological Society of Germany, the
Prussian and Munich Academies, a
corresponding member of the So-
ciety for Oriental Languages at
Frankfurt and a senator of the
Deutsche Academy of Munich.

Prof. Lieberman' s 64t6 Birthday.

Professor Max Lieberman, the
president of the Berlin Academy
of Art and one of the greatest liv-

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