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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 16:18-21:9.
Prophetical portion—Is, 51:12-52:12.

August 14, 1931

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He! mew in Detroit High Schools.

In his column, "Telling It In Guth." Rab-
bi Loui s I. Newman writes the following
pararzri kph:

M M !UZ 2E

Hell sew wan to be offered as a course in the
carne alum of a Mid-Western high school, but
cu

an ins ufficient number of students has applied
for ei arollment to warrant it being taught.
Here is a commentary upon Jewish nature.
We di ) not take our own culture seriously.
It I places Jews in an invidious position to
ask f it. courses in Hebrew and kindred Rub-
jects e* to discover that they are inade-
quite ly attended. It puts the quietus on fur-
ther development of liebraism an one of the
subjei stn of the classic "triviuv" of Greek,
Latin and Hebrew civilization.

Our readers will at once recognize De-
troit in the Mid-Western city spoken of.
Many have no doubt wondered, when we
first pi ublished the news that an insult--
cient n umber of students registered for the
course, why the Hebrew language should
meet VI /Rh such fate at the hands of Jews
themse Ives, An explanation is therefore in
order.

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We I are convinced, in the first place, that
had th • right method of approach to the
Jewish student been pursued more than the
require 'd number would have registered.
But th' 3 scheme at the outset was proposed
withou t the aid of the men who are the
head a If the Hebrew schools. The latter
should have been consulted, and an united
effort should have been made to advise
Jewish high school pupils to enroll for the
study a , f their historic and ancient language.
Instead 1, a mere notice on the bulletin board
of the school where the subject was to be
taught was the only invitation to the course,
and wi 3 are informed that a number who
would have elected this subject were dic-
courag ed because it might have inter-
fered with the balance of their schedules.

But Rabbi Newman is far from right
when he declares that "we do not take our
own at ilture seriously." At least, he has
chosen a poor example, in the case of De-
troit's failure with the introduction of He-
brew
the high schools, with which to il-
lustratl a his point. Because if we were to
depend I on the study of Hebrew in the high
schools for the advancement of our culture,
we wan old subscribe to a speedy death for
this ct ilture. Those who are acquaint-
ed will ' the type of Hebrew courses offered
in high schools and even universities must
know I that very little of Jewish culture,
and ev en of knowledge of the language,
can be attained through them. When
the ad• vancement of our culture is spoken
of we must think in terms of our
own si :hools where, by consistently fol-
lowing a prescribed course for a number
of year 5, the Jewish boys and girls acquire
a speall king, reading and writing knowledge
of their • Hebrew language, and of their cul-
tare.

Won ie than the failure to introduce the
study o f Hebrew in the public high schools
is the fi tilure to introduce it in our own tem-
pies an d synagogues. If our rabbis were
more d evoted to the advancement of Ile -
brew within
vithin Jewish schools, rather than
bother their heads about having such a
course offered in the public schools, they
would accomplish a great deal. Certainly
it is i portant and desirous that Hebrew
studies should be introduced in the high
schools and colleges on a par with Greek
and Lat in, but Jews must not press this is-
sue at tl le expense of their own schools.

Bombay's Anglo-Jewish Paper.

The Jewish Advocate of Bombay. India,

an Anglo-Jewish monthly, edited by Joel

Sargon, has completed its first year's exis-

tence and is attracting attention because

of the interesting role it plays in circulat-

ing among a portion of Jewry domiciled so
remotely from us.

In greeting our contemporary we call

the attention of our readers to the power
that is being gained by the Anglo-Jewish

press throughout the world. In China.

South Africa, India, Palestine, as well as

M PM

in this country and in England, the Jewish

periodicals printed in English have gained

positions of first rank, with English assum-

ing the role of one of the leading languages

spoken by Jews. This is one of the most in-

teresting results of the World War which

shifted responsibility for and leadership in

world Jewish affairs to Jewries in English
speaking countries.

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Prosperity in Lithuania.

A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report
from Kovno states that Lithuania is suffer-
ing less from the world-wide economic de-
pression than other countries. Emigration
from that country has shown a marked de-
cline, only 478 persons having emigrated
in the last three months as compared with
:3,404 who emigrated in the same period
last year. Remittances front relatives in
America have decreased by 14 per cent.
The explanation given for this situa-
tion in Lithuania is that the land is primar-
ily agricultural and depends less than other
countries on foreign loans.
Although it is clear, on the question of
emigration, that the decline may prinutrily
have been due to the depression that exists
in countries which previously received such
immigrants, as well as to the fact that coun-
tries like the United States are practically
enirely closed to immigration, the general
content of this cable is sufficient to inspire
joy that at least one people is not as hard
hit as most others. And because the posi-
tion of the Jewish community always cor-
responds to that of the non-Jewish, we are
indeed pleased to learn that in Lithuania
prosperity is not a cloak for politicians, but
is an honest-to-goodness condition of bless-
edness for the land,

When Dealing With Arabs.

The most peaceful period in the history
of Palestine under the Mandate was during
the administration of High Commissioner
Lord Plumer. The latter, as a military lead-
er, knew how to apply a firm hand in deal-
ing with the Arabs, with the result that
riots were unknown during his stay in Pal-
estine. The present administration has, at
last, after the sad experiences of 1929,
learned something from the rule of Lord
Plumer. In its warning against the agita-
tion to riots, the Palestine government last
week issued the following statement in
which it also justifies the installation of
sealed armories in the Jewish colonies:

Upon expert advice and its own considered
judgment the government decided on the in-
stallation of these armories as a proper meas-
ure and has no intention of altering its policy
in the mutter. The agitation conducted re-
cently against the police on the ground that it
constitutes a danger to the Arabs and entitles
them to provide themselves illicitly with arms
and for the purpose of self-defense has no
foundation in fact.
This agitation is a serious menace to the
tranquility of the country and the government
requires that it cease forthwith, and any news-
paper publishing or public speaker uttering
statements calculated to foster the belief that
the existence of these armories is a menace to
law-abiding people may be regarded as deliber-
ately and wantonly endangering public safety
and will be dealt with accordingly.

This smacks of firmness and offers assur-
ance that the tragic events of August 1929
will not be repeated. But it at the same
time serves to remind us again of the ser-
ious problem existing in Palestine and of the
regrettable manner in which Britain at-
tempted to solve it. The redistribution of the
sealed armories to the Jewish colonists is
an instance of an attempt to be fair to the
Jews in offering them means of self-pro-
tection, but the manner in which a fuss was
made in returning these armories, and the
original injustice of removing them from
the colonies merely revives the agitation
among the Arabs, necessitating the firm
steps which the Jews would gladly have
done without.

But even under the safest conditions, the
thing to be remembered and to be aimed
at above all else is the desire for peace be-
tween Jew and Arab. The two peoples
must create an harmonious good will and
best relationships in their dealings with
each other. The two must become recon-
ciled that they are to remain as neighbors
in the Holy Land, and everything possible
must be done to assure the desired har-
mony. Prevailing sentiment in Zionist ranks
favors such harmonious co-operation, which
must be achieved for the good of both
peoples.

Taxi Service in the Emek.

BY-THE-WAY

Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.

1. By DAVID SCHWARTZ

CONTRADICTIONS

No wonder detective stories are
the vogue now. It takes a sleuth
to figure out the maze in which
things are. On the one hand, for
instance, you witness so depress-
ing a fact as the bankruptcy this
week of three Jewish-owned banks
in the metropolis. On the other
hand, you hear such reports, for
instance, as Harold DeBrest has
found financial support for a new
Jewish weekkly, to take the place
of the late Jewish Tribune. And
Mrs. Vixman plans to revive
Young Judaea Magazine within a
month, I am told. Also David A.
Brown has stepped into the man-
agement of the American Hebrew.
And gossip has Or. Wise interest-
ed in launching a paper, to be
edited by his son.
It looks as though the new Jew-
ish year, beginning in September,
will not be wanting in spice.

GO EAST, YOUNG MAN

Jacob Dellaax coming back
from Europe, brings back at least
one bit of breezy news to relieve
the depressing economic heat. And
that is—that Palestine, economi-
cally, is faring much better than
most countries. Palestine and
France, De Haas believes, are feel-
ing less of the effects of the de-
pression than other lands.
And the reason for Palestine's
favorable situation, De Haas
thinks, is much the same as that
for France. In France, large scale
production is not the vogue. The
average farmer has a small hold-
ing, all his own. Likewise, indus-
try is decentralized. There are
thousands of one and two-man fac-
tories.
In Palestine, the same situation
holds. There are something like
20,000 plants, largely one-man
owned and worked in Palestine.
The depression is most severe,
says Denims, in the highly indus-
trialized countries, like Germany
and the United States, where mass
production prevails. Perhaps we
shall have to revise the Greeley
dictum and say—go east, young
man, to Palestine.

NO BIRTH CONTROL IN PAL-
ESTINE

De Haas sees another favorable
sign of the future of Palestine in
the increased birth rate and low-
ered death rate among the Jews of
Palestine. The death rate of Pal-
estine is the lowest for the Jews
in any part of the World. That in
itself, it seems to me, is saying a
great deal for Zionism.
While the Arabs, too, have a
high birth date, the death rate
among the Arabs is very high.
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CHONEH AS A BAROMETER

Abraham Magida of the Zionist
Organization tells an interesting
anecdote of the recent Zienist
Congress. A group of delegates,
European and American, stood
chatting. Finally, one of them
upped with the inevitable—"How
is the depression in America?"
"What's the use of asking that
question," interjected one of the
European delegates. "It must be
bad in America. Don't you know
that Choneh isn't here?"

—4;—
CHONEH AS A BEST SELLER

If you happen to know that pic-
turesque character who is "Cho-
neh," you will have no difficulty
in getting the point. Without any
visible means of support for the
last 30 years, he manages to go
everywhere, attend all conven-
tions, see everything, knows who's
who and what's what. He has
solved the problem of living with•
out Socialism, Communism, or
plain capitalistic work. And if
the ingenuity of "Choneh" cannot
find means to attend a world con-
gress of Zionism, conditions in
America must be bad enough.
I understand that someone is
gathering anecdotes and experi-
ences of Choneh preparatory to
doing a hook on him. It ought to
be as full of spice as salt cellar.

HE WIRES THE DAY

My favorite anecdote if Cho-
neh is a little incident that hap-
pened during the Arab disturb-
ances in Palestine. (If course,
Choneh was there then. Choneh,
as I have told you, is always
there.
Well, when news of the disturb-
ances were published, few of the
Jews of Palestine failed to get
cables from American friends, in-
quiring after them. But alas, none
came for Choneh.
Everybody was rushing to the
cable offices to wire answers of
reassurance. Was Choneh a dog,
that he should send no wire? No,
thrice no. He sat himself down
and sent a message collect to the
Day, New York City. It was as
laconic as one of Julius Caesar's
messages.
It read: "Ich leb."
Signed: Choneh.

A Jerusalem correspondent calls our at-
tention to a modest announcement in the
advertising columns of the Hebrew press
in Palestine informing the public that a
taxi service has been instituted from Afule
to Emek Jezreel, the Valley of Israel, which
has become known as the Jewish common-
wealth in miniature."
Our correspondent writes that "'in the
Emek the inauguration of a taxi service
means more than it does elsewhere. It
means that the period of farmwains and
wagons as a method of human transport is CARNERA'S KOSHER CUISINE
passing, because the Emek is expanding
Primo Camera, the giant Euro-
and leaving behind its hard pioneering pean heavyweight, is in training
for the championship bout at a
years, when every suggestion of luxury had kosher hotel.
That ought to help decide the
to be rigorously eschewed. It means that
relative hygienic virtues of the
more people wish to visit the Emek and its kosher al against the "trefah"
settlemepts on business, on tour, or on pleas- diet. We have had any number
ure, that the Emek is assuming increasing of statements pro and con about
the kosher diet. Nothing so far as
importance in all aspects of Jewish life in
k now of a conclusive nature.
Eretz Israel. It means, in short, that the Some point to the relative im-
munity enjoyed by Jews in medie-
Emek is progressing."
val plagues as evidence of the su-
Jews must thrill at reading such news. periority of the kosher menu.
Because out of all the disgust and disap- Others point to the larger phy-
siques of the non-Jew as testimony
pointment that marks the despatches about against it.
massacres of Jews in Saloniki, and attacks
With regard to this latter con-
upon Jewish students in Vienna and else- tention, the Jews of Rhodes fur-
nish a challenge. They are all of
where, such news emerges as hope sustain- a large stature. Anthropologists
ing and as an encouragement for the con- have attributed this to the fact
tinuation of a great effort which has made that the Rhodes Jews are largely
porters. According to them, it's
the Emek Jezreel an historic monument in the luggage they carry that
Jewish history-.

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Charles H. Joseph

JULIUS ROSENWALD compared to Adolph Hit-
ler looms like the Empire Building in New York
alongside a two-story front. Rosenwald looking
at humanity in the mass helps ALL because he is
humane. So he brushes Hitler and Ilitlerism aside
as if they .were so many flies and with complete
indifference to their anti-Semitic gestures he con-
tributes a million dollars to a dental clinic in Ber-
lin so that German children may have the benefit.
Hitler being a fanatical Nationalist, is the type that
will always create dissension throughout the world.
With such men universal peace is impossible. They
are abnormal mentally; they are egoists and ego-
tists; they have a vaulting ambition that would
brook no interference. Hitler and ilitlerism are
a menace to Germany and a menace to all Europe.
Fortunately Hitler is merely a weak imitation of
Mussolini. Wearing Mussolini's shirt doesn't make
him Mussolini.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency gives us a dra-
T HE matic
version of the campaign now under way

in Russia to influence Jews to remain away from
their synagogues on the high holidays. The Yid-
dish atheists and the League of the Godless are
working overtime to keep the Jew at home work-
ing to put over the Five-Year Plan. There will
undoubtedly be protests against this Godless cam-
paign, but personally, 1 ant not nearly so concerned
about the Jew who goes to the synagogue once a
year, whether he goes or stays at home. His Juda-
ism must be adulterated. And I refuse to get
excited because Russia is trying to influence him
to stay away. If the Soviet were to COMPEL him
to absent himself from his religious services, that
would be a different matter, and a protest would
be in order. The religious situation in Russia is
vicious because every agency of the government
is drafted into service to influence CHILDREN.
That is what I call hitting under the belt. If Mr.
Stalin and his associates wish to ARGUE with
ADULTS and to educate them to the idea of athe-
ism, that at least is an even match if the adult has
any brains. But to "put it over" on the little
ones--well, the less said the better.

THIS letter of Rabbi Fink of Temple Emanu-El
of Spokane, Wash., will be of interest in con-
nection with the discussion regarding bequests to
synagogues and other Jewish religious institutions:
Dear Mr. Joseph:

I was delighted to observe your statement
appearing in Random Thoughts to the eqect
that Jews do not leave bequests to their re-
ligious institutions. It was likewise interest-
ing to note Rabbi Tobias Schanfarber's com-
ments upon that statement. While heartily
endorsing your sentiment, Rabbi Schanfarbar
mentioned his belief that Jews frequently con-
tribute generously toward the construction of
new synagogues. Ile was of the impression
that a Jewish woman of Portland, Oregon,
gave a sum of something like $100,000 toward
the erection of a temple in that city. In this
connection I should like to inform you that
the sum of $100,000, part of the estate of
Julius Gelland of Spokane, Wash., was used to
complete the building of Temple Emanu-EI of
that city and $40,000 from the same estate
was employed for the purpose of completing
the building of an Orthodox synagogue in Spo-
kane. A brother of Mr. Julius Gallant] and
the other executors of the estate allotted these
sums as stated above. The action mentioned
took place about two and one-half years ago.
Shortly thereafter a woman by the name of
Jaskulek, of Spokane, left a bequest of about
$90,000 to Temple Emanu-El.

I bring your attention to these recent ex-
perinces of my congregation purely for infor-
mation on a matter in which you are appar-
ently interested. It is certainly highly un-
usual. The fine tradition of leaving bequests
to synagogues which prevailed in the early his-
tory of American Jewry has all but disappeared.
Jews leave money for every purpose except
for Jewish religious and educational institu-
tions. What testimony could be more eloquent
than the foe that the Hebrew Union College
had an endowment of only about $750,000
after half a century of devoted service to the
wealthiest element of American Jewry! Only
when the continued usefulness of the college
was threatened did Jewry respond with a con-
siderable endowment.

Yours truly,

RABBI ADOLPH H. FINK.

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L OUIS MINSKY, the New York correspondent of

the London Jewish World, takes me to task be-
cause of my extreme criticism of his attitude
toward spiritualism. And he believes that I have
done him an injustice by loosely including him
with those folk who give credence to "every fool
thing that smacked of spiritualism." First of all,
I want to say that as a Jewish journalist and as a
writer I have the greatest admiration for Mr. Min-
sky, for I place him easily in the first rank of Jew-
ish writers. But just because he is such a con-
vincing persuader with his pen is just the reason I
see in his advocacy of spiritualism an unsettling
influence in the lives of many Jewish readers who
follow him. Mr. Minsky says that he sees an ex-
cellent future for "psychic research from the purely
scientific viewpoint and not as a religion." Al!
that may be very good but I have seen men and
women so completely unsettled mentally at spirit-
ual seances, and I have seen sr, many well accredited
mediums exposed publicly that regardless of the
terms used I have felt that spiritualism is some-
thing that should be discouraged. I was with Hou-
dini on several occasions when he has challenged
even such leaders as John Slater and he has been
able to duplicate through plain every-day trickery
what the mediums pretended to obtain through
some supernatural power. I have no quarrel with
Mr. Minsky. If he believes in spiritualism he is
entitled to his belief. But I feel it my duty to.
warn my people against becoming interested in a
movement which has never been able to success-
fully meet the challenge of a magician.

READ with interest the prize-winning essay of
I Myron
Coler, the 18-year-old freshman at Co-

lumbia University on the "Problems of the Syna-
gogue in America." With the problem he had to
solve the young man did a splendid job, much bet-
ter, I imagine, than three-quarters of the adult
laity in Jewry. But somehow or other I could
never bring myself to believe that a people could
be ARGUED into a RELIGIOUS MOOD. The criti-
cisms Coler offers for the lack of interest in congre-
gational life or in Judaism are merely statements
of facts. But they do not give the UNDERLYING
CAUSES for their existence. We know, for exam-
ple, that parents are indifferent and that's why the

children are, but WHY are the parents indifferent?
All the arguments in the world can't change the
situation. They may have other interests but WHY

do they have interests that make RELIGION sec-
ondary? It's because they FEEL that way. WHY

do they feel that way? Because, dear readers, the
WORLD HAS CIIANGED and SO IIAS THOUGHT
and a FUNDAMENTAL change of some kind is

necessary once more to bring us into a religious

mood. WHAT it will be, WHEN it will be, no one

knows. But SOMETHING is going to happen some
day that will revolutionize everything in the field
of religion.

By The Waters of Saloniki

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By GERSHON AGRONSKY

lEditor's Note:
Thin the second of
•rticle, on the Jewph situationi,n
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dr).

The revolting sameness about
pogroms makes this investigator
reluctant to go into details, espe-
cially such details of the days of
terror here from June 22 to June
30 which have been reported by
cable.

Agitation and premeditation ap-
peals on the part td the organizers,
frantic warnings and pathetic ap-
peals on the part of the threatened
Jews—where has there over been
an anti-Jewish disturbance which
did not know this sequence?

If today Jews sit by the waters
of Saloniki too proud to weep, it is
not because they have not been
hurt, but because they have been
hurt too much to cry out. They
have, it is true escaped a massacre,
but have been wounded in their
pride. Anti for a proud community
like this—the erstwhile Jerusalem
of Sephardic Jewry—to have their
past outraged is almost, I would
•
quite as painful as bodily in-
jury and even loss of life.
For what happened here at the
end of June and for six or seven
years preceding the outbreak has
led the Jews to entertain the gloom-
iest forebodings of their future in
a city they always regarded as
their own.

Decline in Prestige.

From the time they numbered in
Saloniki 80,000 out of a total popu-
lation of 140,000 or four-sevenths,
down to the present when they are
still 50,000 out of a total of 240,-
000 or about one-fifth, there has
been a gradual decline in their po-
sition and prestige. Twenty years
ago they were the virtual masters
•
Saloniki in both cultural and
commercial spheres. Although the
Turks were in power, the Salnoiki
Customs House was idle on Satur_
days. The Jew's were then Sab-
bath observers and there was no-
body to clear the goods.

Today, the compulsory Sunday
closing law drives them to do also
on Saturday what business there
is left for them to do. No longer,
as under the Turks, privileged resi-
dents, they are classed in all but
law, as second-grade citizens by
those of the Greeks who tolerate
them at all, anti as despised for-
eigners by those who do not want
them anywhere in Macedonia and
least of all in Saloniki.

It is newcomers above all who
discriminate against the old Jew-
ish residents. These newcomers
are some of the two million Greeks
who have been settled or resettled
in Greece since the Greek occupa-
tion in 1912; "refugees," so they
are called, from Asia Minor, of
whom seven hundred thousand were
planted in Macedonia and Thrace
alone. The population of Greece
thus took a sudden jump from
about four and a half to six mil_
lions, and Saloniki gained some
150,000 of the 250,000 refugees put
down in Macedonia. The newcomers
collided with the old-established
Greeks as well as the non-Greeks.
Gradually, all non-Greeks—Serbs,
Albanians, Bulgarians, Turks—
pulled out. With the resident
Greeks the refugees had to put up.
But the Jews were in their way,
the Jews who had been here four
hundred years, whose family names
like Abardaneff and the names of
their synagogues—Avora, Granada,
Aragow, Sicilia, Florentin—bring
back equally the horrors of the
Spanish Inquisition and the glories
of Sephardic Jewry in the Latin
countries.

Campaign of Hate.

The refugees coveted the business
the Jews were doing, and there
was no branch of trade, industry,
manufacture, or finance which the
Jews had not been doing for cen-
turies. And so, if there is a re-
volting sameness about the rather
unsuccessful pogrom of last month,
it would be less monotonous to re-
view the steps the newcomers saw
themselves forced to take in order
to push the Jews out of their posi-
tions. They are steps familiar to
those who follow the decline of the

Jews in Poland and Rumania an
elsewhere.

As early as seven years 471 ,
"alakedonia" opened its campaign
of hate. A Venizelist paper that
is a publication untenable to the
discipline or at least influence of
the head of the Creek governemtn,
"Makedonia's" agitation was never-
theless not discouraged so anyleely
could see. The propaganda, falling
on the fertile emit ploughed up by
the refugees, bore fruit. The fruit
ripened into, so I am assured, no
less than nine attempts since 1920
before the last and tenth succeeded,
more or less. Three years ago a
blood libel was raised against a
Jewish peddler of the fated Camp-
bell quarter. The libel was explod-
ed but the threat then made to burn
this poor quarter was carried out,
if three years later.

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"Makedonia's" propaganda in due
course gave birth to the organiza-
tion of Greece's hundred per cen-
ters. 50,000 are claimed to be
members of the "Three E's"— Kill-
niki Enosis Elias, or National
Union of (Item, . It has its off-
shots in young people's clubs,
white-shirted-blue-trouvred lads.
Chauvenistic students in the new
Saloniki University which has done
nothing to earn its name, are
grouped together. Exssoldiers have
been drawn in, perhaps dragooned
—ex-soldiers who need jobs and
are aware what the jobs are to
those who know how to bring pres-
sure on those who hold the reins of
power,

Genuine sensitiveness over the
position of Saloniki, which only re-
cently became Greek, must of
course be made the most Hellen-
istic of centers, a genuine and un-
derstandable desire on the part of
the newcomers to gain a tooting,
terrific competition and diminishing
trade, topped by a propaganda
spreading suspicion like plague had
produced an atmosphere which
made an outburst very likely.

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It might have been avoided by a
strong government determined to
stamp out racial conflicts. But the
government, either because it is in
the hands of the militarists or un-
able to resist their pressure, did not
attempt to stem the suspicion rid-
ing on the tidal wave of hatred
which finally overwhelmed Saloniki
and at least upset NI. Venizelos and
his government at Athens.
(Copyright, IR31. J . T. A.)

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HORRORS OF WAR

The horrors and brutalities of
war, the indignities and bestialities
of armed warfare, are reflected in
Dr. Joseph Tennenbaum's collection
of 15 short stories under the title
of "Mad Heroes" It was pub-
lished by Alfred A. Knopf, New
York ($2.50).

Dr. Tenenbaum, who is the au-
thor of "The Riddle of Sex," has,
in this collection, so graphically
pictured the despair and tragedy
of armed conflicts between nations
that its reading ought to serve as
a aid to the elimination of wars.

Born in Austria, and having re-
ceived his M. D. degree at the Uni-
versity of Lemberg in 1914, Dr.
Tenenbaum served as medical offi-
cer with the Austro-Hungarian
army on the Russian, Rumanian
and Italian fronts. While in ac-
tive service he was an eye-witness
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to the tragedies recorded in his
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"Mad Heroes."
(LC;
At present, Dr. Tenenbaum is a
leader in the Jewish Congress
movement in this country. He is
a fellow of the American Medical
4).
Association.
The five Jewish stories in Dr.
Tenenbaum's collection are repre-
sentative of the tragedy of tie
y.
Jew. His "Shema Israel" and
"Corporal Herschel" are great
pieces of short story writing. "The
Mad Professor" is perhaps the best
of the entire collection, which is • 47.
highly recommended to those who
can stand the reading of tragic and
bloody stories.

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Na one knows so much of our
badness as we know ourselves.
ourselves.
and in spite of that, no one thinks
so much good of us as we do our-
selves.—Franz von Schonthan.

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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS
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HON. GEORGE Z. MEDALIE, United
States District Attorney of
New York: "When can charity be exercised; when does it constitute a
virtue, as the Gentile would say; Mitzvoh, as we say. The virtue, the
mitzvoh, is best performed at a time when it has the greatest meaning
and significance. In time of prosperity, who needs charity? It is only
in times like this that charity has any significance whatever. In smug-
ness
in wealth, when there are few to aid, charity becomes in the
main and
nothing
but
a gaudy gesture. In a time like this, when it carries
with it real helpfulness and genuine self-sacrifice, that, for once, it is a
mitzvoh indeed."
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LADY ERLEIGH, Daughter of Late Lord Melchett and Daughter-
in-Law of Lord Reading: "It was always the line taken by my father
that Palestine should be built up on business lines, and my brother.
I.ord Melchett, who is chairman of Palestine Plantations, Ltd., and
I
are
very happy that our father's ideas and ideals have been endorsed
by the
Zionist Congress, If it is asked whether this endorsement of our
policy will lead us to expand our activities, the answer is surely that
we shall accept it as meaning that we are to continue our work
in the
way we have marked out. It is not as if we had doubts about the
rightness of our policy, and were waiting for this approval before we
took it up in earnest. Our idea is constant expansion according to
the business demand. We shall expand as we
get
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VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY: "All agree that the Revisionist Union
should continue its independent political activities and that the Revis-
ionists shoul dno longer be affilieted with the existing Zionist Federation.
The question as
to whether the Revisionists should participate in the
next Congress will be left open until the shekel campaign for the eigh-
teenth Zionist Congress is

launched."
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MORRIS ROTHENBERG,

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National Chairman, American Palestine
Campaign: "The present drive of the American Palestine Campaign
for $2,500,000 aims to secure the funds which will safeguard the very
important assets that have been built up during
the past decade. The
summary of the expenditures of the foundation fund indicates to what
fundamental uses the money contributed by Jews in this
and other
countries are put. A great many of the projects created and sponsored
by the foundation fund have today become pivotal factors in the
country's development. These enterprises have, in turn, been respon-
sible for the influx of private capital and the growth of
an impressive
economic structure. The entire project represents
organism which needs only temporary assistance to a vital economic
become a self-sus-
taining Jewish structure and • source of spiritual values of which
Jews the world over tray be prol.J."

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