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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931
VOL. XXXII. NO. 13
DETROIT ITALIAN'S
ATTACK ON JEWS
DECRIED IN PRESS
Anti-Semitic Charges Meet
With Condemnation in
Italian Newspapers.
JEWS DEFENDED BY
TWO PUBLICATIONS
Article of Unknown News-
paperman Hit by Order of
Sons of Italy.
THE STORY OF A LIBEL
A Chapter in American Jewish History
By JOSHUA BENDON
(Editor. (note. this article. written
expressly for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.
recreate. • neene of cliwe to a quarter
lir ,,Reim Insulted the Jews who rove In
protest against his charge.)
In a recently published article
by Ernest K. Coulter of the New
York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, the author
tells of the amazing decrease in
Jewish criminality that has taken
()lace in New York ever since,
some 25 years ago, when a bold
announcement by the police com-
missioner galvanized the Jews into
corrective action.
If the change Mr. Coulter de-
scribed is in truth astonishing, so
too was the bombshell amidst the
Jews, to which the author traces
the origin of the change. Scan-
ning the contemporary records of
the episode there stands revealed
one of the most exciting Jewish
events in the story of the greatest
metropolis of the United States.
It is a story, too, that throws much
light on methods and manners and
attitudes and alignments of today.
Growing Influence of Jews.
The New York of 1905, the
year of the occurrence, was vastly
different from the city of some
quarter of a century earlier.
Within that period there had come
to the hospitable shores of the
United States millions of immi-
grants Among them there were
mounting hundreds of thousands
of Jews. They effected a change
in tempo in the city that was of
considerable importance to the
community's progress. But the
new immigrants also brought new
faces, new languages, new habits.
New York acquired a different
color and dash of life than it had
known earlier. There were not a
few snobs of the older inhabitants j
who figuratively tilted their noses,
towards the newcomers and actu-1
ally snubbed them as inferiors.
This conditioning of New York
undoubtedly affected develop-
meats; especially the developments
of this story. Other than snob-
bery there appeared also the grow-
ing influence and political power
of the Jews. From their mingling
this picture of a near quarter of a
century ago emerges.
The excitement began late in
Augustt, 1900, when Police Com-
sioner Theodore A. Bingham in
an article published in the North
I American Review on foreign crimi-
nals in New York included the
statement that "it is not astonish-
ing that with a million Hebrews,
mainly Russian, in the city, one-
quarter of the population, per-
LIPSKY LAUNCHES
FIGHT ON PRESENT
ZIONIST LEADERS
Demands They Be Replaced
At Next Convention by
"Representative Group."
DENIES U. S. PROGRAM
ADOPTED BY CONGRESS
Says Accepted Economic Plan
Was Entirely Different
From One Spoken of.
Correspondent of Jewish Telegraphic Agency Writes Moving Description of
Jewish Life in Russia for The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
By ELIAS TOBENKIN
I stopped over in a White Rus-
sian town, asked the first Jew I
Met for Mr. Aaron Wernik, which
)snot the man's real name, to
whom I had regards from a broth-
er in New York. The prefix "Mr."
was a slip of the tongue, but it
acted like a strange magic. It elec-
trified the Jew before me. In 10
minutes every inhabitant, male
and female, Jew, Christian, Tar-
tar, knew that an American had
come to town, that he had asked
for Aaron, the hardware man,
that he NV IL9 staying at Soloveit-
chik's, Soloveitchik's being the
town's inn.
I found Mr. Wernik's house and
was told by Mrs. Wernik that her
husband was in the next street,
where he was working in the "uni-
vermag," "univermag" being the
Russian equivalent for the word
department store. A question
elicited the information that her
husband was the manager of the
department store, which was gov-
ernment owned. Mrs. Wernik of-
fered to call her husband, but I
preferred to go over to the unt-
vermag myself.
I found Mr. Wernik behind a
counter supervising a sale. Ile
was a Jew in the '50s, with un-
trimmed beard. His sidekicks
NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.)—The
present administration of the Zion-
ist Organization of America, domi-
Italian Herald of New York over
nated by the so-called Brandeis-
the name of a certain Gugliucci of
Mack group, must be swept out of
oflice at the next annual Zionist
Detroit, in which the writer made
convention,
and a representative
a scurrilous attack upon the Jews
administration elected in its stead,
has led to an outcry on the part
was the declaration made by Louis
of other publications in the Italian
Lipsky, former president of the
Zionist Organization of America, at
press in defense of the Jews and
a
reception tendered him on his
evoked a spirited resolution at the
arrival from Europe, where he had
recent convention of the Order Sons
been attending the World Zionist
of Italy.
Congress as a member of the
American delegation, according to
Writing in the Italian Herald,
an official release issued by the New
Mr. Gugliucci declared that "the
York Zionist Region.
word Jew means thief. You cannot
Mr. Lipsky's speech was regarded
find an honest Jew. There never
as the beginning of an effort to
oust from office the present official
was and never will be. In my
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leaders who came into power in
opinion no Jew is fitted to live.
June, 1930.
They are inferior and not a part of
Referring to the speech made at
the human race." In reply to a
the Zionist Congress by Dr. Ste-
High Holy Day Leave
letter from Alexander limn, pub-
phen S. Wise, who attacked Dr.
lisher of the Jewish Advocate of
For Jewish Soldiers Chaim Weizmann, Mr. Lipsky
this city, he added that he was "an
characterized Rabbi Wise's address
enemy of the Jews" and declared
WASIIINGTON.—(J. T. A.)
as "vulgar and utterly irresponsi-
With Toz Contributes Fund
that "there is no room for the
—The secretary of war issued
ble."
Jews in the United States."
instructions that furloughs be
"Display of Partisan Prejudice."
to Aid Latvian and Pol-
Hit by Order Sons of Italy.
Jews Disturbed Over Protest
granted to members of the Jew-
During his address, Mr. Lipsky
ish Orphanages.
Two Italian publications, the
ish faith in order to permit
said in part:
Measure Against Re-
Italian News of Boston and the
them to participate in the cele-
"The World Zionist Congress
cent Pogrom.
Through the aid of the American
Italian Echo of Providence, R. I.,
bration of Rosh Hashonah be-
last month witnessed an extraor-
Jewish Joint Distribution Commit-
came out with a strong attack upon
ginning itt sundown, 'Friday,
dinary display of partisan prejudice
tee and TOZ, the European health
the writer and an admirable de- . SALONIKI.—(J. T. A.)—Lead-
Sept, 11, 1931, and continuing
and personal animosity on the part
society, Jewish orphanages in I ol-
tense of the Jews, in which they ors of the Saloniki Jewish Common-
until sundown, Sunday, Sept.
of the majority of the American
and and Latvia caring for 10,000
pointed out the importance of the ity expressed themselves as being
13„ 1931, and of the Day of
delegation which, throughout the
parentless and homeless children
Jewish contribution to civilization. • greatly disturbed by reports ap-
Atonement, beginning at sun-
sessions of the Congress and in the
were enabled to continue their work
The issue was also brought to' raring in the press that the Jews
down, Sunday, Sept. 20, and
midst of all the discussion of the
sheltering and feeding them, ac-
the attention of the Grand Lodge of of Poland, Hungary, the United
continuing until sundown, Mon.
fundamental and critical isues af-
cording to an announcement by
Massachusetts, Order Sons of Italy, States and other countries intend
day, Sept. 21, provided no in-
fecting the Zionist movement at
Rabbi Jonah II. Wise, chaiman of
at its nineteenth annual convention to initiate a movement for boycott-
terference with the public serv-
this time, was animated primarily
the
1931 Fund of the Joint Distri-
held recently in Ilolyoke. A strong ing the Import of esrogim (a king
ice is occasioned thereby.
by the desire to eliminate Dr.
bution Committee which is seeking
resolution was passed at this con- of a citrus fruit used in the Sue- j
Chaim Weizmann as the World
$2,500,000 from American Jewry to
vention scoring the writer for his coth religious services) from Greece
7ionist president.
carry on a program of social and
for the coming Succoth holiday as
attack.
"Much has been said of the pro-
economic reconstruction among mil-
a measure of protest against the
The Resolution.
gram brought to the Zionist Con-
lions of Jews in Eastern and Cen-
The resolution reads us follows: recent anti-Jewish events here.
gress by the American delegation.
tral E urope.
"Whereas in an article appearing The leaders of the Jewish com-
Even more has been said of the al
in the Italian press an unknown muity here are of the opinion that
.0sanabbi
Wise received a message
leged economic program which the
styling himself as an Italian, a such a boycott will only adversely
Americans succeeded in passing at informing him of this action from
resident of Detroit, made an attack affect the welfare of the Jews of
Dr.
Bernard
Kahn, European Di-
the Congress. It is true, of course,
against the Jewish people in goner- Greece. They point out that it
that the Americans took to Basle a rector of the Joint Distribution
III, and whereas the Italians and the will give the anti-Semitic elements Group of Jewish Women Ac - statement of thear aims. Not one Committee's activities.
Jewish people have always been on here new grounds for anti-Jewish
According to the statement made
live on Michigan Dis -
i of them, however, was realized.
friendliest terms with each other propaganda.
public by Rabbi Wise, the Joint
U.
U. S. Program Altered.
armament Committee.
and have in common the same ideals
The boycott of Greek products
economic program adopted' Distribution Committee agreed to
as to the proper conduct of man would be justified, the Jewish lead-
The Disarmament Caravan, at the Congress was entirely dif- contribute $15,000 and TOZ $6,500
toward his fellowmen, the convey- ers feel, if the Greek nation as
toward the further maintenance of
s fe pr o ik m etn o f from
oini
n thhi
which
t i
lion condemns his statements as such and also the Greek govern- which left Hollywood, Cal., June
country
June. these institutions. These approp-
false and unwarranted and takes ment were anti-Semitically inclin- 21, bearing disarmament petitions
had been intended then to elect riations were decided on at a con-
this opportunity to reaffirm and re- ed. However, this is not the NM, to President Hoover, will arrive in j a committee of economic experts ference of Jewish leaders from Po-
assure the Jewish people of the they say, the recent anti-Jewish Detroit on Monday.
I who, as part of the World Zionist land and Latvia in Warsaw. Among
love and respect of the Italian outbreaks here having been the
This caravan is a train of auto- mechanism, would facilitate the in- those who took part in the confer-
people towards them and to con- work a small group of Nationalists, mobiles from the Pacific Coast, flux of capital into Palestine. All ence were R. Szereszewski, presi-
mend the Jewish people for the while the Venizelos government en- bearing a committee of women ' that did happen was that the Con- dent of the Federation of Jewish
ideals and the great men they have joys the full confidence of the Jew- who are nationally known in dis- Kress gave its pious approval of Orphanages, Dr. NI. Engelman and
given the world throughout the ish population.
armament activities. The com- the entry of private capital into Dr. M. Jaffe.
ages."
The financial plight of the or-
mittee has a petition to President l'alestine, an approval which it has
BOSTON.—(J. T. A.) — George Hoover, which is being sogned by very consistently given always. But phanages was recently made public
A Mere Candy Storekeeper. N. Pratt, Albanian consul in IThs- persons interested in promoting a
no experts were placed in charge of at an emergency meeting of officials
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is ton, received a cable from his gov- discussion of diasrmament at the the work and the Zionist movement of theedoration of Jewish Or-
informed by the Italian Lavoce del ernment, asking him to intervene ' International Disarmament Con- as such did not align itself with the phanages. While Polish Jewry with
Popolo of this city that Gugliucci with the Zionist Organization re- cress to be held in 1932 in Geneva, stimulation of private initiative the assistance of the government
is not a journalist at all, but that yarding a proposed boycott of es- Switzerland. ithrough organized effort. That is has managed to maintain the or-
he at one time had a candy store rogim, from Greece which is being
The petition is identical with now. as it has been during the past phanages thus far at an annual ,
in Detroit and among other things sold at Triests in retaliation for that taring circulated in 34 other ten years, the province of individ- expenditure of 6 000 000 zlotys, a
sold newspapers. Gugliucci's where- the recent anti-Jewish disturbances countries.
cut in the government subsidy of
abouts are at present not known, in Saloniki.
"I 'llut the majority of the Amer- more than 60 per cent as well as
Program for Detroit.
members of the staff of Lavoce del
in a letter to Robert Silverman
the
reduced income from voluntary .
The caravan will reach Detroit man delegation was entirely con-
hipolo not having heard of him for of the New England Zionist Re-
donations makes the position of the
some time. glen, Mr. Prifti points out that the from Highland Park at 9:30 a. m. tent that its program, so exultantly orphanages exrtemely precarious. I
IMonday and will be escorted to the I heralded before the Congress con-
Vincent Giuliano, editor of the bulk of the esrogim sold at Trieste , Hotel Stetter by Detroit peace veiled, should be scrapped at Basle,
This is the second blow that has
IItroit Italian Tribune, informed comes from !Hamra Albania, and workers, and from there to the l as soon as it was assured that its come to Jewish child care organize.'
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle that not from Greece. The cable from City H a n , w here a we l come w ill 'principal aim, the unseating of Dr. tions recently as the result of re-
no such pershn as Gugliucci is the Albanian government asks that
duced government subventions. A
be extended by Mayor Murphy. A Weizmann, was accomplished.
few weeks ago the Warsaw munici-
known to them, nor have they ever Zionists should not consider Hi-
Attacks Leaders.
h e ard that name in journalistic mars as Greece and therefore boy- rally and band concert will be held
pality informed the Jewish School
"In
June,
1930,
in
the
interests
,
in
the
afternoon
on
Belle
Isle,
and
circles.
Cott the Ilimara esrogim.
speeches will be delivered, with of what was characterized as peace. Association that it will be unable to
Mrs. Myron B. Vorce acting as the majority of the annual Amer- subsidize any further the Jewish I
chairman. A reception and din_ I Wan Zionist convention decided to children's summer colonies. Unless
nor will be held at the pavilion on J invite the so-called Brandeis-Mack immediate funds are obtained these
the island. Monday night the care-' group into active participation in colonies, where more than 500 ill
van will go to Monroe and from the Zionist movement, after ton and undernourished children have
been spending the summer, will
there to Ohio.
The caravan entered Michigan (Turn to Page Opposite Editorial) have to close.
BOSTON, Mass.—(J. T. A.)—An
editorial notice appearing in the
10)000 ORPHANS
SAVED BY J. D, C.
BOYCOTT OF GREEK
ESROGIM OPPOSED
CARAVAN OF PEACE
COMES TO DETROIT
Repprt Increase Of Jewish Suicides
In Europe As Result Of Depression'
Four More Commit Self-Murders in Warsaw; Distress
Drives Two More German Jews to Suicide; Crisis
Cuts Jewish Divorces in Warsaw 33 Per Cent.
WARSAW.--(J. T. A.)—The
wave of Jewish suicides in Poland
resulting of the dire economic sit-
uation of the Jewish population
Nlunday claimed four more victims,
The four who preferred death to
a further struggle with life are
Jacob Martkovicz, 64; Chaim he-
, cr, 32; Felicia Lewengrub, and
Daniel Sdelbaum, 55. •
Martkovicz was a publisher of
Political literature while Laser was
the son of a cotton manufacturer.
Mrs. I.ewengrub was the wife of a
manufacturer and Edelbaum was
hank
y manufacturer.
Lewengrub and hence took
gas. Edelbaum hanged himself.
and Martkovicz shot himself.
Cut in Divorces.
A 30 per cent decrease in the
number of divorces among the
Jews
of Warsaw for the last six
months was reported by the rab-
binate, which attributes the drop
to the economic difficulties of the
Jewish population. In the last half
year only 85 divorces were grant-
ed while in July all records were
broken when only two Jewish di-
vorces were issued. Another rea-
son for this decrease in the fact
that the Jews are unable to pay
the fees incidental to a divorce.
Not only has the economic crisis
reduced the number of Jewish di-
verces but it has also been respon-
sible for • decrease in the Jewish
population of the city as a result
of the declining birth-rate owing
to the disinclination of young
Jews to marry. Warsaw now has
about 25,000 less Jews than it had
a decade ago. In 1921 the Jews
constituted 41 per cent of the total
population, while now thhe are no
more than 30 per cent. At the
same time birth control is becom-
ing more popular among Jews.
Suicides in Germany.
BERLIN. — (J. T. A.) — Ger-
many's economic crisis claimed
two more prominent German Jews
when Dr. Edmund Meyer, well'
known eye, ear, now and throat
specialist, and his wife committed
suicide. Dr. and Mrs. Meyer left
a note stating that they had taken
their lives because they could no
longer cope with economic priva-
tions. Dr. Meyer was one of the
leading mcn in his field and the
author of a number of medical
works on throat and nose diseases.
Naei Editor Jailed.
M. Pfafferot, editor of the Hit-
lerite paper. Rote Erde, was sen-
tenced to six weeks' imprisonment
for libeling Rudolph Ililferding,
the former Socialist minister of
finance. In a recent issue, Rote
Erde had alleged that the "Orien-
tal Jewish" minister of finance,
Hilferding, had cancelled a 30,-
000,000 marks tax indebtedness
of a leading Jewish tobacco firm
Reemtema as a result of which he
was elected to the company's gov-
erning board Lt an annual salary
of 120,000 marks.
The court Ott sentenced Pfaffe-
rot establishei that Herr Hilferd-
ing had never had • place on the
governing boa. I nt the Reemtsma
concern.
at St. Joseph on Aug. 14, and has
been working east, stopping at
principal cities. Dearborn and
Pontiac are to he visited Saturday.
Members of C
Members of the caravan are
Miss Katherine Blake and Mrs.
John Jay White of New York
City; Miss Mabel Vernon of Dela-
ware, director of the caravan;
Mrs. Mildred Scott Omsted of
Philadelphia, and Miss Dorothy
Cook of Washington, D. C., just
graduated from Goucher. Miss
Blake, in contrast to Miss Cook
as to age, is past 70. She was for-
merly principal of the Katherine
Devereaux Blake School in New
York, named for her mother. She
was a veteran campaigner for wo-
man suffrage.
Reservations for the dinner at
Belle Isle may be made by calling
Mrs. L. J. Rosenberg, Longfellow
0815. Information regarding the
caravan 11111, be NrCUICII by call-
ing the Women's International
league in St. John's Community
House, Cherry 2064.
Mrs. I. Bayre Levin (Lydia
Kahn) is chairman of the pub-
licity committee for the caray. an's
receptions in Detroit.
PISGAH SEEKS DATA
ON UNEMPLOYMENT
U
Lithuanian Artisans
Leaving for Bidjan
The Only Way In Which To
Greet All Your Friends
Ile suffers from a superiority com-
plex. The world has long made
peace with the Jew, but the Jew
won't make peace with the world,
and the solution to the Jewish
problem lies in intermarriage.'
Trapped at Last.
11
0
U
Officers of Pisgah Lodge No. 34,
B'nti B'rith, announce that a spe-
cial committee, headed by Morris
Shatzen and Henry Abramovitz, is
investigating report" of the refusal
of Jewish employers to hire Jews.
This committee will also try to find l c,
• solution for other unemploy;
ment problems among Detroit
Jews.
U
Address
PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
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E. BLOCH NAMED SWISS
CONSUL IN AUSTRALIA
Name
n
20=101=I0=01-101=01===10==
to get into that country, and I
looked around for something to
CIO.
"I
took whatever work came
my way. Since it was temporary
only it did not nuitter what one 1
did. A year passed and then an-1
other. My brother was using all
the influence he could to get me a
visa; I was finding out all I could
about the possibility of getting out
of the Soviet Union. 1
Manages Own Store.
"Finally the visa came.
I ap-
plied for a passport and was
promised it. Then one night a
committee came to me from the
town soviet. They had a proposi-
tion to make: Would I go back to
store, not to own it, but to run it
for the town?
I was an experi-
enced hardware man; the man who
was running it now was a total
stranger to the business. The
peasants were dissatisfied. It was
their suggestion that I take over
the store and run it for them.
"My visa could be used within
a year. I agreed to take the job
for six months. When I entered
the store the next day, there were
two dozen customers there, wait-
ing; they had heard of my coming
back. The reception they gave
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JEWISH GUARDIAN
QUITS PUBLISHING
PREJUDICE AGAINST
JEWISH CATHOLIC
TEACHERS CHARGED
Survey Shows They Find Dif-
ficulty in Getting Jobs
in New York.
JEW-HATRED DELAYS
AUSTRIAN SWIM MEET
Scientific Anti-Semitism is No
Offense, Hnugarian
Court Rules.
7--
NEW
YORK.—(J. T. A.)—Fol-
lowing close upon the recent in-
vestigation that revealed a colos-
sal amount of ignorance and of
prejudice against the "other fel-
low's" religion among young
echool children of New York City,
there has come another survey re-
vealing a widely existing prejudice
against the employment of school
teachers on grounds of race and
religion. The results of the sur-
vey were announced by Clyde R.
Miller, director of the Bureau of
Educational Service, Teachers
College, Columbia University.
According to Mn, Miller's find.
Inge, competent and qualified
teachers fail to obtain positions
because they are Jews or Catho-
lics or Unitarians or because they
do not happen
h
to be of the Nordic
LAM
RABBI LEON FRAM
; REPLIES TO SHAW1Z
bEyekrRonptisn
you may print my New Year Card in the special New
Year Number of the Detroit Jewish Chronicle Sep-
tember 11, 1931.
1
It Is exceedingly difficult," Mr,
Miller declared, "for many Jewish
teachers to get positions. Cath-
KOVNO.—(J. T. A.)—The
olics also find difficulty to get po-
first group of Jewish artisans
sitions in various sections of the
recruited in Lithuania by N.
Of course in most places
Organ of British Liberal country.
Raschkes in behalf of the So-
it is next to impossible for people
viet Ort (society for promotion
Judaism Discontinues
not of the white race to obtain po-
of agriculture among Jews)
sitions. Very often when our
Publication.
proceeded to Bureya, Siberia.
bureau receives a call to fill an
The Lithuanian government
opening in some school or college,
LONDON.- (J. T. A.)—After 12
permitted the artisans to leave
the religion desired is very defi-
years of publication, the British nitely designated
the country on the condition
."
Guardian, the organ of British
that they surrender their citi-
Liberal Judaism, discontinued pub-
zenship. Bureya, or Bira Bid-
Swimming Meat Postponed.
lication after its issue of Friday,
jan, is in the Far Eastern re-
VIENNA.—(J. T. A.)—Because
Aug. 14. With the Jewish Guard-
public. where the Soviet gov-
of an unexpected anti-Semitic
ernment planned to establish a
ian discontinuing publication, the
manifestation, the annual Austrian
weekly Anglo-Jewish press in EN:-
Jewish republic.
swimming meet has had to be post-
land now includes only the London penal pending arrangements for
Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish selecting a new location for the
World.
content.
The Jewish Guardian was found-
Originally the aquatic meet was
ed in October, 1919, to oppose the scheduled to take place in Linz
enist conception as fostered by and all the large cities of Austria
the Jewish Chronicle. Among the prepared to send their delegations.
founders of the Guardian were Sir Among those selected to represent
6. 1 p Magnus, Dr. Claude Monte. the city of Vienna were two Jews,
re„
Lord Swaythling and Joseph members 'of the local Hakoah
Attacks Noted Writer's Views Gluckstein.
Dr. Laurie Magnus swimming team which has brought
great
distinction
on Intermarrigae and the , has been the editor.
to
Austrian
sports.
Quite unexpectedly the
1
Jewish Problem.
H•zefirah Discontinued,
Linz team announced its refusal
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—The to participate because it did not
Rabbi Leon Fram, in his sermon Ilazefirah, only Hebrew daily in want to enter into competition
last Saturday morning, made the Europe, discontinued publication with Jewish sportsmen.
o lowing reply to George Bernard Monday because of financial diffi-
This event, the first manifesta-
Shaw's views on intermarriage and culties. Ilazefirah was one of the tion of anti-Semitism in official
the Jewish problems:
oldest Ilebrew publications in the sport groups, has aroused consid.
enable protest in the liberal press.
" Noth i ng •
dangerou s to a world, having existed for 69
Jewish sports groups are deter.
writer as to acquire a reputation with several interruptions.
One of the best known editors mined to see this through to a fin-
for coining brilliant epigrams. Such
a reputation puts the writer under 'of the Ilazefirah was Nahum Soko- ish and to prevent a contest for an
obligation to say something start- low, now president of the World Austrian championship which shall
ling and explosive whenever he I Zionist Organization. The cloning exclude Jews from competition.
opens his mouth. There are writers 'of the Ilazefirah marked the fourth The Austrian Sport League has
who will forget honor, deny life- Jewish paper in Europe to dis- Jewish and Aryan sport groups.
long principles, sell their souls just continue publication in the last At official Austrian and interns-
for the sake of turning a neat epi- few weeks. Nile I.eben, a Bialy- Wind meets, the groups played to-
stok Yiddish daily, closed two gether as Austrian nationals and
gram.
"Something of this Riot happened months ago. The Locher Tage- not as Jews or Aryans. The re-
blatt closed a few weeks ago and cent action of the Lintz swimmers
to George Bernard Shaw. Asked
to say something about the Jewish last week the Jewish Guardian, is regarded as an effort to oust the
problem in connection with his visit London Anglo-Jewish weekly, die- Jews front the general Austrian
continued publication. Sports League.
to Russia, he felt that being George'
The refusal of the sport organ-
Bernard Shaw, he bad to say RIM,
500 Jewish Papers in World. Ization in Lintz to participate in
thing that had never been said
Berlin.-1.1. T. A.)—There are the swimming tourney was eon.
before. The Jewish problem, how-
now over 1300 Jewish periodicals he- demned by the Austrian Swim-
eveys so old that there is nothings
ing published throughout the world, wing Association. At a meeting
original to be said about it. Mr.' .
according to statistics compiled by of the executive committee of the
Shaw, therefore, was under the oh-'
Dr. Arthur Ruppin in a two volume association it was established that
ligation of saying the same old
work entitled "Sociology of the Sep Staudinger, former champion
thing in a new way—in short, of
Jews" which has just been publish- of the Austrian Swimming Clubs'
indulging in wisecracks. hence his
ed here by the Juedischer Verlag in Association, was responsible for
statements: 'The Jew does not suf-
fer from an inferiority complex. Berlin. Three hundred of these th esction of the I.intz Sport Club.
"I feel that the most intriguing ' I
thing about Mr. Shaw's statement
that
total assimilation is the only'
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solution of the Jewish problem is
that the idea was suggested to him
by his visit to Russia. It is a rare
thing to catch Mr. Shaw at ignor-
ance on any subject under the sun,
but unmistakably he has at last
been trapped. Like so many other
tourists, he tried to learn all about
Russia in the course of a few deys'
kit to :Moscow. One of the things
Your friends in Detroit and throughout the State of
he did not learn in his rapid sur-j
Michigan will read your Greeting if you insert it
y of the situation was that the
among the
Russian government is making a
powerful effort to prevent the as-
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his own culture. Mr Shaw does
not know that the Russian govern.
All announcements should be in early to
ment does not permit Russian to he
assure proper classification. The charge
he language of those public schools
w hich are situated in Jewish neigh-
for these notices is I.
borhoods.
In such school., the lan-
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guage of lestruetien must he Yid
dish. Russian is taught only as a
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secondary language. This policy is
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not applied to Jews alone. The
Germans on the hanks of the Volga
are being encouraged to continue
their German identity and culture
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in the same way, as are also the
Tartars in the Crimea. Every one
Herewith enclosed find one dollar for which
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made it concession to the new re-,
gime; they were not as long eel
they had been when ho was 35,1
but he had not dispensed with
them entirely. Ile was speaking
to a peasant woman with author-
ity. She made the purchase and
Mr. Wernik and myself were left'
alone for a chat.
Waited for a Visa.
I asked him how he, an Ortho-
dox Jew, belonging to the old gen-
eration, came to be the manager
of the town only department
store, which was a Soviet institu-
tion. I set down his story, minus
the numerous repetitions, remi-
niscent little sighs and an occa-
sional sly wink at the expense of
the local authorities and "their
business ability."
"When they took my store from
me, nearly 10 years ago, and na-
tionalized it," Mr. Wernik began,
"I wrote to my brother in New
York. We decided that I had bet-
ter emigrate to Palestine. Ile
promised to help me with a visa
At first I thought
it would be a .
matter of weeks and I did noth-
ing. Finally I realized that get-
ting permission to leave Russia
may be an even longer process
than obtaining a visa from the
British or Palestinian government
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BERNF., Switzerland. — (J. T.
A.I—Euren Bloch, brother of the
famous Jewish dermatologist, Pro-
fessor Bruno Bloch. was appointed
Swiss consul-general in Australia.
Bloch has been Swiss consul at
Sydney for the last 10 years.
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Protest By Arabs Fails To Develop;
Fear Of Palestine Jews Groundless
Kisch Will Not Return to Active Public Zionist Work; Ar-
losoroff Introduced to Officials; Counterfeit Ameri-
can Money Circulating in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM.—With the excep-'
tion of an atteni"' by about a score
of Arab youths at Nablus to stage
a demonstration by marching
through the streets and beating tin
cans, the entire country was nor-
mal Saturday despite Arab plans
to protest the government's grant-
ing of sealed armories in outlying
Jewish colonies. Even the few
Nablus youths were dispersed by
older Arabs long before the police
arrived.
"When the l'alestine govern-
ment does not want trouble there
is no trouble," was the general
feeling expressed in all Jewish cir-
isles, implying that II. C. I.uke.
acting high commissioner during
the 1929 riots, was not very anx-
ious to prevent the disturbances at
that time.
conference and opposed the decis-
ions adopted there, a fact which
in itself might have been sufficient
proof that the great majority of
the Arabs would not take action
unless encouraged by the Execu-
tive. These Jews immediately re-
called the 1929 atrocities and
feared a repetition. They did not
consider the fact that it was only
a small group of hot-headed youths
who had decided to hold demon-
strations.
Once this panic had b
creat-
ed the wildest rumors circulated
and as a result many Jews in the
aforementioned places began flee-
ing from their homes and all gov-
ernment assurances that nothing
would happen failed to
them. The authorities, however,
determined to have no disturb.
ances nor even demonstrations,
took every precautionary measure
to prevent them, and succeeded.
I Strike.
Arabs Plan C
The second anniversary of the
1929 Palestine riots will be marked
by • general Arab strike, the Arab
Executive decided at • continua.
tion of Sunday's meeting at which
the executive rejected the British
government's Palestine develop-
ment scheme.
As a stormy session the x u
tive also discussed the question of
the government's alleged arming
of Jewish colonies and resolved to
call a strike on Aug. 23, when it is
intended that the entire member-
Recalled 1929 Horrors.
The horrors of 1929 are still
vivid in the minds of the Jews.
particularly those living in the
Old City in Jerusalem, Sated and
Hebron, all of whom suffered
greatly just two years ago. When
the decisions of the Nablus confer-
ences of a fortnight ago, one of
which was that all the Arabs in
Palestine should stage demonstra-
tions Aug. 15 to protest the gov-
ernment's action on the sealed ar-
mories, were made known the Jews
of the Old City in Jerusalem, Sa-
ted and Hebron became panic-
stricken.
Although the Arab Executive,
which is the representative body ship of the executive, headed by
of the Palestine Arabs, did not par-
ticipate officially in the Nablus-
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