REVerRorr llll Abrialyelyiyett r_Tyr " ' 4,476,646 4444 6674 644 litEY)erRon , , jEwisitentorachn Entered Second -clam matter Much I, 1916, at the Poet- office se at Detroit, Ylich , under the Act of March I, 1879. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle London Office: 14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England $3.00 Per Year To Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must remit this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly tint on. side of the paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subs Met* of interest tc Jewish people, but disclaims re•ponsi- bUity for an Indorsement of the Mews expressed ths writer. er Sabbath Readings of the Torah. . Pentateuchal portion — Dent. 32. Prophetical portion—llos, 14:2-10; Joel 2:15-17 or 27. Day of Atonement, Monday, Sept. 21, Readings of the Torah. Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16; Num. 29:7.11; afternoon, Lec. 18. Prophetical portion—Is, 57:14-58:14; afternoon, Jonah. September 1 8, 1931 . 6744 46X Tishri 7, 5692 The Day of Atonement. Once again we will observe the most solemn day on the Jewish calendar on Mon- day. Another Yom Kippur will find Jews in all portions of the globe assembled to pray for forgiveness for themselves and for the entire people of Israel. On this solemn day of fasting and prayer, man's intermediaries with God, who is seen as the Judge of all beings inscribing individ- uals for their fates during the new year, are penitence, prayer and charity. Jews have much to ask forgiveness for on this Yom Kippur. National failures to reconstruct Jewish life at a time when there was plenty of material goods; failures on the part of the Jewish people wisely to di- rect and guide the youth to productive and constructive pursuits, thus preventing their being placed in the present economic plight; constant wrangling and divisions in our ranks which have prevented united ef- fort for the good of all Israel—these give many reasons to lament and to be penitent for. Nevertheless, at a time when Jews pray for forgiveness of their sins and are peni- tent for the mistakes of the past, it is only fair to admit that Jews have much to com- plain about. Our people has been too sorely tried. The sudden and tragic decline of American Jewry's economic position may 11 Ohio State University at Columbus re- ports that 50 denominations are represent- ed in the student body of 15,126, with the 4,511 Methodist Episcopal students rank- ing first, Presbyterians second with 2,065, Catholics third with 1,149 and Jews fourth with 1,093. The percentage of Jewish students at the university is more than double the percentage of Jews in the state, which has been computed at about three per cent of the total. Previous studies of percentages at other colleges have revealed similar ratios. While on the face of things, they may serve as arguments against unrestricted admission of Jewish students in universities in re- ality they prove nothing at all. The fact remains that Jews have at all times flocked to schools of higher learning, and their in- vasion of the universities is merely in line with the people's traditions. The plea that we make at all times is that cultural freedom demands an open door policy to all schools. If there are too many Jews pursuing certain callings, the graduates themselves will eventually be meshed through a sieve, with the fittest surviving an dthe unfit being cast aside. And if merit is to be a criterion of service, then ability must be permitted to serve as the eventual guide to success. Jews must, of course, in every way pos- sible seek so to guide the youth not to flock to professions already overcrowd- ed, but that in turn is an internal problem remote and divorced from the principle of academic freedom. An observation that is in order at this time suggests itself apropos the "confession of faith" of 1,093 Jews at Ohio State Uni- versity who admitted that they are of the Jewish persuasion. These have not yet suf- fered the rebuffs that come to members of their faith and race because they are Jew- ish, and they therefore do not hesitate to name their religious affiliations. But too many Jews, shortly after graduation, are compelled to hide their Jewishness, by changing their names, by trading churches, for the mere right of securing a job. They are the saddest group of Marrano Jews in modern history. , qlfm E0 Tidbits and News of Jew- ish Personalities. DRAMA IN A PENNY ARCADE I was passing an amusement ar- , cade on State street, in Chicago. Walking with a Jewish social work- er. "There is an interesting story in there," said the social worker. "Sometime ago," began the social worker, "X came into our office, asking our assistance to get him employment. "Ile had been employed in a great industrial concern, doing clerical work, and when the depression came, he was one of the first to lose his job. The Jewish charities took care of the family and at the same time sought to find a job for the man. 'From time to time, his wife would also visit the charities. She was grateful for the assistance of the charities, but she felt that the charities in some way should see to it that her husband himself was more assiduous in seeking employ- ment. "'All day long,' said the wife, 'he does nothing—he sits at the settlement house and plays check- ers. And when he gets home it's checkers again. He'll wear out the chairs sitting on them playing checkers. Is that a thing for a man who has got a wife and three children?'" The social worker went down to see X and found him sure enough playing checkers. Yet X was not averse to getting work. He was willing to take any kind of work, he said quite sincerely, but untrain- ed at anything except the most routine clerical work. The charities were making a hard and seemingly futile attempt to locate X. His wife, meanwhile had become as aroused at X's checker playing in the face of their distress, that one bright day, she smashed the checker board to bits. —$— TRIUMPH OF THE CHECKER PLAYER That was about two months ago. Finally, the charities found a job that they thought would fit X. They sent for him. X's wife came, and was told that there was a job for her husband. "You sent for my husband, but I came instead," said the wife, "be- cause my husband is working." "Ile cant take your job. He's got a good job. tie's making better than he ever made in his life." "What is he doing?" queried the social worker. He plays checkers," replied the wife. And then the story come out that X had secured employment as a checker player in a State street amusement arcade. He plays all entrants for ten cents a game. He is a virtually unbeatable player, in fact, he really never loses, except when he does so by design, to en- snare others into the game and make them believe they have sonic chance. And he's gathering in the dimes, as though these were boom instead of depression times. Vital Statistics. The Vienna correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association, re- cently quoted sonic interesting figures pointing to the steady decline in birth rates and increases in death rates among the Jews in the Austrian capital. This corre- spondent pointed out that the Jewish com- munity of Vienna, numbering 200,000 souls, is grouped together in one "Kultuge- meinde," making statistical data reliable and easy to obtain. lie then proceeded to give the following interesting figures: THREE STUBBORN JEWS In the line of jokes, did you hear the one about the three who were trying to outvie each other in stories of stubborness. "I am so stubborn," said Abraham, "that when my daughter, Reba, was to he married, and I went to hire a hall for the wedding s I refused the hall, when they asked me $100 for the rental. I said I would give them $85. They said no—they wanted $100. Rather than pay that, I said, I would see Reba single all her life, and she is single to this day." Jews, pulled out another— WORKING FOR NOTHING The scene is the office of one of the most prominent Jewish lawyers of the northwest. Into the office came Goldstone n (o alo m veio ) usly I cannot tell his real "I have come," said Goldstone, "to as k you to take charge of the legal ffairs connected with the winding of my factory. But I must tell y: u that I have no money to pay a e legal fees." pr The lawyer, one of the highest iced in his section of the country, r e plied: "Mr. Goldstone, that's entirely -7 .9.0k,7k.9.9.9R-90Q.K6IsQ9k ,A sgYMW:TTz4T: 9k-9( (Turn to Next Page) t 11, Charles H. Joseph By JEREMIAH HAGGAI articles on the subject of Jews and college, read the contribution in this month's Harper's Magazine under the caption "Jews Go to College." The author does not use his real name, for obvious reasons. He is a leading administrator who has been associated with colleges in the various parts of the country. He discusses the entire question of discrimination against the Jews; he presents the Christian side and the Jewish side and the college side, and I roust say that he shows himself emi- nently fair and tries to give each their proper use. Ile indicates that there are fundamental reasons why the Jew cannot adjust himself wholly to the Christian environment and which creates that division which brings forth hte charge and counter-charge that the Jew is clannish and the Christian is high hat. Ile very frankly presents facts to show that there is definitely discrimination against the Jewish student who wishes to enter, but he, at the same time, endeavors to indicate the dilemma which such a condition has created for the college authorities. Here is just one of the dozens of interesting statements to be found in this article: Jews are naturally intelligent and indus- trious. They can drudge endlessly and put up with great suffering and privation without losing their vision of better things.... There are, of course, lazy Jews and dull Jews, but it must be remembered that I am not writing of individuals, but of the race. Taken as a whole, the Jewish students study the hardest and need the least prodding of all. Unlike ninny Chris- tian students, they seldom seem bored with learning, and their thirst for knowledge is in- satiable. On the basis of pure scholarship the Jewish applicant for admission to college can more than hold his own against the Christian student; it is the circumstance more than any other that drove the Christian college admin- istrators to the various unacademic changes in admission requirements. It might be expected that the assiduity of the Jew would arouse the admiration of his Christian classmates. On the whole, the opposite is true. Oversee' at one's books is not regarded by the average Christian as desirable; to call a college man a "greasy grind" is to insult him by suggest. ing that he does nothing but plug at the printed symbols of the textbook page and be- come, as a result, uncompanionable and nar- row-minded. All Jews are "greasy grinds," said a Christian junior to me the other day, "and who wants to be like them?" The writer says that one of the most annoying things that college administrators have to deal with is the persistent meddling of Jewish parents with the lives of their children. But it is only by reading the article that you can gain a true understanding of the term "meddling" and you will likely be forced to agree that the college's attitude toward this nuisance is the correct one. At any rate you will be well repaid by a perusal of this most instruc- tive analysis of the entire situation. doesn't seem to be much of a silver lining T HERE to clouds these days, even though the price of silver has become so depreciated. But somebody somewhere has some money, for witness the drive about to begin in New York Jewry, for over five million dollars for the Federation of that city. Some three million are already pledged as annual contributions but in addition over two millions more are to be raised as special contributions. Sounds like a lot of money these long-face gloomy days, but it is heartening to know that there is such a spirit of optimism and helpfulness present. Paul Block, the publisher of some seven news- papers, is to head the drive and if he takes up that job with the same energy he invests in his news- paper enterprises, there need be no doubt as to the outcome. Ile is a human dynamo and a wonderful inspirer. These qualities combined with unusual executive ability, make him the ideal head of such a campaign. And that he is fortunate in having as his chief lieutentnt, Lieutenant-Governor Her- bert Lehman, who is also SOME leader! SOLOMON FREEHOF philosophizes in the Amer- ican Israelite on the subject of the depression. He fears it will lead to a "spiritual depression" that may be difficult for us to emerge from. We are paralyzed by the fear of the Uncertain. So we conserve our incomes until it hurts. We cut down here and reduce there for spiritual or philanthropic causes. We make up our minds that we are going to cut where the cutting will resolve itself into the least possible inconvenience to ourselves. Which, of course, is human and quite understandable. But as I interpret it, Dr. Freehof is fearful that this attitude will eventually result in a callous indiffer- ence to causes spiritual and that we may become spiritually as well as financially, bankrupt. The milk of human kindness may dry up. Our sympa- thies with others through troubles of our own, may become "frozen." Yet I wonder how many think of the fact that all through the years of good times and in had times, the poor, living in the congested districts of our cities, have become, just by reason of their own lot in life, sympathetic, helpful and neighborly to the degree of always giving some- thing from the little they have. It's because THEIR GIVING IS ALL HEART, while through our mechanized campaigns we have developed me- chanical giving with MORE MIND than heart in it. It is a SOCIAL DUTY. The poor give because they FEEL the other's dire need. So it is quite natural that when dividends begin to take wings and fly, many rich feel comparatively poor and reduce their giving to an irreducible minimum. But the poor keep right on giving of their mite to someone who hasn't even a mite. "That's nothing," began Isaac. "You call that stubborness. Listen to my story. One time, I was out walking far into the country. It was a dark and wintry night. The snow was coming down like water at Niagara, and the winds were howling terribly. Every minute I thought 1 ould turn into a cake of Eskimo pie. In the distance, I saw a little country house, with the smoke issuing from the chimney. Ah, how delightful that looked. It was an oasis in the desert, so to speak. I would go in there, and warm myself by its bright fires. I finally made my way through the steeps of snow to the little house. I knocked on the door. "Who is there?" asked a gentle voice from within. I did not ans- wer. RABBI WOHL of Cincinnati says that the only "Who is there?" again came the hope for the Jew in Russia is mass emigration. query softly. Again, I would not I can't agree. It is more hopeless for the Russian answer. I froze my leg off rather Jew to indulge himself in such a dream than it is than answer. for him to have his salvation worked out in Russia. "You fellows," joined in Jacob, Where can the Jews go even if the Soviets were "think you were stubborn, but fie , content to let them go? It is all well and good to e, wait, until you hear my story talk about Europe and America making a humani- One day, I had a toothache, and tarian gesture and taking hundreds of thousands of went to the dentist, to extract the Jews to their bosoms. But that sort of thing isn't bothersome molar. happening in real life these days, nor is it likely The dentist asked me which tooth to happen for many, many days to come. I think pained me. "Tref" (guess) I said. that the hope of the Russian Jew is in Russia. We So he pulled nut one. It was the know that it is extremely difficult for a great many wrong one. to adjust themselves to the new conditions, but "Which tooth hurts you," he con- since they can't possibly go anywhere else, every tinued. possible effort should be made to improve their "Tref", I replied again. He's a position where they are. dentist. It's his business to find and a o ga ull i ' n i 'ethe wrong one." And so it went on—he pulled out all of my teeth except one--and do you know, I still have the toothache. t F YOU want to read one of the most illuminating ✓ I t The Hashomer Hatzair Zionist Scout Movement 4.7A1..)f7N .1...7W,e.)46,74,)*J3eSgeget,l'elbtX,7.1. By DAVID SCHWARTZ si maze sks zl BY•THE•WAY When we read, therefore, reported sta- tistics of the numbers of Jews at universi- ties, we are affected by mingled emotions of pity for the youth who will before long be faced by serious economic trials in a pre- judiced world, and of hope that these con- ditions will be eliminated, preventing the rise of a new group of Marranos. prove the unwisdom of a people tradition- ally looked upon as shrewd in business. But it is a cruel affliction of Providence that such punishment of American Jewry should react to the continued torture of European Jewry which must look to this continent for aid in its tragic plights. And what about European and Asiatic Jewries? Have they not suffered enough miseries and massacres that they must be subjected to additional cruelties? Cer- tainly the stream of pogroms and indigni- Some time ago, the figures on deaths and ties heaped upon the Jewries of the world births were published. From 1921 to 1928, in the past twelve months are enough to one observes a constant and steady decline of arouse Heavenly as well as earthly powers the birth rite. The respective totals for this in behalf of our people. eight-year period are 3,080, 2,966, 2,721, 2,557, 2,190, 1,752, 1,497 and 1,216. The Must our people continue to be chosen to official figures for 1929 have not yet been pub- suffer? Is this the attribute of a Chosen lished. but the total is said to be below 1,000. The death totals for the same eight-year People, that it must suffer and struggle and period are respectively, 2,868, 2,966, 2,659, submit to ugly persecutions for the sake of 2,597, 2,496, 2,621, 2,729 and 2,864. A dis- the uncertain right of being "a nation of tinct upward trend in recent years will be ob- served, no that the Jewish congregation, since priests and a holy people?" there is no influx from without, is threatened Is this blasphemy? Then we ask in re- with annihilation. turn, is suffering a criterion of justice? The number of deaths of children under 1 year of age has been materially reduced, This Yom Kippur, perhaps above all although some of the reduction can be account- others, the Jews have reason to intermingle ed for by the decrease in the number of births; the total number of infant deaths in 1921 was their penitence with complaint, and are jus- 201 and in the last year reported it wa.s only tified in raising their voices in pleas that an 48. Likewise, the stillbirths dropped from end be placed to their sad plight throughout 106 to 35. the world, and that the Judge of all humans These figures are important for various should command the beginning of the rule reasons. The decline in the birthrate as of justice and righteousness, with the Jew- well as the increased death rates are with- ish people sharing in the bliss which should out doubt attributable to economic condi- become the lot of all peoples everywhere. tions. The increase in anti-Semitism cer- tainly does not help the situation any and if The Mushroom Synagogue. anything is in great measure responsible In a recent issue of the New York Times for the increase in suicides and for the gen- appeared an advertisement of one of the erally despondent conditions among Jews three-day-a-year synagogues, which have in most of the capitals of Europe. become known as "mushroom synagogues" With this situation ruling the (lay in lead- by virtue of their disappearance after Yom ing Jewish centers in Europe, the need in- Kippur and reappearance on the eve of creases for serious consideration of possible Rosh Ifashonah. Not only do individuals solutions of the tragedies that followed the brazenly organize such synagogues for per- war. Perhaps the desired solution will be sonal profit on the occasion of the High found in the settlement of large numbers Holy Days, but this advertisement was even of Jews on farms. Or perhaps there is need placed under the classification of "amuse- for a new migration movement to some un- ments." It is natural that synagogue and rabbini- cultivated portions of Europe. From both of which, of course, must not be excluded cal organizations should resent the spread the ever-existing dangers of that hatred of of such houses of worship. And it is natural our people which does not even afford Jews that they should conduct a country-wide an opportunity to possess forms. But the propaganda campaign against them. All need remains for some radical action to Jews owe their support to such a movement solve the existing problems. Thus far, how- against these synagogues, and to counter- act their influence should respond to calls ever, the present generation has not pro- duced the Moses who should lead the Jews only from organized congregations. But we again take this means of reminding our out of this wilderness of despair. congregations that they will never defeat J. L. D. is Irish and Catholic, yet the Jew- the "mushroom synagogue" so long as they ish New Year season is always on his eaten- themselves are honored and consecrated on only three days in the year. Let them make dar as a time for remembering his Jewish friends with a customary greeting card. synagogue life throb with life and learn- Such good will, simply and sincerely ex- ing, and the chances for survival of the pressed, is proof that mutual friendship is "mushroom" houses of worship will become possible without the injection of the prose- nil. lytizing element. „ IMINIMM41 PZUFFWr EWL5/1 ifilt074 ICUS trieWAWA I , yarimyritlyttk lyhkingyal ,,,,,, A Study in Percentages. Published Weakly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing C., Inc. Subscription, in Advance 4. cif5, 4 4 , JAMES WATERMAN WISE, son of Dr. Stephen Wise (though this designation is becoming in- creasingly unnecessary as "Jimmie" is rapidly es- tablishing his own reputation), has written an anthology of the works of Ludwig Lewisohn which, I understand, is to appear this month. Mr. Wise has selected vital, significant excerpts from the writings of Lewisohn which relate to the many phases of Jewish life. And by means of this anthol- ogy one can easily gather Lewisohn's attitude to many questions that are annoyingly present with most of peoplemost of our people. Through his writings he has given us his opinions of anti-Semi- our tism, Zionism, and other such questions. James Wise is exceptionally qualified to make such a di- gest of Lewisohn's books and I am sure that it will prove to be an interesting and instructive volume. Both Wise and Lewisohn are advanced thinkers and while both are inclined to awing to an extreme, they surely provoke thinking our part, and are responsible sometimes for influencing us to modify some of our hard and fast ideas, that may (dare we whisper it?), be out-of-date. At least you may be sure that when you get a group of Ludwig Lewi- sohn's ideas flavored with those of "Jimmie" Wise's you are goin go ng g to h ohave some interesting reading. 4 9,8 IEtlitor's Note: Jeremiah lisice•i, son of Mr. ill M,X. Joseph Haggai of thM city. w h o toe prominent in local Ile- braist •nd Zionist cirrleo, is • promising Young leader uf the Zionist youth move- ment. The following well-written arti- cle ably explains the Zionist Scout move- ment). The problem of rallying Jewish youth to the Zionist standard is a perennial one that Zionist conven- tions in all countries aneually face and dispose of with one or two stir- ring resolutions and little else. Such an attitude must not be too severely condemned, for one should not lose sight of the great respon- sibility which Zionist leaders uni- versally bear for the immediate and practical problems of the move- ment, such as campaigns and ad- ministrations, pressing problems, whose need for solution takes pre- cedence even over so significant a question as the training and guid- ance of a new generation to carry on with the actual realization of the ideal in the Homeland. A sorry plight, indeed, is that of those Zion- ist youth organizations which find themselves directly dependent for support and supervision on some senior body. The Zionist Scout Organization "Ilashomer Ilatzair" is an indepen- dent world movement that points with somewhat justifiable pride to a membership of 40,000 young Jews and Jewesses in many countries. It is primarily an educational move- ment. It seeks to rear a young generation of Jews and Jewesses, sound both in body and mind, and fired with the ideal of a Jewish Na- tional Revival in a restored Jewish National Homeland in l'alestine on healthy foundations of social jus- tice. To the attainment of this end it applies the boy scout system of education, conceived by the British General, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, and evolved through practical ex- perience in most civilized countries of Europe and North America. As developed by Ilashomer Hatzair, this method seeks to embrace all phases of the young Jewish per- son's life. Through a well organized program of sports and other out- door activities, it seeks to develop his body, to co-ordinate its func- tions well through proper training in hygienic methods, making of him, thereby, a healthier, happier individual; in this manner, it aims to acquaint him more closely with nature, not only to understand and love, and to apply the values de- rived from it to his own life, but also to meet the hardships it im- poses under less civilized conditions, to become thereby a sturdier, more hardened and reliable person. Cam- ping, woodcraft, and similar activi- ties occupy an important place on a well planned Shomer program. Each Kvutzah Has Sichah. Obviously, however, the activities of Ilashomer Hatzair cannot stop here. It is, after all, chiefly inter- ested in its young charges as Jews and as active members of an ideal society. Consequently a consider- able portion of its work centers around the Sichah. Siehah means discussion. Each Kvutzah (patrol) arranges a series or several series of such sichot for the entire year. These sichot may be classified into two major divisions. The one deals specifically with Jewish topics and with Zionism. The sichot in this group revolve about Jewish history, Jewish customs, literature, move- ments and Palestine. The second division is no less important. Un- der it are taken up problems of universal scope, problems, perhaps, that are of more vital interest and concern to young people during the years of adolesecence• Science, literature, art, music, handicraft— these are only some of the phases of cultural life which the movement Ilashomer Hatzair seeks to render accessible to the young Jew without involving him in the danger of sac- rificing the slightest element of his Jewishness in the effort to obtain them. woe strive above everything else to create in our Clam (club- room) such an asmosphere of ideal- ism and comradeship that what- ever his inmost need may be, the young shower will naturally turn to the organization for its fulfill- ment or solution. It should also be stated, at this point, that our educational program does not ignore the fact that the best means of making our Shorn- rizn and Shomrot Palestine-con- scious is to enlist them in the prac- tical work for Palestine. Conse- quentl y, the Jewish Naal Fund ti th Gewerkshaften and e Campaign occupy a recognized and important place i n our educational activity. Not only do we send out Shomrin and Shomrit on collection days, liu (and what is more important) en t tire series of sichot are set asid for the thorough study of thest "k'ranot," for the further elucitla tion of their purposes and signifi cance in the work of reconstruct'. in Palestine. Jewish National Fun, sermon of flag-days in Easter' Europe and in other American cit ies testify amply as to the faithful ness with which this phase of our work is carried on. U. S. Has Such Movement. We believe that eight years of such activity should serve to fire a healthy minded young Jew or Jew- esses with a burning desire and de- termination to go to Eretz Yisrael and live there the Jewish pioneer's glorious life of self-realization in the outposts of a new' Jewish so- ciety. One thousand organized Shomrim and Shomrit from many countries already are working in Palestine. Five times that number are awaiting the raising of the ban on pioneer immigration into the Homeland. America, too, has such a youth movement. After years of dynam- ic development, Hashomer Hatzair crossed the Atlantic, and contrary to all pessimistic prophecies and analyses concerning the apathy of American Jewish youth, struck firm rout in the soil of America. In New York, in Boston, in Mon- treal, in Toronto, there exist excel- lent Kinim (nests). The movement in this country is now approaching its first thousand and at the pres- ent rate of development will soon exceed that number. Every year it maintains two summer moshavot (camps) for a period of four weeks, one in Canada, one in New York. Organized as one large K'vutzah, the Shomrim enjoy during this month all the pleasures of scout life in a typically l'alestinean asmos- phere of brotherhood, idealism and work. It was my pleasure, as a Shomer, to spend the month of Au- gust in our national organization's summer Moshavah near Highland Mills, New York. The Nloshavah is an event, which once experienced is indelibly engraved upon one's memory in years to come as one of the deepest, intensest, and most fruitful of all spiritual experien- ces. s•st is= was ' The formal opening itself an impressive spectacle. At sundown, the bugle was blown, commands in Hebrew issued, and 150 Shomrim and Shomrot drew up around a campfire in formal array for the of- ficial cledicaiton of their annual Moshavah. Solemn addresses delivered on the significance of the Moshavah, on the general mission of our movement in the world, in l'alestine, in America. Formal greetings followed by representa- tives of the Jewish National Fund of America. of Avukah, of Young Judaea, of the Zionist labor parties, of the Peale Zion Youth. were Hashomer Hatzair in America also maintains a farm (hava) near Planefield, N. J., for those Shom- rim who are actually preparing to go to Eretz Yisrael. America has i+5 :74 415 :.) already sent its first group of Shornrim. More will follow from the Haves in the near future. Palestine Sends Delegate. Last month the Ilanhagah Elyon- ah (world executive) sent Mordecai Bentov, a Palestinean Shomer and leader in the world movement, t the United States. He will remain here for more than a year, organ- izing new pionts in cities not yet reached. American Jewry may joy- fully look forward to an unparal- lelled development, to the growth of a mass Zionist Youth Movement in this country. Hashomer Hatzair has existed in Detroit for more than a year. All beginnings are admittedly difficult; but now the hour has struck when in Detroit, too, we must take our place at the head of the Zionist Youth Movement of this city. In our movement, the person who bears the greatest responsibity, whose task is the most difficult, is the Menahel, the leader. For he is the one whose duty it is to lead the k'vutsah, supervise its activities, and instill in his young charges those specific qualities and values developed by our movements which, in Hebrew, we term Shomriut. De- needs leaders. The Ken must expand. We fell that all sincere. earnest Jewish young men and troit who s acr oep un ffi nedi ently impres- ".: ) ■ C; 17 as well as by the practicali(phUaripiossme's of (Turn to Next Page). For the Day of Memorial From the Hebrew of Jehudah Halevi. The seer of good shall acceptance find From the God whose glory is boundless, f he turn unto Him with repentant mind, And sackcloth on both of his shoulders bind By way of memorial. So come and return to our God on high Who fashioned the uttermost of heavens, Let your songs of praise to His footstool fly And seek Him tonight in choral cry By way of memorial. 0 King of the Kingdom that hails Thy name Since first to the void Thou spakest, Evoking the light that from darkness came, Accept this plea to expunge my shame As a rite of memorial. Prepare, 0 Israel, to meet Thy God, Let every man seek to find ransom, Remove the veil at which ye nod, Cleanse ye and wash ye and dread His rod This day of memorial. . 1 s* =IrM17 . 111 - Mi 44 4