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Reading of the Law for First Wm of Succoth,
Saturday, Sept. 26.
Pentateuchal portial—Lev. 22:26.23:44; Num.
29:12-16.
Prophetical portion—Zacharia 14.
Readings of the Torah for Second Day of Succoth.
Sunday, Sept. 27.
Pentateuchal portion—I Kings 6:2-21.
Readings of the Torah for Chol H•moed Succoth.
Monday, Num. 29:17-25; Tuesday, Num, 29:20-
28; Wednesday, Num. 29:23-21; Thursday, Num.
29:26-34; Friday, Num. 29:26-34.

September 25, 1931

Tishri 14, 5692

Beware of the Embers of Hate!

The brazenness with which newspapers
are abusing the terms "Jew" and "Jewish"
in reporting crime news is beginning to
grate on our nerves. One newspaper has
made a point to refer to "the litttle Jewish
Navy" in labeling a certain group of crim-
inals. Another, in a news report on Tues-
day from Flint, quotes youngsters as saying
that suspects in a kidnaping plot were
"Jewish looking."
.It so happened that on the same page on
which the latter newspaper referred to
"Jewish looking" suspects appeared two
st
large advertisements, both paid for by
Jews, one a nationally known clothier, an-
= other a prominent dealer. We are certain
that this newspaper does not differentiate
between Jewish business and gentile bus-
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iness. But in the same sense it does not
differentiate between "Catholic looking"
and "Protestant looking" suspects of crimes.
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It does not label suspects as Bulgarians,
Serbians, Rumanians, Scandinavians. It is
obvious that what is intended as a stigma
for being "Jewish looking" is a slur on a
much-abused and long humiliated people,
and we take the initiative to rebel. That a
• reputable newspaper should give credence
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to a report that children recognized the
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"Jewish" looks of a would-be kidnaper is
not only the height of incredulity but is an
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abuse of the noblest principles of journalis-
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tic accuracy and decency.
Detroit Jewry has the reputation for hay-
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ing a well-organized Jewish community. In
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times of fund-raising we boast of our sue-
cesses. But where are these leaders in
it
times like the present, when slurs creep
{e into the columns of our metropolitan news-
papers and threaten to prejudice all peoples
against us and to poison their minds? If
these are leaders, let them come to the
tj defense of their people, and let them rise
A: up as evidence of the contributions "Jew-
ish looking" men and women make to the
American communities. If they are false
leaders, then the time has come for the cre-
ation of a new and aggressive spokesman-
ship for Israel which will rise up in rebel-
lion against the shameful abuse of the Jew-
ish name by free American newspapers.
Such small seeds of hatred were responsi-
ble for the flame of prejudice which has
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enveloped all Europe. We warn our peo-
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pie: Beware of the smoldering embers of
hate and bigotry contained in the slurring
phrases flashed in our daily newspapers.

handful of Jewish businessmen, commonly
known as communal leaders, and them-
selves permitted a grave injustice to be
clone them. We hope the experience of
the present convention will be a lesson to
them.

The Succoth Festival.
We are observing the Succoth Festival in
very serious times for all peoples, and espe-
cially for Jewry. The German turmoil and
the outrages perpetrated in the German
capital against our people, the evident in-
crease of anti-Semitism, the troublesome
economic, spiritual and physical occurren-
ces—these are sufficient to send a shudder
through Jewish hearts.
And yet, the faithful will find a great
symbol for confidence and courage in the
Succoth festival. The frail Succah will
again he hailed as the symbol of Jewish in-
vincibility and strength. Because the Jew-
ish people is like the weak and weather-
beaten Succoth booth. It has been driven
and persecuted in all ages and all climes.
And yet, like the Succoth, we somehow sur-
vive every storm and emerge all the strong-
er from every wave of anti-Semitism.
At no time has hatred and persecution
more than temporarily harmed our people.
In the long run these adverse forces have
served to strengthen our inner position
with the result that we always emerge more
powerful from such conflicts. So that while
it is painful to be compelled to submit to the
indignities heaped everywhere upon Jewry,
we at least have the great satisfaction of
knowing that Israel will not die. Our fes-
tivals, traditions and ceremonials are proofs
of our living powers, and Succoth provides
an unusual symbol of Jewish invincibility.

The Hebrew Kindergarten.
We were audience during the past week
to a father's narration to a group of his
friends of his five-year-old son's experiences
in one of the kindergarten classes of the
United Hebrew Schools. This young fel-
low has become the inspirer of his home,
bringing to it, from his kindergarten, Jew-
ish stories and Hebrew songs. lie saluted
his family in Hebrew, and has become its
guide in the observance of Jewish holidays.
But one day the father chanced to be a
guest in his boy's class, and to his surprise
the youngster never said even a word in his
class, and in no manner whatever did he
reveal to teacher or fellow-pupils that he
understood and knew his work. At home
he was asked why he acted so shyly and
diffidently in his class, and his reply was:
"Daddy, if I speak up in class Miss R. will
know that I know the work and she will
promote me. But I don't want to be pro-
moted. I want to remain in the kindergar-
ten."
Such love for a class and its teacher is
so seldom heard about that this incident,
which, we learn, is multiplied many times
in the experiences of homes whose children
go to the Hebrew kindergartens, deserves
this mention. And because this attachment
to class is strengthened by the fact that the
youngsters bring from these classes excel-
lent beginnings for a fine knowledge of
Hebrew, as well as a love for Jewish tradi-
tions, the kindergartens, and the schools
they are a part of, have earned the interest
EMI untiring support of the United Hebrew
Schools. A community that appreciates
their value should make it possible for
more such kindergartens to be established
in sections of the city that have not as yet
been invaded by our schools. In this fash-
ion we will be assured of a Jewish influence
over our children from their childhood. And
once true Jewish spirit has been implanted
in their hearts, we have no fears of any-
thing or anyone snatching them from us.

Tidbits and News of Jew-
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point that eleven million starving unemployed

Good-bye, Mr. Mencken, you're
through. So in substance says
Mike Gold in the Masses.
To Mike, of course, anybody is
through who does not join to the
march of the Red drum taps. Put-
ting Mr. Mencken on the shelf is of
course quite conceivable. But not
for the reasons cited by Mike
Gold.
Mencken, I believe, is a little
of a has-been for the reason per-
haps that he has been too suc-
cessful. He has raised a school
who have absorbed his ideas and
who can do his tricks almost as
good as the Baltimore maestro
himself.
I could illustrate this very well
if I cared to mention names, by
citing the name of one of the
greatest figures in Jewish literary
life in the last quarter of a cen-
tury.
This man is really a tragedy
though the public generally does
not know how low he has fallen.
But on the insides they know and
he knows that his day has passed.
The trouble is that he has been
too successful and today his dis-
ciples have learned his methods
and can out-original the original.

simply afford just so much more good material for

the atheist organization. it is quite true that con-

ditions like these will put to the supreme test the
value of every man's faith. I overheard a man

say the other day that he intended from now on

to treat God the way God has been treating him.
At least it was an admission that God had some-

thing to do in influencing the course of his affairs.
The trouble with all of as is that we think that God

is interested in our financial difficulties. So tar as
Ile is concerned I imagine that lie considers them

of his own making, due to our inordinate greed
and selfishness and that we should muddle through

the best we can. God created the world and gave
every human being an opportunity to live in accord-
ance with certain laws. There is and there always

has been from the beginning of time food to eat,

if we exerted ourselves sufficiently to get it. But

when we begin to complicate living conditions and

society became more of a complex machine, and

everybody wanted more than his neighbor, why of
course some were bound to have too much to eat

and others have nothing. That's not God's fault.

And when men revile Him because they are in
distress it's quite human but quite ineffectual.

MENCKENS ALTER EGO
I do not expect Mr. Mencken's
stock to parallel quite so pre-
cipitous a decline. But Mr.
Mencken too has bees too success.
ful.
This month the American Mer-
cury contains an article jointly
Mencken and
Charles
You can't tell which is Mench-
en's and which is Angoff's. And
not only this article. Take An-
goff's recent "History of Ameri-
can Literature." If you knew
nothing, about that work and if
you closed your eyes, as in an Old
Gold test, the chances are you
would have said, "Mencken
wrote it."
So similar is the tone, the spirit,
the style and flavor. Mr. Mencken
has been too successful.
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FROM BOSTON CAME ANGOFF
He is an interesting young fel-
low—this Charles Angoff, Nomi-
nally, assistant to Mr. Mencken in
the editorship of the American
Mercury, it is whispered that
Mencken now leaves the editorship
almost completely to Angoff.
From Boston he sails—young
Anguff. Gossip says, and I don't
know how true it is, that he was
too individualistic to satisfy the
code of Boston journalism and
left. Ile is still under 30. Though
he can write a lusty English as
pure as the best Menekenese, he
can sling the Yiddish almost as
wickedly. And he has another
likeness to the sore of Baltimore
—he can swear ns eloquently.
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PURPLE LANGUAGE
I think it is time, by the way,
that somebody said a word in de-
fense of swearing.
I am aware, as all arc, of the
case against swearing. There is
even a great international society
whose sole purpose is to limit this
explosive form of speech. Yet it
seems to me that a practice, which
has maintained its vigor these
many centuries, despite all of this
opposition, must answer to some
inherent need.

Not so long ago there died a
great Jewish leader. Few enjoyed
the public esteem as he did. Yet
if I should mention his name and
say that the purple of his lan-
guage often outeolored the same
tint of the rainbow, I suppose a
howl would greet me. Yet person-
ally, I confess I
admired him all
the more for the strength of that
explosiveness. It was beautiful
to watch—quite as aesthetic as a
storm at sea.

I am told, too, by insiders, that
there are several members of the
Supreme Court of the United
States who not infrequently in
their conferences, pace the floor
and use these dynamite phrases.
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ON THE SAME SUBJECT
Perhaps there is no vice which
is not a little bit of a virtue, and
I suppose the some might be said
of swearing. For one thing, I be-
ieve it is a sovereign humanizing
nfluence. Again, it seems to act
as a sort of catharsis. A person
who swears off his peeve is not apt
go nursing his grudge. Thirdly,
t seems to me to be a sort of
ntegrating influence that lifts us
p from our customary torpor and
makes one conscious of the reser-
oir of fire within.
I do not mean to start any cam-
p aign for explosive language.
T here is nothing quite so disgust-
ng as indiscriminate resort to
hese expletives. I have no doubt
hat in frequent cases it is merely
a camouflage to cover up empti-
n es of thought.
Yet now and then a little swear-
in g seems to be called for. As Oli-
•r Wendell Holmes put it: Man
is the more lovable for a little
eakness.

RUSSIAN newspaper is credited with bringing

the message to its readers of the gradual de-
cline of religion in this country. It stresses the

BY-BYE. MR. MENCKEN

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IlATEVER troubles we experience are due to
breaking of certain laws. If you plant corn on
top of a mountain, you can pray to God every day
to raise corn but since Ilis law calls for a different
soil your prayers are futile. If you cut your finger
it will surely bleed and all your prayers to prevent
it bleeding will be of no avail. There is a law that
covers that, 'too. So we will be a lot happier,
though it seems unfeeling to say it, if we make up
our minds that if GOD'S LAWS are BROKEN in
economic world you will suffer exactly as you do
when His laws are violated in any other of our
worlds. You can break man's laws and get away
with it. But men can't escape the consequences
of their own acts. Men created our monetary sys-
tem, not God; men created our economic system,
not God: Whether we have capitalism in this coun-
try or pseudo-Communism in Russia, or some other
kind of economic and social "ism" elsewhere, we
are just groping to find the solution to the right
way to live. And every country, every society,
every system are in their infancy on the road to
light and understanding. Only fools think that we
have reached the final stage in human development
socially and economically. We are pretty frail.
We ourselves and the things we have. A violent
shiver of the earth and our buildings and our pos-
sessions would disappear.

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HURRICANE comes along and sweeps our toy
houses and our toy banks and our toy money
out of existence. Yet all those things to as are
the REASONS of life. Isn't it strange? No, it
isn't; it's just because we are men and women that
we get ourselves all tangled in a mess and then
blame God for it. Maybe Gandhi sees more than
most of us, and understands God's laws better than
we do.
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READ the other day when the former king of
Spain visited an old synagogue in Prague, and
remained throughout the services. That is very
interesting, but it means a whole lot less to me
than if Alfonso, when king, had been understand-
ing enough to have given his Jewish subjects more
consideration. It was left to his Republican suc-
cessors to remove some of the absurd medieval
restrictions maintained under the "modern"
Alfonso regime, One would imagine that a young
man, who was so thoroughly up-to-date might have
shed his outmoded religious ideas. Did I say
"religious" ideas? I meant his bigoted ideas about
his own and other religions,

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I T'S THE same old song and dance. I received a

cony of a circular distributed (luring the recent
election campaign in Pittsbburgh presumedly issued
by the "Federation of Patriotic Societies," urging
voters to avoid placing themselves under "Jewish,
Catholic, Negro and other Foreign Domination."
And closing with the usual ballyhoo, "Protestants
on Guard!" It was an echo of the Grand Old Men-
ace, the K. K. K. Patriotic societies, indeed!
That's the type of patriotism which is a menace to
Americanism. Yet articles are not going to change
minds that do that sort of thing. They are hope-
lessly bigoted and we have manifestations on every
side of the grim, relentless cruelty with which they
pursue their fanatical inclinations.

DID

you fast on Yom Kippur? That's the ques-

tion one hears frequently. Fasting especially

in our Reform group, has become almost like violat-
ing the prohibition law, an adventure. Some can

give the exact time they started and finished. And
in many instances it is looked upon as a definite

achievement! Fasting to some extent has become

a fetish, and we worship it to an extent dipropor-
tionate to the whole Yom Kippur Day observance.
I have said elsewhere that those who developed the

observance of the holiest day in the Jewish calen-

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Vienna's Foremost Literary Figure
Discusses the American Jew

Charles fie Joseph

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

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BY•THE•WAY

American Legion In War and Peace.
The editor's window provided a choice
observation point during the Big Parade o
the American Legion on Tuesday. The di n
4 of war resounded in these times of peace
Support the Yiddish Theater.
and as hundreds of thousands watched th e
Worse than the temporary danger of
legion of ex-soldiers march through th e starvation, threatened by the economic
main street of our great city, we wondere d crisis. is the fear expressed in some quarters
about peace.
that it may so seriously affect our cultural
to
There were thousands of children in th e institutions that they may not revive for a
sidelines. Did the parade glorify war fo r long time to conic. This must, above every- i
these youngsters? And if the din or march thing else. be prevented, because whereas u
was intended to signify the joy that w e charity will be easily forthcoming for the y
&ei are
in peace, where was the symbol of it? poor and needy, many future generations
We are in the throes of a great economic may suffer the consequences of having to
crisis which is directly traceable to the last begin anew the creation of a Jewish cul-
tural life.
war, arid it is in times of such darkness as
Among the institutions which must be
the present that we should be thinking in
terms of eliminating hatred among nations, protected, and whose survival should be
of putting a stop to murders legalized by guaranteed in these trying times, is the Yid-
wars and international upsets such as came dish theater. Its value and cultural in-
fluence in the community has too often been
from the world conflict.
stated to need repeating. In some respects
As Jews, we are compelled, now that the it is as important a communal factor as
YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE
American Legion convention is over, to de-
Talking about this chancing
plore the lack of courage within the ranks our schools. Especially in times like the
orld and changing values, Her-
present,
the
English-speaking
Jews
should
PA rd G. Richards tells a piquant
of the Jewish Legionnaires, which permit-
with the Yiddish-speaking in support- st ory
whose locale is Russia.
ted without a nation-wide outburst of pro- join
ing the Jewish theater.
A Jew in Russia came to a well
tests the holding of the convention on Yom
kn own Moscow "Schadchen."
We especially urge a greater interest in
Kippur day. It was originally pledged that
"I have it pretty (laughter, and
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gf tog n is; tcce
ea dowry of
only the first formal session. to be devoted the Yiddish theater at this time, on the oc- 5 1 , (70 rubles
for a acceptable hug-
casion
of
the
reopening
of
the
Detroit
play-
only to the reading of messages of greet-
ha nd. What have you on your
ings, was to be held on Yom Kippur morn- house this week. for the current season. We lig is?"
'replied the schadchen,
ing. Instead, President Hoover, Newton greet the theater and its manager, Abra- "I "Well,'
have a nice Nepinan.'
D. Baker and others were honored guests ham Littman. Both have our sincere wishes
"A Nepman," replied the Jew
at Monday's all day sessions. which abused for the success they deserve.
'no, that won't do at all. These
Ne preen live too precarious an
a pledge to the Jewish Legionnaires, and
e i stence under the Stalin regime.
which hurled an insult at the Jewish re-
A modern Esther ruled here during Its ve you anyone else?"
ligion. We need a little n ore courage in American Legion week, when a Jewish " 'Well," replied the schadschen,
an engineer—a fine fel-
every walk of Jewish life and certainly girl was chosen to be queen of the Big low have
.
this courage was lacking amo” ,r our Jewish
'An engineer!" replied the
Parade. We greet Miss Ida Lessin, on her Jew . "Well, that's not so bad. But
Legionnaires. They left negotiations to a high honors.

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By DAVID EWEN

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Sil-Fara is a name well known
not only throughout Europe, but
in America, too. Here he is
known as the author of that bril-
liant piece of cynicism, "Caprice,"
which was produced with such as-
tounding success by the Theater
Guild several years ago. But in
Europe his fame is far greater.
For there he is not only known as
a playwright—and such dramas as
"Die F'rauen von 90 Jahren" and
"Castle Fire" are discussed and
known throughout Europe—but
also as Europe's most discerning
critics, as one of its truly pene-
trating minds and as its most re-
bellious pacifist who has fearlessly
shaken his lists even at the might-
iest of Austria and who has dared
in their faces to denounce war as
savage butchery.

Ile is deservedly considered as
Vienna's outstanding literary fig-
ure. Ile has translated practi-
cally every American play that has
appeared on tie German and Aus-
trian stage; he has written doz-
ens of brilliantly constructed
plays, each one a gem in its own
unique way; he has been among
the most penetrating minds of lit-
erary Austria. And though he is
hardly more than 40 years of age,
he is already definitely numbered
among the literary figures living
in Vienna.

Problems Without End.
In Vienna, when I met and
spoke to Sil-Vara, I discussed with
hint the problem of the Jew. Sit-
Vara, a Jew himself, has ever been
interestml in Jewish questions. Ile
has written frequently, and with
crystal-clear intelligence, on Jew-
ish problems—because he well
realizes that the problem of his
race is likewise his own problem.

"The problems of the Jew," he
said, "how can one ever hope to
enumerate all of them? The prob-
lem of assimilation, the problem
of anti-Semitism, the problem of
Zionism. The problems are w•th-
out end!

"How will the Jew solve these
problems? Who ventures to
prophesy? But if we do—and we
must always be conscious of the
fact that it is nothing more than
mere speculation, after all—can
We have a better line as to how
the Jew of the world will solve
his manifold problems, as to his
fate and his future, then the evo-
lution of the American Jew?
Analyze the American Jew's pres-
ent, study his life and his weltan-
schauung, his standing in the
world and his children, and you
will know his fate and his future.
I admire the American Jew pro-
foundly. Ile, of all the Jews of
the whole world, has attempted the
most sane and rational solution of
his problems. Not that the
American Jews are without their
problems still, but that the solu-
tion that they are working out is,
so it seems to me, the inevitable
one. The American Jew deserves
the praise and the honor of the en-
tire Jewish world. He came from
foreign countries with all the out-
ward marks and characteristics of
the Orthodoxy. Two or three
generations passed and then the
Jew, by some inexplicable magic,
had slowly become an American.
Assimilation Inevitable.
"If I were to be asked which of
the problems which are now facing
the Jew cries out most for solu-
tion, if I were to be asked with
what problem solved could the Jew
be made most happy, my answer
would be, with the solution of the
problem of assimilation. Once
that problem is solved, the solu-
tion of every other problem facing
tl•e Jew will likewise, I feel, reach
solution—and shortly afterwards.

"I might as well say at once
that it has already seemed to me
for ever so long that the assimi-
lation of the majority—and I
wish to make it clear that I am not
now speaking of the Jew alone but
rather of every other race and
creed—is for the most part in-
evitable. it is the trend of our
"civilization" to acquire a certain
uniformity. You will notice, for
example, that the Chinese have
already cut their tails and comb
their hair in European fashion,

that the Japanese are wearing
European clothing, that the Turk s
have given up their fez and will
undoubtedly soon wear the Stet-
son hat. And, speaking of Jews,
where, pray, are the earlucks, the
gabardine, the four-cronered gar-
ment, the woman's wig of yester•
year? Even the most Orthodox of
Jews must confess, however much
it may hurt him to do so, that they
are rapidly passing out of import-
ance in the live of the average
good Jew,
"Teach the Children."
"Assimilation, to be sure, need
not mean the surrender of religion
and individuality. Far from it!
In fact, or very probably, very few
people can escape their blood or
their race, however much they
may wish to do so. They are
something so deep within us that
thew are ineradicable. But that
does not mean, of course, that we
cannot harmonize with our sur-
roundings, too. We become Aus-
trians, and we remain Jews—just
as the Jew in America is so glori-
ously an American Jew.
"The fate and the future of the
Jew!
Americanized or not, as-
similated or not, let the Jew be,
in the future, the heart of the
world. The world bears a grudge
against the Jew. By all means let
him go ahead and refute the world
her wrong! Having been op-
pressed so bitterly through the
ages, having learned for so long
a time the bitterness and the pain
of persecution, let him henceforth
be the protector of all the op-
pressed. Let it be his pride to It,'
the defender of freedom and jus-
tice for all times. Let him teach
his children! (This last is to me
the most important solution of all,
for the problem of the world is,
after all, a pedagogical one—a
theme I have been propagating in
my writings for many, ninny
years now). And by their exam-
ple, the world will be taught not
the Jewish religion or the Chris-
tian religion, but the oldest and
the only religion of all—the re-
ligion of 'man's humanity to man'
—the religion of charity, toler-
ance and humanity.
"Yes. If man is a spark of
God, he cannot serve Him any
better than by being good to his
fellow sparks."
(CoPYriicht, 1931.J. T. A.1

Walter Lippman'a "A Pre-
face to Morals."

The Macmillan Co. announces
the publication of Walter Lipp-
min's "A Preface to :Morals" in a
new $1 edition.
"A Preface to Morals" ranks as
one of the year's outstanding
books. It has been given favor-
able reviews in the press through-
out the English-speaking world. A
review of this colume appeared in
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle sev-
eral months ago. Rabbis have dis-
cussed it from their pulpits and
Dr. Leo N. Franklin made it the
subject of one of his sermons,
Mr. Lippman's "Preface to
Morals" is a statement of the
noted Jewish writer's creed, and is
a candid philosophic expression of
our mode of life.

has nothing to eat. It is also a great democratic
influence in Israel; for at least 24 hours every man

ing of pride and is placed on the same level with his
neighbor. It also emphasizes the thought that we

should forget for the one (lay the things of the
flesh and concentrate on things of the spirit. In
many ways it is of advantage even though it be

limited to the extent of giving our stomachs a
sadly needed rest.

But keeping in mind all those considerations, we
believe that some of as are so busy thinking of

the things that should he observed that we forget
the significance of the day and fail to accommo-
date ourselves to its SPIRIT.
I should imagine

that even the smartest of us, and some of as are
very smart, by this time should have reached the

conclusion that we don't know everything. And

that occasionally it might at least relieve our feel-
ings if we took the time to commune with a Being

who at least are as great as we are: Yom Kippur

surely affords such an opportunity to those who
want to renovate their hearts and minds. Con-

fession is good for the soul. That today is as true

as when some wise man first enunciated it. And
in times like these, not being able to find much

relief in our reasoning, more Jews than ever might

be able to find some relief in turning to FAITH.
It at least would be a cushion to deaden the vin.
hence of their fall. The Jew was so busy with ma-

terial things in times of prosperity that he gradu-

ally found no time nor inclination for attending to
hisjob as a religionist; and now that times are so

very bad he is so busy worrying about his losses

that he can't find time to consider his religious
duties.

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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS

too much to eat appreciate how the man feels who

theoretically is stripped of some of his outer cover-

ter

A Charming Indian Story,

Rose Henderson has lived in a
portion of our West where she
was in position to study the ways
of Indian life. As a result she
has written a truly charming story,
"Five Little Indians," which is ex-
ceptionally suited for the young
reader of 8 to 12.
Miss Henderson's tale, published
by Robert M. McBride & Co., 4
West Sixteenth Street, New York
($1.50), takes the five little
heroes through many experiences.
Chief Eagle Wing relates his fa-
vorite stories of the life of his
tribe, Jim Sills, the white gold
prospector, gives them a lamb
which becomes their pet. They go
with the elders on a pack trail for
the summer, meet with varied ex-
perience and are a charming group
of youngsters who fit into Na-
ture's scheme of things.
By sharing with her readers the
experiences of these five little In-
dians, Miss Henderson has done an
excellent job.

dar must have had a keen understanding of human

nature. They probably believed that it was a good
idea at least once a year to have the man who has

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A. W. BINDER, Noted Composer and Conductor: "Folk songs, too,
are deviating to a great extent from the custom of adapting foreign
melodies to new songpoems. One finds a great many new melodies
which one may definitely designate as Jewish, composed by a rising gen-
eration of young composers in Palestine. In these melodies these corn-
rows have tried to combine the musical elements found in the liturgi-
cal songs of our people toge'her with the musical characteristics found
in the Yemenite and Arabic song."
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A. W. BINDER, Noted Composer and Conductor: "One notices
with great interest as one studies the various musical activities in the
Holy Land, the development of a definite musical consciousness.
The music schools, the permanent Symphony Orchestra in Tel .Aviv,
which is directed by Z. Campaneetz, the Opera Company, the oratorio
choruses and the musical research work, all form the basis for the de-
velopment of a broad musical life, which, if steadily developed, will
undoub ly take its place side by side with that of the great musical
centers of Europe."
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DR. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER: "Being a Jew requires a consum-
mate grace and tact. A Jew should strive to attain something of a
golden mean: modest and unassuming at some time, but loud-voiced
when the opportuni4 presents itself."

DR. CLAUDE G. MONTEFIORE, Eminent Leader of British Lib-
eral Judaism: "T'e majority of Zionists who count, at least in this
country, are more temperate than they were. They have shed their
cruder nationalism, and the idea of a Judenstaat, that out-of-date sur-
vival of the past, has been handed on to the Revisionists. is it going
too far to hope t' at they are on the road to believing that the only
Zionism worth having is a spiritual Zionism, and that the Jews are
essentially a religious people; that, in other words, it is religion which
unites, or should unite, themi not descent, not blood?"

RABBI VICTOR E. REICHERT: "It is part of the strange pattern
of history that we of the heritage of Israel, with our spiritual roots
and traditions in this Eastern background of introspection and pro-
phecy, should have brough these gifts with us into the western world
its
ts dynamic and rest!ess
mood of technology. As Jews, conscious
of our past, we cannot live life capriciously or mechanically. The
blood of prop -
ccy
is
in
our
veins.
The high seriousness of seer and
sage, of poet and mystic, is
part of our inalienable heritage. These
gifts of ethical insight and religious imagination are the world's great
needs today."

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