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Sabbath Readings of the Torah. ,
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 211:10-32:3.
Prophetical portion—lion. 12:13-14:10; or 11:7-
12:12; or 11:7-14:10.

Kislev 10, 5692

November 20, 1931

They Rake

to take steps in the right direction. Na-
tional agencies have begun to study the
pioblem of vocational guidance, and local
social service organizations are beginning
to realize that Jewishness and Judaism are
not to be interpreted by mere celebrations
of Jewish holidays—dry celebrations sel-
dom inspire the youth—but must above all
else be emphasized by an understanding
of the economic, social and ethical rules of
the people which was the first to give the
world a Sabbath, and which was the first to
propound so revolutionary an institution as
the Jubilee Year. The Jewish youth, to be-
come fully conscious of its Jewish heritage,
must be taught to understand its traditional
aspirations for social justice, and must
know. to honor that ancient ideal which
commands every one to know a trade.

Hot

Embers.

Dryden's "he rakes hot embers" is espe-
cially applicable at this time to the horrible
conditions which dominate university life
in Poland, Austria and other countries of
Europe. A new wave of pogroms has been,
organized against Jews by students from
whom we expect some display of human
feeling, and once again the Jew's hope for
the coming days of peace and tranquility
are shattered on the rocks of hatred and bi-
gotry.

It is not enough for the standard bearers
of culture in Europe that the entire world
'should be enveloped in darkness over the
solution of the economic problems. By
raking hot embers of - hate they are adding
to the moral and spiritual misery of human
beings, and are thus aggravating the
troubles which are today oppressing man-
kind.

This is not a new experience in Jewish
,history, that massacres should be engin-
eered by university men. Jews have suf-
lered before from the fact.that the institu-
itons of learning have been made centers
of riots and massacres. But it serves to op-
press the spirit when one places great hopes
for the coming of Utopian eras from houses
of research and learning, and instead is
witness to the conversion of such schools
into slaughter houses.

It is immaterial whether the governments,
are responsible or not. We are inclined to
accept as factual truths the charges made
by the Federation of Polish Jews in Amer-
ica that the Polish government "is not with,
out its share of blame." But what is a
thousand timesAorse is the existence of a
situation which makes brutes of men, and
which subordinates even the teachings of
the sanctified printed words to the thirst for
blood and hate by beings spoken of as hu-
mans!

If this is part of the price that Jews must
pay for the coming of an era of true equal-
ity and genuine tranquility, then it may
honestly be said that the world is bathing
in blood for the sake of a peace which is
yet unseen.

Vocational Guidance.

If the present crisis teaches us nothing
else, it should serve as a constant reminder
to those who guide the destinies of the
youth that vocational guidance must be
placed in the forefront of communal re-
sponsibilities. Those who had anything
at all to do with the desperate task of find.
ing employment for the legion of our jobless
must have become impressed with the fat
that a vast majority of the youth is either
misplaced vocationally and professionally,
or has not found itself at all in its search of
trades or professions for which it would be
suited.

We were impressed by the sincere and
commendable effort of the Jewish Welfare
Board to encourage an interest among the
youth in our social centers in arts and
crafts. Such an interest must lead to an
even greater effort and serious study of
the problems of vocational guidance. The
Jewish Welfare Board bulletin, "Applied
Arts and Handierfats," the product of the
board's department of Jewish extension
education, of which Dr. Mordecai Soltes is
the director, is an able study of a number
iSf courses which should prepare the youth
for trades and encourage them to honor
manual labor.

And we were more especially impressed
by the diligence with which members of
the Young Women's Hebrew Association,
thrown out of employment by the depres-
sion, (lock to the practice classes of the Y.
W. II. A., either to learn a vocation which
would give them a more honorable econom-
ic standing in the conimunity, or to remain
in practice when called back to work, "Con-
serving Skill," Miss Ella Vera Feldman,
executive director of the Y. W. H. A., calls
this effort. But it is even more than that.
It is the beginning of 'a new era which, we
hope,_will remedy the mistakes of-the past
generation, and which wl not only teach
the youth to • honor productive pusuits .hut
to train for them andrio „follow them:

Is There Peace in Zionism?

Another Zionist convention is over, and
in its footpaths follows grim uncertainty
and continued inner strife. Hidden though
this bitterness may be, it is now an accepted
fact that the peace achieved iS nothing
mord than a truce, and that the tiniest spark
may kindle another flame which will again
set the Zionist house on fire.

Serious-minded Jews must regret the ex-
isting circumstances which cause the sparks
of- hate, lit a decade ago at the fatal 1921
convention in Cleyeland, to continue to
smoulder. Why two groups of Zionists,
both sincerely devoted to the same ideal,
should retain the memory of those July
days in 1921 and nourish the grudge that
sets brother against brother, is beyond un-
derstanding.

That is all the more regrettable in view
of the fact that the happiest news about
Jews continues to come from Palestine, and
the one hope which homeless and oppressed
Jewries may entertain is centered in Zion.
For the sake of this hope it is time that the
warring factions buried their hatchets, even
if that must be accomplished at the expense
of eliminating from the ranks several pro-
fessional politicians.
We would be the last to demand uniform.
ity in Zionist thought. Certainly difference
of opinion makes for life and action. But
where the basic principles of the movement
are involvedunity ought to rule.

We believe we are not exaggerating in
Two New Jewish Publications.
our criticism when we declare that the com-
An interesting monthly Jewish magazine
munal and social leaders of the past half
has just made its appearance, and we are
century have failed miserably in this eco- promised, for the first week in F'ebi tuary,
nomic responsibility to the youth. Until
another Anglo-Jewish weekly. Both are,
very recently, the spirit of charity rather
publishelain New York, and the staffs of
than of social service and of research domi- both contain names well-known in Ameri-
can-Jewish journalism.
nated our community centers. We prided
ourselves on our charitable spirit, on our
The Current Jewish Record, • the
readiness to distribute alms, on our pioneer-
monthly magazine the first number of
ing efforts in dealing with delinquent boys
which appeared last week, is a compilation
and girls. But our leaders never stopped
of the best articles published in the Anglo-
to consider the economic problem of the- Jewish press in recent months. Its editor,
youth. Except in isolated instances, it never
Sidney Wallach, one-time associate editor
occurred to our leaders that it is unwise of the now defunct Jewish Tribune, in an
for Jewish boys to flock to medicine and law able manner culled the very best articles
to the exclusion of other professions. It did
from the English-Jewish press, and thus
not occur to them that our girls, by flocking
presented a cross-section of the finest Jew-
to the teaching profession and to steno- ish periodical literature.
•
graphy to the exclusion of other pursuits,
And the second addition to Anglo-Jew-
Are creating a problem for themselves and
ish journalism is to be "Opinion—A Jour-
for the generation to come which will, as
nal of Jewish Life and Letters." with James
time goes on, become exceedingly more dif- Waterman Wise as editor and some promi-
ficult to solve.
nent Jews and non-Jews on the staff of con-
tributors.
Many of the present problems of the
youth of today might have been eliminated
In view of existing condition:I, and of
in advance had our leaders been true to
difficulties met by Jewish publishers of
• their trusts, and had they, as far back as weekly and monthly periodicals, as well as
1893, listened to the prophetic warning of by publishers of Jewish books, in making
the late Dr. Solomon Schechter, who then
their journalistic efforts sfli - supporting.
stated : "The kingdom of God—the rabbis these two new ventures are of interest and
held—is inconsistent with a state of social
will be worth watching. Mr. Wallach's is
misery. They were not satisfied with undoubtedly the most unique, if not the
feeding the poor. Their great ideal was most interesting, monthly magazine to ap.
not to allow a man to be poor, not to allow
peal to Jewish readers, and Mr. Wise's
-him to come down into the depths of pov- editorial personnel is perhaps the ablest he
erty. They say. 'Try to prevent it by teach- could assemble. But are these sufficient to
ing him a trade. Try all methods before guarantee the existence of the two periodi-
you permit him to become an object of char- cals? We shall watch their progress with
ity, which must degrade him, tender as interest, and we trust that their success will
your dealings with him may be.'"
offer a new and more favorable commen-
But be it said to the credit of the social tary on the response of Jews to the printed
workers of today that they are beginning word.

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9

I.

BY.THE.WAY

Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

. ILJEIAISM AS

MEDICINE
You have heard of people pro-
fessing to have been cured by
Christian Science, I suppose our
friends, the Jewish Scientists,
claim similar restorations.
And our Chassidic friends, of
course, point to numerous cures
by the "rebbe." But have you
ever heard of good old-time Judo-
ism effecting, a cure? So listen to
this—a story I get from Rabbi
Solomon Metz of Washington.

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HAVE commented frequently on the many Jews •
who remember Christian institutions in their wills •
to the extremely rare number of Christians who
give a Ofought to Jewish causes. In this connection
I quote an editorial in the Baltimore Sun which
covers the situation admirably:
At this time when She various religious
groups, are pulling in sympathy in the corn-
munflY's efforts to care for the Unemployed
and the poor, the late Seymour Mandelbaum's
will would seem to many to be a confirmation
of the spirit which our people like to believe
exists here. Mr. Nlandelbaum, who had num.
beret] men and women of all faiths among his
friends during his life, left substantial sums to
various hospitals and charities. And one finds
in the lost not only agencies of his own Jewish
faith but such institutions as the SistM's of
Mercy, the Endowed Hospital for Consump-
tives and the Children's Hospital School. De
also left equal sums to the Associated Jewish
Charities and to the Community Fund. It all
makes a very lively farewell Asture from a
man whose life here had been many sided and
happy—a gesture which one would like to
think will be repeated by members of the
Christian faith.

X TAKES PILLS AND
POWDERS
X had been ailing for some
years. Ile went to one doctor—to
another, and still another. One
doctor gave him a tonic; another,
pills; a third, a powder; a fourth
recommended the removal of his
tonsils; a fifth, thought his molars
ought to be drawn out. Now this
is no funny story, As I have said,
FINALLY got around to reading the "Washing.
Rabbi Metz vouches for it.
ton Merry Go-Round." One had to in sheer self-
The long and short of it is that
X went around, despite all his doc-
defense in the event of being invited out . . . It
toring, with a why face. .11e had
makes wonderful small talk . . . and gives your
pains in the region of his stomach.
partner an impression of being thoroughly ground-
That looked like krtsmach trouble.
But in another moment these
ed In what's what and who's who in the world of
pains would switch to his back,
politics . . . It is a human weakness to be among
and he thought it must be lum-
those tvho are in a position tO be in on "the know."
bago. Then the aches woyld go to
. . . We want to be able to lower out voices and
his feet and he was sure it waft
rheumatism. Well, to makes a long • very confidentially advise our friends that so and
story short; one slay•X•was sitting
so (quite -an important personage) told us in
quietly sipping bicarbonate of
strictest confidence that so and so was responsible
soda and chewing aspirin as he
for this and•that . . . and that the papers 'didn't
mused over his aches and his pains,
when Joe came•along.
publish the facts . . . but we pride ourselves on
being , . permitted to peep behind the scenes . .
SAM AND.' CHRISTIAN
The Washington ItlerrP. Go-Round just gives us
SCIENCE
the diet we love . . . we gorge ourselves to the
"Ilell," said Joe.
"Don't hello me, Joe. •If you
point of serious indigestion ... some of it is inter-
hail my aches and pains you
outing . . . some of it is seems to me to be plain
Wouldts4 hello so much," said X.
rot and some parts have been written, by obviously
"Too bad. You ought to go and
a prejudiced mind—and a small mind at that.
see - the doctr,"- said Joe, '

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"Listen, Joe," said X, "if one
apple a day keeps a doctor away,
then during the lag year, I did not
eat over a hundred apples."
"Too bad," repeated.'Joe. "By
the way, X, did you hear that Sam,
who was sick so long was cured
by taking up Christian Science!"
"0 year?" said X, sitting up all
alert.

TAKES TO JUDAISM
Now I may have given the im-
pression.that X was a rather Sim-
ple sort of person. If you have
that impression you are all wrohg,
for in an unsympathetic sort of
way, X was well educated, and as
far as Hebrew goes, very well solos,
catod.
• And when Joe told X that the
more simple Sam had been cured
by Christian Science, it aroused
something in hint. • It threw some-
thing into is machinery. Ile got
. up and pa ed the floor. You could
see that hvk
he was excited.
I know what you Wink, seeder.
You think, it gave X the ilea that
he, too, should take up Christian
•Science.
But you are all wrong. For the
idea it gave him was just the con-
trary. It gave him the idea that
he should take up Judaism.
•
AND HEALING COMES \
X said to, himself, if Christian
Science, a iel
igion started by a
simple woman, can cure Sam,
surely Judaism, with all its heri-
tage, with all its rich historical,
intellectual and emotional con-
tent, can cure me.
"Faith of our fathers, thou
shalt heal me," said X
., as he
brushed the dust off a Gemsrah,
which had lain unopened for yearn
in his bookcase.
X began to go to schule. If
you don't know what a schule is,
let me•tell you that a bchule is a
synagogue. It was around Suc-
coth time, so he bought an Ethrog
and Lulay. And at the saute
services you could see hint chant-
ing the verses from the Psalms
and waving the leafy branch for-
wards and upwards and diagon-
ally. And on Friday night, if you
went to X's home, there were can-
dlesticks there, and a specially
good Shabboth meal. Soon every-
body around the synagogue began
to look around • for X, to consult
him on this and that. X felt that
he had rooted himself—had be-
come one with his environment
and past. Rooted, he became re-
laxed in body and mind.
One day, he chanced to open
accidentally the drawer in which
he had kept all of his medicines.
There they were. lie had not
touched them since the day he
had taken up Judaism.
The faith of his fathers had
cured him.

ROOTING VS. ROTTING
The moral of the story. I pre-
sume, is not so much that there
are any inherent medicinal values
in Judaism or any other religion,
but that if you are a Jew, be a
Jew.

Peace comes not from isolation.
Youcan't disconnect yourself.
TreeS cannot grow in the air.
They must ,bet rooted. So must
you, and you. And there's heal-
ing in being rooted. And he who
is not rooted, rots.

BRANDEIS' BIRTHDAY .
'rhis week 'marks the seventy-
fifth birthday of the Jew whom
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
once described as "the greatest
Jew since Jesus Christ." Of course
I refer to Louis I). Brandeis. Ordi-
narily, one celebrates a man's
birthday by delivering panegyrics
co his merits.
I prefer to celebrate it by not-
ing what I believe is the dominant
trait in the person that is Louis
Brandeis, st,

HIS WAY OF LIFE
What is that trait?
In his splendid biography of
Justice Brandeis, latels de Haas
says:
"In legislation, in organization,
or in commonplace business he in
apt to advise, 'Go home, select a

Crum to Next Page).

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The Romance and Tragedy
of a Jewish Genius

The Rise and Fall of Jakob Guttmann, Distinguished
Hungarian-Jewish Sculptor, and His Love
for the Great Rachel.

By JOSEPH VESZI
Member of Hungarian House of Lords

Translated by Miss Edith Hartman of Detroit.

Editor's Note: This is the first time.. the editor's knowledge. that
• writer has revealed the following unt.ually interesting details about
the devotion of the great Jewish artist. Jakob Guttman, to •nother Jewish
K ent ,''. the greatest French tragediehne, Rachel.
The author. His Ex-
cellency Joseph Vesti. j , •n eminent editor, writer and parliamentarian.
Ile observed his seventy-third birthday on November 6. The translator
of this int ere!ing story
• niece of Juseph.Vesai.
A Detroit law student,
Miss Edith Hartman is an able artist in her own lights, inheriting •rtis-
tie qualities iron, the ancestral traditions of her family.
tier mastery of
English is revealed in this and other of her articles published in The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle.

In my boyhood I have often seen
a gentleman's portrait, painted on
wood, in my mother's room. An
extraordinary portrait this—that
of a tall slender man about 30
years of age, his beautiful head
covered with waves of brown hair,
his deep, fiery eyes possessing not
only a wealth of expression but also
a wealth of inelancholy. his roomy
cape, gracefully falling from the
shoulders, was held together by a
slendt•r, almost transparently out-
lined hand. His head was gently
bent, as if burdened by the weight
of a people's ages of suffering and
in this characteristic Jewish pose
there lay thought, deep meditation,
and emotional ti•antlxion. My moth.
er informed me that this picture,
before which I was forced to pause
whenever I passed through the
room, was the portrait of my uncle,
Jakob Guttmann.

his forefathers, a strong, faith are
unbroken spirit, which had accom
partied hint always since his entry
into the world. Even in the prey
ence of his holy highness, thought.
of his father occupied his mind, of
Isaac Guttmann, that God-fearint
man, who, I remember, even in hi.
ninetieth year was present every
morning, in rain or snow, through
out the year at the synagogue foi
the morning prayer. The venerable
old man's son himself remained
Jewish in the l'ope'p residence, ant
to the very last moment of his lift
practically a martyr for his faith
A Monument to His Rabbi.
Now news of his fame gradually
spread from the bank of the Tiber
to•the shores of the Seine. Ile no
already known to the artists ef
France—not only known but es
teemed—when he opened a stud:,
in l'aris, where he met with the
greatest success. His dnusuid art
drew the most famous artists te
bfinself, and his work sold ext., (1
ingly well.

Who was this Jakob Guttmann?
In the fifties of the nineteenth
century an art exhibition was held
at Vienna. Since Hungary was at
that time part of the dual mon-
Yet one day Guttmann left all
archy, and a victim of Austrian
work incomplete, refused new or-
absolutism besides, Hungarian
tiers, and sought to accomplish but
work was also recruited for this
one thing, which retidired haste
event.
and uttnost precision. He had
HERE were two or three statements of Jewish •
Baron Rothschild Cornea to Hi. Aid
learned from his father of 'the death
interest that those readers who have not yet
It happt•ned that a masterpiece
of Aaron Chorin, rabbi of the JeW-
ridden' on the carousel might like to hear just as a
from Arad became most popular, a
ish congregation at Arad, and had
matter of light information .. No Jew with but
pistol on the covering of which
immediately decided to prepare a
one exception has ever been admitted to the famous
there was carved a mytholttgical
bust
of the_ deceased as a fitting
Gridiron Club, the newspaper group that put on a
scene, Diana's triumphal process-
monument,Irogetting in his eager-
widely press-agented stunt every no qften to which
ion. This superb example of art
ness
the fact that no memorial in
come the president and other high officials . .
excite
d the admiration, interest and
the shape of a human face or figure
The exception is Mharles Michelson, the head
efirosity of, all, including the ells-
can ever occupy 5 place in a Jewish
and front of the Democratic press agency in Wash-
tinguiahed Baron Rothschild, who
cemetery. The Pere LaChaise and
inIton, and who prior to that was the Washington
was so delighted with the unknown
Monttnart re cemeteries he rttgarded
head of the New Work World Service . . . The
artist's work that he immediately
as examples of efarcyords beauti•
Gridiron Club can't confer any distinction on
took steps to ascertain the genius'
ful with their many stone memor-
Michelson. ,Ile can enhance the .Prestige of that
identity. Ile learned ,,hat the artist
ials, to which he expected the bust
organization . . . This isn't in the book but they
was Jakob Guttmann, a rifle mak-
of the late rabbi to be more than
are my sentiments . . . Michelson is a brother of
er's apprentice, a young man of
equal and suitable for even a Paris-
the late Professor Michelson, the famed psysicist
Jewieh religion, living in Arad.
. iit,n 'cemetery, Accordingly the ar.
. . You might also be interested to hear that
Thereupon the Baron, on communi-
tist
completed it and sent it in haste
Frederick Wile, whose voice reaches you occasion-
cating with Guttmann, invited him
to Arad, where the congregation
ally over the radio on public matters, is a Jew and
to Vienna and undertook to place
;.in
honor
of the treat rabbi dared to
a graduate of Notre Dame, st'sa
all means at his disposal for furs
bring about the sacrifice of erect-
ther study of art.
ing a chapel-like building to Chor-
AM GLAD that the author of the book' pays a
With the blessings of toy grand-
in's twittery, in which was en-
well-deserved compliment to another Jewish
father; Isaac Gutttnann, elder of
Guttmann's admirable
newspaper man,. Leo Sack, the Washington corre-
the Jewish congregation, the young
work. TO nip knowledge the grave-
spondent of the Scripps-Howard Ohio and Penn-
Guttmann departed no doubt look-
yatti in Arad is the only,one in the
sylvania group of newspapers. Sack, whom I know
ing forward to his joyous home-
world to possess a reproduction of
well, is not merely an able writer but a fearless one
coming, which was fated never to
a human face or figure, a marble
and he has helped make political history in recent •
•
bust, as a monument over a grave.
years in Ohio through his bold attacks. David
Bound to Forefathers' Faith.
Executed Story of French Reno.
Lawrence, publisher of the United States Daily, is
Vienna's art academy took Gott-
lution.
another Jew mentioned, although the author appal ,
mann to itself. Under the instruc-
But the climax of Guttmann's
ebtly doesn't hold him in' such high personal
tions of the famous Fernkorn the
success
was
reached
only with the
esteem . . . The book is offensive to me primarily
young eagle learned how to spread
French government's commission to
because it seeks in most vindictive fashion to be-
his enormous wings to their fullest
execute
the
story
of
the French
smirch the character of the president of the United
extent. Within one year the rifle
States.
Revolution in 12 marble reeit•fs; a
maker's apprentice wet: the, prize
tremendous
task
which
forced him
awarded only to the most talented
to turn night 'into day and to ex-
SO RABBI STEPHEN WISE is going to be the
of artists—the Prix de Rome. With
ert himself to the utmost to corn- '
editorial writer for a Jewish journal! Well, I
such glory- added to his already
promise to be g faithful reader. "Opinion" is-to be,
growing reputation and with Roth- w-plige a masterpiece which would
add to his distinction and feed the
so I understand, the name of the new publication
schild's letter of recommendation,
fires of his talent as is-nil. •
which will soon appear, sponsored by James Water-
Guttmann entered the Eternal City
as a well-known, much heralded
man Wise. With father and son writing for it, it
At this very time, however, an-
will be doubly interesting. I am wondering
and accomplished sculptor.
other Jewish artist's star shone
whether there will be a conflict between the views
most brightly on the Parisian sky.
Rome, too, was a scene of
of the elder and younger Wise as expressed in
This Was Rachel's, F'rance's great-
triumph. A great honor befell hint,
Opinion . . . At any rate, I hail the new publ,ica-
est tragedienne. Spurred on by in
as Pope l'ius IX desired that the
tionWas a real event in Jewish journalism and wish
soul longing for beauty, the }Tung
Jewish sculptttr model a bust of
it a long and successful life ... A monthly digest
Guttmann by chance ventured into
his holy highness. For the. young
appeared the other day called Jewish Current
a•theater and saw her performance
Jewish artist a special glass room
Record . . and it looks good ti e. is edited
Racine's Phaedra. Ile was en-
was erected in which he could add
by Sidney M' allach, who far some ims was con-
chanted. Half-dazed, run with en-
the finishing touches to the bust of
nected with the Jewish Tribune of !New York . . .
thusiasm, he drank inffihe beauty
the l'ope, whose character was al-
It is sPlendidly edited and the selections of articles • ready marked by free religious
of everysseene. His soul was fillet.
of Jewish value wese excellent . . . I like tile • tolerance, news of which spread
with Rachel's artistry and Rachel's
make-up of the magazine, too. There is need for
own soul, as well as with her
when Guttmann was summoned to
such a digest and k wish it a long life • .. Before
beauty.
him. None ventured. to inquire of
I dismiss magazines from the column I want to say
Guttmann concerning his religion,
He left the theater the slave of
that I lunched with Henry Hurwitz, the editor of
luve. henceforth only his days
none endeavored to influence his
the Menorah Journal, the other day, and we dis-
were given over to his an_ Ilk
thought and drive it into new chan-
cussed. the Jewish magazine situaCion in 4his coun-
nights were all Rachel's, every
nels, for all such attempts, even if
try. 1t is one that doesn't bring joy to the heart
resorted to, would have been in
one of them. Ile saw every per-
of a publisher. The Menorah I rate as one of the
formance and at night wove hi.
vain. An inexplicable sentiment
best magazines of the better kind published in this
bound Guttmannto the religion of
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(Turn to Next l'age).
country ... and I am not referring to it merely in
a Jewish sense ... Of course, there is no Jewish
journal that has ever appeared in this country
which is in the same class ... It is a One publica-
tion, worthy of the most gorgeous support of
THINKING Jews,

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type of item pricks stir sensitiveness to the
quick. We dislike to see such statements inter-
woven with Jewishi personalities, yet what should
we do about it when they approximate the truth?
Read it and send a protest to Time or say to your-
self, "It hurts, but I guess most of it is true."
Here it is:
From the area of the nickelodeon, the
cinema industry has been created by the crafty
and extraordinary methods of one-time fur
peddlers, garment dealers, second-hand Jewel-
ers—mostly Jews—who were all-importantly,
great and daring showmen . . . They had
padded their payrolls with relatives, produced
pictures at enormous cost, settled their big-
gest deals over all-night poker games, enter-
tained each other at parties decorated by the
most expensive actresses in the world.
Well, what do you have to say about it?

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THE Ilitlerites are organizing in America to
S O make
life uncomfortable for the Jews here! I

am not worried about it, even though the informa-
tion comes from apparently reliable sources. The
soil isn't good here for planting Ilitlerism. Of
course if there should happen to be another Henry
Ford in the offing whose credulity might be ap-
pealed to, then a campaign of anti-Semitism could
make a little headway. But even then it couldn't
fit very far because there is something quite bal-
anced in the attitude of most Americans to that
sort of thing. Even the Klan was forced to put its
nightshirts away because of ANTAGONISM FROM
THE VERY ELEMENT IT ARROGANTLY AS-
SUMED TO REPRESENT. Protestants realized
that a lawless organization regardless of its silly
titles and childish flubdub was a menace to the
welfare of this group as well as to the nation. So
the representative journals and the thoughtful men
of the nation began to strike back at the hooded
terror and stripped it of its mask. Ilitlerism will
suffer the same fate insofar as it attempts to or-
ganize a campaign of hate against the Jewish
group.

IIENRI BERNSTEIN,
Parisian Jewish Playwright: "There is only
one thing that I have on common with anti-Semites: I despise, even
more than they do, the Jew who apologizes for the fact that he is a
Jew. Every attitude, every insinuation, every admiration a Jew like
that manifests, every relation he seeks is a vile excuse in disguise. The
frightful humiliations, which would make a self-respecting person die
of shame, but which this
Jewish type of snob drinks in on bended
knees, crawling before his insulters, have always'seerndd sufficient pun-
ishment to me."
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DR. STEPHAN S. WISE: .
"I refuse to believe that we may never
summon the repres'entatives of world Jewry together. for wise and
considered action with respect to their common problems, because of
the danger of allegations being made such as those that are to be found
in the l'rotocols of the Elders of Zion."
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BERNARD RICHARDS, Former Executive Secretary, American
Jewish Congress: "The visible
of the ghetto have fallen and
the invisible walls of the spirit ha
not yet risen."
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VLADIMIR JABOTINSKY, Leader of Zionist Revisionists: "The
Palestine census has nothing to do with the counting of the population
for statistical purposes, customary in civilized countries. In Palestine,
it is simply a political maneuver meant to prove that years of anti-
Zionist policy have borne full fruit; that the Jews are still a small
minority, that Zionism ip a failure, and that the country is ripe for
Legislative Council with in Arab majority. The census is merely a part
of the Legislative Council scheme. Those who want to fight the scheme
must begin with fighting its opening chapter, the sensus."
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DR. Z. BYCHOWSKL„ Prominent Polish Zionist: "A large, pur-
poseful and rational immigration into various colonial lands is not
against the Zionist plan for Palestine. Only those will go to Palestine
who want to go there regardless of all other facts. But those who have
to emigrate because of the now social and economic conditions which
are now being created all over
Europe will go to other lands."
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DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN, honorary Chairman of Young Judaea:
"Zionism must
renew itself in every generation and must be borne
and avowed as an original affirmation springing from the experience
and thought of every generation anew. It cannot be an "elan vital," a
dynamic motivating force in the Jewish consciousness, when merely
held as • tradition or accepted second-hand.
The Zionist movement
today needs to concern itself with the youth
more effectively than it
has done in recent years."

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