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Sabbath Chanukah Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 37:1-40:23; Num. 7:
1-17.
Prophetical portion--Zech 2:14-4:7.
Chanukah Reading of the Law.
Sunday, Num. 7:18-29; Monday, Num. 7:24-35;
Tuesday, Num. 7:30-41; Wednesday, Num. 7:36-47;
Thursday, Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tebet read-
ings of the Torah, Num. 28:1-15 and 7:42-47; Fri-
day, Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tebet readings of
the Torah, Num. 28:1-15 and 7:48-53.

Kislev 24, 5692

December 4, 1931

The Fe a lt of Lights.

num,

judge us to the study of Jewish inmates of
state prisons of the United States, by H. S.
',infield, in the current American Jewish
Year Book.

According to this study, "during the ten
years 1920-29, a total of 394,080 prisoners
were received from the courts, at the re-
ceiving prisons and reformatories of the
states of the Union. This number included
6,846 Jews, or 1.74 per cent. During the
same period, the average percentage of
Jews to the total population of the United
States was 3.43 per cent. The number of
Jews in prisons of the country was thus
49.27 per cent smaller than the percentage
of Jews to the total population of the coun-
try. In other words, Jews furnished a little
over half of their numerical quota to the
population of the prisons." •

Instead of using the word "dominate,"
when coupling Jews with "rackets," our
critics will be much more in the right when
they use the term conspicuous." So domi-
nant is our passionate craving for peace and
to have the law of the land honored, and so
dominant is Jewry's desire to eliminate
crime from our ranks, that whenever a
Jewish criminal appears on the scene he is
so conspicuous that he is noticed and his
Jewishness exaggerated. Yes, "conspicu-
ous" is the term for Jewish criminals be-
cause there are so few of them, and yet,
even when one Jew in a million commits a
crime, all Jewry is up in arms condemning
crime and calling upon the people to re-
consecrate itself to Israel's ideals for honest
and just living.

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Every crisis in tt he history of the Jewish
people has compell ed the question and the
thought whether I srael can and will sur-
vive the oppressioni ; and persecutions which
have been, and stil I are, aimed at him.
In the days of the Maccabees it was a
question of the sur vival of the Jewish peo-
pie and of the Jew ish faith, and an other-
wise peaceful nat ion was summoned to
arms to defend its existence. The victory
A perusal of our editorial columns of the
of the Maccabeans was a victory for a peo-
plc that refuses to die, and it was a victory past few weeks will reveal this attitude in
all its bluntness. On several occasions we
for this people's m onotheistic ideals.
called the attention of non-Jews and Jews
It has well been said that, without the
..to the true facts and figures on crime, but
victory of the Mac cabees, Christianity, the
at the same time condemned conditions
child of Judaism, might never have been
which polluted the ranks of a saintly peo-
born. Had Hellen ism conquered Judaism,
ple with scoundrels. ' In this spirit we be-
a Christ might not have been born to be-
wailed the fact on one occasion that even
f
a
new
religion.
This
come the father o
if a handful commit crimes, then saints have
festival
to
be
a
inukah
fact makes of Chi
made their .exits and scoundrels have
honored by all fail ths, because the mother
entered the ranks of Israel. Thus we plead
of all religions sur vived as a result of the
for a re-evaluation of Jewish ethical teach-
conditions which oc !casioned the foundation
ings and emphasis on the practice of Jewish
for the Feast of Li; ghts.
ideals. And in condemning crimes of in-
Certainly Chanu kah has its lesson in our dividual Jews we at the same time resent
present-day trage( lies. Threatened with the insinuations of some gentiles who would
being crushed on a II sides, the skeptics and blame the entire people for the faults of
pessimists ask wh ether Jewry will survive the few. We rebel with all the vehemence
the trials and trai gedies which beset our that we posess against an attitude which
paths. It is the s ame question that has
kj been repeating R H If long before the days expects the Jew to be a thousand times bet-
ter than the non-Jew to get on in this world ;
of the Maccabeans I. And always the ans- which compels a Jew to be the last to secure
wer is in the affir mative, that Israel will employment, in spite of his merit; which
not die. And bein g unwilling'to die, the hounds and persecutes and is blind to sin-
Feast of Lights is a signal for the perpetu- cerity and to honest resire to contribute to
ation of the great ideals which must con- the good of mankind. But which, at the
tinue to guide the v world to nobler interpre- sime time, condemns and brands as crimi-
tations of the right! ; of man and the obliga- nals all Jews for the sins and faults of in-
Cons of all people: ; to establish justice on dividuals.
earth.
Our resentment at unfair condemnations
of Jewry is mingled with a plea for just
Crime.
on
an
Answer
A Question and
and honest consideration of Jewish qualities
An eminent grou p of non-Jews, flavored and faults. Let the honest truth be known,
,
Jewish
newspaperman,
by the presence of a
and we have no fear of the consequences.
dined and reminisc ed on events that faded Given an equal chance, we are convinced
into history. One c of the men, an army offi- that our accomplishments will equal those
cer, told tales of wo ar. high government of our non-Jewish neighbors in merit. But
official described hi 3 experiences in present- deprived of such a chance, and of equal
ing cases in Federal Court. Another, a fed- opportunity to earn his daily bread through
eral officer, told of the lighter side of peo- employment based on merit, the Jew who
pie's efforts to smo uggle in valuables and turns to "rackets" is of necessity a product
thus cheat Uncle S am. The Jewish news- of an unfair gentile environment. It is for
paperman chose to speak of the gridiron.
the removal of such unfair discriminations
But suddenly, an d weir out notice, one of which drives the small number in our midst
the men turned upo Ji tl* ratter and popped to dishonest pursuits that we plead with our
a question at him. It was prefaced by the ex- non-Jewish friends.
planation that he 1 harbored no prejudices
and that the man at whr the question was
Abe Kabibble's 25th Anniversary.
directed was the unu ually fine typo of
This week a famous cartoon marked its
Jew. But the ques tion had the sting in it
which must hurt every Jew who is con- twenty-fifth anniversary. Harry Hersh-
cerned over the hot nor of his people. And field's "Abe Kabibble" is not only one of
therefore we repea t it (here, in an aim to the oldest and best known comic strips, but
it isperhaps one of the most unique, and
, answer it.
The question; "1 Vhy do Jews predomi- as tin interpretation of a people's humor is
nate in all 'rackets? ' Why should they have a landmark in the realm of comic journa-
been all Jews who were involved in the re- lism.

cent massacre of th ree young Jews, which.
in turn. resulted in I three other young Jews
being' seItrneet to serve life terms in a
Illichlgan 'prison. ha oving been found guilty
of the crime? And why do not your lead-
ers say and do some thing to check this rec-
ord?"'
To the credit of I :he journalist at whom
the question was dir ected, be it said that he
knew his answer, ar id we concur with him
not only in denying that Jews predominate
in "rackets," but in asserting that in prin-
ciple as well as in pr. actice responsible lead-
ership in Jewry con tinues to strive for the
prepetuation of the Ise high ideals which
have invested Jewry with the title "a na-
tion of priests and a holy people ;" to strive
tW for the inoculation o f the youth with these
ideals which must n lake of them a peace-
loving and law-abidii ig citizenry ; for the in-
culcation in the hear ts of all Jews of a pas-
sion for justice whirl must eliminate every
thought of wrong an d crime.
Now, this preambl le to our answer must
not be misconstrued as an effort to paint
a picture of a people which boasts only of
saints. We have our share of undesirables,
and we doubt wheth her we would want it
to be otherwise. Th e good must be inter-
mixed with some bad . and the bad must be
accepted by right-mi nded people together
with the good. But this does not lend truth
to statements that "Je •s dominate all rack-
eta." That is not so. And for proof that
Jews contribute an in significant number of
criminals we refer our friends who desire to

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The artist himself is, at present, the sub-
ject of greatest interest to Jews, on the oc-
casion of the anniversary of "Abe Ka-
bibble." Because Harry Hershfield is not
only the author of a Jewish comic strip. He
is a proudly human Jew who makes no
apologies and asks to be taken for what he
is. In the same spirit he accepts Jewish
causes as his own and more than any other
noted cartoonist can be safely said to be
"one of us. "

The best demonstration of Mr. Ilersh-
field's Jewish sincerity was given by him-
self during a recent appearance he made at
a local theater. He told some Jewish stories
to an audience not necessarily Jewish, and
they were not of the usual burlesque stage
type humor. They might have been told in an
address at a Zionist or Talmud Torah meet-
ing. They were marked by great dignity.
This possession of a marked quality of dig-
nity is earning for Mr. Hershfield the res-
pect of his 'people. and at the present time
he will be the recipient of countless greet-
ings on the occasion of the anniversary of
his hero, Abe Kabibble, who is funny but
not disgusting. and whose puns reflect and
mirror some well-taken Jewish truisms.

The synagogue of Buzulescu, a suburb
of Kishinev. Rumania, has been confiscated
by government authorities for the commun-
ity's failure to pay its arrears on the water
tax levied on the Mikveh, the ritual bath.
Evidently even representation in religious
dipping is not immune from taxation.

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Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

HE CHANGED HIS NAME
Jake was every bit of 35 when he
conic t America. And he brought
with him a wife and three children.
Now, you can imagine when a man
conies to a new land at that age
and has to hustle for himself and
family, he has a great deal of hus-
tling to do.
It stands to reason that Jake
couldn't go in much fur education,
although he would have liked to.
Many times, he thought of enroll-
ing in the night school, but you
know how it is, when you came
home tired from a day in the fac-
tory.
His dream.; of education were
never realized. In fact, he never
even learned to sign his name. But
his economic dreams bore better
fruit. Ile progressed from a far-
. tory hand to foreman of a fac-
tory, and then he opened a little
factory of his own. And pretty
st u nJake had a big factory.
een years of hard work and
Jake was a rich man. But the
hard work had told on him. His
face was deeply lined, his hair pre-
maturely bleached. One day he
came into his bank on some busi-
ness, and the teller was struck by
the signs of physical deterioriation
which he noted in Jake.
"Mr. Cohen," he said, "You look
worn out. Why don't you take a
rest. A vacation will make a new
man ofyou. After so many years
of hard work, ru are entitled to
a vacation, Besides, you are a rich'
man now and can easily afford it."
"Yes, maybe you are right," re -
plied Jake. "I don't feel so good.
Yes, maybe a vacation would do
me some good. Will you make out
a check for me payable to myself
for $1,000 and I'll sign it. That
ought to be enough for a little trip
to the Catskills."
I've told you before that Jake
had never learned to write. He al-
ways got somebody to write the
checks for him, and he used a cross
mark for his signature.
So the teller made out the vaca-
tion check, and Jake signed and
handed it back to be cashed.
The teller looked at it. "But
Mr. Cohen, your signature was al-
ways a cross mark, and now you
sign it with a circle."
"Yes, yes, I know," replied Jake.
"It's true my signature was always
a cross mark, but since I've got rich
I've changed my name."

HE WANTED A TICKET
The proceeding story is one 7,f
Harry Schneiderman (American.
Jewish Committee) vintage. If you
like it. tell me: if you don't like it,
tell Mr. Schneiderman.
And here is another from the
same source. This other deals with
a man who wanted to go to Phila-
delphia. The man's name, strange
to say, was the same as before,
Jake. I don't know whether he
was a relative or not of the first
Jake. In fact, I know very little
about him, except that he wanted
to go to Philadelphia.
The first thing that one must do
who wants to go to Philadelphia is
to buy a ticket, and Jake accord-
ingly proceeded to the Pennsylvania
Station and approached the ticket
window.
"flow much is a ticket to Phila-
delphia?" asked Jake.
"Three dollars and twenty-four
cents," replied the ticket agent.
"I'll give you a dollar and a
half," replied Jake.
"Aw yeh!" replied the agent con-
temptuously and put back the tic-
ket.
"I'll tell what I'll do," resumed
Jake braining. "I'll give you two
dollars."
The agent snarled. That ticket
is $3.24. You'll pay that amount
or you get no ticket."
"Listen, Mr. Railroad," said
Jake, "you're a business man and
I'm a business man! You want
$3.24 and I have offered you $2.00.
Now. I'll make a proposition. I'll
split the difference and give you
$2.62.^

brained from the ticket
agent's eyes at this, as he slammed
the curtain down the ticket window,
bringing the conversation to an end.
Jake looked and regarded the af-
front. "Anti-Semite," he muttered,
as he slid away.

LEWISOHN'S NEW NOVEL
When this reaches the reader, the
first issue of the new Wise publica-
tion—Opinion—will be out.
And you might try to guess who
is the living figure about which
Ludwig Lewisohn has woven "A
Contemporary Legend," which the
new magazine will feature.
For those who are not good at
guessing. I'll let the secret out. It's
none other than our mutual friend,
Baron llatvany of Hungary.

JEWISH JOURNALISM
The life expectancy, as an insur-
ance man would say, of a publica-
tion these days isn't what it used
to be.
During the past year, two of the
most virile of Jewish periodicals
have passed out of the picture, and
I asked Editor James Wise, wasn't
it a case of hardihood. to attempt
something new in the field, in view
of that fact?
"Well, I would call it, not hardi-
hood, but inevitable courage," Wise
replied. Whatever it he, I under-
stand, quite a handsome sum of,
funds has been gathered, and the
editorial force looks impressive; in
other words, the portents are all
favorable.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Indeed, there are some signs that
point to a revivifying of the Jewish
journalistic life. Thus, the Cur-
rent Jewish Record, recently star-
ted (Sidney Wallach's new month-
1 Y) has had a phenomenal success
in the brief time it has been going.
Much exceeding the hopes of its
sponsors.
And another sign of the times is
the seeming determination, after

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By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

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OVER $600,000 has been raised by the Associated
Jewish Charities of Baltimore in a recent
emergency drive. This is the largest amount that
has ever been pledged in a Jewish campaign for
local relief in that city' That's a fine record and
our Baltimore co-religionists are to he congratu-
lated. One thing is sure, you can't achieve objec-
tives in times like these unless contributions come
from the HEART. I don't believe that Baltimore
Jewry is abnormally wealthy. In fact, other com-
munities of much larger size and as much or more
wealth have not begun to approximate the record of
the Baltimore group. It isn't the number of rich
that one finds in a community so much as it is the
number of GENEROUS rich. Without making in-
vidious distinctions the fact remains that in Pitts-
burgh 0, e "city of millionaires," where a $6,000,000
drive has been under way, including collections for
Jewish relief, a general Welfare Fund as well as
Relief for the Unemployed, at this time of writing
scarcely more than half of the amount has been
subscribed at the END of the campaign. The Jews
of Baltimore with their $600,000 have "shown up"
the entire city of Pittsburgh as well as many other
communities. - •

/ HAT'S the use of knocking our heads against a
stone wall? I have listened to all sorts and
conditions of complaints about discrimination in the
field of employment against the Jew. Resolutions
have been adopted, protests have been made, inves-
tigations have gotten under way nod the net result
is zero. It can't be otherwise. If I don't want to
hire you it's pretty hard to vet me to its it. It is
unfair to exclude a person pone a job because of
11;:i religion, but what are we going to do about it?
We have rend essays written on the subject trying
to explain the reasons for such discrimination, but
while they may be illuminating from an academie
standpoint, practically they don't bring the Jewish
'cant any nearer to obtaining employment. The
'n B'rith Magazine carries an article revealing
that
c Jews in Germany are discriminated against
exactly as they arc in this country. Some
t
re use to employ Jews "on principle;" those who
give non-Jews preference but deny discrimination
and those who openly express preference for non-
Jews and justify their lack of qualifications, not
because of faith. It's the same old merry-go-round
and you get nowhere. The only interesting thing
in connection with the investigation in Germany
was that Christian employers often evinced far
more willingness to investigate our grievances than
some "hard-hearted Jewish employers." The same
thing happens in this country. You figure it out—
I can't.

WELL, every little bit helps. A reader living in
Pittsburgh writes that "for many years I have
read your columns and have often felt just a little
sorry for you in that so much you get is of either
a complaining nature or derogatory to mankind in
eeneral." So she sends me the news that a Mrs.
William Cosel, a Jewess living in New Castle, Pa.,
was chosen by the Women's Club of that city (prac-
tically non-Jewish in membership), to attend the
preliminary disarmament conference in Paris. It
seas a tribute to the efforts Mrs. Cosel made to in-
terest the women of her community in a peace pro-
gram. This item is interesting insofar 1114 it shows
that religious lines are forgotten in appreciation of
outstanding individual worth.

THERE'S a man by the name of Abraham Liebo-
vit living in Miami who deserves a place in this
column. A friend of his writes me that for some
years Mr. Liebovit used to take care of destitute
transients in his home. Ile was a sort of one-man
House of Shelter for the Homeless. But as time
went on and money became scarcer, and demands
for shelter became greater members of the Miami
community took the load off his choulders, and the
other day a dedication dinner was held in Miami
for the new home of the Friendly Inn, the culmina-
tion of this one man's effort to help the destitute.
I also learn from the same source that Mr. Liebovit
holds religious services in his home for those who
are not able to pay dues to an organized congrega-
tion. When we hear money-raising slogans like
"give until it hurts" they usually give us a pain in
the neck, because those who shout such slogans
loudest have never been hurt. So when we come
across a modest, unassuming, unknown Jew living
in a small community who gives his HOME to others
for philanthropic and religious work, he is entitled
to a seat of honor in this column.

THERE seems to be no end in sight to the troubles
of Jews living in Poland. There seems to be a
virulent anti-Semitic boycott resulting in great dis-
tress to the Jews. There have been exceptionally
serious riots in the universities and while it is re-
ported violence has ceased, a student boycott exists.
The Christian students (that word "Christian" cer-
tainly is sued very loosely!). according to dispatches
from Warsaw, sit on the right and the Jews sit on
the left and stony silence exists between them.
The Christians wear a green ribbon, the emblem of
the anti-Semitic league. Student restaurants forbid
the admission of Jews. All through Poland, even
in the rural districts, a boycott is being enforced
against the Jew. One would imagine that by this
time Poland would at least try to give the Jew a
decent break. But apparently such is not to be the
case. So we find now going on throughout the
United States protest meetings to arouse public
sentiment against the unfair attitude assumed by
the Polish people. The struggle between the Jew
and his fellow Poles seems to be interminable and
while there is an occasional lull in anti-Semitic ex-
cesses, they come to life all too frequently for the
peace and well being of the Jew. Only the most
rigorous policy of the government can correct the
situation: if it is so inclined.

IT MAY be interesting to some of our readers to
know that many years ago a criticism was made
of a president's Thanksgiving proclamation based
upon the statement that it in some way allied too
closely church and state. I could not at the time
see any proper basis for criticism for such a reason
but I noticed in the New York Times the other clay
a reproduction of this letter written by Andrew
Jackson June 12, 1932, which shows that he also
entertained some such thought. Of course, the
request to President Jackson came from a strictly
sectarian source, the General Synod of the Reform
Church of North America, which may have had
something to do with the character of his reply.
But it will be of interest, I am sure, to my readers:
I have the pleasure to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 10th inst. sub-
mitting to me an extract from the minutes of
the session of the General Synod of the Re-
formed Church of North America, relative to
the observance of • day for fasting, humilia-
tion and prayer, at this time, which it is recom-
mended that the president of the United States
should appoint. Whilst I concur with the synod
in the efficacy of prayer, and in the hope that
oui country may be preserved from the attacks
of pestilence, and that the judgments now
abroad in the earth may be sanctified to the
nations," I am constrained to decline the desig-
nation of any period or mode as proper for
the public manifestation of this reliance. I
could not do otherwise without transcending
the limits prescribed by the Constitution for
the president without feeling that I might in
some degree disturb the security which re-
ligion now enjoys in this country, in its corn-
plete separation from the political concerns of
the general government.

It is the province of the pulpits and the
state tribunals to recommend the mode by
which the people may best attest their reliance
on the protecting arm of the Almighty in times
of great public stress.

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Recent events on the Isle of
Cyprus, where Greek nationalists,
invoking the doctrine of self-de-
termination for small peoples,
staged a more or less violent dem-
onstration for a union with their
Hellenic motherland, have again
brought to the fore the problem
of British possessions in the Near
East. It is perhaps erroneous to
see in the Cyprus revolt an iso-
lated phenomenon. In fact it
looks more like a link in a whole
chain of events that have occurred
since the war in countries that lie
on the highway to the Indies and
that are under British rule, pro-
tection or mandate.

Since the decline of British in-
fluence in Egypt and the realiza-
tion of tremendous possibilities
for exploitation in the Mosul oil
region, every incident of the kind
that just occurred in Cyprus is of
capital interest to the empire. For
it is an old maxim of British im-
perial policy, as rigid as a law of
Medes and l'ersians, that the road
to India must never be barred and
that the slightest obstacle on that
highway in time of peace must
quickly be removed, c`tat what
may, in order that Britain may not
be faced with a permanent area
of disturbance on that road in
time of trouble. This the British
press has made abundantly once
again in the last few weeks. A
native uprising in Kenya or even
a further orientation of the po-
litical situation toward nationalism
in South Africa would scarcely
have received as much attention
in the British press as the Cyprus
incident did. Instantaneously it
was felt in England that the
Cypriot revolt was of far greater
importance. Small though the
population of the island may be,
insignificant, we may well say, in
the face of the nozzles of dread-
noughts and the high-powered ar-
mored cars that were brought into
play and, in spite of the fact that
the rebellious Cypriots were led by
an archbishop, England showed at
once' that the Cypriots, unwit-
tingly perhaps, were aiming a
blow, and only a feeble blow it
could be, at the nerve-center of
the empire, at the solar plexus of
the vast commonwealth that is
linked by the silver strand of the
Mediterranean.

Does Britain Realise?
And so, cost what may, the re-
volt was suppressed. Cypriots may
claim all they want that they de-
fire an administration and a cul-
ture in harmony with their na-
tional character and genius, which
is Greek, but they had to submit
first. Perhaps there may be a par-
ley later. For the moment Sir
Ronald Storrs is in charge and
Jews ought to remember what that
means. Self-determination for
small peoples is all very well as
a war-time slogan to arouse en-
thusiasm, but since peace came it
has always been a different mat-
ter. The Flemish nationalists
found this out to their sorrow, and
so did the Croats. It applied sole-
ly to national groups within enemy
territory. It was encouraged in
Austria to undermine the old dual
empire, in Poland to rouse the na-
tional instinct against the Cen-
tral Powers. Post-war "real-poli-
tik" knows nothing about it. The
Cypriots are learning the lesson
today.

But if Cyprus showed so clearly
how much importance Britain at-
taches to that island's tranquility,
huw much more is there at stake
for the empire in encouraging a
peaceful and loyal population in
Palestine who can at all times be
counted upon as an unshakable
watch on the canal, the very artery
of life in the empire's far-flung
circulatory system. We know
that the nucleus foe such a
staunch guard is already on the
spot. One hundred and eighty
thousand Jews live in Palestine,
to whom that soil is dearer than
life, who would defend it to the
last drop of their blood. The
question is: Does Britain realize
the asset she has in the Jews?

Mettle of Chalutsim.
On the other hand, could the
Arabs of Palestine and those of
Arabia Felix be counted upon to
play a similar role vis-a-vis of the
empire? For answer we need only
hark back to the war. How long
did it take I.awrence to organize
his "Revolt in the Desert?" Had
it not been for this man of genius
the campaign would have collapsed
a•hundred times. Only by con-

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stantly prodding the Arab tribes
and, as he says in his book, by
holding up false promises before
their eyes, could he manage to
keep the tribes in the field.
As
matters stand today, one need only
glance at the Near East Arabic
papers to see that the Arabs dis-
trust Britain more than ever. The
newspaper Alef-lia of Damascus
remarked only a short time ago in
warning to all Arabic peoples:
"Britain is animated by not a sin-
gle good intention towards us!"

And what of the Palestinian
Arabs? Could they not take the
place of the Jews in times of
trouble and guard the shore of the
canal? The simple truth is that
they cannot if they would. But
they have not any intention of do-
ing so in the first place. Their
leaders, shifty and unreliable cus-
tmers, like the mufti and his sleek
cousin, Jamal, would no doubt
argue to the contrary, if it suited
their schemes, but we only look at
what has been done by the Jews
as late as 1929 to be convinced
that the Hebraic-Chalutzim met-
tle alone could be relief upon.

Jews Saved British Prestige.
For whit happened in 1929 in
reality a m
to this. When the
riots broke out, the nearest Brit-
ish reinforcements were hundreds
of miles away, in Egypt and Malta.
The Jews rose as a man and stood
firm. It is my profound convic-
tion, having arrived upon the
scene shortly after the outbreaks,
that the Jews could, had they de-
sired, have inflicted such a lesson
upon the Arabs that no Arab
have dared to look a Jew in the
face for years to come. I say the
Jews had it in their power to do
this. By refraining front launch-
ing a whirlwind reprisal campaign,
which could have been done be-
fore the first British troops had set
font in Palestine, the Jews not
only honored themselves, but they
saved British imperial prestige
throughout the world. It can eas-
ily be imagined what the effect of
a wholesale Jewish-Arabic strug-
gle yould have made upon the
world at large. England, for one
thing, would not have been criti-
cized so lightly as she was by the
permanent mandates commission
of the League of Nations. Some-
times I am sorry that the Jews did
not, by some colorful gesture,
such as the seizure of the post-
office in Jerusalem or Government
House, and holding it till the fir
British teinforcements arrived,
impress the world more deeply
with the , significance of their at-
titude. As it turned out only
Britain benefited by the Jewish
sacrifice and we saw what reward
the Yishub received for its hero-
ism—the cynical White Paper and
the even more scandalous Simp-
son report.

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Louis Lipsky has recently said
that criticizing Britain may turn
into vulgarity. This is true. We
must take into account that Pal-
estine is but a small parish, so to
speak, in the immense diocese ad-
ministered from London. But it is
an important parish. It is a key-
position. That key position has a
Jewish population which asks noth-
ing better than to be entrusted
with the guardianship of the coun-
try, with taking the lead in mak-
ing it a bridge of safety on the
long highway of the empire. It is
not criticizing Britain to ask if
this is realized in England. It is
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pointing to a vital problem of
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empire which Britain alone has
within her own hands to sole resit- ;.4
lutely and permanently by facili-
tating the work of the Agency in
making Palestine a real and pros-
perous Jewish National Home.

Wiirriicht, 17131,

J. T. A.)

Mlle. Rachel, who was the most
noted French actress of her day
and whose full name was Elisa
Rachel Felix, was born in 1820,
the daughter of a poor Jewish ped-
dler from Alsace. As a child, she
supported herself and her sister
Sarah by singing in cafes. Later
she became famous as the most per-
fect interpreter of the classical
French drama. She died in 1858
as the result of an illness contrac-
ted while on an American tour.

There is nothing strange about
great men; they are like us, only
deeper, higher, broader; they think
as we do, but with more intensity;
they suffer ad we do, more keenly;
they love as we do, more tenderly.
—David Grayson.

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IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Two Viennese Jews received awards in recognition of their services
to the Austrian republic, Felix Salter, well-known Austrian Jewish
writer, was awarded an honorary citizenship degree by the senate of
the Viennese municipality. Dr, Alexander Horowitz, general secre-
tary of the Agricultural Stock Exchange in Vienna, was decorated by
the Austrian president, Miklos, with a silver medal of the Austrian
republic.
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Joseph Szigeti, renowned Hungarian Jewish violinist, who is now on
his sixth tour of the United States, hasjust received word from abroad
that the Hungarian government has honored him with the Order pour
le
Merite, a distinction rarely accorded any but creative artists of the
first importance. This distinction follows the award of the French
Legion d'llonneur ■ year ago.
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B. H. Hartogensis, well-known Jewish attorney, has been elected
chairman of the Lands Law Commission, appointed by Governor Ritchie
of Maryland. The commission was named to revise the
state laws of
"Estates, Land and Inheritance."
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A gold medal was awarded to Rabbi Ehrenfeld, Grand Rabbi of
Mattesburg, by President Miklos of the Austrian republic, in recogni-
tion of his services to Austria.
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A group of islands which were discovered by the Soviet polar
expedition headed by Professor Samoilovitch on the ice-breaker Male-
gin, will be named after the young Italian-Jewish scientist, Prof. Aldo
Pontremoli, grandson of Luigi Luzzatti, well known Italian-Jewish
statesman, it was announced by the Soviet representatives in Rome.
The islands are located in the region of the Franz Joseph Archipelago.
Professor Pontremoli was a member of the ill-fated Nubile expedition.
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Angelo Modenna, noted Italian Jewish
general, was appointed
president of the highest military tribunal in the country.
is made in recognition of Modenna's distinguished services The award
to the army.
Modenna is/known as Italy's greatest expert on military queraiorui
and
is • noted driter on military subjects.

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