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PLEY)LTROIVEIVISEI RONICLE

end THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

FIE DLTH011iEWISH el RON 1GLD

The Late Samuel B. Kahn.

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ir

From Devil's Island to' Locarno

Our Film Folk

By-the-Way

Tidbits and News

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

Only the evening before Samuel B. Kahn
passed away, we met under his chairman-
(COPyrIght, 1932. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ins
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
By HELEN ZIGMOND
ship at the Jewish Children's Home, to plan
Some Jewish Aspects of the Life of the Late

KIDNAPING
Publiahed Weekly by The Jewish Chrenkl• PublialtIng
for the formal dedication of the beautiful
Aristide Briand.
What won't folks do to get publicity? There is a well-known
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—There's a
Entered as Seeond-cla. matter March 2. 1916, at the root-
building which was constructed under his
new game in Hollywood invented Jewish opera singer of late who, if you have been reading the pope
oillMe at Detroit, Mich. under the Act of March I. 11119.
by Harry Ruskin, writer of lyrica lately, you will remember has been receiving notes threatening kid-
By JOHN DAVIS
guidance.
General Offices and Publication Building
(Copyright, 1932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency
I for musicals It's called Screen naping.
It is a sad shock to lose a leader in the •
No one can of course say for certain, but on the inside they say
Name-O-Grams—you form sen-
525 Woodward Avenue
community. It is sadder still when you
with the names of well- these kidnaping stories are written by the singer's publicity man. •
Telephone, Cadillac 1040 Cable Address, Chronicle
Sonia 35 years ago, a young r took a young, vigorous army tences
known
screen
people.
Ruskin
con-
have worked with him and honored him for French officer, Alfred Dreyfus, officer and sent him forth, after
Lend. Office:
these: 'Conic along. I UNSOPHISTICATED POET
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
his unselfish devotion to the cause to which was being tried for treason. He an incarceration, marked by un- tributes
Here are some stories about Abraham Raisin, the Jewish radical
believable horrors, a white- Noah Beery nice girl for you."
was Jewish, but with negligible
$3.00
Per
Year
"Anybody
can make beer—the poet As you may have heard, Raisin's sophistication is just in
he dedicated himself.
Subscription, in Advance
haired, broken man.
interest in all things Jewish.
inverse
proportion to his poetic abilities. He can fill line with meta-
and new. matter
A kindly, communally-minded man, Mr. His entire training, background
Aristide Briand did more than trick is to Mackaill. And Eddie
To Insure publication, all correspondent
watch the Dreyfus proceedings. Cantor says "I found a Mamou- phor and rhythm to delight your senses, but the proverbial babe in the
mu. reach this oflI ce by Tuesday evening of nob week.
and
outlook
on
life
was
almost
Kahn
will
be
missed
in
this
community.
,
When mailing notices, kindly us• one Ode of the Paper only
lion dollar baby in the five-and- woods is blase in comparison to him. Of course, now he is not so

,

N

lie helped megaphone the in-
chauvinistically French. He
justice that had been done not ten-cent store." Aside from this had Nowadays, he knows how to take a street car, drop nickles
was a flag-waving, 100-per-cent
only to Dreyfus, but to the Jew. weakness, they're very bright peo- in an Automat slot and other such intricate things, but when he
New Palestine Land Ordinance.
Frenchman. He had graduated
first came to America, it is said, people just couldn't believe that
For the truth is, that it was not ple.
A new Palestine land ordinance has been from the leading French mili- so
. 'so
such unsophistication was possible, unless one spent three or four
much Dreyfus, who was being
tary academy, had already st-
Sabbath Readings of the Law.
signed by High Commissioner Wauchope, ained a respectable position in tried, but the Jews of the world.
Dr. M•reus Rabwin, brother of years of hard work acquiring it.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 6:1-8:36; Num. 19.
Naturally, many of his friends, practical jokers, could take
and Jewish leaders are criticizing it on the the army and every indication Even Sheurer-Kestner, who was Harry Rabwin, was technical ad- advantage
of his naievette by pouring all sorts of impossible stories
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 30:16-38.
so largely responsible for the visor for all the hospital scenes in into his head.
ground that it confers quasi-judicial func- pointed to a successful army of- uncovery
man gave him a check book, it is related, and
of the initial evidence "Symphony of Six Million"—and told him that all One
for him—going
fiver's
life
he needed to do, when purchasing anything, was to
II Adar 17, 5692 tions on administrative officials; that it through army drills, keeping the which was to exonerate Drey- you can be sure they'll be correct sign one of the checks
March 25, 1932
and hand it to the tradesman. Nothing was
favors the possessor of the land against the peace in some Outpost of a fus, had himself 'originally be- to the last detail.
said about the need of depositing money to make the checks good.
in the guilt of Dreyfus,
The picture is now being re •
owner, and that the nomadic population is • French colony or the like—un- lieved
Well,
the
idea
of
signing
checks pleased Raisin immensely.
and had frankly stated at the leased, and Dr. Rabwin is on a lit went about everywhere, getting
in any way with the
The Mo'os Chitim Appeal.
everything he wanted, and signing
granted favoritism in preference to the set- connected
basis for this belief the fact that tie vacation jaunt eastward.
political and sociological cur-
checks. In a few days came the reckoning. Ile was pounced upon
Dreyfus was a Jew.
Some
The major relief appeal of the hour is tled population.
rents of life. In his military
by the multitude of people to whom he had given the worthless
who had begun to doubt
Ernst Lubitsch, director, has checks. "What do you mean by giving these worthless checks?" they
It is interesting to review several facts training were not enough to friends
that of the Mo'os Chitim committee, in be-
Dreyfus' guilt, remonstrated:
bend his life towards the sun-
asked by the police to use a asked. Raisin was befuddled. "What are all of you talking about?
involved in the Palestine land disputes, and dered, isolated life of the army ''But why, they asked, should he been
needy
Jewish
families
who
must
be
little
of his directing on his young See here," he said, pulling out his blank check book. "I still have
half of
quote from a wireless report to the New officer, the fact that he was the sell this document to the Ger- son—Junior Lubitsch was arrest- more money—look at all these check blanks left!"
we
supplied with Passover necessities on the York Times from Joseph M. Levy in ex- son of wealth emphasized it. The mans? Has he not plenty of ed for speeding, caught after the

money?"
outlines of his future were
"coppers" had chased him a mile. CARDOZO RUMORS
approaching Feast of Freedom.
planation of what is really occurring in the plainly that he would clank his BRIAND ENTERS ARENA

• •
Is there a behind-the-scenes story to the Cardoso appointment?
Mo'os Chitim is the traditional fund, Holy Land. Mr. Levy states:
heels, command a troop of poll-
To which Sherurer-Kestner
Lina Basquette is back in Holly- There is—if you can believe some of the gossip floating about. Ac-
us, order them forward march,
replied that "his race was suffi- wood. She's to play opposite Bus- cording to this story, Hoover did not wish to make the Cardozo
carried on by Jewish communities through-
An acute situation is arising in Palestine
take a position, fire, etc., dur-
Finding ter Collier in "Phantom Express.' nomination, but was persuaded to do so by Senator Borah.
cient explanation."
which is further complicating the ever-difficult
a
ing the day and at night with
out the ,,orld fe' centuries, and guarantee.
however„ that he had not con-
They say that Hoover finally acquiesced when he realized
Arab-Jewish problem. Arab agitation, which
pretty wife attend the officers
vinced the doubters, he set him-
Ah, kohl Irving Pichel is "two- I he would have a difficult time getting the Senate to confirm two of
ing the supply of Passover needs for pov-
until recently was confined to talk and to the
balls, courtesy and dance with
Self to find the evidence to jus-
his
nominees,
Judge
McIntosh
and
Judge
Wilkinson
to
the
Federal
all for art's sake.
press, now has taken on a far more serious as-
the wives of the other officers—
tify his belief in. Dreyfus' guilt. timing," but it's two
erty-stricken Jews. TheTestival of Free-
pictures being bench. He figured that if he gave some of the rebellious senators
working in
pect. Arab peasants, nomad Bedouins from var-
and that would be about all.
Instead, he became convinced He's
filmed
simultaneously—he
has the what they wanted—by the naming of Cardoso to the Supreme Court,
dom, now so tragically marred by so much
ious parts of the country, have begun a cam-
Why need he work up a head-
that he was innocent. Although
lead in "Westwood Passage" with they would let him have his way for the minor appointees.
paign
of
trespassing
on
Jewish
land
under
the
ache
about
Judaism,
socialism
a
prejudiced
man.
he
was
hon-
Of course, this may be just one of those baseless rumors that
economic slavery, has throughout the ages
pretext that they had been illegally dispossessed
est, according to his lights, and Ann Harding, and a love-making are always being generated, but anyway, this story is being told.
or any other ism?
been the holiday of joy and gladness be-
as tenants when landowners sold the lands over
after the belief in Dreyfus' inns- role in "State's Attorney" with
But the forces of fate in the



Helen
Twelvetrees.
their heads to Jews. Various methods of tres-
cence was strengthened, he
secret had planned otherwise.
if you THE BUSY SOKOLOW
cause the well-to-do in Israel have willingly
Pichel's drama
passing have been employed. In some cases
made an issue of it.
This army officer was to shoot
It was at a Jewish gathering the other day. On the dais sat
heard,
started
way
back
in
hadn't
Arab peasants have thrown themselves in front
It was at this juncture that
accepted responsibility for the needs of the
Nahum Sokolow. To the other side of him stood another well-
few guns. Instead he was to
Briand took a hand in the mat- Pittsburgh. •
of the plows of Jewish farmers, others have be-
known Zionist, orating. Sokolow was busy with pen and paper as
throw a bombshell, which was
poorer elements.
gun plowing the land of Jews which the Arabs
ter.
Briand
and
Jaures
deter-
to overturn some half dozen of
Zionist orator was exercising his throat.
Zion Myers, that's Carmel' the "Strange,"
claim is theirs, resulting in clashes and neces-
mined to throw the full force of
I said to the Zionist official, standing near me, "how
the governments of France, and
Now the appeal is made at a time when
the Socialist party behind Drey- I brother, is blossoming out as a a man like Sokolow, who has been all his life in the Zionist move-
sitating government interference and arrests
bring forth into public notice
Jews who formerly contributed to this fund
fus. There was some remon- first-rate director. His Seat pie- ment, should still be able to retain no fresh an interest in everything
on both sides and cessation of work pending
the men who were to lead not
strange upon the part of other ture will be "Hell Bent for Elec. said, by no matter what Zionist speaker. Here, I feel like sleeping—
court decision. In other places Arabs have torn
only France, but to leave their
are compelled to receive relief. It places a
down fences and uprooted young trees on Jewish
Socialiste, who felt that this tion." Not so long ago he was a yet look he is taking notes."
'impress on the world: He was
"shorts."
definite responsibility on the men and
was a purely intra-bourgeoise co-director of • dog
"Taking notes—nothing of the kind," said the Zionist to me.
to be used in addition to foster
lands.
• •
squabble — an army officer's
According
to
representatives
of
the
Jewish
"He is working on his diary right now. I was up there and saw."
the Socialist movement, and as
women who are positively assured of a tra-
We liked this bit of "Heart of
quarrel which did not concern
National Fund, which owns a large part of the
Which perhaps is stranger still—this eternal business of his.
for
Jews,
he
was
to
stir
them
ditionally joyous Seder table. It is their
a party dedicated to the prole- New York." An East Side "kibit- I understand that even on the voyage here from across the ocean-
Jewish land in Palestine, former Arab owners
from their age-long political
tariat. Briand and Jaures took zer," noticing the Jewish names Sokolow did not sit restfully gazing at the placid waters, but com-
duty to see to it that the hungry be fed dur-
and tenants of such areas have been fully com-
torpor and inflame their breasts
another stand. It has been said on all the streets, asks, "Where pleted about half of a new book.
pensated for rights to lands purchased and that
with hopes of a rebuilt Jerus-
ing the Passover period in a manner tradi-
that Briand and Jaures were are all the Irishmen?". An old
the new attempts at occupancy have been malic-
alem.
tionally deserving of the festival; so that
primarily interested in making long-bearded man looks up from EDUCATION, THROUGH BETTING •
iously conceived. The present trespassing, they
TRIAL AGITATED GREAT
an issue of the base for the op- his Hebrew paper and coolly re-
when the invitation is extended to the hun-
And for another example of a man who manages to accomplish
say, is an organized policy representing the latest
It was all because this young
portunity it offbred for Social- turns, "Where are all the In a tremendous amount of work. I invite your attention to Dr. Nahum
phase
of
the
Arab
anti-Zionist
propaganda.
Offi-
gry during the chanting of the Hagadah to
French army officer was being
diens?"
ist
propaganda.
They
planned,
Goldmann, the editor of the new Jewish encyclopedia now being pub-
cials declare that although various issues are in-
tried for treason. Never before
come and be fed, should be an honest out-
it has been said, to capitalize
volved it is obvious that such trespassing and
lished in Germany.
nor since in modern times, has
it much in the fashion of the
Goldmann, who looks like he is in his early thirties, has four
pouring of the heart rather than false lip
Our suspicions ar e
sabotage in certain districts is inspired wholly
the world watched so keenly a
present
day
Communists
who
doctorate degrees. I am told that he got them, not because he par-
becoming
more
and
more
con-
by anti-Jewish animosity.
trial as it watched that of Drey-
service.
seek to exploit the Mooney case. firmed that there may be more ticularly wanted them, neither to satisfy a thirst for knowledge or
Arab village politics also is held to be one of
fus. Among those who watched
There probably is some modi- Jewish than Mexican blood in the glory, but merely to win a bet.
An encouraging proof that Detroit
the underlying causes of the situation. A Na-
it was a young newspaper cor-
cum of truth in this, but the Torres family. Anyway, Raquel
It is said that he wagered with someone that he could win four
tional Fund representative says the continual
Jewry is prepared to work harmoniously
respondent by the name of
whole 'life story of Briand is and 'Charles Feldman, attorney, doctorate degrees in four years' time—and he won.
trespassing is the work of a handful of persons
Herz! of the Vienna Neue Freie
and unitedly in behalf of causes affecting
sufficient
to
demonstrate
also
And yet he strikes one, on first appearance at least, as an indo-
are
diamond-ringing—and
Renee
who hope to obtain personal benefit. They refer
Presse who was as much an
that he must have been sincere- and Phil Baker have spring fever. lent man. Ile is rather stocky, placid, and my first impression when
the needs of unfortunate Jews was offered
particularly to the "Mukhtars" (village chiefs)
Austrian 100 per center as Drey-
ly
concerned
in
the
abominable
I
came
upon him sitting very tranquilly, was that maybe Walt Whit-
Some
say
that
the
Torres'
family
who act as intermediaries for both sides in these
during the week when representatives of
fus boasted of being an unhy-
miscarriage of justice which the name is Osterman.
man was right about the benefits of loafing. Yet, if you succeed in
disputes and attempt to obtain money from both.
phenated Frenchman. llerzl,
• •
outstanding Jewish relief groups—includ-
Dreyfus
case
represented,
and
penetrating this screen, you find a man that seems to know every-
In Arab quarters it is declared that landless
who had ...en writing fuilletons
the wrong too done Dreyfus and
Sammy Fuller, of whom we thing, and what is better, understands everything. And that, of
ing Home Relief Society, Zedakah Club, De-
Arab peasants occupy and plow only such lands
became deeply agitated by it—
the
Jews
as
a
whole.

wrote a few columns ago, and Nor course, is so much harder to do than to know.
as are uncultivated or have been left fallow for
troit Jewish Emergency Relief Council,
and wrote the "Judenstaat."
And Briand helped pour pe- loan Krasn•, 23-year-old Broad
Which goes to prove, as it were, that "all that's Gold-man may
a long time, but this is refuted by the Jews de-
Other then young men who
Jewish Social Service Bureau—agreed to
trol on the flames which soon way playwright, were bitter ene - not glitter."
claring that first among the peasants and Bedo-
were agitated by it were Clem-


burst
throughout
the
length
and
mies—being
two
of
a
kind—
co-operate in a centralized manner in dis-
uins who try to forcibly possess Jewish lands are
enceaus, Anatole France, Zola,
breadth of France. Meetings young, clever, wise-cracking. Now THIS AND THAT
many who come from remote districts, never hav-
Jaures and Aristide Briand.
tributing aid, thus avoiding duplication of
Take
it
from
Miss
Flatou,
in
Palestine,
since the Arab disturb-
for
the
defense
of
Dreyfus
were
in
the
Hollywood
merry-go-round
,
ing resided in the disputed areas, and also there
The recent death of Briand
effort and unnecessary interference by one
arranged everywhere. Every they are riding neck-and-neck- ances there have been a host of children christened—or shall I say
are hundreds of thousands of acres belonging to
removes perhaps the lad great
night
Socialist
speakers
ad-
Fuller
was
recently
aigned
to
the
Judaized—by
the
odd
name
of
"Dafkeh."
group with another. Such efforts at assur-
the Latip, Greek, Orthodox, Armenian and other
figure associated with the Drey-
dressed gatherings at pro-Drey- scenario staff of Cblumbia Pic-
If you ransack your Yiddish vocabulary, you'll remember that
Christi* churches never touched by the fella-
fus case—except Dreyfus him-
ing unity are the happiest elements in the
fuss demonstrations. By the light tures, and Is! here comes Krasn ■ the word means something like "just because of despite of—or
heen, although left barren and uncultivated for
self. He still lives. Perhaps
of this flame, it was no longer from New York for • ditto job on maybe a better definition would be, "Just because ho doesn't want
present trying times.
decades.
the destiny which selected him
me, I will." You get the idea? That's what I call Jewish stubborn-
possible to hide the innocence of the same lot. Will they glare?
On the other hand, the Arab contention is
to project these new forces into
. •
Dreyf us.
ness, but in this case, I rather like it, don't you?—Of course, it
that the present disputes result from the Zion-
the world has preserved Drey- ZIONISTS HONOR HIM
doesn't make any particular difference, but it may interest you to
What
an
age!
All
the
come-
ist
method,
of
aggressive
dispossession
and
the
fus to the last to show him more
"Driven Into the Gutter."
What
must
have
been
Briand's
know that Covici, the publisher. and Bercovici, the writer. are
dians
are
turning
columnistic-
use of force against Arab cultivators occupy-
fully the influence of his life—
By a policy of overtaxation, Pierre Van
thoughts
when
shortly
before
Jack
Osterman
writes
his
thoughts
cousins Also you may be interested to know that Jacob de Haas
ing land, which, although legally purchased by
as a compensation for the or-
doesn't like the term Anglo-Jewish press, when referring to English-
Paassen, distinguisher journalist and friend
(Turn to Next Page.)
(Turn to Next Page).
Jews, was taken possession of by illegal means.
deal at Devils Island which
Jewish publications in America, and I think he's right...-....What's
of our people, told a local audience, "the
One thing is clear ip this and other re
the matter with American-Jewish press?........Also if you didn't know
Jews in Poland have been driven into the ports dealing with the present dispute:
it before, De Haas insists that a good /tease style must have rhythm
to it, and in his book which he is now writing, he says there will be
gutter; they have been driven into the low- that Jews are paying heavily for the land;
two styles, one a leisurely and the other a sort of staccato style .
est strata of the proletariat, and I doubt that they are compensating so-called dis-
In other words, a sort of fox trot and waltz combined..._...Wonder
H. Joseph
what rhythm this is being written in—one-step, tango or what—
whether they will leave them alone there." possessed Arabs, and that they fail to se-
maybe we aren't dancing at all—just stepping on somebody's feet,
Now comes a cable from Warsaw to the cure the protection of the law in taking
eh? Well, it seems that Louis Golding has clicked in "dagriolia
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, stating that possession of this land. Another thing is NAIVE MRS. FERGUSON
spent a lot of time on the laws of to Conason, as he intended to Street" after the first publisher couldn't see the book at all
the government of Poland is refusing at- clear: that Arabs are shrewd enough to
Mrs:, Walter Ferguson is a Moses, dead and useless these enter Harvard University, I was Samuel Shipman, playwright, who used to hang about cafes when
was in America, said that Trotzky one day, when he had
nesty for taxes in arrears owed by Jews, resort to mean tricks which are being hon- Scripps-Howard columnist. Which many centuries." So "dead and reminded of the story of Thyra Trotzky
means that she writes for the useless' that our very civilization Winslow's called "The Cycle of barely enough to buy a sandwich, promised some day to give him
and other proof is in evidence that a deter- ored by the English and which certainly group of newspapers known as the is based upon them; no " dead and Manhattan," where a Jewish fam- Moscow, and he is still waiting for the delivery.......Maybe Leon
mined effort is being made to crush the can do little good for the general popula- Scripps-Howard group, notably the useless" that the liberty we enjoy ily comes from Poland bearing the will give him Istanbul instead .......and Bruno Lessing wants to know
of Rothenheimer. They why it is that only in the underworld are those descriptive monikers
Jewish people. Adding to this misfortune, tion of Palestine. Certainly English ad- New York World Telegram. She today is due to the inspiration of name
lives, I think, in Kansas, which Moses. So "dead and useless" that move out of their sweatshop quar- given. .. _ _suppose he cackles, they did the same thing in the respec-
anti-Semites in other lands are beginning ministrators cannot hope to secure recog- may explain her weird religious the Ten Commandments are still ters in New York's East Side, a table world maybe he says, would be Mum Coolidge or Lefty
isn't that funny? or is it?
to imitate Poland by adopting policies of nition and honor for their methods of ad- views. Like all columnists who the guide and the only guide for little way uptown. Then their Einstein
conduct of men and women. name is changed to Rosenheim
economic oppression; and even in the Uni- ministration by approving the confiscation try to solve all problems of the - moral

They
move
a
little
further
up
and
universe to raising babies prop Mrs. Ferguson goes on to say that
ted States, where the pogrom brand of Jew- of Jewish property by whatever nomads erly she sometimes becomes all Jesus was a "friend to all men, an the name besomes Rosen. Finally,
hatred has never been in evidence, this choose to squat on Jewish soil. If ever re- tangled up in a ball of inaccura - internationalist, whose creed was when they have "arrived," the
cies. I am sorry that I.haven't love. No one can today worship name changes to Rosa And one
dangerous brand of discrimination has com- sentment was justified, this is the time.
the space to give Mrs. Ferguson' s both Jesus and Jehovah." In other night the oldest son, now known
menced to reap its harvests, Jews finding it
amazing comment on the Old and words, Jesus, to Mrs. Ferguson, no as E. Manning Ross, takes his par-
New Testament and to discuss it longer becomes the son of God but ents to visit a smart studio he has
almost impossible to secure employment or
Symbols of Hate.
at length. But I am sure that all God Himself. And Jesus was an rented on the Lower East Side and
to find a safe economic foothold.
By GEORGE AGABEKOV
Varied are the symbols and emblems of teachers of religion of every faith internationalist! That's interest- to their bewilderment they find
A sad commentary on this situation was hate which reveal the power of bigotry. In will want to frame Mrs. Ferguson's ing. Maybe that accounts for the themselves in the very room they
Former High Official In Soviet Secret Service.
lived
in
when
they
first
came
to
internationalism
(?)
of
the
,fol-
statement
as
the
most
naive
that
made recently by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, centuries today counted among the Middle
ever come under their notice. lowers of Jesus! But why con- this country. So the cycle from
(Editor's Note( During the Arab-Jewish disturbances in D•it•lis.,
noted German-Jewish leader who is now on Ages, bigoted minds pasted yellow badges has
Of course, it is unfortunate that tinue? Great Christian teachers Rosenheimer to Ross is complete!
charges were current that Communist proNgandistswere in part rgsPon-
Oble for inciting the Arabs against the Jews. In his exceedingly inter•
a visit in this country. Dr. Goldmann sta- on Jewish gabardines to distinguish them the Scripps-Howard papers with tell us that without the Old Tes- I hope the boy from New York's
wing expo. of the workings of the Ogpu, the Soviet secret police. of
which he at one time serveda• • high official. Georges Agabekov throw.
ted that he had asked a Polish Jew about from other humans. In the so-called en- their wide influence and large tament we never could have had East Side when he goes to Har-
new and hitherto unknown light on the activities of the Omni in rallAtine
reading nubile should apparently the New. Then poor Mrs. Fergu- vard will feel more comfortable as
as well as in other parts of the world. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, with
his economic status, and the reply was: lightened twentieth century, haters of men , !sponsor
such absurdities which son would surely have been handi- Conason than as Cohen, but i
the special permission of the publishers. Brentano's, 225 Fifth avenue, New
York. m pleased to reprint the following chapter from M. Agabeko•'s
"Thank God, better—than it will be a year and women who happen to be Jewish are might be taken to heart and mind capped! She would have had to doubt it. Boys, don't sail under
"(mu" (M. Thus volume Is recommended an an Interesting revelation
false colors. If you're a Jew, be •
pray to Jehovah!
of the workings of the Russian see et pollee. "Ogpu" It the alibre•lation
hence." What a tragedy! That not only waving flags bearing the swastika to sym- by ignorant persons.
Jew, because you CAN'T BE ANY-
of thewords "Gossoudarstvennoye Polltitcheskoye Oupravlenive" of which
is there extreme suffering and starvation, bolize their hate.
the English translation is: "General Political Administration of the State. - 1
DON'T SAIL UNDER FALSE
RAYED TO
GOD JESUS P-4—
THING ELSE EVEN IF YOU
COLORS
Here are some choice selections
TRY. The only excuse for the •
but that hope should be gone and even
But that flag sported by the Nazis in Ger- from
When I read that a Jewish boy change of name seems to me is
Ferguson's Museum of
Ogpu, especially its department not so trammeled, and some of them
greater tragedy should be the augury of many, under the leadership of Adolph Hit- I Rare Mrs.
Ideas: "If the early Chris- named Emanuel Voltaire Cohen when it is so hard to pronounce of foreign affairs, had long had its were to show extraordinary audac-
wanted to have has name changed that it becomes a nuisance. But it
tian
leaders
had
discarded
the
Old
the future.
is
not
the
only
proof
that
hate
will
not
ler,
on Palestine. We judged that ity in that connection; in chief
eyes
as a sacred document
shouldn't be changed because it country a suitable one for installs-, "Doctor" Goldstein, Ogpu Resides
die, even in our scientifically advanced age. Testament
and used for a guide to living only
sounds JEWISH. Never try to tion of a service of information at Constantinople and the fir'
The Levant Fair.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency now brings the words of Jesus Christ would
run away from yourself. You which should infiltrate little by Ogpu agent at liaison with Pales-
Palestine, the land of miracles, is assum- the following cable from Prague, revealing not the history of the world have
won't get far.
little into all the countries of tine. When Goldstein was teas ,
been
different?"
No,
my
dear
Mrs.
Araby, and it was agreed that the (erred to Berlin, he did not cease
ing the role of a center of celebrations and to what extent hating hearts will govern Ferguson, if there had not been
DEPRESSION HITS RABBIS
Israelite Communist Party was his activity respecting Palestine;
joyous occurrences. This year, new events bigoted minds:
an Old Testament there wouldn't
(After the Midrash)
The depression has affected "indicated" for collaboration in indeed, he increased it and streng-
have been any words of Jesus
take place to mark the current season's fes-
One krone coins on which the swastika em-
thened his footing. In the summer
some of our rabbis and other re• such a work.
By P. M. RASKIN
Christ. Mrs. Ferguson, thinking in
blem of the anti-Semites is carved, have sud-
ligious teachers to the extent that
tivities. The Purim Adiliada in Tel Aviv
However, just as Ogpu was about of 1929, when Goldstein returned
terms of Kansas Fundamentalism,
to Moscow, he reported that we
denly made their appearance and have been
they
have
difficulty
in
collecting
to
embark
on
the
enterprise,
infor-
Jehovah first crrated
is being followed by the Maccabead, and
apparently has never heard that When
Mount and •ale and field and wood, their salaries. I say "difficulty," mation was received which made it had four agents in Palestine, and
widely circulated here.
satisfaction,
Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew and He looked around
that they were receiving monthly
next week will open there the Levant Fair.
The government immediately ordered the
when
I
mean
they
can't
collect
seem
the
part
of
wisdom
to
make
And pronounced it. "Good."
$1,000 for pay and i:x•
that his God was the God of the EV.11
penm .1
coins to be defaced and therefore declared in-
them. Yet they carry on, making use of Palestinian Communists only atota
prev-beast in the forest.
The latter, by attracting exhibitions from
Jews.
The
reason
I
emphasize
this
Every
song-bird
In
the
air.
real
sacrifice
for
their
faith.
It
a
with the greatest caution
valid.
Europe
and
the
Orient.
is
Fisk
and
reptile.
tree
and
flower-
in
The Palestine Agency had up to
many lands
is because Mrs. Ferguson says that
An investigation has been ordered and the
seems too bad that God's work has
We learned that the British were
•G.1." did he declare.
"One day we pray to the Lord of
certainly an occasion of great importance
guilty will be prosecuted, when found, on
to suffer in times like these. In acting with the utmost circum- that time forwarded in informa-
•t last He made the woman.
the Israelites and the next to the When
charges of defacing state property.
other words, when we are riding spection respecting the Palestinians. tion to the Ogpu agency at Berlin,
at •onshine. fair as das.
for the Near Eastern countries as well as
Man of Galilee. And (she con- He Bright
"high, wide and handsome" on the Every mail brought to Moscow from which in return it received
regarded her In
for Palestine.
Even in our free America, what Jew has tinues) the former was a tribal - Good.- he did not .5.
tide of prosperity we give gener- copies of British official circulars, instructions. Moscow, however,
as nay
the gods the
The 1932 special tourist number of the not heard non-Jewish would-be comedians deity,
r
as cruel
ously if enough pressure is ap- addressed to British consular rep- thought it would be more sensible
"."` "'" 1""""
Mrs l
Again
y
dea
r
bartans.
plied. But when the tide turns resentatives giving descriptions to make the Palestine agency di-
Palestine and Near East Magazine adopts waving currency and referring to it as "the Ferguson, that "tribal deity" was
e'
d
dependent on the illegal Ogpu
AnTaili'7:4"se'r
roe
one
as
the last thing we are willing to and information concerning a num- rectly
n
With the Adiat's venue.
Resident at Constantinople. At the
for its motto the saying of Rabbi Jochanan: Jewish flag?" This, too, is a symbol of the God that Jesus himself prayed
make • sacrifice for is our religion. ber of so-called citizens of Pales- time
that
functionary was
So far as God is concerned, He tine to whom the right of enter- kine. It was decided to has
"He who walks even four ells in the Land of some form of hate which has crept into hu- to. That is, of course : if we are -1 DIN antin t'alt.I ndmItn
i''.-- f.
'r
ll i -e ma.
to believe all we read in the New Al
along without ing British territory, including the thorough inquiry made to ascer-
can
very
well
get
assured
of
a
place
in
the
world
to
d.b
":".r
d
"b
b"
Israel is
" b "bd( Myeelf.
man hearts and minds. If it were not hate, Testament. His last words were I surpassed
our temples. He doesn't need Dominions, were denied, although tain how much confidence could bc
particularly
appropriate
as
cruel
as
come." It is a
addressed to the "god
them. But we do. So those they carried British passports. Or- I placed in the Palestine agency and
these same bigots would instead quote the addressed
sst. ssa
1ns
the gods of barbarians" when -1'7;
co-religionists who because they den-were given to relieve them of what advantages werepromised
quotation in view of the thousands who inscription on some money piece : "In God Jesus
and bngtr
said "Father, forgive them,
are bitter over their financial re- these passports in ease of their from its continuance. Ever and
Palestine
for
the
to
have been attracted
we trust ;" and might instead hail the con- for they know not what they do." That can eeeee fade.
verses, blame it on God and decide presentation at Br i t i sh consu l ates . anon we found ourselves running
Purim carnival, the Maccabead, the Levant tribution of the people of Israel for the dis-
"But this wornan'• grace our...
Had Four Agents in LOU.
to show their disapproval by ne-
up against English espionage.
Earth below or sites above.
AN EXTRAORDINARY BIT
Obviously the Ogpu must act
glecting their religious obligations,
Fair and the Passover festival. "A place semination of good will, justice and right-
Provocateurs.
9"inte•
Di
But Mrs. Ferguson contributes SR. Fill win
the worlds with love.
prudently
as regards employment I One day there arrived in Moscow.
lack
too
many
qualities
for
me
to
in the world to come" is being earned by eousness among all peoples through the re- this extraordinary bit of informs-
of Israelite Communists. This for coming from Palestine, three sneer-
enumerate
them.
PAY
YOUR
life and beauty
of
s•ss••
of
seeing
Pal-
of Intel- "Sh.,
Jewry for the sheer pleasure
RUI Am Inte to life impart.
,f
RABBIS AND YOUR TEACH- Moscow. Ogpu agents stationed
developed from Jewry and tion which reflects • lack

Th• Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on sub-
let. of Intereat to the Jewish people, but dlaclaima responel-
by the writers
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RANDOM THOUGHTS

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When Ogpu, Russian Secret
Terror, Invaded Palestine

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