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of
the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 14:1-15:33.
Prophetical portion—Mal. 3:4-24; or Jer. 7:21-
8:3; 9:22, 23.
Readings of the Torah for First Day•of Passover,
Sabbath Hagodol (the Great Sabbath) Readings
Thursday, April 21.
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 12:21-51; Num. 28:
16-25.
Prophetical portion--Josh. 3:5-7; 5:2-6:27.
Readings of the Law for Second Day of Passover,
Friday, April 22.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev, 22:26-23:44; Num.
28:16-25.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 23:1 (or 4)-9;
21:26.
April 15, 1932
Nisan 9, 5692
Last Call for Mo'os Chitim.
t
Only four days remain before Jewry will
be seated at the Seder ceremony to usher in
the Passover festival. How many are, even
at this late hour, giving thought to the
needs of the less fortunate Jews who may
find themseves without the traditional un-
leavened bread, and without sustenance
therefore, on this festival?
It is not yet too late to give thought to
the needs of the homeless, hopeless unem-
ployed. More than a thousand families are
already listed in the office of the Mo'os
Chitim committee to receive traditional
,Passover aid. And the officers of the Mo'os
Chitim committee are frantic. At this late
hour they do not know where the necessary
funds will come from.
What is your answer to this last call for
aid to the Mo'os Chitim fund? Let it be in
the form of a check, addressed to the chair-
man of the Detroit committee, Charles
Smith, 2244 Longfellow avenue.
The Campaign's Chairman.
a
• a
Aaron DeRoy, chairman of last year's
successful Allied Jewish Campaign, will
again direct the solicitors in this year's ap-
peal for $165,000 for the local, national
and international causes represented in the
drive.
There is reason for the community to
rejoice over the retention of Mr. DeRoy at
the head of the campaign. His statement
of acceptance reveals that he has retained
a great measure of courage and enthusiasm
in behalf of the suffering humans and agen-
cies that are appealing for the community's
aid. This is the most important element in
leadership today. Besides, he has become
imbued with a fervor and determination
for communal service which was a great
contributing factor in previous successes.
Let the other leaders follow the examples
he is setting for them, and the drive will
be a success.
Anniversary of Hebrew University.
Crowning the month's cultural activities
in the Jewish world is the observance of the
seventh anniversary of the dedication of the
Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in
Jerusalem. To commemorate the event an
international broadcast from Palestine is
planned, with outstanding Jewish and non-
Jewish leaders as spokesmen.
The importance of the Hebrew University
must not be underestimated. Regardless
of its general cultural values to Palestine
and to the Jewish people, its particular
value lies in the scientific 'experimental
work which directly benefits the work of
upbuilding the Jewish National Home. Bo-
tanical experiments, attempts to discover
means of checking the recurring locust
pests and other scientfic research work of
the university is of a nature so valuable,
that aside from the joy Jews must share in
the existence of this higher college of learn-
ing they have reason to be proud of the ex-
istence of an experimental station definitely
prepared for constructive efforts.
A non-Jew, J. W. Wilson, member of the
editorial staff of the New York Times, paid
a glowing tribute to the Hebrew University
ideal, on the eve of its founding in 1925,
when he stated:
The Ilebrew University means that a
great race has arisen from the dead. Scat-
tered, it is one. Crushed, it is not killed.
Landless, it has a heritage which encompas-
ses land and sea ; the heritage of a tradi-
tion which, out of the warp and woof of the
past, weaves the hopes and possiblities of
the happier kingdom that is to be. The
very word university signifies the universal.
No knowledge will be attained on Mount
Scopus which will not be immediately add-
ed to the treasury of all peoples."
And a noted Jewish leader, Louis Lipsky,
then president of the Zionist Organization
of America, evaluated the creation of the
school this wise:
" From Jabneh to Mount Scopus. The de-
feated Jochanau ben Zakkai petitioned the
Roman usurper for permission to retain a
• Jewish school of learning in the Holy Land.
and the petition was granted. It was an
act of grace. It implied admission of de-
feat. It was a supplication and a prayer.
It gave opportunity within the sight of the
Hills that had bee desecrated, to gather to-
gether the debris of defeat, to preserve the
learning of Jewish life, to husband it in or-
der that life (quiescent, unoffending, unag-
gressive), might be retained. Self-restraint
Ig held UN passion of hatred In leash; the bat-
The New Egypt.
In the days of Egyptian bondage the
Israelites were oppressed by an enslaving
system which compelled them to make
bricks without straw. Thirty-five hundred
yeatJh later Israel is found under a yoke far
more terrible. Old Egypitan oppression at
least provided sand for bricks. Now even
that is begrudged, and the very air neces-
sary for breathing would if it could be
taken from the traditional Chosen People.
Discount pessimistic evaluations of pres-
ent conditions as much as you will, it is
clear today that the situation is far too ter-
rible for Jews possessing even the slightest
element of pity not to feel uneasy over the
dangers and the terrors which dominate the
present New Egypt.
The territory embraced in the oppressive
area is so vast that one begins to wonder
whether even a God-intoxicated genius like
Moses could possibly provide the solution
for the problem. With the United States
included among the lands whose Jewries
are economically ruined, with hardly a
country-unaffected by either political, eco-
nomic or physical discriminations, the hori-
zon is a gloomy one. Ironically enough,
from the point of view of the once wise in
Israel who ridiculed the Zionist plan, Pal-
estine is today the only bright spot for
Jews on the map. And because we have
such serious grievances against Great Bri-
tain for interference with even this slight
ray of hope, the picture of gloom is com-
plete.
This is a sad introduction to the Passover
season, but 'Cis truth and it, is truth that
hurts.
Linking Scattered Israel.
In his report to the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee, in which he
pointed to the increase of Jewish suffering
abroad, Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the commit-
tee's European director, stated that "to
make conditions still worse, anti-Semitism
is growing simultaneously in all countries,
taking different forms—sometimes social,
sometimes political, sometimes economic,
on occasion physical attacks and disturb-
ances."
Practically all reports on existing condi-
tions in world Jewry point pot only to suf-
fering and want, but what is perhaps
worse : the disintegration of Jewish com-
munal life and the disruption of Jewish
unity. Despair is setting deep roots in the
body of'the Jewish people. There is noth-
ing in all our history to compare with the
present tragedy.
Fortunately, the leaders of American
Israel refuse to become parties to such des-
pair. The recent national gatherings of
the Joint Distribution Committee and the
American Palestine Appeal reveal that suf-
ficient devotion exists fo assure some meas-
ure of support for the downtrodden masses
in Eastern Europe.
An element of extreme importance in
linking Jewries of the world in the present
crisis is the important Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, which is ever awake to Jewry's
needs and which continues to keep Israel
throughout the world informed on happen-
ings in individual communities. Without
this service it is difficult to prophecy how
much more serious the present tragedies
might become. As it is, the J. T. A.—the
three familiar letters denoting the source
of all published Jewish news — stands
guard over Jewish interests throughout the
world. And by keeping leaders in New
York informed on the conditions of Jewries
in Warsaw and Berlin and Moscow, it helps
to link scattered Israel and to assure pro-
tection for our people.
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"One Up for Magdiel."
From the column "In a Few Lines" by
Quidnunc" in the Palestine Bulletin, we cull
this paragraph :
I saw a donkey yesterday laden with orange
peel. The death of 200 oranges was in that
load. The donkey was standing outside a shop
which serves—for 6 mils—a refreshing glass
of orange juice. And you ask why just this
year everybody is selling and everybody is buy-
ing half piastre glasses of orange juice, the
answer will be that a little machine has been in-
vented which, in a few seconds, has the frothing
juice ready in your glass. If you ask, further,
whether this is not some Californian machine,
sold to the simple folk of Palestine, you will be
told "no." And rightly. For the latest Official
Gazette, in a neat supplement informs all men
that David Slonim of Magdiel has patented
"an apparatus for extracting fruit juices."
One up for Magdiel and for Palestine.
Where East Meets West:
How Jews Live in Jugoslavia
Our Film Folk
HOLLYWOOD, Cal.—Everyone
on the "inside" will explain to you
how pictures conic in cycles—
gangster, war, westerns, and so
forth. If one studio makes a suc-
cessful picture, all the others rush
to make one like it—no one knows
Why (the germ of "humanus imi-
tatus"—our own term— has not
yet been isolated). Anyway, we
now see a Jewish cycle gathering
momentum . . . Already we have
"Heart of New York" and "Sym-
phony of Six Millions." Then I.
E. Chadwick, independent pro-
ducer and former president of
Temple Israel, plans to picturize
"The Melting Put" by Israel Zang-
will. "Shandy," a Jewish-Irish
story, will soon be released.
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Guess what some Goyim have
said about the "Symphony" . . .
"Too much Jewish propaganda!"
We're amused, . . . Can you
imagine Mr. Big Business Movie
Man inspired with such altruistic
motives? No, no, the box-offite
comes first.
bees are most of them assimi-
lated. The synagogtfe is a Re-
form temple, with an organ, and
the attendance is very small... I
went to the synagogue on Fri-
day evening.. Most of the wor-
shippers were the local Zionists,
who are the most active section
of this quiet community. When
the service is over a considerable
part of the worshipers go across
to the adjoining garden restau-
rant, when the Christian res-
touranteur serves them with their
Sabbath meal. One of the com-
munity leaders tells me that on
Friday and Saturday night, it is
the custom for the family to as-
semble in the traditional man-
ner at their Sabbath table in this
particular garden restaurant,
which is the best in town, and
which makes a specialty of pre-
paring Sabbath food for its
Jewish clients. The Jews of Za-
greb speaks Croatian among
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themselves, and some still speak
While we're on the "Symphony"
German. Anti-Semitic inci-
.
.
.If
the
story
doesn't
draw
dents are very rare, but the'
post-war epidemic of anti-Semi. tears, the beautiful strains of "Eli,
Eli,"
"Kol
Nidre,"
"Hatikvah,"
tism has reached Jugoslavia, and
it is more apparent in Croatia and ''Auf'n Pripitochok" will do
the trick. The composer of the
than it is in old Serbia.
•
So far as that can be possible
in a world-wide economic crisis
like the present, the Jews of Za-
greb are a prosperous commun-
ity. But that is true, however,
only to the native-born Croatian
Jews. There are a few East
European Jewish families in Za-
greb, and they are not so well
off at all. The same applies to
the score or no of Sephardic
Jewish families in Zagreb. In
the good old days there was
plenty for everybody, but now
people find that they must work
much harder than they did to
earn their living.
Jewish social life was never
very active here.. There is a
little Zionism. The younger
Jews are interested in Jewish
problems, but there is no par-
ticular Jewish enthusiasm.
Things are done mechanically,
without any fire or zeal.
There are in Zagreb a number
of Jewish students from Serbia,
and a few from the adjoining
countries. The basement of the
Jewish community building
nerves , in fact, as a students'
kosher kitchen, and these stu-
dents must be counted among
the active Jewish life of the
city.
The Croatian Jews, and above
all the Jews of Zagreb, never al-
lowed anyone outside to dictate
to them, but Vienna at one time
had a considerable indirect in-
fluence on them. Now that Croa-
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musical score is Max Steiner. He
was a child prodigy. That prop•
ably won't startle you, but listen
to this: At the age of 13 he wrote
a musical comedy—book, lyrics,
and music—which ran for two
years in Vienna. At the same time
he studied violin, piano, trumpet,
organ, and 'cello at the Imperial
Academy of Music in Vienna, the
city of his birth, and carried off •
medal almost as big as himself.
At 16 he wise • professional con-
ductor in Russia . . . then came
10 years of conducting and or-
chestrating in London. In Amer.
ice he has written music for many
revues and operettas. Now he's in
charge of -K-O's
12
music depart-
Here is something that should
prove of value in waging war
against discrimination in the em-
ployment field because of religious
affiliation. I note that the Non-
Partisan Civic League of New
York is seeking to make unlawful,
agencies inquiring into the re-
ligion of applicants. Louis S. Rein-
gold is chairman of the committee
and he seems to think that Gover-
nor Roosevelt encouraged such ac-
tion on the part of the League be-
cause of his statement in signing
the anti-bigotry bill prohibiting
questions on religion in examin-
ing teaching staff applicants for
public schools. The governor said:
It is a reminder of the principle
of religious freedom guaranteed
under the Constitution." But it
seems to me that there is quite •
difference between legislating in
such a. situation where the state
itself is involved and in an em-
ployment agency. Of course I sin-
cerely hope that it would be pos-
sible to enact au1i a law. Natur-
ally an individual would have a
perfect right to inquire into your
religion or mine. But it may be
that an agency operating under
city or state license might be sub-
jected to restrictions sufficiently
wide to prevent such questions
being asked. However, the agency
merely takes its cue from those
who seek help and until prejudice
is eliminated in the individual, it
will continue in the agency.
COMPULSORY CLASSES
ON
THE SABBATH
There seems to have been a fair-
sized hornet's nest raised about my
ears because I couldn't see the up-
rising on the part of a portion of
Seattle Jewry protesting against
the University of Washington law
school instituting compulsory
classes on Saturday. Of course it
was made an infringement on re-
ligious rights and religious liberty
and all the rest of it. I said, and
I repeat, that when one considers
the negligible number of Jewish
bops who CONSISTENTLY ob-
serve the Sabbath, it seems that
we are unwarranted in forcing
such an issue. Of course • Jewish
student who wants to observe the
holy day should, if possible, be
given the opportunity; but surel y
it it too much to ask of a university
to alter its schedule because there
maybe two or three Jewish boys
who cannot find it possible to at-
tend! And I also repeat that
there surely can be some way for
such students to keep up with their
class work without going to school
on Saturday.
the officials
.
.
. Surely
of the moves] y o f
are sensible men, and without all
this fuss being raised some plan
could have been developed to take
care of an exceptional case where
attendance would have interfered
with one's Sabbath observance.
Instead, again there must be a hue
and cry rasied. All Jewry has to
be involved. Again we shall see
all the religious and fraternal or-
ganizations aroused!
Which, in simple fashion, reveals that
Palestine is not only absorbing everything
from the Occident, but is creating some-
thing of its own. True, it is not always orig-
inal; but the rapid occurrences prove that
the experiment which is marking the coun-
try's upbuilding is- fascinating. Several
years ago we were told about an American
who was compelled to take his family back
to the United States because his daughters
missed the ice cream soda. Judging by the
above quoted item, and by reports that the QUOTING
I quote from the Jewish Tran- 1
ice cream soda is now a popular Palestinian
scrint of Seattle:
drink, another reason for anti-Palestinian-
"Shoddy leader s, distorted
ideals, a wind-bag rabbinate that'
ism is now removed. •
preaches without acting, a press
lacking in intelligence and cour-
age, and a people that has become
syncophantic in its frantic efforts
to ,b ,T e h'a n t ice i
' s —the indictment, oft-
made, of the contemporary Jew-
ish scene. It sounds vitrolic. We
can't be that bad, everyone says.
And it is true, of course, the good
points of American Jews are not
emphasized in such criticism.
"But see if you - can't find sub-
stantiation in large part of those
stinging charges in the following
editorial give-and-take!
"See if the incident here dis-
cussed does not mirror in cross-
section a typical Jewish problem—
this time made more vivid because
of its closeness to home—and the
typical attitudes reflected from it,
indicative of the different paths
Jewish thought takes. . . .
"The issue in dispute in the
compulsory Saturday class rule at
the University of Washington
law school, which goes into effect
next October, because Seattle
Jewish leaders have deigned it not
necessary to defend the Jewish
student's right to an unbroken
Sabbath.
the East, however, where
leaders and moulders of public
opinion recognize the ramifica-
tions of unthinking passivity
where Jewish rights are involved,
where precedent is being made to
get aside age-old traditional cus-
toms . . . in the East, and in
Jewish press throughout the na-
tion, the Jewish students' dilemma
here has merited wide comment.
"And so, when Charles H. Jo-
seph, in his Random Thoughts col-
umn, nationally syndicated, de-
clares himself on the situation, he
raised a storm of counter-com-
ment."
They tell it of a well known Jewish speaker who, like his honor,
he mayor of New York, has a reputation for being late at functions.
Well it appears that this orator came trouping in the other day to
sonic Jewish function at 9 o'clock when the event had been scheduled
for 8:30.
"You are half an hour late," remonstrated the toastmaster.
"No, I am half an hour early," replied the orator. "You see, I
always come an hour after the beginning, and here I am, only a half
an hour after the beginning, st I am half an hour early."
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WHEN GOLDMANN DINED
Recently the Rev. Dr. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of the great Re-
form temple, Emanu-El, invited Dr. Nahum Goldmann, the well-
known German-Jewish scholar, who is editor of the new Jewish
Encyclopedia of Germany. That is, Rabbi Schulman invited Dr.
Goldmann for dinner Friday evening..
When Dr. Goldmann arrived, the rabbi was a little perplexed, it
is said. Aftbr all, he is a Reform rabbi and perhaps his meals were
not sufficiently kosher for his guest. Rabbi Schulman delicately
stated the situation.
"Oh, I am sure," replied Dr. Goldmann, "that I need have no
religious qualms about eating anything in the home of a rabbi," said
Dr. Goldmann.
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•
DEVIL QUOTING SCRIPTURE
And that reminds me of a story told about a well-known Jewish
writer, who was once found eating pork in some restaurant,
His fellow Jew who came upon him in the process expressed
amazement. "How can you, of all men, be doing this?" asked the
friend.
"Don't get excited," replied the writer. "It says in the Torah,
one should eat pork."
"What do you mean, it says in the Torah, you should eat
pork," returned the other.
"Well, isn't the word for hog in the Torah, 'es-Chazir'?" said the
writer. (A pun on the Ilebrew particle "es.")
DR. CORALNIK AND HITLER
Now, this matter of kosher and non-kosher is very important.
)(ere, for instance, Dr. Coralnik, one of the most brilliant of the Yid-
dish journalists, has been relating that when he, as a young man, was
it student at the university in Vienna, the sister of Hitler worked as
a waitress in a kosher dining room connected with the school.
When I heard that a lot of things became plain to me. For I am
not one of those people who believe that great or rather important
developments always spring from great causes. Who knows but Hitler
may have come into the kosher kitchen in which his sister worked,
and tried one of the Jewish dishes, and maybe the dish of fish had
too many bones, and Hitler choked, and he there and then deter-
mined to have revenge on the Jews. Or maybe they refused to give
him credit at the kosher restaurant,
•
BIG OUT OF LITTLE
For, I repeat, one of the greatest facilities is the belief that
significant developments spring from significant causes. Causes are
almost always trivial. What was there in the face of Ilelen, for
ini • • •
instance? Probably nothing but the kind of features that you and I
Sidney Fox and Jean Negulesco, could find walking down Main street any (lay, when it doesn't rain.
Rumanian artists, have been Yet that face, we are told, launched 10,000 ships. All right, say it
friends for some time, but now was only 9,000.
are reported to be ring-shopping.
Or what is there so significant about a mosquito? Passing
. . . And Eddie Buzzell is confec- him by you would not even stop to speak to him. Yet consider how
tionery about one of the Brox sis- many communities he has decimated with the malaria which he breeds.
ters . . . the unmarried one, of
And so, I say, who knows but in that very restaurant that Dr.
course.
Coralnik refers to the menace of Ilitlerism was born.
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•
The Mara Brothers held a fam- A WAITER'S STORY
ily reunion . . . The occasion was
And talking still about restaurants, have I ever told the one
Papa Marx'. seventieth birthday.
that Jacob de Haas tells?
The father of the comedians, by
One day, Goldstein sitting in a restaurant, didn't at all like the
the way, is Hollywood's dapperest
steak. lie called the waiter.
"Beau Brummel" . . . he never
"Why, this steak," he exclaimed, "is hard as iron. How does he
appears publicly without spats and
expect me to get it down my throat. Say, do me a favor, take back
cane.
the
steak to the chef and tell him to stick it down his own throat."
• • •
Whereupon the waiter took away the steak and departed.
Mrs. Edith Kopelson, formerly
In a few minutes the waiter was back. "Mr. Goldstein," he said,
of Detroit, now of Los Angeles, "the chef says he's sorry, but he can't stick it down his throat. He's
is very active in dramatic work got two orders ahead, a dish of fish, and a dish of plum pudding."
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OLD BUT YOUNG
Gertrude Atherton, you remember, a few years ago wrote that
novel about what would happen when science really succeeded in
finding a means for human rejuvenation.
Well, now, it seems, by the autobiography which Sirs. Atherton
has just written, that the book was a little bit autobiographical.
Mrs. Atherton, previous to its writing, had actually had one of
those rejuvenation operations by Dr. Harry Benjamin, the American
of the Steinach method.
be too intolerant of the other side exponent
And according to Mrs. Atherton, after the operation, she felt
"Seattle Jewry' religious liberty
the words of her book came out of her like a geyser.
is being interfered with and that From
what I have heard, however, the general scientific attitude
Seattle Jewry is told not to be too
is not very favorable to their operations.
intolerant!"
RANDOM THOUGHTS
ANTI.BIGOTRY
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
LATE BUT EARLY
By Z. H. WACHSMAN
SOCIAL LIFE
Tidbits and News
(Copyright, 1932. Jtwkh Telegraphic Agents. Int./
By HELEN ZIGMOND
(Copyright, 1982, Jewish Telegrephie Agency. ins.)
Rarely has a new slate joined
together so many different and
diverse groups of the Jewish
people as has Jugoslavia. It
seems that of all the states
which have risen out of the ruins
of the old Austro-Hungarian
empire, those Jews who came
to be subjects under the parti-
tion of Jugoslavia have done
best by the exchange. The Jews
in Jugoslavia are no worse off,
and to some extent they are
even better off than they were
in the good old days of the Em-
peror Franz Josef, whose Jew-
ish subjects still remember him
w ith affection. The Jews of
Jugoslavia arc bound by the
same affection to King Alexan-
der of Jugoslavia, who is indeed
one of the finest and most hu-
man monarchs of our day. Jugo-
slavia is bounded on one side by
the Adriatic, with Italy as its
nearest neighbor, on the other
side by Rumania, on top by Hun-
gary and Austria, and on the
bottom by Bulgaria and Greece.
By whichever frontier you enter
Jugoslavia you meet a different
type of Jew, with different cus-
toms, different standards of life,
and to some extent also a differ-
ent language. We shall enter the
country this time from the Aus-
trian side, by way of Maribor or
Marburg, going in the direction
of Zagreb. On our way we pass
through a great number of
small, ancient Jewish communi-
ties, whose members belong to
families which have been settled
in these districts for centuries
and have become practically as-
similated to their surroundings,
countries of which we hardly
ever hear anything, and which
were reformed or assimilated
ever so long ago, and today have
simply dropped the German lan-
guage and taken to Croatian.
The most important of these
communities is that of Zagreb,
the capital of Croatia, and the
most modern town in Jugosla-
via.
There are about 6,000 to
7,000 native-born Jews in Za-
greb, apart from newcomers
from the former Hungarian'
provinces, who have established
an Orthodox community of their
own there. In addition to these
twq communities, there is a
third, consisting of Sephardic
Jews who began to come to Za-
greb after the war, some from
old Serbia, and some from Bos-
nia and Herzegovina. The old
native Jewish community of Za-
greb is one of the wealthiest in
Europe. The synagogue and the
community buildings occupy an
entire block on one of the most
fashionable districts of the beau-
tiful Croatian capital. Its mem-
By-tile-Way
by Charles
H. Joseph
Now listen to Rabbi Simon THEN AND NOW
Greenberg, president of the Phila-
But some day, mankind will probably succeed at this. It will
delphia branch of the United find a means to make the old feel young and then what chance will
Synagogues:
the young people have? •
"In his column, Mr. Joseph dis-
For the old will have his ripened experience, his long years of
plays a type of so-called honesty acquired knowledge, and if you can add to that youthful vigor—
and frankness that is frequently why flaming youth will be sold short.
met with, and which reflects an at-
Still, it might not be a bad thing. It is my own opinion that
titude of mind prevalent amongst flaming youth has a little too much the edge of it at present. In
a certain group of our people.
ancient Israel, the "elders" were the salt of the land. Today,
"The question involved is the everybody seems instead to try to salt away the elders.
decision of the University of
Washington law school to hold ses- THOSE PALESTINE BLUES
As the steamer carrying some 250 Jews to Palestine was reced-
sions on Saturday. Seattle Jewry
apparently registered its protest ing in the misty waters, the other day, I stood along the shore with
against the decision. Mr. Joseph the steamship agent who had sponsored the Palestine tour.
"About half of them are prospective settlers and about half
takes occasion to taunt them and
to call these 'fuss-budgets,' and to tourists?" I said questioningly to the agent.
"Yes," he said, "and about evenly divided."
imply that they are really insin-
"Well, all of this should net you a neat little sum?" I continued.
cere, because not every Jewish stu-
"Yes, and it's going to net me more," he answered.
dent observes the Sabbath and not
"You see," he said, "those tourists who are coming back, will go
all Jewish lawyers will refuse to
again."
take a case on the Sabbath.
"No," I said, "Palestine is a long way off, and I don't imagine
"In the first place, I wonder the average person will make that trip more than once in his life."
whether Mr. Joseph knows that
"That's where you are all wrong," he said, "but you won't under-
students who have conscientious stand, you can't understand."
objections to studying on the Sab-
"And why, pray, can't I understand?"
bath in universities in which Sab-
"Because you've never been in Palestine," he said. "For once
bath courses are fixed institutions. you've been there for a short period, you can't avoid wanting to go
and particularly in graduate back. It's like a disease. There's something that get you over there.
schools, have no other choice. Maybe it's the scenery. Maybe it's the exotic oriental life. Maybe
Class attendance is absolutely it's the leisurely contrast to our own worrying life of hustle and
compulsory. The only concession bustle. Anyway, it gets you. And I will say that 50 per cent of
sometimes made by the authorities those returning will some day buy a return ticket."
is that examinations scheduled for
"You sound yourself like you have the Palestine blues," I
a holiday might be taken on some returned.
other day, but such a concession
"And how," he sighed, as we turned our steps from the dock.
requires the cutting of a horde of
red tape and all kinds of begging
and beseeching before it is
granted.
"But setting that aside, why
doesn't Mr. Joseph openly say
Sabbath observance is no longer
necessary or important? If he
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"MAGNOLIA STREET" I y oldis
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Street
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Answering Leon Meltzer in his believes that Jews ought to ob-
LEADS THE MARKET thw
h-
ere, as
ac cident that
"Mirrors of Jewry" page in the ' serve the Sabbath, why have they
not a right to protest against an
borhood,
borh
o od, and the Manchester papers
current Britisholomite:
"In his attempt to rise above action which makes it more diff1-1 Great Success of Golding'. Volume carried the headlines 'Accident
Near Magnolia Street.'"
the controversy, to rise above the cult for them or for any small
is England Followed by Sim-
herd of Seattle Jewry who appear number amongst them to ob-
Bar U. S. Triumph.
In an earlier Issue of The Chron-
to take an infringement upon their serve it?
icle already appeared a review of
"To the best of my knowledge, In one 30-day period n England "Magnolia Street" from the pen
religious liberty seriously, Mr. Jo-
seph assumes a holier-than-thou the University of Washington is a alone, Louis Golding's "Magnolia of Bernard Postal. The author,
attitude which is regrettable. I state institution. How would Mr. Street" sold 30 000 copies. One day Louis Golding, is known to many
can forgive everything but his ad- Joseph feel if high schools and last month, the book s American Detroiters, having lectured here
vice that Seattle Jewry should not public schools, for one reason or r blishers, Farrar & Ronehart, 9 under the auspices of the Jewish
another, decided to have sessions ast Fort y-first street , New York, Open Forum. Of paiticular inter-
filled orders for 2,000 copies. Thus est in connection with the appear-
on the Sabbath?
"I can readily understand a sen- the English success is being re- ance of this unusually fine novel is
A PASSOVER HYMN
timent such as expressed by Mr. peated in America. And it is a the interview Mr. Golding granted
Joseph coming from a maa who Is success well deserved for the novel a representative of the London Jew-
God of Might,
avowedly an anti-religionist and is one of the finest literary efforts ish Chronicle. This interview con-
God of Right,
I wants to see the Sabbath, in its in recent years, and is, in addition, tains so many interesting points of
Thee we give ail glory.
excellent story of a street on value in understanding not only
traditional a s p e c t s especially, an
Thine the praise
one side of which live Jews, on the the novel, but the author as well,
completely uprooted from Jewish other
In our days
Christians.
'that we herewith reprint it:
life.
As in ages hoary.
li e I. a „,.., s,..„ila,.. t. Loo b, G old.
John Farrar of the publishing
"If Mr. Joseph thinks that way,
in.. tic hoe followed in the (river.
let him openly express his joy that house
which
brought
forth explained
the book ;4 1 ,2:11;,".
in this
country
recently
ju eerelthi, ,,,,b;,..--
.0„. ,., r;,„^:
When we hear
the University of Washington has th e
Year by year
Spain and all the war to Geom.. In
joined
the
ranks
of
all
other
Doomington
of
"Magnolia!
Street"
is
really
Manchester,
Eng-1:3
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Our redemption's story
forces which are helping to break ark,. Now
, comes the Manchester
Now as erst,
by turnine barrel organ in the
down Sabbath observances Evening News of Manchester, Eng- himself
streets of Cornith. tie Ass trundled
When thou first
amongst the Jews, but let him not
sleet-are in • tramp steamer in •nd out
land, and identifies the street which of
Mad'st the proclamation.
the Ionian Islands with an
• Albanian
imply lack of sincerity to those be- is the scene of Golding's novel.
ent.thront as • bed•fellow. But hi. grent•
lieving in the sanctity of the day,
Warning loud
"Fame has come, says • writer wt k....1 R•e 1.66 from an .4.•^IsIr
or
to
those
who,
believing
that
Every proud,
in the News, "to ■ little Manchester • " he'''''' I" " D""° "'"" th."" ""''
, their brethren want to observe the street, ■ short and narrow street 1 :i Zes'iti7e:Io n ,ti mn";:"47t) orr and "onskrs '
Every tyrant nation,
'Sabbath should be given an oppor- in Cheetham which is • symbol of
We Thy fame
w as actually during hie university
tunity to do it, use their rights as an age-old division, for on one side day th•t
Still proclaim,
Golding publi•hed his first
citizens to register a protest when live Jews and on the other Christ- ovel - Forward from Babylon," is 1919,
God of our salvation.
I
t was declared at the um, t.IN the
;
they
see
their
ideal
In
danger."
ians.
This
is
Char
street,
off
Wat.
G. GOTTHEIL
I What do you think?
erloo Road, the subject of Louis
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