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Sabbath Rosh Chodesh Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Lev, 19:1-20:27; Num.
28:9-15.
Prophetical portion—Is. 66.

May 6, 1932

Nisan 30, 5692

Not Charity, But Justice.

It is difficult to think of a community the
size of Detroit, which should find it difficult
to raise the sum of $165,000 for as many
. imports nt, local, national and international
Jewish causes as are represented in the
Allied J ewish Campaign. And if there are
—as th ere must be in every city—an appre-
ciable n umber of pessimists, then we deem
it impo rtant to quote for their benefit an
imports nt fact which should go a long way
to disp el a bit of the existing despair.
Inclu ded in the local campaign quota, be-
sides th e local relief and educational agen-
cies, is t he Joint Distribution Committee for
relief a broad. Joseph C. Hyman, secretary
of the J D. C., in a report just made public,
points to the effort of European Jewries
to assu me responsibility for taking care of
their o wn needy. A figure quoted by Mr.
Hyman which speaks much louder than
ords is that for every dollar con-
many words
tributed by American Jewry, European
Jews d onate from five to ten dollars.
The fact is unusually significant. It
should be remembered that the tragedy and
chaos which rules Jewish life in Eastern
Europe an countries is beyond description.
Probab ly at no other time in our history
has a si milar tragedy threatened the safety
and exi stence of the Jewish people. In spite
of these conditions, Jews in Europe, no mat-
ter how poor, recognize the importance of
continu ing their own efforts for relief and
for the support of their cultural institutions.
They ar e accepting their responsibilities to
. an exte nt which has made it possible for
Americ an aid gradually to be reduced to
the pre sent minimum. In his report Mr.
Hyman described the drop in American
Jewry's aid to European sufferers as fol-
lows:
"Wh en the Joint Distribution Committee
first be gan operation a dollar contributed
in Ame rica meant only a dollar's worth of
help in Europe. With the continuation of
our wo rk and the consequent encourage-
ment of the local Jewish populations, the
Jews o f Eastern Europe assumed an in-
creasing ly larger share in their communal
activitie s. Furthermore, the participation
of Ame rican Jews influenced governments
and mu nicipalities to join in the work of
helping the Jewish poor and of furthering
Jewish productive efforts. Thus, from
1926 to 1931, the participation of the com-
mittee d ropped to 14 per cent; government
and mu nicipal aid rose from 3 per cent to
25 per cent; the contributions of local
Jewry r ose from 25 per cent to 60 per cent,
so that today for every American dollar,
from $5 to $10 are raised locally. But this
. one Am erican dollar is indispensable."
Depri ye European Jewry of this indis-
pensabl e dollar and yOu may introduce an-
other pe riod of tragedy exceeding in misery
even th e despair and hopelessness of the
bloodies t days of the war. And the dollars
asked, c onsidered on the basis of a per cap-
ita of p0 pulation as well as the proportion-
ate wea lth of Detroit Jewry as contrasted
with Eu ropean Jewry's poverty, are so few,
that onl y indifference of the most criminal
sort can possibly cause the drive to be a
failure.
A sim ilar story can perhaps be told for
other ag encies included in the drive. Every
dollar a sked is indispensable. We can as
little aft ord to see the decline of our He-
brew Sc hools as we can permit the closing
of the d oors of the Hebrew Free Loan As-
sociation . We might as well advocate
starvatio n for the inmates of the Jewish Old
Folks' H ome.
"There can be only one answer to the ap-
peal for this year's campaign quota. Not
only mu st the entire quota be raised : it
should b e accompanied by as much cash
as possib le and should be oversubscribed by
a suffici ent amount to guarantee against
shrinkag e

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rules of conduct which, if practiced a dec-
ade ago, might have saved the world much
anguish. In an article in the Nation, Pro-
fessor Cohen stated, under the heading,
"What I Believe:"
"So long as we lack omniscience and om-
nipotence, life will necessarily contain a
tragic element. Death will continue to rob
us of those we most dearly love, and un-
foreseen circumstances will frustrate our
most cherished plans. But we cannot over-
come this by wilful illusion, any more than
the ostrich (according to the slanderous
account of ignorant mortals) can escape
the hunter by burying his head in the sand.
And if we are told that some do attain bliss
through ignorance, we reply that success
in a lottery is no argument for lotteries. The
safer way to peace and serenity is through
the cultivation of intelligent courage and
wise resignation. We need courage to look
into our own heart and clear it of the fool-
ish desires which make us sow vain hopes
and devote needless toil and anxiety to
raise bitter crops of disappointment. And
we need resignation to live in a world that
is not formed just for comfort."
here is an answer to greed and avarice
which ought to set turbulent minds at peace
and restore sanity to a viciously upset
world. But will human nature submit to
the better judgment of a wise philosopher?
Perhaps the real test will come when the
present catastrophe gives way to a much-
desired sanity in the conduct of peoples.

"The Great Sin."

A "public confession in sorrow and in a
spirit of penitence" was made by Dr. Step-
hen S. Wise for the "great sin" of his ca-
reer when he took sides during the World
War,
Dr. Wise was speaking on the occasion
of his twenty-fifth anniversary as rabbi of
the Free Synagogue of New York. The
Rev. Dr. John Ilaynes Holmes had just
taken a seat on the platform after hurry-
ing from his own Community Church to
take part in the Free Synagogue anniver-
sary ceremony. Dr. Wise pointed to Rev-
erand Holmes and declared:
"Without reservation or equivocation, I
say now what this man had the courage
to say fifteen years ago—that this pulpit,
while I stand in it, will never give its sup-
port to war, to any war whatsoever, whet!).
er called just or injust! I would as little
support a war to crush Hitlerism as a war
for ,the strengthening of Jewish claims in
Palestine. Though I bore no arms, I gave
the fullest measure of my private and pub-
lic support to the United State and the al-
lied nations in the World War. I will never
do so again."
Dr. Wise is not alone in uttering this
confession. Millions who have read his
statement must have beat their hearts in
unison and proclaimed sentiments of peni-
tence for having participated in the world's
most horrible period of bloodshed.
Three elements have it within their
power to prevent future wars: The press,
the clergy and the nation's mothers. Will
every editor, clergyman and mother who in
one form or another participated in the
World War say with Dr. Wise: "I will
never do it again?" Until this vow is made
by every one in the powerful trinity we
have named, war will never be eliminated.

The Modern Marranos.

A correspondent, embittered over the
trying situation occasioned by discrimina-
tion against Jews in employment, takes is-
sue with us on the question of name-chang-
ing among Jews. Quoting several personal
experiences where he suffered from pre-
judice against Jewish employes both on the
part of Jewish as well as non-Jewish em-
ployers, he believes that a movement ought
to be started "to increase the employment
of Jews by Jews," and he adds:
"I cannot agree with your editorial at-
titude regarding the changing of names. I
even think that first names should be
changed to such as Patrick, Valentine and
such like."
We can hardly blame young people who
are frantic over existing conditions and who
are being pressed to the wall by economic
discrimination. Because the present is a
horrible situation creating a new type of
Marranos—boys and girls hiding their ori-
gin, posing as Christians, compelled to work
on the holiest days on the Jewish calendar
—all in an effort to earn an honest liveli-
hood.
What are we to do about it? With Jews
themselves resorting to discriminations,
how are we to blame the non-Jews for pre-
judice? Must we wait for pogroms and
massacres, for a Hitler movement to be
started in this country, in order for Jews
to realize the futility of discrimination in
C outageand Resignation.
their ow n ranks? If only discriminating
In Um( of storm and stress some people Jews would try to learn a lesson from the
philosopl tize; others show evident signs of situation in Germany, part of this problem
- impatient :e with philosophy and display a would surely be solved.
craving f or material changes and a return
A Law Relatively Viewed.
to what was a few brief years ago consid-
Bartholomew Ambrisko, Roman Catholic
ered nor nalcy. Today, however, the phil-
osopher 1 l as much more to teach mankind church official, was sentenced to two
than eve] before. Particularly those who months at hard labor at Britislava, Czecho-
think in terms of inflated currencies and slovakia, for insulting the Jewish nation.
exaggera ted values, those who dream of a Czechoslovakia officially recognizes the
recuperat ion of their wealth rather than a Jewish nation, and such punishment wig
quieting I Di their nerves, can learn a great meted out under the artcile of the constitu-
ddal from 't the calm and deliberate judg- tion referring to the protection of the Re-
public. Had similar punishment been pro-
ments of saner minds.
Dr. Mo orris Raphael Cohen, professor of vided for in the constitution of Germany,
philosoph y at the College of the City of imagine how quickly the Nazi Hitlerites
New Yorl ■ t, belongs to this type of teachers would have packed the jails of the land!
who have t much to offer at this time to a And if you wish you can go a step further
very sick world. Recognized as one of the and say that if this law were to be observed
country's outstanding thinkers and philoso- to the letter in Czechoslovakia, there would
phera, Pr ofessor Cohen recently suggested not be enough jails there, either.

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The Testing Time for the Jew

An Address by Dr. Leo M. Franklin Broadcast for
Church of the Air by the Columbia Broadcasting
System Sunday, April 24.

The Song of the Sea, which
during Passover week is read in
synagogues throughout the
world, was mankind's first decla•
ration of independence and hu-
manity's first bill of rights. It is
not strange that such a song
should have issued from the soul
of the Jew. Egypt and its bond-
age lay behind—Canaan and
freedom loomed defore. At last
this wretched folk, degraded in
its own eyes by generations of
humiliating servitude, could
stand erect in the dignity of its
free manhood. No wonder that
from a hundred thousand throats
rang clear its Bong of freedom.

But it is significant, is it not,
that even in that great emanci-
pation hour there were those
among the Jews who keenly
sensed what to this day many
of our statesmen and economists
have yet to learn. Men are made
slaves, not merely by the
shackles that bind their limbs
and they are not freed by the
breaking of their chains. Slaves
are they whose souls are seared
and stunted—whose manhood Is
broken—whose sense of human
dignity is lost. Slaves are they,
who like dumb brutes, permit
themselves without protest to be
driven under the lash of some
taskmaster, while only they are
free who, accepting responsibil-
ity as a privilege, demand as
their human right the protection
of that social order to whose
maintenance they contribute
their share.

And so the leaders of that an-
cient band of newly emancipat-
ed slaves knew that they could
not be really free until ap-
proaching Sinai's Mount, they
had heard the voice corn-
mend thundering into their
souls the words, "Thou shalt and
thou shalt not," signifying that
the freedom of each group and
every individual is circumscribed
and conditioned by the recogni-
tion of the equal rights to free-
dom of every other group and
individual. The Exodus from
Egypt, which we Jews celebrate
this week, was then only a first
step to that greater incident in
mankind's history, when at
Sinai the sacredness of freedom
under the law was emphasized.
To carry that message to the
ends of the earth, it is my con-
viction, was part of the Jew's
destiny from the beginning. I
claim nothing for the Jew be-
yond this: That being what he
is, he is the prophet of univer-
salism. That is why through all
these centuries he could live
without a flag or a country of
his own. That is why he is
spiritually cosmopolitan—home-
less as a people, yet at home
everywhere.

Men speak of the Jew as the
"miracle of history." Yet, that
miracle inheres not in the fact
of his persistence, but rather in
this, that slave or free, he has
left his mark upon the civiliza-
tion of all times and countries.
His influence runs like a scar-
let thread through the web and
woof of human history. And
this is true, just because his
message is a universal message
and his mission can be fulfilled
only when that message shall
have been heard and heeded in
the remotest corners where men

dwell.
As never before that
message needs to be sounded to-
day.
You see what has happened to
us. Under the stress of these
disordered times, men and na-
tions have become completely
self-centered. The bonds of
sympathy that should mutually
bind them have been severed.
The boundaries of every land
have become barriers itgainst
that complete understanding
upon which unity of spirit de-
pends. They represent so many
lines of demarkation between
enemy territory. Everywhere
there is fear and suspicion and
hate in the attitude of man to
man and nation to nation. Each
looks upon the other as a secret
foe. Behind the veneer of
amity is the dross of enmity. We
are living in a grotesque world
of pretense. Every smile cov-
ers a sneer or a sigh. We dare
not remember the recent past,
much less dare we dream of
what the oncoming future may
hold. We speak of peace while
we live under a war psychology.
We indulge in vapid phrases
about disarmament, but the
very sound of our words is
drowned out by the clanging
noises of the machines that are
turninig pruning hooks into
spears and beating ploughshares
into swords. The word is spoken
in a whisper, but all Europe is
looking to the next war and se-
cretly preparing for it. And
all this, because each nation is
fearful of the other and the
self-protective instinct is as-
cendant.
We have unlearned to think
in universal terms. We think
of men, but seldom of man-
kind. Self and not humanity is
the unit around which we build
our universe. Under such cir-
cumstances, how futile and how
foolish is it to contemplate even
the possibility of harmonizing
the antagonistic elements in our
modern civilization. Such a
possibility cannot logically be
entertained until our spiritual
boundaries have been enlarged
so that we see in every men our
brother and in every group, so-
cial, political, economic or re-
ligious, a company of brother-
men, striving each in its par-
ticular way'to reach that goal of
perfect freedom which we have
set unto ourselves as our ideal.•
The Jew learned early, as I
have indicated, that the freedom
of one group can never be se-
cure until an equal freedom has
been assured each and every
other group. What Lincoln said
of our own nation—that it can-
not endure half slave and half
free—must take on an universal
application. Until all are free,
no one is free.
Until all are saved—I speak in
terms of the sociologist and not
of the theologian—until all are
saved, no one is safe. What
message can there be that is
more consonant with the spirit
of Passover or one that the
prophetic genius of the Jew
more insistently reiterates? Or
what word is there that modern
men need so much to hear as
this?
There are those who believe
that we are living in a doomed
world and that no power in
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Our Film Folk

By HELEN ZIGMOND

HOLLYWOOD.—The father o
a prominent Jewish director wa
lately married . . . the lady wa
a Gentile, but she voluntarily ac
cepted Judaism. She set hersel
to studying Hebrew and Jewish
history. At the recent Seder fes
tivities in their home, she aided
her husband in the ceremony • • •
much to the surprise and shame of
some of the Jewish guests who
didn't remember their Hebrew so
well,
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B. P. Schulberg, general man-

ager of Paramount, and Josef von
Sternberg, the director, are THAT
wrought up . . , Josef didn't like
the script version of the "Blonde
Venus" which "B. P." insisted
that he direct . . . so Josef was
suspended 'from school and went
off in ■ huff. And Schulberg
threatens suit for time lost on the
picture. It's • question whether
the business office dull dictate to
the artist or whether the artist
shall be the judge of what is or is
not good enough for his talents.
If only Congress would stop
worrying about things like the
tariff and Data a law definitely
pronouncing the movies a: bus!.
nes... . or an art .. . these up.
setting dissenaions wouldn't occur.

Here's a story about the Brox
Sisters: One of their last pictures
was the "Hollywood Revue" in
which were featured a number of
M. G. M. stars. The picture final-
ly reached a one-street town in
Oklahoma where the Misses Brox
have a sister, a Mrs. Storey. And
the theater manager. understand-
ing customer psychology, billed it
"Mrs. Storey's Sisters in 'The
Hollywood Revue.'"
• • •
Some of the former Detroiters
present at the opening of Abe
Simon's Hollywood law offices
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lasky,
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Friedberg,
Mrs. Lena Robinson and Mrs Es-
ther Robinson.
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"Is My Face Red?" that sip-
snorting story about
■
Winchell, is

Tidbits and News

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency,

Ito.)

THEY HAVE A WORD FOR IT
Publicity is of all sorts, and much of it, one may say, to borrow
the recently coined parody of II. I. Philips, the delicatessen dealers
have a word for it—boloney. But if you want to see a reasoned
argument for publicity of a higher type, read the sketch of Edward
L. Bernays in the current Atlantic Monthly.
Bernays, as you may know, is the nephew of Freud, of complex
fame. And Bernays, like Uncle Freud, as the writer points out,
works along psychological lines, for the moulding of the public mind,
in any direction, whether it be to buy more hair nets or to vote wet
or dry, is a problem in psychology.

MEET MR. BERNAYS
Bernays, it appears, got into the public relations work, and inci-
dentally, he was the coiner of the phrase "counsellor of public rela-
tions" by accident. He was to begin with editor of a medical paper,
which when Richard Bennett proposed to play "Damaged Goods" came
forward outspokenly in support of the play's frankness in dealing with
sex problems. Bennett sent for Bernays, and the whole of his career
was metamorphosed from editor to public relations counsellor,
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WE REMINISCE
Some years ago the writer of these lines, as I have before stated,
was working in the publicity department of the Zionist Organization.
On one occasion I took some publicity story dealing with Zionism to
the Sunday editor of the New York World.
The Sunday editor was a Jew—a man who has since obtained
some fame as a writer of a stage hit, but then known, as today, for
a certain criticism, and one of those Jews who is a pretty good anti-
Semite.
When I came in with the story, he fumed—he boiled—he spit fire.
"Why the Jews," he explained, if I would let them would fill this
whole paper with publicity." Then turning to me, he shouted: "If
you are a Zionist, why don't you go to Palestine?"
I might have answered that in a lot of ways, but I replied: "That
is, to say, if one comes here with a story for tubercular relief, he
should first spit blood."
Ile paid little attention to my answer, and went on: "Why is it
that the Irish don't come up here with so much publicity, or the
Germans? "
"Well," I replied, "the Irish have their Free State—it isn't all
that they want, but it is still a good deal more than the Jew has, and
the Germans have Germany."

BUT SO RUDIMENTARY
Yet it is true, nevertheless, I believe, that we Jews are pretty
prone to this publicity, yet it has always seemed to me that publicity
in its better sense, we have never expelled. Except of course, when it
comes to publicity for Jewish things, we are all right in sending out
releases. We send loads of them. And we know one or two other
elementary tricks—such as, that it is always good to hold the meet-
ing on Sunday, for Sunday is a weak news day—and also, if it is pos-
sible, it is better to hold that meeting for which publicity is intended,
say in Philadelphia or Washington rather than in New York, for in
New York it will be just another meeting, while in a little smaller city,
the newspapers will give it more space, and it will be put on the wires,
and wire news generally gets more prestige.
We know those simple rudiments, but of publicity in the sena°
that Bernays does it—in the sense, not os much of sending out
releases, but of engineering events, so that the papers rush them-
in the "shooting" (with or with-
selves to write it up—I think, the record will show for Jewish achieve-
out quotes) stage. Ricardo Cor-
ments.
tez is the gossiping columnist, and
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•
is his face flushed? It's ■ great
THROWING MODESTY ASIDE
chance for him to star . . . and
I am usually, as you may have guessed, an exceedingly modest
he's fully aware of it.
man, but for the nonce, let me be egotistical. What I am referring to,
Saw them "take" the scene
is that while in the same Zionist employ, I suggested some years ago
where Cortex bribes • ship's stew-
that one of the Palestine coins be of Hebrew inscription with some
ard for his uniform . . . then, in-
reference
to the Jewish Homeland. At that time, the British govern-
cognito,
he collects the "low-
ment was entirely favorable to the Jewish settlement. I got the idea,
down."
I
am
frank
to say, from the Stone Mountain Memorial in Georgia,
The story was written by two
which was partially paid for by having the government mint a special
Joosh boys, Allen Rivkin of Min•
Stone
Mountain
half-dollar which was sold throughout the South for
ne•polis and Ben Markson from
a dollar. I proposed that we do something like that for the Hebrew
Des Moines.
University of the Jewish National Fund. I suggested possibly that
•
Talk about meeting the lion in something might also be done in the way of a special stamp. I would
his den . . . Aben Kandel, screen have created publicity and brought money—at least I thought so, and
still think so
writer, who authored "Rabbi
Burns," made a speech in Temple
AT THE CHICAGO FAIR
Israel, justifying his viewpoints in
Well, maybe they were right in rejecting it, but I abound in ideas
the book. Rabbi Isaacson defend-
—and
now I am going to make another proposal. There is a World's
ed the rabbinate . . , the B'nsi
B'rith attended in a body ... the Fair going to be held in Chicago. I propose that Palestine have some
sort
of
representation at that exposition. There is plenty that might
house was S. R. O.
be exhibited. Palestine oranges, grape fruit, olives, figs, olive oil,
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myriads
of exotic and beautiful Palestine flora, salts from the Dead
The Carmel Myers-Ralph Blum
household is expecting that blessed Sea, exhibits of the handicraft schools—maybe some exhibits of Pales-
tine
dancing.
And right alongside of them, I would put a few of
event the latter part of May,
those tin boxes or some receptacles for shekels. I believe it would
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furnish
splendid
advertisements and pay for itself. For the fact of
Dots and Jots . . . They cay
the matter seems to be, that Jewish Palestine, as for as I can gather,
Thyra Samter Winslow's Holly-
is
pretty
much
of
a success, but who knows it?
wood•resistance is breaking down
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. . . and William Fox is reported
HE'LL LIVE LONG
having 40 millions nicely salted
If
you
want
some
good
Jewish
laughs,
there is a whole book of
down . . . Al Jolson's picture to
them out now—by Harry Hershfield. Here is a sample:
be tagged "Hallelujah! I'm •
"1
hate
to
insult
our
child,
Beatrice.
but
he is a very dumb boy."
Bum" . . • Irving Caesar, coin-
"Might'll if we send him to Sunday School it'll help."
poser of many acing hits, is here to
After a week's -religious schooling, the proud papa quizzed his
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offspring.
"Now, Samuel, what did the Sunday School teacher teach you?"
"He's teaching me Kaddish—you know, papa, the prayer for the
dead."
The father rushed to the phone and called up the tutor.
"Phooey, you," he yelled. "What's the idea of teaching my son Kad-
dish. Am I dying or is my wife passing away?"
"Don't get excited," answered the other. "You should live so
long till he learns it."
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COHEN IS EPISCOPALIAN
BACK TO THE OLD DAYS
I have been besieged with in-
Well, I see by the New Republic that Lee Simonson, famed de-
quiries whether Major John Cohen
signer, declares that the corset is coming back—indeed, that it is
who was recently appointed to the
already back, judging from the corset business, which seems to be the
United States Senate to succeed
one business making a profit in this depression. Well, if you will
the late Senator Harris, is a Jew.
pardon a pun—that is bracing news.
I find that he is an Episcopalian,
And with the long skirt back, it seems like the good old days for
which takes considerable of the
the ladies,
Jewish interest out of the appoint-
I hope that we men at least get our beer back. We men are entitled
ment. Major Cohen is an unusu.
to something back.
ally able man and we have a fra-
ternal feeling for him as a news
paper man.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

NO GOTTHEIL MEDAL
In view of the fact that sugges-
tions are still being received for
the Gottheil Award by the Zeta
Beta Tau Fraternity, I think it
quite in order for the fraternity to
announce that no award will be
made this year because of the in-
ability of the committee to reach a
decision as to whom should be
singled out as the Jew who ren-
dered the most distinguished serv-
ice to Jewry during the past year.
In doing this I feel that no legiti-
niate confidence is being violated.
The various Jewish communities
j which have signified their interest
I in this annual selection should not
I be left suspended in mid-air won-
dering what has happened. It is
j interesting that so many men seem
to be eligible for such a choice
that a majority could not decide.
This s wei.k
‘ I am in receipt of a
recommendation from Rabbi
Simon of Washington, D. C.. who
endorses Congressman Sol Bloom.

By-the-Way

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by Charles
H. Joseph

nasty?) Dr. Silver calls my atten-
tion to the fact that there are at
least eight living men mentioned
in his book, namely, Joseph Wood
Krutch, Prof. Charles Richet,
Prof. Hadfield, Prof. Albert Ein-
stein, Mahatma Gandhi, Mussolini,
Prof. Jennings and Gilbert Ches-
terton. Dr. Silver dryly remarks
that "I do not know just what the
significance is in mentioning liv-
I
ing men in a book." I agree with A JEWISH PRE SIDENT?
Rabbi Silver that we are encour-
Someone asks why not a Jewish
aging too much IN inchellesque gos- president? I think it better that
siping in the Jewish prem.
we learn to walk before we start
to gallop. As for presidential tim-
RABBI SCHULMAN AND
ber there is considerable to be
ZIONISM
found in our group. Most of us
A Letter from Berlin.
Maybe Rabbi Samuel Schulman look upon a president as a sort of
of New York is a Zionist, maybe superman; that is, after he gets
he isn't. I guess he will have to into office. Before that he is just
BY PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
decide that for himself, though I like the rest of us. The name of
(Copyright, 1932,201.111h Telegraphic Agency, Ise .)
sought to interpret his attitude the Walter Lippman is mentioned as
-I
other day and perhaps made a mis- presidential timber. Ile is a clear-
The niajoritynb tained by the ism is a much more national Ger
thinker,
probably
one
take. A writer has this to say:
of the clear.
Nationalist-Socialist
the man creed of course than Roma
est minds on economic questions
"TIME" AND JUDGE HORNER "Dear Mr. Joseph:
t a h thtehe
rty i in
both
Cath- Catholicism, which has its spiritual
!P. russian Diet places bl:
"In your Random Thoughts you in the country. Whether he would olic centrum Party an
To Time, the magazine weekly,
lugen- center beyond the Alps in Rome.
every Jew is "plump" or "sleek" came to the conclusion that Dr. make a good president is another berg Nationalists in a quandary as
And so in Germany today w
or "suave." This time we discover Schulman is not a Zionist. Ac- story. I do think that Lippman to what course to pursue. All sort. witness the unusual and dishearten
should be in the cabinet. Mr.
that Mayor Cermak, the Demo- cording to my way of thinking any
of combinations are being envisa- ing spectacle of a great liberal Pro
cratic boss of Chicago, has suc- Jew who helps the rehabilitation Hoover could surely use him to ged by the political soothsayers. testant church making comma
ceeded in "nominating for gover- I work in Palestine is a Zionist. The great advantage. Possibly the What may come as a surprise to cause with a narrow nationalism
many in America is that the possi- which has the odious program o
nor," a plump 53-year-old Jew Zionist platform is wide and next president may use him,
bility of an entente between the anti-Semitism inscribed on its ban
named Henry Horner who has sat strong for every Jew to stand HOOVER AND THE JEWS
solemnly and well for the last 18 1 upon regardless of whether he is
I don't suppose that as a peo- llitlerites and the Catholics is open- ners. Forty per cent of the Luther
ly discussed. It is now felt that an pastors are either members o
years on the bench of the Probate ; Orthodox or Reform. It is true ple we are any
th an
Court in Chicago. I don't know that Dr. Schulman attacked Zion- anybody else. But I recall when the Catholics may he inclined to theNational-Socialist party or the
Judge Horner's record intimately, ism in some of his addresses, but Mr. Hoover was elected, I was con- negotiate with Hitler, and that Hit- are sympathetic to the economic
except that he must be a good in his address that evening it stantly asked if he would be as ler, from his side, may formulate and political doctrines enunciated
judge, judging by the fact that he seemed that he unwittingly turned kindly disposed toward the Jews a program that will prove accept- by Herr Adolph Hitler.
able to the Roman Church.
Little is left in the National-
has been re-elected several times. to Zionism."
ae were f his d .
This must come as a surprise in , Socialist Party of the pure racist
He is (or he was) a trustee of
As I said before, Dr. Schulman The President has shown the same
the Michael Reese Hospital and can probably explain just what he degree of consideration as the oth- view of the fact that Hitler had !ideology which tended in the direc-
has served on many important believes better than I can. ers. Sometimes I think we stress small success in purely Catholic dis- , tion of a reversion to the religious
civic institutions. One thing is Although in passing I might say these thing too much. It is rare tricts in the national elections re cult of the primitive Teutonic bar-
quite certain—"a plump 53-year- that if I assist in promoting the to find a man at the head of our cently and that his strength lay I barians. For a time Hitler's party
old Jew" could not be nominated interest of liadassah I do not con- government who is intolerant. Or- rather in the Protestant North and participated in the movement ini-
for governor of Illniois or any sider myself necessarily a Zionist. rasionally we find a president who East and more especially in the' tiated by the racist, but not nation-
rigidly Protestant Pomerania and al socialist, General Ludendorff,
other state unless he was an out-,
is not quite so liberal minded, but Sleswig-Holstein.
who has gone back to the venera-
standing personality with an ex-
there is really no prejudice or in-
traordinary record of public ten--
The National-Socialists have now I tion of Wotan and Freya and other
tolerance displayed. For example,
Pagan Teutonic gods. At present
ice.
come
out
openly
with
the
declares;
there is no reason why a Jew
the former quarter master general
The rain h.d fallen. the poet woo..
MUST be in the president's cabi- tion that they neither fight for nor I of the Imperial Army has converted
H,
hr the town and out of the
GOSSIPING
against
any
specific
religious
cult.
I
net and if he fails to appoint one,
a village in Bavaria to his religious
greet .
I think it only just to print this A light toed blew from the gat. of the why he should be considered un- In no far religion is concerned they ,
views. In this village the Pagan
Nun
statement from Rabbi Silver of
friendly. I find as we go on that leave their adherents absolutely ' cult of the days of Herman and
And !mom of shadow went over the
Cleveland. Ile quotes from s col-
our people are receiving more and free. That they follow a decidely Alaric is being practiced. But the
wheat.
anti-Semitic
program
at
the
same
And
he
••t
down
in
•
innely
umn "Strictly Confidential" which
National-Socialists have nothing to
And eh anted • melody loud •nd 'week more recognition in public life.,
appears in the Jewish Criterian of That made the wild swan pause in hit Here is Judge Stadtfeld who WI.' time, is explained by Herr Ilitler's do with this .
erson I
cloud,
Pittsburgh.
It is written by
elected
the
other
day
to
the
Su-
I
The sympathy of the National-
And the lark drop down at hi. fort.
Phineas J. Biron.
lie quotes: The ...ow .toot a, he hunted the bee. perior Court of Pennsylvania. The I that he is fighting the Jews as al Socialists party goes out to the
"racial element incompatible with;
The •nakeidiot • o
"Rabbi Abbe Hillel Silver in his
e. • •rrar.,
fact that he is a Jew apparently and destructive to the Teutonic Protestant Lutheran Church which
book 'Religion in ■ Changing . The wild hawk etood with the down en did not operate against him. On
soul." At the same time the elect- had its origin on German soil. The
World' does not mention one liv.
And oaredwith hi, foot nn the prey. the contrary if he had received the
ions have shown that National-So- fact that the Social-Democrats and
onrittingale thought, ^I have
ing man by name. Afraid to get And the
support of the Republican organ- cialism, in a general way, leads
owls M, 1.011111,
to T the Catholic Centrists are allied for
in wrong. ' Replying to this quite
Put mover • on• •o gay.
ization to the degree to which he a sympathetic alliance with Luther-1 the time being in a political coali-
For
he
sin.
of
what
the
world
will
M
unealled.for sneer (why do to i When thew years he.
was entitled he would have led the an Protestantism, simply because it tion directed against Communism
died •way..
many writers have to be so
ticket
—LORD TENNYSON.
is a national movement. Lutheran-
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