aR0111011 ff_DentorriErasti i PAGE TWO AIMM and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE 11.1.1.11111•11110∎' built Jewish National Home in Palestine has //n aa t'PP'JEWiSfl eiROMCIE not only gained for him a host of friends, " Jewish Elections in Bulgaria Our Film Folk By-the-Wa ■ 1.11Mlnil ■ 911 Tidbit s and News ,v y DAVID SCHWARTZ but has definitely placed him in the ranks of (C.7eight. 1032. Jewish Teleffslibid Some,, Jae.) Jewish leaders who recognize that Jew- By HELEN ZIGMOND ► whiloboi Neale ivy The Jew eh Clinatiele Pohlialliag Co, ter. ish life cannot be limited to the handing Where Only Difference Between Zionists and Non- THE EASY ART OF FORGETTING be Al- Zionists Is How Much Money Should HOLLYWOOD.—It was the old How quickly we forget is evidenced by the death of Cyrus L. ♦ ••••• ■ 1 111 nmwiewl-elme matter Marsh I, 1116, at the Post. out of relief : that there is a national outlook stoma at Detroit. Mick, leader the Aet if Marsh S. ms. located for Keren Hayesod and Jewish ' rah, rah" spirit that brought Sulzberger. Perhaps with the exception of Louis Marshall, no one upon Jewish life which today demands a hese scenarists together ... They man played so decisive a part in the history of his generation, as far National Fund. General Offices and Publication Building position of priority for the historic and ro- call it the West Side Riding and as American Jewry is concerned, yet how few at his death knew any- 525 Woodward Avenue Asthma Club . . . eligibility for thing of Mr. Sulzberger except that his son had married the daughter mantic achievements in Zion. By M. NACHIMSON membership requires you having of the publisher of the New York Times. Tedephosei Cadillac 1040 Cable Address' Chreniele Dr. Slawson will, of course, be remember- (Copyright. 1932, Jewieh Telegraphic Agency. Inc/ Lied. Oak., worked on a humorous college Ile was a unique individual—a cosmopolitan and self-thinking type. 14 Strafford Place, Loudon, W. 1, England mag . . . that's why Groucho was Thirty and forty years ago, American Jewry was of a different mould ed for the remarkable spirit of comradeship even half the votes required to unanimously elected president ... than today. There was, for example, a much sharper cleavage The Jews of Bulgaria are Subscription, in Advance._ ........ —43.00 Per Year and devotion which he has created among return one candidate, and the he's never been to college. Groucho between the German and Russian Jews. Sulzberger was one of those in 34 communities- many hundreds of volunteer workers who organized To losers publication, all eorreepondmee and oews mottos Communist group is a little big- immediately made all the mem- rare German Jews who was entirely at home in the Russian-Jewish 31 Sephardic and three Ashke- mast reach this adios by Tueedey evening of oath week. formed the armies of solicitors in fund- nazic. The work of the Jewish ger, but it, too, has never been bers vice-presidents . . . that was atmosphere, who had a hunger, indeed, to mix with all types of a When mania' notkm, kindly as. one Bide of the leaner may. able to obtain representation in an efficiency move, he said, so vivid nature. communities is carried on by raising campaigns he directed here. Very • • • mil, they would be all organized if they the assembly. The Detroit Judah Chrookle levites eorrospondeuce community councils, made up beets of intermt to the Jewish people, hot diselsises reeposol• few communities in the land were able to of two separate committees, a ZIONISM DOMINATES wanted to open a bank. A LIGHT THAT FAILED betty far an usitoroon•at of the view. erpreseed by the writers Roll-call lists: S. J. Perelman, duplicate the remarkable spirit which was schools committee and and syn- Sulzberger was the sort of general all-around man of that ill- The dominant idea in Bulgar- Jug"-ger; Samuel Ra- fated journalistic enterprise—the Yiddische Welt, a daily which Sabath Readings of the Law. evidenced here during these drives. It is a agogue committee. The two ian Jewry is Zionism. The dif- ex-"Brown phaelson of Illinois' "Siren;" Her- proposed to devote itself primarily to the Americanization of the committees are elected separate- Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 21:1-24:23. ferences between the Zionists tribute to his leadership that the remark- ly, in accordance with two dif- and non-Zionism can be best ex- man Mankiewicz, Columbia's "Jes- incoming masses of Russian immigrants. Prophetical portion—Ezek. 44:15.31. able campaign machinery which has been ferent electoral ordinances pub- plained by the following two il- ter;" Allen Rivkin of Minnesota's Jews from Russia and Poland were coming in at the rate, for two lyar 7, 5692 Jerry Honvin of N. years at least, of half a million a year. Probably the biggest exodus May 13, 1932 functioning here should have suceeded in lished by the state. In the case lustrations: The Zionists stand "Shi-U-Mah;" Y. U:s "Medley, and about 25 in history, making the historic exodus of the Jews from Egypt nu- of the schools committee, the the complete liebraization other now Ilollywood scribes. periods of economic distress to defeat pes- vote is confined to Jews who for the merically, at least, very small by comparison. Jacob Schiff was the Jewish schools, while the of The Campaign Must Succeed! financial angel of the Yiddische Welt. Louis Marshall wrote the edi- simism and to inject a feeling of communal are Bulgarian citizens, and only non-Zionist program says that When these lines reach our readers, the devotion in the hearts of many men and Bulgarian citizens are eligible Jewish children are to be given Samuel Hoffenstein will soon have torials, and I believe it was Philip Krantz, a philosophical nihilist or anarchist of his day, who translated the editorials from Marshall's Allied Jewish Campaign, now in progress, women who were on the verge of despair. for election, but all members of sufficient instruction in the He- a new book of po:try in print. the Jewish communities are en- English to Yiddish. One of the most bizarre staffs that was ever language to enable them will be more than half over. It is impos- Even at this writing we retain confidence titled to vote for the synagogue brew Now that we think of it—how to speak Hebrew fluently and to quiet llollywood has been since assembled. Cyrus Sulzberger was the intermediary who kept all of sible to judge at this writing how success- that , the hundreds of men and women who committees, irrespective of their read and understand Hebrew the various elements from jumping at each other's throats, Eddie Lambert, the comedian, left The paper succeeded tremendously well—in losing money. Losing ful the efforts of the workers in the drive are coliciting for the Allied Jewish Cam- citizenship, but here, too, only books and newspapers without with his stamping recitation of Bulgarian citizens may be it, I am told, at the rate of $10,000 a week. difficulty. T h e non-Zionist Kipling's "Boots." will be. Based on actual work and devotion paign will, under the direction of Dr. Slaw- elected. program is merely a diminution of the volunteers, this year's campaign son, succeed in retaining Detroit Jewry's AT THE CENTURY'S DAWN of the Zionist program, in- Bulgarian Jewry also elects The quiet of Santa Barbara more successful was Sulzberger in the project of which he ought to be the outstanding success in the excellent reputation for social service and to a third body, the Scams which tended as an economy measure, (Calif.) is too nerve-wracking for was Much among the leaders, that of distributing the immigrants, as far so to ease the burden of taxation is the representative assembly Walter Winchell . . . He and the possible, all over America, diverting the immigrant stream to all history of Detroit fund-raising undertak- for honoring the numerous obligations imposed on the members of the minus and the kiddies will soon of the Bulgarian Jews, a kind of ings. But conditions are against us. Hun- which are ours. Jewish communities, in view of take • peek at Hollywood . . • parts of the country. Today, some 60 per cent of the Jews of Amer- Assefath Hanivcharim. the prevailing economic crisis. Everybody's beginning to burn old ica live outside of New York. How much of that was due to Cyrus dreds who formerly were among liberal Like in the case of the elec- Dr. Slawson has our sincere wishes for Then there is the Keren Haye- letters and stuff the keyholes with Sulzberger can not be known, but you may be sure it was no small contributors are now in no position at all tions to the synagogue commit- percentage. success in his new calling. Detroit's loss in tee, all members of the Jewish sod. The Zionist position is rejected manuscripts. Sulzberger and his allies not only carried on a propaganda among to share their wealth, because they have every Jewish community Winchell was offered the gossip- his departure from our midst will be New community may vote in these that and every member of the Jew- ing-columnist part in the picture, the Jews to "go west," but he even got the steamship companies to go lost their possessions, and many of them elections, whatever their citizen- to Galveston instead of New York. York's gain. ish community must contribute "Blessed Event," but he turned it • • • ship, but only Bulgarian citizens are to be found on the receiving end of the the Keren Ilayesod. In down. At the same time, we welcome to Dr. may be elected. The results of to A MODERN EXODUS many of the communities there • • • line. the elections are subject to I said Sulzburger was of a self-thinking type. I can best illus- is a definite sum earmarked in But it is just because of these conditions Slawson's post, his successor, Kurt Peiser, all We spoke to Harry Lichtig the the approval of the state. the community budget for the other day ... He still retains pleas• trate that by a story that Jacob de Haas tells me of a visit paid to that the campaign must be a success. With who comes here well recommended by the TWO ASSEMBLIES Sulzberger by a Red Cross solicitor who knowing Sulzberger's philan- Keren Hayesod, while in some ant memories of his friends in Mt. suffering on the increase, sacrifice on the Jewish community of Cincinnati, which he other communities it is left to Clemens and Detroit. He's a well- thropies, came to him for a contribution to the Red Cross. The first representative as- "I wouldn't give a red cent for the Red Cross," replied Sulzberger. is leaving to come to Detroit. Like Dr. the members of the community known artists' and writers' agent part of those who still have a little bit must sembly, which met in 1920, "I don't believe in your work. To abolish War, make it more hor- decide how much should be out here. be greater than ever. And if those who still Slawson, Mr. Peiser has been successful in adopted the constitution, to to rible." given to the Keren Hayesod. • • • all Jewish communities in Coming from another person such an answer might have been possess a little bit will learn a lesson from uniting the numerous elements in his com- which The Zionists insist that in those Oho! Another for our list, and capable of varied constructions, but coming from Sulzberger, one the country are subject, and the the tragic collapses in our economic sys- munity under the leadership of the United assembly has the right to amend communities where there is an isn't this a honey! Joan Blondell, knew that it came from his deep-seated loathing of war. annual subsidy for the Keren • • • tem, then suffering will cease because jus- Social Agencies of Cincinnati. We have the constitution. The constitu- Hayesod included in the com- the new blonde star in the Holly- wood firmament, is—or was—Joan has not yet obtained the munity budget this must be re- Bluestone, one of our own little NOMINATED FOR OFFICE tice will begin to dominate our charitable reason, therefore, to feel confident that he tion official recognition of the state, I don't know why Sulzberger never reduced his kaleidoscopic will strive to maintain in Detroit the united tained, while the non-Zionist "maedels." Her latest picture is but it is passively accepted and efforts. experiences to the form of an autobiography. It would have made a demand that the Keren Ilayesod marvelously interesting work, ranging from the utmost of pathos to We retain confidence that the entire front which has been so happily achieved tolerated as the constitution of contribution should be fixed "The Crowd • Roars." • • organized Bulgarian Jewry. The pungent humor. What more interesting and more racy chapter could each year, according to the quota asked in the present drive will be here. News from the eastern front: representative assembly elects there have been than that of Sulzberger's nomination for borough financial position of the com- Lillian Roth's martial skiff is president of Manhattan. The story of it could well have been made subscribed. How else is this community to an executive, which serves as the munities, and the amount of rocking badly ... Mark Hellinger, central consistory of the Jews of be expected to act when failure spells dan- Scholars' Festival and Book Week. taxation that can be imposed on column pen-pusher, and Lupe Ve- the theme of a Broadway stage hit. and is the supreme Sulzberger was nominated by the Good Government ticket, a fusion the members. Their attitude is les are simply mad about each About two thousand years ago a plague Bulgaria, ger for our emergency relief station, for the and sole representative organ at that time. the same with regard to subsi- other George Jesse! will take of varied forces to defeat Tammany • • • . Jewish Old Folks' Home, the House of Shel- raged among the students of the great rabbi of Bulgarian Jewry. dies for the Jewish National in Palestine on that extended trip SULZBERGER HOW THEY BEAT ter and the United Hebrew Schools. Failure Akiba. On the thirty-third day of the per- Fund. In brief, the non-Zion- abroad. The second representative as- Tammany recognized that it would be a hard matter to defeat • • • spells greater suffering for the impoverish- iod of the Sephira, the counting of the sembly will meet in June of the ists place local needs first, while Sulzberger. What they finally resorted to reminds one of the recent the Zionists place Palestine year, and the election of We were almost asphyxiated instance in Nebraska to defeat Senator Norris by putting up as a ed masses of Jews in Eastern Europe. Fail- Omer, this plague subsided and this day— present a level with the local on needs delegates will take place on May with gardenias and smothered in competitor on the ticket, another unknown Norris, a little small-town ure means obstacles in the way of a glor- Lag b'Omer—has since become known as 15. Sixty-one members will be needs. ermine at the "Grand Hotel" pre These two illustrations will miere the other day . . . top-hats grocer. elected from all over Bulgaria. iously rebuilt Jewish National Home in Pal- the Scholars' Festival. The comparison is not of the best, but in the case of Sulzberger, suffice to show that apart from The new Jewish schools com- and tail-coats were as plentiful as It is characteristic of Jewish tradition estine. any of the divergencies that senatorial investigations . . . all Tammany did something even more ridiculous, and yet it worked. At mittees, each consisting of five time, the meat packing firm of Sulzberger & Schwartzchild was There is another danger in the event this that such a name should be assigned to a members, were elected on March arise between opposing parties the big folks and a generous that in the heat and passion of an sprinkling of the smaller fry came very much in the public eye in an unfavorable way. It was, you day on which a dreaded disease stopped 20, and the elections to the campaign does not conclude the coming electoral campaign, the attitude to see how Louis B. Mayer and his remember, the days when Upton Sinclair was to leap to fame by an committees were held Wednesday afternoon with the subscription reaping a deathly harvest in the ranks of synagogue of the non-Zionists on the Jew- head-man, Irving Thalberg, dared expose of the various meat packers. on April 10. Committees con- Well, the meat packing firm of Sulzberger & Schwartzchild at the scholars and rabbis. It reveals some of the ish question approaches very use up five big stars for one pic- of the complete quota. There may then sisting of 300 Jewish families time was having plenty of trouble, as for as public opinion was con- indeed to the Jewish na- ture. arise a need for separate campaigns by the devotion that Jews have entertained for elect five members to their local close cerned, and even more so among the Jewish meat consumers. There tional idea, and if it is also Louis B. called up Will Rogers synagogue committees, and,. various agencies now included in the Jewish the printed word, and is a symbol of the re- communities of more than 3011 taken into account that the ma- to be the m. c. (master of "chol- were frequent strikes--boycotts against exorbitant prices, and the jority of the Bulgarian Jews are lity"), and that, said Rogers, is like. • • • Welfare Federation. If insufficient funds spect Jews have shown to men of learning. families elect seven members. Zionists, the picture presented practically a command! Will ex- In all these elections thecon- To set aside the week during which oc- are raised to finance the educational sys- by Bulgarian Jewry is one es- plained that they wanted Eddie TAMMANY WON flict lies mainly between two Although Cyrus Sulzberger was not even remotely related to the tem, the United Hebrew Schools would be curs the Scholars' Festival as Jewish Book groups, Zionist and non-Zionist. sentially of a self-conscious na- Cantor, but Eddie held out for Sulzberger of the meat packing firm, the attempt was made to identify minority, imbued with more money—$1,000 or free tick- justified in conducting a separate drive for Week is an excellently appropriate idea, and There is also a small group of tional him as the meat packer. And it succeeded notably. Jewish nationalist and Zionist Social Democrats in After the election, at a dinner given Sulzberger, Mr. Sulzberger (Turn to Next Page). the necessary funds. The Jewish Old Folks' it deserves the sponsorshrip it is being given Jewish Sofia, but it has never polled aims. remarked smilingly: "Well, one thing I have done, even if I have Home, the House of Shelter, the Jewish by congregations, organizations and pub- not been elected, and that was, I've proven that I am not the meat lishers, especially the veteran Jewish book Emergency Relief Council, the Zionist man." • • ' • dealers of New York, the Bloch Publishing group would be justified in taking similar by Charles OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST Company. secessionist steps. The American Jewish Goldberg tells it. They were speaking of the depression. Abe This year's observance of Jewish Book Joint Distribution Committee, which is now A.: ''You know I am getting very pessimistic about this depres- H. Joseph Said Week, from May 21 to May 28, marks the all have to go panhandling." sion. Pretty soon, it seems to me, well conducting a nation-wide drive for $2,600, Responded B.: "And so you call yourself a pessimist. You're an 000, and whose Detroit share is to come sixth anniversary of a custom inaugurated optimist. Now I'm a pessimist. I believe that pretty soon, there'll ase in a convincing manner, an d i s hi p o of J CMS 0 o f Nazareth than h be no people for the panhandler to solicit." from the Allied Jewish Campaign, would in 1927 by Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn of STRICTLY GENTILE has committed the ONE UNPAR I have before me this announce- that for many generations to come DONABLE SIN and considered not only be justified in invading Detroit for Chicago. It has since that year been cele- ment from the Martha Washing- they have more than enough to do WIN a separate drive : it would be obligated to do brated in numerous ways by many commun- ton Hotel, Virginia Beach, Vt., to MAKE CHRISTIANS RECOG- at once an enemy, a traitor, hated, WOMEN It appears that the present seasons are propitious to the career- so in order to safeguard the lives of starv- ities, and now has the endorsement of Jew- signed by J. Wesley Gardner, man- NIZE and FOLLOW THE shunned and abused. seeking Jewish married woman. "In the words of the true Mes- TEACHINGS OF THE NAZA- ish leaders and outstanding scholars. Take the case of Nits. Rose Franken, wife of a New York dentist. ager: ing Jews abroad. RENE. Speaking for the Jew, he siah, who was reviled and blas- Her play, "Another Language," seems destined to be the hit of the "Beginning May 1, 1932: Aside from the public celebrations held Such are the dangers of failure, and if "I shall cater to strictly a GEN- is perfectly satisfied to rest his phemed, I ask, 'For which of those season. Detroit Jewry recognizes the need for ce- in some communities during this week, thus TILE clientele. This decision has future with God, without the ne- good works do ye stone me?' The And the popularity of Gertrude Berg's sketches of "The Gold- crime of which I seem to be guilty, bergs" on the air appears to be waxing instead of waning. I am after three years' ex- cessity for any intermediary. menting unity under the leadership of the emphasizing the element of learning and been made according to you, is that of calling told that recently, in response to some query as to the desirability of perience operating a seashore re- the importance of guiding Jews in the read- upon Israel to carefully, without continuing "The Goldbergs," the radio station received close to a Jewish Welfare Federation, it will prevent sort hotel on a non-sectarian basis, THE MISSIONARY'S LETTER examine the claims of Jesus quarter of a million letters. the destruction of the united front which ing of the best Jewish lietrature, the press during which time a very careful Here is Mr. Gartenhaus' letter: bias, of Nazareth. I believe that every study was made. After due con- and the pulpit should serve as platforms And yet Gertrude Berg had to go about for two years before she "My dear sir: must come with failure in the present drive. intelligent and fair-minded per- could get the radio companies to give her skits a trial. I decided that it was "In a recent issue of the Amen- from which should emanate instruction on eideration • • • The campaign MUST succeed! impossible to operate on this baais can Israelite, commenting on one son, especially the Jew, should be the selection of the best available Jewish and give satisfaction. The change of our publications, 'The Jew's willing to do this, and whatever KICKED AND COMPLIMENTED conclusion he reaches, should be of policy is for business reasons literature. And what is perhaps more im- Contribution to the South,' you And speaking about this calls to mind the case of Morris Ryskind, Pulitzer Laurels for Jews. occasion to thrust another free, without molestation, to who, with George Kaufmann, wrote "Of Thee I Sing." portant: Jews should be encouraged in this No religious intolerance is in took dart at one who has embraced the choose his own faith. What better irony can there be than the award of the Pulitzer An imposing list of Jewish names is occasion to purchase books and to build up tended or admitted." "For more than 11 years, the prize to a play in which Ryskind had a part. Now Mr. Gardner is very frank Christian faith. sharing in the glory of this year's Pulitzer worthwhile Jewish libraries in their homes. about the matter and I hope that It will be recalled that the Pulitzer prizes are awarded under the "It seems that a Jew may deny writer, the Southern Baptist rep- award for the best play of the year, For We cannot hope to encourage the writing my readers will make • note of the God of Israel, disassociate him- resentative, has by word of mouth auspices of Columbia University. It was this university which expelled pen tried to break down the Ryskind, during the war, for his campus activities, which it found the first time, the award is given to a musi- of good books, or the publishing of the this because no one would care in self entirely from his people, be and times like these to force his way atheist, guilty of every imag- middle-wall of prejudice. misun- objectionable. cal show rather than a drama. George S. best of the old Jewish classics, unless the on any hotel. Hotels are so over- an inable crime and still be recog- derstanding and hate that has Kaufmann, whom aNew York Times critic writers and publishers are encouraged by crowded just now that it would be nized among his people, as so existed between Jew and Gentile an imposition on the management many are. But no sooner does he through the centuries. Judging calls "the most brilliant man of the theater readers and buyers of these books. to ask them to make room for un- honestly acknowledge the Messiah- by the letters received from both in this country both as a writer and a direc- Christians and Jews, the very desirable guests. —*— tract to which you so sarcastically tor," and Morrie Ryskind collaborated as CHRISTIAN COMPANIONSHIP All Honor to Wineman. 0 referred has accomplished more in authors of "Of Thee I Sing," the winning To make it extremely congenial direction than the many good- Attendance at the Allied Jewish Cam- Relativity in Sermons this play. Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics for paign dinner last Sunday evening was not and inviting for their fellow Chris- will meetings sponsored by the I find that "Real Sun Bath- rabbis. this play and his brother, George Gersh- as large as at the previous similar events. tians ing in the nude is available at the I. Newman an By SIMON SHETZER "If the 20,000 Jews in the win, the famous composer, wrote the music. But the earnestness which dominated the Martha Waahington Hotel in ab- (Rabbi Louis Column "Telling United States who have embraced His In addition, Sam H. Harris was the producer gathering revealed a spirit of communal solute privacy . . . physicians ad- the principles of Christ are trait- Ult.@ Note: Mr. abetter recenUy de- gible reason the persons engaged It In Gads") vise sun bathing in the nude . leered • intermit., address on sae in- ors, then the Jewish nation has pro- portant of the play. hue of the Jewish economic in this sphere of commerce and devotion unequalled even in the periods of for ... those in a nervous or run- dared more traitors than any other problem using the Jewish Radio Forum. trade have been subjected to se- Practically every year's Pulitzer awards greatest success in local fund-raising. down condition. catarrh, neural. The Protestant minister and the nation. 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