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Life of Dr. Zamenhof —
That project just inaugurated here to
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Esperanto's Founder
plant
a
Detroit
Wood
in
the
Washington
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
(Copyright, I932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. InoJ
Forest in Palestine, under the auspices of
by The Jewish Clinenkle Publishing Co. Ia.
By JACOB de HAAS
The recent Congress of Esper
rwasewi
the Jewish National Fund, deserves to
THE NEW YEAR
antists,
held
in
Paris,
was
attended
Rhilegoll se Sommedi-elaes matter March Mk at the Net.
After all, there is not so much difference between Rosh Hash-
have success and should meet with the
by 35 nationalities, and 13 govern
iCoPYrbiht, 1912. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc)
Alms at Detroit. Mick. wage the Act et Ruck I, MI.
ments were officially represented onah and the secular New Year.
wholehearted support of every element in
On Rosh Hashonah the Jew is solemn and makes whoopee on
Emanuel Olsvanger was the au
General Offices and Publication Building in the community. Having for its goal
schild plans and founded the
Though the centennial anniver-
make whoopee the night before
thorized representative of the Zion Simchas Torah. On New Year's we
525 Woodward Avenue
Federation
of
Minor
Synagogues,
saries
that
occur
in
5693
are
less
a comparatively small sum—the minimum
lot Organization, and it was stated and the solemn hangover the day after.
Telapimais: Cadillac 1040 Cable Addresas Chrealele
and became the chief lay ex-
stirring than those of some other
On
Rosh
Hashonah
we
greet
each
other with: May you be in-
on that occasion that the Zionis
Load. Ofiket
number of trees aimed to be planted in
ponent of orthodoxy, and of
years, the almanac for the year
May
scribed to a Happy New Year. On New Year, the greeting is:
• Leaden, W. 1, England
84 Stratford Na,..
East European ideas as against Organization had published severe
affords an interesting glimpse of
this wood, at $1.50 each, being 1,000—the
Happy
New
Year.
a
booklets in Esperanto. At this con you be imbibed to
PII
the
manifestations
of
Angli-
life a century ago.
Per Year workers should not find it difficult to inter-
On Rosh Hashonah you eat a little honey to make the New Year
great, Miss Zamenof, daughter o
isbecription, in
cism.
Were ancient history more pal-
the Jewish inventor of Esperanto, sweet. On New Year you take your little honey to your suite.
saws mattes est their friends and neighbors in this tree-
He early associated himself
On Rosh Ilashonah you buy your seat, but don't go in the schule,
Ts Were pullicetion. all correspondence and
pable
and
real
to
those
whose
was
a
guest
of
honor.
with Sir Mosel Montefiore in
nut reach this office by TuesdaY evening of each week.
planting effort.
Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, staying outside to chatter. On New Year, you go to St. Patrick's
When mailing Pollee., kindly age one aide of the paper mar.
business it is to draw up appro-
some of his Palestine plans, vis-
the movement's founder, will no Cathedral, coming a half hour early in order to hear the New Year
This
movement
not
only
serves
to
contrib-
ited the Holy Land and drew up
priate and interesting programs
go down in history as one of chimes. (At least my Jewish friends in New York do that.)
TM Detroit Jewish Chronicle invitee eorreepondenee on sub-
Internet to the Jewish people. but disclaim. mpossb
ute to the effort for the reconstruction of considerable note would be taken a report on its conditions, and in doubt
tlest.
On Rosh Hashonah you throw your sins in the water. On New
the outstanding idealists of this
1875 helped to found the first
Whir for aa Indorsement of the Hem exprmmd by the writers
one
of
is
the soil of Palestine, but is a means also of the fact that 5693
century. His aspiration to create Year, you try to forget your sins with fire-water.
Jewish industrial school estab-
the three years that cover the
Readings of the Law for First Day of Rosh
a
world
language
was
fathered
by
On Rosh Hashonah, you blow the ram's horn. On New Year,
of honoring the name of the First President eighteenth hundred anniversary lished in Palestine. Later he par-
a desire to eliminate race hatred
Hashonah, Saturday, Oct. 1.
what don't you blow? It's all you can do to keep from blow.
ticipated in the Chovevi Zion
of
the
United
States
on
the
occasion
of
the
of
the
rise
and
fall
of
Bar
Coch-
and
to
create
amity
and
friendship
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21; Num. 28:1-6.
int up.
and in 1896'. rejected Theodor
among all the nations of the
Prophetical portions-- I, Saml. 1:1-2;10.
bicentennial of his birth now being ob- ba, an event with which nothing Ilerzt
On Rosh Hashonah you hit your chest saying "Al Chayt." On
because he was not a strict
than the capture of Jerus-
world.
Reading of Torah on Second Day of Rosh
New Year, you hit it up generally.
served. Prominent non-Jews, including less
observer
of
the
Sabbath
laws.
alem by Titus compares. Zion-
Hashonah, Sunday, Oct. 2.
On Rosh Hashonah, you ask to be freed from the bonds of sin.
The
life
story
of
this
noted
Jew
President Hoover, have taken an interest ists, too, might find something Earlier however he had drawn is contained in "The Life of Za- On New
Pentateuchal portions--Gen. 22; Num. 29:1-6.
Year, you seek to get acquainted with the blonds of cm.
up his own plans for Jewish set-
significant in the twelve-hun-
in
the
plan
for
a
Washington
Forest
in
menhof,
Inventor
of
Esperanto,"
Prophetical portion—Jer, 31:2-20.
On Rosh Hashonah, you don't put on your phylacteries. On
tlement in Palestine, having been
dredth anniversary of the be-
by
Edmond
Privet,
translated
from
New
Year,
the chances are you don't either.
moved
to
a
political
conception
Elul 29, 5692 Palestine, and the most interesting en- ginning of the invasion of Pales- of that kind by his experience the original Esperanto by Ralph
On Rosh llashonah, you are excused from your sins. On New
September 30, 1932
dorsement came from Sir Arthur Grenfell tine by the followers of Mahom- with the Russo-Jewish problem EMU. It is published by George Year you are excused from your virtues.
A third anniversary not un-
Wauchope, High Commissioner for Pales- ad.
On Rosh Hashonah, you go to the schule to hear the cantor. On
which in 1890 he regarded as Allen & Unwin Ltd., 40 Museum
related both to Palestine and cur-
A Happy New Year To AI
appalling and hopeless. Tall and street. London, W. C. I, England. New Year, you go to a eight club to hear Eddie Cantor.
rent problems is recalled by the
tine, who cabled:
Hashonah, you search your heart to find its sin, On
A Happy New Year and a Prosperous
h
vigorous, full bearded, he em- In many respects, this is a remark-
On Ros
six
hundred
and
fiftieth
anniver-
"I heartily welcome the decision of
dreamer who, born New Year, you search your hip pocket to see if it's in.
the Baal-battim at their able story of a
One Is the Wish of The Detroit Jewish American Jews to pay tribute to the mem- sary of the killing of the Jews bodies
best, and waged an incessant in Bielostcck in 1859, was chstres-
On Rosh Hashanah, you stay up all night reading the Bible
of Maintz and Bachrach as the
Chronicle for All Its Readers and Friends. ory of Washington by planting in Palestine sequence to a Blood Accusation. struggle for what he understood sad over the differences which
through (at least goo-.1 Jews do). On New Year, you are also
May 5693 Bring All Israel the Desired a forest bearing his name. Forestration Such attacks were frequent to be democracy in Jewish life. caused peoples and nationalities to Bibulous all night.
On Rosh Hashonah you make Kiddish. On New Year, You keep
Politically he achieved t h e hate one another.
enough in the Middle Ages but
on( hh,iis. on making it.
Happiness.
of its hills is one of the most vital needs in this case the attack led to the crowning of his career when he jewMicevhedpeobpylethhee sufferings e of
On Rosh Hashonah, the praying is done at schule before you go
became
the
second
Jewish
mem-
abortive
attempt
of
the
celebrat-
of Palestine, as I can bear witness from my
Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg to
ber of the British House of manitartan program which he cal- home. On New Year, the praying comes after the cabman brings
tours in the country. Plantation of an- ed
mi and which was
decide to lead a migration of
Lords. He took the title of led "Hillelis,"
A Year of Despair.
you home.
intended as a road between assimila-
other forest will prove of real benefit to German Jews to Palestine. The Lord Swaythling to which his tion
On Rosh llashonah eve, you walk home straight in the beautiful
and the nationalism which he moon shine. On New Year, you don't walk home straight in the
rabbi and his followers set out
eldest son, Louis Samuel Mon-
It is no exaggeration to state that the the people of this generation and future." on
their journey but were not
beautiful
moon shine.
tagu fell heir some twenty years detested.
Continuing to profess his belief
year we are now leaving behind was one
Occasion is afforded by the local project permitted to leave Europe.
ago. Sir Herbert Samuel, the
On New Year, the slogan is, "Drink and be Merry." On
in spiritual values, Zamenhof prac-
Rosh Hashonah, it is "Think and be prayery."
first High Commissioner of Pal-
The first centennidl is of pure-
of utter ctespair. No one regrets the pass- to perpetuate the name of the City of Des
tinily abandoned the faith of his
On Rosh llashonah you hope you'll be forgiven for your sin.
ly American interest. On Nov.
is
a member of the same ancestors. He claimed attachment
ing of the past twelve months, which were troit in the Holy Land by planting the pro- 15 occurs the hundredth anniver- estine,
On New Year you hope you won't be poisoned by your gin.
family which in religious mat- to his Jewish race, but he refused
posed
wood.
The
plan
is
a
worthy
one,
On Rosh Hashonah, it's supplication. On New Year, it's spifti-
sary of the death of Hannah
marked by disappointments and uncertain-
ten' was most forcibly repre- to join the Zionist movement. Ile
and the cause of the Jewish National Fund Adams of Boston, one of the first tented by a daughter of the first dreamt of an humanitarian neutral cation.
woman writers, and
On Rosh Hashonah, you are spiritual. On New Year, you are
ties.
Lord Swaythling, Miss Lily religion, and, of course, failed in
is of such great importance that the corn- American
author of a "History of the Jews
•
spirituous.
Montagu, the co-worker of his impractical proposals.
Sad as conditions were for the world at munity is obligated to respond favorably from
• • •
the Destruction of Jerusa-
Claude G. Montefiore in liberal
His opposition to Zionism was for-
lem to the Present Time." Pub-
large, for the Jew they were tragic. In to the call of the current movement.
and progressive Judaism.
mutated in the following state- SPECIALIZING SIN
tithed in 1812, this volume
This subject of sin is intriguing. Sin has its fashions like every-
ment he made on June 30, 1914:
some countries anti-Jewish manifestations
achieved considerable reputation RAHEL'S ANNIVERSARY
"I regret that I must stand aside thing else. In Puritan New England, it was a sin to kiss your wife
Radical and particularly la- from
this matter, for I am. by conviction.
here
and
abroad.
Miss
Adams
were direct and vicious. In more progres-
bor Germany might be interest- unable to associate myself with the slims in public. Today a man who kisses his wife anywhere is generally
Mr. Lipsky Sounds a Warning.
wrote a sympathetic history of
ideals of a particular race or religion. held up for emulation.
I don't know, of course, personally. I only
ed in the hundredth anniversary aM
Jewish people, and collected
I am profundlyconvineced that national-
sive centers, including our own United
Louis Lipsky, American Zionism's ablest the
of
the birth of Max Hirsch which ism &Ter mankind only the greatest un.. judge from what I read in the newspapers. Nor do we feel so
some interesting material on the
happiness,
and
Chat
the
aim
of
all
men
conscious
of
the
responsibilities
of sin today. There has been an
States, they were indirect, nevertheless just and most powerful leader, who is at pres- early settlement of the Jews in occurs on Dec. 30. He was a ahould be to create • harmonious human-
of Halberstadt but all ity. It Is true that the nationalism of increasing movement in this age of socialization for the socialization
ent the chairman of the American Pales- this country. Her history makes native
as emphatic.
his active life was spent in Ber- oppressed races—am •natural self-de- of sin.
good reading even today. Nothing
re.tion—in much more pardon-
If you happen by mistake to steal a five dollar bill, you are not
While the Jews of Germany are in posi- tine Campaign, has sounded a warning on indicates any personal acquaint- tin. Hirsch from 1869 to 1890 (emire
able than the nationalism of the Imes
was a member of the Reichstag, whic h np nyea• them, m a if ch . national- blamed. The Socialist and radical thinker comes along and soothes
the
financial
situation
of
the
Jewish
Agency
ance on her part with Jews. She
tion to know who their enemies are, our
of the strong IN ignoble, that of the you. He tells you that if the social system were such as to give
and later a member of the Prus- w ak . 14.0
Imptriutnht ; wy
d I yperlt,h. to
for Palestine. With his usual forcefulness wrote voluminously on other top- and
every man a Rolls Royce, a yacht, a palace on the Riviera and a
and
people who reside in supposedly freer re- and clarity, Mr. Lipsky reveals a condition ion, but her sketch is wholly free sian Parliament, was one of the - vicious
Mete of misery, from whkh million dollars in the bank, the chances are you wouldn't steal the
founders of the Deutsche Gew
from missionary or other ten-
Lid sTeesa
s
e
e
s
s
est
u
ewi
i
t
i
i
r
ea
us:se
r
eNesa
publics are in greater difficulty when they which should stir every conscientious dencies, and is a landmark in erksveriene, and as an economo - m
five dollar bill. And there is much to what he says.
It's been socialized also by psychology. A friend of mine found
mist was devoted to the Ger - stand upon completely neutral ground.
American Judaica, as the first
desire to place a finger on the sore spots American Jew to action and which should history
tn ms:It:. 1 tilleam
beei:t himself constantly saying the meanest things to the maid. In the
man co - operative movements on r m; t.hu17474o.noi
of the Jews written and
created by anti-Semitism. It is much more serve to bring the remedy that is so sorely published on this continent.
which he wrote considerately. .ailing to associate myself With Jewish old days, it would have been called a sin. But a psychologist exam-
tai s: Lewin work (.7,1; ined him and discovered that in his Infancy there had been a terrible
For years he edited the j ournalnotiooi l°
An anniversary that may
difficult to fight those who discriminate needed. "Money, not sympathy," is what arouse
.
of the Gewerksveriene, and re-
. mly
ron
u
Inced that Itn'
y 'lkls means thunderstorm as his maid came into the room, and the noise had condi-
pro .?
m
a
good
deal
of
interest
in
Mr.
Lipsky
demands,
and
he
points
out
I
Huai
bring
much
more good to my on• tioned in him an anti-maid complex.
for
ceived marked recognitoin
against Jews in employment but who deny
England occurs on Dec. 21. On
•
that the argument that relief must come that day 100 years ago Montagu his studies in labor economics. Lorry e m than by aiming •I national-
that Jewishness is the cause, than it is to first is not valid because all that the Ameri- Samuel was born in Liverpool. He died June 25, 1900.
On must wonder what Dr. Za- CAPITALIZING SIN
The Jewry of Holland may menhof would have said had he
There is another school of experts who say that sin is all right,
be on guard against avowed enemies who can Palestine Campaign asks between now Later he transposed his name
note the huhdredth birthday of lived to see the present day dirs. but you gotta know how to use it. Everything is all right, if you
and became Samuel Montagu and
proclaim their hates.
and December is a maximum of $200,000 founded the well known banking Joseph Hirsch Dunner who was criminations and hates, with con- know how to use it, say these experts, and they point out that today
On all fronts our people suffered from from all of American Jewry.
born in Cracow on Jan. 4, 1933. ditions growing infitely worse and the squeal of hogs is turned Into canned soup, that the dirt which
firm of Samuel Montagu & Co.,
Dunner's education was German reactions encircling the globe. you wash off your hands, placed in your garden, can grow flowers.
in London, in 1853. A strictly
the publicly antagonistic and discriminating
Warns Mr. Lipsky:
observant and religious Jew he
but in 1847 he was called to Would he still have refused to join
One expert of this school recently made the statement, for
on the one hand and those who would stab
The public mind has been confused recently
played a radical, rather than a
Amsterdam and became Chief in a movement to provide a haven instance, that the so-called "peeping Tom" was only displaying the
by tourists who have returned asserting that
a Liberal, but in the eighties he
us behind our backs on the other. Both
Rabbi of the city. Later his for his people?
same curiosity that is inherent in the scientist. His talents have
became "the member for White-
"The Life of Zamenhof" de- just been diverted from its proper metier. All he needs to do is to
"the crisis has not touched Palestine." While
position was enhanced and he
elements have made Israel's life miserable.
the general economic situation is fairly good,
chapel," and was so identified in ' became the Chief Rabbi of the cribes the self-sacrifice of Esper- turn them into their proper field.
As we usher in the New Year, our dom-
Parliament for years. One of
thin is not at all true of the activities of the
Netherlands. He was strictly anto's founder, the manner in
So the liar is merely so bad because he works in the wrong field.
the leaders in the trade in Indian
Jewish Agency which have been curtailed no
orthodox, and had a considerable whictt he labored in the ghetto of He should use his talents in writing fiction.
inant hope is that the destructive plans of
Warsaw as an oculist among poor
bullion, he was a good deal of a
drastically as to jeopardize even those projects
share
in
keeping
all
reform
ten-
The gossip should become a Winchell columnist.
our enemies will be frustrated and that
bimetalist at the time when Wil-
not directly dependent on the resources of the
dencies out of Holland. In his Jews. On the occasion of his death,
The exhibitionist should become an actor.
the thinking elements among the nations
liam Jennings Bryan stirred the
Jewish Agency. My prediction of the collapse
;; , later years he surprised Dutch on April 14, 1917, the poet Bel-
The swindler should run for alderman.
world with his "sixteen to one.
•
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•
of the Jewish Agency is not alarmist; it will
Jewry by coming out as a Zion- mont, wrote:
of the world will join in condemning a
Poland
has
not
come
to
honor
the
remain.
In Anglo-Jewry, however, he was
be an inevitable consequence unless American
fist and defending the idea from Of Pullout's non. the world'. sine ...
THE RABBI AND HIS SON
return to medieval bigotries and prejudices.
the
communal
opponent
of
Lord
Jewry awakes from its indifference and refuses
a religious standpoint without, Oh, how my Polish heart has pled
I heard a story the other day about a pious old rabbi, a "tsaddik"
Poor Jews only have followed thecoffin
Nathaniel Meyer Rothschild who
We retain the hope that sober elements in
to permit the destruction of an undertaking
however, associating h i m s e 1 f
For their kind-hearted helpful oculist is who was very concerned about the good-for-nothingness and irreligion
had his own views of how the
into which have been poured millions of dollars
with any group.
dead.
the Christian world will refuse to tolerate
of his son. One week, he lost more than a pound worrying about his
East End of London might be
Zamenhof's great achievement, of
On March 7 occurs an inni-
and years of eager hope.
persecutions and the preaching of hate
Sam. Another week he lost—well, it must have been four or five
improve . Montagu, who became
If cities which have not yet held campaigns
(Turn to Page Eight)
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ounces.
a baronet, countered the Roth- ,
through the efforts of bigoted Christians
for the American Palestine Campaign, if indi-
Always, he was rebuking his son. To keep the Sabbath, to put
viduals who have not yet contributed do not
who aim to revive the stupid ritual murder
on his tephilin, to "mechadash die Lavaneh" (new moon to you).
come to the support of the Jewish Agency
The rabbi was really a fine old man—a man to whom religion
lie.
within the next few months, we shall witness
meant the summation of life. Twice a week he fasted, he gave what
The economic situation in this country
a process of disintegration which will under-
he had to the poor—he sat up all nights over his Talmud.
mine the Jewish morale everywhere.
by Charles little The
creates a problem particularly trying for
son recognized his piety and spirituality, but he got a little
A decade of Jewish effort in Palestine
fed up with his father's rebukes. "Listen, popper," he said one day,
our youth. Discrimination in employment,
H.
Joseph
should
have
been
sufficient
to
convince
all
"don't
you
worry about my going to Gehennem. The truth in, neither
the overcrowding of the professions, the
you nor I will go to Gehennem. You won't go because you are a
crumbling of the middle class—these are thinking Jews that private economic enter-
tsaddik, and I won't go because there is none.'
•
•
•
passed by any other nation. So it nest. And today all over the coun
problems that challenge American Israel. prise cannot prosper in Palestine without LACK OF RESPECT
a people try we are paying the price of REWARD OF VIRTUE
Their solution will not be an easy matter, the important public projects supported by
Aa I haven't time to write to . is not likely that such
super-clown
GOING
THE
LIMIT.
a
I
think,
point with pride to the fact
of Jewish newspapersare going to watch
Judaism, nevertheless, may,
and they are sufficient to tax the energies the Jewish Agency, and prior to its forma- the editors
Speaking of outspoken men I that it has emphasized this "gehennem" motive very little as com-
i prance and caper about in the
their attention to the
tion by the Keren Hayesod. Too poor to I am calling
of our existing agencies.
columnist who constant- !manner of a jester, taking lightly noticed where Louis Kirstein, of pared with Christianity. Virtue is its own reward, and that's by no
habit of a
Naturally, the plight in which our insti- support their own schools and hospitals, ly uses the word "Joosh" in re-. his responsibilities. It is the opin- the Filene firm and president of ..means a slim reward.
to Jews. I have received I ion of the best informed men in the Jewish Charities of Boston,
I, by no means share any contempt for other rewards. I trust
tutions find themselves adds to the uncer- the public funds serve to function in these ferring
letters from readers of Jewish i Germany that Hitler will lose told a group of national leaders the seven readers of this column, stretched from New York to the
tainty of our present position, but we com- capacities, until such time as the colo- journals complaining of this wise- I considerable prestige as a result the other day that this was no Pacific coast, will, during the coming year, get also a great deal of
mence another year with the hope that nists are themselves in position to take cracking manner of referring to I of the coming election. In each time for fair weather philanthropy more marketable rewards as well. As a poet might say, if he were
he has come out the worse and no time for fair weather lead- sufficiently bad:
when the solution is finally found we will over these institutions. Some settlements, Jews in a Jewish newspaper. One i contest
lie doesn't wear so ership. This quotation, reproduced
Prosperity for the new year,
imagine that those respon- for wear.
emerge stronger, and our status as Jews in fact, have already assumed responsibil- would
from the editorial columns of one
If not that, at least beer.
sible for editing the copy would well)
ity
for
health
and
educational
efforts.
Fur-
of the daily papers, which used
will be more secure.
see that such references are elm-
it as the basis of their comment,
OF CHICAGO
It is natural, also, that we should wel- thermore, without the large influx of Jew- inated. It's all right to be Walter HORNER
In response to an inquiry con- may be of interest to leaders in
on BROADWAY, but
come the New Year 5693 with a spirit of ish pioneers, the Jewish position in Pales- Winchell
everybody is trying to be Walter cerning Judge Horner, of Chicago, alllrsrteeliine work at this time. Said
hope and confidence that all will, after all, tine would not have been as secure as it is Winchell on Main street. There who is candidate for Governor of
"It is no longer a question in
has grown up in the past few years Illinois, Rabbi Schanfarber has
be well with Israel and the world at large. today.
emergency like this whether
Mr. Lipsky undoubtedly is justified in a Winchell school of journalism kindly volunteered to give me an
We have survived so many crises that noth-
and one finds in Jewish weeklies these facto, The Horner family is any individual will give as much
A Short Story
charging
that
"tens
and
hundreds
of
thou-
ing ought really to frighten us. We shall
that type of writing scattered all one of the oldest and most re- as he can, but rather how he will
place spected Jewish families in Chi- give it—voluntarily or through in-
who
are
capable
a
Jews
over
the
pages.
There
is
sands
of
American
also survive this one.
By NINA KAYE
Walter Winchell and a place sped. The parents of Judge Hor- creased taxation. Either we must
Once we acquire this spirit of hope, we of contributing, whether it be five dollars for
ror his style of writing, but not ner were members of Dr. Schen- give generously and voluntarily to
or
a
thousand
dollars,
have
taken
advan-
. Ina
Weesrleht, III!, Jewish Teleeraohle A
will be able to greet the New Year joyfully.
in Jewish journals. And while on farber's congregation, in the very our social agencies, or we must
stop whining when the govern-
We invoke this spirit of confidence and tage of the frozen communal consciousness the subject I think it wouldn't hurt early days of the congregation's ment
is forced to Impose the added
publishers
of
Jewish
newspapers
life.
The
Judge
himself
is
also
Sol
Hymens
and
his
wife,
Bessie,
and
his
face
with
Its 'stretched
hope when we greet our readers with the and abstained from rendering aid to a to take stock of themselves at the affiliated with the Kehilath Anshe taxes required for succor until were beaming as they came into parchment skin outlined
against
wish for a very pleasant and happy year. movement which they are willing to en- beginning of • New Year and to Mayfly. At the eightieth anni- jobs appear.
the synagogue. Their_ happiness the chair back.
dorse in principle." He is right when he try to raise if possible the tan- vertary of the founding of the "I have little patience with glowed from their faces as they You would not have turned to
of their papers. I am re• congregation, Judge Horner pre- those who raise the hoary cry walked with their son, Harold, be- stare after Dan Glazer in a crowd.
declares that "words of sympathy and ap- dard
minded of what S. S. McClu re sided as master - of - ceremonies. about the 'dole' whenever gov-
them. Why shouldn't they as you might after Harold. Ile
An Indictment.
proval are not sufficient," and that "the critic itnolcdommme.entilnlge on itliat • Rabbi Schanfarber dwells in the ernment funds are involved. A be twee"
happy? What more could they didn't look particularly "interest-
A writer in the Palestine Bulletin, com- Jewish people started rebuilding Palestine
McClure'` highest terms on the character and dole' is a 'dole' whether the funds ask? They needed nothing fur- ing," with his dark hair brushed
menting on the problem of "public because it was an historic necessity and not Magazine described it as a 'sm all ability of the candidate for gov- come from private charity or pub- Cher to make their year a good back flat from his forehead and
adi ng meaftteedr stir- ernor, and believes that if elected lic treaturies. As a matter of fact, one.
d of
his slightly rotund figure. You
charges" in the Holy Land, has this to say: merely a luxury of boom times."
ocean
rounded
h bf e eye a re i n e a do:
ilg
hts an
Hadn't Harold come back to might have noticed the kindnes ,
he will be a credit to his state and we have been having, during the
past three_ years in the United them, given up his crazy notions in his eyes if you had been inter-
g definite oblige-
It is interesting to note that Nathan
a•to his people.
inter-
I have referred before and I must refer
States, the most extensive dole of about being an artist, come to ested enough to look.
tion resting upon those in Jewish
•—::—
again to a vicious' and miachievous clause in
Straus, Jr., followed in the footsteps of his journalism
n western country.
ay
to make the i r publ ic •
them willingly, ready to settle
01
i
n
the new Immigration Bill whereby honest to
E
t
A
hK
S
S
t
P
r
It
Harold's
voice
had
the
nervous
T
tY
h
e
e
a
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kI
li
pO
A g UT
e s
great father and was among the first to dt iooensan, tS ErnL , F a n R ES
" The raising of money for wet- down and help his father in the ru o f a dissatiafi ed man. " Wow-
, h ing E h C bTrIoN wG, . ,, and c A 0N u ra
God immigrants will be kept out of the coun-
, respond with a personal gift of $5,000. But representati ve in c haracter. That It's refreshing to hear men of fare and relief work ... is a chal- store? They needed him there, hewnapped, "tomorrow's the day.
try, unless they can show that they will not
lenge to business and financial where they could watch him with I'd like to know
be a public charge. The wording might just
! isolated personal gifts are not sufficient to does mean a paper that PROPER- meeting. Usually we are a lot o men and our lay leaders. Insofar pride. An only son, they had
where I come off.
submitting a picture. You're sure
as well be "unless they undertake not to be-
I solve the trying problem. The response Il
and
o, e "rp
y eo nw
" men. Some as responsibilities can be assigned given him everything. It had hurt to win.
o y feo uar e ts m
represents the JEWISH PEG. s sycophants
rE
come immortal."
The
best
I can do is
e
to any group for the present to have him go off to the city. go home and get thing
must come from the Jewish communities
to work in my
You cannot become a public charge in Pales-
presence of wealth in community world-wide economic collapse, it But now he was back and
they
father's
tore.
The
old
man's
sa-
tine for there are no public funds to support
throughout the land. Perhaps the present
meetings that we sit dumb, both would seem to me that the busi- were happy.
why teellr tm
ELECTS
hee re
arreadin.I.mMdigehintiruhew
reell, for
you if you are down and out. There is no
with our tongues and our minds. nest and financial group is plainly
appeal should also set to thinking those GERMANY
They couldn't have known
dole in this country and you may starve until
So Germany is going to hold Then we get out in the open and
Harold tame back to them. They
communities where, as in Detroit, Zionists still another election. Well, the in company with our cronies. what indicated.
"I don't know why you talk like
you are dead—and the government will give
"It is we who attract capital; didn't know why he was willing to that
Harold," Dan said, his
you no cruet of bread.
joined with other causes in joint drives, more that are held the worse it BRAVE and OUTSPOKEN per- engage
labor,
ask
the
public
to
give
up his career and work in
In plain United sons we are. That's one reason
speech
measured and slow. "You
will
be
for
Hitler.
You may die penniless—the government will
in we who extol the store. It was
and
as
a
result
of
which
such
deplorably
buy
our
wares.
It
just as well that have as much chance to win as I
not bury you.
Staten language, he has "shot his
Jewish communities from one • system of free enterprise and they didn't.
small sums are being assigned to the Pales- bolt." When I say it I don't mean why
have
or
anyone else."
How can anyone in Palestine become a pub.
• • •
end of the land to the other are individual initiative. We must be
Harold scoffed. "How
tine project that Zionists must begin to that he isn't a power in Germany
lit charge?
now saddled with extravagantly willing, therefore, to tackle prob- It was well that they didn't can "Yeah,"
I expect to
for
will
not
continue
a break,? I
and that he
institutions. Big business terns of fundamental re-organiza- know what took place in Dan didn't get an order get
for those Ken-
This is another of the many indictments I doubt whether fund-raising partnerships • long time to be a factor in planned
men caught the expansive and ex- tion. Gluer's studio in hew York just tacky murals.
are
desirable.
There
were
years
when
De-
influencing political action In that needing spirit of big business in
I didn't paint the
against British rule, serving to condemn the
"There are still plenty of men before pictures were to be sub- portraits of a simpering bunch of
but lie hasn't DONE planning the community's busi-
unwise misrule of the land by a group of troit remitted sums approaching the $100,- country,
of
wealth
in
this
county.
Many
mated
in
the
Monroe
contest.
it
debutantes.
I
didn't
knock off a
ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE.
of these are standing on the aide- was against the rules for com- , magazine cover that would par
colonial officials. Had it not been for the 000 mark to Palestine, but in the past three His program has been constant
criticizing.
petitors
to
show
each
other
lines
and
the
my
years
remittances
from
the
Allied
Jewish
criticism of the leaders on the
rent for a year. I belong be-
determination of Jewry, such interference
"These men are slackers. We pictures they were to exhibit in hind a counter, measuring off
ATONEMENT
aide and resorting to abuse
with sincere reconstruction efforts might Campaign have dwindled to about a tenth other
must shame them into doing their the contest.
But Harold had
an endeavor to
in
gingham
by the yard!"
and
violence
Just as we sham.-4 - --n who brought his painting to Dan's stu-
Dan squirmed uncomfortably.
have caused the entire structure in Pales- of this sum. While unity must be preserved carry his point. After all, Ger- I stand in awe at the altar of God duty
dio and flung himself, in utter
sourht to dodge in 1917."
and
joint
efforts
in
fund-raising
encour-
many is not made up of people A pitiful mite of a thing.
"Your
stuff
Is too powerful for
tine to collapse. Fortunately, the Jewish
There is the appeal of the wel- despair, into the depths of • black mass appeal You know I've told
who are numbskulls. They have In humble prayer
fare and relief mobilization from and silver chair. There he had you that more than once," he
will to survive is stronger than the desire aged, this should not be done at the ex- proved to the world that they do I linger there
smoked an endless thin of Dan's
• man who knows.
to obstruct on the part of Palestine's of- pense of Palestine. Zion must not become hold • place In the sun; and that In the hope that I' ay be seen.
cigarettes, his Il an, nervous head
It cannot be disregarded.
—RUTH C. BROTMAN.
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the community's step-child.
in intelligence they are not cur-
ficials.

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