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A Jewish Pioneer in the Gold
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B y HELEN ZIGMOND

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9 1

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1932, Jewich Telegraphic Agencw. not

HITLER NO BRYAN
Did you listen to Brother (or is it lister, as sonic would have it)
HOLLYWOOD.— Santuel Hof ,
nstein,
the
poet-author,
was
one
Hitler
in the news reel the other day?
fe
Well, I did, and for the life of me, I don't see where they ge t
th
r sc-ko ff. of Holly
d„ b "swearers-off
But the tragedy is not complete with
op,f.those
,Cupyr1ght 1931 Jewish Telegraphks Agency Incorporated ■
those
comparisons
of the oratorical powers of Hitler with the rot e -
y
el'Irye
back
,
r:eneral Office and Publication Building
this picture of many thousands craving to
, never really cured. Ile and the William Jennings Bryan.
525 oo wa
The library of the Decembrist, missus are house guests of Kay I
go
to
Palestine
at
a
time
when
only
a
Jacob
ben
David
Frizer,
corn-
As
to
phraseology
and content, I can make no comparison f
elephonei Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
which came to Frizer from his • Francis while he's writing din- Sister H
Hitler spoke a little too fast for me to eniffil • • la get hit
ama
ni leader and Maecenas of
London 011ite
few hundreds of visas are available at any
father,
contained
hitherto
unpub-
f
I
•
Eastern Siberia and a pioneer in
Dietrich's "Song o German, but front the standpoint of voice and oratorical , re • . enee,
league for
14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England.
one time. From Beirut the Jewish Tele-
fished letters from Pushkin and
the gold industry in that tern
I there is no comparison.
manuscripts
of
the
latter.
The
Songs.”
Year
$.1.00
Per
li nostt h: ffortlessly sailing over
• •
•
tory, took his own life in Harbin
graphic Agency brings us additional proof
Bryan's voice—sonorous, metallic alike
Subscription, in Advance
library still has a portrait of
e
for
the
entire
period
following
proverbial
bell.
David Selznick, you know, left ' the largest auditoriums, and clear a as the prov
of an aggravated tragedy in the following
matter
Frizer
on
its
wall
and
both
build-
To Insure publication.all correspondence and I el tows
the. Bolshevik revolution. Ile left
Ilitler's voice—strained. screech
each week.
creaking e.f a rusty'
lust reach this °Mee by Tuesdayevening
idles which he donated still carry I RKO this week due to •alary hinged door, er the meowing of a half-dozen cats chased
neither will not letters behind
story:
lo aineBnirgy-.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of the paper only.
diffico lti e , . . . but he is going
tablets attesting to the gift. Nor
him. Iii4 tragic suicide may be
A young Jewish girl from Rumania, Rachel
on sub•
right over to papa-;n-law May- poodle.
the name Of lice square been
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle InviIra cortenpondenc•
aid to the door of the depression
I
•
•
Mania,
has
been
in
a
serious
condition
in
a
•
Jsets of intermit to the Jewish people, but disclaim* reganned•
er'• studio where the roaring
e hang, d. Today as yesterday it
a nd his economic ruination. His
expre•APS by the writer,,_
hospital here after she attempted to take her
Min), for an indorsement of the VW."
lion will keep the wolf from the VAN PAASSEN'S NEW PICCOLO
still known as Frizer Square.
act placed a pall upon the entire
own l•f • when she was refused entry into
door.
LEADER
IN
JEWISH
WORK
LAW.
LEADER
Jewish community.
Pierre Van Paassen, who for several years has been ing
Sabbath Readings of the
s i ng
. . •
Palestine.
For more than 20 years Fringe
e neodoia of Zionistic effort, is now fiddling to another tune. th at of
Pentateuchal portion—Ex, 161-20:23
Until
the
Bolshevik
revolution,
Miss Mania arrived in Palestine at the port
resided in Irkutsk where he WAS a . Cal er De Haven, whom you the Soviet Jewish colonization in Bira-Bidjan.
Frizer was regarded as one of
Prophetical tortion—ls, 6:1-7:6; 9:5, 6
of Haifa but was refused permission to dis-
leader in Jewish communal un-
In his latest effusion, Mr. Can Paassen brings no le, g.1 jals,dem
the wealthiest Jews in Eastern
Soet
embark by the authorities. She then pro-
During all these is now a night-club entertainer. ' tidings than that gold and oil will presently be discovered le. in
Shevat 21, 5893
.1:rtakings.
Ile was the son of
February 17, 1933
Siberia.
needled to Beirut where a similar fate awaited
ears he served as the president remember
from vaudeville
days,
Ile
is
half-liebraic
...
and
in
the
'
--
---- t
–
Dwinsk,
who
David Friztr
her. She then attempted to end her life by
liedjan. M r. Van Paassen tells us that he knows Whereof he spe ek
of
the
Jewish
community,
foun-
:
always
carried
a
tiny
•
e
old days h
• do years earlier had been vxi
't CeellIn he once took some course's in geology.
t'
:frowning, but was rescued by sailors and taken
t.
der and bene actor o a .cents
inessuzeh in his vest pocket.
A Panic Must Be Avoided.
to Siberia together with his
We hope Mr. Van Paassen is right, but We should Ill, t k,„„,
to a hospital here.
lath. , Jewish institutions. In addition
• • •
el
brother
in
law,
Novomejski,
e1
of
what
articular
benefit such discoveries would be t to
'
-
p
But the powers of an unfriendly worl
Detroit, all of Michigan, faced a horrible
group of charitable organ-
to
a
bUll.
Sidney
Franklin,
the
who
has
Novoinejski,
h • cc Id
H u rt section.
Izations, he was also the founder
fighting Brooklyne.e, was asked
trganized the cone, scion for the
situation as result of the banking holiday. remain blind to it Jewish problem whir
of le branch of the "('haves
exploitation of t he mineral de-
to make a speech at a recent
s as much the world's problem. Jo, V .
Mlitze Haskala," disseminators
It is imperative that despair and loss of
luncheon,
posits o f the. Dead Sea.
so t began by &polo• POTATOES VS. GOLD
f He
baiters evidently are not satisfied merely
of enlightenment, and was the
g some
Being in the Soviet realms, it is hardly to be expected that the
goring
cr'nnized the
It „ •
all faith and confidence be avoided.
'1 F'
patron for the publication of a
with persecutions. 'they would even in • first Kehillah of exiles ever es-
i
lliance " of the pre. Soviet authorities would allow the Jews of that particular section l e
of
the
brilliance
"br
volume devoted to the history of
It is also imperative that a strong na
he keep the gold.
" After a
ceding
speakers.
tablished in Siberia. This Jew-
all doors for the Jew to prevent his escape'
z.
The
puhlica-
t
the Jews of Irku
It seems to me that as far as the Jewish colonists of Soviet
said, "I only KILL the bull."
ish community was established in
Don of the book cost Frizer 10,000
tional Government thould evince the nec- from misery.
• • •
Russia are concerned, it would tie much better for them I.• diseover
: liarguthin in the vicinity of Lake
roubles and was the collaboration
essary powers for the restoration of faith.
Baikal. In this distant region
of it group of people headed by "The Great flagon," that short- some potatoes or horse radish. They could at least eat that themselves,
: was born Jacob Frizer who was
the prominent Revolutionist and lived Broadway play by lien Hecht
Calmness is important for the people as
Einstein Removes Obstacles.
destined to become a pioneer in
statistician, Vladimir Voytinit- and his collaborator, is off the PALESTINE AND RUSSIA
the search for gold in Eastern
Dr.
Albert
Einstein,
great
physicist
and
:
whole.
But
above
all
else,
national
wis-
sky, then in exile in Irkutsk. In press as an elegantly-ilustrated
a
Irby above, of course, is not said in any hostility to the Rim
Siberia.
1512, Frizer was appointed a volume . . . and will also soon Ilidjan project per se. If I have any prej udice at all in the matter,
noted
Zionist,
spoke
over
the
radio
recently
dom is necessary, not only to remedy the
Frizer was endowed with ex-
delegate from Eastern Siberia to emerge as a flicker. So when is :I it is because Mr. Van l'aassen has, in his series of articles, by ;mph.
,
,
'or
t
traordinary initiative and powers
the famous Kovno conference, flop a flop?
situation in this state, but to prevent its , on "Amertert and the
cation, if not overtly, turned to condemning Palestine.
of organization as well as with
• • •
slid in commencing his address first under-
concerning which he wrote cor- '
Ile writes as though to say: "What's the use of wastin g time
boundless energy.
recurrence anywhere else.
respondences to various papers
Frank Reicher, veteran Gee-
look to remove two obstacles.
with oranges in l'alestine, when the Jews in the Russian colonies
THE KAROLANER MINES
and magazines to the Far East.
■ n•Jewish character actor, will
m
is
the
problem
of
a
hundred
and
Pick gold nuggets from the soil."
This
"The first of these," said Professor Ein-
His great fortune', estimated to
play the General in "White Si.- '.
in he organized
Atti it,.a,g2Ut
.
•
•
•
twenty million people, and a panicky at-
, ut we expect his cue
be worth millions; his great host- : ice ,. . . .b
the famous
stein, "is the obstacle of the black dress
mess
enterprises;
his
rare
library
e
v7iP
ci
l
t
i
ittl
l
i
'
'
s
n-
Herman
Bing's
.
.
.
r
n
Siberia
titude will bring little good.
North e.
will h e like
; THE STORY OF '49
suit. When men come together on core-
of 4000 volumes; his precious
covered
the famous Karolaner
alw . net for a featured part
l
It is far better to pick potatoes or oranges from the soilthan
The responsibility devolves upon our monist occasions attired in their dress
sones; his works of art were all
i nes
and " then left lying on the cut•
kridws .
s
told. Aesk Ca th liefo griTt en al,u, ,shte
left behind him in the places
leaders and legislators to take drastic steps clothes, they create about themselves as a
re sds m Thse idZ 1 it‘lent ev Titsietnewr"(Illei r;_
tlIlif•r001,1 floor.
gold rushes in the history of civilization
One of
where he had lived and worke d —
trier, in the province Yakutsk,
• • •
to solve the country's problem, and if nec- matter of routine! an atmosphere from
clh
84t9.
h
,,ho
g
ot.
in
loon
o
u
rit.
arzhin
in Irkutsk, Bodaipa, Btrt
from human
f
s ands Imiles
thou
h
]tarry Green, the dialectician,
ere, however, were not so much the
rich
The ones
essary to resort to dictatorial measures.
and other places—when he came has his own version of the popular
human
be-
before'
which the realities of life with their severity
tion , o hihni,ehhanoel:ter
ing
habita
gold-miners,
as
those
who
raised
food anti sold the food to th e gold.
to Harbin
in in n . ..
d
re
I song—•Brother, Can You Spare
The Government must act.
are excluded. There is an atmosphere of
miners"
•
a
HAD NARROW ESCAPES
penetrated.
Nine Cents ? . . . l'm willing to
It
is
a
truism
that
in
the
case
of
gold mines, more is put into the
The people must be calm.
well-sounding oratory that likes to attach
SOIlle small enterprises found- take
ten pear cent • ut,"
The Karolandn. gold mines yield-
I earth than is taken out,
• •
td ley hint in Harbin in 1916,
ed Frizer 90 gold pod annually.
itself tie dress clothes. Away with it!"
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were still functioning in 1919. .
•
Sonic 1300 persons were employ.
And the Four Marx's are en•
What a well-spoken truth against the
With these, with several thous-
e ebtrh,iim in the mines. There
tering a golf tournament •. one JEWS AS COLONISTS
he
repeat,
very
much
interested
in the Bira-Bidjan project,
and
roubles
in
gold
which
Hitler the Writer,
screening
of
true
values
behind
false
;l
ished
a
synagogue,
food
aim,
1
I
establ
sta
man ... Groucho will take care i
scr
brought with hint he WAS enabled
of the driving and bra•sie shots and I see no reason why: it shouldn't be a success.
, kitchens and even a church for
Adolf Hitler, lance corporal who rose to cloaks!
to
buy
a
small
area
of
land,
he
of
should
be
a
success,
because,
it
seems,
as colonizers, .13. 33• are
The
great
size
b
It
ttitl, e miners. 1
Harpo, the long iron. . . . 1
the Chancellorship of Germany on appeals
" •
hegan work anew on a small
a y ,„ 1,
And the second obstacle Dr. Einstein •
n l t j
ie , l it d l
Chico, the short irons . . . and remarkably successful.
g e
the
empty
stomachs
of
his
followers,
is
scale.
Here,
too,
his
great
energy
gov-
Indeed,
a
friend
of
mine,
who
has
ade
made
the
subject of colonize.
which he paid.
to
Zeppo, the putting. In this way
not accepting a salary as Chancellor on found in words and symbols laden with the:taxes,
initiative did not permit him
e rnment tax alone approximate
they can get into four times as . Don something of a . spec ialty, tells me e that Jews are the world's
emotion. Ile found objection to words
was
also
to
stand
still.
He
threw
himself
ihseo,000wOngetrtiderful,:tles.
i
greatest colonizers•
much trouble as one golfer.
the ground that he is making his living which produce such "violent disturbance in
fe of the Jewish coin-
into the l 'Ile
the
steamships
• • •
England is generally regarded as the greatest colonizing Nom.,
munity. Ile was one of the o r- • Did you ever hear of the Four but this friend tells me that England's success is largely duo to Jew.
from his writings. This no doubt came as
plied back atttl eard:tir 017 hti( 1 . 1 h e
our feelings that the role they play in the
ganizers of the society of the ' Marks Brothers? Well, they, too, ish agents. The pioneer developers of Africa, Australia, too., were
Northern
Siberian
Rivers
Lena
a revelation to many who have learned to transmission of ideas is lost in the back- 811t1 VI ID'S; owner of large pro-
'
purchase
East
in are important members of film- Jews, according to him.
l lice
think of him as a notorious agitator. Comes
tiae ntr
f
Palestine. Ile founded
vision storehouses at Bodaipa
•
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•
Eastern
Jevtish
(' o m m e r c i al Born. . , All four are film cutters
Lion Feuchtwanger, one of the outstanding ground." Said Professor Einstein: "One
which served the country-side
etic at r within a radius of several thous-
Bank. Ile was a leader in the • . . and all of them work for REPARTEE IN DETROIT
writers of our time, and in an address at has only to think of the word he
committee to aid children who Warner's. One has been employed
ands of miles of the gold mines.
An extremely interesting anecdote of what purports to be an
given in his honor by the Jewish the time of the Inquisition, of the word
for eleven years. actual
Ile also owned mills and coal : were orphaned by pogroms. He by that studio
experience is relayed to me by Editor Slomovitz of The
• . .
, a tea
Communist for the present-day American,
' was the head of the social wet-
mines.
Telegraphic Agency, makes interesting
It
may
not
have
been
the
time
Detroit
Jewish Chronicle.
fare organization to aid Jewish
Ile organized new expeditions
Writes
the Detroit editor:
Stag-
t
comments on the literary abilities of item of the word bourgeoise in Russia, of the
. . .
p
poor in Harbin; he served as Des or
er - ' and travelled with them through
"A lung
Detroit Jewish lawyer represented a Jewish client
Hitler. word Jew for the reactionary group in Ger-
y
Lewis
president of the Harbin Ar- nin, on the occasion of the
Eastern
and
Northern
Siberia
few very who sued a Frenchman for hack rent. A French lawyer happened to
many, of the word honor, prestige, father -
chives; created an organization Selznick funeral, took
searching for new gold veins.
represent the defendant. It was a jury trial and the Frenchman,
Feuchtwanger explains that 18,000,000 land in nearly all of the countries of our : HELPED POLITICAL EXILES
to arbitrate differences between 'sharp digs at the Jews of the
plaintiff's counsel
movie industrY. Among other I addressing the jury, said something about the
Jewish business people.
copies of anti-Semitic papers are published present world. The use of such words is
for possessing the faculties of a race which knos w bow• to juggle with
lie carried documentary per-
Frizer had many narrow es- things, he admonished them
'facts and cover them up,
lnknion from the Czar to travel
daily in Germany with attacks upon the adapted for the driving out of all reason
not
supporting
the
synagogue.
capes from death. In 1902 one
"The young Jewish lawyer replied that if he possessed such a
• • •
;
. everywhere to search for gold.
450,000 Jews in a total population of 65,- and the setting up of emotion in its place.
of the miners shot at him, ex-
I quality of his race, his opponent was endowed with the faculty
More than once, efforts were
The studio office boy, having i of his own race to fail to pay their debts on time.
plaining later that he was en-
000,000 Germans. An average of 40 pa- This I should like to call the obstacle of , made to prevent hint, because he
vious of the colossal wealth pos-
just heard that in China Sari
was a Jew, front travelling
"In view of the foreign debt quarrel, it was an excellent retort,"
pet% to every Jew daily appeal for hatred the taboo."
Maritza is called Shahli M ■ hli, continents Mr. Slomovitz, "and it helped the young Jew in securing
sessed by a Jew.
through the e 0 nf o rt t i i:efi eLruerg lortitycorf
In
1006
his
house
in
Irkutsk
against our people. The cue for these
rushed in to ask, "Vas you dere, •
In these few sentences the great physi- ,
:
the
verdict."
was bombed, but he sustained no
Shahli?"
anti-Semitic literary outbursts is given in cist makes an attempt to free people front . It was here that. his permit from.
"This case," adds Slornovitz, "reminds nie of a trial in a New
i
a a •
the Czar stowd hint in good stead. ; injuries.
York court about ten years ago. A Jew was the defendant and the
Hitler's book, "My Fight, or My Struggle," the polish of unnatural thinking an d
Louis
B.
Mayer
received
a
In 1921 he was kidnapped by
Frizer stood in close relations
was also a Jew. The plaintiff's attorney', addressing the jury,
—a volume which, Feuchtwanger states, preaching and to lead them to the path of with Finance Minister M Mee;
. . . a portrait of lawyer
birthday gift y
Russian bandits and for seven 'birthda
told the story about the Irishman, Frenchman and Jew who went to
(lays kept in a collar bound hand himself ... painted and presented the grave of a friend to pay their final tributes. The Irishman placed
Kakovtzev knew him personally;
is replete with errors of fact and language. simplicity and factual observance of con-
who
was a por-
and foot. The bandits remember- by Jean Ilersholt,
he WAS an honorary member for
before
he became
an ; a live dollar check in the coffin, the Frenchman placed! a five hundred
To quote Feuchtwanger:
ed his former wealth and hoped trait painter
ditions as they are. Having uttered these
life of the Russian Imperial Geo.
' franc note, and the Jew took out the two bills and put a ten thousand
to
secure
a
handsome
ransom
for
graphical
Society.
dollar check in their stead. No sooner did the lawyer get through
two great truths in his effort to free man- .
•
•
•
his release. After a week they
Perhaps you know that at the beginning of his
was
befriended
by
and
Be
telling the story than the judge arose and declared a mistrial on the
kind of two outworn taboos, Dr. Einstein's
were convinced! that his wealth act ;u nititi has a busy time in movie.
career llerr Ilith•r called himself A writer.
nco,rthei spadred wit h the
r ejudi c ed."
was
remained in Russia, but he was land. The Mervyn LeRoy-Ginger' ground! that the jury was be • ing p •
I remember in this connection that there
address becomes a masterpiece regardless
ian exiles,
•
not released until he had parted Rogers tie-up is now said to be •
Yadrinzev, Batonien',
a violent discussion in a society of profes-
of whatever else he said. The great scien-
with the greater portion of what icy . . . and the young and good- A STORY
sional literary people, who are very broad-
still remained to him in Harbin. Inking director is finding favor in
The story was told to me yesterday, and I didn't rogard it 35
rig is also a deep thinker anti an excellent etc. tie WAS responsible for many
minded in accepting new members. The sub-
Ile was left, after this incident,
ject of the discussion was, what shall be the
Student of m n and affairs. For these great b enefactions to hundreds of ',e-
the eyes of Doris Warner, pretty funny, but this morning, while shaving, I found myself laughing
with
a
house,
as
his
tnly
prop-
dotter of ]'any Warner. Now , over it, So I will tell it to you. Maybe you are smarter and wit
lowest grade of printed matter that shall en-
litical exiles.
qualities we continue to honor hint.
erty.
title its author to membership in this society?
Through his influence on the
'that would be a shiddach, what I laugh right away It is told of a big-town and small-town Jew in
More recently when kidnapping with LeRoy, a favorite director on : Russia who chanced to meet each other one day.
Is, for instance, a man who composes a bill-of-
anti-Semitic General Governors
of Jews became constant er- the Warner lot.
Selivianov, Kniozev, Plitz anti
"II here are you front. asked Chaylm.
fare for a restaurant a writer, or is he not?
Hope in 'Rumania.
ror in Harbin, Frizer determined
•
"I ant from Berffitchiv•h," replied Shmooel.
There was no definite decision because in the
nether% he played an extraordin-
A. D. Braham, president of the United
to sell his last property and re-
in be-
"Is Berditchiveh a big town?"
end Herr Hitler did not apply for membership.
hylfrolf•tzar
A certain studio exec was in
tire to l'alestine. Ile sold the
.teas.
"No," said Shmooel, "it's a town of about 60,000."
Rumanian Jews of America, recently re-
the
midst
of
a
conference
when
house
for
a
song,
but
before
he
"How many Jews are there?"
Ti, the city of has birth he pre-
It is this literary aspirant, Adolf Hitler, turned
turned from a tour of Rumania where he
could carry out his plans, the one of his assistants handed hint
"Well, of the 60,000, about 50,000 are Jew's,"
house, a library and a
sented
a telegram. Ile glanced at it long
who, in the first editions of his book said: m ale a study of Jewish conditions to•
money
was
gone.
Facing
poverty,
h
tt:
,
,
i)e,,ni iift
Now it was Shmooel's turn to ask.
a scr dhait,l. „, The h library contains
loneliness, helplessness in his old ;enough to catch the gist, and then
"If you wish to will the sympathy of broad gether with Dr. l'ilderman, prominent
"And you, where are you from?"
age, Frizer's pride and iron will gave it back, saying importantly.
Karl Kidechelberg, the personal
"I am from !Moscow," replied Chayim.
masses, then you must tell them the crudest Rumanian Jewish leader. Mr. Braham de-
"Stand
by
and
remind
me
to
read
rebelled. Ile preferred to hang
friend of the famous Russian
"And the population?"
I that telegram."
and most stupid things." These words were scribed his findings before the recent con-
by his own hand,
poet, Pushkin.
"The population of Nloscow is about 2,000,000."
later eliminated from "The Struggle," but vention of the United Rumanian Jews,
"And how. many Jews are there?"
"Oh, there are about 30,000 Jews in Moscow."
are still resorted to in practice by Nazi pointing out numerous instances of discrim-
"Zll van taig each a 7.0 viel goyim?" asked Shmooed
appeals to the crudest sentiments of Ger- ination. But he also had a message of
•
•
•
many's masses which are hailing Hitler as cheer. Among the encouraging signs, he
AN IMPOSTER'S PLAN
the savior.
said, was the close contact and camarad-
Everyone has, of course, heard of that supreme imposter-
Lincoln-Trebitch. You recall he came to England, anti within four
We entertain the hope that the German erie between Jewish and non-Jewish intel-
years had married a Bishop's daughter, end was elected to Parlia-
ditical
a ,,dined
situation is not too serious to permit the lectuals and leaders. Ile pointed to the
mend Ile went to Germany and for a short time became
there. Ile was later a spy for both the Allied and entral
comment that it also presents an element high esteem in which they hold each other DETROIT VIRILITY
ing and the CHRISTIANITY that A DARING PREDICTION
spirit in which
It's a good thing that the days of Powers, and is now a Buddhist monk.
of the superbly ridiculous. That 18,000,000 and stated that he saw nothing to continue ' There is a li t Inty
t he
the Detoet is indicated by the there
would he Inquisitions
v
are over or the Re .
my critic writes
It appears, from A story that has just come to my ...• loo Re
newspapers should be conducting a cam- w ith it in any other European country'he .lewish community that makes fol. less reason of complaint on the part Or, John Haynes Holmes, pastier of also contemplated the idea of being the Jewish NlosI •
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of the Jew. But let us face the the Community ('hunch, NewYork ' planned to become the great power of the World Zinn,'' •
paign of extermination against 450,000 visited. Said Mr. Braham:
on
body is agreed that Detroit is ns truth. Here we have a Klan com-
City, might find himself in a bad
At least, it is said that he made a bid for such pow, •
people who represent by far less than one
badly 'IT, perhaps worse than tmod. posed of 100 per cent white Pro- way. He declares in a publication
Or. Fildernian and I visited all the important
- . testants who at one time composed just issued under the editorship off unique fashion. Ile proposed to the World Zionist
cities,
yet
the
optimism,
the
energy
the
country's
total
population,
per cent Id
political leaders of Rumania and we were in
alivent ss of the Detroit Jew 1..11 a million or more whose avowed Arthur Swift, Jr., of Union Theo- nothing less than that they fold their tents and leave th.•
rue,
is to suggest the extremely ridiculous. And
turn visited by some of them We all met and
group in public work evoke 311111111- purpose WAS to prevent anyone not logical Seminary, that the future the Palestine problem to himself. Ile would take
explained, by secret negotiation with the British govern:. • •
matters
in
a
most
cordial
and
friendly
discussed
such a ridiculous fight must end in a fiasco.
ation. don't like the word "go- a Prostt•stant from holding office
see
the
abolishment
,if
"church-
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•mosphere. Then, again, upon visiting the
getters," it a reminds me of the and in other ways set themselves up es, Bibles and denominations of re-
Meanwhile we must be prepared for a
dewi.h schools of Bucharest, in the company
"pep" days and "sign on the dot- as a super-got ernment to be the ligion with no weekly holy day." ASSES AND PROPHETS
highly colored publicity campaign from the
of Dr. Filderman, I found some of the leading
ted line" and all the rat of ti, • censor of those not l'rotestants. Dr. Holmes says there will he no
It is, of course, terribly amusing, and yet one wont. / men
ministerial personages th•liverine enthusiastic
bombast that eventually b roug ht , These are the things which the gods of any kind, no "Jehovah, with his capacity for intrigue might possibly have act"'..•1 some
Hitler headquarters. For the Jews of this
commencement addresses to their Jewish aud-
as low. But those Detroit Jew. Jew' can justly complain of and for Jove or Lord." An hour each day
id what he proposed]. Remember that, on one odooe''. 801-
country it is fortunate that a highly com-
after
iences, bantling out prize's, kissing the bright
seem to get a-hat they go
which he is not in the slightest de- he believes given to communal con- aam's ass was wiser than the prophet, Balaam, himself.
petent news agency broadcasts information •
children and congratulating their delighted
in the way of funds for communal gree responsible. Such an organ- secration" will replace Sundays.
And Lincoln-Trebitch is far from an ass.
purposes. Tilt y don't drag their ization and such an attitude of He predicts a new calendar of
parent s.
from Germany. In the words of Feucht-
c''
Isn't it just possible that a man like him, who cm11.1 I' Vir.
feet and shuffle along with their mind should he criticized—and con- saints, including Jesus, Isaiah,
It is such evidences as these, of close and
dignitaries
of the church, cabinet ministers and the like. to eat way.
;
wanger, it is "a piece of good fortune that
heads down when they have a could demned by Christians as well as Francis of Assisi, George Fox, Dar-
cordial friendship between Jews and Chris-
loan,
in
a
regular
governoo
i we ,, n say, En gland
g , la.ocan au,,
lnd i ,.8
nzta:, ryortetfroart
fl
o
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency exists and
so many other gr ups! coul Jews hecausd: they are 1. N( !IRIS- win, Pasteur, Lincoln, Emerson, induced,
tians.
that makes the situation in Rumania
of leaving it to the
mention. The other day I read TIAN 811,1 1 NRELICIOUS. I may Whitman, Tolstoy, Rolland and for the Jewish settlement of Palestine, instead
seem fur more hopeful than in other Eastern
that it has the means to communicate to
fund -
Detroit
Jewry
is
to
estal,_
a
mat
tear
of
fact,
if
As
where
European countries.
somtimea go beyond the limit in Gandhi. Ile doesn't believe that
e have needed the pr.. , n'
in Ag ni zl ii,nnistthant rg
the English speaking world reports which
lish a new recreational renter calling attention to such incidents we will have religions as they are
we take into account the added features of
raising
which
shows
that
while
it
may
be
the
strung,
liberal
press
and
the
outstanding
will be, so to speak. less subjective than
but no self-respecting person can today but simply religion. It is
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financially hit it is by no m e ans remain silent in presence of them. interesting to note that there are
character and abilities of some of the leaders
those of the National-Socialists!"
culturally bankrupt. I think that
in that country. both Jewish and non-Jewish.
u Nlid w
millions of people today in this F. P. A. CALLS ATTENTION
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some of those inspirational leader-
we may well look forward with hope to brighter
F. P. A.. the Jewish columnist o f th e Il eral d lTrihdia
country who actually live under the
I : a t I h 1 e
in Detroit ought to make a tote
olme.. entharra , s g question of the in Hearst papers, in their "BuY - /'''',. neen
days for Rumania and our brethren there.
conditions descrilted by Dr. Holmes,
.
I f the Jewish communi s t roug
while nominally profesing adher- propaganda The Hearst papers, at least In New 1. or ,
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Knocking at Palestine's Gates.
It is a long time since we have heard out the country and put some cow
ence to this or that religion. It tio
editorials about "Buy American 0
running
u n inein,g t l
age into them. They need it
For every single available yisa to Pales-
is certainly a daring prediction for
t i a ia l e l page. t
than g half
Ihf"
a o- f ea t the e editorial
anything as encouraging as this about any
to
the
fa.
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tiorin
ten,,
the pastor tdf a church to make numbli•rP,.,IA.,hdia,rt
tine, there are 20 applicants in Poland,
it•tlayrtciacllles,,Mr..01‘Itea‘rs,,t'sthaetm
group of Jews in countries which were UNCHRISTIAN, • IRRELIGIOUS
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t tic en I/r • Holmes is • a err}• clan- rage ..ppt-ite to the editorial page, the feature Pan,
It p
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Emil Lcngvel tells us in "The Cauldron marked for their oppressive measures
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I ant in receipt of a •• .. .
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ing churchman.
who
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lad,-
One can imagine what the anti- Among them are Chesterton, Huxley, Havelock Ellis, Bertram: Id
Boils."
Writes From Florida in Com -
against our people. :qr. Braham's report a
evolutionists in Tennessee would
Ica
Driven from pillar to post. hundreds of
(i'jt.fInsnri:itiihteiTtt•finit,::e" . -sl.; •
ment Uoon a Chronicle
1 :tree,
is therefore a landmark in the present "„;;',,,i
about including Charles Dar- etc. If we shouM buy everything American. it seem -
say
thousands of Jews arc craving for settle-
Editorial.
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that the . only way to rem •
tel
the
Jewish
people.
Perhaps
we
win
in
the
list
of
saints.
Down
.1fi
1.
r.
of
his
literary
wares
from
Any
also
hay
euldIA.
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status
eel
ment in the Jewish homeland. because. ac-
there they would probably convene
very
are now on the eve of a turn in interna• standing is for both Jew a:•.:
Joseph I . Levy of • shland, Wi '' a special session of the legislature
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tional events. with better days ahead fur tile to approach each eth' , e
writes from his temp 'nary home a nd p ass a law making him a public
"To these young men Palestine is not a
more sympathetic mood. She a• in k1i4mi,
i ing n uTphotr enemy. In all probabili
A PRELIMINARY BARRAGE
ppmrea nr,td
tlah;t coa m
i
F
ties
most
our people.
mils that there are Gentiles I: apnetr(it
F. P. .1. might have added that it is said that the-
edito r ial
,.f the reemhers don t even know
small country of sand and stone. of orange
are anti-Semites, but on the doh. r ish history.
Chroniclentljez:
that over is dead. I am suro purcha.t. much of their wood pulp from Canadian
J ewish His
letter that Darwin
groves and ()Ike trees. but the freedom of
hand
insists
that
there
are
.1«.
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early
Detr
it
holm
Canada.
asnot in the United Statea.
a bit of
half of thi.saints named
.
December 19:12. immigration to the.: who encourage such a (,lire . bating
the open air, after living in dingy cells.
whole "Buy American" drive is merely. of
qv Dr. Holmes would meet the or-
United States—numbering 1.816—was the There in no doubt but there is notch Editor , Detroit Jewish t
further
effort
to
raise
the:ardf..
ooro
nized nemesis of the Junior Or. preliminary barrage to ■
spiritual life after spiritual death. They
let
. + truth in the statement and that
lowest monthly figure since 1831.
A Detroit friend called my ones- der nf American Mechanics, and the trade, the Commerce Department reports, fell off
know that in Palestine their backs will be
there is blame on beth sides. I am lion to your issue of Jan. 13, and Daughters of the American Revo - ' year.
Ord
aliens'
foes
still
talk
about
curbing
immi-
sure a this, if more Gentiles poe-
Mr. Hearst Would apparently like to see it completely "1
straightened and the furtive look will van-
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und•rstand-
the
fairness
and
messed
tb4.;4,4.,,..4 In Palestine they hope gration,

otered . Second-class matter March 3, 1911, at the Post-
office at Detroit. Mich., under the Act of March

he homeland.

By M. LITAI
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RANDOM THOUGHTS

A BIT OF HISTORY
TOLD BY A READER

by Charles
H. Joseph

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