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October 6, 1933

Tishri 16, 5694

The Feast of Tabernacles in 5694.

There is an unusually tragic lesson in
this year's observance of the Feast of

Tabernacles.
Reminding Jewry of the days when the
wandering Israelites lived in Succoth-
tabernacles—we are compelled at this time
to recognize the truth that in entirely too
many centers throughout the world where
Jews live in large numbers the position of
our kin and kith is that of %vanderers.
The homes of our German .1m,% s are mere
temporary booths, For too many Jews in
Poland the houses they inhabit art mere
over-night tabernacles. Millions of Jews
live us tolerated strangers in countries for
which they fought only a few years ago;
countries whose Jewish inhabitants insist
even in hours of persecution on calling
their fatherlands.
The realization of the manner in which
our people are hounded everywhere lends
a tragic note to the observance of the Feast
of Tabernacles in the year 5691. But Jews
who know the lessons of their history will
refuse to permit these events to mar their
holiday faith. The weak tabernacle of
Israel has survived many storms and it must
also survive this one. Faith among Israel
will never be defeated.

Sacrificing

for Education.

About •2,000 pupils in rural schools in
Michigan returned to their classes almost a
month earlier than usual because of the
lack of funds to buy coal for the winter
months. Advantage was thus taken of the
warm weather in approximately 6,000
schools in this state.
This move was in itself a practical way
of avoiding the danger of keeping schools
closed altogether, and it would have been
a totally excusable step had it not been
for additional news that came with this
announcement, to the effect that in many
schools, teachers have not been paid for
their work last year, and that many other
schools may have to close their doors com-
pletely unless the state provides immediate
help.
In view of the enormous amount of
waste in the administration of certain gov-
ernmental affairs, such a condition is inex-
cusable. Large funds were, and still are,
being wasted in banking investigations.
Overlapping in many offices is responsible
for the squandering of large sums of
money. In many other ways there is un-
warranted waste. But the children in our
rural districts had to be robbed of part of
their summer's vacation in order to effect
a saving on coal!
There was a tines when Jewish tradition
as well as practice was able to light the
way to better example for educational ef-
fort among all peoples. It was not Un-
common for parents to make great sacri-
fices in order to provide their children with
an education. We have almost lost the
right to claim the title "the people of the
book," or to assert that we still make a
sacrifice for the cause of learning.
The annual observance of Hebrew Edu-
cation Month now in progress here should
force the question whether Jews are not
guilty of increased indifference to our edu-
cational needs. It is well to boast of a
fine school system and of packed class-
rooms. These are tributes to the teachers
in our schools and to parents. many of
whom are too poor to pay large minis to
the schools but to whom the Jewish educa-
tion of their children is a holy obligation.
But what of the community at large? How
many are aware that our teachers are not
only underpaid, but received only a frac-
tion of their meager salaries?
We urge our communal leaders and
workers to become more fully acquainted
with the financial status of our teachers.
We advise them to learn the true condi-
tion existing in our schools. Perhaps we
will stop boasting about our being a peo-
ple of learning and will instead feel a bit
ashamed over the existing conditions.
Hateful as the term sacrifice is. we must
nevertheless begin. if necessary, to think
in terms of making sacrifices for the cause
of Jewish learning. Next to the immediate
necessities in the home, our educational
institutions should be given a position of
priority in Jewish life, Without the cul-
tural element we are doomed. Let this
year's Education Month cause an even
greater devotion to be aroused among De-
troit Jewry to our schools and to Hebrew
learning.
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The Edgar Ansell Mowrer Incident.

Edgar Angell Mowrer, eminent corre-
spondent of the Chicago Daily News in
Berlin until the recent threats against his
life by Nazis, is defended by his paper in
charges of alleged misrepresentations in
his dispatches. Dr. R. L. Jaeger, acting
German consul general in Chicago, had
written to the Chicago News charging that
Mowrer's cables were "erroneous and con-1
trary to reports received from Germany," j
and the News, in its reply, praised its cor-
respondent as a reporter with "an enviable
record for discernment and veracity."
It is to the credit of this important Amer-
ican newspaper that it should have taken
the correct stand in the issue that has arisen
over Mr. Mowrer's experiences in Ilitlerite
Germany, and when the complete story is
written, the Mowrer chapter will be one I
of the noblest in the battle against the Nazi
horrors.
The Mowrer incident is one of the ele-
ments in the present tragic situation which
gi ves Jews courage to believe that all is
nut lost and that there is considerable hope
left for relief from the horrors heaped upon
our people. The fact that this noted cor-
respondent, as well as other newsmen from
foreign countries in Germany, refuse to
sacrifice the truth for the sake of their

own safety and well-being is sufficient to
provide us with a ray of hope.
Mr. Mowrer is the recipient of a deserved
tribute from the organ of the journalistic
profession, Editor and Publisher, whose
editorial we are pleased to quote herewith:

WORLD CONFUSION

All news from Germany, save that which is
smuggled out by correspondents working clan-
destinely, is suspect. If regular correspondents
do not bend the knee to Hitler, favoring his
propaganda, they risk being driven from the
country.

Proof of this lies in the case of Edgar
Ansell Mowrer, the able and thoroughly re-
sponsible correspondent of Chicago Daily
News. Ile has been compelled to leave Ger-
many, being reassigned by his editor to Tokio,
because of hi s insistence on writing the truth.
The Hitler regime did not face the facts
squarely, as might he expected, but sneakingly
represented that Mr. Mowrer should leave be-
cause the government of the Nazis, which pre-
tends to be a stable government, could not
guaraatee his personal safety. What bosh!
Thirteen other foreign writers have been
forced to leave Germany by Ilitlerites, includ-
ing Frederick Kuh of United Press and Ed-
ward Deuss of International News Service,

We can never remember a peace time era
wherein there were so many powerful influ-
ences at work to hamper world news gather-
ing and to deceive the reading public. All
Russian news is controlled at the source. In
Italy, the Mussolini censor, while claiming to
give reporters increased liberty, is busy every
day with sly means to suppress anything that
is unfavorable to the government. This censor,
by the way, is Count Galeuzzo ('iano, husband
of Mussolini's daughter, Edda. All letters and
telegrams continue to be under censorship at
Rome and when it newspaper correspondent
files anything which is not agreeable to II Duce
the copy is conveniently "lost." Protests that
the correspondents have filed about destroyed
copy, or spiked dispatches, are ignored.

The news situation in the Far East continues
difficult. There is no news writer in Japan who
is not conscious of the overshadowing power
of the government to control what he sends
out. I.ittle independent writing is seen from
that quarter. And China, weak and struggling
as she is, neVertheles. seek
maintain cen-
sorship over press is
in the hope of
creating favorable public imprisons abroad.

All of which means, of course, that weak
governments cannot bear t he glare of pub-
licity. Rulers want to hang onto their scepters,
political zealots want to succeed whether they
do or not, bankers want III protect their loans,
industrialists want to continue their exploita-
tion, nationalist spirit must be served, and to
I hese ends the news must flatter no matter
how greatly it distort s public opinion and con-
tributes to the vast human confusion.

Some day, conceivably, an intrepid historian
will pay a deserved tribute to the honest news
writer s of this age who have not bent the
neck to dnaattirs, but have bravely taken all
of the risks incident to their mission of factual

reporting.

It is encouraging that Mr. Mowrer
should not be alone in his condemnation of
the Nazi rule, which he began with his
book, "Germany Puts the Clock Back,"
and in his cables to his paper. Other Amer-
ican and English correspondents have been
severe in their condemnations and in un-
earthing the truth in the hostile Hitler en-
vironment. It is interesting in this con-
nection to quote again from the Editor and
Publisher. The following paragraph is
culled from Marlon Pew's "Shop Talk at
Thirty" column:

After reading George Britt's stories of
I wondered why
Art Young had not searched there for pic•
torial material for his forthcoming book on
Hell, making an easy trans-Atlantic voyage
in one of the world's fastest and most luxur-
ious liners and avoiding the smoky perils of
the Styx. For, except as our late friends be-
low taboo conventional dress, and let their
hair and nails grow, they might as well be back
on earth, especially in Germany. as the car-
toonist tells the story. Mr. Britt writes that
a nation of 63.000.000 people, high above the
average of the world in education, are living
in a sort of emotional Hades, under the direct
thralldom of an essentially ignorant charlatan,
hysterical, bigoted, half balmy, with a kitchen
cabinet composed of I dope fiend, 1 sexual
pervert, I fiendish Jew baiter and looney im-
perialist and I hart y press agent possessed of
supreme power over the thought of the nation,
sitting all day thinking up flattering lies and
d4ising means to deceive his own people and
confound the opinion of the world. Art Young
should find ample material in Germany for a
second edition of his Hellish expose.

"Ilitler's Germany" last week,

So long as such honest presentation of
facts prevails in American journalism.
there will not only continue a strong sense
of security of our position in this country,
but we shall be able to retain the hope of
the forcing of better days for our people
in Germany through the influence of an
aroused public opinion throughout the
world.

Our Film Folk

The New Germany

air

Editor's Note: The followin g quotation. from an article
■
by Mr. Neuberger are
reprinted with the permission of the
editors of the Nation.
The author is a 20-year-old Jewi.h
boy of Portland, Oregon.

For ta hours she had waited for
',cord of her sons.
They were
her only kin. She had spent all
of a small life-insurance policy
eilimat ing one for law, the other

for

The ea rch did not last long.
II... .t day the two young
11••• ■ :. a hos e "crimes" had heen
ti r ace and their belief in a
e.ncr iiiiictit for the majority of
IL , people, were sent home -•-in

!Marl] Vi

Mi.

The N11515

II • red that the boys had died
11,ccoli,is, though neither

fro: lo elf' ill when taken from
I uo. Their loather was
11,1 to sign a paper :weev-
il• 1 ,. open the coffins; the
and the rabbi had to
•
in
this
promise.
e.. I.1 tee," admonished
the
\.:.
I. "we will dispose of
ti,.. te.l le. ourselves."

HOLLYWOOD. — The country
will be flooded any day now with
comedy features starring Our
Boys . . . The Four Mad Marxes
finally previewed "Duck Soup,"
•and it will soon be served at your
favorite cinema. By the time you
read this, Harpo may be On his
, way to pantomime at the Russian
,:ttit Theater in Moscow. He'll be
there it month . . . "The Fire
Chief" has finished shooting and
satin Ed Wynn will be back
"So-o-o"-ing on the raydio . . .
Eddie Cantor should have "Ro-
man Scandals" on the marquee
in another two months, as the pic-
ture is no• on its last chariot
race. Eddie returns to the air
the second Sunday in October ...
And Jack Pearl left for New York
last Sunday, with a fat new pic-
ture contract in his pocket --his
reward for making so many pre-
viewers laugh at "Meet the
Baron." Ile goes on the air in a
week or two and comes back to
Cinemaland March 15 for his
next . . . Soat-0, when you hear
all the laughter coming from your
local talkies, remember "Our Boys
did it. -
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OTHER ATROCITIES
But in that village was 11
young Jewish doctor, a war vet-
;mil one of the few un-
I
Charlie Chaplin may discard
dituri•eal victims of the Hitler ,. hi s mustache in his next laughie.
p.1,4,111101 whom we met. De-
He's afraid he'll be mistaken for
spite Ilitler's promise to exempt
Hitler.
Rears henry Wyman Holmes of
slew ish ex-soldiers from discrim-
the Harvard Graduate School of
ination, the young man's entire
These temperamental stage idols
Education, Who returned on
practice had been taken from 'sometimes get in the director's
Sept. lo, reported by the Asso-
him by the burgomaster, and he
hair. Francis Lederer finds it nec-
ciated Press as saying: "I think
had been beaten all at the local
ssary to argue every take of ev-
the reports of Ilitler's oppres-
"Ifi oW II IIOUSC."
But he was
ry scene with director J. Walter
sion of the Jews have been ex- • 111,1. Mill.
Ile said 10 me: "I'll
Ruben, and consequently all is
aggerated. Some action may
open those coffins if you will
o f Two
have been necessary"; "it is
help inc to get out of the coun-
stage
'1
1%?,‘)%ii: I (1 1 '
wlitChs "lh
har'd
something that Gernmny need-
try."
I promised. (Today he is
player to grasp movie technique
ed"; "Germany has regained self
here in Fran•e.1 That
and its requirement that 0 "take"
respect." This noted educator,
night, by candlelight, he opened
must be limited from a mechanical
author inter alia of "The Path
the oblong boxes. Every major
and not an artistic viewpoint .. .
of Learning," arrived at these
bone in both 'aches was broken.
You'll SN'eal• that Lederer is an
conclusions, he admits. in France
The flesh was terribly lacerated;
Eskimo when you see him.
and "from talking with people
the boys had suffered horribly
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on the voyage home" (aboard
befall' they died.
Upon hearing of B. P. Sehul.
the German liner Berlin), and
The next afternoon the young
berg's search for • spy for
without visiting Germany.
men \vele buried in the Jewish , "Reunion," which he will make
ceine•ery. Over their coffins the
For a week in Paris I listened
when he gets back Oct. 1, an
old rabbi, his beard blowing in
to tourists who described Hit-
actor remarked "Why don't he
the summer breeze, spoke a few
ler'm Germany in rosy colors.
use Walter Winchell?"
On questioning, however, I
words Of praise. For the of-
• • •
fense of eulogizing the two dead
found that they had visited only
Al Boasberg has been teaching
boys. the rabbi was beaten at
the places featured in the adver-
his parrot some gags and the other
the local Nazi headquarters, and
tisements. Not one had strayed
night, when an actor was visiting
the local newspaper —a mere
to a town off the beaten truck.
•the funny man, the bird cackled,
bulletin—which printed sonic of
I determined to make a different
"If I had that guy's nerve, I'd be
his words, was suppressed for
sort of trip to the "New Ger-
an eagle."
three months. The mother was
many," and visit the hamlets
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sent to a sanitarium by the
and villages of the Black Forest
Rushes: Sari Maritza has been
young physician, her mind
and the Rhine country, places
signed by RKO for four pic-
clouded by the catastrophe.
where Americans are not ex-
ture., currently in "Beautiful,"
pected.
Before I left that little town
then into "Sea Girl" .. . Greg-
I met the families of two Jewish
THE VICTIMS
ory Ratoff is working in two
girls, both of whom had been
The inn, at which I was the
pictures at the same time . . .
smuggled across the border to a
only guest, was run by an old
they're both at the same studio
hospital in Switzerland. Their
Catholic woman. She was easily
so it isn't as bad as it could be
parents spoke in whispers of a
led into conversation and told
. . . Lilyan Tashman has just
night
when
the
Nazis
had
come
me how her little business had
about fully recovered from her
for the girls. They had been
adhesion attack . . . the doctor
been ruined by the Nazis. It
stripped and beaten and made
has given her permission to go
was not difficult to !rake a per-
to dance naked before their tor-
back to work . . . Now to get
son of her political misfortunes
mentors. Under the threat of
another job Paul Muni liked
my ally, and I persauded her to
death
to
themselves
and
their
Mervyn LeRoy's director so well
introduce me to other victims
families, they had been com-
in "The World Changes" that
in the little community.
pelled to accept the advances of
he asked Warners to allow
In a ramshackle house near
their captors. The girls were
LeRoy to direct his next picture
the outskirts of the hamlet I
only eighteen. In the morning
.. The meager had been as-
met a distraught old woman.
their families found them,
signed to Al Jolson's "Wonder
Two nights before, a troop of
bleeding and senseless, in a
Bar."
brown -shirted Ilitlerites had
.
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meadow near the Brown House.
taken away her two sons, partly
AMERICA MUST HELP
W e knew that if we waited long
because they were Jews, partly
In Heidelberg I talked with
enough we'd have an all-Joosh
because their political affiliations
many brilliant scholars, most of ' shidtich to report; that is, among
had been with the Social Demo-
them non-Jews. They deplored
the names that make front parr.
crats. "Say goodbye to your
the havoc Hitler has wrought in , news. The Sally }tilers, Ilarry
mother, you may never see her

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again," ordered the Nazi leader.

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

AN AMERICAN AND NAZISM

"SUPER-WOMEN"
I was in a home in Pittsburgh,
I am in receipt of the following
Pa., the other evening when the • biter from Mrs. Estelle M. Stern-
host called any attention to the fol- berger who is nationally known in
lowing article which had appeared connection with the work of Jew-
in one of the ',teal dailies. I (mate ish women's organization. Perhaps
without alteration the item in qui•— other Jewish cabmen may be in-
tion:
dined to differ with Mrs. Stern-
"With praise for the majority berger and can suggest names of
of the measures that Hitler has wonlen who may be considered "su-
introduced into Germany, Rev. Dr. per-women."
Clarence h:dward Macartney, p a , ; "My dear Mr. Joseph:
tor of the First I'resby'tel tan
"I wish it were possible for Ille
Church, who returned to Pitts- 10 suggest a name in answer to
burgh Thursday from a summer your question as to who is the out-.
-pent in Greece and Germany I..• ' standing Jewess living today. My
heves that the present dictator
activities, which have brought me
directing Germany back to a re
in touch with Jewish women in
se eded place among the gleat every possible field in the United
powers of the world.
States and in foreign lands, have,
"'Hitler is giving Germany an failed to bring to illy notice a wo-
almost necessary discipline and in : man who possesses the qualifica-
many respects a wholesome disci- tions suggested in my article to
pline. Ilitlerism is suppressing which y o u have referred in your
divergent elements of Communism . column.
"I cherish a hope that these chal-
It has aroused the spirit of Gcr•
many in a way that was necessa y lenging times will produce a wo-
man
of vision, courage and action
for her recovery.
It has caught
the attention of German youth,' t hat the world as well as house-
hold of Israel, will unreservedly
Dr. Macartney said.
acknowledge.
"Although the persecution of
"I am not unmindful of the many
Jews by the Hitler regime at the
present time is one of the few dark Jewish women in the United States
sides to the German picture as Dr. and in foreign lands who have fine
Mace i•ney described it to a re- achievements to their credit. The
porter, he said he is convinced that point that I desired to make was
'the measure against the .rews will that we have yet to see a woman
be mollified in calmer moments and who has tossed wealth, comfort ,
and popularity aside in order t o :
that justice' will he done them.'"
speak out for a great social cause,
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or to dedicate herself to some prob-
WALDHEIM'S CRITICISM
lem of science, fur example. Our
Aaron Wahlheim, of St. Louis. women must not stifle their cour-
was also a guest and when the host age by the thought that the world
finished reading the abs
atov Mr seems unwilling to deal fairly with
Waldheim turned to me and said: the Jew.
"Mr. Joseph, how can a clergyman.
or for that matter, any American.
approve of Nazism which in essenci•
The Succah on the Roof.
is the very antithesis of Democ-
racy?
Hitler
suppresses
free
By SHULAMITH ISH-KISHOR
speech, suppresses free expression
of the people's will at the p .1k
Bring up boughs with greenest
drives into exile those opposed •
leaves,
him, crushes brutally, minor!,
Bring up ripest fruits,
groups, kills and torture,: Jea...
Make
a heap of autumn flowers,
starves them economically and • u:-
And of strong young shoots!
totally, prevents newspapers from

functioning other than as per...•na!
organs, encourages rac i a l and
ligiaus hatred, destroys boek-
belong to the ages just becau•.• t• •
were written by Jews; in
everything that civilization -• 1 .
for Hitler is trying to destroy. 5- I
in Pittsburgh you have a Chr,.•
ian clergyman who gives at h.,'
a degree of approval to this •:-
possible situation." i acree
pletely with Mr. Waldheim
by the way I, CM' of Am•
foremost Jew,), and refer the •a•.
I ter to Dr. Macartney for fur•r.

consideration.

(CoPYrIsht, 1933, Jewish

By HELEN ZIGMOND

By RICHARD NEUBERGER

the Sew Germany,"
the American tourist reads in
the advertising columns of I'aris
editions of American news-
papers. Embellished with pho-
tographs of picturesque scenery
and stately cathedrals, the ad-
vertisements strive to persuade
the tourist that Hitler's "New
Germany" is virtually identical
with the old Germany of charm
and Gemutlichkeit . That the
advertising often appears in is-
sues which carry front-page ae-
eaunts of Nazi violence has
been harmful but, surprisingly,
not fatal to the purpose of the
costly displays. Despite a fall-
ing elf in the tourist trade, for-
eigner s return home frequently
w ith tales of the peace and con-
t•ntment that prevail under the
Nazis. They stay at the hotel
in the larger cities and blandly
report that "they saw no out-
rages," and pay tribute to the
"new spirit" engendered by Hit-
ler. (If this type is Mayor
.1;111105 M. Curley of Boston. It
is more surprising, however, to
find a supposed scholar like

By- the-Way

by Charles
H. Joseph

"It is such a super-woman of
whom I speak.
"Faithfully,
"F:stelle M. Sternberger."
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Tidbits and

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tairtrapear W.F. MEI

A stn

SIME SILVERMAN

It was said of Joseph Pulitzer, when he was he a d of tii
York World, that he became furious at times when he saw his
e
associating with men of wealth. Not that he was opposed ditors
to rn
of wealth as such, but he was so jealous of the independen
ce i'oy--1,7
paper that he wanted no possibility of warping or contaminatio
n -„'y
the editorial point of view that such associations invited.
But Sime Silverman, founder and editor of Va not , , ., wen
further than this, according to one account. Ile made it ., ' ,, ,,/, the ;
office that the advertising men were not to talk to th„ 1
111 1 al
writers, so insistent was he on the absolute independ• i... of the

papecsh“rtialiitsor,,iahlypli
i
olaicry
b
e.ty became the Bi le of the thinit i...il world.
A great figure has passed. American journalism perliap lricw no
more courageous one.
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PALESTINIAN IMMIGRATION

What are the actual figures (is to immigratian it
F:veryone has seen figures, but of their exedra's , who
It is obvious that because of the opposition to Jewish Man..'
Palestine among the demagogic circles of the Arabs, ti ,
must be in Zionist circles to understate the actual lieu,
I have heard one account that actually 60,000
Palestine lust year, instead of the usual figures which are
place it between 1 2_,0110 and 20,000.
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line'
touch?
..ri into
'cleney

' , ere

BETTER THE OTHER WAY

They are telling this story of 1/r. l.uther, the Geri;,
the United States. On his way across the Atlantic, •„,„
over
t he A inerican embassy, lie was talking about Germany'..
1.••ire.
"Why, look at our resources,” said the Ambasstalai "Iteneath
the sail of the Fatherland we have coal, potash, mineral. II „,„
Above the soil we have our Hitler, Goering and Goebbri- "
l'he American thought a moment and then replied: "11. A RA..
sailor, I think it would he better if your treasures We n !Higed
in, reverse•"

1101 to

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MR. B. FAINTS AWAY

Every now and then Mr. IL of the Zionist Orgaill/nTion, od,„
supplies information for those desiring to settle in Pais-isle, has
fainting spells.
The other day we came across him as someone WW, t.i : , ■ 10; him
and ;praying hill] With COW water. When he came to, a,
what had happened, and it was the usual sort of incident.:. a , nme.
how 51r. B. can never get used to it It was like this, Mr. P told us:
Chayim, it man of about 55 years, had come to find , it about
going to Palestine.
"None}'," said Chayini, "is no object to me. I have col plenty
Of looney. I always saved my money, when others were si ending it
on automobiles and good times, and I never speculated in the stock
exchange. But still I want something to give me nn nvome in

"Fine, " said Mr. B. "You're just the kind of man that Palestine
is looking for. If we could only get more like you, Palestine would
soon be a second America—Haifa would be another C.hictig0, ext•py
that it would pay its school teachers, and Tel Aviv would Is another
Philadelphia, but not so sleepy."
"I'll tell you what," continued Mr. B., "I would advise y n to buy
a 20-dunarn orange grove. On that you could count on :5 ; tn. °,
of $5,000 a year, live in the open country, your nostrils ..ndling the
orange blossoms and you could even watch the bees gatia ring the
blossoms and make tt living?"
"Well," said Mr. B., "I could go on and on. There is a great
deal of building going, on. You can become a builder. You might
try to erect some apartment houses. Maybe, who knows. the time
is ripe for a skyscraper. Don't build one like the Empire State just
this year. Forty stories will be enough right now. But, seriously,
if you want to, building utters good profits in Palestine."
"Better still," continued Mr. B., "if you don't want to work at
all, just put your money in first mortgages in Palestine, and you can
live like a lord and do no work at all."
"That is fine," muttered Chayim. You could see that Chayim
was all-absorbed. Ile became tense, as his mind drank in all the
possibilities of fortune-staking.
"By the way, how much money have you?" asked Mr. B.
"Three hundred dollars," replied Chayim.
It was then that I came upon the !motile as they were fanning
Mr. II.
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IF HE DIDN'T FAST, HE'D STARVE

Speaking about fasting, as we were all doing last week. recalls
the story of the Jewish rabbi in the little town. He not only fasted on
Yom Kippur, but he maintained the old traditional practice of the
pious of fasting on :Mondays and Thursdays. (You may not know it,
but some of your grandfathers used to fast every Monday and

Thursday.)
But though this small town rabbi was so scholarly and so devout,

his wages were a pittance.
"flow do y101, Rabbi, with your family of eight children, manage
to live on that salary?" he was asked.
"Well, you see," he said, "I fast two days a week, so food doesn't
cost me anything those days. If it wasn't for my fasting, l ii starve

to death."

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By DAVID SCHWARTZ

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DOG OR TORTOISE

George Jean Nathan is against exercise. The dog and the cat,
he says, always exercise and (lie young, whereas the tortioa• doesn't
bother and lives to 110 years.
I suppose one might object and say, but who wants to he a tor-
co s'.
(If course, one cannot tell.
Just glancing at it tor•..•e, ore
wonders how it can reconcile itself to living for a day, h I :done a
hundred years, and the dog does seem to have a pretty .•.I time
but then you can't really tell what life is like to a tortoise until you
have been one.
floweret., there does seem to be at least something in whit!
Nathan says. Great athletes seldom live long.

"The Brains of the Confederacy"

JUDGE LENCHNER
In the primary election held in
Pittsburgh, Judge Benjarn i n Rollin Osterweis's Biography of Judah P. Benjamin,
Lenchner, a recent appointee to the
Senator from Louisiana, Secretary of the State of
County Court, was nominated for
the Confederacy, Distinguished Lawyer.
election and ran higher by many
thousands of votes than any other
DAH
l'
BENJAMIN
STATESMAN OF THE 1.0SF
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judicial candidate. This interested
. lintrodurlion by Huts, D. Tall
O. P. Futons.
ts•os I West r , '
me very much. I recall when the
New York I..31
late Judge Josiah Cohen WILK a
Somewhat belated comes a de- service to Mr. Benjanh•
. naii-
candidate that he invariably led
pread
all his colleagues on the ticket, at served tribute to one of the great- ing another lie that a
. 15 by
remarkable tribute to the personal est and one of the most interesting about him. Constant
11.5 the
American personalities.
character of the man. Judge
Confederate armies, II
was
Mr. Osterweis's biography of. time that Judah I'. He ,:
Lenchner, a young man, and a pro-
Ahem
tege of the last Josiah Cohen, is Judah Philip Benjamin is a sun.- secretary of war of SI..
Itcnja.
foll o wing in the footsteps of his iently important and fascinating Confederacy, ressulteil
II.,• in-
departed leader. Such achievements story to serve as a means of re- min's resignation whip
But
indicate that the public dealing viving the country's int• rest in a terpreted as his distil ,
I . ti
with an individual will consider his forgotten and at times discredited that was immediately
• this Jewish leader twiny
character and ability, without be- leader.
• crsoit
Great lawyer, able statesman, one secretary of state by
ing influenced by creed.
of the outstanding orators in Amer- Davis,
i ;t0rmsa.
87. (T),hteerlo,u itsh was i1
ican history, most devoted servant But the truth came to :.. • .r e in
GERMAN BUSINESS
of
the
cause
of
the
Confederacy,'
I saw a letter the other day
which I may have the opportunity Judah I'. Benjamin was abused and lecture delivered in the' •..r an d
i I
, ,o,,finin ent,
Marshall,
eNelraortsahrly
to publish shortly, written from lief about. But these lies never
m ili tary s ecretary
the management of a hotel in Ger- swerved his from the course he
followed
in
advancing
the
cause
of
E. Lee, in which it was 'created
many to an American in which the
the slave states.
that the reason Benjamin Puled to
statement is made that Jewish cap-
The biography by Osterweis goes send in aT
ital is still invested in the hotel,
%s ur
h l na tnee'l losses. was
that the secretary of the hotel is a long distance in clarifying the
a Jew, and that many enterprises truth about Mr. Benjamin and in cause "there was none t. •end.
vindicating
him
of
the
charges
that
Thus
Benjamin
stands vac', ate&
are still being carried on by Jews
After the Civil War It' unit
and that peace and tranquility are were made against him during the
period
of
the
Civil
War,
when
pas-
fled to England and tiler. ...tame
the order of the day. The only
recognized as the greatest lawyer
purpose I have in mentioning this sion can high.
Born under the British flag, on of his day. When he Wired,
at this time, is to suggest to those
in a position to find out, just to Aug. 6, Dill, Judah was brought short time before his death Im MAY
1881, the outstanding leaders
what e xtent are JEWS still carry- to the States by his parents in his
ing on busineas in Germany I for early youth, and as a boy already and legal minds of England
one am anxious to know that. The showed brilliance as a student. At him a farewell dinner a'
statement has been made by an Yale his distinguished himself in due honors were paid to h. , legs
impartial source that the depart- oratory, but having gotten into prowess.
Regarding Benjamin's rail-tar
ment stores in Germany are still trouble over the slavery arguments
in the hands of Jewish owners. he left school after the second year. to his Catholic wife, who, with Ns
to
Mr. Osterweis refutes charges i p la au rg i sh , to
e r s ,t e sr p:.n
s: her life
e m
worsittesif
Who can give accurate informal 'n
Ben-
made against Benjamin during the
on the subject!
Civil Wars when a former class- jamin had been brought up a Jew.
• • •
hired:"
mate tried to discredit the Con- taanidy %yreligion
:at: toti p ho(i,u,,devof
BOYCOTT IN HOLLAND
federate hauler by charging him
however sli gh t
There is no pussyfooting in push-
with dishonesty. The author quotes ' forms and practices of it upon him.
ing a boycott against Germany in
correspondence of Benjamin with I b
nCta t fhtail ie
e: te:Tteoi •pc •-r p
sot nth
the d
Holland. I have before me four
Yale's dean to prove the untruth or any tither creed. A ?narrate,
"stickers"
used
freely
in
that
coun-
ith
of th e libels against him. Only
Nail together sturdy planks.
of differ e nt
try, one of which broadly an-
Cover them with branches,
the outbreak of the war prevented cd
d co prporNoemiunsound when
is t tom
nounces "Boycott All German
(('rap them round with curly vines
a libel suit which Benjamin inten- neither party is sufficiently inclin-
Goods;" the second admonishes the ded to file.
And leaves in avalanches!
people "No German Artists;" the
The evolution of a Southern
When Benjamin died, hi- wife
third suggests "Avoid Seeing Ger-
leader, Benjamin's career as Uni- h insisted
\lake a sky of quivering green,
usbn d on giving
a Cbri•tian
ving t hi
man Films:" while the fourth an-
ted
States Senator from Louisiana, burial, although her illu.trious
Where fruit hangs down like nounces "No German Service." I
and other chapters, quoting from
h faith .
stars;
never
left
am indebted for these stamps to
Ileniamin's speeches, reveal a most
Breezes creep to look at them
Osterweis's biography centats?
B. H. Hartogensis of Baltimore.
interesting and very able political numerous other fascinating fal?
Between the wooden bars'
whose cousin, Andre Herzberger, is
eareer which brought Benjamin to about Ihnjamin's life, and ti's
president of the Committee for the the
fore as a great leader of the
istorical ‘alue
Though the city's full of noise,
thofgrseticth mhen
Refugees in Amsterdam. Dutch
Confederacy and as the outstand- that it hdae
beaa
cl rsct
d a me nCt
i estorn i 'es to ich
In our tent we stay
Jewry is rendering in notable serv-
ing
statesman
of
the
"Lost
Cause"
those
histori es wh ich c or rect Km*
(nd only hear our father's prayer ice to the persecuted Jews of Ger-
of the South.
w
u
rn
r
o
engs
is
That brings the holiday!
many.
Mr. Osterweis does another great
—P. S.

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