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The urban Arab centers have benefited no
less from the influx of a healthy progressive
element. The census of 1931 showed that
Arabs living near Jewish centers had multi-
plied, which was not the case elsewhere. This
tendency has continued in the past two years.
In Jaffa building investments in 193ll jumped
to I .. p, to 1,500, as compared with 1.. P.
sist :-,t1 in 1931. In Ramie, Lydda, Tulkarm,
1;.•I -all and Acre, the value of new buildings
in 1932 rose to 1.. I'. 41,424, compared with
L. ('. :3,434 in 1931. (In towns removed from
Jewish influence as Nablus, Jelin, Hebron,
Mejdel, Bethlehem, etc., new building invest-
ments have shrunk). The municipal budgets
for public• works have increased in Jaffa, To'.
karm and Beisan.

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November 3, 1933

Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

Thus, while in July, 1931, when Jewish im-
migration practically ceased, the government
figures were 33,800, the figure given in July,
1933, is down to 2,500, a drop of 40 per cent.
It is a fact that in many Jewish settlements
Arab laborers are not easily found, and many
conic over from Trans-Jordan to take the place
of t hose who prefer to cultivate vegetables
for the Jewish market,

For the year 1933-34 the government bud-
gets for education and health were increased
by L.P. 70,000, compared with 1931. The
bulk of this money is expended on the Arab
population. The budget of the Agricultural
Department was also increased by L.P. 29,000,
municipal grants to Arab towns were raised,
and some tens of thousands of pounds were
paid to the Supreme Moslem Council as com-
pensation for the drop, owing to drought, in
its income from tithes.
The only element of the population, Jews
and Arabs alike, which has not shared in these
economic improvements is the peasant, who,
owing to several years of severe drought, has
been reduced to straightened circumstances
aggravated in the case of fellaheen by their
indebtedness to Effendi moneylenders, How-
ever, the growing surplus in the government
treasury, largely due to the increased receipts
from Jewish activities, enabled it to remit
the considerable sum of half-a-million pounds
of agricultural taxation. Of this sum, it is
calculated that the Jewish share is not greater
than five per cent, the balance being enjoyed
by t he Arabs. Government is also contem-
plating public works to relieve the peasants
and has also allocated sums for irrigation in
various Arab villages.

There is little hope for consideration of
these facts by the Arab agitators and the
heads of the Palestine Executive. But the
Arab masses must be reached. They must
be told of the genuine and sincere desire on
the part of Jews to live peacefully as their
neighbors, to co-operate with them and to
share our glories with them.
Jews throughout the world sympathize
with the Arabs for the losses they have
suffered in the past week as a result of the
outbreaks for which their false leaders are
responsible. The Arab masses must learn
to repudiate such leadership so that blood-
shed should for all time be avoided.
In the meantime, Jewish effort refuses
to be checked or halted by unfair methods
of rioting hordes. We are confident that
the answer to these rioters will be given
by American Jewry at the National Con-
ference of the Jewish Agency on Nov. 19,
in New York City, when the will of our
people will be expressed in a determination
that the brightest hope for oppressed Jews
in European countries,as indicated in the
efforts for a Jewishly-rebuilt Palestine,
should not be dimmed by lawlessness and
unfair and brutal riots.

note In Oermany. he is well qyalthod in report on C onditions as he contrasts
1 thorn With his former vita.
H. r, . % of the need of German Jea In
Palestine at this moment IS of ottine , v Mtrtg, t

Five thousand German Jews
migrated to Palestine in the first
half of the year 1933, in addition
to the constant stream of aliyah
front Poland and other countries,
tens of thousands of others are
looking forward with longing to
an opportunity to work and earn
a livelihood in the "National
Homeland of the Jewish people."
All the expectations of the new-
comers and of those who are yet
to come depend on whether the
economy of l'alestine is really
elastic enough to absorb, just in
the midst of the most severe
world economic crisis, no tre-
mendous an influx for this little
country.

One can judge Palestine's ca-
pacity of absorption fairly accur-
ately if one's own experience
provides one with a standard of
comparison, for example, if one
has visited the country nine
years ago and returns to it again
now. One notes this with
amazement the r e m a r k able
expansion of the towns, the rise
of the numerous new villages,
the industrial and commercial en-
terprise, the harbor construction
at Haifa, the splendid develop-
ment of communications parties
ularly evident in the thick
'
net-
work of cheap and comfortable
omnibus lines that stretches over
the whole land. Whereas, for
example, a motor trip from Jeru-
salem to Sahel was only a few
years ago an "expedition" that
required to be prepared days in
advance, today it is enough to
consult a timetable in order to
be stile to make one's arrange-
ments for one of the mast beauti-
ful trips in the country. One
notes with pride and gratification
that it was primarily Jewish ini-
tiative that introduced these and
many other innovations and int-
, provements into Palestine, not
only in the field of production
and communication but equally
in that of hygiene, education and
other things characteristic of the
standard of life of modern civil-
ized man.

"Newly Awakened Barbarity."

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Editorials in the Svenska Dagbladet,
important newspaper in Stockholm, Swe-
den, which during and after the war was
an extremist sympathizer with Germany,
serve to arouse natural interest because of
their condemnations of what is termed
"newly-awakened barbarity" of Nazi-ism.
This paper, writing on the occasion of
the centenary of the birth of Alfred Nobel,
recalls that Sweden fought for full restora-
tion of the rights of German scientists to
world citizenship after the war, and then
proceeds to state:
"The spirit which. in its concentration
on a racial myth. now demands complete
domination over German research and sci-
ence is it denial of the instinct of humanity
itself. If this spirit of newly-awakened
barbarity should conquer, there will dis-
appear in Germany that freedom of
thought and that scientific searching for
truth without which our civilization can-
not exist.
"It is a terrible thought that German
science is becoming that instrument upon
which a Wagner-worshipping Nazi plays
the great funeral march of 'Goetterdaem-
merung' on our culture."
It is encouraging to read such condem-
nations of a medieval and barbaric system
of government, which is influencing sci-
ence. because it gives us courage to believe
that as a result of outraged public opinion
throughout the world the Nazi barbarities
will conic to an end. Liberal and human
thought throughout the world has not yet

In this period not less than 10.000 dunams
were newly planted to citrus by Arabs, who
are also preparing additional areas for planting
in the autumn and spring.

These orchards are in the neighborhood of
Qalqilya, Sarafend, Randy, Kfar Anna. Tul-
karm, and in the southern district.
In some cases the capital for the new plan-
tations had been obtained by selling some
surplus land, while in others. savings had
beer. accumulating from earnings received
from employment with Jews, or by selling them
vegetables.
In this period the Arab plantation area has
increased by 27 per cent. the number of dun-
ams planted up to the beginning of 1032 by
them since pre-war days being estimated at
65.000. This remarkable advance owes mush
to the scientific methods and anti-disease
remedies introduced by the Jews. as well as
improvement in packing, transport and mar-
keting.
Arab farmers have also turned their atten-
tion to a greater degree to dry plantation•.
Con-
and particularly in the hilly districts
sidered by certain experts to be "unproduc-
tive"), 0,000 dunams have been planted to
vines, olives and verious fruits. near Jeru-
salem, Sabha, and . zareth. It is for the
)ewish market that most of these products
'kre intended. In the Arab villages near Tel
Aviv and at Sheikh Munis, Safria,. Lydda.
Ramie and Gaza, the area under vegetables

■

One of the most important projects of
the Jewish ('enters Association, the music
school, was recently abandoned because of
lack of funds.
It is to the credit of the Music Study Club
of Detroit that it came to the aid of this
project and that it sponsored a money-
raising effort with which to guarantee the
reopening of this school and its successful
continuation.
The Music Study Club is to be congratu-
lated for this effort. By assuming responsi-
bility for the reopening of the Center's
music school it has made a definite contrib-
ution to the Detroit Jewish community.

Jewish immigration, after a lull of two
years, was renewed in the middle of 1932.
A review of Arab economic achievements dur-
ing the past two years may fairly he taken
to indicate the influence thereon of the Jew-
ish capital and enterprise shish accompanied
this immigration.

,

died.

Refugees Describes Conditions of New
Arrivals,

By DR. J. ADLER

Center Music School Project.

The benefit to the Arab population o f the
recent economic developments in Palestine,
stimulated by Jewish immigration, is borne
out by some striking figures, compiled by Mr.
/I. Frumkin, of the Jewish Labor Exchange.
Covering the most important aspects of Arab
life, the improvement in the material well-
being of the Arab population is the more im•
pre&sive when compared with the situation in
neighboring Arab countries, such as Syria
and Trans-Jordania.

of the

Is himself • German nogrant to
EDITORS NOTE The author of ilia al'
An ecomist
on
and pubhciSt of
P•lentIne which he mytteel nine year ditu

Although official figures of Arab unemploy-
ment are illusory inasmuch as they include
persons with land and other means of exist-
(awe temporarily disengaged, they may serve
as an index to, the fluctuation of its volume.

Cheshvan 14, 5694

Arab agitators have either become wiser
or are experimenting with new methods of
arousing discontent and creating riots.
These agitators are making it clear that
they are not demonstrating against the
Jews, but against the British for permitting
Jews to come to Palestine.
Therefore we are witnessing a change of
front—an attack primarily against the
British and not against Jewry, as was the
case in 1929.
But to condemn a supposedly excessive
Jewish immigration into Palestine appears
to be sheer stupidity, since, in spite of the
constant knocking at the doors of Pales
tine by German-Jewish refugees, only
6,730 Jews were permitted to settle in the
Jewish homeland in 1932 as ('halutzim,
with 5,500 admitted from April to Sep-
tember of this year and another 5,500 cer-
tificates for the period from October to
March. Under existing circumstances,
these numbers are so small that a protest
against the admittance of Jews in their
historic homeland is nonsense of the most
silly type.
What is it, then, that riles up the Arabs
against the present development in Pales-
tine? Simply stated, it is the remarkable
progress that is being made by people who
are determined once and for all time to
solve their humiliating position in this
world. A backward Arab world resents
the whirr of machines, the hustle and
bustle which transforms a country from a
status of medievalism to that of modern
achievement.
To understand what is happening in Pal-
estine we must know the extent of the
progress for which Jews are responsible.
In a period of about five years, 533 immi-
grants have brought more than $10,000,-
000 into Palestine. They have started
numerous industries, among them factories
for the making of celluloid, sweets, elec-
tric refrigerators, cosmetics, furniture,
lamp-shades, porcelain, electric lamps,
pharmaceutics, etc.
It is to be hoped that the Arab masses,
who are benefiting from such progress as
much as the Jews, will learn to repudiate
their so-called leaders who are agitating
against the Jewish settlers. It is to the
interest of these agitators that trouble
should be brewing all the time, because it
was their backwardness that was respon-
sible for Palestine's poverty and starvation
until the advent of the Jewish reconstruc-
tion period. When the Arab masses eventu-
ally realize how much they have benelitted
by Jewish effort, we have no doubt that
there will be wholesale repudiation of their
false leadership.
Just how have the Arabs benefited by
the rapid economic advance of Palestine
resulting from Jewish settlement? It is
interesting to note that the present agita-
ion began some time ago, and that Jewish
leaders in Palestine three weeks ago
warned against possible dangers from riots.
Thus, on Oct. 10, the Palestine Post de-
voted its leading article in the choicest
space on its first page to statistics proving
the benefits to the Arab population. This
article stated:

One

With the exception of the Nablus soap indus-
try, which has suffered owing to the Egyptian
tariff, an expansion in noted in Arab manu-
facture such as wood and metal works accom-
panied by an increase in the use of electric
power, automobiles, etc.

Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentatetichal portion--Gen. 18:1-22:24
Prophetical portion--II Kings 4:1-37

Our Film Folk

What German Jews in Palestine
Need Most

DO NOT POSSESS LAND
The process of modernization
of the ancient Holy Land, which
is still far from completion, and
is still finding ever new tasks to
accomplish, keeps creating ever
new opportunities for the immi-
grant with superior professional
qualifications. Palestine will pre-
sumably be for years yet a good
labor market, particularly for
the well trained artisan and well
equipped agriculturalist. Never-
theless, there are shadows as
well as light. It is not enough
to find work and receive wages in
Palestine; one must also Ise able
to live with one's gain in a civil-
ized manner. Now, as regards
conditions of living in Palestine,
food is very cheap, and clothing
and other finished products not
excessively dear; but as against
this by the majority, and espe-
cially city dwellers and new-
comers, feel all the more crush
ing the burden of house rent.
And this already touches a car-
dinal problent of modern Pales-
tine, the land problem.

day constitute a good 20 per cent
of the population of the country,
but own, smith 1.1 million dunams,
only' four per cent of the total
area of the land. This dispro-
portion gives rise to an extra-
ordinary "land hunger" both for
urban property and for land for
Agricultural colonization, a n it
this hunger is being daily aggra-
vated by the present immigration.
The result is a rapid rise in land
prices, accompanied by all the
ugly concomitants of specula-
tion. This has very bad effects;
in the towns an increase in rents,
which can hardly be paid any
lenges out of the average income
of the Jewlsh worker and mem-
ber of the "ale class, and on
the land v serious menace to the
profitableness of horticulture
and agriculture. The maximum
erne a dunam of plantation land
may reach with orange cultiva-
tion, even at favorable prices,
and still he a paying proposition,
is easily calculated.
TWO-FOLD WISHES
The contrast betiecen the con-
stantly growing colonization and
dwelling requirements of the im-
migrants and inadequate Jewish
land reserves, is just what con-
stitutes the land problem of Eretz
Hail today. Are the respon-
sh.l e bodies in Jewish coloniza-
?
blamed for
tion to
must he the answer of one with a
knowledge of the conditions—on
the contrary, without their tire-
less and often not adequately
Appreciated endeavor, the situ-
Mien would have been even still
more precarious. As is well
known, the competent organ of
the Jewish Agency, which is the
body charged with the direction
of the Jewish colonizing endea-
vor in Palestine, in matters of
land policy, is the Keren Kaye-
meth Leisrael (Jewish National
Fund). For !noire than three dec-
ades it has been collecting con-
tributions in every Jewish set-
tlement in the world for the pur-
pose of buying land to be "the
inalienable property of the Jew-
ish people." Shortsighted per-
sons have often smiled at this
collection activity and tried to
minimize its achievements. To-
day, however, it is evident, in the
light of the demand for Palestine
land among Jews in every coun-
try, how right the way of the
K. K. i.. has been. With its mon-
ies it has proviikel room for 48
flourishing villages, made wide
stretches salubrious or afforest-
ed them and also contributed
considerably to the migration of
the urban land shortage.

A few figures will give a
searchlight view of the situation,
the whole of Palestine comprises
25,0011,000 metric dunams ( one
metric dunam equals 1000 square
meters) of area. Of these 25,-
000,0000, 12 to 13 millions are,
after allowing for hill and desert
land, cultivable, and of these 12
or 13 millions, 5 to 0 million are
in fact occupied. The some 220,-
1100 Jews living in Palestine to-

By HELEN ZIGMOND

{

One would imagine that even the
thick-skinned reactionaries, and 1
might add the thick-headed ones, too,
can see no logical reason why we
should consider Germany a member
of our family of nations and out-
law Russia. What did the RUS-
510 ns do when they overthrew the
Czar that Hitler hasn't done? In
Germany you find concentration
camps and tortures not permitted
to see the light of (lay. Camps and
torture for those who differ politi-
cally from Herr Hitler. Did Rus-
sia ever under the Soviet regime in-
flict any snore mental torture upon
its people, friends or enemies than
has Hitler? The FORM of ' gov-
ernment you don't like? I don't like
it either, but do you like (he Ger-
man iron system which destroys
the initiative of the people: and
which binds them with a terror
precluding the right of even free
thought. Who has shown himself
the worst tyrant, Stalin or Hitler?
We may and we can recognize the
Soviet government without reesg-
nixing their political ideas or ideals.
Every once in a while we rev, lie
a highly decorated potentate from
sonic unknown land who probably
runs his country on a plane and
in a manner which would shock WI r
people if they knew about it. The
recognition of Russia is inevitable
and such recognition will further
weaken (1( rmany's position among
the nations.
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LATE MORRIS HILLQUIT

When Morris Ilillquit
spirit went to its final sect 1 is, •
him on, e. in company with chi ,
Clive Darrow. and I was nem, --..1
with his absolute honesty. 11,.',,, •
uas a Soe ialiat. but what of i• \-
w e grow older we find that nail.'
used to shuildu•r over v., , •
hear now with utmost esivamrs
I question whether Morris hii5• 1 ,!
ev er offered • serial pregram .1 a l
was any no re extr• me than ti a•
tinder which se Art' et th•• ms •
Ile was against war. 1.
"as for 1.:11' , !I, tte, he ay. a.
carnet seek, r after the truth. In
slew of the revelations that ha,.
come to the eyes and the ears f
the public since the stock-market.

(Copyright,

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

1931, Jewish Telegrophic asenty, Inc.)

EB ,, NOBLE
HOLLYWOOD.— Believe it or B 0 L liThHe OB, , THE

jth, or whoever i t i s that gives that annual prize
not .. in l'aris, Captain Jeffer-
son Cohn has a horse named Rosh to the man who has rendered the greatest service to Jewry should
Bolitho.
.
biesrn
,
t
f
l
e
c
,
,
ax
t
s
o
a
rci
B
l
yi
Hashonah. He attracted the bets l g. erne
exactly 1 that Mr.
Mr. Bolitho has particularly renilered
of the movie crowd with Carl
I
tactIntiservice,
he sought to do so, or perhaps net
Laenunle at Longchamps and
renal
that.
What
he
tried
to
do
was to free himself from ii prejudice
paid 12 to 1.
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Jews , and to do that he went so far as to make 0 •pecial tri
against st
p
to Paleine.
Sid Skolsky, a used-to-be-
Now, he didn't succeed.
lie's still an anti-Semite, h i, a d mit.
columnist trying to be • Holly-
but shall we be so puny as to judge results only'
at
. ...as
. , 1 net enough
wood actor, wa s recently de-
here was a man so eager to be free from Jew-hatred that he
scribed by a New York confrere
made
a special trip to cleanse his soul?
as ■ "Hester street hillbilly
It strike's me as a most noble action. This act of Ilest. s.
whose bassinet was a shoe-box
Bolitho
moves me as no act since Ilesetor ras a npup.
filled with sawdust."
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THAT SALTY
S
iALoTf YTfAoSlkTsE
..t,
Spencer Tracy, searching
it,
I can almost visualize the scene. Sir. Bolitho
through the ether waves the other wakes up one morning and notices a salty feeling
i n hi. , south when
night . . . listened 15 minutes to a stain on his soul.
what he thought was the Catholic
"I hate the Jews," he says to himself. "It isn't right." he add
hour . . only to discover it was "that my soul should he stained with so mean a vice. I shall try to s
a rabbi's voice coming out of the rinse it out with turpentine and lemon juice, aye, even with 1, h '
04
, air. We still think he was in the soap." He tries them all. But still that dirty hate remain,.
4
t,1,
right sehul.
But
Hector
does
not
give
up.
"I
shall
go
to
Palestin
e
.
it-elf and
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there, perhaps, the waters of Jordan will wash out the hl, t, se the
Ann Bonnet, the author of
prophets of old washed out the iniquity of Israel,"
"Who'• Afraid of the Big Bad
Wolf," is the sister of Deputy
NO, HE SAYS, DUTY CALLS
.
NRA Administrator Sol A. Ros-
Perhaps it was one of those beautiful (lays when it i- - 1)h, t o 4
enblatt.
in England." A much too nice a day to be going to Pali
• ,
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•
the sun was shining and he could go to the golf links.
Sophie Tucker bu r s t into
But duty is duty. As Wellington said: "England esis.sts every
Screamie land the other (lay .. . man to to his duty." Shall it be said that Hector Bolithe has failed!
Says she's here for enjoyment, Nay, it shall not.
not employment, and asks Holly-
And yet thoughts of golf plague 'lector's heart. And the
wood what it has to offer . . . conies :Meadows, "Shall I get you tea and then your tf
■ df attire?"
"All her visits to the studios are asks :Meadows.
just slumming expeditions." Di,
"No," says Bolitho solemnly. "No, :Meadows, no. Nes•
yeah?
:Meadows wonders what has come over Bolitho. III' , ,, a sad.
•
•
•
mess came over Bolitho's face. Never was his master Ilk, ,i,1-,think!
A filmpaper man (a Gentile)
Meadows. Ah, he does not know that Bolitho is mire-t] ::, with Ins
just returning from Germany,
soul, He does not know that golf and tea and the File. . seuntry
reports that the country is now
side are tearing Bolitho's heart-strings, but that Bolitlo. 1, .1stermined
practically drained of its picture
to be adamant to all this—and go to Palestine and deal,. his soul
brains, due to the exodus of the
of Jew-hatred,
Jews.
•
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WENT TO WRONG PLACE
After Hollywood, Emil Ludwig
But my personal opinion is that Bolitho went to the o HP ■ iig p iste.
will find Germany a peaceful place
Instead of going to Palestine to relieve himself of hatred of the
if he continues his present tactics.
Jews, he should have gone to some place recommended by physician!
On his arrival he attended the
for reducing a swelled head. For what can be more arrogant—what
premiere of the "Bowery."
more superlative egotism can there be—that reaches, indeed, to the
Throughout the showing he reiter-
boundaries of idiocy—that he should think that his °pollen of t he
ated in a very audible tone, "Stoo-
Jews or of any other people is of such general consequence that he
pid! Stoopid!" And two seats
must make a trip to free himself from it and then Ante a book
. away sat Joseph Schenck, the pro•
about it.
ducer of the picture.
1 wonder what Bolitho would think if I were so prssnmption,
Later the big biographer was
as to go to England for the same purpose, and then Vole a book
at a party . . . Introductions in
of the same purport as he has.
eluded one to Harry Ruby, well-
Ile would laugh at me,
known songster . . . Inquired the
So I laugh at him. In a year when there is so little humor, he
. naive Emil, "Oh, are you Mr. Ruby
is indeed refreshing.
Keeler, the movie star?"
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To the various natives on the
THAT TERRIBLE VIGOR
, lot Ludwig has been speaking flu-
Mr. Bolitho simply cannot stand, he confesses, the vigor of
ent French, German, Hungarian,
Zionist agitation.
Italian ... and very bad English.
If you leave out the word "Zionist" and substitute "American,"
And, of all things! Ludwig is
the same thing was said by the forefathers of Mr. Bolitho, when the
taking dancing lessons. Whoops!
American colonists protested circa 1775.
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Indeed, I would not have to trouble myself very mush to quote
You'll not see Joan Blondell
even stronger terms.
on the screen any more . . .
Perhaps!, 3Ir. Bolitho, this Jewish vigor is required
comet the
I She wants to be known as Joan
vigor of John Bull's bull-heatedness.
Barnes henceforth ... Joan in-
Perhaps this vigor of agitation might not be present :f England
sists . . . and what a Warner
had faithfully kept the promise it ninde during the war • when it
headache that change will be!
needed the Jew's, as to the rebuilding of the Jewish Homeland.
Did you know she is George

Perhaps one must oneself have
been in quest of a dwelling in
Palestinian cities or of a piece
of ploughland or plantation land
in Palestine villages in order to
appreciate what the fund has ac-
complished, and what it could
do for the benefit of the tens
of thousands of more immigrants
if only world Jewry furnished it
with adequate funds for prepar-
ing new land reserves in good
time. For this is the crux of
the matter: it must buy the land
before there is an immediate need
for it, before the demand in the
district in question has driven
the price skyward.
And here we may take up
again the problem of the settle-
ment in Palestine of German
Jews who have lost their former
means of livelihood. Their wishes
and requirements tend in two di-
rections.. On the one hand there
are among them many who de-

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HIS OTHER HATES

Mr. Bolitho does not like other things.
Tel Aviv, 1. declarer,
I'roducer David Selznick and
Director George Cukor are al- is an aesthetic blunder. Perhaps. But perhaps it is no aorse than
ways being mistaken for each Whitechapel and other sections where the poor of England dwell.
other. They look so much alike And it seems to me, that even with his incredible hate. he might
that the other night at a party admit that, under present circumstances, it is better than the more
Selznick approached a mirror to beautiful hell of Unter der Linden.
adjust his tie . . . and suddenly
And perhaps if Mr. Bolitho's fair England had given the stale
discovered he was in if doorway lands of Palestine that it promised in the (lays of its distress to the
Jews, or if it (lid continue to hamper Palestine progress as it did
face to face with Cukor.
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only several months since, by refusing to sanction an agreement for
Movieland snippings: S u e
the purchase of land in Trans-Jordania, the settlements of the Jews
Carol returns to flickers in o ne
would be more spacious and more beautiful.
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of them there thrillers . . . .
Roberta Gale, Pittsburgh's Clara
THAT GERMAN CELEBRATION
Bow, is also back in town .. .
The spirit behind Mayor O'Brien's refusal to permit the celebra•
Mrs. Louis B. Mayer is sponsor-
tion of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of
ing a benefit for undernourished
Germans in America is admirable, If there is any chance that it will
children . . . Lenore Ulric is
be made into a Nazi festival, it should be stopped.
Hollywood-bound to take up
Yet, if I were mayor, I think I would do it differently. I think
that RKO contract . . Molly
I would merely insist that the celebration should be complete. That
Picon is making a three-reel
is to say, for instance, among the other floats commemmorating Ger-
musical . . . . Bennie Fields,
man activities in America, I would insist on a float showing the
Blossom Seeley's husband, is her
an
German mercenaries who were hired by the English to fight Americ
manager and works such long
independence. And I would also show the King of England at the
hours he's planning on asking
time, who was German raised.
for • special NRA code.
And perhaps there might he a float also showing the American

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. A major studio
Reminds us
just discovered that their German
star is not at all timorous about

dead as a result of the last war against Germany.
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SHAW AND SCHWARTZ AGREE

Some time ago this column expressed a certain skeptisism anent
the glee with which some of our American liberals hailed Hitlers
sterilization project.
We pointed out that this business of sterilization of the unfit
WAS a decidedly risky affair, and we instanced, ermine others, the case
of Bernard Shaw. We pointed out that Shaw's father was an alcohols
inebriate, and if the unfit had been sterilized, George Bernard Shaw.
and numerous others of the world's greatest, would not have beet
.
produced.
Now comes George Bernard Shaw and deposes to the set
effect. Commenting on a sermon by the Bishop of Birmingham•
advocating
sterilization of the unfit, Shaw said:
crash, one begins to wonder wheth- ments of that type but it seems to
"I should not be here if sterilization of the unfit had beam carried
er the Hillquits or the crooks in! me that it people have money
out,
People
should be allowed to live after they prove themselves
the seats of the mighty are the real to spare with which to buy uni-
menace to our country. Hillquit forms and to subscribe to maga- unfit."
never wished anyone, even his ene- zines issued by such organizations,
mies, any harm; and he never ex- they will do a lot more good by
ploited his fellows for his own gain. giving it to some starving family.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS

RUSSIAN RECOGNITION

Tidbits and Ar eto

By- the-Way

hypocrisy with which so many hol-
ier-than-thou persons are covered
and find underneath a group who
are of less value to the nation than
the Hillquits.
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b y Charles
H Joseph

A Great Poetic Story of Jewish
Traditional Life

PROTEST PARADE
They had a protest parade in
Pittsburgh the other (lay to em-
phasize our feeling toward Hitler.
It seems to me that parades of this
type at this time are of little value.
Irving Fineman's "Hear, Ye Sons," Is One of the
They
may serve to relieve the feel-
THE SILVER SHIRTS
ings of some of our co-religion-
Finest Jewish Interpretative Efforts
I noticed an article in the current I
ists: but practically speaking, I
Harper's written by Prof. Smer-1 can t see where they register. At
A Review by Philip Slomovitz
tenko dealing with the new "men- the beginning of the Hitler move-
ace" of the Silver Shirts. I ques- ment protest meetings and parades
HEAR YE 8055 its Irving glnemon. Pliblvned be Longmont, Ore,. '.
tion whether this organization is were all right to focus the atten-
pang. 55 Fatly Avenue. New York i 57,
going to get anywhere in view of tion and interest of the public-at-
large
on
the
terrible
situation
in
the present temper of the Ameri-
under
A relieving feature from the edge of our folklore and t, ,
can people. We have enough Germany. But at this stage of the
of Ott
troubles of one sort and another game the same amount of energy sorrows inflicted upon the Jewish . standing of the life's ways
without bothering organizing class devoted to such demonstrations people in the past year by Hitler- people of the past gener•isn.
might
be
utilized
to
better
advan-
The
title
of
this
story
Is
taken
ism
is
the
fact
that
not
all
literary
and race hatred. The man at the
ver s e in
head of this un-American organ- tage some other way to fight the productions about Jews and by by the author from the
vol.
Jews have been devoted to anti- Genesis which prefaces the
ization is reported to have at one Hitler menace.
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Semitism.
URIC: "Hear, ye sons of Jacob:
time been a Young Men's Christ-
Publications of direct Jewish and hearken unto Israel your fa-
ian Association worker. If so, he HERMAN BERNSTEIN
I was interested in an item an- interest in the last few months in- . then" And the value" itself is
certainly didn't retain much of the
1
teachings of his religion. I think a nouncing the return of Herman clude volumes of historic and ; dedicated "To the sweet inem"
. father
good way to treat the Silver Shirts Bernstein from Albania where he poetic value for our people. The of my mother; and to no
"li st
welshit he to avoid giving them pub- has been Minister. Before me I list is too imposing to be disposed who has given vie anti• t,.bate
ories."
The story Is a
licity as Harper's in such an im- have a book that Mr. Bernstein of with mere mention here.
to such memories.
portant manner. We are going to gave me several years ago called
Among the newest literary pro-
"Celebrities
of
our
Time,"
con-
A short prologue and •,
have with us at all times move-
taining interviews by Mr. Bern- ductions, Irving Fineman's "'leer, , opens the volume and .• • Ives
New
. tein. One can appreciate his Ye Sons" must be classed among Joseph Miller, succes- 7 '
the
place in the journalistic life of th • the finest works in Jewish fiction York lawyer, who teh
ever
written
in
the
English
lan-
nation when I mention some Wh.i
lla y!'
splendid things his chid, •
have given this brilliant Jewish guage,
*j'
amt
accomplished, of their
-
In a poetic style which had al-
writer an audienee. What an op-
By RACHEL BLOWSTEIN
their community, and :17
!h 0,
portunity for an autograph coll ec- ready characterized his previous time of the manner in
works( "This Pure Young Man"
tor! Read this list:
s
V. , deeds of high courage.
have forgotten their hei
mk•
"Tolstoy. Leonid Andreyev, Maxi- and "Lovers Must Learn"), Mr. their
Ni, 110S - 111S of flame,
Jew'.-'s
traditional
millian Harden, Bernard Shaw, Fineman here sets down a story ground.
I bring you. my country,
Ile aspires to l •
which
is
unquestionably
the
su-
Rodin, Henri Bergson, Pope Bene-
To add to your fame;
to their historic past, 1°
dict IV, Alexander Kerensky, Leon perior even of his first work, "This them of "the strange Is .
i:v Jordan I planted
Trotsky, Prince Kropotkin, Albert Pure Young Man," which was terror" of their people
A tree in yew soil,
Einstein. Marquis Okunia, Max awarded the $7,500 Atlantic
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Anil I wore ..• a path
That his children may es
Nordau, Arthur Schnitzle•r, Wood- Monthly prize.
In the field of nip toil.
significnnce of these
The
jacket
of
this
book
contains
row Wilson, George Chickerin,
perience). he writes th.
Walter Rathenau."
the statement that Mr. Fineman's
Well knows your daughter,
oirs. The story that
These are only a few of the hun- "hopes that Jews will read this
My own motherland,
record of the first 21 V ,
dreds of famous great and near- story." It is for Jewish educators
boy poor is h. r tribute,
life in Russian-Poland.
great with whom he wan intimate. and leaders. for Jews in every
How weak is her hand.
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Full of stories and I.
I welcome Herman Bernstein back walk of life to express this hope—
list my heart shunts with joy
plete with remarkable
When the sun shine upon you, to this country and trust that he because a reading of this volume tions of experience which'''.'cribs
will re-enter the sphere of Jewish will serve the great purpose of
And in secret I weep
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For the wrong that is done you. as well as secular journalism.
educating its readers to

in Fiction.

MY MOTHERLAND

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