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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuch's' portion --Gen. 32:4-36:43
Prople•tical portion--Hiss. 1:13-14:10;
or 11:7-12:12; or Obadiah 1:1-21

December 1, 1933

Kislev 13, 5694

The New Jewish Community Center.

The dedication Of the new Jewish Com-
munity Centor, at Woodward and Hol-
brook, at the week's ceremonies which
commence this Sunday evening, ushers in
a real holiday spirit for Detroit Je \vry.
Even in normal times, such an event
would he hailed as being of great signifi-
cance. In times of adversity, the achieving
of the communal aspiration of possessing a
Jewish center assumes much greater signi-
ficance.
It is unfortunate that the festivities ar-
ranged for the dedication of the new center
should be somewhat marred by the events
in Europe. The tragedies which our people
are suffering unfortunately enough inject I
a note of sadness in everything that Jews
may do. But it is to be hoped that out of
the new building is to emanate a program
of activities which will serve to ease the
wounds and so to prepare the Jewish youth
for Jewish service as to provide elements
of relief and self-defense in the days to
come.
The opening of the new center carries
with it a serious responsibility. The com-
munity is obligated to the youth who are
to be served in the new building to provide
them with a cultural as well as a social and
athletic program. The new community
building must also be provided with work-
shops in which our boys and girls are to
be trained and guided vocationally. Fur-
thermore, the new center must also pro-
vide social and cultural facilities for the
adult Jewish population of Detroit.
This may be a big order, but every item
enumerated rightfully belongs in the pro-
gram of a Jewish community center. By
providing the community with such a pro-
gram, our new center will have justified its
existence and will be able to demand the
unstinted support and co-operation of every
Jew.

When Jews Want to Play Handball.

iE

For a number of months, complaints
have been addressed to the editor regard-
ing alleged prejudice against Jewish ap-
plicants for membership in an important
branch of the Young Men's Christian As-
sociation. The complainants are furious.
Some of them have been paying dues to
the Y. M. C. A. for many years, and have
been welcome as dues-payers in the main
branch of the Y. M. C. A. But when they
sought the use of the gymnasium in the
particular branch near their home, they
found the doors closed to them. A per-
centage quota has allegedly been instituted,
because certain non-Jewish members ob-
jected to the predominance of Jewish
faces.
We have consistently refused to become
unduly alarmed and excited over these re-
ports of discrimination based on the intro-
duction of a percentage quota for Jews in
the Y. M. C. A. The answer to the com-
plaints is after all to be found in the very
name of the organization against whom
the charges by infuriated Jews are di-
rected. As a Christian organization. as the
name definitely implies it to be, the Y. M.
C. A. is justified in accepting only Chris-
tians, if it so chooses, or as few or as many
Jews as it desires.
The test for Jewish handball-players and
other sportsmen has arrived with the con-
struction of the new Jewish Community
Center. A group Of devoted young men is
sponsoring a movement for the construc-
tion of handball courts. Knowing that this
sport has become a fad with many young
Jews, they insist that the new ('enter must
be equipped to provide handball court
facilities. To make this project possible
they are campaigning for 100 members at
the rate of $15 a year per member.
This is the test. If the young Jews are
anxious for a place to play handball. and
if their protests against a supposedly-dis-
criminating organization are to be taken
seriously, they must be translated in prac-
tical terms. Here is their opportunity to
make a definite contribution to their own
Jewish community by supporting a strictly
Jewish athletic project. So long as the
discriminating body is of another religion,
it is justified in choosing membership from
its own ranks. If it were a civic body it
would. be a different story. and we would
have the right to protest as citizens.
Nor, then, will those who shout loudly
against prejudice make it possible for the
Jewish community to have handbaall courts
in its own community center. or must our
people continue to search for such facilities
among strange faiths? This is the test for

American Press on Hitlerism.

When the complete story of present-day
occurrences in Germany is incorporated in
the history of our times, a place of honor
will be given to the group of American
correspondents in Germany, thanks to
whose zeal and determination the true
facts are made known to the world at large.
But as Edgar Ansel Mowrer has stated
in the course rd• his address in Detroit, this
would have been impossible without the
support that these correspondents were
giv,n by their editors at home. It is to
these editors, therefore, and to their news-

paders, that credit must be given for the
manner in which Jewish rights in Germany,
an d foie instihrtions in that land, are being

defended.
Evidence of the manner in which Ameri-
can newspapers present the facts and
editorially condemn injustice and defend
accepted human rights is to be found in
the files of the Detroit Free Press of the
past two weeks. What is especially en-
couraging about the Free Press attitude
is the liberality with which this paper
granted space for news from Germany—
especially to cables dealing with the split
in the Protestant Church as a result of
Nazi attempts to inject politics. In addi-
tion, Malcolm W. Bingay, editorial director
of the Detroit Free Press, has made use of
t hat saving grace of ridicule in his own
column to poke fun at the Nazis. And on
top of that, a Free Press editorial makes it
known to the Nazis, in frank terms, that
American sportsmen will not tolerate
prejudice in sports. This Free Press edi-
torial follows:

THE OLYMPIC THREAT

The American Olympic Association has some-
what tempered the vigorou s views expressed in
the Amateur Athletic Union's threat to stay
out of the 1936 Plympie Games, but the sub-
stance of the threat remains. It is clear that
America will not participate in the Berlin
festival unless Germany permits its own ath-
letes of Jewish descent full freedom to com-
pete.

Assurance that the Nazis would not bar
German Jews was given to the International
Olympic Committee at Vienna in June.
Whether that promise is being kept or not is
a subject much disputed at present, but likely
to become clearer as the time for the game
approaches.

In the meanwhile the American A. A. U.
serves emphatic notice it will defend to the
best of its ability the principles of tolerance
and open competition upon which the structure
of international sport has been erected. The
action in a sense was forced upon the sports
iiuthorities of this country by the prevailing
German attitude, and to recede from it later
would be to compromise with the idea, basic
in this country, that sport is an utter democ-
racy, all therein being equal irrespective of
race, color, religion or social or financial con-
ditions."

The lengthy review of Mr. Mowrer's
"Germany Pula the Clock Back," which
also appeared in the Free Press; the nu-
merous news and feature stories in the
Detroit News, and the manner in which
the American press generally has unveiled
the grotesque picture which dominated the
scene in Nazi-ruled Germany today—these
are encouraging signs on a very dark
horizon.

Catholic Indictment of Silver Shirts.

The Register, Catholic newspaper pub-
lished in Denver, Colo., recently wrote a
scathing indictment of the Silver Shirts,
the new Ku Klux Klan movement, of
which William Dudley Pelley of Asheville,
N .C., is the guiding genius. To quote this
Catholic contemporary:

Some smooth promoter is seeing a silver
lining in the new organization known as the
Silver Shirts.

In case you want to know, the initiation fee
is $10, half of which goes for their. magazine,
published in Asheville, known as "The Libera-
tion Weekly." Your costume will be silver
with a large red "I." stamped upon it. After
you get your costume you are supposed to
tight, first, the Jews, and, later, the Catho-
lics.

The Silver Shirts, which are the Klan re-
ramped, are starting to spread. There are
still a few thickhead s within and without civili-
zation who will take up with the crowd who
are out to shake down the Protestants at $10
per pocket. The claim that 15,000 already
have joined in Oklahoma is absurdedly high,
as there are not that many dumb-foolish dupes
who would part with $10 in days like these
to Save America from the Kahns and the
Kelleys.

Thy American Hebrew, national magazine,
has been exposing the Silver Shirts for some
time. Especially has the campaign been di-
rected against one William Dudley Pelley, the
organizer, who, with his henchmen. is now at
suite 501-503 in the Iluckins hotel in Okla-
homa City. Negotiations are being made to
print The Liberation Weekly at a local print-
ing plant. instead of in Asheville.
Pulley, who on the one hand shrouds him-
self in mystery, and on the other seeks to sell
silver shrouds to his followers, is beating his
drum in an effort to Mt at the head of a
regime which he calls "A Christ Government."
111, propaganda as yet is purely anti-Semitic,
but, it is alleged,. it has a tendency to lap
over int 0 the anti-Catholic.
In any event, an
anti-Jew campaign could easily he the fore-
runner of a drive against the Church. The
Ku Klux Klan started out as a color bogey,
but later converged all its forces in the South
against the Catholics.
There art , only 1.2o0 ,lows in Oklahoma
City and about twice that number in Tulsa.
One can readily see why an organization is
needed to protect 2,000.000 Protestants from
this alarming number.
Our guess is that a great many persons will
read about the Silver Shirts but eery few will
give them a siker offering.

It is encouraging to note that another
group. which was the subject of attacks by
the Ku Klux Klan. is quick to recognize
the dangers that lurk in a movement like
the Silver Shirts. Wherever the reaction-
ary breeders of hatred meet, thy may at-
tack first the Catholics. or first the Jews,
but sooner or later they attack both.
In the long run. the evils that may be
wrought by reaction would harm the coun-
try at large, and it is to be hoped that sen-
sible Americans—not the Jews and Catho-
lics alone—will condemn such movements
the protesting athletic group in Detroit whenever and wherever they man chance
to raise their heads.
Jewry.

Quicksand and Enduring Jewish Values

Our Film Folk

A Message to the Jews of America.

By HELEN ZIGMOND

By DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN

VIII In this twessisee Dr. Chaim Neumann. the dislintolshed Jewish
horman of the Internallons1 Jewish risen.,
ommis•lon for
the settlement of berms. Jewish Ref ogee. In Palestine, discusses the Otos
the Jew. in 1 lir... and outline , the .tegni being lalirn to provtde
sew
"loge In Palestine The appeal to American Jewry was addrmd
..tiois , t merge., f onf furore loin. h
•Se• York and Adopted
wow quet• to be raised during the roming sear.

HOLLYWOOD. — They do so •
Ilelen Mack, that dark.hairet ,
flashing-eyed ingenue, is our sister
under the skin . . . and she's be-
ing squired by "Junior" Laemmle
these days.

IInI off

Am, rica, as else-
Th.• .1. a
1,111.1 be 'in:pared to fare
frankly and realistically the
meaning ,,f the situation that
has IleI,1 ■ 10 , 1 in Germany. The
resurgence of anti - Semitism,
with uncontrolled bigotry and
brutality, is not unfortunately a
passing phenomenon. The ter-
Windy that Adolf Hitler's re-
gime is stelae ensures the pene-
tration of anti-Senlit ism into the
intellectual and social ■ 1511110k of
German youth, No diminution
Of the violence of the anti-Jewish
program may be expected, there-
fore, extent oe.cfar as mislead-
ing announcement, may b e made
by the German government to
.often the wrath of foreign put.
lie opinions.

There is no country today
which matches th e Reich in the
L i ne and extent of its anti-
Sento ic movement.
And yet
Jew, can have no adequate atp-
precialtinn Of their future and
the steps they must take to Meet
then' problems if they ignore the
existence and the inereasing
strength of an effort to uproot
them from the life of many lands.
Sil•ice Oil this fact will not still
the clamor of terror from those
.news who live under it, nor will
it appease the inhuman bigots
who flourish on anti-Semitism.

UNAVOIDABLE FACTS

There is a danger that the
position of the Jews in Germany
may not continue to arouse the
active interest and sympathy of
the world at large because their
status has become comparatively
normal. But the normality con-
sists of exclusion from every field
that means honor, self-respect, a
livelihood, freedom of action,
educational opportunity, pro-
fessional career, participation in
the building of it common state.
The historian will remind us that
Jews have managed to survive
similarly repressive and degrad-
ing conditions. But can Jews
look calmly to a future in which
uncertainity, oppression and dis-
honor are their constant fate?

These unavoidable facts de-
mand constructive statesman-
ship on the part of the Jewish
people, not merely to tame with a
present emergency but to lay the
foundations for a sound and
stable future.

American Jewry is called upon
to assume its share of the re-
sponsibility for aiding the Jews
who live under intolerable con-
ditions in Germany and those
Jews who have fled from the
cruelties of the Nazis and seek
refuge in neighboring European
lands. The latter, too, are in a
sad plight for although they have
safety, they are aware that leg-
islation must lie revised before
they become actual parts of the

e

countries in which they have

"'l a nay"'
PALESTINE MOST INVITING
The generosity of those Euro-
eountries which have re-
buked Ilitlerism by welc o ming its
vi, tuns must he acknowledged.
But of all the lands which open
their gates to Jewish refugees,
Palestine is the most inviting. I
emphasize that we do not assert
that Palestine can absorb all or
the greatest part of the refugees.
But those who do find a place
in the Jewish National Home
lei,. a that they have 1 . 011111 to the
er f their wandering, that they
. churned a home where they
im•i 'heir children can live coin-
, •• • - Jew's. In recent weeks
{.!I•11(
A11111
agitators,
Lly Inspired by others, have
Ill
tl, .•
u'ely attempted to divert
Attention from the posi-
rui
t, • ,
f , ir the absorption of
nundiers of Jews in l'al-
141
The facts of Pal•stine's
• mui• growth and the daily
of rite , ., t , s of its res. tl nes cannot,
i, to erased by fomented
di-tui barites. Vi'e shall continue
with our work, on the basis of
the Mandate for Palestine issued
by the League of Nations to
Great Britain, and cons•ious of
the truth that whatever Jewish
initialise and energy contributes
to Palestine' is helpful to the
country as a whole.

Palestine is the only country
canaill e of absorbing a substan-
tial portion of refugees. It should
be remembered that in the last
ten years Palestine ahsorhed III
times as many Jewish immi-
grants as the rest of the world.
As Jewish manpower, capital
and idealism fur a reborn home-
land is poured into the country,
its opportunities for the recep-
tion of additional forces become
greater and not less.

The Commission of the Jewish
Agency entrusted with devising
plans for the settlement of Ger-
man Jewish refugees is not pre-
pared at this time to make nub-
by all of its plans. The success
of land purchase and similar
ameliorative steps is dependent
upon the private character of the
preliminary negotiations. Ameri-
can Jewry is interested to know,
however, the general lines upon
which we propose to distribute
funds contributed in America and
other lands.

ONE-THIRD FOR LAND
ACQUISITION

One-third of the money avail-
able will probably be used for
the acquisition of land in Pales-
tine, so that refugees may he
placed in agricultural settle-
ments. This phase of our ac-
tivity is an essential part of the
national reconstruction task for

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Lean closer and we'll whisper
a little Hollywood low-down:
Joseph Schenck is expecting to
be melted from Norma Tal-
madge very shortly . and in
all probability (if the tempera-
ture doesn't drop) he will mid•
die-aisle it with Audrey Hen-
derson. the actress ... Another
unshackleing will be Gregory
Ratoff•Eugenie Leontovich tie-
up to take place in the near fu-
ture . . . They say it's been
wobbly for some months ... As
soon as Emil Ludwig announced
his intention of writing a biog
on Hollywood, studio front doors
closed in his face ... they claim
Dorothea W i e c k is being
shunned on the lot because of
that Nazi old rumor (excuse,
please) . . . Ricardo Cortez.
lone time unfettered, will soon
take to wife Mrs. Christine Lee,
society matron.
• • •

A I i 11 e NIFIUM11111 1 11 . S 1111•1111'11 • 111
career started at strawberry so-
cials in New .England.

By DAVID SCHWARTz

Jewish Teleffraphie

Amer. Ise i

SUCH IS LIFE
Sitting in a Second avenue cafe the other day It itti,, „
Hoffman of the Jewish Art Theater. 'rhe usual noise of III, ,„.,•.',',,'"
heightened by a soap-boxer on the corner, whose denuric•,,,,,,,,,'%
capitalism mixed with the tintinabulation of the soup a i l ,,,,,.,,,, n ' a :t
and
the general chatter in the cafe.
Near us, rather, at the table adjoining us, sat a i .,,,,, ,, J,,,,6 ,
chorus girls from the Yiddish shows surrounding one h• i , ,,, I ,,",
man near 60, a somewhat vivid-looking fellow even if worn h t , a,_
➢
a man who might easily pass as a newspaper man going In , ,h,, ,
ere
an d ye ll ow stage. g
girls were chattering and wise-cruckin e , ,, s h i , I ,
I, Iona
man—we
twill es' all hint Jacobus--was 'singing some smut , c ,
The 'h

x is
improvisation. How is this one? he would say,
"To ra ra de boom ti boom,
Ta 1.11 ri boom ti boon),
To ra ri boom ti boom, -
."
To r,,,a gr(ir,,ii baos orhe
other one," one of the et,..,• a, girl ,
'"
"That's nut
objected, as all the others expressed their opinions :11.e.
- I like
,.
better—"
"The capitalist class is exploiting the workers.
Ituekef,,te r,
NI orf.tan —" shouted the soap-boxer from tvithout.
"0, you like the one that goes--" said Jacobus,
"Tit ra ri da da da,
Ta ra ri doodle de too."
"Workers of the world unite! NVe have nothing t,.
' •," our
breadlines." shouted the soap-boxer's voice from witliter
"Yes," cried the girls, "that's the one we like.
1 1 .o.,,, t o
it
Jacobus. Oh, he is so funny when he dances to it."
The „ay.,.
"Look at Russia. There is no unemployment there.
tali:4,- -" cried the soap-boxer.
Jacobus began to dance to the tune of his "Ta ra I, ,, „di e k e
"This is the one you like girls, eh?"
"Yes, Jacobus; ain't he a w ow!"
"Machinery—overproduction--the capitalist eau.-
soap-boxer.
"But wait till you hear this one," began Janata-.
I said to Brother Hoffman, " wh o is that fele a hun g a ll
and who refuses to be stopped by all that -ocialistie
these tr-ra
din outside?"
"Why that fellow Jacobus," replied Hoffman, "is the ..in it the
Irian who was secretary to Karl Marx.'

by Charles
H. Joseph

• country because it needs the busi- ing joint of the facts and figures
ness;
religious
differences
are furnished him by the Economic
sunk because of greed in human Committee, is that there is in
nature.
Palestine much co-operation in viti-
"Mr. Charles Joseph,
culture between the Arabs of sub-
"Dear Sir:
, stance and Jews. They join hands
"Your attention is called to the in commercial activity as if there
last clause in a review to appear were no conflict whatsoever How
in the Jewish Criterion of Pitts- many of these men of property,
burgh, the review being 'Aroma of upstanding maker, of wine are hos-
Wine Permeates Scripture.'
tile because' of apostasy to Chris-
"To the reviewer, the outstand- tianity, does not appear; but here
in the possession of a common prop-
erty interest, apparently lies a
MICHIGAN MAN WRITES means of levelling differences ex-
NOVEL ABOUT INDIANS isting between the two civilizations.

Robert Gesoner, Now N. Y. U. In•
structor. Author of "Broken
Arrow."

(C0P111111 1. 1911

Tidbits and Neal

Sometime ago an English com-
pany approached Conrad Veidt,
famous German actor, to play
"Jew Suss" in at screen version of
t h e Feuchtwanger novel. Then
Herr Hitler stepped in with the
threat that if he did he could GO MAE WEST, YOUNG WOMAN
never return to Germany. But
It was llorace Greeley, 1 believe, who was reported to hale
Mr. Veidt, unidarined, signori the uttered the counsel, "Co west, young man." He was not thinking
of
contract. So-o-o, he's evidently going Mae West, as the country seems to he going.
not "afraid of the big bad wolf."
But
what
I
wanted
to
say
was
that
it
was
pointed
out
to
•
to
•
•
the other day that Mae West's immortal saying, which will go down
Sometime •go a certain big
with Pershing's "Lafayette, we are here," namely, "Come en up sine
producer received a script called
time," really curves from the Bible. The Hebrew phrase is "Soar
"Dirty Politics." The author
nah alai" and it will be recalled that it is quoted in the Bible as
was Fiorello La Guardia, the
having been used by a woman, not of the social register of Palestine,
newly—or was it Jewly?--elee•
•
.
•
ted mayor of New York ... and
w
rh A cTNS ,O
IS TH
he offered to play the leading
? York World-Telegram very indignantly objects to the
role if the film was accepted!
American minister to Austria telling Austrians that persecutions of
• *
the Jews in Austria would arouse the ill-will of America. The Tele-
In view of the recent kidnapings
gram declares that the minister to Austria has no right interfering
another bodyguard has been added
1..,kr ugg
stry,mh.g
affairs
t.ff a
I iu the hi aritt .tsmiri ha
Ito the already sizeable staff at-
did the United States interfere to
tending Baby LeRoy.
the extent of declaring war when Spain was charged with abusing
•
•
•
Cubans? Did the atrocities committed by the Spaniards against the
The Marxes like to reminisce
Cubans come anywhere near that which Germany is executing against
about their ups-and-downs in
the Jews?
"vodvil" . . . Once Chico was
Nations have an absolute right to protest and even go farther
caught s moking backstage •nd
when the onlinary elementary rights of the people are violated. And
'fined five dollars ... The broth•
nations have always recognized this principle either directly or
ers were incensed and called in
indirectly.
the mayor. The fine was waived,
The only reason, for instance, that the Confederate States, du.
but to get even the manager
ing the Civil War, failed to receive European recognition • 119 the
paid them off in nickels and
fact that the Confederacy was wound up with the cause of slavery.
dimes. Then it took so long to
The actual sympathies, otherwise of the European nations, were with
count their salary that they
the South, but it was this matter of slavery which caused sufficient
missed the train for their next
resentment among European nations to prevent that recognition,
booking . . . and were fined $5
which, if it hall been given, may have likely resulted in a victory for
for briny late!
the South.
• •
And what, according to President Wilson, did we go to war
Watch out for the commas and
for in 1917? "To make the world safe for democracy." And what
, periods... Sam Goldwyn is break-
is democracy but the principle of equal rights for all. Is there no
ing into print ... with an article
infringement of equal rights, even the right of going out of the
in the SatEvePost . . . no less.
country, unless they leave it completely empty-handed.
Irving Thalberg started the custotn
•
•
•
and Sim must be in the swim.
WATCH THEM COME IN
Eddie Cantor maintains that all
Abraham Goldberg, Jewish publicist, returning from Palestine,
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says that when you ask anyone in Tel Aviv what its population is, he
takes out his watch and says: "Well, now it's 80,000. But in an hour
from now, 80,100."
How we would like to be the broadcaster in Tel Aviv! We sup-
pose he must announce it something like this:
"Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience: When the gong
• sounds it will be exactly 82,000 in Tel Aviv, or 6 o'clock, by courtesy
of the Dead Sea mineral delsosits .company."

RANDOM THOUGHTS I

BOYCOTT BY GERMANS
The report is current from an
anonymous authority that the 5,-
0011,000 Germans in this country
will Isoyeott Jewish stores. This is
scarcely worth giving credence to
because so ninny Germans in the
United States are as bitterly op.
posed to the Hitler regime as are
the other elements in our 'simu-
lation. The boycott has extended
far beyond Jewish lines and stores
will testify that the general run of
their customers are opposed to
Gtminan goads. If Hitler and his
group of spies in this country
i mag i ne for a moment that pre-
judice exists only on the part of
the Jew they are very much mis-
taken. The American Federation
of Labor has played an important
part in further alienating Ameri-
can good-will toward Germany.
•
•
•

By-the-Way

"It occurs to me that the clause
referring to co-operation is worthy
of your notice.

;FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Here is food for thought. Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, chairman of
the Maccabean festival, is a renowned chemist and one of the owners
of two of the largest chains of restaueants in New York--the Willow
and Stewart Cafeterias,
Dr. Lowenstein has done research work in the Rockefeller Insti.
lute and the Yale laboratory. And now, during the clay, he feeds
hundreds of thousands (if people gastronomically, and at night feeds
others with Zionism.

THE "NEW DEAL" PROCEEDS AT SNAIL'S PACE
IN PALESTINE

By JULIAN L. MELTZER
Near East Correspondent of J. T. A.

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EDITOR'S MITI
In this the first of Iwo aril. Its, Mr. Meltser discount or
the HMO, problem. that lnnfronl the British •uthorttles In Palestine in the
ibt
Deal" the, propose Ovine the Arab farm population. •nd wrenreeve...
teeter..
Mandator. rower, obligati,. toward the Jews Mr. Meltzer Is an
Journalist • ho has lint in rsts•mse For the past ❑ stars.

"Your truly,
"Best wishes always,
Robert Gessner, son of Herman
"B. II. Hartogensio."
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Gessner of Escanaba, Mich., out-
standing leader in Zionism and GERMAN-MADE GOODS
The New Deal for the Arab past, and have robbed the earth of
DETROITER ON HITLER
other Jewish affairs in the Upper
The following letter from Irwin
I and in receipt of the following peasantry of Palestine that is be- I its gmalness. At that, even modem
l'eninsula, is the author of
ing
gradually carried into force machinery has not made grain cul-
Hamburger of Detroit contains a
letter which may be of interest to
"Broken Arrow," a truly great
thought that might at least inter-
my readers and if any of them under the personal direction of tivation more remunerative. The
story about the modern American
est some of our authorities. Ger-
think it worth while to investigate General Sir Arthur Wauchope, high heavy soil of central and northern
Indian and his life.
man spies are all over the coun-
the matter further, it may be of commissioner, is necessarily a slow Palestine, rendered sterile by cen-
In "Massacre," his earlier work some value. The incident referred process. Economic recovery in the turies of neglect, has ruled out Sell
try just as they were during the
dealing
with
the
American
Indian,
war. They are coining in all
to occurred in a Pittsburgh depart- rural areas, where the hulk of the major crops other than ,meals.
population resides, has to contend
sorts of guises and using every Gessner revealed the hardships ment store:
Radical Overhaul Necessary.
with the neglect and indifference of
this
imaginable subterfuge to get into suffered by this dying race, the "I tear Sir
TO repair the havoc ,,,o..,d
centuries
as
well
as
with
the
effects
cruelties
to
which
they
were
sub-
the country. nut at least we are
"An incident oteurred today
country's agricultural sy tem dun-
grateful for the alertness of our jected, their tragedies and sor- which I thought would Ise of in- of post-war depression touching ing a protracted period :If almost
immigration authorities and now rows—and it is said that as a terest to you with regard to the this country. Unlike America, the barbaric tillage, a radical oven'
farm slump here is not a passing
that the German Nazi spy system result of "Massacre" such has 'Hitler' situation:
haul rather than partial mitigation
has been uncovered it will be much been done to arouse officials in
"I went into a certain depart- phase. generated by factors aris- is necessary. Water—or the lack el
mare difficult to carry on. This is Washington to improve the status ment store in the downtown dis- ing within the past few years. It it—has remained the prim , ' prob-
of the Indians.
Mr. Hamburger's letter:
trict .and they were having a sale his b e en a perpetual and age-old, lent of the Palestinian ce•intryude.
inescapable condition, moulded into
"Dear 51r..Ioseph:
In "Broken Arrow," Robert on ladies' gloves. I noticed they
tude, provision of water supplies
"The statement in the press that Lessner follows up this theme, were stamped 'Made in Saxony.' a tradition, that requires funda- ' for drinking and irrigational pur-
'
Georg Schmidt Illitlerat Emeritus)
I was not sure about Saxony be- mental study and amelioration.
poses is a task of such magni-
would march to his Aryan-Amert- ;14 n : I neb v) trtih ni t. e l tsestsi nscu c t c he ( e‘ d s l oavgea i snt,'' a
Oppressed by huge indebtedness, tilde, if it is to serve advantageous -
rYs ing in Germany and inquired of
nn Stahlhilm to the tomb of the forcefully as in "Massacre," to the clerk if the gloves were from ridden by usurious money-lenders ly the entire rural poison" "n, that
Unknown Soldier to place a wreath reveal the existence of the Indian Germany. She replied in the af- and landlords, eking out a miser
the bravest adminsitrat , r might
thereon, brought to mind the ttagedy.
firmative and I immediately said I able livelihood as tenant-cultiva- well quail before it.
thought of the irony of the situa-
was sorry but could not purchase tors, depending upon the whims
Even the quarter of a million
After he had graduated from
tion if the Unknown Soldier really
them, which applied also to the and caprices of the big effendis, pounds t hat are propos"! for ex.
the University of Michigan, Rob-
were R
friend that was with me at the the Arab fellah•t•n have lived in
penditure upon the settlement lit
ert Gessner spent several years o n!
"I alit somewhat surprised that
time.
this pastoral country in a sloth
an Indian reservation, gaining first
landless" Arabs o ut of the eon-
some Jewish editorial writer did,
It seems from the above that and misery the tangible evidences templated Palestine lean of £ 4. 4'.,
hand and intimat e information
not numnent on the fact that it
'
about his subject. Ile is at pres- the Germans are beginning to feel of which include ohm-kingly primi- 000,00o, will only suffice settle
was an outright insult to this soon-
ent an instructor in English at the effect of the 'boycott' to a tive housing, a less than semi-civil- or, at the utmost, 'did families.
try. fcr Spankno•hel to wear tht.
marked degre e and are endeavor- ized standard of living, and an ut- Theirs is the more pressing plight.
the New York University.
uniform of a foreign power while
"Broken Arrow." published by ing to throw the consumer off the ter servitude to the vagaries of na- There remain soniethnig like a?'
making loud declarations of his
the
Farrar & Rinehart, 9 East Forty- track by stating the name of the ture. It will take generations be- 000 or 90,000 peasant families
loyalty to the United States: or •
IS
tit st street, New York 1$21, Gess- principality, rather than the word fore these medieval conditions are majority of whom may be -aid
rather, the uniform of a foreign
corrected.
'Germany'
itself
as
heretofore
need
a
thorough
econono,
meta-
1,1 describes the attempts of th e
political body, which is con s id er .
morphosis.
white men to assimilate the Red used. The thought occurs to me
Arab Interests Rank First.
ably worse.
that information should be di
One of th e ma in obj ec t. of Brit-
What is th e New Deal that the
"I lay claim to the liescriptice Men. It is the story of an Indian oeminated to this effeet, and al..
ish policy here n owadays is to
youth
who
tried
to
break
away
title II1TLERAT, which I think
fisting the various principalitie. present High Commissioner, bene- bring about a Lettermen: ,d the
belong, with your coinage of Ls- from his environment, but who now united to form the German fiting from the experience of his
economic status If the .Sett. peas-
predecessors, proposes to give the
nazi I also think Hitler's lum•k could adjust himself neither to Empire.
antry and thus help in 16, Slew
Arab peasantry?
should be re-named 'My Prattle.' the life of the whites or the half-
"Your truly.
process of t heir rehalsi lit a icn The
and no sz(sal German will apprm•- !steeds. In the end he seeks death
General \Yam-hope has admitted function of lifting a fare' • ,,,titin
"Minnie Katzeff."
iate the fact that his chancellor 11; the fashion of his ancestors. It
frankly, on More than one occasion, of people from their pimp , .1..fl 1 11
started out as 'Hitler the Hun-K . I, like them that he wishes to die
that the alleviation of hardships a higher plane of life is a hu man-
borrowtsi the K from K K K. in an unmarked grave.
&iced,
reigning among. the Arab villager,
tartan one, it can hardly t.' •
The story is a revelation of the
and that makes the picture quo.
is his primary concern as an ad. but it ismolves aspects of aial'"'
-sapidity of white man's ways in (From Jacob Wassermann's "My ministratcr,
complete)
and
that
this over- tration that in Palestine ate of
de sling with the Indians, of the'
Life as German and Jew")
"Irwin Hamburger."
shadows, although it does not ex- great inportance.
n.anner in which they are being
Irwin Hamburger,
elude, the interests of other activi-
"The
of
the
hardships
int-
tragedy
of
the
Jew's
life
Discarded Assurances.
,ecuted,
I', East Grand River,
ties, such as industrial and corn.
Under the Palestine Nlardale•
1 , ..ed on the Indian children in is the union in hi. SOW of • sense mercial development. The majority'
Detroit. Mich.
•
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of
littain has, it is tr,c. as-
Great
superiority and a sense of in- of the native farmers
•- ear schools, of the inhuman way
of Pales-
^ which they are robbed of their feriority. Ile must balance in the Lhe is shackled to the wheat-grow- sumed a dual nbligatrn t. , la.'
ON CO-OPERATION
races—the .lewish and at .‘rsh .
constant conflict and friction be- ing cycle
.• ,tividuality and freedom.
The following letter from R 11
of crops, a thoroughly un-
din-
This far has been constantly
Arrow" is a great tween these two emotional cur-
- Broken
Interests even I hough it merely em•
Inerative
type
of
agriculture.
The
ned
into the ears of the wend seism'
• ha-tees the fact that monism', we,
-' , .ry. It is a tribute to the effort.: rents. i have found this in almost
makeshift agrarian methods— I
b'''''
tare still holds the strongest ap- of a Michigan Jewish young wan every Jew I have met: it consti- .cratchirg th e soil with one-tooth- ever Jewish grievances have Ant Or
aired to the British Royer"
has made it his cause to i tutes the most fundamental. most ,
p, al tu humans. We recognize Ituv•
ed *sighs and reaping with hand at the League of
to N
eta because we need the business;
strye for an improvement in the difficult and most important Dart scythes—have made any other kind 1
someone goes to war with another I status of the Red Men of America. of the Jewish problem."
of cultivation impossible in the
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