litEVerRorriewisti(intauctz MED LIN tOITIEWISIIIORONICLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Published Weekly /y The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. Entered as Secon Dance at Detroit ■ the Post- -;11: ,..m.`,;td`e;It'ert'of11.1:;,7: General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephones Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle London Office: 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England $3.00 Per Year Subscription, i I Advance To ineure public don, all correspondence and news matter must reach this °Mee by Tuesday evening of each n kindly use o e side of the paper only. When mailing no ices, wee.. The Detroit Jewi h Chronicle invites correepondence on tub- }mts of interest t o the Je ish people, but di e claims responsi. views exp reer ed by l he writem f Willy for an indor gement owthe Sabbath Reading. of the Torah Pcntateuchal portion—Ex. 18:1-20:23 Prophetical portion—Is 6:1-7:6; 9:5, 6 February 2, 1934 Shevat 17, 5694 Co-ordi nated Community Effort. Linking America with Palestine. American Jewry has linked its name on numerous occasions with reconstruction ef- forts in Palestine. Vast sums of money have been sent to Palestine from this coun- try. American Jewish pioneers have been sponsored by American Jews. Furthermore, this country has been linked with Palestine in other ways. Amer- ican presidents have been inscribed in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund, and a forest has been planted in honor of George Washington. The newest effort to link America with Palestine is the project to plant a Franklin D. Roosevelt Grove in the George Wash- ington Forest in Palestine. This is an ex- cellent way of honoring our President, and is a commendable means of advancing the reforestation program in Eretz Israel. This project should be given wide support, and non-Jews as well as Jews should be en- couraged to plant trees in Palestine in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two mo, t encouraging signs of com- munity co-o peration are the results of ef- forts of rec ent weeks to co-ordinate relief work and Kashruth protection in the corn- munity. , The first movement is now an accom- plished fact . The creation of a Co-operative Council of Jewish Family Welfare Organi- zations is one .of the most constructive achievemen is of the Jewish Welfare Feder- ation of De troit. Overlapping in relief and family welt are work is inevitable in a corn- munity wh ett there are so many agencies for the di itribution of relief funds and necessities of life. To avoid such unneces- sary overt ,pping, the council just created becomes a important agency in the coat- munity an i the co-operating groups are to be comma Lded for their readiness to join with the J ewish Welfare Federation and its agencie in sponsoring such a clearance bureau. The seco nd and equally as important at- tempt at community co-ordination is the effort to c reate a central bureau for the clearing o f all problems affecting the oh- servance o ' Kashruth ill Detroit. The fre- quent abu t of the dietary laws, in spite of the fact that Jews pay such high rates for their meats, and the all-too-frequent friction a nong Schochtim, butchers and wholesaler 3 calls for action on the part of the commu nity. The existence of the pro- posed Kas iruth Council will not only serve as a means of guaranteeing the observance of the diet ary laws, and of serving as an instrument for the solving of controversies which may arise on the question, but will also be th means of preventing the type of scanda s which have arisen in other communiti Is on the Kashruth question. Dr. A. q. Hershman, as the person di- rectly resp lonsible for the inauguration of the Kashr nth-coordination movement, is to be highly !ommended for his work. He is making a sufficiently important contribu- tion to th , community to earn the thanks of all Det. 'oft Jewry. Young Israel's Tenth Anniversary. In the past 20 years, numerous Jewish youth movements have sprung up. In every instance each movement was hailed as a new redeeming element in Jewish life. Public speakers rejoiced, and newspapers found new material for editorial comment on the share re of youth in Jewish life. The test, of course, came years after- wards. The strong and wholesome groups survived; the weak fell by the wayside. Young Israel is one of the movements which has not only survived the test of a 10-year existence, but also justified its sur- vival through its constructive efforts and by adhering to a practical program of Jew- ish endeavor. Young Israel has refused to make con .essions when Jewish principles were involved. It has been firm and con- sistent in its policies. In congratulating Young Israel on its tenth anniversary, it is our sincere hope that its contributions to Jewish life will in- crease as the movement gains in years, and that it will ever remain a wholesome influ- ence for J r.vs and Judaism. Pag eant Starts Rehearsals. and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE • Support the Symphony Orchestra. The Detroit Symphonoy Orchestra, as one of the very important cultural institu- tions of our city, deserves the widest pos- sible support from all elements in the com- munity. Jewish night with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to be observed with a special concert this Sunday evening, should be an occasion for a demonstration on the part of this Jewish community that Jewry is pre- pared to share responsibilities with the rest of Detroit towards our civic cultural agencies. It is to be hoped that an overflow audi- ence will demonstrate its interest in the De- troit Symphony Orchestra this Sunday evening. Jewish Scene Not One-Sided. Those who insist upon placing emphasis upon the German-Jewish tragedy should have learned by this time that the Jewish scene is not one-sided, and that Jewish suffering is not limited to the Reich. Austria, Rumania, Hungary, Greece and Poland supply the answer for those sud- denly awakened Jews whose information is limited to Germany. In Austria we are beginning to see a repetition of early pre-Hitler occurrences in Germany, in the fear that is gripping Austrian Jewry, and in the efforts that are being made by many of them to find refuge from the threat of Hitlerism to Austria. In Hungary, anti-Semitism continues to be centered in the universities, and the gov- ernment continues to Make concessions to anti-Jewish leaders. In Greece, former Premier Elutherios Venizelos has made the demand upon Greek Jewry that it should voluntarily re- nounce its rights of franchise in return for which he promises to stop the anti-Semitic campaign of his Liberal party. Premier Tsaldaris's statement in parliament that Jews are entitled to rights as equal citizens was merely a signal for an anti-Jewish demonstration. In Poland, all protestations to the con- trary notwithstanding, economic discrimin- ations continue to oppress the Jewish popu- lation. The Warsaw correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in a recent dis- patch, describes how the Polish govern- ment continues to sanction the war against the Jews, with disastrous results for Jew- ish industrialists. Perhaps the most serious danger lurks in Rumania, where Zelea Codreanu, Ru- mania's Hitler, founder of the Iron Guard, has gained a following based on assurances that the expulsion of Jews would create vacancies for anti-Semitic adherents. A commentator thus described Codreanu to a correspondent of the New York Times; M. Codreanu as a student ten years ago began his career by murdering the prefect of Jassy, alleging the latter had tolerated the beating of students arrested for anti-Semitic outrages. On his acquittal he left Professor Cuza's old-fashioned anti-Semitic organization to found the Iron Guard. M. Codreanu codified violence as a means of cleansing public life of corruption, Jewish influences and the petrified democracy with which youth was impatient. With the solgan, "Jesus, King and nation," with a crucifix and a revolver in his pocket and his student disciples each clad in a green shirt with the Ilitlerite belt and red brassard with blue swastika on yellow ground (the Rumanian colors), M. Codreanu launched a fanatical, mystical, chau- vinistic crusade among the peasantry. M. Codreanu is devoid of political sense and incapable of making a passable speech. Never- theless, he is a good organizer. The Cuzists' relations with Hitlerism were closer than those of the Iron Guard, which, although anti-Semitic, was modeled rather on Italian than on German fascism. Apparently without funds, they labored with the peasants in exchange for food. 51. Codreanu himself, although a qualified lawyer, wore the peasant's smock when not in uniform for the sake of its effect on the peasantry. JEWS IN THE ANTIPODES Our Film Folk By PERETZ HIRSCHBEIN By HELEN ZIGMOND EDITOR'S NOTE ., -Perett Hirothhein, diatinguished Yiddish playwright. poet and traveller. has closely studINI Jewish life In communities in the remotest come. what folios.Is • leaf Irma his recently published boot of travel. of the globe. "Around the World." (Copyright. 1934. Jovial] Telegraphic ageerr, 1COPYright, 1933. Jewish Tidbits and Nat'l By DAVID SCHWARTZ Telegraphic Agency. Inc./ Oranges are not the only thing one can make a living on in Palestine. Ida Flatou writes that some women she knows make a THAT'S HARRY GREEN I living in Eretz Israel teaching bridge. Shadchones seems also to be Meet Harry Green! — lawyer, comedian and proud a good business. globe-trotter, pa • . • Amid resounding "Mazel toes!" They do say that a new agreement is brewing between the Pales- and "Congratulations!" stood the tine government and the Zionists which will end all the disaffection new father, Harry Green, slightly about immigration. It is said that the British government is ready dazed but beaming. Two hundred to allow an immigration of 30,000 annually, with the condition that had been invited to the Clover there be no illegal entry. • • • Club to celebrate the birth of his son . . . but the doorman stopped It may interest you to know that at the most sacred shrine of counting after a thousand arrived. Christendom, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine, The rooms were thick with film when the Christmas services were held this year, about half of the celebs .. . and smoke. The din, people in the church were Jews. Came as spectators, of course. • terrific! An interview was im- • • possible. The New York Sun this week had an interesting article about So-o-o, a few days later we hied ourself to the Greens' English Jacob Hays, the only Jewish chief of police New York ever had. !lays house in Beverly Hills. Here, too, was police chief of the metropolis around the 1820's. He had an inter- was excitement. Mother, father national reputation as a crime detector. Funny thing about Hays was and baby David were being photo- that he refused to go armed. Ile was a man of Max Baer 's propor- tions and apparently also of his strength, for it is said that criminals graphed for the newspapers. was unarmed. At last we pinned the comedian quaked before him, though he • • • in a neutral corner. We wanted He said he didn't like to go armed, for fear of killing people. to know about his life and his Then, he said, you had to bury the killed, and that was a great career. He wasn't born in Russia, as nuisance. It is—come to think of it. may have thought, but in New Hays, by the way, was the son of Mrs. Hays, whose home in York York City. At the age of 10, well, Westchester was burned down by the British during the Revolution. let Harry tell it . . . "I left home to sing songs The story goes that the British entered her home, when she was alone in a medicine show. By the way, with her sick child, her husband being away with the American that's how I got my name. I soldiers. "Tell us where the Americans are," insisted the British. Mrs. was born Harry Blazer . but the handbills advertising the Ilays refused to play the traitor. "Set fire to the house," said the British colonel. show read, 'Dr. Green's Vaude And it was done. • ille Company, featuring Mr. • • • Harry Green, Singer of Illus- A cousin of Chief of Police Hays, Reuben Etting, had a rather they I figured trated Songs.' meant me . . . thereafter I was strange experience with the British troops. He was captured at Charlestown, Mass., by the British. Harry Green. "Aha," they said, as they looked at him, "a Jew!" "The manager was to pay me They decided to amuse themselves with a little interesting $10 a week and cakes . . . but he fired me at the first town ... and torture. He was given only pork to eat. Etting was a pious Jews—and he refused to eat the pork, but sent me home. Lucky break for me ... the company was stranded he managed to subsist in a semi-starved fashion from the leavings given to him by the other prisoners. at the next stop. However, his bodily resistance suffered, and shortly after his "The illustrated songs, however, continued .. . I got a job in an release he died from tuberculosis. The Solis-Cohens of Philadelphia are descendants of the Hays East Side nickelodeon. I sang as an accompaniment to the stereop- family. • • • ticon slides on the screen. My One of the most interesting persons of the faculty of the Uni- salary was $10, but I managed to versity of Exile is Max Wertheimer. Regarded as the greatest theoreti- make more . . . I convinced the owner that I was better than the cian of the new Gestalt psychology. Wertheimer is a close friend of Einstein and, incidentally, the painter he hired . . . Soon I was doing the theater's signs at $3.50 Gestalt psychology has frequently been said to be to psychology what relativity is to physics. It week. I relieved the movie • • operator during supper hour .. . Another interesting figure is Herman Kantorowicz, one of was paid a dollar. I got the con- cession for candy ... hired other the greatest living philosophers in the field of jurisprudence. Juris- kids to sell peanut bars . . . and prudence covers the philosophical field of the law and you may take made 49 cents for every 31 cents Dr. Alvin S. Johnson's word for it that the field of jurisprudence has in America been sadly neglected. And Johnson, who founded invested. "I was really the first person the Exile College, believes that the coming of the German Jews will this phase of the law. in the world to do talking pic- have a marked effect in developing • • • tures. When they had a feature But it is in economics that Dr. Johnson thinks the effect of the —two reels in those days—I stood behind the screen and took every University in Exile will be most effective. Most of the refugee pro- part, the women's high voices and fessors in this field represent the school of economics which empha- sizes the importance of the factor of structure of the economic the men's low ones. "One day I found out that the machine. What does this mean in practical terms? Dr. Johnson explains police lieutenant, who owned the theater, kept. it only as a blind it as follows: In Germany, the problem of the great land estates is one of the for the gambling joint he had up- stairs. Reform hit the town .. . critical problems. About 40 per cent of East Prussia is owned by a raid was ordered. The police- Junkers—virtually landlords. Now in the feudal state, the landlord man took out the gambling fix- is everything, and the rest of the people are virtually serfs. The tures and installed a stock of feudal idea was carried over by Germany to her military machine, candy. The cops battered down and the officer in Germany has become the equivalent of the landlord. the door and found only Harry Everyone kowtows before him. Bruening, when he was Chancellor, sought to dethrone the big Green counting candy bars. The theater was of no use to the po- lords of these vast estates, but their power was so great that he liceman after that . . . he turned himself was forced to resign. • • • it over to me, lock and key. Incidentally, the University in Exile will soon begin the publica- "That was the proudest mo- tion of an economic and sociological quarterly to be called Social ment of my life . . . 12 years old Research. The German professors of the Exile College, says Dr. (Turn to Next Page) Johnson, are a most engaging lot, and completely contented here. If anything, says Johnson, they suffer from a plethora of atten- tion. • • • A Column of There has been of late much discussion in the New York press Frank Speaking. about slang, with particular attention to that classic gem of •language. "nuts." And isn't it about time that someone projected a theory that By ALFRED SEGAL this classic phrase—nuts to you—is of Hebraic origin? Consult the "siddur," and you will see that the phrase really Comes from the prayer book. What else does "va-nislach lecha" mean? International Jews are following capitalist Jews as well as Com- I ask. TO A DEAR FRIEND: • the plans of these Protocols. What munist Jews. Also, I may as well ONE WHO SIGNS himself, "A difference does it make who wrote confess, there are wet Jews and The trouble with people, says Dr. Beiren Wolfe, psycho-analyst, Sympathetic Non-Jew" sends them? Again your race errs in dry Jews, Republican Jews and is that they don't make enough mistakes. Why not start an organi- "An Open Letter to the Jews of trying to convince the world that Democratic Jews. Their varieties zation with the slogan: "Have you made your mistake today?" • • Cincinnati. they are forgeries and the Inter- are no less than among the Anglo- Why is it that 75 per cent of those who want to write for papers He says: "As a race, you re- national Jews have no such plans. Saxons among whom one finds the capitalist Morgan and the Com- want to be columnists? Harold Berman explains it with a story of mind one of the mother who al- You only become more involved. "Communism is the problem of munist, William Z. Foster, the cap- a man who came to the owner of a night club, who was his friend. ways defends her children regard- "Say, Mr. Owner," he said, "can't you give my son a job in less of what they say or do. And the nations of the world. The Proc- italist Mellon and the late Com- what a problem the mother has to tocols describe the details of Com- munist Bill Ileywood who sleeps your orchestra?" "Well, yes; can your son play the violin?" replied the owner, explain the actions of her bad munism. Have you not found it with Lenin in the Kremlin. You ask: "Ilave you not found "No," replied the papa. children! The American Jew, as difficult to defend the International "Can he play the piccolo?" a race, has done much to enrich Jews who advocate Communism?" difficulty to defend the Jews who • • • advocate Communism?" "No," replied the papa. the life of our country . . . But "Well, what instrument can he play?" Why do we need to defend them? there are those in your ranks in- I ANSWER HIM: Are you not a "Well, you know that fellow who stands up in front with a bit mixed? In one paragraph Their right to be Communists is terested in money and power, who hold first allegiance to your race, you point to Jews who by money as good as the right of the major- stick? My son could do that." and plot the destruction of the and power plot to destroy the na- ity of Jews to be Republicans. Do country of which they are citizens. tion ... capitalists , and in the we require you, the Anglo-Saxon, Asa mother how your race errs next Jews are Communists about to defend or denounce your blood- in trying to defend and protect to consume the capitalist system. brother Communist Foster or to There should be safety for you exculpate your kinsmen Capital- them simply because they are in this. These two groups of Jews, ists Morgan and Mellon? HEINE A LIFE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE. By Ludwig Marcum. Translated from the Jews." German by Louise M. Slevelkingend its P. D. Morrow. Published by hoar a Rine- • • • I am saddened to see such a plotting to opposite purposes, may hart, 331 Madison venue. New York 183). good, true and sympathetic friend I ANSWER HIM: The Anglo- devour each other. bringing up the evil gossip of the But I guess there really are An unusually interesting bio- present German-Jewish situation. Saxon American is of a noble Proctocols against me, digging up graphy of Heinrich Heine is added Mr. Marcuse writes: breed that, like the Jew, has en- condemn nd omr ei to the rich literature dealing with ni velem antl.amellims of Ike greets riched civilization. Even as you LAUGHTER-PROVOKING v3ruotv ewn e forgeries pushed Its way Into literals... In • pemeh for m a y s till the life and poetry of Germany's lel caned 'The Mirror of tbe Jew." whieb - esteem the Jews as a race I es have forgiveness for one who NOVEL BY BERNSTEIN very eminent and very abused poet. appeared toward the end et 1119, the noble teem the Anglo-Saxons, of whom nows no what e s a y s . Marcuse's biography assumes im- •Ike tans of a Jew /o be you appear to be one. 7:1 141 4 . • • • bet 00Th • ease fee the anise.. portance not only because of the • be erase Indeed, so much do I respect the "L'Affaire Jones" Is One of the THE hail ,h• matter of feet a better recipe SYMPATHETIC FRIEND .y.: Funniest Books of the Year. interesting manner in which he re- ...lint qualities of Anglo-Saxons that it DI. OWN—that Iaa many Jen as — view's lleine's likes and dislikes, Possible 1111.11I be geld to tortoni. sibs migbt does not occur to me to say, "These rt- EZ "Roosevelt has honored your race his eccentricities and ideals, but be- am them ea their India. elantatiews lasteed are Anglo-Saxon crooks," when I L.A.PITE.307,e. Co ., e men hoe Le ea. . by placing many Jews in promi- cause of the numerous important their emcees. mem aue ..... tem 1•41.1 1w ' New Yuri 111 read of Anglo-Saxon thieves in Fourth :venu vent positions. The nation is keen- historical incidents covered as side- high places, of Anglo-Saxon trait- b" r' le kfne's affliations with the So- It is one of the funniest books ly watching their every move. How lights to explain the political tur- ors selling the public domain for for Jewish Culture and Schol- $100,000 in a black bag, of Anglo- written, and portions of it cause many times they appear to act as moil of the time in which Heine ciety arship and his relations with Jews Saxon banksters swindling the pub- the reader to hold his sides to pre- Jews and not as Americans. Why liv ed . receives considerable consideration do they continually attempt to do. lie, of an Anglo-Saxon Ohio gang vent laughter from splitting them. Marcuse introduces us to Ileine's from the author. Of interest is the carrying corruption almost to the "L'Affaire Jones" is the type of things by force and disregard the numerous friends, to Rebel's salon explanation of the failure of reform Constitution? Why do their sug- door of the White House in the story which makes you forget the enchanted the poet, to the Judaism of that time. Marcuse e , gestions and actions always have which ti dmed n gs i t h omf uoc u h -rn ee Harding years. amnadn p y rosey oesu sy otuh iw friends, relatvies and enemies of says that what was wanted was the taint of Communism? Ah, my dear friend, you have "And if some of them have the Heine. We are told of the hatred either a ghetto Jew or a baptised your crooks and we have ours; but humorous reading. In it are re- that was entertained for Heine by "But they resisted a revival I do not say to you, "Anglo-Saxon, corded the experiences of Henry 'Proctocols' plan in mind, do you Dietrich Grabbe, who "made fun of Jew. Judaism along its own lines," hi you are responsible for your Jones of Windfall, Ga., who goes realize the consequences the Amer. • the ugly 'Jew poet,"' of the Jewish of writes. He further explains: thieves. These are Anglo-Saxon to Paris to write a cook-book. He ican Jews must suffer when they writer whom he attacked as the so he ananeestable SWAM Asada ham been eiretereol Its lefermest Jews thieves. Aye, these are Christian had stolen his mother s famous rec- are exposed? Is this not a far " Miserable foot , ten a nd a re•.. was that Ike hem Met wood p nl e - found; pwo ht ickhk riniasnedd more important problem than the half inch manikin, who had never Tim fr m thieves." be estie•etell are safer •40% 0.7b•We i of Jews in foreign lands? It plight Why, then, do you say to me c iPe reaf to ed r ea° whew they are beef gh•mted- had a woman, and that was why •p than tbe abolition of tbe ONO... the Cade- "Jew, you have scroundrels among him to want to redeemhimself by is up to you American Jews to stop he thought such a lot about it; after Ilea state desired that every Jew lobe re- You. You are responsible for your ; writing a book on the foods and the headstrong members of your whose verses were not poetry, but fused baptism shou Id drag hie IrlsetM race who are leading you into a trills bin aa Null dew Ile i‘ se c r n oundrels. These are Jewish' wines of France. A card he gave dangerous • jingling rhymes." And Alarmse position." to • friend who puts it in his poc- This and eirniler ref eron,o. f undrels." tells us that "no doubt Grabbe the reactions of Germans to Jew.. You say there are rich Jews "who ket and in a slightly intoxicated would hear with fiendish laughter plot the destruction of the coon- state exchanges coats in a restau- I ANSWER 11151: I can not get s the report of their mutual friends , in Heine's time help explain the angry at a sympathetic friend, the arrest of Jones. It conditions of our own time. causes which they are citizens"' rant, w r_h r o ot how Heine longed for the moment' are they, my dear friend? leads to his being charged with so in answering this, I must ad- when his 'Tragedies' should be dis- Explaining the baptism of dress you as a dangerous citizen' b- kin!. the enemy of the state and What Jew has pillaged any in the shop windows, and Heine, Borne and Gana, the latter who attempts by vile innuendo to played b hat Jaw has robbed the farce begins at that point. s ir treasury What how, when they were, he walked being the founder of the Society Seldom does one come across su ch poison pu b lic the nation by dishonesty of pub- up and down before the booksel- for Jewish Culture and Scholarship. lie contracts? What Jew's greed remarkable satire on nationalism. works of the President. in the linter den Linden, in Marcuse says that it was not done You dare not charge treason lers, has devastated the well-being and Jones' jail experiences, the after- order to enjoy the sight of his new- because they agreed with Christ- the hope of thousands of his fellow- math, the love affair with Mme. against the president but you point ly published work." ianity. lie says that they did not citizens? What Jew carries the Lanerre—all these incidents pro- at him through Jews who have Thus, it is one bitter experience go over to Christianity but to Eur- execration that is on an !mull? • coke much laughter and help to come to serve his policies. This is after another that plagued the life ope—"they bought the right of en. Ah, my dear sir, a good and sym- make a story that should prove a cowardice of which, were I of the of Heine. Often he was the butt try into European culture and Eur- pathetic friend of Jews should tonic for many an aching head. ' mind of anti-Semites, . . I might most attacks because of his Jewish opean intercourse with the certi- Jones in released when he sue- uniustly say. "This Is of t ec er- of point specifically to every Jew who descent. The Jewish angle is fre- ficate cf baptism. " plots the destruction of this coun- credo in preparing the very same ecter of Anglo-Saxons." But I quently covered by the biographer Marcum tells us that "Heine credit this vice singly to yourself. try; in order that Jews themselves', eornpone-and-potlikker recipe for a Ah, my dear sir, through ten of Heine. He devotes some pages was • Jew—on the side of the hunt- may know who they are and drive cabinet minister. Furthermore he to ■ ed, therefore, and in opposition to rsume of the salon of Rahel is decorated by France as a means paragraphs of your letter, ysu, as Levin Varnhagen, and he speaks the hunters" lie comes to the de- them from the house, • • • the sympathetic friend, embraced of amending of Rahel'a estrangement from Jud- fense of Heine when he states that American h ji o rn ur- me; but in the eleventh paragraph HilleenldBireg the wrong OUR GOOD FRIEND says: "The aism "until she lay on her death- he "became neither • Protestant action of the International Jew nalist, who has spent five years in I caught you raising this knife to nor • Catholic nor any other kind are the real problem of the Amer- France, has written an excellent plunge into my back. An interesting paragraph, de- of renegade ... he had always pre- I break in two, sir. 's rathe r can Jew. Millions of American story and has deserved the selection served 'his respect for the true the Jewish situation , pro- citizens have read the Protocols. of his book as the January offer- • a dangerous weapon for a Christ- scribing ' ian and a patriot to be handling. vide interesting comment on the (Tura to Next Pan) The y find much evidence that the ing of the Literary Guild. The wind was blowing hard. Wellington was living up to its reputation of a windy city. It is young and modern, and counts a population of some seventy thou- sand inhabitants. And before I as much as had a good look at the four walls of my room in the hotel where I had put up-1 was filled with an irresistible desire to meet the Jews of this antipo- dean city. I had the telephone directory brought in and began perusing it, letter by letter, in quest of Jew- ish sounding names. Sure enough, they were to be found practically on every page—fami- liar surnames of my people. And then I came across a Dutch name prefaced by the title of Rever- end. "Wonder if this is Rabbi," I said to myself. I picked up the receiver and gave his number to the operator. A sonorous youth- ful voice inquired: "Who's calling, please?" "Pardon me, are you the local rabbi?" "Yes, I ant the rabbi of Wel- lington. And you?" "A Yiddish write! from Amer- ica—just arrived and impatient to get acquainted with a fel- low-Jew." "Good! I'll he over in a short while." It seemed certain it was a young man who spoke over the telephone—for his voice was vi- brant with energy, not to men- tion his readiness to come to see me at once. It was, therefore, the surprise of my life when, half an hour later, a gray-headed gentleman of venerable appear- ance entered my room. Seventy years old, if a day, exceptionally neat and trim, in formal dress and silk hat, he looked more like a recently converted aged Gen- tile than a rabbi. LOSES HIS TONGUE He greeted me very warmly with a cordial handshake and a Hebrew sentence or two. But when I began asking him ques- tions about the Jews in New Zealand, about their number, their mode of living, their place in the scheme of things, he grew visibly alarmed, lost his tongue for a moment and surveyed me with his keen eyes. Finally he inquired in a rather severe tone of voice: "What makes you so inquisi- I tive about our brethren here?" "My interest in the situation of the Jews in distant lands. I'm a Jew. What is the number of Jews in New Zealand?" "One must not mention their number out loud!" • "Why? Will it bring an 'evil eye' upon them?" "Our neighbors must not sus- pect our number. Right here in Wellington we are about seven hundred strong, but the Gentiles think there are not more than two or three hundred Jews here, all told." Gatheri tg momentum in a remarkably speedy fas hien, the pageant "The Romance of a Peopl e" has passed the first stages of activities h ere in preparation for the great spectacle's staging in Detroit beginning on April 16. With th e opening of offices, under the direction )f. the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion, and with the almost spontaneous formation of a powerful organization of youth gro ups for the mobilization of a Codreanu thus appears on the scene large cast )f 2,000 actors, this pageant now as a most dangerous proponent of a serious occupies a position of prime importance on threat to Rumanian Jewry. His demagogic the calend ar of Detroit activities. methods are so much like Adolf Hitler's Of grew ; importance in the preparations that the activities of the Iron Guardists pup - , for the at. Wing of the great spectacle is pear as a most disquieting sign upon an the co-ope ration that is being given the already troubled field of Jewish suffering. movement by the three Detroit daily news- Jewry can little afford to place its trust papers. I is one of the finest means of in princes; nor are we justified in dissipat- creating g ood will, and the Detroit Free ing energy in concocting schemes for re- Press, Det tit News and Detroit Times are taliation. We must think in terms of self- to be con rratulated upon their readiness help and self-emancipation. Our solution to co-oper ate. can not possibly be achieved in any other At the fi rst rehearsal next Wednesday, it form than through Jewish nationr1 rein- is expecte I that at least 1,000 volunteer venation, with the supplementary effort for actors will be present to enroll in the cast economic readjustment everywhere. We.are attacked on every front, and we of the pag cant, with an additional 1,000 to be recru ited at the follow-up rehearsals. must think of every branch of Jewry, with- The Jewis t youth particularly should en- out limiting our attentions to only one roll as part icipants in the pageant, for the group. And the solution should be sought educationa and constructive values it has also in the terms of the national entity of our people. to offer to hem. By-the-Way "What's the idea?" "Oh, they just don't know our true number. If they did, trouble would follow. " "But the New Zealanders, I understand, are a friendly and liberal people. What does it mean, then, that the true number of Jews in the country should not be mentioned in their hearing?" "Young man," my visitor took to admonishing me, "I assure you, I know what I am talking about. The most important thing is that the New Zealanders do not discover the true number of Russian Jews among us. Their number is larger than ours, and from the time they began coming here things have been changing for the worse. I have been here for over 35 years. It was I who gathered the first 10 Jews to- gether. Everything was going nicely until the Russian Jews ar- rived and brought dissensions and criticism and what not along with them." "I would greatly appreciate it, Rabbi, if you introduced me to the local Russian Jews." A STRAINED MOOD Ile glanced at me, and such hidden anger and disappointment burned in his eyes that I could not help feeling he was regret- ting having humiliated himself to the extent of calling on me. He made no reply to my request, rose abruptly, looked in the di- rection of the door, as if pre- paring to leave and, then, sud- denly turned to me: "We have a beautiful museum here. If you like to see it, I'll take you there." I felt quite uncomfortable. Nevertheless I decided to accept the invitation. As I expected, the museum proved rather disap- pointing to one familiar with the great natural treasures stored in the capitals of the world. Com- ing out of the museum we passed through a park where mimosa trees greeted us with their gold- en-yellow radiance. I kept silent. Nor did my companion utter a word. It seemed, we had noth- ing to talk about. A heavy, strained mood was on us .. Fin- ally we came to a store of ready made clothing. He paused for an instant: "Now I am going to introduce you to your own Jews, and if you are actually leaving tomorrow— farewell and bon voyage." He entered the store with me, introduced me to the Russian- Jewish proprietor, and walked out with a proud and dignified mien on his face. The store- keeper, a middle-aged man, with rather refined features, showered me with questions as to who I was and where I came from. When he discovered that we had been born in the same province, he burst out crying like a child, and his grown-up son, a native of New Zealand, seeing his fa- (Turn to Next Page) PLAIN TALK Marcuse's Biography of Heine