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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
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Entered as Second-elass matter March t, 1916, at the rot-
Palestine Hebrew is not only the language
office at Detroit, Mich., under She Act of March 3, 1879.
THINKING TO ONE'S SELF
HOLLYWOOD. — Contrary to
William Z. Spiegelman asked me to write a paragraph or two
of Jews' prayers, but is also used in com-
General Offices and Publication Building
popular notion: Emil Jennings was about the Jewish National Fund dinner—that is, the dinner to Dr.
merce and industry. And if it is used in
525 Woodward Avenue
born in Brooklyn, N. Y., not Ger- Israel Goldstein. A few paragraphs. I said, "I'll write a whole
many. Al Jolson's birthplace was column about it, if there is material."
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle business, it must be a fluent means of con-
By PHILLIP MACK
London Office:
Leningrad, Russia, not the East
"Oh, there'll be material," said Spiegelman. "Oh, yeah! What
versation on the streets and in the homes
14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England
Side of New York City.
can one write about a testimonial dinner. Compliments never yet
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of Palestinians. The manner in which He-
(Cocirlit.
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1534, Jordan Turves:us Atencr.
made
a good column. Brickbats—and the brickier they are—the
$3.00 Per Year brew throbs with life is one of the miracles s.
Subscription, in A ivance
Sol Rosenblatt, F. D. R.'s more home runs they bat for the column. "
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movie envoy, returned to Wash-
To Inrure publie•tion, all correspondence and news matter of the new Jewish transformations in Pal-
And
a testimonial dinner necessarily is a day for the delivery
Martin Plettl, former president
must reach this office by Tusnday evening of each RM.
many. "For 12 years I have
ington for a REST . . . ironic of bouquets instead.
es, kindly use one side of the paper only estine. A language considered dead has
When welling notices,
of the German Clothing Workers
been active as president of the
angle is that he preannounced
At
that,
it would be easy to make a column even about a testi-
Federation, now touring the Uni-
German Clothing Workers Fed-
no socialities on this BUSINESS monial dinner, if one were a Gertrude Stein—or rather, if one were
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on sub..
come to life. Yet some people will con- ted
States to lecture before in-
lects of Interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims reeponsi-
eration and as a member of the
trip . . . yet he succumbed to permitted to the privileges that Gertrude is allowed to take. It seems
tinue to ask whether the people speaking dustrial, political and Jewish International Clothing Federa- dot ol' southern hospitality ...
bIlity for as Indorsement of the views expressed by the writers
to me Gertie goes in a great deal for repetition. Amid all the chaos
this language will, or ought to, survive! political and Jewish groups on tion, and during that time I have was "parties" morning, noon of her writings, this is the only sane note that I can understand.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
current situation in Germany
seen the status of the German
and night.
For repetition may exert a remarkable effect. It has something of
But life provides the best answer for the the
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 25:1.27:19
believes that Hitler will never at-
worker gradually improve," he
the effect of the tomtoms that one hears in these jungle movie
Prophetical portion—I Kings 5:26-6:13
Jewish survivalist discussion.
tain his "pure Aryan state."
narrated.
The ceremony may be over ... pictures.
"In the first place," Mr. Plettl
"When Hitler came into pow- but the memory lingers on . . .
Louis Lipsky was right at the dinner in saying that the Jewish
Adar 1, 5694
February 16, 1 934
declared in an interview yester-
er all the rights and freedom During that whoopla Warner- National Fund is the one Zionist activity that is boosted by Zionists
Advertising Barometers.
day, "there must be a terrific
gained by the commits man in LeRoy wedding, the band played of all shades and colors, and yet supported least of all. And the
shakeup in the present govern-
Germany went crashing. The
songs from Mervyn LeRoy's dinner to Dr. Goldstein exemplified this. There was opposite Lipsky,
Advertising columns often serve as the ment. It must begin with Hitler workingman's union was smash- hit
The Community's Responsibility.
pictures . . . Suddenly they broke for instance, Rabbi Wolf Gold, the Mizrachi leader, with whom Lipsky
himself. Hitler is of Slavic ori-
ed. German business, and con- out with "We're in the Money"' is always fencing on Keren Ilayesoil matters.
best
barometers
for
judging
not
only
the
To Henry Wineman, chairman of the
gin and can never attain that
sequently his wages and oppor- . ohmeohmy ! ... and a friend
But on Jewish National Fund—they both embrace.
board of governors and a former president economic trends of the community, but also Nordic status of which he speaks tunities for employment went of the family rushed up and said,
And by the side of Rabbi Gold was sitting Wertheim, the Socialist
so much.
with the general slump in indus- "I think you'd better not play Zionist leader, and Glans, another Peale Zionist. And as Lipsky
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of De- the population's migratory movements.
try in Hitler's Germany. Ile was that ... Mr. LeRoy is very sensi- remarked, despite all this, there was no breaking of windows—but
The undetermined racial ori-
troit, goes the credit for having sounded Changes in the complexions of various gin of Herman Goering will then
surrendered into the hands of his tive."
all were joined in a symphonic Te Drum to the Jewish National Fund.
•
•
have to be determined, and it is
employers much to the same as a
the important keynote of the meetings of
All were praising the Jewish National Fund—the Zionist Fund
neighborhoods are discernible in the classi- possible that he may fall beyond
slave might be sold by his mas-
Eddie Rubin, Benny's brother, that never goes around to get the rich millionaire Jew to give it $5,000
our combined social agencies held the first
ter.
the Aryan pall. As for Goebbels,
was being heckled about his ra- I but goes around among the common folk with flowers and buttons
fied
advertisements
of
newspapers.
Signs
part of the week.
"In showing his reductions in
there is little doubt that some-
dio act. One pal asked, "Why and asks for your pennies, your nickles and your dimes.
unemployment, Hitler removed
where within the last few gen-
do you imitate your brother?
Mr. Wineman lifted his audience up with of prosperity may be judged by volume of erations
Just now, maybe I'd like to expand the idea. I'd like to organize
someone of decided Jew-
from the unemployed list all
You know it will hurt you later
him to spiritual heights when he empha- certain types of advertisements, and those ish origin left him a legacy of Jews, Communists, Marxists, on." Another piped, "Yes, but a phase of the Jewish National Fund, maybe on the style of the
Salvation
and gather at the street corners with big drums
sized Jewry's responsibilities to their kins- of depression by an entirely different sort. the bird-like features which he Pacifists, and others who could think how it hurts Benny now!" and ask for Army,
those pennies and nickels, just like the Salvation Army
not see eye-to-eye with him po-
now proclaims to be 100 per cent
Incidentally, Eddie's act is so does. Just in my mind's eyes, I picture Dr. Goldstein in a uniform—
men. He sounded a note which the com-
In a pioneering land these elements are Aryan.
litically. These he considered
good he'll soon be on N. B. C.
just as General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army (who, by
•
•••
reemployed. All young men be-
munity had been waiting for during the much more evident. Every progressive
"Rosenberg, the Russian, and
the way, was half-Jewish), might appear. I see Dr. Goldstein, I say,
tween
to
ages
of
18
anad
25
he
One of New York's dramatic in a uniform, with some J. N. F. associates, standing, not on the
other
officials
of
the
New
Ger-
many months which were marked by op-
removed from the unemployed critics is suffering from myopia
move
is
visible.
Every
achievement
is
lived
many,
many
of
them
from
other
pression and persecution for our people in
lists and withdrew doles from . . . Ile walked over to a young pulpit of his magnificent temple, but on the street corner, asking for
countries, must also be thorough-
and nickels for the Jewish National Fund.
Germany. The few moments during which and experienced every moment by evry ly investigated before they can them. He told them that they lady the other day and asked how pennies
Am I being disrespectful? Perhaps, but I think we Jews have
could
either go to the state work- she got a mink coat and managed
Mr. Wineman heralded the call for action prson. Every line in every newspaper remain in the Aryan Utopia. Of ers' camps
become
entirely
too respectable.
or be considered to look so well whet she wasn't
there will be left barely a
Our Bible Jewry wasn't like that. "Proclaim it from the house-
in the present Jewish crisis so impressed breathes the new life that is being created. course,
among the otherwise employed.
shred of the present population
working. He was taken aback at tops," they said. But whenever we Jews today proclaim a thing,
"lie made much of whole cit- the look he received . . . having
his audience' that his sentiments appear
of the Third Reich," he con-
We •have particular reference at this cluded.
ies being without employment mistaken Sylvia Sidney for some- we know no other place except the Astor Hotel, the Commodore
certain to dominate all of our communal
Hotel. We seem to have lost the faculty of making a thing throb
during
harvest time. All men body else.
time
to
the
great
experiment
which
is
being
BLAMES MIDDLE-CLASS
with the tang of the living heart. The heart pumps for the whole
efforts in the forthcoming campaign.
• • •
who could not be employed on the
body, not for a select group.
Mr.
Plettl,
a
refugee
from
Hit-
he deported to other cit-
Someone approached Rouben
There is an old Hebrew saying: "Dvorim lived in Palestine. A glance through the let's prisons, has been in the Uni- harvest
And certainly for such a cause as the Jewish National Fund, we
ies so that he might point to this
Mamoulian's mama to offer con- have a right to get away from the straight and narrow road of dead-
ted States ten weeks and intends
era with pride and announce.
hayotzim min halev nichnosim el holey," advertising columns of the Palestine Post remaining
gratulations on the rumored ' ening respectability,
for
the
balance
of
time
"It
is
free
from
unemployment.'
marriage of her son to the great
meaning "words that come from the heart had many revelations in store for us. Here allowed by his temporary visa. About 165,000 temporary farm Garbo.
Did you ever realize that the whole philosophy and plan of the
"Not yet," she replied, Jewish National Fund is identical with that inscribed on our American
refugee, one of the most
hands he considered among his
"My son has not made up his Liberty Bell?
go to the heart." The sincerity which a new hotel is being built; there a new The
prominent figures' in Germany's
newly
employed.
mind yet." (I?)
The inscription on the Liberty Bell at Philadelphia is what? It
marked Mr. Wineman's plea for action motion picture theater; in numerous com- trade-union movement, and an
More than 50,000 Germans he
ardent Socialist, refused to dis-
is this: "Proclaim liberty to all the land and to all the inhabitants
threw in concentration camp and
Cinematown . . . Line by Line: thereof."
deeply impressed his audience. His ad- munities, many new factories and industries close the manner in which he eliminated
their names from the
Edward G. Robinson read 37
evaded Nazi vigilance in his
What did they mean—what did the Bible mean when it said,
unemployed lists. About 275,000 volumes in research for his por-
dress once again placed Mr. Wineman in are rising.
flight from Germany. it is suffi-
"Proclaim liberty to the land."
young men he employed in state trayal of Napoleon.
A
great
deal
is
being
said
about
the
new
a dominating position of Jewish leadership
cient to say that I managed to
Was it being oratorical—coining nice phrases for publication in
labor camps for less than 10
Joseph Schildkraut is said to the Palestine Herald Tribune? Perish the thought. They were
homes which German-Jewish refugees are get out of Berlin and into Amer- cents a day; and he considered have
in this community.
the most extensive library uttering what was to them the most important social truth—that the
ica without disturbing the storm
them re-employed.
in Hollywood ... it includes 17,- land belonged to the people as a whole.
finding in Palestine. We find proof also of troops," he said. The system is COMMERCE
DROPPED
500
volumes
and presents a for-
good, and I hope it can be
What happens if the land belongs to the people as a whole? We
"Hitler formed large brigades midable task whenever Schild-
this transplanting of a Jewish group from still
Palestine Labor Drive,
applied by others now in concen-
get an idea of the effect of the jubilee laws which restored the right
of Needy Workers whom he em- kraut changes his residence.
tration camps if they should ever
a
land
of
persecution
to
one
of
hope
of
each
to the land from Milman in his History of the Jews.
in
ployed from day to day on state
Annually, the Detroit Jewish commun-
Mrs. Jack Osterman ... wife of
be turned loose in Germany
The great English historian says: "In the Hebrew state, the
and city projects. They clean the musicomic . . . is breaking
ity becomes indebted to the Palestine labor these advertising columns of the Palestine again."
improvident
individual might reduce himself to penury or servitude
snow from the roads in winter into celluloid print . . . and look-
Mr. Plettl described Nazi anti-
and do odd jobs at irregular in- ing for a suitable screen tag. Her but he could not perpetuate a race of slaves or paupers. Every
drive for bringing to Detroit an outstand- press. Here are a few typical advertise-
Semitism as being a "manufac-
60
years,
God,
the King and Lord of the Soil, as it were, resumed
tervals. These names he with-
ing Jewish leader from the Jewish home- ments from the Palestine Post:
label is Mary Dolores Daly the whole territory and granted it back in the same proportions to
ture" by the present chancellor.
drew from the unemployed lists own
Osterman
Rosenthal
.
.
.
and
she
He said that the German people
land to spur efforts here in behalf of a
the
descendants
of the original possessors."
and they numbered 186,000 for can't find a name!
themselves are not anti-Semitic,
"Dr. Mosczytz, surgeon, of Berlin, has now
In other words, while each had a piece of land, there could be
national projects and 70,000 for
rebuilt Eretz Israel.
Sidney
Skolsky
.
.
.
the
colum-
beyond
a
small
margin
of
busi-
settled In Tel Aviv, 17 Rambam streets"
no real poverty. And the Jewish Encyclopedia says along the same
communal odd jobs.
with actor-phobia . . . was lines: "The Jubilee was instituted primarily to discountenance the
ness men who have been able to
The guest speaker at the campaign din-
"Dr. Lilli Berg-Platau and Dr. Paul Berg
'Hitler's statement that he has nist
finally placed in Mania flicker, idea of servitude in men. For unto me the children of Israel are
remove Jewish competition and
have moved from Breslau to Tel Aviv and
re-employed between two million "Hi,
ner of the Gewerkshaften, this Sunday
Nellie" . . . with a speaking servants (Lev. XX5) and they shall not be servants to servants, as
gain the business and property of
receive patients at 30 Allenby street (opp.
and two and one-half millions of
evening, will be Joseph Sprintzak, who is
"ausgeschaltet" Jews.
Opera House). Entrance from Mea-Shearim
men embraces just about two or part of three words ... which he God's bond has the priority" (Sifra Benair Sinai VII).
The persecution of the German
St."
a pioneer in the Palestine labor movement,
two and a half millions lies. He repeatedly forgot . . . and was
In other words, again, as long as each man had a piece of land,
Jew, Mr, Plettl attributed to
"Emma Gills. Sin,•ing teacher. German
no one could exploit him and all were free men. And that is the
did not take into consideration out again before he was in.
and who is one of the leaders in the World
The "Rothschild" plc has 75 purpose of the Jewish National Fund, to see that each may have
large middle-class • masses, who
diploma. Now in Tel Aviv. Voice culture.
the fact that he has removed talking
roles.
Zionist Actions Committee.
cast their votes for the strongest
Lessons in the art of Ringing. Specialist in
possibilities of employment from
access to the land—that speculators and monopolists shall not get it.
Sire Benjamin Warner . . . 77-
political party without the exer-
Of one thing we may be sure, that if Britain allows a very liberal
about 300,000 trade union mem-
correcting neglected, defective voice. Of im-
In extending a welcome to Mr. Sprint-
year-old
pater of the brothers ... ; Jewish immigration into Palestine, and the Palestine land is all in
cise of individual opinion. These
bers.
portance to singers, orators, etc. Apply to:
is
said
to
be
improving
after
a
zak, we wish, at the same time, to com-
people,
he
said,
were
driven
"As
far
as one may learn from
28, Allenby Road, daily (except Saturday)
the hands of speculators, then a crisis is as certain to ensue as
mainly by groups of business
from 2-4 p. m."
unbiased figures on German un- serious illness.
matches are to start a fire. For with speculative land prices, rent
mend the efforts of the Palestine labor
Ben Bernie ... Winchell's little I must go up, and with rent and land prices up, settlers coming in and
men who pointed out the concen-
employment, Hitler has not bet- -
Dr. Walter Joseph. Skin diseases, venerol-
movement. Regardless of existing differ-
tration of Jews in their lines, a
tered the situation one whit. The playmate . . is popping into pic- ; unable to go to the land, they are thrown on the labor market and
ogy. Formerly head physician, Prof. Max
concentration caused by anti-
ences, which have especially been aggra-
salaries of the country have fal- tures with a featured part in "The I depress wages, and so we have the joint development of high rent
Joseph's Clinic, Berlin. Has begun practice
Jewish restrictions in other lines
len during Hitler's term in of- Great Magus" . . . won't Walter and low wages—and that means depression—crisis.
in the Sansour Building, (opp. Zion Hall),
vated in recent controversies, it must be
of
endeavor.
They
also
lured
the
fice, and prospects for work have see green?
Jerusalem. (lours: 8-11 a. m., 4-6 p. m."
In Spain, similarly the problem of land is the center about which
recognized that the labor element stands
The Jack Warners may bill-and- the whole economic revolution pivots. In our American Cuba, we
votes of farmers and consumers
gone glimmering. German com-
"Dr. I. Schalit, specialist in nervous and
with promises of eliminating the
in the center of all our efforts in Palestine.
merce has dropped precipitously, coo again ... p'raps.
mental diseases, psychoanalyses. Formerly of
may
understand why such poverty prevails, when we read in Carleton ,
profit from goods earned by Jew-
The (Roxy) Rothafels are cele- Beal's book on Cuba that nine-tenths of the Cuban land is owned
and the fortunes of nine million
Berlin. Now in Haifa. Hadar Ilacarmel. 16,
It has not only been the creating element,
ish "middlemen," he said.
Germans dependent upon the ex- it brating their silver anniversary lby outsiders.
Jerusalem St."
but also the powerful defense group which
his month .. • proving that you
WORKERS' STATUS
port trade have suffered.
"Dr. Z. Rosenberg. General practitioner.
Palestine, it seems to me, is taking the most radical step in the
"The future of the Jew in
"I can see no possibility for can stay married in the picture [ direction of removing nine-tenths of the economic problem by mak-
has provided the Jewish population of Pal-
Ilan moved from Germany to Jerusalem. Jos-
business.
Germany,"
Mr.
Plettl
said,
"has
revolution
against
the
Hitler
dic-
efof house, Ben Ychuda St."
' ing the land "the inalienable possession of the people."
estine with a sense of security,
became one of the greatest prob-
Mitzi Green Is out of her sched-
tatorship in the immediate fut-
"Dr. II. and Dr. E. Schachtel, Dental Sur-
And I don't believe that it is necessary to buy up all the land.
lems in determining the future
ure. Hitler, while not a clever uled opus, "Finishing School" ... If the Jewish National Fund can succeed in buying up a great portion
The Gewerkshaften campaign this year
geons (formerly of Germany), 16 Nordau St.,
of Germany. The Jewish ques-
because mama Green found the of it—we may say "Dayenu." A reserve will be sufficient, at leant
man,
is
a
good
psychologist
and
Haifa,
(Tel.
285)
will
also
receive
patients
reports unprecedented success in its drive.
tion was never an important
a strategist. lie has an uncanny role not as important as she had so it seems to me, serving to keep land prices within bounds. In
shortly on Mt. Carmel, Kramer House. Muschli
problem in Germany until Hitler
It is to be hoped that ever-increasing num-
knack of moving into the enemy's believed it to • be. • •
Quarter.
Haifa, the Jewish National Fund has succeeded in doing that.
made
it
so."
holes at the psychological mo-
bers will support the efforts of this fund,
Mr. Plettl Is principally con-
Al Jolson has turned practical
ment
and
securing
his
own
vul-
These brief items reveal not only the cerned over the lowered status nerable points against counter- joker . . . Recently he arrived in
intended to strengthen the hands of the
SHOULD "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" BE
entrance upon the Palestinian scene of a of the workers in New Ger- attack."
labor movement in Palestine.
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BANNED IN SCHOOLS AND ON THE STAGE?
new element—an element heretofore looked
upon as hailing from a Jewish community
It All Depends on the Manner Whch the Play Is Inter-
Politics PI ays its Mean Tricks.
that was in the main considered hostile to
preted? But How Are We To Guarantee Friendly and
A Column of
H. P. Koppleman of Connecticut is one Zionism—but also of the commencement
Unprejudiced Opinions of Teachers and Actors?
Frank Speaking.
of our Jewish members of Congress. Not of a conflict within the community of
unlike his distinguished fellow members Eretz Israel. The fact that the professional
By ALFRED SEGAL
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
of the lower branch of the legislative body group is so much in evidence among the
Malcolm W. Bingay, editorial di- tion of Shylock as "a blood-thirsty
of the United States, he occasionally lets new settlers, creating serious competition
MR. SLOAN LOOKS AT US NRA, racketeers, kidnapers and sack. Alas! It is full of rotten rector of the Detroit Free Press usurer?" It can't be a wholesome
and author of the "Good Morning" influence, can it?
murderers.
himself be heard on political questions.
for the earlier Jewish professional settlers, WILLIAM J. SLOAN, JR., of The difference between me and potatoes!
in our morning newspaper,
But we don't have to confine our-
What does Mr. Sloan do about dooms
But on Jan. 26, Congressman Kopple- emphasizes the one great danger in the
Jamaica, L. I., in a letter to
wrote an exceedingly interesting
Mr.
Sloan's
friends
is
that
I
can
this? Does he reject the entire column last week in opposition to selves to the stage. It is just As
man chose to speak on a ticklish subject. present colonization movement to Pales- an Anglo-Jewish weekly, seems a look at a non-Jewish racketeer, a lot?
Does he say, "The whole lot the removal of "The Merchant of bad in the schoolroom. How many
kindly critic. Ile considers the
teachers know that historically
The topic of his address was "General tine. It is the wealthy, the well-to-do mid- causes that make Jews unpopular non-Jewish kidnaper, a non-Jew- is rotten!"
Venice" from our public scho
schools. Shakespeare's leading character in
Jozef Haller."
the Christian viewpoint "as ish murderer, a non-Jewish chis-
No!. Mr. Sloan is a just man. This column , which was reprinted "The Merchant of Venice" was not
dle class, and the professional men and I from
eler
without
feeling
that
these
are
The occasion, judging by the text of his women with reputations who are coming know it both by contact and by ' authentic representatives of all Ile rejects only the sack of rotten in last week's issue of The Detroit ■ J ew but a Christian named Sec-
what other Christians say."
potatoes. He does not ascribe their Jewish Chronicle, was one of the chi, who actually did wager his
address, for his oration in tribute to this to Palestine. While they bring with them
"In detail," says he, "as I know non-Jewish people.
rotteness to the whole carload,
I finest comments on this subject.
scudi against t he
Polish general was the visit paid by this a definite contribution, in numerous in- them off-hand the causes are as fol- Mr. Sloan's friends, bested or Not so just are Mr. Sloan's I U n f ortunately, Mr. Bingay's thousand
pound of 'flesh of a Jew named
gyped by a Jew in a business deal, friends who, short-weighted as to
lows:
Polish gentleman to Representative Kop- stances much-needed wealth, they alone
views,
which
accept
Shylock
as
a
Antonio.
The
wager was declared
say:
"That's
Jews
for
you!"
"In business: The Jew is not
one potato by a Jewish grocer, cov- hero who defends his people, are
void by Pope Pius Sixtus V. The
pleman's home district, which evidently cannot build Palestine; in fact, they alone honest. lie is a price-cutter. He I, cheated by a non-Jew, sigh, er under one heap of reproach not , not
applicable
to
the
average
mind.
principals
were
subsequently re-
"Well,
he
put
one
over
on
me,"
; is a hard boss to work for. He
only this grocer but all the Jews
has a large Polish voting population. Con-
As a good and fair-minded newe- versed by legend and Shakespeare
it does not occur to me to in the world.
gressman Koppleman, therefore. chose to provide false prosperity. Because the back- ' will beg, borrow and steal to get p and
1
paper
man
who
is
motivated
by
a
took
the
inacurate
version as a
gressan
oint
acorn
at
all
hi
s
on top, but once there will not give
passionate desire for justice and
for his play. But even if the
pay tribute to a man whom Jewish history bone of a healthy community must always opportunities
to others.
I may be kidnaped by Machine I REGRET TO HEAR of Jews fair play, and as one who is un- basis
be the rank and file: the worker—the
teachers
knew
of
the
facts ("The
who pick their noses and have
He will almost beg a prospec- Gun Kelley and his gang and as I
credits with having done great damage to
prejudiced and unbiased, it is nat- Jew of Malta") and other versions,
pioneer who builds with his hands and tive buyer to buy from him, but lie in their hide-out with their pis- dirty finger-nails. Picking the nose ural
that
Mr.
Bingay
should
take
our people.
how
many
would
care
a
snap? How
is
aver
y nasty habit and having
g upplies the brawn without which the in- will be sarcastic and eyasive to any tols at my head, I do not attach
the view expressed in his column.
one trying to sell to him.
It will be recalled that the term "Haller- 'noted monies would be useless.
their rascality to all non-Jews. I dirty finger-nails is most unsani- But such fair-mindedness is seldom many would adopt an attitude of
friendship
and
fairness
to the
tary.
"In my particular business most may, (if my mind adverts to their
chikes" was a term of opprobrium and re-
applicable to the mass of people Jews?
Palestine is today the one important of my Jewish customers are now origins at all) say: "To think that
If Mr. Sloan is willing, I will which has been fed on the idea
ferred to a most offensive army which in-
A number of years ago, Maurice
people as these sprang from join with him in a crusade against that Shylock is bad, that Shylock
haven of refuge for the sufferers from buying from companies that are such
stigated pogroms against the Jews in Po-
not complying with the NRA hours the same racial and religious group all the nose-pickers in the land and was a Jew, and that all Jews there- Moscovitch, the noted Shakespear-
ean actor of London, wrote an in-
Hitlerism. But it cannot be built with pro- of
that gave us Roosevelt, John to chop off all dirty Jewish finger- fore are bad.
labor
as
agreed
to
by
the
lead-
lish territory immediately after the war. fessional men alone. That would
troduction to Gerald Friedlander':
Haynes Holmes, Norman Thomas, nails and Mr. Sloan's duties shall
be re- ing companies in business, because John
There are two elements to he "Shakespeare and the Jew," stat-
General Haller has been a subject for peating our mistakes of the past in the
have to do with Christian nose-
Di- they get a better 'buy.' There is Mr. Dewey."
taken
into
consideration
on
the
ing in part:
Sloan's friends tie up all pickers and dirty Christian finger-
criticism by Jews and non-Jews because a spora. The obligation of the hour is to at present a blanket code but to the
question of the Shakespearean . ...L T::
. acts I. sloe:LIM: I. roast lbal
best of my knowledge only compan- Jews in the bundle of iniquity that nails.
"Merchant
of
Venice:"
of the misery which he and his troops have t
arth, trtrimiLle
reiza
„ . lickt . . 1 type .11'551-
he mass of German Jewry which must be ' ies operated by Jews have not they found in one Jew or several Or, if Mr. Sloan so desires, I
1. The effects of the charac-
accorded to Jewish communities. Now C
Jews,
I
set
criminal
non-Jews
shall let him chop off the dirty
agreed to stop price-cutting and
e / Is Ise May:'1. torrosee:I n' altost a ramie
aside as individuals apart from Jewish finger nails and clip the ter of Shylock depend almost I Inn or simply as monk... or • 5. br
comes a Jewish Congressman and pays aved from the present hell of Hitlerism. i shorten hours of labor.
MW
upon the moaner
ma
in beaat Ibeg Indrod boa abaltoorran committed
ut these can only be settled in Palestine ' "In personal habits: The Jews their group; for my opinion of non- Jewish noses that are picked, while which the
es errs ma) al Ike same Use wasted ape
tribute to this great militarist!
Jew in the play is ionn.
Jews
rests
on
the
great
and
the
I
do
similarly
to
dirty
Christian
ant s the MS. Sul. wits as sets
p rovided the large funds that are needed are not clean. They will do such good I have seen among them.
portrayed and his actions inter- M•,. le,.ot
e re la • missile tors so .. •
Politics indeed plays its mean tricks.
finger-nails and Christian noses.
of an IRS somas W Sc,. is Os
as pick their noses, not us-
preted.
or the purpose are subscribed by world things
I don't know in what business
rase of lb. entire Saab so.. soy AS-
In this way we shall establish
ing ■ handkerchief. Their finger
Z.
The
psychology
of
the
S*
grosento• as
rarsest •
rest
J ewry. Thus far there has been appalling nails are always dirty. Their dress Mr. Sloan is. Perhaps he is in the a more lovely and more cleanly mass of people, trained blame laSsoiltY.
tarn st sir
ly as Ilk
ass
p-tate business. Mr. Sloan buys a world, for no more shall there be ■
The Throbbin g Hebrew Language.
M mask • mistake. St, on the contrary. Se
in difference. It is one thing to protest is extreme in style or slovenly,
all
Jews
for
the
sins
of
individ-
kw
Is.
as
Helm
sm.
Um
,
only
mini....
I.
carload of potatoes. Ile opens one dirty finger-nails, Jewish or Chris- sal Jew s.
the
Nay.
Tee
leaskaat
et
amis."'
am honest with you when I bag after another and is delighted tian; no more nose pickers, Jews
A brief comme eat in the Palestine Post, a gainst persecutions; but it is evidently an say "I
I believe that in principle Mr.
The first points calls for a bit of
I do not hate the Jew, but I with their quality as honest pota- or Christians!
Bingay agrees with Moscovitch.
published in Jeru salem, makes known the ntirely different matter when it comes to do dislike any individual Jew or toes, until he comes to the last We shall, 'beside&
elucidation.
make this
a ubscribing to the fund for the settlement Gentile who Is not honest or clean.
In his column Mr. Bingay men- But how are we to reconcile Mr .
following fact:
world happier for Jews; for if we tioned
Bingay-': liberal views with the
David Warfi Id'
0 f German Jews in Palestine, being raised I mig. ht clid id that my closest person-
dispose of all dirty Jewish finger tation of Shylock. Why not take , prejudiced interpretations of "The
al friend Jew.
Israel's Martyrdom.
nalls
Hebrew and Arabic names for the company
and
clip
off
all
picked
noses
Merchant
of Venice" and the bigot-
nder the leadership of Dr. Chaim Weiz-
into consideration the acting of an-
"Is it not possible that the Gen-
there will be two faults fewer for other man, E. If. Sothern?
were adopted at a board of directors meeting
ed reactions of the mob?
ann, or to the Jewish National Fund for tile has some cause for hatred if "If there are ranks of suffering, which to hate Jews.
of the Consolidated Near East Company, Lim-
In ■ letter to the dramatic edi-
Unfortunately, bigotry continues
takes precedence of all the ;
Moreover, Mr. Sloan': friends
ited, held In London on July 27. Mr. Pinhas
th e redemption of the soil of Palestine upon the foregoing reasons are true in Israel
substance? I do not believe any nations; if the duration of nor.: sill be made happier. For, cer- tor of the New York Times, on I to thrive on the medieval darkness
Ruttenberg, chairman, announces in the Pal-
w hick to settle the refugees.
Christian dislikes any Jew simpl y rows and the patience with which' tainly, it must be for them • dread- Dec. 4, 1921, Mr. Sothern wrote which continues to envelop prac-
estine Gazette that the Hebrew translation is
he. worships God in a di -; they are borne ennoble, the Jews I ful world In which all Jews have complaining against protests by tically every portion of the globe.
When Jews are heard to protest against because
"Haehevra Hameurhedet Lamizrah Haearov,
ferent way."
can challenge the aristocracy of dirty finger nails and pick their Jews of the manner in which he With liberalism on the decline and
/kerma Mogbal" and the Arable translation
Shylock:
bigotry in • commanding position,
Nazi-ism, the logical question to ask them
every land: if a literature is called noses. When, in the course of our rep•-ted
Nse may est, al Owl ea. /wee
le "Sherbet el Shark el Adna al Muwahada
ELL,
what
Mr.
Sloan
Rays
is,
"The Merchant of Venice" remains
is: Have you subscribed to the fund which W right. There are Jews who! rich in the possession of a few I crusade, it is discovered that there vale ht Way es e aim ale aroma anra.
sort a
Wandudat al Daman."
damaging play. Our sole hope for
a MV
classic tragedies—what shall we! are really millions of Jews who It• ra.41. tem:. amr.
4 : -
; a fair interpretation of the char-
aims to save them from the hell of Ger- are dishonest business men. hard say to ■ National Tragedy
have clean finger nails and do not
What effect can such an attitude, acter of "Shylock" lies in the ulti-
It is immaterial how large the proportion many and to settle them in the land of drivers of bargains, eager for for 1,600 years. in which the !sating
pelts M sk their noses, they should be
which had its influence on Mr.! mate triumph of liberalism and in
every penny of profit, labor and the actors were also the M •rrnfnetnti
of our readers may be to whom both new hope that is Palestine?
Sethern's acting, exert upon an ; the perpetuat
rushers, chiselers, evaders of
io
n of democratic rule

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