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Sabbath Reading of the Law.
Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 27:20-30:10; Deut.
25:17-19.
Prophetical portion-1 Sam. 15:2-34.
Feast of Esther Readings of the Lew,
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32 :11-14; 34:1.10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.

Readings of the Lew on Purim, Thursday, March 1

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 17.8:16.
The Book of Esther is read.

February 23, 1934

Adar 8, 5694

Support the Tydings Resolution.

Practically all Jewish organizations and
movements in this country have agreed to
support the resolution introduced in the
United States Senate by Senator Millard
E. Tydings of Maryland, protesting against
the discrimination of Jews and other minor-
ity groups in Germany. Nevertheless,
there is danger that the resolution may
never reach the floor of the Senate because
of a desire on the part of. members of the
Committee on Foreign Relations to keep
out of European internal affairs.
In order to secure relief, through Ameri-
can intervention, for Jewry in Germany, it
is important that pressure be brought to
bear upon Congress, particularly through
Michigan's two United States Senators, urg.
ing the speedy adoption of the Tydings
Resolution. That our readers may be fully
acquainted with the text of this resolution,
we reproduce it in full:

Whereas the present Government of the
German Reich has deprived certain groups of
its citizens of many of their civil and political
rights and has imposed upon them restrictions,
pains and penalties harsh and severe in nature;
and
Whereas among the groups no discriminated
against by said government are approximately
600,000 Jewish citizens of the Reich and the
great number of Christians of partly or wholly
Jewish descent; and
Whereas it is manifest that, as regards the
Jewish citizens of the Reich and such Chris-
tians of Jewish descent, the actual causes for
the discriminations against them are their re-
ligious beliefs or professions and their racial
origin, neither of which is a ground reasonably
affecting their rights and privileges as citizens
of a modern State; and
Whereas on many historic occasions, begin-
ning in the year 1840 and continuing down to
the year 1919, intercessions have been made
by the United States on behalf of citizens of
States other than the United States oppressed
or persecuted by their own governments or
peoples, including nine separate occasions on
behalf of Jews in foreign states, indicating that
for nearly 100 years the traditional policy of
the United States has been to take cognizance
of such Invasions of human rights; and
Whereas the German Reich stands pledged
to the United States to accord to its "nationals
who belong to racial, religious or linguistic
minorities" • • • "the same treat-
ment and security in law and in fact as
the other nationals"; Now, thereforee, be it
Resolved, That the Senate of the United
Staten express its profound feelings of surprise
and pain, as representatives of the people of
the United States, upon learning of the dis-
criminations and oppression imposed by the
Reich upon its minority groups, including its
Jewish citizens; and be it further
Resolved, That the Senate of the United
States express its earnest hope that the Ger-
man Reich will speedily alter its policy, re-
store to its minority groups the civil and po-
litical rights of which they have been recently
deprived, and undo, so far as may be, the
wrongs that have been done them.

We urge our readers and all local or-
ganizations to adopt resolutions endorsing
this protest and calling upon Senators
Couzens and Vandenberg to support the
Tydings Resolution. The American Jew-
ish Congress, the American Jewish Com-
mittee, the B'nai B'rith, the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations, the
Conservative and Orthodox groups have al-
ready expressed their endorsements of this
resolution. It is important that individual
communities should act at once, supporting
the stand of our national organizations. Let
Detroit Jewry's voice be heard in support
of the Tydings protest.

Observing Washington's Birthday.

A Haman Speaks for Every Generation.

The festival of Purim, to be celebrated
by Jewry everywhere next Wednesday
evening and on Thursday, commemorates i
events which are said to have occurred in
Persia about 2,900 years ago. There are
some Biblical critics who question the
authenticity of the Book of Esther and
would make a case for some other festivals,
of other nations, from whom it is their
claim that we borrowed the idea of a Purim
festival.
The case of the latter claimants is not
only unimportant and of little value, but
become ridiculous in the light of constantly
recurring experiences of our people. The I
lesson of the Book of Esther repeats itself
so often, in almost the exact fashion, with a
repetition of almost the exact verbiage,
that the plot of the story speaks for itself
as an historic lesson for an historic people.
Those who would relegate the Purim
story to the realm of legend lose on an-
other count: by virtue of the fact that the
joy of the festival commands for it a posi-
tion of prominence on the Jewish calendar,
and provides our people with a means for
rejoicing and of acquiring confidence that
we shall survive our enemies.
This year's Purim observance has sig-
nificance which is without comparison.
More than one Haman threatens our exist-
ence. On every front our position is chal-
lenged. We are in the throes of a world
crisis, and the united forces of our enemies
seek out destruction as a people. Once
again we hear the echo of the words of the
ancient Haman, as reported in the Book of
Esther:

Then said Haman unto King Ahasuerus.
There is one people scattered yet separate
among the nations in all the provinces of thy
kingdom; and their laws are different from
those of every people, while they do not exe-
cute the laws of the king; and it is no profit for
the king to tolerate them. If it be pleasing
to the king, let g decree be written to destroy
th em . . . .

The attack of the modern anti-Semites
is based on the same appeals to hatred of
the Jews. In every generation, a new
Haman arises to repeat the ancient cal-
umny against Israel. The old story repeats
itself, and what is more important for us
is that the result will repeat itself again,
with history vindicating us: that we shall
survive to add other Hamans to the long
list of our enemies, and that in the long run
the laugh will be at the expense of man-
kind's bigots and the destroyers of liberty.
It is unfortunate that while we are
certain that history's verdict will be in our
favor, millions of Jews are doomed to suf-
fering and humiliation. But it is a cause
for some relief, at least, to know that his-
tory, when honestly written, will list our
enemies among the enemies of mankind,
and that our own historic role shall con-
tinue to be played uninterruptedly as an
important part in the symphony of the
nations of the world.

Goering — Master of the Hunt.
Premier Hermann Goering of Prussia
became Master of the Hunt in Prussia, add.
ing another title to the legion of appella-
tions he has acquired since the rise to
power of Adolf Hitler. The new code he
has immediately proclaimed calls for the
elimination of the "meat hunter" in favor
of the sportsman. Furthermore, this new
code aims to "preserve the native animal
world as the living soul of the homeland."
At last Goering has acquired the right
titl e, F
or many months he has been master
of the great hunt of Jews in Germany.
Now he is the supreme ruler of the animal
instinct which will cause his name to be
incorporated among the most cruel in
world history.
We venture a prediction for Herr Goer-
ing in his new role as Master of the Hunt:
that he will show himself more kindly to
animals "as the living soul of the home-
land" than he has been to the human be-
ings whose blood is witness of his tyran-
nical and oppressive character.

This year's observance of Washington's
Birthday must assume significance entirely
different from the observances of previous
years. The particular thing to remember
Sneers in Scotland.
this year is that a time when most of Eu-
A recent issue of the Evening Times of
rope is in danger of being robbed of the
Glasgow, Scotland, carried the following
elementary rights of freedom and of tolera- editorial note:
tion, this country remains the paradise of
just rule of the people, by the people, for
Mr. Justice Humphreys, summing up at Leeds
Assizes in • case in which Albert George Free-
the people.
born (50), an agent of Coniston Road, Borne-
When we speak of George Washington
hunt, Kent, was sentenced to nine months'
as the "Father of Our Country," we forget
imprisonment for fraudulent conversion of
money, the property of Frazer Bros.. raincoat
to add that he was also the father of the
manufacturers of Leeds, said that during the
great American system of government—
case sneers had frequently been directed at
the popular democracy which must battle
the firm of 'Frazer Bros. because the firm had
directors who were of Jewish persuasion.
every sort of oppression to the very end.
It would be most unfortunate in this country
The citizens of this country are justified
if there was in our courts one justice for
in being thankful, every moment of their
Christians and another for Jews or Moham•
medans or Buddhists or any person of any
lives, for the privilege of living under the
other religion.

American flag. But such privilege also
involves obligation. Millions of Americans

are deeply concerned over what is happen-
ing abroad. By the same token, there are
millions who are sympathetic, by virtue of
ties of blood, to those governments which
are today among the oppressors of man-
kind.
In honoring the memory of George
Washington we therefore have an impor-
tant duty to history and to American tradi-
tions. We must defend the principles of
liberty and equality which were introduced
on this cont.:tent by the successes of George

Every day people of Jewish persuasion sat
in the jury box and nobody suggested that they
were not tit and proper persons to act as jurors.

This brief story, and its accompanying
comment, has that element of unusual in-
terest in proving that very few countries
are exceptions to the rule that dislike of
Jews is to be found wherever Jews may
reside. But it also carries with it the ad-
ditional assurance that not all non-Jews
are unjustly prejudiced. The comment
appended to the note we quote from the
Scottish paper is proof that fairness still ,
has its champions.

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GERMANY IN EXILE

Our Film Folk

By HEINRICH MANN

By HELEN ZIGMOND

leonine 1911, holds Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

EDITOR'S NOTE: Heinrich Mann. famous Oerman author and thinker, who Is
w living in Paris in exile from Natt Germany. declares here that the real
rinany IS Ill the hearts of the exiles from that hod The exiles he declares
are the voice of - their mute, broken people before the world." In the following
article which us reprinted by special &renascent. ham "The Modern Thinker"
,
through the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Mann call. on the "Iles to unite in
combeUng Hitler propaganda throughout the world.

oe

The murderer of an exile has
a great advantage over the po-

lice of a foreign country by be-
ing under the protection of the
German spy service. The assas-
sin of an exile does not become a
hero and is selected from gentle-
men of questionable character.
The real National Socialist her-
oes operate only where there is
no danger. The hope of Hitler's
criminal henchmen is to return to
their mother country, where they
will be feted and "welcomed" by
the chieftain.
Every group of exiles opposes
these assassins; and propagand-
ists of the Nazi faith by every
legal means. In foreign countries
German exiles still enjoy the
privilege of equality before the
law and the assurance of person-
al protetion. Hitler's henchmen,
however, work under pretense,
with false passports and forged
papers.
Germany's exiles should or-
ganize in defense of their rights
against the putrid propaganda
of Hitler's Germany. It will do
slight good to ignore them. It is
necessary to bring this terror-
ism into the open light of day.
There is no need for the exile to
have anything in common with
that Germany which forces its
own people to become ex-patriates
on a foregin soil.

THE HEAL GERMANY

countries of refuge. The exper-
iences of the Jews in Germany
have been terrible. Nor have
these experiences of the Jews
in Germany yet ceased. Much of
the anti-Semitism expresses it-
self in pogroms and public ridi-
cule. They are taking away posi-
tion and property from the Jew
before the very eyes of an aghast
world. The exiled Jews have a
full right to make their suffer-
ings public and to look for sym-
pathy and allies in all countries.
It is a mistake, however, for the
various anti-Hitler demonstra-
tions to stress mainly the com-
plaints of the Jews. Occasionally
sympathy is expressed for the
persecuted thinkers.
The fate of Marxists at these
public demonstrations is ignored.
This, although Hitler declared
that he hated the Jews not be-
cause they are Jews but because
they are purveyors of Maxism.
Jews should never forget this,
for it is Night praise. The lead-
er of darkest Germany counts
them distinctly among those un-
fortunate enough to be enlight-
ened.
The Jews ought to be clear on
this point. What can they ex-
pect of a Germany which has
neither thinkers nor Marixts, and
where the unselfish search for
truth is just as little tolerated as
the demand of the down-trodden
for justice? The rights of the
Jews stand and fall with the
rights of the others that are
suppressed. Their complaints
will be of no avail as long as the
law of fang and fist prevails in
Germany.

Even if nobody abroad should
realize what life in present day
Germany is like, the exile will
never forget it. The real Ger-
many lies within the hearts of
all those suppressed within Ger-
many's borders. The letters
which the exiles receive from those HATE OF HUMAN LIBERTY
It seems to me that they have
who have remained in the Fath-
not yet asked themselves wheth-
erland bear solemn witness to
er
they would want to return,
this fact. Most of them conclude
even if it were possible, to a
with the statement "If these lines
country
which has founded its
come into the wrong hands, I am
future on a lie, the lie of the
lost." These letters are from
race
theory;
where all real val-
people in important public and
ues have been scrapped one lives
private positions. , Most likely
merely on the basis of seed. The
they wear the swastika in their
hatred against the Jews is sub-
buttonholes. 1 am sure they
ordinated to the all embracing
mouth a hundred times a day the
hatred against human liberty. It
phrase "Heil Hitler." Evenings,
is to the advantage of the sup-
behind closed doors they say what
pressors, that this truth not be
they think and we learn their
known to the world. In fact they
real opinion. Their's is a buf-
want
it to appear that the prob-
foon's masquerade that lasts till
lem of exile is perculiarly a Jew-
evening.
ish
one.
There is truly method
Of course if the letters of these
In this madness. All this is to
unfortunates should be appre-
justify
continued
tyranny by the
hended, the missives will never
beastly association of Hitler and
receive a public audience at the
Co.;
making
the
German
people
hands of that arrogant braggart
believe there is no class hatred
who stated over the radio that
by
creating
"Jew"
hatred
to
take
he and his associates have the
its place.
support of the whole nation.
The other nations know enough
From these letters the exiles
know that intelligent and sentient . that is unpleasant about Ger-
many. What they need is to rea-
Germany is with them. The rest
lize the conditions that have led
deserve the imnominy of being
the German people to this catas-
led by the leaders they have sel-
trophe and to hope for a change.
ected. This real Germany has no
There is a people here that has
voice today and was driven to
been
betrayed instead of educated
practice falsehood and simula-
by its government. The republic
tion. The exile is symbolic of
neglected to educate its people and
that real Germany which per-
its foes have betrayed it. Such
sonifies human values and
is the fact. It is the duty of the
rights. The exiles include within
exile
to make this fact known
their ranks thinkers and men of
wherever he can. Not all of Ger-
character Those others who re-
many
is voluntarily indulging in
main in Hitler's Germany are
mass mania. Superficially Ger-
mentally uniformed. There is
many
appears
to be retrogressing
no need for that Germany which
from its "Non-German" civiliza-
is in exile to be modest about
tion
back
to
the
dark ages of the
its superiority. Organization
Teutonic forests. The truth is
and co-operation by all those
that
this
civilization
could have
abroad will be of value, not only
been achieved without German
materially, but spiritually.
assistance as little as it could have
HITLER'S HIGH PRAISE
been without French or Roman.
The anti-Hitler propaganda
Civilization is an integrated un-
abroad still focuses itself upon
ity and none of the integers can
the persecution of the Jews.
dissolve without self-annihila-
However, only 25 per cent of the
tion
to the whole.
German exiles in Paris are Jews,
But the God-deserted profess
and the proportions do not differ
very much in other European
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HOLLYWOOD. — When ree
were real names:
Theda Sara was Theodosia
Goodman, Joan Blondell was Joan
Bluestein, Mary Doran was Fritzi
Applebaum, 'George Sidney was
Sammy Greenfield, Raquel Torres
was Paula Osterman, Sue Carol
was Evelyn Lederer. '

• •

•

"Uncle" Carl "aired" himself
the other night over a national
circuit ... His topic was "Fifty
Years in America."
• • •

Did you know that Jack Warner
has a body-guard? Yea, yea! ...
his name is Abdullah . . . but
everybody on the lot insists on
calling him "Machoola"!
• • •
George Burns and Gracie Al-

len receive an average of 20
scripts • week for new radio
acts . . and in the course of
three years on the air have been
offered some 3,000 gags, most
of which had been used before.
• • •

Georgie, by the way, refuses
point blank to reveal his family
name from the "auld contree"
but doesn't ever deny his Mosaic
heritage.
• • •
They're telling a story out
Hollywood way about a movie
magnate and Max Steuer, the law-
yer. It seems that at one time
Steuer was defending a plagiar-
ism case for the filmagnate. The
decision was finally given in their
favor and jubilantly Steuer wired
his movie client, "Justice has tri-
umphed!" Back came the wire,
"Well, so appeal the case."
• • •
Ah, ha I She said she'd prob.

write another thing
... but movie "sett" lures Rose

ably

Franke. of "Another

Lan-
guage" fame. She arrives on
the coast with her three chil-
dren . . . to make Hollywood
her permanent residence ... and
to further her writing career
under studio banners.
• • •

About two score Jewish people,
most of them elderly, were used
in the "Rothschild" picture. As
they were making the closing
scenes, most of them were dis-
missed, leaving only a few to finish
the work. Among those let out
was a little old lady who pleaded,
"Why can't I stay? My husband
is still here and we've never been
separated in 42 'years." The di-
rector went over to ask the hus-

band. Afraid of losing that ex-
tra check, he gave the woman

By-the-Way

Tidbits and New

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Coparight, Ions. Je•igh Telegraphic

AVM,

Inc.)

DRINK AND THE TALMUD

While sampling some of the products that repeal of the Eight-
eenth Amendment has made available, it was brought out by an

erudite Talmudic scholar who was in the party that the last words
about the varying effects of drink had been said in the Talmud long
ago.
There is a story in the Talmud apropos of this, he pointed out,
connected with NOth, who, of course, typifies the drunkard of Bible
days.
When Noah took his first drink, says this story, he offered to
God a sacrifice of lamb.
Meaning to say that the first effect of drink is a sort of relaxing,
quieting effect—in other words, lamb-like.
When Noah took his second drink, he brought a sacrifice of a lion.
Meaning to say that after the second drink, one feels cocky,
able to lick a whole regiment—like a lion.
When Noah took his third drink—he brought a sacrifice of a
monkey.
Meaning to say that the effect of the third drink is to make you
very playful—monkeylike, don't you know.
When Noah took the fourth drink, he brought a sacrifice of a pig
That is to say, that the effect of the fourth is to make a pig out
of you.
It seems to me there is some swell psychology in this story from
the Talmud.

•
•
•
A REVOLUTIONARY INVENTION
I have heard of a good many plans to bring back prosperity, but

the best, I think, is an imported plan brought here by a Jew recently
front Poland.
Sitting at a Second avenue cafe the other night, he explained
that he had devised an invention which would solve the economic
problem for the whole world.
The invention is really very simple. He has invented a machine
which does the work of one man, but requires a hundred men to
operate it.
I am for that invention. How about you and you and you?
•
•
•

THE BOOK OF SAMUEL
And you mat be interested in knowing that Maurice Samuel,

who is back in the U. S. fora visit, is on the six hundredth page of
a new novel which will soon be in the hands of a publisher.

THE BOOK OF NUMBERS

I have often, as the three readers of my column know, bewailed
the fact that numerically we Jews are a small people. The world,
I have maintained, doesn't care for your Freuds and your Einsteins.
They may be wrong, or even if they are right, it doesn't matter on
much to the world. But 50,009,000 Frenchmen—that's another thing.
And 50,000,000 million Jews in Germany would mean something,
quite different than 600,000 Jews.
But recent revelations show that as a matter of fact we have
vastly underestimated our numbers. It has, for instance, been re-
peatedly claimed that if we are to count those with Jewish blood in
them in Germany, we must add some two or three millions more. And
last Sunday, Harold Callender, writing in the New York Times,
declared that if the "grandfather" clause were invoked in Vienna,
we would have to count one-third of the population of Vienna as
Jews.
Abraham Goldberg tells me, in confirmation of this view, that
in some of the continental cities, such as Vienna and Copenhagen, a
new type of mixed Christian-Jew has become prevalent.

CLOSED ON SATURDAY

Which reminds me of the old story they used to tell about the
Reform Temple in Berlin a good many moons ago. It was not really
a story, but a wisecrack. They would ask: "Which is the froomest
(most pious) place in Berlin?"
And then the answer would be: "The Reform Temple, because it
is closed on Saturday." (This particular temple held its services on
Sunday.)
• •
•
HITLER'S AGE
They were discussing the other day the ages of some of the
recent crop of dictators: Stalin, Mussolini, etc. Finally it came to

one look and said, "Never saw her
before in my life."
• •
Snoopings: The wife of Male
(Ray Wise to you) outdid the
stars . . She accompanied her Hitler.
"Oh, Hitler—he's of the Middle Ages," was the reply.
husband to Hollywood ... divorced
Quite • reply, it seems to me.
him in double-quick time . . . and
went home.
Barbara Barondess, scribbling
a colyum for a local trade mag,
should stick to it . . she unearths
more dirt than "peep-holes" Win-
chell himself.
• • •
Young Judaea sends us an inter- reign" of the daughter of their
Harry Green has decided that esting description of the manner own community with full pomp and
should', his pow son desire • in which the Children's Carnival is circumstance. For this purpose they
movie , he will use the conducted on Purim in Tel Aviv, mobilized motor cars and lorries,
Palestine. In this description we carriages, wagons, horses, camels,
same "Baby Levy."
are told: donkeys, bicycles, etc., and their
Sam Marx, story editor at
At 10 o'clock mothers with their procession, which was of marked
Louiebee's studio, received a let- little ones begin to stream along oriental character, seemed to re-
ter from a Wilkes-Barre, Pee-ay, the roads leading to the exhibition auscitate the entire Book of Esther,
to the effect that "Wilkes-Barre hall, to attend the Children's Car- and at the same time impart some
has given Hollywood Sam Hoffen- novel. Most of the children
f
are realities of the present day.
stein, Herman Kankiewicz and dressed in all kinds of fancy cos-
At the head of the procession
Louis Weitzenhorn ... and now in tames, wearing costumes just like rode horsemen carrying a large
gratitude Hollywood should take
grown-ups. They represent blue-white flag, on which was writ-
an idea from Wikes-Barre . . . " Hassidim,
Hassidim, officers, soldiers, Arab ten: "And the Lord God shall blow
the idea being to make a picturiza- sheikhs, Moslem ladies; Charlies the trumpet and shall go with the
' tion of "Irving Berlin's life." Chaplin, too, with his little thus- whirlwinds of Yemen." (Zech. IX-
Marx wrote back that the studio tache, baggy breeches and charac- 14). In one of the automobiles sat
couldn't use the idea no they were teristic shoes is not absent. There an orchestra of Yemenites, playing
returning Hoffenstein, Mankie- are costumes depicting Mordecai; national folk-songs. Next rode King
wicz and Weitzenhorn!
chamber-
a small girl leading her little broth- Ahasuerus, the king's chamber-
• • •
er by a chain, dressed as a charm- lams Mordecai the Jew, and all the
I R. U. Reading?
ing "bear" a tiny tot got up as remaining heroes of the Megillah.
"Queen of Flowers," and another Not one of them was missing. All
entitled: "What is the dream that the dresses and costumes had been
I have dreamt?" portraying J oss Prepared with taste and in a spe-
A Column of
eph's dream, sheaves of corn, etc. cial style, Oriental-Hebrew. After
Frank Speaking.
Further on a group of children, the Megillah characters came camel
representing a Heintz, an old man riders, horses and donkeys, and af-
By ALFRED SEGAL
and old woman, followed by ■ Na ter them cars full of Yemenite
tional Fund Collection box bearing men and women, singing and dime.
the inscription: "And may our e es ing. One car was filled with Queen
WHAT WE WANT
I Benjamin carried bright banners discrimination, understanding in- behold when thou returnest to Zion E sther's maids. On all aides the
for justice in the world.
stead of prejudice.
I in mercy." Another effort depicts air rang with merry shouta from
,
MY FRIEND writes: "There is
Because of what I and my
Do I want the earth? Oh, if I "The Post," a girl surrounded by the cars—"Long Live the Queen!'
an impression that Jews want brothers have been in the world had my way the earth would be letters and newspapers and addres- "Long Live the Yemenites!" "Long
the earth ... "
Live the people of Israel!" And the
and because of what we are and more justly divided. My brother, ses with communal references.
And I answer him: You'd be because of what we have given I the prophet said it: "Woe unto
layed, camel bell tin kled.
Towards noon on Purim day an ba
nd the
hay ground clave asunder at
surprised to know how little I do demand respect.
ed,
them that join house to house, that ever increasing number offancy e "a nd
want. In fact, it has come to pass
lay field to field, till there be no costumes appear in the streets. At the
It is little enough. Even were
. ay sound," and one felt that on this
that when I hear of another Jew one whose long life had been of place in the midst of the earth. half past two the entire length a
there was joy in their dwell-
ascending to prominence, I get no meaning in the world, I, as a The mean man shall be brought of Allenby street is filled with thou-
•
rather frightened and I ask, "Is human being, most not be made down, and the mighty man shall sands ofpeople. Nearly all the
The procession then wends its
•this good for us?"
to suffer the discriminations that be humbled and the eyes of the lof- balconies of the houses in this way back from the sea towards
Nahlath Benjamin, and lierzl
I am ashamed of these appre- have been inflicted upon me. Lit- ty shall be humbled."
street and in Nahlath Benjamin, streets,
1, the Jew, would make an end Ilerzl and the adjacent streets
the car in which sits the
hensions. I, who should be proud tle. do I care that my vanity may
of the inequity by which a few decorated with Hebrew flags are ' queen and h er train leading. Next
not
be
comforted
in
all
your
ho-
of the grandeur of one of my peo-
have
been
given
the
earth
and
all
and
ride
members
of the Fire 9rigade
lets, but I feel deeply the insult
ple, find cause in it for vague fears that says "Jew, keep out!"
that is in it while the multitudes draw
hangings.
up in Crowds
two rows upon
in the crowds
middle in
n uniform bearing small Ilebrew
labor to enrich it for them. I would •
■ airs After thempass a company
lest its light attract the attention
I demand respect for my children
the road (the pavements being of the Brith Trumpeldor, also in
of our enemies; lest they say, whom I bring up in the ways they summon the voices of our prophets of
kept free for pedestrian traffic and uniform, with their own band, and
"There's another Jew getting up in should go, whom I educate for that spoke justice and the voice of the carnival itself moving down the then,
Sinai
thundering,
"Thou
shalt
not
in a long procession, taking ■
the world."
worthy places in the world. They ' steal" and "Thou shalt not covet." center of the roadway). The pro-
cession starts from
Do I want the earth? Aye, I go to the doors of employment and
rom the Tchenolov great deal of time to pass, all the
Do
I
want
the
earth?
I
want
I carriages, cars, and displays. Many
stand trembling on the little por. they read. "Jew, keep out!"
only justice but not for myself Quarter along Allenby street to- I of the factories and industries in
lion of the earth that is mine,
I, who have lived so long am in- alone. I know that the injustice wards the sea, and comes back by Tel
shrinking into the shadow, want- . nured to pain. What hurts me that I suffer is in one bundle with
of the Nahlath Benjamin and sion, Aviv take part in this proses
displaying special signs and
ing only to be let alone: To be more is that this cruelty may be the injustice that is on mankind. Ilerzl street. In front of the of- advertisements,
samples, notices,
let alone in the sense that other increased against my children. It There can be no justice for me
of the Jewish National Fund
posters,
letters and pamphlets .
people are. They are not set apart sharpens new weapons for them where the peoples, impoverished in Allenby street sit the j ud ges,I
without end, Printed circulars are
by reason of a racial origin; their and organizes its hates. •
and hungry, are set upon me by chosen to elect the prize winners
children, seeking places in the
Perhaps, because I have lived no their guilty masters; no justice for of those participating in thero- showered on the huge crowd, also
world, do not come to cloned doors
confetti
and "Mishloah Manoth"
cession.
Two
years
ago
"Queen
!
long. I esfect too much of a world me in an order based on competi-
(Purim prese
.. "Jews Not Wanted!"
' ete nts) consisting of
Esther," who is selected and is also l ehocolates
tive envy.
whose
civilization
still
is
new.
I
I do not want even to be loved
So while I demand justice I know Tel Aviv's Queen of Beauty for
year, crowds of
as • Jew but I do require respect. who stood at Sinai and saw God I can never have it until there is the coming year, was a Yemenite I Year by year,
I have come • long way in the may be asking more than is to be justice for all other men. You and girl. A great wave of excitement and their families from Jaffa and
world. 1 stood at the foot of Sinai expected of a world that only re- I are afraid of each other, my ran through the crowd as the Ye. I neighboring places stream into Tel
and brought you the Law, and my cently came out of caves and for- friend.
manilas appear in that carnival i• on the day of the carnival in
order to enjoy the wide variety of
brethren were the prophets From est primeval.
r
You are afraid of me because, wi th
diversion afforded by the carnival
the distance of Sinai I brought
since
I,
the
Jew,
have
lived
no
long,
Many tu o• wu n.u n'
ps.. alno come to the procession. Just outside
Perhaps, then, I require too much
the offices
you concepts of justice and lov- when
you think I am more experienced carnival, and everyone in this
I
demand
respect
instead
of
jollylof the Purim dance evenings ar-
ing-kindness and Jesus is my cruelty, justice in place of vicious in life than you and, therefore,
crowd
is
in
the
highest
of
spirits.
,
ranged
by
Agadati,
in
Herzl
Street,
brother.
may have the better of you in this In order to witness this Children's
a large crowd can be seen standing
struggle to exist. You are afraid Carnival,
I have lived despite all the
Arab
women
also
come
in
a
queue,
waiting
to
buy
tickets
I may take the earth from you.
deaths that were set against me.
from Jaffa, and sit
unveiled,
for the dance s, •nd among them not
I have seen the power of my op- The Duty of Self-Respect.
I want • righteous world in ly drinking in all that
they eager-
see.
■ few Arabs. Two yearn ago when
pressorn crumble as a dust heap
which men will not be as the wol-
This was indeed ■ special sue- ' the
"Nothing is more dangerous for ves in a contest for bones of which
Arabs also took an active part
falls, but i who was weak and had
prise,
the
like
of
which
had
not
been
in the Tel At-iv carnival when •
no sword, have lived and have a nation or for an individual than the stronger wolves get the biggest seen in
the carnivals of the pre- group r f them came from Neve
given what light was in me. My to plead guilty to imaginary sins. and the most. In such a world
brother, Abraham, was ■ great Where the sin is real—by honest i you and I will have no need to be emus years. The whole affair of Shalom , clad in Oriental
scholar who looked into the win- endeavor the sinner can purify' afraid of each other and you will the queen assumed an almost "ger.. and joined the general Jewish car-
dows of the universe and under- himself. But when a man has feel no need to set up disenmina- ious" air. This Yemenite commun. nivel.
After the carnival procession fol-
stood what he saw. My brother, been persuaded to suspect himself lions against me and my children, ity, consisting chiefly of the poorest
d the people, who do all the hard- 'ow groups wearing fancy
g-
Isaac, was ■ great physician who unjustly—what can he do? Our for fear of us.
I will not be afraid of you, as if est work and eke out the merest tomes, Coring and denting in the
sought for causes and by his hand greatest need is emancipation from
the lives of multitudes were pro- self-contempt, from this idea that I were some furtive miser, fearing existence, suddenly considered streets. The procession lasts until
longed. My brother, Jacob, was a we are really worse than all the to display my treasures to you, themselves es "redeemed". The evening, but the crowds continue
musician whose song never has world. Otherwise we may in lest you despise me in your envy. election of the queen from one of till late and masked revellers walk
perished but has stood an ever- course of time become in reality
We are really not far apart, For their o wn plated them on ■ level the streets till late into the night
lasting inheritance of mankind. what we now imagine ourselves; you want the same thing I do: A with the other communities and attuned to the genuine holiday
they decided to celebrate the "day's spirit felt throughout the town.
David was a philanthropist and to be."—Achad
more just and lovely order.

PLAIN TALK

THE CHILDREN'S PURIM CARNIVAL IN
- - TEL AVIV, PALESTINE— '

