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Major Jewish Problem.
James G. McDonald, League of Nations
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
saw correspondent, is of prime interest:
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Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:1-18:32
Prophetical portion I Sam. 11:14-12:22
June 15, 1934
Tamuz 2, 5694
The Staysky-Verdict
.
The verdict condemning Abraham Stay-
sky to death on the charge of having mur-
dered Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff comes as a dis-
tinct shock. We had boasted of the fact
that Palestine is practically without Jew-
ish criminals—and now a Jew is convicted
of the w • + crime in the history of Zionist
effort.
It is to be hoped that evidence will be
found to free him when the case appears
for review in a higher court. In the mean-
time we find added reason for opposing
capital punishment for criminals. By con-
demning Staysky to death there is elimin-
ated the possibility of eventually learning
the absolute truth, without the interfer-
ence of the element of time.
In our sorrow over the results of the
Arlosoroff murder trial we nevertheless
wish to retain the hope that the truth will
out, and that justice will not be defeated.
The Boycott Goes On
The die is cast, and the boycott must
now go on!
There can be. no two ways about it at
this time, when Germany no longer limits
her campaign of persecuting the Jews to
the Reich, but ,chooses to spread its venom
throughout the world.
The case of the Woolworth stores in Ger-
many is a point of proof. It is regrettable
that Woolworth officials should speak for
a German boycott in this country, while
their officials in Germany aim instead to
pacify the Nazis by telling them that their
New York buyers are on the way to Berlin
to make heavy Christmas purchases. But
the incident proves that Nazis will not let
anything deter them in their campaign of
hatred, and that the slightest provocation
will.be a signal for renewed physical, spir-
itual and economic attacks upon Jews.
The boycott is in progress: now it must
be advanced. The American Federation
of Labor has re-iterated its stand of last
October in renewing the boycott move-
ment. President Wiliam Green of the La-
bor Federation has similarly restated his
position as favoring the boycott by making
a declaration in which he said:
"It is most logical that in the attack
upon Hitlerism and Fascism organized
labor should form one united front
with the hosts of Israel and other lib.
eral groups against the common foe,
for every anti-Semite is under the
skin, an enemy of *freedom and the
working class."
There was a time when opinion was
divided on the subject. Now we dare not
be disunited—just as we dare not permit
disunity in our ranks on the question of
relief or the Palestinian settlement of
German-Jewish refugees.
The boycott must now make itself felt
more than ever, through the united efforts
of the liberal and Jewish elements through-
out the world.
There is nothing new in these facts. It
was no secret to those acquainted with the
Jewish world position that Polish Jewry
is in a more pitiful plight than German
Jewry. The reason the world has become
so upset by the happenings in Germany is
because an emancipated people was sud-
denly robbed of its rights, whereas in
Poland the pauperization of our people
was a gradual process, partly dating back
to the Czarist pre-war rule, later extending
to the economic declassification of Jewry
during the war's aftermath.
The New York Times correspondent
views it rather mildly when he says that
"Polish Jews are less prosperous than in
other countries surrounding Germany."
One must understand the impoverished po-
sition of Jews in the East European coun-
tries to be able to understand how poverty-
stricken Polish Jews actually are, —and in
what a state of starvation the more than
3,000,000 Jews in Poland live today.
When, therefore, Mr. McDonald ad- .
monishes us that the refugee problem is
minor in comparison to the Jewish problem
as a whole, he sums up the horror of the
existing Jewish tragedy. It is a warning
to Jews not to confuse the major Jewish
responsibilities with the comparatively
minor Jewish issue created by Hitlerism.
It is well that we understand that the Nazi
dangers become prime issues only insofar
as they threaten to spread their venom
throughout the world. But insofar as the
general economic oppression and declassi-
fication is concerned, we need not be
alarmed by Germany alone. There are in-
finitely worse troubles elsewhere.
The interest of Jews in the major issues
confronting our entire people will in great
measure be gauged by the response to ap-
peals for relief. It is a matter of extreme
regret that Detroit's response to the Allied
Jewish Campaign did not measure up to
the demands created by the present crisis.
When Germany Protested
They Fear the Light of Day
Among the myths being revived in Ger-
many is the stupid ritual murder lie.
Streicher's Der Stuermer hai taken the
lead in inciting the masses by charging this
and similar accusations against Jewry.
But there was a time, not so many years
ago, when Germans protested against the
outrageous blood lie. A brief editorial
note recalling this protest, in the New York
Times, speaks of the indignation which the
civilized world expressed 22 years ago:
Early in 1912 leading men in Western Eu-
ope were adopting resolutions of protest
against the latest blood.ritual calumny in Rus-
sia of the Czars. France led oft early in
January with a protest by a group of non-
Jewish writers, scholars, artists, officials and
army and navy officers. In May The London
Times published • letter of protest signed by
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and
the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. They
called the Russian case "a relic of witchcraft
and 'black magic,' a cruel and utterly baseless
libel on Judaisrh."
A Gemran protest appeared on March 19.
It was signed by 215 distinguished non-Jews,
representing theology, public life, scholarship,
literature, science, the arts. It paid in part:
"This unscrupulous fiction, spread among the
people, has from the Middle Ages until recent
times led to terrible consequences. It has in-
cited the ignorant masses to outrage and mas-
sacre, and has driven misguided crowds to pol-
lute themselves with the innocent blood of
their fellow-men. And yet not a shadow of
proof has ever been adduced to justify the
crazy belief."
•
James G. McDonald, the League of Nations
High Commissioner for Jewish Refugees, has
arrived here to investigate the situation of
the 30,000 Jewish refugees, of whom 95 per
cent are Polish citizens who had lived in Ger-
many from 15 to 20 years. The others are
German citizens.
The situation here is more complicated than
in other countries. While the greater number
of these refugees could be regarded as repa-
triated Poles, their only link with Poland is
their Polish passports. They do not speak the
language. They have returned as complete
strangers.
A number of refugees of this category went
to France, where the government is inclined
to treat them as Poles and refuses certain
privileges granted to refugees who are nomin-
ally citizens of Germany. France wants them
to go back to the country of their origin, but
the Poles insist they have taken enough refu-
gees.
This makes Mr. McDonald's task more diffi-
cult here than elsewhere. Even the problem
of emigration of these people to Palestine and
other countries is made more complex by the
fact that as Polish citizens they must enter
other countries under Polish quotas. The facili-
ties granted to German Jews are not extended
to them.
Moreover, Polish Jews are less prosperous
than in other countries surrounding Germany.
The richer Polish Jews have taken care of
tens of thousands of their brethren, who need
as much help as the refugees.
Yes( there was a time when civilized
Germans dared to speak against such an
outrageous charge. Now, the "ignorant
masses" which were condemned in the pro-
test of 1912 are in the saddle. Twenty-two
years ago, Germany, quite evidently, was
civilized. But today this land of the Nazis
is set back many centuries to the status
of barbarians. It is the hope not only of
Jews but the world at large that the voice
of the true and humane Germany will
again be heard very, very soon.
Our Film Folk
Br
Racial Fascism Impossible in Britain
HELEN ZIGMOND
HOLLYWOOD. — }list! A new
member for the Talmud Club.
Kent Taylor, that rising young
black-haired sheik, is of Mosaic'
lineage. He's one of those unex-
p ected "fin ds"
he frequented i
itlem et stu di os n d e 's" a . • o exru eu di".
day someone "di
since when he's been soaring:
Played important parts in "Death
Takes a Holiday" and "Double
Door." Sorry, girls, he's haltered
... to a Joosh young lady.
The film colony oversubscribed
their $35,000 quota for the re-
lief of German refugees . . .
they collected $41,000. Irving
Thalberg is at the head of the
drive . . . Louis B. Mayer was •
one of the principal speakers at
the mass meeting.
• • •
Life's little tragedies: Ricardo
Cortez had a long and troublesome
speech to memorize for a big
scene . . . he worked diligently
. and after some time knew it
perfectly. Just to make sure, he
went through a last rehearsal by
himself. The director overheard
him and approved, "That's fine,
Ric, perfect! Now forget it . . .
we've just written a new speech
for that scene!"
• • •
Did you know there is ■
Mount Emanuel Cohen? 'S'fact !
Near the South Pole. Admiral
Byrd named • mountain for the
Paramount exec . . . and we'd
say that's reaching theheights!
Sidney Fox was once a "sob-
sister" . . . wrote "Advice to the
Lovelorn" for a newspaper . . .
yet can't untangle her own heart
problems.
•
1ConYtIght. 1935, J. T. A.)
•
A SILVERY PUN
British "Racial Fascism" has at last had a
really good free advertisement in the London
press. Of course it is not the first time that
articles have been written about Fascism, but
no far, British Fascists, adopting German racial
methods. have been treated with contempt.
On Empire Day morning, though, two members
of the Imperial Fascist League succeeded in per-
forming a spectacular feat which always im-
presses the British public. They climbed to the
top of County Hall, Westminster, and hoisted
their Union Jack centered with a large black
swastika in a white circle.
A replica of the flag was printed in the London
Preas and many a 4•Jew who saw it must have
pondered over the curious design. Perhaps those
suffering from forebodings immediately saw in
this flag the future emblem of England. But
let us consider "this strange flag"—as a national
newspaper termed it.
First of all, what is the Union Jack? It is a
combination of the crosses of the three patron
Saints of Great Britain, namely St. George of
England, St. Andrew of Scotland and St. Patrick
of Ireland. It was not by chance that this happy
emblem was chosen. Englishmen are religious.
They may not all fill their places of worship, but
the religions practiced in England have a vital
force. The Archbishop of Canterbury is more
than a churchman; he is the leader of the people,
and the religious heads of English communities
are respected by conservatives and socialists re.
gardless of party politics.
to the last ditch. But probably just because they
suffered only too recently from persecution else-
where, they exaggerate opposition or unfriendli-
ness in England. Only too often, the more re-
cently arrived Jews tend to regard English peo-
ple in an unfriendly spirit, considering them as
their would-be persecutors. In this way they
create that very anti-Semitism which they are
trying to combat.
It is only a quiet form of anti-Semitism that
can make headway in England. The more loudly
the Jews cry against such anti-Semitism, the more
rapidly it will spread.
" The Movement Has Not Even Started"
Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of the
Temple of Cleveland is getting
some gray hairs. "1 tell my con-
gregation," said Rabbi Silver,
"that I am growing gray around
the temple."
•
REVIVING DEAD BONES
Rabbi Silver was speaking the
other night at a banquet tendered
to Sol Cohen, a leading Zionist
worker in New York. The two—
Silver and Cohen—were boyhood
chums, both members of the first
junior Zionist society in Amer.
ica—the Dr. Ilerzl Club of New
York.
I was very much interested in
Silver's revelation of his reaction
'to the various trips he has made
to l'alestine. Be now frankly ad-
' nits that on the earlier trips he
' was much taken aback by what he
saw in Palestine.
"Can these dead bones live?
Can this land of desolation and
, barreness ever be fit to nourish a
people?" These questions he asked
himself. The last trip, however,
revealed such progress that to his
mind there could no longer be any
question of the success of the
, Zionist effort.
• • •
It is so easy, though, for the Jews to combat
anti-Semitism in England without shouting about
it! The Englishman, in spite of his insularity,
will get on very well with a foreigner as soon
as he has discovered that he is a "sportsman."
Still more so, a Christian here will soon be on
the best of terms with an English Jew whom he
considers a decent fellow, even if the latter is a
naturalized citizen with a foreign accent. "
If the Jews were to answer Mosley as simply
as a Jewish boxer friend of mine did the other
day, there would be no controversy about English
Fascism and anti-Semitism. The boxer was talk-
ing to a mixed set of non-Jewish friends. "I ALWAYS A DIASPORA
donne what's all this Mosley talk about the Jews ! Rabbi Silver, however, points
and hats off to England," he said. "Why, I'm out that Palestine can never hold
always hats off to England and so are most of the 15,000,000 Jews of the world.
is it necessary, as he further
the rest of our fellers. I'm so much hats off to Nor
pointed out, that it (should domi-
England that the other day when I went into cile completely the Jewish popula-
synagogue I forgot to put it on again and the tion of the world.
Unfriendliness Is Exaggeration
But what interested me most in
beadle ticked me off." A little irreverent joke
There is every reason to look for a religious like that was more convincing to those English- his address was the fact which he
significance in the Union Jack. It appears all the men than all the recriminations against Mosley mentioned—which I believe is lit-
tle known—that at the time of
more odd to cut up the three crosses at their that the papers in London could print.
the existence of the Jewish state
union point and stick a heathen sign in the middle
I have no far been talking of the average Eng- in Palestine there were a good
of the flag. No wonder people talk of "this
many Jews who lived outside of
lishman's attitude towards Fascism in relation to Palestine.
strange flag." But the idea of "racial fascism"
the Jews. It is doubtful, however, whether Fas-
I, myself, in my casual reading
for which the flag stands seems just as strange
cism is making as much headway in England as is of Roman and Greek history, have
to the average Englishman. All the pet German
been
struck by the not infrequent
suggested by newspaper reports abroad. First
theories about Nordic types, racial purity, mix-
of all, the Labor movement in England has funda- mention of Jews by the writers
of
those
nations. Cicero, Tacitus,
ture of blood, strike most English people as a
mental differences with socialism abroad. Be-
mere heap of balderdash. The old motto of cause the Labor movement is less dogmatic than and numerous others of the same
rank, refer to the Jews in their
"Live and let live" replaces all this junk. The
continental Marxism it appeals to far wider cir- midst. Josephus, too, it will be
more exaggerated forms of German anti-Semitism
cles and to a large extent has replaced the old recalled, first met the Roman Em-
are received in England with disgust and ridicule.
peror through a Jewish actor in
English Liberal party.
Rome, who appears to have been
Such occurrences as the spreading throughout
The Englishman who combines traditionalism a favorite of the queen, playing
Germany of the "Stuermer Ritual Murder" num-
in Rome while the Jews had their
ber do more to alienate the man in the street with a desire for progress has considerable faith own state.
• • •
here against Nazism than any amount of propa- in the two- or three-party democratic system.
There is a lot of talk about parliamentarism hav- JEWISH MISSIONARIES
ganda by anti-Fascist organizations.
ing failed, but the prestige of the House of Com-
Those ancient days were pe-
The racial terms adopted in Germany are sim-
mons is probably as high now as it has ever been. culiar days for the Jews. It was
ply incomprehensible in England and are there-
In spite of the support of a large newspaper a day in which Jews actively made
fore treated as a joke. "Non-Aryan grandmother"
group, there is no particular reason why Fascism converts among the Romans for
Judaism. And many leading Ro-
is an inconceivable phrase for England. That is
should make great headway in England. On the mans became such converts.
why the British press is only too pleased to write
contrary, whatever the merits or demerits of
Yet, even in that day, there ap-
of "New Inventions in Germany—Discovery of Fascism, it appears to have no great measure of pears to have been anti-Semitism.
an Aryan Typewriter" or of "Aryan Hens—
success in Britain. At the moment of greatest Cicero leaves the impression of
having been an anti-Semite.
Guaranteed Racially Pure."
economic distress here, the movement had not
• • •
If a political party with an anti-Jewish bias begun. Today, owing to improved trade, there ANCIENT ANTI-SEMITISM
wishes to appeal to Englishmen. the only way it is less discontent and, consequently, less desire
I ask myself how could there-
can do no is by proving successfully that the for an experiment which would upset the nodal have been anti-Semitism in those'
days.
It seems to me that much'
Jew is not making common cause with England. order.
of the modern anti-Semitism is.
It is just here that the cry of Sir Oswald Mosley's
During the last few months the political pen- due to the Jews' prominence in
British Union of Fascists, "Jews must put Britain dulum in England has been swinging from right commerce. Yet there was anti-
first," drives home. There are a good many Jews to left. By-elections are usually a good gauge Semitism then, when Jews; were-
in England who during the last few decades, of the political tendencies here, and during re- not prominent in that field. In-
fled from persecution abroad and have not yet cent contests a half-dozen seats have been gained deed, Josephus replying to the
anti-Semitic attack of Apion, ad-
acclimatized. These people quite rightly feel by Labor from the Conservatives. No Fascist mits and deplores the charge of
that it is their duty to defend the word "Jew" has yet been put up as a candidate.
(Turn to Next Page,
Reeling 'round: Carmel Myers
warbling over the air waves .. .
Harry Rapf's son, Maurice, wins
a trophy for writing and directing
the best play of the year at Dart-
mouth ... Max Steiner, tune spe-
cialist, is made the 'steen millionth
Kentucky colonel by Governor
Laffoon . . . Bullfighter Sidney
Franklin is translating a Spanish
tome on how to "keel ze bull"
... If Max Baer wins the cham-
pionship bout, he'll have plenty
flicker offers . . Paul Muni's
story idea gleaned from his Rus-
sian sojourn is being scribed by
his brother-in-law, Abem Finkel
...The late Otto Kahn's story is
to be picturized, depicting the
career of a powerful simmer of
talent in the operatic and concert
field.
• • •
A local wag ... expert atolls-
tician ... says if all the clothes
worn by chorus girls in "Murder
at the Vanities" were sewed to-
gether, they would make • nice
pair of pants for Baby LeRoy!
• • •
Georgie Sidney, nephew of the
comedian ... travelling coastwise
. . . carried a peculiar four-foot
package. Curious onlookers
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AR O'
S
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
t Copyright, 1535. Jewleh Teleglaphit Agency, Ins.)
• •
TARTLING disclosures of inten-
Opine propaganda activities in the
United States revealed at the pub-
lic hearings by the Congressional
investigating committee are giving
official Washington deep cause for
concern.
International complications are
expected to result in the event that
the testimony Is substantiated
through further investigations by,
the committee, the Npartment of
Justice, the Department of labor
Consuls representing Germany and Mex- and the State Department.
• • •
ico were the only ones to absent themselves
The names of Dr. Hans Luther,
from the conference called in New York German ambassador, and Dr. Otto
by Aldermanic President Bernard S. Kiep, German consul general at
New York, figured prominently at
Deutsch for the purpose' of laying the the public hearings especially in
charges
that these representatives
groundwork for a program of better un- of the German
government fostered
derstanding between native and foreign- publication in this country of a
pro-Hitler anti-Semitic pamphlet.
born residents of New York City.
In response to these charges the
Germany's consul originally accepted German embassy issued a statement
saying: "It goes without saying
the invitation, but his assistant, Oscar that the ambassador does not in-
in any propaganda."
Schlitter, wrote at the last moment, declin- dulge
Despite the denial from the em-
bassy
various
branches of the Fed-
ing to attend. He endorsed the sentiments
eral Government interested in the
of Consul General Enrico R. Ruiz of Mex- Congressional probe are looking
charges.
ico who said that in view of the fact that further into the
• • •
a resolution. criticizing religious persecu-
The Stale Department is placed
in a rather embarrassing position
tions in these two countries is now before in
view of the charges made against
the Board of Aldermen, attendance on these two. Diplomatic relations
between Germany and the Uni-
their part would not be appropriate.
ted States depend upon fre-
conversations between Am-
What is it that made these two consular quent
bassador Luther and State Depart-
officials fear the light of day. and there- ment officials. With the open
charges against Dr. Luther, and
fore refuse to attend a meeting for good the fart that further investigations
will and better understanding? Brooklyn's will he made into these charges,
the conduct of these conversations
Alderman, Joseph Reich, introduced a will be somewhat awkward.
• • •
resolution calling upon the State Depart- Is some quarters of official Wash-
ment to inform Germany and Mexico that ington • feeling exists that Ambas-
sador Luther should be recalled by
their persecutions of certain groups on reli- Germany. Nothing will come of
gious and racial grounds had reached the this for the present. Should defin-
ite facts be developed by the Fed-
eral Government that Dr. Luther
point of being "cruel and barbaric."
has actually been engaged in propa-
This is what they fear! Their govern- ganda activities then it is prob-
ments' actions are labelled as "cruel and able to expect that this government
barbaric" in democratic countries, and they will request his recall. But not
until then.
shun the light of day when the cruelties
• • . •
of their homelands are unveiled before
While the Congtlessional props-
'
ganda
investigating
world public opinion. But when the re- first hearing was being committee's
held. plans
Tidbits and News
By JOSEPH FISHBERG
"Chatterbox(' Julius Tannen's
mission in life is to persaude
David Warfield to appear in •
movie . . . says Warfield owes
it to posterity as well as to his
old admirers. Tannen, by the
way, used to do an imitation
of Warfield's "Music Mader" in
the old vauda days.
• • •
er
BY-THE -WAY
.
COR M
SWI N G
mittee, for holding public hearings
in New York.
••
Mean while, the McCormack
committee will review the testi- .
mony fibtained at secret hearings
held at Asheville, N. C., New York
and Newark. Much of the future ,
action by the committee will de-
pend on the way in which all testi-
mony and evidence than far gath-
ered is correlated.
• • •
Apparently the German Ameri-
can Societies is opposed to the boy-'
Cott against imported Germja
goods put into effect by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Jews and
other groups because of Germany's
policy of political and racial per-
secutions.
In the letter the German Ameri-
can Societies practically boasts of .
its high-minded ideals of patriotism
and loyalty to American principles.
But the pamphlet tells an entirely
different story—a one-sided story
of "pure Arytnism." .
While the first day's session pub-
lic hearing in Washington was get-
ting under way, mail carriers in
the House and Senate office build-
ings were delivering to the mem-
bers of Congress a letter enclosed
with • pamphlet from the United
German Societies of Greater New
York.
• • •
The letter called attention to the
pamphlet and pointed out that the
Societies "consider it a primary ob-
ligation to mobilize all their mem-
bers and to avail themselves of all
lawful means with the view of fur-
thering and cultivating the cultural
as well as the economical relations
between the United States and Gee-
raspy."
Another portion of the letter
says: "The times we are living in
con-
call for a unification o f
structive forces of our nation in
order to bring about an ascension
from the depths of depression. The
United German Societies of Great-
er New York will counteract all
and every attempt which would
tend to retard such ascension, and
they are anxious to express to you
as one of the duly elected repre-
' •entatives of the American people
their readiness to oppose all move.i
sentment of public opinion is finally werebring made
ments which are destructive to the
ormack rres
hna
. ce
r ue ")) and at
to on.
o
aroused, the guilty will be driven from tive J oh n IS.McC bRets-
Representative Samuel Dicks- ,`relations wiithe
e
,::
gr e
their hiding places because justice must roan,
stein, vice-chairman, and Thomas Volts of the wo
r "
triumph.
I W. Hardwick, counsel to the corn-
tam-riot OK J. I Al
The Jewish Camp
Co-operating Palestine Investments
Movement in U. S.
of
By
AARON L. RICHMAN
(Copyright. 1535, J. T. A I
EDITOR•S NOTE: Julian Meltzer. author
the following •rth - le. la an Anglo-
Jewish let Haunt who hex overed Palestine for the Jcwish Triegrophir
Agency and has been a resident of the Holy 1.and for t he pest 14 years.
I turIng that period he has ameAsed • large store of Information on the
Near East and the problems of Jewry In Pali-Mine and has heroine known
as •n.authorlty on the •ubJect. I-11s present ankle dlactiasea the work of
the Atnerlean }:conotnle Committee In Its task of co-ordinating new In4eat•
merit, In Palestine.
Summer camping is now rec-
ognized as an integral part of
By JULIAN L. MELTZER
•
our educational system. Dr.
(Copyright. 1534. Jewish Telegraphic Aarn,y t.
David Sneddon of Columbia
University has made the state-
When Jewish immigrants from at effort, and is setting itself the
ment that "camp education at Russia and Eastern Europe start- object of lining up well-planned,
its best is now clearly recog- ed streaming into America in the scientific suggestions for investors
eighties, they came upon conditions of every type. Investment and set-
nized as complementary to somewhat similar to those that tlement information is easily ac-
school education and existence now prevail in Eretz Israel. There cessible by an ingenious system of
in the wilderness is complemen- was an incipient "boom" in Amer- classification. Overlapping of in-
tary to existence in the city." ica fifty years ago, and almost any- vestments is thus prevented by co-
thing to which industry and en- ordination. The bureau is trying to
Jews have heartily subscribed to
trrprise turned their hands seemed help Palest:tie industrialists get
this movement for which they to offer roseate prospects. Jews got new markets, particularly in the
have a special need and they in on the ground floor, so to speak, United States. Speculation is ta-
have had a part in its develop. when the edifice of American busi- boo. Business most be on a sound
ness was being reared.
footing to earn its way.
ment. All this is described by
But there was this difference. In
There is a general card-index of
Mr. Richman, a member of the those days in America a "greener" industries with
a category classi-
Camp Directors' Association of had more or less to depend, upon fication for each industry. One of
America and the director of his own acumen and organizing the committee's hopes is to analyze
Camps Stinson and Eagle Point. abilities to succeed. Nowadays, the local economics in such a way as
Camping has a special signifi- German Jew or Polish Jew or to present • scientific basis for
a
cance to the Jews of America. other newcomer finds investment new government finance and tariff
With a racial background of opportunities, business openingand policy.
nerve-wracking persecution and fields of endeavor more or less
No less than sixty-five per cent
a daily environment of high charted by rule of thumb, and he of the capitalists who come to Pal-
pressure business and profes- ran obtain free of charge the fiery- estine apply to the bureau. Sixty-
sional requirements for survival, ices of expert investment advisors two per cent of all such applicants
to help him build up his new
the change in life represented istence in Palestine.
are German Jews and Jews from
by camping is particularly nec-
The American Economic Com• Mittel—sad Oat-Europa.
The totals for 1933 are impres-
essary and advantageous for the Imittee for Palestine is the contem-
porary pioneer in this field of in- sive reading, of the total number
Jew's health and happiness.
vestment servicing. Directed local- of 1,362 capitalist enquirers who
The Jew is very largely a ly by Rehabiah Lewin - Epstein, called in at the office—an average
dweller in cities. According to New Yorker of considerable busi- of roughly five persons each work-
the latest available statistics, ness experience, the committee's ing day—almost a steady siege, 838
work from its headquar. were from Germany, 125 from Pol-
there were estimated to be ap- practical
a 84 from America and 80 from
tees at 18 Rothschild Boulevard, and,
proximately 4,228,000 Jews in Tel Aviv, has succeeded in placing A ustria. They reported possession
the United States it the end of many newcomers, with foreign in- of capital funds amounting to
dustrial or business experience but 13,298.903, or roughly $16,500,000,
1927.
wholly unacchmatized locally, upon as available for investment. Of
It was also found that this the right path.
them, 1,022 declared they were in-
large Jewish population was
The committee, which is devoid terested in industry. Eight hund-
very unevenly d istribut ed of any political character since it red and twenty-five had capital up
its claim to existence upon to 13,000 each and one hundred
throughout the country, the bases
-,000 to
pure economics, was established by and eighty-eight from
greatest proportion being in the
group of American Jewish busi- 16,000 each. The actual otal in-
northern states, smaller in the ness leaders as their gesture of quiries amounted to 2,3. , for in
western states, and lowest in good will towards the evolving eco- addition to the 1,362 po ntial in-
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nomica of this land. Judge Julian More, there were 124 s king em
the south. Within these states , W. Mack, I srael B . B rodi e and ployment and 893 general quiriea
Ns,
the Jewish population was also Robert Szold headed and still head by mail.
widely distributed. Jews were the undertaking.
These figures are a moat eloquent
To establish whether or not the testimony, if such testimony were
found in nearly 90 out of every
bureau Ms accomplished its avow- needed, of the real benefits that
100 urban places. In rural vil- ed object of servicing would-be in-
are being derived from the bureau.
lages only 30 in every 100 had vestors, one has but to look at the
Gone are the days of irrespon-
Jewish residents, whereas in the latest figures published by the com- sible, indiscriminate "greenhorn"
ventures. The industrial or busi-
country`'districts only seven in mittee.
Applicants to the Tel Aviv bu-
every 100 such districts had reau, possess capital of from 11,000 ness newco mer is practically helped
almost from the very day of his
permanent Jewish dwellers. to 120,000, plus productive exper- arrival. And that is how American
Eighty per cent of them were ience. It has undertaken compre- business efficiency is putting or-
hensive studies of all branches of derly economic development in its
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