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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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figuratively, but physically and very
actively sick.
"The idea that adult, responsible men
can be taken from their homes, stood
up against a wall, back to the rifles, and
later.' a. fiecond-elu• watts. 111.ch 1. 1014. at IL* ?het-
shot to death, is beyond expression."
*INA •1 !retreat. Lich., 1,44f the Ad of March S.
This, undoubtedly, is the view today of
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But upon reading Gen. Johnson's state-
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Whoa mailing note«. kindly nee one rid. of the Paver oolg.
ment we can't help but marvel that these
Detroit
Josii.it
Cbrookle
le•ites
rorrespondence
on
sub-
words should be spoken now, when Ger-
T.
to the Jestiolt people. but &etiolate responot
ject. of it
kitty for on indorrernent of tlor •iews enpresred by the writers
man perpetrators of horror and cruelty
fight for control, but that silence should
Sabbath Readings of the Law
practically have reigned throughout the
Pentateuchal portion—Dent. 1:1-3:22
Prophetical portion—Is. 1:1-27
entire period of Jewish persecutions.
Ti•k b'Ab Reading of the Law, Sunday, July 22
But perhaps this is the lot of Jewry—
Fentateuchal portion, morning: Deut. 4:25-40;
afternoon, Ex. 3211-14; 34:1-10
that we must continually battle for our
Prophetical portion, morning: Jer. 8:13.9:23;
own rights, with most of mankind remain-
afternoon, Is. 55:6-56:8
ing indifferent to our sorrows. Evidently
Ab. 8, 5694 there continues to be justification for Rabbi
July 20, 1934
Hillern admonition: "If I do not help my-
self,
who will help me?
A Day of Mourning
fohlialmeil Woolly by The Jewis Chi•arcle Publishing Co-
Our Film Folk
Tisha b'Ab, to be observed this Sunday,
is the anniversary day of Israel greatest
Irresponsible Action
tragedy.
On this day, the First and Second Tem-
ples were destroyed, and Israel was exiled
from his homeland.
An interesting legend about the remain-
ing Temple Wall and a dove is related in
Zev Vilnay's fascinating book, "Legends country is merely a tilt between himself
of Palestine." Vilnay records the tradi- and his Nazi oponents. Opinion's editorial
tional story that on the eve of Tisha b'Ab. states:
when Jews lamented at the Wailing Wall
Must Jewry forever he hurt by its own?
for the destruction of the Temple, "the
Opinion is filit thinking of Carl Byoir and his
sound of their weeping would cleave the
Brooklyn or Manhattan confederates but ra-
heavens, and a white (love would appear
ther of one who aspires to be a servant and
champion of his people. _When the Congres-
in the darkness of the night and join the
sional Committee was named for investigation
people of Israel in their mourning." He
of Nazi propaganda in this country, it war as-
then repeats one of the lamentations at the
sumed that the author of the measure would
readily ore that the designation of a Jew as
Wailing Wall:
chairman of the committee would lessen, in
On account of the palace which is laid waste
We sit solitary, and weep.
For the sake of the Temple, which is destroyed,
We nit solitary and weep.
For the walls that are thrown down,
We sit solitary and weep.
For our glory, which hath departed from us,
We sit solitary and weep.
For our wise men, who have perished,
We sit solitary and weep.
For the precious stones, which are burnt,
We sit solitary and weep.
For our priests, who have fallen,
We sit solitary and weep.
We implore thee to have mercy on Zion.
Re-assemble the children of Jerusalem.
Haste! Heide! 0 Redeemer of Zion,
Speak in favor of Jerusalem.
May beauty and majesty surround Zion.
Turn with Thy clemency toward Jerusalem.
Grant noon that royal power may shine upon
Zion,
Console us who weep over Jerusalem.
May peace and happiness enter Zion,
May the scepter of power turn toward Jeru-
salem!
To this very day, the cries and lamenta-
tions of Israel continue to create a feeling
of sorrow over the misfortune which befell
our people 2,000 years ago. The difference
today is that in addition to weeping there
is a process of rebuilding and reconstruc-
tion; that prayer is mingled' with work.
Indeed, beauty and majesty is once again
beginning to surround Zion. And the plc).
neers carry on their labor of love with a
spirit of confidence that "the scepter of
power" will surely "turn toward Jeru-
salem."
Campaign Resolicitation
fact neutralize, the value of the investigation.
Congressman Samuel Dickstein, we are reliably
informed, would have succeeded in becoming
chairman of the committee had not wiser coun-
sels than his own happily prevailed. Represen-
tative McCormack of Massachusetts wan chosen
and the committee appointed former Senator
Hardwick of Georgia, a tented liberal, as its
counsel. Under these circumstances, with two
very able and competent Democrats as chair-
man and counsel it might have been assumed
that Congressman Dickstein, after being denied
the chairmanship of the committee, would re-
strain from every effort to identify himself
with the leadership thereof. Not so. Every few
days Vice-Chairman Dickstein insintn upon re-
sorting to action in the form of speeches and
Interviews which must be endlessly irritating
to the real needs of the committee, and at the
same time make it appear that Mr. Dickstein
is "the works," and that the Congressional
Committee is nothing more than an alias for
him.
Opinion is shocked to think that the Joint
Consultative Council, representing the B'nai
B'rith, the American Jewish Congress, and the
American Jewish Committee, has not been
moved to appeal to Mr. Dickstein to refrain
from acts which are bound to annul in ad-
vance the finding of the committee, whenever
they art to be made. Friends of Mr. Dick-
stein, if they dare speak to him, ought to warn
him against having part in such a more or less
official encounter as the recent pitiful tilt with
the unconscionable Viereck.
Israel hen numberless defenders to do battle
against Ilitlerinm. But wbo will shield Jewry
from ionic of its friends, most especially
friends whose publicity in bound up with pros-
p&ive Congressional elections? Unless Mr.
Dickstein is prepared to permit him daily out-
givingm on Ilitlerism to constitute one of the
minor Jewish tragedies of our time, he should
of his own accord be ready to subordinate and
even efface himself in the presence of a crisis
which leaven no room for Jewish self-seeking
and self-advertisement.
Opinion believes that Mr. Dickstein is bent
on nerving his people. Let him take counsel
with those who understand what Opinion ven-
tures to say — that he must cease to make it
appear that the Nazi battle in America is noth-
ing more than an encounter between a Jewish
Congressman and some imported or exported
Nazi opponents.
The Poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik
By HELEN ZIGMOND
1101,LLYWOOOD. — Few pee-,
pie know that Herman Bing, the
rotund little Jewish comic with
the true Munchauren accent, has
a beautiful baritone voice and
once studied for the opera. Vows=.
days he's generally • waiter or al
chef ... in flicker toles. we mean.
Bing was born in Frankfurt-am-1
Main . . . the non of an opera!
Finger ... was always surrounded '
by musical and theatrical atmos-
phere. Came to America some 20
years ago ... got as far west as
Chicago . . . returned to Europe
... studied singing in Italy. The
war broke out . . . causing the
beginning and the end of his car- '
eer. Ile went back w Germany
.. ended his voice study ... but
in the ranks he acted and enter-
tained for the soldiers. After the ,
war the movie business in Berlin
interested him ... he became as.'
sistant director to the late direc-
tor Murnau ... followed Murmur '
to Hollywood. From writing,.
translating, directing, he proceed-
rd to acting in email roles. Gradu-1
ally his reputation as a mirth-1
provoker grew . .. he played in 1
many pictures.
Jocularity is •i
habit with him which he practices I
The current issue of Opinion contains an or the screen as well as on. He
one actor who liken movies . . .
editorial in which irresponsible action by is seen
nearly Suety flicker made.
Jews speaking in behalf of Jews is de- Acting fulfils his ambitions except 1
plored, and advice is given to Congressman that he hopes one deli to burst1
with that booming baritone
Dickstein to stop making it appear as if the forth
in some celluloid fragment.
• • •
investigation of Nazi propagandists in this
HE question has often been asked by poets
as well as by critics, is there such a thing
Since
as national art and national poetry?
very art consists of two main parts—impression
and expression—can there be any psychological
difference in the way one is impressed or one
does express nature or emotion?
It teems to me that the 'newer to these ques-
tion. lies in the domain of psychology rather than
,f literary criticism. There are and there have
always been two main aspects of life, the Hellenic
and Hebraic. The former, saw nature as the
be all and end all of life. "It is nature," said
the Greeks, "that makes and unmakes man." It
is nature that influences our thoughts, Our moods
and our emotions. We are helplera implements
in the hands of nature. We must obey it even
when we disobey it. The Greek, have thus de-
veloped the art of depicting nature which has
never been excelled or equalled. But nature is
blind and merciless and unreasoning. It follows:,
therefore, that even merciless things can be very
Ted Ilealy was informed the
'other day that he had a featured
part in "Death on the Diamond"
. . . worked himself into a dither
regaining his lost baseball talents.'
Next day they told him his part
was that of the umpire!
• • •
Did you hear about the come-
d ian who, during the course of
the day's .hooting, was required
to take 12 cold water baths? (in
arriving home he found his wife
had drawn his bath preparatory
to his attending a dinner party
He pulled the stopper.
out.
beautiful and subjects of perfect art.
In opposition to this view, the Hebrew raw
the center of life not in nature but in man. The
Hebrew held that mind and soul must ultimately
conquer nature, that it in human deetiny to ever-
laetingly triumph over nature by its own laws.
Behold! for now is given thee a wondrous
fected
.1epp4t• Ibis
thing,
the human tout against calm and mercilerr na-
ture. Bialik's poetry is in one artist not art; it
is euper-art. Art is, in the last analysis, the link
between the visible and the invisible. It is the
reality of an illusion. Bialik's poems are rather
the illusions of realities. That is why we are not
angry with him when he uses the harshest words
is whip um, to chastise us, to punish us. That in
shy we rather take his chastisement as the pun-
ishment of love (Yesurim Art ahavahL That
is why we rather feel exalted when he nays, "Yea,
the treople are grass." We bear him no ill feel-
Jere-
ing as we bear no malice toward Isaiah,
miah
or Amos.
His People's Hope
And just at the art of Bialik in super-art, so
are his emotions super-emotions. He paints the
most gruesome pictures while not a vibration etire
him foul with pity. In the "Town of Slaughter,"
pity is useless; you don'( do rescue work in a
coal mine with ■ child's toy above], and an in-
fant's toy boat is quite unuseable in an Monde-
lion. It in rock-deep anger rather than pity. It
is wrath and prom rather than chastisement. It
is in brief the depth, strength and directness
of the Hebrew prophets that are characteristic
of poems like 'Town of Slaughter," "Yea, the
people is grit's" and scores of others.
Bialik's seeming despair is in reality hit peo-
ple's hope, for beneath the crust of hie pessimism
flows the quickening spring of optimism. True
pessimism does not protest, it is reconciled with
evil. It it convinced that evil is innate in things
and cannot be eliminated. It is the optimist who
sees the world to be, and life as it should be,
but also MS things as they are for the time
being, and protests against them. Beneath Bia-
JTAI
BIALIK MEMORIES
It wan in 1526 when 1 now Bia-
bk. He had come to the United
States to help in the Zionist cam-
paign for Palestine funds.
I saw him, 1 think, under very
favorable auspice,. Ile was sitting
in the Jewish section of New York.
kfialik wee there 'with Sokolov
and Louis Lipsky — all sitting
around one table of the cafe.
1 was in the cafe before ;Le
party arrived. Within ten minutes
after the Malik party had come
in—there was standing room only
and all those bitting at all of the
other table, in the cafe were peer-
ing at the Battik table—peering
and silently trying to gather in
-
everything that might be
heard coming from thy-
part y.
it is so customary to 1. 01101,1 r. •
on the modesty of pleat nitri .1.at
had
hoped to avoid raying any!
I
thing on that phase of Bielik's
appearance, but I ant afraid I
must tell the truth. For Blaine on
this occasion not only appeared
modent but almost bewildered a:
the attention paid him. Mrs.
Bialik, constantly keeping her
husband under her eurveilaner to
minister to his every want, was,
however, smiling very happily.
She wan, plainly to be seen, deep-
ly happy at the reception given
her husband.
• • •
I
From that beginning, Bialik't
presence in the United States was
one dinner after another. And
generally it was • chicken dinner,
I leading Bialik to comment humor-
ously that it seemed that Amer:-
can Judaism rested on "hinnereche
fieslach" ton chicken's feetsi. 01,-
viously, in Yiddish, this statement
means much more than the Eng.
limb. "Hinntrsche fisslach" r.
Yiddish has a significance
f
" weak ness,"
lik's chastisement there hi the unmistakeable be-
lief in better things to come in • world of poa-
•
• •
Bible good and beaull•.
Does Bialik's poetry belong then to the sphere Bialik was a peculiar combine,
of ethics rather than sesth•tico? I believe that in ! lion. He was ouvrernely the poet,
amnadh yet hteh sets, ta senseb(ufsirgs;
the upper strata of life, the two meet. On the
crest of human existence, the good 'Maker' hand !phrase. He wrote beautiful poems,
with the beautiful; in fact, they merge—an idea but made hit living in ■ very
sst arrage,,,balus,ii ne ea si,: r. for a poet--he
which the Hellenic mind never approached and
never conceived.
He was thus, true to the tredi-
Heir of the Prophets
limo, of the Jewish sages of old,
A word should be said of Bialik's language. Hie (Rabbi Joshua, the shoemaker, etc.,
etc '
Hebrew, though thoroughly modern, yet ie the
• , •
Hebrew of all the ages combined. He uses
The story is told that a Jew in
brew more than ■ medium. His words create :Palestine came in to Fee Bialik-
to
him
and aci d
e., that apart
illusions that are also allusions,
on • bunineso matter.
from the intrinsic value of his Ilebrew word as
‘'antetdo
Ida I he began
a meaning, as a simile, at a picture, the word
man in Yiddish.
The man objected to the Vid-
is also often alluding to some Talmudic !tannage
I
dish.
or to some Midraehic saying or legend.
I "But you want to talk about
Bialik, to my mind, is not only one of the great I business," remonstrated Bialik.
"Yes," replied the man, "but I
immortal poetic geniuses that have from time to
time graced thin earth and carried the echo of !should like to speak Hebrew."
then you
the human soul to mankind, much as Shakeepeare, (time.
! i ' s ou difYel;I :nt l , :l ' e 7-tey lic (! d f
Dante, Heine, or Goethe, but he is preminently
Bialik, arid began spea ki ng p ile.
the direct scion and heir of the prophets ' of I brew.
• • .
Israel.
I
Thou g h
The butcher slaughtered!
all of these poets, his poetry is universe], i B i
Like
d he dweaesp aa vijeurniin:n"t om :
•
transcending national borders, and yet he is Thor- real estate, land speculating type
The knife was sharp and glistened; from the
eughly national, inasmuch as he is speaking to of Jew who constituter; much a
wound
B ah rc alestine.
w
present day
h menaceiin
the world via the Jewish people. Bialik, in brief,
Flowed blood and
Once,
IF not only showing the world to the Jew, but
What doer thin picture, living, horrifying,
ocr , of a Tel aA n v n
i v
I the nei,gh boeryhom
more so the Jew to the world. lie has unrolled synagogue, known as a place
monumental, tell you? ('an you ever forget the
the Jewish soul like his "Scroll of Fire." where many of these land epecu-
twofold gift, the slaughter and the spring? The
The real Hebrew poet of the type of m o nk to . lators are wont to gather.
garden, the sun and the butcher? Can you ever
approached Bialik and
merely a link in that unbroken chain of Jew- I The man
escape seeing the knife, sharp and glistening,
the "echoic
irhgeniuses that has started in the hoary an- , asked him to tome to
and the wound flowing blood and gold? And yet,
e q uity with the song's of Moses and of Deborah,
fur i"Iw
a miliIng
Y r there to join the min-
it is not merely a picture for the eye, it is rather
and will end somewhere "in the end of the days." yan," said Bialik, "but if you are
intended as a protest against all cosmic forcer,
m eutest Ililin d ts, i e au t-
aoliinyge tdhcoarle, tiii..ttb se
it
in
the
eternal
light
and
the
pillar
of
fire
that
lic
against the garden blossoming while the knife is
IF guiding the way of a people on its checkered
glistening, against the run shining while from the
!
th
vi d
the synagogue
oi
will buren --thitt
historic career,
wound flowed blood and gold. It is a protest of
('turn to Nest Pagel
A twofold gift, • slaughter and • spring!
The garden blossomed, the sun shone bright,
A commendable effort has been launched
by the Jewish Welfare Federation to raise
an additional sum to boost the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign nearer its 1934 goal of $175,-
000.
This community has a certain obligation
This is excellent advice, except that it t
to local and outside causes, and to cut does not go far enough. There is entirely
of
score
pledged
to
a
SUMS
7
the minimum
OINC
important agencies by even a single penny too much irresponsibility in Jewish life,
in which the Aleph ZAMA
would mean failure to live up to our re- especially in time of crisis. It is high time IT IS NOT often that a group of , !hare
young men representing Jewry Aleph hen already taken a marked
that
there
were
an
end
to
such
actions
interest
though the establishment
from every section of the nation 1.
sponsibilities.
to Mecum common prob- of s, commission to delve into it
Unless another large sum is raised, the based on the misunderstanding of the essembled
• • •
lems. One of these infrequent 0...
Old Folks Home will suffer, the Hebrew I problem facing Jewry.
cesium °tuned here calls' a tea
To Jewish youth Rabbi Israel
days ago. It was the eleventh an-
"Do not be led astray into
Schools will be reduced to a position which
There is evidence of a lack of unified nual convention of Aleph %mirk raid.
thinking that the way to lessen
will make it difficult for them to function
Aleph,
junior
order
of
11'nai
!Cott,
anti-Semitism
ie to have fewer doe.
without the teachers being placed on feeling and action almost daily. While the which brought more than 5uo J ew• tore, or fewer lawyers. That is rot.
starvation wages, and the German-Jewish leaders speaking for the American Jewish jr/i youths together.
No matter what occupation the Jew
That Jewish youth is serious of today might have, he would etill
relief effort will find Detroit Jewry among Congress speak too freely. the American
competing with non-Jews out of
mindid, more so at th:s time than
the hard hearted who are unconcerned Jewish Committee does not speak at all. titer Were in recent years, wen work, prejudicing the economic in-
As lung an see have an
with the plight of the oppressed in a most Instead of unity there is deplorable dis- clearly in re 'dente during the three justice.
gnomic situation in which the Jew
tragic hour in our history.
hue
to
compete
with jobless non-
days of the coneention sessions.
unity,
Hundreds of Detroit Jews have as yet
Underneath all the gaiety typical Jews, there will be anti-Semites.
In addition, there are too many who at-
The problem of the anti-Semite is
chosen to remain in the ranks of the in-
of youth, them WA/. a determination sound up with economice, and un-
different and hard-hearted. The responsi- tempt to capitalize on Jewish troubles. to analyze the prbtoems of the day less young men have wisdom and
bility for want and despair is theirs. But Politicians.fifid excellent material for flat- —particularly those confronting foresight to mike the unemploy•
life. These young men ex- inert problems and lessen the un•
the opportunity is now given them to be tery by telling Jews how they despise big- Jewish
amined the problems of their es, employment of non-Jewish men •
among the kind-hearted in Jewry and to otry; Jewish politicians pose as saviors of and those of the world in which and women and raise them out of
live as would a scientist who mniereble plume, Jews will not be
be enrolled with the merciful rather than their people, and there is no end to that they
weer len tirelessly for the benefit of able to make headway in meeting
on the side of those who give comfort to
to 'mintier a product by their own problems."
spirit whch is best summed up by the un- mankind
• • •
removing its flaws and applying
our enemies.
e researc h.
To a considerable extent, the
translatable Hebrew term "hefker," which the results of intensiv
• • •
of
Jewry
in America rests in
fate
•
s
Significant to Jesse) at large is
Jewry's hands, Rabbi Israel he-
th Jews mean
an d the
h
H t er, Johnson
is
huh
Jewish
the
keener
interest
Take for instance the effort of an insig-
Jewish exploiter of
youth is taking in trends. One of lm-veg. "The
Adolf Hitler had to take his fling at the , nificant Jewish weekly in New York, •the
apparent needs 11. satisfying later, the Jewish profiteer, the Jew
Jews in that "masterpiece" delivered be- whose editors do not htstitate to send out 'the hunger this younger g•neration w ho has determitud to hoard to
fore the yes-saying Reichstag in which he solicitors throughout the country to secure has for information on tendencies himself an amount of money, the
affect Jewish life. The tet-
defended the "purging" through murder subscribers on the ground that the money w t, hich
w who fights the progress meet-
ntIon a:cordo d to the tonventii ri
and indicated that he would not stop at thus secured will help fighs, Nazi propa- sisakers on Jewish mold, no h nr- airs of our Government, that Jew
as much an instigator of anti-
anything to keep his party in power. Adolf ganda in this country and will foster a ly indicated this nerd.
The principal strakcr was Rabbi St mitism as Hitler. Hem ause, by
chose to make reference to "Jewish-inter- Jewish minute-men's organization for self- Edward I. Israel of Italtirmire., !Id his system, he. is producing the eco-
national benefactors of mankind," speak- defense. Nothing more than an effort to who delivered an addles, abut is nomic injustice, he is fostering
worth quoting. at bast in hatred. And that today le causing
ing of this mythical group in veiled lan- capitalize on Jewsh troubles, it is deplor- Well
part. Rabbi Israel is a student of the Jewish problem. The Jewish
guage, in the typically unintelligible style able that such rackets find supporters trends as they allot the Jews.
problem will not be solved in Ger-
• • •
many or anywhere else until a
among gullible Jews.
of the anti-Semites.
"The frame work by which Ilit• finer, more literal economic life is
But Americans have a different view of
Opinion is right in pleading for respon- ler rose to power is showing in brought about."
Adolf's "purging." Secretary Hull's re- sibility in the Nazi investigation in this this country," Rabbi Israel believes . ( s reater unison among JeNS ham
It ie taking hold through ■ wave to', n the need for years hefere the
cent letter was a partial indictment of Ger- country. But we feel that all Jewish ir- of propaganda being circulated Iy littler terror struck, Rabbi Israel
has
man policies, and Gen. Hugh S. Johnson responsibility must be condemned. Espec- anti-Semites. He is of the opin- points out (If late. Jewry
that while the older generation e•en living "only by fears of
ially in time of trouble there should be a ion
was quite emphatic when he stated:
has a problem to face, "the young lees." Jewry today, he says, is
unified Jewish body fit to speak for our , er generation ha: more of • prob- 'called upon to build up the philoso.
"A low days ago, in Germany, *vents
people, and free to act against those who lern."
phy of Jewish life "that will not
occurred which shocked th. world.'
This problem confronting the j depend upon IliCers fur auiten.
lean to racketeering and seek to capital young
Jewish men and women in- ame.'
"I don't know how they may have af-
icovelski. Ilti JTA /
ize on Jewish suffering.
Icludes economic discrimination, a
you, but they made me tick—not
-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
1 ,.411 !OA 1114 low .•1.
Sylvia Cole, seventeen . . .
whose real monicker is Cohen
. . . is the newest addition to
the Goldwyn Beauties.
•
Tidbits axd News
By PHILIP M. RASKIN
In short, the Hebrew substituted for the ideal
Helen Mack made her first
theatrical appearance at the age
of beauty the beauty of the ideal. It is, there-
of sin when she was carried on
fore, not eurprising at all that the Greek genius
the stage by Jacob Bea Arni.
expreared limit best in sculpture and in the lines
• • •
of the human body, while the Hebrew genius
Hollywood Vignette:
The time: Any time . . . any
found its most expressive medium in poetry and
day. The place: Any good Jew.; music which are essentially for the emotions
int delicatessen. A shimmering
rather than for the eye.
Rolls-Royce draws to the curb al-
Bialik is phenomenal in this respect, that his
lowing a email dark-haired young
lady to alight. She hurries into
poetry is thoroughly Hebraic, though all hip
the store . . . asks for chopped
poems leave a sculptural impression. His pic-
chicken livers ... rushes out again
tures are concise and ',Ovid. You don't read them
with the precious package securely
—you see them, but their effect is always ethical.
under-arm. If you look closely
Bialik himself in one of his poems says very
you'll recognize her ... as Sidney
Fox.
correctly:
• • •
"I have not won the light from freedom's
An amateur writer approached
courses.
ist with •
• big-shot
I have hew ■ it from the craig• and carved
story having • Civil War back-
ground. "Do you think it will
it from my heart."
offend the South?" the unknown
His poems are truly carved statues. They im-
risked timidly. "Yee," was the
press themselves on the eye more than on the
retort, "and the North, toot"
• • •
ear. Read his "Winter Songs" and in the pic-
Movie tears are eometimes real.
ture you will see and remember every curve,
Ferike Boron, Hungarian Jewish
fold and wrinkle, every shade and nuance. But
character actress, had a sad scene
Bialik never thinks of nature per se, but of
to play with Paul Lukas. She en-
nature as it influences human mood and thought.
' acted it so realistically that every-
Bialik is ■ remarkable combination of the He-
one on the Net applauded. But
'Ferike didn't smile appreciatively
brew soul and Hellenic technique.
He is a
... instead she continued to weep.
Hebrew prophet In a western garb.
When the director tried to calm
Who
does
not
remember
his
her, she opened her hand wherein
"Of steel and iron, cold and hard and dumb,
lay a crumpled cablegram, It ad-
vised of the death of her sister in
Now forge thyself • heart, 0 man! and coma
Budapest that morning.
f
And walk the town of slaughter.
• •
BY-THE -WAY
CtfITIL Aft(GELET
t a h■
The Ninth of Ab
leil JTA I
"How is the gold become
don! How is the most fine gold
changed. The stones of the
sanctuary are poured out in the
top of every street. The precious
none of Zion, comparable to One
gold, how are they esteemed as
earthen pitchers, the work of the
halide of the potter."--Lamen-
tations.
With there weirdo from the
Book of Lamentations, the fent
of Ab ITssha b'Ab commemor.
Ming the end of the Temple in
Jerusalem, is begun among Jewe
the world over. This year the
fast day occurn on Sunday,
July 22, beginning the evening
before.
One of the major fast-daye of
the Jewish religious and na-
tional calendar, Tieha b'Ab ie
bound up intimately with the
age - old sufferings of the race.
When Jews gather in the Fyne-
gogues they will be lamenting
not only the lore of the Temple
of Solomon and the Temple of
Herod, but also the later Ibsen-
ter in 1492, when the w hole
Jewish community of Spain was
expelled, with the exception of
the Crypto-Jews or Marranos,
and net wandering aver the fare
of Europe.
The day is. in addition, re-
markable for the number of
coincidences which befell the
Jews in the lung trek from Zion
in pre-Christian days to the
present time,
The World War. one of the
results of which was the issu-
ing of the Balfour Declaration
and the establishment of the
present foundation for the Jew-
ish National Home, broke out on
Theta b'Ab in 1914. This FA*
b'Ab of ID years ago may be
laid to have marked one of the
greatest tragedies in all Jewish
aura to Next Pspi
The Second Maccubiah
By K. F. JACOBOWITZ, London
In August, 1929, delegates of : body nay that the MACS:1011111 were
Jewish gymnastic and sports clubs dreamers? The pessimists laughed.
met in Mathrisch-Ostrau, a small The world was in a state of di,
town In Cacho-Slovakia. Repre- turbance; prohibition
ill1111471,
sentativee from all the countries lion, prevention of money transfer
of Europe took part in the first from one country to the other.
International Fungi ens of the new political entanglements, Wan it
organization, the Maccabi World possible that under these condi.
Lions thin undertaking could Cut
o ceed?
The r chaiiir.orima un nhof i tAbli ,s wceorn, gwrehas
The Mari shim did not worn.
ass
cayb all this akepticimm, but
b eei nin otelthe,..cla leader
.arner of ohte iuh about
haa„..h
m
11131, a propaganda group
months iiihm
months
of motorcyclists Mailed under the-
: befT uh re is. congress, which put to- leadership of Josef Jekutieli front
'getter the scattered branches of Tel Aviv and travelled via Salon-
' the Jewinh sports movement, ike, Sots,
Vi""' Frank•
explaining
unanimously accepted
Jewish the new idea of the Maccabieh in
that "In 1932 the ant
all countries through which they
Olympic Genies, liaised Macro-
Mercian propagandists
blab, shall be held in Erets Israel." passed.
Two men are the creators of toured all European countries,
the idea of the Maccablah: Dr. held meetings, organized sports
gave instruction to gymnasts
Hermann Lelewer, who, after hay- and
Mg launched the id ea of Jewish end athletes. In August, 1931.
aecond
Maccabiah conference war
rts excursions to Paiestine ■
held ill Prague and the final pro•
long
po g time before the wor
worl
d w tabr,', grain Of the Marcaloah was decided
put his suggestions before
movement and realised then, in upon.
The time from Sept. 1, 1931,
1932, and Josef Jekutieli of Tel
Aviv, the organizer of Jewish up to the moment when the Mae
sports deselopment in Palestine, cabiah flag went up in the new
who put a definite program before Mural,' Stadium at Tel Aviv was
devoted to one of the greatest
the congress.
history tan ever seen
That wan in August, 1929. At tasks Jewish
The
youthful and energetic lead.
the end of that month, as a result
of the fierce outburst of Arab re- ers of the Maccald movement Fur,
volt in Palestine, Jewish men and ported by the Jewish youth all
women died, political and anti- over the world. brought together
their teams in spite of all oi.-
Zionist activities were renewed
Merles. Five boats left the Meth.
and Zionism underwent a danger-
terranean harbors on March 25,
our
15:12, and on Mari h 2s, the Mac
Marcelo was the only organiza-
commenced in Tel Aviv
tion which ruse superior to the cabiah
It was no longer a fantasy. Ti
feeling of general pessimism which
dreamers emerged triumphant 10 , 1
prevailed among Jewry after these
the world war amazed.
events.
The following facts are worthy
With tierce energy the prepara-
note: In January, 1932, no sta•
tions for the Marcablah went for• of
dium existed in Palestine.
ward and in November, 1930, just
swimming pool and no trail.
after the publication of Lord Pass.
where sports could be held. Hun-
field's White Paper, the first Mai-
dreds of Mercian members there-
csbiah conference took place in
fore left their jobs in order to
Berlin On January I, 1031, the
build the stadium with room for
central offices for the Maccabish
spectators and to lay the
were cipened in Berlin and the 26,000
track The work was finished just
Jewish public gradually too k a
night
before lbe opening
t
he
In 22 countries on
keener interest.
of the world, the Jewish populof
a. the Maccablah. aecomPlished
entirely by voluntary Mace.
lion prepared themselves for this
new festival.
thoutand athletes took
What was the opinion of the
world at large? Did not every-
Inn to Nast INS.)