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THEI)gritorriEwisn (km ICLE I Resigning as "Chosen People"

Rev. Howard V. Yergin delivered a ser-
mon in the Presbyterian Church of the
Covenant in New York urging that Jews
drop the idea that they are the chosen
people of God. Rev. Yergin's advice to
the Jews came after he had sounded a
warning that unless the Jewish problem
were approached in the United States
"wisely and with a Christian attitude,
something might happen to disgrace the
name of Christ and the honor of the free
institutions of our country." We quote
Rev. Yergin on the chosen people idea:

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I ant, frankly, as much irritated by certain
leaders of the Jewish race in America as I ant
by Hitler. Both proceed on the same assump-
tion—that the Jews are a race apart, with
special attributes, either of good or evil. I
refuse to accept the contention that the Jews
are now the chosen people of God, whatever
they may have been at one time. But to be-
lieve that in the year 1934 any one race is
chosen of God is to do violence to every con-
cept 1 have of a God who is God of all the
earth and of every race and individual therein.
If, therefore, I call upon every Christian to
cease looking upon Jews just as Jews and
therefore to eschew Ku Klux Klans and so
forth, so also I call 'upon those of the Jewish
race and religion to cease thinking of them-
selves as a people net apart and thereby en-
titled to special consideration."

Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 29:9-30:20
Prophetical portion—Is. 61:10.63:9
Readings of the Law for First Day of Rosh

Hashonah, Monday, Sept. 10

Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21; Num. 28:1-6
Prophetical portions—I. Sail- 1:1-2:10

Reading of Torah on Second Day of Rosh
Hashonah, Tuesday, Sept. 11

Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 22; Num. 29:1-6
Prophetical portion—Jer. 31 :2-20.

September 7, 1934

9

Ellul 27, 5694

Ushering in the New Year

The exchange of greetings on the occa-
sion of the New Year is at this time marked
by unprecedented solemnity. At no time
has the word "wish" carried with it so
much anxiety and such craving for the
coming of an era of good-will and of eco-
nomic security.
Responses to the editor's request for
opinions on the question of co-ordinating
Jewish communal responsibilities provide
the best proof of the tragedy which marks
the present situation in world Jewry.
While opinions vary as to the means to
be used in achieving the desired unity, all
agree that there is a lack of Jewish re-
sponsibility, and that there is need for a
more deep-rooted Jewish feeling and for
an understanding of Jewish issues and
problems.
The worldwide crisis is made infinitely
more depressing and carries with it graver
dangers because of this irresponsibility.
Regardless of the manner in which the
world problems are solved, if we succeed
in the coming year in creating a sense of
responsibility in Jewish life, and if a cer-
tain measure of unity is created, at least in
times of crisis, then we will have had a
good year.
The year 5695 must be marked by a
spirit of pride which should prompt every
Jew to feel that responsibility which makes
all Jews akin, regardless of the distance
dividing us.
Let 5695 awaken such a spirit of pride
and of co-ordinated unity. Then it will be
a good and a happy year.
It is with this hope that we join in wish-
ing the community of Israel a Happy New
Year.

Rev. Yergin is unquestionably justified in
denouncing any race superiority move-
ment. Germany's Aryan supremXcy as-
pirations caused most of the trouble under
the rule of Hitler. The Nordic theories
have been at the heart of Ku Klux Klan,
Silver Shirts and other reactionary move-
ments. But it is not altogether fair to say
that Jews claim a superior role in the
world. If anything, Jews have a right to
complain that too many within their ranks
fail to live up to Jewish principles, and
resign their status as Jews whenever such
an opportunity presents itself.
In Germany, the tragedy is particularly
that of the extremely assimilated Jew who
became holier than the most patriotic of
Germans in his allegiance to German cul-
ture. This assimilated Jew forgot his peo-
ple and their culture, became a leader in
German art and science, and shouted from
the housetops: "Deutschland ueber alles."
Now that he has been pushed from his
heights into an abyss, it is not altogether
fair to charge that Jews, too, suffer front
the Aryan fault of claiming to be the
chosen of God. Too many Jews are too
distantly removed from the prayerbook
containing the "Ato b'chartonu" idea that
the "chosen people" charge should be di-
rected against them.
There are, after all, two extremes: There
is the group, which like the Jews in pre-
Hitler Germany is to be found in every
emancipated country ; who are so thor-
oughly assimilated that their culture is the
culture of the countries of which they are
citizens. In these countries the Jews shout
about the glories and supremacies of their
respective lands. It is true in England, in
the United States, in France. Some may
take pride in Jewish achievement, but as a
group they are loyal Americans, English-
men, Frenchmen.
'The other extreme is to be found among
the oppressed Jewries of the world, who
are so preoccupied in their battle for exist.
ence and in striving to attain equal rights,
that they are either too busy to think in
terms of being the chosen race, or else
suffer from such inferiority complexes that
they would appear ridiculous in their own
eyes if they were to start shouting "we
are the greatest on earth." When they
read in the prayerbook, "Thou hast chosen
us among the peoples of the earth," it is
as a rule merely an unconscious part of
general lip service.
True, there is a third group, the nation-
alist element which prides itself on achieve-
ments in Palestine, and which entertains a
sense of pride and honor over the contribu-
tions which Jews have made to humanity.
Is this to be denied to us? As Jews we
feel that if complaints are to be made they
will, on the contrary, be directed against
Jews for their lack of interest in Jewish
matters and for a minimum of loyalties.
It is indifference from which we suffer,
rather than excessive race pride.

Haste Makes Injustice

The haste with which some people ac-
cept rumors about prejudices for facts too
often creates injustice.
An excellent point in proof of the errors
committed by hasty acceptance of gossip
is the spread of an unfortunate rumor
about the manufacture of a popular brand
of cigarettes. The rumor started when
someone in New York told his friends that
he had heard Samuel Untermyer brand the
manufacturers of this cigarette, in a radio
address, as supporters of the Nazi anti-
Jewish campaign. When it was called to
his attention, Mr. Untermyer not only de-
nied having made this charge over the
radio, but he also investigated the rumor
and later definitely stated that an injustice
had been committed against the makers of
the cigarette in question.
It is an old story that bad news travels
faster than the good. In spite of Mr. Un-
termyer's denial and his condemnation of
the false rumor, the gossip spread, reached
Detroit and other communities, and here
one of the gentlemen who reported the in-
cident to the editor even talked it into
himself that he had himself heard the
charge in a radio address. 4
The moral is an obvious one: never ac-
cept a rumor for fact; investigate; do not
be over-hasty in condemning people as
anti-Semites—they may turn out to be
your friends.

Go to the Polls on Sept. l I

Rothschild Intermarriage

From London, England, comes the news
story that

Miss Rosemary, elder daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Lionel de Rothschild, was married to
Denis Comer Berry, son of Sir Comer Berry.
The wedding was quietly celebrated at the
Registry Office and later at St. Columbia
Church. The father of the bride, who is the
president of the United Synagogue of England,
was not present at the religious ceremony.
The bride was given away by the Earl of
Rosebery.

This story is of particular interest to the
large Jewish audience which acclaimed the
film The House of Rothschild." The pic-
ture emphasized the tradition in the Roth-
schild family against intermarriage, while
the hero of the play sanctioned his own
daughter's intermarriage with an English
officer. Now comes additional proof that
the Rothschild tradition opposing the mar-
riage of members of the family outside the
Jewish faith and fold has been broken.
But the great film, which was so faulty
in historical data and which, instead of
acting as a deterrent to anti-Semitism, may
accomplish the opposite end, appears to
emphasize the clannishness of the Jew and
a certain Jewish unity which in reality does
not exist.

,

The conclusion of the holy day of Rosh
Hashonah at sundown on Tuesday, Sept.
11, should be a signal for all Jews honor-
ably to discharge their duties as citizens
and to go to the polls while there is still
time, before 8 o'clock, to cast their ballots.
While it is unfortunate that the Primary
election day should occur on Rosh Hash-
onah, this must not be used as an excuse
for observant Jews to absent themselves
from the voting booths. On the contrary,
the half-hour remaining between the dos-
ing evening service on the New Year Day'
and the time set for the closing of the polls
should be utilized to reach the voting
booths on time to be permitted to cast the
ballots as citizens. An excellent oppor-
tunity is provided for Jews to demonstrate
their loyalty as citizens. Every Jewish
voter must go to the polls on Sept. 11.

In a small German village. the London
Times reveals, the Jews pledged their
unanimous vote to Hitler in the recent
plebiscite, and it was prearranged that the
Jewish voters should mark their ballots
with green pencils. What will William
Randolph Hearst say to this demonstration
of Nazi glories and to such an evidence of
"Popular will" in the German "ja" vote:.

Our Film Folk 11

By HELEN ZIGMOND

BY-THE -WAY

Rosh Hashonah in Jerusalem

Tidbits and News

■

By S. BEN•YAKIR

MAURICE SCHWARTZ, A

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

BEGINNER IN HOLLYWOOD

Maurice Schwartz, greatest of
Yiddish
actors, whom
the
critics call "Der hinter Andere
Schwartz," whose name is a house-
hold word -- Maurice Schwartz,
standing at the zenith of his pro-
fession, now humbly and with,
slight trepidation, begins anew in
Hollywood.

right, 1934. J. • pill Tel. giAphli A iren , 3. Do 1

T THE BEGINNING of the week of peni-
tential prayer which precedes Rosh Hash-

snob, the city of Jerusalem takes on a veil
of sanctity and holiness. It is as though the city
of hills and stone were suddenly remembering

the long generations of its decline and forgot-
tenness. The fear of the Day of Reckoning is
apparent in the very atmosphere of Jerusalem.
From every corner conies the sound of the blow-

HIS CONTRACT

He has signed an eight-month
contract with Metro - Goldwyn-
Mayer to act, write and direct ...
but he and the producers are pro-
ceeding with care and caution.
Ilis employers are tapping the in-
taiinerable resources of a large
company . . . and he is studying
the inside of movie-making with
the eagerness of a new pupil. They
are using hundreds of feet of film
for tests of him in many charac-
ters. For two months they have
searched for the most suitable
story to present hint in. He him-
self would like to play the "Mer-
chant of Venice" ... believes the
time is ripe . . . claims his por-
trayal vindicates Shakespeare and
Shylock.

ing of the ram's horn. That is the Jews of
Babylon, blowing and shouting at the top of
their voices, making such a din as no European

can even imagine. The Yemenites, the Persian
Jews, the Jews of
and Kurdistan, with
their deep heavy voices, are also shouting. Every
group in its own manner. An experienced ob-

Bukhara

server can tell from a distance which group it is
he hears making a plea for a good year from
God.

When the month of Tishri approaches, the eve-
ning prayers of penitence become louder and
more
Under their deep brows, the blaz-

fearful.

ing eyes of these Jews show dread at the sol-
emnity of the fearful day which is at hand.

AT HOME

/
We traverse a winding, climb-
ling road through the Hollywood
Hills to find his Spanish bungalow
Ihigh up on the mountain-side. In
this peaceful setting he is having
his first vacation in 15 years. At
the Yiddish Art Theater there was
always work to do . . . planning,
; rehearsing, directing . . . work
days were often 18 to 20 hours
long, whereas his film career leaves
'his evenings free to be with his
family.

Sephardics and Cabbalists

The Sephardic synagogues are filled. They
are just getting into the singing, which the wor-

shippers begin after the cantor has finished. Here,
in the oldest Sephardic synagogue, the synagogue

of Jochanan been Zakkai tint! of the prophet
Elijah, and where there is a cave with a special
chair for Elijah, the Sephardim make the wor-
shiping brief, and sing with the cantor.
The

praying over, the younger people gather for chats
in the narrow streets while the older and more

settled folk make their leisurely way homeward.
At the synagogue of the Cabbalists everything
is very ceremonial. Quite another atmosphere

reigns there. llere old grey-haired Sephardic

graves of the Sanhedrin, everyone visits the Tomb
of Mother Rachel.

such as one will find in no other synagogue reigns.

Spirit

People stop rushing about, and begin their si-

lent preparations, in their homes and in their

hearts, to ask a good year of the Lord.

The day before Rosh Hashonah, at noon, the

holiday spirit is noticeable. A few persons still

are busy with some last minute shopping, and

here and there one sees a belated Sephardi or
Yemenite Jew hurrying home on his donkey.

The Jewish population, which is in the ma-

jority in Jerusalem, is most apparent at this

time. In every street one sees various Jewish
types; European, American, Asiatic and African

Zionist-Tourists, speaking a variety of tongues;

students of the Jerusalem yeshivas and older stu-

dents of the Torah, most of them wearing fur-
edged caps and earlocks; and old men who come

to spend their last years and to the in the Holy

City.

Towards evening, when the sun begins to set,
the Jews of the city begin to stream towards the
Wailing Wall, for the evening prayers.

Chalutzim-workers from the colonies, who

have made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, hosts of

Jews from all sorts of countries, natives of Jeru-

eyes of a dreamer and a fighter
... that give you the index to the
'man and his life.

into the old part of the city and the Wailing

salem, all begin the descent of the stairs leading

Wall. The colorful crowds meander down the

narrow, dark and winding Arab streets, going

lower and lower until they reach all that remains

of the Holy Temple—the Wailing Wall. •

A People's Kinship

Night falls, evening prayers are begun in an
atmosphere of dread before the holy day. Every-
one prays according to his own manner; each

recites his own troubles.

Filled with awe of the Day of Reckoning, too,

are the two days of Rosh Hashonah. Everybody

hurries around to everyone else's house to wish

him a good year, and each prays for the Jews of

all the world, for nowhere is a Jew as conscious

of his kinship with his people as he is in Jeru-
salem during the High Holidays.

During the High Holy Days Jerusalem has

many praying groups. Wherever you go you

will find a minyan—whether of Ashkenazim, of

Sephardim, of Yemenites or of Jews from Nine-

veh. And somewhere in a corner you will also

come aut.!s a group of black Jews, real black.
One and all go to prayers, locking up their

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being. • And when the heart grows heavy with

these thoughts there is nothing for it but to go
wondering again, this time among the various
Chassidic, Sephardic and Cabbalist synagogues.

to the graves of the prophets and some to the

TRIUMPHS
,
lt, is these flashing eyes . .. the

(Turn to

of Israel—Jeremiah, Zedekiah. In these very
streets the Jewish people molded its soul, its

in their prayers, each for himself; and a quiet

shouting, Jerusalem stridenly becomes quiet.

At the age of ten, life dealt him
a terrible blow. En route from
Russia to America, he was separ-
ated from his mother and for two
years he was lost in London . .
slept in streets and parks during
bitter winter nights ... occasion-
ally found a berth in a baker's
shop . . . ate anything he could
pick up . . . for a period of five
months he lived on herring ... of-
ten he hung over the Thames con-
templating suicide, but his moth-
er's face came up to him from
the dark waters. Ile went on with
the struggle to keep body and soul
together. Two long years elapsed
before his father worked his way
over on a cattle boat and found
the boy. Today Schwartz asserts
that the depth and breadth of his
characterizations are directly
traceabe to those terrifying, un-
forgettable years.
Again his pluck stood him in

A strange tremor runs over one's body; here,
centuries ago, the prophets trod, and the kings

rabbis, two Ashkenabi rabbis in their midst, stand

But now the fearful day of accounting is at
the threshold. Rosh Hashonah! After all the

HIS STRUGGLES AND

houses and repairing to the synagogues.

Everyone makes it a point to visit the graves
of the great and the holy. But while some rush

The Holiday

It is Friday night ... the fam-
ily, his wife, his brother (who is
also his manager), sister-in-law,
niece, gathers about the dinner
table. A homey, non-theatrical
atmosphere prevails. Every look
and gesture bespeaks reverence
for the head of the house.
/ After viewing "Yoshe Kalb" we
expected to meet a middle-aged
I man, somewhat worn by 26 years
I on the stage. Instead, we are
/ amazed by his youthful vitality,
by his intense earnestness, by the
burning animation of his eyes. In
years, he has reached the early
forties, broad-shouldered and of
medium height. His hair is black
with a dash of grey over the tem-
ples, a little thin on top; the face
remains young and expressive;
the nose is narrow and aquiline;
the lips are rather thick. But it
, is his glowing eyes, which not even
heavy brows can dim, that Mu-
/ mine his mobile face.

about in their fur-lined caps. All are engrossed

One imagines that here, among these noble coun-
tenances of the Cabbalist mystics, the glory of

God must rest. It is here among them, some-

where in the brilliant lighted synagogue, among

the faces showing preoccupation with distant

mystic spheres and upper worlds about which
ordinary people have no notion.

The praying here proceeds much differently

than it does in the other synagogues. The cantor

emphasizes each word separately, placing special

significance in each and draws it out. When I

arrived he was at "Shma Israel," and it took

him about 10 minutes to complete the word. And

similarly with the whole prayer. They pray ac-

cording to the rite of Rabbi Isaac Luria (1534-

1572), after whom the synagogue is named.

Later on, I went to the synagogue 'where the

followers of the Karliner rebbe gather, and where

he prays on Rosh Hashonah. The synagogue was

so crowded that a great crowd was forced to pray
outside. After the prayers many of the Chassi-
dim began to sing and dance under the rebbe's

window. Hoping thus to induce the rebbe

By MILTON BROWN

furiously, but the rebbe remained invisible. Then

someone shouted: Let us sing the melody of

Rishon! In a last attempt to catch a glimpse

of the rebbe, the crowd took up the tune, which

they all knew was a favorite one with their leader

That did it. The Chassidim no sooner struck

up the tune than the rebbe appeared at the
window. His face was pale, fine; his beard like

white silk, and so also his brows. His eyes looked

peacefully and soulfully out. His white prayer-
shawl had a collar of silver cloth.

Around the Rabbi's Table

The rebbe watched his dancing adherents, snap-
ping his fingers in time with the singing. When

the Chassidim noticed their rebbe, their dance

became still more fervent. It flared up like a
flame, the melody rising to the skies.
But soon
from the
window. and instantly the enthusiasm died down,

like boiling milk under which the flame has been
extinguished.

Thus enveloped in the holiday spirit lie the
hills of Jerusalem. In the forenoon, old and young

go to the synagogue and in the afternoon they

promenade in their various neighborhoods, while
in the evening hours the streets of Jerusalem are

filled with women in their gorgeous oriental garb
and with Chassidim hurrying to their rebbes.

Jerusalem shivers under the autumn stars, and
turns reflective eyes towards the future. One's
heart is stirred.

HEADLINES OF I

THE PAST YEAR

By DANIEL L SCHORR

(Copyritcht, 1534, JTA./

leopyright. 1,34. Jevish TsisfisTPOT AMP?. Inc 1

SEPTEMBER — Nazi eco-

Affecting Jews on a large scale,
it ukase issued to Nazi party 111(11-
hers by Rudolf Hess forbids any
and all members of the party from
having any sort of relations with
Jews. 3,000,000 copies of the or-
der have been printed and the
whole move is interpreted as a re-
taliation for the intensifying of the
to yeott voted at the World Jewish
onference.

• • •

PALESTINE
The London Times predicted that
the new legislative council consid.
ered by the British government for
the internal affairs of Palestine
will have the effect of retiring the
Jewish Agency in Palestine to sec-
ond place as a representative body
for Jews in the country.
According to the Agency itself,
numerous matters affecting Pah
cstinc Jew" will pays out of the
hands of the Agency once the own-
ed begins to function. But it has
assurances from High Commission-
er Wauchope, it declared, that there
is no intention of displacing the
Agency from its character of rep-
resenting world Jewry in Pales-
; tine matters. The Agency is pri-
marily interested in the question of
Iland sales and immigration and
these, it says, are not within the
jurisdiction of a legislative council.

Was -
Defying Commissioner
,-hope's order to the Arabs to dis-
, continue their unofficial patrol and
search for illegally entering Jews,
Falastin, Arab newspaper, an-
, nounced that a committee of self-
. appointed coast-guards was consid-
ering further mobilization of pa-
trols to track down immigrants
without proper passports.
• • •

ALGERIA

/ Two Arabs, who participated in
the Constantine riots, have confes-
sed to the murder of the prominent
Ilalimi family during the man-
sacres. Accordings to French 'offi-
cial estimate, the toll of the dis-
orders which lasted several days, is
now placed at 46 deaths. The offs-
dal estimates have been rising
since the first report when the nuns-1
her was given is 30. Later it was
' increased and row there is the
third official correction.
•
• •

AUSTRIA

, Twenty-five percent of the Jew-1
ish community of Vienna is depen-
dant on assistance from the cm.'
munity, its president, Dr. Decider !
Friedmann reports.
• • •

LITHUANIA

Zionist youth organizations in
I.ithuania have been forbidden, in-
/ eluding the Brith Trumpeldor,
I Brith Chill, Brith Kanoim and the
- various Chalets training societies. ,
Their training centers must be
abandoned by this latest order of l
the government.

•

In the internal affairs of the
country, • minor crisis resulted
arrest sentence of 52
!pickets for activities in connection
, • strik e
!Jewish co
cont t. ractor 'a of Haifa.
n as. 1. The
T a
strike
eagAairnig the
b employment of
re- UNITED STATES
Max Reinhardt, arriving in this
ported to have entered
Y
the c' ou rn e .
try
si
egll and tobe displacing country for several month's stay,
labor .
' shunned political discussion in hil l
tives charged that 3: r 7 00rtr
ra u er aa en act . interviews with reporters. On the
are in al a, all illegally, of whom way to, • ornia for the festiv al
1,800 are employed by Jews and season celebrations he plans to pro-
are occupying jobs which Jewn ;duce for the Chamber of Commerce, j
should have.
a version of "Midsummer Night s
The Palestine film censorship Dream." The renowned producer,
board is reported to have barred who for 25 years directed the!
"Dream of My People,' in which Deutsche' Theater in Berlin, will
Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt starred. also dramatize portions of the Old
No reason was given by the au- I Testament to depict Jewish contri-
thorities.
buttons to the world.

, from the

to

look out upon them. They danced long and

Before me lies a copy of the
Literary Digest of 1890 and,
turning the pages, 1 come upon
an article by Thomas Hodgkin.
!This Mr. llodgkin goes on to de-
scribe a visit to Palestine and he
:expatiates as follows: "This land
I sans roads, sans shops, sans regu-
lar postal service, sans news-
papers, sans schools, sans doc-
tors, sans justice, sans glass
windows, sans everything that con-
' notes well being and progress."
In other words, Palestine in 1890,
according to Hodgkin, was much
like the seashore—just full of
san(dls. - • '
•
• •

What does Mr. Hodgkin think
about the prospects for the fu-
ture? There had been some talk,
as Mr. Hodgkin knew, of the re-
turn of the Jew to Palestine.
1What does he think of that? Mr.
;Hodgkin expresses an opinion on
I that subject.
"it
noltlioprob
probable
1
that "s the
fdrke'ra
urn o f
a mi
n or two of Jews to Pal-
. estine would in any way assist the
economic development of the
country."

Now Mr. Thomas • Hodgkin was
probably regarded very highly in
his days. He couldn't help it that
Time has made a jackass of him.
But it merely goes to show, don't
you know, something or other.

Mr. Hodgkin was not a Jew. He
was a Christian. Another Chris-
Gam of his day was much more
far-seeing. The man I refer to
was Lawrence Oliphant.
Oliphant firmly believed that
the return of the Jew to Palestine
was a feasible thing. He wrote
about it—worked for it—went to
Palestine to help in his way—at
a time when Theodore )lerzl was
yet in knee trousers.
•
• •

So the Jews in the eighties were
, thinking of Palestine, too.
But
tinhaataub'oaust not ao llpetn hete
yh weA re me thiic nakn -
I
Hebrew in 1880 to find what they
were thinking about. The Ameri-
can Hebrew was of course under
adifferent management then. It
was the chief exponent of tradi-
tional Judaism as against the
American Israelite of Cincinnati
which expounded the Reform point
of view.
I open the American Hebrew—
and immediately I see that these
eighties and nineties were the days
of personal journalism in the Jew-
ish field as well as the general.
For instance, I note the Ameri-
can Hebrew takes a crack at the
American Israelite. The latter
had said that the American He-
brew was mostly read by out
women.
And the American Hebrew re-
sponds: "That may be true, but
the American Israelite seems to
be edited by old women,"
That was Jewish personal jour-
nalism. it was not quite as sav-
age as the general personal jour-
nalism then the vogue, when ed-
itors were in the habit of calling
each other cur, rattlesnake and
other things zoological.
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW

GERMANY

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RETROSPECTION
The fashion authorities tell us
that we are returning to the nMe-
ties, and what with skirts length-
ening and hats going brimmier,
'they cannot be far wrong.
So let's go back mentally to the
nineties — maybe a little to the
eighties. It should be a splendid
exercise for New Year's day,
when we are supposed to scrutin-
ize the past..

nomic drive against Jews inten-
aifying. League of Nations

Judaism and the Social Crisis

Social Justice Message Issued by Conunission on Social
Justice of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis

By DR. SIDNEY E. GOLDSTEIN

, Let us not misunderstand the
, women who are able and willing
opens deliberations on German-
crisis we face in our social life.
I to work. The right to work is a
Jewish refugees. "Romance of
Four years ago we thought we
a People" draws 20,000 at pre- were in the midst of a financial fundamental right that the new
economic order must protect, to-
depression; but we were mistaken.
miere in New York,
gether with the right to an annual
Two years ago we believed we
OCTOBER — League of Na- were suffering a dislocation of the income that will maintain every
' family upon a decent and self-
tions sets up High Commission
economic machine of the world;
' respecting level of life.
the symptoms now, however, in-
headed by James G. McDonald
Future generations will marvel
dicate
a
more
serious
situation.
to solve German refugee prob-
What we are witnessing is noth- at our mechanical inventions and
lem after Germany withdraws
ing less than the breaking up of a also wonder at our lack of social
from League. Mayor O'Brien
whole social system. We are now creativeness and vision. Not one
at the end of one of the great factor is missing today out of
bars Nazi rally in New York
and Heinz Spanknoebel, Nazi epochs in history as truly as men which to construct a world of so-
and women were at the decline ; cud comfort and justice. We have
propagandist, disappears, one and fall
of the Roman Empire or natural resources no great that
hop ahead of Department of
the collapse and disintegration of
we are embarassed by the very'
Justice. Arabs riot against th e Feudal System, The old or. mass thereof. We have unmatched
der is comi n g to an end. No reci-
Jewish immigration in Palestine.
machinery that can operate with
tation
reed no matter how miraculous speed and precision
creed,
Score killed. Hundreds wound-
ancient or eloquent; no ritual of and acres of it are rusting in idle-
ed. Police guards swamped.
religion, no matter how elaborate ness.
We have armies of me,
NOVEMBER — Palestine au-
or age-encrusted with tradition, trained to a high
degree of skill
can restore or retrieve it.
thorities launch drive against
. and efficiency And over 10.090,000
We hear it said that we lack of these workers are walking the
illegal entry of Jews. Jews
plan and leadership in oar eco- streets without hope and haunted
protest harsh restrictive meas-
nomic life. This is not true. Our by fear. We have vast reservoirs
ures. Arab leaders linked to
of wealth dammed up in vault.
Nazis. Anti-Semitic Ru'inanian economic life is carefully planned and banks
and corporations and
Iron Guards loot Jewish homes with scientific skill and surprising no one apparently known how
to
foresight; and the leaders in our wisely employ
t.. i,lost of all, we
and battle police. Anti-Jewish
economic life are men of unparal- have great martets here and
riots close Warsaw University.
lelled capacity and power. The abroad, markets Mat are made up
DECEMBER .JewishDefense
trouble is that our leaders have of a larger number of under-
Corps repels Iron Guard hooli-
been trained in an outgrown nourished, poorly housed. and
gans in Rumanian towns. Gov-
school of economic theory and are meanly clad families than we have
still under the spell of a social seen in a century. Every factor
ernment takes measures to
philosophy that sees little or no of prosperity is present: material.
crush Iron Guard. Arab execu-
connection between economics and machinery, men, money and mar-
tive members jailed for inciting
ethics. Business is business. The kets—we have a surplus of every-
anti-Jewish riots in Palestine.
men who occupy the posts of thing, even of suffering. The one •
Discontent grows against gov- leadership and control still be- thing we lack is the vision and the
will to
mould this unprecedented
lieve that the primary function of
ernment measures restricting
mass of riches into an order of
tourist permits. Jews barred the economic machine to to create social justice.
profits and to enrich those who
from German sports. Ge rman
now hold the legal title of owner-
The fundamental economic need
Economics Minister Schmitt
ship.
That economic theory is at the nresent time in every •ouo•
battles vainly against anti-Jew- :obsolete and dead and the eco- try and on every continent is an
nomic organization it created is increase in the purchasing power
ish boycott. Spanknoebel re-
doomed. Our deeper experience of the wage-earning and airritul•
ported in Germany. but U. S. land clearer insight teaches
UP that twat groans and also the salaried
will make no extradition at- the function of our economic life workers. The agricultural and
in-
tempt. Ion G. Duca, liberal Ra- is two-fold : it must serve society dustrial and commercial workers,
with the things that society needs• who constitute the largest
of
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