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By HELEN ZIC,MOND
election days which occur on holidays.
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catered as second-dm matter Much I. 1916, at tbe Posts
oflice at Detroit. Mich, under the Act of //arch I, IS19.
It has already been pointed out in these
HOLLYWOOD. — Most people
columns that Jewish voters in Detroit will have difficulty in living down a
General Offices and Publication Building
failure ... Edward G. Robinson'e
525 Woodward Avenue
have ample time for voting •kefore the predicament is extriestmg him.'
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
closing of the polls on Primary Day, Sept. self from a "hit"! Esoinson can
Lands. ode. :
be great in any role . . . but
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
11, which is also the second day of Rosh "Little Caesar" stamped him as
$3.00 Per Year
the "gangster sans pareil." He is
Subscription, in Advance
Hashonah. Another way out of the dil- a gentleman, an intellectual, a
To Insure publication. all correspondenc• and news matter
emma would have been for the Jewish psychologist . . . but to his mil-
most reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
lions of fans he is "Little Caesar."
Wises mailing notken kindly use one sid• of the paper only.
voters to absent themselves and to cast He loves beauty, music, poetry ...
Th. Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites eorrespondenee on sob-
their ballots by mail. We are confident but "Little Caesar" dogs his
/eats of Interest to the Jewish people. but disclaims teePonel-
laity for an indorsement of the cams expressed by Ilse writers
steps. He would essay the role
that if there were not sufficient time for of Napoleon ... play it with such
Sabbath Rosh Chodesh Reading* of the Law
voting without breaking Jewish law, that intensity as to blot out "Little
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 11 :26-16:17 ; Num.
Caesar" for all time.
28:9.15
some way would have been found not to
Like Napoleon, Robinson fought
Prophetical portion-15:66
against overwhelming odds to ob-
rob the observant Jews of their ballots.
Second Day of Rosh Chodeds Reading of Law,
tain recognition. Ile was born in
Sunday, Aug. II
Interesting proof of the flexibility of , Bucharest ... brought up in New
Num. 28:1-15
American law which guarantees the right York ... was small, dark, and far
from handsome . . . constantly
Ab 29, 5694 of all groups to freedom of worship and to •struggled against the bitter under-
August 10, 1934
current of anti-Semitism. Was an
untrammeled franchise is contained in the idealist and a fighter . . . wanted'
Hitler und Gott
following news item released by the Jew- , to right all the wrongs of the
•world . , . forged ahead at New
The death of President Paul con Hinden- ish Telegraphic Agency:
York City College . . . became a
debater of prominence . .
con-
burg of Germany most probably will make
AUGUSTA, Me. (JTA)—The 4,000 Jewish
sidered the career of humanitar-
little difference in the life of the German
voters of Maine will be able to vote in the
ian lawyer. Took part in school
people. All the damage to democratic in-
state elections Sept. 10, Rosh Hashonah, the
theatricals . . . studied literature,
Jewish New Year, without violating their re-
languages, history and law . .. is
stitutions had already been done at the
ligious scruples, it was made known here, when
conversant with eight languages
accession of Adolf Hitler to power. Jewry,
Secretary of State Tobey called their attention
... received his M. A. degree from
radicals and all non-Nazis were robbed of
to • 1920 statute. It provides that any voter
Columbia University. Got his
whose religion prevents him from marking his
first professional stage engage-
their power in the life-time of the Field
ballot shall have two election clerks do it for
ment because he spoke French
Marshal. The only possible effect that the
him.
well. is always seeking to widen
death of Hindenburg may have on Ger-
his scope of knostledge and ap-
% many is that it may bring to a head discon-
Let the fears of our Jewish citizens be preciation. And Ripley - it - or - not,
learning to play the piano
tent and will hasten the end of the Hitler allayed: there is no danger of their losing. he . is
. "Little Caesar" has just
regime.
taken
his fourth lesson!
their right to vote.
• • •
But it is interesting to make a record
In the meantime we repeat our plea to
Ernst Lubitsch hired • newsie
, of Adolf Hitler's attitude to Hindenburg.
to speak • line into the sound
On Sept. 7, 1932, the present Reichskanzler Detroit Jewish citizens to make it a point track of "The Merry Widow."
made the following reference to the Reichs- to be in line at the voting booths at 7:30 The great director and the
p. m. on Sept. 11, and to be sure and vote youngster stood alone on the
i
praesident:
sound stag, "I want you to
on Primary Day.
yell, 'Vidow dhappears, " in-

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t

Do you think 1 care for • title? In my will
there will be one clause, that 1 do not want
to have anything written on my g tone but
"Adolf Hitler." I create ■ title through my
name and my characteristics. What does the
word "Chancellor" mean to me? Even Presi-
dent von Hindenburg cannot give me • title.

The Truth Will Out

structed Lubitsch, with his
quaint accent. "Vidow disap•
pears," echoed the boy.
"No, no! Say, 'Vidow disap•
pears r " Thu. far into the day.
At last it dawned upon the lad
that Herr Ernst didn't mean 1
"widow" with a Sr., but with •
wubble-u I
• • •

On several occasions the charge has
been advanced that the reason Hindenburg
My great opponent is 85 year. old and I am
appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of the
only 43. I am convinced nothing will happen
Reich is because he was threatened with
to me, because I believe destiny has assigned a
task to me.
exposure of having personally drawn on
Did you know:
Songbird
or gu inc.;
Aside from the disrespect expressed for relief funds by the pre-Hitler Reichstag marched llabel l
investigating committee. Now comes an- Maschke? Maschke, who
the aged field marshal who later elevated
&Tom-
other, equally as interesting a revelation. panied his wife to Hollywood for
him to the highest position in Germany, this
picturee work, remains to finish a
According
to
the
London
Daily
Herald,
a
slighting reference reveals also how Hit-
let's mind, like the Kaiser's, sought con- man by the name of E. Kruse, referred to
That Harry Ruby and Bert Kal-
as the "last surviving member of the mar ... the melody boys ... have
nections with Gott. During the war it was
Reichstag fire gang," with membership No. beenpar
h20 years?
i
the Kaiser und Gott. Now, it is Hitler und
That i:n Knight
134522 in the Storm Troopers, is n ow a
Gott. "Destiny has assigned a task to me,"
for two years, h er ot wn wo hr a eir abev in .
says Hitler. "Nothing will happen to me," refugee in Switzerland. From there he is so badly burned a t a beauty shop
had to have it clipped? The
declares this omnipotent destroyer of Ger- reported to have written to President Paul she
von Hindenburg, the British government blondilocks you see are her own
many.
now, however.
and newspapers in a number of countries, That when Barbara Barondess
Well, Adolf, we shall see. Time will tell
Here is the Daily Herald's account of his I was a child in Kiev, Russia, she
whether your Gott will help you when the story:
I was shot through the shoulder
giant spirit of humanity revolts against
while protecting her father from
the guns of soldiers?
your brutalities. We are confident that it
Kruse says that on Feb. 10, 1933, Roehm,
That about 7,000 fond mamas
will not be long before the destiny that will
Ileines and Ernst, all later shot in the clean-up,
'try to crash their adorable lamb-
had selected a group of 11 reliable S. A.
be recorded in history will be revealed to
kins
into celluloid every year ...
(Storm Troop) men, who were summoned to a
an anxious world in the form of retribu-
and the percentage of success is
secret meeting at which plans for the arson
infinitesimal?
Alen which will exact deserving punish-
were explained. Everyone was sworn to se•
•
•
•
crecy and was told to await further orders.
ment to the fiendish army which today op-
After Lewis Milestone had
One S. A. man named Lobike refused to take
presses tens of millions of people.
been at sea several days shoot-
the oath and was taken away and never heard

of again.

More Irresponsible Action

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Spasmodically and periodically, one
group or another starts an agitation in
favor of a Jewish hospital. Such an agita-
tion is in full bloom again, and there are
enough sincere men and women interested
to create a movement.
Unfortunately, those who easily fall for
this type of propaganda are given only one
aide of the picture, and have little oppor-
tunity of learning the other side of the
story. They are told that every large city
in the country has a Jewish hospital, but
that Detroit is an exception; that the poor
Orthodox Jews who go to hospitals prac-
. tinily "starve" because they are unable to
secure kosher food. Numerous other reas-
ons are advanced.

Kruse gives the names of all the other nine
men, and explains how van der Lubbe (the
Dutch youth who was later beheaded on a
charge of having set the fire) was told he
would be arrested and sentenced to satisfy
public opinion, but later would be released se-
cretly and sent to America with a large for-
tune.

Ten sworn men had to take two rehearsals,
for which they gathered in the cellars of Goer-
ing's presidential palace (General Goering. is
Prussian Premier), walked through the under-
ground passage to the Reichstag, and were
shown the places where they would have to
place inflammable material.

On the evening of Feb. 27 they each were
given a bag of explosives, attached to which
were celluloid strips, and went into the Reich-
stag, where Ilcines and Ernst lit the celluloid
after van der Lubbe was in his place.
Kruse says that of the 13 men involved, one
after another mysteriously disappeared, ex-
cept Roehm, Ileines, Ernst and two S. A. men,
one named Nagel, a friend of Reines, and
himself.

ing • flicker, he received ■ fron•
tie wire from the producer. "For
heaven's sake . . . hurry and
finish the picture ... the cost is
eta ing. ' Milestone returned,
"So is the cast r.

•

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Samuel Lionel Rothafel (Rosy
to those who remember) speechi-
fied to a group of college gradu-
ates on how to get a job and
make good in show business. Mr.
'Rothafel . . . currently unem-
iployed . . . has ample time to
!make such speeches.

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so

At the end of June, Roehm threatened to
reveal the truth of the fire if Hitler disbanded
the Storm Troops. and it was merely by the
chance that he, Kruse, was not in Roehm's
house on the night of June 30 that he coerced-
ed in escaping the Leader's (Hitler's) ven-
geance.

Tidbits and News

By BORIS SMOLAR

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

Chief European Correspondent, J. T. A.

iCupyright, 193t. J. T. LI

(Cup> right. 1135. Jewish Telegraphic Agrmy i

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COLUMNIST AT CAMP
What a suppressed desire we
Jews most have for the life back
to nature, judging by the number
of Jewish camps. Here am I at
the Zionist camp in the New York
mountains.
"Why did you come to camp?"
queried a fellow camper.
"Well, let's see," responded I,
"I guest it must be because I
wanted to get away from civili-
zation."
"Well, why didn't you go to
Berlin?" he replied. "Do you
know," he added, "that the Ger-
man tourist companies are now
advertising abroad:
" 'Get away from civilization
for a while. Come to Berlin for
your vacation.'"
• • •
This is a Zionist camp, and for
one who deals so much in Zionism
as the staple all-year diet, I sup-
I pose I should have stayed away.
I But as the old adage has it: A
sailor on his vacation always takes
a boat ride, and so it is with Zion-
ists, I suppose.
, "Let's declare a moratorium on
Zionist subjects," I said, as I be-
j gan my first conversation in
camp. "Nothing with Zionism in
it for a week. Does everybody
agree?"
"Sure," said my acquaintances,
!sitting in a row boat with me.
• • •

EDITOR'S NOTE: The folo•ing is the first of three striking
articles on the Polish-Jewish situation by one of the outstanding
Jewish journalists of the day. The remaining two articles will ap-
pear in subsequent issues of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle.

WARSAW.—The Nara, the anti-Semitic na-
tional radical party which carried out both small
and large pogroms on the Jews, is now forbidden
in Poland.
Not forbidden, however, is anti-Semitism.
The roots of anti-Semitism go oven deeper.
Economic anti-Semitism. Social anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism, which is not physical, but upon
which all political parties in Poland are united.
A feeling of hatred exists between the Gov-
ernment party and the National Democratic En-
dek party. One would destroy the other if the
opportunity presented itself. This bitter feeling
is not noticeable, however, when the Jewish
question is discussed. On this question both
parties have the same' feeling: both parties do
their best to oust the Jews from their positions
and make the Jewish economic situation worse.
The Polish Workers Party, "P. P. S.," a social-
ist party with international principles which
throughout the year opposes the present regime
and government ordinances, is absolutely silent
when a law against Jews is proposed. It swings
into action only when a factory hires a Jew. Then
the party calls a strike of Polish workers and
the Jewish worker must leave.

This strange unity which exists among the par-
ties with regard to the Jewish question gives the
government a free hand to do as it pleases with
the Jews; it makes it possible to pass laws and
ordinances which undermine the Jewish economic
status; it creates for the government an oppor-
tunity to snatch legally all possible chances of
livelihood from the Jews; it gives it the assur-
ance that it can do as it wills with the Jews be-
cause nobody in the country will protest.

Urges Selection of Jewish Commission

The Jews of Poland will realize that the present
course of the Polish government aims at their
economic ruin. They cannot, however, help
themselves. They are in a vise and do not see
the slightest means of escape. All that Jewish
leaders in Poland can do is to knock on the
doors of various government officials and beg
for the temporary postponement of the anti-
Jewish laws; for permission for the Jews to
breathe freely for another few months; for the
law to be withheld for a few weeks. They don't
even dream of completely erasing the anti-Jewish
laws from the books. The Jewish leaders are not
the people who can demand that, nor would the
Polish government listen to their demands.
Something must be done, therefore, for Polish
Jewry, if the Jewish world does not want to see
a million Jewish beggars in Poland this winter.
A Jewish commission from other lands, to come
to Poland for an official investigation of the
outspoken, economic anti-Semitic course of the
Polish government would be a great aid In this
respect. A Jewish commission from other lands
would be able to influence the Polish govern-
ment where the Jews here cannot. The commis ,

sion would be able to compile a list of all the
anti-Jewish laws and publish them in the form
of a book" which would shock the non-
Jewish world.

This Jewish commission would be able to bring
the condition of Polish Jewry before the League
of Nations, to which Poland is responsible in
questions of minority rights. The foreign Jew-
ish commission would be able to accomplish much
more than all the Polish-Jewish leaders for whom
the Polish government has not the necessary re-
spect, and who have not the necessary access to
the Polish government.

U. S., English Jewries Must Act

Polish Jewry is split into several factions. It
cannot represent itself. It has not the necesary

CAPITL ~ 4(0 FEU

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THERE has hen no hiding of the 'trade relations between the United
1 fact that during the coming States and Germany. Ever since
months the t'nited States intends the boycott was instituted in this
to make an intensive drive to re- country am' in other countries, it
gain foreign markets. While trade was mare clear to the world at
negotiations will he entered into Ia.:. that the boycott will continue
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with a number of foreign countries, •
:sing as Germany follows the
present indications are that an far :fides policy, of racial, religious
as the United States is concerned, and political persecutions. With no
L
Nazi leaders who have fled to the Saar to
Germany will he out of the picture. signs of any change in policy by
S
escape the clean-up confirm the existence of a
Until recently there was much the Nazi regime, there is little im-
Storm Trooper of Kruse's name and detach-
backstage talk in Washintton mediate hope for the boycott to
ment, but hare no knowledge of his present
about a trade agreement between subside. Thus Germany is kept
whereabouts.
this country and Germany. That from selling her goods on other
markets.
This is the period of German "purgings," was before the Hitler power be-
came exceedingly obnoxious to the
Germany's status as ■ debtor
It
and out of it the t th must emerge. Be- world at large. Those anxious for • nation is an obstacle to easy cre-
a trade agreement betvileen the el'ts. Her moratorium of default on
fore
the
curtain
falls
this
tragic
comedy.
1)1
two countries are, for the present. all foreign debts, including the
we shall know about a the betrayals, all gloomy about the prospects.
ti
Dawes and Young loans, led to .
b
the deals, all the instigat s to murder.
,,mplications with the United
• • •
creditor nations.
Already, the guilty culprits are begin- , Word from George N. Peek, pres- State. and other
tc
• • •
To
ning to pay their price for their participa- ident of the Export-Import Bank.
Recent events in Germany have
which Was recently established to
C.
The important point, however, against tions in the bloodiest crime that has ever expand American foreign trade, not improved conditions. They boy-
A
agitation in favor of a Jewish hospital is been perpetrated. The Jewish Telegraphic makes the outlook for ■ trade cott and internal unrest are sub-
with Germany even )Prting the country as a whole ter.
w.
that the existing hospitals at present are Agency brings an interesting story from agreement
more gloomy. Peek has taken the rific pressure. The country's ern.
of
East
Rutherford,
N.
J.,
to
the
effect
that
k
so
markedly
underpopulated
that
to
create
position that the Export-Import nomie isolation from the outer
th
.
will finance only transac-; world, through restrictive measures
additional hospital facilities would be do- several months ago Emil Zi PP. a sa loon. li Bank
ons where ability to pay exists. moratorium. and other factors, is
ing a definite injustice to existing health keeper. organized a branch of the German- He insist.
"that the operation of hemming mere and more apparent
Austrian War Veterans Association, But this bank will be carried on in line each day.
agencies.
• • •
with
a
definite
knowledge, insofar
word has just reached him to the effect
Then there is this to remember:
an we are able to obtain it, of the
That Germany is losing ground
that his brother, Alphonse, a Storm Troop- current
incoming and outgoing a.- at a rapid pace is seen from the
Every existing Jewish social, recrea- er, was a victim in the Hitler "purge."
counts of the United States. I most recent report of the United
"
tiona! and educational agency is in grave
in assisting our foreign States. Department of Commerce.
Gradually the truth becomes known. It believe
ho
trade, but I also believe in making - Reports of unsatisfactory export
danger of collapsing because the commu- may take time, but bigotry, lust and perse- sure that we get paid for it."
bu.inese are current from all in-
nity failed to provide the necessary finan- cution is doomed.
This policy, as expressed by duitries, while the monthly trade is
cial support. Our Hebrew schools, the
Peek, was arrived at after a corn. piling up an adverse balance. The
prsbentive canvass of the foreign State, still refusing currency deva-
w)North End Clinic, the Jewish Old Folks
trade situation conducted during luation as • means of restoring 51 e
Home, the House of Shelter, the Hebrew
ho
Left wing Nazis have issued a pam- ' the past Ix months among Amer. competitive position of industry.
Free LoLan Association are working under phlet charging that Hitler conducted his icon producers and business men. ha. again reminded German man-
'n'
de severe handicaps. To add another burden "purging" drive of June 30 on orders from The Eaperl - Import Bank official, ufaeturere of their 'national 'duty'
sir
studied this rountrye actual need- to export regardless of any tem-
to a community which is unable adequately Jewish international powers. We would i"
" lei " to ca pon and import porary losses that they might suf-
to care for existing needs would be a great have been disappointed if this charge had
fer." the Department of Commerce
fri
bu""" '
a
says.
as social crime.
not been made by the extremists in the
WO
In vie. of th e poe,thm, tak en h p
Germany is making an intensive
It is an act of irresponsibility at this Nazi party. Now it is definitely established the bank, it i, quite obvious that effort to break the force of the boy-
cott.
This is seen from the depart-,
ha time to agitate for a Jewish hospital in that the Jews rule the world. and that the study did net overlook the ef - - ment's
report that "Furthermore_
even Hitler takes orders from them., fest the toyeest againstGerman I
Detroit.
'imprted goods was having on
(Torn to Nul Pao.)

As a matter of fact, never was the time
as inopportune as it is now for a movement
in favor of a Jewish hospital. Many a
Jewish community wishes today that it
did not have a Jewish hospital, so that it
should not be burdened with weighty defi-
cits created by such health institutions.
Furthermore, it is not quite fair to say that
one is compelled to starve because there
is no kosher food. The observant patient
can easily eliminate forbidden meats and
seafoods from the hospital menus without
suffering hunger. And if one is over-
anxious for kosher food, that, too, can be
secured through Jewish agencies or
through friends, by special arrangements
with the hospitals.

BY-THE -WAY

Poland Wages War on the Jews

influence with the government. The government
does not reckon with it and does not find it nec-
essary to listen to its protests.

Altogether different, however, would be the
situation of a committee of Jewish representatives
of other lands. With such a committee the l'olish
government would have to reckon. It would take
the commission more seriously than it has Polish
Jewish leaders. The Polish government would
not like to be faced with a world-wide Jewish
campaign. It would reconsider whether it pays
to proceed with the present economic campaign
against the Jews or whether its anti-Jewish pro-
gram should be eased, for a time.

A Jewish investigating committee to be sent
to Poland must be the course of action under-
taken by American and English Jewry,

To send such a commission to Poland is only
one of the measures to save Polish Jewry in its
political and economic destruction. Other meth-
ods must also be found. Means of relief. Means
of reconstructive aid. Means of credit and small
loans. Means must be found to save the store-
keeper, the artisan, the unemployed worker and
all those other Jews who now wander about
Poland without a livelihood and who do not know
what the morrow may bring.
There are now in Poland a million unemployed
Jewish people without any source of income. A
million future Jewish beggars.
On the streets of Warsaw, Lwow and Cracow,
I found young Jewish men and /women with chil-
dren on their arms, standing in lines in front
of restaurants, with outstretched hands waiting
to beg a penny or two to buy bread. Only a dry
piece of bread.

They are bedraggled and bare-footed, hunger
is imprinted plainly on their faces, yet there is
food everywhere. Every fifth door on the main
streets of Warsaw is a restaurant, a coffee house,
or a fruit and food market.

No Government Relief for Jews

In this wealth of food—food not at all ex-
pensive—there are in Poland now hundreds' of
thousands of Jewish homes where dry bread is
a luxury; where whole families live only on
bread and onions; where ten cents 'a day is a
lot of money; where children do not know the
taste of milk.

No one takes any notice of these unfortunate
families, especially not the government. There
is no government 'relief for unemployed Jews.
There is no protection against hunger for Jews.
It is not a difficult task for a government to
concentrate its powers on the destruction of the
economic security of a portion of its people
which has no one to whom to appeal. The eco-
nomic destruction of the Jewish population of
Poland is, therefore, carried out by the Polish
government with conscious ruthlessness and
without any consideration for the three million
Jewish citizens.
ents of the present regime.

The Nara, the Polish anti-Semitic National
Radical party, is now deadened and suppressed.
The government's anti-Semitic course, however,
remains unchanged. The anti-Semitic trend of
the present regime will continue whether the
Nara exists or not. Only strong intervention
from Jewish organizations of other countries can

stem the present tide to any extent. Only this.
Such intervention should have taken place long
ago. Now, however, it is inevitable.
Jewry in America and England must not look
on indifferently, as millions of Jews in Poland are

turned into beggars. Something must be done
for Polish Jewry.

And the sooner the better.

CIVILIZATION
VS. HITLERISM

THE r- lbg: (5 5' CIVILIZATION AllAINRT
Puhlimbeel by Robert 0
BAI.L01•, I Wtitle
• New York
.50 c•ntrI.

The historic trial of Hitler
and Nazism, at the Madison
Square Garden in New York on
March 7, 1934, on the ocasion
of the first anniversary of the
rise of Hitler to power, is now
a permanent record.

Robert 0. Henan has published
all the addresses delivered at
this great meeting in • 145-
page volume which came off the
press this week.

Included in this volume are
the addresses delivered by the
following:
Bainbridge Colby, Bernard S.
Deutsch, Arthur R. Brown, Mi-
chael Williams, Lewellys F.
Barker, Abraham Cahan, Harry
Woodburn Chase, Roger N.
Baldwin, Matthew Woll, Seth
Wakeman, Millard E. Tidings,
Gustavus T. Kirby, Samuel Mar-
goshes, Arthur Garfield Hays,
Stanley High, Miriam Beard,
Edward J. Neary, Raymond W-
iry, Alfred E. Smith, Fiorello
H. LaGuardia, Stephen S. W , -e,
Samuel Seabory and John
!Jayne., Holmes.
In view of the importance of
the mimes of the collaborators
in th, volume, and because of
the masterful denunciations of
bigotry, "The Case of Civiliza-
tion Against Hitlerism" takes a
first rank position among the
important books published on
the horrible conditions in Ger-
many.
The judgment of the court, at
the Madison Square Garden
meeting, is contained in the
final address, published in this
volume, the verdict being pro-
nounced by John Haynes
Holmes.

"And speaking about something
else," said one, "did you hear the
story about the two Jews who
: came to Palestine?"
"Well," he said, "these two
Jews when they arrived in Pal-
i estine had an argument as to
whether Hebrew would actually
'take' as the living tongue of the
Palestine Jews. One of them ar-
gued that it would not—that Yidi-
dish would continue to hold its
own.
"I'll tell you what," said the
other Jew. "I have a suggestion
for deciding the matter. We will
go up to the first youngster we
meet on the street, we will go up
I to him and pull his ear.
"If he holers 'mameh' (Yiddish
for mother) the answer is that
Hebrew is not taking. If he bol-
lers 'Immi' (Hebrew for mother),
we may take it for granted that
I the children all speak Hebrew as
I the spontaneous language and
that the Palestine tongue will al-
I ways be Hebrew.
" 'Agreed,' said the other.
"A boy of nine was not slow in
coming within their horizon, and
one of the Jews went up and
puled his ear.
" 'Cha-mor!' (Hebrew for ass)
shouted the youngster."
The youngster had said neither
"immi" nor "mameh," yet, never-
theless, he had made his exclama-
tion in Hebrew, so that, I pre-
sume, it may be taken for granted
that Hebrew will stick as their
Palestine language.

1

As A finished his story, B, an-
other of those in the rowboat,
ven."
smiled.he said, "I am glad to
see that you didn't tell any Zion-
ist story. And so I feel it only
proper that I should tell • non-
Zionist story.
"You know," he began, "there
is ■ great shortage cf labor in
Palestine, but especially of build-
ing labor. A carpenter or a paint-
er can command almost any wage.
With that preliminary, I will now
go ahead with my story.
"A Palestine damsel with $3,000
dowry was in the market for
a husband. She called in the
best Schadchen in Tel Aviv, and
he submitted his list of prospects.
" 'Here is the picture,' he said,
'of a doctor.'

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JUDAISM

A Book Review by Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes

Rabbi-Emeritus, Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, New York City

ATMS'S By Rabbi liner. LI h
PrIP11/1, leader an.] founder. of .;.••=1;
51 - 1ence. Jewish &len, Publiehing
...,beany. New York ally. 121. .

ceremonies are beautiful and ale-
. rating; but Judaism'is more than
ceremonies. It is therefore the ob-
This is a remarkable book, re- . ject of this volume to show: first,
,
markable, because it is written by what Judaism fundamentally con-
sists of; then, how its teachings
an intensely spiritual soul, • rabbi, ran he adequately applied
to mod-
who not finding soul-solace in the est) life; finally, the methods by
old synagogue, has gone so far as ' which this end may be achieved."
to establish what is called the Jew- "Our religious contains eternal
' truths, as vital and impelling today
ish Science Movement. But he, in
as they were in antiquity." This
this book, proves himself to be • I does not sound as if he wished to
true and noble-hearted champion of , set aside Judaism in favor of
the old faith, finds new reasons for Jewish Science. To quote again:
"The failing of the ultra orthodox
old ceremonies and finds necessity is that he lays too great
a stress
for sterling loyalty to old tract'. • upon the letter of the Bible, but
tions, which evidently still grip him. the failing of the ultra modernist
He must have had many a soul- is that he sees only the letter of the
Bible, and finding that wanting, he-
storm in his day; many ■ heart- , rejects the whole
living structure."
break; many a thought-tempest. Fsr example, he refers to the an-
Then all the more to his honor that thropomorphism s Even the most
he recognizes beauty in the forni of ultra orthodox Rab
bi knows and
Jewish religion, although it was in teaches that these are merely due
protest against mere form in relig- to the limitations of human lan-
ion that his Jewish Science Mome- guage. But the "modernist" fails
ment was launched and today lives. to present the spiritual meaning
That name, Jewish Science, is ra- thereof.
ther unfortunate; because it ; Rabbi Lichtenstein, the author, in
■ creases thought of Mrs. Eddy's • his chapter
on the rabbi is uncom-
movement and therefore expecta-
tion of unacceptable thought-vagar- promising in his attitude: "The
rabbis
■ are mostly men of fine in-
ies. The associations of the name
will prevent many a rabbi, Ortho-, telligence, trained under ■
prom-
dot, Conservative. or Reformed,'
mee of the leadership of Israel and
from taking up the book to read
it as everyone should. For here, the championship of God. But they
the author comes forward and very soon discover that the real
writes a book every page of which leaders are those that have to
do
should be read by every Jewish
with their material maintenance.
rabbi, and in every page of which
As
for
championship
of
Gal,
this,
that rabbi will find much to en-
dorse. Indeed, if this book, "Judo too, is a function of no ' , pedal emi-
ism," written by the leader and nence, since God himself counts
an
founder of Jewish Science expresses little in the lives of the people.
Jewish Science, where was the steed
The
rabbi
soon
discovers that his func-
for the creation of Jewish Science?
The author says in his foreward: tions are nominal, just to conduct
"No effort has ever been made to services and preach for
only a
bring before the Jew the essence handful of
people. In the life of
of his faith and show him its ap-
the
great
majority
he
plays
no
part.
plicability to his daily life. Our'
Realizing this, he endeavors to
youth, at best, is initiated into
reach
his
people
through
social
ac-
series of religious ceremonies
of-
t fared to them as Judaism. It is tivity, by conducting literary clubs
needless to sly that our traditional and dramatic circles, by all kinds.
of odd undertakings."

