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Metropolitan
of the day when a German will sit in the
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Comment
candidates as a group, stating that "the
intern! as Second-elms matter Mr..ch I, 19111, at the Root-
By HENRY W. LEVY
age* at Detroit, Mich, under the At of March a, 1$79.
entire Old Testament is running." But
General Offices and Publication Building the Jewish candidates speak in terms of
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American citizenship and their obligations
525 Woodward Avenue
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to the state and the people. As a matter AN EAST SIDE SAGA
London Office:
"My farewell salute to the East
of fact, as in the instance of Robert Moses
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
Side, the East Side that is pass-
in New York, one Jewish newspaper even ing . . ." that is how Bella Spe-
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
inquired whether he admits or denies his wack describes her new play,
eti Mount publication, all correspondence an! news matter
"Spring Song," which Max Gordon
Jewishness, to which he gave his reply:
reach this office by Tumdsy evening of nth week.
ie currently presenting in New
likes mailing notice.. kindly use one side of the paper only
"I have never denied my Jewish de- York. It is a sentimental memory
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitescorrespondence en sok,
on
part of an East Side Jewish
scent. On my father's side I am descended girl the
Mute of Internet to the Jewish people, but disclaims reeponsi-
who likes to think of herself
batty for se indorsement of the lams. expressed by the writers
from Spanish Jews, while my mother came as a "hard boiled and sophisticated
from Bavarian Jewish stock. My ancestors gal." It is a recess from years of
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Broadway plays and Holly-
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 23:1-25:18
came to the United States more than 100 writing
wood scenarios in the staccato,
Prophetical portion—I Kings 1:1-31
years ago.
clipped, heavily gagged technique
Rosh Chodesh Kislev Reading of the Law,
Thursday, Nov. 8
'The truth is that, as far as I know, my of the new theater.
For "Spring Song" is Bella Spe-
Num. 28:1-15
family was never very religious in the work s play, it is her play
despite
Cheshvan 24, 5695 accepted sense of the word. I was also the Let that her husband Sam had
November 2, 1934
a hand in whipping it into shape,
brought up in the same atmosphere.
despite the fact that his name ap-
"Members of my family belong to the pears on he playbills as co-author
Peiser's Plain-Spoken Statement
Ethical Culture group. My grandmother of the play. "Spring Song" is one
those productions known on
Kurt Peiser's statement on gthe present was one of the founders of the Ethical of
Broadway as an author's play, that
agitation for a new Jewish Old Folks' Culture Society and was associated with is a play of which an author is
more than ordinarily fond.
Home building is a plain-spoken declara- Dr. Felix Adler."
As Bella Spewack was talking
tion and deserves to be given sincere con-
There is good reason for quoting this about the play in the suite she and
sideration by those who are sponsoring the statement of Mr. Moses. Jews in public her husband occupy at the Hotel
Gotham, as she was telling me that
movement for a new home for the aged.
life very often are men who are Jews but this play was about "the Jews I
Furthermore, his statement deserves in name only, their entire devotions being remember from the East Side in
commendation for its clarity and frank- given either to their professional callings which I grew up" that it was one of
in which "we don't use a gag, a
ness.
or the offices they hold with the govern- play in which the humor springs
Our community must not be misled to ment. When a Jew capitalizes the Jewish from the characters" she stumbled
the plural personal pronoun.
venture upon another project which might name for political purposes he is as a rule over
She had done this before, and I
mortgage our future. It is agreed that a condemned by the thinking elements of already knew that l'Spring ,Song"
new home for the aged is a necessity. We our people. But not so' with the Nazis. was her play notwithstanding any
Sam Spewack may have con-
believe that we even agree that if we were For them it is "Deutschland ueber Riles," help
tributed in the construction.
to embark upon a new building program and everything German must rule for them
"Well, it's my play," she apolo-
"Sam was a great help in
the contruction of an old folks' home whether they are in Germany or as natur- gized.
polishing it ..."
would merit prime consideration.
alized citizens of other lands. We feel
"Yes, it's Bella's play. All I
But there are existing agencies which confident therefore that such tactics must did was to help round a few diffi-
are starving for funds, and which find it fail, and that our method, which we must cult corners." •
REMINISCENT OF
impossible to meet their budgets. The claim as the more honest one, must tri- "STREET
SCENE"
community to whom appeals in behalf of umph.
And so it was. When I saw the
these agencies were directed failed to
play shortly after talking with the
Spewacks, I couldn't help but think
meet its obligations in the last drive for
James W. Gerard and the Jews of Bella's remark: "Nowhere in
funds. Now a group of people appear on
the world can you find such af-
the scene to tell us that if a movement
James W. Gerard, former Ambassador fection as on the East Side."
The mother of the play, superbly
were started to build a new home for the to Germany, became the subject of attack
done by the Yiddish actress, Helen
aged, organizations hitherto unaffiliated last week over a statement he made in East Zelinskaya, could have been the
with the Federation would give it their Orange, N. J., that there were too many mother of many of us Jews who
watching the show. And the
wholehearted support. It is obvious that Jews in the last May Day parade in New were
Florrie Solomon, who had an affair
there is something wrong with the type of York. Mr. Gerard's own letter to the New with her sister's fiance, might have
organization which fails in an hour of need York Times following the attacks upon been anybody's sister as she was
delineated by the Spewacks and
to support existing needs, but which under- him in some measure throws light upon the portrayed
by Francine Larrimore.
takes to make demands for new building controversy:
The play that Belle Spewack
projects.
created out of her love for the
East Side is slightly reminiscent
I note in the New York Times that Rabbi
Mr. Peiser is therefore entirely justified
of Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," a
Marius Ranson of the Temple Sharey Tefilo
saga
of New York's west side. It
in his demands that organizations—if they
said in his sermon that I am a publicity-seeker.
is a play of character, rather than
Considering the fact that I was Invited and
are not mythical and if the spokesmen in
of
plot.
It's weakest moment is
urged to speak in the synagogue over which
their behalf are thithorized to speak for
in the first scene of the third act
he presides, his statement comes with rather
when its characters must cease be-
them—should make a practical declara-
ill grace. I am glad to see that he says he
ing sketched to go an with the
appreciates the friendship I have always
tion of their intentions in the even a new
story. But certainly Bella Spewack
shown toward the Jewish people. But he mis-
home for the aged were to built. How
achieved what she set out to do,
quotes me when he says that I said in East
portray some of the people she
much are these organizations prepared to
Orange or anywhere else that there are too
used
to know when she played on
many Jews in the Communist ranks.
subscribe? What are they prepared to do
the streets of New York.
In speaking at an anti-Nazi meeting in the
iii behalf of such a new construction ef-
BORN OF TWO SHORT
Bronx last spring I said that I had seen the
fort?
STORIES
Communist parade on May Day and that there
The play, Miss Spewack told rne,
were
too
many
Jews
in
the
ranks
on
that
day.
The answer to Mr. Peiser's statement
was born in two short storielahe
A Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn misquoted
wrote
when she was still in her
will determine whether there is any justi-
me as having made the statement that there
teens and was earning $12 week
are either too many Jews in the Communist
fication whatever for the present agita-
working
for the Yorkville Home
ranks or too many Communists in the Jewish
tion for a new Old Folks' Home.
News. They were the stories that
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Peace in Zionist Ranks
When Vladimir Jabotinsky comes to De-
troit in February his standing will be
greatly enhanced by virtue of the fact that
he, together with David Ben-Gurion, com-
pleted a peace pact which promises to
change the entire complexion of Zionist
efforts in Palestine.
The peace agreement signed in London
by the two contending parties--the His-
tadruth and the Revisionists--is the most
important Zionist decision reached in
years. Pledging to heal the wounds of
party strife, this agreement is of great
significance because it permits free ex-
pression of opinion without resorting to
riots and disturbances, because it guar-
antees a division of work among all Jewish
groups, regardless of political opinions,
and because it creates an opportunity for
united action on all issues affecting the
Jewish National Horne, without interfer-
ence from riotous groups inflamed by party
devotion.
In view of the fact that the agreement
was prepared and signed by the two lead-
ers of the two contending parties, both of
whom were looked upon as the responsible
leaders of their respective groups, the
peace pact assumes added significance.
This agreement is an excellent begin-
ning for Jewish co-operation in Palestine
in the present hour of progress in the re-
demption of the Jewish National Home. It
is a pact for peace which must never again
be broken.
The New York Elections
Hon. Herbert H. Lehman is conceded
re-election as Governor of the Empire
State of New York in an unusually inter-
esting contest, all the candidates in which
are Jews. Robert Moses is the Republican
candidate, Charles Solomon the Socialist
candidate and Israel Amster the Commu-
nist candidate.
This, naturally, was sufficient cause to
instigate certain elements, particularly the
Nazi groups, to sponsor the candidacy of
jegite John F. Ifylan, former Mayor of
Ai* T4A, whose petitions have been de-
1 kiwaild by a Justice of the New
Wt* Illwarime Court. The only other Ar-
o". Is A candidate for the New York
Is the Prohibitionist Varney.
Inla imam the New York election
**wresting is the striking dif-
Wow Jewish and Nazi tactics
ranks. The gentleman who organized the
Bronx meeting wrote to the newspaper in
question asking for a correction.
When I spoke in East Orange—in Rabbi
Ranson's temple—I referred to this incident
and stated that I had never said that too
many Communists are Jews or too many Jews
are Communists, and that what I did say was
that there were too many Jews in the parade
last May Day. I then referred to the great
war record of American Jews and their pa-
triotism, and said I could not understand how,
considering the number of Jews who had at-
tained high and honorable positions in this
country, any Jew could be a Communist.
I am sorry that Rabbi Ranson, after inviting
me to speak in his temple, thinks I am a pub-
licity-seeker, but I shall not on that account
discontinue my efforts to bring before the
people of the United States the horrible treat-
ment of the Jewish people in Germany or
cease to refer to the dangers of communism
in this country.
she had to write, stories that
wouldn't give her peace until she
set them on paper. From Sarah
Resnick came the character of the
mother of "Spring Song;" from
"East Side Idyl," finally published
under the title, "Yetta's Folly,"
came the character of Florrie.
The play, itself, was written sev-
eral years ago. Since then it has
been knocking about various thea-
trical managers' offices and re-
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German Jews Find Home in Palestine:
An Account of Refugee Immigration
(Coarnsliti1931, J. T. A./
EDITOR'S NOTE: This statistical description of the character and number of
German-Jewish immigrants to Palestine is provided by one who has been in close
touch with the rebuilding of Palestine since 1921. Temporarily in the United States
on a visit from Jerusalem, Mr. Herrmann gives an authoritative account of how per-
manent homes are being found by refugees from the Nazi Reich. The $3,000,000
United Jewish Appeal for German-Jewish Relief includes in its budget amounts for
the Palestine Foundation Fund activities as well as for the Central Bureau for the
Settlement of German Jews in Palestine.
T IS SURPRISING to note that even now the
facts concerning the absorption in Palestine
of Jewish immigrants from Germany do not
seem to be fully appreciated. Palestine is, of
course, a small country, and the Jewish popula-
tion of Palestine after the war did not count
even 50,000 souls. Jews and ion-Jews are ac-
customed, therefore, to think of Palestine as n
country which may at some distant time be able
to stand on its own feet, and absorb an increas-
ing but certainly very small and selected Jewish
immigration year after year.
But what is the position in fact? The world,
even the Jewish world, is slow in recognizing
the fact that now the yearly immigration figure
is around 50,000 per year and that the old Jew-
ish settlements and the comparatively new ones
established by the Keren Ilayesod after the war
are consolidated to such an extent that they are
absorbing new immigrants, especially from Ger-
many, by the hundreds and even thousands,
without any great difficulty. That means that
these immigrants can find sufficient livelihood
and make permanent homes in Palestine, once
the housing problem is met by funds from the
campaigns in various countries on behalf of Ger.
man-Jewish settlement.
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The Increases in Immigration
The Jews throughout the world
are celebrating, on November 2,
Balfour Day. It occurred to me
the other day to look back at the
New York Times to the day in
1917 when the Balfour Declare.
ation was issued by the British
government.
...„
I found the cabled report from
England telling about the Declar-
Middle Class Settlers
ation tucked away in an item of
Anybody who knows the economic structure of not more than three inches in one
German Jewry will appreciate the fact that those of the back pages of the Times.
Well, the Tiines has since
immigrants who come to Palestine under the
labor schedule are not in the majority. In the learned better.
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period under review, 4,667 individuals entered
ANOTHER DEGREE TO THE
under the labor schedule, while the rest came POUND
under the legally established categories of capital-
Prof. Charles A. Beard of ('ol-
ists—people with secured income, pupils and umbia, in the current issue of the
New Republic, makes it quite
dependents of Palestine residents.
It is significant that the percentage of "labor- plain why the German govern-
ment made such an ado about and
ites" from Germany in relation to the same cate- recently granted a degree to Dean
gory within the total Jewish immigration amount- Pound of the Harvard Law
ed to 18 per cent only, while, for instance, the School.
percentage of German-Jewish capitalists in pos-
Prof. Beard really does little
session of at least £1,000 amounted to 54 per explaining himself. He just cites
some press clippings and these
cent. The reason is, of course, that the crash in speak for themselves. He shows
Germany has resulted in sending out of Ger- that on a recent trip to Europe,
many the middle class people who have still some- Dean Pound in Paris and London
thing to build with. )jut that does not mean dropped some highly flattering
that only those who came to Palestine under the opinions of Mr. Hitler.
And Mr. Hitler of course can
labor schedule are going to do laborer's work.
appreciate a good lie—especially
Anyone who has been to Palestine recently and coming from such an erstwhile
has seen the faces 'of agricultural and urban gladiator for liberty of speech as
workers will convince himself that many who Dean Pound was reputed to be.
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have come as capitalists are working as laborers,
THE POUND HAS GONE DOWN
especially in agriculture, although only 367 of
If it may not be said that Dean
these German-Jewish refugees were occupied in Pound has sold himself for a mess
agriculture in Germany--the training period the of pottage, certainly it may be
others may have passed through before departure said that he has made a mess of
himself for a little of the pottage
not being counted as original occupation.
of a degree.
Something might be said of the sex of the
You may tell me of the fall of
immigrants. The number of female immigrants the pound in England. But what
is always smaller than that of male. That ap- was that fall compared to the fall
plies to most immigration countries with con- of this Pound—who stood so val-
iantly behind Chaffee when Har-
trolled immigration. Among the Jewish immi- vard authorities sought in
years
grants from Germany to Palestine were 4,762 gone by to muzzle his freedom of
women as against 5,636 men, while the compara- speech. And the Pound who stood
tive figures in the Jewish total were 19,753 so valiantly behind Felix Frank-
furter when anti-Semitism in Har-
women as against 20,849 men.
vard sought to displace him.
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A Family Immigration
Some illuminating details as to German-Jewish
immigration are supplied by the statistical de-
partment of the Jewish Agency in Palestine.
One qualification has to be noted in the way
of caution. The figures which I quote may be
taken as official—and at all events they are most
conservative.
The figures show that between January, 1933,
and the end of June, 1934, 11,405 Jews ftffifr ,
Germany settled permanently in Palestine. This
period of 15 months includes the first months
before and during the Nazi revolution in Ger-
many, when the exodus from Germany had not
yet started. During the months from January to
The family status of the immigrants is also
April, 1933, the immigration figure was 64, 40, interesting. Among the
Jewish immigrants from
51 and 56 respectively per month, or 201 per. Germany were 2,461 single, 5,163 married and
eons for four months, jumping in May up to 250, 2,674 children under 17 years of age. From the
in June to 602, and since then has never gone point of view of economic responsibility, the
below the figure of 500. Taking that into con- figures show that 3,460 were individuals, 2,302
sideration, one may say that in the one year were heads of families and their dependents
from June, 1933, to June, 1934, 11,000 Jews numbered 4,536. One may say, therefore, that
from Germany settled in Palestine permanently. the Jewish immigration from Germany tends to
In the months since June, 1934, the immigra- become more and more a family immigration.
tion has not decreased and I suppose that the A few years ago it was only the Zionist youths
figures to be compiled at the end of the current• who emigrated from Germany to Palestine, very
calendar year will show that the immigration of often against the outspoken will of the parents
German Jews tends to maintain a steady flow for who were German to the core.
the time being at least.
It would be a mistake to think that Jewish
It is very important and very interesting to immigration to Palestine will be regulated solely•
note that the percentage of the German-Jewish by the change or accentuation of conditions in
immigration within the quoted period in relation Germany. Palestine is no longer to be considered
to the total Jewish immigration to Palestine merely a temporary shelter for Jews from Ger-
amounts to 26 per cent, counting the total of many or from any other country. It is becoming
the Jewish immigration at 40,886. The same their permanent home. From the point of view
qualification with regard to the possibility of of permanence and stability in Palestine, it is
non-registered immigrants has to be quoted.
not alone the record of figures in "immigration"
The term "German Jews," by the way, does which counts, but the complete record of eco-
include, for the purpose of this statistical ab- nomic, social, cultural and political development.
stract, Jews who came from Germany but were But the immigration figures are a kind of index
not German citizens. Among 10,582 immigrants and those who want to see the tendencies and
from Germany (leaving out the category of the needs of Jewish life today should pause to
tourists who received permission to settle in Pal- think of the significance of these figures which
estine after they had entered the country) there show Palestine leading the world in giving a
were 8,698 "German Jews," 1,422 of Polish citi- home to the countless thousands of Jews who
zenship, the balance consisted of other countries. are being driven to seek peace and permanence.
45, oti171.0 HOE/I/G.
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News
BALFOUR DAY
CGPITGL CORM
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ding struggle between sectional
interests will in the near future
Tidbits and
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
By LEO HERRMANN
International Secretary, Palestine Foundation Fund
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Our former envoy to Germany may or
may not be wronged. It is impossible to
judge fairly in this matter without pos-
sessing the complete text of Mr. Gerard's
address. Those who deplore the existence
of professional friends of the Jews and
invoke the prayer "protect us, 0 Lord,
from our friends," must be reminded that
Mr. Gerard, after all, has been an out-
standing defender of the rights of the Jews
in Germany.
The regrettable thing in this controversy
is that theJew should be singled out for
special notice and advice in every issue
It is the Jew who is advised that he is
overcrowding the professions or leaning
to certain political views. But one never
hears the Catholic and the Protestant, or
the Italian and Peruvian, being admon-
ished for certain leanings.
If only we would be left alone and given
the opportunity to live normally, with the
right of choosing our callings and political
parties. But our lot has been that we
should constantly command attention and
therefore draw the advice of the majority
among whom we live. And our history
teaches us that we can expect almost any-
thing In the form of advice or reproach
from our neighbors, sometimes even the
friendliest of them.
One thing must be emphasized in this
connection.
There are times when Jews attempt to
pin the stigma of anti-Semitism upon non-
Jews, even after the latter deny that they
are unfriendly. Let it be remembered
that we have enough trouble with genuine
anti-Semites, without pinning this label
upon men denying it. If we insist on call-
ing people anti-Semites when they deny
it, then we merely create enemies.
BY-THE -WAY
lIE OUTCOME of an impen- through some arrangement sell
more goods to the United States,
German purchases of cotton from
determine whether or not the Uni- this country would decline 50 per-
ted States enters into a trade cenL
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agreement with Germany. The an-
ticipated clash will be between the
While southern cotton interests
cotton interests of the south and are just beginning to demand that
the industrial interests of the north the United States buy more goods
and west.
I from other countries so that more
King Cotton has been losing cotton may be sold to them, north-
ground in the American export ern and western industrial inter-
market for several years. The re- ests are afraid that importing more
cent decline has been sharp and a manufactured goods from abroad
further drop is expected. Much of will work injury on their enter-
the loss in cotton exports ieheing prises. The whole conflict may not
attributed to this country's ref
usal come out in the open until after
to buy more goods abroad. The Congress convenes in January
south views the current situation
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
with great alarm.
A. Wallace has pointed out that
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Germany "has cut down on her lard
purchases even more than on cot-
American cotton has been • ton
purchaser, and that falling off-
header in the world market. Nor- in the
German demand may ac-
mally, about 60 per cent of the cot-
count
the greater part of the
ton produced in the United States falling for
next year." Secretary
is exported. The south does not Wallace off
said a continued decline in
want to lose out to the foreign cot-
of American goods is an-
ton produced in the United States exports
and " ■ very large part
is the best crop and the money ticipated
of the decline in exports will be
crop of the south.
"due to the German situation." lie
Cotton consuming countries are said, "I don't know Just what we
seeking cotton, not on a price basis could do except in • broad trade
primarily, but are buying first from way to remedy that situation."
countries with which they may
have favorable trade relationships.
In the mean time, Germany has
These countries say that unless the given the United
States a year's
United States is willing to buy notice that she intends to abrogate
goods from them, they are not in her most-favored-nation treaty
position to buy American cotton with this country. Since her mone-
and other products.
tary troubles became acute, Ger-
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many hae been bargaining with
Germany has been quite out- other nations and has failed to
spoken on this phase of the situa- extend to the United States the
tion. She is in dire need of Ameri- same concessions granted these na-
can cotton, but under present con- tions as required under the treaty.
ditions is unable to pay for it. The Hitler government explained
German representatives have in- that as long as it was impossible
dicated to officials in Washington for Germany to sell more goods
that if the United States bought to the United States, it was im-
more German goods, then Ger- possible for her to extend to the
many would have the means with Invited States concessions granted
which to pay for the American cot- to other countries through bargain-
ton which she sorely needs.
ing arrangements under which
Last season Germany bought these countries would take more
about ten per cent of the total German goods To add to the ef-
American crop. Recently repreeen- fectiveness of this position, Ger-
t•tives of German interests were in many is exercising rigid control
Washington and pointed out to Oa. over her exchange.
clads that unless Germany could
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Clevelander Issues
Brandeis Pamphlet
A Review by Albert A. Woldman
HEBREW FOR BEGINNERS
Sometime ago this department
urged that some application of
the idea of Basic English be made
to the teaching of Hebrew.
Well, proving the perspicacity
of our mental processes, we hear
that this very thing is to be done
shortly in Palestine by Ila-aretz,
one of the leading Hebrew dailies
there. ila-aretz, we hear, is to
shortly begin the issue of one
edition of its paper daily, which
will not employ more than one
thousand different words. In other
words, once you learn this corn-
patatiyely small vocabulary, you
will be able to begin reading a
Hebrew paper in Palestine.
We do not presume to say that
la-aretz got the idea from us, yet
t he fact that it is to be done
shows how good we are—ho hunt!
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A HEBREW STORY
They were drinking at the home
of a good Hebrew friend the
other day. Chayim took one drink
from out of his host's bottle of
wine and said, "Here's to Israel,
one and undivided." He drank
it down.
Then he took hold of the bottle
again and poured in two drinks.
"Here's to Moses and Aaron,"
and drank down the two glasses
of wine.
Then he took hold of the bottle
and poured out three more drinks:
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THE ART OF NORMAL LIVING
MR. 10111EN TA KEN A WALK.
ny Mnry Roberts Rinehart. Published by
Ferrer A Rinehart, 133 Madison A se.,
New York III).
The publishers tell us that it was so mhty with the conviction that
only after Mrs. Rinehart received the hardness of life which charact-
an avalanche of letters of praise erizes the city isn't life at all, and
that she consented to have her little that One living hasn't totally dis-
book published, after it had ap- appeared.
peared in a magazine.
His other experiences bring him
"Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk" face to face with three other ad-
teaches the art of normal living. ventures in the course of which he
It is a fascinating story which the parts with his three hundred-dol-
reader most finish at one sitting lar bills:
not only because it contains only
One bill goes to the woman at
hocks). of Re clear.cut solution of 67 pages, but because It is such a the farmhouse where be used to
nn acute situation, ghoul(' be of erect human story—and because it is a
get his meals In his days of pedd-
interest to Jew and son-Jew alike. story with such a fine moral.
ling on the road. lie manages to
Jake Cohen, successful business hand the kind woman a bill against
The written and spoken words
man, who in deeply oppressed by her will and without her knowledge.
of Abraham Lincoln remain in- the vacuum created in his life af- The second bill goes to a hold-up
stinct with life though their ter the death of his wife, Rachel, man whom he manages to knock out
author has long been dead, and tells his son that he would like to but who tells him that the reason
get away from business for • while.
they are applicable to condl- And the surprising part of his de- h e resorted to a gun and to an
attempt to steal is because his wife
ditions today and adaptable to cision is that he decides not to take is with child and the doctor, who
all times because they were no his car and his chauffeur, but to wasntpaid when the first children
take a walk.
came, insisted on being paid in ad-
more iridescent baubles of po-
In an old suit, In a pair of old vance this time. The third bill
litical vacuity, but ■ body of shoes,
he takes to the road—the went to a couple on the road, on
faith which still remains the same road he travelled when he was the way south with on old horse
cornerstone of our national life. a peddler. The only difference is who could not last the rest of the
So, too, the words and doc- that in the insole of his old shoes w ay.
he places three hundred-dollar bills,
And every time Jake did a good
trines of Justice Louis D. Bran- and there is no pack. At firm things
deis uttered prophetically years are strange to him, but soon old deed he felt that he had actually
begun to live—that this was life.
ago are repeatedly quoted in scenes become familiar, and nu- not the rush of business and the
the year 1934 because his in- merous adventures make the trip hustle and bustle of the big city.
interesting and create the great
There is something human about
tuitive brain functioned years little story for the reader.
the story. But it is much more im-
ahead of his time.
His very first experience is a portant not because the hero is a
Witness his book, "Other notable adventure. He meets an- Jew, • fine and kind-hearted Jew,
People's Money," published in other traveler who invites him to who is exceedingly liberal in his
share his breakfast with him,
1914, and which sounded a learns that he was just released giving for good causes; it is thrill-
warning against the financial fro m jail after serving ■ 10-year ing because the hero is • Jew who
is tied down to business and who
trends inexorably leading to sentence, rends him to see his son s ets out on an adventurous tour
and be provided with a new outfit to see life
the stock debacle of 1929.
as it was when
of clothes, and to be recommended he peddled, again
and to imbibe the no'
Witness his scholarly Su- for his old job on the town news-
turalness
of
the
open
road. And
preme Court dissents which in paper; then Jake proceeds to a
the reader is left with the feeling
the course of time have become neighboring city to eve his wife and that Jake is through with business
to urge her to return to her hus-
the law of the land.
—that he is turning to the road
band.
to the more natural living.
Witness also his address, "The
But in the meantime he has his and
One other reason why the story
Jewish Problem—How To Solve other experiences. lie is given •
is
so
fine, is because of the partner
It," first delivered in June„ ride by a girl in a Ford, discovers who joins Jake on the road: an old,
she is on her way to ask the pol-
1915, and which is as timely ice to help her family locate her filthy dog whom Jake befriends and
and applicable to the present- brother, advises her not to use the whom he brings back with him at
the end of his walk.
day crisis in Israel as it was to help of the police but to leave it
The reader who joins Jake Cohen
the situation nearly 20 years to him; calls a friend in Philadel- on his walk, so well described by
phia, pledges $500 to his friend's
ago.
Mrs.
Rinehart, will get a thrill
favorite charity, and when the girl
Joseph Saslaw, who has in the Ford offers to take him back from this story—a story which
should
teach many a reader the
caused this noteworthy address to the farm and give him an odd
job, with the promise to pay when value of natural living and the fine
(PLEASE TERN TO LAST rsoz)
things
in
life that are taught on
they can, he feels his eyes become the open road,
EDITOR'S NOTE: Juntice Louie D. Thaw
dela. booklet. - The Jewlah Problem
—flow To Solve It." makes it. re.
appear., this week ender the
uponnorshlp of Attorney Joseph Pm-
low of Cleveland, who has edited end
published this new edition of Justice
!Wooden(' memorable di•courm on
the Jewish problem. In addition to
new forward. this reoeut edition
containe • hitherto unpublished bin•
araPhinal sketch of Justice Firandela
which Mr. flan:aer first delivered over
radio elation WTAM in Cleveland,
nn Jan. la 1933.
Thie pamphlet.