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November 16, 1934
Kislev 9,5695
Rep. McFadden's Defeat
The defeat of Congressman Louis T.
McFadden of Pennsylvania is without
question the most interesting result of the
last election insofar as American Jewry
is concerned.
Representative McFadden's defeat at
the hands of his constituents is particu-
larly interesting in view of the wide dis-
tribution of his scurrilous attacks on the
Jews, under cover of government mailing
privileges. It will be recalled that Con-
gressman McFadden's anti-Semitic ad-
dresses on the floor of Congress aroused
so many protests that the Speaker of the
last House of Representatives read into
the record a telegram of protest from Dr.
Cyrus Adler, president of the American
Jewish Committee, against giving cred-
ence to McFadden's quotations from and
endorsements of the Protocols of the Eld-
ers of Zion. It made little difference to
McFadden that Henry Ford, from whose
Dearborn Independent he quoted the ref-
erences to the Jews, had apologized for
printing them several years before.
The rebuke of the voters in McFadden's
district is the most decisive blow that
could be given this reactionary member of
Congress. By refusing to give ear to the
false attacks on the Jewish people, the
electorate in his district proved that it is
not easy to capitalize on anti-Semitism and
get away with it.
In his striking revelations of the Nazi
propaganda conducted in this country,
John L. Spivack, writing in the New
Masses under the heading "Plotting Amer-
ica's Pogroms," charged on the eve of the
election in which McFadden met his doom,
that "Congressman McFadden, Jew-baiter
and crook," took a $25,000 bribe in a
case in which his activities and those of
his associates were branded by Justice
Benjamin N. Cardozo, in an official Uni-
ted States Supreme Court decision, as
fraudulent conspiraacy." This $25,000
bribe, according to Spivak, was paid to
McFadden in connection with the absorp-
tion of the Marr Oil Co. by the Southern
States Oil Corporation.
Spivack reports in his revelations of a
stock deal perpetrated by McFadden who
was restrained by former Attorney Gen-
eral Ottinger of New York State, through
the courts, from selling $1,300,000 worth
of stock of a new corporation known as
the Federated Radio Corporation. Less
than two weeks later, the report continues,
McFadden filed a petition for bankruptcy
in Canton, Pa., in which, the writer says,
the value of the stock was placed at only
$60,000.
According to Spivack, sacks-full of mail
sent at government expense was shipped
by McFadden to Nevi York Nazis for dis-
tribution in their propaganda drive against
the Jews.
This is the man who loses his seat in
Congress and stands condemned in the
eyes of his constituents. His defeat in
great measure vindicates the sentiments of
those who believe that it will not be so
easy for anti-Semites to gain ground in
this country.
Heinz Liepmann's Visit Here
Heinz Liepmann's visit here, under the
auspices of the Men's Club of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek, for an address in
which he will describe his experiences in
a Nazi concentration camp, will provide
an opportunity to hear first-hand informa-
tion on what transpired in Germany dur-
ing the first few months of Hitler's rule.
A year's news reports of Hitler atroci-
ties fade into insignificance compared with
the horrible impression that is left on the
mind upon reading the resume of the op-
pressions and persecutions which are cred-
ited to the brutalities of the Nazis since
they ascended to power. There have been
protests and outbursts of indignation. Lib-
erty-loving people have rebelled. Decent
people feel outraged. But all these ex-
pressions of indignation are revived with
a redoubled force upon reading the ac-
count of German murder in Heinz Liep-
mann's volume, "Murder—Made in Ger-
many," for the writing of which he has
served a jail sentence. An Amsterdam
court sentenced Herr Liepmann, a Ger-
man-Jewish refugee author, to a month in
jail for writing this account of German
atrocities in novel form, the court holding
the view that Liepmann libeled the head
of a friendly government.
"Murder—Made in Germany" is the
narrative of the author's experiences in a
concentration camp. Incredible as these
experiences are, they are vouched for as
the absolute and factual truth. In his fore-
word, the author declares:
"I will answer with my honor, my live-
lihood and my life for the fact that all the
incidents in this book have actually hap-
pened.
"I cannot sleep at night when I think of
the Jews. Every night I hear a thousand-
fold rattling in men's throats, screaming
and choking. I see eyes slowly growing
dim. I see hands crushed to a bloody pulp,
backs with the skin stretched like a bal-
loon. I see bloody beards, crushed feet
and corpses—corpses."
Thus, Liepmann's novel is an account
of one form of atrocity after another. Ev-
ery form of cruelty imposed on humans in
Germany finds corroboration in his book.
Cass Canfield, president of Harper &
Brothers, publishers of this volume, re-
cently made this statement to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency commending Liep-
mann and his book:
"It took great courage for Liepmann to
write the book, knowing as he did the
danger involved. He was perfectly con-
scious of the risk and I can only express
my admiration for his courage.
"We are very enthusiastic about the
book, which is the first human first-hand
document of information on present day
conditions. Heinz Liepmann was faced,
as were the other German-Jewish writers,
not only with the qUestion of opposition to
the Nazi regime, but also what they would
do about it. The result was this unusual
book of first-hand information on present-
day Germany."
Detroit Jews have an opportunity to
meet and to hear Mr. Liepmann on Wed-
nesday evening, at the Shaarey Zedek.
A capacity audience should attend in or-
der to provide the guest speaker with the
encouragement he deserves from his fel-
low-Jews in his battle against the Nazi
terror.
Hitler Punishes the No-Sayers
A proclamation by Dr. Seiler, head of
the Medical Association of Duesseldorf, is
made public by the Physicians Gazette of
Berlin, as follows:
"In the election of Aug. 19 the Maria
Hospital of Duesseldorf rejected the Fueh-
rer and National Socialism by a vote of
more than 50 per cent. This election re-
sult rearesents a provocation of the pro-
fession, of the city and of the State. The
Duesseldorf physicians will try to make
good this alien attitude by the strictest
boycott of the hospital to the point of
economic annihilation.
"I therefore decree that any assign-
ments to the hospital are rigidly forbid-
den. I will publish in a circular the names
of all German physicians who in spite of
this prohibition still assign patients to that
hospital."
Immediately after the last German
"elections," the fear was expressed that
those who dared say "No" to the Hitler
"Ja, Ja" commands would be severely
punished. Now we have the proof that
Hitlerites are determined to go to extremes
in "educating" the entire German popu-
lation to Nazi thinking.
We are particularly interested in print-
ing the above-quoted proclamation for the
benefit of Adolf Hitler's theological de-
fender in Detroit. In the face of the state-
ment we have just quoted, will Dr. Fred-
erick B. Fisher continues to approve of the
glorious regime of the Nazis?
Metropolitan
Comment
LONDON: CAPITAL OF JEWRY
By HENRY W. LEVY
(1TA Special
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Coarrtim.1134. J. T. Al
comer...dent)
(Copyright, 1934, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Ina)
CRITICS
I hope Elmer Rice doesn't mind
my butting into his far from pri-
vate battle with the New York
daily critics, As one who has read
his incitement of the critics, most
of their answers to the charge and
who has seen Mr. Rice's two New
York productions of the season—
the points at question—and a num-
ber of Mr. Rice's previous efforts,
I feel that I owe it to myself, if
not to my readers, to join in the
discussion.
Well, what's all the shouting
about? Mr. Rice produced two
shows of his own authorship this
season, "Judgment Day" and
"Between Two World." Neither of
them fared very well at the hands
of New York's daily drama de-
fenders although each of them at-
tracted a small following among
the critics. And . . . both plays
being close to Mr. Rice's heart—
they containing various phases of
his present philosophy of life—he
was quite annoyed at the critics
for not being more receptive to his
efforts.
So • .. speaking at Columbia
University before a group of Pulit-
zer Journalism School students and
then later to a few newspaper cor-
respondents Mr. Rice said: "I will
never again write a play for the
New York theater because it is
over-commercialized and its dra-
matic critics are jaded, bored, illit-
erate, stupid and generally classi-
fiable as a low form of animal life.
I am fed up, disgusted. I've been
at it entirely too long."
Going into further details about
the dramatic critics he said that
critics are the drama's worst ene-
mies. And speaking specifically,
he is quoted in some of the papers
as saying that one is "a senile al-
coholic" and another is a "profes-
sional keyhole peeper."
"There is not," he continued, "a
dramatic critic in New York who
knows anything about the prob-
lems of acting and directing. Only
three or four of the 15 have some
degree of sensitivity and some idea
of the theater. Two or three are
stupid but honest. The rest are
the scum of the earth."
And about first night audiences
in general, he said even less flat-
tering things. Hollywood scouts,
he called "more stupid that dra-
matic critics." The first night aud-
ience he described as composed of
120 representatives of the press
looking for wisecracks to charac-
terize the play as a means of ele-
vating their egos, 75 Hollywood
scouts more stupid than the press
and the rest unemployed actors
and actresses who came to be seen
and professional first nighters.
AND THE CRITICS SAY
And this mouthful, the critics
have answered. They don't be-
lieve that Mr. Rice will retire,
some hint at a publicity stunt,
others insinuate that Mr. Rice is
worried about the loss of his for-
tune in enterprises he is backing
himself. Another says he could
keep the critics out if he wanted
to. Others turn flips to Mr. Rice's
venom. But let some of them
speak for themselves.
Percy Hammond who most cer-
tainly was among the critics most
severely attacked by Rice sardoni-
cally answered: "Rice is absolutely
right. He didn't reveal all he
knows about us."
Gilbert Gabriel, who liked one
of Rice's recent plays. was caus-
tic in his best vein: "After all,"
said Gabriel, "playwrights are
merely a lot of disappointed crit-
ics."
Practical Robert Garland volun-
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ONDON. — The Hitlerization of Ger-
many has turned London into a world cen-
ter of Jewish politics. Here, In the largest
capital of the world, we have today concentrated
the whole of Jewish political activity. Here,
also, rests perhaps the entire responsibility for
everything that is being done on matters which
will decide the fate of the Jewish people. Added
to the political activity we have all the relief
work on behalf of the Jewish refugees from
Germany and the work of providing aid for the
Jewish population in Germany itself.
American Jewry's abdiction of priority in re-
lief work in favor of London, subordinating it-
self voluntarily to the leadership of British Jew-
ry, will certainly add to the prestige which the
authoritative Jewish organization in England en-
joy throughout the world.
London Jewry possesses a considerable num-
ber of important Jewish personages of the high-
est type. The vast task they have assumed at this
critical phase in the life of the Jewish people
must make them conscious of the immense re-
sponsibility that now lies upon them.
There are now in London the Zionist World
Organization, the Central Relief Fund for Ger-
man Jewry, the headquarters of the Oze (the
organization engaged in world-wide Jewish health
work) ; the Relief Organization for Russian
Jewry; the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
and the Joint Foreign Committee, the political
department of the Revisionist Organization; the
World Union of Progressive Maccabi, and many
other Jewish organizations and institutions whose
work is carried on in England such as the An-
glo-Palestine Club.
A STRANGE DEVELOPMENT
British Jew is a Free Man
It is fortunate that British Jewry, and par-
ticularly the Jews of London, find themeelves at
this difficult time placed in no favorable a posi-
tion that 'they can take upon themselves this
important task of leadership. England is not
only comparatively, but actually, the most toler-
ant country in the world.
The British Jews walks about with his head
up, a free man, and he may live as any other
British citizen. There is no Jewish problem as
such in England, neither in theory nor in prac-
tice. Being a Jew is no hindrance either to
the community or the individual.
Jewish equality of rights is today firmly es-
tablished in England. It fits in with the sound
and solid character of the Englishmen, of all
British institutions. I was brought to a realiza-
tion of these facts by a speech delivered by Sir
Austen Chamberlain, former secretary for For-
eign Affairs, at the Anglo-Palestine Club. It
was a thunderbolt hurled against Hitlerism.
Britain is the only country whose statesmen
have in this way brought their international au-
,thority to bear German anti-Semitism, and the
service that British Jewry has rendered In mo-
bilizing this great force is invaluable to the
cause of tolerance, equality and freedom.
At the present moment, British Jewry has
launched its second great appeal for funds to
aid German Jews. The manner in which this
campaign is being carried on deserves admira-
tion. On one day the whole of British Jewry,
the representatives of every section of Jewish
opinion, attended a public conference, sat to-
gether in council and issued their appeal jointly,
as one united body. One day has been set aside
for the collecting activity. Thus, the work Is
concentrated and carried through as one con-
cerned effort in one great sustained movement.
Unanimity of Opinion
According to Sir Osmond d'Avigdor Gold-
smith, chairman of one of the most important
committees engaged in the work, there had not
been a single difference of opinion in his com-
mittee, comprising both Zionist and non-Zionist,
at the 72 different meetings they had held.
Not only the leaders, but the rank and file
of British Jewry must be credited with the abil-
ity to present such a unity of purpose and unity
of front. A very important factor, of course,
is 1the comparative economic stability of British
Jewry, which makes it possible for it to play
important a part in the relief work.
In raising funds to aid German Jewry, British
Jewry has demonstrated its capacity from the
very first. It is a hid that British Jews are
economically better off than the Jews of any
other country. American Jewry was economic-
ally broken by the recent crisis, but even those
American Jews who have managed to scrape
through the crisis more or less unscathed have
not shown themselves so generous in the present
German catastrophe. British Jewry is not only
more able but also more willing to extend a
helping hand to the stricken Jews of Germany.
It has taken today that place which American
Jewry held during the post war years of Ameri-
can prosperity in the relief work in Europe.
American Jewry played at that position; today
the burden rests upon the Jews of Great Britain
and particularly of England.
A Concentration of Jewishness
In other directions Anglo-Jewry is more dried
and lean. Even Whitechapel has lost the old
East European Jewish look, Linguistically it is
Anglicized. There is complete Anglicization
among the whole front. The younger generation
born in England is assimilated. If you walk
down Whitechapel along Petticoat Lane and its
adjoining by-streets you will hardly ever hear
a word of Yiddish. Shops and market stalls are
still reminiscent of a Jewish township in Eastern
Europe recalling Lemberg or Warsaw, but White-
chapel has lost its Jewish character. Even on a
Sunday, when the shops are open, when every-
where else they, are closed, it does not look
Jewish. You sometimes hear an occasional Yid•
dish phrase, but it is generally a "cuss" word.
There is also, in places, the smell of herring and
fish, garlic and onions. but it is more a matter
of business, of dealing in these particular articles
of food, than of the old-fashioned Jewish ways of
life. The fact that some non-Jews come to
Whitechapel for a shave because the barber
shops elsewhere are closed is also nothing specifi-
cally Jewish. At best you find a few Jewish
restaurants always packed because they serve
food, tasty food.
Of course, Whitechapel has its synagogues,
Hebrew schools, public Jewish institutions, but
Whitechapel seems to have concentrated in itself
all that is left of Jewishness in London. You can
even find a Yiddish poster of the boardings there.
Does that mean that Judaism in England is
weak and decaying? Not at all. It Is only
changing. It is adopting a different form. The
stoppage of foreign immigration is Anglicizing,
Westernizing it. The older generation still reads
the Yiddish press, else the two Yiddish dailies
could not exist. But each reader who dies leaves
a gap. There are no new ones to take their
places. There are Anglo-Jewish weeklies which
sell well, and the Hebrew "Ifaolom" has a num-
ber of readers in England.
The garb is changed, the tongue alters, but the
Jew remains. The catastrophe In Germany has,
in fact, revived the Jewish feelings of many
assimilated Jews, who were on the verge of inter-
marriage and blood mixture. I, myself, have met
a young Jewish journalist here who was sent to
Germany by an English paper and discovered
there for the first time the existence of the
Jewish problem,
The week's prize for the most striking
Vocational Guidance
bit of advice given to Jews goes to the
Advice to College Youth ea Hew
Rev. Dr. Alexander Lyons of Brooklyn,
to Choose • C
own
N. Y. Writing in his monthly "The Sup-
vor
plement, A Periodical with a Punch," Dr.
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CHOOSING A CAREER. V411.4 he
George Misr. Published by Voter
Lyons makes reference to the statements
a Rinehart, 233 Madison Are , Si,,,
rock (KM,
11/•/relkte /f01/076
made recently by James W. Gerard, for-
mer ambassador to Germany, warning
ITH THE congressional elec- He cited the "Protocols of the Eld-
"Choosing - a • Career Con-
Jews against becoming associated with
tion over and final returns ers of Zion" which several years ference," sponsored by the
ago
were
publicized
by
Henry
Ford
unofficially
recorded,
the
results
Communism. American Jews are advised show that at least 11 members of and which have since been dis- Bamberger Foundation of
as follows by Dr. Lyons:
the new House of Representatives credited and proved to be false, re- Newark, N. J., June 26-28,
CAPITAL CREEK
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In support of Judge Gerard's timely warn-
ing I should favor a declaration by American
Jews that any Jew who Identifies himself ille-
gally or otherwise offensive, with communistic
agitation should be declared as having thereby
betaken himself from the general Jewish body.
I want to see Judaism stand conspicuously
for a citizenship of progressive loyalty consist-
ent with a principled peaceful procedure.
These are nice words, "a citizenship of
progressive loyalty consistent with a prin-
cipled peaceful procedure." But what do
they mean? Since when has American
tradition attempted to suppress freedom
of conscience and political expression?
And how does Rabbi Lyons assume to
write any individual out of the Jewish fold
for the reason of his political affiliations?
We presume that Dr. Lyons feels the
same way about the non-Jewish Commu-
nists—and it is an admitted fact that the
non-Jews dominate the Communist party.
Therefore, Dr. Lyons also presumes to
write the non-Jewish Communists out of
the social life of this country, and
would rob them of their freedom of ex-
pression. This is a bit Inconsistent with
American principles. And what applies
to the non-Jew applies to the Jew. Both
have the inalienable right of speaking
their minds—so long as they are not de-
structive and resort—to borrow a phrase
from Dr. Lyons—to "principled peaceful
procedure."
Where Rabbi Lyons errs particularly is
that he would create different standards
for Jews and non-Jews. No one questions
the right of the non-Jew to be either a
capitalist or a communist, but the Jew is
assailed for being either or both. And
Dr. Lyons falls victim to this crazy bit of
logic.
Tidbits and News
By M. A. TENENBLATT
A RICE AGAINST THE
Give the Prize to Dr. Lyons
BY-THE-WAY
are Jewish. This represents an in- sulting in an apology from Ford.
crease of one Jewish member and In the course of McFadden's at-
brings the total of Jews in Con- tack, Kopplemann demanded on the
gress to the largest number in the floor of the House that the words
of McFadden relating to the false
history of the country.
The new House member is Wil- charges be stricken from the Con-
liam M. Citron of Middletown, gressional Record. This move was
Conn., who was elected represen- blocked by Representative Bertrand
tative-at-large. Citron, who is a H. Snell of New York, Republican
Democrat, defeated Representative- House leader.
•
• •
at-large Charles NI Blakewell, a
Republican, and a Wale professor,
McFadden was alleged to have
whose home is in New Haven. The connections with the Silver Shirt
vote was 263,760 against Blake- organization. At least he carried
well's 248,976, giving Citron • on extensive correspondence with
plurity of 14,784 votes.
the Silver Shirt leader, Pettey. Rep-
• • •
resentative Dickstein, sponsor of
The other ten Jewish members the investigation of Nazi and other
of the House served during the un-American activities, has un-
last session. The Democrats are covered several of these letters.
indications are that McFadden
Sol Bloom, Emanuel-Celler, Samuel
Dickstein, Theodore A. Peyser, and will not be returned to the Howie
the future. At least, the cards
in
William I. Sirovich, all of New
York; Herman P. Kopplemann of are against him. The old come-
back
trial in too steep. ThN is
Hartford, Conn.; Henry Elienbo-
cep of Pittsburgh, Penn.; Adolph shown by the efforts of more than
half
hundred former represen-
•
J. Sabath of Chicago, Ill.; The
Republican members are Isaac tatives who in the past have sought
to
stage
a come-back. Only about
Bachrach of Atlantic City, N. J.;
and Mrs. Florence P. Kahn of San a dozen of these got themselves
returned
to the House, and even
Francisco, Cal.
at that, the going was rough for
Of significance to Jews is the
defeat of Representative Louis T. them.
• • •
McFadden, Republican of Canton,
Citron's victory in Connecticut,
Pa., an avowed anti-Semite. Me-
Fadden served in the House for coupled with Kopplemann 's re-elec-
20 consecutive years and in recent tion in that states most important
years hardly a session went by in county, brings to the House two
which he did not attack Jews. Mc- Jewish members out of a delega-
Fadden made himself known na- tion of six Representatives. This
tionally for his three attempts to is the first time in the history of
impeach President Herbert Hoover. the Nutmeg State that two Jews
• • •
have been sent to Congress.
Bill Citron's record in Connecti-
During the last session of Con-
gress, McFadden was particular. cut Democratic politics is outstand-
ing.
Starting as a lawyer in Mid-
ly bitter in his attacks upon Jews.
In addition to addresses on the dletown, Citron became the city
government's
counsellor, an office
floor of the House, he made sev-
eral radio talks In Washington in which he held for several terms.
Then
he
was
elected to the date
which he made statements which
were challenged by Representa- legislature after which, for sev-
eral terms, he was named by the
tive Kopplemann.
On one occasion, McFadden Democrats as the minority leader.
I charged that Jews had cooked up As Democratic leader in the levie-
plot to gain control of the world.
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1934, at which the addresses
delivered gave advice aimed at
guiding the youth vocationally,
met with such enthusiasm that
it was decided to publish the
speeches in book form,
Mr. Bljur, who directed the
conference, edited this book,
an introduction to whieh was
written by A. Harry Moore,
governor of New Jersey, who
was elevated to the United
States Senate on Nov. fl.
Law, medicine and architect-
ure were excluded from the dis-
cussions Included In this vol-
ume. Instead, important mod-
ern callings—such as aviation,
radio broadcasting, etc. — are
given serious consideration.
The editor, In his preface,
emphasies the need for teach-
ing trades and for the selec-
tion of a vocation. Eminent
figures in the industrial and pro-
fessional life of this country
participate in the symposium.
"Boxy" — S. L. Rothafel-
discusses the entertainment
field. Edward L Bernays
speaks about public relations.
Helena Rubenstein — who ad-
dressed the conference from
Paris over the radio—views
beauty culture. Jack Straus
talks about retailing. Other
participants are:
Bruce Barton, advertising;
Amelia Emhart and Lieut.-
Comm. Frank Hawks, aviation;
John C. Flegeman, building;
Neysa McNeil!, commercial art;
Margaret Bourke-White, tom-
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Jews in Palestine set out to
solve a peculiar racial or national
problem—the Jewish problem. But
what has developed? I don't think
there can be any question but
that Jewish Palestine is helping to
solve that problem. But what has
happened has been more than that
—it seems to nie that while solv-
ing the Jewish problem we have
shown how the economic problem
of the world can be solved,
Palestine has prosperity. All
right, you will tell me that there
is not a car in every garage in
Palestine, nor a chicken in every
pot. But the fact remains never-
theless, that in spite of an immi.
gration of 60,000 last year, there is
a shortage of workers in Palestine
—at a time of world depression.
ZIONISM FOR THE WORLD
We have all heard these stories,
and we say it proves that Zionism
is a good thing for the Jew. But
it seems to me time to go beyond
this. It seems to me time that we
proclaim Zionism as a possible
solution for the world's economic
problem.
There are at present three types
of economic organization: Demo-
cracy, Communism and Fascism. I
propose that we add to that Zion-
Ism.
Zionism, mind you, not for the
solution of the Jewish problem
alone; but a broader Zionism—an
economic Zionism for the various
nations of the worlds.
I POINT TO PALESTINE
My thesis i8 that Communism,
Fascism, and even Democracy have
been found wanting from the eco-
nomic standpoint. In an economic
Zionism, I see the solution for
the economic problems of the world.
In saying that, I think I am
standing on incontestible ground.
The condition in Paestine testi-
fies for itself.
Now, in older days, one would
have said that Palestine prosper-
ity was due to the fact that Pal-
estine is • holy land— a land in
which the sun once stood still—a
land in which the laws of nature
were suspended and miracles were
a matter of course.
Palestinians today,
however,
claim to work no miracles so that
if this phenomenal thing of pros-
perity has occurred there, it mere-
ly means that the economic pro-
gram embraced in Zionism is one
that will lead to prosperity.
ECONOMIC ZIONISM
Now if this is so, our next step
should be to find out just what the
economic program of Zionism is.
I think everyone will agree with
me, that the two principal points
of the Zionist economic program
have been: the opening of the doors
of the country to immigration and
the land. program of the Jewish
National Fund.
If we consider that the ideal of
the Jewish National Fund is that
the land belongs to the whole peo-
ple, we may say—that the ideals
of economic Zionism are: free im-
migration and free land.
AN ECONOMIC LABORATORY
In other words, Palestine has
been an economic laboratory, in
which at a time of universal de-
pression, it has been proven that
free immigration and accessible
land
I f ew e: bringg back
PeMrityo.ur early
American history, we will see that
it was this combination indeed,
which brought prosperity to early
America. When the doors of the
country were opened to all, and
when there was yet a frontier to
which the landless men could go
and stake himself to some land,
American spelled Opportunity ...
But when the Frontier was gone
PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PARE
Palestine As a Force in the Life of the
Jewish People
By RABBI NAHUM SCHULMAN
C *** ion Shear Hashomayim, Windsor
The motivating force in the actual home was bit by bit taken
rejuvenescence of Jewish life the from us, we replaced it little by
world over in the last two decades little with fragments of our lic-
hee unquestionably been the titious home—with Palestine in-
movement of Zionism. The re- tangible, with Palestine inde-
birth of llebrew as the veniac- structible. If there was no
afar and literary vehicle of ex- earthly Jerusalem, a Jerusalem of
preedon, tile 'reawakening of the heaven was created—one which
hope., dreams and aspirations of no earthly power and no mertal
our people, the renewal of cub fingers could touch or despoil.
tural, educational and spiritual Three times daily In his prayers,
pursuits along clearly Jewish lines in his passionate outpourings, the
of thought, the raising of Jewish Jew turned longingly and devoted-
prestige and dignity, the strength- ly to Jerusalem. It was no mere
ening of Jewlah consciousness, lip service. It was no petrified
and the solidifying of the greater meaningless formula when he
portion of Jewry into one solid vowed fervently the same burning
phalanx — all these encouraging oath that his ancestors vowed
and heartening tendencies are by the rivers of Babylon: "If I
truly the flowering out of the forget thee, 0 Jeruaalem, let my
aced Zionism, right hand forget Its cunning"
Palestine has been a centripetal was life of his life, blood of his
and centrifugal force throughout blood, heart of his heart, and soul
ofhitshsisourle. nOtefr uatmousntd
ro
significance
which the
our long career as • people, as a w
nation. was
In the long history of the Jew Jew and his world revolved. The
we know that out of the Holy festivals and the fast days cen-
Land radiated Judaism—a sane. tered around Palestine. His eyes
titled way of life; and that toward turned toward it and his heart ap-
Zion the Jew turned throughout proached it. Zion gave meaning
and hope to Jewish life. The
his martyrdom.
hope of Mesaianlsm, the dream of
At the center of Jewish history, the Jew's millenium
was irre-
at the heart of Jewish
life, stands viably bound and intertwined
Palestine. Around it revolves the with Eretz Three!. No Holy
Jewish world and out of it evolves Land, no Messiah, no "Acharith
the Jewish life. Throughout the
hayamim." The idea of a home-
course of his long wanderings land and the idea of redemption
from land to and, from country svas one indissoluble concept.
to country, from continent to con-
tinent, Eretz Yiaroal has exerted And the more I study the
the dual force of a eentnpetal acharith hayamint" vision of
thestronger
and centrifugal nature upon the Isaiah--chapter
corporate body of Israel. I say in this thought suggested to me,
of a centrifugal nature because that of Palestine being the centri-
century after century out of Pal. fugal and the centripetal force in
estine came new literary and epir- the life of our people. And it
itual . creations that permeated, seems to me as if the prophet
saturated, suffused and vibrated long ago realized in this majestic
the entire structure of Judaism prophecy the idea and the sig-
and Jewish life. nificance of these dual forces.
"Fnr eat of Zion shall radiate
And In proportion as the eentri- Torah"—a centrifugal force. And
feral forces of Palestine spread ...et• Zion shall flow all the na-
out In ever-widening circles, 14 Boni'—a centripetal force.
c e rnotnrigfeurraI
et
. The efm
a re:re
al
sog r d
e •
"Wherever iniustice• is
trees and persecution beat on the whether
it be done to a
done,
periphery of life, and the more grow) or to a -small group, large
terrifying the fear of the Chris- moral force of America must the
be
tian world became, the more there to defend those who are
Jewry embraced and clung to its wedged or oppreseed."—President
ancient homeland. When our Wilson.