PAM, F USE SI litE.VeraorriEwisnffiaormis and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE jitEDLTRorr,kwisnARONICLE Giving Thanks for Our Bounties and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Thanksgiving Day should provide not only an opportunity for an expression of gratitude for the bounties with which we are blessed; it should call for self-examin- ation, for introspection and for a compari- son of our status with that of the peoples who live elsewhere than on the American continent. It is true that even in this rich land there is starvation and want. It is true that here, too, tens of millions of people suffer from the plague of unemployment. But with all of the suffering which is caused by economic depressions, we never- theless remain free men. We can speak our minds. We can criticize our Presi- dent. We can express an opinion. We are free to read whatever book or news- paper we desire. It is as Jews that we should be espe- cially thankful for our status as American citizens. Before the law, we are the equals of all groups inhabitating this land. We are free to worship as we choose. The swastika loses its magic powers on these shores. We have much to be grateful for in this country. And because we are so blessed as American citizens our Thanksgiving Day must be celebrated not merely by feasting, but in the traditional Biblical manner: by giving our share towards the alleviation of want, by presenting our tithe for the relief of the needy, and at this time especially by remembering the millions of unfortunate fellow-Jews who are compelled to live under the heels of oppressors. ihiraleheel Weakly by The Jewish Chronicle Publiehlag Ca., Inc. listened as Second•clus matter Mush 3, 1916, at the Poet- office et Detroit, Web., under nisi Act of March I, 1616. General Offices and Publicetion Building 525 Woodward Avenue Telephoeu Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle Landon Me: 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England Subscription, in Advance... ( 1 $3.00 Per Year • rs Issue* publication, all eorreepondene• and news matter maw. mach this °Mee by Turaday evening of each week. when nailing pollees, kindly use one side of Au paper only. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle In•itei corre.pondence on sub- pets of Interest to the Jewish people. but dirclaime respoml- holly for an Indorsement of the •lewe exprerred by the writer. Sabbath Readings of the Law Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32:4-36:43 Prophetical portion—Hos. 12:13.14:10, or 11:7.12:12, or Obadiah 1:1-21 November 23, 1934 Kislev 16, 5695 Extremists in Zionism It is daily becoming increasingly evident that extremists in Zionist ranks are aim- ing at the destruction of whatever has thus far been achieved in an effort to create CI peace between the two contending fac- Cars tions in Palestine and in Zionism: Histad- ruth and Revisionism. David Ben Gurion, acting in behalf of the Palestine Labor Federation Ilistadruth, and Vladimir Jabotinsky, spokesman for the Revisionists, have decided on a basis for peace. Further negotiations are said to have resulted in other decisions of far- reaching importance. But there are elements in both the Re- visionist and Ilistadruth ranks who are de. 7 - D I termined to undermine the peace efforts Bl•k. and to obstruct their own leaders in their intended to bring unity in the 5-P ' negotiations work for Palestine's reconstruction. In the event that it should become defin- itely established that obstructionists are Ti destroying unity and peace, then it will 1 become the duty of the sincere Zionist , elements throughout the world to repu- diate these extremists. It is a matter of fact that the Zionist Organizations every- where include in their ranks sympathizers for both the Revisionists and the Histad- 4 But the efforts of extremists must result in the elimination of whatever sym- pathies have thus far existed for those elements who insist on obstructing rather than building, of dividing rather than uni- 0. fying Israel. This is a time for building, not for cre- 4 ating obstacles in the path of our people. We are entirely too busy removing ob- 3 structions placed in our road to national 1— revival by non-Jewish enemies that we 2—I should have to be continuously bothered by our own destructionists. The voices of 0 extremists who are out to obstruct must be silenced, and this influence removed B from Jewish life for all time, k 5-P 5-I i Metropolitan Comment THE JEWISH WOMAN AND HER LEISURE TIME Tidbits and News By HENRY W. LEVY THE "BOOTLEG" ERA The genial columnist of the "E question of leisure time is not academic. New York Daily Mirror and a It has wide significance for our whole civi- score of papers throughout the country, Mark Bellinger, has lization. It has vital implications affecting gathered together a selection of the welfare of all Americans, Jews and non- his choicest fables and placed them between covers. The result, Jews alike. And of course by leisure we mean entitled "The Ten Million," is free time after one's work is finished, not the published by Farrar and Rhine- "enforced leisure" of the unemployed. : hart. It is the history of a de- We are here concerned with the Jewish middle- parted period, the "bootleg era." I For it was during the days of the class home-maker or housewife who is not en- Noble Experiment that Bellinger gaged any gainful occupation or who does not became a Broadway columnist, assist her husband in his business or professional and it in of the speakeasies, the activities. She is the woman whose age lies be- rackets and the loves of that time tween the thirties and fifties, with children and that he writes. One of O'Benry's collections of family responsibilities. short stories is called "The Four The middle-class Jewish housess'fe or home- Million," a title representative of maker attends to the routine duties of her New York's population at the household, seeks to beautify her home and make beginning of the century; "The it more comfortable, or she may be in the for- Ten Million" of Ilellinger's title are the myriad masses of metro- tunate position of having household assistants to politan New York today or they do these things for her. might represent the ten million persons throughout the United . There can be no objection to these activities States which number approxi- of the middle-class housewife in seeking to beau- I mates the size of Ilellinger's na- tify her home. Unfortunately, however, the re- tional newspaper audience. sults of her efforts are frequently anything but Ilellinger frankly stems back satisfying. If we could teach the average middle- to O'Ilenry and DeMaupassant. He is a devotee of the surprise class woman the simple rudiments of home-mak- ending, the complete reversal ing and the average middle-class woman the sim- that is the punch in all of the ple rudiments of home-making and give her a best works of O'Ilenry and in sense of aesthetics and good taste, we might by many of the efforts of De Mau- the same token instill in her a desire to express passant. Ilellinger's stories, though, are generally shorter than herself in other Constructive and artistic ways. are those written by his predeces- How Woman Spends Her Time sors. Geared for the confines of What does this middle-class woman do with a newspaper column, they are her free time? She follows the old archaic view often more narrative fable than that woman should spend her spare time seeking short story. to escape boredom, so she looks for pleasant and A FEW RAISINS In connection with surprise time-consuming diversions. She is interested in ending technique of the short escape leisure, not leisure time activities for story, I am reminded of a story the enrichment of life. She has usually no often told by a former journalism philosophy of life and therefore no philosophy instructor of mine, the late James Melvin Lee, chairman of the New about leisure. York University School of Jour- The average woman in this group to which I nalism. Dr. Lee, a practicing ed- refer has a choice in the use of her leisure time. itor before he became a teacher, had some personal experiences What does she do with it? She plays bridge, with O'llenry, but the story he goes to the movies, shops or goes bargain- loved to tell was of another ed- hunting, visits or engages in a few other similar itor's experiences with the great social amenities. She is to a great extent a American short story writer. slave to commercialized recreation. You will O'llenry was not one to write agree that these are, generally speaking, activi- for the joy of writing. To him, it was hard work, although a ties of uneducated leisure and represent an abso- means to a good living. A spender, lutely non-productive consumption of time. These he was always in debt and very pursuits are certainly not what we would call often magazine editors, eager for purposeful activities, or activities which could one of his stories, would give be classified under the heading of cultural habits. him an advance even without It would not be true to say that this woman does knowing the idea of the story. The editor of this story had not occasionally read a book, but her choice of done just this. Press time was titles is not significant. She wants entertainment approaching; an O'Henry story and absorption, not food for reflection. had been announced. But none This middle-class woman to whom I refer re- was forthcoming from the author. The editor had to have his story. fuses to face the problems of a changing world. He went with a friend to visit There are threats of another war, attacks on our his author at the lintel Cale- democratic institutions, an increasing growth of donia—a not well known hotel Fascist philosophy and propaganda, an unem- these days that still exists today ployed group of more than 10,000,000 men and on 26th St. between 6th Ave. and Broadway— and while the women, out of work through no fault of their friend occupied O'llenry the ed- own, and other manifestations of a badly dis- itor rifled O'Benry's files for a ordered social system. story. Triumphant, he left with During the World War this woman found several. On getting back to his office to many things to do. She was caught by the glamor and the adventure of war. She was enveloped ( PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE ) T A Basis for Unity FO S/ COIIhIENT I T By DAVID SCHWARTZ By MRS. MARY G. SCHONBERG Executive Secretary, National Council of Jewish Women (J ra SP•thl Gorton:soden)/ The proposals made by the special com- mittee of the American Jewish Congress for the formation of an united front in American Israel and for unified effort in planning the proposed World Jewish Con- gress merits serious consideration. It is true that the plan has its faults. If it presumes to obligate the American Jewish Committee and the B'nai B'rith to a consideration of the World Congress plan, then it may nullify its efforts for unity. But the mere proposal for unity is com- mendable. We are so deplorably divided that our position appears helpless and hopeless. At a time when a single Jewish body should have the authority to speak in the name of the entire people, we find inner conflicts unbecoming a people sup- posedly tried in many fires and therefore well-trained in self-defense. 'The organizations to whom the Con- gress plea is directed are obligated to con- sider it seriously and to co-operate in such plans as will eliminate differences and divisions in our ranks. We must press for a unified front in order that order may Palestine Honors Rothschild A special Palestinian colonization pro- arise out of the present existing chaos. , jest, to be known as the Edmond Colony, 1 4: will honor the memory of the late Baron Intolerable Persecution Edmond de Rothschild. Lady Astor, maintaining that the per- The Keren Kayemeth Le Israel, the LEWI Jewish National Fund, makes the an- secution of Jewish children in Germany is 1311 nouncement that all the funds gathered for intolerable, makes an interesting state- the Jewish National Fund in Palestine dur- ment: Lodi "Literally, I cannot read what is hap- ing the current year 6695 will be used for AL, author pening to Jewish children in Germany this project. ones of the mann in Vr Of all the tributes paid the late Baron, without seeing red. I do not want to say secrets a word against Germany, but I'm sore. this is the most deserving one. No other tion tit Niko svisra Mr. IA individual has contributed as much to the We do not want to hate. If Germany is ton , or development of Palestine. There is no hating Jews she is bound to suffer, because T EGAL brains in Washington marks, therefore the use of these return other chapter be the history of Palestine's ;hate is a poison. If I were a Jew I would are scratching their heads registered marks within the coun- month these days trying to figure out a try makes the German commodity ly,acti reconstruction which has been dominated get every child out of Germany, but I way through which Germany will price level higher than it is on a in the as much by a single individual as has the grown-ups must stay to endeavor to pull be able to buy American cotton gold mark basis which is recog- the country around. and sell more of her goods in the nized in international trade and Rothschild chapter in Zionism. Lady Astor's view is unusual, in spite United States. Working on a def- exchange. Taking Into consideration the popular- inite proposal of German cotton The plan proposed by the Ger- ity of the Jewish National Fund among of the fact that what she proposes is sc. buyers, the legal lights are dust- man (repo • cotton importers involves tually being carried out; namely, that ing off old law books and digging payment for Ameri c an Palestine Jewry, it is to be expected that a vce or ts tio n to inside their pages in an effort to children are being taken out of Germany C onversion the proposed honor in the establishment reach a verdict. these marks into dollars would while their parents are forced to remain of the new colony will be sufficient to set- arltau the whole thing is be at a discount. To overcome tle a large number of Jews who crave to there. But the proposal nevertheless in Apparently, n Int the lap of the Treasury De- this, the Germans suggested that pOnili go to Palestine. This effort is certain to smacks of a certain amount of heartless- partment and it will probably be the registered marks be used by This up to Henry Morgenthau Jr., Sec- American buyers for the purchase be the most lasting tribute of all that are ness in that it calls for the separation of rotary been of the Treasury, to make of goods in Germany. &oriel; being proposed in memory of Palestine's children from their parents, for the con- the final decision. Agricultural • • • was greatest benefactor. tinued suffering of the parents while the leaders especially those from the The thing that has government al11110 children are provided with a haven ofc otton-producing South, are ex- officials in Washington worried is teeniely anxious over the out- refuge. roirligt centered around the question of come. Nazi Kindness Samit • a a There appears to be no end to the trag- whether the purchase of goods in To the humor in the Nazi situation must Italy; The story of all the Waahing- Germany with registered marks again be added the claim of the Bitlerites that edy which is created by the rulers of pres- ton i nterest ent-day Germany. al w as no one is forced to belong to any of Adolfo (Germany has its roots in the fact and the gale of theae goods In relief that in previous years that court. the United States would consti- organizations, hal , try bought about 10 per cent of tute dumping. The fact that on Dr. Weizmann's 60th Birthday registered marks The Trans-Atlantic Information Service 60 k the cotton sold by the United a gold basis, the are cheaper would make it pos- cuclr reports that a Biller youth leader, Wey- States. Now, because this coun- Dr. Chaim Weizmann's 60th birthday to bring into the r el u for buyers man, speaking before young women work- should tic a signal for worldwide felicita- I try refuses to buy foreign goods Ode tales extremely cheap high and in great measure because of United Stales ers in factories at Murienburg, East Prus- tions to this eminent Jew. goods that might work injury to tioo , the boycott against German goods, high sia, stated: is unable to buy Amer- domestic businessee. A great scientist, an able linguist, an :Germany Jew: that the suggested It has been "We compel none of you to come into inspirer of the Jewish masses, Dr. Weiz- ican cotton and pay for it. Her Import-Export Bank, headed the by depleted financial status has the fold of the Bund Deutscher Macdel man') is unquestionably the outstanding caused 011 c Germany to impose severe George N. Peek, might be used as 000 (Nazi Federation of German Girls). You leader in Jewry today. Granted that his restrictions on exchange no that if a depository for the funds in- volved, might underwrite the risk, 1110 must find out for yourselves where your opponents are justified in blaming him for good. are sent to Germany, the and handle the exchange problem. with sellers may have to whistle for place is. But we say at the same lime that Cofill. $211011/4 inat At the present time, the pro- made to Great Britain, it their money. .,u must belong in the future to gut organi- nevertheless remains the Bureau of Germany's critical plight was pouf is before a fact that the foun- - wation which serves the state, recently explained in Washington dation for the present structure in Pales- There are others who point out some of that country'. leading "A recent order of the leader of German tine was built under his leadership as by importers. This group of that the United States cannot ex. Labor k'ront points out that every member president of the 'World Zionist Organiza- cotton F es men came to Washington and pert to carry on trade wills Ger- o f a G erpian Labor Front between the ages ade an offer t. buy 600,000 many under current exchange tion. Aside from the fact that he is di- disparity, which is due to this I ll 11 b of 14 and 18 years must also be A member rectly responsible for the issuing of the ales of cotton if it way could country's abandonment of the 1410 d payment. e found to facilitate of the Bitter Youth Movement. if nut, Balfour Declaration to the Jewish people, It was pointed out to Washington gold standard and Germany's ad- herence to it, although on a basis he or she will be expelled from the Labor Dr. Weizmann, who is primarily a cultural officials that the whole exchange I,. hot. Again I say that nobody is forced Zionist, is In reality the founder of the situation in Germany was so with modifications. blocked that there was no possi• The cotton-growing South has us, but I cannot understand Hebrew University in Jerusalem. .19 bow" bility of stetting dollar exchange. lost much of its foreign market To overcome this obstacle, the during the past two veers largely why you talusa to join us." list there is justification also for stating cotton importers re• because of this country's unwil- "There are clear implications in this bit that if Dr. Welzmann's policies were a bit German vealed that they had come in con- lingness to buy more foreign t carries with it a warning more aggressive, we might not have tact with • number of tints and goods. As si result, there Is (ear that j1 one does not belong to the German achieved as much as we have in Palestine. Individurla in the United States in the South that these niarkets who would like to buy from Ger- will be lost forever. And AO she Labor Front—the jfitler labor party—he At the present time, he is the guiding many certain kinds of goods, in- southern cotton interest/ us :at not secure work. The isaplications may genius in the efforts to settle German- cluding fertilizers and optical clamoring for action. The Gar- supplies. man proposal sounds good to •• jtjyep an even more threatening inter- Jewish refugees in Palestine. • them. In this proposal they i.e Jt carries with it the hidden retation. It His birthday Is an occasion for sincere Now, Germany has etort of a an opportunity of getting rui of al. 500,000 boles of cotton fast-s•l of Nazi liberty, Of course one celebration and for an expression of hope 1 system. Internally, she fr. two-price .1e to stay out of Ow Sitlorite organ!. that he may be spared for leadership in is on a registered mark basis. In ear the 200,000 that they expert Germany to take under ;gaunt eyes of the world the Is on a post!ons. Hut the punbibtnents for su c h Jewry for • long time to come. Israel the gold mark basis. The registered eschangs rbalcultics. lklopyr16114. sus ,tTA needs this illustrious son. pan-siiiiigio to smother istory, marks are cheaper than the gold . BY-THE -WAY (Copyright MI. J. T. A.) A SAINTLY RABBI in the mass propaganda and hysteria. She sacri- ficed time, energy, funds, opportunities for a personal life, for what she believed was a conse- crated cause. Certainly this is just as challenging a period, and this woman, we insist, handicaps the plans for building a better world because she has not discerned the significance of the fruitful use of leisure time. Education Must Be Guiding Principle When you speak to this woman of the import- ance of a program of unemployment insurance, of extending old age pensions, of the importance of public support for slum clearance programs, of working in behalf of national legislation that will curb the artnament makers and help lessen the dangers of war, or of the importance of American participation in the League of Nations, or adherence to the World Court, or of the im- portance of establishing a permanent Disarma- ment Commission, or of a program of planned social control, you speak to her of things which are foreign to her knowledge. She has few if any ideas of what constitutes a program for social reconstruction. She is only superficially informed of the social experimentation now going on in Washington. It becomes quite obvious that education must be the guiding principle for the woman of the leisure class whether she is Jew or Gentile. Only by so doing can she make herself a worthy member of her family and community. The Jewish middle-class woman has a real role to play. She must be made conscious of her responsibilities and the necessity for her participation in every variety of educational, artistic, social and spiritual endeavor. It must be proven to her that she can get more com- pensations and satisfactions through education than she had ever dreamed of, and that as she learns and develops she will become the bearer of culture to future generations. A Program for the Women This Jewish woman must learn the art of con- templation and the art of thinking as an individ• ual, and not simply to repeat the thoughts of other members of her household. There are thousands and thousands of Jewish women in the group to which I have referred to whom these implications of the proper use of leisure time for the Jewish woman and her family have never been made either emphatic or dra- matic. It is to these women that we make our special appeal. Such a national organization as the National Council of Jewish Women, which I have the honor to serve as executive secretary, can absorb every moment of the leisure time . of the inter- ested Jewish woman along the lines of Jewish reli- gion and education, of the study of problems affecting the peace of the world, of developing constructive programs for social servivce, civic betterment and national public welfare. This is only one of many organizations which point the way to the fruitful use of leisure time of the American Jewish home-maker. This and other organizations seek ever to increase their spheres of usefulness and to enlarge their opportunities for enriching the lives of American Jewish women through the proper investment of their leisure time. I was just reading an old work. Few read it today. It is the Memoirs of Sir Moses Montefiore. And in it I came across a beau- tiful story. Sir Moses tells how on enter- ing the town of Sated, l'alestine, he attempted to do special honor to the rabbi there. And he ex- plains why. Ile relates that shortly before his visit, a robber band of Druses had seized this rabbi, had tied his hands aid feet and then, brandishing a knife, threatened to cut him to pieces unless the rabbi obtained a certain sum of money for them. The rabbi replied that he could not get the money. "Then you must die," said the Druses. "Then I have only one request to make. Please grant it." "What is it?" asked the Druses. "Please give me a little water, that I may wash my hands and recite a prayer on the justice of God in all his ways." The Druses, Sir Moses relates, were so taken back at this saint- liness that they released the rabbi. I AM CHALLENGED L. M. writes me challenging my statement that Karl Marx was an anti-Semite. "Karl Marx was a Jew," he writes. "How could he have been an anti-Semite?" Well, I might answer in Israel Zangwill's words—that every Jew is a little of an anti-Semite. BUT HERE IS THE PROOF But Karl Marx was more than a little anti-Semite. lie was, in my opinion, quite a big one. Perhaps the best story that re- veals this is that of his relation- ship with his colleague, Moses Bess, who besides being a Social- ist, was also among the first modern Zionists. Bess, it will be recalled, was the author of "Rome and Jerusalem," which is today one of the classics of Zion- ism. Despite the fact that Hess was a leading Socialist theorician, MPr liked to call him the ''Yidel." Ile also liked to dwell on Bess' first name, Moritz, which later Hess changed to the truer Jewish, Moses. Marx liked to dwell on this Moritz business be - cause it immediately identified Bess as a Jew—and that was the best way that Marx knew of slur- ring a person. And I can think of no better reply than that which Item made to these slurs. "Yes," he said, "I have changed my some from Moritz to Moses. I wish my name was Itzig, so that I could really call myself that." That, it seems to me, was a proud and noble reply—one of which Karl Marx would never have been capable. • • • HE WAS NOT TOO PERSONAL Perhaps part of this was not to much anti-Jewishness as just a general meanness. It seems to me that Karl Marx was far from a likable person in any sense of ( PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE ) Rothschild's Farewell To Palestine Yishub A Plea to End Prejudice Test of 1925 Address in Which Philanthropist Said Hi. Son Would Carry on Work in the Homeland. Everett It Clinchy's Vigorous Appeal to End Bigotry Made in His "All in the Name of God" ALL IN TUE NAME OF COD. ity Eve,tt it. Clint hr. John Day Co., 318 Fourth Ave., New York I $2)• By EDMOND De ROTHSCHILD I thank and pray God, Who has blessed me with years and privileged me, in the evening of my life, to see with my own eyes the wonderful spectacle of the rebirth of Eretz Israel. When I look back on the stretch of almost half a century since I began my work and when I recall how Palestine appeared In those days, a rock, barren land, full of thorns, it seems to me that I am in a dream. In those days I also witnessed the terrible sufferings of the Jewish people in Eastern Eu- rope, humbled under the weight of persecutions and bloody po- groms. And though Palestine was also in a pitiable state at that time, it was nevertheless my opinion that the only 6/11V11- lion for Jews lay in bringing them back to the Holy Land. For, I was convinced that only in that country would their moral and spiritual qualities and their ability to work be fully developed and realized. I hoped the Jewish people would start ■ new life In Eretz Israel. I never thought that all the Jews could settle In Palestine. It was my belief that It was important to create a center where the Jewish genius and the great spiritual culture of our race might develop, and by its development reset favorably on the condition of Jews throughout the world. In order to attain this, It was first necessary to lay the proper foundation on the land. The earliest pioneers fought bravely against the ravages dine and againkt the natural &Meal- ties of the country, but they finally conquered. Mall vil- lages sprang up, and their grew Into large colonies. People uud to say to me In thou days, "You are building oa sand." But the sand turned out to be the cornerstone of the great Yishub. Fields were •LEsse Tl'ItN Tu NCXT PAGE Everett R. Clinchy, executive secretary of the National Confer. ence of Jews and Christians, makes an impassioned plea for tolerance and justice; he pleads for the end of racial and religious prejudice in this most interesting volume. But even if this plea were elim- inated, and the book were merely confined to the historical data, to the descriptions of efforts that have been made to secure justice for downtrodden peoples and re- ligions, there would be justifica- tion for this volume and it would deserve a large audience. Throughout the volume, Mr. Clinchy describes the oppressive laws which existed in this country until comparatively recent years against both Catholics and Jews, the numerous reactionary move- ments which persecuted these two religions, the secret organizations and 100-per-centers who sought American experiment is to suc- ceed, if we are to achieve at ever higher levels In this country a true and free democracy, with equal rights and opportunities for all, we must learn cordially to ac cept the fact of cultural plural- ism and to adapt our pattern of behavior to it." "February Hill," a Great First Novel Rumor and pathos are com- bined in Victoria Lincoln's first published novel, "February (fill," just issued by Farrar and Rinehart, 232 Madison Ave., New York $12.50). Robert Nathan said of this story: "It isn't a funny book. It's a beautiful book." John Chamberlain, writing in the New York Times, said: "'February Bill' is more fun than a barrel of monkeys." Lewis Gannett wrote that only if his friends are worthy of it, he will recommend them "February Hill." Thus, "February Hill" is be- coming one of the most talked-of books of the year. A great dis- covery by reviewers who have been cheered by i it and therefore now cheer it in return, Victoria Lincoln's masterpiece boosts the high-rated stocks of Farrar & Rinehart, who already have to their credit "The Folks," "An- thony Adverse" and other great the extinction of Jews and Catholics. One of the very important chap- ters in this volume deals with anti-Semitism. With the permis- sion of the publishers, secured for at by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, this chapter is reprinted elsewhere in this issue. Mr. Clinchy reaches the conclusion that anti-Semitism is not dead i n this country, that "it is in sea- son, of stormy economic weather that chronic religious and racial prejudices are revived an d work s. plotted." It is a charming family we Dr. Clinchy points out that the in the February Bill shanty present economic depression in meet n F all River—and the approach sion during which racial and re. to their problems is marked by liglous hysteria has met with so a poetic beauty. With a Harvard little support. Ile outlines the man married to an immoral wom- work of the American Protective an who supports him at her Association and other movements "trade"; with the life of this as having been much more dam- couple, together with the group aging than some of the modern surrounding them in this family movements which have been mo- picture, presented to as in a truly tivated by bigotry. sentimental setting giving us ■ "While Nazis were duping their human story in spite of thedegen- followers with a summons to meet eracy surrounding the charactera —we are treated to a great novel. the depression with hatred. and It almost becomes a privilege setting one group against the A merican,, refusing to be to read "February Hill." So great tooled anin, seemed to have the is its theme, its language, its man- sense to realize that Protestants, ner of approach, that Miss Lin- Catholics and Jews were all in coln deserves the acclaim given it. the Nine economic boat, and that "I cannot and do not forget that all would float or sink together," Dr. Clinchy declares. historically the Roman Church is Dr. Clinchy reaches the follow- my mother, and that the Jewish faith is the mother of us both."— ing conclusion: "If what has been called the Rev. Boynton Merrill, minister of Americ a is the trot major depres- Second rhurch, Newton, Mass.