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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 37:1-40:23
Prophetical portion—Amos 2:6-3:8

Chanukah Readings of the Law

Sunday, Nom. 7:1-17; Monday, Num. 7:18-39;
Tuesday, Num. 7:24-35; Wednesday, Num. 30:41;
Thursday, Num. 7:36-47
Chanukah Reading of
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Rods Chodesh Teheth and

the Law, Friday, Dec. 7

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November 30, 1934

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The "baby" among Detroit's Jewish in-
stitutions observes its first birthday during
the coming week, beginning with this Sat-
urday evening.
Although the Jewish Community Center
dates back its history to the days when
social and recreational activities were di-
rected in Detroit from the old Hannah
Schloss Building, this is the first anniver-
sary of the prograM inaugurated in the
present building, on Woodward and Hol-
brook.
The event should be marked by genifine
feelings of satisfaction that the lohg
talked-of Jewish Center idea was at last
realized in great measure in the present
quarters, and that the major recreational
and educational activities of the youth
can adequately be cared for.
The fact that even this building does not
provide all the facilities necessary for the
various functions of the Jewish Commu-
nity Center merely emphasizes the insti-
tution's importance. It proves how very
inadequate all previous quarters were and
what a great necessity the Center is in our
community.
It is to the Jew-Ih Welfare Federation,
the Jewish Community Center, their di-
rectors and to the community at large that
greetings are due at this time. Mr. Kurt
Peiser deserves especially to be congratu-
lated for having brought the Jewish Com-
munity Center ideal to fruition in this city.
The history of the present Center is incom-
plete without mention of the fact that
work on the building continued in spite
of the closing of the banks, and that Mr.
Peiser and the officers of the Federation
refused to permit anything to stand in
the way of reaching the goal of assuring
Detroit with headquarters for the social,
recreational and educational activities of
local Jewry. •

Hadassah's Place in Palestine

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Hadassah, the women's Zionist organi-
zation of America, has to its credit so
many outstanding achievements that its
name cannot be erased from Zionist and
Palestinian history.
Specifically, Hadassah is to be credited
with making Palestine healthy, with eradi-
cating disease, with stamping out trach-
oma, and with creating one of the world's
finest health organizations.
Locally, Hadassah must be honored for
the fact that her members .never shirk
responsibility in any communal activity.
While Iladassah's hospitals are gradu-
ally being taken over by the communities
in Palestine who are thus relieving the
American women Zionists of this responsi-
bility, their functions nevertheless retain
an element of great responsibility because
of the new University Hospital now being
built as an auxiliary of the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem. The mere fact that
a number of German-Jewish refugees, pro-
fessors and physicians are to find an out-
let for their efforts in this hospital, makes
the project deserving of support.
These reasons should be sufficient to en-
courage support of Hadassah's annual
donor luncheon, which is to take place
on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Chanukah's Modern Lesson

1

The valor of the Maccabees is always
being invoked whenever Jews are in
trouble. Not only Jews, but non-Jews as
well have advised our people to fight back
persecutions, to be valorous, to emulate
the heroism of the Maccabean heroes who
secured freedom for Judea and Jerusalem
and cleansed the Temple after the Greeks
had violated it.
It is natural that the heroic deeds of the
Maccabees should especially be pointed
out to Jewry in tragic times like the pres-
ent. Again' we are advised to fight. "Re-
member Gideon . . ." Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin advised this writer in speaking
of the situation in Germany. Be prepared
to defend yourselves, many Jews advise us.
It is net only enraged youth that speaks
in terms of self-defense. Dr. Abba Billet
Silver, certainly a very responsible and
eminent figure in America Jewry, recently
urged Jews to be prepared with self-
defense units in this country. Rabbi Silver
wrote: •

Arerica was not taken in by all the high-
powered prorsganda emanating from the
Coehhe's. the Cserings and the Ilanfstaengls
In Germany. It is not being taken In by
the stupid and insolent propaganda of the
CrWb,s, the Sshnuchs and the Zahnes here at
some. America was acquainted with the

disloyal and treasonable acts and attitudes
of this element during the World War and
dealt with it then. It will know how to
deal with it again.
It is clear that the anti-Semitic propaganda
of these alien and hyphenated Germans in the
United States has only begun. It will be kept
up as long as the Nazis remain in power in
Germany. Some of these propagandists are
outspoken pogrom-mongers. They are put-
ting their kinsmen in uniform and training
them with rifles for some longed-for day of
future reckoning. They talk with great relish
about some great "purge" which will take
place in the United States similar to Hitler's
purge" of last June. They have already
become bold enough to break up a public
hearing conducted by a committee appointed
by the Congress of the United States.
If these gentlemen are really looking for
trouble, the Jews of the United States should
be prepared to give it to them. Policy and
wisdom dictate that our American Jewish
youth should be trained in self-defense. In
unsettled tines it is far more important that
our youth should be receiving the necessary
training in athletic and sport groups than in
debating societies . . . . In unsettled times, a
Jewish governor or a Jewish president of the
Board of Aldermen or influential friends in
exalted places are of no help at all. But a
traihed and disciplined host of a hundred
thousand Jews ready to respond to a quick
emergency is a reasonable argument which
even Yorkville can understand . . . .
Training and preparedness rather than hys-
teria, protest meetings and linguistic tourna-
ments, are clearly indicated!
And the boycott!
Such physical preparedness against pogrom-
mongers will gave the largest Jewish commun- -
nity in the world from these frequent waves
of hysteria which have been sweeping over it
in the last few months, and from such blun-
dering affairs as that of the "Black Hitler"

4letropolitan
Comment

BY-THE-WAY

Chanukah Throughout the World

Tidbits and News

By HENRY W. LEVY

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Special

csrmiewissat)

THE MANTLE OF GLORY
Annually for the past 16 years
Burns Mantle, drama critic of the
New York Daily News, is repre-
sented on the book stalls with a
new volume (Dodd, Mead & Co.)
of "Best Plays." Issued each fall,
it comprises a yearbook of the
drama in America and is featured
by Mr. Mantle's selections of the
10 best plaYS of the preceding
theatrical year. For his 1933-34
list, Mr. Mantle chooses "Mary, of
Scotland," "Men in White,"
"Dodsworth," "Ah, Wilderness!"
"They Shall Not Die," "Her Mas-
ter's Voice," "No More Ladies,"
"Wednesday's Child," "The Shin-
ing Hour" and "The Green Bay
Tree."

Although all critics join in the
game of selecting a "best ten"
list, only Mr. Mantle's achieves
the distinction of a place between
cloth clovers. As a result, in the
history of the theater, it is "Ten
Best Plays of 1933-34." Aside
from that, however, Mr. Mantle
is an astute picker, a devotee of
no isms or extremes, and his list
annually approximates the con-
sensus of critical opinion. There-
fore with the great Jewish par-
ticipation in the theater, it is in-
teresting to note how Jews fared
in Mr. Mantle's list. Do the Jews,
as sonic anti-Semites charge, pro-
duce the dregs of the theater, or
do they hold their own or better
in a listing of the more worthy
efforts that see the light of New
York production?

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

By S. ERNST

(Copyright. MA J.

(rupyrikht, 1914. Jewish Telegraphic ASond y, Inc.)

HANUKAH, the Feast of Lights commem-
morating a Jewish-victory, is celebrated in
various ways among the Jews of the world.
In each country something has been added to the
old traditional celebration to which young Jewry
looks forward principally because it includes pan-
cakes, gifts of money and stories of the prowess
of the Maccabees.

The oldest Chanukah customs have been re-
tained by the Sephardic Jews, those sell speak
Ladino and trace their traditions back to Spain.
The newest manner of celebrating Chanukah
will be found among the Jews of Tel Aviv.

Chanukah with the Sephardim

The Sephardic Jews are concentrated in the
Balkan countries and in Turkey. Salonica is
their principal city and the most important Jew-
ish center in the whole of the Orient, Palestine
included. It is in Salonica that the Sephardic
tradition has been best preserved.

When Chanukah Comes, the Sephardic teachers
lead their pupils from one wealthy home to the
other, asking for a different kind of food at each
stopping place. The housewives deem it an espe-
cially good deed to give the visitors fruit, wine,
cakes, raisins and other sweets. All these goodies
are then taken back to the synagogue, where the
teacher and pupils hold a party, at which they
repeat certain of the psalms a great many times.
Some of the Sephardim of Jerusalem observe
the custom of visiting the grave of Simon the
Holy. They tell stories about how Arabs stoned
a Sephardic holy man as he was on his way to
the grave. The Arabs dropped in their tracks
and could not rise until the Holy Man had prayed
for them. I have heard similar stories about
the grave of Mother Rachel and other sacred
burial places.
The Sephardic Cabbalists stay up in "minyans"
all night and read the Zohar. After that they
drink black coffee and eat various fruits.

Eternally." The lighting of the lamp was accom-
panied by a ceremony which included songs
played by musicians specially hired for the
occasion.
But there were those who disapproved of the
ways of the Talner, and they reported to the
Czar that there was a rabbi who set himself
up as a king.
Although it was well known that Reb David
had nothing to do with politics, the government
officials believed the story and issued an order
to have Red David "taken dead or alive." For-
tunately, the commissar of Talna, Ispravnin, was
a friend of Red David and warned him in time
of the danger which threatened. The Talner
fled to Brod, Galicia, where he lived for some
time. When the business had': IslOwn over, he
came back to Russia, but his chair was hidden
away.

His Chanukah celebrations, however, con-
tinued to be very elaborate.. Chassidim from
all over the region came to attend them. They
would surround the rebbe, clapping their hands
as he danced and recited a quotation reminiscent
of the inscriptions on his, chair.
Often these dances lasted until midnight, when
the Chassidim would repair to the taverns and
drink all night.

T. A.)

THIS AND THAT
Lion taming was quite a sport
in the middle ages, and Marvin
Lowenthal in "A World Passsd
By" chuckles at the fact the Jess
monopolized this profession.
So it seems that we come by our
bull-tamers — Sidney Franklins-
legitimately. Not surprising at all
to me. It was a Hebrew lad, Dan-
iel, you remember, who sat around
with a bunch of lions as though
they were so many lodge members.
The lions, it seems, are not anti-
Semites. In fact, if I recall my
Bible, the lion was the symbol of
the tribe of Judah.
• • •
Father Coughlin is not an anti-
Semite. So he informed Philip
Slomovitz, telling the Detroit edi-
tor among other things, that Jews
make the mistake of emphasizing
the Jewishness of some of their
leading personalities.
But maybe, if Jews do this, non-
Jews first started and continue the
practice most.
Here, for instance, I have a letter
from a young Jewish fellow in
Cleveland, who has been dismissed
from a great motors corporation—
and the only reason given him is
that he is a Jew.
Well, who is emphasizing the
Jewishness in this instance, Father
Coughlin? And 1 think I could
duplicate this case—say a million
times.
• • •
In the last analysis, there will
never be any solution of the Jewish
problem until the economic prob-
lem is settled. I take it that anti-
Semitism is primarily nothing but
xenophobia—the dislike for the
stranger—and this dislike, latent
and inactive in good times, takes
an acute form in times of economic
distress.
• • •

We hope that we are justified in dis-
agreeing with Dr. Silver over the impend-
Chanukah in Tel Aviv
The--..Chanukah cAebration in Palestine is
ing danger - of extreme anti-Semitism in
much different add quite original. There all sorts
this country. We have faith that even if
of Jews—Sephardim, Yemenites, Bukarians and
not a single 1tpot on earth remained with-
Jews from the Caucasus—gather for the cele-
out the stigma of bigotry, that this coun- AN ENVIABLE RECORD
bration near the high water tower in Tel Aviv,
The record, based upon Mr.
try would be the very last to follow the
where Burgomaster Dizengoff lights the first
Mantle's choices, is an amazingly
tactics of the Russia of the Czars and the enviable
record. It indicates that
Chanukah candle.
Germany of Adolf Hitler.
among' the Jews in the theater
The city is filled with visitors from Jerusalem,
the producers are possessed of a
Naturally we endorse the boycott. Even fine, sensitive taste; that the au-
Haifa and the surrounding colonies. The school
children form in lines, each child with a candle
more naturally do we declare that every thors are imaginative creative ar-
Jacob de fleas in his life of Theo-
in his hand, and 10 or 15 youngsters march
able-bodies young Jews should be pre- tists, serious thinkers and skilled
dor Herz] written many years ago,
technicians; that the directors are
through the streets of Tel Aviv. At the head of
pared to defend himself, his family and careful, sutdious and theater-
says that some German prince told
each group there is a band which plays various
his neighbors. But we are inclined to wise; that the scenic designers are
Herzl that he (the prince) would
In Poland and Latvia
national songs which the children sing.
never consent to the Jews leaving
substitute for the term "Jew" the word high grade artists who draw as-
In some Sephardic circles, as among the Ash-
Germany because in times of eco-
signments for the best plays. In
This is the greatest part of the celebration
"man." We believe that every man should fact, only in the field of acting kenazim on Purim, it is the custom to wear and is called the Celebration of the Candles. The nomic distress, the Jews furnished
a
dandy scapegoat.
be prepared physically for self-defense. do we find a paucity of Jewish masks on Chanukah. The maskers sing in the Chanukah lamp of the municipality is placed
Every person—woman included--should participation.
streets and go from house to house performing
very high on the water tower and can be seen
Maurice Samuel, who will be in
After, in the manner of Al
plays. This custom of wearing masks on Chanu-
be trained physically for a healthy life and Smith,
the United States before you see
not only from the city but from the surrounding
examining the record, we
this
column has discovered mathe-
for a proud bearing. And if Jews will find that nine of the ten plays on kah is thought to be very old. We find men- region, where it excites the admiration of the matics.
similarly prepare themselves for a normal Mr. Mantle's list were produced tion of it in a book published in Smyrna in 1731 Arabs.
In "Beyond Woman," one senses
Jews, that three of them were
and probably written by the followers of Sab-
the fact of this discovery very
physical existence, we hope that they will by
To the Haamoneana
written by Jews, five of them di-
batai Zevi.
clearly but those who have been
In Palestine it is the custom to go to the town
thus acquire those traits which are needed rected by Jews, three of them
within the Samuel circle have
To
the
students
at
the
yeshivas
of
Poland
and
played against sets created by
of Mudiem every Chanukah. Mudiem is a small
in times of crisis and danger.
known it for several years(
Latvia Chanukah signified good meals and all
Jews and one of them comprised
forsaken village about which Josephus Flavius
Substantially, the theme of "Be-
But while we disagree with Dr. Silver a cast which numbered several too frequent good times. They indulged in tells in his histories, where it is called the home yond
Woman" is that if you think
that the danger he pictures is so close to Jews in its leading roles.
various games of cards, dominos, dreidl and
there
is no other thrill but that
of the Ilasmonean family.
The Theater Guild, a group or-
which revolves around woman and
kvitlach. And they regaled themselves with
our doors, we are thinking also of past ganization
I visited the town last year, going by auto love, take up your calculus and
with' five out of six
experiences. Jews had self-defense units Jewish directors, Theresa Hol- stories of the ancient Jewish men of might.
from Tel Aviv and passing the town of Lud and
logarithms and you will see—that
Among the Chassidim
mathematics offers pleasures equal
in Russia, Poland, Rumania and Austria: burn, Lee Simonson, Philip Moe].
the children's school at Ben Shemen on the way.
ler, Lawrence Langer and Maur-
to the erotic.
Of
particular
interest
are
the
Chmiukah
cele-
Now
Mudiem
is
called
Al
Mudia.
It
is
very
poor
of what avail were they when we are out- ice Wertheim, produced three of
I should like to see Mae West
numbered? It is one thing to refuse to be the plays on the Mantle list, brations in the courts of the Chassidic wonder and full of old ruins which the Arabs call "Kir- take up Geometry.
rabbis. One of these courts, that of Reb David
bat
Al
Yahud."
There
is
a
"Mary
of
Scotland,"
"Ah,
'Wil-
legend among the
humiliated and to fight back when we are
of Talna, is described in the memoirs of the
Arabs that here is the grave of the old Jewish
and "They Shall Not
Ripley it or not, but there was
attacked; it is another thing to believe derness!"
Die." One of these, "They Shall
famous canter Pincus Minkofsky.
a chap, named Beneditto Mussolini
heroes, and it may indeed be the site of the
that we can fight back our enemies when Not Die " was authored by the
(the
same as the 11 Duce) who as
At the home of Reb David, the story goes,
graves of Judah Maccabee and his brothers.
for back as the latter part of the
we are outnumbered 25 to 1. That is why Jewish John Wesley, directed by there was a Chanukah lamp of pure gold. The
Nearby there is an old ruin the Arabs call
19th century wrote an article urg-
Philip Moeller and played against
we prefer to retain faith that the danger sets designed by Lee Simonson. lamp was as tall as a man and looked like a the "grave of the forty," who are supposed to ing the restoration of Jewish Pal-
from nation-wide anti-Semitism in this Moeller also directed "Ah, Wil- house, with doors and little rooms. It had cost have been Jewish heroes who died in the battle estine. And thus Mussolini was—
like his namesake—an Italian non-
derness!" "Mary of Scotland"
a huge sum of money. Near the lamp there
country is remote, and that we can place was
for liberation. The Arabs gay that when Jews
Jew.
directed by Theresa Ilelburn.
stood a high silver chair upon which were in-
• • •
trust in our government against the dan-
will come and settle in that place, Palestine will
Max Gordon, probably the most
scribed the words: "David, King of Israel, Lives
The late Baron De Rothschild-
( PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE )
become a Jewish land once more.
gers which are being magnified. What a
PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE )_
tragic future would be ahead of us if we
were to yield to the fear that the ghost
Jacob Wassermann's
of anti-Semitism will soon force us to the
Attitude on Life
wall even in this blessed country! And
Hi. "Kerkhoven's Third Exist-
how much more tragic it would be if we
ence" Published Posthumously
By EVERETT R. CLINCHY
lost faith!
KER/LIIOVEN'S THIRD EXISTENCE.
It is well to remember, therefore, in this
(Copyright,
1934, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
sir Jacob Wassermann. Ttansiated
10 NINA. xernia
from the Germ's by Eden and Cedar
season of Chanukah feasting, that physical
Paul. PublIchisr by LIverIght Pub-
EI/ITOR'S NOTE: The folloulne article by Dr. l'Ilnehy compfl y,
a chapter front his new book,
force is not enough, and that power alone L AST SUMMER it was Dr. Wirt,i Contrary to what scare-heads lishing corporation. New Turk 111).
In the Name of Rod,. allIch, In the
author'sown so le, Is . A
Gary, Ind., schoolmaster, who I have to say, this country has a long
plea to end racial and
can not save qs. It .is "not by might, nor charged that there was a "plot" ,way to go before becoming cotton
Prophet and philosopher, stu-
dice.. Dr. (Duchy, an ordained Presbyterian minister, I,,,, 'Ise t505,
Is-en director of the N•tional Conference of Jew. and tlirlstians, ofahich
by power, but by the spirit" that Jewry afoot to undermine the existing ripe for a dictatorship. Both con- dent of life's problems and a
Newton II. Haler, Carlton .1. Hayes and Roger Stenos are e,
, -chairmen.
of government in the United gress and the Supreme Court must
In hl. hook, Ile. (Mildly took the historical appcoach to the question of
mystic who seeks to discover
has survived. That spirit must spell faith. form
inter-faith relations. •The present course of Protestant-Catholic-Jewish
States. Now, it is General Smed- collapse, as did the legislative and
hr mt. In his Introduction.
the
innermost
thoughts
and
re-
'In
not
Intelligible
.„Ira„ wc ere
And ‘ve must strive to interpret that faith ley D. Butler, retired Marine Corps judicial branches in Germany and
the picture In Its mtting. This wild.
in publInfwg by specks1 arratige•
meet la-toren Ilf
Jrwish Telegraphic Agency and the John thy Compisur
in terms of confidence, mingled with dig- officer and platform lecturer, who Italy, before the dictator may ap- actions of his fellow-men, the
publisher. of the book.
i
charges that Wall Street brokers pear before them to be sworn to
late Jacob Wassermann pro-
nity and pride. We refuse to be humili- tried to tempt him with a Hitler office for life. And General But-
vided food for thought in his
(CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK)
ated, and when we are we shall fight back ; crown to set up a dictatorship in ler and his wealthy New York bro- novels. His stories have been
than moralizing on the subject.
The Massena Incident
but we also refuse to lose faith in good gov- this country. kers know this to be a fact,
This led them to assert that, as
phychological studies and re-
• • •
The Wirt charges were invesit-
the treatment for a malignant dis-
The
Jews
of
America
were
par-
ernment which must make such danger- gated
vealed the author's attitude on
by a Congressional commit-
Mrs. Florence P. Kahn of Cali-
ticularly startled during 1926 by ease demands both restraints and
ous bigotry impossible.
tee and after a thorough examin- fornia, whose wit and clever re-
life.

(

CAPITAL MEI

The Old Folks Home Issue

The statement made last week by Her-
man Cohen, president of the Jewish Chil-
dren's Home, in answer to the proposal for
the merging of this institution with the
Jewish Old Folks' Home, in order to pro-
vide more suitable quarters for our home-
less aged, strikes an important note in the
issue now being debated in the community.
Mr. Cohen wins his point when he de-
clares that it is impossible to divert funds
collected for one purpose for the use of an
entirely different cause. If it is impossible
to assign funds collected for a hospital
towards a building fund for a home for the
aged, it should be equally as undesirable
and as objectionable to transform the
Jewish Children's Home into an Old Folks'
Home.
Another strong point against the pro-
posal is contained in Mr. Cohen's state-
ment that it would be as expensive to
transform the present Children's Home
for the purposes of an Old Folks' Home
as it would be to build a new home for
the aged.
The views expressed by Kurt Peiser,
executive director of the Jewish Welfare
Federation, retain their testing powers in
the present controversy. If a new building
is to be erected for the Jewish Old Folks'
Home, it must come as the result of a nat-
ural desire on the part of the community
to see such a structure built. This desire
will have to be translated in terms of di-
rect giving and of greater liberality than
has hitherto been displayed. Unless De-
troit Jews evidence their readiness to con-
tribute liberally for such a purpose, all the
discussions relative to an Old Folks' Home
must be labelled as idle talk.

ation, faded into thin air. But partee in well known to members
Washington got a good laugh out of of the House of Representatives
the whole incident. As a matter needed all her store of good humor
of fact, the whole thing now is a in the last Congressional campaign.
standing joke. Since the Wirt And she never hestitated to use it
bubble burst, 'Washington has been which May be one reason why she
in dire need of a good laugh. Now, was re-elected while other Republi-
along conies General Butler with cans fell by the wayside.
his revelations before the House of
Always keeping her ear to the
Representatives Committee on Un-
ground, Mrs. Kahn is interested in
American Activities. And Wash-
knowing that the home folks are
ington, first irritated over what kno.
was termed General Butler's "pub- saying about Florence P. Kahn.
During the last campaign she was
licity stunt," is inclined to have
a trifle taken aback by reports
another good laugh.
her grapevine wire. People
• • •
!were talking about her age. But
t
Representative John W. McCor-1 it did not take long for Mrs. Kahn
mark of Massachusetts, committee I to spike the gossips. "I hear re-
chairman, is not inclined to pass !ports that I am getting old," she
judgment on General Butler's, told one political rally in her dis-
charges, but intends to get to the I trict. "I don't know who started
bottom of the whole thing. Repre- ; this, but I do hope talk of this kind
sentative Samuel Dickstein of New ' doesn't get back to my mother."
York, vice-chairman and author of''' • • •
the • resolution which established!
Down in New Jersey, Repre-
the committee, has apparently be-
come excited over General Butler's sentative Isaac Bachrach is hay-
his troubles over his reelection.
ing
allegations,
veteran Republican's re-elec-
Representative Dickstein took The.
is being protested by his Demo-
Dr. Wirt quite seridusly and missed lion
out on some of the laughs that cratic opponent.
Representative Bachrach won re-
Washington was then enjoying.
There is great danger that he may election only by 851 votes. Either
miss out again in this new sensa- a recount or a Congressional in-
tional accusation of General But- vestigation will . be demanded to
Babcichhrabche
ier's. Representative Dickstein is prevent Representative t w
piedfomrig
resu
quoted as saying, "From present
the last 20 years.
indications, Butler has the evi- occupied
• •
dence. He's not going to make any
serious charges unless he has some-
Secretary of Agriculture Henry
thing to back them up. We'll have A. Wallace is going back to the
men here with bigger names than Old Testament for Ideas which he
he."
may apply to the government's
farm adjustment program. The
• • •
General Butler made clear to the other day Secretary Wallace an-
committee that he refused to be nounced an " ever normal granary "
dictator. But, nevertheless, he Plan through which a reserve sup-
claims to have had the offer, and Ply of farm products may be kept
that is shocking. What will Sena- 011 hand for use during an ernes-
tor Huey Long of Louisiani say? genet period such as drought.
Senator Long has gone fa:•h.r . • • •
than to give the country the gen-
In announcing the plan, Secre-
eral impression that he would like Lary Wallace pointed out that it
to be president of the United States was the same in principle as that
by the constitutional method. True, put into effect by Joseph to take
Senator Long is doing • lot of die- care of bountiful crops produced in
tating in Louisiana. but then, it is the seven years of plenty and store
only one state and Huey is having them for the seven years
of want.
a good time.
MoOrright. Mt J. T A I

The Rise of Anti-Semitism in America

His posthumous work, "Kerk-
hoven'a Third Existence," is in
reality a continuation of the
theme set forth in his earlier
works. It is a continuation of
the thoughts set forth in "The
Maurizius Case" and in "Dr.
Kerkhoven."
Kerkhoven in the present
novel may be said to be Was-
sermann himself. In this latest
book the author sets forth all"
his ideas on life. It is, in fact,
resume of his philosophic re-
actions. It is an interesting
complement to his biographical
"My Life as German and Jew."
The first existence deals with
student days. The second in-
troduces the hero as a psycholo-
gist and neurologist. The third
existence reveals the shattering
of an ideal in the discovery of
his wife's intimacy with his
pupil. He abandons his prac-
tice to restore his relationship
with her. Here the great writer
is revealed in all his power.
It is again Wassermann the
master who discusses the patho-
logical cases.

The liberation of Kerkhoven
does not lend itself to logical
formulation. It is a vague pro-
cess, in which Wassermann in-
vokes the doctrines of a 14th
century mystic, Tauter. Though
the central thesis of this novel
is lacking in clarity and direct-
ness, its nevertheless cannot be
denied that in whole and in
part it makes the profoundest
im pression.

Had he survived his present
volume, Wassermann might
have written another chapter to
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the incident at lilassena, New
York, where a state trooper had
interrogated an aged J5w to as-
certain whether the Jews em-
ployed Christian blood during the
Feast of Passover, a myth of an-
cient European vintage. The
Christian child whose disappear-
ance provoked the inquiry had
already been found safe. Such a
relic of medieval superstitution
was naturally a shock and it w as
found necessary to explain that
ever since the Patriarch Abraham,
Jews had stood against human
sacrifice, and that no animal
blood had been shed in the syna-
gogue services since the destruc-
tion of the Temple in 70 A. D.
Jews had never before been con-
fronted with an actual case of
belief in this libel of the "blood
ritual" on the part of a respon-
sible public servant in this coun-
try.

The most significant develop.
ment of the 1920's, however, was
the extent to which Jews were
subjected to restrictions of one
kind or another. This discrimin-
ation was particularly marked in
the field of employment, where
Jews found it increasingly diffi-
cult to secure positions with non-
Jewish firms. Social discrimina-
tion also evidenced itself more
blatantly as Jews were refused
admittance to many hotels, re-
sorts and clubs. Nor was anti-
Jewish prejudice confined to these
realms: Jewish students in the
colleges and universities found
the path to membership in frater-
nities and college societies defin-
itely blocked. A virtual numerus
elausus was established by some
institutions of higher learning,
notably medical schools, to keep
down the mounting number of
Jewish students. And Jews with
graduate school degrees were
shunted away from educational
and other professions.
About this time many thought.
ful Jews acted en the assumption
that a scientific diagnosis of anti-
Semitism would be more valuable

action on the part of the victim
of it, so the Jew suffering from
anti-Semitism can do much to help
himself. "Such a formula," said
one Jew, "must necessitate a bit-
ing self-analysis among Jews, as
a preliminary requisite." The
willingness of forward-looking
Christians to confess Christian
faults in the .relations between
Christians and Jews, led to plain
speaking by Jews about Jewish
faults. The frank admission and
straight - dealing by Christian
leaders of Christian prejudice
I and
intolerance toward Jews,
brought Jewish leaders to the
! p oint where they called for a
I study of Jewish prejudices against
Christians, to be made by Jews.
Germa n Influence s
The progress along these lines,
however, was threatened by in-
fluences from Germany under
Hitler. The reactionaries in
Europe began to plant the seeds
of hatred of the Jew upon the
soil of economic misery, political
chaos and general timidity and
fear by the simple strategy of
making the Jew the scapegoat for
all the evils from which society
suffers. In , Cermany anti-Semit-
ism Was organised with the effi-
ciency of a well-oiled machine.
Adolf Ilitler's National SoCialist
Party made its ease chiefly
around a mania against one per
rent of Germany's population.
The Nazi "Program for the Ages"
had 25 points, of which seven
planks were devoted to the hu-
miliation and disenfranchisement
of Jewish citizens. For the first
time in the .history of modern
civilization anti-Semitism became
an integral part of a state policy
when Hitler came into armee in
1933. During the 10 years pre-
vious the Nazi campaigners initi-
ated and executed a devastating
attack on the Jews, using pam-
phlets, derisive songs. speeches
and posters Before the isl.sztlan
of Hitler, potent newspapers
had
been headlining anti-Semitism for

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