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February 15, 1935
Adar 12, 5694
A Federation Triumph
Sunday's annual 'meetings of the Jewish
Welfare Federation and the Detroit Serv-
ice Group were triumphs for the efforts
of the Federation to unify the community
and to create genuine interest in and un-
derstanding of the community's problems.
While no decision was reached on the
question as to whether annual continued
memberships are to be substituted for the
'early campaigns for funds, the discussion
itself was thought-provoking and has
aroused an issue which must bring some
good, even though the drives for contribu-
tions or membership dues may in reality
vary very little in method or principle.
Another departure from previous prac-
tice was the presentation of a play at the
Service Group dinner, depicting conditions
in Jewry, the situation in Germany and
the reaction of those indifferent to commu-
nity needs. By abandoning the cabaret
type of performance for the serious play,
the Service Group has displayed an effort
to capture the devotion of those who hith-
erto were apathetic and unconcerned with
obligations to Jewish causes.
The large attendanch at the Federation
meeting proved the practicability of open-
ing up community problems for public dis-
cussions and of separating the Federation
meeting from those of the other agencies,
thereby causing the community to deal
with the Federation as a body rather than
grouping a dozen or more reports into one
session and making a farce of a day of
annual accounting.
The departures from previous practices
are undoubtedly responsible for the rep-
resentative gathering which marked last
Sunday's meetings. The attendance at
the Federation meeting was 'a cross-section
of the community, and it is no exaggera-
tion to say that it was a true approach to
making the Federation the true spokesman
tor the entire community.
Congratulations, Mr. Pregerson
Congratulations to Aaron Pregerson on
his 50th birthday which he observed on
Feb. 11. -
As president of the United Hebrew
Schools, as an ardent Zionist, scholar and
devoted Jewish leader, he has earned the
respect of this community. It is a pleasure
to join in greeting him and in wishing him
very many more happy birthdays. The
contributions he has made to this commu-
nity and to the most important Jewish edu-
cational, relief and reconstruction move-
ments have won an important place for
him in our community structure.
Exaggerated Wealth
Mr. Jabotinsky's Visit
The visit here next week of Vladimir
Jabotinsky, the world president of the
Zionist Revisionist Movement, is an event
of true significance. One does not neces-
sarily have to agree with Mr. Jabotinsky
to fail to recognize his outstanding quali-
ties as a speaker, as a writer, and as a
man with genuine ability for leadership.
It stands to reason that those who dis-
agree with the ideas as expounded by Mr.
Jabotinsky, and especially with his insist-
ence upon an effort to press for independ-
ent action on the part of his party for the
circularization of a petition to the League
of Nations, will refuse to assist him in his
party's plans. But insofar as the individual
is concerned—the writer, the speaker, the
genius for leadership—his visit must com-
mand interest and must draw an audience
which will honor him for the many quali-
ties which he possesses.
U. S. German-Jewish Relations
The German - Jewish tragedy carries
with it an element of relief when we con-
sider that the extreme Nazi groups are
being defeated in this country, and that
the saner judgment of the German people
in America prevails.
An indication of the true sentiment of
the great mass of Germans is contained in
a recent editorial which appeared in the
Cincinnatier Freie Presse. This German
newspaper commented on the statement
made before the Congressional investiga-
tion committee of Nazi activities in this
country by Raymond Joseph Healy, editor
of the anti-Semitic Healy's Irish Weekly,
who called himself an American Hitler,
said he was directing his attacks against
the Jewish people, and stated that he was
organizing war on the Jews because the
Jews declared war on the Christians. The
reply to this statement by the Cincinnatier
Freie Presse follows, in translation:
It is naturally Ilealy's privilege to choose
his political attitude at will, provided he does
not come into conflict with his duties as an
American citizen. The last sentence of his
statement gives cause for serious considera-
tion. Ilealy stales that he carries on a war
against the Jews because the Jews allegedly
have declared war on the Christians. That Is
not true. At least we do not know anything
of such declaration of war. We know that it
has been stated that individual Jews are hos-
tile to Christianity, and that there are Jews
who justify that allegation by their attitude,
but those individual Jews do not form all of
Jewry, and at any rate that they have no right
to speak in the name of the Jewish race.
Jewry in its entirety does not want to wage
a war against Christianity. The- Jews want to
live in peace with their Christian fellow
citizens, they want to cooperate with them In
solving the problems of the present time. That
has always been the case and is also the case
today. The whole Jewish people should not
be held responsible for the participation of In-
dividual Russian Jews in the war of exter-
mination waged by Bolshevism against Chris-
tianity any more than all German Jews should
be held responsible for the un-German atti-
tude of individual Jewish professors and Jew-
ish literati. Certainly the Jews do have ele-
ments which cannot be a credit to them, but
that is also the case with the Germans. Per-
haps we of German blood are rather inclined
to rid ourselves of such elements, but that too
is not aboslutely true—as a rule we are also
quite indulgent and quite tolerant towards
undesirable elements which cannot be a credit
to us.
We have always been convinced, and today,
more than ever, that the Jewish people does
not approve of the vile attacks and contempt-
ible calumnies which we of German blood in
this country, as well as our brothers and sis-
ters abroad had to suffer in the last year and
a half which were inflicted upon us by individ-
ual Jews. We Americans of German blood
must not and shall never forget that during
the hardships of the World War the best part
of our Jewish fellow citizens was on our side.
Therefore, we have always stressed the fact
that our defense against the base propaganda
was not directed against our Jewish fellow-
citizens as such, but only against the scum
which raised such despicable attacks and mali-
cious accusations against us.
We certainly do not want a war against our
Jewish fellow-citizens. Rather we need their
friendly cooperation, their zeal and their
earnest will to help, very badly, in furthering
the common tasks and aims which were net
us by fate. The war of which the Irish Healy
in New York spoke is always a destructive
war and every agitation which is apt to create
the conditions for such war is a crime against
this country, against its present and future.
In this sense we have carried on a defense
against such propaganda and we shall con-
tinue to carry it on. But that will not impair
our respect and appreciation for our Jewish
fellow-citizens. We are all citizens of one
country, we have the same obligations to
this country, we are subject to the same civil
laws—those which Washington and his con-
temporaries have written and the loyal ob-
servation of them helped to make the country
great and powerful—a glorious and blessed
new Fatherland. We of German blood shall
never forget it.
A great deal has been said about Pales-
tine's prosperity and unprecedented prog-
ress in the past two or three years. Re-
ports indicating that great achievements
have been wrought in many instances ac-
complished an effect opposite to that in-
tended or needed for the general good at
this time. Many people said that if Pales-
tine is so prosperous there really is no need
for making additional contributions.
The wrong impression created has been
considerably dispelled in the important
address delivered at the recent meetings
of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, held
in New York, by Dr. Herman Hexter, De-
scribing the actual status of the Palestin-
ian colonists, Dr. Ilexter pointed out that
no one has acquired wealth, but that many
people have made their large investments
pay and bring them a profit.
Dr. Hexter's report pointed out that the
Jewish colonies, which until recently were
subsidized by the Keren Hayesod, are now
self-supporting. It is reasonable to be-
lieve that the investment of large sums
of money by middle class settlers made
this condition possible, in view of the in-
creased opportunities that were created
for workers, and the great industrial ad-
vances made as a result of the numerous
private commercial enterprises sponsored
by the most recent settlers, and by many
absentee Jewish investors who have, as Dr.
Hexter put it, "a state and an interest in
It is certainly very encouraging to note
the country, and who reinvest that money
the Cincinnati German newspaper's de-
there."
In speaking of support for Palestine it termination to strive for friendship with
is important that we take into considera- the Jewish fellow-Americans. It is un-
tion the fact that tens of thousands of fortunate that this splendid editorial ex-
settlers are pouring into the land annually, pression should have found it necessary at
since the advent of Adolf Hitler on the all to make distinctions between the
elements and the "scum." If we
scene of world politics, and these cannot worthy
are to accept in principle the declaration
possibly be provided with the health, edu- that
in its the
cational and colonization facilities without and the bad, then has
distinctions may be car-
the use of large public funds. These must ried too far.
be forthcoming for some years to come,
But on the whole, this editorial strikes
and exaggerated stories of accumulated' an encouraging note. It extends to us the
wealth must not be permitted to deter I handfriend s h ip which is
Jewry from its path of building in Pales- gladly accepted. Jews are not warring
tine.
on Germans—not even on Germany. We
are battling the vicious propaganda and
Refuge by Throwing Lots
the movement which aims to degrade Jews
It is reported from Warsaw that when to the status of second-class citizenship.
Agudath Israel received its percentage of We are naturally at war with the Nazis
certificates for entrance to Palestine, at wherever they may be, in Germany, in
least 500 chalutzim applied for the privi- this country or in South Africa. But we
are just as determined that the friendship
lege of being pioneers in Palestine. In with our fellow-citizens is not to be
order best to allot these certificates, lots broken. On the contrary, it must be
had to be drawn. This situation is typical cemented on the basis of common adher-
. of what is reported in most countries of ence to the principles of Americanism
oppression
throughout the
world. It is which (Inca not tolerate bigotry and racial
PERSONALITIES
IN THE NEWS
The Jewish People Must Organize
Louis Wiley's 50 Years in
Journalism
By SHOLEM ASCH
Louis Wiley's 30 years in
journalism was commemorated
last week when the business man-
ager of the New York Times was
the guest of honor at a dinner
given in New York by the So-
ciety of the Genessee, an organi-
zation which he helped found 36
years ago and of which he was
the second president. It also
marked the occasion of the 39th
year of his association with Ochs
and the Times.
College presidents, industrial
giants, statesmen, diplomats and
noted colleagues in the field of
journalism were present to ex-
press their admiration and respect
for Wiley. Others — including
President Roosevelt, Governor
Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia—
sent personal messages to the
noted newspaperman. And these,
200 of them, were presented in
a bound volume to Mr. Wiley as
a permanent record of the occa-
sion.
The question, then, is: "Who
is this man no worthy of honor?"
And the answer is that, next to
Mr. Ochs himself, he is the man
most responsible for the develop-
ment of the Times from a mori-
bund and obscure newspaper to
a publication that is rated as one
of the world's greatest.
Louis Wiley was born in Hor-
nell, N. Y., May 31, 1869, the
son of Benjamin and Ernestine
Brickner Wiley. His father was
a merchant of Hornell and Mt.
Sterling. And it was in the lat-
ter town that young Wiley started
his career as a reporter for the
Democrat, a weekly.
A short time later the family
moved to Fort Wayne, hid., where
Louis displayed his first real flair
for newspaper work as a reporter
for the Journal of that town.
With the death of the elder
Wiley in 1886, the Wileys moved
to Rochester, Young Louis there-
upon landed a job with Post Ex-
press. A reporter's salary didn't
satisfy him and he founded Roch-
ester's first Anglo-Jewish weekly,
the Tidings, an eight-page paper
which met with immediate suc-
cess.
For six years the Tidings occu-
pied Louis Wiley's time. It drew
the attention of others, and in
1893, at the age of 24, Wiley was
offered the business managership
of the Post Express, the paper
that eight years before had paid
him a wage of $6 a week.
The way was already pointed
toward New York. Two years
later he was working on Dana's
Sun under William Laffan. A
year later he joined Ochs in the
seemingly impossible task of re-
surrecting the Times.
Adolph Ochs had come on from
Tennessee to take over the Times.
It had lapsed from its former
position when, with the Herald
and the Tribune, it was one of
the important papers of the me-
tropolis.
The paper was ready to die,
at least to merge. None of the
New York newspapermen thought
the gazette worth preserving. It
remained for a young southern
Jew to re-create a new paper un-
der the slogan "All the News
That's Fit To Print."
It was this man avhom Wiley,
looking for opportunity, decided
to connect with. In an address
ninny years later he said:
"I sought and fought to join
the New York Times in 1896,
and I hitched my wagon to a star.
Time and the Times have proved
that this star is the mightiest in
the journalistic heavens."
Adolph Ochs, on the occasion
of a dinner given to Mr. Wiley
in Rochester on his 60th birthday
by the Press Club of that city,
which he helped found many years
earlier, reminisced in the follow-
ing vein:
"Shortly after I had rescued
the Times, when a derelict about
to sink with a gallant crew of
able journalistic seamen, a
sprightly young man, still in his
twenties, called on me and sought
a position with the organization.
"Ile had some newspaper ex-
perience, notably at Rochester,
and had come to New York City
to seek a larger field for the de-
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I
am happy to be back in America again in
the country where I and my family and millions
from other lands have found a home. It seems
to me that those who sense and comprehend best
the meaning of those great principles enunciated
by the fathers of the American Revolution, and
the Declaration of Independence, are they who
stand in such great need of these principles for
the protection of their own liberty.
At a period when every demagogue who knew
how to use the misery of the people to further
his personal ambitions became the symbol of the
State, according to the well known French for-
mula, "L'etat c'est moi"; at a time when the
human personality is suppressed and degraded;
a time when the democratic principle, which is
the guarantee of human development, is ridiculed
and trampled under foot; at such a time all of
us in this country must rally around those who
protect that principle and help them to conquer
the bestial instincts which have spread like a
plague among the majority of the peoples across
the sea.
The democratic principle, no matter what mis-
takes it has made or what weaknesses it has
shown, has, notwithstanding the comparatively
short time of its existence, done more for the
development of our modern cultural civilization
than all the long benighted generations of the
feudal era. Remember that in the short life of
democracy and liberalism, knowledge has been
enriched in all fields; cultural values have risen;
social justice has made extraordinary progress.
During the same period human standards have
risen, and what is more important, the bunion
personality has assumed its proper stature and
received an opportunity to demonstrate its inner
content for the benefit of all human beings.
Defending the Democratic Principle
It is part of my credo that man's most prized
possession is the human personality. Through
this blessing he has been enabled to emerge from
a state of bestiality and touch the heights where
he can feel God. All that is beautiful and noble
in us has been derived from the freedom of the
human personality. Without that freedom man
most return to beast and the world to chaos.
history has proved that the human personality
can be defended by man alone, through the
democratic principle. Remember the example of
Greek and Roman history. When the principle
was crushed, the Neros and the Caligula arose;
the human personality ceased to live; enslave-
ment brought about the collapse of the spiritual
and of the cultural, and with it the downfall of
the nations.
We should be thankful that in the three great-
est lands which have given the world its present
physiognomy, the democratic principle is still
defended. And though it may be that irrespons-
ible individuals who envy the laurel wreaths of
demagogues in other lands have put in an ap-
pearance, still the danger is not as great as some
would frighten on into believing. There is no
danger that our country, or England, or France
will relinquish the principle of democracy to
which they owe their power and greatness. Ex-
perience has taught us that only those who have
not known the democratic tradition; who for
generations have lived in spiritual slavery; who
were not baptized by real revolution to purge
them of the sins of the feudal era, allow them-
selves to succumb to despair so easily and to
bend to the yoke of demagogic rulers.
Principle Trampled Under Foot
It is high time for civilized peoples who cling
to the democratic principle to unite. Not only
demagogues but democrats of all countries should
be united. It is imperative to be on the watch;
to safeguard the democratic principle at home.
For democracy, like charity, begins at home.
No one needs the democratic principle as
much as the Jewish people. Our clinging to
democracy is a primitive instinct of self-defense.
For only under democracy have we, as every
other oppressed people, been permitted personal
freedom and personal development. We feel,
therefore, that whoever tampers with the demo-
cratic principle, no matter under what guise,
is tampering with our most sacred possession
and endangering our only guarantee of freedom.
Unfortunately, this principle is being trampled
under foot in our own life. During centuries of
oppression, when the Jewish masses had no
means of defending themselves, a type of Jewish
"Back Door Diplomat" sprang up, who was at
the same time a sort of "Hof-Jude," a contractor
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LINCOLN AND WASHINGTON
The four and a half million
Jews now in the United States
realize that there were very few
Jews in this country when Wash-
ington was president, but they
don't realize that in Lincoln's
time there still were few Jews ■ ri
America. The day of Washington
is very definitely recognized as
antiquity, insofar as the United
States is concerned, but many
Jews feel a closeness to Lincoln.
The reason for this, no doubt, is
that elders among us knew other
Jews—now passed on, many of
them—who had personal recolles.
tions of the Great Emancipator.
The fact is, though, that there
were only 150,000 Jews in this
country during the years of Lin-
coln's presidency, Though this
was quite a difference from the
2,000 of Washington's time, there
is an even greater difference he.
tween the figures of '65 and to-
day.
It is interesting to note, in
connection with Lincoln, that one
of his outstanding biographers is
a Jew, Emanuel J. Hertz. An
attorney, Mr. Hertz—the brother
of the Grand Rabbi of the British
Empire—has made a hobby of
Lincoln and he is one of Amer-
ica's outstanding authorities on
the martyred president.
Quite a number of Jews serves!
in the Revolutionary army under
George Washington. The records
show that four Jews were lieu-
tenant-colonels, three were ma-
jors and six were captains. Bayne
Soloman, a banker, is known to
have been a close friend of Wash-
ington and a man he turned to
for money at moments of great
stress during the war.
I am not afraid to say that until now the
legend of the unity of the Jewish people cir-
culated among our enemies has prevented them
from carrying out their bloody plans. Who can
say how many Jewish lives were saved because
our enemies believed that the Jewish people stand
like an iron wall between them and every Jaw?
I am afraid, however, that our enemies have now
discovered that the legend of the unity of the
The Beiliss Trial
Jewish people is a figment of their own imagina-
Described in Book
tions. And certain anti-Semitic publications say
this quite openly, "Ilit the Jews. No one will
TIIF: DECAY GF' C•AIIISNI—THE 11E1-
defend them. If the ignorant masses across the
Linn TRIAL. Ily Alexander B. Tager
The Jew lnh ' , W.W.I,. societ y ,,r
sea raise a howl, we are not afraid. We will
Ametha, S. •or. Broad and Spring
Garth, Streete, Philadelphia. Pn
raise the hue and cry 'Bolsheviks.' The rich
Jews will become afraid of the word. And they
This volume, published Feb. 0
will do everything in their power to 'shut up' by the Jewish Publication Society,
describes in detail the trial of
the poor fellows and keep them on a leash."
The Jewish need on the other side of the Mendel Beiliss in the Russian
ocean is political. We must have a dignified courts during the last years of
the Czarist regime. Beiliss was
authoritative representation for the Jewish peo- accused of ritual murder and the
ple. So that both 'the Jewish people and the out- trial resulted in his complete vin-
side world may know that they are authorized dication.
The case of William Tobias
to speak in the name of the Jews. That this
is the Jewish "address." That the Jewish sym- I versus the Canadian Nationalist,
I a newspaper which carried a story
pathies, the Jewish interests, and the Jewish under the heading "The Murder-
masses cannot be won at any other "address." ing Jews—Jewish Ritual," in
That they cannot be bought at cheaper prices. which they attribute ritual mur-
Whoever attempts to do this on his own initi- der to Jews for the celebration
ative, no matter what his reason, is a traitor of Purim ,which is now being
tried, in Winnipeg, Canada, makes
to Jewish interests.
the subject of this book particu-
It is true that we are united. Not by organi- larly timely. It is also of interest
zation. But by blood instinct which we have that Mendel Beiliss, who was
developed through centuries of bloody history. brought to this country after the
Whether we wish it or not, our blood is united. completion of the Russian trial,
died during 1934 in New York
It does boil in us. It does speak and shout, City, at which time the New York
when this blood is spilled or insulted, wherever Times carried a news story from
it may be. The blood instinct must be organized which the following is quoted:
"No greater judicial farce
and speak as an organized power. I want our
has ever been acted than the
enemies to know that they dare not strike at
Beiliss trial. The Russian gov-
Jews. That when they insult the poorest Jew
ernment used every power and
in the most obscure corners of the world, every
strategem to arouse Russia and
Jew throughout the world feels that blow.
the world against the Jews and
the defendant, and paid no heed
This must be the slogan of the Jews! The
to the facts ■ in the c•se."
Jewish people are in the midst of a bloody war
The Decay of Czarism is illus-
which our enemies have forced upon us. We
trated with photostatic reproduc-
are battling for our very existence. The only tions of official communications
thing that can rescue us from the sea of hatred between high Russian officials.
engulfing us is the national discipline of the These documents corroborate the
amazing story of conspiracy and
Jewish people.
The entire Jewish people must subject them- racial hatred which marked every
phase of the trial itself. It may
selves to this national discipline or at least the
be recalled that the eyes of the
largest part of them. It must and it will, be- whole world were focused on the
cause there is no other way out. I believe and courtroom in Kiev while the case
I hope that the instinct of self-preservation which was in progress and that it be-
a significant incident in the
has kept the Jewish people alive and which has cause
political disintegration of pre-
come to the fore at every moment of danger, revolutionary Russia.
will awaken now. The instinct will awaken in
The author is a jurist of high
the hearts of all Jews who are worthy of being competence, a publicist and an
author
of well-known Russian
called Jews. They will unite in the name of
works on criminal law. In 1917,
Israel, in the name of the God of Israel who has following the Russian February
been humiliated so often in our day. fie will revolution, he served as the legal
triumph over his present enemies as he has tri- adviser of the special commission
umphed over no many other enemies. For Israel formed by the Kerensky govern.
ment, for investigating the affairs
is eternal!
of the Czaristic ministers.
The German-Jewish papers
published in Germany have
shown a tremendous increase in
circulation and a great im-
provement in content. That
phenomenon is one of the un-
expected developments in the
Third Reich. Since Hitler came
into power, news of Jewish
community life has been great-
ly stressed in all German-Jewish
papers. The Jewish papers of
all shades of opinion are in a
position to increase their cir-
culation as a result of the in-
tensified feeling of group-con-
sciousness. This is not only true
of the political papers, but also
of the community papers which
serve as a medium of instruc-
tion and entertainment, besides
giving news of communal activ-
ities.
All German papers and mag-
azines are bound by official or-
der to indicate their circulation
in every issue. On the basis
of these statements the follow-
lowing papers seem to be the
most widely read (only papers
appearing ones or twice • week
are cited):
f.-v. Lanai s torsi of the fen.
NANA* AVENIG
W A S II I G TO N .—Will the Today the situation is somewhat
United States continue to uphold different. Religious persecution
precedents and reassert its tradi- is being witnessed closer to home.
tional policy of intercession in In Mexico the Catholics are be-
behalf of oppressed racial or reli- ing denied freedom to worship
gious minorities in foreign coun- as the church requires. Children
are prohibited from receiving any
tries?
This is a fundamental question sort of religious education or in-
which is being debated in both struction in Catholicism.
Catholics of the United States
the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives. It has arisen in are aroused. Other religious
groups
have voiced opposition to
connection with a flood of ap-
peals and a number of resolutions this state of affairs in Mexico.
Thousands
of letters and petitions
introduced in both branches of
Congress protesting the persecu- have been received by Congress-
men
protesting
this religious per-
tion of Catholics in Mexico.
secution. Thousands more will
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be received.
Just a little less than a year
•
ago. the same question came up,
In the meantime the question
in the Senate in connection with
the persecution of Jews in Ger- of religious persecution is being
many. Senator Tydings of Mary- debated in both the Senate and
land introduced • resolution re.d House. The resolutions intro-
questing that this government I duced by Senators and Repre-
make an official protest to the tentative, are in the hands of
Hitler regime on behalf of the committees where they await ac-
Jews. This resolution was pigeon- tion. Among those who have
holed in committee and never saw' Introduced these resolutions are
the light of day. 1 Senator Borah and Represents.
e er, both o f
Fish and
Hundreds of letters and peti-' tines
New York. Representative Celler
tions were received by Congress.; also has introduced • resolution
men urging that action be taken' calling upon the House to protest
on the Tydings resolution. Other!
persecution of Jews in Ger-
hundreds of communications de- the
nounced the Hitler tactics and many.
On
• number of occasions in
urged that the United States take
official cognizance of what was the past. the United States.
through
its representatives
happening to the Jews in Ger-
many. A few speeches were abroad, has interceded in behalf
made on the floor of the House' of an oppressed minority. Such
for the court who mixed "diplomacy" with busi-
ness. Ile alone spoke and acted for the Jewish
people. Often he succeeded in "buying off" a
decree. Perhaps this type of Jewish repre-
sentative was suited to the benighted feudal
era. To revive this type now means that we
ourselves issue the verdict that we are unworthy
of defending our own honor; that we have re-
mained a benighted, unfortunate, ghetto group
for whom the "back door diplomat" speaks.
The Jewish will to live; the Jewish honor; the
most vital Jewish interests, demand dignified
expression in an authoritative body in which our
friends and enemies alike will see demonstrated
the Jewish will to live, and will command their
respect. This free-for-all Jewish leadership
must end! This trafficking with vital Jewish
needs must stop! Our opponents must be in-
formed who our chosen representatives are! They
must be taught that they cannot "buy" the Jew-
ish people at bargain prices by turning to other
elements!
No matter how great the economic need of the
Jews overseas, it is not their paramount need.
Much more vital is the political need. The Jewish
people have no mouthpiece through which to
speak and demand their rights. The Jewish
problems at this moment are more political than
material. Of what avail is the relief we give
when that relief is not protected by political
guarantees? It is like filling a sack full of holes.
Growth of Jewish
Press in Germany
CORE R
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By HENRY
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the teat of the address delivered by Sholem
Asch, the distinguished Jewish writer, at a reception in his honor on Feb. 7, at Hotel
Astor, New York, arranged by the American Jewish Congress.
( • op)fight, 1935, J. T. A, Inc.)
Metropolitan
Comment
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Is Palestine Agriculture a Success?
A Report After 15 Years of National Effort
By LEIB JAFFE
Director, Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundatio n Fund) .1
let
EDITOR: NOTE: The world aill noon marl, the 15th a nnherey
Drums
of I hr
of the Keren IlaYearni, Palestine Foundollon Pon ,
dhich woe tre-
ated to further the national colonization of the Jewish
people In Paleellne.
the
(kcal Inetrument of the eleoleh Ageney for Paleetine, the herrn lisymen1 has A.
been
reeponsit.le not onl) for arricultueal detelotonent tend rolonization but al. for
ethicalion. immigration. sanitation and general Indy.* rt.'. a rba,„
an d ran,
men lhi• etalement by loll, Jaffe, director of the %wen Ilayeeod. retie.% the
adionce
, in Paleetine agriculture, ochlried largely through the allmillun
by M. Keren liateleed In It. Si colonies throughout Palestine.
e.tamialmeni
Jerusalem. — A year charged
But more terrible even than
with momentous events and great the economic distress of the pen.
changes in our national life and pie is hopelessness of their con-
dition, which promises no way
work has passed. Much has been out of their unfortunate state,
said about the Jewish situation no light, no future. Before us
in Poland. But it is difficult for stand the masses of a nation, their
us to realize its extent from this eyes dimmed, their lips parched
distance. From day to day im- with want and distress, wandering
poverishment and miss ry are seiz- shadows who know not what waY
ing ■ stronger hold upon Polish to turn. And if there are eye s
Jewry in all sections of its com- which are still bright and eager.
it is the hope and yearning for
munity.
Palestine which kindles
the .
m
Several weeks ago Deputy Ro-
The entire nation is reaching
tenschtreich, speaking in the Po-
lish Sejm, disclosed a dismaying out towards Palestine.
At the
tale of the distress of the Jews Palestine offices abroad strange
l i t he e l i i r h ol o ad remaining w
s i i g th ht s ha or p ee ti o nb de cso e n e:.:
sinourPceo sianodf;
s t are
til
e x a p m
e ce-
away. Sixty per cent of the pop-
ulation is need of relief. In the tations; disappointment and des-
southern . districts, 31 per cent of pair in the faces of the unfortu-
th e ew ish population obtained nate ones;
happiness beam-
relief during the holidays , and ing from those and
who have attained
. .
approximately 25 per cent in the
vinyl ege of being named
central districts. In Lwow, 55 among the "immigrants." What
per cent of the Jewish inhabitants scenes
may be witnessed at the
applied for relief; in Lodz, 29 per railway stations on the day of
cent, and in Vil
na. 35 per cent, their departure! Thousands leav-
The Jewish community can no ing; tens of thousands who re-
longer come to the rescue of its main behind, envious or sympa-
poor and needy, for the entire thetically rejoicing to the good .
Onnnlati nn has
•e
. .
of their luckier brethren,
to a fortune of
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