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Annual Brotherhood Day
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By HENRY W. LEVY
lautied by • .elf-nddresend, stamped
oMn at Detroit, Mich, under tin Act of March I. MIL
other. Bigotry is rampant everywhere,
ennlope.
A Refutation of the Statement Made to the New York
(JTA Spacial Correspondent)
General Offices and Publication Building and where Fascism has as yet failed to
World-Telegram by the American Jewish Com-
gain a foothold there are warnings against
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Q. What is the procedure with
TENTH ANNIVERSARY
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mittee Leader
No other book publisher has so
Landon Office,
according to Jewish ceremonial
quire strength.
distinguished a list of Jewish au-
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
law?—B. 13.
Observance of Brotherhood Day in a
thors as has Viking Press, and thus
A. Mourning need not be ob-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
this firm's celebration of its 10th
Subscription, in Advance ..._.... . ..._...$3.00 Per Year time like this is especially appropriate as
served for a child that has lived
anniversary would be interesting
•••• la•e* publication, all correspondence and news matter a means of advancing true good will and less than 30 days.
even if it were not for the fact
was
mesh
this
Olin
by
Tuesday
eveningof
each
week.
■
'
• • •
•otices, kindly use one rids of the palter only. of mobilizing all the forces that stand for
011E VERY dangerous views were enun- us that the boycott "delays the return of reason of the Jewishness of its president
Warm
democracy
and
for
free
government
and vice-president, Harold Coins-
Q.
Who
was
Eduard
Gans?—
and
decency
to
Germany,"
he
ignores
another
ciated
by
Former
Justice
Joseph
11.
Pros-
11111 Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence ow sub-
burg and B. IV. Iluebsch.
against the elements of destruction and G. R. T.
Mets sof interest to the Jewish people, hot disclaim. reeponsi-
kauer of New York, in an interview he gave important fact: that if reason and decency Is
*lilt, for as adornment of the sews eaprened by the writers
With such names as Franz Wer-
prejudice which aim to pitch one group
A. Eduard Gans (1798-1839) to George Britt of the New York World- to be restored to Germany, it will be accom-
fel, Stefan Zweig, Arnold Zweig,
was a well known German jurist
in our population against the other.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
plished
only
by
the
revolutionary
method
of
Telegram.
Not
only
because
he
opposses
the
Lion
Feuchtwanger, Joseph Roth,
and juridical professor. He was
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 30:11-34:35
We have a great deal to guard against. one of the founders of a move- boycott of German-made goods, but for a far removing the present insane group from power; Bruno Frank, Dorothy Parker,
Prophetical portion-1 Kings 18:1 (or 20)-39
Fascist thought and bigoted sentiment may ment whose purpose was to pre- more important reason: for the manner in and the removal of the Ilitlerites from power Supreme Court Justice Brandeis,
Albert llalper and Harold J. Laski
Adar 19, 5694 plant its roots on our shores at almost any vent the wholesale convention of which he interpreted Jewish obligations as Jews most partially be accomplished by resorting to on
February 22, 1935
its publication lists and such
Jews to Christianity by the
time unless we are prepared to fight the
the economic weapon.
already issued titled as "The Case
and
as
Americans;
promotion of culture among them.
against the influences of reaction. Brother- The movement did not interest
In justice to the American Jewish Com- of Sergeant Grischa." "The Edu-
Justice Proskauer outlined his reasons for
Jabotinsky and His Cause
hood Day, to be observed on Sunday, Feb. the people, however, and soon opposing the boycott as follows:
mittee of which Justice Proskauer is so import- cation of a Princess," "Ask Me An-
other," "Marie Antoinette," "God's
The visit here this week-end of Vladimir 24, provides an opportunity for the dif- ceased to exist. In 1825 Gans
ant a member, it must be stated that he speaks Little Acre," "While Rome Burns"
First, the boycott is objectionable be-
Jabotinsky is an event of more than local ferent groups in the American population himself adopted Christianity and
his own mind and that he does not interpret and the sensational best selling"The
thereafter became a pro-
cause of its complete ineffectiveness—even
Forty Days of Musa Dagh," Vik-
importance. Mr. Jabotinsky is a spokes- to dedicate themselves to a policy of solidi- shortly
the official stand of the Committee on the boy-
fessor at Berlin University.
ing has enjoyed unusual success.
if successful as a boycott—to accomplish the
man for a group in the Zionist movement fying friendships rather than destroying
cott question. The committee's attitude on the
• • •
There must be, I thought, an eru-
result sought.
boycott was expressed in the following resolu- dite publishing formula responsible
which has attracted more than average them and supplanting them with bias and
Q. Who was Rose Stokes?—
Second, it is contrary to the express wish,
T.
M.
for this formidable array of suc-
tion adopted in December, 1933:
attention in the past few years. Both Mr. hatred.
given in confidence and without the duress
cesses. I went to see Harold
of fear, of the leading Jews of Germany.
A. Rose Pastor Stokes was a
Jabotinsky and his followers have been
Of interest in connection with this year's
Guinzburg for my answer. I popped
It
furnishes
another,
though
fake,
reason
famous
American
radical
leader
The
committee
feels,
moreover,
that
charged with having harmed the Zionist observance of Brotherhood Day is the fact who died in Germany last year.
the question. Half expecting an
for Hitler to talk about international Jewish
Nazism is not alone a Jewish problem, but
cause and have been subjects of attack that it takes place two days after the birth- Upon emigrating to this country
evasion of one sort or another, I
warfare against Germany and thus solidify
also a world menace. In this view it is
was totally unprepared for Mr.
from many quarters. The recent state- day of George Washington. The first from Russia with a few years in-
his support. It delays the return of reason
supported by unmistakeable evidence from
Guinzburg's explanation of Vik-
terlude
in
England,
she
began
work
and
decency
to
Germany.
ment issued by 241 reformed rabbis en- President of these United States on nu-
within the borders of Germany: the sup-
ing's success.
in a cigar factory and took an ac-
Third, its incidence is completely beyond
pression of all freedom of speech, press,
dorsing the platform of the Palestine merous occasions expressed his opposition tive
"We publish," he said, "only
interest in the problems of the
control, and its destructive effect falls
and assembly; the destruction of the rights
Labor party is only one of the indications to racial and religious bigotry, and among working class. Later she went to
those books that we like."
squarely on many Jewish manufacturers and
won by labor unions and women; the utili-
of the manner in which anti-Revisionist his very interesting statements was the one New York and entered social work,
Developing his explanation, the
merchants.
zation of the church for the aims of the
Viking president went on to say
sentiment has been organized. This week's he wrote to the Hebrew Congregation in and ma Tried a millionaire.
As American citizens it is our absolute
state, and the militaristic aims of the Nazi
that,
unlike most publishers "we
Throughout her life even after her
right and duty to help our fellow Jews by
statement by the Rabbinical Assembly Newport, R. I., stating in part:
leaders. In view of these conditions, while
make no effort to present a bal-
marriage she remained a leader of
appeal to our own government, asking that it
the
American
Jewish
Committee
sympa-
adds additional strength to the 'listed-
anced
list." By that he meant that
"All possess alike liberty of conscience the working class. During the war
take diplomatic measures, and by appeal to
thizes with the desire, and recognizes the
Viking knowingly published no
ruth, and in turn is another rebuke to and immunities of citizenship. It is now she parted from her husband due
the forces of public opinion, which are the
right
of
individuals
to
refrain
from
buying
drivel because it knows that a large
to her pacifist leanings. She was
Revisionism.
court of last resort in such matters.
goods made in Germany, it reaffirms its defi-
no more that toleration is spoken of, as if
part of the book-reading public so
a Socialist and then a Com-
But we have no moral right to bind our-
During his visit here Mr. Jabotinsky has it was by the indulgence of one class first
nite decision not to endorse or participate in
desires it. With Simon and Schus-
munist and attained world wide
selves as a separate group inside the United
a boycott organized by Jews in the United
it within his power to answer a number of people, that another enjoyed the exer- fame for her activity.
ter, Farrar and Rinehart and one
States to disturb the economic and diplo-
• • •
States.
or two other of the younger pub-
of questions relative to his platform. It cise of their inherent rights. For happily
matic relations between America and a
lishing firms, Viking believes in
Q. Why does the Jewish Sab-
so happens that Mr. Jabotinsky's plat- the Government of the United States,
country with which America is at peace, no
the publication of a small but select
How
Hitler
Comforts
Streicher
form, when it is divorced from what is which gives to bigotry no sanction, to per- bath begin on Friday evenings?—
matter how much we may abhor the govern-
In speaking of reason and decency it is list of offerings.
C.
ment policies of that country.
considered the destructive element, is a secution no assistance, requires only that D. A.
Perhaps this point of view is best
well that Justice Proskauer should have called expressed
The Jewish Sabbath and
There are held in America tens of mil-
as Mr. Guinzberg put it
very warm evaluation of Zionist principles. they who live under its protection should holidays begin on the evening of
to his attention the truth as it motivates the tom
T hee:
lions of dollars of German obligations, and
When Mr. Jabotinsky suggests a world- demean themselves as good citizens, in the preceding day and end on the
Viking Press today consists,
there are further trade relations involving
Nazi powers today. It might have been said
wide effort to "hypnotize" the Jews with giving it on all occasions their effectual following evening, instead of be-
many millions of dollars more. No group of
that Julius Streicher, for instance, is acting on besides Mr. Guinzblirg, of B. W.
ginning with midnight as in the
Huebsch and Marshall A. Best. Its
the idea of supporting Palestinian projects, support."
citizens has a moral or patriotic right to in-
his
own
accord
in
spreading
the
numerous
libels
secular calendar. The origin of
original triumvirate had George S.
terfere with these obligations except by ap-
of buying Palestinian goods, and of ad-
against the Jews, such as sanctioning the ritual
Be
Oppenheimer
in the place of Mr.
If Brotherhood Day can be made to suc- this custom is in the Bible. In
peal to the duly constituted authority of the
vancing the ideal of the Jewish homeland,
Genesis it states that "it was eve-
murder
lies,
the
myth
of
Jewish
international
United States government.
he is restating the aspirations of every ceed in spreading this ideal, as well as the ning and it was morning," with
Viking was founded March I,
control
of
finance,
the
fantastic
stories
of
Jew-
sentiments of other great liberals who the word evening always preced-
devoted Zionist.
Justice Proskauer, whose important position ish domination in Communist ranks. But now 1925, by Guinzburg and Oppen-
helped to found this nation, then we shall ing the word morning. This was
On Aug. 1, before the
But when Mr. Jabotinsky presumes to be able to continue to live in security, with interpreted as meaning that a day on the executive committee of • the American it is an established fact that Streicher does not heimer.
first book was published, a mer-
claim justice to be only on his side by the knowledge that the principles on always begins with the preceding Jewish Committee ought to prompt him to be speak for himself alone, but has the sanction of ger was effected with B. W.
Iluebsch.
very cautious in the expression of his views, is Chancellor Hitler himself. On Feb, 11, Hitler
attempting to break discipline and by cir- which this country was founded will never sunset.
• • •
entitled to his opinions on the boycott. But visited Streicher at Nuremburg, on the eve of THE PAnTNERS
culating a petition of his own to the League be sacrificed to reaction and bigotry.
Guinzburg, when he entered the
Q. Please tell about the activities when he speaks of Jews who are boycotting Ger- the notorious anti-Semite 'a 50th birthday. Ile
of Nations, he does immeasurable harm
publishing business, was a grad-
of Leo Motzkin.—T. J.
which might destroy all the good which
many as being obligated to appeal first to the found Streicher, who is Commissioner of Bavar-
uate
of Harvard, class of '21, who
A. Dr. Leo Motzkin was born in
State Department before they take economic ian Franconia, dining with 100 Nazis, and to after two years of studying law at
is embodied in his program.
Russia and later studied in Ber-
The United Jewish Appeal
Columbia
took a fling at news-
Mr. Jabotinsky owes it to the Jews of
lin. He was early opposed to the measures to win justice for their kinsmen in this group Hitler delivered a speech in which
paper work in Bridgeport, Conn.
News that the , American Jewish Joint acceptance of Uganda as a substi- the Nazi hell, ignores the fact that labor in this he declared:
this country whom he is attempting at this
After
a
short
apprenticeship as a
for Palestine. During the War country and throughout the world is boycotting
reporter, he joined forces in 1924
time to enroll in the Zionist movement, to Distribution Committee and the American tute
he directed the Copenhagen bureau Germany, and then gives the impression that
with
Max
Schuster
and Richard
I
am
happy
to
know
I
have
in
Julius
Palestine Campaign are once more united of the World Zionist Organization,
reply to the following questions:
Simon when this pair laid plane for
Streicher one man on whose whole-hearted
1. How do you justify the spread of for the purpose of a joint drive during and in 1920 organized the first in- through the boycott Jews are harming American
their
publishing
house.
Less than
support I can depend in every situation and
an independent petition to the League of 1935 is of such great importance that it ternational conference for the re- trade and therefore are unpatriotic, then he
a year later he was embarked on
who has never wavered one second. It must
lief or Jews who suffered from the does an injustice to reality.
deserves
to
be
hailed
as
being
among
the
his
own
venture.
Nations?
be a great feeling for him to know that this
results of the War. A number of
Oppenheimer, a graduate of Wil-
is not only the turning point of a half century
Does Silence Mean Consent?
2. Isn't it a fact that such a petition most important Jewish news occurrences times he represented world Jewry
liams class of '20, spent three and
of his life but also of a half millennium in
in
Jewish
life
at
the
present
time.
at
League
of
Uations
conferences.
Perhaps
Justice
Proskauer
could
tells
us
serves to break discipline in the Zionist
' years at A. A, Knopf as
a
half
German history.
Ile died in Paris in 1933, at the how far-reaching have been the results of his
advertising and promotion mana-
A great deal has been said about unity, age
movement and to create immeasurable
of 66.
ger,
after a year's study in the
and
his
group's
efforts
to
secure
rights
for
Jews
Thus, the most insane of all modern anti-
harm for the cause of the Jewish National but as a rule very little is done to effect it.
• • •
Graduate Arts Schools at Ilar-
throughout the world through intercession with Semites is given the sanction of the dictator vard.
But here is an instance of actual interpre-
Home?
In 1933, after his play about
Q. Who was the Jew who found-
Dorothy Parker, "Here Today,"
3. Isn't it a fact that by organizing a tation of 'words into action, of translating ed the radio manufacturing busi- the State Department. Our only knowledge at of the German people, and to speak of rational was
presented
on Broadway, Op-
present
is
that
the
State
Department
has
been
ness
in
this
country?—E.
I.
M.
efforts to restore decency to that country is to
defensive contingent of our own in Pales- a proprigated idea int, reality.
penheimer gave up publishing for
A. Hugo Gernsback is credited silent—silent to our pleas for intercession, and be childishly naive.
It would be the heil -ht of folly to divorce with
tine independent of the police force sup-
editorial
work
in
Hollywood.
having sold the first radio ap-
But Justice Proskauer's statement to the
But of the trio, it was B. W.
ported by the Palestine government that the Palestinian angle from any efforts to paratus for amateurs. He also just as silent of the question of the boycott,
permitting
us
to
believe
that
silence
means
con-
Iluebsch
who
had
real publishing
World-Telegram
is
much
more
damaging
on
an-
we are antagonizing the mandatory power solve the problem of the German-Jewish started the first radio magazine in
experience. For 20 years a pub-
and was a leader in protect- sent to our own way of protesting and boy- other score—when he outlines his views in
and creating immeasurable harm for our refugees and those Nho must leave Ger- 1908
lisher
and
printer,
he
was the first
ing the rights of radio listeners cotting.
opposition to the World Jewish Congress. Quot- American publisher of James Joyce
many for settlement in the Jewish Na- and
position?
preventing the so-called "muz-
Furthermore,
when
Justice
Proskauer
tells
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE)
4. Is it not a fact that the inflammatory tional home. Similarly, it would be the zling" laws.
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE)
propaganda conducted by your followers height of credulity to expect us to imagine
has resulted in riots and outbreaks which that Palestine can solve the entire German
WA SH I N G TO N
have brought shame upon the good name relief problem, and for that matter, also
A N D T H E JEWS An American Teacher in Palestine
the
horrible
problem
of
Polish-Jewish
op-
of Jewry?
pressed
masses.
There
is
need
for
a
tre-
5. Is not Revisionism undermining the
I
By HENRY W. LEVY
An Experiment in "Back to Nature"
social justice structure in Palestine by its mendous effort for relief of the millions of
suffering
and
impoverished
Jews
through-
frupyrIght.
1935..1.
T
A
,
hostile attitude to the Labor party?
By SOPHIA SMITH SETTEE
Like the man he prosecuted, Wil-
Handling the prosecution of
6. Does not an independent fund-raising out the world, and the two efforts—that
NOTICt The ...western.. of a )oung American woman, a school tearlser,
is not a native born Ameri-
As we celebrate George NDITOIt'n
In adJorating tart- m.1f to the agricultural Ilfe In I'mleortIne, ginothle • new In-
effort for the Revisionist Tel Hai Fund of Palestine's reconstruction and of re- Bruno Ilauptmann for the State entz
New Jersey was Attorney Gen- can. Forty years old, he came here Washington's birthday again—
'right Into the Influence exertnil hr the Jentorh !Homeland on all thorr rah*
serve to confuse Zionist issues and needs lief — must for a long time work hand of
corne In
III, It. Ti,. heren repreraented In lite I olleal Males
eral David T. Wilentz. Unknown from Russia as an infant in his
lit the American l'uleklIne Campaign, ennI111, the fund. lit establish se
and to impede present efforts through in- in hand for the sake of the starving souls to headlines, except within his own mother's arms. They settled in for the 203rd time, it is well to
...dotal. the agricultural colonies in Palestine.
and bodies in Israel.
state, this 40-year-old Jewish attor- Perth Amboy, N. J., where he has recall that there were Jews in
ternal competitive wranglings?
this country of ours in Wash-
is now a national figure by lived ever since.
Our questions are addressed to Mr.
I came to the Kvutzah (collecti- sky almost touching the clouds on
The leaders in Jewry who are respon- ney
The story of his success is that ington's day, that the Father of
reason of the skill displayed in
vist farm in Palestine), with a
Jabotinsky in the hope that they will be sible for this new effort and unified front his
successful prosecution of the well worn one, the Jewish young.1 this Country knew and respect. petty bourgeois mind dressed up to the road to the meshek.
And there, the chaverim were
answered in his addresses during his visit in behalf of two causes are to be highly Lindbergh baby murderer.
ster of foreign-born parents who I
ed and had dealings with many look like a healthy edition of Thor- already at work. The meaader
in Detroit. We place them to Mr. Jabot- congratulated. Their efforts must be emu-
Strangely enough, it was the worked his way through college
eau or Rousseau. High-sounding avodah (director of labor) wearing
and
earned
success
by
reason
of
Jews.
Both
for
the
benefit
of
insky in the spirit of impartiality rather lated by Jewish communities throughout first time he served as the prose his own talents. Ile commuted to
"back to nature" phrases, queer
self-conscious Jews who are quips about "plain living and high a bright boyish smile, handed me
cuter in a murder case and, you
than bias, because we feel that the actions this country.
have Wilentz's own word for it, New York to study law and the not aware of our American- thinking" stuff consumed in Amer. a rake. I grasped it with pleas-
of his followers until now have been far
he will never again prosecute a while earned his living by writing Jewish heritage and for the icon universities was sales-talk that ure. My hands could scarcely en-
circle the stick. I walked across the
from constructive and that the charges
murderer. The man who called sports for local l'erth Amboy pe-
possessed me on my arrival at Kin-
Ilaupttnann "World Public Enemy ers He thus qualifies as one of benefit of grasping anti-Semites ereth. And Kinereth gratified fields to where three figures in
leveled against the Revisionists appeared
Great Tribute to Hadassah
that
well-known
fraternity:
"I
Number One," and who told the
who would forget Jewish par- every little whim that I had ac- black shorts and white shirts with
justifiable enough to warrant the outlaw-
cloth caps protecting their heads
12 men and women of the jury that used to be a newspaperman once, ticipation in our struggle for quired in "Walden" ...
A great tribute is accorded Hadassah, New
f rom the beating sun, were raking
ing of Revisionists from Jewish life.
Jersey would only he satis- myself."
Here were the rough and ready the field together. They stopped to
independence,
it
is
a
duty
to
the
Women's
Zionist
Organization
of
The
World
War
halted
Wilentz'
We look forward with interest to Mr.
fied with one verdict: murder in the
"zrifim"
(barracks)
to
live
in;
here
beginnings for some months. point out that Jewish roots are was the life without money, or need look at me when I approached.
Jabotinsky's visit and we await his an- America, by the enlistment of its services first degree with no recommenda- legal
tion of clemency, doesn't like this But immediately after his return to firmly embedded in the founda- of it; here was the coarse food and They greeted me cordially. In-
swers to the questions we have addressed for an educational campaign against business
stantly I became one of them.
of snuffing out another's l'erth Amboy, he launched the car- tions of this country.
simple fare; here was the crudeness Helen, who spoke English with a
to him. And we hope that a large audi- trachoma among Indians.
eer that was to make him one of
life.
of apparrel, the roughness of work, German accent, showed me how to
The late President Calvin the
For the purpose of this campaign, the
ence will be present at the lecture on Sun-
As the jury filed into the Flem- the outstanding attorneys of Mid-
rawness of life, framed by a level the earth. The steady up and
County. At the same time he Coolidge, in an address in 1929 rhythm
day evening to give Mr. Jabotinsky a Indian Field Service of the United States ington courtroom last Wednesday dlesex
of nature all about that down motion, the muscular move-
entered
politics.
hearing and to honor him personally, even 1Department of Interior, has secured Ha- evening, Wilentz was visibly ner- From 1922 to 1926 he served as at the dedication of the Y. M. enhanced the wholesomeness and ment of the arms, the backward
vous.
Ile
showed
plainly
why
he
beauty
of
this "way of life." Every and forward sway of the torso, all
though they may reject his views, for his dassah's lantern slides on trachoma, and had vowed never again to prose- City Attorney. The meanwhile, he H. A. in Washington, stated little self-abnegation
thrilled me.
developed his private practice and this very succinctly when he So was it with Thoreau, thought I. meant healthy and wholesome work.
eminence as journalist, lecturer and the highly successful efforts to reduce cute a murder case.
As I raked the earth, it took on
His defense opponent, Edward J. earned reputation as a result of his said:
, The little Kvutzah was in the cen- a richness of color, a softness and
Zionist.
'trachoma in Palestine will be applied to
to convert seemingly hope-
Reilly, veteran of many previous ability
"Hebrew mortar created th• , ter of the high hills, and it over- warmth.
this country.
less
cases
into
successes.
In
the
looked the Sea of Galilee. Beauty
murder trials, War superbly calm.
Life was really sweet, I thought.
Hadassah's medical organization in Both men met in the center of the po litical field he built up a youth- foundations of American demo t. breathed upon the place,
Zionist Affiliation
organization of Democrats in a racy."
The sun beat down and tanned my
Palestine is thus recognized for the great cleared space before the bench. ful
I wanted to be put to work im- face and arms and legs. It beat
Republican County. In the Demo-
Both
knew
the
verdict
of
the
jury;
When, in 1789, George Wash- mediately, and I was put on the
Affiliation with the Zionist Organization accomplishment of reducing trachoma
down upon my head—but I didn't
it was apparent on their faces as cratic landslide of last year, his
soil. I was given a blue shirt and mind. I tried to keep up with
is no longer a matter of partisan party among the 40,000 children in the land soon as they filed into the court- county turned in a 25,000 plural- ington was inaugurated in New black
shorty, hard-leathered shoes Helen. She had a beautiful athletic
ity
for
his
party.
He
became
At-
York
City
as
the
first
President
politics. Under existing conditions it is a from 34 per cent in 1918 to 6.3 per cent room.
and a sun cap.
figure and handled the rake with
of the United States, a Jewish
Wilentz turned to chat with his torney General last February.
question of duty and is an obligation to a in 1934.
I revelled in the simple attire. , facility and deftness. She painted
Dapper, affable and democratic,
elder
and
vanquished
rival.
one
of
minister
participated
officially
most important part of constructive plan-
Immediately it took all the starchi- 1 the earth a rich brown as she
The recognition of this great human the most successful criminal at- Wilentz has come to be known as
Walker" of New Jer- in the ceremonial. It was at ness of the schoolmarm out of me. turned it, and removed the large
ning in Jewry.
service by the United States government torneys in the country. His forced the "Jimmy
His snappy clothes were a the express invitation of Wash- I could exult in this simple living stones. I envied her ease and wish-
There was a time when affiliation with is a deserved tribute to excellent medical nonchalance was apparent. He sey.
source
of
much
copy for the har- ington, himself, that Rabbi without cracking.
ed
ed I were more dexterous. We
tried to chat with Reilly. but got
the Zionist movement meant the endorse- efforts in the Jewish National Home.
At 4:30 a. m., when the cocks {worked until sundown, resting now
no further than. "Well, Ed. . ." assed reporters during their long Gershon Siendes Seises, spirit- begin
to
crow,
pounded
the
shomer
of servitude in Flemington.
ment of a certain extreme nationalism
and then, stretching out on the
He finally turned embarrassed, and period
Ilven Women's Wear, organ of the ual head of the Spanish and (night watch) on my door. "Hurry, yielding soil and refreshing our-
which was to the dislike of the more as-
turned also.
Judge Harry B. Keidan has been given Reilly
and suit industry, last week Portuguese Synagogue, repre- if you want to catch the auto for ' selves with water from the earthen-
Wilentz had done a difficult .fob, cloak
similated elements, and in some instances
done it will. Now that it is did an article on Wilentz's very sented the Jews on that historic the meshek (farm)." The farm of ware jug. The water was warm
the extremely religious group. But mem- a great tribute by the Wayne County and and
60 dunams of land which the keut- and tasteless, but we knew noth-
over, he wants to forget it. Flor- decided views on clothing style.
An orator of great virtuosity, as occasion.
zah owned and cultivated was a ing except that it was like wine to
bership in the Zionist Organization can Detroit Bar Associations by being selected
ida beckoned. And after that, he
proven by his final summation
And in answer to a message short distance from the dwelling our parched throats. We poured
no longer be defined in such fashion. Now at the head of the ticket in the mock pri- gab!, his private practive — neg- was
to
the
jury,
Wilentz
is
neverthe-
quarters
of the chaverim (com- it over our faces.
conducted
last
week.
It
is
a
great
of
felicitation
from
the
New-
mary
lected since the beginning of the
it is a matter of taking sides either with
soft spoken. Hie personable port Synagogue, Washington de- rades, or co-workers). Up I jump-
Hauptmann trial—needed his at- less
The young women working with
the movement that is the backbone of ' honor to an able and conscientious jurist tention.
voice
lends
itself
to
the
histronics
ed
and
with
scarcely any time to
Ile was through with the
and a very devoted Jew. The Jewish
livered himself of • notable ex- put my roam in order, I was on the me were constantly concerned about
creating a home for countless refugees, or I community
case; that much he announced be- he e mploys before a jury and he
my welfare. I tried to speak with
may
feel
justly
proud
of
this
raises
and
lowers
his
voice,
changes
pression
of
good-will,
equality
truck.
Some
other
bachurim
and
against it for reasons which have since tribute and of the record established by fore the iury brought in its ver- inflections, in a manner that sug-
them, but my Hebrew was weak.
and fraternity in his message bachurt (young men and women) Gradually I was able to say
Guilty, acquittal or disagree-
been proven groundless and belong to the !Judge Keidan which was responsible for dict.
"Ilarn
with early morning faces climbes1 li" (I am
ment—no matter what — Wilentz gests that he would have made good to the synagogue.
warm), and "Ilashemesh
realm of obsolete reasoning.
in. There was no exchange of
tired and sought relief from on Broadway if he hadn't chosen
Ihis having been selected at the head of War great
I, hetet" (the sun is beating down).
That
Washington
should
ex-
the
law.
words,
except
for
gruff
necessary
strain imposed upon him.
A campaign for new members in the the ticket by his profession.
the
Already a political boom has been press himself so volubly in be- grunts. It MRS dawn. The moun- And I raked with them, working
But he didn't regret his part in
Zionist Organization of Detroit is at pres-
the prosecution. In an after trial started for Wilentz by some of his half of the Jews in a day when tains were coming into shape. The with a steady movement as we
ent in progress, and we cannot urge too
scene was a study in lights and shoveled the fertilizer and scattered
statement he said that it had been friends and well wishers. Wilentz,
Add to the list of defenders of the free- his unwelcome duty to prosecute however, has asked that this be persecution was r a m pant shades and ■ puzzle in hues. The it over the field, as we transplant-
strongly that every Detroit Jew who is
stopped. He nevertheless, is one throughout the old world is beauty of it all took one's breath ed the seedling eggplants and
the
case
but
that
he
hoped
society
dom
of
thought
and
the
arts
the
name
of
rnnroached with the request of becoming
would be served by his efforts and of the most promising figures in the understandable when it is real- away and made speech sacrilegious stooped for hours over the rows and
r'"liated with the movement should re- another genius: it being reported that those of his associates.
Democratic party of New Jersey.
I almost pitied Thoreau for the , rows of ploughed soil tediously
That he has • rich political future ized that the General had many choice
Fritz
Kreisler
has
refused.
to
participate
spond wholeheartedly and should lend his
To the fury, he paid tribute:
of his modest New England plating the sticks into the ground
of him is almost platitude- pleasant contacts with Jews
ahead
these
"The
nation
is
indebted
to
in
another
concert
in
Germany
until
the
retreat, as the auto whizzed . to indicate the path for the sowing,
came 'o a cause which is today the bright-
seas
to
assert
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through the wind and toward the ' and rut and plucked and weeded the
anti-Jewish persecutions come to an end. courageous men and women."
est ray of hope on a very dark horizon.
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Justice Proskauer's Dangerous Views
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David T. Wilentz, New
Jersey's Attorney General
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