Whentorrlimmt(11RorICLE
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Mr. Osborn's sources
IiiEVEIROITI/EWISIIORONICLE
Former Governor Chase S. Osborn of !
Michigan was kind enough to enumerate I
for us the sources upon which he based I
his statements that President Roosevelt's
ancestors were Jews. His explanation al-
ready appeared in our issue of last week.
What interested us particularly in his
letter, however, was his statement with
which he concluded his letter: "I hope you
do not think that charging Roosevelt with
being a Hebrew is a libel upon your splen-
did people. It might be at that!?"
It is needless for us to assure Mr. Os-
born that it would have been a great honor
for us to count Mr. Roosevelt as one of our
people. But why Mr. Osborn should sur-
mise that President Roosevelt's Jewishness
might be a libel on our "splendor" is
something which we find is very difficult
to understand.
The only reason we can possibly ascribe
to Mr. Osborn s statement is the difference
that exists between him and President
Roosevelt's political views. If this is the
actual reason which motivated Mr. Os-
born's statement, then we can assure him
that we are not a bit worried, that we hon-
or and highly respect the sincerity of our
President, and that we are not prepared
to lend comfort to his enemies in this hour
of national stress.
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 6:1-8:36; Num. 19
Prophetical portion—gzek. 36:16-38 ,
March 22, 1935
Adar Sheni 17, 5695
Voluntary Giving
Advance preparations for the forthcom-
ing Allied Jewish Campaign of the Jewish
Welfare Federation have brought the first
excellent result, not so much in the co-
operation promised by the various Detroit
organizations, as by the decision that
hencefOrth small affairs for important
causes are not to be encouraged and that
outright giving is to be the criterion for
true service.
Heretofore, it has unfortunately been
the policy on the part of various Jewish
organizations to sponsor dances, card
parties, gambling events, and so forth for
the purpose of raising funds with which to
aid important movements. The new ten-
dency to demand voluntary contributions
from individuals and to discourage the
sponsoring of such small affairs is a most
commendable change in organizational
tactics. It is to be hoped that the organ-
izations and the Federation will bring fur-
ther action in this new decision and will
insist that only outright voluntary contri-
butions will henceforth be countenanced,
and small affairs which serve as subter-
fuges and as excuses for not giving, will be
definitely discouraged and condemned.
Law Must Take Its Course
Cheers for a man convicted on a most
hideous charge and boos for the man who
prosecuted him have marked meetings at
which appeals were made for defense
funds to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
Furthermore, these meetings have been
marked by such vicious anti-Semitic out-
bursts that it was inevitable that they
should attract public notice and that an
ordinance should have been invoked in
New York to stop such meetings.
"Against Public Welfare" is the man-
ner in which the New York Times evalu-
ates these meetings in the following edi-
torial:
Insurance Against Anti-Semitism
Public meetings to solicit funds for Haupt-
mann having been found to be in violation of
a city ordinance have been ended by the Pub-
lic Welfare Commission. They have all along
been felt by sensible persons to be in violation
of propriety and right sentiment. It is easy to
get together emotional people who are ill-
informed though perhaps sincerely sympa-
thetic, and apparently it has not been diffi-
cult to collect substantial sums from them.
But in this instance it is time that the thing
were suppressed, not only as a public nuis-
ance, but as impairing sound standards of
citizenship. Help has been asked to secure
Hauptmann a ''new and fair trial." No evi-
dence is adduced or is known that he did not
have a fair trial. If judicial mistakes were
made at Flemington, they will doubtless be
discovered and remedial steps taken by the
Court of Errors and Appeals, to which the
case has been taken. After its decision is
known, a plea for leniency may be made to
the Governor of New Jersey and the Board
of Pardons. For the last resort the convicted
man and his friends should have waited.
They have actually been asking for mercy,
but have done it under the ferns of attacking
the court and questioning the desire of the
authorities to do justice. Their proper course
would have been to possess their souls in pa-
tience until the time came to present an ap-
peal for commutation of sentence. What
has been going on at the public meetings in
behalf of Hauptmann had become so open an
affront to sound principles in such matters
that the order of the Public Welfare Commis-
sioner to cease and desist will be generally
approved.
THE ORACLE
The Oracle answer. all question.
of gerund Jewish interest. Utterly.
should be addressed to The Oracle
In core of The Detroit Jeslah
Chronicle, sod should be accom-
panied by a oelf.addreeed, stamped
envelope.
Q. How much money did Haym
Salomon advance to the Revolu-
tionary colonial government?—
L, B.
A. According to proven docu-
ments Salomon's advances to the
government totalled $658,007,
tremendous sum for those days.
This money was never repaid.
• • •
Q. Who first translated the Bi-
ble into Yiddish?—A. M. E.
A. The first translation of the
complete Bible into Yiddish was
made by Solomon Bloomgarten
(Yehoash).
• •
Q. When did Belle Bakei first
go on the stage?—R. D. I.
AS Belle Baker, who was born
on New York's East Side, ap-
peared in the Jewish theater at
the age of nine. At 15 she re-
fused a vaudeville offer. She was
always interested in Jewish affairs
and often sang for charity,
Q. Is crime on the increase in
Palestine?—G. C.
A. According to the Palestinian
Inspector-General of Police, crime
has shown a steady decrease since
1929 during which year offenses
numbered 27,672 of which 4,723
were indictable. In 1933 the num-
ber had dropped to 12,602 of
which 2,8818 were indictable.
Q. Who were the winners of
the 1933 Gottheil medal?—T. U.
A. The medal was awarded
jointly to the Rev. Everett IL
Clinchy, Father J. Eliot Ross and
Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron who act-
ed as a pilgrimage team in advo-
cating justice, amity and under-
standing between their three
faiths. They visited 38 cities,
traveled 9,000 miles, made 21
radio broadcasts, organized 35
permanent committees and spoke
to 129 meetings in which the
audience totaled 64,000 people.
• • •
Q. Who is called the successor
of Moses Mendelsohn?—C. F. S.
A. David Friedlander followed
Moses Mendelsohn in the intro-
duction of refoluns in Judaism.
He was responsible for the eman-
cipation of the Jews in Berlin
and other civic rights. He was
one of the first to translate the
Hebrew prayer-book into German
and also proposed reforms which
were unacceptable even to the
most radical reformers. Fried-
lander was one of the first Jews
to sit on the municipal council of
the city of Berlin.
FIGHTING BACK AT MOSLEY
Tidbits from Everywhere
By VICTOR M. BIENSTOCK
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright, 1935, Jewell Telegraphic Agency, leo )
LONDON. — British Jews are fighting back
at Mosley, millionaire ex-Laborite, Blackshirt
leader and self-appointed savior of the British
Empire. For months Mosley had the arena all
to himself, shadow-boxing with the imaginary
concept of an international Jewish conspiracy to
rule and ruin Britain. For six months, his
Blackshirt publications have been viciously
blaming the Jews for every world disaster, for
everything, in fact, except the London weather:
his organizers have been "revealing" the Jew-
ish menace to an unimpressed public, and Mosley
himself, has been loud and bitter in his attacks
from the platform.
Until recently, British Jews had ignored his
fulminations realizing that anti-Semitism was the
desperate straw at which Mosley was clutching
following the, failure of his lunge for power
six months ago. Until recently, as a matter of
fact, Mosley's own statements were dexterously
worded, to be interpreted as anti-Semitic by his
anti-Semitic followers, and as attacks only on
"the "City Jews" by others; he sought to create
the illusion that he was opposed only to the
"bad" Jews and had nothing against the patriotic
. Jews who put Britain first.
Apparently realizing that the pretext was
useless and, faced with the apathy of the masses,
Mosley turned to win the support of the rabid
threw restraint to the winds and went after the
Jewish menace for all he was worth.
The result has been a series of verbal spank-
ings such as have been administered to no one
person in British public life in many years—
with the possible exception of Prime Minister
McDonald.
HIS PROPOSALS BRANDED CHILDISH
Sir Herbert Samuel, famed Liberal states-
man and one of Britain's outstanding Jews, was
the first. In a few phrases he completely de-
molished the whole elaborate structure of tom-
foolery which Mosley had solemnly informed his
Blackshirt followers was the economic program
which would make Britain the Utopia for all
honest Britains.
"Ills denunciations are impressive, but his
practical proposals are childish," Sir Herbert
commented.
Nathan Laski, leader of the Manchester
Jewish community, father , of Neville Laski,
president of the Board of Deputies, and of Prof.
Harold Laski, the brilliant political economist,
called Mosley on his anti-Jewish attacks. He
accused the Blackshirt agitator of deliberate
side-stepping through the mazes of the libel laws
in his assaults and of sheltering himself behind
generalities.
Pointing out that Mosley can not be made
legally to answer for his attacks on the Jews,
A most interesting report comes from
Paris to the effect that a French Jew has
been granted an insurance policy by
Lloyd's Ltd. of London, internationally
famous insurance company, guaranteed to
pay him the sum of i1,000, or $5,000 at
Tel Aviv in the event that the French Gov-
ernment should ever became anti-Semitic
and thus threaten the existence of the
Jewish people.
This is a most interesting attempt to
insure the well-being of a Jew in a liberal
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country. Although we believe that
HANDY JEWISH BEFERENcE
WRITE
THIS BARER FOR INFORMA-
Lloyd's has the great advantage in the
TION.)
policy, thus created, the fact that a Jew
in a liberal country deemed it necessary
to write such insurance is another proof
of the fear rampant everywhere against
the dangers of anti-Semitism.
With Palestine being selected as the
place of refuge even in the extremist of
Radio Address Delivered Over National Hook-Up on
anti-Semitic dangers, the point to empha-
Tuesday, March 19
size in this connection is that the best in-
surance policy after all is the one that is
By DR. CYRUS A. ADLER
written in group form by the entire Jew-
Chairman of Cultural Committee of Joint Distribution Committee,
President of American Jewish Committee, Theological
ish people. Palestine today is the best
Seminary of America, and Dropsie College
insurance policy for the Jewish people
The Germans in Yorkville have harmed
Of Philadelphia
and all Jews ought to subscribe in secur- their own cause by abusing the law and
ing this protection.
The history of Israel, like that religious element in it. With the
by resorting to vicious attacks on Jewry
is a combination of tendency some years back to be
in their efforts to save Hauptmann. It is of most people,
and shadow. It may be skeptical about everything, includ-
Bombay Tribune 5 Years Old 'high time that Nazis in this country sunshine
that at the present time of dark- ing many books of the Bible, the
The trying times which oppress the learned that the law must take its course ness we are more inclined to look Book of Esther was held by some
critics to be a pure piece of fiction
Jewish people throughout the world, en- and that there will be no abuse of freedom. upon the gloomy side, taking our —a
novel. But since then scholars,
reflection from the rest of the
circling World Israel with a horrible chain
world, but we have a right to re- have, both from the historical and
Public Accounting by Societies member the glorious epochs in Pal- archaeological point of view
of bigotry which threatens to place us in
demonstrated that it is an account
A number of leaders have come to us estine when great prophets and of
a dangerous trap, presents a serious prob-
an historical occurrence. The
poets and wise men and historians
lem to our people as to how we are to re- with the complaint that too many large have over a long period been pro- excavations in Susa, the old Shus-
organizations
publicize
their
affairs,
ask
han
mentioned in the Bible, re-
ducing that matchless and inspired
act to anti-Semitism, and how we are to
which is called the Bible vealed a palace so strictly in ac-
present an united front to counteract the for the support of the general Jewish com- literature
cord
with the description given
munity, but after their undertakings are that has been one of the civilizing
dangers of prejudice.
in the Book of Esther, as to indi-
over fail to give an accounting of their in- influences of the world.
cate
that
the work wee written by
An encouraging factor in the present comes.
Yesterday a portion of the faith. a contemporary.
A French woman
ful
will
have
observed
the
Fast
of
situation is that certain factors serve to
We feel that the complaint is a justi- Esther. Today, a much larger num- and her husband, and I mention
create unbreakable chains which bind to- fied one. The moment that an organiza- ber
her
first
because
she was the per-
are observing the Feast of
who wrote a book on the exca-
gether the various branches of our people. tion makes an appeal for public encour- Esther. This festival, although eon
vations,
M.
and
Mme
Dieulafoy,
Perhaps the most important factor for agement and support it is obligated to the one of the minor festivals and not brought a goodly part of this pal-
having the rank of the holy days ace to France and that it can be
community
at
large
to
give
an
accounting
unity is the Jewish press. There is hardly
ordained in the Scriptures, has be-
. in 11 its
a spot on the globe today without a Jew- of its accomplishments, to report the aides its Synagogue observance an , seen
amount
they
realize
from
their
affairs,
element of joyousness, for young original colors in the Louvre.
ish periodical, and the exchange of these
An
Historical
Event
and the purposes for which these moneys and old, in which a sort of carni-
newspapers and magazines throughout are allotted.
My distinguished friend, Prof.
val spirit was introduced quite dif-
from the regular holy days Jacob Itoschander, who was a pro-
the world serves as a reminder to the
We join with those who have registered ferent
the Jewish people. People get fessor both in the Dropsie College
Jews of India that there are Jewries in the complaints to remedy their previous of
a perspective position for their and in the Jewish Theological Sem-
Canada, the United States, the Argentine, actions and in the future to inform those future by drawing a line to their inary of America (and who, alas
euba, etc.—and the reverse, reminding they solicited exactly what is accomplished past and so today, one dares, with- departed this life all too soon), was
out being pedantic, emphasize the the one who in,modern times did
the large communities in the United States with the funds realized.
need of the study of Jewish history, most to establish the authenticity
for Jewish history and all history of the Book yf Esther by a study of
and England of the existence of the in-
is ■ useful discipline. Indeed, I if from the historical point of view.
Self-Humiliation!
teresting Jewish groups in India and
invite all people to study the his- This he did not only from the Bib-
Adolf Hitler's new conscription pro- tory of this day. Such a study of lical book itself, but, from an his-
other to them for-off countries.
The observance of the fifth anniversary gram appears to have aroused a peculiar the history of an occasion has a torical event during the Persian .
value quite beyond the acquiring of period, well known from non-Bibli-
of the Jewish Tribune of Bombay is an hope among some German Jews as re- knowledge
although this acquisition cal sources.
occasion for a reminder of the existence vealed in the following Asociated Press of knowledge is an end in itself So I invite all my listeners of
cable
from
Berlin:
which
has
always been prized by the radio audience to ponder on the
of contemporary periodicals which serve
Among the moot anxious groups listening to
civilized people. History is, as it importance of the study of the
Jewish groups many thousands of miles
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbel's
were, the review of the experience Bible and the study of history and
reading of Reichsfuerer Adolf Hitler's address
removed from us. It is an occasion for
of mankind. Few things are hap- 'the significance of reading on this
to the nation today were Germany's Jews.
pening today that have not hap- day the little roll or Megillah, as
emphasizing the fact that there is a kin-
The law governing universal conscription
pened before and just as in a great the Book of Esther is called, which
ship between the Jewries throughout the
will point the way for the Reich's claim. If
profession like that of medicine in narrates that a powerful minister
they are exempted from conscription, this
world which we must recognize as bind-
which every wise physician keeps decreed the p leextermination
i s
ate fa i le do f thhe
means Germany intends to reduce them to
• record of a patient and of all his
in
ing and from whose joys and sorrows we
mere subjects, tolerated but having no citizen.
previous patients and how they re- evil purpose. It is worthwhile to
cannot possibly divorce ourselves.
ship privileges. If they are conscripted along
acted to certain treatment, so too reflect that no one has ever suc-
with the rest, this may mean recognition as
mankind must study the record of ceeded In such an effort Modern
An interesting fact in the fifth anni-
citizens.
its experiences to profit both by the tyrants who undertake to destroy
versary celebration of the Bombay Trib-
It is unfortunate that Nazi oppressions successes and the failures which at-
because of difference of re-
une not only this periodical's survival should not only have degraded Jews to a tended the remedies that previous people
ligion or alleged difference of race
in the face of numerous difficulties, but position of second-class citizenship, but ages applied.
should study the Book of Esther,
A Plot That Failed
ponder its lessons and remove the
also the strength it is showing in arousing should also have forced them to adopt an
Back in the Pendell Empire . unrighteous from their conduct,
interest among the Jewish communities in attitude of self humiliation and self-de- there arose a prime minister who good not evil, is the handmaiden of
India in the affairs of other Jewries gradation. The desire to be conscripted, for personal reasons of his own statesmanship. If the Book of Es-
a craving to fall into line with the deprav- wrote an indictment against the ther does not suffice to teach them
throughout the world.
Jewish people and persuaded his the lesson they should read another
Of great interest also is the fact that ities of the Ilitlerites and the humiliating sovereign to decree their extermina- book of the Bible, the Book of Dan-
die Bembay Jewish paper is published in position taken to secure recognition—these tion. The plot failed. This plot, iel, so that they may, before it le
may be noted, was proposed in too late, learn its lesson of the
the'English language. It is safe to say attitudes of German Jewry, if they are it Persia,
a country which has lately handwriting on the wall.
correctly presented, provide added cause
that English, next to Yiddish, is at the for feeling depressed.
decided to change its name to Iran
and
which
with some inter-mixture,
present time the language most univers-
We had hoped that in spite of the in-
the only country in the world Haifa Gets First
ally used by Jews. Not only in the United dignities to which we are subjected Jews is
that has a right, if any country has
States and in England, but in India, in will refuse to yield on questions of prin- • right, to call itself Aryan. though
Jewish Vice-Mayor
South Africa, in Australia and in Pales- ciple, and that our people will always be was all %choler. know the word can
only
be
properly
applied
to
•
lan-
tine, English is a dominating medium of in the front ranks of those battling for guage and not to a people.
HAIFA. (Palcor Agency)—
expression. In addition to' the spirit of peace and opposing conscriptive methods
It is the study of an incident like Haifa. principal city of the north-
-the ages which binds the Jewish people. in preparation for war. But evidently this which happened more than ern district of Palestine, had a
Jewish vice-mayor today when
the English language has been made a tool suppression of one's natural rights of citi- 2300 years agothat ran serve both Sabbatai
Levy, senior member of
an encouragement and as •
f,, r Jewish unity by the various and pecul- zenship can force a person or a group of as
persons to go to any extremes. In the warning. And so, it is good exer- the Haifa Town Council, was •p.
iar circumstances which arise in the course present instance, it is the extreme of self- cise today to have read the Book of pointed to that post by Sir Ar-
Esther, a bock of the Bible which thur Wauchope, High Commis-
et kbutorkal events.
humiliation.
strangely enough has no expressed / sioner of Palestine.
-
Strictly
Confidential
Historical Authenticity
Of the Purim Festival
Wolf/110h, 1535. Seven Arts Few.°
ay ad wain).
the Jewish leader defied Mosley to mention
GALGENHUMOR
names and then to prove his allegations in a
We were walking down the street
British court.
with what is generally known as an
"LeLhim have the courage to mention names all-right-nik, one of those gentle.
by which we can test his acussations in the law ., men who try to impress you with
courts," Mr. Laski challenged. "He has come here their importance ... A panhandler
to Lancashivp and made statements which I accosted us, humbly asking whether
we could !mare a dime . . . The
throw down at his feet and say they are false." all-right-nik, who a minute before
AN ADHERENT RESIGNS
had boasted of recent business suc-
Mosley's record as Conservative, Laborite cesses, addressed the beggar in
and Ilitlerite, was subjected to examination. "Can what he supposed to be French,
saying: "Je n'ai d'argent" . . .
he show us one single constructive work that he The down-and-outer-gently and in
has done for the benefit of his fellow-citizens?" a confidential tone whispered to our
show-off: "You can t say that—
Mr. Laski asked.
the proper way is "Je n'ai pas
At this writing, this had not been done.
d'argent." .
The Mosleyites came in for attack from
CAN BE TOLD
another quarter when Richard Findlay, a die- NOW IT
We can't resist patting ourself
hard Tory who had left the Conservative Party on the shoulder for having brought
to join the Fascists because the party was not the Silver-Cleveland Zionist Dis-
sufficiently conservative, made public his letter trict controversy into the open and
thus having indirectly—or is it di-
of resignation from the Blackshirts.
the Zionist Ad-
"When I joined your movement," Findlay rectly?—compelled
ministration to take official action
wrote Sir Oswald, "I mistakenly believed the
. Now it can be told that the
declarations which I repeatedly read in the press leaders of the Zionist Cleveland
that it was in no sense anti-Semitic, but in my District, who somehow had received
brief connection with your movement I have notice that we had released a story
on this whole mess in our column,
found evidences of a strong hatred of the Jews long - distance - telephoned our edi-
—by no means confined to the rank and file— tor to kill the item ... But the boss
which I cannot support, since. I regard it as told them it was high time that the
age-old Cleveland feud be mode
entirely alien to the British traditions.
public, and that, in any case, the
"I had also this mistaken conception in my matter lay entirely outside of their
mind when I joined your movement. I had jurisdiction . . . Now these same
thought that it was essentially a Right Wing leaders congratulate themselves on
movement and the one designed to combat So- the course which events have taken.
HOLLYWOOD INSIDE STUFF
cialism.
This story comes to us from Lud-
"I have found, however, that there is al- wig
Lewisohn, just returned from
most as much pandering to Socialist appetites the capital of filmland . . . Cecil
in the Fascist party as there is among the lead- de Mille, directing his new epic
"The Crusaders" on the Paramount
ers of the Conservative Party today."
lot, noted that Joseph Schildkraut,
WONDERFUL BEER-HALL SPEAKER
one of the principals, did not wear
Mosley's Fascism has made little inroads in • cross around his neck, as the
British life. It has failed to attract any person script demanded . . . Joseph ex-
of note with the temporary exception of Lord plained that under no circum-
Rothermere who found Mosley's anti-Semitism stances would he wear a cross, and
on a
a stench a little too strong for his nostrils and suggested a "snake" symbol
So now,
chain as a substitute
therefore dumped him overboard.
when you see the picture, you'll
It is a menace, however. England has a understand why Joseph Schild.
serious unemployment problem. Its government kraut is the only knight from whose
relief program is in a state of near-collapse. neck dangles the medical symbol
instead of the cross . . : Inciden-
There is a strong discontent among the masses. tally, Lewisohn one day received a
Mosley is a powerful personality and a won- very impressive - looking envelope
derful beer-hall speaker of the Hitler type. He with the name of Carl Laemmle em-
is perhaps one of the best orators the country bossed on the flap . . . "Here's
I get a fabulous offer for the
boasts. His Blackshirt bands are the nucleus Of, where
film rights of one of my novels."
an organization. It is possible that given dis- flashed through the mind of the
content in the right proportions, Mosley might famous author . . . But the letter
was merely an urgent plea for an
be able to muster a considerable following. It
is possible but not very probable. But the men- autographed picture ... Lewisohn
being Carl Laemmle's favorite au-
ace is there.
( PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE
PERSONALITIES
IN THE NEWS
Margot Marianoff-Ein-
stein—Sculptress
(Copyright, IOW J. T. A., Inc.)
Those sensitive genes of tal-
ent must have been thoroughly
planted in the forebearers of the
Einstein family.
Margot Marianoff - Einstein,
though not the daughter of Al.
bert Einstein, is related to* him
through her mother, the present
Frau Einstein, who is the physi-
cist's second cousin. Margot
Marianoff - Einstein is a sculp-
tress, an extraordinarily sensi-
tive artist who, like her great
stepfather and relative, also lives
under a protective coloration of
modesty and retirement.
Margot—as she prefers to be
known and called, and under
which name, sans Einstein, she
signs her work—arrived at her
mother's household in Princeton,
from Europe, only a few months
ago. With her came her work,
• dozen or so of relatively small
pieces of sculpture in terra-cotta,
bronze, clay, wood and wax.
These now adorn the homey
rooms of 2 Library Place, Prince-
ton, N. J.
Princeton to • stranger, to a
non-academician, is no garden
of loveliness, especially on a
drab March day. It's a reluc-
tant, stodgy, shut-in little sown
with some handsome but very
professorial and stiff, rather pon-
derous, streets. Margot does not
like it; and one can't blame her.
As she says, it is very quiet, yes,
and charming, perhaps, and it
has nice people, of course—but it
it not very typical of what she
would call life. It is not Amer-
ica.
For Margot is no academician,
and inspiration does not come to
her under a study lamp. She in-
sistenly avers that she has not
studied enough, of course—as all
Biblical Finds Described
As Greatest in History
Archaeologist Says Foundations of "Higher Criticism"
of the Bible Are Shattered
JERUSALEM, March. 15 (Pal-
cor Agency)—The find made sev-
eral days ago at Tel Adduweir,
ancient Lachish; by J. L. Starkey,
head of the Wellcome Archaeolog-
ical Research Expedition, was de-
scribed today as "the Most valu-
able find ever made of the period
of the First Temple," in an ex-
clusive statement given to the
Palcor Agency by Prof. Ilarry
Torczyner, noted expert on Sem-
itic languages and professor at
the Hebrew University of Jeru-
salem, who has been entrusted by
Dr. Staekey with the task of de-
ciphering the important frag-
ments that were found written in
ink on ordinary earthenware.
The sensational discovery on
the site of ancient Lachish, great-
est fortress in the southern area
of the Kingdom of Judah, adds
irrefutable testimony of the ac-
curacy of the Bible in its ac-
count of the period of the Kings,
it was stated by Prof. Torcyzer.
It was declared that this newest
find, enriching the facts already
assembled by archaeology, will go
a far way toward causing a revi-
sion of the akeptical attitude
toward the Biblical accounts
which prevails in some quarters.
Lachish was the fortress which
offered resistance to Nebuchad-
nezzar, King of Babylon, when
he swept down upon Judah after
King Zedekiah had renounced the
allegiance of his kingdom to
Babylon. Jeremiah was the great
prophet of that era, who had
been preaching during the reigns
of Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim
and Jehoiachin until the days of
Zedekiah, covering the period be-
tween 638 B. C. and 686 B. C.
Roosevelt's Letter
By JOSEPH SALMARK
President Roosevelt's letter to
Philip Slomovitz, editor of the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle, is a
very interesting document. It is
written in trueRooseveltian style
and should put an end to the
good artists do. As all good chronically recurring attempts to
artists, she is constantly con- label Roosevelt a Jew. It was
indeed a splendid idea on the part
cerned about the inadequacies of
of Mr. Slomovitz to inform the
her technique, she is always ex- President about the address of
perimenting. - , Mr. Chase S. Osborn, former goy-
The easy, informal atmosphere ! ernor of Michigan, which alleged
of the Einstein house, the "helm- (that Franklin Delano Roosevelt
was of Jewish ancestry. It
a
inch" burgher touch, the emelt- very humane gesture on the was
part
conecions hospitality which per- of the President to answer Mr.
mits Frau Einstein to serve even Slomovitz the way he did. Presi-
her most transient visitor a plate dent Roosevelt's letter gets forth
of her famous minestrone soup, his attitude towards the racial
question more succinctly
puts the interviewer at ease very other statements of his. than any
shortly. Margot's small, grave
"In the dim distant past,"
face, now intent and pallid, now writes President Roosevelt, "they
(his
ancestors) may have been
alive and her blue eyes luminous
with some statement that her Jews or Catholics or Protestants
—what I am more interested in
English is slow in vocalizing, is whether they were good citi-
bends over her work, epread on zens and believers in God—I hope
the tables in front of us, and ex- they were both."
It is this paragraph that makes
plains:
"You understand? I do not copy,
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The 12 inscribed potsherds
which were found by the Star-
key expedition definitely date
back 'to the time of Jeremiah,
2,500 years ago, Prof. Torcxy-
ner declared.
The correspondent of the Pal-
cor Agency was shown photo-
graphs of the writing on the pots-
herds by Prof. Torczyner, but the
ordinary appearance of the
shards does not reveal their
unique importance. According to
Prof. Torczyner, these shards are
likely to throw extraordinary
light on the existing knowledge of
Jeremiah's time.
The importance of the Star-
key discovery lies in the fact that
it represents the first e xtra-
Biblical document on Scriptures.
Ne archaeologist had ever be-
lieved that the humid earth of
Palestine would be able to pre-
serve any document through the
centuries, although the dry sand
of Egypt had caused the pres-
ervation of a number of import-
ant writings. The remarkable as-
pect of the script is that it ap-
pears to be written in ordinary
ink, such as might be used in our
own time.
Potsherds Reveal Episodes
Prof. Torczyner is now en-
gaged in preparing a lecture on
the significance of the find con-
jointly with Dr. Starkey, head of
the expedition, which is financed
by Sir Henry Wellcome of Lon-
don. The lecture has been schist-
uld for April 26.
The possibility that the pots-
herds would reveal many episodes
in the heroic history of Lachish
was forecast by several authori-
ties who have examined the
shards. Lachish was the city is
which Amaziah, King of Judah,
fled when • conspiracy was raised
against him in Jerusalem follow-
ing his disastrous war against
The
Johoash, King of Israel.
conspirators followed and assa s -
sinated him in Lachish,
the
story is told in Second Kin gs.
This was in the middle of the
eighth century B. C.
It was at Lachish also that
Sennacherib, King of Assyria,
encamped when he was waiting
for the surrender of King Ile ,'
kiah at Jerusalem during the
days of the Prophet Isaiah.
Higher Criticism Shattered
The very foundations of Fo-
ndled Biblical "higher criticism "
are destroyed as a result of the
finding at Tel Adduweir by Pr.
J. L. Starkey of 12 potsherds
with writing dating back 2,500
years, it was declared to the Pal-
em. Agency exclusively by Dr. E.
L. Sukenik, foremost archaeolo -
in Palestine, professor o f
Archaeology at the Hebrew trill-
versity of Jerusalem, who has
been responsible himself for man,
important discoveries.
The most amazing character -
istic of the writing discovered on
the potsherds found at Tel Ad4u-
weir, which is the ancient Loch-
lab in the southernmost part Of
Palestine is that many of the
the Roosevelt letter to Mr. Slomo- words and names used are spelled
vita an historical document.
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gist
exactly
as they are in the trai-
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