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Nisan 2, 5695
Preparing or the Campaign
Considering even the addit4on of a sum
of $100,000 for the allocation of a new
building for the Jewish Old Folks Home,
it must be admitted that the sum of $270,-
000 is a comparatively trivial sum for a
community of 75,000 Jews.
The per capita sum of less than $4.00
which is thus created as the obligation for
every Jewish member of our community
certainly is an insignificant tax in view
of the various needs which must be cared
for.
We are not overlooking the fact that
the per capita we quoted also includes
children, who are not contributors, as well
as thousands who are financially unable
to make any gifts. But there are many
thousands of Jewish families who should
be in a position to make up a hundred-fold
for the number in our midst who are un-
able to contribute. Taken as a whole, the
sum that is asked of this large Jewish
community is very, very small.
It must not be forgotten that Included
in the campaign quota are sums for the
settlement of Jews in Palestine, for He-
brew education, for the relief of exiles and
refugees from Germany and for practi-
cally every cause of importance locally
including the maintenance funds of the
Old Folks home, the Hebrew Free Loan
Association, House of Shelter, Unemploy-
ment Emergency Relief, and so forth.
It is to be hoped that this community
will prove its worth by honoring its obli-
gations in the forthcoming campaign and
not by shirking even the minutest respon-
sibilities. Unde • no circumstances must
Detroit Jewry fail in the present hour of
distress.
Judge Keidan's Victory
The remarkable tribute paid to Judge
harry B. Keidan at the polls on Monday
is compensation for devotion to service,
for unquestioned fairness and consistent
adherence to duty.
Judge Keidan has earned the heartfelt
congratulations of every citizen on his
current triumphant candidacy for re-elec-
tion. his services to the Wayne County
Circuit Court merited for him the tribute
of the voters who placed him at the head
of the entire ticket.
We join in congratulating Judge Keidan
on his re-election
Historic Justice
History was vindicated in Spain last
week, and an act of great justice, border-
ing on vengeance, was witnessed by the
world as a result of the octocentennial
Maimonides celebration in Cordova and
Madrid.
The celebration in Spain carried with it
a lesson to those governments and peoples
which are today practicing bigotry and
which have failed to learn the historic
truth that persecuting nations pay the
price for their injustice. Mayor Bernardo
Garida of Cordova stated it bluntly in his
Maimonides celebration address when he
pointed out that the current celebration
of the 800th birthday of the great Jewish
philosopher is a moral lecture to other
reactionary nations that still preach hate
against the Jews and go the way of the
Middle Ages.
Spain is atonin g for her sins. The civil
governor of Cord ova, Jose Guardachi, un-
vealing a marble slab in the Cordova syn-
agogue in the c nirse of the Maimonides
celebration, sect ared that the occasion
"opens a new c hapter in the history of
Spain because th is day is Spain's day of
atonement and re pentance for the persecu-
tion of the Jews 500 years ago, a persecu-
tion which was t he result of false leader-
ship."
• It was appropriate that delegations from
very important communities throughout
the world should be present at these ex-
ercises to hear these statements, as well
as the statement of Prof. Antonio Jaen,
president of the Academy of Science, Art
and Literature, who declared:
"Today we have destroyed at last the
black legend which branded Spain as a
land of persecution. But this celebra-
tion is not enough. Spain must give real,
tangible proof of the change."
Just as important as these statements is
the fact that for the first time in 400 years
Hebrew was spoken at a Spanish festival
—Prof. Leon Roth of Jerusalem having
brought the greetings of Palestine to the
Maimonidean cel ebration.
The present celebration of the 800th
birthday of Maimonides has a special
hearing on the situation in Germany. A
ban, equivalent to the present anti-German
boycott, was declared by world Jewry
against Spain at the time of the expulsion
of our people from the Iberian Peninsula.
Last week the Rabbinate of Warsaw lifted
this ban, and in reply to some inquiries
ode the following ruling:
"The ban agai nst Spain was not against
the Spanish people but against the evil
Palestine to the Fore
Destiny has decreed that Palestine must
assume a position of priority in world Jew-
ish affairs.
Only a few years ago it would have
been the height of folly to hope that the
sons of men who were considered assimi-
lators and who looked upon their Jewish-
ness only as a matter of religion would look
favorably upon Palestine as even the re-
motest element in a solution of the Jewish
problem. But conditions have changed
completely, and even the extremest grohps
in Jewry are today passionately endors-
ing the cause of Palestine's redemption.
In her opening address at the Triennial
of the National Council of Jewish Women
held in New Orleans recently, Mrs. Ar-
thur Brin, National Council President,
made a significant statement with refer-
ence to Palestine in which she stated in
part:
For us as Jews there is the realization
that our destiny as Jews is once again tak-
ing a new turn. The tragedy of the German
Jews has darkened the lives of Jews in the
remotest corner of the world. It is too early
to judge the full effects and the repercussions
of the debasement of the Jews in Germany,
but we know already how even in democratic
countries the times are ripe for the demagogue,
• the unscrupulous, and the corrupt to further
their plans by preaching prejudice and
oppression. But just as in the time of the
tragedy in the life of the Jews in Spain there
was Holland and later England to which the
hope of the Jews turned, so there is today
Palestine. For tens of thousands it is now a
refuge from hate and oppression and a place
to build life anew. For still greater thousands
the world over Palestine means a great spir-
itual and cultural awakening.
While Nathan Straus, Jr., is the excep-
tion among the sons to whom we make
reference, because he grew up in a Zion-
ist environment and because he himself
has been a leader in efforts for Palestine's
reconstruction, his most recent view is
nevertheless important and interestng. In
an address in Passaic, N. J., where he
opened a campaign for the United Jewish
Appeal he declared:
"Palestine is no longer a refuge for a few
homeles spirits, to be maintained by charity.
It is a great and growing country with agri-
culture, commerce, industry, a great univer-
sity and a cultural life of its own. More im-
portant than any of these it is, as every re-
turning traveler from Palestine will testify,
a land where people are happy.
"Palestine stands with open arms, wel-
coming more than 50,000 immigrants a year,
to a peaceful and permanent home of their
own. Some there are who profess to see in
the emergence of Palestine as an economically
self-sufficient country at the very moment
when there is such urgent need for a refuge,
the manifestations of a Divine Providence.
This much we do know: Tyrants have come
and tyrants have gone; nations are built up
into might empires and then crumble to the
dust; but through the ages, the Jewish peo-
ple goes marching on. We have survived the
}lemons of yesterday and we will survive the
Hitters of today.
"Let us look again at Palestine. For more
than 2,000 years the Jews of the world have
prayed "Next Year in Jerusalem." The world,
if it knows anything of the Jew, knows his
prayer. It knows that for the great majority
of Jews, the prayer embodied a deep and abid-
ing hope. As well might a Serb today hold
aloof from Yugoslavia restored to his people,
or an Irishman be indifferent to the fate of
the restored Irish Free State or a Czech be
unconcerned as to the welfare of Czecho-
Slovakia, as a Jew to Palestine reborn. Our
duty in that respect is clear.
"But as our obligations toward Palestine
are unescapable, so will its effort upon us and
upon our children be equally unescapable.
A Palestine, poverty stricken—whether that
poverty be physical or spiritual—can consti-
tute only a reproach. The non-Jewish world
would rightfully say "and for that you asked
us to give you a home of your own?" A
Palestine reclaimed, instead, for a rebirth of
the ideals of our prophets will shed glory on
the Jewish people throughout the world. Pal-
estine is at once an obligation upon us and a
source of blessing to us."
But these are not the only references of
interest and importance. What appears
to us to be most interesting is the com-
ment that was made at the opening of a
campaign for the United Jewish Appeal
in Boston by William Rosenwald, the
younger son of the late Julius Rosenwald.
Young Rosenwald made this statement:
"Palestine is the only country to which a
Jewish refugee can come without any restric-
tions or conditions being imposed on him.
It is the one country where he is immediately
welcomed as a fellow-citizen. Approximately
20,000 German refugees have been admitted
there. Plans are being laid to bring in more.
Many of these refugees bring some funds
with them, but many others require assistance
to establish themselves.
"Palestine in my mind is the place where
the best environment can be given Jewish
youth. It is up to us to build in Palestine not
only an educational system, but • commu-
nity capable of harmony in itself and in its
new surroundings."
History is thus being interestingly
molded for us in the sense that Palestine
must inevitably become the refuge for
oppressed Jewish masses throughout the
world. We are not blind to the fact that
we still have in our midst anti-Zionists and
non-Zionists, and we regret that it re-
quired a tragedy like that of Germany to
make converts for the cause of the Jewish
National Home. It is a great consolation
that the tragic occurrences of our time do
help to build a permanent haven of refuge
and make it possible for Palestine to be-
come a Jewish commonwealth.
Down to Earth
with Dr.
Nelson Glueck, Pale..
tine's Col. Lindbergh
Exclusive Interview
EDITOR'S NOTE—Pr. °Bieck'. view.
on extending Palestine by
Trans-Jordan to Jewish settlement
are of tremendous Importance be-
raw,o of his et•ndIng as ocientist
and scholar. The writer of this
article is the editor of the Ames.
One laraellt• of Cincinnati. lils
lion-up of Glueck, the Joan and
•rehaeologlot is especially timely In
slow of the recent hiatory•making
rmations of Biblical Inscriptions
PaleatIne.
Yiddish Life in America Reflected Yehoash Exhibit
By HENRY C. SEGAL
( ( 'oPYrIght, 1935. 8. A. F. 8. )
The happy destiny of the Jew—
at least, of many thousands of
Jews—lies in Trans-Jordan.
That is the firm belief of one
of America's outstanding schol-
ors—Dr. Nelson Glueck.
The testimony of centuries,
studied with minute care by him,
lies in back of his belief.
The availability of thousands
of acres of fertile land lies ahead.
Dr. Glueck is associate profes-
sor of Bible at the Hebrew Union
College in Cincinnati, one of his
alma maters. He has also taught
at the University of Cincinnati.
Jena awarded him his Ph; D.
Five times, since 1928, Dr.
Glueck has gone to the Holy Land
on expeditions of archaeological
research. Appreciative of the
value of such excavations, Dr.
Julian Morgenstern and the in-
stitution which the latter heads—
the Hebrew Union College—have
"loaned" Dr. Glueck to these ex-
peditions. The result has been
the uncovering of a wealth of In-
formation, proving in dramatic
fashion the truth of certain sec-
tions of the Bible and contribut-
ing an invaluable chapter to the
world's archaeological records.
• • •
The comparison of Dr. Glueck
with Colonel Charles A. Lind-
begh is tempting. The intelligent
smile. The unclad head. The
shape of that head. The color of
the hair. The face itself. The
lithe, vigorous figure. The ans-
wer to the call to work in far
places of the globe—the one, far
above the earth, the other, far
below. And finally, the dispas-
sionate intentness on the task in
hand.
Dr. Glueck's first three trips
were to Palestine for the Ameri-
can Scholl for Oriental Research.
His fourth and fifth trips were
to Trans-Jordan as the director of
the American School for Orien-
tal Research. His fifth trip was
financed by the Hebrew Union
College, the American School of
Oriental Research, and the Amer-
ican Council of Learned Societies.
He was a member of the staff
at Tell Beit-Mirsim (that Bibli-
cal Kiriatli-Sefer) on his first
and third trips (1928 and 1931,
respectively), under the leader-
ship of Dr. William F. Albright,
director of the School of Orien-
tal Research for Jerusalem and
Professor of Semitic' at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore.
On Dr. Glueck'• second trip
(1930), he was associated with
the expedition led by Dr. Ovid
R. Sellers, Professor at the Pres-
byterian Theological Seminary at
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Tidbits from Everywhere
By ALEPH KATZ
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ori•niae
In
Strictly
Confidential
(Copyright. 1935, Jewish Telegraphic A 'ono%Inc . )
(Coerrisn.
1915. Seven Arta Feutute
Hindicate).
TRUE STORY
Just to give you the low-down
on what Jews are and aren't out
in Hollywood . . . There's one
Hugh Herbert, of Scotch-Irish de-
scent. who has been famous as a
Jewish dialect actor for a score
of years . . . On one occasion
when he was playing a serious
Jewish role he even celebrated by
taking as his wife a good Jewish
daughter of a goof! Jewish Texas
family—Rose Epstein was her
name ... When plans were being
made for the screening of Fan-
nie Hurst's "Symphony of Six
Million" Herbert applied for one
of the Jewish parts . . . But the
producer wouldn't consider him
We need a real Jew for
. .
Some Curious Things
.
this part," he declared . .
It is impossible to enumerate even a small "Only a Jew can do it well"
.
part of the interesting things displayed in the So the job was given to Gregory
exhibit. I dashed about with the curiosity of a Ratoff, who was imported from
tourist in a familiar yet unknown land. The New York for the purpose . . .
And not till the picture was
stages of Yehoash's biography are 'in themselves finished
did the producer discover
a sufficiently rich material for study and ad- that Ratoff is no .lew, but a Rus-
miration. Here and there one sees, like trees sian Catholic . . . .
flying past a traveler in a train, curious things.'
"Rabbis issue a ban on the Day (New York THE STRONG SET
Our London correspondent ad-
Yiddish daily) for printing the translation of the
Treasure House of Information
vines us that Harry Pelta secured
The exhibition is a treasure house of infor- Bible in a newspaper?'
the title of "strongest man in
"A letter from Pinches Rothenberg, now Wales" ... Pelts is a young Jew,
mation concerning the literary, cultural and
social strivings of the Jews for several decades. head of the Palestine electrical works, written 21 years of age, and his forte is
The unwritten biography of the poet peers from the fort at Petropavlowsk in 1918 at which weight-lifting. . . . There is a
through the many objects, volumes, newspaper time he was a prisoner of the Russian govern. rumor current that Steve llamas,
American heavyweight who was so
clippings, photographs, letters, notices, essays ment for revolutionary activities."
conclusively defeated by Schmel-
curios which speak to the observer in 12 tongues.
"The coincidental arrival in Palestine during ing in their recent fight at Ham-
But 6f all the' languages, the one which speaks the same week of Baron Rothschild, Mendel Bei- burg, was rendered physically un-
fit a few days before the fight
out most clearly and most proudly is Yiddish, lis and Yehoash."
by a Nazi osteopath.. . . Sammy
"Letters to Yehoash from Mendele Moicher Springer of Elmhurst, L. I., six-
stages of development and blossomed forth with
which under Yehoash's mastery reached high Sforim, Sholom Aleichem, Chaim Nachman Ma- foot-two strapping youngster,
freshness and beauty in his poems and his trans- lik, I. L. Peretz."
made his debut as an amateur
"A poem about the pogrom at Kishinew, prize-fighter a few nights ago, and
lation of the Bible.
One of the most interesting items of the ex- never printed anywhere, called "From the Tale won his first tussle itf great style
... Sammy is the favorite nephew
hibit is a reproduction of the room in which Ye- of a RevolutionarY" which was preserved by a of Reuben Brainin, dean of He-
hoash wrote for years and in which death stilled Chicago admirer of Yehoash."
brew literateurs, who never saw
"A writer's strike on the new extinct Yiddish ■ prize fight in his life . . . Re-
his hand on the cold day of Jan. 10, 1927.
ports from baseball training
This suddenness in the halting of the work daily, Warheit,"
is apparent at every stop, in every page and
"Yehoash's candidacy for presidency of the camps are very. definite about
Hank Greenberg 's splendid con-
in every memorandum which remains. These American Jewish Congress."
dition, and predict that this Jew-
incidentals have been collected into a division
Plan Posthumous Publications
ish boy will take the place of
labeled "philological laboratory." There are re-
These and similar curios are scattered through Babe Ruth as the premier slugger
corded words, phrases, combinations, new words, the exhibit among the other materials, all of of the American League . . . .
Broadway is calling Mike Jacobs,
old and obsolete words with new meanings and which illustrate the course of the poet, begin- who
has leased both New York
a new twist, and a wealth of experimentation ning with his first works—his first published baseball parks for outdoor box-
books (1907); his translations of Hiawatha ing this season, the new Tex Rick-
with the Yiddish language.
(1910); his dictionary of Hebrew elements in ard . . . Abe Goldstein, former
Translations and Photographs
bantamweight boxing champion,
About 30 writers are represented by articles, Yiddish, written in collaboration with Dr. Chaim
knocked out a 200•pound Nazi
studies and poems written about Yehoash while Spivack (1910); the classic work "From New bartender in a Yorkville bar the
he lived and since his death. Of these writers York to Rehoboth and Back" (1917)—to his most other eve, as a result of an argu-
almost 200 wrote in Yiddish, 100 wrote in Eng- famous works, the book of poems called "In ment on the Jewish situation it.
lish and the rest in other languages. Eleven Geveb" and the translation of the Bible. Also Germany .. .
composers have written music to Yehoash's at the exhibit are the various editions of all of
JITTINGS
poems. Fifty writers have translated parts of his Yehoash's works.
A bouquet of poison ivy to the
work into Hebrew, English, German, Greek,
After the close of the exhibit of Yehoash Acting Dean of Hunter College
Spanish, Russian, Polish and Dutch. Some of heirs will begin work on a number of plans: for suspending Beatrice Shapiro,
his works were originally written by Yehoash in the issuance of a popular edition of the Bible ■ student, for no reason but that
anti-war literature
English or Hebrew, while others were trans- translation side by side with the Hebrew text; she distributed
. With Europe sitting ea a
the publication of the notes to the Bible trans- powder keg, American colleges
lated by him into these languages.
From the 150 photographs in the exhibit the lation; the preparation of a Yehoash monograph should welcome anti-war literature
visitor become acquainted not only with the containing the Yehoash letters, and the issuance . . . A whole poison ivy plant to
appearance of Yehoash himself, even during the of a one-volume edition to contain the 10 books those Jewish editors who are tak-
ing the rabbi of the North Shore
first days of his coming to America from Lith- by Yehoash and the 300 posthumous poems."
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-
With the opening of the Yehoash exhibit in
New York on March 29, the Jewish public is
being provided with the rare opportunity of
looking behind the scenes in the workshop of a
great poet.
This exhibit, which will continue at the Yid-
dish Culture Society, 149 Second Ave., for a
month, plays a beam • of light upon the creative
work of the poet, Bible translator and scholar,
Yehoash (Solomon Blumgarden). Through the
many sided figure of Yehoash there is also being
unfolded a minature scale picture of Jewish life
in America from the time the poet arrived here
in 1890 to his untimely death in 1927.
The colossal task of assembling 2638 items
related to the poet was accomplished by Yehoash's
only daughter, Evlin, and her husband, Ben
Dworkin. Having had the opportunity of ob-
serving the gathering of the items of the ex-
hibit, I know that the preparation and classifica-
tion of the material was done not only as for
one's father but with the love and devotion of
two admirers of the great author who were happy
to have been honored with this difficult and im-
portant task.
Maimonides the Philosopher
By DR. BERNARD HELLER
Director of the Hillel Foundation of the University of Michigan
uania as a youth of 19 years, but also with that
of a number of other writers and communal
workers of today and the recent past. One sees.
among them, people who as Yehoash's contem-
poraries were prominent in Jewish life, which
they helped shape.
Somewhat closer to our own time is the al-
bum, containing the autographs of 95 Jewish
writers, which was presented to Yehoash in 1914,
on the occasion of his departure for Palestine.
Communal workers and writers of the most di-
verse leanings are represented in this album,
which bears the inscription: "To the beloved
poet of the Jewish people, our friend Yehoash,
for remembrance."
Lights of New York
By MARTHA NEUMARK
womrI g ht,
1935. 8. A. F. 8. )
• • •
IN NAZI GERMANY
Comments on -Discriminations Against Einstein and
Feuchtwanger
TO THE RESCUE OF WOMEN
By RABBI LOUIS 1. NEWMAN
Anna Moskowitz Kross, who
The two men who stand out unable to think for themselves,
"The Fabulous Man" is the er was an 'alien'? And were the
do
not
accept
the
doctrine
of
the
pre-eminently in the movement
was for many years one of the title of a story by Hamilton Bas- flower beds and the rock garden
to reconcile philosophy and reli- incorporeality of God from the most active workers in Hades- so in this month's "Scribner's." much damaged when the S. A.
gion are Moses Maimonides (1135- true philosophers. I do not con- eah and for just as long an ener- If tells of a growing love match men, shooting as they ran, pur-
1204) and Thomas Aquinas sider those men as infidels who
between a young American visit- sued my sorely beaten servant
(1256?-1274). Both were keenly are unable to prove the incorpo- getic personality in the speakers ing Germany and a girl of the across the garden into the woods
aware of the problem; both pos- reality, but I hold those to be so bureau of Tammany Hall, is Bavarian village. When, however, beyond? Doesn't it sometimes
sessed uncommon intellects and who do not believe it, especially doing credit on the bench to the American youth speaks of his seem odd to you that you should
both left an indelible impression when they see that Onkelos and former Mayor John P. O'Brien, college, Princeton, "where Pro- be living in my house? Your
upon the religious ideology of Jonathan avoid (in reference to
fessor Einstein is," the conversa- Feuhrer is not generally consid-
their respective faiths. The views God) expressions implying cor- who appointed her as a judge tion ends abruptly; the girl calls ered • friend of Jewish literature.
of Maimonides became for cen- poreality as much as possible." almost as his last act before he him a lover of the Jews, and runs Isn't it, therefore, astounding
turies the dominant creed of the
"World Untreated"
was swept out of office by a away from him. "The sounds of that he should have such a strong
synagogue, while those of Aqui-
Most of the medieval philoso- Fusio landslide.
her running became more and prediction for the Old Testament?
nas that of the church.
phers, Christian as well as Jewish,
Mrs. Kross has the faculty of more faint, David waited until he I myself have heard him quote
I propose in this article to pre- in proving the existence of God,
could no longer hear her and lit with much fervor: 'An eye for
sent Maimonides' solution of the followed the method of their making the pages of the news- another cigarette. The sun had an eye, • tooth for a tooth' (by
conflict between philosophy and Arabic theologian philosophers. papers by her exposition of a set and the sky was growing dark. which he may have meant: 'A con-
religion. I have selected him out First they argue for the belief in broad humanity in the adminis- He began to walk down the path fiscation of property for literary
of the galaxy of Jewish medieval a Created World as against the tering of the laws which seta and in a few minutes he came to criticism'). And now, through you
thinkers because he to me offers theory of the Eternity of the Uni-
the village. Lights were coming he has fulfilled a prophecy of the
the finest exemplification of the verse of Aristotle. From that her off in sharp contrast to the on in the houses and the steeple Old Testament—the saying, 'Thou
"synthetic adjustment" for which they proceed to prove the exist- ordinary magistrate who occu- of the church was growing black Shalt dwell in houses thou has
I am pleading. His approach and ence of an Author or Creator. pies the bench. Lately she has upon the sky. As he walked to not builded . .. "
attitudes represent the best har- Maimonides refused to subscribe won wide encomiums for the the hotel he saw a photograph of
monization between reason and to this course. The Creation presentation to Mayor LaGuar- 'The Leader' in one of the lighted C
revelation that was evolved by theory to him was very debatable
shop windows. 'The Le a de r'
any medieval thinker.
and heretofore constitutes a flimsy dia of a report on vice condi- looked very stern and a lock of
Maimonides was a firm believer basis upon which to build such tions among women that is a hair fell across his forehead.
in the divinity and historicity of an important doctrine as the ex- model for clarity and soundness David threw his cigarette away.
the Bible. Its accounts and af- istence of God. lie prefers to of judgment. The sweeping
"'That b—rd', he said."
By HENRY W. LEVY
firmatives were to him true. He, assume tentatively the Aristotel- reforms that she recommends
The story has immense power.
however, was no less, if not more ian notion of the eternity of mat- have won the hearty endorse- For anyone who has visited Pro-
ter
and
motion.
He
proves
the
■ devout apostle of Aristotle and
vs.
como•iipari
fessor Einstein at Princeton it
his rationalistic methods. The existence, unity and Incorporeal- ment of sociologists and penol- holds an especial appeal. The boy
highest form of religious devo- ity of God on strict Aristotelian ogists. The abolition of the says of him: "I've seen him on YOU SHOULD KNOW
tion consists to him not merely principles.
Women's Court in which she the campus. Ile hay lots of hair."
The irrepressible Ben Hecht.
in the scrupulous observance of
Maimonides later on returns presides is her proposal, as a I saw him at his home a few
commandments, but in the intel- to the supposition that the world
weeks ago, and he has more than now a motion picture producer
lectual comprehension of God and is untreated. He analyzes there means of ending disgraceful " lots of hair"; he has grace, with Charles MacArthur, is on
the rational basis that underlies the contention of Aristotle for conditions that are inherent in charm, and an almost child-like his way to ■ fortune by way of
His injunctions.
the belief in the eternity of the that court.
naivete of spirit. He is one of the his independent film productions.
universe. While he is inclined
Devotion to Philosophy
Mrs. Kross, an earnest, fiery- most illustrious men of the last Meanwhile his literary rival of
Commenting on Moses' "Show to the creation theory, it is inter- tempered woman on the first 100 years, yet he, the great man, other days Maxwell Bodenheim-
me thy way that I may know ' eating as well as significant to
is in exile. I could not help but who he caricatured in the novel
thee," which to him is tantamount note his arguments for his choice. rung of middle age, is the wife feel that he was somewhat lonely "Count Bruga"— is on the New
to a desire to understand the es- It is another illustration of the of a successful surgeon. An amid the many friends of the City relief rolls . . . That suave
sence and attributes of the god- . fact that he feels himself un- immigrant from Russia at an campus scene. Professor Einstein and sophisticated Viennese play-
head, he writes, "Not only is he tethered by tradition when such early age, she has elevated her- has a cat, a magnificent, impetu- wright, Fernac Molnar, studied
acceptable and welcome to God tradition is in conflict with rea-
ous cat, who, as we talked, dashed law, once devoting a full year
who fasts and prays, but every- son. He does not subscribe to self by her own efforts, over- vigorously to and from, from one to the study of criminal law and
one who knows Him. He who has creation merely because it is in coming whatever handicaps may end of the house to the.other. The statistics. The author of "The
no knowledge of God is the ob- the Bible. Had Aristotle incon- reside in being one of nine chil- cat does not seem to mind its Play's The Thing" and other high
ject of His wrath and displeasure. trovertibly proven the doctrine dren. She taught before she environment, but human beings comedies Is, as a matter of d'art,
The pleasure and 'the displeasure . of eternity he would have found entered the law. Her only pre- are more sensitive, even if the the author of two legal articles
of God, the approach to Him and no difficulty in reinterpreting the
mantle of enduring fame rest publiahed in 1896 in the Pesti
the withdrawal from Him are pro- Biblical account, no that it har- vious political appointment was upon their shoulders.
Hirlap . . . Robert Nathan, the
portional to the amount of man's monized with his theory. Mai- as assistant corporation coun-
. • •
author of "Road of Ages," names
knowledge or ignorance concern- monides, however, bases his re- sel of New York.
"Don Quixote" as his favorite...
Lion Feuchtwanger, writing in Persons who have attempted to
jection of the Aristotelian view
ing the Creator."
the "World Telegram" on the sec- understand Gertrude Stein's writ-
The study of physics and meta- on the ground that it is incon- EINSTEIN COMES TO TOWN
physics are therefore not only clusive and secondly that the
Some people once tried to ond anniversary of the plundering ings may be interested to know
praiseworthy, but must constitute creation theory has arguments on build up a legend around Albert of his house in Berlin, has ex- that she spent several years st
an indispensable prologue to the its side which are more weighty Einstein that described him as pressed in this open letter to the
n H ook n s anatomy. School
I Fre
and cogent. He follows, there-
study of theology.
ollsocnitngocesuepnatritt eonftshis(ihnomeute
t h : s tudying g bra i n
Maimonides' devotion to phil- fore, the advice of Alexander aloof and indifferent to the ;
Elmer Rice, whose real name
osophy also manifests itself in his whose policy was that in case problems of ordinary mortals. "By the way, is our street st 1 II
, is Reizenstein, had the unusual
insistence on the spiritual or the where a theory was not proven it But if ever there was any basis called Mahlerstrasse? Have t the experience of having his first play.
incorporeal conception of God. was good judgment to adopt the for such an assumption it has ; masters of your Reich overlooked "On Trial," accepted by a pro-
The belief in God as a body sub- one with the least objections.
been completely smashed by the that C‘e composer, Gustav Mah- ducer by mail. It, incidentally.
Prophets as Philosophers
jects him to change and affec-
ler. for whom the street is named, was the first play to employ the
Maimonides is • rationalist not conduct of that lovable scien-
tion and vitiates His absolute
a J ew . .
.s teettique of the movie "cut-
unity. Ile not only makes this only when he expounds the philo- tint during the past year.
brought this fact to their atten- back" . . . As an undergraduate
■ cardinal dogma of Judaism. sophic exposition of Judaism, but
tion? And what have you done of Oxford the noted historian.
Although
his
residence
is
on
but he even maintains that the !also when he deals with its proph-
with my terrarium which stood at Philip Guedalla, was president of
contrary view is nothing short of eta and precepts Prophecy, for the quiet. tree-shaded Library I one of the windows of my study? the Union Society, Oxford De-
idolatry. "There is no excuse example, is not as the masses Place in Princeton, a 10-min- I Die you actually kill my turtles bating group from which have
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