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Where Are Our Wealthy?
Laugh, Jew, Laugh
Strictly
Confidential
To Jewish Mothers on Mother's Day
While this community is waking from
its slumbers and is again assuming former By HARVEY W. LAURENCE
to community causes by in-
Tidbits from Everywhere
J. T. A.)
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weakly by The Jewish Chronicle Pu s g Ce, ton
import-
m the standard of giving O a
By DR. TRUDE WEISS ROSMARIN
creasing
at tha
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Jewish stories
U.. Mich
stance
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Entered
as Second-class
Director, the School of Jewish Women
I, ant ovements, we are a long
Incorporated In the folloning article
Entered
adios at Detroit, Mich.: Under tb• Act of March I,
are taken tram S. Fells Mendel-
from the goal of completing an adequate
sohn's new .11.11., ..The Jew
General Offices and Publication Building
laughs" end are reprinted by ((W-
communal structure.
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It is a regrettable fact that we must
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who did such splendid work for the
measure devotion to Jewish interests by
Lase. omm,
United Jewish Appeal, will from
The
world
that
loves
to
laugh
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The beautiful custom of setting aside one day conclusion of which is that not only Jewish learn-
----- the size of contributions. Since we can't
now on be known as Mrs. Myron S.
has always acknowledged the worth
Falk and will settle down as a
Advance._ ...............$3.00 Per Year expect a wealthy man either to serve as a of Jewish humor. Many of our very in the year for paying respect and honor to the ing, but Jewish life in all its manifold aspects
Subscription, in
good Jewish balaboste . . . Last
mothers is not at all a recent innovation. It is is declining, and statisticians should not find it
matter case worker for the Social Service Bureau, best stage, screen and radio come-
publication, all correspondence and no.
week's
Literary Digest, under the
week. as an investigator for the Hebrew Free
o
nets
re t teach this °Mos by Tuesday evening of
dians are of Jewish extraction. To as old as the closing verses of the 31st chapter .difficult to calculate when Jewish life and letters
WI.
caption "They stand out from the
was awing notice., kindly use one side of the paper
Loan Association, as a teacher in the He- name just a few, there are Charlie of the book of Proverbs, in which after having will be a thing of the past, at least as for as crowd" featured three Jewish lads:
whon
Chaplin, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, depicted the qualities of the "woman of valor" American Jewry is concerned. For let us not
The Detroit Jewisls hronicle Invites correspond.. on sub. brew Schools or in similar capacities in
Sam Levene, the actor, Charles II.
do Jewish pool., but disclaims responi-
Jack Benny, Jack Pearl, Bert Lahr,
Kuhn, the cartoonist, and Harold J.
Rats of
to C
(eshea chajil), the pious author calls upon her deceive ourselves—those who are today of school
bility
for interest
an indorsement
of the •Iews expressed by the writers other agencies, we ask him to give for the Fannie Brice, Lou Holtz, George
the British economist . .
support of these causes within his means. Jessel and many others. Dorothy husband and her children to give her of the age will be a hundred times less Jewish than Laski,
Did you notice that Oswald G. Vil-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Therefore we have created a measuring Parker, America's foremost expon- fruits of her hands, and let her works "be praised their parents, who as a rule yet witnessed in lard sold the Nation to Maurice
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 21:1-24:3
of witty repartee, is a Jewess. in the gates." their youth something of a Jewish life of which Wertheim? ... And what does Mr.
rod based on the size of contributions ent
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 44:15-31
Harry Hirschfield, for many years
Wertheim do as his first bit of
From times immemorial this song in praise their children are unfortunately deprived.
the creator of the widely acclaimed
lyar 7, 5695 made by members of our community.
chief-editorializing? . . . He feat-
Should Be Leaders in Education
May 10, 1935
Gradually we are returning to a normal comic strip, "Able Kabbible," is the of the mother has been recited by Jewish men
ures that silly correspondence be-
Woolcott of raconteurs after their return to their homes from Friday
Jewish mothers should be aware of the fact tween Theodore Dreiser and Hut-
position in which the average Jew recog- Alexander
when it•comes to a Jewish story.
chins Hapgood, under the shriek-
that
the
future
of
our
people
rests
in
their
hands.
Non-Jewish Co-Operation
nizes his responsibility. We believe, how-
Franklin P. Adams (F. P. A.), evening services in the synagogue, so that Jewish
ing headline: Is Dreiser An Anti-
ever, that even if the present campaign acknowledged the kingpin of daily Mother's Day is not only celebrated once a year, It is they who can mould the soft hearts of their Semite? ... There was a welcome
A most gratifying element of the Allied quota should be considerably oversub- paragraphers, is another living ex- but week after week; which means that the testi- children, so that they accept their Jewishness parade for the sailors of the Nazi
Jewish Campaign is the manner in which scribed it will be admitted that entirely ample of the humor seemingly In- monial of respect and love for the mother is an with pride and joy and not as a matter of an ship the "Western Land," and on
herent in the Jew. Gertrude Berg,
the non-Jewish community has responded too many do not give adequately.
the reviewing stand were several
unfortunate accident, which is especially the case
creator of "The Goldbergs" of radio institution in the religious ceremonial of the
Jewish gentlemen . . . Another
if they come in contact with the difficulties which
to the publicized causes.
fame, made a fortune for herself Jew.
The
mere
fact
that
the
Winemans
re-
representative of the non-Aryan
Aside from the numerous gifts that were
the world holds in store for us. The many cases race provided a float for the par-
with
a
narrative
sketch,
listened
During
the
millenia
which
have
passed
since
given to the campaign by non-Jews—indi- main in a class by themselves, with not a to by both Jew and Gentile, that
of Jewish inferiority complexes and neurotic ade . . . When the anti-Semitic
author
of
the
song
of
the
l'Eshes
Chajil"
viduals and firms—the co-operation of the single other person even beginning to ap- is entirely Jewish in conception. the
type of the Jewish wife and symptoms are to a great extent the result of Horst Wessel hymn was sung, the
Freedman, for many years depicted the ideal
Jewish Hitler patriots bared their
three Detroit daily newspapers has been proach their generosity, justifies a rebuke David
the script writer for Eddie Cantor, mother, the conceptions about woman's place in despair because of belonging to the Jewish race. heads and stood at attention when
and
calls
for
the
self-criticism
which
we
most gratifying. News and editorial space
Thousands of young men and women who today the words "Death to Jews" were
is
one
of
numerous
Jews
earning
human
society
have
undergone
a
radical
change.
has been devoted generously to the drive, are presently expressing.
large salaries as writers for the
try their utmost to conceal their Jewishness- uttered . . . No, it doesn't amaze
In view of the tragedies suffered by radio. Montague Glass will live Today, we do not expect her any more to "rise partly perhaps also for economic reasons—would us, because we know that the Nazi
the newspapers' poets gave poetic expres-
for many years through his Potash while it is yet night; and to give food to her
joints in Yorkville, New York, are
sion to their endorsements and our non- world Jewry, this is being labelled a criti- and
Perlmutter plays and stories. household, and a portion to her maids"(v. 15), be proud Jews had their mothers not neglected
nightly with our own peo-
Jewish contemporaries have made mar- cal campaign. It is daily becoming more There are others, too, but we have neither is it customary that "she considereth a to teach them what it means to be a Jew. The crowded
pl e....
velous contributions to the current fund- evident that it is an idle hope to expect mentioned enough to make our field and buyeth it . . . and her hands hold the first goal of Jewish education must be to build
MONEY NO OBJECT
sudden relief from the present situation. point: In every field of humor,
raising effort.
spindle," but we still associate with the fine type up Jewish self-respect in our youth, for this is
Yes, Abe Feinberg, the nos's ,
Mr. A, M. Smith's series of articles in On the contrary, it is apparent that the Jews are among the leaders.
of Jewish womanhood that "she stretcheth out the only protection against their breaking away appointed rabbi of Mount Nehoh
EXPLANATION
the News, the editorial and news stories situation is growing worse, that the can- AN Now
Congregation,
is none other than
from
our
community.
Mother's
Day
should
re-
comes an explanation. In her hand to tne needy" . . . and "openeth her
in the Free Press and Times, Anne Camp- cer of bigotry is spreading on the world's the introduction to "The Jew mouth with wisdom; and the law of kindness is mind the Jewish mother that not only the boys Anthony Frome, the radio poet
prince
who,
after
an absence of
bell's poem and other evidences are on body politic, and that we shall constantly Laughs," (L. M. Stein, Chicago) an on her tongue."
but also the girls should be sent for a number five years from the rabbinical pul-
record of the splendid co-operation and be compelled to be on our guard and to anthology of Jewish humor com-
of years to Hebrew school, even if they do not pit, has again taken up his religious
The Jewishness of the Children
encouragement given the campaign by the protect ourselves against the advance of piled by Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn,
leadership . . . And believe it or
There are today additional duties for Jewish intend, as the popular saying goes, "to become not, the singing rabbi was doing
the enemy commonly called anti-Semitism. Dr. A. A. Brill, a disciple of Dr.
press of this city.
Freud, makes the statement: "The women of which the author of this beautiful Rebetzin." It seems to us that, in a way, the extremely well on the air and
To be well prepared to face the future, more a nation or a race Is sub-
Jewish education of girls is even more important making more than even Temple
to guarantee the continued existence of jected to hostile aggression, the poem hardly dreamed they should ever be en- than that of the boys, for women are in our time Emenu-El could pay him . . . But
A Deserved Honor
trusted to women. Among these tasks ranks first
more
it
seems
to
have
for
a
sense
what can you do when religion gets
our important institutions and to retain
of humor." Thus, to paraphrase the duty of providing her children with a well- the educators in the home, and it is their in-
. . . Which reminds us that
For his refusal to accept a $1,000 schol- our self-respect as Jews, we must build Tin Pan Alley, the Jew qualifies founded Jewish education, for men in this indus- tellectual make-up which determines to a large you?
Isaac Carmel, the Zionist organ-
arship from Ernst F. S. Hanfstaengl, per- up our position and we must establish as the Pagliacci of the world who, trial age of ours find only in rare cases the time extent the mental horizon and the interests of izer, refused all kinds of tempting
sonal friend of Adolf Hitler, Dr. James higher standards rather than lower the though his heart is breaking heeds to look after the Jewish training of their off- their children.
offers in the West because he loves
the cry: "Laugh, Jew, Laugh."
Byrant Conant, president of Harvard Uni- existing ones.
Mother's Day should further serve as a re- New York and is bent on making
Quoting still further from Dr. spring.
good as a special representative of
versity, has been awarded a gold medal.
The present drive indicates that we are Brill's preface to Rabbi Wilde!.
It is on occasions like Mother's Day that the minder to the Jewish woman to ask about the the Eastern Life Insurance Com-
In making the presentation, Dr. George on the road to communal unity. May it sohn's very well chosen selection Jewish mother should stop for a moment and adequacy of her own Jewish knowledge, because pany . . . And, talking about peo-
W. Coleman, president of the Ford Hall be a beginning not only of a return to nor- of some 400 Jewish stories, the phy- ask; what about the Jewishness of my children? it should be clear to her that more inspiring than ple who refuse jobs in these days
Forum, stated it was a recognition of "pre- mal standards of discharging our responsi- chologist says:
all her exhortations to study Hebrew is the ex- of relief, there is the irrepressible
"One cannot discover any par- Are they being educated to take their places as
W. Weisgal, who was of-
eminent service to human welfare."
bilities, but of the acceptance of greater ticular sense of humor in the Jew loyal members in the Jewish community of to- ample of a mother who knows or studies the Meyer
fered most lucrative propositions to
The selection of Dr. Conant for this duties and obligations and the assumption during the glorious days in his morrow? Then perhaps the Jewish mother will ancient tongue of our people. Jewish mothers manage campaigns for Palestine
honor was a happy thought on the part of of such responsibilities which will make it own land, but since 70 A. D., when learn that only 25 per cent of the Jewish chil- should be the leaders in the newly-awakened funds, but turned them down he-
the Ford Hall Forum. By administering impossible again for anyone to criticize he was forced into exile, the Jew dren in this country receive any kind of a Jewish adult education movements in order to become cause he is busy preparing Max
Reinhardt's production of Franz
has been renowned for his wit.
his rebuke to Hanfstaengl, Dr. Conant the Detroit Jewish citizenry.
Werfel's "Road to Promise,"
Speaking of wit, as an outlet, Pro- education, and hardly ten per cent receive a themselves better acquainted with the spiritual
called the attention of the world to Ger-
( PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE
fessor Freud states that he does Jewish training deserving this name. The bitter heritage they ought to transmit to their children
many's oppressive measures and the man-
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE)
Germany's
Pure
Aryan
Army
ner in which academic freedom is being
Lights of New York Coughlin, Denying Jew-Baiting,
stifled there. Dr. Coleman and his forum
Germany's army, whose new aggressive-
are to be congratulated for remembering ness is responsible for the worldwide war
The Eastern European Situation
By MARTHA NEUMARK
this service to human welfare and for threats, is to be purely Aryan. Jews are
Pledges to Fight Anti-Semitism
1535. by S. A. F. S
honoring the man who administered such not to be conscripted, and only those who
(Copyright,
By DR. DAVID LVOVITCH
a stinging rebuke to the worst enemies of pass the test of Aryan race purity are to
Inc.)
(Copyright, 1935, Jewish Telegraphic
EDDIE CANTOR GOES ZIONIST Gives "Solemn Promise" to Rabbi !Bierman; Says He Will
democracy in the world.
be permitted to bear arms for the Reich.
Eddie Cantor, whose ideas on
prepered specially for the Jewish
EDITOR'S NOTE, The following a rticle wee
War on Jew-Hatred as Long as His
hie arrival here from Paris, Or.
Hitler and Frick have seen to that, and Telegraph.
vitch
Agency by Dr. Lou
Morid ORT
the nature of the Jewish prob-
Voice Is on the Air
nho Is vlee-president and mendrer of the praeattllum of the
have overruled the majority in what is Loon.,
The Campaign Workers
Federation, Is in this country to raise funds for WIT rehabilitation and °Wool.-
lem used to be confined to gen-
cynically referred to as the German "cab- lion authillea throughout the world.
sum-
a
boy's
ST.
LOUIS.
(WNS)
— "As Fascism, Nazism and dictatorships
erous support of
The efforts in behalf of the Allied Jew- inet," including General Werner von
Upon my return from my trip sons receive instruction annually mer camp, has gone philosopher long as my voice is on the air, I and expressed his faith in demo-
processes. According to Ra b-
ish Campaign and its important humani- Blomberg, Nazi Minister of War.
through Germany, Poland and Lat- at present, and that during the last in a big way. Maybe it was shall fight, with all the power at Talc
bi Isserman, Father Coughlin hopes
years the Polish ORT had given
tarian causes would have been impossible
"Keeping War Pure," is the manner in via, and after seeing the condition ten
y
command,
any
attempt
to
cul-
my
the
plight
of
his
fellow-actors
to
secure
the needed change's in
about 25,000 the possibility of
of achieving were it not for the unselfish which the New York Times describes this of the Jews in those countries, I to
a sound knowledge of in Germany or experiences of tivate anti-Semitism among Amer- government through the exercise of
and devoted army of volunteer solicitors. latest expression of Nazi pride. The Times felt like one who is recovering from acquiring
the
ballot
the American voter,
a serious illness. In Germany one different branches of handicraft his own in America which sent icans; I would not be a priest if and stands by
opposed to the suprem-
Regardless of the results of the drive, has this to say in an editorial note:
meets Jews whose faces express and industrial swork, you will ap- him down the path. Anyhow, I were not to do so. About this I
acy of the state over the individual.
the work of the volunteer solicitors is de-
panic, in Poland one meets young preciate that a very serious work
Eddie is now a full-fledged give you my solemn promise." This
Pointing out that Father Cough-
people whose attitude toward life has been accomplished.
Jews will not be conscripted for service
serving of highest commendation. Hun-
was the statement made by Father lin was the first to applaud all ref-
vocational
schools
and
work-
Zionist.
is
that
of
sheer
hopelessness,
In
The
in the new German army. Berlin says the
dreds of men and women dedicated them-
Coughlin,
the
Detroit
radio-priest,
erences to the need, of maintaining
Latvia Jews told me conditions in shops have acquired such a repu-
intention is to keep the new military organi-
His full conversion was pub- whose attacks on Jewish bankers democracy, in Rabbi Isserman's De-
selves for a period of two weeks to the
their country are worse than any- tation that factories and private
zation 100 per cent Aryan.
pressing needs for relief and educational
where, because the economic dis- artisans are very willing to give licly noted this week as he at- have been regarded as indicative of troit speech, the St. Louis rabbi
It will be interesting to see how far the
criminations they have to face are work to those who have been train- tended a meeting at the home anti-Semitism, to Rabbi Ferdinand said that "the fact that Father
causes, and the results must be ascribed to
authorities go to keep Germany's next war
a new misfortune to which they are ed in them. From data not yet of Maurice Levin, president of Isserman of St. Louis, who was Coughlin invited a rabbi to par-
effort free from all Semitic contamination.
the devotion of these men and women.
completed for 1934, it can been seen Hearn's department store, to the only Jewish speaker at the De- ticipate in the first open meeting
not accustomed.
Jewish doctors will presumably be excluded
troit rally of Father Coughlin's Na- of the National Union for Social
The work of these volunteers provides
It will perhaps sound to many that in Volhynia, for instance, the plan the big outdoor event to tional Union for Social Justice.
from the military hospitals, but how about
Justice is certainly indicative of his
ample proof that human mercy is not
like a paradox, but when I arrived young men who have been trained
drugs and medicines which Jewish specialists
In a statement here Rabbi loser- desire publicly to disavow any lean-
be
held
at
Yankee
Stadium
next
in
mechanical
smithing
and
joinery
-
dead, that the Jewish community is being
in Russian from these other coun
may have helped to develop, or surgical instru-
man
quoted
Father
Coughlin
as
tries, I felt greatly relieved. Of have found work not only in Jewish month for the benefit of the having told him that he regretted ings towards anti-Semitism. Il is
ments which they may have helped to per-
deeply moved by the needs and tragedies
course, one should not gather from but also in non-Jewish enterprises. Jewish National Fund. Cantor very much that Jews had interpret- apparent that it is his conviction
fect? Only the other day a racial organiza-
of our people everywhere. It is important
Jew, Catholic and Protestant
this that I mean to say the condi- An inquiry carried out by the ad- is the chairman of the event ed hjs condemnation of Bernard that
tion
actually
proposed
a
ban
on
all
anti-
are to play equal roles in the shap-
that the guilt of those whose hearts are
tions of the Jews in Russia is en- ministration of the ORT Techni-
toxins and specifics of non-Aryan origin.
Baruch and international bankers ing of the destiny of the American
cum
in
Vilna
shows
that
number
and
has
assigned
his
secretary
viable.
It
is
not,
inasmuch
as
they
cold, and whose failure to give to the cam-
The problem goes even further. Modern
as an attack upon the Jews. He
are lacking in so much that is of its graduates—smiths and elec- to do everything possible to as- stated, according to Rabbi Isser- nation. In his address at the
paign drags the fund's total down below
warfare is largely a question of chemistry,
necessary even for ordinary com- tricians—found work in small and sist, while he is away in Cali- man, that because he had attacked Detroit meeting, he again stated
industry, transportation, organization. To
that the National Union for Social
the needed quota, should not be laid at
fort, but there is no specifically big factories, and in public works
make Germany's next war an unadulterated
Cardinal William O'Connell and Al- Justice welcomes equally Jewish,
the'doors of the devoted volunteer work-
Jewish question in Russia, and such as canalization, water supply, fornia doing his new picture.
Aryan enterprise, Hitler's armies should re-
fred
E.
Smith
it
does
not
mean
The big pep talk of the eve- that he is anti-Catholic, and added Catholic and Protestant members.
Jews in no way feel any discrimin- etc. A number of graduates of the
ers who are giving their best energies to
fuse to make use of gas and other chemicals
Technicum emigrated to Palestine
"While wandering about the
ation.
ning
was delivered by the big- that wicked men are found among magnificent church that Father
the drive.
discovered by Jewish scientists, or to move
and to Russia, and have found work
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A Bewildered Germany
The Germans are in no sense to be en-
vied in the present crisis.
Even the most ruthless advocates of the
boycott and every other weapon of retalia-
tion against the Nazi brutalities will admit
that not all Germans are inhuman. Only
when the rule of Hitler comes to an end
will it be possible to judge what percent-
age of the German people actually op-
poses the present bestialities.
The following is one of the very interest-
ing stories just emanating from Nazidom,
illustrating the fact that even the rank and
file of the Storm Troopers are not neces-
sarily Nazis:
First Storm Trooper (to newcomer): "What
are you doing In that uniform? I thought
you were a Communist?''
Second Storm Trooper: "I had to be in the
swim, you know."
First Storm Trooper: "How do you like the
other men in your company?"
Second Storm Trooper: "They're all fine
except the leader—he's a Nazi."
The manner in which Germans are be-
coming bewildered over what is occurring
in their country is illustrated also by two
letters reprinted in the Manchester Guar-
dian. The following are typical of the
flood of letters being received by German
clergymen requesting them to ascertain
proofs of the non-Jewish ancestry of their
parishioners:
"I *Muttony beg you to produce my
grandfather by return and free of charge be-
cause I need him urgently for my Aryan de-
scent—Heil Hitler."
"Your Reverence: Please don't be angry
and be so kind as to see about my grand-
mother. I must send her to my son In Berlin
this week, because he has had orders to pro-
duce evidence that his grandmother was not
• Jewess."
Perhaps a bewildered Germany will
soon come to her senses and, instead of
remaking upset will decide to rebel
against injustice and dictatorial insanity.
forward on railroads which Jewish capitalists
may have helped to build, or to wear uniforms
treated with dyes which Jewish chemists may
have helped to discover. Thorough should be
the last word.
Thorough, is, indeed, the Nazi slogan:
thorough in hatred, thorough in insanity.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world is also
thorough: entirely too thorough in gentle
kindness with which Nazi brutality is
dealt. It is diplomacy that is playing a
role of careful and watchful waiting, and
is in the meantime permitting an inhuman
state to plant roots of bigotry and hatred
wherever it strikes soil. It is to be hoped
that human kindness does not err in this
instance, and that Nazi brutality will,
after all, defeat its own ends.
Nazi Kidnapers
On several occasions Americans have
been outraged by the kidnaping of chil-
dren and grown-ups, either for purposes
of exacting vengeance, or for extracting
cash from wealthy relatives.
The Nazis appear to have learned the
kidnapers' lesson. The kidnaping of Ber-
thold Jacob, German - Jewish refugee
journalist, from Switzerland, has been fol-
lowed by other kidnaping threats. This
week another Jewish refugee, a man by
the name of Kurtz, his wife and child,
were kidnaped from Prague and smuggled
over the frontier into Germany.
The Swiss government, in a note to Ber-
lin protesting this kidnaping, called it a
"grave violation of Swiss sovereignty." In
reality, it is a grave violation of human
sovereignty.
It is sad enough that Nazis are free to
act brutally with their victims on their
own soil. But when they invade other
territories is high time for the sounding
of a worldwide protest against bestialities
of perverts. Perhaps the invasion of for-
eign territory will cause European powers
to act in condemnation of Nazi practices
and kidnapings.
It is no wonder therefore that in their respective trades.
one meets large numbers of Jews
Ore's Desperate Struggle
in the border states who crave to
emigrate to Russia. Millions of
We have great difficulty just
Polish Jews— and now surely there now in supporting our schools, be
are as many thousands in the cause of a lack of money. Former-
other Eastern European countries ly we received liberal support from
—would emigrate anywhere at all the Joint Distribution Committee,
if only the way were shown to for which we have been always
them.
thankful. But for the past few
years ORT has maintained its in-
ie Suicides
1
One hears of an unusually high !dilutions through funds obtained
number of suicides among Polish from its own sources. Many of
Jewish business men. And recent- these schools would have been closed
ly this suicide epidemic has been long ago were it not for the sacri-
spreading among the younger ele- fices made by the local populations
ments, including even disappointed and the local ORT committees,
Chalutzim, who failed to secure which have carried on a desperate
visas to Palestine. The Jews in struggle to keep the schools open.
Poland and in Latvia are prac- In a number of towns the author-
Cosily abandoning their hopes of ities demanded that the school
remaining in the businesses to buildings be enlarged or that con-
which they have been accustomed. siderable repairs be made. These
For this reason they are anxious new tasks added considerably to
to place their children in vocational the heavy burdens of the ORT.
schools. Many school buildings would have
been taken away by the govern-
There is now such a big demand
for vocational courses—so many ment in lieu of taxes, social insur-
ance, etc., but in each instance the
apply to the ORT vocational schools conunittee appeared and bought the
for admission, that we are unable
to accommodate one-tenth of those building back. Many municipal
who apply. You find in the ORT ities which formerly subsidized our
vocational schools in Poland, Lithu. institutions have now reduced these
ania, Latvia and Rumania young subsidies. For instance, from the
people who have finished higher Warsaw government we used to
educational courses in other schools, receive 40,000 zloty ($8,000) an-
even universities, learning manual nualle. Now they do not give us
trades and crafts. The wives and anything.
Farm Movement
daughters of business men are tak-
A new burden has been imposed
ing up millinery, dressmaking and
upon
Polish
Jewry by a recent Po-
coreetmak ing.
Out of the total of 114 ORT in- lish act which requires artisans to
stitutions for vocational training, possess craftmen s certificates as a
no fewer that 52 are operating in prerequiste to the right to work.
Poland. • These institutions include More than 20,000 Jewish artisans
the Jewish Technicum in Vilno, are affected by this decree which
textile and hosiery training factor- requires that a fee of 42 sloty, or
ies in Lod: and Bialystok, and a $8.50 in American exchange, be
considerable number of engineering, paid for the certificates and that
iron-working, joinery, weaving. many Jewish workers be obliged to
tailoring and other trade schools undergo • qualification examine-
in Warsaw, Lodz, Wloclawek, Lion. Realizing that not only will
Bialystok, Brzesc, Grodno, Lublin, 20,000 Jewish families face the
Piorokow, ROTTIO, Kovel, sarny,liess of a livelihood but that one
Wlodzimeriez, Krzemienies, Vol) , I of the most important source, of
! Jewish labor will be closed, the
nsk, Kobryn and other cities.
I Polish ORT has prepared a plan
Graduates Find Week
for the creation of special courses
the
vocation-
I
If I tell you that in
al schools and workshops of thel in 15 cities for the purpose of pre-
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ORT in Eastern Europe 5,000 per-
eyed comedian, who urged all
those present to buckle down
and sell tickets. "Don't forget,"
he reminded, "that you can't
buy land in Palestine with the
clippings from the newspapers
of the morning after."
At the meeting Cantor re-
vealed himself as a veteran ad-
mirer of Rabbi S. Wise. He
thinks Rabbi Wise is one of the
great actors of America—and
also an outstanding spiritual
force. The host of the evening
w a a somewhat embarrassed
when Cantor publicly remarked
that he came to Levin's home
because he heard that Rabbi
Wise was going to be present.
Watch Eddie Cantor! His
name is going to figure in ever
bigger letters in Jewish com-
munal work.
•
• e
IS THE LEGION PRO-NAZI?
Jews, Catholics and Protestants Coughlin is building at Royal Oak,
and that he intends to denounce I noted very carefully that the
them all.
quotations he selected to be in-
Names "Public Enemies"
scribed upon its exterior in order
Rabbi Isserman said that Father thus to guage the temper of the
Coughlin asked him: "Why do not man. On top of the cross of the
some of you rabbis attack Baruch tower, there is inscribed 'King of
and men like him? You wouldn't Jews' in Hebrew, as Christian tra-
dare attack a Catholic cardinal, dition contends It was written on
even though he deserved it, but you the cross by Roman soldiers. At
should attack Jews in high places the base of the tower there are a
who menace the welfare of the series of quotations. The first are
country," Father Coughlin also as- the immortal words of Lincoln—
serted, according to the St. Louis 'with malice toward none and char-
rabbi, that Jews are too sensitive ity towards all.' The last is a
and too jittery in view of what has verse from the New Testament ,
happened in Germany. "Tell them which indicates that in the sight
for me," he declared, "not to be of God, there are to be neither
as thin-skinned. There is not the racial, national nor religious dis-
slightest danger of any anti-Semitic tinctions. When afterwards, while
movement in America. Jews make walking around the building with
a mistake in talking about it and Father Coughlin I referred to the
putting such ideas in people's Lincoln quotation, his answer was:
heads."
'I begin with the secular, and end,
Discussing with Rabbi Isserman with the noblest ideal of religion.
what individuals in the opinion of He pointed to the New Testaments
a Christian are doing most to hurt verse which heralds the belief in
the name of the Jew in America, the universality of man. I ne he
Father Coughlin named as the first added these significant words: 'Thi s
public enemies of the Jews in is the most important ideal if re-
America: 1. Bernard M. Baruch, Brion In these critical day , of
because of his reactionary views, racial hatred and insanity, we must
and because these views influence ever keep it before our eye, a! the
the government of the United first principle.'"
States; 2, a popular radio comed-
ian, because of his obscenities on
the radio; 3, the moving picture "Nation" Sold to Wertheim
If this could happen in the
most populous Jewish center in
the country, what is likely to
happen in cities where Jews are
magnates of America because of
not an important element? Jew- their pernicious influence, With re-
was
ish members of New York posts gard to the movie producers he add-
The control of the Nation
of the American Legion, who ed that they had learned their les- sold by Oswald Garrison Villard
Inc..
served with Christian buddies son and were beginning to mend to The Nation Fund,
their ways.
foundation established by Maur-
in France, were asking them-
Individuals Hurt Mass
ice Wertheim, who, for 11 years.
selves this question during the
Rabbi Isserman further said has been • member of the board
that Father Coughlin was careful of directions of the Nation. The
past week.
to point out that the fact that in-
be a
Their anxiety arose when dividual Jews were bad influences Nation Fund, Inc., will
-
of the
Jewish members of the Brook- on the nation is not to be construed
Nahted
li
to
Insure
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•
lyn war veterans association as an accusation against all Jews,
tried to secure the adoption of and furthermore, that all members Its board of directors wilr b i e tuc t o i".
of ■ minority suffer, though unjust- profit making corporation. eslab
and
a resolution which would bar ly, because of • few Individuals. posed of well known me ashen
veterans of the German Army Father Coughlin also cited two women, including among
. Bow . 'sere
from participating in American American cardinals and Postmas- Mr. Villard, Heywood
ac t;
vin Johnsonwho is dciiraector_o
Legion functions. This effort ter James J. Farley as the men
hurting the cause of Catholicism
was prompted by the belief that moat in America. In his interview and Freda Xirchwey and Joseph
Nation eth-
Nazi influences were seeking to with Rabbi Isserman, the Detroit Wood Rrutch of the
priest emphasized his opposition to tonal board.
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