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How Long Will They Be Silent? decades, Zionist ardor and the devotion
of the Jewish masses—all these elements
Criminal silence has marked the atti- combined served to build a strong founda-
tude of European governments on Nazi tion for the Jewish National Home.
outrages. Adolf Hitler's band of perverts
has had a free hand, and except for the
Reform Judaism and Zionism
expression of public indignation in the first
We have been called to task for the
months of the Nazi regime very little has
sentiments we expressed in our editorial,
been done to indicate that the world's
opinion resents the barbarism that is at "A New Day for Zionism," in which we
play, with the consent and approval, and commented upon the election of a Zionist
with the encouragement, of Hitler's ban- as president of the Central Conference of
American Zionism.
dits.
While it is true that Rabbi Felix A.
The most recent pogroms are proof of
the spread rather than the decline of sad- Levy is not the first Zionist to head the
ism. If anyone doubts the significance of American Reform rabbinate — Dr. Max
the instigated riots in Berlin, let him read Haller of New Orleans having preceded
the following statement issued by Varian him as far back as 1909—the fact re-
Fry, new editor of The Living Age, issued mains that the action of the rabbis' con-
on July 16, after he had witnessed the dis- vention does indicate a change in prev-
ious attitudes.
gusting Berlin "circus:"
A comparison of resolutions-50 years
I was Informed at about 8 o'clock last
apart—will help us in presenting our view-
night that there was an anti-Jewish demonstra-
point:
tion in the streets. I hurried out and pres-
ently heard shouting toward the east end
of Kurfuerstendamm Blvd.
When I got there I found a large crowd
lined up on both sides of the street, forcing
each car which came by to run the gauntlet,
stopping all cars in which Jewish-looking men
or women were riding, and dragging out the
Jews and beating them up.
I saw one man brutally kicked and spat
upon as he lay on the sidewalk, a woman
bleeding, a man whose head was covered with
blood, hysterical women crying, men losing
their temper at the police or the Storm Troop-
ers and being kicked or dragged off, women
begging their men to keep out of the fight and
crying and pleading.
Nowhere did the police seem to make
any effort whatever to save the victims from
this brutality. Occasionally, they attempted
to clear areas for motor traffic to get through
or to prevent the crowds from collecting in
front of certain apparently favored cafes.
That was all.
All along Kurfuerstandamm, the crowd
raised the shout "Jude!" whenever anyone
sighted or thought he had sighted a Jew. The
cry sent the crowd converging on the poor
victim, who was asked for his identification
papers. If he could not prove himself a
good "Aryan" he was insulted, spat upon,
roughly handled and sometimes knocked down,
kicked and beaten.
The cry "Jude!" would be raised at an-
other point and the crowd would hurry off
to a new victim.
At times a chant would be raised.
I
. can't remember the German, but the chant
was something like: "Get the hell out—blood
running—noses—the best Jew is a dead Jew"
—precisely like a Christian liturgy, with a
leader speaking the lines first and the crowd
chanting them over again, line for line, after
he had finished.
Everywhere the people were in holiday
mood, in fact, one German youth said to me,
"This is a holiday for us." Old men and young
men, boys, Storm Troops, police, young girls
of the domestic servant type, well-bred wo-
men, even in the forties and over—all seemed
to be having • good time.
This morning, as I walked along Kurfuer-
standamm to inspect the broken windows,
passed in half an hour eight or ten persons,
three obviously Jews, with bandaged heads,
bandaged hands, and fresh, clean slings of
plaster over their noses.
This was a sight I never had seen in
Berlin before. It pretty obviously wan con-
nected with last night's circus.
James G . McDonald, League of Nations
High Corn missioner for Refugees, has
sounded an important note when he made
a demand upon the League of Nations
that it shou Id assume responsibility for the
refugees. But this is not enough. An
outraged pi ublic opinion should make itself
felt agains t Nazi cruelties, and the na-
tions of the . world must speak their minds.
For Jews there is one pleasant and an-
other very unpleasant reaction to the lat-
eat pogrom , The declaration of the Ger,
man-Jewish War Veterans' Association
(Reichsbun d) that it wants its members to
be prepare( i for trouble and for defensive
action is an encouragement to those who
must, out )f self respect, object to con-
(cant subm i ssion and demand counter-ac-
tion. The unpleasant note is sounded
in the eta tement of the Jewish corn-
munity of Berlin, urging humility, cau-
lion and mc idesty. Such a suggestion car-
ries with t the counter-supposition of a
lack of m o desty and of imprudence. It
proposes co .ntinued submission to indigni-
ties, and w ill hardly meet with the sp-
proval of an aroused Jewry for whom
such indign ities call for rebellion against
assault and self-defense against bandits.
Tribute to Pioneers
Pioneers in Palestine's reconstruction
work are not to be begrudged the compli-
ment that was paid them by League of
Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees
James G. McDonald. In his report at the
London meeting of the High Commission
for Refugees, Mr. McDonald commented
on the absorption of German-Jewish refu-
gees in Palestine, as follows:
"Palestine continues to be the chief
country of refuke. That small territory,
The Pittsburgh Reform
Platform of 1885
"We consider our-
selves no longer a na-
tion but a religious
community, and there-
fore expect neither a
return to
Palestine
nor a sacrificial wor-
ship under the admin-
istration of the Sons
of Aaron, nor the res-
toration of any of the
laws concerning the
Jewish state."
Resolution Adopted at
1935 Convention
"Whereas, at cer-
tain foregoing conven-
tions of the Contra!
Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, resolutions
have been adopted in
opposition to Zionism,
and Whereas, we are
persuaded that the ac-
ceptance or rejection
of the Zionist program
should be left to the
determination of the
individual members of
the Conference them-
selves, Therefore, be
it resolved, that in
keeping with its an-
nounced intentions, the
C. C. A. R. will con-
tinue to co-operate in
the upbuilding of Pal-
estine, and in the eco-
nomic, cultural and
spiritual tasks con-
fronting the growing
and evolving Jewish
community there."
The very language of the current reso-
lution indicates a change in attitude. It
is certain that the old spirit which wrote
the Pittsburgh platform is dead, and that
a new one, motivated primarily by the
horrors emanating from the dungeons and
concentration camps of Germany, is will-
ing to work for Palestine's reconstruction.
In his weekly syndicated columns, Rabbi
Louis I. Newman of New York, one of the
outstanding Zionists in the Reform rabbin-
ate, makes this comment on another angle
in our editorial for which we are being
criticized:
The election of Rabbi Felix A. Levy of
Temple Emanu-El, Chicago, as president of
the C. C. A. R. is a deserved honor which
comes to a line Zionist. An interesting item
in the newsprints tells that the retiring presi-
dent of the Conference, Dr. Samuel H. Col-
denson, declined to nerve on the executive
board, saying that there were not enough
Zionists on the board, and he wished to give
his place to one. Does this mean that Rabbi
Goldenson, following the passage of the new
declaration on Zionism, believes that this
is a Zionist administration in the C. C. A. R.,
and he prefers to disassociate himself from it?
Or does it imply that Rabbi Goldenson is gen-
uinely anxious that room may be made for
men who can co-operate more closely with
the new Zionist president? Much work yet
remains to be done. Only one victory, and
this a partial one, has been scored with ref-
erence to the Pittsburgh platform. It has
been repealed in one respect; it should be re-
written in many others.
"GAMBLERS"
By AL SEGAL
iCuPOlaid. 1935, by 13 A F. 8)
I go to a gambling casino. Not
that I am a habitue. In fact, I am
a tour hand * at roulette and am
all bewildered by the array of num- '
tiers and when (on rare occasions)
I have a dollar to throw away I
let some one more skilled in the
art do it for me.
I go as one might go to schul, to
see how it goes among my brethren,
to learn how their business fares,
how their wives' diabetes gets
along. Fox in the gambling casino
I may find more of my brethren in
a night than in the achul (if I
went there).
"How do you do, Mr. Segal"
. . . and "What are you doing
here?" and "Are you having any
luck tonight?" .. It's like a re-
ception.
Several of us get philosophical.
We take a corner of the quiet
lounge to talk about ourselves. .
The whole Kehillah is here, it
seems. Have you seen any goyim?
A handful! It's really we that
keep this place going. Why? Why?"
In other such places that I have
seen, the Jews are the most nu-
merous and the best patrons. That
young man who has just tossed
away $200 at the dice table as if
they were nickles and is ready with
$500 more casts his dice with the
cool complacence of an old, old
hand, though he is surely no more
than 23 years old. All these 25
young faces around the table are
cool, like faces that have looked
at dice for a thousand years.
I have known them a thousand
years. Life had always been for
them like a sudden turning of
dice. Today it was sevens up, but
tomorrow the Crusaders were
marching in Mainz or tomorrow
the melancholy journey from Spain
began or tomorrow one must go to
the burning place.
They are God's eternal gamblers.
What's to be lost on a turn of the
dice? What if $100 is lost. In
a thousand years one often has
even life on a cast as of dice. The
young man shoots another hun-
dred.
Not that he is in the least con-
scious of historic continuity as •
gambler; probably he doesn't know
much of his history anyway, knows
little of his ancestors to whom
life was a daily hazard.... They
played for heavy stakes, gambling
on tomorrow. . . . Tomorrow it
might be death again, tomorrow it
might be life.... All other kinds
of people were penny pikers, tak-
ing their little hazards, raking in
their small gains, taking their
picayune losses. It wasn't really
much of a game for those others.
Tomorrow was certain to be not
much worse than today for them
and even in a hundred years their
children would still be living on
their fathers' acres and the an-
cestral hearth would still comfort
them.
Only the Jew was always the
great loser and even the earth
under his foot contained no per-
manence; and the ways of his go-
ing were always curving.... What
luck was around the corner? Never
for him any long-stretching vista
of security. Around the corner the
enemy might be waiting. Well, one
must go on; one must take the
chance.
The 25 young Jews around the
dice table are the projections of
a people that has lost so much and i
has by this experience of life be-
come "the best gamblers," as the
professionals say.
Some of us don't like this. They
are pained to see Jews so nu-
merous (often in the majority) in
all the gambling casinos.
"This," they say, "is not becom-
ing to us."
Perhaps not. Perhaps these
young men around the dice table
should be rather projections of
their ancestors who were prophets;
they should be carrying the gleam-
ing banners of Isaiah, Malachi and
Micah and fulfill their inheritance.
But this is their inheritance,,
too. The forefather of this young
man (who has just shot another
hundred dollars) stood one day at
a crisis; if he put his faith aside
and took Christianity he might be
comfortable; but if he kept his
faith he would die.
Which hazard should he take:
To lose Judaism or to lone his life?
He chose to forfeit his life, for
he said, "If I give up my life, what
in lost? But if I give up my faith
then all my generations are lost
to the Torah."
Such are daring gamblers we
always have been.
In the year 1910, when King
George ascended the throne, Great
Britain had • Jewish population of
about 240,000 souls. Today the
Jews of Great Britain number
about 350,000.
Pinsk Versus Washington
DeHaas's Viewpoint Which He C a 11 s "A Vindication of
Anti-Weizmannism"
EDITOR'S NOTE: In view of the important issues facing the forthcoming
World Zionist Congresi, and the clash of personalities which is certain to take place
at the sessions in Lucerne, Switzerland, we are publishing this article, by an emi-
nent and pioneer Zionist, although we do not completely share his views.
M.1ItA %XI, Jul, 15. — The %b uild Cong..
er
elerliono uhltli look Pk.. , undo, throughout Po-
IMO gate the General ZIonJot
nlon, alsich lo OP-
'woe(' to the preoeut Z10,11ht Eseetillie 31,261 ode.
In the 120 (notelet, %W ell hate iliuo to reported.
The General ZIonlot Confolentlion (Odell I. headed
5r. (halm Dellinann receloul 3,19:1 ode,
—Neu* Dlopateli.
The Weizmannists won fifth place and one
delegate. They polled less than four per cent
of the total vote recorded, and that after the
complete withdrawal of the Revisionists, which
advantaged the Laborites who for this reason
gained second position. The Mizrachists were
third, and the Jewish State party fourth in the
balloting. So low have the Weizmannists fallen
in their leader's native land.
In 1921 the "Pinsk vs. Washington" issue
was trumped up in the U. S. A. in order the push
Justice Brandeis and his associates out of office
and abandon a comprehensive plan for the
speedy upbuilding of Palestine and to satisfy a
craving for personal power, and establish the
Keren Ilayesod, a plan elaborated by men who
had had no previous experience of money rais-
ing, but who did recognize and speedily acted on
the proposition that a general fund was a job-
holder's paradise, and a useful purse for a po-
litical machine.
European Jewry was in chaos in 1920-21,
and therefore the U. S. A. was "colonized,"
and with the aid of an American group more
interested in the vindication of its personal
spleen and self-glorification than aught else, and
with the aid of the Yiddish press raised the
war cry "Pinsk vs. Washington." Men who did
not use Yiddish felt the "biological urge" and
supported Weizmann. The result was Cleveland,
1921.
Rebellion in Several Cities
For nine years all those who would not
toe the mark were boycotted and vilified. There
followed in the U. S. A. an immediate recession
in membership and personnel from which the
organization has never recovered, and from which
it apparently will never recover. A clique ob-
tained control, and despite occasional fights
within this charmed circle it has maintained con-
trol, but has never been able to expand it fol-
lowing. It has never been able to raise really
large sums for Palestine, it has had to enter
campaign alliances foreign to the purposes of
Zionism, it has had to be subsidized by the sen-
ior partner in these campaigns, it has come to
play second fiddle in Zionism to the Peale Zion
which has only a handful of members, and des-
pite its clever publicity and the support of the
Yiddish press it has as completely lost public
confidence that spontaneous rebellion is reported
from Boston, Detroit, Chicago and Louisville.
It has reached the low watermark at the 1935
Atlantic City convention—in the year of the
greatest moral triumph for the Zionist idea.
Except for its loyalty to Weizmann this
American group has had no policy and no pur-
pose of public interest. It has been satisfied
to be the tail of the Weizmann kite, or as in
the case of the Jewish Agency the sounding
board for creating that myth and perpetuating
that fiasco. It has twisted with all the Weiz-
mann vagaries, and except that he believes in
going cap in hand to Downing Street Weiz-
mann's gyrations would require a diagram for
exposition. Ile has consistently supported Labor
because in the party struggles with the Miz-
rachi and the Revisionists he could rely on the
Labor group which has been shrewd enough not
to wish to excite the financial supporters of the
movement by offering a complete socialist front
to the organization. The American Jewish press
either willing to be spoon-fed by the organiza-
tion, or in many cases acting coluntarily as press
agents of Weizmannism, the inwardness of the
situation was not made apparent here. For
Weizmann's small hold on Zionism was apparent
in the 1923, 1925, 1927 congresses, in none of
which was he elected leader or president by a
majority vote. While he was hailed and acclaimed
here he was no hero in Poland or elsewhere. In
1929 it was made clear in the words of a Polish
delegate, "he could not get a single vote in his
native Mottl, and very few in Pinsk," and he
knew it for in all his travels he avoided Poland.
In 1929 he was actually elected by a majority,
after many deals, but his conduct from the 1930
Berlin Actions Comite sessions to the close of
the 1931 Basle Congress limited his support to
his henchmen, and by that term is meant those
dependent on him for personal preferment, paid
or voluntary. The "A" group in 1931 did not
Rabbi Slierka Urges Consolidation
of Orthodox Synagogues
include six independent delegates, and it was
not much stronger in this respect in 1933 at
Prag. Nevertheless no real demonstration of the
rejection of the leader of the masses was vis-
ible for the average man till this election in Po-
land, where the magic of Weizmann's name
produced an inglorious defeat, fifth place in the
total, because there is no sixth.
Proposed Anti-Weizmann Ticket
There is nothing unexpected in this, although
it was hidden from the public gaze by publicity
agents. The American "B" group invited the
Revisionists to join in an anti-Weizmann, world
list with the Mizrachi and the Jewish State
party because it was clear that in the mass
Jewries of Eastern Europe, Weizmann and
Weizmannism could once and for all be given
its quietus. The Revisionists outnumber all
Zionist groups together in Poland, Rumania and
Jugo-Slavia. This was apparent in 1933 despite
the Arlosoroff martyr issue spuriously raised to
bring about a Left Wing victory, and it would
have been demonstrated in Palestine had the -
world list been adopted that the Left are in a
minority there against all comers. They have
the machine with the cash and the publicity,
and the support in the U. S. A. of those who
wish to indulge themselves in a vicarious radical-
ism which they do not and will not apply for a
moment to their own lives.
Pinsk has rejected Weizmann and vindicated
all those who refused to bow down and worship.
Of the men who aided him to overthrow the
Brandeis regime, Ussishkin, Mossesohn, Jabotin-
sky, etc., they are all in different ways lined
up against him. slle can rely on Kurt Blumenfeld
and the Rosenbluth brothers of Berlin who have
been the real brains of his organization all these
years and artists at job holding. Ile can rely
on support in Czechoslavakia which has pro-
duced the Zionist pacifists and B'rith Sholem
men, and a succession of job holders, and on
Canada, the U. S. A. and the English Zionists.
What the Lucerne Congress will demonstrate
is now an open question. Labor has a majority
but does not know what to do with it, for it
is obvious that the Weizmann candidacy invites
a new split. He can be elected but the price
is another secession. One may be bold enough
to prophesize that if there is not secession at
the Congress, and a patched up Weizmann re-
gime is established there will be secession within
one year. And that applies to the re-election
of the present regime, with or without Weizmann
in the foreground because mass _opinion in Eur-
ope and Palestine will no longer tolerate the
compromising policy with which he, Brodetzky,
Locker, and others are identified. The crisis
will come over thej•egislative Council. Verbal
tricks will neither satisfy nor pacify. Already
it is announced that the W. Z. 0. will fight, but
is prepared to compromise. That runs true to
form. Real nationalists, as distinct from philo-
Zionists, and pro-Palestinean charity doers un-
derstand this. To them the issue of the present
and future of Palestine is a matter of grave
concern and they will not trust Weizmann with
the fate of the Jewish people or the future of
Palestine.
A Categorical Rejection
Perhaps they knew all about him in 1921
and would have proved their knowledge at the
polls. They demonstrate it now by a categori-
cal rejection. Americans who do not take their
Zionism seriously as the Jews do in Eastern
Europe, will be shocked if Jabotinsky with his
newly created organization assembles for its first
sessions a larger numerical support than the
W. Z. 0. which is 38 years in existence. It that
happens don't put it down to fractiousness or
quarrelsomeness. The Jews in oppressed lands
are keenly alive to their needs, their hopes and
aspirations are part of daily life, and instinc-
tively they have come to understand blab. I
cite merely one instance. In June, 1933, Weiz-
mann made a terrible defeattist speech in Chi-
cago, during the convention; it was a perfectly
natural expression of his views. The Z. 0. A.
suppressed that speech but I saw it in print in
part at least in the Polish Jewish press. Funny
how the slogan "Pinsk vs. Washington" was in-
vented by those who spoke in the name of the
masses but ignore mass views.
Two of the leaders of the masses were once
engaged in a hot argument. A rebuked B for
not responding to the mass demand. B stopped
A. "Don't tell me what the masses want, I my-
self am the masses." What is more he meant it.
JEWS AND JOBS
By HARRY L. LURIE
P.1)1T1111 , 4 MOTE.: Dr. /tarry L. tors.,
noted econornint, fanner lecturer of
the I/diet-411e, 34 Michigan and ('ail-
fonds and director of the National
f nand! of Jealoh Pedevationx, In Ohl,
article roonlinnes hi. di•uniolo.
"J... and Join" begun In hut week'.
home.
, P) ilght.. , 111 ) 3 , t i. :;y W 0 N '1 ,3, , 1 en
1 nlal Council
The bulk of Jewish settle-
ment in the United States took
place between 1890 and 1914.
It was made up largely of
Europeans coming from urban
areas with their choice of occu-
pations determined by the char-
acter of the towns in which
they formerly resided and by
the industrial and agricultural
restrictions which had been op-
erating in the countries of
origin.
The immigrant came largely
with an aptituude for or with
experience in the distributive
trades, the manual trades and
handicrafts utilized in the pro-
duction of clothing, ahoes and
the simpler metal handicrafts
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Tidbits from Everywher e
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
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(Copyright.
1936, by
A. F 8)
IRD
O ,NYstO
ep FheL
n IF SE wise will jiiin
By JACOB DeHAAS
Whichever way the new trend in Reform
Judaism is considered, one must admit that
Zionism has made strides on the road to
converting not only the rabbis but also
the laity of Reform Jewry. And while it
is a triumph for Zionism, it should be
proudly acknowledged by the Reform Writes His Conclusions to Survey of Orthodox Congre-
gations in Last of Series of Three Articles
Jewish communities. Present conditions
demand and justify the abandonment of
By RABBI JOSHUA S. SPERKA
early prejudices against Jewish national-
RDITOICA NOTE: In tido, the concluding of • oerlem of three article* by RAMA
Pperka, are preoented lbe sulhor . • ,Mw. on the Po•dhle oalutIon for some
ism, and historic Jewish trends similarly
dx Jean, Ranh(
of the proldern• mooed hy a dloorganited elute in Orthoo
demand unified action in behalf of Pales-
fie , ora rotandhlnIien of W....IWO and the formal. of • keldllah.
tine.
This survey clearly indicates that stances, does not live up to that
We are unable to resist the temptation the Orthodox constituency has not which he theoretically but whole-
subscribes. Such a per-
of quoting a member of the Reform Jewish reached its optimum in active ell- heartedly
son is not piously Orthodox but
with its institutions; that he supports Orthodox institutions
community, one whose ancestry in this ation
there is no cooperation or coordina-
movements; he will worship in
country dates back five generations, and tion between synagogues; that its and
such designated eynagogues and
whose grandparents were in a sense con- leadership is insufficiently compen- justifies the religious philosophy of
in order to devote its entire Orthodox Judaism. Our prime con-
sidered assimilated Jews. He had become sated
talents to the synagogue; that the
is fully to recover these theo-
affiliated with the Zionist movement, cast synagogue is inadequately equipped cern
retic adherents of Orthodoxy found
his ballot in the recent Congress elections to be the spiritual, cultural and so- in such abundance in our midst.
and felt relieved that at last he has thrown cial center for the existing ele- The problem before the synagogue
now identified as Orthodox is bow to attract, serve and enlight-
his lot with the movement which presents ments
Jews. For Orthodoxy today is a
them. Otherwise they and their
a solution for the tragedies of the home- broader concept than it ever was en
may be lost to us.
less. Enthused over his new affiliation, he before. We would acknowledge as children
The synagogue is not fulfilling
Orthodox anyone who is not defin-
declared: "My soul is now at peace."
its
historic
task. If it does not
itely associated with another group
Reform Jews who are joining the move- whose religious philosophy or phil- include the Beth Hamidrash (cul-
ture)
and
the
Haknesses (so-
ment for Palestine's reconstruction need osophy of Jewish history is dis- cial) into the Beth
Beth Hatfilah (wor-
There is • difference be-
not be apologetic. On the contrary, they similar.
ship).
tween one who willingly embraces
should feel that they have made peace another religious philosophy and The devaluation of spiritual
with their natural selves.
one who, due to force of circum-
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analiMMInaa.
Strictly
Confidential
the Palestine Labor Party, if the
reports we get front Palestine oie
correct.... It is expected that at
the World Zionist Congress he will
make a solemn declaration, throw-
ing the full weight of his influence
to the Histadruth.... In Lucerne,
where the Congress will be held,
there will take place a very touch-
ing scene.... In the lobby of the
Congress' hall will stand a bust
of Shmarya Levin made by the
late sculptor Moses Dykaar, . ,
The bust will be the gift of Morris
Eisenman to the Haifa Technicum
and it will be presented to that in-
stitution by Dr. Chaim Weizmann
some time this fall. . .. In this
connection let us reminisce it bit.
Moses Dykaar was undoubtedly
one of the most gifted artists of
this century. . . . He made busts
of innumerable celebrities in this
country, among others President
Coolidge, Speaker Long - worth, Gen-
eral Pershing, Champ Clark, etc.
. . But believe it or not, Dykaar
was actually starving..... Being a
sensitive character,
and see ng
i
only a hopeless future—it should
be explained parenthetically that
all these glorious celebrities didn't
feel like paying for their busts but
waited for some friends to pre-
sent them with them—threw him-
self under a subway train. . . .
When they brought the body home
they found a letter from General
Pershing with a check for $5,000.
TRUE
i
R
STORY
happened somewhere in
Yorkville..., One of the boister-
ous Nazis haul insulted a poor East
Sider and was making life miser-
able in the establishment where
both of them worked.... The Nazi
gentleman was considered by his
neighbors the personification of
pure Aryanism. . . . One (lay the
Jewish Daily Forward was deliv-
ered to his home. . . . Our Nazi
merely smiled... The Jewish Daily
Forward kept on coming and when
the Nordic neighbors inquired why
Herr Miller was receiving a Yid-
dish paper the news vendor told
them that Mr. Miller was a sub-
scriber to the Forward. . . . No
protestations helped.. , . The Jew-
ish Daily Forward was delivered
day by day on Miller's doorstep
and Mr. Miller was soon tabooed
by his Nordic colleagues.... This
is how our little East Side victim
got even with his Nazi tormentor.
. . . He had spent his last $4•50
for a year's subscription to the
Forward in the sniffle of Herr
Miller.
HOLLYWOOD
One of these days we will have
to keep out all Hollywood items.
. Our managing editor tells as
that Louis Pekarsky, managing ed-
itor of the Los Angeles B'nai B'rith
Messenger, has been signed up as
the Seven Arts' Hollywood cor-
respondent. . . When Louis gets
going there will be very little left
for us on shadowland scoops. . .
It seems that Louis has made ar-
rangements to practically live in
the studios and hob-nob with all
the famous stars, directors, execu-
tives, etc. . . . The only Jewish
star who can play baseball is
George Jessel.
. Benny Rubin,
the comedian, selected for himself
the job of chairman of arrange-
ments at the recent baseball bene-
fit game between Hollywood big-
shots. . . . Irving G. Thalberg
(these Hollywood items come to
us from Pekarsky in training for
his own column) is most active in
the 1935 campaign for the United
Jewish Welfare Fund in Holly.
wood... . Ruth Slensczynski, the
8-year-old piano wunderkind, will
make her debut on the screen in
"Big Broadcast of 1935." ... Ruth
will play three etudes of Chopin
in that film but has refused to do
Ben-
any Shirley Temple tricks
jamin Warner, father of the fam-
ous Warner brothers, is very proud
of his election as one of the direc-
tors of the Western Jewish Insti-
tute in Los Angeles.... The other
day he presented the Institute with
a Sefer Torah in memory of his
late wife, Pearl Leah Warner... •
Did you know that Louis B. Mayer
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fame 1 ,
now a member of the American
Jewish Committee's executive com-
mittee? ... Unless we are all wet
—and in this temperature it's
quite possible—we understand that
Sally Eilern, the so Irish-looking
screen actress, goes to synagogue
on Yom Kippur and belongs to our
tribe.... It would seem that Fa-
ther Coughlin deserves a medal for
having influenced Eddie Cantor to
devote more time and take marl'
responsibilities in Jewish affairs.
DID YOU KNOW?
Autobiographies of Jewish lead-
trLassz
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The Future of Palestine
By LORD MELCHETT
Spot lolly ront ributed to The Detroit
Jon 1,11 Chronb le
The economic and political fu- existence. There is now for the
ture of Palestine is in danger of first time for some 2,000 years
being jeopardized through a num- a great city life, teeming with
ber of misconceptions which have I social problems, but carrying with
crept into discussion and writing !it, on the other hand, a high de-
concerning the trend of the de- velopment of the fine arts, of the
velopment of the Jewish National , theater, of music, and of all the
Home. These misconceptions other essential factors in a com-
arise, I feel, chiefly through a plete national culture. The eX•
failure to realize the changed treme rapidity of this develop-
aspect of Zionism during recent I ment, intensified as it has been
result of the recrudescence
years. It is no longer possible to as
look upon the Jewish population -of persecution, has created in
of Palestine in terms only of some quarters the impression that
Halutzim in blue shirts and shorts immigration is proceeding mere
and patriarchs with long white rapidly than the capacity of the
beards. The colonization of our leaders of Zionism to establish an
National Home could not per- [adequate degree of social disci-
manently be restricted to the ac- !One and good behavior. Neces-
tivities of a small number of sully, discipline is bound to he
enthusiastic pioneers, who were a little weak in the earlier stage'
prepared to sacrifice the well- of colonization, but during the
being of their normal professions visit to Palestine, from which I
in order to eke out a precarious have just returned, it was ex-
existence cultivating the land of ceedingly gratifying to observe
their forefathers by simple pie- the development of an adequate
Technique for the mastering of
neer methods.
What is developing in Pales- this problem.
tine is a new modern life of tre-
The M•ccabiab Project
mendous force and energy, and
During my stay there took place
which is rapidly expanding as u the second Sfaccabiah, a great
to include all the normal attri- sports festival, in which 9,00 0
butes of modern civilized national
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