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ANTI-SEMITES IN
POLAND USE NAZI
BOYCOTT TACTICS
Nation - wide Endek Cam-
paign Against Jews Mod-
elled After Hitlerism
DR. WISE SPEAKS
A Large Group of Jewish
Blinded When
Workers Is Active
HERE ON TUESDAY Jew He Partially
Attempts to Resist
In the Drive
AIM TO REMOVE JEWS
FROM PUBLIC OFFICES
Per Year, $3.00; Per Copy, 10 Cents
DR. WISE ASSAILS POSTAL OFFICIALS PROBE NAZI
To Recognize His Jewish Name INTIMIDATIONS BY
THREATS SENT TO PROFESSORS
An Exclusive Interview With Jean Benoit-Levy, the OLYMPICS LEADERS
Lubitsch of France
Impressario Forced the Nazis
By SAMUEL FREDERICK
JEAN BENOIT•LEVY is France's g
movies director. Now
on • visit to this country, he was Interviewed by • Seven Arts
doff writer. His views are both original and timely,
Condemns Threats of Anti-
Semitism by Sherrill
and Brundage
SAYS JEWS PREPARED
TO BEAR CONSEQUENCE
AT UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
"Tar and Feather" Warnings Mailed from
St. Paul on Stationary of Notorious
Anti-Jewish Organization
Jean Benoit-Levy is a French When I explained to the man that
Alexander Woollcott — two chins my family has been living in Reminds Them of Nazi Ger-
many's Violation of
removed. In the 25 years that France for the last 200 years un-
Hooligans
he has devoted to motion pictdres der the name of Benoit-Levy, and
Moral Codes
In an analysis made of a sub- Lecture Arranged by Sister-
he has acquired the mellowness
stantial group of the special gift
WARSAW (WNS) — Following and amiably droll manner of his that I would not change my name
hood
of
Shaarey
NEW YORK—Dr. Stephen S.
donations to the Detroit Corn-
up the recent epidemic of anti- more rotund American counter- merely because of a possible sue- Wise Sunday politely informed
Zedek
r
munity Fund Campaign, it was
Jewish pogroms, the National Dem- part. But,beneath that somewhat
Brigadier-General Sherrill a n d
found that Detroit Service Group
easy going exterior is a vigorous
Avery Brundage that the Jewish
workers of the Jewish Welfare
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of ocrats (Endeks) have launched a
people would not be intimidated
Federation obtained an increase the Free Synagogue of New York, nation-wide boy c o t t campaign and decisive character, ready to
strike
with
determination
and
by their threats of anti-Semitism
of 83 per cent over last year's president of the Jewish Institute against the Jews modelled in many force.
and
the American people by their
subscriptions. Many of the so- of Religion and of the American respects on that used by the Nazis
attempts to distort the Olympic
It is this phase of his make-up
licitors of this division brought Jewish Congress, will speak at in Germany.
issue
into an effort to deprive the
that
has
made
M.
Benoit-Levy
ill pledges that had been increased Congregation Shaarey Zedek at
In the town of Vlotzlo in
wer the somewhat Of a legend. The fl-
American athlete from an oppor-
from 10 to 95 per cent. Notable 8:15 p. m. on Tuesday. The lecture
Endeks
have
posted
pickets
front
lowing
atory
in
his
own
words
will
tunity to partake in international
among them was the subscription
of Jewish shops and prevent all explain:
athletic contests.
of Alfred Epstein, which was
customers from entering. Notwith-
"I was engaged by a French
Speaking as rabbi of the Free
raised from $50 to $1,000, and
standing
protests
sent
to
the
min-
motion
picture
concern
for
the
Synagogue
in his pulpit at Car-
the corporation pledge of Pfeiffer
inter of the interior the pickets are position of director of the film
negie
Hall, Dr. Wise came to grips
Brewing Co., of which Mr. Epstein
still on guard. -
Another
Nazi
'La
Maternelle.'
When
the
film
with the American representative
is vice-president, which was raised
method was utilized in Plotz where had its premiere in Paris, my job
on the International Olympic
from $250 to $1,500.
the Endeks plastered the houses of was finished because I had abso-
Committee and the president of
Poles known to be patronizing Jews lutely nothing to do with the
A. C. Lappin, deputy labor coin-
the American Olympic Committee,
missioner, who headed the com-
with signs reading: "these houses mercial part of the business. coo.
informing them that Jews, as
mittee in charge of solicitations
buy from Jews." As a result of "One day • few months after
other
Americans, would continue
among Michigan state employees,
the boycott campaign in Lodz, - En- the Paris premiere, the French
to
fight for the preservation of made by Dr. Benjamin E. Lippincott, assistant professor
stated at the report luncheon of
deks raided Jewish stores and producer informed me that a Ger-
the American traditions of sports- of political science, and note exponent of liberal thought,
the campaign held at the Stotler
looted their stocks. man concern would be interested
manship and fair play and would during one of his lectures. The American Jewish World
on Tuesday, that they would
The owner of the Jewish shop, in acquiring the film at very fav-
refuse
to be intimidated. Ile at- reports that the threat did not come to him directly but
over-subscribe their quota and
Abraham Gutter, who tried to in- orable terms. Of course, I
tacked
the allegation that the
raise 120 per cent of the amount
terfere with the hooligans, was delighted that my picture had was
re-
issue
involved
in the question of through a faculty colleague. It was written on one of
asked of them. Mr. Lappin was
partially blinded when they threw ceived such international recog-
American non-participation in the the periodic letters sent out by the Edmonson Economic
l ysol in his eyes. Post officials in
complimented for his efforts and
nition as to be bought even by the
Olympic Games in Nazi Germany Service, 8 Washington Street, New York City, the notor-
the splendid success he achieved
Cracow held a conference at which purified screens of Aryan Ger-
is a Jewish issue, and discussed ious anti-Jewish propaganda organization.
in enlisting for the Detroit Com-
it was decided to call on the gov- many.
General
Sherrill's warning, "that
munity Fund a group that had
ernment to remove all employes of
The threat to Dr. Lippincott
JEAN BtNOIT.LEVy
a great anti-Semitic movement
Must Use His Full Name
hitherto shown only a mild inter-
Orn
Jewish origin. Polish merchants in Nazis
ianstypalu aistr;
will be at hand if Jews proceed
"Fourteen days later, I was
est in yearly campaigns.
i
‘
:r
n
d
ss ifign ia i'l'e Cdhr f irs
Thorn have decided to boycott all
cesa, the German representative in this fight," in the following
wholesalers employing Jews. Lead- visited in Paris by a representa- pulled out his wallet and asked, terms:
ter Dr. Lippincott reported re-
The Jewish Workers
ing cafes in Posen have been forced tive of the German concern who 'How Much?' Naturally, I turned
ceipt of the threat, President
Members of the Detroit Service
Calls Prediction False
to dismiss their Jewish musicians proposed to me that I should drop him out of my apartment in the
Coffman revealed that he, too, had
Group, the fund-raising organiza-
"If thii extraordinary predic-
because of the anti-Semitic boycott. the word, 'Levy,' from my name most decisive manner.
been
threatened, apparently by
tion of the Jewish Welfare
tion of Mr. Sherrill's be true as
and just call myself 'Jean Benoit'
DRL STEPHEN S. WISE
the same source. In some in-
Federation, and of the Detroit
"A few months later I re- I believe it to be false and insult-
as far as the German presentation
Jewish community as a whole, is to be given under the auspices New Anti-Semitic Excesses in of 'La Maternelle' was concerned. ceived press clippings from Ger- ing to the intelligence and the "Behind the Scenes in Wash- stances, the American Jewish
Poland
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said, the threats carried
worked in the Community Fund of the Sisterhood of Shaarey Ze-
ingon
tonT"tietosdBaey, HNio
character of the American people,
s vT h1e2me oriel .
WARSAW (WNS)—A new out-
warning of "tar and feathers"
Campaign as division heads, cap- dek.
then neither he nor we would be
break of anti-Semitic excesses
unless the recipients abandoned
tains and solicitors in the field.
The topic of Dr. Wise's address wh
able to avert such an anti-Semitic
their anti-Nazi views. Although
Many were allied with the special will be "Is the American Jew de ich has already resulted in the
movement. But I Bay to Mr.
Czech Rabbis Re-Admit
William Hard, veteran Wash- once o of ffm ta h n e atnhdreL
atiappitnhcoottlew
gifts division. Others worked in Safe?" In view of the spread of at ath of one Jew and injuries to
tteerres
Sherrill and Mr. Brundage, and
least
200
others
is
sweeping
n tm
urin n e im
d iz oe, e r t he thim pp o o st r a tl -
trade and professional units. Nazi propaganda in this country, ov
Apostates to Judaism to such others as breathe similar ington correspondent, will lecture hinacvleinebdeeto
!
er Poland. Notwithstanding
before
the
Temple
Forum
at
Among them were: Mesdames this address is considered of special
threats, if standing for the honor
the fact that Marjan Zyndram
Temple Beth El nest Tuesday have C
Douglas Brown, Leo M. Butzel, significance at this time.
PRAGUE (WNS)—The rab- of civilization, for the elementary night
Ko scialkowski, the new premier,
at e, 8
o ' clock. officials.
Maurice J. Caplan, Joseph H.
binate of Czechoslovakia has rig ta of mankind is to call forth His ,
Lewisohn's Tribute to Willa
is
a noted liberal and has a Jew- Attorney Was Prominent in set up a special bureau at the an anti-Semitic movement, then
subject will
11 b "Behind d otchke.
Ehrlich, Hugo A. Freund, Fred
Dr. Wise is not only one of the ish wife, the government has
Ginsburg, Samuel Glogower, John outstanding Jewish leaders in this
Local B'nai B'rith
rabbinical seminary in Press- decent self-respecting Jews will
Battle Against Olympics
A. Heavenrich, Albert Kahn, Wal- country, but is also-recognized as cla mped down a censorship on
burg to deal with the hundreds be prepared to accept and to bear Scenes
Mr. in
Hard
Washington.'[
has written the fol-
Activities§
The battle against the holding
ter Leib, A. J. Levin, Theodore one of the leading Jewish thinkers Se ws of this wave of terror
of requests from German Jew- ,Abe _ consequence. They will not lowing brief but significant au- of the Olympic Games in Ber-
snbiss
,,
Levin, Oscar Robinson, Abe Srere, in the world today. In Ludwig ag ainst the Jews. Seeping through
.
The death of Nathan D. Metz- ish converts to Christianity to suffer themselves to be deterred —
lin continued to rage this week,
thi s censorship come reports of
•
Sidney Stone, Harry L. Jackson, Lewisohn's newest volume,
ger, at the age of 38, on Sunday be taken back into the Jewish from the right as they see it, be- n " Myfather was a clergyman, as General Sherrill remained
"Re-
an
attack
on
the
Jews
of
Dubrow
Joseph Magidsohn, Henry Wise- birth—A Book of .Modern Jewish
fold. Although the rabbinate is cause of un-American and un- and I have been preaching ever adamant in his insistence that the
evening,
at
Harper
Hospital,
came
by
a band of Endeks, the death of
man, David S. Diamond, Sidney Thought," Dr. Wise's views are
since. My first games will take place in Germany.
a ebrew teacher in Lublin from as a shock to his many friends faced with numerous complica- sportsmanlike threats."
H. Marwil, Sidney Weisman, An- represented by a reprint of his 25th inj
and co-workers in the community tions because most of these con.
New adherents were gained,
recollection is
Gen. Sherrill was taken to task
drew Wineman, Louis Sobel, Miss anniversary Free Synagogue ad- ing uries suffered when Jew-bait- projects he was interested in. Mr. verts married Christian wives
of being ston- however, by the efforts of the op-
Sadie Netzorg and Miss Emma dress. Mr. Lewisohn prefaces Dr. str hoodlums assaulted him in the
and have children born as further for his use of letters
and many outstanding
eet, and injuries to 150 Jews
Butzel.
ed in the position,
Christians, scores of these Jew- written to him in June of 1933,
Wise's address with the following in Klabutzki and to 60 Jews in
Christians again voiced demands
ish apostates have been re-ad- by Dr. Wise and Bernard S.
street of M- that Americans should boycott the
The solicitors included: Sidney remarks:
Tres skalas.
Deutsch,
then
honorary
president
mitted to Judaism. The rabbi-
mir, Ind i a, Olympics because to meet for a
Alexander, Mau rice Aronsson,
"Although the position of Rabbi
nate here is also besieged by end president of the American
along with my sports carnival in Berlin means
Morton F. Ashner, Irving W. Wise in American and Jewish life
Aryan German girls who want Jewish Congress, congratulating
father because encouragement to Nazi brutality.
Blumberg, Louis C. Blumberg, is rather that of leader and states- F
Sherrill on the vigor and the valor
r
to
become
Jewesses
in
order
to
he insisted on
Fred NI. Setae!, M. J. Caplan,. man than that of thinker, no book
Unlike other college publica-
of his demand that Germany
be
able
to
marry
Jews.
The
trying to wor- tions which went on record op-
Harry Cohen, Irwin I. Cohn, Jos-lof
this
kind
cou
l
pledge non-discrimination against
d dispense with the
Aryan girls assert that under Jews
William Hard ship in a Mo- posing the sending of American
eph II. Ehrlich, Clarence 11. Eng- authority of his voice and charac-
in sport,
the influence of Nazism many
h ammedan teams to Germany, the Yale
gass, Charles Feinberg, Ben M. ter. Dr. Wise was born in Budapest
Congregation Shaarey Zedek's
German young men have become
Returning to the allegations di- mosque, after having first taken D aily News of New haven, Conn.,
Fenton, Rabbi Leon Fram, Dr. Leo in 1874 and graduated from Co- late Friday night services are be-
rect and implied, made by Gen. his shoes off in the Mohammedan publishes
brutalized.
an editorial in which
AL Franklin, Harry Barnett, Wil- lumbia University in 1892. He ing continued, 'with Rabbi A. M.
Sherrill 'and Mr. Brundage that way. They thought that this was it asserts that it has "as little
ham Friedman, Marvin B. Gin- I served various congregations be- Hershman alternating with visit-
this is a Jewish issue, Dr. Wise too progressive for a Christian sympathy with the Nazi dictator-
gold, Fred A. Ginsburg, Ilarvey tween 1893 and 1907, when he ing speakers in delivering the
declared, "If ever there was an missionary. I have tried to be ship
H. Goldman, Max Lowenstein, founded the Free Synagogue of addresses. Cantor J. H. Sonen-
as the most fanatical of its
American issue it is at stake here more considerate of conservative opponents,"
but nevertheless op-
Theodore Levin, J. J. Marks, Wil- New York. He is the founder and klar, assisted by the choir, con-
end now. For in the presence of sensibilities ever since,
ham Mazer, Jacob Mazer, Nathan president of the Jewish Institute of duct the services, and a social
poses
the move to keep the Uni-
Gen. Sherrill the Nazi regime at
Journalist and Reformer
Milstein, Charles Robinson, Dr. Religion and the founder of the hour follows the address of the
d
States
outThe
etheedBietorrliina101sa
ymys-
Nuremberg did not as much insult
Saul Rosenzweig, Abe Satovsky, Zionist Organization of America. evening.
" My father was an American, pie G
Alex Schreiber, Abe Srere, Na- But these outer facts are only sym-
and offend
and hurt Americans
Jews, as it but because of his travels I was that "those opposed to American
The speaker scheduled for this
violated
everything
thaniel Goldstick, Harry S. Grant, bobs of the moral power that have Friday evening, Nov. 8, is Rabbi
do not limit them-
$500,000 Drive to Be Offic- hold dear. To say as these gen- brought up in British schools as participation
Israel Himelhoch. Jesse F. Hirsch- made Stephen Wise the most com- Aria S. Hyams of the Bayside
do that Jews are asking well as in American ones. The selves to this, the only relevant
ially Launched at All-Day tlemen
mi', Ben Kramer, Abe Kasle, mending figure in the whole his- Jewish Center, Bayside, N. Y.
bigger
boys used to beat me over issue" which is the "confusion of
the American people to pull their
Julian H. Krolik, Maurice Landau, tory of the American rabbinate and His topic will be "A Faith For
Conference in N. Y.
chestnuts out of the fire is to there for talking with an Amer. political issues with matters per-
Robert R. Marwil, Gas D. New- one of the pre-eminent leaders of the Living."
ican accent, and the bigger boys taining to sport."
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man, Kurt Peiser, Meyer Prentis, world Jewry and of the Zionist
Confronted with the task of se-
used to beat me over here for
NEW YORK—Over 1500 per-
Judge Charles Rubiner, Samuel movement. Ile has gained this Posi - '
having picked up some traces of lecting students for the annual
sons, representatives of more than
NATHAN D. METZGER
H. Rubiner, Nate S. Shapero, Lion by the uncompromising pas- FRANKLIN TO ANALYZE
the British accent. Thus I bear scholarships offered by the Ger-
metropolitan organizations,
THE SOUL OF DETROIT Sfetzger had been ill since Rosh 500
Aaron M. Pregerson, Isaac Shet- sion of his convictions; by his stnt-
i
have signified their intentions of
on my body the marks of the man government, Vassar College,
zer, Simon Shetzer, Louis Sobel, less love of his people and of hu- IN SERMON ON SUNDAY Hashonah.
Anglo-Saxon Alliance.
in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., is cast-
attending the official launching of
Max . Silverman, Louis Stoll, munity; by his unsparing spending
—
the
$500,000
American
ORT
Cam-
•
"I was graduated from North- ing about for some way of deter-
services took place at
Sidne Stone, George Stutz, Mel- of himself for the causes that he Replying to an article appear- 2 p. Funeral
m. on Tuesday from Lewis paign this Sunday, Nov. 10, at Congregation B'nai David, Elm- western University, which then mining whether or not it should
ville S. Welt, Henry Wineman, has embraced. His undiplomatic ing in a current magazine under Bros. Funeral Home. 13urial
which David A. Brown, national burst and Fourteenth Sts., an- had • rotten football team, with accept these scholarships this
FM
(PLEASE TURN TO LAST PAGE)
impetuosity and the occasional con- the title, "Detroit the D amic " in Cloverhill Park Cemetery.
year in view of public sentiment
chairman of the campaign, will be flounces that on Friday evening,
•
Phi to Beta
Kappa
key I and
tradictoriness of his political views in which the spirit of as cont- Rabbi A. M. Hershman officiated welcomed back from a six weeks' Nov. 16, it will open its season a
key
anything
else.
went no to against the Nazi regime. An nn-
end policies are but the necessary munity is bitterly criticized, Dr. and the B'nai B'rith, Knights of tour of inspection of ORT activi- of Friday night gatherings to work
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on the Chicago Tribune and PLEASE
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defects of his, spiritual gallantry Leo M. Franklin will speak at Pythias and Masonic rituals were ties abroad, Mr. Brown returned continue through the winter and work
simultaneously mans g e d the
and wholeness 'of heart. Though ■ Temple Beth El on Sunday morn- used at the services.
from Europe this Wednesday on spring months. As introduced last Northwestern University Settle.
professional orator of very high ing, Nov. 10, under the title,
the S. S. Champlain year these gatherings are of a ment, thus combining journalism
A ritual committee consisting
distinction, he nearly always, as "Detroit the Dynamic—An An-
cultural andsoc
The conference,
aind n aarteure intreasdsd
social
rather life. reform. It's a long, tough
of President Jose
Maurice Samuel has admirably put alysis of a - City's Soul."
both
morning an which
will have
afternoon
mes- than religious
Goldberg, Jacob M Ph ille Srtau M baxE
l
E
is
d
a, 'transcends his oratorical train-
- Alone, will be held in the grand ball- to provide a spirit of "oneg "I became assistant to the Corn-
Questioned in regard to his wards and Rabbi Harry , Z,
Gordon
Will Speak Under Auspices ing and catches at the inmost, treatment of the subject, Dr. participated in the funeral A
sere- room of f the Hotel Pennsylvania. Shabos" to the Jewish community missioner of Public Works of the
unuttered needs of his audience , Franklib said that a •
Other speakers will be B. Charney of Detroit, it was stated. City Government of Chicago,
of League of Women's
hile may
in the
so that at moments it may be said article referred to there
be ices held on Nov. 5.
Vladek, general manager of the
Last season these gatherings lived in a tenement house in stock Villard Delivers First Ad-
Organizations
•
Community's Tribute
of him that a people takes shelter some element of truth, on the
essish
Daily Forward and peen. met with a popular response. In yards district. I learned quite
dress in Series at Cong.
in his voice.' Beneath the fiery pub- whole it is not true that Detroit
■
A great tribute was paid the dent of the American ORT, and accordance
with the precedent of lot about politica as practiced.
Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, outstand- licist, speaker and leader, more- as • city has no sense of higher deceased when many hundreds Louis B. Boudin, acting chairman
Shaarey Zedek
lag season a program will be of- This is very serviceable to any-
ing American Jewish woman over, there is a human being of ex- values.
came to the funeral services to of the organization. Dr. Henry C. f ered in the social hall following body intending to come to Wash-
leader, will be the guest of De- traordinary sweetness, capable of
Before an audience of 600 as-
The services at the Temple will pay final honors to the departed. Moskowitz will preside.
lecture. These social programs ington and report politics as pro- sembled in the auditorium of Con-
troit's Jewish women on Tuesday, the grace of humility, of the ab- begin, as usual, at 10:45. All
Pallbearers were Nate S. Sha-
In the course of his tour, Mr. the
will include prominent soloists, teased.
Nov. 26, when she will address
(M.EASE TURN TO PAGE I)
re tion Shaarey Zedek, Sunda
gga
are welcome.
( PI.EARIC TURN TO PAGE
pero, Dr. Sol G. Meyers, Aaron
dramatic readings from Yiddish
"I began to do magazine writ- evening, Nov. 3, Oswald Garrison y
the first meeting of the year of
OPPOSITE EDITORIAL)
Rosenberg, David Kabaker, Jack -
IPLEASE TURN TO PAGE I)
(PLEASE TURN TO PAOE I)
the League of Jewish Women's
Rosenberg and Sam Sternberg.
Villard, former editor and present
Organizations.
Mr. Metzger is survived by his JOINT
- consulting editor of the Nation,
w idow, Mrs. Ruth Metzger; a son,
Mrs. Kohut, author of "My
and a', outstanding leader of
Portion" and "As I Know Them,"
Morton Stanley; his mother. SIrs.
American liberalism, opened the
J ohanna H. Metzger, and a
is the president of the World Or-
Men's Club Forum season with
ganization of Jewish Women. She
brother, Dr. Harry C. Metzger. He
an address on the subject, "A
is honorary vice-president of the
lived at 2530 Pingree Ave.
By LUDWIG LEWISOHN
Liberal Looks at the Jews."
National Council of Jewish Wom-
Was
President
of
Pisgah
The speaker was introduced to
en and ■ member of the execu-
Thl• column le copyright by the Seven Arta Feature gredicate RIP
the audience by Philip Slomovita
Born in Detroit on July 4,
tive council of the Bureau of
priolortion In whole or In part etrictly forbidden. Any intriagemewl eel
1897,
Mr.
Metzger
was
a
member
editor
of the Detroit Jewish
Me copyright will be Prowewted.
Jewish Social Research.
of Pisgah Lodge of B'nai B'rith,
Chronicle, who referred to Villard
During the war Rebekah Kohut
Perfection Lodge No. 486, F. &
as
"one
of
our outstanding friends
served u • $1 a year woman on
A. M., Michigan Sovereign Con-
in the international Jewish crisis,"
othe rwise than by appealing to sistory and Moslem Temple of the
the Mayor's Committee on Na- "PROVINCIALISM"
and quoted Jacob Billikopf of
Arnold Zweig, the eminent novel- that snob who dwells so universally Shrine; Odd Fellows, Knights of
tional Defense, in New York.
Philadelphia to the effect that
The Hon. Frances Perkins, ist and Zionist, not to be contused in th e human heart—very well, let Pythias, Detroit Bar Association,
"Villard s face gets red when Jew-
United States secretary of labor, with Stefan Zweig, the manutee-
se that method. Better to be Congregation Shaarey Z e d e k,
ish atrocities are mentioned."
said of her: "Mrs. Rebekah Ko- turer of best-sellers, pseudo-porno- snob bish about things Jewish than Brandeis Executives and Knoll-
A People Oa the Way
hut has been one of the outstand- graphic and otherwise — Arnold to be ■ an ashamed Jew trying to wood Country Club. Ile was a
The Joint Distribution Commit- curate with the great need, nor did tine upbuilding."
Mr. Villard opened his address
ing women of her generation. Zweig used to say to me: "Aha, so "ma ke ' ■ club that doesn't want member of the law firm of Rosen-
with ghetto,
• gripping
description
of the
tee
and
the
American
Palestine
they
measure
up
to
what
was
ex.
I
The
statement
declared
that
the
Vilna
which
he visited
in
She has made a great contribution and so is a Zionist snob! We are Jews . Moral health like physical erg and Metzger.
Campaign, which have for the past peeled of American Jewry."
I joint campaign of the past two 1922, contrasting the filth and
to programs for social betterment beginning to develop ■ snobbish- heal> h bas its degrees. It is better He served two terms as presi- two years conducted joint drives
Discussing
the plan of
individual
years
had developed
"a larger
of community life, both in this nest of our own. And that, the hu- to be on some read to recovery than dent of Pisgah Lodge and only under the auspices of the United campaigns
the statement
issued
by spirit
of cooperation
between
the squalor of its denizens with the
Jewish Appeal, for relief and reha - the officers
country and abroad. She has man animal being what it is, that i n bed. • • •
remarkable homage and acclaim
of the United Jewish
recently was appointed as re- bilitation of Jews in Germany
and
Appeal
said:
given impetus to many civic or- is a good sign. It means that to
partners in the campaign," pro. accorded by the Polish officialdom
gional director of
e B'i
during • keener sense of "solidarity to Sholom esach, American-Jewish
ganizations and institutions re- SOW people Jewish things and
Gradually, however, I have seen B'rith. Ile had also [served has other lands and for their settle-
campaigns
of the advantages
of sera- and responsibility's in local emu- novelist, To Villard the ghetto
lated to the problems of labor." Jewish notions are beginning to as- another kind of social phychology worthy patron of Purity Chapter, ment in Palestine, will conduct in- rate One
was that both
the' munities.
A committee of all faiths. sume the glow of an even worldly come over certain segments of cur No. 386, of the Order of Eastern
'scene euggested
fund-raising campaigns Joint Distribution Committee and' This action will go into effect novel—the
eterna a theme for •
headed by Fanny Hurst, the nov- desirability." He was right. He peep le. And that is • Jewish pro- Star, for several years, and in dependent
for these purposes in 1936, it was the American Palestine Campaign January, 1936. In the meantime all
l str uggle and
elist, is at present arranging a was exactly right. We have to takelvinci alism or, rather, an intense 1925 was the Grand Noble of announced following a meeting of would be free to intensify their
. .
self - denial of the Jew as he
un. les still engaged in rals - reaches out roe new
golden jubilee dinner as a tribute people after all, they are. And Jewi sh parochialism. That, as the Detroit Lodge, No. 128, of the the Executive Committee of the special appeals and could enlist in
moorings in
log funds for the 1935 programs America.
Un Tih ted
is sJ et ew es is h ssaA s
to Mrs. Kohut in recognition of Jews are people, If there are Jewslcurre nt phrase goes, is not so good. L 0. 0. F.
their particular efforts
p bp ae sa ed l. on the con- supporters for their respective
who cannot be emancipated from That constitutes a real danger. It
additional will continue their efforts under Characterizing
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Mr. Metzger was the son of elusion that "the PERU raised
pro. the joint auspices. To date
the Jews as •
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the Ghetto of the mind and soul
have
,
grams
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in
the
700 "people on the way," aggressive,
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n,td of European
aid communities
have e....
already
eontri- sensitive, imbued
with a
not shown an increase commen- I and reconstruction
and of Pales-1
rete•me vo-se
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CONTINUE BATTLE TO KEEP
AMERICANS FROM OLYMPICS
Sherrill Sticks to his Stand, but New Converts
Are. Gained in Movement to Boycott
Games if Held in Berlin
MINNEAPOLIS (WNS) — United States
postal authorities here are investigating the
source of a series of threatening letters re-
ceived by Dr. Lotus D. Coffman, president of
the University of Minnnesota, and at least
half a dozen members of the university's
faculty, because of their anti-Nazi stand.
First disclosure of receipt of such threats was
HARD TO LECTURE
AT TEMPLE FORUM
•
METZGER IS DEAD
AT THE AGE OF 38
riday Services
At Shaarey Zedek
CAMPAIGN OF ORT
TO START SUNDAY
B'nai David Opens
Its Friday Services
MRS. KOHUT TO BE
HERE ON NOV. 2.6
MEN'S CLUB FORUM
OPENS ITS SEASON
THE WORLD'S WINDOW
DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE AND AMERICAN
PALESTINE CAMPAIGN TO HAVE SEPARATE DRIVE
Important Statement Announces Severing of Relations; Action
Based on Conclusion that "Sums Raised Have Not Shown
Increase Commensurate With Great Need"