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Sabbath Readings of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44:18.47:27
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 37:15-28

Fast of Tebet Readings of the Law, Sunday, Jan. 6

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11-14; 34 :1-10
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8

January 3, 1936

Tebeth 8, 5696

McDoriald's Resignation

James G. McDonald's summary of the
problem of the refugees from Germany,
which accompanied his resignation as
League of Nations High Commissioner for
German Refugees, is the most important
document on the question that has been
published since the advent of Hitlerism;
and his resignation is a most serious in-
dictment of indifference to the entire ques-
tion and to the sufferings of the thousands
upon thousands who have been banished
from Germany by the most brutal govern-
ment in the history of the world. .
Mr, McDonald's proposal for League of
Nations intervention is a repetition of
his previous requests that a definite stand
be taken for political action in the refu-
gee question. Furthermore, he urges that
the solution be sought at its source, in
Germany, and he expresses confidence
that Germany, if appealed to on the basis
of humanity and the principles of public
law, will respond more kindly than here-
tofore.
Whether or not Mr. McDonald is justi-
fied in the latter assumption, his resigna-
tion and the accompanying report are im-
portant documents which should serve to
arouse public opinion on the question of
the refugees. The world has been cal-
loused to misery, with the result that the
appalling indifference on the refugee issue
has handicapped the work of the relief
bodies, Jewish and non-Jewish. By open-
ing up the issue anti making it a matter
of world-wide concern, the retiring League
of Nations High Commissioner compels
the interest of mankind in one of the most
vital issues of the day.
Whoever may be selected to succeed
Mr. McDonald will find himself as help-
less as his predecessor unless the nations
of the world, through the League of Na-
tions, assume responsibility for the refu-
gees and undertake to follow the proposals
made by Mr. McDonald. The world is put
to the test, and only complete indifference
to human suffering can possibly prevent
greater concern over the refugees from
now on.

The Survey on Anti-Semitism

Fortune Magazine reveals unusually in-
teresting figures compiled in a survey
based on the question "Do you believe
that in the long run Germany will be bet-
ter or worse off if it drives out the Jews?"
The following is the published result of
the poll on this question:

Total North- Mid- south- M. west Ion.

YAM p eel Faust West

11.0% 15.1 10.1

' Bettor

worse

Oon't

7.3 14.7

Pet.t

CA 14.t

31.6% 33.1 37.4 00.0 34.4 41.0 11.1

Know

31.1% 34,4 40,0

January 3, 1936

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Perhaps the most remarkable dedica-
tion to the cause of justice for the Jew is
the effort of Irene Harand, a Catholic
woman, who has made it her life work
to conduct the fight against anti-Semitism.
Through the weekly publication, Ger-
echtigkeit, published in Vienna, Mme.
Harand explains the Jew to the Christian
and consistently battles "Gegen Hessen-
hass and Menschennot" — against race
hatred and human suffering.
Mme. Harand's own testament in the
fight against anti-Semitism is:
"Ich bekaempfe den Antisemitismus,
weil er unser Christentum schoendet."
"I fight against anti-Semitism because
it shames our Christianity."
A wider distribution of this German-
language instrument against anti-Semit-
ism will accomplish a tremendous amount
of good, and a similar instrument in the
English language would help consider-
ably in cementing Jewish-Christian friend-
ships and understanding.
To Mme. Irene Harand goes the credit
for having single-handedly undertaken a
most remarkable responsibility in advanc-
ing the cause of good will among nations
and races,

Insane Hitlerism

When a 60-year-old high official of the
Prussian Financial Administration began
to nod and finally fell asleep during an
address delivered by Adolf Hitler in the
Nazi Administrative Building in Berlin,
the incident was reported to the Fuehrer
and the official lost his job.
This is one of the latest evidences of
Nazi insanity on the subject of absolute
submission to the glorified leader.
But this is only one instance, and a
minor one at that, indicating the extent of
insanity in the Reich. From Marienwerder,
Germany, comes the following report,
through the Associated Press:

Local newspapers reported that a 67-
year-old Jew had been [sentenced to a week
in jail for having slapped an "Aryan" school-
boy who had allegedly participated in the
breaking of windows in a synagogue.
The defendants actually served 14 days,
having been in jail that long awaiting trial.
"No Jew has the right to strike a Ger-
man boy," the court said. "The Jew was in
the synagogue when he heard the windows
smash. Ile rushed out, saw a group of school-
boys running and, grabbing one, slapped him,"

Lights from
Shadowland

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TRANSATLANTIC

Poland and other Eastern European land s . He made a study of the plight. of the
Jew. in these lands for the Joint Distribution Committee which with the American
Palestine Campaign is joined in the United Jewish Appeal's effort to raise $3,250,-
000 for the ■ aid of Jews of Germany and other lends and for their settlement in
Palestine.

Copyright,

1936, Seven Art• Feature fUnillrate

I !spent one week this summer with the
Jews of Poland. The poverty that I witnessed
amongst them, I did not believe existed any-
where. There are 3,000,000 Polish Jews,
1,000,000, or one-third of whom are [starving.
The others lead a hand to mouth existence.
They lack the necessities of life. They have
insufficient foot!, insufficient clothing, insuffi-
cient medical care. If not for the German-
Jewish tragedy, their shocking plight would
long have aroused us.

ability of workers to produce usefully, Poland
has too many merchants. Today, there are a
hundred thousand superfluous merchants in Po-
land. The result is that it has become diffi-
cult for all to make a livelihood. Whenever
there is economic suffering in any country, the
Jews are made to bear the brunt of it.

Poland is an old nation established at the
end of the World War on the basis of Wil-
son's principles of self-determination. Terri-
tory was taken from Austria, from Russia and
from Germany to create the Republic of Po-
land, the boundary lines followed were those
of the former Polish kingdom. While the
Poles received political liberty and cultural
autonomy, they inherited economic chaos.
Every section of Poland economically had been
tied up with the country from which it came.
Russian-Poland had a large textile industry,
which had access to the markets of 180,000,-
000 people, inhabitants of the domain of the
Romanoffs. Austria-Poland had been part of
the Austro-Hungarian empire, apd its economic
interests were bound up in the Hapsburg lands.
German-Poland had found its economic salva-
tion in the empire ruled over by the Kaisers.
Suddenly, these three sections of Poland were
wrenched away from their economic ties and
were compelled to make their readjustment at
a time when economic readjustment was difli-
cult.

me that for every 10 positions in Poland, there

Country's Primitive Methods

Poland today is a very poor country, with
a level of living, even for its skilled workers,
which is not much higher than that of a people
on relief in our metropolitan centers. The skilled
textile worker in Warsaw earns a maximum of
$6 per week, in our depreciated currency. When
our dollar was par, this amounted to three dol-
lars and sixty cents. This is the wage of a
skilled worker in Poland's largest city, when the
earnings are greatest. Poland is a country
which has plenty of raw materials for export.
It has wheat, coal, timber, oil, cattle. Its meth-
ods of agriculture are largely primitive. It
needs markets to consume its raw materials, and
capital to develop its industries and resources.
Because of high tariffs, caused by post-war na-
tionalism, it can find no markets. As one Pole
informed me, every European nation desires to
sell its products to other nations without buy-
ing in return. This country, with its 30,000,000
people, its undeveloped resources, its dislocated
industries, must support • very large army, an
effective aviation force, and countless govern-
ment officials. Nine per cent of the Polish people
are officials of the government, and must be sup-
ported by the other 91 per cent, Because the

majority of the Polish people are peasants, the
government, which is a practical dictatorship,
desiring to maintain their goodwill, has placed
the burden for its maintenance largely upon
the urban centers, upon the cdmmercial classes
in which Jews are heavily represented. Because
of inability to find markets for its wares, Po-
land has too many workers, and with the in-

insurance Against Pogroms

Biro Bid jan's Hope for East European Jewry

By JOSEPH A. MARCUS

I:1.11'111r. ',

WEI:: announcement 1,5 the lAtttirl lioteniment that 111ro 111,1Jan
he open to foreign Jron In I1135 haa fortined nttentioo on the pond-
Hitt, litat !tiro IlklAut man beeirte a haten fur the FAN1 European Jew.
oL, cannot he twilled In 1'a/iodine. The author of till, article, oh o
hog
Jito4 loam mulled chairman of the campaign commitiec to
Tatar 1500 ,00 0
for the oeillentent of Fret European Jeff. in 'tiro ItillJan, hoe been Hen-
Wiry, oith world JrwlJ, Itthieni. heron, when Jeohlt itintilgrotIon In
, ,.
Eastern I:urope Itto, toeing fliteried to lialteulon, Truk.. 1r onsi helping

will

While the majority opposes anti-Semit-
Mere; also k1 ■ 011 ■ Ig Jew, arr.. cr)Ing for help In oni
ism, it is interesting to note that 31.4 per
, torn Europe, he
on, there; in Volta. In alraica. In ...elk Africa altereler lie happened to
cent whose answer was "don't know" evi-
tor hr wove In the front Rink, of thus who tried to help warming Jews.
)tans., oho le comdtleret1 mie of .tmerlett's Ir,wling authorillen on
for,Ign tradegenend. I. thy author
dently gave this answer because, as For-
■ 110,1,4 In l'orto
Ri co ,- lb.
s, imientinent reintri swhith f.rnortl oor C.4111
country .
. attention
tune Magazine concludes, people are "re-
upon the deplorable ,
Ir tondltiaato On 11,0,1 P.IniaL
Polish
Jewry's
Anxiety
luctant to voice an out-and-out racial an-
I
St,e11 Alta r,o1., r)n,l 1, RIV I
tagonism."
The Polish-Jewish tragedy, with its
Not so many years ago the word
The statement by Fortune Magazin e, accompanying anxiety over the spread of
It was a grey morning; snow
in comment upon and explanation of i ts anti-Semitic outbursts, continues to haunt "Palestine" had a bad odor in the was leisurely falling from threat-
ening
clouds. A young, lean and
nostrils
of
a
prominent
[section
of
survey, draws this interesting conclusion and frighten Jews everywhere. It is a
tall boy of fourteen could be seen
tragedy compared with which even the American and German Jews. The . pacing
the streets with hands in
Obviously, in no part of the country
happenings in Germany sometimes dwin- word "Zion" had been banished his pockets. He was the leader of
is anti-Semitism at present strong enough to
from
their
prayer
books.
"Leshono
dle into insignificance.
a brigade of fifty-one armed men
count politically. The smallest amount was
one woman stationed in three
to be found in the Southeast and the Wert,
To make matters worse, the amnesty Hobo be'Yerusholaim" could find I and
different homes hidden under
no
place
in
their
hearts
and
minds.
where there are very few Jews. On the other
just granted to 30,000 prisoners in Poland
drawn
window blinds. In his pocket
hand in the Northeast, where 70 per cent
And today those very people
appears to offer a new threat to Jews, in wish
they had not followed the a loaded gun was reposing. A po-
of the American-Jewish population is con-
grom
was
expected in his native
that
many
of
the
persons
freed
had
been
blind leadership. Today even a
centrated, the percentage opposed to the Jews
arrested for their anti-Semitic activities child realizes that had the wealthy town in Russia of the Tsars. In
WIL3 only 15.1, and was actually less than in
his
heart
hope
flickered that all
the Midwest. Most significant answer is the
and for molesting Jews. Whether this and influential Jews of America would be well and
that resort to
Germany contributed their
"don't know" answer, for it probably can be
amnesty will release a new wave of hat- and
armed
defense
of
the Jewish popu-
proportionate share during the
made only out of a complete dispassion about
lation
would
not
be
necessary.
The
red
against
the
Jews,
by
virtue
of
the
free-
past thirty or so years to the build-
the whole subject. It is interesting that this
ing of notorious Jew-baiters, is now the ing of Palestine, when the German mere word "pogrom" brought a
balance wheel of anti-fanaticism, one way or
shudder
to
his
heart
and
mind.
He
cause for new fright among the hounded calamity came there would have could visualize Jewish children
another, is nowhere less than • quarter of the
a place for the oppressed and
entire sample, except on the Pacific Coast,
Jewish communities throughout Poland. been
murdered,
their
little
heads
being
persecuted to lay their weary
and not significantly less even there, that it
hurled against brick walls; he
Polish Jewry's tragedy demands such heads and broken spirits. At least could
outvotes anti-Semitism by generally more
see Jewish women violated
action which will not only provide relief twenty valuable years had been by
than two to one, and rises to a live-to-one
beastly men, parents murdered
for the impoverished Jewish masses in that lost. With the scant help of the in front of their children and chit.
ratio in the West? , By size of place and by
less influential and financially
occupation, diffefences were negligible, ex-
country, but which will also help find a weak
Jews of Russia, Poland, Lith. dren before their parents' eyes. lie
cept that farm hands were far out of line-
haven
of
refuge
for
a
large
portion
of
the
uania,
Roumania, etc. the upbuild- could visualize these and many
20.9 per cent being anti-Jewish.
atrocities to which his people
Polish Jewish population. No relief ef- ing of Palestine went on. And to- other
had been b .
b y th e Tsars
day Palestine is offering a haven
The fact that farm hands are the ones fort can possibly be considered complete and
government
of Russia in other
refuge to the very people—or
T he
who are especially open to hatred is sig- without the linking of these two elements: their relatives--who refused to cities.
fourteen-year-old boy was
nificant both from the point of view of of relief within Poland and the settle- have anything to do with the sub..
the writer of these lines. That was
farm hands Who do not know the Jew— ment of large numbers of Polish Jews jest of Palestine.
elsewhere.
I
am
not
trying,
as
the
old
Jew-
my
first
encounter with the Jewish
because there are so few Jewish farmers
ish adage has it, "to throw salt problem. That experience, which
—and yet hate him, as well as from the
upon the wounds" of German Jew. I shall not now describe in detail,
point of view of the hatred of Jews by
ry. I am not trying to point an brought me into the revolutionary
Donor Luncheons
accusing finger at certain sections movement, fully realizing that the
farmers in sections where Jews have set-
of our American and German solution of the Jewish problem in
tled on the land, perhaps for the reason
There are donor luncheons of all de- Jewry for their stubborn refusal I Russia could come only through
that economic pressure presents the Jew nominations. They started as $25 events. for many years to lend a helping the solution of the problems of all
as a convenient scapegoat.
Pretty soon they were reduced to $10, $5, hand in the building of Pal e stine. other races and nationalities of
It appears to us that the significant fig- $4 and $3 denominations. Last year there I am bringing this question to the that country.
fore as a warning, as a timely re-
Years went by. As an American
ures revealed by Fortune Magazine show was even an event of this type for the minder
that unless the fallacy is citizen I was chosen to serve the
a dormant feeling of dislike which is price of $2.
avoided with regard to Biro-Bidjan, Jewish war sufferers in Europe.
harmless as long as the country is secure
We predict that before long we shall the disasters which are still in As representative of the Joint Dis-
economically. In the event of a serious have bargain rates for such donor lunch- store for world Jewry may find tribution Committee I went to
millions of victims homeless Eastern Europe. The jails and
economic upheaval, there will be much to eons: for as low a charge as $1—with more
and countrylees.
concentration camps of Hungary
fear from the ranks of those who are women refusing to eat because they will
Why Birceliidjaa?
were tilled with Eastern European
Why I am for Biro-Bidjan? Who Jews. Hungary did not want them.
avowedly anti-Semitic as well as from the insist on their entire donations going to
am I that my warning should be Poland was reluctant to permit
"don't know" class, charity.

I

heeded?

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rabbi Isserman recently returned from • trip abroad visit ing Germany,

Among Hollywood's 'Who's Who'
this distinguished Associate Pro-
ducer of Paramount Pictures rates
very high. He is one of the out-
standing playwrights and "motion
picture minds" in Hollywood or
anywhere else possibly. In case you
don't know it, critics rate Glazer
(a native of Philadelphia, l'a.) as
one of the biz best writers in the
United States. Since 1931 he has
been an associate producer with
Paramount, but he usually does a
lion's share of the writing of the
motion pictures he produces.
Benjamin Glazer immigrated to
this country when he was a child
and his family moved to Philadel-
phia. He attended Central High
School and the University of Penn-
sylvania from which he was gratu-
ated with a L. L. M. degree. Then
for six yearn he practiced law.
However, pursuing the course of
Blackstone and that of a I'roctor
in Admiralty did not fill his life
as it should. Glazer began to write
newspaper editorials for the Phila-
delphia l'ress and doing spare time
work as a newspaper reporter
while continuing his legal practice.
It was while doing this work
that he conceived the idea for a
play which he called "The Master."
When he finished it he found to
his joy that it was good enough
for Mrs. II. B. Harris to produce
with Arnold Daley as the star.
With such great encouragement
Glazer threw his law practice and
newspaper work overboard and
went to New York to devote his
time entirely to the theatre. His
first assignment came from the
noted Molnar for whom he adapted
"Liliom," "The Swan" and "Fash-
ions for Men." For the next several
years he was kept very busy with
his playwriting and adaptations.
Then he moved to Hollywood, the
film capital of America, to write
for the motion picture screen.

Dr. Otto Klemperer, conductor
and musical director of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra,
wh has appeared as guest conduc-
tor of philharmonic, symphony and
other orchestras of outstanding
calibre in Hollywood, New York,
Rochester, N. Y. and many other
American cities, was given a nice
piece of sculpture by the Carnegie
Corporation in honor of his part
in commemorating the centenary
of Andrew Carnegie. Klemperer at
the present time is guest conduc-
tor of the New York Philharmonic
Symphony Society. He will return
to Los Angeles in January to re-
sume his duties as leader of the
Sunny Southland's leading orches-
tra.
Here is a strange New Year's
wish. It is that motion picture pro-
ducers will forget her with their
generous offers, because she is too
engrossed in radio, and anyway,
she does not want to go to Holly-
wood. That is how Gertrude Berg's
press representative says she feels
about It, Gertrude Berg, if you
know your radio well, is the author
and one of the leading players in
"House of Glass"—that extremely
popular, fascinating and delight-
fully entertaining serial program
that holds millions of radio listen-
ers everywhere tense with interest
before their receivers on Wednes-
day night. Rumors that the studios
were trying to interest Miss Berg
in a film version of this great
radio feature have been rife for
some time here.

Tidbits from Everywhere

By FERDINAND M. ISSERMAN
Rabbi of Temple beset, St. Louis, Mo.

BENJAMIN GLAZER

NEWS THAT MAY
INTEREST YOU

While this is considered important news
by an American news agency, which
placed the items on its cables for broad-
casting throughout the American conti-
nent, the punishment, and especially the
ruling, are not to be marvelled at, for in
Germany criminals are given better status
in society than Jews.
There may be some, even among un-
biased people, who still doubt that the
Nazis are insane, Then let them read this
fact about Nazi mentality:
Two years ago Juergen Ohlsen was the
"perfect" young Nazi. From hundreds
of Hitler Youths he was chosen, as the
"perfect" young Nordic, to play the lead-
ing role in the film, "The Hitler Lad
Quex." But it has become known that
he might soon be excluded from the Hit-
ler Youth. The reason: he plays tennis
with a Jewish boy.
Lovers of friendly barber shop gossip
will especially resent the Nazi warning
to German barbers and restaurant owners
that they are liable to arrest and with-
drawal of their licenses if they did not
immediately report to secret police any
"subversive talk" among their customers.
One restaurant keeper at Frankfort was
taken into custody for "tolerating conver-
sation hostile to the State" without at-
tempting to put a stop to it or informing
the authorities.
Such is the state of affairs in a land
where the people's mentality has sunk so
low that they stand for the Hitler mania
—the mania which has hypnotized many
people in liberty-loving countries to an ex-
tent of their approving friendly relations
with such a people on a basis of human
equality.

Which Is Worse---Berlin or Warsaw

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

Reproduction In part or whole forbid-
den. 11 /111,001 pormlealon of the Eleven
Art. Feature Syndicate, Copyrighter• of
t /MI feature.

It'om right. 1234, PI A

Strictly
Confidential

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That certainly is the case in Poland.

whom I discussed the Jewish status, informed

are 16 applicants, with the result that Jews
suffer most in the apportionment. The national
democratic party in opposition to the present
government subscribes to the principles of the
Nazi party in Germany. It is anti-Semitic and
seeks to bring about not the curbing or limita-
tions of Jews in the professions, and in indus-
try and in commerce, but the extirpation of all
Jews from Poland. The success of the Nazis in
Germany has encouraged them. It has dissi-
pated in their mind the fear of what they had
believed to be was the Jewish world power. They
have seen that that Jewish world power is myth-
ical, that it has not stopped the Nazis in Ger.
many, and that consequently it is non-existent,
and they need not be affrighted of it. The pres-
ent government, which is the heir of the Pil-
sudski dictatorship, stands for no definite prin-
ciples. The Pilsudski government centered
about a popular personality. Around him, Pil-
sudski gathered laborers and capitalists. Hie .
death has removed that personality from the
party, and left it with no ideology. The result
was that the national democratic party, with its
definite anti-Semitic platform began to gain

ground. To take the wind out of its sails, the
government has declared that it too is anti-
Semitic, and seeks the same end with reference
to Jews as the national democratic party, but
it seeks to achieve them not as Hitler has done,
like a barbarian, but like Europeans. This gov-
ernment has proceeded by a series of decrees
and by a system of taxation, to make the life
of Jews in Poland, already intolerable because of
the poverty of the country, only worse and worse.
It has levied a tax of $10 per year on all mer-
chants. This does not seem to be a large
figure to us, but to a Polish-Jewish merchant,
whose whole stock and trade may be one sack
of potatoes, this $10 annual tax is a tremendous

burden which he could not pay. This tax will
be collected from Jews but not from non-Jews.
The government recently passed laws, which,
when carried out, will eliminate this small
trader. • They require a knowledge that he

he could never have, a minimum of capital that
he could never secure, and thus life would be
impossible for him. Government decrees like-
wise are limiting the number of artisans. The
government is organizing guilds, from some of
which Jews are banned, and has decreed that
only those can remain artisans who were such
in 1922, or else those who serve apprentice.
ships with these accredited artisans. This means
that these Jewish merchants who may be pre-
vented from trading will also be barred from
becoming artisans.

What of Jewe in agriculture? In some sec-

, I'Lltaan WWI TO LAST PA0111

Washington
News Letter

By DR. BENSON Y. LANDIS
NCJC News Service Editor

FASCIST OR COMMUNIST?
As Congress convenes again,
the question faces the people,
"What are we heading for in
the United States?" Someone
who recently asked this ques
-
tion of a number of leaders in
one of our largest religious
bodies received the reply: "Fas-
cism." These leaders deplored
it, but they believed it was
coming.
I think that this at-
titude of pure defeatism.
There are a considerable
number of people who are cer-
tain it is "either Communism
or Fascism" that we are going
to have. Included among
these are many well-known
persons. But why must it be
"either-or?" Are there not
many middle courses, and are
we not acustomed to taking the
middle way in the United
States?
In Washington I find much
opinion to the effect that al-
though we will have our Fas-
cist demagogues—and we have
always had demagogues — that
the great body of the people
will want to have As much pub-
lic discussion and as much de-
mocracy in making decisions as
we possibly can hate.
We might conti;lue in our
present way of hating a gov-
ernment regulated capitalism,
as England has had, for ex-
ample, for a long time. At
least one British visitor re-
minds us that 25 years ago the
British conservatives end reac-
tibnaries protested just as ours
are now doing. They would
go to prison, they said, before
they tested moderate reforms
that would take away,some of
their liberties. But in the end
they accepted the regulations
and, of course, they did not
go to prison.
We might presumably ex-
pand our public enterprises and

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The most intimate friend of the
Prince of Wales is none other than
Arthur Schwartz, the American
composer . . . Schwartz and the
heir to the British throne are to-
gether almost every day and have
been making the rounds of Lon-
don's night clubs . . . England's
brilliant young foreign secretary,
Anthony Eden, has no use for Hit-
ler . Eden first made his mark
in diplomacy by the blunt language
he used in conferring with Der
Fuehrer two years ago ... Vladi-
mir Jabotinsky, would-be fuehrer
of the Jews, is moving the head-
quarters of his Revisionist party
from Paris to London ... Pity the
poor Nazi diplomats ... On orders
from Berlin they have been sen-
tenced to live the lives of hermits
because they must govern them-
selves abroad by the anti-Semitic
laws ... That means that in this
eme ut tt r v ot ihde r
funct i onsa
by Secretary of the Treasury Mor-
genthau and Justice Louis D.
Brandeis Italian Jest's in Pales-
tine are falling all over themselves
to show their loyalty to Il Duce
by donating wedding rings and
other jewelry to the Italian war
fund ... Vienna Nazis now greet
each other with "Heil Selassie" be-
cause the Austrian government has
tabooed the "Veil Hitler" business
. . .

FAMILY AFFAIRS

One of our landsleit is now re-
lated by marriage to George Wash-
ington . . . Dr. Walter H. Kraus
of New York, psychiatrist and
leading authority on Jewish gene-
alogy, has become a landsman of
George Washington by marrying
Victoria Bowe, who is a descendant
of Mary Ball, Washington's moth-
er ... We can also claim the late
Mark Hanna, President McKin-
ley's one-man brain trust, as a
landsman since his granddaughter,
the former Mrs. Charlotte llanna
Hume Merritt, is now married to
Luigi Rothschild, banker, man-
about-town and former Princeton
football star . Rothschild is no
relative of the European Roth-
schild clan ... One of the younger
members of the Montefiere family
of England is getting ready to say
"I do" to a New York showgirl ...
Mrs. John Schiff, granddaughter-
in-law of the late Jacob If. Schiff,
and granddaughter of the famous
banker, George F. Baker, attends
services at Temple Emanu-El in
New York, although she is a Chris-
tian ... Poor old Kingfish Levinsky
is having troubles .. . First his
sister-manager is put into a strait-
jacket and now his fan-dancing
wife divorces him ...

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OLYMPIAN HEIGHTS

Jewish sportsmen in Europe are
running a fever over the decision
of the Ilagibor, famous Czechoslo-
vakian Jewish sports club, to par-
ticipate in the Berlin Olympics ...
The Hungarian Olympic team will
have at least five Jews . . . You
can expect some big developments
in the Olympic situation in this
country as soon as the New Year
festivities are forgotten . . . The
silence of the past fortnight was
only a holiday truce ... Inciden-
tally, Judge Mahoney, leader of
the anti-Olympians, has as his chief
adviser on procedure his nephew,
Quentin Reynolds, the magazine
writer, who recently slit a year
in Naziland .. . Rept s is the
fellow who was the lite, ry ghost
for Putzi Ilanfstaengl, Hitler's
press agent, when Putzi wrote an
article recently for Collier's Maga-
zine

A Little Introspection, Please!

By "MENTOR"

4.1/1711R, \11Tx: The lien, exPII•MoNi In this
eftlannt nor the Peronaal oldnInn•
of the miter and do not nerermelly reprerent the gaol of 41ew of this
PoPer or the agency oirod1.44Ing them.

It seems to me that the most
dangerous assumption we can make
is that our critics are entirely
wrong. To be sure, this is not the
time for our shortcomings or to
offer panaceas for our salvation.
I recall that when Hitler first ap-
plied his anti-Semitic principles
some two years ago, a distin-
guished Christian journal, which
ought to know better, said that
the only safeguard for the Jews
was for them forthwith to accept
Jesus. Apart from the fact that
subsequent events have proved
this thesiry to he full of holes, there
remains the conviction that the
offer was comparable to saving a
drowning man only upon condition
that he bargain his soul in return.
Since that time Christians have
learned a lot, and they have made
no further suggestions in respect
to the conditions upon which the
Jews can be saved from persecu-
tion.

Som. Introspection Needed

Then we might pause to consider
that at a time when the Christian

religious forces are preparing for

a new national campaign against
the evils of liquor, Jews are be-
coming a more and more important
factor in this trade.
And we might also give heed
to the fact that Jewish gangsters
are getting into headlines and
seem to be taking the limelight
away from crooks of other nation-
alities.

Eliminat e These Evils

It will be argued that Jews are
not responsible for the aberra-
tions of individuals, but this is not
a convincing argument to the out-
side world. For since we presume
to act as a group we must be pre-
pared to have the actions of indi-
viduals attributed to the group.
T o be sure, since we ar e
without
a hierarchy we cannot control the
actions of individuals among us.
But we can at least join our Chris.
tian friends in seeking effective
action to eliminate the evils in the
furtherance of which Jews have ■
share. I suspect that our luke-
warmness towards the movie evil,
the liquor problem and the gang.
ster menace originates
out of the
fact that as a group we are largely
immune to their influences. This
is a tribute to our system of educa-
tion and our synagogue training
but it does not absolve us trots
responsibility. Our duty goes be-
yond our own group to the com-
munity at large. And since some
of our own people
are concerned
In these problems we have a double
obligation in the matter.
So I say, let our rabbis thunder
from their pulpits against the
liquor traffic, against the trashi-
ness of the movies and against the
growth of crime. And let them
single out for particular denuncia-
tion thosi Jews who have no far
forgotten their Jewish training as
to assist in the promotion
of these

When confronted with a drown-
ing man one does not pause to
consider that on some remote KC&
sibs he beat his wife and therefore
this should be taken into account.
The immediate urgency is to sav e
him from drowning. So it is to the
credit of our brethren in the
church that they have not tried to
rationalize Hitler's anti-Semitism.
It would therefore appear that in
justice to this attitude and for
our own good we ought to indulge
in a little introspectioon. After all,
it is infinitely more desirable that
reforms come within than as a re-
sult of criticism from without. Let
as not, in our preoccupation with
the Nazi menace. overlook the
dangers here at home.
We might, for example, give
heed to the part which the movies,
largely a Jewish controlled indus-
try, are playing in the destruction
of our ancient virtues. The Legion
of Decency, it is true, has improved
the movies to sonic extent, but the
output of films continues to be re-
presentative of the worst in social evils.
idealism. Moreover, a dangerous
A little prophylactic work now
element has come into the picture
will prevent • lot of trouble later
with the growing injection of red- on.
baiting propaganda in the films.
One does not relish the thought
Sol Kopitko, captain of C. C. N.
that a Jewish-controlled industry
Y.'s Beavers, is one of the finest
is assisting to usher in
a social cagers in the country.
He's two
order which is the antithesis of
everything which Judaism stands inches over six feet, but weighs
for and which is even inimical to only 177 ... And of the first pos-
sible 120 minutes of action, he
the existence of Jews.
played 117S! .. .

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