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TREASRODAWIRIARONIGIA

January 3, 1936

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE.

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that we pay $200 in cash, which
will help defray the cost of trans-
porting them the long distance to
Biro-Bidjan, to transport their be-
longings, to feed them en route in
the din' cars, to provide a medi-
cal car :ith doctors and nurses
and to take care of them during
the initial days of their settlement
in the new country. The new sett-
lers would not have to shift for
themselves. Homes would be ready
for them ; work wouldbe awaiting
them—work in agricultural co-
operatives or in industrial enter-
prises, in schools, in libraries, in
laboratories, on roads, etc., etc.
The territory of Biro-I3idjan is
filled with mineral resources un-
touched by the human hand. It is

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them to return to their former
homes; neglected Palestine was
not able to receive them. There was
a problem for us! Heartrending
scenes were daily enacted before
my eyes. Sleepless nights followed.
And the for three years I acted
as reconstruction director for the
Jewish war sufferers in Eastern
Europe. The tens of thousands of
Jews who had been driven into the
interior of Russia by the evacuat-
ing Russian armies during the war,
were now returning to their ruined
towns and hamlets in Poland,
Lithuania, Latvia, and Roumania.
My job was to help rehabilitate
them; to help them return to a
normal existence. Day and night
the work went on. But in my in-
nermost heart I knew that at best
what I was doing at the behest
of American Jewry was mere
patchwork. Yes, I confess that I
helped to build a house on the
sands of the desert. A wind would
come, I knew, and the whole struc-
ture would be blown away.
Came the Hurricane
The wind has come. Nay, a hurri-
cane has come. The destruction be-
gan while we were still in the proc-
ess of what we thought was the
rebuilding the lives of thoge brOken
people. It has been gaining in mo-
mentum as the years succeeded
each other. Poland does not want
within her midst the three and a
half million of Jews. Lithuania
does not want her 150,000 brilliant
and scholarly Jews, Roumania,
Latvia, Hungary—they are not
wanted in those lands. It is only
a matter of time before calamities
similiar to the one now raging in
Germany will overtake them in
JOSEPH A. MARCUS
Eastern Europe. Reports of po-
groms in Poland are once again for our Jews to exploit and enjoy
tilling newspapers; reports of the the fruits of their labor. Its fertile
economic destruction of the Jews soil assures foodstuffs. Its timber
are becoming as familiar as the resources insure construction ma-
aerial.
weather reports.
Its coal' in the bowels of the
Where is the remedy? To bring
it about within Germany, Poland, earth insure fuel for the warmth
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of
their homes and power for their
and other countries of oppression
is not within our power. A com- iindustries. Over two hundred riv-
plete overhauling of the economic ers—in addition to the two main
political and social conditions must ones, Biro and Bidjan, from which
take place before the Jews of those the territory derives its name—are
countries will be safe in their filled with the most wonderful fish
homes, in their economic existence species, which are so abundant that
for many, many years to come the
and in their cultural lives.
I had foreseen that during my greater portion of the catch will
years in the service of the Joint have to be sold, canned or frozen,
Distribution Committee. Any one i in the interior of Soviet Russia.
in my place could have foreseen The substantial gold deposits prom-
that. I often spoke about it to my ise the development of a huge in-
dustry which will bring wealth to
superiors. 1 had warned them that the
Republic.
at least one hundred thousand
Even if it were necessary to
heads of Polish Jewish families
would have to be removed from fight for the possession of such
Poland forthwith. Latin America desirable territory for the creation
offered some opportunities at that of a Jewish homeland, it would
time. As former Latin American have paid us to make sacrifices for
Expert in the U. S. Department the sake of a future fatherland
of Commerce, I undertook to write for the wandering Jews of Eastern
a series of books on the various Europe. But we are not called upon
Latin American countries where murder any one, we are not asked
East European Jews could settle. to push out any one, we are not
Our leaders. however, thought it asked to deprive any one of his
inadvisable to uproot those Jews possessions. And in the event of
from their ancestral moorings in danger from outside, there is the
Europe. Our leaders had been mighty army of the nation of 170,-
lulled to sleep by the sweet prom- 000,000—the citizens of the sister
ises incorporated in the League co- republics of the Soviet Union—
venant, by the pledges of the ready and willing to protect the
newly-formed states that they safety, integrity and peaceful de-
would treat their minority races velopment of the first Jewish re-
fairly. It apparently dawned upon public in the history of the world.
Can you, can I, can any Jew in
them that those treaties would be
scraps of paper even before the the world afford to ignore this
historic
opportunity?
ink was dry on the signatures of
the pledging nations. Meanwhile,
Every dollar we may give for
Latin America has followed the the upbuilding of Biro-Bidjan,
example of our own United States every Jewish family from Eastern
and has slammed the doors tight. Europe we may help to settle there
Latin America no longer offers an is a premium payment on an in-
opportunity for Jewish settlement, surance policy against possible dis-
asters from which the Jews of no
Jewry Pays in Suffering
East European Jewry is now country, except the Soviet Union,
paying in suffering, privation, in are free. Five nr four years ago,
humiliation and persecution for German Jews thought they were
our blunders of recent years. But immune from such calamities as
in the midst of this seemingly used to befall Russian and Polish
hopeless situation, a ray of hope Jews in the past. "Oh, no!" they
began to shine a short time ago. insisted, "In our Deutschland such
The great power of Soviet Russia, things could not happen. We are
after six years of exploration and Germans, and ours is a civilized
search by their leading scientists, country." We now know how civil-
has, set aside a territory as large ized Germany is. The wholesale
RA Belgium and Holland put to- destruction of German Jewry is a
gether, for the creation of a Jewish warning to us all. The sinister
autonomous republic to be known forces are present everywhere.
as Biro-Bidjan. The first Jewish Present economic chaos in many
republic in the world is to rise in countries makes it necessary to
the land where a nation of 170,- have an economic scapegoat. The
000.000 peoples of many races and Jew has heroine the historic scape-
nationalities have forever emanci- goat for those who wish to hold on
pated themselves front an oppres- to their power and for those who
sive political and economic system, are too ignorant or too hungry to
a system where brother was pitted think or reason.
against brother, where race was
So in answer to the question:
set upon race to destroy, to hate, "Why are you for Biro-Bidjan?"
and to kill.
I can only say that it is because
A Jewish Republic is being built I am concerned with the fate of
in Biro-Bidjan where Jewish cul- world Jewry, because the territory
ture will live and drive and not set aside for the Jewish Autonom-
merely be tolerated. A Jewish Re- ous Republic has been acknowl.
public is to rise with the aid of a edged by scientific research as
government willing and eager to highly desirable in every way, be-
spend hundred of millions of its cause of the wholehearted co-opera-
money to help build that new tion of the Soviet Government,
State! A government, which, ac- without which this huge task could
cording to the Joint Distribution not have been carried out, and be-
Committee, has not only lived up cause Biro-Bidjan is destined to
faithfully to its pledges given become a haven and a refuge for
when the colonization of Jews was oppressed and persecuted Jews.
started in Crimea and Southern
Let us learn from the mistakes
Russia, but which spent ten times of the past. Let us not again be
as much as the pledges called for. caught unawares. Let us help ac-
In our wildest dreams, could we celerate the building of Biro-Bidjan
have foreseen this?
and thereby increase the possibili-
Even if the building of the Jew- ties of absorption of greater and
ish autonomous republic in Biro- over greater numbers of East
Bidjan were intended only for the European Jews.
four millions of Russian Jews, it
Let us pay our premium on the
would have been an epoch-making best insurance policy that has
event in the tragic history of the ever been offered to us—Biro-
Jews. But the Soviet government Bidjan!
is doing beyond that. The Soviet
Government has extended a help-
ing hand to the non-Russian Jews Congregation B'nai Zion
of Eastern Europe to come and
Holds Chanukah Banquet
settle in Biro-Bidjan on the same
terms and enjoying the same privi-
The 11th annual Chanukah ban-
leges as the Russian Jews. The quet of Congregation B'nai Zion
American Committee for the Settle. was well attended by members
ment of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, of
their friends. Music was sup-
which the Hon. William W. Cohen, and
by an orchestra.
former Congressman from New plied
I.
Sosnick, vice-president, was
York, is Chairman, has accepted
toastmaster
of the affair. Rabbi
a charter from the Soviet Govern- I. Stollman delivered the prin-
ment allowing the settlement of cipal address. Charles Newman,
1000 Jewish families from Eastern
Europe during the year 1936. This treasurer spoke. J. Kaplan en-
tertained with songs. A dance
is only a beginning. As the forests
followed.
are cleared away by the pioneers
The banquet was arranged by
working with the meet modern
Ladies Auxiliary.
Thanks
the
machinery supplied by the Soviet
Government, as the land is pre- were expressed by the officers of
congregation
to
the
president
the
pared for the steady hand of the
Jewish farmer, as roads and homes of the ■ auxiliary, Mrs. L. Blumen-
are built, more and more thousands au, and her assistants, Mrs. G.
of non-Russian Jews will be al- Cohen, Mrs. Krakowsky, Mrs.
lowed to come to their new home- Stewart, Mrs. Sosnick, Hellman,

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land.

And what does the Soviet gov-
ernment ask for us to make this
settlement of Jews possible? That
we bring the family, regardless of
the sae, to the Russian border,
that they be in good health, and

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turn of mankind to the servile
state. For the servile State and
consent to the servile State,
whatever its flag, avowed purpose,
paper ideology—that is black re-
action. My truth is unpopular to-
day. Precisely that speaks for it.
The needed truth is always un-
popular. But I 8111 not the only one
that cleaves toit. Horace Meyer
Kellen writes: "The inhabitants
o f Russia, the inhabitants of Italy
and especially the inhabitants of
Germany, live subject to a rule
which could teach something of
tyranny to the most heartless ori-
e ntal potentate ... Russia is now
a servile state ... both Italy and
Germany are servile states." Let
me end here with definition. Any
political or economic order which
entails the erection of the servile
State is reactionary per se. It
flings man back into the undif-
ferentiatts1 mass of prehistory. It
brings back the herd and apothe-
osises the oligarch. I shall not bow
the knee to that Baal. You may.
I now come to the farcical as-
pects of this matter. I ant accused
of being callous to social injustice
and human suffering. And those
who accuse me are the inveterate
defenders of the Russian servile
state. Dare they deny that for
every prisoner for conscience's hake
in these State there are
thousand in Russia? Dare they
deny that the dissenter from this
order always gets some kind of a
day in court and sometimes many?
What does the heretic get in Rus-
sia? We have evil and injustice
here, God knows. But here are left
margins of liberty that the young,
the generous, the revolutionary
may broaden. They will not do so
in the name of a polity that has
slain the very concept of liberty
and equal justice. Fighting free
institutions in the name of servile
state variety A, they may help to
bring upon as the servile state
variety B. They are as frivolous
as they are witless.
It is I who refuse "to shut the
gates of mercy on mankind." But
sodden sentimentalists are always
hard-hearted. Share-croppers in
the South? What right have you
to whimper over them—you who
defend the "liquidation" of intel-
lectuals, kulaks, social revolution-
aries—hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of men and women? Ah,
they were bourgeois? And what
are you, the majority of you, but
the sons and daughters of those
able decent and productive people
that are known as Middle-Class?
Who are you as Jews to identify
yourselves with a pagan authori-
tarian servile State and glory in
the murder of men? Yes, yes, the
share-croppers are Workers. The
Worker, like the Noble Savage of
Rousseau is now the angel image
of the romanticised utopian (sea,
gists from that duty and station
in life to which God has called
them. Well, I too, want justice for
the workers. But if there I/11181 be
injustice in the world, it is better
for civilization including the work-
ers, that the conquest of that in-
justice be slow than that we all
including the workers, be shut up
in the penitentary of a servile
State and that all free minds and
all ,free men he crushed as "wreck-
ers" or counter-revolutionaries.
The worship of the Workers and
the callousness to their own on the
part of many of the sons and
daughters of the Jewish bourgeoi-
sie is a sentimental masochistic
escape-mechanism as witless as it
is odious.
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Jews in Russia? They are per-
mitted to assimilate. Quite true. It
has all happened before. Sincere
„It wish assimilationists are there-
fore temporarily not discontended
in Russia. I don't have to go to
Russia to understand that. But Dr.
Hans Kohn, expert on Russia,
Slavic and other tongues and poli-
tics writes soberly enough: "The
Soviet order means a complete
break with the past, an uprooting
of individuals and groups from
their traditions and wonted pat-
terns of life, an effort to reshape
them as members of a new rational
civilization meant to be common to
all men, and hence devoid of all
emotional attachments to the pe-
culiar past of any group." In brief:
in Soviet Russia assimilation, vol-
untary and enforced, may work to
the point of the extinction of Rus-
sian Jewry. Do you expect me, a
devout Jew and Zionist, to rejoice
in that prospect? Is that your con-
ception of a new freedom? Then
slow poison is a remedy for illness.
When the man is dead his troubles
are over. How true!
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Finally: I will not, as my friend
Philip Rubin urges me to do, de-
clare my allegiance to any single
political or economic technique. It
is not my province. My province
is that of the permanent values
of the human spirit. If a group
of economists of the stature of,
say, Franz Oppenheimer, were to
advise any of the measures Rubin
mentions and the Congress were
to embody them in law, I should
not question that. so long RA the
permanent values (liberty, the
right of heresy, strong checks on
state-power) were not impinged
on. I "want" no special kind of
social order. I am no Utopian. All
the "new" orders of this age have
increased the sum of human suffer-
ing. They have increased human
unfreedom. They have plunged man
down dark abysses. Let us with
sober autumn-tinged restraint of
exorbitant hope seek to ameliorate
the domestic societies of the West.
Let us fight at least to preserve
the small share of freedom that
we have.
Rubin humorously compares me
to Martin Bober. I hope he is right.
For like the Rambam himself Bus
ber will be remembered centuries
to come when the political and
economic tinkerers, tyrant and tool,
persecutor and fanatic, will have
fallen into an indistinguishable
oblivion.
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Bill Freirnuth is one of Minne-
gots). many giants. He's been
handicapped with an injured knee.

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Ben Gurion, Moshe Shertok, Isaac
Gruenbaum, Dr. Fischel Rotten-
streich, Prof. Selig Brodetsky,
Rabbi J. L. Fishman, and Elenal.
Kaplan.
Arab Attack on Council
Great Britain was accused by
the Arab press of attempting to
use the Legislative Council to
lure the Arabs of Palestine into
harmonious co-operation with the
Jews and to prevail upon the
Arabs to acquiesce in her inter.
national obligations through the
constitutional regime to which
they are opposed. The funda-
mental disadvantages for the
Arabs in the Legislative Council
announced by Sir Arthur Wau-
chope, high commissioner, were
analyzed by Semi Sarraj, journa-
list of the IstaqIalist party.
Sarraj drew up an indictment
of the Council on the following
seven points: 1—the Council is
a ruse to lure the Arabs into
united action and co-operation
with the Jews; 2—it is aimed
to influence them to acquiesce
in Great Britain's international
obligations through the League
of Nations and the Balfour De-
claration, pledging her to the
promotion of the establishment
of a Jewish National Home in
Palestine; 3— that the Council
is to be the means of introducing
a bone of contention among Arab
parties; 4—the Council will
establish Jewish newcomers as cit-
izens giving them suffrage rights;
5—the provisions assure majority
control for the Government in
the new Council, since it is em-
powered to appoint sixteen of
the twenty-nine members; ti-
the Council has no jurisdiction
over Jewish immigration and thus
has no power to control the Jew-
ish labor immigration schedule;
and 7—the limitation of the
Council's powers reduces it into
a glorified municipal council.

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ADOLPH FINSTERWALD — Mellowed

EI)11101tH NOTE: The following I. ono of a Berle* of blorrephleal
krIchm of outaion11111, local *lex leh leaders whleh **III be Dab .
11.1)rd week() In I lie Delrblt de. lab Chronicle.

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one night, not so many
weeks RirO, an expectant
crowd lined the sidewalks; at one
spot overflowed into the street.
Police, good-naturedly, held 'em in
check. There was the sound of
music, a band. And a parade, in
step with the hearty boom of a
big bass drum and the cheerful
blare of brass, came down the cen-
ter of Woodward Ave., stopped
midway in the hl"-'., inane a left

Move Called Destructive
LONDON. — (WNS-Palcor !
Agency)—A legislative council
in Palestine would destroy all
hope of welding the Arab and
Jewish peoples into one nation,
The New Statesman, leading Brit-
ish political organ, said in an
editorial- commenting upon the re-
,jection of the Council by Dr.
Chaim Weitzmann, President of
the World Zionist Organization
and the Jewish Agency for Pales- ,
tine. Quoting Dr. Weitzmann's
grounds for repudiating the pro- turn, and streamed across the path-
posals for such a Council as sub- way opened for them over the side-
mitted by Sir Arthur Grenfell walk into a brightly illuminated ...
Wauchope, High CoMmissioner of clothing store.
Palestine, The New Statesman
Adolph Finsterwald was opening
observes that the Assembly plan a branch in Highland Park. And
merely appears to be an advance! the parade was the American
toward self-government, but ,
factually would not "only exalt1 Legion's gesture of welcome to the
the Arabs and depress the Jews bosom of Detroit's up-town busi-
but destroy all hope of welding ness section.
the two peoples into one nation.", A parade and a brass band are
The editorial points out that co- unusual ceremonies for a commu-
operation must be established and nity to tender the launching of a
communal distinctions between clothing store. But Adolph Finster-
the two sections of the population weld is an unusual clothing mer-
must be dissolved. This would be chant.
possible, it adds, if "mischief
A pioneer, the name of Finster-
makers" are eliminated. The pres- wald has been bracketted for
ent Legislative Council, however, nearly 40 years with men's cloth.
would crystalize existing divisions ing. Ile has stood for a symbol dear
between the Jews and Arabs, the to the heart of the American:
magazine declares.
something mighty fine for mighty
The entire Arab press of Pales- few dollars: a lot for a little. Pace-
tine and neighboring countries maked — in business — with the
unanimously voiced its firm op- theory that volume means lessened
position to the Legislative Council cost to sell, and--"give the cus-
condemning it as mockery of self- tomer a break."
government and severely object-
But we are not concerned here
ing to the limitation of its powers so much with Adolph Finsterwald
regarding vital issues affecting the merchant, as we are with
the Jews. Although the extremist Adolph Finsterwald, the member of
papers couch their criticism in Detroit's Jewish community.
sharp, denunciatory language, all
Highlights
of them refrain from taking a
Born in this city, (Detroit),
definite stand in favor of repudia- April
30, 1869, son of Mr. and Mrs.
tion of the Legislative Assembly, Maier Finsterwald; the parents of
awaiting the decision of a con- the subject of our sketch who were
ference of Arab leaders which is married here, had been in the
to be held on Jan. 7.
United States for about a half
dozen years—they had come from
Arab Cigarettes Named for Jew. Coblentz, Germany, during the Civil
War. Besides Adolph, there were
ish Leaders
JERUSALEM. — (WNS-Palcor Charles, Louis, Herman, Cora (la-
Agency)—All's fair in love or ter Mrs. Leo Goldsmith). Only
war—and business, too, it would Charles, besides Adolph, survives.
The parents of the five died while
appear. An Arab cigarette fac-
tory of Bethlehem has been pro- the brood were still very young.
ducing (under the name of "A. Adolph was brought up in the
Kleminoff, Jerusalem") boxes of Cleveland Orphan Home. Today, he
cigarettes names "Arlosoroff" is on its board of directors. Several
and "Ilerzl" in the hope of at- years ago he ran a one-man cam-
tracting Jewish clientele. Other paign for its support—and put
brands put out include "Geulah," that campaign over the top. De-
"Ilabimah," "Ha tikah ," and trailers realized the worth of the
"Adin." The names refer to his- institution but their generous sub-
was also an expression of
horic figures and activities. In scription
affection and respect for
spite of the delicate compliment their
"Oddie" Finsterwald.
paid by the Arab manufacturers
He returned to Detroit before he
to the Jewish National revival,
the Jewish population is advised was 20. Has lived here ever since.
by the Jerusalem Workers' Coun- Has grown with the city. As far
cil not to purchase the tobacco back as 1897, the location now oc-
because it is not clear whether cupied by his business, has been a
Jewish laborers are employed at landmark. It is still known as the
Corner", by tens of
the factory. Efforts to ascertgin "Finsterwald
of Detroiters who some-
the proportion of Arabs and Jews thousands
how can't get the exact topograph-
have hitherto been unsuccessful, ical nomenclature straight of the
owing to the refusal of the own- spot where Monroe, Broadway
ers to allow entry into the works (once Miami Ave.) and Randolph
to representatives of the Council. tangle for a minute, to untangle
Israel Cleiman, New York Editor and go their devious ways.
and Pioneer. Dies in Palestina
Official
Israel Cleiman, of New York,
On the State Fair Board until
soldier, pioneer, newspaperman
last
year;
originally
appointed by
and former secretary of the
Green, re-appointed by
American consulate here, is dead Governor
Governor
Comstock.
Honorary
here. He was 37 yearn old. Mr.
of the board of the De-
Cleiman, who was the first Amer- chairman
troit Service Group. Honorary
ican settler in the Jewish colony member of the board of the Jewish
of Ain Hamel and editor of the Welfare Federation. Has been ac-
first newspaper in the Valley of tive in philanthropic work since he
Jezreel, came to Palestine to first came here, over 46 years ago.
serve in the Jewish battalions Until the last few years did per-
under General Allenby in the sonal, front line service in solicits
World War. He later became sec- ing during both Community Fund
retary of the American Consulate and Federation drives.
in Jerusalem and subsequently
There is ■ tradition in philan-
joined the staff of the Keren
circles of Adolph Finster-
Hayesod. In 1927 he turned to thropic
wald'a methods of solicitations, and
agriculture and took up the role results. He would always. when
of ■ pioneer.
given the list of names he was to
Aua Perlova's Hairdresser Runs interview, first set a figure opposite
Jerusalem Beauty Parlor
each name. It was what he thought
The man who used to curl and was the right amount, not from
dress the hair of the Immortal what he nupect.4 the abilities and
Anna Pavlova is now the owner reaourcesof the men to be; but
of a beauty shop in the Holy City, what he knew they should give.
the Palcor Agency learned. He Then he would go out and get it
is Monsieur Brave. a Jew and •
"How much have you got me
proud resident of Palestine. Once down for?" was the usual greeting
installed in the exclusive Hotel during the campaigns.
Claridge in Paris or on the "Isle
"One hundred dollars," he would
de France," 'M. Brave now ahem- say.

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"All right, 'Oddie'. Where do
sign, and how much do Ipay right

now?"
Honorary life member of th
board of Temple Ileth El, Adolph
Finsterwald has been honored with
every office that the congregation
could bestow upon hint. Today, as
has been the case ever since as a
young man he returned to Detroit,
he is regarded as one of Temple's
most influential and interested
members.

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Biographic
An inspiring, a paternal, a
friendly head of his business, his
employees adore him. "Boss" they
call him. But the word is used with
a mingling of the respect and af-
fection with which men speak to
and of their fathers. A Finsterwald
clerk, or executive, is a member of
the Finsterwald family. They come
to him with their problems. He
helps them, with money, out of his
private purse; with the kind of
advice and help that are beyond
translation todollars and cents;
out of a fund of wisdom that comes
from years of thoughtful, kindly
living, rich in human experience.
Others, even those not in his em-
ploy, owe much to him.
They tell the story of the young
auditor who would periodically go
over the Finsterwald books. The
lad was just starting in business
for himself. And, casually spoke
of a certain new bookkeeping ma-
chine, just being placed on the
market; and how it would help him
in his work; and—sadly—of its
prohibitive cost. On the auditor's
next trip, Adolph called him aside.
"This machine you're talking of,"
he said, "you buy it. Here's the
money. Pay me hack when you
can."
Close•Up
The Finsterwald family includes
Mrs. Adolph (Helen Marymont)
Finsterwald; three sons, Miles,
Frederick, Joseph; one daughter,
Rose Erna (now Mrs. William
Henley) whose home is in Scula
Vista, California.
A great traveler. Adolph Fin-
sterwald has been over this coun-
try, extensively, and niany times.
Is now, as these paragraphs ap-
pear, in California.
Rides no particular hobby. But
does enjoy a game of bridge. Likes
the movies, and, though no screen
fan, rarely misses a good picture.
Lifelong friend, and associated
in business with Dave King, the
two resolved to go in for golf. Assi.
dulously, and with much earnest-
ness, the pair equipped themselves
with all the paraphernalia and
tackled the game. They gave them-
selves one year in which to learn
to like its orelse ... They are not
playing golf any more.
A little above middle height;
courteous; quiet, reserved—at times
almost timid in speech; consider-
ate; understanding. He has grown
past middle age, ripe in wisdom.
Mellow.
• • •
Adolph Finsterwald stood on the
sidewalk in front of his Highland
Park store, the night of the open-
ing; as the parade paused out it
front, wheeled left, and passed in

through the door.

FROM PACE ONE)

ing a number of new English.
speaking groups, was reported to
the 30th annual convention of the
Poole-Zeire Zion, by David Werth-
eim, secretary,
Mr. Wertheim told the conven-
tion that the party's youth move-
ment was making progress and
assuring the permanence of the
organization. Wertheim also re-
ported on the party's affiliated
organizations, the National Labor
Committee for Palestine, the Ile-
chalutz, and the Pioneer Women,
cited the party's increased activ-
ity in Zionist affairs and report-
ed that it had sold 36,000 shekolim
last year, an increase of 30,000
over 1934, which gave it 26 dele-
gates to the 19th World Zionist
Congress. Increased activity in
practical Palestine problems, the
opening of a Palestine informa-
tion bureau, and the party's co-
Membership Increase
operation in the work of the
A substantial increase in mem- American Jewish Congress were
bership has brought the total also cited in the secretary's re-
number of branches to 76, includ- port.

number of Detroit leaders. James
1. Ellmann spoke for the Zionist
Organization of Detroit; H. Wood-
cock greeted the gathering In the
name of the Socialist Party of
Wayne County; Mrs. J. H. Ehrlich
spoke for Hadassah; Rabbi J. II.
Sperka greeted the convention in
behalf of the Jewish National
Fund.
Isaac Hamlin, who was chair-
man of the banquet, appealed for
the party fund and approximately
$1,200 was contributed.
Greetings
were • extended at the
banquet, in a Hebrew address by
Hannah Greenbaum of Palestine.
Many cables were received train
Palestine and other world centers,
and a telegram expressing regrets
at his inability to attend was re-
ceived front Dr. Stephen S. Wise.

WASHINGTON
NEWS LETTER

(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)

go in for public ownership on a
wider scale than we are now
doing. We might go Socialist
• la Norman Thomas. America
might expand the co-operatives
as Kagawa, the Japanese Chris-
tian suggests, and emphasize a
voluntary method of !socializing
property. These are a fend of
the steps we might take other
than go Fascist or Communist,
for there is no imperative that
we go in either of these di-
rections.

DIRECTOR CHOSEN
BY JEWISH CENTER

1 I•.:WT.11)ED

PROM PAOE ONE)

while carrying out the functions of
a character building agency.
The Work of the Center
Mr. Sobel reviewed the work of
the Center and its achievements

Elkind, Isaacs Win
Philomathic Medals

The Philomathic Debating Club
held its 22nd annual oratorical
contest Dec. 26, at the Jewish
Center Auditorium. Judge Harry
B. Keidan, Aaron Weiswasser and
David Goldman awarded a gold
medal to Louis Elkind, a silver
medal to Irving Isaacs and hon-
orable mention to Peter Morse.
In his winning speech Louis El-
kind declared that independent
labor must be made a stronger
bulwark against Fascism in Amer-
ica. Irving Isaacs favored the
adoption of socialized medicine.
Peter Morse urged that the West
be removed from cultivation.

INTERVENTION BY
LEAGUE ESSENTIAL
IN RELIEF EFFORT

(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)

a function of the League
which is essentially an association
of states for the consideration of

"this is

matters of common concern. The
Convenant empowers the Council
and the Assembly to deal with
100 clubs of all ages and inter- any matters within the sphere of
ests, of both sexes, function at the activity of the League or affect-
Center.
ing the peace of the world. The
There are 500 participants in effort of the League to ensure
respect for human personality ,
athletic work.
500 participate in infra-mural when not grounded on express

as follows:

basketballprogram. provisions of the Convenant or
international treaties, has a sure
There are from 25 to 35 different foundation in the fact that the
classes. protection of the individual from
The Mothers' Clubs have a mem. racial and religious intolerance is
ership of 400.
a vital condition of international
About 450 were placed in jobs peace and security."
by the full-time employment serv-
In his letter, which is accom-
ice of the Center during the past panied by an appendix contain-
year. ing an analysis of the measures
About 400 additional members on Germany against non-Aryans
are active at the Dexter branch.
and for their effect in creating
The activities of the play school refugees, Mr. McDonald reviews
and day camp were outlined by Mr. the work of the Commission since
Sobel, who also expressed the hope its establishment in the fall of
that the Center music school will 1933. He said that 80,000 refug-
be reopened soon.
ees have already left Germany.
Dr. &Mall the Guest Speaker
this number, he stated, ap-
Dr. Philip Louis Semen of Chi- Of
three-fourths have
cago was the guest speaker of the proximately
found new homes, more than
evening. In a lengthy address he half of them in Palestine_
Fifteen
reviewed the tendencies fur solving thousand refugees still
remain on-
various child care and child edu- placed, he added.
Ile praised the
cational problems and declared that co-operation extended
by Jewish
what is done for the child in the
synagogue, in the school and in the, and Christian philanthropic
groups in the aid given to re-
center is more important than what settle
the refugees and added that
the child acquires through socio-
the task of saving "those victims
logical inheritance.
calls for renewed efforts of the
Dr. Semen said that environment
which creates an attitude helps philanthropic bodies."
definitely to shape character. He
urged a progressive program for Y. P. T. C. Opera Rehears-
dealing with the boy and girl in
als Now Twice Weekly
private agencies and emphasized
the need for Jewish atmosphere in
Beginning Jan. 6, the You nt

"The American Legion," he said.
"YOU know, my boy, Miles, belongs.
' And the boys of the Poet like Miles.
And they thought it would be a
good idea—this. And so, for three
nights, they're going to hold this
parade. Every night. For us. Isn't
it wonderful! Only just another
clothing store." There was a hint
of moisture in his eye.
But it isn't "only just another
clothing store." Anymore than
Adolph Finsterwald is "only just
another Jewish clothing merchant."
All his life Adolph Finsterwald
has been giving his fellows "the
breaks." And a little of the bread
he has cast on the waters, has come
back to him in the respect of his
fellow Jews and in the admiration
and affection of the whole com-
munity.
center work.
—G. B. S.
"An Anthology of Medieval Heb-
Sid Rosenthal of Iowa, via Chi- rew Literature," the first work of
cago. is one of the best forwards its kind in English, edited by Abra-
in the Western Conference. He's ham E. Millgram, is being pub.
small, but has speed galore. When lished by the Associated Talmud
I o w • played Pittsburgh, Sid Torahs of Philadelphia.

Two Jewish boys out of New York,
Iry Kupperberg and Eddie Stet-
Drews and Mr. and Mrs. Brod- trer, are Minnesota's greatest bas-
sky for the food they donated to ketball losses this year.
the affair. Officers of the con-
Christophe Goldstein has been
gregation are L Fish, president;
I. Sosnick, vice-president; Charles appointed general manager of R. poos and nets permanent waves
You think that's what I ought starred for his team and Tod
Newman, treasurer; S. Becker, K. 0.-Radio's branch in Poland. for the fashionable ladies of Je- to give?"
Roderick, Pitt captain, led the
What has been the fashion once
with headquarters in Warsaw.
secretary.
mules].
"Yes."
Panthers in scoring.
will come into fashion again.

'
Peoples
Temple Club Music
Group will hold rehearsals of the
Gilbert and Sullivan operetta,
Pinafore, twice a week, oil Mon-
day and Wednesday evenings at
7:45 in the main floor chapel of
Temple Beth El. The production
is progressing rapidly, and Art
Coulson and Phil Stern, the di-
rectors, have uncovered some ex-
cellent new talent