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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
MAY 11 TO 21 DECIDED UPON AS DATES
FOR ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN; SITE IS
BEING SELECTED FOR OLD FOLKS' HOME
THREE YEARS OF HITLERISM
( C011CLUDED FROM PAGE I
fled by so large a number of
tische Wochenschrift," organ of prominent ministers that even he
(GoN('l.f ■ DED Piton PAGE ox E)
the bar association, willing to pub- seems to hestitate at using phy-
1933 pledges.
committee to assist the Service
lish only contributions from per- sical violence which is always the
Spirited Conference
Group in the collection of
and Service Group get-together
sons who are Aryans. In that final resource of the government
A spirited discussion marked! pledges made to the 1935 Al.
will be held on March 8.
enlightened,magazine books writ- in its effort to force compliance.
the conference of Jewish organ- lied Jewish Campaign.
ten by Jews or published by Jew- The opposition has formed itself
In her report for the welfare ization at Hotel Stotler last Sun-
The committee of five which is
into independent synods and des-
council, Mrs. Wineman announced day
day afternoon, under the chair- to make plans for the organiza- ish publishing houses will not be pite the ruthless pillaging of their
that three meetings have been ar- manship of Myron Keys. At the tion of the conference on a per- mentioned nor will advertising
treasury by Hans Kerrl, the sup-
ranged thus far, an follows: Jan. outset considerable opposition de- manent basis consists of Joseph concerning such books be ac-
pression of all their magazines
29, social legislation council, at veloped to the proposal for the Bernstein, chairman; Hyman Alt- cepted.
I was told during the first year and newspaper s, prohibition
Temple Beth El, speakers of in- building of the home for the eget'. man, Max Block, Mandell Bern-
of Hitler's reign that the plan against criticizing the govern-
terest to discuss the Townsend on the Davison Ave. site, The stein and II. M. Abramovitx.
of the Nationalist Socialists was ment, decrees against the issuing
Plan; Jan. 30, noon meeting at final decision, to indorse the ac-
The conference approved the
of any declarations or the read-
Hotel Statler, with Fred M. But- tion of the board of the Old proposal of the Committee of 21 the "humane extermination" of
ing of any pronouncements from
zel as speaker on the subject "The Folks Home in approving this site, for conference representation on all Jews! Mr. Hitler is now re-
pulpits during religious services,
Relation of Non-Local Agencies with the proviso that a month's committees of the Detroit Sere- liably quoted as having declared
the opposition continues strong
to the Federation"; Feb. 3, Child time be given to those who may ! ice Group. The committee of 21 1 that he wished all Jews out of
and basically undiscouraged.
Care meeting, at Temple Beth El, have other sites to offer, came is to submit to the Federation Germany by 1937. It ought not
Most Serious Setback
with Ray Johns as speaker.
when many who were originally names of representatives on the to be very difficult for the world
to
gee
that
this
is
more
than
a
Their most serious recent set-
The program of the welfare opposed to the Davison site conference for appointment on
council is being prepared by a finally`admitted that its selection boards of directors of Federa- remote possibility. If and when back is the capitulation of Dr.
committee of five consisting of is the most practicable step at tion agencies. The following 500,000 former German citizens Marahrens who is presiding bis-
are thus forced upon German's hop of the Confessional Synod,
Leo I. Franklin, chairman, Simon present.
names were submitted for consid-
Shetzer, Abe Srere, Harold Sil-
The conference acted on a re- eration an nominees for director- neighbors, there will be fewer although rejected Lor that office
ver and Mre. Edith Bercovich,
port submitted by Anthony ships on these agencies: Joseph people than there are now insist- by a majority vote of 17 to 11 in
In the report of the collection Deutsch in behalf of the Old Bernstein of the Forward, Charles ing that this is purely a German the Reich Brotherhood Council of
committee submitted by Harry R. Folks Home board. Fifteen men Dricker of the Odessa Progres- domestic matter.
the Confessional Church. Accord-
Situation of the Churches
ing to the special correspondent
Solomon it is pointed out that on and women spoke on the subject, sive Verein, Nathan Rose of the
Let us now turn to the situa- of the New York Times writing
pledges in the 1935 campaign and the final vote indicated a large Bereznitzer Aid Society, Samuel
there was collected, thus far, majority in favor of approving Lieberman of the Berdichever tion of the churches, Catholic and from Berlin on Jan. 12, the bis-
$155,934 or 70 per cent of the the action of the Old Folks Home. Verein, Hyman Altman of the Protestant. They were assured hop says, "The Confessional
total subscribed. The sum of
The Conference of Jewish Jewish Radio Hour, Mrs. A. Ferar, protection and freedom by the Church accomplished all that it
National Socialist government. could hope to accomplish when it
$128,380 or 93 per cent of the
Organizations voted on Sunday
of the- Ladies' Auxiliary of the
The three year span has been obtained the appointment of or-
total was collected on 1934
to become a permanent body
Jewish Old Folks' Ilome Mrs. A.
more than sufficient to reveal the thodox Protestant clergymen to
pledges and the suni of $102,757
for community service. It also
Gorelick of the Arbeiter Ring,
real intention of Germany's new the directorates that have been
or 91 per cent of the total 'ors
decided So select • collection
Branch 111.
rulers which is, as they announced, entrusted for a period of two
the absolute subordination of years with the reorganization and
every institution and organization government of the Protestant
in the Reich to the ideology, the Church." The real question at
racialism, and the methodology of the moment of course is still how
CONCLUDED FROM PA(lE 1 I
Hitler. The Concordat, on the much faith any Christian in Ger-
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PA0E)
dant opportunity for the literary
basis of which the Roman Catholic many can place in the pledges of
ganization
still
fought
and
resisted
minded was offered by these fun-
Church
was to conduct its rela- the Hitlerites to restore indepen-
instead of destroying old prayer damental differences of opinion. to their everlasting shame by Jew-
books, Bibles, books of Hebrew Tracts and books and argumenta- ish snobs and Jewish cowards and tionships with the government, has dence to the church when "order"
been
violated
with increasing fre- has been re-established in its ad-
law, and even secular documents tive treatises sprang into being, Jewish traitors but that this litera-
quency and flagrance. The whole ministration. "Bishop Marahrens
written in Ilebrew script, mem-
and the opportunities must have ture and these men represented youth organization of the church
has decided that there is nothing
bers of the congregations put been readily accepted judging by the moral will of world-Jewry and
them in to an alcove or garret the vast amount of their writings that every Jew from the highest has been virtually smashed, the to do but trust the government
called the "Genitah." Sometimes which is even now available.
to the humblest could be counted finishing touches having been ad- . . . The younger Confessional
—perhaps once in generations—
onto sustain this movement with ministered in recent weeks by the clergymen have decided that
One of the strongest points of hie last penny and his last ounce decree making it necessary for all there is nothing to do but fight
the contents of the Genizah were
difference
between
the
two
Jew-
buried in a consecrated spot In
of strength—if that had been no German youth without exception on to the bitter end in the cause
the Jewish cemetery. Of all these ish groups as revealed in Dr. or could be made to be so, the pic- to enroll in the party organization of complete liberty of faith and
Mann's
researches
was
the
meth-
Genizahs none was filled with such
ture of world Jewry would not designed to control their thought, conscience."
a wealth of historical material as od of fixing the religious calen- be the thing of blood and tears action and character - formation.
That it will be a long time be-
the one in Fustat (Old Cairo), dar.
and humiliation more desperate While the churches remain open fore order is restored becomes
Until the fourth century, the than blood and tears that it is and only a few hundred priests apparent when it is realized that
Egypt, which was discovered in
have been arrested, the freedom internaldisorganization is almost
Jewish calendar was computed by today,
1895.
andpower of the church is ser- complete. The trend in the minds
• •
Portions of this material were the appearance of the new moon.
iously compromised at every point, of the protesting pastors and peo-
Two
witnesses
would
testify
be-
placed in the libraries of the Uni-
What
are
we?
A
mph
loosely
and its best-informed leaders look ple is definitely toward dis-estab-
versities of Cambridge and Ox- fore the patriarchs that the new clotted together by eperadic fears
forward to a period of prolonged
lishment of the church. But
ford, In the British Museum, in moon was visible and from then and a taste for gefillte fish. Well,
struggle without assurance of any when they raised money to ac-
untie
the
next
moon
appeared
the
Dropsie College, Philadelphia, the
if
we
are
that
and
nothing
but
freedom so long as the present complish this purpose, it was con-
Hebrew Union College, Cincin- current month was reckoned. Mir- that, then perhaps we deserve our
regime lasts.
fiscated by the government, so
nati, the Jewish Theological Semi- ing the fourth century of the fate and the contempt that man-
When we turn to the Proton- that the difficulties in the way
nary, New York, and In the State Common Era, however, Mille! II. kind heaps upon us. What whips,
tent side of the picture we find, are enormous. Police are busy
promulgated
a
lunisolar
calendar
Public Library in Leningrad, Rus-
what
scorpions
will
still
be
needed
as this is written, that the opposi- searching out the records of the
computed by mathematics, and
sia.
from that time Rabbinical Jews to lash that mob into being a peo- tion groups are preparing for
Frayed and worn—in many in- guided themselves by it. However, ple? is Germany not enough, or their fourth major convention opposition, confiscating confiden-
stances only tattered fragments the Karaites rejected this mode Poland, or Rumania or the perse- when they will appraise the pres- tial documents, threatening pas-
—these remnants still tell a re- of fixing time and clung to the cution of Zionists in Russia or even ent situation and gather their tors, arresting leaders occasion-
markable story of the life of the actual observance of the new the thousand exclusions a n d forces for a new and still more ally for indeterminate periods, and
ancient days. Frequently only moon as it had been practiced in taunts and deliberate misunder- determined struggle with Nazi inciting the rabid Nazis to charge
part of the manuscript is found; an earlier day. Frequently, Dr. standings and subtle alights and authorities. The story of their them with treason for their non-
either a section Is entirely missing Mann has found, cases of dispute grosser affronts in the so-called opposition to date can hardly be compliance with the government
coercion.
or time has dissolved part of the arose over whether the visible democratic countries? Are all these recapitulated here but we should
Whatever the future may hold,
Paper and the editor and trans- moon was the new or the old one. things not enough? When will we note that they have successfully
lator must need fill in the broken When the evidence was at vari- I mobilize? When will we be a pea resisted forcible unification of the at present it is possible to say
that this resistance has complete-
sentences.
ance, the ancient writings show, I pie again? ‘Ve are, as once we were church, rendering successive ef- ly deranged the church policy of
Years of Research
it was not uncommon to have a aforetime: a mob in the desert. forts of the government ineffec- Hitler whose actions can best be
Dr. Mann spent years of study festival celebrated upon two dif- Then we accepted the Law and tive. Ilitler's personal friend, understood when one remembers
in the compilation of this ma- ferent 'occasions in the same com- became a people. The law is of- Chaplain Mueller, made Reichs- that he is not out to destroy the
fered us again. The chance to be- bishop at his insistence, is utter- church but to prostitute the
terial. It has come from the rare munity.
come a proud and great people is ly discredited and totally Shorn church to the purposes of the
manuscripts at Cambridge, Ox- .
Their Struggles and Joys
offered us again. Either we accept of power. One after another of state. He does this because he
ford, London, Leningrad, Cairo,
At the end of the eighteenth the Law once more in its new and those who have attempted to solve
and various sources in the United
century Isaac b. Solomon of Kale, other and yet eternal guise or our the church's problem have been believes that complete unification
States. His work is based on
in the Crimea, endeavored to es- doom will be upon us, nay, it is worsted. At the present writ- of patriotism and religious con-
Karaite commentaries on the
tablish a fixed calendar by a mode upon us now. Now. The choice is ing, Hans Kerrl, Reichs minister viction is the only means of com-
Bible, their legalistic works, com- of scientific computation,
unifying and controlling
but this before us: mobilization within the for church affairs, is openly de- pletely
munal records, and private cor-
the German people.
was rejected by the zealous mem- briefest time or terror, shame, ex-
respondence. Ile traces the rise bers of the Karaite sect,
tiriktion.
and fall of the movement from
Thp stories brought to light by
• • •
the ninth to the nineteenth cen-
turies—the problem of adjust- Dr. Mann show their struggles and
I ask myself again and again
triumphs,
their
hopes,
joys,
and
ment to the demands of environ-
in all humility and patience: What
ment, their religious, educational, rustations. They are revealed, is it that makes Jews still hold off /CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE/ to
enhance his popularity with
not only as members of a specific
social, and political perplexities.
and hold out against their peopie?
The Karaites first appeared in sect, but as individuals with prob- What prevents every American the cynosure of the Jewish world. Jews, for the Zionists held him
for most of the polite
the Near East about the year 760 lems and desires and dreams as Jew from allying himself with his Now they have arrived and have cal setbacks of that period. Today,
C. E., under the leadership of ordinary and as human as those people and the work of that peo- gone into a huddle with leaders however, it is recognized
of American Jewry, people are be. Samuel did the utmost with very
Anan b. David, front whom their with which we fill our days.
ple's redemption if not for his own
original name of Ananites was
Most touching of all, perhaps, sake, if not for the sake of his ginning to ask who are these en- delicate and thankless job. a very
derived.
was their great concern for news fellow-Jews, then for the sake of voys who have been entrusted with
Upon his return to England in
about their distant communities his children and their redemption what is obviously a mission of the
Only a Minority
most far-reaching import to Jewry. 1925 he was again considered out
In the path of this schism fol- which was particularly manifest in the day of their need? What is
of the running for high political
Unique Personalities
lowed friction and intolerance. during times of war and disturb- it? And questions that are asked
honors. But he threw himself into
a
The Karaites were, after all, only nce. "They were well aware of I me and observations that are made
Of the three Jewish ambassadors party politics with a vengeance and
• minority among a minority peo- their isolation and paucity of num- to me have led me to believe that from England only Sir Herbert in 1927 became chairman of the
ple. Jews of the traditional school bers," says Dr. Mann. When a the reason is • subtle corruption Samuel is no stranger to Amer- Liberal party at a time when its
regarded them as heretics, but letter came from Constantinople in the very core of the psyche of lean Jews. Viscount Bearsted and prospects were not of the brightest
they regarded themselves as an to Troki, for instance, great was , many Jews that makes them be- Simon Marks, however, are not and its parliamentary represents.
integral part of the Jewish com- the rejoicing. And when a human lieve
liev tel that h
only making their maiden visit tion at a new low. Into the re-
munity, governed by religious laws memeneer—a Karaite wayfarer— choice in the matter of being Jews, to this 'country but are virtually juvenation of his party Samuel
that might be different from, but arrived from a distant land with that they can "opt" or not "opt" introducing themselves to Amer -
threw himself with fanatic energy,
were no less Jewish than those of personal greetings from others of for their Jewishness. And to this lean Jews. Men of great wealth hoping to restore it to its former
their sect, the joy was tremen-
their co-religionists.
subtle and stupid error they cling and influence in England, where glory. But the rise of the Labor
dous.
despite all the manifest teachings I their position is comparable to party thwarted him. By 1931 he
The Karaites were rationalists;
The oldest Karaite settlement of history and all the facts of con- that of our Lehmans, Warburgs appeared to be finished, but again
not for them was an anthropo-
morphic conception of God. They in Lithuania has been found to sciousness and every evidence of and Strauses, Bearsted and Marks he returned to power when he was
laughed as the Rabbinical Jewish have been established in the thir- universal experience—of Jewish are unknowns to the Jews of this appointed Home Secretary in the
custom of visiting graves of great teenth century in Troki near Wil- experience and of Gentile experi- country. National Coalition cabinet of Ram-
men in the hope of finding com- na. In this section of the coun- ence. For, as I have said before,
The three men whose presence say MacDonald as one of the two
try, relations between the Jewish there could be no such thing as
fort.
in this country has created such representatives of the Liberal
factions were strained. The Kara- anti-Semitism if there were no
a stir in Jewish circles are all party. Antagonizing the real Lib-
Dr. Mann's research shows that
ites protested against paying the
these Karaites claimed to be the taxes which the Vaad (Jewish As- such thing as Semitism. Hate must unique personalities with unusual orals by this move, he also lost
intelligenstia of their day. They sembly collected for the govern- have an object. Love must have an backgrounds and achievements to tuhiengsuopf po t peat, t yt h y cloenase
v irv
nga tti
object. Perception cannot function distinguish them. Sir Ilerbert
h i s
rejected childish plays of the
by
the
ment. Ilence, because they felt
Samuel, the oldest (he's 66), is government to go into the opposi-
imagination; superstitions did not that this assembly was a Rebhan without a thing to be perceived.
Every Jew is born into Jewry. also the best known because he tion. When he succeeded Lloyd
intrude into their lives.
its institution which was not their
Strong in Jerusalem up to the duty to support, there was much Every Frenchman in born into the was the first High Commissioner George as titular leader of the
time of the first crusade in 1099, strife and friction between them. French people. Every Jew lives as of Palestine. Scion of ■ wealthy Liberal party last year he was on
a Jew and dies as a Jew. His family, he found many social and the road to another comeback, but
they spread to the Byzantine Em-
New Points of View
pire, Lithuania, and Poland,
It has been the tendency of choice is not between being a Jew financial connections ready-made his defeat in the recent parliament-
where they carved out Jewish his- Jewish historians to belittle the and not being a Jew. his choice in his quest for power. In his early ary election seems to have ended
tory in rigid fulfillment of the
Karaite movement Because they is exclusiely a choice etetween be. twenties he entered the political his political career for good. Now
ing • good Jew and so a creative arena. He was hardly 35 years old he is carving a new niche for him-
precepts of the Bible.
differed from the majority of Jews
Publicity methods, although they were accorded a prejudiced human being or • poor Jew and when he was parliamentary under- self as a leader of Jewry.
more crude than in the present treatment. With inter-marriage so a sterile and false and self- secretary to the Home Office. Not
Viscount Bearsted
day, were nevertheless employed between them and Rabbinical falsified human being. For our only the Privy Council, and at the age
Viscount Bearsted, who is the
to good advantage by these an- Jews banned, their numbers have way of being Jewish even as a quite forty saw him a member of
cient Karaites, who were adroit been steadily reduced. They have Frenchman's only way of being of 40 he became Postmaster Gen- British oil king, is, like Sir Herbert,
oral and ■ full-fledged member of a member of an old and diatin-
psychologists also. Intent upon
dwindled until today less that 50,- human is being French. Our choice
centering attention in Jerusalem, 000 remain in the world. How- is the universal choice upon our the British Cabinet, the first Jew guished Jewish family that has
they built, in the ninth century, ever, they were an important part specific terms. The ass in the fable to be so honored since Disraeli.
been identified with English politics
the leading spiritual center there.
Carves New Niche as Leader
of Jewish life in the Middle Ages; was no less an ass for covering
and industry for more than two
With this as headquarters, the
At that stage of his career it generations. His father, the first
Dr. Mann's authoritative facts himself with • lion's skin. How
-sectaries carried on an active mis-
supremely
pitiful,
shameful
and
make their history more interest-
was freely predicted that he was Viscount, was Marcus Samuel,
sionary propaganda in the neigh-
ing. They will surely give new absurd that a thousand times the destined for the highest honors in founder of the great Shell Oil Com-
boring countries of Egypt and
points of view and thus enable lion of Judah tries to hide himself British politics. He was a convinc- pany. The founder of the family
Syria. The numerous tourists who
scholars to study the movement in an ass's skin and fills the world ing speaker and a skillful party fortune, also called Marcus Samuel,
visited Palestine ea a religious
as a whole and perhaps to develop with the din of his propitiatory politician, there were few in the had a tiny curio shop in Hounds-
duty came in contact with the
a greater tolerance for these peo- braying. The time to be a Jew is Liberal party who could compete ditch, in the heart of Whitechepel
Karaite scholars and many of ple.
today. The time to gird your loins
with his organizing abilities or
them, attracted in turn, took their
for the salvation of our people is who had his grasp of economic (London's East Side) early in the
19th century. On a visit to the sea-
newly learned doctrines back to Jr. Players Guild of B'nai today. The call to mobilize has gone problems. Strange to say,
however,
their native lands.
forth. For the sake of ourselves Samuel, the successful politician shore the Samuel children saw
their
first sea shells and amused
Moshe to Stage Play at
nay Were Learned
and our brethren and our posterity
and the brilliant party leader, was themselves by fastening them to
Living a life of abstinence, the
Temple Feb. 2
we must answer that call today.
not popular in Jewish circles de- empty boxes. When Marcus Samuel
(copyright. r u e. a. A F
)
Karaites—particularly their schol-
spite the fact that he never re- saw one of these shell-covered boxes
ars In Jerusalem—were guided by
The Junior Players Guild of the
laxed his Jewishness. A good deal he got the idea of manufacturing
three cardinal principles practiced 13 nal Moshe Synagogue, Dexter
The
Junior
Congregation
of
of
the credit for the issuance of them on a large scale. Soon the
according to the lights of their at Lawrence, is giving final
the
Balfour Declaration was his , cramped Houndsditch shop ex-
Shaarey Zedek
founder, Anan, who enjoined them touches to the play, The Devoted
for
Lloyd George, who regarded panded into M. Samuel & Co., with
to "alicetiam, lamentation for the Lover," to be given at Temple
Samuel as his successor, refused buyers and branches throughout
Caloth (Jewish dispersion), and Beth El on Sunday evening, Feb.
Jerome Sonenklar will he the to approve or even listen to any the Far East.
prayer for restoration."
8. Plane for "The Drunkard" cantor and Florence Rosenthal
Zionist
overtures unless Samuel When Marcus Samuel 2d, father
writings
reveal
that
they
have been temporarily abandoned will be the speaker at Junior Con-
Their
were learned men. Although the in favor of a play entitled "Black." gregation at the Shaarey Zedek was present. During and imme- of the present Viscount Bearsted,
diately
after the World War he entered the firm it was already
common dialect that united these This production is to be given in this Saturday.
acted in
many important govern- international in scope, carrying on
groups in the Crimea, parts of the early spring.
The junior choir, composed of
Turkey, and Poland and Lithuan-
Geraldine King has been ap- eight boys from the Junior Con- ment capacities, but by 1930 he important negotiations with the
seemed to have shot his bolt. When Japanese government and serving
ia was Tartarish. Ilebrew was pointed associate producer and gregation, will sing at the
Into Fri- h e was offered and accepted the as
used for literary expression and publicity manager.
sales agent for the Rothschilds'
day evening services. The eight
for the official record, of the
Announcement Is made that Fingers are: Alvin August, Charles post of High Commissioner for oil concession In Russia. In the
communal society, and Dr. Mann hereafter all performances given Friedgood, Sanford Waldstein, Palestine everyone thought his 1880s Samuel, with Rothschild a-
believes that these men were by the Guild will be free. The Sam Hertzberg, Theodore Leibo- political career was over. For a nancial backing, obtained an oil
'cholera and thinkers just u much public will be welcome to all fu- witz, Jerome Arfa, Mandell Ber-
ew the post was full of traps. concession of his own in Borneo,'
The five years
during which he and the great oil empire was be-
as were the Rabbinates. An abet., ture performances.
man and Henry Seligman.
administered Palestine did nothing gun. Pioneering in the ocean
LIFE AND HISTORY OF THE KARAITES
The World's Window
THREE AMBASSADORS OF MERCY
transportation of oil by tankers,
Samuel rapidly extended, his oil
interests throughout the world un-
der the name of the Shell Oil Com-
pany, a sentimental throwback to
the origin of the family's fortune.
Samuel floated the first, interna-
tional Japanese loan and he is
credited with opening up to British
interests the vast oil fields of the
Far East. In 1902 he became Lord
Mayor of London. Always a proud
Jew. he created a sensation by re-
fusing to invite the Rumanian
minister to the Lord Mayor's ban-
quet because f the
f
Jews in Rumania. After his retire-
ment as Lord Mayor he was made
a baronet. In recognition of his
services to the Empire during and
after the World War he was ele-
vated to the peerage in 1925 as
the first Viscount Bearsted. By
then he was one of the wealthiest
nien in the Empire and a leading
figure in the Jewish community,
identified with the work of the
Angl o-Jewish Association, the
League of British Jews and numer-
ous philanthropic institutions.
Shuns the Limelight
Such was the family background
of Walter Horace Samuel, the pres-
ent Viscount Bearsted, when he
succeeded his father as head of the
Shell Oil Company in 1927. Born
in 1882 and educated at Eton and
Oxford, he married Dorothea Mon-
tefiore in 1908, thus linking the
Samuel name with the most dis-
tinguished Jewish' family in Eng-
land. During the World War he
served with distinction in the Royal
Air Force, winning the Military
Cross for bravery. His brother,
George, was killed in France, and
another brother, Marcus, is a Con-
servative member of the House of
Commons. Viscount Bearsted has
three sons, Marcus Richard, 27,
heir to the title, Peter Montefiore,
25, and Anthony Gerald.
Viscount Bearsted's chief inter-
est is the management of the far-
flung Shell Oil empire, which has
subsidiaries in every country of
the world. One of the outstanding
industrialists of the Empire, his
counsel is widely sought after not
merely because of his great wealth
but because he has shown himself
to be a man of wide vision. lie is
an authority on airplane engines
and pioneered in the development
of aerial photography. A landed
squire with several large estates,
he is a patron of art and science.
Bearsted is welcomed in the high-
est London society and, by virtue of
his dominating industrial position
and his close business ties with
Henri Deterding, head of the Royal
Dutch Oil, is generally recognized B'nai David Y P S Hears Dr.
as one of the most influential
Adolf Lowenstine
figures in England.
After the manner of most weal-
Dr. Adolf Loovenstein, ,,opfret:e-
thy English Jews, Bearsted has
Y.
shunned the limelight and has not gave an interesting lecture Jan.
14
been an active participant in Jew-
f
" Ca ncer. "
onlitahrerys ubject
Ano
o David
ish affairs, although he has main- dent of the
B'nai
ch ai rma n
his father's interest in the educational committee, announced
Jewish Incurables, being president that the next speaker would be
of the latter institution. He is not the Rev. J. H. Bollens,
rnin
fict his sub.
known to have had any interest in ject being "Soviet Russia."
Palestine, although as a director
s oc ial
of Lloyd's Bank he must have had
preeainddnn ao i nauenne c eobdfr idge,
m
T ltlhi teet e eli
something to do with Lloyd's recent
cf o r
Tues-
loan to the Jewish Agency for Pal-
day, Jan. 28, at the ll'nai David
satins. His presence in this country
Synagogue. Faye Weingarten will
in connection with a project for
be the hostess. There will be
settling German Jews in Palestine prizesand • refreshments free of
is therefore something entirely new
charge. The public is invited,
for him and may mean that he is
Paula Baumhaft and Sol Roth.
about to take the road followed by ,
the first Lord Melchett, who became saber g announced final plans for
a leader in Palestine affairs late ; the dance to be given Saturday,
Feb. 8, at the B'nai David Syna-
in life.
Rogue.
Lee Worrell's orchestra
will entertain.
Marks Made Way to Top
Simon Marks, the youngest of
the three ambassadors, is a man of
entirely different antecedents from
either Samuel or Bearsted. Of
Russian ancestry, Marks, who is
still in his forties, is the head of
Marks & Spencer, Ltd., the English
equivalent of the American Wool-
worth stores. Without the aid of
influential family connections,
Marks made his own way to the
top of the heap. A son of immigrant
parents, he was just a small mer-
chant before the World War. Today
he is a multi-millionaire who is
using a substantial part of hie
fortune to relieve the suffering of
his brethren and to help others in
need. As a cisciple of the Man-
chester school of economics Marks
has been actively identified with
progressive labor legislation and is
one of the leading figures in the
Land Settlement Association, an
organization set up to carry out
experimental schemes for providing
small holdings for the unemployed.
Three years ago he donated $125,-
000 towards the initial fund of the
Association. Widely known for his
advanced ideas on merchandising,
he has built Marks & Spencer into
one of the greatest mercantile
establishments in England. Among
those associated with him in busi-
ness are such eminent Jews as the
Belishas, the Laskis, the Sieffa and
the Sacher4.
Related by marriage to Israel
Sieff, the noted Jewish philanthro-
pist and Zionist, Marks has become
one of the leaders of British Zion-
ism. He is closely associated with
Dr. Chaim Weizmann and is credit-
ed with the authorship of the thou-
sand-family plan of settlement in
Reeva-Al Charity Club to
Sponsor Bridge Party
The Reeva-Al Charity Club's
first charity bridge and card party,
Jan. 14, at the Wilshire Hotel, was
a success. Proceds will go to in-
digent families. Prizes were given
and refreshments served. A rug
was donated by the financial sec-
retary of the club, Miss Faye War-
ren. Charter members and or-
ganizers of this club are Mrs.
Celia Weiner, president; Mrs. Jer-
ry Flange], vice-president; Mrs.
Minnie Gold, secretary; Mrs. Faye
Warren, financial secretary; Mrs.
Sara Wamm, treasurer; Mrs. Ruth
Beijelinan, Mrs. Nettie Blumen-
thal, Mrs. Jennie Suffin, Mrs. Mil-
dred Fox, Mrs. Rose Wilber, Mrs.
Ann Rosenbloom and Mrs. Edith
Morten,
Palestine. He has also been a del-
egate to several Zionist Congresses
and was a moving spirit in the
creation of the Jewish Agency. A
former chairman of the British
Keren Ilayesod, he is now vice
president of the English Zionist
Federation. He has been a heavy
contributor to Zionist funds and
during the past three years twice
gave $50,000 to the Central Eng-
lish Fund for German Jews. Out-
side of his business and Palestine,
his chief interests are tennis and
his two children. In England he is
considered one of the coming fig-
ures in Jewish life.
(copyright, UK a. A 1'. 8.)
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