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The Poles Rebuked

Romain Rolland, famous French writer,
in a letter which has been published in the
Polish Oblicze Dnia, joins in the protest
against anti-Semitism in Poland which, he
declares, "makes me regret that I am not
a Jew, for I am ashamed of my brethren,
the Christians."
M. Rolland writes:

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This epidemic of Europe, which one
would have thought had disappeared since
the dark medieval times, has again been re-
vived owing to the reactionary forces in Eur-
ope, who are attempting to incite the poor
dames of one race against the poor classes
of another race and religion. They raise a
wave of accumulated dissatisfaction and un-
happiness.
We are striving for a spiritual under-
standing with all the fine and noble elements
of the Jewiah people as well as of any other
people in the world. The noble Poland of
Mickiewicz, which has suffered so much, has
not right to inflict sufferings on others. Its
sacred mission should be to show its sympathy
to those who suffer and to bring assistance
to those who, like Poland herself in the past,
are being oppressed. Help us to make good
the injustices of the past. Let us unite and
fight shoulder to shoulder in order to educate
people for a better human society founded on
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Sabbath Reading. of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16:1-20:27.
Prophetical portion—Ezek 22:1.19 (or 16); or
Amos 9:7-15.

May 1, 1936

lyar 9, 5696

"The Wanderer"

We call the attention of our readers to
the striking photograph of The Wan-
derer appearing elsewhere in this issue
in connection with the appeal for the cur-
rent Allied Jewish Campaign.
An old Chinese saying tells us that "One
picture is worth ten thousand words."
But The Wanderer is a picture that is
worth millions of words in the plea for
the funds for which the annual drive for
funds is about to be launched in this city.
The Wanderer symbolizes the status of
the Jew. The position of our people in
numerous lands of oppression is so pre-
carious that it is difficult to foretell from
one day to another how many more Jews
will be compelled to take the wanderer's
staff and to search for new homes. Sel-
dom, in all our history, were events as
threatening to the safety of Jews as they
are today.
The single picture of The Wanderer
tells more of the plight of Jewry than will
the hundreds of thousands of words that
will be spoken by the hundreds of volun-
teers in their appeal for funds towards the
$323,550 quota for the Allied Jewish
Campaign. The vision of the Jewish youth
wandering aimlessly and without hope—
unless we come to their aid and provide
them with homes and security—should
move every conscientious Jew to sub-
scribe most liberally to the present drive.
We would be faithless and disloyal , to
tradition if we were to believe that too
many heartless Jews remain to create a
problem of the fund-raising possibilities
in our community. We prefer to retain
faith that Detroit Jews will be sufficiently
moved by the status of the Jewish wan-
derer to give wholeheartedly enough to
make the campaign a very easy one.

This rebuke to Poland is particularly
timely in view of the horrible conditions
which mark the existence of the Jews in
that miserable country. While the situa-
tion there is now a matter of record, it
was particularly oppressing to read the
resume of Polish-Jewish tragedies in a
cable to the New York Times from its
chief European correspondent, Frederick
T. Birchall, who - cabled as follows from
Berlin:

The Work Goes On

What was apparently a well planned at-
tack on Jews in Palestine must react un-
favorably to the Arab propagandists who
seek to undermine the position of the set-
tlers who have brought blessings to the
country.
. Nazi and Communist propaganda have
unquestionably contributed to the causes
for the attack. But the fact that not a
single casualty is reported from Jewish
colonies or thickly populated Jewish cen-
ters in Palestine is an indication that most
of the Arabs refused to heed the call of
the propagandists for a country-wide at-
tack on the Jews. The murder of 18
Jews, in the Arab city of Jaffa, was a
murderous attack by a gang of bandits on
peaceful people.
It is natural that there should be some
alarmists who become frightened by the
slightest evidence of ill fortune in Pal-
estine. But the answer of the Jewish peo-
ple throughout the world will be emphati-
cally for a determined and uninterrupted
effort in behalf of Eretz Israel which must
be built as the Jewish National Home. The
cabling of $100,000 for current work in
Palestine, the formation of a special com-
mission to deal with the current problem,
the calls of the Vaad Leumi—the Pales-
tine Jewish National Council — and the
leading bodies concerned with Palestine's
reconstruction for continued and increased
efforts on the part of world Jewry, serve
to show that adversity merely stimulates
national striving on the part of our people.
The sailing of 700 young Polish Jews to
Palestine on the day after the murderous
attack of the Arabs on the Jews, in de-
fiance of what occurred there, and the
fact that not a single one of these Chalut-
zim cancelled the trip in the face of im-
pending danger, is added proof of Jewish
determination to carry on the work in Pal-
estine uninterruptedly.
Naturally Jews desire the co-operation
and friendship of the Arabs. Jews in Pal-
estine will continue to see such friendship.
But under no circumstances will Jews ne-
gotiate with murderers, and those respon-
sible for the latest outrages write them-
selves out of the records of civilized be-
ings who are deserving of dealings with
people whose object is to build rather than
destroy, and who seek peace rather than
bloodshed.
The work in Palestine goes on, and will
on. Arab extremists hurt themselves
go
much more than the Jews when they set
out to plunder and pillage and kill their
Jewish neighbors. Since 1929, when about
were killed by the Arab rioters,
125
Jews
more
than 200,000 Jews have settled in
Palstine, about 1,500 new Jewish settlers
e every Jew killed. A similar answer
for
sent riotous
will undoubtedly meet the pr e
h
he
challenge
of
t
Arab
can -
C
attacks.s 1;Such methods

Travelers returning from' Poland are
bringing back reports of the condition of Jews
in that country which, in conjunction with
reports of pogroms and persecution in the
larger cities, present a pitiable state of af-
fairs.
In contrast with the situation of the
Jews in Germany, where persecution has been
quiescent for several months and is likely
to continue so until after the Olympic festi-
val, although steady economic pressure still
makes their stay here Impossible. Polish Jews
are in an acute state'of physical misery.
The difference between Germany and
Poland in the matter of the treatment of
Jews is that here the pressure upon them is
legalized and proceeds according to regula-
tions; normally the populace is kept in hand.
It Is even reasonable to surmise that the ma-
jority of Germans are not actively anti-Semi-
tic. In Poland the populace is anti-Semitic
and the government indifferent, so except in
extreme cases the mob is having a free hand.
Moreover, the eyes of the world are on Ger-
many; the Polish situation has attracted slight
attention.
Germany Is well governed; Poland is not
so well governed or so well policed. Wholly
apart from the pogroms reported from larger
centers of the population, it is alleged—and
instances In proof of the allegations are
cited—that Jews are being beaten, plundered
and even killed In villages where there is not
• single policeman or even a telephone by
which aid could be summoned. And the out-
side world hears nothing about them.
One case cited concerns the village of
Truskolo, close to the German frontier and
only an hour's motor ride from the substantial
city of Czestochowa. Its population of several
thousand includes several hundred Jewish fam-
ilies. For weeks they' have been isolated.
not daring to leave their homes in the day-
time„ venturing out only at night.
Food is smuggled to them by co-religion-
ists from other villages, for shopkeepers and
peasants, terrorized by the National Demo-
crats, who are to Poland what the Nazis are
to Germany, dare not sell to Jews. There is
a campaign on "to starve the Jews."
In some villages Jewish inhabitants have
• not undressed at night for weeks. Every eve-
ning they bar themselves in and wait in terror
for the daylight, thankful when it comes that
another night has passed and they are still
unscathed. Throughout the old Polish terri-
tory that has no counterpart in Germany.
Strangely enough, conditions are better
in borderlands acquired from Russia, Austria,
and Germany in the war settlement. The
reason is possibly that in these areas the mi-
norities have at least the nominal protection
of the League of Nations.
Conditions have grown perceptibly worse
since the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski,
whose government was strong and who wisely
extended protection to the Jews for political
reasons. The present government is weak,
It retains with difficulty its hold on the Sejm,
in which the strongest party is composed of
the anti-Semitic National Democrats. They
naturally seek power themselves, and appar-
ently the government fears by curbing anti-
Semitism to give them a political issue on
which they might ride into office.
At the root of Polish anti-Semitism is
the country's poverty, which in many rural
districts is almost unbelievable. These Jews
are traders, and frequently they are a trifle
better off than their peasant neighbors. Thus
they become the objects of envy and the
persecution that it engenders.
The phrase "better off" should be under-
stood as a comparative. All are miserably
poor. One traveler told this correspondent
of having seen a match split into four parts
in one village, so scarce were matches and so
great the need of them.
The testimony of travelers, which is no
general that it cannot be Ignored, is that,
besides the larger problems. which produce
massacres and are reported, hundreds of
minor riots in which Jews are pillaged and
mercilessly beaten are occurring all over the
country and almost constantly.
The only political party inclined to help
the despised Jews is the Labor party, which
Was practically submerged in the last elec-
tion. The intelligentsia is silent out of fear.
and no voice is raised in behalf of the per-
secuted that can reach the outside world.
At a time when plans are maturing to
rescue German Jews it seems probable that
something must quickly be done on behalf of
Polish Jews, whose plight Is infinitely worse.

Lights from
Shadowland

Strictly
Confidential

Untermeyer's Anthology of Poetry

Tidbits from Everywhere

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
den. without permission of the Seven
Art. Feature Syndicate, Copyrights." of
this feature.

Eminent Author Includes Several Prominent Jewish Poets
in Revised Edition of his Critical Collection

(Copyright. 1536. 8. A. F. S.)

GREAT SONGWRITER HERE
Irving Caesar, who is considered
one of the world's greatest song-
writers, has arrived from New
York to write the lyrics for a 20th
Century-Fox picture to be pro-
duced this summer. Caesar com-
pleted the book for a new Damon
Runyon play scheduled for Broad-
way, N. Y. production late in the
summer before he embarked for
Hollywood. Caesar has worked
with every modern composer of
note and boasts a song hit with
each. They include George Gersh-
win, Vincent Youmans, Sigmund
Romberg, Rudolph Friml and Vic-
tor Herbert. Caesar also wrote the
books for the Ziegfeld Follies, the
Greenwich Follies, "Mini Rosa,"
"No, No, Nannette" and many
other shows. He adapted Al Jol-
son's "Wonderbar" for the Amer-
ican stage and screen. His noted
song hits include "Tea for Two,"
"Swanee," "Just a Gigolo," "Crazy
Rhythm," "Sometimes I'm Happy"
and "Is It True What They Say
About Dixie?". Arthur Schwartz
is collaborating with Censor on
his present assignment.
OFF TO EUROPE SOON
After a two week's visit in New
York City, Sylvia Sidney will sail
for Europe where she will make
a motion picture before returning
to Hollywood.
J. EDWARD BROMBERG
Throughout his years at school
at Public School No. 10 in the
Bronx, N. Y., Stuyvesant High
and City College at New York, J.
Edward Bromberg, who recently
came to Hollywood to act in a 20th
Century-Fox •Films movie, had a
vague desire to become an actor.
He had no idea then how to ac-
complish it. Instead he spent eight
years as a silk salesman, candy
manufacturerer and laundry
worker.
After two years of etudy with
the stage director, Mulgakov,
Bromberg was rewarded with a
small part in a Provincetown The-
ater production. Shortly after that
he made a definite bid In the pro-
fessional field by applying to Eva
Le Gallienne's Repertory Theater
for a job. He was advised to join
the student group, get some train-
ing and await developments. He
was soon recommeded for a part
in a play and that started five con-
tinuous years' work with the Civic
Theater.
In 1930 he ended this long affili-
ation to fill an engagement for
Jed Harris in "The Inspector Gen-
eral" with Dorothy Gish. The fol-
lowing year he joined the Group
Theater from which he was re-
cently recruited for the movies.
His first appearance for the Group
Theater was with Franchot Tone
in "The House of Connolly." Roles
in other plays such as "1931,"
"Night Over Taos," "Big Night,"
"Both Your Houses" with Walter
C. Kelly, "Men in White," "Gold
Eagle Guy," "Awake and Sing,"

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During the 20 years from 1912 to 1932,
according to figures in The Publishers' Weekly,
no fewer than 4,000 American poets have pub-
lished their works in this country. But Louis
Untermeyer, in a foreword to the fifth revised
edition of his "Modern American Poetry: A
Critical Anthology," just published by Harcourt,
Brace & Co., New York ($3.50), computes that
there must be 400,000 poets in this country who
at one time or another have either written poems
for magazines, trade journals, local newspapers
or poetry corners; or who have "chewed pencils,
crumpled paper, cursed the inadequacy of the
Rhyming Dictionary."
About 110 outstanding poets are included
in the 650 pages of this anthology, and so skil-
fully has Mr. Untermeyer arranged his selections
and spiced them with explanatory notes that even
the person to whom poetry is strange music will
be fascinated by the beautiful works included
in this book.
The preface to "Modern American Poetry"
is, as the reader will surmise, a most scholarly
description of the development of poetry in this
country, starting with the Civil War period and
leading up to the present day. The editor of
this volume maintains that "art itself is only a
record of temperament and taste." He con-
cludes by stating that the putrpose of an anthol-
ogy is "to stimulate interest rather than to satis-
fy curiosity," and he, at least, succeeds admir-
ably with the present work, which, at the heart
of the poet, is the very purpose of poetry," lie
tells us. "Modern American Poetry" provokes the
interest aimed at and achieves much in stimulat-
ing the interest that is waning in poetry.
Because it is ruch an excellent critical work,
in addition to being panoramic, Mr. Untermeyer's
new collection assumes importance for the criti-
cal essays which accompany the selections from
the works of the various poets included in this
volume.
It will interest the Jewish readers to know
the names of the Jewish poets whose works were
considered creditable enough for inclusion in
this volume. There are: Franklin P. Adams,
James Oppenheim, Louis Untermeyer himself,
Jean Starr Untermeyer, Maxwell Bodenheim,
Robert Nathan, Joseph Auslander.
Two poems in this volume have particular
Jewish significance and are deserving of refer-
ence. There is Oppenheim'a "Hebrews":

I come of a mighty race . . . I come of a very
mighty race . .
Adam was a mighty man, and Noah a captain of
the moving waters,
Moses was a stern and splendid king, yea, so
was Moses . , .
Give me more songs like David's to shake my
throat to the pit of the belly,
And let me roll in the Isaiah thunder .
Rot the mightiest of our young men was born
under a star in midwinter
Ills name is written on the sun and it is frosted
on the moon . . .
Earth breathes him like an eternal spring; he is
a second sky over the Earth
Mighty race! mighty race!—my flesh, my flesh

If 1 Were a Jew

Is a cup of song,
Is a well in Asia .. .
I go about with a dark heart where the At s
sit in a divine thunder . . .
My blood is cymbal-clashed and the anklets of
the dancers tinkle there
Harp and psaltery, harp and psaltery make drunk
my spirit ...
I am of the terrible people, I am of the strange
Hebrews . .
Amongst the swarms fixed like the rooted stars,
my folk is a streaming Comet,
The Wanderer of Eternity, the eternal Wander-
ing Jew ...
Ho! we have turned against the mightiest of our
young men
And in that denial we have taken on the Christ,
And the two thieves beside the Christ,
And the Magdolen at the feet of Christ,
And the Judas with thirty silver pieces selling
the Christ,
And our twenty centuries in Europe have the
the shape of a Cross
On which we have hung in disaster and glory ...
Mighty race! mighty race—my flesh, my flesh
Is a cup of song,
Is a well in Asia.

Then there is the charming piece by Unter-
meyer, "Jerusalem Delivered":

Miriam, strike your cymbal,
Young David, add your voice;
Once more the tribes are nimble,
Once more Jews rejoice.

Beneath the flowering mango
Where peace and perfume drip,
Solomon does the tango
And Sheba shakes a hip.

Rebekah trots with Aaron,
Deborah treads the earth,
Fresh as the Rose of Sharon
With evening gowns by Worth.

Susannah meets the Elders
With an increased regard;
Pounds, dollars, marks, and guilders
Receive their due reward.

Jerusalem the Golden,
With milk and honey blest,
Revive the rapt and olden
Ardor within each breast;

Add Gilead to Gomorrah;
Fling torches through the dark;
Dancing before the Torah,
With cocktails at the Ark!

This poem is prefaced by an explanatory
note in which the author quotes the following
advertisement from the Palestine News: "King
David Hotel, Jerusalem, offers Tea Dances Wed-
nesday and Saturday, Aperitif Concerts every
Sunday, and Cocktail Parties in the.Winter Gar-
den."
But poetry, as one of the arts, is interna-
tional in scope and interest, and these two selec-
tions will enchant the non-Jew just as the entire
collection by Mr. Untermeyer must provide great
satisfaction for all groups. We merely select
these two poems for their particular interest to
Jewish readers, and hasten to recommend the
entire volume as the best of the anthologies thus
far critically collected by Mr. Untermeyer.

ROSA RAISA
COMES BACK

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(copyright. 1535, S. A. P.

FRANKLY SPEAKING
Nazi emissaries in this country
have sold a number of important
industrialists on the idea of organ-
izing a non-partisan organization
"to fight Communism" . . . This
new organization will really be a
cloak for Nazi propaganda.
Don't put any stock in the ru-
mors that Governor Lehman will
not be a candidate again . . . It's
in the bag for him to announce
his candidacy at the proper time.
Dr. Rudolph Leitner, counselor
of the German embassy in Wash-
ington, was recalled to Berlin as •
the result of some anti-Nazi she-
nenagins engaged in by a couple
of United States Senators at a
party thrown by Ambassador Lu-
the . . . One of the Senators,
Barkley of Kentucky, is said to
have picked up a pickle, put it
under his nose to emulate Hitler's
mustache and then gave the Nazi
salute.
The Jewish politicians in Chi-
cago who publicly opposed Gov-
ernor Henry Horner's primary
battle for the Democratic nomina-
tion, are still nursing the bruises
they suffered when Horner smash-
ed the Democratic machine . .
Now that Homer has won re-
nomination, and is virtually cer-
tain of re-election, the Jewish poli-
ticians are in a jam . .. They
want to climb on the Horner band-
wagon but Horner won't have
them.
David Weintraub is conducting
the survey of the Works Progress
Administration which will be the
basis of the New Deal's perma-
nent unemployment relief pro-
gram.
The bill to give George
Cohan a Congressional medal for
his famous war song 'Over There,'
is being killed in committee be-
cause some Ku Klux Congressmen
think Cohan is a Jew.
Disclosures of anti-Semitic tac-
tics by foes of the New Deal have
put some Jewish bigshots, who
don't like FDR, on the spot.
COMMUNAL FRONT
Rabbi David Frankel of Vienna
is now in this country with a col-
lection of Hebrew manuscripts
and rare books which he values at
$12,000 . . . The Congressional
Library is eager to get them for
its Semitic Division provided some
rich Jews will present it to the
Library ... At this time there is
no money In sight ... One of the
best known book and manuscript
dealers who is very much inter-
ested in cultural activities in Pal-
estine told Rabbi Frankel that in
his book business he's not inter-
ested in things Jewish.
Former Congressman William
W. Cohen, well-known New York
Jewish communal leader, is very
proud of the fact that bin auto-
mobile license plate reads "W W 1"
A huge testimonial dinner is in
preparation for Ludwig Lewisohn
... It will serve as the first official
welcome to the famous author in
New York.

' The Flying Camel

BY THE REV. CARL S. WEIST
Pastor, Community Church of the Circle, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

An Interview With the American
Jewish Diva

Jewish Contributions to the Development of the Near
East Are on Exhibition in Tel Aviv

o'opyrighti 1936, N. C. J. C. Neu. Service)

By JANE ELLIS

By MEIER DIZENGOFF, 0. B. E.
Mayor of Tel Aviv

NOTE: "The Dylobtr." the
Let me say at the beginning, peoples of the centuries. The in- EDITOR'S
Immortal Jewish drama all! be
fluence of the 39 books called the
Presented as an opera In the lesuling
if I were ■ Jew I do not know Old Testament has been immeas-
cities of the
Aloof/7, beginning May
what I would say, believe, think
In Detroit. Rosa Rohm tells of
or do, for the reason that there urable. Poetry, story, history.
her Inner relationship In her new
rule In this Interveleuette.
is such a gap between us cultur- maxim, song, sermon, prophecy,
ally, ethically, historically, it is all combine in this book to make
it, along with the New Testament
impossible for me to put myself which
After an illustrious career in
was written almost entirely
in his place. Nor can he for the
Jews, the most significant which her name was written
same reason put himself in the by
place of a Christian, even though achievement of the ages. Dr. high in the musical annals of
Willett has written of this
he possessed the educated heart Herbert
rich bequest: "It sweeps the hori- America, Rosa Rain renews her
and wisdom of his ancient King zons of man's life. It sounds the operatic career in this country
Solomon. It cannot be done. The deep abysses of experience. In in the leading role of Lodo-
tragedy of life is that you and I its voices are the great rolling
must always look at each other thunder tones of destiny. Over vice's music drama "The Dyb-
across certain barriers, unable ac- its uplands blows the breath of buk."
tually to jump the fence. Al- new-breaking days. Out of all its
As a play by Shalom Anski,
ways there is a mysterious residue sorrows there comes the calm as- the mystic drama
was made
at the bottom of the crucible surance of a quenchless hope."
called the heart which cannot be For this Holy Book the ages will familiar to nearly half a million
accounted for nor understood. be forever indebted to the Jew.
people in its performances in
Only in imagination can we ap-
And I should remember also Yiddish, Hebrew and English in
proximate bridging the chasm. with just pride that it was my New York City in 1926. Both
Imagination is • divine quality people who were among the first
without which you and I are to climb the mountain top where as a play and an opera the
cramped up in a very small world. they could see that God is one. story has thrilled thousands
One of the first things religion The Jew gaves us monotheistic throughout Europe. In its musi-
should do for us, therefore, is to religion. Aye, they did more; cal form it adds to the impres-
give wings to our sympathy so they gave us the concept of the
that we may fly in our thoughts Kingdom of God. Recently Chris- sion of the story by the haunt.
to the conditions and situations of tianity has been stressing the so- ing reminiscences of beloved
our brothers who need, as we cial side of religion. • After cen- Jewish folk-lore which it brings
need, love and understanding.
turies of striving to save our in- to life.
If I were a Jew, I should try dividual souls we have discovered
It is most fitting that Madame
not to become embittered by the that it is very difficult to accom-
flagrant persecution in some coun- plish this without saving the so- Raise should make her re-debut
tries and the discriminations prac- cial ,order. The Jew, be it said in thia country in this sensa-
ticed in many places. I should to his everlasting glory, discov- tionally successful opera, creat-
try to remember the long suffer- ered that thousands of years ago, ing the leading role of Leah.
ing of my people amid the storms and it is to his strong ethical
of persecution. I should try al- sense that we shall always be in The event becomes more not-
able since she will sing under
ways to keep in mind what was debt.
the stay of my people during those
If I were a Jew, I should make the direction of France Ghione,
long centuries--God. "God is my • serious effort not to be too ap- considered next to Toscanini,
refuge and strength," wrote the prehensive over the outlook in as Italy's greitest conductor.
ancient Hebrew, "a very present America, for apprehension tends
help in trouble. Therefore will I often to bring on the very thing He makes his first American
not fear." If God be for us, we would avoid. When we begin appearance to direct "The Dyb-
who can be against us? I be- to fear, there is • tendency to buk." The opera will be given
lieve that this assurance is what exaggerated resentment over trif- for the first time in English.
has kept the Hebrew people so les. Nervousness is akin to hp-
patient amid this tribulation and tens, and hysteria isolates one Produced by the Detroit Civic
Opera Company and its stir-
made it possible for them to suf. from one's fellows.
fer in silence "the slings of out- AMERICA STILL A
ring orchestration played by the
Increased knowledge of the extent of rageous fortune." This long-suf- CHRISTIAN COUNTRY
famous Detroit Symphony Or-
the Polish-Jewish tragedy should stimu- fering has been the glory of the I should not be apprehensive be- chestra, the opera should afford
Hebrew
people:
no
striking
back
cause
this
is
a
so-called
Christian
late increased colonization efforts. Relief with violence, no incriminations
country, and while it is true Chris- the beloved diva an opportun.
alone, through the Joint Distribution Com- as a whole, instead a divine sil- tians often have beep leaders ity to make musical history this
mittee and other private and public agen- ence and meekness which have put among the persecutors of the Jews May, in Detroit, Chicago and
cies is not sufficient. In fact, anything tormentors to shame.
and while it is true that the great New York City.
If I were a Jew I should re- mass of Christians are only nomi-
that is palliative is insufficient. What is
nally
Christian, often-times .slaves HER GREATEST DRAMATIC
needed is permanency. It is clear that in member the contribution which
people have made to civiliza- to non-Christian propaganda, it is ROLE
Poland especially the situation is hope- my
tion. This would help me to keep also true that there are great
Raisa is known throughout
less for a large portion of the Jewish popu- my shoulders back and to walk number' of real Christians in
lation, and that Jews must be taken out of erect in the midst of those who America who would rather give ..the country for her perform-
up their lives than lee the life ances with the Chicago Opera
the country for settlement elsewhere. Even have forgotten.
and freedom of their brother the Company in leading roles in
if anti-Semites have utilized a similar ar- JEW'S CONTRIBUTION
Jew taken from him. There are "Aida," "Norma," "Tannhaue-
gument for demands for the expulsion of TO RELIGION
Christians and Christians just as
If
I
were
a
Jew
what
I
should
large numbers of Jews from Poland, we always keep in mind with just there are Jews and Jews. And if er," "Otello," "The Girl of the
must nevertheless recognize the truth of pride—because it is most funda- I were ■ Jew, I should thank Golden West," and "Cavalleria
the situation and strive to create the neces- mental—is the contribution of the God that the spirit of Christ the Rustieana." She added to her
sary colonization centers for these unfor- Jew to religion. It was the Jew great lover of mankind is abroad lustre at La Scala by creating
tunate Jews. And if Palestine is the only who gave us the Old Testament. In our land. for that I could be roles in "Nerone," by Boils in
poor we would be without assured would constitute my 'e- 1925 and in "Turandot," the
available colonization center, then the How
this great compendium of life, nmity.
foe Polish Jewry MUST be Pales-
next season. both under the

Even before the dark clouds over Pia...dine bate evaporated. the Jeel%h pioneer.
of the Neer PAW are preparing to demonatrate to the werld the soil.
of Jewish achievements In industrial, rometercial mut artistic life
Palestine. ''he Levant Fah. opened Stay I. The tenentlile ma)... of ' earl
AO, gives our readers • preview of Ibis unique estimation.

(Copyright, 1576, Seven Arts Feature Cu milcatc)

From the deck of the ship, as
Jaffa approaches, one sees afar
off, silhouetted against the blue-
ness of the sky, a white column
crowned by a flying camel. Tow-
ering over the gates of the Le-
vant Fair, the camel is something
more than a commercial emblem.
Its aspiring head and form sym-
bolize the East, ressurected after
long centuries by the. youth and
energy of those returning to their
motherland. As if in a fable, the
eastern camel has sprouted the
wings of a bird and soars aloft
to embrace wider horizons.
Behind this symbol lies solid
reality. Already in ancient times
the Philistine coast—from pres-
ent-day Haifa to the border of
Egypt—was the meeting ground
of trade-routes and civilizations.
The age of "destruction which suc-
ceeded has not snapped the chain
between past and present. Today
Palestine re-emerges as the key-
point between continents and per-
haps it is just that drawn-out leth-
argy of generations which is re-
acting now in a desire to build and
create, such as history has seldom
seen.

A City of 160,000
On this ancient coast-line Tel
Aviv was founded. The tiny gar-
den-suburb numbering 15,000
souls in 1932, and 45,000 as short
■ time back as 1926, has now
become a city with a population
of 150,000. Nor is the limit of
its expansion yet in sight This
growth, fantastic at first sight,
Is based on sound economics. The
developing markets of the Middle
East converge on Tel Aviv. Road
and rail connect the commercial
capital of Palestine with Syria
and Turkey to the north, Egypt to
the south and Iraq and Persia to
the East Palestine is the port
and outlet for this vast hinter-
land, its junction with Europe and
the Western World. The tonnage
of ships calling at Palestine's
ports clearly indicates Palestine's
trading growth. Two million tons
of shipping entered Palestine's
harbors in 1924, 2,760,00 In 1930
and 6,000,000 in 1934. Imports
and exports have expanded simi-
larly. The five million pounds of
imports in 1923-24, rose to seven
millions In 1929.30 and 15 mil-
lions at the present time. The
concentration of the Middle East's
transit trade through Palestine's
ports is a later development. As
yet only the first steps have been
taken, but the future of this trade

the advantages of ease, cheapness
and rapidity.
Palestine's growth has found
fitting reflection in the growth of
the Levant Fair. Its beginning in
1923 was modest in the extreme
—an attempt to display attrac-
tively the industrial product ,
which Palestine was just begin-
ning to turn out. But a spectacu-
lar future was in store for this
first humble experiment. Its me-
teoric rise to world importance is
one of the many dramatic chap-
ters in the history of modern Pal-
estine. In 1929, 330 firms were
exhibiting and 120,000 people visi-
ted the Fair; in 1932, the scope
had expanded to 1,220 exhibitors
and 300,000 visitors, and in 1935.
to as many as 2,860 exhibitors and
600,000 visitors. The display of
local products had broadened out
into an international exhibition.
In 1929 the foreign countries par-
ticipating had numbered 13, in
1932, 23 and in 1934, 32, with
2,127 actual exhibitors. Accord-
ing to these figures the Levant
Fair now ranks among the first
of the great international Fairs
of the world. Such famous ex-
hibitions as Leipzig, Prague and
Vienna are barely in advance. In
Leipzig, even in its best years,
foreign exhibitors numbered no
more than from 1,000 to 1,50o
from 20 to 25 countries, and in
Prague and Vienna, the total num-
ber of exhibitors, home and for-
eign, is now from 2,500 to 3,000.
The Levant Fair, too, he. this
advantage. It is only now on the
threshold of its growth. The eco-
nomic advance of Palestine and
the lifting of the world depres-
sion during the last two years are
guarantee in themselves that 1936
will be a new high-water mark in
the Fair's history.
Developin g Own Resource.
But trade is not Palestine's
final goal. This country, so re-
cently • mere backward province
of equally backward Syria, is de-
veloping its own sources of sup-
ply, and demands from abroad
raw and half-manufactured mater-
ials as fuel for its own new in-
dustries. Palestine is asserting
itself as an economic unit and
weaving trading relations of its
own. The Fair performs the In-
valuable function of stabilizing
these new relationships and ex-
hibiting Palestine's own internal
d evelopment Every country com-
ing to the Levant Fair learns cf
a new, unsuspected Palestine war-