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Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 13:1-15:41.
Prophetical portion—Josh. 2.
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentatettchal portion---Num. 8:21-12:16.
Prophetical portion—Zech. 2:14-4:7.
June 12, 1936
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Sivan 22, 5696
Wanted: A Semblance of Unity
The foundation l is definitely to be laid
during the present week-end, at the ses-
sions of the American Jewish Congress to
be held in Washington, for the World Jew-
ish Congress to be held in Geneva in Aug-
ust.
After several years of deliberations the
forces behind the movement for a World
Jewish Congress have now secured the
support and endorsdment of the vast ma-
jority of Jewish communities throughout
the world. By virtue of the fact that the
Congress movement is now a reality
it is rather unfortunate that the opponents
should continue to use underground meth-
ods in combating this effort and in at-
tempting to create a strong opposition in
this country. The Congress, whose prin-
ciples are based on the democratic idea of
public discussions of issues affecting our
people, would have no objections to a
public consideration of whatever difficul-
ties or differences are involved in the pres-
ent 'controversy. But the methods of the
opposition in no sense permit that because
they create a one-sided issue and influence
a powerful minority which is reached by
the "personal and confidential" series of
letters addressed to people who cannot
be reached in any other way.
The Jewish Congress idea today holds
out so much hope for Jews in many coun-
tries that it is far from fair to use tactics
intended to frighten people away from the
movement rather than to encourage the
public discussions of the numerous ele-
ments involved.
We feel that it is not yet too late to
create some sort of unity in Jewish life
and to create a solid force behind the
world-wide Congress effort. The damage
which may come from disunity is- far
greater than any of the dangers feared
by the opposition.
In greeting the sessions of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress to be held in Wash-
ington this Saturday and Sunday, we wish
to continue to hope that Jews will unite
behind this movement and that we will be
able to show a semblence of unity in the
interests of the cause of justice which
claims the allegiance and devotion of all
elements.
Morris Rothenberg and Z. 0. A.
Accepting as law a statement made by
Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zion-
ist Organization of America, at the 1935
convention, that he 'would not seek this
office again in 1936, the Seven Arts Feat-
ure Syndicate has inspired a straw vete
of Zionists to determine a preference
among the rank and file for a candidate
for the presidency of the American or-
ganization. Several newspapers are pub-
lishing the names of about 20 suggested
candidates for the office, the name of Mr.
Rothenberg being omitted from this list.
While the straw vote idea is a very
interesting one and creates a certain
atnount of discussion, it appears to us ra-
ther unfair to take Mr. Rothenberg's elimi-
nation from the race for granted and to
presume to boost the stock of others with-
out definite verification of the incumbent
having quit the race for the office.
Insofar as we are concerned—and we
are inclined to believe that most of the
leaders in the Zionist movement in De-
troit agree with us—Mr. Rothenberg will
not be breaking a pledge if he should de-
cide to yield to a movement that may
be launched to draft him again for this
office. Mr. Rothenberg certainly com-
mands a following that must not be mini-
mized. Ile has made such definite and in-
delible contributions to the cause of Pal-
estine's redemption that the idea of elim-
inating him from the race for the presi-
dency—even if such a movement is to
be launched against his will—must not
be pursued with malice or with a lack of
consideration for his own views which
should be made known before it is defin-
itely accepted that he is out of the run-
ning for the presidency of the Zionist Or-
ganization of Atnerica.
The straw vote now being conducted is
marked by a certain element of unfairness
to Mr. Rothenberg. We prefer first to
know his own decision on the question of
retaining or abandoning the office he now
holds, before we encourage an expression
of preference on other candidates.
Governor Lehman's Withdrawal
Injection of the Jewish issue in the
New York political campaign, said to have
been responsible for Governor Herbert H.
Lehman's withdrawal from the race for a
third term. is A most abominable sign of ir-
responsibility which causes the question of
race and religion to be made a subject of
controversy in the selection of public of-
ficials.
There has been ,entirely too much evi-
dence of race prejudice and religious dis-
crimination in recent political campaigns.
It is a sad commentary on our democratic
institutions, and it is especially regrettable
that this issue should have arisen in New
York, the largest Jewish- ,center in the
world.
A Conflict of Historic Forces
A Bar Mitzvah ceremony at Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek last Saturday morn-
ing reflected the conflict of historic forces
which make of our people the butt of an-
tagonists in one section of the globe, and
at the very same time create conditions
elsewhere which defy hopelessness and
give evidence of the indestructibility of
Israel.
The Bar Mitzvah was one of the Ger-
man boys who was brought to this coun-
try last year as a result of the agreement
reached by the National Co-Ordinating
Committee to Aid German Refugees with
the Department of Labor. His parents are
in Germany and he is the guest of a De-
troit family through whom he has found
a happy home here. There is a co-mingling
of tragedy with hope and joy in this Bar
Mitzvah's experience. There is tragedy
here in separation from family and friends,
from the natural German background. But
there is also the hope that comes with a
defiance of that brutality which has made
such a separation possible.
Historic Jewish forces which have come
into play in this experience in a sense sum
up a very vital Jewish issue. The horrors
which permit a reactionary government to
persecute and to exile Jews are mitigated
by the democratic principles of another
government which clings to the tradition
of liberty and to the principle of defend-
ing human rights. This Bar Mitzvah had
his happiness marred by separation from
parents; but this happiness judged from
the point of view of the boy's reaching
maturity as a member of the Jewish peo-
ple, grows in grandeur and magnitude be-
cause he becomes a symbol of the undying
spirit of Israel. This boy can truly say
with the Psalmist in expressing the eter-
nity of Israel: "I shall not die but live
to declare the works of the Lord."
Lights front
Shadowland
By
LOUIS PEKARSKY
IN THE LIMELIGHT
The New Colonial Secretary
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore,
newly-appointed Colonial Secretary of
the British Cabinet, is reputed to be a
great friend of the Zionist cause. His
friendship dates back to the days pre-
ceding the Balfour Declaration. His name
is linked with that of the late Sir Mark
Sykes, together with whom he rendered
invaluable services during the war to Dr.
Chaim Weizmann and the Zionist Com-
mission.
As far back as Dec. 2, 1917, in a bril-
liant address he delivered at a great
Zionist celebration of the issuing of the
Balfour Declaration, in the London Opera
Housei Mr. Ormsby-Gore called the
Zionist claim "overwhelming." He said
that he saw behind the work for the re-
demption of Palestine as the Jewish Na-
tional Home the finger of the Almighty
God." Having served as British Politi-
cal Officer in charge of the Zionist Com-
mission in Palestine, he became a great
admirer of Jewish efforts.
This, briefly, is the background of the
new Colonial Secretary. It remains to
be see nhow he will put into practice
a friendship which we have valued very
highly. Until now Colonial Secretaries,
although we looked upon them as friends,
failed to live up to their reputations. Mr.
Ormsby-Gore comes to his office with a
much better traditional background for
friendship to Zionism. Naturally we ex-
pect that he will prove to be a powerful
and important instrument in speeding up
the realization of British pledges to
Jewry that His Majesty's Government
will facilitate the reconstruction of Pal-
estine as a National Home for our people.
Irony of Fate
A cable recently received from Berlin
informs us that:
The Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Foun-
dation, named for the famous Jewish com-
poser of that name, is offering two scholar-
ships to talented German students, but Jew-
ish students will not be eligible. Announce-
ment of the scholarships in the Official Ga•
zette reveals that applicants must furnish
data on their nationality and descent for
"statistical purposes," which is a polite way
of saying no Jews need apply.
What irony of fate is expressed in this
brief dispatch! The descendants of Moses
Mendelssohn were the extremest assimili-
tionists. They left the Jewish fold com-
pletely, sought to merge with the non-
Jewish community, were converts to
Christianity and in no sense identified
themselves with the people they sprung
from. And now, the scholarships they
created are to be distributed with dis-
crimination and Jews are to be ineligible
to receive them.
The tragic irony of the manner in which
Jews were robbed of the rights of eman-
cipation as championed by Moses Men-
delssohn was recently touched upon in
the following paragraphs in the Catho-
lic Herald of London:
Jews throughout the world have been
commemorating the 150th anniversary of the
death of Moses Mendelssohn, the champion of
Jewish civil and intellectual emancipation in
Germany. When the bicentenary of his birth
was commemorated in 1929 it seemed as If
his work for his people had obtained complete
success: today it looks as if that work has
been completely undone.
But Jewry need not and will not despair.
The history of mankind in general and of Jews
and Christians in particular demonstrates that
the victories of justice, charity and right rea-
son must be won afresh in almost every gen-
eration. Jews and Christians in Germany, on
the common ground of the "One God who is
in heaven and throughout the earth," will
again achieve these victories of the spirits
Jews who know the futility of emanci-
patory movements whose fruits are inevit-
ably lost and destroyed by the rise of
bigotry do not despair. In fact, they help
to strengthen our solidarity and our de-
votion to our own culture and to the
ethical teachings of our prophets which.
if they were honored by the Christian
world that has inherited them from us,
would have made pogroms impossible.
The Jews have much more to learn from
the Mendelssohn lesson: that it is futile
to sell one's birthright and not to expect
posterity to wreak vengeance for ills-
loyalty.
Dr. Joel Pressman of Los An-
gelees (husband of Claudette Col-
bert) has received notice that he
has been honored with an award
of $100 for a thesis and motion
pictures of the larynx by the Amer-
ican Laryngological Association in
Detroit. At the annual convention
of the California Medical Associa-
tion in San Diego last week, Dr.
Pressman demonstrated a new ra-
dium treatment for bronchial can-
cer which was said by specialists
to be one of the outstanding de-
velopments of medical science
shown at the convention. Dr. Press-
man's treatment consists of lower-
ing a relatively large amount of
radium into the bronchial tube
with apparatus which he calls a
cage.
Dr. Pressman is now even with
his famous wife so far as geeting
awards in his family is concerned.
His wife once won the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences Award for the best screen
performance of the year.
Aaron Rosenberg, former Uni-
versity of Southern California
l and
All-American football star, is an
assistant film director at 20th
Century-Fox Studios . . Ivan
Lebedeff, who was brought to Hol-
lywood in 1927 by Cecil B. De-
Mille because of his success as an
actor on the New York stage, has
sold an original story to DeMille.
Entitled "Legion of Dishonor," the
story's action centers in a cellar
in No Man's Land where deserters
from various armies engaged in
the world war, have taken refuge
. , . Clifford Odets, noted play-
wright, now whipping scripts into
shape for Paramount films, was
once disowned by his father be-
cause he would not work in his
advertising agency ... Celebrating
the end of her first year a' an
American film actress, Luise
Rainer, of Vienna, has been signed
to a new long-term contract by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. S h e re-
cently won the coveted role of 0
Lan in Irving G. Thatberg's "The
Good Earth," in which she is now
appearing, opposite Paul Muni.
Eddie Cantor is to establish a
permanent home in Hollywood,
following his arrival here this
week. This news was made public
by his wife, Ida, who arrived with
three of the Cantor girls. The
Cantors have leased the Beverly
home of Lita Grey Chaplin. Can-
tor is to begin work next week on
his seventh musical film for Sam-
uel Goldwyn. All future radio
broadcasts by Cantor will emanate
from•Hollywood, Ida tells us.
Tidbits from Everywhere
What Lesson Does the Black Legion Teach Us
By PHINEASIL BIRON
By ESTELLE M. STERNBERGER
(Copyright. 1036. P. A. F. SJ
Angeles and Hollywood were hosts
this past week-end to National
Commander Abraham Kraditor of
the Jewish War Veterans of the
United States. The New Yorker
flew here from Tyler, Texas ' where
he installed a new post after per-
forming the same duty at Birming-
ham, Alabama, and spent Memo-
rial Day week-end visiting Los
Angeles Post No. 66, and Rosen-
kranz Post 113, of the film city.
On the might of May 29 he and
other leading Jewish and Christian
veterans spoke at memorial serv-
ices for those who made the su-
preme sacrifice in the wars of this
country, conducted by the Society
for Jewish Culture. Rabbi Jacob
Sonderling, Ph. D., who was a
chaplain in the German army dur-
ing the world war, is the Society's
leader. Memorial Day, Commander
Kraditor occupied a position of
honor in the reviewing stand at
the annual American Legion par-
ade in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Two h ∎ urs after his arrival he
was visiting RICO-Radio Studios
as the guest of Julius Klein, topi-
cal news editor. A banquet was
held Saturday night, May 30, for
the Jewish veterans' commander
and Sunday morning Commander
spoke at memorial services of
Rosenkranz Post in Beth Olam
Cemetery. In the evening he spoke
at a meeting of the American
Jewish Congress of Southern Cali-
fornia. Kraditor is one of the lead-
ers of the anti-German boycott in
the United St,ates,
Strictly
Confidential
WANTED: NEW STANDARDS OF PATRIOTISM
Reproduction in part or whole
forbid-
den, without permission of the Seven
Arta Feature Syndicate, Copffightere of
thin feature,
H OLLYWOOD, Calif.—Los
June 12, 1936
(Copyright, ilia
EDITOR'S NOTE: The United State, has
more enemies within its borders than without, says
Estelle M. Sternberger, executive chairman of the Good Neighbor League, in this inter.
eating article, Mrs. Sternberger, one of the outstanding women leaders of this coun-
try, sounds a signal of warning for higher standards of patriotism.
(eoPYriffht, 1535, Seven Arta Feature Syndicate)
Forty years ago there were men even in
this country who knew the trick that is being
used today by the European dictators. When they
saw the United States, in President Cleveland's
second term, headed toward a depression, internal
political turmoil, and their accumulated wealth
dwindling, they suggested that only a war against
a foreign nation would save the day. Those
men were hailed as patriots by their contempor-
aries. They were honored as citizens ready to
sacrifice millions of lives for the vindication of
this democracy and its honor.
When I see the Black Legion revealed,
through the Detroit investigations, as a band of
patriots who use violence to defend their notion
of democracy, I am inclined to believe that our
standards of patriotism need a new coat of paint.
The expenditures for human welfare these past
few years have staggered many of us. And yet
those expenditures are but a drop in the bucket
compared with the 54 billions of dollars we ap-
propriated in the two years of 1917 and 1918,
for our share of the World War, for our allies,
and for its aftermath. With the acquiesence of
a vast public, Congress is expending over a bil-
lion dollars this year for the army and the
navy. We give our blanket erhlorsement to an
extravagent program against a foreign enemy
who may never attack us while we completely
shut our eyes against the enemy within our
gates.
The United States has more enemies within
its own borders than it has across the seas, east
or west. They thrive unmolested in every com-
munity of this blessed land. The new standards
of patriotism demand an army of attack so vast
that its numbers, by comparison, will make our
mobilized force of 18 years ago look like the
remnants of the G. A. R.
The sould of America is sick. The struggle
to lift millions of Americans out of the Morass
of idleness, want and wretchedness has warped
the minds of many. A minority of our citizenry
has become demoralized, fearful that the oppor-
tunities for work, sustenance and comfort are too
few for the 130 million people on this enormous
stretch of land.
as ways for promoting its basic principle, among
the people of this land.
America, the stalwart exponent of democ-
racy, must not be made the laughling stock of
the world. Our natural wealth has not decreased
by as much as a grain of salt in all these seven
troublesome years Our fertile plains are as
fertile as they ever were. Our rivers still flow
and their waters have since been carried into
areas that were once the desert spots of this
country. The inventiveness of American indus
trial genius is still the envy of the world.
Why, then, have we given way to reprisals
on each other? As a country, we are not one
penny poorer today than we were in October,
1929. America needs new standards of pa-
triotism to life it from the dangerous pitfalls
into which misguided zealots would lead it.
Suggests New Standards of Patriotism
The new standards of patriotism summon us
to fight the problems of the hour in the spirit
of our country's pioneers—out in the open
arena. But the issue of new standards of pa-
triotism involves something besides unconcealed
courage. It demands that we recognize that it
is an equal if not greater duty of patriotism to
fight the evils that have not yet been eliminated
from our country's life. That type of service
to our republic is an every day service that re-
quires the grit of a bull-dog. We have got to
get our mental teeth into things and refuse to
let go until they come out the one way that
satisfies us Americans. And that pattern is
the pattern of everyman's right to a job; every
child's right to an education; every family's right
to a clean and sunlit home that is too healthy for
crime to thrive in: and mutual respect for each
other's race or religion.
Where is that fervor of patriotism that
leaps mountains and seas to eliminate a distant
enemy, but slumbers when the very fibre of
this democracy is endangered? We must set out
to mobilize millions of citizens whose sense of
patriotism is so human and so realistic that they
are ready to abolish the evils that thrive under
our very eyes.
The new standards of patriotism to which
Country's Spirit Was Molded in the Open the people of this democracy must pledge them-
The Ku Klux Klan, the Black Legion and selves are, in my opinion, these:
the Knights of the Golden Circle of Abraham
I pledge myself to live with my neighbor in
Lincoln's days, do not thrive in times of pros- civic brotherhood, regardless of his religion or
perity. They are the inventions of men who race.
play upon the confidence of our honest citizens
I pledge my unselfish ervice to this coun-
whose only crime is that they still believe that
try, in union, with other intelligent and able-
there are short-cuts to wealth, to opportunity bodied citizens, to lift our entire population to
and to personal security. In their desperation higher economic levels and so destroy the causes
during the difficult days through which we have and breeding places of crime and disease.
been passing these seven lean years, they have
I pledge myself to seek my own success,
mentally purchased one doctrine or nostrum after happiness and prosperity only in ways that ad-
another, hoping that it would prove to be an vance the security, comfort and happiness of all
Alladdin's lamp.
those whom my efforts and work affect.
The great creators of this democracy, George
I pledge myself to adhere to the tools of
Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham democracy, of free discussion, free association
Lincoln, did not mold the spirit of this country and free decision, in achieving the goals of lib-
through the devices of secret legions. They erty, equality and opportunity.
fought it out with their fellow-citizens in the
The new patriots we on. the march. The
open. Robert Fulton, Thomas Alva Edison, the victories they seek in America's economic and
Wright brothers, and Henry Ford did not con- social life will be fought and won in the open.
ceal themselves in a den of the hills and moun- The victories they will achieve will re-affirm to
tains and . from there seek to direct the conduct the world that this democratic land has no inten-
and movements of their fellow-beings. They
tion of repeating the blood-stained experiences
threw the fruits of their genius into the open of the open and secret dictatorships that have •
market and, let all who could and would, enjoy snuffed out the lives of countless innocent peo-
the benefits. Theobald Smith, the captain of ple, whose only sin was that they dared to speak
American microbe hunters, and Major Walter or act in behalf of a newer patriotism as they
Reed of yellow fever fame, did not corral an conceived it.
inner circle of special beneficiaries. They gave
-America's wealth is undebatable. America
their formulas and discoveries to humanity, with- is rich in men as well as materials. America
out any embargo of religion or race.
has ascribed its greatness to the fact that it
The greatest of our Americans have made has drawn upon the human resources of every
their contributions to the progress of this de- race and nation without whose work this stretch
mocracy without black hoods. When they made
of land would still be a vast forest. America is
up their minds to advance the cause of human on the wide battle front of human progress.
liberty and welfare in this land, they at no time America will win without a single citizen falling
resorted to the cover of darkness or swore a by the wayside. America will surge ahead through
dread oath of secrecy. The defense of democ- the formidable power of these new standards of
racy never sanctified murder or brutal flogging
patriotism.
The German-Jewish Relief Issue I
CHAT 0' BOOKS
Jewish Literary News and Notes
Why There Is a Break Between British and American
Jewriea; A Revealing Analysis of a Most
Perturbing Situation
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
tn,p,right, 19:14, e.,en Art. Feature
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LONDON: The rift in the re- !the world than is the breaking
lationship between the newly 'of the anti-Nazi boycott. For it
formed Council for the Relief of put a premium on anti-Semitism
German Jews and American and invites other anti-Semitic
Jewry—particularly that part of countries to follow Germany's
it represented by the Joint Dis- lead and get rid of the Jews.
tribution Committee — is widen-
Chief Points of Difference
ing.
.
These fundamental objections
When Sir Ilerbert Samuel. Lord; to the British plan were in ex-
Bearsted and Mr. Simon Marksiistence even while the three Brit-
arrived in the United States last ish emissaries were in the United
'January, they were given more i States but opposition has grown
than a cordjal reception. Ameri- stronger since the delegation re-
can Jews were impressed by the turned home. The truth is that
spectacle of three of the moat American Jews were as disap-
prominent leaders of British pointed with the plan of the
Jewry crossing the Atlantic in British delegation as they were as
behalf of a noble cause. enthusiastic about the delegation
The American outburst of en- .itself. They expected something ,
thusiasm was genuine enough, butbig and all-embracing, something!
I
of the three big men who
it was for the delegation itself worthy
more than for its aims. These let- came over with it and of the
some-
great
thrnagreedaylitayhtihrehy
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ter have from the first been some
what of a mystery. To start Jewry.
.olsndfacthinagt
with, there was the rumor, later what was big in the delegation's,
denied, that the delegation's mil- plan was decidedly bad, and what!
sion involved a plan for the trans- was not bad was old and common-I
fer from Germany of capital in place.
the form of German goods, in
The chief points of difference)
detriment to the anti-Nazi boy- et present are ostensibly of a
rott. This was followed by the technical nature and they may
delegation's no less obnoxious appear insignificant at first sight
scheme for the promotion of • But closer acquaintance with the
Jewish exodus from Germany. situation will reveal a deeper and •
This . project, although slightly more serious source of discord.
I modified in the official program
While the British delegation!
I of the Council. has never been was in the States an agreement
as strongly denied as the plan of was reached with the leaders of
flooding the world with Nazi the American Joint Distribution i
roods Y
th e
e stablish ■ new
is probably far more harmful to od
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ounc I i for the Relief
the Jewish position throughout f' IPLEASC TURN TO NEXT PAC'S/
By DAVID
MANN
EXILES WRITE
If you are one of those naive
souls who believes that Ger-
man anti-Semitism is a crea-
tion of the Nazis, Arnold
Zweig's powerful and breath-
taking anti-war preachment,
"Education Before Verdun"
(The Viking Press) will dis-
abuse you by its vivid portrayal
of the prejudice suffered by the
Jews in the German army dur-
ing the World War. The third
in the brilliant Grischa series,
this latest novel by Zweig, now
an exile in Palestine, precedes
in time his famous "The Case
of Sergeant Grischa." In sweep-
ing strokes of a master novel-
ist, this trenchant novel of the
World War from the German
side takes its place with the
great literature of all time and
stamen Zweig as a literary
genius who will yet win the
Nobel Prize.
8. A. F. at
FLOATING §YNAGOGUE
The first non-Jewish guest
speaker to occupy the pulpit of
the synagogue of the S. S. Queen
Mary was Captain Sir Edgar Brit-
ten, master of the new liner . . .
Sir Edgar welcomed the Jewish
passengers and in very drastic
terms contrasted British fair play
with Nazi treatment of the Jews
, . . Before the Queen Mary's
maiden voyage was over the Jew-
ish passengers presented Sir Ed-
gar with a beautiful leather bound
Bible . . . In charge of the syna-
gogue on the first voyage was
Frederick Samuel, staff member of
the London Jewish Chronicle, who
was given temporary rabbinic au-
thority of Chief Rabbi Hertz of
Great Britain . . . If you heard
some of the radio broadcasts from
the Queen Mary, credit them to
Mrs. Ilarry Cushin of London,
who is one of the key figures of
the British Broadcasting Corpora-
tion . Secretary to threw of the
highest executives in the BBC, she
came over with the party of 16
that handled all the broadcasts
from the Queen Mary . . .
100 YEARS
Hadassah and the Texas Zionist
Association have linked Zionism
with the Texas Centennial celebras
lion by raising a fund to establish
a colony called Nachlath Texas in
Palestine . . . Incidentally, you
may be interested in knowing that
there is a thriving city in Texas
called Palestine .. Prof. Albert
Einstein was invited to open the
Texas Centennial but he had to re-
fuse because of Mrs. Einstein's
health ... The invitation was per-
sonally delivered to Einstein by a
former Texas newspaper man act.•
ing as the messenger of the Gov-
ernor of Texas . . . Speaking of
Texas reminds us that a certain
Hyman Krupp of El Paso is one
of the country's oil Croesuses,
having earned a fortune of several
millions through a lucky oil strike
His luck also brought millions
to the University of Texas from
which he leased his land
CANADA
Believe it or not but there wasn't
a single voice raised against the
World Jewish Congress during the
sessions of the convention of the
Canadian Jewish Congreess
Canadian Jewish prominentaia ap-
parently never heard of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee and what's
more didn't seem to care.
We're told — don't laugh — that
the schochtim of Canada have
joined # union controlled by Jewish
Communists.
A resolution in favor of Biro-
Bidjan was not introduced at the
Canadian Jewish Congress meet-
ing because of a deal between
leaders of the Congress and the
Biro-Bidjan movement in Canada
... The deal consisted of an agree-
ment by the Congress leaders not
to pass a resolution censuring the
Communists in Palestine if the
Biro-Bidjan question was kept off
the floor.
Cactus Scribendi of the Toronto
Jewish Standard is authority for
the information that the only Jew-
ish station-master in Canada is
employed at Swastika . . . While
in Montreal we learned that a
number of the seamen on the Nazi
cruiser Emden are violently anti-
Nazi ...
PERSONALIA
It must have
been the heat that
permitted us, a couple of columns
ago to refer to Dr. I. M. Rubinow,
secretary of the B'riai B'rith , as
" ex-secretary" in reporting his
serious illness ... Dr. Rubinow is,
of course, still very much secre-
tary of the B'nai B'rith . . . Our
secretary tells us that she used
toe terms "ex" as an abbreviation
for the term executive and not as
a descriptive term meaning former
. .. But neither Dr. Rubinow nor
his multitude of friends could read
our secretary's mind .
Political insiders in New York
are saying that if Governor Leh-
man is not prevailed upon to
change his mind and accept re-
nomination, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor will be Secretary
of the Treasury henry Morgen-
thau, Jr.
They Helped Build America
Jews in the Liberation and Progress of Telas
By DR. H.
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The 100th year of the independ-
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ence of the one-time republic and came
across the continent, by heavy
now State of Texas, d eep
freighters
into the harbors of the
memories of its heroic history and calf
, and more recently, by fast
wondrous progress. In surveying
trains, automobiles and sky-pierc-
the record of the Jewish peopl e
craft. There might have
this story of brave pioneering, we been air
some Jews in the company of
find much satisfaction, and even a
the
early
explorers- of Texas, the
measure of justifiable pride in the
achievement of their small num- Spaniards: Cohere de Vara (1528)
and
Coronado
( (15401, and the
bers amidst a vast empire of
Frenchman Sieur de is Sall. ,
practically virgin soil.
no definite record is
The Jewish migration into Texas (1685), It but
is only with the estab-
is, of course, a part of the general extant.
lishment of the first Anglo-Amer-
westward marsh of civilization and iciiisettlement Stephin F. Aus-
cutlture. The mainspring of these tin, "the
father of 'Texas" 41821),
two forms of social progress are
that we find documentary evidence
two different kinds of hunger. The of
a
bona
fide Jewish settler. He
hunger of the body ultimately pro-
over from the Northwestern
duees civilization and government, came
country - which was then the United
while the hunger of th e
be aring the unmistakable
rise to religious and cultural in-
name of Samuel Isaacs. As a col-
Rapidly approaching his fam• stitutions. In the turbulent course onist
they bestowed on him " a
of the i r h istory the Jewish people
ous father in literary talent,
Spanish grant of one leagu e and
Klaus Mann, son of Thomas experienced both types of hunger. one labor of land" in Fort Bend
They have therefore looked 'hope- County.
Mann, has contrived in "Jour- fully toward a new land of free-
To be sure the early Jewish set-
ney Into Freedom" (Alfred dom and opportunity Jpening
Knopf) not only • simple lov'e yonder in the American South- tlers realized that they would meet
story of a German girl who west. Behold, there was a land in new battles along with new op-
which the tradional hospitality of portunities, and they seemed to
fled her country after the Nazis th
e South blended happily with have grappled bravely with both.
gained power but a poignant the free individualism of the West, Thus we find this Jew, Samuel
picture of the emotional strug. where "a man is a man for a' Isaacs, one of Austin's first three
hundred settlers, received in 1853
elms of the German refugees. that."
another grant of land, "for sere-
Pint Jewish Pioneers
Finland and Paris are the I
ices rendered in the army of Texas
And so they came into this em- in 1836-7". In the earliest insurrec•
cales of this fine novel by one
pire of Texas by all manner of
trtxaan TIMM TO MIXT PAOM)
tion
of the American colonists
routes and trampertaties • Thex
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