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Sabbath Readings of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 1:1-3:22
Prophetical portion—Is. 1:1.27

Tisha b'Ab Reading. of the Torah,
Tuesday, July 28

Pentateuchal portions—at morning services,
Deut. 4:25-40; at afternoon services
Ex. 32:11.14; 34:1.10
Prophetical portions—at morning services,
Jer. 8:13-9:23; at afternoon services,
Is. 55:6-56:8

July 24, 1936

Ab 5, 5696

National Day of Mourning

Tisha b'Ab, national Jewish day of
mourning, assumes added sorrow this
year as a result of the tragedies in Pal-
estine.
These are sad days for Israel. Driven
from everywhere, admitted nowhere, we
find hostility even in Palestine, the only
Jewish physical and spiritual haven of
refuge.
Even Jews are to be found in the ranks
of our enemies. Communists in Palestine,
New York and Moscow, have picked up
the false cry that Jews are expropriating
the Arabs, and credence is thus given such
stupidity by enemies within our own ranks.
But we have a long history to draw
upon for inspiration and courage. We
have had other tragedies before, and we
survived them. In many instances we
emerged strengthened and reinvigorated
from such persecutions. And although
the present tragedy is the worst in our
history we have not lost faith that we
shall make gains rather than sink deeper
into a state of despair.
Tisha b'Ab teaches us above everything
else not to permit a state of demoraliza-
tion to set in and to retain faith that the
justice of our cause will yet bring triumph
for Israel.

Coughlin's Anti-Semitism

Injection of religious and racial issues in
political campaigns are always odious,
especially when they are forced upon the
campaigners. There can be no doubt,
however, of the malice which prompts
Father Charles E. Coughlin, Royal Oak
radio preacher, constantly to invoke Jew-
ish names whenever he attacks those he
dislikes and whom he dubs foreigners or
international bankers.
At the meeting of the Townsend Clubs
in Cleveland, Rev. Coughlin hurled a ques-
tion at his listeners: "Why should there
be want in the midst of plenty simply to
satisfy the foreigners, the Rothschilds and
the Europeans?" We doubt whether even
Coughlin, in his soberer moments when he
prepares his speeches, promiscuously uses
the names only of the Rothschilds in order
to express his hale. He usually also
couples Jewish names with at least one
name of a non-Jewish banker. But speak-
ing before the Townsendites he bloomed
forth in his true colors with this query
and also with the following statement,
when he referred to the Southern dele-
gates who opposed having the Townsend
movement endorse any third party candi-
dates this year: "They jump up when
they hear the word Democrat, but don't
forget that these are the people who sold
you out to the Rothschilds and ..the inter-
national money changers."
It is too bad that Coughlin does not
know that there are no Rothschilds in this
country; that this banking house is unim-
portant now in European money affairs;
that the injection of the name of the fam-
ous Jewish house lends itself so easily to
arousing hate. If only he had surrounded
himself with wiser advisers—if he as
much as "stoops" to getting any one else's
advise—Coughlin could have avoided the
comment made by Edward Angly, reporter
for the Republican New York Herald-Tri-
bune who covered the Townsend Clubs'
convention in Cleveland. In the dispatch
to his paper Angly stated that "if there
was any anti-Semittic sentiment among
the perspiring thousands he (Father
Coughlin) got at that too, for whenever
he spoke of the international bankers to
whom he said the New Deal had sold out
the birthright of future Americans, the
only ones he mentioned by name were the
Rothschilds."

Gallagher's Rebuke to Nazis

Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of the
Catholic diocese of Detroit has let it be
known that as a protest against IIitlerite
religious persecutions he will not visit
Germany in the course of his European
travels.
It is interesting to note that Bishop Gal-
lagher made a very strong statement in
rebuke to the Nazis when he said: "No
person, regardless of religion, should con-
done the activities of Hitler. The persecu-
tions that have been inflicted on the re-
ligious of that country have not been ex-
aggerated, and every one should join in

active protest."

When Bishop Gallagher returned from

a tour of Germany two years ago he was

Advice Tantamount to Suicide

Al Segal, in his article, "If I Were the
Zionist Leader," plays tht role of pacifist,
mediator, preacher and m trtyr. He under-
takes to advise the Zionit ts what to do in
order to solve the preser t tragic problem
in Palestine, and in effect he urges that we
should stop sending Jews to Palestine,
that we should stop buying land. He
asks "What if for a year even there is
no extension of Jewish population in Pal-
estine?"
Mr. Segal might have offered better
advice. There is genuine reason for re-
buking our leadership, for criticizing Zion-
ists for having permitted certain condi-
tions to arise which might have been
avoided and whose elimination might have
averted the present horrors. But to advise
that we submit to the cutting off of immi-
gration to the complete forbidding of all
land sales
' to Jews, is tantamount to offer-
ing us suicide as a way out of the present
dilemma. Mr. Segal never was as wrong
as he is in his present contention.
It is very gracious of the able Cincinnati
writer to tells us to capitulate, to offer
peace, to play the martyrs. It sounds like
a saintly suggestion, like an offer of the
other cheek after the first had been
smitten into a sorry mess. But Mr. Segal
forgets that in Palestine the struggle is
between progress and medievalism, be-
tween civilization and barbarism. And
once medievalism is given freedom to act
it does not permit whatever is progressive
to remain but it continues to destroy. The
Arabs offer a desert in place of the para-
dise created by Jews in Palestine. We
brought this backward people health and
prosperity, we gave them trees instead
of marshes, we dried up the unhealthy
mosquito-ridden territories and have built
for Jew and non-Jew alike. But the desert
people rebel. It asks that Jews should
not be permitted to buy land and that
Jews should not be admitted into the coun-
try. Mr. Segal would yield. Once he and
his type of Jews yield, the Arabs will
:make other demands. Next they will ask
that whatever has been set up be de-
stroyed, that whatever is left of Jewish
progress be eradicated, that whatever
may in the future—did you say "for a
year even" Mr. Segal?—blossorn forth
again should be poisoned. How else are
we to judge the actions of the crude and
backward desert folk who hate to see
Palestine "blossoming as the rose" and
uproot the trees which help to give the
country health and joy and prosperity?
Of course, without peace there can be
no happiness or progress in Palestine. But
peace will not be acquired by sacrificing
principles. We must go to the root of
the problem—and Noel Brailsford may
know a bit more about this situation when
he says that Arab landowners are respon-
sible for the trouble, that the poor Arabs
who benefit from Jewish settlement are
being instigated by false prophets and de-
structive. propagandists. The root of the
trouble is that the mandatory power does
nothing to advise the people of the unfair-
ness of their anti-Jewish stand. Britain
does nothing to put an end to incendiarism,
arson, murder. It is the fault of the admin-
istration in Palestine that conditions con-
tinue as they are.
Mr. Segal means well, but he Is evi-
dently so little affected by the serious im-
plications in the entire Palestinian issue
that he does not understand the futility
as well as the danger of the policy of
peace which he advocates. He does not
understand that for the young Jews in Po-
land and in Germany and in Rumania a
life of danger in Palestine is still better
that a life of degradation and humiliation
and starvation where they are today. "Bet-
ter a half million Jews who are safe in
Palestine than a million trembling for
their lives," writes Mr. Segal. We re-read
this sentence in amazement. An exper-
ienced newspaperman, yet he blunders so
badly. A million Jews in Palestine will
create security for the first half million,
Mr. Segal. Only In numbers are we safe
in Palestine. In 1929 you may have ad-
vised Jews to stop at the 150,000 mark.
Yet, a quarter of a million more have
found a haven of refuge from the worst
gehennas in creation. Had we yielded to
demands that no more land be sold, that
no more Jews by admitted, in 1929, where
would this quarter of a million be today?
What is worse, what security would there
have been for the first 150,000?
To agree to the proposed curbs would
mean also that we assume responsibility
for the present outrages which are perpe-
trated only by Arabs. This is something
which we must not do under any circum-
stances, and we are confident that no
sane Jewish leader will undertake to ad-
vocate such self-degradation. We have
had self-hatred enough without going to
such extremes. Mr. Segal may choose to
call this further proof of our prophetic
spirit, but in reality it would be insult of
the lowest kind.
You are all wrong, Mr. Segal. You play
the martyr foolishly. You not only do not
understand the implications in the Pales-
tinian struggle, but you are also blind to
the effects that your policy would have
on the millions of Jews outside of Pales-
tine whose only hope lies in Eretz Israel
which Ishmael would destroy.
The only answer in the present crisis is
the purchase of more land, the settling of
larger numbers of Jews, the creation of
Jewish unity to make firm demands upon
the mandatory power. We dare not yield
on questions of principle.

A June bride who was married at the
Markham Memorial Presbyterian Church
in St. Louis charged a 20-cent admission
fee to her wedding ceremony and donated
the proceeds to the mission summer
schools. June would be a profitable month
for worthy causes if all brides were to
charge admission fees to their weddings
—provided, like the St. Louis Presbyterian
bride, they served refreshments end gave

not prepared to take such a firm stand.
Events of the past 24 months were suili-
c'ent to convince him of the brutality of
the ruling forces in Germany, and it is
encouraging to know that he has so whole-
heartedly joined the forces opposing the
the guests their money's worth.
Hitlerist oppressors.

Lights from
Shadowland

was

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

A Jewish Supreme Court of Honor

Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
den.without permission of the Seven
Arts Feature Syndicate, Copyright.. of
this feature.

A Plan to Assure United ACtion . by the Jewish Leadership

Since he made his screen debut
this month in a Universal film we
have had lots of Inquiries about
Michael Loring, the newest addi-

tion to Hollywood actors of the
Jewish faith. Therefore we present
a few interesting things about his
activities for your information.
His real name is Merviss and his
parents are M. D. and Mascha
Merviss of Minneapolis, and of
Russian-English ancestry. Michael
was born in Minneapolis on Nov.
26, 1910. lie was educated at
Madison grammar and South High
schools, and graduated from the
University of Minnesota with a
B. A. degree and high marks for
literary work. He remained at the
university as a premedical student
for two more years.
His college education finished,
Loring found the stage far more
tempting than the call of hospital
service or surgery. He joined a

road company on tour in "Jour-
ney's End." The company played

in Chicago and three states and
finally was stranded in Terre
Haute. This incident only in-
creased his desire for more. Hav-
ing played in Shakespearean
repertory in the University of
Minnesota Drama School, Loring
joined the Oxford Players on tour.
In 1933 he joined the first WPA
theatrical project in Chicago.
His first trip to Hollywood was
made four year ago, when he tried
to crash the movies, as the saying
goes, but became discouraged tem-
porarily and returned to Min-
neapolis. With Richard Carlson he
opened the Minneapolis Repertory
Theatre, acting as producer, di-
rector and actor. This was an un-
successful venture. He next ap-

peared in a production of "The

Jazz Singer" and sang over the
radio at Station WTCN and won a
scholarship at. Mrs. Paul Sloane's
school of music because of his fine
baritone voice. You should hear
him sing Jewish folk songs if you
want to enjoy a genuine treat! The
thrilling performance he gave at a
recent United Jewish Welfare
Fund dinner in Los Angeles still
lingers in the memory of the hun-
dreds who heard him sing there.
In 1935 Loring returned to Hol-
lywood and appeared at the na-

tonally known Pasadena Commu-
nity Playhouse in "Yellow Jack."

He also sang at the world-famous
Cocoanut Grove and the Los An-
geles Biltmore ballroom, and in
April of this year a Universal
talent scout heard him sing at the
Trocadero Cafe in Hollywood. A
screen test followed, and after
Charles R. Rogers and William
Koenig, Universal bosses, viewed
it they immediately gave Loring
a contract.

JEROME COWAN SIGNED

They say that making fun of
Hollywood pays dividends. For ex-
ample, Sam and Bella Spewack
wrote a play, "Boy Meets Girl,"
a satire on the motion picture in-
dustry, and Samuel Goldwyn im-
mediately signed them to a writing
contract.
Now Jerome Cowan, a native of
Hartford, Conn., is on the way to
a similar fortune in the movies.
Cowan played the lead in the
Spewacks' Broadway hit, portray.
ing a writer who cannot make
enough fun of Hollywood. Samuel
Goldwyn signed Cowan, a tall,
good-looking, Clark-Gable-ish sort
of chap, for the second lead in
Merle Oberon's new picture, "In
Love and War." As Cowan is with-
out film experience, he left the
show and reached Hollywood Sun-
day to spend several weeks on the
Goldwyn sets, watching and learn-
ing screen-acting methods.

By JAMES

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

FORECASTS

NOTE: Mr. Ellmann, an outstandin g Jewish leader in Michigan, proposes the es-
tablishment of a modern Sanhedrin—i n the form of a Jewish court of honor—for the
solution of Jewish controversial probl e m s . An authority on arbitration, a former
Highland Park, Mich., judge, former president of the Zionist Organization of Detroit
and one of the mainstays in the civil liberties movement in Detroit, Mr. Ellmann is

highly qualified to discuss this interesting subject.

(('opyright, 1936. Seven Art. Feature Syndicate)

We are an anarchic people. It could not be
otherwise. Suspected, driven, exploited, how
could we so quickly develop into well balanced
human beings? A long tradition of psychic and
physical factors conducive to balance creates bal-
ance; a tradition of ease and comfort and poise
creates poise.

Our deeply individualistic thinking, acting
and reacting arouses constant clashes, a small
portion of which may be of some value, but the
greatest part is useless, unwholesome. It makes
us unhappy, creates disruption and disunity and
keeps us forever busy with complexes and
uncertainties, suspicions and fears. By interne.
cine strife we continue to create barriers for
ourselves and between ourselves and others. And
a staggering amount of efforts goes to waste.
We all seem well enough aware of the im-
perious need for cohesion, unity and solidarity.
We recognize it as the only means by which to
maintain racial, national, religious integrity—
call it what you will. So we are forever busy
preaching unity from the housetops to those who
do not stop to listen long enough.

Dissension in Our Ranks

We have spent more than 40 years in
building a practical Zionist philosophy and, even
in its first stages, wild Revisionist offshoots come
to plague us. We create a Jewish Agency so
that Zionists and non-Zionists may collaborate,
developing Palestine, and collateral conflicts are
pressed forward to liquidate even this slight
advantage.
A World Jewish Congress is projected and
self-appointed saviours arise to nullify the hopes
of its aspirants. We seek to raise funds nationally
through a needed integrated purpose and personal
dissensions come to dishearten givers and workers
alike. We keep on pleading, begging, organizing
Jewish life, and seem to lose sight of the fact
that something is lacking to promote the central
purpose—a singleness of plan for a harmonious
achievement.
The stupidities and narrowness which so
glibly animate us! The ease with which we be-
come self-seeking leaders in self-starting pro-
jects. Our needs as a whole be damned! My
only little narrow field of petty interest is all that
counts. My little place in the sun is all that
matters. The broader vision, the grander pur-
pose, the greater social achievement are wholly
forgotten.

Is there • better way? Can we reduce

friction and

increase

social balance and in-

tegrity and understanding? Can we evolve

a

clearing house for self-generating ideas—a

testing place for their ultimate or temporary

social value? Is there a better way to prevent

needless antagonism and petty politics? I

rather think we can arrive at honorable solu-

tion. of honorable dispute., if most of these

would be taken in tow by a properly estab-

lished and properly managed body of

a

judi•

cial character.

Some such body may save us from stumb-
ling into the many false solutions which have
been bringing us wholesale disappointment and
grief. A body of fair and honest representa-
tives—and we have many of these—could sit
together and quietly silence needless wranglings
as well as formulate more wholesome action.
This would be a model tribunal where social
ideals might be analyzed, tested, and promul-

About the Life of the Modern Daughter of Sheba

By ANNE RUTH SELSTALL

EDITOR'S NOTE: The history of the little known Jewish tribe of

Ethiopia, the Falashas, is still cloaked in legend and myth-
The author of this article, which will be published in the

August issue of Eve, Is to us • most informative pic-

ture of this mysterious black Jewess of Ethiopia.

Judaism. Intermarriaige between
these scions of ancient Hebrew
royalty and the native women of
Africa established the line of
Falashas, or black Jews of Ethio-
pia. Under Menelik I and his suc-
cessors Ethiopia remained half
Jewish and half pagan until 330
A. D., when the majority of the
Jews. The majority of Ethiopians, population was converted to
Christianity.
Those who remained
course,
are
Christians,
for
the
of
land of Haile Selassie is the loyal to the faith of Solomon re-
treated
to
the
mountains and
Christian
nation.
world's oldest
Yet this ancient empire dates its established an independent Jew-
ish
kingdom
which
endured for
national origin back to Maqeda,
the famous and beautiful Queen of 1,300 years. Ruled alternately by
Sheba who ruled over Ethiopia in queens called Judith and kings
called Gideon, this mountain em-
the days of King Solomon.
From biblical sources and the pire succeeded in preserving In-
folklore of Ethiopia has come tact an almost virginal form of
down the story that when the the religion brought to Ethiopia
powerful and fabulously wealthy from Palestine by the Queen of
Queen of Sheba traveled to Jerusa- Sheba and her son.
The Moslem conquet of Ethio-
lem in the 11th century B. C. E.
to see for herself the wonders of pia in the seventh century C. E.
King Solomon's Temple she fell cut it off from the rest of Chris-
completely under the spell of this tendom for a thousand years. Be-
most celebrated monarch of an- lieving themselves to be the last
tiquity. Awed by his proverbial survivors of the Jewish people,
wisdom and vast wealth, this the Falashas held fast to Judaism
dusky, club-footed princess was with fanatic zeal despite genera.
also tremendously impressed with tions of persecution and separa-
Solomon's God and religion.? tion from the main branch of
There are only dim legends to Jewry. Although the independent
support it, but it is said that the; Jewish kingdom was destroyed in
proud Maqeda was converted to the 17th century and its inhabi-
Judaism by the Hebrew gage and tants decimated by recurring wars
Isere him a son called Menelik, and plagues and the inroads of
who became the founder of the assimilation, the dwindling rem-
royal house of Ethiopia.
nants of the seed of Sheba and
Solomon were still • Jewish oasis
Hold Fast to Josloi.ot
Whe n th e Queen of Sheba re-, in a desert of paganism when they
turned to her own country with were discovered some 60 yelp
her son, after • lengthy stay at
King Solomon's court, she
Skilled in Crafts
brought with her many of the I Less warlike and far more in-
Solomon's' dustrious than most Ethiopians.
first-born
sons
of

When the blackshirted legions
of Mussolini made themselves
masters of Ethiopia and drove
Emperor Haile Selassie. King of
Kings and Conquering Lion of
Judah, into exile, they brought
under hegemony the only country
in the world whose people proudly
boast that they are descendants of

courtiers, who had been

I. ELLMANN

EDITOR'S

The Black Jewess of Ethiopia

sent to the Falashas have • higher moral

Ethiopia to convert the natives to

S

(copyright. tele H. A F.

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gated; where conflicts involving our honor as a
people or as individuals could he set at rest.

An Appropriate Forum

Out of such a place a body of advisory opin-
ions frequently with even greater than the moral
potency of law could emanate. In many instances,
it could conciliate or arbitrate every sort of
major or minor dispute involving the peace of
the community, locally, nationally, as well as
internationally, depending in each case upon the
nature of the specific needs.
The minority opinions would even be a
healthy sign that honest differences most con-
tinue. But at least we shall know that some
appropriate forum has gone to work and has
arrived at an agreed method of action, or non-
action. Without that what have we? There
are no agencies to serve us in the face of com-
mon calamities. Isolated individuals propel them-
selves into acting or speaking as our representa-
tives. By what right, no one knows. Hence an
accepted form of representation must be evolved
to treat our problems in some such manner.
There is no pattern of life quite like ours in
or out of Palestine. Other people may not re-
quire the tribunal here indicated. We do. Need
compels it. Outside of the common problems with
those of our neighbors we have many superim-
posed upon our lives of a different hue. These
we like to settle in our own advisory court, in
our own accepted places of counsel-taking.
Destined as adventurers in every moment
aimed to liberate life from its false trappings,
something in our nature responds to the great
call. It is our very inheritance. In deed it
may be our special contribution to humanity's
search for the ideal.

- Louis Lipsky will not remain the
vice-president of the American
Jewish Congress . . Stephen S.
Wise will startle his admiring
public by giving up a number of
avtivities to which he seemed wed-
ded for life ... James Waterman
Wise is scheduled to leave these
shores some time in the Fall for
a full year .. Ludwig Lewisohn
is preparing to take up residence
in a suburb of New York City
Pierre Van Paasen has canceled
his lecture tour to the United
States for this winter and will re-
main in Europe . . . There are
rumors of a sensational develop-
ment in the setup of the Yiddish
press in this country . . . One of
the best-known Jewish women will
be among the American delegates
to the Pan-American Conference
in Buenos Aires next January
A group Of Orthodox Jews are
planning a new Anglo-Jewish
weekly- in New York City ... You
will be pleasantly surprised when
the newspapers print the news of
the important diplomatic and com-
mercial mission which has taken
Samuel C. Lamport to Europe ...
He went abroad with credentials
from Secretary of State Hull, the
personal best wishes of FDR and
as a special emissary of the Good
Neighbor League ... M. Maldwin
Fertig, who made a big hit as
chairman of the resolutions com-
mittee at the Zionist convention in
Providence and who refused a
place on the executive, is slated
for a major position in one of the
leading national Jewish organiza-
tions . . . Don't be surprised if
you have occasion to listen to an
international radio broadcast from
the World Jewish Congress in
Geneva . . • One of the speakers
may be a world-famous English-
man known everywhere as one of
the fathers of the League of Na-
tions

BERLIN-BOUND

A good deal of the last-minute
funds obtained by the American
Olympic Committee came indi-
rectly from Jewish bankrolls . .
The fact of the matter it that Jews
contributed as much to the Olym-
pic fund this year as in any other
Give Us a Court of Honor!
Olympic year . . Charles Orn-
Daily we are becoming a more highly or-
ganized Jewish community. We are systemati- stein, one of the leaders of the
fight against American participa-
cially raising funds by every sort of exhortation. tion in the Olympics, helped pay
‘..e are passing constant judgment on the gener-
the hotel bijls of several members
osity or frigidity of this person or that. We of the American team while they
were in New York . . . He also
seem to have no trouble sitting in judgment on bought
shoes for a couple of the
the measure of social responsibility of the other. trackmen . .. That's sportsman-
fellow. But when it comes to ourselves we ship . . King Kong Klein, star
seem to have little sense of proportion. What of last year's New York University
we most lack, then, is the means of self-analysis, eleven, has been signed to make a
football picture in Ilolly•ood .. .
self-appraisal. With good judgment on matters
REINHARDTISMS
which do not affect us, we fail miserably when
Max Reinhardt is back in Salz-
they affect us personally in the least. At such burg for the festival, where he'll
times some of us have the good sense to search meet Remain Rolland, who is writ-
ing the script for Reinhardt's new
outside aid. But most of us refuse to listen.
We proceed to act to our own chagrin and loss. movie, "Danton, the Terrible" ...
Before leaving Reinhardt confided
What is true of an individual is equally true
to us that he still hasn't got an
of a whole people. En masse and under pres- actor to play the role of Denton,
sure we think even less clearly and wisely. Many and that he's ready to receive ap-
plans are conceived at noisy surroundings and plications . • . An amusing incident
in connection with Reinhardt's
under strained or panicky conditions. Few
sailing on the Normandie has to do
worthwhile results can be thus achieved.
with his traditional aversion to
The mechanics and the personnel and the going to bed before 3 a. m. or get-
means of selecting such a body of judges as ting up before noon . . . The
French liner was scheduled to sail
here indicated is a minor problem once the at 10 a. m., and Reinhardt asked
plan is deemed feasible. Something of the an- for permission to board it the
dent Sanhedrin with the dignity of the modern night before ... This was granted
Supreme Court is the nearest to our conception. provided he would be on board be-
fore midnight—but this of course
We do not want to deal here with all the other was just as impossible for him as
details. But give us a Court of Honor to sit in getting up early in the morning
judgment fairly, freely, dispassionately, as is ... So, after a great deal of wire-
so often necessary upon matters of great mo- pulling, telegraphing and confer-
Reinhardt succeeded in re-
ment affecting our lives. Let it provide opinions encing
volutionizing the routine of the
which may become landmarks in the orderly de- entire French merchant marine,
velopment of a people in and outside of its own
when a special detail of sailors
Homeland.
stayed up all night waiting for
him

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By DAVID MANN

"Stop, Thief"

By JOSEPH SALMARK

•oPsright, 1131i, it A.

BIOGRAPHICAL

To Jews, Sarah Gertrude
Millin's revealing biographical
study of South Africa's great-
est statesman, "General Smuts"
(Little, Brown and Co.), is of
particular interest because of
Smuts' lifelong identification
with Jews and Jewish problems.
Sympathetic with Jewish aspir-
ations because of his deeply re-
ligious nature and his venera-
tion of the Old Testament He-
brews, Smuts came to know
many of the early South Afri-
can Jews intimately. He wel-
comed their energy and initia-
tive and was drawn to them be-
cause he felt that they and the

Boers were equally disliked by
the English. Democratic and
tolerant, he vigorously opposed
racial and religious discrimin-
ation and fought immigration
restrictions against the Jews.
Mrs. Millins' brilliant biography
takes us up to 1917, when

Smuts joined the British war
cabinet, It was in this office
that he helped bring about the
Balfour Declaration. We shall

Everybody knows the story of
the thief who tried to escape from
his pursuers by shouting "Stop,
thief!" That is what some of the
gentlement who are injecting the
Jewish issue into the presidential
campaign are doing. Under the
guise of protesting against the
un-American policy of mixing
racial and creedal prejudices with
politics a number of so-called
leaders have recently gone out of
i
their way to introduce
the Jew-
ish question into the forthcoming
election.
Mr. Paul Block, publisher and
adjutant of William Randolph
Hearst, recently broadcast
throughout the country an edi-
torial rom his papers in which
he labeled Governor Lehman's
candidacy an effort to get Jew-

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who wears the garb of • Catholic
priest. The incontrovertible fact
remains that these evil individ-
uals are trying to make the Jews
the whipping-boys of this cam-
paign.

Greenbaum Leads
California Druids

SAN FRANCISCO.—(WNS)—
Abraham Greenbaum of this city
has been elected leader of the
United Ancient Order of Druids
of California, an organization
which is taboo in Nazi Germany.

A Most Instructive Story

Berta and Elmer Hader, to
ish votes for President Roosevelt whose
credit is already to be
in New Y ork State. In connection
with this contemptible charge Mr. found an excellent collection of
children's books, have just pro-

Block had the impudence to decry
the introduction of the Jewish is-
sue into politics and to shed croc-
odile tears over this "dangerous"
business.
Father Coughlin, at the Cleve-

duced another volume which is of
unusual value for young children
because of the entertaining way
in which it instructs them on an
interesting subject.
This two authors beer jointly
produced a most remarkable book,
both from the point of view of the
contents as well as the excellent
illustrations, in "Green and Gold:
The Story of the Banana," just
published by the Macmillan Co.
(II.). It is an education for young-
sters to read in this story how
the banana is planted and grown,

land convention of the Townsend
Clubs, gave new evidence that he
will not stop at anything in order
to reach his goal. The radio priest,
after using barroom language in
describing the President of the
United States, resorted to the
well-known Nazi method of speak-
ing of the Rothschild, as sym-
'c o the international bankers. how it was first discovered Iv
He also emphatically divided the food and how natives in tropical
country into Christian Americans countries began to plant its roots
and "foreigners,"
and to spread

eagerly await the second
volume of this work, which will
tell more of Smuts the states-
man and uncompromising cham-
pion of Jewish Palestine.
Parents and educator! seek-
its production.
ing entertaining Jewish reading
raduall y th e run. became
popular
It is high time
that such pro- In non-tropical
lands, and today
it
for children In their teens owe nouncements
be recognized
as is no longer
• debt of gratitude to Betty what they really are--deliberate
a luxury and is sold
e
Ralisher for her extremely, well and mischievous attempts to ex-
This bo te
written "Watchmen of the ploit latent racial and religious the growth of the not only about
prejudices for political purposes. spread of its he b a nan a and t
Night" (Union of American I It
popularity , but also
doe. not matter that if. this describes how it is shipped
and
Hebrew Congregations), a col- . particular
case the sources of I how it is
ripened after being kept
lection of biographical sketches these on-American utterances are I green on journeys.
of eminent figures in Jewish a lackey, who is himself • Jew,1 The Madero have produced •
truss' =RN TO WRIT room of William Randolph Hearst., and truly fine work in this ito book
a supporter of the third party about the banana.

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