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July 31, 1936

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her bequest, her testament is of even
greater significance.
The Fund for Polish Relief

Knowing the vastness of the Polish-
Jewish problem, it is discouraging to read
that funds being raised for the relief of
:sorely oppressed Jews in Poland are com-
ing in so slowly, and in driblets. The most
downtrodden group of Jews in the world,
barring not even the Jews of Germany,
Polish Jewry deserves to have a much
more liberal response to the plea for their

Perhaps the comparative slowness of
the local drive is due to the fact that only
a handful is engaged in the important
task of raising Detroit's quota. Joseph H.
Ehrlich, the treasurer of the compaign, is
justified in feeling that there is cause for
Tome satisfaction over the manner in which
the money raised thus far has been sub-
:scribed, due to the fact that the contribu-
tions have been received in response to a
mail appeal.
The .hot weather, the lack of volunteers
and the fact that the fund is so far from
the goal compels the leaders and the
handful of workers to carry on the drive.
It is important that prompt and liberal
responses should be made by Detroit Jews
to the current campaign for Polish-Jewish
relief, in order that a very pressing need
may be alleviated and what threatens to
be a prolonged drive speedily and success-
fully concluded.

The Fascist Threat

Liberals have become frightened and
now warn that unless this country learns
from the mistakes of Germany we may
have a Hitler here.
Sinclair Lewis, who set many to think-
ing about the Fascist dangers in this coun-
try with the publication of his book It
Can't Happen Here," believes that it CAN
happen. He made some interesting state-
meats in an interview recently published
in the New York Post, in the course of
which he declared:

That's the whole trouble with a democ-

racy. Dictatorships always seem impossible in
a country that has had some liberty. That's
the whole point of my book, "It Can't Happen
Mier People won't believe it can happen.
Certainly it can. I'm as convinced now as
aka I was writing the book.
It's got to the point now where it's
squarely up to the average citizen who has
beer used to letting other people do his think-
ing. And that's another trouble with • de-
mocracy. People talk about freedom as a
priceless heritage, yet you'd think they
wouldn't expect to leave a priceless heritage
kicking around in the road without some bright
thief mining along and nabbing it.
Take this Lemke, Coughlin, Gerald Smith,
Townsend business. It's the ideal beginning
for Fascism. Perfect. Promising everybody
something for nothing. And, like all such
beginnings of a Fascist movement, they offer
a great liberal program. You'll find that
most dictatorships have come out of allegedly
liberal beginnings.
I have a vague, general fear that if
somebody like Coughlin gets in, there'll be
hell to pay. Either this group could put over
a real dictatorship or they could have it taken
from them by • bard-boiled group of reaction-
aries who, to save themselves and their fam-
ilies, would overthrow the whole Government
and substitute their own brand of Fascism.

Rev. I.. M. Birkhead of Kansas City has
sounded similar warnings when he said
recently that "all that is necessary now
is the 'Man on the White Horse,' the
American Hitler to assume control, and
the danger of a Fascist coup would be
imminent."
The mere fact that outstanding Ameri-
cans are aroused is in itself encouraging.
It means that many people are on guard
lest the German Ilitlerite coup is repeated
here. As long as we have men and wo-
Men who are seriously concerned that
there should be no abuse of freedom, there
is great hope that the spread of the Fascist
danger will be prevented on these shores.

Judge Mack at 70

•

Judge Julian W. Mack's 70th birthday,
observed on July 19, is a matter of inter-
est to all Atnerican Jewry. Not only as a
Zionist—he is a former president of the
Zionist Organization of America and one
of the outstanding leaders in the cause of
1 redeemed Palestine—but also as one in-
terested in the cause of Jewish education
and in youth problems he has earned na-
tional recognition. For years he has in-
terested himself in the work of Young
Judaea. Ile is chairman of the board of
trustees of the Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion. He is one of the delegates at large
from this country to the World Jewish
Congress and has been a strong adherent
of the Congress movement since its incep-
tion in 1915. He served on the Jewish
delegation to the Versailles Peace Con-
ference. In addition, he holds the impor-
tant position of membership on the gov-
erning board of Harvard University :, This
is a rich career in the course of which he
has made great contributions for vl hich
Jewry Noon him.

More Trees for Palestine

The most interesting campaign in years
is now being launched by the Jewish Na-
tional Fund of AMerica, for the purpose
of securing subscriptions for the planting
of 100,000 trees in Palestine to replace
those that have been uprooted or other-
wise destroyed by Arabs. It is significant
that the motto of the campaign is the quo-
tation from Isaiah (9:9), "Sycamores have
been cut down, we shall plant cedars in
their place."
A proclamation calling upon the Jews
of America to join in the reforestation
movement declares:

Scores of thousands it trees, principally in
the forests of the Ke en Kayemeth at Mish-
mar Ila'emek and at Ginegar, where woods
were planted and had been flourishing in
tribute to the memory of Theodor hlerzl, Lord
Balfour and George Washington, have gone up
in flames or fallen under the axe . . . trees
that were put into the rejuvenated soil to im-
prove the climate, to restore to the landscape
its former fertility and beauty, and to provide
shade for rest and recreation to the men,
women and children who seek, with unmatched
devotion and endless toil, to create a home
for a homeless and persecuted people.
The Jewish National Fund addresses it-
self to all American Jews with this question:
What will YOUR answer be to this challenge?
Will you permit the tree-murderers in the
Holy Land to have the last word? Surely, we
cannot permit any uprooted or charred tree to
be left without its successor. Surely, wounds
inflicted upon the Jewish National Home must
be healed by the balm of new plantings.
Boundless confidence in the unshakable
foundation of the Jewish National Home has
been the response of Jews everywhere to the
acts of wanton destruction which took place
in Palestine. With spirit undaunted, we must
go on with out work of reconstruction even
though the need for defense and vigilance has
not yet passed. Like our pioneers we must
"remember the soul of the blazing forests and
the agonies of the uprcoted trees." We must
answer the challenge thrown by the forces of
destruction by a "defense through reconstruc-
tion."

It will be recalled that during the war
marauding Turks destroyed the Herzl
Forest and other vegetation in Palestine.
The work of many years on the part of our
early pioneers was shattered at that time,
but we refused to despair. We began
anew and replanted what had been up-
rooted, until we had built up a garden
spot on the face of land that was wilder-
ness only two decades ago. Now comes
the people of the desert, and it follows
once more a path of destruction. But
Jewry builds uninterruptedly, and retains
faith that Palestine will never again re-
turn to medievalism; that the Land of Is-
rael will continue to prosper.
In this connection it is interesting to
quote from a letter to the Palestine Post
by Sir Within M. Flinders-Petrie, dean of
British archeologists, who calls upon the
Arabs to pursue a policy of co-operation
with the Jews as the best means of im-
proving their status. Reminding the Arabs
of their ancestral preferences for the des-
ert which have caused them, for 1300
Years, to bring destruction to Palestine,
Sir William warns them that the world's
population is increasing rapidly and is
filling up remote parts of the globe as a
result of general health improvements and
he points out that if British protection is
removed other nations will come to the
land and will drive the Arabs from Pal-
estine. The point he makes is that the ex-
ample of the Jews in cultivating the land
that the Arabs have denuded is the safest
policy for them.
Those who have studied conditions on
the spot realize the advantages to all con-
orned from Jewish colonization in Pales-
tine. The sooner the Arabs learn this
truth, and refuse to follow false leader-
ship, the better. In the meantime, it is
our responsibility to carry on, to continue
with out work for the building of a healthy
and progressive community in Palestine
and to replant that which bandits uproot.
The Jews of this country must subscribe
the full sum necessary for the planting of
at least 100,000 new trees in Eretz Israel
as soon as possible. -

The Late Dr. Cadman

It is impossible fully to evaluate the
services rendered by the late Dr. S.
Parkes Cadman to the cause of good will
and true brotherhood among all peoples.
He was one of a handful of very great men
who devoted their lives to the cause of en-
couraging decent dealings and amicable
relationships between peoples, races and
religions.
For Jews the death of Dr. Cadman is
an even greater loss than to the Congre-
gationalists to whom he ministered. Ile
understood the problems involved in ra-
cial differences and he was not too meek
to play a leading role in all efforts to
eliminate bigotry and a lack of under-
standing. In his spoken as well as printed
words he was always the propagandist for
the ideal of common brotherhood. His
death is a loss to the cause of liberalism
and good will.

Lights from
Shadowland

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

RATOFF REACHES THE
HEIGHTS
The ultimate in motion picture
contracts was reached by Gregory
Ratoff when Daryl F. Zanuck,
20th Century Fox chief, gave him
a new four-way agreement which
is the most inclusive of all con-
tracts to date. The new contract
calls for !Wolf's services as actor,
writer, director and supervisor—
an all-embracing employm en t
which covers the four principal
creative branches of the industry,
in all of which Ratoff has dis-
tinguished himself in a short time.
ODETS BACK ON BROADWAY
With the praises of Paramount
officials ringing in his ears for his
efforts in writing the script for a
screen play, and with the script
of his own new stage play, "The
Silent Partner," under his arm,
Clifford Odets is back on Broad-
way. This sensational young Amer-
ican playwright has promised to
return to Hollywood and Para-
mount next Spring to prepare an
original story and adapt another
novel for the films. Odets' trip
back East is regarded as a set-
back to his romance with Luise
Rainer.

Bennett Cerf, the publisher, re-
cently dined with King Edward

VIII, but the dinner was spoiled
for Cerf when he discovered among
the other guests Sylvia Sidney,
the former Mrs. Cerf.

Harry Hershfield has accepted
the post of associate editor of the
new Yiddish humorous paper,
"New York" . . . Incidentally,
Harry is working on his auto-
biography .. .

(copyright. 1536. Seven Arts Feature Byndlcate)

For a number of years the Jews the world
over looked upon Italy as a friend of the Jewish
National Homeland in Palestine. Italian public
opinion looked with favor upon the Jewish enter-
prise in Palestine, and Italian statesmen spoke
of the Zionist cause with sympathetic under-
standing. Italy seemed to reckon seriously with
the eventual Jewish nation in Palestine and her
policy dictated a positive attitude toward Zion-
ism. Italian economic circles expressed great
satisfaction with Italy's commercial relations
with Palestine and looked forward to an even
more profitable trade in the future. The Italian
press followed very closely the developments in
the Holy Land, painting it in the brightest colors
and prophesying the early realizatiqp of the
Zionist dream. Finally, Italy magnanimously ex-
pressed her faith in the New Palestine when, sev-
eral years ago, she endowed a chair in Italian
literature at the University of Jerusalem.
It is true that from time to time Zionism was
attacked in Italy. But these attacks, inspired
by extreme Fascism and the result of misunder-
standing of the objects of Zionism, were directed
mainly against the Italian Jews. After a period
of time these attacks ceased almost completely.
Suffice it to recall the many utterances made by
Premier Mussolini in which he expressed the
highest regard for the Jewish renaissance in
Palestine. Indeed, it was only shortly before
the outbreak of the Italo-Abyssinian war that S.
Parini, Italian minister for propaganda, declared
that "Rome looks with the greatest sympathy
upon the Jewish Homeland in Palestine and fully
recognizes the services rendered by the Jews in
the Holy Land." Under these circumstances it
was only natural that the Jews should have
felt justified in their belief in Italy's abiding
sympathies with the Jewish aspirations in Pal-
estine.

Linked With Disturbances in Palestine

Of late, however, Italy has been officially
and unofficially linked with the present disturb-
ances in Palestine. It is generally agreed that
Italian propaganda, broadcast from Italian sta-
tions or conducted by Italian agents in Pales-
tine itself, has unquestionably helped to in-
flame the passions and to stimulate the hopes
of the Arabs. Several weeks ago Prime Minis-
ter Baldwin, speaking before Parliament, warned
against Italian seditious propaganda in Egypt
and in Palestine. In the week of May 31, Dr.
Chaim Weizmann declared in a lecture before
the Royal Central Asian Society in London that
"Italian propaganda has been busy in Pales-
tine, particularly in Arabic messages broadcast
from Italian stations, since the Abyssinian war."
The press, especially In England and France, has
been emphatic in its repeated reports of Ital-
ian propaganda among the Arabs and of Italian
subsidies to Arabic funds. On May 27 L'Oeuvre
of Paris published documentary evidence to the
effect that Emir Scekib Arslan of Egypt con-
cluded a four-year accord with Italy for which
he received a handsome sum of money. More-
over, the charges of Italian propaganda were
not only not denied in Arab circles but were
tacitly or openly admitted to be true. As early
as Sept. 23, 1935, Fakhri Bey Nashashibi, presi-
dent of the Arab labor organization in Pales-
tine, speaking before the Royal Central Asian
Society on "The Position of the Arabs in Pales-
tine," declared that "in their desperation, the
Arabs are becoming more and more ready to
lend an ear to foreign propaganda at critical
momenta such as confronts the British Empire
at the present time." Similarly, on June 20,
Jame! al Husseini, leader of the Arab Nationalist
Party in Palestine, admitted that the reports of
Italian propaganda among the Arabs are "true
to a certain extent." Finally, while Italy found
it necessary to deny officially, through her Consul
General in Jerusalem, the charges of Italian sub-
sidies to Arab funds, she did not find it even
expedient to refute the charges of Italian propa-
ganda among the Arabs.
It is undoubtedly true that the Italian propa-
ganda among the Arabs bears a direct relation-
ship to the role of England in the Italo-Ethiopian
war and was designed, presumably, to embarrass
the English Government in retaliation for the
latter's stand on sanctions. But it is equally
true that, although there are no official pro-
nouncements, the opinions and sentiments evi-
denced in the Italian press indicate that Italy
has assumed a definite anti-Jewish attitude which
may prove to be of far-reaching consequence.
As early as July, 1935, when the Abyssinian
war was still a matter of discourse, the Regime

Fascista, official organ of the Fascist party and
once outspokenly in favor of a Jewish state in
Palestine, carried an article which tended to
ridicule and insinuate against the very same thing
for which it once did not find sufficient words of
praise. Answering his own question, "What
really is Palestine?" the writer declares as fol-
lows: ". . . a land of thousands of beastly na-
tures, where Jewish young men are lurking on
Arabs and Arabs are beating up Jews; pious,
veiled Arab women flirting with broad-shouldered
young men of Israel; the sparkling of diamonds
and endless darkness. This, really, is the true
picture of Palestine; a mixture of races, Arabs,
Jews, Zionists, Sephardim, Yemenites, Ashkena-
zim." Naturally, the writer concludes, nothing
good and worthwhile can possibly come out of
such a state of affairs. Attacking the Mandate
system in Palestine, he concludes: "Without
shouting or fanfaring we can already say today
that the 'case' Palestine is one of the most dis-
tressing features of European colonial policy.
The Mandate regime is tottering and about to
expire. Not in vain has Lord Rothemere re-
marked that the Palestine Mandate is one of the
most lunatic adventures of the post-war period.
And let us be mindful of the fact that the Man-
date regime constitutes a great menace to the
Mohammedan peoples, to the Arabs the world
over, and especially to Catholic Italy, which has
the historic duty of maintaining the healthy
equilibrium in the Mohammedan world.

Evidence in Italian Press

These statements in the Regime Fascists
proved to be only the opening of a press cam-
paign which is still in full progress. The present
situation in Palestine is very prominently feat-
ured in the Italian press, which takes particular
pains to present and amplify the Arab side and
to attack the Mandate together with the Zionist
cause. No opportunity is missed .to attack the
"injustice" of the Balfour Declaration, or to
emphasize England's imperialistic designs in Pal-
estine. In addition, the Italian press draws
heavily upon foreign comments on the present
situation in Palestine, especially German com-
ment, which happens to agree with the Italian
point of view. Needless to add, all find them-
selves in agreement that the Zionist venture is
a misfortune and England's rule in Palestine a
complete failure.
Thus we read in the Corriere della Sera of
May 27, that "the real and original blunder which
is responsible for this complex imbroglio in Pal-
estine is the Balfour Declaration. The Jews
cannot claim any right to Palestine after having
been away from the land for so many years;
especially when, in the meantime, they were
replaced by other peoples . The expropriation
of the land, which was taken away from the
Arab peasant by a handful of gold from the
Jewish National Fund, has daily more and more
increased the irritation of the natives at the
usurping invasion of the foreigners." The article
concludes with a warning to England: "If one
imagines that tomorrow the Moslems of Syria,
Transjordania, Iraq and of the entire Arabian
Peninsula may draw up in line of battle on
the side of the Arabs in Palestine, he may get
an idea of the risk to which England is expos-
ing herself by persisting in her Zionist policy
in the Holy Land."
Similarly, in the Giornale D'Italia of May
29, Virginio Gayda, foremost Italian spokesman
and publicist, writes: "The situation in Palestine
has its real origin in the British policy during
the war when on one hand she promised the
Arabs a great and independent Arabian Empire
and at the same time issued the Balfour Declara-
tion, which carries with it the implication of
favoring Jewish immigration into Palestine and
the accompanying pressure upon the rights of
Arabs . . . This is what creates a situation
whereby two diverse and unassimilable peoples,
who hate one another and cannot co-operate,
are being brought face to face .. . It is this,
in short, which creates the unredeemable reasons
for the inevitable conflict"
The conclusion reached by the Italian press
is self-evident. The Mandate having proved a
failure, it is only right that England should re-
linquish her rule over Palestine. This opinion
is corroborated in semi-official circles, as in an
article by Romolo Tritonj, in the May issue of the
Oriente Moderns, ■ semi-official publication of
the Italian Foreign Office. Attacking the Man-
date system, and citing the case of Palestine,
Tritonj concludes that "internationalizing the
country ... will constitute an equitable and sane
revision of the Mandate."

-

Coughlin and Smith Discrediting
Influence of Socialized Religion

By RABBI EDWARD L. ISRAEL

(Copyright, ISM N. C. J

The woes of religion in this
modern world are manifold and
devious. Yet none would have ex-
pected the latest blow from which
religious forces are now suffering.
Its a queer story and worth con-
templating.
For many decades organised
religion has been overcoming the
lack of social conscience which
characterized it for centuries.
Some of the "fire in the sky" ac-
hurled against the
cusations
churches by the radicals were justi-
fied; seine were terribly unjust.
Fair or unfair, the charges re-
ceived wide credence.
Churches Socially Conscious
While certain individuals of the
pulpit showed • social conscience
during the critical 19th Century,
it was not until almost the very
end of that era that organized
religion officially faced the grievous
problems which cried oat for
righteous solution. Yet beginning
with that famous encyclical on
labor of Pope Leo XIII, the
churches of all denominations have

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two articles on Italian political action against the
r
Jewish Homeland. The author is • student of public law and social economy; he is an
authority on Italian ■ ffain and ha. made • special study of the attitude of the Italian
press toward the development of • Jewish Palestine before and since the Ethiopian
adventure.

(Copyright. 1535. El A. F. 111

ZUKOR MOVES TO
HOLLYWOOD
In order to devote all his time
to the production of films at Para-
mount Studios Adolph Zukor,
chairman of the Paramount board
of directors, will maintain a per-
manent residence in Hollywood, it
was announced last week on
Zukor's 25th anniversary in the
motion picture industry. This
means that Mr. Zukor will become
the guiding hand at the source of
Paramount's product.
Coming back to the production
field Mr. Zukor returns to his first
love. A quarter of a century ago
he became one of the pioneer lead-
era of screen entertainment with
his entrance into feature film pro-
duction as head of Famous Play-
em, which produced many of the
greatest pictures and developed
outstanding stars of the past.
Barney Balaban, Paramount's new
president, will have offices in New
York.

Tidbits from Everywhere

By MOSES MOSKOWITZ

Reproduction In part or whole tortdd•
den. without permiselon of the Bevan
Art• Feature Elyndirate. Copyright..• of
this feature.

FILM ACTORS' BALL GAME
FOR L. A. CHARITY
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Twenty
thousand fans, the largest crowd
of the year, enjoyed the antics of
60 or more motion picture stars
and other celebrities who donned
uniforms and played a hard ball
game for the benefit of Mount
Sinai Home for Chronic Invalids,
Los Angeles, at Wrigley Field the
other Saturday afternoon. Yasha
Frank was responsible for the im-
posing array of stars who donated
their services in this unique fund-
raising event, and deserves a lot of
credit for the great succeses it
turned out to be despite the fact
that it was played on the hottest
day of the Summer in Los Angeles.
The huge crowd forgot the 97-
degree temperature (who said it's
always cool in California?) as
they laugheed heartily and con-
tinuously over the gags and mon-
key-shines pulled by the actor-
players.
Two exhibition games by girls'
softball nines preceded the main
game. A police patrol wagon was
driven across the field, and out of
it came movie stars on crutches
and in wheeel chairs, looking old
and decrepit and anything but fit
to play ball. Among those who
cavorted on the diamond for the
sake of charity were Jack Benny,
George Jessel, Harry Ruby (chair-
man of the benefit), Mervyn Le-
Roy and many others. Jack La
Rue broke up the game when he
ran around the bases "shooting"
the infielders with a revolver
loaded with "blanks."
Members of the opposing team
included Ricardo Cortez, Walter
Abel and Cotton Warburton, All-
American football star. Victor
Moore had the part of the "blind
umpire," and Al K. Hall was a
riot as the mascot and waterboy.
The only casualty was Vince Bar-
nett, who sprained his ankle dash-
ing into second base.

Strictly
Confidential

Italy Wants , Palestine Internationalized

News litrtles)

TORN TO NEXT

Day on Which He Died Was

A Holiday for Jews
of Palestine

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F. e.l

Storm Over Palestine

By H. N. BRAILSFORD

EDITOR'S NOTE: W e are
There is no particular reason
pleated to reprint the follow-
nig very important article with why they should have chosen this
the special permission of the moment for an attempt to intimi-
New Republic. Mr. Brantford date the Mandatory Power by a
HEROD. A Biography. Sr, gerwir
g. Makin,
The Maemlliaa Co., is an outstandin g journalist general strike that borrowed from
cad liberal leader who has Mr. Gandhi everything save his
New Toth (P.M).
!risked Palestine and hat stud- non-violence. They may have felt,
ied the Arab-Jewi s h problem at as they watched the humiliation
first hand.
It was appropriate for Rabbi
of the Empire at Italy's hands,
Minkin and the Macmillan Co.
that any retreat, however abject,
to select Tisha b'Ab (July 28) ' Destiny compels the Jews to is thinkable under Mr. Baldwin's
as the publication date for the build their National Home in Pal- leadership. They were certainly
incited by propaganda, broadcast
biography of Herod. It is im- estine, as Nehemiah built his in Arabic from the Italian station
material whether the choice was Temple, with trowel in one hand at Bari, and money from some
and swdid in the other. The re-
deliberate or not. But the , sistance of the Arabs is today outside source, perhaps Italian, is
fact in itself is significant. The even more openly and defiantly said to have reached the Strike
Committee. But it would be a
point is that this book deals organized than in the th ree
mistake to stress such explana-
with one of the most interest- emus efforts. If there has been tions as these. Few Arabs pos-
no massacre, that is because Gen-
ing periods in Jewish history eral Wauchope has shown in his sess • radio set, and it costs
and that the setting in the polite measures a capacity and nothing to burn down trees, or
drama as depicted by the author firmness that some of his pred- to stab a Jew in the dark. The
Arabs have from the start of this
of this interesting book takes ecessors lacked, while the Jewish risky
experiment been as violently
are now permitted to
us back to the events that colonists
opposed to mass Jewish immigra-
defend th en
enBut the tion as they are today. If there
transpired in the century that I loss of life by sporadic
murder
preceded the last stand of the mounts to an ugly total, and the was a special reason, it was doubt-
Jewis h people in a light for in- Arabs have followed the tradition less the large number-60,000-
admitted last year, for the Arabs
dependence. The anniversary of all civil war in the East by timed their protest for the date
destroying young trees and burn- on
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PACE)
which the half-yearly quota
ing forests.
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A Review by Philip Slomovits

become increasingly socially con-
scious.
Thorough-going liberals and in-
telligent radicals have become
more and more convinced of the
earnestness, alertness and courage
of religion in this struggle for so-
cial justice. Out of this has come
a new respect for the churches as
institutions of social value, and
a new regard for the clergy as
forces of righteousness.
Two Clerical Detn•gogue.
And here comes the blow! In one I
of the worst farces on the subject •
of social justice that American life;
has ever seen, two ministers of
religion are the outstanding demo.,
rogues. Rev. Gerald Smith advises i
the Townsendites to get the bal-
ance of power in Congress so that
they can "spit in their enemies' I
feces." That's • beautiful minis-
terial thought, isn't it? And on the I
following day, that champion
rabble-rouser Charles E. Cough.:
lie, reached the pinnacle of .lo-'
quenee in branding the President

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King Herod, Great
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THE ANTI-SEMITIC
RACKETS
Just so you won't be surprised
when it happens, we're telling you
now that the Rev. Gerald Smith,
Huey Long's political heir and ally
of Father Coughlin, intends to con.
vert the Townsend movement into
the American counterpart of the
National Socialists, with himself
in the role of Hitler ... In refer-
ring to the New Deal at the Town-
send convention Smith called it "a
cake baked in Moscow by Ezekiel,
Cohen and the rest" . . . Keep a
sharp eye peeled for Smith's new
storm troopers . . . The Rev. Dr.
L. M. Birkhead of Kansas City
has just completed a tour during
which he met every one of the
Fascist and anti-Semitic crackpot
leaders . . The results of these
meetings will be the subject of a
series of articles which Dr. Birk-
head is writing exclusively for the
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate's
affiliated publications .. .
POLITICUS
It is rumored in Washington
that Supreme Court Justice Ben-
jamin N. Cardoso is considering
resigning ... He is said to be suf-
fering from a heart ailment.
There is a strong likelihood that
President Roosevelta.vhen re-
elected, will name a prominent
Jew as American - consul-general
in Palestine.
J. George Fredman, former com-
mander-in-chief of the Jewish War
Veterans, didn't get that New Jer-
sey judgeship after all . . , And
it's just as well, because Governor
Hoffman's Jewish appointee is in
for a battle that is likely to be-
come a major political issue in
New Jersey , .. The incumbent,
who denies he resigned, is putting
up a stiff fight ...
COLUMNISTS' ERRORS
The real mission of Morris D.
Waldman, secretary of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, who is
now in Europe, involved a planned
diplomatic coup to minimize the
opening of the World Jewish Con-
gress You will know all about
it when it can be told, which will
be very soon . . . The coup, in-
cidentally, will never see daylight.
That Anglo-Jewish columnist
who hailed Mendel M. Fisher as
the big peace-maker at the Provi-
dence Zionist convention didn't do
Mendel any favor . . . Rabbi Is-
rael Goldstein, head of the Jewish
National Fund, who did the real
job in Providence, is the fellow
who 0. K.'s Menden, pay scheck
. . . That same columnist is also
getting himself into a jam with his
item about Straus and Meyer W.
Weisgal . . . Meyer is suing the
columnist and his agency for $100,-
000 damages.
T h e news stories about the
Zionist delegation that met Justice
Brandeis at his summer home were
unauthorized and not Issued by the
Z. 0. A.... The Peale-Zion broke
the story in the Yiddish press, and
will be censured for its breach of
discipline Brandeis always in-
sists on the avoidance of all pub-
licity for such meetings .. .
SPORTINESS
Jewish followers of the New
York Giants are wondering why
manager Bill Terry has benched
Harry Denning, his Jewish back-
stop Incidentally, Terry, now
hard up for a couple of good hit-
ters, would give plenty for Phil
Weintrau b, ex-Giant outfielder
who is hitting the apple for over
.380 with Rochester in the Inter-
national League ... The jinx that
has been trailing Jewish big leagu-
ers this year again camped on the
trail of Buddy Meyer of the Sena-
tors, when he suffered a bruised
jaw . , The only all-Jewish bat-
tery in big league history was
broken up when the Senators re-
leased Bill Starr, catcher, to Al-
bany ... Starr and Sid Cohen had
been teamed up by the Senators
• . . Charlotte Epstein, coach of
the Women's Swimming As.ocia-
lion, WAR offered and refused the
job of coaching the American
Olympic mermaids ...
AKHA DHAM
The family of late Ached Ha-am
(Asher Ginsberg), famous Jewish
philosopher and scholar, is getting
a big laugh out of the asserting
of the American Christian Party
(successor to William Dudley Pel-
ley's Silver Shirts) that "Akha
Dham" is the uncrowned secret
king of world Jewry and that
Bernard M. Baruch is his "prince-
sponsor" in the Western hemis-
phere . .. We'd like to bet that -
Baruch never even heard of Ached
Ha-am.
It isn't generally known that
High Commissioner Wauchope
spends a good part of his salary
in contributions to Jewish and
Arabic
philanthropies.
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