MEDLTRorelEwun (A Rom Kul January 8, 1937 and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE limpaitorFiEwisnefROPIIGLE Lights from Sliadowland carry on their business in accordance with the demands for merchandise made dur- ing certain seasons. The charge by Dr. and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Guthrie would be much more justified if INilthrbed Weekly by The Jewish Cltreakk NADAL./ Csh, I. he were to direct it to those who as non- IIWend as ffeceed-clue mato, March s. 11111, at the Poet. Christians attempt to mimic Christian ob- gem at Detroit, Mic ► ., seder the Act of Womb I, 11171. servances. At any rate, the threats of boy- General Offices and Publication Building cotts are hardly worthy of a place in American life, particularly in view of the 525 Woodward Avenue Tolowissoss Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle fact that they are so viciously resorted to Looks mem in environments of European reactions. 14 Stratford Place, London, W. I, England There is a much more serious angle in- .13.00 Per Year B•Incription. in Advance volved in the Christmas message than is To femme pelolieetlea, all eorempoodooce sod sews setter usually referred to by pulpit orators. meal web thie Mae. by Tomday evening of wash week. whew medlar Bottom, kindly o.e ogle side of the 'saw There is such a thing as the Jewish ques- tion in the Christian message. Dr. Stephen The Detroit 1.1.14 Chreetele invites Isonmporsiettee mu @J- baste et tattoos( be the Jewlah people, but disclaim. mooed- S. Wise, in one of his recent sermons, My fee ea tedoreement of the views erpremd by the writen properly evaluated this problem when he Sabbath Reek Chodesh Shebat Readings stated: of the Torah Froitateuchal portion.—Ex. 6:2-9:35; Num. 28:9-15. Prophetical portion.—Ezek 28:25-29:21. Rash CI...desk Shebat Readings of the Law Wednesday, Jan. 13 Nona 28:1-15. January 8, 1937 Tebet 25, 5697 Deserved Honors for Dr. Wise Last year Miss Henrietta Szold of Jeru- salarn, founder of Hadassah, women's Zionist organization of America, was'the first to be given the national service award of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. This year the award went to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who is proclaimed to be the man "who has made during the year the most dis- tinctive contribution to the creative life of the Jewish people." So well deserved is this award that the reasons in the citation are deserving of quotation. This national distinction went to Dr. Wise in recognition of his being president of the Zionist Organization, the inspirer of the world Jewish Congress, president of the Jewish Institute of Reli- gion, rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New York, editor of Opinion Magazine, leader in Civic Affairs Committee of New York as well as numerous other Jewish and civic activities. The citation further states that the causes in which Dr. Wise is ac- tive "if detailed, would become a roll of all that Ls worthwhile in American Jew- ish life." These are no exaggerated reasons for the honors heaped upon Dr. Wise. Even those who disagree with him as well as those who dislike him—and because he is so outstanding it is inevitable that he should have enemies—must admit his greatness. The judges who acted in be- half of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity are to be congratulated upon their choice. • Toscanini's Concert So varied and tragic are the waves of anti-Semitism and persecutions throughout the World that when a wave of construc- tive effort and joyous artistic interpreta- tion reaches us we naturally accept it both as a good omen and as a most welcome variation from international tragedy. The concerts of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra directed by Arturo Toscanini are of such great significance that it is im- possible to underestimate their import- ance. Bronislaw Huberman, the eminent violinist who was responsible for Toscan- ini's coming to Palestine, dscribed the Pal- estine concert in this important sentence which came over the cables to this coun- try: "Nothing could describe this concert except the word 'divine.' Not only were there gathered in the Palestine Symphony Orchestra physicians of outstanding ability but the audiences that came to hear them were among the most enthusiastic. So excellent is the re- sponse to the appeal for the financing of the orchestra's further functioning that more than 7,000 subscriptions have al- ready been sold for a series of concerts by this orchestra at $25 a subscription. The fact that Toscanini has given as- surances that he will return to Palestine again, perhaps every year, is another ele- ment of satisfaction in this new chapter of Palestine's cultural history. Toscanini's name will be perpetuated in the story of musical development in Palestine. Frau Einstein Sympathetic expressions to Prof. Albert Einstein on the loss of his wife and guide are marked by sentiments of admiration for the woman who in her own way was as great as her husband. An able person in her own right, she was willing to stay in the background because she felt, as she herself put it, that her life does not be- king to her but to him. "Nearly every minute of the day I give to my husband and that means to the public," she was quoted to have said some time ago, and she submerged her own self in adherence to this credo. Her devotion was one of the great marks of selflessness which made her stand out among the Women of her time. For such devotion she will be remembered and her name will always be a symbol of admiration. boassoci holidays which are used by 181111 411aset believe in them, for Reproduction In part or whole forbid. deo, Without Defoliation of the Seven Art. Posture Syndicate, Copyriebtere of We feature. 1937, 5 A P. 5 Nazi-Inspired Arabs The Palestine Hebrew daily Davar re- ported an incident during the recent dis- turbances which proves how it is possible to inflame the minds of bigots against even the best of friends. The Davar re- ported: King Carol's Anti-Semites Rumania's anti-Semitic government has forbidden the convening of Zionist meet- ings, has issued an order against the hold- ing of the annual Ile-Chalutz conference and has permitted the raiding of Zionist headquarters in Bessarabia. It is apparent that King Carol's anti-Semites believe not only in crushing the Jews within Rumania but also in preventing them from finding an escape anywhere else. official Catholic organ in Vienna approved the sponsoring of the economic 1.110sm" of Jews, in an article in its special i.Oiriess business which carries boycott Christmas edition. And in their churches with ft iatsseroes implicationd and which, these Catholics must have read the becomes a wide issue, will not do Psalms same of David and preached "peace on Certainly Jew-i Jewii merchants any good. to be permitted to earth and good will toward men I" ish hadonntsen ought A Comparison of Robert Gessner's "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews" with Joseph Freeman's More Logical "An American Testament" SCENARIO WRITER? This is really the crux of the problem. The point is that the peace on earth and good-will message has been made merely a matter for polluted Christmas spiritual intoxication and the moment the false propagandists of this message sober up they immediately revert to their old meth- ods of giving ear to the dictates of big- otry and prejudice. When the message of Christmas becomes true in spirit as well as hi word then it will have reason to claim universal adherence to it. There is an old Arab legend that tells of the loyalty of a Jewish poet and hero, Samuel ben Adaya Ilacohen, who lived In Arabia be- fore the conquest of Islam. His friend, Imru Alkis, an Arab poet and ruler, was obliged on a certain occasion to leave for Rome on a personal mission to the Emperor Justinian. Before sailing he handed his shield and other valuables to Samuel for safe-keeping. On Imru's departure, a rival Arab ruler swooped down on Samuel's residence demanding that he be given Imru's shield. Samuel, however, refused to betray his friend', trust. Not even when the assailant seized one of his children by a subterfuge and threatened to put him to death would Samuel hand over the shield, and he continued to hold out even after the other had begun to sever his child's body limb by limb. Imru failed to return, being killed on the way home, and Samuel handed the shield to his heirs. His loyalty and integrity became proverbial among the Arabs, who call him "Ismuel," and to this day of a man of out- standing faithfulness Arabs will say "as faithful as Samuel." A few days ago this legend was told over the wireless to listeners to the Arabic pro- gramme. The announcer, however, who hap- pened to be also the director of the Arabic Broadcasting Programme, added the follow. ing explanation: "Samuel behaved as the leg- end related he did from love of wealth, since the shield that Alkis left with him was a pledge for money that Samuel had lent him." The intention of the announcer was thus to demon- strate that so great is the Jew's love of money that he is ready to sacrifice his own son for it. A Jewish Communist Libels Zionism DO YOU WANT TO BE A If the Christmas message is not even for Christians. what shall Jews expect and what do they think of this Christmas message, the message that glorifies the birth of another Jewish child, which, like so many Jewish chil- dren before and after him, blessed and exalted the human race and brought to it messages of light and deliverance! Peace on earth, good-will to Men. There is neither peace nor good-will to Jews in the world. I do not say that every Jew on earth is the victim of the annulment of the message of peace and good. will and that all Christians are the violators of the message of peace and good will. But I do say that there are more numerous and grave violations of the spirit of peace and good-will than at any previous time in human history in countries in which Jews have dwelt for many centuries. Five of them I name and, alas, most group together. Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary and Rumania, to- gether comprising a Jewish population of one- third of the Jews of the earth, seem not only to have abrogated the Christian message, but also to have annuled the moral law In their dealings with Jews. If there were such a thing as a Christmas message worth hearing, the civilized world, led by these United States, England and France, would have said long before this to Nazi Germany, thus far shalt thou go and no further, that racial religious group, which in- cluded the Nazarene child, is not to be made the victim of the most fantastic and barbarous injustice that men have known in a thousand years. I know what the poor, unsatisfying answer to the Jewish question is to my peo- ple. There can be no Christmas message for Jewa as long as the Christmas message is not even valid for Christians. In a word, the Jews are the victims not of Christianity but of religious negation, of religious denial, in truth by them who affirm it in words. Poor sad, dispiriting comfort it Is, but how can my fellow-Jews expect that Christendom will translate the Christmas message into living sympathy with the Jew until after Christen- dom has been Christianized by the Christmas message? Peace on earth and good-will to men! A few days ago Sir Ronald Storm, for- mer governor of Jerusalem, expressed the belief that foreign propaganda is respon- sible for the outrages in Palestine. This view has been held by many other leaders in England. Judging by the incident just quoted, it is reasonable to believe that the Nazi ideology has been swallowed hook, line and sinker by Arabs for whom even the good brought to Palestine by Jews is not sufficient reason for displaying a little bit of decency. But the action of the government of Palestine in permitting such damaging and untruthful drivel to The Spirit of Christmas be broadcast merely adds insult to the in- Those who insist that the Christmas fes- juries from which the Jewish settlements tival has lost its religious significance and have suffered. has assumed only a civic and gift-giving spirit will have much explaining to do in answer to a sermon delivered by the Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie, pastor of St. Marks'-in-the-Bouwrie. Th.. Guthrie's sermon was interpreted as having contained a thinly veiled sugges- tion for a boycott of Jewish merchants who did business on Christmas Day. In ith Demos be stated that Christians should berme an stores that "exploited the holy far beim purposes. Nothing is amoselog than when people's holy By LOUIS PEKARSKY I By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ "So you want to be a scenario writer?" SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS. By Robert Gessner. F & Rinehart, New Thousands of high school teach- York. ($3). ers, college instructors and par- ents have smiled approvingly as AN AMERICAN TESTAMENT: A Narrative of Rebels and Romantics. By Joseph Freeman. F & Rinehart, New York ($3.). they repeated these words to countless eager youths and adults, too, all aspiring to become Robert Riskins, Lillian liellmans or Mor- It is the unfortunate lot of the Jews that British administration in Palestine and in de- rie Ryskinds. their intellectuals are concerned with everybody's scribing the rise of the Arab nationalist move- And so, typewriters and note sheets well in hand, thousands em- struggles but their own. Jews are considerably ment. His rabid anti-Zionism would be excus- bark every year for the fabled more worried over the status of the Negro in able on many grounds if only he were to deal gold fields of Hollywood to bom- this country than they are over the conditions with the issues dispassionately. But a compari- bard the film studios with stories, of oppressed Jewa in Poland and Rumania. A son of his views on Palestine with those of Rus- synopses and ideas. Some wisely young American Jew has for a long time con- sia indicate at once where he stands. He went remain at home, perform their workday tasks in offices, stores cerned himself more with the troubles of the to Palestine with a preconceived prejudice and and filling stations, write in their Indians than with the horrible declassification he also went to Russia /with a set idea of the leisure time and enrich Uncle of the Jewish masses. superiority of everything that smacks of the So- Sam's postal department with This tragedy of our intellectuals is one of viet. Ile speaks derisively of everything that their Hollywood correspondence. But invariably every instance, the symptoms of the manner in which Jews who is Jewish outside of Russia, but everything that scripts are returned to the wait- are remote from their people seek to escape from is inside of Russia becomes noble in his eyes. ing hopefuls unread, unopened, and without a word of explana- this problem which is in reality as much theirs In Palestine the Hebraism of the Jew is his sore spot but in Russia Yiddish becomes a marvelous tion other than a polite note stat- as it is that of the oppressed elements. ing that such and such studio does This is the tragedy of Robert Gessner, who national weapon, and he sees a perpetuation of not accept unsolicited manuscripts for several years has been known as the brilliant a Jewish culture—statistical and true facts to As one, the youths mutely throw arms heavenward for explana- writer of "Massacre," a work which has com- the contrary nothwithstanding—even with an in- , yelled the United States government to inves• tions. crease in intermarriage which he strongly advo- How does Hollywood expect to tigate the conditions of the Indians and make cates and endorses. get new blood that it cries for? provisions for their relief. Robert Gessner was The manner in which Gessner jeers at Iferzl Why should even a reading be re- fused my efforts? And most im- more sympathetic towards the Indian than he is is one of the disgusting elements that makes his portant: How can I secure a foot- towards the Jew. The Indian fared better at book degrading and insulting. It is evident that hold as a scenario writer? his hands in "Massacre" than the •Jew does in he has read a lot—and that he has mutilated a Seeking an authoritative reply "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews." lot. He has managed to take single phrases and to these questions, we consulted It is reasonable to believe that if wealthy sentences from entire speeches by Dr. Chaim Jerry Sackheim, scenario chief of Indians were to set out on their own responsi- New Universal Pictures. Mr. Weizmann and Miss Henrietta • Szold—the only Sackheim is a former writer and bility to search for relief of their kinmen, that two Jewish leaders for whom he apparently has producer himself, and not so long Mr. Gessner would not expect them to devote any respect at all—and has used them like the ago was struggling for recogni- more time towards the solution of the problem traditional devil to quote Scripture for his pur- tion in this creative department of impoverished white or Negro neighbors of the of the motion picture industry. pose. Officially Jerry Sackheim is execu- Indians than of the Indians themselves. But his Perhaps the only commendable portion of tive assistant to Charles Rogers, visit to Palestine has brought young Gessner the entire- book is the respect with which he studio and production head, and back to this country with an atrocious and vi- in charge of Universal Studio's speaks of his father and of his father's benevo- writers. He knows the writing cious book in which he sets forth the idea that lence but even that paragraph is considerably field thoroughly, its pitifalls and Jewa. who are pressed with the responsibility of marred by his reference to his father as a barriers, and is in sympathy with saving many millions of impoverished and per- the movement for youth and new "shnek." In a footnote• he mistranslates this (secuted members of their people ought to spend blood in the industry. term as meaning "good fellow." In reality it Sackheim smiled in recognition. as much time in behalf of the Arab as they do means "sucker." But this is not the only mis- Ile had encountered these inquiries for the Jew. translated term for which he is to be blamed. before. From university officials What makes Gessner's idea even more fan- The ignorance which marks his Jewish references and clubwomen, from anybody tastic is the fact that he knows, and quotes the and everybody who had an inter- is evidenced in practically every footnote that est in the unborn scenario-writing fact in his book, that comparatively little money is to be found in the book. For instance, in ex- careers of friends and relatives. has gone into Palestine through the Jewish Na- plaining the meaning of the term "cantor" he "I'll try to be brief," he stated. tional Fund and the Keren Ilayesod. Yet he "Despite the desire in Hollywood wrote: "A cantor is another unusual character, for new writers with new ideas, would have us save the Arab even before we holding an ambiguous office in the house of Is- one of the staunchest rules of the save the Jew, at a time when we are pressed for rael. He is too religious to be an opera singer studios is that no material shall every moment and for every penny in providing and too artistic to be a rabbi. He is neither and f rom 3el sources relief for our needy. or r unknown a nwriters. lk1w yet both. In the theological hierarchy he ranks It would take as much space as Gessner has is the fear of plagiarism and its above a shammos, but below a rabbi." heavy financial toll, as well as the used for his entire book to point out all the sins This reviewer read Ludwig Lewisohn's re- inconvenience and embarrassment he has committed and all the misquotations and view before he read the book. He -felt that a of law suits. "Among unknown writers there misrepresentations which make his book a miser- grave injustice was done to Gessner's parents are two types of plagiarism criers able libel against the Jewish people. Gessner mis- by Mr. Lewisohn. But then he read the book, we fear. One is the would-be au- represents the fact that Arabs were unemployed thor who Is low enough to copy a in the tens of thousands before Jews came to and he came to the conclusion that Lewisohn could have been even more severe in his criticism story from an old magazine and try to sell it se his own. Should Palestine, whereas now, as has been ascertained of the author and his book, although he still feels at the hearings of the Royal Commission, only It be bought and put on the screen that the eminent critic erred in his references this naturally brings the real about 2,000 of them are unemployed. He mis- author or his heirs down on our represents the fact that the Arab population has to Gessner pare. The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate invited necks with legitimate complaints increased, not as he says by 28 per cent since and demands. The author is in the Gessner and his publisher, John Farrar, to reply 1921, but by approximately 90 per cent. He right and the studio is in the to Lewisohn. Gessner's statement proves how wrong, for it is our businesa to does not show the truth that Jews have brought dispassionate a writer can be in replying to at- know what we are buying. prosperity to the Arabs and have raised their tacks but how ridiculously unfair he can be in "The other amateur writer who standards of living. Perhaps' the worst libel is has caused unwarranted trouble the book itself. The lack of temper in Gessner's to the studios is not quite as un- his misrepresentation of the status of the Hints- answer to Lewisohn does not correspond with scrupulous as his brother. He is druth and of the fact that the Jews have actu- the type who unsuccessfully sub- ally organized Arabs into labor unions and that the vicious and prejudiced attitude he adopts to- wards Palestine and whatever smacks of Jewish- mits stories to the picture plants and several months, even years, Arabs have frequently co-operated with Jews. ness in the efforts for national rejuvenation. His later, witnessing a film similar to Proof of Arab Workers' Friendship publisher comes to his defense willingly, but we his In various respects, virtually Only a few days ago, on Dec. 29, a cable doubt whether he would have published the book rises in his seat crying 'Stop, was received from Jerusalem quoting an appeal thief!' Needless to say, no studio if he had known the actual facts as they were would consciously use an idea or to the Arabs of Palestine to work in co-opera- mutilated by Gessner. story to which it wasn't entitled. tion with the Jews issued by the Arab Workers' The Biro Bidjan Farce There are too many good scenarios Club of Haifa which is affiliated with the Arab- and playa to be bought from estab- It is of importance also to make reference Jewish Workers' Federation. This appeal charged lished authors. to Gessner's super-enthusiasm for Russia and "And so these two chiseling Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascists, Biro Bidjan. Gessner did not go to Biro Bidjan, types, rare as they were, have with fomenting anti-Jewish activities among Pal- but he tells us in his book that the moment he forever deafened motion picture estinian Arabs. It charged that Mosley's anti- executives to the earnest and de- got to Russia he learned that Jewish masses were serving pleas of their brother as- Semitic material was distributed among the enthusiastically prepared to greet the Biro Bid- pirants. Arabs. It denounced "the incitement which is "Which brings us," Sackheim ruining the country" and appealed for "a com- jan miracle. The truth of the matter is, as it is related to us by people who travel through Rus- continued, "t o the question: 'Where do we get new blood?' and mon life, peace and labor." sia, that the Jews in the Soviet do not even know This is only one of the actual proofs of the 'How can I break into film writ- much about the Biro Bidjan plans and the fact ing?' The answer is: magazine truth in a case which is so grossly misrepresented is that not a single Jew outside of Russia has fiction, novels, plays and radio. by Gessner. If he were only to look back to the been settled in Biro Bidjan during the past year. These are the training grounds through which every scenarist days of previous anti-Jewish outbursts by Arabs The further truth is that Russian Jews themselves must pass. If you succeed in pub- he would find that they invariably concluded with stay away from there and that the young lishing a novel, several magazine peace feasts between Jews and Arabs, with de- Jews in Soviet Russia are moving away from the stories, or broadcast a number of termined efforts on the part of Arabs to live small communities and the agricultural centers radio dramas, you are eligible for Hollywood. Your stories and harmoniously with the Jews. Only the machina- and are going to the big cities. The Biro Bid- scenarios will be accepted and tions of the effendis have caused rifts between jan Jewish population remains below the 12,000 read by studio officials in addition Arabs and Jews. mark and the admitted fact is that not a to the systematized readings your single The book does paint some very true pic- Jewish family from Poland has gone to Biro Bid- published writings receive in our tures relative to the position of the Jews in constant research for good dia- jan during 1936 in spite of all the ballyhoo and Poland, with regard to the unfairness of the logue and plot constructors. (Mien TURN TO MIXT PAGI) Jewish Frontier Community Still Thriving in Oregon Shades of the old West and the regular pogrom every other day inevitable Jewish pioneers of early with Sugarman as the victim," frontier communities have been I Rabbi Berkowitz remarks. "Now, after 30 years, he is one of the conjured up by reports from the kings of Klamath Falls, and today "last frontier" which have just he is showing off a rabbi, the first been received by the Commission one in the town's history to make on Synagogue Activities of the a speech here." Union of American Hebrew Con- I "I Ain't Mad at Nobody" is Su- gregations. The frontier town is garman's slogan which he displays Klamath Falls, Oregon and It num.; on his thriving store end uses in ben 15 Jewish souls among Its, all his advertisements. Indicative colorful inhabitants. Klamath Falls has all the ch•.-- of his courage and Jewish con- sciousness was the prominently- acteristics of the towns which displayed "ad" which appeared in figure in moving-picture "West- erns": ten-gallon hats, Indians, the town paper just before the of Atonement. It read: open gambling and picturesquely' Day "In observance of the sacred crowded streets. Last month a Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, this rabbi made a speech in Klamath store will closed Friday at sun- Falls, the first speech by a rabbi down until be sundown Saturday. To in the history of the town. Rabbi our friends and customers who had Henry J. Berkowitz made the 350- I planned on shopping here we are mile trip from Portland upon the sorry for the inconvenience this invitation of tt4 leader of the closing may cause you—but we little Jewish community, K. Su- I can't help it!" german. Sugarman is a Rumanian Jew; who came to Klamath Falls when Charles Angoff, ex-editor of the its population consisted of 100 American Mercury, and Louis cowhands and 400 Indians. Having Weitsenkorn, former Sunday edi- built up ■ flourishing business, AP' tor of the New York World, will ter three decades he is now one of be co-editors of • new weekly which will rip the lid off every- the community's leaders. "Klamath Falls used to hold •I thing and everybody. OFF MY CHEST The Lesson of Spain By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN Strietlg Confidential Tidbits from Everywhere By PHINEAS J. BIRON lOopyrighl, 1517, 8 A. P COMMUNAL. NOTES None of the gentlemen promi- nently mentioned as candidates for the executive secretaryship of the Bnai Brith will get the job. That merger between the New York and Brooklyn Federations of Jewish Charities is an ac- complished fact ... The announce- ment is due any day ... We hear that the blending came about when some of the Brooklyn institutions were tottering fianacially . . . It is said that 22 of New York's wealthiest Jews kicked in with $400,000 to finance the merger after a breakfast pow-pow In the home of Felix M. Warburg. Dorothy Waring, ace anti-Nazi prober, tells us that the yarn about her being hired by Jacob Ruppert, beer magnate, for a special anti-Nazi job is hooey ... And she also says that Ruppert has nothing to do with any anti- Nazi outfit. Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, reveals that he earned his first money as a reporter on the Phila- delphia Public Ledger ... His as- signment (which he called to the editor's attention himself) was to cover the settlement of Jewish farmers at Vineland, N. J. . . . Incidentally, did you know that the Jewish Theological Seminary once held classes at Cooper Union? The Cohens and their relatives, the Kahans, Kahanes, Cones, etc., still take up the most space in the New York telephone directory They fill 26 columns ... The Levys, Levis, Levines and Lewises are runners-up, with 20 columns . , . The Smiths and Browns are poor thirds and fourths, having only 14 and 13 columns, respectively. NAZI NEWS' The American Federation of Labor ought to look into the mat- ter of Nazis and Hitler agents serving as scabs on American- owned ships against which the seaman are striking. You haven't heard the end of that invitation to Germany to par- ticipate in New York's World Fair . . . Some of the biggest backers of the fair may cancel their contributions if the swastika floats over the fair grounds. If U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts finds the anti-Semites hot on his trail he ran blame it on the fact that' he has named Jacob Spiegel of Boston as his secretary and Max- well Rabb of the same city to his secretarial staff. Leonard Lyons, keeper of the New York Post's Lyons Den, in- sists that one of the most popular songs in Nazi Germany was writ- ten by Joseph Rumshinsky, East Side Jewish composer, and sold there under a pseudonym , And Lyons also roars that the German delegation of the Noblemen's Club had the best time when the club held Its annual outing at a kosher hotel in Lakewood. Hand the palm for this crack to Harold A. Henry of the Los Angeles Press . . . Says Henry: "Wonder if Wally Simpson could dig up a girl friend in Baltimore who could make Hitler abdicate." In Photoplay Magazine George Jesse' quips that he has had an offer from Hitler—three weeks' personal appearance in Germany, with all funeral expenses paid. ABOUT PEOPLE Morton Feigen, the American correspondent of the Zionist Rec- ord of South Africa, works at an open-earth furnace in the mills of the Inland Steel Company in the Middle West . . . At night he at- tends law school. When Governor Lehman was in- augurated for his third term he became the fifth of New York's 45 governors to win three successive terms. If you want to make funny cracks about Henri Bernstein's play "Promise," just remember that he has been challenged to fight more duels than any other man of letters . . . Incidentally, he's also France's most popular dramatist and a fellow • whose plays stir up excitement among Jews and anti-Semites alike . . Benjamin and Raymond J. Lepow of New York have names that fit their business perfectly ... They are the world's leopard kings. When Dr. Bernard D. Marton gets tired of being the rabbi of Shaarev Zedek Congregation in Coney Island he can be a professor at Brussels University in Belgium . . . lie's just had the honorary degree of professor conferred upon him. Council Publishes 80-Page Pamphlet "Proposed Roads for American Jewry" Prof. Morris Raphael Cohen, American Jewry can find re- Prof. Erich Gutkind and Marvin newal of its forces in the tradi- Lowenthal have collaborated in a tional beliefs of their forefathers. symposium entitled "Pr op osed ' Professor Gutkind has been con- What is taking place today Roads for American Jewry" which j sleeted with the faculty of the National Council of Jewish !New School for Social Research in Spain is of vital significance the Women has just published under since the spring of 1934 and is to the whole world. For the the auspices of its committee on also a professor of modern phi- first time Fascism is not having contemporary Jewish affair of losophy at the Yeshiva College. He • walk-over. The Spanish peo- which Mrs. Maurice L. Goldman came to the United States from New York is chairman. , Germany where he was professor ple are giving the French and of Originally delivered as addres- , of philosophy at Berlin Univer- the Germans and the Austrians ses in connection with the thir d sity. an object lemon how Fascism annual institute on contemporary Prof. Cohen takes issue with Dr. Jewish affairs held in must be combatted. For the New York Gutkind in his paper entitled "As City last June, the symposium was a Liberal Views It." He declares first time bourgeois liberals published as a result of the inter- ' th "there may no final and have understood that they must es t aroused by the discussion of complete solution be of the Jewish stand together with the work- the problem "The American Jew problem. We Jews can make the at the Crossroads," according to most effective contribution to civil- ing class organizations if the an announcement made by Mrs. ization by being our own selves and road to the marauders of hu- Goldman who is chairman of the not mere slavish copies of others. manity is to be barred. executive committee of the council. , What is required of us today is The Fascist bloc Italy-Ger- The American Jew at the cross-; to face more of the realities and roads is the theme of the three ! many is disintegrating, falling essays, not to be misled by traditional each of which tries to pre-; phrases and common illusions." In to pieces. Duce Mussolini, no sent answers to the questions , concluding his essay Prof. Cohen more than France or England, "Wha ar t are we to do?" "What the Jewish communities in can afford to tee Germany in- course are we to pursue?" and urges the country to make more ade- stalled on the Mediterranean "What alternatives exist?" quate provisions for systematic "Germany of Yesterday and and on the Pyrenees. Italy's America of Today" is the subject study and research in the Jewish supreme task in Europe is to of Mr. Lowenthal's essay, the field and points to the contribution by the German and Polish prevent Germany from gain- first in the booklet which com- made Jews in this direction and con- prises 80 pagest• ing the supremacy in Central trasts this with the large gifts for Prof. Gutkind presents in "The trLEAsE TURN To NIXT PAGE Road of the Spirit" the thesis that purely philanthropic par poses made by American Jewry. teofyright. 1537, a A I' S )