• PIEDLTRORAWISRONOMICIA and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE 011111M ■ 11 ■ W Death's Harvest NPEIRDTPAIVISII CIRONICIE Death has reaped a tragic harvest this and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE week when it called from this earth sev- PaWhoa Weekly by The Jewish Mesabi. PAIle ► lag C., lee. eral of Detroit's fine Jewish personalities. In the death of Meyer B. Cohen, Meir Estero, tee Beeoad-)lees ratter blank s, 1$111, at the Tont- elle. at Notre ft, Nish. seder the Aet el blank A 111111, Smith and Joseph Wetsman, the commu- General Offices and Publication Building nity loses three leaders who in their day made definite contributions to Jewish life 525 Woodward Avenue ToIonians* Cedilla. 1040 C.14 Address: Chronicle in this city. Lemke oaks, Mr. Cohen was an important figure in 14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England the work of the United Hebrew Schools Ilubseription, In Advance__.......-13.00 Per Year and his efforts will not be so easily for- Te Ware yablkstlea, eerreepoaInee and mom miter gotten. Mr. Smith was a great scholar and meet reach We ogee by Taeo,ley greater el sash week. it was appropriate that his funeral should whoa mealy moth:4e, lawny see ea* etas pi the wow Wry have been one of the rare exceptions in The Deb.* 3.1.1 ► Omaha. eerreepoedesee is su ► - that it was conducted next to the Sanctu- *at of bet_.*, to the Jetrleb Nov* bat 41erlshas respond- Mktg ter ea ladorsewat et the •lees eryreseell by Ns write, ary in the Shaarey Zedek Synagogue. Mr. Wetsman had served as president of Con- Sabbath Reeding. of the Law gregation Shaarey Zedek and was for Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10: 1-13:16. years active in the Zionist movement. The Prophetical portion—Jer. 46: 13-28. death of these three men is a loss to De- January 15, 1937 Shebat 3, 5697 troit Jewry. Kurt Peiser's Resignation News of the resignation of Kurt Peiser from the executive directorship of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit will be received with a great deal of regret by the community at large. In order to understand the work Mr. Peiser has done in this community, it is necessary to know the conditions under which he arrived. Ile came to this city at a time when Detroit was suffering from the severest crisis in history. The closing of the banks deprived the Detroit agencies of the means for carrying on under nor- mal functions. It was impossible to raise any money and for a period of one year all of the non-local agencies were asked to abstain from making requests for funds in Detroit. Gradually, however, Mr. Peiser carried through a program which caused this community to emerge from a period of stagnation and to return to its natural self. It was under Mr. Peiser's leadership that the Jewish Community Center was built and that the new Hdine for the Aged is being erected. Under his leadership, steps were taken for the unification of the various groups in the city and for the creation of a semblance of unity which promises to become permanent through the formation of the •Jewish Community Council. All elements in the Detroit Jewish Com- munity will join in expressing to Mr. Peiser their regrets over his leaving this city and in wishing him success in his new important tasks in Philadelphia. Henry Ford's Reply The reply by Henry Ford to the chal- lenge issued by the Non-Sectarian Anti- Nazi Leapie relative to the circulation of "International Jew" by Nazis in Germany who continue to use the name of Henry Ford is of significance at this time. Mr. Ford, through his secretary, states that he is prepared to take steps to put a stop to the circulation of the malicious lies con- tained in the pamphlet by preventing the use of his name in this connection. It will be not only interesting to observe what steps Mr. Ford will take in this mat- ter, but it will be well to note how the Nazis respond to a demand by the automobile magnate that his name should not be misused in connection with anti- Sem i t i c propaganda, association with which he disavowed 10 years ago. The Boycott Must Go On The inauguration of a movement to boy- cott the proposed Schmeling-Braddock fight is less important in itself than it is in the sense that it serves to call attention again to the anti-Nazi boycott that is being conducted by liberals and Jews through- out the world. The boycott of the Schmeling fight must be carried to a successful conclusion not only for the sake of preventing the spend- ing of money for a bout in which the par- ticipation of an avowed Nazi is planned but also because it should serve as a signal to renew the activities for the boycott movement In the past few months there has been a slowing up of activities in relation to the boycott of German goods. The boy- cott must be renewed and must be carried on without a halt. The present is an ex- cellent time to revive the activities against the Nazis in Germany. The boveot must go on! . U. S.-British Obligation to Jewry ". • Hadassah's Important Statement Hadassah's 20,000-word report on the status of the health agencies in Palestine serves not only to place on record the great contributions made by Jews in bringing better hygienic conditions to Palestine, but is at the same time a stinging rebuke to the British administration for the unfair- ness with which it is treating the Jewish section of the population. In this state- ment, which was submitted to the Jewish Agency for Palestine for presentation to the Royal Commission, Hadassah declares: While the Jewish community regards with gratification the concern of Government for the Arab section and the large expenditures made in health for it, it cannot but bring to the attention of this Commission the fact that health services for Jews have been made the latter') own concern, and that a heavy burden has thus been placed on the Jewish section for the maintenance of even those funda- mental and essential services which are re- garded in every civilized country of the world as the proper concern of government. The complete Hadassah memorandum deserves to be read and studied. It shows how Jewish efforts have helped in the eradication of malaria; how Hadassah has helped to solve the problem of hospitali- zation; how the Arabs have benefited from these efforts directly and indirectly; bow infant mortality has declined from 200 in 1927 to 131 in 1935. The report states: "The most decisive factor in this decline is the Jewish rate which was reduced from 125 in 1923 to 64 in 1935 and which re- presents a decline of almost 60 per cent. This outstanding accomplishment was rec- ognized in the Expert Report, 1928, which refers to it as 'a tribute to the organized infant welfare service of the Hadassah Medical Organization,' and by the govern- ment in its 1926 report which states, 'as in previous years work carried out by Hadassah infant welfare centers was more extensive and highly developed than that of other centers.' The maternal mortality of 6.4 per 1,000 in Government hospitals is about equal to the American record. In the Hadassah maternity sections the mat- ernal mortality is 1.9 per 1,000." In a significant conclusion, the Hadassah report declares: The record shows that in almost every branch of health work Hadassah blazed the trail which other organizations in Palestine and in surrounding countries, and the Pales- tine Government itself, later followed. It indicates that in almost all of its activities Iladassah worked both for Arabs and Jews during the first year; and that, although the government has since made similar services available for the Arab population Hadassah's institutions and services continue to be open to all sections of the population. It shows that in the quarter of a century since its inception, Hadassah has spent a total of $7,500,000 for health work, thereby re- lieving the government of this expenditure, and enabling it to spend comparatively large sums on the Arab population. Directly and indirectly the Arab has benefited by his Jewish neighbor . . . Only if ever larger masses of Jewish immigrants are permitted to enter Pal- estine would the Jews be justified in continu- ing their support of medical and public health institutions which is normally a function of the government. It is with satisfaction that we record that the government has ever been ready to ac- knowledge the work Hadassah is doing and the value of that work for the country. It is discouraging, however, that this recognition has not been paralleled by such government subventions to the Jewish health service as could be considered commensurate with the numbers and needs of the Jewish community and with the large contribution of that com- munity to government revenue. Lights from Sliadowland Reproduction in pert or whole forbid- den. without permission of the Berea Arta Feature Syndicate, CoP7cilthiore Or this testa.). Tidbits from Everywhere Six Eminent Feminists Try to Answer By P1IINEAS J. BIRON EDITOR'S NOTE: In this unusual feature the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate and The Detroit A. F. 11.) • SCHILDKRAUT GETS CONTRACT Joseph Schildkraut was added to the list of important screen figures signed to appear in David O. Selznick's technicolor "A Star is Born." William A. Wellman is the director assigned to this produc- tion about Hollywood and its in- nermost secrets. This is the second picture for which Schildkraut has been signed on the Selznick In- ternational lot. Ile appeared pre- viously in "The Garden of Allah." Schildkraut will long be remem- bered for important roles played in the first film version of "Show Boat," "The King of Kings," "Cle- opatra," "The Crusaders" and "Viva Villa." BALTIMORE'S LARRY ADLER Baltimoreans are taking pride in the fact that the former King Ed- ward of England renounced the throne and its accompanying glories for the sake of "Wally" Simpson who hails from the Monu- mental City. Residents of Balti- more can once more display their pride as far as the British Empire is concerned, as Larry Adler, America's harmonica wizard, has made good with the newly-accepted King George VI. Early in Decem- ber Larry played at the Empire Theater in Edinburgh, Scotland, a Command Performance before the then Duke and Duchess of York. That marked the first occasion the "king's oldest brother" ever enter- tained a music-hall. Jerry Adler, the younger of the two harmonica stylists, also participated in the bill. In a letter to Maurice R. Schochett, of the Baltimore Jew- ish Times, Larry adds: "My dad considered the event sufficiently important to rate a dinner-jacket that he wore throughout the eve- ning. A record for dad." Of course, these lines were jotted down at a time when no one here as well as in England had an idea Edward would abdicate. Among the plums plucked in the British Isles, Larry Adler came out with flying colors as far as "The Big Broadcast of 1037" Is concerned, he wrote Sho- chett. The English distributing company for Paramount ordered extra footage of Adler's specialty in this film for general release. The film officials obtained the foot- age. And when the film was shown in London Adler's name was up in in electric lights. Adler recently completed a film role for a British picture, "Calling All Stars." The billboard lists Adler as No, 6 in the rating of the six largest at- tractions in all England. OFF MY CHEST Fruits of the Homeland WHO'S WHO of the League of Nations Secretariat, and promi- MME. GERTRUDE VAN TYN—Leader of the Committee for Jewish Refugees in Amster._ dam. A veteran of many geological expeditions with her husband, she took an active part in the English 'woman's suffrage movement from 1911 to 1915, and during the World War directed relief for Jewish prisoners in Holland. MME. LEON BRUNSCHWIGG--Under.secretar y for education in French cabinet, and one of the first two women to bold a cabinet portfolio in France. Is a veteran of the woman suffrage movement and a pioneer social welfare worker. MISS HARRIET COHEN—Celebrated pianist and one of the world's most famous musicians. Was chosen to play at the 1932 Disarmament Conference. Is the creator of a famous literary salon in London, and the "Tani•" of Arnold Bennett's "Letter to My Nephew." Women Can Restore World's Sanity By MRS. ISRAEL ZANGWILL The abolition of war is humanity's supreme need today. Thus in working toward this end woman takes her chief place in world progress. Moreover, with the introduction of the aero- plane war has been brought into the home. The old order no longer exists when men went out to fight and women stayed behind to weep. In Europe, at least, future conflicts will be decided in the humble dwellings of the great cities. One might almost say that the trenches will be held by a new form of infantry, those of tender years. War has become essentially a feminine preoccu- pation, while world peace forms the most im- portant task of motherhood. In 1914 it was perhaps excusable to believe that good could come out of strife. We were fighting to end war—but war has gone on almost continuously ever since. We were fighting to safeguard democracy—but dictatorship has evolved. We were fighting to free the world from Prussian militarism — but Europe is still trembling before this menace. Then as to the positive results of the great war, it brought the whole world to the edge of bankruptcy. It destroyed the manhood in every belligerent country and starved he children in most of them. It filled the asylums with shell- shocked soldiers and babes crazed while still un- born. It crippled, blinded, tortured millions of human beings. And all for what? Is any one the happier? And now we talk of trying another Euro- pean war, on the principle of the whole jaw of the dog that bit us. Every nation is frenziedly beating its ploughshares into swords and its pruning-hooks into spears. Man can live by bayonets alone, so the dictators inform us. But do the dictators know? It may be that the elimination of this unfit Planet is necessary to the evolution of the uni- verse. Still, women might make the planet less unfit. By restoring sanity to a distracted world women might even now enable it to survive. • Don't Kill Our Children! A most disappointing experienci since my return to America a few weeks ago—and especially during the joyous Chanukah season—was the complete absence of Palestin- ian products on the tables in the Jewish homes where I was per- mitted to join the festivities. There were French, Hungarian, Italian and even German wines galore, chocolates from Holland, jams and marmalades from Britain and even Scottish haggis in one place, but of the flower of Rischon le-Zion I got nary a whiff. How is this? Have the Jews in America lost their taste for the good things of the earth, or do they not know that connoisseurs in Europe make the well-known tongue-clicking sound when they merely hear the name of the Sauternes and Chablis of Eretz Israel mentioned. I wonder. Albert Londres, the famous Parisian reporter, who perished in the Philippar disaster in the Red Sea, could never forget the taste of the Grave Superieure which was placed before him and Senator Jules Godart in my company in the famous Rothschild colony in 1929. I would meet him on the streets of Montmarte, or in the Ukraine or in Marrakesch, and he would say at once: "Ah, but the memory of those wines lingers like a fine per- fume. I have a stock of it in my house, but I would give anything in the world to go through the ex- perience of my first sip once more!" Like Monsieur Londres there are many and their number would increase to legion if the facts were only known. Purchase a bottle of Palestinian Beaujolais one of these days. Pour yourself a drink in a high-stemmed and very thin glass. Handle it gently and give the stem • slight rotating motion as you inhale the NAZIS AND ANTI'S MRS. ISRAEL ZANGWILL—Widow of the late Israel Zangwilh although not • Jewess, she labored enthusiastically for her husband's Jewish Territorial Organization. A talented author of numerous novels, she u t aaaaaa ar of the Women's Peace Crusade and one of the most militant of contemporary peace workers. MME. SONJA BRANTING-WESTERSTAHL—O ne of Sweden's outstandin g lawyers and lib. erals. A daughter of the late Premier Hjalmar Branting, Nobel Peace Prize winner, she is • mediator of the Stockholm Domestic Relations Court and founder of the Swedish Legal Aid Society. By MME. SONJA BRANTINGAVESTERSTAHL I see en earth that will one day become the By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN Woo rIght. 1537, O. A. F. e.) Jewish Chromic!e present exclusive extracts from the addresses of six outstanding women who participated in the international radio broadcast sponsored by the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women in celebration of its 44th anniversary and the 79th birthday of its founder, Mrs. Hannah G: Solomon. "Woman' s Place in World Progress" is the keynote, and various viewpoints are presented on what women can do to restore the world to sanity. MISS MARIE GINSBERG—Polish member nent feminist. -happy dwelling-place of mankind. Today, when we want to reach each other, we have to do it in hundreds of languages, and there is perhaps only one common platform where the feeling of the different people really can meet, and that is concerning the question of peace—or, to trans- late It into woman's language: DO NOT KILL OUR CHILDREN! That cry every woman will understand even today. And to make every woman raise that cry is our chief task just now. But in the world to come—I Bee it before me now—there will be one universal language, understood by every human being. With this, as by the technical development which will per- mit us to overlook distance, there will be many ways to enrich our lives by the enormotts human contact which will become natural between every individual with every other. How much time shall we be able to give to reason and the heart that day when, thanks to technical progress, anxiety about material mat- ters has loosened its grip on our throats, and we know that none is suffering hunger or cold any- where on our planet! How many previously un- heard and muffled melodies from souls living far away will bring joy and happiness into our daily life! No diplomats on that Utopian day will be needed to interpret our mutual relations, for this relationship will be felt by every member of Earth's society. 'We shall be able to speak to one another, understand one another, help and love one another. War will then be as base • crime as the murder of brother and sister is a crime today; the thunder of guns and bombardments will be heard no mere. But the echo of friendly far-away words will give a daily happiness as natural as the rising of the sun and the flutter of the breeze. • with the League . . . shall be open equally to 'men and women." This equality has from the very beginning been put into practice in all the departments of League activity. There is no doubt that women are partieu'- larly apt at international collaboration because of the qualities deeply rooted in their nature— their spirit of continuity and the special gift they have of seizing rather upon what unites people than upon what divides them. The women of America were pioneers in the field of women's rights, and if they had not in the past no abundantly proved their capacity to fill posts in many departments of national life it might never have occurred to the founders of the League to recognize the equality of women and their right to participate in international life. The Olympic Torch is passed on from gen- eration to generation and from country to coun- try. The women of the world must see that it never goes out. • Jewish Woman Pioneers By MME. GERTRUDE,VAN TYN The history of our people is one long tale of sorrow and suffering, of endless patience, of attempts at destruction of large parts of our People calling forth the will to live. A deep- rooted idea, a faith in its destiny and in its ultimate salvation must indeed have possessed this people, that it conceived and carried out amidst a world full of hatred, danger and enmity the great ideal of rebuilding its home in Pales- tine. From the beginning Jewish women have Played a large part in making the desert which Palestine was into the fertile land it is now wherever Jews have colonized. The modern Jewish woman in Palestine was not content to devote her labor to the tasks re- served for women in the Diaspora. The task of reclaiming the land for Jewish settlement re- quired from her work which in normal and settled countries is reserved for men exclusively. Heavy at the best is the task of the pioneer. Heavy and often incredibly hard is the task of the pioneer woman in Palestine. She has said farewell to all ordinary ideas of comfort and security, to build up—together with the men—for those to come a home where Jewish children can grow up undisturbed to produce and develop the fruits of the earth, the fruits of Jewish thought and Jewish genius. Let those who are young now beware, lest the precious, hard-fought-for possession of equal rights with men, of full citizenship for women, be taken away from them; lest a future gener- ation of women once more be forced to do the pioneer work in the very heart of Europe. • Let Us Understand One Another By MME. LEON BRUNSCHWIGG One always has a tendency toward distort- ing, from a distance, the doings and very spirit of a country. To know one another it is neces- sary to understand one another, and in order to reach this understanding we must meet, talk, ex- change opinions, compare doings and, with mutual good will, try to find a policy which will allow the co-operation necessary to assure human prog- ress. It has become quite commonplace to re- peat that the world is now torn between two ideologies: the ideology of force, which does not hesitate to dominate by fear, and the ideal of democracy, based on mutual help and solidarity of different countries, putting its confidence into every citizen, so that, through a self-imposed discipline, men may realize by themselves what elsewhere is obtained only by the use of sheer force, • • We Are Home-Builders By MISS HARRIET COHEN With women taking their - place in this mag- nificent way in the higher walks of life—in par- liaments, universities, hespitala, and the like— I feel that they should not forget their unique Place in the home as inspirational, cultural and Women Lead the Way harmonic center. It is not every woman's des- tiny to be married and have children, but never- By MISS MARIE GINSBERG theless most women build a home around them The 19th century saw the economic eman- even if they are they unmarried or work ersoers. And cipation of women on the national plane, whereas especially when are gre at p nalities in the 20th century seems to herald the entry of the world of affairs can they have a tremendous women into the international field. influence on theyounger people who surround As the League of Nations is the greatest ef- them. fort of humanity to establish an organized in- And I may nay that experience and ■ grow- ternational corporation, it could not but appeal ing humility have taught me that in order to to women. The League Covenant, which is the make real proges in life we shul work in rs charter of international life. has a o d clause stipu- collaboration with men ,and never in any corn. lating that "all positions under or in connection petitive spirit against them. 4,% Strictly Confidential Can Women Save the World? By LOUIS PEKARSKY (Copyright, (937, S. January 15, 1937 The National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods and the Na- tional Council of Jewish Women may be interested to know that the National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War, of which they are members, has invited a Nazi to address its Chicago meeting this month , . The speaker in ques- tion, a certain Mrs. Bodenschatz, makes frequent visits to Germany for inspiration ... Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath of Toronto is.the cen- ter of a heap big protest because he was quoted as saying Jews ought to accept Jesus .. . The Rabbi denies the remark, but Christian ministers have chal- lenged him to accept baptism . . The anti-Nazi boycotters might like to know that Max Schmeling will begin an exhibition tour in Philadelphia the first week in March .. He's due to appear in 16 cities ... Wonder what Harry Schaffer, commander-in-chief of the Jewish War Veterans, talked about in the White House, where he had a date with the President . . . Don't be surprised if one of the speakers at the Jan, 30 mass meeting of the Non-Sectarian An- ti-Nazi League to denounce Hitler on the occasion of the fourth an- niversary of the Nazi regime is a former Chancellor of Germany, who is now living incognito in the United States ... We are told that last summer he had agreed to make a radio talk for the League but that none of the major networks would schedule it .. , The excuse was that they were filled up with political stuff ... Oh yeah ... FASCIST FLASHES When Mussolini attacks the Jews his Galitzianer brain-truster, Giu- seppe Toplitz, must feel sort of funny ... General Skoropatsky, a former Czarist pogrom leader in the Ukraine, is a member of Hit- ler's inner circle of advisers .. . Spanish Loyalists are calling the German troops fighting with the rebels "Aryan Moors" ... If Euro- pean Fascists keep up the rush to Join the Spanish rebels they'll be able to call an international con- gress of anti-Semites in Spain ... Now fighting with Franco's army are contingents of Codreanu's Rumanian bl u e-shirts, General O'duffy's Irish blue-shirts, Blosley's English blackshirts, Hitler's brown shirts and the Czech Fascist gray- shirts Wonder whether Franco, who is a lusty Jew-hater, knows that there was once a Rabbi Solo- mon Levi who, upon his conversion to Catholicism, became the Bishop of Burgos, the city which is now Fascist headquarters , .. Among the Americans in the loyalist ranks are Jacob Rossmarin and Eddie Liebowitz. YOU SHOULD KNOW You can expect a definite agree- ment soon between the U. P. A. and the J. D. C. to establish quo- tas in Jewish welfare fund drives throughout the country, Max Band, the eminent artist, has been commissioned to do a por- trait of Louis Lipsky which will be hung in the Tel Aviv Art Museum, The Pulaski Society, comprising Christian Poles in the United States, is backing Sam Lamport's plan for a commercial tie-up be- tween Poland and this country as a means of aiding Polish Jewry... The society is publicizing Lam- port's plan in all Polish and Polish- language papers. We just heard a swell story about the late Maurice Freiberg. Cincinnati philanthropist and reli- gious leader . , . Freiberg always blew a Shofar on Rosh Hashonah in the Rockdale Ave. Temple, Cin- cinnati, because his grandfather had left him an ancient Shofar that had been is the family for generations One year Freiberg was in Europe during Rosh Ha- shanah, so no Shofar was blown in the Temple that year . . CHIT-CHAT The Cecelia Music School in New York is run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine, but most of the students are poor Jew- ish kids from the East Side . . . Which reminds us that we just l earned that the first music settle- ment school in the United States wan founded by David Mannes. When you see Jean Muir on the screen give her some extra ap- plause She spends much of her spare time making anti-Nazi speeches. Anti-Semites talk big but they're scared of a little rain . , , A meet- ing of the American National La- bor Party (Nazis) was recently called off because, as the party's paper reported, the weather "was made to order for the Jews." While we are primarily concerned with the positive rather than the negative ele- ments in Jewish life, and are pleased with the great contributions made by Hadas- sah's health agencies, we feel that the re- buke contained in the women Zionists' re- port is equally to be welcomed at this time. e British Palestine administration has been est unfair in its educational and ( PLEASE 11.711N TO NEXT FACIE ) ation of funds to the Jewish health AgL section of thel tat Illation " ift...„..... which supplies The gov- the bulk of income fronc-ti ernment's mistreatment of the "' wish population and its agencies has been an encouragement to the destructive elements Compilations of Biblical Art among the Arabs. It has been a signal to of the Past 2,000 them that they are the favored and we are Important Biogr hy of Hindenburg Describes the Part Years A Chapter in the Series of Jewish Paradoxes Is Revealed the undesirables. Such an attitude de- He Played Events Leading Up to the torship by the Hies serves the severe condemnation that is THE ROME IN ART: Tweet, Oreterise being accorded it by Jewish witnesses ap- of Paine. Ribs. Paintlnya, Edned SANTIAGO, Chile.—"It is an proximately 3,000 Jewish immi- pearing before the Royal Commission. By WOODEN TITAN: Hindenburg I. T. y Years of Gorman History, with Cestheselary y (tutee Hathy, lbablieltel by Orrick Mey tare ill wind that does not bring in its suet. William Morrow grants have come in and were able 1914.1934. By John W. Wks. incorporating a rebuke for such action in dba ?meth Are., New To tsin. & Co., New York (=5). OAS JILTS TESTAMENT IN DER trail some good to somebody," is to establish themselves in a satis- its splendid report, Hadassah acts justly GRAM M. (n. oar r•e•••••s hs an old saying which has again been factory manner. Of these, about o•este• and as the British officialdom in Palestine proven correct in the paradoxes of 1,000 are refugees from Germany. w••de• t IletrAwbeire Eacklisgs. A Review by Philip Sloni•vi N 1 -1( 1)*VaPha By Tbeedsr deserves to be treated. Jewish migration. The latest proof The others came from East Euro- stein. PabliAbli by Knoter•eribt The article featured in the Jan. 8 issue of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle pointing to the manner in which the United States Government is committed to the up-build- ing of Palestine as our Jewish National Home also contains some very valuable data proving the manner in which Great Britain obligated herself to Jewry. The recent disturbances in Palestine have brought out numerous important facts relative to the achievements of our pioneers. The fact that even extremist Zionist propagandists have not fully eval- uated all that has been accomplished in the publishing of the facts relative to the Zionist accomplishments is important at A Moral Obligation this time in view of the manner in which It is reported from New York that a far- Jews are pressed to the wall even in their reaching setback to all fund-raising activi- own little corner in Palestine. The efforts of the special commission ties which rely on pledges was given by sent to the Jewish Homeland by William Supreme Court Justice McCook when he Randolph Hearst consisting of Senators ruled that pledges to give money to char- Royal S. Copeland, Warren R. Austin and ity are not legally binding. His ruling was Daniel 0. Hastings is one of the important made in the case of I. Gainsburg, Jewish additions to our present defense program attorney, who in 1929 made a written in behalf of the Jewish National Home, pledge to give $5,000 to a $2,000,000 cam- The three senators have rendered a mark- paign of the Beth Israel hospital. Gains- ed service to the Zionist cause by pre- burg was sued by a company to which the senting the true facts in a constructive iloqpital had assigned his pledge. But the moral obligation remains. No way. They unearthed a great deal of im- rortant material, the presentation of one who has ever made a pledge to a Jew- which serves eloquently to emphasize the ish cause dare refuse to p'ay. The legal rights of our people to the resettlement of aspect is the least significant. The moral aspect is the most important. our ancient Homeland. The Tragicomedy of Germany's BIBLE PAINTINGS Economic Crisis Helps Consolidate Submission to Hitler Jewish Migrants' Position in Chile John W. Wheeler - Bennett's great biography of Hindenburg is also • great historical record of the history of Germany since 1914. It is particularly valuable in its description of the events which led up to the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. In this book General Field Mar- shall Paul von Beneckendorf and von Hindenburg, twice president of the German Reich. emerges as the immovable wooden titan who dominated the German scene for almost 20 years and who rose in the estimation of his people as the great hero of the war. as the Grand Old Man of Germany. His name became • legend. Ile, alone, was the political figure capable of defeating Hitler when the Fuehrer made • bid for leader. ship. He was accordingly drafted did win the for this purpose a e polls. important battle a f the Then came the beginni the dwindling of the legend a emerging of the wooden t exaggerated influence as a gr and disillusioning myth. When Hitler came to posse , Hiadenburg's name was suddenly forgotten. The Reich heil-ed and saluted the new leader. Only in the concentration camps did llin- denberg's name continue to be invoked. The large number of democratic leaders, Jews, Catho- lics] and others who fell prey to Hitler's tyranny spoke with bit- terness about the rain they learn- ed to look upon as their betrayer. They had rallied to his cause, sup- ported him against Hitler, placed him in power and made him their guardian angel. Social Democrats, (PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGE) furnished by figures compiled by the IIIAS-ICA Emigration Asso- ciation regarding Jewish migra.. t t .2.5.11112. The art of the Biblt...Ft)',3**Mic crisis in this Republic has had Old and the.-Ne‘.- Testa • most beneficial effect on the men ta leco availible ohnco ommicmsutnriutoytuirne the tohfethRblic Republic of Chile. popularly priced volumes which Chile's Jewish population num- include also worthwhile com- mentaries. Since Dr. Ehren- bers today to approximately 20,- 000. Prier to the economic crisis, rtein issued the first part of his most of the new arrivals had been "The Old Testament In Graphic engaged in the none too stable or dignified business of custom ped- Art," in March of 1936, another of the 10 planned parts made dling. The depression which set in in 1930, and seems now to be draw- its appearance in November, ing to its apparent end, has 193g. At almost the same time brought about • transformation due to the fact that the greatest as the appearance of the sec- number of Jewish immigrants have ond Ehrenttein volume, Covici, been absorbed in more productive Friede published the imposing and more dignified trades, enter- volume of Biblical art collee- prises and occupations. (PLZAS1 TURN TO NEXT PAGE) During the past five years ap- Albert Xmas,Ileass, s••••• r im .. Aletrin Tint CLIO P. velesee. she 0. Ft-tint thrtc70. pean countries. The HIAS-ICA Emigration As- sociation has established a local jswish. Immigrant Aid Committee, which has its headquarters in San- tiago, and a branch in Valparaiso. The committee maintains perma- nent contact with the Chilean Foreign Office and Labor Depart- ment, and carries on manifold ac. tivities to facilitate the entry and settlement of the new arrivals. Mrs. Celia Greenspan, an Amer- ican laboratory expert, is serving with the Canadian blood transfu- sion service which is operating with the Loyalist army on the Spanish front- Norma Taubele of New York was given 18th place in the 1936 national women's tennis rankings of the United States Lawn Tennis Association. 5>