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PROTEST WILL NOT
INTIMIDATE POLES,
PREMIER DECLARES

Legislators Insist Emigration
Alone Will Solve the
Problem

GOV. EARLE UP HOLDS
APPOINTMENT OF JEW

'Fur Dealers Who Broke the
Boycott Return Goods,
Aid Refugees

WARSAW. — (WNS) — Re-
plying to the American Jewish
•Congress' emergency conference
on the situation of Polish Jewry,
Premier Felicjan Slawoy-Sklad-
koweki told the Polish Senate that
Poland cannot be intimated by
foreign protests from Jewish or-
ganizations. Speaking during an-
other debate on the Jewish ques-
tion, the Premier reiterated his
previous promise to suppress anti-
Jewish disorders but echoed the
sentiments of other speakers that
Poland must regulate the Jewish
problem. During the debate many
senators again emphasized that
the Jewish question in Poland can
be solved only through emigra-
tion Every speaker except Sena-
tor Malinofski, peasant leader,
spoke approvingly of the plan for
mass Jewish emigration. Prince
Radziwill made it plain that the
government must control Jewish
emigration from Poland because
there are too many Jews in the
country. Senator Malinofaki criti-
cized the government for impair-
ing Poland's prestige abroad by
permitting anti-Jewish disturb-
ances, and demanded more vigor-
ous punishment for anti-Semitic
hoodlums. Speaking at the close
of the debate, Premier Skiad-
kowski reaffirmed his govern-
ment's determination not to per-
mit itself to be coerced by foreign
protests.
Figures just made public here
reveal that Jewish emigration
from Poland in 1935 and 1936
totalled 64,000, 30,000 in 1936
and 34,000 in 1936. The majority
of the emigrants went to Pales-
tine.

Upholds Appointment of Jaw

PHILADELPHIA. — (NCJC)
—"I have not in the past, and
shall not in the future, permit
any consideration of race or reli-
gion to influence my judgment
in the appointment of men to po-
sitions of public trust. To do so
would be un-American and un-
patriotic."
So declared Governor George
H. Earle of Pennsylvania, in a
letter to Charles B. Helms, state
secretary, Patriotic Order Sons of
America.
Helms recently protested the
appointment of Albert M. Green-
field as chairman for the State
committee to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of the Federal Con-
stitution, Helms was recently ac-
cused here by Louis Lore. news-
paper columnist, of heading an
organization which actively pro-
motes anti-Semitism in Philadel-
p h i a , although he protested
Greenfield's appointment only on
the grounds that the latter was
born outside the United States.
"American citizens are Ameri-
can citizens, whether born in this
country or elsewhere, and are en-
titled to the same rights and
privileges," Governor Earle wrote.
Greenfield's appointment was
also commended by Federal Judge
Albert W. Johnson, former na-
tional president, P. 0. S. of A.,
in a letter to the Governor.

Fur Dealers Report
NEW YORK. — (WNS)—The

anti-Nazi boycott movement won
a major victory when three Jew-
ish fur dealers who had purchased
$250,000 worth of South African
Persian lambskins at the Leipzig
fur auction last month agreed to
return the furs, to contribute
$15,000 for the relief of German
Jewish refugees and to refrain
from any further purchase in Ger-

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SUPPORT PLEDGED
TO FIGHT NAZISM

Members of Congress Re-
zper.d to Resolution of
Detroit Congress

Responding to the resolution
adopted by the Detroit chapter of
the American Jewish Congress
which called upon Michigan mem-
bers of Congress to support leg-
islation that will prevent the
spread of anti-democratic forces
in this country, Congressmen and
Senators replied sympathetically
this week.
The resolution adopted by the
conference held on Jan. 31 urged
all liberals to strengthen the
forces of democracy and to join
in the effort to propagate the boy-
cott of German-made goods.
Writing to Philip Slomovitz,
chairman of the Detroit section
of the American Jewish Congress,
Senator Arthur IL Vandenberg
said:
"Thia will acknowledge the
resolution adopted by your group
last Sunday. I am in complete
agreement with it, and you may
depend upon my unequivocal sup-
port against all 'subversive anti-
democratic forces.'"
Congressman George A. Don-
dero wrote: "You can rely upon
me to do my best to see that our
democracy is maintained in tact
at all times"
Replying to the suggestion con-

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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1937

Vol. XXXVIII No. 38

ORGANIZATION OF Local Jewish National Fund $4,6N,000 QUOTA JEWISH PIONEERING IN PALESTINE
DIVISIONS BEGUN Event Aids Ossip Gabrilowitsch ADOPTED FOR 1937 LAUDED BY ROOSEVELT IN MESSAGE
BY TRADE COUNCIL Memorial. Grove in Palestine DRIVE BY J. D. C.

Mention Three Jews for
U. S. Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, D. C. (11/NS)
—Speculation over the possible
candidates for the United
States Supreme Court should
Congress approve President
Roosevelt's Federal judiciary
reform plan which calls for
the addition of six justices to
the high court Is giving atten-
tion to three Jews, Professor
Felix Frankfurter of the Har-
vard Law School, Samuel I.
Rosenman, justice of the New
York State Supreme Court,
and Benjamin Cohen, author-
ity on banking and public law.

ARABS ARE UNABLE
TO CHECK TERROR

Jews of Palestine to Pub-
lish Paper in Arabic
Language

JERUSALEM (W N S — Palcor
Agenc y)—Three Arab leaders
told Sir Arthur Wauchope, high
commission, that they were un-
able to influence the Arabs who
are conducting a renewed cam-
paign of terror, and that they can-
not therefore have it stopped. The
three prominent Arabs were Haj
Amin el Hueseini, mufti of Jerus-
aleni, Ragheb Bey Nashashibi,
former mayor of Jerusalem and
Aouni Bey Abdul Hadi, leader of
the Independence party. The high
commissioner met with the Arab
dignitaries to demand an end to
the terrorism now sweeping the
country.
Jewish government officials at
Sated, in Northern Palestine, have
received threats from the "So-
ciety for the Murder of Jews"
which has signed letters demand-
ing their resignation, it was
learned.
Armed Arabs who attempted to
break into the cashier's office at
the Ras el Ain railroad station
were repulsed by police after on
exchange of shots. A bus of the
Egged co-operative travelling
from Haifa to Tel Aviv was shot
at by an Arab band near Jenin
in a daylight attack. None of
the passengers were injured, but
several windows were shattered.

King Ibn Saud of Saudi Ara-
bia has rejected the proposal
submitted some time ago by
Raj Amin el._Husseini, grand
mufti of Jerusalem, for the
convening of an Arab Congress
in Mecca during the time of
the religious pilgrimage. "Poli-
tics must not be mixed with
religion," the king stated in
explanation of his opposition
to the holding of the congress
at that time.

Tells Gathering in Washington It Should Be
Source of Pride for U. S. Jewry to
Share in Restoration Work

$1,300,000 to Germany and
$850,000 for Work in
Behalf of Refugees

AMERICAN QUOTA OF $4,500,000
SET FOR DRIVE DURING 1937

MISCHA KOTTLER., NOTED PIANIST, TO PLAY

Speakers Bureau, Under the
Chairmanship of Rabbi
Fram, to Meet Feb. 23

Simultaneous with the an-
nouncement that a grove of euca-
lyptus and pine trees is to be
planted on Jewish National Fund
land in Palestine as a memorial
to Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who died
recently, word came this weals
from the Ladies Auxiliary of the
Jewish National Fund of Detroit
that the proceeds of the annuli
donor luncheon to be held at the
Shaarey Zedek on March 3 will be
used for the purpose of enlarging
this grove.
Because of the tribute thus t,o
be accorded the late famous cora-
poser and conductor of the 14-
troit Symphony Orchestra, t
Detroit Symphony Society a
nounced Its intention of co-opt
sting in the arrangements f
this luncheon. The society's readi-
ness to co-operate with the locill
Jewish National Fund was com-
municated to Mrs. Philip Memo-
vitz, chairman of the program
committee of the luncheon, by
Murray Paterson, manager of the
Detroit Symphony Orchestra,

The Trade Council of the De-
troit Service Group made definite
progress this week in its efforts
for the organization of the cam-
paign forces in behalf of the
forthcoming Allied Jewish Coet-
paign, which will be conducted
from May 2 to 16.
George Stutz, chairman of the
camps ign planning committee,
Irving Blumberg and M. A. Mit-
telman. co-chairmen of the Trade
Council, announced this week
that the Trade Council will be
sub-divided into nine sections and
that the personnel for these
divisions is now being selected.
Leaders for the first three
divisions were appointed this
week and the
heads of the
other six groups
will be made
known during
the coming week.
Ilya Schkolnik, on. of th e
Joseph H. Ehr-
most eminent violinists and the
lich, long promi-
first violinist in the Detroit ,
nent in commu-
Symphony Orchestra, has cow.
nity work and
seated to be the soloist at th
one of the lead-
luncheon. At the piano will b
ers in Allied
Mischa Kottler, considered th
Jewish Cam-
paigns, was outstanding pianist in Midi
fan, Mr. Schkolnik stated thisi
named chairman
week that he will announce hie!
of the advisory
committee of own program at the luncheon
and that one of the numbers,
the Trade Coun-
J. H. Ehrlich cil, which is to will be a selection which the
late Ossip Gabrilowitsch wrote'
co-operate with
especially for the violin. ;
the parent organization in all
The plans for the planting
Trade Council activities.
the Gabrilowitsch grove in Pale
Division A in the new Trade
tine are being formulated br
Council set-up will have charge
of mercantile groups. This divi-
sion is headed by Louis Robinson
and Meyer Rosenbaum. The fol-
lowing trades will be solicited by
this group: Jewelers, shoes, dry
goods, office equipment, furniture,
radios, household appliances,
trunks, , etc., department stores,
women's lipriaill— and Turners, Fiofitirci Caninittie Is 'Ar-
men's furnishings.
ranging Events for An-
Division B will have charge of

Mailamm, the American Palestine
Musical Association of which Leo-
pold Godowsky, is honorary presi-
dent and Mischa Ellman and

OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH

Bronislaw Huberman are honor-
ary vice-presidents.
To raise the fund necessary for
the planting of the Gabrilowitsch
grove, a Gabrilowitsch memorial
concert has been arranged, under
the auspices of Mailamm, and Will

10" FEDERATION
BIRTHDAY PLANNED

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niversary Apr. 11

Temple Forum Ends
Its Current Season

AFTER THE POGROM

A Typical Tragedy

Let us turn the clock back to
Nov. 30, 1935, and enter the
Opoczno District of Poland with
a relief expedition of the J. D.C.—
a district of small towns thickly
populated by Jews. The day be-
fore these little towns had been
the scene of murder, pillaging and
riot as thousands of maurauding
peasants streamed through them.
We meet a survivor and hear his
story, a story as typical of similar
events in similar towns:

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wiser teeloaely lahrred, wag trenpertal
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Dr. Flink to Speak
at Shaarey Zedek

By RABBI JONAH B. WISE
National Co-Chairman, J. D. C. Campaign

PITTSBURGH. — A national
quota, for the United States and
Canada, of $4,650,000 was adopt-
ed Sunday for the 1937 campaign
of the American Jewish Distribu-
tion Committee, for aid to Jews
overseas, by the Plan and Scope
Committee of the campaign, meet-
ing in an all-day session at the
Concordia Club in Pittsburgh.
Presiding over the meeting was
Paul Baerwald, chairman of the
Joint Distribution Committee,
and beside him were Rabbi Jonah
B. Wise, national campaign co-
chairman, James N. Rosenberg,
David M. Bressler and Alexander
Kahn, vice-chairmen of the Joint
Distribution Committee,

Budgetary Allotments

The program committee of the
Detroit Service Group, under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Walter Leib,
is completing arrangements for
the 10th anniversary celebration
The police have announced that
two Arabs had confessed to the Buffalo Rabbi to Preach Next of the Jewish Welfare Federation
and the Detroit Service Group to
murder on Feb. 1 of Mendel
Friday Night; Rabbi From
Mintz, 31-year-old Jewish colon-
Continues Book Sermons
ist and brother of Meyer Mintz,
director of the United Palestine
A large audience crowded the
Appeal of Newark, N. J. Mintz main auditorium of Temple Beth
was a member of the colony of El last Tuesday night to hear the
Kfar Avihail in the valley of He- debate between Herbert Agar and
fer on the coast of Palestine and Lewis Corey on the proposition:
was slain from ambush as he was "Is America Headed Toward So-
driving the colony's truck on the cialism?" This was the final pro-
Jaffa-Haifa highway. In confess- gram of the Temple Forum series
ing to the police, the Arabs also of this season.
revealed where they had hidden
Plans for the next Forum sea-
the rifles after shooting and kill- son are already being made.
ing Mintz. Mintz, who came to Reservations for next season may
Palestine recently from South be made now by writing to the
America, lost his wife soon after Temple Forum, Temple Beth El.
their arrival when she succumbed The Temple Forum would also wel-
to illness. Ile left a 6-year-old come expressions of opinion from
any who have attended any of the
child.
To Publish Arab Paper
forum programs, offering criti-
At a meeting of the Council of cisms, suggestions, or commends;
the Histadruth, David Remez, tion.
On Friday night, Feb. 19, Rabbi
Palestine labor leader, announc-
ed that the Histadruth would Joseph Fink of Temple Beth Zion,
shortly begin the publication of Buffalo, N .Y., will occupy the
an Arabic newspaper. By this pulpit as a guest preacher and
step it is hoped to create better speak on the subject: "What Lies
understanding between Arab and Ahead." Rabbi Fram will officiate.
MRS. WALTER LAIB
Rabbi Fram is continuing his
Jewish workmen. The meeting,
postponed from 1936 because of series of book sermons which have be held in the auditorium of the
the disturbances, convened at been attracting such large congre- General Motors Bldg. on Sunday
gations. For Friday evening, evening, April 11.
Tel Aviv as the 94th council.
After opening remarks by Da- Feb. 26, he has selected Sholom
Mrs. Laib announces that sev-
vid Remez, David ben Gurion Arch's new best-seller novel of eral skits are being considered by
spoke on political developments Jewish life, "The War Goes On." the committee for presentation on
Beth El College of Jewish
and expressed the opinion that •
that evening and that a feature of
real victory had been won. "Not Studies is now welcoming visitors the celebration will be a review
only has the executive of the to its classes on Monday nights. which will show the progress made
Jewish Agency been successful in Members of the community are in community service since the
preventing temporary stoppage of Invited. There is no charge for at- formation of the Federation's De-
Jewish immigration into Pales- tendance. Visitors are asked to troit Service Group.
tine," he said, "but the Yishuv come to the office for free cards
Serving on the program commit-
of admission.
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tee with Mrs. Leib are the fol-
lowing: Gabriel N. Alexander,

To the long list of pogromized
Jewish villages and towns in East-
ern Europe of past years, recent
months added several bloody
names. Przytyk has become a by-
word. Minsk Mazowiecki, Zaseorow,
Truskolasy, Odrzywol, Klwow,
Drzewica, Pyzdry and other little
towns learned the terror of mob
violence.
News of the havoc, the murder,
the pillaging in these pogromized
Polish towns reached the outside
world to horrify all who read and
heard of them. Many must won-
der what happens to these poor
people after they have buried their
dead, after they have cleared away
the wreckage. Can they resume
their normal way of life, as if
what had happened was put and
to be forgotten, or do they flee
from their homes to seek refuge
elsewhere?
What occurs after a pogrom is
a story in itself. It Is a story of
heroic spirits that refuse to give
way to violence and adversity. It
is a story of mercy that reaches a
long arm across the sea from a
compassionate and energetic Amer-
ica.

TO CONCLAVE ATTENDED BY 2,000

Heads of Three Groups for Detroit Symphony Orchestra to Co-Operate in the Ar- Decision Made at Meeting
of Plan and Scope Com-
Allied Jewish Campaign
rangements for Ladies Auxiliary Luncheon
mittee in Pittsburgh
Already Selected
Program March 3
SUM OF $2,150,000 IS
EHRLICH CHAIRMAN OF ILYA SCHKOLNIK, EMINENT VIOLINIST, AND
ALLOTTED TO POLAND
ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Dr. Solomon Flink, professor of
economics at the University of
Newark since 1934, will be the
speaker at the late Friday evening
services of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek on Feb. 19. He will speak
on the subject, "Facing the Fu-
ture."
•
Dr. Plink is a native of Ger-
many, having come to the United
States in 1927. He holds the de-
grees of Muter of Political Sci-
ence from the University of Ber-
lin; Muter of Arts and Doctor of
Philosophy from Columbia Uni-
versity, New York.
Prior to assuming his position
at the University of Newark, he
was on the faculty of the City
College of New York from 1930
to 1934.
Prof. Flink Is the author of the
following books: "The German
Reichsbank and Economic Ger-
many", and "Codes, National
Planning." Following are a few of
the articles Dr. Flink has written
on Jewish subjects: °The Jewish
Situation in Germany," 'The
Truth About Hitler" and 'The
Economic Doctrines of the Anci-
ent Hebrews."

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U. S. Court Refers Case
for Jewish Conciliation

NEW YORK (WNS)—The
United States District Court
for' the' Southern -District" of
New York set a unique prece-
dent when it referred to the
Jewish Conciliation Court of
America a case involving Jew-
ish customs. The case, which
came up before Judge John W.
Clancy, involves the claim of
the Rev. Julian Shapo against
the Fordham Talmud Torah in
the Bronx. Rev. Shapo, who
is not an ordained rabbi. claims
that he was engaged by the
Talmud Torah in October,
1935, to be its rabbi teacher
and that he invested $3,000 in
the institution. Less than a
year later he was discharged
when the Talmul Torah went
into bankruptcy with a loss of
all but $250 of his investment.
The Jewish Conciliation Court,
with three Jews and one Chris-
tian sitting as judges, withheld
judgment for a fortnight.

Contingent upon the raising of
the total quota, the following
budgetary allotments were made
for the work in behalf of Jewish
minorities in various parts of
Central and Eastern Europe:
I. For work in Eastern Europe,
$2,160,000, taking in Poland, Ru-
mania, and other countries of
Eastern Europe. This work in-
cludes child care activities such
as summer colonies accommodat-
ing 60,000 undernourished chil-
dren annually; trade and voca-
tional training, credit aid and
free loan societies; aid in develop.
ing new vocational opportunities,
medical-sanitary activities, and
religious and cultural work.
II. For work in Germany,
$1,300,000, including trade train-
ing and emigration, support of
existing Jewish schools and ex-
tension of school facilities; loans
and credit aid; general welfare
aid and for emergency and un-
foreseen requirements.
III, For aid in refugee coun-
tries, ;850,000, including France,
Holland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium
and elsewhere, including general
rail et r vee.etional.training, re-
training, economic and student
and professional aid.
Among the out-of-town lead-
ers who were present at the gath-
ering were Meyer L. Prentis and
Henry Wineman of Detroit.

BUDGET COMMITTEE
TO HAVE HEARINGS

Requests for Appropriations
Will Be Made at Meet-
ings Feb. 15, 17, 18, 22

Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, chair-
man of the budget committee of
the Detroit Service Group which
is in charge of plans for the budget
of the 1937 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, announces that the follow-
ing dates have been set for ses-
sions of the committee:
On Monday, Feb. 15, and Thurs-
day, Feb. 18, from 4 to 6 p. in.,
at campaign headquarters on the
13th floor of Hotel Steller, the
local agencies will have the oppor-
tunity to present requests for ap-
propriations.
On Wednesday, Feb. 17 and
Monday, Feb. 22, from 4 to 8,
also at the Steller, representatives
of national and overseas agencies
will present their requests.
Mrs. Ehrlich has announced the
acceptance by Fred M. Butel of
the chairmanship of a steering
committee of the budget commit-
tee. Mr. Butzel and his committee
will review the hearings of the
larger committee and will set the
tentative budget, subject to ap-
proval by the board of governors
of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Judge Charles Rubiner and Si-
mon Shetzer are assisting Mr.
Ehrlich as associate chairmen of
the budget committee. Serving on
the committee with them are the
following: Sidney L Alexander,
Sidney J. Allen, Maurice Arons-
son, Joseph Bernstein, Maxwell L.
Black, Louis C. Blumberg, Mrs.
Douglas I. Brown, David J. Co-
hen, Harry Cohen, Abe Cooper ,
Israel Davidson, Joseph H. Ehr -
lich, Clarence H. Enggaas, Rabb i
Leon Fram, Dr. Leo M. Frank-
lin, William Friedman, Mrs. Sam-
uel R. Glogower, Dr. A. M. Hersh-
man, Israel Ilimelhoch, Harry Hy-
man, M. A. Mittelman, Robert J.
Newman, Herman Osnos, Meyer
L Prentis, William Roth, Solomon
W. Schk1oren, Nate S. Shapero,
Max M. Silverman, Philip Slomo-
vita, Abe Srere, Melville S. Welt,
Henry Wineman, Mrs. Henry
Wineman, Edwin A. Wolf, David
S. Zemon.

Secretary Wallace Lauds Zionist Efforts; Dr.
Stephen S. Wise Named 1937 Campaign
Chairman; Detroiters Among Officers

WASHINGTON. — A message from Pres-
ident Roosevelt lauding "the vitality and
vision of the Jewish pioneers in Palestine"
was read to the National Conference for Pal-
estine Sunday night.
The conference set $4,500,000 as the

America quota for 1937 toward financing the Jewish col-
onization of the Holy Land. There were in attendance
nearly 2,000 representatives of American Jewry, speak-
ing for 2,000,000 Jews of the land.
The principal decisions made by the conference in-
cluded the naming of seven national chairmen to conduct

•the drive for funds; the election
of a National Council for Pales-
tine representine Jewish leaders
in every part of the country, and
the adoption of a resolution voic
Mg the views of American Jewry
on the prospective findings of the
British Royal Commission. The
will be presented to
Dr. Solomon Zemach of Pal- resolutions
the British Ambassador here.
estine and Rabbi Wohl
Speakers who addressed the
of Cincinnati to Speak
gathering in three sessions in-
cluded Secretary Wallace. Sena-
Detroit's share in the national tors Norris of Nebraska, Borah of
Idaho,
Lodge of Massachusetts
Gewerkshaften campaign will be
brought to a close Sunday eve- and Austin of Vermont, and Rep-
ning, Feb. 14, with a banquet to resentative Fish of New York.

PALESTINE LABOR
BANQUET SUNDAY

The President's Message

be held at Hotel Stotler. The

Addressed to Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, chairman of the conference,
was the following message from
President Roosevelt:

German Tragedy Overshadowed
by Polish, Says Hyman

In his address, Joseph C. Hy-
man, executive director of the
Joint Distribution Committee,
said that not only had the tragedy
of the Jews in Germany grown
greater but that "overshadowing
it in sheer magnitude of numbers
is the tragedy of the 3,000,000
Jews of Poland, boycotted, in-
creasingly excluded from every
means of earning a crust of
bread, more and more the object
of harrassment, of insecurity, and
even often physical attack.
"At the same time in Rumania,
a population of 1,000,000 Jews is
menaced in its very existence by
anti-Semitic agitation and dis-
orders which have borrowed from
the most cruel methods practiced
in other countries.
"In all the sad story of the
Jewish people, never has there
been such a wide and far-flung
dispersion to the four corners of
the earth.
"With limited opportunity,
therefore, even for small numbers
of Jews from Germany to emi-
grate, the unfortunate Jewish
people in Central and Eastern
Europe, at the name time under
every type of duress and hard-
ship, are also being pressed to
emigrate somewhere.
"As the trustee of the Ameri-
can Jewish population in the ad-
ministration of aid to Jews in
many lands overseas, the Ameri-
can Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee would be recreant to
its duty if it did not state the
facts without concealment.

America Must De More

"A much greater response from
the American public will be need-

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DR. SOLOMON ZEMACH

Dr. Wise was selected to head
the drive for $4,600,000. Others
named as chairmen were: Dr.
Isaac Goldstein, Maurice Levin,
Louis Lipsky and Morris Rothen-
berg, all of Ncw York; Judge
William M. Lewis of Philadelphia
and Rabbi Abbe Hillel Silver of
Cleveland.

Wallace Praises Dream

RABBI SAMUEL WOHL

principal speakers at this ban-
quet will be Rabbi Samuel Wohl
of Cincinnati and Dr. Solomon
Zemach of Palestine.
A native of Poland, Dr. Ze-
mach came to Palestine with the

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NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT
DESCRIBES HOW POLAND'S 5,000,000
JEWS ARE THREATENED BY DISASTER

Tolisthus Reviews Crisis for Jews in Eastern Europe and
Says Wave Is at Peak in Poland, Where Our
People Are Being Pauperized

OTTO D. TOLISCHUS, one of the ablest correspondents of the New
York Times la Europe, in a special wireless story from Warsaw,
under date of Feb. 6, described Jewish conditions in Europe as

follows:

Anti-Semitism, raised by Adolf
Hitler in Germany to the status of
• political religion, is rapidly
spreading throughout Eastern Eu-
rope and is thereby turning the
recurrent Jewish tragedy in that
biggest Jewish center in the world
into a final disaster of truly his-
toric magnitude.
This disaster is now taking
place in Latvia, Lithuania, Hun-
gary and Rumania and is ap-
proaching the high wateremark in
Poland. the country with the big-
gest Jewish population outside the
United States and the higheat per-
centage of Jews in proportion to
Its total population except for Pal-
estine.
In all these countries the vast

Please convey my good
wishes to the men and woman
gathering in Washington for
the National Conference for
Palestine which has been sum-
moned by the United Palestine
Appeal. The American people,
ever zealous in the cause of
human freedom, have watched
with sympathetic interest the
effort of the Jews to renew in
Palestine the ties of their an.
dent homeland and to re-estab-
lish Jewish culture in the place
where for centuries it flourished
and whence it was carried to
the far corners of tha world.
This yea r marks the twen-
tieth annirenary of the Bal-
four Declaration, the keystone
of contemporary reconstruction
activities in the Jewish home-
land. Those two decades have
witnessed a remarkable ex-
emplification of the vitality and
vision of
Jewish pioneers
In Palestine. It should be a
source of pride to Jewish citi-
zens of the United States that
they, too, have had • share in
this great work of revival and
restoration. It gives me great
pleasure to send all who are
participating in your delibera•
tions my hearty felicitation.
and warmest personal greet-
Ingo.

majority of the Jews, totaling
some 5,000,000 souls or 30 per cent
of the whole Jewish population of
the world, is now facing the
choice either of repeating the Ex-
odus on a bigger scale than that
chronicled in the Bible, and some-
how crashing through the immi-
gration bars erected against them
everywhere or spending the rest
of their lives in an atmosphere of
creeping peril and dying a slow
death from economic strangula-
tion.

Causes of the Development

This development, partly the
result of overpopulation, is fos-
tered for military and political
reasons and has been aggravated

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Secretary Wallace told the con-
ference that the "prophetic vision
of social justice" animated both

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RABBI ISRAEL FOR
SIT-DOWN STRIKE

Justifies It As Fight For
Human Rights Against
Private Property

By RABBI EDWARD L.. ISRAEL

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frankly an unmitigated
Tory, and I civil see the matter
in any other light than an unwar-
ranted violation of the rights of
property." The speaker was
typical American business man.
The question under consideration
was the sit-down strike of the
automobile workers.
I am definitely certain that this
man spoke not out of any funda-
mental sympathy with the execu-
tives of General Motors, but out
of • very definite fear that if this
new technique of American labor
in fighting for the right of organ-
izetiou were successful in the
automobile industry, it would not
be long before he would be having
to cope with it in his own plant.
He shuddered at the thought that
before long he would be facing
the very same problem as the
heads of the automobile Climate.
Legal and Ethical Phases
The questions of the legality
and the ethics of a sit-down
strike are matters which are high-
ly involved. The legal phase of
the question will have to be con-
sidered in terms of social prel-
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