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SEVEN AWED JEWISH CAMPAIGN DETROIT CONGRESS
• REPLIES
DIVISIONS SELECT CAPTAINS FOR CHAPTER
TO NAZI FORGERY
DRIVE TO BE HELD MAY 2 T016
IMPORTANT STATEMENT
BY BEARD IS QUOTED
IMPORTANCE OF CURRENT APPEAL
TOLD IN ADDRESSES BY LEADERS
So-Called "Franklin Proph-
ecy" Is Described as an
Outrageous Lie
One of the most enthusiastic meetings
ever held in Detroit under the auspices of the
Jewish Welfare Federation took place on
Tuesday evening at Hotel Statler when more
than 100 men and women gathered to organ-
ize teams for the 1937 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign. The coming drive will officially open on May 2,
but preliminary solicitations of larger contributors will
commence within a month.
Heads of seven of the ten divisions that have been
selected by the Trade Council of the Detroit Service
Group to conduct the drive, made their reports and an-
nounced that they have already selected their captains.
Irving Blumberg, co-chairman with M. A. Mittle-
man of the Trade Council, who*
presided at the meeting, made a
plea to the workers to proceed
with their organizational activi-
ties at once and expressed con-
fidence in the inevitable success
of the drive, if the enthusiastic
display thus far is an indication
of what is to be expected.
President of Harvard to Give
Addresses at the meeting on
Seminary Semi-Centen-
Tuesday evening were delivered
nial Address
by Gus Newman, co-chairman
with George M. Stutz of the ex-
ecutive committee of the general
Dr. James Bryant Conant, pres-
divisions; Joseph 11. Ehrlich, chair- ident of Harvard University, will
man of the advisory council; Mrs. be the guest speaker on Monday
Joseph H. Ehrlich, chairman of evening, March 15, at the third
the budget committee and Kurt special meeting held by the semi-
Peiser, executive director of the centennial committee of the Jew-
Federation.
ish Theological Seminary of Amer-
The heads of divisions reported
at the meeting on their selection
of the following captains:
Division A, mercantile, chair-
man, Louis Robinson.
Captains: Meyer Rosenbaum
and Samuel A. Popkin, jewelers
group; Nathan Hack and Ben B.
Berke, shoes; C. S. Selker and
Samuel Schwartz, retail dry
goods; Ben L. Goode and Julius
Braun,-wholesale dry goods; Law-
rence W. Crohn and James L.
Stein, furniture; Jack Berger,
trunks and traveling bags; Her-
bert M. Eiges, men's furnishings.
Division B, finance, co-chair-
men. Ben B. Fenton and Joseph
Magidsohn. Captains to be an-
nounced.
Division C, mechanical trades,
co-chairmen, Abe Kasle and Ben
Kramer.
Captains: Jerry Bielfield, auto
dealers and parking lots; Harry
E. Citrin, auto accessories and
auto workers; Morris W. Zack
and Meyer Shugerman, metals and
metal dealers; Milton Mahler and
Maurice P. Moyer, scrap iron and DR. JAMES BRYANT CONANT
steel; Sam Jacob, bottles, bags
and barrels; J. A. Citrin and Sam ice to mark the 60th anniversary
Green, gas and oil; Sam Serwer, of the founding of the institution.
The president of the oldest Ameri-
hardware.
Division D, building trades, co- can university, one that was
chairmen, Julius Berman and Mil- founded originally for the training
of ministers, Dr. Conant will pay
ton M, Maddin.
Captains: Dr. Charles A. Smith, his respects to the seminary in an
Painters, decorators, etc.; Nathan address, "Learning's Necessity for
M. Lerner and Charles N. Agree, the Ministry." Previous meetings
carpenters and contractors: Sam of the semi-centennial committee
Feldman, electricians, plumbers. brought to the seminary Governor
architects and engineers; Frank Herbert H. Lehman of New York
Berman, store fixtures; Hyman A. and Presidents Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University and
Schuster, coal and ice.
Division E, food products, co- Henry Sloane Coffin of Union
chairmen, Harry Cohen, A. J. Theological Seminary.
Other speakers at the meeting,
Blumenau and Bernard Isaacs.
Captains: Samuel Markowitz, which will be presided over by Dr.
Cyrus
Adler, president of the
bakeries; Abe Goldman, George
Parzen, David J. Cohen, drugs; seminary, will be Feu: M. War-
burg
and
Lucius N. Ltttauer. The
Joseph J. Berghoff, beverages;
CONANT TO SPEAK
MONDAY, MARCH 15
rota-
Brands as False Charges by
Goebbels That Benjamin
Franklin was Anti-Semite
Enthusiastic Rally of Workers Hears Plans
for Important Fund-Raising Effort for
Local, National, Overseas Causes
Pressing Need of Agencies Included in Cam-
paign Outlined by Peiser, Mr. and Mrs.
Ehrlich, Irving Blumberg, Gus Newman
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DETROIT MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937
Vol. XXXVIII No. 42
The lie now being spread in
Germany that Benjamin Franklin
was an anti-Semite was branded
as an outrageous forgery in a
statement issued on Tuesday by
the Detroit chapter of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress. The state-
ment was made in behalf of the
Congress by Philip Slomovitz, lo-
cal chairman, when the forgery
was quoted in a cable from Berlin
in the Detroit Free Press of
Tuesday, March 9.
In a letter to Malcolm W. Bin-
gay, editorial director of the De-
troit Free Press, Mr. Slomovitz
outlined the facts regarding the
spread of the libel on Benjamin
Franklin's name, and quoted from
Dr. Charles A. Beard's refutation
of the forgery. His letter follows:
March 9, 1937.
Mr. Malcolm W. Bingay,
Managing Director,
Detroit Free Press,
Detroit, Michigan.
Dear Mr. Bingay:
It is impossible to reply to all
the falsehoods which are being
spread by Nazis in Germany and
by their cohorts in this country,
but when falsifiers of history pre-
sume to draw upon forgeries
which involve American history
and the founders of our Republic,
it is high time for us to speak.
The getrolt Free Press of
Tuesday, March 9, publishes a
cable from Berlin showing that
Der Angriff, the mouthpiece of
the Nazi propaganda minister, Jo-
seph Goebbels, has quoted the
statement which it credits to Ben-
jamin Franklin. It is well, there-
fore, for the sake of the record
to call to the attention of the
American people and particularly
to those readers of the Free Press
who have seen this notice, the
fact that an outrageous forgery
has been committed. The truth
of. the matter is that the Ben-
jamin Franklin, forgery was pub-
lished in • this country either late
in 1934 or at the beginning of
1935. It was broadcast at that
time in Germany by Julius
Streicher's pornographic and anti-
Semitic newspaper, Der Stuermer.
Immediately upon the publica-
tion of the forgery, Dr. Charles
A. Beard, eminent historian. is-
sued a statement in which he de-
clared that the so-called "Frank-
lin prophecy" is a "crude forg-
ery." Dr. Beard at that time, in
an article which appeared in the
March, 1935, issue of the Jewish
Frontier, proved that the widely
quoted "Pinckney Diary" attribut-
ing the most rabid anti-Semitism
to "Poor Richard" is an invention.
Di.. Beard did a great service to
the cause of truth by pointing out
that the publication of this for-
gery was deceiving the credulous
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PLEA IS RENEWED
FOR MO'OS CHITIM
Only $650 Received Thus
Far Towards $5,000 for
Passover Relief
Anti-Nazi Speech by
John Lewis March 1$
NEW YORK (WNS)—John
L. Lewis, chairman of the Com-
mittee for Industrial Organize-
Lion and America's number one
labor leader, will make his first
public utterance on Nazism
when he appears as one of
the principal speakers at the
Madison Square Garden dem-
onstration against Nazism on
March 16. Other speakers will
be Henry Noble MacCracken,
president of Vassar College: •
Erika Mann, daughter of
Thomas Mann, who will read
a message from her father.
The purposes of the meeting
have been endorsed by 45 mem-
bers of Congress; including 12
senators, in messages to the
American Jewish Congress and
the Jewish Labor Committee,
Joint sponsors of the demon-
stration.
NEWMAN'S LECTURE
AT SHAAREY ZEDEK
Noted Artist to Speak on
Monday Evening,
March 22
Elias Newman, one of the most
outstanding Jewish artists, will
speak at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek on Monday, March 22. Me.
Newman will illustrate his talk on
modern art in Palestine with his
own works, which he painted in
that c untry.
Mr. Newman has had the honoi
of a number of one-man exhibi-
tions at leading galleries in this
country and elsewhere, and his
present tour will consist of 25 to
30 water-color paintings, mostly
Palestine landscapes, arranged so
as to give an idea of the aspects
of nature in that country.
Illustrated with lantern slides,
his lecture deals only with con-
temporary art in Palestine and
a survey of development in all its
manifestations during a period of
25 years.
Since 1925 Mr. Newman has
been residing in Palestine where
he is a most active member of the
art colony. Ile has travelled and
exhibited in many countries and
his work has been acquired by
many important museums and pr;
vats collections in nine leading
countries. His talents not coufin
merely to painting, ,Mr.
has contributed articles on art to-
a number of important periodicals
and is considered an authority on
the subject, Ile is a member of the
governing body of the Palestine
Artists and Sculptors Association,
and is closely affiliated with the
Tel-Aviv Museum for whom he is
making a study of American art.
Mr. Newman's ability has been
endorsed by innumerable dis-
tinguished critics and connoisseurs.
HITLER RISE LAID
TO VOTING SYSTEM
Professor Says Proportional
Representation Led to
End of Republic
Election of the Reichstag by
proportional representation was
the essential condition for the
breakdown of the German repub-
lic, F. A. Hermens of the faculty
of the Catholic University of
America, Washington, concludes
in a study published in a re-
cent issue of Social Research,
quarterly of the New School for
Social Research, which will be
released tomorrow.
Mr. Hermens finds in the rise
of the Communists and Hitler.
ism's conquest of power with the
fall of the republic "that it was
not democracy that broke down,
but a system which did not have
more in common with democracy
than the name, and which could
not but degenerate Into anarchy
as soon as it was subjected to the
first great test, a test which, be
it repeated, truly democratic in-
stitutions would have passed in
Germany as they did in other
countries."
Mr. Hermens. author of "De-
mocracy and the Franchise." di-
vided the territory of tho Reich
into 400 single-member constitu-
encies of approximately equal
size to determine what would
have happened in the crucial elec-
tion of 1930 under • majority in-
MILITARY CONTROL Scurrilities of Nazi Press Against Jewish
IN PALESTINE IF People and LaGuardia Will Be Answered
VIOLENCE GOES ON
Arab Terrorist Preparations
Reverberate in Var-
ious Forms
TWO DEATHS RESULT
FROM NEW ATTACKS
British Authorities Take
Steps to Insure Secur-
ity in the Land
JERUSALEM (WNS— Palcor
Agency)-1f the renewed disturb-
ances in Palestine continue their
menacing form, control of the
country will be assumed by the
military authorities, it was refl.
ribly learned. This development
came after curfew in Jerusalem,
imposed in an attempt to brake the
passions which flamed high follow-
ing a series of Incidents which
started with the shooting of a Jew
on his way to the Wailing Wall
for prayer, was lifted as officials
considered the danger of outbreaks
had subsided. A solemn tension
reminiscent of the middle of 1936
gripped the city as the authorities
fixed curfew from 9 p. m. to 5 a.
m. Steel-helmeted police patrolled
the streets, all traffic between here
and Tel Aviv and between Jaffa
and Tel Aviv was suspended, the
main exits from Jerusalem were
barricaded and cinemas cancelled
performances. With the lifting of
the curfew, traffic between Tel
Aviv and Jaffa was resumed, Jew-
ish busses were accompanied by
police, however, and police patrols
were strengthened in Jerusalem
especially in Jewish quarters. A
crowd of Arabs that attempted a
demonstration near Haifa harbor
was checked and dispersed by the
police.
Fatal incidents leading up to
the curfew followed each other in
swift succession. The first victim
was Yehuda Schneerson, 42 year
old son of a rabbi and secretary of
the Jerusalem Revisionist organi-
zation, who was shot in the back
and seriously wounded by an Arab
lurking in an Old City alley near
the Wailing Wall. Later one Arab
was shot dead and another slightly
wounded near Rehavia while Stan-
islaw Slugs, a Polish-Christian la-
borer, employed in a Jewish grove
near Ness Ziona, was critically
wspaded when he was mistaken
doe a Jaw. Two:other Jews, among
them Eliyahu Levy, 15 years old,
were injured when Arabs began
throwing stones in the convent
quarters. The shooting of Schneer-
son stirred the Jewish community
deeply as this was the first time
since last October that there has
been any such brutal violence in
Jerusalem.
Menacing overtones of Arab
terrorist preparations reverberated
in various forms, including the in-
juring in Haifa of four Arabs
when bombs which they were
manufacturing exploded prema-
turely. Sidky Tabbarl head of the
Arab National Committee in Tibe-
rias, was banished for six months
to Ramallah for his share in
fomenting the recent disorders
there. He was told by the district
authorities to produce a bond of
$1,000 to insure his good behavior
at Ramallah. The police blotter
also recorded shooting at Yakhin
in the Tulkarm district on March
4. Two hundred orange trees in
the Jewish settlement were dam-
aged. The famous Kadoorie Agri-
cultural School, the government
institution for Jewish student
farmers on Mt. Tabor, was also
the target for hillside snipers.
Ghiffirs drove off the attackers.
Police stated that the casualties
were unknown, Two Arabs broke
into a but in an Arab grove in
Tulkarm and shot an Arab watch-
man dead.
The Mo'os Chitim Committee of
Detroit. comprised of representa-
tives of relief organizations, in.
dividual workers and the local
rabbis, has issued another appeal
this week urging a prompt re-
sponse to the request for funds to
aid the needy on Passover.
Charles A. Smith, chairman of
Traditional Music, Congregational
the committee, stated that in re-
Singing and Social Hour
sponse to the plea for a fund of
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Are Features
$5,000, which will be needed this
year to care for needy families.
Over 1,000 people came to Tem-
only $650 has been received thus
ple Beth El last Friday night to
far. Mr. Smith declares that the
hear Rabbi Leon Frans speak on
complete fund will be needed in
"Brandeis—the Personal History
less than two weeks in order that
of an American Ideal," the fourth
the committee may have the
of his series of sermons on recent
means with which to place orders
great Jewish bock,. Similarly
for matzos and other Passover
large congregations attended his
Appeals to Jewish Employers Not to Become Parties to necessities.
previous sermons in the series.
This Sunday noon, from 12 to
Discrimination; Urge Merit Be Made Basis
The Sabbath Eve services are
1:30 p. m., during the broadcast
evidently satisfying • deep-felt
for Se ection
of Hyman Altman 's Jewish Radio
want in the congregation and the
Hour on station WMBC, Mr. Smith
community. The services are
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An appeal to employers in De- their practice of discriminating, it will make a public appeal for the
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troit to give consideration to Jew- will be impossible to fight the Mo'os Chitim fund.
ish boys and girls who are in menace among hon-Jews.
Miss Hersh made the following
search of jobs was issued this week
by Anna Rose Hersh, secretary of statement:
the Employment Service of the
"Ws do not expect a concern
Jewish Community Center of De- to employ an an•.lowish staff
because
the executive is a Jew,
troit.
Dr. A. L. Sachar will address
During the past year, this serv- but, in this name of all fairn•ss,
ice placed approximately 1,000 we have • right to hone that the Bnai Brith lodges and Ladies Organizational Committee Is Working on Tentative Draft
Designed to Embody Principles Fitting the
Jews in jobs with Jewish as well Jews will not be barred from Auxiliary of Detroit on Tuesday
as non-Jewish employers. The employment with such a con- evening, April 6, at Temple Beth
Needs of the Local Community
service is offered gratis to em- cern because they Sr. Jews. W. El, on the subject "The Present
ployers as well as applicants for must endeavor to break doers Challenge. Dr. Sachar is the
A plan for the organization of cif will be a truly democratic
jobs and has been of great help this attitude on the part of national director of Bnai Brith
these Jewish employers, who Hillel Foundations at American the Jewish Community Council in voice on common problems for
to both in the past.
Detroit
will soon be presented to all elements of the population.
universities
and
is
well
known
as
through
their
personnel
depart.
Miss
Thin appeal made by
The organisational committee,
the various groups in the city,
liersh is primarily motivated at moats or by statement of a an outstanding orator.
according
to an announcement which is headed by Simon Shot-
At
•
meeting
of
Pisgah
Lodge
this time because of discrimination clear policy, refuse all *Poor-
zer,
includes the following mem-
that continues to exist against tinily to worthy, well-qualified March 1, an address was given by made this week. Plans for the
Jewish 'Job-hunters. Managers of workers. It is difficult, indeed, Judge Ira W. Jayne of the Circuit Jewiab Community Council have bers: Sidney J. Allen. Mrs. J.
Clarence Engsrass, Henry
private employment agencies, per- to even try to comprehend the Court on "The Historic Struggle been considered for several Ehrlich,
Irving Adler, Joseph
sonnel directors in business and thinking which motivates such for Power Between the Supreme months and will be put Into ac- Abramovitz,
Maxwell Black, Charles
industry and placement workers In action by our own people, and Court and the Other Branches of tive operation daring the coming Bernstein,
Driker,
Israel
Himelhoch, James
few
weeks.
the
Government."
Judge
Jayne
factories where ofike machines are particularly, at the present
pointed out that after each crisis The organizational committee of I. Ellmann, B. F. Laikin, Mrs. Id.
manufactured and techniques time."
Landau,
Joseph
Haggai, Myron A.
the
Jewish
Community
Council
and
struggle
between
the
Judic-
Jewish employers of Detroit are
taught to operators were frank in
Keys, Julian H. Krolik, Philip
telling Miss Hersh as well as ap- not only called upon to co-operate iary and the executive, the judici- I which will meet Wednesday eve- Slomovitz, William I. Bozeman,
ning,
March
17,
at
61
W.
Warren
plicants for jobs that they have with Miss Hersh, who can be iary became stronger and more
Isaac Finkelstein, Mrs. Jacob
daily requests for workers from reached at the Jewiab Community entrenched in the thoughts of the Ave., has been working for the Harrith, Samuel H. Levin, Samuel
Past three months on a tentative
Jewish employers who specify that Center, Woodward and Holbrook, people.
Lieberman, Joseph Peven, Judge
num-
to
embody
a
draft
designed
of
Plumb
Lodge
will
A
meeting
Madison
8275,
but
a
strong
plea
they do not want Jewish girls. The
appeal is therefore directed as is directed to them to employ their be held March 15. at which time ber of principles fitting the Decal- Charles Rubiner, Dr. A. M.
Hershman, Henry Wineman, Kurt
needs
of
the
local
community.
D.
C.
Mm
will
be
shown
de-
ial
a
J.
much to the Jewish employers as workers on the basis of men
Piller, Mrs. Sarah Levin. I. Sos-
to non-Jews and it is pointed out rather than on racial or religious picting the relief of distressed According CO various members of akk and Hyman Altman.
the
committee,
the
projected
tout).
Jews
in
Europe.
that unless Jews themselves stop lines.
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE ASKS FOR FAIR
CONSIDERATION FOR JEWISH JOBLESS
Sachar to Address
Bnai Brith Lodges
Large Crowds at
Beth El Services
Plans for Jewish Community Council
Will Soon Be Presented to Societies
At N. Y. Anti-Hitler Demonstration Monday
An Audience of 25,000 and Millions of Radio Li;teners to Be Pre-
sented Detailed Information Concerning Practices That
Made Nazism Scourge of the World
THOMAS MANN TO SPEAK HIS MIND ON HITLERISM;
HIS DAUGHTER, ERIKA MANN, TO REPRESENT HIM
Dr. Henry Nobel MacCracken, President of Vassar College, Dr.
Stephen S. Wise and B. C. Vladeck to Speak; Revelations
of Nazi Activities to Be Made Public
•
NEW YORK. — The scurrilities of the Nazi press directed
against Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York and against
the Jewish people in general will be answered at Madison Square
Garden on Monday evening, March 15, when 25,000 persons will
join in an expose of Hitlerism's threat to peace, civilization and de-
mocracy. This expose will take the form of a great anti-Hitler dem-
onstration on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Hitler regime, and has
been arranged under the joint auspices of the American Jewish Congress and the
Jewish Labor Committee.
An audience of 25,000 and millions of radio listeners will have presented to
them detailed information concerning the practices and policies which have made
Hitlerism the scourge of the world and which make the isolation of Hitlerism impera-
*dye if the world is to be saved
Annual Children's Home
Meeting Next Wednesday
The annual meeting of the
Jewish Children's Home will be
held at 8 p. m. on Wednesday
evening, in the auditorium of
the home, located at Burlingame
and Petoskey Ayes. In addition
to the election of members of
the board of directors whose
terms will expire, the annual re-
ports will be submitted by
Herman Cohen, president of the
home and Louis Newmark,
superintendent.
Members of the medical and
dental staffs of the home were
honored by a dinner held at
the home on Wednseday eve-
ning March 10. The dinner was
also -attended-by --
the board of directors:
Addresses of the dinner were
delivered by Herman Cohen,
Fred M. Butzel, Dr. David J.
Levy, Rabbi A. M. Hershman,
Louis Newmark, Dr. David
Kliger, Dr, Harry Metzger and
Robert Marwil.
VITALIZATION OF
EDUCATION URGED
Leo W. Schwarz Presents
Interesting Cultural Pro-
gram in Radio Talk
In a brilliant address delivered
over the Jewish Radio Forum on
Station WJBK on Wednesday eve-
ning, Leo W. Schwarz, who was
here to deliver an address at Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek on the
same evening under the auspices
of the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee and the Jewish Welfare Fed-
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Canada to Import
Large Shipment of
Palestine Oranges
"Yakhin" Arranges for Insurance
for Orange Groves
TEL AVIV, Palestine.—A con-
siderable amount of Palestinian
oranges and grapefruits, products
of Jewish-owned Pardessim, were
sold in Canada and they will
shortly appear on the markets in
the city of Montreal, as well as
In other cities in Canada.
This sale of Palestinian fruit
in Canada was arranged through
the Palestine Agricultural Asso-
ciation "Yakhin." It is anticipated
that the Jewish community in
Canada will give considerable
help in this worthy undertaking
by demanding Palestinian oranges
and grapefruits, which are known
the world over for their delectable
taste and fine quality.
All Palestinian oranges on sale
in Canadian markets are the prod-
ucts of Jewish-owned Pardeuim
cultivated exclusively by organ-
ized Jewish labor. A great num-
ber of these Pardessim are owned
by American Jews who plant
through "Yakhin" and who are
now reaping their first income
from their investments.
Due to the risk involved In con-
nection with the recent MU,
many English companies have re-
fused to accept insurance on Jew-
ish-owned orange groves. "Ye-
khin," the well-known agricul-
tural association. branch of the
ilistadmith, succeeded, through
her initiative, to secure insurance
for the groves cultivated by her.
The largest insurance compa-
nies of Palestine have joined to-
gether with "Yakhin" in this step
towards securing the orange
groves. They have, through the
facilities of their united forces,
taken over the responsibilities of
all possible damages which might
occur in the future.
The costs of this thrums are
approximately the same as in
former year, The accomplishment
is an indication of confidence for
the future.
RABBI LESSER ON
BETH EL FACULTY
from war and the destruction of
those fundamental principles
which make up modern civiliza-
tion.
Mayor LaGuardia, speaking at
the annuel luncheon of the Worn-
en's Division of the American
Congress, called for the
Spring Term of Temple Col. Jewish
establishment of • chamber of
lege Begins Next Mon-
horrors at the world's fair, the
day Night
central figure In which should be
Adolf Hitler.
T
Nall Insults
Rabbi Charles B. Lesser of
Mayor LaGuardia's references
Temple Beth Israel of Jackson, to - Hitler have elicited a terrific
Mich., will come to Detroit every personal attack upon him and
Monday night to teach two clas- upon the Jews generally on the
ses at Beth El College of Jewish part of the Nazi press, coupled
Studies. beginning with the open- with the demand for an apology
from the State Department. Neal
Papers have vied with each other
in vituperative language in de.
nneing Mayor. LaGuardia.- whe
been variously' called by the'
Nazi press, controlled by Minister
of Propaganda Goebbels, "a dirty
Talmud Jew, • Jewish boob, a
master New York gangster, an
underworld character, a black-
mailer, a war profiteer, etc."
The menace of Hitlerism to the
development of free culture will
be described by Dr. Henry Nobel
MacCracken, president of Vassar
College and one of America's most
distinguished educators.
Thomas Mann, greatest hiring
German author, will speak his
mind on the menace of Hitler-
Ism to peace and civilisation,
addressing himself directly to
the American people for the
first time on the subject of
Hitlerism and its menace to the
world. P eeeee tcd by illness
from person ► ily coming to the
United States to take part in
the Madison Squat.. Garden
RABBI CHARLES B. LESSER
meeting, Dr. Mann will be rap-
ing of the spring season of Beth presented at the demonstration
El College next Monday night at by his daughter, Erika Mann.
8 o'clock.
Miss Mann in addition to bring-
■ message from her father
The
The first course, to be given
o h
t the
during the 8 to 9 hour, will be will present t h rvle
H i tleris m to i the
on "Judaism and Christianity." menace
This Is the third unit in the course status of women,
In comparative religion. The first
Other speakers will include out-
unit was given In the fall by standing representatives of labor,
Rabbi Jerome Foikman formerly the churches and the Jewish core-
d Jackson and now of Grand munity, including Dr. Stephen S.
Rapids under the heading of "The Wise, president of the American
Origin and Evolution of Rell- Jewish Congress, and B. C. Via-
gion." The second unit was given deck, chairman of the Jewish
by Rabbi Leon Fran under the Labor committee.
Behind the Madison Square
heading, "The Religions of the
Far East." The third unit, "Jude- Garden meeting stand ergaa lza-
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A REVIEW OF FOUR YEARS OF /BOYCOTT
By DR. JOSEPH TENENBAUM
Chairmen of the Joint Boycott Council Comprised of American
d Jewish Labor Committee
Jewish Con.
Four years' anti-Nazi Boycott States the Boycott has never been
has proved its great moral and as popular with the masses and as
material value. Morally, the Boy- successful with the houses of com-
cott has rallied the democratic, merce and trade as today. The
liberty-loving peoples from one end consumer has proved his strength
of the world to the other and given to his own satisfaction. There are
them a sense of strength and satis- large department stores which for-
faction that springs from the de- meriy were stocked up with Ger-
sire and ability to fight and win men m e rchandise to th e value of
against the dark forces of reac- tens of millions of dollars, whose
tins and oppression. The Anti- shelves are empty today of any-
Nazi Boycott is not a local move- thing German. Yin simply cannot
ment. It is not the concern of one buy German merchandise at any
people or one nation, but an al- price in those stores. Others have
most universal force bent on the limited their German purchases to
destruction of the Nazi doctrine of a minimum requirement and feel
life and government and the ultl- compelled to discard even this
mate triumph of the eternal values minimal quality. The powers in
of humanity. The Boycott is not Nazi Germany which live on the
solely a Jewish movement—as the double standards of fraud and
struggle is not solely • Jewish bluff, while filling the German
Issue, but the concern of all who papers with lamentations on the
have a life's interest in contemp- damage dope to German commerce
orary civilization.
by the "Jewish" Boycott, at the
same time pooh-pooh its Biellili-
FACTS AND FIGURES
And now as to its material cance in the statements given out
for foreign consumption. Let fig-
value.
When this Boycott movement ures talk—figures taken from
started, the wise and "practical" German sources and the publica-
people predicted its ultimate col- tions of the League of Nations.
lapse within a few months—of its In the year 1922, the pre-Hitler
own inertia. This time, too, the era and the height of the depres-
"visionaries" anticipated the fu- sion within and outside Germany,
tare far better than those who deal the monthly average of German
in ponderables. Today, on the Import was 388.9 million marks
fourth anniversary of Hitler, the and 473.1 million marks in ex-
Boycott movement is stronger than ports, and in 1436 the figures for
ever. There are Boycott cells and imports were 363.5 and 375.0 tail-
Boycott Committees in the most lion, marks monthly export aver-
distant countries. and in the United musses rcissr ro pscsa