ThEncrEorrjEwisnaiRomaig
June 11, 1937
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
7
jiinikrRorKleivisn &RON ICLE
—
The Zionist Congress Election
Lights front
HitlerAccused of Breaking
Promise to the Churches
Strictly
PURELY COMMENTARY
On June 20 Jews in more than 300 com-
Confidential
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
munities of this country will be asked to
By PHILIP SLQMOVITZ
Tidbits from Everywhere
By
LOUIS
PEKARSKY
CO,
I..
Published Weekly by TL. Jevisb Chronicle Publishing
go to the polls to cast their ballots for
Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
st the Toot- delegates to the World Zionist Congress,
By
PHINEAS
J.
BIRON
A
number
of clergymen of all denominations
tutored aa Simond-elm. matter Mmeh
don.without permiselon of the Seven
offie at Detroit. Rich, under the Act of Rank 1, Mg
have spoken recently on social and economic prob-
Feature Syndicate, CopYrightem of
which is to open in Zurich, Switzerland, Art.
(Copyright, 1934 a. A. e er
this feature.
lems. Their divergent views are Indicative of the
Open
Letter
by
Dr.
MacFarland
General Offices and Publication Building on Aug. 3. These elections, conducted bi-
right of every individual—whether he has a pul-
(Copyright , '1937. S. A. F. B.1
COMMUNAL STUFF
Charges Ruthless Treatment
525 Woodward Avenue
A comite d'entente representing pit or not— to speak his mind freely. This is,
Telephones Cedilla. 1040 Cable Addresses Chronicle ennially, are of such grave importance, THE MUNI FAMILY
some of the principal Jewish after all, the backbone of our democracy.
of Churches, Jews
Leaden Clam
Take as an example the view expressed recently
especially at this time when the Zionist
In his latest picture, "The
philanthropic agencies working in
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
by the Rt. Rev, John A. Ryan, noted Catholic econ-
movement is experiencing a serious crisis, Woman I Love," Paul Muni is
NEW YORK (NCJC) — The flagrant violation the overseas sphere has been omist and director of the social action department
Year
Per
starred
in
a
film
produced
by
his
formed
in
Europe
Represented
Subscription, in Advance._ ........
that all Shekel holders who form the con- discoverer, Albert Lewis, for the of promises made by Chancellor Hitler to Christian
In this body are the J. D. C., the of the National Catholic Welfare Conference:"The
To Insure publication, ell eorrespondence and new. matter stituency of the Zionist movement must first time. Back in New York 11 leaders in Germany four years ago is cited by Dr.
ICA and the Joint Reconstruction sooner the 'sit-down' strike is discarded by labor,
rust meth thl. office by Tuesday evening of seals week. make it a point to study the ideology of
Charles
S.
MacFarland,
general
secretary
emeritus
years ago Lewis and Max Gordon
Foundation . . . Avoidance of the better it will be for both labor and the em-
Pam walls notice., kindly use one eide a the payee
of
the
Federal
Council
of
Churches,
in
an
open
not to say the community. The sit-down
the different parties and to be prepared to produced a play called " We Amer- letter to Chancellor Hitler released Wednesday by duplication and overlapping is ployer,
Dm Detroit Jewish Chronicle In•Itss eorrespondeom oe subs
icans."
Edward
G.
Robinson
had
said to be its purpose, but some strike is indeed a violation of property rights, but
*es of Interest to the Jewish people, but disclaim. respon.l. go to the polls to cast their ballots intelli- been cast in the principal part. Dr. MacFarland.
not
to
the
extent and in the precise way in which
quarters fear it is a step toward
Milt, for se Indorsement of the flews expressed by the writers
So far as is known Dr. MacFarland is the only international control of Jewish it has been represented. It does not amount to
gently.
On a visit to a Jewish theater
foreigner
who
has
conferred
with
Hitler
on
the
'confiscation,'
not 'larceny,' nor 'usurpation,' in
Sabbath Readings of the Law
_ An important thing to remember in the Mr. Lewis saw Muni, and imme- situation of the Christian church in Germany. philanthropy . . . It is understood the adequate sense
of that term . . . The men
Pentateuchal Portion—Num. 16:1-18:32,
diately signed him as understudy
t hat the Zionist fund-raising
coming
election
is
that
the
Jews
of
this
Prophetical Portion—I. Sam. 11:14-12:22,
for Robinson, When the latter be- The conference, which took place in 1933. fol-
are opposed to entering this guilty of this lorm of strike have no intention of
country must, together with the Jews came ill Muni went into the role lowed a study of the religious situation in Ger- bodies
occupying
the
property
indefinitely or of exercising
entente.
Tammuz 2, 5697 throughout the world, strive for the crea- and on the road to stardom . . . many, made by the invitation of the officials of
Rabbi Lee Levinger, the fellow over it the full power of ownership ... I content
June 11, 1937
the
new
German
church.
and
with
the
approval
myself
with
the
statement
that employes, as such,
who made those swell studies of
tion of a united front which should be able On her first visit to a movie studio of the National Socialist government.
Paul Muni's 19-year-old niece,
Jewish college students, is reported have certain natural rights and that these rights
to
exercise
great
influence
in
preventing
After
remarking
his
long
friendship
for
Ger-
be defended by 'coercion' in the snore condi-
The Agitation for a Hospital further curtailment of Jewish rights. The Dolores Weisenfreund, was seen many, and his disapproval of the boycott on Ger- to be preparing material for a may
by Director William Dieterle and
Jewish "Middletown" by his visits tions that would justify 'coercion' for the defense
goods, because of the hardship it would im- to a number of key Jewish com- of any other natural right . . . Nevertheless, I
For close to 25 years a number of leadership that will be chosen at the forth- asked to take part in a scene with man
think that the sooner the 'sit-down' strike is dis-
famous uncle in "The Life of pose on innocent Germans, Dr. MacFarland recalls munities.
groups within our community have been coming Zionist Congress must be given her
Emile Zola." Muni consented, and the interview with Chancellor Hitler in which Herr
A comparison of the list of New carded by labor the better it will be , ... It is too
courage
to
carry
on
the
important
tasks
Hitler
was
told
frankly
"that
the
people
of
the
after a brief test Miss Weisen-
agitating and clamoring for the erection
York contributors to the J. D.' C. easily abused. It can be utilized by an insignificant
which will face the movement in the corn-
was being filmed. She is United States believed that you proposed to con- and the U. P. A. and the minority of the workers in an establishment, with-
of a Jewish hospital. After a lull of sev- ing years. A divided constituency will be freund
majoring in dramatics at Los An- trol and to absorb the Church in the state. This names of Jews rated as worth out the consent, and even against the will, of the
eral years, the hospital movement has a discouraging factor; unity will strength- geles Junior College, and has hopes you disclaimed explicitly and emphatically. You $100,000 or more in New York majority. It should never have been invented."
of going on the stage when the said that your chief desire was that the German makes interesting reading.
again been revived and from present in- en the hands of the Zionist pilots.
Evangelical Church should be united, with 'free-
finishes her education.
We hear that the Zionists are
The Anti-Court View
dom and independence.' You declared that 'any complaining that their friends of
It is apparent from the reports of Shekel FILM NOTABLES HONORED
dications it stands a better chance of meet-
This is one view si the most important current
intervention whatever of the government of the the Ii, D. C. are monopolizing time
In
recognition
of
their
services
sales
that
the
general
Zionist
movement,
ing with success in the near future than
economic question. But it is not the final word,
the advancement of motion pic- Reich in the internal organization of the Evangeli- on a national radio hook-up sup- nor it is by any means as one-sided as it sounds.
which includes the Zionist Organization of in
it has at any other time previously.
Luise Rainer, Adolph Zukor cal church or any influence upon its doctrine was posed to be set aside for Jewish The other side is therefore entitled to an expres-
America and Hadassah, is the dominating tures,
out
of
the
question.'
You
earnestly
said
that
your
programs.
About a year ago the Jewish Physicians' factor in point of numbers. The labor and Boris Morros were among the only wish was 'that a Christian education may be religious
Sholom Asch can't speak unless sion of opinion. If such a right were not recog-
eight men and women who were
he drinks three quarts of orange nized, especially on the part of the clergy, the sup-
Hospital Committee was organized and it movement is a close second, and if the given silver plaques at the fourth transmitted to the people.' "
pression of opinions from the pulpits would ex-
events have forced Dr. MacFarland juice between intermissions.
proceeded with its work of publicizing sympathy for labor Zionism existing in annual banquet of the American to Subsequent
conclude, he states in his letter, that: "1. You
A certain well-known anti-Nazi tend much further than merely the economic field.
Institute of Cinemagraphy. Miss
It is no wonder, that in our democracy 34 clergy-
general
Zionist
ranks
is
to
be
taken
as
an
(Herr
Hitler)
have
seized
control
over
the
church,
organization
may
shortly
fold
its
the hospital' idea in a most dignified and
Rainer was honored for her por-
men are members of legislatures in 21 states. It
multitudes of its pastors, confined many tents because of money troubles.
practical manner. The intention of this indication of the strength of economic and trayal in "The Good Earth," Zukor arrested
is no wonder also, that a Jewish preacher—Rabbi
of
them,
and
permitted
not
a
few
to
be
assaulted
groups within the movement, then for his quarter century of service without open rebuke of their attackers. 2. In- 'HELP WANTED
William F. Rosenblum of New York—should have
committee was to educate Detroit Jews to social
the film industry, and Morros
labor Zionism unquestionably remains the to
Do
you
know
a
first
class
Demo-
spoken in opposition to President Roosevelt's court
of uniting the church you have divided it be.
the need for a Jewish hospital and then to dominating ideal in the entire movement. for his work in advancing the stead
crat who would give Mayor La program in order, to "keep America safe from
tween
those
who
comply,
those
who
are
neutral,
standards of screen music.
Guardia
a
battle
for
the
so-called
crackpots and the lunatic fringe." Rabbi Rosen-
and those who courageously oppose your domina-
proceed with the practical efforts of mak- Whether or not the labor Zionist ranks will NEW REVUE COMING
Jewish vote Of New York? ... He blum went to the Talmud and quoted: "A Tal-
George S. Kaufman and Moss tion. 3. Instead of regarding the 'confession' of must be persona grata to FDR, mudic adage says that at 70 a man may have
be strengthened by the balloting on June
ing the movement a reality.
Hart, whose "You Can't Take It the church as sacred ground, you have endeavored
too closely identified with a hoary head. At 80 he may be gifted with spec-
Within the recent few weeks a new com- 20 will depend of course upon the num- With You" won the 1936 Pulitzer to crush out its basic doctrine of the universal not
Tammany and likely to win con- ial strength." Thus he defended the present status
ber
of
general
Zionists
who
cast
their
bal-
Prize, are now at work on . a new Fatherhood of God, you have permitted them to servative Republican support . . . of the Supreme Court and received a hearing with-
mittee has been formed, composed of
be harassed and despoiled. Your treatment of them
*omen who are known for their sincerity lots on that day. Past experiences show review for the stage. "You Can't has
been ruthless, without the slightest appearance He should have a record of anti- in his rights.
It With You" will be made
Nazi utterances like those credited
•
and for their earnest desire to participate that while they are the largest in number, Take
into a picture in 1938 by Columbia, of mercy, even reminding one of the infamous to Jeremiah T. Mahoney or Su-
this
group
is
the
least
ready
to
make
use
edict
of Herod, in stretching the hand of violence
in community affairs. It is gratifying to
The Stephen S. Wise View
which paid $200,000 for the play,
preme
Court
Justice
William
T.
the littlest child."
know that this group, although it has pre- of the Zionist franchise. This is in itself the largest sum ever paid for film to Dr.
The "other fellow" is also entitled to his opin-
MacFarland's letter concludes: "I yet hope Collins ... And if he's in the bad ion, in spite of the fact that so many among us
for any vehicle since the
maturely commenced to function under an indication of a weakness which does rights
that
I may live long enough to see the restoration, graces of William Randolph Hearst are reluctant to grant that right to the person who
advent of talking pictures.
the
movement
little
good.
It
is
to
be
hoped
so
much
the
better
.
.
.
If
you
the name of the Mt. Sinai Hospital Associ-
in moral terms, of the Germany of my teachers of
IN HOLLYWOOD
know of such candidate send his disagrees with us. Dr. Stephen S. Wise had
ation, is prepared to cooperate with the that on June 20 the picture will change HEARD
Anita Louise's latest escort is over 40 years ago, a Germany once more respected name to the Democratic Party of spoken on the question of the sit-down strike. In
and
all
Shekel
holders
will
make
it
a
point
by
the
civilized
world
and
the
Christian
Church."
(PLEASE 1, 1211 To NEXT PAGE)
doctors' group and with committees com-
an Easterner named Buddy Adler,
New York City . . . They're look-
They have recently been seen to-
ing for him ... All of the inspired
posed of prominent laymen. It is equally to vote.
talk about Senator Copeland as
The major issue confronting the move- gether at night clubs and film par-
encouraging to know that the existing
ties . . . Adler is the son of a
the Democratic candidate means
groups do clot propose to act in haste, but ment at this time is the threat that comes wealthy Eastern department store
nothing, despite the efforts to
are rather planning to deliberate before from Great Britain's failure to live up to magnate and is in this vicinity to
build him up as pro-Jewish by his
get
the
chain
started
in
the
West.
the
terms
of
the
Mandate.
Only
by
uniting
Pro-Zionist acivi ties ... The same
they act, in order that the community may
Demands for the services of How Lady Melchett Forced Ar- goes for Borough President Sam-
be well educated to the needs for a hos- in our demands against the whittling down Mischa
Auer, screen comedian, by
uel Levy .. t Whatever slim chance
gentine Anti-Semite
of the Mandatory pledges will it be pos- motion picture studios continue un-
pital.
he had to get the mayoralty nom
VIENNA (WNS)—Experiments which are ex-
sible
for
the
movement
to
survive
the
abated.
Columbia
has
just
ar-
to
Apologize
ination
was ruined by the opposi- pected to make it possible for the blind to utilize
There is much that can be said about
ranged to borrow him from Univer-
tion
of
influential
Jewish
leaders,
storm.
It
is
clear
that
a
change
in
leader-
the sense of hearing as an auxiliary sense even
the movement for a Jewish hospital in
sal for the comedy lead in "Thanks
who fear the effect of a Jewish
BUENOS AIRES (WNS)-..--Ilow Lady Melchett, mayor in addition to a Jewish gov- more than the sense of touch are being conducted
Detroit. It is certain that with the active ship would be inadvisable under present for Nothing."
at the Jewish Asylum for Blind Children by Dr.
conditions
and
that
labor
Zionism,
as
the
the
Christian-born
wife
of
Lord
Melchett,
British
participation of Jews who are in a position
"Love and Hisses" is the title
ernor,
Friedrich Mansfield, a Jewish physician who has
for the second film to star Zionist leader and industrialist, humiliated a notor- OVERSEAS DISPATCH
been sightless since he was eight years old. Dr.
to give large sums of money, the realiza- dominant factor in the movement, ought chose&
Buenos
Aires
journalist
and
forced
him
to
Winchell and Ben Bernie. ious
tion of the hospital movement is within the once more to be given the mandate to carry Walter
The British Government is re- Mansfield has perfected a new theory which claim
The phenomenal success of this apologize publicly to her and her husband for
on
the
battle
for
Jewish
national
revival
that
a sense of calculating distance and the nature
realms of possibility. But the hospital
team's first picture resulted in a his anti-Semitic utterances at a dinner tendered in ported to be greatly concerned of materials by sound can be developed easily in
the anti-Jewish ban in certain
dream will never be realized unless the and survival. General Zionism, being contract for a second. This item honor of the Melchetts during their recent visit over
blind
adults and still more easily in children born
is in reply to J. F. G. of the In- here, is revealed by the Jewish World, Buenos Bermuda hotels ... The rumor is blind. Positing his theory on the fact that all
forces propagating for it work in unison first in rank in this country in point of diana
Jewish Chronicle and George Aires publication. At the dinner, which was ar- that the exclusion of Jewish guests materials have their own characteristic sounds and
numbers,
should
strive
to
retain
the
bal-
and avoid any possible split or overlap-
a reader of the Detroit Jewish ranged by the diplomatic representativve of an is part of a plan by German and that all echo approaching footsteps by a different
ancing force in the movement, and by C.,
European nation, the guests included high-ranking Italian interests to gain commer-
ping.
Chronicle.
casting
their
ballots
for
a
general
Zionist
Argentine officials, diplomats and writers, among cial control of Bermuda in order timbre, Dr. Mansfield has trained himself and
WITH
THE STARS
Several existing factors must be taken ticket, Shekel' holders will be strengthen-
teaches his pupils to distinguish various materials
Benny Rubin, George Burns, them the anti-Semite. Seated a few places away to be able to keep tabs on the by ear. Blind people trained by Dr. Mansfield's
into consideration in making plans for a ing the hands of the present leadership. Tony Martin and Bert Wheeler from Lady Melchett, the Jew-baiting writer began movements of British naval ves-
system have learned to walk the streets alone with-
hospital. In the first place, this communi- As the supporters of the labor program, are thinking of going on tour as an anti-Semitic tirade. After listening patiently sels in the West Indies.
Fascist circles are said out danger and to appraise the phenomena of the
ty's ability either to pay for a hospital general Zionism is in effect the guiding the world's bridge foursome. They for a while, Lady Melchett leaned over and said to Italian
be readying a flock of pamphlets outside world. Experiments have proven that
take Gracie Allen along as to the Jew-baiter. "Do you know who I am?"
building or to guarantee its maintenance spirit in the present crisis and it deserves would
the Mansfield system enables them to recognize
official kibitzer to insure their Without batting an eye, he replied. 6 0f course, I stressing that Jews are working the approch of automobiles, street cars and car-
is yet to be proven. Functioning agencies
have the great pleasure to be addressing Lady underground to destroy Fascism.
reputation.
a
vote
of
confidence
by
being
given
a
place
riages and to gunge their distance and direction
Kahanek,
leader
of
the
Czech
have trouble enough to meet their budgets. of priority in the balloting for delegates to
Gregory Ratoff, who is almost as Melchett." "But," countered Lady Melchett, "do
with sufficient accuracy to insure the safety of
prolific at writing screen plays as you know who I really am?" At this the writer Agrarian Party and the real the blind. Similarly, the blind trained by this
The Jewish Home for the Aged is not yet the World Zionist Congress.
he is at portraying comedy roles became flustered and embarrassed and before he founder of Konrad Henlein's method can discern whether they are approaching
assured that its capital fund will be com-
Sudeten
Pan?
(Czech
Nazis),
is
a
could
answer
Lady
Melchett
said
proudly
"I
am
a
on the screen, has sold another
steel rails, whether stone, glass or metal pre-
pletely raised as soon as was expected, or
story to 20th Century-Fox. It is Jewess." These words hit the anti-Semite like a Silesian whose mother was a Po- dominates in buildings they are passing and can
that its maintenance fund will be secured
a romantic comedy entitled "I blow over the head and for the sake of his own lish Jewess.
The Jewish question in Poland recognize the character of the landscape, whether
Love the Author," and the noted reputation he had to apologize to Lord and Lady
The Fight Is On!
without difficulty.
dialect comedian wrote a role for Melchett. Before accepting the apology, Lord was one of the subjects Al Smith forest, meadow or garden, by means of the sounds
One other need must not be sidetracked.
was
supposed to discuss with the with which their footsteps are re-echoed.
Melchett
told
the
writer
he
would
pardon
him
on
"We will fight cantonization just as we himself into the script.
Dr. Mansfield is also experimenting with what
Approximately 750 Jewish boys and girls
Principal Pictures' new radio condition that he (the writer) read Melchett's book Pope when he was received at the
fought
against
the
Uganda
project."
he calls sound pictures, which enable the blind to
Vatican.
in the Linwood-Davison section are wait-
bureau will be managed by Louis about the Jews, "Thy Neighbor" and then write
German provincial papers as detect shape by means of hearing. Through the
Menahem Ussishkin, head of the world Hyman.
him whether he still held to his anti-Semitism.
ing to enroll in a Hebrew school as soon as
Gertrude Berg, author and pro- The journalist agreed. And a few days before well as the Nazi press in Czechos- sound perception of distance, size and material,
facilities are created for them. The educa- office of the Jewish National Fund at ducer
the Melchetts left Buenos Aires, Lord Melchett lovakia are blaming a "Jewish- the trained blind have been enabled to perceive
of
"The
Rise
of
the
Gold-
tional needs of these hews and girls must Jerusalem, has thus spoken in behalf of berg's" and "The House of Glass," received a long letter in which the journalist said, Bolshevist conspiracy" for the dis- in dim outline the shape of objects that echo to
aster to the Zeppelin Hindenburg. their footsteps.
"Oh, if only all the Jews were like you."
be given a place of priority in Jewish com- the forces that will oppose any further at- has been signed as a writer.
munity planning. The failure ,to construct tempts on the part of the Mandatory Power
a Hebrew school building means that hun- to divide Palestine and to leave only a
Great Character
dreds of our children are being kept in skeleton for future Jewish colonization.
Delineated by
We
believe
that
when
the
voices
are
ignorance of Jewish life and Jewish knowl-
The Spirit of the Constitution
edge. It is unpleasant to be forced to raise counted a vast majority of the Jewish
Naomi Jacob
One Year of Leon Blum's Leadership
new issues whenever the hospital question people will be found in the ranks of the
By DR. ABRAHAM A. NEUMAN
is brought foreward. But compared with opposition to any movement either for the
By HENRY MONTOR
TIME PIDCE. By Name/ Jacob. The
Niscati/Ma C.,, New York (TM).
the hundreds of thousands of dollars that cantonization or division of Palestine. The
EDITOR'S
NOTE:
The celebration of (Ise sesquicenten1•1 of the American
NOTE, A dramatic critic who stereo a mosteririere et hie own.
Constitution has inspired this faminsting account of the relationship be-
are needed for a hospital, less than $30,- Royal Commission, or any other govern- EDITOR'S
Henry Monier calls Leon Blum In this mime of the French Tremier•
tween the Dible end our American In•litellons, Dr. Neuman In • Pm-
biography by Richer4 Stoke*. The (strip' beginning. and the later
000 will be required to erect a Hebrew ment body, must not be permitted to speak
Ilalf-Jewess Naomi Jacob has
Omer at the Mamie College, and recognised as an authority ea Jewish
years of ischlesement of one of Europe .. most brUlbnt statesmen, pre-
history. 1114 presentation of the Ilebrale contribution to American inoll-
dated by the Jewish ram, are portrayed In this article.
school building, and even this small sum on behalf of the 400,000 Jews in Pales-
written a number of novels
lotions and ideals wag delivered before the Institute of Thine htudies of
tine alone. It is the Jewish people—num-
the Jraish Theological Seminar), and le being ,Imblithed In rot... Si
is not in sight.
which portray Jewish life in
the Sesta Art. Feature Syndicate and The Detroit (knish Chronicle so a
(CopYright, 1937, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
series of articles of which this le the Bret.
The needs for a Jewish hospital are bering 16,000,000 and scattered through-
most sympathetic and under-
apparent not only from the point of view out the world—who make the demand for
Just about • year ago Leon from President Lebrun did violence standing fashion. She ranks
(Copyright, 1137, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
of the needs of the Jewish patient, but a chance to live and to create opportuni- Blum undertook the task of form- to his own retiring nature and to among the outstanding Anglo-
even more so from the standpoint of the ties for decent existence for those who are ing ■ cabinet and inaugurated a his essential poltical outlook, which Jewish writers, and her themes
The focusing of the world's at- a secondary motive with the Con-
required that Socialism assume re-
Jewish medical practitioners who should persecuted and humiliated.
that has made him sponsibility only when it had suf- have made her novels stand out tention upon the adoption of the quistadors. Soldiers of the Cross
The fight against further division of premiership
have the facilities necessary for the im-
as
most
delightful
reading
ma-
American Constitution a 150 years they may have flatteringly pic-
one of the outstanding political ficient independent support in the
Chamber of Deputies.
provement of the professional status of Palestine is one—and it must be fought figures of modern times.
terial.
ago makes it peculiarly timely to tured themselves. as they forced
The Blum Family
Christianity upon the hapless In-
the Jewish doctors. But these needs are with determination by Jews everywhere.
The vagaries of French Parlia-
When her publishers —Mac- pass in review some of those in-
mentary rule may unseat him with-
Although for many years a
not as great as the need for a modest
fluences, spiritual and political, dians. But their religious visions
millan
Co.—declare
that
an-
in a few hours, but it is difficult deputy, Blum was • comparative
structure in which to provide for the edu-
which helped to govern the per- were reserved for the heathen.
believe that the transformation unknown in international politics other of her novels .ranks as her sonal lives and public institutions They themselves felt no need of a
In the Reich! to
cation of our Jewish boys and gins. The
What a Life
he wrought In the public life of
most
important
work,
it
is
an
of the American colonists during self-regenerating religious experi-
for casual references when
agitation for a hospital must in no way
his country will be as quickly for- except
cabinets were about to fall. What occasion for even deeper inter- the earlier century and a half of ence.
George Jessel is credited with the story gotten.
harm the cause of Jewish education. If
Hebraic Spirit of Puritans
colonial history. Neither the Dec-
is the background of this 65-year-
Dramatic critic for many years, old statesman who was able for so est in the author and her stor- laration of Independence nor the
How vastly different was the
we keep our children in ignorance we may of the American correspondent who in-
Leon Blum is now staging a drama long to resist the demand of France ies.
Constitution of the United States fiber of the Northern settlers who
build a future generation of ignoramuses terviewed Hitler in a Berlin 11th floor of
his own composition which will
aid to Spain, who passed more
"Time Piece," the newest Is comprehensible without an ap- left their homes in England, or
who will be meat for gangsterdom and suite. "And do the citizens really obey for generations affect the French- for
social welfare and economic pro-
predation of the emotional and their voluntary exile in Holland,
who will be our worst enemies. No hospi- you?" the newspaperman asked . . . "Do men taking part in it. That Leon gressive legislation in a few months Naomi Jacob novel, is the story mental attitudes of a people en- and fared across the sea to set
is a Jew is completely irre- than had been adopted in 60 years of a very strong character— gaged upon ■ great spiritual ad- up, for themselves and their
tal will then be able to cure the ills that they?" the dictator snickered. "Watch" Blum
. He called to the waiter: "Fritz, go to levant except for the anti-Semites, before him, who exploded the theo- CI a u d i a Marsden — who be- venture of life and government. progeny, free homes in a wilder-
will be created by ignorance.
in his own and other countries,
that the French peasant in- comes the bead of a London The compulsion of the spiritual ap- ness of primeval forests. To be
This issue cannot be divorced from the the window, open it and jump out" Fritz who Lind it • convenient label for ry
stinctively resists monetary re-
peal.was not always a conscious sure, they too were moved by
general consideration of community needs. obeyed, and leaped to his death . . • their hatreds, and except for forms? What is said to be the first wine importing house and who, power, nor was its force equally hopes of material reward—and,
Jews who proudly herald organized biography of the man through perseverence and per- distributed among all the colonies; above all, by an elemental land-
Whereas the construction of a modest lie- "Hans," was the next command—to the chauvinist
him as one of their own but prob-
to answer the question. sistence, masters the trade. but its policy was real and abid- hunger which craved satisfaction.
brew school building will not hurt the hos- second waiter—"you know we're 11 stories ably disown most of the social and attempts
It is "Leon Blum," by Richard L But she also becomes master ing from the day that 41 Pilgrim Certainly the Crown and the capi-
pital movement, the latter would prove up. Go to the window—and jump out." economic philosophy he espouses. Stokes
(Coward-McCann).
Fathers entered into a solemn talists who shared In these bold
damaging to the educational cause. If this Hans also obeyed ... "Wilhelm," was the With Fascism and Nazism pound- The Immediate origins of the over those with whom she covenant and signed the Mayflower ventures expected to reap a har-
final
order
to
the
last
waiter,
"you
jump,
ing
relentlessly
against
the
borders
comes in contact. She domin- Compact, until the 13 colonies fed- vest in the form of substantial
is admitted as based on good reasoning,
of France as one of the last out- Blum family are located in Alsace.
of expanded commerce
then the community will have to act in a too" . . . Wilhelm walked to the window post/ of democracy, the precarious- The first record of their presence ates the household, courageously erated into the Union if the United dividends
and profit, if not in outright gold.
in
Paris
appears
to
be
1845.
Today
and
opened
it.
"Wait,"
the
newspaperman
guides her family and business States of America.
manner which will not impair our educa-
ness of Blum's position is intensi-
But
neither
the chimeras of gold
In all the annals of supreme
shouted to him, "do you mean to say that fied by the charges of alienness Blum Freres, dealers in silk ma- affairs and acquires the love of daring
and adventure with which nor the realities of trade and com-
tional structure.
terials, is the monument to the
because
this
mustached
man
tells
you
to,
which
continues
to
be
brought
merce
can
possibly
account for the
those who learn to know her.
the story of America's discovery
In the meantime Detroit Jewry will
against him. That he has been able business acumen and industry of
exploration a bounds, the Plymouth Colony or the Puritans
have to prepare to meet the hospital issue you'll take your own life?" . . . Wilhelm to survive for • year despite his Auguste Blum and his sons, three It is typical of Naomi Jacob and
achievements of the intrepid Eng- of Massachusetts Bay, or the col-
perched on the window sill before leaping. Socialism and his ancestral Juda- of whom—Lucien, Marcel and
in a practical way. The best minds in our "Eh,"
and their followers who onies of Rhode Island, Maryland
he explained, "what kind of life ism is a tribute to the good sense Georges--continue its affairs. Rene, that an interesting Jewish char- lishmen
community must be mobilized in a strong
acter should play a part in the settled upon this continent strike and Pennsylvania. It was not the
a
fourth
brother,
directs
the
opera
of France as well as to the ad-
earlier buccaneers and free-boot-
do
you
call
this
anyway?"
•
committee. The wealthy might just as
life of Claudia. She marries a distinctive and unique chord. ing adventurers of Elizabethan
ministrative vision and political house ballet at Monte Carlo.
A word spoken in jest very often is more craftsmanship
Tradition required that Leon into a Jewish family, and her Theirs Is not the saga of man's England that struck root in the soil
well acquire the necessary vision to recog- descriptive
that he has dis-
of truth than the coldest facts. played.
should follow in the business. lie in-laws, old - fashioned Jews, conquest of nature alone. It is of the wilderness. It was the hard-
nize that a hospital is needed and that it Jessel's story
more stirring revelation of man's
is an especially appropriate
Leon Blum's acceptance of the aimed instead at a professorship of treat her royally, permit her self-conquest in the search of an working, God-fearing Puritan s
can be built if the community wants it. one at this time,
when
Ersatz
is
the
watch-
Premiership of France was an un- philosophy. But after years of sue.
Gold and spices lured the whose lives were swayed by reli-
Doctors as well as laymen, experts in the word in Hitlerized Germany, and when expected event for political deers- cessive prizes in very field of clas- to assume control of the wine ideal.
Spaniards. Dreams of oriental gions passion, whose souls were
sical learning Blum entered the business and treat her like their
ere
despite
the
fact
that
for
years
field as well u the sentimentalists, must
strictly allotted as they were
riches and inztrry spurred the caught up in the Hebraic spirit
he held in his own hands a veto on law course, taking his degree lie own daughter. When she mar- Italian-Iberian explorers to face of the Bible, determined to serve
be mobilized tq plan deliberately and rations are as
Shadowland
If All Jews Were Like Melchett
Hebraic Mortar'
Europe's New Dealer
the war.
all governments in his capacity as 1894. For almost 25 years there-
the
ca ll m f y
or fast-approaching tame when during
Will the Germans rebel? Only time can leader of the Socialist party. For after Blum was a referee in the
ft will be Possible to translate into reality
Experiments by Jew Help Blind
To`See'Through Sound Echoes
ries a (second time the suns
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charted oceans. Religion was but