ThenerRorrjemsitfilitauze

June 18, 1937

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

IIRONICW Why a Christian Labor Union?

Lights from

Poland, Once Oppressed, Now
Takes Oppressor's Role

Strictly

PURELY COMMENTARY

A full-page advertisement in Sunday's Shadowland
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Confidential
newspapers appealed to workers in the
Puldished Woad, b The Jewish Chrenkle Publishing C.. bob
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
By
LOUIS
PEKARSKY
automobile industry for "the formatidn of
Tidbits from Everywher•
Intern as flecond-elan natter Ranh 1, 1111, at tle Peek
Reproduction to part or whole forbid.
a
labor
union
based
on
Christian
prin-
1,
11111.
►
ofike at Dolma, Min. snider the Ast of Mara
den, without permlesion of the Bevan
By ANNE O'HARE McCORMICK
By PHINEAS J. B1RON
Long Process of Persecution
Arts Feature gyndiene, CopyrIghtere of
The latest reports indicate that a long process
(Copyright. 1131. B. A. tr. ter
General Offices and Publication Building ciples." It is the most disturbing appeal this :nor..
EDITOR'S NOTEt The following Is • Portion of an nileir.
of
persecution
faces Christians as well as Jews in
that has ensued from the labor troubles
(Copyright, 037. 5. A. T. 5
.
525 Woodward Avenue
SO HELP US
Germany. The masterful letter addressed to Adolf
which appeared In a recent 'sue of the New York
Telephoset Cadillac 1040 Cable Address; Chronicle that torment our country today. Because
This
year's
World
Zionist
Con-
Hitler by Dr. Charles S. MacFarland, general sec-
Time.. It Ir significant comment by virtue of the
L11041110 Oakel
JUNE WEDDING
gress Is being held in Zurich only retary emeritus of the Federal Council of Churches,
terrorient that oppreens the Jewish Pepulatioe of
it draws religious lines, disregarding the
14 Stratford Pince, Londe., W. 1, England
Wedding bells will ring on June
because the powers that be in expresses eloquently the reaction of the Protes-
Poland.
28 for Sally Breen, sister of Bobby
France, Belgium and Czechoslo- tants. Catholics now have reason to be more dis-
Subseription, in Advance.---..---43.00 Per Year fact that there are millions of non-Chris- Breen. She is to become the bride
vakia turned thumbs down on it turbed than ever because of the news that comes
tians in this country, this appeal is a most of Lewis Roth, Globe, Arizona,
The position of Poland explains its past history
To inure puhlkatios, as ennwpondenee and news Nutter
. Premier Leon Blum said noth- from Berlin that the Third Reich is prepared to
nun reach th0 *Mee by Townley evening of 111111b VOA. un-American statement. Furthermore, be- mining man. This marriage means
and its present importance in the incessant flux ing doing on Paris, and Premier carry on its persecution of Catholics indefinitely,
When mailbag notion, kindly •se one side of the P.P. n1.1.
the parting of the ways for Bobby of Europe. The last partition of Poland, at the Paul van Zeeland ditto'd it on with arrests growing in number daily. The united
n. Detroit Jewish Chroniale Invites eorreepowlenee en gab- cause it implies by innuendo that those and Sally, "his little mother," for end of the 18th century, nerved to prevent a gen- Brussels. . Premier E d utr d religious anti-Nazi front is a necessity.
eral war. The once powerful kingdom was cut Banes, who is regarded as a friend
fest. of Interest to the Jewish people, bet 4111e1114011 ennead. who are not Christians are not socially just, the latter will make her future
•
► Ility for an Indorsement of the •Imrs expensed by the writer.
home in Arizona. Her guiding into three slices and thrown to the great pre-war of Zionism, also put his foot down
in
spite
of
the
generally
accepted
truism
hands
and
loving
care
will
be
re-
empires, Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary, when Prague was considered .. .
W. C. T. U. Neils Hitler
Sabbath Readings of the Law
that the basic principles of social justice placed by a military school which in order to appease their jealousy and redress the Even the Canton of Geneva de- It had to come! Adolf Hitler has become the
Pentateuchal Portion—Num. 19:1-22:1.
balance of power. At Versailles Humpty-Dumpty clined to permit the Congress to darling of the Women's Christian Temperance
are common to all religions, this new Bobby is attending.
Prophetical Portion—Judges 11:1-33.
Bobby was born in Montreal. was put together again, amid general rejoicing. be held within its borders.
Union. At jts convention in Washington, the
movement is a most unfortunate one.
Sally has guided Bobby's career By many liberals, including President Wilson, the VIA SHORT WAVE
W. C. T. U. gave Hitler its blessings because he
Tammuz
9,
5697
June 18, 1937
Labor unions, or any other movement since he was 6 years old. It started union and liberation of this long divided and pas-
King George VI has commis- abstains from using intoxicating liquors. As long
in this country, which are intended to draw back in Toronto. Sally was 16 then. sionately patriotic people was regarded as the sioned Jean de Batton, a Jewish as his breath does not emit an alcoholic odor, Hit-
parents were both musical, great achievement of the peace treaties.
painter from Saloniki living in ler's mind may now nourish the poisons of hate,
The Zionist Congress Election in the large masses of the people of this Their
but both were in poor health, Sally
Wedged in between Soviet Russia and Nazi Paris, to make a painting of the and his conscience may remain soiled with the guilt
country, must be based upon American took small singing and dancing Germany, the situation of Poland today is not coronation
ceremonies.
for bloodshed and horror. Page the witch-hunters!
Balloting for delegates to the World principles. Those who inject the religious jobs to help support the family. much happier than it was in the twilight of the
The owner of the Onset brand Call out the spirit of the middle ages! They will
Zionist Congress will be held this Sunday or racial elements in such movement are She sang in church for benefits.
Polish kings. Fortunately for Europe, the wedge of perfumes, which is giving a find good company among some charming ladies
Once she put Bobby in a benefit is very wide. With less than half the population, headache to a perfume oarned by in this country.
throughout the country. It is imperative not supporting the American ideal which
his singing stole the show. territorially Poland is almost as big as Germany. the family of a ,notorious French
that every person who has paid the tax aims to avoid strife between religious or and
Feeling there was limited oppor- But any one who has traveled from Berlin to anti-Semite is a 'gentleman called
and is a Shekel holder should exercise his racial groups. The great American fam- tunity
in Toronto, she took Bobby Moscow knows how exposed it Is on both Bides.
Fink, whose Paris establishment is
"The Fabulous Jew"
or her franchise and should cast a vote ily must not be disrupted.
and her $35 savings and bravely
closed on Saturday and who him-
The Detroit News, in its kind endorsement of
All
Eyes
on
Warsaw
started
for
Chicago.
In
that
city
self
attends
the
synagogue
thrice
this election.
the movement for a Jewish hospital of Detroit,
Several recent events have accentuated the im- daily.
she sang in cabarets, on small
committed • blunder. It spoke of the "known
It is important to note that there are no
theatrical bills—anything to keep portance of these lines in Europe's search for a
German workmen at the German resources and liberality of the Jewish people of
internal issues in this election. The pri-
going, and the youngster occa- new balance. Dr. Beck, the foreign minister, has pavilion of the Paris Exposition Detroit" and proved thereby how easy it is for
Clifford Epstein's Articles
sionally was able to work in thea- paid two visits to Bucharest, on the latest ac- are completely cut off from the even the well-informed and best-intentioned peo-
mary reason for demanding a large vote
or at benefits. Then they went companied by the president, in the effort to rein- outside world . . They are not ple to swallow a fable and to accept it as fact. We
from the Jews of this country is the neces-
Clifford Epstein's series of articles on ters
to New York and finally reached force the line-up against Russia.
permitted to talk to foreigners
sity of emphasizing the strength of Jewish Palestine in the Detroit News present a Hollywood.
For his four-power pact Mussolini has substi- and the letters they send home are thankful for the compliment that Detroit Jews
liberal. But it is possible for people to be
public opinion in America. The report significant account of the struggle that Sally was convinced her own tuted a five-power pact, the fifth power being must be mailed for them by the are
Hitler is preparing to dramatize some foreman ... Their leader explains liberal within their means—and it is also possible
of the Royal Commission, due soon, may mars peace and security in Eretz Israel. career would only be average at Poland.
that
among a people liberal as a group there may
but she had faith Bobby's sort of move toward Poland in a visit next week that they don't understand enough be found individuals who are not so liberal.
be so damaging to our position that it will This able writer has collected a set of best,
would be great if she could only to East Prussia. Evidently Poland is a vital ele- French even to buy a postage
We
dislike the statement "known resources . .
be of the utmost importance for world facts and figures which leave no doubt as get him started. She then decided ment in the alternative plans of the Fascist dicta- stamp, but we'll let you guess at
of the Jewish people of Detroit." It sounds so
Jewry to be united in opposition to any to the justice of Jewish claims and the to give up her own career to build tors, each of whom is now playing two hands simul- the real reason.
much
like
the ancient invention about "the fabu-
Leslie Hore-Belisha, England's lous Jew." We dislike it all the more because it
movement that will aim to whittle down barbarism to which Arabs are being arous- one for her talented brother. In faneously in the hope that one holds the winning
card.
Hollywood
Bobby
was
just
another
new
minister
of
war,
is
the
author
our claims and our just rights in Pales- ed by opportunists in their ranks who are child actor. The only place where
Now geography, plus the fact that for more of a sensational novel which will is untrue. The compliment paid us by the News
does not fit in with the reality of Jewish
tine.
personally capitalizing on the disturbances a spot could be found for him was than a century the Poles lived under three differ- remain in his desk in manuscript somehow
ent
governments„ so that all but the very young form until he retires from public life. The Jewish slums have not yet been cleared.
on a big Thanksgiving benefit
Because unity is desired, it is rather de- while the masses suffer.
There
are
still millions of Jews in breadlines in
At this performance Bobby's know what it is to be a minority in a foreign life.
Mr. Epstein's articles acquire greater show.
plorable that the labor groups did' not ad-
singing attracted the attention of country, has a distinct bearing on what is going
The dime thriller as dear to European countries. We have our serious problem
here to the request of the Zionist Organ- importance by virtue of the fact that this Sol Lesser, president of Principal on inside Poland today. This less-known story, young readers is now being ex- of economic adjustment in this country. We are,
other peoples, a poor lot As a rule com-
ization of America for a united front of is this writer's second trip to Palestine in Productions. Lesser went to Eddie illuminated by Mr. Tolischus's reports to the ploited in Germany to engender like
reveals the effect on the life of the coun- anti-Semitism in youngsters . . . parative facts about Jews and non-Jews run in
all parties, and insisted instead that the three years. Those who read his first ser- Cantor. The banjo-eyed comedian Times,
equal
proportions. This rule - applies also to the
looking for a boy to sing a try of the political movement for Polonization The Hitler Youth book publishing
election be held. It is evident that partisan ies of articles and compare them with the was
song, "Santa, Bring My Mama known as the Camp of National Unity.
firm has issued a flock of hair- economic status of the Jew. Those who speak of
advantages only are to be gained from present—the second series—will be pleas- Back to Me." Cantor heard Bobby
raising tales all doctored to make Jews as being either fabulously wealthy or possess-
All Minorities Repressed
ing "known resources" are on the wrong track.
the villains Jews.
divisions in balloting. For this reason, ed to learn that an important advocate of sing and immediately signed him
Mr. Tolischua makes it clear that the discrimina-
for
a
steady
engagement
on
his
The late Jan Gamarnik, Marshal It is a pity that all our propaganda and pleading
also, it is regrettable that Hadassah should the cause of Palestine's rebuilding has been
tory
policy
of
the
government
toward
the
minor-
program. Then Lesser signed
of the Soviet army, never gave up for the truth cannot bring facts where they ought
added to our ranks. Mr. Epstein's descrip- radio
have insisted on a ticket of its own.
the Canadian boy for a long term. ities is not limited to the Jews, as the recent reign his interest in things Jewish . , . to be best known.
of
terror
in
Brest-Litovsk
led
outsiders
to
believe.
•
It was he who helped his brother-
Because of the impending dangers Id tions, while written in the impartial lan- The rest is history. Appearing in
the 3,000,000 Polish Jews are placed in a in-law, Chaim Nachman Bialik,
Palestine, the electors this Sunday are guage of a reporter, nevertheless present "Rainbow on the River," Bobby True,
Johns
Hopkins
to Goettingen
a film star. His next pic- special category, marked for "emigration," and and other Russian Zionists to get
obligated to strengthen the hands of the a convincing argument in favor of the became
John Hopkins University has joined the ranks
ture, "Make a Wish," is expected the lot of these unwanted citizens, victims of to Palestine after the Russian
economic jealousy and deliberate nationalist ex- revolution.
of the great liberal schools in this country in re-
major party which is represented on the Zionist side in the current controversy. No to increase his fame.
jecting the invitation to participate in the bicen-
Sally Breen—the family name citation, is only less tragic than that of the Ger- NEWS TO YOU
ballot as Ticket No. 1. If the leadership fair-minded judge can possibly fail to rec-
man
Jews.
But
the
prevailing
policy
bears
almost
tenary
of the University of Goettingen. In real-
was
Borssuk—was
engaged
for
a
The
sponsors
of
the
Interna-
of American Zionism is to be strengthened, ognize the validity of Jewish claims after
year but kept it a secret, even as hard on other non-Slavic minorities. The atti- tional Conference Against Racism ity, Johns Hopkins was much more outspoken than
Ticket No. 1 must be given the mandate to reading the series in the Detroit News.
tude
toward
the
Slavic
minorities
is
somewhat
the
other
schools, including Columbia, whose subtle
from her brother. She wanted to
and knti-Semitism, which is to be
speak for the largest portion of the Ameri-
feel that Bobby was secure, that more tolerant, yet even these blood brothers of held in Paris in September, got rebuke to Germany will remain a classic. The
the
Poles,
Ruthenians,
White
Russians
and
Ukraine
letter
of
President Bowman of Johns Hopkins
nothing could happen to him.
their wires crossed in organizing
can delegation to the Congress. Peace-
Feeling that her job is done and lane, about 7,000,000 in all, suffer increasing re- an American delegation ... At a deserves to be widely read, and we therefore
ful co-operation in accomplishing the com- The Late Dr. Henry Sliosberg her
pression
as
the
drive
for
Polonization
is
intensified.
faith was justified she is
meeting of interested parties called quote it:
mon goal is necessary at this time, and
Hollywood to seek happi- Of these the Ukranians, leaders in the historic by. Roger Baldwin it was discov- Georg-August Univerellact
fitellingen, Germany.
A great leader disappears from the Jew- leaving
party strife must be relegated to the back-
ness for herself and her husband- movement for Polish reunification, are the strong- ered that the sponsors had invited
Slew
est and most numerous. They complain that they Samuel Untermyer to get up the
ground. Labor has its best friends in the ish scene with the death of Dr. Henry to-be.
The Johns Hopkins University has received your
are barred from government employment, from American delegation and had then
men who are represented by Ticket No. 1 Sliosberg. His name is indelibly written ANECDOTE
formal Imitation to Join In celebrating. the hi-centen-
higher
education,
from
grants
of
land,
from
trades
Frieda Rosenblatt, script girl
extended a similar bid to another
in
the
story
of
the
struggle
for
justice
in
and they have nothing to fear from the
and secretary for Director William and professions, from every opportunity to be- organization . . Now the two ary of the Georg-August University of Goellingen. Re-
calling the Inauenre of Gentle/en and the deep re-
triumph at the polls of the Zionist Organ- Russia. In the last two decades of the rule Wyler, swears this really hap- come anything but peasants and servants.
groups have to get together.
Poland is not the only state to oppress minor-
You will remember that a couple spect shown for the Ideals of German unlversille. In
ization of America. The same holds true of the Czar, he was one of the most import- pened. Wyler, she says, has a
habit, whenever she tells hint any- ities. Hardly a government in Europe has a clear of columns ago we told you about the establishment In pen years of both private and
for Hadassah. We urge the Shekel-holders ant spokesmen for his people. It must not thing,
of saying: "Remind me of record in this respect, and nations only yester- Dr. Carl Brandt, German refugee gale educational enterprises In the Coked Mete. we
of Detroit to.vote for Ticket No. 1 at the be forgotten that the Jews in Russia at that" She brought the noted direc- day subjects of persecution are almost the worst professor, who though a teacher desire to eongratulete you on the high achievement.
that time numbered more than 6,000,000 tor his social security card.
offenders. But in Poland the so-called minorities at the University in Exile, which that mark your history. We recall particularly the
election this Sunday.
comprise more than a third of the population. was established to give positions rine assorletion of Goettingen with the founding of
and that as the largest Jewish community
"What's that?" Wyler asked.
Gentile and Jew, they took part in the struggle to exiled German scholars, was the Johns Hopkins Unlvenity.
in history Russian Jewry held the attention "That card gives you a pension for
1Ve regret, however, that we are unable to send •
national independence. Liberated Poland re- contributing to Nazi newspapers
when
you
are
65,"
said
Miss
Ro-
of the world because of the magnitude of senblatt.
representative to the GoettIngen celebration. The
joiced to include these millions in the new re- . . . This has now been confirmed,
The Council Is a Reality
its suffering. Dr. Sliosberg on several oc- 'Remind me of it," said Wyler. public. Under three masters, moreover, the Poles and Dr. Alvin Johnson, dean of change In plan at the last moment of the Heidelberg
endured more than other conquered Peonies, and the university, many of whose relebretion of Mg, imposed by Menees of the Itom. -
Those who attended the conferences at casions rose to great heights as a leader HOLLYWOOD NEWS BRIEF
M. Schenck, chairman of should know the effects of the treatment they patrons are Jews, has upheld went, made foreign participation apnea, to elriNote.
which the proposed constitution for the and statesman, and as defender of the the Joseph
board of 20th Century-Fox now mete out. Already the Ukrainians, numbering Brandt, holding that he has a If not to celebrate, art. and peahen which demo-
Jewish Community Council was adopted Jews. As one of the lawyers for Mendel Films, was awarded the medal 37,000,000 if the Russian Ukraine is included, right to free speech.
cratic montries universally contemn. In consequence
ne must on Oils occasion limit *unwires to an en-
One of the exhibits at New
must feel a sense of pride in an important Beilis he figured prominently in one of the and ribbon of the French Legion look forward to the next war to enable them to
of Honor in recognition of his in- set up a state of their own. But beyond this dan- York's World Fair may be the pension of good-will for the German scholership of
accomplishment. The participants in these most important trials in history.
tradition and for those finnan *cholera of today who,
ger—and
on
the
Ukraine
turns
the
Russo-German
model
of
the
first
automobile
in-
ternational
artistic
contributions.
Those who knew Dr. Sliosberg will never
sessions share the joy of having created
The presentation was made by conflict—the spread of racial intolerance alienates vented by Siegfried Marcus .. . ender extreme dine/titles, still maintain the ideal of
the foundation for an important commun- forget the impression he left with them French Ambassador Georges Bon- from Poland the world sympathy which more than Marcus' grand-nephew, Clarence free Inquiry.
Very truly Poor.,
ity instrument. Although the adoption of as a man of culture and as a very great net. The Legion of Honor was anything else won the Poles their independence. Low, is trying to prevail upon the
(ISAIAH BOWMAN),
in 1802 by Napoleon For this reason alone it is a disastrous policy for Vienna Technical Museum to land
the constitution marks only the first step human being. The history of Israel's de- founded
the
model
for
the
fair.
Bonaparte.
any
Polish
government
to
pursue.
in the formation of the Council — one fenders will never be complete without the
third of the organizations must not rati- name of Dr. Henry Sliosberg.
The Master Builder
fy the plan—it is safe to state that the
Council is already a reality.
J
e e rt t Buvrir:g a n B r d g a e u s s ,
The two conferences, as well as the
Is Youth Favoring Kashruth?
Continuing the Series: Hebraic Mortar
meetings of the provisional committee
Jewish youth of Boston were asked
Builder
which planned the constitution, were most
By. Dr. Abraham A. Neuman
whether
they
approved
of
keeping
kosher
inspiring events. They provided the proof
By SOPHIE TUCKER
By BERTRAM JONAS
that unity in our community, on problems homes. "Do you expect to keep a kosher
As Told to Byrd,* M. Baker
EDITOR'S) NOTE) The part played by the Hebrew language la the early cullers
that are the common concern of all of us, home?" the girls were asked, and the
of America is related In thin leveed of • wiles of meth** by Dr. Newman
(Copyright. 037. 8. A. F. 5 )
is not impossible to achieve. They question addressed to the boys was "Do EDITOR'S NOTE: Sophie Tucker, beloved aonntrese of stage and screen, here
(Copyright, 1137, Seven Arts Feature gyndicete)
tell. rewire, of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and ether Seven Art, pub-
you
expect
your
wife
to
keep
a
kosher
were marked by the sincere desire to see
If Anubis, the jackal-god of
licatione, the story of her youth, whkh Is the theme of • biographical
'wenn° she I. now preparing for the films
the adoption of a program for community home?" The result is an interesting one.
ancient Egypt, looked down
Hebrew learning was brought Providences," by Increase Mather,
action which will create the voice that is Of the 1644 single men and women above
upon San Francisco from his to the New England shores on the there is recorded the story of a
(Copyright. 1137, Seven Arta Feature Syndicate)
needed to speak authoritatively for the the age of 18 who participated in the poll,
distant Valhalla on May 28 Mayflower. Elder William Brewster deaf man who could not learn to
1218 voted affirmatively and 326 voted no.
Alas!
The
fine
restaurant
was
a
Jews of Detroit.
We came to Boston from Odessa
When the monumental $35,000,- was an ardent devotee of Hebrew, speak and was finally advised to
In addition to purely local groups from when I was two months Did. My little shack in a neighborhood of 000 Golden Gate Bridge was as the Hebrew inscription on his try the Hebrew tongue as an aid
Kurt Peiser, the retiring executive di-
business, and within two months
to speech, and "in a short time
rector of the Jewish Welfare Federation, whose membership individuals were select- father heard from comrades of no
he had lost everything which by thrown open to traffic, he must tombstone would indicate; and his the dumb scholar became an ex-
is responsible for a great instrument for ed for participation in this poll, the can- the wonders and marvelous oppor- industry and honesty he had ac- have shrieked with glee at the library contained a small collection cellent
'Hebrician.'"
good in the formation of this council. It vass included Young Judaea, Young Israel, tunities of "golden" America, and cumulated in Boston. Expenses sight of the swastika, univer- of what were probably the earliest
Bibles Owned by Many
was thanks to his efforts that spokesmen Avukah, Menorah, Masada, Junior Ha- to escape the severe military serv- were high and we were strangers, sal symbol of Jew-hatred, flut- Hebraica in North America, Gov- Very
revealing is Cotton
he started back toward Boston.
ernor Bradford, also of the May- Mather's praise of the popular
for all Jewish organizations gathered to dassah, A. Z. A., Y. M. H. A., Y. W. H. A., ice of Russia he had gone to the so
World. lie left my mother There wasn't enough money, so tering in the breeze among the flower elect, was a notable linguist delight which Hebrew affords and
act unitedly in behalf of this important junior groups of Orthodox, Conservative New
we
stopped
at
Hartford,
Conn.,
festoons
of
all
the
aliens'
na-
and four children, but sent for
his day, but Hebrew claimed the facility with which it can be
movement. It is quite safe to predict that and Reform synagogues, social, literary, them as soon as he was able to get and without friends he managed tional emblems that decorated in
his soul allegiance. An examina- acquired. "Hence," he says: "we
to open a little restaurant there.
much good will come from this movement. athletic, educational and religious organ- enough money together.
tion
of the original manuscript of see even our English women, some-
the
city.
For
that
bridge,
an
izations.
I never knew exactly where I I was only seven years old at that almost unbelievable triumph of his "History of Plymouth Planta- times in a little while and with a
time, but I had to work hard in
was
born.
My
mother
knew
it
was
tion,"
or its photographic repro-
It is apparent that a cross-section of the
man over nature, was the work duction, shows, in his own hand, little pain, growl as expert at it
the road en route from Odessa, that restaurant.
as the ladies whom the Church-
community was covered. Evidently, if we on
Today
I
employ
a
cook,
but
my
of
a
Jew,
Joseph
Baerman
but
"somewhere
in
Russia"
is
the
pages of Hebrew roots and Bible Father Jerome praises in his
Palestine Jews Are Zionists
are to judge by the results of this poll, the best information I have as to my cook always knows that I know Strauss, perhaps the world's quotations
in the original. The works." He adds: "Nevertheless
kitchen. And how! We also
It is a favorite canard with anti-Zionists tendency in Jewish life is for youth to keep birthplace. Travel was not easy the
greatest living bridge builder. list of New England Hebraists this testae is as easily forgotten,
pleasant 60 years ago in that kept a rooming house at this time,
includes the most prominent names
to belittle the Jewish national movement to the right rather than to seek avenues of or
during my school years I was The opening of the Golden Gate that figured in the annals of its but being once attained and there-
and
land, and my mother, with four
with preserved sad improved,
escape
on
the
left.
The
poll
is
an
interest-
by maintaining that the Jews in Palestine
other children, traveling in crude compelled to get up at four o'clock Bridge, containing the longest early history: John Eliot, "apos- good men will fad, aa ear Mr.
are anti-Zionists. Anti-nationalists seek to ing reaction to anti-Semitism. Youth is evi- wagons over rough roads, could in e morning, build fires, make single span in the world, 4,200 tle to the Indians;" John Cotton Chauncy did, that the coajurt of
and clean the house. It wasn't
(1185-1662), said to be a Hebrew profit and pleasure of it were fa-
prove through such claims that if the Jews dently becoming more Jewishly conscious. perhaps scarce be blamed if she beds
forgot to inquire as to the name cruelty on the part of soy parents feet, not only writes finis to one conversationalist, whose devotion expressible, and that the talents
in Palestine are opposed to the Zionist
which
bound me to such hard of the marvel's of modern en- to Hebraic studies is extolled yy
com-
of the place where she was
wherewith it would furnish them
movement there must be something wrong
pelled to stop while another life tasks, but dire necessity, which gineering, but climaxed the ca- his learned grandson, Cotton to do so many services for the
demanded that all of us must work
with the cause of the Jewish nationalists.
was ushered Into the world.
Mather,
of
Magnolia
fame;
Rich-
Nazi Confiscations
reer
of
an
inventive
construc-
Church of God were such as to
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By dint of wagon trails and
But this charge is now belied and totally
tion genius who achieved the ard Mather (1596-1669), one of make them join with Luther in
the editors of the Bay Psalm Book; his protestation that he would not
During the last four years the Nazis steerage passage we finally arrived
disproven. The sale of 135,000 Shekolim
unachievable.
in Boston and were reunited with
Henry Dunster, first president of part with his knowledge of He-
in Palestine proves not only how popular have collected 170,970,000 marks in flight my father, whoee latest babe was EDUCATION—
Strauss' parental background Harvard College; his successor, brew for many thousands of
the movement is among those who came to taxes from emigrants. This vast sum has two months old when first he saw AN ANTIDOTE
and physique are anything but Charles Chauncey, who perfected pounds." it must be added that
the Land of Israel as a result of the revival been gathered mostly from Jews. The her. We were all tagged in the
what one might expect to find his studies under a Jewish teach- poor Michael Wigsslesworth, the
steerage, and I kept my tag for
er; Increase Mather, prolific au-
of nationalism, but also provides assurance Frankfurter Zeitung reports that one weal- years,
in en engineer. His father was thor and likewise president of learned and pious diarist, was not
RABBI LOUIS I. EGELSON,
until finally it crumbled to
so sanguine. No doubt he had good
that Palestinian Jewry is prepared to thy Jewish family alone paid a 16,000,000- pieces.
Secretary, Tract Commission,
a portrait painter and his moth- Harvard, notable for his literary reason to complain of the "ob-
Cincinnati, Ohio
stand back of the Zionist Organization in mark tax when it left the country in 1935.
My father had started a restau-
er a musician. In Cincinnati, defense of the Jews and Judaism; stinate untowardness" of his stu-
Although this tax is collected from those rant in Boston, serving meals at
defense of Jewish rights and aspirations in
where he was born 67 years and shall we arbitrarily conclude dents as he prayed God to move
who desire to leave the land and to save 25 cents each, and was quite suc- As a youth, when I encountered ago, no one expected much of the list with Cotton Mather at the their spirit and incline their
Palestine.
cessful. But they had racketeers
of the 17th century? Not, at berate to the study of the sacred
The attempt to differentiate between a portion of their possessions, there is no in those days too—"slickers" and the oft-repeated call to arms, "de- Joe Strauss, He was • little close
least, without mentioning the ir-
so dear to him.
cultural and political Zionism, or between indication that much has actually been "sharpers" they were called. Two lenda est Carthago!" I could not fellow—even today he is under repressible Judge Samuel Sewall, tongue,
Hebrew Bibles in the New Eng-
Palestine as a haven of refuge as opposed saved by the refugees. In reality, Nazis of these, looking about Boston, quite enter into the same spirit of flee feet and weighs only 135 diarist and would-be poet, who land "wilderness" were not the
my father's flourishing little vengeful fear as did Cato the Elder
turned his muse to the hope of prize possessions of the few, They
to a political center is a false cry. Pales- are not collecting taxes but are confiscat- saw
restaurant and In their greed de- when he urged the Roman Senate pounds — to whom physically
speedy conversion of the Jews. were owned by many of the early
tine as a place of refuge or as a great cen- ing property. Germany's practice is the sired it They told my father that to destroy Carthage, Rome's com- big men were heroes. But what the Needless
to say, it Is not the settlers. The famous Dutch He-
most
blatant
example
of
robbery
by
the
he must go to New York; that was mercial rival.
ter of culture is insecure unless political
he lacked in size and weight erudition of the select few that we braist John Leusden received at
fortune beckoned. He, beifig
Yearn later, when I had studied
wish to trace. Rather is it the im- one time an order for 60 copies of
guarantees are honored and the Jews are state. Nazi protests notwithstanding, where
he
made
up
for
in
courage.
He
listened. They told Jewish history extensively and had
pact of the Hebraic interest on
Hebrew Pslater for the use of
given the security that comes from firm George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago Inexperienced,
him of • fine large establishment noticed that similar indeements went out for the football team the popular mind, through these the
Harvard College students. We
action by the world's powers. Those who was right about both Hitler and Goebbels on a prominent street which they had been voiced against the Jew in at the University of Cincin- personalities
that dominated the may well believe that it afforded
easily
—and
he
could
very
have
taken
would exchange for his Boston cafe almost every land and age, I asked nati, trot his teammates thought social and religious thinking of him pleasure to fill the unusual
raise false issues with regard to the atti-
what money be was able to myself: Can it be that puny, in-
their sae. Several carious cita- order. Indeed, the prominence
tude of Palestine Jewry, or any other sec- into the category of unscrupulous abscon- and
get together.
considerable Israel is capable of it would be fun to ass him for tions, culled by the late George
ders
scores
of
other
prominent
Nazi
tion of our people, do an injustice to the
With high hopes my father re- arming one Cato after another a football. And he ended up Kohut, may therefore be of inter- given to Hebrew in the curricula
of the early American colleges-
names.
moved his family to New York.
Jewish national cause.
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