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Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 31.
Prophetical portions—Hos. 14:2.10; Joel 2:15-
17 or 27.
Yom Kippur Morning Readings of the Torah,
Wednesday, Sept. 15
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 16; Num., 29:7-11,
Prophetical portion—is. 57:14-58:14.

Yom Kippur Afternoon Readings of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 18.
Prophetical portion—Jonah.

September 10, 1937

Tishri 5, 5698

A Day of Atonement

On Yom Kippur Jews will search their

souls in atonement. There is much for
which we need to repent. We have been
niggardly in dealing with our less for-
tunate beings. We have been indifferent
to the needs of the community. Jews have
not risen to the heights that beckoned to
them in the pact decade. A great hour
has found us wanting.
In moments of enthusiasm we boast of
our achievements, but in reality we have
little to boast of. More timely aid to wor-
thy causes might have prevented suffer-
ing. A more open-handed and kind-
hearted response to the appeals of our
sorrow-stricken brethren overseas would
have made their lot easier. A readier re-
sponse to the Palestinian appeals would
have redeemed more land—and would
have assured an enlarged territory for the
projected Jewish state.
A bit of introspection on the Day of
Atonement may awaken us to our needs in
the future. Those who study conditions
objectively must admit that we have not
risen to the importance of the present de-
mands upon us as Jews. Perhaps the new
year 5698 will be a more auspicious one
in arousing Jews to face their responsibili-
ties with loyalty and with courage.
But if we have sinned, our neighbors
have sinned doubly. The non-Jewish world,
if it had a day for atoning its misdeeds,
would have had much more to repent for.
The yhave not stopped persecuting. They
are descriminating on every front—and
the mere word "Jew" is sufficient to
awaken hidden hates and prejudices. In
some countries, the Jew's neighbors even
kill when their passions are aroused by
the blindness that sees an apparition every
time a Jew appears on the scene.
We have sinned—and our neighbors
have sinned. But because the latter were
just a bit worse is no reason why we can't
continue to be much better. The coming
year must arouse the Jew to honor and
dignify his heritage, which is the highest
ethical law yet revealed to man.

The National Fund Conference

The Jewish National Fund is assuming
its deserved position in the American com-
munity, and therefore also in Detroit.
Here the fund has been especially popu-
lar in the past few months. The planting
of the Fred M. Butzel in Palestine on soil
of the Jewish National Fund has stimu-
lated interest in this cause. At the same
time, the selection'of Detroit as the site
for the national conference of the fund,
during the week-end of Oct. 8-10, is an act
of recognition of the excellent work of the
local council.
The national conference, marking the
35th anniversary of this Palestine land-
redemption fund, will be an occasion for
re-examination of our status in Palestine.
The importance of the Jewish National
Fund is at present more evident than ever,
as a result of the report of the British
Royal Commission. A glance at the pro-
posed revised map will reveal that the
Jewish territory suggested as the site for
the Jewish state includes all the land pur-
chased by the Jewish people through the
Jewish National Fund, with the exception
of the land neighboring on Jerusalem. It
is clear that the Royal Commission was
guided by the Jewish possessions in Pal-
estine in making its proposals. Had more
land been purchased by the entire Jewish
people, through the Jewish National Fund,
'
it is reasonable to 'believe
that the addi-
tional tracts would have been included in
the boundaries of the Jewish state.
In the meantime the responsibilities to
the Jewish National Fund are in no sense
diminished. Only a small part of the pro-
posed Jewish territory is owned by our
people. The rest of it will have to be re-
deemed through national Jewish efforts,
and the Jewish National Fund will be
charged with the responsibility of making
this redemption. At the same time, hope
has not-been abandoned that there will
be opportunities to purchase large tracts
in neighboring countries for the settlement
of many Jews. Upon this fund will there-
fore rest the duty to acquire as much land
as possible and to open avenues for the
colonization of hundreds of thousands of
Jews who must be rescued from their
present surroundings which have been
made unsafe for human habitation.
The Detroit Jewish community is hon•
cored to have the opportunity to welcome
the Jewish National Fund spokesmen from

Swastika-Wearing Youngsters

Proof of the justification of the protest
against the sending of Cleveland high
school students to Germany and the wel-
coming of German youths in that city, on
an exchange basis, was' provided when
the 104 Cleveland youths returned from
their two-month stay in Nazi-land wear-
ing swastika buttons.
Upon their arrival in New York, most
of the children refused to discuss their
impressions of Germany, but 16-year-old
Harry Feick said, "What impressed me
most about Germany was that the streets
are awfully clean, and there are so few
Jewish people around."
The references to Jews may have been
a very innocent remark. But damage was
undoubtedly done, judging by the fact
that the swastika assumes a certain im-
portance for these youngsters. The hat-
red of free institutions and dislike for the
Jew was undoubtedly inculcated in them
during their visit in the land of Hitlerism.
The injection of such prejudices was made
possible by the blindness of an important
American community that permitted an
exchange agreement for student ,travel
with Germany.
Other communities must be on guard
against the repetition of this grave error.
Student exchange agreements must be pre-
vented at all costs. Nazism must not be
permitted to make inroads in this country.

Dickstein's Attacks on Nazis

In the last of his series of addresses de-
livered in the House of Representatives, in
which he disclosed that a chain of Nazi
propaganda camps is functioning in this
country, Congressman Samuel Dickstein of
New York quoted from a German epistle
to members of the House telling them how
a "representative Jewish paper disagrees
with me on the advisability of conducting
an investigation at this time." Congress-
man Dickstein continued to state: "Can
you just picture Mr. Kuhn agreeing with
the American Hebrew and the American
Hebrew in accord with Mr. Kuhn? Surely
something must be wrong with both."
Most assuredly, there was something
wrong with the attack the American He-
brew launched on Rep. Dickstein. The
latest trick move by the Nazis, in grant-
ing diplomatic status to party officials
abroad, proves it decisively. The Nazis
have played an important card by making
this move. They realize that Mr. Dick-
stein has the goods on them, and that his
disclosures of the existence of hordes of
propagandists is certain to place the Nazis
in this country on the spot. By giving their
party spokesmen in this country diplomatic
status, the Nazis may save their skins just
in time to avoid being caught in a trap now
set for them by the G-Men.
The American Hebrew has little to
boast of in its ill-advised action against
Congressman Dickstein. By making a pub-
lic scandal of personal dislike of the New
York Congressman, this New York week-
ly has harmed the cause of anti-Nazism
and has put to shame the sincere efforts
of a man who is looked upon rightfully as
a Jewish spokesman in Congress, and as
an avowed anti-Nazi. The American He-
brew has, at the same time, placed itself
in a ridiculous light by devoting many of
its pages in a fight against Hitlerism, and
at the same time belittling, on very un-
worthy grounds, a man who is fighting for
the same principles.

Book- Burning by Mosleyites

On Sept. 3, the followers of Sir Oswald
Mosley, British fascist leader, convened
in Victoria Park, London, for a public
burning of 20,000 copies of the London
News-Chronicle. The cause for this dem-
onstration was the condemnation of the
Mosleyites by this newspaper for sending
a delegation to Germany to confer with
Julius Streicher, Germany's vilest anti-
Semite.
Anti-fascists will be heartened by the
reply made by the London News-Chronicle
whose editors declared that the anto-da-fe
is a great honor for them. This is how
every honorable person interprets a fascist
threat and Hitlerite abuse: That the source
of the insult makes it an honor.
But the fascist newspaper-burning must
not be taken too lightly. Today they des-
troy newspapers, tomorrow, in emulation
of the llitlerite vandalism, they may de-
stroy books—and then will come the de-
struction of human rights.
Those who value their freedom must
not permit a single opportunity to go by
without taking advantage of it in con-
demning fascism and in assisting in the
crusade that will lead to its total destruc-
tion wherever it may show its ugly head.

An Assassin in Our Midst?

From the same Bari station that were
broadcast Italian pro-Arab and anti-Zion-
ist talks during the 1936 riots have just
been broadcast addresses in Hebrew, in-
tended to win the favor of Palestine Jewry
for Italy in anticipation of the creation of
the proposed Jewish state.
Apparently Italy is playing a game that
does not discriminate in the approach of
peoples, and is not disturbed by inconsis-
tency, as long as Italian politics are served
thereby. One day the Italians appeal to
the Arabs against the Jews, the next day
they appeal to Jews against the British.
The disgusting thing is that the ad-
dresses of appeal to Jews should have been
broadcast in Hebrew.' Coming from a
source that is purported to have encour-
aged Arab murderers in 1936, we are up-
set by a sense of nausea that a moral as-
sassin should reveal himself in Jewish
ranks.

The number of German scholars who

ever y part of the country, It is to be were forced to go into exile from Germany
,r ig htfully expected that the results of has mounted to 1600. Many of these sav-

lb* deliberations will rebound to the ants are now suffering, but in the course

- we lfare of the entire community of of time it will be the Nazi ideology that

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will pay the price for Germany's disgrace.

Lights from
Shadowland

Mr. 0 Observes Yom Kippur

By AL SEGAL

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

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I call him Mr. 0 because he is like a cypher
in his house. This is no disparagement of him.
How
many men are robust integers in their own
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.:Good-look-
There are millions upon millions of Mr.
ing Kent Taylor, whose real name houses?
O's
in
the world and I count myself one of them.
is Louis Weiss, has become one of
It
is,
indeed, quite a convenience to be nothing
Hollywood's most popular movie
but a Mr. 0 in one's own house. Mr. 0 is relieved
actors. Ile came to the cinema city of the painful necessity of thinking for himself in
with a strong desire to get into
matters of his household. In the business world
motion picture work, an ability as the
Mr. 0 is an obstinate thinker who generally says,
an actor and little else in the way
No,
but at home he says Yes,
of assets. Kent didn't know a single
So when, long ago, his wife Bald, "Ralston,
person in the film business and
started his movie career as an ex- don't you think we ought to become members of
the
temple?"
Mr. 0 made no argument. Mr. 0 nod-
tra player. A few months later the
first "big break" came for Taylor ded his head with acquiescence, though she was
tearing
his
heart
out.
when the casting director of a stu-
To leave the orthodox synagogue and take up
dio asked him, as a favor, to "sit
in" on sonic tests being made of the temple instead was like high-hatting his father
a new type process shot. Taylor and mother (day hasholom). Not that Mr. 0 was
"sat" and when studio executives faithful in the synagogue every Saturday or even
came into the projection room to on the lesser holidays. He used to promise himself
see the film, they were so im- that when he retired from business, he would be
pressed with the atmospheric in the synagogue every Saturday,
Mr. 0 felt particularly that he was treading
young actor that they sought him
out and gave him a contract. Suc- holy ground on the days of Jahrzeit when he went
cess came rapidly thereafter and to the synagogue's basement for the services. lie
Weiss, renamed Taylor, played in was conscious of the hands of his father and mother
a number of important pictures. He leading him back to the house of Israel, Oh, he used
is now under contract to Univer- to say, the feet of a Jew stray far from the holy
sal Pictures. Taylor was born in things but once a year his parents bring back.
On Yom Kippur Mr. 0's fond heart had its
Nashua, Iowa, in 1907. He is mar-
ried to Augusta Frances Kulek. best time in the synagogue. Even when toward eve-
He is six feet tall, has brown hair ning the old place grew stuffy, Mr. On nostrils
and brown eyes. Ile was a student felt they were taking ineffable aroma. The thick
at the Darrah School of Industrial air smelled, sentimentally, exactly as did the old
Engineering in Chicago for two synagogue of his boyhood in Slobotka toward eve-
years before succumbing to his ning. Mr. 0 was always regretful when dusk fell
boyish' ambition to become an ac- on Yom Kippur.
At no time (even when he was wearing his
tor. His father did not approve of
his desire to act and his mother tuxedo dinner coat) did Mr. 0 feel so well dressed
wanted him to be an attorney, so as when he was wrapped in his talith on Yom Rip;
as a compromise, the engineering pur in the synagogue.
And now he must leave the synagogue and go
course was decided upon. However,
at the end of his second year at to the temple instead. She might as well have asked
school he forgot all about building him to disown the graves of his parents, to walk
cnstruction and took a job with past their graves and give obeisance rather to Mr.
the Birkell Stock Cmpany, For Oppenstraus who abided in the marble mausoleum
the next two years he toured closely.
Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, gain-
Yes, he thought, the old synagogue isn't fa-
ing valuable stage experience.
shionable enough for her any more. She must move
to
the
temple, just as she insisted on moving to the
HAYM SALOMON FILM
$25,000 house in the more fashionable neighbor-
FOR MUNI
hoed; just as she demanded the Cadillac in place
Warner Bros. have been sold on of the Buick. It was, indeed, mused Mr. 0, of the
the idea of recording and glorify. same
which prompted her to say time and
ing the patriotism and achieve- again, vanity
"Ralston, don't you think we ought to try
ments of a Jew who helped make
to get into the Minehaha Country Club?"
American history, Ilaym Salomon.
To none of these thoughts Mr. 0 gave voice;
At least one other Hollywood stu- his had
almost burst with their rankling insistence
dio has rejected a Horn Salomon
to
be
heard ... "Speak to heel Be a mensch."
picture suggestion within the past But Mr.
0 nodded his head in acquiescence and by
year. Now comes word that one of non-resistance
the super-features on its 1938 pro- Anshe Giborim. became a member of Temple K. K.
gram will be an all-color picture
• • is
starring America's geatest char-
Mr. 0 sat desolated in the temple. It seemed
acter actor, Paul Muni, in the role no place
for the old God, and if
were here
of Salomon. This will be Muni's it was a shame to nit before Him on God
Kippur
last picture under his Warner con- naked without a talith and with no Yom
hat
on. Mr.
tract and it should be a magnifi- 0 felt abashed, like some new nudist suddenly
cent one. Production cannot pos- thrust for the first time into the sunlight.
sibly start until the spring of
Mr. 0 considered his shortcomings. In the old
1938, as Muni and his wife are
leaving in October for a trip synagogue on Yom Kippur his shortcomings seemed
fall away from him, as he recited the familiar
around the world. The Salomon to
ritual; in the synagogue Mr. 0 spoke of God with
film is tentatively titled "My his
own mouth.
Country First." This may be
But the cultured accents of the Reform rabbi
changed to "Sons of Liberty". The in the
temple (who spoke to God for the whole
story will be built around the dark congregation)
seemed without avail. Mr. 0's small
days of the Revolutionary War, sins remained encrusted.on
when George Washington often no cleansing in the temple. his soul; there seemed
turned to Salomon for help and
Mr. 0 should have liked to stand up in the
advice. It is expected that Sam
congregation and speak plainly to the rabbi: "Sir,
Bishop will be producer assigned It isn't like Yom Kippur here. Except that I
to this epic film and George Jessel haven't had breakfast I wouldn't know it was Yom
will be his associate. Jessel will Kippur."
soon begin work on the script with
And how much more comfortable were the
Pallid Buchner, who is doing the pews in the old synagogue! Though they were of
research work, and an ace writer. the hardest wood they comforted Mr. O's bones
Warners originally intended to from morning unto dusk on many a Yom Kippur.
make the film a short, but have They were like ineffable seats beside the Throne
now decided on a full-length Tech- of God himself, blessed by His holy name.
nicolor feature. It should be a
Yet in the soft, cushioned opera chairs of the
"natural" for Jewish movie fans. temple, Mr. O's bones felt tortured as if sitting
BENNY BAKER HONORED
on rocks ... "Stop fidgeting," commanded his wife
Governor Cochrane of Nebraska . . Mr. O's bones shifted this way and that in
has invited Benny Baker, Para- aching protest at the slow hours stretched toward
mount film comedian, to be guest noon. .. "Ralston, you get me nervous."
But there is an end of endurance even for
of honor at the Nebraska State
Fair at Lincoln this month. The Mr. 0, Noon came and he spoke plainly, even re-
popular young funmaker's family belliously; Mr. 0 felt the valor of a Maccabee
moved to Omaha, Neb., from his rebelling for his God.
birth-place, St. Joseph, Mo., when
"Genevra," he said firmly. "I'm going out."
"You'll sit right here, Ralston."
he was two years old. Ile lived
"I'm going to the old synagogue."
there until he was 13, attending
Kellim School. He attended Lincoln
"Ralston!"
Mr. 0 was as brave as his words. His footsteps
High School in Lincoln, played
football and captained the school's were quick to the synagogue. He was aware of
basketball team. His knowledge of the ghosts of his parents as he entered the familiar
"Yiddishkeit" was gained as a door ... "Our Raphael has come home to us"
student at Omaha's Talmud Torah, Mr. 0 felt embraced by the comfort of the wooden
At the age of 17, he and his fam- pew. Ile breathed deeply as if to inhale an ex-
ily (real name is Zifkin) moved quisite essence, though the air in the synagogue
to Rochester, N.. Y. In Rochester, was already quite thick. He felt enveloped in the
he filled jobs in the Keller-lieu- Shechinah.
is
mann-Thompson Clothing factory,
Duffy-Powers Department Store
Ever since Mr. 0 has given half Yom Kippur
and as a candy butcher in the old to his wife in the temple and half to God in the
Gayety Theater. He won his first orthodox synagogue. This Yom Kippur (as on all
good break in theatricals when he others) promptly at the hour of 12, Mr. 0 will
landed a part in George Cukor's arise from his opera seat in the temple . ."I'm
stock company in Rochester and going,Genevra."
remained for a long time with the
She no longer disputes with him about it.
company. After two years' playing Though she never will give in to Mr. 0 she feels
in character roles Cukor made she ought to compromise with God. She lets Him
Benny assistant stage manager. have Mr. 0 for half of Yom Kippur.
Benny came to Hollywood three
Thus (as I hear) many another Jew, come to
yearn ago and has been a success a clash between tradition and the new ways, divides
ever since.
Yom Kippur between God and his wife.

KENT TAYLOR MAKES
GOOD

Strictly
Confidential

PURELY COMMENTARY

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

By PHINEAS L BIRON

(Copyright, 113f.

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A. •. a/

YOU SHOULD KNOW
Dr. Robert A. Ashworth, editor
of the news service of the Na-
tional Conference of Jews and
Christians, returned from Europe
on a boat flying the swastika ...
Dr. Boris Nelson, executive sec-
retary of the Non-Sectarian Anti-
Nazi Leogue, has submitted his
resignation . . Recently a na-
tionally known radio commentator
arranged to visit Europe with the
intent of interviewing Leon Blum
and Benito Mussolini, trying, how-
ever, to avoid a conversation with
Herr Hitler . .. A friend of his,
a close relative of the famous
beauty expert Elizabeth Arden,
asked why Hitler was not included
in the list, and received the an-
swer that it had proved too dif-
ficult to arrange such an inter-
view , . . The next day our radio
celebrity received a cable setting
the time for an exclusive talk
with the Fuehrer . He was on
the spot, until finally he worked
out a traveling schedule which
made it humanly impossible for
him to keep the date in Naziland
which the Arden relative, who is
an arden-t admirer of Hitler, had
to efficiently arranged . .

JEWISH PROBLEMS

We wonder what "a socially
qualified family" is supposed to
be .. A holder of two seats in
Temple Emanuel, New York, ad-
vertised his pew for sale, but in-
sisted that the purchaser be "no-
dally qualified" . . . New York's
Central Synagogue, oldest syna-
gogue building in the city, is be-
ing restored to its original beau-
ty . . Its cornerstone was laid
in 1871 by Rabbi Isaac M, Wise,
father of the present rabbi of the
congregation, Jonah B. Wise . .
Did you know that it is exactly
2,000 years from the time the Jews
lost their independence in the Sec-
ond Jewish Commonwealth to the
time they were offered independ-
ence in the third Jewish Common.
wealth through the partition plan
of Great Britain? Pompey cap-
tured Jerusalem in 63 B.C.E., de-
stroying the Maccabean state as
a sovereign unit ... Lewis Browne
has achieved the impossible ... In
his latest book, "Oh, Say, Can You
See," there is not a single Jewish
character, nor is there any men-
tion of the Jewish problem . . .
Pierre van Paassen, now in Paris,
has 60,000 words on hid first book
all written and neatly typed .
VIA ETHER WAVES
London insiders are hushing up
a juicy morsel about the wife of
a member of the British Cabinet,
who, unwittingly or otherwise,
handed out ponfidential informa-
tion to the three Nazi journalista
who were given the gate by the
British government.
At Amsterdam, at the Interna-
tional Scout Jamboree, the 20,000
Boy Scouts from 43 lands sang
the Palestine chalutz melody as
one of the five official marching
tunes.
The Chinese use a red swastika
as their Red Cross emblem, but
the Japanese don't stop shooting.
There's a Catholic church in
Rome with a Hebrew inscription
on its facade . . . It dates from
the days when one of the Popes
thought he could convert the Jews
by forcing them to go to that
church.
NOTES ON A BIRD FANCIER
The late Lord Walter Lionel
Rothschild, famous for his bird
collection and the receipt of the
Balfour Declaration, was a gay
bachelor in his younger days . .
Walter once paid $1,750 for a
great auk's egg . . But he paid
much more for blackmail from
blonde ladies . . lie was dis-
missed, at one time, from the
Rothschild bank after the vener-
able house had to pay a fortune
for millinery bills which the gay
young blade had had charged to
the bank While he was a mem-
ber of the House of Commons the
speaker asked Walter's father to
forbid his son to invite his mis-
tresses to the House visitors' gal-
lery He remained a bachelor
to the end ... Ile was never an
active Zionist, although he was
vice chairman of the Emergency
Zionist Conference of 1920 at Lon-
don . . . Ile had the cool temper
of a scientist, but be could get hot
and excited . . . The non-Zionist
group on the board of deputies of
British Jewa are still talking about
the verbal shellacking he gave
them after they published in the
London Times a manifesto object-
ing to the Balfour Declaration

Rotarians and Boy Scouts

Nazis are henceforth forbidden to hold member-
ships in Rotary clubs. Walter Buck, Chief Justice
of the National Socialist Party, gave as the reason
for this prohibition the fact that Rotarians are
not "anti-Semites for racial reasons" and do not
object to association with Jews.
This decision is interpreted as an effort to de-
tach the German People from all private contacts
with the rest of the world and to prevent their
association with international organizations that
are not directly under Nazi control. Thus, the whip
of Ilitlerism cracks down on a — mighty people—
and this people silently bears a yoke that is con-
ceivable only in association with the middle ages.
But it is safe to predict that the Nazis will be
the first to bid for Rotarian friendship in the
event that they should find it necessary for their
political schemes. It was not so long ago that the
Boy Scouts were banned in Germany, and the
Scouts, in turn, denounced Hitlerism at a world
parley. But only a few days ago Julius Streicher,
chief pornographic anti-Semite of Germany, while
greeting 400 Hungarian Boy Scouts who were
visiting Germany told them that the daily good
deed implicit in membership in their movement can
best be achieved by waging war on the Jews who
"are the devils of the world." Such shamefacedness
is typical of Nazism. Therefore, the prohibition
placed on Rotary clubs need not be taken as a
surprise. The Boy Scouts, the Masons, the Rotari-
ans have already aroused the ire of Hitler's co-
horts. Who is next?
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Catholic Magnanimity

The Michigan Catholic reprints an editorial com-
ment on "The Division of Palestine" from The Sign,
in which an old, worn-out argument is advanced
that Arabs lived in Palestine for 1,200 years and
therefore have priority to the land. "In view of
these facts," this editorial states, "we feel very
little sympathy for the Zionists who are now mak-
ing an outcry at what appears to be a robbery of
the Arabs in their favor. The portion of Palestine
allotted to the Jews, while small, contains prac-
tically the entire fertile section of the country."
Without understanding the issue, or having any
knowledge whatever of the natural qualities of the
pail oret uim
l s atut e s uo s f Pa
musletsti iundee, liocauftlyCatkiic friends

though inhabited by Arabs for several hundred
years—for 600 to be exact, not for 1,200—was
never abandoned by Jews. We have laid claim to
it since the Dispersion and have retained the land
in our prayers and memories. We poured hundreds
of millions of dollars into the soil that is now fruit-
ful but which was desert land only 20 years ago,
and, given a chance, would make the entire land blos-
som again as it did in the days of its greatest glory.
But the feeling of "very little sympathy for the
Zionists"—in reality it means for all Jews—is in
effect an obstacle which served to encourage de-
struction instead of making it possible for the
Jewish people to revive the neglected Holy Land.
As a matter of fact, Catholics in Palestine have
long ago begrudged us every opportunity of build-
ing a home for the Jewish spirit. There is a class
of religious people that desires to see Palestine the
land of shrines and ruins. Jews, because they insist
upon making the country a fruitful and healthy
place to live in, defy such dreams for the perpetu-
ation of a desert.
What galls us particularly in the Catholic senti-
ment we quoted is the utter lack of sympathy for
anything affecting the Jewish people. Catholics,
for instance, could very easily put a stop to per-
secutions in Poland, which is predominantly
Catholic. A word from the Vatican would have
done the trick, But the Church is silent on the sub-
ject of persecutions, Catholics, as we pointed out
in a recent article, could have prevented many
attacks on Jews in numerous lands of oppression,
especially whenever the stupid ritual murder libel
was directed at us. But they were talent. Now, in
the face of an earnest desire on the part of the '
Jewish people to build a haven for millions of per-
secuted people, the charitable and religious spirit
of the Church is expressed in an emphatic declara-
tion of lack of sympathy. What magnanimity and
what a sense of justice!
In the same issue of the Michigan Catholic from
which we quoted the above comment appeared the
following editorial paragraph: "The Non-Sectarian
Anti-Nazi League has protested against the per-
secution of religion in Germany. As far as we can
learn it has not condemned the equally atrocious
war on religion in Leftist Spain, Socialist Mexico
and Communist Russia. Why not?"
The mere name of the league—"Anti-Nazi"-
provides the answer to this question. It is a move-
ment directed against Ilitlerism. But if the infer-
ence is that Jews have not protested against the
persecution of religion in the countries mentioned
then an explanation is in order. The truth is that
Jews have condemned religious discrimination in
Soviet Russia. But in Mexico and Spain they are
rot religious wars but conflicts based on political
and economic principles. In Spain it is a fight of a
republican form of government against the threat
of fascism—and the fascists whom the Catholics
defend have already threatened the security of the
Jewish people. Insofar as Mexico is concerned there
is also sufficient proof that the battle is not waged
on the church as such, but against the exploitation
of the masses of impoverished Mexicans.
Suppose the Jews were to raise a howl, every
time Catholics cry out in defense of their co-
religionists, in protest against Catholic failure to
mention also persecuted Jews in various countries,
what would be their answer? They would laugh us
down. Naturally we never presumed to ask the
impossible. But whenever there was injustice
against Catholics Jews were among the first to
raise their voices in condemnation of bigotry. Many
Catholics, including the Vatican, have also spoken
in protest against the persecution of Jews. But the
more dignified and more responsible never confused
the issue, as does the Michigan Catholic. Furthers
more, we were never so brutal as to express a
lack of sympathy with an humanitarian movement.

The First Guggenheim

Speaking of Women

WHEN THE JEWISH STATE WAS IN INDIA

Peddler's Pack to Merchant

Notes on the Jeviish Femin-
ine World

Recalling the First Jewish State Since the Dispersion

By HARVEY O'CONNOR

Editor', Note: The fascinating Orr,' of

how !dryer Guggenheim. an Immigrant
Jew, atarted the world-tam°. Gurorelmim Indoetrial empire with • Pedti-
leen perk la told its OW second of four articles taken from Mr. (1•Connor . a
hook, .The Guggenheim,. ntilrh the Merry Art. Feature af labiate and
The Detroit Jealett Chronicle present by epeeist •rr...mint oith
Fried, Publishers.

(Copyright. 11137. ac, on Arts Feature RIAlltat•t

Young Meyer Guggenheim con-
tinued to peddle while his father
mixed the stuff at home and sup-
plied friends who came to the
house with -packs, The big differ-
ence in the peddling was in the
percentage. Before he had made a
penny or so on a dime sale: now
he cleared seven to eight cents.
After • time the young merchant
abandoned his pack. But not for
a home as he had dreamed. Now
he traveled far afield by train and
horsecar, carrying a little satchel
with samples of the polish and
other lines he was adding.
It was time now for Meyer and
Barbara to be married. He was
24, hopeful, and on the road to
success. She was 19; and they say
her auburn hair glowed in the
sun, her skin was unusually fair,
and her eyes had a special way
of looking sometimes brown and
sometimes a soft warm gray.
Downtown in gloomy little
Keneseth Israel Synagogue, the
wedding was solemnized, Meyer in
a new black frock coat, Barbara
in a gown adorned with lace which
Mother Myers had brought over

from Switzerland. Many friends
were there, a few Swiss from
Lengnau and Endingen, more new
ones, peddlers and small mer-
chants with whom the Guggen-
heim has been associated. Barbara
was a fine-looking girl, not beauti-
ful perhaps, but energetic, cheer-
ful, home-loving, the cynosure of
admiring eyes as she stood besides
her husband. Blessings were in-
voked on them and their progeny.

Tailor and Grocer

And who but the Widow
Wiener, that masterly cook and
incredibly honest caterer, wel-
comed the gay party to her com-
modious place for the feasting and
dancing that followed. Next day
the good lady sent over to Bar-
bara's mother two chickens and
some cookies "that were figured
in the bill and not eaten up last
night." A little duty the guests
had neglected to finish. absorbed
as they were in the wine.
On this happy occasion Meyer's
keen wit fairy crackled in the
bluff, hearty give-and-take of the

IPLEASC 'MIN TO NEXT

PAGE/

By DIANA KLOTTS
Women's Editor, S. A. F. S.

SNOW IN THE SUMMERTIME

By C. Z. KLOETZEL

&Mee.

Note: With the whole Jenlith mond eagerly debating the pr. and rant
of propomd Jewish Male In Palestine, Mr. Kloettel lams beck the
pages of history and gives e. a glimpse into the
land of &e..-
m, • diotrirt In India where In the Middle
Ag.s there emitted for 500
teen the And Independent Jewleh

The name: Sylvia Govern;
state since the Dioperoion of Israel
from 111.11ne.
Age: 21; Job: Well, that's not
quite so simple, but it's enviable
(Copyright. 1137, R. A. F. a )
work for the summertime, any-
It was not so long ago that I •MAY" for many hundred lbousande of
way. Specifically, it is Miss
Govern's job to determine in stood in the synagogue of the Years. In the thlrtpalath year after
"white" Jews (called white to dis- the ..rood year when he dwrit
the summer approximately how tinguish them from the colored Me,iirikote he rheum to great the fol- in
deem of grace:
much snow will fall in the win- B'nai Israel of India) of Cochin, in lowing
. 11 e Nee redert to Joseph Rabb..
ter. And you'll agree that's too Southern India, and held in my (Rabbi J.eph) the territory of AJU.
ANAM,
with the 31 properly right..
hand one of the oldest and strang-
big an order for just a hobby. est
of hoaI• and carnage, Income
historical documents belonging WIMP.
Helm of Memnon, • lamp • de,
A Brooklynite and former to Diaspora Jewry. They were two and
• carpel efteenl before hint
'ma
ever, • polemist, a asthma to
Ore.. •
student of geology at Columbia, little plates of soft copper en- inmalvel,
a triumphal orh, • aarlaed
Miss Govern is employed by the graved with Indian letters and re- end ao forth. We have transferred fa
in white. The writing on him the land Ian nod the aright tat.
Government Weather Bureau drawn
we have ronarmed 0115 them
these plates, which is in ancient Moreover,
eePper plate. thiti he need net
to chart the weather.
Now Tamilian, • dialect still widely show tare, which the Inhabitant. ray
of
the Mher too
the
winter clothes designers and used in Northern Ceylon, has been RendWarr, end Ihet km ololl to
ne?,
s
known
and
deciphered
for
many
the same advantage. Mit
manufacturers won't go too far
centuries. Nevertheless, it was a
4% Joseph woman. prleee of
amiss in the choice and quan- strange sensation for a Jew to "1 111;e1
Maraests, and. hi* dearendate, mo•
tity of what the gals will wear touch these plates for they repre-
" have
hir:Z. ht:rs
when and if the snows set in. sented the charter of the first te
.n ervierf I: enteral stereeedoe. A. tool
the world nod the masa .1.1.
And not alone that, but out Jewish state to be created after. ▪ rem..
than
*remain
their
bromine
,/
the dispersion of the Jews from
from 31iss Govern's desk goes Palestine.
Thus
far
it
has
been
impossible
information to the National
The quaint language on the, to establish the exact date when
Parks Service which serves as a plates rings strange to modern these plates were written. His-
ears
but the wording plainly in-1 torians, however, agree that it was
helpful guide for planning ski-
dicates what it was meant to be.1 no earlier than 700 A. D. and no
trails.
It reads as follows:
I later than 1,000 A. D. Since Aju-
MRS. EDWARD JACOBS
-wan s•a IhisseaMg! The follendeM
...bre I. frars..•tr greade• by 1. 1 vanam was not finally destroyed
The election of Mrs. Edwsrd • M.
the /•eg 8.1 Parham= hint Tw- by the Portuguese until 1565, this

(T1.1 ■ 16/ T171614 TO NUT PIOI)

ins,' whew aweeters ?ewe held the

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