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November 12, 1937

Kislev 8, 5698

Political Dirt

Every important political campaign
brings in its wake a filthy issue which
leaves a bad taste upon awakening to re-
ality.
Two men friendly to the liberal cause
were candidates for mayor of New York
City. There being no united Jewish vote
in American politics, it was natural for
each candidate to have a group of Jewish
adherents. Judge Jonah Goldstein and
Dr. Samuel Margoshes, editor of the Day,
supported Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. Dr.
Stephen S. Wise was one of the strong
backers of Mayor LaGuardia and went so
far as to deliver soapbox orations for the
candidate for re-election.
The campaign might have ended with-
out repercussions were it not for the re-
quest of the New York Nazis for a per-
mit to conduct a parade. The police de-
partment granted the permit. Whereupon
the Mahoney supporters charged the La
Guardia government with encouraging the
American Nazis, and the man who was a
few months ago the target of the German
government!suddenly found himself brand-
ed as helping the reactionaries.
The whole issue could have been trans-
lated into a huge joke, particularly in
view of the fact that Mayor LaGuardia
is descended from Jews on his mother's
side, and in view also of his being married
to a Jewess.' But his opponents went a
bit too far in their public denunciations in
the press and over the radio. The Jewish
Daily Day is especially on the defensive,
its action being called a "chillul ha-Shern,"
—a desecration of the Jewish honor. Dr.
Wise, requested for a statement, said
among other things:
"I must, to my regret, state that the at-
tempt which the Day through its editor
and publisher made to drag the Jewish
question into the city elections which have
just ended, is one of the sorriest chapters
in the history of the American Jewish
community. I cannot imagine any more
serious profanation than to abuse the Jew-
ish name and to invent a Jewish issue so
that with it the interests of a political
party be served. This was done by the
Jewish Day. I sympathize with it and its
readers . . . It is one thing to fall into
error in the heat of a political campaign.
But it is quite another thing to drag the
Jewish name through the mud and to ex-
ploit the Jewish issue in order to serve
personal egoistic purposes and the purposes
of a political machine, such as the pay
has done. We can only hope that when a
sober understanding and feeling of respon-
sibility will return to the editor and pub-
lisher of the Day, they will beg forgive-
ness of the Jews whom they have insulted
and betrayed by their conduct in the
course of this campaign."
The Day and its editors are clearly the
guilty parties in this issue. Mayor J.,a
Guardia gave a logical explanation of his
action in granting a permit for the Nazi
parade when he said that it was a question
of honoring the principle of giving all
groups the right to peaceful assembly. As
long as the singing of the llorst Wessel
Song was prohibited and the paraders
were expected in advance to number less
than the total police force that watched
the march, it was silly to make an issue
of this permit. But even if Mayor La
Guardia erred, the tactics resorted to in
branding him a person who was lending
comfort to the enemy were too funny to be
taken seriously..
In the long run, it is proof of the stu-
pidity and ludicrousness in which a poli-
tical campaign may be dragged. Jews as
well as non-Jews made errors by the score
during the national campaign of 1936, and
there was a silly Jewish issue at that time.
It is interesting to note that Ida M. Tar-
bell, noted biographer of Abraham Lin-
coln, when interviewed on the occasion of
' her 80th birthday last week, stated that
political campaigns of our time lack the
vigor of the past and that Franklin D.
Roosevelt is less exciting that T. R. was.
"In those days," she said, "each side
thought the nation was doomed unless it
could elect its candidate." But this hap-
pens also to be true today. Our news-
papers warned us that we were in danger
of having the relas of government seized
by the C I 0, and the latter sought to
arouse the labor groups against continued
control by the forces of capitalist cor-
ruption. Each side always maintains that
it is the savior for the country. It will no
doubt ever be so. Dame Politics hath her
y temper, and whoever consorts with
invites trouble. When Dame Politics
to sleep the filth somehow dissolves
air becomes automatically puni-
•he rest in peace fora long

muse.

The Duke and His Friends

Even his visit to Hitler might have been
excused on the ground that royalty loves
to hob-nob with royalty. But the Duke of
Windsor planned to come here as a friend
and associate of the fascists. lie was to
make his tour under the direction of reac-
tionaries whose activities are a danger to
the democratic form of government.
Therefore, the action of the Baltimore
Federation of Labor deserves the highest
commendation of all liberals.
Joseph P. McCurdy, president of the
Baltimore Federation of Labor, as well as
the Maryland and District of Columbia
Labor Federations, who introduced the
resolution, knows who are the friends of
labor and who are its enemies. He is
apparently well acquainted with the ruth-
less methods of. Dr. Ley, the Nazi labor
dictator who was responsible for the break-
ing up of the trade union movement in
Germany. He must, therefore, be given a
place of honor in the ranks of the fighters
for freedom and justice for having penned
and presented the following resolution that
deserves to be recorded in the annals of
modern documents in defense of liberty
and our form of government:

Whereas press representatives have an-
nounced that the Duke of Windsor and his
wife are coming her. to study housing and
labor, preceded by a visit to Neal Germany
under the personal guidance of Dr. Ley, the
man who ordered and ruthlessly directed the
destruction of all German free trade unions;
the man who was personally responsible for
the imprisonment and the slaughter of honest,
courageous, God-fearing leaders of free men
and

Wh
, following the study of labor under
the guidance of Dr. Ley, labor's foe, the for-
mer king and his wife continued studying labor
problems In conference with Adolf Hitler, the
world', most notorious foe of democracy and
freedom of conscience, and

Whereas, the former king and his wife have
announced that their study of labor in this
country will be under the guidance of Charles
Bedaux, whose vicious adaptation of the Tay-
lor system, like unto the labor appeasement
program of Germany, would apply the stretch-
out system to labor in thia country, and

Whereas Baltimore, the former residence
of the wife of the Duke of Windsor, is to be
the first city whose labor is to be studied by
one who while resident here in no way showed
the slightest concern nor sympathy for the
problems of labor or the poor and needy:

Therefore be it resolved, that the Baltimore
Federation of Labor warns all Baltimore trade
unionists of the potential threat to free labor
and to free democratic government itself of
slumming parties professing to help and study
labor and that all those who either as emis-
saries of dictatorship or as uninformed sen-
timentalists support • stretch-out system,
whether it be the old Taylor system or the
more modern Bedaux anti-labor stretch-out,
and

Be it further resolved, net in reiterating
our stand for determined support of demo-
cratic government and free labor in our coun-
try we •xpress our cordial good-will to fel.
low trade unionists in the British Common.
wealth of Nations and in all other countries
where people still are frt..

No apologies are due the Duke. He and
his Duchess should be taught that it is no
longer possible to fool "the poor" with
"slumming" parties. They should learn
that the world is wise to their tricks of
"patronising" the poor with studies of
labor and housing conditions and over-
looking at the same time the world's worst
slums: the Nazi concentration camps. The
Duke of Windsor has been given a lesson
in democracy which should drag him down
from the high pedestal upon which he has
been placed undeservedly. An exchange
of the Nazi salute with Hitler does not
blend well with attempts to curry favor
with labor and the spokesmen for democ-
racies.

Detroit Jewry Is Aging

Lights from
Shadowland

By LOWS PEKARSKY

(Copyright, 1137.. 8. A. F. 8

CONTRACT FOR SHUBERT

Warner Bros, studios has given
your Hollywood correspondent a
batch of interesting and important
news concerning the activities of
Jewish personalities aligned with
this huge movie-making plant and
we pass the items on to you. First,
we learn that a contract has been
signed with Milton Shubert, thea-
trical producer of New York, and
nephew of Lee and J. J. Shubert,
Broadway impressarios, for his
services as an assistant producer.
He will report here Jan. 1. Pro-
ducer Shubert has produced and
directed several Broadway show
hits in the past few years, includ-
ing "Blossom Time," "Laburnum
Grove," "My Maryland," "No
More Ladies" and "Swing Your
Lady.' Warner Bros. recently
bought the latter play and is now
transforming it into a photoplay.
Theatergoers will recall that in
1930, Shubert took over the Munic-
ipal Outdoor Opera House in St.
Louis and revived business so well
that his organization became one
of the best known outdoor theatri-
cal enterprises in this country and
led the Shubert company to under-
take similar ventures in Detroit
and Jones Beach, N. Y,
PAUL MUNI AS VICTOR HUGO?
The second item is that Paul
Muni may yet portray a third
honored son of France, for War-
ner Bros. hope to persuade him to
take the leading role in the screen
version of the life of Victor Hugo
slated for production next year.
Muni's portrayals of two other
great Frenchmen, Louis Pasteur
and Emile Zola, already are the
talk of the cinema world, Heinz
Herald, a co-author of "The Life
of Emile Zola" and famous Jewish
writer, is collaborating with Wolf-
gang Reinhardt, son of Max Rein-
hardt, on the Hugo screen play.
Muni is now on the first lap of a
trip around the world and he will
stop in Moscow long enough to ap-
pear in a series of Jewish plays
with the Moscow Art Theater
group similar to those which won
him popularity in days gone by
in New York. Warner Bros. like-
wise hopes to get Muni for the
titlerole in a Haym Salomon film
the studio has slated for 1938 pro-
duction, but there won't be any-
thing definite about it until next
spring.
•

ROBINSON STARTS
NEW PICTURE

A third item advises that Ed-
ward G. Robinson has just started
work on the picturization of the
very popular New York legitimate
stage hit, "A Slight Case of Mur-
der." Robinson, for whom the stu-
dio claims top-ranking screen char-
acter player honors, will play the
leading role, and his supporting
cast will include the well-liked
George E, Stone. Robinson is a
radio star also, as you dialtwisters
must know by now, His radio ef-
forts are being confined to a series
of newspaper plays. Many will re-
call that it was his enactment of
a hard-boiled managing editor's
role that brought him fame in the
movies.

IZZIE MAKES PEACE

Strictly
Confidential

An American Jewish War Vet-
eran Talks to the Nazis

Tidbits from Everywhere

By DOROTHY THOMPSON

IRDITDICS NOTE: The whole world Is talking about Lector

Gennett, the American Jewish one selensn .110 laid

wreath at the base of German's monument to Its

our dad with permission of the NOM authorklee. In

this brilliant essay presented by special arrangement
with the New lurk herald-TrIbuite, )Ilia Thompson,

celebrated columnist and foreign correspondent, dim-

the Implication. of Gennett's dramatic cesium.

However you look at it, from whatever angle,
the gesture of Isadore Gennett is flawless. It has
the inevitability, the complete harmony between
idea and expression, of a perfect work of art. It
states, it delights, it charms. It has the innocence
of childhood, the genius of the innocent adult. It
is totally simple, and cosmically significant.
Isadore Gennett, race Jewish, habitat the Bronx,
is a member of the American Legion. When the
boys went abroad this summer on a junket, he
went along. Ile believes in peace between nations
and between classes. He decided to lay • wreath
upon the chief war monument in every cppital he
visited, as a memorial to the dead, and a silent
rebuke to War, which killed them. Eventually ho
came to Berlin, and there did, with complete in-
souciance, what he would have done anywhere else.
And with that simple gesture, he threw, for one
moment, into a clear white light, the issues of
peace and war, nationalism and internationalism,
the civilian versus the military machine, the in-
dividual versus totalitarianism. Not that he knew
that he was doing anything of the kind. The ges-
ture was too inspired for anything so conscious.
Consider what happened. What happened is the
impossible. A completely obscure Jew from the
New York Bronx, entirely alone, with no organ-
ization behind him, came to Berlin, mobilized the
German army and obtained its active co-operation
in a public gesture of reconciliation between Jews
and their persecutors and between all men every-
where. It is true that the army had not the re-
motest idea of what it was doing. But it did it,
and the symbol of its confusion lies in Unter den
Linden, upon the memorial to the dead, check-by-
jowl with a wreath from Mussolini, its white and
gold ribbon implicitly proclaiming to all who pass
that the Morris Krumholtz Post 18 of the Jewish
War Veterans of America denies the intrinsic
divisions amongst nations and races and affirms
the solidarity of mankind in the will for peace.

A Salute—In U. S. Uniform

Isadore Gennett laid it there—not surreptit-
iously. With the collaboration of the Nazi army!
With a guard of honor! Solemnly, ceremoniously.
With a salute.
"I salute you, unknown German soldiers! May
your souls rest in peace, for the sake of the peace
we all seek."
Soldiers in graves from Sussex to the Darda-
n elles must have moved in their sleep, and grinned.
Yes, he mobilized the German army. Only a
few men, to be sure, but in them was the syinbol
of the whole. For to move the tiniest cog in the
machine is to demonstrate that it can be touched
by infidel hands, and thus to challenge the whole
organization and system. How did he do it? By
acting in a completely normal, civilian way. Ile
wanted to lay a wreath in tribute to the unhappy
German dead. Ile asked permission. The permis-
sion was granted. Wreath-laying on the dead is
part of the military routine between wars.
Besides, he wore a uniform. To be sure' it
was the uniform of the American Legion, the uni-
form of the demobilized, the habiliments of the
soldier who has returned to normalcy. But a uni-
form, apparently, to the military mind. The per-
mission was granted.
And now the permission itself started auto-
matic forces. It moved the robot-machine. The
guards goose-stepped out. The hollow ceremonial
was staged. And it was with a guard, of honor
that Izzie made his gesture, with which he cried
aloud to the German people and to the world:
Let's call off this monkey-business. Let's really
honor the dead! Let's all make peace.

His Work Asks Only Reverence

In Germany they say, over and over and over

again that the Jews are "different." A whole propa-
MISS GAAL NOT JEWISH
A Hollywood film-folk news- ganda, doled out in word and picture, calls atten-

writer for another Jewish news
agency stated that Miss Franciska
Gard, DeMille's newest movie
queen importation from Hungary,
is one of "the chosen people," but
this information is incorrect. Both
Paramount Studio and Miss Gaal
informed your Hollywood cor-
respondent that she is not of the
Jewish faith.

Book of Memory

"Yizkor: Book of Memory"
edited by F. Steinmetz and just
published by Edward Goldston
Ltd., 25 Museum St., W. C. 1,
London, England, is the best book
of its kind printed thus far.
Produced as a guide for use by
Jewish families during days of
mourning, this volume contains all
the prayers for mourners, sup-
plications at the setting of the
tombstone, upon entering the
burial ground and the complete
service at the setting of a tomb-
stone. There is also included the
complete memorial service (Maz-
kir Neshomot) and a table show-
ing dates of Yizkor services for
40 years,
This volume is valuable not only
for mourners but also for rabbis
and for officiating reverends. In
concise 48 pages it contains all
the required prayers for mourn-
em and for yahrzeits.

tion to every possible characteristic of physiog-
nomy and bearing that can be spotted as "Jewish."
Izzie is a Russian-born Jew from the Bronx. Yet
Izzie's appearance awakened no suspicion. Was
it the uniform? Are all men equal or are all
men non-men in uniforms? All unconsciously
Izzie challenged a whole racial theory. The army
accepted him. Or was it the wreath? The un-
imagined spectacle of a man whom a whole na-
tion has conspired to humiliate, standing, before
that nation neither cowed nor arrogant, with a
memorial wreath in his hands.
There was nothing, there is nothing, that a
Powerful Reich can do to Izzie. The police ques-
tioned him, but there was nothing to find out.
There was nothing except what was. The gesture
was integral, unique, complete. It was simply
that, and nothing more. It was perfect. Pure.
Therefore immortal. Indestructible.
What counter-gesture could be made? Could
one snatch from the tomb so naive a tribute to
the heroic dead? One could not.
Bombs fall on Shanghai and burst in Spain.
Lloyd George thunders in the House of Commons;
Mussolini speaks, heralded by two thousand bugles;
Russia shudders under an unending purge; men
march and counter-march across tht continents,
across the newspaper pages.
And in the midst of the tumult and the terror
lies Izzie's wreath, saying until its brave ribbon
fades, that this world is not becoming to those
born into the Great Race, the Only Race: the
Human.
Leave Izzie alone, Let him come back in quiet
to his newsstand in Wall Street. Hold back the
ballyhoo. Leave mamma and the children, and
Izzie'• past and Izzie'• future quite alone.
The perfect work of art asks only for rever-
ence.

'

By PHINEAS J: BIRON

THE SMALL PARADE

The most vociferous protester
against Mayor La Guardia for per-
mitting that famous Nazi parade
in New York on Saturday, Oct.
30, was a Jewish gentleman of the
press, who at an executive session
of the American Jewish Congress
had agreed that the Mayor of New
York had no alternative but to per-
mit the march. Even Untermyer,
than whom there is no more vio-
lent anti-Nazi in the country, ac-
cepted La Guardia's position as
one that didn't give him any legal
loop-hole for stopping the parade
or for refusing to issue a permit
. . It was within La Guardia's
power to restrict the march route
and the amount of parade para-
phernalia—which he did If
not for George Fredman, active
Jewish War Veteran leader, there
would have been a clash between
the Nazi paraders and this Jewish
soldier's group ... Our ex-soldiers
had been steamed up by some anti-
La Guardia politicians to create
some real trouble and thus put La
Guardia on the spot , . . But
George talked them out of this
stupid plan Of course, you at'
know that the parade was a big
flop from the Nazi point of view,
a few hundred American German
stormtroopers marching through
the German district of the metrop-
olis with no more spirit than a
demonstration of mail carriers af-
ter a long, arduous day , And
25 per cent of the 1,300 police who
guarded the 800 Nazi marchers
were Jews . . Among them were
a Jewish inspector, five Jewish
captains and 17 Jewish lieuten-
ant.

THE NAZI FRONT

There'll be an imposing parade
of Jewish figures called as wit-
nesses when Robert Edward Ed-
mondson, anti-Semitic pamphlet-
eer, goes on trial for criminal libel
in New York ... Among the Jews
subpoenaed are Stephen S. Wise,
Samuel Untermyer and Samuel
Margoshes . . If you hear Os-
wald Garrison Villard, noted anti-
Nazi, introducing Fritz Kuhn,
Nazi fuehrer, on a radio program,
don't think Villard has gone Nazi
. The station, WQX111, gave
Kuhn time only on condition that
Villard speak and after, to answer
the Nazi , It is whispered that
among the contributors to the In-
dustrial Defense Association of
Boston, whose director, Edward
Hunter, admitted spreading anti-
Jewish propaganda, were the
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution ... Did you notice that the
Associated Press carried three long
and comprehensive stories dealing
with the Jewish situation in Ger-
many, Poland and Central Europe?
. . . An important State Depart-
ment official has made no bones
about his opinion that the Duke of
Windsor's visit to America is defl-
nitely a piece of Nazi propaganda
We hear that the Foreign Pol-
icy Association will make an im-
portant announcement on the Jew-
ish situation in Poland before long
. . . Jewish business men in the
South are being approached to
help the Ku Klux Klan in its fight
against labor ... There Is a move
on foot to have the proposed Con-
gressional probe of Nazi and Fee-
cist propaganda made by a Senate
committee instead of a House body
... If it succeeds, the job will go
to the La Follette Civil Liberties
Committee,

FROM FOREIGN SHORES

We hear that Leon Blum may
be the next French ambassador to
Washington . Uncle Sam has
been sounded out as to whether
Blum would be persona grata. ■
The Armistice Day parade of
t h e Jewish Ex-Servicemen of
Great Britain was unique this
year because the British Secretary
of War, Leslie )lore-Belisha, took
part .. This is the first time a
cabinet minister marched in a
Jewish demonstration,

ABOUT PEOPLE

Washington Tears that Sidney
Hillman, president of the Amal-
gated Clothing Workers, may en-
ter the cabinet as Secretary of
Labor when and if Miss Perkins
retires.
David A. Brown, the man who
once raised $25,000,000 for East
European Jewish relief, still has
what it takes He went into a
Detroit court the other day to an-
swer a judgment obtained by the
receivers of his insolvent General
Necessities Corporation ... Brown
could have gone into bankruptcy,
but he sought and obtained a year
in which to pay off a $40,000
judgment . , . And he was once a
millionaire.

PURELY COMMENTARY

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Honor in Yellow Badge:
Disgrace in Swastika

There were times when the Yellow Badge, forced
upon our people as a symbol of humiliation, served
as a badge of honor. If it were to be reinstated
today, as it already has been in spirit in numerous
lands of oppression, it could still be worn proudly
by Jews who know how to accept slurs with dignity
and without self-humiliation. In the long run,
self-humiliation is far more degrading than abuse
by others.
But the swastika could never, never, be worn by
Jews with dignity and with pride. That would be
the height of self-abuse and self-hate.
And yet, many Jews do wear the swastika. It
need not necessarily be the double-crossed emblem
which was once an Indian good-luck sign, but
which has in recent times become the symbol of
bigotry and anti-Semitism. When Jews purchase
goods marked "Made in Germany" they carry with
them the counter-part of the swastika.
So much is being said about the boycott, but
many Jews nevertheless continue to lend comfort
to the enemy by purchasing his goads. We know
of no more flagrant violation of Jewish self-
respect.
•

Natural Impulses Alone Needed
To Make Boycott Successful

We have come to the conclusion that only the
spontaneous and natural impulse is necessary to
make the boycott a success. If the carrying on
of a campaign of propaganda through a function-
ing office has not made all Jews boycott-conscious,
then the work is not a complete success.
In reality, boycotting German-made goods
should be a natural, almost unconscious reaction
on the part of all liberals and all Jews. If such
readiness to fight the Nazi menace with economic
weapons is non-existent after four years of Hitler-
ism, then we have failed in our work.
r ranicty, we believe that most Jews do support
the boycott, and that the handful who do not join
in the fight on Nazism through economic methods
are a hopeless minority who have not learned the
meaning of self-respect. Apparently there is no
end to the need for educational work within our
own ranks.
•

Book Knowledge vs. Experience

In their plea that the Board of Regents of New
York be compelled to license four German refu-
gee physicians, Samuel Untermyer and Samuel
Leibowitz, two of the best known lawyers in Amer-
ica, told N. Y. Supreme Court Justice William T.
Collins that they doubted whether they could pass
the bar examinations now being given law school
graduates.
It is a practical point that is applicable to every
profession, including the medical. At school book
knowledge is essential; in practical life it is ex-
perience and the sound application of what has
been absorbed at the university that counts. A
medical student may be able to offer an excellent
definition for a given surgical term. but will be
totally unprepared for practical surgery. A good
journalist whose diction and grammar is fault-
less may not be able to define a rule in rhetoric.
But these truths will be ignored by the over-
whelming majority of professional men and wo-
men when they are directly affected by the pur-
pose for which the Untermyer-Leibowitz argu-
ments are advanced. The New York medical men
may fear an influx of German doctors and will
fight against the waving of state examinations even
in the case of the best physicians who are forced
to come to this country because of Nazi persecu-
tions. The same applies to lawyers, journalists,
teachers, etc,, etc. The moment you strike at a.
Person's means of earning a livelihood, reason and
justice lose to the economic element as the first
law of human nature. The decisions by the New
York Regents to admit to practice four refugee
physicians can, at best, be interpreted at a tem-
porary victory for sanity in democracy.

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No "Horseplay"—No Fun

An ancient custom is coming to an end. The
parish bulletin of the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church of Jersey City, N. J., warns that pros-
pective brides will hereafter have to forego the
practice of being showered with rice as they leave
the church after the wedding ceremony. This
custom, the bulletin states, has "absolutely no
Christian meaning," but those who insist on it
may still have their fun if they pay for it. Reads
the warning in the parish bulletin:

Considerable else ham been thrown In the church end

vestibule and street at neent weddings. we ask the

members of the ronMegation not to do It. It Is •

vulg., practice. No lady or gentlemen would go into

moon?. house, much tem ilw house of God and mess
It up with rice, It In aim a mark of icriorsnre. Ask

those who do M, why they do It, and they ran't else

any Intelligent sewer. It le a practice that hail abso-

lutely no Christian meaning. In the future, those who
come to make arrangement. for their wedding will

be required to make a depuolt of $5. If no Ilea Is

thrown, the money will be returned. If Oro la thrown.

the money won't be returned. Throwing rice at wed-

dings le ...Imply hoe...pixy,
Detroit Jewry, one of the youngest
communities among the larger Jewish set-
We recall an ancient Jewish custom of throwing
tlements in America, is aging. It has
nuts and candies at the bridegroom when he was
called to the reading of the Law on the Sabbath
turned octogenarian and is growing in
preceding his marriage day. The kind ladies who
stature.
did the showering of sweets did not wait until the
On Nov. 21 and on Dec. 10 two impor-
bridegroom left the synagogue. It was done right
in the house of worship—and there was no sweep-
tant anniversaries will be celebrated. On
ing up necessary afterwards because there were
the first date Pisgah Lodge of Bnai Brith
plenty of youngsters on hand to gather up the
will observe its 80th birthday. On the sec-
harvest. This custom, too, has been abandoned,
ond date, a series of celebrations will be
especially in the synagogues where emphasis is
placed on decorum. There is no more "horse-
ushered in to mark the 75th birthday of
play" in the House of God—hut for the young-
Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
sters it also means the disappearance of an ele-
(copyright, 1517)
Both events are of equal importance.
ment of fun.
Both institutions have rendered great serv-
ice to the community and have assumed
BRITISH POLICY
significance not merely for those who are
HELPS HITLER
affiliated with them but for all the Jews of
Detroit.
Leo W. Schwarz's Complementary Volume to "The
How the Allies Won the Support of American Jewry
By RABBI EDWARD L. ISRAEL
There was a time when Pisgah Lodge
Jewish Caravan" a Veritable Treasure
was the dominating factor in the Jewish
By HAROLD ROLAND SHAPIRO
TREASURY DE JEWISH LITERATTRE. :Selected and Edited by
activities in this city. As the major move- A GOLDEN
I find myself irritated by the
Lee W. sichwars. Farrar and Rinehart, New York 117)•
ment that was able to unify all elements
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Inside,
before.told story of how the propaganda
Duke of Windsor's prancing
machine of the Allied rotten Po eeeeee ally won the support of Arneriran
Leo W. Schwarz's "The Jewish word may draw freely. The Jew-
in one social and fraternal order, it was Caravan"
around Nazi Germany. I imag-
Jealsh opinion In the years before the tolled Metes entered the Dorld
rates among the best ish reader naturally is the great
war
Is
told
In
this
fart-bultremed
PIP... be Mr. Maple*. Mr. Mhapim
the bridge upon which orthodox and re- compilations of Jewish literature beneficiary.
ine, of course, that back of his
Is the author of a Meekly realistic book, "Mimi Every lining Man Should
form, Zionists and anti-Zionists, were able in the English language. In that There are seven sections in this antics is the good old spirit of
Know About Star,' which Knight Ceblications will pettish HO. month.
It Is • resealing doenment that should be In the hand• of every Jew.
volume masterful essays a n d treasury, and each is opened with
to meet and to fraternize.
In thl•nomad and teat article preoented
the occeslon of Amitotic. Day. Mr.
service to country that every
shapiro lionods • warning against Jew''
esse." permitting Itself to be dnpefl
Congregation Shaarey Zedek's stare in stories that were previously un- a splendid black and white illus- Britisher acquires either in the
again by those Oho are Meting on their desire to take • crack at Hitler.
to English readers were tration by Lionel S. Reiss, eminent
the building of this community is well available
royal court or on the Eton
in this volume presented to an
artist, The classification
known. From this synagogue emanated a audience that did not suspect there Jewish
While American Jews in conven- the heroism of the Zionist refugees
of these sections is splendid. The sports field. My annoyance, I
guiding spirit that influenced not only the was such a wealth of Jewish read- first, under the title "Our Native suppose, should be at England tion assembled were asking Presi- who had enlisted with the British
conservative element but the orthodox as ing matter. Literary critics in Land," deals with the American rather than at 'the well-mean- dent Wilson to obtain equal rights Army at Gallipoli. The British an-
this country and in England hailed Jew'a love of this country, "Here,"
well. In a sense it has also influenced the "The
for European Jews, England in I flounced in the fall of 1916, that
Jewish Caravan" as a noble the author says in • prefatory ing Duke of Windsor. Never-
September, 1915, was telling the an Australian Jew, John Monash,
reform element in the community—be- work end an achievement of the note,
"is a portrait of the Ameri- theless, he is the personifica-
Jewish
of the large number had been made a Major General,
cause reform Jewry is today becoming first order. Practically all Jewish can Jew. The artists hive por- tion of everything that strikes of Jews world
in her armies, and and that H. S, Seligman had been
more traditionally observant and is once reviewers agreed that not a single trayed vividly his struggles and me as extraordinarily stupid the care serving
shown by the war office gazetted ■ Brigadier-General, the
home should be without dilemmas in a rapidly changing
more adopting ceremonial practices as a Jewish
for
Jewish
religious
observance. first Jew of British birth to attain
this book,
with regard to Great Britain's
The figures on the canvas
At. the same time, the Jewish that rank. The Jewish Chronicle
means of beautifying its services and The appearance of a comple- society.
are not always pleasant, but hu- handling of the German situa-
Chronicle
was
deriding
the Ger- took pains to declare the German
strengthening its forces. Shaarey Zedek mentary volume to "The Jewish man and recognizable: the colors tion.
man enemy's proposals of Jewish government the chief oppressor of
has been a stronghold for Zionist activi- Caravan" must. therefore, be wel- are rarely bright and lyrical, but
freedom.
British
General
Sir I. the Jewish race. Sir Herbert Sam-
Up to the World War, Great
comed with more than passing in- real and striking."
ties. It has been a factor of importance in terest.
Hamilton wrote to The Day telling uel, roping with the problem of
Because this new work not
Britain's policy of the balance
Outstanding
Authors
of the services of an army corps alien Jews from Russia and Po-
sponsoring educational activities. It has only adds to the first but enhances Attesting to the reality of the
from Jewish Jerusalem land, who had evaded military
always stood in the center of efforts aimed the series, the appearance of "A selections appearing in this section of power on the continent ap- recruited
refugees.
service in those countries, offered
peared to be good diplomacy,
at bringing relief to the needy, knowledge Golden Treasury of Jewish Litera- is the list of authors—Ludwig
In
March,
1916, • National a "voluntary" enlistment plan and
deserves to be recorded as Lewiaohn, Mar v in Lowenthal, even though it meant periodic
to the young, dignity to Israel everywhere. ture"
Union for Jewish rights was form- fee. (It is interesting to note that,
eminent contribution to Edna Ferber, Myron Brinig, Irv- bloodshed on the battlefield.
ed. In August, 1918, Ambassador remission of the naturalization
Pisgah Lodge and Congregation Shaarey another
the English-Jewish library.
ing Fineman, Albert Halper, Mi-
The rise of fascism and Nazism,
Jusserand wrote Oscar S. Straus in the ease of Turkey, Russian
Zedek have earned the gratitude of De-
Splendid Classification
chael Gold, S. Lieben, Meyer however, presents a new situa- that the French government would Jews who preferred the alterna-
troit Jewry for their contributions to our What was previously a sealed Les-in, Henry Roth, Edwin Seaver
permit drug ehipmenta to the Jew- tive of becoming Turkish citizens
community. It is the entire community, chest is now an open treasury —most of them younger writers tion, the implications of which ish hospital in Palestine. In April, to being deported, were reported
which every reader who de- who have recently made marks conservative British diplomats
therefore, that will join in congratulating from
1916, Col. Patterson of the British by the New York papers as being
sires to become acquainted with for themselves in the literary
have not taken sufficiently into
Army took pleasure in describing "forced" to become Turkish citi-
both institutions on their anniversaries.
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