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Annual Bridge of Primrose
Benevolent Club Dec. 5
The Primrose Benevolent Club
will hold its annual bridge and
dance on Dec. 5, at Congregation
Bnai Moshe, 3710 Lawrence Ave.
Tickets for this affair can be se-
cured at the door or by getting
in touch with Mrs. Rodman, 2555
Elmhurst. There will be prizes
and refreshments.
Theta Delta Gamma Dance
On Dec. 5
Theta Delta Gamma Sorority
will give its third annual dance
on Sunday evening, Dec. 5, in
the grand ballroom of the Book
Cadillac Hotel. Hank Finney
and his WXYZ orchestra will be
featured. Tickets 'may be ob-
tained by calling like Mollio Ret-
sina, Tyler 6-8380.
JEWISH AGENCY CONDEMNS ACTS
OF RETALIATION; REVISIONISTS
SENTENCED; CONDITION IMPROVED
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
The one seriously injured suc-
cumbed late this afternoon in the
Hadassah hospital as a result of
a brain concussion. He was Ova-
dish Mizrachi, 32 years old, a Kur-
dish Jew.
The heaviest toll of deaths cen-
tered around an Arab bus in the
Romema quarter. As the bus
passed through Mahneh Judah
quarter, shots were fired at two
Jewish girls, one of them 15 years
old, wounding both of them, Sub-
sequently a fusillade of shots was
directed at the bus. Three Arabs,
including two women, were killed
by the gunfire and four Arabs
wounded, one of them seriously.
Among those wounded was the
Arab driver. A Jewish youth was
arrested Sunday in connection
with the shootings when two Arabs
pointed him out. A little while
later a bomb was hurled into an
Arab cafe near Romema, the ex-
plosion injuring six Arabs slightly.
Jewish cars passing through
Romema were stoned by Arabs
and Arab cars were • stoned by
Jews, with several victims on both
sides. Samuel Katzabl, a Sephardic
Jewish youth whom Arabs mobbed
and atoned as he cycled through
Romema, had to have his eye re-
moved by an operation at the hos-
pital. These were the main high-
lights of two hours of the worst
series of incidents the city has ex-
perienced. As tension spread
throughout the city, Jewish and
Arab road laborers working in
mixed quarters left their work.
Shops near the Jaffa Gate wefts
closed by their owners in self-pro-
tection. The vicinity of Romema
and Lifts was Immediately taken
over by police and troops with
mounted machine guns. Police also
took over the escort of all busses.
A number of Jews and Arabs were
arrested during the day In connec-
tion with some of the incidents.
Two Jews were apprehended for
the slaying of the Arab in Rehavia
and an Arab in possession of a re-
volver was seized in connection
the death of Ovadiah Mizrachi.
Another Arab was seized after he
had thrown a bomb on King
George Avenue. No damage was
caused by the explosion.
An Arab was wounded and then
arrested during the night when he
was found on Jericho road with a
rifle by a police patrol. Several
Arabs were wounded in an Arab
cafe near Lifta when a bomb was
thrown from a passing car, which
escaped. A Jewish youth was seri-
ously wounded when he was
stabbed with a dagger and then
stoned. Jewish vehicles passing
Arab sections were heavily stoned,
including the bus taking students
to the Hebrew University. During
the night a bomb had been hurled
at the Nissan Back synagogue in
the Old City, No damage was done.
Unrestrained condemnation of
Jews participating in attacks on
Arabs was the keynote of editor-
ials appearing in the Hebrew
press. 'The blood of innocent Arab
and Jewish victims cries out to us
from the soil," says the Haaretz
in commenting on the violence.
The attack on peaceful Arabs is
not only directed against them but
against the Jewish position in the
country. Since the government has
taken drastic steps to uproot ter-
ror, yesterday's incidents may be
regarded as a provocation to vio-
lence, delighting Arab terrorists."
The Dever, Hebrew labor daily,
asserts that the incidents are
"liable to fan a new menace which
had been diminishing. It is the
duty of the Yishuv to fight ir-
responsibility whose sequel Is
death and chaos." "Whoever were
the perpetrators of these crimes,
the Yishuv regards them as dan-
gerous enemies of constructive un-
dertakings of the Jewish way of
life in Eretz Israel," the Palestine
Post, English daily, comments.
UNCLE SAM'S HOUSEBUILDER
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those famous milk demonstrations
which were eventually to revolu-
tionize the health problem and save
countless lives. He still remem-
bers how he accompanied his
father on a visit to a town near
Heidelberg, where the coroner and
gravediggers were out of work be-
cause pasteurized milk was reduc-
ing infant deaths so miraculously.
Upon his return from Germany, he
entered Princeton as a student of
government under the tutelage of
Woodrow Wilson. There he earned
real money for the second time In
his life, ;15 as second prize in an
essay contest on the commission
form of city government.
As the son of a wealthy man
he could have dabbled in the pur-
suits usual to the scions of million-
aires. But following his own In-
clinations, he joined the now-
defunct New York Globe as a cub
reporter, Than came the oppor-
tunity to buy Puck, the humorous
weekly. And in pursuit of his am-
bition to shine in literature, he
grasped it, Is was as publisher of
Puck that Straus's sense of duty
to his people found first expres. -
sion, when he launched a series of
articles whose principal aim was
to show how much the Jews had
contributed to the upbuilding of
America. It was probably the first
series of its kind In an American
magazine, and was Straus' way of
scotching the venemous anti-Sem-
itic attitude of "Life." In 1916,
President Wilson sent his former
student a cordial note thanking him
for the series, saying, "exact and
impartial justice is not often given
by the historian, particularly by
the national historian." While
Straus owned it, "Puck" often in-
veighed bitterly against war. In
1913, it published an editorial en-
visaging its possibilities. Later,
Wilson expressed his appreciation
to its publisher for the way in
which it had supported his disin-
clination to war. But when the
Unit e d States declared war
against Germany, Straus enlisted.
By then "Puck" had been built up
from a circulation of 18,000 to
105,000. He never tried to explain
away the conflict between his
vociferous pacifist preachment in
"Puck" and his service as chief of
the wartime cable censorship, ex-
cept to say, "I was just as bad a
lunatic as anyone."
Quits Paper in Protest
The war over, he returned to
the Globe as assistant to the edi-
tor. But in 18 months he was out.
The Globe had bitterly assailed
Wilson and the League of Nations.
A strong partisan of Wilson,
Straus quit when he could not al-
ter the paper's views. The reac-
tion to Wilson's internationalism
gave the nation Harding and nor-
malcy, and also introduced young
Straus to the arena of public af-
fairs. Offered the Democratic
nomination for state senator in
t h e overwhelmingly Republican
"silk stocking" district of New
York City, Straus accepted and
shocked the politicians by crashing
through to election with a plural-
ity of some 4,000, despite the Re-
publican landslide in state and na-
tion: That was in 1929.
Six years in the State Senate
earned for him the reputation of
being hard-working, intelligent
and liberal. In that period of
laissez-faire and lush prosperity,
Straus harassed the stand-patters
with his progressive bills. Ile led
the fight to prohibit landlords
from discriminating against fami-
lies with children. He sponsored
the co-operative marketing law to
eliminate waste and speculation in
the marketing of agricultural
products. He championed the bill
to limit women's labor to the
eight-hour maximum. He fought to
'eat women on juries on terms of
equality with men. He initiated
legislation to curb fraudulent
dealings in the security market
He was the author of the first bill
embodying the plan of compulsory
compensation insurance for all
motor vehicles and fathered the
bills creating the state-wide park
development He was one of the
allies of Governor Smith in ham-
mering through a reactionary leg-
islature humanitarian legislation
and in furthering the power pro-
gram,
Familiar with Housing Problem
From 1926, when he left the
Senate, until 1933, when he was
nominated for presidency of the
New York Board of Alderman, his
chief public activity was the presi-
dency of the New York Park As-
sociation, a movement initiated by
his father. For years he was the
chief defender of New York's open
spaces against those who would
encroach upon them. Ile accepted
the nomination of the Recovery
Party four years ago with reluct-
ance. A Fusion victory against
Tammany was in the cards and
he was the candidate of a hastily
created third party. Opposed to
him were two other Jews, one the
lige Bernard S. Deutsch, who was
his personal friend. His defeat
was followed by an appointment
as New York State director of en-
forcement of the NRA. He accept-
ed cn condition that he be free to
resign when an efficient state-wide
compliance machinery had been
built, In September, 1934, he felt
he had achieved that and resigned
to devote himself to completion of
the privately-owned Hillside Hous-
ing Project, an undertaking which
provided model homes for 6,000
people, of which he is president.
His experience with this home-
building program won him an ap-
pointment to the New York City
Housing Authority last year. On
a trip to Europe in the summer
of 1936 he carried with him cre-
dentials identifying him as the of-
ficial agent of New York, author-
ized to study European methods of
acquiring land for municipal hous-
ing, methods of estimating land
values, financing these operations
and the manner in which the proj-
ects are administered when com-
pleted. Ile paid his own expenses.
On his return, his report revealed
that he had become thoroughly
familiar with all faces of low-cost
housing, knowledges of which will
stand him in good stead as ad-
ministrator of the United States
Housing Authority.
T h e same keenly developed
sense of duty that enlisted him in
community service also explains
why Straus, who could so easily
have escaped the burdens of Jew-
ish communal leadership by plead-
ing the pressure of personal con-
cerns—he has for years been the
owner of the largest hotel and res-
taurant equipment concern in the
country—not only identified him-
self completely with the Jewish
people but became one of their
ablest leaders. Prior to 1932, his
role In Jewish affairs was mostly
a matter of having his name on
letterheads. His father had been
dead only two years and his shy
nature made him hesitant lest he
be intruding on his father's do-
main. But in 1932, when he accept-
ed the chairmanship of the Amer-
ican Palestine Campaign in New
York, he assumed specific respon-
sibilities. That was the first time
he had taken the leadership of a
money-raising drive. Since then
he has been a vice-president of the
Zionist Organization, president of
the Night of Stars, the annual
benefit of the United Palestine
Appeal, and a nationzil chairman
of the American Palestine Cam-
paign.
Taking hold of Palestine fund-
raising at • moment least auspici-
ous for getting money, Straus re-
vealed that his interest in Zionism
and Palestine were not affiliations
sprung from his father's attach-
ment. That merely introduced him,
but his own conviction that Pales-
tine is the paramount cause in
Jewish life bound him.
Always aa Independent
As muds of • realist in Jewish
affairs as he is practical idealist
in social welfare, Straus firmly be-
lieves that there is no middle
ground for the Jew. One must will-
ingly align himself with his peo-
ple and take a substantial and
forceful interest in its people, or
he automatically outlaws himself.
Such is Straus's philosophy of be-
Bnai Brith Efforts
On Numerous Fronts
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hemorrhage in Jewish life, through
which some of the best of our
young people were being lost be-
cause of indifference or hostility.
In 1933 Bnai Brith took the
initiative in forming the Joint
Council of the American Jewish
Congress, the American Jewish
Committee, and Bnai Brith, be-
cause the Nazi control of Ger-
many had caused such transcend-
ing Jewish problems that unity in
American Jewry was the crying
need of the day.
In 1935 Bnai Brith launched the
most extensive survey ever made
of conditions among Jewish col-
lege students, because it was ob-
vious that many professions and
trades were overcrowded and there
wee a need for intelligent voca-
tional guidance of Jewish youth.
The Bnai Brith Research Bureau
covered nearly 1400 colleges and
universities, discovered that Amer-
ica has 105,000 Jewish students,
learned how many were studying
medicine, law, engineering, etc.,
and determined what fields are
overcrowded and what fields still
offer opportunities.
Boat Brith Palestine Colony
In 1936 Bnai Brith established
a 1100,000 colony in Palestine,
through the Jewish National Fund,
because German and other Jewish
refugees were crowded into Pal-
estine with no place to rest their
heads, no place to start life anew,
no land on which to he productive.
Thus it can be clearly seen that
Bnai 'frith meets Jewish needs as
they arise. We huve seen how the
order has met those needs in the
oast. and how it is meeting them
at present: •The needs at present
are great; they may be even great-
er in the future. It is therefore
the duty of every Jew over the
age of 21 to join Bnai Brith and
support it.
INTER-DENOMINATIONAL
THANKSGIVING SERVICE
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
dent of the Board of Education
of Cincinnati. He has the distinc-
tion of being the only rabbi any-
where to be elected as a member
of the board of trustees of the
Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion. A musician and composer of
unusual ability, he writes all the
notes for the programs of the Cin-
cinnati Symphony Society.
The Thanksgiving service will
again be held in the large audi-
torium of the Detroit Institute of
Arts, and will begin promptly at
10:30, closing at 12. Denomina-
tions participating will be the
following: Baptist, Congregation-
al, Episcopalian, Jewish, Presby-
terian, Roman Catholic, Unitarian-
Universalist, a representative of
the A. M. E. Church, and several
others. The general public is in-
vited to attend this service.
The offering will be for the be-
nefit of the Detroit Community
Fund.
The music for the occasion will
be furnished by the boys' and men's
choir of 90 voices of St. Paul's
Episcopal Cathedral.
MIZRACHI HONORS
DR. ISAAC HERZOG
PISGAH LODGE TO CELEBRATE ITS
80TH ANNIVERSARY THIS SUNDAY
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
president, District Grand Lodge
No. 6,
Address, Hon. Alfred M. Cohen
of Cincinnati, president, Order of
Bnai Brith.
Violin selections by David Dia-
mond.
Address on "Refracted Glory,"
Rabbi Jerome D. Folkman of
Grand Rapids, president, Michigan
Bnai Brith Council.
Award of honors, Dr. V. Droock,
chairman, 80th anniversary class
drive.
10 p, m.—Dance, Dave Dia-
mond's Orchestra.
As on past occasions of simi-
larly outstanding character the
events will draw large attendances.
Jack Kaufman, who appeared
through the courtesy of the Fox
Theater; Joaquin Garay, famous
romantic Mexican tenor who ap-
peared through the courtesy of the,
Ten-Forty Club; Sadie Cooper,
concert violinist, Evelyn Shkolnick,
cellist, and Florence Kutzen,
pianist. The talent was secured ,
through the efforts of Sam Maza
and Joe Jones of the entertainment
committee,
"Balloon and Hollywood
Bridge" of Society for
Deaf on Nov. 28
The Detroit Hebrew Society of
the Deaf will have a "Balloon and
Hollywood Bridge" at the Jewish
Community Center, Woodward at
Holbrook, on Sunday night, Nov.
28. There will be prizes. All deaf
mutes and hard of hearing and
others are welcome to attend the
social, admission being 25c. Re
freshments will be served by the
ladies of the society.
Miss Lois Haller is in charge
of this affair, and is assisted by
Mrs. Ethel Rubin, Miss Birdie
Jackson, Morris Fink, Sidney Wall
and Abraham Edelstein.
The Detroit Hebrew Society of
the Deaf will have a regular busi-
ness meeting and election of offi-
cers for 1938 at the Jewish Com-
munity Center, on Sunday, Dec. 5,
at 7 p. m., in room 9. The presi-
dent, Sam Gershnoff, requests all
SAMUEL W. LEIB
the
members to attend. All deaf
President of Pisgah Lodge
mutes and hard of hearing of the
JewisK
faith are welcome.
Reservations for the dinner dance
will be taken by Harry Yudkoff
at Randolph 8009 or Townsend RABBI SPERKA ON WWJ
8-5358. In view of the limited
DEVOTIONS PROGRAM
capacity of the ball room and in
further view of the fact that great
On Friday morning, Nov. 26,
numbers of Bnai Brith members Rabbi Joshua Sperka of Congrega-
from state lodges will attend the tion Bnai David will conduct the
ceremonies, it is urgently request- devotions program over WWJ at
ed that those interested in making 7:15 a. m. It is a daily feature
reservations do so at once so as of WWJ conducted with the co-
to eliminate disappointments.
operation of the Detroit Council of
Last Monday night an audience Churches, Rabbi Sperka was in-
that overflowed the lodge rooms of vited by Station WWJ to conduct
Pisgah Lodge in the Maccabee the Jewish program on alternate
Building heard one of the finest Friday mornings, On Friday
musical programs ever sponsored morning, Nov. 12, he spoke on an
by the lodge, Those participating Armistice Day program over the
were Jan Peerce, tenor, and Sam same station.
interpreted as defending commu-
FASCISM ALARMS
JEWS OF BRAZIL nism.
Liquidates Fanjet Party
As a double answer to charges
(CONCLUDED FRoM PAGE ONA)
Aazambuja Vilanova. publicly as-
sailed the Jew as being respon-
sible for the revolution and de-
clared that communism, is Jewish.
Colonel Vilanova is on record as
saying that communism and Ma-
sonry, which are outlawed in Bra-
zil, are "supported by Zionism.
which is the expression of the
will of the Jewish people for the
last 2,000 years to rule the
world."
These utterances have been
seized upon by the anti-Semitic
press as important aids in their
campaign. Attempts to protest
attacks on the Jewish commun-
ity, which have reached a Stretch-
er-like character in their inten-
sity and violence, have been in-
effectual because the country has
been under martial law. An im-
portant consequence has been the
silencing of all liberal friends of
the Jews who fear to speak out
lest their defense of the Jews be
that his new corporative constitu-
tion makes Brazil the first fascist
state in the Western Hemisphere,
President Getulio V a r g a s an-
nounced the dissolution of the
anti-Semitic green-snirted Integri-
lista Fascist party as a political
organization and formally denied
in a statement to foreign corres-
pondents that Brazil would join
hands with European dictators or
abandon its 100 per cent loyalty to
American ideals. In the same state-
ment, however, he admitted that
the Integrilistas supported the
new regime but without any obli-
gation on the government's part.
Dissolution of the Integrilistas
was announced in a manifesto to
its members by its fuehrer, Plinio
Salgado, who declared the party's
political section was abolished be-
cause there was no longer any need
for it. Its sections on physical
education, civics and morals, how-
ever, will continue, he said.
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eternal verities of the Torah.
These are parlous times for Israel
and the Land. For the more cer-
tain redemption of Zion and its
people, we today require the active
interest and aid of every Ameri-
can Jew."
The local Mizrachi chapter is
making plans for an intensive
drive, including a number of
mass gatherings and house-to-
house canvasses, in behalf of this
tributary action.
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The Yiddish Folks Verein's
26th annual ball will be held on
Saturday night, Nov. 27, in the
General Motors Bldg. Benny
Kyte and his orchestra will sup-
ply the evening's entertainment.
Admission will be 65 cents.
ing a Jew. lie has no sympathy
with those who counsel Jews to
abstain from the highest privileges
of American citizenship. Ile is
publicly on record as declaring
that those who advocate Jews
should be less active and conspicu-
ous in American public life as a
means of avoiding anti-Semitism
are betraying their country. lie
has no illusions about the forces
of disintegration that tend to un-
dermine Jewish solidarity, but he
has shown a willingness to tackle
the toughest problems in Jewish
life as he is now tackling the vital
problem of housing and slum clear-
ance.
In his career as a public serv-
ant and a leader of Jewry, Straus
has always been an independent
who refused to be guided by tra-
dition alone. In identifying himself
with the Jews, he has devoted
himself to their interests without
self-glorification and without seek-
ing self-advancement. His political
record reveals the same trait of
courage and progressive thought.
Political position was a trust and
not an honorary title. In dealing
with the Jewish community as in
his relations with the public he
never condescends but regards
himself merely a cog in a great
mechanism. Blessed with genuine
modesty bordering on reticence, he
has seen himself not as a lord
bountiful distributing largesse and
service out of the goodness of his
heart, but as the heir of a great
tradition of civic welfare and hu-
man betterment. Always opposed
to ballyhoo in politics and In Juda-
ism, he has been the champion of
forthright action in both spheres.
Today, Nathan Straus h a
emerged from the shadow of his
father's enveloping name. Under
the stimulus of time and achieve-
ment, he has grown to importance
in his own right as a Jew and as
a civic leader. He has courage and
conviction and Ideas, IV h e n
Nathan Straus dropped the junior
after his name, he entered a new
epoch in his career, which is des-
tined to make the second Nathan
Straus as great a personality in
his own right as was the first.
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