PEI) erRorr, Awn entomali November 19, 1937 cal THE LEGAL CHRONICLE riifiPEFROrri /Menai ORM ICii Criminal-Hunting in Palestine On the day on which W. K. Kelsey, and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE brilliant commentator of the Detroit News, !Wished Weakly hy Th• Jewish Chreakie Puldisktag C., Irmo wrote his piece on "Hunting by Airplane," which is an excellent satire on the failure Watered .. Beeond-clue matter Yank II, DM at the Poet- elle. at Detroit. WWI. stades the A.t .f Wank 1. 1171. of the Palestine police to catch up with any of the criminals responsible for the coun- ' General Offices and Publication Building try's terrorism, we also received a cable 525 Woodward Avenue from Jerusalem, through the Palcor Agen- Tetepbeae: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address, Chronicle cy, dealing with the same subject. The Landes Omni 14 Stretford Piece, London, W. 1, England two items are worth comparing: Subscription, In Advance. 33.00 Per Year To ineutv publication, all •orreepondenee ad news matter nest meth this omen by Towle. evaded of melt week. When welling noels.., kindly nee one Ws ef the paper vols. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle lusltes eorrespoadenee on •als. Smits of Intermt to the Jewish people, bet dieclaims moons'. ► ility for e. Indorsement of the •iews expreseed by the writers Sabbath Scriptural Portions Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32:4-36:43 Prophetical portion—Hos. 12:13-14:10, or 11:7- 12:12, or Obad. 1:1-21 November 19, 1937 Kislev 15, 5698 Welcome, Junior Hadassah National Junior Hadassah's convention, which will be held in Detroit for a period of four days beginning on Thanksgiving Day, comes so close upon the heels of the important convention of its parent organ- ization—Senior Hadassah—that it appears like a continuation of a determined effort to bring to the attention of the Jews of this country the significance of the move- ment for the reconstruction of Palestine for Jews everywhere. Junior Hadassah has proven an excel- lent pupil and is following nobly in the footsteps of its senior body whose achieve- ments have earned for it the position of priority in American Jewish life. Junior Hadassah's distinctive projects—the spe- cific colony, the nurses' school, the farm for girls, as well as its educational efforts among the members In this country—have met with such marked triumphs that the young ladies comprising the organization have just reason to be proud of their ef- forts. Other youth movements have much to learn from Junior Hadassah. Instead of being negative in its approach to Jewish issues and wasting its efforts for the dis- cussion of anti-Semitism, Junior Hadassah is ever on the job doing constructive work, building institutions that aspire to make more wholesome the life of Jewish settlers in Palestine, and devoting its energies for positive rather than negative educational work in America. Because Junior Hadassah is so whole- some a movement, it is a privilege for De. troit to be host to its convention, and we join with all friends of this splendid move- ment in welcoming its delegates to this city. MR. KELSEY'S COMMENT THE PALCOR CABLE If a real-life Philo They've invented a Vance were to step out of a S. S. Van Dine new variation for hunt- thriller and come to ing criminals in Pales- Palestine to practice his sleuthing on a grand tine. are airplane put on scale, he would find his their Dogs trail; and efforts, if successful, watches the dogs. When well rewarded. Amounts the dogs stop and howl, ranging in the neighbor- hood as of rewards $500,000, of- the airplane notifies the fered for in- nearest' police station, formation leading to the and officers go to the arrest of murderers designated spot and since the disturbances began in April. 1936, make the arrest. until a few days ago, That may give the have yet to be claimed. boys a new idea for fox These rewards are from $2,600 to $5,000 for hunting. Why ride to each murder of an Arab hounds? Just turn them or a Jew in the past 18 loose and follow them month. So for not one by plane. It should be reward has been paid. (This does not include equipped, of c our s e, the $50,000 offered for with a loud - speaker, the conviction of the through which one could murderer of Lewis An- shout "Yoicks" and drews.). But the keen sleuth "Tally ho" at the pro- would find the reason per moments. why Palestine is called a ''country of unsolved murders," in which some 160 people have been assassinated since April last year without the subsequent convic- tion of their attackers. The reason is the reluc- tance of eye witnesses and others to come for- ward to give evidence in their possession as to the perpetrators or circumstances of the crimes. Such witnesses are either actuated by racial patriotism, refus- ing to testify against a member of their own community, or—in the majority of cases—by fear that they would be "bumped off" t h e m• selves if they were known to have inform- ed the authorities. But what about the British authorities? how is the inactivity of the police to be explained in the face of repeated outrages and the uninterrupted manufacturing of bombs, many of which have killed the Arabs handling them? If British sleuths were as inactive in London as they are in Jerusalem, a whole nation would rise up in arms. Additional comment on the quoted items is unnecessary. They present subtle but emphatic condemnation of the policies of the British administration which continue to run along lines of a "divide and rule" policy. Instead of firmness in dealing with murderers, the authorities continue to Dr. Margoshes' Penalty play one side against the other. Although it has been established that in every in- Samuel Margoshes' star has disap- Dr. stance of a new outbreak in Palestine the peared from the Jewish horizon. Because police knew in advance that trouble was he became involved in . a nasty political brewing, the culprits continue to ride a situation, he was apparently compelled to path of non-interference. "In that nook- resign as editor of the Jewish Daily Day shotten isle of Albion," perfidy continues and from all committees of the American to rule the day. Jewish Congress. The concensus of opinion is that Dr. Margoshes was wrong in the stand he took The Boycott Violators' Case against Mayor LaGuardia and in his per- Charged by the Joint Boycott Council sonal attacks upon Dr. Stephen S. Wise. As an individual, and as an editor, Dr. of the American Jewish Congress and the Margoshes was justified in following the Jewish Labor Committee with violating dictates of his conscience in backing the the boycott of Nazi Germany, three fur- candidacy of Jeremiah T. Mahoney. But riers have been fined $75,000. It is an un- he had neither the right to condemn La precedented decision, but carries with it Guardia as being a pro-Nazi, simply be- the force of public opinion which brands cause the liberal chief executive of the as self-humiliating and - self-hating those great metropolis felt he was obligated to who will deal with the enemy in order to extend to the Nazis the right of free as- save a few pennies of profit in their busi- sembly when he permitted them to conduct ness dealings. a parade in Yorkville; nor was he justi- Five men comprised the board of arbi- fied in charging Rabbi Wise with having trators: Emil Schlesinger, legal advisor of a personal axe to grind in urging the may- the International Ladies Garment Workers or's re-election. Union, and J. Winogradsky, assistant Thus, Dr. Margoshes was due for a manager of the Furriers Joint Council, penalty. When the acceptance of his resig- were chosen to represent the Jewish Boy- nation from the committees of the Amer- cott Council; I. Edwin Goldwasser, vice- ican Jewish Congress was made public, we chairman of the American Jewish Joint felt that he had been given deserved pun- Distribution Committee, and Samuel D. ishment. Then came the announcement of Leidesdorf, former president of the New the acceptance of his resignation from the York Federation of Jewish Charities, were editorship of the Day, and the severe blow named arbitrators by the respondents, and appeared to us to be a bit too harsh for a these four men selected as their impartial man who had rendered great service to chairman a lawyer with a nationwide repu- the Jewish cause for many years. tation—David L. Podell, treasurer of the Dr. Margoshes' resignation from the edi- Trade and Commerce Bar Association and torship of the Day may be interpreted in chairman of the commerce committee of several ways. It may be assumed that he the New York County Yawyers' Associa- is the goat in a situation in which his pub- tion, Mr. Podell voted with the first two lisher, David Shapiro, was as guilty as Dr. named 'against the arbitrators selected by Margoshes himself. Even if there is a sec- the three guilty furriers—thus revealing ret understanding between the two, as a that the division of opinion on the boycott result of which Dr. Margoshes may be pro- question which existed during the first vided for by his former employer, the pen- days of the Nazi regime still influences alty is a hard one for another reason, in the differing groups in the Jewish popu- that it may be interpreted as implying that lation. But it is nevertheless significant an editor stands the chance of being de- that the five judges in this case agreed prived of means of a livelihood for expres- on the following statement on the ques- sing an opinion. Mr. Shapiro is escaping tion of dealing with Nazi Germany: from punishment, and Dr. l‘largoshes is "The Board of Arbitrators are unani- bearing the brunt of responsibility—and mous, however, in feeling that they desire this makes his removal from public life a the practice to be stopped in the trade. If blow that is too severe. it possibly can be effective at all in stamp- But there is another angle in this con- ing it out, it desires to de everything in troversy which makes the present situa- its power to do so." tion very unpleasant. It has turned out The fine is to be used by the arbitrators to be a battle between the Forward and for charitable purposes. Perhaps it should the Day, and the exchange of epithets have been stipulated in advance that a reached such meanness that is may dis- portion of it will be used for propaganda credit the Jewish community unless it is purposes to educate the masses of our peo- stopped instantly. If the Forward con- ple with regard to the necessity for prose- tinues to seek capital for itself out of this cuting the boycott to the very end. But in political battle, it will harm rather than reality the stigma placed on the three help in the aspiration to elevate Jewish guilty furriers and the penalty imposed dignity. The Day has been discredited upon them will do more to warn others sufficiently with the resignation of the man against similar practice than all the who served as a "front" in the nasty politi- schools in the world could accomplish cal issue in New York. That ought to be under the ablest tutelage. 'There is noth- sufficient punishment. An end should be ing like a bit of force to make people 11149d to Ow Forward-Day controversy at think and act in accordance with the dic- tates of self-respect and conscience. Lights front Shadowland By LOUIS PEKARSKY (Copyright. 1137. S. A. P. ti HELLINGER TO MAKE FILMS Signing of Marx Bellinger, fa- mous Broadway columnist and writer, as a production executive has been announced by Warner Bros. studios. Ile will come to Hollywood late in November. Be- fore this famous newspaperman leaves New York, he will be tend- ered a testimonial dinner at which Jimmy Walker will preside and Mayor Fiorella La Guardia and other notables will speak. Belling- er's career in the newspaper pro- fession dates back 14 years. He saw service on the New York Daily New and Chicago Tribune for seven years before affiliating with the New York Daily Mirror and King Features Syndicate, Ile authored three books, "I 5feet a Lot of People," "The Ten Million" and "Moon Over Broadway;" two stage shows, "Ziegfield Follies of 1931" and "Hot Cha;" and two original moving pictures, "Night Court" and Broadway Bill." COLUMBUS OF THE AIR Mark Larkin, Hollywood pub- licity writer, who handled the press notices for Eddie Cantor An- niversary Week, suggests that Cantor ought to be named the "Co- lumbus of the Air" because of his many discoveries of great talent on the radio. Cantor)tut such big figures as David Rubinoff, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Wallington, Bobby Breen, Harry Einstein (Parkyakarkus), Deanna Durbin and George Olson's band on the first steps to success, fame, and riches as radio entertainers. Cantor delivered a series of lec- tures at Harvard University on comedy lass, winter, and is much in demand for similar talks at other institutions. KING FOR A NIGHT Strictly Confidential The Jew Who Once Ruled Poland Tidbits from Everywhere By MAX WOLLENSTEINER By PHINEAS J. BIRON Prince EDITOR'S NOTE: Polish arlotorrary le agog because Michael Redolent, scion of one of the most blueblooded noel families, hoe married a Jewess. Polish Jewry jive, la daily terror of pogrom*. Hut once another Mace Rodalutil had a Jew elected tang of Poland. This farninating narrative by a direct descendant of Saul Wald who was king of Poland fur one night, tells the **hole story of this AM111111( and lung-foe- gotten chopter of Jewloh hiotory, Prince Radziwill, one of the ranking nobles of 16th century Poland, was notorious for his way- ward and wanton mode of living. His escapades finally became so scandalous that the Polish clergy prevailed upon him to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome to seek pardon for his sins from the Pope. Absolution was granted Radziwill on condition that he do penance by making the return journey from Rome to Brest-Litovsk on foot. When Radziwill reached Padua, footsore and exhausted, he paused for rest on a bench in front of the house of Rabbi Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen, the rabbi of the town. The wind blew against his hairy, thread- bare coat, but Rabbi Samuel, examining the strang- er from a window, saw the tired traveller wore under his shabby coat a jacket embroidered with precious jewels. Taking it for granted that he was some dis- tinguished personage, Rabbi Samuel sent his ser- vant to invite the stranger into the house. Radzi- will accepted with alacrity and was soon telling his story to his Jewish host. Before speeding his guest on his way, Rabbi Samuel provided the prince with funds and new clothing. His one request of Radziwill was that upon reaching Poland he should take care of the rabbi's son, Saul, who had been sent by his father to the famous Talmudical aca- demy in Brest-Litovsk. Radziwill kept his word. He sought out Saul and made him his hofjude or court Jew. Under the patronage of his princely sponsor Saul rose quickly in the esteem pf his fellow-Jews. His wealth also increased. He became one of the merchant princes of the Duchy of Lithuania. Ap- pointed royal servant by King Sigismund III in appreciation of favors to the royal house, Saul was authorized to wear a golden chain. A coat of arms bestowed upon him represented a lion crowning himself and an eagle. His chief occupa- tion was overseeing leases of state revenues, duties and bridge tolls. When salt boiling houses were opened in Lithuania and in 1678 Saul leased the entire business from the king. He also supervised collections of revenue for the government at Brest and was entrusted with the operation of the fish- The Jewish Publication Society ery, mills and alcohol and beer monopolies. of America announces that the Edwin Wolf Prize Novel Contest Becomes Saul Wahl—King for a Night These extensive business activities brought Saul Award of $2,600 has been won by Beatrice Bisno of New York into intimate contact with the royal court. King City, for her first novel, "Tomor- Stephen Batory (1570-1587) held him in high row's Bread." This manuscript esteem, while the Jews thought enough of him to was selected from 160 novels sub- elect him president of the Jewish community of mitted from practically every Brest-Litovsk. Saul's highly-placed friends also country of the world, and the earned him the envy and enmity of many. Once judges of the contest were Mrs. his enemies tried to revenge themselves on him Dorothy Canfield Fisher and !digs through his daughter, Hannah, a striking beauty Fannie Hurst, internationally of great intelligence. When the king's wife died, known authors, and Edwin Wolf, those who sought to undermine Saul induced some 2nd, bibliographer, of the A. S. influential noblemen to call the monarch's atten- tion to Saul's daughter. The king found Hannah W. Rosenbach Company. gvotthwaitn d l i eel.; l at re esdelt,oe mheave 1,1 c. e r s Jtilldsutec t ehde. This $2,500 prize was given o ut k-aaucltie to the Jewish Publication Society by Morris Wolf and Mrs. Isidore ran to his friend, Samuel Schoor, the chief rabbi Kohn of Philadelphia, the chil- of Brest-Litovsk, then a man past 70 and a wid- dren of the late Edwin Wolf, a ower. Of him he asked that he make Hannah his former president of the society, wife. And the marriage took place immediately. Shortly after, on Aug. 15, 1587, King Stephen for the best novel of Jewish in- died. Under the Polish constitution a new king terest in English. was to be chosen by vote of the country's noble- Beatrice Bisno was born in Chicago, and received her edu- meq. And when Prince Radziwill journeyed to cation at Lewis Institute. As a Warsaw for the royal election he took Saul with child, she grew up hearing labor him. It soon became evident that no agreement problems discussed, for her home could be reached on a candidate at the first meet- was a sort of open house forum ing of the noblemen. But the constitution pro- in which Sidney Hillman, then a vided that the country must not remain without a resident of that city, Joseph king over night. It was at this point that Radziwill said he had Schlossberg and Jacob S. Potof- sky ventilated their economic a candidate who should be named until agreement theories, many of which have was reached. And to the astonishment of the since become incorporated in the Polish bluebloods, Radziwill put in the nomination body politic. Her late fater, once the name of Saul. Ile argued that Saul was politic- a prominent labor leader. acted ally harmless and that it was perfectly safe to as guide and counsellor for these permit him to be king for a night. Strange to younger men, who have since be- relate, the assembled noblemen accepted Radzi- will's proposal and elected Saul, the son and grand- come prominent labor leaders. Beatrice Bisno continued her son of rabbis, as king of Poland for one night. education in New York City. at The German word for election "wahl" was added Columbia and New York Univer- to his name and he became King Saul Wahl. Invokes Privilege in Jewry's Behalf sities. For eight years, she was Sidney Hillman's "Girl Friday," The story of Saul who was king for a night may also acting as personnel and of- be apocryphal but it is well established in Jewish fice manager of the Amalgamated history. There are documents extant proving that Clothing Workers of America, of Saul was an important factor in Polish royal cir- which Sidney Hillman is presi- cles in the 16th century. Few of Poland's Chris- dent. She resigned her position tian historians mention the episode. First to re- and spent three years writing "To- cord the story of Saul's fleeting kingship was his morrow's Bread." In 1925, she great-great-grandson, Moses Katzenellenbogen, who went abroad to make first-hand related it in a manuscript that is still preserved in studies of labor conditions. In the library of Oxford University. As recently as Great Britain, she studied the 1854 another work on the subject was written by operation of the dole; in Russia Hirsch Edelman of London on order of Dennis M. the new experiments in their Samuel, one of Saul's wealthy descendants. Jewish planned economy. To see the historians refer to Saul's election very briefly. King Saul had six eons and five daughters, all real life of the French people, she cycled through the back roads of whom were blessed with numerous progeny. of France, and did the same in Which explains why so many Jewish families in Poland and Germany boast of descent from their England. As travel editor of Success Mag- regal ancestor. King Saul. Among those who claim azine, she recorded her impres- kinship with him are the author, who has written sions of these countries, contribut- a history of the Katzenellenbogen family, from ing numerous articles as well to which stem, among others, Moses Mendelssohn, World Traveler and the New Gabriel Riesser, champion of the emancipation York World. Lake many other of the German Jews, Karl Marx and many other young women, Beatrice Bisno did intellectual giants. As strange as was his life so was his end. It not know what kind of career best suited her talents. For a is known that Saul died in 1617 but where ne is (MACAWS TRIM TO WIRT PA0111 buried no one knows. Her 1st Novel Wins International Prize t WHOLLY PALESTINE The Berliner Illustrierte Zei- tune, Nazi picture weekly which was once the property of the Ull- steins, is publishing pictorial re- p o r t s of Palestine captioned "Arabs fight for their country" Curiously enough, all the cap- tions are friendly to our fellow- Semites, the Arabs One cover page showed a Nazi reporter in his car with an Arab who waved the swastika . , . The title: "The safest way for a European to travel in Palestine and avoid being attacked is to be accompanied by an Arab and to show the flag of his country" . . This picture series is being adertised in the Juedische Rundschau. In the Belgian Congo there is a movement under way to send a commission of experts to Palestine to get pointers for improving col- onization methods ... One of the two synagogues of German Jews in Palestine holds its services in the Centre de Culture Francaise at Jerusalem. When and if Palestine is tri- partitioned three different kinds of postage stamps will be issued One stamp will bear the words Eretz Israel, and the crossed tri- angles of the Magen David, for the Jewish State Another will have the portrait of the Emir or Arab king, and the words South- ern Syria, for the Arab State ... And the stamp for the British mandated area will have the name Palestine on it, and the head of King George VI. Heirs of the late Sir Patrick Geddes, noted friend of Zionism, are offering to sell the Zionists Scots College at Montpellier, France, as a training center for chalutzim ... It was built between 1924 and 1928 as a residence hall for American and European stu- dents studying at Montpellier Uni- versity The Zionists are being given first choice because the cli- mate and vegetation are akin to those of Palestine. WE'RE TELLING YOU The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League is again on the hunt for an executive secretary T h e most recent incumbent, Ertlinger, lasted hardly long enough to learn the names of the people in the of- flee, Seeking to dissipate the feeling that he is pro-Nazi. Charles E. Be- deux, friend of the Duke of Wind- sor, is taking pains to explain that before Hitler came topower the manager of the Bedaux branch in Germany was a full- blooded Jew. Anti-Nazi Germans in this coun- try are learning to think twice be- fore chumming up with a newcom- er who claims to be a refugee ... The Pacific Coast anti-Nazis are still shocked at the disclosure that one self-styled refugee who said he had escaped from a concentra- tion camp was actually a Gestapo spy provided with faked docu- ments to give him entree to anti- Nazi circles. Officials of St. Francis Hospital, at Wilmington, must be hot anti- Nazis . When they received a human skeleton from Germany they immediately had it shipped back, though they had ordered it some years ago. Members of the German-Ameri- can Bund are being asked to save scrap metal and turn it over to any Bund branch for shipment to Germany. The Jooss European Ballet, now touring this country, is the Ger- man emigres' answer to Hitler- ism ... Few stage events are as impressive a denunciation of dic- tatorial war and its folly as the dance they call The Green Table . This group is in self-exile from Germany because they refuse to ditch their non-Aryan music direc- tor and cast-members. SHORT WAVE FLASHES Max Ausnitz, multimillionaire Rumanian Jew who embraced Ro- man Catholicism when he took the daughter of a general as his sec- ond wife, has given 100,000 lei to Porcuna Vremi, Rumanian coun- terpart of Stretcher's Stuermer . . In exchange Porunca Vremi agreed to lay off Ausnitz. The Jewish community of Kov- no, Lithuania, is sponsoring a drive to discourage, the use of the Russian language, 'holding that it inspires anti-Semitism among the Lithuanians to hear Jews employ I a foreign tongue, Is the Duke of Glamor and Mystery of Feast Windsor Sponsoring of Maccabees Depicted in New Economic Fascism? Volume of Publication Society By RABBI EDWARD L ISRAEL Outstanding American Jewish Scholars Collaborate in Preparation of Book Under the Editorship of Miss Emily Solis-Cohen The Jewish Publication Society of America announces the publica- tion of "Hanukkah: The Feast of Lights," on Nov. 22. In publishing this book on Hanukkah, the so- ciety attempts to right a wrong. Two years ago, the holiday passed its 2100th birthday, but in the pressure of other affairs, few seem to have taken note of this anniversary. Yet so important and enjoyable has this holiday been throughout the centuries, as meaningful for all of western civilization has been its message of religious liberty and of opposi- tion to tyranny, that the society considers the present time an ex- cellent occasion to bring Hanuk- kah once more to the attention of the public. This is not a one-sided book. The various types of readers as well as the various phases of the holiday, are taken into considera- tion. The compiler and editor of the volume is Miss Emily Solis- Cohen, widely known for her con- tributions to American Jewish lit- erature. She divides her book Into three parts. The first is a series of essays on the phases of Hanukkah,—its history, its music, its methods of celebration. The second is a large and excellent compilation of lit- erary material selected to instruct and inspire. It contains excerpts in prose and in poetry from the best writings of ancient and mod- ern times, dealing with the holi- day and its spirit. The third sec- tion of the book bears upon the celebration of the holiday: the service in synagogue and home, and the commemoration of it in club and school. Thus the book is certain to appeal to adults as well as to children, to those who want to learn about the holiday's origin and history, as well as to those who seek material to aid in the organization of • program for the school. Eminent Contributors The contributors to this volume are well known to the Jewish com- munity, Rabbi Milton Steinberg, author of "The Making of the Modern Jew," contributes an ar- ticle on "Judaism and Hellenism." Dr. Solomon Grayzel of Gratz College, contributes an article on the "History of Hanukkah." Prof. A. W. Binder of the Jewish Insti- To us Hollywood-nurtured sentimental American a, the Duke of Windsor, erstwhile King Edward VIII, has become the exquisite symbol of high- minded romance, par excel- lence. Some of us—this column- ist included—were as stirred by King Edward's "Something must be done about this" as he gazed on the squalid plight of the Welsh miners, that we began to see wicked conserva- tive plots in his ousting. Recent events tend to make us rather fearful as to the sort of "some- thing" Edward had in mh:Land as to the sound liberal quality of his judgment on economic and social matters. My friends of the Baltimore Federation of Labor turned the spotlight of the world on them- selves when, quite casually. they passed a resolution which even- tually terminated, for the pres- ent, the American visit of the Duke and Dnchess of Windsor. Quite interesting, isn't It, that out of Baltimore, the home of Wallis Warfield, should come PURELY COMMENTARY By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ The Positive vs. the Negative Approach to Jewish Issues A streamer headline in a recent Issue of Center News of the Jewish Community Center of De- troit, announcing: "Sub-Seniors Discuss Anti-Semi- tism," caused a fellow newsman to pose the ques- tion: Is it necessary for young people to be so burdened with the fears that hound the older gen- eration, that they must feature anti-Semitism as the major issue confronting them in life as Jews? Which reminded us of the late Milford Stern whom we admired as one of the most intelligent leaders Detroit Jewry ever had. Mr. Stern used to tell us that he and his family never left the dinner table without devoting a half hour or an hour, sometimes as much as two hours, for the dis- cussion of current news. He used the now ex- tinct Jewish Daily Bulletin as the textbook and it was his method first to go over the important Jewish news of the day and then discuss the events as they affect American Jewry. Invariably, he and his family would study the work of func- tioning Jewish movements and the contributions they make to Jewry and the world at large; the contributions that are being made by Jews to civilization and the wholesome cultural tendencies in Jewish life, Mr. Stern related these discus- sions to us with pride because, as he put it, a thorough discussion of Jewish occurrences helped him and his family to acquire an optimistic view- point rather than harp continuously on the nega- tive sides of Jewish life, What the late Mr. Stern did with his family provides an answer to the questions posed above. Our fellow-newsman is right: the young people tend to emphasize the negative, not the positive in Jewish life. They forget, if they ever knew it, that there is a Jewish culture; that Jews con- tinue to create even in the present period of great distress and tragedy; that Jews today are creat- ing - a new life in Palestine; that their people have not abandoned their spiritual existence for a sole aim of fighting anti-Semitism. It is the old, age- worn answer: if only our young people knew But it is not the young people who are not to blame. It is the parent who is to blame. If the average Jewish father were to emulate the example so admirably set by the late Milford Stern, and if he were to discuss Jewish issues, both the nega- tive and the positive, with his children, he as well as the children would soon learn that it is pos- sible and far more important to approach Jewish issues from the positive rather than the negative viewpoints. • Do Advocates of Building Program Send Their Children to Hebrew Schools? The need for a new Hebrew school building is evidently generally recognized, else its advocacy Would have been questioned by those who will be asked to provide the necessary sums. It will be interesting to observe how promptly some of our wealthier Jews will respond to this important need with voluntary offerings for such a building program. There would be ground for greater optimism in the instance of the Hebrew schools if the advocates of a new building in the north- west Detroit section were to send their own chil- dren to these schools. They would then have a greater personal share in the building of an ade- quate school system and would not be motivated by desires merely "to help the poor children." But so many of the leaders, and those who possess the necessary financial means, fail to send their own children to the Hebrew schools that this very act is the most discouraging explanation of the community's failure to build a school in a section where hundreds of our boys and girls are threat- ened with the danger of going through life without a Jewish education. If we knew that the "lead- ers" and the "rich" would take our advice, we would urge them to begin to practice their leader. ship and benevolence by sending their children to the Hebrew schools. They will gain by it—and so will the community. • Need for Adult Education Which leads us to make brief comment on the question of adult education. Editors assembled in annual convention at Ann Arbor strongly urged adult educational programs for American com- munities. Progressive bodies have king ago recog- nized the need for educational work among par- ents. The Reform Jewish congregations have made some progress in this direction. Our Ortho- dox Jewish groups—including the Conservatives— have thus far failed in this field. Some of them have managed to pack s c hoot buildings once a week for Sunday School classes but during the entire balance of the week their vacant class- rooms point an accusing finger at the community because they are kept unused and are mere orna- ments in structures that are vainly guarded for use one day in the week. Where the desire for an adult education is lacking, the leaders as well as the parents stand accused as yielding to ignor- ance where knowledge is required. • Anti-Semitism for the Youth Arch-anti-Semite Julius Streicher's propaganda of hate has no boundary lines. As long as Jews can be hurt, everything is right, and all means are justified in the name of the "holy cause of Nazism and Jew-baiting." Stretcher's latest maneouver is to poison the minds of children and to inject in them deep- rooted hate against the Jews. His Stuermer has announced the publication of a book "The Jewish Question in the Classroom" for the purpose of teaching the boys and girls "about the Jews and their crimes." Herr Streicher, who has written the foreword to this book, can be repended on make the injection so poisonous that it will take generations to eradicate the hate with which the children are being raised in Nazi-ruled Germany. Uncle Sam's Housebuilder A Portrait of Nathan Straus By BERNARD POSTAL EDITOR'S NOTE: Nathan Steam, ens, of the met philanthropist of that name, has been used edministrator of the new United States Homing Author- ity. In this timely sketch, Mr. Pastel Introolures on to Strong, the philan- throplot, chic leader and Jewish communal figure, who Is treading the farollhr paths of Ida sire. When President Roosevelt ap- pointed Nathan Straus administra- tor of the new United States Housing Authority, an agency set up by the last session of Congress to carry a long-range of slum clearance and low cost housing, and entrusted him with the ex- penditure of $526,000,000 for this purpose, he made him virtually Uncle Sam's number one house- builder. Government bureaus have engaged in construction work be- fore, but the task assigned to Straus is one of far-reaching so- cial implications, for it is intended to provide decent homes for a minimum of 1,000,000 families in the lowest Income brackets. His will be the job of directing a great assault on city slums aimed at eradicating this blot on our civili- zation by employing government funds to bridge the gap between what the slum dweller can afford to pay and what private builders would have to charge. Few men are better equipped by background, temperament, social outlook and experience for what is probably the toughest job Presi- dent Roosevelt has had to offer than Nathan Straus. Bearing name that has become the symbol of compassion and human under- standing, Straus refused to be shadowed by the repute of his father and won his own spurs in public life not by trading on the traditions of his famous sire but by his own efforts and achieve- ments. Educated in Germany The elder Straus was at the peak of his career as the peer of philanthropists when Nathan, Jr., was born 48 years ago. Educated at Heidelberg and Munich, young Straus was introduced to the in- tricacies of public welfare by his father, As a matter of fact the first money he earned was when a newpaper man visiting the Straus home urged Straus, Sr., to write an article on "My Principles of Giving." As an inducement, he offered to give $25 to any charity Straus would name. But Straus declined, having neither the time nor the interest, Junior was stand- ing at his aide and asked "All not let me do it?" And he did. He was 14 years old when he got that $25. While studying at Heidelberg, young Straus helped his father in