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Sabbath Scriptural Portions
Pentateuchal portiOn—Ex. 6:2-9:35,
Prophetical portion—Ezek, 28:25-29:21.
Rosh Chodesh Shoat Reading of the Torah,
Monday, Jan. 3
Num. 28:1-15.
December 31, 1937
Tebet 27, 5698
The Late Newton D. Baker
The death of Newton D. Baker removes
from the scene one of the most important
figures in the movement for better Chris-
tian-Jewish relations. Since the founding
of the National Conference of Jews and
Christians, he has served as general chair-
man of the movement that is about to ob-
serve its 10th anniversary of service, with
Prof. Carlton J. H. Hayes and Roger Wil-
liam Straus as Catholic and Jewish co-
chairmen. It was Mr. Baker who defined
the aim of the National Conference of Jews
and Christians as being "to moderate and
finally to eliminate a system of prejudices
which disfigures and distorts our business,
social and political relations."
For the special Human Relations Section
of the Christian Century, published Jan.
21, 1931, the late Mr. Baker wrote an ar-
ticle under the title "For the Triumph of
Democracy," and in the course of his plea
that we "make and keep democracy equal
to its task" he declared:
"If we in this movement can have in
the back of our heads all the time the idea
that the real object and purpose we are
seeking to serve is to emancipate our fel-
lowmen from obstructive prejudices that
will enable them really to the top of their
capacity to be good citizens, if we can
build up around the idea of democracy the
concentrated and exalted enthusiasm that
there is for a cause which is represented
by a war, if we as Jew and Catholic and
Protestant participate in public affairs,
and annex ourselves to public causes, and
let no child escape without feeling respon-
sibility resting upon his shoulders to par-
ticipate in these higher things; when we
do become thus zealous for an educated
people and for an intelligent and tolerant
solution of public questions; and co-oper-
ate to reduce these distinctions among
Protestant, Catholic and Jew which have
long been an unhappy thing among us and
r which at times have been a disgrace among
us when they have, in the midst of politi-
cal campaigns, been basely used to whip
popular passions into irrational antagon-
isms; if the man who is a Protestant finds
that on his right hand he has a Catholic
and that on his left a Jew and that the
three are making headway together for
the greater glory of the nation by educat-
ing its citizenship to the full performance
of their duty as citizens, we will have made
genuine progress towards destroying pre-
judices."
This is a mere sample of the passion
and eloquence with which he wrote and
spoke in constant pleading for better rela-
tions between Jews and Christians. In a
similar vein he at one time propagated the
cause of the upbuilding of the Jewish Na-
tional Home in Palestine. He was to be
found in Catholic, Jewish and Protestant
pulpits sounding his voice in behalf of
the cause of democracy and for the elimi-
nation of prejudices that tend to create
antagonisms among peoples.
In the death of Newton D. Baker Amer-
ica loses one of her ablest sons, and the
cause of better inter-faith relations its
best advocate.
Which Road Will Poland Choose
Poland's most drastic step back to me-
dievalism, through the establishment of
the "Ghetto Benches," has at last met with
firm denunciation on the part of America's
outstanding educators and religious lead-
ers. To the earlier appeals to the Polish
government—issued by the American sec-
tion of the International League for Aca-
demic Freedom, American Federation of
Teachers, Committee for Defense of Rights
of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe
functioning in Paris and the American
Youth Congress—are now added the voice
of 994 professors in 104 American univer-
sities, the American Committee on Reli-
gious Rights and Minorities and the ap-
peal signed by 179 educators among whom
are presidents of universities, including
Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, Nobel Prize winners and
other outstanding scholars.
The American Committee on Religious
Rights and Minorities placed its finger on
an important spot in the existing situa-
tion when it stated in its appeal: "We call
upon the Cardinal Archbishop of Warsaw,
the clergy and members of the Catholic
Church, the leaders and members of each
of the Protestant Churches, the Metropoli-
tan and people of the Eastern Orthodox
Church, to oppose this inhuman act. These
together form the vast majority of the peo-
ple of Poland, and they cannot be absolv-
i ed from responsibility for what is happen-
, ing under the Polish flag. We urge them,
, in the name of their religion and in the
, interest of justice and righteousness, to
; demand of the nation adequate protection
for all minorities and the cessation of this
t anti-Semitic agitation which, unfortunate-
17, b being carried on by people most of
whom profqs to be Christians. The spirit
of true Christianity demands the recogni-
tion by the new Poland of a willingness
to help solve the political and economic
problems inevitable in this present world
conditions in the spirit of tolerance and
sympathy. Finally, we appeal to the four
millions of people of Polish descent in the
United States to express to the govern-
ment and others in authority in Poland
and to the Polish ambassador at Washing-
ton their respectful but earnest protest
against the present persecution of the
Jews in Poland."
The clergy, and especially the Catholic
Church, has it within its power to put a
stop to the horrors experienced by Jews
in Poland and to the humiliations to which
Jewish students are subjected. Further-
more, Americans of Polish extraction are
in position to exert an influence upon the
Polish government, and ?t is to be hoped
that they will join the forces that are
pleading for justice and freedom against
the reactionary elements that dominate
the scene in Poland today.
Poland has been handed a challenge:
Will she join the enlightened nations in
preventing the type of misfortune that is
threatened by the enaction of "Ghetto
Benches," or will she remain in the ranks
of the countries that are ruled by terror
and despair? The New York Times points
to Poland's opportunity to retrieve her
honor in an editorial in which it states:
Nearly 200 American educators and schol-
ars have signed • protest against the intro-
duction of "ghetto benches" for Jewish stu-
dents in Polish universities. Among the sign-
ers are three-score college presidents, more
than 100 deans and full professors, andfive
■
Nobel Prize winners in science. There are
no Jews among them, and the issue is described
as bigger than anti-Semitism. Regimentation
of Jewish students is sure to lead to the de-
struction of teaching freedom for everybody
in Poland. It is a step on the road to the
bleak Intellectual totalitarianism which has
engulfed the German and Italian universities.
Time must naturally elapse before we can
expect to note the effect of such ■ protest—
it is really more an appeal than a protest—on
government opinion and public opinion in
Poland. But it is plain that such • manifesta-
tion of world sentiment cannot be ignored at
Warsaw. It is not American scholarship alone
that speaks. The same feeling dominates in
the learned world of Great Britain and France.
In other words, Poland's tentative step toward
a Hitlerism of her own is regarded with sor-
row and repugnance in the great sister de-
mocracies to whom modern Poland owes her
national existence.
Nor is it an answer to say that gratitude
does not play a part in statesmanship, which
must always be realistic to the moment. Pei-
fleece would reinforce the argument from
gratitude in reminding the Polish nation that
the friendship of the western democracies is
still worth something. It is far from certain
that in a showdown between fascism and de-
mocracy in Europe totalitarianism is the horse
to bet on. For that matter, Poland's own for-
eign policy has made it clear that she is not
herself certain of the outcome. Poland has
pursued • policy of balance and neutrality,
which It is her perfect right to do. But if
it is to be a true balance of forces Poland
obviously cannot take • chance of alienating
public sentiment in the free countries. If
she loses strength there she becomes automati-
cally weaker against Germany,
Poland has an
• opportunity to capture the
imagination of the democratic world. She
has stressed the difficulties of her greographi•
cal position between two mighty neighbors,
Germany and Soviet Russia. But it may be
truly said that Poland also occupies • moral
and intellectual position . between these two
dictatorships. Poland is still in large measure
• free country lying between the Hitler abso-
lutism with its utter degradation of the in-
tellectual life, and the Soviet absolutism with
its system of government by firing squads.
Poland can impress herself on world opinion
by making it clear that she will imitate neither
of her neighbors, but will hold fast to the
way of life that obtains among her frienls
the democratic nations. Poland has it within
her power to make herself eminent as an en-
lightened nation between two great
darkness.
Poland is before the bar of the -court
of the civilized world. Besides, Poland's
children throughout the world now have
an opportunity to speak their minds
against the atrocious occurrences to
which the Polish government has unfor-
tunately given sanction.
Which way will Poland turn, to the path
of justice or still deeper in the jungle of
reaction?
Ludendorff—Apostle of Hate
General Friedrich Wilhelm Erich Lu-
dendorff, famous as quartermaster gener-
al and chief strategist of the German army
during the World War, became even more
famous in recent years as the apostle of
the new creed of hate in Germany which
included every vestige of Judaism and
Christianity. He was the father of the idea
that the German failure in the last war
was due to "supernat'iral powers," and
in this category he included Jews, Free-
masons and the Vatican. He inaugurated
an anti-Christian movement because he
looked upon Christianity as a Jewish
product that is lacking in moral stamina
to enable an army to fight its battle to the
bitter end.
Ludendorff's mind became so warped
by these ideas that many considered him
insane. His preachings included the most
fantastic and stupidest sort of nonsense
about the Jews and about Christianity.
Among his utterances were the statements
that President Roosevelt was "the servant
of Jews, Catholics and Freemasons" in
trying to impose on America what was ad-
vocated for Germany by Rathenau; that
"the Jews aim to stir up nationalism every-
where to its zenith in order to cause the
various nations to fall upon each other and
thus pave the way for Jewish control of
the world."
It is this type of nonsense that inspired
the organ of Hitler's black-uniformed
guards, Das Schwarze Korps, to write:
"Christmas is the exclusive property of
Germans—Christians merely borrowed it
without permission." It is such stupidity
that must alienate Christian friendship for
Germany, especially when the traditional
Star of Bethlehem is removed by fanatic
Nazis and the swastika placed in its stead.
The death of Ludendorff- merely causes
people to talk again about the Ilitlerian
ideas, of which he was an apostle, as idi-
otic and to hope that the hate he preached
had been interred with him.
Lights from
Shadotrland
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
(Copyright, 1937. 8. A.
F.
December 31, 1937
Most Important Book on Strictl
y
Confidential
European Conditions
PURELY COMMENTARY
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Tidbits from Everywhere
)
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
1938 Edition of John Gunther's "Inside
(CoPYright, 1937. 8. A. F.
Europe" Throws Light on Exist-
Gregory Ratoff has been jump-
ing
Crises
Overseas
WE'RE TELLING YOU
ing around the country following
ABOUT PEOPLE
his wife, Eugenic Leontovitch, who
John Gunther's 1938 edition of "Inside Europe,"
is with the "Tovarich" road com-
pany . .
Ratoff returned from (Harper, ;3.50), presented in revised form with
Houston long enough to change 30,000 additional words of new commentary and
his shirt and hop back to St. Louis, with changes in the original text to fit latest
then on to Indianapolis . . The developments, is without question the most signi-
Ratoffs have been married 15 ficant book available on the overseas situation.
years, but her stage work and his There is not another volume, of the numerous
movie assignments
keep them books written on the European situation, which
apart . . . Ratoff will appear be- compares with this one in the approach to the
fore the cameras as an actor again crises which cause Europe to be a boiling caul-
in the "Sally, Irene end Mary" dron, and in its clarifying and thoroughly illumin-
ating style which leaves the reader better informed
musical for Fox . . . Ratoff has a
very unique contract as it calls and thoroughly acquainted with what is transpir-
for him to act, direct, write and ing in practically every country in Europe.
The publishers hail Mr. Gunther's book as the
produce.
outstanding one in 12 countries—the United States,
Bobby Breen has been made Canada, England, France, Czechoslovakia, Hol-
honorary chief of the junior po- land, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Argentine, Swit-
lice of Honolulu,
zerland and Australia. They are justified in their
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyons, claim not merely on the basis of best-selling
former residents of Baltimore, re- standards but because the book is no important
turn to England Dec. 31 from a for those who wish to know what actually trans-
six-weeks' tour of South Africa pires in Europe. When the first "Inside Europe"
where their act was enthusiastic- volume was published there was peace in Spain,
ally received . . Bebe and Ben King Edward VIII was the ruler of England and
will tour the English provinces President Roosevelt was the idol of classes and
and will not be back in the United masses. Today, with the European scene more
States with their 8-year-old daugh- disturbing than ever and with changes transpir-
ter, Barbara Bebe, until next sum- ing everywhere, including this country, this vol-
mer.
ume emerges as an even greater work than before.
Judging from the volume of fan
It is natural that this work should begin with
mail, Kent Taylor, Universal star, Hitler. The Nazi dictator's ranting, his habits,
is Iowa's favorite son,
his "grudges against God" because "Jesus was a
George Jessel's favorite dish is Jew," the beginning of his hatred for Jews—these
mandel soup.
are more clearly described than ever before.
There is humor in the story outlined by Mr. Gun-
FILM FACTS
them, and much of it is of course mixed with the
A featured part in "The Gold- tragedy of the existing situation. Among the
wyn Follies" is the seventh picture best stories related by the author about Hitler
in which Jerome Cowan has acted is the following:
in less than a year. He plays the
Some time ego, before @lining the friendship Pact
role of a slightly daffy film direc- with Poland, he received • well-known American
tor in this picture. When he was
Publicist and editor. Ile did ask • question: what the
playing in "Boy Meets Girl" on
Americans would think If, for example, Mexico were
the New York stage, Cowan was Poland and Texas Were cut off from the United States
signed by Goldwyn and his first
by • "corridor" In Mexico. The American replied, "The
film was "Beloved Enemy." In his
slower to that I. that Canada is not France," Slitter
sixth picture, "Hurricane," he is
had Intended the question rhetorically, and he was no
cast as a trading schooner captain.
shocked end upset by the Mile interruption that It took
Now that Sophie Tucker has him some time to get In full voice again—on another
given up singing her favorite
point.
songs and her Broadway role to
become a dramatic actress on the
Light is thrown on the activities of the former
screen, she has received many re-
chancellor, Dr. Heinrich Bruening, who is now in
quests to make records of her out- this country.
Praising the exiled leader as "the
standing song successes, Among most enlightened
and civilized statesman that mod-
the 10 best for which she is fa- ern German has produced," Mr. Gunther writes
mous are: "Some of These Days," that "Bruening detested Hitler, personally and
"My Yiddishe Mama," "Sophisti- politically, but begat him." He explains: "It is
cated Lady," "Why Do They Call one of the most tragic of modern ironies that
It Gay Pares?" "Darktown Strut- Bruening, of all men, by the force of terrible cir-
ters' Ball," "Melancholy Baby," cumstances, made way for Hitler. This was be-
"You've Got to Be Loved," "Smoke cause,,,with the best intentions in the world, Bruen-
Rings," "Alexander's Ragtime ing destroyed the German constitution."
Band" and "Life Begins at Forty."
Not only the G-Men (Goebbels, Goering) close
Miss Tucker is under contract to to Hitler, but the little Hitters are described in
MGM.
this volume to show who rules Germany today.
A "graduate" of the news edit- An interesting half-page description of Putzi Hanf-
ing staff of the Bnai Brith Mes- ataengel describes him as abstracted and dis-
senger, Manning Ostroff, has just jointed. Speaking of Streicher, Mr. Gunther ridi-
been elevated to the post of pro- cules the belief that Hitler "deplores" the arch
duction manager of S t a ti on anti-Semite's "blood-thirsty brutality."
FWBK, operated by Warner
The two most brilliant chapters in the 1938 edi-
Bros. studios In Hollywood.
tion of "Inside Europe" deal with Leon Blum and
Ricardo Cortez is slated for a the late Thomas G. Masaryk. The life story of the
part in "Blonde Moll" at 20th former prime minister of France reveals a charm-
Century Fox ... Peter Lorre is ing personality and a brilliant and very able man.
working on the latest "Mr. Moto" Mr. Gunther takes his readers back to the days
production at the same studio.
of the Dreyfus Affaire when Blum was alligned
with Jaures and the Dreyfusards. The following
HOW TO BE AN ACTOR
story is related:
Folks who want to be actors and
Just before becoming prime minieter Blum and Mon-
are suffering from "stage fright" signor Platlione, the Pep. Nuncio, crowed In the ante-
or an inferiority complex, should room of PI. Sevreaut. Mot?. Maglione exPe.sed the de-
get a position as a traveling sales-
sire to make Blom's acquaintance. "Soon I am leaving'
man and work at it for six months.
France," he amid the was enroute to Rome to become
This will cause all false modesty • cardinal), "and I cannot go wit.. .0ng shaken
to disappear is the belief of Kent hands with Leon Blum." They talked for a minute
Taylor (Louis Weiss), Universal
or two. A, Plagilone took leave, Blum remarked, "I
featured actor, The handsome don't suppose I may dare to sok your benediction."
young leading man says: "Just The Nuncio reflected, then replied, "I shall pray
consider the part I am now play-
God to give yes Ins."
ing in "A Prescription for Ro-
mance." It certainly requires a lot
In a footnote in the chapter on Mussolini, Mr.
of nerve, for I am supposed to be
a hardboiled American detective Gunther comments: "My colleague F. A. Voight
has
noted that only the countries where grand
who grabs his man on the fly and opera
flourishes have produced fascism." lie says
makes violent romantic love at the
of Mussolini that "the concept of force has always
same time. Besides I am brushing I fascinated him." Describing conditions in Italy
elbows with such master funmak- he writes: "Jokes in the U. S. S. R. mostly deal
ere as Mischa Auer, and that is with the rigors of the Five-Year Plan; German
enough to disturb anyone's equani-
jokes are baited most often on the terror; jokes
mity. I realized a few years ago in Italy perhaps significantly—aside from those
that I wanted to be an actor more international jokes which are applied indiscrimin-
than anything else, but when I be- ately to all the dictators—deal mostly with cor-
gan to consider what It meant to
ruption."
face an audience or a camera, and
Sir Oswald Mosley comes in for description at
how little self-confidence I really the hands of John Gunther. Quoting his creed
possessed, I knew I could never go of hate towards the Jews, Mr. Gunther writes:
through with it. Then I secured a
job selling awnings and such
With Sir Oswald PIosley, fascism berm. • thrice-
things in my father's business.
told Islet It became a watery Eng11.1a New that com-
Before I knew it, my shyness was pared to Hall. fascism so • wow Brill. cabbage
wearing away. I was becoming ac-
compares to the fiery authority of Italian wine. If
customed to meeting people. I had the other dictators of the age, 11111er and Mum.
to consider their characteristics in lint. are bolls and piMPles, eu II. G. Wells expressed It,
order to sell them goods and I had
Osweld Mosley Is • bla c khead.
to be a good talker in order to do
so, In ther words, I was acting
The story of Austria's tragedy is interlinked
various parts each day."
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History of the Jewish Hospital
Movement in Detroit
Calendar of Events in Effort to Build Institution Here,
Dating Back to 1900
By DAVID J. SANDWEISS, M. D.
Various Jewish groups in De- ferred to the Hannah Schloss
troit long have had the vision of Building, where the scope of mnli-
a Jewish hospital.
cal care and the hospitalization of
As early as 1900, the Hebrew
Ladies' Aid Society for Widows indigent persons was broadened.
1913.—The Hebrew
Hospital
and Orphans made arrangements
with the Poor Commission to pro- Association, composed of I large
group
of
men
and
women,
who felt
vide medical care for Its clients at
Harper Hospital, at the then cur- the need of a Jewish medical in-
stitution, was chartered as a non-
rent rate of 14 per week.
profit organization with the aim
The movement has been constant
accumulating funds for the
and insistent since that date. At of
building
and maintenance of a
times it has sprouted sporadically Jewish hospital
in Detroit. The as-
and irresponsibly; at others, it 11131 sociation collected 48,000 through
been brought forward under dig-.
nominal contributions, with which
stifled auspices, responsibly soon-1 sum it purchased a lot. This lot
cored and carefully planned. The ,
persistency with which it has ap-' was sold during the real estate
peered in the annals of Detroit boom for 140,000, which sum was
placed in trust with the Jewlah
Jewish community life is shown in Welfare Federation, and earmark-
the following chronological his-,
ed for a Jewish hospital.
tory:
The Survey of 1923
1900.—Founding of the Hebrew I 1923.—A comprehensive study
Ladies' Aid Society for Widows; of the Detroit Jewish Community
and Orphans, a private group in- was conducted by the Bureau of
terested chiefly in the provision of , Jewish Social Research of New
medical services for indigent ' York. Referring to the health situ-
women and children, providing' ation, the ,survey emphasized the
hospital care at Harper Hospital., need for a hospital under Jewish
1902.—An out-patient clinic was auspices, pointing out that Detroit
opened In the Self Help Circle, was, at that time, the only large
Building, Brush and Montcalm city in the United States without
Sts., by the Hebrew Ladies' Aid such an institution. The bureau
Society, thus expanding their ) recommended the establishment of
original hospitalization program.
a Jewish hospital of 125 to 150,
Form Hebrew Heapital A..',
beds, one-third of the bed rapacity
1905.—The clinic was tram-
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I
You can win a nice piece of
change by betting that Omaha's
Henry Monsky will be the next
president of Bnai Brith , Peo-
ple who ought to know are saying
that Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of
Cleveland and Rabbi Mordecai M.
Kaplan have both refused invita-
tions to accept the presidency of
the Jewish Institute of Religion
when Stephen S. Wise retires ...
Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chi-
cago is credited with one of the
best lines on Dr. Wise , It goes
as follows: Stephen Wise was born
to rule an empire, but all the Jew-
ish people could give him was pul-
pit There is a good job waiting
for somebody who can qualify as
the administrator of Dr. Gold-
man's new Center, connected with
his Congregation Anshe Emet
Believe it or not, the Rabbi has
spent days interviewing profes-
sional social workers, but hasn't
found his man yet . , When the
New York Times runs its next
book fair there will be a Jewish
section for the first time . . It
will be sponsored by the Jewish
Publication Society and two Jew-
ish book publishing houses . . .
The arrival of Dr. Bernhard Kahn,
European J. D. C. director, next
week will coincide with an impor-
tant J. D. C. pronouncement
Incidentally, the J. D. C. is ready-
ing a swell sound film for its 1938
campaign . . , We don't know
whether he has the title, but a
young German refugee by the
name of Werner is doing the work
of executive secretary at the
Anti-Nazi League In case you
have wondered why Graetz's fa-
mous history of the Jews hasn't
been brought up to date (it ends
with 1870) we can tell you that
the reason is that a new authori-
tative history of the Jews from
the very beginning is in the works.
THINGS TO WATCH
Jewish graduates of Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia
are readying an appeal to a promi-
nent Jew on the board of trustees
to do something about the fact
that for the first time no Jewish
students were admitted to the
freshman class.
The bill for a Congressional in-
vestigation of Nazi propaganda
sponsored by Representative Dies
of Texas will be approved by the
Rules Committee on Jan. 4, but it
will have a new author, Repre-
sentative Weaver of North Caro-
Good Will Mixed With Vengeance
A non-Jewish friend, struck by the appeal con-
tained in the anti-Nazi boycott stamps issued by
the Jewish War Veterans, pasted them on his
Christmas and New Year cards. Here is an in-
stance of good will gestures mixed with a bit
of vengeance (hate?). It is justified, of course,
as the reaction of the democratic world to the
regime of dictatoffs. And the causes motivating
such expressions of hate should cause Christians
to hate Nazism and fascism all the more because
they are compelled on their holiest day in their
religious year to think in terms of defense of the
democratic ideals against the inroads of move-
ments that suppress freedom of thought and ex-
pression.
•
George Pierrot: Pacifist Now
Ready to Fight Hitlerisrn
Take the case of George Pierrot, former editor
of the American Boy, director of the World Ad-
venture Series of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
George is now on a tour of the world. Ile has
visited Germany, went to Vienna, from there
broadcast a Christmas greeting to his friends. His
message, completely devoid of the religious ele-
ment, is a classic description of European condi-
tions. The letter is signed by both Pierrotts-
George and Helen. In its entirety it is too long
for complete quotation. But the reference to
France and Germany is -worth reading and we
share the following with our readers:
It
was a delight to revisit Paris. The Exposition
Is an architectural dream. Despite the ch.. of its
politics and the unrest of Its labor, one feels that I
Fenn. le as enduring as the *es. You feel freer there,
In a spiritual sense, than In any other eountry. Tak-
ing everything Into account, one must agree with John
Gunther that France is the moot civilized nation In
the world.
Germany nun a rude shock. There everything Is
subordinated to the roptd welding of • new fighting
machine. You have the feeling, all the time. that
spies are matching you. All our letters from home
hat been opened before they reached us. Outgoing
'nail Is similarly opened. The excuse Is that the goy-
enonent xis.. to make mare that no German marks
are being .0 out of the country. (But Incoming
mail Is opened, too!). 'The Press Is completely bot-
tled. There lo no such thing as free speech. To criti-
rite Slitter means hard labor In the concentrullon
eMelp.
It'. only fair to say that no haw no obvious under-
nourishment. Yet Germane are "flowed only a half
hound of butler a week. This winter, we were told,
meats and rots will be extremely scarce, and ffilloned.
And nialle the Germane do wIlliont, Germany le ex-
porting foodstuffs. As General Goering said Ptib-
Rely: "Cannon are more Important than butter."
A natter lingered as our table In Berlin, and whis-
pered bitterly, In broken English, of bow 11131er 1.1
acquired his power by Raking peace, and how ever
since hr has taken the bread off family- tables and
traded It for machine gundo. Germany developed •
cool tar substitute for rubber. She makes motor fuel
out of coal and potato., Eoor out of Potethee Gee-
•
s do not Import wt.; they wear clothes made
of wooden fabric. Waste land Is being reclaimed at •
feverish rate, so the C01131try will be .1f-oufficient.
A new system of broad concrete highnays—now being
rushed-1OG let troop. more mainly In any direction.
We saw street signs In Stettin: "Three Minutes to Com-
munity Air Bald Shelter."
"a.
One of the biggest names in
Jews are outcasts. Their opportunities are severe'?
American public life, who was a
limited. Ina almost impoosible for • Jew to get an
guest at dinner given by a famous
nahaneed education. We saw do.., of oleos outside
Jewish professor, whispered to
of village.: "Jena Not Wanted Here." A Jew's only
Heinrich Bruening, former Ger-
hope IS emigration.
man chancellor, that representa-
It is impomilm to mingle sith the Germans and not
tive government will be as dead
like and admire them. Tel there lo no question but
in America within three years as
that Adolf Stiller ix getting ready for • war that no-
it is in Germany And he said
body el. wants. Awl this time Germany Intends to
it as good news, not bad.
be so self contained that a blockade won't hurt her.
We wonder whether Uncle
Germany has no money. But under her system of forced
Sam's gumshoers know that all
labor, conscription of capitol and industry. and com-
Nazis in America have been or-
plete abolition of free speech and cattleism of the
dered to take up rifle practice
government, • mint Isn't ...wry. A printing press
after Jan, 1 and that several for-
Is Juot as good.
mer army men have been engaged
George entered Germany something of • pecifiot. Ile
as instructors.
left it perfectly willing to fight hiller end all that he
The American Guards, student
otands for. lie sees no hope for the survival of de-
anti-Semitic outfit, is active not
m..cy snleos the democratic nations present • united
only at City College but at dozens
front. If Americas allows Its alder democrat:1es to
of other colleges A new college
be smashed, America will have to light dietatonhipe
Fascist organization called the
single-handed. There. seems no escape from this con-
Pershing Rifles is looking for a
clusion.
new name because General Persh-
ing repudiated the use of his name
George
reactions are like Prof. Albert
. . All of the Fascist and anti- Einstein's. Pierrot's
The great physicist was the world's
Semitic movements in the Middle
No.
1
Pacifist.
Then
came Hitler. He became
West have been united into an or-
ganization called the Confedera- a rabid militarist in his fight on Hitlerism. Which
presents
the
important
reason why Jewish and
tion.
Christians pacifists must hate Hitler: Ile com-
OLAV HA-SHOLOM
pelled them to become violently militant for the
The Nazis gave General Luden- sake of the defense of human rights.
dorff a big send-off on his way to
•
the Nazi Valhalla, but they for-
Responding to "Hagalilah" Call
got that the real reason why the
Every important Jewish community is responding
late war lord broke with Hitler
to the call of the Jewish National Fund for the
after the Munich beer putsch was redemption
of the Huleh region in Upper Galilee.
that he considered the Nazi party The slogan "Ilagalilah—Forward
to Galilee" is
"hopelessly Judaised" . . , Which
meeting
with
a response that is assuring the con-
reminds us that it was Ludendorff
who invited the Polish Jews to struction of new colonies in Palestine to bear the
of American cities and states—among them
settle in Germany during the names
being Los Angeles, Texas, Indiana, Newark. If
World War ... When the German
every
community
in America could be enrolled
armies occupied Poland he issued in this land-redemption
project, the new Palestinian
a manifesto to the Jews there as- advance would mark the
beginning of a new era
suring them of Germany's friend. in Jewish colonization efforts.
ship ... He even accepted a din-
Nothing has thus far been said about Detroit's
ner invitation to the home of the participation in this important effort. It would
chief rabbi of Warsaw after the be to this community's credit if a colony called
Germans captured the city.
"Detroit" could be built in the Huleh region. It
Hitler's autobiography has been would be to our discredit if were to be among the
translated into Spanish under the few cities not included in this great national under-
title, "Hitler Caudillo."
taking.
THE CHRISTIAN
ROTHSCHILDS
The Story of the First Rothe
child
)
Intermarriage and
Nathan's Descendants
An Epic in Pioneering
Twenty Years of Upbuilding the Jewish Homeland: The
History of the Palestine Foundation Fund
By DR. ALEXANDER BEIN
Biographer of Theodor Herzl
A CENTURY BETWEEN: Tim Story
of the Deocenffivnte of Nathan
Rothschelld. By Robert Ilene.. EDITOR'S NOTE: We herewith begin the publication. In instaltmentaof •
Longman., Green At Co., 114 Fifth
emnprehendee review of II ye.* of Jewimit ophullding activitim In Pal-
Ave., New York (11/.
...line • who. or:motet'.nill he marked lot the National Conference for
Palestine at Bamhintton, D. C., on Jan. It cod 23. The author Is tor.
Alexander teen, cennan-Jlenish poldirist, oho .w reside. In Pale.tme.
Ms biography of Dr. Themlor 11.11 is retarded as the finest work of
Ito kind published.
The story of the first inter-
marriage with a Christian in
the famous household the Roths-
child, makes fascinating read-
ing. Written by the great
grandson of Nathan Roths-
child, the founder of the Eng-
lish house of the famous Euro-
pean banking firm, it is an his-
torical narrative that leads us
back to the days when Han-
nah, Nathan's daughter, fell in
love with Henry RitzRoy and
married him against the wishes
of her family. Of the two
children born as a result of this
marriage, the oldest, Arthur,
died at the age of 15 of in-
juries sustained as a young
boy when he was thrown from
his horse on a heap of flints.
The daughter, Blanche, in
turn had two daughters, the
elder of which, Effie, married
the Rev. T. Selby lienrey. The
author of "A Century Be-
tween" was borne of that union
on Aug. 14, 1901.
Famous names play a part in
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The Origins of Organized relief purposes. Such measures,
however, soon proved to be inade-
Colonization
Before the War the only fund
for Palestine at the disposal of the
Zionist Organization was the Ka-
ren Kayemeth Leisrael, the Jewish
National Fund. Consequently,
when in 1908 the Zionist Organiza-
tion took up colonization work, this
fund was responsible not only at
first for land purchase but had
various other tasks to perform.
We find, for instance, that the first
Zionist settlements (Dasnsrlia.
Merhavia, Ben Shemen, Fluids )
owe their foundation to this fund,
which also financed them for some
years, whilst the establishment of
the Jaffa suburb, Achusa Bait,
which later grew Into Tel Aviv,
was also made possible by a loan
from the source.
During the War special relief
funds were established for the
maintenance of settlement :work
and the Hebrew school system of
the Zionist Organization, which
was inaugurated in 1913. Later,
during the transition period, there
were the Restoration and Prepara-
tion Fund, I. e. the emergency
funds for temporary and special
quate. At the annual conference
held in London in July 1920, the
first representative Zionist meeting
since the 11th congress (1913), it
was decided to confine the activi-
ties of the Keren Kayemeth, as the
national land fund of the Zionist
Organization to the acquisition of
land and its amelioration, and to
create a special immigration and
colonization fund for all other
branches of colonization work to
be called the Keren Hayesod. On
March 25, 1921, this fund was reg-
istered in London as the "Erez Is-
rael (Palestine) Foundation Fund,
Keren Ilayesod, Ltd."
A Bold Move
The new fund was not originally
envisaged as a permanent fund-
raising institution. The original
plan, as conceived by its founders,
aimed at raising by means of one
mighty appeal to the Jewish peo-
ple within the space of 12 months
or at least during the course of
five years a vast reserve capital-
25,000,000 pounds was the figure
spoken of—and thereby to create
a solid basis for the systematic up-
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