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November 25, 1938
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A Story of a Builder of a
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habil.. Weekly by The .horish Chronicle Pu ► liohieg Ca., Imo the noble manner in which he rebuked Jewish blood among many aristo..
Fortune and His Son Who
erotic Colombians . . . The most
the
Nazis.
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historic cemetery at Medillin is
odic. at Detroit. Mich, under tae An of Mar. II, ISM
Jews are especially concerned that the that of the Catavids, an aristo-
"We must ever judge each individual on his
Protesting Jews
cratic
family
of
Jewish
ante-
own conduct and merits. and not on his member-
Much is yet to be written
General Offices and Publication 13.3ilding President should be honored. There is a
Several Jewish groups have joined the protests
long prominent in Bogota
ship in any class, whether that c)ass be based on about Jewish pioneers in Ameri-
way of doing it, and at the same time aid- cedents
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gainst the persecution of Jews in Germany, al-
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next most prominent a t
theological, social or industrial consideration."
can empire-building. Jews have
hough
people
as
a
whole
refrained
from
demon-
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tomb in
n that exclusively Catholic ,,
This lesson is valid today. It is consistent with taken a part in the building of
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trating, in order to avoid giving "provocation" to
tion possibilities for refugees.
cemetery is over the grave of a °
American policy for dealing with anti-Semites. the west, in the development of
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Nazis for further vengeance against the Jewish
Catholic
Jew
by
the
name
of
It
is especially gratifying to see it quoted in the the south, in the industrial cre-
During the annual convention of the I
population. As if "provocation" either comes from
American press, since the Angriff, newspaper or- ativeness of the north and east.
$3.00 Per Year Zionist Organization of America, held in Jorge Isaacs, who was one of the
Subscription. in Advance
most celebrated poets of Latin a ny other source than the Nazi, or is at all neces-
gan of Nagi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
A splendid novel which has
sary.
to losoro publicatioa. all correspond.. and nes. 'MOW Detroit in July, a special volume of the America . . . Ile was the author
Goebbels, saw fit to describe the action of Mayor Jewish pioneering as the theme
sot..t reach tbl. oat.. by Tuada• evening of melt week
Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund of a novel called "Maria," which But these Jewish groups need not be rebuked. LaGuardia as follows: "We know Mr. La Guardia, has just been issued by Farrar
When
wide.-. :lastly use one side id the paper only
needed an outlet for their emotions—and
whose fat Jewish face is recognized from count- & Rinehart of New York, in the
was dedicated in honor of President Roose- gives a picture of life in a Catho- They
home in Colombia . . . they found it in protest.
less demonstrations and agitation against Ger- form of Emerson Waldman's
m. Detroit Jewish Chronicle Milt•rr•spond.. nu sO
velt. Every gift of $100 for the purchase lic-Jewish
In a sense it is true, that if Jews may join with
Nets of inter.
. ta tbe Jowl.
but
it sold 8,000,000 copies, and is
many, is no man of politeness and tact. The Jew- "The Land Is Large." It is the
but Slwisbus resPonsl•
bility for an intioreemont of the •leve
000•o d by tb• writers of a page in this book, in honor of the the best-selling book in all Latin Christians in prayer for the persecuted, why not
ish guard before the consulate, however, shows
story of David ben Gabriel of
•
also in protest?
President,'at the same time helps redeem America.
gross lack of taste and is likewise a gross lie. Poltava. a farmer who paid
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
-
•
If a guard in New York is to have any meaning heavy taxes to the Russian baron
the soil of Palestine and makes possible Prof. Hans F. K. Guenther,
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 25:19-28:9.
of Naziland's leading race ex-
at all, it should be exercised against Jews, not and who incurred the disfavor
A' Well-Organized Pogrom
the creation of new colonies for expat- one
Prophetical portion—Mal. 1:1-2:7.
ports, has authored a treatise in
by them. Mr. La Guardia has made a poor joke." of the tax collector. To avert a
Ilerschel Grynszpan proved a ready tool and
riated Jews.
which he seeks to prove that
There is weakness in the Nazi voice. But the family tragedy, a jail sentence
a good excuse for the Nazis in Germany who
freckles
and
red
beards
are
Nor-
American sentiment gains momentum. All of and a possible pogrom, Duvid
November 25, 1938
Instead of sending telegrams to the
Kislev 2, 5699
were being mobilized for a pogrom, for plunder-
dic.
escapes to America, leaves his
which
is added cause for encouragement.
President and incurring other expenses,
ing and looting. But if it had not been young
The name of Freud, world-fa-
young wife, their children and
•
we recommend to individuals and organ- mous in psychology, now adorns a Herschel it would have been some other excuse.
his children by his first wife be-
lust for Jewish possessions was a powerful
Modern Value of Josephus
Don't Finance Anti-Semites izations that they purchase inscriptions in dress shop in London's swanky The
hind him and comes here in
force motivating Nazi activities.
West End. The owner is Ma-
For centuries the works of Flavius Josephus search of a new home and secur-
the
Golden
Book
in
honor
of
President
The pogrom had been going on uninterruptedly.
It has been said, and rightly, that anti-
tilde Freud, oldest daughter of
have been used as reference works by theologians ity.
It only needed the excuse for it to be extended on
Semitism pays. Germany proves it. Spain Roosevelt.
the daddy of psychoanalysis.
and historians. It has never been a thoroughly
Waldman's story
hold,, the
a mass basis.
popular work. What helped to hinder its popular- reader's interest from beginning
NEWS FROM HOME
proved it. Russia proved it. The plunder-
Miss Katherine Devereaux Blake, 80-year-old
Some
highly
influential
Ameri-
ity, of course, has been the manner in which these to end, since it is replete with
ing of Jewish shops in Poland was proof of
chairman of the International Relations Commit-
Christians are reported to
works were published—in very small type, the action and moves swiftly and in-
tee of the New York City Federation of Women's
this contention.
Pity the Sadistic Dissenter can
be drafting a petition to Presi-
entire collection of the ancieent historian's writ- terestingly. At first it is New
Clubs, recently returned from an extended Euro-
dent
Roosevelt
proposing
that
he
Too often, anti-Semitic literature proves
A sadistic dissenter, instead of sympa- recommend to Congress legislation pean tour and immediately plunged into work for ings being crammed into single volumes, with anno- York, with its difficulties for
tations which anly the most discriminating scholars peddlers, its penalties exacted
profitable for its authors because Jews, thizing with the persecuted, has seen fit which
would permit large num- relief of refugees. She brought back with her
took the trouble to read and to study.
by politicians, its dangers for
of horror. Persecutions of the Middle Ages
out of curiosity, buy it.
to be responsible, single-handedly, for a bers of Europe's persecuted min- tales
But the works of Josephus can no longer be "greenhorns." David gets into
"were nothing in comparison to the present
orities
to
obtain
temporary
refuge
Jews should stop being curious and moral pogrom on the Jews.
treated as ancient history or ancient literature. trouble with a ward dealer, is
ghastly situation," Miss Blake said. Approxi-
in the United States ... The real
beaten up, but gets a
should cease buying such literature.
This Christian apparently refuses to be slap Hitler will receive from the mately 250,000 Jews. she said, have disappeared Today, more than ever, they have a modern ap- severely
plication and are important for purposes of com- small fortune in the fray. Ile
from
Germany—"exiled,
killed,
died
or
suicides."
It will also be healthier for Jews not to bound by the laws of morality and ethics American government will be ad-
leaves
for
Mississippi and there
parison with conditions as they exist now.
recounted numerous instances of individual
listen to destructive radio addresses by which have been the guiding elements in ministered at the forthcoming She
begins to build his fortune. Step
persecution, including the case of one "poor
If only because of his book "Against Apion,"
Pan-American
Conference
to
be
by
step
he
makes progress,
men who speak in the name of God but his religious inheritance from the Jews.
the works of Josephus at once assume great im-
held at Lima, Peru . .. Rumors wretch" who was shunted back and forth for
achieves success, makes friends,
broadcast hatred to suit a purpose that is
But Christianity as such does not share am circulating that an all-em- three days on an international bridge leading portance in the present dark hour of Jewish his- helps build the south.
tory. No Jewish student can possibly afford to
difficult to understand.
bracing boycott against the TWA- out of Germany. "Finally, after the guards of
Then comes the period of fam-
this view.
both countries repeatedly had kicked him away,
overlook Josephus' arguments in defense of the
Lindbergh air line is to be *darted
ily reunion, the building of a
These hate-mongers are outnumbered
he
sat
down
in
the
middle
of
the
bridge,"
she
Recently, Dr. Samuel McCrea Calvert, as
Jewish people and in answer to the attacks of new life for all of them, new
a protest against Lindbergh's
by the Christians who are true to their general secretary of the Federal Council strange tenderness for the home- related. "When he couldn't stand it any longer, Apion. When Philo and his companions appeared love
affairs, new aspirations.
faith; who seek to defeat bigotry rather of Churches, wrote a message of greeting land of the kidnap-murderer of he jumped into the river."
before Caligula in behalf of the Jews of Alexandria There are marriages, the estab-
Such stories are now being multiplied a thou-
it was Apion who opposed them. Ile was one of lishment of new neighborly rela-
than to sponsor it.
to the Jews, which was published in our his son.
sandfold. But -the mass murder found world
the fathers of anti-Semitism. Josephus' answer to tions—but alas new troubles.
REPORTS
Therefore our people should take heart issue of Sept. 23, 1938. We quote from SPECIAL
the accusations and calumnies are applicable today. Irving, the eldest, who was once
Credit the Cleveland Jewish In,. public opinion fully aroused. There is a limit to
and should not become discouraged when this article:
dependent with an A-1 scoop: That savagery—and e'vett "lucky" Adolf Hitler and
Of course, Josephus' works are important pri- Isidore, is a greedy sort. Ile de-
they hear that one person has helped the
weekly has recalled that Dr. Hans his cohorts must soon learn that they cannot
marily as history. "Antiquities of the Jews" is sires to get much out of his
challenge
mankind
uninterruptedly
without
rebuff.
"W. Christians have inherited the ethical
Borchers, the Nazi consul general
history. It is one of the ablest outlines of Jew- father, but Duvid's wife keeps
cause of persecution by distorting facts and religious insights of Israel, and hold them
in New York who recently at-
ish progress in ancient times, "The Wars of the him somewhat in check. But to-
and by appealing to passion.
Jewish Policemen and Nazis
in common with you. We hold them with a
tacked the Jews and American
Jews" is one of the most authoritative outlines of gether they build and expand
difference, it is true—at one point with a
Don't encourage those who seek to
liberties, has been extremely
Assignment by Mayor LaGuardia of Jewish
the conflicts with Rome. Josephus' life, which and they gm wricher—and David
momentous difference--but we always remem-
friendly to Jews when he held a policemen to guard visiting Nazis and the Nazi
forms part of this monumental literary document, grows unhappier. Irving's greed
spread their propaganda of destruction
ber that the historic roots of our faith are
consular
post
in
Cleveland
before
consulate
recalls
the
fact
that
Theodore
Roosevelt
is a defense against accusations that he was a is not to his liking. The story
by giving them audience.
in the Hebrew people. From Israel we inherit
Hitler ... In 1929 Borchers con- first established precedent for such action when
traitor to his people. But the reply to the anti- does not end well, since this son
A courageous Jewry will ignore such the Ten Commandments, which are still the tributed to the Lessing-Mendel- he was Police Commissioner of New York 40 Semites is without question the most significant of the man who had escaped
basic moral standards of Christendom. From
sohn Good Will Fund . . . Two years ago. In "Theodore Roosevelt, an Autobiog-
fanatics. Jewry—and mankind—have sur-
from persecution in Russia turns
portion of his writings.
Israel we inherit the priceless treasure of
years later he spoke at an ob- raphy," published in 1920 by Charles Scribner's
vived them before, and will survive them
The popularization of Josephus' works, made and they grow richer—and David
the Psalms, which are an essential part of
servance of the 75th anniversary ;Sons, we read:
possible by the appearance of a 10-volume set just persecutor of the Negroes, and
again. History always relegates them to a
Christian worship around the world. From
of the death of Heine.
I "While I was Police Commissioner, an anti-
published by the World Syndicate Publishing Co., finances the K. K. K., to the
Israel we inherit the vision of social justice
position of degradation.
Jacob Fishman, whose editorial Semitic preacher from Berlin, Rector Ahlwardt,
2231 W. 110th St., Cleveland, 0., and made avail- , disgust and suffering of his
l
I
N. C. J. C. — Great Cause
Out of the present great humanitarian
outcry for justice and decency, the Na-
tional Conference of Jews and Christians
emerges as the movement that has most
effectively mobilized true religious senti-
ment against Nazism and bigotry.
Through its Religious News Service,
which The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is
pleased to use as part of its news and
feature services; with the co-operation of
its affiliated religious organizations and
through its able leaders, the National Con-
ference of Jews and Christians proved an
effective force in mobilizing all groups
for the powerful protest against intoler-
ance and persecution.
By setting aside a special day for prayer,
and in securing the active assistance of
Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religious
and ministerial groups, this movement for
co-operation between all faiths achieved
its greatest triumph during the present
crisis and definitely established itself as
an important factor for good in American
life.
When the next Allied Jewish Campaign
is planned, the National Conference of
Jews and Christians ought to be included
not for a pittance of $300 which it now
receives annually, but for at least five
times that amount. Its services in the
present emergency alone have earned for
it that recognition.
Priority for Palestine
Proposals for the creation of new col-
onization centers carry with them one
serious danger: the diverting of attention
from Palestine may hurt the position of
the Jewish National Home without help-
ing materially any other colonization pro-
ject.
There is a danger that must be averted.
Experience should teach us that coloniza-
tion projects are not easy ones to under-
take; that in the past all of them have
failed, except the Palestinian one; that
the existing position in Palestine must
be strengthened, not weakened.
It is possible that new colonization pro-
jects are advanced with the intention of
centering Jewish interest in a movement
to compete with the Palestinian effort and
in that way to force the Jewish national
aspirations in Eretz Israel in the back-
ground. Such an effort would be an indi-
cation of lack of vision and total blind-
ness to historic experiences. Jews have,
in the past, invested millions in coloniza-
tion movements, but none succeeded ex-
cept the Zionist one, because it was
marked by an ideal that aimed at the
saving not only of Jewish bodies but also
of the Jewish spirit, and because it sought
to realize the dreams of a redeemed Zion
as expressed in our prayers.
New avenues for settlement of refugees
must be found, but not at the expense of
Palestine. It is possible to settle in Pales-
tine hundreds of thousands of Jews over
a period of several years. To abandon
this opportunity would mean to be false
to a sacred trust and to gamble on less
certain colonization movements.
Whatever new movements are under-
taken must be judged with a sense of re-
sponsibility to the future and with a sense
of obligation to the existing center in Pal-
estine. To sacrifice the Jewish National
Home will mean the abandonment of self-
respect and the placing in jeopardy of our
Palestinian structure which needs con-
stantly to be strengthened and which must
not be sacrificed by indifference.
which has come to us through Amos and
Isaiah and Micah. From Israel we inherit
even our own unique Christian classic, the
New Testament, which from the Gospel of
St. Matthew through the Epistles of St. Paul
to the Revelation of St. John was written
by Jews."
column has been missing from the
Jewish Morning Journal for the
last five months while he was
taking a well-earned vacation, is
on the job again, to the great re-
lief of many Jewish leaders who
have long been used to take their
cue from one of his views.
The Belgian blindfold chess ex-
pert Koltanowski amazed scores
of onlookers when he played 10
simultaneous blindfold games at
the Manhattan Chess Club re-
It is useless, of course, to quote these
words for men who smack their lips when
their mouths pour forth venom that in-
cites the ignorant to hate and to possible
riot.
cently.
But here it is for the sake of the record Mrs. Bridget Hitler of Dublin,
—and as an occasion for expressing grati- Ireland, who is the divorced wife
tude to those Christians who refuse to be of Alois Hitler, the Fuehrer's
brother, is trying to get back he
swayed by bigotry and ignorance.
British citizenship . . . When she
Human Decency Prevails
married Alois she became an Aus-
trian citizen, and now Anschluss
, has made her a German.
Jews need not despair or feel discour-
aged over what is happening throughout
the world or in this country.
Christian public opinion, once aroused,
will not be stifled by the dissenting voice (CONCLUDED tilos( Pam: ONE)
of a single sadist.
long leading articles, later pub-
Not only the spokesmen for various reli- lished in book-form under the title
"The Cause of World Unrest."
gious faiths, but also the Germans in this
Henry Ford founded The Dear-
country have been aroused—and this is born
Independent, mainly it would
an indication that the better part of man appear to give extensive publicity
is determined to see justice rule on earth. to the "Protocols," an aim that
The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung was was successful, for the paper soon
300,000 subscribers. The ar-
among the first newspapers to condemn had
ticles on the "Protocols" from the
the outrages in Germany and to draw a Dearborn Independent later came
sharp dividing line between the German out in book-form, of which 500,-
000 copies were sold. This book
people and the German government.
translated into German under
A week after it expressed horror over was
the title "The International Jews;"
what is happening to Jews and Calholics and the publication of this Ger-
in Germany, the New Yorker Staats- man translation was financed by
Zeitung, commenting on the recall to Mr. Ford. Since 1922 this trans-
has gone through 21 edi-
Germany of Ambassador Hans Dieckfoff, lation
tions. Pamphlets, commentaries,
voiced the hope that he would be per- etc., on the "Protocols" have ap-
mitted to impress upon the German For- peared in a veritable flood. Adolf
eign Office the seriousness of the situation Hitler invokes the "Protocols" in
book "Mein Kampf" to justify
and that his report would be given the his
his violence towards the Jews in
attention of the Nazi regime. Its editorial Germany. Ilitler's is not the only
declared:
violence against the Jews that has
came over to New York to preach a crusade
against the Jew's. Many of the New York Jews
were much excited and asked me to prevent him
from speaking and not to give him police pro-
tection.
"This, I told them, was impossible, and if pos-
sible would have been undesirable because it would
have made him a martyr. The proper thing to
do was to make him ridiculous.
"Accordingly I detailed for his protection a
Jew sergeant and a score or two of Jew police-
men. He made his harangue against the Jews un-
der the active protection of some 40 policemen,
every one of them a Jew!
"It was the most effective possible answer; and
incidentally it was an object lesson to our people,
whose greatest need is to learn that there must
be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred
be that of creed against creed, nationality against
nationality, section against section or men of
one social or industrial condition against men of
another social and industrial condition.
"PLAGIARISM AND FRAUD 11
"According to cabled accounts from Berlin,
the
over there don't seem to want to
believe in the gloomy picture that the Am-
bassador has painted in his reports. Dr.
Dieckhoff knows that the picture cannot be
painted in colors gloomy enough. He knows
people
that im well as we know it. It is to be hoped
that he will succeed in convincing the Foreign
Office of the seriousness of the situation and
it is to be hoped that his description will
receive the attention it d from the
Foreign Office and the party authorities.
"The people over there should not entertain
the hope that the storm will lose its force
in • little while. Those irresponsible advisers
to whom the Wilhelmst aaaaa apparently ofen
listens more willingly than to the experienced
ureer diplomats cannot change the true pic-
ture of the situation by painting it in gap
colors or by self-righteous pronouncements.
What has happened in the Third Reich goes
far beyond the questions of religion or of
race.
"Dr. Dieckhoff will be accompanied by the
warmest wishes of German-Americans on his
difficult mission. He leaves • field of ruins
behind him. All the work, in which he himself
co-operated, toward building a bridge of un-
derstanding between here and there has col•
lapsed. And at the very bottom lie the hopes
he had especially entertained for • new com•
nsercial treaty which must be buried for •
long, long time."
These views undoubtedly echo the sen-
timents of all good men and all true
Christians.
Therefore, there is reason for encour-
agement. Therefore, we ought not to de-
spair. Therefore, we believe that the
spontaneous expression of opinion on the
part of Christians will continue, and that
decency will prevail over savagery.-
The term "Good" in "Good Will" must
be very elastic when a radio station as-
suming this imposing title for its name
permits a sadistic priest to incite to hatred
with untruths against a people already
subjected to the worst humiliations by a
depraved government.
sought its apology in the "Proto-
cols."
Father Charles mentions the
fact that certain organizations in
Belgium have given wide circula-
tion to the "Protocols," and have
not hesitated to represent them as
a plan of general destruction of
Christian society, thereby justify-
ing every sort of preventive and
repressive measures. He contin-
ues: "For this is the tragic aspect
of this problem. We are dealing
here not with what is simply a
literary question. Hatred of the
Jews, nourished by publications
which have swarmed about the
"Protocols," has made use of these
to preach and practice hatred of
all Israelites, to represent them
as abominable conspirators, and to
incite public authorities and, if
these will not act, to inspire the
rabble, to apply savage sanctions
and even concerted penalties to
Jews."
Taken at their fare value the
"PrOtocols," especially if detached
sentences or paragraphs are ob-
served, present a plan of cynical
conspiracy against Christian so-
ciety as a whole. But if they are
examined critically and as wholly,
according to Father Charles, they
present such a mass of contradic-
tion, such a naive acceptance of
the solution to problems of im-
mense difficulty, such a faith in the
power of absolutely inept means
to these solutions that, if the mys-
terious Elders of Zion, who are
presented as the authors of these
destructive plans, have no other
means to suggest to attain their
extraordinary ends, then the world
has little to fear from the "Proto-
cols" and can sleep in peace.
It is, of course, not possible to
present in a limited time the mas-
terly analysis made by Father
Charles of the content of the "Pro-
tocols." Anyone who has a read-
ing knowledge of the French lan-
guage may purchase his article in
pamphlet form from the publishers
of the review. The name and ad-
dress of these publishers will be
published in The Pilot when this
broadcast appears in the issue
of The Pilot for Oct. 29. It will
suffice to quote the following con-
clusion of Father Charles after
his analytical study of the "Pro-
tocols." Ile says:
"The more thoroughly one ex-
amines these "Protocols," so much
the more do they demonstrate their
absurdity, their contradictory char-
acter and their childishness. This
childishness is not relieved except
by an occasional demonstration of
provocative cynicism . . . One im-
mediate conclusion forces itself
upon one after an examination of
the content of the "Protocols."
This production offers absolutely
nothing that bears even a remote
resemblance to any organized
movement. The authors are ignor-
ant of even the elements of finance
and economics; they are destitute
of even a faint idea of political
institutions; they tangle up the
most formidable ingenuousness and
simplicity with the most impudent
pretentious. There is nothing con-
structive in their proposals, not
even in their plans for a universal
"boring-in"; but throughout the
work one finds the most flagrant
contradictions. I defy anyone to
gather from these pages, purport-
ing to present a program of action,
even a semblance of a plan"
The Origin of the Protocols
The original Russian edition of
the "Protocols" was published as
we have seen, by Serge Nilus in
1905. He affirmed. that they had
been read in a secret session of the
Jewish Zionist Congress which had
been held in Basle, Switzerland,
In August, 1897, for the purpose
of presenting to the Jews the gen-
eral plan by which the world was
to be brought under the domination
of the Hebrew race. However ac-
cording to Nilus, a spy present at
the congress, sent by the Czarist
government, secured a copy, and,
after a series of thrilling adven-
tures, which Nilus relates with ro-
mantic details, the manuscript fell
at long last into the hands of Ni-
lus. As a matter of fact there
never was a secret session of this
first Zionist Congress. This has
been amply proven from the sworn
testimony, not only of the partici-
pants of e congress, tut f rom the
newspaper correspondents present,
as well as from stenographers of
the proceedings. This testimony,
declares Father Charles, is irrefu-
table. This refutation of the story
of the secret session held for the
presentation of the "Protocols"
need not be further amplified,
since we know now for certain
that the origin of the "Protocols"
is very different from the fable
published by the Russian Nilus.
The answer to this question was
given in three articles by a corres-
pondent of the London Times in
Constantinople, and which were
published in that paper on Aug.
16, 17, 18, 19 in 1921. This cor-
respondent found among the aban-
doned effects of an officer of the
Czar a volume written in French,
able at the popular price of $4.95, is a service
that must be welcomed by the Jewish reader as an
unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted
with historic facts, with one of the most im-
portant Jewish historians of all times and with an
answer to bigotry that has stood the test of 1900
years.
Josephus' works stand today as an answer to the
enemies of the Jews. It speaks to the modern
world in terms of admonition of the fate that
befell Jewry's ancient enemies. Jewry lives in
spite of the medallion of Vespasian with the in-
scription "Judaea Capta," but Rome of old is
dead. And the modern despots are using argu-
ments against the Jews that are in no sense dif-
ferent from those that were believed by Vespasian
and used by Apion.
A 63-page index appended to the last of these
lb volumes is most valuable for the reader. It
makes these works more valuable also for the
student and the man of research.
LULLABY
By HATTIE MORRIS
Sleep, little Jewish baby,
Sleep through the world's
alarms;
Mother will guard you closely,
Keep you from all that harms.
Sleep, little Jewish baby,
For youth goes, oh, so fast;
Dream of our race's splendor,
Your heritage from the past.
Sleep, little Jewish baby,
I'll watch till the morning
light;
Dream of a better future,
Which now looks none too
bright.
Long is the road we have trod-
den,
Salty the tears we've shed,
Pain is our age-old burden,
Bitter our bite of bread.
May your, lot in life be smoother,
May mine be the eyes to
weep—
I Angels and mother will guard
you,
Little Jewish baby, sleep.
I father.
It is a tragic and unusual end-
' ing for a story dealing with Jew-
ish pioneers whose children as a
; rule wind up as social reformers.
But it sounds real enough, and
I on the whole Waldman's "The
Land Is Large" is a splendid
(novel and one of the best dealing
with a Jewish theme published
I in recent years.
BERLIN. — (WNS) — The
usual tax reductions for minor
children will not be granted to
parents of Jewish children in
1939, according to a new govern.
ment. decree. The decree also
provides that widowed or di-
vorced persons raising Jewish
children would be regarded as
bachelors for tax purposes.
SOLICITATIONS FOR COMMUNITY FUND
BEGUN BY SPECIAL GIFT CAMPAIGNERS
(CONCLUDED FROM PACE ONE)
standing care. We, as individ-
uals, would like to find useful
tasks for the blind, to provide
medical treatment for crippled
children or to set the idle hands
of girls and boys to work on
worth - while, character - training
pursuits. But ours is a great and
complex city. There are too
many problems for us to handle,
as individuals. We must dele-
gate the actual carrying out of
these neighborly acts to a group
of social service agencies.
- "The 80 private agencies, sup-
ported in whole, or in part, by
the Community Fund form a
network covering the Detroit
Metropolitan area from Grosse
Pointe to Wyandotte and Tren-
ton, and from the River to Royal
Oak. These 80 agencies protect
neglected and dependent chil-
dren, unmarried mothers, grow-
ing boys and girls, the under-
privileged and the handicapped.
They give nursing, clinic and
convalescent care to the sick and
crippled. The averages Detroiter
does not realize that one out
of every five babies born in the
city is cared for by a visiting
nurse. The Community Fund pays
for their services, yet only one
out of every seven Detroiters
contributes to the fund.
"I hope," continued Mr. Eng-
gess, "that the proportion of De-
of which the first pages were mis-
sing. On reading the book the
Times correspondent discovered
that it contained whole series of
passages which were parallel in
expression to the text of the fa-
mous "Protocols." The book had
been written by a French lawyer,
Maurice Joly, and was called "Dia-
logue in Hell between Machiavelli
and hlontesquieu, or the Politics
of Machiavelli in the 19th Cen-
tury, by a Contemporary." This
book was published in Brussels in in the "Dialogue." This addition
1864. A copy of which is in the refers to the measures which the
Royal Library of Brussels was the Elders of Zion will take against
one examined by Father Charles. Presidents who take part in any
There exists also an edition pub- scandal such as that which was
lished in Paris in 1865, and an- involved in the construction of the
other dating from Brussels in 1868. Panama Canal. The only French
The aim of Joly's work a-as to hold president to whom this can refer
up the politics of Napoleon the is Emile Loubet, who was elected
Third to satire and ridicule. This president of the French Republic
emperor is represented as a despot on February 18, 1899. Remember
who affected an outward semblance that Serge Nilus asserted that the
of justice and liberality. The em- "Protocols" were read in secret at
peror is not mentioned by name; the Zionist Congress in 1897. But
Machiavelli impersonates him. this was two years before the Pan-
while Montes.quieu plays the role ama Coital incidents. This is only
of an honest man who is scandal- an additional proof of the falsity
ized at the hypocrisy and cynicism of the asserted origin of the "Pro-
tocols." These documents are only
of the other.
In the article by Father Charles a clumsy plagiarized re-editing of
which we are discussing, he gives a satirical work by Maurice Joly.
some 40 parallel paragraphs, some This re-editing was done with the
of them long ones, from the "Dia- tran spa rent i ntent i on
logue" side by side with the same I the Jews odious to men of all
passages in the "Protocols" The nations and creeds, possibly on
order of the topics is the same in the occasion of the pogroms in
both works. Words are changed Russia about the year 1905., It is
here and there, and there is some certain that the Zionist Congress
amplification of topics in the in Basle had no part in their com-
"Protocols." But it is clear that position. "The Protocols of the
the "Protocols" are a gigantic plag- Elders of Zion" turn out to be
iarism. Far from being written one of the most calumniating
in or about the year 1897 for hoaxes of history.
(Name of the pamphlet men-
presentation to the Zionist Con-
gress in Basle, they were competed tioned in the broadcast is "Les
by the French lawyer Joly and Protocols des Sages de Sion" par
published in 1864, 33 years before P. Charles, S.J., published by
the convening of this congress Etabl. Casterman, S.A., 28 Rue
There is however an addition in des Soeurs-Noires, Tournai, Bel-
the "Protocols" which is not found gium.)
troit Jews who contribute gener-
ously to the drive will be much
higher. For we, as a group, bene-
fit by the Community Fund, not
only in a general way, but specfi-
cally, as Jews. Seven of our agen-
cies—the agencies that form the
base upon which our local com-
munal and philanthropic pro-
grams rest—depend upon the
Community Fund for the major
portion of their annual budgets.
These agencies are: The Fresh
Air Society. the Hebrew Free
Loan Association, the Jewish
Child Placement Bureau, the
Jewish Children's Home, the
Jewish Community Center, the
Jewish Social Service Bureau,
North End Clinic and the Jewish
Welfare Federation itself. With-
out this help, much of the work
accomplished would have to be
shouldered by the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation independently. In
1938, these Jewish agencies re-
ceived a total of $229,992.66
from the Detroit Community
Fund. This measure of benefit
implies a measure of obligation.
We would not want it otherwise."
General chairmen of the cam-
paign this year are lloward A.
Coffin and J. T. Sheafor. Mayor
Richard W. Reading is honorary
chairman of the campaign. James
McEvoy is president of the fund.
George D. Bailey, Fred M. But-
zel, Joseph P. Glaser and S. T.
Stackpole are vice presidents.
Percival Dodge is managing di-
rector, Clarence H. Enggass
serves on the board of directors
of the Detroit Community Fund
and is an active member of the
Jewish Welfare Federation Com-
mittee on Community Fund Re-
lationships.
More than 5,000 volunteer
workers will join in the effort to
raise funds to meet the needs of
the 80 Community Fund agen-
cies this year.
Judge Rubiner and Mrs. Scher-
lender to Speak in Behalf of
Community Fund
Judge Charles Rubiner and
Mrs. Samuel Schaflander will ad-
dress the radio audience on be-
half of the Detroit Community
Fund drive, over the Altman
Jewish Hour, radio s t at ion
WMBC, this week-end. The De-
troit Community Fund Campaign
will he held from Nov. 28 to
Dec. 14, for • goal of $2,640,000.
Judge Rubiner, former mem-
dent of the Jewish Community
Center, which functions both as
a Detroit Community Fund and
Jewish Welfare Federation agen-
cy. will broadcast over Station
WMBC, ,en Saturday evening.
Nov. 26, at 9 o'clock. Mr. Sag-
lender, executive secretary of
the League for Human Rights,
is a member of the Detroit Com-
munity Fund Speakers' Bureau .
Her talk will be heard on the
Altman Hour, Sunday noon, Nov.
27, at 1 o'clock.