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the Torah

Readings of

Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 33:12-34:2G; Num.
28:19-25.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 36:37-37:14.
"The Song of Songs" is read.

Sunday, Chol Hamoed Passover, Reading of
the Law

Num. 9:1-14; 28:19.25.

Readings of the Law for Seventh Day of Pte.
Monday, April 10

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 13:17-15:26; Num.
28:19-25.
Prophetical portion—II Sam. 22.

Readings of the Law for Eighth Day of Passover,
Tuesday, April II

Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 15:19-16 :17 ; Num.
2S:19-25.
Prophetical portion—Is. 10:32-12:6.

April 7, 1939

Nisan 18, 5699

A Discouraging Survey

It is poor consolation to say that the
latest survey on anti-Semitism conducted
by Fortune Magazine shows only a negli-
gible increase in sentiment against the
Jew. The fact is that this survey still shows
that approximately one-third the popula-
tion believes that there is a growing hos-
tility to the Jew, and that the doubters
have increased by 6 per cent at the expense
of those who believe that hostility is not
growing.
What is to be done about it? How is this
menace to be counteracted? Anyone who
has made a study of hatred and savagery
knows that.bigotry may begin with a sin-
gle group but always ends with the whole
nation. The spreading brand of prejudice
in this country makes the Jew the chief
scapegoat, but in the long run will result
in a serious menace to the land as a whole.
The problem of anti-Semitism is a prob-
lem of Americanism. The spread of the
poison must be fought for the sake of the
country at large, and the liberal elements
realize it and are willing to join in the
battle.
The . series of broadcasts inaugurated
two weeks ago by Rev. Thomas L. Harris
in behalf of the American League for
Peace and Democracy emphasized that
the issue is not Communism or Fascism,
it is a question of fighting for a positive
democraccy. Rev. Harris' presentation of
the question was a commendable one, and
in the main he presented the issue as it
faces this country.
Naturally, Jews must join with the lib-
eral elements in the fight for the defense
of human rights, in the defense of democ-
racy and of Americanism. Nevertheless, we
also have a problem that is peculiarly our
own and which must be fought by ourselves
before anyone else will take up the cudgels
for us. It is on the Jewish issue that we
ourselves must lead in the battle. If we do
not, we stand in danger of losing our
friends in the non-Jewish ranks. They will
respect us if we maintain self-respect, and
that we can accomplish only by standing
erect and by refusing to permit libels and
"pious' frauds" from gaining unnecessary
audiences simply because we prefer to be
silent.
The latest Fortune Magazine survey
should serve as a warning to us. We dare
not remain silent and sit back complacently
without shouting "lie" whenever an un-
truth is uttered. We may not succeed when
we do shout, but we shall at least have the
satisfaction of having protested against
indignities. Furthermore, we shall have the
satisfaction of having given the cue to the
friendly non-Jews who may forget about
us if we forget about ourselves.

Right—In the Hearts of Men

The recently-formed Council Against
Intolerance in America appears on the
American horizon as a movement of great
promise for our way of living in this great
land. Under the co-chairmanship of W.
Warren Barbour, George Gordon Battle
and William Allen White this council has
already made an excellent start with its
constructive efforts to fight against bigotry.
America's greatest leaders have already
been attracted to this cause, as indicated
by the illustrious assembly that attended
the dinner tendered by this council in
honor of Josephus Daniels, American Am-
bassador to Mexico.
Members of the council which tendered
the dinner to Ambassador Daniels in-
cluded Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Harold L.
Ickes, Secretary of the Interior; Bishop
James E. Freeman of Washington, D. C.;
Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New
York; Monsignor John A. Ryan of Wash-
ington, D. C.; Colonel Frank Knox of
Chicago • Frank E. Gannett of Rochester,
Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New York;
Dr. Robert M. Hutchins, president of the
University of Chicago; John S. Burke,
president of the Altman Foundation; Will-
liam Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor; John L. Lewis, presi-
dent of the Congress of Industrial Organi-
zations; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Gen-
eral Hugh S. Johnson, Governor Culbert
L. Olson of California, Governor Leverett
Saltonstall of Massachusetts, Senator Ben-
nett Champ Clark of Missouri; and Dr.
Robert A. Millikan of California. Among
the members of the council and guasta
present at the dinner were: Hon. Jeremiah
T. Mahoney, Dr. Christian Reisner, Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr, James Speyer, Hon.
Wililam Cohen, Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell,
Eric H. Biddle, Michael Williams, Michael
Francis Doyle, Sam A. Lewisohn, Senator
Theodore Francis Green, Frank P. Walsh,

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April 7, 1939

aed THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

ris, J. David Stern, former Senator James
J. Pope, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, George Mc-
Aneny, Thomas J. Watson. Walter White,
Herbert Bayard Swope, Morris Llewllyn
Cooke.
Ambassador Daniels denounced the
"slaughter of the innocents" in reaction-
ary countries. He spoke of warring against
persecution and slavery as "a scourge to
humanity." He admonished his audience
to take heart that Right is not "forever on
the scaffold" and that Wrong is not "for-
ever on the throne." He spoke of the an-
swer being "deeply implanted" "in the
hearts and homes of the rank and file of
our countrymen," and illustrated his faith
in America and Americans with the fol-
lowing:

Let one illustration, drawn from a village
in • small southern town in the days following
the war of brothers, typical of the whole coon-
try, suffice. Whe n I was • boy I lived in Wol-
son, North Carolina, • small county seat, in
a cotton•growing section Its population was
almost entirely of English stock. Its religion
was mainly Calvinistic, its politics almost
without exception Jeffersonian. It was both
Democratic and democratic. Its way of life
was individualistic. Among its choice women
i n • day before there were community chests,
hospitals, trained nurses, Red Cross or First
Aid, were three noble women "whose heart
the Lord opened" who gave themselves to holy
deed. of mercy. If there was illness, they sat
up with the sick; in maternity cases, they were
the doctor's best reliance; they comforted the
dying with religiou s consolations; they helped
to prepare the dead for burials; they wept
with those who wept and lightened their sor-
row.. On e of this trinity of self••ppointed
sister s of mercy, Mrs. Connor, a widow, was
• devout Roman Catholic, the only family of
that faith in the county; another was Mrs.
Rosenthal, wife of one of the very few Jewish
merchants in the town emigrated from Ger-
many, and who was devoted to her religion
and whose purse was open to those in need;
the third, my own widowed mother, a Metho-
dist, whose evangelical seal was only equal-
ised by her ministrations to the sick, the sor-
rowing, and all who stood in need of love and
guidance. Nobody in that community thought
of their religio n or nationality and Jew and
Catholic and Methodist, in cooperation with
other noble women, mostly of the Primitive
Baptist persuasion, cave generously of all
&he y were or possessed to carry cheer and
light into darkened homes. "Their chidren
rise up and call them blessed." The so n of the
saint became th e most beloved judge in the
State; the oldest son of the Methodist saint
also wore the ermine with honor; and the
descendants of the Jewish saint became lead-
ers in business, in agriculture and education.
As long as such Jews, Catholics, Baptists,
Methodists and others in love of humanity
work together in city and town and country,
intolerance can obtain little foothold in Amer-
ica. And more than that: There will go out
from such homes sympathy and aid to all who
live under the shadow of persecution, and
sound public opinion thus generated will cover
the earth as the waters cover the sea.

ay PHILIP

It Happened to the Jews

By RABBI MORDECAI L. BRILL

The philosopher A. D. Gordon,;
who urged a return to the life eel
labor on the soil of Palestine and
who lived up to that ideal in the!
colony of Dagania, has this to say,
concerning the question of ,nation-I
alism: "The people, as a personi-
fication of the community, is a
base beast, whose equal among the
beasts of prey is rare indeed. The
people, as a people, may not only
perpetuate horrors of all kinds. but
all these add to its fame and glory
as deeds of heroism, as something
to which the individual may gladly
dedicate and sacrifice his life. All
ideals and the ancient stirrings
of humanity disappear. How can
such a race life be human even if
founded on the most proper social
order? \%'ho can understand this
as well as we Jews? We were
the first to proclaim that man was
created in the image of God, we
must go further and say: the race
must be created in the image of
God. Not because we are better
than others but because we have
borne and suffered for this de-
mand. At the cost of our suffer-
ing have we acquired the right
to be first at this creation. We
have made a hidden light from
suffering and the tortures of Hell
and this shall we reveal in the
creation of a race of Man."

The Beat Story of the Month

into a tailoring shop on Michigan Ave. steepest
portly gentleman. He examined the store criti-
cally and when the frail and meek-looking owner
inquired whether he could serve him he asked. Is
this • Jewish institution?"
The tailor, in his best accent and his politest
mannerism, replied calmly: "No, sir. I suggest
you go to Hastings and Montcalm, there you
will find a synagogue. That' s a Jewish institution.
You'll find Jewish institutions on Woodward and
Gladstone, and on Chicago and Lawton. This is a
tailoring establishment.
The man who entered the shop as an enemy left
a friend. He now sports a suit made by this Jewish
tailor.
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Calmness Works in Democracy

This story illustrates how well calmness works
under democratic form of government. It i3 proof
that even when we adopt a militant attitude in
attacking bigotry we must retain our sense of bal-
ance. .
Under a dictatorship, the argument would not
be as valid as it is here. Under the Nazi dictator-
ship, for instance, there are no Jewish institutions
left, and the synagogues have been demolished—
they were destroyed by fires that were started by
the bandits who rule Germany. Even before these
destructions there were no longer any public stay-
ices because Nazi rule forbids more than five
people to gather together in any one place at one
time.
That which is interpreted as calmness in Nazi
and Fascist countries is not calmness at all:
it is panic and fright that causes submission. In
these lands non-Jews in untold numbers have
shown sympathy for oppressed Jews, but it had to
be done secretly, under dark of night.
Everything today points to the need for calm-
ness, but more especially for firmness in defending
Of the Hebrew language, Solo- a system that makes it possible to set a misguided
mon Schechter, famous Jewish Christian straight on a major principle in human
scholar of a generation ago, had relations. The democratic system is challenged, it
is attacked by those who would enslave the masses
this to my:
iiThe Hebrew laniruage to the Jew Is and is also endangered by well-meaning people who
not merely a language. Ruch as Latin are misled by false propaganda.
• WI Greek to the atudent of
eleselmt
That is why every manifestation of intolerance
language* or French and Gemmel to
the student of modern tongue* To the must be attacked, and every lie nailed the mo-
Jew. It Is a sacred monument of bygone ment it is uttered. It is a question of disseminating
times. Every word recall. to him great
and glorious epochs in his history. when truth. The truth will make people free; lies will
God had still conversed with man. when enslave them.
the Prophets •till admonlahed Israel
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with 'thoughts that breathe and words

Because men like Josephus Daniels let
themselves be heard from more and more
with sentiments such as we have just
quoted; and because the voice of America
refuses to be silenced, we can take heart
and retain our courage—for ourselves and
our neighbors as well as for our kinsmen
in less forunate lands. The time of reckon.
ing is near. Wrong will not always remain
on the throne. Right will soon be romoved
from the scaffold.

"Poison in the Melting Pot"

PURELY COMMENTARY

FOOTNOTES
TO HISTORY

that born: when Psalm. were stIll sung
In the Temple. R Is the !engage In
whl• h the nation poured out Its griefs
• nd sorrow• on the waters of Babylon.
but In which also Its Joys end Ito hope.
and it. consolation, found adequate em
premlon. the Sanhedrin gave Its vem
dims. •nd the Sages taught their dim
elides ❑ l th•t was worth knowing.
whetherof • religious or civil kind. In
brief. it le • Holy Language to the Jew
because of its memories of the past •nd
of Its promisee for the future. And let
toe further remark t h at thi• language
contains an ethical literature which
need. little Improvement on our part .
The only question Is how to read it. and
what sort of mind is brought to IL The
course mind .111 and in the BlIde, for
imitative, only what Ingersoll would sug-
gest to hint. whilst to • notedlike Rua-
klAs end other areal writers It proved
• souAe of inspiration for everything
great end beautiful.
And the sante
thing applies to ether part• of Jewish
literature If we would only take the
trouble to reed them with open eye ,
and open hearts—or rather loving heart.
—such as our •nmetors brought to It.
study. Naturally. a certain •mount of
drudgery Is necessary In acquiring •
language, but men this is sot • mere
Intellectual proemswith the devout
Jew.
It Is • labor of love to him. and
hoe nothing to a. with Intellectuali•m'
or other Um* .

Among the many outstanding
Jewish physicians of the Middle
Ages, Amatus Lusitanus occupies
a high place. While still in his
twenties he was a widely sought-
after physician in Antwerp, whith-
er he had fled from the impend-
ing Portugues Inquisition. Lust-
tanus says that after curing the
Portugese Consul of tertian fever
he was given a fee of 300 gold
ducats, a huge sum. At one time
he was the personal physician to
Pope Julius III. However, he
found it advisable to take up his
residence later in the Moslem city
of Salonica where he could openly
proclaim his adherence to the Jew-
ish faith.

"With Voice Lifted in Protest"

What is the attitude of liberal Christians on
the method Jews ought to pursue in fighting for
their rights? One of the most brilliant men be-
longing to this group is Dr. John Haynes Holmes,
pastor of the Community Church of New York. Dr.
Holmes recently made this statement:

Bright as Is the promise of Israel'. future, elf.. In
this dark lime, that promise ran mean nothing unless
the Jew retsina he diguity, his ronfldence. his ulll to
Its* .51 the present 1110111110d, an I hate shown. there
I. no lope for the JP• except through the rescue which
rum be brought to him by the*. of u s mtside of Israel
oho mire. There ore moo, of us who twee—more than
there lope mer been before: The conscience of m an-
kind Is h te I
tIn the battle to lope our
miturr a nd chilitation front thin latest 1.0winught of
barbarism. Ind we ran do nothing to help the Jr., In
his eltrendly, unless the Jew le quick to help himself.
lie must Mond with back unbent, ulth head erect. with
lobe lifted In protest, with heart lifted In hoe. Ile
ust mhos surrender to heenemies; and. underrated
r o ugh eentudee of greeter misery than has been borne
by any other people, he onilefested MITI. Then ron res-
cue ..... el Then 14 III rictort be son! Then will MI*
black nightof pain he so the hour which preeedrs
the 'loon of ably!•

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is a viewpoint to be reckoned with. We
must refuse surrender! (Dr. Max Lerner presented
this view in his address at the annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation.) We must stand
erect, "with heart lifted in hope," "with voice
lifted in protest." The moment we stop protesting,
we admit defeat. We endorse this view with all
due respect to some of the Jewish leaders who
would have US adopt an attitude of "ignoring"
the attacker.

Here

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Tolerance Not Good Enough

`Tomorrow the Whole World'

brated by Nazi storm Troopers in Ber-
celebrated by Nazi Storm Troopers in Ber-
lin who sang their marching song which
ends in the refrain:

"Today we own Germany„
Tomorrow the whole world."

This aspiration is no longer a myth—in
spite of attempts to cover up Hitler's latest
"promises" that he is through grabbing
more territory. That part of the world
which still calls itself civilized may well
become concerned over Nazi aspirations.
Only when there is a united front of anti-
Fascist countries will there be any hope of
relief from the present despairing world
conditions.

In the Interest of Truth

April issue of Dynamic America carries
another splendid editorial rebuke to bigots
like Coughlin. In an interesting analysis
of the Royal Oak broadcaster's attitude
towards the Bund, the editor of this inter-
esting magazine points out that "the roof-
lifting ovations" given the mention of
Coughlin's name at Bund rallies were to be
expected in view of what he has said over
the radio and written in his weekly peri-
odical. The editorial further quotes from
letters appearing in Social Justice to indi-
cate that the radio speeches and the maga-
zine articles tend to incite to riot. Dynamic
America renders a service to the cause of
truth. Other periodicals may well follow
its example for the sake of the preserva-

Bishop G. Ashton Oldham, Roland S. Mor- tion of

America institutions.

—all were reduced to ashes by
the torch in the hands of our which we have not defended will
common enemy. The homes of not ask: Were you orthodox or
the assimilationist Jews and the liberal, were you Zionist or not.
homes of the Nationalist Jews, were you Z. 0. A. or Mirrachi or
shared exactly the some fate. a member of Histadruth, did you
They were all ruthlessly demol- give to the community chest or
not. were you American Demo-
ished.
crat or Republican? He will not
The present attempt to secure ask.
He will come with the old,
one million Jews in this coun-
try to register as Shekel payers old comtemptuous cry of the
will help to test the temper and middle ages: Hierosolyrna est
the common-sense and the com- pordita! Jerusalem is lost! Hero!
mon self-preservation instinct of Hey! cried the crusaders as they
American Jewry. It will show waded through pools of Jewish
us whether the Jewish people ha s blood. Jews of America gee to
that minimum instinct for polit- it that Jerusalem is not lost

ical action which characterizes again!
Don't deceive yourselves. Mon-
other peoples. For history has
itself rendered utterly vain and ey must be given. But money is
empty and meaningless any re - not enough. Don't put your con-
sistence to the common cause sciences off with the exercise of
of the Jewish people or any Rachmonuth. It will not do. You
standing aside from that cause. are not asked to have merely
nage,thele is upon the traditional Lev Toy, the good
whA
ion
and slightly sentimental heart.
- dnaork man can tell,
us. Right or wrong, large scale Your house is on fire over the
evacuations of our historical posh heads of your children. Not only
tions in Germany, Austria. Czech- the houses of your brethren in
osiorakia. Poland, Roumania and Central and Eastern Europe.
Hungary. are taking place. There Yours. Even if with the eves of
you cannot see it. Noth-
is, while this dark age lasts, no
gift oof your:
refuge or rebirth except in and the body
v odiot your moral be
voice,
yaso
in e your
through Palestine. But British se
ing.
This
is
what
securing
the
l
imperial politics are such that
our only necessary refuge and Shekel means. This is what pub-
rebirth is being corfined and !lie adherence to the Zionist cause
limited. If that Is permitted to !means. Nothing less. It is our
continue, if the developmect ()Common cause against the cons-
Palestine is harshly eheekeets,6,- I mon enemy of us all. Jews of
000,000 Jews in Central el :America form and sustain that
Easte rn Europe will lose the • common cause. Jews of America
only hope and their only out - I sign the Shekel Declaration in
look and their only moral support t- attpport of the Jewish National
and will sink into a misery and -tome which is the symbol of
aned of eno
the ienndtirii, te
a degradation unparalleled ".1 oury soencurrit;Ir om
the
f
cept by the untouchables of
aorta!
orta!

The Story of the Divisio n of S.n-

SLONOVITZ

timent

on Zionism Amon g Cer.

man Jews as Related by ht-tde-
should not be lazy in Palestine. There would
leine Kent in "1 Married a
be sometliirtir to work for. I know exactly how it
would be in England. Not as bad as it is now in
German."
Germany. of course. but like it used to be here.
And ths; is rot good enough. We are finished with
One of out most touching
people tab.a do not really want us."
In this statement is mirrored the new determi- menta revealing a non-German's
experiences
in Nazi-land is Made-
tation of the rev, type of Jew who is inspired by
the idea! of national rejuvenation. Ile rejects tol- leine Kent's "I Married a Get-
erance. It is not enough. It is not enough to be man" (Harper's). It is a most re.
invited to come to England or to the United States markable story of an Engl.-It.
or to Canada er to Holland. and to be told that he born non-Jewish journalist who
is welcomed out of pity. because he is a refugee. lived all her life in London un-
There is a question of the human equation. The til she married her German has-
self-respecting young Jew naturally looks with sus- band in 1931. From that time
picion upon any haven of refuge into which he until 1936, when both managed
must force his way and where there is talk of con- to get out of the present-day

stantly creating new barriers for aspiring settlers. German hell, it had been a trying
We have the example set by Col. Samuel Harden experience that provided the no-
Church, noted peace leader, president of Carnegie term' for this touching book.
Mrs. Kent's position was made
Institute and editor, of Carnegie Magazine, who
advises the
the shutting of the doors of this country precarious b y virtue of er hu
band's
politic al affiliations as a
to immigrants as a means of avoiding subversive
s. Col. l. Church may find more subversive Social Democrat. Their every step
Was watched, their home searched
,
forces among the native Americans than among
new immigrants who would come here with loyalty at one time Mrs. Kent had the
to and love for this country. But Col. Church's concentration camp's threat fac-
views reflect the attitude of the overwhelming ing her because she dared call a
rtune
hiagazine's
neighbor who had abused her kit-
majority
of Americans.
The Fortune
a "savage." The Nazi-influ-
survey, which indicates that 83 per cent of the
suey,
American people are opposed to the opening o f arced judge interpreted it as ref-
erence to "barbarian and Hun'
America's gates to refugees, supports his view.
The person who is about to acquire a new home directed at a German. He could
and who prefers to go where he is free to build only see in the personal squabble
his life anew as part of a group that he can call an affront to the entire German
his kinsmen is justified in his attitude. No one nation. Ile insisted on reading
the term
"Hun."
willingly goes to a place where he is looked upon It her
was words
only when
her lawyel

with suspicion and where the advance judgment is read into the record her
that he belong to potential subversive elements.
memory references to Gecompli.
rmany
"We are finished with people who do not really before Nazism that she was
re-
want us," says the young German girl. It is rejec- leased—only to feel remorse that
tion of toleration in favor of self-respect. Also, it her words should
have been twi ,t.
is tragic commentary on the decline of some cen- eat to apply to
the Nazis.
tern which had earned a place in history an
gre at
"I Married a German" is a
havens of refuge for the persecuted of the world. valuable piece of evidence on

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Nazi barbarism because it leads
to the days of terror and de-
There is, of course, only one answer to the struction by describing ialtaa l the
widespread exchanges of venom and hatred and l n or airziltioInt rpoefroinoodsto ptriciec
f-
brutal persecutions. It is expressed as follows by
Edna Ferber in her latest autobiographical work, German culture, to the rise of
"A Peculiar Treasure":
anti-Semitism, to the poisoning of
"All my life I have been inordinately proud
the minds of the children. It de-
of being a Jew. But I have felt that one
scribes the Roehm purge and the
horrors that were meted out by
should not brag about it. I have felt that to
be • Jew was, in som e ways at
Nazis against their own members.
• least, to be
especially privileged. Two thousand years of
"Before Hitler came to pdreer,"
persecution have made the Jew quick to sym-
Mrs. Kent writes, "he contemptu-
ously described the German peo,
pathy, quick-witted (he'd better be), tolerant
pie as 'docile and sheep-like.' It
humanly understanding. The highest compli-
is his greatest asset that he knows
ment we can pay • Christian is to say of him
instinctively how much they will
that he ha. • Jewish heart.
stand."
"It irks me to hear people say that Jews
are wonderful people or that Jews are terrible
There is additional proof in this
people. Jews are wonderful and terrible and
splendid testament of the general
feeling if dissatisfaction with the
good and bad and brilliant and stupid and evil
regime. within Germany. As Nora
and spiritual and vulgar and cultured and rich
and poor and
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Wain recorded in her "Reaching
beautiful and ugly and gifted
for the Stars," Germans also told
and commonplace, Jews, in short, are people."
Yes, this is it: the "peculiar treasure," common Mrs. Kent that they would rather
to all men, is to be human. The highest compliment be under the rule of England than
that can be paid any person is that he or she has under a barbaric Nazi govern-
• heart."
ment.
On one occasion Mrs. Kent
risked her freedom by attempt-
"Answer Coughlin Or . . . "
ing to buy in a Jewish-owned
The American Israelite of Cincinnati, in its hosiery shop which was surround
Issue at March 30, reprints the text of a telegram
ed by Nazis who threatened the
it received from Rabbi Benjamin Schultz of Temple
two women owners because they
Emanuel, Yonkers, N. Y., regarding the Coughlin
tore an anti-Semitic poster from
issue. The American Israelite, in publishing the the store window.
telegram, explains that Rabbi Schultz is 30 years
The most touching portion of
old, is a native of Brooklyn and in 1931 graduated
the book is the concluding part
from the Jewish Institute of Religion. His telegram
of
60 pages in which the author
reads.
describes her experience s with the
"I have publicly a
led to my community
Jews whom she taught English
that I shall refuse support to the American
and who were preparing to leave
Jewish Committee, America n Jewish Con
Germany. She pays tribute to the
Anti-Defamatio n League, Jewish Labor Com-
Jews, to their determination to
mittee and all other so-called defense organi-
prepare for a new life, to the
sations until they combine to answe r Father
zeal with which they studied Eng-
Coughlin every Sunday afternoo n over equally
lish and Hebrew. One family
strong network.
recommended another to her as
"That is what millio ns of Jews are crying
pupils, and although her schedule
for and they are not getting it. I have evi-
was
completely filled they man
dence to show contribution s would be tripled
aged
to squeeze into it from time
if we got this real action instead of uncer-
to time another pupil, in one in-
taint y and floundering."
stance
by inviting her as guest at
This telegram could easily be interpreted as an
dinners in a Jewish home in or-
unnecessary threat. But it would be the better
der
to
ease
pressure of traveling
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"A Peculiar Treasure"—To Be Human up

Much more disturbing than the survey
Reports that Jewish youth in Germany have
been rebuking their parents for not bringing them
on anti-Semitism conducted by Fortune
up
as loyal Jews have never been as well substan-
Magazine is George Britt's article "Poison
tiated as they are in Madeleine Kent's "I Married
in the Melting-Pot" in the Nation. It is
a German," a recent splendid Harper publication.
a factual statement on happenings in the
Mrs. Kent explains the anxiety of German-
Jewish parents to have their children settle in
community with the largest Jewish popu-
liberal lands but not in Palestine. But the children
lation in history—in New York. It is the
are persistent. One girl, when reminded by Mrs.
story, written by the co-author (with Hey-
Kent of the hard life in Palestine and when told
wood Broun) of "Christians Only," and it
"and you know what a lazy little devil you are,"
iiXiPiright WY 8. A. F. I n
replied:
relates how anti-Semitic groups are func-
tioning—and growing; how Jews are being
stabbed in New York when they dare to
"Spiritual Protest"
strike back when attacked by vendors of
Against Prejudice
the poison of anti-Semitism; how the fol-
lowers of Coughlin, while hailing him the American Jewry Is Urged to Sustain Its Common Cause
NEW Y 0 R K. (Religious
"greatest man since Jesus Christ," spread
Against Its Common Enemy
News Service)—In what was
hatred so thick that it results in violence.
believed to be the first gather-
The American melting-pot is being poi-
ing of its kind ever held in
By DR. LUDWIG LEWISOHN
this country, more than 250
soned. Israel Zangwill would turn in his
rabbis, representing Reform,
grave if he knew what is happening to his
When People are threatened
Orthodox and Conservative
Every Jewish position in the
vision. The founders of this great republic by one enemy—the same enemy: world
bodies of Judaism, gathered
and every Jewish point of
would irrigate this soil with their tears When people are exposed to one apparent
here in the Spanish and Portu-
and every Jew-
guese Synagogue to offer "spir-
if they knew what is being done with the danger—the same danger: They ish right security
is in imminent danger.
itual protest" against the treat-
ideals they developed for this great land. agree to neglect their difference
ment of Jews in Central Eu-
is one Jewish people. There
There is, meantime, a challenge to every of opinion for the sake of com- There
rope.
is one Jewish problem which ex-
honest American. This business of inciting mon action.
The service, led by Dr. Da-
poses to the light different phases
vid de Solo Pool, rabbi of the
to violence can not continue. It must be
They know that if that enemy
synagogue, was devoted to the
stopped. The Stars and Stripes must not triumphs. it will make no differ- of itself according to purely singing
of traditional chants,
o n e, obsolutely none— outside stresses. The Jew who
be drenched in the blood of innocent peo- ence—n
the saying of prayers, and to
the individual stood in does not secure his Shekel. re-
ple. The American people must know the where
pleas for peace.
matters of opinion.
mote as he may seem to him-
Rabbi Louis I. Newman of
facts. They must be made to realize that
To the Nazi mobs, the differ- self to be from Palestine, breaks
Congregation Rodeph Sholom,
a great danger faces this land.
ence between an Orthodox Syna- the common front of a people's
in a prayer specially prepared
America must remain free and honest gogue and a Reform Temple and necessary defense and delivers for the service, expressed
and incorruptible. The first danger lies in a Bnai Brith Lodge is no differ- himself and his children up to thanks for peace in this coun-
at all. Last November degradation and despair.
try where people of all faiths
the spread of hatred of man for man. The ence
throughout Germany. the Ortb-
antidote must be administered for this odox Synagogue, the Reform The enemy is one. The danger live "as citizens of this Repub-
lic, which proclaims liberty
is
one.
The
ruthless
conqueror
poison.
Temple and the Bnai Brith Lodge
throughout the land to all the
when he enters the sacred city

THE ANSWER MUST BE ONE

Young vs. Old

inhabitants thereof."

"Escape to Life"

Houghton Mifflin Co. will soon
publish "Escape to Life" by Klaus
and Erika Mann, son and daugh-
ter of the Nobel Prize winner,
Thomas Mann.
"Escape to Life" will deal spe-
cifically with the dramatic story
of the German emigration, and
more generally with the broader
question of the freedom of thought
and expression in Fascist and
Democratic countries. The volume
will be built out of personal his-
tories, actual experiences, inter-
views, diaries, recorded documents
and private letters, chief empha-
sis being laid on intellectual and
cultural values It will examine
the far-reaching changes wrought
by National Socialism on the in-
ternal life both of Germany and
America, depicting the cultural
impoverishment of the former and
the consequent enrichment of the
latter.
Among the many cases to be
investigated and reported in de-
tail are those of ex-Chancellor
Bruening, Dr. Rosenfeld, Albert
Einstein, Ernest Toiler, Lion
Feuchtwanger, Bruno Walter, Eric
Maria Remarque, Elisabeth Berg-
ner, Ludwig Renn, Thomas and
Heinrich Mann, Prince Loewen-
stein, Siegmund Freud, Toscaninl,
Jakob Wasserman, Max Rein-
hardt, Bruno Frank, Luise Rain.
er, Vicki Baum, Stefan Zweig,
"Putsi" Hanfstangel, etc.

•

JITTERS IN GERMANY: THE
DISCONTENT UNDER NAZI RULE

An Important Statement Reprinted from the Manchester
Guardian Weekly of London, England

EDITOR'S NOTE--While the spectacular pollfleal mem.. In the ii.I terri-
torial expatniioa program ha. been widely discomert
comp/snail-Or little
11•11 been
said about existing condition. in lierrnany. Is the re
action of the Individual under shot regime? From this
l• short tartlets
which appeared In the 51anchester Guardian Weekly one n os rt &rite 0
dearer understanding of what
that government means to the rinse.
tiling tinder II.

There has been a perceptible
deepening of public discontent in
Germany during the last few
weeks, though most of the symp-
toms seem to show that the Ger-
many people are weary of the
regime rather than incensed
against it. Ever-growing numbers
of people long for less exciting
times and would like to spend at
least their Sundays in not taking
part in parades and demonstra-
tions and in not listening to
speeches and other propaganda
on the wirelese

unequalled throughout the world.
The other morning the following
couplet was found chalked on the
front of the Chancellery:

bele Kathie, helm Dotter, tang help
Aber el. 11.00 Reichskanzlel.

a ctre
.,

in ,111 , bulteNsnot iig .,

El.

—

Although Hitler's tastes with
regard to food and drink are sim-
ple, he lives in vast architectural
and artistic luxury. Masterpiece ,
stolen from famous German and
former Austrian picture galleries
adorn the rooms of the highest
among
the Nazi leaders. The Nazi
The discipline that is being im-
posed on all forms of recreation, bureaucracy as a whole is able te
especially on rowing , football allow itself almost any extrava-
yachting clubs, and similar bodies, gance.
is coming to be felt as more and
The average income of the Ger-
more galling and as destructive man people has risen, but not ill
to all genuine recreation. Students Proportion to the rise in the cost
want to study and to give less of living and to the ever-increas-
of their time to military drill.
ing taxes and contributions 5,,
The quality of German learn- the "Winter Aid" and such-like
ing has perceptibly deteriorated-- charities, contributions that are
this is particularly noticeable in "voluntary" only in name.
medical professions, where in-
The absence of unemployment
competence resulting from insuf- continues to tell heavily in favor
ficient study has become so com- of the regime amongst industrial
mon that public distrust of the workmen, but the increase in
whole profession has become wide- hours of labor and in speeding
spread. The period needed to
up Is beginning to tell heavily
qualify as a practitioner has been
against it. This lack of skilled
reduced from five to three years. workers in all industries uncon-
Housewives are wearied and nected with rearmament. (The
worried by the many restrictions
lack is most evident in dairy
on the sale of many commodities. farming and aviculture.)
Although there is no serious food
It often happens in Germany
shortage it is difficult to buy
today that workmen, artisans.
eggs (especially fresh ones), but-
tradesrlen and others are forbid-
ter, onions, and other foodstuffs
den to follow their regular work
for periods that seem to get longer
in
and more frequent. The regimen- and are compelled to work
have
tation of dairy farming and agri- some Nazi regime would
gone
universities
now
try
td
the
culture is disliked intensely by
i' s
t000ticiostrrt/nnont
NbIletriOnnefl
ffiy
ce. rsTonfe thnenni
the ruralpopulation.
What makes discontent rankle
r et ud ue cnts . in the technical college
all the more is the extravagance eded
55 per
displayed by the leading Nazis. It at Stuttgart has fallen by
is difficult to obtain material for cent since 1933. The hours of ,
lecture
building a small house in Ger- compulsory attendance at
been
manytoday, but during the last and university courses have
12 months, 6,000 workmen have
One of the chief reasons for
been employed night and day in
the s b r -;
es rma
p o e
n i Na
in which the regime
building the new Imperial Chan- ia
4l
cellery (the cost Is reputed to be is now held is the corruption that
xi party
300,000,000 marks). Costly mar- pervades th e
, e
b i sub
-orga
ati ons ,
izations
bles and various kinds of exotic
g n m
mu];
woods are being used for this
palace of unexampled luxury. It
confined
But corruption is not
has an air - raid shelter that for to the leach. e. It is widespread
depth and extensiveness must be
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