Page Two

Between
You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

THE WAR AND THE JEW
I don't hesitate to say that I have al-

always been an admirer of the late
Vladimir Jabotinsky, though I never
shared his political views • . . My high
esteem for Jabotinsky was based on the
fact that he was one of. the few Jews .
who could represent the Jewish cause
before the outside world with a dignity
equal to that of diplomats of any of the•
leading nations . . I have a similar
admiration for Dr. Weizmann, and I al-
ways considered it a great loss to the
Zionist cause that Weizmann, and Jabot-
insky could not see their way clear to
working hand-in-hand . . . The many
sided talents of Jabotinsky—writer, poet,
linguist and orator—always fascinated
me, and more than once I read and re-
read his "feuilletons" which sparkled with
brilliant style and convincing thoughts
. . It was with the same pleasure that
I read Jabotinsky's new book, "The• War
and the Jew," which he • wrote shortly
before his sudden death . . . Published
this week by the Dial Press, the book
should be read by everybody interested
in Jewish war-time problems and post-
war demands._
* * *
GETS AWARD 25 YEARS LATE.
James Hertz, a California Jew,. this
week was awarded the Purple Heart for
bravery while . .at _the front in the last
World War 25 years ago . . . It seems
that his war record was recently re-ex-
amined when he offered his services as
a -volunteer for FBI intelligence work
and a certificate was found there dated
April 19, 1919, entitling him to this
award . . . Previously he was awarded
the French Medaille Militaire and the
Belgian Croix de, Guerre. ,
*
The first passenger vessel from Pales-
tine to reach the United States since
America's entry into the war arrived this
week after crossing waters infested with
Nazi submarines . . . It carried aboilt:100
•Jewish passengers.

Henry Greenberg:
Ball Player Again

BY MORRIS WEINER

Copyright, 194.3, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.

Captain Hank Greenberg, the erst-
while buster for the Detroit Tigers, is
once again in a ball player's uniform.
He will be back at his old stand at first
base for the Service team when his out-
fit will play the winner of the all-star
game this month . . . Hank was only
a • buck. private when he was "retired"
from the Arniy • on December 1, 1941,
because he was over 28. He re-enlisted
immediately and was made a corporal.
Since then he has come up from "boot
school" the hard way and is now a
captain in the Army Air Corps . . . And
according to all indciations, Hank will
play with the stars from the Great Lakes
Naval Training Center along with Bob-
bie Feller and Hank Borowy and Hugh
Mulcahy and others who have been
standouts on the diamond during the past
few years.

SPORTS POURRI

It's our guess that the next Olympics
will be held in 1948 and though it's still
f. long way off, we predict that the pres-
ent A. A. U. champion, Bernie Mayer,
will win the shot-put crown for the
United States with a world-record break-
. ing toss. He is only 19 years old today,
stands six feet four, weighs 195 and has
averaged 50 feet per throw. By that
time, he'll be doing 60 feet. A wild pre-
diction? Not on your life. He's got the
stuff!
Sergeant Cohen, the one man air-force
who landed on Lampedusa Island last
June 13 when that small island was be-
ing battered to bits by allied bomber,
is one of the British Empire's outstand-
ing track sprinters. The Sarge had to
set his" plane down in a hurry and landed
in the midst of the Italians. They im-
mediately ran up the white flag and
surrender to him. Thus "Sarge Cohen"
got credit for the surrender of Lampe-
dusa— a one man surrender. Incident-
ally, he runs the 100 yards distance in

Harry Danning, former big league
catcher, is now a second looie. Danning
entered 0. C. S. in June and has just re-
ceived his gold bar . The erstwhile
Giants backstop was drafted at the outset
of the baseball season after seven years
of the, big:
.41,25

THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 30, 1943

Quotation of the Week

"While European Jewry has been silenced, three Jewries must
declare the mhicl of the Jewish nation in regard to the future of the
Yishuv: American, British Empire and Russian Jews.
"American Jewry is overwhelmingly for a Jewish State, while
a small minority, though opposed to the full Zionist program, is,
however, unanimous in rejection of the White Paper and for mass
immigration. American Christians, the churches, many State Legisla-
tures and other authorities, are sympathetic to the Jewish Common-
wealth.
"The overwhelming majority of British Jews, as well as Cana-
dian, Australian and South African Jewry, also favor a Jewish Com-
monwealth, while a minority equally favor mass immigration into
Palestine, though not stressing the political aspect."

—DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN, President of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, in first state-
ment upon his arrival in London last week.

Purely
Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

THE EDWARD NORMANS

Edward A. Nornian, president of the
American Fund for Palestinian Institg-
tions, who is now serving as Lieutenant
(s. g.) in the U. S. Navy, does not mo-
nopolize popularity in the family. Mrs.
Norman is an outstanding leader in her
own rights.

Strictly
Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
Syndicate)

LISTEN HERE

Warning to some Jewish groups in this
country: Don't let yourselves become
entangled with certain elements who,
playing ' on your sensibilities, try to push
through anti-Soviet propaganda with ap-
peals to "Polish-JeWish loyalty.
Dorothy Norman, not unlike her hus-
The Briai Brith Anti-Defamation Lea-
band, who is devoting himself to the gue will be interested to know that the
cause of unifying appeals for Palestinian
institutions, is an idealist on the- literary government of th.e USSR has prohibited
front. As editor of Twice-a-Year Press the showing of "The Merchant of Ven-
(509 Madison Ave., New York), she has ice," for -the same reason- that causes
made some' definite' contributions to good will organizations here to prefer
Shylock's absence from the American
American literature.
*
stage.
"TWICE A YEAR"
Lt. Col. Itzik Feffer and Prof. Solomon
Dorothy Norman's chief contribution is Mikhoels, Soviet Jewish delegation now
in the form of e semi-annual publication, in this country,. have - definitely accepted
"Twice a Year." If we are-to judge by an invitation from Mexico, and will visit
the Double Number issued for 1943, Mrs; our SOUthern neighbOr some time before
Norman should be recognized as a• power September. • .7, * *
for great good in the fight for the preser-
vation of-American principles of justice. WAR ECHOES
Why,. they're asking along Broadway,
Here is a volume Of 360 pages that is is the Italian
. .peninsula shaped like a
chuck-full of splendid essays aimed to
boot? . . Because, answer the smart
assist in the fight against Fascism. The
guys, that makes it easier for the Allies
outstanding leaders in the United Na-
to give MuSsolini the biggest hotfoot in
tions, some of the best known writers, history.
authorities in many fields, are included
The invasion of Sicily didn't catch
among the contributors.
Hollywood , -.unprepared . . . With un-
There is . a.splendid Section" deVoted to canny- foresight the movie moguls had
Civil Liberties, and the analyses of Su- already sent to Africa special prints of
preme Court decisions on issues affecting American films with Italian titles super-
the rights of - free speech and -assembly imposed . .. A. new war book will soon
are magnificent contributions to libel:: be published, the work of Lt. E. J. Kahn
Jr., who calls it "G.I. Jungle" . . . In
tarian literature.
*
* *
it he tells of Army experiences in the
South Pacific war theater . . . Kahn's
DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA
A special section devoted' to "Discrimi- first book. on military. life, written when
nation America" adds weight to the he was still a . private, was titled '•"In
the Army."
battle against racial prejudice.
* * *

Heard in
The Lobbies

By DAVID DEUTSCH

(Copyright; 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)

CORPORATIONS AND HATE

A pretty interesting case has been
stirred up by Michael Hollander, the
New York and Newark fur merchant,
who is trying to oust from the board of
directors of his corporation a man ac-
cused of anti-Semitism—and anti-Semit-
ism, says Hollander, is no corporate asset
. . . The man involved is Luigi Criseuolo,
New York banker, who has been getting
hiMself into the news quite a few years
now with his appraisals of Mussolini.
Now Hollander wants Criscuolo ousted
because in the latter's little periodical
called The Rubicon he has made "attacks
upon anti-Fascists, Catholic clergymen
and Jewish and non-Jewish persons" . so
that the company's "reputation and good
will were in hazard of impairment." . . .
Perhaps somebody in the Northern In-
diana Telephone Company might get
ideas with respect to the president, Carl
Mote, who has been editing one of those
hate sheets . . . Aug. 9 is the day when
stockholders will meet to decide on the
ousting of Criscuolo. It ought to be an
historic day in the annals of American
corporations when A. Hollander & Sons,
Inc., takes a .vote . . In connection with
all the troubles caused in the American
Jewish Conference by "cumulative vot-
ing" it is amusing to note that the issue
at stake in the Hollander fight is a pro-
posed charter amendment which would
eliminate the cumulative voting rights
now held by the common stock. If this
should pass, Criscuolo would be out on
his ear .

ZIONIST TALK

From Washington comes word that
genial Ed. I. Kaufmann, former Zionist
president, is pretty het up about Lessing
Rosenwald, who gives nothing to the
United Jewish, Appeal .because of Pal-
estine but gives articles against Pales-
tine instead to Life. Kaufmann, who re-
cently sent in a check of $50,000 to the
United. Jewish Appeal, is best known for
his warm friendliness and you can just
bet that he was mad when he pointed
out last week that if • Lessing Rosenwald
thought not giving was a way to express
Jewish attitudes he and his friends
might arrange to earmark their gifts for
Palestine exclusively. He is alleged to
have described Rosenwald's tactics as
"philanthropic blackmail."
The Zionist Organization. of America
office in Washington received a. phone
call asking for detailed information on
civil . government in Palestine.. Facts were
needed at once over the phone. The per-
son who answered suggested that fur-
ther information could be obtained quick-
ORGANIZATIONAL ITEMS
ly from the Library of Congress. "But
this is the Library of -Congress calling"
'Tis said that Rabbi Abba Hillel Sil- •
ver's candidacy for the presidency of was the reply.
It just doesn't seem believable that
the Zionist Organization of America is
gaining new supporters daily
. If this anti-Palestinism could reach the level
keeps up, Rabbi Silver and - Rabbi Israel alleged about Rabbi Victor Reichert of
Goldstein will both be candidates at the Cincinnati, who is reported to have op-
ZOA convention—and the race will be posed a plan suggested by a local Jewish -
, ?ery clone.
fraternity, of which he is a member, to
The Rev. Richard Evans, who has honor Cincinnati boys in the army by
been visiting a number of communities planting trees in Palestine in the name of
in the interest of Zionism, has achieved each boy in uniform. Please deny, Rabbi,
such remarkable success with non-Zion- that the plan fell ,through because of
ist groups that he will be one of next your opposition.
season's busiest lecturers on Zionist sub-
jects.

-

In this section, Mrs. Norman writes an
article on Anti-Semitism under the head-
ing "I Help at the War Service Club." It
is a splendid essay based on her personal
unpleasant experience at a war service
club, and her reaction is a brilliant. ex-
pression of resentment against the rise of
the ugly head of hatred against Jews.

The section on Waldo Frank, his ad-
dress on Latin American relations, his
farewell letter to Argentina, is a contri-
bution to Americana as a preservation of
important data on events affecting Latin
American reactions in our time.

"Twice a Year" is a compliment to its
editor, Dorothy Norman, whose work en-
hances the family name.

* * *
N. Y. POST COLUMNIST

Here is an interesting thing about Dor-
othy Norman. She writes a column for
the New York Post. She fights for dem-
ocrttic principles. She opposes "release
time" education in the public schools as a
threat to the American principle of sep-
arating Church and State.
The Normans are doing their share in
the fight for justice—and Dorothy is as
eminent as Edward in this field.

MT. SINAI AND MT. ZION

Isaac Rosengarten, editor of the Jew-
ish Forum, takes exception to a recent
statement in this column. He spoke of
Mt. Sinai, not Mt. Zion. Well, the idea is
the same. The proposal that the spot on
which Israel and the world received the
Ten Commandments should be used for
negotiations for peace sounds good. Its
wishful thinking should not mislead any-
one, in spite of the • nice messages Mr.
Rosengarten has: "received.
Incidentally, Harry kovner . .is . the au-
thor of .the plan. Give him due Credit,
ladies and gentlemen. If the plan mate-
rializes, this Commentator will be the
uf4,17.At, .412,9 ],9S4P

* *
WEEKLY GIGGLE

Leonard Lyons likes. to tell the story
of the Berliner who went to the Gestapo
and confessed that he had smuggled a
large amount of gold currency into
Switzerland . . . He offered to get the
money back into Germany, but ex-
plained: "It's in a vault in Basle . . . The
man who has the key won't relinquish
it unless he gets the password from me
personally" . . . So the Gestapo sent him
to Basle with a stormtrooper guarding
him, and the two of them met the man
who held the key to the vault ... "And
now," urged the guard, "What is the
word?" . . . "The word," said the Ber-
liner, tipping his hat, "is: Goodbye."
* * *

Bnai Brith Reveille

By EVA MOSKOW

Bnai Brith are we, one hundred thousand
hearts with willingness aflame;
Not alone for joy we live, but helping
hands to give, and one God proclaim.
Children of the Covenant, we defend the
week and our promise keep.
For God and man, we carry on with
words of -cheer and the sad no more
shall weep.

Echod! Echod! . Thanks to thee, from a
tiny band we've grown valiant and
strong.
Brothers in one blood and faith, by thy
grace, may peace our life prolong.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Humbly may we walk in the Menorah's
G. Koltanowski, the great blindfold
sacred glow, and humbly our deeds
chess player, will make an attempt next
of mercy do.
winter to break the world's record for Then with heads held high we'll face the
simultaneous blindfold playing . . . He
world and pledge ourselves anew.
will take on 35 chess boards at one and
the same time.
Kol Yisroel, Kol Yisroel, hark ye to the
Ben Bernie, who's been a pretty sick
Bnai Brith clarion call!
man, is improving and on the road to E'en as you hardened to the shofar's plea
reCovery•
for help at Jerus'lem's fall
Marine SergezMt Barney Ross is still We have taken up our brothers' burden
more or less under the weather, largely
and are healing heart and soul, •
because that piece of Japanese shrapnel There is strength in unity of numbers
,Vnly, so we. need you,:Kol Yisroel!

