Friday, September 1, 1944

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twelve

Says Film
G. L. K. Smith Characterized Ludwig
`Wilson' Would Be
As 'Yankee Doodle Hitler' Enjoyed in Berlin

Period of Crusades Forms
Background for New Novel

Cha des Reznikoff's 'The Lionhearted,' Jewish Publication
Pamphlet Exposing Detroit Rabble-Rouser Issued by Friends
Versailles Treaty Scene Held
- Society Volume, Has Massacre of Jews
of Democracy, Under Signatures of Rex Stout
Creating Sympathy for
At York for its Theme
and L. M. Birkhead
'Misled German People'

Characterizing Gerald L. K. Smith as a "Yankee-doodle
Hitler," Friends of Democracy released a pamphlet on Gerald
L. K. Smith entitled "Pattern for Revolution."
The pamphlet is signed by Rex Stout, president of
Friends of Democracy, and L. M. Birkhead, national director,
and is published and distributed by Friends of Democracy
with national headquarters

Kansas City, Mo.
In releasing the pamphlet,
Stout and Birkhead said that
"Smith follows the pattern of the
Hitlers and the demagogues in
promising everything to every-
body—to workers $20 a day, to
veterans $1,000 when mustered
out, to farmers cash bonuses for
crops raised, and to the indus-
trialists 'restoration to private en-
terprse'."
Dangerous Bigotry
Stout and Birkhead declared
also that "Smith preaches a dan-
gerous variety of bigotry and
hatred, blaming all our .ills on the
Communists. and the Jews. He
proclaims fanatical isolationism
and America Firstism with 'no
world government, no interna-
tional bank'."
Smith alsO was charged with
challenging "the orderly proc-
esses of democracy by shouting
that 'free speech is a lot of
hooey': and declaring, when he
stormed a Chicago hotel recent-
ly. leading his crowd with him,
`We have taken this roofs by
force. This is old-fashioned
Americanism in the raw.' He has
threatened to 'seize the govern-
ment'."
Watch Movements
"In America we must learn to
watch these revolutionary move-
ments from the Right," Stout and
Birkhead said. "We must be as
much aware of them as we are of
the revolutionary m o v e m e n t s
from the Left. These movements
take advantage of every crisis."
The pamphlet charges that
Smith is a rabble rouser, friend
of alleged seditionists, and hero
of Hitler-heilers and messiah of
the. America First Party. The
pamphlet points out that Smith
has made political alliances with
everyone from William Dudley
Pelley, Silver Shirter and con-
victed seditionist, to Eugene Tal-
madge, Ku Klux Klansman.

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Sisterhood Will Hold
Year's First Meeting at
Shaarey Zedek, Sept. I 1

The opening meeting of the
year of the Shaarey Zedek Sister-
hood will be held at 12:30 p. m.
Monday, Sept. 11, in the syna-
gogue social hall.
A. home cooked luncheon will
feature this meeting for which
a well-planned program is being
arranged. Members and friends
are invited.
ReservationS for the luncheons,
at $1, may be made by calling
Mrs. Richard A. Cott, TO. 8-5617.
Mrs. Julius Berman, 60 Burl-
ingame Ave., TO. 8-8850, is chair-
man of the Altar Flower Fund
and is accepting - contributions
which are used to keep the syn-
agogue altar beautiful during all
services.

Permanent Homes Seen
Needed for Refugees

JERUSALEM (JPS - Palcor) —
While the rescue problems must
continue to take first place on
the agenda, it is imperative that
the problem of permanent homes
for the rescued, now in refugee
camps in neutral and allied lands,
be given immediate considera-
tion so that we are not caught
unprepared during the postwar
period, Eliahu Dobkin, deputy
member of the Jewish Agency
in charge of immigration, stated.
A leading expert on the ques-
tion of immigration and rescue,
Mr. Dobkin, who arrived here
for negotiations with regard to
related problems, - stated. that
'these refugees mostly are um-
willing to return to their old
homes."

NEW YORK (JPS)—The movie
Wilson "except for one scene,
would be greatly applauded in
Berlin," in the opinion of Emil
Ludwig, biographer.

Declaring that the scene in the
picture depicting the Versailles
treaty conferences "can easily
lead to . . . .creating sympathy
with the !poor misled German
people,' making America lose a
second peace," Ludwig pointed
out that the picture Wilson
"shows your great President as
a rather stupid St. George fight-
ing against evil represented here
by an ugly diabolic monkey with
Clemenceau's name and face.

DR. L. M. BIRKHEAD

In Lighter

Vein

The Week's Best Stories

Hebrew- Teacher Left Behind
Three Hebrew teachers were
waiting for a train,. and as they
were sitting in the railway sta-
tion they became engrossed in
a conversation regarding the
war, the . future- of Russia and
Palestine and problems affecting
the Hebrew language and liter-
ature. They were so engrossed
in the conversation that they did
not notice that the train had ar-
rived.
But as the train began to pull
Out, they became aware of its
presence and all sprinted for it.
Two of them got on the train.
As the third stood there de-
jectedly, a bystander consoled
him: "Why are you so sad? Two
out of three made the train and
that's a pretty good average."
"I know," sighed the dejected
Hebrew teacher. "But my two
friends came to see me off."

* * *

Shooting the Czar
. During the first World War,
the late Czar Nicholas was in-
specting a company of soldiers
and to. satisfy himself of their
discipline he asked one soldier:
"If I ordered you to shoot
yourself, would you do so?"
"Yes, your Majesty," prompt-
ly replied the soldier.
Then an idea occurred to the
Czar and he asked the next sol-
dier: "If I ordered you to shoot
me, would. you do so?" "Yes,
your Majesty."
The Czar. was rather taken
aback and he repeated the ques-
tion along the line, receiving the
same reply, until he came to a
young Jew who said: "No, your
Majesty." The Czar was pleased
and he asked the lad why he
would not shoot his Emperior if
ordered to do so.
"I'm a drummer and don't
carry a gun," said the Jew.

The legend of Versailles with
the devil Clemenceau, who in fact
was the only man who saw the
Germans rightly, became the
chief weapon in the hands of the
German propagandists . . . To-
day the same German propa-
ganda, made by certain profes-
sors, industrialists and emigrants,
is going on in this country with
exactly the same lies and aims.

Mrs. Murphy to Address
Home Relief Thursday

Home Relief Society's opening
meeting of the season will be
held next Tuesday in the Adult
Lounge of. the Jewish Commun-
ity Center. A 12 noon brunch
will precede the meeting and
program which was arranged by
Mrs. Peter Miller, hostess' chair-
man, and her committee.

Irene Ellis Murphy, secretary
of the family and child welfare
section of the Council of Social
Agencies, will be the guest
speaker. She will be introduced
by Mrs. A. Weisman, program
chairman.

An invitation to attend the
meeting is extended to members
and guests by Mrs. Irving Small,
president.

At Thursday's meeting, an-
nouncements will be made con-
cerning the luncheon and fashion
review, Home Relief Society's
annual fund-raising event, to be
held at the Book Cadillac Hotel
on Oct. 31. Further information
and tickets are procurable by
calling Mrs, Arthur Gilbert,
chairman of pledges, TO. 8-2281,
or her co-chairman, Mrs. Charles
Harris, UN. 4-3675. The year
book is being prepared under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Sam Marks,
UN. 1-3603.

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Hebrew Committee Link
LONDON (JPPS-Palcor) —
Capt. Jeremiah Halpern, active
in the Committee for a Jewish
Army has requested the Palcor
News Agency to print a denial
of a New York dispatch that he
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Bourla Receives
Ussishkin Prize

JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Yehu-
da Bourla, Hebrew novelist, is
the first recipient of the Ussish-
kin Memorial Prize for Litera-
ture, established in 1943 by the
directorate of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund• to commemorate the
memory of its late President. The
jury awarding the prize consist-
ed of Professor Joseph Klausner,
historian and critic; Max Solo-
veitchik, director of the educa-
tional system of the Vaad Leumi,
Jewish Palestine's National Coun-
cil, and the late Berl Katzenel-
son. Mr. Bourla was given the
prize for his novel "Yearnings,"
dealing with nineteenth century
Zionism, and published by Am
Oved, the publishing house main-
tained by the Histadruth, General
Jewish Federation of Labor.

father and witnesses the corona-
tion of the Lionhearted—Richard
I.
Thereupon follow the cruel
days for the Jews, and the young
couple are participants in the
events which have since discred-
ited both the Lionhearted and
the peoples who have made hor-
rible massacres of innocent Jews
possible.
* * *
It is not known, the novel re-
veals, whether David lived on to
practice medicine. He may have
penned some new psalms depict-
ing the tragedies of his time.
Banned Century Later
But the Jews did return to
York and it was not until a cen-
tury later that our people were
banished from England.
* * *
Jews and converts to Chris-
tianity were murdered at York,
and the Reznikoff novel describes
how the Jewish merchants, bank-
CHARLES REZNIKOFF
ers and money lenders are dis-
posed of.
repeat inhuman actions.
There was also apostasy in an
Is the present period in Jewish
history the worst on record? A effort to escape death.
They were incidents reminis-
study of the pages of Israel his-
tory may prove that there has cent of some lands today and of
never been anything to equal the the days of the Inquisition.
* * *
events of today.
Mr. Reznikoff is a New York
.Nevertheless, some periods will
challenge such claims. The time University graduate. He was ad-
of the Crusades is one of them. mitted to the Bar of New York in
1916. He served on the editorial
* * *
Charles Reznikoff, a well staff of Corpus Juris, a law en-
known poet and novelist, has cyclopedia, and since 1941 has
taken this period as the subject been a contributing editor of
of his novel, "The Lionhearted," Menorah Journal.
A Golden Treasury
which has just been published by
the Jewish Publication Society of
His verse has been published
America. The horrors of that by New Poetry and has appeared
period, the flight of people then, in Leo W. Schwarz's "A Golden
as now, rightfully record the Treasury of Jewish Literature."
* * *
story of the Crusaders as one of
the blackest chapters in the life
"The Lionhearted is available
of the Jews.
as one of the membership books
True Historical Facts
of the Jewish Publication Soci-
Mr. Reznikoff has masterfully ety of America, at $5 for three
drawn upon true historical facts cloth-bound books a year.
Full details on the membership
for his novel. The massacre of
the Jews at York forms the back- plan, catalogues. and other inter-
ground.
esting literature on the work of
It is the story of David, a young the Jewish Publication Society of
Jewish physician who returns America, the world's largest pub-
from southern France with a lishers of Jewish books in Eng-
greater love for poetry than for lish, can be secured by writing to
the science of medicine. He falls the executive vice-president,
in love, goes off to London in the Maurice Jacobs, 320 Lewis Tower
company of his beloved and her Building, Philadelphia 2, Pa.

History, it has been said, re-
peats it/self. For Jews especially,
the repetitive oppressive periods
in the annals of world happen-
ings seem to indicate that period-
ically the course of human events
causes reactions to set in and to

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