September 14, 1939: Rosh Hashanah Edition Part I

Meviewing the "Most important'Eventsof the Year Entered as Second Class Mail Matter on January 31, 1531. at Postoffice, of OmaJia, Nebraska, under the Act ol March 3, 1S79

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New Year's Edition—THE JEWISH PRESS—Rosh Haskonah. 5700—Thursday, September 14, 1939

Grynszpan Asks to Fight for France

Browder Says Few Jewish Communists

Paris (JTA) —Herschel Grynszpan, youthful Jewish refugee whose assassination of a German Embassy official touched off last November's pogroms in Germany, has applied for permission to join the French Army as a volunteer.

From the jail cell where he Is lodged pending trial, Grynszpan wrote to the Ministry of Justice: "In thees tragic hours I apply for your permission give m y blood as a volunteer in the ranks of the French front fighters."

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Washington (JTA)—Conducing' his testimony before the P cs Committee, Eari Browder, sec-etary of the Communist Party, declared there were not more than 2,500 Jews in the party in the whole country.

More than half of these, he said, are in New York City. He gave his total party strength as about 100,00 0, and pointed out that the ratio of Jews in the Communist Party is no greater than the ratio of Jews to the population of the United States as a whole.

By PAT FRANK JTA Staff Correspondent .'. Washington ( J T A ) — A f t e r a conference between Myron O. Taylor, American vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Kefugee Committee, and President Roosevelt, the administration has decided to go ahead with its plans for the committee meeting at the [White House on Oct. 16 and 17.

Diplomatic representatives ol some of the 32 interested governments may replace the delegates, the State Department said, but Volunteer f o r Service the general work of the commitand Collect tee -will be carried on, with action s expected "as developments make Funds action possible." (The six-man directorate of the committee, repreBy B. FEDEB senting Britain, France, the NethJTA Staff Correspondent erlands, Brazil, the Argentine and L,a Paz, Bolivia (JTA) —Hundthe United States, had originally reds of Polish Jews and Jewish been invited to attend the "White refugees from Central Europe volHouse conference.) unteered for army service in beTo Aid Scattered Jews half of the Allies as the first re• The immediate problem, it was action to the Anglo-French declarstated, will be the finding of new ation of war against Germany. homelands . for 100,000 refuJews of Polish origin besieged gees scattered through England, the Polish Consulate to offer their France, the Netherlands, Belgium services in the Republic's defense, and the Scandinavian countries. and within a few hours 500 had At his luncheon conference registered. Refugees and "statewith the President, Taylor report- less" Jews Were calling at the ed that the committee had per-French and British consulates to suaded Nazi leaders to give Jews Although Bolivia Is in Germany limited legal status volunteer. in the European conflict, and to permit them to earn a liv- neutral commented sympathing at certain jobs. He said an newspapers understanding had been reached etically on. the volunteer movewhereby part of the money which ment.

Form Committee the German Jews still possessed Polish Jews here formed a "Powas to go into a trust fund to 1 help locate refugees in new home lish Committee ' which called a lands. This trust was about to to. mass meeting and adopted a resoset up when the war crisis devel- lution pledging that "all Polish oped, • ' • • Jews will not stop at any sacrifice Before the conference, one to defend the independence of problem likely to develop is the their fatherland against Nazi barmatter of Government aid in fi- barism, the greatest enemy or the nancing the establishment of Jewish people and of Poland, as Jewish, refugees in new home- well as of all European civilizalands. The British Government tion." has indicated willingness to aid : The committee launched a fundthe enterprise on a fifty-fifty raising drive with the slogan, basis, with private contributions "Milk for Warsaw Children," to supplying the other half. The which many Bolivians contributed, question has been raised as to as well as ; immigrant- The comwhether other governments rep- mittee also is distributing inforiTesented .on the intergovernmen- mation;±o theJBolivian. press about "•"•'tai-bacty woulcrinake siniiiiii^itfni- Poland's •history and "the present mitments. situation.

Taylor Visits F . D . K. Taylor, former chairman of the Los Angeles (JTA) — Polish TJnited States Steel Corp., made a Consul" Leej^Niemo declared that Hying visit to the "White House, existing misunderstandings beaccompanied by Undersecretary tween Jews and Poles would be of State Sumner "Welles, lunched eliminated as soon as Poland /with the president and left "Wash- survived its present crisis, " a criington immediately. At his regu- sis that places Poland as the delar press conference. Secretary of fender of European civilization Sttit.0 Hnil declared that the war

by Hitler." In an interhad greatly complicated removal menaced with the California Jewish of refugees from certain European view countries, but that the United Voice, the Consul said a number States was pushing the work of of Jewish of Polish extraction had offered to enlist for Poland's dethe refugee committee.

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON To the Jewish people of America I extend cordial greetings for the new year, with the assurance of my appreciation of the material and cultural contributions which my fellow citizens of the Jewish faith continue to make toward the development and welfare of the nation, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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New York (JTA)—Antl-Jewish violence was reported from Prague by the Associated Press in a dispatch whicli said SO Jewish shops there had been raided and damaged by crowds. The dispatch added that police later guarded the stores while crowds shouted anti-Jewish slogans.

The A. P. reported from Bratislava that Jews and Hungarians were not included in a Slovak Government proclamation ordering all citizens from the ages of 16 to 60 into the "service of the State."

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New York (JTA) — A dedarjation supporting enemies of Hitler and the Nazi Farty and! pssPrtvr-E' that. Hitler dir' nof represent the majority of Germans was issuer. by the German I»E.bor Delegation, I American organization of the forj mer Soci&! Democratic Party In j the Reich. It vas signed Albert Grzynski, president; I>r. Eutio'.pts Katz, secretary; and others,

London (JTA)—The Jewish Pittsburgh (JTA)—Those who Agency for Palestine has plaeed mask their anti-Semitism with the "Jewish manpower, technical abilassertion that they are not opity and resources" at the disposal posed to "good Jews" were asof the British Government and sailed by the Rev. Charles Owen has received a reply from Prime Rice in an address here.

Minister Neville Chamberlain "One of the features connected stating that the "public-spirited with the present wave of antiassurances are welcome and will Semitism that is being stirred up c h - «• " • c I c ~ ^ f be kept in mind." _s that some of the leading purr *a r i i i <i c A letter from Dr. Chaim Weizveyors of anti-Semitism hotly *i -is £• r i mann, president of the Agency, deny that they are anti-Semites," dated Aug. 29, and the Prime he said. "They employ a'.clever Minister's reply, dated Sept. 2, sophistry In their attempts to eswere made public Tuesday. Dr. cape the stigma. They define ._fci*SMi!itteEi'--is • a-• .--.certain re"In this hour of supreme crisis stricted sense and then they claim ^ c "^ the consciousness that Jews have or r.n 11 " ^ •* that their teachings and utter\e f « "> a contribution to make to the de- the pr" ances do not bring them tinder racial c— * the term. .

- ' New York (WNS) — The Fed- fense of sacred values impels me to write this letter. I wish to coneration of Polish Jews in America Qualify Statement announced that the Third Bien- firm in the most explicit manner "For instance, these enemies of nial World Conference of Feder- the declarations which I and ray the Jew will define anti-Semitism ations of Polish Jews scheduled to colleagues have made during- the as persecution of the Jew because be held here during the week of last month and especially in the he is a Jew. They will hold that September 1S-25, will take place last week: that the Jews stand . a : \\i, - u - r because, to their anti-Jewish at- despite the inability of the dele- by Great Britain and will fight on the side of the democracies. tacks, they affix a rider saying that they exempt good Jews, gates from European countries to ir* i (v *x ! i r 1 i i * Co-operation come here owing to the war situtherefore, they are automatically c ~ r p i ation.

"Our urgent desire is to give absolved of anti-Semitism. As a Benjamin Grosskopf and J. L. effect to these declarations. "We matter of fact the unctuous emNew "i c ^ i ~ . " i ». Wohlman of the Federation of Po- wish to do so in a way entirely v - , » n >•> r 1 r c fense. Appealing to Polish Jews ployment of the 'good Jews' qual- lish Jews in Palestine, who came consonant w i t h the general t e r m y f r ifier generally intensifies the fP < _ o - " ~>- i c~ r-c-pT London ( J T A ) — T h e office and Poles in America to unite anti-Semitism of the statements here as delegates and arrived a scheme of British action and, mansh-n i1 t c - c ~ce o- f ' ~ maintained here by the Intergov- forces, he said assistance must be as a whole. Also we can have at- week ago, will remain for the con- therefore, would place ourselves, campa P o l a n d c-c P ' - 1 -• ernmental Refugee Committee has given in such manner as not to tacks upon Jews, as Jews witn- ference, it was said. Delegates in matters big and small, under tion of i.^" P " JF^L « r * ~ r I I CO ! been closed and the bureau has jeopardize the United States neu- out direct statements. The brutal from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, the coordinating direction of His ica. trality policy.' ir <. c Majesty's Government.

The JewCrude, direct anti-Semitic utterUruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Cuba, been merged .with the office of The r u - r ^ " 1 c r v-^ c - e - i ^ ances, are far less harmful than Canada, Palestine and the United ish Agency is ready to enter into League Refugee Commissioner Sir Ml1 l campa c~ ^ i v)p " ~ c * / n immediate arrangements for utilthe subtle ones.

States will attend. r Herbert Emerson, who is also dimedia)'r '•'' c" •-r > r= izing Jewish manpower, technical rector of the bureau. It is underBecause of new developments in "Off hand I can give a partial aic o i J tablish " " "'i or «-c ' "o u1. ability and resources, etc. stood, however, that the commitlist of some of the more common- the prevailing situation the agenhe •>" Y v. t^ which v- 1 '•"•^k i i-cfp rv "The Jewish Agency recently tee remains in existence.- Assisto ly used anti-Semitic statements da of the conference will be ad- had differences in the political Anieri •> - ^ - - ' i r<- ~ --^ r ant Director Joseph Harsch has justed, the question of emergency and inferences. status r ' er ^ " - -^ j ^ i " hi -r field with the Mandatory Power. v resigned.,.---••-•£^ r , i 1 i "It is anti-Semitism to exag- relief action for the Jewish pop- Yvre would like these differences with -v o-^ ""=. [ \ ger the power of Jews, whethpr ulations suffering the ravages of to give way before the greater to communicate owing to the war " c o r r i d o r " o n l i c " 7 n o Organizations Press Refngee Aid war in the combat zones of Poland situation. it be power in finance, in indusUnited States i c «. <~ and more Dressing necessities of Paris (JTA)—A large numbsr In this respect the officers of try, in newspaper publishing, in expected to be the chief issue. The the time. "We ask you to accept of refugees en route to Latin problems of Jewish refugees of r the Federation has been in conradio or anything else. o z r •> ' ° 1 o i ' v « this declaration in the spirit in American countries on a German London (WNS) — Upon his arPolish origin and the social and which stant contact with the responsible T i r v r p c o 'f ' « i " i it is made."

"It is fanti-Semitism to say or economic steamship have been taken off at rival here from Berlin last week conditions of Polish Polish authorities in this country. a Brazilian port by represents U. S. Repreesntative Hamilton hint tha -there is a mysterious Jews dwelling in various countries Chamberlain's reply follows: ttves of the HIAS-ICA and their Fish of New York, warned that central controlling Jewish, na- of the world outside of Poland, is "I should like to express my Bafe passage to the countries of war in Eastern Europe would tional or international, leader- also listed for discussion. warm appreciation of the contents destination has been secured. The overnight Increase tremendously ship. of your letter of Aug. 29 and the - V -, - l "It is anti-Semitism to exagJ r>. C. received cabled advices the number of refugees and despirit which prompted it. It is 1 rt • that 141 refugees aboard the clared that the refugee problem gerate the clanishness of Jews. true that differences of opinion "It is anti-Semitism to speak of steamship Christiaan Huygen was inseparably involved with the exist between the Mandatory and deliberate controlled Jewish cam•would arrive at Colombo, Ceylon, entire peace question. the Jewish Agency as regards the ' p ir paigns against Christianity. en. route to Australia via Batavia. policy in Palestine, but I gladly He urged Immediate emphasis n'" i "It is anti-Semitic to exaggeraccept the assurances contained i, i , «r on the problem of commencing in your letter.

-Philadelphia ( J T A ) — T h e large-scale resettlement measures ate Jewish participation in Communism and similar movements.

American Friends Service Com- He warned American Jews against "I note with pleasure that in "It is anti-Semitism to hint at, London CJTA) — The Ministry mittee will continue its assistance seeking liberalization of immigrathis time of supreme emergency, or charge, a tie-up between 'Inacnounced that t o German and Spanish refugees tion laws, and said that he reprewhen those things which we hold of Information ternational Jewry' and Internai n Europe "as long as we can' be dear are at stake, Britain can rely ranking' Arab and Jewish leaders ^ * r i r -• New York (JTA) — Recruiting upon the wholehearted coopera- in. Palestine have pledged loyalty useful in the situation," Clarence sented a group of wealthy Ameri- tional Masonry. The very term E. Pickett, executive secretary, can Jews prepared to furnish 'International Jewry' has definite of American Jews for a new Pal- tion of the Jewish Agency. You to Britain in the war against Ger5100,000,000 to finance a large- anti-Semitic implications. estine Jewish Legion is being con- will not expect me to say more many. A communique said Jaffa announced. scale refugee "settlement project, " "You will note that these effec- sidered by Zionist groups, it was at this stage than that your pub- Arab leaders who headed the preferably in Africa, with the ulti- tive types of anti-Semitism con- learned, but plans are being held lic-spirited assurances are wel- 1S36 revolt visited British officmate aim of colonizing a million sist of lies and exaggerations. in abeyance until it is ascertained come and will be kept in mind." ials and announced their readiness persons. Fish said that the Jewish Their harmfulness consists in whether such action would conto cooperate with Britain and question is no longer discussed in their engendering a feeling of flict with the United States GovPrance.

Germany, being considered a clos- mixed fear and anger in the ernment's neutrality policy.

No general amnesty for Jews breasts of non-Jews. All of them ed matter. ~ | in Palestine concentration camps The Poale Zion-Zeire Zion orhave been proved false. They are j is planned, but "each case is LIE- , damnably un-American, un-Chri5- ganization scheduled a meeting 'for this week to discuss the quesder review," Colonial Secretary [ tian and anti-social." tion. A spokesman for the organMalcolm SlacDonald told the Anti-Semitism Un-Catholic, ization said it was premature to Commons. KacDonsld was asked ' •• AI Smith Asserts The City Talmud Tcrah an- by Col. Josiah Wedgwood, IjaborNew York (WNS) — The reNew York (JTA)—"No Cathor speak of formation of a Jewish sponsibilities of American Jewry New. York (JTA)—-Nahum Ze lie can be an anti-Semite," assert- legion. "It is now a question for nounces that registration is now ite,' whether, since the Jews hsrl will rise during the year to come macfl, actor and founder of tb< ed Alfred E. Smith, former Gov- legal experts to decide in the light in progress for the department of j offered their help to the British as the Impact of war strikes over Habimah, H e b r e w theatrical ernor of New York, in a state- of the American neutrality act," History and Religion. Classes ia i Government, he would new set this department meet every Sun- free "ancemvieted Jews imprisoned larger areas abroad, Rabbi Abba troupe which successfully -toured ment in joining the Committee of he said. day morning from 10 until 12.

Hillel Sliver and Rabbi Jonah Europe and the United States, Catholics for Human Rights. "The so long in concentration camps.

Children in these classes are Col. Weclgwood also asked how B. Wise, National Chairmen of the died here at the age of 52.

Cairo (JTA) — A committee Catholic Chlirch- teaches charity He had been ill several years. and love of your neighbor," said for formation of a Jewish legion given instruction in Jewish his- many Jews and Arabs were still United Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs, declared in a New Zemach was born in a village near Smith. "That is the direct oppo- has been formed here. A meeting tory and ceremonies. There will confined.

Year's statement to the American Bialystok, Poland. He fonnded site of anti-Semitism, which is a was held with the object of in- be the opportunity this year for "With regard to the first part Habimah in Moscow in 1917. Af- racial and religious bigotry th.it viting non-Egyptian Jews resident children to engage in activities of the Question," MacDonsJii reJewish Community. as dramatics, choral practice, cur" W a r intensifies every human ter touring Europe and America: a real Catholic would never coun- here to join the legion. rent events, and special cir.bs bas- plide, "I cannot give a general unproblem and instead of diminish- the troupe split, part remalnin; tenance." ed on some aspect of Jewish cul- dertaking. Each, case must he conhere and the remainder, establish' ing, increases every human residered on its merits and each ture.

Czechs Ready to Fight ing itself as a permanent tbeatri sponsibility," the statement read.

Jews Held Quitting Reds Parents are urged to register case is under review. On Aug. tf-. in Palestine. .

The New Year message stressJerusalem ( J T A ) — T h e Czech children immediately .as no regis- the last date on which I have iized the generous support of AmerWashington (JTA) •— M a n y Consulate General said that "hun- trations will be accepted alter Oc- i ures, 1,7CO Arabs and 175 Jevrs ican Jewry to the campaign of the 1400 Refugees Arrive in jews have quit the Communist dreds of Czecho-Slovakia citizens tobsr 1. Registration is also now (were detained -cncler the emerUnited Jewish Appeal and said Day • party In the United States since living in Palestine have expressed in progress for the daily Hebrew ! gency regulations." The Colonial that it Is the function of the Jews the signing of the Hitler-Stalin a desire to fight for the liberation school and parents are urged" to I Secretary also declared: "I air of America to be ^messengers of Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agen- pact, Benjamin Gitlow, former of Czeeho-Sloyakia." A statement enroll their children at once so | glad to- say we have received ass % hope to those who would other- cy) — It was officially disclosed general secretary of the party and expressed the belief that a Czech they nay be put in their classes. surances of support from both the 1' « "^rv i ' " r •wise be completely'submerged in that a total of 1,400 refugees ar- twice Communist candidate for legion already -was being for'mad Fut-ther information may bs sot- I Jewish, and. the Arab sections of ' e r * «• r | the population," rived in Palestine last Sunday. vice-president, said here. j brought to pass." the morass of European war." here, as in England and France. ten fay calling Ja. 70S7.

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New Tear's Edition—THE JEWISH PRESS—Eosh Hashonab 5700—Tlmrs^ay, September 14, 1939

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By Rev. Dr. Mawrice S. Sheehy The following article Is a transcription of a speech given

by Dr. Maurice S. Sheehy, bead of the Department of Religions Education at the Catholic University of America.

The speech was broadcast" Under the auspices o f the Council Against Intolerance In America. .

ular prayer or •worship, if they practice any . . . " Roger Williams, The Laws and Charter of Providence, 16S8.

An Expanding Concept "F^litical rights and public happiness are different words for What is Americanism? Def- the same idea." initions provided by twenty Samuel Adams, address on • statesmen and governmect or- American Independence, 177G. dinances over a span of three "No man or class of men ought hundred years are presented as on account of religion to be iaa symposium in We Americans, vested with peculiar emoluments a handbook on America and its or privileges, nor subjected to people published by The itlan- any penalties or disabilities, untic. less under color of religion the Famous leaders quoted in preservation of equal liberty and "What Americanism Is" in- the existence of the state be manclude: Roger Williams, Wil- ifestly endangered." liam Fenn, Alexander HamilJames Madison, resolution ofton, Patrick Henry, Samuel fered before the Virginia ConvenAdams, James Madison, George tion, 1784.

Washington, Thomas Jefferson, "All possess alike liberty of Ulysses S. Grant, James G. conscience and immunities of citiBlaine, Thomas Bayard, Theo- zenship. It is now no more that dore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wil- toleration is spoken of, as if it son, Franklin D. Roosevelt and was by the indulgence of one Cordell Hull. Following are class of people, that another ennine excerpts: joyed the exercise of their inher"There goes many a ship to sea ent ' natural rights. For happily with many hundred souls in one the Government of the United ship, whose weal and woe Is com- States, which gives to bigotry no mon, and is a true picture of a sanction, to persecution no assistcommonwealth or a human com- ance, requires only that they who bination of society. It hath fallen live under its protection should out sometimes that both Papists demean themselves as good citiand Protestants, Jews and Turks, zens, in giving it on all occasions may be embarked In one ship; their effectual support." upon which proposal I affirm George Washington, to the Hethat all the liberty of conscience brew Congregation in Newport, that ever I pleaded for, turns R. I., 1700. upon these two hinges—that "The United States, knowing none of the Papists, Protestants, no distinction of her own citizens Jews or Turks be forcert to come on account of religion or nationto ship's prayer or worship nor ality, naturally believes in a civcompelled from their own partic- ilization the world over which

the privilege granted them by the tained that all Intellectual and Apostolic See. They oppress the moral qualities flow as from Jews by starvation, imprisonment their most potent source. and by tortures and sufferings; "3. Religion is subservient they afflict them with all kinds to race and must be adapted of punishments,, and sometimes to it. even condemn them to death, so "4. The prime source and suthat the Jews, although living un- preme rule of the whole order der Christian princes, are in a of justice is race instinct." worse plight than were their anSad, indeed, is the fact' tha cestors to the land of the PharIt is'a.privilege and a' source aohs . . . We ordain that you be- never has the sight of intolerance of great happiness lor me to avail have toward them in a friendly mote grieved the Papacy than in myself of the invitation of the and kind manner. Whenever any our day, but happy the circumCouncil Against Intolerance in unjust attacks upon. them come stance that we have until recently America to trace in brief outline under your notice, redress their enjoyed the dauntless leadership the role that the Papacy has injuries, and do not suffer them of Pope Plus XI. Time and again played in combatting that vicious to be visited in the future by he condemned anti-Semitism. In form of intolerance known as similar tribulations." (So. far the September, 1938, addressing group of Belgian pilgrims; our anti-Semitism. This talk,; I be- words of Pope Gregory IX.) Holy Father said: lieve, is opportune since during In 1273 the scene of outrages the past two months 12 pieces of against "Abraham is called o u r the Jews shifted to Engscurrilous anti-Semitic literature land, patriarch, our Ancestor. Antithen, of course, a Catholic have come to my desk from an- country, and Gregory X took up Semitism is not compatible onymous sources. . their defense, ordering that no with the sublime reality of tbis -• We:Catholics have, during the injury be inflicted upon their per- text; it is a movement which past few weeks, witnessed an out- sons or their property. In 1389 we Christians cannot share . . . pouring of sympathy and goodstrong protest against persecu- No, it is not possible for Chriswill on the part of our non-Cath- ation the Jewish people came tians to take part in antiolic neighbors in America on the from of Boniface IX. One of the Semitism. We a r e Semites occasion of the death of Pope outrageous things attempted was spiritually."

Pius XI, the Pope of'Peace. One to coerce, the Certainly no clearer statement Jews into giving up might suspect that the death- their faith, and almost every form could be expected from the head knell for religious intolerance of compulsion seems to have been of the Catholic church. Popmight be sounded. in this coun- employed. This impelled Plus XI states in the simplest postry, but as long as one small re- Martin V in the beginning ofPope terms that to be a Christian the ligious group is misrepresented by 15 th century, to decree as folr sible and to be anti-Jewish are incomvicious and irresponsible forces lows: patible terms. "Master, which i . in American life, religious liberty the great Commandment of th< is not fully secure.

"Whereas the Jews are made Law?" Jesus was once asked. And to the .imago and likeness of God He replied: "Thou shalt love the The first Popes said nothing and a portion of them one day thy God with thy. whol about anti-Semitism since they will be saved and whereas they Lord heart and thy whole mind and themselves, like their Master, have besought our protection; fol- thy soul, and thou shalt were Jews and subject to all the lowing in the footsteps of our pre- love whole thy neighbor as thyself." Thtt injustices heaped upon Jews. As decessors we command that they essence the Christian religion early, as the sixth century—in the be not molested in their syna- is loVe, of even though some nomiyear 538—Gregory the G r e a t gogues; that their laws, rights, nally Christians are subtle agents •wrote: "We forbid you to molest and customs be not assailed; that of anti-Jewish propaganda. the Jews or to lay upon them re- they be not baptized by force, conDeclaration of 1938 strictions not imposed by the es- strained to observe Christian fesOn September 25, 1938, t h e tablished laws; we further permit tivals, nor to wear badges, and church the Congregation them to live as Romans and to they be not hindered In their busi- Of the through Holy Office, issued this dispose of their property as they ness relations with Christians.'? declaration: will:" Sad to relate. Pope GregSad to relate, the plea of the . ory in his Christlike attitude had Holy "The Catholic church habitFather was ignored then, to oppose some fanatical bishops even as ually prays for the Jewish peoallegedly civilized rulers of his time. chose to ignore the pleas of Pope ple who were the bearers of the dit ine revelations up to the Pius XI in our own day.

Charter of Protection time of Christ . . . Actuated By A later papal document, v e r y Jewish Physicians love, the Apostolic See has probably from the pen of Calixtua A fact of more than passing this this people against II, was a charter of protection to significance is that many of the projected unjust oppression and, just as the Jews. It contained t h e s e Popes had Jewish physicians, par- every of envy and jealousy four propositions: . . . . ticularly at a time when poison- amongkind the nations must be dis1. The Jews are not to be co- ing was a fine art and as an approved of, so in im especial eminent Catholic scholar, Father erced into Christianity. must be that hatred!

2. No one is to injure them in James Gillis, has pointed out: "It manner life or limb or to take away would almost seem that certain which is generally termed antitheir property or to inter- Popes, like Alexander VI, Julius Semitism."

"We are Semites spiritually.' fere with sttch customary II, Leo X (the Medici of the rights as they nave enjoyed Renaissance), and Clement VII, What did the recently deceased hands Pope mean by these words? Perin the places where they felt themselves safer in the haps, from my own ..priestly exof Jews than of Catholics/1- —: live.

• " -••';••• 3. They are not to be attacked A few—and very few-indeed-— perience of today I can\ suggest on festival occasions nor Papal letters seem to reflect un- an answer. The essence of Cathcompelled to render feudal friendly attitudes toward t h e olic worship is the Mass. In the services beyond what is cus- Jews. Sixtus V revoked a decree Mass of today there are readings tomary. of his predecessor, issued, of from the Law of Moses, the the prophecies. The Di4. The cemeteries of the Jews course, as a temporal sovereign, Psalms, office which every priest Is most be zealously protected. which would have banished Jews vine obligated to say daily contains This charter was reissued and from the papal states. ' the Psalms and excerpts from confirmed by some 20 or 30 pon- After the division ot Christen- all book of the Old Testament. tiffs over-a period of 400 years. dom in the 16th century, t h e every Catholic life is enriched by and And yet there were occasionally Popes were more concerned with : out of the heritage of Jewdocuments concerning the Jews the struggle to preserve the unity flows religious culture. As a Cathwhich seem to Teflect more the of the Christian religion than ish I salute the Jew as my spiritprejudices of their times than with the challenge to Christian olic ual ancestor, who preserved bethe traditional attitude, of t h e tolerance presented in occasional lief one God in hard, cruel : Papacy. .' •. outbreaks against the JeW3. In times,in who worshipped and still modern times, intolerance toward The Bull 'Cum Nimis Absurworships the true God. We Cathdum' o'f Paul IV, constraining the Jews has either masked itself un- olics must then be both spiritualJews tb live in ghettoes Is a case der the guise of racism or it has ly Semites and spiritually Chrisin point..~Yet a defense of that been uncamouflaged religious big- tian—and no heart is Christian particular procedure might be otry, in regard to the former, that harbors any hatred-or" illurged as a protective measure in Pope Pius XI declared on July will toward anyone. That ex30, 1938, referring to the un- plains, why from time Immemorial a time of great; unrest.

Heinrich. Graetz, Jewish his- scientific (if not demented) racial the Popes have so frequently and torian .and author of a monument- theories of Nazism: fiercely condemned anti-Semitism. al work, "History of the Jews," "It is forgotten that humanIn America we all, Catholic, writes: "it is remarkable that the kind, the whole of humankind, Protestant, and Jewish, h a v e Bishops of Rome, the recognized Is a single, great universal hn- learned to live side by side in champions of Christianity, treated man race. All men are, above peace and understanding. There the Jews with the utmost tolera- all, members of the same great are forces operating in our day tion and- liberality. The occupants kind. They all belong to the to arouse racial and religious Aniof the Papal throne shielded the single great family of the liv- mosities. The Council Against Jews and exhorted the clergy and ing. Humankind is, therefore, Intolerance, under the auspices ol -the princes against the use. of a single universal race. It can- which I speak this evening, is force in converting t h e m to not be denied, however, that In striving diligently to get at the Christianity." this universal race there is causes" ot this intolerance and to room for special races as there eradicate them, since they have Twofold Papal Responsibility Too few historians of mediae- ia for many 'different varia- no place In the American way of val times recognize the fact that tions and for many nationalities life. Won't you help us? Perthe Popes had. a twofold respon- which are even more special- haps a first step should -be an sibility^—one as spiritual and the ized'." examination of conscience by other as political leaders. The A few weeks previously Pope Americans of every race and creed Holy See never looked upon those Pius XI had denounced another to determine whether or no illunbaptized ;.s its spiritual sub- manifestation of racism in these will finds a resting place in the jects. . The Popes as sovereigns words: heart, and then we might, all ponof a temporal state had an offi"There has appeared In the der words from' the Book of cial relationship with the- Jews Italian press In recent days an Proverba (VI, 16-19): who were citizens of that state.

Italian racial credo prepared "Six things there are which . In the Middle Ages Jews of all by a group of university profesthe Lord hatettt, And the sevChristian countries looked to the sors under government ausenth h i s s o u l detesteth: Holy See for protection. More pices. The proclamations of this Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, than one of the Popes, beginning credo include: That great races hands that s h e d innocent with Innocent IV, issued decrees and small races exist; tnat th_e blood; a heart that devlseth exonerating Jewish people from concept of a race. is : a partly wicked plots, feet that are swift the calumny of ritual murder—a biological one; that the majorto run tb mischief; a deceitful He comparable only in vlciousness ity of the Italian population witness that nttereth lies—and to that alleged against the Chris- are of 'Aryan* origin; t h a t him that soweth discord among tians In the first ages of Chris- movements of races in history his brethren." tianity, are purely legendary; that a At the time of the worst ex- pure Italian race now exists; cesses of the Spanish Inquisition, that it is time that Italians proSIxtus IV and Clement VII ex- claimed themselves r a c i s t s ; erted themselves to check the se- that it is necessary to make a verities exercised against convert definite distinction between EuJews. In 1255 Gregory IX is- ropean Mediterranean a n d New York (JTA) — A primer sued a Bull reproving the false Orientals and Africans; that based the Yiddish alphabet, accusations against the Jews. This Jews do not belong to t h e entitledon "Fun Aleph Bis Tof" was addressed, to the clergy, Italian race; that the purely (From A to Z), was published renobles and lords of France. This physical and psychological Eu- cently. It is written Aleph document is so significant as a ropean qualities of Italians Katz, Yiddish editor ofby the Jewpor.trayal of the attitude of the must not be altered In a n y ish Telegraphic Agency, and illusPopes that I beg leave to quote way." trated with 34 drawings by Joit at some length: Under the direction of Pius XI, seph Schbor.

"Certain of the clergy, a n d who assumed to himself the ofThe 32-page book is printed In princes, nobles, and great lords fice of Prefect of the Congrega- two colors and in large type. Bach of yonr cities and dioceses have tion of Seminaries and Univer- letter of the alphabet is illustratfalsely -. devised certain godless sities, went instructions in which ed with the drawing of an object plans against the Jews, anjnstly all Catholic teachers were urged: beginning with that letter and is depriving them by force of their "Diligently to arm themselves accompanied by two lines of property, B n d, appropriating It from biology,, history, philosophy, rhymed verse. A key to the numthemselves . .' • In their malice apologetics, and jurisprudence, to erical values o£ the various letters they ascribe every murder, wher- refute stoutly and skilfully these is provided. ever ft chance to occur, to the doctrines: Jews. And on the ground of "1. Vigor of race end purity Economy in education Is not a these and other fabrications, they of blood mast be conserved arid virtue, the Talmud teaches. iThus are fiHefl witb rage aaginst them, fostered at any cost; and what- a Jewish teaching has It that a rob them of their possessions ever leads to this end ia by man's expenditure is determined without any formal accusation, that very fact justifiable. for him at Rosh Hashanah time without confession, without legal "2. It is from blood, Where- but this does not-apply to expen•rial ana conviction, contrary to in the genius of the race is con- diture on education.

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NEW YEAR I from Bishop James H . Rysis.

The past yesr has been one of deep sorrow and incredible suffering for the Jewish race. That Christians sympathize actively with their persecuted brethren goes without saying. Such persecution is aJtsost unthinkable in this twentieth century. Yet it is a stark fact; one of which mankind should be thoroughly ashamed.

Until men profoundly believe in the brotherhood of man, and actively promote this belief, there- can be no peacs on this earth. Human personality is inviolable. No political regime, no matter what its name, philosophy, ot* power rises superior to the rights of the individual. The doctrine and practice of racism are in direct contradiction with the belief in the universal brotherhood of mankind. To persecute any race is to sin" against the most fundamental teaching of our Western civilization, is to deny a basic ter.et of Christianity.

As for anti-Semitism, it is racism in one of the lowest and worst forms. No true Christian can be an anti-Semite.

As the late Pope Pius XI so truthfully said, "Spiritually we are all Semites."

- - Jaxaess E. Ej-'a", feishop of Qraaha. will secure the came universal views."

President Ulysses S. Grant, 18T0.

"We Should fceep steadily b*fore our minds the fact that Americanism ie a question of prificiple, of purpose, of idealism, ol

character; that it is not a, matter ot birthplace, or creed, or line of descent." i'heodore Roosevelt, address delivered in Washington, 1909. ''No peace can last, or ought to last, frhich does .not recognize and accept the principle that

ernnierts derive all their Just powers from the consent of tha governed, atif thai. s:o right anywhere • exists te u£.nd peoples about i'rom soverulj-iitj-' to Hover-

eigutv as if Uu;y v:ere property." t'&'esiaeni. IVoo<:]-wv Wilson, address to the ^ersstte. tC17.

"This courury IK thoroughly. committed Jo Che rfincipies of eJAil'etiS "pillions iiberty. Instead of deploring the variety o£ racial strains? f.cd Bpiri'uri! traditions which are an inherent part of our people, r e welcome them as a token of the freedom that we enjoy anr; believe that the common ItTe is enrlcbet, by wi,t.t each of these groups eor.irihutes." iTcsiWem fr'rsinfcHr, 1'. Koose: vp'f. in s n?rssn«;r co She National I C'on"e;-eRre ov .5ows and ChrlsI iinns, ijPcPnwpr IS, IPS7.

I "ihe AmericRr. peoples . . . ! hold niaintenan.ee of and respect | foi human rights pncl individual I liberties essentia! . . . Unless I ] m!ala!;e the prerr.j;-;ng attitude ] here, the Ampricnn riations are j (leferminpci to defend thore instiI tiition:; and principles of their I ov n elioice." j Score'nvv of PiaJc- riult. In a l bro^drast I'rom the I'H'n-AmerlcMIl | Con?<M'eriec, Lima,, December 13,

Jevisfc vriters of the pre-Christian age cieimec that Aristotle derived liis ine as? from J e w i s h sources. Medieval iegend held that AriBloue at. the end of his life recanted those views whwich ran counter to the Hebrew Scriptures.

Miiii, at hi*creation, was given the tight to place his faith in the future • ••No tnatter what shadow had blackened the earth, he would know it was not an eternal darkness •. but in the footsteps of today's travail would come tomorrow's triumph of justice.

This is the lesson of the New Year • • * For it is this season when the gloom of the moment is disregarded • . • Disappointments and failures are consigned to the past • • • misfortune and unhappiness have run their course* Tomorrow will look upon a rebirth of one's highest ideals and ambitions •• • The coming months will see thefulfillment of aspirations. At the New Year we are inspired to dream anew •. • and to take courage inwthe right to hope."

GOLDSTE! M CHAPMANX "Where Omaha Shops with Confidence"

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New Tear's Edition—THE JEWISH PESSS—S osh Hasionai. 5700—Thursday, September 14, 1S39

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By Bernard Postal

osopher, editor of Jewish Publication Society; in Philadelphia.

April 19. Bertha Kaiieh, 64, actress; in New York.

May 11. Samuel J. Rosensohn, 59, attorney and Zionist leader; in New York.

23. Dr.- Moshe Gluckson, 62, editor of Hebrew daily Haarets; ir Jerusalem.

26. Abraham "vs. Abrahams, 75, president South African . Zionist Federation; in Johannesburg.

27. Dr. Jacob Meir, 82. Chief Rabbi of Sephardic community In Palestine; in Jerusalem.

June 3. Sir Philip Sassoon, 50, First British Commissioner of Public W o r k s , former Undersecretary for Air; in London.

23. Prof. Israel Levi, S3, retired Chief Rabbi of France; in Paris.

27. Prof. Israel Davidson, 69, Eebrew authority, Professor at Jewish Theological Seminary; in Great Neck, L. I. July 9. Boris Thomashevsky, 72, pioneer of Yiddish theater in America; in New York.

11." Dr. Adolf Edelmann, Vie n n e s e cancer specialist; in Lwow, Poland.

Although the number of those to the bold young Christians, men icting on specific Instructions •who profess to see American de- and -who risked bodily in- rom Henry Monsky, president of mocracy goings to the demnition jury women, and endured all sorts of in- 3'nai B'rith, joined with Protesbowwows is no longer inconsiderand Catholics in sponsoring able, the jittery alarmists are giv- sults, to challenge the hawkers of tants en the lie by unmistakable signs Father Coughlin's "Social Jus- memorial meetings.

In a number of cities, notably to the contrary. It would be tice" in the streets of New York.

Many of these Christians who Dubuque, la., and Albuquerque, foolish to deny that democratic principles and institutions are un- undertook to sell anti-Coughlin H. M., B'nai B'rith delegations der fire in America. But having literature on the same corners ittended the pontifical mass for admitted this, it must also be rec- where the radio priest's cohorts the Pope,, while in other comognized that the growing concern were peddling their race-inciting munities t h e Catholic clergy of the rank and file of Americans literature were theological stu- called on B'nai B'rith members to voice their thanks. with, the necessity for preserving dents.

A capacity congregation of men, Running these brave young democratic traditions has been translated into more action for people a close second for good women and children in the Anshemes synagogue, Brooklyn, wept and support of amity and co-oper- will honors was the Committee of ation among all faiths and races atholics to Fight Anti-Semitism, ,t memorial services for the Pope than at any time in several gen- which is endeavoring to mobilize distinguished by the fact that for erations.

Catholic sentiment not o n l y the first time in history a picture ;ainst'Coughlin but against all of a Roman Catholic Pontiff was Dolorous though the past year acial agitators. Members of this was displayed during Jewish rehas been with news of man's in- :ommittee have also sold copies ligious services in a synagogue, humanity to man overseas, here if an anti-Coughlin paper, "The portrait of Pope Pius, draped at home there accumulated a vast n black, stood on the platform the committee's organ, at number of isolated but kindred .n front of the arc which held the The first Jewish orphan asylum and significant happenings which oints where Coughlin's weekly is orah Scrolls. ffered for sale. was founded in London in 1831. in sum were Indicative of t h e One of the noblest gestures of Previous to that time orphans deep-rooted attachment of AmeriPlymouth. were taken care of in private cans to justice, amity, understand- jood will "was credited- to the These were but the more draing and co-operation among all VIost Rev. Eugene J. McGuinness, matic evidences of good will in homes—a plan which modern sothe races and creeds that make athollc bishop of Raleigh, N. C, action in the religious sphere. cial workers now look upon with up the American people. T h e rho proposed that Catholic or- Breaking a precedent of 317 years greater favor. strength of this attachment is phanages in the United States ad- tanding in Plymouth, M a s s . , •vital to the' future of American mit Jewish children who have where the first Thanksgiving was democracy for it is the best gnar- been deprived of their homes in held, a rabbi was invited to • ante.e against the doleful eventu- Germany.

The Nazareth Catholic Orphan- preach the Thanksgiving sermon " ality which the gloomy prophets age in Raleigh, he said, would be in the Church of the Pilgrimage so glibly predict.

•willing to care for 200 of the "as our answer to anti-Semitism."

This writer has gone to some children. Of a piece with this On the two days of Rosh Hashlengths to assemble a variety of was the recipt of three scholar- anah, the bulletin board of the representative Incidents during ships to the Lewis School of Aero- Bethlehem Presbyterian church in. the past 12 months which go to nautics by members of the B'nai Philadelphia, instead of the cus-' prove that by and large the lurid B'rith Youth Organization of Chi- ternary announcements pertainheadlines of 5699 conveyed a dis- cago through the kindness of the ing to the church, posted electorted impression. While anti- C a t h o l i c Youth Organization, trically, lighted letters extending Semitism admittedly made dis- which conducts the school.

New Year's wiBhes to "our Jewturbingly great gains In the Unitish friends and neighbors." The c.

Reciprocation ed States, good, will appeared to Akin to these instances of good new pulpit stand in Philadelphia's keep pace witn it, if it did not •will -was the case of the anoymous Temple Judea wa3 bought with a actually outstrip it. :. non-Catholic philanthropist who gift from Dr. Clement W. DeSpecific Deeds for three years had been provid- Jhant, pastor of the Oak Lane For purposes of this discussion, ing hundreds of homeless men in Reformed church. good will is taken to mean not Springfield, Hi., with Christmas South Congregational church, m a n i f e s t o s , pronouncements, dinner as guests of the Catholic Utica, N. Y., saved its property 'A* speeches or writings — numerous Charities. Last year he was iden- from mortgage foreclosure, when and far-reaching though t h e y tified as a prominent member of Temple Beth El organized a mass were in the past year — but rath- the B'nai B'rith in Chicago. In meeting at which Jewish citizens er specific occurrences which the same category must be includ- contributed a substantial sum for translated those utterances into ed the act of the Cincinnati B'nai immediate payment on the church definite deeds, ia short, good will B'rith Lodge in undertaking a mortgage. in action. special fund-raising effort for supA similar thin? occurred in Perhaps the most striking man- port of St. Mary's hospital, a Stamford, Conn., where Jews and ifestation of good will in action iatholic institution, which w a s Protestants were among the prinwas the frequency with which threatened with closing. cipal contributors to the $250,000 Christians came forward with volSUch incidents, involving Jews St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Hosuntary contributions to fund-rais- and Christians alike, -were far pital building fund. In response ing efforts for Jewish refugees. from rare last year. A memorial to an appeal from Bishop WilAn outstanding instance of this gift of $700 to the Bronxrille N. liam T. Manning, New York lodge occurred in Knoxville, T e n n., Y.) Public Library for the pur- No. 1 of B'nai B'rith made a subwhere the Knoxville Post, of the chase of books on the history, stantial contribution to help in American Legion pledged itself to customs and literature of the Jew- the completion cf the interior of raise among the non-Jewish citi- ish race was presented by the. the magnificent. Cathedral .of .St. zens of the commuitfty an -amount- TSree" daughters oT the' late Rev. John the Divine; equal to the contributions received Richard Bayward, first rector of And finally, the Bible College from the Jewish residents in be- Jhrist Episcopal church, Bronxhalf of the United Jewish Appeal. ville, who espressed the hope that of the University of Missouri has Through the co-operation of their gift would "help counteract offered to the Jewish "Student Karl Hoblitzelle and K. J. O'Don- the fires of bigotry, intolerance Foundation a magnificent tract of land for the erection of a synanell, the non-Jewish owners of injustice and cruelty." gogue on the university campus. the Interstate Theater. Circuit, The same sentiment prompted These incidents are but samover $40,000 was raised in Texas and Oklahoma for Catholic, Prot- Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Felsentha;, of plings of. the many that have estant-and Jewish refugees as the Memphis, Tenn., to deed FelBten- come to public attention and the result of the successful execution thal Springs, a 12-acre estate thousands that went unnoticed of a fund-raising idea that origi- which had been the property o: last year. Collectively they are nated with John J. "Weis, a mem- this Jewish family for severa proof beyond doubt that the ordiber of the B'nai B'rith Eillel generations, to the Y. M. C. A nary folks in America, the people Foundation at the University of as a picnic ground for all types of who make America what it is, rereligious and social groups. tain the decent, kindly and huTexas.

An Inspiring example of youth- manitarian instincts despite all Individuals Aid ful good will occurred at White- propagandists attempts to make Individual cases of this sort of water, "Wis., when the children of them otherwise. good will were reported from al the Congregational church sent a parts of the country. K. W. Walk- gift -of home-made toys to t h e (Copyright, 1939, B'nai B'rith er, of Coleman Falls, Va., con- youngsters at the Milwaukee JewNews Service.) tributed to the United Jewish Ap- ish Orphans' Home. In Jersey peal in. appreciation of what a City, 15 prominent Jews were Jewish family had done for him specially invited to a performanci when, as a boy, a fire had ren- of America's Passion Play, "Vetiered Mm homeless and alone. ronica's Veil," by Judge Robert Miss May Radclift of Fairmont, Kinkead, national chairman o September "W. 7a., -walked into, a Fairmont "Veronica's Veil," as a good wil store, took two rings off her move.

9. Prof. Ludwig Borcharat, 74, finger and asked the proprietor A capacity audience, apprised founder anfl director of t i e Gerto turn them over to the local of the presence of the Jewish dele- man Institute ol Egyptian Archrefugee fund. Miss Mabel Van gation, rose en masse and ap- aeology; in Germany. scoit-of South Bend, Ind., recall- plauded. Waynesboro, a Georgia ID. A. Leo Weil. 78, la-wyer ing the benefactions o£ Jewish country town, singled out 16-year- and vice-president ol U. A. H. C, neighbors when she was in need old Joseph Goldbferg, member o in Pittsburgh. of friends, sent a handsome bed- the Augusta chapter of Aleph October spread to the Temple Aid Sister- Zadik Aleph, the junior B'nai 5. Isidore D. Morrison, 67, hood with the request that the B'rith, as its boy mayor during a philanthropist and pioneer Zionproceeds from its sale be used to school election held as part of a ist leader in New York. alleviate the snffering of refugees. Boy Scout week: program. . 16. Mrs. Paula Olendorff, 78, At a public sale it brough And in Chicago a member social worker; in Jerusalem. $145. A few moments after a 23. Sir Robert L. Mond, 71, rabbi addressed the Negro Baptis of Raman Lodge of B'nai B'rith English indiistrialist, s c l e n tist Pastors' Conference of: St. Louis, enlisted a non-Jewish member- and Jevdsh leader, in Paris. an old Negro preacher of 75 rose ship-getting squad consisting of 24. Dr. Joshua Boucmil, 69, and volunteered a contribution to two Germans, two Italians, an pioneer Zionist; in Jerusalem. the Jewish Welfare Fund of St. Englishman, a Swede and a Nor30. Baruch. Charney Vlafieck, wegian, that brought'in over 5 Louis.

52, leader of Jewish laborites in members.

American, general manager of Others immediately followed German Groups Daily Forward, an officer suit; In YoungstOTra, Ohio, Dr. Several months ago Preside* Jewish of J. D. C.,'Jewish Labor CommitH. E. McClenehan, called on Roosevelt congratnlaterl the Ger- tee ana American ORT Federaformer president of the Mahoning mans and Jews of Auburn. N. Y., Lodge of B'nai B'rith to inquir for following Biblical precepts tion; member of New York City what could be done to aid the after they had united in dinner Council; in New York.

November Jewish refugees. After bursting at a German church, Reading o 6. Abranam Liessin, 68, Yidinto tears over the plight of th the President's letter and thi Jews abroad. Dr. McClenehan singing of songs bannefl by th dish poet and editor; in New wrote out a check. A few days Third Reich featured the unique York.

27. Miss Jessie Sampter, 55, later he sent another. :, gathering of members of the Get- author and Zionist worker; in Colleges Join man and Jewish congreRations.

Jerusalem.

On over 200 college; campusei A similar incident took plao December Christian joined with ;Jew in in Hartford, Conn., where t h 7. Dr. Boris Brutzkns, 64, aggreat undergraduate effort to ob Carl Schurz Unit of tho Steuben tain scholarships for refugee stu- Society of Amorica and Ararat rarian expert, Professor at Hedents. James Cromwell and hii Lodge of B'nai B'rith exchanged brew university; in Jerusalem. ' January, 18S9 wife, the former Doris Duke, to good will resolutions.

24. Hermann Speler, 67, leadbacco millionaires, are matchin In Cunningham, Kan., a town er of Rumanian Jews in U. S.; dollar for dollar, all contribution; of 412 persons, a Christian pinchto the student refugee seholarshi hit for a Jew when the Catholics in New York.

SO. Judge 'William M. s, fund at Rutgers university. and Protestants decided to or- 54, Zionist, and communal leadIn Cincinnati, on the othei ganlza a round table of the Na- er; in Philadelphia. hand, the Roc&flale Avenue Ten* tional Conference of Christians February pie Sisterhood raised; funds tt and Jews. Since no Jews are 1. Saul J. Yanofsky, 74, -writer educate a Christian refugee stu- resident in Cunningham and a and lecturer; in New York. dent at Berea College, Berea, Ky. bona fide round table requires a 17. Dr. J. Horowitz, 65, Geroffering a one-ryear scholarship i representative of all faiths, it was man return for the college's generosity agreed that one of the Protestant land. rabbi and scholar; in Holin educating two German-Jewis or Catholic members would fill-in 19. Prof. Adolph Buechler, 71, refugees. The American Friend: for the non-esisteht Jewish mem- Hebrew scholar and principal of Service Committee, tree to thei: ber.

Jews' College; in London. tradition of aid and comfort to Probably the most spontaneous March all regardless of race'; or creed, and wide-spread manifestation of 4. Dr. Moses Gaster, 82, rehave opened refugee 'hostels at Inter-creedal good will in t h e tired "Hacham" (Chief Rabbi) of Nyack, N. Y.; Hyde Park, N. Y. United States occurred when the Sephardic community of Britain and Scattergood, la. .[ late Pope Pius XI died. The out- and scholar; in London.

Anti-Coagbiinltes pouring of non-Catholic sympathy 13. Prof. Lucien Levy-Bruehl, If there were a prize for the was nnprecedented in volume as 82, French. Jewish philosopher most daring piece o£; good will well as In form. Over 500 B'nai and sociologist; in Paris. last year it would doubtless go B'rith lodges in the United States, 22. Dr. Isaac Husik, 63, nbH-

from WiiEaai Tellers: When the 5,000 Jewish inhabitants of the Free City cf Daasig consented to emigrate by the end of this year, the cosunuaal leaders sold their coKus-anal property —synagogue, the Jewish eersetery, etc — to the municipal authorities with the ing that the proceeds of these sales were to be used for the fostering of emigration.

One of the chief concerns . of Danzig Jewish leaders was how to dispose of the priceless antiquities housed In the Dansig Jewish museum. Some 56 Torah scrolls, precious'for "heir historic associations, as well as large numbers of ceremonial objects could not be taken along by a community whose members were being scattered over the four corners cf tie globe. It was equally unthinkable to leave them behind.

It was finally arranged to have the contests of the- museum shipped to the United States where the Jewish Theological Seminary will be its custodian. The Danzig Gemeinde stipulated, with an optimism all the more poignant because of its present hopelessness, that should a Jewish community be reestablished in Danzig within the next two decades, the museum is to be returned.

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By Henry Montor A year that has seen the emerby- some new cause which he may be expected to ri3e !| gence with even greater strength confounded has attracted Frank's in- as the American Harold Laski. ii of such varied writers as William which In his latest novel, he has He is in the tradition of Charles '-Saroyan, Vincent Sheean, the late terest. shown new skill in the fiction Beard but, being a product of Thomas Wolfe and Jonathan form, being more able to remove later decades, has the advantage Daniels; has not witnessed a cor characters from the plane of of a fresher and perhaps even responding upsurge of new or in- his symbolism into the realm more skeptical outlook. tensified talent among Jews pure plausible action.

In " I t ; Is Later Than Y o u With one or two possible excep- of Despite the distinct improve- Think," Max Lerner hia given tions, the authors -whose names ment he has registered as a novliave graced the book advertise elist, it is still difficult to judge ample evidence of his understandments for a decade or more and Waldo Frank on that basis alone, ing of the American scene and the themes with which their for his special distinction does his ability to sharpen tho instincts of Americans for preservation of names have become identified not in the realm of narrative their political system and the libcontinue to dominate the pub plot lie and character depiction but erties which underlie it. lisping year. in the illustration of themes Also in the political field, but Certainly the Jews are not II through individuals. more in the philosophical realm, literate. In proportion to theii is James Marshall's "Swords and Not First Class numbers they -write more than Fineman is a pedestrian and Symbols," which might be termed their Bhare. But if any single semantics of politics.' It is characteristic wonld eeem to sym not a spectacular: prosodist. His the informed, unbiased. In •bolize the bulk of their output 1 "Doctor Addams" may be almost shrewd, and Marshall, America has is the lack of rootedness. There as stirring as the Sinclair Lewis Lerner two men of commanding stature are so pitifully few Jews who do exposition of some phases of the whose intelligence and culture medical profession but it is still •what Maury Maverick does in should contribute to the improveroutine though convincing.

Finepolitics, or Erskine Caldwell and ment of the moral and material man Is no verbal swordsman.

John Steinbeck in literary sociclimate of the country.

"Journey of Tapiola" deserves ology.

Palestine Summary no ranking among the first five There are so many clever Jew- fiction books of the year. Its The third of the five preferred ish writers, like Dorothy Parker theme is even more insubstantial non-fiction books is also political: on the one hand or Myron Brinlg than the average story w i t h "The Rape of Palestine" by Wilon the, other. There are so many which Nathan chooses to decorate liam B. Ziff. It is not an orthoinformed Jewish - writers, l i k e his exquisite prose. But placing dox exposition of the Jewish point Maurice Hindus at one pole and it among the five were merely a of view on Palestine. It is bi"George E. Sokolsky at the other, tribute to the craftsmanship that ased and replete with errors of In fact, if one were to prepare a so few of his confreres can mas- fact and judgment. catalogue of, Jews currently writ- ter. There could be no more disBut it Is, nevertheless, a siging • in books or magazines o n e similar writers, for example, than nificant summary of what both might come to the erroneous con- Robert Nathan and Irving Fine- British and Jews have failed to clusion that their minds and gifts man. The former enthralls by do to make the Jewish National overshadow American literature. the pure poetry o£ his style while Home in Palestine an adequate This reviewer did not read a Fineman merely manages to hold refuge for the increasing numsingle book by an American Jew the Interest. bers who need its shelter. If published, this year that gave him Of all the first novels published Ziff's book had not been so obthe sens*'of exhiliration, the en- this year by a Jew, "The Land Is viously a plea for one special chantment of a front-row seat in L a r g e " by Emerson Waldman group in the Zionist movement, the drama of destiny that was "provided by any number of novels and non-fiction writings issued by non-Jews in the same period.

Again, the source of this failIng must be traced to lack of a fcond with a secure, continuous past in this land or to an even more unforgiveable lack of passion for identification with the I am grateful for the opportunity to express my perpresent and future real problems of a land and* its people. There sonal greetings to the Jewish people of Omaha. could be no better confirmation I am particularly pleased to express what I think is the of this than Edna Ferber's magsentiment of fair minded and thoughtful non-Jews of Omanificent "A Peculiar Treasure,' ha. So much has been said concerning the necessity of toler•which might aptly be described as the "Upstream" of 1939. ance between races and religious groups, that I am promptClowns ed to go further than that: I think our minds, our hearts Too often the clown is mistakand all that we have should be dedicated to the principle of en for the satirist. This reviewer better understanding between all groups, regardless of rehas always been impatient, for ligion or considerations of nationality. example, with the "Mr. Kaplan" •whom Leonard Ross created for The world:is in a state of confusion because of the tinthe delight of the sophisticate set holy attitude of the aggressor nations, dominated by dicof New Yorker readers and with tators, who have inveighed aaginst not only Jewish peothe Bronx family whose antics ple and their religion, but against other religious groups Mr. Arthur Kbber describes to the guffaws-of the same readers. and their God-given privilege and right to worship accordThere is a literary clique of ing to their own conscience. Such programs of opptessipir ~?

Jews in New York City whose and persecution are contrary to the ideals and principles Toots In the genuine^ travail of American, life are as alien as that are fundamental in our beloved America. though they and not their fore"We have a duty ~ it is a paramount duty — to underfathers had just landed at Ellis stand our responsibilities to our fellow man and to unite in Island. the common cause of protecting our social order against These men and women can alun-American doctrines. .'"~':--.£ ways be found giggling or else "We are fortunate to live in the United States, the greatscowling at the latest literary Tvlsecrack or embracing the latest est democracy of all times and under its /lag, the symbol of political fad that involves no the guarantees under our Constitution. It is a blessing to ' more of their participation than live in a country that is founded upon the basic principles a kindly smile or a brilliant threeminute advocacy after a rich dinof freedom and equality. "We must preserve that country, ner. But one rarely feels comits traditions and its institutions. Any political philosophy passion in their estimates of huthat countenances hate, persecution or violation of basic man beings or perceives passion human rights as we conceive them, must remain outlawed in their espousal of causes. in America.

What is meant by these previous paragraphs might best be ilIt is my sincere hope that the coming year will bring a lustrated through comments on restoration of peace and good will. some of the more important books - - W. O. Swanson that have appeared since September, 1938. For the sake of formalism, five books are listed as desefves the greatest interest. Its its effectiveness would have been most important in the field of soil is American, its characters much greater, for there is always fiction and five • in. non-fiction. are Jews, its approach is not doc- room and need for the most de<2uite likely some omissions have rinalre. Waldman has the heavy vastating — but factual — critoccurred, either because of the Fineman prose but he manages icism of leaders entrusted with reviewer's failure to read them or ,o stretch his canvas tight a n d the fate of a people. because of his obtuseness to lit- arge and to paint his characters To complete the picture of Palerary genius, But In general the with the boldness and color re- estine, and the background as inhigh water mark will not be too quired to keep the reader's at- terpreted Arabs, one might noticeably exceeded to require tention on every one of. them. In also read by "Arab Awakening" by any revision of judgment on the 'act; of all the novels pnblished George Antonius which, In its status of the Jew in current lit- by Jews this year Emerson Wald- way, is as biased as Ziff but far erature. . man's alone is a fictional attempt m o r e skilfully written.

Any o integrate Jews into the life of In non-fiction the arbitrary prophesy of the future of PalesAmerica on a plane, commensurchoices (or perhaps compulsions) tine -must be informed by the are: "The Bridegroom Cometh" ate with the significance of the realities as well as molded by ;heme.

T>y "W a 1 d o Frank, "Doctor hopes. That is why both Ziff and Addams" by Irving Fineman, Only lack of other suitable Antonius, as well as "No Ease In "Journey of Tapiola" by Robert titles forced the inclusion of Zion" by T. R. Feiwel, "The AnNathan, "The Land Is Large' by 'Here Lies" among the first five swer" by Ludwig Lewisohn, "GoEmerson Waldman, and "Here books of fiction. Dorothy Park- Ing Home" and "Home at Last" Lies" by Dorothy Parker. s collection of short stories has by Ernst Harthern should be on Non-American Jews polish and even understanding of the required reading list.

There were other books pub- ome human foibles. - But it Is In "The Kingdom of Swing," lished in America during the year difficult to escape the conclusion Benny through Irving as readable, if not more note- that.Dorothy Parker is as planned Kolodin,Goodman, the story of perworthy, than those listed. But it and artificial as the ending of haps .the tells most famous current is difficult ta think of Sholem an O'Henry story. She is another swing musician in a way that Asch and I. J. Singer as Ameri- if the clique which can find its makes of music—more than the cans, even though they reside In ources of pity only abroad. If antics of jitterbugs. Goodman's the United States and are actual- 'Here Lies" represents a collec- autobiography is in essence t h e ly staff members of the N e w ion of American types, t h e n typical from-rags-to-riches chronYork Jewish .daily Forward. armer,- laborer, business man, icle. But it also carries a literate "East of Eden" by I. J. Singer tenographer, -white collar work-- description of the development of and "Song of the Valley!' by x never existed in this land. One one of America's most vivid arts pursued by the feeling that Sholem Asch carry on their tradi- 'Here forms.

Lies" is a relic of a dead tions without especially enhanc- poch, the '20s.

If any certificate were awarded ing' their reputes. for the outstanding book written Five Leaders in Non-Fiction - There are two. other volume-s It is much.easier to choose! five by an American Jew during the by non-American Jews •which deit ought to go t o E d n a Ferserve ranking among the first eadable volumes 'n the field of year 'oer for her autobiography, "A five.. These are "Beware of non-fiction, including autobiog- Peculiar Not merely Pity" by Stefan Zweig, the be3t raphy, politics, travel and science. because itTreasure." admission novel he has yet written, and These are: "It Is Later Than You of the trialsisofaa frank but even "Mr. Emmanuel," the best that hlnk" by Max Lerner, "Rape of more because it Jewess is an acute inLouis Golding has yet issued. In- Palestine" by William B. Ziff, terpretation of American clude "Perrl" by Felix Sal ten and 'Swords and Symbols' by James and history during eventfulthought years. one has additional evidence by darshall, " T h e Kingdom of It Is interesting to. observe, in contrast of the poverty of writ- wing" by Benny Goodman and connection. with Miss Ferber's Ing jews in America.

Irving Kolodin, and "A Peculiar life-story, that her greatest sucWaldo Frank is still the most Treasure" by Edna Ferber. have been portraits of segliterate, though occasionally the Perhaps the most significant cesses of American life, such as moat, mystic, ..Jew writing la ersonality ta- develop a m o n g ments "Cimarron" anti "Show Boat."

America. But except for occa- American Jews during the past That Miss Ferber should have sional adventures into the spirit "ew years Is-Max Lerner. "• His been able to achieve this insight of America, both as to character raining on The Nation helped into American life ought to ,be and scene, Frank has dedicated :ive him the feel of politics while the best indication of the possihimself to Hispanic culture. ong study equipped him. with the that exist for other AmerFrom time tq time there have background of that pseudo-sci- bilities ican Jewish writers to concern teen evidences that he might be themselves with the life, the traturning Ws intuitive mind and Balanced judgment, personal and history of people they pulsating prose completely to the modesty and ; iextensive historical dition do or cart know—instead of gropservice of the United states. But, esources have given him an ex- ing hopelessly in the swamps of these hopes have usually been :eptionally good foundation on sophistication.

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cidentally has also shown t h e possibilities of t h e American scene.

This review does not pretend to be complete. But perhaps its sketchiness could be improved if some additional volumes in both fiction and non-fiction fields were mentioned.

The young writer who has been vociferously acclaimed Is Jerome Weidman, whose portrait of a human rat in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale' was alleged to be an outstanding contribution to the gallery of. h u m a n paintings.

"What's In It for Me?" and a collection of short stories are the 1939 Weidmaniana. But since this reviewer does not particularly appreciate the veracity of the types or the uniqueness of Weidman's prose he will be content to have non-Jewish critics acclaim Weidman as a genius.

A more interesting and credible portrait of a" Jew is found in Pamela Frankau's "The Devil We Know." Other fiction efforts of the year include "Quartet" by Emil Ludwig, "Forever W i l t Thou Love" by Ludwig Lewisohn, and "Roots in the Sky" by Sidney Meller. Ben Hecht's "Book of Miracles,' collection of short stories, should also be Included.

Notable Non-Fiction Publications

If Jews have not been outstanding this year for imagination they have at least industry to their credit, as is attested by quite a number of competent books in the non-fiction, field during the past year, written by A m e r i c a n and non - American Jews.

The foremost of the latter is SIgmund Freud's "Moses a n d Morietheism," In which the aged psychoanalyst endeavors to trace the religion of the Jews to the mass neuroses which, he believes, are the origins of all faith. Most of what Freud has to say represents assumptions and deductions without the support of history.

Biblical criticism long ago outdistanced the few timid steps that Freud takes in the present volume. It is amusing, however, that the father of psychoanalysis, who has himself only recently experienced • some of the special travail reserved for Jews, should be so naive and inexpert in some of'his observations on the history and destiny of the Jewish people.

The autobiography of P r o i.

Irwin Edman, entitled "Philosopher's Holiday;" "Lords of the Press," another of George Seldes' crusading denounciations of the venalities of the American press

and Maurice Hindus' interpretation of America, "Green Worlds" and his "We Shall Live Again," chronicle of the Ozechs, are readable additions to the year's output.

Harold J. Laski in "Parliamentary Government in England;" Richard L. Neuberger, in "Oar Promised Land;" Joseph Gollon.b in "Armies of Spies;" Dr. L e o Jung in "Judaism in a Changing World," and S. K. Padover, in "Life and Death of Louis XVI," have also enlarged the frontiers of information and stimulation.

Drama Plays in book form are still considered in the domain of drama rather than literature.

But an indication of the activity in that field is provided in throe of Broadway's current successes: "The Little Foxes" by Lillian Hellrnan, "The American Way"

by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart and "No Time for Comedy"

by S. N. Behrman. With t h e possible exception of "The Little Foxes," the plays by Jews suffer from the same anemia as novels by them, even though one might have assumed that "The American Way" answered all objections. But the Kaufman-H a r t spectacle is a synthetic spectacle.

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would be complete without reference to t&8 simultaneous publication of two versions of Kitler's "Mein Kampf." The Stackpole edition has been enjoined by Tel Aviv (WNS-Palcor Agency) the courts as infringing on the copyright of Houghton, Kifflin — Announcement was made ol which first published an expur- the grant by tb.e British Governgated version in 1933 anS which ment of a loan of $3,500,000 to transferred its rights to Farrar the Tel Aviv Municipality for the and Rinehart. The booksellers construction ol a new drainare display the placards "profits to system. Repayments on the loan the refugees" as though the few are to begin after a period of five Pennies that might accrue to years &t a. lovr interest rate. some outlaw refugee organization Within the next six months I,would compensate; for the syste- 000 men vill begin work for a matic diffusion of Hitler's gospel. period oi three years to build the It is indeed remarkable that ; Tel Aviv sewage disposal, system. six years after Hitler, who has (The Government has also approvopened the eyes of all but t h e i'.ed- the Tel Avfv budget for the blind to the disastrous destiny year 1ESP-40 emounting to apwhich his world-wide rule means proximately ?2.4P5,000. The sum for Jews, regardless of the des- of $ ISO, OOP is set aside in the ignation they claim for them- new budget for public works repselves, there should be so fewan increase of $50,000.

Jewish writers dredging into jI resenting The Government loan for the their own history for the ma- i drainage eysiem was granted after terials that make good story and credible character. Whatever the many months of negotation. reasons, the product they are James Samua, an Egyptian Jew turning out now is largely sec(b. 1SSD) was one of the foundond-rate. ers of the Egyptian National Par(Copyright, 1939, by Seven Arts ty.

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called Germany? What difference whether one is eaten by a whale in the.waters of.the ocean or by a whale which at present is called the "German man?" N o b o d y stopped to consider it.

However, there is one instituonfio' tion that did not observe with: o" out indifference the crime comed r p s\ Together ivitli the other friends of your esteemed pubmitted aaginst living people. This lem mile lication I extend best wishes upon the issuance of your aninstitution exerted superhuman nual Jewish New Year's edition. effort to awaken human conColonial <• science until it at last found a Our Nation lias grown great and strong through adDonald t haven for those who were senherence to the principle of tolerance among its citizens.

ItDeclar tenced to annihilation. That intimes lai~ c is earnestly to be hoped that this spirit of mutual respect A tidal -wave of reaction in the Gerpiany protested, the State Destitution is the Joint Distribution the time r and forebearane.e will be triumphant everywhere and that year 5699 swept civilization, and partment backed him up. The an arrangement with the Reich Committee. whereby 150,000 able-bodied Jews said the r ^ "with it the position of the Jews, United States also p r o t e s t e d it will ultimately, bring peace to the Nations and peoples ened to s Own Institution back-ward. From the sea of perse- against the Reich's discrimination would be permitted to emigrate of the world. said the i • cation -which washed across the against American Jews, forcing within five years. Later, a CoorWe built this institution ourtried to j c - - Charles F. KcLanghlin, Jews there rose eight.great waves. Germany to promise to observe dinating Foundation of private selves. organizations was set up to eftap site I i These "breakers," a part of, hut existing treaties.

• ' ; , , . " V Member of Congress Yes, and we can expect no aid fectuate this arrangement. British indefinite •• higher than the rushing sea, con.

2nd District — Nebraska. : ; Guiana, Northern Rhodesia, the from anyone but ourselves! longs to ' stituted the eight biggest stories Dominican Republic, the PhilipV. Plight of Refngees The time has not yet come to of the year from the Jewish point As a result of Germany's ruth- pine island of Mindanao and oth-publish all the details in the res-of the Jewish people for decades thing here is that the J. D. C. j of Tiew. , . less and oppression in er territories -were investigated cue -work of the American Jewish and they are not tired. succeeded, because it tut"; upon: --.p^ That the eight stories, •without otherpersecution countries, the world was as possible sites of refugee settle- Joint Distribution Committee in itself the responsibility of main- ; l ,v Others inherited their activities exception, are concerned with 6p- faced with a refugee ment, and potential outlets were order to save the 900-odd Jewish problem such the refugees and posted j f, pl V . -pression serves as an index to the as. it has seldom seen. Across the found for p a r t of the refugee souls from utter ruin. I do not from their fathers. Those are taining Dl00a bonds to the amount of $500 for; _ V-Jewish situation. These stories, length and breadth of E u r o p e stream. President Roosevelt call- want here to enumerate t h e young people' who just came' in each and every one of them. i v a .^. a u ! ^ c l S V judged from the viewpoint of im- wandered homeless exiles. Their ed the directors of the Intergov- names of those leaders whose to carry on. They did not sleep portance in Jewish history, are: plight was most poignantly dram- ernmental . Committee together achievements for the Jewish peo- nights during the time that the Thus ends .the story of the ref- Ir"abbinicrl l m X Palestine White Paper atized by two forms of refugeeism early in September for a meeting ple in a moment, of urgent need S. S. St. Louis sailed from shore ugees- aboard the S. S. St. Louis, t i o ' n o f ' x c , , in this rear 1939. ! which wo ic Ic I I Annihilation of Keich Jews. —- wandering in the "no-man's- at Washington to deal with- the will be written down in shining to shore. m . Expansion of Reich.

They made connections with all (Copyright, 1S39, by Seven Arts | ish law. letters upon the pages of our lands" at the frontiers of Euro- growing refugee problem.

IV. V. S. leadership Againist pean countries and in the "float- VII. Jews and the War Situation bloody history. " This communities in Europe. T h e y Feature Syndicate.) the Jewi^l > • ^ The past year was agitated by called upon the most influential ing no-man's-lands," the refugee Although this should have been recurring war scares, overshadowV. Plight of Kefugees. people, aroused the conscience of ships. • Elijah (Gaont of Wilna. fam- joining f-° r done immediately I am not doing VI. IntergoTernmental Aid to the situation of the Jews and • all Jewish communities, until they I ous ISth century rabbi, tells us or the ^nr i On the German-Polish, and ing Refugees. having an indirect effect on it. it, because I know that these peo- succeeded in influencing f o u r that life is like a draught of salt the dest^i c <> German-Hungarian, a n d Italople are not eager for glory.

They Vfl. Jews and the War Situa. Freneh and other borders at var- Nations, preparing for s t r i f e , do whatever they do, because hu- democratic governments in Eu- water: its • pleasures seem to governmpr 1 t found uses for the Jews within tion. rope. quench, but they really inflame | be treasonable ious times during the year thouman conscience dictates it.

Many VDL Growth of Anti-Semitism ands of refugees struggled to their borders. Germany drafted of them have been in the service Iisn l a w However, the most essential thirst. • • • Jews for manual work. In Poland in U. S. maintain life under the direct decrease in anti-Semitism was These developments are not isunwanted, by any coun- anoted as Jews joined with Poles olated events. They blend togeth- hardship, try.

Others set out in ships to er into a picture of retrogression seek homelands across the seas. to resist anticipated German ag•which a future historian will treat One group of more than 900 gression. France r e c r u ited the as part of an age of reaction. But aboard the German liner St. Louis aliens within her gates to strengthese gates against the posaB news stories, dramatic in themfrom Cuba w h i c h had then sible foe. selves, more striking because of barred t h e m landing permits, the thousand of lives they affect, granted saved from return to the these events deserve separate were Reich by temporary asylum in Growth of Anti-Semitism in treatment. ' four European countries and the V. S. I. Palestine White Paper financial aid of the Joint DistriPartly as a reaction to foreign For the Jewish homeland in bution Committee. The refugee events, anti-Semitism increased in Palestine the past year marked problem-had implications broader the United States during the past the end of an era during -which than their own suffering. Their year. Considerable attention was Britain was committed to facili- constant presence threatened the attracted to Father E. tating the establishment of the position of resident Jews in var- Coughlin and his a t t eCharles m p t s to homeland and the opening of a ious countries. Their sufferings identify Communism with Jews; new- period during which the na- served as a reminder to the world Major-General George van Horn tional home will be pitted against of the growing bankruptcy of civ- Moseley (retired), who fulminatBritain's will. Hundreds of thou- ilization. ed against the Jews, and a host of sands of Jews outside Palestine less important anti-Semitic, agitasee in this coming struggle their VI. Intergovernmental Aid to tors.' Anti-Jewish plots were exonly hope for survival. posed by the Dies Committee inRefngees When the year 5699, opened, a 30 nations of the world vestigating un-American activiBritish commission was returning didSome forth efforts, not as vig- ties. An importan factor in the to London after a survey of the orousput might have been hoped, growing anti-Semitism was a tenpossibilities of partitioning Pal- to aid as George S. Rublee, dency to link Jews with alleged estine. The commission reported acting refugees. the Intergovernmental attempts to involve the United partition impracticable! Britain RefugeeforCommittee, negotiated States in a war with Germany. thereupon called conferences with Arabs and Jews to seek an amicable agreement. These conferences, held in London in February and March, failed to. produce an agreement, -whereupon Britain in May issued a White Paper, providing for ultimate establishment of an independent Palestine state with a cme-third Jewish minority.

In this special article. Seven which they come. It is no wonThe new policy c a l l e d forth Arts Feature Syndicate brings der, therefore, that such people •world-wide protest and, in Pales- to the readers of The Jewish grasp at straws in the. hope of tine,, the most formidable opposi- Press the re-actions of t h e rescuing themselves, that they do tion yet offered by -Jews to a -world's outstanding J e w i s h everything possible and ImpossiBritish policy. Extremists carried novelist, Sholem Asch, to the ble, spending their last_p£janies the opposition to the poififo'f vio- events surrounding the recent for passports, visas, to open the lence. Others united in support of voyage of the S. S. St. Louis gates of Hell where they are conextra-legal Jewish immigration, and i t s 907 refugees. Mr. fined by Hitler! leading Britain in July to retali- Asch's newest boot, "The NazWanted to Save Selves V. ate by banning Jewish entry for arcne," a novel based.. on the Who can blame people for ' the six months beginning Oct. 1. life of Christ, will be published wanting to save themselves from The White Paper and entry ban this fall by G. P . Pntnam'sj the sword of death that dangles , 'i reecived Parliamentary approval Sons. I t is regarded as the over their heads? They did not by the narrowest of margins. The crowning work of his career examine the visas closely to see League of Nations Mandates Com- and represents 30 years of that they were right ones. They mission, said to disapprove the preparatory work.—THE EDI- did not examine all the decrees White Paper by a majority, draft- TOR. published by the governments ed a report -which, at this writing, every day and every hour against • -was believed to put the question I sit at my desk and poise my the unfortunate refugees that up to the League Council. The pen to write about the refugees knock at their doors and ask to World Zionist Congress met in aboard the S. S. St. Louis—and be admitted. From behind they Geneva in August to organize op- it seems to me that I am a spirit are being Bmitten by fiery whips position to the British policy. of another world transported in- and the doors in front of them to this. The long row of auto- are bolted.

H. Annihilation of Reich Jews mobiles passing In front of my "Of c o u r s e , they use every The past year spelled the. final -window, the spires of the tall slightest possibility, even if only annihilation of Germany's Jewish buildings that come into my view the appearance of a legal visa, community. The fatal wounding through the transparant fog hang- especially when the German govof a German Embassy official in ing over New York seem to me as ernment, eager to rid itself as Paris by a Jewish refugee last a dream, a vision. soon as possible of these victims, November served as the signal for I recall my y o u t h when I gives through the flow of persea wave of anti-Jewish excesses of learned the song of the Hebrew cution its silent agreement to all unprecedented fury in the Reich. poet, I. L. Gordon, about the ref- sorts of illegal emigration.

The pogroms, which aroused the ugees of Spain on a boat in the A man takes his wife and chilh o r r o r of the civilized world, middle of the ocean, and later dren, his last remaining posseswere followed by a billion-mark the graceful poem of M o r r i s sions that can still be saved and fine and the issuance of restric- Rosenfeld on the same subject. boards the first ship that comes tive decrees, effective last Jan. 1, Is it possible," I asked myself, along to wander upon the seven -\_-wniCh relegated the Jews to the "that I should also write about seas. Thousands such unfortunate " status of economic pariahs. the same subject?" I will -write, people are now, -we are told, on The Reich c o n s o 1 idated the but not from the historic point high seas. The ships"" knock at Jews' distress by reorganizing the of view, not to bewail the plight each port. The unfortunate peoJewish community into a central- of the Jews during the Middle ple see land before their eyes, but Eisenberg dresses and costume suits • . . Paul ized Reichsvereinigung, its func- Ages, not to curse the Spain of all doors are closed against them. with its inquisitors and tions centering about preparation long ago, .

Suicides • Sargent Dresses . . • Nelly Don Dresses . • . Lane 1 for emigration. During the past pyres. My subject is a living For four weeks the S. S. St. year the -Jews of the Reich ob- problem; an event that -we our-Louis wandered about. Every day tained the status of transients selves witnessed; a tragedy that the newspapers reported possibiliawaiting the opportunity to move is being enacted before our eyes ties for admitting these people in' . . • John Frederics Hats . • • Stetson Hats from day to day through the re- to Cuba. Every day the newspaon. ports of the newspapers. pers informed us that many of- the Doris Dodson Junior Modes . . .

Robbed HI. "Expansion of Reich refugees were ready to jump into Throwing waT terror into the First they were robbed of their the sea. One of them did. world and spreading anti-Semit- property, property accumulated On the boat a-society of "selfism to new territories, the Reich through generations of hard la- annihilators" was formed. Twoin the past year gobbled up first bor, wisdom, knowledge and abil- thirds of the passengers preventSudetenland, then Bohemia-Mora- ity—with one stroke of the pen ed the rest from committing- suivia and Slovakia, and then Mem- everything was taken from. them. qide. All this was related as el, bringing southeastern and part No bandit, no robber of the high- though no human life or the life of e a s t e r n Europe under its ways has ever developed robbery of .any other animal was at stake. sphere of influence and auguring into such an inhuman profession I t was told merely as a story new conquests. The expansion of as the present German regime, without any bitterness, without the Greater Reich, cringing pres- which directs it against its own any protest against the henchmen, tige to Hitler and his policies, was citizens. Without the faintest against the killers, against the the greatest single force for the shadow of lawfulness they have murders of h u m a n b e i n g s , increase in anti-Semitism through- robbed their citizens of e v e r y against the greatest and m o s t out the -world. cent. Well-to-do people, co-build- vicious of bandits who caused the Naturally, anti-Jewish persecu- ers of the country for generations, annihilation of these unfortunate tion was extended to the territor- large manufacturers, home-own- people. ies directly under Hitler's sway, ers, doctors, lawyers — all were Where is the uproar, the cry, laws on-the Nazi model and extra- turned into mere beggars over- the great protest against this legal persecution were the order night. bloody murder which was comof the day in the new Nazi provPoor and rich were brought to mitted before our eyes? Just inces. But anti-Semitism also rose the same status and then they imagine that Hitler had sent out, in the nominally i n d e p e ndent were told to leave the country, or instefld of 900 men, women and May the Coming countries. Hungary adopted a sec- else they would be /put into con- children, a shipload of cats and ond and more stringent anti-Jew- centration camps. They are in- dogs on a crippled s h i p and Year Bring to You ish law. Italy extended her re- humanly persecuted. People -who shoved it off Into the ocean. How strictions on Jews. and Yours Its Fullsomehow managed to escape these this barbaric act - w o u l d have modern Inquisitions tell that the aroused the conscience of the peoest Blessing. persecutions of the victims, espe- ple, the Christian love, the moral IV. XT. S. l/eadersbip Against cially of the Jewish victims, have indignation of our entire civilizaNazis Beacon of hope in a darkening been so multiplied of late, that tion! All ggates of all countries •world shone from the New World, only one out of ten has a chance wouldd h have been immediately •where the United States Govern- to come out alive from these opened f o r these unfortunate i death cells. ment, under President Roosevelt's beasts. leadership, served as a bulwark " —,Anjl how do they come out? But here at stake were only against expanding Nazism. The All those who tasted the poison of human beings, only Jews who President stated outskopenly that concentration camps remain crip- •were shoved off into the ocean. h America was "shocked" by the pled for life. Like the shadow They -were compelled to find an November pogroms. S e c r e t ary of the angel of death, they are open gate or to die I And what Harold L. Ickes denounced the followed by the fear of -Hitler's difference how one dies—on the reversion to barbarism, and when death cells in all the countries to bottom of the sea or in the abyss i

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By Helen Zigmond Hollywood is dressing her hair. . October is her Golden Jubilee.

It was October 6, 1S89, that Edison demonstrated the Kinetoscdpe. It was simply a one-man peep-show. Pew dreamed of Its future . . .probably not Edison, nor the Lumieres, nor Latham, nor Armat, inventors of similar machines. Yet in the short span of 50 years, a crude amusement has advanced to such perfection and beauty as to merit a place in the Hall of Art. In half 3 century motion pictures have bfeeii the composite effort of m a n y minds and many hands.

own opinion, was "Horse Eating Hay," made in 1897. Some years later Lubin founded the Lubin Theaters, the first important the-, ater chain.

New Device In 1903 Max Aronson, a vaudeville performer, changed* bis name to G. M. Anderson. About, the same time Edwin C. Porter had an idea. He would produce "The Great Train Robbery," the first fiction story on the screen. He hired G..M. Anderson for one.of the robbers. G. M. got off to a fine start, but when the scene was finished he came up missing!

Had fallen from his horse somewhere in the chase. . The film was a lavish production . . . 800 feet long . . . cost, 5400! It was a tremendous success and a turning point in film history.

That fall must have made a strong impression on G. M. By 1907 he and George K. Spoor had formed the Essanay Film company.

They trekked westward where Anderson became the famous "Broncho Billy," first great hero of "westerns."

"Broncho Billy" authored, starred in, and co-produced 376 "horse operas" In as many consecutive weeks, a record as yet unequalled . . . and was the first individual to get "screen credit."

In 1906 the American Biograph moved to a brown-stone mansion, its first "studio." Joe Aller, a Russian-Jewish lad, w h o had studied photography,, was made plant manager and' laboratory technician. Aller, still in the film lab business, now laughs at those early days. "The camera was as large as two telephone booths and was carried on a wagon drawn by horses. Film was as large as a postcard, sold for nine cents a foot, §90 a reel."

To Aller is credited the device of printing key numbers on the edge of raw film so that negative and positive could be cut accurately. Eastman leased the device, and all film manufacturers used it. Later, it made possible

Pioneers There were men with vision and vivid imagination—men such as Edwin C. Porter, Mitchell Mark, Slgmund Lubin, D. W. G r i f f i t h , William Rock, Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, C. B. DeMille, the Warners—a heterogeneous group of Christians and Jews who gave up their businesses, their careers, and their capital for the unexplored magic of movies.

Eastman's celluloid film replaced Edison's glass.discs; Herman Casler'B Biograph projector flickered images on a wall while "as many as 20 people at a time could sit between thp screen and the projector and view the film!"

The machines were awkward, the product, grotesque. Such edifying subjects as the contortions of a dancer, a horse in motion, or "The Kiss," first osculatory closetip (pre-Hays), were offered.

In 1896 one. Sigmund Lubin met William Rock, a salesman for the Vitascope caiaera. Lubin, not knowing he was making history, produced the first enacted scenario- He hired two freight handlers to act out the famous Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight from a round-by-r o u n d newspaper account. That was the,first known script. Successful, Lubin followed •with a version of the Passion Play, using out-qf-work actors, a backyard stage, and painted scenery that flapped in the wind. Edison followed suit with a reproduc- the synchronization of sound-ontion of the Boer War, but never film. completed it. His attention was Comedy Technique riveted on a new invention, the In 1909 Henry Lehrman was a phonograph.

car passed the Biograph studio.

Came a day . . . perhaps his day off . . . when he curled his musstache, put on his nattiest spats, and conferred a call on the execs of Biograph They > e r e flattered to receive "Monsieur Henri Lehrman of Pathe Corporation in Paris. The disguise didn't last, but "Pathe" Lehrman did. He had a flare for comedy . . .,ia credited with the evolvement of the comedy technique that later made Keystone and Bennett famous. Lehrman was the predecessor of the gag-man.

About this time two bookies, Adam Kessel and Charles Bauman, called at Biograph to collect a racing debt from a prop boy, Mack Sennett. Sennett did the talking. When they left, Bison Life Motion Pictures was aborning . . . Kessel-BaumanSennett partners . . . capital, §2,500, all they had.

Their first flicker was " T h e Disinherited Son's Loyalty" . cost §200 . . . Kessel and Bauman, the chief actors. It succeeded better than they dared hope. Next came Davy Crocket in "Hearts Divided." Kessel was Davy Crocket In 1910 Kessel and Bauman formed the Reliance, a new company . . . hired Thomas Ince to direct at the unprecedented salary of §150 a week* and a whole Wild West show for §2,100 weekly.

Result: "Across the Plains," story of covered wagon days . . . a super A production that lifted movies another notch artistically.

It was* Adam Kessel who discovered the little hobbling comedian he. called "Chapman." Chaplin, fresh from London music halls, never having seen a camera nor a hundred dollars, signed for §150 a week. Was an Instant hit in the Kessel-Bauman-Bennett Keystone Comedy, "Kid's Auto

Races."

Penny Arcade ' In Buffalo, Mitchell Mark, a "landsman," originated the Penny Arcade . . . put all the pennyin-the-slot machines under one roof . . . succeeded so well that Adolph Zukor and Morris Kohn opened one with him at Union street-car conductor, but he didn't Square, New York. • Mark was Lubin'B greatest triumph, in Ms have a one-track mincL Often his also the. first motion picture ex-

hibitor — in 1903 he opened Edsonia Hall devoted exclusively to movies. His Mark Strand theater, 1914, was the forerunner of modern picture palaces.

From 1903 to 1906 the now well-known names of Z n k o r , Loew, Laemmle, Lewis Selznick, and the Warners had entered the field. Zukor had brought over for American audiences "Queen Elizabeth," starring Sarah Bernhardt. William Fox discovered Theodosia Goodman . . . reissued her as Theda Bara . . . gilded her with glamor . . . created the first "Garbo" . . . starred her in "A Fool There Was" and 40 subsequent pictures in three years. The years of 1910-11-12 saw Schulberg, Goldwyn and Lasky enter the lists.

The Stern Brothers, producers, wore the Goldwyn mantle of 1910.

Every malapropism was placed at their door. "Why go on location?

A rock's a rock . . . a tree's a tree . . . s h o o t it in Griffith Park!"

"Our comedies are nothing to laugh at!" were among the gems.

The picture career of Samuel Lionel Rothafel, of the U. S. Marines, began in 19OS. A long jump from a dance" hall picture show to the world's most celebrated screen impresario, but "Rosy" made it. With him rose Hugo RIesenfeld, first musical interpreter of the screen, whose technique was a great contribution to the new art.

Cinemactors Besides "Broncho Billy" a n d Theda Bara, Hobart H e n l e y screenacted in 1910; Sheldon Lewis, Max Davidson, Rudolph Schlldkraut, Alia Nazimova were old-timers. Edgar Selwyn, Irving Cummings and Mervyn LeRoy cinemoted till they became directors. Frank Reicher has been before the kliegs since 1915. But the greatest of all was Chaplin.

In 1915 when he signed for §670,000 a year, he got reckless . . . went out and "bought himself a whole dozen ties!"

Technicians and Others Many in the technical branch are now forgotten. Among the survivors are: Joe Aller, Abe Scholtz, technicians; Karl Freund, cameramen since 1906; P h i l Rosen, who-cranked for Edison; Joe Ruttenberg, also camera; Jack Conn, of the Columbia Cohns, was a film cutter for Laemmle. Max Fleischer produced one of the first animated cartoons, Out of the Inkwell."

Many prominent directors developed in the early days. To name a few: Ernst Lubltsch, Al Green, Irving Cuinmings, John Stahl and Mervyn LeRoy. The Roaring Twenties ended with a piercing shriek — and Baby Sound was born. But no one wanted the foundling'. Major

Committee. Mr. EeJigmann bad ture, Jacques Barsuin, himself the a:^ a book to his credit on the Amer- F.uthor oS; an Important hook in * Jean Negro, he iaaa contributed tc this field, halls Mr, Seiigtnann as tcuiaersble magazines, t e had j "complete master of the subject" tf ice been to Central and East-| and adds: "Moreover, he writes era Europe observing conditions j with. unaffected simplicity a n d at first hand. ! force, so that the lay reader can When Processor Boas and Mr. j iollcw without effort.

'RACE Sellgmar.n were brought together, 1 AGAINST MAN" is a work of popit did not take long for the irn- j ulariE&tion in the best sense of portance o£ the task to apperJ to I the word; it is indeed a model the writer. He resigned his posi- j of that difficult combination; tioa with the J. D. C. and at I breadth of knowledge and direct once plunged into studies which | presentation." he carried on both at the CoSum- j Commejris fcia library End at the Harvard 1j , „ , . „ , „ _ r « -.„.*,,„<, .,„,.„ library where be bad aid from " nun,be t o, . e a ^ s have received ky the publisher from important figures in the £ie3d. outstanding authorities in t h e Scientific Data United Elates, which establish The results of that study have that RACE AGAINST MAN is a recently been published in a book entitled RACE AGAINST MAN. book for which, the academic with introduction by Professor world as well as the public has

from'A* A. Lawman • I wish" to express to the readers of The Jewish Press my best wishes for your happiness and contentment in the New Year.

It is jfiy sincere hope that the nest year will bring increased good will toward all races and creeds which, together, form the democracy we call America.

"When there is a mutual feeling of respect and confidence between all groups, of all beliefs, our communities and our country are better places in which to live and to rear our children.

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One of Nazism's most arfleat enemies is science, for science, through truth and logic, establishes as false the basic doctrines npon which the Nazi ideology is founded. Scientists in countries of freedom have lifted their voices in protest, but not until the advent of "Race Against Man" has there Nathan Levinsan, sound engineer from the Electrical Research Products, talked about adopting to the Warners aftet others turned their backs on the child. Warners, in a ticklish financial state, "took a chance." In 192S came "Don Juan," the first film -with music; '27, the first talkie, "The Jazz Singer," with Al Jolson; '28, "Lights of New York," the first all-talkie. Again the pioneering Instinct had won . . . movies climbed another rung.

Art and Box-Office Today the Motion Picture ranks among the first four industries of the United States. It employs 28,500 people in the IT. S. . . . spends an annual payroll of §129,000,000. It created great wealth for itself, but also brought •wealth to this country. From 1914 to 1927, 90 per cent of the vrorld market •was served by American product. An average of 85,000.00,0 people attended the movie every -week last year.

Call it business or call it art.

No other business is so complex— no other art ferin so universal.

The movies have done extravagant, outlandish things, but considering its amazing growth, ifs involved structure, the wonder is

been a public discrcssiou of the erroneous race theory in terms popularly understandable sr.d factually authentic—THE EDITOR. Yv'ith the American public being flooded by propaganda in behalf of the Nasi doctrine of "Nordic" and "Aryan" race, American scientists have for a nciaber of years been deeply concerned that there was no popular and easily readable book to place the facts before the people and make available the scientific findings that have been accumulated bearing on this problem.

Professor Franz Boas, in particular, one of the world leaders in the field of Anthropology, has been looking for five or six years for a writer to bridge the gap between American scientists and the public, in order to meet the Nazi challenge.

The man was found last year, in the person of Herbert J. Seligraann, then public information director of the Joint Distribution the miracles accomplished, not the mistakes made.

If, as some complain, the movies are an infantile, low-brow amusement, then Hungarian, Russian, Irishmen, American, clothes-presser, banker, Jew and Gentile—all who wove the fabric of cinema history must bear the brunt of disparagement. And if there is any merit in this Art-on-eelluloid," then the pioneer Jews who have fievotea a lifetime to it should likewise share in the honor.

It is also their Jubilee!

£-r"t ' uine b r o ^ S iSgetn^r in i Chicego: "It is a "ery powerful

'r-cr form that a-3 who read c s c ! siatement and is based upon the.., 1 tn-^-st-nd *&V " t h e srpMsbie Il ' e s t scho'.arly evidence on the-*( scientific— biological, &Etfc"r*opoi- ! subject.

I hope very much it OElcs.1—&s well ae historical and | *"»\ h e r e wme usetulness, for archselogical evidence bearing on ! pevheps ne-er before haB the the theories and the realities un- ! ^onfi been in such need of a derlying world race problemE. ! scientific onentaaon on the subOne chapter, one of the long- ! ^ e c t o l r a c e eet in the book, is devoted to the ;; Robert H. Lovie. Frofessor of Jew and anti-Semitism. In this Anthropology, University of Calichapter, Mr. Seligmann gives a ; fornia: "j;r. ReligniRnn undoubtthorcugh and carefully studied , ecly presents ? forceful case, havhistoricsl resume of the factors : ing: read R.B enormous amount of which, i-nderly the modern form ': relevant l:ierr.f,i-,ve, which he skillof totalitarian power - struggle ; fully marshals p.gainst racial exwhich uses the Jew as scapegoat. : tremists. Incidentally, I think he End places squarely before the ' writes very well. I-Iis critique of Gentile world the dangers to all ' the race concent is particularly civilization implicit in a continu- : time'y . . . I consider Kr. Seligance of the Nazi propaganda. , mann's position on the crucial A raking expose of what Kr. I points in accord with modern Seligmann C S 1 3 E "Kordidiocy" ; scientific finclingK. very well put, shows the false Ess«ir.ptions end [and extremely opportune.'7 the iliogic that have brought j Melville J. Herskc-Us, Profesforth the "racist" fioctrices by j sor of Anthropology, Nortliwestwhich Nazidom seeks to penetrate j em University: "The book seems the barriers erected against it | to me to be an admirable sumthrotsghott the world. j rnary of the problem of race in In a chapter entitled "What Is j this country. 1 like it partieulara Race?" Mr. Seligmann goes 11? because it not only treats of thoroughly into the theories past | some of the move pressing prfcand present and shows the wide I ticel Fspects of Hie proMem, but fiSvergeEce betvreen racist propa- jatr.kes fi;lly tntc pocount. the PTOIUganfia, and the facts as scientific j t i ° n s by scientists or the underwork ers in all. parts of the world lying causes of race prerudiee end.

1 am sure h i s race conflict. have established them. book Mr.' Seligmann draws ex- stimulate anyone who reads it* '•".ing on libtensively on the work with, ani- tewnrd furUier mals, from fruit flies and sala- [ era! lines regarding this serious lenders up to the mammals, which | problem." bears on Questions of alleged | (Copyright, 1EEP,v by Seven Arts "raciEl" inheritance. The chap-1 Feature E ndicate.> ters entitled "Who Made t h e j • "World's Culture?" and the "Ori- j The Roman emperor Julian gins of Contemporary Man." are | (4th century) when ordering concise summations of cultural j every city in his empire to prohistory. | ride inns tor cU'aufcerB, referred The took is receiving the high-1 to the esp.ir.ple of the Jews, "the est pmise from experts and en- j ep.prc.iRF- of the <?ocls," in whose tnorjties In tee field. Writing in j midst no beggars were to be the Saturday Review of Litera- j iound.

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Dr. Gregory Zilboorg , ' • impressed in the following letter, is the average Jew's intelligent approach to tlae problem of Anti-Semitism.

you for the opportunity it gave me to tell you what has long been burdening my heart. Write me again soon- and I will write you. In the meantime, mediate and don't forget — the inroads that Hitler makes into the minds of many people are not roads to a new racial glory of the Nordic, but obscure channels through which the termites of intolerance crawl. They will eat up all your houses. They will reduce to dust your museums and your churches.

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from their homes, hungry and aj- cultivate in your children. It is most naked, across western Eu- foolish to "play down" the fact rope—all this at the height of the that we are hated and alive; we Renaissance and the subsequent ought to stand in full view of those who hate us, fearful for the glory of arts and sciences. v October 25, 1038 However, so many of us sur- world but fearless for ourselves.

Enough for today, and thank vived that Hitler has a hard time My. Beat John: rid the world of Einstein, you again for your letter. Thank DAVE. j^ Yqirare right and I understand to E h r l i c h , Mendelssohnydur discomfort; Jew-baiting is Freud, If, when, and as, Hitbecoming brazen here in America, Bartholdy. and his henchmen and spiritit Ja; disquieting, although to me ler satellites in Germany, Italy, IE has an old, familiar ring. I am ual France, and America grateful that you felt free to -write succeed inEngland throwing world of ••- <0>me about it. I have known for ours into new d a this r k ages, a attong time that you must be con- Thomas Blann, like the Cascerned about this matter, but, de- siodorus who left Romegreat and the fttitfe' our lone friendship, I pre- iniquities of her stupid emperor, ferred not to be the first to speak and the Jews like Einstein and 61 it; I did not want to smbar- Stefan Zweig will preserve and .fissi you. maintain the old and great tradiBy Frank B. Blumenfeld 5 For,. although your father's tion of German culture.

Jiajne. is Sentley and my father is half-Jew, Marcel Proust, called Moses, I know that a cul- The Dr. Stephen S. Wise, presi- side of more Christian churches the Jew Bergson—not Flantured, self-respecting Saxoa like and' dent of the American Jewish than of Jewish synagogues durdin or Daladier—will represent you is uncomfortable when he France to future generations. The Congress and rabbi of The Free ing the course of a year. . hears Einstein called a damned point is, dear John, that we, the Synagogue, recently observed He Is one of the very few Jews Jew, or Rothschild a dirty Jew- Jews, are Jews because we are his 65th. birthday. Born in ish, banker, or ibe littla grocer such good Germans, such good Budapest on March 17, 1874, who have been able to b r i n g em,;the. corner a kike. It is so Frenchmen, such good Britishers descendant of a long line of of friendly criticism while foolish! It is Uks calling Galileo and such good Americans. In the noted rabbis, he has been called awords guest in a Christian church. He kt greasy wop, or Beetho /en a last war we slaughtered one an- the "Jewish Ambassador to the • " Sausage-eating Fritz, or Hun, or other under the many flags, of non-Jewish world," and is per- has said: tir.iiat-jiQt. As a rule, I am not many countries. haps the best known national "Looking into the future, I see v^ry disturbed by the antagonism We are a queer race: diffuse, representative of the Jewish these things: I see men of goodAj&inst the Jews—this hatred.-l<as dispersed, multi-national, multi- people in the United States.— t>een going on for so long that cultural—yet a race. Mind you, THE EDITOR. one.has become hardened; or I do not wish to say (for I do jerhaps it is the monotony of this not believe this) that we are a A long time ago—perhaps he hatred, its lack of originality, chosen people. We are not chosen himself cannot tell when — Dr. that makes it difficult to feel at all. We "just happened" as Stephen S. Wise came to the conaroused to indignation. you "just happened"—-as the sun, ; that if he is to accomplish Yet, when you say that th6 or the moon, or the wind—a part clusion at all he must be loyal J6ws,. which means that you sug- of the world. I, for one, do not anything to himself and to the things in gest' the Jews alone, must do indulge In the self-aggrandize- which he. believes with his whole something about it, a sense of ment of racial pride; racial pride ihai&tse. cOmes over me, a kind of and racial hatred are children of being.

65 years of his life and the mental ache—it must be a form the same social disease, offspring 45The years of his stewardship as Of anger. I know, of course, that of crass megalomania. rabbi can be explained by this th6 great majority of Gentiles, We are merely a very old race, principle, to which he has been even the charitable and the sym- and we patiently carry with us steadfast the face of criticism pathetic ones, watch the growth our past, to offer it to and fuse •even inin of attacks that of anti-semitism, but feel immune it with the present and the future threateneddefiance to remove him from and secure themselves. of all people. We impose nothing the high offices which he accept: "They think that it is too bad on anyone; but we are* eager, as opportunities to serve t i e About the Jews but that the Jew- hungry, to absorb every culture, ed ish problem as it stands, or as it every civilization which, assimi- Jewish community.

Dr. Wise himself has said that grows, does not threaten their lated with our tradition, we rehe has derived the greatest satisown spiritual and material secur- donate to the world. faction of his life from "the conity. That is why they believe that Old People sciousness that I have done someWhen Philo the Jew preached • there is little they can or ought in Alexandria, and the Nazarene thing in conformity to the vision io do about anti-semitism. I think in Jerusalem, we were already and in obedience to the spirit of they are making a mistake; you q u i t e old, experienced in the Theodore Herzl, to move Jews to &re making the same mistake, homely art of historical rising and stand up e little straighter, and John. falling, ruling and serving, tem- to be a little more self-respecting •: For the Jewish problem ts as pered by the hard knocks of liv- in their own eyes and in the eyes much o. Gentile problem as it is a ing in this world, by imperial of n on-Jews. I am entirely ready Jewish one. It is a problem of cruelty, mob stupidity and the to be remembered for that one hurban values and when human ignorance of various and sundry thing, that I have tried to teach valufes- become involved and be- chieftains. We remember more Jews, and I Know that i have helped some of my fellow-Jews to feia to disintegrate, both Jew and than one Hitler In our past.

Gentile go under.

So, if I were all Jews, I would hold their heads higher and to smile in my very pain while think of their Jewishness not as a watching some modern Roman disgrace to be shirked, or as an centurion or lictor grow fearful, affliction to be averted, but as a even as one of them is said to privilege to he cherished, and as a have-' shuddered when, he .saw lory in which to rejoice.".

Christ and a thief nailed equally Variety of Interests / on adjacent crosses.

As we look back on the record I will admit that I am not a of almost a half century of courlittle disturbed when I hear you ageous and inspiring leadership ask me what we Jews intend to we are struck by the variety of do about the increasing insanity his interests and the vigor with of anti-Semitism, for this is the which he challenged injustice and question of naive youth. When wrong in high places, and with you hate us, when you kick us, the selflessness of hid struggle when you destroy us, you are killing in yourselves the most valu- against self-interest. able thing there is in man, par- Beginning his rabbinate w i t n ticularly In the Anglo-Saxon, in. Congregation of Madison Avenue the best American: you are kill- Synagogue in New York City, ing your tolerance, your ability which he served from 1893 to 1900, Dr. Wise soon attracted the to live with your fellow-men. of the entire nation by After you have killed your tol- attention his forthrightness in defense of erance, you will begin to destroy human rights. One of New York's each other. All this may sound wealthiest synagogues invited the to you improbable, even prepos- young rabbi to fill its pulpit •— terous, but you will, just as surely as the hordes of Attlla did, or with the condition that he conJenghiz Khan, or the Moors. sent to censorship of his sermons.

Then we Jews will have to lift He refused to accept the post and our battered heads from t h e denounced the "muzzled pulpit" ashes of your self-destruction; we in words that rang from coast to will look around us and join coast. hands with the few enlightened Later, after he had opened the souls of other races who will have Free Synagogue as a forum for survived with us. Together we his liberal Judaism, he had anwill start to teach the half-de- other opportunity to test a rabbi's vastated .-world to come: your freedom. During the height of Shakespeares, your Newtons, your the Great Steel Strike of 1919 and Lincolns, Jefferson and Patrick the Palmer anti-red raids he atHenrys, for long before Patrick tacked United States Steel. SevHenry we craved liberty and de- iral of the wealthy members of fied death, preserved the former his congregation tried to silence and conquered the latter. him and threatened to resign.Not Jewish Problem Heresy Charge Please do not be impatient with years, we contributed not a little On the iollowing week Dr. Wise tdpreserve and to enrich the tra- me, John. Forgive my morose declared in the Free Synagogue: dition of learning. We were doc- tone. Your letter was a shock to "If I am to be silent on every me and momentarily it was rather moral issue because I am a Jew, tors to kings and to popes. difficult to recover from It. You i£ my lips are to be sealed when The hordes of Mohammed were shocked me with your sympathy, and conscience b i d me struggling to spread their civilizayour concern for what we truth lest I hurt the Jewish tion, by means of pillage and mur- are going to do. You shocked speak, der while we continued our study- me because "there seemed to be a name, then I wish to live in some ing, and translated into Hebrew, complacency of security in your place,.small or large, near or reSyrian, Persian, Arabic, and then You foolish man, his- mote, where a man can live withinto Latin all over again. You concern. tory guarantees you no security out fully forfeiting his self-resee, John, neither our religion whatsoever. Your safety lies, not spect." nor our historical tradition for- in your good background, not in In the twenties Dr. Wise was bade us to read books of the racial origin, or social ad- under fire from the Orthodox rabpagan Greeks and Romans; nor your herence,' but only in your ability binate because, they charged, he were We forbidden to mix with to tolerant, and peace-loving, had been guilty of heresy a n d infidels. So we lived, helping to andbeliberty loving. misguidance. He had done what keep alive Aristotle and classical rabbis have done before and after Let the Jewish problem be a medicine, until Europe re-awoke, —he had delivered a sermon on until the Frank and Teuton and problem.for the Jews only; watch Jesus of Nazareth. His critics deSaxon learned to read a bit and on the side-lines, or turn your manded that he resign from the face away in agonized and agonizto write with not a little labor. ing sympathy, and you will lose national chairmanship of t h e Dark Days very things that make your United Palestine Appeal. A great Those were dark days in the those life so bearable, so interesting, controversy rose in the Jewish h u m a n , world but the Jews, so The Jewish question is press, i!>ut when it came to a vote though we left no records of notgood. a Jewish question; it is a before the executive committee of great' conquerors, clung to the Christian, Gentile question. AHer the Zionist organization of Amertradition of learning. We gave your Gentile, Jew-baiting ica the vote was 71 against and the world Maimonides, the great- falls exhausted from wars,world de- one vote for accepting Dr. Wise's est doctor of a millennium. Tho pressions, pestilence and remorse, eight hundredth anniversary of you will have failed to kill us resignation.

Dr. Wise at that time declared: his birth was celebrated three all. will wait and rise to 'I stand for the oneness of God years ago by learned societies and carry We on all that is dear to you, academies the world over—ex- because, it is so very dear to us, and for the-oneness of-the Jewish cept, of course, in Hitler's Ger- because I could not and did not it is as much ours as it people. from many. the traditional attiis yours. I won't apologize for depart True, as. I said, we can boast of our vitality any more than I will tude of the Synagogue towards no generals of our own to lead us, apologize for being a hated Jew. the doctrines of other faiths.''

Many Enemies but we seem able to withstand Nor does your indirect suggestion This "Jewish Ambassador to the assault of hardships and the that we might temporarily withstress of paini physical and spirit- draw from the footlights of the the non-Jewish world-"' has many ual; Vr& seem to be good soldiers. stage, so as not to feed the tem- enemies, as has every man who We suffered the miseries of the pers of anti-Semites, appear to me dares to speak -what he conceives so-called dark ages and lost none valid or reasonable. Flight, dear to be the truth. But his friends of our spiritual strength.

John, is not a virtue you would and followers outnumber his eneHistory : Do you mind if I generalize for a "moment? Historically speaking, w& Jews have learned to protect OUT souls by rising above thesombre hurly-burly of the current day; we go on as if we had no Jewish problem at all. The extremely nationalistic, so-called professional Jew is heard protestIng1, now and then; but the rank &hd file go on carrying the burden Of moral and material persecution with great serenity—aware of. it, sad but serene. . True, it was hard to slave for tHd bigger and better glory of the Pharaohs, but on the race-track Of history we beat them by more than the length of a nose. The ftomans did not particularly like US,and on occasion they tried to linltatd the Egyptians. Yet it so happened that, when Roman culture was crushed under the heels p£ Hitler's forefathers, and when, later, the ancestors of King Iraq lifcd.- burned all the books in the Alexandrian library—all that was so • valuable in Greco - Roman thought and science—we survived, both in body and in scientific tradition.

When philosophic and scientific contemplation had to retire behind the walls of monasteries, away from the bloody, hating •World, we wandering Jews roamed Over the world of time and carried on the knowledge of Greek and Latin. "We taught the Arabs what their own mpbs had burned to ashes. Prom the days of St. Augustine for almost a thousand

Slit difficult as were those centiifies, they were not half as briital as the days when hundreds .The Sassoon family traces its and thousands of our forefathers descent from the Ibn Shoshan were roasted on bonfires or driven family of Arabic. Spain.

mies by far. He also has many friends In the Christian community to which he has brought better understanding of the Jews; indeed, he probably sees the In-

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He has said that what America

and the rest of the worid needs, to end the insane nationalism end the danger of war and religions intolerance is a re-Ch.ristIanJzation of Christendom and the reintegration of the Jew as a builder and as a bearer of the racial

and spiritual heritage of his peo- I again find that 1 spend my life ._ I ministering" to refugee Jews, in J pie. >7o Dofiger i concern with and in care for Jsw- • d expatriates f r o m It is one of. the outstanding | ish exiles characteristics of Dr. Wise that Germany, Pi ip.r.ii and other lands he has never dodged present-day of Eastern Europe. I "wonder issues. He chose the solution oJ •whether I am to spend the rest one of them when "he was asked, j of my da'"s in this saddest of octwo years ago, what he would like j cupations." more than anything else for aj Five years r.KO, on the occasion birthday gift. of Dr. ^Vi.=e'F noth birthday, the He &aid: "If I could choose my late Herman. Bernstein, one of gift, it would be that our govern- American Jewry's mopt brilliant merit set to end the insidious; journalists, wrote of him: "As a threat of Nazi propaganda in out- Zionist, a? a Rabbi, as the foundcountry, which must be kept free er and president of. the Jewish of religious empoison men t. Our Institute of Religion and ar. leadcountry is full of Nazi cells." er of the American Jewish ConI believe Dr. Wise would make gress, lie has .impressed himself the same answer today, when the upon American Jewish life as no activities of the Nazi? have grown other Jewish spiritual leader . . to such proportions that many , "As a champion oi civic rightother people have become aware { eousnesp and social justice, he excf the danger the Nazis constitute erts a far-reaching influence. As against American democratic in- a tribune for the Jewish people, stitutions. he is courageous, fearless, enTwo years ago Dr. Wise told an dowed with the fire and zeal of interviewer that the refugee prob- the prophets of old . . . lem is one of his chief concerns.

"As an American and as a JeWji The refugee problem, too, like he occupies s. high place of honor the growth of Nazi activities, has in American liEe. He is gtill brimbecome more acute since t h a t ful of enthusiasm and zeal, he is time. energetic and youthful. May his inspiring leadership a n t j ^jg v jg.

Refugffe Pj'oblem "My memory goes back to 'SI orous bat'le for the right conand 'S2, "when I was a boy of 7 tinue for many years to come." or S," he said. "I remember my (Copyright, 1039. by Seven Arts Feature Syndicate.) father standing day after day, together with other Jews of note, welcoming the refugees from the The synagogue of Santarem was Czarist persecution. Fifty-f i v e at the time of the expulsion the years later (it is 57 years now) oldest in Portugal.

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the very life of our church. "When at last he triumphed and set us on our feet again, he refused to accept one copper cent in recompanse for his services. He would not even consent to be reimbursed for nis expenses, which must have amounted to many thousBy John Haynes Holmes ands of dollars.

The Jew, you say, is selfish, The Je-w, declares the anti-Semite, is personally objectionable. He self-assertive, self-seeking. This is coarse, vulgar, noisy, aggres- means, of course, that Nathan sive. Many Jews are dirty, most Straus, most generous of philanJews are unscrupulous and dis-thopists, most humble of men, honest. They pnsli in -where they •was a selfish, self-seeking Jew, are not •wanted; 4hey invade, capr and that Lillian-D. Wald, foundture and monopolize /whole bus- er of the Henry Street Settlement, iness and professions: they are was self-assertive when she plungsharp in their money dealings; ed into the slums of the East Side they are clannish in a sense antag- and established the nursing servonistic to the interests oj other ice which has brought comfort people; they are materialistic in and cure to millions of the sick their philosophy and -way of life: poor. What logic is there in such they are generally disagreeable, arguments, what Justice in such degrading, even disgusting. "Wher- indictments? Name your Jews, ever they go, the Jews constitute and how many of those who are an irritating element in the com-distinguished of their type emmunity. body the qualities which you im-

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Specifications As I listen to these charges.' I am tempted at once to ask for

specifications. When I seek for such specifications myself, I find them interesting. The Jew, you say, is coarse and vulgar. If this is true, then logically a Jew like Benjamin Cardoza, late Justice of the Supreme Court, must have "been a coarse ana vulgar man.

IA.S a matter of fact, he -was the most exquisite of gentlemen. Of all great men whom I have ever

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Wales and Ireland, has been spending $82,000 annually for the housinsr, maintenance and education of the 670 German-Jewish activities. This must mean,, if. children brought over by the fraJews are Jews, that Edward'A.. ternal organization, it Tras reFilene, a Jew of Boston, greatest vealed in a report by A. LeVayof Boston merchants for a period Lawrence, chairman of the B'nai of more than, a generation, must B'rith Council for Jewish Reful a v e been unscrupulous and dis-gee Children in London. honest in his commercial pracThe entire program of child tices. As a matter of fact, Mr. Pilene was the soul: of integrity, Tefugee care in England was origas honest in his dealings with his inally initiated by B'nai B'rith. customers and competitors as: he The report disclosed that B'nai •was wise and generous in his B'rith in the British Isles will be spending in excess of $200,000 a treatment of his employees.

The Jews, you say, are mater- year for refugee children as soon ialistic and greedy, loving money as 300 additional children, for and grabbing it by any device and whose care B'nai B'rith has made Tinder all conditions. This must itself, responsible, arrive. Of the meant that S. O. Levinson, "Jew 670 children already brought lawyer" of Chicago, benefactor of over, 360 hare been placed prithis- church, is a-materialistic and vately^ under guarantees of relagreedy man. Need I remind you tives and friends; 176 have been of what this man did for us? F o rplaced in hostels and schools unfour years, after we had fallen on der guarantees obtained by the disaster in our new church build- B'nai' B'rith Council; 43 have ing enterprise, Mr. L e v i n son. been placed in paid homes; and ianght to save onr property and 91 are enjoying free hospitality.

elegant, Tefined and personally (distinguished of them all.

The Jew, you say, is unscrupulous and dishonest in his business

In these days of strife in a world torn "by hatred, intolerance, and propaganda it is pleasant tb tarn and review those .American institutions which so well characterize our democracy.

From earliest times the American -way has been one of friendliness and tolerance to all, and a spirit of cooperation and helpfulness to one's neighbor. The right to life, liberty, and the pttrsnit of happiness has been a reality in America.

Liberty is the American way of living. It is the right to worship God as we wish—the right to think, speak, vote as we wish. Liberty means respect for our rights as human beings.

Think for a moment of the people in other- countries who have been robbed of their liberty—their churches desecrated and destroyed—freedom of speech forbidden—newspapers muzzled—secret police dragging innocents into onesided courts where the only justice is the headsman's axe or concentration camp—kindly and honest people being beaten, robbed, murdered, or driven from their homes with a brutal frenzy that knows neither justice nor mercy. In this so-called civilized age, such things do not sound possible—but no one can deny that they are a grim reality.

"What brought this regimentation of human lives? Was it because the good people of these countries did not love their liberties, possessions, and institutions as we do? Indeed not, it came about because large numbers of people in those countries were victims of neglect. Men, women, and children were racked with hunger and sickness. They were denied the opportunity to live respectably, decently.

No one offered them a helping hand. Life looked hopeless to them and their ears became open to the poisonous whisperings of subversive leaders as a way to better living. Discontent undermined governments. The rule of right and reason with all its sacred institutions, gave -way to-the rule of bigotry and might.

Today, America—and American democracy—stands as

the great and shining' light throughout the world, Flagwaving or cheering alone will not keep thst light p.g-lcw.

Our country needs a deeper, more active patriotism. I t needs your support in stamping out the hidden and slow-working influences whieh threaten it from within. Sinister forces work constantly to undermine democracy. Now is the tiras to show that you give "more than a cheer to preserve liberty." Now is the time to show that we believe in America—• that we are ready to do all we can to help build thousands of poor, unfortunate men, vromen and children in this community into sound, respectable and dependable citizens.

America's social agencies have proved their strength through the years o£ depression. They have been a steadying influence to those who have faced despair. They, frith the other institutions of American Democracy have formed a bulwark against the forces tending to destroy our freedom.

Within the nest few weeks Omaha will fe.ee squarely the problem of providing funds through its Community Chest to support Its important social agencies.

Inherent in the Chest plan are the very principles of democracy so dear to all Americans. It is based upon the voluntary efforts of thousands to assist the less fortunate neighbors of their community. It is the means whereby the entire community collects and administers funds for the welfare of all—irrespective of race, color or creed". Here is

no paternalism or regimentation—Here is the honest and sincere effort of a group of human beings to help each other—the most complete fulfillment of the word "democracy." The Community Chest is one of the great institutions of democracy—one that we must maintain as a vital part of our society.

The only Dictator in America is the American H e a r t Let your heart-dictate to you! .-Alvin Johnson, President Omaha Community Chest

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Laughingly the Rabbi said: "I Jerusalem (JTA) — Acquittal Of Rabbi Joshua ben Korha have given you a concrete illusof a thrice-married Jew on a big(2nd century) it is related that tration of your case; for everyone ! firrrs csrl he helped the Court o£ his time becomes foolish as soon as he has Shanghai (V7NS) — Formation amy charge by the Palestine ilisri^'r s r solve a very difficult case. A man children." The t e s t a ment was of a European Emigrants Associa- Court of Appeal on the ground ' cci cr-rs hc l<s~r r .-> had left a "will which read as fol- therefore interpreted as meaning ted Hospital C o m m i t t e e vras that Jewish law does not clearly lows: "my son shall not recieve that it was the wish of the de-prompted by the need of an or- prohibit a nrcltiplicity of •wires c-c f c f c i f r i his inheritance until he becomes ceased to have his son married ganized health service for the aphas stirred a campaign for an foolish." The judges, after long and the father of children before proximately 12,000 refugees in deliberating, betook themselves to he received his inheritance.

Shanghai, expected to be increas- amenStnent to the rabbinic la^r.

Rabbi Joshua to get his advice in ed to 20,000 by the end of the The "most-married Jev in Palthe difficult case.

Samuel Tulee was Moroccan en- year. estine" -was Zvi Kelnik, a TalmuAs they approached his house, voy to England.

The committee's honorary sec- dic scholar, who wedded, three they saw him crawling on all retary, J. M. Alfcow, will leave women in the Holy Land after fours with a cord in his mouth, Israel Zabludowski, a Polish soon for the United States for the abandoning four wives in Poland IT' i held by his little son, who was Jew, served as chief physician of expressed p u r p o s e of raising and for a time managed to keep ec P r — playing horse with Ms father. a cossack regiment during the funds for the proposed hospital each spouse iErnorant of the exis= 11 cr *WTien the Judges finally were us- Russo-Turkish war. tence of the others. service for refugees in China.

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when the State undertakes the regimentation of minds — whether in Mexico, Germany, Italy or Russia — to the exclusion of the rights of parents-to bring up their children in their own faith.

"Freedom of speech is denied when criticism of the government's policy toward religion is penalized. Freedom of the press is denied when periodicals that teach religion or represent the point of view of the church are suppressed or denied access to the mails.

Civil liberty is infringed when ministers and priests are disfranchised for no other reason than their calling."

The Living Church said that the Mexican government "is not only anti-religious in avowed intention but also is determined by force to stamp out religion in the interest of a godless collectivist program built on the Russian model."

Rabbis Express Sympathy " A statement prepared by the Ihlef Rabbis of France in 1936 and read In all the synagogues of that country expressed "deepst sympathy" for those Catholic priests who have, suffered "yesterday in Mexico and today in unhappy Spain."

The statement said: "As we look upon the fate of latholic pr 1 e s t s and religious who, without swerving from their ministry of piety and charity, innocent victims of civil disorders have fallen, yesterday in Mexico, today in unhappy Spain, where the most horrible and devastating of wars has arrayed b r o t h e r against brother; as we behold all the victims ot intolerance and

" ' In response to uiaay requests ers, former President.Herbert H. ence of Christians and Jews, deI tor information '<m Jewish, Hoover, President Nicholas Mur- clared that the Mexican governi Protestant, and fnter-faith pro- ray Butler of Columbia Univer- ment had been "definitely atheis• tests against persecution ot sity; Drl John H. Finley, editor tic and materialistic, with avowi Catholics, The ^National Confer-. of the New York Times; President ed aim of eradicating all religion , erice of Christians nsd Jewa has Henry Sloane Coflln of Union and religious influence." : compiled tbo following record.. Theological Seminary; Judge JulApart from the joint protests Protestant and JeiTish protests ian W. Mack, and U. S. Senator against Catholic persecution there were notably expressed In a state- Arthur Capper. have been a number of individual ment signed by 500 leading miniThe c o m m i t tee,, "concerned statements and resolutions from sters and rabbis on November 27, solely with the-question of relig- Jewish.and Protestant groups.

1934, •which declared that the ious liberty," declared that. "the • Protestant Protests Mexican government's \rar on deliberate purpose ot the governProtestant protests a g a i n s t Catholics imperilled r e H g l o n s ment policy is not merely the cor- Catholic persecution have appearfreedom everywhere- More than rection of alleged abuse3, but the ed in the Christian Century, leadnine-tenths of the signers- "were extirpation of all religion in the Ing undenominational weekly, and non-Catholics representing twen- country. We can say without con- in the Living Church, a Protestant ty-six Protestant and three Jew- tradiction that in a considerable Episcopal weekly. ish denominations in forty-one number of states of Mexico all The Christian Century called states and Canada.

Roman Catholics are deprived en- upon the American Protestants to I The statement said: tirely of places of worship and support Catholic protests against i , "The undersigned Protestants, the services of their clergy and Mexican religious r - e g u l ations.

Catholics and Jews of the United that in many of the other states "Liberty of religious worship," it States wish- to express their con- the number of available churches declared, "is denied to those • victlon in regard to the necessity and priests is so limited as to in- whose- worship requires the servI of 'the achievement and the main- fringe upon the people's rights to ices of priests when the number of priests permitted In a given tenance of religions liberty in all religious freedom." lands. We are especially concernAt a mass meeting held in area is absurdly inadequate, or ed- nt the present jnnctare over Brooklyn, N. Y., in December when all the priests are driven the situation in Mexico where 1934, 1,800 Catholics, Jews and from, a state, or when the state I many unprejudiced observers re- Protestants protested tho anti-re- arrogates to itself tbe power to ; port that in the endeavor to nchl- igious program in Mexico, Dr. fix the number of priests, even if eve social justice and political re- Everett R. Clinchy (Protestant) the number allowed be ample. t forms otherwise desirable, relis- director of The National Confer"Liberty of education is denied l d liberty is being imperilled.

• Wo register oar alarm at every re! strisSton xspon the right of tbe i churches to function, a n d the \ rights ot individuals to practice the religion of their choice.

•'Recognizing that f r e e d o m , from religious and racial intolerance is not foiSy achieved in the United States, and in other countries at iha world thOT Mexico, we ec&nowletlge our responsibility lation permitting Jews to c l o - s e LONDON. to labor for Us achievement evToday, when Jewry battles on their factories on the Sabbath and erywhere. While refraining- from to open them. on Sundays for discussing tfee Jnnnertlate issues at a score of fronts to preserve the members of their own faith. In stake in tfec eonrtiroversies in Mex- fruits of its struggle for emanci- the House of Commons he was ito, we desire to glv*} OOP moral pation, it comes as something of considered a financial authority. support to fhose who labor for a shock to realize that the Anglofriedent of vorship there, and to Jewish community, thp strongest In private life, he was one of the espyesia the anstety with which and most secure Jewish commun- founders of the Westminister we view every threat to liberty of ity outside of the United States, Bank, now one of London's "Big conscience ssd the freedom of tho has only enjoyed complete legal Five." He Was made a baronet freedom from religious disabili- in 1869 — the third Jew to be sen.-' :/ so honored. .

• . ties a matter of some 80 years.

Appeal for Religion In Mexico In fact, though Baron Lionel -de History of English Rothschilds 111 1036 forty leaders of the Rothschild wes admitted to the Told Protestant and Jewish faiths unit- House of Commons on July 26, ed in a public appeal for religious 1858, it was not actually until Both books go beyond the peliberty 'in Mexico. Tbe appeal, February, 1859 — just 80 years riod of the fight for emancipa, •which was sent to the Mexican ago — that Parliament finally did tion. Mr. Hyamson also tells the i Embassy in Washington, declar- away with the oath "upon t h e story of Sir David's nephew and f ed: ' : true faith of a Christian" that de- heir, Sir David Lionel Salomons, the scientist and inventor, and "In this public appeal for re- barred Jews from membership.

Dr. Roth, who describes his book ligions liberty in Mexico, we are And it is only a matter of about as a "by-product" of. perusal of motivated by our interests in the a hundred years since the City of a long sequence of memoirs of highest welfare of our neighboring country. We issue it also be- London first permitted -Jews to Victorian and Edwardian times, cause of tna effect of certain-pol- engage in retail trade within the sketches the history of the Engicies in Mexico npon the world at city limits. lish House of Rothschild with parOne name more than any other ticular stress on Its' most • glamlargd. is closely interwoven in the his- orous era — the period of 35 "We regard with deep apprecia- tory of Anglo-Jewry's struggle for tion the endeavors of the Repub- political emancipation. It is that years from the death of Baron lic of Mexico for social reform and of David Salomons, son of an Ash- Lionel to the outbreak of the have learned of its welfare pro- kenazi immigrant from Germany, World War when the three broth: gram with deep interest. We must who wa3 born in 1757 and was the- ers — Nathaniel, who became the resard with deep anxiety, how- first Jew to become a freeman of first Jewish peer, Alfred and Leoever, the information we have re- the City of London, the first Jew pold, ruled the destinies of the House. ceived in recnt months of long conflict between the government to be elected Alderman, Sheriff Reviewing the position of the and the institutions of religion. and Lord Mayor. Salomons was three brothers in tho country's 'While we would express our most the first Jew to be elected to Par- life, Dr. Roth can only suggest earnest disapproval of control of liament though for many years going back to the Italy of the the State by the Church, we are he was barred from taking -his Renaissance, "to one-Medici Magegually concerned about the main- sent there because of the nature nifico or the other, who contin. tenance of religious liberty. Lib- of the oaths to which — as a Jew ued to administer a vast accumuerty of conscience is essential to •—ho could not subscribe.

Albert M. Hyamson tells his lation of wealth while at the same j the well being of any r-eople. Resfory In "Eavid Salomons" (Meth- time throwing himself with zest ligion, for almost all of us, is everything that went to.enidentified with the symbols that ueh) and in the telling reviews into express oiir Bpiritual aspirations. the fight in which Salomons and hance the amenities of life and "Therefore, we deeply regret leaderB of the Jewish community the. development of culture. The ths widespread closing and con.- engaged for more than a half- Magnificent Rothschilds and Locentury to remove the political renzo il Magnifico; the parallel duction of the number of their discriminations against the Brit- is not so far-fetched as might be imagined at the iirst glance, and ministers to such -in extent as to iBh Jews. was more than . once made even Sidelights on Struggle deprive the people of the spirit- . ual minfs.tration called, for. by Sidelights on this Btruggle are half a century ago."

Elevation to Peerage their religious traditions and cus- furnished- by Cecil Roth in his Wheu Nathaniel was elevated toms. We have read enactments "The Magnificent Rothschilds" now in force which can only be (Robert Hale) • who describes to the peerage in 1885, Queen regarded as almost completely Baron Lionel de Rothschild's cam- Victoria did more than place the suppressing religious liberty. We paign for admission to Parliament seal of royal approval on tho have been grateful to hear recent- and his ultimate victory. Dr. Roth House, Dr. Roth declares. "The ly of some relaxation of regula- tells of the final stages of the emancipation of the Jews ID Engtions and trust that these events campaign and the scene when the land was at last really complete. mean a growth of conciliation on first Jew took his seat in the And there was no question hencethe part of the state, and the House. forth that among English Jews, church.

"Just as the proceedings termi- for the next 30 years at least, the "Tbe proposals of the govern- nated," he nar'rates, a hansom cab head of the House of Rothschild ment of Mexico for the general clattered up in Old Palace Yard, was foremost It a l m o s t education of the people are to be and a flustered gentleman jumped seemed as though the Queen of warmly commended. However, we out and hastened into the pre- England had revived in favor- of must strongly protest against the cincts. It was David Salomons the English House the ancient intrusion of the State upon the (now Sir David) just come up dignity of the Jewish Exilarch In conscience in an educational pro- from the country, who heard what Baghdad of old, with its mounted gram. When the State forbids the •was afoot when he arrived in Lon- retinue and his-silken robe of ofchurch to have schools tor the fice and his place among the great teaching of religion, and . also don, hurried along to witness the ones of the state. triumph, in another man's permakes it i m p o s s i b l e for the "Thus, after that July day In church to maintain a sufficient son, of the cause on which he 1885, Nathaniel Mayer, L o r d had expended so much of his number of ministers and religious Rothschild, was the unofficial but liberty and individual rights, we energy' and means, and arrived a yet acknowledged lay liead of the dicclaim equally any claim to tor minute or BO too late."

But the greatest joke, as Dr. J -ws throughout the world, as talitarianism^by either church or Roth sees it, lay in the fact that well a3 those of England. At any state. time of crisis he was expected to "V/e express, tbe hope that the Baron Lionel, who had worked aomething, and generally did: for Jewish emancipation for 30 leaCcr3 of both tho church and when anything wfent wrong, he inthe state in Mexico will look for- years, had expended a minor lor- variably received the blame;- he tune in the campaign, finally getward to a new ' day.. The state was expected to support every enshould be courageously progres- ting a scat In the House and sit- deavor, to accent every Presidency ting almost without interruption sive, and at the same time ento say the right .thing whencourase the growth of spiritual for 16 years, "is not once recorded and ever the right thing had to be forces. The c h u r c h s h o u l d , to have opened his mouth to said . . . In return ho received, through. sacrifice and devotion, speak." not so mufth devotion (for that ' Salomons stimulate the development of a Salomons, who had previously is a quality Impossible in argusocial order built upon economic justice and consistent mlth relig- been elected to the House but re- mentative Jews) as apotheosis; ious ideals. fused permission to take his seat and in the East End of London and the teeming ghettoes of East"We urge, therefore, the restor- without firsl going through tbe ern Europe ha became a legend In objectionable oaths (though he ation of freedom for religion by lifetime.'' the state, and the sympathetic co- took his seat once Without taking his .' (Copyrighted by Jewish Teleoperation of the church in all just the oath, voted and-was subsegraphic Agency, Inc.) measures for the. improvement of quently heavily fined) was elected and seated: in May. 1859, in the - tho social life of the people."

On© should not expect thanks first general election following reInterfaith Protests or ^recognition for performing acts The American Commute on Re- moval of the Jewish disabilities of kindness, the Jewish sages ligious Rights and Minorities, and served until his death. taught. "If ye render a kindness Unlike his predecessor, he took to any man, do not remind him made public in 1935 the findings *o£ a special interfaith committee, an active role as "a strenuous ad- of It." Likewise the spirit in formed to inquire into the status vocate of civil and religious lib- which one performs deeds of betof religious liberty in Mexico. The erty and a zealous defender of terment was to be taken into ac.5 commute was composed of Dr. the rights of the working classes, count. The Talmud speaks of a John H. tathrop, chairman; the and especially of the dockers who son who fed his penniless father Rev Dr. Arthur H. Brown, hon- were well represented In his con- on choice poultry, but did it witb j orary chairman; Michael Williams stituency although they had no insults: - hence -is- condemned to •and Carl Sherman, vice-chairmen: votes." And, Mr. Hyamson' tells Gehinriom. ~" ~~ 'Linley Vi Gordon, secretary. The us, "he also watilied over Jewish membership included among oth- 'interests" and secured the legisPatronize OUr Advertisers.

persecution ol Catholics in Mexfanaticism, Jews,. Christians, bro- principle of Separation of Church waukee, June £2-£5, 1E33, Btid: !I ico appeared in the Boston Jewthers in humanity wherever fall- and State; but ive hold that such 'We Jews, pledged :o the priu* en, we bow our heads in sorrow Separation neither implies nor ciple of religious liberty for all j ish. Advocate. November 26, 1986. and say we are most profoundly justifies attacks by the State 02 groups, are perturbed by the 'in- j It expressed the opinion that creasing growth of restrictions I "Jews, who are the principal distressed. For Israel must ev- tbe Church.

We believe it to be wrong for j against the Catholic Church in a scapegoats in Germany, can easerywhere be with the persecuted ily * understand t»r>£ sympathize any government to kinder or dis-! number of lands, against the persecutor.

"We can never forget how the courage the free vrorsMp of God j "We stand firmly on the prin- vrith t<he Catholic atUlmle toward eminent leaders of Catholicism in accordance with tfce tenets of j ciple'that no political philosophy our neighbor to the south. For lately exposed the very depths of any religion; and that such hind- acd certainly not that of liberal- some lime Mexico lias been contheir hearts' compassion on the ranee or discouragement must in- isra. dare lend itself to the supres- ducting E.n anti-religious camsufferings of the Jews, victims evitably lead to a s^t-back for j sion of a free sinfl unhampered re- paign which has resulted in the ligious worship. Believing that ev- unwarranted seizure of Church of unjust treatment, how they \ civilization itself.

"Therefore, we cannot remain ery individual has the right to property, closing: of r e 1 i g ioua flayed anti-Semitism, how they most generously contributed tow silent in the face of persecution of worship God ficcoramg to the die- schools, end. Complete curtailment ard3 the assuagement of their religious or racial groups any- i tales of conscience, v,-e desire to of the religious Uie oC the inhabi•vvhere, and we hope and pray £or j put ourselves on record as deplor- tants, miseries.

"We, in our turn, teil them we the. speedy end of such perse'eu- j ing the disabilities to -which the "Catholics in America do well religious agencies ot the Catholic understand their lacerated hearts, tions.

"We hereby express and record Church, have been subjected in ro- to call attention to this state of, we know their feelings as they affairs, and will meet with a rebehold the martyrdom of men our sympathy for those who suf- cent years in some quarters." chord from American and women dedicated to the serv- fer because of being in the minor- Anti»RcHgious Movements Decried sponsive Jewrv. Stirling o£ religious life, ice of God. far removed from all ity either in religion or race no The Annual Report of tbe Exe- 1 and attacks upon the C a t holic matter what that religion or race partisan passions. cutive Committee of the American Church, which it should be remay be."

"We offer our heart's deepest Jewish Committee on Junary 6, membere the civilizing insympathy and we say we are inCentral Conference 1835 noted "with dismay the j fluence in Mexico, f.re just as expressibly distressed in our prayresolutions ^vere adopted ; spread o£ anti-religious move-1 much manifestations of barbaric ers we join their victims with byTwo the Central of I merits in countries in both the ; spirit as NF.ES C' ! E C r ). ra ination our victims, imploring on all. Di- American Rabbis Conference in 1!)3 3 and | Old and the New World. Along i against vine mercy and favor.

1836 condemning Catholic j-cr- | with our Catholic and Protestant J Dr. Charles S. MacFarland, Jewish Protests secutioa the world over, one of j fellow citizens, we voice our pro- i A resolution adopted by the them especially noting the per-1 test against the suppressiou oC general secretary emeritus of the Union of American Hebrew Con- secution of Catholics in Mexico. I religious liberty and freedom of j F , e ^ J B l .Council o? the Churches 1 gregations at its convention June The latter protest, adopted at I conscience wherever and vcheu- ot Christ m America, in his book, 25-30, 1935, protested the oppres- the 47th Annual Convention published in ever such suppression is attempt- "Chaos in Mexico." sion of racial and religious minor- Cape May, N. J., June 2S-^9, ed."

1S85, iOlloving1 a six week trip ities.

19S6, declared: "We Jews as huThe Jewish War Veterans of through thp.t country, vrrote: The resolution said: manitarians and religionists, wish the United States, at their an"As it is, the Church has al"As Jews, interested in all hu- to voice our objection to the poii- nual convention in l£S4, adopt- most lost its existence — except manity, -our concern is not limit- cy of any state which, strikes at ed a resolution extending sympa- so Tar as the partial use of the ed to ourselves. We take note of the very practice of religion it- thy to "these people ot Catholic I church buildings by the people is the reports of oppressions recent- self. This stricture applies ?pecifi- religion" and condemned "certain i concerned — ever a large portion ly visited upon various minority cally to the t r e a t m e n t of the ! governments" for "discriminating i of Mexico. Up to the present time groups throughout the world be- Catholics in our sister Republic ; against and persecuting people of , its protests and its alleged violai the Catholic religion beceuse of i tions or legislation have Bimply cause of racial or social positions Of Mexico." ;: or their religious views.

The earlier protest, msde at the j their religious belief." ; brought one reprisal after anoth"We stand committed to the 44th Annual Convention nt Mi!-1 An editorial protest against the i cr."

By Victor M. Bienstock

Mighty Hands Courageous hearts... Resourceful Minds Greatness is being thrust upaa 'Atnericaa journalism Upon the American press today rests the . destiny o£ mankind. . . With newspapers elsewhere • fettered, enslaved by tyrannies to do the bidding of tyrants, the American newspapers alone steer their own course.

Mighty hands are necessary, those days., to keep clear of dangerous shoals,.. Cour££e DUB hearts alone can save when the waves o£ adversity dash high. . . Resourceful minds rnust -be.alert to prevent the spread of propaganda aimed at voiding the precious-liberties of the American republic. . •-

Freedom of the Press is an American tradition.

• . For over a century and a half;it has been guaranteed by the Constitution. . . Ths fruits.c£ this tradition are now being realised. To the free American press is bsmg entrusted the gv.: o£ cohscientious and reliable reoortinr. . -Like -all worthy American Newspapers, the • OMAHA WORLD-HERALD fully realises its tremendous responsibility at this tiSnc of crisis. . . . I t recognizes the need ©£ level-headedncos in a stormridden world. Mighty hands must be at the wheel for there is a valuable cargo that must be brought to port safely. '

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ment will allow Jews to gather Meanwhile an official an- ing these &s,vs aim to glre drafor prayer during the coming high nouncement was issued forbidding matic emphasis to the need for holidays. all food shops to sell to Jews ar- personal penitence/ E s p e c lally Permission to gather for prayer ticles for widen ration cards have this year, when raany Jews feel on the high holidays has been been distributed to the public It more sinned against than sincing, granted to Jews in Berlin and not was also reported that S2 young there is real danger that a selfyet to Jews In other cities Jews, who had arrived in Ham-rightepusness torn out of selfburg where they had expected to pity wonlS obscure t i e tteeS. of throughout Germany. board a ship sailing for Palestine, the experience of repentance.

Ordered to Interior Jews living in- border towns of were ordered interred in a conThe Jewish Kigh Holidays are East Prussia were ordered by thecentration camp.

Ministry of War to move Into Paris (WNS)—German, for- not related to any historic event. the interior, iccordiig to reports eign and "stateless" Jews, as well Their appeal is personal a n d purely religious rather tfean nawhich said that the Gestapo may as all foreigners living in Geror racial. During these EDITOR'S NOTE—The pre- lean, Father Ahern says, his Ro-these principles so that their prop- set up a special police division many, are being included in dis-tionalistic whose duties will be to watch all tribution of rationing cards to the10 days, the iainds of the worshipcise meaning of that grand old man Catholicism is three-fold: aganda will not take root.

Jewish activity in the disputed entire civilian population, it waspers are more attuned than ever • phrase, "religious liberty," is- A religion, a philosophy and a In other words, under t h e area. to spiritual considerations. The reported here. presented here by one of t h e method of social reform. But he American system of free conprayers anfi tbe scripture readings country's outstanding clergy- does not want to crack down on science, free assembly and free prescribed for those days express men, the Rev. Dr. Everett R; anybody who differs with h i s press, you and I must espect civlor each worshipper the noble Clinchy,. who is director of the faith, philosophy or social ideals. ilized give-and-take in salesmanthoughts wfcieS should sctnate National Conference of Jews him in his search for tbe good This priest says that Catholics, ship of ideas. We must permit and Christians. Dr. Clinchy puts Jews free trade in propaganda. We as life. The Kol Nidre melody and and Protestants in every the definition of the phrase to American village and city ought a democratic people have got to i the cantor's chaEtirg of the time-

and evil-doing:. Tie rite was noti of the Lord as the Judge over our; emphasized at the expense of thei life's deeds.

TVc days bofo^eright. : : You? Kirpur, a fowl ia sel apif<r>*.

One legend, Quoted by Schauss las a symbolic sin offering f>v in his book of Jewish festivals, 'money is donated to charity i'' tells of Rabbi Johanac ber> Z&k- Eymboiic exchsppp for p y«>ar m kai End a pupil, Rabbi Joshua, happiness pnrt pnoC fortune. who stood -gazing at the ruins of the Tem.ple. Said the pupil: "Woe Closely veisueri to the idea •'>.' to us, that the place where Jev.'t penitence is UIEL! of confession nvv vere foreign for their tins Is fie-expiation of Fine. It? the pftn" troyed." "My son," answered noon before the Ony of Atoti<Rabbi JohaTian, "regret it not. ment. the pious worshipper versus We have another medium, just as a detailed prayer oi humble •.'."• good, for the forgiveness of Bin.contrite vopentpnee in v.iucl; !••?

It is: Do good to mankind. For acknowlerlpep h 1 E unv.'ori.hinj'fl* it is written: "I desire mercy and before (tip ,'iirtfre of rill men. As not sacrifice'." sn expfeftton for sintiil llioxi?-tii(A quaint ritual is that o£ thea n c n e e d s com mil led rturins ( l i t Taschlich ceremor.y which is still y e a r , a F.ymbolic CiOCf,ii!K is "••'!•' occasionally performed but vrliich m i n i s t e r e e (Hiring, flie corifphnior<. was oltea so grossly misunder- Thus the worshipper ciratmuk;;l'.:: ' stood that the rabbis regarded it faces his errors of she purf. y w as bordering' on the superstitious.

Frenci, In tiiF new hooh or compete successfully with our opi honored prayers inspire emotions In this ceremony groups of wor- MOSPS. would have IIF believe Ui»: ponents, the exponents of dictawhich the hectic urban life fail shippers assemble at the bank of the Jewish people tiRvbor a snlv torial totalitarian party governto evoke. a river or stream and symbolical- conscious feelinK of kuilt f": ments abroad. The competition jy thrust their sins into the depth.-; early prpup misdeeds, iUopf <>: As a further expression of the promises to be stiff, for the methof the water reciting the Biblical his reviewers, hoth pr.yeholopt<°»' penitential nood, there arose ods which both Communists and raatsy folk customs which amidst verse, "And thou shall cast thy and theo!o£,ir*nl. consider t.hiF T Fascists use are dictated by the to <)<*•'' rich symbolism Invoked the peni- eins into the depths of the sea.'i UP P. ha?p|psf ppprozrh Machiavellian principle that the Penitence Is a word not often sin and selfishness. By peni- tential mood. Some hare since This observance likewise strepsen ! problems of the .Jewish people. end justifies any means. But we heard in modern parlance. It tential meditation upon e n w s and lapsed and the need of separating one's life j The popular discussion of FreiuiV immortalized ia have a better line of goods to sell. calls for personal self-scrutiny personal Inadequacies in prayer- tbe words ofare the synagogue serv- from the accretions of sinful ) thesis should not deter peripk I believe that democracy and hu-and for the moral reform of theful mood, the individual can face ice. habits but the rabbis disapproved But tbe ethical import of ifrom taking advantage of ; h#man liberty will be in business ndividual's life. In a world of these ancient symbols was al-of the popular belief that the ob•meditation? of these Ten .Harp n-e long after Marxist - Communism fixed bayonets and In home com- the new year with confidence and ways servance appeased the evil ppiritp stressed. l a the days of • Penitence.

JVnitence meets p h i ; and Np.zi-Fascism are bankrupt. munities where neighbors are job- courage. the Temple, in an elaborate cere- thought to Swell in the stream. man find personal need anfi is t><".

The Jewish religious calendar ess and hungry it may seem ir- which this year marks the turn o! monial, a scapegoat, laden with The home observance o£ Ka-related to an alleged {eeUiit; in.

Onel caution further: Religious relevant to think of individual the century, 5700, sets aside 10the sins of the people, was sent poreth was another custom which group fuilt. There In too niui'h Americans must beware lest they penitence. However, no system days from Rosa Hasnonah to Tom away into the wilderness. This authorities ia the earlier editions to be accornpiiffred ty peJf-cvfic;-give encouragement to Fascism or of social betterment can be im-Kippur as a period of meditation served to stress the thought that of the Codes branded as super- |nation in traditional prayer pnr> Communism by combatting on* plemented without the purging of and self-examination. All the cere- man can and must dissociate his stitious. Tet the custom persisted i too much to he lost by of the systems and remaining in- the individual soul from greed, monies and rituals observed dur- life from the accretions of sinbecause it induced feelings of svei the opportunity.

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the "personal" test, presenting to sit down together, learn to it in terms of persons of difeach other, trust each other, ferent faiths who are known to know work together for social reforms. him. It is an interesting test, That is an idea every religious absorbingly projected and one person can encourage. whose application must go far The United States is fortunate toward realizing the ideal in- to have about 22 million Roman herent in two of the most sigwho live here and love nificant words in the English t,atholics who, like Protestants and Jews, language. rould die for the preservation of the American way." I, a ProtesReligious liberty means v e r y ant, would figbt for the right of little until we humanize it—apply "•ather Ahern and his fellow Cathit to individuals. When we think lics to worship as they choose. of freedom to worship according to one's conscience, liberty to argue What we have said thus far for one's convictions, and t h means e this: There is not only right to work for one's religious oom in the United States for ideals, we ought to think of what 'aithful Catholics, and evanthat means in terms of people we gelical ProtestantsJews — there 3s know. need for the spiritual, moral and different to the other. Both sysHere, for example, is a man in scientific abilities -each of these tems are poison to the democratic way of life. Silence in respect St. Louis, Mo. Shall we assure hree groups is contributing. to one is an invitation to that religious freedom for him? He is Other Groups working for an American demo- "We might talk about religious movement to propagate its doccratic order which will provide 'reedom for many other groups: trines without interference. There equal opportunities, with accom- For my friend, Clarence Pickett can be no "united front" of repanying duties, for every citizen. of Philadelphia, and all the Quak- ligion with either Communism or This Missourian is not v a g u e ers, and for that grand and saint- Fascism. about what he seeks: He wants $ ly figure of Salt Lake City, 80- May I make one practical sugjob for every man, a house and r-ear-old Heber Grant, and all ofgestion: clothing adequate for every fam- his fellow MormonB. What holds Every reader can perform a ily, and food sufficient to build for you and. me in regard to lib-patriotic service in his or her healthy bodies for people on farms erty of conscience, holds for every town and city neighborhood it and in cities, citizens of every citizen; for the nature of liberty each will go to the acknowledged region, every race, class and creed. s such that when we deny it toleaders of the Protestant, t h e That, he says, is the best insur- others we run the risk of losing Roman Catholic and the Jewish ance for continuance ol democ- ,t ourselves. groups and ask this question: racy. Why does he persistently Indeed, the acid test whether or "Abe you leaders of different labor for these ideals? Because he believes that God reaches into every person's life as the sympathetic nervous system extends into every part of one's body. "God cares for every man," this St. Louis friend insists. "And is concerned about what a man is, what a man does, and how the rest of the community treats him."

My St. Louis friend is William Scarlett. He is the Episcopalian bishop of Missouri. There are 30 to 40 millions of Protestants who a g r e e in principle with t H i s •bishop. For Bishop Scarlett, and for all other Anglican, G r e e k Catholic and Evangelical Protestant Christians in America, we want religious freedom. .

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NEW YEAR MESSAGE From Walter S. Byrne New Year's Greetings — to you and yours — and Best "Wishes for a happier 5700! To yon, for you are of us; and I harbor the complimentary feeling—the hope—that I may be worthy of your friendship and that yon may reciprocate my sentiment. To yours, as my small tribute to the immortal history and indomitable spirit of your people!

Parlous days and the tribulations of the oppressed are

no new experience for the Jewish people. Probably some Then, too, I think of a friend of mine in the old city of Baltip a r t oiLyour glorious heritage is born of _the adversity, of more, Maryland. Listen to- his your forefathers. No doubt new talents and accomplishstory and see if you think , he* ought to have religious liberty; ments wlir develop" in-the midst of your present day misforHe is a southern gentleman, born tunes.

I venture the prophecy, and express the hope, that In Georgia of old American stock.

He is a faithful Jew who'attends this new year you are about to enter will see an awakenthe synagogue according to Jewing of the world to the fact that we are all part of a great ish custom. This friend's name is Morris Lazaron. He is a rabbi, economy in which no group or class can exist at the sole that'is, "a teacher," of the Baltiexpense of another: more Hebrew Congregation. : Two Commandments You, better than I, can enumerate the triumphs of your What is Rabbi Lazaron teaching In America? Well, he says people; can point with pride to your contributions to the that-the two great commandments arts, sci&nces, literature, and I know I owe my monotheism, of Judaism are "love the Lord thy iGod with all thy heart, and to your fathers—as do you. But on this New Year's I take thy Neighbor as thyself." Chrisyour gifts to xay welfare, my happiness, my prosperity as tians and Jews can shake hands on that! With a profound devoall for granted. I hope the fact that you share them with tion f to" America, the rabbi beme brings you satisfaction and contentment. I thank you lieveB that American citizens must learn to appreciate as never befor the many personal kindnesses bestowed upon me. I am fore ^the privilege of living in the pleased to live by your side. I hope we are both worthy of United States. and can generously contribute to the welfare of this great He wants no special considera tiona for Jews, and asks only that democracy. That's why I say—"A Happier New Year to all minorities in American life— you and yours!" and somewhere in this great land every one of us is in a minority— —Walter S. Bryne. shall; be treated with fair play and ;good sportsmanship.

He asserts this: "America has not we really love liberty lies in faiths talking things over to»- purpose in the world at t h i s the answer to the question wheth- gether, and co-operating for the tragic time: We must hold high er we want it for other people as safeguarding of human rights and the banner of freedom—not only well as for ourselves. Do we want religious freedom for all of us? religious, but economic, industrial liberty only for those whose Ideas If not, why not?" and political freedom. We must we approve, those who think as Should you find an inter-faith consider ourselves as members of we do? committee or round-table funcone jfamily, drawn from all na- Or have we- sufficient confi- tioning in your home town, lend tions and races and religions of dence in truth to leave men free the weight of your influence to the earth, sharing in the great ad- to proclaim what they believe even it. If there is no such clearing venture of democracy." You and though we think it to be false? house among the Catholic, Jewish, I must agree that the United Do we want freedom for t h e Protestant, and other religious States of America will do well preacher In the pulpit and the forces, organize one. The future to maintain religious freedom statesman on the rostrum but not of religious freedom depends upon for the American Jews to teach for the demagogue on the soap o u r spirited determination to that": box? History teaches that de- make democracy work. The pracThere are only five million nial of liberty to the soap box tical step of maintaining active Jews, among -the 125 million is the first step toward the en-round-tables of Christians a n d Americans. Let America promise slavement of the pulpit and theJews is one of the essentials to them: this: The United States will rostrum. that end. be kept one island safe from the Patrick Henry, George WashCopyrighted by Jewish Teletroubled sea of persecution, hate ington, Thomas. Jefferson, and graphic Agency, Inc.) contempt and untruths; a land other early American rebels and free from anti-Semitism;-a strong- "revolutionaries," if alive n o w, hold of spiritual decency. would frown on an all too common tendency among us today to And here is one more case in call every man a "Red" or a which to test out universal re- "Fascist" if he does not agree ligions liberty. with us, and try to keep the soAnother Test called "Red" or "Fascist" from In'ja small town outside Boston speaking. Mark this: We do not there, lives a jolly and attractive want a repetition of the European scientist. His peculiar study is inquisition or the early New Engthat of earthquakes. One day heland witch-hunting when, as one showed me an apparatus that he historian points o u t , "Honest •uses to ;measure the trembling of doubt was dealt with as Impious Edict Complete Surprise the earth's surface. But he doea rebellion and speculative restlessto Jewish not «pend all of Ws time with ness as satanic suggestion." That Leaders that c earthquake measuring ma- is Eot good Americanism. chine.

Fight Destroyers Berlin (WNS)—Leaders of the He likes also to look at the But while we should concede Jewish community here were ormovies Hollywood gets out. In liberty of expression to those dered to begin rebuilding synafact,; he is a specialist In the ar with whom we disagree, a n d gogues and other buildings deof motion pictures, and he gets a Whose doctrines we abhor, it isstroyed by fire and during the lot ol joy borrowing the feature not Incumbent upon us to give aid disturbances of last November, it films from Boston and showing or comfort, either by action or by was reported unofficially. The orthem to a college in Massachu silence, to the philosophies which der came as a complete surprise setts^ which trains young men to would destroy us. Freedom of to Jewish leaders- who were told be priests. opinion should not mean indif- by Nazi officials that only Jewish This friend of mine is a Roman ference to the doctrines which workers may be employed.

Representatives of the Jewish Catholic priest himself: Father are subversive of freedom, whethMichael Ahern of the Society o er they be the Communism of thecommunity announced that only Jesus.

If you know a better Left or the Fascism of the Right. two synagogues will be rebuilt Pi story • teller, a more generous, un In fact, the very freedom which the present time inasmuch as selfish friend, a better American American natural rights extend many Jewish families had already and a finer Christian than this to the enemies of democracy to emigrated from Germany and the Jesuit, priest, I- should like- to proclaim their principles, Imposes need for additional houses of worknow him, too. As a loyal Amer- upon us the obligation to combat ship was not pressing. It was also reported that the Nazi govern-

mrr **Fear ye not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord which he tuitt show you today" (Exodus 14:13).

These words were spoken by Moses 5700 years ago. Powerful and reassuring were these mighty words centuries and centuries ago.

Powerful and reassuring they still are today, dezpite the present significance of the threatening pigmy figure of the Swastika, added hereto the Michael Angelo painting.

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that the efforts of frenzied dictators to discriminate against defenseless peoples under the ruse of religious or so called racial differences, must inevitably e n d in fatality and failure.

Just as now, the Big Thing was the hope for freedom frorn. pcrsecureligiosxs. r; and the all inclusive right to self determinatioi and Just as now, the frightened pursued were dismayed by the forrnidable pursuer. Still* there isthe promise and the cornmnrifi » * + ^ Q ^ n - * S^TI n-nA SP>£»'* » -. i t l d U t i t i * •" *

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Name; PRINT SHOP ADDRESS—4504 6O. 84THSTREET With hearts that are heavy we contemplate in many, lands This is KiF glory and praise and DAVID SLACKER • Business and Managing Editor ism plays in the life of each individual Jew. It is the constant, the inhuman treatment inflicted upon the helpless. For no if me.

God adjusts the burden to the LEONARD NATHAN .

• • editor the permanent. cause other than an accidental difference in race, language, camel.

RABBI FREDERICK COHN • • Contributing Editor Come, my beloved, to meet the His religion has been the Jew's comfort when there was no or religious faith, horrible atrocities upon the individual RABBI THEOPORB N. LEWIS o . . .

Book Editor Bride; are hourly perpetrated. The r i g h t s of minorities are We cannot comprehend either political rights and no hope for them.

It has been his refuge FRANCES BLACKER Xow welcome we the Sabbath* Society E4Hor the prosperity of the wicked or trampled upon.

Nations that arc small and weak are swept tide.

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• • Sioux City Correspondent when anti-Semitic mobs were impelled onward. It has been the the suffering of the righteous. aside. Might alone rules.

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Council Bluffs Correspondent hope of .the Zionist. But it is more than that.

To meet the Sabbath let us go; Here is a two-fold challenge to America. We have first In the next century, providing, of course, that civilization Prayer without devotion is She is the fount whence blessings a duty to protest against such crimes -whenever and by How, continues, Judaism will play a more vital role as an instrument body without breath.

A CENTURY IN RETBOSPEOT whomsoever committed. The guilty parties must be sumIn earliest beginnings wrought— of peace and justice, and as a system of morality and ethical Who gains the approval of good .Somber and tragic though its final note may be, the fiftymoned before the bar of an aroused public opinion and reLast tc be made, but first In men, m a y hope for that o£ quired to answer for their wrong doing.

Not long can they thought. seventh century of Jewish life has been a glorious one.' The relations.

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Stand against the moral indignation of the world.

The message of the prophets of Judaea remains true and Come, my beloved, to meet the chaos of the closing moments belie the brilliance of the hunOne should conduct himself as Bride: But there is a condition precedent. The voice of Amerdred years .just past and obscure the promise of the coming strong. The message of Judaism is timeless. It has been with carefully before man as before Nov.- welcome we the Sabbathica will not fully prevail until America is true to her own us for fifty-seven centuries and its vigorous and spiritual century, In the light of a people as old as Israel, a hundred tide.

God. noble traditions. We must be without fault ourselves before years is a short enough span of time. But these, past hundred growth will continue into the fifty-eighth. we can hope to point the way to others. Unfortunately, O sacred city, royal shrine.

What shall n a n do to live; kill years- have wrought amazing-changes, in Jewish life, more Arise from out these ruins thine! his (lower) self. What shall man even in our midst there is intolerance. Good will is not the Too long has sat in the vale ot A YEAR OF SADNESS do to die; sustain his (lower) changes than in the preceding millenia. universal rule. . Class lias been set against class. Bigotry tears, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; self. dares to raise its ugly head. For ny seem unwilling to For He that is full o£ pity hears. recognize all men as their brothers and to treat them as The righteous are greater in "When 5600 dawned upon the world the Jews, except in a it was the age.of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it death Come, my beloved, to meet the such. than in life. was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it Bride; few select spots, were fettered by restrictions of every sort.

There is a challenge to the individual in America. With Now welcome we the SabbatbA good man lost to his age is ' Ghetto walls still imprisoned them in most portions of the was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it so great a cause for thankfulness that we live in a land of like a lost pearl. The pearl retide. globe. Participation in civil life was forbidden. Only in the was the spring of Hope, it was the winter of despair . . ." mains a pearl wherever It may liberty under the protection of constitutional guarantees, So shake thee from the dust; Thus Dickens began his story of the French Revolution, be;, only the owner feels its loss. we must recognize a heavy responsibility upon each of us.

United States and to a lesser degree France and Holland were arise, Jews treated as men. Then slowly a new era came upon "The Tale of Two Cities." Though he was actually referring Alae for him who mistakes To expel from our hearts every vestige of intolerance. To Bedeck thy f o r m in glorious no word or act of ours that-would infringe the right guise: ja long-suffering world. Prom rusty hinges the ghetto gates to the age of that great upheaval, he might well have been branch for tree, shadow for sub- permit Because of David, Jesse's son, of every other to glory in his racial ancestry. To worship stance. writing of the era in which we live.

Specifically it is the ideal ;were torn and the air -of a free world allowed to filter through Be now my soul's redemption son.

God according to dictates of his own conscience. To speak the narrow streets of the Judenstrasse of Germany and thedescription.of the year through which we have just come.

Good men promise little and do and advocate freely his own convictions. To afford to all Come, my beloved, to meet the The year 5699 ominously began in crisis.. It is ending on a much; wicked men promise much ghettos of Italy. Heroic struggles ensued for the recognition the opportunity to live and work in freedom, the right to Bride; and do nothing. critical note.

Last year it was Czecho-Slovakia that was threatNow welcome we the Sabbathbe secure in their homes and in the fruits of their labor, the .of the Jew as an able and free citizen. Emancipation came to tide. power to proteet themselves against the ruthless and the There are three classes ol .the disinherited of Europe. Now there were Jewish bankers ened. Today it is the world. The forces-of evil have been at friends of God: the wronged who cunning.

When that spirit rules America, all the world will O wake thee, wake thee, people with feudal titles. Now there were Jews in the Parliaments work, undermining the amenities of human relations. seek not revenge; workers for th give heed. mine!

In this year just past, Jewry has gone through one of its love of God; cheerful sufferers. and in the Universities and on the seats of Justice.

-Senator Edward E. Burke Thy light is come — arise and iinhappiest years in its long history. The world prides itself on shine!

But even as the emancipation was proclaimed opposition the civilization it has attained. It parades the technological The righteous need no monu Awake and sing, for all can see ments, their deeds are their moti to such unheard of freedom arose. The same century that saw progress it has made. Science boasts of its skill and that learn- uments.

The glory of the Lord on thee. freedom witnessed the Jews being faced with a new menace— ing has led man from the bondage of superstition.

Come, my beloved, to meet the Three names are given to a that of anti-Semitism, a new political device that has now Bride; man: the first by his parents, the Yet as the Jews of the world look back on a debris-strewn Now welcome we the Sabbathreached its pinnacle in the Germanic lands of its birth.. It was second by the world, the third by tide.

Song A Degenerate Age manufactured to make mockery of the. Jewish emancipation year, they, might well have reason to question that in which the his works. world takes pride.

The growing list of ravished Jewries inof gloom and Where is the man who has been Be not ashamed, be not dismayed; and to call the lie of assimilation. Although the world is only The greatest of heroes is he Ah, vale of woe, cast down and why moulded, tried and found strong and "Why art Uow beginning to realize the true meaning of anti-Semitism as creased. The hospitality of nations decreased. The sea, tradi- who turneth. an enemy into a How darkness afraid? long wilt hold me bound sound?

(In Thee my suffering people -V. In double chains? a political weapon, at its inception at least, one prince, the tionally ungracious, alone was willing to give space to unwanted friend. refugees, and carried them from port to port. trust Where is the friend of reason Better to die—to rest in shadows Archduke Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, recognized it as the Blessed is the generation in To raise their city from the dust). folded. and of knowledge?

Twenty-two years of Zionist endeavor were crowned with which the old listen to the young; sword of reaction. Under an assumed name, for the heir to the Than thus to grope amid the I see only sceptics and weaklings. doubly blessed when the young depths in vain!

Come, my beloved, to meet the throne could not indulge in political controversy, he wrote indignity as the British government forsook its treaty obliga- listen to the old.

I see only prisoners in the durBride; tions and voided the considerations of the Balf our Declaration ance of the senses. panically against its spread, and perhaps his death at Mayerling I watch the eternal hills, the far.

Now welcome we the Sabbatf Do • not threaten children with as its answer to Arab terrorism and Jewish loyalty. far lying, And every fool and every spendtide. may be laid to this act. punishment you do not intend to With glorious flowers e v e r o o o © thrift inflict.And they that s^oS. shall be deover-run; The Jews reacted to anti-Semitism in two ways. One group spoiled, I take my • eagles' wings, with Thinks himself as great a master This is one time,-at least, that despite the utter gravity of saw a partial assimilation, the other Zionism, as the answer.

Do not limit your children to as Aristotle.

They that would swallow thee be vision flying the situation the Jews were not lost in despair.

They saw they your knowledge, for they were foiled.

And brow upraised to 1 o o k Think'st thou that they have writOne sought the enlightenment of the ghetto Jews, his introducborn in another age.

Thy God rejoicing at thy side upon the sun.

• ten poems? tion to the amenities of life. The other the establishment of_a. were not alone. They realized the injustices, of which they Like groom rejoicing o'er his bride.

Jewish nationalism dependent on the patronizing tolerance of Tvere the victims) were the injustices of an indiseriminating evil. —Go<T~g&ve more understanding Ye skies, how fair the -paths be- Call'st thou that a song?

I call it the cackling of ravens.

The civilized governments in Europe rallied to aid, and though to froaaa than to man. fore your spaces! no land.

Come, ray beloved, to meet the freedom shines for ever The zeal of the prophet must free concrete results of their efforts are yet to be achieved, such . All blessing in the household Therelike a star; Bride; poesy Zionism itself was nothing new, but in-the fifty-seventh action was in itself significant. comes through the wife; there- The winds are blowing through Now welcome we the SabbathFrom the embrace of wanton century it reached its fruition. The promise of the Bible was fore should her husband honor your lofty places, tide.

The Jews have taken up the challenge of the times with youths.

And who, ah, who can say how fulfilled. Where a half-century ago supposed authorities _on renewed vigor. They drew on their spiritual resources and her.

My song I have inscribed on the To right and left hand thou shalt sweet they are? colonization wrote that settlement in Palestine by Jews was found their strength. If Hitler was to float the German- Be careful not to cause woman —Rachel Morpurgo (1790-1871). spread. forehead of Time, Trans, by Xina Salaman. impossible, today stands a Palestine dedicated by a half-million Jewish population in his merchant marine, the Jewish communi- to cry, for God counts her tears.

They know and hate it—for it is And serve the Lord with love and dread: Jews to soil and sea. Fromthe desert has risen a modern counlofty.

He who loves his wife as himAnd through the stock which ties would do,everything in their power to effect a rescue.

If Admonition try—the answer to the detractors of the Jews who delighted in self and honors her • more than Perez bore Solomon itra Gabirol (1021-1070) Britain closed the doors of Palestine, the Jews would prove himself, will train his children Shall we be glad for evermore.

Long in the lap of childhood didst terming them parasites. ' Transl. by Emma Lazarus. their right to the land of their heritage by entering without, rightly. thou sleep, Come, my beloved, to meet the the sanction of the British colonial office. Britain had been - Culture in a womar is better Think how thy youth life chaff Bride; Elegy than gold.

Now welcome we the Sabbathdid disappear; The past century has seen the shift of the Jewish popula- first to break faith—certainly not the Jews. , tide.

Shall life's sweet Spring forever My thoughts impelled me to the • a o 9 • . ' tion centers from Europe to America. Here the Jews have Woman's sense of shame is last?

Look up, resting • place Crown of thy husband, come in transferred their institutions as they: transferred them from It has been a difficult year for us all—Jew and non-Jew. deeper than man's.

Old age approaches ominously Where sleep my parents, many a peace.

Palestine to Babylon, from Babylon to Provence, from Provence -We cannot escape being affected by the events abroad, no mat-^ Who does not bring his son up O come vith joy and glad renear. friend and brother. lease! to Spain, and from Spain to Holland and northern Europe. It ter how far removed we are from the theater of'action. We to a trade teaches him to bs a Oh, shake thou off the world, I asked them (no one heard and Amid, the faithful now abide— is a striking comment on the status of these American institu- cannot close our eyes and pretend everything is all right/be- robber. even as the bird . none replied): j Amid the cboser.—Come, O Bride! tions that the. Chief Rabbi of the British Empire should be the cause that is not our way of fighting evil. We are our brother's Position cannot honor the man; Shakes off the midnight dew that "Do ye forsake me, too, of father, j mother?" i Come, my beloved, to meet the his wings. graduate of an American seminary. keepers and accept the responsibility. If there is any way in the man must honor the position. Soard clogged upward, seek redemption Then from the grave, without e !

Bride; tongue, these cried, J Now welcome we the Sabbathfrom thy guilt | Por the first time Judaism has experienced radical changes. which we can help lighten the burden of the persecuted, that is Famine passes by the workAnd from the earthly dross that | And showed my own place wait- j man's door. tide.

Reform Jewry.came as the answer to the demands of:those our task of the moment. ing by their side. j Solomon J-Ialeti Alkabez (c. 1550) round thee clings. near to God. His holy —Moses ibn. Ezra (£C7O-11SE>).

Jews who wanted their Judaism modernized. .Conservative Trans, by Xina Salaman.

If the year has been difficult, it has been a year to strength- Truth is heavy therefore few Draw angels know, Trans, by Emma Lazarus.

Jewry, came as a compromise between Reform and Orthodoxy. en the moral fiber. It has been the sort of year in which one carry it. 'or whom His bounteous streams ' r! of mercy flow.

Even Orthodox Uewry~ has been affected b y the changes of re-evaluates his own position and seeks his obligations to man- Thus is the liar punished; even —Jcfiati Kaierl (£083-1140). he speaks the truth none l> L I trim I modern times and the influence of the rationalist spirit.

Loved of My Soul kind. It is a year to teach the meaning of courage. And a •when Trans, by Emma Lazarus. hearken. © © .o o year to inspire us to justice and humanity. If we have emerged Loved of my soul! Father of Judge cot your neighbor until grace!

The Law The chaos of the times is apt to obscure the tremendous with our faith unshattered, our belief unchanged, our vision you stand In his place.

Lead on Thy servant to thy <ly help, my hope, advances being made. Where once the Jew stood alone, help- sharpened, our generosity increased, we have profitted. If we favoring sight; strength r.t C i •edits S o Woe to the generation whose shall be, He fleetly as the hart, shs.ll speed Psycku *.tri lees before the mob, he today has the respect of the world. He have permitted our minds to be embittered by the bitter events, Judges must be judged. c k , r „Va clition for Thou, perfect law of God, in thee! his pace has been able to nail the lies, though.the past few years have we have lost.

To bow kira low before tfcy Tenee , He who lends on •usury is com• faith shall be my rock of glorious might. been trying ones, indeed. The forces of medievalism have conIt was the season of darkness. But it was also the spring pared r to a shedder of blood. might, Sweet is Thy lo\ e to him beyond Boston (JTA">—The Jew raretinued their efforts, but equally strong have been the defense of Hope. :ts law my portion and my right, ly becomes a drunkard because Credit and mutual trust should Its testimonies my delight, Sweeter than honey, fairer than ol the hatred of alcoholics which measures of the Jews and those who believe in the final triumph be the foundation of commerce.

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Splendor of worlds!

Honored, Never in all the preceding-fifty-seven hundred years have Abraham Myerson. director of the a receiver of stolen property An Israelite must not deceive even an idolator. adored!

Psychiatric Research Division of should be hanged and the thief i How did the angelic host lament there been such ardent, activities on the part of non-Jews to My soul is sick with pining love 1 the Boston Stale Hospital. Dr. go free. "Not the mouse but the When from their midst, by God's of Thee: j Myerson. who recently addressed prevent the spread of anti-Semitism. There has been a definite To deserve mercy, practice it. hole is the thief.' intent, My God! 1 pray Thee, heal her; !a scientific convention in Atlantic recognition of. the effects not only upon the Jews but upon The holy law to earth was sent, be implored: j K An Israelite must not deceive "Woe that the pure and sancti"^ ™ "™.* Social PsyAnd o'er her let Thy hoh- sweet- ! %%' those who, harbor evil intentions toward them.

Teach thy tongue to say: I do not know. of Alcoholism.-- said in even an idolator. fied be ' Today intelligent persons the world over—even in Germany Should now on sinful lips abide." j A soothing strength to stay her | to sleep without supper, but yearning sore; —are recognizing that anti-Semitism is not an isolated phe- Greatness flies from him who seeks it and seeks him. who flees riseGowithout debt.

The people trembled when they And joy shall be for 'her or ever- pair.fi:.! psycb.oiojrtcp.1 states and from it. responds like -members ot other nomenon, but is part and parcel of all injustice. The minds that saw more. races to the- effects of drink, the Whoever showeth compassion is Approaching them the heavenly conceive of the injustices to the Jew are capable of every sort as the seed of Abraham. law— Source of ail good! Pity Thou me! Jew seldom drinks tc- excess.

Weep for the living-mourners, not for the dead. of injustice and practice it—as is evidenced.

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Only catastrophes equal in intent to the Roman conquest Trust not-thyself till the day of thy death. of Judaea will end the accomplishments of Zionism. Not White Papers nor Arab terror will isolate the Palestinian Jew from This world is the vestibule; the world to come the palace. the Holy Land. The Mandate was not given by the League of Nations but by the Bible. * "Wisdom increaseth with age—so does folly.

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Jews ere rs-re'y •oi.«! pbptfiinprs. and see Great w o n d e r s He on Sinai The beauty of Thy strength, There e.re no Jev.-isii total abstinTo deserve mercy, practice it. ence societies. R'.id not even any wrought, | Thou mighty one!

When unto us His law He taught, ! These things mv soul desj-eth: •fetish temperance societies. But Charity is the salt of wealth. nov.-heves e.r.d Enionp?;: no people Wherefore to praise His name I I Lord. I pray, sought; Grant me Thy mercy; turn Thee is "ilie"e more contpauil, loathing " A miser is as wicked as an But what am I aad what my anc ever, haired fe rche alcoholic. not away. idolator. words "The term '!>.• ist pin Shikur' Before the Almig ty Lord of ! Ge Thou revealed. Dearest of is -F-c!n-.ul<<H"ui designates an „,. j (He .

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When like the heavenly host they shall shine, | harsh ana unsparing terms. To : sing And we shall know a joy that be E dn;r.Uarc; i - >o ce;;pp being'a Greatness flees from him who Thrice Holy, Holy—uttering Jew. is to l?£'--p Hie tola of Jewry shall not cease. seeks it, and seeks him who flees Sweet hymns and so^gs of pleas- Hasten. Beloved, for the time is Or tP he IMiKhPd Ol!*.. it. actaess " nigh, joy and awe Thy name to Acs have compassion as in days Samson Wertheinter, son of a Put not yourself in the way of bless. gone by. rabbi, was financier of the Austemptation,' for even. David could •Abraham ibn Ezra <1©88-I167) —Israel Xsjara (15.~0-1.60'>). trian army during the war of the not resist it.

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-:Kosh'•Hashonah. with its ' warming, rays of "fai'tli dispels the gloomy shadows. Rosh Hashbnah is our inspiration for the-morrow. . . . replenishing that courageous hope and dauntless faith which is the well-spring of our eternal-history • •. strengthening us'with new fortitude and confidence.

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By Leonard E. Roach This Bosh Hashonah begins not only a new year but a new centnry in Jewish life. From the watchpost of the new year 5700, the writer surveys a momentous twelve riionths in Jewish history.—TttE EDITOR. One hundred years ago Rosli Hashonah, 5600 — t h e year 1839 in. the .common calendar—found world Jewry looking forward with "bursting hopes to an era of emancipation and enlightenment. Le3S thai] a decade before France had officially recognized Judaism as a religion. A liberal nationalism •was stirring in Europe which was to bring emancipation of the Jews ir Austria in' 1866, in' Hungary and Italy In 1870 and in the German Empire in 1871.

All over the continent ghetto wall3 were crumbling and the Jews, imprisoned for centuries, •were looking out eagerly into a strange and fascinating world. In live years the first Reform rabbinical conference was l o be held.

New movements—Haskalah and aeo-orthodoxy — were beginning to take hold. It was the era of Moses Mendelssohn, Adolph Creiriieux and Isaac Baer Levinson.

Tlje term "anti-Semitism" had not yet been invented. The word "Zionism" still remained. to be coined. "Socialism" was not to "bawl its birth cry for another nine years.

Europe in a ferment of rising nationalism and enlightenment, •America pushing out her frontier^; it was an exciting Rosh Hashonah. The pendulum of Jewish history was in the first phase of an upward swing. It was a new year of new hope.

Reaction .Rosh Hashonah, 5 7 0 0 — September, 1939 — finds the pendulum swinging backward toward reaction. Throughout the world the forces of liberalism are retreating and brutality is in the • ascendant. Democracy is on the defensive; Fasojsm and Nazism— words unknown a hundred years ago—are lending their sway.

Enlightenment has passed its zanith and civilization is sweeping backward a century, and maybe more. Barriers against Jews , are mounting again. Ghettos with invisible walls, in some ways mor4 brutal than the tangible •walla of the Middle Ages, are being formed In Europe. Bigotry against the Jew has been raised to the dignity of an Idealogy, "4nti-Semitism," based on a pseudo-scientific racial principle.

A. new people of refugees has been created, driven through a hostile world whose senses have been numbed by repeated acts of barbarism.

A. Jewish • homeland in Palestine has loomed on the horizon and has begun to dim, like a cruel mirage.

The Jews are on the threshold oi a new century. It is a time •which, as Dr. Nahum Goldmann told the recent Zionist Congress 3n Geneva, is "the most-revolutionary, turbulent and cruel ever known in the history .of mankind."

No one year can be torn from the contest of its preceding and ensuing years. But this New Tear seems—perhaps because one is so •close to it—to mark the end of one of the most hectic twelvemonths in recent history. Whether the dire trends that the past year augurs will be fulfilled, will be for the historian to say; one fervently hopes not. Not all is despair. The end of the year saw the democracies trying to forge a front to save civilization. Amid the sea of reaction there re xnained Islands of liberalism.

In this new century, which forces will win? It would be tile to prophesy. One can only summarize the events of the past year and let them -indicate their own consequences.

per cent In economic, social, po- President Roosevelt at the White litical and cultural life. Anti- House to take further action.

Semitic action was taken by other Palestine nations in Berlin's orbit.

Britain revoked a promise to Italy which she had adhered more or The development of official less enthusiastically for the past anti-Semitism in Italy was entire- 20 y e a r s — the pledge to facilily a development of the past year. tate establishment of a Jewish Until last November leading fl«- homeland in Palestine. Instead, ures, from Premier Benito Musso- she planned to crystallize the lini down, had been outspoken iu Jews as a one-third minority their repudiation of racial prin- within an "independent" . (meanciples. But II Duce was forced to itig Arab) state. give way to his axis partner. Last First there were the conferNovember an "aryan" theory was ences with Arabs and Jews in promulgated for Italy, which was London aimed at finding an amicoon followed by concrete meas- able solution of the Arab-Jewish ures against the Jews. They were problem. -The conferences failed, onsted from professions and Gov- wlrsreupon Britain issued in May ernment employ, restricted' in a White Paper announcing her business and social life, and the intention to establish the state impulsion of all foreign Jews was within 10 years, if possible, and ordered. Anti-Semitism was for- to halt Jewish immigration after )ign to the Italian people, where five years. The Jews refused to the Jewish population numbered accept this policy. Illegal imonly about 50,000. Despite all migration led Britain to prohibit efforts of the reglnie, the racial Jewish Immigration for B I x >olicy did not succeed in striking months beginning Octobar 1. But oot in the past year. the Jews continued to defy BritRefugees ain. While extra-quota entry t h e 21st biennial T h e problem of refugees continued, WOrld Zionist Congress met in reached unprecedented gravity. Geneva in August to map a proRefugee ships plied the seas seekof resistance to the British ing havens for their passenger's. gram There was no cessation The incident of the German liner policy. during the past year of the vioSt. Louis, its passengers barred lence in Palestine, although the from Cuba for which they had re- back of the Arab rebellion was eived landing permits, was only one of numerous cases. Commu- believed to have been broken. nities of refugees also sprang up The most striking development in the "no-man's-land" on sever- in the United States during 5699 al of Europe's frontiers. Jews was a large growth in anti-Semitwere forced to live under the ism, largely as a reaction to most appalling conditions, starv- events abroad. This rising antiing, shivering with cold, unat- Jewish feeling took strongest tended in their sickness and, hold among a group of Catholics worst of all, homeless and un- who listened to the radio fulwanted. mlnatlons of Father Charles E. The world was not entirely past Coughlin and formed such organisympathy. The United States led zations as the "Christian Front," in the protest against German op- which was responsible for considpression. President Roosevelc last erable violence in New York and November broke diplomatic prec- other cities. Other evidences of exposed by. the dent by issuing a statement de- anti-Semitism, Dies Committee, were a plot innouncing the Nazi pogroms as a volving General Van Horn Moserevision to the Middle Ages, and ley, retired, and the activities of he was joined by the public at the German-American Bund. large in the United States. England and other countries. SecAlthough the danger of antiretary of Interior Harold Ickes Semitism appeared to be growalso condemned the azi oppres- ing, It had not yet become imsion, involving the United States portant pojitically. Anti-Semites in a diplomatic incident with Ber- who entered election campaigns lin which resulted in mutual re- were trounced at the polls. To call of ambassadors and a blunt fight bigotry, several organizaState Department statement back- tions came into existence, such as ng up Ickes. the Friends of Democracy a n d Seeking to cope with the refu- Catholic Committee Against Antijee problem, the Intergovern- Semitism, which fought prejudice mental Refugee Committee, form- as an attack on democracy. .

While alarmed over anti-Semited on President Roosevelt's initiative, obtained from the Reich ism, the American Jewish coman arrangement permitting order- munity devoted Its greatest atly -emigration. The world was tention as an organized group to scanned for new territories in succoring the less fortunate overwhich to settle refugees. Britain seas^ A record fund of $20,000,offered .several of her- colonies. .000 was sought for the United The Dominican Republic, the Jewish Appeal, comprising t h e Philippines and other territories J o i n t Distribution Committee were investigated. A Coordinat- United Palestine Appeal and Naing Foundation was set up to di- tional Coordinating Committee rect resettlement. A conference for Refugees (which was reorof directors of the Intergovern- ganized as the National Refugee mental Committee was called by Service).

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Central Europe The liquidation of the Jews of Germany was pushed relentlessly and with gathering speed during the past year. A huge p'ogrom was staged in the Reich last November, after a Jewish youth had slain a German Embassy offlcla: In Paris. It was a wave of ex cesses, deliberately unleashed by the Nazi regime, such at; the •world had rarely seen. Arson, arrests, torture, and looting were the order of the day. The pogrom was followed by a billion-mark fine and the issuance of decrees which stripped the Jewish population of its right to make a living, leaving it with the alternatives of emigrating or starving.

The expansion of Hitler's Reich brought with U an extension of anti-Semitism. Last September, <Jermany annexed the Sudeten.land territory of Czechslovakia and the Jews In the region joined their brethren in Old Germany in suffering persecution. Last March the CZQChoslovaklan Republic was destroyed. A Vprotectorate" was established In Bohemia-Moravia where strenuous efforts were made to introduce the Nazi system of anti-Semitism, which however met with •dogged resistance oh the part of the Czechs.

In Slovakia, also under Hitler's domination and more susceptible to a n ti-Semitism, legislation against the Jews was- issued and frequent pogroms occurred. The Nazi occupation of Memel was followed by an exodus of the Jews living there. At this writing" Germany is demanding Dan zi%. From the Jewish point, o.

View the Free City is already par of the Reich since anti-Semltii restrictions have long since been introduced.

•— As a result of Nazi pressure, Hungary issued a second and more drastic anti-Jewish law which curbed Jews to quota ranging between six and twelve

ounger students by those in ad•anced gra-ies.

Isadore Samuels, prominent Denver community leader, is chairman of the hospital's school ommittee which conceived and eveloped the institution's educaional methods.

Although all the pupils a r e hospital cases, they are able to keep up with their healthy classmates and are accepted with accredited standing by s c h o o l s ;hroughout the country.

Because of the comparatively small number of pupils with a wide disparity in ages, the hospital school resembles In some ways he old - fashioned "little r e d ichool house." All activities for ihildren from the first grade hrough Junior high school a r e conducted In one large room. But here the similarity ends, for this room 13 modernly furnished and quipped with all the latest apurtenances of a classroom in the most progressive of schools. Well filled book shelves line the walls, 'or the very young children there :s even a sand table and other terns considered necessary in resent day education.

Treatment for the children's infirmity naturally influences the appearance of this unusual classroom. For on a winter day, the windows will be wide open and the pupils are clad in Eskimo suits. At other seasons, like the present, for the school continues 11 months a year, the children will be clothed only in sun suits.

A noticeable feature is the division of the smaller children into groups,, each under the charge of an older child. The visitors attention might be caught by a rather noisy group of second grade youngsters in a corner of the classroom. They are facing a blackboard on which is written a list of spelling words. By the board stands Virginia, a smart looking little miss, who has juBt stepped over from the eighth grade to assist In carrying out a plan of studying spelling which she and her little friends have worked out.

Whispering Allowed The visitor will later learn that Virginia entered the hospital just one year ago,-a very shy and underweight little girl. By leaps and bounds she has gained 26

pounds in weight and has developed into e most capable young lady.

In another sun-2it spot the visitor will see a bookcase and a library table. He wonders why the three youngsters working tbere are.allowed to whisper so ffeel?, and their student supervisor, 11year-old Harriet, explains: "Whispering is all right es long as "It's about tfie lesson." la another study group will be found one child studying English. another making a book report, a third solving a problem in mathematics. Thirteen-year-old Cb&rlcsj who is tbe student mentor in charge, 6Splains what is going on.

"You see," he says, "we hav« certain days for each Bubject. Our assignments are given us. We can prepare them when we clioosa as long as we are ready when class is called. We like this system because there are days when we are more in tbe njood for one subject than Tor another."

Ecst and Stody CombtaeS The teacher may have before her at the same time a fifth end sixth class.. She is observed pansing to send' the pupils o* t h e

fourth grade for a short recess on the classroom, to save the roof the adjoining playground. S b e for him. That was what he had has noticed that most of their meant to do vhen the project lesssftn preparations have b e e n had heg-nn, be'ore f.he doctor h a l completed, and the little folks a prescribed his staying in bed for bit v.-cary. They may not feel a while. like that for (Jays, but when they do, it is her duty to give them tbe rest and recreation they neoa.

The children, some of whom arc carM for in the Preventoriuro for tKose preglsposefi to tuberculosis, end some in arother divieion for those with active tuber- Johannesburg (JTA) — Formaculosis, remain at this unusual tion of a public relations commitf,ebooi varying lengths of time. tee to mobilize She Jewish comis gome Instances as long as thre» munity in defence o£ J e w i s h years. Some seem perfectly nor- rights was a n n o u n ced at the mal and healthy, while others monthly meeting of the South Afhobble in on crutches, or come in rican Board of Jewish Deputies. on wheelchairs.

The committee, which will inBut a.cheerful spirit pervades clude representatives of all secthe atmosphere at all times. The tions of the Jewish community, children take spontaneously to will issue literature to counteract learsJBS under the guidance or anti-Semitic propaganda. Antiteachers who make it all seem Jewish propaganda has been infun. Indicative of this condition tensified in. the Cape Province, t h e . ^ • Is the ense cf little Bobby, who j board was told. is bedridden but doesn't miss bis The sage Ibn Ezra remarks lessons because he gets bedsiop instruction curing this period. that "if all men were righteous, Bobby tells his classmates, who there would be no need for laws are building a Viking-house in of damages."-

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NEW YEAR MESSAGE from Bishop "Martin At an hour like this when intolerance and persecution are destroying the spirit of security and brotherly goodwill in so many countries of the world, it should be the cherished ambition of every true American to keep our nation free from the blighting fires of class and racial bitterness. Attitudes and relationships are partly a matter of the group spirit by which all of us are being constantly influenced for good or evil. This group spirit is determined, however, by the attitudes and ideals of individuals.

Because of this fact, it becomes the duty of every citizen to maintain in his own thought and behavior the spirit and outlook of brotherly understanding of the rights of others and the determination that this sacred heritage shall not be violated. Only by these means can we escape the tragic disasters that have marred the history of many modern nations. "We must remind ourselves that 'only in so far as the rights of all the people are protected can there be security for the rights of any of the people. This nation was established upon the doctrine of equal privileges for all It is our inescapable obligation to maintain our national life upon this foundation.

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By Samuel Schaefer Executive Secretary, National Jewish Hospital Denver, Colo. (Special Corre- provides free treatment to tubercspondence) — A boy and a girl ulous men, women and children whose homes are two thousand from every state on a non-secmiles apart were graduated from tarian basis. the Joseph E. Shoenberg MemorThe pupils who graduated las ial School of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver last month. .month—one a girl from Denver, Readers of ., the above para- the. other a boy from Braddock graph will naturally .wonder why Pa.-—will return to their normal this graduation took place in the school activities when they ar late summer rather than early in discharged from t h e hospita; summer as is usually the case. without "any loss of schooling The date of the annual gradua- For they have been given the ad tion exercises of the National vantage of a new educational Jewish Hospital school Is only method for the benefit of th one of the unusual phasea of this handicapped and ill child which is now accredited by s c h o o l unique educational project.

Indeed, it is so unique that the throughout the country.

New York Times recently pubNew Methods Instituted lished a feature article about the The Shoenberg School, now eel school and its work which has at- ebratlng Its 20th anniversary tracted the attention of educators contains at all times from 45 to througbut the country.

60 children, ranging In age from Educational Advantages 4 to 16. Because of the physical Financed through the income limitations of the pupils, a mettt from a trust fund established by od was developed whereby th the widow and children of the normal five-hour session could b late Joseph E. Shoenberg, one of contracted to three hours with the pioneer patrons of the Na- out loss to the student. Anothei tional Jewish Hospital, the Shoen- technique found extremely sue berg School is one of many non- cessful, which arose out of th medical.services available to the necessity of conditions, is t h patients of the institution, which coaching a n d supervising o

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least likely to enter the eompeti-jia favor of t i e refugees should be lost in America. That loss vill i serving their Bpirit: then F C must j ov.-n pee Tt**o*)]> tion lor johs the moment they a r - also be prepares t o help raise t i e ' s u b t l y — s a d unfavorably — in-! examine • ourselves for traces o£ | i-u (.ions. rive. Should the country fiecifie t o funds needed t o provide for them Snence t h e p e r s o n a l live* of ! tio«.e - . " . s i LI J FT •-;•„»: ;.„;•£ ! ^ - - ' -or nr be EelECtlTe, -preference stSOUld until tfiey can Seccise self-sup-' Americans a'-ad most phase? o ' . ^ t r . - , . ^ . . i t l J W J O I J , . c^T ~ be given t o . t h o s e "Who | porting. They m c s t also be ready j their national life. America vr ' r T-e -c possess special talents and skills c o m b a t t h e anti-Semitism j become a rigid country, not u n . ^c t • ><iiin •vraich are not sow -overabundant which will deve2op if people be-I most of t h e Old World iaads. 1.^- ^ , here, together •with children and Heve t h a t more Jeisrish refugees j mediate self-interest will teed ' b . ' P Ti young people, who should be are being admitted than CES be j become our ruling passion .. , 1 O helped, perhaps first of all. absorbed by the country. i idealism will besrir* to weaker J The danger of an increase In On -the -other- hand, the - Trriterjwe Relieve in the spirit of anti-foreign and anti-Jewish feel- feels that -we cannot cver-emphas- j Americans vrtio, by the esercise c c »=->: V r ll'P ings as a result of allowing more ise the importance of continuing j ingenuity snd sheer -prill p o v r , r r£ - O V5OV refugees than can be properly carthis country's tradition a* aa asj>- baUt up this America v:e Tvanl to ^hjc!

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100,000 persons in Czechoslovakia Those who want the quotas raised deeply important and precious will i shall preserve that land by pre- formulated in the light "of our! who must leave there. Lesg than one-fifth of these latter are Jew-, ish. Other thousands are seeking refuge from oppression in other countries.

In a pamphlet on Refugee Facts published a few months ago by the American Friends Service Committee ot Philadelphia, the following examples of r e f u g e e contributions to American industry are cited:

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This proposal obtained immediate support from an impressive group of Catholic Protestant, and Jewish clergymen, and was quickly endorsed by both the Congress of Industrial, Organizations and the American Federation of Labor.

The legislation was approved by the Senate Immigration Committee, but with an amendment requiring that the children, if admitted, be charged against the regular German immigration quota. Senator Robert F. "Wagner, author of the bill, is opposed to the and Jewish o r g a n i z a t i o n s a m e n d m e n t , believing that it "A German firm exported until throughout the country.—THE would be unfair to ask adults recently certain types of wool hoEDITOR. waiting for a chance ~to get out siery to the United States. Now of Germany to step aside for the the three refugees who had owned To close students o£ European children. Congress a d j o u r n e d this firm have reestablished it in affairs it -was long apparent that withbut taking the bill out of Massachusetts and are employing Nazi Germany eventually would 'ominittee.

388 American workers in the , . . produce a refugee crisis. Loose, Refngee Immigrants irom Ger- manufacture of goods which had sporadic, ill-organized efforts to previously been imported f r o m many ^ .. ..

DB prepared to meet it internaOf the approximately 77,000 abroad. tionally "were made in various quota who have enter"Another refugee has brought quarters. None began to meet the ed theimmigrants United States .from Ger- over from Germany a patented need, although the "work of the many 1933, when the Na- process' used in the manufacture League High Commissioner for tional since Socialists came to power, of gloves. The firm he established Refugees deserves praise. An most have been refugees." They to utilize this patent now does an American, James G. McDonald. were people who either were com- annual business of $100,000." former Chairman of the Foreign pelled to leave to save their lives Among products now being manPolicy'Association, served as High or who foresaw imminent develop- ufactured in this country through CommlssidEer from 1833 to 19S5. ments which would seriously in- the Bkilled work of refugees are Ho was succeeded by Sir Nell Mal- terfere with their work as scient- skis, tooled leather goods, "Viencolm. Yet when Hitler seized Aus- ists, scholars, artists, or writers. nese petitpoint, baked goods sueh tria, a crisis "was created vrhich no The edriest of these refugee-im- as lebkuchen, and photographic existing agency could possibly migrants were persons who, prior supplies. In many cases these new meet. to 1933, had taken anti-Nazi industries are providing work for Since February, 1939, consider- stands, or whose very • personali- others who were formerly unein-able progress hag been made by ties or careers were in effect ployed. the Intergovernmental Committee criticisms of the Hitler cause.

Many of the refugees are findon Refugees, set up by the Evian There was Professor Albert:Eln- ing work in n o n - competitive Conference of 1938, in arranging fields, such as doines!ic labor. for orderly emigration from Ger- stein. Later, by way of Switzer- There has for years been a Bhorfcmany. The German Government land and Czechoslovakia, came age of skilled labor in certain has agreed to provide means — Thomas Mann, one of the greatest fields; refugees a r e bringing auch means to be gained through living writers. Some refugees were many special skills that American ""({taxing the Jews — for the emi- Protestants and Catholics, others industry needs. 'gration of some 400,000 Jews over Jews, or part Jews. Some were The total allowance for all the a period from three to five years. members of the Social Democratic Elderly Jews are excluded from or other anti-Nazi parties. There quota countries during the last the plan. Promise has also been were Gen tile-Jewish married cou- seven years (1932-193S inclusive) made that temporary employment ples whose life in Germany had Was nearly 1,100,000. Only 140,will he provided for the Jews re- •become impossible because they 000 quota immigrants actually maining in Germany awaiting the were unwilling to separate. Many came in, or about 11 percent of of them brought over their famil- the quota. During the year ended time of their departure. . .

June 30, 1938, only 42,494 quota Despite some relaxation' of the' iesimmigrants were admitted, which A Superior Group. regulations against Jews in - GerScientists, scholars, journalists, is about 28 per cent of the 153,many, the primary restrictions re-, 774 permitted under the quota. • main. The only Jews permitted to "publishers, physicians, professors, The combined German-Austrian earn a living are a limited num- musicians, artistB were predominber v/ho are paid by Jews. A few ant among these early .refugees. quota was scarcely touched durpbvEicfcns and lawyers, although There were members of the Bouh- ing the depression. In 1932 only deprived of their professional sta- aus, the famous institution of ar- 2,273 quota immigrants entered tus, are permitted to act for Jew- tistic, pedagogic, and generally from both countries; in 1933 only ish clients. But Jewish artisans cultural experimentation In Des- 1*445; in 1934 only 3,744; in may not work even for Jews. The sau, the closing ot which was one 1935 only 5,532; In 1936 only 6,remaining Jews live on their fast- of Hitler's first acts. Some came 642. In 1937, a s persecution indwlndling capital or Jewish char- in with a little money, some with creased, 11,536, mostly refugees. ity. Some who are wholly destitute receive poor relief JIX _the_ lowest rates,- in" rfitanr for-T7hIch"-they must perform "duty-work" on road construction and similar projects. '_..-. : America's Reaction V- ' The plight of the German refugees is particularly distressing to the American people. Its details shriek at us from the headlines.

Most discussions of it — in the I am glad of the chance to send a few •words of greet1 street, at the dinner, table.^in. the ing and good-will for the New Year. This summer I have smoking car, in print, on the platform, in Congress — . are highly been reading a history of the development of early Jewish emotional. Some of us are yelling literature in the Bible. Again I have been impressed by the impulsively: "For God's sake, let them come in! — all of them!' lasting contribution of that literature to the best thought Others, neck-deep in their own of the world. troubles, echo savagely: "There' no room for them here! They'll "We should all, whatever the tradition to which we were but make our own mess worse.' born, share the inconquerable faith of the great Hebrew Still others, their emotions deeply at c r o s s - p u r p o s e s , shout: prophets and from them gain confidence that the present "Chase them a w a y ! They are era of misunderstanding and intolerance will lead to one of breaking our hearts!" mutual understanding of the unique contribution of each Tne promptness yet confusion •with which this country has regroup to the common life. sponded to the crisis is due, aside from sheer horror, to an inner --Rowland Ha^es, President ::;',\ conflict between two p o w e r fnl University of Omaha forces.

One is the tradition of the United States as an asylum for the oppressed, persecuted, and frugtrated, which is inextricably woven considerable sums, some with next arrived from both countries. The ^i the entire pattern of Ameri- to nothing. Some had. relatives number increased to 17,868 durcan history. This, coupled with the here, or friends, or former pupils, ing the year e n d i n g June 20, fact that many American citizens or admirers; others came as com- 1538. A deduction should be made . Save blood ties with the refugees plete strangers. for the 13,071 Germans who regives this country a greater inner Intelligent p e o p l e all ovei turned to their homeland between compulsion to. face .the awful situ- America quickly r e a l i z e d this. 1934 and 1938. ation than Is found in any other Committees were formed, to help The German quota for the year nation. Facing it, the first impulse the refugees. Some, like Einstein, ending June 30, 1939, was 100 Ot large numbers of Americans l created positions for themselves per cent. In other words, about the fall of 1938 was to admit the simply by. coming over. For soine 27,370 iniEtigrahts came in from refugees without asking how of the others the so-called "Uni- Nazi Germany. About 95 per cent many there might be. That they versity in Exile" was created. of these were refugees; about onewere not Immediately — and are Foundations appropriated funds third of them Catholics, Protesnot being now admitted in any for scholars to enable them tc tants, Austrian monarchists, and large numbers is due to our very continue their research. assorted anti-Nazis, and abbut rigid immigration laws which the Kef ngees two-thirds Jews.

TJnlted States enacted in the early The American consular officials Commanding capital, a number 1920's. of these new refugee-immigrants in Europe already have applica- The other force affecting our at- who had been manufacturers in tions from enough acceptable reftitude toward the refugees is that Germany, exporting their products ugee emigrants from Germany to America's domestic situation at to. America, resumed their indus- fill the quota of that country for this time is none too satisfactory tries here and employed American the year ending June 30, 1940, and does not seem likely to im- labor. One _Germah Bhlrtmaker and are besieged by great crowds prove soon in any fundamental who exported s h i r t s to Latin of individuals and families who way. Our internal affairs are America now has a small factory want visasloaded with explosive politica in New Orleans, employing AmerCzechoslovakia is in much the possibilities. We have some ten ican labor and continuing to ex- same position as Germany. Only ymillian unemployed who seem su port his shirts to Latin America. a handful of Czechoslovak immi/Perfluous in our economic set-up • A few, unable to adjust them- grants came to this country duras it now operates. Many feel that selves, committed suicide in their ing the depression, but the quota it would be sheer stupidity to lodging-house-rooms in New. York was virtually filled .in the year bring in more people who might and elsev/here. Some rented land ending June 30, 1938. It was entake the places of those now em- and went 'Into farming. Physicians tirely filled -In the year ending ployed or would be forced to Join and surgebng were admitted tc June 30, 1939. Hungary filled its the jobless and go on relief at the practice. *• small quota in 1938 and 1939, expense of a government who'se though it had not approached it Most of them promptly took annual deficits run into billions. steps to become naturalized and a in any previous depression year.

IN CONCLUSION Address Memorial number of these already are citiEarly in 1939, a distinguished zens. A carefui check has shown This country is unlikely to take group of clergymen, Catholic and that very few- took jobs to the det- all or even the majority of the Protestant, addressed a/memoria riment of anyone who had been refugees. It is almost certain that to President Roosevelt on the sub- in the country before their arrival. the number will be limited. Posject of admitting a certain number Their coming created work for sibly it will stay limited to the of refugee children — from ten people who were here b e f o r e present quota. In any case a very to twenty thousand •— outside and •hem. It has been estimated that serious question arises: since we above the German quota. This at least 700,000 persons are desir- can take only 27,000 (or 100,000 idea had the -support of ..many ous of learing Germany at the or 150,000, or whatever the numleading citizens, including, former present moment. .'-.-. ber will be "^eventually), - whom President Hoover.

-. Who'are these 700,000? All shall we take? Selection Is bound The Wagner-Rogers bill was in- Jewa? No, but approximately one- to-De cruel, because all the refutroduced in Congress on February half; the rest are Catholics, Pro-' gees are in a desperate plight.

9 to authorize the admission, out- testants; some old-tltne Germans But it may be wise, from Ameriside the quota, of 20,000 refugee or Austrians who in one way or ca's standpoint, to k t in the best, children under 15 years of age "of another disapproved of the "Black those who are likely to fit agreeevery race, and creed" during the Friday" terror and many of whom ably Into the present difficult sitcalendar years of 1339- and 1940. Iiad fled to France, Holland, Swit- uation; that is those who are

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Using the 1790 census, the first one ever taken here, as the- basis of his analysis, Mr. Jonas reminds us that America was peopled by English, Scots, Irish, ScotchIrish, .Germans, Dutch, French, Swedes, Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Welsh, Bretons, Basques, Jews, Moors and others.

Stating that approximately 60.9 per cent of early immigrants were of English stock, Mr. Jonas adds that today, through the process of Americanization, "about 30 per cent of "white Americans •with.

English names are not o£ English blood."

The next largest group to populate • America -were.the Germans, comprising 14 per cent of t h e population by 1790, -who settled largely in Pennsylvania, N o r t h Carolina and Georgia.

"The earliest of the Germans to emigrate • were, interestingly enough, the victims of religious persecution, and came to Pennsylvania," writes Mr. Jonas. "Followers of one Menno Simon, whose doctrines resembled those of the Quakers, they were welcomed by the English Quakers* Palatine Germans "The great migration of Germans came somewhat later, because of the constant spoliation of their homeland, the R h i n e Valley, by war. These Germans, known to American history as the Balatnie Germans, looked eagerly across to the New World. In 1709, Londoners went to view the great tent city where 13,000 German "refugees" were dwelling, prior to their departure for new homes. Some remained in England, but a great many came to America."

The Irish contributed 9.7 per cent of our total population by 1700, reports Mr\l Jonas, with the Scots accountable for more than 8 and the D u t c h for 3.1 per cent. By 1790 there were more than 21,000 persons of Swedish stock settled everywhere except an Maine, V e r mo n t and New Hampshire. Most of them, however, located in Delaware, New .York, New Jersey and Virginia.

Although the census of 1790 does not include Spaniards, Mr. Jonas writes: •' "It would be a serious oversight to neglect those o£ our ancestors coaling from Florida and -the trans-Mississippi region. For in these areas, at that time not part of the United States, but destined soon to be, there were in 1790 an estimated 25,625 {Spaniards.

"The census of 1790 does not aid in determining the exact number of Jews in colonial America, but as early as 1560, long before the rest of Europe began to settle in America, Jews from Spain and Portugal had already colonized parts of Brazil and Surinam, D. W. I. Frequent wars between the Portuguese a n d Dutch, however, caused them to emigrate to the English colonies, and in 1654 the first group of Brazilian Jews landed in N e w Amsterdam. Refugees from Spanish and Portuguese persecution, as well as smaller groups f r o m England, Poland and Holland, followed throughout the 18th century.

"Many went to Georgia a n d South Carolina, where they developed large plantations. Another group went north to Newport, Rhode Island, bringing with them many new industries, and stimulating that city's shipping and commerce to the point where only New York and Boston could be considered its rivals. Jews, like other Americans of that period, were planters, manufacturers, explorers and businessmen. ' "The latest estimates of t h e 1790 population leave 219,805 persons unassigned to any classification. Here is a group almost as, large as the Scotch'or the German, and almost as large as the Dutch, French, Swedish a n d Spanish stocks combined. Unassigned Americans! The thought is devastating, but the fact is true. Here we have a group of ancestors whose surnames do not lit readily into eny of the classifications used. They may have been Greeks, Poles, Basques, Finns or Bohemians. Howeve.r they certainly make th© picture interesting, constituting, a s they do, part of the "Yankee Stock" of which many Americans are BO proud."

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ciety. A most helpful agency, it has been serving now for twentyfive years, dispensing the highest form of charity by extending helpful loans. Each one o£ the loans made by the. Society is a contribution, a constructive contribution to the well-being of the community and a most helpful grant to the individual proper.

Thfough these loans many individuals were enabled to continue their business, or tide them over a difficult period, or restock their business, and otherwise prevent them from the necessity of requesting direct assistance or relief.

Jewish TheLoan Chairman Free Societyofisthe Mr. H. A. Wolf. .

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Faced with an unprecedented ter program on the part of our services which give faith, courage world situation, Omaha Jewish community. and,, ambition to those who are organizations rallied to the aid A beginning was made in insti- distressed and confused. tuting a program of , Vocational of their unfortunate brethren Guidance. This activity is still in The Jewish Welfare Departoverseas, yet at the same time its experimental stage, but pro- ment operates through the followcontinued and developed pro- vision is made for its development ing diversions: ' through club programs and indivRELIEF: Grants allowance for grams of local interest. conferences. food,.-rent, utilities, clothing and There is no phase of Jewish idual Camp Jay-C-C should be men-other essential needs of destitute Social. Service Committee life that is not represented by tioned ' as evidence of further serv- families.

It is a matter of particular pride same major organization. Each ice to the Jewish community. The SERVICE: Maintains the mor-for/Uhe Jewish community that ale of the home against disruptexperiment of conducting an openhas contributed to the rich juvenile delinquency among our ing influences, including domestic air camp in Louisville, Nebraska, communal life. has again remained at a has proved quite successful and relations work, family readjust- youth low level. During the past In the following pages are has aroused the interest of the ments, service of specific nature. very twenty-nine years, the efforts of contained brief views of some community In the problem of ef- CHILD CARE: S a f e g u a rds the Social Service C o m mittee fective summer-time leisure pro- home life, provides foster homes maintained of the local organizations. a fine record in pre-

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The Chairman of the Jewish ommunity Center-. is Milton R. .brahams.

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The Federation for Jewish Serv- Jewish Welfare Department ice present a summary of the acOur Family and Child Care agentivities of its various constituent agencies for the year 5699, with :y, reflecting the general trend in a feeling that the last, twelve he field, of Family Service, has months further c e m e n t ed its >ecome more than a relief-dispenstructure. Serving as it does all ing agency. While it continued needs of Omaha Jewry—welfare, o provide material necessities and recreational, educational — the •elief-dispensing agency. While it Federation is also concerned, with ontinued to provide material the welfare of American Israel ecessities and relief of all types, and our fellow-Jews scattered he Jewish Welfare Department is throughout the world. Through mcoming increasingly an agency the medium of one instrument—- or preservation and rehabilitathe Federation for Jewish Service ion of Jewish family life. In ef— Omaha Jewry has met its ob- fect, it has become a pilot which ligations locally,. nationally, and guides families through the perilous reefs of domestic complicaoverseas.

Omaha Jewry ma~y well be proud of this instrument. Instead of a picture of conflict, partisan interests, uncertain support of Jewish needs, general • floundering, we have a system of Jewish, social •work, "which includes a comprehensive program of services, a single well-integrated administrative setup, and the development of a common social policy.

The Federation for Jewish Service operates through functional departments. Each d e p a rtment haa s clear-cut responsibility and a definite activity. Through the Federation, all of these services merge harmoniously into the wellknit structure which operates lor the welfare of the community.

The following is a description ol the Federation activities and departments: .

Bureau of Jewish Education Our proudest achievement during the year was the creation of the Bureau of Jewish Education.

Through this body, a new emphasis was given to the entire problem, of Jewish Education. The Orthodox, Reformed, and Conservative groups, while having diversified views with regard to fundamentals in Judaism, found it possible to unite on a platform of intensive Jewish Education for our young. The responsibility of the SYNAGOGUE for the education of our children 'was definitely fixed. The obligation of the COMMUNITY to assist and develop all types of Intensive Jewish Education has also been established.

The immediate results of the creation of the new organization are tangible in the form of a fifty per cent increase in the number of children a t t e n d i n g week day schools, and in the good will and understanding generated as a result of all groups sharing the common burden. The City.Talmud Torab, the Beth-El Synagogue Talmud Torah, and the Temple Israel Hebrew School are cooperating wholeheartedly in this program, each one in his own 'way, and in accordance with its own best traditions, but full subscribing to the belief that community planting seeds of Jewish knowledge may expect a rich return in terms of better Jewish communal life.

The Chairman of the Bureau is Mr. Philip M. Klutznick.

of- Old Age Assistance — is confronting us again, •with its attendant problem of proper care for the chronically sick aged.In connection with the Home, a Mikvah is being maintained. This Mikvah subscribes - to the • traditional orthodox health tenets and fulfills an important function in the life of the Orthodox Community.

The Chairman of • the Jewish Old People's Home Committee is Harry Silverman.

Jewish Philanthropies

or activities.

The President o> .he W Division is JUrs. •'. M. Rice.

R o u n d Te.Wc. of J e w i s h Y'em.tS-T h e R o u n d Tahi-- SISF eomplei.ed of interest, fc- ihe yon\k in o n ' c o m m u n K:. Thvoiif:". U'f I-.ounii hody

The. Jewish. Philanthropies — our fund-raising arm for local, national, and overseas Jewish needs — is proud of its 1939 record.

The largest amount in • the ten years of its existence was obtaine d — 581,000— from the largest number of subscribers — 3600.

That our Jewish community approves of this unified method of meeting its obligations to some A group of Jcv,y in the Shcnpliri Kelic-f Crnnrru'Sre !he<'u"run-'*f""8. some of the 20.C03 vho he\e C.eA Jo the Chinese rio-J 'iVon* ISEZ; thirty-five major agencies, is evioppression. The pressure for emigration from Germany- hns foecomt denced by the fact that every so great that the refugees have gone to she remolesl comers of the third Jew in our city is a subearjh in search of new homes^ thus imposing ever greater burdens for children under our care and venting juvenile d e l i n q u e n c y scriber to the Jewish Philanthroupon the agencies of the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and tends to the welfare of neglected our youth. This committee pies. Our 1939 campaign was con- Overseas Needs, the Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palesand dependent Jewish children.- among, ducted under, difficult economic has earned the respect of local tine Appeal and the National Coordinating Committee Fund, Inc. : HEALTH CARE: Provides pro- juvenile conditions, and the response o£ authorities. In addition to per'health care to all J e w i s h this activity,' it continued to ex- the community enabled us to allot needy with the co-operation of the tend loans to deserving students, substantial sums for the relief of is hoped that a number of Jewish Medical and Dental Board and the and sponsored several National Refugee Service. programs of the refugees and general needs unemployed will be absorbed.

Bikur Cholim Society. a community nature, such as, the overseas.

The Chairman of the Jewish TRANSIENTS: Provides meals Annual Father's and Son's BanThe Chairman of this year's Women's Divisions and lodging to transients passing quet, and the Annual Reception to Philanthropies C a m p a i g n was Employment Bureau is Mrs. "Wil- The Women's Division has again liam Lazere. through our c o m m u n ity* thus High School Graduates.

Rabbi David H. Wice. proved exceedingly helpful to the eliminating solicitations from inThe Chairman of the Social Serdividuals as well as duplications. vice Committee is Dr. Philip Sher. work of the Federation and its Jewish Employment Refugees The Chairman of this DepartThis Jewish community has as- constituents. Through its help, the Bureau ment is Dr. Morris Margolin.

Jewish Old People's Home The Jewish Employment Bur- sumed its,'share of responsibility Center building is being constantThe Jewish Old People's Home, eau continued to facilitate con- for the Jewish refugee. Through ly renovated and improved; the The Jewish Free Loan operated by the Daughters of Is- tact between employers and pros- the Omaha Coordinating Commit- Jewish Welfare Department is Society rael Aid Society, has g a i n e d pective employees. The difficulty tee, help and services have been supplied with clothing for its We feel that the burden oi the slightly in residents during the of personnel has been solved, and rendered to refugees locally, who Jewish Welfare Department has year. The entire question of mak- there is a worker now available find themselves in difficult straits clients; the catering activities o£ been c o n s i d e r a b l y lightened ing provision, decent provision, whose task it is to further the ac- of becoming readjusted. Our com- the Center s u p e r v i s e d ; and through the reconstructive activi- for our aged — which seemed to tivities of this division. Many munity is also cooperating- with through this Division, the Federaties of the Jewish. Free Loan So- have been solved upon the advent placements are being made, and it the Resettlement Division of the tion also attempts to interpret its

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HONORARY OFFICERS Dr. Philip Sher, President; Mrs. Harry Lapidus. Vice-President; Mrs. Morris Levy. Vioe-President.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTKE Milton Abrahams, Max Barisli David Blacker, Harry- B. Cohen, Arthur A. Conn, David Goldman, Dr. Abe GreenberK. David Orcenbcrg. J. J. Greenber^, Morris !•"..

Jacobs, Philip M. Klutznick, Kobert Kooper, J. H. Kulakofsky, Nathan Ijevinson. Jack \V. Warrv.

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t h e Btest Way to Maintain Good Public Transportation is to USE IT!

N«w buses cost approximately $10,000 apiece . . . the equivalent of 120,000 fares. Street cars cost thousands of dollars every year . . . for maintenance, modernization a^si rep^'^f>- Hails, .trolley wires a«d road he£ ewe* a constant s©nree pf exp<PP« - » . »l! of which must fc>e pr.id by yowr fares.

But Omaha wants a goeti public transportetion system. TEie best way to maintain it is to use itl

The Jewish Community Center

The Jewish Community Centei is also proud to record a year o fruitful activities. In itself, a truly Jewish Civic Center, furnishing common grounds tor virtually all Jewish organized life In the community, the Center has attempted to serve ail levels of its membership by means of a rich and vigorous program. The backbone oi the Center structure, the affiliated membership, has been fully served and its needs provided fo in many ways.

The Center Forum, the Theate Series, the Center Orchestra, th many new groups of special interest to the young, the improved physical education and health development facilities, physical improvements and additional com tforts in the building proper—-al these brought about an exceedingly large participation in the Cen-

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in Central Europe and transferred Jewish Community Center when ish National Fund Council and to Palestine and new hope in lite. an elaborate program was preunder the direction of Mrs. ReuReports from the doomed are a sented and tea was served. Over ben Bordy, assisted by Mrs. A. S. indicate that thousands of chil- 60% of the Omaha Chapter's 600 Rubnitz, again went over the top dren apply for YoHth Aliyah cer- members contributed in some way in fulfillment of the quotas. Funds tificates, and although HadasBah to make the function one of the were raised by two drives held is doing its best to secure funds outstanding. during the year. for their transfer, enough is not There are many reasons for coPrograms coming in. These children can be Speakers, original plays, and operation on the Jewish National A large portion of the human race has gone a long transferred only as fast as funds playlets featured the Hadassah Fund, but one of the most importare provided. ant for the rule "A Coin a Day Is •way from its early joy in human punishment. Only sporadiprograms for the year 1938-1939, cally does this old-time nature break forth in scenes of the JNF Way" is that the land The Youth Aliyah Committee, which were prepared by Mrs. acquired by the JNF and held as headed by Mrs. Julius Stein, last Phlneas Wintroub, Mrs. A. D* fiendish punishment in the democracies of earth. property, renders the (Continued from Page 1.) season did remarkably well, and Frank and Mrs. Arthur Romm, the one spot in the vicinity of of dues by Mrs. J. H. Friedman national Recorded history from its beginning to within the last Home secure. hope to do much more this year. During the October meeting Rabin which there never fails and Mrs. E. D. Brodkey from the Jewish National 100 years or so is full of descriptions of punishment by the Dr. Morris Margolin, Mrs. Louis Omaha Gift Fund Eighteen children were taken care bi David H. Wice spoke on "A Administration • Committee and to be a cool breeze, night and day, Neveleff, Harry Trustin, Fred and the membership has been for- also the Motor Corps Committee, dominant race, religion, color or those of a different under- of by Omaha. MInyan groups Jewish Adjustment to European.

One hundred and seven trees White, H. A. Wolf, Mrs. H. A.tunate in having this advantage with Mrs. I. W. Rosenblatt, Mrs'. were standing. The enslavement of captives and their families where' 10 women pledge them- Disintegration." In November, planted this year for the J. Wolf, N. S. Yaffe, and I. B. Zlm-all during the present season.: selves to give $36 over a period during the Membership Luncheon, N. F .

Gift Fund since last sumJohn Frieden and Mrs. Harry after successful wars was long a practice. man. of two years, were formed by the delegates who had attended the mer. The Omaha Chapter of HaDinner dances were held during Crounse.

There is now persecution in many lands on account dassah also honored Ussishkin by followlng^Mrs. Julius Stein, Mrs. 1939 St. Louis Hadassah National the early part of the summer; one Education of race or religion or location or color because of the race, Jake Blank, Mrs. Arthur Cohn, Convention gave their reports. In day a week was set aside for La- There were six active Cultural a Golden Book Inscription. There religion, location or color and for no other apparent reason. Mrs. Reuben Kulakofsky, Mrs. J.December a celebration was held dies" Day; and the club was theGroups all well attended and re-were also several inscriptions in scene of several stags for mem-ceived besides the cultural pro- the Safer Ha Yeled (The ChilWe are happy to say that the last 150 years of our gov- H. Kulakofsky, Mrs. Dave Stein, in honor Henrietta Szold's 78th With a record membership to bers. dren's Golden Book) and a num- ernment has largely taken away from our land these unMrs, Albert Newman, Mrs. B. A.birthday when alt past presidents grams during the monthly meetits credit, the local B'nal B'rith ber of Baby Bonds were purchased Mrs Max Fromkin. Mrs. of the organization presided and Officers elected at the beginings.

This work was under the reasonable tragedies, and men and women everywhere have Simon, lodge conducted one of its most ning of the year are: Harry Trusas well as land bonds.

Wm. Raduziner, Mrs. Sidney gave a dramatic pledge. January supervision of Mrs. Paul Veret, active seasons of the past several become more humane in spirit and ideals and less drastic in Cahan, Mrs. Morris M. Franklin, saw the Linen Shower tea with Mrs. M. F. Levenson took care p r e s i d e n t ; M. E. Handler, assisted by Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky. years. MeetingB were held every tin, Miss Hermine Hirschmaa, Mrs. J.Rabbi David A. Goldstein as the of the Gift Fund for the season vice-president; Al Mayer, secrepersecution.

• • The Book Review group on first and third Monday of thetary; Leslie Burkenroad, treasurJ. Friedman, and Mrs. Leo Ab-guest speaker and an original diaHadassah hit the high mark We wonder why a God whom we believe Father of all, month. A prominent speaker and er; and W. A. Racusin, executive books of Jewish'interest was well and contributions to this fund. rameon. logue "Shirts," written by Mrs. an evening of entertainment fea- secretary. attended t h i s year, meeting for and just to all races, will permit the infliction of ravishing Levenson also received land Palestine Supplies Department M. F . Levenson. February "The tured each meeting. The Breadmonthly and retaining an average Mrs. and suffering upon a portion of his people. We wonder vrhy donations, pledges to the Milk Man on the Street Came to HadasLinen Shower breakers continued to meet each attendance of 40 throughout the Fund and the Youth Aliyah. nearly 2,000 years of Christ's teachings has not made the sah" in a celebration on WashThursday noon. • season. Mrs. Sidney Cahan was Hadassah The Palestine Supplies DepartMedical Organization ington's birthday and various world safe for these individuals, races, colors and religions, chairman of the group. ment was organized in 1917 by a Highlight of th 19S8-39 season Rothcbild Hadassah University members telling about Jews who where the people composing such divisions are not in themsmall group of women in New •was the "Henry Monsky" dinner The following reviews were givEvery good buidler must have Hospital were alive in that time. A recitaYork and Beveral other cities, in given on December 11. The dinner a blueprint from which to work. en by members (non-professionselves vicious or hurtful.

On the crest of Mt. Scopus,'faction was also given by Miss Shirresponse to a request for infant's was the culmination of an inten- Hadassah which is one of thoals) of the study circle. October ing Jerusalem, and half, turned Perhaps the saving divinity is within ourselves as in- garments from the two Hadassah ley Alberts. The March meeting, sive membership drive conducted builders of the Jewish Homeland —"Roots in the Sky" by Sidney towards the beauty of the Dead dividuals. Education has taught us that it is essential for nurses who were serving in Pales- a play "The Making of a Hadasfrom September 25 to December in Palestine and a rallying force Meller was reviewed by Mrs. Mor- Sea and the Moab hills, stand Program" written by Mrs. Irus to be considerate, patient, loving, tender and kind. Gov- tine at the time. The nurses re- sah : 11 under the 1 airmanship of for Jewish women in America, es- ris Franklin; November— three new buildings that constivin C. Levin and Mrs. Morris M« ported th.at due to the poverty or Morris E. Jacobs. 294 candidates pecially Omaha, works fro£< an "TheM. ernment has had much to do with resisting these terrible Mortal Storm" by Phyllis tute the Medical Center which Hamany of our early pioneers there Franklin and Mrs. Phlneas Winwere initiated into the lodge as excellent "blueprint" which has Bottome conditions in our land as exist in many other countries. was was reviewed by Mre.dassah, the Women's Zionist Ora great need for such gar- troub was presented. During the the "Henry Monsky Class." provided guidance for twenty- Sidney Cahan; December—Jewish ganization of America has erected Here there is a freedom to each" individual, a sacred prements.

After the arrival of theApril meeting the drawing on the Dr. Leon Fellman was chairman seven Literature by Mrs. Eva Konnecky; with the cooperation of the Ameryears.

Medical Unit in Palestine in 1918.trip to New York was held In adcinct in his government against persecution.

A salvation is of the dinner committee. Sidney Jewish Physician's CommitHadas&ih's "blueprint" h a s January—"The Mother", by Scho- ican the Fccpe of the sewing groups dition to a program in honor of Kusworm,- treasurer of the Order, within the courts for injustice against anyone. lom Asch by Mrs. Harry Lipsey: tee. It was opened this spring. was expanded to include linens Theodor Herzl's birthday and a •was the principal speaker - and helped develop a long range pro- February—"T Is not the hope of the future in the continuation of the and medical supplies for HadaB- report of t h e Jewish National r e e Cities" by This hospital, costing almost a Morris E. Jacobs was toastmaster. gram of medical pioneering; di- Scholem Asch hby million dollars, exclusive of the Mrs. Phil Katz, Fund convention by Mrs. M. F . thought and the teaching that we are brothers and children sah's hospitals and clinics. rected in the erection of hospiHubert Monsky, son of the Interland, stands as a visible symbol Sidney Feldman and Mrs. Levenson. of one Heavenly Father?

Do we not live in like lands, pay national Order's president,. repre- tals, child welfare stations, social Mrs. The collection of supplies sent Lagman; M a r c h — "The of the very real part which Amersented the new class in the cere- service agencies, and evolved the Joe Telephone Committee the same taxes, elect our ruling officers, walk the same to Palestine is not done on a hapset up for saving thousands of Brothers Ashkenazi" by I. H.ican Jewry has taken in the upmony of initiation.

Hadassah maintains a telephone hazard basi3. There is no guessbuilding of Palestine. streets, breathe the same air and view the same sunt ThereSinger by Mrs. Moe Raznick; children in central E u r o p e On January 16 a stag -was held work as to the nature or quan- committee of over 25 women to April—"Brandeis — the Personal Although Hadassah has underfore, towards each we should all be generous and just. in honor of the new members. through the Youth Aliyah; it has History tity of the supplies. They are call all members for special lunchtaken this new responsibility of of an American Ideal" by Man was not made to live alone. Families increase into sent in response to requisitions eons, parties, meetings and all About.three hundred persons at- helped build a network of health Alfred Lief by Mrs. Harold S. the Medical Center, it has gone jjn tended. Salewln Michnick was ininstitutions in Palestine which is Barish; May—"The Patriot" by with the old Health program of the territories of other families. Some believe strongly in received from the Hadassah Med- other affair's of importance. Last charge of arrangements for the af- stamping out endemic diseases Pearl Buck by Mrs. Dave Cohn. preventive health as well as cur- the law of retribution. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, ical Organization and other Jew- year the committee was headed and making the country a criterby Mrs. Seymour Cohen, assisted fair. - • • • - - • • • • • - . ish institutions in Palestine. ative health. sayeth the Lord God." As certainly as day dawns in which The first - annual B'nai- B'rith ion for medical activity in the "The Survival of the Jew in the With the influx of new pionWhile such supplies as have by Mrs. J. Lagman. persecution by one class against another is carried on, then been described are the chief serSabbath was held at Temple Israel whole of the Near East.

World Today," the new Hadassah Conventions refugees and children, never on November 25 under the direcas sure as night follows day, that persecuting class will vice rendered to Palestine by the The 24th Annual Convention of The Omaha Chapter gave un- education course, was under the eers, was the health program as imtion of Ephraim.. Marks." Rabbi stinted support to Zionist vork capable leadership of Mrs. David portant as it is today. The health Palestine Supplies Department, it Hadassah held in the Hotel Jefultimately become the persecuted.

David H. Wice delivered the\ser- during the year 1938-1939 and A. Goldstein. Most of the leaders of is, from time to time, enabled to ferson, St. Louis, Missouri, Octhe country is the backbone of The only remedy is a universal brotherhood.

W« cannot mon on the subject "The Manpow- worked according to Hadassah's of the organization attended this send money which is received tober 31st to November 3rd, was country and Hadassah serves even then escape all of its consequences for in the dawn of er of Israel." Harry Duboff was 'blueprint" which was fashioned class regularly. Although tho the from persons attending Linen attended by Mrs. M. D. Brodkey, Its purpose. soloist. biblical history a brother slew a brother. Yet, in the com- Showers. Such cash donations Mrs. M. M. Barish. Mrs. Ed Brodto help erect a stronghold of meetings were in seminar form In co-operation with the NaA Father and Son banquet took health for the Jewish people in and business like procedure meet- tional office for maintaining fund mon forum of public opinion and with the teaching of pub- have made it possible for the De-key. Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky, Mrs. place on November 27 in conjunc- Palestine and a stronghold of ed-ing at the Jewish Communitv for partment to buy large quantities Reuben Kulakofsky, Mrs. David continuance of health work, tion -with the Social Service "Com- ucation and service for Jewish Center, it would not have been the Omaha Chapter has been yery lic justice and with the firm resolution in our hearts and of blankets, bedspreads, mosquito A. Goldstein, Mrs. Albert Newmittee of the Federation for Jew- women in America. netting, underwear, doctors' uni- man, Mrs Julius Stein, Mrs. B. A. so successful were it not for the fortunate in having Mrs. M. M. minds that from henceforth as citizens we will boldly assert ish Service. Dr. Philip' Sher was the necessity for freedom of individual, we may hope to forms, and many other essential Simon, Mrs. Joe Goldware, Mrs. professional leadership and the In cooperating with 85,000 Barish in charge of the work; She in charge of arrangements. Paul Hadassah women in over 40 cities nucleus of well informed mem- was assisted by Mrs. Arthur Cohn items in this country for use inIrvin C. Levin, Mrs. Harry Coopbanish the results of the hymns of hate.

Veret spoke on behalf of the fath- in the United States over 600 bers. Mrs. J. Kahz was the chair- and Mrs. Wm. Alberts. Many, afPalestine; and to send money, er, Mrs. A. D. Brodkey and Miss ers and Ervln Witkin for the sons. Omaha Hadassahans helped to man of the group. from time to time, to its repre- Shirley Barish.

• -De E. Bradshaw, President fairs and activities were undersentative over there to purchase Archie Cohen, former president make tho foundation of the Jew- "The Orientation of Hadassah taken make the quota: The Woodmen of the World Mrs. J. H Kulakofsky took an blankets, shoes, sweaters, etc. of the District Grand Lodge, was ish Homeland firmer by untiring Projects" was a selected group of newest to and most profitable venactive part in the convention, havhonored at a stag given at the loyalty and effort in all branches new members within the organi- ture was Once a year the Omaha Chapthe Rummage Sales been chosen for the chairman Highland Country Club on June 7.

Ben Shemen Joined hands when what would •otherwise become "a ter of Hadassah holds a Linen ing on the discussion, Membership. zation. The membership was lim- which were held a number of dif- Hitler Toastmaster for the occasion was of the organization's activities. lost generation."

No American rose to power and It was The finished program which ited to 21. Mrs. Lazar Kaplan ferent times during the year. The surmised there was no future for parent whose children are per-Shower for tfie Palestine Supplies Mrs. David A. GolSstein was chosHarry B. Cohen. The officers, who Department of Hadassah. This en as one of ttfe sixteen women Sale was directed by. were elected at the previous meet- the Omaha Chapter of Hadassah was chairman and Mrs. Max Givot Rummage mitted to develop in an atmos- year in January •under the super- throughout the United States to M. M. Barish; assisted by them in their native land. ing, were installed a t this time. presented to the community dur- was Co-Chairman. This course Mrs. phere of security and freedom can vision of Mrs. Reuben Kulakof- act as an Angel of Mercy to make N. M. Alberts, Mrs. Harry Hadassah assumed the role of Philip Klutznick, vice-president of ing the past season bespoke of was given to new members to ac- Mrs. quaint them with all of Hadassah Rubin, Mrs, Arthur Conn, Mrs. the American agency of-the Youth refrain from giving their support. sky, assisted by Mrs. Ben Brod- a speaking tour through the tho District Grand Lodge, was in- countless hours of work on the Over, 4,000 children, between key, Mrs. Jack Kaufman and Mrs.Northwest Region of Hadassah. part of the leaders of the organi- activities. Mrs. Morris M. Frank- Arthur Goldstein, Mrs. Ben Brod- Aliyah, and has succeeded to a stalling officer. key, and Mrs. Peter_Greenberg. remarkable extent in arousing in- the ages of 15 and 17, have al- Jack Wright, over 250 women atAll delegates also attended the lin gave the course.

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Card parties were given on the terest In this endeavor To ieScSeWSSdy" been takBit two regional conferences with the man ,• and the membership as a "The Great Jewish Personalities" group studied Spinoza, Brandeis 10 floor in September, lodges of Sioux City, C o u n c i l whole.

With Mrs. M. D. Brodkey, pres- Heinie, Herzl and many others January and March by Mrs. Dave Bluffs, and Lincoln. At the first of these, which was held in Coun- ident; assisted by Mrs. Reuben under the leadership of Mrs. M.Stein, Mrs. Morris M. Franklin cil Bluffs, Harry B. Cohen, then Bordy, first vice-president; Mrs. F. Levenson. Mrs. Al Fiedler and and Mrs. Dave Sherman.

The tickets on the "Trip to New president of the Omaha lodge, was Wm. Alberts, second vice-presi- Mrs. Arthur Goldstein were the York" were handled by Mrs. J. H. elected regional president. The dent; Mrs. Joe Goldware, treasur- chairmen. second conference took place in er. Mrs. Sidney Cahan, recording The Oneg Shabboth group was Kulakofsky, Mrs. Julius Stein, Lincoln. secretary; Mrs. Ed Brodkey, cor- well attended during the last year. Mrs. D. B. Epstein, Mrs. J. J .

During the Jewish Philanthro- responding secretary; Mrs. Albert Mrs. Paul Veret, chairman, assist- Friedman, Mrs Joe Lipsey, Mrs. pies Campaign, the lodge was theNewman and Mrs. Leon Mendel- ed by Mrs. A. S. Rubnitz and Mrs. Morris M. Franklin, Mrs. Wm. first organization in the city to son/ financial secretaries; Mrs. Ir-J. H. Kulakofsky, presented a Kuklin, Mrs. Rueben Bordy and make a contribution. The previous vin' C. Levin, parliamentarian; varied program as evidenced by Mrs'. Leon Graetz.'

Child Welfare year's pledge of §125 was doubl- and F a n n y Grodinsky, audi- the following: In December Mrs. It is through Hadassah's meticed. The "Breadbreakers" also con- tor, directing the work for the M. F . Levenson and Mrs. Morris tributed to the "Mile of Dimes year and the executive board of M. Franklin presented "Highlights ulous concern with the .mothers Board" at Christmas time.

Mrs. Joseph Rosenberg, Mrs. Ju-of the 1938 St. Louis Hadassah and child that healthy generations Philip Klutznick, long active in lius Stein, Mrs. M. F. Levenson, National Convention." In Janu- of young Jews are growing up to the affairs of the local'lodge, was Mrs. Julius Abrahamson and Mrs.ary Mrs. David A. Goldstein, who take their responsible places in named vice-president of the Dis-Joe Goldware adding much to the had toured the Northwest Region the community of Eretz Yisroel.

The women of America, working trict Grand Lodge at the conven- success of the various activities of Hadassah as one of the 16 tion held In Detroit the first week during the year. All officers were angels of mercy chosen by the Na- through Hadassah, have the satof July. At the International A. re-elected for the year 1939-1940. tional office to organize, strength- isfaction of knowing that they help rear, these sturdy young Jews Z. A. convention in Port Jervis, Membership en and enlarge that territory, re- to build the Jewish National N. Y., Sam Beber was re-elected ported on her trip. February was Home.

A successful Membership Drive . president of the Supreme Advi- was waged during the first part the month the Oneg Shabboth sory Council. Philip Klutznick was of the Hadassah season under the group heard Dr. Morris Ginsburg Because thousands of mothers also named to this group. of the University o£ Nebraska are eager to learn and because expert leadership of Mrs. Max Dr. A. Greenberg was chosen as Cohn, assisted by Mrs. Sam Beber speak on "Anti-Semitism In thethey always follow carefully the head of the Conservation Commit- and Mrs. M. A. Venger. As a di- Classical World." March saw Mrs.advice given them by Hadassah tee which has done excellent work rect result of an intensive cam- Phyllis Ziffren of Chicago speak doctors and nurses, the rate of fatality at delivery among Jewish in straightening out disputes and paign, members joined which on "Reaction to Chaos" In honor mothers under Hadassah's care delinquencies. AH past indebted- served 123 of Hadassah's 27th birthday, has been reduced to 1.9 out of to revitalize the organizaness to the Grand Lodge has been tion. which was held In the Blackstone 1,000 cases - - one of the lowest wiped out.

In April Mr. Leonard The Financial Committee, head- Hotel.

In the UnitAn Americanization committee Nathan, editor of the Jewish records In the world. all its modern hoshas been formed under the direc- ed by Mrs. B. A. Simon, assisted Press, spoke on his trip to theed State3 with 1 tion of Eddie Shafton. This group by Mrs. Reuben Bordy, helped West Indies, "Jews in the Carri- pitals, the maternity death rate Is 5.3 per 1,000.

•works with other organizations greatly In making over 600 mem-bean Region." and assists foreign-born to fulfill bers become active by a drive for When children are old enough The Hebrew classes were conthe collection of dues. Mrs. Simon ducted by Mrs. J . Kahz, Mrs. S.to enter kindergarten, Hadassah the requirements of citizenship. expects to have a 100% paid up - An Auditing Committee under supervises their health and conwas the chairman.

This question is easy and simple to answer. the direction of Morris Shapiro membership before the 1939-1940 GraetzJewish tinues to do so all through the National Fond was appointed. A new bookkeep- season begins. The Membership school years.

In school the child 'Without cost or obligation, the Utilities District" The Omaha Chapter of Hadas- receives a daily hot meal, learns ing system has been adopted and was also aided on the collection sah, in co-operation with the Jew-how to cook and serve, and all the Lodge books audited. will make a complete scientific survey of your about food values and balanced The lodge has also been reprediet through Hadassah's extensive home and your heating requirements . . . give sented in the Jewish Community School Luncheons service. Over Center softball league. The team you an accurate estimate of the cost of heating 7,500 children are fed dally. • is under the dire^jjjon of Earl Segal.

The Child Welfare Program in your home this winter with an AUTOMATIC New officers elected at the final Omaha Is divided under two meeting of the lodge on June 5 heads. The Infant Welfare quota GAS FURNACE. Why not take advantage of are: Dr. Leon Fellman, president; was raised this year by Mrs. Louis Alfred. A. Fiedler, first vice-presiAlberts, chairman, who was asthis service? It costs net & cent to get the real dent; Milton R. Frohm, second sisted by Mrs. Henry Belmont.

• facto. You'll find an AUTOMATIC GAS FURvice-president; Joseph SolomonMrs. Alberts. had three social OTV, recording .eeretary: Salewln groups which raised her quota.

NACE will heat your home inexpensively with Michnick. financial secretary; NaThe School Luncheon Fund was than S. Yaffee, treasurer; Harvey taken care of this year by Mrs. the type of modern heat you have always wanted.

Leon, warder; and Alfred Frank, Milton Mayper, assisted by Mrs. guardian.

Aaron Rips. One of the most outWilliam W e i n e r, Morris M. standing affairs of the year was Shapiro, and Arthur A. Cohn were sponsored by this group when Ann named trustees.

Birk Kuper of Chicago dramatized ir'-^jiy.. ^^fe^.^t^.-^^^V^^^ki-i ':'-"::.* .'

"I'd Rather Be Right" to an audience of over 400 in the Jewish Community Center auditorium.

Youth Aliyah rm . The Highland Country Club has The history of the Jewish peothis yea* aimed to serve more fulple is summed up in the story of ly its membership — men, women its migration. In every part of and children. the world and throughout each The activities that have been succeeding century it has been carried on all • summer have brought face to face with the brought a greater attendance to same Inevitable fate which has the Club for both the downtown found its ultimate expression in a club and the country and golf never-ending migration. In this club. long sequence of the one story of During the fall a program of perpetual wandering there aprepairs and changes to the Golf peared a short time ago a phencourse and facilities: will make the omenon of a new and unique charClub especially attractive for the acter: Henry Monsky, President of B'nai B'rith, placing a next season.

A migratory movement of JewThe downtown club has been wreath on the Liberty Bell, in Independence Hall, Phila- ish Youth—the Youth Aliyah.

TEND YOUR FURNACE F R YOUR EASY CHAIR air-conditioned and re-decorated The idea of the Youth Aliyah delphia, one of the great shrines of American good will throughout. ' •• . •first originated in Germany when which rang out the good news of American freedom 163 two groups, the Jegend Hiefe and During the hot weather, the years ago.

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The JoIIevicg week the isoofc Cir- bers or the esecu.tf.ve board are Council established a Memorial cle met at tbe home of J.Irs. Sam Mendel Blank, Louis Morgan and and Gift fund, which grew to Ziotsky. Tben came the Kigadoo. B. Gross. such .proportions as to surprise which -was the outstanding moneyeven Its founders, within t h e making event of the year. This short space of its existence,' Tn» turned out to be a. most .successannual rummage sale, and caril ful venture both financially and party, all helped to swell the fund entertainingly. Tbe last December The passing of the year 6699 pledged as our share of the naevent was a Chanukafe party giv- marks another year of successful tional sum.

"How can we sing-the song of the Lord in a strange en for the Sabboth School child- i activity in the history of the BethCultural study and civic groups land?" ren on the twenty-fourth o£ the•El synagogue under the leader* were organized and carried out to j ship of Mr. David Greenberg, How can we greet one another with the customary month. a successful conclusion. ScholarMrs. Drexel Sibbernsen spoke I president.

"A Happy New Year" in these strange, sad times ?

Do not ships were granted to a number • (Continued from Page 2.) the Auxiliary at the January ! The Congregation's activities the work - of the Jewish > National Federation for - Jewish Service of deserving young Jewish women the words seem a veritable mockery? Can the Jew be "hap- to meeting connection v-'ith the ; vere carried through with the full health activities.. ". .

Fifth Annual meeting of the "West Fund. might otherwise not have py" in these tragic days, when so many of his brethren are Maternal in Health League — her I co-operation of the entire memCommittees of the organization who Central States Regional Confer- • Another enterprise c o n ducted been able to conclude schooling unhappy, suffering persecution, exile, defamation, death? subject being "A Challenge to the bership. Assisting the president ence of the Council of Jewish by the group was the promotion visit the sick and distribute flow- that would mean the difference "If I forget three, O Jerusalem, may my right hand for- Community." This -was foiov-ed by vere the following officers: Federations and Welfare Funds of Jewish Scout work through the ers and-delicacies to bring.some between success and failure In a splendid review of Phyllis Botcheer and hope to the sick. An their chosen professions. Toys, Arthur A. Cohn, first vice-presiheld in Jefferson Hotel, St. Louis, Keren Hahoar. ' get her cunning." tome's "The Mortal Storm" given dent; Dr. Morris Margolin, secUnder the capable leadership'of important activity.is the.distribu- many made by Council members, Missouri, October 29-30, 1938.

Yet there is something in the Jew that triumphs over

by Rabbi David A. Goldstein. | ond vice-president; Hy S. Shrier, Omaha was very well repre- its officers, Margaret Rundell, tion of kosher food to those - in were distributed to children of all misfortune, suffering, and sorrow. And that is his inFebruary brought the annual secretary, and B. A. Simon, treassented at the Fourteenth Annual M a r c i a Lee Civin, B e r n i c e hospitals, -• who would . otherwise Center clients at Chanukah, with vincible faith, generated by the very ages which have tor- dance at the Paxton Hotel, and urer.

Convention of the Southwest Re- Crouse, Gloria Friedman, Grace be unable.to obtain it. -,endeavoring at all times our meeting v:e had the privThe society also pays for' hos- Council The Friday evening and Sabgion of Hadassah held in the Ho- L a s h 1 n s ky, and Marcia Finer, tured him, which also revealed to him God's protecting, re- for to meet every local or national ilege of having -with us Mrs. Rita bath morning services were again tel Muehlebach, Kansas City, Mo., Menorah l o o k s forward to the pitalization and assists in meeting situation as it might arise. When deeming power. "Fear him not, O Israel! Neither be thou Berman Gordon of Minneapolis. well attended. Rabbi Goldstein's , .. medical needs. . - • May 1 and 2. Omaha members New Year. need was there, Council stood still dismayed! Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine Mrs. Gordon is the Regional Pres- sermons were interesting, stimuThe following are the officers the that took part In the program of the organization: President, ready to meet it, adapting a proeyes from tears. For I, the Lord, am with thee, and will save ident of the Womens League of lating and inspiring. Cantor Edare Mrs. David A. Goldstein who Synagogues. Her topic of gar and his choir interpreted the Mrs. Louis Neveleff; vice-presi- gram so broad and of such elastook charge and conducted the thee, I have loved thee, with an everlasting love. And will United discussion vras "Jewish Women services in the beauty of the &olident, Mrs. Julius Finkel; second ticity as to fulfill any emergency. educational session, was re-elected redeem thee." The God of Israel "neither slumbers nor in the Modern World." Mrs. Dav- ness of the traditional melodies vice-president, Mrs. S. Fish; third first -vice-president and was chosCouncil's motor corps stood sleeps." In due time He will reveal His mighty arm, stretch- id Goldstein's playlet "Watchman, The Sabbath School had an enUnder the direction of • Rabbi vice-president; Mrs. Nathan Lev- ready to assist from meeting refen as the delegate to represent What of the Night?" under the rollment of 200 children who ated out to save. the Southwest Region of Hadas- David H. Wice, the officers of the inson; financial secretary, Mrs. ugees and transporting their posdirection of Mrs. Phineas Win- tended every ; Saturday morning. sah to the Zionist Congress. The Temple, and its board of trustees, William Epstein; treasurer, Mrs. sessions to new homes, to collectGod will never fail Israel, if Israel does not forsake troub, was presented at the March The Junior Congregation conductan active and Charles Ross; corresponding sec- theme of the education program Temple Israel had ing bundles for the annual rum: God. During the coming Holy Days we will withdraw from meeting:.

Mrs. Harry Trustin, Mrs. ed tbe services on Sabbath mornretary, Mrs. Leon Mendelson, and mage sale. The telephone com•was "Building Jewish Morale." On full season this past year. the turmoil and tragedy of the world and in the sacred si- Sam Wolf, and Mrs. Phineas Win- ings.

Large attendance at the High recording secretary, Mrs. Harry mittee functioned for regular that program was Mrs. Morris M. .

Franklin, who described a new Holidays services began this 6Sth Lippett. monthly meetings as well as for lence of our Sanctuaries commune with our God and troub took part.

Under the auspices of the Omaproject on the "Orientation of year of Temple Israel. Special In April "The Jew in Music" ha Bureau of Jewish Education any special event, such as the strengthen our souls in prayer and fortify our faith. God Hadassah Projects." Mrs. Julius services, which were held in celefeatured. Mrs. Harry DuBoff the Synagogue conducted its Hecoming to Omaha of Mrs. Oscar will deliver Israel from his enemies who are also the was Stein was elected treasurer for bration of the festivals, were also assisted by Cantor Edgar, gave brew school at 48th and DavenMarx, national vice-president, to enemies of God, because they are the enemies of the good well attended.

A" beautifully imthe region. Other Omahans-who several piano selection from. the port. Mr. Jacob S. Kahz taught conduct Council Sabboth, at the attended are Mrs. A. B. Alprin, pressive pageant, consecration and the right. Wickedness must be overthrown, justice and works of Mendelsohn, Gershwin, in the.school. Dr. Morris MargoBethel synagogue. services, and the annual' Succoth Mrs. M. D. Brodkey, Mrs. E. D. truth enthroned. God is pledged to the ultimate, and inevit- and Berlin. Mrs. Goldstein pre- lin was chairman of the board of Regular monthly meetings, with Co-operating; with a national Brodkey, Mrs. E. D. Brodkey, Mrs. dinner marked the conclusion of a Bible lesson entitled education. able triumph of righteousness, for righteousness is His holy sented an appetizing luncheon preceedthe festival of Succoth.

The ConM. U. Barish.'Mrs. Harry Crounse, program of humanitarianism, con"Open Your Book."

As usual, the Congregation bad ing, and Interesting programs folwill to be effeetualized through His almighty power.

Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky, Mrs. Reu» gregational Seder at Passover was tributing to the advancement of The month of May brought the Its regular program of social and Den Kulakofsky, Mrs. Sara Frohm, enthusiastically received .by the local educational and cultural lowing brought a large attendance Let the Jew hold fast to, deepen and strengthen his program of the year to a close religious functions. The outstandMrs. Morris M. Franklin, Mrs. congregation. projects, alleviating wherever pos- of members each month. faith, which has sustained and saved him throughout the with a group of Interpretive danc- ing event of the year was the dinOnly one great sorrow marred Julius Stein and Mrs. David A. sible effects of the terrorism that from the Omaha Municipal ner given in honor of Rabbi The .Religious School had an calamitous ages. Let the words read at this Holy Season ers the passing of another Council Goldstein.

University followed by the elec- Louis Finkelstein, provost of the unusually good year with an en- has stricken our less fortunate year, be his motto and his inspiration, the words spoken by the and left Council bereaved of brethren, the Omaha section of tion of officers. rollment of 100 and an attendJewish Theological Seminary of Donor Luncheon the National Council of Jewish one of its finest, most faithful aged departing leader Moses to his young aspiring succesAmerica. In honor of his coming One of the finest programs pre- ance of 87 per cent. Chanukoh Women members.

It came in the death concludes its year with a sor, Joshua: "Only be thou strong and very courageous." and in appreciation of the fact sented in Omaha was the one for and Purim were celebrated by the sense of having fulfilled a mis-of Mrs. Frederick Cohen, l o n g that the Jewish Theological Semithe Donor Luncheon, climaxing school with parties.

Let the Jews strenghthen one another.

Let those words Council's staunch defender, its nary of America is the source and The Sisterhood enjoyed an.ex- sion and purpose that no o n e the Hadassah year. With a top first president, and in be their salutation. As Moses to Joshua, so let the old, deinspiration for conservative Judaa t t e n d a n t of 350, Mrs. Phineas ceptionally active and full year, other Omaha organisation could organizer, Organized in 1892 with 21 later years honorary president. parting year, to be added to the thousands that have pre- charter members, the Omaha He- ism, members oC the Congregation WintrouL presented a play "But the highlights of which were the have undertaken. of sympathy to her ceded it, say to the New. Year, Time's latest-born, with in- brew club has continued as Oma- contributed a substantial sum to for the Grace of God," by Mrs. very excellent monthly programs.

Concerned with the problem of Resolutions family and a fitting memorial Julian Goulston that was well reThe weekly meetings of the raising close to one thousand dol- tribute finite potentialities, undreamed of possibilities, a very Pan- ha's pioneer Jewish organization. the Seminary, attest to a memory which ceived. Those who took part in Men's Luncheon group ,at t l i e lars as our share of a gigantic dora box of hopes, a treasure-chest of faith: "Only be strong Through the years it has carried the play acted like professionals. Highland club rooms -were well at- sum pledged by National to Ger- will serve as a constant inspiraa program of benefactory civil tion and Ideal to those who knew and very courageous!" God will redeem Israel, deliver him on In addition to the play, Mrs. tended by a representative num- man-Jewish children's relief for and respected her as co-worker and welfare work, never failling from his sorrows and afflictions, the wanderer will find a to assist or initiate Jewish projEvelyn Hattis Fox of Chicago pre- ber of- Temple men. At these which it assumed entire responsiThe Deborah Society, the oldest sented "A Trip to Palestine and meetings, discussion of current bility at the national triennical and friend. home, the refugee a refuge, the tempest-tossed a haven— ects here and abroad.

In retrospect, Omaha section of women's organization of Omaha convention at Philadelphia, t h e Hope in the Face of Despair" in events is led by Rabbi Wice. and a heaven at last! a heaven of freedom and of hope, The Omaha Hebrew club h a s affiliated with the City TalThe youth' groups, the High Omala section early last year, set Council appears to have fullfilled costume. In giving the sketch, been a blessing to many -widows long of happiness, security and peace. mud Torah has ended another acMrs. Fox sang, danced and gave School club and the College club about devising ways and means its obligations to its principles set and orphans of deceased memgroup, met with enthusiastic re- to raise the money without fur- forth in its by-laws which state: So perhaps we can wish one another "a Happy.New bers, and to members sick or In tive year, with Mrs. Joe Goldware impersonations. sponse among the young people ther taxing Omaha's gift-giving "The purposes of this organizaYear" after all! spoken from our heart of hearts, from Of Special Note distress. The organization also as President. of" the congregation and the com- community. tion a r e : 'To further united efThe annual card party, always The Omaha" Chapter of Hadas- munity. donates liberally to various charthe deepest depths of our sympathetic, fellow-suffering The College club group in hfehalf of Judaism, by an important event of the comsah was visited by. Mrs. Joseph sent two delegates Forced' to find some new andforts ities.

Visits ere paid brother souls.

May God be good to Israel and to every Israelite! to the charter means of study; to munity was well attended and M. Erlich of Detroit, Mich., first means of fund-raising, supplying who are ill. of the National Fed- inganuous God protect and preserve Israel for through Israel shall yet members very profitable. bring about a closer fellowship vice-president of the national or- convention the Council happily struck upon This year the total payment of Temple Youth which sponsorship of the Ruth Neuhaus among all Jewish Women; to Mrs. Joe Goldware, who has be wrought the solution and happiness of the world. ganization. She appeared before eration of death benefits was brought to a medium for interchange been an untiring worker, has a special board meeting and dur- met in Cincinnati in January. lecture series, which proved not furnish A Happy New Year, crowned with blessing, to one and $43.S94, while the total payments found it necessary to resign from An outstanding event in the only the financial success antici- of thought through communicaing an Oneg Shabboth. all!

•, . of sick benefits increased to $34,- all active service because ot illMrs. A. S. Wolf of St. Louis, congregation was the Layman's pated, but served as the nucleus tion and for prosecuting worg of 397. Large sums have doling ness, and Mrs. J. Bernstein, Vice- - Rabbi Frederick Cohn president of the Southwestern re- Tour in April with Dr. Samuel for organization of a second lec- common interest; to further unitthe organization's history been President, is acting president. gion of Hadassah visited Omaha Goldenson of New York and Mrs. ture series which found this Jew- ed efforts in the work of social paid to local projects.

Plans are being formulated for during a board meeting in March Hugo Hartmann of Chicago as ish group organized with three betterment through R e 1 igion, delightful Chanukah party — the Mrs. Irvin Levin presided.

Present officers of the organi- an active year, with arrangements Phllanthrophy, Civics and Educa- theme being "A Day with the Woand helped organize a chapter in guests and speakers. • non-Jewish groups as-sponsors of On December 10, 1938, Hadas- zation are: Irvin C. Levin, presithe annual picnic for the childtion'."

Fremont, Nebr., with Mrs. M. D. At the 68th annual meeting In a second series. man of Valor." The various hos- sah joined the ladies of the Beth- dent; Daniel Schwartz, vice-presi- for ren of the City Talmud Torah and Brodkey, Omaha president; Mrs. May, all of the Temple • officers Able leaders are at the helm tesses decorated the tables and reThe venture proved so success-!

El Auxiliary in a joint Oneg Shabdent; I. Morgenstern, secretary, their friends all ready under way.

David A. Goldstein, and Mrs. M. were re-elected. The officers are: ful that the plans are now being of Council for another two years, cited the Uever lines written by both at which time Rabbi Max and John Feldman, treasurer.

As is customary the Deborah SoDavid Goldman, president; MorP . Levenson. bringing to their offices the asMrs. Philip Klutznick.

Mrs. Golddrawn up for a series to begin Arzt of Scranton, Pennsylvania, A. Richards. C. Sharevitz and c i e t y provided refreshments ris E. Jacobs, vice-president; Ben Deserving-Mention . . . . . D. surance that Council will not re(Continued on Page 5.)

Silver," treasurer, and Eugene in October, "when co-ordinating lax but renew and redouble its stein was the principal speaker. •was the speaker of the afternoon. Sam Bloom are trustees. MemJunior Senior Relationship was Blazer,. secretary. Morton HI1- groups beside the Council will be efforts lelped a great deal this year with N. to serve wherever the need and Manning E. Handler were the Omaha Council of Church Mrs. David A. Goldstein, Mrs. ler elected to the board of trustees. Women, the Young Women's is found.

Jack Bramson, Mrs. Morris M. Members Council's officers and board of of the board. • whose Christian association, and the Franklin and Mrs. M. F . Leven- terms continue are: Milton Abra- Unitarian Alliance, with Mrs. directors for 1939 include: Messon in charge.

Sol L. D.egen, Abe'Gold- Neuhaus again the lecturer for a dames Ben D. Silver, president; A great many seniors were hams, Sam Ben Shapiro, Milton Mayper, vice J. Leon, David Rosen- five-week course. patrona i o r the annual Thanks- stein, stock, Dr. J . A. Weinberg, Harry Through efforts of the Council, presidents; David R. Cohen, treasgiving Dance and also for the Wilinsky Mrs. B..L. Wolf. those immigrant families w h o urer; I. H. Weiner, corresponding spring dance. A number of speak- Mr. Davidand Block and Mr. Benhave come to Omaha have been secretary; Louis Sogolow, recorders were supplied to the Cultural Danbaum retired from the board helped along- lines of rehabilita- ing secretary; Sam Josephson, group. this year through expiration of tion, to find social and economic auditor. Directors: Mesdames J. The Luncheon Committee head- their term of office. adjustment, as well as being aid- H. Kulakofsky, Sam Gilinsky, ed by Mrs. Leon Graetz and asWorkmen have been.busy this ed toward citizenship through .the Sam Wolf, Morris Katleman, J. sisted by Mrs. A. Theodore cooked delicious luncheons a number of summer redecorating the Temple, naturalization a n d citizenship E. Cohen.

Chairmen are Mesdames F . C. and a freshly painted, newly classes which the Omaha section times during the year. • Elikan, Ted A. Newman, hospiThe Social Committee, which lighted Temple wilt be in readi- sponsors.' took care of table decorations and ness for the High Holidays serv- . Community Chest, Philanthro- tality; Abe Venger, Harold Polservice, was smoothly done by ices. Members of the congrega- pies, Tuberculosis Seal s a l e s , lack, membership and dues; pubMrs. E. A. Meyer, assisted by Mrs. tion are proud of their newly F r e s h Air camp. Community licity and year-book, L e o n a r d decorated Temple which is sym-Center I. W. Rosenblatt. have been aided Klein; telephone, Fred Brodkey, bolical - of their- faith and hope through theall The first bulletin of the year for community co-opera- Joseph Hornstein; ways a n d the future.

•was published by Mrs. M. F. Levtion which Council expends. The means, Sam Josephson and Henry enson and the other two by Mrs. lounge room a t the Center is Newman.

Religion and religious educaW E , Alberts, Mrs. Ed. Brodkey tangible testimony of Council'3 and Mrs. Morris M. Franklin. endeavor to be of service to the tion, A. H. Brodkey; scholarship, Cards were sent out to memThis year marks the 17th an-community wherein it Is estab- A. B. Newman; civic and legislabers on various occasions by Mrs. niversary of the .Blkur Cholim lished, as well as classification tive, Phil Gilinsky, A. D. Frank; : Harold S. Barish. society, an' organization which Is* of. the Center library • which. was cultural study, Arthur Goldstein, Ben Gold ware; program, Julius Community Co-operation "was dedicated to the cause of looking one of its projects. capably handled by Mrs. Irvin C. after..the ill and infirm. This orStill seeking ways and means Solomon, Isadore Ziegler.

Levin and Mrs. O. S. Belzer.

Adult education for foreign ganization fills an important need to raise the sum .pledged to ^aid Hospitality or greeting commit- in our community, and- has been of thousands of un- born, Harry Malashock, I. W. tee was done by Mrs.'Jack Bram- co-operating very closely with the the'hundreds fortunate children of Europe, Weiner: courtesy, David C o n n , son and. Mrs. Phillip Levey.

Edward Brodkey; motor corps, Hadassab. news and publicity Hazel Degen; German - Jewish itemB were written each week by children, Max Shapiro, Julius Mrs. Morria M. Franklin.

Stein; tribute fund, Harry ShnCo-operation with the Zionist mow; J. C. C. representatives, Organization has continued as usReuben Kulakofsky, I. Rosenual. Zionism and the redemption thai; Talmud Torah, B. A. Siof the ancient Jewish Homeland mon; Junior Council, M o r r i s in EretzYisroel as an ideal is as Katleman; Gray Ladies, S a m old as the dispersion.. I t is part Appleman; Interclub c o :t ncil, and parcel of Jewish religion, hisManuel Grodinsky; Consumers' tory, tradition and aspiration.

League, Julius Newman.

Women played little if any part in Zionism since its inception by Theodor Herzl in 1897 until the j beginning of Hadassah In 1912. \ Hadassah, in the course of more The season 1938-1939 has provthan a quarter of a century of its G O WO H E FOR ed to be a most successful one for existence has made vast contrithe Beth-El Synagogue Auxiliary, ' > butions to the physical well-being ROSH MASKONAH for it has been studded with varof the Yishuv in Palestine and has ious important activities. The first been largely instrumental in revi- t- ' meeting of the year took place on Make the holidays doubly enjoyable by talizing American J e w i s h , life.

October 12. "The Jewish Home LIFE BEGINS AGAIN IN AUTUMN - - or so it seems- with the host of events that spending them al home! And spend less Like the prophet of old who cried r Beautiful" was the theme for all out when he saw his people torn cro-wd the calendar after the comparative quiet of summer. Trips back to School for -your trip, fcy Union Pacific bus. You'll Programs during the year, and so and suffering, so Hadassah too Mrs. Sam T h e o d o r e and her . ... football games . . . shopping tours . . . business trips . . . visits with friends . . . eliminate driving; xLvziu. and traffic wormoved by the needs of her peodaughter, Judith, presented the late vacations . . . conventions and other meetings pack the vreeks with interesting ries, too . , . s;.Tnply is?p.i> back and relax ple, but unlike ' Jeremiah who "Shabboth Candle L i g h t i n g " things to do and places to so. as you ride in air-coucilioned comfort.

• could find no comfort, Hadassah scene, which was very beautiful brought healing and comfort, phyand appealing.

And what a help you'll find Union Pacific Stages in Iceepi'ng your fall travel fiatesl Kounc-trip. tickets s? ve 10%. See your sical and spiritual, to "the daughThis was f611owed by a lively Departures timed for your convenience . . . ultramodern Super-Coaches sir condi- local rr.ion Pacific iM s pgent for full deter of my people." discussion on "Our I m m e d i ate tioned for perfect comfort . . . fares so low you'll be amazed to learn how far your taiis. In Oms-EE., visi or phone; Needs." Mrs. Jack Bramson pretravel dollar takes you . . . courteous ticket agents glad to supply complete travel insided. Mrs. Harry Frankel's topic •was "Immediate Needs for our formation . . . in short, each trip a complete vacation from the press of everv-tay Small Children." Mrs. Henry Belaffairs. pff I- %: i=^? %v' •*?'''

The Omaha chapter of Young mont spoke on "Immediate Needs Judaea, "The Menorah" chapter, for our Adolescents," and Mrs. Take autumn in your stride this year , . . make more of those trips you've alvays CKSON •was organized in the autum of Joseph Goldware followed with a wanted-to ... . and enjoy-them-to the full by air-conditioned-Union.Pacific bus.'

AVUkKTlZ If?©© 1937 for high school girls interspeech on "Immediate Needs for ested in Judaism. Young Judaea Ourselves." aima to aid these girls develop a Dean E. A. Holt of the Omaha love for Palestine and to help in Municipal U n i v e r s i t y was the,., its rebuilding. principal speaker at the November I t emphasizes the ideals of demeeting. He spoke on "The World fit- «. mocracy and the service Jewish Live In." The first Oneg ShabColonists of one-of the outlying agricultural settle- We boys and girls mu s t be ready to both was held a t the home of Mrs. give to their people. . ments load the eggs and vegetables of their farm prepara- Louis Albert on H o v e mber 5, Last year's program included a tory to shipping them into the large market at Tel Aviv. 193S. Mrs. Henry Belmont was codance, a tea, a book review, a Egg production alone has increased from 150,000 eggs pro- hostess. Mr. R a p p ort was the discussion, a play, a wiener roast, speaker on that occasion. duced in 1922 to more than 40,000,000 last year, with the guest fee in 'I-"- -' Lut * *b. J a party, and a picnic. Young JuDecember to be a parsupport of"the agencies of the United Palestine Appeal, ticularly busyproved daea contributed its share to the month overflowing Youth Aliyah and participated in American^instrument for Palestine .upbuilding. " with activities. First, there was a

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ion: (Continued from Page 4.) and prizes as •well as entertainment lor the children at the picnic.

• An extensive membership drive is being planned and the projects for the year -will be disclosed in the near future.

The following are the present officers ot the Deborah Society: Mrs. K. Tatle, Honorary President; Mrs. A. Wolf, Honorary "Vice-President; Mrs. J. Bernstein, Acting President; Mrs. C. S. Ross, Secretary; Mrs. Ben Kazlowsky, Recording S e c r e tary; Mrs. H. Noddle, Treasurer; E x e c utive Committee, Mrs. J. Pinkie. Mrs. M. G. Cohen, Mrs. D. Crounse, and Mrs. M. Cohen, and Eva L. Konecky is Publicity Director.

United Orthodox Auxiliary The United Orthodox Auxiliary, formerly the Vaad Auxiliary, continued its program of assisting •with the upkeep and activities of the,various local Orthodox synagogues.

Cultural meetings -were held each month at the B'nai Israel synagogues. Fund-raising activities included a Rummage sale, a bake sale, and a very successful carnival.

The Auxiliary also served all idinners sponsored by the Orthodox Synagogues. .Officers of the United Orthodox Auxiliary are: Mrs. Louis Neveleff, president; Mrs. Morris Burstein, vice president; Mrs. Dave Crounse, financial secretary; and Mrs. Nell Levinson, recording and corresponding secretary.

Women's Mizrachi

Workmen's Circle Dramatic Club The "Workmen's Circle Dramatic Club has | in its two years of existence presented three plays: Caldunia, Bar1 Kochba, and Shulamith.

Members of the organization are working people -who enjoy participating in theatrical activities.

Proceeds from the first play were turned over to the fund for the benefit of Polish and German Refugees. The Workmen's Circle, 173, benefit from the second play, >eing given half the proceeds. The Labor Lyceum wtts helped by the play Shulamith, half the proceeds eing turned oveir to it.

The Dramatic Club was invited o Des Moines by the Workmen's ircle and Ladios A u x i l i a r y , Brancn 406, to present the play Shulamith therci. Members of the cast -were entertained at a party ollowing the presentation.

The persons responsible for the iuccess ot the organization are: . Witkin, dramatic director and supervisor; K | Sellz, singing director; Shirley Sellz and Jeannette Coltoff Reuben, prima donnas; Mrs. L. Pezzner, pianist; Harold Kaplan, violinist; J. Savch, prompter; Paul iNerenberg, make-up, ana others -who have participated in the productions.

Officers of.' the Dramatic Club are: M. Selicow,. chairman; H. Ruderman, secretary; and S. Ruderman, treasurer. Members of the executive committee are: L. Bailen, S. Stein, and S. Susman.

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ear successfully maintained an ctive membership of about 50 Uephs, excluding many alumni ivho also participated in the chapter's program. These 50 members make up one of the largest of the 350 chapters throughout the United States, Canada, and scattered sections of the world, having a toal membership of over eight housand.

Eighteen new members were initiated into A. Z. A. 100 during the year, each of them being forged as a new Jink in the great fraernal chain of A. Z. A. New members include Jack Berman, Harold Ipstein, Sol Epstein, Jack Fladerman, Berny Fox, Rudy Fox, Walter Greenberg, Walter Hirsch, Leo Kamisar, Harold Kaplan, Louis

frotn J. L. Haugh Tlie Omaha Chamber of Commerce is Happy to extend cordial greetings to the Jewish people of this community on the occasion of the New Year.

Omaha is deeply indebted to the business and professional men of Jewish faith who have contributed so generously to the upbuilding of this community It is a pleasure to acknowledge our debt, and to extend a fraternal hand of greeting.

--J. L. Haugh, President Omaha Chamber of Commerce bor; Bernard Trachtenbarg,,Aleph Chapter No. 100, who will hold Shotore Godol; Al Kaplan, Aleph office until December 31, are Joe Shotore Kotone; Frank Pirsch, Guss, who lias twice previously Aleph Sofer; and Joe Guss, Aleph held the high position, Aleph GoKohen Godol.

• • ' /- dol; Milton Guss, Aleph Sgan; Present officers of Sam Beber Tale Richards, Aleph M a t k l r ;

Jack Epstein, Aleph Gisbor; Harold Slutzfcin, Alepb Shotore Godol; Rudy Fox, Alepb Sholore Kotone; Leonard Lewis, Aleph Sofer; and Milton Saylan, Aleph Kohen Godol.

At the expiration o£ their terms as Alepb Godol. both Paul Sacks and Milton Saylan were presented Past Aleph Godol pins by the chapter ae a reward for their outstanding service.

The year's actual program of A. Z. A. 100 can be best outlined by a brief summary ot Its activity in each of its five folds.

ATHLETIC The coming of the Jewish New Tear marked the close of one of the most successful athletic campaigns during the ten year history of A. Z. A. 100. Under the leadership of athletic chairman Ben Kutier, Harry Fox, and Jack Epstein, Century Chapter won more championships and individual medals than any other chapter in District 6.

During September of last year, Omaha was the site of the Cornbelt Regional summer athletic tournament, where A. Z. A. 1 and A. Z. A. 100 Wong with -eight out

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Saylan, Paul Sacks, and Joo tin:-:-.

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December brought the new basketball Beason, and Manual Himelstetn waB elected captain of the Sam Beber "five". At flip close ot a successful season in the J. C. C. league, t h e Century.hoiijisters left for the winter regional tournament in Sioux City where they were to- distinguish Hiemselves as the most couragrou* team In the region. Although missing two regulars in the open(Continued on Page ?.)

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Many millions of dollars have been added to the values stock in Nebraska in the last 12 years despite the handicaps brought by off-side economic conditions.

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Surveys by experts show that the thousands of farms and ranches in the state are continuously increasing their herds of cattle, hogs and sheep. And, significant, is die fact that in the last decade much finer breeds of all types of live stock have been brought to the vast agricultural regions.

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The Beth Hamedrosh Hagodel lemetery Society maintains the !emetery under/its care. It also devotes itself to beautifying its grounds and keeping its facilities up-to-date.

A Public Memorial Service is held each year at the Cemetery ust prior to the High Holidays.

Officers of/ the organization are: Mrs. R. H. .Kulakofsky, president; Mrs. Sam Zlotky, vice-president; Mrs. /Jennie Wright, treasurer; Mrs.-R. H. Kooper, secretary; Mrs. Harry Trustin, Audtor; and Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky, Parliamentarian.

The Women's Mizrachi, the auxiliary of the Mizrachi organization, •which is dedicated to the upbnildlng of Palestine in accordance with traditional Judaism, began an usually active and successful year on October 19, 193S. .

The organization has co-operated in all social and charitable activities devoted to the betterment o t the community.

The main activity of the Wornfen's Mizrachi is assisting the two Beth Zeiroth Girls Schools in Palestine. These schools are training and industrial centers in which young pioneers of Palestine can prepare for trades and professions The Ladies Free Loan Society and at the same time live according to the teachings of the Torah. completed the Nineteenth year'of The Fifth, .anniversary of the the organization. During the past Beth Zeiroth Girls School in Jer- year, this organization has helped usalem --was -observed at t r special more people than any.previous, meeting of the local chapter of the ear, by making loans to needy persons without charging a cent Organization. of interest. In many cases, it even A mid-west regional conference obtained the co-signers. lof the Women's Mizrachi was held The Ladies Free Loan Society lin Chicago on November 13. The national convention^took place in presented a medal of honor to its itha spring in Atlantic. City. At president, Mrs. Sam Klaver, for •that time Mrs. A, Shapiro, na- her outstanding work. Some two Aional president, spoke on her re- hundred persons attended a banquet given at this time. cent visit to Palestine.

T h e organization holds two • At a luncheon of the local 'group" held in December, Shula- meetings a month, one regular anlth Wald, head of the Women's and one special; and at both, help Mizrachi speakers bureau, dis- is extended to those in need.

The following are officers for cussed the work of the Women's Mizrachi and pointed out the im- 1939-1940: Mrs. Sam K l a v e r , portant'role being played by the president; Mrs. S. Fish, vice-presorganization in the development ident; ;Mrs. A. Wolf, treasurer; -of Palestine. Mrs. Waid. stressed Mrs.' I. J.- Soskin, loan secretary; the great need of building Pales- Mrs. Lewis Ellis, dues secretary; Mrs. Morris L. Firestone, recordtine thTough religion.

Various: activities took place ing and financial secretary; and during the year to help the organ- Mrs. K. Tatle, Mrs. Joe Ban, and ization raise funds for its Pales- Mrs. H. A. Adelstein, trustees. tine projects. A bake sale and . drawing were held during - the month of January under the chairmanship ot Mrs. J. Bernstein and Mrs. D. Crounse, and a rummage sale in the spring.

In January of 1939, twentyTo raise funds for the comple- five girls gathered at the home tion of the third floor of the new of Shirley Barish to form a new 1 Beth Zeiroth Girls* School in Tel Junior Hadassah Cultural group.

Aviv, a card party and dessert The organization- has grown rapluncheon were given. In May an- idly. other luncheon was held to buy Aims of this group-are: to conlinens for the school, which "was tinue the support and upkeep of dedicated on Lag B'Omer. Mrs. M. the H e n r i e t t a Szold Nursery Brodkey and Mrs. Sophie Rothkop home; to lend assistance in the ;were chairmen of this affair. maintenance and support of the Throughout the year a number Meier Shfeyeh. Children's Home: ot benefit bridges were given by to continue further purchase of the members. The Jewish National swamp lands in Palestine; and to 5"und committee under the chair- further agricultural projects. manship of Mrs. E. •Weinberg anAn active . season i was highnounced a large number ofdona- lighted by the first formal affair • lions to the Tree Fund. at Peony Park on June 19. A - At the monthly Oneg Shaboth, membership tea was held at the the group was addressed by eith- Cooper home on May 7. er Mrs. Max Fromkin or Rabbi At the regular meetings the fol' Milton Kopstein lowing persons presented interestThe Women attended the Men's ing programs to the group: Philip M'lave Malke and served the re- Klutznick, Mrs. Mary: Franklin •fieahments. They also prepared Mrs. David A. Goldstein, Mrs the banquets given in honor of Dora Freshman Kahn, and Fradfleers from the national headquar- ene Goldstein of Wichita, Kansas ters. i Officers for the year are: PresOfficers for the past year were: ident, Shirley Barish; vice-presiMrs. M. Brodkey, honorary presi- dent, Betty Soref; Secretary, Rosdent; Mrs. A. Katz, president; alie Alberts; Treasurer, Louise Mrs; E. Weinberg, Jewish Nation- Miller; Parliamentarian, Liberty al Fund vice-president; Mrs. M. Cooper.

Arbitnmn, Ways and Means viceAdditional officers will be electpresident; Mrs. L. R o s e n b latt ed in September at which time Membership vice-president; Mrs regular meetings will be resumed.

A. Schwaczkin, financial secretary; Mrs. Ben Handler, recording s e c r e t a r y ; and Mrs. D. Crounse,- treasurer.

On November 4, 1938, Sam Be " ' M r s . N. Levinson is J. N. F. co- ber Chapter No. 100, Aleph Zadik • chairman; Mrs. J. A b r a m s on Aleph, Junior Order of : B'nai membership co-chairman; a n d B'rith passed its tenth anniverMrs. M. Broatey, Ways and Means sary, entering upon its eleventh co-chairman year as an active -A. Z. A. Chap-•' Chairmen of the various com- ter. During this year, as always, mittees are: Mrs. A. G. Wein- A. Z. A. 100 helped set the pace stein, social: Mrs. B. Eisenberg, in "carrying out the complete Bori; publicity: Mrs. J. Katelman, Bick- D. Bogen five fold and full A. Z. visiting; Mrs. J. Tuchman, Rum- A. program — a program filled mage Sale; Mrs. U. Laytan, tele- with athletic, cultural, religious, phone; and Mrs. A. Shafton, Mot- social, and social service activity. or Corps.

This year, as always. Century All officers were re-elected at Chapter provided this, activity tothe last meeting of the year, gether with a proper Jewish enMany new members joined the vironment for about 75 Jewish organization's ranks during the youths between the ages of 15 and past year. They "were honored at 21. ..: a luncheon on June 14, ' Sam Beber Chapter-during the

Katz, Albert Nachnian, Paul Nathan, Harold Oruch, Paul Mann, Meyer Meyerson, Marvin Sadofsk'y, and Melvin Tatelman.

During trils same period, however, Century Chapter lost e' bt of its most active Alephs who oecame, alumni and were granted life membership in the fraternity.

These are Herbert Forbes, Harry Fox, Harold Habler, Manuel Himelstein. Paul Sacks, George Shafer, Jay Weisman, and Harold Zelinsky.

Sam Beber Chapter, sponsored

by Oniaba Lodge No. 354, B'nai Brith, has an advisory board consisting of five B'nai Brith members. Isadore Dansky is chairman of the board with Dan Lintzman, Haskell Cohen, Milton Frohm, and Alfred Frank as the otner advisors.

Due credit for.the very successful year enjoyed by A. Z. A. 100 must be given to the three sets of officers who served the chapter during, the year, giving much of their time and effort in their work. Officers whose term expired December 31, 193S, were Paul Sacks, Alepb. Godol; Harry Fox. Aleph Sgan Abe Resnick, Aleph Markir; Milton Saylan, Aleph Gis-

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Outstanding in this development of more and better live stock is the annual Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock show which is now on the eve of its twelfth exposition.

The Ak-Sar-Ben Live Stock show has put dollars in tiie pockets of tlie business men of Omaha and other middle-western towns and cities . . . It has accomplished this by assisting farmers and live stock raisers to develop finer breeds of stock, thereby increasing THEIR incomes so they have more money to spend.

The spectacular Ken Maynard, who has chilled with thrills many millions of Americans, both young and old, and his wonder horse, Tarzan, will be a special feature at the show.

In the movies and the -world** largest circuses, Maynard and his flashing Tarzan- are the aces of high-class, breath-taking, spectacular' exhibitions.

Everybody -will want to see them!

Today, Ak-Sar-Ben's annual show is the LARGEST 4~H Baby Beef show IN THE WORLD. It is the mecca for hundreds of youmful cattle raisers—both boys and girls—who will be the meat producers of the future. The champion at last year's Ak-Sar-Ben show sold for $1.25 a pound, THE HIGHEST PRICE PAID IN AMERICA! FOR A > H CHAMPION IN 1938.

Another Big Feature!

• The performances "of the worldfamous Necker's Doberman Pinschers will be classic acts never before seen in the middlewest. These "college" educated dogs walk and balance on the tight-wire, scale with ease 12-foot walls, skip the rope and about every* thing else no other dogs have ever done. Necker and his trained Doberman Pinschers are thrill cinches!

These attractions, plus the $20,000 horse show, the Mid-West pigeon show and a long list of other features give you the MID-WEST'S GREATEST ATTRACTION at the bargain admission price of only 50 cents.

Ak-Sar-Ben is a great show, doing a great work with the support of every person interested in the development of this great territory: bulging with opportunities.

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; At the season of the High Holy Days, it is appropriate to review other- holidays of the year, jtabbi Liang1, treasurer of the Rabbinical Assembly of America, interestingly describes the history and the significance of Shabnot, festival of the harvest in ancient Israel and the handing down of the Torah on Mt. Sinai EDITOR'S NOTE.

in their midst, much in the man- the renaissance of Hebrew culture ne r ".escribed in the Revelation at as well as a Jewish home for the footsore Jewish wanderer, who Mount Siuai.

In the early centuries of Chris- must follow the weary trek of tianity, Pentecost thus was ob- the refugee. served by the followers of Jesus.

This unique •spiritual investIn the year 305, the Church Coun- ment of retaining in our Jewish cil of Elvira urged the observance festival celebrations the symbolof the festival on the fiftieth day ism of the agricultural life of our following Easter, and since then people in ancient Palestine is BOW It has retained its place in the bringing its rewards in the resof the church. The Eng-toration to the Jewish people of •throughout the world Jews calendar know the holiday as Whitsun- a new Eretz Yishroel. will celebrate in the spring the lish or "White Sunday" for the observance of the Festival of day of Theme of Torah Pentecost was the time of Shabuot, the Feast of Weeks, or eve Returning to* the theme.' of baptisms and people wore as It is also known, Pentecost. many Torah, the Law, which in later The Sunday following is also ob- their white robes on this Sunday times was accentuated in the ob' served in the Christian churches of Pentecost. of Pentecost, we may as Pentecost, known by the Eng- Thus wf, find that this religious, servance conclude with a brief thought or lish name, "Whitsunday." Jt historical significance of the holi- two on the Jewish attitude toward would' seem appropriate, there- day assumes more and more imand freedom. Torah means, ' fore, that in this article we an- portance in the centuries which law swer a few questions concerning follow. The scriptural reading of of course, much more to the Jew this very ancient holiday which the day in the synagogues is the than the Law, the sacred code of both Jews and Christians observe. passage in Exodus describing the Moses. • It has come to embrace all traFirst, let us inquire into the Israelites at Mount Sinai receivorigin of the name, in fact, of the ing the Decalogue through Moses. ditional Jewish religious learning, several names, by which the fes- In the Middle Ages a custom arose and this rich accumulation of the tival is known. In the Bible, in among the Kabbalists, the Jewish culture of Judaism is what the the Book of Exodus, It is called mystics, to remain awake through- Jew recognizes as the product of the Feast of the Harvest, H a g out the first night of Shabuot, so the way of life which the Mosaic Hakotzir, for it marks the sea- as to reread the passages from son of the wheat harvest in Pales- the Torah, the Prophets, and the tine. Then it is called the Feast rabbinic writings. In " this manof Weeks, Hag Shabuot, for it oc- ner, the in-gathering of spiritual curs exactly seven weeks after knowledge took the place of the the first day of Passover. But harvests of the fields.

It has also another Biblical name.

Initiation to Study " The festival is called the Day A very beautiful custom was of the First Fruit Offering, Yom Habikurim, for part of the cele- that of initiating the four — or bration of this holiday included five-year-old lad in the study of the cefemony of bringing the first the Torah, on this festival of products of the field as an offer- Shabuot. The child would be caring to the Temple, in ancient ried to the synagogue on the Jerusalem. The holiday has come arms of a learned Jew, brought to be known as Pentecost, a word before the sacred scroll of t h e of Greek origin, when in these To'rah, to hear the reading of the old Greek writings it was noted Ten Commandments and to rethat the festival occurred-on the ceive the blessing of the Rabbi. fiftieth day after the beginning of Thereafter he became a regular Passover. pupil of the Jewish school, where he would imbibe the learning of Now we may properly ask what the Law of the great sages of old. is the occasion for the celebration.

Even in the food, by which the If we recall the agricultural char- holiday is distinguished, this spirit acter of anucient Israel, we may of the love finds its readily understand how a harvest reflection. Itofis learning customary to eat would be ample reason for na- dairy foods on Shabuot, because tional rejoicing. Palestine with its long summer months has sev- the Torah is compared to milk eral harvest seasons. In the early and honey. During the past censpring there is the barley har- tury- reform Judaism introduced vest, which the B i b l e notes the ceremony of "Confirmation" through the Omer. offering on the as a group ^initiation of Jewish youth into Judaism, on this festiPassover festival.

In early summer there is the val of the Giving of our Torah.

Still the observance of the feswheat harvest which is celebrated by the Feast of Weeks or Pen- tival for contemporary Jews has tecost. And at the close of the not lost all its agricultural symsummer there is the gathering of bolism. It is a very.old custom, other fruits of the field and of followed also -.universally today, the vineyards, when the festival to bring flowers, plants and green of Succoth, in the spirit of joyous foliage into the synagogue to prothanksgiving, expresses, the hap- vide a beautiful setting in nature's piness of the people with. God's" own colorsrforthe-celebTatlon:-of munificent : bounty. : this harvest holiday. But even in To return, then, to Pentecost, this, a tradition relates these we find it to be one of these hree greens to* the verdure of Mount major agricultural festivals, when Sinai, in the heart of the wilderin ancient Judaea the people ness, rather than to the fields of •wended their way to the Holy the harvest.

City of Jerusalem, from every In the reading of the Book of corner of the land, there to bring Ruth on this festival particularly offerings to the Temple and to we find the rabbis combining the join in the national festivities of agricultural and historical themes the capital city. in a beautiful and significant harPeriod of Second Commonwealth mony.

Ruth was a convert to the During the period of the Sec- faith of Israel and her gentleness ond Commonwealth, the bringing and fidelity stamp this charming of the first fruits of Jerusalem tale with a deep religious qualwas a most colorful ceremony, a ity, made all the more meaningful vivid description of which is giv- since King David is, by tradition, en to us in the Mishnah Treatise descendant of Ruth and of Bikkurim. As the festival of aherdirect husband, Boaz.

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Pentecost approached, in every Book of Ruth • . village and from every town the But the Book of Ruth Is a most ancient farmers of Israel gathilluminating story of the tillers ered with their first fruits.

The pilgrimmage moved on its of the soil in ancient Judaea. It march over hill and over vale as tells of the farmer's dependence their leaders proclaimed, "Arise on the uncertain fertility of mothye and let us go up to Zion unto er earth, which at times refuses the Lord our God." The flute to be bountiful, so that famine played before them, the Levltes rather than prosperous harvest is sang their, chants and the rulers the result of a year's arduous and of the nation and officers of the patient labor. It describes the Temple went forth to meet them friendliness and the human sympathy of the God-fearing landas they entered the Holy City.

In the. Temple the offering of owner of Judaea who provides the two breads made of the first that the impoverished gleaners meal was brought as a symbol of may gather the stalks of grain let Israel's thanksgiving to God, fall by the reapers as they harwhile the rich land owners and vest the field, and who displays a even the less fortunate farmers kindly personal interest in their brought baskets laden with the welfare. first fruits of the soil, which they It recounts a simple human left at the altar of the Temple. story with such dignity and beauIn the period which followed ty that it has been an-inspiration the destruction of the Second to poet and artist these many cenTemple, however, the rich beauty turies. For the Jew, the Book of this ceremony became but a of Ruth is a rich blending of the sad memory of a glory, that was religious and agricultural eleof the, past. Now, under the in- ments of the Biblical tradition. spiration of the rabbinic leaders, the holiday assumed a new emNot in the tradition alone has phasis. It had been noted by calculation, although just when this agricultural background of it cannot be recalled, that' Sha- Pentecost been retained. More buot, occurring on the sixth of recently in the rapidly developing the month of Sivan, marks the life of modern Palestine, Eretz very day when Israel received the Yisroel, Shabuot has assumed a Ten Commandments at M o u n t new meaning and with it has revived some of the old custom in Sinai.

The Bible does not, however, its contemporary observance.

For some years now it has been especially associate this historic event with the celebration of Sha- the practice of the Jewish colonbuot. To the rabbis of this later ists in the Emek, the fertile valepoch It was symbolic of the great ley, of Jezreel, to celebrate the spiritual harvest which Israel festival with a procession of ofgleaned and a manifest testimony ferings 'brought to the city of of God's bounteous providence by Haifa, on Mount Carmel, and the which alone Israel is enabled to proceeds of their sale are given to the Jewish National Fund. survive.

From this time the festival lost The chalutzim, the Jewish pisomething of its agricultural oneers, like their progenitors in character, and necessarily so, ancient Canaan, bring the prodsince "the people were dispersed ucts of their labors in a great and "the Temple in ruins. Instead, festival of rejoicing and merriit now became known as "The ment expressing their happiness season of the giving . of our in their return to the land of their Torah" (Zeman matan torasenu). fathers and In their share in the As the Feast of Revelation, this rebirth of Jewish life in the New holiday has assumed a deep re- Zion. ligious significance that has sup- For nearly two thousand years planted its agricultural origins. Israel kept alive this Hying atChristian Observance tachment to the soil of «Zlon in Perhaps at this point we may its prayers and festival celebraanswer the Question, why do the tions. In the hearts of the Jew Christians also celebrate Pente- the hope of Zion restored was cost, The second chapter of the never permitted to wane for a Book of Acts in the New Testa- single day. The Jewish people ment describes a gathering of the draws courage and hope from the apostles in Jerusalem during the remarkable achievements of but celebration of Pentecost. It speaks 50 years of this modern resettleof the appearance of a Holy Spirit ment of Palestine. Today it spells :

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code implanted in the character Azareth, by whatever name, this festival symbolizes the fusion of of the Jewish people.

Underlying this character is a the values of human life and of profound respect for law and Its law and order in the universe in development, a respect that grows the religious thought and practice again from the roots of the He- of Israel. It was thus Moses spoke braic religion, with Its avowed in God's name unto Israel in days faith In a Divine rule of law and of yore: harmony in the whole universe "Mine ordinances shall ye do, and in the relation of our universe and My statutes shall ye follow, to the unity and sovereignty of the to walk therein; I am the Lord Creator, the ultimate source of your God. Jfe shall therefore all law. keep My statutes, and Mine orHowever, Jews never made the dinances, which if man do, he law an end in itself and the very shall like by them; I am the . statutes and ordinances of t h e Lord."

Torah reflect the principle of in(Copyrighted by Jewish. Telesuring the continuity of human graphic Agency, Inc.) life and increasing human happiness, through accenting justice and human sympathy. Human freedom is as precious to the Jew as the' respect for the law, by which a free people can alone insure the enjoyment of true libThe Omaha Workmen's Loan erty.

Assocatlon has proven of invaluThe rabbis of the Talmud called able assistance to local Jewish Shabnot by the name Azareth, business men and working men, Concluding Festival, considering who, through this organization, Pentecost as a long postponed con- merely on the strength of their clusion to the eel bration of Pass- personal character, obtained fiover, the Festival of Freedom and nancial help. Its members conreletase from human bondage. sist of Jewish people of all walks Rightly these two festivals have of life and all branches of Judaa very close connection and espe- ism. cially In this relationship between Since 1917, the date of its infreedom, and law. This message corporation, this association has certainly has its pertinence today loaned hundreds of thousands of for-al1 peoples. . Just laws are the, dollars, to local Jewish people, surest guarantees of human lib- helping them get established In erty, while freedom never can em- businesses and homes. brace license to destroy that which The capital of this association Is the function of freedom to pre- belongs to the members. When serve, .namely, human life and first, organized, the shares were happiness. Shabuot, Pentecost, worth $25 each, but through addi-

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NEW YEAR MESSAGE From Herbert A. Metccdfe , Men and women from all nations of the earth have been invited to come to this great United States and make their home under a Constitution that guarantees religions Liberty, no matter what their belief might be. Why don't we all live tip to that grand Constitution and live peaeably with oar neighbors, then onr Country will progress in the future as it has in the past?

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When Rabbi - Moses Kraemer was appointed Chief Rabbi of Wilna (about 1670} he refused to accept a salary from the community, and directors Sam Bloom. H. being satisfied to eke out a living Guss, Joe Ban, Sam Wiensvag. from his little*shop (which his Louis Morgan, Abe Ginsburg, Sam wife managed). The community Feldman, Louis Bailin and H. felt that the least they could do would be to patronize his shop. • Staenberg.

However, when ; the Rabbi noToday the Omaha Workmen's Loan Association has legitimate ticed the increase In business, he claims for one of the leading posi- insisted that his wife keep a caretions in Omaha Jewish life. Its ful record of the week's earnings membership ts drawn from every and when she had enough for her group. It is not a closed or se- expenses sbe was to close up shop cret organization, it does not for the rest ot the week, *'It function on the Gold Standard nor would be unfair competition on on the Birth Standard. Its mem- my part," »aid Rabbi Moses, "to bership today represents a gen- take advantage of my being a uine cross, section of Omaha Jew- Rabbi." ry, with German. Russian, Polish, Rumanian and A n e t i can eleJosef Schlesinger (b. 183i) ments, rich and poor, Zionist and was a professor at the Agriculturnon-Zionist, Rabbi and layman, al Academy in Vienna and was the professional man, worker, and Viennese representative in the Imbusiness man, conservative and perial Reichsrat.

— Herbert A. Metcalfe, President The Aquila tions of dividends, the shares Increased in value so that at December 31,1938 each share was worth $36.75.

Loans are made for a maximum period of 12 months, ranging in amount from $60 up to $500. Repayments on these loans are made either weekly or monthly. Since the association is an non-profit organization, any remaining profits after the payment of expenses are pro-rated to the .members of the association.

The officers and directors of this association serve without pay.

At the present time the following are the officers and directors ot this association: Philip Ginsburg.

President: Ben Mirof, Vice-president; Ben LIndenbaum, Treasurer; Isadore Abramson, Secretary;

radical, believer and free thinker.

Numerically, too, the Omaha Workmen's Loan Association has maintained its r e p r e s e ntatlve character. At the preesnt time there are over two hundred and fifty members.

In the early part of this year, this organization was instrumental In getting several other organizations to join with it in giving a bazaar for the purpose of raising funds to help refugees from over the seas. The net receipts • from this affair was 1600 and this amount was forwarded to- the Joint Distribution Committee.

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On this, the beginning of your New Year, we extend our most sincere wish for your continued success and happiness. We pause too. not only to wish well for our Jewish neighbors and friends, but to express those thoughts in words.

"May you be inscribed for a good year" Is the sincere and heartfelt wish of the Nebraska Power Company.

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Community Rick In Organizations (Continued from Page 5.)

of Web Fierman and his orchestra' Himelstein, Leonard Lewis, Haring lineup, A. Z. A. 100- staged were all dressed in: the pioneer old Zelinsky and Al Kaplan. a never-to-be-fargotten last quart- costumes of the 1870's. As every With another successful year er rally that fell only two points year proceeds of the dance went of activity recorded in its history, short, and the* Century basketeers for a charitable purpose, this time Sam Beber Chapter No. 100, lost to the champion Des Moines to Hadassah's Youth Aliyah drive Aleph Zadik Aleph, is about to for the support of young Jewish enter its 12 th year as an active team 33-31.

A. Z. A. chapter, intent on carryKutler and Kuklin were re- refugees in Palestine.

1 The following month J a c k ing out their Boris D. Bogen fivegarded for their line play -when they •were chosen on the regional Spitzer, Grand Aleph Godol | of A. fold and full program with the all-star basketball team. Others Z. A., passed through Omaha en same purpose in mind—hoping on A. Z. A. 100's squad included route to the international conven- that it can provide this activity Jack Epstein, Harry Fox, Manuel tion in New York. In his honor, together with a-proper Jewish VHimelsteln, Irving Forbes, Milt A. Z. A. 1 and 100 held a joint enviroment for more and more outing at Peony park.- In June Jewish youths.

Saylan, and Roland Lewis.

"With the coming of spring, Cen- the chapter held another weiner tury Alephs focused their atten- roast, and on August 6 it joined tion on preparing for the interna- B'nai B'rith in an - all-day outing tional A. Z. A. softball, track, and at Krug park. This outing was The Mutual Loan Association of ping-pong -tournaments. •: which, highlighted by a dance the same •were to be held in June at Port evening the Krug park ballroom. Omaha was founded in 1926 to be of service to those wishing to SOCIAL SERVICE Jervis, ...N. Y- Jack Epstein was elected captain of the softball The Social Service committee take advantage of its loan faciliteam which was entered in the J. of Sam Beber Chapter No. 100, ties. Since its inception it has C. C. league as a means of prac- under Chairman Ed Ddlgoff, has been of aid to many.

Information regarding l o a n s ticing for international A. Z. A. been active in more than one way. title games.

During the winter, Aleph Dolgoff can be obtained any Monday evening at the Labor Lyceum.

In June A. Z. A. 100 sent its and his committee conducted a Officers of the organization contestants to the international city-wide old clothes campaign. are: Max Selicow, president; Abe convention. It was here that A.Z. Over 300 items collected by the For man, vice-president; S. Stein, A. 100 athletes reached" their Alephs were turned over to the secretary; S. Susman, treasurer, peak, for Sam Beber Chapter Jewish "Welware Federation for and Hymie Shrier, legal advisor. walked off with twice as many distribution among the needy.

Directors are: S. Swarts, L. GitWhen the Jewish Philanthropy medals as any other chapter. Manlin, S. Ruderman, S. Altsuler and drive was opened, it found t h e uel Himelstein placed second in H. Zorinsky. the shot put. Jack Epstein won services of A. Z. A. 100 waiting.

Workers.in the youth division inthe singles ping-pong championship, and Epstein and Milt Say Ian cluded Century Alephs Roland won the doubles matches. Jack Lewis, Milt Saylan, L e o n a r d Epstein, Milt Saylan, Norman Lewis, Abe Resnieks, Louis Katz, The Chesed Shel Ernes, foundKuklin, Al Kaplan, Manuel Him- Harold Slutzkin, Yale Richards, ed by the late Mrs. Harris Levey, Walter Greenberg, Edward Dolelstein, and Harold Zelinsky, all 17 years ago, maintains the only of A. Z. A. 100 were members of goff, Milton-Guss, Frank Pirsch community funeral home In the and Leo Alperson.

Aleph Godol the district 6 team that won the United States. Two years ago, international softball champion- Joe Guss was general chairman a modern building to serve its of the youth division of the ship. needs was dedicated at Nineteenth Philanthropy drive. and Cuming streets.

CULTURAL At the present time^ the social D u r i n g the past year, the f The cultural accomplishments service committee of A. Z. A. 100, of the chapter, though not the under its chairman, Leo Alperson, Chesed Shel Ernes building was most prominent, did : probably has taken over the collection of improved considerably, to meet prove the most valuable to the in- all unpaid' Philanthropy pledges the necessary sanitary standards. dividual Alephs. One of every lour in the youth division. Besides its The Chesed Shel Ernes has always meetings held during the year was own contribution to the Philan- made provision for burial rites for devoted entirely to cultural activ- thropies, Sam Beber chapter also destitute fellow-Jews.

The organization membership is ity. contributed to the > Youth Aliyah composed of women -exclusively. and other charitable organizaCultural chairmen George ShafThe officers of the organization •••',,' er and "Walter Greeriberg provid- tions. ; are: President, Mrs. Louis Nevel••;• Century Chapter still maintains ed the chapter with many; open eff; vice-president, Mrs. J a c o b forum discussions and symposi- its sponsorship of the Jewish* Boy Milder; treasurer, Mrs. Harry ums in which-all Alephs partici- Scout troop. Alumnus Jay Weis- Milder; financial secretary, Mrs. pated, discussing Jewish problems man of the chapter is scoutmaster Isadore Soskin, and correspondand life in the world of today. of the troop and their contact ing secretary, Mrs. Julius G. The chapter also had . before it with A. Z. A. 100 is maintained Chalt. many interesting speakers sucu as through a scouting committee Dr. Victor E. Levine, who lectur- headed by Aleph Harold Slutzkin.

Ladies' Auxiliary of ed and showed pictures of his The scouting committee recently opened a drive ;to collect unused, 'Workman's Circle visits to the North Pole.

Besides this, the debate team, scouting equipment to give to the Branch 173 debating problems of Jewish in- troop. terest, staged numerous debates Oh July 20, an American flag, The Ladies Auxiliary Workbefore the chapter. At the region- later to be carried to the. national men's Circle, Branch 173, has for al tournament held fn Sioux City; convention of Disabled American its officers Mrs. L. Stein, treasurLeonard Lewis and Miltonr*€htssr -Veterans to Boston, was presented er and-Mrs. H. M. Stein, ^Secredebating the question of a new to the local D. A. V. post by A. tary. The refugee c o m m i t t e e haven of refuge for Jews in addl- Z. A. 100. The chapter, hearing which plays a great part In the Vtion to that provided by Palestine, that the veterans had no colors, club is headed by Mrs. Smith. Be' a r g u e d successfully to the semi- raised money for the flag by hold- sides aiding the refugees the womfinals. Abe Besnick, after qualify- ing a raffle. Aleph Godol Joe en aid. other local and worthy ing by winning from chapter ora- Guss made the presentation, at charitable organizationa of merit tory competition, placed second ceremonies • held at the Jewish throughout the world. in the regional oratory contest for Community. Center, to William Of course there first Interest is the third consecutive year.

Ritchie, past department "com- the activities of the Workman* RELIGIOUS mander of 1;he American Legion, Circle which Includes the mainAlthough it is very difficult and Commander W. O. Wiggins taining the Hospital and Sanitarfor a chapter to maintain a year- of the local D. A. "V. post. City ium In New Jersey lor consumpround religious program, A. Z. A. Commissioner Harry' Trustin pre^ tives.

Members of the Board of Di100 has attempted to uphold the sided at the ceremony which was tradition of Sabbath as its relig- attended by members of D. A. V. rectors-are as follows: Mrs. C and other ex-service men's organiWitklni Mrs. Smith, Mrs. G. Polious activity. All Alephs were urglay, lflrs. Susman, Mrs. Miroff, ed to attend Friday night services zations throughout Nebraska.

Excluded from the five fold Mrs. Rnderman, Mrs-. L. Stein and at their local syngogues.

In addition to this, one day or activity of A. Z. A. 100 was the Mrs. H. M. Stein. the year was set aside as A. Z. A. publication of, fche, CENTURY Sabbath. On March. 1G, A. Z. A. SPOTLITEy the four-page monthloo, as a group, attended and. ly chapter newspaper. Editor-inhelped conduct services at the chief was Milton Guss, who reTo Alpha Gamma Chi is due the Beth El Synagogue. Besides join- vived publication after the paper ing the choir in assisting the can- had failed to appear for over a distinction of being .the youngest lor, several Alephs d e l i v e r e d year. Others on the staff were sorority on the University of Omaspeeches which made up the eve- Yale Richards, Harold Slutzkin, ha campus. Since its origin in the ning's sermon. During the High Malcomb Trachtenbarg, Leonard fall of 1933, the sorority has led all others - scholastically and has Holidays also, A. Z. A. Alephs Lewis and LeO Alperson.

A. Z. A. 100 was also active in become one of the most active! make it a point to attend religious the National A. Z. A. program. groups in the University.

Members of this organization Seventeen Alephs and' delegate ^ SOCLAL Excluding the regular A. Z. A. Abe..Resnick attended the Corn- cooperate in many activities and .-rankers and stags, over a dozen belt Region -convention in- Sioux events. Celia Lipsman,1 Eileen Zesorial affairs highlighted A. Zy A. City, la., • December 23, 24, 25. vitz, Geulah Meiches, and Etta TOu's social program. In Steptem- Harold Zelinsky, Past Aleph Godol Soiref are scholarship students. '<• r. 3!»::s, when the offices of t h e of the chapter, was the year's Miss Lipsman, Past president of SHI r u n e Advisory Council of A. president of Cornbelt R e g i o n the sorority, is also on the' Inter7. A. w*-re moved to Washington, Alephs association. Abe Resnick Sorority Council and is the new !> c . an all day outing was held was elected Aleph Sgan of the president of Feathers, national pep organization." Other Feather I. ;n run a Keach by both Omaha region at the convention.

Joe Guss was the chapter's dele- members include Lillian. Mono-: • ;•••:•- honoring those who left ..).;i ti> cnntinue work with t h e gate to the District ,6 convention vitz, Ooldie Rosenbaum, Pauline ' \ (;u'.-ts at the outing were at Madison, Wlal, this spring, and Rosenbaum, Libby Ruback, and i-i: — !>••. executive secretaryMilton Saylan was delegate to the Eileen Zevitz. ; Miss Monovitz, president of the • • - : : ' - n m v . and Ben Barkin, International A. Z. A. .Camp con,• • o . v i]live secretary, both vention held at Camp Cejwyn, Drama club and Miss Zevitz. can:: w.Tf presented gifts a s Port Jervis, N. Y-, during June. didate for 1939 "O" rluh F W • ;i i'pr>elation for their Other Alephs attending the inter- heart, have partici;>a'<r]w in num:. and assistance. T h e national convention were J a c k erous production? o: ; .f rlran.a• • ,- .-t.fi.ri with a weiner Epstein, Norman Kuklin. Manual

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the Gateway and Tomahawk staffs the university weekly paper and year book.

It is the custom of the girls to give two dances a year, a pledge dance in the fall, and a formal dance in the springtime. The "Dopey Swing" was presented by the pledges last fall and the annual Bpring formal was held at the iChermot ballroom on April 13.

Officers for the coming school year Include Pauline Rosenbaum, president: Etta Soiref, vice-president; Eileen Zevitz, secretary; Celia Lipsman, treasurer; and Lillian MOnovitz, historian. Miss Soiref is pledge mistress and Miss Libby Ruback is rush chairman.

Jewish National Worker's Alliance The Jewish National Workers Alliance, Poali Zion, reports of successful year and a large increase in membership.

During the past season the organization contributed to t h e following organizations: Los Angeles Consumptive Ex-Patients Home, the HIAS, the Deborah

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picnic was a huge success and a large sum.was turned over to the local Jewish National Fund Council for the Leon Blum colony.

The attendance at the literary and social meetings increased from an average of 50 to. 80 persons. These programs consist of The theme of America's tradition is the liberty of the a reading, music and an open individual.— the right to think as we wish.. As the Pilgrim forum.

The social committee consists fathers departed from Holland they were urged to observe of A. Cohen, Mrs. H. Mirowitz, tolerance and hold a respect for human dignity.

Mrs. S.~ Okun, Mrs. M. Goldstein v By recognizing the rights of others, America nas "be- and Mrs. J. Raznick. come & great nation. It has used its doctrines of equality to The organization's officers are: Morris Minkin, chairman; Mrs. win the respect of the world. It has spurned such harsh Clara Hurwitz, recording secremethods as an army of conquest. tary; Harry Crounse, treasurer; Today our nation carries its standards high; it is dis- Max Goldstein, hospitaller, a n d playing its theme of liberty to the world. Today we realize, general secretary, Joseph Radimore than ever before, how sacred and valuable our stan- nowski. dards are; how great the many advantages with which we . Herman .Bondarin, I. Morgenstern and G. Soref are on the exare blessed. ecutive board. : - - J . E. Davidson, President Mrs. J. Radinowski. H. MiroNebraska Power Company witz, B. Goldstein, R. Raznick, I. Morgenstern and M. Bondarin Sanatorium of New Tork, the doubled, and assistance war given were members of the committee Yiddish Scientific Institute of the Palestine Pavilion at the New in charge of the picnic.

Wllno and the Jewish Teacher's York Fair.

Seminary of New York.

The organization's annual conA Jewish epigram has it that This year's pledge to the Oma- certs have become an event of "questioning Is the half of wisha Jewish Philanthropies w a s local importance. This year's dom."

NEW YEAR MESSAGE] From J. E. Davidson

Refugees to Give France War Planes Nancy, France (JTA) ••— Jewish refugees here have launched a campaign for funds with which to purchase a squadron of Warplanes for France as a token of gratitude for providing them with asylum.

The drive was opened at a meeting, of the newly-formed Jewish Immigrants Committee, of which the honorary presidents Include Senators Gaston Roge a»d Henri GournauU, Deputy Fran* cois alen&ne and Rabbi Haguenauer Of Nancy.

In medieval times every Ghetto bad a free lodging house for Indigent strangers and every community had its salaried physician, so that medical aid was available for all, regardless of their financial standing. The lodging house was also used as a hospital.

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More than 65,000 customers .will' benefit from these lower rates!

ROOM COUNT ELIMINATED The top rate for electric service in all homes in Omaha and Council Bluffs will now be only 4c,a kilowatt hour, after a minimum bill of 50c, for which the customer will be entitled to 12 kilowatt hours. The "room count" that was a part of the old residential rate, will be eliminated under the new rates.

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These new residence rates greatly add to the value of the customers' "electric dollar" and make possible greater comforts and benefits of electric service in the home at decreasing rates. For example, any family using 202 kilowatt hours a month can now purchase all of its additional electric service at only l i e a kilowatt hour. Also a rate of lc a kilowatt hour is provided for off-peak electric water heating service.

COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS BENEFIT FROM NEW LOWER RATES More than 6,500 commercial lighting and power customers in Omaha and Council Bluffs will be benefited by the new lower rates. The new top commercial rate will be only 4c as compared to the old 4f-cent rate.

This will save these Omaha and Council Bluffs merchants almost $200,000 annually.

HEW LOWER RATES FOR SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, HOSPITALS AND CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS In addition to the lower rates for residential and commercial users, a special rate for public and parochial schools, hospitals, churches and charitable institutions will be put into effect. This will give these institutions a very favorable rate and a considerable reduction in their present costs of electric service.

LOWER RATES MADE IN FACE OF STEADILY MOUNTING EXPENSES These savings to our customers are being made in spite of Steadily mounting expenses . . . our taxes for 1939. compared with 1935, show an increase of $200,000 annually . . . labor costs during the same period increased $190,000 a year . . . our cost of coal for this year is £70.000 more than it would have been in 1935. * * * • Again, the Nebraska Power Company continues its policy of pioneering in cheap electric service.

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New Year's Edition—THE JEWISH PRESS—Kosb Ilashouah 5700—Thursday, September 14,1939 -.

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stead of combating the tempest, Jews to tlie 6ud tiiiit, by our lir.itwould throw overboard some of ed eff.orl.fc, we uaty biiUbliiili ecotheir companions, until finally noinio jufiiice, universal pence mid they are all attempting lo c.boke world-wide brotherhood tmor.g til each other and 8rt fire to the vesmen." sel OD wnlch buniaony lost iu Many similar loct! Piotelaiit dream? haB taken passage groups throughout tlie country Through its generations, Israel has acquired continuity.

It counts among its blessings have forcefully de-uyuiieed all In wbat was heiiewd t-> have tlie children who have come to it, to learn its teachings, and to go forth to practice its signs ot racial or religious inbeen the first Joint pronouncetolerance. ment ever Issued by leaders of |>lci ijltS. • • T h e Presbyterian, cxprcusiRg the Protestant and Catholic faiths To the following parents, who have-announced the birth of a child through our colthe sentiment of the Piotetitaiit on a Bubject of world Interest, repress generally, eald: "One of. the ligious and racial persecution was umns, we offer sincerest felicitations.

EdtMitftJflftl fl«Cr«tar>, Nat'l, Conference of ChrUtian. and Jews wretched things about this world vigorously denounced of ouri is the rabid anti-Semitism.

DAUOHTEES BOHB *.ftftrl>rftniitl<in of The Btatenienl. issued in Decemthat Is sweeping acroes the face f«Hfw #nrt ftddum ft a " rlndon derlnrpd, In a resolution: j Kev Daniel A Lord, 8 J . edl ber, 1SI38. was signed liy the Most Mr. «nd Mr*. Jack Farbir •nd Mr». Simual Horwlch) Mr, • nd Mn. A. O. Qordman Mr. and Mr«. LouU C«n»r of the earth. We are glad I lit, L ffijm ltd IftiJiMiilhi hitmbcr "In this tragic hour for the Jew tor of Queen's Work, St.. Louis. Kev Edward Mooney, chairman Mr. •nd Mri. J, J. Mam Mr. and Mra. Simon F«ldm«n fRit d t tafHft In Oprniany, Catholic students are devoted I'onsldernhle »pnce lo the oi the afimlnlpi rattve board of the Presbyterian church is makMr, and Mr». 8h«ppy Hook«nb«rg Mr. and Mr*. N«t« Brown to express their deep condemnation of anil Jewish feeling a determined effort to cement *»iif*M, miff) «hf) Inf. Mr. •nd Mn. L u t i r Mtyir the Nalionul I athollc Welfare Mr. and Mr a, Samuel Flnkal over the rising tide of ing In the January, 1S*3H. ls»ue of friendly* relations between us ami lltfMM rw*tir fftftff!h». i f d i Mr. •nd Mn. Loull A, Mirx Mr. and Mra. Ban Zollotuohin Conference. I*r. (.rttorge A. Butantl-Jewlsh feeling In (be world, that Journal.

Mr. •nd Mrt. Harry Brooktttln Mr. and Mra. Erwln Frladman these people of God , . . Lot un •rttf < ft*trtiM*ffl a.* itN • Mr. and Mra. E. M, Zalkln "Anil-Jewish hale worrleB me." ' trick, president of the Federal Mn «nd M n . B*n Kipl«n oppose antl-SemitlBm with si) the {•*ft*M wf Iho O n j r M f fdfjsllafi they hold (hat atill-Setnltlsm, re'Council of tho ChurcheB of Christ Mr. •nd M n . Bin B. KMIowik/ Mr. and Mra. Jot Soaoloff |irnlpdly denounced by the Pope wrote Father Lord.

"But, I rofaith and courage we can muiiUr." hrt fmt» ti(rfr*f-frni1lv t|f>HitfPcl Mr. •nd M n . Nat* Ollnlck Mr. and Mra. Jo«l CharnlM In America, the Hi. Kev. Henry its iin-Chrlstlan end Immoral.

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It worries me \vu» lnu:ausu t I h h Mr. and Mra. Nathan Turner M R«bbl u d Mr». David H. Wlc« Si (.corgc Tucker, presiding bishnlflO a crimp against true Arneri- of whal II does to Jews thap Mr. •nd Mn, L u Orauman Mr. and Mra. Julaa Shjplro itnrl feinfidtftit. (ifi Ihfr Or. and Mra. J. Milton Margolin Mr, •lid Mn. Sol Krlulnun CBtllfltM and democracy.

Irause of what it noes to Chris- op »f the ProtOBtant Episcopal tfhrf »if fftfc ftnlrhrl in ft church, and officials of the Southand M n .

Philip Klutmlck Mr. and Mra. Herman C. BablcH Mr, 'the fletfftlt Council of Cstholtc j tians. Hatred IB IB Ithe exact antlhe Mr. and Mra. A. B. Qreenbaro Mr. •nd Mn. David Formsn representing 46 lay jt llCBlB nf the Christian virtue of era Baptist convention and the Mr. and Mra. Max HuUman Mr, •nd Mn. Archil Charnty Presbyterian church In the United Yd* ttihsf w f l f ftHfpwriffhj Ijdillei III file Archdiocese nf 1)»-! love. Hatred of our fellows Is a Mr. and Mra. William tlngar Dr. «nd Mrl. J, C. Goldntr •'•((tulle tt^nntiftrttfrtn fif (tntl' Irolt, adopted. In March. ldSfl, a betrayal of ChrlKlB second f?real Stales.

Mr. and Mra. David Davldion Jerusalem (WNS-Paleor AgenMr. and Mn. E, E. Brodkty Mr. and Mra. Paul Varet t d (h IItcr. i frunlutloB cy)—The Ylshuv's determination condemning racism commandment To love our neigh- I The statement said, In part: Mr. and Mra. touia Shafton Mr. «nd Mn. Al«x Plotkln M*itrlr nhf, hottd not to permit Britain's new policy "American democracy. ' nald the bor "Itadul conflictB are ever prone lif N'HtfHnti*. for Palestine In any way to interfPsfilllllon, "Is based upon Ihe | Writing In a recent Issue of to produce lamentably unjust coni fere with the continued end or'ntivlcllon Ihat each Indlvldtiul in the ('ouitnmiweal, MonHlgo^r John i sequences. It is pertinent then (Mir rpmihllc Is to be judged as an A. Kyun, director of Lht Depart- i lo remind ourselves and others of tian must work for this. T h e whole of humanity." The resolu- protested agatnst "coercion and derly upbuilding of Krtitz Israel dramatically illustrated when In h f n p K nf Ihe Individual and not as a inemher ment of Soclnl Action of the Na- | the Inexorable Justice of the God tion said: persecutions such as those suf- was almost the same moment last »'«fhnf|e *• H11rf(i, frnni fifptofv (he t)f a racial or rfillglnu« group, [tlonal rnihollp Welfare Confer- whom we worship and whose crea- spirit which has found expreBslon fered by our Hebrew brethren at "The National Lutheran Counhere at Oxford must become an Sunday the foundation was laid Ml Jtf ftdclrtl dlflcrltninntlon militates enee, urged American Catholics to tures all men are." calls attention to the preva- throughout the world," Baptuts for a new Jewish suburb In the Integral part of the lite of thecil "fhsf ftiHf goodwill which Is es-1 "refrain from fostering by speech, were urged to protest "all viola- Haifa Bay area and & splendid Protestant Attitude lence of a philosophy which In Its f.i "t Id a peaceful and united action or hy sllnnce anti-Semitism Perhaps the most significant de- world." world-wide manifestations during tions ot fundamental democratic new building to house the Anglol f i g nil* In Ihe 1'nlled Slates." nunciation of anti-Semitism an.d A,resolution calling for a "unit- the last SO years threatens the rights In our own land."

Palestine Bank was previewed by ( ami) nnlhfn* that Jews "harp he-! " I I haa been urged," Msgr racism from a Protestant source ed etfort to combat anti-Semitism very, foundations ot our clvllUaAnti-Semitism Called Bin group ot journalists In Jerusanhfl HefttllUW "nfnr-fi f h ^ / rntne (lip hflfotnpter of democracy ! Ryan snld. "that CatholicB In was an official statement adopted In North America" was adopted tlon. It denies Qod, Ignores the Last spring the Greater N e w alem. t)icfn<Mfr.« Ilk* I hr-lr Maalor, .„ Ihe world," Prank J. particular ought to refrain from by delegates from all over theat the biennial meeting ot ' the evil In man,-disrupts humanity, York Federation ot Churches re»f»r< . I » M n«i| »ttli|wf In nil ttifl llrliMn, noted Washington ntlor- encouraging this campaign of antl- world, meeting In England last The now suburb, which haa Federal Council ot the Churches glorifies night, and attacks the leased a statement signed by 170 itii I M ( h prfdldent o( thn American SmiltlRin from fear that the same summer to attend the Oxford con- of Christ in America held In Buf- essential foundations of Christian- c l e r g y m e n representing 16$ been n a m e d Kirlat Ilashmal w nf finhrtl t>n- Hflf nfldnclatlon, and ono of Amer-j methods and the name psychology ference, high point of the ecu- falo, N. Y., last December. churches ot £4 Protestant denom- (Electricity), Is meant for the acity," i . . . f l t unit H I M * (flili-h nhMf* lesi'a leading Catholics, warned, In will lie used against them when menical movement In Protestantinations In which they attempted commodation of workers employed Declaring anti-Semitism "to be Similar resolutions were adopt- to "disavow any words or actions by the Palestine Electric Corpora•"•Mr rt ««II-Heml(l«ffl It tlftlloft-wlde broadcast last DP.- the next antl-Cathnllc movement ism. The statement declared: ('(•tiihj'r, lht one hale always gets under way. The two com- "The existence of different a plain denial of the spirit of oured by the Woman's Auxiliary of prompted by the spirit of anti- tion, the largest Industrial underM |tnandinents provide an infinitely races Is full of possibility for the Lord," the resolution urged the the Protestant Episcopal church Semitism which emanates from taking In Palestine, which lias the i'Pd« Rfiother.

(Jtiollng from tlin Michigan „.— higher motive and an lmmeasur- enrichment of human life. All Christian church to "set IU fiue (December, 1988) and by the Re- sources that purport to be Chris- concession to develop the water fnf I d * f i t ( ll t i t l e Implacably against racial pride ligious Society, of Friends'(Quakpower of the country and to supthrrifittmitt Ihfl *> B t I f ft f'nlhollc. official organ of t h e ably more effective ono. From races share alike In God's con- and eiploltatlon of other races." ers) at its second annual confer- tian." w«fM, If Ifiw U U I'rtnc f i l l * X I find Arrhdlocfse of (Jetrolt, Mr. Hogan every point of view Catholics cern. Racial pride and exploita"There Is special need at this ply its cities, with the exception ence In September, 1937.

The World Alliance for InterIhnl ''inn t'ailuillfl said: "Ttjffllly out of harmony should refrain from fostering by tion of other races Is Bin. Against time," Bald the statement, "that of Jerusalem, and Its villages with In March ot this year the board the church throughout the world light and power. tbitnh (inlilfttitll* |ifnfK fur (he with (he Itolyy father's leadership speech, action or by silence antl- these the Christian church the national. Friendship Through 'the Churches, at Its meeting in Larvlk, ot trustoet of the United ChrisSenilflsm in the United States." world over must set Its face Imbring every resource at Its com,f*i*t«h (ifn(l|« Hf|)i| *f.fl> Cnlhnllrs who Indulge In • October, 1938, aptian Mlb?lonary Society ot themanii against the eln of antiSpeaking in New York last De- placably and utter Its word un- Norway, »f# of th> r or wriilngs which ntl 1 The First Haircut i fnel tphrt lo orotise feeling ngalnut cember Professor Jacques Marl- equivocally. Moreover, its tint pealed to Its members throughout DiBclplea ot Christ Church adopt- Semitism. We call upon o u r l {* I M tim* hi t'hMdf. flip iteWft B« B race. Even when taln, world-famous French Cath- responsibility Is to demonstrate the world to "awaken public opln- ed a resolution expressing alarm Christian brethren to guard their A strange custom knownionly fhelr remnrk« are qualified In olic philosopher and writer, de- within Its own life the trite 'com- on .to-the great evils involved In at the "Increasing manifestations hearts, their minds, their lips, *ttdi A way as lo set the dlscern- scribed anll-Semltlsm as anat- munity spirit. Discrimination of he systematic ostracism and per-of the growth of racial animosities their hands, from e m o t i o n s , among Jews living in Palestine itftinnjf ItiK ott their guard, these writers tempt to divert "men from the races or color can on no possible secution against the Jewish race In our world" and deploring the thoughts, words or deeds that par- and Arabian countries surroundpretext have place within Its life and against thousands ot Chris- "Increasing evidences that anti- take of the sin of antl-Scmlttsmi." ed the first haircut given to a hoy i tlifilild, In view of the world con- real tasks confronting them," after his fourth birthday. In Paltans - who have kinship -with Semitism 1B being deliberately dition* today, fnrefully weigh the 'It diverts 1them," be said, if It be true to Christ.

A Hlmilar manifesto was signed estine the ceremony usually takon fostered and propagated by orH e r of creating prejudice In 'from the true causes of their "There la therefore laid upon Jews." by 30 clergymen throughout Ber- place ou the second day ot Pass»#flHM •All (Mm the rnlfids of less discriminating woe*. — which He simultaneously every delegate at this World Con- ' At'its annual meeting In Wash- ganiied groups In our own land." gct; county, New Jersey, early In over. » i H M t » Cn •portpM flfid ot seeing their wrlt- In our egoistic and hypocritical ference the duty of leading the ington! D. C, January, J939, the The resolution declared further June, 11138.

On this day friends and rela$p»*\ttnt int hft* Mtplollei by UhscrUpiltous hearts and In' the social structures Christian church In alljtnds to National Lutheran Council adopt- that ''as Christians we utterly reThe New York East conference tives assemble at the houBe of tho causally Inter-related to our moral foster • spirit of solidarity' and id a resolution condemning per- pudiate any such doctrine and de- of the Methodist Upiscopal church parents. The boy 1B brought forth f'nl- pfnfttnthru of Hntl-Bemlllsrfi." t'slhnll* PtfrH t'otnmfni wfetchedneis. Anti-Semitism di- co-operation, to that all divisions secution- of Jews and called upon clare It to be foreign to the teach- adopted a resolution last year, dressed In his best garments, an 1 wt«l* Mflftr editorial denunciations of verts men from the true causes of which now disrupt the family ot America to maintain a vigilant ings of Jesus and repugnant to pledging themselves to do every- every one present is entrusted Kfl.tf t fltill-Se.fnlllgfii have appeared In their- lufferIngs to throw, t h e m mankind may be healed. Every guard "against all forces "which His spirit." thing In their power "to eliminate with the duty of cutting a fetv MMnn Catholic tierlodlcata throughout agalnat an innocent multitude, national church, every local con- today'threaten the liberty, t h e Meeting In Milwaukee last year all un-Christlan attitude) and hairs, which Is considered a great like a>-worthless ,crew which,-In-, gregation, every Individual Chris- peace and the happiness of thethe Northern Baptist convention practices among non-Jews toward privilege. the country.

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Jews

By Joseph C. Hyman

THE HOME IN LOS ANGELES

By Stmuel Goiter EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR LOS ANGEI;E8 SANITARIUM

At this New rear time it la sands of Jews who entered Ittly and central Burope Invariably lays only natural that tho LOB AiiKeles slier January, 1919, wore forced increasing stress upon construc- Sanatorium and Expatlents Hoirie into eslle and compelled to be- tive forms of endeavor. Economic la girding Itself for Its epochal aid through the medium of come refugees oucu more. new program for the coming year, In 1-oloud, the right of Jt>ws to l a r g e network of Gemtlotb but before this subject so close live on a political par with th<4r Cheuued (free loan) kasaas, voca- to us can bo even mentioned we fellow Polish dtiuons 1B being tional reorlentatlon through trad< Not filn.ee the poist-war recon- challenged. While political events and agricultural training, develop must extend heartfelt tbanka to etructlon period have the UCBOB end the threat of war have over- lug new avenues of employment those thousands all over America tit our fellow-Jews ovctraebs been shadowed the Jewish queutlon In mid occupation, promotion of who have stood loyally with us of i,o pressing or to esttmuive a Poand within recent weeks, thus crafts nml guody for export, are through tbe past turbulent year, In tbe welter ot dally headline* jittui'6. With continents.! Europe making for a temporary breathing til being purBued with vigor. suffering (torn deep-rooted politi- spell, the prospect of Poland's This iu in addition to essential depleting tbe pitiful, but none this cal &nd economic muladta, a n d more than 3.006,000 Jews IB child care, medical-sanitary aid less dramatic plight of our fellowmen in Burope, it was to have with more than 6,000,4100 Jews hardly optimistic. • and cultural assistance. The pro- been expected that more prosaic us conspicuous scapegoats of Fasgram of assistance in eastern Eu but equally Boycott, discrimination a n d urgent philanthropies cist find nationalist Ideologies, the ropti goes on with undlmlnlshed Jpws of America find themselves poverty continue. In Humanla. vigor, even while new and crush- at home might he forgotten. But celled upon today tor ntsaintanee during the lust few lnontbs, overt ing requirements rlnc In Germany such has not been tbe case. We • ..'o.^n unprecedenledly diversified violence has been avoided, but the and In the countries which are In America havu iallied a* me to Btid^widCiCf'Sid.in.ogrem. In an equally effective instrument of profoundly affected by German alleviate tbe •uttering >n Buropt, yet carried on *ltn the tarn* huetlcrt to render that £Bi)ltstfm«e "denationalization" Is exercising policies. manitarian seal ae evur before -nioet etficleutly, the Joint Distri- pieiiiiurc on the Jewish minority.

The hroad scope ot the work of From 150,000 to 260,000 JewB ere bution Committee hag this year tbe Joint Distribution Committee the victims of this process of decombined its fund-raining eftorta necessarily dependent upon the •with those of the United Palentlne priving them of the right to work is Interest and support of the AmerAppeal end the N&ttoual Co-ordi- even to live, In Rumania. ican Jewish commuulty. Through They are thrown Into the catenating Fund, Inc., In the United gory of the "stateless" to whom active participation in the United Jewluh Appeal.

Jewish Appeal tor Refugees and emigration Is practically Impos Millions of Jews live In an un- Bible. How they are to live, who Overseas Needs, maintenance ot ending nightmare of fear and ter- is to assure them the most ele the vital services without which ror. The remnants of the Jewish mentary subsistence, Is a problem Jowleh communal lite In much o community in Germany are In the coolly and cynically thrown Into Europe would falter Is made poa last stages of liquidation. In Aus- the lap of the rest ot the Jewish slble far men, women and chit tria one year of Anschluss nan population and foreign Jewish dren who cling to their traditional decimated the ranks of the Jew- groups. faith in the generosity and hu< .1th population. of free America.

These Jews whose citizenship inanity liven more heartbreaking, it status Is not In question, however, (Ccpyrlgbt, 1839, by Seven Artt Feature Syndicate.) possible, Is the plight of clone to are nonetheless subjected to ae ,300,000 Jews In what was once vere loss of livelihood through the i Czocho-SIovakla. Thousands of withdrawal of trade licenses, exthem have twice fled from Ger- pulBlou from trade unions, in' miiii terror; today they a r e ability to remain numbers ot trapped In the expanding N a z i chambers of commerce or profesring of uteol. Some 4,000 Qer- sional associations, denial of , man and Austrian refugees, as credits, etc. . well as mure than 20,000 refugees For the first time since t h e from the Sudeten urea, who had World War, Hungary this year

By Eddie Cantor , flod to the interior of Czeclio occupies a conspicuous place on This message from America's Slovakia In the hope of finding the map of Jewish misery. Its asylum, now face the thfeat of 600,000 Jewish citizens are being telovcri comedian of f t t a g e , concentration camps and worae forced out of the economic life ot screen and radio was delivered Today,' reports from Czecho-Blo- the country through the Imposi- •t the Netv York World'* Fair vakla are fragmentary and incom- tion of a numerus clauses In when he was the guest of hon. together with hi* wife, of plete. every phase ot trade, commerce. or, the Now York Chapter of Ha* The ona fact which is certain Industry, the professions ahd the ilnssnli Jewish Palestine Is that the Jewish position there arts. The first Jewish Bill of Pavilion.Rt the tribute to Mr. Is desperate. In Slovakia, rioting, May, 1838, reduced to 30 per cent Cantor waxThis him In roc. pillaging, and pogroms have not the ratio of Jewish employees in ognjtlon of paid his dlstihgulabed ceased sines that state became a these fields. tiervlcca In the raising of funds • tisrmun "protectorate."

Jews A new Jewish Hill, Just passed the Youth Allyali, hi* effort* are being driven from their busi- by the Hungarian Parliament, Is for resulted In the transfer nesses, dismissed from their Jobs, far more radical in nature and having ot 4|(tOO refugee children to and subjected to every kind of reducoB the 20 per cont to 12 per Patent Ino In the past five years. pliyolcal indignity. cent tor commercial ahd IndusVbe infamous "street scrubbing trial employees, and 6 per cent tor —THE EDITOR. squads," which were used to hu- professions, the press, the thea It Is appropriate that I should miliate- and degrade tbe Jews ot ter, etc, Under the terms of this Austria just about a year ago, Bill it Is estimated that within be standing here In the Temple ot Kellglon, because I am a raenv . have bcon revived for Ciecho- tour years 250,000 Jews will have ber ot a race who have the oldeil J31ovil:la's Jews. At every foreign lost their livelihood. religion since the world began, • conaulato In Bohemia, Moravia In Americas I am thankful that I am standing nud Slovakia, there are enacted A new, chapter in the history of here on this platform In tbe Unit ' dally pathetic scenes remtnUcent Jewish heed overseas is being ' ot Vienna in March, 1938, as hun- written today in South and Cen- ed States of America, which per ; dreda ot Jews, harried and driven, tral America. Those countries niits me to stand here in free' Deck admission to any country have seen the Influx, during re- dom, and I blesB the greatest humanitarian this country haB ever that will have them. cent months, of a large stream of The dissolution of Csecho-Slo- "panic emigration" comparable known, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

All of UB, regardless ot race or rakla has completed a tragic cycle only to the desperate flight of and has brought back under tho refugees across borders of the creed or religion, should be more domination ot the Nazi regime the countries neighboring Germany, appreciative of the good things name number ot Jews whose lives The status ot many of tho refu- this country, has given us, the wore wrecked by Hltlorlsm In gees in South and Central Ameri- right to lite and liberty and the 1983—000,000. Tho nearly 300,- can countries Is pitiable. In many pursuit of happiness. I pray to 000 porsons who have managed to casoB the victims ot concentration God that this Insidious propaganloavo Germany and Austria dur- camp Incarceration, they h a r e da which Is trying to creep into ing tbe past six years, have been taken flight from Germany under this country will never be able to replaced by an approximately tbe severest kind of pressure, fre- touch you or me or any ot UB. I have always been Interested equal number of fresh vlvtims. quently with no definite goal, no plans, and scant hope for the in HadassAh, particularly In the A Refugees Youth Allyan. I love children; I No lees'hnplepB la the plight of future. Large numbers h a v e tbe refugees from Germany and been denied admission to coun- think the most beautiful thing In Austria. Close to 100,000 ot them, try after country, and have spent the world Is a child In all its Inscattered throughout the countries days and weeks on floating "no- nocence and glory. Our own chilot Europe, live In suspense and man's lands" — boats which call dren have love and freedom and uncertainty, only slightly l e s s at one port after another in the happiness, but we nluat not forget dreadful than what they endured attempt to gain admission for that there are children who do Inside Germany. Fleeing across their passengors. A substantial not have, these things. Whether borders, penniless, denied permis- program ot assistance needs to bo one believes In Palestine or not sion to work, dodging police and undertaken In behalf of these Im- makes no difference t am very tired ot hearing noh-Zlonlsts say government officials lest some Ir- migrants. that Palestine Is no place for regularity In their papers bo tho The question then arlsos: What Jews. What other place is there excuse tor deportation to Ger- can Amorlcan J a w 8 , a o t l n e many, tho largest number ot these through the Joint Distribution for ninny thousands of Jews?

There is my friend, Wei^brook unfortunates seek but ono thing Committee contribute towards tho —tbe opportunity to emigrate amelioration ot the pressing needs Pcgler, who in his column t h e overseas, to begin life anew, to of overseas Jewry? The J. D. O. other day askad what r|tUt Jew* rebuild tbeir futures on the ashes may be compared to a highly sen- who aro citizens In other counof the past. sltlvo seismograph, on which there tries have to want to go to PaleaNot only are tho refugees them- Is registered immediately every tine. What citizens does he meant selves In danger, but, in addition, disturbance in JowiBh llfo. It Have the Gorman Jews the rights their presence has tended to jeop- conducts a ramified program of of cltltent)? .Are Jews full-fledged ardize and affect in a serious way, rollof and reconstructive aid In cltUchs In Poland or Hungary or the position ot tho native JewiBh almost every corner ot the world. Rumania? What citizens does Mr. Pegler meant populations. Because the conIn Germany and Austria, tho stricted flow ot emigration has largest part of J. D. C. funds . It the world doen not look after these unfortunates then this Temutterly failed to keep pace with are expended for emigration ahd tho influx of.desperate refugees, preparation for emigration by way ple ot Religion Is nil wrong, and tho email border populations ot ot vocational retraining, etc. A tho churches nrc all wrong when such countries as Holland, Bel- substantial amount Is also neces- they preach on Sunday morning. glum, France, Switzerland;. Lux- sary to continue such forms of What they mean is: "Love thy embourg, etc., have risen notably welfare aid as relict, food a n d neighbor as thystlf It he Is of thy denomination." to the occasion.

• lodging.

Porhapa I am InteroBted In refThey have opened their hearts Schooling tor Jewish children, ugees because I am a father, too. and their purses. Their giving who are no longer able to attend When I look at my own five has bean Keaerous and whole- government schools, and assisthearted, and, generally speaking, ance to provincial committees for daughters I cannot help thinking disproportionate to the contribu- support ot hospitals,, homes for of those refugeo youngsters and tions ot Jewish groups elsewhere. the aged, orphanages, etc., aro ropoatlhg to myself:'-"There''bat They have been obliged to glyo also provided/Further large for tho grace of God go my own guarantees to their governments, sums aro expended both directly girls." It you have any humanity have interceded In behalf of tho 'n Germany and through tho oml- In your heart, If you believe In refugees, have given explicit as- jratlon aid agency, Hlcem, tor God, and goodness, do something : . fiUrancu t h a t tho Immigrants ho , emigration expenses, pocket about those refugees.

And there Is another thins for would not. become public charges and landing money of Individuals Unless we are • p.nd would emigrate in duo course. held in concentration camps whoso UB to remember.

1 It Is obvlouajy the solemn duty release is predicated upon Imme- terribly careful, unless we fight tor llfo and llborty, tho wholeot American Jewn to hold up the diate emigration from Uermany. business now going on over thero hands of thesi Dutch. Belgian, Assistance to refugees in tho can bo transferred over here.

Ki'cnch or Swiss Jews, to support European countries of temporary thorn In their efforts and to Join asylum, such as Belgium^ Franco, Some pooplo have told mo that I them In malting good tho guaran- Holland, Switzerland, L, u r o m- seem to be setting a little panicky.

But I tell them that I know tees exacted of them. bourg, etc., consists again ot emiTho - American Jewish philan- gration aid, agricultural, techni- whereof I speak. I toll them that thropic bodies are trying, within cal and manual training and ro- I sp6nd a lot ot time traveling the limitations of their means, to raining, and relief. In addition, around the country, and have render this sorvlco and contribu- a new typo of expenditure has seen many things. They don't know What Important Industrialtion.

•"••••-. become necessary by reason ot re- ists nro behind this business, beIn Italy cent events; This consists of hind Senator Reynolds and Father Tho growing Ihfluenco of Nazi guarantees to tho governments ot power has been accompanied by countries of refuse, tho upkeep of Coughltn and General Moseley and tbe infiltration of German anti- Urge transit camps for refugees, George Doathcrage. Those mon aro tho enemies of not only the Semitic doctrines in tho camp ot legalization work,: «tc Its axis partner, Italy. Tho fiO,- In such countries an Czecho- Jews blit of all America.

000 native tlilllan Jews hnvo seen slovakia, Italy, Danzig, Hungary, r This Temple- of Religion Is a their position seriously weakened which have been affected by re- , ery Important part of the World's by tho racial legislation ot last cent territorial changes or by antl- Fnlr here. And whllo you may September, and already moro thnn Jowish legislation, the major re- not see a great deal' here when <« per cont of them have been quirement has to do with einlgra- a\\ wall; Into i Mb room, you mubt disprlVed of all forms ot liveli- '.Ion and tho preparation -therefor.( ilwajra remomhor that 'thorn 13 nothing bigger in tho Fair than hood. In addition, many thouTho work undertaken Ib eastern i Odd. Mr. Hj-iiiuii, executive <Siiw> tor at tots iaiut itfuti'ibiiUoii Voniiiiiltee, aatilytt's receipt at" vciopitieiits ir> liurnite itnd their hearing «ui the. iwoUriero of Jewiuh tJiirvivui.—'fMK IIWMJOK

such inogmraii at those of i h t cot been out of n.lnfi. Our hats in the outside world without dag- upon as a second Mount Slhai, and ger of being forced into an en- the day on which the child enCity of Hope tor ttiibe ftrick^n in are oft' to them.

Now let UB consider our sew vironment conducive to a recur tered It- as the "Feast of RevelaAmerica with tuberculosis. rence of tuberculonis. tida." work for the coming year.

While One can only tind praise for ou> Thin program is being launched Hence tbe ceremony often took citleenry when we realize that tbl' tbe actual hotpUallzatton must go double burden has b<$n born on in even greater scope with tbe Within the confines of the Sana- place on tho FeaBt of Weeks, cheerfully . . . that we bavt aeci,. ever increasing waiting Hit otjtorium itself and the individual darly in the morning, while it was cases, the Samtorlum Sanatorium at allj aptitudes or talents of ua still dark, tbe child was washed to it that then be DO "lorgotUi'. critical case*, ot each pais launching program (Lieut men." ''long laat '""" '" ' *"'"" a" "-""-""• «•—• are — to <~ be ••- carefully —«».."- con — and carefully dressed. When day It haB planned for many years and sldered in the program of actual dawned the child was taken to the Work Aided only now ha* been able to put Into practice In new trades and other synagogue either by his father or some worlby member ot the comIn extending tbanki this New {operation. occupations.

Year tbe Loa AngvleB Sanatorium All wf can say is that the pa- munity.

Tha program IB ECONOMIC and KxpatlenU Home extend* a REHABILITATION. Arriving at tho synagogue the tient* of the Sanatorium who have particularity grateful band to rearhml lliat long goal of con- child was placed on the Blmah Nrw Program Auxiliaries and supporting groups valescence where they are one* and the Scroll of the Law was In other part* of tbe United Even as you read this tbe plan again looking out upon the out- read )n his presitnce. The portion b n ve State*. * " « i »P« . operationi »up. u d B y,QTii boih with eagerness read described tho Revelation at Southern California people who plying tbe final missing link Ui\Di in i ag |vi n g, welcome from th-i Sinai. After services tho boy was visit the Sanatorium, talk- to ttan tne eb»n of prevention, e a r l » , b o U o m 0 , t n e l r h<!&rtB tb(S o p taken to the bouse of the teacher hopeful patient*, **e with their treatment. hbspHaUjatlon, emer- pOrtunlty to prepare tbemMlves vliero vartouc caremonleB uuch own eye* the live* reborn, and geneyeurgery,, cpnvalescence and f o r the great travel beyond the as writing verses on a slate and having tho boy repeat them were consequently have tbe importance expatieut care which ha* been' part of the order of the day. of the work brought home to welded together In tbe 26-year piness or heartbreak. them. Across the continent It I* hlatory ot the institution. FinalThe youngsters, who ranged in a different matter. Duarte, OaJ., ly we are taking tbe first step in age from five to seven, depending and ita patient* teem far away restraining patients for active, on good ir uuor health, were duly and far removed, but the e**t, productive independent economic Impressed with >b» fact that "the tbe south and the middle west life that will occupationally oaune Torah fclll be -ny calling." have not forgotten that. the tu- nt> .recurrence or relapse, as the berculous among their own neigh- case may be, ot tbe disease.

The day on which a Jewish boy Georg von Scboenerer, notorbors are seeking hope In the Having Its first beginnings In first went to school was celebrated IOUB anti-Semite, was married to southland in tbe shelter ot the occupational therapy, economic re- with special ceremony Hlgnlfylng tbe great-grandadughler of a rabSanatorium. habilitation will give the ex- the high esteem in which the bi. Mn alen inherited a fortune Tbeir have shouldered this re- pitlent a real opportunity in school and reiigtmm Instruction, made by his father who was an sponsibility. Out of slfht hat again aastrt an Independent plaoe Iwere held, "the school was looked associate of the Rotbicbilds.

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escuing Europe's Disinherited Jews

By Edward M. M. Warburg

* How Is the United Jewish Ap1 for Refugee* and Overseas i serving as the channel of lifted and u n p r e c e dented nd-ralsing effort on the part | American Jewry to halt the i of suffering and homelessi for European Jewry"! pn a d d i t i o n to serving us 111 o n a 1 Co-Chuirinan, Mr. irg is also E x e c u 11 ve ilrman of the Greater New Campaign of the United wish Appeal.

—EDITOR.

already been adopted by scores of communities throughout the land.

Because of the broad scope of the activities of the c o n s t ituent agencies of the United Jewish Appeal, this new unified fund-raising instrument of American Jewry must be regarded as the barometer of American Jewish leadership in the present Jewish crisis.

How are the Jews of America meeting the problem of the antiSemitic encirclement of Jewish communities in Europe? How are the Jews in America meeting the problem of the unbuilding of Palestine?

How are the Jews of America meeting the problems of the refugees who have found a haven In this country? The answer to those fundamental questions can be found in the attitude ot American Jewry to the United Jewish Appeal which in effect becomeB the central channel of constructive action to maintain the structure of Jewish life overseas.

If one were to seek to trace to a single event the establishment of the United Jewish Appeal, one would no doubt point to the riots end burning of synagogues on 'Black" November 10th in Nazi Germny. This was a turning point in the agonizing plight of the Jews of Germany, destroying the last shred of hope tor Jewish survival In that country.

In its larger aspect* It foreshadowed new and terrifying eventa tor the Jews ot Central Europe, and underscored the urgent necessity for a tar broader pogram ot of American Jewish assistance.

Thus, In an atmosphere ot grave trial fer the Jews of Germany and Austria, the one combined drive was created.

The drama of Jewish reconstruction today may be divided Into three scenea. The first scene would take place against the strife-ridden backdrop of Europe in turmoil, of the ring of antiSemitism that has been forged around Jews of Central and Eastern Europe.

The second scene would take place In Palestine where the forceB

of Jewish rebuilding are carrying on the task ot creating new homes for Jews in face of the severest hardships. The third scene would be enacted in a great nation which was built up by refugees of another era—where the refugees of today are already making a dlBtinct and valuable contribution to the economic, cultural and artistic progress of the United States.

Just as the United Jewish Appeal represents ever phase of the great constructive effort of rescue, so does it in Its leadership reflect the unity of all elements of the Jewish community. Perhaps the best index of the wide range of Jewish leadership at the helm of the United Jewish Appeal is the group of distinguished figures who are its Honorary Chairmen.

They are: Dr. Cyrus Adler, Louis Bamberger, Prof. Albet Einstein, Max Epstein, Governor Herbert H. Lehman, Louis E. KlTBteln, Federal Judge Julian W. Mack, Henry Monsky, William J. Shrodor, Hon. Max C. Sloss, Hon. Nathan Straus, Samuel Untermeyer, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Dr Stephen 8.

Wise.

Under the national chairmanship of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Jonah B. Wise, not only the recognized Jewish leadership of every section ot the United States, but new forces have been mobilized. The younger generation has been harnessed for active service.

Geared for unprecedented rescue effort, American Jewry is today, through the instrumentality of the tnited Jewish Appeal, tn a tar better position to respond to the emergency of Crecho-Slovakta, the tightening of economic restrictions on the Jews of Hungary and the adoption of Nail anti-Semitism in Italy. There is, however, one major point which must not be over-looked and that is that no matter how large the quota or how all-inclusive the present programs of the constituent agencies, the unforeseen catastrophes that shatter Jewish life with lightning suddeness call for ever broader measures ever larger funds, and ever larger sacrifices.

Whatever posterity may Bay of I year 1989, whether It will be that it marked the collapse Europe, or the turning point to new era of enllghtment this of momentous, fast-moving ints will be definitely classified l a year of great transition, jbre are many prophets of doom only a handful of seers of coming out of the fearful |gle of human strife today. But those who are Interested in Iving some part In shaping the prld to come, have determined dedicate tbemeelvea to action 1st speculation and uncertainty nderiuine the last hopes for the Iture.

[The counsel of action as consted with self-searching and |rrender to thoughts of defeat Is •rtlcularly significant for the •wish people, tor it has the most agent reasons for yielding to deajjklr, only the slightest to keep tho struggle tor survival.

[The cumlatlve force of six years virulent anti-Semitic propaianda spreading fan-wise across A e earth from Germany has testl a our faith and our courage to 1 le breaking point. And this year, I , the peak of anti-Jewish action, :1 be suddeness of the final dls• iBemberment of Czecho-Slovakla ijj salt Jewry everywhere a stun;lpng blow. And yet where other v topics might long ago have suc!> unibed to the unrelenting hara| lering of their oppressors, the i ews in the dUtress zones of EurI tpe have refused to give up.

I They who lost everything, their | mmes, their families, their fath| irland, gave to American Jewry Ibn example of steadfastness and perseverance which could only serve to galvanize us to some heroic action ot comparable stature.

It Is sadly evident that the situation today Is without parallel in modern Jewlih history. World Jewry Is confronted with three rest, allowed no haven? major problems arising from antiTHE NEW YEAR As I am writing these lines, the Semitism In Europe: 1) It Is now In last year's New Year Panwitnessing the complete disinteg- orama, I hoped that the. new zero hour approaches tor a possiration and destruction of the "Tash" series Instead ot the ble Armageddon which, before it proudest and oldest Jewish com- "TarU" (which spells "ttores" spells doom for the world at large munities in Europe: Germany?' too) decade, would bring relief, to. may ee,al the fate ot three and a A u s t r i a , Czecho-Slovakia and the badgered and hectored Jews ot half million Jews in Poland — Italy; 2) It is overwhelmed by the the Fasclstic and seml-Fasclstlc the bulwark of the world's Jewalarming Increase In the number countries. The year was one of the ry. It is idle to exclaim, at this 'of refugees from these countries— worst In Jewish history. What moment 'A vaunt I dark thoughts.' refugees who have been scattered with tbe pogroms In Germany, the Ot course it the arch-field Is beatto the four corners ot the globe— burning of ancient synagogue!, en once and for all, tbe sacrifice •who are being tossed about on the the mounting toll ot suicide, tbe may be worth while, so that there high seas on ships that cannot exclusion of Jewish refugees from Is a bright ray on the horizon, but find a haven for their tragic car- every country, and the goalless ales, for those who will find themgo; 3) The Influx of refugees in plying of the S. S. St. Louis; and selves in the orbit ot the destrucneighboring European countries to top It all, the White Paper ot tive force, One shudders to think creates an immediate communal Great Britain and stoppage ot im- ot the consequences. On the other problem, migration into Palestine; and fin- hand the collapse ot the Nazi really the spread of Coughllnlsm In gime may be hastened by forces , These problems are the direct thesiUnlted StateB. It would seem within, especially upon a tew deresult of the Nazi program of anti- thatwewry had become a collec- feats.

Semitism. Yet we c a n n o t lose tive Job. LOSSES DURING THE YEAR sight ot the Jewish problems JEWS CARRYING ON which are equally preBBing In PoJewry has lost many ot its most land, Rumania and other parts ol And yet as I write this, I feel outstanding representatives durOentral and E a s t e r n Europe that we are a bit nearer the dawn, ing the last year. My impression where several million Jews are in in spite ot ihe great darkness is that more famous Jews died dire need. which' e n v e lops us. The crisis daring the last twelve m o n t h * Shocked Into organized com- which has already set In will eith- than within any year I can remunal responsibility by the catas- er spell doom for tbe whole world, member. The foremost philosophtrophes In Germany and other or else it will once and for all free er In Germany, Edmund Husserl; cpuntrles, American Jewry has us from the source ot the word's in France, Bile Halovy and Lucten been aroueed to the far-reaching disease.

Levy-Bruhl, two French luminarimportance of united, coordinated What Is amazing about tbe re- ies in philosophy; the former rescue effort. It has come to un- sistance of the Jew 1B that not- Chief Rabbi of France, Israel Levl, derstand that the freedom which withstanding the s t r a n g lehold arid the former Chief Rabbi of it enjoys in this country 1B a free- which the non-democratic world the Sephardlc Jews In England, dom which Implies the duty to his on htm, his cultural life has Dr. Moses Gaster—these are only demonstrate through acts ot mer- not declined and his actlvtles have a few of the most distinguished cy and generosity the rights ot all not diminished. Jewish books have scholars lost to Jewry. There have men e v e r y w h e r e to enjoy the been appearing in the thousands, been scores of lesser lights sculpffults of liberty, in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English, tors (da Costa, painters, iclentlsts i We no longer have walls and as well as in other languages. Tbe (like Professor Sellgmann, the fences In community life between schools, the philanthropies have Columbia economist), actors, finpassive and active elements. The carried on despite the great strain anciers, writers (like Leonard *ord "unity" has become a ban- and financial drain on almost ev- Merrlck, the noted British writner and not a Question for debate. ery Jew, due to the Increased de- er). Ernst Toller's suicide shockAmerican Jewry is moving for- mands which are too peremptory ed tho entire intellectual world, but In reality Is it any more tragic ward to assume Its position of to set aside. than the thousands of other suileadership among the J e w i s h RADII OF MARTYRDOM communities ot the world, with a It is difficult to know what to cides as a result of Hitler's persecution and the world's callousVigor and understanding that are single out for comment out ot • ' born of the will to serve as well hundreds ot dire events in a year ness? as the will to load. which will be recorded as one ot In Italy, at least a dozen high Perhaps the best example of the the blackest in modern Jewish ranking officers, publicists, and unity of American Israel -was the history. There are spectacular writers of Jewl?h descent have Creation of tho United Jewish Ap- things to chronicle, like the plight snuffed out their lives, partly as peal for Refugees and Overseas ot the unfortunates oh the S. S. a demonstration to open tbe eyes Noeds. The establishment of this St. Louis, but is not the suicide of their compatriots, who are comUnprecedented nationwide cam- of Mrs. Langer and her children pelled to admire disciples of the paign to raise sums tar In excess equally spectacular, even if only Italians' own erstwwhlle disciple. ot the funds contributed in the three persons wefe involved di- Some of the suicides (Colonel Aspast to the J o i n t Distribution rectly? And is the Zbonszyn af- coll's) will surely go down In hisCommittee, the United Palestlno fair not one 61 the most atrocious tory because of the remarkable Appeal and the National Coordin- crimes In history, reminiscent of manner in which they have boen ating Committee Fund, Inc., was the Black Hole of Calcutta? Or Is executed, calculated as they were Uie result of a spontaneous well- it tho shuttling back and forth at to leave an indelible impression Ihg-up ot sentiment among many least four times of a helpless old on the spectators. Perhaps that is Jewish communal leaders through- man from German to Polish fron- one reason why Mussolini's sudout the country. Its roots lio far tier and from Polish to German den anti-Semitic policy has met deeper than the mothods or pro- frontier —--at the point of bay- with opposition in circles which grams of campaigning. onets —- Bomothlng which can eas- have been regarded as strongholds New Fond-Raising Instrument ily be forgotten? of Fascism. • It Jewish communal leaders Tbe martyrdom of Jews in the I have already alluded to tbe wero determined to bring about a year 5700, and utter 1938 years open break of writers like Marinunification of the fund-raising of of the Christian era, Is comparable ettl and Buontempello with tho the Joint Distribution Committee, to that during the years of the Bu- Duce, but I must relate a characthe United Palestlno Appeal and bonic plague. If not as many Jews teristic anecdote related of Bene:ho National Coordinating Com- have been massacred outright, detto Croco, famous Italian philmittee Fund, Inc., they were also there has been a more systematic osopher, who has also been a sendetermined to add to unity a pro- attempt made at their annihila- ator, by virtue of his internationgram of sacrifice. American Jew- tion. al distinction. Croco, who does not ry has in the past been generous It Is ono of those Inexplicable relish Faclsm, has been lately in Its contributions to the work of Ironies of civilization that when held under surveillance; and when relief and rehabilitations In Cen- a man attempts to commit suicide, he was requested once, on somo tal and Eastern Europe. It has a great fues is made, and he is official pretext, to fill out a ques)een generous In Its support of held for observation, even punish- tionnaire upon which n a t u rally the rebuilding with generosity to ed by the law, yet mass suicides the Aryan question was to bo the needs of refugees coming to aro encouraged under the present found, he hesitated for a minute, nsthls country. But this yoar Araer- conditions, yes encoudaged even and then wrote "My grandmother r3|ican Jews are called upon.to bo by democratic countries; (or what was Jewish."

I1 sgenerous to the point of sacrifice, Is a pcor wretch to do when he Is Some ot bis friends were aston)iand a new standard ot giving has harried and hounded, given no ished to learn that Croco was not

a full-blooded Aryan, but he soon relieved them. "Don't you see?" he eald with an ironical smile, "1 really have no Jewish blood in me, but nowadays. It's becoming more and more a moral liability to be an Aryan." Croce'B sincerity, I was able to study at close range nine year* ago at the time ot th« International Congress in Philosophy at Oxford (September 6-10, 1880) when he spoke, and the late Soviet commissar, Lunacharsky, listened intently.

CONVERSIONS Another loss to Jewry results from the mass conversions reported to occur tn Borne countries, Hungary and Italy particularly. In Hungary, Austria and Germany, even before the advent of Hitler, a number of Jews wowuld annually decide to better their lot by changing what they didn't have— their faith or creed. When we read, however, that one-tenth of the Italian Jews embraced Christianity, we begin to wonder whether Judaism ever meant anything to them.

CULTURAL SIDE What braces us amidst all this sorrow is that the Jews, within the last year particularly, have become more consolidated. The work of the Joint Distribution Commit-

tee has been intensified. Men and women who stood aloof from their brethren began to lend a helping band. Coughlln's propaganda has brought out the significance of that ancient Talmudical dictum Kol Yisroel Khavayrim (All Israel are fellow-brothers) and even to a greater extent the meaning of tbe further Baying Kol Yisroel Aryvim zeh bojeh (All Jews are responsible for each other.)

Meanwhile, It U heartening to note that Jewish culture thus tar has not been neglected. Jewish newspapers and Journals in Yiddish and in Hebrew are Increasing in number. The schools (Talmud Torahg, Y e t h l v a h s , Yiddish schools both of tbe right and left wingB) have been busily attending to the Instruction of the younger generation; and the boys and girl* are more than ever Imbued with the teal of their people and faith, if not religion.

What has tbe New Year to offer? No one can be a prophet at a time when statesmen and ruler* themselves do not know what there it in store for the world or for them. At a time when Nail* Join Communists, when treaties are dlaiolved soon after they are contracted, and new alliances are

made, r e g a r d l e s s of solemn pledges, and bargains struck In no better fashion than among Eastern brigands — at Buch a time, how can one tike It upon himself to make predictions? Perhaps only Hitler's astrologers know w h e n it's going to begin to happen, since he 1* guided by their horoscopes, but neither they nor he can anticipate the outcomeOne thing I can forecast without any reserve and that is: Tbe Jew will weather the storm jutt as he had withstood the tires of the auto da fe». 8ome twig* and branches will be bent other* will break or wither. The trunk itself will continue to sprout forth new branches; for the root* are nourished by an eternal elixir — the faith ot the Prophets — and It* cultural tap la replenished a* soon a* tome ot It it drained.

Well It is klown tbat ambition can creep aa well at toar. — Burke.

Ambition it our idol, on who** wing* Great minds ire carry'd only to

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To be *ubllmely great, or to be nothing, —Thoi. Southerene.

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New York (WNS) — An ethical revulsion which will o n l y proceed from tbe spirit of Christianity I* the only opposition to Hitler "that will become dangerout" to the dictatorship, aesertB tbe itartUng confession of Hermann Rautohnlgg, former official ot the Nad party, in a book called "The Revolution of Nihilism," published this week by the Alliance Book corporation.

Tbis kind ot morality exists in America, Rauachnlgg, who w a s once the president of the Danzig Senate, declare*, but "America Is unstable and can be developed into an outright revolution; to do Christian faith as the uo.t atr* thlt 1* both a tactloal aim of seated root of western thlli.,^ National Socialism, in order to lion and of the socUl osdor."

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•J'Uc-y occupy important pouts lu tLfc !iii5vent.iititiif the luiuy, tho iwekii. ivluny of them tre gtlliel'filS . . ." "i'hiB is how MUBiiollnl lilmBolf litd fiummtid up iiiB opinion of the jiOiiliibij u£ Jcwa in Haly in en JKtwvlcw with Emil Ludwlg. "'Kfcte," he (mipliutiiMid, "in a stiiitiffient, not a reulity; UB percent of it Is bentimeitt. I (lo not believe tiitt if, is possible lo prove biologically that a race is more or lens 'j'iiis wan before the conquest, tif Ethiopia. Mu'uy Fascist fiiiurUB Imvo at vsrioiiB times ct.tributed the liirili of anti-3emlll>sm. in Italy tiijettly to the uttilude of the Jews during ItuIy'B campaign in Ethiopia. But as agaiiiiit this, the "'Fregretiso Italo-Ainerlcano" o£ New York published an interview on July 4, 1937, by Its publisher, tiencroto Pope, with Mussolini.

After assuring his interviewer that he had been all but Indiscreet in bringing up the subject oE the Jews in Italy, Mussolini said: "I authorize you to declare and Make known to the Jews of America immediately after your return to New York thut all their preoccniietiou concerning the position of their brothers of race and: religion living lu Italy cannot but be the fruits of raallciouB Informers. 1 authorise you to announce that the Jews of Italy have received and will continue to recol' e the same treatment as any other Italian citizens mid that no form o£ discrimination against race or r e 11 g I o n ia In my thoughts." p

, 'With positive statements of this type coming from the man w!'O •was In the best position to ma'.e them, It is llttlo wonder that UalJau Jewry was taken completely by. surprise by the statemunt published in the papers on July 14, 19S8, to the effect that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race."

The 44,000,000 Italians, let alone 44,000 jews In their midst, could hardly believe this Btatejnent which formed part of the Magna Charta of Italian racism concocted by a group of university professors under orders from tho Italian Minister of Poular Culture, for Anti-Semitism was quite unknown in Italy at the time. !:l|nce the Maccabl brothers had sent their first ambassador to Home in 101 It. C, Jews had played a continuous and active .jart in Roman and Italian life.

They had been assimilated there as they had bean no where else on earth. In fact, it can bo safely estimated that at leaet 10 per cent of Italians have some Jewish Wood {lowing through their Veins.

Another Btrange paradox of antl-Semltlsm in Italy Is that Mussolini's Fascism was itself promoted in great part by Jewish inlanders (Goldsmith, Jarach, etc.) Although Jews in Italy represent only .001 per cent ot the total population many times that number were In tho Fascist ranks when FaBCism was struggling to power.

Tho Jews of Italy also took an important part, as patriotic Italians, in the.Abyssinian campaign aiftl of the 200 who fought for Franco's cause in Spain about 35 •were killed. ' There 1B only one reason for tho present anti-Semitism in Italy and that is littler.

Hitler Visits The actual road of antl-Semltlsm in Italy was paved during Hitler's visit to Mussolini in tho ,6pr|rig ot 1938. tt is now quite certain that Hitler insisted on tho presence of a Jewish problem in Italy at that time, and'the necessity Of its solution it tho axis wore to bo preserved. Rather than brook oven a minimum amount of Jewish influence on tho axis, Hitler was even ready to sacrifice a great part ot his expansion dreams. MusBollnl preferred to Escrlflce bis Jewish Irlonds for bis dreams ot a vaster Italian Empire.

On Sept. 2, 1938, antl-Semtylem becamo the law- o f Italy. Tho Council of Ministers,-, presided over by Mussolini, voted for' the expulsion, after a six months' period, of foreign Jews who had Bettied In Italy after Jan. 1, 19.1!) a8 well as for the revocation of Itajlnn citizenship granted to foreign Jews. Approximately 14,000 Jews were affected by this expUlslon order which, like succeeding nntl-Semltlc decrees, embraced tlio Kingdom of Italy, Libya and tho Aegean possessions.

Children Expelled The following day on the propdcial of 1 Education Mlnlstor Bottai, who ia himself half Jewish, on |il3 mother's side. Jewish children were expelled from tho EChools. In communities where thero wero more than 10 Jowlsh elementary school pupils, afternoon classes were Instituted for till? Jewish children In the State buildings..Jewish • c o m m unities 'v/cro also-permitted to establish tbolr own secondary schools. Entry to all universities of,' Italy is BOW barrel to .tews. Only those who havo already commenced their studies'are-.being permitted to complete them. , Ail Jowlsh professors and teachers Mcia also expelled along with their students'..Slightly more-than a hundred .of them were university professors and included, such Internationally known -figures-'a's SJnrio Donntl, the fereat surgeon, Lav! Civltza, the m a 111 matlcldh and Glorslo Del Vcccchlo, tho Jurist. Also fliiunlssed from bis pro-

own town of Cremona.

Halt Jewish itottal also took part in the discuBBlons on Farlnaccl's side; though discreetly and not too prominently. ' The most interesting decision ot the Fascist Grand Council w a s its convenient definition of a J e w —convenient i n that It efficiently preserved from t h e slaughter a s e lect number ot Important half Jews, such as Bottal, who under the German definition would have been disgraced.

The law forbidding marriage between Italian "Aryans" and J e w s brought the State directly In conflict w i t h t h e Church whlah recognises the status ot converted J e w s as on par with other Catholics, Jews were also forbidden t o own more than 50 hectares of land or t o be t h e proprietors o r directors ot businesses employing more than 100 Persons, t o b e members ot t h e FaaclBt Party, or to be employed In the Italian Civil Servlco or armed forces.

In his Trieste speech Mussolini had among other things promised a square deal to "those Italian Jews who bad indisputably earned civil or military merit in the eyes ot Italy and the regime." His promise was clarified by the designation of "exempt" J e w s . v o t a d by tho Grand Fascist Council.

"Exempt" JewB Included the families ot m e n who fell In the Libyan, World, Ethiopian and Spanish Wars, volunteers in those four wars, veterans of these wars who bad been decorated tor merit, those who fell for tho Fascist cauBe, those w h o were invalidated or wounded for tho Fascist cause.

FasclBts inscribed In the Fascist party i n 1 9 1 9 , 1920, 1 9 2 1 , 1932 and tho second halt ot 1924, and, finally,, tbdso w h o , according to tho decision of a special commission, had earned special merit.

W i t h these qualifications, it is estimated, that at least 60 per cent of Italian Jews woro eligible as "exempt Jews. However, exemption has been slow In coming and a f t e r ' o n e year t e w have received It. Legislation This solid foundation o t antl* Semltlsm in Italy heralded a year ot anti-Semitic legislation which gradually brought about too c6mpleto segregation at JewB. • When the order appeared for Jews to dispense with their "Aryan" servants, oiio woalthy Roman Jew, Almagla, rather than see bis eight seryabts face a winter without employment, moved from his villa to a hotel, leaving tho villa a s a homo to his servantd.

To control the influence ot Jews in commercial and Industrial life, all Jows wero forced t o register tholr lmmoveable wealth and their businesses. Real e s t a t e worth more than 20,000 llro ( $ 1 , 0 0 0 ) and land worth more tlmn 6,000 llro ( $ 2 5 0 ) annually nro t o be mado over to u special syndicate formed by ono Government in exchange tor nominal 4 per cent bonds that cannot be sold. Jewish businesses having more t h a n ' 1 0 0 employees or which nro' ot ("lnter'Vito the State, will bo purged ot Jewish influence.

It Is expected that the small Jewish business) m a n will soon also bo affected as measures have already been prepared to distinguish between Jowlsh and "Aryan" businesses, J e w s have not been barred from tho professions In Italy, but they win bo effectively purged beginning with February, 1940. >.<AB In other countries, ninny ot Italy's famous doctors dro Jetvlsh.

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IvisBhEl de Bono, one of the (Uiadrumvire of ihe March on Rome, has also profited much by his association with Jews and refuses to forget it. He HIBO rememberB the greet merits of the numerous Jewish Ethel KIB and officers serving under him. When ordered to remove them, he in many Instances added the marginal comment "unreplace&ble." During bis trial lief me the Senate for the Murder of Matteottl he was defended by Italy's great Jewish jurist, AlriiKiial.

Slgnor Grandl, former Ambassador to l'Jiitflantl, and now Minister of Justice, and Slgnor Foderzonl, former President of the Senate, spoke against the launching ot the anti-Semitic policy out of a pure sense of Justice.

Furlnnid The God-father of anti-Semitism in Italy is Slgnor Roberto Farlnaccl. As the champion of the cause, he led his faction at the Grand Fascist Council sessions.

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jiiti-trlulii.ii who d e l i v e r e d the I Crown i'rlncLiiB'E children, Dr. ; SfciTunl, u l'iuus trey-bearded law, I oiid IJV. Erwlu Sluixoii (foimui'ly I B!.ui'l-.olu), a Germun refugee. In (he luttor'fc office hangs a large I>k:l.ure of Ciano dedicated "To My biiviour" in recognition of his having ut one time savod from eimofit certain death the late father of lUJy'a foreign Minister.

Luwb Kuceeusful AB a whole, the laws promulgated iu tlie short epace of a year have ducxeeiiod in their alms. Although much of the German bruuaity lias uot been Imported with them, they served just as effectively, it migbtly less painfully, to ehmii'iale the Jewish element from the lite of the State.

But what has been the reaction oC It i, llun Jews to this disinheritance? ButctdeB and other acts of denigration have been legion.

Riost protests, however, took the form oC action such as that of Mind Jewish veteran from Genoa who returned his two sliver medals to r.iufibolinl with the message: "I am returning you your nieflals, plosfics give me back my eyea."

Almost a lengend l» the suicide of Colonel Abcoli i« Florence. He had been one of the most admired and beloved officers in the Italian army. Retired for "reasons of rbce," he aimembled his regiment before him to preBent arms tor the last time. The scene was dramatic and emotional, many ot his men u liable to withhold t«ar>. He refused to permit a subordinate to ralso the Italian flag and Insisted on doing it himself. Suddenly he threw it over hla head, drew hla service revolver and blew his brains out through the flag.

The Jewish G e n e r a l , Guldo Ejegre of Turin, picked the foot of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Rome na the scene for his protest eulclde on the day he received hia "retirement" papers for "reasons of race." Across the street was Mussolini in his Palazzo Venezla.

Lieut. Col. George Morpurge was fighting for Frrnco In Spain when MusBoIlnl etarted the cleanup ot Jewa in Italy. He realised that shortly he would be recalled from service and sent home to an anti-Semite Italy he did not care to know. To escape, lie decided to commit suicide in the front llnei.

He explained to his friends: "I'd rather be a dead hero than a live bastard patriot." He met his end in a wild dash through the enemy's line with hit sword In one hand and his revolver in other.

Early In May all Italian papers reported Inconspicuously that MusBOllnl had personally decorated his mother with a gold medal in his memory. * Suicide Prof. Caeser Fornichl was not an Army nan, but he,was famout as editor of a prominent pablithlng firm that served! the fjtoyal HOUBO. In tact, he was the editor ot tho King's moBt prized volume, one on numismatics. His protest to Mussolini took the form of a plunge from the top ot the 82meter tower in Udane. In one At his pockets was 35,000 lire and a note to UBO it to Idemnlfy whomever he might Injure a« a result ot his plunge, or else donate it to the Jewish poor. ' More recently,-In mid-July, a young Turin Jew named Lev! created another sensation. While sitting for his final medical examinations he noticed that one of the members of tho board of examiners who apparently reBented Levl's Jewish appearances, tried to make him fall by asking unreasonable question. In protest, Lcvl dr«w a revolver, punctured Mussolini's picture on the wall and committed suicide.

Turin professor, Muddyn, to spite tho persecutors of his religion, turned Catholic and committed suicide tbe same day.

Although Jews have been purged from all Government positions In Italy, eight afe still senators.

This It because ot tno fact that Italian senators are elected for lite. The eight Jewish senators are: Vlto VolUrra, mathematician and Pontifical academician; Isaah Iievl, one ot Italy's wealthiest merchants; Achlllo Lorla, former professor ot economics; Dr. Lulftl Delia Torre, Milan banker: Adriane Dlona, Venetian lawyer; Theodore Mayer, forlner minister of ntato and Journalist; Baton Ella Mdrpurgo; and Count Salvntoro Segra-Sartorlo ot Trieste.

Mass Conversion More than 10 per cent ot all Italian Jdws, or nearly 4,500, havo during the past year taken rofugo In Catholicism. NOt Blnco the days of the Spanish Inquisition has there bean such a maBs conversion. Most JOVTB accdpt convcrslbn In tho belief that this capitulation before tho Church Is only temporary, others to permit their children to study In tho O a t h o l l o schools; othorB hope to facilitate their emigration to So. America wboro a certificate of baptism is the "open sesame."

Owing to tho general disorganization among tho Jewish communities, tho Italian It ef u g o o Committee has broadened Its scope to Include assistance to all Jews In Italy under the namo of Comltato Asslstenza per git Ebrel In Italia."

It Is tho only committeo that actively Interests Itself in tho .welfare- of Italian Jews affected by the racial laws. At present, It ia effectively concentrating1 Its efforts on tho re-education of Italian doctors, lawyers and business men «n carpenters, bouse pointers and DrJcklayors.

Two agricultural schools havo already been established, one near

coiiiciiiK iiis Jo*b tu liee fioiu Italy. The fact, in that alfnouKb lie fjyyr he does not uaiit tuein. he at the en me tiiueB does not Beem very anxiuus to bee them leave. The result is that. iuot;t iittve been refused emigration paiiKportg, especially to tbe Untied Statee tnd Palestine.

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Johannesburg ( J T A ) — The South African Board ot JewiiB Only u negligible percentage of Deputies has' sent a' message to llaliafui actually favor antl-Semlt- Prime Minister James B. M. Hertistti. They are usually thoBe who rog congratulating him on the have something to gain by the completion of 16 years in office disappearance of Jewish competi- and expressing the hope that "the tion. No "Jfcws not wanted" signs IdealB of national unity, JUBtlce uppear on Italian bars and res- and fair dealing for all will be *1taurantB; only a few were Been I ways the guiding s t a r s of the during the early months of the in- South African nation."

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11 ( 1 C M I \ LI)ct.lLfll I SiBlei'hOQds which 1 n iit> lit i um v End of Year l f We are now finishing 6699 day and night for ull but five 1 t L. U l L » U n I f,l t i l l I i — » I C t C c 1 L years ot a kind of experience weeks of every ytar i ( t U u 1.

But the "diversification" which CilUI t of i 1.1 Ol i 1 i whlcb no other social or rellgloua group in the world has ever met. the young Jane Evans set up as pukt Ii [UL.I U I n i l l ii t I L i \ Ii <.I 1 ,1 I believe that in Amerlva we areher goal Is certainly evident In day — ( l i t nil l i i u < I I i i ll U I > K Li I 1 I only beginning the creation of a her early cared- and Is reflected itcollfeUlon 1 In i i u !\ ii I O il,i great spiritual foundation which, In the amazing number of fluids taut mooting in one lown, h \ t i l II t having Its origins in our past with which she Is thoroughly con- eon lu the noxl, an us U'ri.ui.ii I I !

I i fc»Lliei Int, in l\u i.< .• i 11 <i i l l duties and in our present needs, versant.

Ii u ( l t i i I 11 ui pit to be oc(U[ a d In 11 i I d ii How did the establishment Unusual Talents will cause to grow in this great h e evonlng. "I know 1 w 11 1, lit v H i bis year of the United Jewish From the invention of a new in tVirginia, country a new spiritual Israel but twice that (H i d fu nil for Refugees and Over- bricks without straw because of and the "Zadaka box" — t h e know his own community perfect- Which will conquer by the sword and successful electric fan to In I didn't ri'ineinbiT what c.ily I t 1 ll I r t Needs affect the coiuiuun- a dearth of community leaders. I "charity box" — is not inspected ly, can adequately appraise what of the Almighty and be protected lecturing on art appreciation and was In silic iaiH,limt-!.v u i Ll 111.

1 ( 1 1I I from interior decorating for a lessee. structure of American Jewthe complaint from every by certified public accountants at Is the inter-community splrtual by the shield of Abraham. lii I l n i t ) > im Ife? The role of the great na- recall vigor.

I look upon all the things which Urge St. Louis department store town that the old leaders, h a d far as the history of charity in hood work during the real ul IU<» But har active epnakltiK schedmaintaining An active amateur ionwiile campaign in the awak' died, or retired, and that there Israel Is concerned.

And even those who visit many my colleagues and I have done in to yci;r. in medical science (a Car- ule 1B In one way Its own comping of American Jewry to was no one present, or In prospect, communities tint it difficult ade- this crisis ot pitiable persecution interest Hiding' end ewlinuing arc lift .from her pre-medlcu! pensation — for it caters to one New Responsibility atcr consciousness of its who could take their places. to appraise and under- Of our people, and the even more ry-over work at York university), of her chief loves. She is in- fuvorii.6 tjports citid the gocb lii However, since the criticism to quately Md responsibilities la despitiable and reprehensible perse- the field* New stand this ether-wave of idealistic fur (.hem with the vigor tlitf: of endeavor to which ordinately fond of travel •— an:l Today throughout the country which I have referred arises from inter-cOmmunlcatlons. That t h e cution of the millions ot exiles in jlbtd in the following article. marks ail her ectiviiitK. A6 uiuck —EDITOR. there are in every community a sense ot participation and re-communities have not suffered is, China, Spain, Italy and Germany, Jane Evans has brought her til- her Sisterhood engagements durpossible her travelling, butU leaders of every rank whose pow- sponsibility it 1s the most Welcome I am glad to say, an established as the reaction ,ot the spirit ot ents usually elicit not only a gajp ing the l>»sl four yours have, car- In vacation of time aud on bunlnta.'i, at her versatility but alBO a query ried her into every mate in the ers of inspiration, whose Judg- outgrowth of the strain and atrtsB f»ot.

Israel against the lust of t h e as to how In the world she ever United Status. la doiie by yair. Slie gi.la a tit.* rhege are ; crisis days for thement and Whose devotion to theof resent yearB. To say that naPhilistine. iidouB lift out of Hying. Right Irish people — days which bring Jewish Cause no one can deny. came to settle Into her present She knowB from first-hand extional organizations "welcome it is' That they have benefited Is,-I J hope that by the end of the am glad to Bay, an acknowledged •er and' larger numbers of Kurtask. perience the joys of Billing on now Bhe is dlngling ulili (ho Idea I would not exchange the 1989to'put the matter mildly. " of flying to Hawaii on tho China coming year, a new prospect tor one.

There is one group whlcb |an Jews into the realm of help- group "There's not really any great her bags atid waiting three huii.'s Clipper the next tluso tilie t;fcis They have Always felt that ig- has definitely Increased • its re- DUP people will arise because a American Jewish lay inesg and conoomltantly reduce leaders qf discrepancy between my earlier for a 2:80 a. tu. train connection away. norance of their problems and igfor any I h'ave known persources and its dependable sup- new vision Wilt have come to i numbers who enjoy a free and a wayside Junction; uhe knows or vicariously, in the past norance of the details of their ad- port, from the America* • JewlBh American Israel. We ate, perhaps, work and my present consuming at Mow York City was her birthtrammeled life. We are today sonally, the pleasures of journeying oil years. It 41 »h«artenlng fact ministration on the part of their public through the work ot the sill) groping in the dark, but in Interest in a women's rellgloua Barrow leasing the disintegration of 39 Kuufe vtllwejs End tlm lilt.ee and she etlli Ims n wcrirt organization," MUs Kvana herself financial supporters has been an that this leadership it not monop(resent organisations' fund-rais- our groblng we have saved thouOld Word. No one can say "I've always been pri- thrill of travelling on * emollise- tpot for the babylun on the Hud* by any oqe section, city or essential weaknesa. The now ac-ing efforts, and there is no com-sands ot human lives and pre-maintains. ether cbaos or awakening will olized marily Interested In human prog- powercd (rain wlilolt rovers 00 spa — an often as possible n\v$ ceptance of responsibility "by o6mcommunity, butts well distributed served untold moral values for parison in Its present and its past tha ultimate fate ot a continent over the whole country. and In education — In help- ml leu In slightly 1MB tliuu eight vltits family and filintiu there. munlty leaders throughout the situation, and that group 1B com-our stricken people. If we can doress But" £he l» not BO t i (it nt aiiii eked by economic political and to open new worlds which hours.

United States means a building of posed of the great national so- these things In the dark, we look ing Gratifying Results myopic a dcthamlte BB to keep will Increase the sum of human Ijtii.g iii ho Illness. her from placing Chicago foraThis community leadership has a new structure of service. forward with ent&oslasm to greatcieties tor the relief of tubercuinformation and, ulttw&tbly, t h e There wu» the time In Texas But as Jewry In the Old World not only produced gratifying remost In her thoughts at the pi-fts* It will do one thing which Is and other diseases, tor cul-er and more permanent, and per-sum of human bapplnesB." when the best tmln connections ent [plowed under by the rule by sults in fund-wising, but it bit most Important and necessary — losis moment. and general social advance- haps rooro acceptable (ervlce, And this altn, Biie feels, w a s brought her DO closer thin 30 (Copyright, 1938, by Seven Art* ce we In the New World find also developed a reliable group ot it will encourage national orga|)l- tural Then by mutual co-operation and ment. milts from the town In wlilcli tlm served by Her work in art a n d ..•selves confronted with new consultant* who are becoming catloua, meeting new and overFeature Syndicate.) we shall achieve architecture a n d certainly is was to deliver a lecture. Her )ponslbilltl«B not only to help more and more wlfllng to assume whelming problems, to use new Their needs have b e e n ade- understanding, , . . . served by her work In a religious hOHtMBea mot her there, dro>v« tch up the crumbling structure responsibility for making deci- methods, new projects, new tech- quately and' justly net because or light. • etuse. A rationalisation of the her to tlidr town and brought 1st r Jewish lite but to take over sions In matters affecting the ac-niques. It will enable them to be the new type ot organized support fact that the focus of her Interest btck to c&tflh the evening train. » leadership in order to a«$ure tivity of the Jewish community as bold where they have been timid, and the will to responsibility; (Copyright, 19J9, by Seven Arts shifted?

"Perhaps," she admits, That meant 360 miles of drivFeature Syndicate.) [sound and creative future for a whole towards Its problems and original where they,have been im- their needs have been the better "but It it is a ratlohalimlon It ing for her hoBteesea — a mere Jewish p«6ple. in accepting responsibility for theitative, and Inventive where they has effectively tooled me, for I nothing for the Inhabitants u( lit Is difficult to trsoe the evo-Incidence of these decisions. have b«en conservative. This item am convinced of Its truth." that country tit magnificent disllon of communal responsibility.

At One time there was an in-cannot be overlooked in the e*,Possessed of what she herself tances, But It meant fcltntut • Is equally difficult to point to clination on the part of the com- porlencn ot organizations tor fundlabels a "one-track nitnd" a n d nervous prostration for J a, h e It specific concrete manlfesta- munity leaders generally to evade raising In the year 6699. what others re6agn)te aa an abil- Evatis — for the hearty Tsmh^ En of procrsss. But If anyone the necessity for complete knowlIt has been said often by Jewity to concentrate even under the lott only an hour Knd 15 minutes lire to seek evidence of a new edge of geberal problems and toish community leaders that naNew York (WNS) — The rls. most detracting drcumnthiicts, for tho 90-mlle jaunt. jlscIouBneiB among American sidestep the making ot decisions tional organizations' fund-raising the Sisterhdod executive has tiltAnd she had titne to wash up Ing tide of Protestant protest, led fry It could be found in the and or m'eetlng them. I see andeprives communities of means on a gOo« deal of "klddlttg" on before the meeting bcganl An- by a now monthly publication, the atlop, of a new Instrument of enlarged and eager participation which they otherwise would have the absstitmtndetluass which BOWS other wild ride holds a featured I'roteslant Digest, against racial ihd raising known to all of us as In general councils and a much for looal programs. This contenwith that power of concentration. place In her travel recollections Intolerance and the dlaEumiimilou Ml United Jewlwsh Appeal fbr more definite acceptance of the tion no lenger holds good. A Sho takes delight In recounting — this tltue In Mississippi. Sho Of NazMnsplred propfcgurida. Is baifugeea and Overseas Needs. her own latest etplolt In tills waB en route to Vlcksburg -where Ing watched with great interest by burden of decisions and mistakes complete and severe investigation SThlB all-embracing campaign In than I,have ever witnessed before ot this old grumble convinces Jcwltli lenders throughout the The largest Jewish women's (largest Jewish women's religlouB field: How two weeks ago while •he was to epcak at a limrliiion. |lch are combined the furtd-rals- in the American scene.

Hut the train nhead WUB country. everybody — and every leader religions organisation in the organization. What's more, she is Intent on giving some directions to hpr secretary and at the same efforts of the Joint Distrlbuand the (ly-'hen-veryThe militant attitude of the If this kind of participation throughout the U n 11 e d States .world Is the National Federa- unquestionably the busiest execu- time personally attending to the wrookfeil in C0mmlttee the United Pales- continues worrled N. F, T. 8. leader found Protestant Digest in striking tollto grow, we shall" be brings the same report, quite In- tion of Temple Sisterhoods. In tive In these hills—the volume ot business of getting off an Im-that the railrbed woillc! bring iHr pe Appeal and the National Oo- the more able this revealing biographical poring blows nt both Froteatant and to meet our grow- dependent of our own findings*— mall that come* to her desk ex- portant air-malt special delivery Vlcksburg by evening—a bit Catholic alike who uphold or IgBlhatlng Committee- Fund inc., ing problems in the field of the that community programs, both trait Mr. Iielywld Introduces us ceeds one thousand letters a letter shs found herself vlgaraui- Into late (or a limdimm. Nothing nore racial Intoloranca IKIH caused presents tbe crystallization of United Jewish and general, far from be- to Miss Jane Evans, executive Jewish Appeal and In other ly chewing the stamps and In. a daunted Bh» left the train at Inew Unity In American Israel. fields not now covered by t h e in K Unpaired by the national fund- director of the N. P. T. H., who Week. buslness-llka manner apply- Meridian and hired a car at 10: ii Utate-fs In tho antl-Natl fight to representB a congelation ot all canipalkn programs.

And such superlatives crop up very raising are tremendously stimu- is the youngest of the group of ing chewing gum to the envelope! a. ra. — 150 miles over gravel welcome this new magazine a3 a ' - e n U In American Jewry, ciltpeople heading our national again In any first-hand descriplated with new personal leaderWith the added sense of responOne Thousand Letter* and dirt tmelc roods and ftie ar- 10ni[-needed weapon.

Jewish organisations. —• The tion of her work. Her efficiency. acroea all differences a n d comeB the aided right, of ship!), In* enlarged consultant perrived In Vlcksburg at 2:48 p. nt. Captain 0. Egerton Harrlman, Editor. l«olt)glcal fences, and giving in- sibility her uncanny organizing ability, When one considers the paco uecretary of the Koh> Our leaders have found sonnel, and Increased standards of and her drive in carrying tliroufch which la sot by this busy execu- No lunch—btit in tlttie to give executive pntrovertlble proof of the capac- criticism.

Individual giving.

Hectarlan Anti-Nazi League, Halt!, to their satisfaction and to the projects and plain, can only be tive, the wonder is Unit such ln- her talk. \i of Anierlcan Jews to find a satisfaction f 11 "I fool Hint thin publication can ot the officers of naHigher Aspirations Meptlon ot the executive direc- spoken o In terms of "|nosti>" cldents do not occur far r.ioro "OloInK 1'lnccH bmniob, denominator of action In tional 'organizations bring thousands of new supporters that the giv- These Items differ, ~ ot' cbuto'e,' tor of the National Federation ot and "very's." Iliit surprising UB frequently. Of the thoiiBS.n'V letHut not even HIOBO efperltiiict'S tt> period ot severe test abd chal- ing ot money alone does nid In quelling racial Intalornot guarIn various communities, but in Temple Sisterhoods these days InIt may seem, th|a same, you'll?, tors per week that the executive can toltfi away her tnete for tntvsl inge. antee the right to criticize KB ex-addition to the stimulus within evitably brings with it a flock of bu»y, capable executive la thwart- office receives, she persbriaT.y dic- and her vacation period alwuyn (Inco and to lend their help In fighting NRBI propaganda in our One of the most Important by- penditure. I know a great many the community, there Is an Inter- superlatives. For though she t« ed lr. two of her chief mubitlonu: tates the answers to at lonsi foi|r flndB her "going places." T h e community stimulation which the undoubtedly the youngeBt of that first, she has far from,sufficient hundred. products ot the great American people feel that It does. points of lifer destination are al-Democracy." lewlih effort to help European I, for one, feel that once I give national programs make an Im-crew of efficient people who he^d time to develop her hobbies: chief And since N. F. T. 8. operates ways carotully clioBon. They must Canberra, AUstrnllia (JTA) - i Jewry, lies In the fact that literal- my money, I also give the right portant part of the psychology of our national Jewish organizations among which Is lihotograpliy— on a five-day week, it takes lit" fill two Important requirements. tboi^sarida ot persons, newly to spend It to the trustees. I the new charity which must con- (she has Just left her 'twenties' and second, although her motto, tie mental arithmetic to deter- First, they must take her to Iso- It, wes announced officially tljst Consecrated to unselfish service, could withhold a further gift if I trol tlie purse and the heart of and was only twenty-six when Bhe adopted when she was still In her mine her average 6f more than lated and out-of-the-way places, the Government Is not Interning accepted her present poat) Bhe early 'teens. Is "To liva a life of 75 letters per duyl Add to that and, second,, they must provide Jewish refugees from derinany hare sprung from the rank and chosa. This attitude has fortunate-, the American Jewish public. file to become captains of tens of ly never been taken by our na- As I travel'from town to town, bears on her slim shoulders the diversification in an age of spe- her speaking engagements—more grist for her hobbyy will, they unless it in proved that they nre In' subversive activities. hundreds and of thousands. tional or?- 'izatlons, but It i s . a and. from community, to commu- responsibilities of the world's. cialization,", she lias become In than 150 per year — and then must offer challenges to her skill

uity, I 6ee the level of aupiratiou on the part ot the leaders utid the givers rising from the low point at which I first found It in If I I , to a temper which promises In the future a determination on the part of the Individual giver and on the part ot the community leaders throughout the land actually to meet our problems financially and morally.

I would like to say in deference to the Individual criticism of this particular attitude, that no one Through the early years of the legitimate' one from the experience past decade we w e r e making of Jewish communal trusteeship, Individual, even though he iqay

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