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Page 20 The Southern Israelite ^cuOin'tfjbr^Plite Executive Office*: 161 Spring St., N. W. Published In Atlanta Monthly by THE SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS ENTERPRISES. Inc . M. STEPHEN SCHIFFER, Managing Editor Subscription Rates: 15 Cents Single Copy, $1.50 Per Year in Advance. Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta. Ga.. under the Act of March 3rd, 1879. All communications for publication should reach this office not later than 1st and 15th of each month. • The Southern Israelite Invites correspondence and literary contributions but ! the Editor Is not to be considered as sharing the views expressed by the writers except those enunciated in the Editorial columns The Truth About Nordics The “Jewish Independent" of Cleveland contains a timely editorial comment on the contrast which Congressman O’Connor of New^-York recently drew between the so-called Nordic in the United States and the foreigner. Says the Independent: It was bound to come. Nordic ballyhooers in Congress who have allowed racial intolerance to guide their attitude on the issue of immigration regulation have come to a point where their at tacks are not merely met with a defense of non-Nordic peoples, but with counter-criticism of the race which they love to picture as the exclusive possessors of all the virtues. In the course of a House debate on immigration, Congressman John L. O’Connor of New York, said recently: “Let me state here, gentlemen, not in order to say anything sensational but to bring the truth forcibly before this body: Take a railroad train and go through the South, through the West, through the North, and in the train look at what we call our own people, who have not had the opportunities of the people of the big cities. You will see American people of the Nordic races, you will see people whose forefathers were here .‘100 years ago, but you will see them in the lowest state of civilization. Is that the type to which you refer when you speak of the ‘American blood’ in America? Yes. you will see them in rags and tatters; you will see them un kept, uncultured, uneducated and uncouth. “Then I suggest you take an automobile and ride through the so-called foreign sections of the big cities and see these foreign people whom you hate so vehemently. Look at their children going to school in droves, seeking every opportunity for education, eager to acquire and to assimilate all the customs and habits of our country. See them going through the grammar schools, the high schools, to the colleges, from Harvard to Stanford, eager to become a part of America and of its institutions. The “Passion Play” Quite a conflict has been waged in New York as to whether or not the Freiburg Passion Play to be produced by Morris Gest and David Belasco should be presented. Strange to say, there seemed to be no hesitancy in the minds of the two men until Louis Marshall raised very urgent and strenuous objections against its presenta tion for two particular reasons. Fiist, the play might again arouse prejudice against the Jews as the Passion Plays have so often done and secondly, it might offend those principles that a majority of Christians hold as sacred. Evidently Mr. Marshall’s objections, even if they made little impression upon the stubbornness of the two producers, were persistent enough to demand action on the part of the district attorney, who is trying to prove that the play cannot be licensed regardless, because it violates one of the state laws which prohibits, among other things, personification of the Diety on the stage. It is sad but true that only such restrictions and action can persuade the two theatrical producers to desist from what probably would have been an extremely tragic presentation in more ways than one, but let us rejoice that this procedure will no doubt sufficiently warn them to abandon such an absurd venture which would have been utterly detrimental to their own people. \SK FOR FROM I I.C ATION OF SPECIAL LAW ON MINORITIES RIO MTS Bucharest (.1. T. A.).—The promul gation of a special law setting forth the rights and privileges of the na tional minorities in Greater Roumania was demanded in a memorandum sub mitted to Prime Minister Maniu by the Social Democratic Deputies, Pis- tiner, Fluerasch and Rediceanu. The memorandum asks the govern ment to take steps for the immediate regulation of the minorites’ school questions prior to the enactment of the new law. In regard to the Jewish population, the memorandum asks that the government establish state secondary schools as well a* elemen tary schools, the granting o; subven tions to the private schools already in existence and the creation of a Jew ish teachers’ seminary. The disciplinary commission which investigated the recent disturbances m I.ipkani and Britscheni submitted a report showing the guilt of two as sistant prefects in the towns men tioned. The matter was referred to the Ministry of the Interior. News papers demand that the officials he tried and punished. Ml SIC FESTIVAL TO ENCOUR AGE JEWISH MUSIC CON CLUDED IN LONDON London (J. T. A.).—A three-day music festival, arranged under the auspices of the London “Jewish Chronicle” to encourage the develop ment of specific Jewish music was concluded here today. A contest for the best Jewish com position was arranged in connection with the festival. Four hundred con testants, aged from six to sixty, par ticipated. A prize of one hundred guineas was offered for the best or chestral composition. Sir Frederick Cowen and Stanley Roper will be the judges. The establishment of a Jew ish musical society for the promotion of Jewish music is being planned. hint; BORIS VISITS ANCIENT JEWISH CEMETERY IN PRAGUE Prague (J. T. A.).—The gatekeeper of the ancient Jewish cemetery in Prague pointed with pride today to the signature of King Boris who visited the cemetery yesterday. The King inscribed his name in the visitors’ book and showed great in terest in the old tombstones. Lot me make this assertion here, after duo consideration, that I believe that the foreigners in this country• today on the whole furnish bettor material for citizenship than many of the so- called American types living in outlying sections of the country.” Americans who deplore any and all such racial allusions and comparisons will, in fairness, admit that the persistent attacks directed by 100 per cent Nordics in Congress upon the stock of Americans of non-Nordic origin, was bound to result in the very statement which Congressman O’Connor has made. Efforts of Nordic supremacy shriekers to bar the nation’s doors to all but Nordic peoples, have been accompanied by a cam paign whose course has been marked by so persistent a lily-whiten ing of Nordic peoples and so constant a blackening of all others, that many Americans are bound to call to mind the Nordic Ku Klux terror-ridden regions of Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama, the Nordic Ku Klux scandals in the official life of Indiana, the illiteracy, moonshine and feud lawlessness of Nordic Kentucky and other Nordic vagaries. Nordics in Congress are responsible for these painful but unavoidable remembrances. They were bound to be. JEW 1SH CALENDAR Fast of Esther Purim Roeh Chodesh Nissan First Day of Pessach Eighth Day of Pessach •Rosh Chodesh Iyar Lag B'Omer Roah Chodesh Sivan Shavuoth 5689 .. Monday, March 26 . ... Tuesday, March 26 Thursday, April 11 Thursday, April 26 Thursday, May $ Saturday. May 11 Tuesday, May 28 Sunday. June 9 . Friday, June U •Rosh Chodesh Tammui hast of Tammui Saturday, June 15 Tuesday. July 9 Thursday, July Rosh Chodesh Ab Tisho B'Ab •Rosh Chodesh Elul Wednesday, August T Thursday, August 16 Friday. September, 6 Rosh Hashonah Fast of Gedalia Vom Kippur 5690 Saturday. October £ Monday, October 7 Shemini Azreth Saturday, October 19 Sunday, October 20 Saturday, October -.6 Simchas Torah Rosh Chodesh Chesvan Rosh Chodesh Kitlev First Day of Chanukah *’ Tuesday, December » Friday, December H NOTE: Holiday, begin in the evening preceding th. •Rosh Chodesh also observed the previous day. dates designated