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The Southern Israelite Page 13 random thoughts (Continued from Page 9) >Jian y more years than 37 figured in u , rnl \. of wear and tear on the nerv- r . system. One thing about Eddie, [ e isn’t ashamed to tell the world what le earns. Really it’s nothing to be jashful about when one makes $5,000 b week and gets it, not in stage [noney, but in currency of the coun try. Then he casually mentions that Irmr afternoon recently Nathan Jones, ,f Brooklyn, who handles his (Can- ur’.-O investments, presented Eddie kvith $140,000 as the return on some thing or other. Perhaps the next morning friend Jones wheeled over to [Manhattan another load of money for Eddie. Of course it really isn’t so [hard to retire when one is tired if one lean retire on a mattress stuffed with a million dollars or so. IF DAVID BELASCO AND MOR- IRIS Gest were religious Jews they [could never have brought the Passion [Play to this country. Maybe they are Lews by race or nationality or just [by birth. I just don’t know how to [classify some Jews. They belong and [yet they don’t. Here we have two [well known Jews producing the Pas- Lion Play which has been condemned, [to my own knowledge, by foremost [Jewish Rabbis ever since I can re- [member. I have talked to some who [have seen the play in Europe and [they assure me that it has a tendency [to keep alive the prejudice against [the Jews. Now Gest and Belasco knew this, at least they were advised [of it. Yet either through stubborness [or ignorance they insisted on going [ahead with it. They are both leaders in their art, but after all there is [something higher than art which [neither Mr. Gest nor his father-in-law, l.Mr. Belasco, seem to have discovered. Wherever this play is advertised to [appear the Jews should at least pro test to the local management in an effort to prevent it. OF COURSE EINSTEIN IS1 [much of a scientist. Cardinal O’C [nell, Boston, knows that. And I [astonished that the University I l aris didn’t consult the learned Pri [of the Church before conferring honorary doctor’s degree on Einst< [the first, by the way, that has b jawarded to a German since the v I am sure that scientists associa jv-ith the University of Paris have b [completely fooled by the claims I .mstein that he is an outstand scientist. When they want to kr r 0 * s a scientist and who isn’t, tl j , ; go to a churchman like Cai r al O’Connell or is it O’Donnell , ' the Cardinal will not h sleep disturbed over this i | _ r that has been conferred u Einstein. You probably do not p , ^ ^ he Cardinal thinks that Itk' * s concealed in Einste <r> and that it is a menace Pnstianity. Yes, Einstein is a v. rC'r , gerous man and no won C\ w dlnal trembles at the thou ev m ight happen if the w< | grows to understand that the< WHAT OF INTERMARRIAGES? (Continued from Page 3) whereby the harmony of His de sign might be achieved in its per fection. To trespass against one’s neighbor or to be arrogant or im pure of heart were alike contrary to the working out of this grand pattern. The punishment for such non co-operation was punishment in the form of war and plague and uneasiness of the spirit. The re ward for obedience to it was peace, peace with one’sfellowmen, in one’s household and in one’s heart. This, so far as he could read it, was the essence of the Word which had bound this people through three thousand years.” This summary of Jewish faith is one of the most profound that has ever been uttered by an American Jewish layman, who has arrived at it not through religious formulas but through practical experience and through philosophic introspection. “The Disinherited,” on this account alone, ranks with that other great confession of faith by the eminent French Jew, Edmond Fleg, called “Why I Am A Jew.” Waldman’s book is bound to create a furore, particularly among those Jews who are indifferent to Jewish matters. The following sentences par ticularly are likely to offend the sen sibilities of many Christians and some Jews but they are none the less a striking characterization of the Jew ish people: “He saw that to be a Jew meant something more than merely to be a foreigner with certain peculiar characteristics. He had been willing to accept the fact of the difference of race, even in himself, but he perceived that he had not seen deeply enough. With the Jews alone race and religion were in terwoven and inseparable—it was essential religiousness, their pecu liar sense of intimacy with their Creator, which identified them as a people.” Copyright 1929 by Seven Arts Fea ture Syndicate. MELBOURNE JEWS START ERECTION OF SYNAGOGUE Melbourne (J. T. A.).—The corner stone for a new synagogue to be erected here at a cost of $200,000 was laid today in the presence of an im pressive gathering. Dr. Jones, presi dent of the Hebrew Congregation which is erecting the synagogue, pre sided at the exercises. An appeal for the erection of a me morial to the Jewish soldiers who fell in the British army during the World war was made by Minister of Education for Victoria, H. Cohen. SOVIET TO PROMULGATE NEW LAW PUNISHING ANTI- SEMI- TISM IN ALL FORMS Moscow (J. T. A.).—The Commis sariat of Justice was instructed by the Council of People’s Commissars to prepare a bill for the enactment of a special law increasing the pen alties to be meted out by the Soviet courts for anti-Semitism in all of its forms and manifestations. Two anti-Semitic students who were expelled from the University of Veronezh for anti-Semitic acts were reinstated. TEL AVIV CELEBRATES ITS TWENTIEH ANNIVERSARY AT EXHIBITION OF PALES TINE INDUSTRIES Textile Factory Barkai Receives Gold Medal Tel Aviv, (J. T. A.).—The twenti eth anniversary of the existence of Tel Aviv, the first all-Jewish city in Pales tine, was celebrated at the fair grounds of the Palestine and Near East Exhibition. Mayor Dizengoff in his opening ad dress paid tribute to the memory of the Jewish victims of the 1921 Arab riots. He traced the history of the city since its early beginnings and declared that the municipality has de cided to name the street which is the continuation of the Rothschild Boule vard as the Keren Kayemath Boule vard in recognition of the Palestine Foundation Fund’s assistance granted to the founders of Tel Aviv by pro viding them with loans to build houses. The District Commissioner speaking in Hebrew congratulated Tel Aviv on behalf of the government. It is cer tain that some mistakes were made, he stated, but the city of Tel Aviv is a great success and symbolizes the everlasting faith of the Jewish race. Among other speakers were Miss Hen rietta Szold on behalf of the Zionist Executive, Dr. Joshua Thon on behalf of the Vaad Leumi, Leib Jaffe on be half of the Keren Hayesod, Mr. Wil- kansky on behalf of the Keren Kaye math and representatives of the colo nies and the Labor Federation. A striking feature of the celebration was a march of all native Tel Aviv- ians. All those who were born in Tel Aviv came in groups, each age with its banner. The oldest of the native born sons of Tel Aviv delivered an address, describing Tel Aviv as a center for the free development of the south. The Mayor handed him a certificate describing him as the first native son of Tel Aviv. The celebration was con cluded with a blessing by Rabbi Ben- zion Uziel, chief Rabbi of the Sep hardic community in Tel Aviv, who offered a prayer that “God help his people Israel to revive in the Land of Israel.” Many who were present shed tears. An indication of the growth in the Palestine industries was seen in the award at the exhibition of a gold med al to Barkai, a textile manufacturing plant established two years ago in the Chassidic colony, B’nai Brack, near Tel Aviv. The textile factory employs fifty workers and finds a market for its products in Palestine and Syria. Fifty thousand dollars have been in vested in the enterprise, $30,000 of which were raised in the United States by I. Gerstenkorn, president of the company. '■"•it makes every Meal look and taste better. City Ice Delivery Comp any 267 Peachiree V/Alnut 1287 SAVE WITH ICE —