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Phone WEst 1438 To Rem inti You Thai— Campbell Coal Company handles not only the highest grade of coal and coke—but— Handsome Electric Lighting Fixtures Builders Hardware of Modern Type Practically Everything that Goes into Building a Home •V. 5000 210 Marietta St. INVESTMENT SECURITIES MUNICIPAL BONDS CORPORATION AND GOVERNMENT BONDS STOCKS LOCAL SECURITIES UNDERWRITERS OF SOUTHERN SECURITIES COURTS & CO. Hunk BalMln# ATLANTA Concordat With Vatican Improves Status Of Italian Jewry, Mussolini Declares In Interview Clears I p Doubts on Non-( atholic Cults in Kingdom; Tells J. T. A. Director Italy Has No Designs on Palestine Rome (J. T. A.)—Some of the doubts which arose in the minds of many concerning the legal status of Italian Jews and other non-Catholic cults in Italy following the conclusion of the concordat with the Vatican were cleared up by Benito Alussolini in an interview he granted today to Jacob Landau Managing Director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Concordat, if anything, has im proved the status of the Jewish com munity in Italy. The Jewish, as well as the Protestant churches are official ly recognized by the state, and in the exercise of their functions they en joy an equal status with the Catholic church, the Prime Minister declared. The rabbi has the same right to perform marriages as was granted in the concordat to the Catholic priest. Similarly, there is no obstacle for a civil marriage between a Jew and a Christian. “This is why I say,” Mus solini declared, “that the concordat, is far from harming the Jewish com munity in Italy. On the contrary, it has improved and strengthened its status. It has regulated the relations between the Jewish community and the State. On the same principles and on the same standards as have regu lated the relations between the Cath olic Church and the State. It was for this reason that the representatives of the Protestant and Jewish churches have expressed their satisfaction with their new status, which was the inevi table result of the conclusion of the concordat. Priest or rabbi may per form marriage ceremonies, but every citizen has a right to give preference to the civil ceremony. Generally, the concordat and its meaning were wide ly misunderstood. The fact of the matter is that the State and the Church remain as separated as they are in the United States of America. 1 he right reserved for every Italian to choose a religious or a civil mar riage ceremony is an indication of the fact that the concordat has not changed the situation. The concordat regulates the rela tions between the State and the Church without conceding the Church any influence or power in the affairs of the State. Only in two matters do the Church and State meet, having a common sphere of influence, name ly: religious education in the schools and in the performance of marriage rites. However, in both matters, all churches, as I have emphasized be fore, enjoy the same rights. LEWIS WILEY, Business Manager of the New York Times, was a guest of honor at a dinner given by the Chairman of the Daily Chronicle Newspaper Group in London. Among those who attended were U. S. Am bassador Dawes, Lord Birkenhead, J. H. Thomas, Lord of the Privy Sea Sir Joseph Duveen, J. P. O’Connor and the Editor of the “Express,” Blumen- What is still more important i s , fact that religious ceremonies are i r . j no way obligatory. Any citizen C j the privilege of accepting or decli n . I ing the services the church wishes to f render him. “Take for instance the case of Jew ish products in the school question" the Prime Minister continued. "The ' Jewish parents have the right to with, draw their children from attending the religious part of the school pro- gram. On the whole, the Jewish popu lation in Italy is a small one. There are altogether 60,000 Jews in the country, of whom 15,000 live in Rome about 10,000 in Milan, 5,000 in Trists. 1,000 in Naples. In the Jewish school of Rome, about 100 pupil? are enrolled. It is therefore hardly probable that the Jews will establish their own schools, particularly in the smaller towns. “The Jews of Rome have so far not presented any demands to the govern ment in regard to the school question. In one part of Rome, one section of the four Fascist schools, Balila, is Jewish, and on Saturday, about 600 Jewish pupils, led by their officers and principals visit the synagogue,” Mus solini stated. Asked whether he was in favor of Zionist movement and its aims in Pal estine, the Prime Minister replied: “In Italy, the Jew is free. He is an equal citizen. He is an Italian. The Jewish community in Italy is 2,000 years old, in fact it is the oldest Jew ish community in Europe. The Jew wept on the grave of Caesar and has throughout a period of more than twenty centuries participated in the history of the country during all of its trials and tribulations.” When the correspondent further asked the Prime Minister as to wheth er there was any truth in the re ports appearing from time to time in the press to the effect that Italy has intentions of its own, with re gard to Palestine, Mussolini replied^ “The League of Nations has granted the mandate over Palestine to Grea. Britain. Italy has no desire to inter fere. So far as Italy is concerned. Great Britain may keep the mandate The Prime Minister yesterday re ceived a delegation representing t e Jewish community of Turin. The de.c gation, consisting of Drs. 0' aZZi ^ Lattes and Servi, presented Mush- lini with an album containing names of Italian Jews who fell dun the World War, and with a contribu tion of 50,000 lire for the Fascist wel fare institutions. The delegation « pressed its gratitude for the B Catholic Cults Law, just promulgate* guaranteeing religious liberty in country. PROF. W. F. ALBRIGHT for years director of the American c of Archaeology in Jerusalem the first Christian scholar to e ored by the Hebrew University The University will confer upon ^ Albright honorary membership * n Institute of Jewish Study. He * s _ * r to leave Jerusalem to become 11 ^ of the Semitics Department Johns Hopkins University', ba t