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The Southern Israelite Page 13 JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA H\l KOl'K TELLS ONE ON WEIZMANN i may have called him Balfour”, but to the Jews alarly to Dr. Chaim Weiz- hur .lames Balfour was 'racious of friends. There iradeship between the old the devoted Zionist that unge to Balfour’s non-Jew- Balfour took a liking to in 1906, when the latter a chemistry instructor, and ndship lasted to Balfour’s Mia; i r fr - one story that Balfour i uf telling which indicates intimacy between him and and which shows his ap- uf Weizmann as a Zion- pri ; acandist. time a certain powerful dip- the British Foreign Office, nail in this column be name- he is still alive and still rh,:. called Balfour and asked 1 his friend Weizmann to :icism of the British adminis- hy the Zionists, since it was ii barrassing at the moment, suggested that this diplomat rsonally to Weizmann. The t the Earl’s suggestion, then " the Foreign Office to receive icial reprimand. The diplo- a notorious anti-Zionist. GOSSIP AND NEWS OF JEW ISH PERSONALITIES By MARTIN GOLDE What happened at that historic in terview was told by the diplomat to Balfour in the form of an anecdote which Balfour was fond of retelling afterwards: In a certain small town in Italy there lived a Jew, the only one in the community. His Christian neighbors were anxious to convert the Jew, who was, incidentally, an insurance sales man. The priests visited him, plead ed with him, but the Jew clung to Judaism. Finally the townsmen heard that one of the Cardinals of Rome would be passing through the town. When he arrived one of the priests called on him, told him the story of the solitary Jew in the town. He asked the Cardinal to visit the man and to see whether his great powers couldn’t convert the man to Chris tianity. That afternoon the Cardinal went to the Jew’s home, followed by sev eral priests and a gradually increas ing crowd, who waited outside anxi ously while the Cardinal went in alone. After an hour and a half, when the crowd was becoming impa tient, with a feeling, however, that the Cardinal must be triumphing, (he latter emerged. With wearied gait he walked out, mopping his brow with a voluminous kerchief. “Well, has he been saved?” many asked him with one voice. “No,” came the fatigued reply. “But he insured me.” Balfour later enlarged upon the parable and told how the Foreign Office diplomat, who was going to reprimand Weizmann, was converted to Zionism by him on that occasion. FROM MILLIONS TO PENNIES Twenty-five years ago she worked on a Jewish newspaper in New York. Born in Russia, she spent her early childhood in the London slums. When she came to America she found new life when, during the course of her newspaper work, she met J. G. Phelps Stokes, the multi-millionaire, who married this girl who became, in newspaper headlines, “Rose of the Ghetto.” That was back in 1905. Both of them had Socialistic leanings, so that Rose Pastor Stokes could gratify her aim to help the poor with her husband’s millions. Today Rose lives in a Second Ave nue apartment in the East Side of New York and walks up to the fourth floor. She is poverty-stricken, af flicted with a dangerous illness. She still acts as picket in strikes, even though she hasn’t any wealth, hav ing divorced Stokes in 1925. The Abie’s Irish Rose romance which was launched with millions has fiz zled into a tale where even the pen nies count for much. BEING A JEW HELPS They’ve found that it pays to be a Jew in good old London town. The reason is as follows: The wives of the American delegates to the Lon don so-called disarmament conference are finding time hanging heavy on their hands, even as their husbands. Since the London hostesses didn’t fig ure that the confab would last so long they didn’t prepare enough so cial functions for the whole time it’s taking. In the daytime the women usually attend the open sessions of the conference. Which doesn’t give them much time to do their shopping. One day one of the delegates dis covered Petticoat Lane, where the Jewish market operates on Sunday. Now weekly expeditions are planned to the heart of London’s ghetto, for here one can buy when all other stores are closed. As you might im agine, fish and fowl are plentiful these days in Whitechapel homes on Friday nights and Saturday. BELIEVE IT IF YOU CAN Almost 150,000 copies have been sold of Manuel Komroff’s book “Coro net,” which was selected some time ago by the Literary Guild. This American-Jewish adventurer and mystic, though he must be very hap py about the newly-found wealth, doesn’t much believe in the value of (Continued on Page 16) JACKSONVILLE Ill-ink 3 mm BOTTLIXG CO. ■JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA