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Aught else is faithlessness to our
brethren, to our tradition, to Judaism.
These are my views upon the pres
ent Jewish situation in Russia, rather
forced from me against my will. Even
now they are offered hesitatingly and
humbly, but none the less sincerely
and in the spirit of sympathy and
helpfulness. I trust that they may be
received in the same spirit.
Copyright, 1930, by the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency, Inc.
(Continued from Page 4)
a set of circumstances which made
possible effective political action.
And this proves that Balfour, of all
Zionists, was not a Balfour Declara
tion Zionist.
Balfour, as I have .already implied,
was not of the temperament that is
given to much enthusiasm. Even un
der the most trying circumstances he
was always calm and philosophical.
His indifference was so extraordi
nary that at times it astonished even
his best friends. Mr. Myndham,
speaking of this cool, philosophic
temper of Balfour’s, once remarked:
“Arthur is not sufficiently interested
in this issue (the reference is to some
British political question). Nothing
will arouse him to take an interest.
He knows that there was once an ice
age and that there will some day be
an ice age again.”
It is precisely because of this char-
acterstic of Balfour that one becomes
so deeply impressed with his never-
tiring enthusiasm and optimism with
regard to the Jewish Homeland in
Palestine. Whenever Dr. Weizmann
needed his moral support, Lord Bal
four, even after he had retired from
all official activities, was always
ready to throw in the full weight of
his influence—which remained enor
mous to the very end—to assist the
Zionist leader in his political task.
Only a few months ago, after the
Palestine riots, he emerged from his
retirement and, together with Gen
eral Smuts and Lloyd George, de
manded a special inquiry into the
working of the Mandate in Palestine
in terms tantamount to a vigorous
reconfirmation of the Balfour Decla
ration.
In his seventy-sixth year the white-
haired philosopher enthusiastically
embarked upon the strenuous trip to
Palestine to dedicate in person the
Hebrew University at Jerusalem. He
visited all the Jewish settlements,
meeting the chalutzim and leaving
behind him a trail of optimism and
faith in the future of the Jewish na
tional homeland. His gracious per
sonality, his tactful smile, his inde
fatigable joy in speaking to the rep
resentatives of the new Palestine left
an ineradicable impression. And to
the Arab chieftains he spoke as vig
orously and confidently about a Jew
ish Palestine as to the Jewish col
onists. He reaffirmed the Balfour
Declaration in his every public ad
dress and private conversation dur
ing his stay in Palestine. His Zion
ist stand w’as so unmistakable that
w’hen he was in Damascus he had to
be rescued from an Arab demonstra
tion against him. His niece, Mrs.
Blanche Dugdale, describing his so
journ in Palestine, writes: “Never in
his long public career has he enjoyed
more deeply the performance of an
act than when, standing on Mount
Scopus in the scarlet robes of the
Chancellor of Cambridge University,
he proclaimed his confidence in the
future of the restored center of Jew
ish culture.”
Balfour, the versatile British
statesman, the brilliant thinker, will
go down as a resplendent figure on
Mount Scopus' pledging to the Jewish
people the co-operation of the civ
ilized world in the establishment of I
their national home.
(Written for The Southern Israelite) i
Copyright, 1930, by S. A. F. S.
LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN—
LEADER OF JUDAISM
(Continued from Page 6)
may not yield his thought, more and i
more, to the larger life of which over j
three score years and ten on this
planet are merely a tale that is told.
Advacing age is a look forward as
well as a look backward, and the j
great Conservator of the energy which
He created, will never fail of a use I
for the abilities, the high character of j
great workers in any world where
they may be, like Ludwig Vogelstein. i
As he himself puts it, “without a
spiritual conception of this world, life
is empty and not worth living: and '
no wealth, no material success can
ever be the foundations of our civili
zation.”
—Copyright 1930 by J. T. A.
GOSSIP AND NEWS OF
JEWISH PERSONALITIES
(Continued from Page 13)
books—not even his own. He prob
ably might change his ideas if they
actually were believed in, however.
For Komroff says: “1 know no in
teresting reason why people should
read and own books. I did once
think that books were windows to a
big world, but I am now inclined to
think that they are trap-doors to
cellars of confusion. The truth may
well lie between.” That being the
case, Mr. Komroff is responsible for
thousands of cases of mental con-
fusion in the last few months.
ONCE A FLORADORA GIRL
There is a woman in Johannes
burg, South Africa, by the name of
Mrs. Schlesinger. Her husband, a Jew,
of couise, is a multi-millionaire who
controls the theatrical and insurance
business of that prosperous town.
Mrs. Schlesinger herself is active in
Jewish work; she studies Hebrew and
gives funds for Jewish education. In
and by itself that story is not news.
But behind this Mrs. Schlesinger
is the name of Agnes Wayburn, first I
wife of Ned Wayburn, dance im
presario. Agnes was one of the orig
inal “Floradora” sextet that sang the
famous “Tell Me, Pretty Maiden” j
number when it was presented at the
old Casino, New York, away back in !
1900. Several years later Schlesing
er came to this country on a visit,
met the pretty chorus girl and took
her back to Johannesburg as his wife.
Now she is as good a Jewess as you
can find, though, as you have sus
pected all along, she was not that to
begin with.
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