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Page 16 The Southern Israelite Visit Biser’s Restaurant Famed For Florida Sea Food HOWARD RISER, Prop. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA From 10 to 20 Years Is llit* period nearly all our workmen have been in our employ. This insures to our patrons the heHt possible service. WE MOVE, PACK, SHIP AND STORE HOUSE HOLD GOODS DELGHER BROS. STORAGE CO. 262 RIVERSIDE AVE. PHONE 5-0140 TELEPHONE 5-6560 or 3-1346 Foremost Dairy Products MILK and ICE CREAM 135 Riverside Ave. 1300 Hogen St. JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA ■ 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. (Continued on Page 17) Phono 3-0780 FLORID \ ICE & CO A I. COMPANY •THE HOME PLANT Ire Made of Distilled 11 aU>r JACKSONVILLE, FLA. < STANDARD NUT MARGARINT CO (of Florida) 1185 Kings Road Jacksonville. Fla Read the . . . Jacksonville Journal . . . Jacksonville. Fin. RE-ELECT Dr. J. G. Rawls FOR County Commissioner FIRST district Jacksonville, t Fi.