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Page 6 The Southern Israelite Passing My Window By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN From his vantage post in Paris, Pierre Van Paasscn, one of the outstanding newspaper correspondents in the world, and tri-weekly contributor to the col umn "World’s Window" in the Hew York livening World, com ments in his own inimitable way on Jewish events and personali ties in his incisive column “Pass ing My Window."—The Editor. Gun-Running in Palestine The London Morning Post correspond ent who recently visited Palestine reports that gun-smuggling is on the increase. Me sees in this an indication that further trouble must be expected, “probably in June." Where arc all those guns com ing from? And who is doing the smug gling? In the first place Lord Allcn- hy’s army, it should be recalled, brought huge stores of rifles and ammunition to the Near East. Then Colonel Law rence had an allowance from the War Office of fifty thousand pounds ster ling a day, some say it was a hundred thousand. This fund was used to teach the Arabs and the Bedus the arts of civilization, which consisted at times in blowing up railway tracks, destroying depots and cutting the throats of Britain’s enemies. The Arab is like a little boy in this respect that he likes to carry a gun, two guns if possible. One he may have obtained from the money Colonel Law rence gave him, and the other he acquired from the piles of guns which General Allenby’s quartermasters left accommo datingly behind in the desert. In addi tion he picked up a revolver or set of daggers thrown away by the retreating Turks, and so he is fitted out. What ever else he has in the line of hard ware or cutlery is safely stored away for just such a time as this when his brethren in Palestine think they may need them for a new Saint Bartholemew. Now the British Border police on the Jordan is hopelessly inadequate. There are gaps, miles in width, through which smugglers pass up and down unmolested. The Trans-Jordan Arabs who arc the secret guardians of the old Allenby stores and the hoarders of the Turkish arma ment loot are simply siposing of surplus stock. There is peace now between I bn Saoud and Feisal, so where else can they go with their wares? Palestine is the answer. Then there is gun smuggling on the coast, North of Haifa. This I know of personal experience. An Arab merchant of Haifa imported 5,(KX) rifles in October. They came from Italy. They were landed under the noses of the British Tommies, police, marines, air force and gendarmerie. Everybody in Haifa knew the guns were coming. Everybody knew they had arrived. I saw the entire stock one evening. The Arab merchant was inviting some friends to see his imports. “Against whom are these rifles to be used?" I asked. “Well”, he replied, “I am selling to the highest bidder. If the Jews will pay more than the Arabs, they can have them all.” The Jews didn’t buy. Dreyfus Affair Revives All at once the Dreyfus affair flares up again in Paris. Maitrre Henri Torres, the lawyer who defended Chaim Schwartzbart, has translated a German play based upon the trial, conviction and subsequent rehabilitation of the Jewish artillery captain and wants to produce it in France. Dreyfus docs not appear in the play at all, only his defender Labori and Zola and Clcmenccau and Scheurer- Kerstner and Piquart. But Maitre Tor res had figured without the sleeping lions I)R. M. WERTHEIMER, well-known German journalist, has been appointed by the German government as its represent ative in the Public Relations Bureau of the League of Nations at Geneva. Criti cism has been leveled at the government for the selection, because Wertheimer is a Jew. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, in a special introduction which he has written for a Hebrew edition of “An Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism” which will soon be published in Jerusalem, expresses praise for Jewish women. “When the in telligent woman is a daughter of Jerusa lem,” the famous author says, “a non- Jewish writer must be careful about try ing to be her guide.” FANNIE HURST, the novelist, and Leonora Speyer, the poetess, are among the eight women elected to membership in the Author’s Club, founded many years ago by Mark Twain as a retreat for men authors only. BERNARD JAFFE, Brooklyn Jewish school teacher, has been awarded the $7,- 500 Francis Bacon prize in the national contest sponsored by the Forum Maga zine and Simon & Schuster to find the best manuscript furthering the humaniz ing of knowledge. Jaffc’s manuscript de scribes the “heroism of the laboratory.” MME. YVONNE NETTER, one of the best known lawyers in France and President of the Jewish Women’s Mutual Aid Society, has received a bronze medal for her social service work from the So ciety for the Aid of Wounded Soldiers, a semi-official French government insti tution. DR. ANNA R. BRUENN, dentist, has filed complaint with the New York State Board of Regents that she was barred from a post as instructor in the New York University College of Dentistry lie- cause she is a Jewess. In reply to her application for the position she was in formed that “since it will require a Gen tile it is not exactly suitable for you.” MISS FREDA SLUTZKIN, a native Australian who came to Palestine about six years ago, has been admitted to the bar in Jerusalem. She is the second wom an to be permitted to practice law in Pal estine. MAURICE SAMUEL, the novelist, essayist and orator, is a Palestinian citi zen six months out of every year. DANIEL FROHMAN has been elec ted President of the Actors’ Fund of America for the 26th consecutive term. RICARDO CORTEZ and Alma Reu bens, who were for many years the hap- of the Action Francaise, and the anti- Semitic league. They are up in arms. They howl and scream as wildly as thirty years ago. “Dreyfus the Traitor” “Drey fus the Jew”. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras think they have found a new peg to hang an anti-Jewish movement on. But the French public remains cool and indifferent. The pamphlets hastily writ- piest Jewish couple in screendom, recently separated becaused Alma became angry at Ricardo (formerly Jacob), who in sisted that it was his influence which had saved her from the drug habit. SIDNEY FISHMAN, a young art student, was the only Jew to receive a Pulitzer Prize this year. He received the annual $1,800 scholarship awarded to the art student in America who shall be cer tified as the most promising and deserv ing by the National Academy of Design. He expects to continue his studies in art schools in Paris and other European cities. MAX DOLIN has been named con ductor of the San Francisco Philhar monic Orchestra. Born in Odessa in 1883, Dolin obtained his musical edu cation at the Imperial Conservatory. In recent years he has been musical director for the Pacific Division of the National Broadcasting Company. 11 AN AH COHEN, well known com munal worker in London, has been selected to head the Jewish Board of Guardians powerful philanthropic con stitution. This is the first time in the history of Jewish communal institu tions in England that a woman has been chosen to head one of them. MME. VERA JABOLFAVA, only woman in the Russian Cabinet, holds the post of Comptroller of Finance of the U. S. S. R. Mine. Jabolewa is a Jewess. POLICE MAGISTRATE JACOB COHEN, the only Jewish Magistrate in Canada, died in his eighty-sixth year. He had occupied his position on the bench since 1918. LOUIS WOLHEIM, the great foot ball player who later became an eco nomics instructor, only to make a suc cess of it on the stage finally, made his first big hit in “What Price Glory,” where he was supposed to represent the typical American soldier. Now Wolheim is giving another sterling performance in “All Quiet on the Western Front,” where he plays the part of Katzczinsky, the typical Ger man soldier. BILL SHATOFF, who twenty years ago came to America from Russia with $2 in his pocket, recently finished the Turkestan-Siberian Railway which cost $80,000,000. Since he went back to Rus sia he has been chief of police of Len ingrad and the treaty-maker who signed the compact with Japan in 1921. (Continued on Page 15) ten and printed by the Action Francaise clique, with such titles as ‘ Proof oi Dreyfus’ Guilt” and “Dreyfus who Es capcd Punishment” are remaining unsold At Clemenceau’s funeral a fellow m front of me said to his companion: “Tiens, there’s Dreyfus!" “Which Drey' fus?” asked the other. “The banker?" “No the captain!” came back the first “Ah you mean the fellow who wanted to force the army to go to mass!’’ The younger generation knows not Dreyfus The Jews of Hungary Under the heading: “The Jews oi Budapest are dying out”, the Vienne Neue Freie Presse prints a grave warn ing from the Chief Rabbi of Hungary Dr. Simon Hevesi, in which that gentle man cites facts and figures which show that an increasing number of Hungarian Jews arc seeking baptism and turning to the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. Hevesi refers to this phenomenon as “a wave of Jewish self-destruction”. In addition to Baptism, many Jews in that country are losing contact with their brethren through mixed marriages. The Jewish birth-rate is also falling off. Some European Jewish writers angrily protest against this decline of Jewish race- vitality and endurance. They point out that there is at present no such inexor able pressure being brought to bear upon the Hungarian Jewry as that which was suffered by other Jewries in other times. With the exception of a few so-called hoodlum outbreaks, the convenient sub terfuge with which East European gov ernments describe anti-semitic excesses. Hungarian Jewry is not so badly off, if we are to credit these protesting writers. Why then this “defaillance” ? they ask It seems to be forgotten already that Hungary, less than a dozen years ago. went through a period of upheaval and disillusion following the war that came close turning whatever remained of that part of the dual empire into a shamble But the Hungarians, the 100 percenters, the awakening Magyars do not so easily forget that the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution were practically all Jews, Bela Kuhn, the President of the Hungarian Soviet Government was a Jew- and * were the leading commissars; Tilx> r Samuely, Joseph Pogany and Bela Bor >• and the President of the Revolutionary Tribunal, Eugene Lazio. They have been reminding the Jewish community of un gary constantly of these facts. Their re minders took the form of pogroms revenge raids on several occasions. ^ brute nationalism broke loose, it di ^ differentiate. It acted as if all the Jews were responsible for the Bela Xu in ep sode. And so the protest about the c X1 ence of a mild and benevolent in Hungary holds no ground. The ' * vik Revolution, to the contrary, has a - initely been instrumental in enabIn Semitism to catch a hold in Hu the other hand, the Jews of Hunc.t are turning to the baptismal font> 01 Church, will find no sanctuary new’ religious affiliation. For t« ■ mal certificate has seldom spare- Jews from violence when passion- loose. Copyright 1930. J- T. A. ♦ ♦ In The Limelight