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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE A Magazine Perpetuating Jewish Ideals Volume 5 October 15, 1930 Number 19 Concerning Statistics .111154- to the 1930-31 edition of the American Jewish Year ere are 15.050.000 Jews in the entire world. Of these 4.228.000 ated under the United States. In other words, over a fourth xvi.rid Jewry lives in the land of Uncle Sam. This aspect of world flairs frequently is overlooked. It is highly significant that United States of America has a larger Jewish population than gle European country—since the Versailles Treaty. Thus American Jewry speaks, the largest and most influential [ewidt communal voice is heard. Under such circumstances the ntcrest of American Jewry in the affairs of Polish, Russian. Ger* i. and Rumanian Jewry does not represent unwarranted inter- cnee. hut a definite responsibility. This not only because of the ldderahle portion of world Jewry residing in our land, but because iMria. Czechoslovakia. Hungary. Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania, and ! those other countries, have Jewries so situated, from a material nit of view, that the possibility of their participation in affairs tside their own frontiers is negligible. The authoritative figures : the American Jewish Committee confirm the responsibilities of nncriean Jewry toward the other eleven millions of Jews scattered •hn.tudiout the world. with the familiar dictum: “Is a Jew not a fellow New Yorker up against just the same difficulties that you are? Hath not a Jew eyes J Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? George Gordon Hattie’s views disappointed us. They did not clarify the problem. The substituted "misunderstanding” for ‘discrimination”. This is too easy a way out. New York Jewry— and, for that matter. American Jewry—is the victim of direct dis crimination by its Gentile co-citizens in the fields of education, habi tation, social life and business. (>f this there is no doubt. Non-Jews of the calibre of George Gordon Hattie should not hesitate to call a; spade a spade when discussing publicly the Jews of the United States. Under Synagogal Benches ’T’orty members of the anti-Semitic Stahlhelm organization found lum in a synagogue at Frankfort on Yom Kippur, when they tied from a large crowd of Communists who had worsted them in >treet brawl. The Jews worshiping in the synagogue permitted the -Semites to wait in a side room until the police dispersed the nummists.” Thus reads a News Service report. One feels tempted udd nothing. The dispatch is self-explanatory. Tt tells a long ’"iv of Jewish tolerance and readiness to forget and forgive, nfortunately the dispatch does not ■ ;iU ‘ what the leaders of the Stahlhelm • d to the elders of the Frankfort syna- . 4uc We have a slight suspicion that >tahlhelmites did not cut a very he- 0 ! G'ue. Herr Hitler’s talk about the d menace must have sounded rather iI " c "Or to them as they were hiding the benches of the Frankfort A nag. .gue. No Campaign Talk He ywood Hroun. the nationally known columnist, a Congres sional candidate on the Socialist ticket in the silk-stocking district of New York, is one of the very few non-Jews who in writing and public speaking has tackled the Jewish question in a frank, straight forward manner. He has unequivocally charged some of the most important New York business men and real estate owners with prac ticing—even when not preaching—a strict policy of "no Jews allowed”. Iirounds liberal attitude and tolerant understanding of the Jewish issue in New York were not born with his candidacy. Years ago, when he had no more idea of participating in a political cam paign than of refusing a highball, he spoke the same language. There is no such thing as a Jewish vote. We do, however, unflinch ingly declare that liberal and progressive voters in Heywood Broun’s district will remember that he does not believe in racial or religious prejudice and discrimination. CONTENTS Misunderstandings? ■ H-\\ , 1 lent' -■ 11! v\j>< Er enL- writ Uid Aew York Telegram is printing "f articles, in the form of inter- ith a number of prominent citi- anti-Jewish discrimination in r k City. Among those inter- mis George Gordon Battle, emi- •-Jewish attorney. Mr. Battle is as saying: "Discrimination is 'g word. The division between an d Jews comes onlv from lack standing.” And he ends up his this — er — misunderstanding The Napoleon of the Movies By Jesse L. Lasky Columbus Discovered America on Succoth By David Schwartz - - - Anti-Semitism, a Healthy Influence By Arthur Schnituler - - - Society In the Limelight Southern Notes National News Toreign News A Financial Genius The death of Daniel Guggenheim removes one of the most pic turesque figures of the contemporary American scene. Among Jewish capitalists he was one of the few real builders of the pioneer type. At one time he built a city 1(),(XX) feet up in the Chilean mountains to work hitherto in accessible copper mines. He got tin from Bolivia, rubber from the Congo, gold from Alaska and other minerals from Mexico and Asia. Railroads, trust com panies, smelting plants, banks were his sidelines, controlled mostly with the money he got from his mines. In private life this gigantic builder, who was one of the world’s leading figures as a de veloper of natural resources, was a mild, inconspicuous little man. He built a hos pital in New York in memory of his par ents, spent three million dollars for the advancement of aviation, and provided free concerts for the poor of America’s metropolis. He also aided in the build ing of the new Temple Emanu-Kl, where he was a regular worshiper. One of America’s truly great financial geniuses has passed on. 11 12 14 15 16 as second dass matter at e Copy, $1.50 per year in aa\ xcept those enunciated in the °* e ach month.