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The Southern Israelite
Foreign News
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In The Limelight
To hell with the Jews!”
from a member of the
came a
audience.
;T came the reply from
■tide, mayor of the city of
, was addressing a meeting
City on the Jewish school
They have a new country and
t meet your demands they
fan p n tn Palestine, their country.”
■tliner statement was made by
f the Canadian metropolis,
ins about 75.000 Jews, during
; periodical attacks on the Jew-
l.ill. Mr. Houde is the leader
i C Conservative party opposition to
government of the Province
,.f Quebec. which last spring passed a law
ie the Jews of Montreal equal rights
with the Protestant-English and Catholic-
I-rencli of that city in the matter of
„,]s for Jewish children and providing
the appointment of a Jewish school
tission of seven. The Jewish school
mission is now negotiating with the
rote.-tant school commission of Montreal
h regard to the possibility of Jewish
iiildren continuing to attend the Protest-
t schools of the city, instead of the
Jews opening separate Jewish schools, and
inouncement of the result of the ne-
ctiations is expected shortly.
Montreal Jewry began to voice its in
itiation over the open anti-Semitic atti-
taken by its Mayor, Camillien
"tide, who stated during a political
well in the city of Quebec that Jews
uid leave Montreal and go to Palestine.
Mich words uttered by the first magis-
a city with over a million popula-
not be tolerated,” declared
Joseph Schubert. “If
a stat nicnt were made by the Mayor
New York, Chicago or any other
^ Tth American city steps would imme-
e taken to have him impeached.
‘1 up mi the responsible Jewish leaders
-M■ >ntoral to voice their protest.”
■ igier, another Jewish alderman
> previously a Houde supporter,
red that if the Mayor’s statement as
d*>rted in the press is true, then the
> not deserve to be the leader
ie Conservative Party.
heading, “Demasked,” the
Mll r, local Yiddish daily, de-
n editorial that the Mayor has
en veering towards the anti-
t cites the Mayor’s actions
n opposing the Jewish school
that his anti-Semitic out-
Jtiebec City a couple of days
nly the logical result of the
stand which he had decided
"nnection with the school bill.
i the Conservative Opposition
ince of Quebec, says the edi-
r Houde has stooped to dema-
hasn’t even shied at anti-
'i order to “prove” that the
nier Tascherau had “betrayed”
Canadian population of the
had "sold out” to the Jews
latter the right to have their
°*n sch - 1S .
Moscow.—A law granting much-desired
privileges and rights to 100.000 Jewish
artisans was promulgated here today.
1 his piece of legislation will improve the
economic and social status of nearly half
a million Jews in Russia because the
privileges extended to the heads of
families are also applicable to the entire
family.
This latest of a series of ordinances
aimed at improving the lot of former
declassed Jews who are now being in
dustrialized applies only to those artisans
who are organized in artels, or artisans
cooperatives. The chief aim of the law
is to place these Jewish artiscans in many
ways on a plane of equality, or at least
near equality with factory workers.
The law provides that the Jewish arti
sans are to receive foodstuffs under the
same conditions as factory workers pro
vided they work in artels employing not
less than 30 persons, permits them to pay
rent at the same rate as workers, entitles
them to obtain sick benefits on a par
with workers, grants them government
pensions similar to those given factory
employes, allows them to become members
of any government cooperative, and per
mits their children to enter government
schools with the same privileges accorded
workers’ children.
This sweeping law is being hailed in
Jewish circles here as a rare piece of
good fortune for the Jewish artisans who
constitute a large section of the Jewish
population.
Berlin.—A demand to eliminate the Old
Testament from the Christian faith is
made by Prof. Willy Hcllpach of the
University of Heidelberg in a two-volume
work, “Between Wittenberg and Rome,”
which appeared recently.
In eliminating the Old Testament Pro
fessor Hellpach suggests that an excep
tion be made to the Psalms of David and
the Prophets. The stories of creation and
the fall of man in the first book of
Moses are cited by him as “dangerous
and immoral.”
Bagdad.—Work on the proposed Haifa-
Bagdad railway, which will link Egypt
and British India by rail via Haifa, will
start within a fortnight, it is learned here,
in connection with the arrival of 80
British engineers from India. They are
leaving shortly for Haifa, where work on
the project, which together with the
Mosul pipe-line will entail an expenditure
of §100,000,000, will start.
Late in September the British Colonial
Office issued a statement granting assist
ance from the Colonial Development
Fund towards the cost of a detailed sur
vey to be undertaken in connection with
the Haifa-Bagdad railway. It is believed
that the 80 engineers are about to start on
this survey.
The Mosul pipe line, which will carry
the oil from the Mosul fields in Iraq, is
to have its Mediterranean terminus at
Haifa. The proposed railway is expected
to parallel the pipe hue.
HR. JOHN IIAYNFS HOLMES, of
the Community Church of New York,
m a recent address speaking on what
lie would do, if he were a Jew, de
clared: "If I were a Jew I would be
proud to be a Jew, proud of the tra
dition of my tribe, proud of the tradi
tion of my people, and proud of the
achievements of my race from Isaiah,
the greatest prophet of ancient times,
to Einstein, the greatest thinker of
modern times.”
DR. PHILIP ROSENST REICH,
member of the Polish Sejm, in a re
cent statement to the Allied Jewish
Campaign declared that the economic
plight of the Jews of Poland has been
made worse by the exactions of the
government. During the past three
years, lie stated, the Jews have paid
almost $14.000,(XX) in interest charges
and levies for the non-payment of
taxes.
GEORGE BLUM ENT HAL, of New
York, noted philanthropist who has
contributed large sums of money to
artistic and other institutions in France,
is one of three persons to be awarded
the first medal ever given by the Le
gion of Honor for service rendered to
the Republic. Usually a ribbon is con
ferred.
GIUSEPPE STEINER, member of
the Italian House of Deputies, repre
senting Biacenza, has been named by
Benito Mussolini as Prefect of an
Italian province. Steiner, who is a
native of Milan, comes of an extremely
Orthodox Jewish family.
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON,
noted critic and Catholic, when inter
viewed recently, declared: “I am a
Zionist. It is true I have been repeat
edly charged with being anti-Semitic.
I deny this charge. It is absurd. How
can anybody hate Semitism? I usu
ally reply that I am a Zionist, which
seems a polite dismissal of the sub
ject—a sort of easy way of getting rid
of the question and the questioner. But
the clash of cultures—Semitic versus
Saxon and Latin—that is a huge prob
lem.”
DR. SAMUEL WOLMAN, chief
physician at Mount Pleasant Sanita
rium in Baltimore, has been elected
President of the Maryland Tubercu
losis Association.
MAURICE STERNE, famous Amer
ican Jewish artist and sculptor, was
awarded the prize in the twelfth bien
nial exhibitions of paintings at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. The prize-
winning composition is a still-life called
“After Lunch”. The prize was estab
lished by the late W. A. Clark and is
regarded as one of the choice plums
of the American art world.
MRS. OSCAR S. MARX. National
Chairman of the Department of Peace
of the National Council of Jewish
Women, in a recent statement urged the
members of the National Council of
Jewish Juniors to celebrate Armistice Day
on November 11th with especially ar
ranged programs.
GEORGE BLUMENTHAL. patron of
arts and philanthropies in France and
America, was appointed as the chairman
of the §2,221,(XX) campaign which the
Jews of New York launched recently in
behalf of the ninety-one affiliated
agencies of the Federation for the Sup
port of Jewish philanthropic societies.
KING BORIS of Bulgaria recently
conferred high honors upon Luke Mosko-
witsch, president of the Ashkenazic Jew
ish community of Sofia, and upon Joseph
Haimoff, prominent tobacco marchant.
REV. I)R. HARRY EMERSON
FOSDICK, pastor of the New Riverside
Church in New York City, defended the
presence of the statue of Einstein among
those of saints and philosophers on the
facade of the new church. “I am glad
that Einstein is over the church’s portal
because I hope that minds like his, facing
the same great questions about God that
he faces, will come through that jxirtal
and sit in these pews and profit by our
ministry,” said Dr. Fosdick in his sermon.
HENRY KAUFMAN, of Fort Smith.
Ark., has been nominated by the Demo
cratic party as its candidate for the state
assembly. The Democratic nomination is
virtually equivalent to election. Mr.
Kaufman is a member of the board of
trustees of the United Hebrew Congre
gation and a past president of the local
B’nai B’rith lodge.
EUGENE MEYER, JR., governor of
the Federal Reserve Board, has been se
lected by President Hoover together with
six members of the Cabinet to act as a
committee to work out plans by means
of which the government can aid in meet
ing the unemployment situation.
RABBI JOSEPH LEISER, formerly
of Helena, Ark., is now Rabbi of Con
gregation Children of Israel, in Augusta,
Ga.
BERNARD M. BARUCH, noted fi
nancier and member of the New \ork
Stock Exchange, was recently called in to
confer with President Hoover on the
present business situation. It is under
stood that Mr. Baruch also discussed
“short-selling” on the Exchange which
has kept the entire financial world on
edge recently.
DEAN GEORGE R. HARDIE of
Long Island University has instituted ef
forts to found a new medical college
which will serve Jewish students, inas
much as many Jews find difficulty in en
tering medical schools. Dean Hardie has
secured the consent of Congressman Wil
liam I. Sirovich to head a committee to
formulate plans for the college.