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Page 16 The Southern Israelite G A rown-up Store Serves You More Intimately IT SEEMS like an odd contradiction to say that the more customers A&P has, the more intimate ly it can serve each one of them. Yet it’s a fact. The original little store from which A&P sprang was stocked with carefully bought food. But after all, it was a small store, and it had to buy what the market offered. The grown-up A & P of today is stocked with food whose selection takes the full time of hundreds of buyers, scattered across the face of the earth, searching wherever good foods originate for the pick of the crop. So it is that when you express a desire for a certain type of food, a specialist in that food knows where to find it at the peak of quality, for the lowest price. The A&P store in your neigh borhood, backed by an army of expert buyers, carries out your wishes as the little old original store never dreamed of doing. THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC '<& Foreign News (Continued from preceding page) Church of England has decided to open a new school within the ghetto. The same conditions are prevalent in Amadan and Isphahan, he asserted, half the Jews of Amadan having adopted an oriental faith. * * * Cairo.—An Arab discovered America. Moslem tribes are still to be found in Brazil and Mexico. After the Arabs came the Norsemen. And when America was quite an old story, Christopher Columbus happened along! The newest theory of American col onization was advanced before an audi ence of 2,000 in a lecture here by Achmcd Pasha, historian, who present ed the Arab historical claims before the Wailing Wall Commission. He was asked to select members to form a scientific expedition in search of Ara bian tribes in America. * * + London.—Why the River Jordan did not dry up when Joshua and his followers crossed it and what caused the walls of Jericho to collapse before Joshua's con quering army, will be the object of an expedition leaving here for Palestine un der the leadership of Prof. J. Garstang, who will he aided by Dr. Donald McCown. The expedition, which was financed by the late Lord Mclchctt and Sir Charles Marsten, will endeavor to prove the Bible stories correct. * * + Warsaw.—A hotel for Jewish immi grants, built by the “Hias”, opened here recently with ceremonies at which were present the Polish Minister of Labor, Hubicki, and other government represent atives. Prof. A. Schor delivered the opening address. The hotel will provide shelter for Jew ish women and children who have left their provincial towns in Poland and who come to Warsaw on their way to other countries. The hotel, which is located in the heart of the Warsaw Jewish section, is of four stories and has one hundred beds, bathrooms, and many other com forts. * * * Paris.—A Jewish weekly, published in the Russian language and backed by a large number of Russian Jews here, be gan publication with the new year. The weekly, named Evreskaya Szizn, will be anti-Soviet and anti-Zionist, it is an nounced, following the policy of the \ oschod, published in the times of the Czar. At the same time it will carry for ward the fight for Jewish minority rights in different countries. * * * Mexico City.—A statement to the press bv the Confederation of Mexican Cham bers of Commerce denounces the story published in a tabloid here to the effect that the Jews are detrimental to the com merce and industry of the republic. The Chambers of Commerce statement de clares that the Jews of Mexico are ad vantageous to Mexico in the business field and praises them as ethical, honor able, enterprising and excellent citizens. “The Confederation is proud,” the state ment reads, "to have Jews among the members of the Chambers of Commerce in the Confederation, for they give tige to the organizations with which are associated.” * * * Prague.—While a government rej sentative sat quietly on the platform sa; tioning the meeting, Student Vacbal representing Czecho-Slovakia at the c ference here of Ruthenian and Ukrain students, turned the meeting into a v lent anti-Semitic session. Vacbalek call for an open fight of the students agair, Jews, declaring the Jews to be “huma parasites” and the worst enemies of t country”. Doctor Reskid, who presented gov- r ment greetings to the students, rai .1 no objections to the anti-Semitic ha rangues. Jewish political groups inter* to bring action against the students. * * * London. — Only Jewish hair-dressing shops (called barber shops in America) will be permitted to remain open on Sundays, according to a new ruling pro mulgated recently. The Jewish shops must, however, be closed on Saturdays, and must display a notice to that effect in a prominent position. There is a heavy fine for violation of the ruling by Jewish or non-Jewish barbers. ♦ * * Paris.—Tragic days of forty years ago were recalled when Baron Edmond de Rothschild leaned over the dying Mar shall Joffrc to say a last goodbye. The man who saved France from foreign in vasion on the Marne had long been a friend of the Baron, who, by advancing the sums demanded by the Germans, forty years ago also saved France from the humiliation of foreign occupation. ♦ * * Jerusalem.—Davar and Haaretz, two leading Hebrew dailies, joined in de manding energetic action and results in the way of a vigorous Palestine drive from American Zionist leaders. Davar, the labor organ, attacks the leadership of Judge Julian W. Mack and Jacob De Haas in the administration of American Zionism. “They must start energetic activity at once,” says the Davar, “if they do not wish a revival of the war for a change of administration. Under the leadership of Louis Lipsky the administration de faulted here and there, but it recognized its duty toward Palestine.” Haaretz similarly deplores the inac tivity of American Zionists at the present moment. It urges the Palestine delega tion now in America to speak "face t face” with American Jewry. “Ussishkin’s campaign for the Keren upheavals in Palestine,” says Haaretz. in Kayemeth is insufficient to prevent fatal commenting on the reception being given here to M. M. Ussishkin, world president of the Jewish National Fund. * * * Vienna.—A fine of 1,000 shillings 14 days in prison was levied on the editor of the Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung in tke local court today for calling ■ Hueber, minister of the interior, a 1 anti-Semite.” M. Shreiber, counsel the Allgemeine Zeitung, was fined shillings and severely reprimanded seeking to introduce into the record ial tor 100 for