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Page 30 Modernize Your Home . . . Make it a place of charm and comfort this summer. Nothing will help like cool, well-chosen awn ings. Turn the problem over to our experts—let them inspect your house, suggest appropriate styles and de signs. without cost or obli gation. Just call FAirfax 1 48 3—today. ATLANTA TENT and AWNING COMPANY Sole Manufacturers DISTINCTIVE STYlebilT AWNINGS Plant and Office, Past Point, Go. The Southern Israelite lern in organized anti-Semitism which puts in flic shadow all flie great his torical catastrophes of the past. The fate of the greatest Jewish population ever domiciled in one country hangs in the balance. But anti-Semitism is so intimate to the Jew, so close to the routine of his life that he often docs not suspect its existence or else is content to ignore it—if it does not immediately place the sword of Damocles over his head! But the story of Jew-baiting, as re counted by a Jew, is likely to smack of self-commiseration, of the martyr- complex. I jet I ley wood Broun intro duce you to the problem: “Prejudice seems to me more severe right now than at any time in the last twenty years. What has served to in tensify the prejudice? It is hard to put your finger on any one thing. In ease of doubt it is always wise to look for an economic cause. When jobs are hard to obtain, job-givers are anxious to disqualify some particular group of applicants, and as many applicants as possible. Naturally, under conditions of hardship the job-seeker feels that ho is better off if he holds a definite advantage over his Jewish competi tors. “Discrmination against Jews in Now York spreads all over the city, reaches like a dark cloud into the narrowest and most, remote streets, to the largest and smallest lines of employment. It i> practiced deliberately, and also un consciously, by those who dislike Jews and by those who don’t care, but who yield to a supposed demand by the public. It is of vast proportions and it. is by no means decreasing. “The employment field reeks with prejudice. The amazing extent and bit terness of the determination has been confirmed by experts engaged daily in watching the field. The Jew out of work who is looking for a job in New York faces odds of about ten to one against him.” And Broun cites examples. Most em ployment. agencies even refuse to ac cept the applications of Jews. “Office work as a class is difficult for Jews to obtain. The largest and richest banks in New York have rules against employing any Jews, except in unusual cases. About ninety per cent of the in surance companies notify the agencies not to send Jewish applicants for po sitions. The great corporations whose stocks constitute the blue chips of the Stock Exchange are for tin* most part unfavorable. The public utility com panies as a class, largely in control of Gentiles and representing monopolies against which the Jews could not hope to make effective retaliation, are con sidered the hardest fields of all for Jews to enter. Among the more ex pensive chain restaurants it is the prac tice to employ few Jewish waitresses, virtually no Jewish headwaitresses. In tin* traditional Jewish business of clothing manufacture there are shops which do not take Jews, on a strict racial classification. Another form of the charge of discrimination is that Jewish applicants for membership cards are excluded. The unions in the better-paid trades are closed corpora tions.” The foregoing are sentences culled from various parts of Broun’s book, which provide an excellent summary of the fields of employment from which Jews are excluded. And what of the professions? Medicine is restricted. “Engineering is unpromising. Teaching is exclusive, both in elementary an dadvanced clas sifications; in some subjects there is virtually a complete ban against Jew ish instructors. Discrimination em phatically does exist in the practice of law in New York.” There isn’t much left for the Jew to choose from. But despite this fore boding and gloomy picture there are Jews who join in the hunt of their fellows. Broun describes the situation vividly: “A high official of a large depart ment store, which is wholly owned by Jewish capital, said: ‘Yes, we have a quota on Jewish help for two reasons. Although we are Jewish-owned we do not desire to be known as a “Jew store” and tear to become such in repu tation if we have too many Jewish sales people; secondly, we do not want our staff too much depleted on the religious holidays.’ “.Many Gentiles justify their preju dices against Jews by saying, ‘Why, this exists among the Jews themselves.’ And there is no doubt of the tendency of certain people to criticize severely their own co-religionists. They do not criticize them perhaps under the name ‘Jews.’ But tin* word ‘kike’ is fairly familiar in the vocabulary of the ar rived and successful. I remember a friend of mine speaking of a mountain resort to which he used to go and saying. ‘Well, it was a nice place un til so many kikes came there.’ ' l ndeniably some of the most con temptuous and fiercest prejudices has ben visited upon the nouveau rich Jew bv his fellows, who are older in the attainment of success and fortune. As vet, there has been small disposition toward race or religious solidarity in the matter of persecution. “In so far as charity goes, the rich and influential Jew is good to his own. lie will subscribe money to help the down-and-outer among his own people. But he is much less ready to extend the social hand ot fellowship to those who have just emerged from below the sur face of fierce economic struggle. Among the leaders in New York af fairs arc many Jews who have taken over much of the familiar Gentile jar gon in regard to the nascent graduate of the Ghetto.” “Christians Only” is likely to crys tallize the Jewish realization that the Jewish problem in America is just as acute, just as terrirying as anywhere else in the world—perhaps more so. The time may come, and that not so far away, when great national conferences will he called to deal—not with perse cution abroad, but annihilation at home. Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S. Charles Sutro, of Old Jewish Fam'ly, Dies San Francisco, Calif.—Charles Sutro, scion of a pioneer Jewish family of Claifornia, and prominent financier, died here at the age of 65. St. Louis, Mo.—Vladimir (, mann, who was guest conductor St. Louis Symphony last seasoi h, t . been engaged as regular conduct. r two years, it was announced Warrington Baldwin, president St. Louis Symphony Society. C. mann was born in Russia in 18'- received his musical educate France, where he has been the ductor of the governmentally spoil- re<] concerts at the Sorbonne. Wanted A real ambitious young man—<, ne that can appreciate an opportunity when confronted—such as now. One of the largest insurence companies in this country is looking for a conscientious Jewish person who can make possibilities become realities special training will be given so that the future will he a certainty—all you need is the ability to work. Phone or write to The Southern Israelite, care Box 1A, Atlanta. 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