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National News
Washington, I). C.—Among the 50
scholars who were granted stipends for
research into the humanities by the
American Council of I.earned Societies
are ( . I). Brenner, assistant professor
of French at California University; Al
bert Flsasser, assistant professor of
English at Princeton University; Jacob
Hammer, assistant professor of classics
at Hunter College; Melville J. Hersko-
vits, associate professor of anthropol
ogy at Northwestern University; Harry
Blutnberg, instructor in High School
Department, Associated Talmud Torahs
of Philadelphia; and Alexander Lesser,
of Columbia.
Brookline, Mass.—Miss Marjorie
Sachs, daughter of Prof. Paul Sachs of
Harvard University, became the na
tional women’s indoor single tennis
champion by defeating Miss Sarah Pal
frey in the final round of the tourna
ment. Miss Palfrey had been favored to
win.
Washington, I). C.—The planned
monument to Oscar S. Straus, which
is to he erected in front of the new
Department of Commerce Building
here, will cost approximately $225,000,
according to plans in the possession of
the Fine Arts Commission. It is ex
pected that a nation-wide campaign
will be set in motion to raise that sum.
I he designer of the monument is John
Bussell Pope.
Cambridge, Mass.—Jewish alumni
and undergraduates have joined with
C atholics in protesting the erection of
a non-sectarian chapel at Harvard Uni
versity as a memorial to the univer
sity’s war dead. They point out that
Jews will not be able to worship in
the chapel, which is expected to cost
more than $1,000,000.
New York, N. Y.—The Institute for
the Jewish Blind of America is one of
the results of the world conference for
the blind, which has just concluded
here. A number of prominent Jewish
clerical and lay figures head the new
organization, which proposes to issue
a monthly paper for the Jewish blind,
to establish a national library, to de
velop a Hebrew script for the blind,
and to stimulate the development of a
Hebrew and Yiddish literature in the
new script.
New York, N. Y.—Joseph Leblang,
known throughout the amusement
world as the “ticket king” because of
his cut-rate ticket agency, from which
he built up a fortune estimated at
$20,(XXt,000, died of heart disease at the
age of 57. Born in Hungary, Leblang
was brought to this country when he
was 11 years old. Ever since he was
21 he had been making a living from
the sale of theatre tickets, the first of
which he bought up from neighborhood
storekeepers who had received them
for posting theatre placards. In later
years he was responsible for the main
tenance of a great many of the stage
productions, which depended on him
for “buys.” He also sponsored many
plays. Last year he arranged a plan
of ticket distribution with the Postal
Telegraph System which, it was be
lieved, would eventually place the
theatre on a stable basis and remove
from it the theatre’s plague, the specu
lator.
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST THE JEW
(Continued from Page 9)
ligious classification. Since religious clas
sification is the keystone of the whole
arch of religious discrimination, 1 was
about to say to myself that the rumor
concerning the company was false. But—
in an off-hand, after-thought manner, the
interviewer asked, “And what is your re
ligion?’ And my answer went into the
upper left square on page one—in code!
"Some Jews have made the dreadful
mistake of overcoming the discrimination
by secrecy—that is, their economic plight
and general helplessness have led them to
assume the protective garb of a Christian.
To earn bread in a hostile environment,
men and women, old and young alike,
have learned ’to pass’ as Christians, be
coming as adapt as their ancestors in
Inquisition Spain. Some have not only
stooped to the degradation of denying
name and race and creed hut. like, Fif
teenth Century Portuguese Marranos
transmigrated to New York in the Twen
tieth Century, they have gone to the ex
treme of joining some Christian church in
order adequately to answer the searching
questions on the inevitable application
blank.
“How many of you realized, as you
worshipped in this, or some other, syna
gogue of the High Holydays, that there
were many Jews chain'd on these sacred
days to their regular daily tasks, chained
by the fear that has become standardized
into a formula,—‘It it were found out
that 1 am Jewish 1 would he unable to
hold my position?’ Their hearts were
in Schul, for they were aching to recite
the sacred memorial Faddish for their
beloved dead. And do you realize how
some of these men and women, torn be
tween loyalty to their ancient faith and
fear for their economic welfare, chose
the faith, only to find, when they re
turned to work after the Day of Atone
ment, that their Jewishness has been
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disclosed and their jobs denied them?”
FATHER OF THE
EMANCIPATION
(Continued from Editorial Page)
tieth century there would he European
countries in which Jewish conditions
would be at least as wretched as they
were in the Dark Ages? And who
would have imagined that even in
France, the mother of revolutions, a
Dreyfus case would he possible four
generations after the great act of
emancipation? It is not in derogation
of the role played by Bishop Gregoire
that we recall these unhappy truths,
it is rather a reminder to Jews that
the task of emancipation is not one of
legal vindication. It is something more
difficult and more far-sighted.
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