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Page 18 The Southern Israelite Have Your FURNACE CLEANED BY EXPERTS » Let Moncrief Vacuum-clean your Furnace and protect: your smokepipe Tree Inspection Service CALL HEMLOCK 1281 MOIMCRIEF FURNACE COMPANY clAnnouncing THE MOST MODERN Wall Paper Store in the South. Complete line of Imported and American Wall Coverings. Estimates gladly furnished. Ste item's 146-152 Mitchell Street, SAW ATLANTA MORRISON HOTEL Corner Mddison and Clark Sts. Every room in the Morrison Hotel is outside, with bath, circulat ing ice water, bed-head reading lamp, telephone and Servidor. A new 500 room section, soon to be opened, was made necessary by the demand ior Morrison service. 2500 ROOMS $3.so UP 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 * • 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. On The Ocean Front The Breakers ATLANTIC CITY, N. J EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTION IN RATES — AS LOW AS Without Meals: $2.50 Daily per Persoo— $35.00 Weekly for Two. With Meals: $6.00 Daily per Perv>n $70.00 Weekly for Two. Club Breakfasts 25c to $1 00 Table d'Hote Meals $1.50 to $2.00 American or European Plan Hot and Cold Sea Water in All Baths Complete Garage Facilities To Remind You That CAMPBELL COAL COMPANY handles not only the high est grade of coal and coke —but— Handsome Electric Lighting Fixtures, Builders’ Hardware of Modern Type. Prac tically Everything that Goes into Build ing a home. Ja. 5000 240 Marietta St. CHICKEN DINNER Oriental and American Lur