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THE SOUTHER N I SR A EL I T_E
NATIONAL AND FOREIGN NOTIS
porter, he laughed at the reports that
he intended to adopt his old name,
Cohn. “What would happen to my roy
alties?” he smiled. You can’t blame
him.
JUSTICE LOUIS D. BRANDEIS
Eminent member of the United
States Supreme Court, who is ac
knowledged the only man on whom
all Zionist factions would unite to
take over the helm after Weiz-
mnun’s withdrawal, but who has
declined the honor.
New York, N. Y.—Reading of the
Bible and singing of hymns in the
schools are violations of the rights of
conscience and of religious freedom
guaranteed in the Constitution, de
clared Arthur Garfield Hays, attor
ney, in arguing before the Appellate
Division on an appeal from a decision
of Supreme Court Justice Ford, who
had dismissed a taxpayer’s suit en
deavoring to prevent the reading of
the Bible in public schools. Hays then
read a number of denominational vol
umes of selected Bible readings to
show how various sects interpret dif
ferent parts of the Bible. Hays also
wants to prevent the city from buying
Bibles for use in the public schools.
An answering argument by Assist
ant Corporation Counsel Mayer point
ed out that the Constitution ends with
the words: “with firm reliance on the
protection of Divine Providence,” and
that the coins of the United States
bear the inscription “In God We
Trust.”
PROF. FELIX FRANKFURTER
Assistant to Newton I). Baker,
Secretary of War, during the
World War, whose outstanding
services are remembered when
America’s role in the War is dis
cussed in recent publications.
Jerusalem.—The Maccabee Football
Team of Palestine will no longer play
any matches on Saturday. That was
the promise they made to Miss Hen
rietta Szold, American Zionist woman
leader, who made representations to
the team officials, after Orthodox
Jewry had become incensed at the
pactice of playing regularly on the
Sabbath.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.—Isidor
Apfel, New York lawyer, was elected
grand master of the Independent Or
der Brith Abraham, largest Jewish
fraternal order, at the close of the
annual convention. Other officers in
cluded: Max Hollander, secretary;
Louis Siegel, New York; William
Bluestein, Boston; A. W. Heller, Phil
adelphia; Harry Schartoff, Newark;
Jacob Schwartz, Chicago; Nathan
Fox, Hartford; Charles Werner, St.
Louis; Benjamin Applestein, Balti
more; Clarence Siegel, Brooklyn, and
Sam Selinsky, New York, deputies.
William Rader is treasurer, and Solo
mon Brecher, trustee.
New York, N. Y.—The minor key
and the quavering, wailing effect pop
ularly associated with Jewish music,
according to Abraham W. Binder, mu
sical editor of the revised hymnal of
the Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations, in explaining why some of
the scores of old hymns were elimi
nated in the new ritual.
“The old-fashioned cantor’s sobbing
notes, which subsequently became the
stock-in-trade of mammy singers,
would have been as exotic in the Tem
ple of Solomon as in a European con
cert hall. In preparing the music for
this new hymnal we have drawn upon
the findings of research scholars, and
the original Hebrew melodies, so far
as we can determine, were almost all
in major keys. Some of the melodies
we have used date back to the ear
liest residence of the Jews in Pales
tine.” The blue note came into Jewish
music during the years of oppression
in various countries and was taken
over from the folk songs of an equally
oppressed peasantry, he said.
Berlin.—To Jewish scholars it is
old news, but to the Prussian Acad
emy of Science it came as a bomb
shell when Professor Lietzmann,
reading a special paper on the life of
Jesus, declared that the founder of
Christianity had been tried and sen
tenced to death by the Romans and
not by the Jews. “Jesus could have
been crucified only if the Roman of
ficials had passed sentence,” the his
torian said.
London.—Montagu Burton, well-
known Zionist and manufacturer, was
awarded a baronetcy and Leon Si
mon, noted Hebraist and translator of
A had Ha-Am, was honored with the
title of Companion of the Order of
the Bath in the annual list of King
George’s birthday honors. Simon is
the chief of the Department of Com
munications in the Home Office.
EMIL LUDWIG-'COHN,” famous
biogTapher, debarked the other day
from the S. S. Europa for a two-
weeks’ stay, td*see his publishers and
supervise the production of his play,
“Versailles,” by the Theater Guild.
Seen at the Ambassador by your re-
\\ arsaw.—The village priest of
Zlotchov, where a pogrom last week
caused injury to several hundred
Jews, has been ordered by the govern
ment to announce to the people of
the town that the Jew’s did not dese
crate sacred banners carried in a re
ligious procession. It was the rumor
that Jews had thrown water on these
banners that fanned the anti-Semitic
flame which resulted in a brutal at
tack on the Jewish quarter of the
town.
WILLIAM E. SUESKIND
Young German Jewish novelist,
whose first novel, “The Web of
Youth,” paints a post-war pano
rama of Germany in Jakob Was-
sermann style and stamps him as
an outstanding novelist.
Warsaw.—One woman was killed
and scores of men and women were
injured, some of them seriously, when
a Catholic procession through the
town of Zlatshov, near Lodz, turned
into a band of pogromists when
someone started the rumor that sev
eral of the banners carried by the
marchers had been desecrated* and
blasphemed by Jewish standersby. For
three hours the rioting through the
Jewish quarter lasted, while stores
w’ere robbed, property smashed, in
addition to the attacks on individuals.
\\ hen the police finally arrived, they
had to use tear bombs to disperse the
mob.
York school system, howe, r. Th
classes will be held on Saturday and
Sunday to avoid conflict wiih school
days.
Mexico City.—Further public dem
onstrations of anti-Semitism are to b*
suppressed by the government, ac .
cording to orders given to various de
partments to prevent the posting of
anti-Semitic placards and the making
of anti-Semitic utterances at public
meetings.
Geneva.—Various Jewish agencies
in Palestine spent sums totaling $6,-
225,000 in 1930, according to the an
nual report presented to the Man
dates Commission of the League of
Nations by the Jewish Agency. The
largest part of this amount was ex
pended by the Palestine Emergency
Fund, which reported $2,165,000. In
a letter accompanying the report, Dr.
Weizmann takes issue with the recent
report of Sir John Simpson and re
views the events since last June. The
report shows a satisfactory picture
of conditions in Palestine and indi
cates that despite the world-wide de
pression Palestine Jewish communal
enterprises as well as various indus
trial and commercial undertakings
are doing rather well.
New York, N. Y.—The Greater
New’ Y ork Interfaith Committee, rep
resenting Catholics, Protestants and
Jews, has tentatively decided to open
schools for religious training in the
fall. Each denomination will have its
own headquarters and pay for its own
teachers. The New’ Y T ork State Board
of Education is being asked to grant
credits for the courses. The instruc
tion will have no relation to the New
NAHUM SOKOLOW
Veteran Zionist leader,
name is prominently mentions! i'
the successor to Dr. Weizmann
when the latter will withdraw
from the Zionist leadership at tne
coming Zionist World Congress.
Oyster Bay, L. I.—Rabbi Nathan
Krass of Temple Emanu-El off' 1 iat
at the funeral services of Mortimer
Schiff, which w’ere of a private na
ture and limited to intimates of e
family and representatives of an
cial organizations with whE - r
Schiff w r as affiliated, because
the
absence in Europe of Mrs. Schi
services were brief and wnthoi an - k _
special ceremony. Their sin 1 >
was interrupted only by a sh J
logy delivered by Rabbi Kr: '
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