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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: ' local Boy Scout bugler sounde