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Volume 6
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
A Magazine Perpetuating Jewish Ideals
JUNE 30, 1931
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If A Monument Could Speak
Poland is going to honor President Wilson’s memory by unveil
ing a monument to him at Poznan. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is going
to attend the ceremony designed to give evidence ol the high
esteem in which the Polish people hold our War President and
his views on national and international policies. In the light of
the Polish Government’s attitude toward the Jews oi its country
it is difficult to reconcile the veneration for Wilson with the com
plete disregard for his doctrine of minority rights. Polish states
men surely know that the late Woodrow Wilson was intensely
interested in protecting Jewish rights in Eastern Europe. r I hey
also know that Mr. Bernard Baruch, who is accompanying Mrs.
Wilson on this pilgrimage, is a Jew who during the war was
justly regarded as President Wilson’s right-hand man. How, then,
can the Polish Government explain the glorification of Wilson on
the one hand and the nullification of his political ideas, as wit
nessed in its anti-Jewish boycott, on the other? If the memorial
to Woodrow Wilson could speak the gentlemen in silk hats who
will protest their admiration for him on the day of unveiling
might hear a rather startling address. On more than one occa
sion Wilson expressed his impatience with the barbarous policy
of East European Governments against their various Jewish popu
lations. Unfortunately dead men’s statues never tell.
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Congratulations !
Beniamin N. Cardozo, Chief Justice of the New York Court of
Appeals, has been awarded the Roosevelt Medal for Distinguished
Service during 1931. The award is in memory of the late Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United States. The citation describing
the reasons for the award to Cardozo savs: “At a time when some
of the lower courts have been under fire, his integrity, love of
justice and high-minded approach to the duties of his post have
been a model and an inspiration to the courts throughout the
country and a token to the public of the soundness of their judi
cial system.” A well-merited eulogy. We do not know of any single
Jew—with the exception, perhaps, of Louis I). Brandeis—who has
shed so much luster on the legal profession as Judge Cardozo.
His record will for all time remain an inspiration to the many
thousands of young lawyers who every year increase the ranks
of the already overcrowded legal pro
fession of this country. Such personali
ties as Cardozo, who are not interested
in material rewards for their selfless
lives, deserve to be singled out—not so
much for their own satisfaction, but for
the good of the rest of the country. We
add our sincere congratulations to the
many thousands which the venerable
jurist has received on the occasion of
his most recent distinction.
Represen ting A u stria
The Vienna “Aryan" students are on
the rampage again. Unwilling to accept
a decision by the Austrian Supreme
Constitutional Court, which prohibited
the Rector of the University of Vienna
from assigning special privileges to
Aryan students, they attacked all Sem-
itic-looking students and organized
groups to create disorder and to riot in
Jewish quarters. During these incidents
a convention of the International Ro
tary was in session at Vienna, and it is
said that the delegates to this gather
ing were not favorably impressed by
the actions of the collegiate youth of
the city. As a matter of fact the Rota-
CONTENT S
/ he Easier Faith?
Hy EM1I. LUDWIG
/ he Right to Weep
By ROBERT STONE
Southern Motes
Notes of Interest Throughout the South
Behind the Make-Up
By DR. I. L. RRII
Social Motes
In the Limelight
Notes of Jewish Personalities Throughout the World
Rational and Foreign Motes
Jewish News Throughout the World
rians, who by no stretch of the imagination can be regarded
unorthodox in their views, unanimously—as individuals—con
demned the doings of these Aryan rioters. Just a few days prior
to these disturbances England acclaimed the Austrian glided
aviator Robert Kronfeld, who on a motorless plane crossed the
Channel, winning a special prize offered by the London Daily
Mail. England hailed Kronfeld as a hero and as the represents,
tive of a courageous little nation, Austria. “Unfortunately” it did
not occur to the Britishers that Kronfeld was a Jew whose co
religionists were being maltreated in Vienna because they de
manded equal rights with their Christian fellow students in the
conduct of University affairs. The Austrian Ambassador at Lon
don was quite ready to cash in to the fullest extent, in a political
sense, on the good will created by Kronfeld in London. The policy
of the Austrian anti-Semites seems to be to use the Jews for
obtaining good will in foreign lands and by wav of compensation
to hit them over the head if they demand full-fledged citizenship.
A fine slogan, worthy of the best Hitler tradition.
A Remarkable Record
$7,331,253.12 have been supplied by American Jews for Pales
tine during the last two years. A comprehensive statement pre
pared by Morris Rothenberg, National Chairman of the present
American Palestine Campaign of the Jewish Agency, shows that
tlie public, semi-public and investment funds contributed and made
available by Jews in the United States for works of construction,
relief and economic development in the period which elapsed since
August, 1929, when the last session of the Zionist Congress met
at Zurich, amounts to almost seven and a half million dollars.
The figure will come as a startling surprise to many who are
under the impression that Zionism has marked time during the
last two years. It will also astonish those who believe that the
economic depression had played havoc with the financial aspect
of the Palestine work. It is a most remarkable record, an achieve
ment that American Jewry can most certainly point to with pride.
In a time when some of the outstanding business concerns are
unable to weather the economic storm Zionism, an enterprise
based on one hundred per cent sentiment, has maintained an even
keel and raised over seven million dollars. Due credit belongs to
the chairman of the present campaign.
Morris Rothenberg, who for the last
decade has been the foremost money-
getter for the Palestine movement. To
him belongs a good deal of the applause
for having challenged the depression
and triumphed over it. It must of
course be kept in mind that the total
announced includes the funds raised bj
the United Jewish Palestine Appeal, the
Keren Havesod, the Hadassah, the
Allied Jewish Campaign, the present
American Palestine Campaign, the
Emergency Fund of 1929, following the
pogroms in Palestine, the Jewish N*
tional Fund, the National Labor u° '
mittee’s Campaign, the Hebrew L
sity, the Palestine Endowment •
the Palestine Economic Corporation,
vestments in the Palestine Electric
poration and in Palestine Potash, ••
as well as in various orange plantat •
Thus a tremendous conglomerate
instrumentalities has kept up a
stant stream of financial resouic*.
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