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SONS OF GEORGE W.
S-OAKES, editor of Current His
tory. are putting up a scholastic rec-
hich will be hard to equal. One
lire, Jr., not yet twenty-two—
urging honors at Oxford, Eng-
land; the other, John B., just com-
I his freshman year at Prince
ton, making five firsts, a rare dis
tinction, and getting himself elected
the associate-editorship of The
I’rincetonian. The Ochs tradition is
cei tain to be kept up.
KAURI EDWARD S. MANHEIM
"I THE MIDTOWN JEWISH CEN-
I KK has been acquitted of a charge
possessing a pistol without a per-
iit. following trial in Special Ses-
s Court. The rabbi had been held
connection with the accidental
"oting of Archie M. Levy in Dr.
Manheim’s office. Levy, however, ex-
"ii ora ted the rabbi before he died.
THE OTHER DAY WE WELCOM
ED SALVADOR DE MADARIAGA,
tin newly appointed Ambassador from
Spain, when he disembarked from the
Mauretania. The Spanish diplo-
niat is a man of letters, well versed
i -Jewish affairs. He believes that a
,v , ra has come for Spanish Jewry
in, l predicts that its numbers will in
crease tremendously during the next
half century.
ADOLPH S. OCHS, PUBLISHER
THE NEW YORK TIMES, return-
D-°m Europe, where he was the re-
pient of a number of honorary Uni-
Dty degrees. Walter Winchell,
oadway’s columnist, comments that
has as many degrees as a ther-
Mi. meter.
•^EW YORKERS READING
Dv SPORTS PAGES on the morn-
J -July 1st were startled by the
^'ing Jewish triumphs: Helen Ja-
defeated England’s ace, Betty
naR > at the Wimbledon Tennis
nament; Lieutenant Morton Solo-
i of New \ork wins the free rifle
mpionship of the National Rifle
•ciation; Mrs. Hirsch, also a New
rker ’ trims Mrs. Mary Keller in
M omen’s Metropolitan Clay
Irt Tennis Championship. Not so
—what ?
;1R S. PEARL HURWITZ, daughter
• acob Rich, wealthy tobacco deal-
^ in Reno seeking a divorce from
i B. Leon Hurwitz, noted Brook-
( lergvman. Miss Rich is one of
lyn’s most beautiful Jewish
and an accomplished pianist,
grounds are incompatibility, and
gossip surrounds this rabbinical
•orce case.
XJij SOUTHERN is r a e l I t e
York Topic
Special to The Southern Israelite
THE WORLD FLYERS POST AND
CATTY WERE TENDERED an offi
cial luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton Ho
tel by the Mayor. The anteroom at
tendant was a young man by the
name of Aaronson. When Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh, who four years ago was
given the greatest reception New
York ever gave to any one, came
to the anteroom Aaronson fail
ed to recognize the “Lone Eagle”.
It is told that a very much flustered
Lindbergh had to dig down into his
pocket and produce the telegram from
Mayor Walker inviting him to par
ticipate in the affair. Sic transit glo
ria mundi.
BEN HECIIT, THE NOVELIST,
AND MAXWELL BOD EN HEIM,
POET-NOVELIST, don’t like each
other. As a matter of fact, they de
test each other most heartily. Hecht
has been accused of roasting Boden-
heim mercilessly in his characteriza
tion of “A Jew in Love.” The latest
reports from the publishing world say
that Bodenheim has evened the score
with his forthcoming book, “Duke
Herring,” a cleverly written and hu
morously malicious take-off on the au
thor of “A Jew in Ix>ve.”
of his well-earned popularity, a tre
mendous attraction. But as the affair
was a campaign stunt the attendance
did not come up to expectations. New
York State politicians are much
peeved at this custom of utilizing po
litical leaders as campaign magnets;
they claim that the hard times keep
people away from fund-raising ban
quets and that the small attendance
lowers the prestige of the guest of
honor.
A SUMMER CONTROVERSY
HAS BROKEN UPON US: The Miss
es Stella Katzen and Hannah Marcus
took a walk on the Coney Island
boardwalk attired in “shirts and
shorts.” The shirts, according to the
cop’s philosophy, are O. K., but the
shorts are “too darned short.” So the
cop proceeded to arrest the two Jew
ish promenaders; their trial will come
up shortly. The whole business is
more or less a test case. Logical minds
want to know why one-piece bathing
suits are permitted and respectable
shorts are barred. The controversy is
assuming a city-wide scope. People
are getting hot over it—perhaps be
cause of the hot weather.
THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION
COMMITTEE LAUNCHED ITS
BRONX FUND-RAISING DRIVE at
the fashionable Concourse Plaza Ho
tel the other day. To assure a large
attendance the campaign managers
had arranged to make the affair a
banquet in honor of State Secretary
of State Flynn, undoubtedly, in view
ISAAC DON LEVINE’S BOOK ON
STALIN WILL SHORTLY be publish
ed in Spanish. It is now running as a
serial in the Orthodox Yiddish paper,
the Jewish Morning Journal. The ex
planation for this is that another
Yiddish daily, The Day, is featuring
Trotzky’s “History of the Russian
Revolution.”
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MUSINGS IN POETRY
On Seeing a Stranger in T emple
God bless this stranger come within
our gates,
This shabby stranger with inquiring
look as though to say:
“May I ? You see that I am one of
you.”
A Jewish woman in an aged cloak
And hat that’s braved hot sunshine
and cold rain
For many a year,
Not prosperous, you, by measure of
the crowd
But rich in this, God within your
heart.
I wait to see if you are come to say
the Kaddish,
Whether that age-old pull of memory
has drawn you
Or just the feel of being in God’s
house
Has brought you here, for I perceive
that you
Continue the reading of the prayers
throughout the sermons.
The words inspiring and the organ’s
strains go all unheard,
Modern appliances placed near to aid
rest undisturbed,
Content with dispensation of His
gifts, withheld, bestowed,
Deaf to the words of man,
Your heart still reaches for the Word
of God.
God bless you for your presence in
our gates.
SETTIE C. FLEXNFR.
SOCIAL WORKERS AND SOCIAL
CENTER S.— If Jewish centers
throughout the country are to sur
vive, some plan of financing must
be evolved which will put them on a
sound foundation, according to Harry
L. Glucksman, executive director of
the Jewish Welfare Board, in ad
dressing the concluding session of the
National Association of Jewish Cen
ter Executives. He pointed out that
though contributions “during the pe
riod of economic depression have been
reduced, constructive enterprises, such
as community centers, have neverthe
less been maintained.” He urged “a
planned and systematic application of
economy.”
Social workers were urged to re
gard their work as more than jobs by
Isaac Kiblick, of Brockton, Mass., who
called his hearers “missionaries of a
better world. You should express a
sentiment which educates people for
idealism and less selfishness. But you
must be prepared to accept the limi
tations as well as the convenience of
your position. For instance, you don’t
have to keep up with the Joneses or
ride in an expensive car.” The mem
ory of the late Mortimer L. Schiff for
his services in the Boy Scout move
ment was praised by Philip Russ.
Maurice Bigyer, director of the
Jewish Community Center in Wash
ington, D. C., was elected president
of the Association. Vice-presidents are
Dr. M. Chaseman, Albany; William
Pinsker, Savannah; Dr. Charles S.
Bernheimer, New York; Mrs. Estern
Jameson, Newark.
HALF AN HOUR FROM TIMES
SQUARE, in a house and garden that
except for the branching apple tree
might have existed in Palestine two
thousand years ago, Mrs. Martin W.
Littleton has built a shrine to an old-
fashioned religious faith that accepts
literally every word in the Bible. It
is a bit of reconstructed Palestine,
this Long Island home, with the walls
of Jerusalem, Mount Zion, the Wail
ing Wall and all the other sights a
guide shows you in the Holy Land.
Mrs. Littleton believes in the second
coming of Christ, while her husband,
the prominent attorney, is known as
one of the most uncompromising foes
of the Zionist idea.
DAVE LIPSKY, THEATRICAL
COLUMNIST, VOLUNTEERS THE
INFORMATION that Marc Connelly,
author of “The Green Pastures,”
which now is approaching its six hun
dredth performance, is a Jew. The
name Marc Connelly is but a pseu
donym, he claims. We are not in a po
sition to check up on this startling
revelation. In any case, what’s the
difference? Whatever Connelly’s race,
it would not make “The Green Pas
tures,” last year’s Pulitzer Prize Plaj
any the better or worse.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.