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JEWISH LIFE IN RUSSIA (Continued from page 10) , n . Deeper causes were involved. ♦crent motives were behind that at- 3 tude. It suddenly dawned on me that in M*h milieus where my previous ex- rrrience had led me to believe in a benev- ilcnt receptiveness for any improvement „ the life of Jews in that hell of pogroms *hich was the Czarist Empire, there had ,rrn a growing attitude of niggardly frpticism if not of militant hostility. I , now ^peaking of the Zionists, with jshom I shared joy and sorrows these j;i«t ten years. It cannot be denied that the slightest Incident whereby a Jew or Jews stand to (urfer in the USSR, an isolated act of >nti-Semiti*m is seized upon by the gen- fralit> of the Jewish press in America h *h such precipitate alacrity that at times t almost creates the impression of ela- ion. When Jews in the USSR became subject L, new measures of social defense, along ^ith 170 million other citizens, as hap pened last summer in the case of a pro hibition to hoard foreign valuta or gold, Ln eHort was made in the Jew iih-Amer icas prr«s to interpret the incident aa a bilfull act of anti-Jewish discrimination tm the part of the Soviet authorities. The irwith hell of Poland was forgotten for [he moment. I just passed through Poland Lnd 1 have seen what I have seen, and hell is no exaggerated term for the bound less misery and hopeless despair that hrists among the Jews there. Even Hitler at the height of his glory was relegated |o the background as the chorus of in- nignation arose from pulpit and press against the Soviets. An event of com paratively small significance was dressed Lp in the garb of world importance. I am leaving aside the venomous and ■ utile diatribes of ultra-nationalist Jews like Mr. Jabotinsky, whose hatred of Marxism does not yield an inch to that fcf the Nazi barons in Berlin or to that fcf those well-known philo-Semites of the I /arUt general staff in Paris. It is with lews who claim to have Jewish Weltansa- Bauung, with Jews who are supposed to ■eel the joys and sorrows of their breth ren as they feel their own that I con cern myself. Periodically these sincere ■ nd sensitive souls arc set a-tremble by Itew scares and alarms about the con ditions of their brethren in Soviet Russia. B he one day, it is said the Jews of Russia are having their mail from Amer- ■ra pilfered. Next we hear that Jews fcre being sent to Biro-Bidjan to be mas- lacred in the event of a Japanese in vasion of Siberia, when such an attack ■ ppeared on the point of coming off this ■ummer. Then again we are told that ■»e Jewish soul is being killed in Russia. I I can perfectly well understand that ■ews are prone to be anxious about Russia. Past experience excuses their sus ceptibility and nervousness. But the past Rves behind. A new day has come, also ■*'r the Jews of Russia. There is no ■ 7ar in Moscow now whose interest it w to exploit national differences and ■anal antagonism. Human beings stand ■’ the helm of affairs in the USSR, men ■ d women to whom human life and ■ irnan dignity are the most sacred pos- ■rssjnn on earth. This is not the case in R lr " Polish inferno or in the Rumanian ■haos. I \ et always and again it is the Soviet ■ n ‘'»n that is being singled out. Fantas ia , Ia * r ' ta l Cs K° the rounds in Jewish Rrile s in America as to what has hap- |tned to Zionists in the USSR. In a ■o owing article I will attempt to set Rorth briefly the Communist-Zionist an- ■ ' ***** F°r the moment I will ask this: Is it known what happens to Jewish Communist girls in Eretz Israel? I know. And I will tell you. They are thrown into the foul jails of Tel Aviv and Acre in rooms filled with Arab cut throats and murderers. They are made to wait there till a Rumanian freighter or a Turkish trawler calls at the port and then they are deported on those ships. “I like to know what happens to these bobbed-haired babies when they get on the high seas with those Rumanian sailors,” said a Jewish judge in Tel Aviv after he had personally sentenced six girls to imprisonment and deportation. I will name that Jewish Zionist judge and the witnesses who heard him say it, if desired. On this trip to Russia I saw Jewish girls come back from Palestine in Odessa, broken in body, after having passed through the loathsome experience of the dungeons of our Eretz Israel, and the filthy cabins of Turkish ships. In closing this introductory article on mv recent experiences I will tell of an incident which occurred a few weeks ago after my return to Paris. In a not distant issue of “Opinion” Mr. Louis Lipaky virtually rejected the Soviets’ efforts to crush anti-Semitism by declaring that peasant greed would always remain a serious menace to the peaceful evolution of Jewish Coloniza tion in the USSR. It wasn't three weeks after I read this statement, which was formerly a favorite argument of Mr. Jabotinsky and may yet be so far as I know, that I interviewed General Miller in Paris, the Russian White Guard chief, as I reported in a score of American newspapers. The general said to me, among other things, that he had positive information that millions of ntoujiks were boiling with envy and suppressed rage over the privileges extended to Jewish settlers in Krimea. Asked for a more definite statement or for documen tary evidence to substantiate this asser tion, the general had his press chief hand me a clipping sent out by the agency “Argus de la Press,” which contained, I grieve to say, the above mentioned re mark by Mr. Lipsly in “Opinion.” There is substantiation for you! Copyrighted 1932 for 1»«r Socther* Israelite WOMEN’S WEAR (Continued from page 11) distributes bonuses totaling $100,000. Klein is not himself a religious man, and his wide charities do not include regular gifts to strictly racial organi zations, but he appreciates his aged moth er’s loyalty to the synagogue and he can afford to indulge the sentiment. He closes his store on Jewish holidays at a loss, probably, of $75,000 a day. “It please Momma,” he explains with a shrug. Most of Klein’s hobbies are eminently practical. He spends odd moments in in vention of various sorts and has a number of patents to his credit. He devised his own system, a vastly intricate one, of stock control, and it allows him to take inventory twice each day, at the opening and closing of the store, an unhead of thing in a large business. Cold figures are the best testimony to this man's business achievement. Even in pre-depression days, Klein stuck to the bare bones of commerce. Fifth Avenue stores must pay often one-tenth of their gross income for rent; Klein’s occupancy charge is three-fourths of one per cent. The flossy store may turn over their stock complete four times a year; Klein turns over his thirty to forty-five times a year. He has almost no window space; he has no deep carpets on his floors, and shopping in his store is as brutal as run ning the gauntlet. But his overhead is less than six per cent and that is why he can make money on a ten per cent profit. Quite unselfconsciously and quite au tomatically, he has become a social force in New York. His overwhelming pro duction of cheap dresses has made it pos sible for the merest shopgirl to give, at least to the untutored eye, the appearance of chic. Someone told Klein recently that he had made more girls happy than any other man in New York. He wants to believe it is true, and it probably is. Last year he added to his possessions a five-story annex. The furnishings in the annex are better and the prices arc a little higher; obviously the merchant is planning to drum up trade in the higher-income brackets. Klein has made the poor folks happy, perhaps he will do something for the rich. Somebody ought to. 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