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The Aetna Life Insurance Company SAM M. CARSON and PAUL H. DOBBINS Genaral Agent* 801 William-Oliver Bldg. ATLANTA Associates BEN H. WISEBERG ATLANTA DRYFUS & STEINHEIMER SAVANNAH C. M. HARRIS AUGUSTA IN HONOR of PASSOVER On Passover the choicest of • v * r y*Hng distinguishes the Jewish Home. Manischewitz Matzo and Matzo products are the choicest of their kind produced in the larg est Kosher Matzo Bakery in the world. In demand everywhere. MATZO j °TH1R MATZO The German Situation A Review of the News in Germany, America and Other Lands Based on All the Latest Pertinent Cable Dispatches By Robert Stone A Jewish situation unprecedented in modern history confronts the Jews of the world for solution. In Germany, the Jewish population, terror-stricken, ap peals to the Jews of the outside world to cease their protests against Hitlerism. In America, Jewish leaders are in con fusion as to the proper steps to take, embarrassed by the supplications from Jews to halt, and yet genuinely concerned to follow a course of action that will blockade Adolf Hitler in the execution of his ruthless anti-Semitic program. t aking the stand that “atrocity stories” disseminated by Jews and Jewish inter- tests have injured Germany's good name, the National Socialists are launching on a campaign of “retaliation,” forgetting apparently that for years the slogan to their followers has been “Judah perish!" Heedless of Germany's prestige among the council of nations, ignoring the patent fact that a world-wide boycott by Jews and other faiths can cripple German com merce and industry for years to come, the Nazis, displaying their narrow, big oted statesmanship, want Jews in Ger many to suffer. Jews in Germany can not suffer without bringing into that tragic situation their neighbors and busi ness associates of the Christian faith. The most important anti-Semitic docu ment issued by the Nazis since the ac cession to office of Hitler is an eleven- point manifesto emanating from the Brown House at Munich, which calls up on National Socialists throughout the Reich to boycott Jewish stores as a “meas ure of defense against" Jewish protests against Hitlerism abroad. Although os tensibly an isolated Nazi action, the high est Nazi officials have made it clear that the boycott is "tolerated but not supported by the government.” Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in a statement issued after a Cabi net meeting, gave the program his full support, however. But while Hitler guaranteed that perse cution of and discrimination against Jews will be conducted on “an organized and orderly basis,” his lieutenants throughout Germany took the execution of the pro gram into their own hands. While va rious Nazi speakers flooded the air with radio denunciations of Jews and their protests abroad, Jewish judges were forcibly removed from the bench, Jewish lawyers were disbarred, Jewish doctors were forced to flee the country, Jewish film and stage actors were compelled to resign, Jewish musicians were forbidden to take part in musical productions. The Nazis have invented a new phrase “pro tective custody” which enables them to imprison Jews on the pretext that it is to safeguard their lives from fanatic mobs. Typical of the action of munici pal officials was that of the Mayor of Frankfurt am Main, center of some of the oldest Jewish families in Germany, who ordered the removal of Jews from municipal musical posts. The chief of police of Recklinghausen forbade his officers to patronize Jews. In Frank furt, Prof. Hugo Sinzheimer, professor of law at the University, was taken into “protective custody,” together with a number of Jewish lawyers and judges. Dr. Sinzheimer was formerly a member of the Reichstag. In Gottingen and other towns, the Nazis did not content themselves with picketing stores but smashed windows. This resulted in the issuance of an ap peal by German insurance companies, pointing out that not the Jewish store keepers but the insurance firms were suf fering, inasmuch as they had to pay large damages to the insured establishments. “German national wealth is being delib erately destroyed” was the gist of the insurance companies' earnest plea to their German compatriots. In the meantime, leading Jews of Ger many cabled and telephoned to New York and other world capitals begging respon sible Jewish leaders to reassure Hitler that they were discontinuing their pro tests, that they did not believe the “atroci t>“ stories, etc. Oscar VVasserman, Co- Chairman of the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and director of the giant Deutsche Bank in Berlin, commu nicated with Dr. Cyrus Adler, Presi dent of the American Jewish Committee, to halt the protest. To which Dr. Adler replied that his organization had never approved of protests and that no respon sible Jewish organization in America was giving approval to the rumored boycott against German goods in America. Other sources of public opinion were mobilized by German Jewish leaders. Zionist groups, kehillahs, banks, Reichstag mem bers, and leading Jews in other countries bombarded America, for the American protest is believed to have irritated Ger many more than that of any other land, probably because of its worldwide re percussions. German firms were doing the same. Newspaper publishers, heads of press associations, banking establish ments, Cabinet ministers, other govern ment officers, heads of shipping lines and other industrial magnates were keeping the trans-Atlantic cables hot with denials of anti-Semitic outrages, assurances of perfect tranquility in the country and pleas to halt anti-Hitler action in America. Alarmed by the disastrous consequences that would result from a boycott, the Central Verein der deutschen Juden pub lished an appeal to President von Hinden- burg to intervene on behalf of the Jews of Germany. Couched in the sychophan- tic tones of documents that used to be submitted to the Czar in the darkest days of Russia, the plea was, substantially, a condemnation of “certain elements” of German Jewry, presumably referring to “Ostjuden.” “On account of the mistakes of a few for whom we accept no respon sibility,” the message said, “we German Jews who feel ourselves bound with every fiber of our heart to the German homeland are doomed to economic de struction.” The fact that "12,000 Jews gave their lives for the Fatherland” is reiterated. That Hitler is making a rapprochement with the Catholic Centre party, as a re sult of his intention to isolate the Jews, is evident from a statement made by Car dinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, who announced the ban placed by the Catholic Church on the Nazi movement had been lifted. In the meantime, Prof. Einstein as a gesture of his revulsion against the conduct of Germany, an nounced that he was taking steps to cancel his German citizenship, which came to him in 1914, when he became a member of the staff of the Prussian Academy of Science. He announced hi* intention of repudiating Germany in a letter to the German Consul at Brussels. He will probably resume his Swiss citi zenship. (Please turn to Page 12) YOU TOO.. WILL ENJOY THE JOY OF SHOPPING THE PIGGLY WIGGLY WAY. SERVING YOURSELF FROM AISLES OF SMILES IS A PLEASURE AND IT SURELY PAYS TO PERSONALLY SELECT YOUR FOOD. WC6W WIGGLY; c H A N G E v > N O W QUALITY S. ECONOMY Use PILLSBURY'S BEST For Perfect Baking The Balanced Flour for BREAD, BISCUIT AND PASTRY ATLANTA BOTTLING WORKS 762 Hemphill Ave., N. W. HE mlock 0377 ATLANTA. GA. HE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE HI