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MMMMH D. L O’NEAL C. T. McGUIRE EAST POINT CHEVROLET CO. yw £«•»•<* TrMi^MtaRia JErHaf Authorized Dealers 306-308 North Main St. EAST POINT, GA. New & Used Cars Ben J. Seckinger H. B. Seckinger Seckinger Brothers Co. Plumbing and Heating Contractors 178-80 Forsyth Street, S. W. WA Inut 1033 Atlanta, Ga. SUTTON'S Superior Shoe Repairing and Hat Cleaning Service W. M. SUTTON, Mgr. 11 Edgewood Avenue, S. E. JA ekson 4268 • ATLANTA ROBERT INGRAM, Inc. SALES AND SERVICE 243 W. Ponce de Leon Ave. DECATUR USED CAR DEPARTMENT 272 PEACHTREE. N. W. ATLANTA 9 Feet Quicker Stopping . Wh*n Relined With RUSCO BRAKE LINING •* RUSCO AUTHORIZED BRAKE SERVICE STATIONS Russell Manufacturing Co. SALES DIVISION. Inc. THE CRIME OF REUBEN BRAININ, THE ZIONIST (Continued from page 6) Soviet Hide had he kept his peace. It could scarcely have been expected, in fact, that a man of years, whose thoughts might conceivably, as is often the case with the old, have assumed rigid, immut able moulds, had shown such flexibility of mind as to challenge the validity of opinions on Russia current in official Zion ist circles, where he had figured as one of the leading thinkers. He could have assured himself tranquility of mind by keeping quiet and by remaining an orna ment of the Zionist Organization. Reuben Brainin chose to tell the truth. He did not turn against Palestine. He merely turned against the movement in Zionism which links Jewish nationalism with the forces of reaction. He had seen the disappearance of anti-Semitism in Russia. He had understood the funda mental social and economic process which had struck at the roots of anti-Semitism in that country. He saw that the Soviet authorities were animated with a sincere desire to “liquidate” the Jewish mass- misery which they had inherited from the Czar and from the period of civil war. He also saw that Moscow did not dismiss the matter with some fine altruistic dec larations about Jewish emancipation and Jewish rights, such as we have heard so often from Warsaw, Kovno and Bucha rest, but that the Soviets actually went out of their way, went out of their way, I repeat, to create the possibilities for a decent human life for the Jews in Crimea, the Ukraine and in Biro-Bidjan. This was Reuben Brainin’s crime: he told of what he had seen, what he felt, what he, as a trained observer of long and honored standing, believed to lie ahead. He spoke regardless of old asso ciations and former beliefs, that is, with out prejudice and without listening to men who counselled that “no matter how good, it is no good anyway.” The answer he received was prompt and immediate. It was said that Reuben Brainin’s mental faculties had been im paired. His mind was wandering. When the lucidity of his statements made this slander too obvious, he was accused either of having been bought by Bol shevik gold, or of having been led by the nose by Communist Jews while on tour in Russia. This is the usual expla nation dished up by reaction to this day. It still works—with boobs. To some peo ple it is impossible to understand that a man may express an opinion without seeking to benefit by it in a material sense. Yet these same people call them selves “Idealists” without batting an eye. I heard prominent Zionists boast in New York last winter that they passed Reuben Brainin by as he sat on the plat form in Madison Square Garden on the occasion of the protest against the Pass- held letter. I heard Zionists say that Brainin’s presence on that occasion was embarrassing. I think that the case of Reuben Brainin is a dreadful commen tary cn the disintegration of Zionist life in America. The tacit ostracism of Reu ben Brainin in Zionist circles is the same hateful silence which is imposed on Dreiser and Waldo Frank and others in non-Jewish circles by the forces of re action. The crime of Reuben Brainin was that he spoke out about Russia. In their hearts many of those who have been loudest in their condemnation know that he was right. The facts of contemporary history are confirming him every day. We all know that the Soviets are faced with tremendous difficulties, that they have the world arrayed against them. It is easy to join in the jeering and the de nouncing, more profitable, too, by the way. But no man who has the happiness of his fellow human beings at heart can stand aside to mock at an effort to make life bearable for millions, and no Jew, whether Zionist or not, can afford to ig nore what has been accomplished for and by Jews in the USSR, where three mil lions of them have been led out of the Czarist prison-house of pogroms and in human “Luftmenschentum.” Copyrighted 1932 for Tor. Southern Israelite PRAYERS BEFORE BUSINESS IN SINGAPORE (Continued from page 8) Jewish history. He arranged to pay for his minyan. Realizing that these small peddlers could not attend services for they would be at a disadvantage, because of late arrival, for choice selling loca tions, he hired rickshas to call for the men, and take them to the sections they had selected for their day’s adventure. He later felt that compensation was due them because of the few hours’ delay in starting, and paid them a certain sum. When motorization of conveyances came to Singapore, he bought a bus, arranged to call for these hawkers, and bring them to their work and their homes. It was this bus and this minyan which served as introduction to Singapore's Jewry. The Talmud Torah is now undergoing reorganization under the supervision of Sir Menassah Meyer’s daughter, Mrs. Nissen. In the will of Sir Meyer he pro vided an endowment for the Talmud Torah to enable the young men to receive an education which would otherwise be denied them. To provide the students in the school with a secular as well as a religious education is the aim of the new school in place of the traditional yeshiva subjects. 'Hiere are sixty pupils enrolled, tuition, food and lodging being provided without cost to the students, under the will of Sir Meyer. These boys coming from poor families who could not afford to send them to the tuition schools under English supervision, would otherwise have to shift for themselves in the matter of secular education. A burial ground, a women’s league, a Zionist Society in addition to the Talmud Torah, and the two synagogues are the actively functioning Jewish organizations in the city. Isolated from the rest of the world as this community is, stagnating because of the lack of new blood, Singa pore’s Jewry needs new inspiration to carry on the Judaic tradition. Penang, Singapore’s closest neighbor, has but a small community which borrows a Torah from them for their High Holiday serv ices. The nearest Jewish center is Cal cutta, and the conditions in that city are not too promising. Copyrighted 1932 lor THr Southern Israelite ▼ Jewish Agency Gets 5,500 Certificates London.—The largest number of labor immigration certificates awarded in re cent years has been granted to the Jew ish Agency for Palestine by the British Colonial Office for the next six months, which will permit S,500 chalutzim to en ter Palestine during that period. The Agency Executive had requested more than double that number. 1,000 of the cer tificates have been set aside for German Jews. UNITED STATES TOBACCO CO., Represented by L. M. etheredge: Peters Bldg. Atlanta, G« MODEL SMOKING TOBACCO DILL’S BEST C. C. SNUFF BRUTON SNUFF • • THOS. F. SFJTZINGER’S SONS 900 Ashby Street, N. W. ATLANTA, GA. • • J. C. DUGGAN Oplamvtriot and Optician 221 MITCHELL ST., 9. W. Phon« M A Inut WHS ATLANTA. CA. for real service Gas - Oils - Grease For the Car or Truck Woco Pep Service Station 280 Central Amrnt 0. E ALLRID JA 664 S E L M A N ’ S PHARMACY DRUGS - SUNDRIES 1143 Ponce de Leon, N. E. HE. 886 Atlantic House Wrecking Co. Dealers in New and Used Building Material* 280 Peters St. MA in 7ld ROBERT SFECT0R. Prep. ATLANTA 6* V SCHLITTLER’S GARAGE General Auto Repair?* Complete Garage Service 145 Forsyth, S. W. WA. 8020 WILLIAMS BROS. MEYER, Inc. INSURANCE 10 Pryor St. Bid,. ATLANTA [16] ♦ THE SOUTHERN ISRaEUT 1