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Southern Israelite
VOL. X—NO. 3
For Southern] [Jewry
ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934.
Price: Five Cents
SENATOR BYRD TO CORRECT
CONDITIONS VIRGINIA HOTEL
property leased from
WAR DEPARTMENT
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—
President Roosevelt has before
him a request from Senator Har
ry F. Byrd (D.) of Virginia to
use his influence to “correct the
condition’’ at Old Point Comfort,
Va., where the Hotel New Cham
berlain, located on property leas
ed from the War Department, is
advertising that it welcomes only
Christian guests. "If both Virginia
and the Federal Government are
impotent to deal with this situa
tion, I will introduce a special
bill in the Senate when the next
Congress convenes," Seator Byrd
declared.
The situation became public
when Rabbi Louis D. Mendoz of
Norfolk, Va., protested against
the hotel’s policy to the War De
partment and to Senator Byrd
and Senator Carter Glass. When
asked to look into the matter,
War Department officials, in the
absence of Secretary of War,
D?rn, who is on an inspection
tour of Army posts, declined to
comment but privately pointed out
that there is no Federal or state
law that would give the War De
partment the right to interfere
in the policies of companies leas
ing Army property.
The basis for the complaint
against the Hotel New Chamber-
lain, which stands on an Army
reservation, is the fact that the
hotel announces in bill-boards
along the public highway that it
caters to persons of Christian
faith exclusively. Relying to Rab
bi Mendoza’s protest, Senator
Glass, Vinginia’s senior Senator,
telegraphed as follows:
“I think it totally inadmissable
for the Federal (government to
permit the sale of intoxicating
liquors on government reserva
tions in states which prohibit
such sales, and I think it an out
rage for any institution enjoying
government privileges to discrim
inate against any religious sect.”
In his request for Presidential
action, Senator Byrd cited Raibbi
Mendoza’s protest and referred to
the Rabbi, as “a distinguished
Virginian.”
The Richmond Times-Dispatch,
one of the leading newspapers of
the South, in an editorial entitled
Religious Prejudice,” rapped the
Hotel New Chamberlain for hav
ing ‘violated the spirit of Ameri
can institutions and laid itself
open to severe public condemn
ation.”
School Established
By Protestant Groups
Cincinnati (WNS)—Dr. L.
A. Pechstein of Teachers’ Col-
lege, University of Cincinnati,
is the dean of a school in
youth leadership training es
tablished by a group of Prot
estant churches, Y. M. C. A.
groups and other Christian
bodies. Dr. Emanuel Gamoram,
director of publications of the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, is a member of
the sehol faculty.
Minister Of War
General Werner von Blombcrg,
Nazi Minister of War and
head of the Reichswehr, the
regular German army, called,
Jews "good soldiers” at a cabi
net meeting when he raised the
point that in time of future war
the Jews could supply 60,000
troops for the Fatherland. He
called attention to the line rec
ord of Jews in the World War
when they suffered losses of
12,000 men.
Senior Hadassah To
Hold Annual
Ball
Atlanta chapter of Senior Ha
dassah will hold its annual ball
on Tuesday evening, November
13, at the Shrine Mosque. Plans
for the ball were discussed and
made in the home of Mrs. I. M.
Weinstein, where Mrs. Weinstein
and Mrs. L. J. Levitas .co-chair
men of the ball program, enter
tained the board and the ball
committee at tea.
According to precedent, Hadas
sah will publish a yearjbook of
advertisers and valuable memor
anda, which will be distributed
among its members and friends
at the ball.
The following committees are
now engaged in consumating the
plans for the ball: Ball tickets,
Mrs. Floyd Brandeis and Mrs.
Harry Mat tell; refreshments, Mrs.
B. Levins: ball program commit
tee, headed by Mesdames I. M.
Weinstein and L. J. Levitas, and
Mesdames J. J. Heilman, H. S.
Jacobs, H. Lever, A. Hirsch, M.
Taylor, Ike Goldstein, J. Abel-
son, S. Yudelson, D. Speilberger,
E. M. Manning, R. M. Travis, S.
A. Goldberg, J. Silver, H. Taylor,
M. A. Greenblatt, B. Wildauer,
A. M. Goldstein, H. Mendel, M.
B. Copeloff, Abe Cohen, Berry
Cohen, J. Yampolsky, S. A. Levy,
J. Isenberg, J. M. Rosenfield, M.
Frank, D. N. Meyer, S. I. Mendel,
S. Hirsch, O. Orkin, F. Crasnow,
I. H. Golstein, Sol Romm, and
Misses Frances Heilman, Jennie
Goldstein, Gertrude Wald and
Sarah Cohen.
Proceeds of the ball and year
book will go toward the benefit
of the Hadassah medical organ
ization, which engages in non-
sectarian hospitalization in Pal
estine. •
A MARGINAL NOTE
AMERICAN JEWRY WANTS
UNITY
By Joseph Brainin
It is said that negotiations
are now under way in regard to
a fund-raising campaign for
German Jewish relief for 1935.
The officers of the Joint Dis
tribution Committee and the
American Palestine Campaign
are participating in these con
ferences, their views being bas
ed on the experience of the
1934 United Jewish Appeal
that is now coming to a close.
Although these discussions a»e
of a private character, it is no
secret that among both the Zi
onists and the J. D. C. forces
there are those demanding se
parate campaigns next year.
Should the views of these
individuals be accepted, it
would be disastrous for the
communal health of American
Jewry. The Jewish eommunity
everywhere has reached the
point where it does not have
the strength or the. resources or
the available leadership to con
duct two drives for purposes
similar in intent. The Zionists
contend that the ideological
significance of Palestine has
not “been sufficiently exploited
in the United Jewish Appeal.
The Joint Distribution Commit
tee claims that it could obtain
larger funds for . its work
through an independent cam
paign.
Neither of thes views has in
trinsic merit. The develop
ments in Palestine speak elo
quently for themselves. Every
objective student of the Jew
ish situation recognizes that
Palestine has a primary place
in providing a haven for Ger
man Jews. As regards the in
come question, the fact is that
the United Jewish Appeal won
the imagination of the Jewish
community because it repre
sented harmony and common
effort . Without that stimulus,
American Jewry would never
have been brought to respond
as satisfactorily as it did. The
position of German Jewry is
becoming worse and not bet
ter. Their efforts at rehabila-
tion will not be furthered if
American Jewery’s support is
frittered away in friction.
Felix M. Warburg, Chair
man of the United States Ap
peal, was principally respons
ible for bringing the Palestine
and JDC groups together into
the United Jewish Appeal. His
calm persuasiveness and his
sense of the fitness of things
are required again, so that he
may convince all concerned
that American Jewry wants
union fund-raising as it does
in every other aspect of the
German Jewish problem.
(Copyright 1934 for The
Southern Israelite).
PROTOCOLS CALLED FORGERY
SUIT OPENS IN SWITZERLAND
Boycott Toppling Hitler
Regime Next Spring
New York (WNS)—In a speech
launching a national labor chest
“to free European workers from
the thrall of Facism,” Walter M.
Citrine, president of the Interna
tional Federation of Trade Unions
and secretary of the British Trade
Union Congress, told 5,000 work
ers that the intensification of the
anti-German boycott will bring the
downfall of the Hitler regime by
next spring.
Young Judea Council
Sponsor Pep Meeting
Atlanta Council of Young Ju
dea sponsored a pep meeting at
the Jewish Educational Alliance.
Mr. Bert Galanty, chairman of
the program committee, was as
sisted in the preparation of this
program by David Gershon, Abe
Geffen, Miss Lillie Berchenko,
Miss Rosalie Hirsch, and David
Macaroy.
The following clubs were repre
sented 'at the meeting: Morris
Seigel, Aaronean; Harold Noveck,
Herzllites; Age Geffen, S. I. J.:
Miss Ida Pearl Meller, leader of
the Rosea Lilians; Miss Lillian Sol
omon, T. J. C.; Miss Minnie
Wolbe, leader of the T. j. c.;
Miss Dorothy Davis, leader of the
D. O. J.; Miss Bertha Fisher,
leader of the Noar Juniors; Ed
ward Vajda, leader of the Herzl
lites: Miss Lottie Goncher, leader
of the Jacobeans. Jack Rosen
baum represented the Nordeau
Club, a prospective entry into
Youn Judea. Simon Wender ap
peared for the Coterie Club, form
erly connected with Young Judea.
Miss Selma Hirsch attended in
the capacity of Junior Hadassah-
Young Judea relations chairman.
Edward R. Vajda, president of
the Southern Young Judea As
sociation, announced that the con
clave will be held in Chattanooga
this year on December 30-31 and
that the names of all those plan
ning to attend must be in by
Thanksgiving. No arrangements
are being made to take care of
the Young Judeans.
Beats Jewish Boys
and Pays $100 Fine
For Each Beating
WORLD JEWRY CLOSELY
WATCHES PROCEEDINGS
New York (WNS)—The story of
a man who likes to beat up Jewish
boys so well that he is willing to
pay $100 fine for the privilege was
told in Gates Avenue Court, Brook
lyn, by Nathaniel Seligman, attor
ney for the father of one of the
boys who were beaten. The man is
Chris Spilitios who once paid a
$50 fine for attacking a Jewish boy.
Now he is charged with beating up
another boy. He told the father oi
this boy that he would gladly pay
$100 fine. Jewish parents in the
neighborhood have gotten up a pe
tition charging Spilitios with
spreading Nazism. He is said to
have beaten scores of other Jewish
children.
Police Raid Illegal Nazi
Meeting In New Jersey
Elizabeth, N. J. (WNS)—A po
lice raid on an illegal meeting of
the Friends of the New Germany
resulted in the arrest of fourteen
Nazis who are being held on
charges of disorderly conduct.
Tipped off to the meeting, the
police broke into the hall and took
the fourteen into custody on a
charge of participating in a gath
ering in violation of an order by
the police last year prohibiting
Nazi meetings in Elizabeth. When
the police broke in, Fred Buttig,
circulation manager of the Deut
sche Zeitung, Nazi organ, was ad
dressing an audience of about one
hundred while nine uniformed
Nazis guarded the door.
Berne, Switzerland (WNS)—The
so-called “Proctocols of the Elders
of Zion,” the textbook of every
modern anti - Semitic movement,
are nothing but shameless and en
tirely unfounded libels concocted
with the one object of arousing the
masses of the world against the
Jews. This, in brief, was the ver
dict of the libel suit brought by the
Swiss Federation of Jewish Com
munities and the Swiss Zionist
Federation against the Swiss Nazi
Party and Dr. A. Zander, editor, of
the Swiss Nazi paper, Iron Broom,
which printed articles upholding
the “Proctocols” as fact.
The report, fully documented and
the product of painstaking re
search was prepared by H, Lussly,
an expert retained by the court to
study all the facts in the case, and
made public just as the historic ac
tion opened. The first witness sche
duled to appear was Dr. Chaim
Weizmann who is to give the court
an exposition of the ideals and
purposes of Zionism. The Iron
Broom had published an article
citing an alleged article by Rabbi
Marcus Ehrenpreis, chief rabbi of
Sweden, to prove that the organiz
ation of the first world Zionist
Congress in 1897 was in reality the
beginning of a secret world Jew
ish government, one of the char—*
ges in the Proctocols. Dr. Ehren
preis will testify that he never
wrote such an article.
Scores of world-famous Jews and
non-Jews, among Jhem Paul Miliu
kov, former Russian foreign minis
ter, Henri Sliosberg, and Vladimir
Burtzev, Russian editor and foe of
Czarism, are here to testify for the
prosecution. One of the most im
portant witnesses for the prosecu
tion will be M. Duchlaux, a French
man who served in the Russian ar
my and was personally acquainted
with M. Nilue, the Russian reac
tionary who first made the “Proc
tocols” public. Duchalaux will tes
tify that he saw the original manu
script of the “Proctocols” as con
cocted by Nilus who wrote them as
part of the Czarist government’s
campaign against the Jews.
World Jewry is anxiously watch
ing the proceedings here because
they are expected to establish once
and for all that the “Proctocols”
are forgeries. The prosecution will
show that the “Proctocols” are
plagiarisms of an essay called “Di
alogues in Hades between Michia-
velli and Montesquieu” written in
1864 by Maurice Joly, a French
lawyer, as a criticism against the
dictatorship of Napoleon III. Only
slight differences in text exist be
tween the “Dialogues” and the
“Proctocols.” In the latter so-called
Jewish elders are substituted for
Michiavelli who speaks in the name
of Napoleon. On the basis of a
translation of Joly’s essay, Nilus
concocted the “Proctocols” and
published them in 1905. Since then
they have appeared throughout the
world. In 1921 the London Times
investigated the “Proctocols” and
found them to be a complete forg
ery.
Berne, Switzerland (WNS)—
That the “Protocols of the El
ders [of Zion/’ notorious docu
ment purporting to prove Jewish
aspirations to world domination,
are a forgery brought out by Rus-
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