Newspaper Page Text
15he
Soutuern Israelite
For Southern Jewry
VOL. X—NO. 7.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934.
Price: Five Cents
B’nai B’rith Launches Membership
Drive On Monday, December 3rd
National President Cohen to Be Honored at Recep
tion Held In Davison-Paxon’s.
The firing “gun” of the B’nai
B ' r i t h Membership Enrollment
campaign will be set off Monday,
December 3rd, when the general
campaign committee, officials of
the Gate City Lodge No. 144, and
the working teams will honor .22
past Presidents of the Gate City
Lodge at a meeting-luncheon to be
held in Davison-Paxon’s Tea Room
at 12:15.
The luncheon meeting itself will
establish an event never taken
place before when all the past pres
idents of the local order will be
gathered together. The past presi
dents to be honored and introduc
ed to all members will be H. A.
Alexander, J. S. Brail, Frank Allen
Constangy, A. L. Feldman, M. F.
Goldstein, Herbert Haas, Leonard
Haas, Hyman S. Jacobs, Milton
Klein, L. J. Levitas, A. L. Loeb,
Rabbi David Marx, Armand May,
Isidore Moss, Walter Rich, Samuel
Rothberg, Nathan Saltzman, Jo
seph A. Schlesinger, O. R. Strauss,
Dr. B. A. Wildauer, J. H. Wilensky,
and J. B. Wolfe. “Presidents’ Day”,
as the event will be known, will
represent the leading officials of
the past 22 years, others having
made residents in other localities.
Among others to be honored at
the Monday meeting will be the
Honorary Co-Chairmen of the cam
paign, Rabbis David Marx, Harry
Epstein, Tobias Geffen, and Joseph
Cohen.
The following B’nai B’rithers will
sweep the city next two weeks to
increase the present membership
of the local chapter to 300:
Messrs. Harry Abelson, David J.
Ajuela, Charles W. Bergman, Julian
Boehm, J. S. Brail, Joseph M.
Brown, Nathan Cohen, Frank Con
stangy, Joseph Cuba, Max M. Cuba,
Emil Dittler, Sam Epstein, A. L.
Feldman, Alvin Ferst, Victor Fran
co, David Gershon, Harry M. Ger-
shon, Oscar Gershon, Jospeh L.
Goldberg, Dr. I. H. Goldstein, Ar
thur Haas, I. Reiman, Herman
Heyman, Sam Hirsch, Hyman S.
Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, Dr. Sinclair
Jacobs, Edward M. Kahn, Milton
Klein, Leon Kletzky, Sol Klotz, L.
J. Levitas, Sam Levy, Jack Lichten
stein, Joseph Loweus, Harold Mar
cus, David Marx Jr., Jack Mazier,
Bernard S. Mandle, Ed Montag, A.
L. Myers., Harold Newman, Herman
Rich, Berry Rittenbaum, Samuel
Rothberg, Dr. L. C. Roughlin, Na
than Saltzman, Sidney I. Saul, Ste
phen Schiffer, Joseph A. Schlesin
ger, Meyer L. Schur, Dr. Jack Sil
ver, I. f. stern, Phil Tenenbaum,
Edward R. Vajda, Jack C. Weinkle,
Joseph B. Wolfe, Dr. Joseph Yam-
Polsky, Sol I. Yudelson.
On December 10th, the entire
membership and the public will be
invited to attend a mass meeting
and reception in honor of the Na
tional order’s President, Alfred M.
Cohen, of Cincinnati, who will be
the principal speaker of the day.
Rabbi Samuel Cook, director of the
Hillen Foundation, a B’nai B’rith
project, at the University of Ala
bama, will also be present. Numer
ous visitors from other B’nai B’rith
lodges of the country are expected
to attend the meeting. This af
fair will be held at the Standard
Club.
The membership enrollment
drive is under the direction of Ed
ward M. Kahn, director of the Jew
ish Educational Alliance, and vice-
(Continued on page two)
NATIONAL LEADER
ALFRED M. COHEN,
of Cincinnati, to speak here on
Dec. 10th.
France Moves To Bar
Refugees, Immigrants
Paris (WNS)—France, for gen
erations the traditional refuge of
victims of political and religous
persecution, and today the tem
porary home of some 25,000 Ger-
man-Jewish refugees, is now agi
tated by a movement to enact
legislation which would close the
doors of France to foreigners.
Widespread agitation for more
rigid immigration curbs has de
veloped as a result of the recent
assination of King Alexander and
Foreign Minister Barthou, by
foreign terrorists. The agitation
has gained such strength that it
has won the support even of
Edouard Harriot, leader of the
Radical Socialist Party and long
an outspoken advocate of liberal
treatment for refugees and im
migrants. If the proposed legisla- I
tion actually comes to pass, it
will make things extremely dif
ficult for the Jewish refugees now
in Paris, and will create an in
superable obstacle to the en
trance of other refugees expected
to flock here after the Saar
plebiscite in January.
Board of Deputies To
Join Anti-Nazi Boycott
London (WNS)—The Board of
Deputies of British Jews is about
to join the anti-Nazi boycott. Af
ter lengthy negotiations in which
a militant minority of the Board
vainly endeavored to get the
Board to affiliate itself with the
boycott, the majority, led by
President Neville Laski and Leo
nard Montefiore, have agreed to
submit the following resolution to
the next meeting of the Board:
“In view of the fact that the per
secution of Jews is being continu
ed, the Board accepts as a gen
eral principle the declaration
that no Jew with self-respect can
handle German goods, buy or sell
German goods or have anything
to do with products coming from
Germany so long as the persecu
tion of Jews continues in Ger
many.” The resolution is certain
to pass, either unanimously or by
a big majority.
Greek Jews Embittered
By Emigration Decree
Saloniki (WNS)—No foreign
Jews will henceforth be allowed
to land in Greece without the ex
press permission of the Greek
minister of foreign affairs. A de
cree to this effect has just been
promulgated here, together with
an announcement by the foreign
minister explaining that the de
cree is the result of “the request
by a great foreign power because
many Jews use Greece as the base
of operation for smuggling them
selves into Palestine.” Greek
Jews are extremely bitter at this
decree, first because it also ef
fects Greek Jews whose families
have been living here for nearly
five hundred years. Most Greek
Jews are regarded as Spaniards
since their ancestors came from
here after the expulsion from
Spain. According to the new
decree these Jews must obtain
the permission of the foreign min
ister before going abroad. If they
leave Greece without such per
mission they cannot return. The
Jewish press here and the Zion
ist Federation have raised such
a storm of protest against Eng
land that the British consul has
lodged a complaint with the
foreign office.
Meanwhile the tragic Odyssey of
the 318 Jews who had been living
on the chartered steamer Velos,
for three months, while they
roamed the Levant seas in search
of a haven, were transferred to
the Rumanian ship, King Carol,
by Greek police and sent back
to Rumania, from where they will
be returned to their homes, in
Poland, Czechoslovakia and Ger
many. Their resources exhausted,
these Jews were transferred to
the King Carol ten minutes be
fore she sailed,
17th Anniversary Of
Balfour Declaration
Marked By Z. O. A.
New Ydrk (WNS) — Seventeen
years after Arthur James Balfour
committed England to the task of
cooperating in the establishment of
the Jewish National Home in Pal
estine, the Mandatory government
has. not adequately fulfilled its
covenant with the Jewish people
and with the civilized world, Louis
Lipsky declared at the mass meet
ing held here under the auspices of
the Zionist Organization of Ameri
ca to celebrate the seventeenth an
niversary of the issuance of the
Balfour Declaration. Mr. Lipsky
added that in spite of the obstacles
placed in the path of the recon
struction of Palestine, the founda-
tionse of the Homeland had been so
securely laid that when the “Hitler
storm of revolution burst in the
spring of 1933, and sent the Jews
of Germany scattering to the four
corners of the earth, Palestine was
already prepared to receive an an
nual immigration of more than
40,000,” Morris Rothenberg, presi
dent of the Z. O. A., who presided,
reviewed the events of the pre-Bal
four era and asserted that the sev
enteen years since the Balfour
Declaration had not only “vindi
cated Zionist belief in the practical
possibilities of Jewish settlement in
Palestine, but had corroborated the
Zionist belief that ultimate salva
tion for the Jewish people was to
be found in the rebuilding of the
Jewish National Home. The mass
meeting also marked the opening
of the New York effort to enroll
75,000 Jews as members of the Z.
O. A. Other speakers were Mrs. Ed
ward Jacobs, president of Hadassah,
and Abraham Goldberg,
International Boycott Conference
In London Represents 12 Countries
Independent Jewish Boycott Groups Voted to Merge
With Non-Sectarian Body
TESTIFIED
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, retired
head of the Marines, testified
before the Congressional Com
mittee investigating un-Ameri
can activities in the United
States, that he was approached
with a view of leading a Fascist
army in this country of five
hundred thousand men.
Rumors of Mass Revo
cation Of Citizenship
Alarm Austrian Jews
Vienna (WNS)—Rumors of a
government decree which will re
voke the citizens of all Austrian
Jews naturalized since 1919, the
reopening with government ap
proval of the German Club, the
center of all Nazi agitation and
a notorious hotbed of anti-Sem
itic activity, and the appearance
of the Aryan Weekly, a new Nazi
periodical, which is urging a
wholesale boycott of Jewish mer
chants and the immediate enact
ment of legislation limiting the
rights of Jewish lawyers and Jews
6f foreign origin are believed to
foreshadow an increasing anti-
Semitic activity throughout Aus
tria. Hardly a day passes now
without some additional mani
festation of anti-Jewish discrim
ination. Dr. Schmitz, Facist dic
tator of Vienna, js irejtentlessly
pursuing his policy of eliminating
Jewish office-holders and civil em
ployees. Complaints by Jewish
leaders have proved unavailing
since the Schuschnigg regime ap
pears to be on the verge of making
peace with the Nazis who are de
manding vigorous measures
against Jews. Anlti-Jewish feel
ing has reached such a point that
Propoganda Minister Adam has re
fused to permit the publication
of a proclamation by the Jewish
Royalist League pledging its sup
port to Archduke Otto, the Haps-
burg, who wants to restore the
monarchy.
Jewess Named Secretary
To National Park Director
Washington, D. C. (WNS)—Mir
iam Feldman, young Brooklyn
Jewess, has been appointed secre
tary to Arno B. Cammerer, director
of the National Parks. Miss Feld
man was formerly secretary to
Representative Walter M. Pierce of
Oregon.
London (WNS)—Liquidation of
all separate Jewish boycott com
mittees where they exist and their
merger into an international non-
secretarian organization was unan
imously voted by the Jewish sec
tion of the International League
for the boycott of German Goods
and Services at an executive ses
sion preliminary to the opening
of the world conference of the
International League. This action
came in response to a proposal
by Samuel Untermyer, president
of the Non-Secretarian Anti-Nazi
League and head of the American
delegation. Mr. Untermyer, who
is so determined to emphasize the
non-secretarian character of the
boycott that he refuses to pre
side at the conference, called on
the Jewish delegates to unite their
activities with those of Christian
church groups, labor bodies and
other anti-Nazi movements. Rab
bi Moses Gaster opposed Unter-
myers plan on the ground that
conditions in Europe are different
and that in most countries of
Central and Eastern Europe apart
from the Jews, only a handful of
individual non-Jews are engaged
in boycott work. Philip Guedalla
and other English delegates, how
ever, agreed with Untermyer and
J the latter’s plan was unanimously
accepted. The preliminary meet
ing of the Jewish section also
heard reports of boycott work in
Palestine, Rumania and Belgium.
The principal speaker at this ses
sion was A. M. Wall, president of
the British Trade Union Council,
who declared that British Labor
will continue the boycott. He said
that "Jews or Gentiles, black or
white, all must unite against the
wicked actions of present-day Nazi
Germany. We cannot do anything
worthwhile to change the attitude
of the German government except
through the organized power of
the people.”
At executive meetings of the
general conference figures were
presented showing the progress of
the boycott. Statistics were sub
mitted proving that in many lands
merchandise previously imported
from Germany is now being made
by home industry, thus benefiting
home labor and industry.
Belgium, Poland, and the United
States have been particular gain
ers from this development. In the
United States 510 articles formerly
imported from Germany are now
being made in America. A letter
from William Green, president of
the American Federation of La
bor, which is not directly repre
sented at the conference, was read
by Untermyer. The letter cited
the resolj^ions on the. boycott
adopted at the last two A. F. of L.
conventions and then went on to
say:
“The members of organized la
bor of the United States and Can
ada regard the blessings of lib
erty, freedom and democracy as
a priceless heritage. They regard
each as a fundamental principle
upon which the free and indepen
dent democratic organizations of
labor have -been firmly establish
ed. Men and women must be free
to organize, bargain collectively,
strike against oppression and in
justice and administer and direct
the affairs of trade unions in a
democratic way if the principles
(Continued on page two)