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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)