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The Southern Israelite
Friday, November 30, 1934
The
Southern Israelite
ESTABLISHED 1925
Pahlfahcd Weekly by the Southern Newe-
P»p»r Enterprioee, Inc.
M 8. Miller _ Editor
M. Stephen fkhiffer ... Publisher
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Entered aa second-clasa matter at the
Poet .Office at Atlanta, Ga., under the
Act ef March 8, 1878.
The Southern Israelite invito, corres-
pondenoe and literary contribution.,
but the editor ia not to ba con.idered
aa aharina the views expressed by the
writer* except those enunciated in the
editorial column*.
THE FEAST OF LIGHTS
On the evening of December 1st
the traditional orange-colored can
dles that fill the Chanukah candel
abra will be blessed in more homes
this year than in many a decade.
The Maccabean festival, with its
commemoration of the courage, the
heroism and the perseverance of
th« sons of ancient Mattathlas, has
a quality of deep inspiration shar
ed by few other days in the Jewish
calendar. In our own day Antl-
ochus Epiphanes Is more than an
individual; he Is an almost world
wide state of feeling, which seeks
to vent its bitterness and frustra
tion upon the Jewish people.
Hemmed in on all sides by forces
that are disquieting, If not immedi
ately destructive, Jews are turning
again to those sources of tradition
and ceremony which have calmed
and enriched their ancestors
tluxmgh many generations. The
lighting of the Chanukah candles
becomes at once a symbol of solid
arity with one’s people and of the
strength that lies within the indi
vidual Jew. Parents who, in a mis
taken rationalism, once ignored the
esthetic richness of the ceremonies
of the Feast of Lights, will—this
year—bring back to their home for
the enjoyment of their children and
for their own stimulation the ritual
practices of the Maccabean festival.
This is but part of a far greater
transformation occurring In Jewish
life — In America as elsewhere —
which is forcing the recognition
that our forbears knew that tradi
tions and customs were not the ef
fects but the causes of survival.
charter. General Smedley Butler’s
sensational disclosures of Wall
Street’s attempt to get him to lead
a Fascist march on Washington
showed American public opinion
the lengths to which Fascist-mind
ed bourbons are prepared to go.
And In South Africa the govern
ment officially outlawed the Nazi
party.
Individually these incidents are
probably of ephemeral importance;
but their cumulative effect Is valu
able, for they are bound to have
significant and salutary repercus
sions.
CUMULATIVELY IMPORTANT
Nazism, Fascism and anti-Semit
ism all came In for some lusty wal
lops during the past week, both in
this country and abroad. Up in
Boston a jury from which Jews
were deliberately excluded found
the Jewbaiting Industrial Defense
Association and its super-patriotic
secretary, Edward Hunter, guilty of
libeling the Artkino Guild. In
Cambridge, Harvard University re
jected a German scholarship offer
ed by the pro-Nazi nephew of An
drew W. Mellon. Major John Prout,
an official of the New York City
government, resigned *b “consul”
of the American Concentration,
Inc., a new Fascist movement, be
cause he found the organization
not all it had been represented to
be. Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, former
Prussian minister of justice, won a
retraction and apology from Wal
ter Kappe, former editor of the
Deutsche Zeitung, who preferred
to apologize for his anti-Semitic
insults rather than face a $100,000
libel suit. In New York too a Su
preme Court judge again delayed
action on the request of the Friends
of the New Germany for a state
A BASELESS ATTACK
In recent weeks a certain Mr. W.
B. Ziff, who seems to regard him
self as a self-appointed Messiah to
lead American Jewry, has been re
galing a limited Jewish newspaper
audience with outpourings of
would-be wisdom. Employing high-
sounding and aggressive language,
he 1ms been beating the tom-toms
for a so-called militant Jewry.
Among his most recent Journalistic
effusions is a baseless attack on the
entire Anglo-Jewish press, in which,
incidentally, some of his drivel has
appeared. Given to making irre
sponsible statements, Mr. Ziff de
clares In his best bombastic man
ner that each- Anglo-Jewish period
ical “Is apt to set a new low in
staleness, spinelessness and general
Inadequacy of idea.” Working him
self up into a lather of self-right
eous indignation, Mr. Ziff indicts
the Anglo-Jewish press for “help
ing Jews delude themselves”, and
demands that the Anglo-Jewish pe
riodicals "add another idea besides
serving as advertising mediums” by
putting up “a creative fight to
mass the Jews against our unques
tionable opponent England.”
We were not await? that any one
had delegated Mr. Ziff to be a lead
er of American Jewry, although he
seems to think that he has a mis
sion to help the Jewish people “get
out of the vacuum they are In."
From his strictures against the An
glo-Jewish press, which every
thoughtful and well-informed lead
er of American Jewish public opin
ion knows to be a tremendously
valuable and constructive force in
Jewish life, it would appear that
Mr. Ziff Is the one who is in a men
tal vacuum. The Anglo - Jewish
press was a potent factor in Jewry
long before Mr. Ziff emerged ps a
self-proclaimed saviour, and it will
continue to be recognized as one of
the most important agencies in
American Jewish life long after Mi*.
Ziff’s misguided utterances are
buried under the obscurity which
they deserve.
GOSSIP
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
TIDBITS FROM EVERYWHERE
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
AFTERMATH
We hope there’s nothing to these
post-election rumors that Robert
Moses, defeated Empire State gub
ernatorial candidate, is going to
lose his Job as New York City’s
Park Commissioner, by way of pun
ishment for all the nasty things he
said about his successful rival, our
old friends Governor Lehman. . . .
True, the Republican nominee did
fly off the handle considerably in
the course of his campaign-speech-
ing—but surely Mr. Lehman is big
enough to take it. . . . Mayor La-
Guaraid, we learn, likes salami
much better than spaghetti—which
seems to show that gastronomically
the Jew in him dominates the Ital-'
ian. . . . (Note to sticklers: Please
don’t write in to tell us that salami
is an Italian sausage; we know it,
but maintain that our point is well
taken none the less) . . . We have
It on excellent authority that those
of our colleagues who have been
hailing Rudolph S. Hecht, newly
elected president of the American
Bankers’ Association, as a Jew are
all wet. . . . Washington Is all agog
over the fact that Motor Mogul
Walter P. Chrysler, a staunch Re
publican and long considered an
anti-New Dealer, was a contrbutor,
to the tune of two grand, to Demo
cratic campaign funds . . . But
Walter can well afford such gener
osity. . . . For during the first nine
months of this year he sold more
cars—by 15 per cent, if you please—
than in the same period five years
ago, when the boom was at its
height.
Washington, D. C. (WNS) —
Claims of American Jews against
the Turkish Government for losses
suffered in Palestine during the
World War will be paid within the
next fortnight when the mixed
Turkish-American Claims Commis
sion makes its final awards. Ap
pointed in February, 1933, the
Commission decided that Turkey
should pay $1,300,000 to American
citizens. Of this sum Jews will get
about $750,000 in payment of claims
growing out of losses incurred when
the Turkish army ravaged many of
the Jewish colonies in Palestine.
DOUBLE, DOUBLE
Sam Blitz, dynamic Zionist cam-
paiger, will no doubt be interested
to learn that a photo we recently
saw of Maurice de Rothschild, son
of the late Baron Edmond, shows
the French Senator to be very
nearly his double. . . That double
for Cleveland’s Law Director, Ezra
Shapiro, lias arrived on the scene.
. . . It’s a girl, and her maternal
granddad Is Sol Lamport, New
York’s well-known patron of He
brew letters and such. . . . Another
duplicate of either Norma Shearer
or her director - husband, Irving
Thalberg, is due to make his or her
appearance ere long. . . . While at'
the William I. (Congressman) Siro-
vich’s it’s a novel that’s a-borning.
5685—Hebrew Calendar—1934-5
Date
Dec. 8
Mar. 18
Mar. 19
Apr. 18
Apr. 19
Apr. 20
Apr. 24
Apr. 25
June 1
June 7
8 »uuf
June T
_ .. . Occaa'on
Sabbath “Mikertx" (Hanukah)
PI’RIM nu Ve \^?° k of E3ther
<Morn.) Book of Esther
MRST DAY PASSOVER
SECOND DAY PASSOVER
Sabbath Choi Hamoed
Seventh Day Passover
Eighth Day Pasaove
Sabbath “Bamidbar”
FIRST DAY SHABUOTH
SECOND DAY 8HABUOTH
I Tiaha B’Ab Eve Book of
Lamentations.
HEROIC ADOLF
Thanks to Walter Winchell for
the following bit: In his speech at
Nuremburg recently Hitler enchant
ed liis audience with a resume of
his achievements . . . Nothing he
had ventured had failed, he orated
. . . Germany was blessed indeed to
have him as head man. . . It was a
rapturous monologue of “look what
I \e done ... A fellow oif*a train
from Larchmont read through the
boastful speech and, turning to Tils
companion, said: “This Hitler is
just a hero-worshiper, isn’t he?”
MORE ABOUT
JEWISH BOYCOTT
(Continued from page one)
of free government are to be main
tained.
“The frights of minorities in
all countries must be respected
and preserved if international
good-will and peace are to be
promoted and maintained. Labor
in the Unted States has regarded
the persecution of the Jewish peo
ple in Germany merely because
they were Jews with feelings of
resentment and horror.
“The recital of these facts and
these principles for which organ
ized labor in the United States
and Canada firmly stands will
confer to your conference the real
basis for the declarations suc
cessively made by conventions of
the American Federation of La
bor in opposition to the destruc
tion of trade unions and the per
secution of their members and
of minorities in Germany. In sub
mitting this communication to the
conference I extend my personal
felicitations and best wishes for
a satisfactory and suepessful meet
ing.”
There are 120 delegates from
twelve countries represented, a
great many of them non-Jews.
France, England, Belgium, Hol
land, Rumania, Poland, Palestine,
South Africa, United States,
Sweden, Switzerland and Egypt
are represented.
A MARGINAL NOTE
“PREJUDICE IS
DIMINISHING”
By Booth Tarkington
FAMOUS NOVELIST
This is the second of a most
interesting series of Marginal
Notes, in which prominent
American intellectuals discuss
the status of racial and religious
prejudice in the United States,
Justice To Replace
“Jewish Conception”
With Nordic-Germanic
Berlin (WNS)—The Nordic-
Germanic iconsciousness of law,
not the “Jewish conception” of it
will be the fundamental basis of
the future Nazi justice. Premier
Herman Wilhelm Goering, of
Prussia, told the Nazi Academy of
Law. At the same time word was
received from Amsberg, in the
Ruhr, that the local Nazi gov
ernor had confiscated the entire
property of a Jewish clothing man
ufacturer and imposed a fine of
10,000 marks because of alleged
price extortion.
Garden with Alex Levinsky as a
major attraction. . . . Aaron Berg-
stein, Easton, Pa.’s prosperous pants
manufacturer, has become the
manager of featherweight Allie To-
desco, whom he hopes to see in the
championship class In a short time.
... It is Lieutenant - Commander
Isaac Schlossbach, ace pilot of Ad
miral Byrd’s crew, who has the
dangerous job of flying supplies
from the base camp to the wander
ing Antarctic explorers.
ATHLETIC SHORTS
It looks as if the New York
Giants are developing another Jew
ish drawing-card, in the person of
red-haired Sam Solomon. . . . Red
is only eighteen, but he expects to
go South with the Giants for the
Spring training season, and per
haps—who knows? — will make his
bow at the Polo Grounds next year
Have we ever recommended Pales
tine trips to all you people who are
interested in sports? . . . We’re re
ferring of course to the second Mac-
cabiad, the international Jewish ath
letic meet to be held at Tel Aviv
next April.... T he bam in which
Paramount made Its first flicker,
ever so many years ago, has now
been converted into a gymnasium
and Max Baer is using it as train
ing quarters as he prepares for his
next picture. ...New York's East
Side will become hockey-conscious
this winter, when the Toronto Ran
kers come down to Madison Square
POT-POURRI
An interesting addition to our
movie menu is Sov-Am Film Cor
poration’s hundred-per cent Yid
dish talkie. “The Youth of Russia,”
the cast of which was chosen from
the Yiddish Art Troupe. . . . Broad
way is wondering just how seriously
playwright-producer-director Elmer
Rice means his threat of withdraw
al, what with “Judgment Day” in
its third month and “Between Two
Worlds” also continuing. . . . The
threat, you know, came during one
of the skirmishes in Mr. Rice’s cur
rent war with the critics. ... Un
kind cuts were also passed out by
the critical gentry after Grisha Go-
luboffs violin Recital.. . .The fault
finders apparently feel that Grisha,
who Is only twelve, should take a
long rest from public appearances,
lest his natural gifts be adversely
affected. . . . Among the distin
guished names that have been add
ed to the roster of Reno residents
that of Max (Produ “ r >
Apparently the resurgence of
political anti-Semitism it not pure
ly the product of a. world’s dis
ordered economy. True, we have
a world of disordered economy;
but political anti-Semitism is
certainly older than the present
disorder. History records many
political anti-Semitic movements
in the past and they have not
always been In evidence in times
of economical disorder.
I do not believe that there is
any possibility in America of
transplanting the kind of race
hatred that exists today in Ger
many; though when I say this
I ought to explain that I don’t at
all understand this particular
race hatred, so-called. I don’t be
lieve that the German people, as
a people, hate Germans of Jew
ish descent and Hebrew faith.
Ill-treatment of Jews in Germany
seems to me to be part of the
present dictatorship’s political
policy and not the manifestation
of a universal racial passion;
though doubtless the dictatorship
maintains itself largely by its ap
peal to the egoist fundament that
is the base of racial passion.
Race hatreds in this country
seem to me to be sporadic and
local. As I can’t imagine the
prevalence of anything that might
be called a reign of such hatreds,
I therefore can’t imagine a pro
gram that would avert this un
imaginable reign.
Racial prejudices exist among
us, of course; just as religious
prejudices still do, here and there.
But the prejudices amount to hat
reds with eccentric individuals
only, and more and more diminish
as the years pass by. (Copyright
1934, for The Southern Israelite).
MAZEL-TOV DEPARTMENT
Congratulations to Rabbi Hathan
A Perlaman. ot New York's Tem-
ra e th?T U ' E1 ’ ° n hiS 'nsasement
to the charming Elizabeth N. Baum,
Slw ‘w e , rcbbetzl n Is a niece ot
“w* BenjMita Namm ' »!>««
Brooklyn department store rakes
n plenty of shekels. . . . Felicita
tions also to Dr. Joseph Harris of
Los Angeles, who before long will
become the husband of Eleanor
Rosenwald, of the Sears - Roebuck
MORE ABOUT
B’NAI B’RITH
(Continued from page one)
president of the Gate City Lodge
Others assisting Mr. Kahn are: Hy
man S. Jacobs, L. J. Levitas, Jos
eph Cuba, Harry Abelson, Josepl
S. Brown, J. S.Brail, Nathan Co
hen, F. a. Constangy, A. L. Feld
man, Victor Franco, David Ger-
shon, Dr. I. h. Goldstein, Leor
Kletzky, Stephen Schiffer, Miltoi:
Klein, Joseph Loewus, Berry Ritt-
enbaum, Dr. L. C. Rouglin, Joseph
Schlesinger, j. b. Wolfe, Jack
Weinkle, Dr. Joseph Yampolsky
and Herman Hyman.
Ui its membership drive, the lo
cal chapter will be co-operating
with the other lodges of the United
States which are conducting simi
lar campaigns. The National move
ment to extend the membership
and enhance the usefulness of the
B nai B’rith order is linked with
the celebration of the seventy-fifth
birthday of the order’s president,
who has been president for the past
10 years. Its aim is to add a new
member for every year of the well
known leader in both Jewish af
fairs and of his state.
The B nai B’rith was organized
90 years ago by a group of young
men whose achievements were to
organize an order to promote unity
amongst the Jewish people on a
common platform, for intellectual
culture, and social advancement.
The motto “Brotherly Love, Benev
olence, and Harmony” is a slogan
known in every part of the globe.