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The Southern Israelite
VOL. X—NO. 20.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1935.
Price Five Cents
WOMEN TO WORK
FOR APPROACH TO
JEWISH PROBLEMS
Mrs. Brin Says Program Will
Result in a New Type of
National Leadership
New Orleans (WNS>—Develop
ment of an educational approach
to Jew h problems is the greatest
thing the National Council of
Jewish Women can do at this
time. Mrs. Arthur Brin, national
president, declared in her presi
dential speech at the fourteenth
triennial convention. Pointing out
that the Council has always em
phasized the educational approach
to all other problems, she urged
the importance of enlisting our
economists, sociologists and other
experts in the study of maladjust
ment, discrimination and other
serious problems touching racial
relations, Jews in industry, in the
profe-sions and in relation to the
land. Stressing the fact that the
most common and accepted way
of dealing with such problems in
the past has been through pro-
and mass meetings, Mrs.
Biin proposed that the council of
Jewish Women lead the way in
turnii g to the Jewish research
bureaus and experts in order to
find the solution to these prob
lems.
Mrs. Brin declared that such
an educational program will re
sult in a new type of national
leader hip and new types of local
leadership, and she strongly re
commended Council support for
whatever has already been done
m this direction.” Advising an in-
ens:vp e ffort to help each local
ion to cooperate in this work,
<1 that “we can render an
u ble service to American
v v if in each community we
ently and consistently train
a pr,,u P of women to study cur-
rent Je 'vish problems in the light
our long history and with a
o-i'.vledge and appreciation of
the humanistic, cultural and
‘ vaJ ues of our traditions,
nmunity can rise to a level
han the leaders of that
community. By training and de-
ng leaders among the Jew-
'•vomen the National Council
Women performs a
• r nd es P p cially timely ser-
i0r American Jewry.”
Sponsors of Hauptmann
1 < Sense Fund Exposed
'Ten Are Members of the
of the New Germany
York (WNS)—The identity
* • mysterious John O. Weiss
f 0 \ Weber, the spokesmen
■ nuptmann Defense Com-
:md th e men said to be res-
for the injection of anti-
into the Hauptmann fund
was disclosed when
ar ' .. of theirs revealed that both
w h° were discharged
“ Positions as waiters in
G: : ° a ks Country Club in
'“-k last summer when they
pasting anti-Semitic
, °n mirrors. Both men are
Germ , r ' of the fiends of the New
ir.a: - n 7 ’ Meanwhil e the Haupt-
r. ;r .. ‘ f efense Committee is plan-
tro - 'raising meetings in De
er rifi hlcag0 > Milwaukee and oth-
latio- large German popu-
havf h ile ^ omm ittee’s collections
Per.d v n ^PP^ in New York
of a hear mg on the legality
^it w S ° liCitation w ifi lou t a per-
that a ° rci from Chicago indicates
there SUrLdar 15311 will be imposed
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MRS. ARTHUR BRIN
COMMITTEE CHARGES
ANTI-SEMITISM TO
DISCREDIT NEW DEAL
Charges Made By Jewish Agita
tors Branded as False
and Baseless
Offers Plan To Settle War
Debts and Cut Armaments
Jewish Attorney Makes Public a
Plan For Settlement of War Debts
And Reduction of Armaments
Chicago (WNS)-—Salmon A. Le
vinson, noted Chicago Jewish at
torney, who is credited with origi
nating the Kellog Pact for the Out
lawry of War and who was men
tioned for the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1929 and 19,10, has made public
a plan for the settlement of war
debts and reduction of armaments.
Mr. Levinson, who is chairman of
the Chicago Committee for the De
fense of Human Rights Against
Nazism (the anti-boycott organiza
tion in the Middle West) proposes
to settle the war debts problem by
cutting the premium by forty per
cent, the remainder to be paid off
in twelve annual installments. As
to armaments, Mr. Levinson pro
poses a five-year holiday, subject
to completion, replacements and
repairs under existing treaties, but
during that five-year period he
would initiate proportional arms
reduction to the extent of fifty per
cent.
Former Premier
New York (WNS)-Anti-Jew-
ish agitation by native American
groups and individuals is largely
of a political character designed
to discredit the Federal adminis
tration and exploit anti-Jewish
prejudice, it is asserted in the
28th annual report of the Ameri
can Jewish Committee. Labeling
these propogandists as retailers of
falsehood, the report scored the
“practice of pretending that there
is something sinister in the pres
ence of Jews in public office,” and
condemned any approval of “the
institution of a racial and religious
percentage system in connection
with appointment to public of
fice.” The report also branded as
false and baseless the charges
made by anti-Jewish agitators
that Jew's as such foment move
ments subversive to law and
authority. Quoting from bibical
and historical sources, the Com
mittee concluded that “while un
der our form of government every
individual has the right to join
a legally existing political party,
Jewish teaching condemns all doc
trines violating the Talmudic
maxim that the law of the land
is the law of the Jews. The vast
majority of Jewish citizens of the
United States who adhere to their
religious traditions continue,
therefore, to unhold the demo
cratic American methods for
achieving economic, social and
cultural progress.”
Masaryk Honored On
Eighty-Fifth Birthday
Jewish Community of Prague Do
nated 50,000 Kronen to Philan
thropy, Honoring President
Elcutherious Venizelos, former
Premier of Greece, is one of the
leaders In the Greek Revolution,
Venizelos, of late, has been an
outspoken anti-Semite, and the
Jews of Greece are rejoicing as
news of the defeat of the rebels
is being heard.
GERMANY’S ZIONISTS
ASK TO REGULARIZE
STATUS OF JEWRY
The First Request By Authoritative
Jewish Spokesman voiced By
Juedische Rundschau
Prague (WNS) — Joining in the
nation-wide tribute to President
Thomas Masaryk on his eighty-
fifth birthday, Czechoslovakian
Jewry voiced its gratitude for the
venerable statesman’s long friendli
ness to Jews and to Palestine at a
huge mass meeting in the Jewish
town hall. The Jewish community
of Prague donated 50,000 kronen to
philanthropy in honor of Masaryk’s
birthday and appropriated 10,000
kronen for Kfar Masaryk, the Pal
estinian colony being established in
Masaryk’s name. Masaryk first
became known as a friend of the
Jewish people when, as a twenty-
seven-year-old university professor,
he defended Leopold Hilsner against
a blood ritual accusation. During
the World War, when he was work
ing to win Czechoslovakia’s inde
pendence, he obtained substantial
aid from American Jews. At that
time he publicly endorsed the pro
posal of a Jewish homeland in Pal
estine. When he visited Palestine
in 1927 as president of the Czecho
slovak Republic, he was the first
head of a European state to do so.
When the Hitler regime came into
power he was among the first to de
nounce Nazi anti-Semitism and to
demand League of Nations protec
tion for the German Jews. Under
his wise rule, Czechoslovokia has
been free of the Jew-baiting com
mon in most of the Central Euro
pean states. He also made it possi
ble for many German refugees to
find a haven in Czechoslovakia.
RADIUM IS COLLECTED
IN PALESTINE
Quantity of Fifty or Sixty Milli
grams lias Just Been Donat
ed to the Department
Honor Altheimer On
Eighty-Fifth Birthday
New York (WNS)—The patriar
chal Ben Altheimer, who is nation
ally known as the father of Flag
Day and Bundle Day. celebrated
his 85th birthday here by receiving
as a testimonial a check for $10,-
000 from a committee representing
the National Jewish Hospital at
Denver, which he helped found
thirty-six years ago, as the first
national Jewish consumptive agen
cy. The $10,000 gift is to be added
to the $30,000 Ben Altheimer Fund
established five years ago in honor
of his 80th birthday. A retired
banker, Mr. Altheimer has been
treasurer of the National Jewish
Hospital since its inception in 1899.
Report Ecuador Granted
Site For Jewish Colony
Paris (WNS)—The special Jew
ish committee that has been nego
tiating with Ecuador for the estab
lishment of a Jewish colony in that
South American republic reports
that the Ecuadoran parliament has
given its approval to a grant of
1,000 acres of land as the site of a
Jewish agricultural and industrial
community. Complete freedom and
equality with other citizens are to
be accorded the Jewish settlers who
will also be assured of economic
and cultural guarantees. The local
committee is planning to convene
a conference of interested groups
to further the settlement of East
European Jews in Ecuador.
Jerusalem (WNS—Palcor Agen
cy)—This country is gradually on
its way to assembling a sizeable
store of radium, that precious sub
stance which is of (inestimable
value for the cure of disease. A
quantity of fifty or sixty milli
grams has just been donated to
the Department of Radiobiology
of the Hadassah Hospital, which
will shortly be incorporated in the
University Medical Center on
Mount Scopus, by an English firm
of precious metal refiners and ra
dium specialists. Professor Lud
wig Halberstaedter, famous Ger
man Jewish roentgenologist, who
now heads the radiobiology sec
tion of the hospital here and is
to take charge of the University
Laboratory in this research from
this spring brought some hundreds
of milligrams of radium when he
reached here from Germany.
Other gifts since then include a
small amount from Dr. Ira L.
Kaplan, of New York City, for
his late mother. Palestine will
soon have one whole gram of the
priceless material. Egypt, with
14,000,000 people, has little more
available.
Jersey Assembly
Passes Bill Banning
Nazi Propaganda
Trenton, N. J. (WNS)—With only
one dissenting vote, the assembly
of the New Jersey legislature pass
ed for the second time Assembly-
man John Rafferty’s bill designed
to prohibit the spreading of Nazi
propaganda. The same bill was
passed last year but was killed in a
senate committee. A similar fate
is believed to await it this year
because the bill is so phrased as to
constitute, in the opinions of many
constitutional authorities, a threat
to free speech and assembly. The
Rafferty measure forbids the
"spreading of propaganda inciting
to religious or racial hatred” and
bans the dissemination of pernici
ous literature by declaring such dis
tribution a misdemeanor. Violation
of the law would carry a punish
ment of imprisonment from ninety
days to three years and a fine of
from $200 to $5,000, or both.
Berlin (WNS)—The first request
by an authoritative Jewish spokes
man for the regularization and
clarification of the status of Ger
man Jewry under the Nazi regime
was voiced here by the Juedische
Rundschau, organ of the German
Zionist Federation, when it out
lined a four-point program as a
basis for determining the official
position of Jewry within the frame
work of the Nazi state. Although
there is no indication as to the
government’s reaction to this pro
posal, it is noteworthy that this is
the first time such a request has
been officially made by a recogniz
ed Jewish mouthpiece. At the same
time, however, the Jewish commu
nity found that Jewish refugees
returning to Germany need expect
no favors - from the government.
Some thirty refugees, who believed
that the anti-Semitic drive had
abated, reentered Germany, only to
find themselves under arrest as sus
picious characters, and facing long
terms in a special concentration
camp.
The Juedische Rundschau’s pro
gram envisages the following points:
1, ending of public insults to Jews;
2, granting of official and unoffi
cial economic equality to Jews; 3,
Jewish autonomy over their own
cultural institutions under govern
ment supervision; 4, regulation of
Jewish migration. In explaining
its program, the Zionist organ de
clares that the present uncertainty
of the legal status of the Jews cre
ates chaos because every petty of
ficial interprets the laws as he
pleases; and points out that con
ditions arising from this situation
are intolerable.
The refugees who ventured to re
turn and found themselves under
arrest are to be transferred to an
“educational camp,” a euphemism
for a concentration camp. Some
were released after rigorous ques
tioning on their promise to quit the
country immediately. In the course
of the questioning, police officials
said that since they had been a-
broad for so long they must be re
educated in Nazi doctrines before
they are allowed to resume per
manent residence in the Reich.
New York Park
Association Honors
Commissioner Moses
New York Commissioner Has Been
Under Fire of Secretary of the
Interior Ickes
New York (WNS)—Robert Moses
New York Park Commissioner whose
tenure of that municipal office sim
ultaneously with membership in the
Triborough Bridge Authority has
been under the fire of Secretary of
the Interior Ickes, has been award
ed the annual testimonial for out
standing park service of the Park
Association of New York City, of
which Mrs. Iphigene Ochs Sulz
berger is president. The award, an
illuminated scroll, lauds Mr. Moses’
achievements as head of the city’s
park system and expresses the con
fidence of the association that “un
der his leadership and administra
tion the city’s paries will increase in
beauty and usefulness.”