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The
Southern Israelite
Friday, April 26, 1935.
The
Southern Israelite
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a* sharing the view* *xpre**e<l by the
writer* except th«»e enunciated in the
editorial column*.
TIME TO ACT
Dr. Dmitri Marlanoff, son-in-law
of Professor Albert Einstein, is now
in this country on a mission to in
terest American Jewry in Le Rcn-
ouveau, an association which has
established a farm school in France
for the purpose of training the
Jewish youth in agriculture. Le
Renouveau Association was estab
lished in 1933, with the primary
aim of aiding Oerman Jewish ref
ugees who had fled to France. Dr.
Marlanoff, however, believes that,
given the proper support, Le Ren
ouveau Association could, widen its
program and become a world-wide
organization.
Farm schools for Jews are needed
everywhere. To students of Jewish
life It Is becoming increasingly ob
vious that the misfortunes that
have overwhelmed Jewish commu
nities in Central and Eastern Eu
rope and that are threatening to
create the same conditions in oth
er parts of the world are due in
large measure to Jewish overcrowd
ing of the liberal and commercial
professions and their abandonment
of artisanshlp and agriculture.
There is no question that Dr.
Marianoff's point of view is very
much in order and that even the
Jewish community of America
should consider its application in
this country. Institutions like the
National Farm School at Doyles-
town, Pa., which have the facilities
to train young men and women in
agriculture and farming, are a* val
uable intsrument deserving of In
terest. It Is high time that we
stop discussing the overcrowding of
liberal and commercial professions
theoretically, and conisder direct
action as to how to remedy the
situation.
CAN WAR BE ABOLISHED?
Among the many hundreds of
volumes that the publishers are pla
cing on the market this spring a
slender book by Herman Bernstein
deserves special attention. Herman
Bernstein, undoubtedly one of the
foremost publicists in this country,
has collected opinions by outstand
ing American and European per-
The Jewish Calendar
1935 5895
*Ro*h-Chodesh Iyar May 3
Lag B'omar - May 21
Roah-Chodeeh, Si van .... June 22
First Day of Shabuoth „ June 7
*Roah-Chodesh, Tammsx July 1
Fast of Tammut .... July 18
Roah-Chodesh. Ab July 81
Fast of Ab August 8
•Rosh-Chodesh, Ellul August 29
End of Year 5695, New
Year's Eve September 27
Rosh Chodesh Kislev November 8
1st Day Chanukah December 2
Rosh Chodesh Tebeth December 7
Note—Holiday* begin in the evening
preceding the date designated.
*Ro»h Chodesh also observed the
previous day.
••Fast observed on following Sun
day.
—
.... Editor
Publisher
Business Mgr.
"NEXT WEEK
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SUNDAY, April 2B*h—
Opening of Baseball League at
James L. Key Field, 9:00 A. M,—
Nordsu vs. 8. I. J. ; 10:00 A. M.
- Davidean vs. B. A. C.
The following meetings will be
held at the Jewish Educational Al
liance :
10:00 A. M. Atlanta lodge.
10:00 A. M. United Hebrew Ben
evolent Society.
2:30 P. M. Young Maccabees.
2:30 P. M. Sons* of Solomon.
5:00 P. M. Six Point*.
Meeting of L. O. T. Club at the
home of David Cohen on Pryor St.,
at 2:30 P. M.
Dor-enette Club Meeting at the
home of Miss Shirley Makover at
her home on Vedado Way, 3:0Q
sharp.
.tun or Hadassah meeting at
Chamlsr of Commerce Building, As
sembly Boom Num 1st two, 8 :00 P.M.
MONDAY. April 29th—
8:00 P. M. Carrom Tourney opens
at Jewish Educational Alliance.
Tri-State Convention of Temple
Sisterhoods’ opening meeting at
Peachtree Itoad Temple, !) .80 A. M.
7 :80 P. M. Boy Scout Troop No.
27 to meet at Jewish Educational
Alliance.
7:80 P. M. Nnrdnu Club meeting
at Jewish Educational Alliance.
H :00 P. M. Davidean Club meet
ing at Jewish Educational Alliance,
TUESDAY, April 30th—
Council of Jewish Women enter
tains delegates of Tri-State Conven
tion of Temple Sisterhoods with a
tour of Atlanta and a tea in gard
en of Mrs. Arthur Harris on Ponce
de Leon Avenue.
6:00 P. M. Strnussean Club Meet
ing ut Jewish Educational Alliance.
WEDNESDAY. May 1st—
Dinner-Meeting Gate City Lodge,
No. 144, B'nai B’rlth at Standard
Club, 6:00 P. M.
THUKBDAY, May 2nd—
Jewish National Fund Meeting,
with all Jewish organizations of At
lanta, at Henry Grady Hotel, 8:00
P. M.
sonalities in the fields of litera
ture, art and politics on the ques
tion, “Can We Abolish War?" No
body but Bernstein could have ob
tained opinions of so wide a range
of people as the list represented in
his book. Ernest Toller, the Com
munist, Herbert Hoover, Sigmund
Freund, Gerald P. Nye, Edward A.
Filene, Lord Robert Cecil and a
score of similar names are repre
sented in Hermnn Bernstein’s book
which is a most interesting index
as to what world leaders think of
the possibility of permanent peace.
All those interested in world peace
should make It their pleasant duty
to read "Can We Abolish War?"
Temple Sisterhoods
Meet On April 29th
From Three States
Mrs. Ernest Horwitz, president of
the Tri-State Federation of Temple
Sisterhoods, will give a report of
the Washington biennial Monday
morning. April 29, at the opening
of the Sisterhood convention to be
held at 9:30 o'clock in the Peach
tree Road temple.
The afternoon session, following
a luncheon in the temple house,
will feature a symposium on tne
subject "The Synagogue and the
Home." At the evening session
Dr. Joseph Guinbina, of Selma, will
speak, and the meeting will be
concluded with a reception. Tues
day the Council of Jewish Women
will entertain the delegates with a
tour of the city and a tea in the
garden of Mrs. Arthur Harris on
Ponce de Leon avenue.
Mrs. David Marx is president of
the local sisterhood and the con
vention committee is composed of
Mrs. Henry Bauer, chairman; Mes-
dames Ben Fuchs. Jack Weinstock.
Leo Strauss, Charles Ursenbach,
Ben Massell, Joseph Freitag, chair
man of printing, and Mrs. Baron
Asher, chairman of publicity, also
Mrs. Julius Simon.
JEWISH MEN OF PEACE
Those Who Work For The Achievement of World
World Peace
HISTORY MADE AS JEWS
ATTEND MOSLEM FESTIVAL
Jerusalem (WNS — Palcor Agen
cy) — History was written here
when, for the first time, Jews of
ficially attended a Moslem pilgrim
age in honor of Nebi Musa, the
Feast of the Prophet. Four Jewish
members of the Jerusalem Munici
pal Council accepted the invitation
of Dr. Hussein Khaldi, Mayor of
Jerusalem, to be present at a re
ception to speed off a large group
of Moslem pilgrims leaving Jeru
salem for Jericho. * •
By ESTELLE M. STERNBERGER
This article by the executive
director of World Peaceway s
was written exclusively for the
Seven Arts affiliated publica
tions of which The Southern
Israelite is a member. Mrs.
Sternberger was formerly exe
cutive director of the Council
of Jewish Women and is re
garded as one of the outstand
ing pacifists in the world. Her
informative article describes the
major contributions to the perm
anent establishment of world
peace by Jews in the 20th cen
tury.
—The Editor.
During my trip to Europe this
summer in the interest of organ-
zing various countries for a world
wide peace program I had the op
portunity to observe the temper
of public opinion on the questions
of war and peace. I particularly
turned over in my mind the pact
to outlaw war, the Briand-Kellog
Pact, which was signed six years
ago. on August 27, 1928; and I
took stock of the progress made
by the nations toward that goal—
the elimination of war as a na
tional policy.
In this connection I remembered
that it was Salmon O. Levinson
of Chicago who was given credit
for having pressed this idea of the
lutlawry of war upon the attention
of governments, through a com
mittee that he had formed for
that particular purpose. Many of
his friends throughout the world
have experienced keen disappoint
ment that his service in this di
rection has not gained him the
Nobel Peace Award. The news
papers had mentioned hfs name
as a possibility when speculation
was rife as to the likely recipients
of a recent award.
This important role of Mr. Lev
inson tempts us to ask what part
the Jews of recent times have
played in the major peace de
velopments of ftie twentieth cen
tury. The list of honor is an im
posing one, touching some of the
foremost agencies and movements
in international relations. Dr. E.
J. Dillon, a writer on interna
tional subjects, expressed a gen
erally accepted opinion when he
stated that the Czar of Russia,
in inviting the nations in 1898
to send representatives to the first
Hague Conference in 1899, had
been moved by Jean Bloch's book
"The Warfare of the Future, from
the Technical, Political and
Economical Points of View.” By
1902 this Jew of Russian Poland,
a banker and economist, was no
longer alive to see his "Museum
of War and Peace” opened at
Lucerne. Switzerland, to illustrate
his theory by graphic methods.
On one of my recent visits to
Europe I saw that building in
Lucerne, but it is no longer being
ised for its original purpose. Many
more significant contributions to
the peace thought of the world
might have been made by Jean
Bloch it his life had not been
cut short. He had even then an
ticipated many of the points of
view urged by Norman Angell in
his book "The Great Illusion."
particularly the thought that all
victories are pseudo-victories and
cost a nation far more than it
gains. His emphasis on questions
of economic organization would
have put him in line with the
most advanced thinkers on the
issues of war and peace.
The recent international con
ference to determine the wheat
quotas of the various nations car
ries out the program envisioned by
the American David Lubin, who
as far back as 1905 gained the
sympathetic ear of the King of
Italy for the establishment of the
International Institute of Agri
culture at Rome. We realize today
that the question of preventing
wars dees not hinge alone upon
the reduction of armaments. We
are keenly aware that we must
put an end to the struggle for
markets among the nations, to
eliminate the savage competition
for the disposal of their agricul
tural and manufactured products,
if we want to keep governments
on good terms with one another.
The potency of Lugin’s idea is
illustrated by the fact that even
the outbreak of the World War
i in 1914 did not stop the represent
atives of 36 nations, including
representatives of the Allies and
I their enemy countries, Germany
and Hungary, from meeting in
; Rome, within three months after
| the war began, as members of the
Permanent Committee of the In-
! stitute. In this connection it is
interesting to remember that be
fore the World War in 1911, the
Nobel Peace Prize was shared by
two Jews, T. M. C. Asser of Hol-
| land and A. H. Fried of Austria.
Only a few days ago the press
announced President Roosevelt’s
decision to accept for the United
States membership in the Interna
tional Labor Organization an
autonomous group but actually a
creature of the League of Na
tions. It was Samuel Gompers,
the American labor leader, who
is credited with having gone to
the Versailles Peace Conference in
1919, with the demand that the
peace treaty recognize the neces
sity of securing justice for labor
throughout the world as a step
ping stone to world peace. Ac
cordingly a special section, em
bodying that thought, was writ
ten into the treaty. In recogni
tion of the American labor lead
er’s share in bringing about the
International Labor Organization,
which now has its headquarters
in Geneva, the first meeting of
that body was held in the United
States, at Washington, D. C., in
the year 1919.
As recently as 1929 Mr. Ed
ward A. Filene of Boston, through
the Twentieth Century Fund
which he established for advancing
international relations and the
study of international issues, con
tributed $25,000 to allow the In
ternational Labor Organization to
I make a study of labor standards,
including wages and cost of liv-
j ing. in countries throughout the
i world. It is an invaluable study,
making possible the determination
I of the degree and nature of the
i competition between labor of var
ious countries, as shown particu
larly in the cost of production of
various products. It is expected
that the International Labor Or
ganization will be able to ac
complish much toward leveling the
present unequal bases of competi
tion. arising from the fact that
one country resorts to low stand
ards of wages and living, as well
as long hours, while others aim
to produce for world markets
through higher and more humane
standards for labor.
Another important personality
on the peace horizon is Maxim
Litvinov, the Foreign Minister of
Soviet Russia. His energetic and
successful promotion of non-ag
gression pacts has challenged
world admiration. Japan, the most
threatening neighbor of Soviet
Russia, refused his tender of such
a pact pledging that neither na
tion would resort to arms for the
.djustment of any issue that might
arise between them and that each
would respect the territorial in
violability of the other. His pres
ence at any conference in a Eurc-
pean espial gains international
attention, for unusual proposals
are always expected from him. His
directness and frankness disarm
many of the diplomats.
Francis Lederer, the motion pic
ture star, has been devoting a con-
siderable portion of his income
toward advancing the idea of a
plebiscite on war, in which the
People, through a popular refer-
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The
ORACLE
By CARL ALPERT
....(The Oracle answers all ques
tions of general Jewish interest.
Queries should be addressed to The
Oracle, care of The Southern Is
raelite).
Q. Who was the first president
of the Jewish National Fund?—s.
K.
A. The first president of the J.
N. F. was Johann Krementzky, who
died in 1934. Krementzky was one
of the founders of the Fund, was a
famous engineer, a pioneer in the
electrical industry and at the time
of his death was interested in sev
eral industrial undertakings in Pal
estine.
Q. How large will the Hadassah
Hospital in Palestine be?—G. M. L.
A. The hospital will be erected
on Mount Scopus on an area of five
acres. The institution, which will
be in charge of world famous Jew
ish scientists, will include a 250-bed
hospital, X-ray laboratories, out
patient department, maternity pa
vilion and nurses’ training school.
Q. Is Henri Bergson Jewish?—
W. N.
A. Henri Bergson, the famous
French philosopher, was born a
Jew, but is now a member of the
Catholic Church. Time and again
he has refused to identify himself
with any Jewish cause.
Q. To what extent are the Jews
of America interested in Commun
ism—P. E.
A. When it is considered that
there are over 4,000,000 Jews in
America and that the American
Communist Party received a total
vote of only 80,000 in the recent
presidential election throughout the
country, it may be seen that it is
absurd to claim concentrated Jew
ish support of the party. Jews
form less than three per cent of
the membrship of the various or
ganizations affiliated with or sym
pathetic to Communism. The Cen
tral Committee which administers
Communist Party affairs in this
country has only four or five Jews
out of about 35 members.
Q. Where does Mrs. Irma Lind-
heim make her home?—B. I. A.
A. Mrs. Irma Lindheim is a
Chalutzah (pioneer) and lives in
Kvutzah Mishmar Ha-Emek in the
Valley of Jezreel, Palestine. She is
noted as an author and lecturer
and is a former national president
of Hadassah.
Q. When was the original Ha-
koah soccer team organized?—P. B.
A. Hakoah, meaning strength in
Hebrew, was formed in Budapest
in 1907 for the physical develop
ment of Jewish youth. It grew to
an organization which at one time
numbered over five thousand mem
bers in Vienna alone. Hakoah was
not only a soccer group but includ
ed all forms of diversion; at one
stage of its existence Hakoah held
the European championships in
soccer, wrestling, hockey and swim
ming as well as chess.
Q. Have you authentic informa
tion regarding Mayor LaGoardia’s
ancestry?—H. I. W.
A. Fiorella LaGuardia, mayor of
New York, states that his mother’s
name was Irene Cohen Luzzatti and
that Premier Luigi Luzzatti, Italy's
outstanindg Jew, was a cousin of
his mother’s. His mother is buried
in the Jewish cemetery in Buda
pest. LaGuardia’s father was Ital
ian, but without church affiliation.
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