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Friday, April 26, 1935.
The Southern
Israelite
Page Seven
AMERICAN ZIONISTS
TO aECT DELEGATES
JUNE 2300
New York (WNS) — American
Zionists will elect their delegates
t he 19th World Zionists Con-
Less on Sunday, June 23, under
the direction of the United States
Central Chekel and Election
Boird which consists of sixteen
representatives from all Zionist
parties divided as follows: six from
j he Zionist Organization of Amer
ica including the Hadassah and
Ihe Order Sons of Zion; six from
Ihe Poale Zion and Zeire Zion;
three from the Mizrachi and one
from the Zionist Revisionists. Leo
Wolf ; on is chairman of the board.
In order to prevent holders of
unpaid shekolim from voting the
board has printed a special regis
ter containing all numbers of she
kolim receipts issued and paid for
this year. Copies of this register
will be placed in the polling place
on the day of election and only
those holding shekel receipts
whose number appears on the reg
ister will be permitted to vote.
Plain Talk
YOU KIPPUR FOR CHRISTIANS
By AL SEGAL
The Christian Century proposes:
That the Christians take up Yom
Kippur as a day of self-examina
tion and in order to offer to the
Jews a brotherly gesture.
Let us, therefore, imagine that
the universal observance of this
holy day began next Yom Kippur:
Banks and government offices were
closed. The great corporations laid
off for the day, while their presi
dents and boards of directors went
to their churches for the self-ex
amination of their souls.
In fact, New York (which, as I
hear, looks almost like a deserted
city on all Yom Kippurs) seemed to
have fallen dead on this Yom Kip
pur. Nothing moved. The brokers,
the bankers and the chiselers were
looking at their souls and beating
their breasts in contrition in all the
churches.
Many of them looked at their
souls with stunned amazement.
They did not know they had souls
and the discovery startled them.
Others, indeed, sat in their church
es bewildered. They searched in
tently for their souls but couldn’t
find any.
Yom Kippur had become fash
ionable; and so, even if one had no
soul, he pretended he had it and
sat all day in church meditating on
what the stock market would do in
its next move . . . whether General
Motors ever was going to pay stock
dividends again . . . whether there
was any hope of war to swell the
profits of Bethlehem Steel.
The strikers of the U. S. Door
knob Corporation took advantage
of the occasion to stage a nasty
demonstration in front of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
There the chairman of the hoard
of the U. S. Doorknob Corporation
bad gone to examine his soul on
^om Kippur and when he emerged
e was beset by a howling mob of
the strikers.
^ou ain’t got no soul!”
Who ever told you you had one?”
And they threw a cabbage at
‘ This was the only incident to
n ’•be solemn day. The chairman
° f the board of the U. S. Doorknob
: P°ration had, indeed, found his
an d made a careful survey of
• an ci found no fault in it. He had
laken account of all he had done to
a va nce the doorknob industry, for
? bad, in fact, increased the pro
duction of doorknobs from 500,000
7 a m blion a day and had seen to
| tnat tbe profit was divided among
. e Stoc kholders by an extra divi-
enci His soul felt the more virtu-
J to think how the strikers were
PPiessing him with their outrage-
s demands for more wages.
***
The universal observance of Yom
; was not without its effect
on l be Jews. Yom Kippur had,
Legend of “The Wandering Jew” Inspires Film Drama
Conrad Veidt, film’s foremost ‘psychopath’ role interpreter, * tars in “The Wandering Jew” that comes
to the Erlanger Theatre on Friday, May 3rd. Four significant episodes presented in elaborate pageantry
made from great stage play by E. Temple Thurston.
“The Wandering Jew,” Julius
Hagen’s screen production from
the late E. Temple Thurston’s fa
mous play, originally produced on
the London stage by Matheson
Lang, is scheduled to open at the
Erlanger Theatre on May 3, with
Conrad Veidt in the title role.
The story is told in four epi
sodes: Jerusalem on the Day of
the Crucifixion; Antioch in the
time of the First Crusade; Paler
mo, Sicily, in 1290, and Seville in
1560 during the days of the In
quisition.
The Jewish “Day” in a recent
review of this film that ran six
weeks at one theater in New York,
says:
“And that Jew never dies. He
lives eternally, and wanders over
the face of the earth in many dif
ferent forms—such is the legend.
In this film one sees him in sev
eral periods of the middle ages,
and finally in the time of the
bloody Inquisition in Spain, where
he dies a martyr’s death at the
stake, not wishing to give up his
Jewish faith. In this scene the
Wandering Jew reproaches his in
quisitors, saying that their Jesus
would not recognize His teachings
were He to see how they applied
them. The scene is a powerful
one.
Conrad Veidt plays this last
scene ihasterfully. His appearance
as a Spanish doctor, his proud,
courageous bearing, and his clever
choice of words, leave a very deep
impression.
The film is well made, and will
surely interest the moviegoer.”
TREATMENT OF JEWS
IS BAR TO RETURN
OF COLONIES
“Germany’s Racial Doctrine la In
compatible With the Very Princ
iple of Mandates”—Guardian
London (WNS) — Germany’s
treatment of the Jews in the Reich
would bar her from getting back
any of the colonies she lost after
the World War, the Manchester
Guardian declares, in commenting
on Germany’s demand for the re
turn of her colonies as the price
of her return to the League of
Nations. Pointing out that it is
doubtful whether Germany’s racial
policy would permit a fair admin
istration over non-Aryan popula
tions elsewhere, the Guardian says
that “in none of the mandated
territories formerly belonging to
Germay are natives treated as the
Jews in Germany. Germany’s rac
ial doctrine is incompatible with
the very principle of mandates.”
with God if my stomach were con
tented? My ravenous stomach howls
down my voice speaking to God.”
I recommend to every Christian
a hearty breakfast before the Yom
Kippur service and that the Cath
edral of St. John the Divine take
an hour out for lunch between the
morning and afternoon service of
Yom Kippur.
Copyright 1935 by Seven Arts Fea
ture Syndicate.
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n fact, become scarcely more than
i ritual habit among the Jews, an
merous duty of which, at the end
if the day, they were happy to be
rid.
Yom Kippur was like rain, snow
ind other severities of nature. It
bad to be endured and made the
aest of.
Many of them used to spend the
day walking it off, going from syn
agogue to synagogue; or they
stood in multitudes in front of the
synagogues to breathe the fresh
air, but now and then they indulg
ed their nostrils with a breath of
the holy atmosphere inside.
Or they went home to quiet their
protesting stomachs by an hour of
sleep, inasmuch as they had not
eaten since sundown before; or they
watched the slow progress of the
hours around the clock. And, in
deed, they had scarcely time to look
at their souls since they were trou
bled more by their stomachs which
meditated hungrily on food while
their parched tongues indulged
their fancy with happy.mirages of
lakes, rivers and oceans.
But this day when Yom Kippur
became a universal holy day and
fashionable, they were made aware
of values they have never detected
before.
They said, “There must be some
thing in Yom Kippur that we have
n’t seen.”
Certainly, there must be some
thing in it since the chairman of
the board of the U. S. Doorknob
Corporation was observing it. He
knew values. Certainly, it must
have something since Mrs. Vanas-
tor has been in the cathedral look
ing at her soul all'day. She set the j
fashions.
Quiet dignity rested in all the
synagogues on this Yom Kippur
and the streets in front were silent,
since all the worshippers were in
side; and Yom Kippur was not
something merely to be endured but
to be cultivated, since it is fashion
able.
Jews had discovered what Yom
Kippur really was for and looked
anxiously at their souls. Not that
I mean to say that all Jews had
souls at which to look; indeed,
there were those (just as among
the non-Jews) who had difficulty
ascertaining their souls with their
naked eyes.
It is hoped, however, that by
long searching, through many Yom
Kippurs, they might find in the
darkness some vestiges of souls.
*-**
So, I am certainly in favor of
making Yom Kippur fashionable,
an all souls’ day, as one might say.
But I do recommend to Christians
that in adopting Yom Kippur they
do not include mortification of
their stomachs. A hungry stomach
will not conduce an impartial ex
amination of his soul by the chair
man of the board of the U. S. Door
knob Corporation. His rapt eyes
will be called from the search of
his soul by the howling of his
stomach.
Even as he is giving his mind to
the Yom Kippur service in the
cathedral, his heretical stomach
will jibe at him: “What sort of re
ligion is this that requires this
punishment of me? My dear Mr.
Chairman, could you not better ex
amine your soul if your body were
without this pain of hifnger?”
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The chairmen’s eyes will, indeed,
be divided between his soul and his
mortified stomach. He will yield
at length to the arguments of his
stomach which he has known in a
friendly way a long time, while his
soul is practically a stranger to
him; and the remainder of the holy
day he will give to rebellious medi
tations against Yom Kippur: “Does
God delight in my suffering? Could
I not be in more happy communion
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