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The Southern Israelite
VOL. X—NO. 32
ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 7,1935.
Price Five Cents
U. S. FIRMS USE NAZI PROPAGANDA
Volunteers Strive to Reach Goal Before Campaign Closes
JNF Campaign
Reaches Climax
Sunday Night
Radio Address By
Zionist President
Atlanta’s Jewish National Fund
campaign to raise money for the
purpose of securing lrnd in Pales
tine for Jewish refugees is expected
to be brought to a close Sunday
evening at which time the Presi-
Hent of the Zionist Organization of
Ameri a Mr. Mor : s Rothenberg of
New York Pity, will be the honored
cnest of the local order at a huge
banquet to be held at the Jewish
Educational Alliance in his honor,
end the officials of the campaign
fund will present to Mr. Ttothen-
berg a check of a substantial
. mount as Atlanta’s contribution
to the National fund which object
is to raise $500,000 over the United
States at this time.
The Campaign launched in At
lanta on May 22nd is successfully
being terminated under the steady
workmanship of some one hundred
men and women workers represent
ing 30 organizations who volun
teered their services for the worthy
cause. Working under the leader
ship of Major Ralph I. Willner and
assisted by Meyer Rich, Rabbi Har
ry H. Epstein. Harry N. Wengrow,
Edward R. Vajda, Mrs. Sam E.
Levy and 34 captains the local Jew
ish community wholeheartedly con
tributed to the Palestine cause.
Rabbis Joseph Cohen and Tobias
Geffen are Honorary Chairmen,
each one leading the full support
of their congregation behind the
drive.
Sitting around the banquet table
with Mr. Rothenberg will be per-
-ons who contributed $12.00 or
more to the movement. However, all
Atlanta is invited to come and hear
the main address which is schedul
ed to start about 8:45 P. M. Those
contributing the $12.00 pledges will
be entitled to two plates and also
a certificate showing purchase of
a quarter acre of ground in Pales
tine.
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 the
Zionist president will address At
lanta Jewry over Radio Station
WGST. While in Atlanta Mr. Roth
enberg will be the guest of the lo
cal Zionist order and will be enter
tained with a special luncheon Sun
day noon.
MORRIS ROTHENBERG, WHO
SPEAKS HERE SUNDAY,
INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN
Morris Rothenberg, President of
■ he Zionist Organization of Amer
ica. speaking here Sunday, June 9,
at the Jewish Educational Alliance,
under the auspices of the Atlanta
Jewish National Fund Committee,
was re-elected to that post at the
|ast annual convention of the organ
isation in Chicago. The esteem in
which he has held by the Zionist
movement not only in the United
Mates, but also internationally, was
■ est indicated by the fact that at
f’rague last summer he was elected
as co-chairman of the International
■ ouncil of the Jewish Agency, the
upreme governing body of the Jew-
i<h agency recognized in the man
date of the League of Nations.
While here Mr. Rothenberg will
the guest of the Zionist branch
of the order here, a special lunch-
e,, n in his honor to be held Sunday
afternoon. Although only those
pledging $12.00 or more will be en
titled to two plates at the elaborate
banquet to be held in his honor on
Sunday night, starting at 6:30 P.
M-. the public is cordially invited
to hear his address which will start
bout 8:45 P. M. At 4:30 Sunday
afternoon Mr. Rothenberg is sched-
J led to deliver a radio address to
Atlanta Jewry over Station WGST.
Morris Rothenberg is one of the
outstanding personalities in Amer-
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TO SPEAK HERE
MORRIS ROTHENBERG
President, Zionist Organization of
America, Co-Chairman, Interna
tional Council of the Jewish Agen
cy for Palestine, who will speak
h<'re Sunday at the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance.
RUTGERS HEAD
ADMITS SEEKING
NAZI MATERIAL
New Brunswick, N. J. (WNS)—
An admission that he had recently
written to Dr. Paul Joseph Goeb-
bels, Nazi propaganda minister, for
some material for cultural propa
ganda which he intended to send
all over the 1 United IStates was
drawn from Dr. F. J. Hauptmann,
head of the department of German
at the New Jersey College for
Women, when he took the stand to
testify in his own behalf before a
committee of the trustees of Rut
gers University, of which the Col
lege for Women is a part. The
committee is probing charges that
Dr. Lienhard Bergel was dismissed
from the German department be
cause his anti-Nazi views were op
posed to those of Dr. Hauptmann.
As the inquiry entered its second
week, the committee heard Dr.
Hauptmann express regret that
Harvard had rejected a scholarship
offer from Dr. Ernest F. S. Hanf-
staengl. Hitler’s press aid. Reiter
ating his complaints against Dr.
Bergel, Hautpmann insisted that
Bergel was incompetent, that stu
dents hal complained against his
teaching, that he gave dispropor
tionately high marks and that the
high standards of the college re
quired his dismissal. On the other
hand, Hauotmann denied that he
was himself anti-Semitic.
Supporting his assertion that he
was not anti-Semitic, Dr. Haupt
mann declared he had engaged a
Jewish girl to teach English to his
children and that on a recent visit
to Germany he had attempted to
arrange for an exchange of a^ Ger-
man-Jewish student to the United
States and an American-Jewish stu
dent to Germany. He also denied
calling the late President Woodrow
Wilson as “schweinhund” but ad
mitted he had supplied the college
department of political science with
Nazi literature in “order to sup
port the department’s effort to keep
an impartial point of view on the
German situation.” Hauptmann
also told the committee that he had
taken out his first citizenship
papers in 1930 or 1931 and that he
had signed the state teachers loy
alty oath. Questioned regarding
his views on Nazism, Hauptmann
said he did not think Nazi ideas
could be used in the United States.
Some of these ideas are good, he
declared, and “other things I do
not believe.” He added, however,
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Florida Leaders
Form Jacksonville
Community Council
Jacksonville, Fla. — Representa
tives of all Jewish organizations
here, religious, welfare and civic,
voted unanimously to unite into the
Jacksonville Community Council, it
was announced today. This organ
ization will sponsor a Jewish Wel
fare Fund to meet in coordinated
fashion the appeals of the various
national i nd international Jewish
agencies, and will concern itself
generally with problems pertaining
to the betterment of local Jewish
communal life.
The movement towards the Com
munity Council was initiated under
the leadership of Rabbi Israel L.
Kaplan, with the assistance of rep-
•esenlatives of the National Coun
cil of Jewish Federation and Wel
fare Funds, which has been spon
soring this form of community or
ganization throughout the country.
These officers were elected to
head the Council: Morton Hirsch-
berg, president; Max Moss, first
vice-president; Rabbi Israel Kap
lan, second vice-president; Rabbi
Morris D. Margolis, secretary;
David Moscovitz, treasurer. Rabbi
Kaplan was named as chairman of
the committee to draft the consti
tution.
The leading national Jewish wel
fare 'agencies have already con
ducted their separate 1935 appeals
in Jacksonville. However, the
Council plans immediately to lay
the groundwork and to gather the
necessary information for a welfare
fund campaign in the early spring
of 1936.
“Hitherto,” Rabbi Kaplan ex
plained, “the various non-local wel
fare agencies have appealed sepa
rately for funds. The result has
been a certain amount of confusion,
a multiplicity of appeals, an over
lapping of activities. The estab
lishment of a central fund raising
mechanism will go far toward end
ing this confusion, permitting effi-
ient raising of funds, and equitable
distribution. In addition there are
common problems of local Jewish
welfare that the community can
properly meet only by common ac
tion.
“The formation of the Commu
nity Council form of organization
guarantees democratic representa
tion to all groups in the community,
•md serves as a meeting ground for
all points of view. This form of
organization has been successfully
applied to other Jewish communi
ties whose problems are similar to
those of Jacksonville, and we are
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Rumania Considers
Measures T o End
Student Riots
Bucharest (WNS) — Following
renewed anti-Semitic riots in the
University of Bucharest resulting
in injuries to more than a score of
RE-ELECTED
LOUIS H. MOSS
w r as re-elected for his ninth term
ar President Atlanta Federation of
Jewel Social Service.
COMMUNITY HONORS
MOSS AT DINNER
AT STANDARD CLUB
In recognition of his service to
the Atlanta Federation of Jewish
Social Service, Louis H. Moss, who
was just re-elected for his ninth
consecutive term as president of
his organization, was tendered a
testimonial dinner at the Standard
Club, given by members of the
Board of Directors and officers of
all the Jewish congregations. Mr.
A. L. Meyers was toastmaster.
Among those present when Mr.
Moss was given a silver service as
a token of appreciation were the
representatives of Atlanta’s con
gregations: Oscar Gershon, presi
dent of Ahavath Achim Congrega
tion; Louis Geffen, Shearith Israel;
Mortimer Freeman, Adath Yeshu-
run; Davis Ajouelo, Or V’Shalon;
and Max Goldstein, president of the
Temple.
Others present were: Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Boehm, Mr. and Mrs.
Abe Feldman, Mr. and Mrs. Her
man Hyman, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
M. Gershon, Dr. and Mrs. David
Marks, Rabbi and Mrs. Harry H.
Epstein, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Para-
dies, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Meyers,
Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Levitas, Mr.
Joel Dorfan, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Loeb, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur I. Har
ris, Sr., Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Yam-
polsky, Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Clark,
Dr. and Mrs. Louie Berger, Dr.
and Mrs. J. E. Sommerfield, Dr.
and Mrs. Irving H. Goldstein, Dr.
Nathan Blass, Dr. Morris Ebers-
field, Dr. and Mrs. Mose Kinstein,
Mrs. I. F. Sterne, Mrs. Leonard
Haas, Mr. and Mrs. Leopold J.
lewish students, including a num
ber of girls, the ministry of edu
cation closed the medical school
for a week and threatened to close
the entire university indefinitely
unless the students maintained or
der. Defying the authorities, the
students in the law school have
gone out on strike in sympathy
with their medical colleagues. The
outbreak occurred when the uni
versity was reopened after a long
shutdown resulting from the last
riots. In the hope of finding some
means of preventing further dis
orders the minister of education
is calling a conference of the heads
of all universities on May 23rd.
Haas.
It was under Mr. Moss’ leadership
that the scope of the Atlanta Fed
eration has been broadened to em
brace every phase of Jewish Social
Se r vice with special attention in
relieving distress. Formerly known
as the Atlanta Federation of Jew
ish Charities, the name of the or
ganization w’as charged last year
to the Atlanta Federation of Jew
ish Social Service.
The Federation of Jewish social
service operates the Jewish Educa
tional Alliance community center,
and the MorriB Hirsch Clinic, said
to be the largest and most modem
dental clinic in the city. A separate
children’s division, the only one of
its kind in Atlanta, was added to i
the non-sectarian clinic a short time
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Seek Congress
Probe of Use
Of Nazi Pamphlet
Pamphlet Author Helps
Smash Trade Unions
New York (WNS)—The Amer
ican Association for Social Secur
ity is asking United States Senator
Robert F. Wagner to demand a
Congressional investigation of a
pamphlet written by a Nazi propa
gandist which is being used by some
of the most powerful American
corporations to fight social secur
ity legislation. The pamphlet,
which is called **Will America Copy
Germany’s Mistakes?” was written
by Gustave Hartz, a Nazi living in
Germany, and inspired by Amo P.
Mowitz, a German consul in Penn
sylvania and head of the Berkshire
Knitting Mills at Reading, Pennsyl
vania, a large textile plant. The
pamphlet is being distributed
throughout the country by the
Pennsylvania Self-Insurere Asso
ciation, and in New York by the
Me'dieal Society of the State of New
York. Among the members of the
Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Asso
ciation are the American Telephone
and Telegrah Company, the Belli
Telephone Company, the Bethlehem
Steel Company, and the Berkshire
Knitting Mills.
The author of the pamphlet, orig
inally written in German and then
translated into English, was close
friend of Hugenberg and* Krupps
and helped Hitler smash the Ger
man trad unions. He was assigned
to write the pamphlet after he had
communicated with Mowitz who
sold the idea to the industrialists.
Walter Linn, secretary of the
Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Associa
tion, was sent to Germany to ar
range for the publication of the
pamphlet. The object of the pam
phlet is to defeat social security
legislation in this country by dis
crediting the pre-Hitler plan of so
cial insurance in Germany. Be
cause certain sections of the medi
cal profession in this country op
pose socialized medicine, they
undertook to cooperate in the dis
tribution of the pamphlet.
The pamphlet not only praises
Hitler’s labor policy, but contains
outright Nazi propaganda, and
recommends to readers another
book by Hartz, in which the fol
lowing bits of Nazi propaganda ap
pear: “to the fore of Marxism with
its many sided nature, the murder
ous Jewish spirit leads a devastat
ing and annihilating war on our
people.”—“democracy in the mod
ern sense is fickleness and bad
character translated into politics”
—“much humaner were the peoples
of earlier times who put their
weakling children put to die.”
Colony In Palestine
Named For Gen. Smuts
Haifa ,(WNS—Palcor Agency)
—The name of General Jan Chris
tiaan Smuts, former Premier and
now Deputy Premier of South Af
rica, was permanently linked with
modern Palestine when the Keren
Hayesod (Palestine Foundation
Fund) formally dedicated a new
colony called “Ramath Jochanan
Smuts.” Another Keren Hayesod
settlement, called Kfar Usha, was
inaugurated at the same time on
the site of the famous Jewish au
tonomous region which had been
erected after the destruction of the
Second Temple. The commander of
the East African camp&ign during
the War is now the third Christian
statesman after whom the Jews of
Palestine have named one of their,
settlements. The other two are
David Lloyd George and the late
Lord Balfour.