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The Southern Israelite
VOL. X-N0.33
ATLANTA, GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935.
Price Five Cents
SUPPORT OF OLYMPIC GAMES DEPLORED
Rothenberg Inspires Gathering With Plea For Co-operation
rnmmittee Extends Charge Jewish Hospital Ha.mtmann Eavnrell lUlltermver SaVS
Committee Extends Charge Jewish Hospital
Campaign Two "
More Weeks NEW YORK.—(WNS)—Charges
that officials of Beth Moses Hos
pital, an affiliate of the Brooklyn
Federation of Jewish Charities, are
trying to suppress labor activity of
employes by attempting to deport
to Germany Dr. Joseph Kahn, a
, , Geiman Jew, who is the leader of
r*r- •y** •»«*««“
u.. Samuel Untermeyer.
Rothenberg Presented Check
For $1,500
Inspired by the message brought
t ,, Atlanta by Morris Rothenberg,
: n iih nt of the Zionist Organiza
tion of America, speaking here last
N tional Fund, the local commit-
t, , vot out to secure additional
t.'-iItcs and the goal of $4,000
wit in the next two weeks.
Although Atlanta’s workers were
not able to present to Mr. Rothen-
berg the amount as anticipated, the
ed by Samuel Untermeyer. Mr.
Untermeyer’s interest in the mat
ter grows out of the fact that the
Beth Moses Hospital Workers’
Council, in a letter to him, asserted
that the hospital, maintained by
mmittee as a whole and the na-i Jewish charity, is using German-
•i ncl representatives were not dis- maf j e instruments imported by the
couraged with the drive here, and i . ^
as every member pledged to ‘keep i ' r Manufacturing Company,
fn th” with the pledge to raise $4,- which is controlled by Edward J.
000 here, the drive was extended Sovatkin, the alleged dictator of
ti n more da>s. i the hospital’s board of trustees.
In his address at the Jewish Ed- .. . ... , .. .
(rational Alliance last Sunday eve- lhe d ' s P ute . at the ho8 P ,tal * r ew
ning President Morris Rothenberg ou ^ °' ^e dismissal of seven lead-
made the plea to Atlanta Jewry to | ers of the Workers’ Council and the
help the Jewish National I' und subsequent lockout of 100 other em-
r*.; v^nr £ sz, •**-. t»„.
Jewish people entering each year , our stoppage of work as a pro-
and for land that they must have. test.
H» pointed out the land purchased 1 given
with this money cannot be sold but
always belonged to the Jewish peo
ple. Entering into figures he re
lated that the Jewish population in
Palestine was 26% of the total,
while they occupied only 6 per cent
of the land. He stated that for
the present and for the next few
years 50,000 Jews were entering
Palestine annually and the land sit
uation is becoming acute.
Major Ralph L. Willner, chair
man i f the local drive, presided
"ver the banquet in honor of the
Zionist President and Rabbi Harry
H. Epstein was toastmaster. Other
prom nent persons at the banquet
were Mrs. Sam L. Levy, president
f the Senior Hadassah; Harry N.
Wengrow, treasurer of the drive,
who presented a check for $1,500 to
Mr. Rothenberg, and Simon J. Le
vin. field representative for the
Jewish National Fund, and Har
old Kitsch, Atlanta'attorney, who
The Workers’ Council has
Mr. Untermeyer affidavits
purporting to prove that Dr. Abra
ham R. Kantrowitz, head of the
hospital’s laboratory department,
has initiated a move to deport Dr.
Kahn to Germany on the ground
that he is a “revolutionary."
Denies Jews to Blame
For Communism
Spread in Michigan
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(WNS)—
Rumors spread on the camnus of
the University of Michigan and in
the press that Jews are responsible
for the growth of radical propa
ganda in this state and the Univer
sity were rebuffed by facts made
public by Dr. Bernard Heller, di
rector of the University of Mich
igan Hillel Foundation. “This
charge cannot be made valid by in
ference from statistics,” Dr. Heller
:f ed the guest speakei to declared. “The state of Michigan,
he audience.
because of its tremendous industrial
irnon Levin praised the Allan a! d eve ] 0 p men t d ue to the motor car
^rcup lor its co-operation and j n( j U st r y, has a large working
nanked the Southern Israelite and c j asg Communism recruits its
Atlanta s daily newspapers for the ran k s mos t]y from that class. Fur-
puh.icity rendered the campaign. *; thermore, Jewish workers in the
rav- never seen such < '°-°P era tion au t 0 mobile factories are conspic-
t way of publicity, Mr Levin UQUS by their absence ” Dr. Heller
tr-id the audience, “as was offered SU g„ es t e d that corroboration of
by your Jewish weekly, The South- j these factg can ^ secure d from
ern Israelite, and Atlanta s news- j j oremen of automobile factories
| Continued to page 7) I factories throughout the state. He
also pointed out that a study of the
Jewish <sripntist Devises Communist vote in Michigan, New
XT Sn ^ C1 ® nU 5 l 1J \V j Jersey and New York in the last
•New Irrigation Method presidential election will emphati
cally disprove the charge that there
is an intimate relationship between
Jews and Communism.
In 1932, according to Dr. Heller,
there were 9,318 Communist votes
cast in Michigan out of a total pop
ulation of 4.842,325, of whom less
than 2 per cent are Jews. In New
Ltanbu’ (WNS)—A revolution
ary method of irrigation which will
af ld hundreds of thousands of acres
the arable soil of Turkey has
been devised by Dr. Simon Kalbi,
Jewish scientist. In recognition of
bu discovery, Kalbi was received - -
by President Mustapha Kemal Pas- Jersey, 2,915 out of a total popu
ha who thanked him in the name ofjlation of 4,041,334 of which 6 per
'he Turkish Republic. 'cent are Jews, voted for the Com-
i munist candidates. In New York,
HEBREW AUTHORS HONOR with a population of 12,588,066,
MATZ there were only 27,956 Communist
„ Tel Aviv (WNS-Palcor Agency).' votes. The percentage of Com-
Tr " unique tribute of honorary ( munist votes, Dr. Heller pointed
membership in Palestine’s outstand-! out, is smaller m New York tnan
ln ? literary society was paid here in New Jersey and Michigan.
' Israel Matz, Brooklyn philan- Jewish population of New York is
'hropist, by the Hebrew’ Authors 17 per cent and the percantageol
Association of Palestine. The honor Jews in that state is eight tfnes
paid to the American Jewish that of Michigan but the percentage
’k’Uff manufacturer to mark the of Communist votes is smaller than
’-tnth anniversary of the establish- in Michigan. Dr. Heller also re
cent of the Israel Matz prize fund ported that inquiries from
*h°se large grants have enabled cials of the National Student
many contemporary Hebrew novel- League refute charges that most of
anl essayists to write. the members are ews.
Hauptmann Favors
Adoption Exclu
sion Policy
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
(W’N’S)—A government policy of
anti-Jewish restrictiop in the Unit
ed States along the lines of-Jap
anese exclusion is favored by Dr.
F. J. Hauptmann, head of the Ger
man department of the New Jer-
sev College for Women, he admit
ted during the investigation being
conducted into his department by
a special committee of Rlitgers
University trustees. As the in
quiry, precipitated by charges that
Dr. Hauntmann dismissed Dr.
Lienhard Bergel from the German
department because he (Bergel) op-
nrsed Hauptmann’s pro-Nazi views,
approached the end of its second
week. Sidney J. Kaplan, counsel for
Dr. Bergel, drew damaging admis
sions from Hauptmann during a
cross-examination. Reminded that
he had told people in Germany that
he could not go as far as they in
anti-Semitism, and asked how far
he W’ould go, he said “I would go
as far as, for example, the United
States would go in the exclusion of
the Japanese people.” Later he cor
rected this to read that “I go no
further than the United States goes
in its own affairs. Whether I be
lieve in them or not, I leave it up
to the government.” He declined to
'xpress an opinion as to whether
Germany’s anti-Semitic policies
w’ere good for Germany.
Later it was agreed that the
question of anti-Semitism at the
New Jersey College for Women was
not at issue in the investigation.
Assemblyman Samuel Pesin, who
has been acting as an observer at
the inquiry, pointed out that the
only question to decide was wheth
er Dr. Bergel had been dismissed
because of his anti-Nazi views and
whether Dr. Hauptmann had en
gaged in Nazi propaganda. Mr.
Pesin’s observation was the result
if a demand by Mr. Kaplan that
the investigating committee ask the
college authorities to furnish it
with figures showing the percent
age of Jewish students in the col
lege. In the course of the cross-
examination Dr. Hauptmann re
peated most of his previous testi
mony, denying that Bergel’s dis
missal had anything to do with pol-
tics but was the result of incompe
tence.
Untermyer Says
Germany’s Pledges
Not Fulfilled
Appeal Made to 72
Athletic Organizations
DR. LEE J. LEVINGER
has just been appointed Director of
Research of B’nai B’rith.
B’nai B’rith Selects
Director of Bureau
of Research
Dr. Steinberg Develops
Protective Substance .
Against Peritonitis
Atlantic City, N. J.—(WNS)—
The development of a substance
known a coli-bactragen, which has
proven to be virtually 100 per cent
successful as a protective against
peritonitis, the greatest surgical
risk in abdominal operations, was
reported at the annual meeting of
the American Society of Clinical
Pathologists by Dr. Bernard Stein
berg, youthful director of research
and laboratories at Toledo Hospital
anl special lecturer on bacteriology
at the University of Toledo, To
ledo, Ohio. Dr. Steinberg told the
convention that his substance, which
is neither a vaccine nor a serum,
has already been tried successfully
on 2,000 persons in this country,
England and Cuba during the past
three years.
WINS YALE “PRIZE
WITH ESSAY ON ZIONISM
New Haven, Conn.—(WNS)—
Something of a precedent was es-
lished at Yale University when the
coveted Andrew O. White history
nrize for freshmen was awarded to
Herbert W. Salzman, Jewish stu
dent from New York, for his essay
entitled “Zionism.”
Cincinnati, Ohio.—Alfred M. Co
hen, President of B’nai B’rith, an
nounced the appointment of Dr.
I^ee J. Levinger as Director of the
Order’s newly-established Bureau of
Research, which is to compile ma
terial on everything pertaining to
Jewish conditions on American
campuses.
Dr. Levinger has been Director
of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Founda
tion at Ohio State University for
the last ten years. Born in Idaho,
he attended the Universities of Chi
cago, Cincinnati, Pennsylvania, and
the Hebrew Union College. He was
rabbi of Temple Israel, Paducah,
Ky.. from 1913 until the time Amer
ica entered the war, when he served
in France as Chaplain with the U.
S. Army. From 1922 until 1925 he
was rabbi of Temple Beth Fmeth,
Wilmington, Del.
He is the author of “A History of
the Jews in the United States,” “A
Jewish Chaplain in France,” and
many other books and articles. A
few years ago he was Chaplain of
the American Legion, the only
rabbi ever to hold that post.
The Bureau will investigate all
campus problems as they relate to
Jews—both students and faculty,
and will be the first work of its
kind ever to be undertaken on a
national scale in this country. It
will deal with such problems as
they relate to Jews—both students
and faculty, and will be the first
work of its kind ever to be under
taken on a national scale in this
country. It will deal with such
problems as the number of Jewish
students and faculty members at
American universities, their voca
tional trends, their status on the
campus, place of origin, needs,
chief problems, etc., etc. The find
ings of the Bureau are expected to
be published some time next year.
Switzerland Votes Boycott
of German Olympic
Games
GENEVA.—(WNS)—Switzerland
became the first country in Europe
to announce a boycott of the 1936
Olympic Games in Berlin when the
Swiss General Council voted down
an appropriation of 36,000 francs to
send a Swiss team to the Olympics.
The derision rot to appropriate any
mon^y means that Switzerland wiil
not be represented. The vote was
82 to 57 with t 'e Socialists and
Catholics supporting the motion.
Advocates of the motion pointed
out thrt Nazism > -ould be ‘‘likely to
contaminate” Swiss athletes and
charged that if the games were held
in Germany they would not be “in
the spirit of amateur sport.”
The following letter affecting the
Olympic Games has been sent by
Samuel Untermyer to the seventy-
two athletic organizations that are
part of the American Olympic As
sociation:
“Dear Sirs:
The following announcement ap
pears in the New York Times of
Wednesday, May 29th.
Appeals for Olympic Fund
“Avery Brundage, President
of the American Committee,
sounded an opening appeal for
the 1936 Olympic Fund yester
day when he requested seventy-
two sports governing bodies,
members of the American
Olympic Association to impose
a ten-cent contribution coupon
on all tickets to amateur events
between now and the Games.
The funds so raised will be
used to meet the expenses of
the Unitel States team compet
ing in the Games.”
It amounts to a request for as
sistance from you in the collection
of funds for the purpose of sending
an American team to the Nazi
Olympics in 1936.
This appeal iR the most recent
step in the one-man campaign to
deliver over American sport to the
tender mercies of the Goebbels
Propaganda Ministry.
The question of American par
ticipation in the 1936 Olympics, if
held in Germany, is by no means
closed and will not be closed with
out a desperate struggle to prevent
such a body j blow to sport, fair play
and world liberalism regardless of
race or creed.
When the resolution of accept
ance of the German invitation to
compete was adopted, on Septem
ber 26. 1934, by the American
Olympic Committee, as the result
of a distorted Report on Sport con
ditions in Germany, this Resolution
was conditioned upon permitting
the United States to withdraw at
any time upon proof that conditions
were not as represented or that
Germany was not abiding by her
oft-repeated pledges of fair treat
ment of Jewish athletes in Ger
many. That was before ihe re
cent onslaught upon and discrimi
nations against the Catholic organ
izations in Germany that are being
intensified almost from day to day.
The Amateur Athletic Union
convention, held at Miami Decem
ber 10th, 1934, reaffirmed the
Kirby resolution of 1933, by which
the A. A. U. refused to participate
except upon evidence of fair play
for Jewish athletes in Germany.
I ask you to examine the follow
ing facts with a view of determin
ing whether these pledges have
been met:
Uncontrovertible evidence has
been accumulated proving beyond
question that the abuse of Jewish
athletes in Germany has not been
lessened one jot and that the Cath
olic persecution has been added,
despite the pledges of Herr
Tschammer and Osten upon the
faith of which the conditional ac
ceptance by America was based.
There is not a single stadium in
Germany today that admits Jews
for sports purposes. Even the pub
lic swimming pools and other sports
| places in various German cities and
I towns have since been closed to the
Jews and life has been made so
' wretched -and humiliating for them
that training has been rendered im-
| possible.
The limited privileges accorded
half a dozen Jewish athletes have
1 is no way alleviated the plight of
;the remaining half-million, whose
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