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Friday, September 25, 1936
Southern Israelite
Page Seven
The Past And Futu
re
The year has been, and continues
up to its close, too dark and tragic
to record. As one sums up in mem
ory one’s general impressions of
the year, one almost feels carried
hack to five or six centuries—to
the day of the Crusades in Ger
many, or, two centuries later, to
Auto da Fe in Spain. On the eve
0 f 5696, the hideously and, it may
vet be suicidally, unjust Nurem-
burg Laws were enacted, in any
event promulgated. As the year
passes into the shadows, the exist
ence of Jews in Spain and across
the Straits of Gibraltar in Spanish
Morocco and Algiers is imperilled
by the treasonable and hellish re
volt of the army chiefs and their
followers of Fascist faith or hire.
And these are ready to plunge the
world into war, if the nations they
serve find the hour propitious for
a world-wide conflagration! Thus
do Germany and Spain loom large
and ominous again on the horizon
of Jewish history!
The year has been drab and drear
almost throughout its unhappy
course. Things are at the year’s
end as they were at its beginning,
save that one vast Jewish land has
Greetings From
BRESSLER
BROTHERS, Inc.
289 Peters, S. W.
MA. 2165
Best Wishes for a
Prosperous New Year
C. W. UNDERDONE
BARBER SHOP
3 Plaza Way
“Quality Dry Cleaning”
LEE ST.
CLEANERS &
DYERS
847 Lee St., S. W. RA. 9263
John J. Hinson, Owner
Best Wishes for a
Happy New Year
J. ROSENTHAL
Sheet Metal Works
235 Trinity Ave. WA. 3037
A Year Of
Turmoil
By ALFRED M. COHEN
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
been added to the area of Jewish
misery and another Jewish land,
that of light and hope and achieve
ment, has come under the shadows.
One year ago there were mutter-
ings and little more of Jewish dif
ficulty and distress in Poland.
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MAX SIEGEL
KOSHER MARKET
DELICATESSEN
FANCY GROCERIES
KOSHER MEAT
604 Washington St., S. W.
MAIN 4777
Drugs—Soda—Sundries
Sixth St. Pharmacy
845 Peachtree St., N. E.
HE. 2700
TOM D. CHOTAS
5697 - What Does It Hold?
By Mrs. Arthur Brin
+ ——— —"
Always Pleasant To Eat At
POPLAR COFFEE
SHOP
6314 Poplar St., N. W. JA. 0632
Mrs. Margaret Scott, Owner
GREETINGS
To My Friends and Customers
Union Special Machine Co.
P. T. McLendon, Mgr.
155 Spring St., N. W.
MAin 3377
Call Us First For An Estimate
MODERNISTIC DECORATING CO.
General Remodel,.eg ^ D Biegun
!23 Peachtree, N. E.
MA. 3372
Out of the present unrest in
which the Jew is being sorely chas
tised, a better order will emerge.
Surely the year now ending saw
mankind in turmoil, and the world
on edge. Each nation is suspicious
of the one next door—I cannot find
it in my heart to write, its neigh
bor, because that word has a con
notation that may not be used in
present conditions. Humankind sits
on a powder box breathlessly fear
ing that it may be touched off any
moment. In these circumstances,
what of the Jew, the immortal
martyr? Look about and see:
Germany pursues its ways of
destruction, openly and relentless
ly. Not content with making life
for the Jew within its own borders
a living death, Germany is propa
gating hatred for him wherever it
is able to spread its venom. Nur
emberg is the world capital of anti-
Semitism. Its slimy fingers reach
out to the Holy Land, there to pick
a fester in the Arab’s skin so as to
infuriate him to very madness.
Palestine
Saddest of all are conditions in
Palestine, where there was ample
reason to believe that though all
the world besides was hostile to the
Jew, there to the extent of its ab
sorptive capacity he would be re
ceived and welcomed. World Jewry
has contributed countless millions
to transform desert waste places
into blossoming gardens and fruit
ful fields; replacing primitive
transportation, light, and power
facilities with those of the modern
state; introducing fine homes
where hovels once were. In short.,
of doing in a few years what had
never been done in so short a time
in all history. Living side by side
with Arabs they gave them the
things for which men long and
which usually are the basis for
good will and friendship. True it
is that sporadic outbursts once in
a while appeared but it was left to
the spawn of hate spread by so-
called civilized nations of Europe,
to threaten and imperil what had
been done to make Palestine safe
for the Jew and his neighbors. A
few months ago the welkin rang
with praises for Palestine as the
one safe harbor for the harassed
Jew. The year 6696 witnessed him
shot from ambush, his farms de
spoiled, his property destroyed.
Spain and Roumania
Spain recently welcomed the Jew
back after four hundred and fifty
years of denial, admitting that his
expulsion was a grave mistake.
Now Spain is a huge battle field
of rebellion and word comes from
Spanish Morocco that 16,000 Jews
are held as virtual hostages be
cause they are believed to he sym
pathetic with the government.
From Roumania comes the awful
tidings that in one night 30,000
peasants with the blessings of
Greek Orthodox priests, took an
oath under the swastika flag of the
Fascist party to rid Roumania of
Jews. The Union of Roumanian
Veteran Army officers in a mani
festo demands ‘Immediate deporta
tion of several hundred thousand
Jews who have established them
selves since the war and who ag
gravate the danger from which the
country is menaced.’
Austria’s 250,000 Jews are watch
ing with growing anxiety the
spread of a new anti-Semitic cam
paign close on the heels of that
nation’s pact of friendship with
Nazi Germany—so reads a late
Associated Press dispatch.
Mrs. Arthur Brin
Rishinev, scene of the famous
Caarist pogrom thirty odd years
ago, is the scene of a battle with
Jews on the defensive.
Virtually all of Poland’s Jewish
population of 3,500,000 joined in a
general strike in protest against
the government’s failure to check
anti-Semitic excesses. The poverty
of the Jewish masses in Poland de
fies description.
Nowhere is the Jew free from
prejudice, though in many coun
tries it is minor in depth and non
official. Discrimination against
Jews in employment is widespread
and increasing.
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There has been no rain for over
sixty days. The grass is burned.
Crops are destroyed. Thousands
are suffering and will suffer be
cause of this. We meet their needs
as best we can, but what is impor
tant is thnt we know that this dead
grass, these ruined crops, are not
due to a new course in Nature to
which we must adjust ourselves.
The Seasons will turn. Rain will
come again; crops will flourish
again and give us sustenance.
Other things, not so evident to
everyone as the parched crops, are
withering. Ideals which nre funda
mental to civilization are perishing.
Institutions which bulwark our so
cial order are breaking down. Men
have curtailed the liberties of men
—freedom of speech, of assembly,
of press, of conscience. The desire
of man for mutual understanding;
faith in that which unites them—
their common humanity, the hope
of a warless world—these are dry
ing up. In their place are distrust,
suspicion, even hate. A nation is
teaching hate to its little children,
to its people, to other peoples.
There is danger that the world is
falling into the grip of the ignor-
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NUNNALLY & McCREA
Manufacturers of
Overalls and Trousers
104 Mitchell St., S. W.
Atlanta, Ga.
Quality and Service
SOFT DRINKS
WINES BEERS
SANDWICHES
CIGARS CIGARETTES
TOBACCOS
LEO’S BUFFET
46 Marietta, N. W.
JOSEPH CERNIGLIA
Produce
Brussell Sprouts
A Specialty
89 Piedmont Ave., N. E.
WA. 0959
C. L. Van Dusen
FURNITURE
REPAIR
SHOP
JA. 1737
PAUL’S
HAIRDRESSING
STUDIO
Biltmore Hotel
Phone HE. 6835 - 5200
For Appointment
CAPITOL FISH CO.
A. Levitt, Prop.
WHOLESALE FISH AND OYSTERS
Phone WAlnut 2770 7 Produce Row
JONES-LOGAN COMPANY, INC.
INSURANCE—ALL LINES
Citizens & Southern National Bank Building
Phone Walnut 2820 W. A. Jones Paul T. Logan
Atlanta, Georgia
EMPIRE MATTRESS CO.
"The Old Reliable Renovator”
INNER-SPRING MATTRESSES
190 GOODWIN ST., 8. W.
E. A. Hewett—W. Harris Jones—W. D. Meadors
MA. 2008
Season’s Greetings to Our Jewish Friends
and Customers
Peaslee Gaulbert Corporation, Inc.
550 Glenn St., S. W.
RAymond 2134-5