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The Southern Israelite
VOL. XII—NO. 48
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ATLANTA, GA. f FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1937
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CATHOLICS FLAY PREJUDICE
Mexico Curbs Immigration From Fast Europe Major Appeal
Quota Bail To Behind American Jewry’s Campaign For Overseas
Limit Influx
Of Refuges
MEXICO CITY (WNS)—Jewish
immigration to Mexico from East
ern Europe the source of most
Jewish immigration to this coun
try. was virtually cut off when
President Lazardo Cardenas put
his signature to Mexico’s first im
migration quota law which limits
the annual immigration from Po
land, Lithuania, Roumania and
other East European lands to 100
per year. The law does not dis
tinguish between races but grants
an annual quota of 5,000 to such
countries as Germany, France,
Hungary and Austria. This means
that German Jewish refugees may
be admitted in substantial num
bers. The law, a direct result of
the recent agitation by anti-Se
mites for closing the doors of
Mexico to Jews and limiting the
commercial and residence rights of
those already here, provides that
the new immigrants must be rela
tives of residents and so-called
capitalists who must limit their
activities to the export trade and
a few other fields of commerce.
Warsaw (WNS)—Unconfirmed
rumors that Brazil has instructed
its European consulates to refuse
immigration visas to Jews were
confirmed by the Polish foreign
ministry in a statement revealing
that it has been trying to prevail
upon Brazil to raise the ban on
Jews.
Berlin (WNS)—There are now
substantial possibilities for Ger
man-Jewish immigrants in Aus
tralia and Columbia, Max War
burg, president of the Hilfsverein,
reported at a conference dealing
with immigration.
Left to right, Albert II. Lleberman, of Philadelphia, holding paper; Lessing Kosenwald of Philadel
phia; Rabbi Jonah It. Wise, J. I). C. fund-raising chairman; William Rosenwald, J. I). C. vice-chairman;
Alexander Kahn, chairman of J. D. C.’s Committee on Poland, and Joseph C. Hyman, J. D. C. executive
director.
Germany Is Christian Problem,
Dr. Prinz Charges At Meeting Here
Un-Christian
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—
The nearest approach to the flr*t
official pronouncement on anti-
Semitism by the Catholic Church
in the United States has just been
made public here by the committee
on national attitudes of the Catho
lic Association for International
Peace, an officially sanctioned
Catholic body, In the form of an
English translation of a study en
titled “The Church and the Jews.”
Most of the pamphlet is devoted
to an analysis of the traditional
Catholic attitude toward Jews, the
Jewish religion, racial anti-Semi
tism, Jewry’s rejection of Jesus,
etc. In a concluding chapter, en
titled the "Duties of Christians,"
the pamphlet declares from its
exposition of the Jewish problem,
"one may readily deduce that it is
the bounden duty of every Christ
ian today to expose, wherever and
whenever this may be necessary,
all the errors inherent in the prac
tical side of the contemporary Jew
ish question. It is likewise nec
essary to deny one’s support to any
anti-Semitic policy and, where the
possession of political influence
makes this possible, to combat all
anti-Semitism moves. While it is
necessary to introduce measures
for the purpose of economic re
covery, for the reconstuction of
the social order, for the Christian
ization of our intellectual and cul
tural life, experience has shown
that ‘legislating against the Jews'
does not in the least contribute to
ward the attainment of those ends.
On the contrary, by ostracizing the
Jews, incaculable damage, tem
porally and spiritually, is done to
the nation."
Officers At
China’s Jewry
Gets U. S. Aid
CINCINNATI—For the second
time in a week, B’nai B’rith has
responded to appeals for help from
distressed Jewry in widely sepa
rated lands. Last week it cabled
money to Warsaw for the Winter
Help Fund of Polish Jewry. Now
it has sent a substantial sum to
Shanghai for general Jewish relief
needs, it was announced by Alfred
M. Cohen, international President
of the Order.
The most recent grant was made
to the Jewish Emergency Relief
Committee of Shanghai, through
Hev. Mendel Brown, its secretary.
Rev. Brown is also secretary of
the B’nai B’rith Lodge in Shang
hai. The Committee, which will
administer the fund, has listed the
B’nai B’rith Polyclinic Hospital in
Shanghai, as one of the leading
Jewish agencies which need aid.
The Hospital was founded by the
B’nai B’rith Lodge in Shanghai
several years ago, and in recent
years has been treating 1500 cases
a month.
The grants to both Poland and
Shanghai were made from B’nai
B’rith’s Emergency Relief Fund.
Cambridge, Mass. (WNS)—In
2 r der to double the size of the
building for the Graduate School
Public Administration at Har
vard, which is being established
with a gift of $2,000,000 he made
bwo years ago, Lucius N. Littauer
bas given Harvard another $200,-
000. The new building will be
named the Lucius N. Littauer Cen
ter of Public Administration.
The situation in modern Germany is a Christian problem, not a Jewish problem, it was
declared here Monday night by Dr. Joachim Prinz, famous German religious leader, at an
open meeting of Gate City Lodge, No. 144, B’nai B’rith held at the Ahavath Achim Congre
gation. A large audience of At-+
capacity to hear the ft Atlantan Clashes With Polish
the man who was compelled to
leave Germany because of his
fearless defense of Jewry.
Possesed of great dramatic pow
er, eloquent, and given to gestures
which ere as stirring as they jire
lanhins f that after ten 2 years the Joe H. Beeber, well known Atlantan, has just returned
Jewish problem will be completely f rom Europe after an absence of two months, during which
Picket, Brother Arrested
BY JOSEPH A. LOEWINSOHN
solved. German Jewry will have
died- ....
"The National Socialist move
ment is not merely political,’’ he
declared, “but is the attempt to
create a German religion which
must be anti-Christian. Dr. I rinz s
own plight is an indication of the
danger of this trend toward the
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time he visited France and Poland
Visibly moved by his first re- *
union with his mother whom he
had not seen in thirty odd years,
Mr. Beeber’s memory of the happy
event is blighted by the scenes
of poverty and abject misery en
countered among the Jews in Po
land.
Congregation Rhodef Sholom
Lays Cornerstone For Temple
ROMF GA—The Jewish community here climaxed a
nwivix,, ’ ith t he laying of the cornerstone
axiom’s new 8 home !ast Sunday
afternoon. Through a bequest of*
Abe Abramson, who settled here m
the 1880’s, the erection of the
synagogue was made possible. It
vSl tte formally opened upon
completion early next year.
\ large gathering of Rome citi
zens of all denominations and a
number of out-of-town visitors
witnessed the ceremony and heard
the impressive program, Oscar
Borochoff acted ** er Thp i was placed by Isaac May, presi-
ceremonies for the occasion. ; dent of Rhodef Sholom; Pressley
So/SSss^ere^^verJ
by Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, of At
lanta, religious leader of Congre
gation Ahavath Achim. Other
speakers were Ike Eplan, secretary
of the Rhodef Sholom Congrega
tion; H. H. Keel, first city com
missioner; W. M. Sapp, Deputy
Grand Master of the Masonic Or
der; J. R. Homady and Rev. Bun-
van Stephens. The cornerstone
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"Much has been written about
the Nazi persecution of the Ger
man Jews,” said Mr. Beeber, “but
the sad plight of Polish Jewry is
not much better. If anything, I
am inclined to believe that the
Jews of Poland feel the heavy
hand of persecution even more
than their coreligionists in the
Third Reich."
“Poland has always been ini
mical to Jews," added Mr. Beeber,
“and the example set by Hitler not
only served to deepen that hatred,
but, as in Germany, prejudice was
elevated to the exalted level of
a national policy. A close neigh
bor of Germany, Poland eagerly
adopted the Nazi ideology, the re
sults of which I observed during
my sojourn in Briansk, Bielostock
and Warsaw.”
While in Warsaw, the capitol of
Poland, Mr. Beeber saw places of
business picketed by the Nazi-in
spired Poles. Through intimida
tion and even physical interference
prospective customers were kept
away from trading with Jews.
When, accompanied by his brother,
Mr. Beeber made the rounds of
the Jewish shopping district in
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Fascist Ball
NEW YORK (WNS)—Thirty
men and officers in the uniform of
the United States Army, two uni
formed and high-ranking officers
of the United States Navy and a
number of West Point cadets in
civilian clothes were among the
guests who attended a ball given
by the anti-Semitic and Fascist
All-Russian National Front on
November 13th on board the U. S.
Illinois, a government training
ship tied up at Riverside Drive,
it was disclosed in the first of a
series of articles on Nazi and Fas
cist activities published in the New
York Post. The article points out
that the guests included men in
all types of Fascist uniforms, that
a general invitation to attend the
affair was issued to members of
the German-American Bund by
the Deutscher Weckruf und Beo-
bachter, Nazi weekly and that some
of the highest officials of the Bund
appeared in full uniform.
The men wearing the United
States Army uniform were identi
fied, the author of the article says,
as members of the 244th Coast
Artillery, a New York National
Guard unit which last February
advertised for German recruits in
the Nazi weekly. Officials of the
Army and Navy had declared the
presence of Army and Navy offi
cers and men in their uniforms at
such political gatherings as highly
improper and a breach of practice.
On sale at the ball were copies of
anti-Jewish books and newspapers.
The Post quoted Henry Rabusch,
assistant to the superintendent of
the U. S. S. Illinois, which is the
armory of the First Battalion of
the New York Militia and may be
rented for $25.00 a night.