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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
VOL. XII—NO. 49
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FRANCE PREPARES TO OPEN
MADAGASCAR FOR REFUGEES
Brazil Bans
Agitators In
New Decree
BRAZIL (WNS)—The grccn-
6hirted legions of Plinio Sulgado’s
anti-Semitic Integrilista (Fascist)
Party, who have been responsible
for a large part of the anti-Jewish
agitation in Brazil, were outlaw
ed when President Getulio Vargas,
acting under the powers granted
him by the new authoritarian con
stitution, decreed the dissolution of
the Integrilistas and all other po
litical parties. The decree, be
lieved aimed at the green-shirts,
orders the liquidation of party mili
tias (only the Integrelistas had one)
and forbids parties to employ uni
forms, insignia, banners or other
distinctive symbols. It also ex
pressly forbids the reorganization
of the Fascists under another name
or form and bars members of the
nation’s armed forces from mem
bership in any association into
which the outlawed political par
ties may transform themselves.
Mexico City (WNS)—What ap
pears to be a concerted effort to get
rid of as many Jews now resident
in Mexico as possible without re
sorting to special legislation against
them has been quietly under way
for nearly a year, it was disclosed
by the Department of Interior
when its special service branch
charged with the deportation of
undesirable foreigners announced
that 22% of all persons deported
from Mexico during 1937 had been
Jews. Agents of the Department
of the Interior explained that be
cause "their form of business often
conflicts with that of our nation
als,” many of the Jews are being
sent out of'the country quietly.
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Rabbi Urges
Christ Theme
NEW YORK (WNS)—Inclusion
of the teachings and wisdom of
Jesus in the literature of the syna
gogue and perhaps in its liturgy
was urged by Rabbi William F.
Rosenblum of Temple Israel in
his Sabbath sermon to his con
gregation. Pointing out that the
place of Jesus in the synagogue is
a question always present in the
minds of Christians and Jews ea
ger for a "finer sense of brother
hood,” and recalling that “Jesus
had a place in ancient Israel,”
Rabbi Rosenblum said “there seems
to be no reason why his resumes
of Jewish teaching and the ab
sorbing account of his life and
work among the lowly should not
he made part of the synagogue
literature today. They will not
add a jot to the wealth of ethical
instruction already contained in
the Bible. Jesus was the first to
disclaim any new revelation but
there are many repititions in the
present Old Testament and Juda
ism has not suffered thereby.
‘Great progress has been made
in the field of good-will between
Christian and Jew on the economic
s^ial and civic fronts, and not a
single activity which brings Chris
tians and Jews together should be
discounted or disturbed. But it
if not enough to bring them toge
ther. Something must be done to
■^P them from drifting apart.
Tnere should be a place for Jesus
in the synagogue comparable to
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1 lie Return of Jewry to the Sea
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HANDSOME TARS arc these Jewish youths who as sea captains
of tomorrow will sail the seas, carrying freight from Corpus, Syria,
Egypt and Palestine on Jewish-manned ships. They are being train
ed by Naehshon to encourage the return of the Jews to the sea.
Paul Muni Once Peddled Old
Clothes, Actor Here Recalls
BY ORIN BORSTEN
The same golden voice which is thrilling the world today
with its impassioned plea for justice in “The Life of Emile
Zola,” once shouted “Old clothes for sale” on the streets of
New York. And the same body*
which so perfectly showed the
Colonization Granted
To 30,000 Families
Warsaw (WNS)—France is ready to permit the coloni
zation of 30,000 Jewish families from Poland, approximately
125,00 persons, on the island of Madagascar, its only colony
off the coast of Africa, Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos
is reported to have told Col. Josef Beck, Polish Foreign
1 minister, in the course of their
so
transition from youth to old age
in the same film was once doused
with a bucket of cold water by an
infuriated Irish housewife whose
cordiality to old clothes peddlers
had been strained to the breaking
point. ... _ ,
That is the story told by Jack
Berlin, noted actor of the Yiddish
stage, who was a boyhood chum
of Paul Muni, and who shared his
crushing defeats and joyous tri
umphs in the days before the
Hollywood star tasted of fame. Mr.
Berlin, who with his troupe will
give a performance of "Divorced
at Sing Sing” at the Atlanta
Theatre Sunday evening, first met
Paul Muni (then Muni Wiesen-
freund) in 1910. He was engaged
by Muni’s father to write sketches
for the Wiesenfreund Yiddish
Theatre in Chicago, and later be
came a member of the company.
In those days, Mr. Berlin remem
bers, young Muni was "no great
shakes” as an actor, but worked
conscientiously to improve his tech
nique. Both young men bore a
marked resemblance, and with
great success played the dual role
in a Yiddish classic which had pre
viously been played by a single
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Inter-Faith
Move Begins
In Colleges
PROVIDENCE, R. I. (WNS)—
A nationwide campaign to estab
lish inter-faith round tables of
Protestants, Catholics and Jews
in universities and colleges
throughout the United States was
launched at a meeting of students
from 11 colleges who attended the
Inter-faith Conference of New
England Colleges at Brown Uni
versity. Delegates from Yale,
Harvard, Wesleyan, Connecticut
State, Connecticut College for Wo
men, Mount Holyoke, Wellesley,
Smith, Providence, Holy Cross and
Pembroke agreed ter establish on
each campus represented an inter
faith council to work for the allay
ing of prejudice in defense of re
ligious liberties and for the pre
servation and extension of a demo
cratic, religious way of life. At
the same time 600 presidents of
universities and colleges have been
asked by the National Conference
of Jews and Christians to convene
on each campus a round table of
student groups of all faiths. Such
round table conferences already
exist at Cornell, Syracuse, Colum
bia, Penn State, North Carolina,
Wisconsin and Washington.
Chicago (NCJC)—The faculty
and student bodies of all theologi
cal schools, Catholic, Jewish and
Protestant, in and around Chicago,
have been invited to attend the
Inter-Seminary Institute of Hu
man Relations to be held under the
auspices of the Chicago Round
Table of Jews and Christians, at
Anshe Emet Synagogue, on Jan
uary 12.
Dr. Justin Wroe Nixon, of the
Colgate-Rochester Divinity School,
will open the Institute with a dis
cussion of "Totalitarianism vs. Di
versity in a Democracy.”
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conversations regarding the Eu
ropean crisis. Agreeing with Col
onel Beck's contention that Poland
hns just as much right to colonies,
M. Delbos is understood to have
agreed to the Jewish colonization
project provided the settlers are
furnished with the capital neces
sary to establish farms and for
other needs. The basis of the dis
cussion was the report rendered
by an official Polish commission
of two Jews and a Christian who
recently returned from Madagascar
and found the land suitable for
European settlers. The 30,000 Jew
ish families, part of Poland’s so-
called "superfluous" Jews, would
be settled over a period of six
years. There was also mention
made of government assistance In
the colonies.
Warsaw (WNS)—The Jewish
student protest against ghetto
benches in Polish universities
brought Its first Victory when the
authorities of the Wnwelberg Tech
nical College in Warsaw revoked
an order providing for the exclu
sion of Jewish students who insist
ed on standing up rather than oc
cupy the special seats provided for
them. The revocation resulted
from legal action instituted by the
heirs of the Jewish founders of the
college for the return of the build
ing. Meanwhile, the government
had before it the protest of the
Central Committee of Polish
Trades Unions condemning ghetto
benches and anti-Jewish disord
ers and demanding that measures
be taken for their suppression.
At a conference of police officials
called by the governor of the War
saw district it was decided not to
permit picketing of Jewish shops
during the Christmas shopping
season because it would interfere
with free trade and lead to breach
es of public order.
Ship
Down To The Sea In
New Step In Palestine Progress
BY JULIET FILLER
The newest phase of Jewish development in Palestine is the growth of a Jewish mari
time industry For the first time in centuries Jews are engaged in building and mannmg
ships The idea of a Jewish sailor seemed, on first consideration, anamalous. We have not
been a sea-faring people any more ^ hag ^ closely identified with
than, before our magnificent suc
cess in colonizing Palestine, we
felt that we were an agricultural
people. But, if the thought of Jews
on the sea was incongruous, it was
doubly strange to discover that
Naehshon, Ltd., the Palestine La
bor Maritime Company, had sent
a woman, Mrs. Goldie Myerson,
Palestine Labor le a de r, to mterert
American Jewry m giving their
aid? toward the establishment of a
Jewish Mercantile Marine.
A former teacher in Milwaukee.
the Histadrut, the general federa
tion of labor in Palestine. She left
behind her, on this mission to the
United States, her two children
who were bom and reared in Tel
Aviv. Her hair parted simply in
the middle, her pleasant face free
of cosmetics, Mrs. Myerson’s ap
pearance blended well with her
direct and forthright manner, as
she explained the significance of
her visit here.
The problem of how best to train
Jewish landlubbers, to fit them for
life on the sea, was, as Mrs. My-
difficult one.
A w ™ been living in erson pointed out, a difficult one.
^lest^Sthe past sixteen years i This was solved by the importa
tion of a number of Jews from Sa-
loniki, who, contrary to the tra- Henry Ford,
dition of their race, are hardy sea-{ campaign in the 1920’s was once
attributed to the failure of the
N. Y. Honors
Peace Worker
NEW YORK (WNS)—Still fight
ing for world peace after 25 years
of pacifist activities which have
left her a woman without a coun
try, broken in health and impov
erished, Mme. Rosika Schwimmer,
Hungarian-born Jewess, was hon
ored on her 60th birthday and the
22nd anniversary of the sailing of
the Ford peace ship, which she in
spired, by being presented with a
fund of $8,300 raised by admirers
in 24 countries. Among the mes
sages of greeting received at the
reception tendered her was an un
signed telegram from the office of
whose anti-Semitic
men. Training schools, with a
course of apprenticeship lasting
two months, were formed and are
now in full swing. Young men are
being fitted for work as boatmen,
stevedores, longshoremen, sailors,
and captains. A combination sail
and motor boat called the Rahaf
(The Glider) is used as a training
station. She told of the sea sick-
Iness that many of our incipient
Ford peace expedition, praising
Mme. Schwimmer’s efforts for
world peace. Other messages came
from Albert Einstein, Emil Lud
wig and Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt. In her address to the 300
people gathered to honor her,
Mme. Schwimmer proposed a
democratic federation of nations
based in principle on the political
sailors suffer aboard the Rahaf j organization of the United States,
during their period of training, and which would be dedicated to the
of the pride evidenced as each elimination of all armaments for
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