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The Southern Israelite
December 17, m
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YOUTH TALKS IT OVER
In a day when “ghetto benches” and student uprisings
are the visible effects on the European educational system
of race hatred, it is a measure of America’s democratic sta
bility that our college centers are blazing the trail toward
complete inter-denominational understanding. The nation
wide movement to establish round tables of Protestants,
Catholics and Jews which was launched this month stands
as civilization’s highest expression, not alone of good-will,
but of the desire to advance religious thought.
It is not, however, a movement which has sprung up
overnight. For years, under the auspices of the National
Conference of Christians and Jews, religious understanding
has been the goal of youth in many colleges. At the Uni
versity of Georgia, the Jewish Students Union has already
made great strides in creating good-will on the campus, and
open discussions take place frequently between Catholic,
Protestant and Jewish students. Round tables have also
been held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
the University of Alabama, and other Southern college
centers.
The inauguration of the movement to institute campus
round tables on a national scale furnishes, at this time, a stir
ring answer to Europe’s classroom segregation. It proves
conclusively that youth is what its country makes it.
American youth is talking it over around religious round
tables. They do not hope, these boys and girls, to break down
the essential differences between faiths. But if in their ex
change of ideas they understand the religions of others more
deeply, and recognize in all religions a common urge toward
the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, then
America will have given the world a new lesson in progres
sive thinking and living.
NO OBITUARY FOR PEACE
The quest for peace still holds and unites a large part of
the world, though the thunder of cannons in Spain and China
have nearly dimmed the concerted voices of peace lovers.
It remains, in the face of overwhelming odds, a passion which
expresses the will of most of mankind, even of many of those
who have been sucked into the maelstrom of war.
Yet the rumour flies fast about the world that peace is
dead, and in some corners of the universe the obituary of
peace has already been written. Peace, it is cried, lies buried
in blood-stained earth of Spain and the battleground of China.
It is bruited about, too, that peace, having returned to the
shelter of religion, has signed its own death warrant. Even
Aldous Huxley has done an about-face in his new book, see
ing in religion and a kind of world-wide priestliness the only
solutions to war and dictatorship.
But peace is very much alive. It lives in the heart of
the Spanish civilian who hears the roar of war in his ears,
and it flames in the heart of the Chinese peasant fleeing from
an air raid.
Peace is not dead with Mrs. Oscar Caplan, of Houston,
Texas, either. Mrs. Caplan works thirteen hours a day be
hind a grocery counter. What can Mrs. Caplan do for peace?
A press report this week says that she collected 4,000 signa
tures against war. What is more, Mrs. Caplan, who is the
mother of sons who might one day be called upon to bear
arms, appealed to other mothers to “disarm the nursery.” The
children of her neighborhood brought in 175 toy guns and
pistols—three basketfulls—and destroyed them in order to
demonstrate their understanding of her aims. The war toys
were replaced with constructive ones.
Mrs. Caplan is no orator; it is doubtful if she would be
very impressive on the same platform with Mussolini, Hitler
and Franco. But she is a symbol of peace-loving humanity
and in her own small way she is contributing to the progress
of the peace movement. And there are some who still cherish
the hope that the peace which Mrs. Caplan is fighting for
will one day engulf the makers of war and sweep clean the
battlefields of Europe and Asia.
There must be many Mrs. Caplans in the world today.
There might even be prototypes of this Houston, Texas
woman in Germany, Japan, Italy and Spain. The presence
of Mrs. Caplans in the world is a reassuring note to those
who look upon embattled humanity. It means that there
are still those who are ready to tread the winding road, with
its impasses and detours, to peace.
Relief Funds Given To Polish Jewry
New York (WNS)—Nearly 500,-
000 zlotys (approximately $100,-
000) has already been distributed
in Poland by the American Com
mittee Appeal for the Jews in Po
land, it was announced by Ben
jamin Winter, chairman of the
committee, in reporting on the
first year’s activity of the drive.
The largest amount, 144,385 zlotys,
was appropriated for education,
52,000 going to vocational train
ing. Rehabilitation of artisans,
small traders and workers took
139,750 zlotys; 48,800 zlotys were
advanced to free loan and farm
cooperative kassas; 54,080 zlotys
were allotted to relieve distress in
pogrom areas; and 28,000 zlotys
were appropriated for medical aid.
Smaller sums were distributed for
flood and fire victims, aid to rabbis.
SOUTHERN OBSERVATIONS
__ nnn Temple Sisterhood
members in Atlanta
"lkSNAUKs and in cities through
out the South will honor the Silver
Jubilee of the National Federa
tion of Temple Sisterhoods in
January by sending individual
‘Uniongrams” to the Federation’s
founder, white-haired Mrs. Abram
Simon, of Washington, D. C. Si
multaneously, Sisterhood m e ru
bers throughout the United States,
Canada, England, Panama, South
Africa and Australia will dispatch
‘Uniongrams.” Total number of
messages to the Sisterhood’s Mrs.
Simon will be 55,000, enough to
be bound in 363 volumes.
' Proceeds from the sale of ‘‘Un
iongrams” will go to the Federa
tion’s Hebrew Union College Schol
arship Fund, which supports the
college dormitory, provides schol
arships, trains teachers for work
in religious schools, sponsors the
Youth educational work of the
Union of American Hebrew Con
gregations. Southern officers are
Mrs. David Lefkowitz, of Dallas,
S. C. and Mrs. Julian Hennig, of
Columbia, S. C.
THE TORCH
HE LEFT
‘‘We are finding
strength to carry on
his fight against Fas-
cLsm by working for Loyalist
Spain.” Thus, to the Southern Is
raelite following the death of their
son, twenty-year old Samuel Lev-
inger, in war-tom Spain, wrote
Rabbi and Mrs. Lee Levinger of
Columbus, Ohio.
True to their promise are the
grieved parents, who during the
past two months have been out
standing figures among American
sympathizers of Spanish Loyalists.
Reprinted last week in the Ohio
Jewish Chronicle, are excerpts
from the addresses of scholarly
Rabbi Levinger, follow in part:
‘‘The Jews have a double stake
in the Spanish conflict. Jews are
enrolled in the International Bri
gades, coming from Germany and
Poland, from America and the
Balkans, together with fifty other
peoples, because they know that
the growth of fascism means the
downfall of Jewry. Hitler’s friends
ar our enemies; Hitler’s enemies
are our friends.
“The Spanish republic in its
six years has actually established
a constitution giving equal rights
to all citizens. It has repealed the
laws against the Jews made in 1492
and has welcomed the Jews to
Spain. There are in Spain today
some four thousand Jews who have
entered during those six years,
most of them refugees from Ger
many and Poland. Driven out of
their modem home by Hitler, they
have gone back to their medieval
home in the confidence that Spain
itself has become modern at last.
“The defenders of these pitiful
refugees are the liberals, the So
cialists, the various parties which
have banded together to protect
the republic. Their enemies are
the Church and the army, the
identical forces which drove their
ancestors from Spain four hundred
years ago. Modern fascism is the
enemy of the Jews everywhere; it
builds its unity and its power on
the oppressed minorities; and we
see in Germany and Poland how
the ouUstanding one of these min
orities, the most oppressed of them
all, is our little Jewish folk.
“We have also a second stake in
the Spanish struggle, our hope
for Palestine. As Dr. Stephen S.
Wise said recently, the fate of
Palestine may be decided on the
hills or Aragon. The conspiracy
of the Arab leaders against Great
Britain and the Jewish National
Home is being backed by Musso
lini. If he should win control
over Spain, he would also control
the straits of Gibralter and the
entire Mediterranean Sea. Britain
would weaken in its hold on the
Near East and our infant Jewish
state would be at the mercy of
Mussolini and his Arab allies. . .
We have a doube stake in the
Spanish conflict, that the republic
should win, that Hitler and Musso
lini should be stopped in their
victorious progress to annihilate
our people and to control Europe.”
RECORD
As the month of
CAMPAION November closed,
LAMYAIUIN wires between Balti _
more, Md. and New York kept
telegraph operators and messenger
boys on their toes, caused officials
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This Man Is
My Brother
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1 =•—' ' --By A1
I KNOW A GERMAN refugee.
He is 41 years old and before Hit
ler’s time he was already a well-
established man. In Frankfurt
A/M he had a good job, being a
salesman who earned good money.
He had had a very good life and
was happy that he had kept up the
good name his people had had in
Frankfurt. They had lived there
for hundreds of years; they were
an ancient institution. His kins
men were numerous in the beth
olam and their graves were old,
old graves and their headstones
were green with timeless moss.
He used to hear of Hitler with
out any anxiety whatever. Hitler
was but a loud voice. What could
a fellow like Hitler do to disturb
even in the least a people who
were deep-rooted in Germany as
the oldest oak in the Schwarzwald?
Hitler was but a brief wind.
EVEN WHEN HITLER came at
last to power, it was felt in Frank
furt that whatever might happen
to Jews elsewhere in Germany
could not scarcely happen in
Farnkfurt. In Frankfurt the Jews,
more than elsewhere in Germany,
were very old inhabitants. Their
best friends were among non-Jews
who would never tolerate any dis
turbance of the contented life of
Frankfurt Jews.
Yet the pogrom came even to
Frankfurt and doctors fell and
lawyers and Jewish judges of the
courts and salesmen. Jewish sales
men must make way for Aryans,
and one day our salesman was tak
en aside by his Jewish employer.
. . “I have my orders. I’m very
sorry. I must let go all the Jewish
help.”
But this dreadful injustice
couldnt’ go on for long, he thought.
Injustice is but a rank weed that
quickly is tom out. Other Jews
were leaving Germany. He would
stay and wait for justice.
Four years passed. . .Two months
ago he came to our city.
in dish-washing as in salesman
ship. A salesman negotiates a
deal, brings it to a happy conclu
sion and goes and gives himself a
swell dinner to celebrate the tri
umph. __ _
Not so with dish-washing which
is never through and gives a man
a sense of working to no ends at
all. So the refugee salesman lift
ed himself out of the dishwater
and became a bundle-wrapper.
He was very happy. It was to him
like a step back to salesmanship,
unlike dish-washing which didn’t
seem to lead anywhere. From
bundle-wrapping he might ascend
to the place he had in the world
when he was living in Frankfurt.
HE MUST SHOW them his will
ingness to become a swift bundle-
wrapper. But the faster his fing
ers tried to labor with a bundle
the more like thumbs they became.
At 41, fingers no longer have the
speed of lightning, especially a
salesman’s fingers which never had
any speed at all.
He trembled when the eyes of
the head bundle-wrapper fell up
on him. They were baleful eyes
that seemed always to be saying,
You will never make a great
b u n d 1 e-w rapper. You’re all
thumbs.
At the end of the week he was
paid off. They were very sorry.
The head bundle-wrapper had re
ported it wasn’t in him to be a
bundle-wrapper.
THE UPROOTED MAN goes
here and there to find a new place
in which to plant himself. When
you are still a young plant it is
easier to find a new place and it
doesn’t hurt so much to be up
rooted; for a young plant does not
yet know the ineffable comfort of
being planted deep.
But if you are a ripe plant it
is the ultimate agony to be uproot
ed and to find no place that wants
you.
THERE IS A HOTEL that took
him into its kitchen to wash dishes.
Dirty dishes have a way of being
irritating. You wash a dish and
in ten minutes it is back to be
washed again; there is no finality
He has been coming to my desk
almost every day. I have given
him a letter to this employer or
that, and even as he approaches
I know what he is bringing. His
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Phinecu Biron’»
THE LID IS OFF
Wedding Bells For A H
Mr. Dodd Takes The Air ~
Fiery Debate-Ludwig"
vs. Einstein
DON’T BE SURPRlSFDffTT-
celebrates the advent of the „
year by announcing his enM »
ment to the daughter of a rJ ge '
Jewish question will f lnd
selves in a concentration camn?'
of these days because of the?, fa?'
ur* to mform , h(> Fuehrer S
the dietary laws observed in £
personal kitchen are akin to kash
ruth. It is strictly verbotento
mix meat and milk dishes in nr?
paring Adolf’s food. Two of Hit*
lers most intimate associates
the Englishwomen Unity Freeman
Mitford and Mrs. BryaJ GumnS'
daughters of Lord Redesdale Both
are Streicher-like. Their friend
ship with Hitler has led to their
enforced resignation from the
Council of Emergency Service , r
organization which trains Eng
lishwomen for war-time service
as officers in women’s corps. Ber
lin is tickled pink over the resie
nation of United States Ambassa
dor Dodd. He was so openly anti-
Nazi in his views that the Nazi
authorities regard his resignation
as a major diplomatic triumph.
Those anti-Semitic slogans that
lined the roads from Berlin to
Nuremberg, torn down overnight
during the Duke of Windsor’s
visit because Hitler didn’t want the
ex-king to go touring the world
advertising Nazi anti-Semitism,
are being replaced. Ex-Kaiser
Wilhelm’s popularity in Nazi cir
cles took a nose dive when Ber
lin learned that envelopes con
taining letter from Berlin are de
stroyed before his aides give him
the letters, as he can’t stand the
sight of the swastika on the en
velopes.
ISADOR GENNETT, the Ameri
can Jewish war veteran who flus
tered the Nazis by laying a wreath
at the base of Germany's monu
ment to its world war dead, will
tell the inside story of his exploit in
the January issue of the Jewish
War Veteran. You can now get
strictly kosher chow mein. A rab
bi from Lithuania has been engag
ed by the country’s largest manu
facturer of chow mein to boss the
kosher Chinese food factory. He
gets paid twice a year for supervis
ing a crew of twelve Chinese cooks
who have been trained to scour
their hands in kosher powder be
fore kosherizing the noodles. Max
Reinhardt’s “Eternal Road,' which
has been gathering dust since May.
may be moved into the Rockefeller
Centre Theatre for a Radio City
run in preparation for a tour of
the country, the Broadway colum
nists say. But we know that it
can’t happen unless some of our
rich patrons dig down deep. The
reports on the debate between
Judge Proskauer and Maurice
Samuel were all wrong. Pros
kauer walked out not because Sam
uel implied that he was an eco
nomic Bourbon, but because Sam
uel called Proskauer’s rebuttal a
spiritual mob appeal."
NOW THAT MARGOT Marian-
ff, daughter of Prof. Albert hm-
tein, has been divorced from *•
(mitri Marianoff we can tell )
aat Marianoff has been in op
erate straits for some time.
; a very talented wri^r
lan, but he is anything but prac
cal. Incidentally, we are told thar
,mil Ludwig regards Einstein »
ersonal enemy. The anti-• *P
ese boycott in th is coun yin
lying an egg because Sidney *
lan, head of the Amalgam^
nothing Workers, and the ^
umber two man, proved t
zould throw thousands of •
workers out of jobs. T , 0 j
,ord Rothschild, titular h ted
tie family in London, has! r
stir in British scient 1 ^ cl
nth a new biological d. He if e b
Ve didn’t think Ja 55!? a ^ R e r-
.eeded publicity, but Edw tract
ays has a $25,000-a-year
rith the fiddler .to exploit
he public. Philadelph - ^
ion Pleas Judge LomsE^ hi5
hal has made a big bit the
Iberal decision over-;J Mo-
•ennsylvania State Board the
Lon Picture Censors ban o ;■
nti-Fascist film “Spain m Samuel
r iscount and Viscount r
Herbert Samuel) are< India
n a visit that will com
ure and politics.