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The Southern Israelite
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pecember 24, 1937
MOVE TO ANNUL KUHN’S CITIZENSHIP LAUNCHED
America Has
Tri-Colored
Shirt Brigade
A Governor w arns Against Bias House Immigration Committee
Probes Record Of Bund Chief
UNION* CITY, N. j. (WNS)—
fni^ n City, a ho’bed of brownshirt
Nazi activities, became the birth-
n'ace of a new shirt movement
dedicated to fighting all shirt
-..pups when the American Alliance
of Loyal Citizens was organized
he v e to "Counteract the purposes
of oth'-T shirt organizations.” Op
posed to all forms of government
cxrept democracy, the Alliance’s
members wear a uniform of red,
white and blue shirts. The shirts
have red sleeves, blue collars and
a blue panel down the front, and
a red heart on the pocket. A large
white star printed with the num
ber 43 to represent the 48 states
; s sewed on the back. Founder of ..
the movement, which is non-mili- t,ons proclaimed
tarv and non-sectarian, is Benja
min Franklin Long, an actor, who
has impersonated Abraham Lin
coln. Co-founders are Charles Del-
mont Noble, a salesman of Wood
ridge. N. J., a deckhand on a ferry
boat and a house painter. The Al
liance has 15 members. It uses a
salute of three fingers held over the
heart Mr. Long said his movement
■definitely opposed to Commu-
WASHINGTON, D. C. (WNS)—Action looking to the
nullification of the naturalization of Fritz Kuhn, leader of
the pro-Nazi German-American Bund, as a step toward his
deportation was initiated by the
House Immigration Committee
when it adopted a resolution call
ing upon the Department of Jus
tice and Labor to investigate
i Kuhn’s activities. The Labor De
partment was asked to assemble
all documents concerning him, in
cluding his petition for citizenship
so that his statements at that time
could be cheeked against his sub
sequent declarations. The Depart
ment of Justice was asked to in
vestigate his activities from the
date of his arrival in this country
Michigan s fiery Governor Frank Murphy (standing) addressing i ■trnner "
|>W 1 ... , , , ... ... * oirung.
And interesting though
ct of names is, does it
really matter which course he
iv. v .i . . .,, ^ - ------ — takes? As Robert Bums might
™ r n n th , N « t o I‘ al ? ub , U " ( Mnmlttee: Ludwig I^wtsnhn. I»r. Iter- have said: "The name is but the
. e \. l r !, i de ? t rr° f Yeshlv * a,,d Y, * shlva tolb’K’*. Samuel C. guinea stamp; A man’s a man for
Lamport and A. B. JolTe. | that."
Cone'^ Y0 \ k ,! T1 u etinff ,li c5d .’! nde . r lhe , •'orders „f Yeshiva and Yeshlva | this subject of names is, does
< ollegi. A nation-wide drive to raise 51.000.0fKi for the two tnstitu- : really matter which
Left to right, Rabbi Irving Miller, C'hair-
Ber
until his naturalzation in May
1934, At the same time the Im
migration Committee voted favor
ably on a bill that says "no person
shall be naturalized or be made
a citizen of the United States who
does not believe in the form of
government of the United States
or who is a member of or affiliated
with any organization which ad
vocates any form of government
other than that of the United
States."
Schenectady, N. Y. (WNS)—By
a vote of 294 to 22 students of Un
ion College rejected the Nazi form
of government after hearing it de
fended by Fritz Kuhn in an ad
dress before a closed meeting of
the college’s International Rela
tions Club.
What s In A Name? Expert On j Washington Seminary ~j
Changes Agrees With Poet Burns
msm, Fascism and Nazism."
pickets 'from ( the S Joint ^oy* o°tt j amon 6 J /ws as well as Gentiles, when a Jew changes his
Council are marching up and dawn name. As a Gentile, I d like to make a few remarks on the
in front of the Grand Central Pal- • subject.
ace to urge the public to boycott Let’s nake first names first. We . sounds, would not grate. And yet,
the annual trade exhibit of the Gentiles have no cause for com- if I were a Jew, I would glory in
pro-Nazi German-American Busi- plaint when Jews take names like , the thiught that the name Slusky
ness League. The exhibit was William or Charles or Robert, for I stands for something tar finer and
opened with an address by Fritz we have been appropriating Jew- more truly noble than the name
Kuhn, leader of the German- ish names for a long, long time. I 1 Romanoff.
American Bund. | am not thinking of Jewish names! what these particular names
which have significance in Christ- | mean, I don’t know; but I do know
ian history, like Peter and James 1 that every name means something,
and John and Luke. I have in Consider how the Russian Jewish
mind names right out of the Old names originated. As in Germany,
(If I'll If I iOfllTf* Testament. the Jews were required to take
1 IUUMI Think of some of the great men fnmily names. But in Russia they
who have had Jewish first names, j had no rhoice as to what the names
should be. Names were assigned
to them. And the ribald Russian
clerks who assigned the names en
joyed themselves thoroughly as
they combined hatred with what
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Max M. Cuba was elected wor
shipful master of Fulton Lodge,
No. 216. F. and A. M., at the 82nd
annual election of the organiza
tion held on Wednesday evening,
December 15. The new head suc
ceeds Jack D. Weinkle, who was
Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton,
Noah Webster, Samuel Johnson,
Nathan Hale, Benjamin Harrison,
Levi P. Morton, Elisha Gray. The
list is endless.
And think how underpopulated they thought was a sense of humor
vccus uoer. 1/. wcuimc, W..U wu« the world would be j* ** h °jj What is a man to do when he
recently elected president of the ^eked ! h . ro ^ Sho h^rnrried finds himself weighted down with
Masonic Service Association of | be Gentile g^te who have can-ied a name that is ug i y or unsuited to
Fulton and DeKalb Counties. the good old Jewkh name-of Ruth him? Two courses are open to
Other officers are Sidney W Ja- or Sarah or Martha or Elizabeth ^im. He can sa y ; \\r e are f ar
cob Ln^u^ warden Isadore Left or Mary. The one woman I like to f older than th.. n,™
.; r S " L! a ‘S;K IS T a : t J: dedicate my books to is not Jewish,
junior warden; Joseph Lazear, re- w~TTr;V T _„ h
elected secretary for the 15th sue- 1 but she ,s named Leah
cessive year; Herbert Saul, reelect
ed treasurer; Isadore Heiman, tem
ple director and trustee; Harry
Siegel, senior deacon, and Seymour
Kominers, junior deacon.
Mr. Cuba is the immediate past
senior warden of the Lodge and a
member of the Yanrab Temple.
Active in Jewish affairs, he is a
member of the board of the He
brew Orphans’ Home, the Federa
tion of Jewish Social Service,
the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund,
and Congregation Ahavath Achim.
He is past president of the Jew
ish Progressive Club.
I'lutHMuikitmn
I II111 Ml run ——HIIMUMMIWIWWI
this name which
was given to us four generations
ago. It is a wrong name, and it
Now turn to Jewish last names. fj me to change it. I will take a
On this point let me quote from name that does not clash with my
my book, “The Art of Conversa- | character, my temperament and
tion”: ! my ideals."
“Think of a name J, ,k ® Or he can say, “I will keep this
stem—a rock covered wi1 i - j name that has been handed down
ers. What could be more i ^ me> and j w m ma k e it stand for
ful? Or Perlmutter mother-o - SO mething honest and fine and
pearl. Did you ever see the rich,
gorgeous tints that a piece of
mother-of-pearl throws back at the
sunlight? Think of Rosenwasser,
which is, of course, nothing other
that attar of roses.
‘‘They’re not Hebrew names;
that is, you can’t find that they are
made up of any words existing in
the Hebrew language, but they
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11 certainly are Jewish in the sense
|f that they are the names the Jew-
11'ish people chose for themselves.
If: And because they chose them, in
1 preference to any others, they re
st fleet the sentiment and poetry and
it j admiration for the beautiful that
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11! There is another kind of name
11 borne by Jews. These are not
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