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The Southern Israelite
January 28, 1938
The
Southern Israelite
Ine., M.
weekly by the Southern Newspaper Enterprise*,
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Single copies,
Phineaa Biron 's
THE LID IS OFF
New Radio Faux Pas—
Brandeis To Retire?—
Rabbis And Wives—
Wedding Bells
cents *'canada Vnd lorVi gn‘subsl-rlpUons. one dollar and fifty cents per year
Th» Southern lemelita Invite corr>-*ponfier»e» on subjects of Interest to the Jewish
and literary contributions, but th* editor is not to be considered as "haring the
ixpreswtd k/ the wrlUrt, ssceut thoss enunciated In the editorial eolu/nns.
asp
With announcement explanation that Southern Jew«
rAUPBsrff Of the forthcoming have not been emotionally educat-
COMEBAUt production by the ed to Palestine, are in the main
Atlanta Federal Theatre of Elmer precisely what Palestine endeavor
Rice’s grim tenement-house drama, has asked them to be—a fund-rais-
“Street Scene,” and with the re- ing body.
lease of “Counsellor-at-Law” and Easily understood was forth-
other Rice plays to the national right Mrs. Myerson’s bewilderment.
,. n . TC'ri.M Tor™ n„i WPA Theatre Project, the come- Formerly a teacher in Milwaukee,
F “ back which the critic-flaying play- s he has been living in Palestine for
eher s Interesting Neighbors pr - has been making during the the past 16 years, has devoted her
grams. 1 hen you must have heard _ nc * fr,nr vonu cnmnlotp. tifo to MicfaHnit tha tronaroi
. I past four years is complete. life to Histadrut, the general fed-
reccn y, jvj 0 words ^id intemperate Elmer eration of labor in the Homeland.
Return To The Soil
grams? Then you
the faux pas he made
when m the course of an interview, mince’ whin New York critics SentbyNachshon* Ltd/thTLJbor
he asked the intei esting neig i or turned thumbs down on propa- Maritime Company, to represent
of the moment. Are you, y y g an( ja plays, ‘‘We, the People" and it in America, Mrs. Myerson left
chance Jewish. It turned “Judgment Day,” threatened rash behind her bookkeeper husband,
Canadian readers of the Montreal Star were introduced ^oKHc^STrace. * Whereupon acts of , retaliation ; fl " aLly tw ' 5 small children who were bom
to an old acquaintance in new clothes this month, with the Jerry explained his question with; ™ Yo rk Pr Comeback tmil^hosen whRhlS haJchosen,’there is nl
publication of an editorial urging Canada to open her doors to I thought you might be Jewish ^ y the p i aywr ight was the novel- room for doubt, cowardice, indifl-
Jewish agriculturists. The old acquaintance had shed the from the way you were using your form> took yoars of preparation, erence; as one of Palestine’s most
"Shylock” rainment and had donned the blue denim of the S w SilTthe next lUe minuses The cIose ° f K 1J >? 7 ™ rked the ap- beloved heroines she has absorbed
farmer. In his new role, he walked with shoulders straight the radio station’s switchboard had faring"the Rk-e signature, was me pione^s and^the^nd^I^vi
and head held high, his face miraculously free of worried received four times as many tele- haded ^ y book critics, instantly f or me Homeland burns like
,. phone protests as were made on u«>t c .. i_ ..
nnes - ^ that famous night not so long ugo
Of this new personality—an utter stranger to most La- when radio listeners' sensibilities
nadian readers—the Montreal Star wrote: “The Jews are were outraged by that Mae West-
proving themselves excellent cultivators of the land in Pales- ^ barlie McCarthy program. Now
tine. The old belief that they were only town dwellers, mg^hether he’s 'in Tour’ times as
traders and money-changers is proven a libel. They can muc h trouble as Charlie found
live on the land. We need settlers who will be content to himself in. Serves him right, too
live on it ” —while we know he meant no
uve on li. . , , , harm, radio broadcasters must
Inspiring words, these, and although it is highly doubtful ]earn to avoid such stupidities.
that the doors of Canada will ever swing open to refugees, persistent rumors reach us that
it is gratifying to the eye and to the mind to look upon the Justice Louis 1). Brandeis is very
new picture of the Jew. In his blue denim, with the honest ",STthe CoCrt now u,"t
sweat of labor upon his brow, he has captured something of such a step w m no longer endanger
the nobility of the ancients. There is a prophetic gleam in a liberal majority on that tribunal,
his eyes that can not be found behind the spectacles of his karri Alexander LYONS of
city brother. Brooklyn is sponsoring a move-
It is not in Palestine or Canada or South Africa alone that merit to erect a monument in Times
the Jewish farmer has become a familiar figure. In the Square to the late Rabbi Bloch, MODERN
United States there is a Jewish Farm Population of 100,000 a ^ y s who^as^kiUed by a bullet
persons, according to a report of the Jewish Agricultural while administering the last rites dem fP ic oi Palestine was deep- O, Israel, hear, our God is Om
Society. This month the Jewish Rural Youth Organization of the Catholic church to a dying H^ric?Atlanta vRuTXwcrfT 0u T r hrouBhout lhe ° Bes stand ’
of America was organized to enroll thousands of young far- Catholic who had mi.,t„kcn hi,n for »er bnef Atlanta vis.t last week. Our
mers and to furnish capital to Jewish youths seeking to have the propose d Bloch monu-
6ettle on farms. ment face the one recently erected
The voice of Canada hailing the new Jew is a gratifying to . Father Du f*y•, Ruth Feinberg,
recognition of the return of our people to the soil, it marks a R n “ bbi ( fSSTWbbftziSi
new era in the lire of a people who have known many eras. w ho insist on carrying out a busi-
The dream has become a reality. From the crowded ness career for themselves. Last
cities of the world, from sweatshops, slum districts, the Jew m^ifbmad^to^sTudv 'new Sh"‘state heard 'the*oft-repea'ted
turns to agriculture. It is a movement which is worthy of J r e ^ d3 h " c midren’s wear
the serious consideration of every Jewish family struggling Best proof of how important
for existence in American cites, and for every Jewish youth Leslie Hore-Belisha, England's
who finds his way barred to the overcrowded professions of ™ lni * ler of war, is getting to be is
.. i# r the crop of cock-eyed rumors
City me. about him. Latest of them is that
he will marry Megan Lloyd George,
W/lsL* TTU^ daughter of the wartime prime
W limn 1 ne JT OlCl minister. Benny Goodman, daddy
. , . of swing music, Is writing his au-
The program of bringing Judaism to our co-religionists tobiography. The popularity of
shot into the best-seller lists. Re
lease of the Rice plays to the Fed
eral Theatre for early production
finds the critic-baiter again a force
in American drama.
Most telling note of revenge,
however, is the acceptance by cri
tics and playgoers of the propa
ganda form of drama first intro
duced by Rice. Flays by Clifford
Odets, John Howard Lawson and
other playcrafters with “a mes
sage to give the world” are warm
ly greeted today, even become ma
jor hits. Gratifying to the Rice
ego last year was the production
of the American-panned “Judg
ment Day” in London, where it
enjoyed distinct success, later tour
ed the English hinterlands.
Visibly disturbed
iivRnivr over Southern Jewry’*
i ' indifference to the mo-
a
flame in Mrs. Myerson, radiate*
from her clear, deep-set eyes.
Speaking at the Ahavath Achun
Synagogue last Friday night, elo
quent Mrs. Myerson stirred wor
shippers with her impassioned plea
for Palestine, declared that “our
Jewish pioneers have brought civi
lization, culture and enlightenment
to a section of the world which
before the Zionist movement began
was “remote and isolated.” Heroic
tales told by Nachshon’s “Goldie”
included the inspiring story of an
Arab ambush which killed seven
pioneers working on the mountain
side. and of their voluntary re
placement by seven additional
Jewish youths immediately after
wards in order that the work might
go on.
A PRAYER
thoughtfully listened to “the other
side of the story” over a simple
breakfast of orange juice, toast and
coffee Saturday morning. On a
tour of Southern cities, accompan
ied by temperrnental Dr. Bernard
Berger, the woman labor leader
who is destined to one day become
Secretary of the Navy in the Jew-
watchword in the darkest
night,
Our banner in all lands.
Lord, God of Hosts, Thy peace
descend
In every living thing;
Let all that breathe, Thy name
proclaim,
Our Sire, our Gracious King.
—Sallie M. Smith.
Sermon On The Mount
BY AL SEGAL
“THERE SHOULD BE a place It was in this hour that Jesus
for Jesus in the synagogue com- ascended the hill to preach again
parable to that which Moses and the Sermon on the Mount. He
the prophets occupy in the church," began, as of old, with the beauti-
said Rabbi William F. Rosenblum tudes. Blessed, he said, was this
living in small towns far removed from the mainstream of that Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bist Du of Temple Israel, New York, in a and blessed was that, and his voice
Jewish life is being expanded by the Union of American He- Schoen” has swamped music pub- re eent sermon. “Christianity does was loud on the battlefield, even
brew Congregations. Community gatherings designed to bring second W Avenit “Vn " by H °’ fv ‘ h ° m nnH th ' nhnvP ,hP marhin * whi " h
together families from towns throughout the Southwest and cidentally, that song has crashed
Midwest are scheduled for the year. the movies, being sung by Priscilla
In Lafayette, Lu. this Sunday, small town Jewry will Although Sholom Secunda, author
assemble to hear noted rabbis and laymen and to participate of the tune, sold it for a song
in an open forum discussion designed to solve their specific (scusit, please), his other compo- perhaps its liturgy.”
problems Sitions are now in wide demand. —
Representatives from the towns of Abbeville, Crowley, . case you’re worrying about
Jennings, Kaplan, Jeanerette, Washington, New Iberia, Opel- sam’s^postage stamps, ? be reas-
ousas and Rayne will attend. Rabbi Robert I. Kahn, of Hous- sured. The Post OHice Depart-
ton, Texas, and Rabbi Morton J. Cohn, of Cincinnati, Ohio, ment says it’s made of purely vege-
will be the principal speakers F able matter - b , ein « a derivation of
r * cassava p hint, which
It is encouraging to those who realize the religious needs the source of tapioca. The rash
by not deify them (Moses and the above the machine guns which
I n_ prophets) but it recognizes the were mopping up the last Rus»-
strength and the trutli of their doc- ians.
trine. Judaism need not place “Blessed,” he went on, “are
Christ on its altar of worship, but the peacemakers,” just as he had
can find a place for his teaching said on the Mount in the former
and wisdom in its literature and time.
“Blessed are the peacemakers!**
. . . the words marched through
the forest and over the fields even
to the remote dugouts of the gen
erals. . . to the generals of the
Russians as of the Germans as
well. They knew at once that
treason. . . “Blessed are the peace-
. . had come to the
This has been in my mind, too,
ever since a certain story about
Jesus came to me. Or, perhaps,
the story came to me on account of
what previously had been on my
mind.
As is not well known, Jesus one
is also day did a PP ear for his second com- makers!
ing in accordance with the old battlefield.
Both at staff headquarters of the
of Jewry scattered in the country’s outposts to learn of the of rabbinic sermons on Jesus has tiS? 111 stcUi u
-------- ' od Rabbi So, °™" Fl ~ h °' ot ^^S P chapte?andv P orLtoLv t =" d th ' « waz
lations to prove that I am but a
false prophet proclaiming the
Union’s expanded plan. The preservation of Judaism for
those to whom it is now lost is one of the most vital move
ments in American Jewish life today.
Pittsburgh to pledge himself never
to preach a sermon on that topic.
“Quote Me On This”
"The economic life of the persecuted Jews of Europe Is bein*
changed and what Is necessary for their ultimate well being is a com
plete reorientation of their way of life." DR. DAVID LVOVITCH,
EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT OF WORLD ORT UNION.
‘Tf yon leave religion with the privileged bourgeois, then it will
have a hard time; the proletariat needs religion more than the com
fortable middle class. Religion must be brought to the masses if it
Is to aurvive.” DR. DAVID DE SOLA POOL, NEW’ YORK RABBI.
“We await the appointment and findings of the new commission
second coming.
THE BATTLE of Tannenberg
had just occurred and the battle
field was like a newly-planted
felt that action must be taken;
for the hill from which Jesus
preached stood precisely on the
line between the two armies.
From the headquarters of the
Germans marched a company of
the Intelligence Department to-
January 18, 1938
Macon, Georgia
Dear Sir:
I note with much interest your upon the strewn dead he said, If
reference in Southern Observa- this is but the beg.nning, what of
tions in your paper of January 14 the dreadful ending?
to “White-haired Dr. Marcuson.” Now the Germans were in the
field in the springtime; the dead ward the hill; and even at the
were sown on the field instead of same moment a company of the
the seed. . . Russian dead and Intelligence Department of the
German dead. The war had just Russians began marching toward
begun and as Jesus looked down the same hill.
THUS IT FELL that at the
same moment the two companies
came to the hill and when they
with Interest. However, In the meantime, activities on the part of You have evidently confused him moment of mopping up when Je- saw who it was that was preaching
_ s a _ a Am . . • .. «... - - ^ ...ul ... u t ~ u : j t~\ _ 0,1 , / a „ ii. _ : 11 n i sii _ on t hp mil tnp^ know thov word
Zionists the world over must continue unabated.” NATIONAL BOARD
OF HADASSAII
“Every Jewish family should subscribe to their local Jewish
weekly paper which keeps them Informed on current Jewish affairs."
DR. TRUDE WEISS ROSMARIN, DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL OF JEW
ISH WOMEN.
“The next twenty-five years will decide whether America Is to
remain the home of democracy or not. We women are ultimately
pledged to the defeat of imported Fascism, Communism or HitlerLsm.*'
MRS. ABRAM SIMON, TEMPLE SISTERHOOD FOUNDER.
“Democracy Is still capable of regenerating the world. If we
would bat understand and give ourselves to it. We need passion and
conviction for this task
with white-haired Dr. Solomon of sus came to the hill on the battle-
Savannah. Rabbi Marcuson is field of Tannenberg. The 50,000
bald-headed and cannot claim any Russians had been killed and the
white hair. Not that it worries
him any but he likes historic ac
curacy.
Cordially yours,
Isaac E. Marcuson
battle was practically over; but
there were still some thousands
of Russians who had to be mopped
on the hill they knew they were
in this moment no longer enemies.
The Germans said: “A Jew is
preaching treason on the hill."
The Russians said: “The Jew
blesses the peace makers. It is
ECRETARY OF U. A. M. C.
Editor’s Note — Welcoming the
“bald truth” of Rabbi Marcuson’s
correction, we shall henceforth em-
ploy "honest” and “witty” as fresh _ _
RABBI GEORGE ZEPIN, EXECUTIVE additions to list of adjectives mark- enough to bring down with heav- Not that he was afraid; yet he felt
up. To kill the several thousands treason to everything patriotic."
that were still left, was no more The Germans said: “This is
than it is for the housewife to be against all patriotism. The traitor
rid of the last dust in her house is a Jew.”
cleaning. There was, besides, the When Jesus saw the two com-
steeple of a distant church that panies of soldiers ascending the
still stood and which it was simple hill together he fled from them.
ed “Isaac E. Marcuson’
ler guns.
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