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The Southern Israelite
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Welfare Fund-Humanity!
The curtain will rise next Tuesday on the greatest single
drive in the history oV Atlanta Jewish philanthropy. It is
not alone that the quota set for the 1938 Atlanta Jewish Wel
fare Fund Campaign exceeds those of past years. Nor is it
that the past has not witnessed other great crises in Jewish
life.
The year 1938, with only four calendar leafs torn from
the flight of time, is significant in Jewish philanthropic en
deavor for the urgency of immediate relief to the Austrian
oppressed and for the first concerted challenge of democracy
to totalitarianism through the inter-governmental action to
facilitate the emigration of political refugees from Austria and
Germany.
Not since the rise of National Socialism m Germany has
the Jewish situation been as grave. Neither have there been
more hope and more promise of alleviation of distress. The
unutterable plight of Austrian Jewry is a measure of the new
hope that has come to world Jewry through inter-govern
mental action.
Strange that despair and hope should bo so inextricably
linked. Yet as Atlanta Jewry prepares to answer the cry of
the helpless European oppressed, there is new courage in the
sphere of Jewish life. We have learned wisdom in these
last five, harrowing years. The defeatism which threatened
This is not a false hope which we have wrought from grim
the Jewish spirit has been warded off and we feel the strength
of a new fortitude. Wo have been reborn through suffering and
This is not a false hope which wo have wrought from grim
tragedy. It is real!
Now added to our inner courage and faith, we have the
expression of an outraged world—a world that has articu
lated its contempt for the vile treatment to which religious
and political minorities have been exposed by formulating
a movement that has never been equalled in the annals of
civilization.
As Atlanta Jewry meets the challenge of the greatest
year in Jewish philanthropy, let us give to the 1938 Atlanta
Jewish Welfare Fund with pride, with the dignity of heart
and soul, with gratitude for the triumph of democracy. Let
us translate our faith in American democracy and the spirit
of democracy that still exists beyond the volcano of Fascism
into the greatest of all human action—GIVING UNTO THE
HELPLESS THAT BROTHERHOOD MAY REIGN IN THE
HEARTS OF ALL MEN.
Awakening In Vienna
Ralph McGill, noted Atlanta newspaperman, has seen
a whole people in the throes of death agony. He has seen
man, through a system bred up from the dark ages, crush his
fellow-man. With his own ears he has heard songs of sadistic-
hate from the lips of children.
The Atlanta writer lias told the story of modern Austria.
On Monday morning, in street-cars, automobiles, offices,
homes, Atlantans read in the Atlanta Constitution article 5
in his series based upon life in the once-glorious city on the
banks of the Danube.
“I sat there in the house, with the lights on because the
curtain were drawn,” he writes, “and tried to believe that
this was the world of 1938—that it was not a dream. But it
was the truth. I',had read and heard the Nazi’s very effec
tive propaganda that such things are not true. I was seeing
them.”
Later he pours out his astonishment, his bewilderment
over the hate instinct in children who are being reared by
the monster of Fascism. “The Nazis are bringing up their
children entirely devoid of any of the qualities which differ
entiate man from the beast.”
It is moving and stirring, this awakening of an intellec
tual in Vienna. What he has said does not differ profoundly
from what other men have said before him. There is in his
outcry against the modern Goliath that man has spawned
the story of a mind shocked to numbness, of a heart togi
painfully, of eyes that can not hold the visions which assault
them. It has happened before—to Thomas Mann, to Am
bassador Dodd, to James G. McDonald. It will happen again
to other Ralph McGills.
That the Atlanta newspaperman has branded himself
strongly anti-Nazi, that he has perhaps jeopardized his
chances to return to modern Vienna, are not in themselves
important facts. What is significant is that there has been
an awakening and that the awakening has come pouring
from his heart and mind to move thousands of people. It is
not the experience of Ralph McGill nor the man himself which
are the arresting facts. He would be the first to agree to this.
It is that in Atlanta on Monday morning, in homes, offices,
shops, his magnificent protest brought the people of this
city nearer to the truth, nearer, we hope, to awakening.
May 6,
1931
THE TEMPLE OF LABOR
By A1 Segal
MY FRIEND, Harry Essrig, still
carries prophetic dreams, since he
is so young. Some day soon he is
going to be a rabi (he is now in
the Hebrew Union College) but he
doesn’t seem happy as he ap
proaches the Reform temple as at
present constituted.
He would probably feel the same
way if he were a prophetic young
Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist
and were about to take up a pul
pit in a middle class church.
For neither Reform temple nor
Orthodox synagogue or church are
happy places for rapt young minis
ters in these times; anymore than
the pews are comfortable for
thoughtful young people who are
so many today. They stay away.
WHEN HE GETS older and has
a family and a wile who is ambi
tious (“Harry, I’m sick and tired
of this poverty") Mr. Essrig may
aspire to the pulpit of Temple E-
Manuel, New York, the multi
million congregation. But now he
is troubled about Mr. St hlcppcr-
man and asks, What about a tem
ple for Mr. Schlepperman''
Everybody knows Mr. Schlep
perman; he is the proletarian. He
works for wages or has a smell
business which is from hand to
mouth. He never has seen Miami
Beach and is never found in the
hysterical groups that think Roose
velt is nobody other than Benedict
Arnold. In fact, Mr. Schlepperman
likes to say that Roosevelt is O. K.
with him, a political attitude that
would make him despised in any
of the better circles.
To belong to a temple is to him
like trying to scale the glacial
heights of the Minehaha Country
Club (Jewish) which, as everyone
knows, stands on the highest so
cial peak of Shangri-La. Mr.
Schlepperman is afraid of temples,
and abhors them as seats of wealth
and power.
EVEN IF MR. Schlepperman
were not afraid of temples («n Yom
Kippur he hopes for a seat in the
last pew) he would still ask, What
does a temple have for me?
Mr. Zilch is the vested interest
m the temple. Mr. Schlepperman
guesses that the rabbi could be
brave if it weren’t for Mr. Zilch
who is so big in the doornob in
dustry (Zilch Doornobs, Inc.) Mr.
Zilch is the pillar, and the temple
might fall on the rabbi and bury
him if he and all the other Zilches
bn nme displeased and stepped out
from its support.
Nor is Mr. Schlepperman any
happier n orthodoxy which has
stood petrified almost from the
time of the Babylonian rabbis.
All this troubles young Mr. Es-
rig as he makes ready to go forth
to serve Israel in the Reform pul
pit. It is plain that he does not
relish being the attorney before
God for Mr. Zilch; he seems to
think that it has been heavenly
enough for Mr. Zilch on earth.
Mr. Essrig should like to do some
thing about Mr. Schlepperman.
MR. ESSRIG THINKS of a labor
temple that would care about
Proletarian Schlepperman and be
responsive to his protecting heart.
Mr. Essrig would be a rabbi for
labor with a tongue as free as his
heart.
(Continued on Page 12)
THE LID IS OFF
By Phineas Biron
HOLLYWOOD’S FILM mag
nates are so burned up over cen
sorship of their pictures m Fascist
lands that they are about ready
to say “nuts to you" to all dictators
and begin making some hot films
depicting the truth about dictator-
ridden countries. Bernard Baruch
doesn’t like to act in a strictly
Jewish capacity. So Franklin D
Roosevelt appointed him to the
representative of the Jewish grout:
at the first Washington get-togeth
er on behalf of refugees—and it
said to have smiled in Ins sleeve.
What has scrcenactor W alia c e
Beery to say about a full-page in
terview with him that appeared in
the March 25th issue of the Vienna
12-Uhr Blatt, in which he is quoted
as saying that "if all this (the Nam
conquest of Austria) had not hap
pened, your Austria would have
suffered the bloody fate of Spain'"’
Accompanying the interview is a
picture showing Beery wearing a
silver swastika in his left lapel.
PRINCE HUBERTUS L o w e n-
stein, the famous anti-Nazi Ger
man Catholic who is related to
many royal families and descended
from a dozen emperors, is half-
Jewish. His mother was the daug-
ter of Lord Pirbright, formerly
Baron Henry de Worms, who was
for many years president of the
Anglo-Jewish Association. On his
mother’s side the Prince can trace
his ancestry back to Abarbanel.
That Pershing-Baehe wedding in
which General John J. Pershing's
son, Francis Warren, took to frau
Muriel Bache Richards could’nt
have happened in Germany or
Austria. The bride is a non-Ar-
ya;i, her mother having been the
daughter of Jules Bache, the bank
er and art patron. We were inter
ested to note that Muriel Rukey-
ser writes book reviews for the
New Masses, radical weekly. Her
cousin. Marryle Stanley Rukeyser,
is the financial expert of Mr.
Hearst’s New York Journal-Ameri-
ean. you know. Eddie Cantor was
so sick last week that he had to
cancel his weekly radio program,
but sick as he was, he got out of
bed two days earlier to do a free
broadcast for the Joint Horne
Finding Committee for Jewish
Children.
NEW YORK'S POLICE depart
ment is quietly checking on all
members of the German-American
Bund to see how many of them
have permits to carry guns. About
three hundred of them carry wea
pons, but so far only three are
known to have permits. Lady
Astor is one of the ringleaders of
the pro-Hitler bloc in England, but
her kinfolk here are violently anti-
Nazi. Vincent Astor has, as we
predicted some weeks ago. drop
ped the word "V ennese" from the
name of the Roof Garden in his
St. Regis Hotel. And his sister,
Alice Muriel, makes no bones about
her anti-Hitler feelings, since she’s
married to Ra.mund von Hoff-
mannstahl, son of the late Hugo
von Hoffmannstahl. celebrated
Austrian Jewish poet. Clap hands
for Walter Winchell for his one-
man campaign to call Hitler by his
real name, Adolf Schickelgruber.
Whenever Walter means Hitler he
writes Schickelgruber. And while
you’re applauding think of Con
gressman Sam Dickstein. He’s
been waging an effective fight on
the Nazis and calling his shots by
startling predictions that have
turned out to be correct.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
May 2, 1938
Atlanta. Ga.
Dear Sir:
In your issue of April 29. 1938.
I pleasantly read the unique ver
sion of the Twenty-Third Psalm
by Sallie M. Smith.
I have in my private library a
Bible printed in London, England
fn the year 1680. In this Bible
the Twenty-Third Psalm reads and
spells as follows;
The Lord is my support.
and he that doth me feed.
How can I then lacke anything,
where of I stand in need?
He doth me fold in coats most safe,
thtff tender grass fast by,
And after drives me to the streams,
which run most pleasantly,
And when I feele my selfe neare
lost,
then doth he me home take.
Conducting me in his right paths,
even for his owne names sake,
-And though I were even at deaths
door,
^ yet would I feare none ill;
l 1 or with thy rod and shepherds
crook,
i am comforred still.
Thou hast my table richly deckt,
in despite of my foe;
Thou hast my head with balms
refresht,
my cup doth overflow,
And finally while breath doth last
thy grace shall me defend:
And in the house of God will I,
my life for ever spend.
Very truly Yours.
Ben M. Brodie
Southern
Observations
HONORING In , Galveston Te*
DR. COHEN Iast week, lt J'
Dr. Henry rvv. .
as far as the Jewish commiml
was concerned. On M< ndavA 7
25, London-born Dr. CnheS\i P ?
to find himself seventv-;vl * olte
old, would have prefer! • i tn
the day quietly at his de- fJT'"
on a birthday celebration ! 0 u.v
were friends of Rabbi C ,i, n ' er
suaded him to be “f u i . '
several community aff . ‘r
Robert P. Goldman. Preside^ 0 ",
the Union of Amerir,, n Hebr P & ‘
Congregations, to Ad' i,
President of Congreg,
Israel, went the foil,,.
“The Union of Amen
Congregations extend
gation B’nai Israel it
licitations on the G<-,i,i. '
of Dr. Henry Cohen'. ■
You have had a great m
midst and your faithfu
tribute not only to him hv ■ , v
self. His leadership ha extern^
far beyond your city. , n y
known to Dr. Cohen
have nevertheless folk i
he led. Throughout ti • m ! ,
Judaism has triumphed -hr,, U z-
such leaders and such
PURELY Most ensation;:.
PERSONAL ! t ? ry t of tlH> Austrian
situation * , break m
the American press w,i
Ralph McGill’s expose in Monday
Atlanta Constitution, blew the hd
off the Nazi teapot by telling ‘
Rosenwald Scholarship winner
Ralph McGill’s personal tr ump. 1
over restrictions by bringing from
Vienna to London the effects o!
Austrian refugees. Making the
rounds is the rumor that when out
spoken Ralph McGill returns
Atlanta he will become Managing
Editor of the paper—a post left
vacant by the death of Francis
Clarke. McGill’s graduation from
the sports page is nothing new
Other ace newspaper men who are
alumni of the sports sheet are Paul
Gallico, Damon Runyon and West
brook Pegler. . . Resemblance r.f
vigorous Leo W. Schwartz, wh<
visited Atlanta last week, to noted
Group Theatre actor Luther Adler
excited stage fans here. Cornered
the broad-shouldered, husky writer
admitted that he had been mistak
en for Adler before. In the lobby
of a Los Angeles hotel, a strange
woman rushed up to him. threw
her arms around him. cried, "Lu
ther, dear.” No stage ambitibns
has the editor of “The Jewish Ca
ravan,” although in Hollywood he
urns asked to take a screen test for
“Gone With The Wind "
ership in Atlanta women's rgan -
zations for next year Ls being as
sumed by younger clubwomen
Blonde Mrs. Donald Oberdorfer
will head the Atlanta Section f
the National Council of Jewish
Women; brunette Mrs. Jake Ab<.-
son is slated as president f At
lanta Senior Hadassah, and Mrs
David Marx, Jr., will be one 1 f
the youngest presidents in the his
tory of the Temple Sisterhood
Incidentally, the latter’s speech of
acceptance at the Annual Meeting
of the Temple Sisterhood was one
of (he most moving heard the
year, paid a great tribute to Mrs
David Marx, Sr. for her spiritua.
influence.
MAVERICK (as 'Lnabk. ri Vienna
AND NIECE 'ST M „. Fon-
taine Maverick, niece of hard-hit
ting Representative Maury Ma\-
eriek. Texas Democrat. To her
parents Miss Maverick recent'
wrote with schoolgirl gusto. " e
are beginning to have fun now
We traipsed all over, all veiling
‘Heil, Hitler.’ It is magniheem
how happy everyone is and we
walked down the street greeting
everyone with ‘Heil Hitler ' c
all got swastikas.” When R e P^'
sentative Maverick was told of
letter he exploded with U’P 1 ^”
Maverick rage, dismissed W-
niece’s statements as adolescen*
foolishness, blasted “Damn Hit* e -
... On Good Friday in Dallas.
Texas worshippers at the Episoep-
Church of the Incarnation raisea
the sum of $1,139.64. To the Pass
over Seder of Temple Emanu- •
on the following night came
Valentine Lee, presented the e ^
tire sum to Rabbi David Let.a
witz as a contribution to the - _ ,
C. campaign in aid »f OP? 1 ^^
and destitute Jewish popub t:C _*
overseas. “When one rne: .’ 1 o!j v
of the body is hurt, the entire w ^
feels it and we are all me
of the body of humanity
Rev.
Lee told the Jewish Congregate 11