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The Southern Israelite
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
VOL. XIII—NO. 47
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COUGHLIN’S SERMON
BRANDED ‘UNTRUE’
Atlanta Post of J' W. V. Gets Drum Corps
Front: (L. to R ) Julias Spector, C ommander Harry Wen-
grow, Herbert Cohen. Back Row: (L. to R.) Larry Jacobs, Regina
Rosendorf, Mack Frankel, Honorary Commander.
"JEWS NOT A REFUGEE PEOPLE"
2000 LEADERS PROTEST ACTION
New York, N. Y.—Opposition to attempts to convert the
Jews into a refugee people; to settle refugees from Nazi op
pression in former German colonies; the summoning, under the
auspices of the General Jewish Council, of a National Confer
ence of all Jewish organizations; American Jewry’s participa
tion in the work of rescue; and the
organization of an American boy
cott movement against the pro
ducts and services of Nazi Ger
many, were voted upon last Thurs
day evening at the conference
summoned by the American Jew
ish Congress and attended by
more than two thousand repre
sentatives of Jewish organizations
in the metropolitan area of New
York.
These decisions were reached
following addresses by Dr. Step
hen S. Wise, Dr. Samuel Mar-
goshes, Editor of the “Day”, Dr.
Joseph Tenenbaum, Chairman of
the Joint Boycott Council, the Hon.
M. Maldwin Fertig, Judge Nathan
D. Perlman, Dr. Chaim Green
berg, and Baruch Zuckerman.
Recognizing that thousands of
involuntary immigrants must
leave, and should be enabled to
leave, Germany forever, Dr. Wise
made it clear that, “not being a
race of beggars, though we are
wanderers, we are resolved that
we are not to become nor to be
dealt with as a refugee people
because the Nazis are forcing our
brother Jews into exile.”
Dr. Margoshes discussed the
Propose Pope Lead
Combat of Paganism
Fall River, Mass.—At the annual
breakfast meeting of the Fall Riv-
er Ministerial Association here,
an appeal was made to Pope Pius
to rally all r.eligious leaders under
on banner to combat the spirit of
Paganism in the world.
The resolution drawn up by Rev.
Clarence E. Gifford, Rabbi Jacob
Freedman and Rev. Ralph Stoody,
said:
"The time is ripe for a recog
nized world religious leader to
y and ally the forces of justice
and reason. Were the Pope to
c R an extra-ordinary session of
* re religious leaders of the Cath
olic, Protestant and Jewish faiths
form a united front to protect
themselves and all mankind
a ga;nst the invasion of blasphe
mous, anti-God and anti-human
Philosophies and governments, it
would be received with universal
ac ^nim and gratitude.
Political leaders have failed
nuserably. Only the mighty surge
01 or ganized religious indignation
dr ains to cope with the execrable
°f a i,t of the modem jungle society
°‘ Germany. Unless religion seg-
re gates leprous Nazidom and pre-
" onts .it from infecting the rest of
•mankind, then 1900 years of
Christianity and 3500 years of
‘ u, aaism shall have failed.”
question of Jewish mass-migra
tion which has been placed on the
agenda of Jewish thinking by the
German events, and called “the
coordinating of the policy-making
U.A.H.C. Celebrates
75th Anniversary
Cincinnati, Ohio—Half a mil
lion members of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
and its affffiliates, the National
Federation of Temple Sisterhoods,
the National Federation of Tem
ple Brotherhoods and Youth
Groups, will unite in a great 10
year program in which the mem
bership is to Give Service, accord
ing to an announcement just made
by Robert P. Goldman, President
of the Union. The program, suit
ed to the needs of the day. will
reach its climax at the Union’s
75th birthday celebration to be
held here at the end of 1948.
“Giving Service is not a new
idea to Union members. Dr. Isaac
M. Wise and his associates found
ed the Union in Cincinnati, July
8, 1873, that Liberal American Ju- j
daism might band together to
achieve more than was possible
for isolated congregations," Mr.
Goldman declared “Starting with
35 congregations, U. A. H. C. is
now made up of 300 groups in 200
cities spread over the United
States and Canada. Its member
ship and their families will parti
cipate in the 10 year program.”
Every group is to organize it
self immediately for a definite
program of Service in synagogue
problems, city, state, national and
international conditions. Cooper
ation in caring for refugees from
European oppression is the out
standing question today. When 1
members take an active part in
befriending newcomers and find
ing a place for them in community
life, they will be continuing Union
tradition.
Atlantans active in heading the
10 year program of service are:
William T. Rich, president, the
Temple; its rabbis, Dr. David Marx
and Samuel Sandmel; Mrs. David
Marx. Jr., president of the Temple
Sisterhood, and Louis Regenstein.
Jr., president of the Temple Bro
therhood.
NATION AND OFFICIALS PROTEST
LATEST ANTI-SEMITIC BROADCAST
New York, N. Y.—Father Charles Coughlin, Detroit’s
“radio-priest” again made himself the center of nationwide
protests when his allegations, that Jewish capital had fi
nanced the Russian revolution which resulted in the over
throwing of the Czar’s regime in 1917, were branded officially
as “distortions and misinforma
tions.”
Alexander Kerensky, one-time
premier of Russia, Leon Trotzky,
the Bolshevist leader, the United
States Secret Service and the
banking firm Kuhn, Loeb and
Suggest He Be Dis robed
REV. CHARLES COUGHLIN
New York Clty.N. Y.—Z. Tygcl,
a member of the administrative
committee of the American Jewish
Congress, which was mentioned
by Coughlin as “reluctant to op
pose communism,” called attention
to the serial publication of ‘Pro
tocols of Elders of Zion,’ in Cough
lin’s paper, Social Justice. “I
propose,” said Tygel, “that we
bring the matter of Father Cough
lin to the attention of the Catho
lic authorities and urge them to
divest him of his robes."
DR. STEPHEN WISE
and instrumentality-owning Jew
ish organizations of America to
define policy toward Jewish mass-
migration and the organization of
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Baldwin to Address U. S.
London, England—A na
tionwide radio broadcast will
be made Wednesday, Dee. 7. by
Earl Baldwin, former Trime
Minister, to launch a non-de-
nominational appeal for finds
for refugees from Germany.
The fund will be called “The
Earl Baldwin Fund.”
Company, issued formal denials
and contradiction to charges made
by Father Coughlin in his radio
speech made last Sunday.
Banned by three major radio
stations because he refused to sub
mit his radio script in advance—
an measure which was taken by
those stations because of Cough-
was characterized as "tending to
incite racial strife in the United
States—Coughlin came back with
even stronger assertions in his
latest broadcast. Having lost out
on other issues and unable to
draw attention to himself with the
discussion of economic and politi
cal topics, Father Coughlin ap
parently has adopted anti-Semi
tism as a chief article in his broad
casts.
KERENSKY’S STATEMENT
Alexander Kerensky, in a mes
sage from Chicago, said that there
was not a single Jew in the first
government following the revolu
tion and branded Coughlin’s as
sertions "a mass of distortions and
misinformation.” He ulso dismiss
ed as "fantastic” the pamphlet of
Dr. Denis Fahey, cited by Cough
lin in his radio addresses, in sup
port of charges that Jews and
Jewish bankers abroud fomented
and financed the Russian Revolu
tion.
“Jewish culture and religion
have been suppressed no less than
Russian culture or religion,” said
Kerensky. “To insinuate or to
lead people to believe that the op
posite is true is a lie. Against the
few Jews that Father Coughlin
may be able to show an having
participated in the setting up of
the Bolshevik regime in Russia,
I can cite many Jews who have
been leaders in the fight against
Bolshevism.”
“The only foreign element that
participated effectively in the es
tablishing of bolshevism in Rus.
sia,” declared Kerensky, “was the
German group headed by General
Ludendorff, as chief of the Ger
man high command. The Germans
have no moral or political right
to the claim that they arc the de
fenders of civilization against
bolshevism,” he added, “because
they helped it to power.”
U. S. Secret Service Replies
Washington, D. C.—The United
States Secret Service announced
through Chief Frank J. Wilson
that a search made through the
flies to find a report made in 1918,
according to Coughlin’s charges,
that “a revolution was being fo
mented in Russia,” and in which
the Secret Service named Jacob
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GERMAN AMERICANS AND JEWS
MOVE TO ABOLISH RACIAL STRIFE
ing German-language
dared in an address before the
West Side Institutional Synagogue.
Pleading for the avoiding of pre
judice and for fair treatment by
Jews to German-Americans, Rid- to
der said that “outside ^
fanatical Bund members the uer-
man-American element is
to do everything possible to pre
vent prejudice and racial hatred
from obtaining a foothold in this
country. He asked that Jews, act
as Jews but as Americans
help the Germ an-Americans in
preventing the spread of Preju
dice. “If you want to Prevent
race hatred,” he said, see that,
however hard it may be, youiteeat
the German-American element
fairly, just as you would want to
be treated yourselves.
H. Heyman To Head
Alliance Federation
Herman Heyman, prominent
young attorney, last Wednesday
was elected president of the At
lanta Federation for Jewish Social
Service, after Mr. L. H. Moss, who
was unanimously re-elected to
this high communal post during
the past twelve consecutive years,
announced his retirement to the
Federation's Board of Directors.
Mr. Heyman, long prominent in
I M SH I affairs, has served as treas-
desire to hold a protest meeting in J keep silent no longer, that the re- i urer of the Legal Aid Association
New York, N. Y —“It would be I
disastrous if there should ev i op | * — ^ B - nai B . rith and the j herence to democratic principles
any animosity or iU feel g German-American Steuben Soci- by deploring the persecution of
tween Americans of Jevn* or gm uerm ^ , anned here for the : Jew in Germany,
and those of German deb L., d purpose of devising means of at- Henry von der Heyne welcomed
this country, V ict °r Fj ‘ ’ f acl f on anti-Semitism and ce- Jewry to the affair in a spirit of
publisher of the New me nting friendship between Jews | friendliness and goodwill. Will-
Staats Zeitung und Herold, le German' here. Several Ger- j iam Ostner, the principal speaker,
- i-— daflv. de- -Americans had expressed a , said that he and his brethren could
New Haven, Conn.—A joint phasized their patriotism and ad-
New Haven, similar to the one held j cent atrocities in the Fatherland
recently in New York by Italians, were too much for decent German-
make known to Hitler their | Americans to stomach.
lack of sympathy with the anti-
Semitic campaign.
A B’nai B’rith committee was
appointed by Milton Nahum, lodge
president, to meet with the repre
sentatives of the Steuben Society
and proceed with any plans which
would bind the two groups in
friendship.
Jacksonville, Fla.—The German-
American Club honored the Jew
Joseph Glickstein, president of
the Jewish Temple, thanked the
society for its gesture of friend
ship and invited its members to a
similar affair to be held soon at
the Jewish Center or Temple.
Mayor George Blume promised
that no organization such as the
Bund would be tolerated in Jack
sonville.
Other speakers included Robert
Kloeppel, Rabbi M. O. Margolis,
ish community of Jacksonville at j David Moscowitz, S. S. Jacobs,
Darty in its clubhouse auditor- i Isaac Peiser, John Hinck, Max Ru-
ium recently. Before a capacity : bin, Col. Robert L. Seitner, A.
crowd leaders of both groups em- i Rieker and Dr. Krueger.
and is an outstanding member of
the Atlanta Bar Association.
After expressing the Board’s
“highest regards and affection to
Mr. Moss, a man of courage who
served the Jewish community with
dignity and ability” the board
then elected the following officers
to serve with the new president:
A. L. Feldman, first vice-presi
dent; Max M. Cuba, second vice-
president ;Sol Yudelson, third
vice-president; Mrs. J. E. Som-
merfield, secretary and Mr. Moss
treasurer. These officers will
serve as heads of both the Federa
tion and Alliance.
T h i r t y-three directors were
named by unanimous vote.