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By the Way By David Schwartz
TARSHISH   TO   SPEAK
ON "WHAT I BELIEVE
ABOUT THE BIBLE"
Charity That Availed Not
Now, that tlie sale of the New Yorlc World is so much tlic subject o£ the moment, it may not be an^iss to tell one of the most amusing Pulitzer anecdotes that have come to my Icen.
Pulitzer, you remember, was Jnordi- ¦ nately sensitive to noise. His rooms were sound proof a.s the science of liis day could fashion mid much of Ids rea¬ son for spending so much of his time aboard yacht was due to the desire lo get all the quietness possible.
Well, thia story is entirely authentic. Pulitzer one day at his New York home waa being driven to desperation -by an Italian hand organ player, who was giv¬ ing a street concert in front of J, P.'s window.
Pulitzer .sent out Ins secretary, beiiring a gift of two dollars, 'but only on the condition that the Italian immediately would hie himself off with' bis music. The organ player took the money and left.
Thirty   minutes   later,   a   half   do^cn organ players lined up in  front of the Pulitzer abodCi Where Did You Buy Those Apples,
Mr. Swope? Touching upon the recent discussion of the dramatic things, people fail to say in those signal moments, which seem to lend, themselves to drama, F, P. A., Jew¬ ish columnist of the recently demised World, offers food for thought.
Heywood Broun tells about it: He was at the home, of Herbert Bayard Swope, fortncr Executive Editor of the World. There, too, were a number of other prominent World staff writers. Every minute, they were expecting a flash to announce the final sale of the World, which meant the loss to many of them of positions which they had held for ten and fifteen years. ' Finally the flash came; F. P. A. looked at the red apples glistening in the bowl on the table. "Mr. Swope," he said, "where do you buy your apples?"
And That's Usually the Way . And I think that is not uncharacteris¬ tic of the things said at the critical moments of life. When the heart is overfilled we generally say something quite apart from the thing which at the time oppresses the mind.. We are afraid to leg to on that subject.
Socrates was a great thinker—and his last sentence, I believe, as recorded by Plato was something like this: "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepis, or somebody or ptlier, I forget whom."
The Jews Who Lose The sale of the World throws many prominent Jewish newspapermen out o£ work: Harry Salpeter, literary re¬ viewer; Samuel Chptzinoff, musical critic; :Michelspn, Sunday editor, among others. One oi* two who have contracts, which have not yet expired may however profit by the termination, financially. A large number of the World men are now planning to take opportunity of their en¬ forced leisure by turning to less transi¬ tory writing such as magazine and took .   work.
What, with the bad situation as re¬ gards newspaper employment long exist¬ ent, accentuated by the World debacle, I prophesy soon a deluge of books. How Heilman Happened But touching upon the- statement made in the last item, that some of the men who haye contracts will profit financially, there is an interesting story of Sam Hell- man, the Saturday Evening Post short story writer.
Heilman had been working on some St. Louis: sheet, when all of a sudden, the paper was sold and put out of busi¬ ness. A few months before the sale, however,- Heilman had fortunately been given a contract for three years at $10,- .000 per annuni. In view of the cessation of the paper, the owners asked Hellmau to accept a compromise settlement. But the paper had been s'old for a nice juicy price and Heilman insisted upon holding them to the full contract.
Well, the owners decided they would be mean, too. They told Heilman they would pay the contracted sum, but they would also insist on the enforcement of the provision of the contract which stip¬ ulated that during the Hfe of the con¬ tract, Heilman was to write for no other paper.
What did Heilman do? He hire<l an office and for three years, he spent his days^ there, writing fictioti, but never sending out a single story. Meanwhile, he was drawing the $10,000 yearly,
When the time was up, he sent a story to the Saturday Evening Post. They liked it and asked if he could write an¬ other. He sent instead six more. They couldn't understand how ]ic could write them that fast. They invited him to Phil¬ adelphia for a conference, and that's how Sam Hellman's connection with the S. E, P. was inaugurated.
Joseph Pulitzer's Nose Returning to the suhject of Joseph Pulitzer, did "you ever know that J. P. was very self-conscious about his long JeW|ish nose? Very sensitive about it, although he was, on the whole, a very impressive looking man.
Another feature about which he was sensitive was his. receding chin. He grew his beard largely to offset the weak chin.^
Weak chins are supposed to signify weak-will—yet America has probably not produced a man stronger willed than J, P.
Likewise,  long cars  arc  supposed  to betoken moronish assininity. yet Abraham Lincoln had very big ears. Fannie, Stop Writing, Said Editor Fannie Hurst's "Back Streets" is an¬ other licst seller and thereby hangs a tale. Years ago. Miss Hurst, as a young girl, addressed herself to the editor of a St. Ij3uis paper.    She brought along some copies of some of her early scribblings. The editor looked them over.    "Miss Hurst," he said very gravely. "I cannot Continued on page 4
Tomorrow (Sunday) at 11 n. m., over WAIU broadcasting stntion, Rabbi Jacob Tarshish will speak on *'What I Believe About the Bible."
This is the Rabbi's 17th of a scries of radio sermons and should he of great interest to his thousands of listeners thru¬ out tho middle west. Because of the interest being shown by his radio audience in requesting that the Rabbi's sermons be placed on the Columbia net works, the officers of Temple Israel hope that this will materialize in the near future. ,. Until then the WAIU will do the broadcasting.
Rabbi Tarshish desires to in¬ form the general public that his Sunday services arc interde¬ nominational in character and are open to all. The Temple is located on Bryden Road and Eighteenth street.
Einstein Sees Palestine Bringing Jews Solidarity, in Fare¬ well Address at Testimonial Banquet Tendered to Him by American;Palestine Campaign
Scientist Says Cooperation Between Jews and Arabs Paramount
Probleni; Morris Ilothcnberg*l Campaign Chairman, Asserts
Jewish Honor at Stake in Upbuilding of Palestine
WARBURG, WISE, ADLER, AND SZOLD OTHER SPEAKERS
High Caste Hindu to Present the Case for India Here Next Tuesday, March 17
Jehan Warliker Will Explain the
Unrest and the Problems of
The Indian People
It is confidently believed by Allan Tar¬ shish, chairnian of the Temple Lecture Course, that an unbiased view of India and her problems will be' presented by Mr. Jehan Warlikcr,.man of affairs, aU' thor, lawyer, and lecturer, who comes here ou Tuesday, March 17th, at the Bf-ydcu Road Temple, to speak ou "A IPanorama of India."
Outline of  Lecture
India-i—to some a land of Romance and Mystery—to others a vale of Sorrow and Tears. In this talk, Mr. Warliker deals .solely with the India of today. He ex¬ plains her religious thought which has so much colored her national life and stifled her progress. With absolute impartiality, he discusses if India has benefited from Great Britain's tutelage apd argues pro and con why India could be given Domin¬ ion status. He tells us something of "Yoga," describes the self-imposed tor¬ tures 01 the Yogis, such as "Living Death," "Bed of Nails," etc., which the Sadhus (Ascetics) practice in their striv¬ ing for world-renunciation and Maya (ilhision).
Among many other interesting anec¬ dotes, he refers to Mhatma Gandhi, his ideals, influence and policy for the re¬ generation of India, and terminates with- an expression of his own personal opin¬ ion of what the fundamental is in Amert- cau life which.has caused her to forge ahead, while India with vast natural re¬ sources, diversified races and climate, and three times the population, is for the most part sunk in Medievalism.
Americans   Always   Interested In Others
Americans have'always been interested in India, the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of which we have any rec¬ ord. With the present unrest in India, with the newspapers constantly filled with news of happenings there, it is of great value to be able to hear a speaker who cam present the truth about India and her people not only in an authorita¬ tive, but in an entertaining manner as well.
Jehan Warliker has been doing this for several seasons in the United States. He has the background, the feelings and the culture of the best of the Hindu people. To this is added a western point of view, gained because of his unusual education and experiences in early life. He presents a truthful picture of India.
Mr. Warliker was born in India of Hindu parents, descendants of the Princely Clan of Seesodia. His mother: died when he was six months old, and his fatlier believed that if he were to take him to England and have him brought up as an English gentleman that snch an upbringing would better fit him for the fulfilling of his duties for a career, in India when he reached manhood.
Thus he has the western education, background, and training with an under¬ standing of his people and country that only a native Indian can have.
C. J. W. INSTITUTIONAL
SEWING NEXT FRIDAY
The Conncil of Jewish Women Institu¬ tional Sewing will be held Friday- after¬ noon, March SOth, at 1 o'clock, at the Bryden Road Temple. Mrs. Robert Wasserman will be in charge, They will .sew for the Cancer Clinic.
N]':W YORK—The effort to rebuild the Jewish National Home in Palcstind has rought about an undreamcd-of soli idarity among the Jewish people, was th| declaration made last night by Alber'e Einstein in his farewell address at the testimonial dinner tendered to him at thcr Hotel Astor by the American Palestin^ Carni>aign which simultaneously launched its national drive for $2,500,000 for the IMl budget of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. i
More than eight hundred guests, rcpre^ seating the leading figures, Jews and norif Jews, in various fields of endeavor, iri^ eluding delegations ¦ from BaltimorCi Philadelphia, Washington, Boston and other cities, were firesent at the banquet] paying $100.00'cach for the privilege, to bid farewell to the noted scientist before he left last night on the S. S. Deutsch- land to return to his native country.
"Albert Einstein exerts a greater fas¬ cination over the masses than any other scientist of this or any other day," waS the manner in which Morris Rotheiiber^Si National Chairman of the America^ Palestine Campaign, characterized the guest of honor. In giving the reason for that fascination, Mr. Rothenberg said: "It is because he has not sealed himself in his laboratory. Though his tools have been etiernal values, his aims have been present realities. Whether it he the menace of the machine age, the injustice of inequality, the horrors of militarism or the ravages of intolerance—topics which agitate the minds of contemporary society—Einstein has illumined every bne of these subjects with the warmth of his understanding and - the passion of his moral ardor;" He added that "it was not only a source of towering strength to the Palestine cause that Prof. Einstein shared its ideals, but it was also a matter for deep satisfaction that despite his pre¬ occupation and preeminence In,the. world- of scienccy Einstein had taken frapient occasion to identify himself with the con¬ cerns and anxieties of his own people."
Those who greeted" Prof. Einstein in¬ cluded, in addition to Mr. Morris Rothen¬ berg, Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Ste¬ phen S. Wise, Mr. Robert Szold^ Chair¬ man of Administration pf the Zionist Or¬ ganization of America, and Dr. Cyrus Adler. A great part of the proceedings was heard throughout the country over a national hookup of the Columbia Broad¬ casting System.
Address of Morris Rothenberg. Cam¬ paign Chairman Reviewing the" work tliat has been ac¬ complished by the Zionist movement in wlio.se work in Palestine Prof. Einstein is so interested, Mr. Rothenberg said: - "Sin'ce first Prof. Einstein made known his views on Jewish problems, and par¬ ticularly his deep interest in the Jewish effort and in Jewish hopes in Palestine, Jewish hearts throughout the world have been gladdened. Tonight the happy oc¬ casion that brings us together with-^Prof. Einstein coincides with the opening of the New York efifort of, the American Palestine Campaign, which seeks to ob¬ tain the sum of $2,500,000 during the coming year from the entire country, to be applied ito the upkeep of the works of colonization, education, health and sani¬ tation conducted in Palestine by the Jew¬ ish Agency.
"For three decades, the Zionist move¬ ment labored to realize the age-old as¬ piration of the Jewish people to establish in Palestine, that little land -which is as' sociated with its fondest memories and its ancient glories, a home where such part of our people, as might desire to dwell there, might do so as of right and not on sufferance, might develop there their own culture and worship their own God in freedom.' As a result of the activ¬ ities of that movement and under its in' 'spiration and guidance, there deveIoi>ed and now exists in Palestine a community of more than 105,000 Jews.
"During the period since 1920, the brave and devoted pioneers in Palestine who came into the land with empty hands but whh courageous hearts have, with the aid of funds supplied by Jews, through¬ out the world, succeeded, against great odds, to establish about 54 agricultural settlements, in addition to those that had previously been developed through the princely munificence of Baron Edmond de Rothschild; a complete and noteworthy educational system, crowned by the He¬ brew University, which, it is hoped, may become a new fountain of Hebraic cul¬ ture; a network of hospitals, clinics and public health and welfare projects, spon¬ sored by Hadassah, the American Wo¬ men's Zionist Organization, and other in¬ stitutions of an important character, all bearing the impress of modern civiliza¬ tion.   What has been accomplished dur-
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ing this comparatively short period of time has touched the imagination of the entire worhl, and "has renewed faith in the capacity of the Jewish people."
)isciissiiijj; the present situaticm in Palestine and the letter' recently sent by Premier Ramsay MacDonald to l^r. Chaim Weizman, World Zionist Presi¬ dent, in explanation of the Passfield White Paper, Mr. Rothenberg said of it that "though not entirely adequate it is, nevertheless, a hopeful document. The discussions between the British Cabinet and the representatives of the Jewish Agency are shortly to be resumed and the important problems of practical ad¬ ministration and development in Palestine will then be considered. We look for¬ ward to a satisfactory outcome of those discussions in that spirit' of good faith and good will which Premier MacDonald in his letter bespeaks for the British Government, in contradistinction to the unfriendly tone of the Passfield White Paper.
As to the problem of Arab-Jewish re¬ lations, surely a solution will be. found. Sooner or later an understanding will be arrived at between two peoples who have every reason ' for cooiJcratiiig with one another."
. Mr. Rothenberg concluded by saying that American Jewry was optimistic with regard to the future of Palestine. "Let us remember that it is not we who are required to make any great sacrifice or to assume any great risk," he said. "The men and women in Palestine are willing to expose themselves to the hardships in¬ volved, regarding that as part of the in¬ escapable travail in fashioning a new hope for a people that has been wronged throughout the ages. There is much of Jewish honor at stake in the success of (Continued on page 4)
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Dr. Judah L. Magnes,. Chan¬ cellor ol Hebrew Univer¬ sity, Arrives in N. Y.
Will Visit a Number of Cities
Throughout    the    Country
While in the U. S. A,
NEW YORK, MARCH ,i:j—Dr. Ju¬ dah L. Magncs, Chancellor uf the H,c- brew University in Jerusalem, arrived in New Yorlc yesterday (March 12) for^ a three months' tour of the country on.be¬ half of Ihc Uiiiversity, according to an announcement by Felix M. Warbtirg, (.luirni.m of the American Advisory Committee of the University.
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Capacity House Greets Mock
Trial Program of Zion
Lodge Monday
Five Hundred Respond to B'nai
B'rith Subpoena Issued by
Secretary Garek
New Organization Formed by Local Orthodox and Con¬ servative Groups
A project which should evoke much interest aninng public spirited Jews is tlie new Vaad Ho'Ir recently formed. This communal group, which lias for its sole purpo.se. the promotion of Jewish ideals, .customs and activities in Colum¬ lius, lias'recruited its members from the ranks bf the four Columbus synagogues .interested In Orthodo-K aiid Conservative Judaism.
Tho.stt ' representing the Congregation Agiidath Achim are: Rabbi I. Werne,-A. Goldberg, J. S. Schotttn.stine, J;' M. Schottenstcin, M. M. Levison, and D. Schwartz. Those from the Beth Jacob Congregation are: Rabhi L. Greenwald; J. Solove, C. H. Furman, Wm. Cohen, ;uid H. Cooper. M. Jonas, H. Beckman, S. Carlstein, and F. Krakoff are members of the committee from .the Ahavas Sho¬ lom Congregation.
The Tifereth Israel Temple has ap¬ pointed Rabbi Solomon Rivlin, Sol Roth; M. Bayer, and Morris Polster,
The following have heen elected to serve as officers of .the Vaad Ho'Ir; David Schwartz, president; At. Jonas, vice president; CH. Furman, treasurer; and H. Cooper, secretary.
Matters which concern either iiidiyid-i ual Jews- or the.Jewish connnunity at large—in fact, all things of general Jew¬ ish interest, will .hereafter be referred to this committee for discussion and ap¬ proval.
The next meeting of the Vaad Ho'Ir will be held on Sunday, March loth, al ii :'M p. m. at the Columbus Hebrew School. D. Schwartz, president of Vaad Ho'Ir, urges all members to be present at  this  most  imi>ortant   meeting.
Y. M. H. A. and S. A, F. Organizations to Sponsor Dapce Sunday Evening
The V. M. IL A. and S. A. F. Frater¬ nity, two of the leading Jewish young men's organizations in Central Ohio, will sponsor a joint dance at the Broad Street Temple Sunday night. One of Cohimbus' , outstanding orchestras will furnish music. As an added attraction, there will be several professional enter¬ tainers who will sing and dance at the affair.
One of the largest crowds of the season is expected to attend this affair as hoth organizations are well known and need little introduction as to their ability in staging successful dances.
No tickets are being sold, but a charge of fifty cents per person will he made at the gate.
Remember I Sunday night at the Broad Street Temple!
Cl6.sc to .300 B'nai B'ritli members and their friends gathered last Monday eve¬ ning at the New Virginia Hotel to wit¬ ness a unique program of entertainment spon.sorcd by Zion Lodge No. fri. .The interest which the gJithering invoked may ¦ be gauged from the fact that the ball room was filled to capacity and almq.st a hundred people were compelled to stand ihrnughout the'performance, no seats,be¬ ing, available.
It was tlic Lodge's first experiiuciit ir presenting to its ineinbership a cfean, wholesome entertainment in the form, of a Mock Trial which was enthusiastically received by all present,
"It was just like this,"—related the "Kibitzer-" of Zion I^dge, who occnpit;d scat No. 1, in the Ballroom of, the Vir¬ ginia, and who,i in his own opinion, didn't miss a thing during the trial of "Andrew Andy."
¦ On, Monday, March !>th, VXil, the In¬ justice Court of Zion Lndge convened to hear the. notorious ca.se of Andrew .\ndyi .cliargecl with kidnaping Little Leah, the pride of the Cleveland Or¬ phan's Home.
The court room, \vithin' Zion Lodge bailiwick, ¦ was jammed with approxi¬ mately 5<H> idle, unemployed spectators of the class' who usually congest our court rooms, attracted by cases'of un¬ usual notoriety.
The trial was ably presided over by that well known, and inter nationally prominent jurist, the Jedge (Justin L. Sillman) who maintained the proper ju¬ dicial decorum fitting the occasion and who, with keen insight passed judgment, on the serious rules of evidence in¬ volved. The Jedge (Justin L. Sillman) saw to it that the idle and unemployed spectators maintained silence throughout tlie trial—iibt one laugh would he per¬ mit them to indulge in.
The prosecution was conducted by The Hangman (I. W. Garek) ^nd The Ban¬ dit's Nemesis (I. Margulis), those two cold blooded, calouscd prosecutors, whose relentless efforts stirred the hearts of the jury and resulted in the imprisonment of the accused, notwithstanding the jury's verdict to the contrary.
The accused was ably c|efended by The Answer to a Robber's Prayer (Frank V. Bayer) and The Ganiff's Savior (Martin Ornstein) whose pleas for the accused brought tears from the eyes of every man, woman and child and our president Ben Z. Neustadt. Their cunning presentation of an alibi defense won ' for the accused an acquittal, not¬ withstanding his arbitrary incarceration in the face of the jury's verdict.
The accused, a dark (very dark) rem¬ nant of humanity, Andrew Andy (Abe Weinfeld) accepted his fate with phiU- sophical solitude. Little did this villain of villains, this arch enemy of society care, especially after he won all the money possessed by counsel and court in a. spirited crap game. His alibi that he delivered sandwiches to a B'nai B'rith picnic at the time of the alleged offense impressed the jury.
The court was assisted by a live, wide awake bailiff, Two Gun Louie (Louis Rosenthal) whose clarion call brought forth the witnesses and who, for a small consideration even testified on behalf of the prosecution.
The star witness for the prosecution, Miss .Shaenapunim (Harry Schwartz) created a furore uf jealousy among the ladies present, turning out to be the no¬ toriously coy vampire, Tango Fanny, (Cotitinued on page 2)
Dr. Judah L. Magncs
"I am naturally happy to be in Amer¬ ica again,"  Dr.  Magnes  said on his ar¬ rival, ''but I am not glad to be here when times are  so hard.    Jews,  at  any rate, have never in all their recorded history . stopi>ed   supporting   both   primary   and highet-  education,  no  matter how  hard economic  and  political conditions were.. In days of darkest persecution and pov-, erty, they  have never ceased being, the People of the Book.    The Hebrew Uni¬ versity   aspires   to   be   their   intellectual center and workshop, the power house and experimental  station and laboratory   ; of the Jewish mind,"
Describes Work Describing'the work of the Palestine institution, which will celebrate its sixth anniversary ou April 1, Dr. Magnes said: "The University is not at all a Hebrew University in the narrow sense of the term. It is endeavoring to be of service to science aiid to scholarship generally, and to all the iicoples of Palestine'and of the Near East without distinction of ¦ race or creed. The same may be said of its work in the Faculty of Humanities where special stress is being laid on all aspects of Jewish, Arabic and other Ori¬ ental studies. As a background to this, there are. interesting courses in Philos¬ ophy, History and Letters. The Univer¬ sity is endeavoring to relate the work of its laboratories and seminars to the prob¬ lems of Palestine and the Near East generally.
"Biological studies and Mathematics are represented most strongly on .:the science side and important results have been achieved already in relation to'the diseases and health problems of Palestine and the Near,East as also problems of agriculture and the natural resources of this part of the world."
Dr. Magnes made known the fact that the Faculty of the University numbers ever sixty members. There are over '200 students this year, Dr. Magnes said. Each year since its opening in 1925, American students have stiidied at the University,, althoiigh the first degrees will not be awarded until 1!>33.
"In both humanities and the natural sciences, the Hebrew University has an astonishingly good record since its dedi- , cation. You would be amazed at the out¬ put of books and monographs and the distinguished results already achieved by the learned staff. Students in Palestine for the most i>art ar^ more mature than University students elsewhere and some already have a number of published works to their credit."
In commenting on the influence of the University on Jewish-Arabic, relations in Palestine, Dr. Magnes said: "The He¬ brew University already is a well-known and distinguished center of research and instruction, and it can become au even greater help to Judaism and perhaps be¬ yond Judaism in the clarification of many of the problems besetting both East and West."
Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University, will preside at a dinner to be tendered Dr. Magnes by the American Advisory Committee, tomorrow night, at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel. During his stay in New York, Dr. Magnes will be the guest of Mr. Warburg.
The University Committee compoaetl of Presidents of Universities and heads of Semitic Departments, to welcome Chan¬ cellor Magnes, include Dr. William Fox- well Albright, President Joseph S, Ames, President Thomas S. Baker* (Continued mi page 4)
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