Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1932-08-05

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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR THE JEWISH HOME
vol.. XV~No. 84
OOLUMBUS, OHIO, AtJGUST 5.  1932
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By the Way By David Schwartz
Tnlking to 0ne*8 Self
iliat gambling husincss dawn in Lour 'icacli wlncli is so f.lUnff the New York papers IS iiitcrcstiiiji .but not (or the rea¬ son that IS iilaycti up. Pcr.soti.-iiry, T can never f,'ct_ excited about the importance "I (gambling raids. Jf people want to ^'ainblc, say I—let tlicni Ramble. Jews tlont get excited about gambling. Jusi as tlicy dont fret excited about taking a .schnapps". Tho.se arc not narticularly vices to Jow.s. And while T don't do a lot of things (bat perhaps a good Jew .sliotild, stiM on the.^e points, it seems to nic, they have a more rational point of view. Furthermore, say I, if you really arc out to stop gambling—what about the stock exchange, what about (lie gambling in real estate? In their social consC' qucnce, these latter types of gambling are far more iwrniclotig than pinochh playing.
Btit this Long Beach business interest; mc for quite another rea.<;on. Here, all the time we have iiecn talking about the ;,7,Pcr cent Jewish city of Tel Aviv. Well, here is another—if not lOO per cent—almost lOO per cent Jewish city only some twenty miles from New York pty- Its mayor is Frankel—a Jew, and Its Chief of Police—Grossman, another Jew—and so on down the line—almost the entire outfit including the population as a whole is Jewish.
And.in another respect, it is similar to 1 el Aviv. It is a beach city. Yet com¬ pare the two. Who would think of try- mg to show off with Long Beach as with lei Aviv? Tel Aviv has two daily papers pubhslied in Hebrew,„and if you ask me, they arc as good and better than most of the English dailies published in the United Slates—I mean for towns of corresponding size. Tel Aviv has art museums, concerts, lectures.
And Long Beach has hot dogs, and gambling raids.
Greek   National   Students
Union Seeks to Arouse
Workers Against Jews
That was a good rejoinder that young fellow gave to the Jewish "cultured^ anti-Semile on the grounds in front of tfie New York Library the other day, Tiie Jewish anti-Semite, who prides him¬ self on his culture and freedom fron. bias remarked: "AIL the persecution that the Jews have gotten down the ages they have merited—and more,'*
And that blond young man  standing around took a good 109k at him and said- Well, looking at you, I think you are right."
"Aren't you a Jew?" continued the blond young man.
"No, I am no Jew. I don't believe in the Bible, I don't go to synagogue. I don't take any stock in the Jewish relig¬ ion." i„
"But aren't you a Jew? Isn't your father, your mother—Jewish?. Wasn't your grandfather and grandmother Jew¬ ish?"
"That is beside the point, What my parents are doesn't affect me," continued the Jewish anti-Semite:
"Oh, yeah I" continued the blond young man. "Try to tell that to thegoyim when .^ you are looking, for a job." '
The conversation then drifted to other topics—to war and peace, etc. '¦ "If I had my way,", said the Jewish anti-Semite, who has been reading too many books without digesting them—"I would place, a javelin in the hand of every child. Teach him war. The his¬ tory of humanity is the history of war. Man biologically and psychologically re¬ quires war,"
"I see you have been reading Faure," returned another in the group, "That fellow is cuckoo and he has made you cuckoo with himi He talks of the pug¬ nacity instinct as being essential. Of course, it is, but you don't need warfare to express and cultivate the pugnacity instinct.
"You and I have no javelins in our hands now. The chances are that I won't break your nose, though I am tempted to, and yet we are both display¬ ing ^ right now the pugnacity instinct, Business—Love—Sports—all forms of ' life offer expression for that instinct, War is therefore unnecessary as far as this instinct is concerned.
That was an idea that Jewish poet, Blaiiek has. I mean his idea of going around with a little pamphlet of poems, on which Is marked: "T'le payment for this is a meul or a nights lodging,"
So he plans to go all over the coun¬ try.   One of his poems runs thus; "That man is a knave, they warned me A thief, a living He I turned, but all I could see Was mankind passing by."
He better not show that poem—he won't get many meals for that. Or will he? On second thought, I believe he will. For the human being likes to see mankind generally knocked. Few are the human beings who have no; peeve against the world, and any knocker is generally welcome.
Tlie poet, Vachel Lindsay, hy the way, was the patentee "' Jiis business of sell¬ ing poetry for bread. As I recollect, he gave the people no pamphlets, how¬ ever. He would knock at the door, and offer to recite some of his poetry for a meal.
It's a good idea.   I wonder if I couldn't (Continued on page 2)
Charges   Jews   Arc   Responsible   for
rresciit Kconnniic Difficulties
of Workmen
SALONICA. (TT. A.)-An appeal to Prcck workmen to combat the Jews as responsible for the present economic difTicuIties has been issued by the Union of National Students, an organization closely affiliated with a number of na¬ tional anti-Semitic groups.
The Union of National Students pub¬ lished the iviani'fcsto, calling for a boy¬ cott against the Jews iu June of lO.'lf), which culminated iu the firing of the Campbell, quarter.
The appeal charges that Jews are re- spnnsible_ for Communism and that .Com¬ munism in turn has caused their present misfortunes.
"In the daily fight for your children's bread, for the improvement of. your con¬ ditions of work, you have to face a treacherous enemy who is seeking by all possible means to exploit your misfor¬ tunes. This enemy, who torpcdos your righteous fights is to be found in your very midst and is the sole cause of your misfortune," declares the appeal.
"This enemy is Communism, which un¬ der a thousand masks and liames seeks to drag you into internal war and revolu¬ tion, to put you Ulider the yoke of the capitalistic Jew of Moscow."
M. Papanastassion, chief of the repub¬ lican union, is attacked as the leader of the party which, in the course oE de¬ bates in the Chamber on tire subject of the _ anti-Jewish disorders, protested against the criminal incitements, of the national organizations.
Morris Rothenberg Endorses
Formation of Ohio State
Zionist Region
Mr. _ Ezra Shapiro, Chairman of, the Provisional Committee for the Organ¬ ization of the Ohio State Zionist Region has received the following letter from Mr. Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America which endorses" the formation of the Ohio State Zionist Region and is also an acceptance of an invitation to attend the Conven¬ tion and to aid in the perfecting of such an organization:
. ,     July 25, 1932.
Mr, Ezra Shapiro,,, Cuyahoga Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Shapiro:    "••
I was glad to read your letter of July 21st indicating that you are planning Zionist activities in" your section of the country.
I place much importance upon reviving regional functions, and I am sure that the work which you are initiating will lead to good results.
While r dislike to make such a long distance appointment as you ask me to, since I know that the month of Septem¬ ber will be crowded for me, nevertheless I feel that I want to give you the fullest cooperation in the endeavors you are making to place the Zionist organization in your region on a firmer basis, and I, shall be glad to come when you shall want mc. ,
If I may add a personal note, I should like to say that I place much reliance upon your leadership in your part of the country, and I feel greatly encouraged hy the circumstance that you are taking an active part in the plans for the coming year. '
With kind regards and best wishes, I am
Very cordially yours, (Signed)     MORRIS ROTHENBERG, President.
Attorney General Gilbert Bettman May Be the Only Jew in the Next Senate
CINCINNATI—Widespread     interest is being focused upon the election cam-5i paign of Attorney General Gilljert Bett¬ man,  the  Republican  candidate  for  the Senate.
If elected, Mr, Bettman will be the only Jew in the upper House of Con¬ gress, Mr. Bcttman's fate in the sena¬ torial race will, it is believed be a ba¬ rometer of the presidential weather, As Ohio goes, so goes the nation, accord¬ ing to politicians.
Mr. Bettman whose wife is the grand¬ daughter of the late Rabbi Isaac Wise.
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Austrian Nazis  Disseminate Widespread Boycott Agita¬ tion Against Jews
GILBERT BETTMAN
ANNUAL PICNIC
Big Agudath Achim Picnic on August 14th
Mrs. S. Topolosky, chairman of the Agudath Achim Sisterhoo<l picnic which is scheduled to take place at Olentangy Parkf on Sunday, August 14thj wishes to announce at this time, that a big time is in store for all those who will be there.' Aside from various contests, and games, a prize will be given away to the one holding tlie Ivicky ticket, which is the ad¬ mission ticket to the picnic and park. Tickets can he procured from any mem¬ ber of the Sisterhood, and if you have not obtained your tickets thus far, do so now. Plan to bring your family and friends out to Olentangy Park Sunday, August 14th.
The following members head the vari¬ ous committees: Mrs. A. Thall, Mrs. A. Shafer, Mrs. J. Krakowitz, Mrs. S. Goldman, Mrs. L Nutis, Mrs. A, Men¬ del, Mrs. J. Kaufman, Mrs, Max Ruben, Mrs. J. L, Lieberman, Mrs. B. Lakin, Mrs. B. Wollman, and Mrs. A. Krakoff.
reform Jewish leader, is running on a plank calling for the repeal of the 18th amendment.
Mr. Bettman is no tyro in political ofiice, Ohio's Attorney General, he is now serving his second terni in that of¬ fice.
A member of a family, six generations of whom have lived in Cincinnati, he is identified with a number of. Jewish causes.
He is vastly proud of his wife's line¬ age. He, has served as trustee of the Isaac M. Wise Temple in Cincinnati of which Rabbi James G. Heller is the spiritual leader.
In his fiftieth year, fearless, deter^ mined and ambitious, he is described by those who know him best as an interested and interesting friend.
In the contest this fall, he will be op¬ posed by Senator Robert Bulkley. Both contestants are out and out wets. Those who will venture a guess as to the out¬ come of the race, incline to Attorney General Bettman as the winner.
In Mrs. Bettman, Ohio's attorney gen¬ eral has a fighting campaign director, a worker behind the scenes and whenjneces- sary a "pinch-hitter" as a speaker. There are three children.
Served as Vice-Mayor
In 1921 Mr. Bettman served as vice- Mayor of Cincinnati. In 1024 he was chairman of the Republican State Con¬ vention.
Gilbert.Bettman started his career with his graduation speech at Harvard in 1!)07 when he pointed out the fallacy of in¬ junction proceedings in labor disputes. Every labor paper in America printed the speech and some not friendly to labor. Next he startled Cincinnati, the "south¬ ernmost northern city," by overriding ob¬ jections to Negro students in the Y. M, C, A. law school. |Jegro law students in the Christian "Y" had been too much Jiberalistil in one dose for the southerners who came to Cincinnati—"Athens of the Mid West"—to immerse themselves in the majesty of the law and in the arts and sciences. Bettman won the true liberals over to his viewpoint and since then Negroes are found in the "Y" law classes.
Bettman's first big legal tilt was in taking up the famous Alms Wills Case which had been given up by legal brains of many famous law firms here. Alms, millionaire merchant—hotel—tycoon of Cincinnati and New York, provided that his heirs should get their portions through investments. The heirs tried to get their shares in' lump sums and failed. There seemed no legal precedent on which to hinge the case until young Bettman istud- ied the problfem. He soopl found a precedent and won the case (and a huge fee, in addition to the respect of the big-wigs who had tried and failed.) PisUnguished Himself Bettman distinguished himself in the Intelligence Service in the World War and was discharged with the rank of captain.    He  was  co-author  of   practi
The Woinen Pioneers of Palestine will hold their annual picnic at Olentangy Park on Sunday, August 21st. Many prizes will be given away, and there will be games and contests for young and old throughout the day. Pack your baskets I and bring out your familj/ and friends for a pleasant and entertaining day opt in the open, at Olentangy Park. Re¬ member the date—August 21st.
Voliner Society Picnic
The Voliner Society will hold its an¬ nual picnic on Sunday, August 14th, at Edgewater Park. , Elaborate prepara¬ tions for this affair has been made 'by the comniittee in charge. There will be dancing, swimniing, and games included ill the day's program. There will be prizes for the children, and a $200.00 Frigidaire to be giveii away to the lucky holder of a drawing ticket contest. Five tniLs of coal, donated by the C. H. Fur-
cally all of the relief legislation for the war_ Veterans and was honored by the Legion witli many high offices. Lc- gionnnircK today feel free to call on him lor almost any legal service he can render.
Immediately upon being elected at¬ torney general of Ohio, the first time (1D28), Bettman tackled cases his pre¬ decessors had given up because of legal tangles tliat seemed uiitnngleable. He jomed in and at the time led the assault on Chicago for its diversion of Lake Erie water at tlic rate of 10,000 gallons per second, to wash its sewers, lowering the lake level and converting Ohio lake ports into inland cities. The case was won and a precedent established in such litigation.
The most important of his early vic¬ tories as attorney general was in the East Ohio Gas Case. Public u^lities with pi])c lines drawing gas from bor¬ der states had refused for years to pay taxes on their trading in (Ohio, con¬ tending that fuel thus transported was in interstate commerce. Bettman won the case after a bitter fight and also got $2,000,000 in back taxes and now Ohio gets fSno.OOO a year from the East Ohio Company. His presentation of the case at that time is still illuminating:
"A review of the facts led me to con¬ clude that my rule in private practice- that if one's client were in good moral position and had a fighting legal chance, his case should be attempted — was equally applicable in public practice. So I concluded to rule to the Tax Commis¬ sion of Ohio that the business was sub¬ ject to Ohio's excise tax and leave it to the court to decide that Ohio was wrong." ¦¦
' ¦'¦¦ Dominate State Politics He;showed, in his brief to the Su premc Court of the United States, that if power companies, contmue to "hurdle slate_ lines and to concentrate vast fi¬ nancial r,esourccs behind nation wide In¬ dustries" they could easily dominate state politics and actually escape paying any part of government cost, existing on other peoples' effort and at the same time make profit-without competition.
The Cleveland Vote Frauds caused Bettman's Republican friends untold agonies. Although in office a few m.onths he tackled the powerful Repub¬ lican machine of Cleveland where fraud¬ ulent votes exceeded good ones.in many wards, and sent sevcraL ward bosses to the penitentiary. Patronage was rife in Ohio-'s state affairs when he became at¬ torney general but Bettman said "thumbs down." The building material men lived on the fat of Ohio contracts . for years but Bettman ousted them by forcing de¬ partment chiefs to ask for public bids instead of giving the contracts to friends for pnlitical favors at elections.
Gasoline bootlegging, to avoid road maintenance taxes, had reached the pro¬ portions of whisky rings iri the^ la'rgc cities but Bettman's persistence iu de¬ manding local prosecutors to do their duty resulted in jail sentences and now the gas taxes are paid and the state hqs better roads.
He ran afoul of politics in the State Office Building Case. Land sharks, smelling a fat morsel in the proposed new office building for the state in Co¬ lumbus, tried to jockey the building com¬ mission into a corner where the latter would have to buy an undesirable lot and pay a high price. Bettman fought for the state in a bitter battle, the land sales¬ men trying fair and foul means to stop the work. 'The net result was a saving of ??lflO,000 on land alone.
Wins Battle in Supreme Court He climaxed four years of indepen¬ dence in office hy winning a hattie in the Supreme Court and incidentally re¬ storing the State's credit. It was the Allen County Bond.Case. Counties, like individuals, were taking advantage of the depression and refusing to pay their bills. A test was made of Allen County's excuse and Bettman won the suit iu less than fifteen minutes of pleading in the Supreme Court.
Ohio, a pivotal state in prohibition, felt so secure in its dryness that it was a cold shock when Bettman, in declar¬ ing his candidacy for the senate — and already a power Jn State Republicanism came out flatly for modification, leaving the matter to a referendum by states. His nomination in the May primaries was conceded even by the most rabid drys. His opponent was Louis J. Taber, a constitutional dry, master of the Na¬ tional Grdnge and behind whom were marshalled all the Ohioans whose fath¬ ers came over on the Mayflower or who fought at Bunker Hill, Racial, religious and the usual blue-law fanatics used all their weapons against Bettman but he.car- Hed tlie election by an easy majority.
Warn Population of Influx of .lews, Particularly from Germany; De¬ mand Bars Against Them
As I See It
By A. M. N-
VfKNNA, (J. T. A,)—"Buying from Jew.-; is no less a crime against the Na¬ tion than is selling ammunition to the enemy in times of war," is the boycott slogan spread by the Austrian Nazis to¬ day.
The boycott agitation is^ making de¬ cided inroads on Jewish business. The Nazis even demand that Austrian firms refuse to receive JcwLsh traveling sales¬ men, even if they represent non-Jewish firms.
Tlie Nazi press seeks to persuade the population that "a Jewish invasion of Austria" is imminent. The paper charge; that many of the Jews who acquired right of domicile from the Socialist gov¬ ernment are now returning to Austria. The infiux is largely froni Germany. Joinuig this mass ipif^^ation movement are German Jews who seek escape from Hit¬ ler, the press asserts, .
The exclusion of such Jews is de¬ manded by the Nazi organs. _ They warn the populace that unless this "mass in¬ vasion of Jews" is halted, the Jews will rob them of their, livelihood.
VIENNA, (J. T. A.)—The disagree¬ ment over the terms of the Austrian loan, which is preventing a customs union with Germany is utilized by the Nazi press to place the responsibility on the Jews.
The Jews, the papers charge, ruined Austria economically and financially and are now selling Austria to France for a small loan.
The Christian Socialist government has united with Jewish capitalism to make Austria a French colony, they as¬ sert.
The Nazi publication, "Mattagblatt," has been confiscated for its attack upon the Jews in this connection.
Deputy  Speaker  of Parlia¬ ment Denies Miti-Semitism; Affirms Charge of Ritual Murder
Lavergne Asserts He Is Not Anti- .    Semite; Says Jewish Ritual Mur¬ ders Historically Proven
QUEBEC—Armand Lavergne, deputy speaker of the Canadian Parliament, in reply to an inquiry addressed to him by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency .today, denies he is an anti-Semite but.affirms his belief that the Jews were responsible for ritual murder.
"I am not an anti-Semite," M. La¬ vergne states; "I am not interested in the'¦¦Soglu campaign. I believe Jewish ritual murder is historically proven. That is all." .
Mr. Lavergne aroused the indigna¬ tion of the Canadian Jewish Community with the publication of an article in "Le Miroir," organ of the anti-Semitic Goglu brothers, virherein he approved the ac¬ cusation of the Goglus that the Jews commit ritual murders.
Max Licbcrmanii, distinguislied German Jewish artist, received felicitations Irom President Paul von Hindenburg on the. occasion of his 85lh birthday, July 20th. Herr Liehcrmann is known and respected in every section of the civilized world. His reputation has increased with the passing of time. Today he stands out pre-eminently as an artist of rare at¬ tainments with marvcloii,s achievements attached to his record. In common with my co-religionists everywhere, 3 take this ' means of extending my personal con¬ gratulations and best wishes to this be¬ loved octogenarian.
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A sixth Jew has been elected to the Roumanian parliament. The new Jew¬ ish deputy is Aiirelicu Weiss, president of the B'nai B'rith in Bucharest and ac¬ tive in all matters pertaining to the \vel- farc of his co-religionists. Several other Jews may yet find that tliey have been elected to parliament by various parties, it is asserted by the Bucharest corre¬ spondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Dr, Otto Bauer, noted Jewish Social¬ ist leader of, Vienna, was , seriously wotuidcd when a Heiniwelir deputy, named Henze, threw an inkstand at him ' during a controversy at a meeting of a Finance Committee of parliament. Dr. Bauer was taken to a Iiospital with a big wound in his „forehead. He is reported to be out of danger.
I am wondering why Austrian pub¬ licists continue tq poke fun at crime con¬ ditions in America when in their own \ country one may see daily numerous manifestations of intolerance, supersti¬ tion, and barbarism. People living in glass houses shduld refrain from casting stones.
Two leading members of the San Fran¬ cisco Jewish community have been, hon¬ ored with appointment to places at the head of the two principal relief move¬ ments in the city and state. Judge M. C. Sloss has been named by Mayor Ross as chairman of a, citizens' commit¬ tee to campaign for a $(5,000,000 unem¬ ployment bond issue. _ Mil'toq Esberg has been appointed chairman of a com¬ mittee representing all social and relief agencies in California, to co-operate with the state agricultural director, in get¬ ting surplus food products to the needy of California instead of letting these products.rot in orchards and farms.,
man Coal Company, will also be given away.
The Voliner Society is one of the old¬ est charitable organizations in this city, and deserves your patronage. Trans¬ portation to the park is free. A bus will leave Livingston Avenue car line at 12:t10, and every halt hour thereafter.
Remember to reserve the date — Au-^ gust 14lh.
HACHNOSIS   ORCHIM   SO¬ CIETY TO HOLD PICNIC SUNDAY
All arrangements for the Hachnosis Orchim Society picnic which will be held this Sunday at Olentangy Park, have been completed.    Every effort has been
made for a most enjoyable program of entertainment. A cordial invitation ia exteiu!e<l to the entire Jewish coniniunity. PacU a nice ibasket and bring your family out early.
REGULAK MEETING OF L. P. OP P. ON AUGUST lOTH
The regular meeting of the Ladies Pioneers of Palestine will be l^eld at the Agudath Achini Congregation on Wed¬ nesday, August 10th,
Mrs. A. Friedland, 420 S, Monroe Avenue, is the newly-appointed president of tlie organization following the resig¬ nation of Mrs. S. Kantor, 915 S. 22nd Street.
Calls on Canadian Jewry to Appeal to Public Opinion
The "Day,'* commenting on the state¬ ments vvith reference to the Jews made by M. Lavergne, declared:  '
"We are accustomed to government anti-Semitism in Eastern and Central Europe. Anti-Semitism in Anglo-Saxon countries is a rare occurrence,
"We do not venture to say that there is no anti-Semitism in England, Can¬ ada, Australia and America. We have more than, sufficient anti-Semitism in these places. But anti-Semitism there is social and only recently economic. Of political anti-semitism in Anglo-Saxon lands, little has been heard until the rise of the anti-Semitic political movement in Canada.
"Some time ago, the Mayor of Mon¬ treal permitted himself a number of anti-Semitic observations which aroused the indignation of Jei,vry'in the Domin¬ ion, And now the deputy speaker of the Canadian Parliament, Armand Lavergne, supports the Goglu publications in their libels against the- Jewish people.
"True, tlie Mayor of Montreal and the deputy speaker of Parliament are French, but still they .are Canadians and leaders of an Anglo-Saxon land.
"In,an Anglo-Saxon land where po¬ litical leader.^ suddenly become anti-Sem¬ ites, there h but one recourse; to appeal to public opinion. Public opinion, even if it is slightly tinged with "anti-Semitism, is still ashamed of bi>enly acknowledging anti-Semitism. A great , tradition of 'fair play* still operates. Aud if one is able to show that this tradition is in¬ fringed upon by anti-Semitism it is not' difficult to evoke repudiation of the anti- Semitic move.
"This is what Canadian Jewry must undertake to do.
"We understand that the Jewish com¬ munity has begun to send protests to the central government.   Good!
"The Canadian government, conserv¬ ative though it be, will have to take into consideration aroused public opin¬ ion. The first action of the central gov¬ ernment must be to repudiate the ac¬ cusations made by the deputy speaker. And that is the principal thing.
"In this eventuality the utterances ot M. Lavergne become nothing more than the ill-willed attack of a-foolish person upon a group of loyal Canadian citizens.
"It is important that thi> be done, not alone in the interests of Canadian Jewry, but also in the interests of the much larger group of Jews residing in the neighboring country of the United States," the editorial concludes.
Tribute to the memory of Elihu Lewin- Epstein, one of the founders ^of the colony Rehoboth, \vho died at Bad-Nau- heim, Germany, in his fifth year, was paid by Morris Rothenberg, President of the Zionist Organization of America, in a statement issued following announce-^ ment of the death of this veteran of the Zionist movement.
"With the death of Mr. Lewin-Ep- stein, a unique figure disappears from the. Zionist scene," Mr. Rothenberg stated. "His life, spent in eastern Europe, in Palestine, and in the United States, was an exemplary expression of the high ideals which had animated the generation of pioneers, who laid .the foundation of the Jewish renissance in Palestine as well as for the creation of the vital and strong Jewish life in the United States. Rehoboth, one of the first and oldest colonies in Palestine, will forever stand as a monument to his vis¬ ion, devotion, and practical,idealism; the . record of the numerous endeavors in which he was engaged in this country in behalf of Palestine as well as in behalf of other important Jewish causes is like-- wise eloquent testimony to the useful IKe which has been interrupted, to the regret aud Sorrow of American Jews, non- Zionists as well as Zionists."-
Maurice Samuel, who isn't happy un¬ less he can tear something or someone to pieces, has lately been paying his re¬ spects to those whose identification with Jewish life and practice h confined to "Kaddish synagogues," with their "per-- petual and unceasing gabble froni early morning uritil late in the evening;"
He calls the practice "a lapse to the jungle, to the epoch of the tom-tom, the equivalent of that etnotiou which is raised in some earth-born peasant in an obscure European valley who passes an ikon and crosses himself, an unreflect¬ ing acknowledgment, a propitiation of the dark powers." This is one particular in which I heartily agree with Samuel. *   *¦ *
I regret to record the fact that Dr. Berhard Weiss, second in command of the Berlin Police department, the onl> Jew in Europe to occupy such a iKiwerfid post, was forced to retire from the of¬ fice he has filled with marked ability and courage when martial law was declared by the von Papen government through¬ out Prussia. Together with his chief, Dr, Albert Grezinski, he was arrested when he refused to relinquish office on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the government's action, and placed in a military detention camp from which both were later released.
The ejection of Dr. Weiss was hailed with relief by the timid element of Ger¬ man Jewry, fearful of the wrath of the Hilterites whom Dr. Weiss has been handling in two-fisted fashion. His anti- Seniitic foes,-of course, are celebrating his high-handed removal from office. That deep down in the savage Hitlerite heart is a spark of admiration for hi& manhood is indicated by a letter of apol¬ ogy to Dr, Weiss' wife by Deputy Alex¬ ander Kube, leader oi the Nazi (action in the Prussian Diet, who stooped so low as to cast slurs on her morals.
There isn't a more capable police of¬ ficial in all the world than the deposed (Continued on page 4)
HAVE YOU DONE YOUR DUTY TOWARDS THE 1932 UNITED FUND OF COLUMBUS?
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