Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1935-08-23

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Volume XVII—:No. 86
cqr.UMBUS, OHIO, august 23, 1935
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TID-BITS PROM EVERYWHERE
nj ril^NEAS jr. DIKON
Will Rogers was Foe of Ahti- Semitism and Hitlerism
Sportland
If your locil paiier carries a pica from a Mr. Artluir E. Grix of SKi Fiftli Ave¬ ntie, New .Ycrk Cily, iirBJnf; that politics .iiKl religion sliouid not intcrfcfe witli llic hoMing of tlic Olympic Games in Ger¬ many, you can do a useful piece, of re¬ porting by inforniins the ;sportinB editor of ybiir local paper that Mr. Grix is an cmployb of the German Railw,nys and thc German Tourist Bureau whose offices arc located in Rooms 201-310 at (i05 Fifth Avenue, New York City. ...And speaking of the Olympics reminds us that Baron Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis star who almost beat Perry of England, will be barred from thc 103,0 Davis Cup tourney because his wife is Jewish...A plan to scud Von Cramm' to the United States to participate in the iiational ten nis championship \vas abandoned for the .same reason.:.Believe it or not but three
.of the live leading batters in the Ameri¬ can Lcigue at this lyriting are Jews, Buddy 'Myer of Washington, Hank Greenberg of Detroit and Moe Berg of Boston;..City Collcgevvill have another Jewish varsity coach iiext year when Ir¬ ving. Spanier, C. C, N. Y. basebali cap¬ tain in 1034, succeeds Mr. Harold J. Parker as mentor of the. City College diamond team.. .Barney Ross's;,proposed ¦invasion, of .the.. Pacific,;Coas.t. niay be postpQued. He got such a bad case of sunburn after a;yachting trip that he can't do any training...Barney's kid brolhcr is planning, to enter tlic Univer¬ sity 'of Wisconsin'this fall. ..Yes,: yoti guessed it,, the U:. of W. has .one of the best boxing teams in, the Middle West!... If .yoti are wondering who is .Sylvia Ah- ncuberg, • who is capturing all the women's golf titles  in the East, try to
fQinenibcr that she. !s the former Mrs. Led G; . Fcderiiiail who ; recently restimcd: hermaidcn iiame after a little job of Renovating..;;     ¦
. ' Laiigli,  Pliease! .
.   This story comes to us directly from ; Eddie . Cantor in a P, S. :lo. a letter vvbich the fatuous comedian confides that' after all he tray uot cpme to New Vorkl for th.at musipl rcvuc;. .".'\ii iminigiMut' . woman from Poland had a savings ac-i cniint aiid when site niade a deposit, slici always marked an 'X' on;Hie i-eccipt for she did not know how: to write Iicr name ...Oil one occasion, however, this literary lady imdc a circle inslcitd of an 'X' on -  her depo.sit slip...'How' does it; happen yoti don't iiMke an. "X" as iiiiuair the bank teller.asked.. .'VVclI, I got married .yesterday   iind   changed   niy   name,'   the w'oman proutlly answered.".;.. / Arnon K. Rojansky Thc other;day we weiit;to see off dele¬ gates, to the Zionist World Coiigress..;. Loiiis Lipsky,. believe it or not, travelled tourist and insists on being left alone during the trip... Abc; Goldberg usually has to sign autographs when travelling because flappers think that he's Charlie Chaplin,..Jacob Fishman.enjoys nothing better   on   a . sea   voyage   than   writing short sketchjcs of characters he meets on hoard ship....All this reminds us of bid- ,ding farewell to Mr. Anion R. Rojan- sky,-. a    handsome    impressive    looking gentleman,  who  is  the  royal  Jugoslav, consul for Pal,estine,. iRojansky spent a few  weeks  in this  country; jnst taking in the ;siglits. ..He is a very prosperous business iiian iii Palestine, and when the diplomatic corps in Jerusalem expressed : condolences; when   King   Alexander   of ' Jugoslavia was assassinated Mr. Rojan- sky stood in full regalia at the door of ¦  the. Greek Orthodox Church to receive, these expressions of sympathy... Rojan- !!ky is notonly a;Jew but a fervent Zion¬ ist whose political skill w'ill lead hini to great success.;.
"Hcil Hitler" About two' weeks ago the Nasiis, in , Yorkville staged another demonstration which eventually' resulted in a riot.,. Police were called out to establish order — One of the bluccoats, a husky, typical New York cqppy, jumped into the fray .and while using his club freely, shouted, "Ileil Hitler"—"Downw'ith the Jews" ...His club played havoc and tlie Nazis acclaimed hini as a comrade in arms and a true follower of Herr Streicher.. .An observer noticed to his amazement, how¬ ever, that the cop's cltib descended ex. elusively on Aryan skulls and that in np time hc laid out a few dozen Nazis, till the time ahricking, "Down with the Jews."...The cop happened to be the son-in-law    of    a    prominent    Yiddish
writer	
River of Lite
It seems tliiit we will be right about
tlic   replacement  of   U.   S.   Ambassador
Straus  in  Paris...One ot  the Vincent
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.SEATTLE <WNS).—Thc tragic death of Will Rogers, internationally known philosopher-humorist, newspaper coUlm- ilist, actor aild scfccn star, who was killed in a plane crash together with Wiley Post on a flight to Alaska, recalled a recent.interview Rogers gave thc Seattle Jewish Transcript of the Seven Arts Fea¬ ture Syndicate's alhliat'ed papers, bu K[it- Icrisni and anti-ScmitiBm, "I..just.can't tiuderstand anti-Seniitisin in Germany," said Rogers at that time, ','but the Jew¬ ish folks in America don't need to worry iione. There's a lot p£ tolerance in thc general run of, America."' The man who w.as known a.s .the, modern ,Mark TWailt had the fpllpwing tp say of Hitlerism: "If I live a hundred yciirs, I'll never be able to understand that dern German sit- iiation.' I kin see it from a popular mood, ^people all gittiii' together.. Gosh, I'm mostly Indian, and if they allbanded to¬ gether'and wanted to rim the white folks outa the country, I'd join up 1 But seri- ously,'I can't imagine this Hitler business embracitig the United States., Wc seem to get along 'ivith the Jewish folk all right. I don't know why they'd be any dififcrent in Germany. lexpecttliat,Ger¬ many hiis lost some fine pepplc. Think of'driving away people like Einstein— just as pleasimt ai fellow as ,1 ever saw. He don't look like a Communist. Why,; hc don't even look like a' scientist.
"I've got tremendous faith in the toler¬ ance of 80 or 0,0 per cent of the'people of, this country, and I know Jews have too, at heart.. The petty injustices the Jewish folk suffei- are isolated instances and aren't the will of the people. In iio way is the position of the,German people eciual to' otirs. We're worse ofi; eco¬ nomically than we ever were, but we're still a dern sight better off than anybody else.. Cranks join iiiVwith these rackets, like the Klux and stuff, 'cause men seem tp join everything that cpnies along. Even whcii the lOrl^hix .was rantin' around— that was a terribly uncalled for iiiove- mctit—r don't think most people took tliciii, iicrioHsly. I don't believe anti- .Seniitisin can \ ever gain much headway ovcrhere." , ; .;.  '
Ghetto Walls Begin To
Rise j Again In Naziland
New Decree Establishes Complete Cultural Segregation for
Jews; Economic Persecution Leading to Total Ruin;
Thousands of Jews Lii^uidating Affairs
and Fleeing Country
BERLIN '(WNS)-Thc walls of the ghetto, first erected in Germany.'in the .l:lth century, and nazcd during the period
of: emancipation in the l!3th centnry, be¬ gan to rise again in Germany "when Hans Hhikel, special commissar for Jewish cultural alTairs appointed.; by Propaganda Minister Goebbels,. issued a decree or¬ dering the cultural gliettoization o£ all Jews .after' September Ifith. - This^ first ofiicia] actioii in the direction of rees¬ tablishing ' the complete segregation of Jewry was accompanied by a scries of other decrees. aimed at ghettoizing .tlie Jews ccbnOinically as.well
Hinkel's decree forbids any.artistic, or cuttural   activity   by   Jews   except   for
THE WORLD'S WINDOW
"Tale of a Satirist"
,   By Ludwig Le-wiBohn
or 'mass flight. In Hesse . shopawncrs posted signs announcing ' thiit * Jews would not be served and jewisli stoifes and houses were placarded with the no¬ torious yellow emblem bearing the word "Jew." In Bavaria; Prussia, Wurttem- befg and Saxony more than a dozen toWns announced that Jews were hehcc- foHh excluded. .In" the Ruhr and Go- biirg district."! hotelkccperp announced that they would not provide food or lodghig, to Jews. Steamship agencies w^re iastructed npt to sell tickets to Jeivs for Rhine trips. The Nazi, party economic press service warned all mer¬ chants that they must modernize their shi)ps and increase' their line of goods f 'they hoped to benefit by the boycott
Jews.   Non-Jews are prohibited from at
;t9nding  performances by Jewish actors against, their Jewish; competitors.
or musicians.    Effective September .l5th j    l
NKW YORIv (\VNS)~In. an im- prtiiiiptii speech at the emergency ses.sion of 'lite '.American Jewish Congress^- at Waslilngtoh. in May,. 1933/ Will Rogers said that, there must be something wrong with Hitler because he (Rogers) couldn't understand Hitler's persecution, of the Jews.' '.'Knowing you all, ,a.nd knowing inch Of thfe type of Rabbi Wise, I can't puiisibiy see wHat/the devil, he could hLive it in for ypu. as n/race," Rogers said. 'T don't know. It is iiot conceivable with me that he could be a big man." Rogers also said that Hitler's persectition of the Jews stamped him as unfit to rule a coun¬ try like Germaiiy. In his characteristic droll way Rogers remarked that since Hitler is regarded as something' of an orator he. (Rogers) wished Hitler and Rabbi Wise could meet on the same plat¬ form and "brother would you be sitting pretty, novy."
all Jewish cultural organizations; except schools and synagogiies, must utiite into one national organization subject to the strict control of' the stste. Whatever activities this organization and its local branches undertake . mUst be,. exclusively by .and for. Jews. Christian wives of Jews are the only non-Aryans who will be permitted to attend such  functions.   .
To enforce this decree the Nazis have revived \vhat is in effect the yellow.ticket of the old ghetto. Admission .to all pcr- formahccs, ; concerts ami. lectures' by Jewish "ciiltural groups will be by pass¬ ports which .will identify patrons a-i non- .\ryans. All programs ihUijt be submit-' led iiv advance to Hinkcl 'or his agents,. tlius giving them dictatonal powersover Jewish cultural'life. Publicatinn of 1111.=; decree coincidcti with the beginning of a canipaign to exclude Jews from all theatres, moving pictj-irc h6u.ses, cafes and: restaurants, this being part .o.f the "back- to the ghetto" drive.     . '   ¦'
Meaiivvhi-le; under the stiimiliis of Ju- liiis. .Streicher's intensified'' anti-Jewish drive, lauhchcd witli his. inflainmatory speech during his firstpublic invasion of Berlin, Jews bccanie'the target.s'of a re- Iciitless wave of economic persecution which can only lead*, back to' the ghetto.
le drive against Jewish "race ravish- cr.<" also continued . unchecked with Streicher ordering ,tlie imnYediate arrest of all jews found in the company of Aryan women.' Storm. Troopers .were given instriictions. to make an immediate silrvcy of jews "planning" to marry AtyahsJ These names are to be pub¬ lished weekly. At tlie same tiiiici Mr. Scihultze, health conim'is.sar of Sayaria, aiiiiounced that a law was .being f i*amed to- punish with death, all Jews- having in].imafe relations With, Aryan womeii.
iUndcr the pressure of these new per- .se'cutions Jewish, business men-by the huiidfcds. arc liquidating their- afTairs antl making plans \ to flee the country. Although, they are forced to sell at ahy price, the Jews arc; prepared to make this sacrifice ; in order to escape. Streicher's. renewed- onslaught and the HiakcV decrct have finally . tlie   most ¦ ,optimistic.
U S. Pelegates Join Progres¬ sive Wing of Zionists
LUCERNE (WNS)—Palcor Agency) .—While the General Zionist's Group B wcrp voting down a proposal that thq Revisionists be invited to return to the World Zionist Organization and drop their separate organization and congress, and efforts on the parts of neutrals to achieve /peace bctWcen Group B" and Group, A were frustrated, .by the, de¬ mand of Group B. for tlic recognition of a separate labororgaiiizatioii in Pales¬ tine, the delegates of the. Zionist Or¬ ganization of America to the Zionist Congress threw the weight of their sup¬ port to^tl^e so-called progressive wing of the Zionist mbvement. when they voted to join General Zionist Groiipi'A in a persona! capacity. A. similar, decision was reached by the Hadassah delegates and by the General Zionist ¦ delegation from Roumaniai These developments, make' General .Zionist Group A the' sec¬ ond largest bloc at ,the Congress with lOf) delegates.; ' Meanwhile allegations of irregularities
the Congress were rejected by the Coiirt of Honor; which held: as; untenable the protest registered by the. Jewish State Party. The Court yielded otily slightly to the charges of fraud in cancelling a small number of votes froni Chicago.;.Thi5 will not, h6'ivever,afifect the, total of the election, results from the United ,States. Acting Oil the protest of- a group of pro¬ gressive General Zionists, ,the c'ourt re- duccd the delegation from "East Galicia from 47 t{3 4.1. The Labor Pafty and the General Zionist Group B will'both be affected by the. decision. The court al.so cancelled. 18'JG votes. ,   Just  before .the  Congress, was  called
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Let us for fifteen minutes lay aside , nur tragic anxieties-' Let, lis for fifteen minutes forget. hunger and assassinations in Poland and the merciless hounding of our desperate brethren in Germany. Let lis talk about a gifted and clever woittan. No, I shall not nanie her, although.who she . is will' be clear- enough^ to , many.- She is a.Jewish woman slill young and ihc is a writer of stories. .Heir stories do not appear in the. very popular mag- azines for the simple reason that they are far loo good. They have been col¬ lected in a number of,volumes and been steadily praised by. good judges and have never had any very wide sale, They arc all, or nearly" all, satiric stories and" depict .the men and women'wHio people the American scene, especially in smaU, towns, with a sharp but ' melancholy irony. According to these stories Ameri^ can life is dull antl drab and meagre.-And undoubtedjy that is true enotigh. But it is also^ti^e that the commonlifc oi \vx-:
iticsjtsarit^y is nearly cvecywhere dull and drab in the American elections for dclcgates-iSland meagre.   Our Jewish authoress, how
ever, does not much emphasize that fact; , She emphasises with a kind of swathed,; spite and inverted, jay the dulhiess^^and the misery,of her. people. Occasionally | she writes of Jews .(as-in her nibst fa¬ mous story) and her Jews too, though less dull than lier Gentiles, are, futile.and. , frustrated people' and Jive, in the s:ound . cild phrase, without .God or hopt'in the ,world.> .¦-¦.; ¦:.¦' X   ¦'._[¦
Sir Isaac Isaacs to Retire as Governor of Australia
MELBOURNE (WNS) — Announce¬ ment from London that Sir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Rutheveri, gover¬ nor of New South Wales, has been,ap¬ pointed governor-general of Australia, has saddened Australian Jewry because it means' the retirement of Sir Isaac Isaacs',, the present governorrgeneral, w;ho has won the love and admiration of all elements of the poinilation. Sir Isaac, son of a poor Jewish tailor, became the first native-born governor-general of Aus¬ tralia when he was named ;to that, post in 1930. He, came to the governor-gen¬ eralship after a brilliant judicial record, having served as chief justice of Aus¬ tralia. ¦ Sir Isaac is now 80.
Dr.   Deran   Wolfe,   America's Freud, Dies in Auto Crasti
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has;, gone forever. Emigration ia. now •ihc pHncipal subject of discussion in al Jewish, circles, not with standing the. fact that the strict foreigii exchange regiila-- tioiisniake it impossible .for. emigrating Jews to take.with thcnv iiiorc,than a pit¬ tance:. ¦".."''¦¦¦
Wbrldwijde Move to Boycott Berlin Olym" pics Gains Momenturn
Senators Gerry and Walsh Urge U. S. Not to Participate;
Celler Resolution Would Han Federal Funds to Team^
Germany Barred from Chess Olympiad
,j i'cooperation between.the Keren Hayesod"^ and the Je\vish ¦ National Fuiid, a joint comniittee of'the, two bodies agreeing in principle tq a demarcation :in the working methods of the two fuiids; The Zionist Actions'- Committee adopted a proposal. bf Menahem M. Ussislikin that the final decision regarding the transfer of the remains of Dr.; Theodor , Herzl .from Vienna to .Palestine heleft to the new Actions Committee that will meet after the Coiigres.s..,   . ¦
MARTIGNYs SWITZERLAND (WNS)-^The man who was knowri as "America's Freud" was killed here when Dr. Beran Wolfe, 35-year-old Ainerican, psychiatrist, author, musician and sciilp- tgr, died from injuries received when an automobile he was . driving struck' and killexl a cyclist and crashed into a tree. A native of Vienna, Dr. Wolfe became widely known in the United States as one of the younger jisydiiatrists. Hts hook, "A Woman's Best, Years," was one of last year's, best sellers. As an, 'amateur sculptor he won first prize for the best sculpture- at last year's exhibit of physicians' work at the New York Academy of Medicine.
WASHINGTON, .D, . C ¦ (WNS)-- The nation-wide non-sectarian drive to keep, the United States out of thelOSO Olympic Ganies , in Berlin gained in¬ creased momentum when Sehator Peter G, Gerr^ bf Rhode Island, prominent sportsman and the descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, sug¬ gested in a speech:in the United States Senate that Anieriean sportsmen should give "serious consideration. to'the ques¬ tion of whether we should participate in the Olympic Games if conditions in Ger¬ many continue as they are." Senator Gerry's .propo.sal was supported by Sen¬ ator David L Walsh of; Massachusetts, who declared that the, State Department should give the matter its "very serious consideration" ¦ and by Representative Enianuel Celler.of. New York, who in¬ troduced a resolution forbidding the use of Federal funds to finance Ainerican entries for the Berlin Olympiad. Rep¬ resentative Celler's resolution, wliich is believed to have a fifty-fifty chance of being approved, declares that "In order to di.scourage American participation in thc Olympic Games to be held .in Ger¬ many, and as a protest against the un¬ sportsmanlike attitude of the Reich, no public or semi-public funds, such as PuW lie Works Administration moneys, in¬ cluding the $-1,800,000,000 ticretofore ap¬ propriated, shall be allotted or used to defray expenses of any American ath- lelcffl to participate in the Olyinpic win' ter games to be held in Garniisch-Par- tenkirchcn, Germany, February C to 16, ItJilO, or in the games of thc Eleventh I Olyininad, to be, held iii Berlin, Ger¬ many, August 1 to.10, 1930."
. Senator Gerry came to, the support of the forces demanding. American, absten¬ tion from the Olympics by saying that "it seems to me with conditions such as those which exist in Germany, with the animosities which are bound to be en¬ gendered, that it might be a serious mat¬ ter, for example, if an American of Jewish extraction should'win an iinpor- taift event in the Olympic Games br if there wer.c some tiuestion of a dead heat
involving such an American.and a con¬ troversy should, arise on tho decision. 'It seems to mc, with all the turmoil iiir volved,' with the different races .and re¬ ligions involved aniong the contestants competing in the Olympic Games, that it miglit result in yery bad feeling being engendered. I am wondering if Ameri¬ can sportsmen should not give serious considei-ation to the question of whether we/ should participate in the Olympic Games if conditions.iij Germany continue as, they are."-
Backing up Sefiator Gerry, Senator Walsh, said "it is an act of! international amity to call attentio,n to something .more than the differences between two coun¬ tries over trade barriers," and added that-it was entirely proper for the State Department to inform Germany br Mexico that suppression of religious be¬ liefs may cause unfriendliness and dis¬ cord. :'¦.-'
NEW YORK (WNS)--Jeremiah T, Mahonpy, president of the Amateur. Ath¬ letic Union, reiterated his personal view that the United States should not par¬ ticipate in the Berlin Olympics if reports of discriminatioii agaiiist Jews and Cath¬ olics .were substantiated in accepting frpm the American Youth Congress a resolution calling upon the A. A. U. not to certify Ainerican athletes for com¬ petition in the 11)30 Olympics at Berlin. The resolution was adopted unanimously by the Congress' national council which represents 1,350,000 members organized in .857 .youth orgaijizations.
¦MADRID (WNS)—A pamphlet de¬ manding that the Sixinish Government withdraw its grant of '100,000 pesetas to erect a Spanish pavilion at the Berlin Olympics and to finance the Spanish team to thc games is being circulated throughout Spain. The pamphlet is signed by twenty of Spain's leading au¬ thors, scientists' and. doctors.
LONDON   (WNS)—Robert Temple-
tbn, trjick coach of Stanford University,
California, and a former Olympic coach,
(Continued on page 4)
Rabbi Stephen Wise Stresses Importance of Zipnist Funds
LUCERNE (WNS~Palcor Agency). .—Completely reversing his former stand, Dr. , Stephen S. Wise, chief speaker at the .1 uth anniversary celebration of the Keren Hayesod, declared that without the ¦ activities ,of the Jewish National Fund and the Keren. Hayesod there would have been no. real Jewish Pales¬ tine. "I admit contritely that 13 years ago I returned from Palestine saying that without the two funds Palestine would, survive," he declared., ."Now 'I say, yes, there would be a Palestine, but not an Eretz; Israel. When I return'to America I shall repeat Land, land, latid, God help us to use these two instruments nobly, for the Jewish nation in Erets Israel."^ ,   ,'
Gernian Jewry doubled its contribu¬ tions to the'Keren Hayesod in the last five years, Michael Traub, German repre¬ sentative, told the Keren' Hayesod con¬ ference. ¦ He urged the conference to adopt a Ibng range view and to plan a program for the Keren Hayesod for the next five years. Its 15th, anniversary next- April will be made the occasion for' the publication of a book of messages on tliq work of the fund, Leib Jaflfe, manag¬ ing director, announced.- The book will contain messages, from prominent Jews and non-Jews, including President Roose¬ velt, David Lloyd George and Thomas Mann, Other speakers urged the adop¬ tion of a colonization project providing for the settlement of 3,000 Jewish work¬ ers and their families on a completely self-sustaining basis.
Sisterhood Board Meeting
The board members of the Agildath A(^iim Sisterhood will meet Tuesday afternoon,, Aug. 27th, at 2 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. I. 'Nutis, (160 Cai'pciiter St.   -   ".¦
. All  board members are urged to be present.
HadaBsah  Board Meeting
, A board meeting of Sr. Hadassah 'will meet Wednesday, August 28, at 1:30 p. m,, at the Schonthal Center,:
,Now  she lias, written a' new  book, of ^ ^ stories" and these stories-are niore pitiless .^. than'.any she has written before, riiort?, h'ltms aiid contemptuous uiider.Jher; light;; hard toiicli; "¦'fii'e merciless and :fa,r'all her siibtle and concealing art more angry.,¦ AVhy?    They are frankly. stones  about ¦¦ her liomc, town, the little..Southern'town '¦ ill wh^ch she was born and brought lip., it is;3iniple eiiough to get the.background: There was the town with its-rigid social   , sy,5tem and its special Southern brand of,; a Puritanism all the nior:e cruel because it was a bridge built over gulfs of wild sensuality  aiid  supcrsti.lious  tcrt-or,  and ' there was this vivid giftedjflaiiiiiigly Je\y- ish,'little .girl, .who. did  not', (and  why   : should, she haVe?)   share either the pi-   .' etics or the difficulties of the indigenous populatioii.   She',was, as she thought,,ex- cluded;..she was made, to  feel that she, didiilt belong; :friendship5 were.brief and ¦, companioiiships.. difiicult..    Yet,   having . tliere i>erliaps no adequate Jewish group to belong-to or else tragically iiot,wanting , to belong to: it but .wanting, so f^tllely, to belong to the people of the land and not being, a.s she thought, permitted to— the growing girl turned all Jicr wounded .sensibilities  into  revengeful  observation: and tr|ed .by this means to prdyc to her--, self that the-town and the people wcrC: not worth. belonging to.    Yet she never persuaded,her deepest self of that.   Hor ever resurgent child-self operated' in her, mature woman and brilliant artist that   . she became,' with the world of exclusion , that had been inflicted upon it, and sp she became . the  merciless , castigator of. the American scene and especially of the section and the town of her early and determining experiences.   Her art despite: its many notable qualities is hard and brittle; her stories are sterile.   It is typi-; cal Jewish Coins B.xi.   Art without earth; or. sky or folk or God.   Yet from these' alone can sound aild great art proceed.' Nbt out of resentments and small bitter-,- ness and futile, self-negation.,'
For note:' I believe all that our Jewiah authoress says of thc people she pictures. , They seem to me to be exactly what th,ey seem to her. But they were, right enough ' on one point:, she didn't iti fact belong . to and with tliem. Neither' do L And . neither she nor I have the. right to judge them any more than they have the right to "judge us. Had she belonged to a nobly self-affirmative Jewisli commiinity that sustained her and satisfied her social and religious needs, she would either not have written of^ these Southern town-folks at all or she-would have seen Ihem under a kindlier if more tragic,aspect. A Gentile reviewer of our friend's book, utterly un¬ conscious, of the Jewish aspect which 13 at the root bf the matter, nevertheless points out very acutely the cause of Us ultimate failure: "She is too callous and too deficient in warmih. One knows that tliere is mor^ to be said for these people than she says, more to be said for her town."'   Of course there is, of course,
I am no, friend of antt-antisemiticg*^^;;' tugs on. Nothing negative persuades. :I?6- (Coniinued on page 3)    ,:;;.;.>