Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1936-01-03

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Voluhie XVII—No. 105
COLUMBUS, OHIO, JANUARY 3, 1936
Per Year $3.00; Per Copy 10c
Strictly Confidential
TID-BITS FROM EVERYWHERK
Br FamEA8 1. BIROM
National C. J. W. Executive
To Address Local Council
Next Tuesday
Transntlantic
Thc most intimate friend of the Prince of Wales is none otlicr than Artluir Schwartz, the .American composer... Schwartz 'and tho heir to the British throrio are together almost every day and haVc heen making the rounds of London's night clubs...England's brilliant ypung foreign secretary, Anthony Edep, has no nse for Hitler,..Eden iirst made' his mark in diplomacy by thc blunt language hc used in conferring with Per Fuehrer two. years ago. ..Vladimir Jabotinsk.v, would-be fuehrer of the Jews, is moving the headquarters of his Revisionist, parly' from Paris: to London. .i. Pity the poor Nazi-,diplomats.:.On orders from Ber¬ lin they have been sentenced to hve the lives of hermits because they must gov¬ ern themselves ¦ abroad by. the anti-Semitic laws, ..That means that in this country the German ambassador must avoid all ¦functions attended by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau and Justice Louis D. Brandeis.. .Italian ,Jews in Palestine are failing .all over themselves to show theii- loyalty to II Duce by donating wed¬ ding   rings   and   other  jewelry  to  the
-¦ Italian 'War   fund;. .Vienna   Nazis   now greet each other with "Heil Selassie", be- Cfiusc   ¦ tile.    Austrian    government    has tabooed the "Heil Hitler" business.. •      Family AfTairg
^ ¦ .. One of our landsleit is .now related by niarriage to ¦, George. Washington... Dr. Walter. H; Kraus of-New York, psyclii-
- atrist and leading authority on Jewish genealogy, has become a landsman of . George- Washington by marrying Vic¬ toria B.owe, whpis a descendant of Mary
'.Ball, Washington's mother,,. We-can also clEiim the late-Mark. Hanna, Presi¬ dent KcKinley's one-man brain trust, as -a landsman, since his graiiddaughter, tlic
, former Mrs. Charlotte Hannii Hume Merritt,-is .now niarried to, Luigi Roths¬ child," banker, mahrabout-town and for¬ mer Princeton football star I:. Rothschild
. 19 no relative o^ the European Rothschild .clan..lOne of the. younger members .of the Montefiorc family of England.is get¬ ting ready to say "Ido"'to a New York
;:;-show:, -girl,:,.;Mrs. -John   Schiff,-r..grarid-.
.'daiighter-in-liw of the liite Jacob H. Schiff, and granddaughter of the famous ;banker;':George F. Baker, attends,services at-Templi;,Emanu-EI in New"Yorki,al¬ though .she is' a'.Christian.,.Pbor. old I Kirigiish Levin'sky is Iiaving-his troiibles ...First his sister-manager is put into a
. straightjacket and now his fan-dancing .;wife divorces him,-..    .  -        , ,       . ,
We're Teiling Ypu ,
Jariies G. McDonald', who has just re¬ -signed as refugee High Commissioner, will probably-become; exectitive editor of the New York Times. ..Henrietta.Szold had a swell time On tlie boat coming back tb this' country until- her, fellow Jewish passengers    discovered    her. . identity.
¦ Then she was, besieged and had -to r«.ti from a barrage ot kisses, hugs and other annoyances,, :*.Mrs,   Rebekah   Kohut-   is
. .conducting her communal activities from
; a' room in Mt. Sinai Hospital, where she
is laid up with a broken.leg,,,And the
reason. Rabbi Samuel .Goldenson of New
York's   Ternple   Emanu-E!  hasn't   been
heard from lately is that he's not well
.. .American  Jewish  women. will^ soon
¦   have a magazine -all to themselves.., It'll
be called "Eve"... Emma Redell, world'
.greatest Jewisli operatic singer, will con-
, tribute all earnings from her Town Hall
. .toncert on January 20th to the American
Committee for the Settlement of Jews in
¦ Biro B'idjan..-.The Jewish War Veterans is growing by leaps and bounds... .New posts, are   being   organized   this  month,
- Miami,.. San. Francisco, Trenton- and Nashyile.^i.
Olympian Heights . . Jewish sportsmen in Europe- are run- iiing a - fever over the' decision' of the Hagibor, famous Czechoslavakian Jewish sports club, to participate iii the Berlin Olympics . , . The Hungarian Olymiwc team will .have at least five Jews. ..You .can.expect some big developments.in the Olympic situation in this, country as soon as-the-New, Year festivities are forgot¬ ten...Thc -silence of the past fortnight iVas only a holiday truee.. ..Incidentally, Judge Mahoney, leader of the anti-Olym- piaris, has as his chief adviser on. pro¬ cedure his, nephew, Quentiu .Reynolds, the magazine writer, who recently spent . a year in Naziland... Reynolds, is the fel¬ low'who. was the literary ghost for-Putzi HanfstaengI, Hitler's press agent, when Putzi wrote an article recently for Col¬ lier's Magazine,,. .
Politically Speaking All rumors, to the  contrary  notwith¬ standing,  David 1", .Wilentz, New Jer-
¦ sey's attorney-general, will not resign to run for governor, ..Although Dave might like to make the run his resignation would displease the Democratic powers in New Jersey , . . If he quit Governor
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Mi's. Alexander Wolf of Washington, D.. C, will be tile guest speaker at the birthday luncheon meeting of the Council of Jewish Women to be served Tuesday, Janllai-y 7 ,lt 12 ;30 o'clock at the Fort Hayes Hotel- : .
Mrs. Wolf,is third vice-president of the Xational Council, having been active in Council work, for many years!    She is
member-of the-Women's Congressional Conimittee in Washington. and is also Well known, for her readings-and mOno- louges. . ;¦
."Flying over South America" will be the topic of Mrs. Fred.Laziirus in which she. will tell of her experiences- 011 her recent, trip tlici.e. '
The afternoon's program will be con¬ cluded by the presentation of a playlet. If,"     Those   participating  in   tlie   skit
Lord Reading Dies At 75'
LONDON (WNS)—The whole Brit¬ ish Empire is niotiriiing the death here ot the Marquess of Reading, who was horn as Rufus Daniel Isaacs in London75 years ago, the son of ,i Jewish merchant, alid.who became the first man to be Vii:<J- roy of (ndin. Lord Chief Justice and British Ambassador to the Uriited States. His'death was not ¦unCxpectijd as he had heen ill since last October when lie suf¬ fered an, attiick of cardiac asthma. Shortly before -Christmas hc took sick again and his coildition had given great concern.
Gifted with one. of the most brilliant milids of his era, he. ran away to sea as. a boy, but returned to England when hi.s parents agreed, to let him study law. Be¬ fore the turn of the century lie had be¬ come one of thc greatest barristers .in England, commanding fabulous retainers. He made his political debut in. 1904 wKcli he. was elected to the House of. Com-
7020; 75c,
Award Goes to Dr. M. Brodie
wil ,b<;: Mrs Theodore Beckman, -Mrs. .|„,„„j g, ^ liberal from Reading. He was VViliara Gumble, Mrs, Jack Resler, John :„,|ectcri successively until 1913. When Resler and the Misses Irene Schiff, Elaine ; Lord Asquith became Prime' Minister in Rosenthal, Babette and Marjorie Levy,;,,,,,, Reading was given the post of afr Miriam Schiff, Jean. Gup, Elaine Schiff, ,„,„<;y.j,,„„^,,. i„'the same year lie was E ame pmsburg, Lois Dworsky, and knfehted. A year later he was appointed GIoria,.Becknian ., ' Lord 'Chief Justice, a post he retainetl
Keservalions for the luiicheon may be 'j,„(ii ]j)21    ¦
made by calling Mrs. Harry Zeigcr, FA.!   .Dun'h'g'thc World War he was one ot
The price ot thc luncheon will be jhe   most   influential   British   diplomats,
.[although not a member of the govern-
rr    '. '.      '   !   ¦ j riient.   Prime Minister Lloyd George sent
Sigina Alpha Mu ,Fraternity '^""''°"'^,^"''''' states as special am'-
¦ bassador Jo raise a loan of i!;500,000,OOOi;
It was iit this time that .he'was raised to the peerage, taking the title,' Barpji Reading of Erleigh. ' In. 1921 he Suc¬ ceeded Lord Clleiinsford as ; Viceroy of India, a rega'rpositibn,second only to that of the King. During his administfatio'n there occurred India's fight for independ,; ence.. After his,retirement as-Viceroy ili I92(i he remained inactive in politics until 19ai when he was named Foreign Secriif tary in Ramsay MacDonald's 'nation'al government,., -
Althougli he ivas always,'proud of'his Jewishness, ;he took little active interest in organized Jewish affairs.' On the death of his first wife, the for-riiei- Alice Cohen' of New. York, .Reading married his seci rctary,-Mii.l StclWeharnandra'ChrlStla")^, who was 38 years his junior, in 193J. By his iirst marriage he had one sou„,-Vi5- count Erleighi who is married to the only daughter of the late Lord Melchett, Lonf an advocate of Anglo-German friendship. Lord Reading resigned the, presidency of the Anglo-German' Association in 103:J as a, protest against Nazi'persecution df the 'Jews.  '    '.'
Tile Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity .Award for outstanding achievement for the year 1935.was presented at the, 26th annual Convention Banquet of Si'gma' Alpha . Mu : on December 29th at The Coronado Hbtelin St. Louis, Mb. to Dr. Maurice;Brodic, a member of the McGill .University Chapter, ,     ,   "
Dr, Brodie has won international fame for his research and development of a serum for infantile paralysis imhiuniza- tion.; 'rlie New York .City Depiir'tment of Health has provided him with a sper. ciiil iabbralory and the Warm Springs Foundation,' .sponsored, by ; President Kopsevelt,,ljas receritly;; equipped ^.a-labo-: ratory for him for the manufacture bf his.serum in greater quantities.   .    .
The vaccine is the result of. five yearfe of intensive experimentation with mon¬ keys. Before subjecting children to the vaccine. Dr. Brodie ,and six of his staff assistants, inoculated themselves without any untoward effects. The serum' has been used by the United States Public Health Service during itlie last epidemic in North Carolina . and . Virginia. Ap¬ proximately l6,0OO children have already- been inoculiited and not-one has since contracted infantile paralysis. Dr. Brodie plans to vaccinate at least 50,000 persons in order to definitely establish the safety and eiiicacy of his serum. The results, of;, Jiis experiments',to date have been given at;several meetings- of the Arriefi- can Public Health Association, the New York Academy of ^Medicine and others. ' Dr',,'Brodie was born iiv Liverpool, England in 1903 and attended McGill University in Moritreal, Canada, In 'his senior year, he was awarded the Wpbds Medal in Medicine. Dr, Brodie is now assistant Professor of. Bacteriology - at New York University and Bellevue Hos¬ pital Afedical School, a member of fhe Americah Bacteriological Society, Fellow of the American Public .Health Associa¬ tion and other, scientific societies.
The Columbus Chapter of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity, is located at 196'^ luka Ave., and was organized at Ohio State University in JD20.
Local Zion Lodge, B'nai
B'rith, Elects Officers for
The Coniing Year
Froni Ihc stjindpoint of attendance, dues collected, arid the enthusiasm that Iircvailed, tlic annual election of thc B'nai B'rith last Monday night W.a5 one of.tlie most, successful civer held.; Evcli those who wciit down in defeat di,spl,iycd that courage and good sportsmaiisliip which lias, always made Zion I-odgc the most talked of organization of District No 2. ; TllE.CnuoNio.E is confident that young men like Irwin WoU and Harry, Grob- stciij will not be forgotten hy the loyal B'nai B'rith followers in the years to come. Tlieir oltorts and loyalty to thc work of the order is bound to bring about that reward which comes to all who per¬ form tlicir duties as tlicy have done in past years. Hcrc> wishing them success, in ne'xt year's election.
The following were elected unopposed ; Samuel Gurevitz, President; Abe Wol¬ man, 1st Vice President; William Was¬ serstrom, -ind "Vice President; Frank V. Rayei-, Assistant Monitor; Joseph G. Goodman, Treasurer; R. A. Jaffee, .Si:c- retary, and, Simon Lazarus, Triisteee for 193C-7-8.
In' competition for the two contested positions in Zi()n Lodge, Isadore Harris was elected Warden and Sanford Lakin, Guardian. The following were elected as delegates, io the District Grand Lodge convention to bc held 'tills year in Cincin¬ nati, Oliiei: ' LW. Garek, Walter Katz, Robert Mellman, Ben Neustadt, Harry Schwartz, I3r, Morris Goidbcrg and Bert Wolman.    .  ' .,
Elaborate plans, arc now being made for a public installation of the newly elected officers of the B'nai B'rith, cbm- plijte details Df which will,be announced in next wcelc's CheonIcle. .
IvreeyoK Meeting Wednesday.
The Ivreeyoh nieeting will be held Wednesday, January 8, at 2 p. m, at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel), The guest speaker for the afternoon will be Rabbi Mordecai , Hirshsprung who will deliver a inost interesting lecture, This will be a yery important nieeting and all members are asked to be present. '       ,
League of Nations Intervention With Ger¬ many Essential to Solve Problem of German Ref ugees, McDonald Sa.ys in His Letter of Resignatrv
NEW YORIC (WNS)—In a lengthy letter to the Secretary General of tlic League of Nations announcing his resig¬ nation as League High Commissioner for German-Rctugees,' James G.' McDonald declared, that the League and its mem¬ ber ,states must make effort's torcnlove or mitigate the causes which create Ger¬ man refugees because the. refugee iirob- Icni calls for political as Well as philan¬ thropic   solution.-    Asserting   that   "the
tional treaties, has a sii ,. jundation in thc fact, that the protection of the in¬ dividual from racial and religious in¬ tolerance is a vital condition of inter- tjational peace and security."     ;
In his letter, whicii is acconipanied by an appendix containing an analysis of the measures on 'Germany against "non- Aryans" and of their effect in creating refugees, Mr.' McDonald' reviews the work of the Commission since its estab-
suffcrings   of   the   persecuted, li,!hmciit in thcfall of 1933. .He said that
Rabbi Hirschsprung to' Address Yoiing Judea Tonight
,,The Senior study group of tlic Agudath Achim Young Judea willnic'et this Saturday evening at 8 ;30 to hear tlie fifth of the lecture course in, advanced Hebrew literature given by Rabbi Hirschsprung. The lecture will be on the subject "At tlie Crossroad of Haska- lah and Nationalism" and will deal with Achad Ha'arii's works. ' i ', The Young Judea Stiidy Circle is one of the newest, groups organized by'Ralibi Hirschsprung this year for the p'urpo.« of, disseminating Hebrew, culture among the collegiate JeWish youth of , Hie Agiidiith Achim members. Adniissidn is, howeven ppen to all whb are interested. The .number of ,thosc enrolled at present consists of 22 boys arid igirls between the ages of 17 and ,21. For more informa-, tion call the Rabbi, FA. 0025.
DAVID BROWN THANKS ANGLO-JEWISH PRESS
NEW YORK-Heacled "A Thousand Thanks To You/Anglo-Jewish and Yid¬ dish Press" the letter, which appears on the .front page of the organization's, of-. ffcJal publication,, thanks the publisher's 4pT;^liriSPi}tiqg^^the;:QRT- stciry .\o .'/the lar.ge number of Jewish'famiiies'who daily or I weekly receive their .Yiddish or -Aiig^ro-Jewish papers." Without this co¬ operation, J/lr. Brown continues, '-'we would iipthjjve been able to-.toild up,ari iiiiderstahding .attitude . on the part -of Anierican. Jewry, toward our organiza¬ tion. '    .
"As one who; has 'had much to do with fund-raising activi¬ ties of many organizations I have always realized the powdr -and strength of the Jewish Press and have never failed to extend to them their share of credit,
VI sometimes wonder though,'* he said* "if the Jews in .those cities that haye an Anglo-Jew¬ ish newspaper appreciate their debtto it for the important part it pla;^s in the American Jewish scene. .
"If one is interested in the Jewish news of the world, one must read the Jewish pres^^ for it is well known that the secular press carries a minimum of Jew¬ ish news".
iiiiiiority ill Germany and the menace of the growing exodus call for frieiidly but firm intercesi^ion with the German gov¬ eriuncnt, by all pacific iDean.'i, on the part o£ the Lcaguti of Nations and other mem¬ bers of the community of nations," Mr. McDonald warils that "pity aiid reason aliice must inspire the hope that .inter¬ cession, will meet ¦ivith response" because "withoiit such rcsponBC the problems caused by the persecution of. the Jews, and the non-Aryans, will not be solved by philanthropic action, but will continue to constitute a^ danger to international peace and a source of innury to the legiti¬ mate interests,of other states. > Predicing that "desperate suffering in the countries adjacelit to Germany, and an even more/ terrible human calamity within the German -frontiers, are inev¬ itable, unless present tendencies ifi the ¦Reich ;are checked or reversed," the're¬ tiring High Gommlssioner, who has di¬ rected , the refugee work since October lOyn,': declared that "the moral authority gf the League of.Nations and of states members of the league must be directed towards a determined appeal to the Ger¬ man gbvernirieht in the, name of humaiv ity and of ¦ the principles of the public law of Europe. They piust" ask for, ¦.modification, of policies which constitute a source of unrest and perplexity, in the world, a challenge to the conscience ot mankind, and.a menace to the legitimate, interests of tHi; states affected by theim^ itiiigratioTi of Gierman refugees."   \
Emphasizing that "when domestic ppl- lcfes'',;threateh;:''the^ 'd^ and
exile of hundreds of thousands of human beings, considerations of diplomatic ebr- rccttless must yield to those of coinmon humanity," Mr. McOoriaid pointed out that "the problem,must be tackled at its source if disaster is to be.'ayoided," since the' efforts of, the¦ private, orgaiiizations and of .any League organization for ref¬ ugees , can , bnly mitigate a problem of growing grayity and' complexity." Urg¬ ing the/League to make the Refugee Commission, a , part of its organization working directly under ;it, rather than as a separate unit as, it ha.s been during his term, of office, Mr. McDonald said that ."this Ls a function of the League, which is essentially an^ association of states for the consideratipn of, matters of "common, concern. The Covenant em¬ powers the Council and the Assembly to deal with any matters within the sphere of activity of the League or affecting the peace of thc world.. The effort of the League to ensure respect for. human,per¬ sonality; when not grounded on express provisions of the  Covenant  or interna-
Dr, Abramson to Address Open Forum Friday Evening
The lecture of Dr, B, W. Abramson at (he Agudath Achim Open Forum lias been postponed until Friday evening, Jan. 10. , Dr. Aibramson \vill speak on "Auto-emandpation Is Still A Problem", , This lecture ia especially timely in view of the recent address made by Rabbj Felix Levy of Chicago at the last Ha¬ dassah Donor Dihner. Dr. Abramsori will touch on some new angles of tlie subject,-approaching it from a different viewpoint. . '
PICKET NEW YORK STORES HAN¬ DLING GERMAN MERCHANDISE
N'HW YORK ¦(WNS)-Taking the offensive, against violators of the anti- Nazi boycott, the American Jewish Con¬ gress and the Anti-Nazi Minute Men are planning to picket every store in New York that fails to heed the plea for co¬ operation .with the boycott inovement. The picketing began when Mrs, Stephen S, Wise, president of the women's divi¬ sion of the American Jewish pongress, headed a group of six members of the Congress who paraded in front of the toy and novelty store of B. Shackman at Madison Avenue and li4th Street. The .pickets'carried signs reading "Shackman
Buys From Hitler" and "Boycott Shack¬ man". Mont Shackman, president of the firm, called tlie police to disperse the picketers but the police-did npt disturb the picketers when Mrs. Wise declared that tbey were engaged in peaceful activ¬ ities. Shacltman said that most. of the directors of the firm were Christian, that he would "continue to sell Gennan toys as long as my customers demand it" and that "the action of these people in picket¬ ing the store is doing mpi-e tb hurt the Jewish pepple'than anything else." The Anti-Nazi Minute Men have mobilized 100 of their ni,embers to picket the Woolworth, Kress and Kresge stores.
Temple Is Host to Franklin County Ministerial Assn. ..
Temple Israel will be the host of the Franklin County Ministerial Association at its jiext meeting to be held.Moriday morning, Janttary, C; This will be the first time in the history of the Congre¬ gation that all the clergymen of the city and county will assemble in the Temple fbr worship, study and, insi>iration.' Min¬ ister^ of aUdenominations will be repre¬ sented.    ,    '
The meeting will begin with the regu¬ lar week-day seryice .taken from the Union Prayer Book, Vol. 1 ;iit 10:30 a. m. The chief speaker will be Dr. Juliaiii Morganstern, president,of the Hebrew .Union College of Cincinnati. His sub¬ ject will be "How Judaism Came To Be".; ,¦.¦'¦'',    :,  ¦
Rabbi Samuel M. Clip, treasurer of the Association, will discuss briefly "The History and Organization of Jewish Life in Columbus",
For lunch, the visiting clergymen will be the guests of the Rose E. Lazariis Sisterhood.
Sisterhood Bingo Party Set For Sunday Evening
Mrs. Hiram Cohen, chairman of the Rose E. Lazariis Sisterhood Bingo Party which will take place Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the Temple Vestry, is being assisted by Mesdames Julia GUck, J. P. Liift, Samuel Meisiier and I. A. Rosen thai. , An impartitnt board meeting of the Sisterhood is scheduled for Monday at i0;30p. m.
,000  refugees  have  already  left   Ger¬ many.    Of this number, he stated,, ap¬ proximately three-fourths.have found iiew hDmc;, irinre than half of them in Pal¬ estine.     Fifteen   thousand   refugees  stiir  ^ remain unplaced, he added.    He' praised    , Ihc copperatjon extended by. Jewish and , Christian philanthropic groups Jn the aid given to, resettle the refugees and added  \ that 'the  task  of saving ."those victims calls, for rtncwed efforts of the philan- . thropici t)    r ,:'. Tb/>\private organiza-: .tipns/ho   ,..   ,:   "   - ; .expected to do their part, "if the G- -^i. ,.ents,acting..through the League of Nations, make possible a solution.    Hilt in the new circumstances it  will  not be  enough to continue  the. activities   on  behalf  of  those  who; flee from the Reich.    Efforts must be made to remove or mitigate the causes which Create German refugees. : This could not have been any part, of thc work of the High Commissioner's'office, nor presum-;" ably,, can it be a function of the body- to which the League may decide to en¬ trust future admiiiistrative activities oii, b^qhalE of the refugees:'. It is.a: political- , function, vvhich properly bplpngs to the League itself."   . '  ' .
Eycn   though   Germany, may   not   be bound by a treaty  obligati'iri' providing for equal citizenship of racial, Tcligious, br linguistic minorities, nevertlieless/Mr. McDonald declared, "the principle of re- ^ spect  for ¦ the  rights  of  minorities  has been   during   the   last   three   centuries,' ¦hardening'into an obligation pt the pMb- lic law of Europe."   That principle,, he . stai,d,'iiVasTdcogiMziedrirt i^ome^of'the. important   international   instruments, of the li>th century;.  The assembly, of the League in  1922 , he reported, adopted i a resolution which, expressed the, hope that' "states not bound by specific legal obli-, gations in the. matter bf minorities will nevertheless observe in the treatnient of theii* owri minorities at least as high a istandard of justice; and toleratioin as is required' by   the   treaties   in   question." .This r,esolutio,n, he, pointed, oiit, was re¬ affirmed in 19.^3* at a meeting of the As¬ sembly   and   in   order  to  dispel, doubts whether it applied to Jews in Germany, that the principle "niust be.appHecl with¬ out ,e;^ception to all classes of .nationals of a state which differs from thb major¬ ity of the population in race, language.   ; or  religion;"    The  Germaa Jews,  ^Ir. McDonald said, on this ptrint, "although :, not claiming or desiring to be a minority arc within the scope of this principle, gs was stated at the Assembly, as soon as- there. is. legal discrimination, .a minority, exists,   within-the   meaning  bf modern law.":    ' '¦ ¦ - -
Survey Shows Anti-Semitism Not
Political Factor in America:
.. NEW YORK (WNS)"Nowhere in the United States is anti-S.emitism as yet strong enough to be a political factor, -Fortune Magazine declares qn the basis of' replies received in various, parts pf the country to the question: "Do,you believe that in the long .run Germany will be better or. worse off if it drives out the Jews?" Conceding that "there is. certainly prppaganda at Tvork tugging it (antt-Seimitism) wider," Fortune: employed the indirect method to determine the extent of, anti- Semitism because it felt that "the use of a trial questionnaire putting the question indirectly showed that people iare almost 100 percent reluctatit to voice an out-and- out racial antagonism."
The'results of its poll on the above;questiori were as follows:   ,       .
North-    Mid-    South-    South- Pacific
Total     east      west      east        west     West      Coast
Better     14.0%    15.1%    16.1%     7.5%    14.7%     9.8%      14.3%
Worke ...;...    54.6%   52.7%   55.1%    60.0%   32.4%   41.0%     61.1%
Don't Know:.....:. 31.4% 32,2% 28.8% 32.5% 32.9% 49.2% 24.6% Commenting on these figures, Fortiine concludes that "Obviously, in no part . of the country is anti-Semitism at present strong ^ enough to count politically. The smallest amount w'as to be found in the Southeast and the West, where there ate very few Jews. On the other hand in the- Northeast, where 70 percent of the American Jewish population is concentrated, the percentage opposed to, the jews was only 15.1, and was actually less than that in the Midwest. , Most significant answer is the 'don't know' answer, fpr it probably tan be made only out of a com¬ plete dispassron about the whol6 subject. It is interesting that th'S balance wheel' of anti-fanaticism, one way or another, is ijowhere less than a quarter of the entire sainplc, except on the. Pacific Coast, and not significantly less even there, that it outvotes anti-Semitism by generally more than two to one, and rises tp a five-to-one ratio in the West. By size of. place and,by occupation, differences were negligible, except that farm hands were far our of ..line—20,0 per cent being anti-Jewish,"
Voliner Society To Install Of¬ ficers Sunday Evening
The annual banquet and installation of officers of the Voliner Society will take place Sunday at 5:30 p. m. at the.social hall of the Agudath Achim. Following installation of oflicers a free dinner will
be seryed to all members and their wives. During the dinner an entertaining pro¬ gram will be presented.
Another ; social function is being' planned by the Voliner Society during the winter to be announced liter. It is. urged that all members pay their dues promptly in order that the work of; the society may be,continued.
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