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VoluiiieXVlT—No. 137
COLUMBU.S, OHIO, AUGUST 14,  1536
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Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
REVEAL   DETAILS   OF
POGROM   PLANNED
FOR SEPTEMBER
Olympian Heights
Hitler's deliberate affront to Jcsse Owens, America's . Negro one-man Olyriipic team, will, result-in thc com-' plete collap.se of Nazi propaganda j among the colored races- . . . When' ber Fuehrer took a walk on Amer¬ ica's colored, athletes he made Messrs. Kirby, Bruiidage and company look rather foolish after all their efforts to persuade Americans .that .the Nazis would be good sports. .... Ahd, speaking of Brundage, don't be sur- .-prised if-he gets the axe as the A. A. ,U. president at thc next cohvcntion, . . -• His fawning over the Nazis and his action in the Jarrett case don't sit well with Amcricaii, sportsmen. . . . ,Incidcntally the various rumpuses in¬ volving the .Americans at Berlin has given rise to considerable sentiment! in favor of America withdrawing frotn all future Olympics. . . : When Svcn Hedin, the Swedish' explorer, was invited, to Hitler's box to broad¬ cast on the "History of ,the Horse in Asia,"' I)cr Fuehrer didn't know that Hedin .is of non-Aryan ancestry! . . . The world Labor. Athletic Car¬ nival in New .York this week-end will be an annuail affair. . . .Its sponsors have already, booked Randall's. Island
' for.July 10 and U,;l'037. ., . . They arc also planning an indoor meet at Madison Square Garden next winter, . ...Senator Ben;aniin F. Berman of Cincinnati, donor of the trophy vyhich the Seven Arts is presenting for thc outstanding individual achieve-
' nient at. the Carnival, has an artistic
.   hobby-^pahitihg. . . . His portrait.of Stephen S. Wise will be presented to Dr. wise upon his return from .Eu¬ rope. '.> .Tennis circles are whisper¬ ing  that ^Hclcn  Jacobs   is   ready hang up her rat:c[uet for .gbod. -. Get ready for a big welcome tp Max Kratiser,   European  \vrcstling  chain pion, who is coming here soon. . . Krauscr,. who   hails   from    Poland, ' tut-ncd dowii an invitation  from the , Polish 'Amateur  Wrestling Asspcia- tioh to act as trainer for the Polish Olympic team..;..' Joe Gould, 'Jim : Braddock's.  Jewish   manager,   must
.: carry, a Jewish ' calendar  vvith  him.
., . ,. . By consulting it he found that September 2G, the date  proposed, by
' Max Schmeling for the." Braddock bout, is Yom Kippur. ... . As a result the hiatch will be held* on the 24th.
Betvvcen the Lines
Anti-Semitism will play a big part ih Illiiiois; gubernatorial campaign. . . . "Big Bili", ThGnipsoh, .former mayoi- of Chicago, will run against fjlovernor Henry Horner as the, can¬ didate of the Third Part/, which is headed by Newton Jenkins, Chicago's ; would-be Hitler. . . ''; We ..wonder what'. were the " feelings of Judge David B, Samuel of Shreveport, Louisiana, when he fined a .Negro woman; $:i!5 for seating herself licxt to a white woman in a trolley car. .... In Germany Judge Samuel would be thrown into a concentration camp for sitting next to an Aryan woman. ., ... "Junior Miss Rose''^ the dog who created a .sensation by crashing into New York's social register, named after Rosa . Ponselle, the , singer. . . . Pauline Kroner, Brooklyn- I born dancer vvho teaches the" terpsi- j chorcan art in Russia,. gets more money tiiah Stalin. . . . She has,$200,- ,000 credited to her account in Soviet banks. . . . The Jewish Community Center of St. Paul seems not to have heai'd of the. Jewish'Welfare Board. . . . In the current issue of the Na¬ tion the center advertises for an ex¬ ecutive director. . ,. -. Sylvia Sidney carries a tiny red Buddha with h'^r wherever she goes. .. . .
Foreign Mail Pouch There, are whispers in Berlin that I^iiidbergh had a secret audience with Hitter despite -the reports that the , two did not meet. . . , On the other hand it is said, that' Hitler snubbed the one-time-Lone Eagle because of .; the Gerinaii angle to the Hauptmann case. . , . The Board of Deputies of British Jews is under heavy fire from many of its former inenibers. , . . -Reorganization of the board on sbine coalition basis is considered a pos¬ sibility. . . . If France should go Fascist,her dictator will not be Fran¬ cois de la Rocque, boss of the .Croix de Feu, but Jean Chiapiw, the former l>olice prefect of Paris. , . .A deal be¬ tween . Austrian film ' comiaiiies- and Hollywood to make American fihns in Vienna will enable Austrian Jew¬ ish, movie stars find directors who have been fired because of the Aryan rule to get their jobs back. ; . . .Mar^ (Continued on page 2)
NEW YORK (WKS)--Buasting that weapons and forces are ready, thc .first jKJgrom ..against American Jews is threatened snmetiinc in Stiv teinber by James True, of the James True Associates and Ainerica First, Ine:, of Washington, D. C., accord¬ ing .to revelations tiuoting.Truc which appear in the current, issue; of the New Masses. The New Masses dis¬ closes it has placed'the evidence con¬ cerning the proposed mas.^acrc before President Roosevelt, the. La Follette Senate Investigating Conunittce and tfie Shperintendcnt of Metropolitan Police of Washington, V>, C, with the demand . for. steps to sto^) the planned pogrom as well as future ac¬ tivities of anti-Semitic organizations such as Truc's which Jucite to vi'o- len.Cc. ,1 . -,      , ¦
Fingering  a. revolver,  True  in his Washington ofiice, told Porter Niles. author of the New Ma.sses article, as related in the,-magazine:   "We're get¬ ting set!   We're preparing  for' Sep¬ tember.   When We have the pogrom, not   even   our ,'pet   Jews*   will   stay alive.   And he repeated that the mas- .^acre will come 'around September.'" Describing , True's   plan; the : .New Masses article, -under the title,."Mas¬ sacre of Jews Is Set for September," says: '  "The   man   who   predicts  the September pogrom. (True) heads two important, anti-Semitic    societies   in Washington,  D.   C.   He; boasts  that he can readily obtaiii sufhcieiit guns ahd all the ammunition required. He has  patented a special weapon which he calls the 'Kike-Killer'.   He is fos¬ tering    the    terroristic,    anti-Semitic Knights of-the White Camellia.   He was active in calling and will partic¬ ipate in the Asheville, N. C, Confer¬ ence, which win be attended by the leading^   anti-Semites,   of    A.merica." The offices of the Jariles True Asso¬ ciates  are  said  in the  New Masses article to be a "key spot in the anti- Semitic movement in America." From, it, the story continues, "come instruc¬ tions  in" how  lb  recruit  Jew-baiters, libw to spread.the doctrines of intol¬ erance, race hatred, persecution.. From it,   James  True  announced  that  the first   American   pogrom . will   occur next   month,   September,   a&36.":   A, link   not   only   with  other   powerful anti-Seniitic   organizations,   but  with leading  Republicans  and   True's: or¬ ganizations  is  reported  in .the  Ncvv Masses.'   ;Mrs.    William     Sherman iWaikcr^   secretary  of  the  American Coalition, whose ,l)asc is almost com¬ pletely Republican, characterizes'True as a" "specialist in his parttcular field,'' and "an honest and sincere investiga¬ tor," the article asserts.
Catholic    Cardinal     Leads
Fight on Anti-Semitism
in  Belgium
:'b RUSSELS (WNS) — Under the teadersliip of Cardinal Joseph Ernest Van ..Roey, head of thc Catholic Church in Belginih, there .'has been or¬ ganized here a non-partisan committee which issued a public manifesto to Catholics warhihg them against aiiti- .Scmitishi, Tlie committee plans to un¬ dertake an , organized campaign .of propaganda, among Catholics to conn tcract the anti-Semitic activities of the Rexist Party.
PRAGUE , (WNS)-A  great stir has been created throughout Czecho-
lovakia by Bishop Hlinko,. leader of the Slovakian People's Party,; because of a public denunciation he .made against anti-Semitism. In his state¬ ment he .ijvarned the Catholic press to stop its anti-Jewish propaganda. :
DAUGHTER OF LOUIS MARSHALL DIES
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. (WNS) —Mrs. Ruth Marshall Billikopf, the only daughter of the late Louis Mar¬ shall and wife of Jacob Billikopf, na¬ tionally known Jewish social Worker and communal leader, is dead here at the age of 38, after a brief illness. Mrs. Billikopf is survived by her hus¬ band, two children arid three brothers, among them James Marshall, vice- president, of the New York Board, of Education. '-
Emil Ludwig Calls oa Jewis
to  Answer  Hitler in
His Own Terms
, G E N -E; V.'A <W N S — Palcor Agcncy)-^Asserting the heed for mp- biiization of the Jewish people '.'.to resist the war of anti-Semiti.sm di rpctcd against them and to combat tin ravages of the world war to come,' Emil Ludwig,. famous .biographer, called upon Jews to answer Hitler "in the same terms as he adclresses to us;" Dr. Ludwig tittered these views in an exclusive interview as he prepared to leave thc sessions of the World Jewish. Congress, which he has been attending,, for a trip, to South America, ..,.-.
Explaining that he was born, in the Jewish fa,ith but brought up as a non- Jew^ although unbaptized; Emil Lud¬ wig described how he .came to, iden¬ tify :hiinscrf with Jews. :"Many per¬ sons,"; he said, "have become Jews' since,Hitler...I have been a Jew since the murder of .Walter Rathcnau, from -which date; I haye emphasized that I aih a Jew. Ihave been inter¬ ested in the World Jewish Congress for the last four,years; I see in .it the. instrument, which will .prepare the Je\vjsh¦"p^dple td resist'the war of anti-Semitism directed, against them and to'combat the ravages of the world ,.vvar to copie." . keferrihg to those who have, ab¬ sented themselves from the,Congress, Dr. Ludwig said: "The era. of assim- iJatfoii is' ended. The. sooner Jews realize tliat the better Jdr tlieni. I .am waiting to hear front this plat¬ form the answer given to Hitler in. the same terms as he addresses to. us. We must not niincc words or be weak ill action.    ,.   -
"I am a very superstitious person ahd I cannot think, of this assembly as a .first world congress. When the second session has beep held I will remember this was the first. .Above, all there must be, continuity ahd .no interruption, in, the labors which we have undertaken. I do not believe in totalitarian states for Jews or others; but -I urge with all the ehiphasis at my command that party, divisions be forgotten. , AH the forces in Jewish life must he consolidated to resist the war.upon us," ..
WARNS JEWS DOORS OF
PALESTINE MAY
BE CLOSED
G E N E V A (WNS-PaW Agency)—-A solemn warning of "the danger that the door a of our ITomc- land may be closed" was sounded to the World Jewish Congress in a message from David Ben Gurionj chairman df the executive of the Jewish Agency and president of thc Palestine Jewish Federation of Labor. In ilis message Mr. Ben Gurion, writ¬ ing from London, where he is now engaged in political activities affect¬ ing Palestine, said:
'You have assembled in a time of unprecedented trial and persecution. Ruthless foes, with the sign of Cain on, their, foreheads as they teach race hatred, have risen against us in the Galuth. . Bands ami brigands have also jeopardized our world liberation in Eretz Israel. Th« danger that the doors of our Hcmelaiid may be closed makes it more' urgent than ever that we should mobilize all our forces in its defCn^se. Let its not yield to those, seeking to deprive' us of our rights. We will .Hot abandon our cliaim to full political and civil cfiudl- ity rights iri the. Galuth, and not for one moment will we shrink from real izing our dream of salvation in the Jewish' homeland.". .¦
The. Congress, has haincd Horace M. Kallen chairman of the Commit¬ tee to Combat anti-Semitism,. Abra¬ ham Goldberg chairman of the Polit¬ ical Commission and Dr. Joseph Ten- enbium. thairman d the Economic Defense and Boycott Committee. All, three are New Yoiiiers:
The.establishrtient of a commission ¦to draw in all abschtcos" to the. World Jewish Congress was, Purged by Mr. Goldberg; who stressed that the, commission, must be made as strong as possible, tie.also called on Jews to create ailieB among the dem¬ ocratic powers, declaring: , "If we. fight against certair| nations we must also have allies ampng others.'*   ;
World Jewish  Cangress Told Five Million Jews Are Ruined
Harvard Prof essor Lectures
Nazi   Students   on
Racial Equality
¦ CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WNS)— Improving on the old adage of cast¬ ing pearls; before swine. Dr. Kirjey ,F. Mather, director of the Harvard Summer School, lectured a group df Nazi high school -students touring New England on race equality'and academic liberty when he welcomed them to Harvard. White the German-' students and their mentor,-;Dr. Otto f Kunz of the Amerika-institute in Berlin, an organization for spreading Nazi ¦ propaganda, through students, sal stoh"dIy, pr. Mather rebuked the Nazi' theory of r .ce superiority by, assertirig that no-one race is the .sole repository of wisdom; virtue and abil¬ ity, and pointed dut that pt Harvard "vve believe that, all kinds of people have contributed to make the modern civilization."   •.
. Lecturing, the Nazi students pu the virtues of* liberty, untraramcled think¬ ing and , academic " freedom, Dr. Mather hit directly, at Nazi restraints when he said that "to enjoy liberty, to be free is a inore difficult task in this century than it has been in any previous century in the history, of Harvard or of mankind in general. We at Haryarcl ¦ don't' tell people what to thiiik- we help them to learn how to think for themselves.. . We believe that the only way to solve this conflict, between the individual and the group in which he mtist.live is to develop the ability for each indi¬ vidual to , think for himself and,-to reach: conclusions which are wise for him to,reach."     . '
Gets Proposals for Creation of Central Bureaus of Mi¬ gration and Relief—^Wise and Goldmann Make Opening Addresses—^Mack Elected Honorary President—Lipsky and Wise Among Fourteen  Presidents
Louis Marcus, Former Mayor of Salt LaJce City, Dies
55th Jewish Victim Dies in Palestine Riots
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH (WNS)—Louis . Marcus, mayor dt Salt Lake City from BWlto WXt is dead here at the age of 5(1. A native of Brooklyn, he, settled in Salt. Lake City after living for several ycar$ in Philadelphia .where he had been active in the, B'nai B'rith. Owner of a num¬ ber of riioving picture theatres, he made a reputation as chairman of thc city's centeniiiul commission in IH'IO. The following year he was drafted for mayor. In 1933 he was defeated by a thousand; votes.   ,
Beth Jacob Sisterhoof Picnic
to Be Held Sunday at
OJentangy Park
The Sisterhood of the Beth Jacob Congregation has completed all ar¬ rangements ; for its annual picnic at Olentangy Park Sunday (tomorrow): According to Mrs. J. Kaller and Mrs. H. Kerstein, chairman of the affair, a very entcrtainhig and recreational afternoon has been planned for the guests.. Games,-contests and every^- thing that goes to n^ake.a day in the open an- enjoyable one, are being ar¬ ranged. All Columbus Jewry is in¬ vited to attend.
Hebrew Sheltering Home to
Re-Open Under New
Managiement
The . re-opening of the Hebrew Sheltering Home was decided upon by a mass meeting held last Tuesday at the Agudath Achhn Synagoghe, called" by Rabbis Mordecai Hirschsprung and Leopold Greenwald.
The Home will be under new man¬ agement, a body of men representing the various orthodox congregations. The ladies' organization will also co¬ operate with the society and will func¬ tion as'an auxiliary.
After the discussion of plans for re- oi^ening, the following officers were elected: Mr. Isaac Nutis, President; Mr. William Cohen, Vice-President; Mr. Charles ^Furman, Treasurer. There will be an election of permanent sec¬ retary and other offices at the next meeting, to be held Wednesday eve¬ ning, Allgwst.lO, at the'Agudath Achim Synagogue. . .     i
Irvin Lehman, Steel Company President, Dies
PITTSBURGH (WNS)-Irvin F.
Lehman, one of the few Jews in the American steel industry, is dead here at the age of 59. Born in pittsburgii, he was president of the $20,000,000 Blaw-K!nox. Company, the world's largest indepenclent manufacturers of steel specialties. He was an officer of the Jewish Federation and of the YMHA.
;, Z- A. Coii^n^on^^ P for Dance Completed
Plans for the mammoth dance to be held in.conjunction.with the Kentucky, Indiana, and, Ohio A. Z. .A. Conven¬ tion, .with-headquarters'at the Neil House, September Sth, 6th," and: 7th, have now been conipleted. The dance will be held in-the Grand Ballwiom of the ifKcil House the night of Mon¬ day, Sept^ber 7th, Labor Day. Larry Stember and his eleven-piece Orchestra have been engaged for this affair. They will be remembered for their music at the recent A, Z. A.ininstrcl show and dance. " ,
The Conveiitipn Dance will be open to the public for $1.00 per couple, "i^he price has been set within the, means, of al! dance enthusiasts, so as to in¬ sure a large attendance, and a genuine reception for the visiting delegates from neighboring states. The dance 11 be.open to couples only, and vvill include various special attractions, be¬ sides the orchestra music. . Registration of visiting delegates will take place S:tturday night and Sunday morning, September 5th and 6th,oh the mezzanine balcony of the Neil House. Convention business ses¬ sions are scheduled fpr the Red Rodni and Ballroom Sunday and Monday. Athletic (jompetition.is to be held at the Franklin Park baseball diamonds and tennis courts on Sunday and Mon-1 day. A. Z. A. teams from three states will participate. .      I
BaiKiuet details baye not been com¬ pleted, although this affair is definitely scheduled for Sunday evening, Septem¬ ber 6th. Further information with re¬ gard to speakers and enter tainnient .will be announced soon.^ Following the banquet, various house parties have been arranged for tlie visiting Alephs, to afford informal get-togethers and opportunities to reiicw old acquaint¬ anceships and form new pnes.-
, JERUSALEM ., (WNS -yr .'Palcor Agency)—The. 5-lith Jewish victim of the disturbances and two railway .workers were killed, as violence wias renewed in viarious sections of Pales¬ tine/, The hills around the Lake ,of Galilee.' resounded . with gunfire as .A.rab terrorists shot at Jewish set¬ tlements. -At Mizpah, near Tiberias, a heqvy barrage resulted in the death of the colony's leader, Gad .Avigdorov, ¦14, who was one of the foupdcrs of the settlements of Tel-Hai and Kfar Gilcadi, and one of .the survivors of the terrific attack made upon those settlemcilts bjr Arabs in .1920. An¬ other of the Mizpah colonists was slightly wounded:'
¦ HAJFA" (WNS^Paicor Agency) —This -strategic harbor city became an increasingly imi>ortant test of the Arab, general strike movement a.s hun¬ dreds of dock, workers, terrified by threats.attributed to the, Arab Higher ¦Committee, joined- the strike which they had been !resi.sting for many weeks. Jews are now dohig.all steve¬ doring and lighterage work in the' iwrt. Numprous Arab railway work¬ ers have .also walked out, • but have informed, the government that they would return to work if they were given sleeping accommodation's at the .¦^ite. of their workr
40 Players in Hubermann's Orchestra Get Pales¬ tine Entry
Cantor Grodner to Conduct
Holiday Services in
Minneapolb
Cantor Solomon S. Grodner, .336 Millei- Avenue, left last Thursday for Minneapolis, Minn., where he has been engaged to conduct services during the high holy days at. the Knesseth Israel Synagogue of; that city. He will be assisted there by his own trained choir.
Early in October Cantor Grodner will re-open his studio for voice cul¬ ture at. the above address. He ;alsp plans to form a choir specializing in Jewish and Hebrew inusic.
J E RU S A L EM (WNS-Palcor Agency)—The Palestine Symphony Orchestra being formed by Bronislaw Hubermann, noted violinist, with the aid of. American, funds,'was brought a step nearer realization when the Palestine, Government announced that it was making available a special num¬ ber of 40 immigration certificates for players in the Hubermann orchestra, whose concerts are to be launched in October by Arturo Toscanini. The certificates were part of a batch of 140 received by the Jewish Agency from the special reserve held by.the Govern inent; 100 of these additional certifi cates are to go to Gerinan Jewish youth. The Jewish Agency had re¬ quested 450 additional certificates out¬ side the 4501) granted for the period ending in October.
The care of the 8,000 Jewish refu¬ gees froni Arab centers has been trans¬ ferred from, the Tel Aviv community to the Jewish National Council as the first step in systematizing the solution of the problem created by these home¬ less and workless people. '
GENEVA (WNS — Palcor Agciicy)~Five million ;Jews in Cen- I tral and Eastern Europe, deprived of i their legal rights, arc economically ruined. Jacob Lestchinsky, noted j economist, declared at the first busi¬ ness session of the. World Jewish Congressj which heard leading Jew¬ ish sociologists present a, picture of misery and despair among great masses of Jews, Plungiiig immediately into consideration of how to ineet the political, economic and social problems facihg the Jiewish people, the Congress was confronted, with. two- proposals to aUeviate tbe plight of those suffering from anti-Semitism or other-causes particularly affecting Jews.'
The Congress was asked to estab¬ lish under its aegis (1) a Central Biireau of Migration "for the maxi¬ mum utilization of , migration possi¬ bilities and the creation of new- migration possibilities"; and (2) Central Bureau of Relief which, through a Central Jewish, People's Fund, would aid those in need of philanthropic assistance. ;"The , old and inadequate philanthropy machin¬ ery: of Jews mtist be replaced" was the keynqtc of .the speaker dealing with relief needs.. In addition td Mr. Lestchinsky the speiaWs at the busi¬ ness session included Dr. Aryeh Tar-, takbwer, prpminent Polish economist and : sociologist, and I. .Yefroykin, president bf the Federation'of Jew¬ ish Societies of France.
"In Poland, Roumania, Lithuania and Latvia,". Mr. Lestchinsky charged, "a campaign of exclusidn has resulted; in the, ruination of two-thirds of t,he Jcwsin trades and crafts. The Jew¬ ish ^intellejctnal is in a. hopeless sit¬ uation. The plight of thc tipper midr die classes is catastrophic. The youth is perishiiig in a, new social and cul¬ tural ghetto. In Poland and Rou¬ mania 35 per -cent df the Jews re¬ quire charity. In Lithuania and Latvia, '25 p'er. cent, Twenty to 22' per .cent of the remaining 400,000 Jews in Gerniahy have been reduced to charity and assisted for emigra¬ tion. The Austrian, situation is sim¬ ilar to that in Germany, except-that the expulsion is slower and less ter¬ roristic." :      ¦  ; : :
As, a result of these conditions it is necessary for.200,000 Jews to.mi¬ grate annually, and 120,000 of these must go from Pplaiid, Dr. .Tarta- kower told the Congress, pointing out that current inimigration restric-, tipns, had cut Jewish entries 50,000 annually. "The existing agencies," he. said, t'are' unequipped to handle this problem; They have neglected the fight against restrictions and also the: creation of ne\v migration , possibil¬ ities." Such new possibilities must not conipete with, the upbuilding of the Palestine homelandr he i^mpha sized.- ¦    ¦   .        ¦
U Yefroykin then described the need' for a new appiroach to Jewish relief needs. The Congress,"must formulate a policy of philanthropy to rcplact the old and inadequate ma¬ chinery that has . proved itself un-1 equipped to meet thc present. condii-, tious," he said, and proposed "the I creation of a Central Bureau of Re¬ lief under the' World Jewish Con¬ gress, to collect and document relief material, create an ecdiiomic and statistical relief service, democratize the relief organizations in each land and represent Jewish relief needs be¬ fore international public opinion and it.'i organs."
In the most violent debate of the Congress the delegates decided, by a vote of 270 to 21, to refuse seats to five Communists who had had them¬ selves elected as American delegates in a rump election in New York. The session was featured-by a bitter de¬ nunciation of Communists for the encouragement they are alleged to have given to Arabs in attacks upon Jews in Palestine,
The reimrt of the credentials com¬ mittee, headed by Prof. Nathan Isaacs of Harvard University, re¬ vealed that. 201 delegates from 32 countries were attending the Con¬ gress. Seven million Jews; almost half the. total Jewish population df the world, are represented, the or¬ ganizers of tlic Congress announce<l.
In a message of greeting addressed to Dr. Stephen S. Wise," William , Green, President of the: American Federation of Labor, said: "The A. F. of L. stands with the'World Jew¬ ish Congress iu defense of the pro-; tection pf, rights of;' nhnorities, for the complete protection, of human rights and in opposition to-the: pracr; tise of discrimination against any groiip because of race or religion."
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G, E N E V A, . (W N S—T'alcor,     ¦ Agency)—Judge Julian W. Mack'of New   York   was. paid   the   suprcpie liunor of Jewish leadership when he, ' , was    unanimously    elected   honorary, president of the World. Jewish Con-'; gress.    Dr.   Stephen   S.  Wise,  presi- , dent  of  the   American  Jevvish   Con-   . gre.ss, and Louis Lipsky, \ncc presi dent of that body, both of New York, were elected  as the  Anicrican repre-       ¦ sentatiyes   among. 14   presidepts   se¬ lected by the Congress.   Dr.. Samuel Margoshes, editor of Thc Day, New'     ¦ .York, and Max L. Hollander, sccrc^.   . tary of the I: O.Brith Abraham, also of New York, wcrc.ci'cctcd secretaries of the Congress. . ¦
At its third  session  the Congress heard a proposal,. from I-eon Kubo-. witzki of Brussels that the Congress' be elected for four years, that it be summoned .every two years and that it be dividal into  four sections:" 1.; Political.   2.   Social'and economic. 3, Organization, information and propar... ganda.   4.; Financial;   Discussing the technical  form of;.the  Congress and  ' its-program of work.Mr.Kubowitzki said that in, additipn. to the Congress itself,' which would meet every .two years, there would be a Cehtral Gpun-   ^ , cil which would be  convened  every six: months, and  which ' would  Carry out the; duties  involved  in the  four  , sections of activity of the Congress.:. The political section, he,said, wOuld bring recpgnitioh to the World Jew¬ ish Congress as the. Jewish authority for Diaspora  problems and conduct  , the  fight ,.for  the  new  emancipation of-the   Jew   and   protection   of   his   . present economic fuiKitjons.  It would also   fight   Hitlerism: and  anti-Sethi- .tism:.,'- ¦ ¦"    ¦
. CallingJor the formation of a per-, manent economic service for '-'the/ra- ,tionalization of;Jewish social relief," Mr, Kubpwitzki urged the establish- " ment of executive organs of the-. Con- : gress throughout the world" and the; creation of a commission to study the financial aspects of Jewish economy.
d, E N E V A, (W N S—[Palcor Agcncy)^In .his opening; address, at,. the first s'essipn of- the World Jew¬ ish Congress .Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Ainerican Jewish ¦ Coiigress and of the Zionist .Organi¬ zation of, America, declared that the present gathering is "an appeal to the conscience of mankind and an exprcs-; sion of faith in our capacity to make oiir own people understand our prob-, lems."     .    ¦ '
lu his address Dr. Wise" said, in part: "Anti-Semitism is a challenge- pot only to the Jews hut a challenge to civilization, which, in.the:Western world, means Christendom, -which cannot afford morally and spiritually to leave the answer to antiTSeniitism to be given solely by its'-victims; If Hitlerism had been faced by thc world when it Was little more thau an anti-Semitic election expedient, it ¦ is doubtful vvhether the entire civi¬ lized, world would be called upon as today.to face the ever-growing peril of tlie increasing barbaric .power of ¦ Nazi  Germany.   ,
"We need offer no- explanation to. the world of our reasons for meeting here. The world does not ask or have the right to ask. Only some Jews imagine it necessary to explain every common Jewish enterprise; because even the most normal Jewish under- ¦ taking is, regarded as abnormal by too many Jews, especially the leaders ¦ whose leadership consists chiefly of good will and 'cautiousness. One wonders whether men or nations would have dared to deal as brutally with Jevvs were Jews not almost wholly unorganijced, unready and.un¬ willing for self-defense, save for the unorganized, uncoordinated and un¬ related protests back ,of which is the dread that peoples or groups making (Continued on page 2)
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