Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-01-20

              2]|\\;^^oyving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community ^A\K
Vollliili; 18,   No. S.
COTjUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, ,TAN. 20,193!)
novoted (o AmoTkan and Jowlsli Ideals
Strictly Confidential
Tidbita From Evci',vwliero By PHINEAS .T. BIRON
NITTKI NMW8
Germany'can't afford luxuries such as democracy (recentl.v classed in this category by Oov- emor Karl Kaufmann of Ham¬ burg) or butter or meat, bu( Berlin markets are full of Italian strawberries and other fruits now —^which is Mu.ssolinl's way of helping Adolf kid the German lieople ... So acute has the shortage of good, solid food grown in Geri/nany that the New York Nazi sheet is carrying ads asking all sympathizers to send food packages to their relatives In tho Fatheadland . . . Among other things tho Gorman public isn't told is that many of the pilots who fly the Nazi - air armada afo so poorly trained that accidents are most frequent . . . But for once wo find ourself in agreement with the ^azi press - . . Since Lindbergh's report to America on the Nazi air strength some papers in Hitlerland aro de¬ manding that he return the medal with which the Furore , decorated him some months ago ... Our heart goes out to those courageous German cabaret art¬ ists whose digs at high Nazi officials have aroused the ire of the barbarocrats ... One of those jokes, concerning Gory Goering, we must relay to you ... It f.eems thai while a crowd was) watching the launching ota bat-1 4itl*.f'l?lJl;S5i*K«a',vAo=,'ivija'-aSSdaM ,st.aoli: 'Jjis'head• diiifc thl'ough~"a porthole ~. . .' Whereupon ovei'y- body shouted: "Look-itheyj, just -decorated Goering with a battle¬ ship."
OVSRSIilAS CHATTER
A flaw that may cause an •eventual crack-up of the Rome- Berlin axis is developing because tho Nazis now want to take over all the Austrian shipping which for many year.s feas been under Italian' control . . . "Certified lunatic" is what historian H. G. Wells now calls Hitler . .. Diplo¬ matic circle.s aro buzzing at the rumor that the Duke of Windsor may find his life's work as the director of a iiuge new interna¬ tional agency to sucxior political, racial^and religious refugees . . . Prague is seeing the birth ot a new club of Czech Ai-yans af¬ flicted with Ilittite probosci (otherwise icnown as Jewish no.se.s) . . . They have united in self-protection against the ex- , pected racial laws, and are plan¬ ning to wear special Identifying badges. ASIDE TO SliiNATOR BORAH
When you protested against the injection of the Jewish issue into the Senate Committee's hearing on the Frankfurter ap¬ pointment by one Allen Zoll, you forgot to mention that Mr. Zoll is on friendly terms with the Nazi Bund in thi.s country, and also was the organizer of the Father Coughlinite picketing of radio station WMCA by a picltot line that carried anti-Jewish placards. YOr BHOiriA> KNOW
The newest Nazi improper- ganda stunt is to send German sailors, on shore leave in Ameri¬ ca, to the movie houses, wilh in¬ structions to applaud Hitler's appearances on the screen . . . 'The American Way," the new allow coming to Mr. noekfeller's Center Theatre, will include passages taken from Nutzi Fritzi Kuhn's pet speeches . . . Collier'fi Magazine will soon be teatiirJng some hot revelations on Nazi eoiiccntiatlon camps and on   conditions  among   refugees
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I'rofvssur t'clix FrankCurtcr.
The appointment of FoIIx Frankfurter as Justice of the United States SUpieme Court has been tho subject of much dlseu<;slon for many weeUs. His erudite legal training and sympathetic understanding of leiiser students of the law has endeared him In the hearts of all thinking men as a brilliant .'.cholar and a great man among men. Heic a foimer student, himself a cam laude Haivard Law sludenl, who studied under Follx Frankfurter, comments on his personal qualulcs.— THE EDITOn. By JACOB ABRAMSON
In appointing Professor Felix honors   and   a   reputation   for Frankfurter   ot   Harvard   Law, lucid analy.sls. Tie became an .'i
School to the Suinome Court of the United States, President Roosevelt is sending to the na¬ tion's highest tribunal not only a great legal scholar, a brilliant mind, and a keen student of gov¬ ernment and tho social order, but also a dynamic, radiant per¬ sonality whose deep and sympa¬ thetic understanding of men and their problems is borne out ot an innate love for people, in¬ dividually and collectively and an eagerness to know and to help them. ^
Born ot a long line of rabbis in Vienna fifty-six years ago, he came to America at the age of twelve. There was no dream then that the small dark boy just learning (o master a strange language In a new country, run¬ ning errands for a chemical firm In New York City and living in a tenement house, would years later write the city'.s tenament house law. lie studie<i first in the public schools, then at City College, New York, and finally at Harvard Law School v/here in 191-4 he Joined the faculty and rose by the regular route to be- com? head ot the Department of Administrative Law at Har¬ vard in 1021.
After graduating from (^ity College, New York, third highest in the class of 1U02, he taught school for a year, during v/hich lime he was al.so a clerk in the Tenement House Department He received Uls, Harvard Law degree in li)()0 with the highest
sistant in the office of the United States District Attorney Henry L. Stimson linder Presi¬ dent Theodore Roosevelt and took active part in tho "trust- busting" campaign by lielplng prepare the government'.s case against several large corpora¬ tions. Wlion, in 1011, Mr. Stim¬ son became Secretary of War, under President Taft, ho took Mr. Frankfurter to Washington as law officer in .the ^ureau of Insular Affair.s. Hero hfivargued a number of important cases af¬ fecting our colonial possessions before the Supreme Court. In lOl'l, early in President Wilson's administration, Felix Frank¬ furter resigned to become Byrne I'rofessor of Administrative Law in Harvard L'aw School. He served as Assistant United States Attorney General for New York, Assistant Secretary of War under Newton Baker, and in 1918, co-ordinator of labor ac¬ tivities for the Federal Govern¬ ment.
Unfortunately, in Professor Frankfurter's case as in the case of other similarly-minded social philosophers, cerfaln of his acts and utterance.s have been gross¬ ly misconstrued. An apprcciablOi though gradually diminishing number of persons entertain tho belief that Professor Frank¬ furter is radical, or at least par¬ tisan. Nothing is fartbcr from the truth. Noted for his intellec¬ tual   Independence,     Professor
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BKRLiIN (WNS)—Further negotiations regarding the evacuation of .lews from Germany were indicated in dis¬ cussions between George Rublee, director of the Inter¬ governmental Commis,sion on Refugees and Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank. Although tlie general feeling of an ultimate solution was not very high it is be¬ lieved that some progress has been made. The chief interest of the Rublee delegation centers on the size ot the interna¬ tional loan deemed necessary .to make the plan effective and on the size and definition of Uie "additional exports" ' that are to service this loan together with the percentage of their proceeds that Germany claims for herself. The Nazi- controlled press hinted that the Bank of England, repre¬ sented in Berlin by Montegu Norman, is backing Dr. Schacht's plan with tho facilities of the London capital market, and that efforts to strengthen Anglo-German rela¬ tions are going on apace in both countries de.spite efforts to the contrary. Regarding Dr. Schacht's plan the Deutsche Volksvirt, Schacht's paper, said that it must be expected that foreign governments and the Jews in other countries who interest themselves in the fate of the Jews in Germany will utilize this opportunity to bring about a solution that will permit quickened emigration and—^through increased purchases of German goods—also permit an effective trans¬ fer of wealth without hurting Germany's foreign exchange
Commenting editorially on the Schacht plan, which it considers as a Ransom for Retugees, the New Jork Times finds the schem^ so wholly unsatlstactoiy oti its face tliat" It-i3-;^if£lo«l't t<»- belicve the - German Govern¬ ment expects any other Qoverre- raent to take it seriously. Plain¬ ly, continues the editorial, the "security" behind the interna¬ tional loan, not being transfer¬ able outside Germany, would in fact be worthless; and the "ad¬ ditional export" plan would in effect make refugees from Ger¬ many tho advance agents of the sale of unwanted German goods to countries which give them refuge. Put bluntly, this is a plan to hold in ransom helpless men and women so that Ger¬ many may continue to build armaments.
The Schacht plan is divided into two parts, with the first part providing tor actual emi¬ gration ot Jews. They would he divided into three categories— wage earners, estimated at 130,- 000, their dependents,' and the aged and infirm. The wage earn¬ ers would ho sent from Ger¬ many at a rate to be fixed by negotiations now^ going on. Their dependents would follow when they had been sufficiently provided for and the aged and tceljlo would remain in Germany undor a guarantee that the Reich would provide for them. In the second part of the plan, world .lewry would raise a loan on the security of Jewisli wealth in Germany, now held by the Nazis in a so-called "trusteeship." Schacht IS utiderslood to have proposed a loan figure between ¥300,000,000 and '§-100,000,000 bas¬ ed on the "transferable" wealth of tho Jows hero after payment of "taxes" and the so-called bll- lionmarU levy. Settlement of- Jews abroad would be financed through the loan. The Reich would be enabled to increase her exports above the figures for "current trade" averages, to be fixed by negotiation. A share of the proceeds from the sale of increa.scd   quantities   of   goods
Alu'aliaiu   Goldberg
Abraham Goldberg, a leader in Zionist work for the past sev¬ eral decades and now an ener¬ getic advocate ot advancing the ideal of fhe Jewish National home in Palestine, will address a Zionist mass meeling in the Social Hall ot the Broad St, Templo this coming Thursday evening, ,Ian. 2fi, at 8 o'clock. Regarded today as one of tho most prolific . writers in this counti'y in Hebrew, Yiddisii and English, Mr. Goldberg also has to his credit three books in Hebrew and I wo in Rnglish. He speaks a fluent ]I!nglish which will be the language he will use to address his audience Thurs¬ day evening.
Mr. Goldberg has been a mem¬ ber of the World Zionist Actions Committee. He is consistent and eloquent in his reports of Zion ism in the U. S. He has helped greatly in the union between Zionists and non-Zionists by creating an extended Jewish agency of wliich he is an execu¬
tive   member.   He   has   visited ,, ,      -   ,  , ..    «
I'alestino  many  times.  His  re-1 would be us«J forpayinent^of
cent   return   from    that    land
interest and amortization of tho
should promise a most interest¬ ing report of what is aclually going on In the Holy l,an(I. Mr.
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loan, Most of the remainder of tho proceeds would flow into Germany to swell her small amount of foreign currency.
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