Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1941 Page: 4 of 8
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THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
V eterans Of Foreign Wars To March
On Philadelphia For Annual Meet
Philadelphia, Pa.—Into Philadelphia, where the nation had its
beginning, and where the Declaration of Independence was written,
will pour the greatest gathering of America's fighting men, who
have waged battles on foreign soils for several decades, when the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States stage their forty-
iccond National Encampment in Philadelphia, beginning on August
24th.
One of the most amazing military spectacles in peace times will
be a feature of the convention, _
which is expected to be the mag-
net to draw several hundred
thousand people from all over the
United States, in addition to the
Ians of thousands of members of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
This parade, starting at noon
on Tuesday. August 26th. will
roll along Broad Street and along
Benjamin Franklin Parkway in
a seemingly endless line. It is
anticipated that the parade will
continue until midnight or later.
Leading it will be large de-
tachments of United States Army
Navy and Marine groups, all men
an active duty in Uncle Sam’s
fighting forces. In the marching
ranks will be some of America's
outstanding public figures and
military leaders.
Another glittering spectacle
that is expected to draw more
than one hundred thousand peo-
ple into the huge Municipal Stad-
ium, which has often been the
scene of the Army-Navy football
game, will be the competition of
the musical units from all sections
of the country.
More than 250 different musical
units, including famous drum and
bogle corps, will begin their com-
petition at eight o clock on Wed-
nesday morning. All through the
day the elimination competitions
will proceed until, at eight o'clock
in the evening, the final compet-
itions are to be staged for a four-
hour period.
It will be the greatest gathering
of musical units in competition
ever staged in this country, and
will provide an amazing competi-
tion between the different sec-
tions of the country.
The Philadelphia Citizens Com-
mittee, headed by Albert M.
Greenfield as Chairman, the group
which so iucceasfully handled the
1936 Democratic National Conven.
tion and the 1940 Republican Con-
vention. has arranged a huge pro-
gram of entertainment paralleling
the amazing military spectacles to
be provided by the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
For the entertainment of the
Veterans and the Ladies’ Auxil-
iary, and the tens of thousands of
visitors who will flow into Phila-
delphia during the week of the
Encampment, the Philadelphia
Committee will stage a Water
Pageant under flood lights on the
Schuylkill River, of a character
and extent never before attempt-
ed. This will take place on Thurs-
day night of the Convention.
On Friday night, when the En-
campment closes, the famous
Philadelphia Mummers, who for
seventy-five years have provided
the nation's most colorful costume
parade, lasting for four hours,
will entertain in a parade out
Broad Street and the Benjamin
Franklin Parkway. '
But all will not be fun and en-
tertainment Outstanding nation-
al leaders of the Army and Navy,
of the President's Cabinet, of the
Senate and House of Represent-
atives, and Governors of a score
of States will participate in the
sessions when the Veterans of
Foreign Wars, who for more than
four decades have carried the col-
ors of Uncle Sam on foreign
fields, will consider the state of
the nation and the peYplexing
confronting its people,
take their position on the
VICHY'S ATTITUDE ON
SYRIA AND INDO-CHINA
IS AN ENIGMA
NAZIS SET UP
GHETTO IN KOVNO
London (JPS)—The 22,000 Jews
left in Kovno of an original popu-
lation of almost 30,000 have been
forced into a ghetto modeled after
the Warsaw and Lublin ghettos
set up by the Nazis.
The same curfew regulations
and other prohibitions on leaving
the ghetto quarters have been set
up. Herr Eichman. Palestinian-
born, Hebrew-speaking Gestapo
director who has been sent into
Lithuania to co-ordinate the anti-
Jewish laws there, is responsible
for the Kovno enclosure.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS
$245,785 TO JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND FROM JR. HADASSAH
various issues.
Dr. Joseph C. Menendez, of New
Orleans. Commander-in-Chief of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
Mrs. Mabel C. Tanner, of Kansas
City, Mo., National President of
the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the VFW,
indicate that all attendance
records will be broken for the
convention because of the extreme
importance of the national situa-
tion.
London—Last doubts lingering
in the minds of observers here as
to the extent of Vichy’s "sell-out”
to the Nazis have been removed
by the manner in which French
forces were ordered to fight for
British-settled Syria and by the
fact that Indo-China, one of
France's oldest colonies, now has
been turned over to the Axis on
the pretense that there was a
threat of invasion.
In contrast to the rich French
history of Indo-China, which
Vichy turned over to her tem-
porary partners with apparent
free will, Syrja is not a French
possession at all. Syria, originally
liberated from the Otteman Em-
pire by the British, was placed
under French mandate after the
first World War.
As early as the 18th Century,
French missionaries went to Indo-
China to prepare the way for
colonization. French troops were
sent by Napoleon III in 1862, with
the result that the Emperor An-
nam ceded three provinces to
France. During the next 20 years
additional provinces were added,
and the French sphere of control
was completed through negotia-
tions with Siam in 1893.
In indigineous population and
in exports to the mother country,
Indo-China has remained second
only to Algeria among all the
French dependencies. In 1937,
the 23,000,000 residents of Indo-
China sent nearly 50 pier cent of
their exports to France whereas
the 3,000,000 Syrians sent only 14
per cent of their exports to those
sam<* markets.
Yet the Vichy government,
claiming to be the true repres-
entative of the French people,
ordered troops to fire on Free
French and British* troops in
Syria and later permitted the Axis
powers to take over Indo-China
on trumped up charges of a threat
of invasion by British, Free
French and Chinese.
New York — Junior Hadassah,
the Young Women’s Zionist Or-
ganization of America, has con-
tributed $245,785 to the Jewish
National Fund for the purchase
of land in Palestine and refor-
estation in that country, it was
announced by Miss Naomi Cher-
toff, of New York, national
chairman of the Jewish National
Fund committee.
The sum was raised by the
units of Junior Hadassah since
1926 and represents an annual
increase in budget over the course
of the years. The budget for the
fiscal year ending June 30 was
$20,000.
Miss Chertoff this week sent a
manual of procedure on Jewish
National Fund collections to all
units of Junior Hadassah, urging
greater activity in behalf of the
land-purchasing fund to meet the
demands of war economy and post
war plans.
“Every contribution to the Jew-
ish National Fund,” Miss Certoff
wrote, “means strengthening Jew-
ish Palestine, strategic link in
Britain's Eastern defenses, be-
cause it makes possible increased
food production, increased in-
dustrial production, increased sup-
plies to the army. It also means
a further safeguard for the future
of the Jewish people, because the
fate of Palestine after the war will
be determined, not least of all, by
our actual landholdings in the
country.”
Miss Chertoff pointed out that
the purchased land cultivated by
Jews is “the groundwork on
which the Jewish Homeland
rests.” She added that up to Feb-
ruary, 1941, the Jewish National
Fund had acquired 540,000 dunams
(135,000 acres) of land.
“By the acquisition of land,”
Miss Certoff declared, “the Jew-
ish National Fund facilitates the'
immigration of Jews into Pales-
tine and settles them on the land
as agricultural workers. Collec-
tive agricultural colonies are es-
tablished on the land. These rep-
resent an advanced social organi-
zation and, because of modem
farm machines and techniques, in-
crease the absorptive capacity of
Palestine.”
College And Vocational Guidance
By SEYMOUR LIEBERMAN
Among the varied activities of District 7 B’nai B'rith is that of
Vocational Guidance. This phase of present day economics is receiv-
ing the attention of many organisations. District 7’s program is in
charge of the local community Lodges guided by the general com-
mittee appointed by President Jnlins Livingston. The yoath of the
District will do well to read the article by he District V V oca tonal
Guidance Committee Chairman, Seymoar Lieberman of Houston,
Texas. —The Editor.
Vocational Guidance in its broadest scope, carries with it the
factor of 'personality/ In becoming a successful and happy worker,
you must not only have ability, choose wisely, and be adapted to your
work, but you must also possess a large degree of personality.
Lyle M. Spencer, director of Science Research Associates, recendy
stated, “So much of our work depends upon our ability to get along
with people amicably. A large follow-up study conducted on sixteen
thousand high school and college -—
London—About 7,600 Jewish-
owned firms still existing in Bel-
gium, have been ordered closed
this week by the Nazi occupation
authorities, it is reported here. .
graduates, recently showed that
except for depression layoffs,
three-fourths of the young people
who lost their jobs, did so, not
because they were not able to do
the work asigned to them, but
because they had personality mal-
adjustments, which prevented
their getting along adequately
with other people.”
One receives enjoyment and
happiness only when, one gives
enjoyment and happiness. The
giving of happiness tb others is
a personal trait and qfcpends en-
tirely on the personality and
character of the giver. Luckily,
however, no one group of people
have a monopoly upon the trait
known as personality.
You students who are studying
law—regardless of your brilliant
minds and great reasoning pow-
ers, and regardless of your con-
nections, success in its fullest
measure cannot be yours unless
you are able to sit across the desk
from your client and inculcate in
him the feeling that you feel ex-
actly as he does. You must have
the ability to transpose your
character into his, to the extent
of making him feel that you are
indeed an understanding person.
Likewise, the doctor, who, not
having developed the bed-side
manner—yet, a genius in the lab-
oratory, and a wizard at the op-
erating table, without personality,
becomes dull in his life and work.
Many of you, who in time will
take your places as executives of
large organizations, will quiekly
find that an executive’s duty is
not only to know all the detailed
work that the subordinates must
know, but also to obtain from the
subordinates the fullest amount
of their work.
Charles Schwab was one of the
few fnen ever to make a million
dollars a year. Do you for a
moment believe that he, himself,
could exert enough personal work
to earn a million dollars? Indeed
not! He received this tremendous
salary because of his great per-
sonality to make men work for
him.
Those of you who will become
sales agents, sales executives, and
heads of sales departments will
quickly find that regardless of
how much you know, your know-
ledge will come to naught, unless
you have developed the treat of
personality, that will make people
want to listen to you and believe
in you.
At school, you have your best/
chance of developing personality
because you are in daily contact
with your schoolmates, professors,
and instructors. Why not check
up on yourself—see if you are one
of those whom your fellow class-
mates want to associate with,
want to be with, go out of their
way to call upon. Check and see
whether or not you are spending
all of your hours and all of your
time gathering educational facts,
and along with this, whether or
not, you are neglecting to make
friends, to help people to offer
your services to become “one of
the boys.” It has been said that
the extra-corriculum, work, is as
important to the student as the
general curriculum, because it is
in the editorial office, on the ath-
letic field, in the fraternity houses
in the dramatic clubs, in the bot-
any clubs, that you learn to adjust
, yourself to the likes and dislikes
of your fellowmen, with whom
you must iive all of your life.
So it is obvious that Vocational
Guidance, which has as one of its
main goals, the aim to help the
individual work happily,Jinds one
of its fruitful fields among col-
lege students and the student that
heeds the lesson of Charles Sch-
wab, “Learn to get along with
your fellowman, and success is
yours.” The one who does so will
succeed where others fail.
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Mr. Nock has a hunch
By RABBI SAUL E. WHITE
* It is startling to realize how little we know
about anti-Semitism and what a great deal we do
about it. Hitler has dramatized the existence of
the neglible minority of sixteen million Jews of
the world, and wc have not succeeded in regaining
obscurity. Mr. Nock, in two issues of the Atlantic
Monthly, takes up the challenge of the growth
of anti-Semitism in America and would match
it by a sweeping generalization as dangerous as
it is false; namely, that the Jews are an Oriental
people living in an Occidental environment and
“never the twain shall meet.” I am not at all
surprised that he dismisses all too casually the
crusading doctrine of the Nazis—that of superior
and inferior races, that an entemal conflict goes
on between the Semitic and Aryan peoples and
that all nobility and splendor resides in the one,
while the other is the fountain-head of all baseness
and corruption.
Too deep an awareness of the falsehood and
betrayal that is implied in this most threatening
hercsay that Christianity and the West have had to
face—would have cooled his ardor for his own
special brand of determinism, which in its way is
as heretical, and inimical to Western civilization
as is that of the Nazis. Mr. Nock, too, thinks
with his blood and becomes a dangerous jingo. The
Nazis ascribe to the blood corpuscles of man, mys-
tic qualities that made for eternal damnation or
greatness, Mr. Nock would transfer the field of
determinism to the early environments of. people.
The Jews have originally lived in Palestine and
though for longer than two thousand years have
lived in Europe and have become inseparably iden-
tified with its cultural, economic and religious life,
Mr. Nock insists that the Oriental can never escape
the t^jnt of his original environment.
I wonder how he reconciles the acceptance of
Christians by the Western World—Christianity,
a daughter religion of Judaism, whose founders
Jesus and Paul, whose apostles, and the first Bishop
of Rome were all Jews and according to him, Orien-
tals. How did the twain meet? Is Mr. Nock more
Occidental than Henri Bergson, Marcel Proust,
Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, or those more his
own size, Waldo, Frank, and Walter Lippman.
Stripped of the protestations of grave concern and
serious study which Mr. Nock says he has given to
the Jewish problem, his thesis of environmental de-
terminism is as vicious a betrayal of Western Civ-
ilization and Christianity as is Aryanism—the re-
ligion of soil and blood.
By a subtle manipulation of two or three limited
experiences with Jews, by an air of familiarity with
the literature on anti-Semitism, and above all by a
sense of rude awakening and a fueling of outrage
against the browth of anti-Semitism in our country,
Mr. Nock tries to give the impression that it is the
grave challenge of the hour that has forced him
to plumb the problem to its depth and speak the
truth, no matter what it be.
Those who are even casually familiar with Mr.
Nock’s writings will know that he has developed
an old hunch into a major thesis, and that he is
not to be taken seriously. In a work of essays, pub-
lished some ten years ago, the idea of the Jews
being Oriental people was conveyed by continuous
association with Turks, Armenians, and Greeks.
In a recent essay, Mr. Nock speaks all-knowingly
of a “talmudic over-soul”—whatever private mean-
ing it has for Mr. Nock, it is obviously plantant
nonsense. In my mother’s store of wisdom there is
the folk-saying, “God save us from our friends.”
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