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THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
FASCISM AT
OUR GATES
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ent instrument for their destruc-
tion It is not sufficient to say that
they are erratic, fanatical and
psychopathic. The same thing was
sad at Htler in Germany before
he casne to power.
But what shall we do? you ask.
Ah. that is the rub; what would
not modern civilization give for
an answer to this problem of
racial hatred and religious big
otry: But who has the answer?
Mot I. And no one eWlfifT
have conferred with.
However, at the risk of being
presumptious I am going to make
certain hints or suggestions.
1. It needs to be said around
the world and shouted from the
housetops that the source of mod-
ern civilisation’s evils is not to
found in any one race or relig-
ion. To say, for example, that
“the Jews are the cause of all
our trouble." is to do what all
simple minds are forever seek
ing to do, namely to over-simpli
fy oar problems. If It were pos-
sible to capture all of the 15,000,-
0M Jews of the world and exe-
cute them, I do not believe that
that would solve all of our prob-
lems, or any of them, for that
■aMgr. This is an idea that needs
to be preached widely.
*. Very cloaely associated with
the ibove over-simplification of
civilization’s problems by blam-
ing everything on the Jews is the
scapegoat idea. Mankind la in
dined to personalize its evils.
Once the devil caused all the
trouble; now it must be the Jew
or the Catholic or th« Negro. Wa
need to say to everybody (and to
ourselves) “Don’t blame races,
groups, or classes for the ills
from which you suffer. There is
no scapegoat for all of our evils
though we long for one at times."
S. Anti-Semitism is an idea
aliea to America. There Is much
talk now of alien philosophies
and theories which have been im-
ported into America. But there
is no question about racial ha-
tred and religious bigotry. These
are definitely old world ideas
from which our ancestors sought
to escape On this continent they
set tip a haven for the persecuted
and the hated minorities. Are we
going to import the old-world
hatreds into America and disrupt
our society?
4. Anti-Semitism is a Gentile
problem, not essentially a Jewish
one. It is the Gentile who hates
and persecutes the Jaw. It is,
therefore, the problem of the
Gentile to deal with his fellows
arhe are so full of the venom of
rectal and religious bigotry.
8 The reel plans and purposes
of these anti-Semitic groups
should be disclosed to the Amer-
ican people. Many of these groups
fW the banner of patriotism and
name of patriotic they cir-
kte the worst sort at lies and
rumors about racial
and religious minorities. They
make one believe that there is a
great measure of truth in the
statement attributed to Dr. John-
son that “Patriotism is the last
resort of scoundrels.” The right-
eous indignation of the American
pe ople should be aroused against
these groups that are racketeer-
in racial and religious big-
S.1
4. Some new and creative ap-
proach to the idea of “the broth-
erhood of man” is needed. What
we say about this subject is so
platitudinous and ineffective.
There is a profound truth in the
Lowell couplet that
“la the gain or loss of one race
All the rest have equal claim.”
I do not exactly know how it
should be said but America
should be told that no one race
or minority can be injured with-
out injuryto the rest of us.
I. There is very great need that
of us shall learn to Judge
and groups more discrim-
inatingly. I mean that races and
Peoples must not bo condemned
in toto. And yet that is exactly
what the majority of us is doing
every day. A profound truth, re-
cently expressed by Professor
Earnest A. Hooton. Harvard phys-
ical anthropologist, ought to be
to everyone*
“Each racial type runs the
from idiots and criminals
Ik geniuses and statesmen.” se-
eding to Professor Hooton.
2
m«a£°25 Palestine Gov’t
Attempts To
of the scale. There are no racial
monopolies either of human
virtues or of vices .”
8. Minority groups must make
common cause aganst those who
advocate oppressive measures
against any one minority group.
The world must be made safe for
minorities or it is not a safe
world for any decent, self-respec
ting parson. I believe that we
must oppose every piece of legis-
lation which is aimed at the op-
pression of minority groups or
which discriminates against any
minority.
These suggestions of things to
do are not very satisfactory. I
agree. But I have a strong con-
viction that something must be
done, and done at once. Fascist
and anti-Semitic groups are now
actually terrorizing American
citizens. And they are plannng
further vigorous actions against
Jews and other so-called “alien
and minority groups.” Soon we
shall be on the offensive against
these advocates of racial hatred,
religious bigotry and of direct
action. When that times comes
we are lost Wf must do some-
thing to put every Fascist and
anti-Semite on the defensive. We
must make him apologetic.
Moreover, the situation has be-
come so threatening and menac-
ing in America that the Fascists
and anti-Semites need only the
right sort of leader to make them
formidable. They claim a follow-
ing of 8,000,000. This number is
to be reduced by half, according
to my opinion. Now the 4,000,000
are disorganized but they have
common ideas and plans. Can we
head off the unification of these
victims of hate and bigotry? Well,
my answer is that this is one case
where the victory may be to the
swift. What is to be done, must
be done quickly. Liberals cannot
afford to make the mistakes of
their fellow-liberals in Germany.
That is, they cannot afford to ig-
nore the existence of Fascist and
anti-Semitic groups. They cannot
afford to dismiss the American
Hitlerites as “erratic and crazy.”
Anyone can learn from his own
experiences but clever people
learn from the experiences of
other people, a great statesman
once said. "Prevention is the
daughter of intelligence.” “It is
the common fate of the indolent
to see their rights become the
prey of the active.”
While Americans sit complac-
ently in their homes listening
freely to the radio and without
any sense of foreboding, a little
man in a Streicher office in the
grand and historic old German
town of Nuremberg manipulates
American Nazi and anti-Semitic
organizations and directs the
American forces of prejudice and
hate toward an inevitable dic-
tatorship.
And while these American
forces are being manipulated by
the little man in Nuremberg.
American anti-Semitic leaders
(also little men and women) pray
for an American Hitler. Will
their prayer be answered?
Well, I believe that there has
appeared on the American scene
the man who may be the answer
to the anti-Semites’ prayer. I re-
fer to the Rev. Gerald L. K.
Smith, successor to Huey Long.
Smith, now head of the Share-
the wealth Clubs and active in
the Townsend Movement, has all.
of the qualities for the making of
the American Hitler. He has
what Hitler has before the crowd
—“it”. Indefinable something that
makes crowds respond blindly to
the will of the rabble-rouser.
Smith is also a Fascist in tem-
per and an anti-Semite by con-
viction. He was formerly a mem-
ber of and a lecturer for the Sil-
ver Shirts. William Dudley Pel-
ley, commander-in-chief of the
Silver Shirts, reports that the
Rev. Smith delivered an attack
on the Jews in Arkansas in 1933.
and “the Jews put the heat on
Brother Smith and made him re-
sign from the Silver Shirts."
In his speech before the Town-
send Movement convention in
Cleveland Smith referred to the
New Deal as a “Moscow cake
baked by Israel. Cohen and Com-
pany “
Avert Martial Law
Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agcy)
—After a nation-wide survey by
officers of the Palestine govern-
ment to sound out Arabi senti-
ment to sound out Arab senti-
the general strike, which might
avert the announcement of mar
tial law in Palestine, High Com-
missoner Sir Arthur Wauchope
and Lieutenant - General -Tnhn
Greer Dill, the new British mil-
itary commander of the Pales-
tine forces, flew to Amman to
lunch with Emir Abdullah of
Transjordan. The Emir has been
regarded as the most powerful
mediator between the Palestine
government and the Arab lead-
ers. It is believed that the two
British officials will make a last
minute plea for more strenuous
mediation to bring about an end
of the disorders.
The survey of Arab public
opinion was undertaken by the
District Commissioners for the
North and South of Palestine,
who each visited, respectively,
Haifa and Jaffa, to talk to the
local Arab strike committees,
mush tars and notables. Each of
the leaders was asked his atti-
tude toward the strike and
whether he was prepared to help
in its termination. All replied
that the decision on the strike
was in the province of the Arab
Higher Committee, which repre-
sents the entire Arab people. A
similar inquiry was undertaken
in Jerusalem by District Com-
missioner J. E. F. Campbell. Ob-
servers expect that similar re-
sults will follow. It is generally
regarded that the interviews of
these three government represen-
tatves indicate a final endeavor
to secure the voluntary termina-
tion of the general strike before
more drastic action is taken.
While the threat of martial law
hangs over Palestine, Arabs con-
tinue unabated their sabotage
and campaign of terror. The Jew-
ish colony of Ness Ziona, near
Rehoboth, was fiercely attacked
for the third time in a week. For
the sixth time in a week the
pipeline of the Iraq Petroleum
Company, which crosses Pales-
tine. was damaged by saboteurs.
At Tulkarem a railway oil tank-
er was arsoned, its contents go-
ing up in a burst of flames. A
border raid into Palestine by an
armed Syrian band numbering
eight was frustrated by Syrian
police, who engaged the bandits
as they tried to ford the Jordan
River near the Yaacov Bridge at
Jisr Benot, in Upper Galilee. In
the engagement one of the raid-
er? was wounded. The rest fled.
Calif. Track Coach
(Continued from page 1)
of the American Olympic team,
don’t believe them. The reports
were written by bovs of the
wrong nationality. An ovation
was rendered Jesse Owens by the
Germans. There is no longer a
single colored man or woman in
Germany. They have all chosen
to leave for some reason or an-
other, and T for one certainly
don’t object to that. When I re-
turned to New York I was greet-
ed by an assistant to the Mayor,
who told me that only every
seventh nerson of the population
of New York was born in Amer-
ica. Oh, if I could onlv be that
handsome boy Adolf in New York
for one hour; you know, king for
an hour. The last olace I ever
want to visit again is New York.
Thank von for your annlause. in
view of the fact that I have not
named anv particular creed or
nationality."
Cromwell has admitted making
this soeech. but he insisted he had
spoken jocularly and jlenied hav-
ing any malice toward Jews or
Negroes. Claiming that the attack
against him is an aftermath of
the attempt to keen the United
States out of the Berlin Olym-
pics. Cromwell said: “But what I
Texas Resources
While Texas has one of the
most unique, as well as the most
glorious histories of any state; for
very few countries and no other
states have given allegiance to
six flags—yet she boasts re-
sources not equalled by any other
state in the Union.
Those who visit the Lone Star
State during the Centennial Ex-
position, which opened in Dallas
June 6, 1936, will be given ample
opportunity ot realize the truth
of this statement. Your itinerary,
through Texas should include a
visit ..to San Jacinto Battlefield
at Houston, where Texas inde-
pendence was won from Mexi-
can rule. It is an interesting
place of historic value.
said goes." It was Cromwell who
Let us turn the light of pitiless | was said to he responsible for
publicity oq the Rev. Smith and the failure of Sam Stoller and
thus save America from this * Martv Gliekman. only two Jewish
demagogue! i members of the American Olvm-
(Copyright 1938 Seven Arts pic track team, to be allowed to
Feature Syndicate) run In the 440-meter relay.
While Governmental policies
since the year 1932 has somewhat
controlled the output of cotton,
oil, sulphur, truck and fruit
yield, yet we can produce fig
ures showing what the soil is
capable of doing, added to many
other commodities which she is
credited with supplying to other
countries and nations. We are
proud of our native state!
Do you know that Texas has
the largest single oil refinery and
the largest custom smelter locat-
ed in the South.
Texas has lignite, cotton, sul-
phur, oyster shell, petroleum by-
products, enough to produce
epough chemicals to make the
world sit up and take notice.
It can manufacture enough
explosives to bring fear to the
nations of the globe.
Texas can make enough “rayon’
to make the silk worm look sick.
She can produce enough sugar
to sweeten the coffee of the world
and can clothe the world with
wool and cotton.
She leads the states in natural
gas production.
Texas has twelve oil producing
areas whose daily average output
exceeds 900,000 barrels in spite of
artificial reduction.
She produced 447,794 pounds
of copper and 695,570 pounds of
lead in one year. Would you be-
lieve it?
Texas produced 1,275,000 boxes
of grapefruit in 1929, as against
772.000 the year before, and of
oranges 128,000 boxes as against
68.000 in 1928. This yield shows
the capacity of her production
when good weather conditions
prevail and no restrictions en-
forced. The reputation of Texas
grapefruit is spreading abroad.
Many inquiries from foreign
lands have been received by the
United States Department of
Commerce at Houston, regarding
the securing of shipments. Eng-
land, France, Germany, Norway,
Denmark, Sweden and the Neth-
erlands being included in the list
of inquiries. Texas has 900,000,-
000 acres of virgin pine and about
the same amount of standing hard
wood timber with 3,125,000 acres
of second growth pine and 2,500,-
000 acres of second growth hard-
wood. What an advantage to the
building corporations!
Texas has the largest chile and
tamale manufacturing and can-
ning plant in the world.
She boasts the largest rice
packing plant in the United
States.
Texas road-building program
for 1931 includes $41,500 for high-
way construction, that the fertile
acres may be intelligently handl-
ed to produce enough food to
feed other nations..
Texas’ production of turkeys is
stupendous.
Why not more bee culture at,
home?
She has a barite plant at Odessa
which crushes Barium sulphate
into a powder as impalpable as
flour and the color of light pink
talcum, to be used industrially
for several purposes, including
paints, paper, auto tires, but its
principal outlet in Texas will be
in rotary oil drilling, forming
with clay a heavy mud used in
holding back gas in oil wells.
Texas covers enough area to
declare her the largest state in
the Union—a state as large as
many foreign countries, larger
than several of them combined,
and larger than various combi-
nations of states in our own
United States.
She not only boasts size, but
can truthfully claim the distinc-
tion of being the most resource-
Palestine Jewry
Gets Support of
30 Congressmen
Washington, D. C. (WNS) —
Thirty Senators and Congress-
men, including Speaker Bank-
head and Senators Borah, Mc-
Adoo, Capper, Walsh and Tyd-
ings, have issued statements
stressing their support of the
claims of Palestine Jewry in the
present crisis. In a telegram sign-
ed bl_17 Senators, Secretary of
State Hull was urged “to convey
for us to the representative of
His Majesty’s government in the
United States our hope that the
.British government, as Manda-
tory for Palestine, will, unde-
terred by violence, fulfill the ob-
ligation assumed in letter and
spirit in undertaking trusteeship
for the establishment of the Jew-
ish National Home in Palestine.”
Speaker William B. Bankhead of
the House, in his statement, ex-
pressed “the earnest hope and
confidence that Great Britain
will carry out in good faith its
pledge to observe the Mandate
guaranteeing the establishment
of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine and the protection of
Jewish interests there. To do
otherwise would, in my opinion,
be a grave breach of faith on the
part of a great government which
has a fine record of observing its
international obligations.”
Signed to the telegram to Sec-
retary Hull were also Senators
Barbour, New Jersey; Van Nuys,
Indiana; Byrd, Virginia; Loner-
gan, Connecticut; Sheppard of
Texas; McNary, Oregon; Davis,
Penn.; Minton, Indiana; King of
Utah; George, Georgia Bilbo of
Miss.; and Clark of Missouri.
Other statements of a similar
nature were issued by Represen-
tatives Richards, North Carolina;
Dickstein, Sirovich, Leyser, Fish,
Celler, Sullivan, New York; Cit-
ron, Kopplemann, Connecticut;
EUenbogen, Ransley, Penn.; Kahn
of California; and McCormack of
Massachusetts.
U. S. Philosophers
Reject Bid To Berlin
New York (WNS)—An invita-
tion from the German Philoso-
phical Society to attend its 13th
meeting in Berlin, from Septem-
ber 21 to the 23, has been reject-
ed by 18 leading American phil-
osophers in a letter addressed to
Dr. Bruno Bauch, president of the
society, and made public by Prof.
Horace M. Kallen. The invitation
was turned down, the letter said,
because “no individual participat-
ing in your meeting would be
free to discuss the present situa-
tion of philosophy inside of Ger-
many, or would be permitted to
seek and find for himself an in-
sight into the spiritual and ma-
terial character of the German
scene of 1936.”
Rejecting Dr. Bauch’s offer to
pay part of the cost of the Amer-
ican delegates’ traveling expenses
as paid Nazi propaganda, the let-
ter said: “The German govern-
ment has formulated and imposed
an orthodoxy in the social and
philosophical discliples from
which individuals may differ
within the borders of Germany
only at their peril. It has abused
the law of hospitality by pushing
this orthodoxy at international
congresses within Germany with
all the methods of a vicious, of-
ficial and high-powered propa-
ganda.”
Signatores to the letter were
John Dewey, Horace M. Kallen,
T. V. Smith, Irwin Edman, Alex-
ander Moiklejohn, M. C. Otto,
J. A. Irving, A. N. Whitehead,
H. A. Overstreet, Ralph Barton
Perry, W. E. Hocking, H. M.
Sheffer, W. T. Bush, W. P. Mon-
tague, Ernest Nagel, W. A. Shel-
don and A. L. Locke.
ful state in America.
Our exhibits at the Centennial
Exposition—and a tour of Texas
will astound you, with the yield
of its natural products—added to
its marvelous historical back-
ground.
Fannie Cook,
Member. “The Houston Pen
Women.
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