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PLAIN TALK
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As anti-Semitism becomes a
matter more and more in the
daily press, I find a disconcert-
ing attitude among many Jews.
\r> pi< k up me morning paper ana
the word “Jew” stares him in the
eye from a headline: “Hitler As-
sails Bolshevism and Jews.” It
seems Hitler at Nuremberg has
declared a state of holy war
against Jews and Communists,
linking them as one. I
Or is it something that Father
Coughlin said about Jews the
night before, or something the,
Reverend Gerald Smith (who is}
projecting himself as the Amer-
ican Hitler) has said.
All this is the topic of conver-
sation wherever Jews get togeth-
er, ekcept at bridge tables where
the concentration that is required
gives a Jew ease from the pain
that is on his mind at all other
will be good for us.”
I am more fearful of Jews be-
coming trembling mice than of
Jews being prominent and doing
their part in the world. Those of
us who demand that Jews efface
themselves from public life are
seeking to bring about the de-
struction that the stupid conspir-
acies of anti-Semites never could
B t no sooner is the game over
than same one says: “Did you
see what Hitler said today?”
Or. “What do you think of
Father Coughlin’s latest?”
Or, “Did you notice the piece
aboig Rev. Smith in the paper
this morning?”
There is a solemn shaking of
heart* this way and that, and
everybody agrees that something
ought to be done about it
“Well, what ought to be done?”
The consensus then is that
nothing ought to be done. That
la to say, it is time (as nearly
everybody agrees) for the Jew
to efface himself. In other words
the Jew ought to do something
about it by becoming nobody and
doing nothing.
“We’ve been too prominent"
says one.
“We’ve been too much in pub-
lic life.” says another.
“We ought to let ourselves be
*"3Ktosho
Fe should step out of the pic-
ture.”
P-irsonally. I am not one to run
away and hide at a boo from Hit-
ler, Coughlin. Smith, True, Ed-
mondson or Pelley. or at a boo
from all at them together. If I
notice them at all. It is only as I
notice chicken-pox or other dis-
agreeable rashes that at times in-
fect human community.
When chicken-pox appears in
the house next door. I go about
say business. I don't like chicken-
pox but I have no time to hide
from It I have things to do.
If I am an economist and the
President of the United States
calls me to the service of the Na-
tion. I am a ridiculous parson if
I say: "No! I em a Jew and had
better be careful on account of
Father Coughlin and Gerald
The latter would put us in the
place of a subject minority with-
out a part in the life of the na-
tion, a people living by suffranee
—hiding out, parishes grateful
for crumbs.
I for one am not ready to abro-
gate my rights as a human be-
ing and as an American in fear
of Coughlin or Smith.
It may happen here but until
the day it does I am going to do
whatever happens to be my part.
- At I were a Communist I should
make my speeches or, were I a
Republican, I should as boldly
take up my cause.
>■ Yes, I shall do something
about Coughlin, Smith, et al. I
shall continue to give whatever is
in me (as citizen and Jew) that
is good, or that is of social value,
or that is needful to the struggle
against injustice, corruptions and
greed.
I shall not cower but walk with
a head that shall stand higher
than the Coughlins and the
Smiths. Thus I, the Jew, shall
prove my worthiness.
If it does happen here, I shall
have no regrets because I did my
part to the last day. I am sum-
moned before the local tribunal
established by the order of Fueh-
rer Smith, and I stand before a
row of Smiths, each the counter-
part of the original who sits in
Washington.
"You are a Jew."
"Yes.”
"You did not know your place.”
“My place was wherever any
citizen had a right and duty to
serve.”
"You are a Jew who tried to
take a prominent part.”
"Whatever my conscience sent
me to do was my part”
“You urged Jews to take places
In public life.”
"Yes! If a Jew is worthy he has
a right and a duty to serve in
public life.
So the Smiths sentence me to
the concentration camp to get an
education on the proper place of
a Jew. There I meet one of my
friends who used to say that a
Jew ought to efface himself and
to be meek before the eyes of all
men.
"I dont know why I am here,”
he complains. "You know what
my attitude was all along.”
“At least,” I answer, “I have
no regrets. I kept my self-re-
spect.”
(Copyright 1936 by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)
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If I am an administrator and
my party summons me to be gov-
ernor of a state. I play a poor
part if I «y*. “No! I must not be
governor, since I am a Jew. What
will Father Coughlin and Gerald
Smith my? To my nothing of Mr.
True"
As ludicrous are thorn Jews
who are demanding that on ac-
count at the Coughlins, the
Smiths, the Edmondsons, the
Trues and the Pelteyt. Jews seek
the shadows, like frightened
A Jew
said to me: *T am for
_ Well. I myself am not
for Landon. but I listen with an
open-mind to all men who are;
but this time I grew impatient as
I listened to my friend's argu-
ment for Landon.
It’s this way." he explained.
“I am for Landon because if he
gets in Jews will be Wes promi-
nent in the Government. That
London (WNS-Palcor Agency)
—Urging the British government
to take stronger measures to sup-
press violence in Palestine, the
Administrative Committee for the
Jewish Agency for Palestine,
which concluded its three day
session here by reaffirming “The
decision of the Jewish people to
cooperate peacefully with the
Arabs on the principle that
neither Jews nor Arabs shall
dominate or be dominated.” In-
cluded in the action taken in the
final session of the Committee
was the ratification of the bud-
get of $1,785,000 to cover the ex-
penditures of the Jewish Agency
in Palestine during the coming
year. The Administrative Com-
mittee also adopted a series of
political resolutions which ex-
express grave anxiety about or-
ganized Arab terrorism and urg-
ed the British government to take
stronger measures to suppress
violence.
TALMUDIC TALES BIBLE PATHWAYS
By DAVID MORANTZ
EVERYTHING IS FOR THE
BEST
Once while traveling in a
strange country Rabbi Akiba
took with him a donkey on which
to ride, a rooster to announce
the dawn and a lamp by the light
of which he studied at night.
One night he sought shelter in
a village but it was refused.
“Everything. & .for the "best,”
mid hp, so he wept ipto the for-
est and prepared to spend . the
night as best he could. However,
the strong wind extinguished the
lamp when he endeavored to
light it
Even though he had to make
his preparations for the night in
darkness, he cheerfully said,
“Everything is for the best.”
When he spoke, he found that
both his rooster and his donkey
had been eaten by wild beasts.
“Everything is for the best,”
said he without complaining.
The next day he found that an
enemy army had passed through
the forest attacked the village
and captured it Had he obtained
lodging in the village, he would
have been captured or had the
donkey brayed or the rooster
crowed or had his lamp burned
so the soldiers could have seen
it, he would possibly have been
captured and put to death.
Thereupon he felt very thank-
ful that he had been denied shel-
ter in the city, that he had been
without his light and that he had
lost is donkey and rooser because
it strengthened his conviction
that one should not complain, re-
gardless of what happens be-
cause “Everything is for the
best.”
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By DR. DAVID B. ALPERT
Thy testimonies are very sure;
holiness ' become th Thy House,
O Lord. (Ps. 93.)
We have become very sensitive
to voices. The radio and the tele-
phone and the talking movies
have made us think of the qual-
ity of voice, its melody and res
onance and tone. We even form
impressions of people on the
voice we hear although we never
see the person. The voice seems
to us the test -of prsonality.
Are those the only voices in
the universe? Is it only human
beings who are endowed with
voice? Hardly. A famous scien-
tist described the voices of na-
ture,—fire, water, wind. And the
psalmist was attuned to many
other voices, too; voices that stir-
red and touched and penetrated
and made themselves heard with-
out words. (Psalm 19 is a splen-
did example).
The floods and the rivers and
the rising waters have voices.
This psalm (93) tells of “the
floods (which) have lifted up
their voice; the floods lift up
their roaring. “The sound of the
ocean, the murmur of the waves,
the rushing splattering storms
are voices as audible and as in-
telligible as any speech.
They are voices which come
only in intermittent flashes and
do not continue regularly. Moun-
tains endure to speak the voice
of eternity; oceans utter the
sounds of plasticity and vibrancy;
moral greatness speaks a voice
that lingers and remains. Moral
greatness carries its message to
influence many though no word
be spoken.
In nature, we hear the voice of
enduring quality and abiding
value. In human nature, we are
sensitive to the voice of the
stable, genuine quality which
abides and impresses. Mountains
suggest the powers of voice like
a magnet: to attract and impress.
And other voices come drectly
from God—the sounds heard in
the silence of the blood which de-
clare God’s permanence. Bod’s
majesty, God’s protection, God’s
strength devoted to opr care.
THOUGHTS
(Continued from page 1)
been broken at Monte Carlo.
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The Phi Alpha Quarterly pub-
lishes several letters of interest
between Irving Grandberg, edi-
tor of the quarterly, and Russell
W. Davenport, editor of Fortune.
Fortune in an article on Phila-
delphia sets forth “six leading
law firms” and in an asterisk
footnote “that the biggest Jewish
law firm is so and so.” Editor
Grandberg’s letter asked straight
forward of the editor of Fortune
just the why of his attitude.
“What really hurts is the surren-
der without rhyme or reason of
intellectuals to a prejudice which
has become a habit—and a bad
one.”
Now comes that worthy’s reply:
. . . I myself have been worry-
ing a great deal concerning this
anti-Semitic business. . . I have
done what little I could to com-
bat the apparent growth of such
a movement. . . Fortune, how-
ever, is first and always a report-
er ... we were speaking of the
Philadelphia ‘old families’ . . . .
cited six most important law
firms in the city. . . Having made
a fair list, there remained one
other firm . . . which was equally
important with some of those al-
ready mentioned, but did not
‘rate’ the same, was not so to
speak in the same class. . . More-
over, sociologically, the Jews are
not the equivalent of the Dutch,
the Italians, or the Swedes, any
more than they are the equiva-
lent of Baptists or Presbyterians.”
There is a story told that Bis-
marck was once accused of being
anti-Semitic. He looked the be-
holder square in the eye and
thundered out, “HimmeL do I
not have two Jews among my
under-secretaries!” Of course
Fortune and editor Davenport
are not anti-Semitic—they are a
bit more subtle. Whoever can af-
ford a dollar for a publication
may have the power of interpo-
lation. And like Bismarck—they
too may have a few of our com-
patriots in their employe, and
occasionally release a saccrineuer
antidote in way of an unbiased
study. But what is the implica-
tion behind it all? Is a portion
of intellectual America making
the jump? Let us take stock lest
there is fulfilled that prophesy
of Ludwig Lewisohn that our
country will soon be divided in-
to three classes: Americans, Jews
and Negroes.
-O” “O* “O”
Jews the world over will lis-
ten to Kol Nidre this Friday
evening, bow their heads in sup-
plication to an Almighty and call
despairingly “God, my God, why
hast Thou forsaken me?” The
gray elders will weep for that
which they hold holy and lost.
The women, touched by the
trembling fingers of memory,
will weep for loved ones gone
into the great unknown. Others
touched by the emotionalism of
a God-intoxicated people, will
silently introspect their lives—
past and future. The rising cres-
cendo of the ancient lament
brings before the listeners’ eyes
a moving kaledidscope of events?
the searing irons cauterizing the
flesh of a people who for cen-
turies have borne the suffering
of mankind with its face always
toward God. Slowly the tradi-
tional melody begins—the ca-
dence increases — the lament
reaches its highest pitch—it is
Yom Kippur, the holiest day of
the Jewish calendar.
In silence, each one of us will
be left with time for thought
This is the time for a better un-
derstanding with oneself, a
thorough search, as it were, of
the inner man. This is the time
when one can appreciate a few
moments away from the turmoil
of every day existence and form-
ulate a means of living in that
turmoil in light of that which is
best for him. This is the time one
can realize the inter-twining of
his life with that of his religious
heritage. There is no escape from
the solemnity of Yom Kippur.
May this day of reflection give to
Israel the vision and the courage
to carry on to aid other creeds
in building a better and more___ . _____
understanding universe. May this I the upright in heart.
HUMANE
ECHOES
By the Voice of the Voiceless
CRUELTY—
—closes the curtain on the play
called “INJUSTICE.”
KINDNESS—
—opens the curtain on the play
called “INJUSTICE.”
A DOG’S PRAYER
O Lord of humans, make my
/naster faithful to his fellowmen
as I am to him. Grant that he
may be devoted to his friends
and family as I am to him. May
he be open faced and undecep-
tive as I am; may he be true to
trust reposed in him as I am to
him.
Give him a face cheerful like
unto my wagging tail; give him
a spirit of gratitude like unto my
licking tongue. Fill him with pa-
tience like unto mine that awaits
his footsteps uncomplainingly for
hours; fill him with my watch-
fulness, my courage, and my
readiness to sacrifice comfort of
life.
Keep him always young in
heart and crowded with the
spirit of play even as I. Make
him as good a man as I am a
dog, make him worthy of me,
his dog^—By Will Judy.
One of the outstanding fea-
tures of National Dog Week in
Houston, was “free dbg dipping,”
for mange, fleas and ticks. The
six basic purposes of the observ-
ance as outlined by the national
committee, are to place a dog in
every home, provide a good home
for every dog, educate dog own-
ers on their obligations to the
dog and to the public, teach
kindness to children and adults
towards dogs and all animals,
emphasize the dog as a protector
of the home and faithful com-
panion, and obtain fair and just
laws for dogs and their owners.
“What a commentary upon hu-
man nature that after more than
1900 years of Christianity, there
should be many parts of the
world where it is “as dangerous
to live and worship as a Chris-
tian, as it was in the days of the
catacombs.”—Houston Post.
ON THE SPOT—A paradox-
fighting for peace.
SCARECROW SCREAMS—Tis
said most animals live longer in
zoos, than in their natural habi-
tats. What a fate! Confined for
life in unnatural conditions; pris-
oners of man’s whims. . . Hur
manizing war . . . White as a
swan . . . Mates hooked by the
neck, not the heart . . Mob psy-
chology.
“The horror, and excruciating
suffering of animal-vivisection,
becomes a grotesqueness that
passes all understanding.” Theo.
D. Meytr.
The Washington office of ed-
ucation launched a national drive
to protect dogs from reckless
motorists. The Voice of the
Voiceless has campaigned on this
subject as far back as December,
1934. Every autoist should carry
a first aid kit Stop and render
assistance. Make every highway
oil and gas station an emergency
first aid station. Motto; Drive
sanely.
Again the question of steriliz-
ing cats and dogs. What is the
main work of humane societies?
Picking up unwanted, stray and
diseased cats and dogs.
God wrote on the scroll: “A
Little Child Shall Lead Them,”
And it will some to pass, in the
home, church and school. All life
will be the better therefor. There
is a crying need for more "hu-
mane education.”
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day of reflection give to each and
everyone in Israel a desire to
make of himself a worthy citi-
zen of this enlightened land. Let
us resolve to live the coming
year in the highest principles of
our religious life and aid in ful-
filling the prophesy of the Yom
Kippur ritual that “Light is sown
for the righteous and joy for
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