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In France, Jews and Christians have united in a society to honor the memory oj this brave man who fought and suffered so that those who differed with him in religion might have liberty.The Editor. Gregoire had his way. He had his way so often and against such odds, that there came to be a saying among the people of Paris: Let Gregoire have his way. He had his way when he stood up for the rights of the Jews, and secured the liberation of the negroes and the abolition of slavery; he had his way at his death, when he refused to recant the doctrines of religious liberty and to conform his political views to the requirements of the Archbishop of Paris, and yet se-I cured the last sacrament in spite of I the Archbishops refusal, i'i When .he could not carry others t with him in his way, he stood alone, I and stood isolated for years, rather a than budge from his path. Thus, when I he was a senator in the reign of Na-I poleon, he stood out often against the I emperor, alone violently republican, I protesting the establishment of a new I court, refusing the title of count I that Napoleon bestowed broadcast I upon all the senators. For that, and other obstinate re-i fusals on principlesuch as his I lone vote against Napoleons divorce, I he suffered in later years. His pen-| sion as an ex-senator was withheld from him. He was dropped from the Institute which he had helped develop. But the people remained with the fighting bishop, and after the Restoration elected him again to the lower house, they insisted that Gregoire have his way. So alarming was the popular faith in the republican priest to the restored monarchial powers, that a cabinet was dissolved over his election, and the newly formed government voted down his admittance to the legislature. The life of the priest is curiously modern. His interpretation of the duties of a member of the clergy conform more to the interpretation of a rabbi or preacher of the present-day generation, than to the stricter theses of his day, when a priests duties were as clearly outlined as the service of the mass. And yet, liberal as he was in practice, Henri Gregoire remained a devout Catholic all his hfe, said mass every day, appeared at the revolutionary sessions in the Purple vestments of a bishop while his fellow revolutionists were in a storm of anti-clerical legislation' which he upheld! For he was one of the staunchest supporters of the movement to end the privileges of the clergy and the nobility. Henri Gregoire was born on December 4, 1750, in the village of Veho, near Luneville, in France. He was the son of poor peasants. Though he later distinguished himself as a liberal, his early training was hardly of the sort to prepare his nature for such views. He received his education in a strict Jesuit college in Nancy, and became an instructor in a Jesuit college at Pont-a-Mousson. Soon he left his professorship, to take up his duties as a cure in the town of Embermesnil in Lorraine. There he came into contact with his own type of people, villagers, honest, sturdy peasants, and he saw that his work was greater than the mere rote of administering religion. He secured books on agriculture, he founded a small library in connection with his church (the roots of the modern community center) and made it his business to learn how to help his flock improve their living conditions. The Catholic priest travelled in France and Germany, went among farmers, talked with them of crops, crop diseases, means of harvest, cheesemaking, marketingand he returned, and taught his villagers what he had learned. He did not confine his attention to the well-being of his parishioners, however. It was while he was a priest in Lorraine that he began his work in the interest of Jews. At that time there were head-taxes, and other heavy burdens on the Jews of the province, so overwhelming as to make existence almost impossible for them. Henri Gregoire studied their problems. In 1789 when the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Metz offered a prize for the best essay on the Jews, he wrote his famous book on the Physical, Moral, and Political Regeneration of the Jews. He pointed out that the Jews were no worse than any other people, that whatever objectionable traits might be discerned in them had been developed through the oppression to which they had been subjected by the atrocious anti-Jew-ish regulations of the Middle Ages. He argued that, given civil liberty and equality, the Jews would prove worthy French citizens. Though these views may not appear original or even extravagantly liberal today, they created a great impression in their time. Henri Gregoire won the prize of the Academy, but that was only the first step in his fight for the liberation of oppressed peoples. In 1789 he was elected to the Estates-General; there he proposed a bill for granting the civil rights of the Jews. His career during the revolution was important; his rise to power and popularity was quick. It was he who HENRI GREGOIRE presided over the 62-hour session of the new legislature when the Bastille was being stormed. In 1791 he became Bishop of Loire et Cher; in 1792 he was elected president of the Convention. In 1793, when Gobel, Bishop of Paris, resigned his church post because he felt it not compatible with his political views to be a clerical power, Gregoire was called upon to resign his bishopric. He refused, however, proclaiming again the freedom of religion, and maintaining that his activities in church and in state were separate. It was during this struggle that all Paris adopted the cry, Let Gregoire have his way. And he did. He remained Bishop. In 1794 he proclaimed the freedom of worship, and even secured the liberty of churchmen who had been imprisoned by the republicans. It was Gregoire who was to preside over the trial of King Louis XVI, but though he delivered himself of the famous peroration: Kings are to the moral order of being what monsters are to the physical orderthe history of kings is the martyrdom of nations, he never approved the order for the death of the monarch. After he had secured the passage of a series of bills in which the Jews were granted civil rights and freedom of worship, he became interested in the conditions of other oppressed groups, and in 1798 demanded civil rights for the negroes, and secured the abolition of slavery. Gregoire resigned his bishopric in 1801 as a protest against the churchs concordat with Napoleon. Then he went into retirement, though his power was always felt to be alive. He travelled in England and Germany; in 1814 he returned to France, and was elected to the lower house, but refused admittance. He spent the remainder of his life in study, in working in the arts and sciences. It is for the commemoration of the career of this amazing priest that Sylvain Levy, president of the Alliance Universelle Israelite, President Doumergue, and former Premiere Painleve of France have joined to form a centennial society. The people of France have never forgotten him. At his funeral, a group of students unhitched the horses, and drew his coach, while 20,000 Parisians followed him to his grave. J. T. A. BNAI BRITH ANNOUNCES DEFAMATION GAINS NEW YORK. (W. N. S.)Anti-Semitism, by way of slurs on the Jewish race, is often unintentional on the part of its sponsors, according to the semi-annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, headed by Sigmund Livingston. The report, made public at the New York offices of the Bnai Brith, summarizes the disposition of cases that came before the Commissions attention since its last meeting on September 15, 1930, as follows: Effected the elimination of objec-tional definitions of the word Jew in two dictionaries; secured a promise from the American Automobile Association that it will, in the future, refuse to recommend any hotel which discriminates against Jews; received assurance from one of the largest credit agencies in the country that no reference to religion will be made in its reports; successfully negotiated with the Associated Press in a protest against the use of the word Jew to designate gangsters; drew an apology from one of the largest Western corporations because a subsidiary department published an advertisement for employment with the phrase Christians Only. Page Two THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 The Jewish Problem Comes to Mexico A Review of Recent Events and Past History By David Mann Mexico is now in the limelight of Jewish news. Last week scores of Jewish peddlers were driven from the market places of Mexico City. The United States Government has been asked to intervene. The following article provides a background for understanding the present situation.The Editor. * * * American Jewry, grown accustomed to the routine record of Rumania, Hungary, Germany and other East European countries on the roster of anti-Semitic sponsors, was startled one day recently to discover that a new Jewish problem had been created. Mexico had put in its bid for consideration as a contender for honors in anti-Jewish discrimination. At once the wheels of Jewish sympathy, driven fast by the rapid succession of dispatches describing ever new incidents of prejudice and violence, began to operate. The first tangible effort to end the excesses and to intercede on behalf of Mexican Jewry was made by Alfred M. Cohen, President of the Bnai Brith, who telegraphed to Secretary of State Stimson and urged that the American Government make representations to the Mexican Government in regard to the reported outrages. The news stories had described the sudden and violent ejection of Jewish peddlers from the market places of Mexico City. This was followed by speeches urging death to the Jews. A situation was created which threatened to engulf all of Mexican Jewry in a wave of blind fury. For Mexico to have joined the ranks of those countries with acute Jewish problems is a powerful indication of the growing menace of world-wide anti-Semitism which some sociologists attribute to the current economic depression, which is universal in its effects. But though Mexico has been quick to imitate the Jew-baiting practices of so experienced an anti-Semitic land as Germany, its Jewish problem is the youngest of any countrys. For Jews have pricked themselves on the Mexican consciousness only during the last decade. It was in 1921 that there began to trickle into Mexico the Jews who fled from Europe and could find no entry into the United States. During the past ten years approximately 9,000 Jewish immigrants have come into Mexico, most of them from Poland and some from Russia. But even that small number forcefully attracted attention to itself. That was a purely economic circumstance. For those who entered the land brought a subsistence for only a few months. Artisans or petty merchants, they hoped to gain a foothold in their new land of settlement. But Mexican conditions were against them. In the first place, Mexico has one of the most powerful trade union organizations in the world. It refused to admit the Jewish newcomers. The merchants had no means to start themselves in business. The result was that the majority had to earn a livelihood by becoming peddlers. That immediately created a conflict with the native traders. Though scores of Jews, have, since 1921, established themselves in such variegated businesses as jewelry, garages, industrial chemistry, pharmacy, manufacturing, engraving, tailoring and shoe-making, there are still thousands who are forced to earn their living from itinerant vending, from booths or pushcarts. It was not merely the desire to make a political gesture which inspired Alfred M. Cohen to protest to the United States Government against the new outbreaks in Mexico City. The Bnai Brith, of which he is the head, has done more to integrate the Jewish immigrants into the life of Mexico than any other organization. The Bnai Brith, made aware of the struggle of the newcomers to earn a livelihood and of the embarrassing efforts of some of them to gain unlawful entry into the United States, undertook to stabilize the life of the immigrants. It gave the new arrivals a meeting house, taught them Spanish, provided them with loans (which smarted off most of them in their own ALFRED M. COHEN International President Bnai Brith businesses) and impressed upon them the need for recognizing that Mexico was their country and that efforts to penetrate the United States would be both futile and dangerous. The work of carrying out these activities was entrusted to J. L. Weinberger of Vera Cruz. And it is to the exhaustive material compiled by Mr. Weinberger that this writer is indebted for very valuable information on Jewish conditions in Mexico. The records indicate that Jews first came to Mexico in 1538. These were the remnants of the masses that had been swept out of Spain as a result of the Inquisition. Hundreds of Jews found their way to Mexico during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They had hoped to secure safety from religious persecution and also the opportunities for economic advancement. They were quickly disillusioned, however, for the Inquisition worked just as feverishly in Mexico. Thus the country produced its own Marranos. Many, however, deserted to Christianity for ever. As a result of the Mexican revolution in the nineteenth century Jews found conditions better. Jews from Levantine countries immigrated to Mexico. It is estimated that about 14,000 of these Sephardic Jews are now resident in Americas southern sister republic. They built up a Jewish communal life of their own, along the lines of Spanish tradition. When the new Jewish immigration began in 1921 the Sephardic Jews maintained a distance from the newcomers, though their relations have always been friendly. They could hardly be called intimate, however, or even helpful. Because of the keen competition offered by the Jews to the local traders the Mexican Government two years ago inaugurated a series of restrictive immigration laws designed to prevent any further influx from Eastern Europe. Though there was no overt anti-Semitic bias to this legislation, it is worth noting that ninety per cent of the East European immigration consisted of Jews. It was in 1925 that anti-Semitism gained real impetus in Mexico. The immigration of several thousand Jews in that year overflooded the market places of Mexico City, where the majority of the Jews located themselves. Several newspapers began to conduct a. campaign of anti-Jewish propaganda, demanding that the invaders be ejected. In 1928 there was a recurrence of anti-Semitism in the city of Merida. One newspaper had launched a campaign for the ousting of all Jewish merchants in the city. The Bnai Brith appealed to the Governor of Yucatan, who promised effective action to prevent such violence. The excitement then subsided. In fact, conditions seemed to be adjusting themselves so rapidly that the Bnai Brith decided to discontinue its activities last June and to turn over its great variety of projects to the local Jewish community, which had at last been organized. But apparently business conditions have become The personnel manager of Hughes and Symonds, the citys greatest law firm, let her critical gaze glide over Ethels trim figure. Apparently the plain straw hat, the simple tailored suit and the shiny patent leather shoes of the applicant satisfied the manager, for her smile was friendly as she said: So youre the young lady the Legal Employment Bureau sent me. I suppose you realize that this is a very responsible position for which youre applying? Ethels voice was calm as she answered, though her heart was beating wildly. She simply had to get this jobshe had been out of work for months, and money was badly needed at home. Miss Burke, at the bureau, told me you need a secretary for Mr. Hughes. Im sure I can handle the workIve had five years experience, and lost my last position only through the dissolution of the firm I was working for. This card here gives my references, which the bureau checked up. She handed the manager a small card. The manager read it through carefully before she spoke again. Ethel Ross. Im Miss Peters, Miss Ross. Yes, the references seem satisfactoryI think we may try you out. If youll just leave your hat and coat in my office, Ill take you into Mr. Hughes room, so that he can give you some sample tasks. Ethel drew a deep breath. So that question hadnt come up at all! That was something to be thankful for. She hated the idea of uttering that lie over againand yet, she would have had to, if Miss Peters had asked. She would have had toshe needed the job too badly to risk being turned away. As she hung her hat on the clothes-tree she heard Miss Peters observe: We have a nice group of girls here I think youll be able to make friends with many of them. I always try to pick girls wholl be congenialit makes the work in an office so much easier, dont you think? Ethel murmured something to the effect that she usually got along very nicely with her fellow-workers. I'm glad to hear that. Weve a number of Episcopalians hereI see youre one, thats why I mention it. As a matter of fact, our staff is mostly Protestant. We find it much more convenientless time lost for holidays, Jewish and Catholic. Though the Catholic girls, of course, miss only Good Friday. But the Jewish girls well, theyre very charming, all of them, but it is a nuisance when they stay away on their holidays. They so depressed that hundreds of J6Ws have again been driven into the market places as peddlers. And again anti-Semitism has reared its head. But Mexico, like every other country which indulges in anti-Semitism, has its own paradox. It has Jews whom it persecutes, but it also has its Jews whom it presents as the countrys glory. One need cite only one illustration, for he is sufficiently important to counteract all the inconvenience which Mexican business interests allege they have experienced on account of Jewish peddlers. That example is Diego Rivera, Mexicos outstanding artist, the man who has revolutionized contemporary art in his country and who has done more to give Mexico artistic prestige throughout the world than any other Mexican. And Diego Rivera, President Ortiz Rubio should be reminded, is a scion of Spanish Jews, in whom flows the blood of creative artists of the past. If Mexico has a Jewish problem it is of her own creation, and not the inevitable result of circumstances. S. A. F. S. have so many, and none of them coincide with ours. Why, only a few weeks ago we were six girls short on account of Passover, and next week theyll be away again, for some other holiday. Yes, Im glad youre Protestantit makes things so much simpler, doesnt it? Ethel felt again that sinking feeling which had invaded her when, in filling in her application blank at the Legal Employment Bureau, she had written that lie on the line inquiring after her religion. But it was too late to back out now, she felt. So she replied to Miss Peters half-rhetorical question with a low-voiced: Yes, I suppose it does. Now if youll just sit down a minute Ill ring Mr. Hughes and see whether hell be able to take you in now. Seated on a straight-backed chair, Ethel half-listened to Miss Peters telephone conversation. It was brief, and the result was conveyed to her in the personnel managers brisk tones: Well, it seems that hes busy just nowbut hell be able to see you in about fifteen minutes. If youll just wait here Ethels thoughts as she waited were none too happy. Her lie weighed on her conscience and what was it that Miss Peters had said of another holiday next week? That would be Shabuoth; her little sister was to be confirmed, and she, Ethel, wouldnt be able to be in the Temple to witness the ceremonyprovided, that is, she got the job. And she must get the job! Somehow the scene of her own confirmation came to Ethels mind. It had been ten years agoshe a little girl of thirteen in a snow-white dress, carrying a bunch of white roses, standing at the pulpit and reciting a Hebrew prayer. As she had recited she had seen her father and mother, with her baby sister between them, sitting in their pew, proudly gazing at their eldest. Poor little sister! Her confirmation would be a lonely affair; only Mother would be there to see her become a member of the Congregation of Israel. Father had been dead for years now, and Ethel well, Ethel couldnt be there, if she got that job, as she must. She had recited a prayer in Hebrew, ten years ago. Then the entire Confirmation Class had passed before the Rabbi, in single file, to receive his individual blessing. Rabbi Levine had always preferred to give his blessing to his confirmands in a few whis-(Continued on Page 15) Better Late A Shavuoth Story by Mark Hollander May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Three Jewish News From Everywhere London (W. N. S.)Jewish charitable and educational institutions of London receive the major part of the $800,000 bequest left to philanthropy by the late Mrs. Caroline Berg. Washington (J. T. A.)J. A. Kam-erow, special agent here for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati is announced as the winner of the national essay contest in which thousands of underwriters throughout the country participated. New York (W. N. S.)Dr. Leon W. Goldrich has been named as the first director of the bureau of child guidance which will he opened next September as a part of the city school system, it has been announced by the New York City Board of Education. The bureau, which will deal with problem children in the city schools, will pay its head $10,000 annually. Philadelphia (W. N. S.)The Howard N. Potte medal for distinguished achievement in the field of physical sciences is to be awarded by the Franklin Institute to Prof. Benno Strauss, who is teaching in Essen, Germany. The medal will be received in Prof. Strauss absence by Dr. Otto Kiep, German Consul General in New York. Antwerp, Belgium (W. N. S.)Jewish peddlers are finding great difficulty in securing places for their goods in the market places of Antwerp due to the concerted effort of anti-Semitic traders in keeping the Jews from stalls. Many cases of violence in the ejection of the Jews have been reported. Most of the peddlers recently immigrated here from Poland. HELPS SAVE BANK Vienna (W. N. S.)Faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, the Austrian State Bank, the countrys largest fiscal institution, called upon the hanking house of Rothschild to save it from collapse. A conference of leading bankers, summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance, resulted in the granting by the Rothschild house and an associate of a credit to the state bank of approximately $25,000,000. TO COMPLETE MICHELSONS EXPERIMENT Pasadena (J. T. A.)The last experiment of Dr. Albert Michelson, interrupted by death, will be completed by his associates. It will be finished as the great scientist originally planned. Four days before his death he dictated from his sickbed an outline of the scientific paper which will eventually announce the results of his experiment. WINS DRAMA AWARD Buenos Aires (J. T. A.)Samuel Eichelbaum, Spanish - Jewish playwright of this city, has been declared the winner of the first prize, given by the municipality of Buenos Aires annually for the best play. The prize was given to Eichelbaum for his play Senorita, which ran last year in one of the local theatres. Though still a young man, Eichelbaum has already achieved a great reputation here as a playwright. WINS NATIONAL PEACE ESSAY CONTEST Washington, D. C. (W. N. S.) Morris Leviloff, 17-year-old student at Bulkley High School, London, Conn., has been announced as the winner of the best 500-word essay in a nationwide contest on the best means of achieving peace. Leviloff will be given a free trip to Europe as one of fifteen who will go abroad to observe international relations under the auspices of the National Student Forum. The judges in the contest included Sen- ator Arthur Capper and U. S. Commissioner of Education William Cooper. JEWISH GROUP DECLARED WINNER Chicago (J. T. A.)The Institute Players of the Chicago Jewish Peoples Institute have won first honors again in the Drama League Tournament held at the Goodman Theatre. For the second year in succession the Silver Cup, which was never won twice by any organization, was awarded to the Institute Players for their presentation of The Dollar by David Pin-ski. The contest was participated in by dramatic organizations of Chicago and its suburbs. Sixteen little theatres competed, representing independent and college groups. ESTIMATES 9,785,000 JEWS IN EUROPE Berlin (W. N. S.)There are 9,785,-000 Jews in Europe, according to an estimate made by J. Koralnik and Dr. Jacob Segall in an article in the Zeitschrift fuer Demographie und Statistik der Juden. According to these figures, which are supposed to be complete as of the end of 1930, the Jews are divided among the following countries: Poland, 3,125,000; Russia, 2,970,000; Rumania, 800,000; Germany, 585,000; Hungary, 473,000; Czechoslovakia, 380,000; England and Ireland, 300,000; Austria, 220,000; Lithuania, 167,000; France, 160,000; Holland, 120,000; Latvia, 96,000; Greece, 73,000; Yugoslavia, 67,000; Italy, 45,000; Sweden, 6,000; Spain, 3,000; Norway, 450. NAMED DEAN OF GERMAN U Prague (J. T. A.)Dr. Emil Stark-enstein, a member of the faculty of the medical school of the German University of Prague, has been appointed dean of the University for the academic year of 1931-1932. Dr. Starkenstein is a leading member of the Bnai Brith grand lodge. Born in Ronsperg, Czecho-Slovakia in 1885, Dr. Starkenstein was appointed an instructor in pharmacology in 1913, extraordinary professor in 1920 and full professor in 1929. He is the discoverer of vasano, a remedy against sea-sickness and other ail ments resulting from loss of equilibrium. He is also the author of a number of standard work on Pharmacology. WAILING WALL SACRED ONLY TO JEWS Jerusalem (J. T. A.)That the Wailing Wall is sacred only to the Jews is one of the most important conclusions reached by the International Wailing Wall Commission, whose report on Moslem and Jewish claims to the Wall is expected to be made public soon, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from a reliable source. This conclusion upholds the principal contention made by the Jews at the hearings of the Commission last June and July that only the Jews regarded the Wailing Wall as a shrine of devotion, and not the Moslems. The whole tone of the report is understood to be apparently favorable to the Jewish case, although the practical recommendations may disappoint those expecting greater liturgical freedom than the Commission considered customary. LEGION DECLINES TO CHANGE DATE INDIANAPOLIS. (J. T. A.)Although manifesting every desire to comply with the request to change the convention date of the American Legion in Detroit which is to open on September 21, the day of Yom Kippur, the national executive committee at its meeting here regretted the inadvisability of such action because of the extensive preparations already made, including printing and publicity. Out of respect to the Jewish legionnaires, however, the executive committee decided that the convention would adjourn on September 21 at noon for the rest of the day. The executive committee also voted to give every possible co-operation to Jewish legionnaires in providing them with places of worship. William Stern of Fargo, North Dakota, and David Adler of Fairbanks, Alaska, Jewish national committeemen, made the appeal for the change. SYNAGOGUE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BELASCO New York, (J.T.A.)David Belasco, the theatrical wizard of America for more than half a century and the maker of scores of stars whose names are part of the dramatic history of this country, who died Thursday afternoon after a long illness at the age of 76, was buried at Linden Hills Cemetery after funeral services at the Central Synagogue with Rabbi Jonah B. Wise officiating. The son of Abraham Humphrey Belasco, a Portuguese Jewish clown, Belasco was born in a San Francisco basement. His early education was under Catholic auspices to which has been traced his habit of wearing a reversed collar. Associated with the stage from his earliest youth, Belasco had played in over 200 dramatic roles before he was 27. A successful playwright and producer before he was out of his teens, his acquaintance with such stage luminaries as Booth and Sothern eventually led to his coming to New York as the lighting expert of the old Madison Square Theatre. His pioneering in electric lighting effects created a sensation, and 1883 he became manager of the theatre. His first great success was May Blossom. Belasco himself estimated that he had written over 150 plays and had produced or staged nearly 400. Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Warfield, Leonore Ulric are but a few of the stage stars whom he trained and raised to stardom. In his first years in New York he was associated with Daniel Froh-man. Later he lost a million dollars in fighting the Klaw-Erlander syndicate. He acquired his own theatre in 1902 and eventually he owned interests in theatres in most of the leading cities. Belasco was known as the wizard of the American theatre because of his use of stagecraft, his attention to detail, his passionate striving for atmosphere for reality in properties, and for his achievements with sets and lighting effects. Although Belas-cos career spanned the development of American drama from the days of blood-curdling melodrama to its contemporary subtle forms, his first great triumphs were in melodrama. Two years ago Belascos connection with the Freiburg Passion play presented at the Hippodrome by his son-in-law, Morris Gest, created nationwide protests on the part of American Jewry led by the late Louis Marshall who sought to prevent the plays showing. The Hippodrome performance was given under the personal direction of David Belasco. sf: * * New York.The will of David Belasco, theatrical producer, filed for probate, leaves the bulk of his estate to his daughter, Mrs. Morris Gest, who receives $25,000 in cash, all of the art and antiques and 60 per cent of the income from plays and contracts. Two bequests to charity are listed$5,000 to the Actors fund of America, and $10,000 to Ahawath Central synagogue, New York. BNAI BRITH REPRESENTATIVE TO INVESTIGATE MEXICAN SITUATION Toronto. (J. T. A.)J. L. Weinberger, special representative of the Bnai Brith, is now on the way to Mexico City to investigate the Jewish situation there as the result of recent anti-Semitic manifestations, according to Alfred M. Cohen, international president of Bnai Brith. Mr. Cohen is here to attend the convention of Grand Lodge No. 1, of Bnai Brith. Referring to the American State Departments investigation of the Jewish situation in Mexico, an investigation resulting from a protest by Mr. Cohen to Secretary of State Stim-som, Mr. Cohen said that the State Department has informed him that its investigations, through Ambassador J. Reuben Clark, indicates that the incidents which occurred in Mexico City in the last week or two are the result of the economic depression which manifested itself in demonstrations against Jewish and other non-Mexican elements but that no physical harm was done to the Jews. Mr. Weinberger was formerly in charge of the Bnai Brith work in Mexico until a few months ago when it was believed that this work was accomplished and he returned to Chicago, Mr. Cohen declared. He said that Mr. Weinberger would report to him personally so that he (Mr. Cohen) would be able to take further necessary steps for the protection of the Jews in Mexico. The Bnai Brith leader said that the State Department had shown its willingness to co-operate with the Bnai Brith in every possible way when the matter of Jewish persecution in Mexico was brought to its attention. Maurice D. Rosenberg, the Bnai Briths representative in Washington, is in constant touch with the State Department regarding the situation in Mexico, Mr. Cohen stated. * * * POLAND INTERVENES IN MEXICO Warsaw. (J. T. A.)Through its consul-general in Mexico City, Z. Mer-dinger, the Polish government has made representations to the Mexican government on behalf of the Polish Jews among the Jewish tradesmen in Mexico City, who were recently forcibly ousted from their stands in the public markets. As a result of these representations, the Mexican foreign minister has informed M. Merdinger that the question of trading rights for foreigners in Mexico City is now the subject of conferences between the foreign office and the ministry of the interior. While the ministry of the interior is opposed to foreigners being granted the same right to trade as Mexicans, the foreign office is favorably inclined towards traders who are not Mexican citizens. Poland is the second government to have taken an interest in the ousting of the Jewish market vendors. Last week the American state department instructed its ambassador in Mexico City to investigate whether any American citizens were affected by the expulsion of the Jewish tradesmen. * * * Mexico City. (J. T. A.)The Jewish market men in the Mexico City public markets who were ousted from their stalls last week were expelled because they were trading without licenses, President Ortiz Rubio declared in his reply to a message of protest from the Jewish Merchants Chamber of Commerce. Senor Rubio declared that he has forwarded the protest to the ministry of the interior. Meanwhile the Jewish tradesmen who were ousted are suffering want. A conference of representatives of all Jewish societies in Mexico City was held to raise a fund for the suffering Jewish vendors. Page Four THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 Amertran Jetutalj Worib Continuing1 the Jewish Weekly Established June 12, 1912, by DR. S. N. DEINARD L. H. FRISCH, EDITOR Associate Editors: Rabbi David Aronson Abraham I. Harris Rabbi C. David Matt Jesse B. Calmenson, City Editor, St. Paul Published every Friday by The Jewish World Publishing Co., Minneapolis and St. Paul. 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Fri., August 14 Rosh Hashonah.......Sat., Sept. 12 Yom Kippur..........Mon., Sept. 21 \\ EDITORIAL | A SHAVUOTH THOUGHT The Torah, whose natal day Jews celebrate on Shavuoth, has been represented in Jewish literature as the most important document in Jewish life and history. Considering God and Israel, in an allegorical sense, as the lover and his beloved, the Torah has been compared to the Ksoobo, or marriage contract, giving the details and the terms of betrothal of the divine lover for His beloved people. There is in the Midrash, the following striking allegory: A wife seems to have been deserted by her husband. At least he has left, without telling his whereabouts nor the date of his intended return. The wife naturally misses him and grieves. Her neighbors, in due course, begin to taunt her, and decry her continued faith in her husband and her belief that he will yet return. But she pays no attention to their un-neighborly discouragement. Yet at times, when her heart is heavy, and she is oppressed by the feeling of loneliness, she goes into her innermost chamber, takes out the love-letters she has cherished since the days of courtship, and reading the old, familiar vows of love and devotion, her faith and hope are reborn. In time the husband does return, and even he marvels at his wifes constancy and that she has not lost faith in him. He even expresses to her his astonishment. But she tells him that in moments of doubt she needed only to re-read his olden messages of loyalty and promise, and that was enough to keep her hopeful. Similarly, the Midrash points out, the nations of the world taunt Israel: How can you still hope that your Divine spouse, your God, has not forgotten you, how can you hope that He may turn to you again in mercy ? See how long He has forsaken you! How can you still believe that He will again call you His people and show you kindness? God Himself, the sages, declare, marvels at the constancy of His people, and He asks Israel: How could you have per- sisted in your faithfulness, especially when your fellows mocked you so long and so ceaselessly? To which Israel, like the loyal mate replies: Had it not been for Thy Torah which Thou didst give us, we would long ago have lost all sense of hope and allegiance to Thee. What better thought for serious-minded Jews to take to heart at Sha-vuoth-time? What was it that made the Jew a distinct, separate people, if not the Torah? What was it that enabled the Jew to preserve his own identity, if not the Torah ? When did the Jew show weakness and uncertainty, except when he became indifferent to the Torah ? What must the Jew do to find himself and be able to continue creditably in his distinctive path, if not revert to his Torah? No matter how much cause the Jew has for self-praise or satisfaction because of any achievements that may be his, he will be the more worthy, the more highly esteemed, the more useful to himself and to his fellow-men if he renew and maintain his loyalty to the Torah, to that distinctive Jewish system of life, to that specific code of laws and ideals involved in Judaism. Loyalty, reconciliation, reunion with the Torah and its Divine author should be the call to old and young on Shavuoth! DAVID BELASCO David Belasco, dean of the American stage, has passed on. Recently recovered from a grave illness and apparently on the way to recovery, the grand old man of the theatre succumbed to a sudden heart attack at the age of seventy-six. His death will be mourned throughout the world. He was more to the American theatre than Reinhardt is to the German or Stanislawsky to the Russian. For over half a century he has moulded the taste of American theatre audience and shown the way to the rest of the producers toward a modern, dignified and highly artistic theatre. Never was he charged with vulgarity or indecency, as have so many of his colleagues. Not once was he decried as a sensational box office showman out for material gain without regard to the highest and best traditions of his profession. Continuously and consistently David Belasco sacrificed personal gain for the sake of art. He produced the very best of foreign and American playwrights. He developed some of the foremost American actors and actresses of our time. He never hesitated to give of his strength and abundant vitality for the development of the American theatre. Belasco produced about three hundred and seventy-five plays, of which he himself wrote more than a hundred. Among his productions were successes that held American audiences spellbound for literally years. Yet the grand old man of the American theatre died a relatively poor man. He gave his all for his all-consuming love, the American theatre. From a humble Jewish home in San Francisco he worked his way to scintillating triumphs on Broadway, where theatrical competition is the keenest in the world. America and all the world mourns him as an outstanding personality and a great artist. THE ANTI-DEFAMATION REPORT The report of the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, which has just been made public, directs attention again to the admirable work that is being done by this organization. The summary of the cases disposed of by the Commission covers evidences of anti-Semitism in newspapers, magazines, books, circulars, post cards, motion pictures, employment, radio, hotels and resorts. Working consistently and systematically, the .Bnai Brith has placed its activities. in counteracting anti-Semitism on a dignified and effective level. Recognizing that the measure of its worth will be determined by the results it accomplishes and not by the hullabaloo it creates, the Bnai Brith has demonstrated that it is possible for a national organization seeking to protect Jewish interests to do so in such a manner as not to rob Jews of their self-respect and at the same time to safeguard their rights. The BELASCO THE GREAT And so the dynamo that was David Belasco has stopped running. Who can ever figure out where a man gets his energy? David was only five feet three, but he packed the power of a physical giant. Sickness tried to throw him many times, but he staged comeback after comeback. His name, you know, used to be Valasco. Or, rather, the name of his Portuguese Jewish ancestors. People will be remembering him only as one of Americas greatest directors and showmen. But you can be sure that he remembered the days when he used to work in a cigar factory, when he graduated to doing messenger service, then earned a living as a circus bare-back rider. Of course, he was a necktie salesman too at one time. Jews especially used to look at this impressive white-haired man and wonder why he wore that ecclesiastical collar. It identified him as completely as his custom of opening his plays only on Tuesdays. He always said that h'e put it on in admiration for a certain Catholic priest. But Belasco, cherishing something of mountebankery, kept it on because it attracted attention to himself. Some of his notable idiosyncrasies: he wore only black button shoes; he never smoked; he exerted a powerful fascination over women; he was a great deal of a mystic; he hated shiny things, so that he rarely let his shoes be polished; he declaimed every play that he wrote, because he felt that if he put himself in the actors place he could improve his craftsmanship. David Belasco was undoubtedly the most colorful figure on the American stage. His son-in-law is a secondhand imitation compared to Belasco. In many respects he was a saint. But there were people in the show world who also knew his as a Mephistophelean character. All that, however, will be forgotten. His greatness on the stage will linger. He himself once said: Introduce me to a girl and Im positively bashful. Bring me an actress and Im her master. * * * REMARQUE INSISTS Ever since All Quiet on the Western Front began its march through edition after edition in several dozen languages rumors have circulated to the effect that Erich Maria Remarque is a Jew. Adolf Hitlers boys were probably the first to throw the epithet at the pacifistic novelist. Later some Yiddish yeshiva bachur with a flair for acrostics and other name games figured out that Remarque was a Jew because his name is Kramer. He arrived at that by reversing the spelling. But by this time Remarque is tired of being called a Jew. And so he announces to the world: My name is not Kramer. This is a fairy tale invented by some German militarists and disseminated in the press. My name is Remarque; that has been the name of my family for hundreds of years, and the only change which this name has frequently undergone is the Germanization from Remarque to Remark. This has, however, occurred only in the case of my father and myself, because it was frequently suggested to us. No report of the Anti-Defamation Commission cannot be cited without giving credit to Dr. Isaac M. Rubinow national secretary of the Bnai Brith! A distinguished social worker, Dr. Rubinow is also equipped with an extensive Jewish background which fits him ideally for the role which he now occupies. one in our family was ever called Kramer. Well, that ought to dispose of Remarque as a contender for the golden phylacteries. But one wonders why he protests so much. * * APOLOGY FOR A JEW The tale I am about to unfold is an actual experience for which I can vouch, and on which I would stake every one of my three cents. A certain young lady, sent to a Wall Street commission house by an employment agency, was accepted as a stenographer. She was assigned to work for the treasurer of the company, who happened to be of Hebraic extraction, as they say. He was the only Jew in the house. Before she actually began work the girl was invited to the desk of the office manager, who hemmed and hawed for a while and then said: We do hope you wont have any unpleasant experience. Our treasurer is a Jew, but you wont find him like the rest. He is, of course, very exacting, but also fair. And some more in that vein, to complete the apology. The young lady found it an amusing experience. So would you. For although she is registered in the employment agency as a Methodist she is as much Jewish as you and I. * * * STUFFING THE BALLOTS Youve probably heard that there is such a thing as the Jewish Agency. Its supposed to represent a merger of Zionists and non-Zionists, in equal proportions, to run Jewish affairs in Palestine. Within the next two months the Council of the Agency is supposed to meet in Switzerland in order to elect its big chiefs and little chiefs. The Zionists, in order to nominate their representatives, are having a gory time of it. The Zionists, you see, have what they call democracy. And for six dollars you have as much right to say that Weizmann is no good as the man who owns a million. The non-Zionists, however, are more exclusive. Thats the crowd of Warburg and Lehman, you know. And to represent those boys youve got to have class and position, etc. But, strange to say, a fellow came to me recently and said: Here Ive been a member in good standing of the Zionist Organization for fifteen years, and Ive just received a letter asking me to vote for non-Zionist nominees to the Council of the Jewish Agency. At first I thought he was an exception. But it seems that there are hundreds of fellows like that. It happened this way. Since the non-Zionists on the Agency have no real organization, and since they wanted to show some form of popular approval, they collected the lists of the Joint Distribution Committee conferences and sent ballots to every one on the lists. They assumed that fellows who attended J. D. C. confabs were non-Zionists. But these Zionists have a habit of attending any kind of a Jewish meeting. And now theyre receiving the compliment of getting their mail addressed to them as though they were non-Zionists. As one thunderstruck Zionist put it: What if only the Zionists who Highlights and Sidelights Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Five received ballots should vote and the non-Zionists would abstain! The result would be that the Zionists would elect the non-Zionist members of the Agency. By the time they got through every bona fide non-Zionist would be out of a job. * * * ROTHSCHILDS ANSWER There are Hakenkreuzlers in Vienna who revel in Jew-baiting. There is a Fascist party in Austria that clamors for the expulsion of every Jewish citizen of the former Hapsburg kingdom. There is the Heimwehr, which boasts the political slogan: Every Jew is an enemy of our country. Yet the other day, when the Austrian State Bank was faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, it called upon the banking house of the Rothschilds to save it from collapse. A conference of the leading bankers of Austria was summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance. When things looked darkest the Rothschild house showed the way to safeguard the countrys largest fiscal institution by granting it a credit of $25,000,000. It is generally agreed that this action by the Rothschilds saved the day for the State Bank. The countrys finances are on the way to recovery. Austria will rejoice. The Hakenkreuzlers, the Heimwehr and the Fascists will celebrate the event. In this exhilaration it will be tactfully ignored that the Rothschilds belong to the race that is assaulted and insulted daily on the gay streets of Vienna. * * * PURPLE BLOODED JEWS With the King of Roumania apparently persisting, according to the papers, in his intention of making Mme. Lupescu, his wife, and with the Abyssinian king marrying a Jewess, we Jews will soon be swimming in royal blood. The truth is, that in the royal veins generally, there is quite a bit of the Jewish red. The Austrian royal house, according to some, is the offspring of a Sephardic Jew. And the Spanish royalty has quite a Jewish mixture. Old Ferdinand, the spouse of Isabella, was the son or grandsonI dont recall which of a Jewish mother. * * * NOT ALL ESTHERS I suppose the average Jew takes delight in thinking of these Jewish queens. He immediately begins to think of Queen Esther, who sayed her people by marrying the Persian monarch. I personally lack this consolation and assurance. I cannot but help think of Ferdinand, Jewish grandson, who stood by and even approved of the terrible Spanish Inquisition. * * * CHAPLIN AND NATIONALISM The Jew has been accused of being an internationalist. Many of us have tried to deny it, because internationalism seems to conflict with patriotism. Mr. Chaplin in London has just created something of a sensation by attacking patriotism as insanity, and contending that it will soon lead us into another war. There is no question that the common, garden variety of patriotism is narrowing, selfish and something that well have to outgrow. There is, however, a form of patriotismthe natural love of a person for those nearest to him, which is quite natural and which will probably always endure. * * * INTERPLANETARISTS But what I am thinking about now is another thing. Here, we have been accused of being internationalists. I look at Michelson, who has just died I think of Einsteinand I am afraid, that soon the charge will be that weve gone even beyond the internationaland become cosmic. Calvin Coolidge at one time made the statement, that if Michelson had put his mind to applied science, he could have become as distinguished in that field as Edison. But Michelson, with the exception of some things in optics, confined himself to measuring things millions of miles away from the earth. And Einstein, too, thinks of the Milky Way,and all of those other things in the neighboring, suns, stars, and planets. I wonder if some day, we Jews wont be accusednot of being internationalists, but of being inter-planetarists, of cosmicists. | ^ JjJ STOP! It is being rumored in London that Commander J. M. Kenworthy is considered as the next High Commissioner for Palestine, to succeed Sir John Robert Chancellor. Kenworthy is a great friend of the Zionist movement. He visited, a few years ago, this country, in the interests of the United Palestine Appeal, and on more than Konrad Bercovici, distinguished American man of letters and outstanding authority on Rumanian affairs, fearlessly speaks his mind on King Carols romance and its political, significance. Straight from the shoulder, the popular teller of gypsy tales reveals the true story of Magda Lupescus part in the court affairs of present-day Rumania.The Editor. * * * Rumanias ruler is in love, openly and defiantly in lovewith a Jewish, Magda Lupescu; and it cannot be foretold whether she will some day sit beside him on the throne, or whether she will cost him his sovereignty. Despite the outcome, however, the situation of the Jews in that country has not benefited by the romance, averred Konrad Bercovici, the Rumanian writer who is also Jewish. The situation of the Jews at this time, he stated, is not only bad but dangerous; and King Carols ravishing Jewish mistress has signally contributed, among other things, to the gravity of their position. He pointed out that since the ascension of the Hohenzollerns to the Rumanian throne in 1865 anti-Semitism has been a ubiquitous ember of mass incendiarism there. It has also proved to be an effective plank in the platforms of the political parties. For many people who otherwise would display no interest in the duel for supremacy between the Peasant and the Liberal Parties, who might even have been opposed to the tactics of both, staunchly support one or the other for no reason except to register their hatred of the Jews in the affairs of the government. Naturally this induces both parties to outdo themselves in their manifestations against the Jews, in an effort to win cohorts. Of late, due to the scramble for power among the members of the royal family, the mounting number of mob outrages pogroms, student riots, demonstrations perpetrated against the Jews has been accounted for only fitfully and vaguely to the world by the government and the press. Undesirablesand Jews are largely theseare clapped into prison on trumped-up charges, and there they rot until the long-delayed day of trial arrives. By that time, very often, a goodly percentage of them have died of illness while in confinement or committed suicide. The intrusion of a Jewess in the most intimate confines of the royal palace several years ago was, needless to say, properly exploited by the then Prince Carols enemiesto wean popularity away from him and, incidentally, to arouse the anti-Semitic populace to greater indignation against the Christ-killers. In the words of Bercovici: one occasion showed his hearty approval of the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. From a Jewish point of view his appointment would almost mean a solution of the entire political problem in Palestine. But, as we said at the outset, all this is merely a rumor. We are prepared to prophesy that it will never come true. WRoever is responsible for the launching of this rumor is committing a serious blunder. Jewish hopes have been disappointed too often with regard to Palestine to throw off rumors of this sort lightly. If it is part of the political game played by some Zionist parties it should be nailed immediately and condemned strongly by Jewish public opinion. Jewish patience with regard to Palestine is reaching the breaking point. If Magda Lupescu really had power to influence Carol then, and wields it now that he is King, then those who were then and are now aligned against him were bound to flaunt this fact in public, to incite the people CONRAD BERCOVICI against him for permitting them to be ruled over by a Jewess. On the other hand, if she never did have any power to wield, she has had both Carols friends and enemies opposed to herone party in fear of the bad light into which she throws the King, and the other anxious to throw more light on her relations with him. But much more than the mere outward facts must be considered in this morganatic love affair. And there is none better able to analyze it than Konrad Bercovici, whose latest book, That Royal Lover, reveals the inside workings of Rumanias musical-comedy royal family, its scandals, intrigues, corruption, generally censorious behavior in war and peace and last but not leastits mother, the amorous, unscrupulous, ambitious Queen Marie. Magda Lupescu, he began, is the daughter of a small-town jeweler and money-changer; she is tall, with a voluptuous figure, and arrestingly handsome without being beautiful, with golden-red hair, brown eyes and a typically Jewish cast of face. While a young woman she let herself be baptized, that she might marry an army officer named Tampeano. How it came about that she crossed the path of Prince Carol can only be guessed at. At that time Queen Marie saw in her son a threat to her control over the throne. Know- ing- how susceptible her son was to beautiful women, might she not have laid a trap for him? Setting the attractive Magda Lupescu in his way, so that by his infatuationwhich was certain to ensuehe should lose the support of the people as soon as the word spread that he was in love with a Jewess? The people would tremble at the possibility of a Jewish Queen! And so it came to pass. Magda attracted Carol at one of the military balls. And he succumbed. The people were apprized of his latest amour. How? By whom? Wellwho was most anxious to see him despised by the nation? Before long he was exiled, along with his courtesan, and they went to live in France together. He subsequently saw Michael, his little son by Helen of Greece, crowned King, and the country ruled by a Regency. When, after a few years, the unsettled condition in Rumania led to talk of revolution, it was deemed wisest to execute a coup detat and bring Carol back to the throne in place of his son. The people were hungry for a manly King-, a dominating figure, and they now loked upon his sundry amours as the doings of a truly manly manand loved him the more for it. And so, on the crest of a wave of popularity, Carol came home to assume the _ throne, leaving the Jewess in Paris, as he had promised to do. There can be little question that Magda Lupescu loves Carol. I feel sure that she has kept him out of more trouble than history will ever give her credit for. And she is an intelligent woman. Therefore she stayed behind when he went home, giving- him up for his own benefit rather than jeopardize his recovered popular esteem. But leave it to Carol to go to any length for a woman he loves. . . . At the close of this past April the whole world learned of Magda Lupescus residence in the Palace at Bucharest! Yes, Carol seems to love her, despite everything. The sad part of this entrancing-love story is the reaction it has on the eight hundred thousand Jews who live in Rumania. This four per cent of the population again hears the cry of the ninety-six per cent: The Jews are trying to steal all the power! That Jewess is their agent! It is the baying of the hounds, led on by Carols enemieshis discarded wife, Queen Helen, and the Queen Mother, Marie. Jews have lived in Rumania for a thousand years. One of my ancestors, in the fourteenth century, was the argentar, the financial minister, to Mathei Bessarab, founder of the Rumanian nation. When the rest of Europe was stifling the Jews in: ghettos Rumanian Jewry enjoyed comparative freedom, farming in Moldavia, doing small manufacturing in the towns as well as dealing in money. When the ghetto walls crumbled everywhere Rumania began to build them up. Today politics will not allow them to be torn down. The Jews make an excellent issue to scrap about, and a fine victim for incensed mobs. Does Magda Lupescu really rule over Rumania by virtue of the love of and her love forKing Carol? Bercovici shrugged his shoulders in an eloquent summary. I think not. Unwittingly -and involuntarily she is creating a tremendous lot of animosity against her people. Jorga, the Prime Minister at the present moment (at the time of this interview), once led the Anti-Semitic Party. Is he likely to enjoy Mme. Lupescus shadow across his desk ? Whatever is happening now in Rumania bodes no good for the Jews. No matter which way the pendulum swingsand it seems to be swinging back toward Queen Marie, who will not forget the Jewess who almost usurped her powerthe Jews are bound to suffer for the ills occasioned by others. S. A. F. S. The Power Behind Carol's Throne An Interview With Konrad Bercovici, Author of That Royal Lover Page Six THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 WILLIAMSON & WILLIAMSON Business Established 1885 PATENTS TRADE MARKS One of Firm Formerly Examiner U. S. Patent Office 925-935 Met. Life Bldg. 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Students of North High and their parents are especially invited. Abe Lipkin, out-going president of the Menorah Club, will represent the graduating class. Rabbi Aronson will speak. Memorial services will be conducted at 10 oclock. Religious school will close with a picnic at Glenwood park, Sunday morning. Pupils will assemble at Synagogue at 9:30 a. m. In case of rain a program will be presented in the Synagogue. TEMPLE ISRAEL Shevuoth confirmations services will be held Friday morning at 10 a. m. The doors will he closed during the confirmation processional. Services Friday at 8 p. m., without sermon, to be followed by confirmation reception in auditorium of Community House. Sabbath morning services at 11 a. m. in Deinard Memorial Chapel. Birthday blessings for pupils whose birthdays occurred in May will be given. Final examinations will be conducted in Religious School Sunday. Closing exercises will take place Sunday, May 31. Annual number of the Templarian, Religious school paper, may be purchased at the Temple office. Junior Congregation night will be observed at the Temple, Friday, May 29. A debate between junior members of Mt. Zion Temple, St. Paul, and the local organization, will take place with Echo Korsh and Elliot Hoffman, representing Temple Israel and Lee Loevinger and Saul Raskin representing Mt. Zion Temple. A social hour will follow the program. UNITED ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONS Junior Congregation will hold services Saturday morning in the vestry rooms of Kenesseth Israel at 9 a. m. In the absence of Rabbi Romm, Rev. M. Bartnoff and Mr. Isaac Cohen will expound the Talmud for Chevra Shas at the Kenesseth Israel Synagogue. OBITUARY Mrs. Molly Ascheim Mrs. Molly Ascheim, 85 years of age, a resident of the city for thirty-seven years, died Saturday, May 16. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Deinard Memorial Chapel, Temple Israel. Interment was at the Graceland cemetery, Chicago. The deceased is survived by four daughters, Mrs. James Kantrowitz of the city; Mrs. Gus Krakauer, St. Paul, Mrs. H. Dessar, New York, and Mrs. George Arkins, Los Angeles; a son, Charles of Cincinnati; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two sisters and a brother. * * * Ben Rosenberg Ben Rosenberg died Wednesday, May 13, at the home of his son, Dr. George Rosenberg, 209 East Nineteenth Street. He was a resident of Crookston, Minn., for the past thirty-two years. Funeral services were conducted from the Aaron-Hodroff Funeral Temple on Friday. Interment was at the O. B. A. cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Louise; two sons, Dr. George, of this city, and Leonard of Crookston; four sisters, Mrs. Sam Rivkin of this city, Mrs. Molly Rosenberg, South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Jacob Weinberg of Poland, and Mrs. Leon Bernstein of Germany, and three brothers, Robert of Minneapolis, Alfred of Poland, and Jerome of Knoxville, Nebr. JUNIOR HADASSAH MOTHERS TEA Junior Hadassah will be hostesses at a tea at which their mothers will he the guests of honor, Monday evening, May 25, at the Beth El Synagogue. Preceding the program, election of officers will take place. Rea Berman will open the program with a message of welcome and will give a summary of the years activities. Belle Shalit, will play a group of cello solos, accompanied by Sidney Lippman, and Rose Samet, accompanied by Susan Noodleman, will sing a number of songs. Another feature on the program will be the presentation of a playlet written and coached by Cecelia Levitt, in which the following will take partFrances Fleish-er, Ann Lazar, Lorraine Shallett, Mary Besser, Beatrice Katz, Ann Abrams, Eva Gottlieb, Jeanette Schwartz, Rose Greene, Emma Levitt Page Seven and Freda Aronson. Mildred Horwitz is chairman of the tea. * * * The last meeting of the study group will be held Thursday evening, May 28, instead of May 21, as previously announced. 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BOULEVARD STORE AND GREENHOUSES West Lake Street and Ewing Ave. Atlantic 0481 Atlantic 0484 Walnut 3912 Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 19s 1 BTSTAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, wTi i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A. Souvenir mrs. m. j. weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close i June 1. Arrangements have been made for ' the third degree, a physical initiation which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left 1 Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be dis- ! tributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- ! May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Nine nity. Beatrice Marks was initiated in The Masquers. Senior luncheon will be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap hook, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. TRAVEL BY BUS Regular bus trips to Chicago and Milwaukee are featured by the Chicago and North Western Stages, who have offices and depots at 9 North Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Nine May 22, 1931 May 22, 1931 BNAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows-first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations ; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close June 1. Arrangements have been made for the third degree, a physical initiation, which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day. Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee. Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be distributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- nity. Beatrice Marks was initiated in The Masquers. Senior luncheon wall be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap book, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, w*h i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A Souvenir mrs. M- J- Weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. TRAVEL BY BUS Regular bus trips to Chicago and Milwaukee are featured by the Chicago and North Western Stages, who have offices and depots at 9 North Page Ten THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 When you are interested in Store Fixtures of any kind, see or phone Van Duyne-Moran Fixtures, Inc. St. Paul Minneapolis 47 W. Water St. 30-32 E. Henn. Ave. River view 4430 Gladstone 1938 JUST OPENED Merchants Lunch Serving Kosher Corned Beef and Finest of Meats. Specials Served Daily. Come in and try our foodYoull come back for more. 309 NICOLLET S. GROSSMAN, Mgr. AN EXCLUSIVE SERVICE FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY IN ITS HOUR OF NEED. HYland 6564 JEWISH FUNERAL HOME 1121 Plymouth Avenue Ask Your Dealer For Monahans BREAD - CAKES ROLLS - DONUTS Vegetable Compound Used Exclusively CHERRY 2836 Union Made - Baked in North Mpls. Seventh Street, and at Sixth and St. Peter, in St. Paul. One way trips to Milwaukee is $8.75, round trip, $16.50. One way trip to Chicago is $10.00, round trip fare is only $18.00. Travel by bus and see the beautiful scenery along the improved highways. SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Girl Scout Troop No. 18 in charge of Jeanette Biatch, will enter the following girls in the Minneapolis Field Day meet, to be held at Camp Locks-lea, at Fridley, Minn., Saturday morning at 9 a. m.: Fanny Schwartz, Nettie Kimmelman, Esther Elescue, Sylvia Friedman, Molly Silver, Toby Gottlieb, Freda Kimmelman, and Ruth Abrams. Panther club under the leadership of Mathew Levitt, will hold a wiener roast, Monday, May 25. The Cards Club had an overnight hike to Little Switzerland, with Hugo Cohen in charge. Junior Cubs held a dinner meeting Saturday evening. Sam Fin-kelstein had charge. REGISTRATION CALENDAR May 23A. Z. A. Spring Frolic, Nobles Studio. May 25Tea for prospective members of study group on International relations, home of Mrs. A. Brin. May 27-C. J. W. board meeting, home of Mrs. C. Goldblum, Cottage-wood. June 2Sigma Alpha Mu bridge party. June 3Sheltering Home for Children Annual Tea. June 4Twentieth Anniversary Banquet, Talmud Torah. June 7Mothers Tea, Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity. July 5S. S. Bikur Cholim annual picnic, Columbia Heights. July 12S. S. Talmud Torah Picnic, Columbia Heights. July 26Bnai Abram Congregational dinner. SHAVUOTHTHE FEAST OF WEEKS Friday, May 22, marks the festival of Shavuoth for Jews throughout the world. As in the case of all holidays, the day is ushered in the previous evening. This occasion is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when Jews went up to the Temple in Jerasalemthis time to bring the first fruits of their fields from the early harvest, Shavuoth, or The Feast of Weeks, occurs seven weeks after the second day of Passover, thus giving the festival its name of Pentecost, meaning fifty. The festival also bears the name Zeman Matan Torasenu, the Day of the Giving of the Law, for when the agricultural significance of the day was lost, the medieval spiritual leaders associated the day with the giving of the Ten Commandments in the Sinaitic desert. The religious teachers pointed out that the law was given in the desert rather than in Palestine as a symbol of the universality of the law. Each generation was to accept the Torah for itself and draw inspiration from it. Accordingly, boys and girls are inducted into the faith at this season of the year. Confirmation is the name given to this beautiful ceremony. The house of worship on Shavuoth is decorated with green branches and flowers to symbolize the agricultural background of the festival. The dual aspect of the day is ritually observed by appropriate services to which are added the recitation of the Ten Commandments and the reading of the MINNEAPOLIS CLASSIFIED FOR RENT Beautiful all modern four room duplex. Heated. Reasonable. 914 Oliver Avenue North. Hyland 3450. For rent, very reasonable. Four room all modern heated duplex. Two screened porches. Garage. 1606 Thomas Place North. Hyland 6988. Book of Ruth. Both of these bear out the universalistic message of the day. Chicago (J. T. A.)Lottie Lehmann, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera company, received word that she had been decorated with the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Not only is she one of the first Germans to receive this award since the war but she is also one of the few so honored. Chicago (W. N. S.)Benjamin F. Lindheimer, well-to-do real estate owner, has been appointed by Mayor Anton Cermak as President of the Board of Local Improvements, which spends millions of dollars annually on Chicagos subways. Buenos Aires, Argentine (W. N. S.) 73,434 Jews have settled in Argentine during the last ten years, according to official statistics of immigration. This constituted about 9 per cent of the total immigration during that period. Baltimore (W. N. S.)-Jerome Sloman, Daniel Ellison, Meyer Reamer and Sidney Traub were elected members of the Baltimore City Council in the elections held last week. Three of the Jewish Councilmen are Democrats and one a Republican. Cambridge, Mass. (W. N. S.)Jewish alumni and undergraduates have joined with Catholics in protesting the erection of a non-sectarion chapel at Harvard University as a memorial to the universitys war dead. They point out that Jews will not be able to worship in the chapel, which is expected to cost more than $1,000,000. London (W. N. S.)The Spanish Minister of Finance has issued a declaration welcoming Sephardic Spanish Speaking Jews to return to the new Republic, and assuring them that new legislation will shortly be introduced accelerating the acquisition of Spanish citizenship by them, according to a Madrid dispatch in the London Times. Jerusalem (W. N. S.)The Palestine Arab executive has issued an appeal to all Arabs in Palestine to boycott the Jews in commerce and industry. The proclamation is an outcome of Premier MacDonalds recent letter to Dr. Weizmann, which aroused resentment among Arab leaders because of its alleged alteration of the Passfield White Paper. MINISTER KAUFMAN SAVES THE DAY It took a Jewish envoy to extricate the Columbia Broadcasting System from an international tangle. The envoy was David E. Kaufman, U. S. Minister to Siam. The King of Siam had consented to make his radio debut during his visit to Washington, and then was ordered by his physicians to cancel all engagements. The cancellation came only about four hours before King Prajadhipok was to address the combined networks of both chains. But Harry Butcher, Washington director of Columbia, was bound to fill his time with a Siamese program. So he phoned David E. Kaufman and invited him to sub for the King. Kaufman agreed to speak, although he had only about three hours to prepare his speech, if Butcher could secure permission from the State Department. By noon everything was set. Then came another idea. Why not get a newspaper man to interview Kaufman on the air after his speech ? So Butcher again lifted a telephone receiver. And three minutes before the broadcast Leo R. Sack, Scripps-Howard writer and personal friend of Kaufman, dashed into the studio. They conferred for two minutes. Sack took down some notes on a scrap of paper. They sat down in front of the mike. And the show went on. 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David Belasco was the author of a hundred plays, the producer of perhaps 400 productions, the maker of the names of Mary Pickford, Ernest Truex, Lillian Gish, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Helen McKellar, Ruth St. Denis, Jane Cowl, Lowell Sherman, David Warfield, Blanche Bates, Jeanne Eagles, and more, and more. And in his last years he was a lonely, aged Jew, thumbing his book of violets for memories of his Jewish gypsy mother, and of his wife, and of the tender moments in the lives of his three daughters; a revered, beloved, awed, but lonely aged Jew who refused the dinner invitations of the mighty in order to slip away by himself and eat his favorite dishcold cuts of corned beef and sausage, from a delicatessen store! Even during his lifetime, strange collections of myths had gathered about this magicianDavid Belasco. The date of his birth became confused. Some said he was born in 1854 and some said in 1859. That was because for several years, he celebrated his birthday by taking his one annual drinka glass of champagne, and saying Today I am twenty-one. For he always felt twenty-one. As a matter of fact, he was born on July 25, 1854, in San Francisco. He was born in a cellar room on a cot that had been placed on two boxes. His mother was Reina Martin, of a family of wealthy Portugese Jews, gypsies, who migrated to London because of persecutions in Portugal. There, Reina Martin saw a young actor named Humphrey Andrews Belasco, playing the part of a harlequin. She fell in love with the harlequin. During the days of the London plague, she came to him, they were married. The match was against the wishes of her parents. The couple went to seek their fortune in America. The gold rush was on and they came to San Francisco. It was impossible to obtain a room under ten dollars a night. The couple was penniless. They were befriended. A basement room was found for them. There, David Belasco was born. Later, his father moved to Victoria, B. C. Humphrey Andrews Belasco became a trapper. Within a few years he was mayor of Victoria, B. C. At that time, when he was seven years old, the boy came under the influence of Father McGuire. During his later life, David Belasco spoke often of the priest whose philosophy had influenced his way of life. Already, the boy gave indication of the unusual intensity of his nature, the need for creative expression. At eight, this found expression in the usual way. He ran away from home and joined a circus. A clown named Walter Kingsley loved the boy, and took care of him, and taught him how to be a clown in a circus. When Walter Kingsley died, the boy felt the first great tragedy of his life had happened. Humphrey Andrews Belasco, once a harlequin, found his circus-boy and took him home. The family moved to San Francisco. Again, the boys gypsy-nature asserted itself. He became a stowaway on a ship. He was diseovex-ed and set to work washing dishes. The ship came to Victoria, B. C. From there, David was retui'ned home. At fourteen, he wrote a play called Jim Black, or The Regulators Revenge. Soon, he had a job as a stall boy in a theatre. From then DAVID BELASCO on, he worked around theatres, finding time somehow to go to school, for he was graduated from Lincoln College, California. In 1875 he went barnstorming with a company headed by Millicent Rogers. All the thrillers of the day, including Camille, and East Lynne, were in the repertory of the company. But unfortunately they had no money. They ended up as waiters, cooks, and chamber-boys in a town along the Big Bear riverthe jobs being an alternative for jail. David Belascos mother Reina played a mystically influential part in his life. Because of her beliefs in her gypsy blood, and in her other-wordly she influenced her son with the surety of fate. Many of her superstitions, David Belasco carried with him through life. He was a believer in signs and portents and charms and the evil eye, a belief as characteristically Jewish as gypsy. He always had a pocket full of bits of iron, nails, buttons, or other charms. His mystic, sentimental love of violets was another sign in the fate-way of his life, for every great emotional experience, first through his mother-love, and then with his wife, was in some way commemorated by a violet. All these pressed violets, noted with dates, he kept in a book in the private drawer of the famous ancient Italian-carved desk in his New York studio. Each day, at four oclock, in his later years, he would take out his violet-book, and lose himself in memory. When he was but a boy, a strange incident occurred, which was said to prove the mysterious powers of his mother. David had witnessed a brawl between two theatre people in San Francisco. A man was beating his wife. David rushed in, and being a large strong boy, pulled off and beat the man. The woman, angered, shot David. The bullet grazed his temple. When David was brought home, the story goes, his mother, infuriated, went into her room. Hours later she came out. I have uttered the black curse of the gypsies, she said, on anyone who shall injure my son David during his lifetime. Two days later the man who had fought with David fell under a railway train and was killed. David Belascos mai'riage was also the result of a strange romance. In San Francisco lived a girl named Cecilia Loverich, daughter of a wealthy family, sought after by the citys best young bloods. One day, in the street, the girl talked to a woman with whom she was not acquainted. The woman said, Soon, you will meet a young man who is the one intended to be your husband. You will know him, for he will offer you violets. Do not refuse them. The woman was Reina Belasco. Andthis story David Belasco himself told in later years. Not long after this encounter, of which he knew nothing, he was reciting Hamlet at a social function. In the first row, he saw a beautiful girl. Their eyes met. During the rest of the performance, he spoke his lines only to her. Afterward, he would say, in telling the story of his courtship, I learned that she was Cecilia Loverich, and so believed that I had no chance to win her. Nevertheless he went out the next day into the woods. He saw beautiful violets. He picked a bunch, and sent them to the girl. When they met, he stole one violet from that bunch. It was the first violet in his violet book. Two years later they were married. His wife accompanied him on his trips to Chicago, to New York, in his efforts to get started in the theatrical world. His first efforts were heroic, but disheartening. Three times he went to New York, and three times he returned penniless to San Franciso. Always, he would say in later years, his mother encouraged him, made him try again. Perhaps the beginning of his phenomenal career may be said to have been when he met Charles Frohman, in 1882, in San Francisco. They produced Belascos play, American Born. It was^ a success. But then came slips again. In 1886, after the sensational divorce case of Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Belasco determined that her vivid personality was destined for the stage. He wrote The Heart of Maryland for her. But it took four years, and in that time the play was re-made six times, before he could arrange a production. When the curtain was raised, he owned nothing in the world but the clothes on his back. A friend had pawned a $30,000 painting for $1,500 to help him. But the production was a success. During his life, David Belasco worked fifteen to sixteen hours a day. He had no recreations. In temperament, he was something of an ascetic. He worked quietly, gliding ghostlike about the corners, peering from behind draperies of his theatres, always there, always making his presence felt, always in the background. Fables, myths unending gathered about this magical personality. In his later days, he was something of a character. One of his habits curiously like a habit of John D. Rockefeller. He would give eoins to all people, tips to cab-boys or to high-priced stars, as his appreciation. Once in a rehearsal he took out a dime and placed it on the table, saying to an actor, If you say the line right you get it. The actor repeated the line again. The dime went back into Belascos pocket! Every evening as he left the theatre he drew a ten-doll ar bill from the treasurer, saying, Thank you. He would take a cab to his hotel. From the change, he would take three one-dollar bills. One he would pin on the door of his wifes room, and one on the door of each of his two daughters rooms. When his daughters were bored, and came to him restless, asking for something to do, the quiet little man would dip his hand into his pocket, take out money, and say, Buy a hat. Perhaps, of all his plays, not one will be ranked among permanent works of literature. They may pass with his passing. But his contributions to the realistic school of stagecraft, his teachings in the detail of acting, are not without their effect in the development of the American theatre. And more than one generation associated the name of Belasco with the high point of theatre. Continuously, from the days when he produced David Warfield as Shy-lock in the Merchant of Venice, from the days of Madame Butterfly and The Music Master from the days of May Blossom, through to the days of The Gold Diggers, and of Lenore Ulric, he kept his place as the magician. J. T. A. 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Wedding, engagement and birth announcements will not be printed unless they bear the name and telephone number of the sender. Telephone Cedar 7011. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sansby, 976 Goodrich Avenue, returned last week after an extended visit at Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bratter, 1408 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of their daughter, Delia Helens confirmation, Mrs. T. G. Kaswan of New York City, who has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Greenberg, 145 South Chatsworth, for the past three weeks, left Friday for Chicago, where she will spend a few days before returning to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer M. Bernstein, 908 Ashland Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Nathalie. Mrs. U. Braufman, 509 Iglehart Ave., left Sunday for St. Charles, Mo., to visit her son, H. Braufman. Mr. and Mrs. M. Goodman, 1012 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Ros-lyn. After visiting friends and relatives in the East, Miss Emma Seaman of Montreal, has arrived to be the guest of her uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mushkatin, 234 Prescott St., and Mr. and Mrs. George Kaplan, 20 South Lexington Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rosenholtz. will receive in honor of their daughter, Ruths confirmation Friday evening, at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Levy. 420 North River Blvd. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rosenblatt, formerly of 1021 Conway, are now residing at 1236 Dayton Ave. BAR-MITZVAH Harold Jay Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smith, 193 E. Robie, became Bar-Mitzvah Saturday morning, May 16, at the Beth David Synagogue. TEMPLE MT. ZION Confirmation services Friday morning at 9:30. Processional at 10:00 A. M. The doors of the Temple will be closed during the processional and blessing. A short service will be held Friday evening at 5:30. The last Saturday morning service for the season will be held Saturday morning, May 23, at 11:00 oclock. The Birthday Blessing for those having birthdays during June, July and August, will be pronounced. The Temple Juniors will hold their last meeting of the season Sunday afternoon at 2:00. oclock in the Temple Annex. After a short business program and election of officers, the Juniors will leave for Hudson Park, where they will picnic. Prize day exercises will be conducted in the school Sunday morning, May 31. TEMPLE OF AARON Shabuoth services Thursday evening, May 21, at 8:00, confirmation. Friday morning, May 22, at 8:45. Sermon Progressive Revelation. Friday evening at 7:30, short service. Saturday morning, May 23, at 8:45, Me- morial services and sermon at 10:00. Topic The Voice of the Past. The late Friday evening services have been discontinued for the summer. The Religious School will hold a special assembly Sunday morning, May 24. It will be given by the children of Class IV under the direction of Miss Freda Braverman, and will deal with ceremonies in the synagogue. The school will close Sunday morning, May 31. JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER Election of officers for the coming year will take place at the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the general election held last week, at the Center, Wednesday evening, May 27, at 8:00 oclock. The budget for the year and other matters of importance wil be considered at the Board meeting. The Talmud Torah Celebration of Shabuoth took place at an assembly of all pupils of the school Wednesday afternoon in the Center auditorium. Shabuoth Services for the school children will be held Friday and Saturday mornings at 10:00 oclock. Monthly report cards were issued to pupils of the Talmud Torah for the first month of the spring semester last Monday. HEINE MONOLOGUE ON RADIO A Monologue from a Mattress by Louise Untermyer, portraying the last moments of the life of Heinrich Heine, will be dramatically interpreted by A1 Chance, a member of the staff of WCCO in the weekly radio broadcast of the St. Paul Zionist District over that station Sunday morning at 11:15. A folk song duet A Gruss Fun Der Heim, will be presented by Clara Honigman, soprano, and Sol Joseph-son, tenor, accompanied by Philip Ras-kowsky, all of the Jack Berlin company now playing in the Twin Cities. The St. Paul Zionists will conclude their radio series which has now been running some weeks, with a forty-five minute program Sunday morning, July 5. CAPITOL HEBREW SCHOOL A meeting of the Parent-Teachers association will take place Sunday, May 24, at 7:30, at the school. Very important problems will be discussed. Parents have been requested to attend. Report cards for the month of lor have been issued. Visitors and parents week will commence June 1. 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Organization of the group which will undertake the purchase of four hundred dunims of land during the next five years, followed an address by Bernard Stone, National Executive Secretary of the Keren Kayemeth, who visited St. Paul en route to his home in New York City from a visit to the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Thos. Myers was elected chairman of the group, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen and Jesse B. Calmenson, vice chairmen, Joseph Krawetz, secretary, and Abe Mogelson, treasurer. DR. MYERS CHOSEN BABY WELFARE DIRECTOR Dr. Thos. Myers, 2234 Riverwood Place, was honored recently by the staff of the St. Paul Baby Welfare Association, by being elected medical director of the Association. The Association which is a philanthropic, social agency maintains infant welfare clinics throughout the city in the neighborhood and social centers. HOME AUXILIARY TO MEET The annual meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged will be held at the Home, Monday, May 25, at 2:00 oclock. After the report and election of officers, a social hour will follow, to which all members and friends of the Home are invited. On the program will be violin selections by Heimann Weinstein, vocal selections by Rose Fineberg Gordon, and refreshments. The Auxiliary has just completed new furnishings for another of the sun rooms at the Home, and the social hour will take place there. LADIES AUXILIARY LUNCHEON MEET The Ladies Auxiliary of the Capitol City Hebrew School will hold a 1:00 oclock luncheon and meeting for members and friends. Tuesday, May 26, at the school. Further arrangements will be made for the annual picnic which will take place July 12 at Como Park. DELTA OMEGA IOTA FORMAL SUNDAY Plans have been completed for the annual Spring Formal Dinner Dance of the Theta Chapter of the Delta Omega Iota Sorority at the Hotel Del Otero, Spring Park, Minnetonka, to be held jointly with the Nu Chapter of Minneapolis, Sunday, May 24. Committees in charge of arrangements are headed by Rosalyn Shilkrout, Mildred Mark and Mary Millunchick. The drawing for the ten dollar gold piece will be raffled by the Sorority Monday, May 25, at the Temple of Aaron carnival, at the Cosmetic Booth. WILDWOOD PARK OPENS WEDNESDAY Wildwood Park with all its amusements, speed boats, picnics, water sports, and attractions of every kind for young and old, will open the 1931 season on Wednesday, May 27. Served by the Twin City street car lines, Wildwood is located on beautiful White Bear Lake. During the coming season, Ernie Winter and his Dixie Collegians will initiate the dance season on the dance pavilion overlooking the lake, and following their engagement, there will be a change of orchestras every two weeks. Each day following the opening of the season, there will be dancing from 8:15 to 11:15, evenings, except Saturdays, when the hours will be from 8:45 to 11:45, and on Sunday afternoons there will be dancing from 3:00 to 5:00, with a special dance program the afternoon of Decoration Day from 2:30 to 5:30. For those not interested in picnic grounds, the De Luxe Coffee Shop in the main pavilion will offer appetizing food throughout the season. PALESTINE CAMPAIGN URGES MAIL GIFTS Although officials of the American Palestine Campaign are still hopeful of the possibility of securing additional workers to solicit hundreds of Jewish families that have not yet been approached in the annual campaign for Palestinian reconstruction through the Keren Hayesod, an urgent appeal has been made by the associate chairmen, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen, L. C. Perlman and Mrs. H. Rosenthal, to all families that have not yet been seen, to mail in their contributions, whether large or small. Checks may be made to the American Palestine Campaign, and mailed to H. Harris, Treasurer, 174 E. 4th, or A. Mogelson, Secretary, 127 E. 3rd St. The total thus far subscribed in the local effort which started May 5, is slightly less than $6,000. DR. BIRNBERG TO ADDRESS LODGE At the next meeting of the Brith Sholom Lodge to be held at Minnehaha Hall, 190 W. 9th St., Thursday, May 28, at 8:00 oclock, Dr. T. L. Bim-berg wall deliver an address on conditions in the Soviet Union as he saw them on his recent trip to Europe. The lecture will be illustrated by slides taken by Dr. Birnberg while in the Soviet Union. In charge of arrangements are Irving Epstein, chairman; A. H. Abramovitz, Benjamin Frishberg, Max Goldberg and Isadore Mogelson. The meeting will be open to the public. TO PRESENT HOLY SCROLL The presentation of a Holy Scroll will be made by Mr. and Mrs. H. Rutman, 222 E. 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Ethel had never forgotten; but it seemed hard to remember it just now. That blessing had not been meant for a girl who would deny her faith for a mere jobeven though that job was the most necessary thing in the world just now, even though she had been refused dozens of positions in the last few months because she had declared herself to be Jewish. Rabbi Levines whispered blessing sounded in her ear again: God has given you a fine mind, my child, and parents who love you deeply. May He enable you to repay your debt to your parents by shaping your life so that you will bring honor to them and to the people of Israel. Bring honor to the people of Israel! She had hoped to study law and become a great lawyer, that she might reflect credit upon her parents and her community. But her fathers death, six years ago, had prevented the carrying out of that plan. Her earnings were too badly neededand here she was, lying to get a job! Ethel shivered so violently that Miss Peters, who had returned to her own work, observed it and asked: Are you cold ? Ill shut the window, if you like. This May weather sometimes is rather wintry, isnt it? The friendly voice made Ethel feel even more uncomfortable. Thank youIm not cold, she replied in a low voice. Miss Peters looked at her curiously. Under her scrutiny Ethel lowered her eyes. She knew her uneasiness was evidentbut she couldnt help it. Is anything wrong ? Are. you ill? Miss Peters asked, solicitously. Suddenly Ethel made up her mind. She couldnt go through with it, job or no job. She rose abruptly and said: Im sorry, Miss Peters, but Ive made a mistake. Its inexcusable, I knowbut I do need this job so badly. Thats why She stopped, and looked full into Miss Peters eyes. The sympathy, mingled with puzzlement, that she saw there helped her to go on. Thats why I told the employment bureau that Im Episcopalian. Im notIm Jewish. I need work, and so many people have turned me down because of my religion that I thought Id try this way of getting it. ButI cant go through with it. Ethel sat down againher knees were too shaky for standingand began to dab at her eyes. She felt horribly embarrassed. Yet it had been the only thing to do. She knew that, and in her heart was glad of her confession. Though, of course, her chances for the job were gone. Then she became aware that Miss Peters had come over to her and had put an arm about her shoulders. Im glad you told me, the personnel manager said softly. It shows you have character, though you did make a mistake. I think I understand what trouble youve hadsome peo- ple are so silly about these things. But, as a matter of fact, it wont make any difference here. Especially since Miss Gross is Jewishshes been Mr. Hughes secretary for years, and shes leaving us now to get married. So, you see, your being Jewish wont really make any difference here. If Mr. Hughes finds you satisfactory youll get the job, whatever your religion.Which reminds me youd better powder your nose now and come in with me. Mr. Hughes will be ready to try you out in a moment. S. A. F. S. A JEWISH MEMORIAL TO A CATHOLIC PRIEST A sermon of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise recently before the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall, dealt with A Jewish Memorial to a Catholic Priest. Dr. Wise designed his address to be the first note of what is to be a worldwide centenary commemoration of the death of Abbe Gregoire, one of the greatest figures in France of the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Wise called attention to the fact that, if one turns to the Catholic Encyclopedia, one finds no biographical note touching this priest of the Roman Catholic church. The Encyclopaedia Britannica on the other hand, makes no mention whatever of his championship of the cause of freedom for the Jews of France. The Catholic Encyclopaedia is as silent about Abbe Gregoire as the Catholic Encyclopaedia of a century hence may be expected to be silent about Zamora,, first president of the Republic of Spain, or about Unamono, seer and prophet of the new Spain. In his battle for the political, civil and, above all, human rights of Jews, Gregoire stood not alone but in the company of such great figures of their age as Robespierre and Mirabeau. Gregoires life as a public figure, over and beyond his faithful curacy as priest, began with the publication of his essay on The Physical, Moral and Political Regeneration of the Jews. Shortly after the publication of this prize-essay, he became a member of the French States General and an advocate of Jewish emancipation. This was an advocacy braver and more difficult by far than Macaulays advocacy sixty years later in England, his battle being for equal rights for all men, regardless of creed and nationality. Dr. Wise pointed out, whatever other commemorations may be held in France and in other lands, there is special reason that the Jewish people institute a special commemoration of Gregoire, that shall have regard to the courage of his advocacy and the nobleness of that service which led, perhaps more than anything else, to the Jewish emancipation in France and subsequently in other European lands. Let us of the House of Israel always be eager to praise whenever praise is worthily bestowed. We Phone Your Orders Instant Deliver; Butlers Drug Store SELBY & DALE Dale 3737-0345-0921 FUR STORAGE Remodeling:, Repairing:, Glazing^ Cleaning: Hill Tailors & Fur Co. FUR COATS MADE TO ORDER 606 Selby Ave. Dale 8123 M. 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Dr. Wise made special reference to the character of men throughout the ages, whose only kindness to Israel lay in the truth that they were great enough to be utterly just in their attitude toward the Jew. Dr. Wise contrasted the base Hitlers of any age with the noble Gregoires. I think God that our foes are the foes - of freedom. I thank Good that our friends are the friends of humanity and of human liberty. Oh, the tragic degradation of the term, good to the Jews! Good to the Jewsas if any man were good to Jews whose acts or words were inspired by the motive of kindness to inferiors. It becomes necessary to say in this hour, in the light of recent happenings, that being good to the Jews shall not, save from the basest and vulgarest among our people, secure condonation of wrong-doing. Else are we the enemies of the state! Abbe Gregoire was good to the Jews, though he named no Jewish magistrates nor ever appointed a Jewish borough president. He was good to the Jews in the only way in which we would have any man be good to the Jews, insofar as he was a great and daring friend of humankind, insofar as he was an uncompromising foe of wrong and tyranny and injustice! FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PROF. MOORE Cambridge. (J. T. A.)Funeral services for the Rev. Dr. George Foot Moore, professor emeritus at Harvard and a leading authority on Hebrew, who died here Saturday in his 80th year, were held Tuesday in Appleton Chapel. For twenty years Professor Moore was professor of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1904 he was appointed to the chair of the history of religions at Harvard. He has written scores of scholarly studies on the Old Testament, the best known of which are the Literature of the Old Testament and Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, the Age of Tannaism. This latter work was the outcome of studies extending over a period of thirty years and presented the problem in a new light, independent of the established doctrine of the superiority of Christianity over the contemporary religion of the Pharisees. Shortly after the publication of this book Professor Moore was selected by the American Hebrew as one of the two Christians who during the year had contributed a notable achievement. in behalf of America and the Jewish people. His book was characterized as one that would tend to break down and destroy many current prejudices and misrepresentations regarding Judaism. On Ins 76th birthday Jewish scholars throughout the world extended felicitations to him. On a number of occasions he received honorary degrees from various Jewish institutions among them the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Academy. EXPERIMENTS WITH SEX TRANSFORMATIONS Vienna (J. T. A.)-A sensational experiment revealing the possibility of changes in sex without an operation was demonstrated by Dr. Eugene Steinach, head of the University of Viennas biological experiment station, before a gathering of leading Austrian medical men, who termed the demonstration the most important in the recent annals of medical biology. Dr. Steinachs sex-changing process is made possible by means of an X-ray apparatus or an injection without gland transfusion. Dr. Steinach, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, is the son of a well-known Jewish physician of Vorarlber, a community on the Swiss border. New York (W. N. S.)'The National Council of Jewish Women has gone on record as favoring the amendment of the U. S. postal laws to permit the dissemination of birth control information. The resolution was adopted at the closing session of the annual meeting of the Councils board of managers. It was decided to hold the 13th triennial convention at Detroit next March. 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Sixth Street AT lantic 6546 Minneapolis 76 East Fifth Street GArfield 4347 Saint Paul Save Where You Gan BorrowJEWISH WORLD A Weekly Journal of Modern Jewish Life and Labors VOL. XIX Minneapolis and St. Paul Friday, May 22, 1931 No. 38 A Catholic Fighter For Jewish Freedom By Martin Abelson May 28 marks the centennial of the death of Bishop Henri Gregoire, a coura-| geous French Catholic, who more than any other one man was responsible for the emancipation of French Jewry 142 years ago. In France, Jews and Christians have united in a society to honor the memory oj this brave man who fought and suffered so that those who differed with him in religion might have liberty.The Editor. Gregoire had his way. He had his way so often and against such odds, that there came to be a saying among the people of Paris: Let Gregoire have his way. He had his way when he stood up for the rights of the Jews, and secured the liberation of the negroes and the abolition of slavery; he had his way at his death, when he refused to recant the doctrines of religious liberty and to conform his political views to the requirements of the Archbishop of Paris, and yet se-I cured the last sacrament in spite of I the Archbishops refusal, i'i When .he could not carry others t with him in his way, he stood alone, I and stood isolated for years, rather a than budge from his path. Thus, when I he was a senator in the reign of Na-I poleon, he stood out often against the I emperor, alone violently republican, I protesting the establishment of a new I court, refusing the title of count I that Napoleon bestowed broadcast I upon all the senators. For that, and other obstinate re-i fusals on principlesuch as his I lone vote against Napoleons divorce, I he suffered in later years. His pen-| sion as an ex-senator was withheld from him. He was dropped from the Institute which he had helped develop. But the people remained with the fighting bishop, and after the Restoration elected him again to the lower house, they insisted that Gregoire have his way. So alarming was the popular faith in the republican priest to the restored monarchial powers, that a cabinet was dissolved over his election, and the newly formed government voted down his admittance to the legislature. The life of the priest is curiously modern. His interpretation of the duties of a member of the clergy conform more to the interpretation of a rabbi or preacher of the present-day generation, than to the stricter theses of his day, when a priests duties were as clearly outlined as the service of the mass. And yet, liberal as he was in practice, Henri Gregoire remained a devout Catholic all his hfe, said mass every day, appeared at the revolutionary sessions in the Purple vestments of a bishop while his fellow revolutionists were in a storm of anti-clerical legislation' which he upheld! For he was one of the staunchest supporters of the movement to end the privileges of the clergy and the nobility. Henri Gregoire was born on December 4, 1750, in the village of Veho, near Luneville, in France. He was the son of poor peasants. Though he later distinguished himself as a liberal, his early training was hardly of the sort to prepare his nature for such views. He received his education in a strict Jesuit college in Nancy, and became an instructor in a Jesuit college at Pont-a-Mousson. Soon he left his professorship, to take up his duties as a cure in the town of Embermesnil in Lorraine. There he came into contact with his own type of people, villagers, honest, sturdy peasants, and he saw that his work was greater than the mere rote of administering religion. He secured books on agriculture, he founded a small library in connection with his church (the roots of the modern community center) and made it his business to learn how to help his flock improve their living conditions. The Catholic priest travelled in France and Germany, went among farmers, talked with them of crops, crop diseases, means of harvest, cheesemaking, marketingand he returned, and taught his villagers what he had learned. He did not confine his attention to the well-being of his parishioners, however. It was while he was a priest in Lorraine that he began his work in the interest of Jews. At that time there were head-taxes, and other heavy burdens on the Jews of the province, so overwhelming as to make existence almost impossible for them. Henri Gregoire studied their problems. In 1789 when the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Metz offered a prize for the best essay on the Jews, he wrote his famous book on the Physical, Moral, and Political Regeneration of the Jews. He pointed out that the Jews were no worse than any other people, that whatever objectionable traits might be discerned in them had been developed through the oppression to which they had been subjected by the atrocious anti-Jew-ish regulations of the Middle Ages. He argued that, given civil liberty and equality, the Jews would prove worthy French citizens. Though these views may not appear original or even extravagantly liberal today, they created a great impression in their time. Henri Gregoire won the prize of the Academy, but that was only the first step in his fight for the liberation of oppressed peoples. In 1789 he was elected to the Estates-General; there he proposed a bill for granting the civil rights of the Jews. His career during the revolution was important; his rise to power and popularity was quick. It was he who HENRI GREGOIRE presided over the 62-hour session of the new legislature when the Bastille was being stormed. In 1791 he became Bishop of Loire et Cher; in 1792 he was elected president of the Convention. In 1793, when Gobel, Bishop of Paris, resigned his church post because he felt it not compatible with his political views to be a clerical power, Gregoire was called upon to resign his bishopric. He refused, however, proclaiming again the freedom of religion, and maintaining that his activities in church and in state were separate. It was during this struggle that all Paris adopted the cry, Let Gregoire have his way. And he did. He remained Bishop. In 1794 he proclaimed the freedom of worship, and even secured the liberty of churchmen who had been imprisoned by the republicans. It was Gregoire who was to preside over the trial of King Louis XVI, but though he delivered himself of the famous peroration: Kings are to the moral order of being what monsters are to the physical orderthe history of kings is the martyrdom of nations, he never approved the order for the death of the monarch. After he had secured the passage of a series of bills in which the Jews were granted civil rights and freedom of worship, he became interested in the conditions of other oppressed groups, and in 1798 demanded civil rights for the negroes, and secured the abolition of slavery. Gregoire resigned his bishopric in 1801 as a protest against the churchs concordat with Napoleon. Then he went into retirement, though his power was always felt to be alive. He travelled in England and Germany; in 1814 he returned to France, and was elected to the lower house, but refused admittance. He spent the remainder of his life in study, in working in the arts and sciences. It is for the commemoration of the career of this amazing priest that Sylvain Levy, president of the Alliance Universelle Israelite, President Doumergue, and former Premiere Painleve of France have joined to form a centennial society. The people of France have never forgotten him. At his funeral, a group of students unhitched the horses, and drew his coach, while 20,000 Parisians followed him to his grave. J. T. A. BNAI BRITH ANNOUNCES DEFAMATION GAINS NEW YORK. (W. N. S.)Anti-Semitism, by way of slurs on the Jewish race, is often unintentional on the part of its sponsors, according to the semi-annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, headed by Sigmund Livingston. The report, made public at the New York offices of the Bnai Brith, summarizes the disposition of cases that came before the Commissions attention since its last meeting on September 15, 1930, as follows: Effected the elimination of objec-tional definitions of the word Jew in two dictionaries; secured a promise from the American Automobile Association that it will, in the future, refuse to recommend any hotel which discriminates against Jews; received assurance from one of the largest credit agencies in the country that no reference to religion will be made in its reports; successfully negotiated with the Associated Press in a protest against the use of the word Jew to designate gangsters; drew an apology from one of the largest Western corporations because a subsidiary department published an advertisement for employment with the phrase Christians Only. Page Two THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 The Jewish Problem Comes to Mexico A Review of Recent Events and Past History By David Mann Mexico is now in the limelight of Jewish news. Last week scores of Jewish peddlers were driven from the market places of Mexico City. The United States Government has been asked to intervene. The following article provides a background for understanding the present situation.The Editor. * * * American Jewry, grown accustomed to the routine record of Rumania, Hungary, Germany and other East European countries on the roster of anti-Semitic sponsors, was startled one day recently to discover that a new Jewish problem had been created. Mexico had put in its bid for consideration as a contender for honors in anti-Jewish discrimination. At once the wheels of Jewish sympathy, driven fast by the rapid succession of dispatches describing ever new incidents of prejudice and violence, began to operate. The first tangible effort to end the excesses and to intercede on behalf of Mexican Jewry was made by Alfred M. Cohen, President of the Bnai Brith, who telegraphed to Secretary of State Stimson and urged that the American Government make representations to the Mexican Government in regard to the reported outrages. The news stories had described the sudden and violent ejection of Jewish peddlers from the market places of Mexico City. This was followed by speeches urging death to the Jews. A situation was created which threatened to engulf all of Mexican Jewry in a wave of blind fury. For Mexico to have joined the ranks of those countries with acute Jewish problems is a powerful indication of the growing menace of world-wide anti-Semitism which some sociologists attribute to the current economic depression, which is universal in its effects. But though Mexico has been quick to imitate the Jew-baiting practices of so experienced an anti-Semitic land as Germany, its Jewish problem is the youngest of any countrys. For Jews have pricked themselves on the Mexican consciousness only during the last decade. It was in 1921 that there began to trickle into Mexico the Jews who fled from Europe and could find no entry into the United States. During the past ten years approximately 9,000 Jewish immigrants have come into Mexico, most of them from Poland and some from Russia. But even that small number forcefully attracted attention to itself. That was a purely economic circumstance. For those who entered the land brought a subsistence for only a few months. Artisans or petty merchants, they hoped to gain a foothold in their new land of settlement. But Mexican conditions were against them. In the first place, Mexico has one of the most powerful trade union organizations in the world. It refused to admit the Jewish newcomers. The merchants had no means to start themselves in business. The result was that the majority had to earn a livelihood by becoming peddlers. That immediately created a conflict with the native traders. Though scores of Jews, have, since 1921, established themselves in such variegated businesses as jewelry, garages, industrial chemistry, pharmacy, manufacturing, engraving, tailoring and shoe-making, there are still thousands who are forced to earn their living from itinerant vending, from booths or pushcarts. It was not merely the desire to make a political gesture which inspired Alfred M. Cohen to protest to the United States Government against the new outbreaks in Mexico City. The Bnai Brith, of which he is the head, has done more to integrate the Jewish immigrants into the life of Mexico than any other organization. The Bnai Brith, made aware of the struggle of the newcomers to earn a livelihood and of the embarrassing efforts of some of them to gain unlawful entry into the United States, undertook to stabilize the life of the immigrants. It gave the new arrivals a meeting house, taught them Spanish, provided them with loans (which smarted off most of them in their own ALFRED M. COHEN International President Bnai Brith businesses) and impressed upon them the need for recognizing that Mexico was their country and that efforts to penetrate the United States would be both futile and dangerous. The work of carrying out these activities was entrusted to J. L. Weinberger of Vera Cruz. And it is to the exhaustive material compiled by Mr. Weinberger that this writer is indebted for very valuable information on Jewish conditions in Mexico. The records indicate that Jews first came to Mexico in 1538. These were the remnants of the masses that had been swept out of Spain as a result of the Inquisition. Hundreds of Jews found their way to Mexico during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They had hoped to secure safety from religious persecution and also the opportunities for economic advancement. They were quickly disillusioned, however, for the Inquisition worked just as feverishly in Mexico. Thus the country produced its own Marranos. Many, however, deserted to Christianity for ever. As a result of the Mexican revolution in the nineteenth century Jews found conditions better. Jews from Levantine countries immigrated to Mexico. It is estimated that about 14,000 of these Sephardic Jews are now resident in Americas southern sister republic. They built up a Jewish communal life of their own, along the lines of Spanish tradition. When the new Jewish immigration began in 1921 the Sephardic Jews maintained a distance from the newcomers, though their relations have always been friendly. They could hardly be called intimate, however, or even helpful. Because of the keen competition offered by the Jews to the local traders the Mexican Government two years ago inaugurated a series of restrictive immigration laws designed to prevent any further influx from Eastern Europe. Though there was no overt anti-Semitic bias to this legislation, it is worth noting that ninety per cent of the East European immigration consisted of Jews. It was in 1925 that anti-Semitism gained real impetus in Mexico. The immigration of several thousand Jews in that year overflooded the market places of Mexico City, where the majority of the Jews located themselves. Several newspapers began to conduct a. campaign of anti-Jewish propaganda, demanding that the invaders be ejected. In 1928 there was a recurrence of anti-Semitism in the city of Merida. One newspaper had launched a campaign for the ousting of all Jewish merchants in the city. The Bnai Brith appealed to the Governor of Yucatan, who promised effective action to prevent such violence. The excitement then subsided. In fact, conditions seemed to be adjusting themselves so rapidly that the Bnai Brith decided to discontinue its activities last June and to turn over its great variety of projects to the local Jewish community, which had at last been organized. But apparently business conditions have become The personnel manager of Hughes and Symonds, the citys greatest law firm, let her critical gaze glide over Ethels trim figure. Apparently the plain straw hat, the simple tailored suit and the shiny patent leather shoes of the applicant satisfied the manager, for her smile was friendly as she said: So youre the young lady the Legal Employment Bureau sent me. I suppose you realize that this is a very responsible position for which youre applying? Ethels voice was calm as she answered, though her heart was beating wildly. She simply had to get this jobshe had been out of work for months, and money was badly needed at home. Miss Burke, at the bureau, told me you need a secretary for Mr. Hughes. Im sure I can handle the workIve had five years experience, and lost my last position only through the dissolution of the firm I was working for. This card here gives my references, which the bureau checked up. She handed the manager a small card. The manager read it through carefully before she spoke again. Ethel Ross. Im Miss Peters, Miss Ross. Yes, the references seem satisfactoryI think we may try you out. If youll just leave your hat and coat in my office, Ill take you into Mr. Hughes room, so that he can give you some sample tasks. Ethel drew a deep breath. So that question hadnt come up at all! That was something to be thankful for. She hated the idea of uttering that lie over againand yet, she would have had to, if Miss Peters had asked. She would have had toshe needed the job too badly to risk being turned away. As she hung her hat on the clothes-tree she heard Miss Peters observe: We have a nice group of girls here I think youll be able to make friends with many of them. I always try to pick girls wholl be congenialit makes the work in an office so much easier, dont you think? Ethel murmured something to the effect that she usually got along very nicely with her fellow-workers. I'm glad to hear that. Weve a number of Episcopalians hereI see youre one, thats why I mention it. As a matter of fact, our staff is mostly Protestant. We find it much more convenientless time lost for holidays, Jewish and Catholic. Though the Catholic girls, of course, miss only Good Friday. But the Jewish girls well, theyre very charming, all of them, but it is a nuisance when they stay away on their holidays. They so depressed that hundreds of J6Ws have again been driven into the market places as peddlers. And again anti-Semitism has reared its head. But Mexico, like every other country which indulges in anti-Semitism, has its own paradox. It has Jews whom it persecutes, but it also has its Jews whom it presents as the countrys glory. One need cite only one illustration, for he is sufficiently important to counteract all the inconvenience which Mexican business interests allege they have experienced on account of Jewish peddlers. That example is Diego Rivera, Mexicos outstanding artist, the man who has revolutionized contemporary art in his country and who has done more to give Mexico artistic prestige throughout the world than any other Mexican. And Diego Rivera, President Ortiz Rubio should be reminded, is a scion of Spanish Jews, in whom flows the blood of creative artists of the past. If Mexico has a Jewish problem it is of her own creation, and not the inevitable result of circumstances. S. A. F. S. have so many, and none of them coincide with ours. Why, only a few weeks ago we were six girls short on account of Passover, and next week theyll be away again, for some other holiday. Yes, Im glad youre Protestantit makes things so much simpler, doesnt it? Ethel felt again that sinking feeling which had invaded her when, in filling in her application blank at the Legal Employment Bureau, she had written that lie on the line inquiring after her religion. But it was too late to back out now, she felt. So she replied to Miss Peters half-rhetorical question with a low-voiced: Yes, I suppose it does. Now if youll just sit down a minute Ill ring Mr. Hughes and see whether hell be able to take you in now. Seated on a straight-backed chair, Ethel half-listened to Miss Peters telephone conversation. It was brief, and the result was conveyed to her in the personnel managers brisk tones: Well, it seems that hes busy just nowbut hell be able to see you in about fifteen minutes. If youll just wait here Ethels thoughts as she waited were none too happy. Her lie weighed on her conscience and what was it that Miss Peters had said of another holiday next week? That would be Shabuoth; her little sister was to be confirmed, and she, Ethel, wouldnt be able to be in the Temple to witness the ceremonyprovided, that is, she got the job. And she must get the job! Somehow the scene of her own confirmation came to Ethels mind. It had been ten years agoshe a little girl of thirteen in a snow-white dress, carrying a bunch of white roses, standing at the pulpit and reciting a Hebrew prayer. As she had recited she had seen her father and mother, with her baby sister between them, sitting in their pew, proudly gazing at their eldest. Poor little sister! Her confirmation would be a lonely affair; only Mother would be there to see her become a member of the Congregation of Israel. Father had been dead for years now, and Ethel well, Ethel couldnt be there, if she got that job, as she must. She had recited a prayer in Hebrew, ten years ago. Then the entire Confirmation Class had passed before the Rabbi, in single file, to receive his individual blessing. Rabbi Levine had always preferred to give his blessing to his confirmands in a few whis-(Continued on Page 15) Better Late A Shavuoth Story by Mark Hollander May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Three Jewish News From Everywhere London (W. N. S.)Jewish charitable and educational institutions of London receive the major part of the $800,000 bequest left to philanthropy by the late Mrs. Caroline Berg. Washington (J. T. A.)J. A. Kam-erow, special agent here for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati is announced as the winner of the national essay contest in which thousands of underwriters throughout the country participated. New York (W. N. S.)Dr. Leon W. Goldrich has been named as the first director of the bureau of child guidance which will he opened next September as a part of the city school system, it has been announced by the New York City Board of Education. The bureau, which will deal with problem children in the city schools, will pay its head $10,000 annually. Philadelphia (W. N. S.)The Howard N. Potte medal for distinguished achievement in the field of physical sciences is to be awarded by the Franklin Institute to Prof. Benno Strauss, who is teaching in Essen, Germany. The medal will be received in Prof. Strauss absence by Dr. Otto Kiep, German Consul General in New York. Antwerp, Belgium (W. N. S.)Jewish peddlers are finding great difficulty in securing places for their goods in the market places of Antwerp due to the concerted effort of anti-Semitic traders in keeping the Jews from stalls. Many cases of violence in the ejection of the Jews have been reported. Most of the peddlers recently immigrated here from Poland. HELPS SAVE BANK Vienna (W. N. S.)Faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, the Austrian State Bank, the countrys largest fiscal institution, called upon the hanking house of Rothschild to save it from collapse. A conference of leading bankers, summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance, resulted in the granting by the Rothschild house and an associate of a credit to the state bank of approximately $25,000,000. TO COMPLETE MICHELSONS EXPERIMENT Pasadena (J. T. A.)The last experiment of Dr. Albert Michelson, interrupted by death, will be completed by his associates. It will be finished as the great scientist originally planned. Four days before his death he dictated from his sickbed an outline of the scientific paper which will eventually announce the results of his experiment. WINS DRAMA AWARD Buenos Aires (J. T. A.)Samuel Eichelbaum, Spanish - Jewish playwright of this city, has been declared the winner of the first prize, given by the municipality of Buenos Aires annually for the best play. The prize was given to Eichelbaum for his play Senorita, which ran last year in one of the local theatres. Though still a young man, Eichelbaum has already achieved a great reputation here as a playwright. WINS NATIONAL PEACE ESSAY CONTEST Washington, D. C. (W. N. S.) Morris Leviloff, 17-year-old student at Bulkley High School, London, Conn., has been announced as the winner of the best 500-word essay in a nationwide contest on the best means of achieving peace. Leviloff will be given a free trip to Europe as one of fifteen who will go abroad to observe international relations under the auspices of the National Student Forum. The judges in the contest included Sen- ator Arthur Capper and U. S. Commissioner of Education William Cooper. JEWISH GROUP DECLARED WINNER Chicago (J. T. A.)The Institute Players of the Chicago Jewish Peoples Institute have won first honors again in the Drama League Tournament held at the Goodman Theatre. For the second year in succession the Silver Cup, which was never won twice by any organization, was awarded to the Institute Players for their presentation of The Dollar by David Pin-ski. The contest was participated in by dramatic organizations of Chicago and its suburbs. Sixteen little theatres competed, representing independent and college groups. ESTIMATES 9,785,000 JEWS IN EUROPE Berlin (W. N. S.)There are 9,785,-000 Jews in Europe, according to an estimate made by J. Koralnik and Dr. Jacob Segall in an article in the Zeitschrift fuer Demographie und Statistik der Juden. According to these figures, which are supposed to be complete as of the end of 1930, the Jews are divided among the following countries: Poland, 3,125,000; Russia, 2,970,000; Rumania, 800,000; Germany, 585,000; Hungary, 473,000; Czechoslovakia, 380,000; England and Ireland, 300,000; Austria, 220,000; Lithuania, 167,000; France, 160,000; Holland, 120,000; Latvia, 96,000; Greece, 73,000; Yugoslavia, 67,000; Italy, 45,000; Sweden, 6,000; Spain, 3,000; Norway, 450. NAMED DEAN OF GERMAN U Prague (J. T. A.)Dr. Emil Stark-enstein, a member of the faculty of the medical school of the German University of Prague, has been appointed dean of the University for the academic year of 1931-1932. Dr. Starkenstein is a leading member of the Bnai Brith grand lodge. Born in Ronsperg, Czecho-Slovakia in 1885, Dr. Starkenstein was appointed an instructor in pharmacology in 1913, extraordinary professor in 1920 and full professor in 1929. He is the discoverer of vasano, a remedy against sea-sickness and other ail ments resulting from loss of equilibrium. He is also the author of a number of standard work on Pharmacology. WAILING WALL SACRED ONLY TO JEWS Jerusalem (J. T. A.)That the Wailing Wall is sacred only to the Jews is one of the most important conclusions reached by the International Wailing Wall Commission, whose report on Moslem and Jewish claims to the Wall is expected to be made public soon, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from a reliable source. This conclusion upholds the principal contention made by the Jews at the hearings of the Commission last June and July that only the Jews regarded the Wailing Wall as a shrine of devotion, and not the Moslems. The whole tone of the report is understood to be apparently favorable to the Jewish case, although the practical recommendations may disappoint those expecting greater liturgical freedom than the Commission considered customary. LEGION DECLINES TO CHANGE DATE INDIANAPOLIS. (J. T. A.)Although manifesting every desire to comply with the request to change the convention date of the American Legion in Detroit which is to open on September 21, the day of Yom Kippur, the national executive committee at its meeting here regretted the inadvisability of such action because of the extensive preparations already made, including printing and publicity. Out of respect to the Jewish legionnaires, however, the executive committee decided that the convention would adjourn on September 21 at noon for the rest of the day. The executive committee also voted to give every possible co-operation to Jewish legionnaires in providing them with places of worship. William Stern of Fargo, North Dakota, and David Adler of Fairbanks, Alaska, Jewish national committeemen, made the appeal for the change. SYNAGOGUE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BELASCO New York, (J.T.A.)David Belasco, the theatrical wizard of America for more than half a century and the maker of scores of stars whose names are part of the dramatic history of this country, who died Thursday afternoon after a long illness at the age of 76, was buried at Linden Hills Cemetery after funeral services at the Central Synagogue with Rabbi Jonah B. Wise officiating. The son of Abraham Humphrey Belasco, a Portuguese Jewish clown, Belasco was born in a San Francisco basement. His early education was under Catholic auspices to which has been traced his habit of wearing a reversed collar. Associated with the stage from his earliest youth, Belasco had played in over 200 dramatic roles before he was 27. A successful playwright and producer before he was out of his teens, his acquaintance with such stage luminaries as Booth and Sothern eventually led to his coming to New York as the lighting expert of the old Madison Square Theatre. His pioneering in electric lighting effects created a sensation, and 1883 he became manager of the theatre. His first great success was May Blossom. Belasco himself estimated that he had written over 150 plays and had produced or staged nearly 400. Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Warfield, Leonore Ulric are but a few of the stage stars whom he trained and raised to stardom. In his first years in New York he was associated with Daniel Froh-man. Later he lost a million dollars in fighting the Klaw-Erlander syndicate. He acquired his own theatre in 1902 and eventually he owned interests in theatres in most of the leading cities. Belasco was known as the wizard of the American theatre because of his use of stagecraft, his attention to detail, his passionate striving for atmosphere for reality in properties, and for his achievements with sets and lighting effects. Although Belas-cos career spanned the development of American drama from the days of blood-curdling melodrama to its contemporary subtle forms, his first great triumphs were in melodrama. Two years ago Belascos connection with the Freiburg Passion play presented at the Hippodrome by his son-in-law, Morris Gest, created nationwide protests on the part of American Jewry led by the late Louis Marshall who sought to prevent the plays showing. The Hippodrome performance was given under the personal direction of David Belasco. sf: * * New York.The will of David Belasco, theatrical producer, filed for probate, leaves the bulk of his estate to his daughter, Mrs. Morris Gest, who receives $25,000 in cash, all of the art and antiques and 60 per cent of the income from plays and contracts. Two bequests to charity are listed$5,000 to the Actors fund of America, and $10,000 to Ahawath Central synagogue, New York. BNAI BRITH REPRESENTATIVE TO INVESTIGATE MEXICAN SITUATION Toronto. (J. T. A.)J. L. Weinberger, special representative of the Bnai Brith, is now on the way to Mexico City to investigate the Jewish situation there as the result of recent anti-Semitic manifestations, according to Alfred M. Cohen, international president of Bnai Brith. Mr. Cohen is here to attend the convention of Grand Lodge No. 1, of Bnai Brith. Referring to the American State Departments investigation of the Jewish situation in Mexico, an investigation resulting from a protest by Mr. Cohen to Secretary of State Stim-som, Mr. Cohen said that the State Department has informed him that its investigations, through Ambassador J. Reuben Clark, indicates that the incidents which occurred in Mexico City in the last week or two are the result of the economic depression which manifested itself in demonstrations against Jewish and other non-Mexican elements but that no physical harm was done to the Jews. Mr. Weinberger was formerly in charge of the Bnai Brith work in Mexico until a few months ago when it was believed that this work was accomplished and he returned to Chicago, Mr. Cohen declared. He said that Mr. Weinberger would report to him personally so that he (Mr. Cohen) would be able to take further necessary steps for the protection of the Jews in Mexico. The Bnai Brith leader said that the State Department had shown its willingness to co-operate with the Bnai Brith in every possible way when the matter of Jewish persecution in Mexico was brought to its attention. Maurice D. Rosenberg, the Bnai Briths representative in Washington, is in constant touch with the State Department regarding the situation in Mexico, Mr. Cohen stated. * * * POLAND INTERVENES IN MEXICO Warsaw. (J. T. A.)Through its consul-general in Mexico City, Z. Mer-dinger, the Polish government has made representations to the Mexican government on behalf of the Polish Jews among the Jewish tradesmen in Mexico City, who were recently forcibly ousted from their stands in the public markets. As a result of these representations, the Mexican foreign minister has informed M. Merdinger that the question of trading rights for foreigners in Mexico City is now the subject of conferences between the foreign office and the ministry of the interior. While the ministry of the interior is opposed to foreigners being granted the same right to trade as Mexicans, the foreign office is favorably inclined towards traders who are not Mexican citizens. Poland is the second government to have taken an interest in the ousting of the Jewish market vendors. Last week the American state department instructed its ambassador in Mexico City to investigate whether any American citizens were affected by the expulsion of the Jewish tradesmen. * * * Mexico City. (J. T. A.)The Jewish market men in the Mexico City public markets who were ousted from their stalls last week were expelled because they were trading without licenses, President Ortiz Rubio declared in his reply to a message of protest from the Jewish Merchants Chamber of Commerce. Senor Rubio declared that he has forwarded the protest to the ministry of the interior. Meanwhile the Jewish tradesmen who were ousted are suffering want. A conference of representatives of all Jewish societies in Mexico City was held to raise a fund for the suffering Jewish vendors. Page Four THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 Amertran Jetutalj Worib Continuing1 the Jewish Weekly Established June 12, 1912, by DR. S. N. DEINARD L. H. FRISCH, EDITOR Associate Editors: Rabbi David Aronson Abraham I. Harris Rabbi C. David Matt Jesse B. Calmenson, City Editor, St. Paul Published every Friday by The Jewish World Publishing Co., Minneapolis and St. Paul. 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Fri., August 14 Rosh Hashonah.......Sat., Sept. 12 Yom Kippur..........Mon., Sept. 21 \\ EDITORIAL | A SHAVUOTH THOUGHT The Torah, whose natal day Jews celebrate on Shavuoth, has been represented in Jewish literature as the most important document in Jewish life and history. Considering God and Israel, in an allegorical sense, as the lover and his beloved, the Torah has been compared to the Ksoobo, or marriage contract, giving the details and the terms of betrothal of the divine lover for His beloved people. There is in the Midrash, the following striking allegory: A wife seems to have been deserted by her husband. At least he has left, without telling his whereabouts nor the date of his intended return. The wife naturally misses him and grieves. Her neighbors, in due course, begin to taunt her, and decry her continued faith in her husband and her belief that he will yet return. But she pays no attention to their un-neighborly discouragement. Yet at times, when her heart is heavy, and she is oppressed by the feeling of loneliness, she goes into her innermost chamber, takes out the love-letters she has cherished since the days of courtship, and reading the old, familiar vows of love and devotion, her faith and hope are reborn. In time the husband does return, and even he marvels at his wifes constancy and that she has not lost faith in him. He even expresses to her his astonishment. But she tells him that in moments of doubt she needed only to re-read his olden messages of loyalty and promise, and that was enough to keep her hopeful. Similarly, the Midrash points out, the nations of the world taunt Israel: How can you still hope that your Divine spouse, your God, has not forgotten you, how can you hope that He may turn to you again in mercy ? See how long He has forsaken you! How can you still believe that He will again call you His people and show you kindness? God Himself, the sages, declare, marvels at the constancy of His people, and He asks Israel: How could you have per- sisted in your faithfulness, especially when your fellows mocked you so long and so ceaselessly? To which Israel, like the loyal mate replies: Had it not been for Thy Torah which Thou didst give us, we would long ago have lost all sense of hope and allegiance to Thee. What better thought for serious-minded Jews to take to heart at Sha-vuoth-time? What was it that made the Jew a distinct, separate people, if not the Torah? What was it that enabled the Jew to preserve his own identity, if not the Torah ? When did the Jew show weakness and uncertainty, except when he became indifferent to the Torah ? What must the Jew do to find himself and be able to continue creditably in his distinctive path, if not revert to his Torah? No matter how much cause the Jew has for self-praise or satisfaction because of any achievements that may be his, he will be the more worthy, the more highly esteemed, the more useful to himself and to his fellow-men if he renew and maintain his loyalty to the Torah, to that distinctive Jewish system of life, to that specific code of laws and ideals involved in Judaism. Loyalty, reconciliation, reunion with the Torah and its Divine author should be the call to old and young on Shavuoth! DAVID BELASCO David Belasco, dean of the American stage, has passed on. Recently recovered from a grave illness and apparently on the way to recovery, the grand old man of the theatre succumbed to a sudden heart attack at the age of seventy-six. His death will be mourned throughout the world. He was more to the American theatre than Reinhardt is to the German or Stanislawsky to the Russian. For over half a century he has moulded the taste of American theatre audience and shown the way to the rest of the producers toward a modern, dignified and highly artistic theatre. Never was he charged with vulgarity or indecency, as have so many of his colleagues. Not once was he decried as a sensational box office showman out for material gain without regard to the highest and best traditions of his profession. Continuously and consistently David Belasco sacrificed personal gain for the sake of art. He produced the very best of foreign and American playwrights. He developed some of the foremost American actors and actresses of our time. He never hesitated to give of his strength and abundant vitality for the development of the American theatre. Belasco produced about three hundred and seventy-five plays, of which he himself wrote more than a hundred. Among his productions were successes that held American audiences spellbound for literally years. Yet the grand old man of the American theatre died a relatively poor man. He gave his all for his all-consuming love, the American theatre. From a humble Jewish home in San Francisco he worked his way to scintillating triumphs on Broadway, where theatrical competition is the keenest in the world. America and all the world mourns him as an outstanding personality and a great artist. THE ANTI-DEFAMATION REPORT The report of the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, which has just been made public, directs attention again to the admirable work that is being done by this organization. The summary of the cases disposed of by the Commission covers evidences of anti-Semitism in newspapers, magazines, books, circulars, post cards, motion pictures, employment, radio, hotels and resorts. Working consistently and systematically, the .Bnai Brith has placed its activities. in counteracting anti-Semitism on a dignified and effective level. Recognizing that the measure of its worth will be determined by the results it accomplishes and not by the hullabaloo it creates, the Bnai Brith has demonstrated that it is possible for a national organization seeking to protect Jewish interests to do so in such a manner as not to rob Jews of their self-respect and at the same time to safeguard their rights. The BELASCO THE GREAT And so the dynamo that was David Belasco has stopped running. Who can ever figure out where a man gets his energy? David was only five feet three, but he packed the power of a physical giant. Sickness tried to throw him many times, but he staged comeback after comeback. His name, you know, used to be Valasco. Or, rather, the name of his Portuguese Jewish ancestors. People will be remembering him only as one of Americas greatest directors and showmen. But you can be sure that he remembered the days when he used to work in a cigar factory, when he graduated to doing messenger service, then earned a living as a circus bare-back rider. Of course, he was a necktie salesman too at one time. Jews especially used to look at this impressive white-haired man and wonder why he wore that ecclesiastical collar. It identified him as completely as his custom of opening his plays only on Tuesdays. He always said that h'e put it on in admiration for a certain Catholic priest. But Belasco, cherishing something of mountebankery, kept it on because it attracted attention to himself. Some of his notable idiosyncrasies: he wore only black button shoes; he never smoked; he exerted a powerful fascination over women; he was a great deal of a mystic; he hated shiny things, so that he rarely let his shoes be polished; he declaimed every play that he wrote, because he felt that if he put himself in the actors place he could improve his craftsmanship. David Belasco was undoubtedly the most colorful figure on the American stage. His son-in-law is a secondhand imitation compared to Belasco. In many respects he was a saint. But there were people in the show world who also knew his as a Mephistophelean character. All that, however, will be forgotten. His greatness on the stage will linger. He himself once said: Introduce me to a girl and Im positively bashful. Bring me an actress and Im her master. * * * REMARQUE INSISTS Ever since All Quiet on the Western Front began its march through edition after edition in several dozen languages rumors have circulated to the effect that Erich Maria Remarque is a Jew. Adolf Hitlers boys were probably the first to throw the epithet at the pacifistic novelist. Later some Yiddish yeshiva bachur with a flair for acrostics and other name games figured out that Remarque was a Jew because his name is Kramer. He arrived at that by reversing the spelling. But by this time Remarque is tired of being called a Jew. And so he announces to the world: My name is not Kramer. This is a fairy tale invented by some German militarists and disseminated in the press. My name is Remarque; that has been the name of my family for hundreds of years, and the only change which this name has frequently undergone is the Germanization from Remarque to Remark. This has, however, occurred only in the case of my father and myself, because it was frequently suggested to us. No report of the Anti-Defamation Commission cannot be cited without giving credit to Dr. Isaac M. Rubinow national secretary of the Bnai Brith! A distinguished social worker, Dr. Rubinow is also equipped with an extensive Jewish background which fits him ideally for the role which he now occupies. one in our family was ever called Kramer. Well, that ought to dispose of Remarque as a contender for the golden phylacteries. But one wonders why he protests so much. * * APOLOGY FOR A JEW The tale I am about to unfold is an actual experience for which I can vouch, and on which I would stake every one of my three cents. A certain young lady, sent to a Wall Street commission house by an employment agency, was accepted as a stenographer. She was assigned to work for the treasurer of the company, who happened to be of Hebraic extraction, as they say. He was the only Jew in the house. Before she actually began work the girl was invited to the desk of the office manager, who hemmed and hawed for a while and then said: We do hope you wont have any unpleasant experience. Our treasurer is a Jew, but you wont find him like the rest. He is, of course, very exacting, but also fair. And some more in that vein, to complete the apology. The young lady found it an amusing experience. So would you. For although she is registered in the employment agency as a Methodist she is as much Jewish as you and I. * * * STUFFING THE BALLOTS Youve probably heard that there is such a thing as the Jewish Agency. Its supposed to represent a merger of Zionists and non-Zionists, in equal proportions, to run Jewish affairs in Palestine. Within the next two months the Council of the Agency is supposed to meet in Switzerland in order to elect its big chiefs and little chiefs. The Zionists, in order to nominate their representatives, are having a gory time of it. The Zionists, you see, have what they call democracy. And for six dollars you have as much right to say that Weizmann is no good as the man who owns a million. The non-Zionists, however, are more exclusive. Thats the crowd of Warburg and Lehman, you know. And to represent those boys youve got to have class and position, etc. But, strange to say, a fellow came to me recently and said: Here Ive been a member in good standing of the Zionist Organization for fifteen years, and Ive just received a letter asking me to vote for non-Zionist nominees to the Council of the Jewish Agency. At first I thought he was an exception. But it seems that there are hundreds of fellows like that. It happened this way. Since the non-Zionists on the Agency have no real organization, and since they wanted to show some form of popular approval, they collected the lists of the Joint Distribution Committee conferences and sent ballots to every one on the lists. They assumed that fellows who attended J. D. C. confabs were non-Zionists. But these Zionists have a habit of attending any kind of a Jewish meeting. And now theyre receiving the compliment of getting their mail addressed to them as though they were non-Zionists. As one thunderstruck Zionist put it: What if only the Zionists who Highlights and Sidelights Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Five received ballots should vote and the non-Zionists would abstain! The result would be that the Zionists would elect the non-Zionist members of the Agency. By the time they got through every bona fide non-Zionist would be out of a job. * * * ROTHSCHILDS ANSWER There are Hakenkreuzlers in Vienna who revel in Jew-baiting. There is a Fascist party in Austria that clamors for the expulsion of every Jewish citizen of the former Hapsburg kingdom. There is the Heimwehr, which boasts the political slogan: Every Jew is an enemy of our country. Yet the other day, when the Austrian State Bank was faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, it called upon the banking house of the Rothschilds to save it from collapse. A conference of the leading bankers of Austria was summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance. When things looked darkest the Rothschild house showed the way to safeguard the countrys largest fiscal institution by granting it a credit of $25,000,000. It is generally agreed that this action by the Rothschilds saved the day for the State Bank. The countrys finances are on the way to recovery. Austria will rejoice. The Hakenkreuzlers, the Heimwehr and the Fascists will celebrate the event. In this exhilaration it will be tactfully ignored that the Rothschilds belong to the race that is assaulted and insulted daily on the gay streets of Vienna. * * * PURPLE BLOODED JEWS With the King of Roumania apparently persisting, according to the papers, in his intention of making Mme. Lupescu, his wife, and with the Abyssinian king marrying a Jewess, we Jews will soon be swimming in royal blood. The truth is, that in the royal veins generally, there is quite a bit of the Jewish red. The Austrian royal house, according to some, is the offspring of a Sephardic Jew. And the Spanish royalty has quite a Jewish mixture. Old Ferdinand, the spouse of Isabella, was the son or grandsonI dont recall which of a Jewish mother. * * * NOT ALL ESTHERS I suppose the average Jew takes delight in thinking of these Jewish queens. He immediately begins to think of Queen Esther, who sayed her people by marrying the Persian monarch. I personally lack this consolation and assurance. I cannot but help think of Ferdinand, Jewish grandson, who stood by and even approved of the terrible Spanish Inquisition. * * * CHAPLIN AND NATIONALISM The Jew has been accused of being an internationalist. Many of us have tried to deny it, because internationalism seems to conflict with patriotism. Mr. Chaplin in London has just created something of a sensation by attacking patriotism as insanity, and contending that it will soon lead us into another war. There is no question that the common, garden variety of patriotism is narrowing, selfish and something that well have to outgrow. There is, however, a form of patriotismthe natural love of a person for those nearest to him, which is quite natural and which will probably always endure. * * * INTERPLANETARISTS But what I am thinking about now is another thing. Here, we have been accused of being internationalists. I look at Michelson, who has just died I think of Einsteinand I am afraid, that soon the charge will be that weve gone even beyond the internationaland become cosmic. Calvin Coolidge at one time made the statement, that if Michelson had put his mind to applied science, he could have become as distinguished in that field as Edison. But Michelson, with the exception of some things in optics, confined himself to measuring things millions of miles away from the earth. And Einstein, too, thinks of the Milky Way,and all of those other things in the neighboring, suns, stars, and planets. I wonder if some day, we Jews wont be accusednot of being internationalists, but of being inter-planetarists, of cosmicists. | ^ JjJ STOP! It is being rumored in London that Commander J. M. Kenworthy is considered as the next High Commissioner for Palestine, to succeed Sir John Robert Chancellor. Kenworthy is a great friend of the Zionist movement. He visited, a few years ago, this country, in the interests of the United Palestine Appeal, and on more than Konrad Bercovici, distinguished American man of letters and outstanding authority on Rumanian affairs, fearlessly speaks his mind on King Carols romance and its political, significance. Straight from the shoulder, the popular teller of gypsy tales reveals the true story of Magda Lupescus part in the court affairs of present-day Rumania.The Editor. * * * Rumanias ruler is in love, openly and defiantly in lovewith a Jewish, Magda Lupescu; and it cannot be foretold whether she will some day sit beside him on the throne, or whether she will cost him his sovereignty. Despite the outcome, however, the situation of the Jews in that country has not benefited by the romance, averred Konrad Bercovici, the Rumanian writer who is also Jewish. The situation of the Jews at this time, he stated, is not only bad but dangerous; and King Carols ravishing Jewish mistress has signally contributed, among other things, to the gravity of their position. He pointed out that since the ascension of the Hohenzollerns to the Rumanian throne in 1865 anti-Semitism has been a ubiquitous ember of mass incendiarism there. It has also proved to be an effective plank in the platforms of the political parties. For many people who otherwise would display no interest in the duel for supremacy between the Peasant and the Liberal Parties, who might even have been opposed to the tactics of both, staunchly support one or the other for no reason except to register their hatred of the Jews in the affairs of the government. Naturally this induces both parties to outdo themselves in their manifestations against the Jews, in an effort to win cohorts. Of late, due to the scramble for power among the members of the royal family, the mounting number of mob outrages pogroms, student riots, demonstrations perpetrated against the Jews has been accounted for only fitfully and vaguely to the world by the government and the press. Undesirablesand Jews are largely theseare clapped into prison on trumped-up charges, and there they rot until the long-delayed day of trial arrives. By that time, very often, a goodly percentage of them have died of illness while in confinement or committed suicide. The intrusion of a Jewess in the most intimate confines of the royal palace several years ago was, needless to say, properly exploited by the then Prince Carols enemiesto wean popularity away from him and, incidentally, to arouse the anti-Semitic populace to greater indignation against the Christ-killers. In the words of Bercovici: one occasion showed his hearty approval of the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. From a Jewish point of view his appointment would almost mean a solution of the entire political problem in Palestine. But, as we said at the outset, all this is merely a rumor. We are prepared to prophesy that it will never come true. WRoever is responsible for the launching of this rumor is committing a serious blunder. Jewish hopes have been disappointed too often with regard to Palestine to throw off rumors of this sort lightly. If it is part of the political game played by some Zionist parties it should be nailed immediately and condemned strongly by Jewish public opinion. Jewish patience with regard to Palestine is reaching the breaking point. If Magda Lupescu really had power to influence Carol then, and wields it now that he is King, then those who were then and are now aligned against him were bound to flaunt this fact in public, to incite the people CONRAD BERCOVICI against him for permitting them to be ruled over by a Jewess. On the other hand, if she never did have any power to wield, she has had both Carols friends and enemies opposed to herone party in fear of the bad light into which she throws the King, and the other anxious to throw more light on her relations with him. But much more than the mere outward facts must be considered in this morganatic love affair. And there is none better able to analyze it than Konrad Bercovici, whose latest book, That Royal Lover, reveals the inside workings of Rumanias musical-comedy royal family, its scandals, intrigues, corruption, generally censorious behavior in war and peace and last but not leastits mother, the amorous, unscrupulous, ambitious Queen Marie. Magda Lupescu, he began, is the daughter of a small-town jeweler and money-changer; she is tall, with a voluptuous figure, and arrestingly handsome without being beautiful, with golden-red hair, brown eyes and a typically Jewish cast of face. While a young woman she let herself be baptized, that she might marry an army officer named Tampeano. How it came about that she crossed the path of Prince Carol can only be guessed at. At that time Queen Marie saw in her son a threat to her control over the throne. Know- ing- how susceptible her son was to beautiful women, might she not have laid a trap for him? Setting the attractive Magda Lupescu in his way, so that by his infatuationwhich was certain to ensuehe should lose the support of the people as soon as the word spread that he was in love with a Jewess? The people would tremble at the possibility of a Jewish Queen! And so it came to pass. Magda attracted Carol at one of the military balls. And he succumbed. The people were apprized of his latest amour. How? By whom? Wellwho was most anxious to see him despised by the nation? Before long he was exiled, along with his courtesan, and they went to live in France together. He subsequently saw Michael, his little son by Helen of Greece, crowned King, and the country ruled by a Regency. When, after a few years, the unsettled condition in Rumania led to talk of revolution, it was deemed wisest to execute a coup detat and bring Carol back to the throne in place of his son. The people were hungry for a manly King-, a dominating figure, and they now loked upon his sundry amours as the doings of a truly manly manand loved him the more for it. And so, on the crest of a wave of popularity, Carol came home to assume the _ throne, leaving the Jewess in Paris, as he had promised to do. There can be little question that Magda Lupescu loves Carol. I feel sure that she has kept him out of more trouble than history will ever give her credit for. And she is an intelligent woman. Therefore she stayed behind when he went home, giving- him up for his own benefit rather than jeopardize his recovered popular esteem. But leave it to Carol to go to any length for a woman he loves. . . . At the close of this past April the whole world learned of Magda Lupescus residence in the Palace at Bucharest! Yes, Carol seems to love her, despite everything. The sad part of this entrancing-love story is the reaction it has on the eight hundred thousand Jews who live in Rumania. This four per cent of the population again hears the cry of the ninety-six per cent: The Jews are trying to steal all the power! That Jewess is their agent! It is the baying of the hounds, led on by Carols enemieshis discarded wife, Queen Helen, and the Queen Mother, Marie. Jews have lived in Rumania for a thousand years. One of my ancestors, in the fourteenth century, was the argentar, the financial minister, to Mathei Bessarab, founder of the Rumanian nation. When the rest of Europe was stifling the Jews in: ghettos Rumanian Jewry enjoyed comparative freedom, farming in Moldavia, doing small manufacturing in the towns as well as dealing in money. When the ghetto walls crumbled everywhere Rumania began to build them up. Today politics will not allow them to be torn down. The Jews make an excellent issue to scrap about, and a fine victim for incensed mobs. Does Magda Lupescu really rule over Rumania by virtue of the love of and her love forKing Carol? Bercovici shrugged his shoulders in an eloquent summary. I think not. Unwittingly -and involuntarily she is creating a tremendous lot of animosity against her people. Jorga, the Prime Minister at the present moment (at the time of this interview), once led the Anti-Semitic Party. Is he likely to enjoy Mme. Lupescus shadow across his desk ? Whatever is happening now in Rumania bodes no good for the Jews. No matter which way the pendulum swingsand it seems to be swinging back toward Queen Marie, who will not forget the Jewess who almost usurped her powerthe Jews are bound to suffer for the ills occasioned by others. S. A. F. S. The Power Behind Carol's Throne An Interview With Konrad Bercovici, Author of That Royal Lover Page Six THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 WILLIAMSON & WILLIAMSON Business Established 1885 PATENTS TRADE MARKS One of Firm Formerly Examiner U. S. Patent Office 925-935 Met. Life Bldg. 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Students of North High and their parents are especially invited. Abe Lipkin, out-going president of the Menorah Club, will represent the graduating class. Rabbi Aronson will speak. Memorial services will be conducted at 10 oclock. Religious school will close with a picnic at Glenwood park, Sunday morning. Pupils will assemble at Synagogue at 9:30 a. m. In case of rain a program will be presented in the Synagogue. TEMPLE ISRAEL Shevuoth confirmations services will be held Friday morning at 10 a. m. The doors will he closed during the confirmation processional. Services Friday at 8 p. m., without sermon, to be followed by confirmation reception in auditorium of Community House. Sabbath morning services at 11 a. m. in Deinard Memorial Chapel. Birthday blessings for pupils whose birthdays occurred in May will be given. Final examinations will be conducted in Religious School Sunday. Closing exercises will take place Sunday, May 31. Annual number of the Templarian, Religious school paper, may be purchased at the Temple office. Junior Congregation night will be observed at the Temple, Friday, May 29. A debate between junior members of Mt. Zion Temple, St. Paul, and the local organization, will take place with Echo Korsh and Elliot Hoffman, representing Temple Israel and Lee Loevinger and Saul Raskin representing Mt. Zion Temple. A social hour will follow the program. UNITED ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONS Junior Congregation will hold services Saturday morning in the vestry rooms of Kenesseth Israel at 9 a. m. In the absence of Rabbi Romm, Rev. M. Bartnoff and Mr. Isaac Cohen will expound the Talmud for Chevra Shas at the Kenesseth Israel Synagogue. OBITUARY Mrs. Molly Ascheim Mrs. Molly Ascheim, 85 years of age, a resident of the city for thirty-seven years, died Saturday, May 16. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Deinard Memorial Chapel, Temple Israel. Interment was at the Graceland cemetery, Chicago. The deceased is survived by four daughters, Mrs. James Kantrowitz of the city; Mrs. Gus Krakauer, St. Paul, Mrs. H. Dessar, New York, and Mrs. George Arkins, Los Angeles; a son, Charles of Cincinnati; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two sisters and a brother. * * * Ben Rosenberg Ben Rosenberg died Wednesday, May 13, at the home of his son, Dr. George Rosenberg, 209 East Nineteenth Street. He was a resident of Crookston, Minn., for the past thirty-two years. Funeral services were conducted from the Aaron-Hodroff Funeral Temple on Friday. Interment was at the O. B. A. cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Louise; two sons, Dr. George, of this city, and Leonard of Crookston; four sisters, Mrs. Sam Rivkin of this city, Mrs. Molly Rosenberg, South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Jacob Weinberg of Poland, and Mrs. Leon Bernstein of Germany, and three brothers, Robert of Minneapolis, Alfred of Poland, and Jerome of Knoxville, Nebr. JUNIOR HADASSAH MOTHERS TEA Junior Hadassah will be hostesses at a tea at which their mothers will he the guests of honor, Monday evening, May 25, at the Beth El Synagogue. Preceding the program, election of officers will take place. Rea Berman will open the program with a message of welcome and will give a summary of the years activities. Belle Shalit, will play a group of cello solos, accompanied by Sidney Lippman, and Rose Samet, accompanied by Susan Noodleman, will sing a number of songs. Another feature on the program will be the presentation of a playlet written and coached by Cecelia Levitt, in which the following will take partFrances Fleish-er, Ann Lazar, Lorraine Shallett, Mary Besser, Beatrice Katz, Ann Abrams, Eva Gottlieb, Jeanette Schwartz, Rose Greene, Emma Levitt Page Seven and Freda Aronson. Mildred Horwitz is chairman of the tea. * * * The last meeting of the study group will be held Thursday evening, May 28, instead of May 21, as previously announced. 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BOULEVARD STORE AND GREENHOUSES West Lake Street and Ewing Ave. Atlantic 0481 Atlantic 0484 Walnut 3912 Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 19s 1 BTSTAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, wTi i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A. Souvenir mrs. m. j. weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close i June 1. Arrangements have been made for ' the third degree, a physical initiation which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left 1 Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be dis- ! tributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- ! May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Nine nity. Beatrice Marks was initiated in The Masquers. Senior luncheon will be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap hook, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. TRAVEL BY BUS Regular bus trips to Chicago and Milwaukee are featured by the Chicago and North Western Stages, who have offices and depots at 9 North Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Nine May 22, 1931 May 22, 1931 BNAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows-first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations ; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close June 1. Arrangements have been made for the third degree, a physical initiation, which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day. Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee. Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be distributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- nity. Beatrice Marks was initiated in The Masquers. Senior luncheon wall be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap book, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, w*h i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A Souvenir mrs. M- J- Weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. TRAVEL BY BUS Regular bus trips to Chicago and Milwaukee are featured by the Chicago and North Western Stages, who have offices and depots at 9 North Page Ten THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 When you are interested in Store Fixtures of any kind, see or phone Van Duyne-Moran Fixtures, Inc. St. Paul Minneapolis 47 W. Water St. 30-32 E. Henn. Ave. River view 4430 Gladstone 1938 JUST OPENED Merchants Lunch Serving Kosher Corned Beef and Finest of Meats. Specials Served Daily. Come in and try our foodYoull come back for more. 309 NICOLLET S. GROSSMAN, Mgr. AN EXCLUSIVE SERVICE FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY IN ITS HOUR OF NEED. HYland 6564 JEWISH FUNERAL HOME 1121 Plymouth Avenue Ask Your Dealer For Monahans BREAD - CAKES ROLLS - DONUTS Vegetable Compound Used Exclusively CHERRY 2836 Union Made - Baked in North Mpls. Seventh Street, and at Sixth and St. Peter, in St. Paul. One way trips to Milwaukee is $8.75, round trip, $16.50. One way trip to Chicago is $10.00, round trip fare is only $18.00. Travel by bus and see the beautiful scenery along the improved highways. SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Girl Scout Troop No. 18 in charge of Jeanette Biatch, will enter the following girls in the Minneapolis Field Day meet, to be held at Camp Locks-lea, at Fridley, Minn., Saturday morning at 9 a. m.: Fanny Schwartz, Nettie Kimmelman, Esther Elescue, Sylvia Friedman, Molly Silver, Toby Gottlieb, Freda Kimmelman, and Ruth Abrams. Panther club under the leadership of Mathew Levitt, will hold a wiener roast, Monday, May 25. The Cards Club had an overnight hike to Little Switzerland, with Hugo Cohen in charge. Junior Cubs held a dinner meeting Saturday evening. Sam Fin-kelstein had charge. REGISTRATION CALENDAR May 23A. Z. A. Spring Frolic, Nobles Studio. May 25Tea for prospective members of study group on International relations, home of Mrs. A. Brin. May 27-C. J. W. board meeting, home of Mrs. C. Goldblum, Cottage-wood. June 2Sigma Alpha Mu bridge party. June 3Sheltering Home for Children Annual Tea. June 4Twentieth Anniversary Banquet, Talmud Torah. June 7Mothers Tea, Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity. July 5S. S. Bikur Cholim annual picnic, Columbia Heights. July 12S. S. Talmud Torah Picnic, Columbia Heights. July 26Bnai Abram Congregational dinner. SHAVUOTHTHE FEAST OF WEEKS Friday, May 22, marks the festival of Shavuoth for Jews throughout the world. As in the case of all holidays, the day is ushered in the previous evening. This occasion is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when Jews went up to the Temple in Jerasalemthis time to bring the first fruits of their fields from the early harvest, Shavuoth, or The Feast of Weeks, occurs seven weeks after the second day of Passover, thus giving the festival its name of Pentecost, meaning fifty. The festival also bears the name Zeman Matan Torasenu, the Day of the Giving of the Law, for when the agricultural significance of the day was lost, the medieval spiritual leaders associated the day with the giving of the Ten Commandments in the Sinaitic desert. The religious teachers pointed out that the law was given in the desert rather than in Palestine as a symbol of the universality of the law. Each generation was to accept the Torah for itself and draw inspiration from it. Accordingly, boys and girls are inducted into the faith at this season of the year. Confirmation is the name given to this beautiful ceremony. The house of worship on Shavuoth is decorated with green branches and flowers to symbolize the agricultural background of the festival. The dual aspect of the day is ritually observed by appropriate services to which are added the recitation of the Ten Commandments and the reading of the MINNEAPOLIS CLASSIFIED FOR RENT Beautiful all modern four room duplex. Heated. Reasonable. 914 Oliver Avenue North. Hyland 3450. For rent, very reasonable. Four room all modern heated duplex. Two screened porches. Garage. 1606 Thomas Place North. Hyland 6988. Book of Ruth. Both of these bear out the universalistic message of the day. Chicago (J. T. A.)Lottie Lehmann, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera company, received word that she had been decorated with the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Not only is she one of the first Germans to receive this award since the war but she is also one of the few so honored. Chicago (W. N. S.)Benjamin F. Lindheimer, well-to-do real estate owner, has been appointed by Mayor Anton Cermak as President of the Board of Local Improvements, which spends millions of dollars annually on Chicagos subways. Buenos Aires, Argentine (W. N. S.) 73,434 Jews have settled in Argentine during the last ten years, according to official statistics of immigration. This constituted about 9 per cent of the total immigration during that period. Baltimore (W. N. S.)-Jerome Sloman, Daniel Ellison, Meyer Reamer and Sidney Traub were elected members of the Baltimore City Council in the elections held last week. Three of the Jewish Councilmen are Democrats and one a Republican. Cambridge, Mass. (W. N. S.)Jewish alumni and undergraduates have joined with Catholics in protesting the erection of a non-sectarion chapel at Harvard University as a memorial to the universitys war dead. They point out that Jews will not be able to worship in the chapel, which is expected to cost more than $1,000,000. London (W. N. S.)The Spanish Minister of Finance has issued a declaration welcoming Sephardic Spanish Speaking Jews to return to the new Republic, and assuring them that new legislation will shortly be introduced accelerating the acquisition of Spanish citizenship by them, according to a Madrid dispatch in the London Times. Jerusalem (W. N. S.)The Palestine Arab executive has issued an appeal to all Arabs in Palestine to boycott the Jews in commerce and industry. The proclamation is an outcome of Premier MacDonalds recent letter to Dr. Weizmann, which aroused resentment among Arab leaders because of its alleged alteration of the Passfield White Paper. MINISTER KAUFMAN SAVES THE DAY It took a Jewish envoy to extricate the Columbia Broadcasting System from an international tangle. The envoy was David E. Kaufman, U. S. Minister to Siam. The King of Siam had consented to make his radio debut during his visit to Washington, and then was ordered by his physicians to cancel all engagements. The cancellation came only about four hours before King Prajadhipok was to address the combined networks of both chains. But Harry Butcher, Washington director of Columbia, was bound to fill his time with a Siamese program. So he phoned David E. Kaufman and invited him to sub for the King. Kaufman agreed to speak, although he had only about three hours to prepare his speech, if Butcher could secure permission from the State Department. By noon everything was set. Then came another idea. Why not get a newspaper man to interview Kaufman on the air after his speech ? So Butcher again lifted a telephone receiver. And three minutes before the broadcast Leo R. Sack, Scripps-Howard writer and personal friend of Kaufman, dashed into the studio. They conferred for two minutes. Sack took down some notes on a scrap of paper. They sat down in front of the mike. And the show went on. 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David Belasco was the author of a hundred plays, the producer of perhaps 400 productions, the maker of the names of Mary Pickford, Ernest Truex, Lillian Gish, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Helen McKellar, Ruth St. Denis, Jane Cowl, Lowell Sherman, David Warfield, Blanche Bates, Jeanne Eagles, and more, and more. And in his last years he was a lonely, aged Jew, thumbing his book of violets for memories of his Jewish gypsy mother, and of his wife, and of the tender moments in the lives of his three daughters; a revered, beloved, awed, but lonely aged Jew who refused the dinner invitations of the mighty in order to slip away by himself and eat his favorite dishcold cuts of corned beef and sausage, from a delicatessen store! Even during his lifetime, strange collections of myths had gathered about this magicianDavid Belasco. The date of his birth became confused. Some said he was born in 1854 and some said in 1859. That was because for several years, he celebrated his birthday by taking his one annual drinka glass of champagne, and saying Today I am twenty-one. For he always felt twenty-one. As a matter of fact, he was born on July 25, 1854, in San Francisco. He was born in a cellar room on a cot that had been placed on two boxes. His mother was Reina Martin, of a family of wealthy Portugese Jews, gypsies, who migrated to London because of persecutions in Portugal. There, Reina Martin saw a young actor named Humphrey Andrews Belasco, playing the part of a harlequin. She fell in love with the harlequin. During the days of the London plague, she came to him, they were married. The match was against the wishes of her parents. The couple went to seek their fortune in America. The gold rush was on and they came to San Francisco. It was impossible to obtain a room under ten dollars a night. The couple was penniless. They were befriended. A basement room was found for them. There, David Belasco was born. Later, his father moved to Victoria, B. C. Humphrey Andrews Belasco became a trapper. Within a few years he was mayor of Victoria, B. C. At that time, when he was seven years old, the boy came under the influence of Father McGuire. During his later life, David Belasco spoke often of the priest whose philosophy had influenced his way of life. Already, the boy gave indication of the unusual intensity of his nature, the need for creative expression. At eight, this found expression in the usual way. He ran away from home and joined a circus. A clown named Walter Kingsley loved the boy, and took care of him, and taught him how to be a clown in a circus. When Walter Kingsley died, the boy felt the first great tragedy of his life had happened. Humphrey Andrews Belasco, once a harlequin, found his circus-boy and took him home. The family moved to San Francisco. Again, the boys gypsy-nature asserted itself. He became a stowaway on a ship. He was diseovex-ed and set to work washing dishes. The ship came to Victoria, B. C. From there, David was retui'ned home. At fourteen, he wrote a play called Jim Black, or The Regulators Revenge. Soon, he had a job as a stall boy in a theatre. From then DAVID BELASCO on, he worked around theatres, finding time somehow to go to school, for he was graduated from Lincoln College, California. In 1875 he went barnstorming with a company headed by Millicent Rogers. All the thrillers of the day, including Camille, and East Lynne, were in the repertory of the company. But unfortunately they had no money. They ended up as waiters, cooks, and chamber-boys in a town along the Big Bear riverthe jobs being an alternative for jail. David Belascos mother Reina played a mystically influential part in his life. Because of her beliefs in her gypsy blood, and in her other-wordly she influenced her son with the surety of fate. Many of her superstitions, David Belasco carried with him through life. He was a believer in signs and portents and charms and the evil eye, a belief as characteristically Jewish as gypsy. He always had a pocket full of bits of iron, nails, buttons, or other charms. His mystic, sentimental love of violets was another sign in the fate-way of his life, for every great emotional experience, first through his mother-love, and then with his wife, was in some way commemorated by a violet. All these pressed violets, noted with dates, he kept in a book in the private drawer of the famous ancient Italian-carved desk in his New York studio. Each day, at four oclock, in his later years, he would take out his violet-book, and lose himself in memory. When he was but a boy, a strange incident occurred, which was said to prove the mysterious powers of his mother. David had witnessed a brawl between two theatre people in San Francisco. A man was beating his wife. David rushed in, and being a large strong boy, pulled off and beat the man. The woman, angered, shot David. The bullet grazed his temple. When David was brought home, the story goes, his mother, infuriated, went into her room. Hours later she came out. I have uttered the black curse of the gypsies, she said, on anyone who shall injure my son David during his lifetime. Two days later the man who had fought with David fell under a railway train and was killed. David Belascos mai'riage was also the result of a strange romance. In San Francisco lived a girl named Cecilia Loverich, daughter of a wealthy family, sought after by the citys best young bloods. One day, in the street, the girl talked to a woman with whom she was not acquainted. The woman said, Soon, you will meet a young man who is the one intended to be your husband. You will know him, for he will offer you violets. Do not refuse them. The woman was Reina Belasco. Andthis story David Belasco himself told in later years. Not long after this encounter, of which he knew nothing, he was reciting Hamlet at a social function. In the first row, he saw a beautiful girl. Their eyes met. During the rest of the performance, he spoke his lines only to her. Afterward, he would say, in telling the story of his courtship, I learned that she was Cecilia Loverich, and so believed that I had no chance to win her. Nevertheless he went out the next day into the woods. He saw beautiful violets. He picked a bunch, and sent them to the girl. When they met, he stole one violet from that bunch. It was the first violet in his violet book. Two years later they were married. His wife accompanied him on his trips to Chicago, to New York, in his efforts to get started in the theatrical world. His first efforts were heroic, but disheartening. Three times he went to New York, and three times he returned penniless to San Franciso. Always, he would say in later years, his mother encouraged him, made him try again. Perhaps the beginning of his phenomenal career may be said to have been when he met Charles Frohman, in 1882, in San Francisco. They produced Belascos play, American Born. It was^ a success. But then came slips again. In 1886, after the sensational divorce case of Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Belasco determined that her vivid personality was destined for the stage. He wrote The Heart of Maryland for her. But it took four years, and in that time the play was re-made six times, before he could arrange a production. When the curtain was raised, he owned nothing in the world but the clothes on his back. A friend had pawned a $30,000 painting for $1,500 to help him. But the production was a success. During his life, David Belasco worked fifteen to sixteen hours a day. He had no recreations. In temperament, he was something of an ascetic. He worked quietly, gliding ghostlike about the corners, peering from behind draperies of his theatres, always there, always making his presence felt, always in the background. Fables, myths unending gathered about this magical personality. In his later days, he was something of a character. One of his habits curiously like a habit of John D. Rockefeller. He would give eoins to all people, tips to cab-boys or to high-priced stars, as his appreciation. Once in a rehearsal he took out a dime and placed it on the table, saying to an actor, If you say the line right you get it. The actor repeated the line again. The dime went back into Belascos pocket! Every evening as he left the theatre he drew a ten-doll ar bill from the treasurer, saying, Thank you. He would take a cab to his hotel. From the change, he would take three one-dollar bills. One he would pin on the door of his wifes room, and one on the door of each of his two daughters rooms. When his daughters were bored, and came to him restless, asking for something to do, the quiet little man would dip his hand into his pocket, take out money, and say, Buy a hat. Perhaps, of all his plays, not one will be ranked among permanent works of literature. They may pass with his passing. But his contributions to the realistic school of stagecraft, his teachings in the detail of acting, are not without their effect in the development of the American theatre. And more than one generation associated the name of Belasco with the high point of theatre. Continuously, from the days when he produced David Warfield as Shy-lock in the Merchant of Venice, from the days of Madame Butterfly and The Music Master from the days of May Blossom, through to the days of The Gold Diggers, and of Lenore Ulric, he kept his place as the magician. J. T. A. 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Wedding, engagement and birth announcements will not be printed unless they bear the name and telephone number of the sender. Telephone Cedar 7011. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sansby, 976 Goodrich Avenue, returned last week after an extended visit at Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bratter, 1408 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of their daughter, Delia Helens confirmation, Mrs. T. G. Kaswan of New York City, who has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Greenberg, 145 South Chatsworth, for the past three weeks, left Friday for Chicago, where she will spend a few days before returning to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer M. Bernstein, 908 Ashland Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Nathalie. Mrs. U. Braufman, 509 Iglehart Ave., left Sunday for St. Charles, Mo., to visit her son, H. Braufman. Mr. and Mrs. M. Goodman, 1012 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Ros-lyn. After visiting friends and relatives in the East, Miss Emma Seaman of Montreal, has arrived to be the guest of her uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mushkatin, 234 Prescott St., and Mr. and Mrs. George Kaplan, 20 South Lexington Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rosenholtz. will receive in honor of their daughter, Ruths confirmation Friday evening, at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Levy. 420 North River Blvd. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rosenblatt, formerly of 1021 Conway, are now residing at 1236 Dayton Ave. BAR-MITZVAH Harold Jay Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smith, 193 E. Robie, became Bar-Mitzvah Saturday morning, May 16, at the Beth David Synagogue. TEMPLE MT. ZION Confirmation services Friday morning at 9:30. Processional at 10:00 A. M. The doors of the Temple will be closed during the processional and blessing. A short service will be held Friday evening at 5:30. The last Saturday morning service for the season will be held Saturday morning, May 23, at 11:00 oclock. The Birthday Blessing for those having birthdays during June, July and August, will be pronounced. The Temple Juniors will hold their last meeting of the season Sunday afternoon at 2:00. oclock in the Temple Annex. After a short business program and election of officers, the Juniors will leave for Hudson Park, where they will picnic. Prize day exercises will be conducted in the school Sunday morning, May 31. TEMPLE OF AARON Shabuoth services Thursday evening, May 21, at 8:00, confirmation. Friday morning, May 22, at 8:45. Sermon Progressive Revelation. Friday evening at 7:30, short service. Saturday morning, May 23, at 8:45, Me- morial services and sermon at 10:00. Topic The Voice of the Past. The late Friday evening services have been discontinued for the summer. The Religious School will hold a special assembly Sunday morning, May 24. It will be given by the children of Class IV under the direction of Miss Freda Braverman, and will deal with ceremonies in the synagogue. The school will close Sunday morning, May 31. JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER Election of officers for the coming year will take place at the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the general election held last week, at the Center, Wednesday evening, May 27, at 8:00 oclock. The budget for the year and other matters of importance wil be considered at the Board meeting. The Talmud Torah Celebration of Shabuoth took place at an assembly of all pupils of the school Wednesday afternoon in the Center auditorium. Shabuoth Services for the school children will be held Friday and Saturday mornings at 10:00 oclock. Monthly report cards were issued to pupils of the Talmud Torah for the first month of the spring semester last Monday. HEINE MONOLOGUE ON RADIO A Monologue from a Mattress by Louise Untermyer, portraying the last moments of the life of Heinrich Heine, will be dramatically interpreted by A1 Chance, a member of the staff of WCCO in the weekly radio broadcast of the St. Paul Zionist District over that station Sunday morning at 11:15. A folk song duet A Gruss Fun Der Heim, will be presented by Clara Honigman, soprano, and Sol Joseph-son, tenor, accompanied by Philip Ras-kowsky, all of the Jack Berlin company now playing in the Twin Cities. The St. Paul Zionists will conclude their radio series which has now been running some weeks, with a forty-five minute program Sunday morning, July 5. CAPITOL HEBREW SCHOOL A meeting of the Parent-Teachers association will take place Sunday, May 24, at 7:30, at the school. Very important problems will be discussed. Parents have been requested to attend. Report cards for the month of lor have been issued. Visitors and parents week will commence June 1. 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Don-sker and Mrs. Chas. Harris, who have arranged for gowns through the courtesy of the M. F. Rosacker Gown Shop, furs by A. M. Miller & Co., and hats by the Crystal Palace. Models will be Beulah Johnson, Ethel Winnick, Gladys Ryder, Annette Fox, Sonia Abrahamson and Marion Goldstein. During the promenade, Ella Miller of Minneapolis will render vocal selections. Princess Tumchari of India, crystal gazer and mind reader, will apepar on Sunday evening. Those in charge of the booths are: Mrs. Wm. Johnson, cosmetics; Mrs. David Hertz, dolls and novelties; Mrs. Melvin Silver, aprons an handkerchiefs Mrs. Morris Laser and Mrs. M. Raskin, county store; Mrs. Philip Gordon and Mrs. Wm. Butwin, bakery; Mrs. Louis Finkelstein, Mrs. Arthur Kaufman and Mrs. I. G. Goldberg, candles, cigars and cigarettes. Dinner will be served every evening with the following in charge: Mesdames B. Shilkrout, J. B. Winnick, M. Fuller, Max Padwal, L. J. Ryder, Harry Frishberg, J. Fink and R. L. Lichter. 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Organization of the group which will undertake the purchase of four hundred dunims of land during the next five years, followed an address by Bernard Stone, National Executive Secretary of the Keren Kayemeth, who visited St. Paul en route to his home in New York City from a visit to the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Thos. Myers was elected chairman of the group, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen and Jesse B. Calmenson, vice chairmen, Joseph Krawetz, secretary, and Abe Mogelson, treasurer. DR. MYERS CHOSEN BABY WELFARE DIRECTOR Dr. Thos. Myers, 2234 Riverwood Place, was honored recently by the staff of the St. Paul Baby Welfare Association, by being elected medical director of the Association. The Association which is a philanthropic, social agency maintains infant welfare clinics throughout the city in the neighborhood and social centers. HOME AUXILIARY TO MEET The annual meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged will be held at the Home, Monday, May 25, at 2:00 oclock. After the report and election of officers, a social hour will follow, to which all members and friends of the Home are invited. On the program will be violin selections by Heimann Weinstein, vocal selections by Rose Fineberg Gordon, and refreshments. The Auxiliary has just completed new furnishings for another of the sun rooms at the Home, and the social hour will take place there. LADIES AUXILIARY LUNCHEON MEET The Ladies Auxiliary of the Capitol City Hebrew School will hold a 1:00 oclock luncheon and meeting for members and friends. Tuesday, May 26, at the school. Further arrangements will be made for the annual picnic which will take place July 12 at Como Park. DELTA OMEGA IOTA FORMAL SUNDAY Plans have been completed for the annual Spring Formal Dinner Dance of the Theta Chapter of the Delta Omega Iota Sorority at the Hotel Del Otero, Spring Park, Minnetonka, to be held jointly with the Nu Chapter of Minneapolis, Sunday, May 24. Committees in charge of arrangements are headed by Rosalyn Shilkrout, Mildred Mark and Mary Millunchick. The drawing for the ten dollar gold piece will be raffled by the Sorority Monday, May 25, at the Temple of Aaron carnival, at the Cosmetic Booth. WILDWOOD PARK OPENS WEDNESDAY Wildwood Park with all its amusements, speed boats, picnics, water sports, and attractions of every kind for young and old, will open the 1931 season on Wednesday, May 27. Served by the Twin City street car lines, Wildwood is located on beautiful White Bear Lake. During the coming season, Ernie Winter and his Dixie Collegians will initiate the dance season on the dance pavilion overlooking the lake, and following their engagement, there will be a change of orchestras every two weeks. Each day following the opening of the season, there will be dancing from 8:15 to 11:15, evenings, except Saturdays, when the hours will be from 8:45 to 11:45, and on Sunday afternoons there will be dancing from 3:00 to 5:00, with a special dance program the afternoon of Decoration Day from 2:30 to 5:30. For those not interested in picnic grounds, the De Luxe Coffee Shop in the main pavilion will offer appetizing food throughout the season. PALESTINE CAMPAIGN URGES MAIL GIFTS Although officials of the American Palestine Campaign are still hopeful of the possibility of securing additional workers to solicit hundreds of Jewish families that have not yet been approached in the annual campaign for Palestinian reconstruction through the Keren Hayesod, an urgent appeal has been made by the associate chairmen, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen, L. C. Perlman and Mrs. H. Rosenthal, to all families that have not yet been seen, to mail in their contributions, whether large or small. Checks may be made to the American Palestine Campaign, and mailed to H. Harris, Treasurer, 174 E. 4th, or A. Mogelson, Secretary, 127 E. 3rd St. The total thus far subscribed in the local effort which started May 5, is slightly less than $6,000. DR. BIRNBERG TO ADDRESS LODGE At the next meeting of the Brith Sholom Lodge to be held at Minnehaha Hall, 190 W. 9th St., Thursday, May 28, at 8:00 oclock, Dr. T. L. Bim-berg wall deliver an address on conditions in the Soviet Union as he saw them on his recent trip to Europe. The lecture will be illustrated by slides taken by Dr. Birnberg while in the Soviet Union. In charge of arrangements are Irving Epstein, chairman; A. H. Abramovitz, Benjamin Frishberg, Max Goldberg and Isadore Mogelson. The meeting will be open to the public. TO PRESENT HOLY SCROLL The presentation of a Holy Scroll will be made by Mr. and Mrs. H. Rutman, 222 E. 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Ethel had never forgotten; but it seemed hard to remember it just now. That blessing had not been meant for a girl who would deny her faith for a mere jobeven though that job was the most necessary thing in the world just now, even though she had been refused dozens of positions in the last few months because she had declared herself to be Jewish. Rabbi Levines whispered blessing sounded in her ear again: God has given you a fine mind, my child, and parents who love you deeply. May He enable you to repay your debt to your parents by shaping your life so that you will bring honor to them and to the people of Israel. Bring honor to the people of Israel! She had hoped to study law and become a great lawyer, that she might reflect credit upon her parents and her community. But her fathers death, six years ago, had prevented the carrying out of that plan. Her earnings were too badly neededand here she was, lying to get a job! Ethel shivered so violently that Miss Peters, who had returned to her own work, observed it and asked: Are you cold ? Ill shut the window, if you like. This May weather sometimes is rather wintry, isnt it? The friendly voice made Ethel feel even more uncomfortable. Thank youIm not cold, she replied in a low voice. Miss Peters looked at her curiously. Under her scrutiny Ethel lowered her eyes. She knew her uneasiness was evidentbut she couldnt help it. Is anything wrong ? Are. you ill? Miss Peters asked, solicitously. Suddenly Ethel made up her mind. She couldnt go through with it, job or no job. She rose abruptly and said: Im sorry, Miss Peters, but Ive made a mistake. Its inexcusable, I knowbut I do need this job so badly. Thats why She stopped, and looked full into Miss Peters eyes. The sympathy, mingled with puzzlement, that she saw there helped her to go on. Thats why I told the employment bureau that Im Episcopalian. Im notIm Jewish. I need work, and so many people have turned me down because of my religion that I thought Id try this way of getting it. ButI cant go through with it. Ethel sat down againher knees were too shaky for standingand began to dab at her eyes. She felt horribly embarrassed. Yet it had been the only thing to do. She knew that, and in her heart was glad of her confession. Though, of course, her chances for the job were gone. Then she became aware that Miss Peters had come over to her and had put an arm about her shoulders. Im glad you told me, the personnel manager said softly. It shows you have character, though you did make a mistake. I think I understand what trouble youve hadsome peo- ple are so silly about these things. But, as a matter of fact, it wont make any difference here. Especially since Miss Gross is Jewishshes been Mr. Hughes secretary for years, and shes leaving us now to get married. So, you see, your being Jewish wont really make any difference here. If Mr. Hughes finds you satisfactory youll get the job, whatever your religion.Which reminds me youd better powder your nose now and come in with me. Mr. Hughes will be ready to try you out in a moment. S. A. F. S. A JEWISH MEMORIAL TO A CATHOLIC PRIEST A sermon of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise recently before the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall, dealt with A Jewish Memorial to a Catholic Priest. Dr. Wise designed his address to be the first note of what is to be a worldwide centenary commemoration of the death of Abbe Gregoire, one of the greatest figures in France of the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Wise called attention to the fact that, if one turns to the Catholic Encyclopedia, one finds no biographical note touching this priest of the Roman Catholic church. The Encyclopaedia Britannica on the other hand, makes no mention whatever of his championship of the cause of freedom for the Jews of France. The Catholic Encyclopaedia is as silent about Abbe Gregoire as the Catholic Encyclopaedia of a century hence may be expected to be silent about Zamora,, first president of the Republic of Spain, or about Unamono, seer and prophet of the new Spain. In his battle for the political, civil and, above all, human rights of Jews, Gregoire stood not alone but in the company of such great figures of their age as Robespierre and Mirabeau. Gregoires life as a public figure, over and beyond his faithful curacy as priest, began with the publication of his essay on The Physical, Moral and Political Regeneration of the Jews. Shortly after the publication of this prize-essay, he became a member of the French States General and an advocate of Jewish emancipation. This was an advocacy braver and more difficult by far than Macaulays advocacy sixty years later in England, his battle being for equal rights for all men, regardless of creed and nationality. Dr. Wise pointed out, whatever other commemorations may be held in France and in other lands, there is special reason that the Jewish people institute a special commemoration of Gregoire, that shall have regard to the courage of his advocacy and the nobleness of that service which led, perhaps more than anything else, to the Jewish emancipation in France and subsequently in other European lands. Let us of the House of Israel always be eager to praise whenever praise is worthily bestowed. We Phone Your Orders Instant Deliver; Butlers Drug Store SELBY & DALE Dale 3737-0345-0921 FUR STORAGE Remodeling:, Repairing:, Glazing^ Cleaning: Hill Tailors & Fur Co. FUR COATS MADE TO ORDER 606 Selby Ave. Dale 8123 M. 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Not the cheapest in town but one who will GUARANTEE GOOD WORK Minnesota Dry Cleaners Exclusive Cleaners 633 Selby Avenue Dale 5100 15% Off Cash and Carry rSTOP and SHOP~N AT MICHAUDS STORES Eighth and RobertCedar 3261 Hotel LowryCedar 2498 Grand and VictoriaDale 7400 Snelling & St. ClairDe Soto 3000 1326 Grand Ave.De Soto 8248 168 No. Snelling MI 9506 Quality Bakers, Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables N--------------------- J UPERIO Superior Gasoline Superior Penn Motor Oils Superior Distillate Quaker State Motor Oil Mobiloila SERVICE STATIONS Grand & Snelling Dale & Dayton Robert & Ninth Edmund & Snelling Patronise the Wind Mill StationsA St. Paul Concern Page Sixteen THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 rfU FLORSHEIM dhot, // A Florsheim in White Buck with Black Calf trim is very dressy with summer clothes Most Styles $9 AND $10 FLORSHEIM SHOE STORES MINNEAPOLIS Opposite Dyckman Hotel 44 South Sixth Street ST. PAUL Next to Capitol Theater 16 West Seventh Street GIAZINL^-* PAINTS> Farwell.Ozmun, Kirk&Co. MICHAELS SCHOOL of Dancing Learn to Be a Good Dancer We Train pupils either for Theatrical, Stage or Social-Ballroom Dancing and have always met with success. Private and Class lessons, Day or Evening. Special rates for Classes of LodgesClubs; Parties of 5 or more. 20 E. 7th St. Phone CE. 2071 SAINT PAUL have had least nineteen hundred years in which to master the art of forgiving our enemies. Let us never forget our friends. The truest reason for our part in the commemoration of this priest of the Roman Catholic church lies in the circumstance that this great friend of the Jews proves to be yet another whose fame shines as that of a friend of the oppressed and enslaved among all peoples and races. Dr. Wise made special reference to the character of men throughout the ages, whose only kindness to Israel lay in the truth that they were great enough to be utterly just in their attitude toward the Jew. Dr. Wise contrasted the base Hitlers of any age with the noble Gregoires. I think God that our foes are the foes - of freedom. I thank Good that our friends are the friends of humanity and of human liberty. Oh, the tragic degradation of the term, good to the Jews! Good to the Jewsas if any man were good to Jews whose acts or words were inspired by the motive of kindness to inferiors. It becomes necessary to say in this hour, in the light of recent happenings, that being good to the Jews shall not, save from the basest and vulgarest among our people, secure condonation of wrong-doing. Else are we the enemies of the state! Abbe Gregoire was good to the Jews, though he named no Jewish magistrates nor ever appointed a Jewish borough president. He was good to the Jews in the only way in which we would have any man be good to the Jews, insofar as he was a great and daring friend of humankind, insofar as he was an uncompromising foe of wrong and tyranny and injustice! FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PROF. MOORE Cambridge. (J. T. A.)Funeral services for the Rev. Dr. George Foot Moore, professor emeritus at Harvard and a leading authority on Hebrew, who died here Saturday in his 80th year, were held Tuesday in Appleton Chapel. For twenty years Professor Moore was professor of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1904 he was appointed to the chair of the history of religions at Harvard. He has written scores of scholarly studies on the Old Testament, the best known of which are the Literature of the Old Testament and Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, the Age of Tannaism. This latter work was the outcome of studies extending over a period of thirty years and presented the problem in a new light, independent of the established doctrine of the superiority of Christianity over the contemporary religion of the Pharisees. Shortly after the publication of this book Professor Moore was selected by the American Hebrew as one of the two Christians who during the year had contributed a notable achievement. in behalf of America and the Jewish people. His book was characterized as one that would tend to break down and destroy many current prejudices and misrepresentations regarding Judaism. On Ins 76th birthday Jewish scholars throughout the world extended felicitations to him. On a number of occasions he received honorary degrees from various Jewish institutions among them the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Academy. EXPERIMENTS WITH SEX TRANSFORMATIONS Vienna (J. T. A.)-A sensational experiment revealing the possibility of changes in sex without an operation was demonstrated by Dr. Eugene Steinach, head of the University of Viennas biological experiment station, before a gathering of leading Austrian medical men, who termed the demonstration the most important in the recent annals of medical biology. Dr. Steinachs sex-changing process is made possible by means of an X-ray apparatus or an injection without gland transfusion. Dr. Steinach, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, is the son of a well-known Jewish physician of Vorarlber, a community on the Swiss border. New York (W. N. S.)'The National Council of Jewish Women has gone on record as favoring the amendment of the U. S. postal laws to permit the dissemination of birth control information. The resolution was adopted at the closing session of the annual meeting of the Councils board of managers. It was decided to hold the 13th triennial convention at Detroit next March. 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Sixth Street AT lantic 6546 Minneapolis 76 East Fifth Street GArfield 4347 Saint Paul Save Where You Gan Borrow", "_version_": 1715615333297946624, "type": "Text", "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": true, "parent_id": "26510", "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26510", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/a76f5933b6f7609748c1b795d1fd145532144e92.png", "children": [ { "id": "p16022coll529:26493", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26493", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 1", "title_s": "Page 1", "title_t": "Page 1", "title_search": "Page 1", "title_sort": "page1", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49626" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 0, "attachment": "26494.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "JEWISH WORLD A Weekly Journal of Modern Jewish Life and Labors VOL. XIX Minneapolis and St. Paul Friday, May 22, 1931 No. 38 A Catholic Fighter For Jewish Freedom By Martin Abelson May 28 marks the centennial of the death of Bishop Henri Gregoire, a coura-| geous French Catholic, who more than any other one man was responsible for the emancipation of French Jewry 142 years ago. In France, Jews and Christians have united in a society to honor the memory oj this brave man who fought and suffered so that those who differed with him in religion might have liberty.The Editor. Gregoire had his way. He had his way so often and against such odds, that there came to be a saying among the people of Paris: Let Gregoire have his way. He had his way when he stood up for the rights of the Jews, and secured the liberation of the negroes and the abolition of slavery; he had his way at his death, when he refused to recant the doctrines of religious liberty and to conform his political views to the requirements of the Archbishop of Paris, and yet se-I cured the last sacrament in spite of I the Archbishops refusal, i'i When .he could not carry others t with him in his way, he stood alone, I and stood isolated for years, rather a than budge from his path. Thus, when I he was a senator in the reign of Na-I poleon, he stood out often against the I emperor, alone violently republican, I protesting the establishment of a new I court, refusing the title of count I that Napoleon bestowed broadcast I upon all the senators. For that, and other obstinate re-i fusals on principlesuch as his I lone vote against Napoleons divorce, I he suffered in later years. His pen-| sion as an ex-senator was withheld from him. He was dropped from the Institute which he had helped develop. But the people remained with the fighting bishop, and after the Restoration elected him again to the lower house, they insisted that Gregoire have his way. So alarming was the popular faith in the republican priest to the restored monarchial powers, that a cabinet was dissolved over his election, and the newly formed government voted down his admittance to the legislature. The life of the priest is curiously modern. His interpretation of the duties of a member of the clergy conform more to the interpretation of a rabbi or preacher of the present-day generation, than to the stricter theses of his day, when a priests duties were as clearly outlined as the service of the mass. And yet, liberal as he was in practice, Henri Gregoire remained a devout Catholic all his hfe, said mass every day, appeared at the revolutionary sessions in the Purple vestments of a bishop while his fellow revolutionists were in a storm of anti-clerical legislation' which he upheld! For he was one of the staunchest supporters of the movement to end the privileges of the clergy and the nobility. Henri Gregoire was born on December 4, 1750, in the village of Veho, near Luneville, in France. He was the son of poor peasants. Though he later distinguished himself as a liberal, his early training was hardly of the sort to prepare his nature for such views. He received his education in a strict Jesuit college in Nancy, and became an instructor in a Jesuit college at Pont-a-Mousson. Soon he left his professorship, to take up his duties as a cure in the town of Embermesnil in Lorraine. There he came into contact with his own type of people, villagers, honest, sturdy peasants, and he saw that his work was greater than the mere rote of administering religion. He secured books on agriculture, he founded a small library in connection with his church (the roots of the modern community center) and made it his business to learn how to help his flock improve their living conditions. The Catholic priest travelled in France and Germany, went among farmers, talked with them of crops, crop diseases, means of harvest, cheesemaking, marketingand he returned, and taught his villagers what he had learned. He did not confine his attention to the well-being of his parishioners, however. It was while he was a priest in Lorraine that he began his work in the interest of Jews. At that time there were head-taxes, and other heavy burdens on the Jews of the province, so overwhelming as to make existence almost impossible for them. Henri Gregoire studied their problems. In 1789 when the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Metz offered a prize for the best essay on the Jews, he wrote his famous book on the Physical, Moral, and Political Regeneration of the Jews. He pointed out that the Jews were no worse than any other people, that whatever objectionable traits might be discerned in them had been developed through the oppression to which they had been subjected by the atrocious anti-Jew-ish regulations of the Middle Ages. He argued that, given civil liberty and equality, the Jews would prove worthy French citizens. Though these views may not appear original or even extravagantly liberal today, they created a great impression in their time. Henri Gregoire won the prize of the Academy, but that was only the first step in his fight for the liberation of oppressed peoples. In 1789 he was elected to the Estates-General; there he proposed a bill for granting the civil rights of the Jews. His career during the revolution was important; his rise to power and popularity was quick. It was he who HENRI GREGOIRE presided over the 62-hour session of the new legislature when the Bastille was being stormed. In 1791 he became Bishop of Loire et Cher; in 1792 he was elected president of the Convention. In 1793, when Gobel, Bishop of Paris, resigned his church post because he felt it not compatible with his political views to be a clerical power, Gregoire was called upon to resign his bishopric. He refused, however, proclaiming again the freedom of religion, and maintaining that his activities in church and in state were separate. It was during this struggle that all Paris adopted the cry, Let Gregoire have his way. And he did. He remained Bishop. In 1794 he proclaimed the freedom of worship, and even secured the liberty of churchmen who had been imprisoned by the republicans. It was Gregoire who was to preside over the trial of King Louis XVI, but though he delivered himself of the famous peroration: Kings are to the moral order of being what monsters are to the physical orderthe history of kings is the martyrdom of nations, he never approved the order for the death of the monarch. After he had secured the passage of a series of bills in which the Jews were granted civil rights and freedom of worship, he became interested in the conditions of other oppressed groups, and in 1798 demanded civil rights for the negroes, and secured the abolition of slavery. Gregoire resigned his bishopric in 1801 as a protest against the churchs concordat with Napoleon. Then he went into retirement, though his power was always felt to be alive. He travelled in England and Germany; in 1814 he returned to France, and was elected to the lower house, but refused admittance. He spent the remainder of his life in study, in working in the arts and sciences. It is for the commemoration of the career of this amazing priest that Sylvain Levy, president of the Alliance Universelle Israelite, President Doumergue, and former Premiere Painleve of France have joined to form a centennial society. The people of France have never forgotten him. At his funeral, a group of students unhitched the horses, and drew his coach, while 20,000 Parisians followed him to his grave. J. T. A. BNAI BRITH ANNOUNCES DEFAMATION GAINS NEW YORK. (W. N. S.)Anti-Semitism, by way of slurs on the Jewish race, is often unintentional on the part of its sponsors, according to the semi-annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, headed by Sigmund Livingston. The report, made public at the New York offices of the Bnai Brith, summarizes the disposition of cases that came before the Commissions attention since its last meeting on September 15, 1930, as follows: Effected the elimination of objec-tional definitions of the word Jew in two dictionaries; secured a promise from the American Automobile Association that it will, in the future, refuse to recommend any hotel which discriminates against Jews; received assurance from one of the largest credit agencies in the country that no reference to religion will be made in its reports; successfully negotiated with the Associated Press in a protest against the use of the word Jew to designate gangsters; drew an apology from one of the largest Western corporations because a subsidiary department published an advertisement for employment with the phrase Christians Only.", "_version_": 1710450996630519808, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26493", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/2cdeca75c24e331708a49031a6aee2bcd2c7c374.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26494", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26494", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 2", "title_s": "Page 2", "title_t": "Page 2", "title_search": "Page 2", "title_sort": "page2", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49627" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 1, "attachment": "26495.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Two THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 The Jewish Problem Comes to Mexico A Review of Recent Events and Past History By David Mann Mexico is now in the limelight of Jewish news. Last week scores of Jewish peddlers were driven from the market places of Mexico City. The United States Government has been asked to intervene. The following article provides a background for understanding the present situation.The Editor. * * * American Jewry, grown accustomed to the routine record of Rumania, Hungary, Germany and other East European countries on the roster of anti-Semitic sponsors, was startled one day recently to discover that a new Jewish problem had been created. Mexico had put in its bid for consideration as a contender for honors in anti-Jewish discrimination. At once the wheels of Jewish sympathy, driven fast by the rapid succession of dispatches describing ever new incidents of prejudice and violence, began to operate. The first tangible effort to end the excesses and to intercede on behalf of Mexican Jewry was made by Alfred M. Cohen, President of the Bnai Brith, who telegraphed to Secretary of State Stimson and urged that the American Government make representations to the Mexican Government in regard to the reported outrages. The news stories had described the sudden and violent ejection of Jewish peddlers from the market places of Mexico City. This was followed by speeches urging death to the Jews. A situation was created which threatened to engulf all of Mexican Jewry in a wave of blind fury. For Mexico to have joined the ranks of those countries with acute Jewish problems is a powerful indication of the growing menace of world-wide anti-Semitism which some sociologists attribute to the current economic depression, which is universal in its effects. But though Mexico has been quick to imitate the Jew-baiting practices of so experienced an anti-Semitic land as Germany, its Jewish problem is the youngest of any countrys. For Jews have pricked themselves on the Mexican consciousness only during the last decade. It was in 1921 that there began to trickle into Mexico the Jews who fled from Europe and could find no entry into the United States. During the past ten years approximately 9,000 Jewish immigrants have come into Mexico, most of them from Poland and some from Russia. But even that small number forcefully attracted attention to itself. That was a purely economic circumstance. For those who entered the land brought a subsistence for only a few months. Artisans or petty merchants, they hoped to gain a foothold in their new land of settlement. But Mexican conditions were against them. In the first place, Mexico has one of the most powerful trade union organizations in the world. It refused to admit the Jewish newcomers. The merchants had no means to start themselves in business. The result was that the majority had to earn a livelihood by becoming peddlers. That immediately created a conflict with the native traders. Though scores of Jews, have, since 1921, established themselves in such variegated businesses as jewelry, garages, industrial chemistry, pharmacy, manufacturing, engraving, tailoring and shoe-making, there are still thousands who are forced to earn their living from itinerant vending, from booths or pushcarts. It was not merely the desire to make a political gesture which inspired Alfred M. Cohen to protest to the United States Government against the new outbreaks in Mexico City. The Bnai Brith, of which he is the head, has done more to integrate the Jewish immigrants into the life of Mexico than any other organization. The Bnai Brith, made aware of the struggle of the newcomers to earn a livelihood and of the embarrassing efforts of some of them to gain unlawful entry into the United States, undertook to stabilize the life of the immigrants. It gave the new arrivals a meeting house, taught them Spanish, provided them with loans (which smarted off most of them in their own ALFRED M. COHEN International President Bnai Brith businesses) and impressed upon them the need for recognizing that Mexico was their country and that efforts to penetrate the United States would be both futile and dangerous. The work of carrying out these activities was entrusted to J. L. Weinberger of Vera Cruz. And it is to the exhaustive material compiled by Mr. Weinberger that this writer is indebted for very valuable information on Jewish conditions in Mexico. The records indicate that Jews first came to Mexico in 1538. These were the remnants of the masses that had been swept out of Spain as a result of the Inquisition. Hundreds of Jews found their way to Mexico during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They had hoped to secure safety from religious persecution and also the opportunities for economic advancement. They were quickly disillusioned, however, for the Inquisition worked just as feverishly in Mexico. Thus the country produced its own Marranos. Many, however, deserted to Christianity for ever. As a result of the Mexican revolution in the nineteenth century Jews found conditions better. Jews from Levantine countries immigrated to Mexico. It is estimated that about 14,000 of these Sephardic Jews are now resident in Americas southern sister republic. They built up a Jewish communal life of their own, along the lines of Spanish tradition. When the new Jewish immigration began in 1921 the Sephardic Jews maintained a distance from the newcomers, though their relations have always been friendly. They could hardly be called intimate, however, or even helpful. Because of the keen competition offered by the Jews to the local traders the Mexican Government two years ago inaugurated a series of restrictive immigration laws designed to prevent any further influx from Eastern Europe. Though there was no overt anti-Semitic bias to this legislation, it is worth noting that ninety per cent of the East European immigration consisted of Jews. It was in 1925 that anti-Semitism gained real impetus in Mexico. The immigration of several thousand Jews in that year overflooded the market places of Mexico City, where the majority of the Jews located themselves. Several newspapers began to conduct a. campaign of anti-Jewish propaganda, demanding that the invaders be ejected. In 1928 there was a recurrence of anti-Semitism in the city of Merida. One newspaper had launched a campaign for the ousting of all Jewish merchants in the city. The Bnai Brith appealed to the Governor of Yucatan, who promised effective action to prevent such violence. The excitement then subsided. In fact, conditions seemed to be adjusting themselves so rapidly that the Bnai Brith decided to discontinue its activities last June and to turn over its great variety of projects to the local Jewish community, which had at last been organized. But apparently business conditions have become The personnel manager of Hughes and Symonds, the citys greatest law firm, let her critical gaze glide over Ethels trim figure. Apparently the plain straw hat, the simple tailored suit and the shiny patent leather shoes of the applicant satisfied the manager, for her smile was friendly as she said: So youre the young lady the Legal Employment Bureau sent me. I suppose you realize that this is a very responsible position for which youre applying? Ethels voice was calm as she answered, though her heart was beating wildly. She simply had to get this jobshe had been out of work for months, and money was badly needed at home. Miss Burke, at the bureau, told me you need a secretary for Mr. Hughes. Im sure I can handle the workIve had five years experience, and lost my last position only through the dissolution of the firm I was working for. This card here gives my references, which the bureau checked up. She handed the manager a small card. The manager read it through carefully before she spoke again. Ethel Ross. Im Miss Peters, Miss Ross. Yes, the references seem satisfactoryI think we may try you out. If youll just leave your hat and coat in my office, Ill take you into Mr. Hughes room, so that he can give you some sample tasks. Ethel drew a deep breath. So that question hadnt come up at all! That was something to be thankful for. She hated the idea of uttering that lie over againand yet, she would have had to, if Miss Peters had asked. She would have had toshe needed the job too badly to risk being turned away. As she hung her hat on the clothes-tree she heard Miss Peters observe: We have a nice group of girls here I think youll be able to make friends with many of them. I always try to pick girls wholl be congenialit makes the work in an office so much easier, dont you think? Ethel murmured something to the effect that she usually got along very nicely with her fellow-workers. I'm glad to hear that. Weve a number of Episcopalians hereI see youre one, thats why I mention it. As a matter of fact, our staff is mostly Protestant. We find it much more convenientless time lost for holidays, Jewish and Catholic. Though the Catholic girls, of course, miss only Good Friday. But the Jewish girls well, theyre very charming, all of them, but it is a nuisance when they stay away on their holidays. They so depressed that hundreds of J6Ws have again been driven into the market places as peddlers. And again anti-Semitism has reared its head. But Mexico, like every other country which indulges in anti-Semitism, has its own paradox. It has Jews whom it persecutes, but it also has its Jews whom it presents as the countrys glory. One need cite only one illustration, for he is sufficiently important to counteract all the inconvenience which Mexican business interests allege they have experienced on account of Jewish peddlers. That example is Diego Rivera, Mexicos outstanding artist, the man who has revolutionized contemporary art in his country and who has done more to give Mexico artistic prestige throughout the world than any other Mexican. And Diego Rivera, President Ortiz Rubio should be reminded, is a scion of Spanish Jews, in whom flows the blood of creative artists of the past. If Mexico has a Jewish problem it is of her own creation, and not the inevitable result of circumstances. S. A. F. S. have so many, and none of them coincide with ours. Why, only a few weeks ago we were six girls short on account of Passover, and next week theyll be away again, for some other holiday. Yes, Im glad youre Protestantit makes things so much simpler, doesnt it? Ethel felt again that sinking feeling which had invaded her when, in filling in her application blank at the Legal Employment Bureau, she had written that lie on the line inquiring after her religion. But it was too late to back out now, she felt. So she replied to Miss Peters half-rhetorical question with a low-voiced: Yes, I suppose it does. Now if youll just sit down a minute Ill ring Mr. Hughes and see whether hell be able to take you in now. Seated on a straight-backed chair, Ethel half-listened to Miss Peters telephone conversation. It was brief, and the result was conveyed to her in the personnel managers brisk tones: Well, it seems that hes busy just nowbut hell be able to see you in about fifteen minutes. If youll just wait here Ethels thoughts as she waited were none too happy. Her lie weighed on her conscience and what was it that Miss Peters had said of another holiday next week? That would be Shabuoth; her little sister was to be confirmed, and she, Ethel, wouldnt be able to be in the Temple to witness the ceremonyprovided, that is, she got the job. And she must get the job! Somehow the scene of her own confirmation came to Ethels mind. It had been ten years agoshe a little girl of thirteen in a snow-white dress, carrying a bunch of white roses, standing at the pulpit and reciting a Hebrew prayer. As she had recited she had seen her father and mother, with her baby sister between them, sitting in their pew, proudly gazing at their eldest. Poor little sister! Her confirmation would be a lonely affair; only Mother would be there to see her become a member of the Congregation of Israel. Father had been dead for years now, and Ethel well, Ethel couldnt be there, if she got that job, as she must. She had recited a prayer in Hebrew, ten years ago. Then the entire Confirmation Class had passed before the Rabbi, in single file, to receive his individual blessing. Rabbi Levine had always preferred to give his blessing to his confirmands in a few whis-(Continued on Page 15) Better Late A Shavuoth Story by Mark Hollander", "_version_": 1710450996632616960, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26494", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/b0fb8736a1eaa13942f73ed07efdcb24202024a5.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26495", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26495", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 3", "title_s": "Page 3", "title_t": "Page 3", "title_search": "Page 3", "title_sort": "page3", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49628" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 2, "attachment": "26496.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Three Jewish News From Everywhere London (W. N. S.)Jewish charitable and educational institutions of London receive the major part of the $800,000 bequest left to philanthropy by the late Mrs. Caroline Berg. Washington (J. T. A.)J. A. Kam-erow, special agent here for the Union Central Life Insurance Company of Cincinnati is announced as the winner of the national essay contest in which thousands of underwriters throughout the country participated. New York (W. N. S.)Dr. Leon W. Goldrich has been named as the first director of the bureau of child guidance which will he opened next September as a part of the city school system, it has been announced by the New York City Board of Education. The bureau, which will deal with problem children in the city schools, will pay its head $10,000 annually. Philadelphia (W. N. S.)The Howard N. Potte medal for distinguished achievement in the field of physical sciences is to be awarded by the Franklin Institute to Prof. Benno Strauss, who is teaching in Essen, Germany. The medal will be received in Prof. Strauss absence by Dr. Otto Kiep, German Consul General in New York. Antwerp, Belgium (W. N. S.)Jewish peddlers are finding great difficulty in securing places for their goods in the market places of Antwerp due to the concerted effort of anti-Semitic traders in keeping the Jews from stalls. Many cases of violence in the ejection of the Jews have been reported. Most of the peddlers recently immigrated here from Poland. HELPS SAVE BANK Vienna (W. N. S.)Faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, the Austrian State Bank, the countrys largest fiscal institution, called upon the hanking house of Rothschild to save it from collapse. A conference of leading bankers, summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance, resulted in the granting by the Rothschild house and an associate of a credit to the state bank of approximately $25,000,000. TO COMPLETE MICHELSONS EXPERIMENT Pasadena (J. T. A.)The last experiment of Dr. Albert Michelson, interrupted by death, will be completed by his associates. It will be finished as the great scientist originally planned. Four days before his death he dictated from his sickbed an outline of the scientific paper which will eventually announce the results of his experiment. WINS DRAMA AWARD Buenos Aires (J. T. A.)Samuel Eichelbaum, Spanish - Jewish playwright of this city, has been declared the winner of the first prize, given by the municipality of Buenos Aires annually for the best play. The prize was given to Eichelbaum for his play Senorita, which ran last year in one of the local theatres. Though still a young man, Eichelbaum has already achieved a great reputation here as a playwright. WINS NATIONAL PEACE ESSAY CONTEST Washington, D. C. (W. N. S.) Morris Leviloff, 17-year-old student at Bulkley High School, London, Conn., has been announced as the winner of the best 500-word essay in a nationwide contest on the best means of achieving peace. Leviloff will be given a free trip to Europe as one of fifteen who will go abroad to observe international relations under the auspices of the National Student Forum. The judges in the contest included Sen- ator Arthur Capper and U. S. Commissioner of Education William Cooper. JEWISH GROUP DECLARED WINNER Chicago (J. T. A.)The Institute Players of the Chicago Jewish Peoples Institute have won first honors again in the Drama League Tournament held at the Goodman Theatre. For the second year in succession the Silver Cup, which was never won twice by any organization, was awarded to the Institute Players for their presentation of The Dollar by David Pin-ski. The contest was participated in by dramatic organizations of Chicago and its suburbs. Sixteen little theatres competed, representing independent and college groups. ESTIMATES 9,785,000 JEWS IN EUROPE Berlin (W. N. S.)There are 9,785,-000 Jews in Europe, according to an estimate made by J. Koralnik and Dr. Jacob Segall in an article in the Zeitschrift fuer Demographie und Statistik der Juden. According to these figures, which are supposed to be complete as of the end of 1930, the Jews are divided among the following countries: Poland, 3,125,000; Russia, 2,970,000; Rumania, 800,000; Germany, 585,000; Hungary, 473,000; Czechoslovakia, 380,000; England and Ireland, 300,000; Austria, 220,000; Lithuania, 167,000; France, 160,000; Holland, 120,000; Latvia, 96,000; Greece, 73,000; Yugoslavia, 67,000; Italy, 45,000; Sweden, 6,000; Spain, 3,000; Norway, 450. NAMED DEAN OF GERMAN U Prague (J. T. A.)Dr. Emil Stark-enstein, a member of the faculty of the medical school of the German University of Prague, has been appointed dean of the University for the academic year of 1931-1932. Dr. Starkenstein is a leading member of the Bnai Brith grand lodge. Born in Ronsperg, Czecho-Slovakia in 1885, Dr. Starkenstein was appointed an instructor in pharmacology in 1913, extraordinary professor in 1920 and full professor in 1929. He is the discoverer of vasano, a remedy against sea-sickness and other ail ments resulting from loss of equilibrium. He is also the author of a number of standard work on Pharmacology. WAILING WALL SACRED ONLY TO JEWS Jerusalem (J. T. A.)That the Wailing Wall is sacred only to the Jews is one of the most important conclusions reached by the International Wailing Wall Commission, whose report on Moslem and Jewish claims to the Wall is expected to be made public soon, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today from a reliable source. This conclusion upholds the principal contention made by the Jews at the hearings of the Commission last June and July that only the Jews regarded the Wailing Wall as a shrine of devotion, and not the Moslems. The whole tone of the report is understood to be apparently favorable to the Jewish case, although the practical recommendations may disappoint those expecting greater liturgical freedom than the Commission considered customary. LEGION DECLINES TO CHANGE DATE INDIANAPOLIS. (J. T. A.)Although manifesting every desire to comply with the request to change the convention date of the American Legion in Detroit which is to open on September 21, the day of Yom Kippur, the national executive committee at its meeting here regretted the inadvisability of such action because of the extensive preparations already made, including printing and publicity. Out of respect to the Jewish legionnaires, however, the executive committee decided that the convention would adjourn on September 21 at noon for the rest of the day. The executive committee also voted to give every possible co-operation to Jewish legionnaires in providing them with places of worship. William Stern of Fargo, North Dakota, and David Adler of Fairbanks, Alaska, Jewish national committeemen, made the appeal for the change. SYNAGOGUE FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BELASCO New York, (J.T.A.)David Belasco, the theatrical wizard of America for more than half a century and the maker of scores of stars whose names are part of the dramatic history of this country, who died Thursday afternoon after a long illness at the age of 76, was buried at Linden Hills Cemetery after funeral services at the Central Synagogue with Rabbi Jonah B. Wise officiating. The son of Abraham Humphrey Belasco, a Portuguese Jewish clown, Belasco was born in a San Francisco basement. His early education was under Catholic auspices to which has been traced his habit of wearing a reversed collar. Associated with the stage from his earliest youth, Belasco had played in over 200 dramatic roles before he was 27. A successful playwright and producer before he was out of his teens, his acquaintance with such stage luminaries as Booth and Sothern eventually led to his coming to New York as the lighting expert of the old Madison Square Theatre. His pioneering in electric lighting effects created a sensation, and 1883 he became manager of the theatre. His first great success was May Blossom. Belasco himself estimated that he had written over 150 plays and had produced or staged nearly 400. Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Warfield, Leonore Ulric are but a few of the stage stars whom he trained and raised to stardom. In his first years in New York he was associated with Daniel Froh-man. Later he lost a million dollars in fighting the Klaw-Erlander syndicate. He acquired his own theatre in 1902 and eventually he owned interests in theatres in most of the leading cities. Belasco was known as the wizard of the American theatre because of his use of stagecraft, his attention to detail, his passionate striving for atmosphere for reality in properties, and for his achievements with sets and lighting effects. Although Belas-cos career spanned the development of American drama from the days of blood-curdling melodrama to its contemporary subtle forms, his first great triumphs were in melodrama. Two years ago Belascos connection with the Freiburg Passion play presented at the Hippodrome by his son-in-law, Morris Gest, created nationwide protests on the part of American Jewry led by the late Louis Marshall who sought to prevent the plays showing. The Hippodrome performance was given under the personal direction of David Belasco. sf: * * New York.The will of David Belasco, theatrical producer, filed for probate, leaves the bulk of his estate to his daughter, Mrs. Morris Gest, who receives $25,000 in cash, all of the art and antiques and 60 per cent of the income from plays and contracts. Two bequests to charity are listed$5,000 to the Actors fund of America, and $10,000 to Ahawath Central synagogue, New York. BNAI BRITH REPRESENTATIVE TO INVESTIGATE MEXICAN SITUATION Toronto. (J. T. A.)J. L. Weinberger, special representative of the Bnai Brith, is now on the way to Mexico City to investigate the Jewish situation there as the result of recent anti-Semitic manifestations, according to Alfred M. Cohen, international president of Bnai Brith. Mr. Cohen is here to attend the convention of Grand Lodge No. 1, of Bnai Brith. Referring to the American State Departments investigation of the Jewish situation in Mexico, an investigation resulting from a protest by Mr. Cohen to Secretary of State Stim-som, Mr. Cohen said that the State Department has informed him that its investigations, through Ambassador J. Reuben Clark, indicates that the incidents which occurred in Mexico City in the last week or two are the result of the economic depression which manifested itself in demonstrations against Jewish and other non-Mexican elements but that no physical harm was done to the Jews. Mr. Weinberger was formerly in charge of the Bnai Brith work in Mexico until a few months ago when it was believed that this work was accomplished and he returned to Chicago, Mr. Cohen declared. He said that Mr. Weinberger would report to him personally so that he (Mr. Cohen) would be able to take further necessary steps for the protection of the Jews in Mexico. The Bnai Brith leader said that the State Department had shown its willingness to co-operate with the Bnai Brith in every possible way when the matter of Jewish persecution in Mexico was brought to its attention. Maurice D. Rosenberg, the Bnai Briths representative in Washington, is in constant touch with the State Department regarding the situation in Mexico, Mr. Cohen stated. * * * POLAND INTERVENES IN MEXICO Warsaw. (J. T. A.)Through its consul-general in Mexico City, Z. Mer-dinger, the Polish government has made representations to the Mexican government on behalf of the Polish Jews among the Jewish tradesmen in Mexico City, who were recently forcibly ousted from their stands in the public markets. As a result of these representations, the Mexican foreign minister has informed M. Merdinger that the question of trading rights for foreigners in Mexico City is now the subject of conferences between the foreign office and the ministry of the interior. While the ministry of the interior is opposed to foreigners being granted the same right to trade as Mexicans, the foreign office is favorably inclined towards traders who are not Mexican citizens. Poland is the second government to have taken an interest in the ousting of the Jewish market vendors. Last week the American state department instructed its ambassador in Mexico City to investigate whether any American citizens were affected by the expulsion of the Jewish tradesmen. * * * Mexico City. (J. T. A.)The Jewish market men in the Mexico City public markets who were ousted from their stalls last week were expelled because they were trading without licenses, President Ortiz Rubio declared in his reply to a message of protest from the Jewish Merchants Chamber of Commerce. Senor Rubio declared that he has forwarded the protest to the ministry of the interior. Meanwhile the Jewish tradesmen who were ousted are suffering want. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 4", "title_s": "Page 4", "title_t": "Page 4", "title_search": "Page 4", "title_sort": "page4", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49629" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 3, "attachment": "26497.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Four THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 Amertran Jetutalj Worib Continuing1 the Jewish Weekly Established June 12, 1912, by DR. S. N. DEINARD L. H. FRISCH, EDITOR Associate Editors: Rabbi David Aronson Abraham I. Harris Rabbi C. David Matt Jesse B. Calmenson, City Editor, St. Paul Published every Friday by The Jewish World Publishing Co., Minneapolis and St. Paul. Minneapolis office, Palace Building, 40 South Fourth St. Telephones, Main 6318 and Main 6319. St. Paul, office, 718 Pioneer Bldg. Telephone, Cedar 7011. SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE IN U. S. A..............S3.00 IN CANADA ............... 4.00 ALL OTHER COUNTRIES..... 4.00 To Insure publication, nil correspondence and news ma tter must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the act of March 3, 1879. TIIE HEBREW CALENDAR 5001 1930-1031 Rosh Chodesh Nissan .Thurs., March 19 First Day Pessach....Tliurs., April 2 Seventh Day Pessach..Wed., April 8 Rosh Chodesh Iyar....Sat., April 18 Lag Boiner..........Tues., May 5 Rosh Chodesh Sivan...Sun., May 17 First Day Sliabuoth.Fri., May 22 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz. . Tues., June 10 Fast of Tammuz.......Thurs., July 2 Rosh Chodesh Ab.....Wed., July 15 Fast of Ab........Thurs., July 23 Rosh Chodesh Ellul.... Fri., August 14 Rosh Hashonah.......Sat., Sept. 12 Yom Kippur..........Mon., Sept. 21 \\ EDITORIAL | A SHAVUOTH THOUGHT The Torah, whose natal day Jews celebrate on Shavuoth, has been represented in Jewish literature as the most important document in Jewish life and history. Considering God and Israel, in an allegorical sense, as the lover and his beloved, the Torah has been compared to the Ksoobo, or marriage contract, giving the details and the terms of betrothal of the divine lover for His beloved people. There is in the Midrash, the following striking allegory: A wife seems to have been deserted by her husband. At least he has left, without telling his whereabouts nor the date of his intended return. The wife naturally misses him and grieves. Her neighbors, in due course, begin to taunt her, and decry her continued faith in her husband and her belief that he will yet return. But she pays no attention to their un-neighborly discouragement. Yet at times, when her heart is heavy, and she is oppressed by the feeling of loneliness, she goes into her innermost chamber, takes out the love-letters she has cherished since the days of courtship, and reading the old, familiar vows of love and devotion, her faith and hope are reborn. In time the husband does return, and even he marvels at his wifes constancy and that she has not lost faith in him. He even expresses to her his astonishment. But she tells him that in moments of doubt she needed only to re-read his olden messages of loyalty and promise, and that was enough to keep her hopeful. Similarly, the Midrash points out, the nations of the world taunt Israel: How can you still hope that your Divine spouse, your God, has not forgotten you, how can you hope that He may turn to you again in mercy ? See how long He has forsaken you! How can you still believe that He will again call you His people and show you kindness? God Himself, the sages, declare, marvels at the constancy of His people, and He asks Israel: How could you have per- sisted in your faithfulness, especially when your fellows mocked you so long and so ceaselessly? To which Israel, like the loyal mate replies: Had it not been for Thy Torah which Thou didst give us, we would long ago have lost all sense of hope and allegiance to Thee. What better thought for serious-minded Jews to take to heart at Sha-vuoth-time? What was it that made the Jew a distinct, separate people, if not the Torah? What was it that enabled the Jew to preserve his own identity, if not the Torah ? When did the Jew show weakness and uncertainty, except when he became indifferent to the Torah ? What must the Jew do to find himself and be able to continue creditably in his distinctive path, if not revert to his Torah? No matter how much cause the Jew has for self-praise or satisfaction because of any achievements that may be his, he will be the more worthy, the more highly esteemed, the more useful to himself and to his fellow-men if he renew and maintain his loyalty to the Torah, to that distinctive Jewish system of life, to that specific code of laws and ideals involved in Judaism. Loyalty, reconciliation, reunion with the Torah and its Divine author should be the call to old and young on Shavuoth! DAVID BELASCO David Belasco, dean of the American stage, has passed on. Recently recovered from a grave illness and apparently on the way to recovery, the grand old man of the theatre succumbed to a sudden heart attack at the age of seventy-six. His death will be mourned throughout the world. He was more to the American theatre than Reinhardt is to the German or Stanislawsky to the Russian. For over half a century he has moulded the taste of American theatre audience and shown the way to the rest of the producers toward a modern, dignified and highly artistic theatre. Never was he charged with vulgarity or indecency, as have so many of his colleagues. Not once was he decried as a sensational box office showman out for material gain without regard to the highest and best traditions of his profession. Continuously and consistently David Belasco sacrificed personal gain for the sake of art. He produced the very best of foreign and American playwrights. He developed some of the foremost American actors and actresses of our time. He never hesitated to give of his strength and abundant vitality for the development of the American theatre. Belasco produced about three hundred and seventy-five plays, of which he himself wrote more than a hundred. Among his productions were successes that held American audiences spellbound for literally years. Yet the grand old man of the American theatre died a relatively poor man. He gave his all for his all-consuming love, the American theatre. From a humble Jewish home in San Francisco he worked his way to scintillating triumphs on Broadway, where theatrical competition is the keenest in the world. America and all the world mourns him as an outstanding personality and a great artist. THE ANTI-DEFAMATION REPORT The report of the Anti-Defamation Commission of the Bnai Brith, which has just been made public, directs attention again to the admirable work that is being done by this organization. The summary of the cases disposed of by the Commission covers evidences of anti-Semitism in newspapers, magazines, books, circulars, post cards, motion pictures, employment, radio, hotels and resorts. Working consistently and systematically, the .Bnai Brith has placed its activities. in counteracting anti-Semitism on a dignified and effective level. Recognizing that the measure of its worth will be determined by the results it accomplishes and not by the hullabaloo it creates, the Bnai Brith has demonstrated that it is possible for a national organization seeking to protect Jewish interests to do so in such a manner as not to rob Jews of their self-respect and at the same time to safeguard their rights. The BELASCO THE GREAT And so the dynamo that was David Belasco has stopped running. Who can ever figure out where a man gets his energy? David was only five feet three, but he packed the power of a physical giant. Sickness tried to throw him many times, but he staged comeback after comeback. His name, you know, used to be Valasco. Or, rather, the name of his Portuguese Jewish ancestors. People will be remembering him only as one of Americas greatest directors and showmen. But you can be sure that he remembered the days when he used to work in a cigar factory, when he graduated to doing messenger service, then earned a living as a circus bare-back rider. Of course, he was a necktie salesman too at one time. Jews especially used to look at this impressive white-haired man and wonder why he wore that ecclesiastical collar. It identified him as completely as his custom of opening his plays only on Tuesdays. He always said that h'e put it on in admiration for a certain Catholic priest. But Belasco, cherishing something of mountebankery, kept it on because it attracted attention to himself. Some of his notable idiosyncrasies: he wore only black button shoes; he never smoked; he exerted a powerful fascination over women; he was a great deal of a mystic; he hated shiny things, so that he rarely let his shoes be polished; he declaimed every play that he wrote, because he felt that if he put himself in the actors place he could improve his craftsmanship. David Belasco was undoubtedly the most colorful figure on the American stage. His son-in-law is a secondhand imitation compared to Belasco. In many respects he was a saint. But there were people in the show world who also knew his as a Mephistophelean character. All that, however, will be forgotten. His greatness on the stage will linger. He himself once said: Introduce me to a girl and Im positively bashful. Bring me an actress and Im her master. * * * REMARQUE INSISTS Ever since All Quiet on the Western Front began its march through edition after edition in several dozen languages rumors have circulated to the effect that Erich Maria Remarque is a Jew. Adolf Hitlers boys were probably the first to throw the epithet at the pacifistic novelist. Later some Yiddish yeshiva bachur with a flair for acrostics and other name games figured out that Remarque was a Jew because his name is Kramer. He arrived at that by reversing the spelling. But by this time Remarque is tired of being called a Jew. And so he announces to the world: My name is not Kramer. This is a fairy tale invented by some German militarists and disseminated in the press. My name is Remarque; that has been the name of my family for hundreds of years, and the only change which this name has frequently undergone is the Germanization from Remarque to Remark. This has, however, occurred only in the case of my father and myself, because it was frequently suggested to us. No report of the Anti-Defamation Commission cannot be cited without giving credit to Dr. Isaac M. Rubinow national secretary of the Bnai Brith! A distinguished social worker, Dr. Rubinow is also equipped with an extensive Jewish background which fits him ideally for the role which he now occupies. one in our family was ever called Kramer. Well, that ought to dispose of Remarque as a contender for the golden phylacteries. But one wonders why he protests so much. * * APOLOGY FOR A JEW The tale I am about to unfold is an actual experience for which I can vouch, and on which I would stake every one of my three cents. A certain young lady, sent to a Wall Street commission house by an employment agency, was accepted as a stenographer. She was assigned to work for the treasurer of the company, who happened to be of Hebraic extraction, as they say. He was the only Jew in the house. Before she actually began work the girl was invited to the desk of the office manager, who hemmed and hawed for a while and then said: We do hope you wont have any unpleasant experience. Our treasurer is a Jew, but you wont find him like the rest. He is, of course, very exacting, but also fair. And some more in that vein, to complete the apology. The young lady found it an amusing experience. So would you. For although she is registered in the employment agency as a Methodist she is as much Jewish as you and I. * * * STUFFING THE BALLOTS Youve probably heard that there is such a thing as the Jewish Agency. Its supposed to represent a merger of Zionists and non-Zionists, in equal proportions, to run Jewish affairs in Palestine. Within the next two months the Council of the Agency is supposed to meet in Switzerland in order to elect its big chiefs and little chiefs. The Zionists, in order to nominate their representatives, are having a gory time of it. The Zionists, you see, have what they call democracy. And for six dollars you have as much right to say that Weizmann is no good as the man who owns a million. The non-Zionists, however, are more exclusive. Thats the crowd of Warburg and Lehman, you know. And to represent those boys youve got to have class and position, etc. But, strange to say, a fellow came to me recently and said: Here Ive been a member in good standing of the Zionist Organization for fifteen years, and Ive just received a letter asking me to vote for non-Zionist nominees to the Council of the Jewish Agency. At first I thought he was an exception. But it seems that there are hundreds of fellows like that. It happened this way. Since the non-Zionists on the Agency have no real organization, and since they wanted to show some form of popular approval, they collected the lists of the Joint Distribution Committee conferences and sent ballots to every one on the lists. They assumed that fellows who attended J. D. C. confabs were non-Zionists. But these Zionists have a habit of attending any kind of a Jewish meeting. And now theyre receiving the compliment of getting their mail addressed to them as though they were non-Zionists. As one thunderstruck Zionist put it: What if only the Zionists who Highlights and Sidelights Gossip and News of Jewish Personalities", "_version_": 1710450996635762688, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26496", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/e34e9e34fce62801f3663081055b212cf0f91d20.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26497", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26497", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 5", "title_s": "Page 5", "title_t": "Page 5", "title_search": "Page 5", "title_sort": "page5", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49630" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 4, "attachment": "26498.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Five received ballots should vote and the non-Zionists would abstain! The result would be that the Zionists would elect the non-Zionist members of the Agency. By the time they got through every bona fide non-Zionist would be out of a job. * * * ROTHSCHILDS ANSWER There are Hakenkreuzlers in Vienna who revel in Jew-baiting. There is a Fascist party in Austria that clamors for the expulsion of every Jewish citizen of the former Hapsburg kingdom. There is the Heimwehr, which boasts the political slogan: Every Jew is an enemy of our country. Yet the other day, when the Austrian State Bank was faced with the prospect of bankruptcy, it called upon the banking house of the Rothschilds to save it from collapse. A conference of the leading bankers of Austria was summoned by the Austrian Minister of Finance. When things looked darkest the Rothschild house showed the way to safeguard the countrys largest fiscal institution by granting it a credit of $25,000,000. It is generally agreed that this action by the Rothschilds saved the day for the State Bank. The countrys finances are on the way to recovery. Austria will rejoice. The Hakenkreuzlers, the Heimwehr and the Fascists will celebrate the event. In this exhilaration it will be tactfully ignored that the Rothschilds belong to the race that is assaulted and insulted daily on the gay streets of Vienna. * * * PURPLE BLOODED JEWS With the King of Roumania apparently persisting, according to the papers, in his intention of making Mme. Lupescu, his wife, and with the Abyssinian king marrying a Jewess, we Jews will soon be swimming in royal blood. The truth is, that in the royal veins generally, there is quite a bit of the Jewish red. The Austrian royal house, according to some, is the offspring of a Sephardic Jew. And the Spanish royalty has quite a Jewish mixture. Old Ferdinand, the spouse of Isabella, was the son or grandsonI dont recall which of a Jewish mother. * * * NOT ALL ESTHERS I suppose the average Jew takes delight in thinking of these Jewish queens. He immediately begins to think of Queen Esther, who sayed her people by marrying the Persian monarch. I personally lack this consolation and assurance. I cannot but help think of Ferdinand, Jewish grandson, who stood by and even approved of the terrible Spanish Inquisition. * * * CHAPLIN AND NATIONALISM The Jew has been accused of being an internationalist. Many of us have tried to deny it, because internationalism seems to conflict with patriotism. Mr. Chaplin in London has just created something of a sensation by attacking patriotism as insanity, and contending that it will soon lead us into another war. There is no question that the common, garden variety of patriotism is narrowing, selfish and something that well have to outgrow. There is, however, a form of patriotismthe natural love of a person for those nearest to him, which is quite natural and which will probably always endure. * * * INTERPLANETARISTS But what I am thinking about now is another thing. Here, we have been accused of being internationalists. I look at Michelson, who has just died I think of Einsteinand I am afraid, that soon the charge will be that weve gone even beyond the internationaland become cosmic. Calvin Coolidge at one time made the statement, that if Michelson had put his mind to applied science, he could have become as distinguished in that field as Edison. But Michelson, with the exception of some things in optics, confined himself to measuring things millions of miles away from the earth. And Einstein, too, thinks of the Milky Way,and all of those other things in the neighboring, suns, stars, and planets. I wonder if some day, we Jews wont be accusednot of being internationalists, but of being inter-planetarists, of cosmicists. | ^ JjJ STOP! It is being rumored in London that Commander J. M. Kenworthy is considered as the next High Commissioner for Palestine, to succeed Sir John Robert Chancellor. Kenworthy is a great friend of the Zionist movement. He visited, a few years ago, this country, in the interests of the United Palestine Appeal, and on more than Konrad Bercovici, distinguished American man of letters and outstanding authority on Rumanian affairs, fearlessly speaks his mind on King Carols romance and its political, significance. Straight from the shoulder, the popular teller of gypsy tales reveals the true story of Magda Lupescus part in the court affairs of present-day Rumania.The Editor. * * * Rumanias ruler is in love, openly and defiantly in lovewith a Jewish, Magda Lupescu; and it cannot be foretold whether she will some day sit beside him on the throne, or whether she will cost him his sovereignty. Despite the outcome, however, the situation of the Jews in that country has not benefited by the romance, averred Konrad Bercovici, the Rumanian writer who is also Jewish. The situation of the Jews at this time, he stated, is not only bad but dangerous; and King Carols ravishing Jewish mistress has signally contributed, among other things, to the gravity of their position. He pointed out that since the ascension of the Hohenzollerns to the Rumanian throne in 1865 anti-Semitism has been a ubiquitous ember of mass incendiarism there. It has also proved to be an effective plank in the platforms of the political parties. For many people who otherwise would display no interest in the duel for supremacy between the Peasant and the Liberal Parties, who might even have been opposed to the tactics of both, staunchly support one or the other for no reason except to register their hatred of the Jews in the affairs of the government. Naturally this induces both parties to outdo themselves in their manifestations against the Jews, in an effort to win cohorts. Of late, due to the scramble for power among the members of the royal family, the mounting number of mob outrages pogroms, student riots, demonstrations perpetrated against the Jews has been accounted for only fitfully and vaguely to the world by the government and the press. Undesirablesand Jews are largely theseare clapped into prison on trumped-up charges, and there they rot until the long-delayed day of trial arrives. By that time, very often, a goodly percentage of them have died of illness while in confinement or committed suicide. The intrusion of a Jewess in the most intimate confines of the royal palace several years ago was, needless to say, properly exploited by the then Prince Carols enemiesto wean popularity away from him and, incidentally, to arouse the anti-Semitic populace to greater indignation against the Christ-killers. In the words of Bercovici: one occasion showed his hearty approval of the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. From a Jewish point of view his appointment would almost mean a solution of the entire political problem in Palestine. But, as we said at the outset, all this is merely a rumor. We are prepared to prophesy that it will never come true. WRoever is responsible for the launching of this rumor is committing a serious blunder. Jewish hopes have been disappointed too often with regard to Palestine to throw off rumors of this sort lightly. If it is part of the political game played by some Zionist parties it should be nailed immediately and condemned strongly by Jewish public opinion. Jewish patience with regard to Palestine is reaching the breaking point. If Magda Lupescu really had power to influence Carol then, and wields it now that he is King, then those who were then and are now aligned against him were bound to flaunt this fact in public, to incite the people CONRAD BERCOVICI against him for permitting them to be ruled over by a Jewess. On the other hand, if she never did have any power to wield, she has had both Carols friends and enemies opposed to herone party in fear of the bad light into which she throws the King, and the other anxious to throw more light on her relations with him. But much more than the mere outward facts must be considered in this morganatic love affair. And there is none better able to analyze it than Konrad Bercovici, whose latest book, That Royal Lover, reveals the inside workings of Rumanias musical-comedy royal family, its scandals, intrigues, corruption, generally censorious behavior in war and peace and last but not leastits mother, the amorous, unscrupulous, ambitious Queen Marie. Magda Lupescu, he began, is the daughter of a small-town jeweler and money-changer; she is tall, with a voluptuous figure, and arrestingly handsome without being beautiful, with golden-red hair, brown eyes and a typically Jewish cast of face. While a young woman she let herself be baptized, that she might marry an army officer named Tampeano. How it came about that she crossed the path of Prince Carol can only be guessed at. At that time Queen Marie saw in her son a threat to her control over the throne. Know- ing- how susceptible her son was to beautiful women, might she not have laid a trap for him? Setting the attractive Magda Lupescu in his way, so that by his infatuationwhich was certain to ensuehe should lose the support of the people as soon as the word spread that he was in love with a Jewess? The people would tremble at the possibility of a Jewish Queen! And so it came to pass. Magda attracted Carol at one of the military balls. And he succumbed. The people were apprized of his latest amour. How? By whom? Wellwho was most anxious to see him despised by the nation? Before long he was exiled, along with his courtesan, and they went to live in France together. He subsequently saw Michael, his little son by Helen of Greece, crowned King, and the country ruled by a Regency. When, after a few years, the unsettled condition in Rumania led to talk of revolution, it was deemed wisest to execute a coup detat and bring Carol back to the throne in place of his son. The people were hungry for a manly King-, a dominating figure, and they now loked upon his sundry amours as the doings of a truly manly manand loved him the more for it. And so, on the crest of a wave of popularity, Carol came home to assume the _ throne, leaving the Jewess in Paris, as he had promised to do. There can be little question that Magda Lupescu loves Carol. I feel sure that she has kept him out of more trouble than history will ever give her credit for. And she is an intelligent woman. Therefore she stayed behind when he went home, giving- him up for his own benefit rather than jeopardize his recovered popular esteem. But leave it to Carol to go to any length for a woman he loves. . . . At the close of this past April the whole world learned of Magda Lupescus residence in the Palace at Bucharest! Yes, Carol seems to love her, despite everything. The sad part of this entrancing-love story is the reaction it has on the eight hundred thousand Jews who live in Rumania. This four per cent of the population again hears the cry of the ninety-six per cent: The Jews are trying to steal all the power! That Jewess is their agent! It is the baying of the hounds, led on by Carols enemieshis discarded wife, Queen Helen, and the Queen Mother, Marie. Jews have lived in Rumania for a thousand years. One of my ancestors, in the fourteenth century, was the argentar, the financial minister, to Mathei Bessarab, founder of the Rumanian nation. When the rest of Europe was stifling the Jews in: ghettos Rumanian Jewry enjoyed comparative freedom, farming in Moldavia, doing small manufacturing in the towns as well as dealing in money. When the ghetto walls crumbled everywhere Rumania began to build them up. Today politics will not allow them to be torn down. The Jews make an excellent issue to scrap about, and a fine victim for incensed mobs. Does Magda Lupescu really rule over Rumania by virtue of the love of and her love forKing Carol? Bercovici shrugged his shoulders in an eloquent summary. I think not. Unwittingly -and involuntarily she is creating a tremendous lot of animosity against her people. Jorga, the Prime Minister at the present moment (at the time of this interview), once led the Anti-Semitic Party. Is he likely to enjoy Mme. Lupescus shadow across his desk ? Whatever is happening now in Rumania bodes no good for the Jews. No matter which way the pendulum swingsand it seems to be swinging back toward Queen Marie, who will not forget the Jewess who almost usurped her powerthe Jews are bound to suffer for the ills occasioned by others. S. A. F. S. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 6", "title_s": "Page 6", "title_t": "Page 6", "title_search": "Page 6", "title_sort": "page6", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49631" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 5, "attachment": "26499.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Six THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 WILLIAMSON & WILLIAMSON Business Established 1885 PATENTS TRADE MARKS One of Firm Formerly Examiner U. S. Patent Office 925-935 Met. Life Bldg. Phone Ge. 4551 Minneapolis ASK FOR Feinbergs Products at your Dealers FEINBERG KOSHER SAUSAGE COMPANY Cherry 3487 809 Lyndale Ave. N. Minneapolis, Minn. JJasdeka JJros, I^Mahfrt S/g/ltU FURf ONLY Eighth at La Salle Main 5848 Call Sam Olesky For Your MOVING STORING PACKING Phone Main 7323 HOLMES MINNEAPOLIS TRANSFER WAREHOUSE CO. Reduced Rates on Household Goods to California The Best Place in Town to Buy Your NEXT KIMBALL CHEVROLET CO. NOTED FOR SERVICE Atlantic 2205 600 So. 7th St. Established 1880 Patnp, OTpbbpr Sc (fttmtpatuj MEMBERS New York Stock Exchange New York Cotton Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Boston Stock Exchange Detroit Stock Exchange Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange Telephone Atlantic 3541 GROUND FLOOR RAND TOWER MINNEAPOLIS 35 Broad Street, New York | SPANISH VILLAGE-! IN THE RITZ HOTEL Washington at Second Aye. 8. 10# _ __i -l- 81.00 Dinner ^Prepared by STOYKA I i S3 B Private Bungalow Boothi| C?ox3iai and ;
. CUSTOM UPHOLSTERING Davenport and Chair, in denim and tapestry ................ $35 Antique Velour or Antique Velvet.$65 Mohair or Velour...$50 Frieze...$75 Above prices include labor and material. Empire Upholstering Co. 511 4th Ave. So. GEneva 2806 V-_______________________________ J SAY PETER PAN TO YOUR GROCERYMAN BREAD and ROLLS N. A. Matson Baking Co. GL adstone 1332 Bring back the good old days EAT AT The Brass Rail 414 Hennepin We serve the best to all our guests Johns Place ESTABLISHED 1883 28 So. 6th St. Minneapolis Finest Restaurant for Chinese and American Dishes Specializing in Food for All Social Occasions Delivered by Messenger GENEVA 4924 MAIN 9419", "_version_": 1710450996638908416, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26498", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/8617d2139f7f134250f6f4e9a3a93e8cbda6dd51.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26499", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26499", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Two Deliveries Weekly to South Minneapolis Cherry 2722 1807-09 Plymouth N. i^ PEKING CAFE 918 Hennepin Avenue AMERICAN OR CHINESE DISHES We DeliverCall Geneva 5621 Next Door to RKO Hennepin-Orpheum FEELING TIRED take a Turkish Bath ANDREWS HOTEL Rubs of all kinds - Swimming Pool AN INSTITUTION CHARLIE HALLS FAMOUS One-half One-quarter IRtED CAr ICr CHICKEN 300 S. 3rd St..........At. 9618 2320 E. Lake St........Dr. 6847 Or Delivered to Your Home at a Small Charge WE CATER TO PARTIES Coal - Coke - Wood International Fuel Co. MAin 4521 425 N. 7th St. Our own 35 trucks to serve yoi Pure Spring Water DELIGHTFULLY FRESHFROM THE SPRINGS EACH DAY No odor. No foreign taste Order a case today. You will thoroughly enjoy it. Phone HYIand 9684 I LAUNDRY WORK IN ALL ITS BRANCHES ADVANCE-TOWER LAUNDRY Wet WashRough DryFinished Work Drexel 3444 2445-47-49 Bloomington Ave. THE J. H. JOHNSON UNDERTAKING CO. 1900 Hennepin Ave. Lady Assistant Ambulance Service as North High School bacculaureate service. Students of North High and their parents are especially invited. Abe Lipkin, out-going president of the Menorah Club, will represent the graduating class. Rabbi Aronson will speak. Memorial services will be conducted at 10 oclock. Religious school will close with a picnic at Glenwood park, Sunday morning. Pupils will assemble at Synagogue at 9:30 a. m. In case of rain a program will be presented in the Synagogue. TEMPLE ISRAEL Shevuoth confirmations services will be held Friday morning at 10 a. m. The doors will he closed during the confirmation processional. Services Friday at 8 p. m., without sermon, to be followed by confirmation reception in auditorium of Community House. Sabbath morning services at 11 a. m. in Deinard Memorial Chapel. Birthday blessings for pupils whose birthdays occurred in May will be given. Final examinations will be conducted in Religious School Sunday. Closing exercises will take place Sunday, May 31. Annual number of the Templarian, Religious school paper, may be purchased at the Temple office. Junior Congregation night will be observed at the Temple, Friday, May 29. A debate between junior members of Mt. Zion Temple, St. Paul, and the local organization, will take place with Echo Korsh and Elliot Hoffman, representing Temple Israel and Lee Loevinger and Saul Raskin representing Mt. Zion Temple. A social hour will follow the program. UNITED ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONS Junior Congregation will hold services Saturday morning in the vestry rooms of Kenesseth Israel at 9 a. m. In the absence of Rabbi Romm, Rev. M. Bartnoff and Mr. Isaac Cohen will expound the Talmud for Chevra Shas at the Kenesseth Israel Synagogue. OBITUARY Mrs. Molly Ascheim Mrs. Molly Ascheim, 85 years of age, a resident of the city for thirty-seven years, died Saturday, May 16. Funeral services were conducted Monday at the Deinard Memorial Chapel, Temple Israel. Interment was at the Graceland cemetery, Chicago. The deceased is survived by four daughters, Mrs. James Kantrowitz of the city; Mrs. Gus Krakauer, St. Paul, Mrs. H. Dessar, New York, and Mrs. George Arkins, Los Angeles; a son, Charles of Cincinnati; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, two sisters and a brother. * * * Ben Rosenberg Ben Rosenberg died Wednesday, May 13, at the home of his son, Dr. George Rosenberg, 209 East Nineteenth Street. He was a resident of Crookston, Minn., for the past thirty-two years. Funeral services were conducted from the Aaron-Hodroff Funeral Temple on Friday. Interment was at the O. B. A. cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Louise; two sons, Dr. George, of this city, and Leonard of Crookston; four sisters, Mrs. Sam Rivkin of this city, Mrs. Molly Rosenberg, South Bend, Ind.; Mrs. Jacob Weinberg of Poland, and Mrs. Leon Bernstein of Germany, and three brothers, Robert of Minneapolis, Alfred of Poland, and Jerome of Knoxville, Nebr. JUNIOR HADASSAH MOTHERS TEA Junior Hadassah will be hostesses at a tea at which their mothers will he the guests of honor, Monday evening, May 25, at the Beth El Synagogue. Preceding the program, election of officers will take place. Rea Berman will open the program with a message of welcome and will give a summary of the years activities. Belle Shalit, will play a group of cello solos, accompanied by Sidney Lippman, and Rose Samet, accompanied by Susan Noodleman, will sing a number of songs. Another feature on the program will be the presentation of a playlet written and coached by Cecelia Levitt, in which the following will take partFrances Fleish-er, Ann Lazar, Lorraine Shallett, Mary Besser, Beatrice Katz, Ann Abrams, Eva Gottlieb, Jeanette Schwartz, Rose Greene, Emma Levitt Page Seven and Freda Aronson. Mildred Horwitz is chairman of the tea. * * * The last meeting of the study group will be held Thursday evening, May 28, instead of May 21, as previously announced. The meeting will he at the home of Rabbi Aronson. The annual Hadassah formal membership dancing party will be given at the Columbia Golf Club, Saturday evening, May 23. Pittsburgh Coal Co. Wants Your Business COAL COKE - BRIQUETS Minneapolis St. Paul -Duluth - -Superior - If you live in Call MA in 4441 - CE dar 1450 - ME h ose 2100 - BRoad 681 Our dependability is your guarantee All Our Coal Is Steam Treated, DustlessNo Extra Charge Pittsburgh Coal Co. WOLFS HEAD LOOK FOR THIS SIGN SSgSsSjE-EMPIRE PEFINWO-Sgia ^Spennsylv * T*06 oil USE WOLFS HEAD OIL and prolong- the life of your motor A REVELATION IN LUBRICATION H. K. STAHL CO. LOCAL DISTRIBUTORS 2429 University Ave., Midway, Nestor 1877 TWIN CITY SIMONIZING CO. (Only Authorized Stations) MINNEAPOLIS 1312 HARMON PLACE GENEVA 2761 SAINT PAUL 305 WEST FOURTH STREET CEDAR 1368 FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS AT POPULAR PRICES iJEJazcy s, Inc. Telephones: Vi; Growers and Retailers Nicollet Ave. at Tenth St. 505 Second Ave. S. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 8", "title_s": "Page 8", "title_t": "Page 8", "title_search": "Page 8", "title_sort": "page8", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49633" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 7, "attachment": "26501.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 19s 1 BTSTAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, wTi i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A. Souvenir mrs. m. j. weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close i June 1. Arrangements have been made for ' the third degree, a physical initiation which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left 1 Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be dis- ! tributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- !", "_version_": 1710450996641005568, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26500", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/8871d55008fe89c9d92595569afe29716144dfa7.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26501", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26501", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Senior luncheon will be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap hook, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. TRAVEL BY BUS Regular bus trips to Chicago and Milwaukee are featured by the Chicago and North Western Stages, who have offices and depots at 9 North", "_version_": 1710450996642054144, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26501", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/0f5c30b0cb9a83bb61fa47def9590f55e5aa793d.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26502", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26502", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 10", "title_s": "Page 10", "title_t": "Page 10", "title_search": "Page 10", "title_sort": "page10", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49635" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 9, "attachment": "26503.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Eight THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Nine May 22, 1931 May 22, 1931 BNAI BRITH ORATORICAL CONTEST The winners in the preliminary tryouts, conducted by the Bnai Brith Lodge, in which contestants from various religious schools, Talmud Torahs, and community centers participated, will enter in the final contest, Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 p. m. in the Community House of Temple Israel. Rabbi Albert G. Minda, chairman of the contest committee, will preside. The purpose of this project is to stimulate interest in Jewish education, history and life among the young people. Prizes to be awarded are as follows-first prize, $25, second, $15, and third, $10. Representatives chosen from the various institutions to compete Tuesday evening areJane Ruth Bearman representing the Adath Jeshurun, speaking on, Judaism as a Mode of Life; Eleanore Dolman, Temple Israel, Influence of the Bible on the Republic; Sarah Harris, South Side Neighborhood House, My Ideal Jewish Home; Max Horowitz, Kenesseth Israel, Judaism and Jewish Youth; Jerome B. Kaufman, Emanuel Cohen Center, Salvation in Education, and Ethel Lois Weisberg, Talmud Torah, The Rebirth of the Hebrew Language. The public is invited to attend. try rooms, which will be in the form of a luncheon. Other attractions on the program will include presentations by talented members of the organization. Elections of officers for the following year will take place. Mrs. A. M. Gross is chairman of reservations, Colfax 9294. Important business will be discussed and all members and their friends are invited to attend. SHELTERING HOME ANNUAL TEA Mrs. Joseph H. Schanfeld and Mrs. Louis Klugman, co-chairmen of general arrangements for the annual tea sponsored by the house committee of the Jewish Sheltering Home for Children, Wednesday, June 3, at the Home, have appointed the following committees to arrange details. Mmes, Mark Freedman, Edward Pearlove, and Charles Kieffer are in charge of invitations ; Mmes. George Kopman and Louis Barnett, decorations; Mmes. Albert Dalin, J. A. Saliterman, Sam Pink, Harry Brown, and George Mon-asch, dining room; Mmes. George Kaufman, Morris Greenstein, Sam Rosen, David Berg, and Joseph Wish-nick, calling; Mrs. Louis Himmelman, program, and Mrs. Mark Ross, publicity. Mmes. J. Binder, Max Cohen, Philip Ruvelson, Leo Pritzker, and A. L. Shapira, are members of the St. Paul committee on arrangements. * * Special board meeting of the Home will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 oclock. AUXILIARY OF SOUTH SIDE TALMUD TORAH TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the South Side Talmud Torah will be held Wednesday, May 27, at 2:30 p. m. at the building, 931 Thirteenth Avenue South. All members are invited to attend. ALEPH ZADEK ALEPH Third annual spring frolic will be held at Mrs. Nobles Studio at Franklin and Hennepin Avenue, Saturday evening, May 23. Max Langer is chairman of arrangements, assisted by Dave Skolnick, chairman of advertising, and Lewis Cohen, chairman of tickets. Hy Burnett will present a novelty act during intermission. Clems Gold Coast orchestra will furnish music for dancing. The public is invited to attend. Essays on the subject Employment Discrimination Against the Jew will be judged this week by a special com- mittee with Max Schwartz as chairman. The contest, open to all members of Aleph Zadek Aleph, will close June 1. Arrangements have been made for the third degree, a physical initiation, which will be administered to thirty pledges at the annual ceremonies to be held at Tonka Bay over Memorial Day. Lewis Cohn and Frank Cohen are co-chairmen of the initiation committee. Jack Leff, Aleph Shotare Godol, left Sunday for Seattle, Wash., where he will make his home. Members of the chapter presented Aleph Leff with a Aleph Zadek Aleph watch charm as a token of appreciation for the work he has rendered'the organization. Nathan Levine is chairman of the program meeting scheduled for Sunday, May 24, at which time the chapter paper The Echo will be distributed. Sam and Louis Labovitz were voted into the chapter at the last regular meeting held Sunday, May 17. CAMPUS NEWS Sigma Delta Tau Sorority announces the following honors conferred on their membersPhyllis Beskin made Mortar Board, a Womens Honorary Organization; Molly Mer-sky was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, S. L. A. scholastic honorary frater- nity. Beatrice Marks was initiated in The Masquers. Senior luncheon wall be given Saturday noon, May 23, at the Curtis Hotel, in honor of graduating seniors. Spring formal will be held at the Radisson Inn, Sunday, May 24. A dinner-dance will culminate the days activities. Twenty-five couples will attend the all-day affair. * * * Bess Dworsky was elected to Lam-da Alpha Psi, honorary language fraternity. She is also a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority. Committees for the ensuing year have been named as follows: scrap book, Toby Rapoport; flowers, Julia Figen; food, Evelyn Baker; sick, Marion Gordon and Hannah Levy; favors, Alice Friedson; publicity, Evelyn Segal; entertainment, Charlotte Marks; finance, Belle Rosen-zweig; telephone, Goldie Kroman; good and welfare, Irene Kriedberg; outside contact, Mmes. Stella Mannes and Josephine Hechter, and pledge mothers, Bess Dworsky. * * * Annual spring formal given by Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity will take place Saturday, May 23, at Bayport White Pine Inn. Plans are being formulated for a Mothers tea which is to be held at the Chapter House, Sunday, June 7. Nathan Lifson, senior in the school of business, and member of Sigma Alpha Mu, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. Lifson who has maintained a 2.9 average was also elected to Sigma Xi, honorary faternity which bases its award upon special skill in research. Samuel Stein, holder of a fellowship in anatomy was also elected to the society for his work in anatomy. Lifson performed his experiments in psychology in which he tested the mechanical ability of Jewish students in relation to that of the Gentiles. Burnell Koolish was elected to Zeta Alpha Psi which award came with the winning of the annual extemporaneous speaking contest. Delta Sigma Rho, honorary forensic fraternity, honored Koolish by electing him to membership. Burnell Koolish was also elected president of the Menorah society. Simon Miller won first place in the Freshman-Sophomore oratorical contest. * * * Phi Delta Epsilon will give their annual formal senior banquet, Saturday, May 23, in honor of Joe Garten, Irving Farsht, Simon Sax, Daniel Goldish, and George Doroshaw. Dr. E. P. Lyons, dean of the Medical School, will be the guest speaker. Preceding the banquet initiation of new members will take place, including Moe Goldstein, Morris Straus, Walter Korberg, Abraham Baskin, and Irving Glassberg. Dr. Charles Blumenfeld, Sam Stein, and Milton Goldberg were elected to Sigma Xi, honorary scientific frater- Phi chapter of Tau Delta Phi Fraternity held their spring formal, Saturday, May 16, at the Del Otero Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. M. Raskin and Mr. and Mrs. H. Rifkin were chaperons. Thirty couples attended. EMANUAL COHEN CENTER NEWS Ladies Auxiliary wil hold their last meeting of the year in the form of a tea, at the Center, Monday, May 25, at 2:30. Mrs. S. Lorberbaum and Mrs. J. King will preside at the tea tables. Rabbi Albert I. Gordon will be the guest speaker. The board will act as hostesses. Mrs. L. Kudish entertained the board of directors at a luncheon at the New England Tea rooms, last Monday. She was presented with a gift, in recognition of her faithful services as president for the past year. TALMUD TORAH ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Mrs. M. J. Weinstein, co-chairman with Mrs. Barney Tremblatt, will have charge of ar-range ments for the banquet, w*h i c h will be held on Thursday, June 4, at the Radisson Hotel in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary o f the Talmud Torah. A Souvenir mrs. M- J- Weinstein book which will include the history and accomplishments of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah during its twenty years of existence, embodying the auxiliary and alumni activities, the names of all alumni members, and Talmud Torah graduates, photographs of past presidents, and leaders in Talmud Torah affairs, will be distributed at the banquet. Carl Lifson and Max Shapiro are co-chairmen of the Twentieth Anniversary book, assisted by Dr. George J. Gordon, superintendent of the Talmud Torah. COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN BOARD MEETING Old and new board members and chairmen of committees of the Council of Jewish Women will hold their final executive board meeting of the season, Wednesdav, May 27, at 12:30 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Charles Goldblum, Cottagewood, Lake Minnetonka. Mrs. Henry Bank is in charge of transportation. The governing board of the South Side Neighborhood House, and the board of managers of the Council will be elected at the meeting. Plans for the ensuing year will be formulated. * * * International Affairs Study Group Members interested in forming a study group on International Relations next fall, will be entertained at a tea, Monday afternoon, at 2:30, May 25, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Brin, 2566 West Lake of the Isles Boulevard. Mrs. Brin has been requested to lead the group, and plans will be discussed for the coming year. Members of various local womens organizations will also participate. ADATH JESHURUN WOMENS LEAGUE Believe It or Not, a skit, will be presented at the final meeting of the Adath Jeshurun Womens League, Tuesday, May 26, at 12:30 in the ves- A Leaders Council was held Wednesday for the purpose of planning a spring party. Plans are being made for the summer playground which will open July 6, on the lot adjoining the building, with Miss Shalit in charge. The Young Judeas enjoyed a social meeting at the home of their leader, Mrs. F. Hymes. The Laf-a-Lot club are planning a wiener roast under the direction of Bertha Latz. A tennis tournament sponsored by the House will be in progress beginning Monday, May 18. Dutchie Strauss is in charge for the boys and Miss Shalit for the girls. June 9 has been chosen as the date for the presentation of the three one-act plays The Valiant, The Wire, and The Eternal Song, which are being produced under the direction of Harold Zadle. The plays will ge given at Lincoln Junior High auditorium. The dancing classes, under the direction of Jayne Woodman, will present several dances. The Girl Scout Troop No. 74, led by Sarah Weiner, are planning a field day excursion and also an overnight meeting at the Girl Scout Camp. A new girls club has been organized under the leadership of Mary Dworsky. The club will meet on Thursdays, at 4 p. m. WILL STUDY IN EUROPE MISCHA H. FIRE Mischa H. Fire, head of the department of modern languages in the Dickinson State Teachers College, Dickinson, N. D., will receive June 7 and 8, in the afternoon, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max Fire, 909 Girard Avenue North, to greet his friends before sailing for Europe. He will tour England, Belgium, Holland, and then enter the University of Sorbonne in Paris for two months. Mr. Fire will return the latter part of September. HYMAN NAMED ATKINSON COMPANY VICE-PRESIDENT Announcement of the appointment of J. Jesse Hyman, for many years prominently identified with the department store business in Minneapolis, as executive vice-president of E. E. Atkinson Company was made this week by Harold E. Atkinson, president of the company. Mr. Hyman, who has been a resident of Minneapolis nearly all his life, began his business career in Hymans Department Store on West Broadway. This store gradually developed into the largest store of its kind outside of the loop district. In 1917 Mr. Hyman purchased the store from his father and operated it until 1921, when he sold it to become secretary-treasurer of the Whitney-McGregor Company, which position he held until 1928. He has been merchandise manager of G. Fox & Company, Inc., in Hartford, Conn., since then. 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AN EXCLUSIVE SERVICE FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY IN ITS HOUR OF NEED. HYland 6564 JEWISH FUNERAL HOME 1121 Plymouth Avenue Ask Your Dealer For Monahans BREAD - CAKES ROLLS - DONUTS Vegetable Compound Used Exclusively CHERRY 2836 Union Made - Baked in North Mpls. Seventh Street, and at Sixth and St. Peter, in St. Paul. One way trips to Milwaukee is $8.75, round trip, $16.50. One way trip to Chicago is $10.00, round trip fare is only $18.00. Travel by bus and see the beautiful scenery along the improved highways. SOUTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Girl Scout Troop No. 18 in charge of Jeanette Biatch, will enter the following girls in the Minneapolis Field Day meet, to be held at Camp Locks-lea, at Fridley, Minn., Saturday morning at 9 a. m.: Fanny Schwartz, Nettie Kimmelman, Esther Elescue, Sylvia Friedman, Molly Silver, Toby Gottlieb, Freda Kimmelman, and Ruth Abrams. Panther club under the leadership of Mathew Levitt, will hold a wiener roast, Monday, May 25. The Cards Club had an overnight hike to Little Switzerland, with Hugo Cohen in charge. Junior Cubs held a dinner meeting Saturday evening. Sam Fin-kelstein had charge. REGISTRATION CALENDAR May 23A. Z. A. Spring Frolic, Nobles Studio. May 25Tea for prospective members of study group on International relations, home of Mrs. A. Brin. May 27-C. J. W. board meeting, home of Mrs. C. Goldblum, Cottage-wood. June 2Sigma Alpha Mu bridge party. June 3Sheltering Home for Children Annual Tea. June 4Twentieth Anniversary Banquet, Talmud Torah. June 7Mothers Tea, Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity. July 5S. S. Bikur Cholim annual picnic, Columbia Heights. July 12S. S. Talmud Torah Picnic, Columbia Heights. July 26Bnai Abram Congregational dinner. SHAVUOTHTHE FEAST OF WEEKS Friday, May 22, marks the festival of Shavuoth for Jews throughout the world. As in the case of all holidays, the day is ushered in the previous evening. This occasion is one of the three Pilgrim Festivals when Jews went up to the Temple in Jerasalemthis time to bring the first fruits of their fields from the early harvest, Shavuoth, or The Feast of Weeks, occurs seven weeks after the second day of Passover, thus giving the festival its name of Pentecost, meaning fifty. The festival also bears the name Zeman Matan Torasenu, the Day of the Giving of the Law, for when the agricultural significance of the day was lost, the medieval spiritual leaders associated the day with the giving of the Ten Commandments in the Sinaitic desert. The religious teachers pointed out that the law was given in the desert rather than in Palestine as a symbol of the universality of the law. Each generation was to accept the Torah for itself and draw inspiration from it. Accordingly, boys and girls are inducted into the faith at this season of the year. Confirmation is the name given to this beautiful ceremony. The house of worship on Shavuoth is decorated with green branches and flowers to symbolize the agricultural background of the festival. The dual aspect of the day is ritually observed by appropriate services to which are added the recitation of the Ten Commandments and the reading of the MINNEAPOLIS CLASSIFIED FOR RENT Beautiful all modern four room duplex. Heated. Reasonable. 914 Oliver Avenue North. Hyland 3450. For rent, very reasonable. Four room all modern heated duplex. Two screened porches. Garage. 1606 Thomas Place North. Hyland 6988. Book of Ruth. Both of these bear out the universalistic message of the day. Chicago (J. T. A.)Lottie Lehmann, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera company, received word that she had been decorated with the Cross of Knight of the Legion of Honor. Not only is she one of the first Germans to receive this award since the war but she is also one of the few so honored. Chicago (W. N. S.)Benjamin F. Lindheimer, well-to-do real estate owner, has been appointed by Mayor Anton Cermak as President of the Board of Local Improvements, which spends millions of dollars annually on Chicagos subways. Buenos Aires, Argentine (W. N. S.) 73,434 Jews have settled in Argentine during the last ten years, according to official statistics of immigration. This constituted about 9 per cent of the total immigration during that period. Baltimore (W. N. S.)-Jerome Sloman, Daniel Ellison, Meyer Reamer and Sidney Traub were elected members of the Baltimore City Council in the elections held last week. Three of the Jewish Councilmen are Democrats and one a Republican. Cambridge, Mass. (W. N. S.)Jewish alumni and undergraduates have joined with Catholics in protesting the erection of a non-sectarion chapel at Harvard University as a memorial to the universitys war dead. They point out that Jews will not be able to worship in the chapel, which is expected to cost more than $1,000,000. London (W. N. S.)The Spanish Minister of Finance has issued a declaration welcoming Sephardic Spanish Speaking Jews to return to the new Republic, and assuring them that new legislation will shortly be introduced accelerating the acquisition of Spanish citizenship by them, according to a Madrid dispatch in the London Times. Jerusalem (W. N. S.)The Palestine Arab executive has issued an appeal to all Arabs in Palestine to boycott the Jews in commerce and industry. The proclamation is an outcome of Premier MacDonalds recent letter to Dr. Weizmann, which aroused resentment among Arab leaders because of its alleged alteration of the Passfield White Paper. MINISTER KAUFMAN SAVES THE DAY It took a Jewish envoy to extricate the Columbia Broadcasting System from an international tangle. The envoy was David E. Kaufman, U. S. Minister to Siam. The King of Siam had consented to make his radio debut during his visit to Washington, and then was ordered by his physicians to cancel all engagements. The cancellation came only about four hours before King Prajadhipok was to address the combined networks of both chains. But Harry Butcher, Washington director of Columbia, was bound to fill his time with a Siamese program. So he phoned David E. Kaufman and invited him to sub for the King. Kaufman agreed to speak, although he had only about three hours to prepare his speech, if Butcher could secure permission from the State Department. By noon everything was set. Then came another idea. Why not get a newspaper man to interview Kaufman on the air after his speech ? So Butcher again lifted a telephone receiver. And three minutes before the broadcast Leo R. Sack, Scripps-Howard writer and personal friend of Kaufman, dashed into the studio. They conferred for two minutes. Sack took down some notes on a scrap of paper. They sat down in front of the mike. And the show went on. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 12", "title_s": "Page 12", "title_t": "Page 12", "title_search": "Page 12", "title_sort": "page12", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49637" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 11, "attachment": "26505.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "May 22, 1931 THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD Page Eleven Belasco, the Genius of the American Theatre By Meyer Levin In the death of David Belasco the American theatre loses the man known as the wizard of the stage. For more than half a century he was the genius of the American theatre and his fascinating career is part and parcel of the stage to which he contributed so much.The Editor. * * * They said that the magician David Belasco was a child born of the marriage of a gypsy to a harlequin. For three quarters of a century his name was magic in America. And out of his name there grew scores of other magic names. David Belasco was the author of a hundred plays, the producer of perhaps 400 productions, the maker of the names of Mary Pickford, Ernest Truex, Lillian Gish, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Helen McKellar, Ruth St. Denis, Jane Cowl, Lowell Sherman, David Warfield, Blanche Bates, Jeanne Eagles, and more, and more. And in his last years he was a lonely, aged Jew, thumbing his book of violets for memories of his Jewish gypsy mother, and of his wife, and of the tender moments in the lives of his three daughters; a revered, beloved, awed, but lonely aged Jew who refused the dinner invitations of the mighty in order to slip away by himself and eat his favorite dishcold cuts of corned beef and sausage, from a delicatessen store! Even during his lifetime, strange collections of myths had gathered about this magicianDavid Belasco. The date of his birth became confused. Some said he was born in 1854 and some said in 1859. That was because for several years, he celebrated his birthday by taking his one annual drinka glass of champagne, and saying Today I am twenty-one. For he always felt twenty-one. As a matter of fact, he was born on July 25, 1854, in San Francisco. He was born in a cellar room on a cot that had been placed on two boxes. His mother was Reina Martin, of a family of wealthy Portugese Jews, gypsies, who migrated to London because of persecutions in Portugal. There, Reina Martin saw a young actor named Humphrey Andrews Belasco, playing the part of a harlequin. She fell in love with the harlequin. During the days of the London plague, she came to him, they were married. The match was against the wishes of her parents. The couple went to seek their fortune in America. The gold rush was on and they came to San Francisco. It was impossible to obtain a room under ten dollars a night. The couple was penniless. They were befriended. A basement room was found for them. There, David Belasco was born. Later, his father moved to Victoria, B. C. Humphrey Andrews Belasco became a trapper. Within a few years he was mayor of Victoria, B. C. At that time, when he was seven years old, the boy came under the influence of Father McGuire. During his later life, David Belasco spoke often of the priest whose philosophy had influenced his way of life. Already, the boy gave indication of the unusual intensity of his nature, the need for creative expression. At eight, this found expression in the usual way. He ran away from home and joined a circus. A clown named Walter Kingsley loved the boy, and took care of him, and taught him how to be a clown in a circus. When Walter Kingsley died, the boy felt the first great tragedy of his life had happened. Humphrey Andrews Belasco, once a harlequin, found his circus-boy and took him home. The family moved to San Francisco. Again, the boys gypsy-nature asserted itself. He became a stowaway on a ship. He was diseovex-ed and set to work washing dishes. The ship came to Victoria, B. C. From there, David was retui'ned home. At fourteen, he wrote a play called Jim Black, or The Regulators Revenge. Soon, he had a job as a stall boy in a theatre. From then DAVID BELASCO on, he worked around theatres, finding time somehow to go to school, for he was graduated from Lincoln College, California. In 1875 he went barnstorming with a company headed by Millicent Rogers. All the thrillers of the day, including Camille, and East Lynne, were in the repertory of the company. But unfortunately they had no money. They ended up as waiters, cooks, and chamber-boys in a town along the Big Bear riverthe jobs being an alternative for jail. David Belascos mother Reina played a mystically influential part in his life. Because of her beliefs in her gypsy blood, and in her other-wordly she influenced her son with the surety of fate. Many of her superstitions, David Belasco carried with him through life. He was a believer in signs and portents and charms and the evil eye, a belief as characteristically Jewish as gypsy. He always had a pocket full of bits of iron, nails, buttons, or other charms. His mystic, sentimental love of violets was another sign in the fate-way of his life, for every great emotional experience, first through his mother-love, and then with his wife, was in some way commemorated by a violet. All these pressed violets, noted with dates, he kept in a book in the private drawer of the famous ancient Italian-carved desk in his New York studio. Each day, at four oclock, in his later years, he would take out his violet-book, and lose himself in memory. When he was but a boy, a strange incident occurred, which was said to prove the mysterious powers of his mother. David had witnessed a brawl between two theatre people in San Francisco. A man was beating his wife. David rushed in, and being a large strong boy, pulled off and beat the man. The woman, angered, shot David. The bullet grazed his temple. When David was brought home, the story goes, his mother, infuriated, went into her room. Hours later she came out. I have uttered the black curse of the gypsies, she said, on anyone who shall injure my son David during his lifetime. Two days later the man who had fought with David fell under a railway train and was killed. David Belascos mai'riage was also the result of a strange romance. In San Francisco lived a girl named Cecilia Loverich, daughter of a wealthy family, sought after by the citys best young bloods. One day, in the street, the girl talked to a woman with whom she was not acquainted. The woman said, Soon, you will meet a young man who is the one intended to be your husband. You will know him, for he will offer you violets. Do not refuse them. The woman was Reina Belasco. Andthis story David Belasco himself told in later years. Not long after this encounter, of which he knew nothing, he was reciting Hamlet at a social function. In the first row, he saw a beautiful girl. Their eyes met. During the rest of the performance, he spoke his lines only to her. Afterward, he would say, in telling the story of his courtship, I learned that she was Cecilia Loverich, and so believed that I had no chance to win her. Nevertheless he went out the next day into the woods. He saw beautiful violets. He picked a bunch, and sent them to the girl. When they met, he stole one violet from that bunch. It was the first violet in his violet book. Two years later they were married. His wife accompanied him on his trips to Chicago, to New York, in his efforts to get started in the theatrical world. His first efforts were heroic, but disheartening. Three times he went to New York, and three times he returned penniless to San Franciso. Always, he would say in later years, his mother encouraged him, made him try again. Perhaps the beginning of his phenomenal career may be said to have been when he met Charles Frohman, in 1882, in San Francisco. They produced Belascos play, American Born. It was^ a success. But then came slips again. In 1886, after the sensational divorce case of Mrs. Leslie Carter, David Belasco determined that her vivid personality was destined for the stage. He wrote The Heart of Maryland for her. But it took four years, and in that time the play was re-made six times, before he could arrange a production. When the curtain was raised, he owned nothing in the world but the clothes on his back. A friend had pawned a $30,000 painting for $1,500 to help him. But the production was a success. During his life, David Belasco worked fifteen to sixteen hours a day. He had no recreations. In temperament, he was something of an ascetic. He worked quietly, gliding ghostlike about the corners, peering from behind draperies of his theatres, always there, always making his presence felt, always in the background. Fables, myths unending gathered about this magical personality. In his later days, he was something of a character. One of his habits curiously like a habit of John D. Rockefeller. He would give eoins to all people, tips to cab-boys or to high-priced stars, as his appreciation. Once in a rehearsal he took out a dime and placed it on the table, saying to an actor, If you say the line right you get it. The actor repeated the line again. The dime went back into Belascos pocket! Every evening as he left the theatre he drew a ten-doll ar bill from the treasurer, saying, Thank you. He would take a cab to his hotel. From the change, he would take three one-dollar bills. One he would pin on the door of his wifes room, and one on the door of each of his two daughters rooms. When his daughters were bored, and came to him restless, asking for something to do, the quiet little man would dip his hand into his pocket, take out money, and say, Buy a hat. Perhaps, of all his plays, not one will be ranked among permanent works of literature. They may pass with his passing. But his contributions to the realistic school of stagecraft, his teachings in the detail of acting, are not without their effect in the development of the American theatre. And more than one generation associated the name of Belasco with the high point of theatre. Continuously, from the days when he produced David Warfield as Shy-lock in the Merchant of Venice, from the days of Madame Butterfly and The Music Master from the days of May Blossom, through to the days of The Gold Diggers, and of Lenore Ulric, he kept his place as the magician. J. T. A. 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SLAWIK DISTRIBUTOR DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS 7 CORNERS Cedar 3644-3645-3646 SAINT PAUL In order to a linear in tlie current weeks issue, items for our Social and local news columns must lc communicated to this office by 5:00 oclock Tuesday afternoon. Wedding, engagement and birth announcements will not be printed unless they bear the name and telephone number of the sender. Telephone Cedar 7011. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sansby, 976 Goodrich Avenue, returned last week after an extended visit at Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bratter, 1408 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of their daughter, Delia Helens confirmation, Mrs. T. G. Kaswan of New York City, who has been visiting Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Greenberg, 145 South Chatsworth, for the past three weeks, left Friday for Chicago, where she will spend a few days before returning to New York. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer M. Bernstein, 908 Ashland Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Nathalie. Mrs. U. Braufman, 509 Iglehart Ave., left Sunday for St. Charles, Mo., to visit her son, H. Braufman. Mr. and Mrs. M. Goodman, 1012 Goodrich Ave., will be at home Friday evening, May 22, in honor of the confirmation of their daughter, Ros-lyn. After visiting friends and relatives in the East, Miss Emma Seaman of Montreal, has arrived to be the guest of her uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mushkatin, 234 Prescott St., and Mr. and Mrs. George Kaplan, 20 South Lexington Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Rosenholtz. will receive in honor of their daughter, Ruths confirmation Friday evening, at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Levy. 420 North River Blvd. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Rosenblatt, formerly of 1021 Conway, are now residing at 1236 Dayton Ave. BAR-MITZVAH Harold Jay Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Smith, 193 E. Robie, became Bar-Mitzvah Saturday morning, May 16, at the Beth David Synagogue. TEMPLE MT. ZION Confirmation services Friday morning at 9:30. Processional at 10:00 A. M. The doors of the Temple will be closed during the processional and blessing. A short service will be held Friday evening at 5:30. The last Saturday morning service for the season will be held Saturday morning, May 23, at 11:00 oclock. The Birthday Blessing for those having birthdays during June, July and August, will be pronounced. The Temple Juniors will hold their last meeting of the season Sunday afternoon at 2:00. oclock in the Temple Annex. After a short business program and election of officers, the Juniors will leave for Hudson Park, where they will picnic. Prize day exercises will be conducted in the school Sunday morning, May 31. TEMPLE OF AARON Shabuoth services Thursday evening, May 21, at 8:00, confirmation. Friday morning, May 22, at 8:45. Sermon Progressive Revelation. Friday evening at 7:30, short service. Saturday morning, May 23, at 8:45, Me- morial services and sermon at 10:00. Topic The Voice of the Past. The late Friday evening services have been discontinued for the summer. The Religious School will hold a special assembly Sunday morning, May 24. It will be given by the children of Class IV under the direction of Miss Freda Braverman, and will deal with ceremonies in the synagogue. The school will close Sunday morning, May 31. JEWISH EDUCATIONAL CENTER Election of officers for the coming year will take place at the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the general election held last week, at the Center, Wednesday evening, May 27, at 8:00 oclock. The budget for the year and other matters of importance wil be considered at the Board meeting. The Talmud Torah Celebration of Shabuoth took place at an assembly of all pupils of the school Wednesday afternoon in the Center auditorium. Shabuoth Services for the school children will be held Friday and Saturday mornings at 10:00 oclock. Monthly report cards were issued to pupils of the Talmud Torah for the first month of the spring semester last Monday. HEINE MONOLOGUE ON RADIO A Monologue from a Mattress by Louise Untermyer, portraying the last moments of the life of Heinrich Heine, will be dramatically interpreted by A1 Chance, a member of the staff of WCCO in the weekly radio broadcast of the St. Paul Zionist District over that station Sunday morning at 11:15. A folk song duet A Gruss Fun Der Heim, will be presented by Clara Honigman, soprano, and Sol Joseph-son, tenor, accompanied by Philip Ras-kowsky, all of the Jack Berlin company now playing in the Twin Cities. The St. Paul Zionists will conclude their radio series which has now been running some weeks, with a forty-five minute program Sunday morning, July 5. CAPITOL HEBREW SCHOOL A meeting of the Parent-Teachers association will take place Sunday, May 24, at 7:30, at the school. Very important problems will be discussed. Parents have been requested to attend. Report cards for the month of lor have been issued. Visitors and parents week will commence June 1. A special Saturday service will be conducted by the Junior Congregation in honor of the parents and visitors. The Board of Directors will meet at the school Wednesday, May 27, at 7:30 P. M. JEWISH DEBATERS WIN STATE HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONSHIP The State High School debating championship was won by a team consisting wholly of Jewish students, when the St. Paul Central High School defeated Aitkin High School in the Central auditorium, Monday evening. The St. Paul team which represented Central in the final debate, consisted Hubert W. White Incorporated Outfitter s-to-Men Clothiers Haberdashers Hatters Shirtmakers FOURTH AT ROBERT Saint Pauls Exclusive Agents for Dobbs Hats MORIN ROOFING CO. 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PHONE GARFIELD 1030 C sign of Good Unsurance BIRNBERG AGENCY Insurance MORTGAGE LOANS SCHOCH GOOD THINGS TO EAT", "_version_": 1710450996648345600, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26505", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/9194615004b1b3adec45dbe0c62c963adb1d70ff.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26506", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26506", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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St. Paul - Minneapolis DINE AND DANCE AT Owasso Boulevard Tavern No. Owasso Blvd. at Rice St. TRY OUR 6 COURSE DINNER 5:30 to 8:30 for $1.00 Two floor shows nightly DIRECTIONS: From Rice and University five miles north on Rice St. to North Owasso Boulevard then turn left one-half block. From Minneapolis, take East Hennepin to Rice St., turn left at Rice and go north three and one-half miles. NEW PRICES ON Genuine Oriental Rugs Our new low prices on Genuine Persian Oriental Rugs are our every day prices, not special. If on date of purchase our values can be matched, your money will be returned. . . . Each rug is guaranteed perfect in quality. ... We want your Oriental Rug business. A new shipment of Oriental Rugs just arrived in all sizes, and colors. The Hattam Rug Co. Importers 412 St. Peter St. (Hamm Bldg.) Cedar 3324 R. R. Taylor, General Mgr. Libman Auction and Storage House 9th & Jackson Auction Every Tuesday & Friday 10:30 A. M. If Selling or Storing Furniture PHONE LIBMAN THE AUCTIONEER CEdar 0378 IT IS KOSHER INSIST ON AMAIZO PRODUCTS because they are made better AND ARE KOSHER IT IS IN THE TASTE FOR YOUR KOSHER PRODUCTS SHOP AT THE UPTOWN DELICATESSEN 1082 Grand Ave. Between Oxford and Lexington Dale 4607 of Bernard Grodin, Victor Birnberg, and Justin Druck; the team which won its way to the final contest by successfully contending against other schools from all over the state, during the winter season, in its final appearance took the negative side of the subject Resolved, that the Chain Stores are detrimental to the best interests of the public. LEAGUE BAZAAR OPENS SUNDAY The three-day bazaar of the Womens League of the Temple of Aaron will open Sunday afternoon, May 24, at 2:30, with a Kiddie Revue at the PRINCESS TUMCHARI MRS. S. L. SHAPIRO Jewish Center, in charge of Mrs. G. J. Lieberman. One of the features for Monday evening will be a style show promenade, in charge of Mrs. N. Don-sker and Mrs. Chas. Harris, who have arranged for gowns through the courtesy of the M. F. Rosacker Gown Shop, furs by A. M. Miller & Co., and hats by the Crystal Palace. Models will be Beulah Johnson, Ethel Winnick, Gladys Ryder, Annette Fox, Sonia Abrahamson and Marion Goldstein. During the promenade, Ella Miller of Minneapolis will render vocal selections. Princess Tumchari of India, crystal gazer and mind reader, will apepar on Sunday evening. Those in charge of the booths are: Mrs. Wm. Johnson, cosmetics; Mrs. David Hertz, dolls and novelties; Mrs. Melvin Silver, aprons an handkerchiefs Mrs. Morris Laser and Mrs. M. Raskin, county store; Mrs. Philip Gordon and Mrs. Wm. Butwin, bakery; Mrs. Louis Finkelstein, Mrs. Arthur Kaufman and Mrs. I. G. Goldberg, candles, cigars and cigarettes. Dinner will be served every evening with the following in charge: Mesdames B. Shilkrout, J. B. Winnick, M. Fuller, Max Padwal, L. J. Ryder, Harry Frishberg, J. Fink and R. L. Lichter. A German biergarten, Keno, fishing pond and many other attractions will provide amusement for both young and old. Mrs. S. L. Shapiro is general chairman in charge. CENTRAL COMMUNITY HOUSE ELECTS The annual meeting and dinner of the Central Community House took place Tuesday evening at the House, 190 E. University Ave. Reports of officers for the year were made, and an address was delivered by Clifford Borden of the Minneapolis Community Chest. Election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Mrs. M. P. Firestone, president, David Ab-erle, vice ^resident, Richard Golling, secretary, Mrs. E. Epstein, treasurer. Those re-elected to the Board are Mesdames M. Shapiro, S. Friedman, M. Firestone, and H. Hirschman, and Messrs. Lester Strouse, David Aberle and Ben Marx. CHAIX-COPLEY 100 EAST SEVENTH Fashions For Men BREMER ARCADE Fashion Park Clothes Finchley Hats Nettleton Shoes Manhattan Shirts WHARTON C. SMITH & CO. Members Minneapolis-St. Paul Stock Exchange STOCKS *** BONDS 262 Bremer Arcade SAINT PAUL Cedar 4603 New Service to..... Milwaukee One Way...........$ 8.75 Round Trip........ 16.50 Milwaukee and Chicago Chicago One Way..........$10.00 Round Trip_______ 18.00 Chicago & North Western Stages Minneapolis St. Paul 9 North 7th St. 6th and St. Peter Ge. 3113 Garfield 1200 OUR OWN BUS DEPOTS Fine, wholesome bread comes in fine, handy trays. Taystee Sliced Bread is easy to serve from the patented tray .. . it stays fresh much longer. Your grocer sells this better loaf. Insist on T AYS TEE BREAD 1931, P.B.C. A PRODUCT OF PURITY BAKERS Me Clediv He dreveav Co. COMMERCIAL STATIONERS, SAINT PAUlT MINNESOTA COMPLETE OFFICE OUTFITTERS 133-35-37 East 5th St Gar. 7587", "_version_": 1710450996649394176, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26506", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/126a758857ca8ccc62c311c268f6c98415661e2c.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26507", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26507", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 15", "title_s": "Page 15", "title_t": "Page 15", "title_search": "Page 15", "title_sort": "page15", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49640" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 14, "attachment": "26508.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Fourteen THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 Sales - BUICK - Service St. Paul Buick Co. 118 W. 7th at 5th St. CEdar 5505 Store Your Furs Now J. H. STEIN AN EXCLUSIVE FUR SHOP 36 E. 6TH. ST. CE dar 4621 Cedar 0997 Garfield 1670 F. W. TOPEL THE QUALITY FLORIST 191 E. 7th St. Flowers for Every Occasion PERLMAN BARBERS Will Appreciate Your Patronage Cedar 1015 363 Minnesota St. FOR NEW STYLE GLASSES VISIT A. J. Fandel, Op. D. OPTOMETRIST Eye Specialist Since 1920 406 St. Peter St., Hamm Bldg. Cedar 4589Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All My Work Is Guaranteed DAIRIES DELICIOUS PASTEURIZED DAIRY PRODUCTS Try Our CRE-MELLO Creamed Cottage Cheese Phone Tower 0395 SINAI FUNERAL TEMPLE A Truly Jewish Funeral Home 279 W. 7th St. Ce. 6565 KEREN KAYEMETH LEAGUE FORMED A Keren Kayemeth League, which will have for its purpose the purchase of a tract of land in Palestine through the Jewish National Fund, to be known as Nachlath St. Paul, was organized at a meeting of representatives of various Zionist groups held in the library of the Jewish Center Monday evening. Organization of the group which will undertake the purchase of four hundred dunims of land during the next five years, followed an address by Bernard Stone, National Executive Secretary of the Keren Kayemeth, who visited St. Paul en route to his home in New York City from a visit to the Pacific Coast. Mrs. Thos. Myers was elected chairman of the group, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen and Jesse B. Calmenson, vice chairmen, Joseph Krawetz, secretary, and Abe Mogelson, treasurer. DR. MYERS CHOSEN BABY WELFARE DIRECTOR Dr. Thos. Myers, 2234 Riverwood Place, was honored recently by the staff of the St. Paul Baby Welfare Association, by being elected medical director of the Association. The Association which is a philanthropic, social agency maintains infant welfare clinics throughout the city in the neighborhood and social centers. HOME AUXILIARY TO MEET The annual meeting of the Junior Auxiliary of the Jewish Home for the Aged will be held at the Home, Monday, May 25, at 2:00 oclock. After the report and election of officers, a social hour will follow, to which all members and friends of the Home are invited. On the program will be violin selections by Heimann Weinstein, vocal selections by Rose Fineberg Gordon, and refreshments. The Auxiliary has just completed new furnishings for another of the sun rooms at the Home, and the social hour will take place there. LADIES AUXILIARY LUNCHEON MEET The Ladies Auxiliary of the Capitol City Hebrew School will hold a 1:00 oclock luncheon and meeting for members and friends. Tuesday, May 26, at the school. Further arrangements will be made for the annual picnic which will take place July 12 at Como Park. DELTA OMEGA IOTA FORMAL SUNDAY Plans have been completed for the annual Spring Formal Dinner Dance of the Theta Chapter of the Delta Omega Iota Sorority at the Hotel Del Otero, Spring Park, Minnetonka, to be held jointly with the Nu Chapter of Minneapolis, Sunday, May 24. Committees in charge of arrangements are headed by Rosalyn Shilkrout, Mildred Mark and Mary Millunchick. The drawing for the ten dollar gold piece will be raffled by the Sorority Monday, May 25, at the Temple of Aaron carnival, at the Cosmetic Booth. WILDWOOD PARK OPENS WEDNESDAY Wildwood Park with all its amusements, speed boats, picnics, water sports, and attractions of every kind for young and old, will open the 1931 season on Wednesday, May 27. Served by the Twin City street car lines, Wildwood is located on beautiful White Bear Lake. During the coming season, Ernie Winter and his Dixie Collegians will initiate the dance season on the dance pavilion overlooking the lake, and following their engagement, there will be a change of orchestras every two weeks. Each day following the opening of the season, there will be dancing from 8:15 to 11:15, evenings, except Saturdays, when the hours will be from 8:45 to 11:45, and on Sunday afternoons there will be dancing from 3:00 to 5:00, with a special dance program the afternoon of Decoration Day from 2:30 to 5:30. For those not interested in picnic grounds, the De Luxe Coffee Shop in the main pavilion will offer appetizing food throughout the season. PALESTINE CAMPAIGN URGES MAIL GIFTS Although officials of the American Palestine Campaign are still hopeful of the possibility of securing additional workers to solicit hundreds of Jewish families that have not yet been approached in the annual campaign for Palestinian reconstruction through the Keren Hayesod, an urgent appeal has been made by the associate chairmen, Rabbi Herman M. Cohen, L. C. Perlman and Mrs. H. Rosenthal, to all families that have not yet been seen, to mail in their contributions, whether large or small. Checks may be made to the American Palestine Campaign, and mailed to H. Harris, Treasurer, 174 E. 4th, or A. Mogelson, Secretary, 127 E. 3rd St. The total thus far subscribed in the local effort which started May 5, is slightly less than $6,000. DR. BIRNBERG TO ADDRESS LODGE At the next meeting of the Brith Sholom Lodge to be held at Minnehaha Hall, 190 W. 9th St., Thursday, May 28, at 8:00 oclock, Dr. T. L. Bim-berg wall deliver an address on conditions in the Soviet Union as he saw them on his recent trip to Europe. The lecture will be illustrated by slides taken by Dr. Birnberg while in the Soviet Union. In charge of arrangements are Irving Epstein, chairman; A. H. Abramovitz, Benjamin Frishberg, Max Goldberg and Isadore Mogelson. The meeting will be open to the public. TO PRESENT HOLY SCROLL The presentation of a Holy Scroll will be made by Mr. and Mrs. H. Rutman, 222 E. Winifred St., to the Chesed Shel Ernes Society, on Sunday, May 24, at 2:00 p. m. at the St. Paul Hebrew Institute. Refreshments will follow the ceremony, to which the public is invited. ADOPTS LOAN PLAN FOR MEMBERS The Ahavas Achim Society of St. Paul has adopted a Free Loan plan Theyre Great You will agree with the thousands who protect their vacation funds by using Travelers Checks. Theyre great because theyre easy to use, safe, are cashed everywhere and cost very little. Consult us before leaving on your vacation. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK BREMER ARCADE - ST. PAUL Envelope Minneapolis405 Kasota Bids. GE neva 1813 St. Paul, 127 S. Wabasha St. Tel. Riverview 4400 MINNESOTA ENVELOPE CO. MERCHANTS INVESTMENT AND LOAN CORPORATION OF ST, PAUL Authorized capital stock $100,000.00 An industrial loan company on the co-operative plan, directed by conservative St. Paul business and professional men. We solicit you as an investor and welcome you as a borrower. Loans are made in amounts of $50.00 to $1,-000.00 upon the personal signature of the borrower and co-makers or on collateral security. Our interest rate is lower than any of the similar industrial loan companies of the Twin Cities. Merge your various obligations into one loan that you can obtain from the Merchants Investment & Loan Company of Saint Paul. 818 Pioneer Bldg. Aleck Finkelstein, Pres. Cedar 7375 St. Paul", "_version_": 1710450996650442752, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26507", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/b04d1a79b9096512800abbd74ab8f343b46a15f7.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26508", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26508", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Contractors and Builders Store Fixtures and All Kinds of Repairing 945 Fairmount Ave. EL. 3858 EL. 3858 BEN FELDSTEIN Specializing in \"\"Eft Products BOHLAND & KLIX Prescription Druggists Complete Stock of Drugs and Sundries Prompt Service 858 SELBY AVE., COR. VICTORIA Open 7:30 A. M. to 11:00 P. M. Dale 1597 We Deliver Office, Dale 3474 Residence, Emerson 4997 COHEN WRECKING CO. Highest prices paid for buildings to be wrecked. Used lumber, windows, doors, plumbing, heating suppliesfor sale at lowest prices. 560 University Ave., St. Paul DELICATESSEN 1082 Grand Ave. Between Oxford and Lexington Dale 4607 The Best in Food Is Our Motto At the Lowest Possible Prices Dairy Products, Salads, Groceries Pastries SANDWICHES and COLD DRINKS SERVED A. Moskovitz I. Rischall Fenders RepairedAuto Glass Installed Wrecked Cars Made New MURRY BODY CO. 999-1001 Selby Ave. Dale 8120 UPTOWN St. Paul YOUNG SAMSON Strong and lithe and muscular, Cheeks with Health aglow Dairy products bought from us, Thats what made him so. On time deliveries. Cream Top Milk. ELKHURST 5600 Consumers Milk Co. ------------------------------/ for its members, who may borrow at times of financial need. This plan is in keeping with the purpose of the Society to promote Brotherly Love and true brotherly assistance at times when it is most necessary. The Society was organized in August, 1928, and has a membership of over one hundred at the present time. J. S. Wolfson is secretary of the organization. BETTER LATE (Continued from page 2) pered words to each separately. This had made the ceremony so much more intimate and personal than any public blessing for the entire group could have been. What was it that the Rabbi had said to her as she passed before him? Ethel had never forgotten; but it seemed hard to remember it just now. That blessing had not been meant for a girl who would deny her faith for a mere jobeven though that job was the most necessary thing in the world just now, even though she had been refused dozens of positions in the last few months because she had declared herself to be Jewish. Rabbi Levines whispered blessing sounded in her ear again: God has given you a fine mind, my child, and parents who love you deeply. May He enable you to repay your debt to your parents by shaping your life so that you will bring honor to them and to the people of Israel. Bring honor to the people of Israel! She had hoped to study law and become a great lawyer, that she might reflect credit upon her parents and her community. But her fathers death, six years ago, had prevented the carrying out of that plan. Her earnings were too badly neededand here she was, lying to get a job! Ethel shivered so violently that Miss Peters, who had returned to her own work, observed it and asked: Are you cold ? Ill shut the window, if you like. This May weather sometimes is rather wintry, isnt it? The friendly voice made Ethel feel even more uncomfortable. Thank youIm not cold, she replied in a low voice. Miss Peters looked at her curiously. Under her scrutiny Ethel lowered her eyes. She knew her uneasiness was evidentbut she couldnt help it. Is anything wrong ? Are. you ill? Miss Peters asked, solicitously. Suddenly Ethel made up her mind. She couldnt go through with it, job or no job. She rose abruptly and said: Im sorry, Miss Peters, but Ive made a mistake. Its inexcusable, I knowbut I do need this job so badly. Thats why She stopped, and looked full into Miss Peters eyes. The sympathy, mingled with puzzlement, that she saw there helped her to go on. Thats why I told the employment bureau that Im Episcopalian. Im notIm Jewish. I need work, and so many people have turned me down because of my religion that I thought Id try this way of getting it. ButI cant go through with it. Ethel sat down againher knees were too shaky for standingand began to dab at her eyes. She felt horribly embarrassed. Yet it had been the only thing to do. She knew that, and in her heart was glad of her confession. Though, of course, her chances for the job were gone. Then she became aware that Miss Peters had come over to her and had put an arm about her shoulders. Im glad you told me, the personnel manager said softly. It shows you have character, though you did make a mistake. I think I understand what trouble youve hadsome peo- ple are so silly about these things. But, as a matter of fact, it wont make any difference here. Especially since Miss Gross is Jewishshes been Mr. Hughes secretary for years, and shes leaving us now to get married. So, you see, your being Jewish wont really make any difference here. If Mr. Hughes finds you satisfactory youll get the job, whatever your religion.Which reminds me youd better powder your nose now and come in with me. Mr. Hughes will be ready to try you out in a moment. S. A. F. S. A JEWISH MEMORIAL TO A CATHOLIC PRIEST A sermon of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise recently before the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall, dealt with A Jewish Memorial to a Catholic Priest. Dr. Wise designed his address to be the first note of what is to be a worldwide centenary commemoration of the death of Abbe Gregoire, one of the greatest figures in France of the Eighteenth Century. Dr. Wise called attention to the fact that, if one turns to the Catholic Encyclopedia, one finds no biographical note touching this priest of the Roman Catholic church. The Encyclopaedia Britannica on the other hand, makes no mention whatever of his championship of the cause of freedom for the Jews of France. The Catholic Encyclopaedia is as silent about Abbe Gregoire as the Catholic Encyclopaedia of a century hence may be expected to be silent about Zamora,, first president of the Republic of Spain, or about Unamono, seer and prophet of the new Spain. In his battle for the political, civil and, above all, human rights of Jews, Gregoire stood not alone but in the company of such great figures of their age as Robespierre and Mirabeau. Gregoires life as a public figure, over and beyond his faithful curacy as priest, began with the publication of his essay on The Physical, Moral and Political Regeneration of the Jews. Shortly after the publication of this prize-essay, he became a member of the French States General and an advocate of Jewish emancipation. This was an advocacy braver and more difficult by far than Macaulays advocacy sixty years later in England, his battle being for equal rights for all men, regardless of creed and nationality. Dr. Wise pointed out, whatever other commemorations may be held in France and in other lands, there is special reason that the Jewish people institute a special commemoration of Gregoire, that shall have regard to the courage of his advocacy and the nobleness of that service which led, perhaps more than anything else, to the Jewish emancipation in France and subsequently in other European lands. Let us of the House of Israel always be eager to praise whenever praise is worthily bestowed. We Phone Your Orders Instant Deliver; Butlers Drug Store SELBY & DALE Dale 3737-0345-0921 FUR STORAGE Remodeling:, Repairing:, Glazing^ Cleaning: Hill Tailors & Fur Co. FUR COATS MADE TO ORDER 606 Selby Ave. Dale 8123 M. 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Not the cheapest in town but one who will GUARANTEE GOOD WORK Minnesota Dry Cleaners Exclusive Cleaners 633 Selby Avenue Dale 5100 15% Off Cash and Carry rSTOP and SHOP~N AT MICHAUDS STORES Eighth and RobertCedar 3261 Hotel LowryCedar 2498 Grand and VictoriaDale 7400 Snelling & St. ClairDe Soto 3000 1326 Grand Ave.De Soto 8248 168 No. Snelling MI 9506 Quality Bakers, Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables N--------------------- J UPERIO Superior Gasoline Superior Penn Motor Oils Superior Distillate Quaker State Motor Oil Mobiloila SERVICE STATIONS Grand & Snelling Dale & Dayton Robert & Ninth Edmund & Snelling Patronise the Wind Mill StationsA St. Paul Concern", "_version_": 1710450996651491328, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26508", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/3cb2ba75f2ce69d639f998c621173fb8d648581c.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:26509", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/26509", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 17", "title_s": "Page 17", "title_t": "Page 17", "title_search": "Page 17", "title_sort": "page17", "dls_identifier": [ "umj49642" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "26510", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 16, "attachment": "26510.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-19T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "Page Sixteen THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD May 22, 1931 rfU FLORSHEIM dhot, // A Florsheim in White Buck with Black Calf trim is very dressy with summer clothes Most Styles $9 AND $10 FLORSHEIM SHOE STORES MINNEAPOLIS Opposite Dyckman Hotel 44 South Sixth Street ST. PAUL Next to Capitol Theater 16 West Seventh Street GIAZINL^-* PAINTS> Farwell.Ozmun, Kirk&Co. MICHAELS SCHOOL of Dancing Learn to Be a Good Dancer We Train pupils either for Theatrical, Stage or Social-Ballroom Dancing and have always met with success. Private and Class lessons, Day or Evening. Special rates for Classes of LodgesClubs; Parties of 5 or more. 20 E. 7th St. Phone CE. 2071 SAINT PAUL have had least nineteen hundred years in which to master the art of forgiving our enemies. Let us never forget our friends. The truest reason for our part in the commemoration of this priest of the Roman Catholic church lies in the circumstance that this great friend of the Jews proves to be yet another whose fame shines as that of a friend of the oppressed and enslaved among all peoples and races. Dr. Wise made special reference to the character of men throughout the ages, whose only kindness to Israel lay in the truth that they were great enough to be utterly just in their attitude toward the Jew. Dr. Wise contrasted the base Hitlers of any age with the noble Gregoires. I think God that our foes are the foes - of freedom. I thank Good that our friends are the friends of humanity and of human liberty. Oh, the tragic degradation of the term, good to the Jews! Good to the Jewsas if any man were good to Jews whose acts or words were inspired by the motive of kindness to inferiors. It becomes necessary to say in this hour, in the light of recent happenings, that being good to the Jews shall not, save from the basest and vulgarest among our people, secure condonation of wrong-doing. Else are we the enemies of the state! Abbe Gregoire was good to the Jews, though he named no Jewish magistrates nor ever appointed a Jewish borough president. He was good to the Jews in the only way in which we would have any man be good to the Jews, insofar as he was a great and daring friend of humankind, insofar as he was an uncompromising foe of wrong and tyranny and injustice! FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PROF. MOORE Cambridge. (J. T. A.)Funeral services for the Rev. Dr. George Foot Moore, professor emeritus at Harvard and a leading authority on Hebrew, who died here Saturday in his 80th year, were held Tuesday in Appleton Chapel. For twenty years Professor Moore was professor of Hebrew at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1904 he was appointed to the chair of the history of religions at Harvard. He has written scores of scholarly studies on the Old Testament, the best known of which are the Literature of the Old Testament and Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era, the Age of Tannaism. This latter work was the outcome of studies extending over a period of thirty years and presented the problem in a new light, independent of the established doctrine of the superiority of Christianity over the contemporary religion of the Pharisees. Shortly after the publication of this book Professor Moore was selected by the American Hebrew as one of the two Christians who during the year had contributed a notable achievement. in behalf of America and the Jewish people. His book was characterized as one that would tend to break down and destroy many current prejudices and misrepresentations regarding Judaism. On Ins 76th birthday Jewish scholars throughout the world extended felicitations to him. On a number of occasions he received honorary degrees from various Jewish institutions among them the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the Hebrew Union College and the Jewish Academy. EXPERIMENTS WITH SEX TRANSFORMATIONS Vienna (J. T. A.)-A sensational experiment revealing the possibility of changes in sex without an operation was demonstrated by Dr. Eugene Steinach, head of the University of Viennas biological experiment station, before a gathering of leading Austrian medical men, who termed the demonstration the most important in the recent annals of medical biology. Dr. Steinachs sex-changing process is made possible by means of an X-ray apparatus or an injection without gland transfusion. Dr. Steinach, who recently celebrated his 70th birthday, is the son of a well-known Jewish physician of Vorarlber, a community on the Swiss border. New York (W. N. S.)'The National Council of Jewish Women has gone on record as favoring the amendment of the U. S. postal laws to permit the dissemination of birth control information. The resolution was adopted at the closing session of the annual meeting of the Councils board of managers. It was decided to hold the 13th triennial convention at Detroit next March. 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