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Thought Of The Week
"Anti-Seitic centers in America are a stench in the nostrils of any man who is either a Christian or an American. It ought not to be
necessary to argue this point. Anti-Semitism violates every article of the American creed--it is anti-Christian, anti-democratic, obscurantist
and superstitious. It is associated with all of the baser impulses which it is the business of civilization to check or transform. It evokes or
expresses hate, greed, and cruelty. In fact, it is so specific and irrational a passion as to constitute a sort of moral disease."
--DR. RALPH PERRY, Philosophy Professor, Harvard University.
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VOL. XV. Friday, April 8, 1938 No. 6
WANTED, A LEADER
HE April issue of Judge Magazine contains an editorial which
proposes that some one great Jew come forward to lead world
Jewry in a militant fight against anti-Semitism Written
b , , •
y the .magazine s pubhsher, Harry Newman, who, despite his
name, ]s an Irishman, the editorial declares that Jews "need
some great figure to step from the ranks of business, or the law,
or finance," to lead their "legions in attack."
Mr. Newman asserts that the time has come for Jews to
fight. "Too long," he claims, have they left explanations to their
rabbis, but this will not do "since the world accepts their state-
ments as part of their job."
Mr. Newman suggests as candidates for Jewish leadership
Justice Brandeis, Governor Lehman, Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau and Bernard M. Baruch.
He urges them to proclaim their withdrawal from public
life and business to lead their people against their enemies.
He also calls upon such noted newspaper publishers as
Arthur Hays Sulzberger, J. David Stern, Paul Block and Moses
itl)] travail of the world seems
for the moment to have sub-
sided. This is to say, llitler is
quiescent while he digests Austria,
and the doom of civilization has
been l)ut off to another day.
The pain of the Jews of Austria
which was so acute for a week, has
become chronic; those who took
suicide have been buried. France
has been reminded of his Christian
upbringing and (at this writing)
hasn't murdered even one child on
the streets of Barcelona since four
days ago.
So one who is
obliged to live in
this world may take
a breathing spell,
l)erhaps mlti[ to-
morrow. I may turn
now to look at my
tree in Palestine.
Thank goodness,
trees, at least, still
are the same in a
horril)ly changing
AI. Segal world; the ancient
tree on my lawn is
giving out buds as in all the sl)ring-
Annenberg to "roll your mighty presses into the teeth of your .
petty attackers."
Mr. Newman calls on the Jews to fight. "You don't need
armies and navies," he says. "You need only a fighting leader
to mass behind him the great intelligence and ability you already
possess, to make a mass attack. Fame beyond the power of
man to measure waits for such a leader."
And if such a leader is found, Mr. Newman predicts that
within 30 days Hitler will be made "the most ridiculous man
alive" and in six months he will be removed from the leadership
of the German people by the Germans themselves.
Although Mr. Newman's proposal is not as simple as it
sounds and its ensuing complications are apparent to Jews, it
will find'a welcome echo in many Jewish circles.
The need for vigorous leadership grows daily more impera-
tive. Many of the old stalwarts are gone or have lost
their magnetism.
New faces such as those proposed by Mr. Newman might
galvanize Jewish forces, but whether the militant action should
or could be led by one man is doubtful.
The names suggested by Mr. Newman virtually eliminate
themselves. Brandeis is past 80. Morgenthau hasn't the pres-
tige or the dynamic energy needed. Lehman would probably
shy at such. a task.
And Baruch has rarely been identified with things Jewish.
If all four of these could be drafted it might lead to some-
thing, although we doubt whether even they could achieve what
Mr. Newman predicts.
It would be all to the good if some of our distinguished Jews
who hold themselves aloof from the Jewish community could be
brought back to lead in the struggle against anti-Semitism.
Maybe Mr. Newman's editorial will be a goad.
But the probability is that the fight will continue to be
waged by a slowly uniting Jewish community with the increasing
aid and coop.eration of the Christian world--particularly with
Labor and hberal elements whose fight is also against Fascism
and dictators.
times before; as if to give notice that
anyhow the ways of God (this loving-
kindness, this wisdom, this mercy)
are everlasting. This is a bit of
comfort•
I never had a tree in l'alestine
until the other week. Palestine was
very f'u' away, like my youth and
like st:u's and moon and other l)oetry;
but now I have Otis tree•
I wrote ,l Purim play for the local
ltadassah and for that they rewarded
me far beyond, the mediocre mer.it of
the l)lay: They gave me this tree.
Th<)ugh I have just acquired it, I
know this tree from a hmg time .tg<).
It is tile seed of a tree I l)lantcd when
time was still rather youug. I re-
member the occasion which was more
than 2,000 years ago; I was a youth
in l'alestine.
I was even then troubled about
beiuga Jew. I was a meek fellow
(as I ahvays was before and since)
and the arrogant were having their
DEMOCRACY SPEAKS
EMOCRACY has spoken! That is the import of the invitation
extended by the United States Government to 29 countries
embracing a large part of the civilized world to join in a
.great international effort to rescue the victims of Nazi oppression
m Germany and Austria by offering them a haven of refuge.
The unnrecedented action by our uovernment, which took
the form of ]dentmal notes to nine countries in Europe and 20 in
Latin-America, is more than simply an humanitarian gesture.
It is virtually an official statement of policy tantamount to
a rebuke to Nazism's persecution of racial, religious and political
minorities.
In taking the lead in this movement, the United States has
once more emphasized that the welfare of humanity rests with
democracy and that where democracy prevails there the basic
instincts of human decency remain intact.
Democracy has spoken!
By a strange coincidence, the world's greatest democracy
invited the nations of the world to cooperate in an international
effort to rescue the victims of Nazi oppression in Austri and
Germany at the very moment that the Rockefeller Foundation
made public a report in which stress was laid on the fact that
the free pursuit of learning and scientific research was being
stifled in countries where democracy has been destroyed.
The report mentioned no country by name but its meaning
was plain!
"Objective scholarship is possible only where thought is
free--and freedom can exist only where there are no 'keep out'
signs against the inquisitive and questioning mind," the report
declared.
Disinterested research, the report said, "withers under the
efforts of governments to impose uniform ideologies and to cir-
cumscribe in the interests of a dominant regime the area of
liberty. Particularly in the broad range of subjects covered by
the social sciences, and in the humanities as well, the world has
recently witnessed in several countries the progressive disinteg-
ration of creative scholarship."
In short, the barriers of race and political persuasion im-
posed by the authoritarian regimes hamper the advancement
of knowledge.
Coming from so conservative a body as the great Rocke-
feller Foundation, which operates in almost every country in
the world, this report takes on far-reaching significance.
way in tile world.
My humble countrym,m had just
been crucified and I w'ts saying, "It
seems the meek really don't inherit
the earth, as he said; they inherit
only l)ersecution and the sepulchre."
I thought how much better it was
to be a Roman th-m a ,Jew. Romans
were l)rivileged people, they had
swords and were strong, "rod the
earth hc'tved when their battalions
marched by; such was the might of
their feet.
I had felt their feet one day. They
were marching by my field and one of
my sheep ran in their way and I ran
after it in front of the battalion.
Then the captain struck me with
the tlat of his sword. • "Tile Jews are
always in the way," he said• • • I fell
under their feet and they walked
Oil Inc.
Oh, I thought .m i l'ty on the road
under their feet, how powerful are
the Rein,ms whose feet are like
mountaius so heavy.
They seem like everlasting feet,
feet like heavy stones that never
perish.
Feet like these must stand forever
in the worhl. Oh, my Lord God,
King of the Universe, have mercy on
Thy child who is like dust under
these feet•
It seemed as if their feet were a
million, for there seemed m) end of
them. So I rejoiced when the last
foot of the Romans had trampled me
and I lay there very thankful: O
Lord God, King of the Universe, who
is so good to a .Jew and hearcst his
SUl)plieations!
In good time Thou makct 9.n. end
even of a million feet that trample
me. They might have been two
million, but in Thy mercy Thou
givest only a million feet.
Now as I was Iflanting the tree in
my field (this is to say the old, old
tree which was the ancestor of tile
new tre wtfich I have just acquired)
I remembered all this.
I asked myself what was the good
of i/lanting this tree in a world which
was st) uncertain?
• • ,$,
@ @ ,$,
I was planting the tree for the arro-
gant to inherit; they were inheriting
everything. My kinsman who was
crucified was quite wrong to say that
the meek inherit the etrth. I heard
him that time saying it from the
mount.
But I planted the tree.
$ $ $
I expect some day to go to my tree
which Hadassah has given me in
Palestine. I shall go to a grove
where I will not know one tree from
the other, but I shall choose one
that is tall and beautiful. "Tiffs
must be my tree" . . . and I shall
sit under it.
Oh, my tree, I shall say, I remem-
ber your forefather when I planted
him. My bones were still aching
then because of the million Roman
feet which had traml)led my body.
I thought it was no use to plant
the tree since the arrogant inherit
the earth. Was it good to plant a
tree for the arrogant who inherit
everything?
Oh, my tree, I must not laugh with
pride but only sadly as one laughs at
the unhappy end of all folly. For
the feet of the Romans who traml)led
me now give only distant echoes from
the abysses of history.
I hear theIn seftly sometime when
a wind blows. Then they were like
heavy, imperishal)le stones when
they trampled me, like tl million
stones traml)ling me; but they have
become something iml)alpal)le iu
the wind; a dream that has passed.
I may not gh)at on account of this,
since in gloating is the sin of pride.
The capia!llS :rnd ¢h,:: 'kngs (,'p,rt,
and only you and I are left from the
day the legion trampled me with a
million feel. I thanked God that he
gave them only a million fet. I,
the Jew, who h'M no sword and shield
(except God) have live(l and you
have lived, my tree. You and I who
were weak.
My Idnsman seems right: The
meek inherit the earth. Arrogance
bcoms the dust that the wind
blows. Oh, my tree, but we should
ner of a $
ict with tit
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tion's most
not longer be of tim meek. Yt:' a sil:;; t
tree . . .
da'n in New
I shall doze and dream un ...
Ju my wifi
tree In the sunlight• The drea. _
• i(t I moved
tell me things to come: I am
brave man (in this dream)'
• " Sin(e he
have come to tile ch'meeuory, :, , '
ubut sin ul
Mr. Hitler, I say, I rememv, ' • g" i
l,ime the million feet of tile .I z' lie hat
trampled my body and I sale;
"These feet are like tile rocks i
last forever. Yet their steps [! H
used to be like thunder) ar:! av,
faint echoes I catch in the wip
hear them now•• faint echoestO Pi(
wind. Do you not you hear!
Mr. lIitler? (Con
"Only I am 14t from that tiql • -
• " p at; kind
only I and my tree W,e have! • ,
• • ' en hcK_sl)i t
We have inherited the eartht.,
bllalJ We (!
lhtler; we were of the weak, ink,,
• • e F dews in
and I; but arrogance is in thst '-
' SUre, I|
which the boy kicks up as he w,, il '" "
• • I I;Iu8 COl
Mr Ititler gaves a eomo . .
• ' ur Jewish
"Shoot the crazy Jew."
.Ollr ellelnie
"You can't kill me, Mr. It]L will be in
I shall be with my tree even
r '
a' Soko]sky
thousand years. The tree : ;. ' •
• lrY Ortho(hr
that are meek and know ony,
authority of God." !t such is
thodoxy ,
I shouhl make a sl)eech to I{! very proud
sah th'mking them for lny tree it
moment of comparative peace ik
worhl. The agony of the 9 Ch
Jews has sul)side(i to soft so L
the Nazis have washed their t__ ' T
aml no longer can see on (.he#lgll 1
blood of the suicides. Peace. 1
;NEW
So now I nmy make a st)ce YOlq
' , tholi
gratitude for my tree in lal¢ ' cs, p
I Have A Bone To Pick!
Of course, I would like to see that
they apply their talent to more ser-
ious writings, but America is still a
free country and everyone has a
right to do with his talent as it plea-
ses him best.
Strange as it seems, our Jewish
columnists are very conservative.
(I don't mean our own columnist
Alfred Segal who writes each week in
The Jewish Transcript). It is really
very difficult to understand the rea-
son why men like Walter Lil)pmann
and David Lawrence should be such
conservatives. They are both bril-
liant writers and prominent in the
American newspaper worhl. But
such is the case.
These two men, Lippmann and
Lawrence, are both syndicated writ-
ers. Their articles are published in
a large number of newspapers in the
United States. Very seldom will
these two men say a good word for
our present administration. They
always have to say something against
it. This is the most remarkable thing
about their writing.
This is perhaps the condition iu
which we Jews find ourselves. We
go from one extreme to another.
Some of us may become too radical,
or some will become too conserwt-
By BEN AUGUST
During the past 25 years, quite a
number of Anglo-Jewish writers have
developed in this country. Of course,
writing is a profession just as any
other profession. There are good
and bad writers. There are story,
book, news, article and column
writers. Some receive . large sum
of money for their writings and a
large number struggle for an exist-
()nee.
There are many journalism schools
throughout the United States. "Jour-
nalists" are being manufactured in
the thousands and are thrown ell the
"market" to shift for themselves. A
good number of our Jewish youths
are no exception; the result of such a
condition is that many of our jour-
nalistic graduates become peddlers,
or they become good for nothing,
because they posess the so-called
"superiority complex". They have
a bona fide diploma of journalism and
they honestly believe that they are
something in this worhl of commer-
cial writing.
Of course, those befuddled young
men cannot be bhtmed, .they have
worked hard to get a diph)ma, but
they didn't know that the journal-
fslic market is limited and only a
very few, the most capable, are lucky
enough to find somewhere a place to
deveh)p their talent and in the same
time make a livelihood. Journalism
is a very peculiar profession. A
lawyer m' a doctor for an example,
when he is through with his schooling
and training opens an office, puts out
a shingle and waits for customers,
but a journalist cannot do such a
thing, lie has to find a position
somewhere to show his talent. Not
everyone is lucky to get suc, h a posi-
tion.
I have met many disappointed
JEWISH CALENDAR
5698 1933
1st Day Passover ............ April 16
Rosh Hodesh, Iyar ............ May 2
Lag B'Omer ................. May 19
Rosh Hodesh, Sivan ......... May 31
Ist Day Shabuoth ............ June 5
Resh Hodesh, Tammuz ...... June 30
Fast of Tammuz .............. July 16
Rosh Hodesh, Ab ............. July 29
Fast of Ab ................. August 6
Rosh Hodesh, Ellul ........ August 28
*Observed following day.
young men, so-called graduated
journalists, lamenting and cursing
their fate and not knowing what to
do for a living. Let it be said here
that the average newspal)er writer
doesn't get a high salary. Open any
newspaper, look over the pages filled
with writing material, how many
names of writers will you find there?
Very few. Most writers are just
I)lain hands, links in the long chain
of making It newspaper, They are
unknown to the world and their
readers. The average writer plays a
very little role in the making of a
newspaper.
Journalism as it is being practiced
today, isn't by any means a very
honorable profesion. Most of the
news, editm'ial and timely articles
writers write "to oMer." Very sel-
dom have they "tit opprotunity to
express their own opinions. Even
the very highly paid colmmfists don't
always express their own opinion.
So journalism isn't in fact such a
wonderful In'ofession, that any young
man should be crazy about it.
We have a number of 1)rilliant
American Jewish writers. I have in
mind such columnists as WMter
LipI)mann, David Lawrence, Isaac
Don Levin, Walter Winchell, Louis
Sobol and George Sokolsky.
Some of our Jewish columnists are
"gossip-mongers," they have noth-
ing to do with politics. The most
funny part of it is that they receive
a fal)uhnm sum of money for such
"stuff." It seems that the American
reading public likes it and they are
willing to pay for it, so they get it
with a full me'inure.
I have no quarrel with our gossip-
mongers. I am not interested in
their funny stuff, it doesn't al)peal
to my sense of burner, so I haven't
much to say about those writers.
I,adies of ltadassah: Thankl!!st !,stLt!)[ 1
my ia'ec. It is a wondeful t, re} ound in (h
whispers l)hilosophy by whi¢ Id liberties,
Jew may ]augh even at liea signed a
Through its I)ranches the winds ds Week de
carrying dust of all the oppre °n of Austri
Trees and me surviving the The manife
ance of all the swordsl But wetblic by Dr
be humble and ask ourselveSlucational s
what ways may we deserve to .Conference
on living? Certainly, we ar0ho pointed
worth this immortality just tas not an a,
good real estate traders• rence, whic:
(Copyright, 1938.) 'ith a progn
renan relati(
Ut the indi
| Protestau
ws who sig
rank G
tive. It seems that some of us ebrew
not find a middle-road. This i}NEw YOlq
a healthy condition. avin, belie
Now we have one Imrticular w to receiv
ish columnist in this country, w Union
George Sokolsky of New York,wa Well-k
of the most outstanding reaetia# and S(
- 'eek at the
writers of ttus country, or Ior . • a
• -, le studle
matter of any other country. 1: " d
,. ige in 1913
a thousand per cent reacuonary |t .... a
o ,#f.. Y tellow 1
In The Jewmh Transcript ot u, . ' "
• .mversity
18, there was a news item a,f , •
Writer Sokolsky. That news i! several l/o
prompted me to write this artl
Sokolsky warns all the Jews of tac. _
k ,al
erica to keep away from liberals __
progressives, because the Amcri! I1 N. y.
people will think that we are ALBANy,
Communists. Of course, Sok01or reasons
has a right to think that way. a. apPointm
But is he right? This is an0 l service p(
question to bc answered. :lass in citie
Sokolsky is the black sheep a#
aSSed by b
out" Jewish columnists. There i€ o rk legislat
other like him. He is an influe!nly Govern
writer, he writes for the New to hccome lr
]Ierald-Tribune, a very censer!
tire newspaper, he is a lecturer
radiospeaker. IIe could have lew Kilh
a very powerful man, 1)ut lie aerman
the wrong way. [ BERLIN (
Sokolsky bates everything theatence of
progressive, lie is a fanatic. |harges of
would join any movement to tirnst Boeh(
liberalism and democracy. Ind killed h
a shame that a man with sucrisoner's (i,
talent should sell himself to theOurt in the
aetionary class of this country, m Anmriean
A few years ago I wrote an ar i
in The Jewish Transcript ab
renegade Jews. That article #
cially dealt with a man by the n
of Max Neumann, a German "JO
who was Ititlers friend, and
worked against his own people.
.OIE OW:
CREMATE
The editor of The Jewish Trt
cript at that time asked the ques¢...
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