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t THE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT, SEATTLE AUGUST 12,
Thought Of The Week
"1 say to the Mandatory Power: You shall not outrage the Jewish nation. You shall not play fast and loose with the Jewish people.
Say to us frankly that the National Home is closed, and we shall know where we stand. But this trif|ing with a nation bleeding from a
thousand wounds must not be done by the British whose Empire is built on moral principles .... that mighty Empire must not commit
this sin against the people of the Book. Tell us the truth. This at least we have deserved."
-- CHAIM WEIZMANN, president, World Zionist Organization.
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VOL. XV. Friday, Aug. 12, 1938 No. 24
IT WON'T WORK
llIS EDITOR doesn't profess to be expert in the highly scien-
tific sphere of anthropology and biology, but there seems to
be something decidedly strange about the idea of Italy's
proclaiming itself to be Aryan while reading the Jews out of the
Italian race.
It was not so long ago that the Italians, like other Latin
peoples, were extremely proud of their non-Nordic racial origin.
They would have been the first to ridicule any suggestion
that Italians were Aryans. But politics has a way of doing
curious things.
Italy and Germany having joined hands politically, I1 Duce
seems to think it necessary to emulate Der Fuehrer in his racial
ideas. The sudden appearance of anti-Semitism in Italy two
years ago was then explained largely in terms of anti-Zionism
and therefore anti-British.
Native-born Italian Jews were assured they had nothing to
fear. Italian Jew-baiting was aimed only at "international
• Jewry."
But now we find that all Jews are suspected in Italy because,
according to the newly enunciated racial doctrine that Italians
are pure Aryans, they are the only element in the population
that has not been assimilated, and, as non-Aryans, cannot be
assimilated.
But Virginio Gayda, authoritative Italian spokesman, let the
cat out of the bag when he declared last week in the newspaper
Giornale d'Italia that Italy adopted Aryanism because of the
anti-Fascist activity of Jews in the United States, France and
Great Britain.
In other words, Mussolini has decided to make the Jews of
Italy pay for the anti-Fascist feeling of their co-religionists
abroad. One might imagine that Mussolini would have learned
a lesson from Germany.
The Nazis repeatedly declared that if world Jewry called off
the anti-Nazi boycott and ceased its anti-Nazi protests, the
Third Reich might ease up on the Jews.
But world Jewry refused to fall into the trap. And it will
refuse again.
Mussolini is fooling no one but himself.
If he wants to call the italians Aryans, that's all right with
us, but don't let him expect the world to believe it.
Nor should he deceive himself into thinking that he can
silence world Jewry which knows that Fascism and Naziism are
its enemies.
BABE GREENBERG
HERE are those who insist that sports news has no place on
an editorial page. That, they claim, should be relegated to
the sports page. Without necessarily agreeing or disagree-
ing, we believe that for once at least the editorial page ought to
take cognizance of something that is doubtless being given many
a column on the sports page.
We refer, of course, to the phenomenal home run hitting of
Hank Greenberg, the slugging first baseman of the Detroit
Tigers.
Hank, who learned his baseball on the sandlots of the
Bronx, is no newcomer to fame. He has been one of the out-
standing figures of big league baseball for five years.
But he's doing a job now that may win him a permanent
niche in baseball's hall of fame.
As even the veriest baseball tyro knows, a brawny gentle-
man variously known as George Herman Ruth, the Bambino,
the Home Run King, or just plain Babe Ruth, set a new world's
record for hitting home runs in one season by banging out 60 of
them during the 1927 season.
The home run is to baseball what a grand slam in no trumps
is to bridge and the player who hits the most homers is the king
of baseball.
For more than a decade players have been shooting at Ruth's
record but no one got closer to it than 58.
As of July 31, Greenberg had hit 37 home runs in 92 games,
which put him 21 games in front of Ruth's eleven-year record.
In 1927, Ruth hit his 37th homer in his 113th game.
If Greenberg maintains his present pace, he will smash the
record.
NOW IS THE TIME
N several occasions during the past year we have referred to
the unfortunate policy of national Jewish organizations
scheduling important meetings of one kind or another on
a date already pre-empted by other organizations.
Rarely is this deliberate. It is usually a case of laziness on
the part of some official.
Nothing is easier than to ascertain whether any important
Jewish function is to be held on a given date before selecting
that date for another important Jewish gathering.
The result of this conflict of dates is that the organizations
meeting suffer from loss of attendance as well as from divided
public attention while prospective participants are undecided as
to which of two or more equally important gatherings to attend.
We refer to this again now because this the season of the
year when Jewish organizations are preparing their programs for
the coming year.
We cannot emphasize too strongly the urgency of avoiding,
as far as possible, conflicts in dates in national Jewish meetings,
conventions, conferences, assemblies, etc.
The English-Jewish press stands ready to serve as a clearing
house for dates to prevent an aggravation of an already annoying
situalion which does much to create unnecessary ill-feeling
between organizations.
By RABBI EDGAR F. MAGNIN
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles
HE WORLD has never seemed so hopelessly on the brink of dis-
aster as it does today. All the forces of evil and brutality seem on
the acendency. The military dictators appear to be in control of
the destiny of the universe. The bewildered individual on the sidelines
is tempted to ask what has happened to a civilization in which religion
has played such a prominent part.
Yet the very hope in the situation today is the fact that we are
witnessing a revival of religion as a reaction against the onslaughts of
the military barbarians. The re-
cent World Conference of Chur-
ches at Oxford and the movement
which it has inaugurated for a
World Council of Churches is one
answer of the religious forces to
the encroachments of the pagan
dictators.
For this movement represents a
serious and courageous effort to
make nations really Christian- -to
achieve a world brotherhood of
Christianity on which the ideals
of the Christian faith shall be
meaningful in each nation.
Witness the courage of the Ger-
man religious leaders and the sac-
rifices of the pastors, including
the great Niemoeller who is at
present in a Nazi jail. The cour-
age of these German clergymen is
most heartening to those who
have felt that religion is losing its
Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin vitality.
There are many other religious
movements at work among us in the field of peace, tolerance and so-
cial justice, which testify to the fact that religion is indestructible and
that it may yet save the world from annihilation.
Many of us may be misled because these religious efforts do not
get into the headlines as do the antics of the anti-social and uncivilized
elements in society. The numerous religious agencies at work in the
world are preaching love and reconciliation.
These attributes, most sorely needed in the world today, do not
have the news value and dramatic appeal of those movements which
preach hate and disruption.
A church group that spreads the message of "love thy neighbor as
thyself" dies not enshroud its members in hooded masks nor does a
religious peace society spread its aims through aggressive and bois-
PLAIN TALK
(Continued fl'nni P'tge l)
have create(l an Aryan race and h'tve
discovered an exquisite essence ill
Ary.ul blood.
The old Romans inerely gave their
gold to the llun to buy him off, they
kel)t their souls. Their descendants
embr.tce the Hun . . . "We are all
ihms together :uld believe as you do
against tile Jews."
(The Italian prl)fessors aplx:ar to
have been ashalned of their degra-
dation, Mince at first thei,' names
were kel/t secret. Later Fascist call-
talus revealed them.)
Yet it may lie difficult to traosforna
Italians into lhms even hy command
so potent as that of the Fascist die-
tatorshil). The press rel)orts that
Italians seem not in the least excited
to I)e told that Jews are the bane of
their existen(.e and tb.d; s(nnthing
onght to be done about tbeln.
Italian skies are so l)hte at this
time of tile year lind tlle seas are
htughing and Ronle continues eter-
nal (the sl)lendid ruin of tile coli-
seum relnin(l them nf the futility (if
settling things by throwing l)e()l)le
to lions) and in the l)resenee of all
this lt'tlians, one may gHess, }l/lye no
min(I to l)ehave like l[uns.
"lh:ar ye," shouts Mussolini, "and
h:t every one know that even in the
(luestion of race we inten(I to go
straight ahead."
All, no, ll Due,a, this iN no tinle to
be lhlns. There, is so nuieh singing
to be done (wh'd> with the Sal)l)hire
skies and the fragran(!e of l, he hat-
JEWISH CALENDAR
8698 - 1938
Rosh Hodesh, Ellul .... Sun., Aug. 28
5699 - 1988
Rosh Hashonah, 1st day.Men., Sept. 26
l{oshHashonah,2ndday.Tues.,Sept.27
]!st of.Gedaliah ...... Well., Scot. 28
om K]ppul'. ........... Wed., ct. 5
Succoth, 1st day ....... Mira., Oct. l0
Succoth, 2nd day ..... Tues., Oct. 11
Hosha'ana Rabba ...... Sun., Oct. 16
Shemini Atseret ....... Men., Oct. 17
Simchas Torah ........ Tues., Oct. 18
Marchesvan ........... Wed., Oct. 26
Kislev .............. Thurs., Nov. 24
Chanukah ............. Sun., Dec. 18
Tebeth ................. Fri., Dec. 23
Fast of Tebeth .......... Sun., Jan. 1
vest.) WC(I rather I)e Puecinis,
Vr(lis, Carusos an(I Tettrazinis.
The relatives of Michael Angelo,
l.eonarlh), Ti(,ia, and Ral)hael can't
I)elieve it, even though it iN Musso-
liui himself who says it, "Fronl today
on we Itali:tns are llmm and shall go
straight 'theall being llmls!"
Besides, if you axe Italian y()u must
have a hot reason for haling llefore
y(Itl can hate thoroughly.
The i)refeetinn of hate is in concen-
tratiou and when you sllrea(l hate
over a Whl)h: peol)le it gets very thin
.(tilt[ Ilnsatisfaetory.
If you are Italian your hate spe-
cializes. You may hate your wife's
lov:u' or you may hnte fnr vengeanee's
sake. This is sl/len(lid , enjoyable
hating which may come to a hal)l)y
conclusion with a stillt:to I)etween
your enemy's rills.
COMPANY FOR DINNER!
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terous tactics.
The very techniques of relig ion are peaceful and undr
because the war-mongers and the haters employ methods
them into the news does not mean that those who counsel
hood, peace and justice are inactive.
It must be remembered that while the forces of war and
become more brazen and aggressive, idealists, humanitarians
ligionists of all shades of opinion have been banding more
gether for the preservation of democracy, peace and freedom.
The world struggle has been narrowing itself down to
justice and injustice.
The allies of justice have become numerous in recent
religion has been in the forefront of this movement for justice.
Secular elements fighting for justice are just now recol
leadership of religion in this struggle•
A prominent labor leader recently listed the churches as
the leading forces making for constructive reform, while a
ished Negro educator said that it was due largely to religious
ations that the racial situation in the South has shown stea
provement.
It is well that this debt to religion should be reco
leaders. It is more important still that secular bodies accept
ership of religion. Idealism divorced from religion is as potent aS
that is parched and withered. Idealism will see its consumm;
as it aligns itself with religion.
Religion achieves ideals with a minimum of evil conse(
labors for social justice without introducing the evil element
war. It struggles for peace on the basis of justice.
In the idealism of religion, justice and brotherhood is a
itself. In some secular idealistic efforts justice is sometimes
means to an end, the end being the creation of some sort of a
larized social or economic order.
Secular idealism frequently leaves hatred and dissension in if
Religious idealism aims to conciliate those of different opinion, i
ferent station in life.
Religious idealism, because of the authority of religion, is It
to with greater respect than secular idealism by those whose 0
sion to idealistic ends is most urgently needed. Secular idealiS:
quently alienates such individuals who identify it with revolu
techniques.
Religious idealism is complete idealism. It is concerned with
ing individuals, as well as with changing systems. Secular idealtJ
variably limits itself to changing systems.
Liberals and idealists of all shades must band together $l
democracy and maintain peace. They should put themselves I
the aegis of religion, for real religion alone can save the world.
By real religion I mean that dynamic ethical force born of
ism. I mean ethical ideals and action touched by prophetic fire. 1
actual faith in a God of all men, hence a love of all men and a
ness to live and die for all men.
((4
By ALFRED SEGAL
Tha('s (ha fine ar(, of hating. But
you can't hate an entire I)eol)lc
thoroughly; it inakes no sense.
You, if you are Italian, can hate
one ,Jew i)assionatoly and slitisfae-
to('ily, I)ut not all the ,Jews together.
lhtting is a sl)eeiall;y to lie enlti-
vale(1 like the fragrance of a single
gardenia. It is a i)rel;ious thing
not to lie promiscuously wasted.
I alhnire (;lie Italians' rinining
away froln wholesale hating as they
](ave (Inne fl'onl tiine to tilne--at
(Jal)oretto in the Groat War, at Cuad-
alaiara iu Sl)ain recentl3,. With the
instinct (If .poets an(l I)hilosophers
tbe eivilize(1 Italians fled frnm hat-
ing anll killing Austrians ill a body.
There might I)e sonic Austrians ttl
I)e hated with 'L flaming, consuming
Italian hate I)ut it was iml)ossibie
to hal, e MI Austrians flttally at one
By BRESSLER
altd Oil h
;leliee, libel
0ilg the :
) f0rlller l'r(
,%aries A.
lali Minis
AD
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aad his
d to live I
ed lie 1)re
[d. Only a
r°hibition
h0 transgr
ili all his
'. 4ge to (Jell
btthers m
Ii'liL
00xS00ovv-'s V A00\\;L'y oF N, rr h N
time.
So it; seemed 1lest for civilize
pie to let thc whole matter drl
an
with line accord the Italians t| .. Url
and we.t their way frnm the] + ntaiem_
field, h:aving their weapons "l
them. J
Yes, it, may be harll for M tl] We fl
to conquer tile Italian l)eople ! Title
half of the lhuls He WaN S0] Viceo
agains the Ethiol)ians and ll| Stat^
lilanes are NO vah)rous agaiI¢|
Sllanish children (nf wholri ill '=
gotten as lnany llS 1,000 in oncsl !
ter.) ! PE]
But what can he do agai#l%n,.
italian people to make Iitms''t| rLE I
them, since they have been e i(
so long and so have learned t0
cularize in their hates?
They are the kinsmen of tM
and good Francis of Assisi t 01
• . 0
the birds came at Ills call; h i
them little brothers, since no _
thiilg was stranger t(l Ili£. i, lllsl"get-ra $
They Itre (,tie ]dnslnen of tll; 1)t._ ilnt
who 1)rotests against sellili),. "x'rlR I
italians t(i the Huns . . . "Br'Vlird A
Italy felt the need to iiniti){e....._-
many?" he asks with shame. ,Ip,. -
cialism and exaggerate(I nati0 ).
as eonlmonly SllOken of, me]Clli,5_ • B(
riers erected between lne, n an.d ]. -.,----raet°r"
me,,, betwee,, f,,.< I.,,l othe, V !
R
• * * ! !1€,--'_
A footnote: I 'un quite [,.'lde--'.:
o r'"'uence
that 1 have not I)een etlll l
cally aeein'ate in wral)l)illg |
and Hnns in one bnndle il
late war when Gei'irliins
1:1 uns.
They are n(it in reality nf t
racial stock, excel/t as the
]luns sw:el)ing out of the Ftff
over Western ]+;urol)e M't tr
their character anl(ing the N
of the Nazis through
bh)ods.
The very ch/se
tweell the barlmrian IlunS
barbarian Nazis iN s
Yet) ItS one looks at tile
eel(figuration of the
Mr, Goel)hels (who is the
()f enlightenment) line
that t'here iN even more
kinshil).
(Copyright, 1938.)
