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PAGE TWO THE JEWISH TRANSCRIPT, SEATTLE JANUARY 13, 193! JANUARY 13
Thought Of The Week
"Pagan forces which undertake to destroy freedom of worship
and freedom of existence for the minority groups of the world may
have their successful moments, but in the full perspective of life
as recorded in the pages of life, these victories can only end by
hollow and dull triumphs destined to turn into ultimate defeat.
The Jewish strength of endurance, based upon the conviction of
The 00hwish Transtript
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Vol. XV Friday, Jan. 13, 1939 No. 46
NO MENACE IN JEWISH IMMIGRATION
During the first nine months of 1938, only 14,159 Jewish
immigrants were permitted to enter the United States from
Germany and Austria. This was 79 per cent of the total of
17,110 who applied for visas to emigrate here.
The sum total is so small that it could not possibly affect
the industrial situation. This number could be augmented
many times and still would have but little effect on employment
m general. Most of these new comers are being assimilated by
Jewish employers who are at great sacrifice making extra places
for the unfortunates. That is another reason why to many the
policy of the American Legion as expressed through Stephen
Chadwick, its National Commander, seems to be ultra cautious.
It does not take into consideration an emergency and the world
wide need of sacrifice to bring about at least some measure of
quick relief.
[] [] [] []
CONFERENCE POSTPONED
There was to have been ere this a conference of Jews and
Arabs sponsored by the British Cabinet early this month. For
some mysterious reason it has been postponed. There seems to
be a reluctance on both sides upon the theory that it will be
fruitless. The well informed both here and in England agree
that such a conclave is inevitable, no matter what may be the
outcome. It is said that public opinion will commandeer as
America's delegates to that memorable gathering, Dr. Stephen
S. Wise, Dr. Solomon Goldman and Mr. Louis Lipsky.
FRANKFURTER INFLUENCE DEEP
The influence of Judge Felix Frankfurter in the legal pro-
fession is without measure. From his classes at Harvard Uni-
versity, there is not a bar of any city in this country that has
not one or more men who came in direct contact with him.
They all say that he was deeply learned, highly approachable
and was always willing to serve. After his pupils scattered to
the four winds of heaven, he still retained his interest, and few
did not enjoy the benefit of correspondence. Through him the
administration has secured some of its ablest public servants.
The value of such a life to the nation is beyond compare.
DEADLY WRONG TO CHILDREN
The Zionist Review, published at London, England, in an
editorial in its issue of December 22, ably and sincerely presents
its opposition to the present policy of the Cabinet in refusing
admission to children to Palestine.
The Review claims that there are 90,000 Jewish children in
Greater Germany for whom disposition must be made to prevent
untold suffering and death to many of the innocent. The journal
was hurt and amazed that the British administration answer in
denial was based solely on the doctrine of political expediency.
The denial was not claimed to be just or capable of defense, but
a mere pandering to Arabian threats.
The Review refuses to concede that the admission of a
mere 10,000 Jewish children to Palestine could possibly disturb
any industrial balance, and declares that "every child refused
admission, means another doomed to a broken life, for many
untold suffering and premature death."
"Civilization cannot salve its conscience with a little charity
and fortifies big words of sympathy with little quotas of immi-
gration."
[] [] [] []
HURL BACK A LIE
Jew baiters spread the rumor last week that Jewish em-
ployers of St. Louis, Me., were discharging hundreds of Gentile
Americans to make room for equal numbers of German refugees.
The Jews of that city promptly nailed the malicious lie. Such a
thing is not true. Jews have too much human sympathy and
too much common sense to be guilty of such an irretrievable
mistake. If we should in some isolated case find such practice
has been indulged in, we Jews should ostracize the guilty party,
whoever he might be, regardless of his wealth or position in the
commercial world. Ours is the task to care for the German or
any other Jewish refugee, at all hazards and all sacrifice. BUT
THIS IS NOT THE WAY!
[] [] [] [?J
FRANKFURTER APPOINTMENT WELL TAKEN
The Spokesman Review has the following to say about the
appointment of Felix Frankfurter:
"Although Felix Frankfurter is said to believe the constitu-
tion of the United States was written on rubber instead of parch-
ment and is capable of being stretched to meet almost any legis-
lative contingency, he did not agree with those who thought that
it was better to pack the supreme court as a way to nullify the
country's basic document than to rely upon its elasticity. Ac-
cordingly, his appointment to the supreme court will shock far
fewer sensibilities than had the President chosen a spiritual and
intellectual companion for Hugo Black. Professor Frankfurter
is recognized as a man learned in the law and qualified to sit as
an equal with the ablest justices on the bench.
"Despite his reputation for holding advanced views, his
appointment, after the public had been led to think that the
choice might fall upon some one far less worthy, comes as a
relief. No matter what his social and political philosophy may
be, he has given proof that he will exercise his own judgment on
matters coming before the court."
righteousness and principle, reinforced with spiritual fortitude, is
sufficiently great that no Pagan Power can do more than tempo-
rarily stifle and hinder its steady progress. Some forces are stronger
than those of hate and destruction; this is the power of truth and
courage and the wili to survive."--RABBI SIMON C. HELFGOTT
of the Tree of Life Synagogue, Oil City, Pa.
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SAMUEL R
It would be ex
say ridiculbu
ritative tone i
te of the Jews b
diculous at all
htic about wh:
uch e:tsier t(
I0phesy.
One fact is out
tory Jew and G
Do We Shout Our lrout)le00!
11 remain
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of the Jew.
The ye'u' that
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
Transcript Special Writer.
LONDON.--During the last 'mti-
Semitic outburst in the English
press (about which I wrote on an-
other occasion) much has been made
by most of the writers of the fact
that Jews make to() much neise
about their troubles.
Many people are persecuted, the
argument ran, but one hears only of
the persecution of the Jews.
It is enough to touch a Jew and
the whole world is in uproar.
As an illustration of their point,
the writers cited the Dreyfus case.
Many innocent people, they argued,
have been and are being sentenced
to ])evil's Island and even to death,
but no one knows anything about
them.
But if the innocent man is a Jew,
Dreyfus, the whole of France and the
world is in turmoil until he is freed.
This is a stock argumeut of the
anti-Semites, and one bears it very
often nowadays.
To what extent, if any, is it true?
Are Jews really making too much
noise about their troubles?
Do we really shout too much about
our l)ersecution? And is it wrong to
shout when people are persecuted as
are the Jews?
The question has great topical in-
terest at the present moment and
deserves to be considered.
Like a good many other anti-
Semiti(. argumcnis, this one too, is
based on a superficial observation of
the Jewish character and actmn.
There is doubtless some truth in the
observation that Jews do not take a
beating quietly; that they do not
permit themselves to be subjected
to persecution without raising a cry,
and at times even a howl.
Fortunately, centuries of persecu-
tion have not succeeded in breaking
the Jewish spirit and making Jews
accept suffering dumbly and without
llrotest.
This "shouting" of Jews when they
tre attacked, which seems to jar so
much on the ears of the anti-Semites,
is probably one of the most hopeful
signs about Jews, an indication of
Too Loudly?
great vitality and love for life which other non-Jews who thereby serve :t
suffering has not weakened, slleciM interest of their own.
Woe to a people which is so cowed Anyone whn has followed the trend
into sul)missiveness that it accepts of Jewish events since the Nazi up-
the blows or tyranny without pro- heawfl in Austria has doubtless
test and without shouts and screams noticed how little one has heard
of outrage, directly from Austrian Jews al)out
When the future historian scans the the terrible happenings in that
present dark period in Jewish lfis- country.
tory, the protest, or in the words of Everything that the world has
the anti-Semites, the "shouts and learned al)out the Nazi medieval
screams" of the poor Jew in Przhy- tortures and inquisition has come
tik, Brest-Litowsky and of the Jew- from non-Jewish sources, partly
ish students in the Polish universio friendly and partly hostile.
ties will stand out as the few points The German and Austrian Jews
of light in this pitch darkness, themselves have chosen the meekest
The difference between the Polish and the quietest method of protest,
(and, in general, Eastern) Jews and that of mass suicide.
the German (or Western) Jew is that Anyone who talks about the shout-
the former can, and still does shout ing of the Austrian Jews in the pres-
lustily when he is beaten, while ent crisis is simply lying outrageous-
the latter have become so "civilized" ly. There has not been a single vocal
and well-mannered that one seldom Jewish protest, a single cry or shout
hears a strong, healthy scream corn- from the Jewish victims of the most
ing from the Nazi torture house, terrible persecution in modern times.
But, of course, no anti-Semite can Never before in Jewish history
1)e expected to see this aspect of the have Jews accepted their suffer-
question. They hate the Jew wimn ing so meekly and so quietly.
he shouts and they would hate him On the other hand, non-Jews h'tvc
no less if he accepted his punishment never before spoken and written so
(as the German Jews mostly do) much about tile Jewish problem and
with saint-like meekness, tMen such 't great interest in it.
But a point which any observer of It is a curious fact th't the enor-
Jewish life, even an anti-Semite, can mous publicity which tile Jews arc
see in the present situ'tion, is that now receiving, comes almost entirely
during the last few years, since the from non-Jewish sources.
rise of the Nazi persecution of the It is the non-Jewish world that is
Jews, an important change has come now making the biggest noise about
over the Jewish as well as the con- Jewish persecution, and this for a
Jewish world in this particular re- variety of reasons, some of them not
spect, altogether altruistic.
The question of so-called Jewish Firstly, there is certainly the lib-
"shouting" is no longer what it was eral and humanitarian part of the
in the days of Dreyfus and Beilis. non-Jewish world which is genuinely
It is now an altogether different outraged by the Nazi atrocities. Not
manifestation, slightly puzzling and for the last 400 years has there been
not without some curious paradoxes, in Europe such an inhuman and
The fact is that of late not only shameful persecutiou. People of
have Jews, particularly Western conscience and humanity cannot rest
Jews, ceased to shout about their while it continues.
persecution, but that most of the Another portion of the non-Jewish
noise about Jewish trouble is now world which is largely responsible for
being raised by non-Jews, the present publicity is the anti-
And this is now done, not by the Fascist element, which is interested
great non-Jewish liberal world, as in presenting to the world the Nazi
was the case in tile days of Zola and regime as it is; nothing reveals so
Korolenko, but by anti-Semites or much the face and character of Naz-
PLAIN TALK
abdominal laughter as I parroted the
printed words.
Perhaps this is snap judgment; yet
it is the judgment of hundreds of
thousands of other plain men to
whose hearts synagogues and
churches have ceased to have mean-
ing. It may be wrong judgment but
it must be seriously considered by
the reverend doctors who are
troubled on account of the trembling
structure of organized religion.
The puzzled world looks at re-
ligion not with hostility but with a
sense of futility. What troubles the
Union of Americ'm lIebrew Congre-
gations also troubles the organi-
zations of other religious groups.
They, too, wonder what's to become
of their churches in a world in which
many inert ]lave colne seriously to
doubt the authority of organized re-
ligion.
What's to l)e done about me who
SHOLOM ALECHEM
My love . . .
When your warm curving arm
Cradles my head while i sleep--
To keep away
All earthly harm,
To hold me ch)se
When the Angels weep--
Sing me that Ancient Hebrew song,
Sholom Alechem.
Peace within . . .
And open the window of your
heart
To take my silence in.
--Shirley Bliss Goldberg.
"00NNNNNNN,00NN00"
(Cont. from Page i)
rices; but my soul doesn't find any-
thing.
My father always has found a great
deal of spiritual satisfaction in the
orthodox synagogue where he goes.
It is like a second home to him. He
lingers there after the service as if
reluctant to leave. He loves the old
pew.in which he sits, he feels the glow
of great honor when he is called to
the service of tile Torah. Before he
grew to be as old as he is he was
happy to go to the services of the
morDing in the dawn of bitter winter
days•
Would I be seen trudging through
the snuw at dawn if our temple had
divioe worship every morning? No,
I would say, my bed is particularly
comfortable at dawn. The morning
service of the temple would not have
a minyan of us.
What's the matter with me?
And what could be done to provide
me (as well as others) with such per-
feet satisfaction as my father de-
rives from the synagogue.
I am not sure of tile answers, ex-
cept to the first question. I am one
of the multitude of men who have
come to duul)t the validity of the
claims of formal religion in a world
that (deslfite all the steeples that
reach toward heaven) has gone to
hell.
The formal prayers for h)ving-
kindness and justice and compassion
sound eml)ty in a world in which one
word from a dictator is so much more
potent tlmn our prayers that it can
devastate a people while another
word can make war. In the prayers
of Yore Kippur I found myself giving
ism as does this terrible persecuti°
But there is one other, I)OW er
non-Jewish element which is #
malting the most of the Nazi per#
tion of the Jews. This is the sc
tiooal nun-Jewish press.
To begin with, the stories of 1
sadism are in themselves just
ldnd of re'Ming matter that t
papers feed their readers. Beat
and kicking people to death, br,
outrages of human dignity, all !I
is just what these sheets need
ticldc the jaded palates of tn
readers.
Unfortunately, Jews themsel
are avid readers of these air00!!
stories, although for altogether G
fercnt reasons. A big Jewish st0t:
heavily advertised by meanS'
streaming headlines and big poSta
is sure to sell several thousand $0:
papers among Jews.
Every mention of the word J#:
a non-Jewish paper is now sure t0J
tract Jewish readers.
Jewish i)ersecution has bccore
circulation-raiser.
The lurid descriptions of Je#
pain and suffering have becor0e
means for money-making, and t
hyenas of sens'tionalism have rush
to tile new source of income and c
culation with their accust0#
lted to the p.l
e of the dark(
lat the Jewish r
ldure• Even
es, when thq
erging from '
barism, perse
Iyhem were nol
v. Particularl:
Other countries
ideous parade (
Itraeizing and p
iatral Europe,
lores of tile M(
rthernmost fri
Ca is a verital
tred. With ca
tee anspicious
Ssed the Jew.
[the Nazis esp
ItPs and boun(l;
ls inhuman,
tOrough and e
e Jew, both as
a rac;e, has SUt
d unprintable l
8 faded away,
hty nation Ilk
their last pen
vn-trodden ar
Vs; simply bec
Y ldlled an
ilomat.
lcrvent thougl
the eessatin
hetiees, we mu;
Stark truism.
his "Mein Kar
Med out his
0gram. In all
greed. 4#1 had to name
One may even believe the pr .
tations of these newspapers that t!y
are not actuated by anti-Sel!!] :=
motives in publishing all the rub!:s
which they do now about the J0 ]
Their motives are of a diffe°[
ldnd. It is greed and cireulatt° 1
Jews have become news. a
But the sum total of it all is tb]
at present it is not the Jews ¢:|
raise the biggest noise about e)]
troubles but primariiv the noa'Je]
ish world. Conditions have change. ]
and roles have changed sinco t 1
nineteenth century.
Now, it is no longer the JeWS ¢]
shout a/,out their perseutio,,. 'W].
pass out of the world of their 00i00e'i#AVAN /
quietly while the non-Jewish se#
tional newsl)al)ers are shouting 10[
cst about them and converting Je
ish suffering to 1)emfies.
(Copyright, 1938). B E
Service
4 4 4 By ALFRED SEGAL TreES
i t 1 A 0 C E S
ism that is not content to wriMo'#|
hands in lamentation. It go# e| FAMO
into the world bravely earryiM, e ¢syd --_ LU ....
bright lights it tins to show t .:
, -le 25th £vo a
in the darkness It mees .,oi' Nt.T'T
• . _bd -. ......
namie ideologies of the brut$:e ._
...... IlOt ,
ans w;n a uynam;c express;o ,i
ideals--its belief in the es#.¢
dignity of the individual, its dS]t ....
s tolerance) • L I - I
tion to liberty, it .*i)
vision of a more just and l°V!i Gu
has become a pillar of the congrega-
tion of Israel, though a weak, wobbly
pillar enough--a pillar, that stands
uncertain among a lot of other wob-
bly pillars. What's to be done
about me and all the host of Israel
that in a dreadful new world looks at
synagogues and wonders to what end
they are serving.
In sentimental mood I have liked
to say that if temples only brought
back the old ceremonials everything
might be different. Reform Judaism,
I have argued, has cast off too many
of the traditional garments and has
become a cold religion whose bones
rattle in the chill. Yes, if only we
had the old things backI
Yet would I and others be more
faithful in our attend'race then? Do
the younger people go in numbers to
Orthodox services which are faithful
to all the traditions? My father is in
the shul and his contemporaries arc
there--hmely old men looking sadly
at a fading era. (The few younger
men are there to say kaddish for
their parents)•
What do I want then? I do have
religious feeling and I should like to
join with others in an organizedex-
I)ression, but not for a mere joint ex-
pression nf our priwtte supplications.
My private relations with God are a
matter between IIim and me and not
for public display; I have never felt
the need of a synagogue for my per-
sonal devotions.
I have thought of religion being
nmde to march out of the synagogues
and the churches into the world. A
synagogue or church that is only a
spiritual cafeteria for dues-paying
members makes no sense to me.
i have thought of dymunic Juda-
social order, iV
dYnamic
Christianity, to tr,#
down the vintage where the !bY
of hate are stored, to carry li I #e
which to lead the way out °0 #
dreadful wilderness, to find s o¢
just and lovely world here aud ttg
Then the young ]nay come t,o#
synagngues and churches. • .
• " , o have
]mre s somettnng for us t
hand in. This h)oks like g°°.b
ligion to us.. • " Puzzled, w°"
trustees like myself may corse ']
"Yes, this looks like somethi i
least it isn't futility. At leas
alive." vit l
"] hus having made Judaisna tw""l
in the modern world we migh .,
after the interior decoratwos,
as the ceremonials. ..de#
This is just a poor be w l0 d
temple trustee spealdng °u,eig
with no pretension at all ot "
sure that he is right.
(Copyright, 1939).
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