The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 11, 1939 Page: 4 of 6
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REFUGEES AND INDUSTRY
Industries in this country have mush-
roomed since the flow of German-made
merchandise to this country was stemmed,
particularly the glove, camera and photo-
graphic supplies industries. With the
•etzure of Czechoslovakia, the low-price
shoe industry in the United States boomed.
Certain sections of the chemical industry
are enjoying the best trade they have had
sine* IRIS. The potash and fertilizer in-
dustries in this country have expanded by
more than 50 per cent in the past four
years. Palm kernel oil. formerly imported
from Germany is now supplied by a firm
in this country. The manufacture of tex-
tile weaving machinery and of steel pipe
md tubular products in this country has
also increased. Approximately 80 per cent
of the sugar beet seed, formerly imported
entirely from Germany, is now being ob-
tained elsewhere. A committee of dealers
of semi-precious jewelry if conducting a
survey of that industry with a view to
establishing factories here to supply the
products formerly obtained in Czecho-
slovakia.
These are but a few of the industries
where the majority of their raw materials
was formerly obtained from Germany and
which is now coming from American
sources. There is no major American in-
dustry which has not profited by the six
years of effort to stop the flow of German
imports here and the sending of dollars
to Nazi Germany. It may be pointed out
that many of the new industries now sup-
plying products in this country which
formerly were exclusively German-made,
are new firms which were established
here by refugees from the Reich.
Proof of the effect the Nazi boycott in
this country has had on the economic
position of Germany can be seen in Hitler's
May Day Speech to German labor groups
when he said that the United States might
better take German goods than German
refugees. It is evident however, that Ger-
man refugees coming to the United States
have materially helped in the establish-
ment of important industrial enterprises
of benefit to the entire country.
It was formerly a custom at Sabbath
morning services for one of the officials
to proclaim to the congregation that certain
articles had been stolen or lost, and that
any worshipper who knew anything of
the property must give instant information
to the authorities. Lost articles were
publicly cried in the synagogue and a
threat of excommunication hung over all
who withheld information. Likewise it was
an ancient custom in some places for the
Shamash to announce every Saturday the
results of law suits, and to inform the
congregation that certain properties were
in the market. Thus, as one writer points
out. “The Jews did not exclude their
every-day life from the sphere of religion,
and felt rather that their business was
hallowed by its association with the
synagogue than that the synagogue was
regarded by the intrusion of worldly con-
• • •
A Jewish epigram has it that “question
ng is the half of wisdom." Dictators please
note?)
BROWN STUDY
The reason why it took Hitler so long
to answer F. D. R. was that the speech
was first worked out by German embassy
officials in Washington, who were supposed
to import to it an appeal to the American
psychology, and then was given over to
Gabby Goebbels for a final polishing-up
... If you want to get a good idea of what
life in Naziland is like today, read Oscar
Schisgall's “Swastika,” which relates the
adventures of an American couple in Ber-
lin last Fall . . . That incident of a British
warship firing on a Greek vessel carrying
Jewish refugees to Palestine—which has
been denied in the British Parliament—
will return to the headlines . . . Credited
to Dr. Hjalmar Schacht is the crack that
a German feels about the annexation of
adjacent territories much as the inmate of
a jail feels about the addition of a new
wing to the prison building . . . Believe
it or not but the negotiations between
Italy and Japan for a military alliance
were spiked by none other than Hitler . . .
He didn’t like the idea of so strong a com-
bination before Mussolini had tied himself
up with Naziland in a similar alliance . . .
Until recently Mussolini’s personal dentist
was a Jew ... A wit claims that this is
the reason why Hitler had an easy time
selling anti-Semitism to II Duce ... A
daughter of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hit-
ler's foreign minister and right-hand man,
is being treated by a Jewish brain spec-
ialist in Holland.
WE RE AXIS YOU
What's this about Uncle Sam deliberately
keeping from public knowledge the infor-
mation collected on the scope and purposes
and methods of Nazi propaganda here, lest
popular indignation be vented on Nazi
representatives in this country? . . . Aren’t
Americans—not only in this country, but
from Baffin Bay to the Straits of Magellan
—entitled to know that Nazism wants
to convert their lands into colonial de-
pendencies of a Fascist Europe? . . . And
does anybody think it's an accident that the
first dictator of the first American totali-
tarian State—German Busch of Bolivia—is
the son of a German immigrant and receiv-
ed much of tis early military training
from Ernst Roehm, who later organized
Hitler’s storm troopers before he was
purged in 1935? . . . And that the German
consul in San Francisco is a former Nazi
Minister to Bolivia to whom is credited
the persuasion of Busch to establish totali-
tarianism and the extraction of a promise
that before the year is out Bolivia will
join the Fascist axis?
LIVE AND LEARN
We have just heard of a Canadian en-
gineer. Jack Starr by name, who has in-
vented a new heating system which he
claims can heat an ordinary one-family
house for the amazingly small sum of
sixty-five cents a year . . . He is said to
be offering his device as an outright gift
to any government that will do something
for the Jewish people . . . Here’s hoping
he gets something more tangible than that
“Jewish national home” the British gov-
ernment gave Dr. Chaim Weizmann for his
war-time acetone process . . . Anthropolo-
gist Earnest A. Hooten. in his article “Why
the Jew Grows Stronger" in a recent
Collier's, says that the only way to save
the world from retrogression into barbaric
stupidity is to encourage inter-marriage
of Jews with Gentiles ... A delegation
will soon visit the President to talk over
with him that famous Rublee plan for
refugees . . . The Pierre van Paassens re-
cently engaged a German refugee to work
in their home as a maid . . . When the
refugee saw van Paassen’s Nordic face
she confided that she was three-quarters
Aryan . . . But after she read Pierre’s
book, “Days of Our Years,” she broke
down and confessed that she was a hundred
per cent Jewess . . . She was afraid
"Aryan ism” would cost her the job.
NUTZI STUFF
In a pathetic effort to be astute the
Nazi travel agencies are row illustrating
their ads with scenes that carefully avoid
showing the swastika banner . . . Do they
think Americans fool that easily? . . .
Coughlin supporters are exercising pres-
sure on Station WMCA (which refused
Coughlin broadcasts in New York unless
the radio priest would first submit his
scripts to the station) by sending threat-
ening letters to commercial sponsors who
have time on that station . . . The threat
is that unless the contract with WMCA
is canceled a boycott will be organized
against the merchandise advertised . . .
The New York West Side Conference for
Racial and Religious Tolerance held its
first meeting at the Grace Methodist
Church last week . . . Protestants, Cath-
olics and Jews united there in discussing
countermeasures to be taken against the
9h the Realm
Creative Writing
By RABBI A. H. BLUMENTHAL
CHRISTIAN AND JEW (Isaac Landman)
(Horace Liveright, 1929.)
Rabbi Isaac Landman is the secretary
of The Permanent Commission on Better
Understanding between Christians and
Jews, and in this volume he has invited
36 prominent Americans (of whom 10 are
Jewish) to indicate the highways they
would travel to establish better under-
standing between Jews and Christians in
America. It would require a full length
book to consider adequately the various
routes to human brotherhood suggested in
this symposium and that would leave us
with but another book upon a subject
which has a superabundance of theoretic
discussions concerning good will and a
dearth of literature directed towards the
implementation of those theories.
I refuse to believe that there is a need
for more discussion about better under-
standing between Jews and Christians.
Everything of practical value which had
to be said has already been said but we
are woefully lax in putting into practice
the things which we know will eradicate
ill-will. George W. Ochs-Oakes one of the
contributors to the symposium states the
matter with lucid objectivity: “It has been
well said that international understandings
and friendships cannot be established by
mere edicts, nor can they be developed
solely by popular desire, if the instru-
mentalities are lacking to execute the
popular will. The converse is equally true:
that the most perfect machinery of inter-
national intercourse cannot function unless
it has, as its propelling force, the irresis-
tible power of public opinion or popular
good-will. This cannot be obtained by
pious declarations, executive mandates or
legislative enactments. It is a process of
growth, of development. The seed must
be sown skillfully: it must be nurtured
and cultivated in soil enriched by husband-
men who understood its nature. In other
words, to change the simile, to reach the
people and implant in their soul the will
to world fraternity, requires a process of
education and enlightenment.”
This is no new revelation. For years
now we have known that neither pious
wishing nor prayerful waiting will achieve
our objective. The only certain instrument-
ality at our command is education. Then
why not get down to the business of edu-
cating ourselves? I know of no text book
written by Jews for Jewish children
which addresses itself to the fostering of
good will between Jews and Christians.
Naturally, I am less familiar with Christ-
ian Sunday School text-books but I have
not learned of a Christian text book de-
signed to further a better understanding
of Jews or an appreciation of the bene-
fits to be derived from a diversified rath-
er than a regimented American culture.
Until these two very practical projects are
iniated. projects which seek to prevent the
paralysis of prejudice from entering the
human soul, all hope for increased good
will must be suspended.
And is it not ironic that these initial
steps can be undertaken by Christians
without any assistance from Jews and by
Jews without any assistance from Christ-
ians?
anonymous parties who are distributing
a leaflet entitled “The Christian Index”
and exhorting the public to “buy Christian"
only . . . Neil O’Hara, the syndicated col-
umnist. wrote the other day that the of-
ficial publicity agency for the Nazi govern-
ment is Jewish-owned . . . That’s news to
us.
FAIR FACTS
That gentleman in a high hat who on
the day of the opening of the New York
World’s Fair pleaded with the watchman
at the Palestine Pavilion, still closed to
the public at this writing, to let him in, was
none other than Justice Irving Lehman,
brother of the Governor and one of the
best-known non-Zionists in town . . . Al-
though all the exhibits in the Palestine
Pavilion will be completely installed by
the time this appears, and everything in
tip-top shape for visitors, the Pavilion will
not open till May 28th . . . There is still a
lingering hope that Dr. Weizmann will get
here in time for the formal opening . . .
Latest added attraction for this Pavilion
will be a continually running movie on
the Jewish colonization of the Homeland
. . . The Cafe Tel Aviv, the garden restau-
rant in the Palestine Pavilion grounds, has
already been reserved for parties by over
a hundred Jewish organizations . . . It’s
strictly kosher, of course, on the milchig
side . . . The only Yiddish inscription in
the Fair exhibits is to be found in the
Soviet Pavilion ... It reads: “Arbeiter fon
der velt, fareinigt eich” . . . Among the
flagpoles in the Lagoon of Nations area at
the Fair one stands empty . . . It’s the one
on which the swastika is not flying . . .
The W eekly Sedrah
By Rabbi David B. Alpert
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“That thy brother may live with thee .. ”
(Leviticus 25 to end); P’ Behar-Behukotay.
Leviticus, that deals with private religion,
closes with a study of social relations and
personal loyalty. This speaks directly to
our times and our situation.
A community is judged not alone by its
institutions and its business. The true
greatness of a city is found in the quality
of its leadership, and the character of its
influence upon all the people. It is through
a respected and admired leadership, and
the personal loyalty of all toward that
leadership, that people may dwell in that
community in security of mind. The test
of that leadership must always be the de-
votion and the participation of all in sec-
uring the benefits hoped for.
What we should prize and value most in
a community is the measure of its re-
spected leadership, that provides that all
shall walk in Gpd’s* statutes, and keep
God's commandments, and perform them.
It is a rule to be applied not with rigor
and force; but rather with the benevolent
disposition which wins common assent and
acceptance. Such a service together breaks
the yoke of slavery, and raises the people
to full enjoyment of their liberty.
If we despise the influence of respected
leadership (which leads to God) then we
surely invite every social ill and disaster.
Pain and sorrow of heart, and the loss of
the pride of power, and social ruin must
follow; there are the evidences of inner
slavery. Slavery has no respect for the
sanctities of life and feeling. Slavery
denies all that is best in man, and gives
him a purpose and meaning in life. It
means harsh discipline imposed from
without, but not the real spiritual dis-
cipline imposed from within. And it
neither trusts nor respects leadership.
The leader serves the people and is an-
swerable to them. He wins respect and
he gains confidence only as he deserves
it Personal loyalty to him builds the
esprit de corps and morale of the people,
as well as the institution. Where there
is no vision, the people perish. Where
there is no leadership, there can be no
vision. Without inner discipline of the
spirit there is no freedom. And freedom
never means disobedience or the refusal
of wise discipline.
God is my strength and my refuge, my
tower in the day of affliction (from Jere-
miah 16). Let us write this on the tablet
of our heart and govern life accordingly.
Footnotes to History
By Rabbi Mordecai L. Brill
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Jewish physicians during the Middle
Ages were sometimes falsely accused of
having poisoned a patient Such accusa-
tions arose from popular prejudice as well
as from professional jealousy. One Jew-
ish physician when only twenty-four years
of age. was arrested in Palermo (Sicily)
on a poison charge and condemned to
death. (1430). On the eve of his execution
the young physician spent his last hours
composing an elaborate poem in which
he declares his innocense. He also tells us
he could have saved his life by becoming
an apostate but this he steadfastly refused
to do and with a declaration of firm trust
he accepts martydrom as his lot.
• # •
A well-known 16th century Rabbi begins
his last will and testament by saying:
“Some inherit and bequeath wealth ... I
have nothing to offer but a rule of right-
eousness and guidance in the fear of God.”
In his introduction he also mentions the
well-known parable of the Three Friends
(Money. Relatives and Worthy Deeds) the
last of which alone accompanies the dying
man to the grave.
• • •
During the Middle Ages the fame of
Jews as dyers was widespread. In many
places they were also active as manu-
facturers of silk which was exported to
surrounding countries.
• • »
One should not expect thanks or recogni-
tion for performing acts of kindness, the
Jewish sages taught. “If ye render a kind-
ness to any man, do not remind him of
it.” Likewise the spirit in which one pier-
forms deeds of betterment was to be taken
into account. The Talmud speaks of a son
who fed his penniless father on choice
poultry, but did it with insults; hence is
condemned to Gehinnom.
* * *
Elijah (Gaoh) of Wilna, famous 18th
century Rabbi tells us that life is like a
draught of salt water; its pleasures seem
to quench, but they really inflame thirst.
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