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THE TEXAS JEWISH HERALD
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RABBI DAVID GOLDBERG
Editorial Contributor
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! he Possibilities of Palestine
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the highest: peace on earth; good
versity. In the way of industry and commercial
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Mrs I. Friedlander, Chairman
Mrs. Sidnev STRAUSS, Co-Chairman
ALTMAN FOUNDATION GIVES
$50,000 GIFT TO FEDERATION
world problem,
the Holy Land
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Mrs. S. Cooperman
Mrs. Sam Schwartz
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nique of some art or craft so that he
would be fitted for useful employ-
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THE SERMON OF THE MONTH
"SPIRITUAL RENEWAL"
By Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, D .D.
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ture; animal husbandry; agriculture,
nursing and similar light indoor or
outdoor employment. Each patient,
as he became physically fit, was re-
quired, while taking medical treat-
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House of Commons to float a loan of twenty-two and a
haff million dollars for the purpose of constructing a
harbor at Haifa that shall render the port of Haifa the
will to men.” wh
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1 is NOT SAFE to predict the future. No one could
have predicted, for instance, fifteen years ago, the turn
winch this country has taken since the World War. I he
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ca hardly constitute 4% of the peo-
ple. Yet in Sing Sing prison, where
Dr. Katz is a chaplain they rerpesent
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Yok alone will not hold its head in
1 shame let us say that the total per-
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PETACH TIKVAH COUNCIL IS
DISSOLVED DUE TO JEWISH-
ARAB UNEMPLOYMENT ROW
of provoking laughter ■
amusement.
The “King of Kings”
as far as possible from
names are constantly , again that
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ns for (‘hristmas, what can it
It is not only in the big cities that
temples or synagogues, are consoli-
dating or being rebuilt in more con-
venient neighborhoods, tho they are
seldom abandoned. In Camden, Ark.,
the Temple, the City’s oldest church
edifice, built in 1873, is being
“wrecked;” Neither is a new build-
ing taking its place. "Practically all
the Jews have left.” I do not remem-
on earth and so much
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the B’nai B’rith and the Motion Pic-
ture Producers of America, Inc., will
prevent future causes for complaint
against film productions.
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EMIGRATION EXCEEDS
IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE
DURING MONTH OF OCTOBER
Jerusalem, (J.T.A.)—Emigration
from Palestine during,the month of
October exceeded immigration by
343. Six hundrd and fifty-three
persons, including 386 Jews left the
country during that month. While 310
entered the country, including 112
Christians and 9 Moslems, accord-
ing to official figures made public
here.
"let them curse.
Cusionally to be honest with one’s
self.
As preachers some of hnk rea-
sonably high. Let us draw the curtain
on some of the practices. Yet it is by
constantly climbing up and slipping
back that humanity advances at all.
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later than 9 a.m. Wednesdays.
Entered as secund class matter November 20th, 1908, at the Post
Office at Houston, Texas, under the act of March 3. 1879.
her ever having heard of this town,
but I feel ■ free to say, the town is
going backwards and will continue to
do so. Any time conditions in any
another
harm!
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ALFRED M COHEN,
Iresdent B’nai B’rith.
SIGMINI LIVINGSTON,
Chairman Anti-Defamation
League.
Statement of the A nt i-Defamation
Lea sue of the B'nai B’rith.
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benefit both to the Jews and to the world at large.
Palestine the Holy Land
By DR. MENDEL SILBER
X (CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK)
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Rev. Z. H. Masliansky, for decades
a teacher and preacher to Jewish
immigrants to the United States, has
resumed his activity following the
conclusion of aa Sabbatical year’s
leave.
the*ame t ime s
of the roile : n
so little peace
and deceiith, even with land-
and financial institutions created. As a result, there a
saann
More than $30,000 was expended
by the Oakland, Cab, Jewish Feder-
ation during the past ten months, a
report issued by Harry J. Sapper
shows’.' The- Free Loan Department
of “the Oakland Jewish Federation
made close to 100 loans this year, ap-
proximating $8,000. The fund, con-
tributes toward the support of 55
agencies.
or affording
Jewish problem, but also a
on January 15th to 19th, according
to a statement issued by Mrs. Arthur
Brin, national chairman of its de-
partment of peace. The organiza-
tions that will be represented at this
conference, besides the National
Council of Jewish Women, are the
American Association of University
Women, Council of Women for Home
Missions, Federation of Woman’s
Boards of Foreign Missions, General
Federation of Women’s Clubs, Na-
tional Board of the YWCA, National
League of Women Voters, National
Women’s Temperance Union, and the
National Women’s Trade Union Lea-
gue.
A representative of the Natiinal
hundred varieties that had been collected from all parts
of the world. Moreover, Palestine has been found to pro-
duce a hard wheat with the lowest percentage of water
and the highest percentage of gluten, while a recent re-
port by G. H. Powell, acting chief of the Bureau of
Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture,
urges that there is a “large number of economic plants
indigenous to Palestine, more particularly cereals that are
considered worthy of introduction into the United States.”
If, in addition to what has been shown in this brief
sketch, it be remembered that even during the economic
stress of the pioneer days, Palestine has been the only land
to pay its share of the Ottoman war debt; that even dur-
ing the crisis of the past year the budget of the Govern-
ment showed a surplus of six million dollars; and that
,m with, it would solve permanently the age-
vexing problem of the Jewish people, which is
denied This refusal I
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opinion is
tion made five years earlier received the official sanction
of the entire civilized world, a wave of immigration made
itself felt, and young men and women (Chalutzim), full
of enthusiasm and ready to sacrifice their very lives for
the upbuilding of the land, began to arrive in large num-
bers. They had not been accustomed to agricultural pur-
suits nor, indeed, to physical labors of any kind, as most
of them came from urban centers and many of them were
college graduates. Yet they applied themselves with in-
domitable zeal and energy and within the short time or
five years, they have succeeded in changing the appear-
ance of the land and the condition of the country. They
have laid roads and drained marshes and planted forests . . . 1 t w .■ ,.02 i. • »
.... . . j -H ’ l r i principal harbor in the entire Levant, the physical possi-
.nd built mode towns and villages. The number of coin- bilities readily be imagined. While the culturai and
«. mummed fromforty-threeto more dum one hundred. spiritual possibilities of the country are such as
end hospitahnandclinicawer it futuremot only equnl but eve’superior to its and
sstablishedichoohs.werebuilt.and.industriessorsanized glorious past.
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many cascs to de work that will live
for ages; but intelligence, good judg-
ment, pride of workmanship and
willingness to sacrifice self for the
common good are the elements that
make an outstanding citizen.
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having that power, the League base
directed its efforts towards a min- t earnest ly urge all having the wel-
imization of the ill effect; that the | fare of our ncople at heart, to de-
picture from its ver’,- nature would | sist from so actin as to make more
produce. " (difficult the undertaking of the Lea-
Modification of the. -original de-guc.
Dr. Jacob Katz, Rabbi of Monte-
fiore Synagogue of New York wants
to establish a Jewish high school, the
curricula of which would include a
speeialeourse in Hebrew, Bible and
Jewish literature.
Before you laugh about it permit
mem to say, that the Jews in Ameri-
now more than twenty-five thousand Jews engaged in
agriculture; the prevalent diseases, chiefly through the
medical and hygienic work of the "‘Hadassah", have
been largely checked and in many cases altogether ex-
terminated; the Hebrew language, long considered a dead
tongue, has been revived and made the medium of com-
mon expression and communication; schools for primary
education have been established, and every Jewish child
is provided for educationally. Higher education, too, and
instruction in the arts and sciences have been provided,
and numerous industrial enterprises have been called into
life. In short, the country has been transformed within
only half a decade from a barren, desolate and devasted
land into a center of modern life and activity.
For the sake of those who may be interested in de-
tailed information, some names and figures can readily
be supplied: In the line of education, the Zionist organ-
ization alone supports at present in Palestine three gym
nasia, three Teachers’ colleges, four technical schools,
sixty-five elementary schools, thirty-eight kindergartens,
three music schools, an art school and the Hebrew Uni-
.ow hope on and pphys
ned faith that : ome <lay
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their opinion is
Women of New York City has united
with eight national women’s organ-
izations in summoning the third con-
places in the business world. Not only
tne course of the disease which
forced them to enter The Ex-Patients
Home arersted, but under the system
of training given them under proper
medical xuparvision, thay ara fitted
to engage in useful and profitable
employment and no longer are bur-
dens to themselves and the commun-
ity.
When the year closed There were
69 patients in the Home. Seven died
during the year, all of them being pa-
tients in the last stages of tubercu-
losis when they were admitted to
The Ex-Patients’ Home. Little, if
anything could be done for their
cases, but since they were without
means to engage private medical at-
tention in private institutions, and
because they could not return to san-
atoriums from which they had been
discharged. The Ex Patients’ Tuber-
cularWHome provided for them the
nectAsary care and treatment and a
place of refuge.
Officers of The Ex-Patinets’ Home
have but one regret as they view the
results of the year's work. They
were unable to provide accomoda-
tions for stixty-five applicants for
admission, but place will be made for
these victims according as arrested
cases complete their prescribed hours
of training and leave the Home.
In touching on the system of re-
habilitation, the report of the offi-
cers enumerates the following as
some of the occupational training
courses given patients while they
were undergoing medical treatment.
Art, cartooning and draftmanship;
leather goods designing; leather
goods manufacturing; poultry cul-
■1 here would be a standard created in
through the recent authorization on the part of the British
being mentioned as a
er." I do not deny
ago to pray
lo Thou ides
of il1-w ill among men and chiefly
to himelf.
The Jew sees and hears much said
about the "Christmas spirit" and at
the same time he knows that in some
European lands, young ,Jewish stu-
dent./are being dealt with in cruel-
le t fashin by tho- who call them-
soves ( hristians And he wonders
whether Jews will ever be dealt with
Rutenberg concession, which supplies both light and
power to the cities of Tef Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, I iberias,
Safed and Petach I ikvah, and is preparing to harness
the Jordan waterfall for irrigation purposes. It is inter-,,
esting to note, by the wa, that the Arabs, who at first
refused to avail themselves of the “devils", are now eag-
erly and gratefully using both the light and th? power.
Among the other industries of importance, those that
stand out most prominently are the Palestinian Flour
Mills, the "Nesher" cement factory, the "Shemen" oil
and soap factory, a match factory at Acu, and a highly
developed publishing enterprise in all the urban settle-
ments.
What rehabilitated, civilized and modernized Palestine
might contribute to human knowledge and human prog-
ress in other countries may be seen from the investigations
and discoveries that have already been made. Thus, there
have been found there three thousand species of flowers,
some of which are not found anywhere else in the world;
the oranges of Palestine are unequalled in quality, so arc
the tomatoes; the sesame of Haifa is most highly prized
and priced in the markets of Europe; the olives and al-
monds are in great demand throughout the East; there
are sixty different varieties of grapes grown in the Holy
Land, mid an—examination—conducted by the U'nited
States Government through the Agricultural Department
Experiment Station of California has resulted in the state-
ment that of these sixty varieties there are two, one black
grape grown on the Carmel and one white species grown
in the colonies, which are far superior to any of thirteen
Jerusalem, (J.T.A.)—The unem-
ployment row between Jewish and
Arab workers in the orange groves
of the Jewish colony Petach Tikvah
has assumed serious proportions,
making it necessary for Governor
Campbell to take extraordinary meas-
ures.
The governor dissolved the local
council of the Jewish colony until the
enemployment question will be set-
tled.
British gendarmes have occupied
the offices of the council. The
council’s president was appointed to-
conduct the affairs of the colony.
The holding of public meetings was
prohibited.
The Executive Committee of the
Histadruth, the Palestine Jewish Fed-
eration of Labor, despatched a cable
to the labor party in London describ-
ing the events Which led up to the
conflict between Jewish and Arab
workers in Petach Tikvah, adding
that 14 workmen were injured during
the conflict. Seventeen were arrest-
ed.
The local council of Petach Tikvah
has undertaken to provide work in
the colony’s orange groves for all
unemployed.
a .ew who heara, “Glory t
te engage -tn eeme one of these - _ ... --:--.----
occupations and to master the tech- ’ Rabbi Silver is one of the most
, brilliant of the younger Jewish
preachers of America, both in elo-
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neither do I wish to belittle' in any
degree the credit or honor due them,
here is, however, a little group of
self-sacrificing men, headed by Ja-
i cob Landau of the Jewish Telegra-
phic Agency who are attempting to
carry a very heavy load.
Council Woman Elected Secretary
Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger of
New York, secretary of the National
Council of Jewish Women, was elect-
ed secretary of the National Council
of Women at its biennial convention
held during the past week at the
Waldorf Astoria, New York. The
National Council of Women is affil-
lated with the International Council
of Women, of which Lady Aberdeen
of Scotland is president.
National Field Worker to Visit
Houston
The local section of the Council is
expecting the visit of Mrs. Sara Land-
man, National Field worker, in Hous-
ton on January 10th. Mrs. Landman
will be the guest of honor and speak-
er at the board luncheon meeting, do
be held at the Community- Hall on
that day. The various chairmen and
their committees, as well as mem-
bers interested in the important mes-
sage of Mrs. Landman, are asked to
phone their reservations for the
luncheon to Mrs. L. G. Rosenberg, H.
3327.
Junior Council’s Contribution*
Fort Worth Council of Jewish Jun-
iors have recently contributed to the
Consumptive Hospital in Denver,
Colo., The Children’s Home, the Tex-
as Children’s Aid Society, the Hadas-
sah, and to the Fort Worth Childrens
Hospital. On Sunday evening, Dec.
25, the Fort Worth Junior held a
dance in order to replenish their
treasury.
The Tulsa Section '
The Tulsa Section of the Council
gave a Chanukah Carnival for the
Jewish children of Tulsa, on Decem-
ber 19th; the affair was a huge suc-
cess.
Council Make* Drive for Peace
Cause
The National Council of Jewish
+ Mrs. Henry Hoffman
T Mrs. Harry Dow
• Mrs. A. SHECHTER
An order directing the United
States Grand Lodge of the Order of I
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signs were effected before the pic-
ture was exhibited. Other requests I
A gift of $50,000 from the Alt-
man Foundation was made to the
New York Federation for the Sup-
port of Jewish Philanthropic Socie-
ties. Announcement of the gift was
made in a letter from Col. Michael
Friedsam, president of the Founda-
tion, to Sol. M. Stroock, president of
the Foundation.
Col. Friedsam, in announcing the
gift, wrote: “It seemed to us, con-
sidering the circumstances of this
present campaign, that it would be
desirable to make this special gift and
we do it with the realization that
there is no organization better equip-
ped to use it more effectively or for
a finer purpose.”
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HAIFA WILL NOT HAVE
WARSHIP ANCHORAGE
London, (J.T.A.)—The British
Admiralty denied that it is the in-
tention of the Palestine government
to construct an anchorage for Brit-
ish warships in the projected Haifa
port.
Reports to this effect have been
circulated in the press.
A social worker says, “Wa, who
| are forever trying to prevent our
clicnts (th* poor people whom the
Conimunity ( best serves) from going
into debt ior things which they want
but ically cannot afford, will not
buy one single gift which is not an
alslutt hestity, n-ithea wr! we
have our Christmas purchases put
on out February bills."
It is a suving groe t> hive a
sense of humor. It is desirable qc-
open a breach between (hristians
and Je ws, which all were happy to
think had well nigh healed.
The Anti-Defamation Icatue a'nd
the President of the B'nai B’rith are
( hending every effort towards effect-
ing changes in the "King of Kings”
and of obtaining an agreement with
the producers that it be not present-
ed in those European countries where
the merest excuse to fan the flame
of prejudice for the Jew is tken ad-
vantage of. Hope is entertained that
their proposals will be granted. If
they are, the hurt of the picture will
be • minimized.
More than this, it is our belief that
relations now estiblished ‘between
the Jewish people to suppress its
presentation could not succeed. And
moreover ruite con civably might be
resented in a way calculated to re-
ligious belief of 1r bug; • or’ o1 the hearts of all Christendom. This
the citizenry of ;ur country. In the is the "Christmas greeting" of a Jew
opinion of the el.ague an aticmpl by’
Denver, Colo., Dec. 28.—With re-
hahilitation- of indigent tnbarculosM
sufferers as its principal aim, The
Ex-Patients’ Tubercular Home will
( lose the year 1927 with a record for
humanitarian service that is unequal-
led by any other institution in the
country, size and finances considered,
Although of comparatively recent
origin, but with a theory on the treat-
ment of tuberculosis acknowledged
as practical and workable from a
medical standpoint, The Ex-Patients’
Home has made encourating progress
towards the complete rehabilitation
of tuberculosis victims, and during
1928 its officers and directors, num-
bering some of the most substantial
Jewish business men of Denver, who
arc giving of their time and service
to the institution without compensa-
tion, expect to show even better re-
sults.
The report of' the institution for
the fiscal year just closed shows 137
tuberculosis victims were accomoda-
ted at The Ex-Patients’ Home during
the-year, of which 119 were men, and
18 women. All of these had been pa-
tients at some other tuberculosis san-
atorium and had been discharged as
cures or arrested cases.
Recurrence of the disease caused
them to seek admittance to The Ex-
Patients’ Home, after they had been
rejected by other institutions. Many
of them, after a year or more of
submittance to the method of treat-
ment in effect at The Ex-Patients’
Home are again ready to resume their
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Many men':
What “greeting” can I offer on
Christmas Day? For that day be-
longs to Christianity, and I am a
Jew. True it is that, though, a Jew
and it miy be because a Jew I have
pride in *ln fact that the Western
.world glorifies the birth’of a Jewish
child, child of a Jewish Mother, who
canrot be understood save in the
term; of his Jewish background.
Pride have 1, for while the Christian
sings, in the words of I iian, “For
until us a chi'd is given,” the Jew
may 'say, “For by us a child was
g.M n.”
cars ag >. Andrew D. White,
American Amhassador at different
times to Rd sia and (ormany. told
tic tory IJ the pa .......f (.nek
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I'd Fiter lay in the wo 1 “< bri-t
is rien." A Jew thus greeted by a
(reek(atholi an-wered ruefully,
"But not for me.” Thus too I ask,
By
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oney is not needed in
quence and in achievement. He is
the pastor of perhaps the largest
Synagogue in the country, now wor-
shipping in a new and magnificent
Temple as the result of his labors.
His new book, “Messianic Specula-
tions in Israel,” is sure to attract
attention, aljke by its style and its
thesis.
“As we grow older,” says Dr. Sil-
ver, in a sermon difficult to review
for its richness of thought, “two
dangers confront us. The first is
that with the gathering of years, our
habits accumulate and begin to bur-
den us. We halt. The past masters
us. The second danger lies in dis-
regarding our past, in letting the
years depart without exacting a bless-
ing from them. Both are dangers
of dire import, as we see in pathol-
ogy in which these perils become mal-
adies. One man is monopolized by
memory, another has lost his mem-
ory entirely.”
“The human race,” continues Dr.
Silver, “often falls victim to one or
the other of these maladies. It lives
through whole epochs during which it
is completely dominated by its past,
shackled by tradition. It makes no'
headway, as in the Middle Ages, when
men preferred the abuses of the old
rather than to create the new. One
extreme led to another, and the Mid-
dle Ages were followed by move-
ments in which people flung the past
to the winds, disinheriting themselves
as it were, resolved to begin life
anew. Both extremes are wrong and
lead to disaster.
“Chesterton is right,” Dr. Silver
affirms, “when he declares that in
history there is no revolution that is
not a, restoration, and that the men
who do most with the future are those
who keep their eyes fixed on the past.
The Renaissance, as its name indi-
cates, is a ease in point.
“In other words, the seed of the
future can only be fruitful when
sown in the furrows of the past; the
new must spring from the old and
comnlete it. The new is not always
the novel nor the old the antiquated.
Every age has its false and cheap
glitter of novelty, but there is noth-
ing new in novelty. Our new music
is a swifter rhythm of a hackneyed
melody.
“The spiritual renewal that we
need,” Dr. Silver insists, “is not a
new excitement, but a’ new exulta-
tion; not a stimulant but a satisfac-
tion. We renew ourselves, not bv
indulging our appetites, but by im-
proving our tastes. As we acquire
keener perceptions, finer discrimina-
tions, sounder judgments, nobler pur-
poses, deeper loyalties, do we gain
in newness .and freshness and freed-
om. By the grace of God there is
a refuge from weariness in renewal,
a sanctuary of eternal youth. It is
possible for a man to remain yung
.■Hid free in the midst of crumbling
age, and make his last heart beat a
Song of Spring.’"
for Jewish life and conduct and there would be a basis
created for the estimation and evaluation of Jewish worth
and work. W bile the Jews outside of Palestine would
continue in their attachment for the lands of their nativity
or adoption, differing from non-Jews only in matters of
religion, the Palestinian Jews would develop unhindered
and unhampered their own physical, mental and spirifual
life that would produce a distinct culture. Phis would
serve as a source of inspiration to other Jews and as a
means of enriching the literatures, the arts and the sciences
of the whole world.
I hat such a conclusion is fully justifiable may be
seen from the accomplishments, under the most trying
conditious, ol the pioneers within the past few years.
When the British occupied the land, it was barren and,
except for a few colonies, there was no vegetation, no
forstration, there were no industries and no manifesta-
tions of settled, civilized life. Sanitation was an unknown
art there, and all sorts of diseases were rampant, more
especially, malaria, trachoma, typhoid, small-pox, and
gastro-intestinal disorders. After the mandate of Great
Britain was confirmed in 1922 and the Balfour Declara-
spirit that moved a Jew long.
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(rrc. oiy by a ncuipaper tyndicatf and tub-
mitt'rd ti t above }
The proper handling of defamation I
requires keen discernment, calm
judgment and effective diplomacy.
The treatment of no form of defam-I
ation calls for mi much care in de-
termining what is tit, proper and
right than when the subject matter
deals with religious sentiment.
The picture founded upon the
Story- of the New Testament, known
as DeMille’s “King of Kings," has
received from its very inception the
most earnest attention of those in
charge of the Anti-Defamation Lea-
gue. If it had been within the power
of the I eague to have prevented the
making of the picture, that power
itions. It is a depiction, more or
less accurate, of incident of the
New Testamert. the bajs of there-
Council of Jewish Women will pre-
side over the session on Thursday
afternoon, January 19th, when the
conference will discuss the question
of “Possible Findings on Foreign Pol-
icy.” . 0.
The sessions will be held in Hall
of Nationas in the Hotel Washing-
ton. The fiindings of the two pre- " 1 Lm-
ceding conferences have formed the
basis of studies on the peace ques-
tionifde by the Council sections. 77
A meeting of the members of the Na- y y
bional Department of Peace of the 112
National Council of Jewish Women , -
Rex. Joseph Fort Nawtaa, D D,
Brith Abi aham to dissolve or ghuw
cause why it should not be liquidated
was issued by Supreme Justice Crain
upon the report of State Isnurance
Commissioner Beha that the frater-
nal organization was insolvent and
its dissolution advised on the ground
that “its condition is hazardous to
its members, its creditors and the
public.”
It was said in the petition filed
that no opposition to the order for
dissolution will be' made.
The papers, wnich were served on
Adolph Solomon, First Deputy, were
based on an examination of the com-
pany and a report made by the Ex-
aminer, C. G. Baker, dated Dec. 1.
He reported that the admitted assets
were $36,912, including $20,882 in
cash and bonds and $16,030 assess-
ments due. The liabilities were $78,-
272, of which $70,050 was unpaid
death claims, $6,685 loans and $449
unpaid salaries.
The income and disbursement ac-
count from April 15 to Nov. 23 was
$124,752, of which $99,322 was mor-
tuary assessments and $11,000 bor-
rowed money. The total assets were
$175,380. From this sum was paid
$127,350 in death an dliability claims
$10,200. '
has not deterred the League from
pressing its demands. These have
lately been recognized by a call from
Will H. Hays, President of the Mo-
tion Picture Producers and Distribu-
tors of America, Inc., on the Pres-
ident of the B'nai . B’rith for a con-
ference for the purpose of taking
steps to remove as far as possible
the Leagu's objections to the pic-
ture. At this time as a result of
the conference, work is proceeding
in line with the recommendations of
the League. Exclusion of the picture
from certain European .countries is
likewise under consideration.
In dealing with "The King of
Kings” the Governing Board of the
League had to weigh three opinions,
each of which was supported by men
of good judgment; one is that the
picture is bad throughout, that no
modification of it will in any appre-
ciable degree lessen the effect there-
of, and that every sort of influence
be brought to bear to prevent its
be preferable not to have the story
of the New Testament visualized in.
picture form, if it could have been
prevented in the inception thereof,
now that it has been produced and
seen by hundreds of thousands of
people, the wisest, course is to ecure
such additional amendments and
modifications coupled with an ex-
planation of the incilents of the
story, as will minimize its hurtful
effects.
Te unanimous judgment of the
Governing Board favored the view-
last expressed. •
The League in its eventful career
has succeeded in having withdrawn,
from pullie view many films which
scandalized or rFdiculed the Jew. All
of them were ofacurrilous or libel-
ous nature and [Hire fiction. No
group had an interest in them. They
were produced for the mere, purpose
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spirit of narrowness and chauvenism, the blunders of our
Government, the restriction of individual rights and. the
curtailment of personal liberty, the loss of respect for law
and the restlessness among the citizens—all these could
not have been foretold then even as a mere possibility. In
fact, even in Biblical times, one who foretold the future
was called "a fool".
\ cl, Palestine holds out possibilities that are not based
on mere guess or conjecture, but on firmly established
fads and historic certainties. I hus, it is certain that the
c.ountry at one time supported between four and five mil-
lion pople, while today the population is less than one
million Ils means that, even without taking into con-
sideration the moie intensive cultivation of the soil and
the iidustri . whe h naturally could support a much
larverpoplatiom th.in could be supported in olden times,
there 1s room in Palestine for more than three million
people in addition to those who ale now settled there.
( eitain it is also that a reseltlement of the country by.
people with love for the soil and loyalty to the land could
ome mor make of Palestine a "land flowing with milk
and hone}’. Certain it is that three million Jews with the
coinage to endure gcat hardships and with determination
to overcome the obstacles of pioneer life would make of
the long neglected and devastated land a western oasis in
the eastern deseit. Certain it is, also, that the rehabilita-
tion of the Land of Israel by three million Jews, who
would bring there the progressive ideas and the cultural
ideals of the five continents, would result in immeasurable
: centage of Jews in all states prisons
I average 10.6". A shocking figure.
From this experience Dr. Katz has
L » learned that most of his Jewsih
W ‘ charges knew nothing about their
e faith. What they as Jews were sup-
70 posed to stand for or what they were
) supposed to do was and is a closed
0lbook. What a tragic pity.
Svenqdfi,t
a"The Jewish Transcript" carries a
WAmost interesting story Dr. Wm. F.
e Bades excavation* in Jerusalem. Af-
tar detailing what a wealth of ma-
MhzShl,A riches and historical matter
M has been gathered together, after
f further enlightening us as to the val- — — —,-------------- — —-
-e"rTurm" ‘ rhich ts internation- town are such that the Jews who
he vanseript naively have been living there cannot
2,06,600,3 living 3ew Md Gentile
mesadropne
will be held in Washington, D. C., a 2-2
during the week of “he Conference. • a620
Children to Give Show
Children’s Dramatic Group of the
Council House will give a public doll A
show on January 9th, at 4 o’clock p. •NM
m., at the Council House. The cos- 492M
tumes, scenery, as well as the dolls’ 8
clothes have all been made by the
children of the group. It is to be
hoped that a large number of Coun- •.
cil membres will attend the show. ., 8 2288862
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JUNIOR COUNCIL ATHLETICS f
The Athletic Committee of Junior
Council will sponsor its first gym ‘
slaggjahuas,‛ptromtedgain ,.2
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