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c . THB My friend, Miss Ruth, Neely, to •whom I have addressed two epistles about the Jews, today has one for me. Miss Neely not only is troubled, by the pain that antiSemitism makes Jews suffer; she is distressed to think of what it is doing to the characters of-her own people.— the Gentiles. (I really shpuln't speak b£ the" Gentiles as Miss Neely's own people;' "she is a person who. is aware of no separations, among the Tinman kind. She considers Jews her own people, too.) . . . She fears that human beings can't carry hate -without their characters coming horribly diseased by it. "What is happening to human beings in general, as they become infected with ,a virus of intolerance now undoubtedly epidemic, strikes at. the root of the only religion which quite, a number of individuals have been able to salvage- —the religion of human progress," she writes. "This is a grave matter and a sinister situation." '•• • Some of her best friends are Jews, and there is no wisecrack Intended ia this at.all. She cherishes their friendship the more because they are people -who have Ijone with, her pa the road of social progress on which, she likes to walk. Questioning sen Yet even she, t in the recent year, has discove'red her mind harboring unbidden a u e s t i ons about Jews.. "I ask myself am I "wrong -— have 1 been -wrong in my genuine admiration for certain qualities which have especially appealed to me' a m o n g iny friends .-who are JewB?" . . . She finds that such self-questioning is not to be avoided "when there's so much talk about-Jew's, when the press brings the speeches of antiSemites, -when the radio shouts against-Jews. \ Such inquiry serves only to con^-firni her admiration and her af- leqtion' for the many Jews she knows . . . "Their human kindliness, generosity, daep concern lor human betterment,—• surely these are enough," she writes. "The -woman from -whom; as I now realize, I first absorbed a real interest in social and political progress is Jewish." • So she asks quite objectively, '-'Well, then, what is the reason Jews are as a group disliked? "Why all this to-do against a people who are so small in the population?"
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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FSIBAY, JULY 21, 1939
n Society Hits Race Haired
Chicago (JTA) — Unreserved condemnation of racial and religious hatred and of "the m-en and movements promoting; such hatred in the United States," was voiced With t h e ' opening of Camp a 1 a n c e d meals win b3 here at tee annual convention of •JayrC-C" still two weeks off, Well-b served according to Jewish diethe National Italian-American egistrations are nearly filled. Announcement Made a t Because of the limited facilities tary reguations. Civic League. Government Cfficial Says Counselors of the Camp, the number of regReception for A resolution adopted by the Counselors have been ' istrations has been set at 50 and convention pledged tie organiza<3e Tessan because of their particular only a few openings remain. Camp tion to combat "this evil" with will open for three, "weeks start- and ability to lead the 1 ^ . all its strength and reaffirmed .its recreational and educational &a-~i JAL TOICE j devotion SHIPS SEEKING PORTS Ing August 6. to American democratic tivities. According to present j | principles. Citing the "grevious Camp "Jay-C-C," the first out- plans, one counselor will be asA n e r i c a ' u Lithuanians disabilities" imposed u p o n the Four Steamers Ply East- door camp to be sponsored by the signed to each seven children. Jew in numerous European counCaution Tradeern Mediterranean with "lenter in several years, will be A typical camp day as planned tries, the resolution warned that ocated near Louisville, Neb., in Mission Passengers racial and religious hatred "corthe scenic valley of the Platte. by the staff will include: Reveille ! rodes the pillars of our democra- !! Blanche Kleiman, education- at 7; flag-raising; breakfast; a Kaunas — A GovernParis (JTA) .-— T h e French Miss morning sing; swimming; campEO tlace in the Arneral director of the Center, will be rovernment is completing plans in charge of the camp and will craft- handcraft; dinner; mail I sent -spokesman last week warn- ic ? E E £ l -"~E life." I the Anti-Semitic merchants* orican way •which may lead. to settlement' of be assisted by a capable staff of distribution; story-hour; n a p ; ganization, Verslininkai, to aban25,000 to 40,000 German refugees afternoon s n a c k ; swimming; in Madagascar and New Caledon- ounselors. canoeing; crafts; puppetry; horse- don its Jew-halting activities as possesses modern The Camp p p ia, it was announced last week-at backriding; et cetera. Supper "harmful to Lithuania's economic b quarters, time will be preceded • by a free interests." The warning was voic- LtLLi a- reception in honor of Deputy equipment, comfortable Francois'de.Tessan, who recently and ample recreational "acuities. periol. The evening will be given je d b y Domas SHctttas, director of returned froma visit to the Unitover to stunts and games around consumption statistics in the Eeed States on bebair of the World the campfire. Bed-time is set at j onomics Ministry, at a convention OHT Union, organization for re8 for the younger children and 9 oi tfae Verslinlnkai in Polangen. training of Jews. 1 Addressing the same, session. for the older. Justice Minister Atn.ta.rias Toin&s- B r o a d c a s t e r s D r a f t New j The reception, tendered by the Fees "Code of E t h i c s OHT, was presided over by former The Camp program will be de- aitis stressed the n e c e ssity to nrstjon of the periofi. ^ or foreign Minister Yvon Delbos and signed primarily for the personal "Lithuanire" the nation's cities through civilized methods' that attended by prominent F r e n c h development of each child as -well and Jewish personalities. .' New Tort.(JTA) — Executives as to assist him in living and co- avoided c r e a t i o n cf tension among the various-nationalities. of the National Association of The plan. Deputy de Tessan World Congress to Open operating "With other children. The effect of both speeches was Broadcasters indicated this vreek said, had been disclosed to him in On Evening of Registrations may be made at conferences with Foreign Minister the office of the Jewish Commun- considerably bolstered by a re- that the first effort to enforce the i ritish GovemmeEt t e e c August 16 d off ethics th d d h adopted at the Georges Bonnet and Colonial Minity Center. The fee for Center ceipt of a message from American i new code ister ' Georges Mandel following k andd ffor | Lithuanians which warned that a association's Atlantic City convea- j Jerusalem (WNS-Palcor Agen- members iis 57 per week his return from the United States cy )—The 21st biennial W o r l d non-members §10. A registration | projected campaign by a Verslin- tion, under which sale of radio ' where he had discussed the refu- "Honist Congress will be attended fee of SI is charged at the time I i Q k a i delegation to the United time for presentation of ccrtro- j _ gee situation with George Back- by approximately 550 delegates of enrollment. States -was doomed to failure if versial issues is prohibited, will i for er,' president of the American it was indicated with the publicathe organization's anti-Semitic involve "radio priest" Charles E. OR.T Federation, and other Jew- tion of a provisional ^summary ot propaganda were not discontinu- Coughlin, whose Sunday programs | from Royal Oak, Mich., have fre- | ish leaders. He said Erich War- the number of shekolim sold in ed. quently been anti-Semitic in ten- j burg was due in Paris soon to dis- the two years between the sumKits Aliens or. I cuss details of the settlement pro- mers of 1937 and 1939. As a result,- ..the convention put , The test will develop, it was i ject. • ... . - . • - . , . _ t h e statistics show that 1,414,a Praises Refugees on instead its usuai anti-Jew- js t a t e a ^. f a e n Coughlin's contracts 000 shekolim were purchased in ishdamper tone and concentrated carrrmg his I I M. de Tessen, who is a descen- the present Congress period -as its attack upon "alien nationals." program expire in the The dant of. the Marquis de Lafayette compared with 1,222,000 in the upon the Gov- code goes into effect on Fall. Sept. 2i, and chairman of the French Par- two-year-period preceding the last Nevr Je-wish Organization to compel new Jewish en- when standard time is resumed. liamentary ORT Committee, voic- "longress. Virtually every counterprises to employ Lithuanians, Dooms Communities Between the time Coughlin's coned high praise for P r e s i dent try in the "world reported an indemanded that the National Bank 1Jt' LV expire and EOT, the radio Roosevelt and American generos- crease in the. sale of sbekolim;to Poverty no longer grant credits to alien- code authority set up by the asity In treatment of the refugee with the exception of Germany Ne-w York (JTA) — The new owned busiaesses and urged the question, and paid tribute to Mr. And. Italy. •&•*& Government-created single organ- Government to increase subsidies sociation is espected to rule on whether or not the CoughliE proBacker as "a great humanitarian The list of delegates that the ization of Reich Jews, the Reica- to Verslininkai organizations. grams are controversial. and a great friend of France." : Union of General Zionists is of- Bvereinigung, -was seen in a BerDespite precautionary police Association officials said the deShe guesses it has to do with M. Delbos, emphasizing that fering for election Is headed by lin dispatch to the New York measures and a Warning, trans- cision will chiefly hinge On -vrhemoney- . . "The Jew •—not all France had always shown sym- Menahem UsaJshkin, president of Times as the instrument through c i s i o n Yri r x ' , , - * ri authority decides Jews but many —- has a talent pathy lor refugees, declared that the Jewish National Fund, it was "which thir final ruin may be en- mitted by the authorities through t h e r t h e ccode o are relig religlor making money. People envy the nation's experience refuted disclosed in the list published compassed. the Polangan rabbinate, to Jews t h e coughlin sspeeches e c h e s are money more than anything else in the allegation that Jews were un- here. "The netf organization," trrote not_ to appear in public places , i o u s worship procram or discus the -world. Envy begets bate — fit for agricultural work. He deduring the congress, Jew- js l o n s o f controversial suciects. .Taking advantage of the con- correspondent Percy Knauth, "is ish passersby were several manhandled Ko Alternative prolifically-" clared that France had in 1934 vening of the Congress at Geneva, in the position of a snake devour- and wounded in street demonstraFour leading esecituves of the Not that Miss Neely sees any permitted settlement of a Jewish a -world conference of the • Miz- ing itself by the tail -while some tions .after .adjournment ol the fault irithe talent to mate money. refugee group on land In the in- rachi Organization has been called one else is biting chunks oat o* its sessions.' Holding of the congress N. A. B. admitted, en question"Would that I haa, this gift -r- terior " and' that an Tsad proved for Geneva, to begin August 9 . ' body. The situation o£ bitter irony at Polangen, a . seaside resort, ing, that they did not see how the code authority c o u l d rule the or that my parents could 'have good farmers. He added that duris that the Jewish - organisation, heavily damaged holiday trade, \ Coughi'n Epeesiss oth^r tLan con- '. been thus benefitted!" she es- ing the rwax. scare last year, all y must now, in addition to.the tea- ( most Jewish Tisitors having CEE- \ ij-r^%~i:'si^''a^v:""r^^o''. B^V^TI rji-. V" claims. J._ -_..-•=--—---^;- able-bodied refugees in the- grouj* •Geneva (WNS-Patcor Agency)" taxes TsYle'd by the Reich, fur- celled bookings" Et" hotels, "while i had voluntarily registered for ser- -^-Summaryor the sessions of the vy \ Other Wealthy Escape, ther - exact contributions of its boarding houses and places of en- • car7"? the Coughlin hour, vrfcen Yet, she observes,, others kind vice in the army.' 21st World Zionist Congress was own that are likely to take the tertainment were almost deserted. ' cnestioned, expressed the belief of money-making people are not Other-' speakers included Sena- published here and indicated that last penny from those who still th Meanwhile,, the V e r s lininkai j| that the " r a d i o p r i e s t s V p r o - ' hated particularly: There is no tor Justin G a d a r t , Dr. Leon the Congress will be opened on have funds in order to keep its delegation tae United • States i g r rere non-controversial. concerted malice against the.Roc- Bramson, DB.T president, and Dr. Wednesday evening, August 16, impoverished thousands alive and left for Xe-wtoYork. granls Headed by the Drafters of the code voiced the kefellers, the Fords and the Mor- David Lvovitch, vice-president. with a speech by Dr. Chaim Weiz- with a roof over their heads. And notorious anti-Semite Bredis, ed- belief that enforcement of the gans, no movement against the Senator Godart predicted that the mann, president of the World what is more, the last penny will social register -which 1B crowded Government would m o d i f y the Zionist Organization, and an ad- not be enough to pay the tremen- itor of \erslas, the delegation-will code in Cougtlin's case w o u l d on his i n a f lu«nce on •with money-making G e n t i l e s . status of refugees in this country, dress on the position of the Jews dous burden of social w e I fare seek to raise funds in the United j sharply limit his States "to combat Jewish influ-1 American public opinion fcv re-'; They are even admired and emu- making their life easier. throughout the world. with which the organization has ence in the economic economic life of LithLith! his time on the fir and ' lated. The Praesidium will be elected been saddled." Cu" uania." making free • time available for c --PE ' v - r- -<. r-. Why, then, this particular hate on August 17, and the attitude of 4 Ships Seek Haven Xo Funds Arson Suspects Seized j rebuttal. of the money-making Jews whose the Zionist Organization to the Jerusalem (JTA) — The He"The total amount required to Kaunas (JTA) — Several per- I t 5 l eRacial and religions attacks on •wealth (when they have it) nev- brew newspaper Davar reported ne-ssr British policy in Palestine support indigent orthodox Jews er approaches any of the many this week that there were at least will be elaborated. The general alone is estimated at 3 0,000,000 sons have been arrested on sns- ';n e w radio are outlawed under tfcs code, a provision of which is: great fortunes among the Gen four steamers plying the eastern debate to follow has-been sched- marks years. This is 18,000,000 to picion of incendiarism in conaec- i tion with a number of big fires j "Radio, which reaches men of all tiles. Mediterranean with approximate- uled to last until August 20. 20,000,000 marks more than the which swept Jewish towns in re- i creedsE e and simultaneously, This question brings-Miss Neelj ly 2,000 Jewish refugees onboard ; During the period from August Jews hitherto have been paying— t b e races ^ E e d t 0 convey &tto a fault she finds in Jews: They under "appalling conditions." 21 to 25 there-will be no plenary and they have been paying as cent weeks it was disclosed here. - upon another's race or rehEditor Verblovsky cf the Jewthink too much ot themselves as The newspaper said one of the sessions. The work of the Con- much as they, were able. The it should be the.pur- C "> !_' ~ ' ~ lhB a separate people who at any cos vessels, the Italian ship Breslau, gress will be carried on by various Reich's municipalities helped out ish newspaper Folksblatt has been P° s e otRather religious broadcast to must preserve their separate ex- had been permitted to put in to committees, which will be ad- only when necessary, and now, ordered dismissed for allegedly . the istence. They insist on keeping Beirut temporarly when the cap- dressed by members of the Zion- according to the letter of the new publishing false reports concern-JPa E understanding of nankinfi " themselves apart. Thus they m a t tain reported by wireless that a ist Executive reporting on their decree, they are not to help at all. ing a fire at the Jewish township j _ to administer broadly to tae of Jukliai. The dismissal was or- ' -shining marks of themselves. Th plague had broken ont and two of respective departments. The last "There are at present 225,000 dered by the Interior Minister un- varied religious needs cf the coinQualities that in other peoples are the passengers had die. The 650 two days until August 28 will be condoned as simply human are -passengers were placed in- quar- taken up by reports of the com- Orthodox Jews still in the Reich. der the new press law. Verblov- munit made to look lite viceB In Jews antine and were to be re-embark- mittees to the plenary sessions of In order to meet the bill for so- sky had rted that members of cial welfare for the Orthodox j because they stana apart' from ed after fumigation of the ship. the Congress. national militia of Jews alone every man, woman and ;he mass of mankind — a seperThis will be followed by voting child of this number -would have beat Jews with rifles "when they :i i: Fate of a second vessel, the ate people! to resc-ue their belongings OSiris, and Its 600 refugee pas- on officers of the Zionist Organi- to pay 120 marks yearly. Less tried from the fire. (Money-making is applauded as sengers, was being considered by zation, including the Executive than one-quarter of them, howTwenty-seven persons, includthe great American game, excep the Syrian High Commissioner, and other institutions. The bi- ever, have any funds whatever in the Jew because he appears to Davar reported. The Beirut Jew- ennial ; session of the Council of and they are already paying the ing two Jews, were fine5 up to •play the game in his own league. ish community has raised 12,000 the Jewish Agency will be opened limit in 'State taxes and dues to 1,000 lits each in connection with • V with an address by Dr. Weizmann the Jewish Organization. recent anti-Jewish excesses at the Miss Neely finds this fault in francs to help the refugees. i on August 30 and is scheduled to township of Leipalisgai. ,4ne —r this feeling of being sepAn Istanbul report said the cap- close on August 31. "The organization's leaders do arate and the hope of continuing tain of a small Greek steamer not know how they are going to; London (JTA) — P r a g u e separate for all time to come. She bearing refugees from Gerfoot this bill. Unless thousands sources reported that anti-Jewish quotes a line I wrote: *'I believe many had60-wirelessed the Turkish of Jews are literally to starve iu excesses had occurred in the citthat my valor -will prevail as it for assistance, dethe streets, municipalities will ies of Bruenn, Jda&hrisch-Ostrau, has prevailed for 2000 years." I Government the "passengers were withhave to help out as heretofore. Budireis and Olmuetz cnri~£ v;io7,T meant -the Jewish valor to sur- claring out food, water or m o n e y . A The organization may be able to tory parades and torch procesvive. fourth vessel, the S. S. Thessalia, realize something on the blocked sions celebrating appointment by. 1 Mast Rid Selves ot Idea with 650 refugees on board, was accounts of Jews who have alreathe jReichsprotector of German T i " She thinks Jews ought to be stopped by the Lebanese coast dy left G e r m any provived the commissars to replace the elected Tid of that idea. "I believe guard off Beirut,• Davar reportGovernment permits them to liqumayors,of those cities. that; Jewish insistence on relig- ed, and forced to put out to sea. idate these funds. But these, in The demonstrators threw stones ious and racial, continuity jnust • The French coast guard has -Zurich (JTA) — Switzerland's the words of one of their leaders, Danzig (JTA) — Lessons in would 'only be a drop in the buc- Nazi "Fuehrer" and seven of his at Jewish . s h o p w i n dews s.nd and will be abandoned," she says. captured the s t e a m e r Prosula confederates were sentenced here • wrecked window displays. Not a "It Is fine to have been called— bearing 650: Jewish.refugees, most Nazi ideology will replace religi- ket.' " this week to prison terms ranging | single Jewish shopwintlow escappossibly with good reason — pt "them from Czechoslovakia, it ous courses in Danzig schools, it froin three months to two years ea" stoning in Bruenn. i-irst ac God's'chosen people. But I am was reported herev Brought Into was officially disclosed here, and after being convicted of pro-Ger- of the new commissars was to orsure you do not -claim this honor the • North " Lebanon seaport of only book stores with special perman espionage.. All eight defen- der the Ehc-r'.le'pcrE to i ~z ~ tt~ literally. Anyhow, to my mind, it Tripoli, the ship's captain said he mits- will henceforth be allowed dants wera given 10 days in which is even finer to be just people. had sailed on May 25 from the to sell religious books. to file an appeal. j shops :r I;: The Danzig Jewish Community I think.you feel the same way. ; port of Sullna, at the mouth of "You said, in your article, that the Danube River, for Shanghai which now numbers 2,000, has Dr. Alfred Sander, head of the , place f c in the past you felt yourself to but had been forced by a short- opened a soup kitchen for impov"League _ . , „ , , , League of Faithful Faithful Confeder- ! time si-ce t be one of the working -world, not age, of food and money to make erished midde clas3 Jews. Fifty BohDayid Goldman, president of ; ates," insisted throug per cent of the city's Jewish pop- Temple Israel, will be Jewish nar- trial that he and different from Smith or Brown or for- the nearest port. his followers-1 ulation, which continues under rator on the regular broadcast of had maintained no contact with | McGuire. Exactly!' But suppose _ Reich, and protested that strictest supervision by the Ges- the Omaha Round Table of Chris- the that the McGuires,- way back in tapo, are entirely dependent upon Hans and Jews. This program is i a a a Vougllt7o"overthrow theSwi^s Ireland, "had ielt that for some on ment r . relief received from philanthropic on reason they -wanted - the tribe of e — at a o'clock over KOIL Government, The prosecution pro- sa: id a ~ organizations abroad, chiefly the each Friday. McGuire to . be regarded racially duced testimony to prove the de- as: ide f-r American Jewish Joint Distribuor religiously or what not, as disOther speakers this afternoon ; fendants had commnnicat»d thi g cif ll be James J. J Fitzgerald, Fitgerald DepDep ' Nazi " tinct from the rest of the world? Harry Mendelson, local contrl tion Committee. The remainder will party officials at Munich. t h s o r e •— I know:what would have happen- butor to the JEWISH PRESS, i a s are still able to eke out an exis- uty County Attorney, who will Sander and his confederates j of Jevr: - r . . ' ed had the Neelys (probably quite received word that his translation, tence from the sale of their per- represent the Catholics, and Don- were convicted under the 18E eace end c-x.-- r as gifted in belligerancy as the "The: Assimilattonist Who Wen sonal belongings. aid H. Knott, chairman of the , espionage law. Johann Frei, d*s: McGuires) thus attracted atten- ilad—-Tale of a Psychotic -with Only 160 Jews engaged in the , Boys' Work of the Optimist Club, Scribed gg Boys' Work of the Optimist Club | i b d ggs t h s ..^v I tion to their annoying Neelyness. Talith and. Tephllim" has been export of timber, grain and sim- who will be Protestant narrator. w a s gi T e a t b e severe st sentence 1 printed in two installments in the What a trimming they would ilar products, have not yet been two years' imprisonment and live! Boston. Jewish Advocate. ordered to emigrate, their pres- iinai Jacob Names have had to take! 3" esrs> loss of cim Tights. Frei wc.s i ! The story.-by Z. Berliner was ence* being considered necessary "Now is not: this, in. the very tried in Ebsantia, taring flcS to '• conci small, exactly what the Jewish translated from the Yiddish. It is for Dansig's economy. JOr 1 Germnny. Zander was impristJEea i Nazi race —• or religion — in the large a strange: tale of a mental aberi for IS months aud will be depriv- \ Frciiie \Carl Tanssig, Polish Jewish pi"has insisted on? And still insists ration and was originally publish Mr. Joseph Adler, president o jj ed of his civil rights for three i e-dang on. This tooth, I firmly believe, ed in ths "Yiddish Journal "Amer anist, formulated . the plans to the .B'nai Jacob synagogue, an- j years, must come out. Human nature is leaner." establish the Bayreuth festival. nounces that Cantor N. Lewitsky disadvantaged terribly by a toothLelio della Terra (1S05-1S71), j Eupes-" will chant the High Holiday servache." • ••'... Emanuel Steinfeld, a SHesian •'Rebecca Eat Meir "Tiktiner, a ice at the synagogue. „ . !._ i rabbi of ?S.dua, was honored br jj gi-nm. No,; Miss Neely, I reply. I am Jew, -was the first mayor of Bal- Prague Jewess.-who died in 1550, Cantor Lewitsky will coi e from I his hometown of Cuneo as one of | plants 1:« r^.,,. ^ T"C larat, Australia. (Continued on page 8.), trrote two theological treatises. California. i Italy's jsost illustrious citizens. | paper.
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