Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1936 — Page 2

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•Rosh Chodesh Adar. .February 21 Purim March $ Rosh Chodesh Nissan March 24 1* t Bay Pesach April 7 *Rosh Chodesh lyar April 23 Lag b’Omar May 10 Rosh Chodesh Sivan May 22 1st Bay Shabueth May 27 ♦Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, - - June 21 Rosh Hashonah September 17 Yom Kippur September 26 ♦Rosh Chodesh also observed previous day. It's getting to be a habit. Here’s the second week in succession that a communication has this editor stumped. Boesn't anyone approve of this paper or the Jews?

UFA And JDC Signing Own Death Warrant

The disgrace that is being visited on the Jews of New York by the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Bistribution Committee in holding their drives on identical days will be the final struggle of a hollow- leadership to impose its own will over the mandate of the people. In outraging the decorum of the Jews of New York by defying every sense of restraint and unity, the two directorates of these drives are destroying their last opportunity to disregard a command which has been heeded everywnere else for a single fundraising campaign. Not content with having split asunder the United Jewish Appeal which for two years conducted a dignified drive for both purposes these leaders are not only competing with one another for the tithes of New York Jewry but competing in a manner which would be abhorrent to even the business man with the lowest ethics. Two campaigns for funds are being held in New York at this very moment. It is a fight for the best prospects. A fight for the first interview'. A fight for the most publicity. A fight for the largest donations. Like dictatorship, autocracy distills its own antidote. Bo Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Felix Warburg think that next year the Jews of New' York will stand idly by and allow' an appeal for such honor-

able purposes to degenerate into a dog fight. No. There are substantial and unselfish Jewish interests whose disgust at the pettiness of the situation cannot fail to brew a potent cup of hemlock for those leaders and committees which have led the New York Jewish Community to the present disreputable impasse. As evidence of the mandate of the people that drives and other leadership be unified, witness the movement from the masses which has led to the unification of all fund-raising in ninety per cent of the cities of the nation. Large cities like Chicago. Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, where the drives for funds and the partisanship is just as divergent have pooled their efforts for the benefit of the Jewish communities of their cities into one campaign. The end might have been averted. New York possibly would have, as most inarticulate com munities, yielded and contributed to two drives a year for foreign relief, had these drives been held months apart. But the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Bistribution Committee in ignoring the contributors in their eagerness for the •‘kill'’ have signed their own death warrant. In 1937 there will be only one drive in New York City. Whether the same uncompromising leaders will direct the drive, it is difficult to prophesize. But certain it is that the present disgrace will not be repeated a year hence.

Sympathy For Expectant Mothers Who Rush To England

Expectant mothers who despite all assurances and even with tne knowledge of expert medical attention and loving home care await with growing uneasiness the birth of their child can sympathize w ith those Jewish mothers who, according to reports from Berlin, hazard a trip to England near the end of their pregnancy, in order that their child may not be born under the blooddripping aegis of the Nazi regime. That England allows these bewildered mothers the security of her shores and the assurance

that any child born on her Islands is a British subject, is cause for thankfulness. England's lib. eral immigration laws in this respect go so far as to permit the newly-born babe, through a guardian, to apply for the entrance of the parents into the country. Naturally this escape is possible only for the well-to-do Jews of Germany, but it offers an avenue, which it should not surprise this paper, many younger couples are treading even though it is a matter of nine months' distance.

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By GAMUEL S. MARKUN

Bear Mr. Markun:

Having been a reader of your column since it was first published, I wonder if you would tell ma where I can get a fairly complete list of the books of Jewish interest published from time to time. Here and there I have been able to pick up the name of a Jewish novel or non fiction w-ork, but this method is so unreliable that T thought you might he able to find out where I could obtain an authoritative list. BAN ROSENBERG. New York, N. Y. * * * Bear Mr. Rosenberg: Yours is the fourth letter of its kind t have received in the past two months. Heretofore I have suggested that my readers buy the Sunday New' York Times and go through the Book Section, but I realize that this cannot be complete because many of the titles give no indication of the Jewish content of the books. However, after discussing the matter with the editors, it has been decided that beginning next week a book column, with reviews of the latest books and a notation of all books of Jewish interest, will be started. If this column finds enough reaction from our readers, as I am convinced it will, it will be continued in the future.

Writing from the Hotel Bienville, in Mobile, Ala., Mr. William liazer pens: Bear Sir: Jew hatred is brought on by unfair if not thieving conduct of the greedy element of the Jews themselves. As for me, I was gypped out of the St. Louis agency by Jews in “Butch Schulz” style. My buslnessl cleared me $10,000 a year, but they never paid me a dime, and 1 will he a Jew hater until they pay me what they owe me. Yours truly, WILLIAM lazer. Mobile Ala.

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It cannot be denied that there are many unscrupulous Jewish business men and no amount of berating by the best editors or the most stringent rabbis will serve to reform but the smallest number of them. No doubt Mr. Lazar, you will go on hating the Jews and no doubt there are many other antiSemites whose hatred is founded on some similar unethical business transaction. However there are many unscrupulous men of other religious affiliations whose transac tions call dow n the enmity of the mulcted person upon only themselves and not upon their religions or their co-religionists. If the number of anti-Semites were only those who had been fleeced by a Jew, I believe anti-Semitism here and abroad would be only an insignificant social symptom, unworthy even pf the barest attention. It is the Jew hater who concocts lies about the Jews and spreads these lies among his neighbors, that constitutes the real threat to the safety and peace of the Jew. For your sake, Mr. Lazer, I hope you are recompensed for your buslness. But ceretainly you have no right to hate me or my parents because of the actions of someone I don't even know or care to know; who, if he followed the precepts of the religion you condemn, would not have “gypped” you out of your business.

Shows That Late Charles Curtis and Senator King Friends

of Jews

To the Editor: Enclosed y on will find my pamphlet with a. letter from my late friend and one of the best friends of the Jewish nation, Hon. Vice President Charles Curtis, dec., and another letter from my friend. Senator William H. King, who always defends Israel. Kindly publish these two letters to show to your readers what friends we have in the United States. ' With Zion's Greetings, CHARLES SCHWAGER. New York, N. Y.

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Charles Schwager 1482 Broadway New York. N, Y. United States Senate Committee On The Bistrict of Columbia 2 February 1936 Mr. Charles, Schwager, 1482 Broadway, New York, N. Y. My Bear Mr. 'Schwager: Please accept my thanks for your letter of the first instant and for your complimentary reference to the address which I recently delivered in the Senate in behalf of Jewish nationals in Germany. In reply may I say that the treatment of the Jews in Germany is one of the crimes of the century. I do not know what can he done to relieve the situation. Undoubtedly the Bepartment of State must know of the tragic conditions there prevailing. Whether the Bepartment of State can do anything to arrest the savage course of Hitler I do not know. At any rate I shall confer with the officials of the Bepartment of State with a view to ascertaining whether it is willing to do anything and, if so, what. Very truly yours. (Signed) WILLIAM H. KING.

Freedom Of The Press

LETTERS TO

The Vice President’s Chamber Washington. B. CJanuary 7, 1932 Charles Schwager, Esq., 1 Madison Ave., New York City. N. Y. My Bear Schwager: I have your letter of recent date and was very glad to hear from you. i greatly appreciate your kind expression. It was a great pleasure to he of assistance to those who desired Palestine set aside as a home for the Jews. I drew the original resolution and turned it over to Senator Lodge to introduce it. T know what struggle the Jews have had. I do hope they will be successful in their efforts in the ‘‘rebuilding and rejuvenating of old Palestine” as a real Jewish Homeland. With every good wish for the new year, I am, Very truly yours, (Signed) CHARLES CURTIS.

Hitler Was Godsend To This Man and Wife To the Editor: Even a few years ago, the lawyer who wrote this letter might have been regarded with suspicion as not quite a normal man. For how can one be content, after having spent his adolescent years in college and university and having struggled through the early years of a professional career, suddenly to throw everything over and begin anew? How can such a man follow a plow or a threshing machine in the heat of the long summer day? A few years ago such questions might still have been justified. Now, however, life itself has provided the answers. The Jewish professional, thrown out of his calling, has been forced to seek a new course in life. I was very fond of my profession. When I was forbidden to practice it, it seemed to me that the very ground was knocked out

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from under my feet. It happened to be shortly after I was married. I realized quickly, however, that I must begin again from the bottom, and decided to become an agricultural worker. My wife and I secured work on a small farm, consisting of five acres, one horse, one cow and a small truck garden. It was hard work. My teacher was a hired la borer. We happened to arrive at the potato-planting season, and our unpracticed limbs, especially our backs, were put through a severe test, particularly as we had to compete with experienced farm laborers. Already in the first month I had to do all the work of a regular farm laborer. We plowed, spread fertilizer, sowed the seed; and all this without a word of instruction from anybody as to the reason for this or that part of the work. We felt the need of an agricultural expert to direct the work and give us some word of explanation as to the purpose of our difficult work. Still those hardships had their benefits. I learned two things from the peasant: to do any work that was given me without question and to take orders from a person on a much lower intellectual plane. The former “Attorney at Law’* was fast becoming an obedient servant. I lived through a spiritual crisis. And finally the lack of some instruction and intelligent direction in the work forced us to leave the peasant’s employ. Then through the German ORT we were placed in the Agricultural Colony of the ORT in Lithuania. Our admission to the ORT Agricultural Colony meant a great advance to my wife and myself. We began to feel like human beings again. I became convinced that farming can be learned under hygienic and quite human conditions. The intensive scientific agricultur-

al course given in this colony gave us back that spiritual joy of working intelligently, for si definite purpose. Here too the practical work was far from easy; but because everything here was done in accordance with a plan, and led to a definite goal—and because one works here together with many other young people, all intent on the same object—to build a new and better life—one does not find the work here so fatiguing. Slowly, but with determination and sureness, I am here completing my thorough apprenticeship. I will become—and remain—an agricultural worker, a farmer, who is part and parcel of the soil on which he lives, and whose only concern is: “How will the crops turn out.” The farm laborer is free from morbid moods, because he does not possess that freedom to work one day to exhaustion and the next lounge and loaf without doing anything at all. The worker on the soil must perform every duty, regardless of whether It is hard or easy, whether it is Interesting or boring, and he must do It without passion or excitement, when the work needs doing. ] believe that after living and working on a farm for one year. I have earned the right to say that I have become a farmer. In former years I never hoped to rid myself completely from my chronic headaches. But working on the soil, and living the normal life it forces one to live, have accomplished that wonder. Even that t oical scholar’s disease—a heart n irosis—of which the doctors ii already discovered symptoms it 'e, has entirely disappeared. i have already learned that one can live contentedly without beautiful clothes and silk underwear, and without theatres, movies or cafes. And one can sleep soundly not only under down quilts but even on a plain straw mattress. Normal physical exertion is the most wonderful remedy against insomnia. On a farm one becomes aware of “the comings and the goings of (Continued On Page 3)