rrnsruxo, uabsachcsctts , WEEKLY EJABLEK lit ' ; DAILT ESTABLISHED lM Fntr u tn rort Ofnea. mtuftsld. Hjoopd el Mtl MmrJ WEMBSR OF TH ASSOCIATED FRZ8& Th Auoetated Ttw t eiuJly n-Ht4 to tb lor rtJU6Uetiou ot U ww dUpMch trwand to i er noi ethenrU erdltd to tht pPr an Hm tat loeti o puBUthKl herein. . TELETHON rxl TSU or ll department FRIDAY. JULY 3. 13 RABBI KAPLAN The resignation of Rabbi Harry . Kaplan from the Temple Anshe Amotsim to accept a- position in religious and cultural work on the campus of Ohio State University. Is an occasion of deep regvt to hundreds of Pittsfleld people. Rabbi Kaplan has been, perhaps, the foremost intellectual leader among the clergy. of PittsiSeld. His' efforts,.' to inculcate Pittsfield at large with' his own large ideals of collective justice end social problems, have been particularly memorable. His ever-ready willingness to speak and his establishment, under his own auspices, of a first class forum at his i own synagogue, have ' been two-. manifestations of what he ' has 1 brought to the intellectual life of "" the ty. -.. ' j ' ' while motivated' by deep social Unstincts which he freely expressed, it is a tribute to hU levelheadedness and the force of his reasoning that at few time there was conservative reaction in a conservative commu-'"" nity to what he stood for and what he was trying to do., As a liberal he must have felt many times that he ' sowed on sterile ground, still he mus$ appreciate that the logical and intellectual approach to politics and social problems, contends against mighty barriers. But it can not be said that hts work did not bear fruit because undoubtedly through his instrumentality he has led a great many people,- in and- outside his ' faith and congregation, toward a more realistic and. thoughtful atti-tude on the many issues that beset the world. , COMMON SENSE A note of common sense seems to have; tleen injected into the international situation by the report that preat Britain will quit the League of Nations if the. other members, of the League allow Italy to go to war, with Ethiopia. ' -'It is & note' of common sense for this "reason : For Just about the first time since the League . was organizer,, it is a suggestion from one of the principal members that the League either do the things it was drawn up to, do or quit, r The British--position is reported to be about as follows: if the League, organized to prevent aggressive action by any member State, fails to make at leas; an honest eft ortljto prevent the: Italian ,- fdrive on Ethiopia, ; it. leaves the .J way wide-open for aggressive action by any other State. In that case, the principal reason for the League's existence would seem to bg cancelled. Great Britain, threatening to withdraw if this state of. affairs, is allowed to develop, merely points out that ' in such a case the League would lose what fcsmall usefulness- it has ever possessed. From, the very beginning the League has failed to live up to the expectations of its founders. . This has been due to a. variety of reasons, including the fact that : the French have ('consistently tried . to make of the Lea-gue a super-alliance to enforce the provisions of the Versailles- Treaty upon Germany. But . the chief reason is the simple fact that no stream can rise higher than its source, r Concerted International effort to keep -one nation from ;aking aggressive action' toward another nation may be a beautifulldcal, but it is a hard thinsf to obtain'' in a world whose" principal nations . have alV been guilty of .aggresive action' iri the past and plan to be guilty of it again in the future. Nevertheless, if there is to be any kind of international check on war, something of this sort must be attained. The refreshing thing about - the latest British gesture is' the fact that it reminds the world at large that" if the. League cannot do this it might as well go out of existence. ';,. v . . It remains to be seen how effec tive this gesture will be. There is just a chance that it. will have enough of a sobering effect on such nations as France to make possible a concerted and effective . protest. But the chance Is a slirri one. Meanwhile, however, It will serve a useful purpose, if it reminds us all that abolishing . war from the modern world calls for something more than pious resolutions and high-sounding phrases. OLYMPIC DIFFICULTIES After the events of the last week in - Germany where lunatic Jew-baiters have apparently instituted a reign, of terror for that f persecuted race, one has a great deal of sympathy With the stand of Jeremiah T. Mahoncy, president of the Amateur Athletic 'Union, opposing America's participation in the' 1938 Olympic, games at Berlin. -if reports of German discrimination against athletes on religious grounds arc confirmed, 1 While Mr. Mahoney 'has stated he speaks for himself rather than the A. A. U., he let it be known that In so far as the policies of his organization bear great weight Vith the American Olympic Committee, he will use all his powers to keep America out of the 'coming competitions In Berlin. - i The statement of Mr. Mahoney recalls a resolution passed formerly in 1933 by the A. A. U. when the same Issue - was' rife. The resolution memorialized reports that there was, discrimination against Jewish athletes -In Germany and that it was ""the ardent hope", of the organization, that such restrictions should, be lifted. f , Although the tTnited States finally accepted Germany' invitation to the Olympic games last September; it was agreed then by the American athletic leaders that if the persecution of athjetes continued in Germany the resolutions adopted in .1933 still stood and American athletes would not be sent to Germany for Qlympic competition. , While it is inconceivable that action by the American ; Olympic officials would cause Jewish dis crimination to cea.se, nevertheless, it is a slap in the face that' Germany Is bound to. fe?l keenly. Germany pr.id?s itself in athletic endeavors and the Olympic games in Berlin in 1938 are a great potential source of revenue, , If America should stay out as threatened, it will have a tendency to take away the prestige of the games with perhaps the most powerful contingent of athletes refusing to take part. ; The Rev. Dr. Samuel Parkes Cad-man says that the glamor has gone out of war. Its rpmance has been destroyed in these recent years. War has become a frightful process of wilful destruction in which mechanics play the principal part. Immediate, dreadful' destruction has taken the place of the long campaigns which became so well and pitifully known at the time of the Civil War. Great formations of men: are ruth lessly extinguished by- mass homicide. The old stimulative, incentives are out. Only the professional soldiers see anything alluring In this particular form of death. The prospect of , dying for one's country does not cast the old spell. - The Note Book 7 H. Wh,n Pmrloir 1fa?t tlpon th moun'.ain tw nw light ..-' ShlncS. '"".'. ' -''f:..:, ' More loveiv tlSl bcom Th Imipl :; dvsr I Tha tplrit lifts hn touchrd bv (Schubert's Iinrf, , M-lodic life eem- tweeter Inr mhen Pr!o plan. , Musicians ascribe much of ' the popularity of Schubert to the fact that he was able to "carry a tune. and Jay said "recently that Franz was "full of tunes." That was true. He left over 600 songs and over 4O0 musical' compositions of -. various kinds. Including masses.- And he was only 31 when he died. I subtract those dates often (1797-1828) and try to : make it longer but that's, all there is there LsrTt.any more . . . Think what he-' accomplished in that short spa'n! Think of the monuments he left! There are times when, hearing his "Serenade," I. think that if .all other music were out, this alone would satisfy . . . Do you know one of the reasons why he lives? He was a poet as well as a composer! He had not only the technical perfection that enabled him to record those exquisite harmonies. Schumann said of him that, "He could set a handbill to music." Any lyric which contained an idea inspired him. His finest songs are set to fine poems 70 of Goethe's, more than 60-of Schiller's'. , . Fertility and variety in resource . were his. Hadow, in his masterly Life, said: "To Schubert we owe the lntroduc-' tion into ; music of a particular-quality of romance, a particular 'addition of strangeness to beauty and so long a the art remains, his place among its supreme masters is undoubtedly assured" . . . Prof. Weaver, a music teacher of the long ago, said: "Schubert always crowneT his peaks." He led up to a definite tonec rests there was no "sliding off" Just within sight of the melodic goal. That, of course, was where the "tune" of it came in. And there was beauty all along the way . . . HU gift of absolute melody was supreme. Even apaH from its meaning, it was inestimable. Hadow compared it to a continuous stream which never checks or runs dry and which broadens as it flows . . y It ,is too bad we know so little of his father and his mother who made us this ageless, deathless gift. The father (Franz) was a Moravian peasan,, a parish schoolmaster his mother, Elizabeth Fitz, had been, 'before her -marriage, cook in a Viennese family. Of their 14 children, 9 died in infancy. The father was a musician and early began to teach-his son who, from the outset, .indicated possession of The Divine Flame. Joan Warner draws a three-column illustrated - article, in Time which ' is likely: to lead many to feel that she, at least,, considers that her invasion of. Farts was not altogether fruitless. The Res taurant Bagdad has spriihg into international fame. .... 'A.l I know isjwhafl like," said Ray L'ing. He felt that if he liked somethin?4the run of the mill among human kind would like it, too. Truly it requlrei geriius to follow through, day by day,- the subjects in which the' masses of "the people are :r.'-:;;-:r(1 arid.t give them, unerringly, wha': they want. : es-i ;