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April 21, 1933 THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE By the Way Wisconsinjo wish (Bronide Offices and Printing Plant, 625 N. Milwaukee Street, Pioneer Bldg. Telephone MArquette 4700 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cable Address Chron, Milwaukee By DAVID SCHWARTZ NATHAN J. GOULD Editor IRVING G. RHODES Publisher To insure publication in the current issue, all correspondence and news matter must reach this office by Wednesday evening: of each week.

Subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year eridge was his idol. He would take no negative answer. "Well, hang up your hat," said Beveridge, and Rothschild went to work for him and was to serve him almost to the end of his life. Melchett's Dream For stranger than fiction facts, the just published biography of Lord Mel-chett by Hector Bolitho is an excellent illustration. Melchett, it appears, worked with one aim in view in the gathering of his fortune.

He planned to raise, it seems, seventy million dollars, and with that bring the Jews back to Palestine. Melchett died prematurely. I do not know whether he raised that amount of money. His fortune must have been close to it, but at any rate, he never sponsored the wholesale migration which he had planned, although he did invest heavily in Palestine, and his son is showing an equal zeal in building up Erez Israel. But the strange thing to me about all of this, is that Melchett, should even have harbored such an idea.

Here was a thoroughly occidental man and assimilative to the point where he raised his children as Christians and yet believing that there was no peace for the Jew except on the sunny land where trod his ancestors. The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an endorsement of the views expressed by the writers. Communications will not be given consideration unless signed by name and address of writer. If requested by known writer name will be omitted in published letters. Ail anonymous correspondence will be destroyed.

Vol. 30 APRIL 21, 1933 No. 8 Nazis attack the Jew because he gained a virtual monopoly over banking, finance, industry, commerce, medicine, law, teaching, and other activities in Germany. That argument (if at all true in Germany) doesn't hold in America. The Jew in America is in everything in America but controls not a single industry or profession.

The free-born intelligent enterprising American of any race or faith wouldn't even think of establishing his own inferiority just to hate the Jew because of his superiority. That's where the German anti-Semites expose themselves to the contempt of the world, for their bitter attack upon the Jew is plain confession of their own inferiority and incapacity to maintain leadership in their own nation. The non-Jewish American would raise no such argument, first, because it isn't true, and secondly, because, if true, his intelligent good sportsmanship would revolt against damning a man because he was a better man than the average. There are many other reasons why a Nazi anti-Semitism would not flower in America. It must be kept in mind that Germany is a defeated nation which has been hemmed in by the intolerable restrictions set by a victorious world.

It must plead with other nations for a right to live. The American people suffer no such frustrations. We have no national enemies to hate, and never did have. We have a tradition of helping those who hate us, and that spirit of helpfulness was extended to Germany immediately after our war with her. Human hatreds just don't take root'here.

We tried it during the war. We had the American people hating the German people only for the duration of the war, and then began undoing all the wrongs we had inflicted upon her by or war-hysteria propaganda. A Nazi movement may start up in America, of course. But it will only be a racket for gathering in easy shekels from the unsuspecting boob who can be sold anything by glib talk. It won't even get half as far as did the Klan.

It will be destroyed as quickly as it shows its evil head. The American people will not stand for any movement that threatens to turn the clock of our civilization back to the zero hour of the dark ages, regardless of what race or class of people the weapons of hate are turned against. The world has seen the very last of racial hatred. When it fails in Germany, as it must fail, our energies will be concentrated upon more constructive and enduring things for all peoples of all races. NAZIS ESTABLISH OFFICES TO SPREAD PROPAGANDA IN U.

S. (Continued from Page 1) ENGLAND MOYES TO OPEN DOORS TO GERMAN REFUGEES (Continued from Page 1) MacDonald to beware of treaty revisions which might place new minorities under the heel of the Nazi government. Europe, he declared, could not afford to grant a country a status of equality. Quite the contrary, he said, suggesting that action by the League and a threat that there would be no treaty revision so long as Germany pays no consideration to public opinion would be most effective. Rejected Refugees Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, in a moving address, described the hardships of the Jewish refugees who upon their arrival on the British frontiers were turned back to their ships added.

He thanked the previous speakers for what they had said regarding the German Jews, pointing also to the spontaneous outbursts in the United States against the persecutions in Germany. Sir John Simon expressed his sympathy with the indignation manifested in the House of Commons debate against the events in Germany. It would be a profound mistake to suggest, he declared, that the feelings expressed against the anti-Jewish persecution in Germany were limited to or instigated by members of the Jewish community. Difficulty of Intervention Sir John Simon explained the difficulty of the British Government's intervening on behalf of non-Britishers, but personally felt that unnecessary obstacles should not be placed in the way of Jewish refugees who desire to enter England, although consideration of the unemployment situation must prevail. At the same time, he stated, the admission of people with good character would be a gain and not a loss to England.

It would not be in the interests of the Jews to assume, Sir John Simon concluded, that the British Government should be armed with authority to intervene on behalf of foreign subjects in another country, but he thought an effect would be achieved by the present parliamentary debate which undoubtedly would find an echo in public opinion outside England. by the authorities. He was pleading er of the National Socialist Organization in America. Each group usually meets at least once a week. Some of the addresses delivered at the group gatherings are devoted to anti-Semitic propaganda.

For example, Spanknoebel national leader of the organization, spoke recently in Detroit on "the pseudo-culture of the Jews." The National Socialists have recently also begun the publication of a new paper called the "Deutscher Beobach-ter," of which to date three issues have appeared; it is published as a supplement to the "Amerika's Deutsche Post." The publisher of the paper is Friedrich Heiss, with business offices at 309 E. Ninety-second street. The paper contains, in addition to Hitlerist propaganda, many anti-Semitic statements, particularly on Einstein and Feuchtwanger, who are frequently made the targets of attack in the paper. Many Americans, too, are victims of the paper's vitrol. In addition to the National Socialist Organization in the United States, a League of the Friends of the Hitler Movement has been established, with headquarters in Hamburg.

The task of the League is to carry on propaganda for the German National Socialist movement. Only foreign citizens may be members of this League; German citizens are not permitted to join. The members of the league are charged with the tasks of informing public opinion abroad about the aims of the Hitler movement; they are to help National Socialists to establish contacts with government authorities, as well as with newspapers and other influential personalities. However, in their capacity of members of the Friends of the Hitler Movement, they are not to interfere with the internal politics of other countries. Both individuals and societies willing to support the Nazi movement may become members of the League.

While the National Socialists, the Nazis themselves, have the official task of organizing under the Swastika, German citizens living abroad, the League of the Friends of Hitler, is to support the Nazis by obtaining contributions for the Party. Members of the League are also to maintain intimate contact with the National Socialist Party members and to lend them every assistance. Should members of the League move to Germany they may become active members of the National Socialist Party. The National Socialist paper in question also publishes an appeal to American Germans urging them to join the Party of the Friends of the Hitler Movement "in order to free Germany and its people from internationalism, Marxism, and Parliamentarism." "Help to build a new Empire Reich," the appeal concludes. A Comparison I chanced to read the other day an old bit of writing.

The writer was a Genoese visitor to Spain shortly after the expulsion of Jews from that country. Hear what he wrote about the Spaniard of that day: "The Spaniards are proud and think that no other nation compares with them. They dislike foreigners and are discourteous to outsiders. They are more war-like perhaps than any other nation; agile, quick and good at the management of arms; they make a great point of honor and prefer to die rather than submit to shame. They are very ceremonious, full of fine words and hand kissings and everybody is their "lord" and they are at his "disposition," but their fair words are not to be taken literally.

They are avaricious and great dissemblers." Remember this was not written by a Jew. It strikes me that the description of the Spaniard of that day the Spaniards who lit the fires of the Inquisition were pretty much like the Hitlerites of today. Effects on Spain The expulsion of the Jew from Spain didn't do Spain any good, historians now universally admit. Spain itself admits it now by inviting Einstein to the University at Madrid, and prophesying with that step the beginning of a rebirth of Spanish culture. But what actually happened to Spain when the Jews left? To answer that, one must remember that the expulsion of the Jews from Spain took place in the same year that Columbus found America.

And for a century, whatever loss the Jewish expulsion may have involved, was considerably lost sight of by reason of the great colonial expansion in South America, which followed from the discovery by Columbus. But after that first century or so, there was no more gold to be found in South America, Spain began to fade. Once Spajn had been great by reason of the development of her own native industries, but apparently, after the Jews left, she could do little. As long as there was gold to be shovelled in by enslaving the Indians of South America, she prospered. When that was gone, Spain lacking, not only the Jews, but the Moors, too, the jig was up.

The Marranos and Cromwell But the Jewish expulsion hit Spain in other ways as well. We talk today of a boycott of German goods. Well, the Spanish Jews did some retaliation too. If you want to know how they harmed Spanish Colonial expansion, study the records of the Dutch West India Company. This Dutch company was a considerable nuisance to the Spanish colonizers.

And the backbone of the Dutch West Indian company was composed of the Mar-rano Jews, the converted Jews. The Marranos not only helped the Netherlands against Spain, but it appears from historical allusions here and there, that they helped the English against the Spanish. For we know that one of the reasons that made Oliver Cromwell grant Manas-seh ben Israel's request for admission of the Jews into England, was the fact that Cromwell, depended on the Marrano Jews of Europe, many of whom had relatives and friends in South America, to keep him informed of Spanish doings in South America. What does all this mean? Simply this, it seems to me: That the oppression of any people is in the long run, stupid, even if in the end, it does not destroy the oppressor. Points of View The occurrences in Germany reveal in how many different ways, one may look at a thing.

One man sees a Professor Einstein as modern Spain does today and is glad of him and wants to enrich his country with him. Another man sees a Professor Einstein, like the modern Hitlerist of today, and wants to expel him. Beveridge and Kosher Food It appears that the late Senator Beveridge, who introduced the bill for a Federal meat inspection system in the United States was led to do so by his study of the Kosher laws. I glean this fact from a statement by Claude G. Bowers, the recently appointed ambassador to Spain, in his book "Beveridge and the Progressive Era." Beveridge, says Bowers, became interested in these Kosher laws, which made it impossible to dispose of stale meat to Jews, and he wondered why there were no such assurances of fresh meet for the general public.

Just at this time, Upton Sinclair's work "The Jungle" came off the press and aroused a clamor throughout the country by its exposure of the putrid meat that was being fed the country. "To 'The Jungle' must of course be given the main credit for arousing the public. But Beveridge's initial interest which led to the introduction of the meat inspection bill was brought about by his interest in the Kosher laws. Hang Up Your Hat Incidentally, the Bowers volume reveals a remarkable friendship of Beveridge with a Jew Leo Rothschild. Rothschild was Beverdige's secretary and right-hand man for years and the story of this friendship is a very interesting one.

It appears, according to Bowers, that Rothschild was very much attracted by Beveridge's oratory, and came to him as a young man and asked for some work. He was a smiling, friendly young man and Beveridge took a liking to him. But there was no work. But Rothschild was insistent. Bev Can the Disease of Anti-Semitism Affect America? Anti-Semitism is a disease, and disease spreads.

Having arisen in Germany in its most virulent form, it is no more likely that it can he confined to that one country than could the Spanish Flu be confined to Europe at the time of the World War. When diseases become epidemic they disregard national boundaries and show up in places that are considered immune to them. And so it is not too startling to read that even the Japanese, who up to a few decades ago hardly ever saw or heard of a Jew and a Jewish problem, should break out with a Hitlerenzic rasli and suddenly become inflicted with the miraculous discover' that for all her political and economic problems there is none other to blame than the Jew! And so the General Electric Company which complains of Japanese infringement of its patents becomes a "Jewish" influence bent on ruining Japan. And it is not unlikely that when draught, pestilence, war or any other kind of trouble afflicts the nation, the Japanese will satisfy their curiosity anent the origin of things by blaming all their troubles on the Jews! Oh, well, the Japanese are a primitive people anyhow. They can easily be frightened by any sort of a manufactured bogey, and the Jew, who is only a name for something unknown and mysterious, will serve the same purpose as an evil spirit in the form of a green-eyed sulphur-snorting dragon that eats good little Japanese children for breakfast.

But the German people, including millions of its so-called intellectual people, have the same notion about the potency of the Jew as an evil spirit. Even America is not immune to this type of mental disease. Down in Alabama where a negro boy is on trial for his life, the state's prosecutor, who is supposed to represent the people of that state, winds up his address to the jury with this clinching argument: "Are you going to permit Alabama justice to be bought and sold with Jew money from New York?" Whether that appeal to fairy-tale prejudice had anything to do with the electric-chair verdict of the jury, in view of the other racial and sectional prejudices of that community, is not important. But the fact that the word "Jew" should be uttered in an American courtroom in a trial that had no more to do with the Jew than it had with the movement of the moon, is simple evidence that anti-Semitism as a mental disease does spread when it reaches a virulent stage in any part of the globe. All of which leads us to this question: Can the Hitler brand of anti-Semitism take hold in America? Is it even remotely possible or probable that a Nazi movement gain any headway here wtih a program of "extermination" of the Jew out of American life? Is it remotely possible or probable that any substantial section of the American non-Jewish people would listen seriouslv to a proposal lo deprive Jews of their right to vote and hold office, to practice law or medicine, occupy civil service positions with the government, or engage in business of any kind? In view of what has happened in Germanv which we were accustomed to believe to be a civilized nation of a high standard of culture, we would say that such an anti-Semitic movement in America is not impossible.

But we would say with more than subjective emphasis that the disease in the German form is highly improbable and most unlikely. "We must not forget, of course, that we had some such sort of anti-Jewish movement in America not so long ago in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, which did attract to its unholy purpose several million free-born native white protestant citizens willing to pay so much a head per year in dues and so much per white nightgown to give them the necessary "racial superiority" over Jews. Of course the Klan took in quite a bit more territory with Catholic, the negro, and the alien of any nationality, any race, and any faith. We need not recount the rise, the supremacy, and the rapid fall of that movement. Like its predecessors, the A.P.A., and the Know Nothing movements of human hatred, the Klan passed out of American life, leaving the Jew, the Catholic, the negro, and the alien perhaps bettetr rooted in American soil than they were before.

The Klan with its hate program just didn't "take" in America. There are a number of reasons for its failure, but the most logical and basic is the fact that there can be no claim to an American "racial purity" by any group in America comparable to the Nazi claim of German racial purity for the German race in Germany. The Nazis have some color of a valid argument in their attack upon the Jew upon racial, grounds, impractical and irrational though it be in these modern times. There is some sort of a wrell defined entity in Germany that for want of a more scientific designation may be termed a "German The great bulk of the German people is racially homogeneous, and being in the overwhelming majority this Germanic people, if it be fool enough to want it, may demand that its racial blood be kept (Students of anthropology may well refute the German claim to racial puritv, but for the purpose of our comment we will concede to the Nazis their claim to racial ex-clusivcness to justify their argument against "contaminating" their purity with Jewish blood. But could any movement in America proceed against the Jew on the "racial purity" basis? Is there such a thing as a homogeneous "American What is it? Is it Anglo-Saxon? Not at all.

There are millions of American citizens who can claim such racial ancestry, but they are overwhelmed numerically and influentially by many more millions with a racial aneestrv that covers just about every anthropological categorv. The Klan attempted to make America Anglo-Saxon. It couldn't be done. The other millions of Americans of Teutonic, Slavonic, Celtic. Latinic, Hebraic, Afric, and every other humanic element of every part of the earth, just wouldn't stand for it, that's all.

For America can be claimed by no race of people. It is the most heterogeneous racial hodge-podge potpourri chop-suey conglomeration of peoples ever assembled in one big human melting pot. There is NO AMERICAN RACE. There is only an AMERICAN PEOPLE bound together by ties of racial inclusiveness, and bound together by the very antithesis of Nazi racial exclusiveness. Even the members of the Ku Klux Klan did not dare to claim racial title to America.

They didn't permit the American people to know who they were at all. Thev covered their faces and bodies with hoods, completely obliterating all trace of their racial origin. It would be too much to ask the world to treat with an American "race" that could only claim the homogeneous skin, color, blood, and culture of a white And so that attempt at American "racial purity" failed. Remove the "racial" argument against the Jew in America, and what other basis for anti-Semitism is there? The German Hooligans Almost Bomb Eisen-bach Synagogue Berlin. J.T.A.) A bomb attack on a synagogue at Eisenbach was prevented by the timely intervention of the police.

The gang of hooligans, who attempted to attack the edifice, escaped, throwing the bomb intended for the synagogue into a neighboring garden. The public prosecutor has announced a reward of 300 marks for information leading to the identification of the hooligans. for these unfortunates, he aeciarea, not from a humanitarian viewpoint but from that of the advantage which these people would have brought to England. Col. Wedgewood urged opening the doors of England to Jewish physicians and scientists as well as political prisoners at present confined in concentration camps.

Sir Herbert Samuel, while deprecating the exaggerated accounts, stressed that it was established beyond a doubt that shocking violence, in addition to insult and degradation, had been inflicted on great numbers of worthy, self-respecting Jews. Jews throughout centuries, the speaker said, have occupied an uncomfortable position, being the test for the character of the nations among whom they lived. They have been the touchstone of nations. It had been suggested that Palestine should provide an outlet for a certain number, Sir Herbert continued, expressing profound satisfaction over the fact that Palestine is the only prosperous country, but even Palestine's prosperity does not permit an unlimited immigration. Nevertheless, a good deal could be done, and Sir Herbert expressed the belief that the Palestine administration had already taken steps to admit as many Jewish refugees as possible.

Opposes Boycott Sir Herbert added that he also did not desire that the British Government do anything which would embroil it with the German Government. The main solution must come from within Germany, as a result of the exercise of pressure from the civilized world. Let the opinion of mankind declare, he exclaimed, that to persecute people because of their religion or race is an abomination and that all are entitled to equality before the law. The anti-German boycott in England was not advocated by him or conducted under the authority of any recognized Jewish organization, he Detroit Jew Named Judge Detroit. (J.T.A.) Gov Wm.

Corn-stock has appointed Jos. Sanders to be judge of the Common Pleas Court. Mr. Sanders is a life-long Democrat and ranks among the outstanding leaders of his party in the state. Besides being a lawyer he is also an engineer and has originated the course of study of engineering jurisprudence at the Detroit Institute of Technology, a course which was later adopted by the University of Michigan.

Furriers to Boycott Germany Antwerp. (J.T.A.) At a conference of Jewish market traders in the fur business here, resolutions binding the organization to boycott German furs and accessory goods used in the trade, were passed unanimously. Holland Will Maintain the Right Of Asylum The Hague. (J.T.A.) The Home Secretary, in reply to a question in Parliament, has given the assurance that Holland will maintain the right of asylum to all who flee from Germany to Holland, but in view of the unemployment prevailing in Holland, the refugees cannot be permitted to seek employment. CALENDAR OF EVENTS The Jewish Calendar 5693- 1933 Rosh Chodesh Shebat Saturday, January 28 Rosh Chodesh Adar Monday, February 27 Purim Sunday, March 12 Rosh Chodesh' Nissan Tuesday, March 28 1st Day Pessach Tuesday, April 11 7th Day Pessach Monday, April 17 Rosh Chodesh Iyar Thursday, April 27 Lag b'Omer Sunday, May 14 Rosh Chodesh Sivan Friday, May 26 1st Day Shabuoth Wednesday, May 31 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Sunday, June 25 Fast of Tammuz Tuesday, July 11 Rosh Chodesh Ab Monday, July 24 Fast of Ab Wednesday, August 2 Rosh Chodesh Ellul Wednesday, August 23 5694- 1933 Rosh Hashonah Thursday, September 21 Yom Kippur Saturday, September 30 First Day Succoth Thursday, October 5 Shemini Atzereth Thursday, October 12 Simchath Torah Friday, October 13 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Saturday, October 21 Rosh Chodesh Kislev Sunday, November 19 First Day Hanukkah Wednesday, December 13 Rosh Chodesh Tebeth Tuesday, December 19 Also observed the day previous as Rosh Chodesh All Jewish holidays begin at "sunset the preceding secular day.

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SATURDAY 22nd Children's Outing- Society Lecture. .8 p. m. SUNDAY 23rd The Jewish Center Round Table Discussion 4:30 p.m. The Jewish Center Dance Eve TUESDAY 25th Council of Jewish Women Annual Luncheon 12:30 p.m.

Ladies' Auxiliary Mt. Sinai Hospital (Regular) 9 a. p. m. Sarah Sisters Aid Society (Reg.) .2:30 p.

m. WEDNESDAY 26th Mothers' Club (Regular) 2 p.m. B'noth Israel Society Annual Meeting 6:30 p.m. David Pinsky Club (Board) 8 p.m. History Class Rabbi Baron .8 p.

m. THURSDAY 27th Temple Beth El Sisterhood (Board) .2:30 p. m. Ladies' Auxiliary B'nai B'rith (Regular) 8:15 p.m. SUNDAY 30th Women's League for Jewish Education (Annual Meeting) .6:30 p.

m. Milwaukee Unit Junir Hadaesah. Mother and Daughter Meeting. .3 to 6 p.m..