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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE June 6, 1930 NEW YORK DRIVE short" in times of panic, and undoubtedly there are quite a few Jews in the big city who were smart enough to take advantage of one of these "opportunities in a fife-time." Unfortunately, Wisconsin Jewish (fir onide A Weekly Pap tr for the Jori3btame Offices and Printing Plant, 383 Milwaukee Street, Pioneer BIdg. Telephone Broadway 8900 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cable Address Chron, Milwaukee some of these lucky lellows do not aive as they receive. If they FOR ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN OPENS (Continued from Page 1) and effective work for the welfare of those near and far in need of aid. Es pecially familiar am I with his leadership of the great projects to bring physical and economic relief and spiritual hope to his Jewish kinsmen NATHAN J. GOULD Editor IRVING G.

RHODES Publisher SAMUEL C. GOTKIN Advertising Manager 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 The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to the Jewish but disclaims responsibility for an endorsement of the views expressed by the writers. Communications will not be griven consideration unless eigmed by name and address of writer. If requested by known writer name will be omitted in published letters.

All anonymous correspondence will be destroyed. across the seas, the victims of war and famine and pestilence. It is unthinkable that this work BRITAIN OFFICIALLY ACCEPTS FINDINGS OF SHAW COMMISSION (Continued from Pace 1) the dual character of the mandate assumes its most significant aspect. This was recognized in effect by the Mandates Commission in the course of its observations in November 1924. The policy which the government has adopted and which it has endeavored to follow is based upon the principle that immigration 'shall not exceed the economic capacity of the country at any tive to absorb new arrivals.

"The question of the temporary suspension of immigration is under examination and legislation is to be introduced with the object of controlling the disposition of agricultural lands in such manner as to prevent the dispossession of the indigenous agricultural population. These temporary measures will be superceded in any case by such permanent enactments as may be decided upon when the future policy is determined in the light of Sir John Simpson's report. "The Government is also making inquiries, according to the commission's observations, that the selection of immigrants under the labor schedule ought not to be entrusted to the General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine. "On the important subject of con should be permitted to end unfinished. What has been accomplished in rescuing and rebuilding human lives is an historic achievement in human engineering.

It is characteristic of Mr. Warburg that he should not rest while there still remains the need of helpfulness from America. No. 14 JUNE 6, 1930 Vol. 24 did, the drive would be over-subscribed in an hour.

Be that as it may, the eyes of. the Jewish world are on New York this month, and wTe are confident the big metropolis will come through. Tribute to Felix M. Warburg The New York drive cf the United Jewish Campaign began auspiciously with a magnificent tribute to Felix Warburg, the universally accepted successor of Louis Marshall as Jewish leader. Mr.

Warburg is officially titled as one of four honorary chairmen of the national drive, but no one doubts that he is the dominant personality in it. He has accepted his responsibilities in his inimitable and beautiful graciousness. In his fine Jewish his culture, his ability, his generosity, his leadership, he is outstanding as a Jew in whom we may all feel a sense of pride. He commands the respect of all Jews and of non-Jews in the same degree as it was given to Marshall. It is Warburg who is the guiding genius of the Joint Distribution Committee, that organization of mercy which has raised over $80,000,000 to save tens of thousands of Jewish lives.

He is an equally powerful figure in the Jewish Agency, the Palestine Economic Corporation, the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlements in Russia, the Hebrew University, the Federation of Jewish Charities in New York, the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and practically every other major Jewish cause of national and international proportions. He has given millions of dollars to these objects, but of greater value to world Jewry is his gift of himself as active leader and spokesman of his people. We join in the expression of tribute paid to him by the President of the United States, the Governor of New York, and the great men of the nation, both Jew and non-Jew. A true Prince in Israel. We thank God of Felix M.

Warburg. It is fitting then that his fellow- townsmen should unite in paying tribute to him by supporting these humanitarian causes witl which he has so long been identified. I am glad to join in the expression of esteem and affection for him. Yours faithfully, (Signed) HERBERT HOOVER. Other tributes to Mr.

Warburg included in the testimonial book were from Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of Labor John W. Davis, Owen D. Young and Paul Cravath. Governor Roosevelt addressed the meeting by telephone from Warm Springs, and Secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur from Washington.

Those who addressed the meeting from the platform be millions for the ornaments. Rosen thai has organized an American syn dicate which will bid. Scanning the Jewish Horizon Louis Alder, realtor and builder, said to be the first builder who ever returned unexpended money in a gov ernment contract, has purchased a whole block on Wall street. Will erect a mammoth skyscraper. Herbert D.

Croly You can't tell where you will find Jewish blood these days. Last week there pass 3d away Herbert D. Croly, editor and founder of the New Re public. stitutional development, the Inquiry commission made no formal recommendation beyond urging that when the question again comes under review again regard be had their conclusion that the absence of any measure of self-government has greatly aggravated the difficulties of the local administration. "The commission's report also expresses certain views on the difficulties inherent in the Mandate.

Their recommendations on this point include the issuance of a clear statement of policy containing, first, a definition in clear and positive terms of the meaning which the government attaches to passages in the Mandate for safeguarding the rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine, and secondly the laying down for the guidance of the Palestine government directions more explicit than any that have yet been given to the conduct of policy of such vital issues as land and immigration. "A statement of the British policy in Palestine was issued in 1922. The administration of the country has since been conducted on the general lines layed down in that statement, except that the reasons already explained, the proposed legislative council has never been brought into being. The government does not challenge the view that a further and more explicit statement of policy is required, and it is its intention in due course to issue such a statement. "Since, however, no such statement could be adequate or complete which ignored the vital questions of land settlements, immigration and development, it will be necessary to await Sir John Simpson's report before giving effect to the commission's If you had ever seen Croly, you would have said, There was a pure Nordic.

But his father was David Goodman Croly, and something tells me that this "David Goodman" part implies Jewish ancestry. Mr. Croly incidentally was assisted in the founding of that liberal pub lication by Walter Lipmann, the pres ent editor of the New York World. Mr. Lipmann married outside of the fold, and some day, a couple of cen turies hence one of his grandchildren will pass away, and the reviewer sides Mr.

Rickard and Mr. Rosenberg, who presided, were Mayor Walker, Hon. Joseph N. Proskauer, David M. Bressler, Morris Rothenberg, Mrs.

Rebekkah Kohut and Hon. Otto A. Rosalsky. Dr. David de Sola Pool made the opening prayer, and Rev.

Dr. Maurice Harris pronounced the benediction. Mr. Warburg's Response A tremendous ovation greeted Mr. Warburg when he rose to accept the testimonial volume from the hands of Mr.

Rosenberg. After uttering a few words in reply to the tributes paid him personally, Mr. Warburg spoke of the objectives of the campaign, the work of the Joint Distribution Committee and of the Jewish Agency, saying in part: "Through famine, through the absolute destruction of their villages, through pogroms, through financial collapse, through government collapse, the Joint Distribution Committee has nursed thousands and hundreds of thousands of people back to more or less normalcy. That holds good in Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Galicia, Austria, Roumania, Turkey and Palestine all together in 42 countries. The main work we are doing in most of these countries now is not the handing out of doles, but constructive work such as would be done in this country through credits from banks and credit institutions.

In this country however capital is available and most institutions are unprejudiced, so that with proper safeguards a struggling person can obtain credit. Abroad, capital is scarce and the financial institutions with state affiliation or control discriminate against Jews in industry and commerce. "You will find people who are tired of giving, who do not believe that America should continue to be the dispenser of philanthropy in European countries, that these countries existed before the war without our help and should do so again. Some of us have felt that way too, but when you see the struggles that they have to make in contrast to the life over here, when you see the handicaps and the conditions put into their way, you feei that our efforts ought to be continued for a few more years. And it scanning the horizon then will specu late as to whether Walter Lipman Will Brandeis Return to the Zionist Movement? As fair-minded Zionists look back over the past nine year period since the memorable Cleveland convention of 1921, when the group headed by Justice Louis D.

Brandeis, Judge Julian Mack, Jacob de Haas and others, were practically ousted from leadership in the American Zionist movement, they must become conscious of the meaningful query "What price victory." After nine eventful years, many of those who vigorously opposed the Brandeis-Mack regime are asking themselves if, after all, it wouldn't have been much better for the movement as a whole if the issues of 1921 had not been forced to a "showdown." The Brandeis-Mack group then was numerically small, but influentially powerful. The forces led by Louis Lipsky were numerically large, but influentially weak. It was the old struggle between the-dominance of the few "big men" against the democratic leadership of the many of the "rank and file." Besides this ever-present personal contention there was the issue of principle, involved in the emphasis of the Brandeis-Mack faction on the economic development of Palestine as against the super-nationalist attitude of the majority. It cannot be said that the conflict was one between the practical as against the idealistic, because both groups were imbued with the spirit of the idealism of the Zionist cause, but one was just a little more practical-minded than the other. The feeling engendered in that Cleveland convention has continued to the present day.

Various proposals have been made to effect a reconciliation, but to no avail. At the Pittsburgh convention in 1928, an attempt was made to capture the organization for the Brandeis-Mack group through an "opposition" movement directed against the personal leadership of Lipsky, but the "rank and file" were still in the numerical majority, and the "victory" of 1921 was repeated. But it has been a very costly victory to the movement. The Brandeis-Mack group remained outside for two more years, years in which the leadership and influence of these men and women were needed most, for in these years came the sad events of the Palestine massacres and the general assault on the Balfour Declaration and Mandate. The morale of the Zionist organization was all but smashed.

The enthusiasm of the rank and file oozed out into despair. The membership of the Z.O.A. fell to practically its lowest figure in a decade. A heroic attempt to bolster up the waning spirit through the Palestine roll-call ended in failure. The Zionist organization found itself in worse financial condition than it had ever known.

Its activities had to be curtailed. Along with the general economic depression things were in a very bad shae. It then occurred to some of the most active Zionist workers that something ought to be done to bring the Brandeis-Mack group back into the movement, even at some personal sacrifice on the part of the leaders, and so eventually a committee was appointed by the Z. O. A.

to confer with Jus-itce Brandeis, Judge Mack and the others, and devise some reasonable plan to achieve "sholom" and a resumption of former activity by both elements. For the first time in nine years, Justice Brandeis emerged from his silence and signed his name, along with Judge Mack, Mr. de Haas and Mr. Szold, to a document outlining the "terms" on which he and his followers would be prepared to resume active interest in the Zionist movement. They demand a complete reorganization of the Z.O.A., a wholesale resignation of the present administration, and the creation of an entirely new personnel of leaders, (excluding all salaried officials) the new administration to be made of neutrals, (excluding members of the present executive and leaders of the Brandeis group) with power to hold office for as long as two and a half years.

In other words the Brandeis group challenges to the very limit the sincerity of the present leaders to make every sacrifice for the good of the cause itself. And it utilizes to the full its strategic advantage under current conditions by saying in effect: "We do not intend to fight for the acceptance of these terms in the convention. It is up to the convention to 'Take it or leave The convention has no alternative. If you think we are of any value to the Zionist cause, you will accede to our terms to the letter. It is entirely up to you, and we do not intend to propagandize or prevail on a single delegate to cast his vote in our favor." It is a hard pill to swallow for the men and women who have made such great personal sacrifices these past nine years to keep the movement going, but this is a critical moment and it demands heroic abnegation in the larger interest of the idealism of the cause itself.

Administration Zionists have criticized the terms as arbitrary and impossible, but maybe the delegates to the next convention this month may not think so. It is interesting to note that the convention of 1930 will take place in the same city of Cleveland, the scene of the "victory of 1921." Brandeis left the movement that year. Will he actually return to it this year? Smith was of Jewish descent or not. So turns the wheel! Hobbies The New Yorker calls attention to By DAVID SCHWARTZ "Relativity" I have long been waiting for a simple definition of relativity. Now it's out and sure enough the great Einstein himself has.

given it. It is said that when Einstein first announced his theory, he was bombarded to such an extent by questions as to just what relativity is, that he hired a girl to answer the people flocking to his domicile and he instructed her, when all other efforts to elucidate the theory failed, to define relativity to wit; you sit on a pretty girl's lap for an hour, it seems like a minute. If you sit on a hot stove for a minute, it seems like an hour." Which goes to prove that the great physicist is a great humorist as well. And Einstein further doesn't like order, except in his thinking. He likes to feel that each new day is a new adventure, and not to be bound by any premedidated and planned designs.

His rule, as he explains it is to have no rules. Which recalls the similar advice of Wal Whitman: "Take my advice don't take advice." "There's Many a Slip" For all his brilliance, Dr. S. M. Melammed stutters a bit.

One day, he was shopping for a pair of shoes. "How much are these shoes?" asked the Doctor. "Eight dollars," replied the dealer. "I'll give you s-s-s- nine," he wound up the seven just wouldn't come out. In a Line or Two The author of the anonymous Ex-Baby is Eben Kandel.

The author of "What Your Margin" issued under a pseudonym is Jesse B. Lilienthal, vice-president of a bank in San Francisco. Simon and Schuster, publishers, issued only 27 books last year. The S. S.

firm works on the policy of issuing few tomes, but they do believe in making a noise about these. Maurice Rosenthal, big jewelry man, has left for Europe to negotiate for the purchase of the jewels of the late Sultan of Turkey. A British syndicate is offering the tidy sum of 50 one of the hobbies of Samuel Unter myer dogs. Talking about the hobbies, horses used to be the pet diversion of Na than Straus. At one time, he had the best stables in New York.

I know one wealthy Jew whose hobby is uncovering the fossils of ex tinct animals. Yet another collects first night LOCAL ZIONISTS PROTEST BRITISH IMMIGRATION BAN (Continued from Page 1) tickets of new shows. He has witnessed a couple of thousand first nights. Still another (Judge Irving Leh man of the Jewish Welfare Board) collects Jewish religious articles- tephilim, odd mezuzas and the like. He has agents who scour the world for these Jewish objects.

A famous Jewish banker who paints and paints well as a hobby. A wealthy Jewish woman who col lects odd writings, old lottery tickets and what not. A patriarchal looking Jewish physi cian always at the Cafe Royal who collects etchings and paintings lllus trative of Bible texts. Has the most complete Biblical collection of art in the world. the protests made by the Jews in this insistence may not be effective, they were most vital in keeping the British government constantly informed that the eyes of the entire Jewish world were upon her, and that they also had their value in keeping the Jewish people themselves aroused to the need of keeping up their morale for the upbuilding of the country.

Other governments, he said, had broken their pledges to the Jews and he cited such violations by the Kaiser, the Sultan of Turkey, and the Czaris-tic government of Russia. These governments are no more, but the Jew still lives, he remarked. The Jews do not intend to retaliate against Britain, but no government can long endure that violates its solemn pledges. The report of the Shaw commission had been discounted even before its publication he stated, as three of the five commissioners were known to be unfriendly to the Zionist cause. Mr.

Goldberg closed his eloquent talk with the prediction that despite every obstacle, past or future, the Jews would eventually build Palestine as they had planned. "We will never cease buiding the Homeland," he CONFIRMATION CLASSES 1930-5690 TEMPLE EMANU-EL B'NE JESHURUN SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, AT 9:30 O'CLOCK Confirmand Parent Address Aarons, Louise Albert, Marvin Eli is not true that before the war the Jews in these countries stood entirely on their own feet. At that time innumerable small societies existed who spent money collected in their own little groups through people who went over there and dispensed it in a haphazard fashion, well-meaning though they were. Today we get these contributions for our efforts and we may truthfully say that no softhearted, poorly directed spending of charity funds takes place any more. On Palestine "The Palestine problems have been much handled by the press.

I feel confident that with conservative, constructive ideas on all three sides among the Government group, the Arab population and the Jewish group a modus vivendi can be worked out and will be worked out. People who have taken untenable attitudes must not be considered as expressing the feeling of the rank and file. In Palestine, as everywhere else, the people want peace and are willing to work to build up their property and their country. "The amounts which we ask are not fantastic. For the Joint Distribution Committee we collected during the last few years between six and seven million dollars and the Zionist Organization collections, we are told, amounted to two and three million dollars.

We ask for $6,000,000 this time for both these budgets together and we are paring down right and left because some of these budget applications are not only for the present year, but for obligations which were undertaken quite some time ago." In his opening remarks Chairman James N. Rosenberg said that over $125,000,000 had been disbursed overseas by the Jews of America during the past 16 years for relief and reconstructive work, but that the time to stop sending funds abroad had not yet arrived. "Our efforts in Eastern Europe have raised our people there to their feet, but they must be helped awhile further lest they totter. In Palestine too we have a sacred and thrilling task," Mr. Rosenberg said.

"The upbuilding of the Holy Land is a portion of the responsibility we have assumed in this effoit." Judge Charles 681 Prospect Ave. David 401 Jarvis St. Louis 1310 Farwell Ave. Sigmund 611 Summit Ave. S.

Louis 990-40th St. Solomon 501 Marshall St. Joseph 945 Hackett Ave. Joseph 359 Marion St. David 1047-40 St.

499 Menlo Blvd. Harry 1364 Downer Ave. Ignatz 378 Linnwood Ave. Samuel 371 Newton Ave. Abner 174 Beaumont Ave.

Louis ....1297 Downer Ave. Lester 1069-41 St. Sidney 751 Maryland Ave. Louis 1102-50th St. Joseph Medford, Wis.

John A 423 Lake Bluff Blvd. Celia 1335 Prospect Ave. Daniel 1393 Prospect Ave. Benjamin 1345 Downer Ave. Louis 585 Maryland Ave.

Joseph A 390 Newberry Blvd. .499 Menlo Blvd. Morris 629 Downer Ave. Arthur 1222-41st St. Arthur 424 Newton Ave.

Saul 1 527-52nd St. Albert 530 Stowell Ave. Benjamin 2170 Lake Dr. Jewish Papers Say England Should Give Up Mandate London. (J.T.A.) England should give up the Mandate over Palestine is the demand voiced in the Jewish Chronicle, the most influential organ of English Jewry.

The paper compares the White Paper with Pharaoh's order to the Jews in Egypt to manufacture bricks without straw. The Chronicle says that "MacDonald asks the Jews to build a homeland with Jews and without land." Bouyer, Anita Buchbinder, Miriam Etta Chutkow, Miriam Doris Cohn, Ruhama Daneman, Nancy Fein, Gertrude Feinberg, George Harvey Feinstein, Robert Fredman, Evelyn Miriam Gadsky, Charlotte Ethel Gottlieb, Helen Kops, Floyd, Junior Koenig, Wirth Kovel, Harold Bernie Levi, Elinor Jane Levinsky, Shirley Ruth Loeb, Eugene Richard Ludwig, Victor Harold Marcus, Richard Earl Michels, Julius Morse, Marjorie Esther Orfield, Esther Lois Padway, Ruth Doris Pasch, Nathan Franklin Rashman, Roger Franklin Rich, Sydney David Richman, Annette Rosefelt, Parker Theodore Salomon, Janet Phyllis Saltzstein, James Ira Saltzstein, Janet Schlossman, Esther Leah Sherwood, William Siesel, John Jacob Strauss, Kenneth Solomon Strauss, Maxine Trosch, Leah Lillian Unger, Arthur Van Engel, Willard Weiner, Marion Theresa Weyenberg, Helen Winter, Lewis Zimmer, Elaine Louise The New York Campaign The success of the $6,000,000 Allied Jewish Campaign is dependent upon the success of the drive in New York City to raise its assigned quota of $2,500,000. All Jewish communities in America look to the greatest Jewish community in the world to set the pace, and rightfully so. Not only does New York contain half the Jewish population of the country, and a considerably greater proportion of the Jewish wealth, but it also is the "general headquarters" of Jewish leadership in the nation. If New York falls down in its drive, the leaders can hardly expect the Jews "of the provinces" to make up her deficiency.

But we hardly contemplate any such eventuality. The New York drive cannot fail, regardless of economic depression or any other negative influence. The Jewish population of New York is estimated at from 1,700,000 to over 2,000,000. There are hundreds of thousands who live from hand to mouth and cannot contribute a dollar to any charitable cause, but on the other hand there are thousands, tens of thousands, who are blessed with abundant wealth. There are at least one thousand Jews of great wealth in New York who could raise the city's quota of $2,500,000 among themselves and not feel any sense of loss in their possessions.

It is said-that the Jews of New York were "hit hardest" in the stock crash. That may be true, but there are a large number who were not caught in the crash, and many profited handsomely by reason thereof. Some of the greatest fortunes in the world were made by astute traders who "sold Jerusalem. (J.T.A.) The Hebrew daily Davar and the other Jewish newspapers in Palestine challenge the British government to declare publicly its inability to carry out the Balfour Declaration, and in this case to surrender the Mandate as the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine was the main task entrusted to England when the Mandate was conferred upon her. Paris.

(J.T.A.) Palestine should be placed under an international regime as the Free City of Danzig is the demand made in an article published in the Jewish daily, the Haint, by M. Efroykin, well-known Jewish leader. Joseph 1366 Downer Ave. Joseph 743 Frederick Ave. Dr.

Morris 533 Summit Ave. Sidney 1304 Lake Dr. Abraham 361 Marion St. Isaac 761 Maryland Ave. Samuel 1159-40th St.

Morris 1100-50th St. Maurice 3802 Galena St. Edwin .517 Olive St. 1025 Cramer St. Charles 883 Hackett Ave.

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