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THE WISCONSIN JEWISH CHRONICLE August 26, 1932 4 By the Way isconstojowish (Br oriide Offices and Printing Plant, 625 N. Milwaukee Street, Pioneer Bldg. Telephone MArquette 4700 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cable Address Chron, Milwaukee NATHAN J. GOULD IRVING G. RHODES Publisher questioned by police or district attorney or grand jury are subjected to a revealment of the most inconsequential intimate details of their life-history.

We would say that it would be quite reasonable in such examination to inquire into the matter of diversity of religious affiliation of a married couple under such circumstances. We have no opinion whatever on the Holman case, except that in the larger sense it involves the disgusting phases of profligate living, with its squandering of enormous wealth by misguided youth, its orgies of drunkeness, its blind disregard for the wholesome human values and all the evil of a decadent standard of living. We regret, of course, that any Jewish girl be mixed up in any way in such a frightful mess, but we can see no "Jewish issue" involved in it, and unless it is proved beyond any doubt that there is such an issue, wTe shall take no further notice of the sad case. i To insure publication in the current issue, all correspondence and news i matter must reach this office by Wednesday evening of each week. Subscription in Advance Per Year! 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.

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26 NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN THE NETHERLANDS Correspondent volves about Margaret Fuller, the brilliant woman member of the Trans-cendalist group of which Emerson was the unofficially recognized doyen. Well, Margaret was very much in love with a Jewish young man, named James Nathan. I really should be more modest and not claim the discovery for my own. For you will find full accounts in the biographies of Margaret Fuller, but as far as I know, no Jewish historical writings have taken recognizance of the affair. The Young Jew I quote from a biography of Margaret Fuller by Margaret Bell: "James Nathan was a Jew, who came from Hamburg.

He was a sensitive soul, somewhat younger than Margaret, and he was doomed to spend part of every day in a New York office. He hated his work and longed for an Arcadia and a congenial spirit therein, to whom he could confide hi dreams and aspirations. The life of buying and selling, the vulgar traffic of the market-place was anathema to him. His was no plebian mind; not for him the utilitarian life where leisure was considered a waste and graceful indolence the pastime of fools and women. He felt a little out of place in the industrial world of lower Broadway.

She Was Charmed "Margaret," continues our biographer, "who was as Southern in temperament as she was Northern in character, was charmed with the gentle Jew. They walked among the fallen leaves of autumn. They stood on the river bank and watched the sails pass; they went to concerts and heard Ole Bull play on his beautiful Stradivarius. Coming home, they loitered along the narrow paths leading to the big old house and watched the shadows that the moon etched from tree to tree. They had fancies about themselves.

They were in an Eastern country where the sun shone long on ancient temple; the birds were in full song, the trees in full leaf Margaret said, "You have a mysterious power over me. Sometimes it causes awe, and yet, I feel deep confidence in you." An Old Zionist Custom In the old days, Zionist conventions used to serve a double purpose that of working for the Jewish National Homeland and building up private homes by matrimonial alliances formed at the convention. The good old custom of Zionism, serving as a common interest to promote the matrimonial institution was given a revival this week with the announcement that Sylvia Lamport, daughter of Solomon Lamport, donor of the Botanical Garden at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and treasurer of the Jewish National Fund, will middle-aisle it with Ezra Schapiro, well known Cleveland So There Will Be a "World Jewish Congress!" The "conference" at Geneva to discuss the advisability of organizing a World Jewish Congress decided to do what it was intended to do. It voted for a World Jewish Congress. The gentlemen who organized the Geneva meeting certainly could not have been expected to go to all the expense of holding such a meeting to determine that a World Jewish Congress was not advisable or that the great majority of Jews throughout the world had no interest in and didn't want any such undertaking.

We are told that "130 delegates representing 20 nations" after talking about the matter for two days decided that whether the Jews of the world liked it or not, there would be a World Jewish Congress. So there will be a World Jewish Congress. But it is not to take place until 1934. Why 1934? It is two years hence. Are the Jewish problems that demand so extraordinary an international conclave of Jews, unprecedented in history, to wait for two whole years until the Congress meets? If a Congress of Jews from every nation is needed at all, it is needed right now.

But the instigators of the Congress plan need those two years to "educate and organize" world Jewry for it. This alone is sufficient to condemn the Congress. It evidences the fact that the Congress idea must be "sold" to the Jewish people. It is an idea then that is to be superimposed upon the Jewish people by a few ambitious "leaders" who want to enlarge their area of leadership. It is not then dictated by a demand from the people spontaneously created by situations that permit of no other remedies.

The Geneva conference has decreed that the World Jewish Congress is to be a "democratic" institution. Delegates are not to be chosen by organized bodies of Jews, but are to be elected from geographical districts by the "rank and file," just like representatives are elected to the U. S. Congress. Which means that there will be election campaigns, with a number of Jews contesting against one another for the office of local delegate, with appeals to "vote for Abe as he's a better man to represent us than posters, banners, ballots, ballot boxes, speeches, charges of unfair tactics and fraud, and every other form of electioneering hysteria.

We doubt very much that the Jewish people will give much ear to this invitation to turn their communities into hotbeds of cheap personal politics. We remember too well the disgraceful scenes that occurred in every community when delegates were chosen by the public electioneering method for the first American Jewish Congress. It was this "democratic" method of disrupting Jewish life that turned the sympathies of many responsible elements away from the whole idea of setting up an imitation Jewish parliament. The instigators of the World Jewish Congress want two years time to stir things up in Jewish life to focus attention on their grandiose scheme, and there is no more effective method of doing this than by creating bitter rivalries and antagonisms among ambitious Jewish personalities writhin each local community. And for this reason, too, the idea of a World Jewish Congress condemns itself.

If there were actually a need for concerted action by Jews of all nations on behalf of a common cause, it could very easily be supplied by a conference of Jewish leaders from various nations without any "high-falutin" titles and fanfare of sensational publicity. If the proponents of the Congress idea are actually sincere in their motives to assist persecuted Jewry let them get together with representatives of other elements (who do not need voting campaigns to establish their representative character) and let them discuss the Jewish problems without any attempt to bind world Jewry by any legal and parliamentary hocus-pocus. We maintain that it is possible for a hundred Jewish leaders to get together without calling themselves a "League of Jewish Nations" or an "International Jewish House of Lords," or a World Jewish Congress. Jewish life is sad enough without adding to its burdens any of these comic-opera attempts at political grandeur. The conference at Geneva was not representative of world Jewry by any test.

It was merely a gathering of so many Jewish individuals who felt the urge to meet in one place to talk about Jewish problems, which we do not deny them the right to do. By including the upbuilding of Palestine and the Zionist movement in its aims it merely set itself up as a rival to the Vorld Zionist Congress and the Jewish Agency. We don't believe the Zionist movement is ready to abandon its organized procedure of over thirty years to this self-appointed body of "World Jewish Congressmen." We don't believe the Jewish people everywhere are ready to turn over their affairs to a handful of passionately ambitious men who crave the glamourous titles of "world Jewish leaders." By a Special SORROWFUL symptom in these progressive and enlightened times is the spectacle in Holland, classical country of freedom of con A science, or religion, tolerance and hospitality, of the establishment of an anti-Semitic movement which in line with anti-Semitic movements in other lands seeks to liberate Dutchmen, notwithstanding themselves "from the domination and oppression of foreigners, notably the Jews." Before the establishment of this anti-Semitic movement, Holland suffered no dearth either of political parties or sections. Nowhere else in the world perhaps is the population divided into so many religious and political groupings as in the lowlands on the North Sea. To the more than 20 political parties and groups, of which, however, only eleven are represented in Parliament, were added a short time ago, a half dozen new ones of Fascist coloring, two being avowedly anti-Semitic in objectives.

One of the parties, called the "Group of National Solidarists" is under the guidance of Messrs. Quer-ner and Sinclair de Rohemont. The latter's name does not appear to be Dutch, but is rather French, denoting that he is probably a Hugenot and thus a foreigner. This group gives a new twist to the anti-Semitic doctrine. It does not openly avow anti-Semitism, but expresses itself in favor of Zionism.

It hopes for the speedy realization of Zionist aspirations so that in short order it will be possible for all Dutch Jews to leave Holland for Palestine. Thus, it says, the pernicious Jewish influence in Holland will be brought to an end. The second of the anti-Semitic parties, is the "National-Socialistische Nederlandsche Arbeiders-Partij," National Socialist Dutch Labor Party. This party was born in romantic fashion in an old castle near The Hague "De Binckhorst." Its leader is Mr. Adalbert Smit, who in very un-Dutch fashion calls himself "Adalberto Smit," in fervent love for Mussolini who, however, disavows anti-Semitism.

Though Mr. Smit asserts that his party is really national in its objectives and vehemently denies it derives its program from that of Adolph Hitler, German Nazi chieftain, the 24 articles that comprise the program of the Dutch Nazis deviate but slightly from those of their German confreres. The Dutch Nazis under the leadership of Mr. Smit, seek to wage a battle against all the evils besetting their land as envisaged in their imagination viz. to rid the land of Jewish domination, of Jewish banking capital, Jewish warehouses, trusts, and places of business.

And last but least to rid Holland of Socialism and Communism, both isms being laid at the door of the Jews. The N.S.N.A.P. has been endeavoring to secure a firm foothold in Catholic circles. The great Roman Catholic papers have assumed a negative attitude toward the Nazis. The small papers either maintain silence or refer to this party in not unfriendly fashion.

Holland has up until the present been singularly free from official anti-Semitism. True, evidence of social anti-Semitism could be pointed to here and there. "De Groote Club," the Great Club, in Amsterdam, for example has persistently refused membership either to Jews or baptized Jews. This notwithstanding the opposition of an important minority. Then too, certain unions of the Amsterdam Federation of Students are closed to Jews.

Occasionally anti-Semitic allusions have been made in the press. But the protests against these manifestations coming from Jews and non-Jews alike have been effective in stigmatizing these efforts and reducing their importance. In the past the Jewish question, for example has not been injected into a political campaign in Holland. Occasionally opposition was expressed to a candidate for office on the ground that he had not evinced philo-Semitic feelings. But the matter rested there.

The question being asked now is: Will all this be changed? Will the Dutch Constitution be modified and at the same time the psychology of Dutchmen which will bring about a situation whereby the adherent of the Jewish faith, will no longer be eligible to government employ by reason of his faith, or will be debarred from influence, in national, municipal or provincial affairs? The vast majority of the Dutch people does not look this far ahead, does not envisage the possibilities of development for the National Socialist party. But it should be recalled that Adolph Hitler himself did not imagine in 1920 that 12 years later he would have 13,000,000 people behind him. The Liberal Party of Holland, understanding the possible dangers from the new Nazi party, some months ago, convoked a public meeting wherein the dangerous program of the Nazis was exposed and an appeal issued to liberal elements in Holland to be forthright in their opposition to the Nazi party. At the time, Adalberto Smit invited one of the Liberal Party spokesmen to debate the issue of National Socialism with him in public. Dr.

G. A. Boon, well known in connection with his duties in the lower house of parliament, who was challenged, promised his acceptance as soon as Mr. Smit could prove he had 2000 members associated with him. A decided effort to win liberal opinion to the Nazi program is made by "De Aanval," "The Attack," a Dutch counterpart of the German Nazi organ "Der Angriff," utilizing the general depression to which Holland is no exception, the so called mismanagement of the Socialists in Amsterdam and Rotterdam and the heavy taxation burden.

The paper never fails to mention that there are four Jewish Aldermen in Amsterdam, three of them Socialists and the fourth a member of the Left wing. In an effort to build up their party, the Nazi organizers have advertised for propagandists and are also emulating the example of their German comrades in seeking to secure funds to finance their efforts from Dutch industrialists and financiers. It should be said, however, that the Nazis are not finding their sailing altogether smooth. A section of the non-Jewish population is expressing its antipathy toward the movement by refusing to lease halls and rooms to Dutch Nazis. A number refuse to take up the sale of the "Volkischer Beobachter" and the "Illustrierter Beobachter." This however has not halted the sale of these papers, which indeed show an increase, as they can be purchased at various station kiosks and at book sellers.

How do Dutch Jews react to the efforts made to discredit them and injure their standing and indeed their existence The Jews of Holland have two innate characteristics of the Dutch. The ability to play a waiting game and the refusal to easily believe serious consequences will result. Reveal Bira Bidjan Committee In Palestine Tel Aviv. (J.T.A.) Police seized documents here revealing the existence of a Palestine Committee which is mobilizing immigrants for Bira Bidjan, the Far Eastern District of Soviet Russia where an autonomous Jewish region is to be established in 1933. The documents, it is stated, reveal that the names of 300 prospective candidates for Bira Bidjan settlement were submitted of which 140 were By DAVID SCIIWARTZ Envious Detroit The Hias at New York has a Jewish bread line.

So I have been told. And that reminds me of the story of the man from Detroit who came to New York. A New Yorker pointed out to him the big bread line at Columbus Circle. "That's nothing," said the De-troiter. "In Detroit, we have two breadlines one for rye bread and one for pumpernickle." Wallas and Lippmann The death in England of Professor Graham Wallas recalls the part he played in fashioning Walter Lippman.

It was, it will be recalled, Wallas's book, "Human Nature in Politics," and Wallas's lectures at Harvard, which set the author of a Preface to Politics on his track. Lippman in his Preface to Politics said as much: "His is the distinction of having turned the study of politics back to the humane tradition of Plato and Michaiavelli of having made man the center of political investigation." And it was on the basis of such a consideration of politics that Lippman himself could write: "A Tim Sullivan is closer to the heart of statesmanship than five city clubs full of people who want low taxes and orderly bookkeeping. I am aware of the contract grafts, the franchise the dirty streets, the bribing and blackmail, the vice and crime partnerships of Tammany Hall. And yet it seems to me that Tammany has a better perception of human need and comes closer to being what a government should be than any scheme yet proposed by a group of uptown good government enthusiasts." It's a Grand Old Name A writer in a New York paper points out the glory that resides in the name of Cohen. There is Octavius Roy Cohen, the writer; Senator Cohen of Georgia, the statesman; Wilbur Cohen, the tennis player; Andy Cohen, the baseball player; Otto Kahn, the financier.

Allen Dale, the late theatrical critic was actually a Cohen. Even in China, there is General Moshe Cohen, the bodyguard of the late Sun Yat Sen. In England, there is Jefferson Davis Cohen, millionaire race horse owner. In our Congress, there is Mrs. Flarence P.

Kahn, representing a California district. In academic circles, there is Prof. Morris Cohen. Yes sir, it would seem, that Cohen is a grand old name. If you are not succeeding in life, don't blame yourself or your name.

It's the economic system. Easy to Remember The name Cohen has many advantages. In the first place you can never forget it. That helps a whole lot, say, if you are absentminded, and someone suddenly asks you your name. If your name is Simpkins or Smetana or Throttlebottom, you have to scratch your head and start thinking.

But if your name is Cohen, what is easier You snap right up and say Cohen. Again, it saves you much time. I have many friends named Cohen, and I wonder if they know how much telephoning they have been spared, by my hesitance at looking through a half dozen pages of Cohens in the telephone book for their numbers. Names and the Public Woodrow Wilson's full name was Thomas Woodrow Wilson. But he wrote to a friend, that he needed a trademark in his name something that would make it stick so he dropped the Thomas as Hoover has dropped the Clark.

It is very important, as Wilson sensed, that the name of a public character should be one that easily remembers itself. Now what could be better therefore than Cohen. Perhaps to make it ideal one should have a name like Jonas Smith Cohen Levy. Nobody could forget a name like that. I dare say, if any public figure took a name like that, he'd be a made man in no time.

Just think of the reams of free publicity he would get, and who could ever forget his name. Originality Wanted We have on the whole, I should say, too little inventiveness goes in the making of our names. Our forefathers were much our superiors in that respect. Our inventiveness in nomenclature is largely that of translation. Schoenberg for instance is translated into its French equivalent of Belmont or Goldberg into Montor.

The name Hadas that of Rabbi Gershon Hadas of Kansas City and Dr. Moses Hadas of Columbia is synthetically original having stemmed from the fact that their parent, who was something of a scribe, was wont to sign his name with the letters H.D.S. (in Hebrew.) But for genuine originality, I repeat, we must go back to our patriarchal fathers. Abraham laughed therefore his son born about the time is named after the word "laughed" Isaac. If we followed the old Hebrew mode, many of the children being born now would be named Hard Times, Depression, Economic Cycle, etc.

Now I maintain such words as these are very suitable names. Of course, in the processes of conversation, they would naturally be shortened. Hard Times would probably be shortened to Hardy or Tim. Economic Cycle would probably find himself being called Ekky. But what's the matter with Ekky? Margaret's Jewish Lover Every now and then, I make some signal discovery.

I am now about to announce such a one and particularly invite the attention of Dr. Adler, Max Kohler and others who are the mainstays of the American Jewish Historical Society. The discovery that I refer to re Rabbis Ask Hindenburg to Continue Protection for Jews New York. (J.T.A.) A cablegram was sent to President Paul von Hin-denburg of Germany expressing appreciation of his sympathetic stand toward the Jews and expressing the hope that his support will be continued to protect the Jews from further attack by the Nazis, in accordance with a decision adopted at the close of the two-day sessions of the 15th annual convention of the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Iiabbis of America and Canada. The convention also adopted a resolution deploring the persecution of Jews in Roumania and Germany.

The five day week for workers was endorsed. Rabbi G. Wolf Margolies, dean of American orthodox Rabbis was reelected president and the other officers named as follows: vice-presidents, Rabbi Jacob Mendelson of Newark, S. T. Golubowsky, New York, Dr.

Gratsky; treasurer, Rabbi M. Margolies of New York; J. T. Levy, Dr. B.

Birstein, New York, secretaries. Ask Ouster of All Jews From Clergy and Church Offices Vienna. (J.T.A.) A demand for the ouster of all clergy and church officials of Jewish descent is made of the Archbishop by the Nazi press. The papers declare that a Jew even though he becomes a priest through the baptismal font, cannot become a son of the German people. They charge that the Christian clergymen of Jewish descent are opposed to the German nationalist movement and that they impose difficulties in the way of the Nazis, even in church ceremonies.

COMMUNICATION FEDERATED JEWISH CHARITIES Of Milwaukee. August 23, 1932 Mr. Nathan Gould, Editor, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My Dear Mr. Gould: I cannot sever my connections with the Federated Jewish Charities of Milwaukee without expressing to you and to Mr.

Rhodes the splendid and valuable assistance which the Federation and I have received from the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from the day I assumed my duties as Executive Director of the Federation. I believe I can say that in no city is the local Anglo-Jewish paper so thoroughly helpful in interpreting the work of all the Jewish agencies as is the Chronicle. You have consistently stood by us in all our efforts, and have devoted your great skill as writed and interpreter in carrying our message to every member of the Jewish community of Milwaukee. Please accept my heartfelt thanks for your loyal aid. Very sincerely yours, BENJAMIN GLASSBERG, Executive Director.

A Dangerous Supposition Some of our contemporaries who feel that they should ape the lurid sex sensationalism of the yellow tabloids in order to make their Jewish papers "interesting to the readers," are giving space to the Libby Holman Reynolds incident. This in itself is in our opinion the very height of bad taste in Anglo-Jewish journalism, which has heretofore studiously avoided involvement in the personal domestic and other troubles of individual Jews. In this sense the weekly Anglo-Jewish paper runs counter to the policy of the daily press which feeds avidly on the intimacies of personal misfortune. The fact that an individual charged with a crime happens to be a Jew does not by that token make "Jewish news." But some of our contemporaries seem to be intent on reading into the Holman case a "Jewish issue" to justify the mention of it in their columns. It is sought to parallel the Holman case with the Leo Frank case as a legal persecution inspired by anti-Semitism This is a most delicate matter and a highly dangerous supposition, and ill befits any Jewish newspaper to create such an issue where there is no proof that it actually exists.

The only evidence put forth to justify the suggestion of an anti-Semitic motive for the indictment of Mrs. Reynolds is the fact that Mrs. Reynolds was asked if her husband knew that she was a Jewess and if she knew that he possessed ari anti-Jewish attitude. These questions of themselves do not necessarily imply any motive of the examiner in a thorough investigation into all the facts and incidents of a. suspected crime, however remote they may appear to be to the actual commission of the crime itself.

Thousands of women unfortunate enough to be The Jewish Calendar 5692- 1932 Rosh Chodesh Sivan Sunday, June 5 First Day Shabuoth Friday, June 10 Rosh Chodesh Tammuz July 5 Fast of Tammuz Thursday, July 21 Rosh Chodesh Ab Wednesday, August 3 Fast of Ab Thursday, August 11 Rosh Chodesh Ellul September 2 5693- 1932 RoshHashonah Saturday, October 1 Yom Kippur Monday, October 10 First Day Saturday, October 15 Shemini Atzereth Saturday, October 22 Simchath Torah Sunday, October 23 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan Monday, October 31 Rosh Chodesh Kislev Wednesday, November 30 First Day Chanukah Saturday, December 24 Rosh Chodesh Tebeth Thursday, December 29 Also observed the day previous to Rosh Chodesh All Jewish holidays begin at sunset the preceding secular day..