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The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-05-16
May 10, 1919.

against Jews, at various public
gatherings, mob, at Budapest, at
tackled and plundered Jewish restau-
rants. The rioters then entered the
National Theatre, expelled all Jews
present, and compelled the manage
ment to terminate the performance.
Jews were also driven out from
restaurants and cafes.
The Greek Official Journal has
published a decree ordering that
every Jewish community in Greece,
numbering at least fifty families,
who are permanent residents, is OBJ
liged to pay to the State annually
the sum of $1,000 drachmas
(francs) towards the cost of main
tanning Jewish public worship.
A bill has been introduced into
the Cincinnati CO., City Council for
the widening of Eighth street and
the elimination of Garfield Park in
order to obtain additional parking
space for automobiles. If this bill
is adopted it will mean the demoli-
ton, among other buildings, of the
Plum Street Temple This syna-
gogue, which was erected in 1866,
is regarded as the finest specimen
of Moorish architecture in the Unit
ed States.
The Municipality of Vladivos-
tok, the Stock Exchange, Chamber
of Commerce, and leaders of all the
Russian political parties have
adopted strong protest against the
pogroms in Poland
The Jews Of Bucharest organized
a demonstration in the streets in
favor of the establishment of a Jew
ish Commonwealth in Palestine. Fiji
teen thousand persons participated
in the demonstration. The process
sion was, however, broken up and
dispersed by the authorities and the
troops while it was on it's way to
the residence of the British Minis
ter to thank the English Govern
ment for the Declaration. The or
ganizers subsequently sent letters
to the Allied Ministers, to thank
their governments for the support
given by them to the Zionist lead
ers. They also dispatched a pro-
test to the government AGAINST the
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1919-05-16
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

Union against the Manufacturers
Association has been called off.
The terms of the settlement, ratl-
fled by both parties, include A.
hour working week, an average
wage increase of 10 per cent, and
provisions for the review of cases
where workers are unjustly. dis
charged.
The 1919 meeting of the National
Conference of Jewish Charities will
be held at the Breakers, in Atlantic
City, from May II to June l.
Among the problems to be dis
cussed are the project for national
school for Jewish social workers,
the Standardization OF qualifications
for Jewish social workers, and the
plans and programs Of the National
School of Jewish Social Research.
The Federation of Galician and
Bukowinian Jews has added it's pro-
test to that of the 'Kehillah'
against the proposed ordinance now
before the Board of Aldermen Of
New York forbidding meetings of
non-citizens and prohibiting the use
of foreign tongues of all meetings
here.
Mayor Couzins, of Detroit, Mich,
has named Fred NJ Butzel as
Commissioner of the Detroit House
of Correction.
Hon. Isaac May, one of Rome's
(Georgia) most prominent citizens
and president of the Hebrew Con-
gregation, was recently elected one
of the seven City Commissioners,
the governing body of Rome. He
had no opposition, and his election
was unanimous.
After thirty years OF efficient and
exceedingly fruitful service, Tenn
pie Emanuel of Denver, COL, has
elected Rev. DR.. William S. Fried
man (H. U. c., 1897, by unani-
nous vote, rabbi for life at an an
nual salary of $4,000.
X X X
At its meeting on May 1, the
members of Share Emeth Congre-
cation, St. Louis, Samuel Sale, Rab-
bi, Judge Irwin V. Barth, president,
ratified the recOmnendation of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
TYPEWRITERs IN THE ARMY

From the Stars and Stripes. The machine guns have quit but the
 typewriters are still busy. Up and down the length and breadth of .te army they go battering their way on through service records from to sub
 tects, payrolls. acquisitions. transfer7, clothing slips. passes and---yes--orde CTS home.
 The army typewrters-male, female and inanimate--never were buster than they are right Company clerks and sergeant major are more regal than they have ever been. not to say
 more pressed for time. But there is 1 always the blessed thought that the
 way home lies along the path of car 1 bon paper,
 ! The army typewrter-inanimate l has had to stand for a lot of abuse dur i ing these latter months. It is conceiy- | able that it might take, perhaps. ac- , tually has taken. two or three com plete batteries of typewriters to get ! a single messkit moved from one bar . l rack to the next But a general could not send an army into action unless 1 some other general ordered him to- | usually by means of a typewriter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The old-fashioned girl who used to Wee all the time now has a smart daughter who knows that crying draws the corners of the mouth down and makes woman red-nosed and Sloppy looking.
 Why does girl insist~on dressing that way and then get so shocked because the men look at her that way?
 Away down in his heart Q man knows that it was his orneryness that got him iVto trouble, yet he will go around whin- iEs and blaming it on his hard luck
 The fellow who is always preaching that clothes do not make the man is the same lad who is first to laugh at you if your pants are shiny on the seat. s'
 Women have more sense than men, You never saw woman who was a big enough fool to wear ear muffs, did you?
 Why is it that the man who carries a pocket full of letters of recommendation is always out of job?
 After shaking hands with a dozen as- sorted men you wonder how the hex a manicurist manages to earn a living
 Another damli: Once upon a time . man wrote his autobiography and gave himself the. worst of it.
 Every wife has a set of company pillow slips that are too good for friend hus- band to use. Ns
 Anyway, you never saw a man who was so absent-minded that he forgot to laugh at his own jokes.
 We saw the other day where a man @ years old got married. There ain't no sich animal as the Age of Discretion
 And you can always make friend out of fat woman by lying to her and tell ing her that she is getting thiner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
y, clean and Illuminating publlcs-

lly, clean and Illuminating publica- | ton.
 Regarding the auditorium project the Birmingham branch will seek t,le cooperation of the Chamber of Com merce and all our other civic bodies in movement for erecting a spacious and much needed building for mass meetings, conventions, operas and fes- tivals. It is proposed to dedicate the auditorium to the memory of our "boys" who made the supreme sacri- flee for love of country and humanity. Surely Birmingham will not fail to erect a fitting memorial. Why not have it take the form of an audito- rum?
 The Drama league campaign should meet with popular and whole-hearted support. It will be so if it is thor oughly organized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
COUNTY OF BIRMINGHAM

From the Chattanooga News.
 We note that the project of making
 the city of Birmingham separate county is being agitated in Alabama
 legislative circles. The impression seems to. prevail in the iron city that
 too much of it's good tax money is be-
 ing used in the outlying portions Of
 Jefferson county as the case now stands And this reminds us that :ho problem of a proper correlation of city and county governments is one which ought to have more attention than it is receiving. There is under the pres ent system considerable of costly du- plication of effort which might be and ought to be eliminated. Maybe it will be studied sometime in Tennessee, that is. if we ever get to- the point of re- vising our moss. grown and moth eaten
 constitution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

when he said the German people were determined to rule themselves. With Ebert as President and government established, they will have made a good beginning. But the end is not yet in sight. Strong guards were posted in Weimar to prevent attacks by the Spartacus group. The dele gates are feeling their way like chil- dren learning to walk. Liberty is a strange and a new thing
 Herr Ebert began his opening ad- dress with "Ladies and Gentlemen" !" That also typified the spirit of the times in the fatherland. 1t had never been heard before in a German legis- lative assembly. Nevertheless, it is hard to visualize Germany stripped of military pomp and ceremony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
WORLD HAS GONE TO POT

latures from spineless Congresses. or listening and trimming officials. The greatest benefactor of the country to- day is the man or men who are seek ing to arouse love of country, rever- ence for American institutions, and all
 in a sound, and wholesome, a sane and forward-looking public opinion
 The people! The idiots! When did they ever think right or go right, eN- cepting that somebody told them how? Turn over the pages of your Grecian history-your Roman history-your Pilgrims Progress and your Constitu- ton of the United States-and, when found. stick a pin
 Heve care! give it to you straight. There are no flies on this writing. I claim to be the only son of the seventh daughter of the sev- enth son in Q straight line from Brian Boru. the Scottish prophet-or was he Irish ?-and I know everything that ever has been, or ever will be. and tell extraordinarily, of course-that the world Is on its last legs; that,
 
 twice already, it is headed for a third descent into the vortex that yawns before it. the process being as simple and easy as falling off log; Woodrow to get back home with his gospel of sweetness and light. Marconi with his wireless to get in touch with Mars: some fool to explode from the top of Washington monument a bomb which will stifle the universe and destroy all living things, including the fantastical profiteers of Miami and the horsey. girls over at Palm Beach. I am not a pessimist. Dear no, but neither am I blind nor deaf and I refuse to be dumb. Even as it is, the world is up- side down; England in ferment: Ger-' many in flames; Florida and Hell-for- Sartin given over to the bolshevikf of prohibition; where shall we look for ray of hope?
 Miami. Fla.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
While Germans Grope
 Toward Democracy

: A N interesting drama, fraught GA with significance for the Ger man people, is being acted at the old town of Weimar, capital of the grand duchy of Saxe- Weimar, where Goethe and Schiller lived. It is there that the national assembly is holding it's ses- sions.
 Weimar, with less than 30,000 pop ulation in normal times, is crowded with delegates, men and women, too, who are i'll at ease in their new en- vironment. The old iron rule of the Prussian war lords is apparently gone, never to return. At last the German people are in position to think for themselves. No longer must they harken to their masters voice and make obeisance to Kaiser who mopes in Holland.
 Perhaps Herr Ebert spoke truly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Why Actors Trunks
 Are Often Attached
x x. #

1DATR1cK CASEY, manager of the < Vaudeville Managers Protective association, says from 5000 to 10000 of the 10000 vaudeville actors in America are out of work. Regarding the financial circumstances of players in general, MT. Casey says, "Ninety pc, cent of them are just four days ahead of the sheriff."
 While the average actor would doubtless be satisfied if he could stay a few laps ahead of the sheriff, Mr. Casey's statements indicate that the theatrical profession as a whole, that part of it which "works" on the stage, is not as opulent as the aver age person believes. Even under nor half the year they consider themselves fortunate, particularly if they happen to be vaudeville actors, most of whom lead a precarious existence.
 That there are 10000 "vaudevil- Hans" in America should not cause surprise. The average patron of this form of amusement wonders where they all come from, except those who style themselves European celebri- ties," but that half their number have no present means of keeping the wolf from the door offers food for thought An economist might ask, "Why not employ their energy and talents in more profitable and less uncertain pursuits ?" That question is easily answered The actor would rather starve in his profession than give up the footlights, which are in them selves meat and bread to him and compensate him in large measure for the hardships and actual want he sometimes endures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
INvICTUs

By William E. Henley. Out of the night that covers me.
 Black as the pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be
 For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the blundgeonings of chance My head is bloody but unbowed Beyond the place of wrath and tears Looms but the horror of the shade. And yet the menace of the years
 Finds and shall find me unafrad. It matters not how strait the gate,
 How charged with punishInents tn
 scroll, I am the master of my fate;
 I am the captain Of my soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08

Henry Watterson, in the Louisville
 Courier-Journal.
 C0N HE poor old south! The ridicu-
 lous denegerates that seem to
 constitute the present genera tion of southern men! l have been fighting their battles for 50 years and more. never asking an office or penny; when the Congress led By Thaddeus Stevens was conceding to them but two rights. to be hanSec and to be damned, when the hordes ot carpet baggery were sweeping down upouf them hip and thigh; when politi- cal salvery stared them in the face And now? Now they are hurrying to the voting places to establish an odious despotism; to set up house-to-houss spy system: to make 1t obligatory Tor neighbor to get pass to Vlslt a neighbor and for a free white. taxes paid and 21 years old. to be fined for kissing his wife on Sunday! To such base use must we come at last under the ministraton of the hay seed phli- osophy which would restore the age of Cotton Mather,' compel virtue by act of conventicle and produce cnil' dren by machinery.
 It is to convert a nation of men and women into a nation Of hypo- critics It is to elevate sanctlmony in the voice and make it the word of professional patriotism. They tried f. in Enoland under Barebones. When, under Satan and southern inspiration they triumph with it in America, who shall be the Cromwell to drive the traitors out? I read with a feeling very nearly akin to derision the fol- lowing from the generally clear think inE and level headed Senator Borah: l. "Democracies tend to make moral I towards of public men. Unless the ! people rise to the situation unless 1 they awake to the task and demand high ideals and truly American stand l ards there is no hope from state leslS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
FOES AMONG THE POLICE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 The seven mysterious murders which, bv common consent. form the climax to New York's criminal record durlhs January. remain unsolved and nave not
 even been followed by arrests or sus-
 pects Each was of unusual chardc'ef and all contained those elements Whlch
 the enthusiastic police reporter de-
 scribes as thrilling and dramatic. New
 ertheless none of tfye subjective eFi-
 dence was strong enough to give the New York detectives start. They are
 still marking time and the disappoint-
 tho circumstances leads editors of the
 hirpest city in the country to regret
 that Edgar Alien Poe lived and died too
 soon. They picture to the readers
 what an intellectual feast the author
 of 'The Mystery of Marie Roget could
 have were he alive today and probably
 at the head of a prosperous private
 detective agency. Points of similarity
 in two of the murders indicative of
 probably one criminal in both cases
 suggests nothing to the detectives
 but the editors believe those same evf- dences would have put Poe well on his way toward the answer as motive and possible identity
 Two young women. one mere enid, fbe other a young wife, were killed ln almost the same way and. singularly. according to the editors, the murderer removed and carried away the glove from the left hand of each victim. This is not legal evidence that the same man killed both, but the editorial sug- gestion is that it ought to be ciew for the police-and isn't. There IS a dramatic coincidence in the fact that the murderer of Mary Cecilia Rogers, the central figure in Poe's Mystery of Marie Roget" took place near where | the most mysterious of all the seven cases was discovered. Editorial criti- cism hints the belief that if Poe were alive he would blow up all the police | theories and furnish the key to the mystery not only of that but all the other cases. as he did in the Roget case. But not all detectives are Poes | in mentality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
E1MMlAaae1iI
BEER rN CUBES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Milwaukee-Here's a thought that will be an oasis in the thirsty desert sched- uled for July 1 by the drys. The vest pocket schooner in the great and glorious idea which the Milwaukee breweries arc said to have invented. It comes in tin box, in cubes. like powdered bouillon. All yo,f have to do is drop cube into your mouth, let cold waeer trickle down your threat and you have drink Of beer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Can't Stay Away

q can't stay away from the ola town" said Max Winkler, a former lawyer who is now a successful rico planter in Assumption parish, Louis jana. "The rice planting has been de. layed on account of the excessive rains, but it will soon be in full swing. l got to see Friendly Enemies at the Jefferson and greatly enjoyed it. We fellows who live away from the white lights appreciate the chance to get to see real first-class performance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
THE CABARET's FUTURE
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 The, Birmingham Age-Herald says the cabaret will disappear with John Barleycorn. No, no The Terpsichor- can catch s-catch-can wriggle at catch weights will sustain the cabaret until human feet learn how to behave The only thing that can kill the caba- soul and not to the sole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Confidence in the
 Business Situation

THE federal reserve boards
 4 monthly review of business con- ditions, issued Thursday, was on the whole optimistic. The situation has been characterized by reluctance of commercial buyers to acquire stocks Iof goods in anticipation of reduction of prices, yet there has been only a slight falling off of wholesale trade.
 The board predicted that the general level of prices would not decline much within the next few months. Confi- dence was expressed in a healthy de- Ivelopment of business.
 The trend of after -the-war events is following close along the line of pre- dictions made before the armistce was signed. A great era of prosper iity, but not immediately, was forecast. In the nature of things period of re- Iconstruction is in order, according to predictions Just how long it will last no prophet is ready to say. Not long, perhaps.
 The countries devastated by the war must be rehabilitated. Every com modity that the United States pro- duces will be in demand; and when conditions are readjusted and indus trial operations are established on a ipeace basis the wheels of shop and factory will tuln as never before and all branches of commerce will prosper.
 Strikes here and there will tend to dislocate business, but they will be of short duration. In the meanwhile in- i dustrial leaders will prepare for the coming days of good times. The first
 sign of returning prosperity will be
 in the building trades. America is short one million houses. This short age must be supplied and the ap. preaching spring should witness great
 activity in that direction. ~
 1 While the waiting period continues there must be no letting down of mo
 rale in business circles The first
 quarter of the year will be the 1nost
 unsettled, but when the new era doe'
 come it will come with a rush. | 4. x. ;s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Hotel to be RemOdpled

'I was glad to see the announcement about remodeling the Colonial hotei,' aid H. S. Limmer. It is one of the old landmarks and when 1t was erected it's front was one of the show things architecturally of the city, but fash. ions change in buildings Just as they do in dress and now It's to be remod- eled and made into an up-to-date hos telry.
 Gradually Birmingham gets more and more city like and things once good enough no longer satisfy the travelling public. Hotels like office ! buildings must keep pace with tho growing demands for comforts and conveniences or pass to the rear to make room for newer ones"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
ADVT.

From the Stars and Stripes.
 A poilu (three years in the trenchesl who has maintained in his flanneds a nursery for the raising of cooties of all sizes wishes to exchange several dozen for some American varieties. preferably young. Address all com munications to Office of Rire Aux Eclats; discretion assured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
stercoptIcon Pictures

Beginning tomorrow morning we are gong to have stereopticon pictures in our Sunday school.' said l.. E. Gray, s, perintendent of the Twentyfirst Ave nue Methodist Sunday school.
 "Our Sunday school is one of the first ir this district to use stereopticon pie lures and we expect to attract many children to the school who are at pres ent not attending Sunday school The plan is to have the pictures at the con by the lecture plan."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-08
Moose Lodge Growing

The Moose lodge is growing steadily" said R. M. Ingersoll. organizer for the orGer. "and I expect to open an office n the Lyon-Terry building on Third ave- nue and Twenty-first street next week when I will launch an active member slip campaign.
 For the past week I have been work ing in F,nsley and have met with splen- dld success, having secured a large mum Der of new members. I will be glad to meet any members of the order as soon as my new headquarters are opened