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Fear Jewish Capital

The Jewish problem became a
problem in Hungary when Jewsa
competition. Jewish pressure ald
Jewish cultural preponderance be.
came apparent within the middle
classes themselves. and when Jewish
capital frightened its mold on the eco
ncMic resources.
AS the Jews soon exerted numer.
zeal power, too, Jewish ideals. mora
conceptions, Jewish taste and notions
began to dominate the capital and
through It the country. The Chris.
tian Magyars. inasmuch a they pos
sessed different ideals. conception:
and desires, Were unable 10 aifix then
own stamp TO the complexion Of The
capital city, as the Jews were more
alert, mobile, quicker of mind aM
more urbanized. Their outlook any
conceptions nodded the mage q
Budapest. Moreover. the capita.
soon began to assert its independents
from the provinces; it began to live
its own life. to have its own IDEAS
and ideals ard desires 1t deyel-
oped into a great city, Z minor ne
tropolis, debating its own pss
Budapest created is own tasie
fashion, literature. art, which ma
have contained Jewish clements. bs.
which We're. above all, metropolitan
the resultant Of the common life q.
100000 people crowded together
Budapest was superficial. easy-going
amoral; but its superfciality arc
easy sy-goingness were the contrib
tions of the Magyar upper class in
gredient, even though its amorality
was that Of the Hungarian Jew
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Ant;-Senitic Legislation

A characteristic specimen Of this
legislative campaign against the
Jews is q resolution submitted by
Deputy Budavary and adopted by
the National Assembly about two
months ago with only nine votes dis
senting. The resolution calls for the
enactment Of law which would pro-
vide that 4 Jew cannot own or lease
landed property; cannot own more
than one house and that only if he
occupies it himself; cannot acquire
citizenship; if he settled in the coun-
Try since 1914 he is TO be expelled ::
q jew cannot hold public Office OF
commission in the army; cannot be
professor or teacher, cannot be
managing editor of newspaper or
manager of a theatrical enterprise:
cannot be admitted TO the ranks OF
the army, gendarmerie or police:
cannot keep Gentle servants; must
obtain a special license for trade or
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AUCTION BRIDGE

Qucston-The declarer is p!ayine
TO make four clubs. doubled. The or
ponents have just enough sure tricks
to set the contract for 200. but the
declarer saves one Of these tricks bv
revoke, losing only one tricl. doubled.
Should not the revoke penalty be
doubled il the contact is doubled ?
Il c. c.
Answer-If the declarcr is set one
trich, that counts 100, and the penalty
for the revoke is another 100, SO that
the total is 200, which is just what it
would have been had The contract been
set two tricks, 40 revoke having been
made. An effort vas made some years
ago 20 have the revoke penalty doubled
il the contract was doubled but the
committee on laws did not Ike the
proposition.
Questio"-The dealer. q, bids one
pade; A. second hand, two hearts,
and Y. third hand, TWO spades 3 then
says: "I double three spades" On
being told the last bid was only two
spades, he bids three clubs. and finally
gets the contract at four clubs, and
goes game Is his shift legitimate 9
Z. s. s.
Answer-The next player. 4. could
have held B 10 the double o. spades
regardless OF his mistake in The size
Of the contract. BY his attempt 10
change the declaration Il leaves HIM
self open to the same penalty as for
a bid out of turn. If either y or L
cancels the bid out Of turn (three
clubs) and q passes, A cannot bid
and ii Y passes. the doubled spade con
tract stands But if Z. whose turn
it is to speak. declares without first
cancehng the three-club bid, then he
accepts it as regular, and there is no
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humble air of a whipped cur. Sud
denly, in spite Of the unkempt beard
and the emaciation which had so
greatly altered his appearance, l
recognized Maslof, one of the heroes
Ct the retreat from Poland.
Is it you, General?' I exclaimed
II didn't dare to make myself
KNOWN. he stammered.
"My heart was filed with pity.
Apparently the unfortunate man
was dying of hunger Food was so
scarce that even if gave him
money it wasn't certain that he could
procure a satisfying meal. SO l de-
cided to ask him:
Won't you do NE the honor to
take breakfast with me?'
His poor hollow eyes spanked.
No proposition could have been more
agreeable to him | brought him
home and asked Sonia to stretch the
menu little, if possible. AS luck
would have it, Stefan Petrovitch had
unearthed shoulder Of mutton that
very morning. In addition we had
dozen sour herrings, 4 little sau-
sage, some bread and som. potatoes.
1t was magnificent.
so, about noon, when six slices
of sausage, the half Of the shoulder,
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By Eugene S. Bagger

T\IFTY THOUSAND Hun
garian Jews are preparing
n to go to Palestine and settle
there as citizens of the new
Zionist community, says DR.. Israel
Rappaport. chairman of the Zionist
Executive of Hungary, now in New
York as delegate of that organiza-
ton.
This mass emigration, DR.. Kappa
port declares, is the result of the
systematic campaign Of extermina-
tion waged by the regime of the
White Terror since the collapse of
Communism in the first days of
August, 1919.
"Anti-Semitism, latent in prawar
Hungary, is to-day the supreme po-
litical tendency in the country" Dr.
Rappaport says. "lt penetrates
Hungarian society from top to bot
tom; it holds undisputed sway in
the governmental Offices. the ma
tional assembly, the courts, the
army, the schools, the municipali-
ties; it dominates the press and is
preached on every public occasion.
For a Jowless hungary
The leaders Of the so-called
Christian National Movement, which
is also monarchistic and militaristic.
openly declare as their goal the
establishment Of Jewless Hungary.
The terrorist officers who, after the
disbandment Of the old Austro-
Hungarian army, lost their jobs
and prospects in life have made
plundering Jews their regular busi-
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ifty Thousand Hungarian Jews Will Go to Palestin
A Wave of Anti -Semitism, Follow
ing the War, Is Blamed for
the Migration

commerce. Another BIZ Dro,;s.
that the percentage Of Jews ADM.
ted 20 secondary schools and -.
versities must be fixed ACCORDING ;.
their proportion in the total NOV.
lation.
The supporters Of the White ,.
gime maintain that ait Sero;t;s~
the weapon employed b. the Maor..
race by way Of self-defense apai,-,
the "destructive' tendencies of =.
Jews, and point out that mos, Of =.
Communist leaders under Bels r.,
were Jews. The real causes Of !.
present anti Semitic movement In,
ever. cut much deeper. 4 penetra,
ing analysis Of antl-Semitism !,
Hungary Is given in the yienn.
Hungarian Gazette by Geor,.
Boloni, prominent Magyar mi,
licist who. himself the descendan. q.
an ancient noble family, lives to-dsv
in exile because Of his liberal yieu,
Mr.. Boioni thinks that anti. Som
tism has no roots in the Magva-
masses; that it i, in the main .
middle class movement instigated h.
The financially decaying and cuI
turally backward Magyar gentry
with a view, on the one hand 0.
hiding their responsibility for the
disaster that the war mas broueh;
upon Hungary. and, on the Other
upon suppress;ng Jewish compe.i.
ton. Mr.. Boloni writes:
The Magyar peasantry had lirl.
friction with the Jews and even TO-DAY
it has little contact with the Jewish
question. The lie Of the Mag.
var peasant. his prosperity and al.
vancement were not much affected br
the few Jewish publicans, storekeep.
ers and landlords lessees who SCI.
tied down in the villages. The peas
ant had much more trouble with The
gendarmerie, sheriff and tax collec-
tor, with the thousand-acre estates
and the vast properties Of the
Church. The peasant did not haa
the Jew, as few OF their Interest.
conflicted; rather, he ignored him. a.
he would ignore all strangers he wa.
not bound 10 respect.
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Of those revuisions Of soul SO con
mon among the Russians.
In that case he said, I oT'
YOU restitution. Wait. You sns-
see that Stefan Petrovitch is nos
German dog.
He left the room
What did they rob you Of
asked the general
"'Of all that / had gathered r
gether TO flee from Petrograd-
about 10000 rubles. \ dozen o.
them divided the plunder This eR
must have got at least 5000 ruble'
/ hope he is going 70 give y~
back far share of them
God grant it. am lying O.
misery And perhaps could g.
away
After FIVE or six minutes Steia-
reappeared. He was grave az
seemed much subdued. He held !
his hand a meerschaum pipe arc
tile package Of tobacco.
Here you are, he cried. >
pipe is a sacred personal belongh
This is certainly yours. with y
beautiful amber mouthpiece- As
the package of tobacco, l, Stei''
Petrovitch, make you a present o. =
You see, brother, that We are l'''
We know how to repair a wro't
You can smoke a good pipetu
honor Of the Soviets.
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A Colony Already There
Auction Bridge

Jack, so they lead small card. This
IS a double error, because when a
small card follows a winning king
it denies both ace and Jack and in
dicates that the lead was from king,
queen and small cards only Some
players are so afraid of finding ace
and jack with the declarer when the
king wins in such cases that they
shift the suit, hoping partner can
come through the jack.
Here is q curious instance of the
loss that may arise through an in
correct continuation of III opening
lead.
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S l HAD the good for
tune to occupy an apart
ment with only three

rooms and d kitchen, -
Martial Duvenard told US, 'the So
Wet commissaries contentod them
selves with imposing on me as CO.
tenants citizen roofer and his wife.
This roofer wasn't bad sort of a
fellow. His name was Stefan Petro-
witch. His wifes name was Sonia
Mikhailovna. They selected one
room and left me possession Of the
other two. Yielding to her tradi-
tional instincts, Sonia offered TO
keep house for me. | couldn't re-
fuse. At first Stefan Petrovitch
grumbled a good deal.
"'Now that the workers are the
first order Of men, it is this former
baron who ought to clean our room,
he urged.
But replied Sonia, this baron
is not a Russian. For him nothing
has changed. 1t is right that we
should serve him.
THAT argument affected Stefan.
Nevertheless, he remained partially
uncoAvinced and kept up the discus
sion, having acquired great hux Of
words at the Soviet reunions.
"'The revolution will spread all
over the world, he insisted. And
the French barons, in their turn.
Will be pulled down off the top
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four slit herrings, pound Of bread
and dozen potatoes appeared on
the table, the general was moved to
tears. lie ate quietly but ravenous-
ly, while in the next room Stefan in
terlarded his repast with speeches
and attempts to play the plaintivc
balalaika.
Mon Dieu,' mumbled the old
soldier. when the shoulder Of NUT
ton had disappeared, 1T is certain
1hat only the poor know the real
JOYS Of earth.
at this moment Stefan. whose
manners were very familiar, pushed
open the door, sending before him
a strong emanation Of vodka.
Where does this little father
come FROM? he exclaimed, taking a
good look at the general a uni
form? Wait | know him. They
were going to throw him into the
canal with the others after the revo-
luton. Well, brother, he who led to
death has been led to death. The
time is past when you gorged your
self on sterlets and grouse, while the
poor mujik had to swallow bullets
and shrapnel'
My friend, answered the gen
eral,' l have twenty-seven wounds
three Of them in the breast and two
in the stomach
Stefan raised his silk hat. in one
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translated by William L. Mcpherson

made ideas. But sometimes he had
views Of his own. Thus one day he
demanded d new social classification
Brandishing the balalaika. he said:
The former rich ought now to
become workers. And the workers
ought to be rich. | ought never
again to lay tiles on a roof.
But, then Sonia answered. it is
they who would be the workers and
who would be in Che top rank
That reply gave birth to mex
naustlble discussions. Yet, on the
whole. the presence of this couple
was stroke Of providence for me.
Sonia gladly cooked me dishes made
out Of the strange food materials Of
that era, and Stefan Petrovitch put
her in the way OF securing these
materials.
One mol~ing l met in the street
an old general. IN uniform, selling
newspapers. The uniform was in
shreds and the ancient warrior had
on very disreputable linen. His face
vas shrunken and his eyes were hol-
low.
"Moved by compassion | bought
half a dozen journals. The general
looked at me lmplorlnclv. with the
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HERE Hungarian Jccsh ony of iddle class INTEL
| ectuols training J0r agricultural Hfc model farm
near BNd0pest

ton Of the Jews that 7 feel aston
ished that any doubts should yet be
expressed about its reality The
persecution is different in Budapest
from that in the provinces. In the
capital you see no acts Of violence by
day. 1t is at night that the crimes
are committed, when little groups of
Awakening Hungarians,' members
of the anti-Semite terrorist society.
armed with iron slaves covered with
leather, or officers Of the various ter
rorisk groups. sally forth and attack
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roosts. Sonia Mikhailovna, you still
haNe the heart Of slaye.
1T was the gospel truth. Sonia
had 10 greater pleasures than pol
ishing my furniture and cooking my
meals. Stefan Petrovtch watched
her doing her work While he deliv-
cred MaXimalist discourses. But
often he couldn't resist the tempta-
tion to lend her a hand.
For the most part, he gave HIM
self over TO idleness Having taken
part in aNexpropriaticn OF capital
some Of it in the vaults cf banks,
some in the possession Of former
generals, he had laid up enough to
lead a life Of leisure for time, in
spite OF the high price Of food. He
Wore beautiful new fur overcoat
which had come to him through d re-
distribution Of clothing at the ex-
penSe Of former owners. His head
gear was an astonishingly tall silk
hat, which dated, as he said, from
the era Of Car Alexander III Thus
decked out he enjoyed his new ex-
istence. That is to say. he absorbed
copious rations of vodka. devoured
as much fish snd meat as the hard
times permitted. attended lnnumer-
able Bolshevist meetings, and tried
hard to learn to play the balalaika,
though without the slightest sue
cess.
In crano,-ol L. ncnn,toA r,n l..
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X ~ cards go down, and the stu
alton there developed may
have considerable influence upon
the leaders continuation if he wins
the first trick. If dummy could
trump the second round, for in
stance, it would be very bad play to
let him do so if there were anything
else to be tried.
Before one learns how to make ex-
ceptional plays to meet exceptional
cases, however, one should learn the
conventional methods adopted by the
best players for the second round Of
a suit, after winning the first round,
or on getting into the lead again
later. These secondary leads sup
pose that du.nmys cards and those
that fall make no difference. The
object IS to make it clear to the part
ner what is to bc expected in the
way Of winning cards in the suit
opened.
The leader shows what tricks he
can win with high cards; his part
ner shows what he can trump after
the high cards are gone, if there is
c trump.
Having started with the king, for
instance, the partner knows it has
been led from some one OF several
combinations that contain either
ace or queen or both. He does not
know which it is, even if the king
wins, as the ace may be held up If
the partner holds the ace himself
or the declarer wins the trick with
the ace it should be a certainty that
the leader holds the queen, but the
position Of the jack is not clear un-
less it is in dummy or third hand.
There are no less than eleven COM
binations of high cards from which
king may be led, and it is the duty
of the leader to indicate to his part
ner as clearly as possible which one
of these it is that he holds. The
governing principle in these second
leads is never to tell the partner
anything he already knows, if you
can tell him something he does not
know
For example: Holding ace-king-
queen, after leading the king, your
partner assumes, if it wins, that you
have the ace; but he does not know
that You also hold the queen, so lead
that card for the second round. To
continue with the ace would be to
deny the queen.
Even with A X Q j. the second
lead should be the queen, so as to
avoid the possibility Of the partners S
mlStaklng the combination for K Q
J, without the ace 1t must be re-
Eembered that the declarer is not
obliged to win the king with the ace.
If The Lead is from X Q J the correct
continuation is the jack, which tells
the partner that the ace is being
held W Sometimes very useful in
formation because the declarer
must be afraid of something, or he
would win the king.
One Of the most common mistakes
made by untaught players is assum-
ing that the opponents will win
everything they can. and in nothing
Is this mistake moro apparent than
in the way they lead from X Q j
and others.
If the king wins, they jump to the
conclusion that their partner must
have the ace, and think it waste
Of good material to go on with the
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lIEARlS

Question---A bets that in q lour-haud
partnership game cacn should give up
his highest card when plain suit is
led; or the partner i. deceived
}. T. J..
Answcf-It is sometimes very neces-
sary to control the lead, especially
when one can lead small hearts to
advantage. To hold up The king Of a
suit until the second round. instead Of
throwing il under the ace. is com
mon play among experts
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One Breer, his wife and son; a
GartenzaN Nathan Breier. a teach
er; Mrs. Hermina Singer and son.
one Molnar ard Morris Singer. At
the Military Hospital No. II, at
Budapest. there is Captain Nestny,
an officer of Jewish birth. who had
served in the Hungarian army for
six years; they shattered all his
ribs. Inquiry into his case was made
by Mr.. Cerutt. head Of the Italian
mission.
Il was sitting with Dr. Szekely, Il
member Of our committee, in from
of the Hotel Hurgaria Che most
fashionable hotel in Budapest)
when suddenly we heard shouts
Down with the Jews. Let's Kill
them all" The mob then entered
the hotel and in the presence Of
hundreds of people attacked one Mr..
Braun, a gentleman Of seventy six,
we'll known and respected in the
city, and crushed his head TO pieces
they literally bathed him in his own
blood The perpetrators Of this
crime were arrested, but they were
discharged a few days later.
One of the Victims
81 was present, with Dr. Ernest
Deutsch, when on the Deak Square
a military detachment arrested the
wine merchant, Mr.. Nader, and
when his son protested they took
him, too. I saw Mr.. Nader about
four days afterward; he had an open
wound on his body about one foot
in diameter. his eyes We're COM
pletely swollen in and he had wounds
on his skull, too
"a young man, Mr. kanitz. who
had been recently honorably dis
charged from the army, where he
served throughout the war, was
stabbed in the heart. l could relate
large number Of similar cases.
Mr.. Oblath also charged that as
transports Of prisoners of war re-
patriated from Siberia arrive in Hun
gary the Jews are weeded out and
many Of them are murdered. He
said that these prisoners were ac-
tually better of in the Siberian camps
than in Hungary under the White
regime. and advised against raising
funds in The United States for re
patr;ation purposes.
But tie outrages perpetrated by
the military attachments and the
hooligan bands known as the Awak-
ening Hungarians represent merely
the eXtraleeal aspect Of the White
Terror. Oppression and persecu-
tion Of the Jews is managed at the
same time by legislative means as
we'll. The avowed aim is to elimi-
nate the Jew from Hungarian life.
to make his personal advancement
ard his sheer subsistence
difficult,
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y orse in the Provinces

But i'll the provinces terror is
rampant, both day and night, where
ever jews dwell, for there is no need
to study anybody's feelings. Jews
are dragged out of their houses,
abused, hogged. robbed, tortured and
driven or deported to some other
town or to Budapest itself. They are
compelled TO SIGN fictitious confess
sions Of penal otfcnses, and if they
refuse at first they are fogged un-
til they submit. They are accused
or illicit trading, Of way profteering,
Of unemploynent-of anything; the
real accusation is that they are Jews.
The tortures that have been inflicted
ON Imprisoned Jews. both in the
provinces and the capital. read like
q chapter from the Inquisition. They
are logged naked until they are UNI
conscious; they are then besprinbled
With wator and asked what is the
matter. # the victim is wise enough
to say that he had fall or some
thing similar, he is allowed to 90,
though not without . parting warn
lag that if he divulges what has hap
pened to him he will meet with a
sorrier tate next time
"The main instigators of the ter
ror are officers who are no longer
wanted for the army and who find
their subsistence by plundering Jews.
These officers belong 10 particular
dotachments Of the national army.
hut the attachments act independents
ly Of the supreme military command.
They may not number mor9 than a
few thousand, but they act with
such assurance, energy and efront-
ory that the government does not
venture to Interfere with them"
Says the report of the British
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Professional Men, in Preparation for
the New Life, Take Up
Agriculture
AgrlcuIture

ness and livelhood-and a very
profitable one at that.
Hundreds Of Jews have been
massacred or tortured to death
Thousands are rendered homeless.
Under these conditions thousands Of
Hungarian Jews turn toward Zion
ism, and are resolved to build up a
new existence under the protection
Of the British Empire in the land of
their forefa:hers
Every marked is the tendency to
emigrate to Palestine amid the Jew
ism intellectuals who form the back
bone Of the hungarian intelligentsia 2
According to the files Of the Hun
garian Palestine Bureau at Buda-
pest, up to the spring Of this year
Jews from the following walks of
life have applied for transportation
to Palestine: Four hundred engi-
neers. 800 physicians, 200 lawyers
and about 10000 other middle-class
people, among them many well-to-
do merchants and a number of art
lists and musicians. | believe the
number Of applicants and actual emi-
grants would be considerably LARGER
but for the enormous difficulties con-
tingent upon leaving Hungary, above
all, the state of the exchange.
A Colony Already There
"These difficulties notwithstand-
ing, the Palestine Bureau at Buda-
pest, succeeded in getting a trans
port of 300 emigrants on the way,
and to-day there is already small
but prosperous colony Of Hungarian
Jews in the Holy Land, most Of
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any, unsuspecting Jew from behind
and belabor him until he is senseless.
No wonder that The Allied missions
stationed at Budapest know SO lit
tie Of the White Terror. The ter
rorlsts-Baron Pronay, Count Osten-
burg and Lieutenant Heijas-are
much too wise to carry on their evil
work in the full glare Of the san, or
to disturb the tranquility and re-
inement of the fashionable hotels or
ar.atocratic missions.