Evening star., 1938-01-24
%,5)0,O(D IS COAL
FOR PALESTINE AID
Large Scale Colonization
Program Is Stressed at
Jewish Session.

The Jews Of America were called
upon yesterday by the National Con-
ference of Palestine to raise $780,
900 during the coming year to finance
q large-scale colonization program in
Palestine to provide home for Jews
being driven out of Rumania, Poland
and Germany. The action followed
an address by Secretary Of Interior
1ckeS, who asserted at a session of the
conference in the Mayflower Hotel that
new restrictions and pressure against
the Jewish people have made 1.-THE
need for viable Jewish homeland in
Palestine greater than ever before"
The conference expressed hope that
Great Britain would continue it's CO.
operation In establishing such haven
for Jewish refugees in Palestine "on
basis essential to meet the, needs Of
the great masses of Jews"
The task of leading American Jews
In the new campaign was given to
DR.. Abba FIillel Silver of Cleveland
who was elected national chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal to succeed
DR., Stephen S. Wise, who will remain
co-chairman for the campaign with
DR. Israel Goldstein, Harold jacob,
Louis Lipsky and Judge Morris Roth
enberg, all of New York, and Rabbi
Solomon Goldman of Chicago.
As Cruel as Guillotine.
In condemnation of countries which
have Disseminated against Jews, Sec.
retary Ickes declared that such a
weapon is "aS cruel as the guillotine !"
He said such countries "have not been
conspicuously good neighbors"
The cabinet officer warned that
you as upon other minority groups, to
array yourselves not with, but against
those battling to preserve democracy.
Never forget that the foes of
Democracy in other lands were
financed by economic groups that
professedly were only attempting to
protect their property from political
incompetence.
Senators Bulkley. Democrat, of
Ohio, and Lewis. Democrat, of Illi-
nois. added their protests to that of
Secretary Ickes in condemnation of
anti-Semitism in Europe, as did Rep
resentative Kopplemann, Democrat,
of Connecticut, who declared that
Jewish persecution also is invading
the Western Hemisphere and pointed
to discrimination against Jews in
Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico
Mr.. Ickes contended that danger to
democracy lay in growing concen-
tration of economic power over other
peoples wealth. labor and lives. That
concentration has created sharp an
tagonism between the mass of the
people in whom, under a democratic
system, political power resides, and a
small class OF the people in whom
economic power is largely concen-
trated, he said
Cites Sharp Cleavage.
Much as We deplore this antagon-
ISM" he added, ''it would be mad
folly to deny its existence A sharp
cleavage between political power and
economic power always has been dis
turbing to democracy.
Mr.. 1ckes told the group that poll
tical power did not surrender to eco
nomic power when there was sufi-
cient diffusion of property among the
people to preserve democracy.
1T is only when they despair that
men yield their liberty and their
democracy to dictatorship OF the
right or the left in exchange for the
illusion of living
Good Will Is Stressed.
He said President Roosevelt wisely
pointed out that "the we'll being of
those who have much, as we'll as those
who have less, depends upon con-
tented society Of good will where the
good will rests on the solid foundation
that all have enough"
1T is not altogether an accident
that Fascist leaders who are not ac-
customed to defend their own actions
at home should be needless of world
opinion" he declared.
Asserting that relationships may
command obedience but cannot CON
script devotion and genuine loyalty"
he warned that free peoples of the
world always will challenge "the bar
bar1an philosophy of force and power"
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