The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-09-20

full of projects aiming to alleviate
the plight of refugees abroad. {.
The most interesting is plan
about the Virgin Islands. An ex-
change of notes about this is go
ing on between Secretary Ickes
and the State Dept. IcIkes be-
lieveS that many of the refugees
in Europe who are entitled to Uni
ted States quota visas could be
brought over to the Virgin Is
lands to await there their turn for
the ViSaS. This would save the
unfOrtunates from falling again
into Nazi hands when awaiting
their visas i'm Europe. No spe-
cial legislation is believed to be
required for this act, since the Vir-
gin Islands fall under Ickes' adj
miniStratiOn. The bringing over
of refugees from Europe for a
temporary stay at the Virgin Is
lands would thus require only an
administrative order, should the
State Dept. find no objection to
such an order.
Another interesting project is
one coming from John G. Winant,
American head of the Information
al Labor Office. Himself one of
the greatest experts on immigra-
ton would be a major solution to
Americas econ o mic problems,
should the u. S. be deprived by
Hitler of the possibility of contin-
uing to export to the European
continent. A large influx of i'm
migrants into the U. S. would
create new markets here, is the
theory advocated by Winant. :.
We learn that the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, as well as other
interested bodies in Washington,
re seriously studying Winant's
project. :.
Preparations for a moving pic
ture depicting the life of DIR. The
OdOr Herzl are now being COM
pleted in New York by z. HI. Ru-
binstein, managing editor of the
Yiddish daily, The Day. The
fiIr1 is expected to be released
soon after the High Holidays. {.
Louis Fischer is now completing
in Long Beach, N. ", his autObi-
Ography, which will be published
early in the autumn. Aaron
Zeitlin, Well-knOwn Yiddish publ
cist and playwright, has been chO-
sen editor of Hatkufa, the vOIum-
nous Hebrew literary quarterly,
publication of which will be re-
newed by the Shtibel Verlag in
New York. Hatlzufa was Origi-
nally published in Warsaw and
later in Palestine.
HILLBILLY: B'nai Births Ber-
ME Postal passes on this story. :.
Rabbi Robert P. Jacobs, of Ashe-
vile, N. c., who broadcasts over
local station, received a post
card from a woman in a mountain
hamlet saying: 1--WE uns listen to
ur RADIO speechs never seen Jew.
Com Sc us so the chilluns can Sc
a Jew man." Not one to keep the
women any longer in ignorance,
Rabbi Jacobs and his wife made
the 89-mile trip to the village,
found the pipe-smoking, elderly
woman wEo had written the card.
The woman showed the rabbi to
her six children, telling them, "He-
uns Jew man." For an hour the
family inspected the two Jews.
asked h e m embarrassing ques-
tons. When they left, the family
was smiling pleasantly. The eld-
est girl shook the rabbits hand and
whispered: II put her to a-writin'
to va, preacher man. I'm glad
y'awl could come"
BROADCAST: A British short
wave brOadcaster, reports the Col
umbia BrOadcasting Systems lis
tening post, was reading a news
item about the air raid on Tel
Aviv when he suddenly stopped in
the middle of a sentence and stam-
gize. Haven't got the next page
mered: "Er. .uh. Il must aDOIO-