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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
BY RICHARD X. MANOFF

Editors note:
This is an interview writ
ten for The Southern Jewish
Weekly about one of the
country's most famous Jew
ish personalities The career
of DR.. Elias L. Solomon mir
rors the career of the Amer
lean Jewish community in
recent years. His story is
the story of important
events, of beloved people
many of whom are now
gone.
One day in 19O7-it was the &C.
caSiOn of an important religious
HOLIDAY shy young man of
twenty-eight entered the very old
and very famous Kehilath Israel
Congregation in the Bronx Sec
ton of New York City and hest
tated at the door before proceed
ing down the aisle to his place.
No one knew it but our shy
young man. was the Synagogue's
new rabbi. He was to achieve
great prominence in the Ameri-
can Jewish community in the
years to come but at that moment
the brightness of his future Of
fered little comfort to the flus-
tered rabbinic as he gathered the
tatters of his young courage about
him and started his expedition to
the pulpit.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
Nationwide N. B. C. Broadcast,
March 9Th, Will Ask For Jewish Aid

challenge to humanity and the eff
forts of Jews in the United States
to carry on systematic program
of relief, rehabilitation and reset
tlement of distressed Jews in Cen
trail and Eastern Europe and re-
fugees from Greater Germany
through the fundamentally of the
United Jewish Appeal for Refu-
gees and Overseas Needs, which
represents a combined fund-rais-
ing activity.
The broadcast will officially
mark the opening of the 1910 cam
paign of the United Jewish Appeal
in ndreds of communities
throughout the country.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01

colt is applied against the export
of German merchandise into this
country, the American public will
have contributed most effectively
and adequately to the downfall of
the Hitler regime in Germany and
thus avoid the dangers of being
drawn into the war in Europe"
DIR. Tenenbaum stated in cOnclu-
sion.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
The Story OLA Great Jew

With every step his bravadO fall
tered. AT the pulpit, he paused
quickly and, silently and incOn-
SpicuOusly, glided into the first
vacant seat he saw.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
Jewish Mems Club
Dance Is Postponed

The Jewish Mems Club dance
scheduled for next Tuesday night
at the Jewish Center has been
postponed until a later date in
respect to Harry Broida, club
president, whose mother recently
passed away.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
Week In Review
RELIEF IN POLAND
~ MILTON BROWN. JT.A.

american principles of nOn-sec-
Ian, impartial relief won a vict-
last week against NaZi prin-
les of discriminatory relief.
Lfter the American Red Cross
the Commission for Polish
ief had staunchly refused to
nv on relief operations in Po-
i without American supervis-
to guarantee impartial dis
bution--a refusal bolstered by
Allies action in blocking ships
ring supplies until American
trol was guaranteed--the Nazi
horities retreated from their
ition and agreed to allow Am
an supervision of Red Cross
rations in the rump "Gouvern-
emit General" of Poland.
The supplementary agreement
h the Nazis was announced in
shingtOn by Red Cross Chair
D Norman HI. Davis, who said:
would not permit the distrib-
pn of supplies from the Red
rs warehouse in CracOW until
supplementary agreement was
ched."
ames T. Nicholson, Red Cross
resentative in Berlin, is now
to proceed to Cracow with as
by assistants as necessary to
eryise distribution Of six car
asof supplies now in the ware
se and eight carloads which
Fe en- route to Cracow from
lOa, Italy.
upplieS will now be distributed
petty through the Polish Red
sS, or, in areas where the Pol
Red Cross does not operate,
pugh local committees each in
ling five Poles, one German
one Jew. Wherever the Joint
Intuition Committee is still OPP
ling, it will receive the supplies
the Jews.
GERMAN PERSECUTION
Vhile yielding partially on the
e. question, the Nazis contin-
the anti-Jewish drive in all
IS of the German domain.
the PrOtectorate, DEGREES
issued blocking all Jewish
accounts and credit holdings,
placing all Jewish CONNER
Industrial and agricultural
rpriSeS under Government con-
Poland, Jews were ordered
lSt their property by today
Rfch u in what was interpret
as a prelude to confiscation.
ADDITION, Jews were barred
travelling on railway trains.
the Old Reich, expulsion of
was begun, despite Nazi
uses that it would not be un-
'~ken for some time. Virtually
entlre Jewish population of
un' numbering more than a
Sand' were placed on freight
US and shipped to an unknown
'natlOn in Poland. Reported
p'xt on the list for expulsion
me Jews of KOeningsberg.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
Anti Maj Week
Set For March $40

Anti-Nazi Week will be observed by thousands of or
CARNATIONS in the metropolitan throughout the
country March 80 under the sponsorship Joint Boy
colt Council of the American Jewish CONGRESS- and the lew
sh Labor Committee in cooperation with the Volunteer
Christian Committee To Boycott Naz Germany and the Am
erican Boycott Against AggressOr Nations
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-03-01
NISTERS EAT
KOSHER DINNER

III RIVER, Mass. (JTA)-
IL. oil River Ministerial Asso-
y, ATE a kosher dinner and
- Ialestinian songs when it
~ ~ the Temple BETHEL here
- monthly meeting.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
PROGRAM OF
FARMERS UNION
3-DAY SCHOOL

A Farmers Union three-day schoo
on March 6, 7, and s, at Lavon, II
the Farmers Union Hall is being
planned The hall is eight miles south
|of Melrose. The program follows:
March
200 Cooperative purchasing, A. L.
Hasbrouck.
2:45 Music, rest.
800 Round table discussion, WON.
en- in Co-operatives' leader, Mrs. A.
J. Rife.
3:45 World problems, TRADE Trea-
ties, H. S. Sylvester, Butte.
800 Cooperative Supper, Mrs. Lars
Kalsta, supper committee.
GAS Open Forum, John Albers,
leader, Unemployment"
1880 Music.
7:40 Cooperative Marketing, ]. B.
Garrison
$3.50 Slides ON Cooperative Move
ment, Walter Good
March 7
200 Cooperative Purchasing, A. L.
2:45 Rest, Music.
300 World Problems, Propaganda"
H. S. Sylvester, Butte.
600 Cooperative Supper.
GAS Open Forum, A. j. Rife, leader,
q Armaments.
1880 Music, Rest.
TAO Cooperative Marketing, ]. B.
Garrison.
$3.50 "An Adopted Way of Living for
he Great Plains, DR.. Carl Kraenzel,
Bozeman, College.
March 8
200 Cooperative Purchasing, A. L.
4asbrouck.
2:45 Rest, Music.
800 World Problems, (topic to be
H. S. Sylvester.
600 Cooperative Supper.
6:45 Open Forum, j. M. Love, state
IYA director, leader, National Youth
1880 Cooperative Marketing, ]. B.
Garrison.
$3.50 1.-THE Tree of Liberty" book
eview, Mrs. E. l.. Kunkel, Anaconda.
This program has been especially
for folks who are interested
n these problems and who want to
,now more.
Free lodging for those from out of
he valley. Coop supper 25c.
Public cordially invited to attend all
lasses.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
State Butchers
Federation Holds
Meeting in Helena

President John Mogus of Anaconda
called meeting of the State Fedora
ton of Butcher workmen in Helena,
Feb. IS, to discuss matters of i'm
portance to the various locals through
out the state A large number of
state delegates were present and labor
conditions of the various locals were
discussed.
A number of resolutions were adopt
ed by the assembly
Districts represented by the various
delegates were Butte, Great Falls,
Havre, Kalispell, Missoula, Anaconda,
Billings and Helena. A number of
members from various locals were
present also.
Subjects of interest to the organiza-
ton were discussed by j. Mogus and
George Wicks, from local No 1884,
Anaconda; Hugh Lee, local No. 1893;
Jos. Lunney, local No 1926, Butte; Bert
Posma, local No. 514, Havre; Ray
Goodman, local No. 242, Missoula.
A number of butcher workmen of
fleield locdl NO 20 were pTeSeHl anu
received the discussions with great in
terest. Local No. 299 has recently been
Regret was expressed that District
Organizer W. Swain of Portland was
unable to be present, due to the dis
pute on the coast by Swift & Co.
Also that Vice President T. j. Lloyd
Of Salt Lake City was called to an
important meeting of the information
al executive board in Chicago, ILL.,,
which made it impossible for him to
attend this meeting.
The delegates have voted to hold
several meetings of the state Fedora
ion of Butcher Workmen in Helena.
w. G. MAHONEY.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28

race slip back into the mud of the
dark ages. There are men that have
sacrificed their lives for the uplift of
mankind in hundreds of different
fields of progress that | would be
honored at the opportunity to do hon.
age at their bier every day in the
week But 1t would be rather incon-
sistent to ask youth or any one else
to do homage to those that put in
their lives destroying the body and
mind of youth and stopping the prog
ress of civilization just because they
were old. Youth is condemned by
these great intellectual thinkers and
writer's that are still thinking and
writing in the times of the fourteenth
century = condemned because they
have the audacity to progress in men,
tality Their minds have thrown off
the letters of communal thinking and
have scared out bit to look over
the fields of intelligence.
Youth was condemned because they
don't agree with the monied inter-
ests on this war question. They be-
lieve that their own families and their
neighbors' families of this country
should be fed first, that charity starts
at home and the right of life comes
before the right of death. But sum-
ming it all up don't see where these
payroll columnists and publishers of
canned editorials have any boiler COM
ing. They and their bosses have had
their chance at running this govern
mental show and have done a damn
poor job as far as the common people
are concerned. The very best that they
have ever done was to herd the people
from a war to depression and back
and forth. You no more get out of one
than you are into the other. If that
clique would retire and go to North
Borneo or some other British posses
sion and give the youth of this country
a chance to see what they could do we
might exc out living of decency and
health. At least they couldn't do any
worse than their predecessors have
done. And youth will be here when
age is fertilizing the daisies.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
BRITISH RULE
By J. B. BENTLEY

British tyranny invades the noun
tain Businesses of midas tribal SUD-
jects. For nearly century now Eng
land has tried to subdue the mountain
men of India. These mountain tribes
have fought the creeping paralysis Of
British rule that is dreaded by all free
dom-Ioving people because they realize
that their lot will be the same as
the rest of England's poor subjects
I don't think the living standards OF
London's poor is very enticing plum
to hold out to any nation or tribe,
no matter how untaught or how crude
they lived. And the living conditions
of the common people of India that
have bowed to the imperialist rule OF
England are beyond the pale OF west
ern human conception Disease, filth,
ignorance and broken manhood are the
order of the day. 1t is very easy to
see why British rules India with an
iron hand and wipes out the tiniest
uprising with the sword. India is a
vast country and is rich in minerals,
raw materials, jewels and livestock be-
sides having hordes of men, women
and children for cheap labor. India is
a huge, glittering, scintillating treas
ure chest, and England keeps the lid
wide open to herself, scooping out the
wealth by the ship loads at the ex-
pense of midas people
China felt the heavy hand of Eng
land in the 18th century and to what
extent she would go in her greediness.
The uplift of humanity was never
England's strong suit. 1t has always
been the British rule to build them
selves over the bodies of their dead
and mangled victims. Chinese teas,
silks and cottons were in great de-
mand in Europe and of course Eng
land was in on the ground floor.
China could produce in large quanti-
ties what the rest of the world wanted
and she had milloions of human beings
clamoring for an opportunity to work.
These people of China were in the
bracket of the lowest standard of liv-
ing They knew nothing else and 1t
didn't seem to ever occur to them
to demand more than just bare exist
ence or what was handed to them by
the overlords. England should have
been in her glory and satisfied with
the cheapness of these products put
aboard her ships in China. And for
while l guess she must have been,
as she paid for them in specie. But |
putting out good money for labor re-
ceived, no matter how small percent |
of the profit, CALLED dear, old England.
She wasn't satisfied with getting |
cheap product and reaping high pro-
fit on it, but she wanted to control
the industry and China. And what
was a better way than by controlling
the common people? India had a
beautiful flower called the poppy that
could be imported to China. That
would make a fine diet for the people
when they got used to it. With a
few shots of the poppy juice in their
carcas they wouldn't need rice for
their bellies or clothes on their backs
or wickups to live in. The care of
their children would be secondary
to them and man or
nation is easily controlled if they are
addicts of the poppy. You do as /
say or no more poppy juice. With
a boat loaded with opium setting just
outside of the harbor and crazy i
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
Lansing Letters
Continued From Page one)

CONTINUED From Page One)
been brutally shattered.
In the publication just put out by
the State department there is a letter
dated September 6, 1915, from Ian
sing to President Wilson in which the
situation is stated with clarity and
brevity. 1t reads:
"My dear Mr.. President. Doubtless
Secretary (of the Treasury McAdoo
has discussed with you the necessity
of floating government loans for the
belligerent nations, which are purchas
ing such great quantities of goods in
this country, in order to avoid seri
GUS financial situation which will not
only affect them but this country as
we'll
Briefly the situation, as / UNDER
stand it, is this: Since December LIST,
1914 to June 30, 1915, our exports ex.
ceeded our imports by nearly a bill
lion dollars and it is estimated that
the excess will be from July 1st to
December 81, 1915, billion and three
quarters. Thus for the year 1915 the
excess will be approximately two and
(a) half billions of dollars.
ut is estimated that the European
banks have about three and (a) half
billions of dollars in gold in their
vaults. To withdraw any considerable
amount would disastrously affect the
credit of the European nations and
the consequences would be general
state of bankruptcy.
eff the European countries cannot
find means to pay for the excess of
goods sold them over those purchased
from them, they will have to stop buy
ing and our present export trade will
shrink proportionately.
1.-The results would be restriction
of outputs, industrial depression, idle
capital and idle labor, numerous fail
ures, financial decentralization, and
general unrest and suffering among
the 1aboring classes
81 believe Secretary McAdoo is con-
WINGED and | agree with him that
there is only one means of avoiding
this situation which would so serious
ly affect economic conditions in this
and that is the flotation of
large bond issues by the belligerent
governments"
1t was put to Lansing in substan-
TALLY the same manner by Samuel
vice president of the Nation
al City Bank, almost year earlier.
On October %, 1914, bare two
months after the war began, McRob-
erts wrote:
I'VE strongly feel the necessity of
aiding the situation by temporary cred
its of this sort, otherwise the buying
power of these foreign purchasers will
dry up and the business will go to
Australia, Canada, Argentine and else
where.
at may in the end come back to
US but the critical time for American
finance in our international relations
Is during the next three or four
months and, if we allow these pur-
chases to go elsewhere, we will have
neglected our foreign trade at the time
Of our greatest need and greatest OPP
portunity."
1t was an opportunity" that did
not have to knock twice.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28
DETROIT omen
SOUGHT UNION
DATA IN RAIDS

| DETROIT (FP) "A clew to thu
motive of j. Edgar Hoover's Omen il
their recent before-dawn raids on the
homes of Detroit people was giver
by one of the victims at mass meet
ing on Washingtons birthday. The
gathering was a celebration of the
dismissal of the 16 indictments fol-
alleged Spanish republican army re
cruiting.
Harold Hartley, one of the released
prisoners, said that while he was be.
ing grilled IAN FBI agent told me that
the bill of rights doesn't mean a
thing" Hoover's men were especially
interested, Hartley revealed, in learn
ing the strength of local unions of
the United Automobile Workers (CIO).
'And when they finally let us go,
one of the FBI agents remarked:
Well be seeing you again." the
speaker said. The probability that
the FBI was more interested in union
activities than in prosecuting violators
of an 11S-year-old and until now for
gotten statute was also emphasized
by Phil Raymond, pioneer UAW-CIO
organizer
"The FBI meant to crush the De-
troit labor movement, not merely
handful of radicals" Raymond warned.
The meeting was sponsored by the
Civil Rights Federation, which led the
protests against the Hitler methods
used by the FBI men. In true nazi
style the indictments were secretly
returned, the raids were made in dead
of night and doors broken down. De-
PENDANTS were chained together and
treated like common criminals at the
federal detention farm at Milan.
A 23-year-old girl, Mary Paige, was
held incommunicado under $4,000 bail
she couldn't furnish. Bail as high as
$4,000 was set by U. S. Judge Ed
ward ]. Monet for some of the men.
Former Rep. John T. Bernard of
told the big audience: 81
feel am among select people. don't
always feel that way. You know /
spent two years in congress among
the Dieses, Coxes and Smiths"
The embargo. imposed by the u S.
on arms shipments to republican Spain
was called by Bernard "a crime against
democracy" 1--WE gave the forces of
fascism the green light" he said.
Warning that the dismissal of the
Detroit indictments would make re-
dictionaries more determined in their
assault upon civil rights, Bernard de-
clared that "the real un-American ac-
tivities are the undernourishment of
of the city children and
the huge roll of unemployed"
Miss Paige, the only woman among
the prisoners, remarked: This time
the U. s. gestapo did it crudely. Next
time they'll be smoother" The Rev.
Owen A. Know of Bethlehem Method
list church, treasurer of the defense
commented that "the de-
partment of justice reversed its action
not because it was unjust, but because
Of the vigorous protests that were
made"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28

nation hungry for 1t, 1t doesn't tax
much imagination to see what the re
suits would be. They would be OF
their knees begging for any kind o
terms. England wouldn't even have
to spend money for gunpowder to &C
complish her ends. But China hersel
saw the danger and was opposed tt
England making drug addicts out O.
her subjects. So there was constant
friction in the traffic of opium. Ii
1889 China attempted to stamp oui
the importation of opium which had
long been prohibited by the Chinese
government. This was not satisfac
tory to England so between her and
France, late in 1857 with the force
OF arms, they took Canton and other
strategic points. In order to save her
capital China bowed to England and
signed treaty legalizing the importa-
ton of opium into China
So England wants the United States
to move into Finland and save democ-
racy and free the Finnish people. Eng
land should first free her own people
from the slavery of Imperialism before
she takes up missionary work of
Justice in other countries. Her own
people in the British Isles have been
fighting off and on for years the
tyranny they have been forced to live
under. 1t hasn't been so many years
ago in history that England took the
land from the people, the tillers of the
soil, and forced them onto the high
ways without food or shelter to starve
and die. Meanwhile the aristocracy
used the land for sheep walks and
hunting grounds. With nowhere to go
except the public highways when they
were evicted from the farms, England
arrested these people for Migrants and
marked them by cutting off one ear
The second arrest they lost the other
ear and with the third arrest they
lost their life. oh, yes, King George
and Queen Bess have lineage of
in their background
that can't be equaled anywhere else in
the world. Even old King Henry the
VIII thought so much of his wives that
around homeless when he was through
with them. So he would just send
them over to the tower where he had
a strong arm employed with a sharp
axe and solid chopping block. And
he employed the best axeman in the
whole of the British Isles. He never
neck he took only one
swing with his axe and the head
would bounce up and roll down off
The block into basket as nice as
anything you ever saw in your life.
There was no hacking and pounding
ike some people have to do when
hey kill a chicken. Old King Henry
never was the kind to see a neck
nangled on anyone, especially on one
hat he had loved and mated with.
Yes, the rulers of England always
we're a humane lot And it is just
King George in the Finnish situation
His heart is bleeding for the working
people of Finland Of course it would |
20 unthinkable for one even to con-
jider the possibility that England |
night have her eye on the rich min
,ral deposits and the millions of acres
If productive farm land in Russia Or |
hat English imperialism is endan-
,ered No it must be just humani-
arian instinct with King George and |
Queen Bess, as they sprang from a
inc of humanitarians.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28

and price, the foundation of our dis
tributiye system?
At least the editors of Fortune real
ize that something is in the offing,
for they close their article on indus
trialization with the following words:
by industrialization we built new
civilization. And during the last fiji
teen or twenty years, by further in
naturalization, we have created the
possibility of an entirely new era for
mankind. 1t is time now to get to
work to make that era reality"
| leave it to you to judge whether
they realize that this new era of
has written across our
price system economy the word
DOOMED"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-02-28

In New York fine of $50 was i'm
posed on the first employer prose
cuted for violation OF the state unem-
ployment insurance law, Magistrate
Thomas Aurelio emphasizing that fu-
ture penalties would be more severe.