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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-06-21
When The War Ends

Another Roosevelt prophecy is by by way of becoming
true just eight months after it madeand scOffed at
On October II of last year the President addressed the
officers of the nergovernmental Committee Refugees
and he told this committee, headed by Lord Winterton of
England:
"When this CHASTITY ends there may not be mil
lion but ten million twenty million men, women and chill
many countries and possibly several continents who will
enter into the wide picurethe problem of the human
fugee."
The French and English delegates who had come to
Washington seeking aid in caring for two to three hun
ed thousand German Jewish refugees then within their
border and in temporary sanctuary in the small neutral
States yawned smiled and refused to lay the groundwork
for broad refugee policy to for the program which the
President foresaw. All they wanted they emphasized
to find homes for the wandering Jew within their own Dor
derS
And the dusty roads of half of Europe checked
with wandering human cargo, of whom only small per-
cnage Jews and there is not hand the machinery
for caring for them may be that the Presidents out
side figure of twenty millions may be exceeded eventually
for England may become refugee nation may become
necessary transport from England to Canada nnumerabe
thousands of chdren-sO that the British people live
and survive.
It is largely our fault-we in America who have lacked
the foresight and imagination to see the lowering CLOUDS
and know storm coming. We have formed many COM
mtees and done much talking with big Words and all the
time that last boat West readying to saony we did
not believe it would be the last boat
In larger sense the English and French governments
also missed the last boat The last boat sailing when
President told the nergOvernmental Committee, Ell
months agO
II have suggested that the current task is small in COM
paon with the future task The will come to an END
day. and those of who reass know that IN It's
wake the world will face a refugee problem OF infinite
" greater magnitude" (Pat FRANK
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-06-21
Palestine In Wartime
Bv r. o. BERG
Bv ROMAN SLOBODIN

Since last September 2OOOOOOO people around the Med
erannean Sea have lived in dread of word from
They were sure Mussolin would say: "War" They
pected it in April
The "hand that held the knife" remained poised until
june Two hundred million people had two months respite
two months unexpected lease the decencies of life
They actually grateful for it, Such is the greatness
CT the world today that during the wartime hafyear the
writer spent in Palestine of the most pleasant topics of
conversation the orunae position of the Near East
Palestine undeniably did become peasanter place to
live after the started the first shock had passed
Terrorism died down to occasional incident There
plenty to eat for the lanes by which the country i'm
ports large port of it's food supply remained open. The
citrus industry shot to pieces and other industries
off from important supply and markets in Cen
trail Europe. But the Government through with relief
grant which helped Matters and business waited hope
fully for orders from the Allied armies in the East I'm
employment and poverty widespread but of the
Jews and few Arabs starved
And there peace, however evanescent and shaky.
The only of gunfre and bombing planes from the
1eassuring maneuvers of British troops
Now the Mediterranean is closed. Italy has mined the
"bOtte neck between Sicily and Tuns She is trying to
close the bOt neck at the southern outlet of the Red Sea-
which would have the effect destroying the Suez
Canal The canal itself will undoubtedly be object Of air
attack If she succeeds the only route from Western Europe
Palestine will be the devious through the Persian Gulf
and overland through Iraq.
Forty thousand fighting men are going to loom very
large in the Near East Perhaps Jewish Army will
soon be fighting at the side of the Allies
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-06-21
BETWEEN YOU
AN D M E
By PAUL A. PETERS

QUESTION: What, we wonder
dOlefully, has happened to a young
ster named (remember) Herschel
GrynsZpan? -. When last heard
from he was in Paris cell await
ing trial for shooting a German
Embassy official. The only
thing the French hold against
young Herschel now, probably, is
that he didn't knock off enough
NaZiS.
PASSENGER: We expect to get
a first-hand account very shortly
of that dramatic encounter on the
high seas off Lisbon between the
American refugee liner Washing
ton and a Nazi submarine. It
will be from Samuel M. Schmidt,
editor of the Cincinnati Anglo
Jewish paper Every Friday.
Schmidt, who was on his way back
home after an extended trip to
the Baltic countries on behalf of
the Polish yeshivoth, was pas
Senger on the liner.
DESCRIPTIONS: Best word pic
ture of MussOlini we have yet seen
is the one supplied by the British
periodical New Statesman and Ma
ton. Which said Duce was "clad
in shining blackmail." ..
OBITUARY: For nearly 20
years, Maurice Bisgyer, secretary
of B'nai Birth, has spent virtual
ly every weekend with his father
and mother in Baltimore. But
fate played an ironic trick on him
last week. His father, Joseph
Bisgyer, died Sunday morning
while Bisgyer was racing back
from Chicago from an important
B'nai Birth meeting.
CANDIDATE: Edward Kauf-
man, Washington millionaire, is
being doomed by the Goldman for
ces as candidate for the ZOA pres
idency. ;.
THEATRICAL: According to
theatrical agents specializing in
supplying talent for hotels in the
borscht belt theatre parlance for
the Catskills) actors working the
belt will earn something like $780,
900 during the present season.
Bands will make good part of it
knocking down as much as SIZE
to 1925 per week plus, as Variety
points out, all the lox they can
eat.
REFUGEES: The Japanese line
at Yokohama has been booked sol
id for the next two months for
passages to the United States.
The bookings being by refugees
from NaZi-held territOrities who
have made their way to Japan by
way of Siberia. =.
CULINARY: Jascha Haifetz and
wife, Florence Vidor, Toasted on
delicatessen when in Buenos Aires
recently. A large crowd gath
cred outside the delicatessen shop
and cheered the couple when they
emerged after a meal that started
with herring and ended with pas
trami. The shop is on Corrietes
Street, the Second Avenue of New
York. -.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
THE GUILD TRADITION

THE news from France that the Bordeaux
Bakers Syndicate suddenly found itself faced
with the problem of baking sufficient bread for
the cty's refugees fleeing from the Hitlerian
hordes to the north and east of the city, can only
be greeted with grimness and a hope that there
will be enough bread to go around.
According to all reports 100000 refugees from
the French provinces crowded into historic Bor-
deaux seeking temporary sanctuary, at least This.
in addition to the surrounding Department of
Gironde which is also shetering tens of thous-
ands of refugees from the Moselle area and else
where, say the dispatches.
The task before the bakers required increasing
their production 900 times the normal amount of
bread in Bordeaux in one normal day. According
to the scanty reports available, they had to resort
to ancient methods to meet the needs OF the
troubled hours.
Heroic work like this is typical of labor unions
the world over in times of crisis. Back in medi-
eval days. the bakers of Vienna saved the city from
the Turks. The traditions stemmng from the
medieval guilds have never been found wanting in
the present structure of organized labor The prob
lem faced by the Bakers Syndicate of Bordeaux is
one of many faced through the centuries by the
craftsmen of then and now. Our only hope is that
the flour supply lasts while the Bordeaux demand
exists. According to all reports there is an ample
supply. While that is so, those French bakers will
carry on.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
SOUND AMERICAN PRINCIPLES

I .EADERS of sixteen national organizations un
IL der the auspices of the Citizenship Educationa
Service have issued statement calling upon al
citizens to unite in defending the essentials of de-
The statement epitomizes sound Amer
icanism and deserves wide circulation.
Among organizations represented in the appea
are the American Federation of Labor, the Fed
eral Council of Churches the Workers Education
Bureau of America, the Boys Club of America
the Camp Fire Girls and the Boy Scouts.
The declaration of principles includes the res
olution:
To be vigilant and courageous in main
tanning human sympathy and respect for the
rights of others;
To beware of the enemies of democracy,
whatever their passwords or places of birth,
and wherever they may be found;
TO stand united with all lovers of freedom,
whatever their tongue or origin;
To keep our nation strong in valor, and
confident in freedom, so that government of
the people, by the people, for the people shall
not perish from the earth
AS the New York Times remarks:
"These principles are poison to all enemies O
democracy. They march side by side with mill
tary preparedness. Without military prepared
ness they cannot be successfully defended, bu
without them military preparedness would com
mand no enthusiasm and would probably fall
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU SEE RED

4 Justice Of the New York State Supreme Court
rules that it is not libelous to call an Ameri-
can a Communist. He points out that while the
Communist party actually has it's roots in for
eign lands" and while it's members "have poten-
TALLY obligated themselves even to overthrow our
government by force and Violence, the party still,
under the existing law, may function as potl-
cal party"
The decision in question shows how extremely
careful Americans are to preserve the democratic
rights which individuals and minority groups in
this country enjoy. In the of the Communists,
indeed, we lean over backwards to insure protec-
ton for an organization that has no respect for
and no understanding of the very principles which
make it's continued existence here possible.
1t may not be libelous at the present time to
call a person in the United States Communist
but it strikes being about the most insulting
"non-libelous' remark that could possibly be ad-
dressed to an American citizen!
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
ANOTHER APPEAL.

ONE more appeal for charity has gone out to the
" Nation 1t is an emergency call headed star
walton takes no vacation" and is issued by the Fed
era Council Of Churches of Christ in America. Ad-
vance notice of the appeal given out in adj
vance to the nations labor press, no doubt with a
view to seeing that the drives publicity reached
members of organized labor.
AS always, labor will give and give generously
The cause sponsored by the Federal Council is a
worthy one. The money collected will go to the
American Friends Service Committee which is al,
ready actively at work feeding children in southern
France The Church Committee for China Relief
aiding the starving in the Far East, the American
Committee for Christian Refugees the lnternatl
onal Missionary Council and other similar organ
izationS.
Appeals for clothing are also made.
There is no doubt that the principal sufferers
in war-torn Europe, as always, are the poor, the
mothers, sisters, wives and children of conquered
Europe's aborng men, stolid members OF labor
unions in formerly free countries, now being de-
mobolized into poverty or still in uniforms. That
is all the more reason why free worllingmen anC
women of America should give all they can.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
Federal Court Refuses
To Ban Union Picketing


Washington, D. C.-Federal District
Judge James w. Morris refused to
prevent Transfers, Chauffeurs and
Helpers Local No. 639 from picketing
a restaurant which bought ice from a
company with which the union had
controversy. Suits filed by the ice
company and the restaurant owner
named the union and four of it's Off
GERS as defendants.
Judge Morris ruled that labor dis
pute was involved and that therefore
the court was forbidden by the Norris
La Guardia Act to grant an injunction.
He refused, however, to dismiss two
damage suits against the union result
ing from the picketing.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
CHILD LABOR LAWS IN NEW
JERSEY ARE STRENGTHENED

Trenton, N. J. GLNS).-Broadening
of the child labor law in New Jersey,
prohibiting children under IL years of
age from working, requiring children
under 16 to attend school and prescrib-
ing the types of work that may be
performed by those between II and
Is, became fact as Governor Moore
here put his signature on the amenda-
tory bills.
Organizations that supported the
measures in their progress through
the Legislature and which were repre-
sented at the State House today when
the Governor affixed his signature
were the National Child Labor Com
mttee, the State Department of La
Dor, the Consumers League, Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs, League of Wo-
men Voters, Women's Trade Union
League, Children's Aid Society of the
Oranges, Woman's Clubs of Orange
Episcopal Diocese of the Oranges, New
Jersey Education Association and the
International Ladies Garment Work
ers Union.
School Hours
Heretofore children have been per
mitted to leave school at Ia to take
employment provided they attended
continuation classes. Under the new
legislation they can work only outside
school hours, and during vacation
periods until they are 16. No girl un.
der Is can do work that requires her
presence on public streets.
Boys who have attained the age OF
IL, may sell newspapers in residential
areas except on Sunday and do agri.
cultural work after school and during
vacation. Boys of IA or over now car
sell newspapers anywhere seven days
week when not in school, sell other
periodicals, solicit subscriptions, can.
vass from house to house, shine shoes
and engage in similar street pursuits
From 16 to Is boys can be employed
in industry provided the work is not
too hazardous.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
1T CAN BE DONE

THE proof of an inventors dream is that it can
be assembled in wood and STEEL can be mott
vated and made to perform the functions for
which it was designed. Just another way of say
ing the proof of the pudding is in the tasting of
it, AS this applies to inventions and puddings so
it applies to UNITED LABOR MOVEMENT
Leaders of labor from unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, the Congress of
Industrial Organizations and the Railroad Broth
erhoods have sat down with Sidney llillman, La
Dor Co-ordinator of the Advisory Defense Com
mission, and worked in harmony for the interest
of our national welfare This was not dream, it
was a fact. These representatives Of labor met
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
WORLD ART COMES TO AMERICA

THIS year the main cultural exhibit at the New
York Worlds Fair, as it was last year, will be
the art exhibition. The current collection covers
four centuries, and consists of 400 European and
American paintings valued at $30,00O,000. Prac-
tically every great name in art from Titan and
Rembrandt to Degas and Renoir, is represented
Millions of Americans will experience the
deepest of aesthetic pleasure when attending this
magnificent exhibit. And, more than that, it is a
fitting thing that so many of the shining master
pieces of world art should be gathered in this
country at this time. Bombers are not attacking
our cities. 1t may be, tragic as the thought is,
that concentrating art masterpieces in our land
may save them from destruction.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
LABOR GUARDS DEFENSES

THAT labor is alive to the menace of the fifth
column in the huge production job facing the
country's defense preparedness program, is evil
denced by the recent statements of some of it's
foremost spokesmen from A. F. Of L. President
William Green to various international union
heads. Frank Powers of the photographers Union
warns of the menace of Communists and Nazis in
the communications industry handling messages
vital to the nations very life. Dan Tracy, Elec-
trical Workers president sums up the strategic inn
portance and vunerability of the nations power
plants, hydro-electric and otherwise, to sabotage
from within and bombings from above.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
MAKE 1T WORK!

GOVERNMENT officials, labor executives, in
" fuental persons in many walks of life have
emphasized in recent months that making democ-
racy work is one way to offset the influence of the
relationships.
Undoubtedly, we must make democracy effci-
ent to refute the arguments of Messrs Hitler,
Mussolini and Stain that democracy is not fitted
to fast-changing modern life.
Recent events in this country have not indi-
Gated any too efficient working of democracy.
Of course in any democracy, there is some lost
motion, some lack of cooperation
But there has been too much of this in the
United States since the rise of the relationships.
Lost motion, lack of cooperation has been appar-
ent in Congress, in industry and even in the ranks
of labor. If the split in labor is not evidence of
this, what is it?
The situation can be summed up by saying
there has been too much of the kind of stuff that
gave the dictators one of their best talking points
when they first began their climb to arbitrary
power.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11

and assumed the grave responsibilities placed up
on them by the emergency. And this was done
without the mudslinging and charges and counter
charges that we have been accustomed to in the
last years whenever leaders of the opposing fac
tions of labor put their feet under the same table.
$50 1T CAN BE DONE.
One of the first measures on the agenda of this
able committee must be unity within the ranks of
labor. Labors greatest contribution to the coun-
try might well be unity and solidarity within it's
own ranks. Then all can work as one for the de-
Tense and protection of our democracy.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
A BLESSING

TT is blessing for this country that in it's hour
of need it's basic industries are still ready to
attacks on them for political purposes.
Government must be kept as an impartial ad-
ministrator and not be allowed to dominate indus
try and the private lives of our citizens.
A free people will surpass an oppressed people
in resourcefulneSs.
We have seen too much politics play havoc
with England and France-et us keep it from de-
stroying the United States.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
RADIO TRAFFIC TRIBUNAL"

Los Angeles.-The Traffic Tri-
bunal," an unusual traffic safety radio
program which asks the public for
criticism, suggestions and questions,
plays an important part in the Los
Angeles police departments safety
campaign. The program is reported
to have 115,00O regular listeners.
Broadcasts are made every Saturday
highland two officers of the depart
ments Collision Prevention bureau
answer questions and complaints re-
ceived by mail, and discuss traffic
safety suggestions and problems.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-11
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
. CHANGES COMING
. DANGER FINGER POINTS
NICE BUSINESS
. LINES WON'T HOLD

A lot of things are going to have to
change in the coming months. Many
will hurt the nation somewhat.
Those who try to make national de-
fense cost more than it needs to cost,
in order that their selfish interests
may be served are going to hurt-and
in the end get hurt.
Whether these be capitalists trying
to get 10 per cent instead of per
cent, or whether they are stubborn
labor leaders trying to put up bars
that don't belong there, makes little
difference.
Those who look at what happened
in France, in Norway, in the low coun-
tries, will know what is meant.
We don't need to have any hysteria
in order to say that also we can't stand
any selfish monkey business.
We don't need to have hysteria in
order to know, coldly and soberly, that
we confront the totalitarian menace.
X X x
From four sources the finger of
danger points: The Nazis, the Fas-
cists, the Communists, the japanese,
now swinging toward Nazi economy.
Unless the Nazis are completely
smashed, the Nazi economy will
govern world trade, except for this
hemisphere and even here it will
hit hard, whether or not we like
it.
Lots of people prefer to go to the
hall game and forpet If
But 1T won't forget THEM when
the time comes.
The Nazis have offered to close huge
deals in Argentina and Uruguay on a
barter basis-just trading commodi-
ties. In these schemes the Nazis take
what they want, give what they
please-and when.
X X X
Nice business-and full Of tricks to
kick back at your Uncle Sam and ul-
timately at American exports, which
means American wages and hours
right slam back into the home of the
American worker.
He doesn't much see it coming, but
coming it is, sure enough.
And here's funny thing. The
United States has 60 per cent of the
worlds visible gold supply. Mostly
buried at Fort Knox and West Point.
| Gold has been valuable as an inter-
national money standard.
But the Nazis now say, "gold is
not an actual, but an assumed value"
That means gold has value only as
long as governments say so. When
they get ready to say it has no value
as money, then it will have none.
And if the dominating burglars of a
Nazified Europe say gold is out the
window, worth less than juniors mar
bles, then that's how it will be.
x X X
And we can go look at our gold
hoard and ask what will we do with
it.
Maybe it will be the biggest joke we
ever played on ourselves.
But we bought the gold to help
democratic nations hold their lines
against the Nazis. Nice idea, but the
lines haven't held.
When the Nazis trade on a barter
basis they put gold money strictly on
the bum.
1t all gets down to the fact that
what Nazi domination means is REV
OLUTION complete, final and terrible.
1t means total destruction of the
American idea of how to live. 1t
smashes the capitalist system as
thoroughly as Communism smashes it
and for just about the same reasons.
Then brutal dictatorship come into
power.
Workers, think it over; you'll bear
the heaviest load of all; you'll get the
hardest blows when they begin to fall.