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The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-25

ming to the Jewish way of think
ing. A great contribution has been
in the field of language. Many of
our popular sayings and terms,
used in public and private life,
can be found in the book of the
Hebrews.
Many churches have borrowed
Jewish customs and songs. The
often quoted Lords prayer can be-
found in church and synagogue.
The mass can be traced to the
Jewish Passover and the Seder
service. Visiting the sick is an old
Jewish custom, as is the use of
charity boxes. Of the Is princi-
pies most are in popular prac-
tice. The Golden Rule was in use
many years before the time OF
Jesus. So close were the two re-
ligions, that there are a number
of documents that the most learn
ed Christian Theologians cannot,
even to this day, state from
whence they came. So much for
the religious phase of the topic.
Whenever the Jews were forced
to leave their native lands, their
tormentors were unknowingly
helping to spread culture and
learning. The East has the distinc-
ton of being the birthplace of re-
ligion and wisdom; therefore when
the Jews left the East they could
not help but take the knowledge
with them and transplant it in
other lands.
The chief value of the Jews in
the middle ages was as transmit
tiers of the ancient culture of the
East to the new lands of the West.
It was due in large part to their
literary efforts that science, phil
osophy, and art flourished in Eu-
rope.
BY travelling to different lands
they broke trails for commerce.
In many cases the Jew developed
trade routes which were destined
to be highways of the world and
it was only through their suffer-
ing that such things became posi-
BILE.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-25
Test Your |. @.
BY DAVID b. FEINBERG

~ What, according to Mark
Twain, causes nine-tenths of hos
tilities against the Jews?
(2) Is there any truth in the
Nazi accusation that the German
Jews had monopolized the Gov
eminent of the Reich?
81 What was the proportion of
the Jewish population of Germany
to the German Jewish Nobel Prize
winners?
az Who coined the Nazi slogan:
die Juden sind unser Unglueck" ?
(5) Who said: 81 am slow of
speech and of a halting tongue?
(6) Who were the Karaites?
(O Who was the founder of
KaraiSm?
81 Who effectively counterfeit
ed the Karaitic influence?
(9) What is the meaning of the
Hebrew name "Hefzibah"
(10) Who were the first women
on record to demand property
rights?
(1D Have women property
rights, according to the Bible?
(12) What wicked Phoenician
born Jewish queen had daugh-
ter who surpassed her in wicked
ness?
(1S) who wrote the biblical
drama "Athalie"?
(14) What does the Talmud
recommend as a headache cure?
(15) What does Judaism COM
mand concerning being tactful?
(16) When did the Jews begin
to settle in France?
ANSWERS on Page Ten)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-25
Contributions Of the Jew
By ANSEL WITTENSTEIN

EDITORS note Mr. Wttensten student at the University
Florida member the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and an
participant Symphony u. of Fla year
book the debate squad)
Everybody is familiar with the distasteful history of
ntiSemitism but how many familiar with the cOntrbu
tons of the Jew to the world? Let at this time outline
briefly some of those contributions.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1941-04-25

Our greatest contributions have
been our theories of Monotheism
and Prophesy. The thirteen prin-
ciples of the Jewish faith related
to God, Truth, and Justice have
been used by other faiths and the
modern world uses the ten COM
mandments to govern the individ-
uaps relations to one another such
as thou shalt not steal, murder, or
commit perjury"
The Jews have been called 1.-The
People of the Book" since our
whole civilization has been domin-
ated by the teachings of the Old
Testament. Our life and relation
ships with other people have been
governed by high ethical and NOR
al standards. The teachings have
been so inspiring that long after
Israel ceased to be country, they
have continued to inspire the high
er spirits of the Jewish people. 1t
has been this relationship between
book and people that has enabled
us to survive throughout history.
The book which helped the Jews
survive in large p art laid the
foundation of modern civilization.
The beginnings of modern drama
can be traced to the stories of the
Bible. The Gregorian music, which
has floated through the cathedrals
of Europe and America, has been
traced to the cantillations which
the Jews used to chant the Book.
Much of modern and medieval art
is based on Bible scenes. The bas-
es of law can be found in Leviticus.
The struggle for representative
government can trace it's begin
Evening star., 1941-07-22

year Of service for the selectees in
stead of the two years which are
really necessary to train soldiers for
modern war, and so testified before
the Senate Military Affairs Commit
tee. That opinion was shared by
many highly-placed military men,
but as a matter of practical politics
one years was all that could be Sc
cured from the Congress of that
day. There was a great deal of
pulling and hauling over various
provisions of the act, not always
with the object of military efficiency
as the end chiefly to be sought.
This has resulted in many artificial
restrictions and unnecessary de-
fects; but the point is that we are
now faced with condition which
must be met, and we ought to have
common sense enough to sweep
away these purely artificial Difficult
ties and adapt our military policy
Evening star., 1941-07-22

face of the enemy and went home
on the expiration of their periods
OF service, the 90-day volunteers of
the Civil War-all these examples
arise to warn us now, in another day
of peril, that wars are not limited
in time by acts of Congress and
that dangers do not fade away with
the expiration of artificial periods
OF enlistment.
We have made great strides
toward building an Army capable of
serving the needs of this Republic in
an hour of peril perhaps unequaled
in its history. Considering al the
difficulties and all the lacks, the
progress that has been made is we'll
nigh miraculous. But We are very
far from having the Army that We
need. and the time may be very
short before We shall need 1t. To
throw away the time we have al
ready gained-time, the one inval-
Evening star., 1941-07-22

liable commodity which cannot be
purchased or reclaimed-in the face
of such a situation would be an act
of folly which would not only en-
danger our own security but would
be of immense encouragement to
our enemy and of profound discour-
agement to our friends. Dollars cam
not buy yesterday, and we cannot
afford to fling riotous!y to the
winds, with the irresponsibility of
children or fools, those yesterdays
which We have contrived to snatch
from the very teeth of danger.
Copyright, 1871, New York Tribune, Iac)
Evening star., 1941-07-22

cifically for just such retention, and
the President has asked Congress
to exercise the powers in this re-
spect which Congress reserved to
itself in passing the act. Every
drafted man was on notice-by the
language of the act-that he might
be so retained. AS to the National
Guard, it is recruited by voluntary
enlistment from those who volun-
tarily assume an obligation to serve
their country in time of such emer-
gency. To say that the Presidents
proposal constitutes breach of
faith is. under tie circumstances,
either ridiculous or deliberately dis
honest.
OF course the point may be made
that the Selective Service Act was
itself imperfect, and makeshifti
this writer. at the time of its pass
age. thought 1t particularly defec-
tive in that it provided for only one
Evening star., 1941-07-22

to the needs of the moment, needs
which could not wholly be foreseen
at the time the act was put through.
Nothing is gained by insisting on
the sacredness of an artifically-and
politically, in part-determined Pc
riod of one year as the be-all and
end-all of military training. 1t Is
not enough; that has been clearly
proven; let us accept a demon
strated fact and deal with it as such.
Examples in History.
Surely our history contains enough
examples of what happens when mil
itary policy is restricted in this ar
tificial fashion. by those who seem
to think they can foresee the future
and that at the end of a given period
the need for armies will cease.
Washington troubles with his short
service militia, the desperate plight
of Taylor and Scott when the Short
service volunteers left in the very
Evening star., 1941-07-22

Saturday at his home. He came to
Staunton in October, 1929, and was
in charge of the Salvation Army post
until 1893, when he retired because
of his health.
Funeral services were to be held
from Central Methodist Church, OF
which he was a member, at 2;30
pm. today.
Evening star., 1941-07-22
Failure to Extend Draft Period
Seen as Peril to u. S. Security
Eliot Says DemobiIizotion Of Men Now
Means Blow to All Armed Services

the duties of so high grade, or
those who for reasons connected
with their civilian employment are
better left where they are.
Opposition Is Ridiculous.
1t is difficult to understand how
any intelligent person can advance
the argument that to retain all this
personnel in the service for the
period of the existing emergency
would be breach of faith. The
SelectlVe Service Act provides spe-
Evening star., 1941-07-22

the N a tlOn a ]
Guard and Re
serve officers, is
just this:
Shall the mill
tary forces of the
United States be
partially demo-
biliZed and dis
integrated in the
face of the perllS
presented by eX-
listing world con-
ditionS?
So stated. it
would seem i'm
possible that
Evening star., 1941-07-22
c. P. TuzeIuur Rites Today

STAUNTON, Va. July % (Spe-
ciaD Cornelius Peter Tazelaar. 81,
native of Holland and former head
of the Salvation Army here, died
Evening star., 1941-07-22
By NAJ. GEORGE FIELDING
ELIOT.

The immediate and crucial point
et lSSle in the Presidents request
to Congress for EXTENSION of the
period of service of drafted men,
Evening star., 1941-07-22

Russias first three dimension
movie, Land of Youth" was shown
recently in Moscow.
Evening star., 1941-07-22

Beautiful walnut or ma
hoganv veneer tops. With
solid walnut or mahogany
bases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08

to two 50 gallon oil drums on each of the three upper floors. When the flames reached the drums, the oil became ignited and from that time there was no possible means of escape through the rear en- frances of the building, 1t is believed.
 It is believed that the fire started on the second floor apartment of Henry LePan, spread to the rear veranda, and reaching the oil drums, quickly shot to the upper floors and the roof.
 LaPan, who was with two board- CTS, Angelo Bello and William Sterling, told Fire. Marshal Lahey that he walked from the living room to the kitchen and saw the area, near where a kerosene burner was standing, Q mass of flames. He said he shouted an alarm and made Q nasty exit out the front way, the marshal reported.
 Fire Marshal Lahey was joined in the probe of the fire by Lieuten- ant Eugene 1egge and Private Jere- miah Griffin of his staff, State Troopers Thomas Dunn and Edward Christian of the Beacon Falls par racks and Coroner Hennessy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
COX REPORTS ON
 STATE HIGHWAYS
Department Spent Over $3S,OOO,OOO Within
 Past Two Years

Hartford, Conn.,, April 8.-(UP)- The state highway department spent $38, 8,i85 ,290 during the biennium ended June 30, 1940, Commissioner William J. Cox reported today to Governor Hurley and the General Assembly.
 The commissioner said a total ex- penditure of $100,000,000 would be required to develop a highway sys- tenn in Connecticut that would com. pare favorably in quality with states having more limited nileages in their state systems.
 Cox proposed that no basic change es be made in the laws governing the distribution of highway funds and recommended the governor ap- point a bipartisan commission to study information gathered by his department and report to the 1943 legislature.
 Receipts of his department for the last biennium, he said, amounted to $36, ,724, $50, flecessitating the use of $l,460,440 from @ surplus fund.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
Agencies Combine In
 Plan To Aid Soldiers
Campaign to Be Launched to Obtain SIC, ,765,OOO to
 Provide RecreatiOnal Facilities in Camps

Immediate launching of $1o,- 765 900 program of service to sol- diers, sailors and defense personnel, funds for which will be raised in a nationwide campaign, was an- nounced yesterday by six national agencies which are cooperating as the United Service Organizations for National Defense, Inc. The plans were made public by Walter Moving, president.
 The agencies are the Y. M. c. A., the National Catholic Community Service, the Salvation Army, the Y. w. o. A., the Jewish Welfare Board and the National Travellers Aid Association. The solicitation of gifts among individuals of large means and leading corporations will begin immediately. June 3 has been set as the date for opening the gen. eral campaign to solicit all citizens.
 Club Facilities
 The agencies are planning service club facilities in 339 places adjacent
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
LONE RANGER OF
 RADIO IS KILLED

Pennington, Mich, April 8.-(UP) Earl Grasser, 32, the Lone Ranger" of the radio, was killed to-. day in an automobile accident near his home.
 Grasser's car piled into 8 parked truck. Sheriff's officers thought he may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
 Officials of radio station WxYZ in Detroit. where the Lone Ranger series originates, said Brace Beem- CT, the original Ranger" and pres. ent narrator of the stories, would take Grassers place.
 The Lone Ranger" has been running for nine years, and Gras. ser played the title role for eight. He was married and the father of a one-year-old girl.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
HACKETT RITES
 TOMORROW S:3O
Legion to Pay Tribute to World War Colonel
 This Evening

Seven members will represent the Waterbury Medical Association at the funeral of Dr. John F. Hackett. They include: Dr. s. M. Atkins, pr. P.sJ. Brennan, Dr. J. H. Dillon, Dr. J. M. Freiheit, Dr. R. J. Hinchey, Dr.. J. E. slavin and Dr. H. J. Stett- bacher.
 The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at S:30 o'clock from the Bergin funeral home, 200 East Main street, to Sts. Peter and Paul church where a requiem Mass will be cele- brated at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Mount Carmel cemetery, Platts- burg, N. Y. Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.
 Commander Joseph Hackett has called meeting of the members of Corp. Coyle post of the American Legion at 8 o'clock this evening at the Legion Home to plan Q tribute to Dr. Hackett, who was 8 colonel in the medical detachment of the army during the World war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08

The fire marshal is expected to Eile q report soon with Coroner Hennessy.
 The four story building was badly gutted Sunday night, and Building Inspector John T. Hartley said to- day that 1t would have to be razed to the ground floor and rebuilt completely.
 Improvement Noted
 In the meantime, reports from Che hospitals indicate that all pa- tients are showing improvement. Ina Margolis, 10, one of the five occupants burned while attempting to reach safety, was discharged to- day from Waterbury Hospital, where slne received first aid Sunday night.
 Mrs. Theresa Bradley, 43, was sieScribed as resting comfortably at Waterbury Hospital, though her name is still on the danger list.
 Mrs. Nora Bradley was reported "in much better condition" She suffered multiple burns to the body.
 Mrs. Dora Margolis, 38, who fell four flights down the fire ladder, suf- fering bruises and lacerations to the face, neck, arms and legs, was re- ported in flair condition"
 Her husband, Samuel Margolis, 40, who also fell while attempting to descend the ladder, was described as "fairly good" at St. Mary's Hospital.
 Private Thomas O'Dea, attached to Engine 10, was reported in improved condition" at the same hospital. He suffered rib and spinal injuries when Mfr. Margolis' hurling body struck him, therby in all probability saving MT. Marpolis' life.
 OH Drums Blamed
 Despite the fact that the building was an old, one, fire officials at tributed the quick spread of the fire
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
FORD STRIKE IS
 TO BE MEDIATED
(Continued from Page D

Formal action on proposed agreement between soft coal oper- ators in northern states and the United Mine Workers CIO) was expected today despite objections of southern operators who protested abandonment of @ Accent wage differential in their rnins.
 The strike called against U. s. Steel Corp, scheduled for midnight today, was averted temporarily when the firm agreed to Steel Workers organizing committee (CIO) demands that any agree. ment reached in future negotia- tions be made retroactive to April 1, original expiration date of the previous contract. April 15 was es- tablished as the new deadline for completion of negotiations.
 President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organiza- tions was called to Washington to confer with President Roosevelt about the threatened steel strike.
 Murray Files To Detroit
 Detroit, April 5(UP)-Philip Murray, president of the Congress of Industrial organizations, flew to Detroit today and 1t was under stood he would confer with officials of the Ford Motor company, Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner and Fed eral Conciliator James F. Dewey re- garding a settlement of the week. old Ford strike.
 Murray came here at the request of the governor, 1t was said, after Van Wagoner had solicited his as. sistance when negotiations struck 8 snag.
 A source close to the mediators said Murray was expected to meet with Harry Bennett, Ford person. nel director, and I. A. Capizzi, Ford attorney.
 Murray went directly from the airport to the governors hotel suite, half @ mile from the hotel in which Dewey and the governors special three-man mediation com- mission have been seeking Q peace formula which would return 125, ,000 men to ASrk throughout the Ford industrial empire.
 After talking to Murray on the telephone, Van Wagoner was re- ported to have obtained assurance from Ford officials that they would be willing to meet with the GIG chief.
 The United Automobile Workers (CIO) struck at Fords River Rouge plant last Tuesday night, throwing 85.000 men out of work. Later in the week Ford closed all its branch and assembly plants, bringing the total men affected to 125,00O. The union sought wage increases of l( cents an hour, seniority rights grievance machinery and abolition of the Ford service de Artment.
 Unauthorized stop
 Cleveland, April e-(UP)--Con. gress of Industrial Organization Union members staged unauthor. ised work stoppages in two maJo Cleveland industrial plants toda, which interrupted vital defensl production.
 Approximately 1850 workers 1, the Ferro Machine Foundry com pany were made Idle by q tie-ul in the plants vital core departnen and another work stoppage was re ported in progress in three subsid Iary plants of the Aluminium Cor pcration of America.
 Federal mediators had been try iug for four days to bring an ens
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
BROOKS RITES
 THURSDAY, ii
Former State Senator Sue. cumbs Suddenly at GO-
 shen Home Yesterday

Torrington, April S-MaJor John N, Brooks, 70, banker, utility exc cutive and former state senator. died suddenly yesterday afternoon at his home in Goshen where nve generations of the Brooks family have lived.
 Private funeral services will bs held Thursday at il @. m. ct the home in Goshen. Rev. G. Homer Lane of Center Congregational Church will officiate. The body VIII be cremated. He was one of the first men in Torrington to ride @ bicycle. Dur ing the time the bicycle was the principal means of transportation he was made a special bciycle poe liceman to curb speeding with those vehicles.
 Born August 24, 1870, fin Goshen, c som of John W. and Marana (Norton) Brooks, he received his education in Torrington public schools and at the former Bowen School for Boys in Hartford. At the age of i6 he entered the employ of the Brooks Brothers Bank as an office boy. In 1880 he entered the employ of the Southern New Eng land Telephone Company and in the next year he resigned to re- enter banking as Q clerk. He was elected president of the Brooks Bank in 1916 following the death of his uncle, who served many years in that capacity.
 Tn September, 1892, he married Alice E. Atkins of this city who died about 6 year ago. MT. Brooks leaves two daughters, Mrs. Laura M. Law ton and Mrs. Elizabeth Austin, and son, John H. Brooks, ell Of Tor rington.
 Major Brooks was . former inefll- Der of the Board of Relief, the Board of Burgesses, and was a for- mer sealer of weights and measures. He was Q trustee of the old Wol- cottville School and Cemetery Asso- ciation, and was Q member Of the original Charter Revision Commit tee. MT. Brooks was the first treas urer of the City of Torrington and served in that capacity for 10 years.
 He was also president of the Tor- rington Library Association, chair man of the building committee of City Hall, and treasurer of the bi- centennial committee and the Hill- side Cemetery Association.
 Major Brooks was one of the ifl' corporators of Charlotte Hunger" ford Hospital, Q trustee and former past exalted ruler of Torringtosl Lodge of Elks, and Q director Of the Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial He was 6 member of the Torrington Club, the Hartford Club, and the Waterbury Country Club.
 During his career Major Brooks was an active Republican and about 10 years ago was prominently men, toned as . candidate for governor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
OBITUARY

Germany the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Herman (KlobedRnE) Gehr- mann.
 Mrs. Manthey was e member of St. Johns church.
 She Is survived by three sons, Robert, Edward and Gustav of this city; three daughters, Mrs. Nelson Jeariin of Waterbury, Mrs. Henry McCarath of Cheshire, and Miss Clara Manthey of this city; il grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. August Kunael of Waterbury.
 The funeral will take place from the Anderson funeral home, 70 Cen. tral avenue on Thursday at 3:30 o'clock, with Rev. Francis Ayers of- flciating.
 Burial will be in Riverside ceFr1e. tery. Friends may cell ct the funeral home on Wednesday from S:30-6 and 7.9 o'clock.
 GAUTHTER-Henry J. dauthier, of 32 Savings street died this Ynoril- ing at St. Mary's hospital after c brief illness. He was born in this city the son of Frank and Joseph inc Bergeron 0authier.
 MT. Oauthier was 6 lifelong regi- dent of Waterbury, where he waa @ conirnunicant of St. AnnS church,
 He is survived by one son, Milo; one daughter, Mrs. Beulah Bolduc; three sisters, Sister Bergeron of the Sisters of Charity of Sts. Hycinti1ia, Canada; Mrs. Joseph TheE14en and Mrs. Angelo Roln of this city: two grandchildren.
 The funeral will be held from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street at e:i6 o'clock on Fxi- day morning to St. Arn's church at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow ard Thursday aft- ernoon and evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
ACCIDENTAL DEATH

New Britain, Conn., April 3. - (UP)--A verdict of accidental death was given today in the death of John B. Smith, 72. 6 cripple, whose body was found last night in the kitchen of his home.
 Medical Examiner Dr. John Pur- ney said Smith died of Illuminating gas poisoning after striking his head on Q gas jet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-08
Officials Continue
 Probe Of Fatal Fire
Fire Authorities Suspect Drum of Oil Gave Blaze h. Credible Start-One Dead, Six Injured in Blaze

The city probe into the Sunday night fire at 4S04S4 West Main Street. which took the life of elderly man and sent six others to Watbuy Hospitals continued today Hennessy expressed the opinion that Waterbuys worse fire in several years either starter oil stove in the kitchen of second floor apartment, or near an oil drum Annn rnndn