The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-15
Heard In The
LObbies
BY DAVID DEUTSCH
STRANGER THAN FICTION

The anti-Administration, Axis
cOndOning New York Daily News
reaches 100000 people on Sum
day and over 100000 daily with
its sabOtage-because it makes
mint of money from the over
Whelmingly Jewish advertisers
who pour wealth into its fat
pages. If these Jews removed
their ads, the News would collapse
like a pricked balloon Funny
that James N. ROsenberg's bril-
liant "Open letter" to Civil Liber-
ties Arthur Garfield Hays saying
swords and triggers" contained no
mention of the word Jew or of the
anti-Semitic bilge the hate-mOng-
erS are spilling. But then there's
genial Hays himself, fighting
mighty hard to let Charles Cough
lin keep on injecting hate on the
ground that indictments pull the
triggers" Best example of
how brains adjust themselves to
situations is brainy Max Lerner,
Professor of Politics at Williams
University and former pacifist,
who is one of the lecturers in the
fOur-mOnth course being given by
the Army School of Military Gov
eminent at the University of Vir-
ginia. Lerner is making a great
contribution to the peoples under
standing what the wars about
And talking of the war, wonder
how Field Marshal Sir John Dill,
who is in Washington to represent
the British Chiefs of Staff of the
Combined Chiefs of Staff, feels a
bout Jewish Army in Palestine.
The famous former G. 0. C. of
Palestine, who helped put down
the Arab riots, used to tell the
brass hats and Colonel Blimps"
in London he thought a reliable"
army of Jews would be a great
help in the Middle East Shake
the hand of Philadelphia's j. Da-
vid Stern, who, unlike another
Jewish publisher in New York, ac-
cepted the ad of BirIxhead'S Friends
of Democracy attacking the
Chicago Tribune, Washington
Times Herald, PatterSOn'S Daily
News and Hearst, the four horse
men who hate Roosevelt more
than Hitler.
Louise Rainier, former refugee,
has helped sell moro U. S. War
bonds than any other American.
Hats off to this great actress, who
helped dispose of 100000 of the
bonds when the quota was only
100000.
A TALE OF LINEN
Endlessly fascinating are Rabbi
Abba HiIlel Silver's tales of the
great Jews he found in England,
matching the sweetness of their
Christian neighbOrs. Overheard
in a private recital was this story
of dirty linen exposed to public
gaze.
Among the many towns the net
ed rabbi visited while on his flying
trip was Harrogate, a must"
stop because it is the residence of
Sir Montague Burton, leading
British Jew of philanthropic fame.
Restricted to Is pounds of bag
gage including suitcase for his
overseas flight, the rabbi was
pretty hard driven to keep up with
the laundry, considering black
outs, severe travel conditions, etc.
Realizing he was going to a noble
English house, DR.. Silver hoped to
sneak his baggage past the notice
of his hosts, because there wasn't
a piece of clean linen in the whole
paper bag. But England has a
custom-as do many American
homes-of having the valet "lay
out" the clothes. And just while
DR.. Silver was out of the room,
the valet exposed the whole lot.
Was his face red?
Later, DIR. Silver got to know
Sir Montague, a fine Litvak-
Zionist in the tailoring business,
and had a good laugh with him
about trying-and failing-nOt to
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