Dickstein Introduces Bills on Immigration

(Jewish Daily Bulletin)

Four bills providing for the exemption from the quota of unmarried children under eighteen, the wives of declarants, unmarried children under 21, husbands and parents of American citizens, and for the admission regardless of the quota of immigrant refugees who obtained visas prior to July 1, 1924 were introduced into Congress yesterday by Representative Samuel Dickstein.

Congressman Dickstein also introduced a bill to permit all aliens residing in America five years prior to July 1, 1924, to become naturalized, even if they did not legally enter the country, relieving them of the obligation of producing a certificate of legal arrival required under the present naturalization law. Mr. Dickstein also re-introduced his bill of last year providing for the deportation of any alien failing to provide for the support of his wife and minor children abroad.

COMBINED TEMPLES ELECT LOUIS MARSHALL PRESIDENT

Louis Marshall was re-elected president of Temple Emanu-El at the first annual meeting held since the merger with Tmple Beth-El.

The other officers re-elected were: Benjamin Altheimer, Vice President; Henry M. Toch, Treasurer; William I. Spiedelberg, Secretary; Otto Dreyfuss. Assistant Treasurer; Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Altheimer Arthur Zins, Sidney H. Herman, Judge Irving Lehman and Edward Schaeffer, trustees.

RABBI GOLDSTEIN ASKS GOODWILL COMMITTEES TO EFFECT ‘KING OF KINGS’ WITHDRAWAL

An appeal to the Committee on Goodwill between Jews and Christians of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America to use its influence for the withdrawal of the film “King of Kings” was made by Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of Temple B’nai Jeshurun in an open letter addressed to the Committee, to America’s Good Will Union and the Christian members of the Permanent Commission on Better Understanding.

“The Passion and Crucifixion story has been a standing source of ill will between Christian and Jew. From the good will standpoint, therefore, a subject of this kind, so amenable to misunderstanding and misconstruction, is surely out of place on the American stage or screen, however much ‘doctored’ the presentation may be,” Rabbi Goldstein declares.

“We are living in a land which is proud of the experiment in brotherhood, being conducted within its borderss. America is a community of diverse racial and religious elements. Whatever threatens to detract from such communion is a menace to the spirit of our republic. Therefore, in the name of American Good Will, I beseech you to take a hand in the effort to bring about the withdrawal of “The King of Kings” from public exhibition.

“It is not too late to do something. The picture has not yet reached the masses of the people. Ten times as many people as have already seen it. will see it during the coming months, when it will be released to all the towns and villages of the country, the hinterland where prejudice is most easily aroused and with greatest difficulty dislodged.

“The ‘King of Kings’ must be stopped. Jews alone cannot accomplish it. Their efforts have been without avail. But the Christian community must sec to it for the sake of Christian and American Good Will.

“Here is an opportunity for liberal Christians to give some evidence of their oft-expressed good will toward their fellow citizens of the Jewish Faith. What is the use of all the Good Will conferences and resolutions, if, when a real challenge presents itself, nothing is done by the majority group to defend the object of its avowed good will against ill will ? Here is a challenge to all the Good Will proponents, to carry their principle into practice. Let them plead with Mr. Cecil de Mille, their fellow Christian and fellow American, let them point out how un-Christian it is to fan the dying embers of hatred and how un-American it is to introduce an element of disunion and of cleaage, and if they are powerless to influence him directly, let them stir up public opinion, and let them visit public condemnation upon the offender. Otherwise, the Good Will program is only a Phrase and a pretension.

“Refore the damage becomes irreparable the friends of American Mutuality and the spokesmen of Religious Brotherhood should bestir themselves” the letter concludes.