(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Albert Einstein went on record as a believer in capital punishment in a symposium conducted by the “Berliner Tageblatt.”
Replying to the query of the Berlin newspaper, Einstein states that he does not see why society should not be allowed to rid itself of individuals who have proven themselves socially harmful. Society has no more right to condemn an individual to life imprisonment than to death. It is said that punishment has a brutalizing effect, but this would be so only if people regarded it as an act of vengeance instead of an expression of society’s striving for perfection.
At a dinner Sunday night, opening the United Palestine Appeal campaign in Wilmington, Del., $13,000 of the $35,000 of Wilmingron’s quota was subscribed. Louis Topkis, who presided, pledged $7,000 for the Topkis family. The campaign will close Thursday night.
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