(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
General Maritz, who recently made a violent attack on the Jews, was the object of a hostile street demonstration here today. As he was walking past the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with a press representative to whom he was explaining the reason for his anti-Jewish stand, about 50 persons standing about the Stock Exchange building booed the General and made what the press describes as one of the most remarkable street demonstrations over seen in Johannesburg.
“Before the next general election comes,” the General said, “the whole aspect of South African politics will have changed. There will no longer be Nationalists and a South African Party. It is going to be a fight between the Jewish Party and the Christian Party. Mr. Tielman Roose, the Acting-Premier, is trying to pacify the Jews about what I have said. If he is so fond of the Jews let him go and make his own little Republic in Palestine. But I am a Nationalist.”
He is sure that there is a great body of opinion in South Africa which agrees with his sentiments, who are afraid to say so. The future of South Africa and its salvation lies in cooperation between the English and the Dutch. Although these two peoples might never be completely conciliated they must cooperate in face of the emergency.
Mr. Roose, in a statement he has just made to the Press, says that he attributes General Maritz’s outburst to the fact that the Government has paid no need to his repeated applications for a free pardon for his acts of treason, so that he could get into Parliament. Mr. Roos had always been opposed to giving him such an amnesty.
PALESTINE MORTGAGE BANK TO PAY DIVIDEND JANUARY 2
The branches of the State Bank of New York were instructed to pay to American holders of the bonds of the General Mortgage Bank of Palestine dividends on the first coupons due on January 2, 1927, an announcement issued by the Palestine Securities states. Any holder of mortgage bonds of the General Mortgage Bank of Palestine may clip his coupons, deposit them in his own bank with instructions to collect on them through the State Bank.
It was recalled that the coupons of the Tel Aviv bonds, numbering about 1100 in the United States, have been paid regularly since 1923, through the Guaranty Trust Company. The next coupons of the Tel Aviv bonds are also due on January 2, 1927 and their holders can collect on them through their own banks.
MENORAH SOCIETY OPENS NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK ON TUESDAY
The national convention of Menorah Societies will be held in New York City December 28th to 30th. The agenda of the convention includes a debate between the Menorah Society of Harvard University vs. the Menorah Society of the College of the City of New York. The subject will be: “Resolved. That Our Judaism Is Better Than Our Grandfathers’.” The debate will be held in the Great Hall, College of the City of New York, on Tuesday, December 28.
A discussion of “The Place of the Graduate in Menorah,” will be led by Jeffry Heiman of Seattle, Vice-President of the Intercollegiate Menorah Association.
“The Present State and Future Plans of the Menorah Movement” will be discussed under the leadership of Chancellor Henry Hurwitz.
The speakers at the banquet which will close the sessions include: Prof. Stephen P. Duggan. Director of Institute of International Education, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise; Prof. Selig Brodetzky of Leeds University, England; Israel N. Thurman and Frederick F. Greenman.
The Irving Lehman Trophy for 1925-26 will be awarded.
JEWISH COMMUNAL ACTIVITIES
A good-will meeting of Jews, Protestants and Roman Catholics was held in the Free Synagogue. No. 40 West 68th Street, Wednesday evening.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi of the congregation, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor of the Central Congregational Church of Brooklyn; the Rev. John W. Herring of the federation of Churches of Christ in America, and Giles Isham, a Catholic and a member of the Oxford University debating team now touring America, were the speakers.
In answer to questions from the audience after the meeting was over, Dr. Cadman said he was convinced the Jews and others in Roumania were suffering injustices and their grievances were to be taken up by the Federal Council of Churches. He said this same organization would pay no attention to Henry Ford’s recurrent attacks on the Jews because Mr. Ford’s charges “fell rather flat” and were not given much attention.
Eventually, he said, he believed Catholics, Jews and Protestants would come together in a single religion, and history would look upon their present division as “a period of comparative barbarism.”
BREVITIES
The General Executive Board of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union voted to take over the affairs of Local 22, made up of 9,000 dressmakers, and the one local in the dress and waist trade under Communist control.
The decision of the board, announced by President Morris Sigman, is at once part of the general movement against Communism in the unions, and a step to prevent the 35,000 waist and dress makers of the city, being precipitated into a strike Jan. 1, when the existing wage contract expires.
The Concert of Hebrew Music in Carnegie Hall, Sunday evening, December 26, which will have the distinguished leader of the Moscow Theatre Habima, Naum L. Zemach, and also Miriam Goldin of the company, on its program, has as concluding numbers Hebrew dances set by Saminsky and Gneissin to be performed by four pianists. The pianists, all notable soloists, are Ignace Hilsberg, Isidor Gorn, Max Barnett, William Sauber. Other soloists appearing on the program of concert works based on Hebrew folk music are Eugenia Erganow, Leon Cortilli, Yascha Fishberg and Gdal Saleski.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
