Only Poles May Use Term “polish” to Designate Commercial Firms

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

The Supreme Court here has handed down a decision according to which only Poles can be permitted to use the word “Polish” in the titles of registered companies. A Polish citizen is not allowed to call his firm Polish unless he is also of Polish nationality.

In determining this ruling the Court explains that it has been guided by the following considernations:

The addition of the word “Polish” to the title of a firm does not specify the locality of its foundation nor the citizenship of its founder. It specifies only Polish nationality. Were it not so all firms in Poland would have the right to call themselves Polish and there would thereiore be no need for them to use this specification. If everybody is Polish there is no need to designate anyone by that name. The Polish Republic. the ruling proceeds. guarantees by its Constituttion the life and property and freedom of all its citizens without distination of origin. nationality, language or religion.

By the very fact of this guarantee the Constitution makes it clear that the citizens of the Polish State include representatives of various nations, languages. races and religions. Every citizen has the right to observe his own nationality, to use his language and exercise his national peculiarities.

The denial of the rights of the national minorities and the infringement of those rights would, no doubt, be justly considered an act of violence. The recognition of their rights and the toleration of their peculiarities is, therefore, the best proof that Polish nationality and Polish citizenship are two different things.

ON THE PASSING OF YEHOASH DAILY DIGEST OF PUBLIC OPINION

The death of Soleman Bloomgarden or Yehoash, as he was known under his nom de plume, is lamented by the Jewish press.

“Yehoash was one of the first and greatest talents which American Jewry has contributed to Jewish literature,” the “Forward” writes. “He began to create his poetic works at a time when the Jewish masses in this country were still raw and Jewish literature here was poor. His very first poems breathed a loftier, deeper and more beautiful tone. Yehoash was not only a poet, he was also a thinker. We mourn his death.”

The “Day” observes: “Yehoash was the great poet, the great figure in the Yiddish literature of our time. The Yiddish word has been rising during the past several decades constantly higher and higher, achieving ever new and glorious victories. Yehoash was the one who not only steadily kept pace with this wonderful development, but led the way. Among the creative spirits in the field of Yiddish poetry he was always, literally until his last breath, the greatest of all.”

On January 16, Lous Marshall will dedicate the Talmud Toral. of the Jewish Center of University Heights, 74th Street and Nelson Avence, New York City, The Talmud Torah is housed in the first wing to be completed in the new building being erected by the Center.

Dr. Joseph II. Wade, District Stiperintendent of Schools. Gedalia Bublick, editor of the “Jewish Daily News”; Rabbi I. L. Bril, rabbi of the Center; Rabbi Alexander Basel of the Jacob H. Schiff Center, and Arthur I. Levine, President of the Jewish Center. will address President the gathering. Theodore Marvin, Chairman of the Education Committee, will preside.

When completed the buildings of the Jewish Center of University Heights will cost $350,000.

Charles Tonkis was elected chairman of the United Palestine Appeal campaign in Wilmington, Del. The drive will open January 30 and continue through February 3. Wilmington’s quota this of last year. David Suellenburg is honorary chairman for the campaign. Rabbi Louis A. Mischkind and Rabbi Ralph B. Hershon are honorary vice-chairmen.