Sermon Urges Return to Land for the Young

Jewish parents and children were advised yesterday to give serious consideration to scientific farming as a vocation in the sermon delivered by Dr. Israel Goldstein before Congregation B’nai Jeshurun, 257 West Eighty-eighth street.

“The only vocation which offers a livelihood and is not as yet overcrowded is agriculture,” he said. “The radio and the automobile have mitigated some of the isolation from which the farmer’s life formerly suffered.

“Agriculture offers not only a livelihood but a wholesome creative life free from many of the ills, physical, moral and spiritual, which beset overcrowded city civilization.”

A desperate situation is created, it was pointed out, through the reduction of employment opportunities by technological improvements at the same time as hundreds of thousands of youths grow to maturity.

“Social stability will depend in large measure,” Dr. Goldstein asserted, “upon how effectively this problem can be solved.

“Young people will not remain out of employment for a long time without becoming restless and succumbing either to vicious influences leading to crime or to radical influences leading to ferment and revolt.”

SPEAKS ON COUGHLIN

The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, Detroit’s “radio priest,” was described as “a man dominated by emotion rather than reason” by Dr. Joseph L. Fink, rabbi of Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, who occupied the pulpit of Temple Rodeph Sholom, 7 West Eighty-third street, on Saturday morning.

Father Coughlin deserves the respect “of every man who seeks for a more just and righteous social order,” said Dr. Fink, praising the outspoken Catholic clergyman for his “extraordinary courage.”

“But his career has not been a consistent championship of righteousness,” Dr. Fink pointed out. “He defended the incompetence of Jimmy Walker and attacked the honesty of Al Smith. He threatened the Jew last year and welcomed him this year. He spoke bitterly against Morgenthau (Secretary of the Treasury) last year and this year he hailed Morgenthau as the finest, ablest man in Washington’.”

The Buffalo rabbi asserted that Father Coughlin will be forced “sooner or later” to declare himself either a complete liberal or to abandon the liberal economics he has been so fearlessly preaching and ally himself completely with his extreme orthodox following.

JEW AS A BOGEYMAN

The Jew has been the most convenient bogeyman in all history, Rabbi Isaac Landman said yesterday at Congregation Beth Elohim, Eighth avenue and Garfield place, Brooklyn.

“When all else fails in the programs of self-seeking politicians, they trot out the Jew and dangle him like a skull and bones to frighten the unhappy people whom they attempt to win to their standards.

“The Jew, being everywhere a minority and clinging tenaciously to his religion, is misunderstood and therefore feared. He thus unfortunately lends himself to the part of the bogeyman, and is a