The next edition of the Almanac de Gotha will be very much reduced in volume. All members of the nobility who have Jewish blood in their veins will be omitted. Unquestionably, the mortality will be great. Von Huehnenfeld, the famed flyer; the family of von Richthofen, th celebrated German ace, to mention but two dodern Teutinic heroes, are of Jewish origin. The Prussian nobility boasts of the great sacrifices of blood which it has made in each war for the Fatherland. Its losses due to the racial paragraph will numerically exceed those of the Seven Years’ War and the World War.
Israel B. Brodie is sailing in a few days for London to attend the meeting of the board of directors of the Paalestion Potash Corporation. Mr. Brodie is the head of teh American Palestine Economic Committee which, without much ado, is devoting itself to the valuable task of mobilizing Jewish brains and material resources in the economic upbuilding of Palestine. Many important economic enterprisen have been intitiated under the influence of this committee. Recently, as an aid to Jewish immigrants from Germany, the committee published a guide to Palestine in the German language.
The holding of at international Jewish youth conference at Washington is seriously engaging the attention of a number of Jewish leaders. Over 2,000 delegates from Europe as well as from this country are expected to attend the conference, the purpose of which is to make Jewish youth aware of the problems which confront the Jewish community and to instill in them a sense of consciousness and repossibility. It is their future which is at stake.
Among those whon the conference is expected to attract to Washington is Lord Melchett, honorary president of the World Maccabi movement. Harry Glucksman, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Board, is one of the prime movers in the convocation of the conference.
The constituent meeting of the United Sates Maccabi Association was deeply stirred by the description of Maccahi activities in Palestine given by Edward A. Norman, who is unquestionably one of the young men coming to the forefront in communal activities.
He pointed out that the Jewish nation in Palestine will not be built on numbers of innigrants alone. The problem is qualitative as well as quantitative, he said. Or as a young meeting stated suceinctly: “It is the spirit in which the work is done which will decide the success or failure of the Zionist cause.”
I. J. L.
“THE SHINING HOUR”
“The Shining Hour,” Max Gordon’s produntion of Keith Winer’s new play, is comintg to the Booth Theatre, Tuesday evening.
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