The Reader’s Forum

(The editors reserve the right to excerpt all letters exceeding 250 words in length. All letters must bear the name and address of the writer, although not necessarily for publication.)

I am a subscriber to the Jewish Daily Bulletin and have been getting your paper ever since it began publication in its new form.

I like the splendid job you are doing. Your editorials and most of your features are well written, interesting, and a credit to Jewish journalism.

However, I would like to make some suggestions to your sports editor, Morris Weiner. It is true that Mr. Weiner’s column is the only one of its kind devoted entirely to Jewish athletes. But, why is it that he leaves so much unsaid in his tri-weekly columns?

As a member of the Y. M. H. A., I am particularly interested in our athletic affairs. I should think that your sports editor would devote some space to an organization whose athletic teams are a thing to be proud of.

Then again, if Mr. Weiner were doing a good job, he would cover sports more completely from a national viewpoint. I should think that it would prove interesting to your readers if there were little items about Jewish athletes and Jewish athletics throughout the country.

If you are to have sports in a paper like the Jewish Daily Bulletin makes its sports columns of and for the Jewish people.

Jacob Ginsberg.

New York.

October 20, 1934.

WANTS INVESTIGATION

I {SPAN}###{/SPAN} with something akin to horror story in your issue of October 18 in which is reported the charge by Walter L. Rice, special assistant to the Attorney General, that New York City is a dumping ground for diseased poultry. Testifying at a trial in which the Federal government is prosecuting the A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corporation for conspiring to violate provisions of the NRA poultry code, Mr. Rice also said that at least two per cent of the poultry sold in New York is unfit for human consumption.

If Mr. Rice’s charges are true— and it seems to me he is in a position to know—then one of the most shameful crimes imaginable is being perpetrated and, apparently, with impunity. And if Mr. Rice’s charges are not based on fact, then something should be done so that the poor public which is always taking it on the chin is not in the future exposed to such scares.

Whether true or not, the charges by Rice are sufficiently serious to merit a thorough investigation by the Federal government with the cooperation of the city authorities. I think that the Jewish Daily Bulletin should demand that such an investigation be held at once and, as a newspaper representing a large proportion of the consumer of kosher poultry, I think The Bulletin should use every effort to see that the investigation is thorough, complete and impartial.

David Cohen.

New York City.

October 19, 1934.