What Bulletin Readers Say

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

One of your readers, Mr. George Schlossberg, “wonders” why Zalman Rubashow, the Palestinian labor leader, is raising funds for the Histadruth at a time when there is no unemployment in Palestine.

The National Labor Committee is conducting its annual campaign because the Histadruth is concerned not only with the economic status of its members, but with the creation of conditions which will make the mass-immigration of more workers possible. The Histadruth knows that the fate of Palestine as a Jewish center depends on the number of workers who will settle on the land, rather than on the number of absentee landlords who will speculate in real-estate.

To make possible the influx of productive workers, one of the major functions of the Histadruth is to train the city-bred immigrant and to make room for him in its cooperatives. All of the funds collected in America last year were spent in Palestine for labor colonization and for the absorption of immigrants in agriculture or industry according to the requirements of the country.

The donation of money to the Austrian socialists (to which Mr. Schlossberg refers unsympathetically) was a voluntary contribution—taken from their daily earnings—by Palestinian workers who understood that their Austrian fellow-workers were the only hope against fascism and anti-Semitism in Austria.

The funds collected in this year’s campaign, will, as in the past, be devoted to the two crucial purposes of further agricultural colonization and the productive absorption of new immigrants. It may interest your readers to know that the Histadruth participated to the extent of 20 per cent in the purchase of the recent Huleh land concession. Obviously tasks of such scope must draw the financial support of American Jewry.

Marie Syrkin.

Bronx, N. Y.,

Jan. 9, 1935.

140,000 DINARIM

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin

In your issue of the Jewish Daily Bulletin of January 10 was published a report that there are 40,000 members of the World Revisionist Organization who paid their Dinarim.

I wish to call your attention that this report is not correct; up till now more than 140,000 dinarim were paid.

J. Beder.

New York, N. Y.,

Jan. 10, 1935.

A BIT TOO HEAVY

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

It seems unfortunate that the Anglo-Jewish Press caters either to morons or intellectuals. There is no publication in this field which attempts to hold the interest of the average intelligent Jew.

The Jewish Daily Bulletin has come closer to filling this need than any other Anglo-Jewish paper. But—even the Bulletin has a tendency to be a bit heavy at times. Very often stories seem to be written for some select few who are “in the know.”

Mr. Smolar has done much to clear up the present situation of the Joint Distribution Committee. His stories of the plight of the Jews in Poland have been most illuminating.

If the Bulletin could brighten up is pages with lighter features and human interest stories. I am certain many non-readers would be converted.

Please, no “puff stories.”

Jack Dagan.

Hartford, Conn.,

January 8, 1935.

ANTI-SEMITIC VICTORY

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

Dear Editor:

It would be a catastrophe and serious indictment against our trade union system if the present strike waged against the Bulletin should result in destroying the Bulletin.

The discontinuance of the Bulletin would be the biggest victory achieved by the anti-Semites in many a moon and a bad blow to the Jews. The Jews would be left without the one important Jewish organ… the one platform and source of Jewish news available to us.

The Bulletin is to be congratulated for the valiant fight it has made, the fine job it did.

A trade union member myself, I could have reconciled a strike against the Bulletin by hod-carriers but not by a group of Jewish newspapermen. The Jewish Daily Bulletin is not a capitalist enterprise but a Jewish institution for which every Bulletin worker should have been prepared to sacrifice.

I fervently hope that the Jewish Daily Bulletin may continue unimpeded in its valiant fight.

Myron Cohen,

New York,

January 10, 1935.

PRAISE FOR MR. LYONS

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

I should like to come to the defense of Eugene Lyons, not because he is incapable of fighting his own battles, but because I agree with him implicitly.

In his column of January 10, Mr. Lyons defended his attack on the “arbitrary methods of the self-styled Legion of Decency.” He pointed out that censors have a way of intruding in other fields. I should like to add that the list of pictures compiled as decent by the Legion is the work of one man.

If one has followed a certain motion picture trade journal as closely as I have, one would find that the Bishops accept the classification A., B. or C. which the trade paper uses.

Congratulations on having such a splendid writer as Eugene Lyons added to your list of contributors.

David Gross.

Bronx, N. Y.,

January 10, 1935.

FROM A GENTILE

To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:

Permit a poor German man who reads your excellently edited paper every day in the Public Library here to express his appreciation and gratitude for what you are doing in fighting Hitlerism in this country.

Hitlerism is a menace to the peace and a criminal slap in the face of culture and social justice. Having been brought up in Germany, I have experience and I know that the Jews are not hated by the German people. Many of my very best teachers happened to be Jews and I should know what I have to thank them.

It makes me unhappy and mad to think what criminals like Hitler, Goering and Goebbels are trying to accomplish. So—please—do never give up your noble fight against bigotry, race and religious hatred and Nazi propaganda in this country.

Fight the rascals and spoilers of stupid folks to the last ditch. Fight the New York and the Chicago gangs. Fight the villains Kappe-Zahne and company.

The article of Mr. Abba Hillel Silver in your paper of Dec. 23 was very, very good. I wish I could shake hands with this gentleman. Go on with your good work in the interest of mankind especially in the interest of every decent German.

A Gentile.

Allentown, Pa.,

January 8, 1935.