Digest of Public Opinion on Jewish Matters

[The purpose of the Digest is informative Preference is given to papers not generally accessible to our readers. Quotation does not indicate approval.–Editor.]

The American Jewish weekly press has hailed the Weizmann-Marshall agreement with satisfaction.

The “Kansas City Jewish Chronicle” of Jan. 28. tems it the ” Weizmann-Marshall Treaty” and urges that now there must be no question of “priority.” The paper says: “The Jews, wherever they may be and whoever they may be must determine that there are ‘no priorities’ in world Jewry; that the priority they need be concerned about is the priority of Judaism itself. If the Weizmann-Marshall ‘treaty of Peace’ has but set the Jewish world thinking seriously along these sane and purposeful channels it will have justly earned for itself an epochal place in the long, hard, sad, but ever hopeful history of a people who can stand anything but defeat and failure.”

The signing of the agreement, observes the “Detroit Jewish Chronicle,” means “the substitution of scientific objectivity for personal prejudice and there is no movement among the Jews today that is in greater need of accurate information than Zionism. Now that this accord has been reached, American Jewry can proceed to fulfill its present obligations to those in Palestine and in eastern Europe and Russia without the disturbance of incriminations and recriminations. American Jewry should thank Chaim Weizmann and Louis Marshal for this agency agreement.”

The “American Jewish World” of Minneapolis sums up its opinion as follows: “Henceforth, whoever shall dare to encourage disruption in Jewish life will do so at his peril, knowing that there is a united Jewish conscience, a consolidated Jewish body of public opinion to reckon with. Whoever shall seek to breed dissension will have it on his conscience that he is frustrating the will of a united American Jewry. And we believe even the hardiest will think twice before embarking on such a divisive course.”

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST EAST SIDE IS CHARGED

The decision of the New York Police Department to ask the city to provide for the installation of traffic signals on the East Side is discussed in the “Day” (Feb. 1) by Joel Slonim, who points out that this section of the city has been discriminated against in the matter of regulation of traffic and the protection of human lives.

“The Police Commissioner,” we read, “believes that nowhere else in the city are traffic regulations as necessary as on the East Side. The number of children and even grown-ups who lose their lives through accidents is much larger on the East Side than in any other section.”

Mr. Slonim urges that Jewish organizations address complaints and petitions to the Board of Estimate. “The East Side,” he declares, “pays taxes just as all other sections of the city and it is entitled to protection. The Board of Estimate will have to approve the request of the Police Department.”