World Press Digest

Frederick T. Birchall, analyzing the Jewish situation in Germany, cables the following from Berlin to the New York Times:

The prospect is that so long as this National Socialist regime lasts there will be no future for German-born or alien-born Jews in Germany. Their relegation to an inferior status is now an integral part of the law of the land and denial of their German status is a cardinal point in the Nazi creed. Only a few weeks ago an eminent Jewish advocate who had been touring Germany counseling his people to sit tight, keep quiet, obey the law and wait for better times was summoned before constituted authority and directed to end his activities.

Jews, whether law-abiding or not, are not wanted in Germany, he was told, and the best thing they can do is to get out.

The position of the great Jewish bankers is easy to understand. They do not emigrate because their entire resources are tied up in Germany and cannot be extricated without physical danger to themselves. They are tolerated and even well-treated because they are necessary; and, in these circumstances, they are taking the long chance of remaining because they, too, hope for a change, under which they can remain.

But the position of the Jews as a whole has not changed nor is it likely to under this regime except possibly for the worse. Julius Streicher, their bitterest foe, is just now enjoying great favor and his activities are extending. He is perfecting plans for issuing his Jew-baiting newspaper, the Stuermer, now published in Nuremberg, in all the great cities throughout Germany, including Berlin.

UPHOLDS SHAVUOTH GIFTS CUSTOM

Should Jewish children accept confirmation gifts? The Sentinel, Chicago Jewish weekly, answers the question as follows:

The approaching festival of Shavouth will witness the confirmation of a large number of our boys and girls and the question of confirmation gifts is once again in the air. Many objections have been offered against the acceptance of gifts by confirmants. It has been argued that gifts divert the attention of the child from the main purpose of confirmation which is initiation into Judaism, and the suggestion has been made that in lieu of gifts, relatives and friends should make donations to charitable institutions in honor of confirmants. We are one hundred percent in favor of contributions to worthy institutions and we think it beautiful to make them in honor of confirmants—but ### discourage a child from accepting gifts is bad Judaism and worse psychology. Some people are naive enough to expect children to act like angels when it is sufficient that they act like normal children. We believe that it is a wonderful thing for our children to receive confirmation gifts, for thereby the importance of this ceremony is concretely accentuated.