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ALL THAT SHINES
The famous sta,rs of the build-up era, that golden period between 1920 and 1925, who tiirned professional, were attracted by easy money that filtered into all spoirts. Hotels, real estate firms, athletic clubs, newspapers, corporations, were alert and eager for surreptitious ways and means of capitalizing the fame and glory, of the headlinars of sport. To tmrh pro or hot to turn pro was the question before the glamorous young athletes of the easy twenties. The question was whether it was better to grab while the grabbing was good, or Tisls. all in a long pull toward higher things. That was the bare bodkin, as Mark Twaino put it, until the late Cash and Carry" Pyle cajptured many of the outstanding athletes
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WAR IN PEACE
This line may sound a bit dated by the time it reaches your eyes, but U. S. officials abroad have informed our government that war is inevi^ table, because Hitler is definitely convinced that Era,nce and Britaiii won't fight . . . You may have for-
who overheard two Germans of the more liberal type discussing Nazism . . . . "The trouble," said one of the Germans "is with Hitler—he's his* own worst enemy" . . . Ginsbui^ couldn't xielp interrupting , . . "Not while I'm alive!" he exclaimed . . Ths other
such as Red Grange, Siizanne Leng-leri, Vincent Richards and others.The ranks of the lamoiis amateurs of the 1920's were raided by promoters who claimed Bobby Jones, William Tilden and inniunerable lesser lights who quickly disappeared from public view, some with a portion of their quick money saved; others with even, the cash gone with the wind.
ALL THAT GLITTERS ...
Every Olympic Games brings its incidents of momentarily famous athletes turning pro before they can get lome. Jease Owens, the great Olsrm-pic hero of the last decade, immediately turned pro, and after a turn at running against race horses and ending his name to a basketball team, at last reports was selling liquor. Of coiurse, they all think they are doing the right thing. A hundred thousand dollars looks like an awful ot of money to them, whether they kiiow how to look after it or' hot-^ even if they get it.
PERENNIAL AMATEURS
Avery Brundage of Chicago, who was a member of the American Olympic team at Stockholm in 1912, and subsequently won the national all-around championship of the U. S. three times running in 1914, 1916 and 918, is a classic contrast to those who took the shine off their fame by oining the ranks of the pros. For a number of years after he had been
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graduated from the University of 111-nois, where he was intercollegiate, all-around champion, he continued his athletics by working out at night after his day's work. Brundage is almost an ideal example of what a smart man can accomplish with intelligent use of his athletic fame; and his success may be measured by the fact that he became a self-made mill-onaire before he was forty as a Chicago construction engineer. Today, as president of the American Olympic Association, he is still interna-lonally known and respected as a sportsman.
By retaining their sports as a hobby, as an avoca,tion rather than a vocation, men like Brundage and A. C. Gilbert prove the risk many other prominent athletes take in permitting athletics to get the upper hand of them. The great loss in these decisions to tiurn aside from a broader course into the narrowing pathway of professional sports is the saddest words of all—what might have been.
OUR GOOD FRIEND
Our friend, Mr. J. Ornstein, chairman of the National Committee of Jewish Athletes, is the Jewish Avery Brundage who has done so much constructive work in the field of sports. At present manager of one of the larger New York City hotels, Mr. Ornstein is busier than the proverbial one-armed paperhanger, what with the World Olympics betag readied for Finland next year and so many Jewish athletes working to make the grade. We promise to give you Mr. Ornsteln's prognosis of the amateur Jewish athlete in next week's stint. Be sure and watch for it.
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gotton, but Hugh Wilson, U.S. ani-bassador to Germany, is still on leai,ve' and at the time of writing it looks as if he won't ever go back . .'. Prepi aratibns are already concluded for a powerful Jewish Legion to fight on the sight of England if the war dpe;^ break out . . . It is also said that lii case of war Great Britain will entrust the Jews of Palestine with the defense of that coimtiy ; . . Ampi^ those who are hoping that war won't come are the press agents of America, who realize that no publicity releases stand a chance in papers filled with war news . . . In a recent fit of optimism, Naziland and South Africa entered into a hew kind of barter deal . . . South Africa is supposed to give the Germans wool while the Gierman government imdertakes to deliver a certain niunber of towrists every year to the Union ...
RED SWASTIKA
Interpretations of the recent Sov* let-Nazi non-aggression pact are a dime a dozen hereabouts ... .One. shrewd observer claims that it foreshadows the breaking up of the Rome-Berlin axis and explains why the Italians and Germans have improved their fortifications at the Brenner pass in recent months . . . Another declares: "Either the Soviets will have to Import anti-Semitism or Germany will have to cut it out, but no Berlin-Moscow axis can last with such a divergence in policy toward Jews" . . . Though this isn?t exactly our domain, we'd like to point out that commentators seem to forget that a non-aggression pact is not an alliance .... The Soviets have had a non-aggression pact with Italy for a long time and, for that Matter, Great Britain and France too, have had non-aggression pacts with Hitler since Munich . . . Perhaps in modern diplomacy non-aggression pacts are the substitute for declarations of war
REFUGEE REPORT
New York's University in Exile, which is giving jobs to some of the foremost refugee scholars, is setting a precedent . . . Down in New Zealand preparations are being made for the inaugiuation of an exile departs menfc in Auckland University College, . . . Distasteful as it is, it is none the;i less true that a Jewish organization is very seriously negotiating for large; scale Jewish inunigration to Ethiopia' ... A Jewish committee now in Ethi-^ opia is headed by Germann Puern-berg ... What we can't understand is why Jews should make efforts to place victims of Fascism under Italian jurisdiction ... AH of which reminds us of the new movement that has been lavmched in Germany fot the colonization of Jews on Mars .. .; Some Nazi scientists insist that it can be done, and are calling a conference which will be addressed to Buck Reg--ers and Orson Welles . . . Refugee Arnold Zweig is back in Palestine and declares that he won't leave the-Homeland for the next twenty years . . . Those who believe that the Jewish birthrate in Palestine is higli; enough to keep pace with that of the; Arabs have another guess coming . . . The Jewish birthrate couldn't keep up the present Jewish percentage in the Palestine population if immigration is stopped . . . That Palestine is good for its Jews is proved by the fact that the Maccabi football team of Tel Aviv, now in AustraUa, re^ cently played one of the strongest elevens of the Antipodes to a tie . .1. WAR AMONG VETERANS
Internal warfare is brewing among the Jewish War Veterans, and indir cations are that their forthcoming convention will be a hot one . . . The faction opposed to J. George Fred-man, who is credited with being the maker of commanders-in-chief at the last few conventions, charges the present administration with giving Veteran printing jobs to a close friend of Allen Zoll, one of America's leading anti-Semites . . . Another claim of this faction, which is headed by Samuel Friedman of Akron, Ohio, is that the Jewish Welfare Board had $4,000,000 left over from its world-war collections and that it legally belongs tc the Jewish War Veterans .... It would seem to us that $4,000,000 in their coffers would be a pleasant surprise to JWB at this time—actively engaged as they are in raising fimds for their work . . . Twenty years have passed since the war and JWB no doubt has spent that much and mote in carrying out its varied program . ., LAUGH DEPARTMENT
Neck-to-neck for honors as the best joke of the week are two culled from the private stock of Harry Hershfield . . . . One concerns a Mr. Ginsberg
tale is about the Jew who spent all his time reading Nazi Uteratiu:e and newspapers . . . "What's the idea?" his friends asked him . . . "Why, don't you read Jewish books and papers?" . . . "Why should I?" he rejomed . . . "In the Jewish papers, I read only about Jewish tzores—how Jews are persecuted and starving and homeless —and it breaks my heart. But in. the Nazi papers I can read all about the great power of the Jews in world aif-fairs, and that makes me feel lots better" ... ,
ABOUT PEOPLE
Harry Hershfield will abandon his cartooning for good within the next few weeks and will devote liis time to a daily syndicated box of comment dh general affairs, ia the style of Will Rogers . . . "Harry Hershfield Siyis'* will be the title of the feature . . . Maiurice Schwiartz will be seen as King Lear in an English production next season . Note to publishers: Arthur Wayne, who is one of the best editorial writers in the English-Jewish field and a swell make-up idea man, is available for a good position . . . The congregation that employs Cantor Moishe Caster, the famous singer, does not object to his performing on the radio or screen, but insists that he always use the title of Cantor . . . Talking of Cantors, we understand that Eddie Cantor still hasn't a radio sponsor for the next season ... Three prospective sponsors who wanted him to omit speeches about Americanism from his broadcasts got this answer: "I don't intend remaining a comedian all my life, but j I'll never stop being an American" . .. Sidney Howard, son-in-law of Walter Damrosch, who was so tragically killed in an accident last week, c-
was one of the most aggressive anti-Fascists in this country . ... . .He
pleaded more than once with some of the Jewish producers of Hollywood to utilize their tremendous poWer in the anti-Fascist cause . .. The Max Rein-hardt Workshop, which is a school for stage and screen actors, is ihaking a big hit on the coast. .. ■ Tiie'lai^e Hollywood studios pay the tuition fee for sonae of their most noted stars in order that they may get a post-graduate course in histrionics from the great master .... Mischa Elman,
v;hom the Times. reports as having received a smnmons for speeding near New York, is in South America on a concert tour.
THIRD VOLUME OF RABBI J, L ZLOTNIK'S MONUMENTAL WORK
From Ferusalem comes the word that the Olumah Institute (Auda Lemadoel Horuach) has just released from the printing Press • the third volume of the "MIDRASH HAMEUZAH HA'IVRITH' by Rabbi J. L. Zlotnik, director of the S.A, Board of Jewish Education.
The 'Midrash Hamelizah' is an exhaustive study of the Idiomatic phases of expressions of the Hebrew Language during the various ages and phrases of its development since Moses until Bialik.
It may take many years to complete such a study. In fact^ the author himself in his preface says that it may take several generations' of scholars to do the subject justice.
It is doubtful whether any language in the world has as yet such an exhaustive study undertaken on such a wide all embracing scale in this particular field of research.
The recent third volume is especially dedicated to various Cabbalistic apothegus and formulae as compared with certisiin passages of the "Cuspi" by Rabbi Yehudah Hel-evi and the famous poem "Keser Malchuth" by Solomon Ibn Gabirel.
BOWLING NEWS
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MERIBOLAS
The Meribolas open their 1939-40 season next Tuesday, Sept. 5th, at 2 p.m., and thereafter continue to bowl on Monday afternoons as in previous years. AH players are being contacted by captains. Tnis leagrue is entering its ninth season.
Y.M.H.A.
A meeting of the executive of the Y.M.H.A. is.scheduled to take place at La Salle on Wednesday, August 30th, at 8 p.m., for the puicpose of discussing plans to get this league under way. Judging by the splendid response this activity received last season when eighty-two players all-. told participated, it looks like a bigger and better leagrue this season.
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All members of this organization wishing to join this league are urged to get in touch with Mrs. D. Co-: hen. Bay. 6543-R. This loop functioned as a four-team league on Monday afternoons last season.
B-NAI B'BITH TEN-PIN
A B.B. Ten-Pin League; is helngj organized to bowl oh Monday even-J ings at 9 p.m. All members iriter-jj esteiii are urged to register their ieii-li try with Aaron Kalinsky, Chairman^, of Sports.
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PLAN HOUSING FOR ORTHODOX GIRLS IN PALESTINE
NEW YORK, (WNS).—In line with the Jewish Agency's plan to raise $I§,000,000 for the admission of 25,000 refugees to Palestine, the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America announced that additional housing for orthodox Jewish girls will be provided by the Mizrachi Women in the new building it proposes to build in Haifa and-at the central farm for the training of religious youth. Mrs. Bessie Gottsfeld, Palestine representative of the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America, who is now in New York, hailed the step as a "great advance .in solving the problem of hoizsing religious youth in the Holy Land."
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Editor, I have made today's heat endurable besides solving the Jewish problem and absolving myself from the task of writing a coliuim, so onerous on a day like this. (The piece of paper that fell from the window still lies on the sidewalk, like a piece of lead.)
Yet I offer this letter with, certain trepidations: I am aware thiat after this letter goes into print it may be picked up by some anti-Semitic publication which will find in it the clinching evidence of Jewish conspiracy . . . "Jewish Plot to Change the Climate," the headline will read.
"Jew Reveals Plan to Bring Equator North."
I shall give you a column next week.
NEW YORK (WNS). — Maurice Samuel, noted author and lecturer, sailed for Europe this week on special assignments for the New York Post.
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