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THE YEAR'S

Some Expressions of Satisfied Owners:

LOUIS GOLDING Tells Why He Believes

THE JEW WILL SURVIVE

H

many

our

ERR GOERING has hang heavily over us, flattening

carried one stage like lead-coloured clouds further the Nazi world's brilliant diversity.

We listen to the same music

use

In that same way we humans . Please understand I survived As nguinst the phrases like diamond and radio- mammoths and the brontosaurs active not as expressions of beenuse of a combination of merit but nà a physicist might happy glande.

use them, to express by analogy natural characteristics.

Hitler cannot get rid of us by, being unkind to us, any more than Queen Victoria could get rid of us by being kind to us.

STUDEBAKER plan for the destruction of All The Same

German Jewry. He has

What is this Jewish vitality? declared that Jews in Ger- on the air, whether we are I don't think it's a matter of

must register all Eskimos or Hottentots. Wo quality but of quantity. property over £400-with read the same syndicated arti-

of cles in the chain-newspapers. the obvious intention

Giant linera and aircraft making it subject to con-

But we cannot get rid of our- OTHER PEOPLES. IF WE ARE selves.

We assimilate, we înter- fiscation by the Nazi State. obliterate all our frontiers.

PLEASANT WE CAN BE EN- We must bang on to what CHANTING, IF WE ARE UN- Hitlers arise we hurry back into

marry, but

30011 05 tho the searchlight that such a pro- separates us, our traditions, our PLEASANT WE CAN BE RE- the fold.

I am not going to discuss here

"You can't wear out a Studebaker."

"Costs less to run."

"Leads in roominess and in miracle- ride comfort."

"I can drive 1 hundreds of miles and never feel fatigued."

Ask for a demonstration drive.

dition of the Nazi regime.

and dance,

WE ARE WHATEVER WE ARE WITH MORE INTENSITY THAN

etch other and ourselves to ex- SECUTION

ANCE,

AND

INTOLER-

What is this thing that sur- vives, who are we people that I am concerned-and

so is tinction.

For God's sake, as D. II. Law-

survive? We are a race, says Herr Goering-with It more

rence once cried out to me, let Even if Hitler were to cut the Herr Hitler. But we are not a fundamental matter.

The Nazi state is determined us hang on to the Sacred Differ throats of the half-million Jews race, scientifically speaking. (I now in Germany the stimulus he bid you consult any non-Nazi

to extinguish the Jews. They ences!

There is a third reason why has given to Judaism has made ethnologist.) feel they are not doing it swiftly

we should survive. It is less it a far more powerful and self- enough.

But will the Nazi idea magnanimous than the two conscious thing than it was be- What Are We? triumph?

We are Will the Jews sur- others I have brought forward, fore his advent to power.

not a religion, for Our greatest enemy is not in- some of the most fervent Jews Hongkong Hotel vive the Nazi terror, as they it is this. It is merely a mat-

but survived the destruction of Jeru- ter of the devil in us, or the small tolerance

tolerance. If are among the least religious, Hitler had wanted to get rid of salem, the expulsion from boy in us.

We are not a nation, in any Spain?

If it wanted any arguing, his Jews really efficiently he political sense, though some We have survived Titus and these are the arguments why we should have given his Jews the Jews have political aspirations Torquemada, gentlemen! We should survive. But the fact is, free-run of all the wine cellars in the direction of a renewed shall survive liitler!

whether we should or shouldn't, and musical comedy choruses in nationhood. whether we want to or don't the country. want to, we shall survive. We can't help it.

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TUESDAY, AUguar 2, 1938.

PRICE OF PROGRESS

But before I declare my proud that the Jews will let me ask a moral Should the Jews sur-

And for

question: vive?

They should, I say.

these reasons.

a nation.

Persistence

Inter-Marriage

We are not A moral or messianic impulse. What are we?

Each of us is

an amalgam of all these elements in varying degrees.

But there is something more than that, something it is hard to give a name to. It is a sense of decency, a sense of loyalty, a quality which the English are better fitted to understand than most other peoples.

It is a fact that during the ages of enlightenment, as they Whatever our friends or are sometimes called, we loac enemies do to us, whatever we through assimilation and inter- do to ourselves, we just go on, marriage some of our best sons to the Gentiles Why we go on with this grim, and daughters First, because of our heritage, imperishable persistence God around us. Every now and then there We have given to the world the only knows.

I think there is some justice It may be that we are a in that--we receive and we give. occurs one of these dreadful air concepts of moral law and of

God. We gave the one

the Chosen People, but that's an But however much we give, or

When I meet another Jew wo disasters which makes men feel world its supreme Book. idea I personally prefer to drop, however much is taken from us salute in each other, though we that perhaps they are paying too

That was while we were still What with the Chosen People by forced conversion to the glory do not do it consciously, the con- When we ceased to called Japanese and the Chosen of God or mass massacre to the queror of Titus and Torquemada, Kreat # price for progress.

be a nation in the sense of hay- People called Germans, there glory of the Devil, the core of in centuries long gone by, the Every time a great passenger ing one land to be our hearth are too many competitors in the us remains.

conqueror of Hitler and hig carrying plane crashes to swift stone and one language to give field!

It is a core which is irrefrag-

black-shirted paladins, whether death one realises with a shock expression to our dreams, we No, I don't think we, were able,

our victory will come five years, like diamond. Nothing the tragic truth; that men must still continued to create and to chosen, any than the can break it, not even the soft or five hundred years, from now. Chaldeans or the Idumaeans or drip, drip, drip of the waters of five hundred that Jew knows Whether it be five years or interpret. die that humanity shall con.

kindness. I believe that there is a great the Jebusites.

he will need my help and I shall tinue to grapple successfully to deal of fine literature and art We started off as a handful of It is a radio-active core, which need his. We know we shall not- improve its science and master and music for us to create, fine nomad families which cohered gives off countless particles of fail each other.

us to expound, into a tribe. The philosophy for the vital problem of swift and which would never be created or blood-brothership with a group and inexhaustible.

tribe swore energy yet remains unexhausted We shall go

on, gentlemen! We shall go on! safe transport. There must be expounded if we allowed our many, whose friends and rela-selves to be absorbed among the tives have sacrificed themselves peoples where we live.

for

Stronger

tage. should survive precisely for the Secondly, I believe the Jew!

same reason that I want the Red Indian and the Basque to sur- vive, the Welshman and the and the New Mexican Cornishman, the New Englander |

more

of kindred tribes.

These associated tribes, which were almost a race by this time, had double luck.

GAUCHO HOSPITALITY

saw that I

of

We Jews survived because of call it "pedra infernal" in Portu- the meat to places.

guese. I agreed it was an internal I was given a plece of beef weigh-

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

me. Unwilling to appear inferior, I did manage to eat about two-thirds of it. The remainder I managed to throw away when no one was look- Ing.

one way or another, even to

They chanced to kill off those giving their lives, who hold such We should survive because we tribes which would have swamp IF my horse had not stumbled Iagine anything more like a red hot

should probably have passed the iron searing the flesh. success as has been won in the have shown for two thousand ed them. They chanced to gauchos on the road and never have

But my Tooth-Work field of aviation too costly al years that it is a stronger thing mingle with those tribes which, enjoyed their hospitality.

hole, and I to have no armies and navies in combination with them, pro- horse put its hoof in together. But it is safe to say than to

It is effective, however, in closing possess armies and duced a certain strength, a cer- tore my thigh on a jagged stone on I

fell. tain vitality, which has been holding an ineffectual hundkerchief the gauchos invited me to camp with

I wus

by the roadside a wound, and that treatment over, that the victims themselves, navies.

and is inextinguishable,

to my wound when the cowboys ar- knowing the risks they ran, We have

individual had

them. They took the saddles from rived.

the horses and one man removed a would have been the stoutest individual

soldiers of great gallantry and

Mixture

First of all came the cattle. Three huge quarter of beef from a sack. generals of great

hundred head, beasts of al breeds, This was the remains of a beast they defenders of their and their wisdom. But they have func-

It is a favourite theory of they came lowing and bellowing had killed two days before, and they comrades' mission.

Americans For they tioned as

or Aus- mine that the two predominant along the red earth track. I scrum- proceeded to roast it in the "chur-

elements in the Jewish mixture bled up a bank of stony earth to wait rasco"manner. tralians, not as Jews. are necessarily men who count;

This consists of till the animals passed. Behind the suspending the beet over a huge fire If the utmost that some Jews were Semitic and Hellenic. their own lives of little value hope from Zionism is achieved,

cattle came four cowboys. Two of and twisting it about until it is pro- Hebrews we From the

re-them were typical Bio Grande perly cooked. I must admit the unless they can point to some even a Jewish National Home ceived the integrity and strength gauchos with baggy

trousers and smell of such cooking is very appelle-

ing out in the open air. accomplishment; and it is not which is completely autonomous, of the desert, the backbone wide-brimmed hats.

The first looked keenly at me and; When the beef was ready cach From the Philistines, whom mounted and asked what had hop- boot and cut off a great piece

was hurt.

All four dis- gaucho removed his knife from his the wish of any of them that it will not be a road lined with which made us survive. –

tanks and fieldguns. the world should mourn

we overcame and with whom we pened. Having explained how the roast. With the beef held on the Assyria, Egypt, Imperial inter-married bountifully, we re-occident occurred I showed them the knife and with the aid of fingers and them. They would prefer mere-Rome had great armies. They ceived the Mediterranean liveli-tear

tear on

my thigh.

One of the teeth, it is amazing how much beef ness and sense of beauty which fullible remedy for cuts and wounds of strong white teeth flushing through gauchos produced the cowboy's in-

in-a ly a tribute to their enterprise are dead, and we live.

can gaucho eat. I caught glimpses and skill and daring which would greater army than any of theirs.

Nazi Germany is building a made us worth surviving.

--a stick of nitrate of silver. They thick black beards as the men tore take the form of faith in the We shall outlive Nazi Germany. a fortuitous combination of for- stone after it had been rubbed on the ing about two pounds and no one future of the science they have So much then for our heri- tunate elements.

raw flesh of my leg. I cannot im- seemed to think it was too much for helped to advance so far, and in so short a time. Before the war a man would have been thought mad, or very odd indeed, who had considered the feasibility of a commercial air transport system which would span the Pacific. But because of the impetus the war gave flying, and because there is never any lack of volunteers for science's ad- venture, and because men who

commerce depended. are prepared to risk greatly And if war helped to create an must be splendidly equipped, awful weapon, that weapon fre-! aviation has progressed from a quently since has been put to business of stunts and experi- better use. And it yet may ments to a mighty, commercial serve to weld the nations of the enterprise whose leaders are world in closer amity. By the planning far into the future such time huge multi-engined and ships as even the Wright many-decked aircraft arb wing- brothers nover dreamed of and ing around the world in regular such speeds and heights as commercial service, the people would have confounded McCurdy, may be ready to live pencably The war did much to speed tho and to set up the machinery. development of aviation; and necessary for keeping war- frightful was the toll among makers in check. Then aviation young men who flew the "crates" will come into its own, and it of those dark days, so careless will he recognised that all the of their lives, and probably not gallont sacrifice that went into realising that on their skill the its building was not the bitter future of a great industry and a 'waste it sometimes seems to be.

From day to day the world tends to become more and more The forces of standardisation, monotone and monochrome.:

mechanisation, mass production,

mighty

Cope, 1944 by Unied Prature Troasente, ima.

"How in the world do people éxpect us to exchange these presents if they tear the shop-label of]?"

"Have A Suck?"

After the beef came the "matie." The gauchos produced their matte- gourds, put a pinch of the dried herb inside, added a red hot cinder from the fire and shook the gourd, When the herb was properly charred they added water. The infusion is taken by sucking it through a silver tube. watched the gauchos suck- ing contentedly for a bit and then one offered me his gourd.

"Quer chupar? Have a suck? he satd.

I felt the natural repugnance of the city-bred man to such promis cuity, but I remembered his white teeth under the black beard and was consoled. I took the gourd, and the silver tube was transferred from his mouth to ming,

The

We spent the evening round the Are, sucking matic and smoking.

rolled their - ደtuchas

Own cigarettes, using black tobacco and rice straw instead of paper. They gladly

rolled me a dozen or so, "gee ing I liked them." We all had a drink from the same bottle and final

ly fell asleep round the dre

In the morning we parted, the cowboys to continue their two hum dred milo trek and I to continue my way up country. We hoped, to ment some day in town, and wa braced like brothers before wo ported.

Ailiter Watson.

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