No definite action is yetS. Africa reported on the new anti-alien immigration lawexcept that the government did not enforce it against immigrants who leftEngland before January 28. The SouthAfrican community met the situation byraising £6,000 to help the arrivals. Thisis in accordance with a public spiritcharacteristic of the South African Jewish community.
The Jewish Publication Publications Society has issued Dubnow's "Jewish History: An Essay on the Philosophy of History," perhaps one of the most useful publications that has come from the society. A new Jargon paper has been started in England, in the city of Leeds, entitled the "Jewish Advertiser." The Jewish community of Portland, Ore., seems to be large enough to sustain a new Jewish publication, "The Jewish Tribune." The Zionists of Germany have added to polemical literature by a pamphlet, "What does Zionism Seek?" Professor Schechter has issued his inaugural address at the Jewish Theological Seminary in pamphlet form. Adolph Danziger has issued (E. P. Dutton & Co.) "Jewish Forerunners of Christianity."
The New York community is promised yet another Yiddish daily, and in the meantime, the Sun of this city devotes more attention to Jewish matters and not without a certain bitterness of tone editorially, than all the other Jewish publications put together.
A FABLE
A Fox stood on the bank of a river while a Bear was floundering in deep water. "Help me, Brother Fox, or I sink," exclaimed the Bear. The Fox ventured to say, "Had you been wiser, you would have learned how to swim when you were young. And moreover, you are doing really the very worst thing to save yourself. Now, tell me, what opinion have you of yourself for neglecting so necessary an accomplishment as swimming?" And forthwith he began an argument to convince the Bear; he used well-grounded rules of logic and was exceptionally able in showing that no one should neglect physical culture in these days of modern progress, and that the drowning animal was ignorant and incapable. To all of which the Bear replied as follows:
“Spare me your reproaches! Since you are not bright enough to lend that rope at your feet, you are not in a position to reproach me for not learning the art of swimming.”