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2THE JEWISH POSTA Jewish Publication For The Jewish PeopleLEONARD ROTHSCHILD....................................... Managing-EditorARVIN ROTHSCHILD...................................................................Associate-EditorJOSEPH SOFNAS.......................................................................Business-ManagerSAMUEL SOFNAS...............-.................... Circulation-ManagerMORRIE BERNARD ............................................................ Advertising DirectorThe principles that should govern the publication of a newspaper are truth and fairness The final decision on any question should be submitted to this test—is it true, and is it fair?The Jewish Post is a member of The Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency is exclusively .entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it, and also the local news publishedherein.PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, AT 2101 EAST WASHINGTON STREET,INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.PHONES: CH. 4385 — RI. 5944 — WA. 3746-R — CH. 6633. Subscription rate fifty centa the year. For advertising rates call the office.The Post and its editorial staff disclaim responsibility for views expressed by correspondents, letters from readers, or occasional contributors.Jewish Fraternities Change In FrequencyIn his column last week, A1 Segal, prominent Cincinnati writer, discussed Jewish fraternities.Mr. Segal asks: “In what way are Jewish fraternities Jewish, outside the fact that they are social ghettos which Jewish boys have built around themselves.”In our Jewish fraternities at universities throughout the United States what Jewish purpose do these gToups serve-; in what Jewish things are they concerned, and just how is our Jewish life carried on? In Mi4. Segal’s mind, the Jewish frats are only imitations of the non-Jewish groups.THE JEWISH POST, after appearing for more than two years a* a monthly and bi-monthly publication, beginning with this issue, makes its appearance on the local scene as a weekly newspaper. The editors oi the paper feel certain that this change will produce definite advantage to the publication and to the state which it serves.THE JEWISH POST as a weekly paper, will be a greater purveyor oi news, and its scope will broaden with its frequency of appearance In oui aim to be informative, we are nowmorp nhlp f*n nrA«pnt flHftnnutplvTHE JEWISH POSTJEWISH WOMEN IN LITERATUREBy Fannie GoldsteinThe Jewish woman has and is rapidly interating herself into the literary world. In doing so, what, may we ask, has she gained as an individual? Is she happier than her mother, or her grandmother? She has become not only a passive but, an active participant, an expresser, writer. Where the absorbent literary motifhas drafted all women. It is difficult and perhaps pretentious to single out the Jewish woman in contemporar literature for emphasis and a more intimate appraisal of her literary contributions, and yet, we may be pardoned for doing so, for more than any other racial element she is injecting her personality into the American literary arena.In publicity, journalistic, and editing work, Jewish women are countless. Perhaps no American paper or publishing house is free from the Jewish woman’s part. Ruth Raphael, who has been called “the dean of publicity women in New York,” now one of the editors of the Tower Magazines, has been too busy guiding the hand of budding authors and publicizing famous ones, to do creative work herself. But she has, however, seen the best in others and helped to biding out much literary talentMarion Weinstock ,was the editor of the English department of THE DAY, Bessie London Pouzzner, is the literary editor and publisher of theLowell SUNDAY TELEGRAM.Young Jewish lady reporters are doing clever stories daily. 'mi.vy\as an exponent of other cults?” She is writing on practicaly every available subject. w?Mary Antin, with her book, THE PROMISED LAND, a generation ago, was the first to start a flood ofJewish autobiographic literature. It was the novelty of the subject matter which made its great appeal to the American reader. Since then, hardly a year has passed but what it hasproduced some Jewish biography. But it is a far cry from, for example, Mary Antin’s PROMISED LAND, reeking of immigrant flavors, to Maude Nathan’s charming, lady-dike epic, ONCE UPON A TIME ANDTODAY, portraying the more refined woman of leisure steeped in her American heritage, — a D. A. R., in her own right. Neither does IN THE MIDST OF LIFE, by Minna Curtis, —if one may still class her as a Jewess, for she is the daughter of Louis E. Kirstein, the great Boston Jew and philanthropist—suggest the immigrant. ! —I ‘ ;Ferber and HurstUnquestionably, however, the twooutstanding Jewish women authorsin America with whom the world is fimiliar, are still Fannie Hurst and Edna Ferber. Edna Ferber’s work, with the exception of the novel, FANNY1 HERSELF, is injected and imbued with a distinct Amerieanism rather than any Jewishness. Her very excellent studies of American life do often contain a Jewish character threaded into the story, but they are not Jewish sagas. There is a majestic solemnitv and a high-minded:
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