VITAL IN U. S. CULTURE

At the annual fall smoker of the Harvard Menorah Society Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, in his address, said to 150 members, "The educated Jew has the mission of bringing a rich heritage to American civilization; at the same time, the American Jew must remember that he is an American as well as a Jew."

Professor Holcombe went on to a discussion of the "experimental attitude and the governmental art" during the course of which he blamed the peace treaties made after the World War and the ensuing depression for the strange acceptance by a cultured race of so brutal a figure as Hitler.

He said that the people of Germany are desperate and the sanguine youth of the country are eager to experiment. Not much experimenting has been done as yet, however, and it seems likely that, as has been the case with Mussolini, Hitler will find that all his time and energy has been exhausted in solidifying his position rather than in doing new things. "What legislation these two men have inaugurated," continued the speaker, "has been largely reactionary."