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FRIDAY, NIARCH 10, 1916.
THE WAR RELIEF FUND.
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bestirred themselves to meet this most important problem. Among.
the newcomers to our city are unquestionably men and women who,
if enlisted in our cause, would prove pillars of strength to us. The
Young. .People's Society of Temple Iteth El has plans under way by
which in some measure this problem may be met. The Young Men' s
I I ebrew Association will no doubt also do its share, as will the Young
People's Society of Congregation Shaarev Zedek. I tut that the prob-
lem may be met aggressively, there must be a spirit of harmonious
co-operation among all who are interested in S■ dying it. Let us get
together and sec what can be done.
WHERE THE ROADS MEET.
. At an enthusiastic public reception given to Ambassador lor-
genthau at the College of the City of Nev' York last Saturday after-
noon, the genial and high-minded diplomat revealed not only his
personal modesty but his racial earnestness and consecration when
he quietly remarked, in explaining the reason for his success at Con-
stantinople, "I did not succeed because of any great personal power,
but because of the fact that I represented a great and just nation."
Nothing that President Wilson or any. one else has ever said regard-
ing the high destiny of our beloved country surpasses this brief de-
scription of the Republic. It explains why Jews can be and are so
enthusiastically and unreservedly members of it, the best proof o f
their loyalty and patriotism. kut Ainerica is not a "great and just
nation - by accident. It is great and just I great because it is just)
;iecause in its service are those who not only believe in these high at-
tributes of nationality but cannot be satisfied with anything less, be-
cause they are descended from an ancestry which held these high
ideals aloft in the time of its own recognized nationality, and still
holds them aloft for and helps to embody them in all nations. No'
elyment in the nation can more certainly be relied uppn for all time
to help keep the nation great and just than the descendants of the
prcphets who carved for the world a model of national grandeur
which endures as do the chiseled beauties of the (ireeks.—Sentinel.
Never in the history of Ainerican Jewry has so high a duty 'or
so tremendous an opportunity con fnmted us as is the case today.
The cry of our stricken brethren in Europe pierces our very souls,
and there is surely none so callous and none so indifferent and none
so lacking in the very elements of humanity as to turn a deaf car
to that cry. While Detroit has done reasonably well as compared
with some communities, in the matter of furnishing relief to our
suffering co-religionists, it has not even begun to do its duty. Pan
now there has come an awakening. The Detroit Committee for
the Relief of Jews in the war zone, under the able and aggressive
leadership of Mr. David A. krown, has opened offices in the 'Wash-
ington Arcade Ituilding, and is about to launch a campaign of pub-
HARVARD STUDENTS FOR BRANDEIS.
licity which it is believed will bring the needs of our co-religionists
Seven hundred Harvard students have forwarded a petition to
so clearly before our people that no man and no woman will wish
United States Senator Wlash asking that the judiciary sub-committee
to escape his full duty in the matter. The Committee has set out to
act
favorably on the appointment of Louis I). Itrandis to the Supreme
raise a minimum of One I kindred Thcaisand Dollars in Detroit by
Court.
The petition, according to the students, was circuyed to cor-
April Ith, when the great public mass meeting is to be held at
(ea the impression that I larvard was opposed to lb . andeik' confirma-
Arcadia I lall.
tion because of the fact that President Lowell signed a paper pro-
That this may be accomplished_we must all work together. In testing against the appointment. Several Harvard graduates have al-
a movement such as this there must be no division of sentiment ready criticised the president's action.
,i-nong. the Jews of our city. This is 1114 a matter for Reform Jews or
The committee says -that President I /Well ' s action, especially in
for ( orthodox Jews, but for all Jews. It is an appeal to ) the deepest the west, is taken to represent I larvard's real feeling in the matter.
and the highest emotions of the Jew. Let no man and no woman and for that reason the students' petition was circulated to place I lar-
among us then stand outside the circle of the workers and the givers. yard in its true light as regards the character and achievement of 11..
I 11 this move the questi o n must not be: "I low much can I afford to Itrandeis. No active campaign was made for signatures.
give?" for we must all give more than we believe we can afford. It
( )f the three great cultural influences of antiquity the Jews rep-
is the one time and the one place where what seems to be extrava-
resented religion, the (;reeks art and the beauty which it typified, as
gance ought to be encouraged. Let us thew stand back of our local
well as philosophy, and the Romans law and administration. It is
conuilittee and prove to the world that they have not set their stan- . obvio us that the legal supremacy of Rome was not complete in every
'dard too high.
detail. The Jews made their contribution to legal development and
it was an important one. If religion figures as a large factor in the
lives
of individuals and of nations, the laws emanating from the Jew-
THE STRANGER AT OUR GATES.
ish religion necessarily constitute a great factor in legal history. In
On Sunday morning last there was sounded in the pulpit of the art of living and in the field of thought both Jews and Greeks
Temple Iteth El, a note the timeliness and the importance of which were influenced to some extent by Egyptian civilization, which even-
none can doubt. In the course of his Sunday sermon, Rabbi Frank- tually fell of its own (lead weight, but which nevertheless exercised
lin dwelt at length upon the crying need in our community. of doing considerable power over the peoples with whom it had come into
something- for the Jewish young - men and women \Yho come to our intimate contact.
city and who find themselves among strangers, without a sympa-
The New Republic, in its issue o f February 26, says: "V cry
thetic friend to whom they may turn, and without a welcoming hand
fittingly conies the approval of the Itrandeis appointment from nine
extended to them. It was shown that there are hundreds of such
„ mug men an
of
the eleven members of the factil iv of I larvard 1..niversity. Among
d vuung women i n o u r communit y
t((day• Alany of the nine, three have lived in the community for over a quarter of a
them have taken positions of high responsibility in our great com-
century, and have participated in the professional life of Itoston. One
mercial and industrial plants, and some of them occupy enviable
of them is Roscoe Pound. undoubtedly the most important figure
places in the professional life of our city. Ihut to the Jewish com- today in the field of jurisprudence, a scholar of international reputa-
munity they remain unkiumn, and because no syst e m a ti c e ffort h as tion, a man of wide experience, both as practitioner and judge,
all
been made to reach them and to identify them with the Jewish life expert on valuing- judicial experience and capacity. - The "case
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of our community, they are likely to remain permanently outside against the confirmation of Mr. krandeis thus far presented to the
Senate Committee is pitiably weak.
the circle of Jewish / life and Jewish influence.
In permitting a
condition like this to perpetuate itself in our midst, we become
The Jew is never a beggar, Ile is ever provident, industrious and
guilty of treason to the sacred cause sponsored by Judaism. It may
self-reliant wherever he is found on the face of the earth he is a
be said by some that these young men and voting women ()tight - law-abiding .
citizen and helpful, constructive force. The representa-
of their own accord to come to us, but the natural reticence of tives of that great and' ancient race in our own state in every com-
the stranger must be taken into consideration in this matter. It is, munity illustrate these racial attributes and are counted among the
best citizenship of Mississippi.—From the Jewish Relief Day Procla-
then, high time that our congregation:, and communal organizations
mation of Gov. Ulm of Mississippi.