Americo! 'elvish Periodic

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

J e gave them a sermon themsel- Before the, war opened, a favorite
ves and I well remember his haunt of his had been the hills on
opening. He was speaking to an the Bosphorus, which now, of
audience of Jews, Mohammedans course, are fortified. His wife
and Christians, and he wished, lie was frantic with the fear that he
said, to be strictly neutral. His had wandered too near and had
text, therefore, was the axiom been taken as a spy. After two
that a straight line is the short- days she came to Dean Wallace
The thought and feeling of the eve of great political changes as
est distance between two points. and Dr. Patrick to beg that they
Jewish
race have played an im- the result of the war.
and his theme the necessity of would go to the ambassador for
,
portant
if not a dominant, part
fidelity to an ideal. The finest her and ask him to find out what
In this connection the mass
in the history of our civilization. meeting which was held in Car-
utterance of his which I heard, I had happened to her husband.
One-twelfth of the Jewish race negie Hall last month to consider
think, was a little talk given to a "But," said Dean Wallcae,
group of girls one Sunday night "why not go to the ambassador live in New York. By ties of the most effective means of advo-
kinship or origin, the million eating Jewish rights has ceased
on tolerance. With the deepest -ourself?"
feeling and most poetic vision he
The woman was stupified. The Jews of this city are closely to be an issue of charity. It is
tried to give those representa- idea of approaching an ambassa- bound to every center of Jewry now a political issue inseparably
tives of warring religions and dor personally had been beyond in Europe. The problems which bound up with the issue of de-
races an ideal of universal broth- her power of initiative. Encour- confront the race throughout the mocracy everywhere. It was
erhood under the Fatherhood of aged by her American friends, world are focused, by this con- Lincoln who said : "I believe thi
,•
God. she went, and, needleSs to say, tact, in this metropolis. It is government cannot endure per-
But the ambassador's presence received as much consideration natural and logical, therefore, that manently half slave and half
in the colleges was not limited to as if she had been a personal the movement throughout the free." The same truth is slowly
religious services. In Robert Col- friend. The ambassador was pre- world for the liberation of the penetrating into the conscious-
lege he appeared at the plays and sently able to find her husband, Jews and the establishment of
at meetings of different organiza- who had been arrested, as she their rights in countries which ness of those European nations
tions. He addressed the student feared, and on representations have denied those rights should which are now achieving demo-
body on the subject of his own from our embassy he was re- center in New York, that from cratic ideals or hope to achieve
them in the process of adjust-
profession, law, and was ready leased. •
New York should radiate those ment that is to allow the present
with a lively interest in the plans
Mr. Morgenthatt has been the moral forces which are destined
and problems of individual stu- refuge of all in danger, ben -inning to achieve the ultimate rehabili- international convulsion. All
dents. With us, the girls could with the English, French and tation of the Jew. And the time these nations are on the eve of the
not give a party, a concert or any Russians in the capital, and now for setting these forces in motion realization that in their own self-
sort of merry-making without in- his is the only voice raised for is now, when the world is on the defense and in the course of their
own redemption, they must put
viting the ambassador, and their mercy to the Armenian. What
the Jew upon the same footing as
-invitations were accepted with he has done for this unhappy
most flattering alacrity. Then people, single-handed and alone them about his own struggle for the Gentile — that an equality
which does not extend to the Jew
there would be a grave exchange with his source of support far character.
of such social courtesies in a away, is almost miraculous. He
"I found I had to put as much must he a mockery of democracy
• luncheon or tea at the embassy, cannot stop the ruthless policy of intelligence into progressing mor- and an obstacle to its accom-
to which the hostess would be in- the military dictatorship, but that ally as I had into developing my plishments.
vited, and where Mrs. Morgen- he has been permitted to protest mind," he said, confidentially.
Such equality at the voting
thau would be ready with just so consistently, and to procure "This is what I did. I made a places and before the law the
the entertainment to entrance a and administer funds relief is list of the qualities I wanted to Jews have amply won in the
school-girl soul. Several times enough to make one r ize how have—just as you girls have a countries now at war. In spite of
during the year the ambassador powerful his reues
ns have list of your studies in Miss proscription, persecution and ex-
declared he was "going stale," been. Duripsifhe mon
I was Burns' office, and I took that list ploitation through many genera-
and forthwith he moved the em- in Constantinople
. Morgen- out regularly and checked up my tions past, the Jews in each coun-
bassy family, a secretary; and a than went time and again on er- failures and_my successes. If you try have rallied to its flag with
cavass to the generous accommo- rands of mercy to Enver Pasha. try that some time you'll be sur- the same loyalty which they hay('
dations in Gould Hall, and held He was not once refused a hear- prised to see how clearly you can demonstrated toward America in
a week-end carnival and frolic ing, and in individual cases he tell where you are falling short. every hour of its need. By a de-
with his young Turkish, Bulgar- usually got what he went for.
L What were the , qualities," he
nial of civic and political rights to
ian and Armenian friends.
smiled
at
the
pretty
little
Greek
these loyal Jews, who have offer-
All this activity has been at the
It seemed a delightful cement- cost of incredible toil and suffer- who asked the question. "Well. ed their full share of sacrifice on
ing of the bond between Con- ing over the horrers he cannot there were thirty-two of them. every battlefield, these countries
stantinople College and her loyal prevent. The attaches of the em- I'll show you girls the list if you would confess a degree of ingrati-
friends and protector, when the bassy never worked in all their like, and then you can make out tude which would mark them for
trustees voted to confer upon lives as they worked under Mr. your own. Probably they'll be all time.
Mr. Morgenthau the degree of Morgenthau. A year ago the am- different from mine, but they'll
The congress which is to as-
Doctor of Laws. At the Com- bassador went to his task with be useful."
semble here, and which will be
mencement when he received his the buoyancy of a boy. He loved
Later he was as good as his
degree his address was on the the incessant demands of his word. Each girl had a copy of attended by most of the leaders
development of American civili- work and gave himself to them the list the ambassador had made of the race throughout the world,
zation due to our ideals of popu- without stint of energy and fbr himself when he was hardly will lay down the principle that
political as well as civil rights are
lar education, of which he saw a strength. Before I came away more than a boy.
essential
to the successful solu-
,magnificent representation in the American situation was in
I thought, as the little Greek tion of the problem of the Jews
Robert College, and in the Amer- progress and Mr. Morgenthau eagerlys l howed me her copy,
ican College for Girl.s Mr. Mor- was bowed and worn already. that the ideals of the boy had all that civil rights are of no avail
genthau's democracy is evident When I spoke in concern to him been wrought into the life of the without political rights to give
on all occasions. He has inter- • of the strain he had borne and man, and one in particular. This them vigor and effectiveness. In
countries where the franchise and
preted his position as representa- must bear, he said:
was headed "Purity"—and tinder parliamentary representation arc
tive of the government for, by,
"Yes, but it's what we are all it were the simple words, "In accorded on the basis of nationali-
and of the people, to be that of doing. This is America's oppor- thought as well as deed."
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servant of all, regardless of race, tunity to stand for humanity all
and his service is not in the name over the world, and every man in
of diplomatic expedience, but •in foreign positions feels the tug—
the name of humanity. It does and is doing his best."
not occur to "the people" in Con- Mr. and Mrs. Morgenthau
stantinople that an ambassador have for each other the devotion
belongs to them.
and sympathy which one is some-
All news of interest to the Jewish community
At the foot of the hill on which times tempted to associate with
our college stands there was a story-hooks. I could imagine
of this city will be greatly appreciated. Ad-
very humble English family. The nothing more wholesome for our
man was clerk in a shop in the skeptical and materially minded
dress all communications to the office pf the
city, and since his home had al- young Orientals than the oppor-
ways been in Constantinople, and tunity to see the unity and
Jewish Chronicle, 701 Penobscot Building.
his means of livelihood were beauty of the Morgenthau home.
there, he had rehiained after the T was Once standing near the
general exodus of English. One ambassador, who was, as usual,
Sunday he left ,the house for a the center of -a group of attentive
-walk and he did not come hack. girls, when I heard him telling.

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