THE JEWISH CHRONICLE
4
Russian Subjects Ap-
peal to President
Wilson.
tional temperament. The propor-
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tion of blindness is greater among
the Jews than non-Jews, and nearly
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Despatches from Stockholm to tinct predilection for the race.
MT. CLEMENS, MICH.
B. MUSCOVITZ, Prop.
Berlin newspapers, says the Over- Idiocy is not uncommon among the
seas News Agency recently, tell of race and the causes are probably
the formation, in Sweden, of a referable to neurotic taints. Mar-
league of members of various non- riage of those near kill has been
Russian races who are subjects of considered a prominent cause for
the Russian Empire and that the the prevalence of idocy, but statis-
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league has sent a cable message to tics do not bear out this contention.
Of the nervous diseases neuasthe-
President Wilson asking the assist-
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nia
and hysteria are most commonly
ance of the American Nation in
seen among the Jews. Hysteria, a
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their struggle for preservation.
"The league's committee is com- disease of early life, is frequently
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met
with
in
the
Jewish
youth.
Neu-
posed of representatives of the
Finns, Jews, Poles, Lithuanians, rasthenia, a disease of the produc-
Livonians, Ukrainians, natives of tive, energetic, troubled period of
"You can see the difference"
the Baltic Provinces, Georgians and life, is seen vastly among the com-
Tohammedans and among its mem- mercial classes—lawyers, specula-
bers are :11 ichael Lempicki, the well tors, bankers—of Nvhom the Jews
known Jewish Leader Davidshon constitute a large per cent. One of
and the enthnologist Michel de the chief causes in both of these
Our organization offers you store fixtures of advanced design,
Tsercthli, a member of several na- diseases is an inherited weak nerv-
pleasing appearance, combined with an honest manufacturing
policy, that gives positive assurance of a product whose, durability,
tional committees, residing in Swit- ous system, which can not withstand
strength, and lasting qualities will outlast by several times ordin-
the
ever
increasing
pressure
of
the
news
agency's
-
zerland," says the
ary fixtures; and always giving their owner an extreme degree of
complex
problems
of
life.
Undoubt-
statement, adding:
satisfaction; yet our prices are comparatively low. We are always
edly
the
primary
cause
of
this
nerv-
"The letter to President Wilson
glad to offer suggestions, submit proposals and blue prints without
enumerates the grievances of the ous instability of the Jewish race
any obligation on your part.
different nations against • the Rus- lies in the repeated persecutions and
sian Government. One paragraph abuses to which the race has been
subjected for centuries. Sudden
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reads :
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" 'We Jews of Russia are en- massacres were of common occur-
thralled as no people on earth. We rence in the middle ages and their
are abandoned to physical and in- effect upon the nervous system
tellectual misery. Our attendance could not have been other than a
at schools and universities is for- rigorous one. Through experiment
bidden. We are crammed together upon animals it has been demon-
in the Pale and are exposed to strated that subjection to fear for
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pauperism and destitution. In bar- several hours produces a distinct
change
in
the
nerve
cells.
What
barous pogroms the beastly instincts
of the mob arc let loose against us. must have been the condition of the
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Our dwellings are looted, and every nervous system in Jews whose en-
day our brethren languish in most tire existence, almost, was a contin-
uous state of terror, is not difficult
atrocious misery.'
to imagine ; a weakened nervous or-
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OF THE CELEBRATED
AMONG THE JEWS.
mitted to the offspring and in them
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further undermined ; to these suc-
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While the race thus enjoys a rela-
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then, that the Jews are almost a na-
especially prominent among these
tion of nervous wrecks? An emo-
The public is cordially invited to visit our shops, examine our merchandise,
are the maladies of the nerve cen-
tional people, whose nervous consti-
and become convinced of the style, fit and individuality which place our goods
ters, affections of the spinal cord
in a class all by themselves.
tution collapseS under a strain
and diabetes. Diabetes occurs six
which other races can easily with-
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times more frequently among the
stand. These nervous diseases do
Jews than among non-Jews, but
not cause death, but exert a most
they endure it better than other
harmful tendency. The serious or-
races. Their particular susceptibil-
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ganic disorders of the brain and
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ity is probably due to the nervous
spinal cord are less seldom seen
element underlying the disease. Dis-
among the Jews. Perhaps with im-
eases of the heart are more common
proved conditions of life and free-
to the Jew, in United States being
dom from persecutions will come
double that of the general popula-
the nervous stability in which the
tion. Acute rheumatism, following
race is almost bankrupt today.
tonsilitis, which is so frequently
seen among the Jews, is an import-
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