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RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN,
affect the policies of the men and the women who
the collection of funds for the carrying cm of wel-
•mister and elsewhere. These men are unanimous
fa,
can these men see their way clear to limiting the
be collected in behalf of a work that is essentially
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The Lights of Chanukah.
May the Chanukah lights be kindled this week in every :ewish home,
and as their number increases front evening to evening, may they sym-
It has been our good fortune in recent weeks to be able to point with
pride to a number of our co-religionists in Iktroit whose work has wont
tuition, where they are most receded.
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working under !rind Irrith auspices have done
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, lint the real social
work at Camp Custer,
under the supervision of fir
. Drachman, an appointee of the Jewish
Board for \ Velfare \ 'dirk in the U. S, -\ riot. and Navy. flutist of necessity
be done in conformity with a plan worked
out by a national hoard.
if it is the intention of donors to serve a national cause in a national way
and without the idea of pushing any single
organization into the fore-
ground, then it seems wise to help the cause
of \Velfare Vark through
the representatives of the National Committee, which. according to a
deserved recognition. And so we are glad to add another to
letter recently written by the Secretary of \ Var, is the single
our honor
which the Government will deal.. The letter, add-
roll.
In the appointment of Mr. Milton M. Alexander as Chairman of the
State Board on l'atriotic Advertising, Gov. Sleeper has chosen one
whose ability, earnestness and tireless ambition have been frequently
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These facts are plainly stated for the guidance of the people of this
bolize the growing light of truth, of justice and of righteotsness among community. NIon•ys
given to the Intai Irrith will, no doubt, be wisely
the men and the nations of the earth.
expended and in such manner as to bring the most efficient results, but
Another Detroiter Honored.
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'stributed by men of keen judgment. who are in
be construed as a reflection 1111 , 11 such work as
nal li'rith organizations in the immediate vicinity
..,
.\ t Camp Custer, fur instance, the
has I,
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with the annual ball through 'which it b
funds for the carrying on of its activir
Aside from all other considerati)
tit ms of philanthropy and edlucatim
of work.
to raise
Se, institu-
nundred per
cent of every dollar given to them
:ailing friends.
Balls, fairs and other forms of e)
up a large intr-
thin of the income in expenses •
.,. and persistently
frowned upon.
However, it isto he Ito,
Jacob Schiff. Felix \Varburg and yourself come forward with
this plan for a Jewish Board for \Yellare \York, and I ant only
too glad to congratulate you on what ha. been
accomplished,
and to wish you every success in you co-ordinating activities."
it be all the more getter-
d)us in their contributi • -
The B'Nai B'-ith an the swish Welfare Work.
mie like this, %%lien all forces for
vice that needs to be rendered, and
don should lit' forgotten. that one of
mizations does not seem to have sensed
.
.tty that a time like this brings to it. At
,elusion at which we must arrive when we
(Ile current number of the Blwi B'rith Ne'o s.
in which is detailed. •
, the standpoint of the Mini B'rith, a history
of the negotiations between the Jewish Board for Welfare Work and
the American Soldi( rs and Sailors Welfare League of the I. O. B.
negotiations which led to a complete rupture between the two organiza-
tions and which are now as a result, pursuing their independent courses.
While there is much documentaey evidence that, might be added to
the reports that appear in the 11'nai ll'rith News that would throw a
very different light upon the character of the negotiations, and that
would fairly and squarely put the responsibility for the breach of rela-
tions upon the shoulders of the Order, the article as printed is perfectly
frank in its avowal of what the Imige conceived to be a sufficient reason
for standing alone in the great work, that in this crucial time calls for
the united energies of all our people and of all our organizations.
We quote from the article as printed :
"Mr. Kraus insisted that as a condition precedent to any plan of co-
:operation that the Jewish Welfare Board, consisting of several associated
societies, be treated as one 'organization' and the B'nai B'rith Welfare
:League as another 'organization,' and that the two organizations co-
:operate as such, so as not to destroy the identity of the B'nai B'rith
heel unfaithfulness:
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It never has
..cen told since the war
began.
Remember—
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MIS agreed to. Therefore it was stated in the agree-
ment that the two organizations should co-operate."
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The way out of the prob- •olitical community. Wc must know
THE WAR HAS MADE US THINK
By Prof. Felix Frankfurter.
/1 recent address hi l'rofessor
.1/e other of the .Vationa
Defense Council, Ilember of Confid•niial Staff of ll •
ar-.Cecretary Baker ,rink
Special Reference to
Industrial l'roblems, former Professor of LOW at ilarzwed,
and .11ember of the dmerican Cimintission in Pal•sline.
The war has done something can
MIS to our thinking. It has made it
on nationalism. Differences must not
s Le wiped out, but must be the founda-
think in broader, bigger terms. I t
1/00s on 44 111111 11 1 10.11111 the new cunt-
has also made us think more humbly .
pact between the nations. That com-
\\'e 'we now that we are no ot only in
pact must arise because the ditTo r-
this World hilt of this world, anol tt
) ences affect one another for good and
Ike in the world we have to think
for evil and to make them affect one
of the world and in world terms. The
another largely for the good we must
things happening in the remote cor-
respect the differences which not only
ners of the earth affect us right here:
enrich life Inn make life. Ina word,
what is happening at K tit-El-Amara
the world is a unity though not yet
affects the future of Kokomo, Indiana. I
unified.
1Ve may want to ignore the world
Each of its in himself represents
and live by offset es, but the world's
operations don't ignore us and to live th.s con flict between maintaining his
by ourselves w-e have to live with the difference from others and the need
world. t the same time the war has of making that difference cohere with
made us think more humbly than in the other differences. Powers outside
those days of innocence never to of our choice have settled our differ-
return, the days that closed forever ence from others and the great fact of
being born a Jew raises question's
with the fateful day of August 1 1914
Before that day internationalism which are not settled by denying the
was an easy solvent for all the world's fact. Somehow or other when you
ills. Something was the matter with hear the Jewish Folk Song "Seim-
the Poles or with the Slays in the sucht Nach Jerusalem," or when you
s t hav e
both world for some of the most significant
the nations and community among o
sperimenting in agriculture. .\ uthor-
them. This task oofstatesmanship icy must com e
front knowledge as
calls for much of generosity and
well as tintilher, that we maw realize
agitation.
It is the one 9011i14; the C1.1111111(
picture that the Zionist
chance that the perishing world ha• renaissance lias made of it. Zionism
Soo Zionism is the one sporting chance a dream
of Jewry about Zion, but
the Jewish people has—restoration to it is the greatest of all dreams of
national life in a restored society. of Jewry about objects of Jewish dream-
nations. This principle of national Mg.
It is the only dream that the
life is the ■
vity of salvation for the Jews have a right to have in a finite
breach in Ilic
it is the sal- world. it i s a d ream i
n ac ti on — a
vation for the breach it) the family.
dream, the hind part of which has
Not identity of thinking and living passed into reality, and the forward
but harimmy of aims of the units in • part
of which is passing into reality.
the family and of the units in the It is a dream passing out from
the
family of nations. stage of dream because it is a
way
.American Je w s must come to the of solving
the age-long problem of
selfsame consciousness as
.1inericans Jewry as !Ioni• Bide is a way of solv-
generally. American Jews must real- ing the age-long problem of Ireland.
izc that the Jewish people differs from
An immense question mark has
other peoples.
I am not speakiro; , Leen hanging for an immense period
only of differences which the scion- Thyer the proposition. "What to do
tisi, would catalogue in•a‘nre. I With t h e lem■
s?" That question will
ant speaking of the differences wird, be niniived the moment the Jews set-
are the deposit of national traditions. de "What to do wish it
The latter
We respond differently to different problem, What t,i do with and for th e
stimuli and to thrive we must become Jews We are pri ileged to share in
conscious of oar different stimuli and solving, especially since in so doing
our different reactions. It is no good we are solving the problem of Atn-
o try to suppress them. Suppression, : erica's international
responsibility.
assimikition, has been tried. It has All of us Americans now that We are
not worked. It is no good to try to in the great war for the liberty of
suppress them. I would :old, it is no small nations, need a quickening of
longer worthy of being tried. Sup- the pulse of kinship with the rest of
pression is a form of egotism. It the world. The future of the world
means that you are so conscious of , requires
making and keeping room
your ego and that you are so con-Ifor the small nationalities. In Presi-
scions that other people are conscious dent Wilson's
momentous declaration
of your ego that you consciously as to the conditions of a concert of
don't show it. By removing this ego- 'nations: Every people should be left
tism front ourselves we become aware tree to determine its own policy, its
not only of the world but of ourselves • own stay of development, unhindered,
and of our need and of our right to unafraid, the little along with the
hear that Lord Reading is the chief
a window upon the highway of the great and powerful. The peoples
justice—somehow that makes a differ-
world, a window in the East survey-'gathered in America can best quicken
ence to yott. That difference is the
ng from its vantage point the East that sense of kinship with the world
Jewish problem, and that problem is and
the West, if each of them busies itself with the
not a problem about certain Jews in
No one can follow the events of the persistence of its people in commun.
certain places about whom you may
world without realizing that Zionism ; icy with the other peoples.
or may not have a certain concern. is a live element in the life of the I The chosen of the
peonies are gath-
It is a problem for them because it is
world; and in Jewish life it is not only creel here and each has the privilege
a problem for you; and a problem for alive but the one
enlivening and vital- of choosing its share in the American
you because a problem for them; it is
izing force. For that double reason, :responsibility for the persistence of
a problem of the Jewish people in the
for the world and for ourselves, I one of the chosen peoples. For the
whole world and of the whole world. agree with my
fellow Zionists that !peoples are all chosen if they grandly
The President has to consider the
we must have the authority of Jewish I live a choice life. As Jews, as Am-
future of Constantinople as a condi-
numbers. But these numbers must be ericans, we should, we shall, share in
tion of the future of America and the
informed numbers. We must think it. \Ve are at this turning point in
future of Constantinople is for the
of Palestine not merely as a past arid : history summoned to turn to this
same reason a question of the future desert but as a present palpitating 'duty.
of the Jews.
Balkans or the Jews everywhere, then
the magic word "internationalism"
was uttered in the naive hope that it
In other words, the insistence of Mr. Krauts and his colleagues is on would exorcise the evil. Then came
the
war, starting in a remote corner,
the one hand to consider the Jewish Board for Welfare Work consisting
remote from us in space and in
of these organizations; namely, The Central Conference of American
thought, and starting a rolling tide of
Rabbis; the Council of the Y. M. II. A. and other Kindred! Associations; war whose breakers are reaching us.
the Jewish Publication Society of America, The Union of American What is this force of nationalism,
Hebrew Congregations; The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations; the attempt to suppress which caused
this war? VS'hat is this force for
and the United Synagog of •America, as one organization, and on
the whose saki: Europe and America have
other hand, as counterbalancing all of these should stand the Independent become what they are? This nation-
Order of B'nai B'rith. Indeed, NIr. Kraus goes so far as to say in a alism means the fact that men must I
belong somewhere that humanity does
letter to Mr. Cutler:
not hover in the blue sky, but is
"I told you I would never again consent to be amalgamated with any rooted in particular spaces on earth.
From this rooting blossoms forth the
other Jewish organization so ;is to destroy our identity." -
loyalty we call national feeling, one
Everybody is agreed that one of the
Ile is willing, he says, finny and honestly to co-operate tvith other
of the master impulse in human na- issues of this war is the persistence
organizations, but always upon the condition that the
identity of the titre. The attempt to, and the strug- of the small nations. \\Alai are we
li'na; B'rith shall be maintained.
gle against uprooting it is this war.. ' going to do about the Jews—that is
He is indeed an unobservant reader ope of the issues of this war. So
As to the agreement between the two organizations, there are. as has
of the daily news who does not oh- When a colleague of mine asked me
To the Editors, Jew ish Chronicle,
been intimated, certain records on tile which may legitimately take on a serve the center of contention) in the
of candy. In this way, the children
what Zionism is, I answered that Zion-
Detroit, Mich.:
in 50(1 or 600 families will be given a
very different construction than that given in the B'nai B'rith News Near East, and this constant shifting •
ism is one of the issues of the war.
At a meeting last night of the Al- practical introduction to the plans of
article. lint that is aside from the question.
front \Vest to East and East to \Vest Balfour has recently said that one of
bert
Lucas
Association,
composed
of
the United States Government that
is again due to . the interdependence
the dominant issues of the war is the the teachers and alumni of my relig-
Even if every contention of the 11'nai ll'rith is correct. it must still
every man, woman and child through-
not only of places On the earth, hut
future of Turkey and that means the ious classes in the l'ike Street and
appear to reasonable men as untvd)rthy of a great organization to take the forces (operating in all these places
out
the country shall own at least one
future on the Jews.
Zionism is in Riyington Street Synagogues, situated War Savings Certificate.
the stand at a time like this that the emphasis upon its own identity is on the earth. \Ve have got to think truth the recognition of a
political on the lower East Side of New York
This suggestion contains an idea of
of greater concern than a whole-hearted co-operation in a movement in of the rest of the world loecatise what fact. Zionism is. It is not up to you City, together with the ALAS, a
nation-wide importance.
If the ex-
Nvhich all the other great representative national Jewish organizations is happening, yes. down to the last to question Zionism. 1Vhat is up to junior association. a discussion arose allude
of my young friends is followed
issue of life and death does touch us. you is the question of how you will
as
to
the
Chanukah
gifts
to
the
chil-
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have joined hands. It looks very much as though self-aggrandizement So the variety in the world is not
those in charge of all the syna-
iccept it. The alternatives to Zion- dren this year.
' gogues, Temple and Church and other
on the part of the nal B'rith, rather than the desire to render a great only a spice super-added to life but a i sin. assimilation. dispersion, persecti-
The
Feast
of
Chanukah
in
coin_
Association
Sabbath schools and Sun-
service in this time of need were the inspiring motive hack of the negoti- necessity of life. As at result of the t inn, oppression, suppression 1 ml the memoration of the rededication of the
day schools, that during the Festival
war then the world to become a lit- • J ews, all the shams have been tried.
Temple after the d e feat o f th e 11, of Chanukah, Christmas and New
lions that have led to the unfortunate breach of relationship. At a time 11.1e place must he so settled that the
Zionism is a suggestion: national re• moneans by the Jess under Judas Year's
usually make some gift to the
when federation and unification of activities is the dominant tendency peoples may differ from one another s
titration is a plan of the way out. Nlaccabeus. 16(1 B. C. E., always in- , children, the war savings certificate
et the different peoples may: use at '1
among the foremost national organizations, it serves to belittle the Jew'
he first step in the solution of the chides a gift to the children. In my Plan of the United States Govern-
in
p race.
in his own eyes, as it must serve to make him an object of
ternational problem is to recognize classes this has for twenty years been
derision in the
ment will be carried into practically
These general remarks have a tragic I t
hat we are living in a world in which a box of candy.
eyes of others, that his various organizations supposedly consecrated to
every home throughout the country.
nil immediate application to us Jews. ip
copies differ and to continue to live
Yours very truly,
The young people decided to pee- I
self-forgetting service cannot work in harmony and unison.
If the possi- nternationalism for us. as for all the t ogether the differences must be sent each child with a war sayings
0 titer peoples of the world, must rest ;a
ALBERT LUCAS.
greed upon and somehow harmon- stamp
instead of the customary box
New York, Nov. 28, 1917.
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Should further question arise as to the relation belts:cm) these tsvo hill, is
to use and let live. that Ilaifa is not only a port, but one
organizations, documentary evidence is on the which
To rebuild the shattered column- of the most important stations in the
may be quoted.
nity of nations we mu
Al, that those who have
heretofore contributed! 1.,
read the two-pa g , ,
"For that reason we Were very glad when such men as
rahnud Torah Asso-
elation has wisely (livens.
Ahonlonee tomb, .boning the
atone. thrown of It by Jewleb
)outh• to revenne Abeelonea bib.
, 0 tvas necessary
commendation for the good taste display
The Times announces
for next week the publica-
lion of six important ar- §
ticles about THE WAR
SUFFERINGS OF PAL- :$
ESTINE, by Herman
Bernstein, founder of The
Day and editor of The
American Hebrew—the ?:
foremost Jewish editor 0
and writer in the United ,
States.
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.0enend other groups seeking to do the
War in the Holy Land.
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Cutler, Chairman of the Jewish Board
by Newton D. Baker,
A Word of Commend,-!:
Talmud Torah Association of this
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proved!. As Chairman of the first State Board on Patriotic Advert: -.
Mr. Alexander has an o p portunity of doing a real ser
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and we believe that he will do it well.
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