PAGE TWO ZIONISM AND WORLD RECONSTRUCTION , jl THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Buriness Experience in HONORS DR. WISE ON Army Wint Promotion ANNIVERSARY Called to the colors after having built up a thriving business in paper BY ISRAEL ZANGWILL. and twine in Flint, Mich., H. G. Schlatier, son of Mrs. H. Schlaffer, of Address Delivered at Historic London Jewish Meeting, December 5, 1917. 73(1 Brush street, transferred his com- mercial energies to the army at Cann) Custer. lie has recently been reward- N my capacity of President un•English by just one point—ithey rd his initiative and energy by be- of the Jewish Territorial are against the rise of that Jewish ing promoted to the office of First Organization, I have been state, with which every true English- Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps honored with an invitation man sympathizes. where lie will be given (he opportun- Repudiates Political Utopianism. to appear on your platform on this ity to put into good use his technical momentous occasion. In that capacity But let us not be unfair to these I have often criticized your leaders. British Jews. If they protest too But today I am here not for criticism much, yet their protestations are not but for congratulation and co-opera- without reason. A burnt child dreads tion. I congratulate them, and the fire, and Israel lias a long memory especially Dr. Weizmann and Mr. So- of persecutions and misunderstand- kolow, upon t eir historic achievement ings. Even today, when our sons are of diplomacy. To see dying for England, anti-Semitic organs in the rem followed by a similar unite with irresponsible Zionists to that this nt in the more difficult re- proclaim that we arc not true citizens: achieve practice is the duty of all that here we have no abiding city. Ap- gion l'articularly is it the duty parently all Jews outside Palestine are Isra of Ito, founded as it was to procure a to be merely protected by their con- territory upon an autonomous basis. Si.! from Jerusalem—two millions, say, For the Ito to oppose any really prac- in Palestine protecting twelve mil- ticable plan for a Jewish territory lions outside; a small tail indeed to would be not only treason to the Jew- wag so large is dog. We territorialists ish people, but to its own program. have always repudiated such political And as a first fruit of the friendly utopianism; from the first our formula negotiations with Zionism, which be- ran "To procure a territory upon an gan in July, I am happy to be able to autononius basis for those Jews who join with you this afternoon in wel- cannot or will not remain in the lands coming the sympathy of the govern- in which they at present live." For ment with Jewish aspirations. those and for those only. Not for But I do not come to the Govern- those who can or will remain in their ment, as Lord Morley tells us the present lands. With these there may SERGEANT 11. G. SCHLAFFER. Kaiser came to him, with mock sa- be a spiritual connection; there cannot knowledge gained in several years of laams and marks of Oriental obeis- be a political. active business experience. ance, for I have long maintained that Let Palestine Be Called Judea. Mr. Schlaffer is well known among after a war for liberty and the rights And today, when—to quote your of small nations this very reparation the younger element in the city. He great leader, Max Nordaii—''the was due to that unhappy, scattered, was associated for over a year with period of rhetoric is over--the hour of and divided people which has bled and the well known and popular furniture deeds is approaching"—I am glad to suffered with all the belligerents. And merchant, Ira Friedenberg, on the as an English-horn citizen I am proud have the assurance of the Zionist East Side, and took an active interest that my country by this pro-Jewish leaders here that they unreservedly in the business men's association that accept the government's stipulation manifesto has wiped out the stain of has done much to develop the upper that "nothing shall lie done which her alliance with the fallen Pharaoh. Hastings district. He is a member may prejudice the rights and political But whatever the general Jewish grati- of the Union Lodge, F. A. M. 3, and status enjoyed by Jews in any other tude for this extension of the prin- many other organizations in the city. ciples of nationalities, the Jews in country." Once Zionism is established His friends expect to see him soon tin this sound basis, not only does its Turkey and other now enemy coun- with officers straps on his shoulders. formula become identical with the tries are as loyal to their fatherlands Ito' s, but I can see no reason why all as we to ours, and we who stand here can have no claim to pledge the race Israel should not co-operate with both organizations in developing l'al- to any power or powers. estine as a Jewish national home for Zionist Debt to England. Detroit has lost a loyal citizen and All we can say is that happily the those Jews who can or will go there. vast majority are concentrated in To diminish the risks of confusion, his family lost an excellent father and those allied and.democratic countries let Palestine be called Judea, and let husband in the death of Alexander with which they are in natural affinity. the Jews who adopt its citizens be Morris, of 205 Warren Ave. E., on Dec. Particularly close is their affinity with called Judean s. Then all the others 26. 1917. He was still a young Mall at the the English. I am not referring to will remain as before, Jews—Jews of the theory of tht Anglo-Israelites that whatever political allegiance they time of his demise, being only forty- the English are the Lost Ten Tribes, choose. A national home in Palestine seven years of age, and up to his thought I observe, in passing, how —freedom and equal rights every- death was very active in commercial strange it is that while sonic Jews are where else: here surely is a platform affairs. lie spent a number of years in the to he accounted Englishmen, that can unite Israel. ' see it is uniting mercantile business at Honor, ',Stich., :oming to you, and moved to Detroit because he upset; the cap- found it more convenient in the edu- , two thousand cation ,of his children, and to enable .1 it would last him to more fully observe his relig- are coming- ion. Ile belonged to a number of ir Sir Francis societies, being a Mason, an Elk, a tells us that Woodman, and a member of the Con- ewish faction; gregation Mogan Abraham. bring about even Einsker, marvelously interpreted Mr. Morris was buried at Mach- the yet unborn? Was it not England, its restoration, the city torn from the pelall cemetery, Rabbi Levin officiat- too, that created Territorialism by her Turk, after exactly four hundred years ing. Ile leaves to mourn his loss a epoch-making offer in East Africa of that Lord of Misrule, would be wife, six children, a brother, Mr. Louis contained in Lord Lansdowne's let- already ours. For, today, all roads Morris of Traverse City, and a sister, ter? An enemy of Zionism has pointed lead to Zion. In that park of strange Mrs. Ben Wepman, of Grand Rapids. out that governments come and go— beasts which you, my Lord, are re- for my part I am glad they do—hut puted to keep, there may be such an this sympathy with the Jewish cause animal as an absolute anti-Zionist. cannot be uprooted with any individ- But I have never met one. Even those ual government. It is a British tradi- believed to be your bitterest enemies tion. It was a wise instinct that led to have formed a League of British Jews, Isl. B. lioruchov, the leader of the our shores the immortal founder of and one of its objects is "To facilitate Peale Zion movement in Russia and in Zionism, Dr. If erzy; here he first de- the settlement in Palestine of such America, was reported last week as livered his message, here he estab- Jews as may desire to make Palestine dead in Russia. The details of his lished the financial institutions of his their home." sheath were not given and it is not movement. Factions Must Unite. known whether lie died a natural death Nationalism Not All-Important. This conies auspiciously near our or met with violence in the present But it is not only a Jewish national proposed cominon platform. In fact, turbulent times in Russia. 'home that our people needs. There is if Zionism is the Left or Radical Boruchov was born in Russia in the the further and not less momentous Wing of Palestine, the British League province of l'oltava, in 1881. He re- principle which Jewry has of late is merely the Right or Conservative. ceived a fine education in his student united in demanding—equality of The Ito, which constitutes the Center, years and early in life gave himself up rights with their fellow-citizens in may, perhaps, after all, prove the to the study of the social problem. every country for all Jews who may bridge between the two parties. Medio When he was but 22 years of age he be unable or unwilling to take up the tuissimus. This is the day of alliances. threw himself into the Jewish nation- new citizenship in Palestine. This Zionism, like all other powers, needs alist movement and later developed principle is the more important inas- allies, But they must be allies who the socialist nationalist theory, upon much as, out of our 13 or 14 million come to help and not to betray. At which the Poale Zion movement was Jews, only a small minority can pos- this very moment, probably under the founded. He worked incessantly in sibly return to Palestine in any fore- inspiration of the Jewish Chronicle, a behalf of this movement and suc- seeable period. Indeed, but for the meeting of the Maccabeans is consid- ceeded in building up a firm organ- fact that the Russian revolution has ering how to unite all parties in I'al- ization in Russia and later also in in all probability brought freedom to estinc work. But let us be clear what other parts of Europe, where he the six million Jews of Russia, I that work is. It is not merely a ques- traveled after escaping from a Rus- should still consider Palestine an ut- tion of Palestine immigration; it is a sian prison in 1907. He ,came to terly inadequate territory and Gal- question of a national home on an au- America after the outbreak of the veston the one great gate of hope. tonomous basis. The Jewish ideal war and was the acknowledged But as things providentially are, the proclaims not merely Leshanah habaa leader of the l'oale Zionists in this same program can combine a national be-yerushalayiin—"next year in Jeru- country. After the Russian revolution home for the minority in Palestine salem"—it says also Leshanah habaa in March, Boruchov left America and which freedom and diversity of politi- beni chorin—"next year, sons of returned to Russia, where he con- cal status for the majority without. Freedom." John Hay, when told that tinued his labors in behalf of his fa- One world have thought that such certain peoples were not fit for auton- vorite ideal. The report of his death a statesmanlike solution of both as- omy. replied, "No people is fit for came as a great shock to the leaders pects of the Jewish question would anything else." I do not say this au- of the movement in this country. find all Israel contented. But not the tonomy must conic at a bound. words, " Jewish National Home," of- Though, in my opinion, the boldest fend the patriotism of certain leading way is always the best, and responsi- British Jews. They are so very Eng- bility is a people's best educator, yet lish, you see. You will perhaps re- I am prepared to make all possible Felix Moscheles, the painter, died member the escaped German officer concessions to circumstances and his- at Tunbridge Wells, England, on Sat- who took up his abode in a London tory. But unless the Palestine colo- urday, December 22d. He was born hotel. He spoke English perfectly, he nization is so ,planned that it must in London, February 3, 1833, a son of wore immaculate English clothes, he eventually produce the national au- Ignaz Moscheles, a composer, and gave a genuine London address Only tonomous home, I, for one, will not godson of Felix Idendelssolin. His instead of writing, say 55 Park Lane, devote my limited strength to such a artistic education was received at Ant- he wrote Park Lane, 55. And that mockery of Jewish aspirations. The werp and Paris, where his early pic- little difference gave him away. So times are too serious and tragic for tures were exhibited. He had been you may see English-born Jews, bred such trifling. Mount Zion is in labor. President of the International Arbi- at English public schools and English Shall it produce a mouse? No, it must tration and Peace Association, and universities. sometimes in the English produce a lion—the lion of Judah. also President of the I.ondon Esper- public service. sometimes even mar- anto Club. --- trontInued on page 8) ried into old English families, yet as as THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER MORRIS POALE ZION LEADER DIES IN RUSSIA FELIX MOSCHELF-S DEAD. To Insure non-freezing of auto-radiators ask for "Concentro" Denatured Alcohol costs no more than ordinary denatured alcohol yet has greater strength From your druggist or direct from Lambert & Lowman, 12th and Howard Streets. Cherry 6709-6845. MOVIE TICKETS SIX FOR 25c Ily mall enclose 27 cents to stamps. Good any time at 5 downtown theatres WOODWARD THEATRE CO. 306 Breitmeyer Bldg. Free Synagogue Pays Tribute to kamous Rabbi Completing Tenth Year as Leader. New York.—As a tenth anniversary tribute Dr. Stephen S. \Vise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, was presented by the Executive Council with a schol• arship fund for rabbinical training for young men, at the services in Carne- gie Hall, Sunday morning. Addresses praising Dr. Wise's work were made by President Henry Morgenthau, of the synagogue; Ambassador Abram I. Elkus and Nathan Straus. The schol- arship is called the "Stephen S. \Vise Fellowship Fund" and amounts to live thousand dollars a year for three years. Mr. Morganthatt said one of the most merited parts of Rabbi \Vise's work was his attitude toward the !nor- ;Os of the country. His stand, made known to all the world, had lifted the whole nation, and lie had a congre- gation that was nation-wide. "His work," said Mr. Elkus, "is wonderful. 'Ile has the love, esteem and affection of the entire congrega- tion. His is a great ability and a re- markable industry. The congregation admires beyond measure his wonder- ful expresso!' of mind and heart.'' In his reply Dr. Wise said it was a "democratic" rather than a "reform" synagogue, and that if he had the last ten years to live over again he would do exactly as he had done. "We are not a reform people," he continued, "but I am the rabbi of a liberal syna- gogue. I am a Jew first and last. I husk you to renew your fealty to Juda- ism. Have a care lest liberal Judaism becomes such a dead, lifeless forma- \ ion as reform Judaism, I want to bring back the wonder, the marvel and mystery of Judaism, rooted in the vision of God. Give one your ,sons; dedicate your children to the ministry; serve America as proud, 'self-determining Jews." 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