-THE JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE FOUR I THE JEWISH CHRONICLE Issued Every Friday by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Company President • - - - ANTON KAUFMAN MICIIMAN'S JEWISH 110ME PUBLICATION A SUPPER FOR ARISTOCRATS. It would be utterly impossible in the short space at our disposal to attempt anything like an adequate analysis of NIr. Gibbons' essay. It must be read in its entirety as it no dottl,t will he by both Zionist's and anti-Zionists. Hy it, the latter will feel their position greatly strength- "Now tell me about Mr. Ilirsliman." Mrs. Fuelistuan peered out of the at the gathering dusk, demanded Marcella, as they seated fall tinder tw(i parlor window be said that his arguments — In a broad way, it may themselves around the table. and shrugged her shoulders.' • Phone: Cherry 3381. heads: first, that the proposal on the part of the Zionist organization to "I met Mr. Ilirshman in 1):1\ go gttess if its "In such a weather of tireat office. Ile's a lawyer, too. His sister Editorial Contributor create an independent state in Palestine under the protectorate ime to light the candles already'," she RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN tain in mumbled to herself. "And there is a music teacher, he told me. Some Britain is an attempt to further the political fortunes of I ireat Britain All correspondence to Insure publication must be sent in so us to reach this should be at least in the neighborhood girl, isn't she? \\*e had quite a talk. Near rast at the expense of French interests there, a fact to which. the Say, their home is in New York, and °Mee Tuesday evening of each week. real Jewish %soma!' by whom you French a government but the Nu, a neighborhood they they came specially for the reception. $2.00 per year according to tie author, not only the French ia isk. ( a, :iii, %ii,I la , gaiiies i., art, pyricetly awake. Subscription in Advance i. ,e1) 1s..:. said Man,ii.i. My enemies should have such They are real I sw k(,, I people—Jere. and sun- psis alike- "Yes, yes, ar. Only for children, what don't The Jewish Chronicle Invites correspondence on subjects of Interest to the ye The a trunk of the ()rand Rabbi of France. ,port of his theory t he in supp "Did lie say.am thing about me? " 5' Jets is h people, but dIsulithns responsibility for an Indorsement of the \Jews latter said, among other things, - Zionism is not a pious desideratum on you do for children:" t:pressed by the writers. "You bet. Say, you made a real hit eyed her surroundings bur- ■ She sur bert Y and! equality that, what do you with the ou r part. \\dial French Jews are interested in, k E rut ill) Entered as sevontiglass matter Nlarch 11, 1916, at the Postottici• at Detroit, n till'1 the sti 'e l' ing a‘ t iil'ios iim t et did?; a Frenchman 'and not as a a i n tteil gas has r) l u ): rushed:17(1,0 turned Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1 , 79. in this country for ;ill religions." "But as • .•\\.h at ? , . - ___,__ all mhos prominent range, leaving a very small tire, sub- Jew," continues Mr, f iibbons, "the Grand Rabbi and wat e a kettle "1 imited Min and h'ii ,sister to lint 1 11 r "f Ti not used to de• ; ficient io keep /,,' anxious that . Zionion Frei "' je7''S art execotlifffii.v i ttnt , sup-1 mean dinner—with us \\'ed. in the .Vcar tf ?n re tchaci Sita,1..td ''tntt t ttheea ' nid.li à"sti t'i ni tete dig ca nesday nig nigt. (+rive France ()I her traditional past aml her h legifilllale place t. I said you would call T heodore 14.00se‘elt is dead. 1 he words Moe a hollow stittul as rer'ir . c artri - .1111111 - dli sticks standing ear the edge o her up. \\ hen you can associate with Fast. .Ind FrenCh lit fear that Zionism may thus the large dming•roem table. people like them, it mean); sometliim. We speak them and it is difficult for its to realize their truth. NVIlatever i ism in France." esre,t,tel settled herself coin- .I nisit,iy as hs, 1,1,e l i 0rt individuals may have felt to be the weaknesses and the sluirtcontings of Oh, .' I'm so glad you mined '' '' ''' trw preparatory fearful that l ri ct it in beau co) France and ( ;refit a rge ,dent for lit a mono II!,, die is r, M(Ireover, ht. ., , Iv:wass tl , i e ii , L : th Colonel Roosevelt, the great mass of .NtnericanS had come to b0,1: up(M indepeent Jewish to reading a . 1 ewish newspaper the nul a d ded ( Britain growing out of the ustablislinient of an of God. grate back door rang shrilly. As him as a leader of men by the one thing you ban e r i', ti rig i.i..t.t :eit. N\e 'rlen.t.; e nace bell at the h ritis protectorate would he a seri,,,k, m she opened the door she was greeted offer them Iuggs41, virile, fearless, honest, be has been compared many time: state in Palestine under B . by a delivery boy with a C. O. I)• o c rat, al " 1 i ' s , t '''' 1 " .ti e , and theyil are ; real " ar k filnreily ()afr to the Prophet Amos. It is in all sincerity that great multitudes of men to world peace. , , Fuchsan. m „ iss Marcella package for M e; from Ett . none ■Ill over oust by e , w just tom , w'e're Ti The • e second chief argument advanced by \I r. I iibbunis 1- and women have regarded him as the greatest of Americans sincel.in - 1 ,, 1, 0 , p g the r ii.,-.. "Not shabbos," she informed the nine. y„ k,,„, to create a lett ish,talc in Pole-411w \mold want t,. .1.,. nt hi coin. Certainly, the opinion will scarcely be disputed that ill this flaY Intik thus: "The attempt delivery boy. "You bring the pack- anything t h at I ti , ened and the former will no doubt attempt an answer. „ Offices 307.308 Peter Smith Building The Passing of a Great American • the Nlos- she says is trciall. \\'c can't age Monday." "* "ell `tapes, he was give birth to an alarming anti - Semitic to...0(1110n throughout with the single exception of the l'i .e''" 1 " 1 "f 11 She won back into the dining-room them," she comItttled tearnill. km world resulting in.:boycotts and pogroms." lit support of 'hi.: be- the foremost citizen of our countr \ . . '1 ,, I ' \\ . and resumed the reading of the news- would wilt nil', fools of our . cogent arguments based upon an intimate lenowl- Irwin reticct,i for a few lire , t.t•. To no small extent, the outworking of o ur onititr*. political des- lief, the author brings wandered paper, lint her thought? fillies were in his bands and it is altogether likely that had he lived, the edge of Mohammedan manic and auording 1,1 ulti,li it is utterly puerile away from the newspaper, hack to by- "Say, it hy can't ire order the ,' ',till' future history of .1merica would have been largely shaped by hint, to believe that the Nlosleins would tolerate in their laud. a Jewish state g lue ti l eie'l t' )..c'allett the small butcher shop such a condition (d tolerance to " ... honored and feared; a man or t I h al a t ta t i h ey would not resent by force lie was a man at once loved and hated - rell- with the two tiny rooms Nick of it in "that the civil and i Trio nisi that ,1 tentse, ves a: is implied in the Balfour whose friends \vould pac t followed hint to fitly limit becfittse the s. i l and her husband and their w ,i 1„. i.j k ., ei t so jotwhich I taiaxey amt N,LIietrisltia,aphpa)(1 , rdet,1 etIs non-Jetts in Pale stine -hould n o t he i„ tik' yd c hil \ oil dren ()uglily, believed in him and tt hose (monies knew no 'under:Olio) in their gious rights M Again, most forcefully, it is pointed out that the to lode Jewish stale \ troth• itt his like s e lf, hini, was , I.! Mr. I. vicious onslaughts. M appier than they heralded principle of self - determination much h were tot" a mongst and dislikes, but this was• due ohmic all else to Iii , rugged sincerity. idea rens counter to our much 1 , ,_ For th ere had been harmony ... at „. "'I an j t . i i A i ,1„ art ill. , ilitt ii nat i ons. •• \ i tt . t. a ll . , lit, . „ i n on t we theinhil .e alfird ,,c,,t ttt,1 :t rient. jou; 1,.,L1,..,,iiw. 1,-it , ,, f . . Many times, we did o u t agree uith his judgments but for all that ,,i timil,:oid, un cat„ „ 1f inti,,,Iticing hdrvii, indi rang. She respected the manhood that di, tated thou. diplomatic :old littanctal support ;mil goitr_i opened the door, and called out into ; judgment upon Mr. Roilsoell's place in ; nuni,grants backed by unitsille It is tel too early t, I 1 , a ,, i,, :...,, , the hall, " \Vito is its • t. i w t• I 1 purpose of setting tip a theocratIr it,;o\ ertunent for m - It's te. Sidney." a man replied there can I t little doubt that the future historian u ill write for the ■ historY but him down as a good and great man and as one u ho in greater degree perhaps than any other except Lincoln, has typified the spirit of \iner ica. 1E11111 :I rt,I.ILINIIii? " ' I ' i' IC- II `1111 . 11 , 111 ■ It I. In, ii ,. ll , I ',,i1 , - I!, 11 .11 , l'I. , .I. nd beat up ropean a trefall I'll the... ninon- II tin- is already in/white/ bin " running up the .airs. a nt, ; i orvet or ignore tilt' fact that /',', , nat tont, "Slisilarya, excise me, I mean Sit - a' ., , .... ,',. I , . ,,- .'1- if thousand years ■ * * * -Th e 1 tiey.“ she said in mocking tones., . he stepped into the dining room t. notion /!,!, , .. „„,-, t that cigar „„ ii t h row i never lake •• , 1 - i, I 'ilestin , ' ! the lows either r ha , ; !,-., I ientile ad \ , ? ..., 1 11,,Y "You order restaurant and .:1!age pail the . .•o the house." ,r father plead- I,sinatt shrugged 'II. I .sled Mat cella. up a fine meal. I Mr. 'I like them. .er are real aris- I I , .. .,.tocrats" ..,, 1 NIrs. ly. ,Ily ■ .. iew of the inhabitants 1 "What In you want from nn ho dm! t ' tuba investigated the propo - ilion front the point of 1- e '• -itlie h i :' I Protested. "The m oinen , ,,w, who I I principle of politic . il e \I edi-n, the house you begin to bottler me 1 ,, w .1 I the or me " limited Iry . f the country . . ' .' . . . . „ ... and their en-1 , , 1 the It w, - - 1 l Lubin of San Fr:oicisCII. "• Where should I throw it?" In the passing 'away at Runic of liaviu "el). denounced berre ' idvill Wil'"n• o' ' histle all the ponill.! , “•.1- lirow it in the ball, out of the a man w li. lt.tin \merican Jewry. mourns a inan in whom we all had good reason to '''' t nlerlving the entire :illicit, is the implication that i ;real I it songs, and t .tit dance all night without l'i , window , sty place, only von id Ini - ines- men. See. , to to - getting tired, like our Irwin. fed a sense of pride. One of :Nmerica's most successful has not beett entirelv into ed by her concern fir Jew Ism 'mutest 't , dien may he I ain't such a greenhorn like 11 "'''' it Sh " me " t le . kit n,V in out not in 1 si neither M r. tne cigar into Indeed. lie point: out That h e t Ito threw . . paidi , Mr. Lubin early learned that the highest success spells itself iler the iiimeinent as she ha then you thinl; me, its yon, an aristocrat. enthusiastic atb to; terms of mere accumulation of wealth, but rather in touts (,1 the seri ice Ilallour nor Nlr. Hoot I merge--who are both now \\lien will yoll forget putt. foolish- is a girl to ho gets a new dress every • ill. ail in fat iir I if the nunetitunt nes., IlluinaF' he said sharply. "You week, who paints up her face like an toward which that wealth is thrected. -J e sse (-MC , 111 Zi(1111N111 it , / 1 '11!CSIIPC Jew and all 11101T than one occasion, he when Ilritisli interests were closcI 1 touched by the proposal to settle the , act like you eirme yesterday (rum the actress on the stage, who wears skirts 11r. Lubin was intensely • .... ,oldeu.tintry. You are the same green- till the knees, and who changes her national con\ entions, :tilunig them a was invited t o address greflt. Jewish Jewish name it should sound like . Jews in large numbers in eastern .Nfrica. yo u cam'''. great length because we belive that , 11 ",.7 Y‘"' ""', when to the Central Conference of American Rabbis. By those who could not 1 :t , lii.:h t iY.11,,ShY;csaniy:yth)i.tolgu only 3,1 nch, cite this article at such d retort angrily. Irish, Fre ■ Sti., not like ,ene the door follow his theories, he was sometimes deemed to be erratic. DM in the from new angles, it touches closely and exactly many (Lingers that are I young tocrats." capable of translation inn, ;ol d it hid, h at ,. !m t. h ere t o f or e beell girl,nilit'fi'lshio°nr;lie'eti'irera.vane(al n'tme end, his theories usually proved themselVes involved in /w/itiod Zioni,in Marcella bit her lip in vexation. "Quarreling already?" she asked . stressed. Cultural Zionism, set-called, or the rehabilitation of tie land querulously. "honestly, it's a shame. Irwin nudged her. and put his finger actuality. thc 1 Ilis greatest achievement was mulumbtedly the founding of the I bet everybotly in the building can to his mouth sficantly. for those I ,ews who wish to live there, under such government as "Say. Ma," he said, ''do you know International Institution of .1griculture at Rome. (in wh oy permanent present ma jor it . acting upon the principle of sel f -determination, maY hear you. \Vas a package brought for how old Marcella is? Well, this Mr. • mother? 4 at NN'ashing- , brought forwa rd. me Wealthy, and he board he was the American rep resentative. Rebuffed tiy , , see tit to establish. is not affected by the arguments ".\ boy brought a package C. O. D. Hirshinan is very , ton and then by one European monarch after another when he presemeo \ Ye ourselves, as we have stated times without number for in those these Who col- a little while. ago, but I didn't take isn't married. Ile seems to like Nlar- habitable iii David Lubin ■ ■ Such it," s a id NIrs. Fuchsman complacently. cella, do you understand? the plan for the International Institute which he haul carefully wuirked limns, believe that Palestine should be made demanded her chances don't come often" "\\11Y didn't you?" . at last received encouragement from the King w ish to settle there. But Ibis dots not iii am sense affect our cum- This argument, as Irwin knew, set- out in his own mind, be 1, "a, Made daughter, raising her voice• tat ,,. i 1,1\1`. \ el•1 a t potent factor in , ic IS to bring it Monday," dam failed to have some effect, and idi political , I told him silent opposition to the . of Italy and•the institution which has been the mo . Fuchs- Nlack Iiiiii , cit — heittl ot tlw Mrs. Fuchsman replied calmly. "On after a great deal of talk, :MN. Fuchs- potting agriculttne upon a scientific Mois was estalislied at Rome. man finally eapitlattil and gave h e r r clear in these columns last week. Judge pay him, maybe." declared the independent state Shablios I should 1110Vellleilt, the importance o f t< a piontwr in a Mr. Lubin was tilt Atmerican r ederatitin of Zionists - has 1 'flow anntiyingl I wanted that consent to their ordering a dinner governments Of toe in Palestine to be an impossible and an impractical dream. liy such waist to wear tomorrow. 1st' t that front a restaurant, providing that the Whith is being recognized increasingly by all the well His passing is a loss not only to his co-religionists but as we,. declaration, he is in effect putting a quietus on political Zionism. Such Ithe limit, father?" She turned to her restatirant supply all the dishes and world. H silverware required for the dinner. l father for sympathy. being the case, one may read Mr. tiibbons* article dispassionately and ce'l'iSilie',11,;it:eut,kvea,u,s,ia,lal Ott IVeditesday Marcella remained to all the peoples of all countries. _ e, rearranging every thing in the ;!s 'les'tinacocil l"-in at home, cry thank i til tor the dangers that happily the Jew ry of the u mid ' Edward H. Doyle that w hat 'I lionbire . 1:ooseyelt was SOMe011e said a day Or 1.\\ o ago whose tragic death occurred on Sunday to America, l'..dward II. Doyle — 1)etroit. Like the great America» leader, NIr. Doyle was last — was to abort fighter but he fought fair. Like him, too, he u as a man, the be \ 1"",i' a hi " \ c takes something in livr head house. Finally, everything was com- if nobody will knock it out from her. Go 'Acted to her satisfaction, and she she A Catholic Attach Upon the Jew that were all right for Europe 'satin dress, to which her mother ob- , things don't go here. How much we talk to jetted to as too elaborate to wear at c"."1"1' . tell her that this is America, and went off to dress up in an eXPC11,:it e Catholicism go out of their wily 1 her don't do no good. You can't a home dinner. It It is 11.4 of ten that the organs id Presently the diiorbell rang. make her up to date." Mr. litichsman Ali CxcePtiolt• iiiiivu't cr. to this general ! "That's them, your aristocrats," said articles that has ycl shrugged his shoulders with an air gentler side of whose nature was many times hidden men from his More rule, is to be found in (Me of the Most scurrilous Mrs. Fitilisinan. She started in amazement at the - intimate friends. Hut that he was essentially a humanitarian, those "1"?: You n'o"fl course, all of you are up- been printed and which under the name "The Jew ish .Npostolate. . Mashelle learned how to he guests, the girl neatly attired in a to-date. forget. a Catholic nutgazine. t best could never .1lissionarV--- 4The who- knew hi n appt•ars in a recent issue of up-to-date in the (lance, and Irwin in plainly tailored suit and trim hat, and was a good man and a good citizen. .k Catholic by ontviction who shook her hand • lie gist of the article in question is that it is the duty of all good Ile the pool rooms. But on where did the young Man. , liberal. llis great soul simply spirit a Catholics to use their hest efforts for the conversion of Israel to Cam - you learn how to be up-ts-date?- cordially. an d profession, M r. I biyle was in Marcella glanced at the sumptuous- or narrowness. Ile judged 41( . 11 let prayer, by on- - be from the women you used to sell could not brook bigotry, fanaticism Till , 11111Si be (lone in a number of uays -- the old country and in the ly spread table critically before ask- /My three days ulici ' un ! nh ietatf to inl as individuals and according to their personal worth. I ing her mother to announce dinner. respondence. by the circulation of Yiddish and English literature, by -- "lilt , before his death, in a letter to the writer of this editorial, he said, by the association of Catholics ennoise about?" asked They all entered the dining - room, Mr. Who despises any min because has no fire hot enough to burn the bigot o:ophy of his race, creed or color." In that single sentence, the lifeyhil to attack Js•Wii :Mil Jtliiiiiiirl. .■N'I r e h rat:'small)i tvbe sermon , awl lectures, and particularly, came in slamming the hirsliman chatting gaily with Mar- let-, and the gradual infiltration of Catholic doctrines into their Irwin, who with door behind him. "Sonic store argil - cella. .‘II but- :qrs. Fuchsmati sat . ?Minis Oh, boy. but I'm hungry. down at the table. Mr. Iiirshman >i was summedutip. melds? , s the fend? " stared at the bread and butter plates. \Vith falsity that is entirely characteri , tic .M. the hailer for Jewish Nyhere In these days, when bigotry and narrowness almond in so many souls, this writer intimates that vast number. of piling men and women "I wish you would drop that slang," and at the steaming bouillon cups. "Pardon me," he said. "We observe said Marcella peevishly. "Sometimes places, it is fit that we should pause a moment to pay our tribute of of the Jewish faith "thinking not at all of marriage but whose environ. your speech is so vulgar, Irwin, that the Jewish dietary laws. WI,en I ac- respect and esteem to the memory of a man who, out of the comictoin the ranks of Catholicism. people W OUld think you had no breed- cepted your dinner invitation I had no w one Catholic, - are sellin ! ment has become . idea that you people keep trefah. In a sentiment like this. . ing." # of his soul, could set ■ loWn Nloreover, the tuner of the article draws a distinction between the "If my speech is so distasteful to , fact, front what Lena told us abotit _... — __ of 'Mr. boyie Mr. Gibbons' a Attack or. Political Zionism conversion of a Protestant and a Jew to Catholicism. NVItile the former you, I won't tell you the latest news." you, I thought that Mrs. FlICS11111311 you, was orthodox." over the Jew Je. . Don't," she said succinctly. is desirable, it really is of less importance than w r. II irshinan we I Irwin and Marcella glanced at each "It's about that a Jews should il d moreover , w h ile' it is most highly to be desired lint An article that will scarcely be reprinted in the Zionistic journals, :\ Of course other wilh cagrin. M Fuchsman shed, th e n a t l ea st met at Lena's recepto into Catholic., if that cannot b e acc mpli you aren't interested," he said taunt- attempted to avoid the mocking stare in the January' be made - ppears under the title "Zionism and the NVorld Peace Mr. Ilerbert . \ (buns 1iib- they should become Protestants. ingly. of his wife. , cans thought you we re Amerisuc issue of the Celina)* magazine. Its authors irshman!" she ejaculated. 1 "Mr. Speaking of the Protestant missionary efforts among the Jews, the h and that yait d on't belie ve in bons, at present the Paris representative of the (1 . entury Magazine, and "What about him?" W must he glad of their success; apart 1 things," lief-declared. ber of articles bearing upon the Peace Conference. author goes on to say. "Anyhow, ice How about nty vulgar speech?" who is to write a number "Surely we are Americans, l oyal ''l didn't mean it, Irwin. NVhy, if Gibbons is, moreover, an authoritative student of the political, the from J'Mtarianism, the shabbiest form of Protestantism is incomp arably nt , I trust, but that does not pre - IIIr. you knew what a girl said about oenes speaks a better, true, lovelier religion than the best kind of Judaism: . East and one who " s d be ing loyal Jewsai us from f v social, and the economic problems of the Near yo u ____" One can scarcely conceive that in this twentieth century, in free Mr. Ilirshman firmly. -vvith the peoples and the prob . intimate personal contact "Who?" front the most "Yes," said Mrs. Fuchsman, medi- m America anti after the blood of Christian and Jew has been comingled "Mrs. Iloyes sister. She said you tativcly. "I can say, my children, you hems concerned. say that of all the articles that have pawn the soil of France for the sake of a common humanity, a single were a very charming young inan." We believe that it is fair to ''Why she met me only once," he were right. They are real ariSt0- eve n l ess, oats." - Page article buntan lwing could be found who cuuld write such words or remarked. puzzled. bee n printed in opposition to political Zionism, this eleven ent of the movement. Ifeside hat a magazine could be found that would be • willing to print them. bitter arraignment Mr. Gibbons is the most of Happily, we believe that the sentiments expressed in this article and its cold and almost cruel logic, what the rabbinical protestants against per should be a single individual who litical Zionism have said, is altogether tame. .1nd yet. it would be entirely most particularly in the paragraph which we have ju4t quoted, are not are pained none the less, that there could write such words or a magazine anywhere that would give them unfair to pronounce the article a diatribe. The sincerity of the writer those of Catholics in general. \\e believe that a Mr. Doyle for in- ith w hi ch lie s peaks is clear. stance — ardentCatholic as lie was—whose words of indignation against publicity. is obvious M every line. The authority w of the political, the social and the religious implications of bigotry in every form we have quoted in another paragraph in this issue, His analysis the establishment of a Jewish independent state in l'alestine under the would have repudiated such an utterance as this with his characteristic protection of Great Britain is so keen and the arguments he brings for- vehemence. But while we are entirely convinced that the overwhelming senti- ward in support of his position are so convincing that they seem well ment of Catholics in this country would not endorse such an article, we nigh unanswerable.