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of holy days interferes with production.
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the Jew celebrates no more holidays than does the Roman Catholic and
Entered as second - class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit,
many another class of workers—especially among the foreign elements.
Mich., under the' Act of March 3, 1879.
Besides, let it be stressed that the Jewish laborer is as a rule no laggard
and while he works he works with might and main. The fact is that
some object to the Jewish workingman as a fellow worker just because
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he is so ambitious and so energetic that he sets up a standard to which
$2.00 per year the ordinary worker cannot rise.
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All of this has been said in reply to Mr. Lyon, not because we be-
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter must reach lieve that he is worthy of so much space in our paper but because his
article, reaching thousands of employers of labor who may not always
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
read below the surface, may be influenced to follow his sugg'estions in
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Contributor
RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
the selection of their employees. S6 far as NIr. Lyon himself is con-
cerned, we cannot particularly blame hint. We only pity hint. Water
The Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on subjects of interest to
the Jewish people, but disclaims responsibility for an indorsement of the never rises higher than its source. ,\ man can give expression to no
higher idealism than he understands. We do believe, however, that this
views expressed by the writers.
malicious article should be called to the attention of the employers of
Mr. I.von and a statement demanded front them as to whether or not
his sentiments are theirs. And furthermore, we believe that the atten-
tion of the publishers of the magazine in which this wretched article
Well may world Jewry rejoice in the fact that adequate safeguards
have been thrown around the rights of the Jew in the new Treaty that appeared should be called to its vicious implications and they should be
has been made with Poland. Everything that we who maintain that the held responsible either for an endorsement or a t.liudiation of 11Ir.
Jew represents a religious community rather than a national entity. , has Lyon's sentiments. Here is a hit of work for the Anti-Defamation
been granted. Full citizenship without discriminatitm of any kind be- League of the It'nai Writh. We have no doubt that they will handle it
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Pisgah Lodge Well Represented at St. Paul
Convention of District Grand Lodge No. 6,1. 0. B. B.
OFFICES, BOOK BUILDING
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HERMAN \VEISS.
SIMON D. ROSENZWEIG.
Our Cause Prevails
cause of his religious affiliations shall henceforth be his. He shall be
secured in the maintenance of Jewish schools and he shall be protected
in the religious observance of his Sabbath. These, as Premier Clemen-
ceau well says, represent the very minimum that we have a right to
demand. What follows these concessions in Clemenceau's letter is.
however, of even more vital importance than the clauses themselves, for
his words indicate the interpretation tvhich the Allies have put 1115011
jems and Judaism. It is an interpretation such as we who have set
ourselves against political Zionism have all along insisted upon. We
feel justified in saying that this Treaty with Poland is a complete vin-
dication of the position that the non-Zionist has maintained and it puts
to naught all the vaunted boastings of those who have held in season
and out of season that the Allied nations have recognized and would
write such recognition into any treaties that might be made with the
new nations, the national character of the Jew.
What could be plainer than these words of l'remier Clemenceau:
"It is believed that these stipulations will not create any
obstacle to the political unity of Poland. THEY DO NOT
CONS'l'l I'UTE ANY RECOGNITION OF THE JEWS AS
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A SEPARATE POLITICAL COMMUNITY WITHIN
THE POLSII STATE. The educational provisions contain
nothing beyond what is in fact provided in the educational in-
stitutions of many highly organized modern states. There is
nothing inconsistent with the sovereignty of the state in recog-
nizing and supporting schools in which children shall be brought
up in the religious influence to which they are accustomed in
their home. Ample safeguards against any use of a non-Polish
language to encourage a spirit of national separation have been
provided in the express acknowledgment that the provisions
of this Treaty do not prevent the Polish state from making the
with "10n r," efficiency.
The Purpose of Prayer
According to a Washington dispatch, the blind chaplain of the I louse
of Representatives, the Rev. Henry N. Condon, was gently reproved by
Speaker Gillett when On Wednesday of last week he included in his
customary prayer at the opening of the House a brief supplication that
God might further the cause of the League of Nations.
The Speaker of the House, so the report has it, remonstrated with
the clergyman on the ground that a question which was the subject of
political controversy had no place whatsoever in a prayer.
There is a bit of humor in the situation and at the same time a bit
of suggestion. If the Chaplain of the House really believes, as we
trust he does, that the League of Nations trill serve to forward the
interests of humanity and of civilization, why should he not pray for it
Is prayer to be a mere innocuous and empty mouthing of sentiments
that find no echo in the hearts of men? Is it to be a mere mechanical
repetition of sounds; a formula; a bit of hypocritical lip service? If
prayer is to fie this, then infinitely better it would be that men should
sit in silence with never a word of supplication to I lim in whose hands
we say are the destinies of men and nations.
According to our conception of the purpose of prayer, the chaplain
was eminently right in including in his prayer at this particular time the
petition that Almighty, God might speed the accomplishment of the
League of Nations. It is at just such a crisis in human history as we
face today that God's help is most needed. As We come to think upon
it, we wonder who is truly blind—the Chaplain whose physical eye is
bedimmed, or the Speaker of the House, who rebuked him for speaking
the prayer that was in his heart.
Polish language obligatory in all its schools and educational in-
stitutions."
We can conceive of no words that could more completely vindicate
our position that the Jew is a religious and not a national entity than
these. And surely none will deny that in these words Prenner Clemen-
ceau voices the conviction not only of the French people but of all the
Allied nations for whom he speaks. With this declaration of where
the nations stand upon the Jewish question—a stand in which con-
fessedly tee of the Reform wing of Judaism who are not political Zion-
ists may well rejoice—there is assurance. that the men charged with
framing the Treaty with Poland, which is the pattern upon which
treaties with other nations will be moulded, have studied the Jewish
problem intelligently and they have not been carried away, as so many
of our own people have, by the propaganda of those who for their own
reasons have denied the religious mission of the Jew in the world.
With the status of the Jew as a religious factor in the world's life
definitely assured, we may the more heartily encourage those who under
one name or another feel that in Palestine they can best work out their
own destinies. If wisdom will prevail in the councils of the political
Zionists they will acknowledge the triumph of the religious interpreta-
tion of Jewish history ; they will forget the differences that have too
long made for division in modern Israel, and as one great community
they will make it possible for Jews of all shades of religious opinion to
work together for the rehabilitation of the Jew not only in Palestine
but thrinighout the world. If, on the other hand, the non-Zionist re-
joices in the triumph of his cause, it is for him not merely to vaunt his
victory but instead to do all that he can to wipe out the differences that
have divided him front his brother Jew and lend his efforts without stint
to the building up of Jewish life in every land where any of his brethren
choose to dwell.
Efficiency Run to Seed
In the City of Chicago there is published, under the title "100%,"
what purports to be a magazine on Efficiency, and identifies itself "as
an idea exchange for twenty thousand executives." This magazine,
which no doubt circulates among the executives of the largest employers
of labor in America and for that reason may be presumed to exert no
inconsiderable influence in shaping the policies of American industry,
contains in its June issue an article under the suggestive title "Wise
Hiring Eliminates Firing." The author is one John B. Lyon, the Indus-
trial Engineer of the Coticelli Silk Mills of Florence, Mass.
In his article he lat•s down certain rules for the hiring of labor, strict
observance of which will make for industrial efficiency. Keynoting his
program, he writes:
"hire only those between the ages of 18 and 35;
No negroes, Jews or Turks;
No cripples, consumptives or weak hearts;
No women who paint or dress flashily ;
No men who drink or swear."
Without reference to Mr. Lyon's absolute ignorance of the part that
is being played in large industrial concerns today by the handicapped for
whom he has no place in his scheme and without overemphasizing the
tin-Americanism of his entire program, which ignores from first to last
the new humanitarian ideals which are gradually finding a place in
modern industry and which no longer sanction the turning of men into
mere machines, we would call attention merely to the company in which
he would place the Jews. To classify the Jew in industry with the
Negro and the Turk ; with the cripple, the consumptive and the drunk-
ard, is really not so much of a reflection upon the Jew as it is upon the
intelligence of this industrial engineer. Certainly, from the physical and
the intellectual standpoint, there is very little in common between the
Negro and the Jew, for physically, as a rule, the former is stronger than
the latter, while intellectually—it is almost puerile to say it—die Jew
would rank among the highest and the Negro among the lowest. If it
be said that many Jews are tubercular and that they should be ruled out
from the industrial world on that account, then why specify them,
in as much as he included consumptives in a class by themselves?
We believe, however, that it is not Mr. Lyon's thought to have Jews
excluded from industry either on physical or intellectual grounds. He
is simply apparently one of those narrow fanatics of whom even in this
twentieth century and in free America, a few survive who believe that
the Jew is destined for eternal damnation and that the sooner the doors
to perdition are opened for him the better it will be. No doubt, should
this analysis of his motives be brought to his attention, he trill claim
that his purpose has been entirely misinterpreted—men of his ilk always
try to creep from under thei•responsibilities—and he will say, pointing
to a previous paragraph of his article, that the Jews are not personally
ADOLPII FREUND.
MYER S. FINK.
The annual convention of the District Grand Lodge No. 6, International
Order of Witai Brith, is being held in the city of St. Paul, beginning on July
4th and continuing fur four days. Pisgah Lodge, No. 34, of Detroit, one of
the largest lodges of the country, is being represented by four of its most
prominent and active members, the delegation consisting of Messrs. Adolph
Freund, Simon 1). Rosenzweig, Myer S. Fink and Herman Weiss, all of whom
are past presidents of Pisgah Lodge.
It is a formidable delegation, representing a lodge whose rapid growth
in numbers, influence and accomplishments is unique in the history of the
order. From an easy-going organization of a mere handful of the faithful
who were wont to gather at the meagerly attended meetings, the lodge has
grown to over 1,000 members, and is progressing rapidly toward the accom-
plishment of its second "1,000." But let it not be assumed that Pisgah
Lodge as it is today is a matter of a sudden spurt of enthusiasm of the past
year or two. Its marvelous strides are due to the loyalty and perseverence
of the "old guard" who stood by the ship when it was floundering on the
rocks of inaction and dissolution. And among this "old guard" none stood
more steadfast and loyal than the men whose photographs are here pre-
sented. They are the virtual foundation stones of the great body of good
Jewish citizens whom they call "brethren" in their lodge. Pisgah Lodge is
truly represented by its four delegates to the St. Paul convention. Their
Mr. Louis Marshall, with characteristic force and directness, has brothers join in wishing them a safe journey and a safe return home.
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Marshall vs. Gibson
most bitterly arraigned Mr. Hugh Gibson, the American minister to
I'oland, for what he conceives to be an evasion of facts that must be
TOLSTOY ON THE JEW. I
obvious to those who are not willingly blind. Certainly there does seem
to be good ground for belief that Mr. Gibson has not been as wide awake
"What is a Jew? This question is
to the condition of the Jew in Poland as one might have expected the not at all an odd as it seems. Let s '(On an afternoon at the Jewish Home
representative of this government to be. Nor can his various statements see what kind of peculiar creature the .
for the Homeless Aged)
in regard to the Polish attitude toward the Jewish problem be readily Jew is, whom all the rulers and all na-'
My Host
lions have together and separately Who I am? What's my name?
W ell, you don't have to know.
abused and molested, oppressed and
put me down as an old, old man—
persecuted, burned and hanged—and Just
who in spite of all this is yet alive!' Jacob—so-and-so.
What is a Jew, who has never allowed
himself to be led astray by all the Where do I come from—What was I?
don't mind saying.
That
earthly possessions which his oppres-
e live in pasts, we old folks here,
sors and persecutors constantly o f_
fered him in order that he should hile Youth•s for futures praying.
change his faith and forsake his own
In a distant land where a czar once
Jewish religion?
ruled,
"The Jew is the pioneer of liberty.
I held my head up high;
Even brought down from heaven the
But czars are czars—and troubles
everlasting tire, and has illumined with
come,
it the entire world. lie is the relig-
And the heart begins to sigh.
ious force spring and fountain out of
which all the rest of the peoples have
Sunshine goes as age comes on,
drawn their beliefs and their religions.
And with it poverty;
"The Jew is the pioneer of liberty.
And I who always gave to man
Even in those olden days when the
Must come for charity.
people were divided into but two dis-
tinct classes, slaves and masters—
chaf-
even so long ago had the law of Moses Children? Well, there's no use
jug
.)rohibited the practice of keeping a
Old wounds raw again,—
person in bondage for more than six
et th em prosper—They are hardly
Let
sewing machines. By all means we
Worse than other men,
''The Jew is the pioneer of civiliza-
must see that this Government co-
operates with us in opening up chan- tion. Ignorance was condemned in
Happy? I ; have brethren here
nels of communication so that rela- older Palestine more even than it is IlPPY
\'ho show no bitter scorn—
tives may get in touch with each other today in civilized Europe. Moreover,'
in
those
will
and
barbarous
clays
Old
soldiers they, who've fought and
and do individually what we can not in
lost;
neither the life nor the death of
hope to do as a body."
And wait another morn.
anyone counted for anything at all,.
Rabbi Akiba did not refrain from ex-
ENGLISH JEWS FAST
himself openly against capital Who am P What's my name?
ON MOURNING DAY pressing
Well, you don't have to know;
punishment, a practice which is recog-
nized today as a highly civilized way Just put me down as a man who was,
Just Jacob—so-and-so.
London.—Chief Rabbi Hert gave his of punishment.
Lawrence S. Lavine, in American
official consent to have Thursday,
"The Jew is the emblem of civil and
June 26th, a mourning day throughout religious toleration. 'Love the strait- Hebrew.
England in memory of the thousands gee and the sojourner,' Moses com-
of Jewish victims of the recent mas- mands 'because you have been stran-
sacres in Poland, Roumania, Ukrain- gers in the land of Egypt.' And this righteous of all nations have a share
ia and other countries. The day was was said in those remote and savage' in immortality.
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a fasting-day for Jewish England, the times when the principal ambition of, Gal 5-.-Jewish Chronicle
"Thili Jew is the emblem of eternity.
synagogues were open all day, and the rases and nations consisted in
He
whom
neither
slaughter
nor
tor-
prayers were made for the souls of crushing and enslaving one another.
the deceased. A gigantic procession As concerns religious toleration, the ture of thousands of years could de-
through the streets of London took Jewish faith is not only far from the stroy, to whom neither fire nor sword
place. The government assisted r.) missionary spirit of converting people nor inquisition was able to wipe off
make the day one of impressive pro- of other denominations, hut, on the from the face of the earth, he who was
contrary, the Talmud commands the the first to produce the oracles of God,
test.
rabbis to inform and explain to every- he who has been for so long the guar-
The Brooklyn Bar Association has one who willingly comes to accept the dian of prophecy, and who transmitted
elected Jacob Brenner a vice-presi- Jewish religion all the difficulties in- it to the rest of the world—such a na-
dent. Mr. Brenner and Michael Furst volved in its acceptance. and to point tion can not be destroyed. He is ever-
out to the would-be proselyte that the lasting as is eternity itself."
have been elected trustees.
reconciled.
Mr. Marshall seems to know just what lie is talking about and he
has expressed his mind in no uncertain way. It is now up to Mr. Gibson
to make matter's very clear. We should hear from him the exact facts
as to the Polish pogroms and what the future intentions of the Polish
government are in regard w its treatment of the Jew in Poland. Noth-
ing short of a clear, unambiguous, comprehensive statement will suffice
in the premises. In the meantime, it is hoped that the American Com-
mission, under the chairmanship of Mr. henry Morgenthau, appointed
by President Wilson, will make a thorough and personal investigation
of the facts at issue. Then the truth will be established. If their find-
ings agree with those of Mr. Gibson, all the better. If they do not, an
explanation should be immediately demanded from the American
minister.
JEWS IN DIRE STRAITS
(Continued From Page One.)
the workers and tradespeople, are lit-
erally starving.
"In Kovno, on the 19th of May, the
public kitchen distributed among 1,100
people the following meagre amount
of food made into a soup: One and
a half pounds of barley flour, one
and a half pounds of barley peas,
fifty pounds of barley cereal, and four
pounds of fats. I have seen the soup
and have tried to taste it, but it was
impossible for me to swallow the
half teaspoonful that I put in niy
mouth. Those in line were mostly
women and children, many of whom
gave me the names of relatives in
America, and they asked me to use
my influence to see that at least a few
potatoes were included in the mixture
they were being fed. None dared ask
for bread. They had long lost hope
of getting it, and it was no longer
in their minds. I have seen bread
sold in Kovno by women whose chil-
dren were tugging at their skirts cry-
ing for a piece of it, and when I asked
these women why they did not give
it to them, they answered, 'It is not
my bread. It belongs to those peo-
ple. How can I give what does not
belong to me'
Thousands Suffer Typhus.
"From starvation and lack of food
thousands have developed spotted ty-
phus, 3,000 of them in Kovno. and 5(51
are crowded in a hospital built for
200. The physicians have no instru-
ments, no gauze, no cloth, and they
cannot even obtain shirts for the sick.
"The one demand of the people is
that they be allowed to communicate
with their relatives in America. They
want no charity, but only the support
they are entitled to. My message is
that we must undertake to build hos-
pitals and send the necessary supplies
to fight epidemics, to send food for
the nourishment of the people, to
give them the education they are en-
titled to, to establish co-operative
workshops, to send them raw mate-
rial, tools, and implements, including
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